Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to contentment
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Oh contentment, why are you so elusive this time of year? Why do the holidays leave us searching for better presents, bigger wow moments, and flawless family interactions?
As you may have guessed, we’re praying for contentment this week as we head into the home stretch of Christmas. We’re asking God to remind us that he knows each of our needs before we even realize them, and he’s faithful to provide in the most generous and comprehensive way that’s in our best interests.
Join me this week as we consider Psalm 34 and what it means to “taste and see” that God is good. Leaning into this truth will help us pray for our kids (and ourselves) to acknowledge that anything and everything that’s good in this life is from God—and his provision is perfect.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm glad you're with us. |
| 0:17.0 | It's Cynthia and we are praying this week, contentment for our kids. |
| 0:21.9 | And isn't that the perfect thing to be praying right before Christmas, being content |
| 0:25.6 | in the things that we have and not all the things that we want? |
| 0:28.6 | And so, Psalm 34 is our Psalm this week. |
| 0:31.7 | The key verses are 8 through 9, taste and see that the Lord is good. |
| 0:35.9 | Blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. Fear the Lord, |
| 0:39.6 | you his holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing. All right. You notice we're kind of in a |
| 0:45.4 | theme here. We talked about wisdom. The key to wisdom is fearing God. And then the week after that, |
| 0:49.6 | we talked about fearing God and what does that look like, that awe and reverence so much that we want to |
| 0:54.5 | submit to him. |
| 0:55.8 | And then contentment. |
| 0:57.1 | We're talking about those who fear God lack nothing. |
| 1:02.0 | You're content because when you fear him, you're an awe and reverence of him and you're doing |
| 1:05.6 | the things he has for you and you're living in his plan and will for your lives. |
| 1:10.4 | Then you lack nothing. |
| 1:12.5 | And so I know that sounds very spiritual and on a practical level, we're like, is that really |
| 1:17.5 | how it works? It doesn't feel that way sometimes. And so I think this week as we talk about |
| 1:21.7 | contentment, I just want to say very honestly, I think I struggle with contentment, especially |
| 1:26.8 | this time of year, maybe more than |
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