21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Our Children and Grandchildren – Day 20 The Most Important Thing

As a parent, it's so easy to get distracted by shiny and enticing life goals that look important, but are really only temporary. In most healthy parents, there is a great desire to help their children to experience the best life they can have. We see our children's strengths and weaknesses and try to point …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for our Children and Grandchildren – Day 19 Faith is the Victory!

It's time to step out of passivity into passion, hopelessness to hope and victimhood to victory! The world has been dark for a long time and it has only gotten darker. When we spend our days shrinking back in fear, we put our own lights out. John 1 says, "In the beginning was the Word, …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Our Children and Grandchildren – Day 17 Don’t Give Up!

When I started this 21 days of prayer and fasting, I felt led to put the same challenge out to other parents and grandparents (and g-g's!). The first blog had 150 reads. Day 5 has 55. Day 16 has 10. I know that fasting is hard. But, when I wake up in the morning and …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Our Children and Grandchildren – Day 16 Rebuilding Ancient Walls

In many of my blog posts, I have covered the topics of breaking curses and ending sinful legacies. Today, we will focus on rebuilding ancient walls of spiritual protection. In order to kill, steal and destroy, the enemy has to tear down our spiritual defenses. When I was in high school, my atheist friend did …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for our Children and Grandchildren – Day 15 Passing the Baton of Faith

Passing your children the baton of faith in the relay of life is not an easy task. In a relay race, each runner has a specific set distance to run. During the hand off, each runner must be "in the exchange zone." This is a very precise hand off that can make or break a …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Our Children and Grandchildren – Day 7 Shout! For the Lord has Given You the City!

Mighty fortresses seem impenetrable. Everyone who traveled past the city of Jericho could see how tightly shut up the city was. Jericho was the fortress of safety for Canaan. All of the surrounding towns would have come into Jericho for protection against the massive ranks of Israel's soldiers amassing on the border. The children of …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Children and Grandchildren – Day 6 Walking on Water

When asking God for miracles, we need to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. Why is it important to remember this? Because, we generally only need miracles when we are in an epic life-storm. In a storm, the sky is dark, the wind is howling, lightening is flashing, and waves are crashing. In other words, …

Trusting God for All Our Needs

I cried and cried. We didn’t tell anyone but the Lord. I spent time talking to God about what he had asked us to do. He wanted us to move to a new city where we didn’t know anyone, make sacrifices and yet here we were in this situation. I remember being brutally honest with the Lord in my prayer time.