Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to our desires
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The things we desire the most direct our days and determine our priorities. Knowing this, it’s important to get it right when it comes to what we desire and how we spend our lives fulfilling our deepest wishes.
This week we’re praying that our kids desire the things God desires for their lives. Psalm 37:4 is arguably one of the most powerful verses God has used in my life to date (I’ll share more on today’s podcast), because he taught me how incredible our lives can be when our victories, achievements, and successes line up with His.
Join me in praying this week for our kids to dig deep to find God’s plans and desires for their lives, pursuing those things at all cost.
Lots to pray for this week. Don’t miss it!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:04.1 | Hey friends, welcome to Pardon the Mass. This is Cynthia, and I'm glad you're here. |
| 0:19.0 | We are praying for our kids again this week, |
| 0:26.8 | and we're praying over their desires. The Psalm, we are looking at as Psalm 21. I'll read it in just a minute, but the key verse is Psalm 21, too. You have granted him his heart's desire |
| 0:32.3 | and have not withheld the requests of his lips. And I put this in here because I think it's so important that we pray |
| 0:39.0 | over desires that our kids have. I learned a really good lesson on desires of our heart, |
| 0:44.6 | much too late in life, I think. I'm so glad that I learned it. But I went through a stage of |
| 0:49.7 | just feeling discontent, which I think is good. The Lord has given me this sense of holy |
| 0:53.0 | discontent. But the things that I was desiring, the things I wanted for my life, for my family, |
| 0:57.5 | none of it was really happening. And so I took a step back. And I've told this before, |
| 1:02.0 | on this podcast before, but I took a step back and it started praying kind of, Lord, |
| 1:05.7 | whatever it is, whatever you want me to do, I'm willing to do it. And that's when the Lord invited us into, shoved us into |
| 1:13.0 | foster care. And it's interesting because at the beginning of the year, when we were getting |
| 1:18.4 | licensed for foster care, I had started praying for the Lord to give me kind of a verse. |
| 1:22.6 | And I've done that lots of years over my life. Just, Lord, give me a verse of the year to kind of frame my year. |
| 1:28.8 | And I kept coming back to Psalm 374, which is another Psalm. |
| 1:33.3 | And this is David wrote this Psalm as well, this verse. |
| 1:36.4 | And it was to delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. |
| 1:40.7 | And I was like, well, that's lame. |
| 1:42.1 | Like I'm looking for a verse of the year. I want something that's like, I don't know, give me something from revelation or something very lofty. And yet I kept |
| 1:49.6 | coming back to this to let yourself the Lord. So that was my verse of the year and I wrote it and had it, |
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