You Can Trust God With Your Family

Priscilla Shirer and her mother, Lois Evans, join Laurie Crouch on TBN’s Praise. Listen as they discuss the different challenges that come along with raising children in the midst of today’s world; speaking about ways on how to handle parental anxiety and fully trusting God with worry over your kids.

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Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..

Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….

If there was dysfunction, because who doesn’t have dysfunction, you know, in some capacity in the in the way they raise their children or their upbringing coming up, you just sit back in that and you go, okay.
Well, lord, you know what the lapses were in my judgment.
You know how I didn’t necessarily get everything right as nobody does.
And so god, would you bring the right people into their life?
Would you shape their character in this, you know, as a young adult?
Would you do what now I can’t do hands on because I’m not with him every day.
But lord, I give my kid to you.
I I think 1 of the hard parts about being a a mom of children right now is that there seems to be this message that’s purported that if you’re just doing the motherhood thing — Mhmm.
— that you’re missing out on something, you’re supposed to be doing some worldwide ministry as well as mother and your children.
And so those that have chosen to just stay home. Yeah.
In some ways, I feel like it’s easy to feel a bit deficient or a bit like you’re not actually doing all that got called you to do.
And I I think that that’s that’s, not not necessarily the the right message that needs to be. Right.
Extended to people. I don’t either.
You know, my dad used to I was raised in a pastor’s home, and he always talked about the the family being the church in in miniature.
You know, and if it didn’t work there, you’re gonna have a hard time at working anywhere else. Yeah.
If it didn’t work in your home.
Yeah. Wow.
You know, and that that was the minister and I know Priscilla, you’re you we all love to sit and minister to people, and we love to be about the father’s business, but that business is in the home just as much as it is on the outside.
It’s our privilege
— Yeah. —
to do to raise our kids.
Yeah. So we had 4 of us. There were 4 of us. And all different activities that we were in.
Sure. But my mom and dad were very now I realize intentional.
Yeah.
The only way it happens is if you’re intentional. True. Intentional about putting us around the table.
Yeah.
And that’s where we would spend time together as a family, other places as well, but we were gonna have dinner together.
Yeah. Didn’t happen every night of the week.
But it was it was a consistent effort on mom’s part to actually cook something —
Yeah.
— and us sit down at the table and eat it together. And that’s where we taught.
That’s where we had family devotions. That’s where we found out what was happening in their day. Yeah.
We learned a lot about them, and they learned a lot about us. Yeah.
You know, they actually got involved in How much ministry we did in the different seasons in our lives?
They would actually tell us, you guys are gone too much. Yeah.
But but around the dinner tables where we heard What was happening or kids’ lives in their hearts. Yeah.
You know, like Anthony or son, we learned that we couldn’t just tell him the day before that we were leaving for Africa.
Right. And we thought we were doing that was wise because he was he’s our sense of child.
And we thought, don’t give him this information 2 weeks out. Let’s just do it the day before.
But we learned that at the dining room table, that Anthony needs to know a year
out. Yes.
So the dining table was very important for us. Yeah.
What about women that have maybe passed that time where they have that influence.
I mean, I’m sure that’s where prayer is a huge, is a huge way. And still
and I I say, still take the opportunity if you if you’ve even just passed that stage. Yeah.
I say, still take the opportunity every time god gives you chance to speak into your life, the lives of your children, even even though they’re adults.
Mhmm. You know, I still call my kids.
And if it’s a long inspiration god’s given me to tell my kids.
I tell them hang up. And don’t when I call back, just when you have time, listen to what the lord inspired me to share with you.
So I think there’s always opportunity to still speak into the lives of our children, or those that we have care of family, friends, I mentioned single parents.
If they allow you to speak into the children’s lives, you know, Proverbs 18 21 says we need to speak good.
Yeah. And today, kids need to hear good. Yeah. Because there’s so much evil around. Yeah.
I think go ahead. I was just gonna say,
I think also to know that the mercy and the grace of god covers our faults and our frailties and our weaknesses.
So if there was dysfunction because who doesn’t have dysfunction, you know, in some capacity in the in the way they raise their children or their upbringing coming up, you just sit back in that and you go, okay.
Well, lord, you know what the lapses were in my judgment.
You know how I didn’t necessarily get everything right because nobody does.
And so god, would you bring the right people into their life?
Would you shape their character in this, you know, as a young adult, would you do what now?
I I can’t do hands on because I’m not with them every day. But lord, I give my kid to
you. Yeah.
And just know that his mercy, that’s what it does. His mercy doesn’t give us what we do deserve.
And his grace gives us what we don’t deserve. And, and so that’s the goodness of god. Yeah.
You know, I love what you were talking about, though, about setting the boundaries. Because in those boundaries, come safety.
Safety. Yeah.
And and care because children left on their I mean, the Bible tells us all about it.
Children left to themselves, bring shame, you know, but setting those boundaries.
I think that’s so important because I do in a world that is so, you know, internet, phones, all of that.
Boy, it’s easy to just let the kids be with other kids, go to their houses, and and they’re just kind of free to to do what they want to do.
Yeah. And I think it’s parents, we do need to gather our children. Yeah. Yeah.
And and bring them in house a little more than what they are. I I kept my kids with me.
I I have, you know, they went to school through the third and the sixth grade, But but I kept him with me.
If I back back at that time, we had our own company, and I was able to travel with my husband, and I didn’t go without my kids.
We just didn’t. Matt couldn’t either.
You
know, we just took them. And I know that’s not, it’s not Yeah. Everybody’s reality.
But, I think that’s so important. Of course. Yeah.
Just being close by.
Being close by.
Yeah.
Priscilla, we’ve got a few more minutes.
Yes. In
this beautiful show, I have loved this. Every minute of this conversation. I love when you speak about the family.
I love the blessing that you pray over your boys.
For the last little while, why don’t you look into that camera and just minister to the people and and encourage them till we go out?
Okay. I’d love
to do that. I do wanna encourage you to not strive for perfection in your parenting. Just just consistency.
Just pick what it is that you want to do that you wanna be faithful about and can and about with your children, whether it’s baking bread.
You, you know, you decide I wanna bake bread so my kids can remember the smell of bed bread you don’t have to be perfect at it.
Just decide if that’s what you wanna do. Just do it.
If it’s that you wanna have a meal around a table, pick the 2 nights a week.
This week, you can get it done and do it. If it’s that you wanna have devotions, do it.
Just start, and you don’t have to be perfect, but your kids will remember whatever it is that you’re doing consistently and faithfully.
And, that’s what we had growing up. I will, I will say that it wasn’t perfection.
It was consistent intentional parents. And I’m so grateful for that now. Your kids will be too.
If you’re on the other side of raising your children and you feel maybe a little discouraged, because you’re looking back and you’re thinking, man, there’s so many things I would have done differently.
Well, welcome to the club. There are so many things that all of us as parents look back and would have done differently.
But it’s okay because the Holy Spirit got you covered.
There’s grace and mercy that is sufficient for all of our weaknesses and our shortcomings and our frailty.
And I’m so grateful for that from my own life, and I’m grateful for that for yours as well.
So I just wanna, tell you that 1 of the things that I do consistently with my toys is pretty much every single day as much as I can. I square them up, and I do, say some words over them.
It’s almost like a prayer. They are so annoyed that I say it to them, but I say it to them anyway.
And I encourage you to write something down for your kids, your daughter, or your son, and speak it over them.
I say to my sons that you are a man of integrity, character, and honesty, and you will love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul and with all your strength.
Today, you’ll be a blessing to your teachers, and you will be a blessing to your friends.
You will put on the full armor of god so that you can stand firm against the schemes of the enemy.
You are the head. You are not the tail. You are above. You are not beneath. You are a leader.
You are not a follower, and today is gonna be 1 of the best days of your entire life.
And I know that they get annoyed by it, but, you know, the fact that they can quote some of it back to me.
What that says to me is that it’s getting into their system and that they’re gonna believe about them whatever it is I say them.
And so I wanna speak to you from god’s word, and I want you to believe what god god’s word says about you too.
And god’s word says that you have been equipped by the spirit of god that every spiritual blessing that you need.
Ephesians 1 says pertaining to not just godliness, but pertaining to your life, every spiritual blessing you need.
He has already given you. You have been lavished upon with the grace and the goodness of god, the equipping of god to be the mother or the grandmother that he has called you to be.
You walk in victory, not in defeat. There is an enemy. Yes, but he is already underneath your feet.
He may form a weapon against you, but that weapon has no possibility of prosper.
And he already knows that before he even gets started.
You have been given a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
And you will be a woman, a mother, a grandmother, a single mother who may a mark on a generations to come, and god’s blessing will flow, not just to you, but through you.
1 generation to the next and the next.
And I’m praying the blessing over you that I’ve gotten to see come to fruition in my own parents’ life.
I’m praying that you will not just see the blessing extent of your children, but that you’ll live long enough, your eyes will be open long enough to see your grandchildren and your great grandchildren children.
1 generation after the the other, experiencing the blessing of god. Let me pray for you.
Lord, Jesus, I thank for my sister, and my brother who might be sitting on the other side of the screen.
I pray right now in Jesus’ name, that if there’s any discouragement on them that you would lift it off of them, father, you would re re place it with encouragement, father.
You would infuse them with your courage to do what it is that you’ve called them to be, to do, to be who you’ve called them to be, I pray lord that you would blanket their life in a peace that passes all understanding.
Yes.
Lord, I prayed for supernatural discernment for the mother who is trying to deal with a toddler lord.
Teenager, Lord, a young adult, for the grandmother that’s trying to figure out her place in it all.
Lord, I pray for supernatural discernment and wisdom.
Father, as they train up their children in the way that they should go, would you give them your eyes to see that child, even that problem child, lord, through your lens.
Yes. So that they can steward and guide in a way that will bring you utmost honor, father.
And I pray in the meanwhile, Lori, that you would help them to know that every deficiency they have has already been covered by your grace.
Your blood poured out on Calvary. It’s already finished. It’s done.
So lord, not to look at their weaknesses, but to remember that in our weaknesses, your strength is made perfect.
Yes.
And
so we give our families you. Yeah. Our children to you is both now and forevermore.
Good.
In Jesus’ name, amen. Amen.