by Susan Smith-Roberts

Created on: November 13, 2008

PRAY! PRAY! PRAY! Simply pray all the time about everything. You must remember that you were chosen to handle a "GREAT RESPONSIBILITY" - and that is to raise a baby to an adult. Everyone is not chosen on the best qualified and deserving. As a parent, your job never ends. Never stops, and you can not ever quit and there is not instruction manual anywhere! Everyone has pressures and stress in their lives about everything in their lives and to mix it with not getting enough rest, sleep, or peace and quiet only increases your stress. We all know this and experience it mostly every day and being a parent seems to add more stress to an already stressful situation.

But, the good news is that you are really not parenting alone. Father God is there for you to help you raise your children. He said he will be your father when you did not have one, he'd be your mother if you did not have one, he'd be your provider if you need one, he said he'd be your peace if you need some. When he told Moses that his name was I AM... It simply means - he is whatever you need him to be in your life. You fill in the blank after I am.... For he is able to be all to you and has special strengths and abilities in every needy area of your life. If you need direction, he is there to guide you to making the right decision. There to tell you to watch out for this and that... if you only take time out to talk with him about what you think is right or what is going on through your prayers. Because when you do make time to pray, and read your bible and meditate or truly think about what you have read regarding his words - it puts you in a position to hear him a little louder and clearer. It is like you and he are in a room - you are on one side he on the other. He hears and sees you fine, he knows exactly where you are and what you are doing. But you, have not yet learned how to see him or hear him and are just in motion with your life. But, when you meditate or study to understand what you have read in the bible opens the door for you and he to communicate and see him better. You can never do this all on your own.

Our Heavenly Father is much more equipped to make the right decisions about our daily lives and our parenting decisions; simply because he can see the tomorrows that we can not. But, once you begin your journey of discovering him, you will be able to make easier better judgments, better decisions of what to do and when. You will find yourself doing things and putting things here and there with no real reason of why you are doing it. But, the tomorrow will come and you will see why you did what you did and it was with the help of the Holy Spirit directing you the whole time so you would be prepared. So, simply put, PRAY and SPEND TIME with your Heavenly Father in prayer and meditation and the doors you need opened will be opened and you and he will raise a beautiful child of God and your stress level will be normal and the tranquil peace will be in your heart and in all you do and it will reflect upon the child you were given. In Jesus name. Amen

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