One year, my last in junior high, we went to a ladies' shop
downtown, one I'm not sure we'd ever shopped at previously, at least not
together. My mom purchased several dresses for me. This was not the usual because,
by this time, there were six of us girls with all but one in school. New clothes
were often birthday or Christmas gifts, and they were most likely purchased as
clearance or sale items.
Frequently, my sisters wore my hand-me-downs and I received
ones from older cousins. I have to note that we did enjoy opening those boxes
of clothes and sorting through them to see what "treasures" had been
given to us. By high school, I sometimes used babysitting earnings to purchase
some of my own clothes. Unlike a good friend of mine, I was not handy with
patterns and a sewing machine even after Home Economic classes.
Others often helped my parents clothe their girls. One aunt
in particular would purchase matching dresses for us to wear for Christmas
and/or Easter. Here's
a photograph taken of us in 1959. Just 3 of us had matching dresses as the
fourth had just turned one year old.
Praying moms, in one accord prayer, as demonstrated in the
ministry of Moms in Prayer International, we moms help each other cloth our
children with the covering of prayer. Together, agreeing in prayer, we dress
them to weather the storms of life. Figuratively, using Scripture to cover them
with appropriate clothing, i.e. socks, shirts, pants/skirts; and then our
specific requests are like covering them with necessary outer garments, i.e.,
mittens, hats, scarves, galoshes, and warm coats.
Can you get the picture of several moms standing around a
child and through their prayers of agreement clothing that girl or boy from
head to toe?
This type of prayer—agreement prayer—in fact is powerful
because Jesus said so. I love how the Amplified Bible puts what Jesus said in
Matthew 18:19, "Again I tell you, if
two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about
whatever [anything and everything] they may ask, it will come to pass and be
done for them by My Father in heaven." In conversational, agreement
prayer, that is what we are doing.
Whatever school my children attended and even now as adults,
that was and is their most significant clothing—prayer. It is something that
couldn’t be discarded on the playground, lost on the bus, or left at home. My
Father sees my children wearing these clothes every time He looks at them.
Who is helping you clothe your child?
Who are you helping clothe their child?
Check out Moms in Prayer International at www.MomsInPrayer.org. If there isn't a
group for your child's school, it is simple and easy to begin one. I'd be glad
to help.
“Take this most seriously:
A yes on earth is yes in heaven; a no on
earth is no in heaven.
What you say to one another is eternal. I mean this.
When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a
prayer of it,
my Father in heaven goes into action.
And when two or three of you are together because of me,
you can be sure that I’ll be there.”
Matthew 18:18-20
(MSG)
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