Mini-Mess: Changing names 4
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Today is our last mini-mess episode for July. We’ve been studying places in the Bible where God changed a person’s name (Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter) and the massive impact it had on his life. This series has been a great reminder of how God comes to his people when they need him most, transforming their lives from the inside out.
The common thread in each of these transformative name changes resides in a deep encounter with God. I don’t know about you, but our mini-mess studies have really made me consider what I’m doing (or not doing) each day to foster transformational encounters with God of my own.
Although we tend to overcomplicate it, there’s really no way to overemphasize the importance of prayer. And as parents, what a great privilege and responsibility we have in praying for our kids!
While we are on the subject, I’m excited to tell you about my new prayer journal, available this week! Marked by Prayer corresponds with the 2020-2021 school year and serves as a weekly devotional guide to pray an attribute of faith over our kids each week.
(insert picture or two of prayer journal)
Of all the daily things we do for our children, I can’t think of anything more important than praying for them. I hope you’ll take a minute and grab your copy of Marked by Prayer.
I’m so glad you’ve joined me in this mini-mess series. Check out the podcast this morning and please share it with a friend who might need encouragement during these days!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cynthia Yanov and you're listening to Pardon a Mess, or as we like to call these short episodes, a mini-mess. |
| 0:11.7 | Quick biblical conversations with lasting truth. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey guys, welcome to our fourth week of our mini-mess where we're talking about name changes in the Bible. |
| 0:21.4 | And I talk fast, so just hang on because there is quite a bit to cover this last week that I think |
| 0:27.8 | is so important. |
| 0:29.5 | And so if you missed any of our early ones, go back and you can catch them. |
| 0:32.6 | But here's kind of our wrap up. |
| 0:34.6 | Remember the first week we studied the name change where God changed Abrams' |
| 0:37.8 | name to Abraham and how Abraham had been waiting 25 years for God to renew this commitment |
| 0:44.0 | to him, for God to come back and say, I'm going to do what I told you I'm going to do. And God |
| 0:47.9 | just does exactly that. And he shows up and he reaffirms his bigger plans for Abraham's life. |
| 0:53.7 | And we studied the second week, Jacob to Israel and how Jacob was at the end of his rope |
| 0:57.8 | and he had been deceptive and spent his life lying and cheating. |
| 1:01.3 | And God literally wrestles him down because he wants his heart. |
| 1:05.2 | And he changes his name to Israel because he'd wrestled with God. |
| 1:08.8 | And then we did Simon to Peter and the name change there |
| 1:11.5 | where Jesus said, who do you say that I am? And when Simon said, you're the son of God. And he |
| 1:17.9 | understood that. Then Jesus said, you're a cornerstone to this church. And I'm going to name you Peter, |
| 1:22.3 | like a rock. And so we've studied these name changes for a lot of reasons, but I think this is what's really |
| 1:28.3 | important from all of them. These people had encounters with God that were transformative. |
| 1:35.0 | They spent time with God. They met with God in such a way that not only did they know him |
| 1:40.6 | better personally, but their whole lives were transformed from the inside out. |
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