Praying for our kids: Praying accountability
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
If David was named a man after God’s own heart yet still needed accountability, how much more do we need it in our own lives? That’s why we’re praying this week for our kids to have mentors and friends (i.e. Nathans) who point them to truth when their actions don’t line up with God’s word.
Accountability is not only important for our kids now, but also as they leave our homes one day and need truth spoken into their marriages, finances, and careers. It’s so easy to be influenced by the norms of our culture, making accountability incredibly important from people who will say what we need to hear and not always what we want to hear.
Only after Nathan confronted David about his sin with Bathsheba did David confess and repent making his relationship right with God. It was in the blind spots of his sin where God placed accountability in David’s life. It’s those same blindspots where we will be praying accountability for our kids both today and all of their days this side of heaven.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm so glad you're with us today. |
| 0:18.7 | This week, we're praying accountability for our kids. |
| 0:22.7 | And as we do that, we're thinking about the verse in the prayer journal, which is James 516. |
| 0:28.0 | Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. |
| 0:34.1 | The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. |
| 0:38.5 | And what I like about this, |
| 0:42.6 | it talks about confessing your sins to each other, not just to get them out there or just to make it known that you're messing up, but it's so that there will be healing. There's healing and |
| 0:46.9 | accountability. And then it talks out how effective that it is when a righteous person prays. |
| 0:51.9 | And when we have righteous people around us that are for us |
| 0:55.0 | and holding us and our kids accountable, then that is powerful. And it makes me think always, |
| 1:00.8 | when I think of accountability, of the story of David and Nathan. You can read it in Second Samuel 12. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm going to give you a quick recap. And so remember, David had an affair of Bathsheba and was trying to cover it up and |
| 1:12.3 | ended up killing Bathsheba's husband, Yariah. And he goes kind of on about his life, like nothing |
| 1:18.3 | really happened. And so the Lord sends Nathan to him. And Nathan approaches David. And he does this in a way |
| 1:23.9 | that's so loving, but so straightforward. He tells him a story. And he goes back to David's |
| 1:29.9 | root. And, you know, David was a shepherd and was around sheep and lambs. And so he says, hey, David, |
| 1:35.8 | here's this story. Nathan's telling him. He says, there's this guy that's really poor and he has one, |
| 1:40.2 | you lamb. And his family loves this lamb. And this lamb is totally like a part of their family, |
| 1:45.5 | almost like a pet. And there's this rich guy that has a whole flock of sheep and livestock and lambs. |
| 1:51.4 | And the rich guy has someone come into town a visitor and he doesn't want to kill one of his |
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