Sunday Song + Prayer

Happy Sunday, friends!

I hope you've had a great weekend and have a chance to relax before a new week commences!

Each Sunday, I am sharing a song and a prayer to carry with you through the week. My hope is that it will pour God’s truth into your heart, soul and mind. I pray it will uplift you and encourage you. I pray you it gives you hope, strength and peace. May this music help you delight in motherhood and the race you have been called to run. 

This weeks song is:

Not Today || By: Hillsong 

  Follow this link to hear this weeks song:  She Takes Strides Sunday Song Spotify Playlist

PRAYER: 

Father, 

We thank you and praise you knowing you sent your Son to bury the curse of sin and shame. His death gave us life and I pray that we would stand firm on that powerful truth. We have been made new by the bloodshed of Jesus Christ and we are no longer slaves to fear. Build up a spirit of courage in us so that we can look straight into the eyes of fear and tell it, "not today".

As we begin a new week, I pray you would renew us and give us a spirit of confidence and not of fear. Let us proclaim your goodness each and every day and let the enemy know not today, not ever. Give us the strength and wisdom to not allow the enemy a foothold. Remind us that the enemy's schemes have no power over us. I pray that you would cast out fear and give us a peace that surpasses all understanding. 

There is power in the name of Jesus. Convict us to speak it often and to seek after you, Lord. Fill our hearts with your praise and let us not grow weary but let us grow stronger in our relationship with you and those around us. I pray that as anxiety, exhaustion, or stress creep in this week, that we will coming running to you---Our Healer, our Redeemer, our Friend. 

Father, I pray for every mother in the trenches reading this today that you would remind her of her beauty and that her identity rests in you alone. Help her to remember that fear is just a liar running out of breathe. Remind her that the God of angel armies is walking with her. Renew her spirit, Lord. 


In Christ's precious and holy name,

AMEN