Ep. 5 - Praying for Our Kids
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today we begin week five of our prayer journal, and we are praying for the fruit of the Spirit to be present in the lives of our children.
Love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control—these are not just “good” attributes we hope to see in our kids, but these qualities are evidence that the Holy Spirit is moving in their lives.
Notice that we are praying to see the fruit of the Spirit in their lives, not the fruit of their actions, the fruit of their parents’ rules, or the fruit of their works. I know that preaches to me.
If your children have accepted Jesus as their personal savior, pray for them to be able to discern the voice of the Holy Spirit in their lives, naturally producing fruit that comes only from their relationship with Jesus.
If your children have not yet accepted Christ, let’s continue to pray salvation over their lives and that they will know their desperate need for the Savior.
A huge thank you to each of you who have joined us every week for these Monday morning prayer podcasts. We’re overwhelmed with the response we’ve received.
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.
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 found faithful in prayer this school year!
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyTranscript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this is Cynthia Yanov, and I am so glad you're joining us for another week of praying for our kids this school year. |
| 0:11.8 | This week we are praying fruit, specifically praying the fruit of the spirit over our kids. |
| 0:16.9 | The key verses Galatians 5 22 to 23. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm going to read that for us. |
| 0:21.5 | It says, but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, |
| 0:26.5 | faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. |
| 0:29.8 | Can we please take a moment of silence and think about what our homes would look like if our kids |
| 0:34.3 | actually demonstrated these fruits of the spirit? |
| 0:39.6 | Okay, I'm kidding, kind of. |
| 0:45.0 | But really, I love the attributes to the fruit of the spirit. And I was reading in my favorite Bible commentary, the Weirsby Bible commentary, what he has to say about the fruits of the spirits, |
| 0:50.9 | but the difference between works, like the things we're doing on our own and our own power versus the fruit of the spirit, things that only the spirit can do |
| 0:58.4 | in our lives. Here's how Weirsby says it. The contrast between works and fruit is important. |
| 1:04.7 | A machine in a factory works and turns out a product, but it could never manufacture fruit. |
| 1:09.8 | Fruit must grow out of the life. And in the |
| 1:11.5 | case of the believer, it's the life of the spirit. Isn't that good? It's a good contrast. |
| 1:18.6 | I think for our kids, it's important that we start with, one, have they accepted Christ? And if they |
| 1:23.9 | have accepted Christ, then we will naturally start seeing, if all goes well, the fruits |
| 1:28.7 | of the spirit that just kind of overflow from their relationship with the Lord. If our kids are not |
| 1:33.1 | at a point yet where they have accepted Christ, then we're still praying for salvation for them, |
| 1:37.1 | and then we'll pray that they will start having the fruits of the spirit that show up in their life. |
| 1:41.9 | But I also think it's important that we realize that this is just not a list of, |
| 1:45.4 | hey, the Bible says do it, so we need to do it to live well. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.