There are so many powerful promises in the Bible.

Promises in the Old Testament and the New Testament that are also ours now because of the complete and finished work of Jesus Christ, He Himself becoming the curse on our behalf, perfectly saving us.

The promises for us are also promises that we as mamas (and daddys) get to stand on for our very own children.

Did you know that God has an intentional purpose and plan for your child?

Did you know that just like you and me, when God was intricately forming that little baby in your womb, He purposefully designed their physical appearance, their personality, their likes and dislikes? Their purpose and destiny?

That He wrote all the days of their lives, before one of them came to be? He knows their entire life, from the end to the beginning? (Psalm 139:16)

As I’m learning so much about the power contained in the promises of God, I must share about it.

We all know the obvious promises already, right?

We know that it is God’s Will that every man should come to repentance. (II Peter 3:9)

We know that God knows the plans and thoughts He has for us, for hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11).

For God so loved you and me, that He sent His one and only Son so that whosoever will believe in Him, will have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

And others, of course.

But I’m talking about specifics.

Praying with your daughter’s name inserted…

Praying their God future.

All too often, we bypass these types of things, dismissing them off as non essential, being too busy to get quiet for this… maybe tomorrow, or next year, or before middle school, or after high school… then we wake up one day in crisis. In chaos.

Our kids are lost, they are negatively influenced and it’s worse than we thought… we find unwanted things in their rooms, in their book bags, in their cars.

It’s not too late then, it’s never too late, but it’s harder to sort and manage, harder sometimes to dig out…

I want today to encourage you to seek God for a specific promise for your child.

Sit down with the Lord.

Talk to Him about your baby, your toddler, your young teen, or even your prodigal, seemingly-far-from-God grown up child… it’s never, never, ever, too late.

Ask Him to give you a picture, a vision of His view and plan for them, the one that the Bible says He set as done before the foundation of the world.

Ask Him to show you. And keep on asking.

Then stop to listen for Him.

Read His Word. Pray, and again, keep on asking. Pay attention to what comes to your mind and heart for that child in the next few days… and expect an answer.

(When you think God has answered, always, ALWAYS make sure that what He tells you lines up with His Word. His Voice and His Word, the Bible, will NEVER contradict one another).

When He gives you one—sometimes it’s only a whisper, but you’ll know when it’s Him—write it down.

Write it in a journal, write it in your heart.

Pray it out.

Decree it aloud.

Thank God for this child, this person who He created.

Thank Him for picking you to mama him, to mother her.

This promise, mamas, this is what you hold onto when the waters of your child’s life may look a little rocky at times.

This promise is the steady that anchors you when the circumstances scream otherwise.

This promise causes faith to rise up despite what you see in the natural…

It’s our job as mothers, protectors, nurturers, to hear the voice of God clearly, to stand on it, to implement and build that promise into our children’s everyday life, God’s best plan.

Get the promise.

Get a promise for each one of yours.

God wants you to have it for them.

And your child will thank you for it one day.

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“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
‭‭II Peter‬ ‭3‬:‭9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/114/2pe.3.9.NKJV

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.3.16.NKJV

“For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭13‬-‭18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.139.13-18.NKJV