Faith Beyond Feeling: Helping Children Develop Trust in God's Guidance

We explore practical approaches to help children develop genuine trust in God that will sustain them through life's inevitable challenges and uncertainties.

• Faith isn't automatically inherited - it's a bold choice children must learn to make
• Children can demonstrate remarkable faith that serves as powerful reminders to adults
• Teaching kids that trusting God is a choice, not just an emotional response
• Helping children recognize they can approach God with anything, anytime
• Encouraging children to ask questions and look for God's responses in small moments
• Acknowledging that the enemy targets children and preparing them spiritually
• Building resilient faith that withstands peer pressure and complicated friendships

Lord, teach us as parents and grandparents to guide our children in understanding the importance of faith and how to walk in it. We give you all the praise, glory, and honor in Jesus' name. Amen.

Chapters

• 0:28 Welcome and Introduction
• 1:07 Faith as a Bold Choice
• 1:58 Trust is a Choice, Not a Feeling
• 2:50 God Listens to Children's Prayers
• 3:24 Closing Prayer for Parents

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:14

Hey there, welcome back boys and girls, moms and dads, to the podcast. Today we're going to dive into something that hits home for so many people, and that is how do we help our children trust God in their daily lives? Let's face it, raising kids in today's world is not going to be and is not easy, but the good news is we're not doing it alone. God's not easy, but the good news is we're not doing it alone. God's with us. He's Emmanuel, after all, guiding us, and he wants to guide our children too. So let's talk about it as we look and teach our kids how to trust in the Lord with all their hearts.

Speaker 1: 0:53

Just like Proverbs 3, verses 5-6 reminds us, faith is a bold choice, even for kids and children. You know, faith isn't something that we just grow into or something that was bred into us, no matter how we may have been in church ourselves as parents. It's something they must learn. It's something they have to begin to walk in and to start walking in, no matter what age, and I'm convinced that children can teach us parents a thing or two about faith and at an early age, they can begin to understand and believe in our God supplying their needs, believe in our God supplying their needs. But when we teach our kids that trusting God is a choice and not just a feeling, we give them something incredibly powerful. Too many times and you know this to be true, parents if we don't feel something, we don't believe in it, even if we don't openly admit that to anybody but ourselves. But the truth of the matter is it is a choice, just like worship is a choice. Sometimes we don't feel like it, but we've got to do it. But it helps them to understand that when they're facing tough times at school perhaps, and tough situations with friendships, and how things get complicated especially for the kids today, or when they feel unsure about life in general the enemy is coming after them, and we need to acknowledge this.

Speaker 1: 2:36

And so the way we can do this is to remind our children that you can go to God with anything. It don't have to be big things or you have to wait for church to come along or go to children's church. They can go to God with anything at any time. God is listening. Also, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them that God listens, god cares and God responds, even in the very small moments, and I'm convinced that the Lord is looking for the small moments. As we wrap up this episode of this podcast, I want to pray that we would take to heart the severity and the necessity that I can't overemphasize on the need for kids to have faith, to be bold and to learn that they are powerful in the Lord. Lord, we just ask today that you teach us as parents, grandparents, teach our children, help us to teach our children the importance of faith and how we need to begin to walk in it. We're careful to give you all the praise, the glory and the honor in Jesus' wonderful name. Amen.