Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to living with purpose
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Thirty-eight times in Ecclesiastes Solomon refers to our lives as “hevel.” Solomon is trying to paint the picture that our lives are just a vapor, here one moment and gone the next. Knowing this means we have the opportunity to stop chasing the things on earth and instead pursue God above all else and live for the eternal.
This is our prayer for our families this week. That we can appreciate the brevity of life and live intentionally and interruptible as families. We’re also praying our kids learn to live purposefully knowing their hope is in the Lord, not in wealth, popularity, or status.
Join me this week in asking God to teach our kids to define success the way God does. Each day is a gift, so let’s use our time wisely.
P.S. We would be so grateful if you’d consider sharing Pardon the Mess with a friend. Encourage those you know and love to join us in praying each week by forwarding this email or sending a link to the show. Thank you!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.8 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the message, Cynthia. |
| 0:16.5 | So glad you're with us this week. |
| 0:17.9 | We're praying for our kids to live with purpose. And I love |
| 0:22.9 | this idea of praying they live with purpose because I think we all want to live with purpose. |
| 0:27.2 | And it's hard when you don't understand the brevity of life because we think we have forever |
| 0:32.1 | to do this. And David speaks into this in our Psalm here. It's Psalm 39. I'm going to read you verses 6 through 7. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm using New Living Translation just because I think this language resonates. |
| 0:43.3 | We're merely moving shadows and all of our busy rushing ends in nothing. |
| 0:48.2 | We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it. |
| 0:50.7 | And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? |
| 0:52.9 | My only hope is in you. I mean, isn't that so good? All of our |
| 0:56.9 | busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not even knowing who's going to spend it. |
| 1:02.3 | Where do we put our trust? It's in the Lord. I think it's so hard for our kids to grasp the brevity of |
| 1:08.6 | life. And I think understanding the brevity of life and that we |
| 1:11.6 | don't have forever in earthly sense, we don't have forever. I think that's what makes it so critical |
| 1:17.1 | to live on purpose. You have to understand that. Living on purpose means you understand, |
| 1:20.7 | I don't have forever. So I'm going to use my days wisely. And especially when you're in high |
| 1:27.3 | school and college and even young adults, like you think you have forever. And especially when you're in high school and college and even young adults, |
| 1:29.4 | like you think you have forever. And then as you get a little bit older, I think some things start |
| 1:33.4 | happening. You see loss around you and you realize I don't have forever. It happened to me this |
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