Navigating in the Storm ALL PARTS

With three small children and on the edge of complete financial disaster, Brody and Julie sunk deep into their faith. What they learned about God in the turmoil of the trial gave them a strong emotional foundation to walk through life. Can God can bring inner strength despite circumstances? Subscribe at parentcompass.tv/subscribe

The mind of a person plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. Proverbs 16:9

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I didn’t need God and neither did anyone else. The only people that did were weak. - Julie

Bought a practice and started another practice. All of sudden things weren’t on track. - Brody

The great plans started to unravel. - Julie

Lord, where are you in this? - Julie

I was afraid we would lose everything. - Julie

We’ve gotta survive and get through this. – Brody

All the Different things we had going were all crashing around us. – Julie

I think the hardest part was not knowing the answer, when you were a person who always kind of had a plan, had an answer. – Brody

I’m definitely a planner. What’s the long plan? What’s the long game? What are the steps that need to happen. - Brody

Everything we had planned for 6 or 7 years were on track and then all of a sudden they weren’t on track. – Brody

How are you going to deal with this? Are you going to bail out? Are you going to quit? – Brody

God impressed upon me that my role was to pray and support Brody. - Julie

I went into a very survivalist type mode. – Brody

I had to go 18 months without taking any money home. So we had to survive. – Brody

I had to share that I didn’t know. I think the hardest part was not knowing the answer, when you were a person who always kind of had a plan, had an answer. – Brody

I think the hardest part was admitting that to her. And thinking I let her down. But her saying that I didn’t let her down. Thinking I was a failure. I was failing her and the family. She didn’t ever accept that. It is not like she said, no you are not, she tried to banish that from my mind. – Brody

We were going through a lot of stuff with the family and with my dad as well. – Brody

Everywhere we looked it seemed to be chaos. It was about 7 years of turmoil. That included family illness, death… Everything seemed heavy. - Julie

Everything started to fall apart from a business sense. Every time we turned around there was a gut-wrenching issue that was hard. Not wanting to blame God, but still, God, I know you can fix this. I learned a lot more about spiritual warfare. Satan does not want you to be victorious in your walk with the Lord. – Julie

Trusting Him is giving Him everything even the things you have worked on. I had to give up some things I did not want to give up. – Brody

Once I understood spiritual warfare, everything began to shift. – Julie

We live in a fallen world and it is hard. – Julie

If You want to take it all away, take it all away. – Brody

If we have to sit in this a long time, we’ll wait on You, but we are not moving without You. – Julie

Our kids were so young we did not expose them to the struggles we were going through. We did not want to burden them with fear at the ages they were at. – Brody

Coming home and having them run to greet me was like Disneyland. - Brody

Fight the good fight of faith, take hold of the eternal life to which you were called. – 1 Timothy 6:12

Nothing is wrong with you. – Julie

It is a time of intensity and struggle for a lot of parents and they are not alone. It is scary to raise kids at this time. For every generation before, there were physical threats known that would have to get close enough to your kids to harm them. That is not the case anymore. Technology and the things kids have available to them is super scary. There are all kinds of avenues to your kids. They can get under your roof without you knowing. They don’t have to pass through the front door. But God has told us to be fruitful and multiply. He has told us to trust Him. He has told us; He is on the throne and He is not leaving the throne. - Julie

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