Praying the Psalms over our Kids: The key to interruptions
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The last several years I’ve prayed that my kids will live interruptible lives. I’ve prayed for it because for so long, I was completely unwilling to have my own life interrupted. I like things to be planned out, organized, and on my schedule. So much so that I wasn’t open to the things God was calling me to that might “mess up” my best laid plans.
But now knowing what I know, most of God’s greatest plans for my life have come in the form of interruptions. And we see these same God-ordained interruptions in the lives of Noah, Mary, Abraham, and so many other biblical heroes.
The Psalm we’re praying this week says that God “thwarts the purposes of his peoples” in favor of his own greater plays. Why? Because his plans stand firm and impact generations to come.
So join me in praying interruptibility over our kids this week, so that God’s plans will trump any plans we make that are less than his very best.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.4 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:16.6 | This Cynthia Gannoff, and I'm so glad you're joining us today. |
| 0:19.8 | We are praying Psalm 33 this week, |
| 0:22.4 | and it's the key psalm to praying interruptions over our kids. And so we're going to pray that they |
| 0:28.4 | have interruptible lives. And we'll go through the whole psalm later, but the verses this week, |
| 0:33.2 | the key verses are Psalm 33, 10 through 11. The Lord foils the plans of nations. He thwarts the |
| 0:38.8 | purposes of the people's, but the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart |
| 0:44.1 | through all generations. And so I think about interruptions. And there's so many things I tell |
| 0:50.7 | you all the time that like, I've never even thought to pray for my kids until one day I'm like, |
| 0:54.9 | oh, I haven't I been praying that or I heard it somewhere. And so there's lots of those things. |
| 0:58.7 | But this is not one of them. I've been praying interruptability for my kids for quite a while. |
| 1:03.8 | And I think it's because I, well, I know it's because I did not live an interruptible life until probably my late 30s. |
| 1:11.2 | Like I missed it. |
| 1:12.2 | I didn't understand why it mattered. |
| 1:14.0 | And being a person that's already kind of prone to be agenda oriented, task oriented, |
| 1:19.9 | driven, likes productivity. |
| 1:22.8 | I mean, I don't know about you, but I like my to do list. |
| 1:25.1 | And I even add things to the to-do list if I've already done |
| 1:27.5 | them just so I can check them off. I know some of y'all do that too. Join me in this. And so I have |
| 1:33.1 | struggled with being interrupted because it seems like it's just that an interruption to what I need |
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