BONUS: Praying stature 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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🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
My middle-school son is a man-child.
Or at least that’s what one of my friends called him after seeing him for the first time post-quarantine. I don’t know what happens to these boys between seventh and ninth grade, but they go from little lego building cuties to deep-voiced giants, basically overnight.
It’s amazing (and shocking) to see them grow so fast. It’s also a great reminder to pray for their physical bodies and development. This week, we’re praying for our man-children (really, all of our kids) to be marked by stature.
In praying over their stature, we’re praying for our kids to physically take care of their bodies. This includes everything from eating well to making the right decisions when faced with alcohol and drugs. We’re also praying for their physical relationships—that they honor the Lord as they approach the age of dating and in all relationships with their peers.
Aside from praying for the physical aspect of their stature, we’re also praying for their stature as it relates to reputation. How they conduct themselves has the power to lead people to Christ or, if not done well, ruin their witness. Knowing that we’re called to live a life worthy of the gospel, let’s pray that our kids are marked by a reputation consistent with their faith in God.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, Cynthia Yanov here. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome to our mini-mess episodes, praying through the school year for our kids. As you know, |
| 0:23.1 | this is week two. Last week, we prayed wisdom over our kids. And what we're doing this month as we |
| 0:27.4 | kick off a new school year is we are praying wisdom, stature, and stature, just like it says in |
| 0:32.8 | Luke 252, Jesus grew in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. And so this week we're focusing |
| 0:38.6 | on stature. And the prayer journal we have 1st Samuel 16.7 is the verse. The Lord does not look |
| 0:44.3 | at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. |
| 0:49.0 | One of my very favorite verses. And so you know we are looking at the life of Joseph, and we're just putting our prayer |
| 0:55.9 | into context of Scripture, and specifically in Joseph's life. And so last week, if you missed it, |
| 1:01.4 | you can jump back and listen. But the overview that we talked about was the beginning of Joseph's |
| 1:05.6 | life, knowing who his dad was, how he came to not be loved by his brothers. They didn't care for him, |
| 1:13.2 | that there was a whole lot of telling on them. He had dreams that he shared with him what the |
| 1:17.8 | dreams were, that they would bow down to him. And also just the coat of many colors and what |
| 1:22.0 | that signified and that he had his dad's blessing. And so what they did, as you know, is they |
| 1:26.1 | were going to kill him, but they did, |
| 1:27.5 | and they threw him in a pit, told their father that he had been killed by an animal, and then |
| 1:32.4 | they sold him into slavery. And that's where we're going this week. We're kicking it off right there. |
| 1:36.9 | And so what they did in Genesis, we read all about it, and you can go read the whole thing for |
| 1:42.2 | yourself because it's so good. But what his brothers did was they sold |
| 1:44.7 | him into slavery. And he ended up in Potipher's house. And Potipher was the captain of Pharaoh's |
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