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Speaker 2: You're listening to every day Prayers with Million Praying Moms,

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Speaker 2: helping you pray God's word of your family in the

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Speaker 2: areas you need it most. I'm your host, Nicolette Bell.

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Speaker 2: Here we believe prayer isn't a last resort. It's our

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Speaker 2: come together to partner with God for the hearts of

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Speaker 2: our children. Today's devotion is part of our Start your

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Speaker 2: Summer with Psalms series and is written and read by me.

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Speaker 2: We'll be in Psalm twenty seven and we'll pray for

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Speaker 2: our children to learn to.

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Speaker 2: We are spending two weeks praying the Psalms together for

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Speaker 2: After a quick word from our sponsors, we will pray

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Speaker 2: together for our children. Psalm twenty seven. The Lord is

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Speaker 2: my Light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The

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Speaker 2: Lord is the stronghold of my life. Of whom shall

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Speaker 2: I be afraid when evildoers assail me, to eat up

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Speaker 2: my flesh, my adversaries, and my foes. It is they

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Speaker 2: who stumble and fall though an army and camp against me.

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Speaker 2: My heart shall not fear the war arise against me.

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Speaker 2: Yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked

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Speaker 2: of the Lord that I will seek after, that I

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Speaker 2: may dwell in the house of the Lord all the

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Speaker 2: days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of

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Speaker 2: the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. For he

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Speaker 2: will hide me in his shelter. In the day of trouble.

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Speaker 2: He will conceal me under the cover of his tent.

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Speaker 2: He will lift me high upon a rock. And now

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Speaker 2: my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all

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Speaker 2: with shouts of joy. I will sing and make melody

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Speaker 2: to the Lord. Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud,

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Speaker 2: Be gracious to me and answer me. You have said,

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Speaker 2: do I seek. Hide not your face from me. Turn

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Speaker 2: not your servant away in anger. Oh, you who have

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Speaker 2: been my help, Cast me not off. Forsake me, not, o,

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Speaker 2: God of my salvation. For my father and my mother

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Speaker 2: Teach me way, o Lord, and lead me on a

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Speaker 2: level path. Because of my enemies. Give me not up

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Speaker 2: to the will of my adversaries. Our false witnesses have

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Speaker 2: Be strong, and let your heart take courage, Wait for

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Speaker 2: the Lord. Psalm twenty seven is such a beautiful psalm

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Speaker 2: Studying this together, but since we just have our devotional

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Speaker 2: verse one and two. The Lord is my Light and

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Speaker 2: We want our children to live a life that is

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Speaker 2: not afraid. You know, somewheer brings with it movie nights

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Speaker 2: for many families. We've been having some more movie nights

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Speaker 2: Or in a book we're reading, sometimes she'll just cover

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Speaker 2: think we can point out that as a society at large,

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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of research that is just really

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Speaker 2: song gives us some words that we can certainly pray

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Speaker 2: and we can even teach them to pray this for themselves.

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Speaker 2: When they are afraid. They can say, the Lord is

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Speaker 2: seek Him with all of their heart, and we can

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Speaker 2: the simple question around the dinner table or in the car,

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Speaker 2: where did you see God today? It's a simple question

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Speaker 2: We want our children to seek God, to seek His face,

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Speaker 2: and that's a prayer that we can pray on their behalf.

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Speaker 3: It says, teach me your way.

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Speaker 2: Oh Lord, and lead me on a level path.

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Speaker 2: That God is the one who kind of evens out

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Speaker 2: we want to pray that over our children. And we

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Speaker 2: want to pray that the Lord would teach him their ways,

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Speaker 2: that a secure path for their feet. That their feet

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Speaker 2: level path of the Lord. Finally, in verse thirteen and fourteen,

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Speaker 2: pray that for them, We can model that for them.

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Speaker 2: We can teach them to wait in every day moments

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Speaker 2: How can we create opportunities for our children to learn

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Speaker 2: the art of waiting well, so that when they're in

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Speaker 2: because we know that season will come for each of

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Speaker 2: what it looks like to wait well, That we would

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Speaker 2: show the fruit of the spirit of patience and self

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Speaker 2: control as we wait on the Lord, that we could

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Speaker 2: can pray for our children to learn to wait well.

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Speaker 2: There's so many truths in these psalms. I hope that

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Speaker 2: as we're spending time together each day for this beginning

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Speaker 2: of the summer, in praying the psalms for our children,

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Speaker 2: that you would be encouraged that you can take any

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Speaker 2: passage of the psalms and pray the words of this

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Speaker 2: because they're so relatable to where we find ourselves. Guarantee

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Speaker 2: that whatever you are experiencing in your life right now

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Speaker 2: that you can use as a guide for prayer. Let's

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Speaker 2: pray together to end our time today. Father, help my

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Speaker 2: face and lead them on a level path. Teach my

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Speaker 2: Amen, I hope you're planning to join us for our

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Speaker 3: Head to the homepage to.

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Speaker 2: Our website to find out more. Until next time, friends,

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Speaker 2: May the Lord bless you and keep you, Make his

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Speaker 3: May the Lord look with favor on you, and if

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Speaker 3: you peace