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Warfare Parenting: A Daily Battle Plan for your Child w/Laine Lawson Craft · 5–Minute Parenting: Tips to Help You Raise Competent, Godly Kids.

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to another episode of the Five Minute Parenting Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Karen Ferguson, wife, mom, grandmom, and children's book author with a background in K-8 education and a passion for equipping parents to raise confident and God-confident kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: In this podcast, we'll cover parenting practices for both a practical view and a biblical view.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our goal is to help you raise kids with a positive, godly self-image so they can become all they were created to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know you're busy, so we'll keep it short.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's take just five minutes and dive in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to Five Minute Parenting.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Karen, your show host, and today I'm talking with award-winning author Lane Lawsoncraft about her book, Warfare Parenting, a Daily Battle Plan to Fight for Your Child.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lane is a parenting expert and battle-tested warrior for parents navigating the heartbreaking journey of having a prodigal child.
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  SPEAKER_01: Her book, Warfare Parenting, was Amazon's top five bestseller and builds on the success of her award-winning book, The Parent's Battle Plan, which was named 2023 Nonfiction Book of the Year.
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  SPEAKER_01: As host of the top globally ranked Warfare Parenting podcast, she reaches parents worldwide with strategic spiritual guidance for reconnecting with their wayward children, helping thousands of families rebuild relationships.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lane has been featured on Fox News, The 700 Club, CBN, and other prominent Christian networks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Her expert insights on parenting and spiritual warfare have been featured on Moody Radio, The Christian Post, and many other media outlets, establishing her as a trusted voice in faith-based parenting.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm so grateful to have her on Five Minute Parenting Today.
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  SPEAKER_01: So welcome to the show, Lane.
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  SPEAKER_00: Karen, it's such an honor to be here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love what you do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
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  SPEAKER_01: So glad we've connected.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, you have an impressive bio, but most importantly, you have an important message for parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm excited you're here to share a bit about your book and also your ex your own experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: So please jump right in and tell us a little bit about your story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love to say that really the most important part of my bio is that I'm a mama who loved the Lord, who was brought from the secular world to a mission field in my early 40s, uh, after God resurrected my dead marriage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, God asked me to be a messenger of hope, to show people that he was still moving today in a mighty way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I mentioned that because I had no idea God would use me at that level or capacity.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the same time that I had a magazine in every bookstore in America and Canada, I had three children that were in their teens that had been under attack by the enemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I had three prodigals, and now they're whole, healed, and delivered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's the most important part of my bio is to say that yes, we have a war going on, and it is a spiritual war, not a war that we're fighting with our children, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But a war that we're fighting for our children.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that is why I'm here today.
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  unknown: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's yeah, it sounds like you have just an amazing testimony.
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  SPEAKER_01: So tell us a little bit about your book and what started you on that road to writing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the uh parents' battle plan, Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal, was a book I wished I would have had when I was in the battle with three prodigals.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's a wonderful book.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just lines out how does a Christian parent uh deal with the modern world, the technology, the boundaries, all the lures.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I even have a chapter, When the Worst Happens, Karen, uh, addressing parents that have lost kids through suicide or fentanyl poisonings or tragedies like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what we found was in the battle, we grow weary and tired and discouraged.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like to call it the mean time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the mean time for me is when I would say, God, please turn my child around and then waiting for the answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the meantime, it can get real mean.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's where the warfare parenting, a daily battle plan to fight for your child came in.
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  SPEAKER_00: I needed hope, encouragement, and power every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh the Lord had me read through the Bible through the year many times in the last 10 years, and one year specifically, he said, every day, pull a scripture out for that parent that's in the battle, or that grandparent or loved one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's what I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's 365 days of a scripture reference that the Lord gave us, a devotion, and then a prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's powerful because that's how we win the battle, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is through the word of God and through prayer, not in our own strength.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's powerful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, is there anything you would like to share specifically with parents who are kind of in the trenches right now going through that with their prodigal children?
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  SPEAKER_00: First and foremost, I get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know the shame that comes with it, I know the isolation it it gets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you feel like nobody else can understand or is can can understand where you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, you are not alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh God is with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And most importantly, there is no prodigal that's too far gone for God to come in and rescue.
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  SPEAKER_00: My eldest child was 15 years in a wayward path, a prodigal into drugs, alcohol, everything that you can imagine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one night in an Uber, going to another place of partying, the Lord came down and touched him so powerfully that he was forever changed and started his healing recovery.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, that is so powerful to know that that, you know, you as a parent, uh, you stand in the gap and stand and believe and know that if God did it for my prodigals, he can do it for yours too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, that reminds me of a word suddenly.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, a lot of times we pray and we pray and we pray, and it then it can happen in an instant, like with your son, and God did such a miracle.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, Lane, it's just a pleasure having you on the show.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know you have amazing resources for parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I want to encourage our listeners to check out your website.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it links to your podcast, to your books, and to other free resources, including the first 10 pages of your devotionals.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, where is the best place to find you online?
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  SPEAKER_01: And if there's other you know, freebies that you have, maybe share that with us so listeners can be looking for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Lane L-A-I-N-E Lawson, L-A-W-S-O-N-Craft, C-R-A-F-T.com, Lane Lawsoncraft.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have a lot of free resources.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have the first 10 days of the devotional uh free.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have the first chapter of the parents' battle plan free.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have promises to pray over your children, um, warfare prayers, so many things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, I do a weekly inspiration that keeps you strong and in belief that God has your victory and it's on its way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, we will have that link to your website in our show notes.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is it for today, listeners.
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  SPEAKER_01: I pray you've been blessed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Please share this episode with another parent who you know needs to be encouraged and hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: And until next time, have a blessed week.