BONUS: Follow: Deny Themselves
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
“Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it’” (Matthew 16:24–25)
Denying ourselves might involve taking an inventory of those things we hold more important than God. This might mean choosing between two good things, doing something we don’t really want to do, or giving something up. Mostly, denying ourselves means leaving behind a sinful life and walking with Jesus every day. This doesn’t always sound appealing, especially to a kid. But Jesus promises us that when we surrender our lives over to him, he will give us life and life to the full (John 10:10). This is the slow process of sanctification—or being made holy. We can’t do it ourselves, we need Jesus.
So while our kids may naturally think of themselves first (let’s be real, we often do too), the truth is, there is something bigger than our kids that is worth following, and that is Jesus. So this week, let’s pray that as our kids grow, they learn to deny themselves and their earthly desires and choose to follow Jesus.
Jesus, you are the king of our hearts and lives. I pray that ______________ chooses to be your disciple and that they always know that the world is not about them and there is freedom in that, release them from the pressure of that. May they evaluate their focus and, with your help and strength, be sanctified to you as they deny themselves, turn from sin, and follow you. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Well, welcome to Pardon the Mess. I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and Bridget has been thrown under the bus today. Welcome, Bridget. |
| 0:22.9 | I don't feel like I'm under the bus. I got a front row seat. Well, I need to introduce you. |
| 0:29.1 | You've been on here before, but did y'all know part of the mess family that I have two good friends that |
| 0:34.2 | didn't know each other before, but I have Bridget, my friend from Orlando, |
| 0:41.3 | and Kara, my friend from high school, that regularly listen. I don't know how you do it, |
| 0:46.5 | to almost every episode and pray every week all the time for y'all and for me and for what the show is going to do. And so I just thank you so much for like not just saying prayer hands emoji |
| 0:51.9 | praying for you, but like literally praying for me. And thank you so |
| 0:55.6 | much, Bridget. Yeah, it's a privilege, actually. I enjoy doing it. You're an awesome mom. You've got three |
| 1:01.7 | cutie kids that I love and we don't get to do life together in person, but we are often on the phone. |
| 1:06.9 | And this is one of those topics that I was reading today, getting ready to pray and talk to you. And not that I have to be this teacher, but I'm like, I want to be accurate in these topics. |
| 1:15.3 | So today's lesson and today, not lesson, today's topic that we're going to pray about for our kids is |
| 1:21.3 | week 20 under the follow Jesus. And it says, deny themselves. So I opened my Bible and I've heard |
| 1:27.0 | this verse my whole life and I was like, |
| 1:29.0 | wait, what? Like, what does that actually mean? And instead of like sending you a boxer, |
| 1:34.6 | I'm like Bridget, what does that actually mean? So in Luke, let me find my actual verse. And Luke |
| 1:41.6 | 923, he says, and to all, if anyone come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. |
| 1:49.1 | What does that mean for me and you? |
| 1:50.3 | And how do we explain that to our kids in a language they can understand? |
| 1:54.5 | Okay. |
| 1:55.1 | So I went to the one in Matthew and 24. |
| 1:59.1 | And so then I looked at right before that in the verse 23, Christ says, for you are not setting |
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