The other evening I was sitting on my bed after a long day. My four year old came into my room, even though she she was supposed to be in bed. Bedtime has been a battle with her lately. We'll go through the routine of tucking her in, saying prayers, getting one more drink, and tucking in again. She's been having bad dreams lately and we will often pray for God to be with her and protect her from those dreams.
When my pajama clad little girl came into my room, I assumed she was stalling. She said she was afraid to have another bad dream. I sat her on my bed, put my book aside that I had been reading, and asked her if she wanted to pray again.
"Mommy, you know there's no God, right? He's only pretend."
Her words went straight to my heart like a knife. Had my four year old just told me she doesn't believe in God?
I asked her as calmly as I could. "What makes you think there is no God?"
"I figured it out." She was quite sure of herself.
I spent the next fifteen minutes talking to her about God, assuring her that He is very real. I told her that Jesus loves more than even me our her dad. I talked to her about salvation, though I'm not sure she understood it deep within.
I've spent quite a bit of time pondering that conversation. We are in church twice a week. We study about Jesus almost daily in our home. We pray with our children. Where would she get this idea?
I questioned my older children. They weren't sure where she would have gotten this idea either. However, the combination of the nightmares and the doubts about God made me realize that Satan if after my child, and He's after her while she's young.
I immediately began praying for God to protect the mind of my little one.
Satan wants our children. When we choose to homeschool, to daily impart God's Word to our children, Satan will go after them. Unable to get to them through the school system with humanistic teaching in a worldly culture, satan will go after their hearts, minds, and even their health at home.
As parents, we have to always be aware that the battle is spiritual. We must be prepared to wage spiritual warfare. Prayer, Fasting, quoting Scripture, and constant teaching and studying of God's Holy Word. We need to make sure our armor is on, and that we are prepared to use it to defend our children.
Megan is doing better. She is still afraid she will have a bad dream, but she hasn't had one the last couple of nights. I keep praying, knowing that Satan if just looking for whom he may devour. I also know that mtg God is bigger than any bad dream, wrong thought, or satan.
When my pajama clad little girl came into my room, I assumed she was stalling. She said she was afraid to have another bad dream. I sat her on my bed, put my book aside that I had been reading, and asked her if she wanted to pray again.
"Mommy, you know there's no God, right? He's only pretend."
Her words went straight to my heart like a knife. Had my four year old just told me she doesn't believe in God?
I asked her as calmly as I could. "What makes you think there is no God?"
"I figured it out." She was quite sure of herself.
I spent the next fifteen minutes talking to her about God, assuring her that He is very real. I told her that Jesus loves more than even me our her dad. I talked to her about salvation, though I'm not sure she understood it deep within.
I've spent quite a bit of time pondering that conversation. We are in church twice a week. We study about Jesus almost daily in our home. We pray with our children. Where would she get this idea?
I questioned my older children. They weren't sure where she would have gotten this idea either. However, the combination of the nightmares and the doubts about God made me realize that Satan if after my child, and He's after her while she's young.
I immediately began praying for God to protect the mind of my little one.
Satan wants our children. When we choose to homeschool, to daily impart God's Word to our children, Satan will go after them. Unable to get to them through the school system with humanistic teaching in a worldly culture, satan will go after their hearts, minds, and even their health at home.
As parents, we have to always be aware that the battle is spiritual. We must be prepared to wage spiritual warfare. Prayer, Fasting, quoting Scripture, and constant teaching and studying of God's Holy Word. We need to make sure our armor is on, and that we are prepared to use it to defend our children.
Megan is doing better. She is still afraid she will have a bad dream, but she hasn't had one the last couple of nights. I keep praying, knowing that Satan if just looking for whom he may devour. I also know that mtg God is bigger than any bad dream, wrong thought, or satan.
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