Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to being still
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Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
A discussion on being still seems especially relevant this time of year as we’re gearing up for the holidays while enjoying all the fun things of fall. Psalm 46 reminds us that being still allows us to better know Jesus. The Hebrew for “be still” means “to be weak, or let go, or to release.”
Who couldn’t use some of that this week?
We’re praying specifically that in a world that praises hard work and high achievement, our kids can be still and find peace from the grind of striving, performing, and controlling. After all, God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9), and we will know him best when we loosen the reins and allow him to cover our deficits.
If Jesus used the words “be still” in Mark 4 to calm a storm and all creation instantly obeyed the very sound of his voice—I’m guessing we’d be wise to do the same. Let’s pray together for our kids today!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess of Synthiga, and we are continuing to pray for our kids |
| 0:19.2 | this school year. |
| 0:20.4 | This week, we are praying that they will be still. |
| 0:24.4 | It's Psalm 46 that we're basing this in. |
| 0:26.7 | And the verse is 4610, be still and know that I am God. |
| 0:30.8 | I will be exalted among the nations. |
| 0:32.7 | I will be exalted in the earth. |
| 0:35.7 | And so the context is war. This Psalm. It's a context of war and there's |
| 0:40.6 | chaos and uncertainty. And there's this call to be still. The Hebrew word for still is Rapa. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm sure I am totally, totally slaughtering that. That means to slacken or let down or to cease. |
| 0:53.7 | And so it's just this connotation of two people that are fighting until something or someone |
| 0:58.0 | separates them. |
| 0:59.9 | And they pull them apart so that they can be still and they can trust in God. |
| 1:04.2 | I like how it says the Hebrew translation, this next phrase of and no, the Hebrew translation |
| 1:09.8 | is in order to know. So put them together, |
| 1:13.2 | be still means to be weak or let go or to release. And then and know, it's so that in order |
| 1:19.5 | to know God, we've got to let go, we've got to be weak, we've got to release in order to know |
| 1:26.4 | God. And so often I think we think of being still as a call |
| 1:31.5 | to being quiet, which is important. I don't think we can be still a no God without a call to |
| 1:37.6 | quiet. But I think more importantly, so often it's a call to stop the frantic activity, |
| 1:42.9 | to stop fighting the battles that we will never |
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