#51. Deuteronomy 5-7 | What Your Kids Need Most From You: These are Well-Known Parenting Verses for a Reason!

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if you are a mom, longing to focus on what matters for eternity,

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but feeling overwhelmed by the duties

of motherhood, this is for you.

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It isn't to make the Bible about us,

it's to make our homes about him.

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This is the dwelling place

from Entrusted Ministries.

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I'm Stephanie Hickox, and today

we'll dig into Deuteronomy

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chapters five through seven.

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In chapter five, Moses

repeats the 10 Commandments.

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This is a good thing to have memorized

where it is in your Bible they were

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first introduced in Exodus 20, and

now they're also in Deuteronomy five.

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I'll link our Exodus 20 episode in case

you wanna go back and hear those again,

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One of the verses that displays

the heart of God so powerfully.

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Is in 5 29 when his people are obeying,

God says, oh, that they had such a heart

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as this always to fear me and keep my

commandments, that it may go well with

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them and with their descendants forever.

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There's an exclamation point You

can hear the longing in God's heart.

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Although he is a God worthy

of all glory and praise, his

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intent is to bless us as well.

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It's when we have a proper perspective

of him and we act in accordance with

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that perspective that we are blessed,

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but it starts with the heart.

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And if we want this for our kids,

we've gotta do what Chapter six

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tells us to teach them diligently.

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Now.

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This is the commandment, the statutes,

and the rules that the Lord your

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God commanded me to teach you.

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That you may do them in the land to

which you are going over to possess it.

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That you may fear the Lord your

God, you and your son and your son's

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son, by keeping all his statutes and

his commandments, which I command

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you all the days of your life, and

that your days may be long here.

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Therefore, owe Israel and be careful to

do them, that it may go well with you and

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that you may multiply greatly as the Lord,

the God of your fathers has promised you.

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In a land flowing with milk and honey

here, O Israel, the Lord our God.

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The Lord is one.

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You shall love the Lord your God

with all your heart and with all

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your soul, and with all your might.

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And these words that I command

you today shall be on your heart.

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You shall teach them diligently to

your children and shall talk of them

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when you sit in your house, when you

walk by the way, and when you lie down.

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And when you rise, you shall bind them

as a sign on your hand, and they shall

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be as frontlets between your eyes.

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You shall write them on the doorposts

of your house and on your gates, and

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when the Lord, your God brings you into

the land that he swore to your fathers.

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To Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob to give

you with great and good cities that you

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did not build and houses full of all good

things that you did not fill and cisterns,

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that you did not dig, and vineyards

and olive trees that you did not plant.

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And when you eat and are full, then

take care, lest you forget the Lord who

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brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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Out of the house of slavery,

it is the Lord your God.

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You shall fear him, you shall serve,

and by his name you shall swear.

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You shall not go after other gods.

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The gods of the peoples

who are around you.

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For the Lord your God, in

your midst is a jealous God.

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When your son asks you in time to come,

what is the meaning of the testimonies

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and the statutes and the rules that

the Lord our God has commanded you?

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Then you shall say to your son,

we were Pharaoh slaves in Egypt,

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and the Lord brought us out

of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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And the Lord showed signs and

wonders, great and grievous against

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Egypt and against Pharaoh and all

his household before our eyes.

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And he brought us out from there that he

might bring us in and give us the land

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that he swore to give to our fathers.

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And the Lord commanded us

to do all these statutes.

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Steph: To fear the Lord our God for our

good, always that he might preserve us

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alive as we are to this day, and it will

be righteousness for us if we are careful

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to do all this commandment before the

Lord our God as he has commanded us.

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Speaker 8: when you sit in your house.

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Think about that.

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When do you sit?

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Probably most commonly at mealtime.

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Do you process your days together,

training your kids to see God's

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perspective, and then when you

walk, by the way, I love taking

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walks with my kids for this purpose.

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They're so willing to tell me all

the things that are on their hearts

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and that are important to them, and

often by the time we make a lap,

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we'll have gone through something

deep that they needed to work through.

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The same is true when we're

driving in the car next.

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When you lie down those bedtime

stories or prayers that you

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do, that's you living this out.

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Showing them your nearness

and thanking the Lord.

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And when you rise, this

verse covers all that we do.

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These moments add up

and they're important.

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Speaker 8: God isn't supposed

to be left in the church walls.

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Our conversations about him should

be following us wherever we go,

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and we're to train our children how to

apply his word to life in the heart,

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and the confusing and the joyful,

and in the seasons of abundance.

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In all of it, we're pointing

our kids to God's commandments

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that it may go well with them.

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Chapter six, four through

nine are known as the Shema.

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That phrase is repeated by devout

Jews still twice a day, every day.

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That's how important this

scripture is to them here.

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Oh, Israel the Lord.

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The Lord our God.

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The Lord is one.

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This reminds us, there is only one God.

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The Israelites had come out of a culture

with many gods, and they were surrounded

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by pagan nations that worshiped many.

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But the mighty God of the Bible is one.

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This doesn't negate the trinity because

the same word for one is used in Genesis

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2 24 when Adam and Eve became one flesh.

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Rather, it refers to the unity of

God in the New Testament in one

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Corinthians eight, six, Paul echoes

this sentiment when he says, yet

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for us there is one God the Father.

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From whom are all things and from

whom we exist, and one Lord Jesus

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Christ, through whom are all

things and through whom we exist.

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Steph: In seven six, we read for you are

a people wholly to the Lord your God.

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The Lord your God has chosen you

to be a people for his treasured

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possession out of all the peoples

who were on the face of the earth.

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It was not because you were more in

number than any other people, that the

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Lord set his love on you and chose you

for you were the fewest of all peoples.

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Speaker 7: But it is because the Lord

loves you and is keeping the oath that he

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swore to your fathers, that the Lord has

brought you out with a mighty hand and

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redeemed you from the house of slavery,

from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

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And in verse 21, you shall

not be in dread of them.

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For the Lord, your God is in your midst.

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A great and awesome God.

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The Lord your God will clear

away these nations before you.

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Little by little.

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You may not make an end

of them all at once.

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Lest the wild beast grow

too numerous for you.

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God has a wise expansion

plan for the Israelites.

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If all of the promised land.

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It was abandoned at once and

all of it conquered at once.

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They really wouldn't be

able to settle it wisely.

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as chapter seven discusses getting

rid of some of these people groups, I

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wanted to talk about the ethical issues

raised in wiping out a people group

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and why this is still in line with God's

goodness and righteousness and his love.

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I am gonna follow James Coley's

line of reasoning here, first.

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We are all sinners and we deserve death.

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And we need to understand that first

because when most of the world is

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given grace to carry on, we need to

see that as God's mercy, the nations

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that are doing wicked, wicked things.

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Being wiped out that is perfectly

in line with God's justice and

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what they deserved for their sin.

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God had been patient for hundreds

of years with these people and

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they continued in their wickedness.

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He delayed their punishment.

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And anyone that would've repented

and come to Israel was welcome.

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So they're not being eliminated

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because of their ethnicity.

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They're being eliminated

because of their evil practices.

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God and His mercy prevents the

sin from spreading to others.

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He called his people to have peace

with the nations outside their

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borders, but within, they were told

to eliminate the pagan nations.

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It served as a preventative measure.

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And let's just be reminded these

people were engaging in child sacrifice

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and wickedness upon wickedness

that they believed their

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gods were requiring of them.

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Also Coakley writes that the context

tells us that these people hated God.

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It wasn't just that they weren't

aware of him, they were antagonistic

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to the covenant God of Israel,

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I understand why it can be off-putting.

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When we read that they were to

destroy every life in the nation.

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But I've always been taught to believe

in the age of accountability that even

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though we are all born with the sin

nature, the Lord does not hold our sin

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against us if we die under a certain age.

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And I believe it is his kindness

that would allow a child from one

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of these wicked nations to perish

that he might offer them eternal

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grace before they had a chance.

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To repeat the evil they

had seen their parents do.

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This is something that scholars debate

about, but Betsy spoke more in depth

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about the age of accountability on

the again podcast, and I'll link that

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episode in case you'd like to hear more.

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It's just something that comforts me.

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When I read some of those verses

that kind of prick at my heart,

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let's pray.

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Heavenly Father.

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We thank you that you set your

heart on us while we were still

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sinners, while we were rebellious.

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You sought us and we are so grateful.

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The promises in these chapters

abound of the blessings you

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long to give your people.

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and we pray for those blessings, Lord.

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But we also pray you would protect our

hearts when we are in times of abundance.

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Help us to be careful.

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, That we still rely on you and seek

you diligently, and that we point to

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you as the giver of all good things.

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And as Jesus promised, we know that

we will have troubles on this earth,

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and so help us to not lose heart

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May we also use those

times to train our children

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to see how you are good just

as you are available to us, may

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we be available to our kids.

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Help us to not be distracted.

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By the notifications of our phones

and the constant tasks we need to

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accomplish, but make us available

for the conversations that matter

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thank you Lord Jesus that you go with us.

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It's in your name we pray.

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Amen.