Are you preparing for the year ahead? Are you planning how
you will not only send your kids off well prepared with supplies but how you
will support them in prayer?
Prayer is something the enemy works hard to keep out of our
plans. So, preparation is what is needed. But, preparation takes effort.
Oswald Chambers wrote, "We have to make time, and that
means effort, and effort makes us conscious of the need to reorganize our
general ways." He reminds us that "we take time to eat our breakfasts
and our dinner, etc.," in essence, pointing out that we put effort into
what we really want to do.
Praying moms, our prayers for our children are categorized
both important and urgent. They meet the standard for a priority assignment on
our calendar, something other things don't "bump" off our list of
things to do.
We may be solo prayer warriors, but what better thing can we
do than add other voices to ours for our kids? More prayer, more power, more
love!
Praying corporately with other moms often means sacrificing
something good, but doing the best for our children should always come before
what is good. Otherwise, we are giving what can only be mediocre—adequate,
acceptable, average. Is that what we want for our kids?
When I recently went through stacks of Prayer Sheets for my
kids, I was reminded of all the other moms who made time to pray weekly with
me. Many of them were employed, some fulltime. Yet, they knew we always can
make time for what is important to us. It just takes effort.
Don't let the enemy envelop you in busyness. Defeat him with
preparedness.
"Pray in the
Spirit in every situation.
Use every kind of prayer and request there is.
For
the same reason be alert.
Use every kind of effort and make every kind of
request for all of God’s people."
Ephesians 6:18 (GW)
"And may the Lord
our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful.
Yes, make our
efforts successful!"
Psalm 90:17 (NLT)
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