BONUS: Praying Hope 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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🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Remember in the book of Numbers when Moses sent the twelve spies into the promised land to scout it out and report back on the status?
After forty days of reconnaissance, ten of the twelve spies called a kibosh, saying there was no way the Israelites could succeed in taking the land from these giants.
Of course, there were the lone dissenters, Joshua and Caleb, who believed that with God’s help there was hope and even victory awaiting them. The whole debacle left God disappointed with the Israelites (understatement) but also brought to light a bright spot when God applauded Caleb for having a “different spirit.”
It’s this different spirit we’re talking about in today’s podcast as we pray hope over our children.
We’ll take a look at Caleb’s life and see how his different spirit came from living with a God-drenched mind, giving hope even in the most hopeless of situations.
We’re facing an epidemic of anxiety and depression amongst our kids that has gained footing during this pandemic. There’s no better time to be praying that our kids find the hope that comes only from Jesus.
Let’s anchor our prayer time in this verse this week:
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint” (Isaiah 40:31).
Can’t wait to pray together!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm so glad that you're with us this week as we are praying hope for our kids, |
| 0:21.8 | that they are marked by hope. |
| 0:23.9 | And the verse in the prayer journal is Isaiah 4031, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. |
| 0:29.7 | They will soar on wings like eagles. |
| 0:31.2 | They will run and not grow weary. |
| 0:32.7 | They will walk and not be faint. |
| 0:34.7 | And that's just what hope does, right? |
| 0:37.0 | It renews our strength. It gives us a new |
| 0:39.6 | lease on life, so to speak, to feel like we can go on. And I think that's so important to pray |
| 0:45.0 | over our kids, praying hope for them, not just hope for the sake of hope, but hope in the Lord. |
| 0:51.0 | And I put this in a prayer journal. I'm going to read a couple of these statistics for you, |
| 0:54.4 | but we have an epidemic. You know this. Even pre-COVID, an epidemic within our youth, our kids of |
| 1:00.5 | depression and anxiety. And Pew Research did a poll several years ago, and it revealed that |
| 1:06.9 | seven and ten U.S. teens considered anxiety and depression a major problem among their peers. |
| 1:14.0 | Seven and ten said that their peers are struggling with anxiety and depression. |
| 1:17.8 | And of those who were participating in the polls, 61% said they felt the pressure to get good grades. |
| 1:22.9 | 29% felt the pressure to look good and 28 percent felt the pressure to fit in socially. |
| 1:28.5 | And think of what maybe those numbers would look like post-COVID, right? |
| 1:32.0 | We all know that the mental health concerns and problems have just skyrocketed, not just |
| 1:38.0 | adults, but in our kids. And so that's why I think praying hope over our kids is so important, |
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