Day One: 21 Days for Sons

Welcome to the first day of the 21 Days for Sons Prayer challenge! You are HERE and up for the challenge to pray for your sons for 21 days. Hopefully you have your book! If not, click on the link above, and then look on the left sidebar. The book is available in PDF or for your Kindle.

After our Twitter chat Sunday night, I was so encouraged by the passion you have for raising your sons to be Christian men of integrity with a passion for leadership. Thank you, #warriormom s, for being so honest and transparent. Also, I was so proud of the Twitter newbies that hung out for such a long time! Would all of you like to chat again another Sunday night?

Every day we focus a prayer topic. Today's topic is Obedience.You will see Brooke has included an overview of the topic, study questions, and finally the 10 topical prayers. Set aside time to pray every one of the prayers for each of your sons. Here are some ideas:

• Pray the prayers during a quiet time, inserting your son(s) name(s)
• Select some of the prayers to pray out loud with your son(s) and some during a quiet time
• Pray some of these prayers with your husband over your son(s)

Ask how you can apply what you are praying to your every day life. Some ideas:

• Reflect quietly
• Discuss with your husband and/or sons
• Tweet
• Blog
• Journal

Participate in the community on Twitter.

• Try and tweet at least one time daily (it is ok to tweet more often)
• Use the hashtag #warriormom in all of your related tweets.
• Quote something from the e-book that struck you that day
• Tweet something timely happening in your life related to the daily topic
• Share an aha! moment
• Retweet something that resonates with you from another #warriormom
• Ask others questions
• Laugh online
• Offer virtual hugs

Let's be inclusive. 

• There may be folks who join our #warriormom hashtag from other groups, or who have started the challenge late. Make these mamas feel welcome!
• Invite others to join any time. Just let me know so I can add them to our group list.
  

The only right way to approach these 21 days is on our knees. We are all busy. In our group, some work full time, some homeschool, some are traveling, some are moving, and some are pregnant. Some have impossible loads of laundry, car troubles, and "what's for dinner" issues. There are so many things
that encroach on our well intentions to pray. It can be a battle to set aside the time to prioritize this challenge.

Let's not aim for perfection of having an opportunity for quiet solitude for prayer. Let's just get it done, girlfriend.

I love this from Warrior Prayers: Contrary to popular belief, the battle won’t be won by reading and implementing the best parenting techniques. It won’t be won through late night talks, lectures on right and wrong, or even committing to a Bible-preaching church. These things are all part of the equation, but they don’t trump the most importantpiece of the fight. Prayer. This battle is best fought on your knees.

I am excited to participate in this journey with you. I will see each #warriormom in the Twitter stream today!!