Counseling Media Library

Victory Family Ministries is passionate about God’s rebuilding work in broken people.
We are committed to bringing the hope of Christ to teens and parents by developing biblical resources that challenge and encourage parents and teens to live life in the freedom that Christ came to give them. Each of our staff endeavors to provide distinctly biblical exposition and application of God’s Word to the heart-level struggles of the day. Everywhere and in every way, we want to help families live spiritually healthy, growing lives within their local church family.
Speaking the Truth in Love
What we need is truth spoken into our lives, and we need that truth spoken in a loving way. A lot of times, honestly, we speak truth, but sometimes that truth is more motivated by what we're going to get out of it. I want my team to make me more comfortable, or I want my kid to just not be a hassle. We want compliance. We want things to be easy for us. We're tired of griping, pushing and shoving to get our kids to do what we want them to do. Well, this is different than that. This is speaking truth wrapped in love. I want my kid to get this because of what it does for him now. I need to take that love and understand that that means listening. I've really got to listen to understand the heart. Really, if I can draw my kid into an explanation of his own heart, if I can get him talking about that - it's time to sit back and listen, because I want to hear where this kid's heart is. I want to help him go through the struggle and grow.
Live to Love (the right things)
First John talks about the trifecta of sin: the desires of our eyes, the desires of our flesh, and the pride of life. Those things draw upon us all. I would say parents struggle with those three things as much as kids struggle with those three things. As much as my children do, my wife and I need Christ. We all need to live redemptively. We get hung up on our kids, but the reality is that we need Christ to redeem us and to draw us - not just to the place where we're acceptable or we are able to enter heaven, but to the place that we would live redemptively too. That means, as parents, we need to learn to seize every opportunity and to set every stage so we can to parent redemptively.

​We need to bring the hope of Christ to our children, because they're struggling with that same trifecta of sin.
Using Scripture to Teach Satisfaction
How can I as a parent, so be in love with God myself, that that's where I'm finding my satisfaction? I'm going back to the truth of scripture. I'm going back to the truth of scripture to learn about a God that I love - a God that satisfies me - that whenever I'm drawn away from my God, because this cute little thing over here on this device is tempting me or I'm getting tired, and it's good to just veg in front of the TV for a while, that I have a little bit of longing and maybe eventually becomes a real strong longing that actually pulls me off the couch to go back and get the scriptures. That the Scriptures become so vital and so important to me that I'm then teaching my children naturally.
 
I'm opening the Scriptures to help them learn how to be satisfied.
God of All Comfort
It's so refreshing and so awesome to understand that the one who comforts us in our affliction does so, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction. Again, I love that word. Any, any and all, great words because you can't really exempt any affliction. You can't say "Oh, but, but you can't help me because you don't know." Well, of course, I don't know. I haven't been through what you've been through, but I have been through what I've been through and I've seen God comfort me and be merciful to me.

​I've seen Him call me whenever I was so such an enemy of His and yet He and His grace was merciful and comforted me
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