Our amazing God became poor that we may be rich. He has abundantly given us everything we need for life and godliness. What is our response? How can we partner with God in the work He is doing in our lives and around the world? God wants to use us! Are we ready to be His vessels?

Today’s episode brings us to a place in 2 Corinthians where Paul is encouraging the church to be faithful to do what they said they would do, to be people of their word, and to be a part of God’s work. May we have ears to hear how God is leading us and be obedient to His call.

The Moms in Prayer Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit ChristianParenting.org

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In 1987, I heard Fern Nichols’ radio interview with Dr. James Dobson on Focus on the Family. From that moment, I knew that if God blessed us with children, I wanted to be part of Moms in Prayer (MIP). Eleven years later, in 1998, with two children in tow and having just moved to Hong Kong, I joined my first MIP group. My life was changed as I learned to focus my prayers on God’s character and His Word.

In 2001, after adopting our third child and moving from Asia to Arkansas, God faithfully connected me with another group of praying moms. I’ve been part of that wonderful community ever since. One scripture I often pray over our children and grandchildren is, “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith…” Ephesians 3:14–17a

Over the years, I’ve witnessed God pursue our children, strengthen them when they are weary, and call our children into full-time ministry and service. He is faithful—and we are called to be faithful in prayer, trusting Him to work in the lives of our children and grandchildren. I’ve learned there is no greater place to be than in His presence, interceding for the next generation and the places they live, learn, and work.

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It can be easy to just let life happen to us or feel like we are barely hanging on and just trying to get through each day. Yet, we are challenged to live intentionally, to walk in a way that is pleasing to God and to be used by Him. In 2 Corinthians 6 and 7, Paul encourages us to not receive the gift of salvation in vain, but to make the most of what we have been given and to share it with others. We get to reflect the grace of God to those around us and be ambassadors for Christ. Let us not waste the time we have been given. Listen in as we walk through these chapters with our Louisiana State Coordinator, Laura Riley.

The Moms in Prayer Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit ChristianParenting.org

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I first heard about Moms in Prayer on Focus on the Family in 1985 when I was just a teenager. I remember thinking that when I had children, I wanted to give my kids the gift of prayer. Fast forward 25 years, my sons were 10 and 12 and our family was going on a 5-week trip to Africa for my husband to teach at Uganda Baptist Seminary. I was asked to teach the women about parenting. The Lord impressed on me to not be afraid, to read the new book I had brought on the trip, Every Child Needs a Praying Mom by Fern Nichols, and to use that book to teach the four steps of prayer to the Ugandan moms. When I got home, I realized I couldn’t go to Africa and do something I wasn’t willing to do in my own town, so I started a Moms in Prayer group.

Whether our kids are in a private school, public school, or homeschool, we will be better parents when we are consistently praying with other women for our children.

It is wonderful to have other women praying over my children. I can look back at the prayer sheets and see that God has been faithful. God continues to shape my sons into the men of God He wants them to be. Now I pray not only for our two sons, but also our two daughters-in-law, and our two grandsons. God is faithful, generation after generation.

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When Christ comes into our lives, He changes the way we think and our desires—our ambition and our passion now becomes Christ.” God has done everything for us. He has loved us despite our sin, failures and lack. He chose YOU. And as you pursue Him, He begins to refine and sanctify you. He gently leads you and teaches you how to walk in a way that is pleasing to Him. He opens your eyes to opportunities to serve Him and love others. Listen in to hear these humbling truths from 2 Corinthians 5 as we talk with our Maine State Coordinator, Michelle Homchuck.

The Moms in Prayer Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit ChristianParenting.org

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My husband and I have served at a church in Central Maine that began in our home over 20 years ago. I first experienced Moms in Prayer (MIP) through the invitation of a friend. My four children were all still young and homeschooled at the time. Seeing the need to pray for them, I quickly gravitated to a MIP group and found encouragement and power through praying scripture.

My involvement in MIP has changed everything in our family and church life and I have witnessed the Lord do exceedingly abundantly more than I asked or thought. He has been faithful through one child’s prodigal season and I have seen Him work in each of my children’s lives to deepen their personal relationship with Him. Now I have the privilege of praying for my grandchildren as well.

One of my passions is to reach out to new moms and teach them the heart of prayer for their little ones. My hope is that my own journey will encourage other women to begin praying for their children while they are young and keep going, even when they have grandchildren.

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“My duty is to be faithful and answer the call. God’s duty is to work on the heart.” It is by God’s mercy that we can live in fellowship with Him and serve Him. It is by His grace that He works in and through us to sanctify us and impact others. It is by His kindness that we have the gift of the Holy Spirit and can experience His power at work. It is all from Him and for Him! We find powerful reminders of God’s great power and mercy in 2 Corinthians 4. Listen in as we walk through the chapter with homeschool mom of two, Heidi Gomez.

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Heidi Gomez is a mom of two young kids, Georgia (7) and Noah (6). She’s been married to her wonderful husband for 9 years and they live in Southern California. She is blessed to be a stay-at-home mom and a homeschool mom. She is also a part of a local Moms in Prayer group.

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“We can’t control our kids’ every move, but we can pray that God will work in their hearts for their protection. Prayer is that comfort as we put our confidence in who God is and what He can do.” As we learn about God and His attributes, we find a peace and confidence that can’t be found anywhere else. Listen in as we dive into 2 Corinthians 3 with our North Carolina State Coordinator, Jayme Kirk, and are reminded of the power of the simple gospel.

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The first time I heard about Moms in Prayer was at Missions Day at my church. My local area coordinator had a table set up there. She wonderfully shared how we could gather as moms to pray for our children and schools, releasing the stress and anxious thoughts that burden us. So, I started a group right away with one other mom! God was faithful to bring others to pray with us for the schools in our area. And, it’s such a God thing that, in the following years, I was able to host that same Moms in Prayer table at my church, continuing to share the vision that all schools be covered in prayer!

My favorite Scripture verse and one I cling to, is Ephesians 3:20, “Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us…”

I have been married to John since 2009 and we have two teenage boys, Cooper and Cade. We enjoy activities together in the “great outdoors” from the mountains to the coast!

SCRIPTURES

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! Galatians 5:22-23 NLT

Never let loyalty and kindness leave you!

    Tie them around your neck as a reminder.

    Write them deep within your heart. Proverbs 3:3 NLT

And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. Ezekiel 36:26 NLT

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. 1 John 5:14-15 ESV

“The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord. “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. Jeremiah 31:31-33 NLT

And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth. I brought glory to you here on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began. John 17:3-5 NLT

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. 2 Corinthians 4:4 NLT

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“One of the most important things that moms can teach their children is that they have access to God’s forgiveness. Because they will always return. They will always remember that grace opened a door for them.” As we continue in our 2 Corinthians series, we are joined today by our Director of Central America, Diana de Fouler. She walks us through chapter two and reminds us of the great grace and forgiveness that has been extended to us by God and how we need to teach that to our kids. As we live lives full of love and grace, our children will find a safe place in us and learn how to go to God in all things.

The Moms in Prayer Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit ChristianParenting.org

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Diana de Fouler is a gifted Bible teacher who has contagious conviction for the power of prayer. She currently serves as the Moms in Prayer Central America Director, overseeing the ministry in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Diana lives in Panama City, Panama with her husband of 41 years. They have two grown children and three wonderful grandchildren. 

SCRIPTURES

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 ESV

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Colossians 3:12-13 ESV

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. John 10:10 ESV

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-2 ESV

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31 ESV

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:37-39 ESV

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Today kicks off our newest series through the book of 2 Corinthians. Division Coordinator, Deborah Bryant, opens us up with chapter one, reminding us of our who our great God is—full of mercy and comfort. No matter the struggles we face, God is faithful to walk with us. “He meets us in our suffering with His tender presence and strengthening power. And He doesn’t stop there. He uses what we have walked through to equip us to comfort others.”

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When our daughter turned five, I found myself anxious about her starting kindergarten. Around that time, I read a book about Moms in Prayer International, and it deeply resonated with me. Just days later, I saw a friend while shopping and to my surprise, she had read the same book! Right then and there we decided to start a Moms in Prayer group together.

Through Moms in Prayer, I began—and continue—to learn how to surrender my fears and worries, letting God replace them with His peace and comfort. Now years later, meeting weekly with my Moms in Prayer group remains one of the most meaningful and powerful things I do as a mom.

My husband and I live in Des Moines, Iowa. We’re blessed with a daughter, and a son and daughter-in-law, who also live nearby.

SCRIPTURES

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5 ESV

The heart of man plans his way,

    but the Lord establishes his steps. Proverbs 16:9 ESV

It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.” Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV

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“The enemy of our souls wants us to believe that we know what is best, so we don’t seek out what God has said is actually best.” Elizabeth Urbanowicz, CEO of Foundation Worldview, helps guide us as Christian parents to teach our children truth from the Word of God. The world and the opinion of man can be very loud. We can feel pressure to raise “perfect children”, but the best thing we can do is to raise our kids in a way that honors and glorifies God. Listen in to learn how!

The Moms in Prayer Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit ChristianParenting.org

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Elizabeth Urbanowicz is a follower of Jesus Christ and passionate about equipping kids to understand the truth of the Christian worldview. She holds a B.S. in Elementary Education and Spanish, an M.S.Ed in Literacy Education, and an M.A. in Christian Apologetics from Biola University. Elizabeth began her professional career as an elementary teacher in a Christian school. Several years into her teaching experience, she realized that despite being raised in Christian homes, attending a Christian school, and being active in church, her students thought more like the culture than like Christ. She created curricular materials that would equip her students to think critically, helping them discover that Christianity is the worldview that lines up with reality. Elizabeth now works full-time on developing comparative worldview and apologetics resources for children. Her goal is to prepare the next generation to be lifelong critical thinkers and, most importantly, lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ.

SCRIPTURES

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah 

Psalm 62:8 ESV

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV

I appeal to you therefore, brothers,[a] by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Romans 12:1 ESV

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV

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“God’s boundaries are for our good, our protection and His glory.” God has good plans for our lives and our children’s lives. He knows what He is doing as He guides us and gives us boundaries—that includes our sexual integrity! Dannah Gresh, founder of True Girl, shares her personal story and how she saw God’s redemption woven throughout. We can glorify God and live pure lives even when our past wants to say otherwise! And God will give us the wisdom and strength to help our children do the same.

The Moms in Prayer Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit ChristianParenting.org

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Dannah Gresh is the founder of True Girl and best-selling author of books like Lies Girls Believe & the Truth that Sets Them Free and Happily Even After. She is also the co-host of Nancy Demoss Wolgemuth's daily Revive Our Hearts podcast. At the age of eight, her mom handed her a Bible and encouraged her to start the habit of studying it daily. She did. And she loves passing on a passion for the Truth of God to women of all ages. Dannah and her husband Bob live on a hobby farm in central Pennsylvania.

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“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:31-32 ESV

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. James 5:16 ESV

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it. Matthew 13:45-46

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Are you in a battle? Having a hard day? Hard week? Hard year? Dannah Gresh, founder of True Girl, reminds us that we can still live a victorious life even in the midst of the battle. We serve a God who is greater and yet is so personal that He present with us in every moment. Listen in to hear specific ways you can be victorious even when the circumstances feel stacked against you.

The Moms in Prayer Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit ChristianParenting.org

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Dannah Gresh is the founder of True Girl and best-selling author of books like Lies Girls Believe & the Truth that Sets Them Free and Happily Even After. She is also the co-host of Nancy Demoss Wolgemuth's daily Revive Our Hearts podcast. At the age of eight, her mom handed her a Bible and encouraged her to start the habit of studying it daily. She did. And she loves passing on a passion for the Truth of God to women of all ages. Dannah and her husband Bob live on a hobby farm in central Pennsylvania.

SCRIPTURES

I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up

    and have not let my foes rejoice over me.

O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,

    and you have healed me.

O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol;

    you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.

Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,

    and give thanks to his holy name.

For his anger is but for a moment,

    and his favor is for a lifetime.

Weeping may tarry for the night,

    but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:1-5 ESV

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 ESV

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, James 1:2 ESV

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