DiscoverRaising Fatherless Kids177. Speaking Life Over Your Children: Identity Beyond Behavior
177. Speaking Life Over Your Children: Identity Beyond Behavior

177. Speaking Life Over Your Children: Identity Beyond Behavior

Update: 2025-08-13
Share

Description

As the school year begins, it is the perfect time to pause and reflect on the words we speak over our children—and ourselves. In this episode, Lori shares a powerful parenting tip that helped shape the way she encouraged and corrected her children as a young mom raising eight kids.

You will be challenged to reframe phrases like “good girl” or “bad boy” and instead use language that separates identity from behavior. Lori also explores how deeply rooted identity is—in Christ, not in performance—and how this truth brings freedom, hope, and healing.

Whether you are parenting toddlers or teenagers, this episode will inspire you to choose words that build up, affirm truth, and point your children to their value in God's eyes.

Key Takeaways:

  • A simple but transformative shift in the way we praise and correct

  • The difference between labeling behavior and labeling identity

  • Why our identity in Christ is secure, no matter our mistakes or circumstances

  • Encouragement for moms to speak truth over themselves

Resources Mentioned:

Encouragement for Moms:

"You are not defined by what you do or do not do. Your identity is rooted in Christ, and that is unchanging—even on the hard days."

For more information and helpful resources, check our website, PerspectiveMinistries.org & follow us on Instagram @PerspectiveMinistries.

Comments 
In Channel
175. Do Hard Things

175. Do Hard Things

2025-07-3017:20

loading
00:00
00:00
x

0.5x

0.8x

1.0x

1.25x

1.5x

2.0x

3.0x

Sleep Timer

Off

End of Episode

5 Minutes

10 Minutes

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

60 Minutes

120 Minutes

177. Speaking Life Over Your Children: Identity Beyond Behavior

177. Speaking Life Over Your Children: Identity Beyond Behavior

Lori Apon