When my girls were little, I felt constantly exhausted! I wanted so badly to have energy to keep up with them, but I just felt tired all the time. This led to a lot of depression and frustration for me.
When my girls were almost 3 and 1 years old, I had a crisis moment that changed everything and led to me making some big changes in my life. Those change that I made drastically increased my energy and my hope. I am still practicing these things 10 years later.
While motherhood is still exhausting both physically and emotionally at times, I have found ways to find ENERGY to do motherhood well. Yes, I am exhausted when I fall into bed at night, but I have energy to keep up during the day when it counts.
Join me today as I share how I replaced exhaustion for energy in my motherhood journey!
Do you struggle to detach your emotions from your kid's emotions when they are going through something hard? Me too! I just want to fix things! Feeling disappointed is hard and can often lead to feelings of failure and sadness. So how can we help our kids (and ourselves) walk through disappointment well?
In this episode, we will talk through HOW we can let kid's struggle with their feelings well while pointing them to the One who is always faithful even in disappointment.
Do you struggle finding ways to have conversation with your kids? OR maybe you just need fresh ideas?
On this episode of the podcast, we share ideas to bring about family conversation as well as one on one conversation with your children.
Take a listen and send your ideas our way too! MargoMartinMinistries@gmail.com
Are you battling bickering in your home? Do you find yourself breaking up petty arguments among your children? Do you find yourself saying things like, "Why can't you all just get along?" or "Let it go!" or "It's not a big deal. Just move on." Do you find yourself wanting to pull your hair out when your kids start to bicker with each other? Me too!
Bickering is arguing or making a big deal over little things or things that really don't matter. Trust me, I'm in the thick of this parenting struggle with you! This is not a subject that I have mastered, but an area that the Lord is sanctifying me in me as I parent my girls.
In this episode we will talk about the heart issue behind bickering, why kids bicker, and some tools we can use to help reduce bickering in our homes and promote relational peace.
I hope these are helpful insights to you. I’m in the thick of it with you. If you have any other ideas for how you deal with bickering in your home, please send them my way at margomartinministries@gmail.com. I would love to hear them. Also, send your prayer requests my way. I would love to pray for you!
xo,
Margo
Do you or your children struggle with worrying excessively over things? I remember many nights when my girls were newborns where I would stay up all night consumed with worry and anxiety over their wellbeing. I still often get consumed by the anxiety tornado that swirls around in my mind when situations or circumstances feel out of my control.
In Philippians 4:6, we are told to not worry about ANYTHING. How is that even possible? How do we worry well when life is overwhelming?
Today on the podcast we are going to talk about the antidote to anxiety based on what God says in his Word. We will explore Philippians 4:2-7 together, and see how we can learn to worry well and tools to help us or our children work through anxiety.
****I am not a doctor. As I say on the podcast, I am not talking about clinical anxiety. There are some of you who struggle with the all consuming physical and mental ailments that come with anxiety. Please see your doctor, there is definitely a place for medicine in many cases. This is not medical advice but a tool for our toolbelt to help us work through every day situations we face. Much love and grace to you! xo, Margo
Our world is filled with so much evil and sadness that it makes me want to run for the hills and hide my kids from having to encounter any of it! However, that's not what we are called to do. I believe parenting takes on different stages as our kids age. We are called to first shield, then protect, and then teach our kids to fight (or discern) the world around them. So how do we do this while protecting their hearts and minds? How do we teach our kids to discern the voice of God from the voice of the world? Join me as we talk about how I have been walking this out practically with my girls in areas such as Halloween, movies, and other areas.
Life can be disappointing especially when God given dreams just aren't coming true. Today on the podcast, I share personally about my lifelong struggle with wondering and fighting to stay present where I have been planted. It can lead to doubt, frustration, and discouragement. However, what if we are missing out on exactly where God has us to make an impact in this season? How can we shift our perspective to be kingdom focused while still keeping our dreams in our heart?
When I was a younger mom, I found myself wondering if the dreams that God had placed in my my heart would ever come true or wondering if maybe God hadn't spoken those things at all. The story in Mark 5 has changed so much on my perspective in why we need to be invested in where God has currently planted our feet. I hope it encourages you too. The places where God has us in our "not yet" moments are more important than we realize. Stay rooted.
The little years of parenting are exhausting and hard. Being in a season of waiting on "what you really want to do" is hard. Being single while longing for marriage is really hard. Working a job that you don't love while waiting for the career you dream of is hard! We all have seasons of life that are easy to wish away because they are hard.
I remember when my girls were 7, 5, 2, and 3 months old. I was in the thick of the "little years", and I was exhausted. I remember fully loving them and the moments, but also longing for the days when they were older and could do more things on their own....and when I could get a full nights sleep! That stage is all of a sudden gone for me, and I have found myself reflecting on how I could have look at hard seasons a little different.
Join me on the podcast today as we talk about hard seasons, the little years of parenting, Psalm 90, the life of Moses, and also...I share my bit of exciting news!!
Scripture References: Psalm 90 CSB
Join me on the podcast this week as we talk about what it means to be wise! I tell my girls all the time that you can be really smart but really unwise. Here's what I want you to soak in...Wisdom is a deep understanding that the world isn’t always right, but God’s ways are. Psalm 111:10 shows us the way to wisdom. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his instructions have good insight."
There is so much to unpack in this verse!!! We start to gain wisdom by having a fear of the Lord! Our kids are growing up in a culture that lacks Godly wisdom but believes themselves to be smarter than the last generation. It's a problem. This verse is a good start to helping ourselves to lean into God's way to wisdom.
Coloring Page and Printable are found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e1AcQPILQU54CV2r2aCSApu4MIfzsucH/view?usp=sharing
Most of my life, I think I had the wrong picture of God in my head. When I thought of God, I thought of all the Old Testament fire, distance between his people and himself, and I think we sometimes just stay there in our view of God. Can you relate?
That's not all of who God is! He is actually approachable! He smiles over you. He sent Jesus so that he could be near to you!! You can Walk in with Your Head Held High!
Ephesians 3:12 is our verse we are digging deep into this week. We take a deep dive into the Old Testament view of God and how through Jesus, we need to take a new viewpoint! Join me as we dig in and realize the curtain has already been torn down so we can approach him boldly!
Ephesians 3:12-"In him and through faith in him, we can approach God with freedom and with confidence."
Printable and Coloring Sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J-6gnUVz8hxqPPtigy4gw-WOCytDpMk7/view?usp=sharing
If you want to be in God's word but you struggle to find time or motivation....THIS IS FOR YOU!!! This podcast is taking a turn to those of you who are BUSY with life get in the WORD!! You CAN be busy and still find time for Jesus. Actually I think that busyness should be the REASON why we make time to be in His Word.
My goal is to help busy women -Know His Word, Be filled with grace, Walk in power!
So join me today as we set up how this podcast will roll from here on out. We are diving into Psalm 119:37.
This is our memory verse for this week:
Turn my eyes from worthless things,
and give me life through your word. Psalm 119:37
Printable and Coloring Page can be found HERE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xDak4K90IpH2ArGpNjweeszQBRlu80OP/view?usp=drive_link
It's time..to choose Revelation over Resolutions this year. If you are anything like me, I look back over many of my so-called resolutions for the past year, and there are many that I didn't accomplish. In the past, this has led me to feelings of failure and disappointment in myself. This is NOT how God has called us to live! He cares about our goals, but He cares about His purposes and our hearts more. What if 2024 was the year that we let go of resolutions and first chose REVELATION as our first priority?
Come join me on the podcast to explain what that means and how you can shift your goals to be more Spirit aligned than ever before! I'll also share with you what the last 3 months have brought for our family and how I've shifted my goals to be more in alignment with Jesus this year. I promise you'll leave feeling more empowered and encouraged to begin your year that in years past!
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KEY POINTS
1. Revelation leads to resolutions.
2. Revelation gives us power to be resolute because we are asking for a power that isn't our own. 3. If you want to be resolute, you have to look to Jesus first.
KEY VERSES
“But when He, who had set me apart before I was born and who called me by His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son to me, in order that I might preach Him among Gentiles," -Galatians 1:15–16
"No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us. "
-John 1:18 Questions or Prayer Requests please email Margo at thegracefilledlifepodcast@gmail.com.
Don't let the title of this podcast fool you. No one is asking you to give up your children. I don't believe that God would ever ask us to do that either, but today we are talking about how there was one parent in the Bible who WAS asked to give up his child and the faith it took to trust God in that moment.
The truth is that we face a lot of unknown as parents. Our kids grow up and become increasingly independent, and that sometimes brings up a lot of fear for us as parents as we realize that there is so much out of our control. We face daily fears about our children, our marriages, our jobs, and our relationships. We may not be called to physically give up and sacrifice our kids, but we ARE called to daily give up our fears and feelings to God and chose faith in His love for all of us including our children.
Lean in with me today as we talk about how much God loves his children and desires for us to live lives of faith over fear in our parenting journeys.
Today we are getting real with one of...if not THE darkest moments in my motherhood journey. I was lower than low.
The truth is that I know this won't be my last dark moment in life. It's taken me almost 4 years to wrestle with this moment, and what God taught me through it.
Funny enough, healing has come through studying the life of another mom in the Bible that had some dark moments as a mom. God CARES about our parenting journey. He hears us and sees us in our darkest moments.
If you are in a dark moment and feel alone, please email me for prayer. My prayer team and I would be blessed to pray you through it. Email: thegracefilledlifepodcast@gmail.com
So I shared with you all that I was starting my 75 Hard Journey. I actually ended up quitting, but it's probably not for the reasons you think. I am walking away from this feeling like I had a huge win in my thought process and also in my body.
Sometimes we have to have the discipline to let go of "good things" to receive what God's best for us in the moment is.