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WEEK 2: Homeschool Prayer Challenge | Our Response to Weakness
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Jun 19, 2024
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Hi friends! Welcome to week two of the homeschool prayer challenge
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Last week we studied 1 Corinthians 9 24 through 27 and prayed for strength, energy, and enthusiasm
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to be intentional in studying the bible with our kids this year in our homeschools
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I hope that you were encouraged last week and that you will continue to make this your prayer and make time for teaching and studying God's word
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with your kids
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If you haven't already, make sure you log into your dashboard of the prayer challenge. This is not only where you'll be able to
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print out your prayer and bible study notes for each week, but last week I also shared some of our favorite resources we have used for
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bible study in our homeschool. And if you're not officially signed up for this free challenge, I'll put a link in the description below
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so you can learn more about it. As we kick off week two, I want you to consider what are some of the difficulties you
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struggle with as a homeschool mom. Maybe it's a nagging doubt that you're
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doing enough for your kids. Or maybe you're trying to balance working from home and homeschooling plus trying to keep up with normal
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household duties. Maybe you feel overwhelmed constantly. Perhaps you fall into the comparison trap
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and it has a hold on you. Or friends and relatives just
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don't understand your decision to educate your kids at home and you're always butting heads. Maybe no curriculum feels like it's
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working right now and some days you consider throwing in the towel and just
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sending the kids to public school. Teaching your kids different learning styles can just be so hard, especially when you're trying to
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entertain a toddler at the same time. Does any of that sound familiar? Well, wherever your pain points are, you're not alone
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So many of these things I struggle with too daily along with my attitude about them. But friends, I have
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good news for you. Wherever you are experiencing weakness or hardship in
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your homeschool right now, you are in the exact right place for the
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display of God's power in your life. Just hear me out because this is a
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transformative truth. In 2 Corinthians 12 7, Paul shares that he was given a thorn in his flesh. This weakness was something that Paul
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three times for the Lord to remove to no avail. He explains that the
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thorn was given to keep him from becoming conceited. And as the truth of how God works is revealed to him
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we watch Paul change from distressed to blessed to delighting in what had once pained him. The change in Paul's attitude came
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in verse 9 after he prayed. But he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect
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in weakness. Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so
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that Christ's power may rest on. My power is made perfect in weakness. You see, God doesn't always use our
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strength to showcase his power. In fact, it's typically in my strongest moments
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when everything is going right that I forget just how much I even need
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his presence in our homeschool. No, it's our weak moments and weakest areas of our lives in which we need to trust God the
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most. When we have no clue as to how we will overcome a situation or have no answers that seem to satisfy us
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this is when God's power can shine so convincingly. His power is so much more capable than our own
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He wants us to trust him to allow him to be strong where we are weak. And friends, we have a very real
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enemy who wants nothing more than to destroy our efforts in homeschooling and
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raising our children to know and love their wonderful creator. But we can rest
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in the fact that God is in ultimate control and nothing can thwart
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his will and good plans for us. We don't always understand our struggles or
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circumstances or see how they can be good. Why is it so
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hard for my kid to learn how to read? What am I doing wrong? Why is doing schoolwork a constant battle? Why can't I find a math curriculum
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that won't end the day in tears? Maybe this is just too hard. But as one
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of my Bible study leaders says as a constant reminder, God is good and can be trusted. We have seen time and time again in
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scripture where God does sanctifying work through trials of his people. And in Isaiah 55 8 we are reminded that God's ways are not like our ways
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He is sovereign over all things and he is always at work in ways that our
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finite minds can't understand. The important thing to remember fellow homeschool moms is that any trials and hardships we experience
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as we homeschool our kids and really life in general, God can use to display
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his power. And if the struggles cause us to lean into him and rely on him more, then that's a great work he's doing in
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us. The enemy wants us to feel defeated but in our weaknesses we have an
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opportunity to experience the same power that Jesus faced in his seemingly
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weakest moment on the cross. What a privilege. Now I want to see God
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move in my homeschool but to rejoice in hardships and weaknesses, I can't say that that's often the focus of my prayers
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Now I'm not saying that we shouldn't pray for relief from our circumstances
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Paul certainly did as did Jesus for that matter. But we need to be mindful of the
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answer to our prayers and our attitude towards our situations. This requires diligence and prayer and daily intentional bible study
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like you're doing with me in the series so we can have a different response when we're feeling afflicted. We can trust God more that he will help
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us live by his perfect power. Whatever hardships you may face this week, remember that you are seen and loved by God. Go to him in prayer for
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strength. He promises that his grace is sufficient for you. Let me pray for us
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Sovereign Lord, I am so thankful that you are in control and that
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no weakness will overcome me that you have not ordained for my good
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You alone are good and trustworthy and it gives me so much comfort to know that
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you know what's best for me. Thank you for the weaknesses in my
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homeschool that keep me dependent on you. I pray that you will go before me in my
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weaknesses and be glorified through them. I'm sorry for sometimes feeling discouraged in tough times. Your grace is sufficient for me. Help me
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to have a content heart for the sake of Christ with whatever you allow me to face. I don't want to rely on my own strength
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Help me to surrender my will and experience your perfect power in trials
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You alone are what I need. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. All right friends, thank you so much again for joining me in
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this journey of praying for our homeschools. Go ahead and check out the links in the description below to log into the
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challenge dashboard and download your prayer and printables for the week. If you haven't already, set a reminder to log in and check for
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new printables each week or if you're on YouTube just hit that notification bell
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and get notified when I publish a new video which might also remind you. All right, these are the printables that you're
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going to be getting this week. You will have the prayer. You will have
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the space to read and reflect on the passage this week as well as a couple other daily
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reminders to be in the Word. You have space to jot down your specific prayer requests. Reflect on how you saw God working in
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your homeschool this week. And then finally the last page is your own prayers. So you have space to write down your own specific
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personalized prayers, right? Because although the prayer that you get is a great prayer to be praying
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throughout the week, you also want to pray continually. You want to make it your own. You want to let the Holy Spirit lead you in what you
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are praying and how you're praying. It's my hope that these printables will
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serve as a reminder to you to be in God's Word each day praying and seeking to keep Him at the center of your life and homeschool
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Let me know how I can be praying for you this week and I would also love to know
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how have you seen God work through weaknesses in your homeschool? Drop a
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quick comment below if you'd like to share. All right, that's it for week two. I'll see you next week
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