Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to our waiting
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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The times of waiting in my life have hands down been the places where I’ve learned the most about God. Knowing this, I’m excited to be praying this week for our kids to learn to wait well. Waiting patiently on God is a hard thing to grasp when you live in an Amazon-style, instant gratification kind of world.
Psalm 40 is our key Psalm this week and David suggests that when we are waiting on God to act, we are to wait actively and expectantly. Instead of sitting around in despair and hoping for the best, we’re to be crying out in urgency for God’s deliverance.
So often, the key to waiting in the most difficult places we face means simply remembering God’s faithfulness in the past, turning only to him for deliverance, and finding a posture of dependence and trust.
Join me in praying for our kids as we consider what it means to wait well on God.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.4 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon to Mass, Cynthia. |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to Week 10 as we pray for our kids as they learn to wait. We can also chalk this up to the |
| 0:24.1 | week where I taped a podcast while I had the flu. So grace and mercy, everyone, for if I say |
| 0:29.0 | something ridiculous or doesn't make sense, bear with me here. But I'm so thankful that we're |
| 0:33.8 | praying this for our kids because this whole notion of learning to wait well |
| 0:37.8 | has been really critically important in my faith walk. And I'm a person who can tell you |
| 0:43.6 | firsthand, I'm not good at waiting. And it became very evident even a couple hours ago as I was |
| 0:48.8 | doing a little early Christmas shopping. I've kind of been laid up in bed. And I was going through |
| 0:53.0 | and looking at all these different |
| 0:54.2 | ideas. And I didn't want to order anything that wasn't on Amazon or wasn't a quick two to three |
| 0:59.3 | day shipping because I don't like to wait. I want it when I want it. And imagine raising kids who |
| 1:04.5 | don't understand this whole idea of waiting on things. I mean, they don't have to wait on |
| 1:08.2 | film from cameras. Remember that in the old days, right? They have |
| 1:10.9 | instant access to photos that they take. They have instant access to where their friends are. |
| 1:16.3 | If they're following each other on their phones, they can get things from Amazon, other places |
| 1:20.0 | overnight. Just think how quickly an instant access life is. We live in an Amazon world and |
| 1:26.3 | we're products of it and our kids are definitely products of it. |
| 1:28.6 | And that is absolutely not how God works. If you've been around the globe, a lot of times like I have, |
| 1:33.6 | you know that. You realize that Bob Goff says it best. I think that we want God to be a microwave |
| 1:38.7 | when he's actually a slow cooker. He's a crock pot and he does things methodically and slowly. |
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