Praying the Psalms over our kids: Following the Shepherd
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
I think the twenty-third psalm just may be my favorite psalm of all. I used to think of it as just a funeral type psalm, or one for hard times—but now I realize how many nuggets are packed in there as we pray this over our kids.
I’m reminded that God is the provider for all things, and he’s oftentimes providing things we don’t even know we need. There are also verses giving us encouragement for the hard times and reminders of our ultimate hope—eternity with Jesus.
Just as sheep learn to follow their shepherd by knowing his voice, we’re praying this week that our kids do the same. I have a feeling you’re going to love Psalm 23 in a whole new way.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm so glad you were with us today. |
| 0:18.3 | We are praying for our kids. |
| 0:19.3 | It is week eight. |
| 0:20.4 | We are two months into praying for our kids.. Today we are praying for our kids. It is week eight. We are two months into praying for our kids. |
| 0:22.7 | And today we are praying that our kids will follow the shepherd. |
| 0:26.3 | We're looking at the 23rd Psalm. |
| 0:28.3 | And if you've never in your entire life read a Psalm, you've still heard the 23rd Psalm. |
| 0:32.7 | It's just that popular. |
| 0:34.1 | And so we're going to talk about that in one minute. |
| 0:36.0 | But I want to give you a quick aside. This morning I spoke to the sweetest group of young moms at a church. And I always am so |
| 0:42.8 | honored to be able to speak into parenting with moms. And we just talked about how in the |
| 0:48.4 | whole scheme of raising our kids, it's so easy in our culture to get caught up in all the things |
| 0:53.1 | that the world holds so tightly to. |
| 0:55.7 | And I was just reminded of it in a world that is so intent on having kids that are the best |
| 1:01.7 | academically. And I mean in every single academic area and having kids that are popular on the right |
| 1:08.0 | sports teams and all the things that are so important that it's so countercultural for us to actually raise kids that our whole measure of successes, |
| 1:17.5 | are they following God? Are they following the shepherd? And how hard that is and how standing |
| 1:22.2 | alone and that is, it's required so often for us to do that to realize that we've got to hold things loosely, |
| 1:28.6 | the things that aren't significant loosely. And as much as I want my kids to do well |
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