While what she was sharing may be true, I began to see her responding just as orphaned as her mother was. You don’t change things by using the same weapons. I began to speak into her life and help her to see that there are ways to respond as a Daughter, which is where true healing begins.

Young moms have an incredible responsibility as the family line baton is passed onto them. They should evaluate things in the family that their parents did well and identify things they want to do differently.

But the key is HOW they do it.

You must do it as a Daughter, not an orphan. Slandering, ripping on, tearing apart, and being prideful against your mother will not profit you or your children. Take the baton, walk in your authority, but do it as a Daughter.

Forgiveness is key!
Repentance is key!
Language is key!
Kindness is key!

You don’t become a better mom by slandering your mother. You become a better mom by forgiving her for doing the best she could, and then you pick up the pieces to do better with her grandchildren.

I am hosting a LIVE MINISTRY CALL on Monday, May 11th at 10 am EST for those in our MOTHERING MOTHERS (paid membership). We will unpack your mother story and provide additional healing ministry and freedom prayers for those who want to go deeper.

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The enemy seeks to put you in a box and categorize you with words like “You are so high maintenance,” “You are so emotional,” “You are too much.” These may have felt true to others about you in the moment, but they aren’t the truth about who God made you to be. Words from our mothers can sting deep and linger long.

🌸Close your eyes and think of your mother.

🌸What words do you hear her saying?

🌸Make a list and actively walk through each one, forgiving her.

🌸Then, break agreement with each one line by line.

🌸Ask the Lord to speak a fresh word of truth over you about your identity and who He designed you to be.

🌸For the next several days, declare out loud His truth over you 5 times a day until it becomes your truth.

Honor her by walking in your God-given identity and coming out from any false narratives.

Your mother will stand before the Lord someday and will have the full revelation of who you are. It honors her as your mother to receive that revelation NOW. She would want you to seek deeper healing from any area where she was wrong, speaking from a wounded place, or simply didn’t understand.

Want to go deeper? Ask the Lord to reveal any words you have spoken over your child. Repent and intentionally make it right with them. I do not encourage you to come up with a list of things you have done and said, but rather ask the Lord to reveal it to you.

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Forgive your mom for the ways she did not model the Holy Spirit to you through the gifts of being comforted, nurtured, and instructed.

One of the biggest reasons people don’t care for the things of the Holy Spirit is not that they are against the Spirit of God; it’s that they had mothers who didn’t manage their emotions well and were afraid the Holy Spirit would make them feel out of control and unsafe, as they did with their mom growing up.

ENCOUNTER HOLY SPIRIT

It is one thing to be hurt by an emotionally out-of-control or absent mother; it is another thing to think that the Holy Spirit is unsafe. At the end of life, it comes down to one simple thing - our relationship with our heavenly Father, not our parents.

PARENTING YOUR CHILDREN

What parent doesn’t have an awareness that their weaknesses are affecting their children? You can still be a powerful parent despite your weakness.

Moms, it is okay to be on a journey of becoming who you are as a Daughter. One of the greatest things you can say to your child when you make an emotional mess is, “I am sorry that Mom reacted/yelled/got impatient/didn’t listen to your heart. Do you know the Holy Spirit would never _____?”

Restore them to the TRUTH about who the Holy Spirit is, despite your weakness, so they do not transfer their earthly experiences with you to Holy Spirit. The goal is not to become perfect parents but to bridge our children to the One who always will be perfect.

Pray out loud:

“Holy Spirit, I welcome You to come and be my comfort. I open my heart to You because You are trustworthy and safe. I invite Your nurture and instruction to guide and lead my life so that I can steward what God has given me well and give Him glory. Come, Holy Spirit, and have Your way with me in every area of my life. In Jesus’ name.”

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Exodus 20:12 says, “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”

Honor your mother and father is not about giving them credit or praise. It is about your heart posture, and the reward is what YOU reap. I love these testimonies about adult daughters and mothers being restored. While I am grateful for my heart journey with my own mother, it is testimonies like this that give me a twinge of sadness that her early death prevented the full testimony of reconciliation on earth.

Lisa, the biggest shift happened when I was actually able to forgive my mother. It came in layers—- forgiveness, pain (realizing my healing didn’t equal her healing), more heart work, obedience (honouring my mother even if I didn’t like her), and it was there, in the honour that God rewarded me with LOVE. Real and genuine love for my mom! The woman I’ve HATED for years! I now love! And not for the way I wish she were but for the way she is…. I have compassion for her humanity, and I see her through The Father’s eyes, and I actually delight in her! From a Mom who took our MOTHERING MOTHERS mentorship last year.

I encourage you to spend a moment and write out 3-5 words that would describe your less-than-pleasant experiences with your mom. We aren’t looking for what your mind tells you, such as, “Well, she did the best she could.” Instead, we are looking at how your heart experienced her.

Take a tour of your relationship and write out a list of words that describe your experience, such as:

🟣Emotional

🟣Unpredictable

🟣Unavailable

🟣Busy

🟣Distracted

Then…

1️⃣Go through your list and forgive her for each one.

2️⃣Then, ask the Lord to forgive you when you have been that way to your children.

3️⃣Ask Jesus to show you what was going on for your mother that made her behave that way.

You will have an easier time seeing and hearing when you have first forgiven her and repented for the times you have done the same.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your mom is the gift of forgiveness.

Join me all week as we continue to unpack your mother journey. I encourage you to press in even when it feels uncomfortable.

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A few random, but important things to share with you today.

TONIGHT - Join me for a special 2-hour online event dedicated to exposing and overcoming issues affecting intimacy in marriage. Today, 5/4 at 7:30 PM EST.

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THERE IS MORE!

I want to give a word of encouragement to those of you who are feeling the squeeze and tension of being transformed. One of the hardest seasons to steward is what I call seasons of ‘holy dissatisfaction’. You have the revelation that there is more and can no longer be content with the former, but are not yet in the new. It is like taking your foot off a rock and not yet landing on the next one. This season is uncomfortable because we have eyes to see that our old ways of operating are no longer working, and we want to grab onto anything familiar and secure.

Jesus is your anchor in these seasons. Grab onto Him, His word, and focus on His Presence. It is not up to you to figure everything out. Your job is to be humble and keep your eyes on Him. He is faithful to move us where we need to be. Trust Him in the process. Remember to increase your time spent reading the Word, worshiping, and declaring “Jesus, I trust you!”

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Have a wonderful day knowing you are deeply loved, wanted, and seen!

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore, I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. (1 Corinthians 9:24–27).

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Three times this week, I ministered to Godly mature women struggling with the marriage bed.

Walk with me in this analogy: At one o’clock in the afternoon, your children have a desire for a cookie. You don’t just tell them to wait until after dinner, but begin to tell them about all of the chemicals in the sweet treat, how the sugar feeds parasites, how they will break out with acne, that it isn’t even natural but manmade, and how harmful it is for them. They had a natural desire that is now filled with fear and feeling unsafe. At five o’clock, you expect them to sit down at the table and enjoy your homemade cooking made with love. Their view of food will be warped.

Their desire for a cookie is good. Having to wait to satisfy that desire is good. But attaching all sorts of negative, bad things to the food is not going to help them down the road.

This is what we do to our children with purity. “It’s bad, it’s dark, it’s evil, it’s unsafe, it’s predatory, etc.” Then we expect them on the night of their wedding to embrace it fully. I believe we need to flip the narrative and teach children about purity from heaven’s perspective - that it is good, Godly, sacred, enjoyable, permissible. BUT IN HIS PROPER TIMING.

A great word picture is baking a cake. Cake is wonderful, but if you take it out before its time, consuming the raw batter will make you sick. If you wait until the right time, not only do you get to enjoy the sweet cake, but you also get the added benefits of the frosting, celebration, and connection.

Don’t warp the marriage bed in an effort to teach them about purity.

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Date & Time: Monday, May 4th, 7:30 PM EST.

Our goal is to:

• Address the common root causes of intimacy struggles.

• Offer practical tools and spiritual insights to strengthen your marriage.

• Break the isolation and shame that often surround these issues.

• Foster a space of hope, healing, and restoration.

Important Details:

• The first hour will focus on teaching and the second hour will be devoted to ministry and personal breakthrough.

• Join solo or with your spouse.

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MY PROMISE

Years ago, I wasn’t in a church that supported children playing in the Kingdom, and my religious mind told me that my little ones were too young for such complicated spiritual matters like hearing Him speak.

I longed for the day they would be mature enough to participate in the Kingdom. A few days later, we were all down by a river eating shelled peanuts. Lauren, my eldest twin, asked if she could feed the squirrels.

Suddenly, to my own surprise, I heard myself say, “I do not know if it is a good idea or not, go ask Jesus,“ and a few seconds later she jumped off the chair to go play. I was shocked that came flying out of my mouth. I had .000006 ounce of faith that she really would or could, given her young age.

To know Lauren is to know that she is quite strong and bright, and she will repeatedly ask and even repackage her question until she gets the answer she desires. She doesn’t just let things go and run off and play without getting her desired answer. I called her back and inquired if she had asked Jesus or not, and what she said rocked my world to the core. She said, “Oh yeah, He said it wouldn’t be a good idea,” and again she bounced off to play.

For me, at that moment, the world stopped. Tears streamed down my face; I realized that my baby had just heard the Creator of the Universe speaking to her.

I knew at that moment that I was not a single parent but that my children had a Father who was eager to parent them. I took a mental snapshot of what just happened and promised that I would spend the rest of my days on earth tuning my children’s ears to His voice.

GOD IS A PERFECT ECONOMIST

One day, I was having a really hard time and decided to get my eyes off myself so I asked God what we should do with our day. I heard Him say to go be a blessing and rake leaves.

I jumped into action. Logical thinking concluded that going to the poorest part of town and blessing the souls there would be best. I loaded up the van with kids and rakes and waved to my neighbor as we took off in search of the family that needed to be blessed. After forty-five minutes of driving around endlessly looking for a single family that had not yet raked, I was growing frustrated. What was supposed to help my day ended up making my day even worse. Defeated and somewhat mad, I made the trek back home. Upon entering our community, I heard the words, What? Don’t you think your neighbors need Me? Instantly, I knew God gave me the WHAT (raking), but I ran with it before I asked the WHO or WHERE.

Immediately upon parking in the driveway, the kids flew open the van door and ran across the street to the neighbor’s house (yes, the one we waved to on the way out) and raked all of the leaves.

But the story doesn’t end there. Days later, I received a letter from the single elderly lady with a check, saying how she was so overwhelmed by all of the work that needed to be done, and was crying out to the Lord about her needs as we were driving by, waving at her. She finally had to leave the house with the yard work undone, and when she came back, she found ten bags full of raked leaves. God is a perfect econo- mist. While one woman needed to take her eyes off her circumstances, another woman needed an extra set of helping hands. We need to ask Him the who, what, and where, too! And this requires communication - both talking and listening.

EMMA’S OUTFIT

When my daughter was five, she came to me sobbing that she hated her outfit. I encouraged her to pick out something else. She did and that, too, produced an ocean of tears. She set off to find something else but failed to cease the flood of tears. At this point, I was getting a little annoyed and frustrated. We were already super late for dinner at a friend’s house, and clothes were simply a non-issue in my home up until that point. Why now did they matter so much? By the fifth outfit, I was about to give her a good lecture on “naked you came, naked you will leave,” and I could feel my blood pressure rising as I heard her tears coming back up the stairs, but suddenly, Holy Spirit whispered, “Ask WHY.” I sat her down and asked why she hated her clothes. She stated immediately that it was because she wasn’t pretty enough (lie). But we had to keep asking questions. WHY did she believe she wasn’t pretty enough?

She then revealed the painful splinter: “Because my daddy doesn’t love me.” She had seen him earlier that day, and it didn’t go well. Satan had whispered to her that the reason she believed he didn’t like her much was because she wasn’t pretty enough and that if only she could just find the right outfit she would feel pretty and loved. I explained to her that the voice she heard was not Jesus but His enemy. Because kids have a free will, I always ask, “Would you like to tell that lie to leave?” It empowers them to have a voice and use their authority over the enemy.

I then led her through a prayer that looked like this:

1.”Jesus, I confess I believed the lie that I am not pretty enough for my dad to love me.

2. Jesus, I forgive my dad for not making me feel like a Princess.

3. Jesus, where were you when I got my feelings hurt?

4 .Jesus, how do you feel about me?”

She sat there with her eyes closed and suddenly got the biggest smile on her face. She looked up and said with such excitement, “Mom! I was wearing this beautiful dress, and my hair was up like a ballerina. I was dancing with Jesus and He said I was HIS princess!” While that was indeed a sweet moment, what is so awesome about that is that where the enemy came to harm, God used it all for good.

One of the reasons why kids are such easy targets for such absurd lies is because their brains aren’t fully developed yet, and they do not have the same thinking capability as an adult. They aren’t mini-you’s; they are underdeveloped and, therefore, need a parent to guard, guide, and protect them. There is a reason that nearly all types of adult therapy, both secular and spiritual, take you back to your childhood. That is where the lie is first embedded

If you have read many posts of Let the Children, you will know that hearing God is a core ingredient to partnering with Him in your parenting. The fruit is literally changing the next generation.

Tomorrow in our MOTHERING MOTHER’S mentorship group we begin our teaching on how to teach the children to hear. We invited you to join us if you aren’t already with us. You can cancel anytime.

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Two Truths

There are two truths:

#1. God always speaks.

#2. Your ears work just fine – there is no spiritual deafness!

If you hear that God doesn’t want to talk to YOU or that He doesn’t love you or that you will never hear anything, know that your ears are working just fine, you are just hearing the wrong kingdom and hearing lies.

Where does God say the Holy Spirit dwells? Outside of us, like the Old Testament? No. Occasionally appears to us and leaves. NO! He says the Helper, the Holy Spirit of God, dwells within YOU. So where would we hear Him speaking? On the dashboard of our van? Up in the sky? While He may choose to speak to us here, the typical way to hear Holy Spirit is inside of YOU! And if something is speaking inside chances are at times it’s going to feel or sound as natural as your own thoughts.

Many people reject the voice of God because it comes in too natural of a way. They only seem to give God credit for speaking through burning bushes. If this is you, I encourage you to break agreement that communication with your Father is too hard, challenging, or distant.

When you attempt to hear God’s voice, you are not allowed to think you made it up. If you ask a question and instantly hear something, do not take credit for that, thinking, Oh, that was just me. If you were watching a movie last night and asked Him a question and He referred to something in the movie, do not think that was just you. Were you thinking of the movie when you asked the question? Probably not.

What else is God going to use than the things that we already have a grid for understanding? It is His way of saying, I see you. I know where you have been and what you do. I know what you watch, what you say, and who you see. I am so much a part of your life that I reference things that you have experienced because I was there with you. That is pretty awesome if you ask me!

I occasionally get asked this question: What do I do if I am actually listening to the wrong voice? I don’t want to be deceived. You will know by the fruit, as with anything else. Satan wants you to doubt your hearing and will try to get you to think it was just silly, ole you speaking, but resist that.

I honestly believe that one of the reasons my spiritual hearing is so fine-tuned is that I do not waste much time doubting or debating what I hear. If it is life-giving, I trust it. If it is condemning, I throw it out and ask again. This I know – God’s word always bears good fruit. If it isn’t of the Lord, it will be revealed in time, but when you are practicing, you must have faith greater than your doubt. There is room to take a risk. It might just be the God of the Universe speaking to YOU!

The purpose of the cross wasn’t only forgiveness but a relationship with God. God paid a pretty high price to offer us a relationship with Him. Do we not really believe that He wants to speak to us?

We must remember, though, that He is a perfect gentleman. He won’t scream, repeat it 100 times, or corner you to be heard. His job is to speak, but your job is to LISTEN!

There is a war to keep us blind and deaf. And yet the irony of this is that there is no such thing as spiritual deafness.

Don’t make this hard and complicated. Do we fret about our communication skills when we talk with a friend? No, we know how to listen. The same applies to Father God – just listen! Just enjoy the process, don’t get discouraged!

The Parable of the Sower applies to hearing God and the condition of your heart.

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. ² Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. ³ Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. ⁴ As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵ Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. ⁶ But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. ⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. ⁸ Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. ⁹ Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

Verse 3 - Jesus talked to them - He is the same yesterday and today and still talks to those who follow Him. John 10:27-28

Verse 4 - The seed is His words and the birds (enemy) came to eat them up quickly in the form of doubt and unbelief. “Did God really say that? I am sure that was just me thinking that.”

Verse 5 - The words fell on hard places in the heart and while it was received the word did not grow into anything because the heart was hardened. “There is no way God could mean that. He doesn’t love me that much.”

Verse 6 - The words fell but in the heat of adversity or real life circumstances the word withered away and coudn’’t stand the heat. “I am too busy”, “No one believes in me”, “My pastor told me no so I must not have heard right”.

Verse 7 - The words fell but the heart and mind had too many weeds and eventually chocked the life out of the word. “I have never amounted to anything good, why would God think anything different”, “I am too busy”, “I don’t have what it takes”.

Verse 8 - The words fell on a heart that was pure and ready to receive in faith what He had to say and allowed it to grow and produce life. “I am a Child of God and He speaks to me and tells me wonderful things. He leads - I follow!

We break up the hardness of our heart and unbelief with confession, repentance and declaring His truth.

Father, forgive me for my doubt and unbelief. Just because I haven’t fully experienced it yet doesn’t mean you don’t speak. Forgive me for denying your kindness and love. I repent for leaning on my own understanding. I declare your truth:

God, you do speak to your Children.

Father, you do want to speak to me.

Jesus, I want to hear what you have to say to ME.

God always speaks.

My ears work just fine – there is no spiritual deafness!

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♥️Wow, I love your quote about how many times a day do I let my Father speak to me. I am good about praying and talking to him but do I zone in on His voice and what He has to tell me? Your testimony is so powerful, Lisa. You are an everyday inspiration.

♥️Not long ago, when lamenting to a friend about something, she asked me “Did you ask God about that?” It took me by surprise. Well sure, I asked God in a round about way, something like this: “God, if it’s in your will, and you don’t have to answer me because I know it sounds selfish, and maybe I just need to change my perspective on this. I never really asked or talked to God about it as I would with someone who I have a close relationship with. It was indeed odd for me to ask Jesus about little things. Today’s reading was a paradigm shift for me—to know that He wants to speak to me and wants me to bring all things to Him, big and small.

♥️I love this! When going about my day, I don’t often think about what Jesus thinks of me in those moments. I want to start implementing this into my days.

♥️I talk to God all the time but when I read the question, How many times a day do you let your Father speak to you…it’s not that often! He told me that I talk to Him and do I really slow down that often to hear His voice throughout the day? I’m always talking to Him but never really giving Him a chance to talk back to me that often.

♥️I loved this message. While I was going through it I really felt stirred that I want my heart to become even more of the good soil type that is open to all of God’s word.

♥️This is a great lesson, and showed me how much I dismiss God speaking to me, that I must be “wrong”.

♥️This is a great lesson to encourage knowing we hear His voice. He is always there and always wanting to communicate. So many times I do go back and forth wondering if that’s just me. Lining it up with scripture so helpful.

♥️I have been feeling drawn to abide more in Christ in just the last few months (John 15). But, my hangup has always been that I don’t enjoy or revel in spending time alone with the Father because I don’t hear from Him- its not the two-way conversation that I so desperately want/need. This lesson was a powerful challenge to me to stop doubting the voice of God.

♥️Listening to God and asking him questions has been a process for me. Just in the last year or so I have learned to ask Holy Spirit questions. I am so hungry to have that intimate relationship with my Father, where Him and I communicate.. Your analogy of being mute and learning to communicate with my children hit a tender spot in my heart. Our Father is sooo good. He reveals more of His character as we mature.

♥️I love this! I have been in a season of trying to put off distractions and really listen. My heart is to hear the Lord even in the noise of everyday life. I want to stop and ask the question, Jesus, what do you think about that more often. I also want to help my children listen for the voice of Jesus.

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Think about what life would be like if you went mute and had to try to teach, train, and love your children without words.

Seriously, think about how many times a day you use your words to guide your children to teach and train them, encourage them, cheer them on, and help them. How often do you use your words to tell them how precious and special they are to you? Now, how many times a day do you let your Father speak to you?

For Starters

The first thing you have to answer is: Does God want to speak to me? I encourage you to camp out in these verses. Read them slowly and study them, ponder them, and allow the Word of God to speak to you.

My Journey

When I was 24, I overdosed and was left in my room for three days. When they first discovered me, an officer declared me DOA (dead on arrival) and went to get the body bag. When the paramedics arrived, they believed they found a faint pulse and rushed me to the hospital, where I remained in a coma for three months. I woke to find myself on the liver transplant list, going through dialysis three times a day, and on the kidney transplant list. My arm was paralyzed and my lungs didn’t work on their own. My first memory of waking up was being flat on my back with tubes and machines everywhere, and my family informed me that my mom had died the month before and that I had missed her funeral. Life stunk!

I thought I was a believer because I was raised in the Church and knew all of the stories and had a respect for God. However, my experience didn’t include a bright light as many report, but rather hell in its darkest form. The doctors said I was just hallucinating from the drugs, so I refused any form of medication whatsoever, and I told God that He could have my life and do whatever He desired with it, but His ways had to work. I wasn’t interested in a life on medications or therapy. Either He was real or He wasn’t. A few days later, my expert team of doctors came in to tell me that my kidneys had kicked in, and then days later, to their utter amazement, my liver also was healed, taking me off both transplant lists.

The first thing I ever recall hearing the Father say to me was, “The deaf can hear.” I laughed and then argued, “No, they can’t. They are deaf.” But I heard that statement many times. I just assumed that all believers heard God speaking the way I did. After all that IS what the Word says - His sheep will know His voice. I vividly recall talking to a family member one day about hearing God, and while she loved the Lord, she said she had never experienced Him communicating anything to her personally.

That blew me away. It opened my eyes to the fact that, so few children knew how to hear Him. I started teaching classes on it, and it has been a life mission of mine to help connect young and old to their Father’s voice.

We pray, ask others for their wisdom, fast, do it on our own strength, lean on our understanding…but have we simply asked Him?

It is pointless to try and teach something if you don’t receive it through faith. I encourage you to settle the matter today but going through these scriptures line by line and confessing His Word to be true. Ask Him to increase your revelation of His kindness towards His children by communicating with them.

Scriptures About God Speaking To Us

“Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’” - Isaiah 30:21

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” - Psalm 32:8

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” - John 10:27

“Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” - Jeremiah 29:12-13

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” - Matthew 7:7

“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” - James 1:5

“And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire a still small voice.” - 1 Kings 19:12

“When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.” - John 10:4

“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” - Revelation 3:20

“Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” - Psalms 25:4-5

“The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.” - Isaiah 58:11

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SAD ABOUT MY DAD

After hours of constant strife, I finally sent my son to his room to give us all a break. Moments later, as I walked down to his room, I vividly remember saying, “Holy Spirit, I have no idea if I am going to yell at him, spank him, hug him or play with him when I get there, but You do!” And then I remember adding a little, “And You better show up quickly!” The moment I entered his room I could ‘see’ pain on him. I had an urge to grab a stack of paper. I sat on the floor with my (then) five year old son and asked him to wad up a piece of paper and throw it, but while he was throwing it he needed to call out how he felt about his dad leaving. “I am mad he can’t play ball with me.” (Throws paper ball and makes a new one.) “I am mad I am the only boy in the family.” (Throws ball and makes a new one.) “I am sad he can’t tuck me in at night.” And so on and so on. This hurting child threw FIFTY paper balls and by the end he was weeping. As a mom, having to watch this pain seep out of my precious boy was excruciating, but I had to let it run its course. At the end, I scooped him in my arms and just held him. I called forth his worth and value and told him that he was fiercely loved and wanted. From that moment on the ‘sting’ was gone from being fatherless (not that there wasn’t more to process, but the splinter in his heart was gone). There are adult men and women all over the world who are dealing with the trauma of being fatherless, but as parents we can partner with the Holy Spirit to give us creative ways to deal with the hurts, lies, and offenses of childhood IN childhood!

LOVE IN AISLE 8

One day, as we walked into the grocery store, my eight year old daughter immediately grabbed a huge Valentine box of candy, declaring, “We have to buy this!” to which I replied, “Oh no we don’t.” She said it wasn’t for her but someone else. Her persistence caught me off guard and it became clear to me she was on an ‘assignment.’ I wasn’t sure what God was up to but was excited to see it unfold. She spotted an employee and immediately knew it was for her, but she was busy. We kept walking around and my daughter had this ‘Christmas morning’ type of excitement about giving this girl a gift. We made our way to the seasonal section and I tried to convince her to pick out a less expensive box but she said, “No, Mom, it can’t be small, but something that lavishes on her.” Finally, the worker was available and my daughter explained to her that God told her to buy a gift for someone and that this particular girl was highlighted to her. She was completely taken off guard and unsure how to respond. My daughter then went on to say that God wanted her to know that she was loved and so special to Him, and then handed her the big box of chocolates. Children have the ability to access people’s hearts in ways adults can’t reach. They are such sharp arrows in the Kingdom!

JESUS LOVES JEREMIAH

One morning, I was really touched by our five year old son. He told me that he heard Jesus talking about our son Jeremiah. I asked him what Jesus said and he said Jesus said that He loved him! I told him that when Jeremiah got home from school he could tell him what he heard and he did just that. My son Jeremiah is special needs and has a hard time so it was perfect. I love childlike faith and how clearly children hear from God. Teaching them to hear when they are young is not difficult and is important so they can have that connection with Him always.

LYING LIES

I am learning to parent with Holy Spirit. After my daughter was caught lying and sneaking (something she has struggled with for awhile), I asked her to ask Jesus what He thought of her. She said “God is angry” and “He is nervous I will lie and be sneaky again.” So I asked her which kingdom partners with anger and she answered the enemy’s did. Which kingdom partners with nervousness? The enemy. I told her to close her eyes again and ask again. This time she smiled wide and said, “He forgives me and is happy and wants to help me not to lie and be sneaky.” The weight I saw lift from her was undeniable. She was later dancing joyfully to the worship music my husband had playing in the kitchen.

LIES DON’T FIT

My daughter began wailing in another part of the house. I came running into the room, thinking she was hurt and she said, “He [her brother] called me a boy!” I reassured her that she was a girl, but she would not stop crying. I asked her what she would think if I told her she was a puppy or had purple hair and she thought that was pretty silly. I said, “Exactly! Just because someone calls you a boy doesn’t make it true.” She was distraught because she accepted what someone else said and it didn’t fit. As she discovered that she didn’t need to accept something just because someone else said it (because not all words spoken to or over us are true) she was empowered to ‘flush’ the lie and receive the truth!

HEALED MOUTH

It’s amazing to see how much faith our children have. The other day our son was experiencing pain due to a mouth sore. My wife was going to put something on the painful area before he went to sleep, but he told her not to put anything on it because God would heal him. What moved us was when he said, “You have no idea what God can do!” His faith was so strong that by the next morning he didn’t have any more pain and his sore was healed! We were amazed at how God taught us a faith lesson through our son.

HURTING HEART

My youngest two children have always been close; however, recently they have been snapping at each other a lot. I finally sat them down one morning to dig deeper. It was obvious one of them was carrying some hurt, but didn’t know over what or why. Not a problem, Jesus knows! Psalms 139 tells us He can search our hearts and reveal things to us so we asked Jesus to shine His flashlight into her heart. She started crying and said that during Christmas break she asked to play with him on numerous occasions and he said no. She took this very personally and had built a wall around her heart with him. I could have disciplined her for snapping at him, but her outward behavior wasn’t the issue, her hurting heart was. As soon as Jesus revealed the truth of what was really going on, she was able to forgive her brother and be free from the hurt that was agitating her heart.

THINGS AREN’T WORKING FOR ME

My three-year-old daughter and I have been butting heads. She has been disobedient and extremely whiny. Despite trying multiple methods to discover what was going on with her, things remained tense. I finally sat her down with paper and colored pencils (an idea I learned from Let the Children Fly). I asked her to draw Mommy a picture of how her heart was feeling. I left her quietly to herself. When I returned shortly thereafter, all she had on the page were black scribble lines. I asked her to describe to me what her picture meant. She said, “It means that things just aren’t working out for me.” WHAT?! That is a lie from the pit! I immediately asked her to ask Jesus if this was the truth. After asking Him, she said, “No, it’s not true.” After that, we declared the truth and she was immediately all smiles.

DANCE EMMA, DANCE!

Emma, my second twin, wiggled in my womb so much it would sometimes take the nurse 45 minutes just to get an ultrasound of her. She hasn’t stopped moving since. Not in a hyper way (she is actually very mellow), but in a dancing way. I was never allowed to be carefree as a child and the creative arts aren’t my natural bent so it somewhat agitated me that she couldn’t just walk through the grocery store, but always had to be leaping and twirling. I used to try to teach her to control herself and walk like a lady. It caused tension between us at times. God began to show me that her dancing is a gift from Him and can be a form of warfare against the enemy. Something shifts in the atmosphere when she dances and it is incredibly powerful. The other day, I sensed Holy Spirit calling me to worship Him despite the heaviness I was feeling in my heart. I found myself calling to my daughter from the other room, “Dance Emma, DANCE!” Within a few moments, something broke in the atmosphere. What I find interesting is that I endured a lot of grief while I was pregnant with her and I sincerely believe all of the ‘movement’ was her dancing in the womb. I don’t always understand what is going on, but this I do know: Children are powerful carriers of the Kingdom and we as parents must learn to steward their gifts versus trying to control them. When we are able to do this, WE are the ones who are blessed.

JOY FOR MOURNING

I am a single mother to a precious seven year old. She has no memory of her dad and I being together. While she loves spending time with him, her little heart feels torn apart every time the visit is over. She cannot understand why she can’t have us both at the same time and is constantly missing the other parent when spending time with me or my ex. Thankfully, Lisa gave me the tools to walk my daughter through inner healing. On one particularly difficult night, we walked through the steps Lisa had given me. My crying, hurting little girl gave her wounds, fears, and anger to Jesus and He gave her peace, joy, and love in return. I gave Jesus mine as well and returned with the same. We giggled and laughed and felt so healed! She told her class about it the next day because Jesus met her in her pain and took it away. It was beautiful!

GROWING IN LOVE

Wow, so much has changed in my heart! I am feeling freer and I’m trusting more. I’m talking to God and I’m listening. My husband is with me too, and I feel this journey has brought us closer in both our marriage and our parenting. The Let the Children Fly class has become a part of our daily life. One night, as a family, we printed off the results from our love language quizzes and then printed out pictures of cups that were empty. We spent time praying, talking to God, and sharing ways we can fill up our love tanks, or cups, and how we are unique with different needs. The kids loved it! They went to bed saying their love tanks were full.

“SHY” IS A LIE

One morning, our six-year-old was being really funny when we asked her to pray about something. Her head was hanging down with hair in her face and she said she didn’t want to pray because she was shy. She has said she was shy before, but she’s really my bold adventurer! My husband and I asked her what God was saying to her. It took a while, but she finally whispered, “I’m powerful.” So we asked if it was true or a lie that she was shy. She knew it was a lie, but was cowering in fear. I know she can see in the spirit realm, so something was obviously going on. I remembered a story you had shared about your son kicking a lie out the door. I shared it with her and asked her if she wanted to kick out the lie that she was shy. Still acting timid, we went to the door and together said, “I am not shy” and kicked it out the door. She shut the door and began to have this tiny smile. She whispered in my ear, “Mommy, it’s like we kicked all the sneaky, snakey things that aren’t God’s friends out the door.” Oh, my word. Our daughter has gotten so many words about being bold, powerful, and filled with God’s light. This is who she is called to be, not shy or fearful.

WATERING A WILTED HEART

Have you ever seen a plant that desperately needs a drink? My daughter looked that way to me the other day so I told the other kids to find something to do for thirty minutes while I had an in-home date with her. I told her to meet me in the rec room in five minutes. She had no idea what was happening but was waiting for me. I walked in, handed her a drink, and told her I just wanted her all to myself for a few moments. I began to ask her questions about her heart, life, friends, and school. Her comment to me when we were done fifteen minutes later was, “I feel so alive, Mom.” Just because we are with our kids all the time doesn’t mean we have their hearts. Ask Holy Spirit how you can creatively water their heart today in a meaningful way.

“I AM NOT AFRAID!”

I had been wondering if what I was teaching my eighteen-month-old son was even working. I had been noticing over the last month that he would start crying when he walked into dark rooms. He’d turn to me and say, “Momma, it’s dark and I am scared.” The other day, as he ran away from the dark something rose up within me and I told him to go back in there and tell the dark, “I am not afraid” and I stomped my foot down. We did this for a whole month. He would cry and I would remind him and then he would tell the dark he wasn’t afraid. Then he would walk in and grab a toy. I turned the lights on for him after he walked through the door. But one morning he walked into the dark living room, and I heard him say all on his own while he stomped his feet, “I AM NOT AFRAID!” He came to me so proud and stomped his feet and said, “I am not afraid.” I am so proud of him and thank God for the little presents he gives me when I least expect them. Needless to say, we had a party in the kitchen when he told me this. I learned that even when we think our kids are too young to comprehend, they do, and I’m so grateful to see my son stomp on the floor and say he is not afraid!

EYESIGHT

My daughter has been complaining lately about her eyesight and something didn’t feel right about it (not sure why or what, but it didn’t sit right in my spirit.) The other day, she came to me wearing my glasses telling me how cool she looked in them. I asked her if there was any part of her that wanted her eyes to be bad enough to need glasses, and she admitted she did because some of her friends have them and they look ‘cool’. I explained to her that when we want our bodies to be broken we are actually inviting it in. We renounced the lie that she needed glasses to be cool and then prayed for her eyes to work the way they were created.

RIGHT & WRONG

One day, my daughter came to me feeling upset about something her brother did. I could tell she needed some help working it out so I called him to join us. The first question I asked him was, “Do you know why you are here?” and he immediately said, “Yeah, I am going to get disciplined.” He was making my job very easy! So I asked him what for and he said, “Being a boy!” Apparently he was taking his bow and arrow and shooting it in the living room when the girls were watching a movie. I had to explain to his sister that he wasn’t doing anything wrong – boys are like that and that it was just his way of playing. However, I then needed to explain to my son that while he did not do anything wrong per se, he failed to see why shooting a bow and arrow around the girls was upsetting to them. It made his sister feel threatened and unsafe to have the arrows whizzing by. It is so important, especially as children get older, that they don’t just see the rules, but the principle behind them. The arrow was not the issue, my daughter’s heart was. I want my children to be sensitive to the hearts around them, even if it means laying down what is fun and okay for them in order to honor someone else’s feelings

THANKFUL PARABLE

My six year old son just had a birthday and scored big time in the Lego department. Shortly thereafter, the new Lego catalog came in the mail and I felt cautious about letting him have it as he would just start talking about what new sets he wanted. Instead, I took the catalog away and focused on helping him be grateful for what he had just received. He was pretty upset and was acting out. I asked him what was going on, and he said he didn’t understand why he couldn’t have the catalog. On the spot, I asked Holy Spirit, “How do I explain all the dynamics of greed to my son right now?” (My natural tendency is to lecture him on everything, and I’m sure he stops listening not long after I start talking.) After asking for help, I started telling him (and his brother who was also in the room) a spontaneous parable where the main characters were named Greed and Thankfulness. Both my boys had their eyes riveted on me the whole time I told the story. They interacted with it, related to it, and were captivated! I never explained the parable, I just left it as it was (later realizing that Jesus did this as His main form of teaching all the time). Since that moment, he hasn’t asked me for the catalog again. Partnering with a Holy Spirit idea is so fun!

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