GRACE POINT CHURCH of NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
WORSHIP GUIDE: May 14, 2023

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Welcome to our Intentional Parenting Series! For more information on our speakers or additional resources, click HERE.

MESSAGE NOTES

“Straight Talk to Moms”
Series, “Intentional Parenting,” Message 5
Lori McDaniel

Scripture: 2 Peter 12:3-12 (English Standard Version)

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

12 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.

1) Let me be a mother who is shaped more by my

Reveal Answer

than by my feelings.

2) Let me be a mother that makes the word of God a

, not a triviality.

3) Let me be a mother who actively pursues

in Christ as an ongoing activity (in my life and my child’s.)

4) Let me be a mother who displays

love rather than cautious love.

5) Let me be a mother who gives

because I’ve received grace.

6) Let me be a mother who

because I’ve been forgiven.

7) Let me be a mother who is focused on His

Reveal Answer

rather than my own.

8) Let me be a mother who contends for the

of others.

Let me be woman who fiercely loves God and allows the gospel to inform how I live my life.
Let me be a woman who doesn’t dismiss myself from God’s mission because I have a family, but rather see my family as a vehicle to participate in God’s mission.
Let me live on the altar of God, craving that He uncomfortably refine me. It is “no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” (Gal. 2:20)
Let me be a mother that raises my children to be sheep, not that stay in the herd, but sheep that are sent out among wolves.  And, let me do so, by first modeling it.
Let me be a mom that raises my children in the security of the gospel and not in the safety of cultural-christianity.
Let me ponder in my heart the precious gift of my children, but let me not hold them too tightly in my hand.
Let me be abandoned to God and willing to risk it all for the name of Jesus Christ.
Let me be a woman who does “not fear anything that is frightening.” (Elizabeth Elliot)

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NEXT WEEK’S MESSAGE: “DON’T EXASPERATE YOUR CHILDREN” by Geoff & Lindsey Reddick

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