Sowing a Hidden Seed: Cultivating a Culture of Prayer in Your Home
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We’re thrilled to introduce Sowing a Hidden Seed — a 31-day prayer devotional for parents faithfully planting spiritual seeds in their children’s lives, even when the fruit feels far off. Each day features Scripture, a meaningful quote, and a guided prayer, with flexible themes you can make your own.
Right now, Sowing a Hidden Seed is available exclusively to monthly donors who give $25 or more. As a nonprofit, Intentional relies on monthly giving to sustain this work — it makes resources like this possible and helps us equip families everywhere to raise children with intention. This devotional is our way of saying thank you — a small gift to express our deep gratitude for your ongoing support.
In this episode, we share the heart behind the devotional and talk about how to foster a culture of prayer at home. We discuss the power of praying with and for your children — not perfectly, but consistently — and address the barriers that often hold us back, such as busyness, shame, or feeling inadequate.
You’ll also hear simple, practical ways to make prayer a natural, life-giving rhythm in your home. Because it’s not about eloquence or intensity — it’s about showing up, day after day, with a posture of surrender.
As Walter Wink reminds us: “History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being.”
Learn more about Sowing a Hidden Seed and become a monthly Legacy Builder here.
Questions: Email us at hello@intentionalparents.org
Scripture Mentioned: Philippians 4:6-7, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Psalm 116:1-2, Proverbs 18:21 + Ephesians 3:20
Episode Mentioned: The Boring Years, Spiritual Formation in the Shadows, Beneath the Routine, and Praying the Ordinary (Spotify, Apple Podcasts + YouTube)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Intentional Parents podcast, brought to you by Intentional. Intentional is all |
| 0:07.6 | about spiritual formation in the family. We desire to bring biblical hope and practical hope. Enjoy this |
| 0:14.5 | week's conversation. All right, welcome back to the Intentional Parents podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | Elizabeth and I are here today to tell you a very exciting thing, a fun announcement, |
| 0:30.5 | something that's been in the works for months and months and months. |
| 0:33.8 | We want to tell you about a book, rather a devotional that I recently wrote called Sowing a Hidden Seed, Daily Prayers for Your Child's Spiritual Growth. If you're on YouTube, you can go see this and anywhere you like to view this, you'll be able to see the book. But we want to tell you about this today. And we want to talk about cultivating and creating a |
| 0:55.1 | culture of prayer in your home. And one of the reasons we want to tell you about it is because |
| 0:59.2 | this is a resource we've created just to help you with that exact thing. So before we talk about |
| 1:04.6 | more, Elizabeth, any opening statements? I just have to say, if you're not watching this, |
| 1:09.6 | it's really, really pretty. |
| 1:11.6 | I feel like there's so many books, especially in the Christian space, that are not pretty. |
| 1:17.1 | This one we tried to make really pretty so that you could actually leave it out and it would look pretty in your house. |
| 1:23.7 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 1:25.8 | And sewing a hidden seed is actually from a wonderful quote from Ronald |
| 1:30.0 | Roll Heiser about how we change the world, not by dramatic, intense energies, but by |
| 1:36.1 | sewing one hidden seed and using that idea of prayer. And we just want to talk about this because |
| 1:41.6 | this is something that is near and dear to our heart. |
| 1:44.3 | Praying for your children is a huge deal. |
| 1:46.3 | Now, this isn't a book for your kids. We have to highlight this. This is not a book for your kids. This is a book for you as a parent, for you as an adult to go through. And I just want to highlight a few things. It is a Bible verse. It is a wonderful quote that gets you thinking from someone who's most likely dead and very godly. |
| 1:47.2 | And then... Bible verse. It is a wonderful quote that gets you thinking from someone who's most likely dead |
| 2:03.0 | and very godly. And then a written out prayer for you to pray over your kids and specifically |
| 2:09.6 | to take time and make those prayers your own because I don't know about you. I mean, |
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