Fear or Faith!

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FEARLESS Mom Session Recap

Fear or Faith? Which do you choose? This is the challenge Max Lucado posed us in his Parenting Fearlessly podcast message.

The fears and anxieties carried by moms are just countless and we can be so overwhelmed by these fears that the way to parent our children, guide and teach them is ruled by the FEAR in our lives.

Max Lucado showed us through the video that God knows and understands the pains and fears of parents.

Through the story of Jairus, Max Lucado showed us how Jairus sought out Jesus to heal his sick daughter and how Jairus invited Jesus into his house and what Jesus did for this family who sought Him out!

Similarly, we too can look to Jesus and pray regarding the fear and anxiety we have for our children and put our trust in Him because Jesus cares for us, He cares for our children!

One thing that struck quite a few of us is the reminder that our children do not belong to us. They belong to God. They are God's gift to us. When we give our children back to God, He gives them to us, in the right way!

As a symbolic act of giving our children back to God and committing our kids to Him, each of us were given 2 stones and we wrote our children's names on these 2 stones.

With names of your children written in each of the stones, place each stone in each of your hands and lift them up to the Lord as an act of committing and surrendering of our children to the Lord.

In the Old Testament, God commanded Moses to instruct the High priest to take 2 onxy stones and to inscribe the names of the 12 tribes of Israel onto them and place these stones upon the shoulders of the High Priest’s garments. This was to serve as a reminder in 2 ways : (1) The sacred responsibility of the High Priest, and (2) The weight of the stones was to remind them of the commandment of God to continually lift up the names of the children of Israel to the Lord.

Similarly, we are God’s royal priesthood and we have the names of our children carved upon our hearts and these stones are symbolic reminders for us to lift up our children to the Lord in daily prayer and surrender.

For those of us who were not able to join us yesterday, you may also want to get some garden stones and write your children's name on them and symbolically give your children back to God and trust Him with your children.

This is the link to the video : Max Lucado: Official Site of the Christian Author and ... or Fearless: Parenting Fearlessly | by Max Lucado

Watch it again and be blessed, and share the blessings with your friends :)