Praying for our kids: Joy
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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This is it! The Super Bowl of all holidays—it’s Christmas!
This week as we’re praying joy over our kids, I'm wondering what things have brought you joy this Christmas? Is it the small things like sitting by the Christmas tree late at night or car rides to look at lights? Or maybe it’s some of the bigger events that happen this time of year like parties and school programs.
I think my deepest joy in this season has come during an unexpected trip to New York City with my mom and my daughter to see the Rockefeller Christmas tree. There’s just something about NYC at Christmas, but also having the opportunity to do it with my mom and my daughter—well, what a sweet opportunity I’ve had to celebrate Christmas while being reminded that joy comes in all forms and fashions on this side of heaven.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.4 | Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm glad you're with us. |
| 0:18.2 | This is Cynthia, and I want to say Merry Christmas. |
| 0:21.0 | Can you believe it is the week of Christmas? |
| 0:23.4 | And I love that we are so appropriately praying this week for our kids to have joy. |
| 0:28.8 | And the verses that we are praying are amazing. |
| 0:31.9 | Some of my very favorite verses when it comes to Christmas story, Luke 2, 10 through 11. |
| 0:36.9 | But the angels said to them, do not be afraid. |
| 0:38.9 | I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. |
| 0:42.5 | Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you. |
| 0:46.1 | He is the Messiah, the Lord. |
| 0:48.9 | And I just love those verses because I'm not sure we need to say much more about joy than what it says right there, |
| 0:54.7 | that we have great joy because we have the Savior that he was born. And this week, as we are |
| 1:01.2 | praying joy, I was thinking through it and I decided to look up the definition of it, like the |
| 1:07.4 | secular definition of joy. And it says, joy is a feeling of great pleasure and |
| 1:13.2 | happiness. And I was like, huh, in every respect, that seems incorrect. But it is really |
| 1:19.4 | apropos that that's the cultural definition of joy, that it's a feeling. And we know that's not |
| 1:25.1 | the case with joy, the joy of our salvation. |
| 1:32.0 | It is not a feeling because our feelings are fleeting and they are not trustworthy and they change depending on our circumstances. |
| 1:33.9 | So it's a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. |
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