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When my sons were young, I made it a goal to start the day in prayer and in the Word. Life didn’t always pan out like I had planned, but for the most part, we did. I longed to teach them just how personal God is and how they can know He is real in real life. So when they were in school, we’d pray in the car before I dropped them off. When I homeschooled, we’d pray at home before we began our lessons for the day. But I wish I would have had a simple resource that would have …
Salvation. It’s the most important thing we want for our children. The most important prayer our heart whispers every day. The most important cry of every Christian momma’s heart. More than a godly spouse, educational and financial success, power, position or health, we pray that our children will be saved. But we’re not alone in this deep desire to see our kids come to know Christ. It’s God’s deepest desire too! That’s why Jesus came… because it wasn’t His will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance – and that includes your children, and my children, …
My “former” prodigal daughter, Kim, and me sharing our testimony at a Mother’s Day Tea Are you wondering if you have a prodigal? Here’s my definition: “A child who is breaking the heart of his or her parents and the heart of God.” I was a prodigal who raised a prodigal. I modeled worldly ways to my daughter, Kim, and she wanted to be just like me. When she was eighteen, I rededicated my life to Christ—I thought my daughter would follow after me. But she wanted nothing to do with this new “weird” mom. When she announced she was …
“I’m sorry, but you’ll never have children.” Those were the doctor’s words to me at a post-op visit after surgery for a ruptured ovarian cyst. “Your ovaries look like those of a 90 year-old woman.” I was a twenty year-old, newly engaged college student. My life was over. Or so I thought. After three years of marriage, I was thrilled to hear another doctor congratulate me: “You’re pregnant!” My mother called it a miracle, but I just wanted to be like any normal woman who could get pregnant and have a baby. The last week of pregnancy, when my baby …
