His Great and Precious Promises

As a Mom to eight children, six adopted and two birthed, I can tell you story after story of countless moments in the past 14 years of Motherhood of how I looked at the circumstances in front of me, the hard experiences of raising and loving children that we adopted at 9, 13, and 15 years old, raising and loving children who had immense needs that seemed impossible to meet and thought, “I must have heard God wrong.”  

I have always been a passionate person as far back as I can remember; however, my passions before giving my whole life to Christ were directed to worldly pleasures and full of self-focused desires.   The day I gave my whole life to Him, my passions turned towards His Kingdom, towards the ways of my Lord.  It’s beautiful what God does.  Once we give our life over to Him on this side of heaven, God takes what the devil meant to further his dark, hate-filled agenda and turns it into a powerful tool to further God’s Kingdom, to bring hope to a truly dying world.  My passion before salvation was a tool for the enemy.  My passion after salvation is a weapon towards the enemy!

One of the greatest pieces of this world are the eight children God has given to my husband and me.  These are the gifts that are the most valuable to us.  These are the gifts that are most valuable to Him….. His children! The enemy would love nothing more than for Moms and Dads to bow down to depression, to bow down to giving up, to bow down to indifference and spinelessness.  The times of “hard” during the parenting years are the exact times to dig your feet deep and let determination rise in you.  These are the very times to grab hold of staying power and be determined to endure through the tough and the hard days of parenting. 

As I look back and remember the moments of thinking I don’t see how any of this is going to change.  I don’t see how my daughter is going stop hating me for adopting her.  I don’t see how my son is going to heal from years of abuse in an orphanage.  I don’t see how to balance the joys of motherhood with the hurt and frustration I feel during motherhood.  As I think about these moments, I see how one decision early on to war in prayer for our children, for our family, has no doubt changed the future of our children; changed the atmosphere in our home. 

The bible is filled with His great and precious promises for His children; for us, for our children, we just only need to pick it up and speak it forth.  God’s word says in Isaiah 55:11, “So is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”  For the remainder of the year, I am going to write on the promises God has for our children.  I hope you will join me in praying these promises over your children as well! 

One of the greatest treasures you can give children is the gift of God’s word being spoken over them!  2 Peter 1:4, “And because of His glory and excellence, He has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share His divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.”

So I invite you to come back as I post about praying His great and precious promises from His word over our children!

Be blessed today!
In Christ, Aimee'