I know
there are days when all of us feel as if we are in over our heads. But when
those days arise and courage seems to wilt, remember that God's grace is on you
for these moments. He will strengthen you against all odds.
Some of
you have always had someone else to rely on. But now you are facing the
challenge of raising your children alone.
Are you
alone? Not really. You never were. God has been there all the time. And the
same God who brought you through all of your earlier challenges is waiting for
you to acknowledge Him in your current situation.
Do you
know that many of the blessings that are on you will pass to your children? For
example, it is a blessing to have wise parents. Wise parents pass their
reasoning and mentality to their children. This creates a generational
blessing.
We have
heard about generational curses, but we ought to understand generational
blessings, too. If a drug-filled mother gives birth to a drug-addicted child,
then why can't a spiritually regenerated mother have a child who has been
blessed by her regeneration?
The favor
of God is with you as a parent. His hand is there to bless you if you will
trust Him.
God's
design is to bring strength out of weakness and power out of pain. I challenge
you now to allow Christ to equip you with the tools you need to become what God
would have you to be as a single parent.
God's
blessings can break out in your life as never before, but it takes faith in
God. Faith is having the grace to accept the challenges and the struggles of
your course, but doggedly and tenaciously searching for the victory within the
victimized.
You are
the vessel God has chosen to labor with Him in forming the character of the
next generation. You may not live long enough to see all of your fruit, but it
will be your teachings, your standards that shape your family for years after
you are gone. Do it with dignity and character. It is your contribution to the
next age.
No
wonder the enemy wants to overwhelm and discourage you. When he gets you, he
gets two for the price of one. He affects you and the child in one blow.
Tell the
devil no! Tell him he will not get a two-for-one sale here. You will guard with
all diligence what God has entrusted to you.
Charge
your children with faith and power. They are the future.
Consider
this: "Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children of one's
youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be
ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate" (Ps. 127:4-5).
If my
children are my arrows, they are my defense. They are my defense against
emptiness. They are my defense against building a house that no one will
inherit. They are my defense against having no hand to hold when death comes to
carry me home. They are my defense against anonymity in the next generation.
You may
never be famous, but your children might be. Few would recognize Martin Luther
King Jr.'s mother. Few would recognize the names of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'
parents. Even fewer would know Colin Powell's parents. But somewhere behind the
curtains, in the shadows of the stage, there is a face, a hand, an apron, a
father or a mother who said, "I will raise my bow."
Source: charismamag.com
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