1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Life audio. 2 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 2: You're listening to Everyday Prayers with Million Praying Moms, helping 3 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 2: you pray God's word for your family in the areas 4 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: you need it most. I'm your host, Nicolette Bell. Here 5 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 2: we believe prayer isn't a last resort. It's our first 6 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 2: and best response in parenting, and every day we come 7 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 2: together to partner with God for the hearts of our children. 8 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 2: Today's division is part of our start your Summer with 9 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 2: Psalm series and is written and read by me. We 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 2: will be in Psalm for and we'll pray for God 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 2: to set our children apart for himself and put more 12 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: joy in their hearts. We are spending two weeks praying 13 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 2: the Psalms together for our children as we jump into summer. 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 2: Then we will begin our summer book club on June fifteenth, 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: featuring the book When Mothering Is Hard and No One 16 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 2: Sees by my friend Saline Roberts. This book is so good, y'all, 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: and I can't wait for us to read it together. 18 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 2: All you need to do to join is grab a 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 2: copy of the book and make sure you're on our 20 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 2: email list. You can do both of those things at 21 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 2: Millionprayingmoms dot com you can find a link in our 22 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 2: show notes. After a quick word from our sponsors, we'll 23 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 2: pray together for our children. 24 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 3: Psalm four. 25 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 2: Answer me when I call, Oh God of my righteousness, 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 2: you have given me relief when I was in distress. 27 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: Be gracious to me and hear my prayer. Oh Man, 28 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How 29 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 2: long will you love vain words and seek after lies? 30 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 2: But know that the Lord has set apart the godly 31 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: for himself, The Lord here's when I call to him. 32 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 2: Be angry, and do not send ponder in your own hearts, 33 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 2: on your beds and silent, offer right sacrifices, and put 34 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: your trust in the Lord. There are many who say 35 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: who will show us some good. Lift up the light 36 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 2: of your face upon us. Oh Lord, you have put 37 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 2: more joy in my heart than they have when they're 38 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 2: grain and wine. 39 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 3: Abound in peace. I will both lie down and sleep 40 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 3: for you alone, Oh Lord, make me dwell in safety. 41 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 3: What a beautiful. 42 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: Psalm of David we have here in Psalm four. I 43 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 2: hope as we're going throughout our series you're picking up 44 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 2: and hearing some similarities or echoes between the psalms. But 45 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: today I hope to point out a couple of things 46 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: that are unique to this one are different than what 47 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 2: we've talked about so far. In verse three, it stands 48 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: out to me David says, the Lord has set apart 49 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 2: the godly for himself. And when I read this, I 50 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 2: immediately thought about in one Peter one sixteen, where Peter 51 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 2: writes that we are to be holy as He is holy. 52 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 2: Holy here means to be set apart, to be set apart. 53 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 2: That's what God desires for his children, not to be perfect, 54 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 2: but to be set apart, to be different than one. 55 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 2: Peter two nine describes a chosen people that we are 56 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: a chosen people, a royal priesthood, and so we do 57 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 2: pray for our children to be set apart. We should 58 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 2: be praying for our children that they would be set apart. 59 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: We want them to look different than the world around them. 60 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: We want them to be marked by God and his 61 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: character and the fruit of His spirit in their lives. 62 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 3: We pray for them to be set apart. 63 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 2: We pray for them to be a part of God's 64 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 2: kingdom and not of the kingdom of the world. As 65 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 2: we can you on in this passage. In verse four, 66 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 2: David writes be angry. That can also be translated as 67 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 2: be agitated or to like wrestle with the words, and 68 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 2: do not sin, ponder in your own hearts on your beds, 69 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 2: and be silent. It describes this time of wrestling or pondering, 70 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 2: this time of thinking about things of the Lord and 71 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: wrestling with these things in. 72 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 3: Your bed. 73 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 2: So it describes this quiet time where David is deliberating 74 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 2: these things with God, and it says to be silent. 75 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 3: He says to be silent. 76 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 2: And I think this is so important for our children 77 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 2: and for us. In our society, everything is so loud, 78 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 2: everything is loud. We are so uncomfortable with silence. We 79 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 2: want music in the background, something on in our head phones, 80 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 2: a podcast on. 81 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 3: While we work. No knocks to you if you're listening to. 82 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 2: This podcast while you are doing something something else. But 83 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 2: we can be uncomfortable with silence, can't we. So often 84 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 2: I find myself in moments of silence, looking around, kind 85 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 2: of seeing what needs to be done next, or what 86 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: needs to what needs to happen, because I get a 87 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 2: little uncomfortable in the silence. And here David is encouraging 88 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 2: us to wrestle with God in the silence, And I 89 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 2: wonder how much we are missing out on building our 90 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 2: faith in God without having these moments of silence. And 91 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 2: so for me today, I'm praying for my kids to 92 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 2: grow in being comfortable with silence as they get older, 93 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 2: that they would be comfortable in silence. I worked with 94 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 2: teenagers in the local church for many years, and that 95 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 2: is one thing that I truly noticed. If I would 96 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 2: like pause before starting a prayer in a service or 97 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 2: whatever that might look like, creating these moments of silence 98 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 2: and reflection, it would make them so incredibly uncomfortable. So 99 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 2: how can we help our children to become used to 100 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: silence and comfortable in silence so that they can. 101 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 3: Hear the voice of God in their lives. 102 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,679 Speaker 2: So think about silence this week, and we can pray 103 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 2: for that as we are praying for our children. In 104 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 2: verse seven, David writes, you have put more joy in 105 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 2: my heart than they have when they're grain and wine abound. 106 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 2: And right before that, in verse six, he says, lift 107 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 2: up the light of your face upon us, Oh Lord, 108 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 2: what a beautiful, beautiful prayer to ask God to lift 109 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 2: up the light of your face upon us. And that 110 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 2: light is what gives us this joy that he's talking 111 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 2: about in verse seven. More joy. That's what I want 112 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 2: for my kids. I want them to have more joy 113 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 2: today than they had yesterday. I want to have more 114 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 2: joy today than I had yesterday. I want to read 115 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 2: you this part of this passage from the Message translation 116 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 2: because I think it is so so beautiful. It says, 117 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 2: why is everyone hungry for more? 118 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 3: More and more? They say more and more. Well, I say, 119 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 3: I have Gods. 120 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 2: More than enough, more joy in one ordinary day than 121 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 2: they get in all their shopping sprees. At day's end, 122 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 2: I'm ready for sound sleep. For you, God have put 123 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 2: my life back together, more joy in one ordinary day 124 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 2: than they get in all of their shopping sprees. I 125 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 2: love that translation out of the Message as a way 126 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 2: to understand. 127 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 3: This passage that we have Gods. 128 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 2: More than enough, his more than enough joy working in 129 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 2: our lives, and we pray that that would be a 130 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 2: witness to our children and that our children would experience 131 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 2: it as well. When I read this passage, I think 132 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 2: about the words of Jesus in John fifteen, where he 133 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 2: tells his disciples, I have told you these things so 134 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 2: that in me you can have joy, and that you 135 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: may have it to the full complete joy, lacking in nothing. 136 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 2: And then in that same conversation he says that no 137 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 2: one or nothing can take his joy from us, that 138 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 2: it's his joy that's working in us, but no one 139 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 2: can take it away from us. 140 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 3: What a beautiful reminder. 141 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 2: And we can pray for our children to have more 142 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 2: joy in their hearts. And I love how David ends 143 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 2: this psalm that at the end of the day in peace, 144 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 2: I will both lie down and sleep for you alone, 145 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 2: Oh Lord, make me dwell in safe safety, or as 146 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 2: that message translation put it, for you, Oh God, have 147 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 2: put my life back together. That this assurance in God, 148 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 2: the assurance that we have in God, allows us to 149 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: peacefully rest. Friends, our society is an epidemic that is 150 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,719 Speaker 2: short of sleep. We are sleep deprived as a society. 151 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 2: I say that loud and clear as a mama of 152 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 2: a new born right. And there's seasons where we are 153 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: going to lose sleep as moms. But sleep is so 154 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 2: important and God's desire for us is to rest and 155 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 2: to have peaceful sleep. Do we trust God enough to 156 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 2: rest in peace? And when we are praying for our 157 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 2: kids at night, this is a scripture that I pray 158 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 2: over my daughter many nights because she's struggling with having 159 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 2: bad dreams right now, and so I pray this verse 160 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: over her, that the Lord would help her to dwell 161 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 2: in safety, to lie down and sleep in peace. Pray 162 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 2: this over her, and you can do the same for 163 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 2: your children, wherever they find yourselves there may be for you, 164 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 2: and where you're at in your life. The psalm serves 165 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 2: as a beautiful reminder of different things that we can 166 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 2: pray over our children. Let's end our time by praying 167 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 2: together now, Father, help my children to be set apart 168 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 2: for you and for your work. Help them to resist sin, 169 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 2: to live sacrificially, and to put their trust in you. 170 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 3: Lord. 171 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 2: Help them to be comfortable in the silence so they 172 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 2: can hear your voice. Lift up the light of your 173 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 2: face upon them, and put more of your joy in 174 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 2: their hearts. May they lie down and sleep in peace, 175 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 2: knowing you alone, Oh Lord, make them dwell in safety. 176 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 3: In Jesus' name, we pray. 177 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 2: Amen. I hope you're planning to join us for our 178 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 2: summer book club beginning on June fifteenth. Head to the 179 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 2: homepage to our website to find out more. Until next time, friends, 180 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 2: May the Lord bless you and keep you. Make His 181 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 2: face shine upon you, and be gracious to you. May 182 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 2: the Lord look with favor on you and give you peace.