The Father's Business Podcast

Have you ever been in a family conversation that escalated so quickly you wondered how you even got there?

Sometimes the people we love the most can become the very people we struggle with the most.

But Scripture reminds us of something important: Our struggle is not against flesh and blood. (Ephesians 6:12)

In this week's episode of our For the Family series, we're talking about spiritual warfare in everyday family life. Not the dramatic kind we sometimes imagine, but the very real battles involving fear, accusation, assumptions, and division.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How fear, accusation, shame, and division affect relationships
• The difference between conviction from the Holy Spirit and accusation
• How to put on the armor of God in everyday life
• Why spiritual warfare should draw our attention to Jesus, not the enemy
• How to pray for family members without trying to control their choices
• Four practical questions to ask when family tensions rise

And we'll close by praying through the armor of God together, inviting His truth and peace into our homes and relationships.

Here's something to remember this week: Your family is not the enemy.

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John 15:9 As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.

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When someone you love is struggling, making choices you don’t understand, or creating conflict in your family, it can be easy to move quickly into fixing, advising, worrying—or even trying to manage them through prayer.

But what if God wants to begin with us?

In Episode 2 of our For the Family series, Elizabeth Gunter Powell and Kimberly Roddy talk about preparing our own hearts before we pray for the people closest to us. Drawing from Sylvia Gunter’s For the Family, they explore the difference between interceding for someone and carrying responsibility for them, how fear and control can get mixed into genuine love, and why prayer begins with relationship and surrender rather than our plan for someone else.

You’ll hear practical questions to help you slow down before reacting:

• What am I feeling?
• What am I tempted to do?
• Who is God for me here?
• Who does God want to be for the person I love?

They also discuss the Love Checkup from 1 Corinthians 13, the difference between conviction and shame, unmet needs in family relationships, and how our families often learn more from watching how we respond to God than from what we intentionally teach them.

Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is stop trying to figure out how to change someone and bring both them—and ourselves—back into the presence of God.

🎧 Join us for Episode 2 of For the Family.

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We’re back—and we’re returning to one of the very first resources we ever explored on The Father’s Business Podcast: For the Family.

But a lot has changed since we first recorded this series. Our families have changed. We have changed. And chances are, some things in your family have changed too.

In this new series, we’re asking an important question:

How do we deeply love the people God has given us without trying to carry them, fix them, control them, or do the work that only God can do?

Because family has a way of exposing us. We can be patient and gracious everywhere else—and then one person says one thing in the wrong tone and suddenly all that spiritual maturity feels a little harder to find.

This week, we’re talking about family systems, prayer, expectations, surrender, and what it means to truly join God in loving the people closest to us.

And this series isn’t only for parents or married couples. Whether your family includes adult children, siblings, parents, stepfamily, grandchildren, spiritual children, close friends, or relationships that have become complicated over the years—For the Family is for you.

Listen to the first episode and consider this question with us:

Father, what would it look like for me to love this person well without trying to do Your job in their life?

We’re so glad to be back with you.

We welcome you with a prayer for a quiet spirit and a steady heart, then we face the hard truth that some seasons feel like the darkest storm of your life. We pray through Ezekiel 37 for God to breathe new life into spiritual dryness, restore our families, and show his breakthrough power in situations that look hopeless. 

We speak Jeremiah 29:11 over your life and pray for peace, hope, and a secure sense that you are deeply loved and held. We also name emotional captivity and ask Jesus to bring healing to your spirit, soul, and body, right down to the roots. 

For more information or to order your own copy of this resource, please go to www.thefathersbusiness.com. 

We guide our hearts back to God through creation, letting Romans 1 remind us that His invisible qualities are clearly seen in what He has made. We move from gratitude and wonder into stewardship, asking what righteous authority looks like when we partner with God in prayer, even about the weather. 

For more information or to order your own copy of this resource, please go to www.thefathersbusiness.com. 

This week we're releasing the final episode of our Prayer Unfiltered series.

Over the past several months you've trusted us with some incredibly honest questions about prayer, suffering, healing, God's sovereignty, disappointment, fasting, authority, hearing God, praying in the Spirit, and unanswered prayer.

This final conversation brings all of those questions together around one simple truth:

Grief and trust are not opposites.

If you've ever wondered...

• Why should I keep praying?
• Did I do something wrong?
• Can I tell God I'm angry?
• How do I trust Him when my story isn't the one I wanted?

...we hope this conversation reminds you that prayer has never been about finding the perfect formula. It has always been about relationship with the Father.

This conversation explores biblical lament, grief, trust, God's sovereignty, healing, disappointment, and what genuine faith looks like when life doesn't unfold the way we expected.

If you've ever questioned God's goodness after unanswered prayer, struggled with disappointment, or wondered how to keep trusting God through suffering, this episode is for you.

Thank you for walking through this series with us. Your questions made these conversations possible, and we pray they've encouraged you to bring your whole heart before God.

We'll be taking a short break while we travel and teach, but we'll be back soon with new episodes.

Until then...

Keep asking.

Keep seeking.

Keep listening.

And most of all...

Keep talking to your Father.

We center our hearts on praise as adoration of God for who He is, and we ask God to quiet our spirit and anchor us in the truth that we are deeply loved and securely held. We walk through why Scripture emphasizes praise so strongly and how worship becomes a strategic weapon that lifts heaviness, stirs faith, and helps us stand in Christ’s finished victory. 

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Does Isaiah 53 promise physical healing for every believer? What do we do when God doesn't heal the people we love?

In this deeply personal episode of The Father's Business Podcast, Kimberly shares her own journey through losing her father to cancer while wrestling with some of Christianity's hardest questions:

If God is good... why doesn't He always heal? 

Have you ever prayed with everything you had... and still watched the outcome unfold differently than you hoped?

Together we explore:

• What "By His Stripes We Are Healed" actually means
• Isaiah 53 in its biblical context
• How Matthew and Peter interpret Isaiah's prophecy
• Three major Christian views on healing
• Why we should continue praying for healing
• How to trust God's goodness when prayers seem unanswered
• Finding hope in the resurrection—not just this life

If you've ever prayed for healing and wondered why the answer wasn't what you hoped, this conversation is for you.

My prayer is that this episode doesn't simply answer questions about healing.

I pray it helps you trust God's heart more deeply.

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