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This week, I had the priviledge of being interviewed by The 700 Club on The Christian Broadcasting Network. I spoke about how your child can fall into the struggles of rebellion and addiction, why it seems like children are becoming rebellious at a younger and younger age, and how creating a proper battle plan can help win back your prodigal.

I explain how to partner parents with God. You can safely hand over control of your children to God. Realizing that our children are God's creation and they belong to Him, we can release them into God’s care. By giving God full ownership of our prodigals and continuing in a partnership as parents, we are putting our assured victory directly in God’s hands.

Things We Talk About in this Episode:

• How do we fight against the sin that is holding our child back without going to war with our child themselves?
• Why is it so important that you as a parent pray for your child? How can we learn to pray properly for our children in the midst of their battles?
• What is the best battle plan we can create as parents to help fight for our prodigals? How can The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal help?

Resources:

Our listeners can read more about my interview with the 700 Club through this article at the link here: www2.cbn.com/article/amazing-stories/proven-strategies-winning-prodigals-back

Order Laine's New Book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, here: www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal

Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Warfare Parenting. I hope you've found some encouragement or helpful info in this episode to help you on your journey. If you have a specific topic, you'd like me to talk about or a guest you'd like me to have on the show. Please feel free to send me a message on Instagram or Facebook. You can even text "Hi Laine" to 55444. Follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode, and leave me a rating and review. I would be so grateful!

Prayer is one of the most powerful tools we can use as Christians. However, sometimes it can seem like God isn't quite answering prayers in the ways we expect. Other times we ask "When will God answer my prayers?"

That is why I am so excited to have Lisa Olsteen Comes as my guest on today's episode of The Warfare Parenting Podcast. Lisa shares her stories of raising her children and praying over them as they grew up. She also explains how God's timing for blessings can be different than our own timing and answers the question "When can I get an answer from God?" 

Lisa also endorses the power of my new book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, and how it can be a vital tool for parents raising their children, especially if they are in the midst of being a prodigal.

You can order your copy of my new book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, at the link here: https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal/dp/0800762843

Who is Lisa Olsteen Comes?

Lisa Osteen Comes is an Associate Pastor at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas under the leadership of her brother, Pastor Joel Osteen. In her role, she brings over 25 years of preaching and ministry experience to the congregation and is involved in many aspects of the church’s leadership.

Lisa is a notable miracle of our day, having been healed of a crippling disease as a baby. Injured at birth, Lisa developed a condition similar to cerebral palsy which doctors said would cripple her and cause her early death. But as her parents prayed for her, God miraculously healed Lisa before her first birthday.

Through all of her challenges and experiences, Lisa has become known as a respected ministry leader and Bible teacher. Lisa’s passion for God’s Word and love for people radiate in her practical, yet insightful messages. Lisa is a graduate of Oral Roberts University. She and her husband, Kevin, work together at Lakewood Church and they have three children.

Resources:

Our listeners can learn more about Lisa, read her blog posts and order her books at her website: www.lisaosteencomes.com

Order Laine's New Book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, here: www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal

Free Resources - A Gift from Laine to You! https://lainelawsoncraft.com/life

Free - Is Life Hurting Too Much: The Three R's to Walking into Healing" E-BOOK

DOWNLOAD FREE: 5 Warfare Prayers for Your Prodigal: https://lainelawsoncraft.com/warfare-prayers/

Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Warfare Parenting. I hope you've found some encouragement or helpful info in this episode to help you on your journey. If you have a specific topic, you'd like me to talk about or a guest you'd like me to have on the show. Please feel free to send me a message on Instagram or Facebook. You can even text "Hi Laine" to 55444. Follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode, and leave me a rating and review. I would be so grateful!

When it comes to making our adult children listen to us and helping them step into who God created them to be, we have to recognize we are fighting a spiritual war for our child. However, we are not at war with our child, we are at war with the darkness that is in the world today. That is why I am so excited to talk to best-selling author Jim Burns on this episode of the Warfare Parenting Podcast.

Jim shares that over 65% of children who graduate highschool walk away from their faith, and talks about what parents need to do in that period of their child's life to help them find their way back to God. Jim stresses the importance of a resource like my book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, to give parents strategies and hope to impliment in their lives to win their child back. 

You can order your copy of my new book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, at the link here: https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal/dp/0800762843

Who is Jim Burns?

Jim Burns is the president of HomeWord and the executive director of the HomeWord Center for Youth and Family at Azusa Pacific University. He is a popular public speaker and writer who has almost two million resources in print in 20 languages. He primarily addresses the topics of building strong marriages, encouraging parents and empowering kids and healthy leaders. Jim’s books include Confident Parenting, The Purity Code, and Creating an Intimate Marriage. He and his wife, Cathy, reside in Southern California and have three grown daughters and two grandchildren.

Things We Talk About in this Episode:

• Why is it imporant to recognize that this is not just a cultural battle for our children, but a full-on spiritual war?
• How often do we see victory in that spiritual warfare? Why is it imporant to see the hope of that victory when we are fighting?
• What makes The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal such a powerful, potent resource and how can it help bring our children back to God?

Resources:

Order Laine's New Book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, here: www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal

Free Resources - A Gift from Laine to You! https://lainelawsoncraft.com/life

Free - Is Life Hurting Too Much: The Three R's to Walking into Healing" E-BOOK

DOWNLOAD FREE: 5 Warfare Prayers for Your Prodigal: https://lainelawsoncraft.com/warfare-prayers/

Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Warfare Parenting. I hope you've found some encouragement or helpful info in this episode to help you on your journey. If you have a specific topic, you'd like me to talk about or a guest you'd like me to have on the show. Please feel free to send me a message on Instagram or Facebook. You can even text "Hi Laine" to 55444. Follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode, and leave me a rating and review. I would be so grateful!

In last week's episode, I had my eldest son, Steven, on to discuss his story of his deliverance from darkness. This week, I am delighted to have Steven back with his wonderful wife, Madison, to share how she met Steven at the lowest point in their lives, and how they both experienced rebirth through Christ.

Madison explains how after a few years in spiritual warfare with the struggles of addiction, both she and Steven had the veil begin to lift from their eyes, and they saw God begin to work miracles in both of their hearts. She then talks about marrying Steven and the conscious change they both have made as a couple moving forward into the future.

This is a featured story from Laine’s new book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, releasing March 14, 2023. Pre-order yours today at the link here! www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal

Who is Steven H. Craft, Jr.?

Steven received his B.S. degree from Mississippi State University. Steven attributes his success in life to Jesus. Steven loves God with a passion and is currently pursuing all that the Lord has for him to do. Life is GOOD! "The best is yet to come."

"I've formed many exclusive partnerships across the board in both the P&C and Life & Health markets to offer my clientele the best carriers, products and services available in the insurance industry. This, coupled with faith and the core Christian values of the company, is what makes Lucleon Insurance the success that it is and continues to be. Many people today work by methods, algorithms, etc. I believe in working by principles, hard work and all in faith." -Steven H. Craft, Jr.

Things We Talk About in this Episode:

• How can teens or young adults look like they have it "all together" but still struggle with major addictions like pornography or drug use?
• What does it look like when the Lord begins to "cut things away" in our lives and how should our children approach that when they are in a spiritual battle?
• How can we utilize the power of prayer over our children? What does it look like to really teach your child to pray?

Resources:

Preorder Laine's New Book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, here: www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal

Free Resources - A Gift from Laine to You! https://lainelawsoncraft.com/life

Free - Is Life Hurting Too Much: The Three R's to Walking into Healing" E-BOOK

DOWNLOAD FREE: 5 Warfare Prayers for Your Prodigal: https://lainelawsoncraft.com/warfare-prayers/

Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Warfare Parenting. I hope you've found some encouragement or helpful info in this episode to help you on your journey. If you have a specific topic, you'd like me to talk about or a guest you'd like me to have on the show. Please feel free to send me a message on Instagram or Facebook. You can even text "Hi Laine" to 55444. Follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode, and leave me a rating and review. I would be so grateful!

I often like to say the enemy looks for cracks in our lives, small weaknesses or temptations that he can slip into to open us up to sin and temptation. It can become a full on spiritual war for your life, and often times, you don't know how you will find deliverance from the darkness. That is why I am so blessed to have my son, Steven H. Craft, Jr., as today's guest.

Steven shares the story of his battle in darkness with exposure to pornography. Over many years, he struggled with these spirits of lust and feelings of inadequacy. He began to turn to alcohol and drugs as a source of "happiness", only to find the feelings of anxiety grow. However, as he explains in this episode, his story does not end in the darkness, but speaks to rebirth and deliverance through the power of Jesus.

This is a featured story from Laine’s new book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, releasing March 14, 2023. Pre-order yours today at the link here! www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal

Who is Steven H. Craft, Jr.?

Steven received his B.S. degree from Mississippi State University. Steven attributes his success in life to Jesus. Steven loves God with a passion and is currently pursuing all that the Lord has for him to do. Life is GOOD! "The best is yet to come."

"I've formed many exclusive partnerships across the board in both the P&C and Life & Health markets to offer my clientele the best carriers, products and services available in the insurance industry. This, coupled with faith and the core Christian values of the company, is what makes Lucleon Insurance the success that it is and continues to be. Many people today work by methods, algorithms, etc. I believe in working by principles, hard work and all in faith." -Steven H. Craft, Jr.

Things We Talk About in this Episode:

• How can you speak against the voices that tell your child "you are not enough" and "this sin is what you need to be whole"?
• Why is teaching your child to pray and praying over your child so important when they are facing spiritual warfare?
• What is spiritual intervention and why is it the most critical tool to equip your child with?

Resources:

Preorder Laine's New Book, The Parent's Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, here: www.amazon.com/Parents-Battle-Plan-Strategies-Prodigal

Free Resources - A Gift from Laine to You! https://lainelawsoncraft.com/life

Free - Is Life Hurting Too Much: The Three R's to Walking into Healing" E-BOOK

DOWNLOAD FREE: 5 Warfare Prayers for Your Prodigal: https://lainelawsoncraft.com/warfare-prayers/

Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Warfare Parenting. I hope you've found some encouragement or helpful info in this episode to help you on your journey. If you have a specific topic, you'd like me to talk about or a guest you'd like me to have on the show. Please feel free to send me a message on Instagram or Facebook. You can even text "Hi Laine" to 55444. Follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode, and leave me a rating and review. I would be so grateful!

What does it mean to live well and fully? To see rebirth in your child's struggle with addiction and to feel that recovery for yourself as a parent? That's exactly what our guest, Barbara Decker, shares with us on today's episode. Barbara shares her own story about her son Eric's battle with addiction. Desperate for help, she pleaded with a behavioral therapist to assist her son. What he told her completely changed how she approached her son’s addiction: “There’s nothing you can do that will help your son. Only he can choose recovery.”

After this realization, Barbara began looking inward and working to improve herself. While this seemed counterproductive at first, she discovered that these changes in her own life created a positive change in Eric's as well. Barbara is now proud to say that Eric has now been sober for almost five years with no relapses. Now Barbara wants to break down her process and explain why a prodigal child doesn't have to affect a parent's life in a negative way, but rather can be an opportunity for self growth that leaves lasting results for them and their family.

Who is Barbara Decker?

Barbara Decker is a Certified Family Recovery Specialist and founder of Live Well and Fully. Her Love Another Way Program has helped parents support their children through addiction-based challenges. Barbara’s Transformative Boundaries helps the mother-child relationship thrive, and parents learn the best ways to interact with, support, and encourage their adult children to overcome their addiction-based challenges. Her efforts have helped families restore peace in their homes and in their minds. The heartwarming testimonials the program receives are part of the reason why she wants to share her program far and wide.

Things We Talk About in this Episode:

• Why is it important for parents to also focus on themselves when they want to help a child struggling with addiction?
• What does Live Well and Fully offer for parents of children walking through addiction?
• Why are healthy boundaries important for parents?

Resources:

Our listeners can learn more about Barbara’s story and the work she is doing with parents on her website: www.livewellandfully.com

You can also sign up for Barbara's workshop by clicking the link here: Your son or daughter’s addiction doesn't have to ruin your life. - Live Well & Fully

Free Resources - A Gift from Laine to You! https://lainelawsoncraft.com/life

Free - Is Life Hurting Too Much: The Three R's to Walking into Healing" E-BOOK

DOWNLOAD FREE: 5 Warfare Prayers for Your Prodigal: https://lainelawsoncraft.com/warfare-prayers/

Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Warfare Parenting. I hope you've found some encouragement or helpful info in this episode to help you on your journey. If you have a specific topic, you'd like me to talk about or a guest you'd like me to have on the show. Please feel free to send me a message on Instagram or Facebook. You can even text "Hi Laine" to 55444. Follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode, and leave me a rating and review. I would be so grateful!