Praying for our kids: Favor
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
As I read through the Christmas story this time of year, I’m reminded of the great favor God has shown on us. Even before the world was created he devised this plan of sending his son in the form of a baby so that we might have the opportunity to spend all eternity with him.
He knew we would be rebellious, self-indulging, and sinful people, yet only by his favor are we not left in this desperate place—instead we’re lovingly called children of God. As we pray favor over our kids this week, let’s begin by praying they can experience even the tiniest glimpse of the significance God’s favor has over their lives.
How that changes the dreams they chase, the people they serve, and the routines they follow! And as we pray they fully experience God’s favor, let’s also pray that they live in a way that allows God to bless all they do and be a blessing to all those they encounter.
It’s a great privilege to start each week by praying for our kids. Take a minute to listen to today’s podcast and also share it with a friend as we focus this month on the things of significance in the midst of the craziness.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess with us, Cynthia. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm so glad that you are with us today as we are praying for our kids. |
| 0:20.0 | And I know it's December and it's crazy. So thanks for being here. Just keep it up this next several weeks. |
| 0:25.0 | We'll keep praying for our kids on Monday mornings. It takes a few minutes and it's so important. |
| 0:29.4 | And so as we go to December, we start thinking through all the things we do. I'm just going to share |
| 0:33.2 | a quick little story about me and my December craziness. Several years ago, my kids were much younger. |
| 0:38.3 | I only had my two older kids at that time. |
| 0:40.3 | And we had started cutting down live trees. |
| 0:43.2 | And let me remind you that we live in Dallas. |
| 0:45.1 | And so we don't have like a big forest area or someplace where we would naturally cut down |
| 0:49.3 | Christmas trees. |
| 0:50.3 | It's like these manufactured Christmas tree lots. |
| 0:52.6 | There's not very many of them. |
| 0:53.6 | But this one we go to, it's like these manufactured Christmas tree lots. There's not very many of them, but this one we |
| 0:54.5 | go to, it's real sad. It started off with some pretty hardy trees all those years ago, and then as |
| 0:59.2 | more and more people became aware of the place, they had less and less trees, and they weren't growing |
| 1:04.3 | quite as fast. And so you go for like the nine foot tree and you left for like a two foot tree, |
| 1:08.5 | but nonetheless it was the experience. I was all about the experience. And so one year we were going and my daughter on the way there is like, I don't feel |
| 1:16.0 | good at all. I'm like, ah, you're fine. Turn up the Christmas music. You're fine. And my son's like, |
| 1:21.2 | me neither. I'm like, oh, you're just like trying to jump on her bandwagon. So we get there and my daughter's like, Mom, I really think I'm sick. |
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