Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to having influence
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
If you’re anything like me, the word “influencer” tends to leave a bad taste in your mouth. In this day and age of social media born superstars, it’s easy to discount our influence and feel like we can’t change lives because we don’t have the right platform, title, or following.
But this week we’re taking a deep dive into this idea of influence and praying for our kids to realize that no matter who they are or how they spend their days, they have the opportunity to be a difference-maker for the kingdom.
In a world that thrives on self-promotion and living in excess, let’s lay down those things and pray for ways our families can raise up others. Luke reminds us that “to whom much is given, much will be required” (Luke 12:48). Let’s use what we have well and point others to Jesus.
Can’t wait to pray with you!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to partner the past, Cynthia Yanov, and we are praying this week for our kids |
| 0:20.7 | and influence, having influence influence and so Psalm 82 |
| 0:24.6 | is a Psalm that we're focused on let me read you the key verses and those are three and four |
| 0:29.7 | defend the weak and the fatherless uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed rescue the weak |
| 0:35.9 | and the needy deliver them from the hand of the wicked and so oppressed, rescue the weak and the needy, deliver them from the hand of the wicked. |
| 0:39.5 | And so that's a good explanation on what we do when we have influence. What do we do with |
| 0:44.2 | that influence? We're going to get back to that in just a minute. But this is one of my favorite |
| 0:48.6 | weeks we pray each year because typically, even though we do different prayer journals, |
| 0:52.6 | we always pray influence over our kids. |
| 0:55.2 | And so every year I like to, first of all, tell you the definition of an influencer and then read |
| 1:00.4 | you the top influencers for the year. |
| 1:03.0 | Always makes me chuckle because I realize I literally am so uncool. |
| 1:07.7 | I don't even know the people. |
| 1:09.0 | So here we go. |
| 1:09.7 | Let's start with what's the definition of an influencer you're wondering, aren't you? No, you're not, but I'm going toool. I don't even know the people. So here we go. Let's start with what's the definition |
| 1:11.0 | of an influencer you're wondering, aren't you? No, you're not, but I'm going to read it anyway. |
| 1:14.9 | Okay, this is our dictionary at its finest. An influencer is a person or a thing that influences |
| 1:20.4 | another. Huh? Well, that's not helpful. I wish the SAT would have had those kinds of definitions. I would have done better. No, let's go to the next one down. |
| 1:28.1 | An influencer is a person with the ability to influence potential buyers of a product or service |
| 1:33.1 | by promoting or recommending the items on social media. Okay, so interesting. So maybe off topic, |
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