All you can do is stand

Dear Married Woman

When you have done all you can, all you can do is STAND. 
I know of so many parents who is definitely having some battle where their kids are concerned. It is really frightening. I have not gone through anything with my kids but i can only imagine what you must be feeling. Some of you might even ask yourself "What does she know? She has not gone through what i'm going through." 
Yes, you are right. I don't know what you going through, but one thing i do know is that God has laid it on my heart to write about this. I have family members who is going through a battle right now as we speak. My sister's son was killed last year after making so many bad choices. I had to put everything aside so that i can feel her pain, stand by her and watch the glorious work of God manifest through her hurt. 

You pray for your kids, you speak life to a situation that seems dead. You decree and declare every day that God gives you, but nothing seems to work. You even ask people to pray with you. There were a few times that speaking life, decree and declare, praying with others did work and then the enemy strikes back again. What do you do? Give up, go on an emotional drive, or just curse that child? 
As a mother myself, I am just doing what God asks of me and that is to encourage you today and just giving you Mom/ Dad a message. 

• Do not allow people to speak negative about your child(yes you may know this already, but we do allow it at times without us even knowing it)
• Speak life, especially when you can't

  John 6:63 New International Version (NIV)

  The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit^[a] and life.
• Keep on loving your child and keep no record of the wrong he has done, because everyday is a new day.
• Affirm you child daily, like I did with My Son,  "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." Matthew 3:17
• Pray the Armour on a daily basis and teach them to your kids. They will understand it in time, but right now, it is for you to understand so that you can stand firm.

"Stand firm then, with the belt of truth belt around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit,which is the word of God."

I believe in my spirit that God wants you well at this time. He wants you strong, that when things get rough you will exactly know who you are in Christ. Love, compassion and humility come flow with no hard work at all. I believe, what God is saying today that you should not harden your heart by treating that child like an outcast, but the person who belongs. To those parents who are humble, who does love their child, God is saying to you "This is my child in whom I am well pleased" 
I am a praying mother, who feels hurt when I hear what they go through with their children, and I pray that you will realize that a message from God can come when, where and from whom you least expect it.

In His love
Leslene