BONUS - Praying Prayerfulness 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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🗓️ 13 January 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
I always bristle when I read the passage in Matthew 26 where Jesus asks the disciples to stay awake to keep watch and pray with him the night before he’s arrested to be crucified.
Do you remember what happens?
Not once or twice, but three times Jesus comes back to find the disciples asleep because apparently “their eyes were heavy” (Matthew 26:43). This passage makes me sweat a little bit because I kind of think that might have happened on my watch too.
It’s easy to think that surely if Jesus specifically instructed us to stay awake to keep watch and pray, we would understand the urgency and make it our first priority to get it done. But then, if you’re like me, we find ourselves lying in bed each night with great intentions to pray for our families and, well, our eyes get heavy.
Today on our podcast, Becky Jones joins me to talk about our prayer lives. She reminds us of God’s grace in the places where we haven’t prayed well in the past but also encourages us to make changes moving forward by treating prayer as a continual conversation with God instead of a list to check off.
As we’re praying for our kids this year, let’s pray they understand the transformative power of prayer and how it leads to God’s guidance and provision in their lives. Let’s also pray that their lives are marked by prayer and they can remember it being a significant priority in our own lives.
Your eyes may be heavy, but God has asked us to pray always (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
Let’s do this!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Sophia Yanov here. And as always, I'm so glad that you're joining us as we continue |
| 0:09.3 | praying through the school year for our kids. And this week, we are praying prayerfulness, |
| 0:13.8 | which sounds kind of weird that we're praying for prayerfulness. But I think this is one of |
| 0:17.6 | the very most significant weeks that we pray because we know |
| 0:21.7 | how important prayer is in the lives of our families and that's why we're doing this |
| 0:24.7 | for our kiddos. |
| 0:25.7 | And just praying that they understand that and we implement it, I think is big. |
| 0:29.1 | And so I'm so excited that we're doing this today. |
| 0:31.4 | Let me start off by reading Philippians 4-6, which is kind of the verse of the week that we're |
| 0:35.2 | focusing on, do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation by prayer and petition, with Thanksgiving, present your request |
| 0:42.4 | to God. And so that's a verse that's familiar to so many of us, but has so much packed into it. |
| 0:48.0 | So we will start there. I, as y'all know, often bring in a good friend to join me to talk about certain subjects, people that I |
| 0:55.7 | think are really great in these areas. And this week, I have Becky with me. I'll start by saying, |
| 1:00.3 | Hey, Becky. Becky Jones is a friend of mine. And I will be honest, Becky and I don't know each other |
| 1:06.4 | super well. Our kids go to school together. But I know about Becky that she is a prayer warrior. |
| 1:12.8 | She prays. She loves to pray. She's an unbelievable prayer. Is that even a word? I don't even know. |
| 1:17.7 | But she is remarkable. And so when I was sitting here thinking about it and I was talking a friend, |
| 1:22.1 | I'm like, I want to bring someone on to talk about praying for our kids. And just instantly, |
| 1:26.6 | Becky came to mind. And so I am thrilled. |
| 1:29.3 | You are here and you're joining us. Thank you. Yes. I'm so glad to be here today. Thanks for |
| 1:33.4 | having me. Of course. I just want to ask you just as someone that I know that has just a deep |
| 1:38.3 | commitment to prayer and does it so well. How has that come about? Has that something that you just feel like maybe you've always been gifted with or you've |
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