Everyday Prayers for Patience: Giving Yourself and Your Kids the Grace to Grow (A 30-Day Devotional and Reflective Journal for Moms)
Aug 2023 · Whitaker House
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Growing in Patience Is a Test!
Author Brooke McGlothlin notes there’s an old joke that says, “Don’t ask God for patience. He’ll answer by testing yours.”
It’s true to some degree, she says. “I don’t know that God is sitting around in heaven just waiting to test our resolve, but parenting, and the Christian life itself, is fundamentally built on trusting something we can’t always see…a master plan that reveals itself little by little and often takes turns we couldn’t predict.”
But it’s possible to learn how to wait for God’s perfect timing, even when it seems like we’ve been waiting forever. In this thirty-day devotional and reflective journal, Brooke invites you to consider that patience is:
Author Brooke McGlothlin notes there’s an old joke that says, “Don’t ask God for patience. He’ll answer by testing yours.”
It’s true to some degree, she says. “I don’t know that God is sitting around in heaven just waiting to test our resolve, but parenting, and the Christian life itself, is fundamentally built on trusting something we can’t always see…a master plan that reveals itself little by little and often takes turns we couldn’t predict.”
But it’s possible to learn how to wait for God’s perfect timing, even when it seems like we’ve been waiting forever. In this thirty-day devotional and reflective journal, Brooke invites you to consider that patience is:
- Getting to know Jesus
- Knowing the cost of salvation
- Loving through the hard
- Seeing God in all things
- Confidence in what we can’t see
- Waiting with expectation
- Trusting God with the fight
About the author
Brooke McGlothlin received her B.S. in psychology from Virginia Tech and her master’s degree in counseling from Liberty University. For over ten years, she served as director of clinical services in a local pregnancy care ministry before making the best choice of her life—to stay home with her boys. Brooke uses her ministry experience to reach women, writing to bring hope to the messes of life in the midst of her own messy life. In 2010, Brooke cofounded Raising Boys Ministries with Erin Mohring and equipped parents of boys to raise godly men for over nine years. In 2019, they launched a new ministry, Million Praying Moms, which exists to help moms make prayer their first and best response to the challenges of parenting. Brooke now leads Million Praying Moms solo and hosts the Million Praying Moms podcast. You can find her writing and creating prayer resources for today’s Christian moms at the Million Praying Moms blog. Her books include Everyday Prayers for Peace: A 30-Day Devotional & Reflective Journal for Women; Praying for Boys: Asking God for the Things They Need Most; and Praying Mom: Making Prayer the First and Best Response to Motherhood. Brooke, her husband, and their two sons make their home in the mountains of Appalachia, calling southwestern Virginia home.
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