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“…praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.” — Ephesians 6:18 Parenting is a battle today. It may be tougher than at any other time in history to raise godly kids, and to be in the battle means to be in prayer. God is calling forth parents today, moms and dads, who will be prayer warriors, parents who will develop the core values of our children’s lives through the power of prayer. Because you see, prayer does change lives! And the life that you change will very likely be your own and the lives of your children. If you want your children to succeed, pray that God’s will would be done in their lives on earth as it is in heaven. Rather than imposing our agenda on the lives of our children, pray that God’s agenda would be accomplished in them. If you want to be a Hall of Fame mom…if you want to be a Hall of Fame dad, you just show up in prayer every day in the presence of God. Start a streak and start praying…not someday, not any day, but EVERY day you pray for your kids! We need to be thinking not just about now, but those future generations…our children and their children and their children’s children’s children. We can have influence over the next 100 years or more! How? Praying for our children and our grandchildren! Start a prayer streak that will streak into eternity.   No Room for God by Dr. Paul Chappell “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” John 10:9–11 Phillips Brooks, who is best remembered as the author of the Christmas carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” told of a man who came to him and said, “I have not time or room in my life for Christianity. If it were not so full! You don’t know how hard I work from morning till night. When have I time, where have I room for Christianity in such a life as mine?” Recounting that story Brooks wrote, “It is as if the engine had said it had no room for the steam. It is as if the tree said it had no room for the sap. It is as if the ocean said it had no room for the tide. It is as if the man had said he had no room for his soul. It is as if the life had said it had no time to live, when it is life. It is not something added to life; it is life. A man is not living without it.” It is so easy for us to become caught up in the things of life that we find our relationship with God relegated to an afterthought. Many people substitute a busy life for an abundant life. They have no time for personal, intimate fellowship with God as they rush from task to objective to project. It makes no difference what these tasks that keep us from spending time with God are—whether they are secular or religious—if we allow them to fill our days so there is no time left to cultivate our relationship with God. Today’s Growth Principle:  Only through Jesus can we have eternal life; and only through cultivating our relationship with Jesus can we enjoy abundant life.