Ep. 4 - 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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🗓️ 29 September 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
It’s week four of our prayer journal, and we are praying for our children to have self-control.
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Okay, back to self-control.
You may be thinking that self-control is not one of the more exciting things you will pray for your kids; but my goodness is it a critical one. Self-control (or lack thereof) has the capacity to impact our kids their entire lives. It shows up in dating relationships, finances, online accountability, occupations, health, marriage, and lots of other places.
Take a minute to listen to this week’s podcast and pray with me as we consider self-control and how it impacts our kids. It may sound a bit dry at first, but the deeper you get into the concept, the more you realize the huge implications behind it.
I hope you are enjoying the podcast we release each Monday morning, giving a few thoughts on the topic we are praying. Hopefully this is an encouragement as we band together to pray for our kids this school year.
It would be such a blessing if you would take a minute to forward our podcast to your friends, spouse, small group – or anyone you feel led to ask to join you in praying each week. If you have not ordered a journal, they are still available. But either way, we want you to join us each week as we pray for our kids.
Our goal is to form a community of parents committed to praying for our kids this school year. In doing so, we pray you will tangibly feel God’s blessing on our families and schools, and that we will have testimonies to share with each other of the great things God accomplished this year.
The verse on the cover of our prayer journal is Romans 12:12: “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”
May we all be “faithful in prayer” this school year!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this Cynthia Yanov and I am so glad that you are with us. |
| 0:10.6 | This is week four as we are praying through the school year for our kiddos. |
| 0:14.7 | And this week we are praying self-control. |
| 0:17.6 | The verse of the week that we are looking at among a lot of other verses that are listed |
| 0:22.8 | in the prayer journal, but the one that is the primary verse is James 119. My dear brothers and sisters, |
| 0:28.8 | take note of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. |
| 0:34.4 | That's James 119. And so as we start to pray self-control this week, it is not one of the |
| 0:40.8 | flashier things we're going to pray, right? No one's like, hey, you know, I've just been thinking all |
| 0:45.2 | day, I want to pray self-control over my kids. Probably not the case. But oh, what an important |
| 0:50.8 | concept it is, right? It's all through the Bible talking about the importance |
| 0:54.8 | of having self-control. And here's the great thing about self-control. It can be taught. |
| 1:01.1 | I don't know that naturally we have it. Some people do more than others, but evidence by watching |
| 1:07.0 | our small kids when they're young and the tantrums and the things that go on with our |
| 1:11.0 | toddlers self-control does not always come naturally and it's something we have to work on. |
| 1:16.9 | Okay, that reminds me of something I read that's kind of a funny study that was done in like the |
| 1:21.4 | 60s and the 70s, there was a guy named Professor Michelle. I'm probably saying that wrong, |
| 1:26.5 | Walter Michelle. And what he did was put toddlers |
| 1:30.2 | in a room, like three to five year olds, I think. He put him in a room with a marshmallow and said, |
| 1:34.6 | hey, don't eat it. I'll be back. And if you don't eat it, I'll give you two when I return. |
| 1:39.6 | And so he left him in there for 10 minutes. And he was basically seeing how long they could wait, |
| 1:43.5 | like have self-control and not eat it. And so later on, there was a New York Times article |
| 1:50.1 | talking about it and what the result of that study showed because they ended up following these |
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