We’ve all been given a charge to raise our children in the admonition of the Lord.  Whether or not we choose to accept it is up to each one of us.

Related Resources

Podcasts and Posts from The Busy Mom

Courageous Mothering: Encouragement for the Weary Mom – podcast – There are so many things pulling at mothers in this generation—the tug-of-war over our hearts is intentional. Fear, distractions, worry. Satan’s goal is to distract moms from what really matters—the bringing up of our children. While the world will tell you to mother your kids from your own strength—God has another way! He wants to replace your weakness with His strength in a beautiful exchange. Your job has never been more important than it is right now.

A Spiritual Battle – podcast – The Bible says we do not struggle against flesh and blood, we are engaged in a spiritual battle. There really is wickedness in this world, so we need to be looking at the world with spiritual eyes. We cannot fight this spiritual battle using a carnal weapons like manipulation or unkind words. We need to be using the weapons of prayer and application of the Word of God. Those are the weapons we use to engage in spiritual warfare! We read in Ephesians 6 that we are to put on the belt of truth and buckle it around our waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and fit our feet with the gospel of peace. God is telling us over and over again that the battle we fight is a spiritual battle.

A Powerful Partnership – post – God gives children to us as “arrows” in the hands of a warrior.  That makes you a warrior, busy mom!  And you’re not just a run-of-the-mill warrior, either—you are an archer.  You’re in the arrow-launching business!

Resources

Spiritual Protection for Your Children by Neil T Anderson – How do parents help their children find their own spiritual freedom, allowing them to grow in independence and strength in Christ? Pete and Sue Vander Hook, a typical Christian pastor and his family, learned the hard way how the enemy can infiltrate a seemingly secure Christian home and wreak havoc on a family. It details their dramatic journey and shows how parents can provide a protective covering for their home. Neil Anderson then provides follow-up steps on how to take authority of your home and secure your family’s spiritual well-being. Spiritual Protection for Your Children also provides “The Steps to Freedom” adapted for use with 0-4 year olds (i.e. how to take authority on behalf of your preschool age child), 5-8 year olds; and 9-12 years olds

Fervent: A Woman’s Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer by Priscilla Shirer – You have an enemy . . . and he’s dead set on destroying all you hold dear and keeping you from experiencing abundant life in Christ. What’s more, his approach to disrupting your life and discrediting your faith isn’t general or generic, not a one-size-fits-all. It’s specific. Personalized. Targeted.   So this book is your chance to strike back. With prayer. With a weapon that really works. Each chapter will guide you in crafting prayer strategies that hit the enemy where it hurts, letting him know you’re on to him and that you won’t back down. Because with every new strategy you build, you’re turning the fiercest battles of life into precise strikes against him and his handiwork, each one infused with the power of God’s Spirit.

Are you a worrier or a warrior? In this world, there is a battle raging and it's time to make your choice which you will be!

Related Resources

Podcasts and Posts from The Busy Mom

Courageous Mothering: Encouragement for the Weary Mom – podcast – There are so many things pulling at mothers in this generation—the tug-of-war over our hearts is intentional. Fear, distractions, worry. Satan’s goal is to distract moms from what really matters—the bringing up of our children. While the world will tell you to mother your kids from your own strength—God has another way! He wants to replace your weakness with His strength in a beautiful exchange. Your job has never been more important than it is right now.

A Spiritual Battle – podcast – The Bible says we do not struggle against flesh and blood, we are engaged in a spiritual battle. There really is wickedness in this world, so we need to be looking at the world with spiritual eyes. We cannot fight this spiritual battle using a carnal weapons like manipulation or unkind words. We need to be using the weapons of prayer and application of the Word of God. Those are the weapons we use to engage in spiritual warfare! We read in Ephesians 6 that we are to put on the belt of truth and buckle it around our waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and fit our feet with the gospel of peace. God is telling us over and over again that the battle we fight is a spiritual battle.

A Powerful Partnership – post – God gives children to us as “arrows” in the hands of a warrior.  That makes you a warrior, busy mom!  And you’re not just a run-of-the-mill warrior, either—you are an archer.  You’re in the arrow-launching business!

Resources

Firmly Planted Bible Study for All Ages – We all agree that teaching our children the life-changing truths of the Bible is one of our most important jobs as parents. But where do we begin? How do we consistently explore God’s Word in a way that helps our children understand and apply the core truths of biblical teaching in their own lives? The Firmly Planted Family Series is divided into ten-week studies and is your key to making sense of the Bible—even if you’re learning right along with your children. Each lesson provides a core idea, a simple narrative, memory verses and discussion questions for children of all ages. And the companion student workbook is filled with age-appropriate, full-color, reproducible activities for children of any age!

Firmly Planted Family – Our Non-Profit Website

Spiritual Protection for Your Children by Neil T Anderson – How do parents help their children find their own spiritual freedom, allowing them to grow in independence and strength in Christ? Pete and Sue Vander Hook, a typical Christian pastor and his family, learned the hard way how the enemy can infiltrate a seemingly secure Christian home and wreak havoc on a family. It details their dramatic journey and shows how parents can provide a protective covering for their home. Neil Anderson then provides follow-up steps on how to take authority of your home and secure your family’s spiritual well-being. Spiritual Protection for Your Children also provides “The Steps to Freedom” adapted for use with 0-4 year olds (i.e. how to take authority on behalf of your preschool age child), 5-8 year olds; and 9-12 years olds

You are on a mission mom! Be encouraged today as Heidi St John shares the purpose of your mission and how you might carry it out.

 

Related Resources

Podcasts and Posts from The Busy Mom

Courageous Mothering: Encouragement for the Weary Mom – podcast – There are so many things pulling at mothers in this generation—the tug-of-war over our hearts is intentional. Fear, distractions, worry. Satan’s goal is to distract moms from what really matters—the bringing up of our children. While the world will tell you to mother your kids from your own strength—God has another way! He wants to replace your weakness with His strength in a beautiful exchange. Your job has never been more important than it is right now.

A Spiritual Battle – podcast – The Bible says we do not struggle against flesh and blood, we are engaged in a spiritual battle. There really is wickedness in this world, so we need to be looking at the world with spiritual eyes. We cannot fight this spiritual battle using a carnal weapons like manipulation or unkind words. We need to be using the weapons of prayer and application of the Word of God. Those are the weapons we use to engage in spiritual warfare! We read in Ephesians 6 that we are to put on the belt of truth and buckle it around our waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and fit our feet with the gospel of peace. God is telling us over and over again that the battle we fight is a spiritual battle.

A Powerful Partnership – post – God gives children to us as “arrows” in the hands of a warrior.  That makes you a warrior, busy mom!  And you’re not just a run-of-the-mill warrior, either—you are an archer.  You’re in the arrow-launching business!

Resources

Spiritual Protection for Your Children by Neil T Anderson – How do parents help their children find their own spiritual freedom, allowing them to grow in independence and strength in Christ? Pete and Sue Vander Hook, a typical Christian pastor and his family, learned the hard way how the enemy can infiltrate a seemingly secure Christian home and wreak havoc on a family. It details their dramatic journey and shows how parents can provide a protective covering for their home. Neil Anderson then provides follow-up steps on how to take authority of your home and secure your family’s spiritual well-being. Spiritual Protection for Your Children also provides “The Steps to Freedom” adapted for use with 0-4 year olds (i.e. how to take authority on behalf of your preschool age child), 5-8 year olds; and 9-12 years olds

Fervent: A Woman’s Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer by Priscilla Shirer – You have an enemy . . . and he’s dead set on destroying all you hold dear and keeping you from experiencing abundant life in Christ. What’s more, his approach to disrupting your life and discrediting your faith isn’t general or generic, not a one-size-fits-all. It’s specific. Personalized. Targeted.   So this book is your chance to strike back. With prayer. With a weapon that really works. Each chapter will guide you in crafting prayer strategies that hit the enemy where it hurts, letting him know you’re on to him and that you won’t back down. Because with every new strategy you build, you’re turning the fiercest battles of life into precise strikes against him and his handiwork, each one infused with the power of God’s Spirit.

We want our kids to obey, but more importantly, we want them to obey for the right reasons. Join Heidi St John and Rachael Carman as they talk about the right reasons.

Related Resources for Today’s Podcast

I am pleased to have my dear friend, Rachael Carman as a guest on the podcast today! Rachael is a busy mom herself—a mother of seven—soon to join my favorite club, ClubMamsi!  (She’s gonna be a grandma!)

We’re talking about the new book that Rachael has has written, especially in light of the new “normal” that Christians find themselves in today. At the top of God’s list?  Love.  Love for our kids, love for a lost world. We love, because He first loved us.

It’s honest, encouraging conversation.  Join us!

You can find more from Rachael at her blog.

How Many Times do I Have to Tell You? by Rachael Carman – You’ve probably said these things to your kids, but have you listened to what you’re saying? In fact, your heavenly Father wants to tell you many of these same things. Rachael Carman knows how noisy it can be when you’re raising children—she has seven! But this lovely devotional book will help you to hear God’s still, small voice amid the chaos of carpools, cut fingers, and carpet crawlers. You’ll learn how to recognize God’s instructions for you, even as you seek to follow His example as a parent.

Related Podcasts or Posts From The Busy Mom:

Dare to Be A Daniel – Talking to Your Kids About Standing for the Lord – This is startlingly new territory for parents: explaining why a man is being celebrated as a woman on the cover of a magazine is not something we’re used to talking about. Here’s the thing: If we don’t set a place for the truth of Scripture at the table of our children’s hearts, the world will set out a feast all it’s own.

9 Ways to Point Your Teen Daughter to Jesus – Then it happens, she becomes a “teen”, a “young adult”, a “young woman”. And you’re no longer sure of yourself, and you begin to question every.single.decision. you’ve ever made concerning her upbringing. You start to give in to some fear that she will throw off all you’ve taught her, and become something completely other than you. And, you know what? She does.

Bringing Up Boys Series – Podcast 1 – Podcast 2 – Podcast 3 – The culture is headed toward gender neutrality—but the Word of God tells us that God created us male and female… by design! Embrace the difference between the sexes with Heidi St. John and Durenda Wilson. Between them, they have been raising seven boys!  Be encouraged!

A straight talk about what the Bible says about unborn children and what you can do about it. #defundplannedparenthood

More from The Busy Mom

Can there be “Pro-Choice” Christians? – Given the disturbing and heartbreaking recent videos which expose Planned Parenthood for the evil that it is committing, I urge you to contact your state representative and ask them to join the movement to defund this murderous organization. In the United States, a half a billion tax dollars go to fund this genocide each year.  We must speak for those who cannot speak for themselves…

When the Experts are Wrong – Jay and I had been told that it was more than 60% likely that she had Down Syndrome. It looked as if she had a small hole in her heart. Her measurements were “off.”  We were sent to a genetic counselor.  Our options were laid out clearly: Abortion or “Take a Chance.”  Amniocentesis was not something we were interested in. Abortion was…

A Quiet Exile – And an American Genocide – Have you noticed that Christians have been relegated to the “little kids” table where most issues today are concerned? It’s like it’s Thanksgiving and we’re sitting at card tables in the spare bedroom while the grown-up, more “enlightened” people sit around the big table—casually deciding the future of our nation.  Yes, Christians see what is happening, but many are afraid to say who we are and what we believe…

Verses Mentioned

Psalm 139: 14-16 – I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.  My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Jeremiah 1:5 – Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Proverbs 24:11-12  – Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.  If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?  Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

Resources

Human Capital Project by The Center for Medical Progress – “The Human Capital project is a 30-month-long investigative journalism study by The Center for Medical Progress, documenting how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted babies. Citizen journalists at CMP spent two-and-a-half years logging thousands of research hours to painstakingly gather hundreds of hours of undercover footage, dozens of eye-witness testimonies, and nearly two hundred pages of primary source documents.”

Defund Planned Parenthood by Focus on the Family – Information and a list of things you can do to help.

"It's not bad to come to the end of our rope, because at the end of our rope we find our Savior." Durenda WIlson and Heidi share encouragement for being diligent in your prayer life and being confident in the way you approach God in prayer,