BONUS: Marked by Favor
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
“For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.” —Psalm 84:11
As we continue praying wisdom, stature, and favor for our kids, it’s notable that Luke 2:52 tells us young Jesus himself was growing in all aspects of his life: mentally (in wisdom), physically (in stature), and spiritually (in favor with God). What a great reminder to pray over all the areas of our kids’ lives, not limiting our requests to God.
It’s abundantly clear we already have God’s favor when we consider our name is written in the book of life despite our unworthiness. But as we pray God’s continued favor over our children, we’re simply asking him to accomplish things in their lives that would be impossible for them to do on their own.
David experienced God’s favor in his face-off with Goliath, the Israelites saw God’s favor when the Red Sea parted, and Sarah definitely had God’s favor when she received word of her pregnancy.
The good news about God’s favor is that he’s looking for people to bless with it. We’re told that “the eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him” (2 Chronicles 16:9 NLT). In other words, God is literally looking across the earth for those he can bless because he loves us and wants to make our lives significant for his glory.
God’s favor is unlimited and unmistakable in our lives, but we’re best positioned to receive it when we’re obedient, walking in step with him, and surrendering to his purposes.
Let’s pray that our kids live lives God can bless, allowing his favor on all that they do.
Lord, thank you for showing your great favor on us. You give us significance and purpose far beyond what we could do on our own. Empower [name] to live each day in a way that you can bless, teaching them daily the importance of obedience to your word.
God’s word speaks: Psalm 90:17; Ephesians 2:8–9; Numbers 6:25–26; Proverbs 3:1–2
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, friends, I'm working on slowing down. |
| 0:19.1 | Really, I'm so fast. I get excited and I want to rush, and so I'm working on slowing down. Really. I'm so fast. I get excited and I want to rush. And so I'm |
| 0:24.2 | working on that. But who are my, who am I? Where are we? My name is Courtney Defeo and I'm the host of |
| 0:29.6 | Part in the Mess podcast. That's where you've landed today. And on Thursdays, we have interviews |
| 0:35.5 | about parenting and faith with different interesting folks. I hope you'll |
| 0:39.2 | tune in to those. But on Mondays, we are continuing a tradition that started with Cynthia |
| 0:44.6 | Yanoff and part of the mess that we're just going to simply pray for our kids together and talk |
| 0:49.7 | about a topic should be no longer than five or ten minutes, depending on how slow I go or how long I talk. |
| 0:56.2 | Stay tuned. I never know. But there's a journal that we're working through called marked by |
| 1:00.1 | prayer, and we really just want to talk through how can our kids be marked by God and by prayer |
| 1:05.1 | and not really marked of the things of this world. And so we're going all school year, |
| 1:09.6 | and it's going to be fun. I'm excited. |
| 1:11.9 | And if you don't have your journal yet, go over to marked by prayer.org. Okay, we started with this |
| 1:18.6 | idea of marked by wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. That comes from Luke 252, |
| 1:26.4 | which some of you know, that is a common prayer |
| 1:28.6 | that we hear tossed around. But in Luke 252, it says Jesus himself, Jesus grew in wisdom, |
| 1:34.1 | stature, and favor. And the first week that we started this prayer, we talked about wisdom and how |
| 1:38.4 | we can pray that for our kids, their intellectual and mental growth. Last week, we talked about |
| 1:43.4 | stature, their physical growth and how we as parents and moms can pray for that mental growth. Last week, we talked about stature, their physical growth, |
| 1:45.0 | and how we as parents and moms can pray for that physical and the body stuff that can be |
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