2-9: Overcoming their Defense Mechanisms

Memoirs of Abiding

We all come from various backgrounds, environments, and experiences. This podcast takes a generalized look at parenting defense mechanisms. These are the innate or natural responses that individuals develop in response to stimuli that is meant to help protect them.

This not a claim on how YOU heal their hearts, the work of the Holy Spirit is the primary factor in healing your kids’ heart. This podcast discusses scripture and tools to help walk with your kids in abiding, as you identify and surround the defense mechanisms with the Word of God. As you submit their development to God, and point them to the Word of God.

Scriptures Discussed/Review:

• Genesis 2 and 3 - Original design and Fall of man.
• Genesis 4 – Cain and Abel
• Romans 3-8 - big in understanding yourself, God, and what He has Done
• Romans 6: 19 – 21:
  • “For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your body’s parts as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relation to righteousness. Therefore what benefit were you when deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those thigs is death.” (NASB).
• Matthew 10 – Jesus sends the disciples out
• Matthew 17: 19
  • Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out? And He said to them, Because of your meager faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. (But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.
• Romans 12:2
• Psalm 91