YOU ARE A MIGHTY WOMAN OF VALOUR
How can I get out of this mess? I love my job and of course, I adore my children. They are the best thing that God has given me after salvation. Still, I can’t choose between my job and my children. I can’t quit my job and I can’t be watching the devil mess with my children like this. The pressure is becoming increasingly unbearable. Last week, Tade’s class teacher called me that I need to do something urgently about him because he was caught kissing a girl in the school toilet. Oh my God! My mind quickly flashed back to last Sunday when their children Sunday school teacher hinted me that my boy was seen checking pornographic film on his phone. Can someone just wake me up from this dreamland and tell me where I have gotten it all wrong?
How can I explain the drastic drop in his academic performance especially mathematics and sciences even with extra lesson and extra hours devoted to reading, this boy is not yielding. I can’t even begin to talk about so many shameful acts he has done in the last few months. He will keep crying and promising not to repeat it when caught in the ungodly acts and I can tell he’s genuinely sorry, but the next minute he’s at it again with worst blows. I feel drained and totally exhausted! I don’t know what David felt when he said his heart was overwhelmed, but truly that is how I am feeling right now!
God knows I have tried all my best to be a good wife and an awesome mum! Despite my ever crazy and busy schedules, I still take time out to pray with them and also carve out at least 15mins daily to study the scriptures together and still go through their school assignments. Though my husband will not lift a finger to help, he keeps saying he’s doing all he’s doing for the kids and I. Anyways, I work also, and I still contribute meaningfully to the family financial needs, so how will I keep my sanity? I want to maintain peace with my husband, have a fantastic performance at work and still raise godly genius for God. I am wondering how the scriptures can be fulfilled in my life that I can do ALL THINGS through Christ that strengthens me. “How can I?”, when I can’t even do these few things effectively and efficiently. How did Jochebed manage to raise Moses in such an insane world, how did she manage to raise his son for the palace?
God keeps telling me that I must raise Kingdom Eunuchs. How will I do this effectively, when there are bills mounting up monthly and we must do what we must do to keep body and soul? I have prayed, fasted, sought counsel, still I feel the result I am getting is not measuring up to my input. How best can I raise God’s general from this kind of a child?
Whoa! A scripture just flashed through my spirit, He calls things that are not as though they were, and they come into existence, so I can call forth what I want? So, I can create the world of my children with His written word. So, something good can still come out of my Nazareth? My Jabez can still be more honourable than all his brothers? God, I believe you!
Are you into this journey with me? Do you have a rebellious, disobedient child (either spiritual or biological) that you are planning to give up on like Hagar’s son, or like Eli’s grandchild Ichabod? Are you still single or a waiting mother but believing God to raise Kingdom generals and great seed of purpose through your womb? Is there any mother of Dinah here reading this? If you can just know the truth about the child and stop believing the lies of the enemy and your current reality, if you can just hold on to God and pray like Jabez and not give up on your Moses, if you can just believe in what God has put in you to turn such amazing destiny around. If you can partner with God to raise seeds of purpose through you, eternity will celebrate you for it! Don’t give up, rather rise Up to the demand and Build, because greater is He that is in YOU! I love you and God is with you, thou MIGHTY WOMAN OF VALOUR!
Writer : Funmi Odetola