"I have to protect our kids by hiding their father's financial failures from them."
How it sounds in your head: I don't want them to lose respect for him or feel insecure. It's my job to make everything seem okay even when it's not.
"I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread."
-- Psalm 37:25Enemy creates exhausting performance and isolation, making you believe you must manage everyone's reality instead of trusting God to protect your children.
Parenting experts say not to burden kids with adult problems. Their anxiety increases when they overhear money fights. Protecting them feels like good mothering.
This boy died during the worst famine in Israel's history, in a home with no food and a barely-functioning mom. Yet God raised him from the DEAD. The child was protected beyond the parent's capacity to provide or shield.
I REFUSE the lie that my kids' security depends on my performance. IT IS WRITTEN that God does not forsake the righteous or their descendants. My children are Abraham's seed—the BARAK blessing is on their lives regardless of their father's mistakes. IT IS WRITTEN that blessed is the fruit of my body. I release the burden of managing their reality. I receive Holy Spirit wisdom about what to share, supernatural peace over my home, and children who grow up with FAITH, not fear, because they watched God provide.
Your Father loves your children even more than you do. He's not asking you to fake it until you make it. He's inviting you to model FAITH so they learn to run to Him in hard times instead of hiding from reality.