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When I first became a mother, I had no idea what it was going to be like. I couldn’t imagine the amount of responsibility that I was going to feel for the lives of my children. I went to a class for a few months that taught me a few things that I needed to know about taking care of my newborn baby. I then acquired the “What to expect when you’re expecting book.” However, that book stopped once the baby became one years old. There have been other books and resources come out since then, but the truth is that many of us are still learning what is required of us when we answer the call of being a mother. Yet, as you find out, will you answer the call and fulfill your purpose?

Yes! It is a call.

It’s not just flower peddles and roses. It’s a calling. If you are a mother, you were purposed to birth and raise your children. (If you are not a mother, please keep reading because you may have a mothering spirit.) Now that is the most general way to put it, but it encapsulates so much more. It starts from day one of conception. If I am to be real with you, it actually starts before our children are born, with taking care of ourselves. I could go really deep into this, but let’s just briefly think about it for a moment.

Your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health are all time stamped in your child, when they are conceived. These are the things that will be a part of their reality, when they are born. Once you find out that you are pregnant and begin to make the necessary changes, your child has a greater chance at living a healthy life. Still, there is a lot that falls on our shoulders as mothers. I don’t say this to remove fathers from the picture, but I am talking to you…the mom.

From day one, we are feeding our children. We are training them how to be emotionally fit. As we listen to music and experience life, our children in the womb have those experiences. None of this goes away once the children are born. They are just no longer housed within our bodies. Instead, we see them and have now gained the ability and responsibility of teaching them how to live, apart from our physical bodies. We are still responsible for the feeding and nurturing of our children.

No matter what the world wants to tell you about the relationship between a mother and her child, the truth is that mothering is one of your highest callings.

I could sit here all day discussing some of the things that are required of us as mothers, and I can add to this at another time, but today I have one primary focus. I want to sir you up in your innermost parts. I want to call you to a place where you realize that you are needed inside of your household. You may feel like you are called to do many other things, but they should never take you away from the call of being a woman of God, wife to your husband, and mother to your children. You have a very high calling, sister.

You and I cannot get distracted with the things of this world, that we are not able to recognize the ways in which God has assigned us to build up His kingdom. Your children are apart of His kingdom. Your calling is to man the post of your home. You are supposed to cover your husband and children in prayer. You are supposed to oversee what comes in and goes out of the home. You are supposed to pay attention to what they are eating and taking in one a daily basis. You are supposed to recognize the struggles that they have and go to war for them in prayer. If it’s required, you’re also supposed to go to war for them in the natural.

When you feel like the burden is too heavy, you are supposed to wail for your children. When you recognize that the future is too harsh for them, you are supposed to cry out to God, asking Him to fix it. I know that you are probably saying that prayer doesn’t fix everything, but let me tell you God does and prayer is how we connect to Him.

In His word, God makes it very clear. He tells us that He wants to help us and gives us exactly what we should do.

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. ~2 Corinthians 7:14

Children are dying everyday. We hear about the shootings, killings, cancers, diseases, and so much more. Beyond that, they are being exposed to things that enable a slow deaths and are robbed of the blessings that God desires for them to have.

The truth is that when we take the blinders off, our world isn’t so beautiful. I tell you to find the beauty in this life, but don’t turn a blind eye to what is wrong in it. It is too easy to be entertained and forget that our world needs us. You and I can’t just sit by and watch what is happening. I’m not calling you to request gun control. I’m not telling you to leave the country and feed the hungry. No! I’m telling you to stay home and fight on your knees. Start where you are, with what you can do. Give your children a change. Start there, and from there do whatever else God calls you to do.

Pray that you are forgiven of your sins and the sins of your mothers and fathers before you. Seek the face of God and ask Him to make a way for your children.

Look! You and I are not SUPER-WOMEN!!! We are not, but through God we are mighty and powerful. (Ephesians 6:10-18)

Do you want to change the world? Fall on your face and pray.

Do you want the massacres to stop? Seek God and cry out for the children.

Turn off the television. I’m not saying that you can never have fun, but while we are busy playing, the enemy is executing his plan for our children. Yes! I said our children.

What are we going to do when they look at us and ask us to explain why their world looks the way that it does? When our grand parents are gone and are no longer able to be held responsible, the burden falls on us. What will you say? How will you help and still be in their lives? How will you answer God when He says that He gave you a work to do, but you never did it and children died.

Even if you don’t have children, you have a calling.

We have to do something! It goes beyond what we can see and into the unseen. It goes into what we eat and drink. It goes into what we hear and speak. It goes into our spiritual and relational lives. It has to do with God.

Woman, wake up from your slumber and do the work of the Lord! Your responsibility is great and you must answer the call!

It’s been pretty busy on my end for the past few months, but that’s nothing new. I’ve spent a lot of time praying, seeking God, and writing. As I look at the world that we live in today, and continue to be prayerful, I realize that more women need to understand and receive the call of God on their lives. Not only do they need to receive the call, but they need to step up to the plate, with the bat in hand, ready to answer the call and hit the ball out of the park.

Did you like my analogy?! I really mean it though. So many women have forgotten the true call of God on their lives because they are too busy trying to be Super Woman. They are trying to do it all and be it all for everyone. They are wearing themselves out because they are all over the place, trying to accomplish every goal, and do every activity. At the end of the night, they are worn out, but they still can’t sleep because there is too much on their minds.

Can you relate to this woman?

If you do, I understand. I used to be right there with you. I just wanted to do what I had to do, and I really had a lot to do. I wasn’t sure what was God-given or Makeda given. I couldn’t stop going or moving, long enough to hear the Lord tell me the right direction to move in. I was working so hard, that I almost missed my call. Today, I know how to be busy doing the Lord’s work and being about my Father’s business.

I know you’re wondering what call I’m talking about, right?!

I’m talking about the call to be one of the Not So Average Superwomen that God has so graciously placed in the world.

You may not know who she is or why her call is so important, but after I explain it to you, you’ll see why I talking to you about this woman.

Titus 2: 3-5 says “the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.”

In this, the admonishment and call are to the women of God. It is first, an admonishment, to the older women to make sure that they are living the way that God has called them to live. Then they are called to admonish the young women and teach them how to…

This implies that the older women had to first know how to do the thing that they are going to be admonishing the younger women to do. This is not a just talk of what to do, but an actual type of mentorship in how to do it.

Next the word is for the young women. They are called to make a difference, first, in their homes by loving their husbands, loving their children and being homemakers, and obedient to their own husbands. Second, it is to maintain their character in accordance to the word of God. They are admonished and called to be discreet and chaste so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

Later on, the young women would become the older women, called to younger women and the cycle would continue. What’s important to notice here is that the women are first called to their homes and to their own personal development, before they are called to the world.

I think that today’s woman has it backwards. Many women are taking the time to help others and working outside the home, but are forgetting their commitment and call to their own families and personal development.

When we first work in our homes we are a support and pillar to our families. We establish an environment in the home that makes it a place of dwelling that they always want to come home to. Nurturing our relationship with God and our family also builds a strong foundation for the woman and understands her value, as she takes her place.

Look around at the broken world today and you will see that the place of women has not be fulfilled in the home, thus the family is missing a key member. Women have done great things for society, but they have also left the foundation of society empty, the home.

The call to be the Not So Average Superwoman is to lay hold of that calling once again and answer it with a “yes.” It is to be diligent to be different from the women of the world that only focus on building their positions and the facilities of the world. It is to stop trying to find your strength in yourself and other things, so that you can find your strength in God. It is to drop your cape at the door, so that you can put on the armor of God.

I know that this is a lot and it feels like a big challenge. You can see what I’m saying, but need more information. That’s what I’ve been busy doing. I’ve been putting together the book to help you with this. It’s called “Being Mrs. Mom the Not So Average Superwoman: Find Your Strength in God, Drop the Cape, and Put on the Armor of God.” I encourage you to get your copy today from Amazon, so that you can make sure to answer the call of God, today.