Week 38: Be sanctified - Jesus
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
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Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2)
All the people we have talked about this year are heroes of faith. Whether they were named or unnamed, their stories hold significance in God’s word, which is always worthy of our attention! As much as we want our kids to take on the characteristics of the people in this great cloud of witnesses, our primary desire is that our kids become like Jesus, our rabbi, friend, perfect king, and our Savior.
We become more and more like Jesus as we spend more time with him. It’s the process of sanctification, or being made holy. We cannot be fully sanctified on this side of heaven, but the Holy Spirit does work within us as we surrender, obey, and return to him when we get it wrong. We are shaped to look more and more like Jesus.
Our kids will make mistakes, struggle with sin, and face challenges. We all do; it’s part of living in a broken world. But as they become more like him, their responses to those things will change because becoming more like Jesus means choosing truth over lies, kindness over gossip, love over selfishness, and obedience over comfort.
As we end this year of praying for our kids, let’s pray that our kids become like Jesus, that they live such a full life of faith that others will say, “They loved like Jesus loved.”
Jesus, sanctify __________ through your Spirit. Shape their heart to reflect you in how they love, serve, follow, and obey. May they go to you every day and learn to talk with you and listen to your voice all day long. May they allow you to help them be more like you every day so that your light shines through them. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.8 | Hey friends, welcome back to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and you guys, we made it the final week of praying |
| 0:22.2 | all school year together for our kids. And I'm a little emotional today. So this is my last week |
| 0:28.5 | as your host. And if you hadn't heard about that decision on the 21st, my mentee, Megan, |
| 0:34.1 | interviewed me. And I shared more about how I came to this decision. And then next week, |
| 0:38.4 | you're going to meet your new host. But I find myself just feeling pretty teary today and honestly |
| 0:44.2 | just grateful that God would invite me to be a part of your lives and be a part of just such a |
| 0:49.9 | rhythm of prayer. This has been the most unexpected blessing of it all. I knew how to do interviews. |
| 0:56.1 | I know how to connect with people. I love getting people's stories. I love the Thursday episodes. |
| 1:00.7 | But I didn't know what God had for me. And this thing personally was just to show up every Monday |
| 1:05.4 | and pray and learn more about God's word and learn more about God and just humble myself before him and pray so |
| 1:11.6 | specifically for my kids. So I'm grateful for that. And I'll be, as I look back, one of the |
| 1:16.1 | greatest things that I was able to do in my own personal journey as a mom and just with Jesus |
| 1:21.8 | over the last three years. So I'm grateful for that. I hope it rippled into your lives. I hope it |
| 1:26.8 | blessed you. I hope it gave you a piece at the beginning of the week, and I will miss you guys. So a couple ways we can connect. Always find me at Courtney Defeo anywhere online, and I want to come to your towns. I really do. And so seek me out on my website, Courtney Defeo.com. I want to be able to just see you guys in person. I think this |
| 1:44.5 | next season, as Larson graduates next year, and I get some more flexibility, I would rather just be in person with you guys versus on this podcast. And I just knew it was a season. And I'm really, really thankful for us. So connect with me. I can't wait to be with you, but I love that today we are ending with Jesus. |
| 2:02.5 | And so all year long, we have been praying through a great cloud of witnesses. And I'll remind |
| 2:06.8 | you of our verse that we started with. Hebrews 12 says, therefore, since we are surrounded by such |
| 2:12.0 | a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us |
| 2:19.3 | run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and |
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