1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: Life Audio. You're listening to everyday Prayers with million praying 2 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: moms helping you pray God's word for your family in 3 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: the areas you need at most. I'm your host, Nicolette Bell. 4 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: Here we believe prayer isn't a last resort. It's our 5 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: first and best response in parenting, and every day we 6 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: come together to partner with God for the hearts of 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: our children. Today's devotion is part of our Start your 8 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: Summer with Psalm series and is written and read by me. 9 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: We will be in Psalm eight and we'll pray for 10 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: our children to know the majesty of God and at 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 1: the same time the intimacy they can share with Him. 12 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: We are spending two weeks praying the Psalms together for 13 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: our children as we jump into summer. Then we will 14 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: begin our summer book club on June fifteenth, featuring the 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: book When Mothering Is Hard and No One Sees by 16 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: Schelin Roberts. Y'all, I love this book and I can't 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: wait for us to read it together. All you need 18 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: to do to join is grab a copy of the 19 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: book and make sure you're on our email list. You 20 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: can do both of those things at our website. Million 21 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: prayingmoms dot com. You can find a link in our 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: show notes. After a quick word from our sponsors, we'll 23 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: pray together for our children. Psalm eight, Oh Lord, our Lord, 24 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: how majestic is your name in all the earth. You 25 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the 26 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: mouth of babies and infants. You have established strength because 27 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. 28 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, 29 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: the moon and the stars which you have set in place. 30 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: What is man that you are mindful of him? And 31 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: the son of man that you care for him? Yet 32 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: you have made him a little lower than heavenly beings 33 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given 34 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: him dominion over the works of your hands, and have 35 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, 36 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: and also the beast of the field, the birds of 37 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: the heaven, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes 38 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: along the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, 39 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: how majestic is your name in all the earth. Today 40 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: we have another beautiful psalm of David. And the big 41 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: takeaway from this psalm is that our children would know 42 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: the majesty of God. David opens and closes with the 43 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: same declaration, O Lord, Our Lord, how majestic is your 44 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: name in all the earth. I desire for my children 45 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 1: to know and understand the majesty of God, his bigness, 46 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: his otherness, that He is God and we are not. 47 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: The word here used for majesty is defined as wide 48 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: or large, powerful, excellent, glorious, lofty or great. That God 49 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: is bigger and more excellent, more glorious than anything than 50 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: our minds can understand. I think it's so important for 51 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: us and our children to understand the majesty of God, 52 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: because knowing about the majesty of God and putting God 53 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: in his right place in our lives helps direct our 54 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: attention away from ourselves and onto God and onto God's 55 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: people around us that we should be serving. It makes 56 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: me think of a song that is popular right now 57 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: by Phil Wickham. It's been kind of rolling around in 58 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: my head, and it's called and God is Good, and 59 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: it says, lift your eyes to heaven and remember He 60 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: is good. It's just this declaration that we would remember 61 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: He is good, that we would lift our eyes up 62 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: to heaven, remember that God is bigger than whatever we're 63 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: going through here on Earth, and it gives us a 64 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: bit of a different perspective. And that's what I think 65 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: about when I read verse three of Psalm eight, where 66 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 1: David writes, when I look at your heavens, the work 67 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you 68 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: have set in place, He's declaring to God, I know 69 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: that you are a creator. You are the one who 70 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: put everything in its place. You are great and mighty. 71 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: It changes our perspective when we remember that there's a big, 72 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: big world out there and we are a small part 73 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: of it. But I love what David writes. In verse four, 74 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: he says, what is man that you're mindful of him? Is? 75 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 1: With all of this in mind, your majesty, how big 76 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: you are? I must ask the question who am I? 77 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: Who are we as humans that you would be mindful 78 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: of us? Or son of Man that you would care 79 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: for us this intimacy that we get to have with God, 80 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: despite his bigness and his majesty. And in verse five 81 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: David writes, yet you have made him a little lower 82 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: than the heavenly beings, and you've crowned him with glory 83 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: and honor, and so it's this tension that David is creating. 84 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: He's saying, God is so big, he's so mighty, he's 85 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: so majestic, he's so other than and at the same 86 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: time he cares for us. That it gives us this 87 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: perspective that the world is big and that we're a 88 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: small part. But in the same sense, it reminds us 89 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: of what even more of a miracle that it is 90 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: that God cares about us all. And not only does 91 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: he care about us, he wants a relationship with us, 92 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: and he views us as his children, and we are 93 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: the object of his love. It's mind blowing when we 94 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: hold God in esteemed majesty, to think about the intimacy 95 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: that we share with him. That friend, you and I 96 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: can talk to him right now on behalf of our children, 97 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: on behalf of our families, and he bends his ear. 98 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: He is listening to us, He cares for us. It 99 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: is so beautiful, this truth. I'm so humbled by this truth. 100 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: And then I'm reminded of how often I take both 101 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: of these things for granted. How often I don't put 102 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: God in his rightful place, how often I don't think 103 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: of him as majestic and mighty, and then also how 104 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: often I don't connect with him and I don't realize 105 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: and remember the ways that he wants to connect with me, 106 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: and that he's mindful of me. So, Friend, Today, as 107 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: we're praying for our children, and I pray that our 108 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: children would know that the Lord is majestic, that we 109 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: would put God in his rightful place in our lives, 110 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: and then that we would lift our eyes to heaven 111 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: and we would remember that he's good, that he cares 112 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: about us, that he wants a relationship with us, that 113 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: the one who hung the stars knows the number of 114 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: hairs on our heads, and that that would change our perspective, 115 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: That that would change our children's perspective, and it would 116 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: remind them of the God they serve and their relationship 117 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: with him. Would you pray with me, Oh Lord, how 118 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: majestic is your name in all the earth? Forgive us, 119 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: Father for the ways that we lose sight of your 120 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: majesty and we live small minded. May we magnify you 121 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: in our homes. We want to make you a big 122 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: deal to our children. Lord, teach my children to view 123 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: you rightly, Remind them of how big you are, and 124 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: assure them of how much you care intimately for them. 125 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, we pray Amen. I hope you're planning 126 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: to join us for our summer book club beginning on 127 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: June fifteenth. Head to the homepage to our website to 128 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: find out more. Until next time, friends, May the Lord 129 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: bless you and keep you, Make his face shine upon 130 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: you and be gracious to you. May the Lord look 131 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: with favor on you and give you peace.