BONUS: Share: Fishers of Men
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
“Jesus called out to them, ‘Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!’” (Matthew 4:19 NLT)
When Jesus tells his future disciples that he will make them fishers of men, I don’t think he was envisioning them sitting in a boat waiting for bites. To be a successful fisherman, you have to go where the fish are hungry and cast your net (or your line).
Jesus planned to use his disciples to draw people to him. He needed them to go to where the people were hungry for hope and share his message! We can do this today and so can our kids. As believers, we need to meet people where they are.
There are times when we will witness to others and see great success immediately. Other times we will witness for a very long time and see very little fruit. There may be people that we pray for for a long time before we see God move in their lives (maybe that’s even our kids)! But God’s calling is to continue to cast our nets and share his good news, even if we don’t catch anything.
So this week, let’s pray that our kids will take an active part in sharing the hope of Jesus, casting their nets far and wide to draw people closer to their Savior.
Jesus, you call us to be fishers of men. I pray that _______________ would see the people around them and meet them where they are to share your good news. May they never be ashamed of the gospel, but be ready to share it far and wide. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.4 | Hey, friends, it's Courtney Defeo, and you are at Part of the Mess podcast, where we pray together |
| 0:19.5 | on Mondays during the school year, and then we interview together. Well, I interview and you listen and I wish we could all do it |
| 0:25.3 | together on Thursdays and just learn about parenting and faith and how those two things collide |
| 0:29.6 | and get ideas and inspiration and encouragement. And so if you haven't been a part of Thursdays, |
| 0:34.6 | I hope you join us. And then in this new school year, |
| 0:37.8 | we'll have another journal and another topic that we'll be praying for. And I can't tell you |
| 0:41.7 | the topic yet, but I'm so excited. It's going to be a good one. So look forward to that. |
| 0:45.7 | But we are on week 29. And drum roll, folks, we are on the last section. And so this year, |
| 0:50.9 | we've been praying through a journal called A Life of Faith, Knowing, Loving, Following, and Sharing Jesus. |
| 0:55.5 | So we have prayed for 20, this will be the 29th week, and about knowing specifically how do our kids know Jesus, how do they love him and be loved by Him, how to follow Jesus. |
| 1:07.0 | And now we're in the sharing section, which I'm super excited about. |
| 1:10.8 | And will you do me |
| 1:11.5 | favor? Would you guys go leave a review just about what you love about this podcast? And so when |
| 1:16.1 | other moms are searching for parenting and faith, and they might find us and find our little |
| 1:21.1 | community and get some encouragement there. So that would be a huge help to me. So this week is |
| 1:26.8 | Fissures of Men. And I'm really pumped that it showed up at this time, |
| 1:30.4 | because as I'm sitting here recording this, I just came off of going to Gather 25 and our student |
| 1:36.3 | conference. So let me tell you about both of those in just a minute. But first, let's read what God |
| 1:41.0 | has to say about being Fissures of Men. So the first verse is Matthew 419. |
| 1:46.3 | Jesus called out to them, come follow me, and I will show you how to, let me say that |
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