Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to Struggling
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
“Faith thrives in holy discomfort. The greatest moments in life can often result from some of the most uncomfortable decisions being made. Nothing worth having comes without a cost.” - Louie Giglio
This is one of my favorite quotes and it speaks perfectly to life in the middle of the struggle. Sometimes perspective is the key to handling life’s biggest struggles and knowing that God always controls the larger picture.
This week we’re praying for our kids to know God is compassionate towards them, fully aware they are doing life without him physically present in a world with real struggles. Let’s ask the Lord to remind them that some of our greatest God-given opportunities arise from the ashes of our hardest struggles.
Can’t wait to pray with you!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | All right, guys, welcome to part of the mess. |
| 0:16.6 | This is Cynthia, Gannoff, and I am thrilled. |
| 0:18.5 | You're praying with us again this week. |
| 0:20.1 | We're praying for our kids. |
| 0:21.5 | And in the midst of praying for our kids, we're actually thinking about our own lives, |
| 0:24.3 | praying for ourselves, our family, our friends. |
| 0:27.0 | And so let's do it. |
| 0:28.3 | This week we're talking about the key to struggling. |
| 0:31.0 | How do we pray over the struggle that our kids are facing that we're facing? |
| 0:34.9 | Psalm 56 is where we're focused. And I'm reading from ESV, but the key |
| 0:39.3 | verses are eight through nine. And these are beautiful, beautiful verses. Let me read these to you, |
| 0:44.1 | and we'll talk about them. You have kept count of my tossings. Put my tears in your bottle. |
| 0:49.5 | Are they not in your book? Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know that God is for me. |
| 0:57.1 | And I love this beginning part. You have kept count of my tossings. Think of that literally the |
| 1:02.4 | Lord knows everything you're struggling with. Everything you have in the past, everything you will going |
| 1:07.2 | forward. Like there's just such comfort in knowing that he sees it and he |
| 1:11.3 | acknowledges it and he is aware of it. And this metaphor of you put my tears in your bottle, |
| 1:16.7 | like think about that, that he's just so intentional that not a tear falls without the Lord, |
| 1:21.1 | knowing it and gathering them. And then he goes on to say, this, I know that God is for me. |
| 1:28.0 | Just imagine if we could really appreciate and understand that God is for us, how much does that |
| 1:34.9 | change when we're struggling, change our thought process, change our attitude? |
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