BONUS: Praying Courage 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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🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re praying for our kids to have courage. The further our culture strays from God’s truth, the more courage it will take for them to live biblically.
I wrote an article last year about the importance of raising kids who can stand alone. I saw a picture on social media of a boy standing by himself while praying at his school’s “See You At The Pole” Day. I realized right then how important it was going to be to raise kids who can stand alone in their faith.
Passionately following Jesus, especially in today’s culture, is not going to happen if we follow the masses and blend in with the crowd. We’re called to be holy, set apart, sanctified, chosen, and on a great mission for Jesus. So are our kids.
Our kids will need a strong dose of courage to stand alone in the hard places.
It takes courage to:
- stand up when everyone else is just standing by
- include the excluded, allowing no one to be left behind on your watch
- walk away from the inappropriate images everyone is sharing
- say no when it’s more popular to say yes
- stay home because going might lead to compromise
Let’s pray that our kids have the courage to stand alone when they need to and that God will do something big with it when they do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, thanks for being with us again on Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Cynthia and we are carrying through the school year praying for our kids. |
| 0:13.0 | This week we are praying courage in our verses Deuteronomy 31, 6. |
| 0:17.2 | Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or terrified because of them. For the Lord your God goes with you, he will never leave you nor forsake you. |
| 0:25.5 | And so sitting here with me today is my friend Stephanie Martin, who's here. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi there. |
| 0:30.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:31.5 | Well, thanks for coming. |
| 0:32.2 | She's here now and again. |
| 0:34.1 | And sometimes I say she's backed by popular demand, which always makes her mad because |
| 0:37.3 | she's like, nobody's ever asked me. Nobody knows who I am. Nobody. Well, I do, and I'm glad you're here. |
| 0:42.5 | So we're talking about courage. And this is an easier one, I think, to pray for our kids, because we do |
| 0:48.1 | want them to be courageous. The problem, I think, is that we don't want them to be in situations that would require courage, right? |
| 0:55.1 | Agreed. |
| 0:55.8 | So I want my kids to have courage, but I'm just really hoping they never need it, which is not |
| 1:01.0 | the word of the gospel. And so it says in our prayer journal, and I think worth mentioning |
| 1:06.1 | that, you know, when Moses and Joshua and Samuel and David, all of those people kind of |
| 1:13.7 | the end of their calling and their leading of their people, they all ended in some way or fashion |
| 1:18.3 | saying to their people be strong and courageous. And we've talked about this before a little bit |
| 1:22.3 | on the podcast, but that matters because it's not an easy road if you're going to really live |
| 1:27.2 | well for your faith, live well for the Lord. If you're going to really live well for your faith, |
| 1:28.4 | live well for the Lord. If you're going to follow the plans he's commissioned for you that he's |
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