Praying for our kids: Marked by our strength
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
As we wrap up the last several weeks of praying the greatest commandment over our kids, we’re focusing today on what it means to love God with all of our strength.
Contrary to how it sounds, loving God with all of our strength is not a reference to our physical strength, but instead it’s using our possessions, our time, our talents, our parenting, our volunteering—everything we’ve got—to love God and live for him.
As we pray for our kids to love God with all of their strength, we’re praying that they use all of their party-planning skills, math aptitude, athleticism, and social media acumen for God’s greatest glory. It’s taking the seemingly small places in their life and asking the Lord to use them in every possible way for his bigger purposes.
Let’s join together this week and ask God to use our kids for his greater purposes right where he has them today, teaching them what it looks like to love him with all of their strength.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. I'm glad you're with us. It's Cynthia. And as you know, we are praying |
| 0:20.8 | for our kids this week, and we have gone through a series where we have been praying the greatest |
| 0:24.7 | commandment. And so we prayed for our kids to love the Lord, their God with all their heart, |
| 0:29.9 | soul, mind, and strength. And week one was heart, and that's the what we are, which just often displayed on how we spend our days. Week two, we talked about loving God with all of our soul, |
| 0:39.0 | which is who we are at our very core. And then week three, which was last week, we prayed for our |
| 0:43.9 | kids to love God with all of their mind. And that's why we are who we are. And it's a lot to do |
| 0:49.3 | with the role of our thoughts. And that's why we are and why we do what we do is what we're thinking. So this |
| 0:55.7 | week we are focusing on strength. And this is the last one. And when we think out strength, |
| 1:00.7 | if you're like me, you think of physical strength. How do I love God with all of my physical |
| 1:04.7 | strength? But actually the Hebrew word that uses as passage for strength, it's Miod, M-E-A-.E. Aposophy O.D., which I feel sure I'm |
| 1:13.0 | totally slaughtering, so I apologize for that. But when you translate that word for strength, |
| 1:19.2 | the Hebrew word, it means much. And it's talking out loving God with all of our muchness. |
| 1:24.9 | And I really, really love this idea. And I didn't really know anything |
| 1:29.6 | about it until the last year when I studied the greatest commandment. But when you think about |
| 1:33.9 | muchness, what is it that you have a lot of, like that the Lord has gifted you with, whether |
| 1:39.3 | that's physically, if that's something the Lord has given your family in terms of blessings and provision, |
| 1:45.2 | is it something in your personality, your skill set? And so the example that kind of came to |
| 1:49.7 | mind for me is a silly one, but hopefully makes a little bit of the point. When we moved into |
| 1:54.6 | our house many years ago, six or seven years ago, the kitchen has this ginormous island. |
| 1:59.8 | And it had this huge island before people were even putting in big islands. |
| 2:04.3 | It was kind of a little before its time maybe. |
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