BONUS: Praying Protection 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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🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
“Safety first!”
These words are the mantra everywhere, from the sixth-grade science lab to your own home when your kids run by with a pair of scissors. We’re all about safety when it comes to our families.
This week we are praying protection over our kids.
Praying protection is probably something that comes automatically when you’re praying for your family; however, if we look a little bit deeper, we find that God’s promise of protection comes in the form of security in our salvation and eternity in his presence. Not necessarily safety on this earth.
In his book Crazy Love, Francis Chan challenges us to stop making safety our greatest prayer and instead pray that we will know Jesus better, whatever road that takes.
I love this particular quote from Crazy Love: “People who are obsessed with Jesus aren’t consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God’s kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress.”
There’s nothing wrong with praying safety and protection for our kids, and we should do that this week. But let’s also be willing to pray that, whatever road God chooses for them to walk, they come out on the other side knowing God better.
Tune in this week on Pardon the Mess as we talk about protection versus safety and how to trust God as we pray for our kids to know Jesus better.
“The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever.” —2 Timothy 4:18
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Cynthia Yanov here, and I'm glad you're with us to continue praying for our kids this school year. |
| 0:11.8 | This week we are praying protection over them. |
| 0:14.9 | And so our verse is Isaiah 4110. |
| 0:17.4 | So do not fear for I am with you. |
| 0:19.6 | Do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. |
| 0:23.5 | I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. And that is an amazing verse to pray over our children. |
| 0:29.5 | And I think that praying protection for our kids probably is one of the areas that we don't |
| 0:34.8 | struggle with. We probably have done that well over the years because I think all of us from the time they come out of the womb, we don't struggle with. We probably have done that well over the years because |
| 0:37.7 | I think all of us, from the time they come out of the womb, we just have this need to pray that the |
| 0:43.0 | Lord will protect them, whether that's just babies or as they go to school or when they learn to |
| 0:47.2 | drive or with their friends, whatever it is. I think that we naturally pray protection over our |
| 0:52.7 | kids well, and I think that's important, |
| 0:54.6 | and I want us to do it this week. But with that in mind, I also want us to take a little bit of a |
| 0:59.7 | deeper dive into this whole concept of protection, because I think that it doesn't take |
| 1:04.4 | long to look around of circumstances just in the world, but even with our friends and family, |
| 1:09.1 | of places where we feel like we're not seeing |
| 1:11.6 | God's protection, right? It's not safety. And I think there's a difference between safety and |
| 1:17.0 | God's protection. And I want us to consider that today. Because there's many instances in the Bible. |
| 1:22.6 | Think of the Old Testament with the Israelites. Places where God's people were promises protection, but they were not safe. |
| 1:29.2 | Even the disciples, all of them but one, died of violent death. And so when we look at it in terms |
| 1:35.3 | of what the world calls being safe, I don't think that's God's promise to us. He promises |
| 1:40.4 | us protection. And if we look at that, let's look at Psalm 91 for just a minute. |
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