Praying for our kids: Discernment
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
When I read the verses above, it makes me think of how nice it would be to simply hear a voice telling me how to proceed in certain situations and the resulting confidence I would have in knowing that I’m getting it right. And then I’m reminded that the Holy Spirit does just this when we listen expectantly as believers.
My dear friend Stephanie Martin (and one of the most discerning people I know) is joining us today as we pray for discernment in our kids’ lives. We’re talking about teaching our kids to be attentive to God in all things and praying they learn to hear God’s voice in their lives from an early age.
Not only is having discernment critical in our kids’ lives—but we’re also praying they have people around them who help them discern truth in all the situations they will face.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:16.1 | And this week we are praying discernment over our kids. |
| 0:20.3 | And so I love this verse out of Isaiah. It's Isaiah 3021. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears were hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way walk in it. And so as we are praying for our kids this month of November, I'm thinking all things, Thanksgiving, as most of you are as well, |
| 0:38.6 | and the holidays, and that makes me think of my family and friends. And so we have my dearest friends |
| 0:43.7 | and family on joining me this week as we pray for our kids. And today, my very, very sweet, |
| 0:49.8 | awesome, discerning friends, Stephanie, Stephanie, how are you? I'm good. How are you? |
| 0:54.7 | Good. Thanks for coming on the podcast again. It's been a while. It's been a while, but I enjoy it. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm so glad. Yes. You have the spiritual gift of discernment. So it made sense to me. You were the person, |
| 1:04.6 | besides the fact, you're my good friend. But I was like, this is the person and your spiritual gift of discernment is such a gift and and i rely on a lot because |
| 1:12.7 | i always know that you do discern things well because the lord's given you that it is also a |
| 1:17.4 | tough one some days because you're very discerning and blunt love that about you yes yes yes |
| 1:24.7 | i think as we're talking at the sermon you and I kind of laughed out this before. |
| 1:28.3 | Like, when we talk about the spiritual gift of like discernment, like either you've been given |
| 1:32.3 | that spiritual gift or you have not. And so some of our kids will have it. Some of them will |
| 1:36.5 | not. It's hard to know if anybody in our family has it until they get past about 21, right? |
| 1:42.3 | Seems that nobody has any discernment. But what we're really |
| 1:45.0 | praying for our kids is we're not thinking necessarily in terms of the spiritual gift, but we're just |
| 1:48.9 | praying that they live a life that's discerning of what God has for them. And so I'd love for your |
| 1:54.9 | thoughts on that and how that looks in your life with your kids. Yes. Well, I think that God wants all of us to have discernment, even if it may not be our spiritual |
| 2:04.4 | gift. |
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