17. How Do We Walk in Joy?

03/17/21 • 26 min

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Welcome back to the kitchen table! Pull up a seat today as Bethany is talking about finding Joy through God’s grace. Surprisingly enough, the word joy doesn’t have anything to do with a feeling at all. The word joy in greek means grace recognized. Some days it is hard to find Joy. Maybe it’s your kids not listening, they are fussing and fighting, or maybe you just have a million things on your to-do list for the day. It’s hard to feel joy in these moments! Then we start to think, if it's hard to find joy in these light afflictions, what are we going to do when the hard stuff hits?

God promises us his grace in all the moments. God’s grace rescues us. His grace can release us from the bondage of the places that we feel held back or ashamed. The gospel changes everything.

This week Bethany shares 5 ways that God’s Grace can help us become anchored in Joy in our daily lives.

It changes the way we walk

We don’t get burdened down as easy, but we know to quickly go to our source of Grace. No matter how many times I have to go back and be reminded of this grace.

It changes our sight

God is the one we can run to in everything with our sight locked on him. Grace helps us recognize he is the one we need to see.

It can deepen our faith

In the painful and hard moments we walk through, this will become our anchor.

It helps us introduce faith to others

We get to share this grace with our kids and be the aroma of Jesus to our kids.

It is promised that you will be filled with his joy

Romans 15:13 says, “may the God of hope fill you with all the joy and peace”

This is the way we walk, and this is what we put our hope in.

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God promises us his grace in all the moments. God’s grace rescues us. His grace can release us from the bondage of the places that we feel held back or ashamed. The gospel changes everything.

This week Bethany shares 5 ways that God’s Grace can help us become anchored in Joy in our daily lives.

It changes the way we walk

We don’t get burdened down as easy, but we know to quickly go to our source of Grace. No matter how many times I have to go back and be reminded of this grace.

It changes our sight

God is the one we can run to in everything with our sight locked on him. Grace helps us recognize he is the one we need to see.

It can deepen our faith

In the painful and hard moments we walk through, this will become our anchor.

It helps us introduce faith to others

We get to share this grace with our kids and be the aroma of Jesus to our kids.

It is promised that you will be filled with his joy

Romans 15:13 says, “may the God of hope fill you with all the joy and peace”

This is the way we walk, and this is what we put our hope in.

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16. Why Do We Need Friends?

Welcome back to the kitchen table. Grab a cup of coffee and get ready to spend some time with Bethany as she shares about why friends can be so important.

When we think about our friends, a dozen things come to our mind. Fun times, good laughs, a person to talk with, a shoulder to cry on. But have you ever stopped to think about what God says about friendship?

In Exodus 17 we see the depiction of what true friendship should look like, When they are in the midst of battle, Moses is weary and tired. He is at that point where he cannot do it alone anymore. The Israelites come and they help hold his arms for him and give him companionship when he is unable to do it for himself. This allows him to keep that staff raised high.

We are all on that battlefield and we all reach that breaking point from time to time where we just don’t think we can do it anymore. God’s design for friendship is to help hold each other up through those times.

Through it all, we are called to hold high the banner of Jesus. But sometimes, mama, we get tired and we need help. We need friends that can help us hold that banner up and can keep speaking gospel truths to us in this moment so that we can keep speaking them to our kids.

Join Bethany this week as she talks about

God’s design for friendship.
How to help your friend when they just can’t go on alone.
How to admit when you are in that place of needing a friend to hold you up.

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18. How Do I Have a Gospel Conversation with My Child?

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is sharing with us how to have gospel conversations with our kids.

As moms we want to speak to our children in a way that is life giving and gives them the hope of Jesus. But how do we do this? That can feel like such a heavy burden that I am responsible for having those gospel conversations with my child. What if I screw it up, what if I say the wrong thing, I am too inadequate for this!

Mama, those things just aren’t true. God has commissioned you for a time such as this and he has already equipped you with everything you need to have these gospel conversations with your child.

This week Bethany is talking about how do you know how to start this conversation and how you know what your child is ready for.

It doesn’t matter what age your child is, or how far away from Jesus you think they have gotten. It’s never to late to have those gospel conversations. That may look different than what it looks like when having those conversations with a child.

Join Bethany at the kitchen table to learn together what those gospel conversations look like at any age!