The Warrior Mama Podcast

Welcome back to the kitchen table. Grab a cup of coffee and get ready to spend some time with Bethany as she shares about why friends can be so important. 

When we think about our friends, a dozen things come to our mind. Fun times, good laughs, a person to talk with, a shoulder to cry on. But have you ever stopped to think about what God says about friendship? 

In Exodus 17 we see the depiction of what true friendship should look like, When they are in the midst of battle, Moses is weary and tired. He is at that point where he cannot do it alone anymore. The Israelites come and they  help hold his arms for him and give him companionship when he is unable to do it for himself. This allows him to keep that staff raised high. 

We are all on that battlefield and we all reach that breaking point from time to time where we just don’t think we can do it anymore. God’s design for friendship is to help hold each other up through those times. 

Through it all, we are called to hold high the banner of Jesus. But sometimes, mama, we get tired and we need help. We need friends that can help us hold that banner up and can keep speaking gospel truths to us in this moment so that we can keep speaking them to our kids. 

Join Bethany this week as she talks about

1. God’s design for friendship.
2. How to help your friend when they just can’t go on alone.
3. How to admit when you are in that place of needing a friend to hold you up. 

Don’t forget to head over to  https://bethanykimsey.com to grab your copy of the free prayer guide. You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share where you need prayer this week, and how she can help pray for you! 

Welcome back to the kitchen table! Today Bethany is sharing what it means to truly pray like a grace filled warrior. 

Do you ever feel like prayer is just another thing on your checklist? You know that you are supposed to pray for your family but after you do, you are still in this place of doubt. Did He really hear me? Did I say the right things? What if I don’t have enough faith? 

Mama, that is not how God designed prayer to be. He didn’t design it to be a checklist, or an ATM where we just put in our Christianity card and get our desired result. 

Prayer is the place that God calls you and me. In Episians 6 Paul says, “pray all times in the spirit in prayer and supplication”. 

God intended for us to seek him out in prayer. Whatever our need or our problem may be, he just wants to lend his ear to listen. 

If we understand this, we can stand on the promise that He hears our voice. God invites us to stand on his word and to seek out the promises he offers to us in the bible. 

Don’t forget to head over to  https://bethanykimsey.com to grab your copy of the free prayer guide here. You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share where you need prayer this week, and how she can help pray for you! 

Welcome back to the kitchen table! Bethany has been talking about what it means to be a grace filled warrior. This week we are talking about what it means to be a grace filled warrior on the battlefield. 

The first step to winning the battle against the enemy, is realizing that you are on the battlefield. As Christians we are not only on the battlefield on the bad days, but in every moment. 

Ephesians 6 says, “Be strong in the Lord and the strength of His might, put on the whole armor that you may be able to stand against the devil”

This week Bethany is talking about

1. What the battlefield looks like and the enemy that is after us
2. How to get prepared for battle and put on the full armour of God
3. How to prepare our children for battle so that they may learn to fight that battle as well. 

Mama, you are a warrior. Bethany wants to invite you this week to take just a few moments with Jesus and ask him to show you where you are on the battlefield! Then ask Jesus to show you where your kids are on the battlefield, and how can you encourage them to dive into what it means to be a warrior for themselves. 

Don’t forget to head over to  https://bethanykimsey.com or @bethanykimsey on Instagram to share with Bethany where you are in your battle and how you are putting on your full armour of God. 

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is talking all about hope. Not hope in the context that culture takes it today where it is full of uncertainty, but hope as it is defined by God. 

The bible uses hope, as an expectation of what is sure. It is characterized by confidence and trust. As moms, we get to share with our kids this confidence and trust that they can find in trust. We can teach them to hope in what Jesus has given them and what he has promised them. 

It can be hard to bring up the gospel to our children, especially in the hard moments when we just want to fix things. However, the hard moments can be the best time to share the gospel with our child in a practical way. 

Ephisians 1:18 says, “Having the eyes of your heart in mind that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you”.

God has called us as mamas, to be the hope givers to our children. 

As moms, we get to share with our kids this confidence and trust that they can find in him. We can teach them to hope in what Jesus has given them and what he has promised them. 

Join us this week as Bethany shares: 

1. How to find your hope in Christ
2. How to share that hope with your child in a practical way
3. How to speak to your child the truth of what God really thinks of them. 

Don’t forget to head over to  https://bethanykimsey.com or @bethanykimsey on Instagram to share how you are sharing the Hope of Christ in your home! 

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is sharing more on what it truly means to walk with Christ as a grace filled warrior.

Second Corinthians 2:14 says, “but thanks be to God in Christ who always leads us in triumphal procession. We are invited to triumphantly follow Jesus everyday in our motherhood. He is victorious and we can walk in this procession with him, and let him lead us to triumph. He leads this triumphal procession even in our motherhood.

This week Bethany is reminding us the these simple truths:

-God has already won the victory and now we can walk with him triumphantly

-We have a new identity in Christ and our motherhood lies within that identity

-We have been commissioned by God

Not only has he commissioned us to be a warrior out in the world. But he has also commissioned you as a warrior of a mother for the children that he has set inside your home. He believes that you are the best person to lead and walk with your children as you raise them up. 

Grab Bethany’s free manifesto to help you walk triumphantly here. 

Don’t forget to head over to  https://bethanykimsey.com or @bethanykimsey on Instagram to share how you are striving to walk triumphantly as a grace filled warrior! 

Everything

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is talking all about feeling overwhelmed as a mom, and what design God has to help us from having this feeling creep in! 

Do you ever see other moms who just seem to have it all together. Maybe they have that picture perfect life on social media. They always have the best family photos, they do all the fun activities with their kids, and their house always seems to be perfectly decorated and clean!  

That’s when we begin painting these pictures in our head.  We start assuming, she must be so patient, so organized, her husband must be so much more helpful than mine, her kids must listen so well.

Don’t let yourself fall victim to the bondage of this thinking mama! 

Jesus has invited us to walk with him in a relationship that allows us to walk triumphantly. You are no longer under the bondage of performance. God has given you everything you need to be fully equipped to take on motherhood. 

This week Bethany is sharing with us: 

1. How to stop those feelings of overwhelm, imperfection, and fear from creeping in. 
2. Letting God take control over your motherhood journey. 
3. What it means to be a grace filled warrior. 

Don’t forget to head over to  https://bethanykimsey.com to download a copy of the Manifesto.

And as always I'd love to hear from you over @bethanykimsey on Instagram to share your overwhelming or insecure moments and how God helped you to overcome them!

This week, Bethany is talking all about potty training! If you aren’t a mom at the potty training age, or maybe you have long passed that stage, don’t worry this episode is still for you. God takes little moments like potty training and uses it to teach us a motherhood lesson that can be applicable to all stages of motherhood!

Bethany shares this week on the podcast how God used a moment in potty training, to teach her about what a good shepard He really is. 

Have you ever felt like you are all alone in a situation, you are stressed, anxious, tired, weary, and just feel like you're in the dark. 

You want to hear a truth mama, we all face dark seasons in life. We all face times that we are scared, and the path seems dark, lonely, and never ending. 

I worry about the things I can and cannot see on the path that I am trying to navigate. Oftentimes this leads me to be anxious, and I work myself up into a panic. The good news though, we are not on this path alone. 

Psalm 23 tells us,  The great shepherd tends his sheep with diligence and great strength. I shall not want. He brings rest and restoration to our weary, anxiety ridden selves. He restores my soul. He does not leave us alone in the dark as we try to get from point A to point B. 

We have a good Shepherd who cares more deeply for us that we can ever imagine. Those moments when we feel lost in the dark, all alone, with nowhere to turn, that is exactly when God breaks through. 

Don’t forget to head over to  https://bethanykimsey.com or @bethanykimsey on Instagram to share your potty training stories with Bethany or even just a story about your good shepherd leading you through a messy moment in motherhood! 

Welcome back to the kitchen table this week with Bethany Kimsey! This week we are getting a little more personal. 

Do you ever just feel like a failure as a mom? Maybe like that everyone else is getting it right besides you? And that just maybe, you weren’t cut out for this whole motherhood thing. This week Bethany is sharing her own worries and insecurities when it comes to being a mom. 

Being a mom is hard, no matter what age your kids are or how many you have. But the good news is that we have a heavenly father with a plan to gently lead us through this time. He doesn’t want us to be afraid of messing up, but to know that when we do, he will be there to guide our hearts as to how to handle each and every situation. His heart is to extend grace to us in every moment. Even those messy moments of motherhood. 

Head over to https://bethanykimsey.com to share some of your own feelings from your motherhood journey with Bethany and don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey.

 Want to hear more about how intimately our God wants to get to know you? Check out Episode 5 “God Hears Our Prayers” Here.

Last week on “When God Breaks Through”, we talked about changing our mindset in the midst of sibling rivalries.  

This week, Bethany is talking about how we approach our child in the situation. When it comes to these moments, we have to think about what our long term goals are for  them, despite the upclose mess of whatever fight or squabble is happening today! 

Sometimes the best thing to do is for everyone to take a step back and spend some time in reflection. This allows the child to examine their hearts and the true emotions behind their actions. This also allows us moms to prepare our hearts for how God would have us respond in the moment. 

When we enter into these moments, we want to approach it with grace and humility. Our goal is not to bust the kid in that moment, but to help them examine their heart. Through careful conversation, we can guide them through the true emotions and feelings, how what they did would be viewed by God, and how they can use this situation to recognize their sinful nature. And even better, God’s love and grace for them despite that sinful nature. 

 Head over to  https://bethanykimsey.com to share with Bethany the tips and tricks you’ve learned in sibling rivalries! Don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey 

Welcome back!

Today’s episode is all about sibling rivalry. Let's be honest, we all have this in our homes from time to time. Kids fight, they argue, quarrel, and fuss! The problem is, we live in a culture that says this is okay! Yes it is going to happen,  but what if God wants us to have a different perspective on this? 

What’s sometimes difficult in this moment is not to just focus on sibling rivalry or the issue at hand, but to prepare our hearts as moms to figure out how we are best going to handle it. 

At the moment, it can be hard to seek God’s guidance about the situation when you feel like you just have to quickly put out the fire. 

Today Bethany shares how we can view messy moments like these as a way to share the gospel with our children. How to use these moments as a way to help our children understand their sinful nature and our loving God. 

Don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey and check out her website https://bethanykimsey.com