BONUS: Praying surrender 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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🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re praying for our kids to live each day surrendered to the Lord.
The idea of living a “surrendered” life may be one of those confusing concepts we hear about at church but don’t know how to practically implement. It’s the antithesis of trying to “work” our way into a right relationship with God—instead, it’s allowing the Spirit of God to enter into us, shaping us into something greater than we could be on our own.
The first and most significant act of surrender we can pray over our kids is their choice to surrender to the lordship of Christ by accepting Jesus as their Savior.
But, even after our kids have accepted Christ, we can pray that they surrender their words, plans, dreams, finances, and relationships to the Lord.
W. Tozer reminds us of the great benefit of living surrendered to God: “The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can’t make a wrong decision—any choice will be the right one.”
Join me in praying that our kids live each day in a way that’s pleasing to God and brings him glory.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm so glad you're with us. |
| 0:17.7 | We are praying that our kids are marked by surrender this week. |
| 0:21.5 | Matthew 16, 24 to 25 are our verses. |
| 0:24.5 | Then Jesus said to his disciples, whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take |
| 0:28.6 | up their cross and follow me. |
| 0:30.5 | For whoever wants to save their life will lose it. |
| 0:32.8 | But whoever loses their life for me will find it. |
| 0:36.2 | And so when we talk about surrender with our kids, |
| 0:38.8 | I think we start by just praying they've surrendered their lives to the Lord, that they have |
| 0:43.4 | eternal salvation. We think of what great sacrifice God had in sending his son to die for the |
| 0:50.7 | sins of us, to have Jesus. And so I think if we're not praying that over our kids, |
| 0:55.0 | we need to be, if our kids have accepted Christ, that's amazing. If they have not yet, they're too |
| 1:00.4 | young, or they're just not at that point, or whatever it may be, the questions I may have, |
| 1:04.1 | let's pray that, that their lives are surrendered to Christ. John 316 says, for God's to love |
| 1:09.7 | the world that he gave his only son that whoever |
| 1:11.6 | believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. That's the way to heaven is through Jesus. |
| 1:17.2 | And in a world that has so many different narratives on the different paths on getting |
| 1:21.7 | to eternal life or heaven or what a good God would or wouldn't allow, and there's so many |
| 1:27.0 | conflicting testimonies to the absolute truth of the gospel, which is |
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