BONUS: Praying truth 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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🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
I can’t think of a better way to begin the New Year than by coming together to pray over our kids. I’m thankful to each of you for joining me every week as we pray for our kids and for his guidance in parenting them.
This week we’re praying that our kids are marked by truth.
As we do this, it’s important to define truth. We live in a culture of moral relativism, meaning truth is subjective and personal. But God’s word tells us the real story of truth:
- “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” —John 14:6
- “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.” —John 17:17
As we pray for kids marked by truth, we are praying that they have the discernment to go to Scripture no matter what they are facing.
Kids marked by truth will not waver with every opinion thrown their way. Kids marked by truth will live with a higher standard, even when it’s unpopular. Kids marked by truth will hear the lies of the Enemy and recognize them as just that: lies.
Living in God’s truth is a critical calling on our kids’ lives. Let’s kickoff this year praying this over them.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey, friends, and Cynthia, welcome to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:17.3 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:18.6 | It is finally 2021. |
| 0:22.9 | I don't think we've ever been happier to see a new year than we are for this one. And so we're going to continue praying for our kids. And I'm glad |
| 0:28.4 | that you're here doing this with us. And this week, we are starting with praying that they're |
| 0:33.0 | marked by truth. And I think that's a good place to start in a new year. And so the verse we have in the |
| 0:38.3 | prayer journal is John 1717. And I think this is a verse that's pivotal to what we're praying today. |
| 0:42.9 | It says, sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth. And so that's exactly what we're looking at is |
| 0:49.2 | God's word. It is the ultimate truth. Jesus is truth. And so I'm praying this week and I want you to join me and praying that our kids are marked |
| 0:56.8 | by God's word when we talk about truth. |
| 0:59.7 | And so we are going to look at it in the context of a Bible character, which we've been doing, |
| 1:03.4 | as you know, in the last several months. |
| 1:05.7 | And I always go to the Old Testament because, again, you know, I'm obsessed. |
| 1:09.3 | I love all of the just character accounts that we get from the Old Testament because again, you know, I'm obsessed. I love all of the just character accounts |
| 1:12.0 | that we get from the Old Testament. And so we're looking at Joshua and the book of Joshua |
| 1:16.3 | in different parts of it as we this month pray over our kids. But what I love about Joshua is that |
| 1:23.1 | Joshua picks up right after the death of Moses. And I love it because Joshua is referred to as Moses's |
| 1:30.4 | aid or Moses's helper and so he's just carrying on where Moses left off and so the Israelites are |
| 1:38.5 | ready to enter the promised land and the book of Joshua is broken up into four parts and |
| 1:43.4 | let me just give you a quick |
| 1:44.3 | overview and then we're going to hit what we're talking out today. But there's four parts in this |
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