Ep. 18 - Praying for Our Kids
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 5 January 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We’re continuing our prayer emphasis in 2020 by praying this week for our kids to be excellent in all that they do. When you think about excellence and praying it for your kids, what comes to mind?
For me it’s the cheesy inspirational posters in middle school classrooms back in the day with sayings like: “Excellence is never an accident” or “Excellence is not being the best - but doing your best.”
Well let’s just say I did my best in math and nobody has ever accused me of excellence in that arena. But that’s neither here nor there.
It’s easy to get excellence confused with performance. Scripture is clear that we are called to excellence because it honors the one who created us, and he alone is the only true model of excellence. Performance is cumbersome and puts the focus on us, but praying the Lord’s excellence in our kids will rightfully take the pressure off of them and allow the Lord to shine in their lives.
Let’s pray that our children approach all their work with a goal of excellence, not in order that they might be looked upon favorably by others – but so that God will.
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this is Cynthia Yanov and I am so glad you're with us on Pardon the Mess again as we are continuing to pray our kids through this school year. And I cannot believe it's 2020. I do not even know what to say about that. I feel like we just started the prayer journal where we started praying for our kids. And that was in August. Doesn't that feel like it just started a few like weeks ago and now we are already in January? I totally think this time of year, I realize the truth and the adage of the days are long, but the years are short because it just goes by so fast. But anyway, |
| 0:38.6 | I'm glad you're with us and that we get to pray for our kids again this week. What a privilege |
| 0:42.3 | that is. I was going to share a little story just because I always want to keep it real with |
| 0:47.1 | y'all that my parenting, you know, as today we talk about praying for excellence, I can use |
| 0:52.3 | a little more excellence probably at the moment, |
| 0:58.4 | but it was Christmas Eve service. Who goes to Christmas Eve service? Raise your hand, people. |
| 1:03.4 | Okay, well, I went in the church that we attend has a very formal Christmas Eve service like dress up, beautiful people, beautiful clothes, beautiful music, orchestra, all that, right? But they have |
| 1:09.9 | no beautiful child care. Okay. So you know what |
| 1:12.3 | that means, right? So we go in our beautiful clothes already for this service. And it is one of my |
| 1:17.2 | favorite things in the world is Christmas Eve service. I mean, I love it. And so we have our three-year-old |
| 1:23.6 | with us. And we're prepared. We know these not going to make it all the way through there. Of course, we know that. But they give us a little pack, you know, things for the kids to do. |
| 1:31.4 | And we come and sit on the aisle. And we fit in perfectly with all the fabulous people around us for |
| 1:35.7 | about 30 seconds. And there's a little slope in the floor in this church. It kind of slopes down. |
| 1:42.1 | And if there's not, I mean, there's not a pencil. |
| 1:44.7 | This child can't drop. They doesn't ding, ding, ding, ding, ring, roll all the way down. |
| 1:48.3 | He drops. He, I mean, everything, the cars, toys, everything you can think of. He's dropping and |
| 1:53.2 | they're rolling down to the front of the sanctuary. Big church, by the way. But I'm ignoring all of that. Okay, so the service is going on. We sing a little, there's even a little |
| 2:01.3 | children's sermon and my husband takes him down there. So we're doing okay. But then comes the dreaded |
| 2:07.7 | sermon, right? And I mean dreaded because we have a toddler, not because I dislike the preaching. |
| 2:12.0 | So the sermon comes. And so my husband dutifully takes him out because he's being outrageous at this point. I mean, |
| 2:19.6 | those little packages they have, they have stickers and stuff. I'm just telling you, there is not |
| 2:23.4 | enough stickers in the world to keep a three-year-old boy calm during Christmas Eve service. |
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