Episode Transcript
[00:00:13] Speaker A: Hey, everyone. Welcome to Jonathan's Leftovers. This is a segment, bonus content, if you will, that me and Jason have put together where it's something in the main conversation for the week that we couldn't get to. And so we want to give you extra helping that give you some practical wisdom on how to deal with the topic that we were dealing with this week. This week's topic from the main episode was talking about being intentional in communicating with our children, whether it's criticism or compliments. And so, Jason, I know there was a couple of things that we wanted to jump onto here, here in the Don leftover segment to give the guys and the gals out there listening. And I'll kick it off like one of the things that we didn't get to talk about on. On Tuesday's main episode, which I encourage everyone, go back, download list, do.
But it was covering our children in prayer. And one of the most powerful examples of why that's really crystal clear.
Good guidance for communication and how to love and to be intentional is Job.
We find it in Job 1 and 5. He prayed over his children. That's what the Bible kind of gives us, that picture. Even though they weren't in his house, he was like, they might have sinned. Lord, let me be the intercessor. Let me step in, try to do the best I can.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: No, it's good. So on the flip side of that, the moment, and I don't know why this is just now clicked in my head after all these years. It's not the Three Stooges moment where. Where Mo slaps Larry and Curly and goes, that's for what you did. And that's. And he hits him again, goes, that's for the things you did when I. When I was gone that I didn't know about.
You know, it's not. He covers them in prayer. And if you're not praying for your kids, if you're not praying for their future spouses, the friends that surround them, surround them with godly friends. Remove those who aren't. Then you're man, you're met, you're missing.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: You're missing. You're missing a lot.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: Jason, I love this whole conversation between you and God the Father about the people that you're good stewards. You'd have to be a good steward of, right?
[00:02:17] Speaker A: I love it, Jason. And I can't remember. It was. It was during the Super Bowl, I saw this powerful commercial, and it was probably from the group.
They do amazing job every year, but it ties into this. They do The Jesus commercials. And I'm sure all everyone out here, guys, you know what I'm talking about. He's us or something like that. But anywho, they talk about the most powerful little thing called the huddle. And we do this in all walks of life, especially you guys in mildew. You get together before you're about to go and do something, and you make sure everyone's on same sheet of music and bring the person in that might be the proverbial weaker link, and you make sure they're dialed in. You know what prayer does? When you pray with your children daily, you bring them into that conversation with the king and you make sure that they are latched up with the source of everything that they will need in life. And you're demonstrating to them. This is where I get it. Oh, all the things you thought dad did, right? This is how we get to that point. We huddle up with God and get into some prayer.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: No, that's absolutely right. You know, I think that's important to huddle. How do you do your huddle? There's great little family devotions out there, by the way. Ours is still out there for free.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: Feel free to download it anytime. Yeah, 3.99. It's there.
So you're absolutely right. What do you do? What's your huddle? What's your purposeful conversation? Is your purposeful conversation when you sit down and eat dinner at the table, do you realize it's a captive audience? You're sharing something together. And if you really look at it from a cognizant development perspective, which is, you know, super weird, but look, you are tying a statement to the senses of eating and, you know, all the senses that say, hey, I'm going to improve memory. Right?
Because it really. Memory is pretty complicated. You draw in all these other things. But it could be over if you have a burnt meal. Whatever. We don't have those at my house. I'm going to tell you, My wife's a great cook. Not referencing her in any way, but.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: If you do, that's a nice disclaimer, by the way, but good. Absolutely.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Safety disclaimer.
Nope, it's great. She absolutely is wonderful. I really do and tolerates me a lot. But you're right, it's those parts. Think about it. Jesus. The last supper we talk about was a purposeful conversation. Yeah, you know, that's a great one. This is the bread. This is the, you know, this is the wine or the grape juice or whatever it was, you know, and I love that.
[00:04:58] Speaker A: No, yeah, man. I think the other point, Jason, you.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: You.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: You started in the main episode, I was like, ah, man, he's gonna. I was like, I don't. I'm going to lose a whole point for Jonathan's leftovers. But it was a great point to reiterate, no matter even if you were still a great point. To bring out to God the power of grace and most importantly, the father's role in restoration. You are the centerpiece for restoration in your home, whether you realize that or not, guys, and here's why. Because God demonstrates that time and time again. The crucifixion came, the. The painful agony as God the Father watched his perfect son die on the cross. For every person who's ever been born, would have been born, every single sin, Jesus took it on the chin for us. He watched that. But you know what he brought next? He brought the restoration, which was the resurrection, where all power, as the Bible tells us, all power in heaven and earth was given to his son. Right. So that is your balance. Right. And the prodigal son, as Jason hit on in the main episode, Luke 15 and 20, you see this. The Father was already ready to receive the Son, even though he didn't deserve it.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: He was way off.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:06:11] Speaker B: He was way off. His dad runs to him. So. All right, so I love our conversations because I'm, you know, so many things connect in my head, you know, all the time. So I'm scribbling.
We focus on the crucifixion. We focus on the pain as a parent, as a. As a. As a. As a man. Right. You think about it, so many people get caught up on the display of power, means somebody has to receive it in a bad way. Right. I beat that person down or, you know, whatever. Right.
We focus on that. And even in. Even in Christianity, we focus very heavily on the crucifixion, but Jesus focused on the resurrection.
It's all about the resurrection.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: Even when he tell. When he talks about the crucifixion into his disciples and Peter, whom I love, you know, I'm going to meet that guy. He's way smarter. And I just. I thank you for being. For helping me relate to you so much. And. And he's, you know, he's like, nope, nope, can't go to the. Can't go to the crucifixion. And. But Jesus goes, but that's how I'm going to get to the restoration. Yeah, right. All those purposeful conversations move you to that restoration.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: That's what it's for, man. That wooden spoon, that. That correction, whatever.
It's. To get to the restoration. It's not just a we mistake power as being. Well, I just beat that down and that's it.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: No, do what I say because I'm.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: They're afraid of me. And this, that, and the. No, no, I don't. I obey God because I love him and I. I want. I want to have a close relationship with him.
[00:07:59] Speaker A: Right? Yes. So I love it, Jason. And that's the thing, you know, you have to teach your children that mistakes don't define them.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: How often were we just left in limbo? And again, doesn't matter who it was. It wasn't necessarily intentional. But if you never go to make that closing gap between discipline and restoration, you leave someone feeling. And if it happened in a military sense, we've all stood there and we watched someone just get it, like, tore out the frame.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: And it's a different world. I get it. We're not necessarily trying to build back some restoration. I'm trying to get you where you don't destroy your teammates or other government property. Right. But God does do that for us. God offers grace. And as fathers and as husbands, as men, we are to model who? Jesus.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: And Jesus always, never, never defines us as our mistakes. He elevates, he builds and goes. Something we say in the main episode, I go back and listen to good correction, good communication. It doesn't just tear down, it builds up.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: You can't just leave someone at zero. You got to get them back to 100.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: We tell people all the time because you are more than the summation of your mistakes.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: You are right. So when we sit down and talk to our children or to those that love us, we have a super powerful voice. Is their life only about the crucifixion? Only about the problem? Because they're like, oh, my gosh, I've made a mistake. Will you always see me as this mistake? And the truth is, is no. I see you under this grace the same as the Father sees us, thanks to Jesus Christ. Right. We gotta get them to that point. And I think that's super. Yeah. I love the grace comment.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: So you had another point.
[00:09:54] Speaker A: No, that was. That was it. That was. That was a plate full of mashed potatoes that we just gave him.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: All right, well, I gotta. I got something I gotta share with you. Yeah, sure dawned on me last night. So I was listening to where does God talk to Jesus? I was Googling that Up, right? Reading and reading, reading. It comes to the Mount Transfiguration. And I'm there, right? And I'm reading this. And this is in.
It's in Matthew, chapter 17.
And here they are, right? It's three in the morning, and they're tired. And this is why I like. I like Peter a lot. And he's tired. I'm tired at 3 in the morning. I've been up all, you know, I've done it. I've been up for multiple days. And you're just, you know, you're tired. Well, then it happens. And Jesus is transfigured. And it says, you know, it uses the term that his face shined like the sun and his raiment was white as light. Well, at that point, it wakes him up. I believe it just. And I could be wrong, but it wakes them up. And it's one of those, like, oh, brother. Where Arthur, how's my hair? You know, he makes up. And Peter, this is great. Hey, glad we're here, you know, which is typical, you know, I would have done the same thing, I'm sure. Like, hey, I'm. I'm super glad we're here.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: I wasn't sleeping, but I'm locked in. Good.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: And we need to start building. We need to build a temple here, you know, to Moses and to Elijah. But then the booming voice comes in of God, the Father, says, literally, this is my son and whom I'm proud. Right? And I love that because that's a purposeful conversation. What he does is he settles the water. He goes, stop talking.
This is not what this is about. It's about my son.
And when we have those chaotic moments that, you know, I love when I just come home from work and there's chaos or whatever, it circles back to Jesus, you know, and that's it. No matter how grand and glorious that moment was and that moment of panic and everything else, it's about Jesus. And Jesus is about restoration. So our purposeful conversations are about that. Now, don't get me wrong, just like everybody, sometimes we got to know we've done wrong so that grace can be applied.
[00:12:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: But real strength comes from applying the grace and getting them back on the road.
[00:12:12] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Right?
[00:12:13] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: It's a nice tie in.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: It was a nice tie in. And I will say that is a nice cap to the second helping of the Jonathan project called Jonathan's Leftovers. If you want Jason me to come out, these are the kind of topics that we can highlight. Dig into, dive into with you your team at a men's event, please reach out to us at the Jonathan Project podcast mail.com Again the Jonathan Project podcast mail.com Jonathan's leftovers, the main episodes, Jonathan's Project Podcast. All that comes out on Apple, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Spotify, you name it. You're gonna find us there. So please look us up. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Jason Wonderful conversation. Glad we could give this bonus content to the faithful followers that are praying and listening to us out there, and I look forward to talking to you again soon.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: See you, buddy.
