Week 25: Ask questions - Nicodemus
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Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
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Summary
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. (Matthew 7:7)
Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Jewish ruling council. He knew the Scriptures better than anyone. And still, people were talking about Jesus’s teachings and miracles and Nicodemus wanted to know more, so he went to Jesus in the night and asked him questions.
Nicodemus asking questions led to Jesus explaining one of the most important parts of the Christian faith—why Jesus came and what it takes to truly follow him and enter his kingdom. Jesus explained that to be saved, a person has to be born again.
Nicodemus had all the answers on paper, but he must have known something was missing in his heart, and he sought out Jesus to find out what. We should be curious about our faith too. Questions about faith do not have to be scary—they can be viewed as an opportunity to learn more about the heart of God.
We want our kids to make their faith their own because a personal, deeply rooted faith is more likely to transform them. An inherited faith is more likely to fall apart when things fall apart. Asking questions is part of the process of maturing spiritually and making faith their own, so we should encourage it!
This week, let’s pray that our kids seek after Jesus and ask the right questions to make their faith their own.
Jesus, thank you for answering our prayers and our questions. When __________ has questions, may they always come to you, knowing you will answer them and that you care for them. Help them to grow strong and confident in their own faith. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey friends, welcome back to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and we are on week 25 of our prayer journal. |
| 0:21.2 | We've been praying together all year long, and we are going to talk about and pray about |
| 0:25.0 | the story of Nicodemus and that he asked questions. |
| 0:28.9 | I love how we learn about him and John 3. |
| 0:32.2 | So as a reminder, this is like the fastest overview of a person in the Bible and would love for you to get context |
| 0:39.5 | and the full story. So these are just blips. But again, go back and read the full story. And I think |
| 0:44.9 | you'll be blessed by learning more about Nicodemus. But he is a Pharisee. He's a member of the Jewish |
| 0:49.9 | ruling council. And he knew Old Testament scriptures better than anyone. He was eager, though, |
| 0:56.6 | to even learn more. So his head knowledge was right up there. He knew everything there was to |
| 1:00.8 | learn. But as we see him encounter Jesus and John 3, he asked a ton of questions. And he asked |
| 1:07.0 | really good questions, important questions. He asked why Jesus came and what does it take to |
| 1:11.9 | follow him and enter his kingdom. And so that is going to be our prayer today for our kids that |
| 1:16.2 | we actually are okay when they ask questions about their faith because that will just create |
| 1:23.1 | a foundation and a security and a confidence in their own walk. And so we don't want them just to |
| 1:28.5 | follow along like Little Ducks and do what we do just because we say so. We want this to be |
| 1:32.8 | their faith and something so personal to them. I actually wrote about this in my first book |
| 1:37.5 | in this house, We Will Giggle, talking about the fact that we can really do a lot of work and |
| 1:42.6 | have kids that have head knowledge of God and that they, |
| 1:45.9 | you know, do all the motions, they can say all the scriptures, but they miss the most important |
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