How We’re Surviving a Crazy Busy Season: Sabbath, Discipline & Obedience (Parents of 9)

Bruce and Kaila Payne introduce the Unshackled Love podcast, sharing that they are Metro Detroit teachers parenting nine children while building a family-focused ministry, producing podcasts and devotionals, remaking their website, and balancing seminary, multiple jobs, and parenting demands. In the midst of exhaustion and questioning whether the sacrifice is worth it, they describe becoming more disciplined with sleep, schedules, and priorities, and observing a weekly Sabbath for the first time, finding they are “getting more with less.”

They draw encouragement from Hebrews 6:15 about waiting patiently for God’s promises, emphasizing obedience even without visible results, and challenge listeners to use their gifts for God’s glory, resist distractions and “noise,” and trust God to sustain what He has called them to do, closing with a prayer for discipline, legacy, and generational blessing.

00:00 Welcome and Introductions

01:10 New Setup and Ministry Vision

01:43 Busy Season and Discipline

04:40 Learning to Keep Sabbath

06:15 Hebrews 6 Patience Promise

09:07 Encouragement Nuggets and Obedience

11:03 Your Gifts and Calling

14:29 Cutting Noise Staying Intentional

16:09 Closing Prayer and Amen