Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to failing
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Failure fast tracks growth.
This is a principle I’ve learned very personally at various times throughout my life. In the midst of what we may perceive as a failure—God shows up and names it success.
That’s exactly why we’re considering failure as we’re praying for our kids this week. Yes, there are places where our kids will fall flat on their face from poor decisions, and we need to pray they will repent and turn back to God. But sometimes our kids simply “fail,” and often what the world calls failure is actually God’s road to Kingdom success.
If we’re in it for the long game of parenting, we’ve got to get comfortable when our kids fail, knowing God is willing and able to use all things to grow them into who he designed them to be.
Can’t wait to pray with you this week!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to partner. |
| 0:17.2 | Glad you're joining us. |
| 0:18.5 | This week we're praying for our kids when they fail. |
| 0:22.1 | It's Psalm 69 we're focusing on. David says, I am worn out calling for help. My throat is |
| 0:27.5 | parched. You, God, know my folly. My guilt is not hidden from you, Lord. Almighty. May those who |
| 0:33.6 | hoping you not be disgraced because of me. That's Psalm 69, 3, and then also |
| 0:38.3 | verses 5 and 6. And so I think it's so important that we pray for our kids when they have failure |
| 0:43.6 | in their life. Proverbs 2416 says that although the righteous fall seven times, they rise again. |
| 0:50.2 | Right? Fall 7, rise 8. My husband says that a lot when he's coaching teams. There will be failure. |
| 0:56.8 | And so this is just a great reminder as we're praying for our kids and we pray failure over their lives that they do it how David does it. |
| 1:03.8 | And so he talks about when he fails. And this, we see it in the Psalm. He asks God to save him. He knows your only Savior. The only person |
| 1:12.4 | that it will come and can help you is the Lord. So he knows where to go when he's failing. |
| 1:18.4 | He also makes references to his voice being worn out from calling on God. Can you imagine how |
| 1:22.8 | our lives would look different? How our futures would like different. How failures would like |
| 1:26.4 | difference. Different if our lives were literally different. How failures were like different. Different. |
| 1:33.5 | If our lives were literally marked by calling out to God, our voices were hoarse because we had cried out so much to God. |
| 1:34.9 | Listen, my voice has been hoarse many times, but it's been from me just spewing out this |
| 1:39.1 | and that and talking and laughing and being silly. |
| 1:41.2 | It's never been hoarse because I've cried out to God like that. I mean, |
| 1:45.5 | that's amazing. And then David also, he knows his sins are not hidden from God. And so praying that |
| 1:52.7 | for our kids, that they don't think that they can hide things. It's never personal sin. It's not |
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