Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to living in the shadows
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
“Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.” Psalm 91:1
We have a negative connotation around the idea of living in the shadows. We want to avoid raising kids in the shadows because it feels unknown, overlooked, or even worse: insignificant. Yet so often what the world calls “successful” is not God’s definition of success. And living with platform and worldly significance comes at a cost we often fail to consider.
This week we’re praying Psalm 91 over our kids, and asking God to reveal the beauty of shadow living—but only when it’s in the shadow of the Almighty. In this shadow is where we find God’s love and protection. In his shadow is where we find a nearness to God not present anywhere else, simply due to the sheer proximity required to walk in God’s shadow.
This is our last week of 2022 to pray over our kids. Please don't miss it.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess, this |
| 0:16.1 | and it is the day after Christmas. |
| 0:18.6 | We are praying this week over our kids still. And I hope you |
| 0:21.9 | had a wonderful Christmas. And I hope your house doesn't feel like a train wreck like mine does |
| 0:27.1 | with all the opened gifts everywhere that need to be put away, but you have no space for him |
| 0:31.9 | and all of the mess. But yet all the great memories. And so it's a mixed bag, but I hope more than anything, |
| 0:38.2 | you really had opportunities to invest in your people and point them towards the Lord and really |
| 0:43.0 | just have a season of Advent. And so today, as we're back together praying over our kids, |
| 0:49.4 | we're praying that our kids live in the shadows. And so the Psalm is Psalm 91 and the key verse. |
| 0:56.7 | The Psalm 91, one, whoever dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the shadow |
| 1:02.3 | of the Almighty. And so this whole notion of living in the shadows, if someone were to say to you, |
| 1:08.8 | hey, I really want to raise kids that just kind of live in |
| 1:10.9 | the shadows, I think our immediate reaction would be like, ooh, those are not the kind of kids I want |
| 1:15.6 | to raise. I think we naturally, instinctively want to raise kids who have authority and success |
| 1:21.6 | and are outspoken and our role models, all of those things. And none of that in and of itself |
| 1:27.3 | is bad. But I think so often |
| 1:30.0 | what happens is in a worldly sense, we want those things for our kids. The world wants those things |
| 1:35.2 | for their kids, but we want them to come from ourselves, from our own origin, for our kids to be, |
| 1:41.5 | drawing themselves up by the bootstraps and making it happen, as opposed to |
| 1:45.2 | relying on the Lord and allowing him to make it happen if that's what he has for us. Some of our kids, |
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