Praying for our kids: Purpose
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year!
This time of year always inspires me to consider necessary life-style changes, incorporate missing things into my routines, and find ways to live a new year filled with amazing opportunities better than I did the year before. Or at least that lasts for a few weeks!
But I’m always thankful for the routine in place of praying for our kids, and I love that we’re beginning 2022 by praying purpose over each of them. People so often struggle with the age-old question surrounding their “purpose” in this life, so we’re tackling it as we pray over our kids this week. (Spoiler alert: our purpose is to glorify God.)
Praying for our kids to have purpose in their daily lives means praying they glorify God not only in how they live their earthly lives, but also in how they prepare for all eternity in heaven. We will break this down a little bit further and also take time to begin this new year asking the Lord to show our kids the things he has uniquely created for them to accomplish.
So grateful you are joining me to pray this year! Share our podcast with a friend or two and ask them to join in as we pray for our families.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm glad you're here and happy New Year. |
| 0:19.4 | Here we go, kicking off 2022 praying for our kids. |
| 0:23.3 | And this first week, we are praying purpose for them. And I can't think of a better thing to pray |
| 0:28.5 | of our kids as we start a new year, just kind of gearing things down a little bit after Christmas, |
| 0:32.9 | all the crazy and stopping and saying, okay, I really want to pray purpose in their lives. And what is |
| 0:38.2 | their purpose? And so the verse in the prayer journal is Proverbs 1921. Many are the plans in a person's |
| 0:44.8 | heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. And so let's start by talking about purpose |
| 0:51.1 | for a minute. And it reminds me of a situation where, I don't know if you've had this. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm sure you have. Have you ever been in the middle of something? You're like, wait, what was the |
| 0:59.0 | actual purpose of this? Like, have we missed the forest for the trees? And so mine is kind of a random |
| 1:04.5 | example. But when my daughter, my oldest, started at a new school, a private Christian school here in Dallas that my kids have gone to. |
| 1:11.1 | And by the way, love the school. |
| 1:12.4 | I mean, no disrespect or anything negative about the school. |
| 1:15.1 | I love it. |
| 1:15.9 | But when we first started, we were coming out of a public school. |
| 1:19.3 | I love public school too. |
| 1:20.4 | My youngest is in public school. |
| 1:21.6 | But we are coming out of a public school and not a particularly strong public school. |
| 1:24.7 | And I had never been in a private school before. And so my daughter transferred over and they had their first project due for the class. And I just feel like we probably |
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