Christian Parenting.

Hey friends, welcome back to Part of the Mess. I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and say a little prayer that I get my words together.

I'm on like the fourth version of this because I can't. Maybe I didn't have enough coffee, but I can't get the words together. So Jesus, Holy Spirit, please speak through me and give me the words. But a couple upfront things, and then we'll get into praying about our kids today and that they would become humble leaders like Moses. But first, leave a review. I know I've asked you all the time, but really, like I really mean it. That would be so helpful to me. Here's one from earlier this year. It says, I love this podcast as a mom of a three-year-old and a new Christian. My biggest desire is to grow in my faith and learn how to share and live that out with my family. I love that this podcast is real, but also serious about

Jesus. It's so practical and biblical. Amen. Thank you. I think her initials were AF. So whoever you are,

AF, I'm really grateful that you left that. And to hear that it's doing exactly what I prayed for

is that it's reaching out to moms of all seasons and even new Christians that are trying to figure

out how do I do this. The second random update and plea for y'all is I need you guys to get a memory box. Maybe you're so good at organizing all of your kids' stuff. But I got a memory box years ago that holds like those hanging folders and I made the little tabs, kindergarten, first grade, second grade. And it looks, it appears that I completely fell off the

bandwagon around sixth grade. And then everything else has just shoved into a pile. And so with all my new

free time and during tears of missing my oldest daughter, I decided to start going back through some

of her things and labeling them and putting them in the right places. And so here's my tip for you guys.

It has nothing to do with their faith, but just stay organized, stay on top of it. And just even write when they get artwork home or a paper or a note, just write the age or the year on the back is super helpful because they all get thrown in a pile and you get lost. And so I'm going to share a story in just a few minutes about a paper that I found that I prayed for Ella. And it's so cool being this phase of life to be able to look back and be like, oh my goodness, I pray for that and how God fulfills everything, everything he promises. So today we're going to pray about humble leadership like Moses. In Numbers 12-3, it says, Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.

How about that?

So if you don't know the story of Moses, Pharaoh ordered all babies to be killed, but God actually

saved Moses.

And you may have seen this image before, but he saved Moses by nudging his mom to put him in a basket.

Yes, she did.

Instead of watching her son get killed, she put him in a basket and put him in a basket. Yes, she did. Instead of watching her son get killed, she put him in a basket

and put him down the river. And Moses was actually saved and actually raised in Pharaoh's palace.

The story is like too good. You just can't make this up. So read your Bible. There's fascinating

stories in there that actually happened. But then Moses was later called to lead his people,

God's people out of Egypt. It is just an incredible story. And what we learn about Moses is that

Moses was willing but not perfect. And that's really important for us. As we think about leaders

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