BONUS: Praying Contentment for our Kids
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Why does contentment matter?
“I would totally be content if I had just a little bit more.”
We don’t actually say those words, but show your hand if you’ve ever bought into that lie. (Unfortunately, my hand is raised.)
When we define success by God’s standards of prosperity and not the world’s, life is lots easier and a whole lot more peaceful. If we define ourselves by what we have or how much we have, we will inevitably find a lack of contentment.
Christ-filled contentment brings peace and happiness, knowing that what Jesus has already done for us is more than we deserve. And, better than that, it’s eternal so it can’t be taken away.
The whole idea of contentment is a big one when it comes to praying for our kids. A lack of contentment doesn’t just impact our kids when they are young. When they become adults, a spirit of discontentment can seep into finances, jobs, friendships, and everything in between.
Let’s buckle down this week and ask the Lord to show us where we need to find contentment in our own lives so that we can model it well in our families. Let’s pray that our kids know that money and material things do not bring lasting fulfillment and happiness, but that only comes from Jesus.
And when you have those thoughts that a “little bit more” would make all the difference, call it out for what it is. Let it remind you to pray for contentment for yourself and your family.
John Piper said, “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”
May God be glorified through all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Cynthia again. I'll pair with Pardon the Mess, and I am so glad that you joined us again. |
| 0:09.1 | We're praying for our kids, and this week we are praying contentment for our kids. |
| 0:13.5 | The verse that we have in our prayer journal is 1 Timothy 6, 6 through 7, but godliness with contentment |
| 0:19.5 | is great gain, for we brought nothing into the |
| 0:22.1 | world and we can take nothing out of it. |
| 0:24.0 | But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. |
| 0:28.0 | And that is a great starting point verse that convicts me pretty seriously about contentment. |
| 0:34.0 | And I think this is such a great thing to pray for our kids. |
| 0:36.0 | I have sitting here with me today, Paige Mayhew. Hi Paige. Hello, Cynthia. Paige is awesome. Paige is a counselor and we actually |
| 0:43.6 | just did a podcast you all need to watch for related to mental health and counseling. It was really |
| 0:48.3 | great, but Paige stayed over to chat with me about contentment. And I think this is a big one to pray for our kids because, hey, |
| 0:56.1 | don't you think it impacts not just like, are they content now, do they have with any, but it |
| 1:00.5 | impacts your whole life, your marriage, your job, your finances, like contentment can be the |
| 1:06.9 | root of a whole lot of trouble if you're not careful. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think right off |
| 1:11.4 | the bat, you know, when I think about contentment, I think we start off with a disadvantage because |
| 1:16.1 | if you go all the way back to Eve in the garden, it's like Mother Eve, she was discontent. Right? |
| 1:22.5 | She struggled with the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, her pride. It was a struggle there, and it's a struggle now. |
| 1:29.7 | And so I think we start off with that disadvantage, and I think today our kids, man, they're |
| 1:37.8 | bombarded. |
| 1:38.6 | And in our culture, especially our American culture, I think it breeds discontentment. |
| 1:46.5 | Well, and it's never enough, which leads me to the greatest showman. I will not bust out. But really, it's never, we know that. We know |
| 1:51.7 | that. But yet it's so hard to get past there. It's just never going to be enough. And I, and with |
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