One night last week, as I prayed over my sleeping middle-darling, I felt God speak to my heart.  He reminded me that Jesus came to earth to set captives free and give sight to the Spiritually blind. The bondage Brody is struggling with these days is not beyond our loving God's reach, nor the strength in his arm.  It's simply not.  And more than that I felt sure that the freedom Christ will bring into Brody's life in these difficult areas will be a well from which spouts up my son's testimony. Many will see and hear and believe because of the bondage breaking stories God is writing in the lives of our children!

I know it pains us to see our children held captive by negative self-talk, pride, disrespectful hearts, or anger, and I know the inner turmoil we can face as we try to work it out of them prayerfully, intentionally, lovingly.  But the Victory, i have come to believe, is entirely the Lords!  O yes, He will use us as prayers, teachers and encouragers in their young lives... but it will not be by our strength that the Victory is won.  

PSALM 20:1,5-7

May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble!

We will sing for joy over your victory,

And in the name of our God we will set up our banners.

May the LORD fulfill all your petitions.

Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed;

He will answer him from His holy heaven

With the saving strength of His right hand.

Some boast in chariots and some in horses,

But we will boast in the name of the LORD, our God.

HOSEA 1:7

I will save them--not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen,

but by the LORD their God.