BONUS: Prayer Health Over Our Kids
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
I was reading through the book of Daniel this week, and I came across the part most of us learned about in first-grade Vacation Bible School: the part where King Nebuchadnezzar built a golden statue and told everyone they had to bow to it.
When Daniel and his buddies refused to comply, the king promptly decided the next best step would be to turn up the temperature on the ol’ furnace and throw them in it.
Daniel, committed to living the truths of his faith in God, said these profound words as he faced the possibility of going down in flames:
“If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up” (Daniel 3:16–17).
And God did deliver them, not allowing even one little scorch to their bodies.
I was thinking about what a Daniel kind of faith looks like for us at present, as we’re experiencing the angst of this potentially life-threatening pandemic.
Are we sharing Daniel’s sentiment with those around us?
Are we sharing that our God is able to deliver us?
Even if he does not, we will not fall to the temptation of fear, faithlessness, and despair?
In his commentary of this passage, Warren Wiersbe says, “The devil tempts us to destroy our faith, but God tests us to develop our faith, because a faith that can’t be tested can’t be trusted.”
As we face these days of uncertainty, many will find their faith tested. But even in the midst of the testing, we have hope knowing that, in the refining process, we will come out with a faith that’s even more trusted.
On today’s podcast, five-time cancer survivor and founder of Truth Becomes Her Erin Weidemann talks about the importance of praying for both the physical and spiritual health of our kids.
Erin’s testimony reminds me a lot of David’s. After beating cancer five times, she has complete confidence that her God is able to heal her over and over again.
But even if he chooses not to in the future, she will choose to live each day at peace without worry or despair.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, thanks for being with us on part of the mess as we are continuing to pray through the |
| 0:04.0 | school year for our kids. And as we've talked about the last few weeks, it's kind of interesting |
| 0:08.2 | as we pray for our kids the school year. We never anticipated that they would be home with us as |
| 0:12.8 | we're praying this. But as only God could do, when this was written a year ago, he laid out |
| 0:18.8 | the topics. And this week, we are praying health for our kids. |
| 0:21.9 | And so I am so thrilled to be able to do that. And sitting here on the phone with me is Erin |
| 0:27.2 | Whiteman. Does I say your last name right, Aaron? Yeah. It's like vitamin. Okay. Making |
| 0:33.4 | sure. Okay. I've got Aaron Whiteman with me. Hi, Aaron. Hi. And she is from |
| 0:39.6 | San Diego, California, and has ministries, Truth Becomes her, a lot of others. We've interviewed |
| 0:44.8 | her on some other topics that you can catch up with her on, but she is here with us today |
| 0:49.4 | to pray health. And I'm going to kick us off by just reading our script for this week, James 5.4, if anyone among you is sick, let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. |
| 1:01.3 | And, Aaron, I love that verse just speaking into the fact that one, there will be illness. |
| 1:05.5 | We know that. |
| 1:06.1 | The Bible talks up there will be trouble and hard times, but also just the importance of being the church and praying |
| 1:11.5 | over people. And not in this instance of social distancing will be anointing people with oil, |
| 1:17.1 | but we can do that metaphorically. And so I know that you, if you don't mind sharing with us, |
| 1:22.8 | you've had a lot of health issues over your life. And I would just love for you maybe to share a little bit |
| 1:28.1 | of your insight from that with us. Yeah, I think, you know, for the first 25 years of my life, |
| 1:32.6 | I was really healthy, never broke a bone, never had a serious illness. And then when I was 26, |
| 1:37.1 | I was diagnosed with cancer for the first time. We didn't catch it early. It was very far along, |
| 1:42.2 | very extensive. I had to have a nine-hour surgery, lots of different |
| 1:45.9 | radiation treatments and physical therapy, all sorts of different things. So the Lord really used that |
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