raising godly kids coming up next hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with
crystal I'm crystal Sparks and this is my daughter Braley and we are doing a
video about raising godly kids hey if this is your first time here on my
channel be sure hit the subscribe button every week on Wednesday I put out a new
video and my channel's purpose is this is to help grow your faith and to help
equip you to accomplish your dreams in your goals so hey we are talking about
raising godly kids and I have been wanting to do a video with Brailey and
so I had asked her about the other day and she was like yes I'm gonna do it so
here we are and I think that you'll get a lot of value out of today's video so
be sure and watch all the way to the end and so hey we really tell them a little
bit about yourself I'm in seventh grade about to go into eighth so big I'm about
to be 13 and I have two dogs where are your dogs things maverick and Rosie they
are our dogs in our life is crazy we also have a cat and recently on our land
we got a rooster so there's that very reason so okay so to the people I get
asked a lot you know cuz Braley you love the Lord and she's actually taking part
in a mentorship program here in our church this summer which I'm so proud of
her and she's going to youth camp and she loves Jesus with all her heart tell
him what you want to be when you grow up what do you want to do um I want to be a
missionary and a pastor I want to do both yeah that's what I want to do she's
gonna be awesome so she's got heart for God and so does my son I had people ask
me all the time you know how do you raise godly kids and for those of you
that don't know my husband and I are pastors at our church and a lot of
people would say that it's easy to love God when you're pastor's kid and Riley
what do you think is probably your biggest challenge of being a pastor's
kid um probably just like the fact that like everyone's always looking at you
all the time um not that we don't make mistakes but like I don't know like
have to watch what you say and what you do all the time because my parents have
friends like all around the world and you know people in our church are always
looking at me and my brother so that's probably the hardest part yeah I would
agree I would agree to that so you know I think one of the things that we've
always strived to do is to make sure that gods like part of our life you know
it's not something that we do on Sunday it's not an activity to check off our
list like I would say that one of the things that we've always strived to do
is to make God part of our everyday life and so really wouldn't you say that
that's kind of the way we live right yeah we um we're always you know we
always put God in some part of our day like no matter what it is you know
reading the Bible listening to worship whatever it is we always make sure to
put that in our day you know just because I think it just makes your day
better and you know that song or that scripture may help your entire day with
like something you face you know that's good that's good and one thing I mean
affirm me I've always made sure that my kids like know that God's part of our
life and so for us we incorporate God into everything that we do and we've
always made sure that we're not asking our kids to live a life that we
ourselves aren't living and Brailey was talking about that with me because we
were talking about the subject and she was like if to the parents that are
watching it she was like I think I'm gonna tell them like live the life that
you want your kids to have right yeah I was saying about how um you don't need
to tell someone to do something over and over if you if you don't do it you know
something that you recommend you can't say yeah I recommend this I recommend
this and you not do it in your life you know so I think it's important if you
want your kid to be raised up and kind of like be a child of God you need to
make sure you're doing those things that you tell them to do and not you just be
telling them over and over you know yeah yeah so for us like the Bible is a
priority right yeah and so the Bible is like a priority our house and one thing
I've always stroke is that really embarrass us reading our Bible like
that's just part of what we do is part of our daily life and so Braley recently
I'm her and bare bulb have their own Bible read so tell them about that what
does that look like um well we every single day we read our Bible and then we
take notes about it we highlight things see how we read a
chapter a day and we have wheat my mom just gives us like a certain wonderful
scripture yeah to read and yeah yeah so that's what we do every single day and I
don't have my journal here with me but that's what we do every day we just read
and then we take notes about that chapter yeah I always have them write
their favorite part and you think that that's helped you like how to like
develop your own relationship with God like in their love first word yes it's
definitely helped me a lot just you know understand a lot more things and even if
you think you have God all figured out you don't you no matter how many times
you read the Bible so yeah um I think it definitely just gives me a better
understanding opinion that's awesome that's awesome
and then what is your favorite book in the Bible right you know John hmm
I'm raisin a night guys raisin all right so okay so I would say for sure like
having daily Bible reading like part of your rhythm part of what you do and then
the next thing and I would say is for us like church has always been a party when
you say that it's never been a question around yeah it's I mean I literally went
to church like two days after I was born so I should know I never miss any
Sunday's um like even with sports me and my brother we love sports but before you
know sports and everything else we go to church so like I played volleyball but
you know my games are usually on Sundays and so if it's you know during church
time we have to miss that game you know it's just what we do
yeah so church has always been a priority for us and so for the people
watching like couraging them to definitely like where is church like is
is God does God place in your schedule and your routine
like can you show me that he matters by where you're spending your time you know
for us at our house like it was always a non-negotiable like we are going to go
to church that's just part of who we are and so for those watching barely what
else would you say as farmers for raising godly kids if they're here and
they're watching they're listening to this now like okay making God part of
our daily life and making church a priority what else would you tell them I
would say to make sure that your kids have good friends that's good my mom
always knows my mom and my dad know all my friends and they know you know what
we do and my mom's like always watching what I'm doing always so yeah my mom
does make sure my friends have a relationship with God because it's
really important of who you set yourself around with and that's how your kid will
act you know your kids with people who are doing the wrong things and your kid
will end up doing the wrong things so that's my mom always is making sure that
I'm with people who love God just as much as I do
that's good so that's good and one of the ways we do that is by going to
church they're surrounded by people and then also about community groups yes I
community groups I have so many friends from community groups and um I don't
know I think it's a good way to connect to people that are you know godly and
going down the same road as you are you know because at school and wherever you
are there's a lot of people going a lot of different directions
and maybe not the way that you want to be going so I think that's a good
community groups are a good way to find some good friends and some good people
that's good all right now people watching this may say crystal it's just
too hard for kids to serve God anymore like with culture and society what would
you say to that brigly that's so wrong because I I love serving God it is
probably something I mean I don't know where I would be without it and so for
you to say that you're lying yes just say um you I mean obviously it has
it's hard moments it's one of those things that you have to decide to do
every single day it's not something that you you know just you're saved and then
you're fine forever like you I obviously have my temptations and everything like
that but it's still possible yeah and no
matter maybe your kids are a little bit older and y'all are just now getting
into church they can still make church a lifestyle I think and may take some time
but I mean it's always possible so that's good you know I think it's you if
you really want that to be something that y'all do which is really important
and I recommend you to do that then you definitely need to like focus on it and
you can do that's good that's good and she the prettiest girl you've ever
seen look at this girl and her braces are incredible or teeth are getting
straighter every day we love Schaal orthodontic so she looks so good they're
these teeth are incredible so hey thank you so much for watching I
hope that that inspired you I know that she inspires me every day I'm so proud
of her but I mean I'm her mama and I'm so proud of her doing big things for God
you know those moms that are out there with little babies you may feel like all
the scripture that you're pouring into them praying over them doing the little
things like it's not making a difference but I'll tell you right here that we are
almost 13 years in and she turns 15 in just a week and I will say that it is
incredible the difference I've seen in her life so just stay consistent keep
putting God first place and he's gonna take you places you never dreamed
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