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Leviticus 12.3.

On the 8th day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Now, this verse might not be the first verse that pops off the page when you think about what would drive our praying from Leviticus chapter 12.

But when you think about it on a deeper level, this is really a powerful picture.

For in the old covenant, God had set up this picture of circumcision as a sign of his relationship

with his people and a child from the very beginning of its life in the world.

The eighth day, this child would have this sign that was saying,

this child belongs to the Lord and a parent saying,

we want this child to be wholly set apart for the Lord.

Now, there's all kinds of debate when you get into the New Testament.

I think about how Presbyterians and Baptists, for example,

would approach the issue of infant baptism.

And the goal of this podcast episode is not to dive into that debate.

But it is to say that when we as followers of Christ in the New Covenant have children, boys and girls,

like we want them to be set apart.

We want them to belong to the Lord.

We want them to know God.

We want them to walk in relationship with God.

And so it is good and right to from the very beginning

of a child's life to pray for this. I think about my kids, my four kids, ever since they were born or two

of them, we adopted ever since we first laid eyes on them. Like, we have prayed that they would

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