1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Life audio. 2 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 2: You're listening to everyday Prayers with Million Praying Moms, helping 3 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 2: you pray God's word for your family in the area 4 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 2: as you need it most. I'm your host, Nicola Belle. 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 2: Here we believe prayer isn't a last resort. It's our 6 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 2: first and best response in parenting, and every day we 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: come together to partner with God for the. 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: Hearts of our children. 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: Today's devotion is part of our Start your Summer with 10 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 2: Psalm series and is written and read by me. We 11 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 2: will be in Psalm one and we will pray for 12 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 2: our children to have a deep desire for God. We 13 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 2: are spending two weeks praying the Psalms together for our 14 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 2: children as we jump into the summer. Then we will 15 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: begin our summer book club on June fifteenth, featuring the 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: book When Mothering Is Hard and No One Sees by 17 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 2: my friend Selene Roberts. I love this book and I 18 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: can't wait for us to read it together as a community. 19 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 2: All you need to do to join is grab a 20 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 2: copy of the book and make sure you're on our 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 2: email list. We're making this book club super easy. You 22 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 2: can do both of those things at Millionprayingmoms Dot com 23 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 2: You can find a link in our show notes. After 24 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 2: a quick word from our sponsors, we will pray together 25 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 2: for our children. Psalm one blessed is the man who 26 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 2: walks not in the council of the wicked, nor stands 27 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 2: in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat 28 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 2: of scoffers. But his delight is in the law of 29 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 2: the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. 30 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: He is like a tree planted by streams of water, 31 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 2: that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf 32 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 2: does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. 33 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 2: The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff 34 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 2: that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not 35 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 2: stand in the judgment in the congregation of the righteous, 36 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 2: For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but 37 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 2: the way of the wicked will perish. As the book 38 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 2: of Psalms opens, we get a beautiful picture of what 39 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: it looks like to delight in the law of the Lord. 40 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 2: In verse two, it says, but his delight is in 41 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 2: the law of the Lord, and on his law he 42 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 2: meditates day and night. And what I love about this 43 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: description that we're given as Psalms opens is that we 44 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 2: are to delight and meditate on the law of the Lord. 45 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 2: And I think so much of our lives as moms, 46 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 2: we can help our children to do that. It doesn't 47 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 2: have to mean that we need two hours of Bible 48 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 2: study every day, right, But just there's little ways to 49 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 2: incorporate scripture into our family rhythms that we can help 50 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 2: our children to meditate and to think about God's word. 51 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 2: But what I really love about the way this is 52 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: situated in this first chapter of Psalms is in verse three. 53 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 2: It says he is like a tree planted by streams 54 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 2: of water that yields fruit in its season, and its 55 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 2: leaf does not wither. When we hear that description, I 56 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 2: think we all could say that we long to be 57 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: like that tree. Well, we want to be rooted deeply 58 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: in Christ, and we want to be drawing refreshment from 59 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: these streams of living water. When we think of our children, 60 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: we desire for our children to live in the same way. 61 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 2: What I think is so interesting in this is this progression. 62 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 2: Sometimes we can isolate that verse three, but I think 63 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: we have to read it with verse one and two 64 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 2: in mind. It says that the one who delights in 65 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 2: the law and meditates on it day and night. He 66 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: is the one who is like a tree. He is 67 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 2: the one who is like a tree, strong and secure 68 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 2: in the Lord. And when you think about a tree, 69 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: the functions of a tree, it says here that the tree, 70 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: the tree yields its fruit. 71 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: In its season. 72 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 2: One of them functions of the tree is that it 73 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: would yield fruit. Another function of a tree is that 74 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 2: it would provide shade. And when we think about our 75 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 2: children and our own lives in the way of this metaphor, 76 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 2: we think about this tree. The actions of this tree 77 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 2: are for the benefit of others. I heard a postur 78 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: once say that a tree can't eat its own fruit, right, 79 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: it bears fruit for the sake of those around. The 80 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 2: tree provides shade for those that are traveling and those 81 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 2: that are passing by. That the trees functions are for 82 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 2: the benefit of others. And that's what we long for 83 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 2: our children to be like. We want our children to 84 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 2: be able to yield the fruit of the spirit in 85 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 2: their lives. We want our children to be a safe 86 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 2: place for their friends and their peers to be able 87 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 2: to come to. We want to model this for them 88 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 2: as well. Right, I want the fruit of my life 89 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 2: to be sweet for the eating of my children. Right, 90 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 2: I want them to enjoy peace, patience, love, enjoy self 91 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 2: control from the fruit of the spirit working in me. 92 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 2: And I want to be that safe place for them 93 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 2: to land, that place of rest that they can come 94 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 2: and take shelter. And in turn, I want them to 95 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 2: be that to the people around them. I want to 96 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 2: teach them what it looks like to love the world 97 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 2: around them and to function out of a place of 98 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 2: looking at how we can meet and provide needs for 99 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 2: those around us. And as the description of this tree 100 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: kind of goes on, it describes that this tree is 101 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 2: planted by streams of water. And I can't read this 102 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 2: without thinking about the metaphor of water throughout all of 103 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 2: sel scripture. Right, Jesus says he teaches in the story 104 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 2: of the Woman at the Well in John four, he 105 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 2: teaches that I am the living water. He says, whoever 106 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 2: comes to me and drinks from my water will never 107 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: be thirsty again. I think of the river in the garden. 108 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 2: At the very beginning, there was a river, and then 109 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 2: when we read Revelation, at the very end, there are 110 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 2: streams of living water. In the New earth that the 111 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 2: Lord is going to bring about. This metaphor of water 112 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 2: is all this picture of water is all throughout scripture. 113 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 2: That's just scratching the surface. There's so many other examples. 114 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 2: But we want to be planted by these streams of 115 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 2: water so that we can continuously receive refreshing from the Lord. 116 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 2: I want my children to be planted by streams of water. 117 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 2: I want them to continually draw from the well that 118 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: never runs dry. I don't want them to try to 119 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 2: quench their thirst with the things of this world that 120 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 2: surely will not satisfy. And so this is something we 121 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: can pray for our children. We can pray for our 122 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: children to be like this tree that is described here 123 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 2: in someone planted by streams of living water and producing 124 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 2: fruit and shade for those around it. As summer begins, 125 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 2: so many of us are around water. Right, we're gonna 126 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 2: maybe be spending more time outside. My crews headed down 127 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 2: to the beach in a week, and we are excited 128 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 2: to get in the pool and to swim in our 129 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 2: neighborhood pool this summer, to be in a backyard splash. 130 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: Pad with our water hose. 131 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 2: Right, we're around more water in the summer and so 132 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 2: I think this is an appropriate time to think about 133 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 2: all of these water metaphors that are in scripture and 134 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 2: that we encounter. We can use all of these tangible 135 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 2: places that we're in honoring water throughout the summer as 136 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 2: object lessons for our little ones as we're teaching them 137 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 2: about the Word and about the promises of God. Would 138 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 2: you join me as we pray together? Father, give my 139 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 2: children a desire for you, help them to delight in 140 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: your word. Show me how to help our family meditate 141 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 2: on it day and night. I desire for my children 142 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 2: to be planted by streams of water, to be rooted 143 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 2: deeply in your word, drawing refreshment from your living waters. 144 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 2: Help them not to seek to quench their thirst in 145 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 2: the things of this world, but to know you are 146 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 2: the only one who satisfies our thirsty souls. Lord, In 147 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 2: this new pace of summer, would you help us to 148 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:57,079 Speaker 2: pause and to dedicate time to meditate on your word 149 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 2: day and night. May it become part of our rhythm 150 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: as a family. In Jesus' name, we pray. 151 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: Amen. 152 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 2: I hope you're planning to join us for our summer 153 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 2: book club beginning on June fifteenth, Head to the homepage 154 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 2: to our website to find out more. Until next time, friends, 155 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 2: may the Lord bless you and keep you, make his 156 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 2: face shine upon you and be. 157 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: Gracious to you. 158 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 2: May the Lord look with favor on you and give 159 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 2: you peace.