{"id":2033,"date":"2020-10-23T21:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lovetalks.tv\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2020-10-23T21:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T21:30:39","slug":"help-i-am-a-mother-stepping-out-in-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/help-i-am-a-mother-stepping-out-in-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"HELP! I\u2019M A MOTHER \u2013 STEPPING OUT IN FAITH"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2033\" class=\"elementor elementor-2033\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-21b4916 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"21b4916\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{\"background_background\":\"classic\"}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b0368eb\" data-id=\"b0368eb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64e693e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"64e693e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 15-07-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">For this month of January, I thought I would share my stepping out to do something I had been wanting to do for a long time. I finally started in January 2017, here I am two years later, January 2019. Sure, hope it encourages you to start that thing you have been wanting to do, this is the year to go for it,<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>The Beginning \u2013 January 2017<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">I thought to share my journey of stepping out in faith with you, in January 2017, I sent out the email below to all my friends about something I believed the Lord wanted me to do.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>Email Sent January 2017<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">It is Kemi here, although I am excited, I am petrified at the thought of sending you this email invite.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">Over the last eight months or so, I have had the thought of getting a group of mums together to pray for about 30mins once a month for our children via the web\/phone.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>It Is A Time To Act, Not Procrastinate<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">I kept procrastinating but thought as it is a new year, I would give it a shot: what is the worst thing that can happen? I will be honest, it did not come out of a need to be the super warrior prayer mum but firstly, from a desire to become a better one, or to put it another way a non-yelling mum!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>Help Me, Jesus<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">Having been cautioned by my husband for the umpteenth time to take it easy and having to be reminded that I am the adult here in my dealings with son, I realised that I had better start crying out to Jesus for help, not least because of the dawning realisation that the world we live in is changing so quickly and rapidly and our children are experiencing unprecedented challenges and pressures that we could have no clue about.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>My Story <\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong><em>My Growing Up Years Could Not Have Been More Different<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">When I was growing up, the most I got to listen to, was my much-loved music (on cassette tapes and my Walkman). I had a good laugh with my son when I went on YouTube and showed him clips of the Soul Train which was the highlight of my Sunday growing up and told him how I would try to copy the dance moves. His reality is very different.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>The Enemy\u2019s Wants To Ensnare Our Children And We Need To Go To The War Room<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">Our children\u2019s senses are bombarded by images that are so strong, designed to attract and ensnare them in ways that we cannot even begin to imagine. Whilst growing up the truth was clear, but we are now living in a world where post truths exist and there are no black and white issues. Everything today has blurred lines; from sexuality and sexual preferences to new norms of variations of marriage as we know it, to gender complexities. You will agree with me that our children desperately need our prayers to be the salt and light they are meant to be in the world and to continue with our faith legacy despite the pervading societal culture. When we pray for our children we go into our\u00a0<strong>\u201cWar Rooms\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0to fight the enemy\u201d.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>It Is Not My Fault It Is How I Was Brought Up<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">Aside from the external influences, there are also the internal challenges that we face as parents trying to grapple with our own upbringing in a different world; a world where when mum and dad spoke, you listened, and you did what was expected without questions. We are bringing up our own children in a different context; trying to juggle listening to them with exercising authority in a way that nurtures our relationship with them and empowers them to respond positively to our parenting out of genuine love and respect rather than duty.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">Having said all, I am really a regular mum like everyone else trying to love and bring up my child in a way that is honouring to God and I am inviting you on this journey of discovery both for ourselves and our children. I know how busy we all are, and I believe that this journey of a thousand miles begins with one step and little drops make a mighty ocean.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>Seeds Of Greatness<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">Every time we gather to pray for our children, we are laying tracks for them for the future and positioning them to be the arrows that God has made them. Every time we pray for them, like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one\u2019s youth\u00a0<strong>Psalms 127:4<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">Our children are like seeds, praying for them is helping them become great every nurtured seed has the potential to grow to full bloom and when we pray for our children, we are unlocking their potential for greatness and that is why the prayer group is called\u00a0<strong>Seeds of Greatness.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><em>July 2018 (18months on) Extract From Email Sent to Subscribers of Seeds Of Greatness<\/em><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>Update and Thank you<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">As I have reflected on my first email to you in January last year when I decided to act on a nudging I had felt for a bit but ignored, I am amazed that it is over 17 months already since our prayers for our children \u201cSeeds of greatness\u201d started. I am amazed at the relationships that I have formed with sisters near and wide in the UK, Nigeria, Ghana and America.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">I am amazed at the number of children that I now have, as every child represented in the group through you lovely mums has become my point of contact child when I pray, thank you for the privilege I have of praying for all the children represented.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">I am amazed at the fulfilment and burden I have to pray for and about our children\u2019s destinies future and much more, I may be a mother of one child naturally at the moment, but I am no doubt a mother of many through this prayer group. Thank you.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">I am amazed at what God is doing and will do concerning our children despite the unleashing of the plans of the powers of darkness, so wherever you may find yourself or children at the moment, please remember God promises over us and our children in\u00a0<strong>Isaiah 54:13<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cAll your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their peace\u201d, So no matter what storm is raging around you remember the one who stills the storms is with you and His name is Jesus and we are victorious in Him\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>January 2019 \u2013 Two years on Lessons Learnt<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">Your act of obedience will not only be a blessing to you but an opportunity for others to be blessed too. My life has been enriched through the monthly prayers for our children, testimonies have been shared with me with sisters through the prayers and I have formed relationships with more sisters, some I have never met but I know that God is using us to fulfil His plans for our children and the next generation.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\"><strong>It\u2019s January 2019,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>what step do you need to take in faith. JUST DO IT. Our Father is already waiting. He is a Good Good father.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: crimson text;\">Meanwhile, if you want more information about Seeds of Greatness, please email me at <a href=\"mailto:Hello@lovetalks.tv\">hello@lovetalks.tv<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this month of January, I thought I would share my stepping out\u2026<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\"><!-- wp:button --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lovetalks.tv\/2020\/10\/23\/help-i-am-a-mother-stepping-out-in-faith\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:button --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships"],"comments_count":"0","content_native":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovetalks.tv\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}