1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: Life Audio. You're listening to every day Prayers with million 2 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: praying moms helping you pray God's word for your family 3 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: in the areas you need at most. I'm your host, 4 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: Nicolette Bell. Here we believe prayer isn't a last resort. 5 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: It's our first and best response in parenting, and every 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: day we come together to partner with God for the 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: hearts of our children. Today's division is the end of 8 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: our start your Summer with Psalm series and it's written 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: and read by me. We will be in Psalm thirty 10 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: and we'll pray for our children to have a perspective 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: that understands joy comes with the morning. We've spent two 12 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 1: weeks praying the Psalms together and it has been such 13 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: a great time to pray for our kids together. And 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: on Monday, we are going to begin our summer book 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: club June fifteenth, featuring the book When Mothering Is Hard 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 1: and No One Sees by my friend Shellene Roberts. This 17 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: book is so good, y'all, I cannot wait for us 18 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: to read it together. It is not too late to 19 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: jump in. All you need to do is grab a 20 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: copy of the book and make sure you are on 21 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: our email list. You can do both of those things 22 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: at Million Praying Moms dot com. Use code book Club 23 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: twenty for twenty percent off your order from our mom's shop. 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: You can find this link in our show notes as well. 25 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: After a quick word from our sponsors, we will pray 26 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: together for our children Psalm thirty. I will extol you, 27 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: Oh Lord, for you have drawn me up and have 28 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: not let my foes rejoice over me. Oh Lord, my God. 29 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. 30 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: Oh Lord, you have brought my soul up from shiel. 31 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: You restored me to life. From among those who go 32 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: down to the pit, sing praises to the Lord, O 33 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name, 34 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: for his anger is but for a moment, and his 35 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, 36 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: but joy comes with the morning. As for me, I 37 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved by 38 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: your favor. O Lord. You made my mountain stand strong. 39 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: You hid your face, and I was dismayed. To you, 40 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: O Lord, I cry, and to the Lord, I plead 41 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: for mercy. What profit is there in my death if 42 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: I go down to the pit. Will the dust praise you, 43 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: Will it tell of your faithfulness. Hear, o Lord, and 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: be merciful to me. O Lord, be my helper. You 45 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: have turned my mourning into dancing. You have loosed my 46 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, that my glory may 47 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: sing your praise and not be silent. Lord, Oh my God, 48 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: I will give thanks to you forever. As we close 49 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: out our series, start your summer in the psalms. I 50 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: love that we are reading this psalm and praying it 51 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: together over our children. The Psalm of David's Psalm thirty. 52 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: There are so many pieces to this psalm that are 53 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: applicable to us as we are praying for our kids. 54 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: And we're going to begin in verse three, where David writes, 55 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 1: You restored me to life from among those who had 56 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: gone down to the pit. I want my children to 57 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: know that God is a restorer, and that is something 58 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,839 Speaker 1: that this psalm teaches us that we can pray for. 59 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: I want my children to be assured that God takes 60 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: their brokenness and puts them back together better than we 61 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: were before. That when we find ourselves in the pit, 62 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: that we can call to the Lord for hell and 63 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: he is the one who restores our lives. It makes 64 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: me think of a friend of mine who loves to 65 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: restore furniture. And when they begin working on the furniture, 66 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: it has lots of scratches and imperfections and things that 67 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: you would look at and think, oh, that's not very pretty. 68 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: And by the time they do the work of restoration, 69 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: the furniture turns out so much more beautiful than it 70 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: was before. It may have a few spots or blemishes there, 71 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: but usually those things make the peace even more beautiful 72 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: in the finished product. And that's what I think about 73 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: when I think about God's restoration. He is always working 74 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: to restore all of us, in all of creation, back 75 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: to himself, and we get to be a part of 76 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: that restoring work here on earth. And it's such a 77 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: reminder that He can take all of the ugliness in 78 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: us and use it for his good in his glory. 79 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: In verse four, David writes, I will sing praise and 80 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 1: I will give thanks. This sounds like worship to me, 81 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: singing praise and giving thanks. And he says that he 82 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: does this because we know, or I know. David writes 83 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: in verse five, his anger is but for a moment, 84 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: and his favor is for a lifetime. We don't want 85 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: our children to view God as angry. So many people 86 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: view God as an angry dictator, as sitting in heaven, 87 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: and that can completely mess up our intimate relationship with 88 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: Him in the way that he desires to be in 89 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: relationship with us. So we don't want our children to 90 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: view God as angry. We want them to respect God 91 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 1: certainly and to know that He hates sin and that 92 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: there is no sin in him. But we don't want 93 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: them to view God as only angry. We want our 94 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: children to be assured of God's favor for his children 95 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: that last a lifetime, that it lasts a lifetime, his 96 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 1: favor towards us, his good plans, his good work in 97 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: our lives, continuing on in us, restoring us, and making 98 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: us more like him. Verse five continues on. David writes, 99 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: weeping may terry for the night, but joy comes with 100 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: the morning. This is probably a familiar verse to many 101 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: of you. As I was thinking about this verse in 102 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: the context of praying for our children, I kept thinking 103 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: about perspective. This verse really allows us to pray for 104 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: clear and godly perspective for our children that when we 105 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: know God and we know and trust in His good 106 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: plans for us, it gives us this perspective that we 107 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: may have weeping for a time, but that joy is coming. 108 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: Joy is on its way for those of us who 109 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: put our faith and trust in Christ. And that's what 110 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: we want our children to be assured of, that God 111 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: would give them a supernatural perspective where they find themselves 112 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: in hard moments that they could know and be reassured 113 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: that joy is coming. My mom used to sing to 114 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: me when I was a kid and I was going 115 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: through something that I thought was really tough at the time. 116 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: She would sing to me, the sun will come out tomorrow. 117 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there will be a sun. 118 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: Now I can't believe I just sang to you guys 119 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: on the podcast, but this is the song that my 120 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: mom would sing to me over and over again, and 121 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: when I sing it, I can really hear it in 122 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: her voice. I genuinely grew up believing in the inherent 123 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: goodness of the morning and the possibility of a new day. 124 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: If something would be hard or tough, she would tell us, 125 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: sleep on it, because the sun is going to come 126 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: out tomorrow. And time after time. The next morning, whatever 127 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: I was so upset about the day before did seem 128 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: a bit brighter. Now that doesn't mean that it goes away, 129 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: or that when we face hard things we put on 130 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: rose colored glasses and ignore them. But it does mean 131 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: that we can have a perspective of Heaven, a kingdom 132 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: perspective in our lives that values what God says to 133 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: be true above where we find ourselves in our circumstances. 134 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: I long for my children to experience joy dependent on 135 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: the presence of God, not happiness dependent on their circumstances. 136 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 1: Joy dependent on the presence of God, not happiness dependent 137 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: on their circumstances. That is what we want, for our 138 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: children to be secure and confident in God's work in 139 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: their life, that they can have hope in who He 140 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: is for them, and that He is working on their behalf. 141 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: David continues this theme in the end of the Psalm. 142 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: In verse eleven, he writes, you have turned for me 143 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: my mourning into dancing. You have loosed my sackcloth and 144 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: clothed me with gladness. What I love about this in 145 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: verse eleven is that David writes, you have turned for me, 146 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: And I think that's a big distinguisher when we think 147 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 1: about joy. We can try really hard to manufacture our 148 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: own joy. We can work hard to see the things 149 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: in our life as good things. But joy comes from God. 150 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: He is the one who turns for us our mourning 151 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: into dancing. We fix our eyes on God, fix our 152 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: eyes on Jesus, and then He does the work in us. 153 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: He's the one who turns our mourning into dancing. He's 154 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: the one who loosed our sackcloth. And he is the 155 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: one who clothes us or wraps us in his gladness. 156 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: And that is certainly something we can confidently pray for 157 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: our children. We can pray it for ourselves that we 158 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: would model this for our families, and then we can 159 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 1: pray this over our kids, that they would believe that 160 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: God is the one who turns their mourning into dancing. 161 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: They can't do it on their own. We can't come 162 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: up with joy in and of ourselves. It is rooted 163 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: in who Christ is. In his presence. He does it 164 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: for us. He will do it on our behalf. He 165 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: will wrap us in gladness. And then David says that 166 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 1: my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. 167 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,559 Speaker 1: We will praise God as a result of this miraculous 168 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: work of joy in our hearts and in our lives, 169 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: and in the lives of our family and he ends. 170 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever. 171 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: When we know these things to be true about God, 172 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: we can have a heart of gratitude and we can 173 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: pray that over our children. Let's close our summer of 174 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: the Psalm series in prayer together. Father, thank you for 175 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: being a God who restores me to life. I will 176 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: sing praise to you and give thanks, for I know 177 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,559 Speaker 1: your anger is but for a night, and your favor 178 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: is for a lifetime. Reassure my children of this. Help 179 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: my family to know that weeping made terry for the night, 180 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: but joy comes with the morning. For you can turn 181 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: our mourning to dancing and clothe us with gladness. We 182 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: believe it. O Lord, my God, I will give thanks 183 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: to you forever. I hope you're planning to join us 184 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: for our summer book club beginning on June fifteenth. Head 185 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: to the homepage to our website to find out more. 186 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: Until next time, friends, may the Lord bless you and 187 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: keep you, make his face shine upon you, and be 188 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: gracious to you. May the Lord look with favor on you, 189 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: and give you peace.