Ep. 8 - 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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🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
It's week eight of our prayer journal, and we are praying friendships for our children this week.
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of friendships in our lives, especially good friendships that point us back to Christ. The Bible is full of examples of true friendships, even giving us prescriptive advice for the kinds of friends to look for and even how to be a good friend to others.
If you’re like me, I routinely pray for my kids to have good friends without thinking much about it. But this week let’s take time to dig into God’s word and pray for our kids to have solid Biblical friendships, not just people to hang out with.
Psalm 27:9 says a “sweet friendship refreshes the soul,” and if you’ve had the privilege of Godly friendships you know that to be true. Let’s pray that for our kids this week.
Today marks two months that we’ve been praying for our kids this school year! Thank you for being so faithful to join us each week to listen to our podcast, and pray as a community of believers for our kids to know Jesus and live in a way that honors him.
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!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this is Cynthia Yanov, host of Pardon the Mess, and I am so glad that you |
| 0:10.7 | are with us. As you know, every Monday morning we release a short podcast talking about an area |
| 0:16.7 | that we're going to pray for our kids in the coming week. And so whether this is your first time to join us or you've been doing it with us for the last |
| 0:23.7 | several weeks, we're so glad to have you. |
| 0:26.3 | It's just so significant that we take time and stop and pray for our kids. |
| 0:30.6 | And so thank you for joining me as we do this. |
| 0:33.9 | All right. |
| 0:34.5 | This week we are praying friendships for our children. |
| 0:39.0 | And the key verses are out of Ecclesiastes. It's Ecclesiastes four, nine through ten. Two are better than one because they have a good |
| 0:46.1 | return for their labor. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up, but pity anyone |
| 0:52.1 | who falls and has no one to help them up. |
| 0:55.9 | So there you go, starting off with a strong word on friendship, on how important friendships |
| 1:00.2 | are. And I don't know if you're like me, but praying for friendships for my children kind of |
| 1:04.9 | has come naturally over the years. That's something I've always prayed for them because I want |
| 1:09.5 | them to have good friends, but also I pray |
| 1:11.2 | it almost from a place of fear that I don't want them to feel isolated or left out or alone. |
| 1:17.2 | And it was interesting to me as we got ready to pray for friendship this week and I really started |
| 1:22.1 | studying it how much the Bible has to say on friendship. |
| 1:26.3 | Maybe I'm the only one that missed that over the years, |
| 1:28.5 | but the Bible really speaks into friendship and companionship and how important it is and having |
| 1:33.0 | people that builds you up. And not only does the Bible say why it matters, and it gives us |
| 1:38.5 | biblical examples of friendship. Remember Jonathan and David, we've got Naomi and Ruth, |
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