BONUS: Follow: Treasures in Heaven
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
“Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be” (Matthew 6:21 NLT)
Most of us make it a priority to teach our little kids the difference between wants and needs.
“No, you don’t need a new Lego set, you want a new Lego set.”
“I know you don’t want to help clean the house, but you need to.”
Owning things and wanting things is not a bad thing in itself. What is bad is putting those things before following God. Jesus tells us very clearly that we cannot serve two Gods, meaning we cannot serve both God and money (Matthew 6:24). Instead of focusing our minds and hearts on all the things that money can buy, we are to focus our minds and hearts on the greatest gift that money cannot buy: Jesus and his kingdom. This is so hard in our current influencer society, where you can't use your phone without feeling like you need to buy something or compare yourself to someone else, and it starts young!
This week let’s pray that our kids focus their hearts on things that are eternal instead of temporary. Let’s pray that they follow God by putting their energy into what God has for them instead of what the world tells them will make them happy and fulfilled.
Father God, you gave us everything when you gave us the gift of salvation through Jesus. I pray for ___________________. I pray that they store up treasures in heaven, that they fix their eyes on the unseen things that honor and bring glory to you Lord, not on the things of this earth. When they are tempted to idolize material things, give them the strength to see past the temptation and recenter themselves on the things that matter most. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.5 | Hey friends, welcome back to Pardon in the Mess. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm your host, Courtney Intifayo, and on Mondays, we simply pray together around a specific topic |
| 0:21.6 | from the journal, A Life of Faith. And that is something we've been praying all school year together. |
| 0:26.7 | I have loved it. And we're in this section about how to pray that our kids will follow Jesus. |
| 0:31.7 | And all of this works together. We want our kids to love Jesus with all their hearts. |
| 0:35.8 | But at the beginning of the year, we talked about how they could know, how they could love, and now we're in the follow section. |
| 0:40.8 | And so they all kind of feel a little bit repetitive at some point. But I love today's |
| 0:45.6 | week 21 talking about treasures in heaven. And I don't know if I'm just particularly sappy these |
| 0:52.2 | days or my parents are getting older. They're in |
| 0:54.6 | great health. But you start as in your 40s to start go, oh my gosh, I'm not going to have my parents |
| 0:59.5 | forever. And then you have a kid that's graduating in one semester. And you're like, I'm not going to |
| 1:04.4 | have her around forever. So I'm doing a lot of reflecting on what mattered. And I hope to share that |
| 1:09.8 | with you in a little bits over the next |
| 1:12.2 | several months, but months. But one thing, you know, if you've seen any videos of my office, |
| 1:17.8 | is that it's a disaster. And I actually cleaned it up over the Christmas break. There was one |
| 1:22.1 | video that I thought, if you have OCD or type A, you're going to die because the picture behind me is |
| 1:26.6 | completely crooked. |
| 1:32.2 | And then there's stacks and stacks of books. And I thought, I don't know if anyone that's got their lives together can even watch this without stretching out and like jumping through the screen |
| 1:36.5 | to correct my crooked picture. But I'm getting on it this year, folks. And one of the things I found, |
| 1:42.5 | I found so many things in my office, was one, |
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