Praise Jesus for Eternal Life through Him Alone!

My heart has been overflowing with God's Goodness in answering prayer! On Monday morning, I picked up my book Praying the Bible for Your Children by David and Heather Kopp. I've started a new Bible study and haven't read any prayers out of there for awhile. But on this morning, I was lead to open it up to the page where I had last left the bookmark. Here is what I read...

Early Salvation

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come. ~Ecclesiastes 12:1

Loving Heavenly Father, Before dawn I pray for my children. See each one asleep, Lord, zipped snuggly into a flannel cocoon or swirling like a dancer in twisted sheets.

In so many ways they're still asleep in their childhood, yet I pray that at the youngest age possible they would see You and respond to You (Ps. 63:1). I ask specifically this morning that my children will receive slavation early in their lives--before troubles and distractions and ambitions get in the way (Eccles. 12:1-8).

Early, Lord, because my children even at their sweetest and most innocent--yes, even from birth--need a Savior. (Ps. 51:5).

Use the Scriptures planted in their hearts from infancy, as You did with Timothy, to draw them to You (2Tim. 3:15). May Your Holy Spirit break through any spiritual bariers that are keeping themfrom asking to be born into Your kingdom (John 3:5-6).

Yes, early, Lord, because You invited children to know You and love You. And because You have promised that everyone--ieven someone who sleeps inside zippered flannel--can receive the power to become a child of God (John 1:12).

I ask this in Jesus' powerful name. Amen.




I went on about my day. We had our ups and downs of the day. Supper time came and we sat down to eat. Matt and one of our girls were at basketball, so it was just me and four of the kiddos. Our youngest daugther out of the blue said, "Are we going to die?" I answered her a quick answer as the morning prayer started racing through my mind. I knew I was being given the opportunity to explain salvation in Jesus to her. I explained that yes we all will die at some point, but we can live forever with Jesus in heaven if we believe in Him. She wanted to know if we would still live in our house. I told her we would live heaven...and now she is convinced she will get to live in a rainbow house in heaven. As we carried on our conversation with her two sisters chiming in to tell her about Jesus, I asked her if she would like to pray to ask Jesus to come into her life forever. She said, "Sure!" We sat there holding hands, praying together and her sisters praying along with us. It was an amazing moment as her mom. After she said, "Amen." We all cheered and told her how excited we were that we were all going to be together in heaven someday now that she was a Christian. I looked into her face and told her just that morning I had prayed for her salvation. I was able to testify to our whole family how amazing God is in answering our prayers!!!!!

I don't know who all reads my blog. But my prayer is that if you have never believed in the Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation that your heart would be drawn into a personal relationship with Him. If you have any questions or if you have recently begun a relationship with God, please email me-- yackity at gmail dot com.



Praise Jesus with me for the eternal life that has been given to our little girl this week!!!!!