Praying for our kids week four: Praying self-control
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 4 October 2021
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Summary
We’re a month into praying for our kids, and it’s not too late if you are just now jumping in! Each Monday morning we will pray an attribute of our faith over our kids with a short 10 minute podcast guiding us as we do it. It’s fast, it’s intentional, and it’s so important we cover our kids in prayer each day.
This week we’re praying for our kids to have self-control and . . . well—there ain’t a one of us who couldn't use a little bit more of it. For example, please refer back to a few weeks ago when my youngest ingested a magnet and a marble within a few weeks. Bless it child, self-control!
The thing about self-control is that it’s most noticeable when you don’t have it. And since our faith is typically displayed through our actions and not our words, self-control becomes pretty important in our daily lives. So this week we’ll be praying for our kids to have self-control in their words, friendships, dating relationships, electronics, marriages, finances, and everywhere in between.
Can’t wait to pray with you!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.9 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon and mess with us as we are praying for our kids this school year. |
| 0:21.9 | And this week we're praying self-control for them. And I love these verses on self-control. |
| 0:27.0 | It's James 119. My dear brothers and sisters take note of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, |
| 0:32.4 | slow to speak, and slow to become angry. If those aren't words that we need when it comes to |
| 0:37.2 | self-control, I don't know |
| 0:38.3 | what it is. And it reminds me, and thankfully, y'all have me to talk out self-control, because really |
| 0:43.2 | there's nobody better in this topic than myself. Kidding. Obviously kidding. It reminds me, |
| 0:49.0 | though, this time, and I've mentioned this before, if you've heard the story before, I apologize. But my kids, my older two kids have been on their phones. They're driving me crazy. And I was like, enough of the phones. Have a little self-control. We don't need to yank out our phone every two seconds or every time, you know, there's a vibration. We have to go check immediately to see who it is. And so in this rush moment, I'm like, you know what? We're going to pull out our phones right now because |
| 1:11.3 | I just learned that you can figure out your usage for a given day, that iPhones tracked that |
| 1:15.3 | and for a week, month. And so we're going to pull out those phones right now. We're going to look at it |
| 1:19.0 | and see. And I was going to make this big point of how much time this has been on their phone. |
| 1:22.3 | So for some odd reason, I felt compelled to show them how to do this, how to look it up. Our kids know how to do everything on their phones. They didn't need my help, but I was using my |
| 1:30.9 | own phone and showing them how to access that information. And in doing so, we all pulled up |
| 1:36.9 | how much time we've been on our phone that day. And yes, you guessed it. I had been on my phone |
| 1:41.1 | longer than anyone. Not only that day, but the whole week and the month, |
| 1:46.0 | mine was higher than anyone else's. Hello. And it's just a good example of, listen, |
| 1:50.0 | this is just like an age-old proverb that needs to be said or some sort of wisdom. Don't try |
| 1:55.6 | out new tactics with your kids without having fully thought it through. It reminds me in the OJ trial all those years |
| 2:02.2 | ago when I was in law school, I remember them talking about it, you know, in that trial where the |
| 2:05.8 | prosecutors pulled out what they thought was the missing glove and they went and had OJ tried |
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