Praying for our kids: Identity
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
What we believe about ourselves informs virtually every aspect of our daily walk in this world and with Jesus. If we don’t continually ground our identity in the Lord, we begin searching for identity in the things of this world. Paul Tripp says it this way: “Identity amnesia leads to identity replacement.”
Join us this week as we not only pray identity over our kids, but also address some of the lies they believe about their value.
Here’s a few identity reminders as you get started praying over your kids:
You are valued- Matthew 6:26
You are forgiven- 2 Chronicles 7:15
You have hope- Exodus 14:14
You are known- Jeremiah 1:6
You have purpose- Ephesians 2:10
I can’t wait for us to spend a few minutes considering God’s word on identity and ways to remind our kids of who and whose they are.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.4 | Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm glad you're with us. |
| 0:17.3 | This is Cynthia Ganoff, and we're praying through the school year for our kids this year. And this week we're praying identity. And I can't think of a more core attribute to pray |
| 0:28.5 | of our kids is that they know who their identity is in Christ because identity impacts all that we do. |
| 0:34.5 | It impacts how we feel about ourselves, how we feel about God, how we love others |
| 0:38.8 | around us, what we're willing to do, not willing to do, how we live every day. Identity is a big one. |
| 0:44.9 | And if you're like me, you may think sometimes when you hear a lot of talk about identity, |
| 0:49.2 | it gets a little bit self-helpish, that you're good enough or you're not good enough or all these different things we |
| 0:54.4 | hear. And I tend to be like, oh, here we go. It's going to get real self-helpy. But that's not |
| 0:59.4 | what we're going for here, obviously. We just want to pray that our kids truly know who they are to |
| 1:06.0 | Christ. Our verses today speak into that. It's Psalms 139, 13 to 14. For you created my inmost being. |
| 1:12.9 | You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. |
| 1:18.5 | Think about that. If we could really understand, if our kids could really understand that God |
| 1:23.3 | knit us together in our mother's womb, he created us perfectly. He designed us with intentionality. |
| 1:29.9 | And in doing that, if we could say, I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. Wow, what a game changer |
| 1:35.2 | that would be. But instead, there's all these other narratives that come into our heads, our kids' heads, |
| 1:40.2 | these things that chip away at our identity. And I was thinking through this. And I'm like, |
| 1:44.6 | what are some of the things that have shaped my identity through the years? And I think one of the |
| 1:48.3 | things that shaped my identity in the best of ways is my family, my parents growing up, |
| 1:53.9 | always, always supportive, loving me, pointing me back to the Lord, telling me they're |
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