{"id":5939,"date":"2012-12-14T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2013-01-25T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T14:57:04","slug":"winning-him-without-words-weekly-reviewdiscoveryprayer-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/14\/winning-him-without-words-weekly-reviewdiscoveryprayer-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Him Without Words: Weekly Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0 (Proverbs 22:6)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

One Sunday morning many years ago, I stood staring out my kitchen window, contemplating on not going to church any longer with \u201cjust me and my two little girls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three months had passed since we had moved from Atlanta to New Orleans.\u00a0My husband had been offered a job opportunity he felt he couldn\u2019t afford to turn down.\u00a0 During the process of our lengthy talks about taking the job, I said to him:\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll go with you anywhere you feel we need to go; it is just so hard for me to move with two little girls to a strange city and have to take them to church by myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

To which he replied, \u201cI promise you if you will make this move with me, I will go to church with you and the girls.\u201d\u00a0 And with that hope, we made the move.<\/p>\n

Oh yes, he went the first Sunday to help me find the church, and that was the end of that.\u00a0\u00a0As a young mother I felt so betrayed.<\/p>\n

So, on this Sunday morning as I was about to give this church-going up for good, I heard little children in my neighborhood playing out in the street.\u00a0 It was then I prayed:\u00a0 \u201cLord, if he never goes to church with me, I commit to you this morning that I will go alone if I have to; I can\u2019t bear the thought of my children playing on the streets on Sunday morning and not in church.\u201d<\/p>\n

And with that, the three of us began our journey, and today both girls and their husbands hold ministry roles in their church and are raising their little ones for Jesus.<\/p>\n

I realize it doesn\u2019t always happen this way.\u00a0 When children become of age, they make their own choices and sometimes stray from their Christian up-bringing. But, I would encourage every mother to make the effort to teach their kids about Jesus and take them to church, even if it she has to do it alone.\u00a0 It has its rewards—I am blessed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On a side note, my husband gloats over his children and grandchildren.\u00a0 He has been the best husband and father any man could be with the exception of that \u201cmissing link of having Jesus in his heart.\u201d\u00a0 But, as Lynn and Dineen point out:\u00a0 \u201cGod makes everything beautiful in His time.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

As we come to the close of our study in Winning Him Without Words<\/i>, let me say it has been a pleasure reviewing Beverly, Jennifer, Donna, and Sarah\u2019s blogs for you, our readers, each week.\u00a0 I know they have inspired you as much as they have me.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take one final look at what they had to say this week on:\u00a0 What About the Kids.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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Weekly Review<\/h1>\n

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Monday:\u00a0 Where to Start?\u00a0 <\/b>Before answering that question, Beverly talks about the thoughts most women have in a spiritually unequally yoked marriage, as Beverly was.<\/p>\n