Praying for our kids: Forgiveness
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” — Oscar Wilde
Clearly this isn’t good doctrine, but it’s pretty funny and also relatable.
This week we’re praying for our kids to be quick to forgive others because that’s a central message of the gospel. We’ve been forgiven over and over by the Lord so we’re commanded to forgive others in order to stay in step with the Lord and not harbor bitterness.
As we consider forgiveness we will look at the life of Joseph who gives the ultimate perspective on forgiveness in Genesis 50:20: “You intended to harm me but God intended it all for good.” He trusted God’s authority over all places in his life (even the very hardest) which allowed him to freely and lovingly forgive those who hurt him most.
Take a few minutes today to pray forgiveness over your kids and consider the deeper questions of why we forgive, how we forgive, and how do we point our kids towards the freedom that comes from the hard places of forgiveness.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the message, Cynthia. |
| 0:16.7 | We are praying forgiveness this week in the verse in the prayer journal is Mark 1125. |
| 0:22.4 | And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them so that |
| 0:27.3 | your father in heaven may forgive your sins. |
| 0:30.6 | And so as we're praying forgiveness of our kids, it's a big one because I think there are |
| 0:34.7 | so many places where a lack of forgiveness gets us hung up spiritually, |
| 0:39.5 | emotionally, and all the places. And so we can all think back, I think of places in our life |
| 0:44.7 | where we've been hurt. I think the hardest places of forgiveness are when we're hurt by people |
| 0:49.5 | that we think are on our side, by people that are family or friends or loved ones or maybe |
| 0:54.2 | hurt by the church or people within the church. And so that's why we pray forgiveness for our kids |
| 1:00.3 | because there will be many times in their lives will they will need to exercise forgiveness. |
| 1:06.1 | I know that's true for all of us. And so why do we forgive? Let's just talk about for a minute. |
| 1:10.4 | We forgive because we've been forgiven, right? Like nobody's had That's true for all of us. And so why do we forgive? Let's just talk about that for a minute. |
| 1:13.5 | We forgive because we've been forgiven, right? |
| 1:20.0 | Like nobody's had more forgiveness in their lives than us and how the Lord just continuously forgives us as we get it wrong. |
| 1:21.9 | I love the verse that yet we were still sinners. |
| 1:25.3 | Christ died for us. |
| 1:26.1 | Like he had already forgiven us while we were still |
| 1:28.2 | sinners. We hadn't repented. We hadn't cleaned up. Said, I don't want me to do better. Even in the |
| 1:32.0 | midst of our muck, we were still forgiven. And so we forgive because we have been forgiven. |
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