Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to a bad day
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Life gives us lots of good days while also throwing in some bad ones along the way too. As adults we know life is hard on this side of heaven, and knowing where to turn in our hardest moments is critically important.
This week we’re praying for our kids to know what David knew in Psalm 13—trusting God means trusting Him even on the hard days.
As parents our knee-jerk reaction is to try and eliminate the source of our kids’ pain. But so often that same hard place is the greatest opportunity for them to know that Jesus is their only hope. Join me in praying this week that our kids turn to God instead of drugs, self-harm, or anything short of God’s best when they are facing hard times.
P.S. We would be so grateful if you’d consider sharing Pardon the Mess with a friend. Encourage those you know and love to join us in praying each week by forwarding this email or sending a link to the show. Thank you!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon mess. |
| 0:16.1 | This is Cynthia, and I'm so glad you're joining with us. |
| 0:18.6 | We are praying this week for our kids and the key to a bad |
| 0:23.1 | day. And so it's Psalm 13 that we're dealing with today that we're going to be reading and using as our text |
| 0:28.6 | versus two, five, and six are the key verses. Let me read those real quick as we start off. |
| 0:33.8 | How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? |
| 0:39.4 | How long will my enemy triumph over me? |
| 0:41.6 | But I trust in your unfailing love. |
| 0:43.5 | My heart rejoices in your salvation. |
| 0:47.6 | I will sing the Lord's praise for he has been good to me. |
| 0:48.7 | All right. |
| 0:54.9 | So it's kind of funny as I read through this yesterday and I was thinking about, you know, a bad day and what am I really going to say about this? And I wrote this prayer journal, obviously, a long time ago. And I'm reading |
| 0:59.3 | and I'm like, huh, I'm not sure I have anything else to say about what is the key to having a bad day? |
| 1:04.4 | And then as I woke up this morning and I'm getting ready to tape this. I'm literally thinking, this is going to be a bad day because I got a shingle shot |
| 1:12.5 | yesterday and my arm is killing me. And again, in the whole scheme of life, this is not a big deal. |
| 1:17.2 | The bigger deal is that I'm at the age where I need a shingle shot, am I right? But nonetheless, |
| 1:21.4 | I was like, oh, this is going to be one of those days. And as I was sitting here kind of going through that in my head and starting to pray and think |
| 1:28.2 | things through, I realize how much my inner narrative plays a part in whether I have a good or a |
| 1:34.3 | bad day. I think that's the case for all of us, right? The story we're telling ourselves, |
| 1:38.9 | the things we're allowing in our mind, what a difference they make and whether we're having a |
| 1:43.4 | good day or a bad day. |
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