Would the Lions mouth close if you were thrown into the den?

I sat with a heavy heart for my son, for when your child’s heart breaks, so does yours. More over once you watch your child become so calloused to the repetitive heart break that they no longer engage in response to it, they only take a deep breath and turn the other cheek, momma bear’s broken heart wants to show it nasty teeth.  But as I watch my son be a man, turn the other cheek, show Grace, trust and follow Gods teachings, I am in awe of how God uses a 16 year old boy to teach me so much, to reaffirm His word daily and how lucky I am to call this boy my son.  So many times over the years I have been overwhelmed by the flaming arrows pelting down on us, and this young boy has time and time again shown wisdom well beyond his years. It amazes me the times I have seen Christ in him and heard God speak through him.

With a heavy heart, I sat down today bible in hand to pray for my boys, to pray Gods word over my sons. Just wanting them to grow into men who seek Gods face and who are not consumed by the world around them, nor drawn by fleeting hearts. Also wanting a little bit justice for my sons hurting heart. When I opened my bible, I found a prayer card I had written for my son, one that I had tucked away in my bible several months ago, instead of putting it in my normal spot.

Why …I did not know but God sure did!!

All because I would need it today when I wasn’t at home near my War Room. God had went before me and prepared a way, so to bring peace to a mommas troubled heart, right in the moment I needed it most. I had wrote scriptures in the top margins that I had obviously prayed over my son the day I wrote it. I figured if God went through all the trouble of going before me allowing this card to be placed back in front of me, this prayer, these verses was where I need to be, my shield of faith, against the enemies attacks on my son. Several were in that margin, but I was called to Proverbs 22.  As I read the words I recalled why I would pray this over my children, but as the words came off my tongue they tasted different. They were seasoned with the Spirit. As several verses within that chapter leapt off the page, I knew there was so much more to the words each verse offered. I went and pulled every book of commentary, every reference, historical background I could find on Proverbs. After tearing into verse after verse realizing that what I was praying into my sons lives, for their lives also held may truths for myself to learn as well, for all of us seeking to live a life acceptable to our Savior. I sat back soaking it all in and came across the picture above. Immediately, I thought of Daniel and the Lions den. In that moment I realized what it meant to stand in the Lions Den. I saw it all play out. To stand face to face with something that has every advantage to kill and destroy you. Something that serves no other purpose but to rip apart the very fabric of your heart, your mind, your flesh, and eventually your soul. What it would be like to look that lion in the eyes, face to face, your first reaction to look for a weapon, someway to defend yourself, that would be your natural instinct right?  Fear, panic, grief, how do I defeat this, just an overwhelming on going course of emotions that would quickly consume any person.  As I can see my self standing in that pit, the darkness surrounding, Hearing the low growls that cause your heart to skip a beat, seeing glimpses of the jaws that can end life with one bite, and as the great beast approaches out of the darkness, from within the his shadows, eyes piercing. I can see he is not coming towards me but for my 6’1″ blue eyed little boy, and I am but a spectator…watching. I cant fight this lion, my victory over him would serve no purpose. One of the hardest things for a mother is to stand and watch her child have to fight his own lion, one that was thrown on him, one he should never have to face. At least not as a child, he’s not ready! He cant face this on his own, he is not yet a man!

But then and there, I see the man that I have prayed for in a boys body, I see a man rooted in truth, standing on faith, not covered in fear looking for a weapon to lash out, to fight the flesh and bone before him.  A man standing in all Proverbs 22 talks about, in the midst of trying to figure this world out, I see him standing in the truths of the person God calls him to be. I watch helpless as the massive beast approaches him and slowly lays at his feet, not by any power of his own, but by Gods power. God searching his inner most being, knowing his heart, would never leave him abandon in that pit. He would never leave him to be devoured by that which seeks to break him. I watch as my child chooses to believe that what ever he faces, no matter the hurt, or how dark it may seem at that moment, there is a future and an abundant life ahead for him. For he is not bound by the flesh and blood of this world but by the Spirit that lives inside of him. I watch him walk the narrow path. Although its just one small step, a single positive choice, I know every step down the narrow leads farther away from the wide and in that I rejoice.

So what in my hast I saw as calloused and guarded, wounded even was not that at all. It is a boy covered in prayer, learning to be a Godly man, learning to seek Gods face when every instinct you have leads you in a different direction. Its looking the beast in the eyes and knowing it has no power over you, that God is greater. God is in control and will not abandon you. For He will make good of all that is meant for evil. A boy knowing the battle is the Lords!! A boy thats becoming a man!

Please pray Gods word over your children, for His word never comes back void!!!

Pray not for wealth and dreams but a man that can stand before his lions and before his God and so bring about that many people should be kept alive!!

^{Genesis 50:20} As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

1 Samuel 17^:41 And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him. ⁴² And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. ⁴³ And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.⁴⁴ The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.” ⁴⁵ Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of theLord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. ⁴⁶ This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, ⁴⁷ and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord‘s, and he will give you into our hand.”