October 31,2024
How To Safeguard Your Children For life (A prophetic word)
By Pastor Kim D’souza
By Pastor Kim D’souza
Some time ago in my prayer time, I was asking God to intervene in my children’s life and the Lord responded back to me with a question:
Do you really want me to take over your children?
I remember in response to this I began to think, and instantly a barrage of negative thoughts invaded my mind. “Living for that one desire means laying of many other desires on the altar.” “My children are too small” “They will be unlike other children” “They will be left out” and what not! It was as if a dark cloud of fear took over my mind for few seconds. Until I roared the thoughts of God in my mind and I wept… and I wept, realising that, that was the most precious question that the good good Father would ask any parent.
Your children are most blessed, protected, nurtured, raised only and only in the hands of God. No one else. But by the time, I could open my mouth and yes Lord, I sensed I missed that moment of encounter. It was heart-breaking. It is so easy for us to believe the lies of the enemy than to fix our gaze on the goodness of God. I asked God for forgiveness, and since that day have been asking Him to take over my children. Last week, I woke up with the Lord leading me to Hannah in the Bible and I signed a “deal” with my Father.
Parents, can I invite you too to the most beneficial “deal” of your lifetime .
Hannah signed that as well.
As soon as her only son Samuel was weaned (that small!), she brought him to the house of the Lord (1 Samuel 1:24) and said,“ I have lent him to the LORD. As long as he lives, he is lent to the LORD.” (1 Samuel 1:28).
Our children are borrowed from the Lord and in lending them back to Him is our greatest victory.
In your prayer time today can I encourage you to lend your children to God? Do it as a pressing instruction from the Lord.
As long as he/she lives, _____ (child’s name) will be lent to the Lord ( 1 Samuel 1:28).
Say it out loud. Write it somewhere. Believe it.
As you do that, here is a promise that will protect your children against what is to come.
Even the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for herself, Where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God (Psalm 84:3).
Our children are borrowed from the Lord and in lending them back to Him is our greatest victory.