1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: Life Audio. You're listening to everyday Prayers with million praying 2 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: moms helping you pray God's word for your family in 3 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: the areas you need it most. I'm your host, Nicolette Bell. 4 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: Here we believe prayer isn't a last resort. It's our 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: first and best response in parenting, and every day we 6 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: come together to partner with God for the hearts of 7 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 1: our children. Today's division is part of our start your 8 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: Summer with Psalm series and is written and read by me. 9 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: We will be in Psalm six and will pray for 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: our children to come to God when they are in 11 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: pain and to trust Him even when their prayers aren't 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: answered in the way they expect. We are spending two 13 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: weeks praying the Psalms together for our children as we 14 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: jump into summer. Then we will begin our summer book 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: club on June fifteenth, featuring the book When Mothering Is 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: Hard and No One Sees by my friend Sheline Roberts. Now, 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: I love this book and I can't wait for us 18 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: to read it together as a community. All you need 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: to do to join is grab a copy of the 20 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: book and make sure you're on our email list. You 21 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: can do both of those things at our website, Million 22 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: Prayingmoms dot com. We'll have a link in our show notes. 23 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: After a quick word from our sponsors, we'll pray together 24 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: for our children. Psalm six, Oh Lord, rebuke me, not 25 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. Be 26 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 1: gracious to me, Oh Lord, for I am languishing. Heal me, 27 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: Oh Lord, for my bones are troubled. My soul also 28 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: is greatly troubled. But you, oh Lord, how long turn, 29 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: Oh Lord, deliver my life. Save me for the sake 30 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: of your steadfast love. For in death there is no 31 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: remembrance of you. In shee ol who will give you praise. 32 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: I am weary with my moaning. Every night I flood 33 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: my bed with tears. I drench my couch with my weeping. 34 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: My eye waste away because of grief, it grows weak, 35 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: because of all my foes. Depart from me, all you 36 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: workers of evil. For the Lord has heard the sound 37 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: of my weeping. The Lord has heard my plea, and 38 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: the Lord accepts my prayer. All my enemies shall be 39 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: ashamed and greatly troubled. They shall turn back and be 40 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: put to shame in a moment. Psalm six is also 41 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: written by David and is a beautiful, honest prayer from 42 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: David to God expressing how he is feeling about the 43 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: situation that he finds himself in. It is so refreshing 44 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: to hear David's honesty in this psalm. He's telling the Lord, 45 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: my soul is greatly troubled. He says, my bones are 46 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: troubled and my soul is also troubled. You can just 47 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: hear this anguish in his voice what he's describing to God. 48 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: And then in verse six he says, I'm weary with 49 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: my moaning. Every night I flood my bed with tears. 50 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: And when I think of this psalm in relation to 51 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: us praying for our children, I'm encouraged to pray for 52 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: my children to know that they can come to God 53 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: when they are in pain, that they can come to 54 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: God with their tears, they can come to God when 55 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: they need comfort, when they need hope, when they feel 56 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: struggle in their bones and trouble in their soul, that 57 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: they can look to God and come to him. I 58 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: hear the words of Jesus echoed in the psalm where 59 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: Jesus tells his followers, come to me, all you who 60 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: are weary and heavy burden, and I will give you rest. 61 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: Come to me when you need help. I am the 62 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: one who will satisfy you, and I am the one 63 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: who can help you. I want my children to know 64 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: that they can come to God when they need him, 65 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: and that they can trust him. That they can trust 66 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: him with their pain, they can trust them with their tears, 67 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: They can trust him to care for them in exactly 68 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: the way that they need. In verse nine, we see 69 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 1: David confidently says, the Lord has heard my plea, the 70 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: Lord accepts my prayer. And I think what stands out 71 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: to me so much about this declaration from David is that, 72 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: according to the scripture, we don't get any indication that 73 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: his circumstance has changed. He goes from describing his anguish, 74 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: his trouble, what is going on? This this crying, weeping 75 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: into his pillow, in tears soaking through his couch, But 76 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: then he's able to confidently say, the Lord has heard 77 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: my plea, heard my prayer, and the Lord accepts my prayer. 78 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: This is mind blowing to me. David's circumstances have not changed, 79 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: yet he is confident that God is hearing him and 80 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: accepting his prayers and responding to him, even if he 81 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: can't see it in the moment. And this is such 82 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: a testament to David's faith in God. It makes me 83 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: think of a saying that I've heard and encountered in 84 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: the past that prayer is like a vending machine. And 85 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: when I think of a vending machine, I think of 86 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: a road trip. And maybe this summer, you and your 87 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: family are headed out on a road trip. My family 88 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: just got back from a road trip. But I remember 89 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 1: taking summer road trips as a kid with my little 90 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: brother and my mom and dad. My dad is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 91 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: and we grew up My childhood was in South Mississippi, 92 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: and so we would get in the car and we 93 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: would travel to Pittsburgh eighteen hours about twice a year 94 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: to my grandparents' house, and along the way we would 95 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: stop at rest stops, and my brother and I would 96 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: always look forward to going to the vending machine. We 97 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: would bring our queens with us in expectation of getting 98 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: to pick a snack from the vending machine. And I 99 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: remember one particular stop. We stopped at the rest area, 100 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: went to the restroom, came out to make our selection 101 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: at the vending machine. And he and I put our 102 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: money into the machine, and I chose a six. I 103 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: was after some peanut m and m's I selected a six. Well, 104 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: the machine didn't make any sound or any movement. It 105 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: ever happened to you before when you put your money 106 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: in and nothing happens, and you're looking at the machine 107 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: and kind of maybe give it a little little shake, 108 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: a little bit, maybe a little kick, just a bit, 109 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: and nothing happens. Still nothing happens. We wait a bit 110 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: longer and nothing happens. Then I begin to hit the 111 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: return the money, return your coin button again and again. 112 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: Right I'm trying to get my money back, and nothing 113 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: is happening. That was my last seventy five cents, and 114 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: now the machine has it. This was before vending machines 115 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: accepted credit cards, and so this machine, we would give 116 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: it a kick, give it a little shake, and nothing 117 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: would happen. And we were so disappointed because we have 118 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: been looking forward to getting this snack at the at 119 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: this red stop. And I think that's sometimes how we 120 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: can feel with our prayers. We can go to God 121 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: in prayer and we can ask him for something, We 122 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: can present our request to him, and then it can 123 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: feel like nothing is happening. It can feel like the 124 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: response we're getting back is silence, and that he's not 125 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: hearing us and he's not responding to us. And then 126 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: we hit the give our money back, trying to get 127 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: anything from Heaven, and we feel like there is no response, 128 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: just like I was shaking that machine. Sometimes we can 129 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: shake our fist at Heaven and say, God, how dare 130 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: you be silent? Where are you when I'm praying to you? 131 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: I can't hear you, I don't feel you, I don't 132 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: know that you're here. And other times in our prayer 133 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: life can be like other experiences I've had at a 134 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: vending machine where perhaps I hit a six for peanut Eminem's, 135 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: but you see the grabbers start to move and the 136 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: machine a shape to life, and instead it's headed to 137 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: C seven, which is almonds, and not even chocolate covered almonds, 138 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: just regular salted almonds pop out of the vending machine. 139 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,239 Speaker 1: And I had my mind on peanut eminems. And sometimes 140 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: in our prayer life it can feel that way. No, God, 141 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: were you not listening? I asked for pnu Eminem's, not almonds. 142 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: I asked for this, but instead you gave me this 143 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,119 Speaker 1: and even though in my head I know that almends 144 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: are better for me than p not Eminem's. I didn't 145 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: want the almonds, I wanted the treat I wanted the 146 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: p not eminems. And that's how our prayers can feel. Lord, 147 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: you may not have heard me right, but I asked 148 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: for this, not that, And so often this can affect 149 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 1: our confidence in our prayers. When God doesn't respond, maybe 150 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: in the timing that we expect or in the way 151 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 1: that we expect or asked, we can begin to doubt 152 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: God is hearing our prayers and doubt that God will 153 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: respond to us. But friends, one of the most beautiful 154 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: things that we can teach our children is to continue 155 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: to have trust in God and faith in God even 156 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: when we aren't getting the answer, even when it feels 157 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: like God is being silent, because what we know about 158 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: God is that He is answering our prayers and working 159 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: out the plan for our lives and also our kids' 160 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: lives that is better than anything that we can ask 161 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 1: or imagine. According to Ephesians three twenty, that He is 162 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: working good on our behalf, and we can be confident 163 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: in this even when it's not going in the way 164 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: that we expect it to and we can teach our 165 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: children to do the same. We can encourage them, don't 166 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: quit praying, don't give up. We can pray with them. 167 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: We can we can encourage them in those prayers because 168 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: we want our trust to be in God, just like 169 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: this passage in Psalm six where David trusted in God 170 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: even though his circumstance didn't change. He could say, confidently, 171 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: the Lord has heard my plea, and the Lord accepts 172 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: my prayer. And he knew when he was in pain 173 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: where to turn. And I want my children to know 174 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: and turn to God when they are hurting. And I 175 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: know that you desire the same thing for your children. 176 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: Let's pray together. Father, Teach my children to come to 177 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: you with their tears and their pain. Help them to 178 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: seek You as their source of comfort and not the 179 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,199 Speaker 1: things of the world. Help them to be confident that 180 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: You hear them and accept their prayers, even when the 181 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: answer may not come in the way they expect or 182 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: in the timing that we expect. Assure my children of 183 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: your good plans for their lives, and help them to 184 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: trust in You even when we get almonds instead of 185 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: peanut m and ms. In Jesus name, we pray Amen. 186 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: I hope you're planning to join us for our summer 187 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: book club beginning on June fifteenth. Head to the homepage 188 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: to our website find out more. Until next time, friends, 189 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: May the Lord bless you and keep you. Make His 190 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May 191 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: the Lord look with favor on you and give you peace.