BEFORE WE BUILD ANYTHING, WE SUBMIT IT. Hey Kingdom University family. Today is the day we start getting practical. Charts. Plans. Routines. Systems. All of it is coming. But before we open one notebook or print one chart I need us to do something first. Submit it to the Lord. Because here is what I have learned the hard way: You can have the best system in the world and it will fall apart without God in it. You can have the prettiest routine chart on your fridge and still be a chaotic mess by Tuesday. You can know exactly what to do and still not do it — because the real work is not organizational. It is spiritual. So today I want you to go through this Bible study before we do anything else.(DIFFERENT FROM YOUVERSION) I put it together specifically for this reset week. It is going to walk you through what God actually says about order, authority, and new beginnings. You are going to get the definitions. You are going to read the scriptures in full. You are going to sit with reflection questions that are going to shift something in you before we ever touch a chart. It will not take all day. But it will change the foundation you are building on. I know we are also in the YouVersion Bible plan together and that is not going anywhere. This is an addition. A deeper anchor. Do both if you can. But if you only do one today, do this. Here is what I need you to do: Open the Bible study I attached. Get your Bible. Get a pen. Find a quiet space. And do the work. When you are finished take a picture of your notes, your reflection answers, your open Bible, whatever it looks like and drop it in the comments below. Because I have a gift for everyone who finishes. Not a freebie thrown together. A real gift. For a parent who took time out of their day to sit with God before they tried to fix their house. That parent deserves something. So go do the work. Come back and show me. I will be watching the comments. 👀🔥 GIFT OFFER ENDS FRIDAY JULY 10TH Until next time — stay positive. 🧡

I know many of you are working on building a daily routine this week. Below you will find a sample routine by the hour for teenagers during summer break. If you watched my video on Instagram yesterday you already know -- idle time is not on the schedule. Even in the summer. Especially in the summer. Because idle time is the devil's playground and we are not renting him space in our homes. 😂 And before any teenager reading this over their parent's shoulder says "but it's summer" Summer is not a sabbatical from life. It is a training ground for adulthood. And we are using every day of it. This is just an example. Adjust the times to fit your household. But keep the structure. Structure is the gift. OTHER AGE GROUPS ARE POSTED MORNING 8:00 AM -- Wake up Yes 8:00. Not noon. Not 1pm. Not "whenever they feel like it." Sleeping until noon every day trains a teenager to be unproductive. And an unproductive teenager is a bored teenager. And a bored teenager with a phone and too much time is a whole situation we are trying to avoid. 8:00 AM is grace. Be grateful. 😂 8:15 AM -- Full morning hygiene Shower or save it for the evening. But at minimum: wash face, brush teeth, get dressed in real clothes. Real clothes. Not pajamas all day. Getting dressed signals to the brain that the day has started and there is something to show up for. 8:30 AM -- Breakfast They make it themselves at this age. Fully. Clean up behind themselves. Fully. 9:00 AM -- Morning devotional or time with God This is non negotiable in a Kingdom home. It does not have to be long. Fifteen to twenty minutes. A scripture. A journal entry. A prayer. The YouVersion Bible app has plans specifically for teens. The goal is that they are building a personal relationship with God that does not depend on mom or dad dragging them to it. This is the season where faith becomes their own or it does not. Help them choose it daily. 9:30 AM -- Personal development hour This is the hour that separates teenagers who are ready for adulthood from teenagers who are not.

Proverbs 24:3-4 "By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches." Three things build a house: wisdom, understanding, knowledge. Not force. Not yelling. Not trying harder. Wisdom: knowing the right thing to do. Understanding: knowing WHY it is the right thing to do. Knowledge: the application. Doing it. A home reset is not about trying harder. It is about getting wisdom, gaining understanding, and then applying it consistently. That is the formula. And it has been in scripture the whole time. In that area, do you have wisdom (you know what to do)? Understanding (you know why)? Or knowledge (you are applying it)? Which piece is missing?

Can I tell you something that nobody talks about when it comes to getting your home together? Your children will never maintain what you do not model. You can post the chore chart. You can announce the new rules. You can sit them down and explain the new expectations. And by Friday it will all fall apart. Not because your children are bad. Because they looked at YOUR space and took notes. Children do not do what you say. They do what you do. And if your bedroom looks like a storage unit, if your bathroom counter is covered in products you never put away, if your car is a rolling trash can, if your personal space communicates that you do not take care of what belongs to you, your children got the memo. They just applied it to their rooms instead of yours. So before we tackle one thing in your child's space this week we are starting with yours. Not to shame you. To activate you. When you reset your personal space, something shifts in you. Your mind gets clearer. Your stress drops. Your capacity to lead your home increases. There is a direct connection between the environment you live in and the way you show up as a parent. Science confirms it. Scripture confirms it. And if you are honest you already know it. A cluttered space produces a cluttered mind. And a cluttered mind cannot lead a household with clarity. So today we start with you. WHY YOU HAVE TO GO FIRST When your child sees you make your bed every morning without being told they learn that responsibility is not about being watched. When your child sees you wipe down your bathroom counter and keep your space clean they learn that order is a standard, not a punishment. When your child sees you take care of your own things they learn that adults respect what they own. You are not just cleaning your room. You are teaching a lesson that no chore chart can replace. Authority is not what you demand. It is what you demonstrate. You cannot lead your children somewhere you refuse to go yourself. So go first. Go today.

Would you take financial advice from someone who is broke? Would you take marriage advice from someone who has been divorced three times and is currently single? Would you let someone coach your child in basketball who has never touched a ball in their life? No. You wouldn't. Because there is something deeply offensive about someone telling you how to do something they have never done and are not currently doing themselves. So let me ask you the real question today. Why do you keep telling your children to do things you are not doing? You tell them to calm down. You cannot regulate your own emotions. You tell them to clean their room. Your bedroom looks like a crime scene. You tell them to eat better. You are on your third bag of chips at 11pm. You tell them to pray. You haven't opened your Bible in three weeks. You tell them to get up on time. You hit snooze four times every morning and then rush everybody out the door in a panic. You tell them to control their attitude. You lose yours every single day before 9am. I am not saying this to shame you. I am saying this because the reset has to start HERE before it can work THERE. Your children are not following your instructions. They are following YOU. You are the curriculum. So before you print one chart. Before you announce one new rule. Before you sit your children down and tell them things are going to be different around here. You have to answer this question honestly Am I doing what I am asking them to do? If the answer is no that is where the reset starts. Not with your children. With you. Join me on the next post for todays Bible study on this topic