Praying for our kids: Resolve
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
We’re praying resolve over our kids this week, and a good working definition for resolve is “to reach a firm decision.” So praying resolve means we’re praying they reach a firm decision each and every day to follow Christ and grow in their faith.
Resolve is critical for this generation, who is bombarded daily with social media, pornography, graphic music, widespread internet access, and so much more. To follow the Lord, they will need to consistently do the faith-growing practices of connecting with the Lord daily, following godly mentors, and walking away from things that are less than God’s best for their lives.
Join me this week as we laugh a little bit about my half-marathon experience so many years ago, and the take-aways of discipline, muscle memory, and determination required to do the hard things in life.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the masses, Cynthia here, and I'm glad you're joining us as we're praying |
| 0:19.2 | this week for our kids to have resolved. |
| 0:21.8 | So I'm going to kick this off by telling you a story many years ago, many, many years ago. |
| 0:27.2 | My husband, I decided we were going to run a half marathon and a marathon. |
| 0:30.5 | I was the half marathon, you might guess, even then. |
| 0:33.1 | This was a long time ago. |
| 0:34.8 | And so our kids were little. |
| 0:36.6 | That's something we decided we wanted to do. |
| 0:38.5 | We resolved to it, if you will. And so we started with a little plan. I had a plan, like, |
| 0:42.9 | printed out and I would like highlight every time I did my runs. And it was like literally like 10 |
| 0:47.2 | minutes on and 10 minutes off, like running on and off. And then it would build up, you know, |
| 0:52.3 | to a couple miles, five miles, blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:54.9 | A couple things I learned in training for a half marathon is this. |
| 0:57.8 | One, runners lie to you. |
| 0:59.4 | That's the moral of this story. |
| 1:01.1 | No, I'm kidding, kind of. |
| 1:02.3 | But I remember runners saying like, hey, listen, once you kind of get into this, you start |
| 1:05.7 | running distance, like it's all adrenaline-based. Your adrenaline will kick in and you will get on this high and you'll think |
| 1:11.2 | I can run forever. And I was like, hmm, well, I'm here to tell you today that never happened. |
| 1:16.6 | Not one time did I think I could run forever? No, it didn't happen. Second of all, these runners will |
| 1:22.5 | say things like, hey, if you can run 10 miles, then you can run a half marathon because you're almost there. And I remember this first time I ran 10 miles that day. And I was like, no, I can't take one more |
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