A Mother's Role as Prayer Warrior
Maribeth Spangenberg
Guest Writer, TOS Magazine

"Thus saith the Lord God: Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!... Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord". (Ez. 13:3-5)

"Foolish mothers" is how the Lord spoke to my heart when I read this verse. Although the Scripture reference is to the false prophets of Israel and is addressing their hypocrisy and deception, I still felt the Lord's enlightenment as to a different message "between the lines" for mothers to heed. In my mind's eye I read the verse as "Woe unto the foolish mother that follows her own spirit and has seen nothing!"

While I am in no way attempting to misinterpret Scripture or add to God's Word, I am seeing a personal application here. Any woman, who has the blessed honor of birthing a child, has the immediate responsibility of caring physically for that child to the best of her ability. But for a Christian mother, one who knows the Lord Jesus personally as her Lord and Savior, this responsibility is also extended to the spiritual realm. Initiating at conception, this mother has the duty and obligation to "stand in the gap" for her child. She has the blessed opportunity to intercede for her child in prayer. the rest photo