I absolutely loved your recent YouTube about Jonah & the Big Fish! God spoke to me and my children so much tonight through it and also please uplift me and my two boys and prayers 💖

One of our own community Mommy members, Sasha, inboxed me about something she came across on social media. There is a post going around where parents are saying: "Teach your kids to behave because I am teaching mine witchcraft." Insinuating that they will put a curse on other people's children. I am not going to spend a lot of time on the trend itself because I do not give the enemy that much of my energy. But I AM going to respond to it. Because if there are parents out there openly declaring that they are equipping their children in darkness we have a responsibility to make sure our children are equipped in the light. And not just equipped. Confident in their authority as children of God. We teach our children TO pray. But a lot of us are still doing the heavy lifting FOR them. And there is going to come a moment when we are not in the room. When our child is at school, at a friend's house, in a situation we did not see coming and they need to know how to stand on their own. They need to know that the authority of God does not live in mom's prayer. It lives in THEM because He lives in them. So today I want to give you four prayers to pray WITH your children. Not just over them. With them. So they learn the words. So they learn the posture. So they learn that they have just as much right to talk to God and stand in His authority as any adult in the room. Print these. Post them. Pray them together tonight. PRAYER 1: THE MORNING SHIELD Pray this every morning before school or the start of the day Father God thank You for this day. I ask You to put a hedge of protection around me today. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. No curse, no evil, no assignment of the enemy has power over my life because I belong to You. I am covered by the blood of Jesus. My mind is protected. My body is protected. My spirit is protected. Holy Spirit go before me today and let every place I go feel Your presence. I walk out of this house covered, armed, and confident in who I am. In Jesus name. Amen.

Stop Paying a Debt That Was Already Cancelled I want to start today with a scenario. Imagine you owe someone a significant amount of money. It has been weighing on you. You think about it constantly. You work extra hours trying to chip away at it. You sacrifice things you need because you feel the weight of what you owe. Every time you see that person you feel the guilt of the debt sitting between you. And then one day they call you and say I cancelled it. You owe me nothing. It is done. Paid in full. And you say thank you. And then the next morning you wake up and start working extra hours again. You keep sacrificing things you need. You keep carrying the weight of something that no longer exists. You keep paying a debt that has already been cancelled. That sounds crazy. But that is exactly what most of us are doing with God every single day. The cross was not a down payment. It was full payment. Colossians 2:13-14 says -- He forgave us all our sins having cancelled the charge of our legal indebtedness which stood against us and condemned us. He has taken it away nailing it to the cross. Cancelled. Not reduced. Not restructured. Not put on a payment plan. Cancelled. Every sin. Every failure. Every pattern. Every thing you have done and every thing that was done to you that you are still carrying shame about. Nailed to the cross. Done. And yet. So many of us are still making payments on something God already paid. We make payments in guilt. We replay our mistakes on a loop. We punish ourselves for things God has already forgiven. We carry a weight of shame that was never ours to carry past the moment we brought it to Him. We make payments in performance. We serve until we are depleted trying to make up for who we used to be. We say yes to everything because we feel like we owe God our exhaustion as proof of our gratitude. We cannot rest because resting feels like falling behind on something we owe. We make payments in self punishment. We speak poorly about ourselves. We accept less than we deserve because we secretly believe we do not deserve more. We sabotage good things because something in us believes we have not paid enough yet to receive them.

You already know something is off. You can't always explain it. But you feel it. Your child was fine and then something shifted. The attitude came out of nowhere.The fear showed up and won't leave.The anger is too big for what happened.The sadness sits too heavy for their age.The manipulation is too calculated for a child.The distraction is constant like something is pulling them away from everything good. And you've tried everything. Consequences. Conversations. Therapy. Prayer. Taking things away. Giving grace. Being firm. Being soft. And still something is in that room with your child that you cannot see but you absolutely can feel. I need to talk to somebody today who knows exactly what I am describing. Your child is not just going through a phase.Your child is not just being a kid.Your child is not just hormonal or tired or stressed. Some of what you are seeing is spiritual. And you have been trying to solve a spiritual problem with only natural tools. This is not about fear. This is not about running around rebuking everything. This is about a parent who understands their authority. God did not place that child in your home by accident. He placed YOU over them on purpose. With authority. With access. With the ability through prayer, through scripture, through the Holy Spirit to shift the atmosphere of your home. But first you have to learn how to discern what you are actually dealing with. Is it a spirit of fear that has attached itself to your child and won't let go? Is it rejection — the wound that makes them push away every person who tries to get close? Is it manipulation — the pattern that is too strategic, too calculating, too persistent to be just behavior? Is it distraction — the constant pull away from anything that could anchor them to God? Is it something that came in through what they watched, who they were around, what happened to them? You need to be able to name it before you can pray against it. And you need to know how to take your authority back not in fear, not in chaos but with the calm, Kingdom confidence of a parent who knows who they are in God.

Father, I place my career, my calling, and my provision before You. Because I don't just want a job. I want alignment. I don't want to spend my life climbing ladders You never built for me. I don't want to chase money and lose my family. I don't want to build success while my marriage suffers, my children feel neglected, and my soul grows tired. Show me the work You created me for. The work that gives You glory. The work that uses my gifts. The work that provides for my family without costing me my family. Father, order my steps. Close doors that look good but lead me away from Your will. Open doors that align with my purpose, my values, and the assignment You've given me. Protect me from careers driven by fear, comparison, status, or survival. Teach me to recognize the difference between opportunity and distraction. Give me wisdom when making decisions. If I need training, show me. If I need courage, strengthen me. If I need patience, grow me. If I need to let go of something, help me release it. Father, I pray for provision. Not barely enough. Not constant stress. Not living from crisis to crisis. But stable, sustainable provision. Let the work of my hands produce fruit. Let my labor create legacy. Let my children benefit from the obedience I walk in today. And Father, help me remember why I'm doing this. Not just to pay bills. Not just to survive. But to build a life that honors You. I pray for fully present parents. Parents who have the energy to engage. Parents who aren't emotionally unavailable because work consumed everything they had. Parents who can sit at the dinner table, pray with their children, laugh with their family, and still fulfill their calling. Teach us how to steward both purpose and presence. Success without sacrificing our homes. Provision without abandoning our priorities. Impact without neglecting the people You've entrusted to us. And if we're on the wrong path, redirect us. If we're forcing something You never assigned, stop us. If we're doubting what You've already called us to do, confirm us.