Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to “good enough”
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
There’s a lifetime worth of banter in Christian circles around the question of being “good enough.” This week we’re laying it down and considering Psalm 27 as David speaks into this question while hiding out because his life is in jeopardy.
He calls God his light (hope), his salvation (rescuer) and his stronghold (deliverer). Nowhere does he evaluate his own value or abilities, but over and over again he refers back to God’s. Yet maybe the greatest words he writes, and those we can be praying for our kids, are his heart’s desire to “dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
I’m praying this week for our kids to flip the “not good enough” script and trust that God is more than enough for all they face today and each day. Join me in praying for your kids and trusting God to fill the gaps where our parenting skills inevitably fall short.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to Part of the Mess. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm glad you're with us today. |
| 0:17.9 | We are praying through the Psalms for our kids. And I'm actually glad I'm with us today |
| 0:22.0 | because I'm having serious technology issues. And I feel like a lot of times when the Lord is |
| 0:27.2 | doing something, using something that I'm working on, life gets hard. Like in the practical |
| 0:31.7 | sense, it gets hard. And so not only did all the technology fail me this morning, and I took 30 minutes to even get |
| 0:39.9 | mics working and audio and all these things. But then I taped this entire thing and somehow |
| 0:45.3 | my mic didn't turn on. So it's been, it's been awesome. But the other thing is, I was going to |
| 0:50.7 | point out, is I've had a huge writing deadline coming up October 1. I've kind of not |
| 0:54.8 | seen the light of day. And I'm not kidding you. Like talking of things getting hard, I chopped off my finger, |
| 1:00.4 | not literally, but almost my thumb the other night, dicing an onion and I have stitches in it. |
| 1:05.0 | And so try to text and do other things without your thumb. And so it's just been one of those weeks. So I'm just going to |
| 1:11.3 | encourage you. If things get kind of hard, then sometimes it's just because you're doing things for |
| 1:15.1 | the Lord. I think the enemy gets involved. And it's not always easy, but it's worthy of doing. And so today, |
| 1:21.1 | bear with me. Hopefully we don't have technology issues, but I think I'm ironed out. But here we go in talking about this whole notion of being good enough. |
| 1:28.5 | I feel like I should air quote it. |
| 1:29.8 | Am I good enough? |
| 1:30.3 | Am I not good enough? |
| 1:31.4 | I don't know if y'all seen all the books that have come out on this. |
| 1:33.8 | Maybe I see a lot of them because of podcasting. |
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