Million Praying Moms Blog
5 Verses to Pray When Your Adult Child is Not Walking With God
“God doesn’t want us to rescue our children. He’s the Rescuer.” - Elizabeth Musser She was about 3 years old and we were at the playground across the street from our little townhouse. She was happily playing with the little girl that lived a few houses down from us...
3 Ways to Thrive When Your Kids Leave Your Home
There's so much sadness that can happen as we approach the season when our kids leave our home...certainly as we're in it and adjusting to the changes in our home and daily lives. But I believe this time can also be one that is brimming over with potential, and as we...
4 Ways to Encourage Solid Community for Older Kids
You've probably heard the quote, "Show me your 5 closest friends and I'll show you your future." I'm not sure who originally said that, but there's some truth in it. It takes an awfully strong personality and character to resist the flow, especially when the flow is...
Tools to Help Our Adult Children Deal with Stress
When they're little, offering our children peace has a lot to do with the environment we create for them, our ability to control our own emotions, and just providing them with stability and routine. A safe place to live, a bed to sleep in, and dependable meals....
Parenting Your Adult Kids with Joy
Are you parenting an adult, or almost-adult child? If you've been listening, you know that I have a senior in high school this year. I prayed over the summer, before his last high school year even started, that the Lord would guide me through it, and help me...
New Season! Praying for Your Adult Children
Are you a parent of an adult, or almost-adult, child? If so, this season of the podcast is for you! We're going to be talking about being parents of adult children with some of my favorites, like Mary DeMuth, and Monica Swanson, and talking about some of the specific...
Are we supposed to pray for the same thing over and over again?
Are we supposed to pray for the same thing over and over again? This question reminds me of when my boys were little. Every Thursday we would load their instruments up in the back of our car, buckle in, and make a 4 hour round trip to Lewisburg, WV for fiddle lessons....
A 5-Minute Prayer for When You Feel Rejected
Start your week with a 5-minute Prayer for Moms. Today, Brooke teaches from Psalms 66:20. Tune in below! https://omny.fm/shows/million-praying-moms/a-5-minute-prayer-for-when-you-feel-rejected Links mentioned in this episode: This post contains affiliate links. When...
What if anger is making it hard for me to pray?
Is anger or unforgiveness affecting your prayers? I recently went through a season of anxiety related to my desire for my son to succeed at baseball. He’d been through a lot in his pursuit of the game, and endured things I wouldn’t have chosen to be a part of his...
A 5 Minute Prayer for When You Feel Shaken
Start your week with a 5-minute Prayer for Moms. Today, Brooke offers more prayers for peace, and teaches from Psalms 55:22. Tune in below! https://omny.fm/shows/million-praying-moms/5-minute-prayer-when-you-feel-shaken Links mentioned in this episode: This post...
How do we overcome laziness in our prayer life?
Why are we lazy when it comes to prayer? I have to confess that I struggle with it myself sometimes. Yes, the girl who is constantly telling you to pray sometimes struggles with laziness in her own prayers. But I may have figured out why this happens. If you’ve...
{5-Minute Prayer} for a Clean Heart
Start your week with a 5-minute Prayer for Moms. Today, Brooke offers more prayers for peace, and teaches from Psalms 51:10. Tune in below! https://omny.fm/shows/million-praying-moms/monday-prayer-for-moms Links mentioned in this episode: This post contains affiliate...
Purity Before Marriage: What Does the Bible Really Say?
I am a child of the 90s, and I vividly remember going to a True Love Waits rally where the speaker held up beautiful rose and slowly began tearing its petals off one by one until there was nothing but an ugly stump left. Of course, this was meant to illustrate what...
{5-Minute Prayer} the Safety of God’s Love
Start your week with a 5-minute Prayer for Moms. Today, Brooke offers more prayers for peace, and teaches from Psalms 48:9. Tune in below! https://omny.fm/shows/million-praying-moms/5-minute-prayer-the-safety-of-gods-love Links mentioned in this episode: This post...
{Root of Our Lack of Peace} #4: A Lack of Prayer
Prayer is relationship with God. But prayer is also a way we can fight battles. Years ago, God showed me that I had been fighting against my sons. I wanted to be on their team...and I wanted them to know and feel like we were on the same team. God showed me that...
{Peace Prayers} For Remembering God’s Grace
Start your week with a 5-minute Prayer for Moms. Today, Brooke offers more prayers for peace, and teaches from Romans 1:7. Tune in below! https://omny.fm/shows/million-praying-moms/peace-prayers-for-remembering-god-s-grace Links mentioned in this episode: This post...
The Only Parenting Message That Will Stand the Test of Time
On the coffee table in my office sits a stack of books – some Christian books and some secular books. All of these books relate, in one way or another, to how one should live out being a parent of adult children. These books suggest what I should or should not be...
{Root of Our Lack of Peace} #3: Not Building a Firm Foundation
So often, the reason we lack peace in our lives...the kind that stays with us through the best of times and the very worst of times, is because we haven't built a firm foundation. And no matter how many times I hear people say, "please don't tell me I need to spend...