Seasons of a Mother’s Heart ~ Chapter 10

 

I'm linking up with Home with the Boys and reading Seasons of a Mother's Heart by Sally Clarkson.   If you'd like to join in, here is the original post from Erin with the details and reading schedule.

Some of my favorite quotes from Chapter 10:

• How they turn out will depend more on how much I prayed for them, how much I depended on God, rather than on how much I did for them. pg. 196
• I cannot do it without God's grace. pg. 196
• Prayer is a means by which God releases more of his grace into my life.  Without prayer, I cut myself off from a major source of the grace of God. pg. 197
• Only prayer that is “in the Spirit” will have power to defeat the enemy against whom I pray. pg. 198
• My children need me to pray for them as they engage in their own spiritual battles. pg. 199
• But prayer… it is never really finished. pg. 200

Sally's words in this book have come to me like they are words straight from God… and it happened again this week.

Being a perfectionistic type A personality, I think I can do anything and that checking things off my to-do list is the top thing on my list of priorities.  {Want a wake up call on that one?  Read this from my friend Rebecca at Moms Mustard Seeds.}  I check off one thing just in time to have to do it again.  So many things to DO that I forget about what I need BE.  What my children need most from me is prayer, not all my running around doing.

First they need me to simply be praying so that I'm connected to God.  When I'm connected to God in prayer, I'm more understanding and gracious.  God gives me the grace I need to make it through each day.

Second, they need me praying for them.  Praying for their todays and their tomorrows.  It is my responsibility to be praying for their growth and protection.  No one else can pray like for them like their momma.  No one else can have that kind of understanding and determination in prayer for them except me.  Me.  Only me.

Stop making check marks.  Put the to do list down.  Make praying for your kids a priority.

How do you pray for your kids?  How do you make it a priority?