Moms In Touch

Where I Learned To Pray

If you are a mom, you are going to have a hard time convincing me that you don't need to be part of this worldwide prayer movement.

I learned how to pray by participating in Moms In Touch International.

Here are some great testimonies about Moms In Touch:

Moms In Touch takes one whole hour of your entire week, and it is an hour of prayer with other women, lifting up each other's children.

Can you not tarry one hour? If you are too busy, then cut something out.

I don't care if you have a Sunday School lesson to plan. Shorten it or quit.

Don't be fooled. You have a spiritual enemy who hates when women pray together and loves to make you think you are being productive enough by getting involved in church activities.

If there is not a current group meeting at a time you can make it, congratulations! You have just started a group. Meet with a co-worker on your lunch break, get up early before work, meet with some moms outside of the dance studio, or get on the phone for a weekly conference call of prayer.

If no one will pray with you, choose your own time and faithfully pray for that one hour every week, remembering to pray for another mom to join you.

Our children need our faithful, dedicated prayer, and we need other moms praying with us.

Sure, I know you pray for your children everyday.

"But there's something about praying with another person that intensifies prayer and sends it to heaven with greater velocity." (Robert J. Morgan, The Red Sea Rules )

Let me summarize an illustration that Fern Nichols, founder of Moms In Touch, gave in her book Every Child Needs a Praying Mom .

In Mark 2, there is a story of four men who carried a paralytic to Jesus. They each picked up a corner of his mat. They were so determined to help him that when they couldn't get in the door, they ripped a hole in the roof.

Fern describes praying moms as "mat carriers."

One mom dragging around her child on a mat feels a heavy weight. But as other moms come along side of her in prayer, they each pick up a corner of the mat, and faith and hope increase as their prayers encourage each other.

That is the joy and power of Moms In Touch.

I have a friend who has prayed very faithfully with me for many years. Our lives are both very busy for very different reasons, and sometimes it is very hard to get together and pray. The reason we do is because we have experienced what happens women pray together.

Did you watch the first video? Remember that mom who was cheering for all of the children at graduation? (If you don't, go back and watch it). We know what that feels like.

Our children have not graduated, but we have seen answered prayers in the lives of each other's children, and we rejoice over each one as if it was our own child.

We recently had the opportunity to pray with a larger group of moms, and the room was filled with beautiful prayer. On the way home, we discussed the fact that so many women are missing out on this.

Don't miss out!

Go to www.momsintouch.org and take time to learn what it is all about.

What is Your Moms in Touch Story?

In my blog post on 9/28/2009, I shared the stories of women who came by a booth I was working for Moms in Touch: Stories of Praying Moms

I know there are more stories like this out there.

Please share yours with us!

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Prayer Resources

A Woman's Prayer Life, DVD By Beth Moore / Word Entertainment Inc

Every Child Needs a Praying Mom Audio CD By Fern Nichols / Moms In Touch International

Every Child Needs a Praying Mom: Life-Changing Prayers for Your Children By Fern Nichols with Janet Kobobel Grant / Zondervan

When Moms Pray Together: True Stories of God's Power to Transform Your Child By Fern Nichols / Tyndale House

Praying The Scriptures For Your Children By Jodie Berndt / Zondervan

Praying the Scriptures for Your Teenager: Discover How to Pray God's Will for Their Lives By Jodie Berndt / Zondervan

Praying God's Will for My Husband By Lee Roberts / Thomas Nelson

Prayers from a Mom's Heart: Asking God's Blessing and Protection for your Children By Fern Nichols / Moms In Touch International

Igniting A Passion to Pray Teacher & Student Pack By Fern Nichols, Marlae Gritter & Janice Oldham / Moms In Touch International

POWER OF PRAYING PACK 4 VOLS By Harvest House Publishers