Million Praying Moms Blog
A Prayer for When You’re Not Enough
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Most of us long for reassurance that we're enough and we are willing to do just about anything to erase the feeling that we're not. But what if all those assurances of our "not enoughness" are wrong? What if instead of trying to...
A Prayer to Control Power
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Even though God hates cheating, he loves cheaters. No, he doesn't love what they do, but he does love them and knows they can be saved. So when Zacchaeus climbed a tree, just to get a peek at Jesus, Jesus didn't waggle his finger...
A Prayer for When God is Silent
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY One of the main reasons I love to pray the word of God and encourage and teach others to do the same, is because I believe God will always be true to it. There may not be many specific instructions for parents in the Bible, but...
A Prayer for Acceptance
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Every test I took from this smart little book pretty much said the exact same thing: Feelings of shame dominate your life. The fear of punishment dominates your life. The fear of rejection dominates your life. What I remember from...
A Prayer for God to Meet You in Your Mess
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY I wanted everyone to believe I could juggle work, kids, husband, home, and church with ease. But I couldn't. I wanted everyone to believe that crying babies, nursing problems, shift work, and the terrible twos weren't too much for me...
A Prayer for Wanting God’s Will
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY I got engaged and my future husband's job forced him to move to a remote part of Virginia near the Richmond area. I went with his parents to visit one weekend and to help him find a place for him to live and I was floored at what I...
A Prayer for Church Hurt
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Have you ever been hurt, betrayed, or slandered by someone within the church? Someone who is a brother or sister in Christ? I truly believe that this kind of hurt or betrayal is the hardest of all to process because, while we don't...
A Prayer for Wise Friends
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY The advice our kids take sometimes might make little difference in their lives, but at other times it can profoundly affect our children's future. Having good friends who give wise advice during critical moments is essential in order...
A Prayer of Salvation
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY I was maybe five or six years old when I said "the prayer." My memory isn't perfect, but I remember sitting on my daddy's knee at our dining room table and praying to receive Jesus as my savior. And with that decision, the whole...
A Prayer to Respond to God’s Invitation
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY As a new mom, I was afraid to go anywhere during the first year of my son's life. I was nervous Will would cry or get sick, so it seemed safer to just stay home. A woman invited me to join her later that week at a MOPS, which is...
A Prayer for When You Need God to Work in Spite of You
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY In our home, Numbers 6:24-26 is known as the "special prayer." It's been the passage I pray over our children every night before they go to sleep. I think part of the reason I like to pray this...
A Prayer to be Gentle
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Sometimes our faith is like a flickering flame. You might have experienced some really hard things in your life. You might be dealing with chronic illness or anxiety, or maybe you're having trouble making friends. Maybe you feel like...
A Prayer to Have Patience with Your Children
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Losing control of our emotions at its heart is about a lack of power. Before I had children, I didn't realize I had a problem controlling my emotions. I knew I liked being in control, but my situations pre-children never caused me to...
A Prayer for Releasing Guilt
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY She purchased one of the top brands of detergents for her family because she cared about value and keeping them clean. Her little one mistook the packet of laundry soap for candy and ingested the contents. He spent several days on a...
A Prayer to Believe God is Good
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY My husband works hard to provide for our family, but because we had chosen for me to be a stay at home mom in that season, finances could sometimes be tight. We always had enough to eat and enough clothing to wear, but three large...
A Prayer for Letting Go of MY Kingdom
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY As it related to the death of her husband, Jim, and the other men killed that day, Elizabeth Elliot shared that all five wives prayed without ceasing leading up to the day they died and begged God for mercy that very day until they...
BONUS: Serious Conversations about Identity and the Family, with Derek England
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Every once in a while, I come across a ministry, book, or person whose message I just really believe in, and want to share with you about them on the podcast. Today is one of those podcast episodes....
A Prayer to Not be Judgmental
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY In my very early days of motherhood, I went through a season when I saw everything as either black or white, right or wrong, good or bad. With a fearful heart, and in an effort to attempt to take control of everything that might...