Praying for our kids: Protection
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Praying protection over our kids is probably one of the easiest things we pray for them from the day they are born. But this week in praying protection we’re doubling down on asking the Lord to watch over them physically, spiritually, and emotionally. One key point I try to pray over my kids relates to the messaging they receive about their identity and also the messaging they believe about God and their faith.
But anytime I get hyper focused on praying over the safety and protection of my family, I’m reminded of Francis Chan’s caution in his book Crazy Love. He suggests that as believers we sometimes become obsessed with our safety and protection at the expense of asking God for whatever brings him the most glory and allows him to accomplish his purposes in our lives. Ouch.
I truly believe there’s nothing wrong with praying for protection over our families—and it’s important we do so. However, I wonder this week if we can also pray that God’s divine purposes are accomplished through our families, and he is glorified even when that’s at the expense of our earthly protection.
Lots to think about and pray over!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:16.2 | This is Cynthia, and I'm glad you were with us as we pray protection this week over our kids. |
| 0:22.2 | And so the verse in the prayer journal is Isaiah 4110. |
| 0:25.3 | So do not fear for I am with you. |
| 0:27.3 | Do not be dismayed for I'm your God. |
| 0:28.9 | I will strengthen you and help you. |
| 0:30.6 | I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. |
| 0:34.4 | If you do not have this verse committed to memory, this is the week to do it, y'all. This is a big one. |
| 0:39.1 | If your kids don't know this verse, it's time. They need to know it. This is just one of those |
| 0:43.0 | prayers in the middle of the night when you're nervous, when you can't figure out where your |
| 0:46.6 | kids are, where you don't know what's going on in your finances, your marriage or whatever |
| 0:50.4 | it is. This is kind of a truth to pray to speak over yourself. And so I would say, |
| 0:54.6 | make sure you have this one committed to memory. But as we think about praying protection for our |
| 0:58.1 | kids, this is one of those topics that I think we're really good at praying. Maybe we're the best |
| 1:03.3 | at praying this because I don't know about you, but from the time I was pregnant, I've been praying |
| 1:07.6 | for my kids' safety and protection. And I think about it now, like in the ages of my kids, what protection looks like, I still feel such a need to pray |
| 1:15.6 | protection over them, but it just looks different in what I'm praying. And I think you probably |
| 1:19.3 | have experienced that too. And so like with my youngest, I'm still praying protection for him as |
| 1:23.2 | he like, let's go of my hand and he tries to run across the street in front of cars, right? We're still trying to learn that. |
| 1:27.7 | We don't talk to strangers. |
| 1:28.7 | That basic protection I'm praying over him. |
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