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WEEK 9: Homeschool Prayer Challenge | Strength for Weary Homeschool Moms
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Jun 19, 2024
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In my non-homeschool mama, homeschool blogger life, for the longest time, I was a fitness instructor
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I taught for about 20 years in college and also at my local gym and therefore had a lot of
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motivational phrases I love to use to encourage participants when they were near the end of their
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limits. One that I used often was, don't quit, do just one more than you think you can. That's when
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you get stronger. It's true that pushing our muscles to that point of fatigue can help us grow. It's also
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true that so often our physical strength might be limited by our own thoughts and motivation. I was
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reflecting this week on how that applies to other areas of life, such as when we feel weak
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weary, and inadequate in our homeschooling. What do we do on days when we're just done? When we feel
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that we have little strength left. How do we gain the strength we need to grow in some days? Just
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keep moving forward. Homestchool moms, I know there can be days where
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everything works in perfect harmony. The kids all get along beautifully, the lessons are learned well
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and all the housework is completed. However, not every day is perfect and in fact, most aren't
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We all struggle with daily frustrations and unfortunately we try to use our own means to power through
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When we do this, we can easily lose strength, motivation, drive, and wonder, why does everything
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feel so hard? The truth is we can't rely on our own strength. Everyone has a breaking point
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Why do we so often let ourselves get to that point instead of realizing that we can access the very strength we need to carry out God will for us and our kids There is some direction for this given in Isaiah 40 29 through 31 It says
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He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might, he increases strength. Even youths shall be
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faint and be weary, and young men shall be exhausted. But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their
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strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not
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faint. This passage says that we are to wait for the Lord to renew our strength. Wait for our all
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powerful creator who never grows weary like us, who never loses strength, who is limitless. But what
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exactly does it mean to wait for the Lord? And how does waiting make us stronger? Waiting in this
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context doesn't mean just sitting around doing nothing. Many times when we wait, we are in anticipation
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of what's to come, waiting in line for an amusement park ride, waiting for the birth of a baby
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waiting for a vacation or a fun event. When we wait, we eagerly look to the future to something we
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know is going to happen. In the Isaiah passage, wait translates to look for, hope, expect. When we wait
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for the Lord, we express confident, patient trust in him that he will carry out his will to completion
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And it's in our waiting that the Lord refuel us and renews our strength. If people could just get
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stronger just by sitting around and passively waiting to get fit, I would have been out of a job
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as a fitness instructor for sure. Likewise, we can't access God's strength if we don't put forth
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effort. If we don't seek him, don't go to him in prayer, and fail to trust in his promises
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Instead when we do these things on a daily basis God will move in our lives We will be stronger because we will have more peace and security We will find rest in the truth that we don have to be strong on our own
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but that God's supernatural strength can take care of anything we encounter
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In Psalm 2714, David is a great example of what it looks like to wait on the Lord
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In this passage, he shows great confidence and trust in God's protection
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and that he will be delivered from his troubles. David is not afraid because he trusts the Lord to be his strength. He desires to dwell with God
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all the days of his life and seeks him in prayer and worship. He ends his beautiful proclamation of
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faith with this. Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart
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Wait, I say on the Lord. David trusts, seeks the Lord, worships, and praise. He is expected that
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God will be there for him because of who he is and what he has promised. This is what waiting on
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the Lord should look like for our lives as well. It is crucial that we admit our need and
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draw our strength from the one whose strength will never fail. This means that we need to read
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God's word daily. We need to be still and spend quality time with him in prayer, seeking his
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will for our lives. How often do we charge ahead without taking this precious time? Or we do
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all the right things, but still rely on other avenues to renew us. God certainly provides means
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for us to refuel and refresh, but we must not forget and praise
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him that he is a source of our strength. Ask yourself this week, am I trusting, am I seeking, praying
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expecting where am I drawing my strength from I encourage you this week to spend some time each day devoted to fellowship with our faithful good and limitless father Seek him first pray continually Admit that you can rely on
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yourself anymore and wait expectantly for his perfect strength to gracefully renew you. Let me pray for
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us. Heavenly Father, the homeschool days can feel so long and I often feel weak and inadequate
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My strength is low because I try to do it all in my own instead of trusting in your own. Instead of trusting
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in you for my every need. Forgive me for trying to rely on myself and not enough on you and your
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limitless power. You know the big picture of my life and can accomplish what I cannot. Teach me to
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trust, seek and wait on you to renew my strength. I need your love, strength and presence in my life
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in my homeschool. Be present in my homeschool this week. Help me look to your word and draw on the
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strength you have promised to those who wait on you. Enable me to teach my children with endurance
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and not grow weary. Lead me to rest in the understanding that your almighty
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never fails, and that only in you do we have the comfort of true peace and strength. In Jesus
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name I pray, amen. All right, you guys, thank you so much again for joining me in this journey
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of praying for our homeschools. Go ahead and check out the links in the description below to
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log into the challenge dashboard and download your prayer and printables for the week
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If you haven't already set a reminder to log in and check for new printables each Monday
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or if you are on YouTube, just hit that notification bell and get notified when I publish a new
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video which will also help remind you. That is it for week nine. I will see you next week
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