Love Where You Are with Somer Colbert
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
All throughout scripture we are taught the importance of prayer and communicating with God and yet, I haven’t met a mom yet who has this practice down the way she would like. Every mom I talk to truly desires more time in prayer but I often hear them sharing that they are defeated and discouraged by a lack of time, life’s constant distractions and feeling completely inadequate.
In today’s episode I am joined by my friend, author and speaker, Sarah Keeling to take on a key lie the enemy uses to attack the hearts of Moms.
The lie: I’m just too busy to pray
Sarah and I want to encourage you to take on the enemy and this lie with a battle plan straight from God’s Word and show you His purpose and design for prayer, His heart behind it and give you practical and guilt free steps to get you started.
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FAVORITE TAKEAWAYS:
Moms feel like they have to have tons of uninterrupted time - and we don’t
Sometimes we have too much on our mental plate
Praying the Bible - Donald S. Whitney
Satan wants us to stay stuck, anxious and disconnected
We know Biblical prayer is our weapon
“Prayer is the power that wields the weapon of the Word.” - John Piper
If we don’t spend time in prayer we try to do things in our own strength.
We’re so much more powerful when we’re surrendered to God.
Prayer is our only offensive weapon when you look at the armor of God
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
It’s ideal to have your own quiet time with God, but if you can’t, it’s ok to do it with your kids too. That doesn’t disqualify that time with God.
Keep the tiny humans alive and point them to Jesus
Every day that we’re alive is a battle for our family and for our kids.
The enemy is going to do everything he can to break down your family and prevent you from being an effective discipler of your kids.
We can’t afford NOT to pray. You can’t win the battle without the weapon.
We can’t hear God if we are drowning in all the noise.
Prayer is a discipline and a practice. Disciple means learner. It takes practice to be still.
There are so many expectations on moms and none of them are realistic.
There’s so much freedom in asking for help.
Really think about what is preventing you from praying?
James 4:8 - Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
Matthew 6
Start simple.
Find an easy method to pray scripture.
God is not looking at you with judgement and condemnation when you come back to Him.
Kick your shame to the curb. God doesn’t deal in shame.
Every time our seasons change, we have to adjust.
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