Praying for our kids: Character
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
They say that character is how you act when nobody’s watching. And as believers, we know that there’s never a moment where no one is watching because the Lord is with us at all times.
This week we’re praying for our kids’ character, using Stephen’s life in Acts 6 and 7 as our reference point. Every time Stephen is mentioned in Scripture he’s described as being “full of faith” or “full of the Holy Spirit” or “full of God’s grace and power.” He had a reputation of knowing and living for God. Reputations matter, and a reputation marked by character has enormous impact.
When we pray for character this week we’re praying not only for our kids' reputation, but for the actions that form their reputation, and for significant character-building opportunities in their lives. We’re also discussing practical marks of good character, like serving others, speaking truth in love, and reigning in on our words.
Billy Graham once said that “[w]hen wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
Let’s pray for character together!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to part of the message, Cynthia. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm so glad you are joining me today to pray for our kids. |
| 0:19.8 | Remember a couple weeks ago when I |
| 0:21.5 | mentioned that someone had messaged me on social about how they dropped their kids off every |
| 0:26.4 | Monday morning and then go pray in the school parking lot? Well, I love it because I got another |
| 0:31.3 | person that's joined that club. She loved a review on iTunes, which by the way, I so appreciate |
| 0:36.0 | when you leave reviews. I read them. |
| 0:37.6 | And so this mom said, I'm a member of the Monday morning parking lot club. |
| 0:40.9 | I wonder how many moms are praying with Cynthia in the parking lots after school drop off on Monday mornings. |
| 0:45.2 | And I just love that. |
| 0:46.4 | It made me laugh. |
| 0:47.0 | And I was thinking, yeah, there's people out there that are preaching the gospel, the stadiums. There are people that are going on all kinds of massive tours to all these |
| 0:54.3 | ginormous churches. You know, guys, you know what we got going here? We got a parking lot tour |
| 0:58.3 | that I think is forming. We show up, pray on Monday mornings, different parking lots all over the |
| 1:02.3 | nation. I think there's something there. I'm kidding. But I do think it's cool and I want you to have |
| 1:06.6 | the visual that there are people that are literally dropping off their kids and praying in parking lots, or maybe you're praying just in the car afterwards on your way home or whenever it is, |
| 1:14.6 | where two or more gather, we know the Lord is present. And so this is meaningful. I'm glad we're doing |
| 1:18.3 | this and keep going. So this week we are praying character. And I think a lot of times we hear |
| 1:23.8 | that character is how you act when nobody's watching. That really shows character. And so I think |
| 1:29.6 | this verse speaks into that. Luke 817 is our verse in the prayer journal. It says, for there is nothing |
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