Hi, Lexi, we get to
talk about God's word, Scripture.
It's so important to our home and so foundational to your
to your life and to your future, being able to rely and trust
in God's word that He's still speaking to you, that this is still Him
speaking to you and to this generation and the generations to come
that it's powerful.
The words here are powerful, and that requires your trust, your faith in that.
And how does the Bible tell me about how what the Bible
has meant to you, God's Word?
Well, I kind of see it like He's talking to me when I read it.
That's kind of how I try and picture it because I'm visual,
so I try and picture it like He's talking to me.
one thing that I like to do, sometimes I do it now.
I used to do it more, but sometimes I keep my Bible in my bed,
either next to me while I'm sleeping, or I'll hold it under the covers
and, you know, hold on to it. Why?
Why do you do?
Well, why did you or do you?
There was
this person I knew, and she said she slept with her under her pillow,
and I was like, That's kind of cool.
So I was thinking about it.
And in the olden times, they would hide their gold under their bed
because it's super valuable to them.
So I was like, Well, if God's word is super valuable to me,
then why wouldn't I like hold it and hide it with me?
You know, it's cool. So I love it.
I still remember the first time I saw you with your Bible in your bed.
Oh, she must have fallen asleep with it while she was reading.
That's pretty cool.
And then you said, no. Dad I sleep with it. I'm going what!?
No way. Yeah.
And that was cool to see because it used to be your teddy bear.
Mm hmm. And then, you know,
the teddy bear transformed into into God's Word. it was different.
And you had said that in the morning,
sometimes, it reminds you to open up God's word.
I remember you telling me that a while back, and it has it been.
Has it been important to have life versus here? Yes.
Where you feel God's speaking specifically?
Yeah.
Do you have one life first that you can think about right now?
Well, I've actually been
reading in Psalm 139 and we get to read that together.
Let's read it together. OK, let's read it. Let's read it.
Yeah, so I'll read. I'll read the first twelve,
you read the other twelve.
OK, let's talk about that. a little bit. Ok. Yeah.
Says, Oh Lord, you have
searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up, you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted
with all my ways, even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, oh LORD, you know it all together.
You hem me in behind and before and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high;
I cannot attain it.
Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me
be night,"
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
For you
formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful
are your works; my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made
in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.
How precious to me are your thoughts,
O God! How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
Oh, that you would slay the wicked,
O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
They speak against you with malicious intent;
your enemies take your name in vain.
Do I not hate those who hate you
O, Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
I hate them with complete hatred.
I count them my enemies. Search me,
O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Oh wow. That's powerful. Those two are like my favorite ones. Those... right at the end there?
Yeah. Search me, O God? Yeah, that one's those two are my favorite ones.
Why is that your favorite?
What do you think?
Well, because it says "and know my heart," and I think that's really cool,
because that would mean He truly knows you.
So feeling known?
Yeah. Is important to you? Mmhmm. Yeah.
And you've also said that this one,
I think right here. "For you formed my inward parts."
Yeah. What's it speaking there to you?
He knitted me all together in my mother's womb.
Well, I think that's just cool to picture God like making me.
I don't know.
It's hard to imagine, but I just think it's cool to think about.
And he calls us wonderfully made, which I feel like
sometimes in our generation, like I don't know. Society says
You're only beautiful for for how you look, and so it says you're
wonderfully made and you're inward parts are beautiful too, like who you are.
So I think that's really cool.
And when it says my soul knows it very well,
what does that?
What does that say to you, like your soul knows it?
I don't know what your soul... like
your heart knows it. I don't know
Where the soul is. Like way deep in there, right?
Yeah, because it requires tons of trust to know, Hey, God formed me.
And then you're asking God, search, search me. Right?
And let me know if there's something grievous like something
that's mean or malicious or
really dark inside.
I know my heart that grievous way.
That's an interesting word.
Isn't that like sad too, because like grieving that's sad? It could.
Maybe that's something that we can look at.
Look up together.
Like grievous. What is that, what does that mean?
And look at kind of like the synonyms, right? The ones that are
related to it because that'd be important to understand.
See what, what is God looking for inside my heart
and then lead me in the way everlasting.
Remember, we've talked about perseverance and pursuit.
This is about leading me in that direction, right?
That pursuit. Yes.
So one of the things you wrote to me
in the journal, bringing that back in, right Lexi? And I love that.
So you give me these reminders, you can have knowledge
and you can be meticulous in your preparation.
But without the direction of the Holy Spirit, you will have no power
and your preaching will not be effective.
So true. God's word speaks to us
and the Holy Spirit through that begins to speak to us.
And when life gets hard, you said to
to really pursue prayer and God reminds us of that in scripture.
So just continue to pour into this and maybe write down those verses
as you're already doing to to be reminders to us.
Now you put some all over your car.
Right? Like little verses and stuff? In the car mirror where you're supposed to look at cars.
No, no, you didn't. You can't do that. Yeah, I did.
No, we gotta take that down. What? That's not safe Lex. I took an Xgo mark, expo. Expo expo marker and I wrote
This one, Psalm
20, the 139:23, and I wrote that in small letters on the top part.
So I can look at. In the rearview mirror? Yeah, so that, you don't?
Yeah, So you're not mean to other people and stuff?
Yeah, well that's good. That just reminds me while I'm driving.
OK, just as long as it's not distracting you.
But you so you put you put things, you decorated the car and your room.
You have tons of these quotes and Bible verses and verses
and you're allowing God to just speak into you.
And and that's exciting
to think about the way that you're engaging with God's word
and allowing to penetrate your soul and speak to you.
So that's it.
That is very exciting Lexi, to know that you're thirsting for God's Word
and that you're putting that wherever you're at.
Hey dads, you can have these conversations
at any time with your daughters.
It's so important for your daughters to know the importance of God's
Word in their lives. The reliance on God speaking to them that they can find truth.
They can find direction.
They can find confidence through God's Word as he's speaking to them.
Have them see you engage in God's word and to rely on Scripture in your own life
as a dad and model that and then read it together.
Read out loud together. It's so powerful to be able to read God's Word together
and then talk about it.
What's God speaking to us in our relationship and us individually
make it as simple or as complicated as you want to do,
but make sure that you are really going into God's word intentionally
and consistently together and know that as your soul thirsts for God's Word,
God will begin to speak more deeply and more clearly into your heart.
You'll notice his voice.
For more tips on talking to your daughters, make sure you visit
FocusontheFamily.com/dadsanddaughters. And Lexi,
It's been good to be with you.
Let's read God's Word together again. Let's look up that word grievous. Ok? Ok.