Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to building godly families
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re praying for godly families. More specifically, we’re praying for our families to be built on the foundation of Jesus. In Psalm 127, Solomon very pointedly reminds us that even our best work and greatest successes are nothing if the Lord isn’t in them.
The key to building godly families comes in the day by day and week by week decisions of choosing Jesus instead of chasing after earthly success, financial gain, and the other things this world so often points us to.
Jesus talked about building our foundation on rock so that the storms of life won’t destroy our homes. Let’s pray today for our families to be storm-proof so that we can share the gospel effectively to a world so desperately needing the good news.
Can’t wait to pray with you this week!
In this with you,
Cynthia Yanof | Pardon the Mess
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:16.8 | Glad you're joining us this week as we're praying for our kids. |
| 0:19.3 | This week we're praying over godly families. that we will be godly families obviously yes that's important but also that |
| 0:26.7 | we raise kids that have godly families and this whole future generation of the church and so our |
| 0:32.9 | key psalm is 127 i'm going to read a couple of verses out of it, verses 1.3 and 5, |
| 0:38.9 | unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Behold children are a |
| 0:43.8 | heritage from the Lord. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them. Listen to that first |
| 0:48.7 | part again, unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. I think Solomon gives us a good reminder |
| 0:56.8 | here that nothing we do matters if God's not in it. If we don't have the Lord central to whatever |
| 1:02.8 | we're chasing after in this world, whatever we're trying to build, then it's just not significant. |
| 1:08.2 | Andy and Sandra Stanley were on, pardon the mess, a few weeks ago. If you missed it, |
| 1:12.1 | go, listen, they're so good, but they're talking about finding the it in our parenting. |
| 1:16.5 | And there's lots of it's that are important, but the it has got to be Jesus, that he's central |
| 1:22.5 | to everything we're doing as families, and that our faith is what everything's built on. Jesus is our foundation. |
| 1:29.5 | I think about that whole notion of Jesus being our foundation. And it talks in the New |
| 1:34.9 | Testament. There's verses about building your foundation, right? You want to build it on something |
| 1:39.3 | solid, not on sand, because then when the storms come, it's swept up. I think about our foundation over here at the |
| 1:45.0 | Ganoff household during COVID. We had the great pleasure of spending a whole lot of money on our |
| 1:51.6 | foundation. Basically, as I like to say, it was like three Disney trips worth of foundation work over here. |
| 1:57.2 | Super fun. The thing about spending money on your foundation is that nobody notices. Nobody cares. |
| 2:02.8 | Nobody's like walking by and like, hey, hey, nice foundation you got over there, right? |
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