"My kids would be better off with someone else raising them."
How it sounds in your head: When I see stable families with two parents and money and patience, I think my kids deserve that instead of me. Maybe I'm being selfish keeping them when they could have better.
"God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity."
-- Psalm 68:6Enemy lie that God makes mistakes in assignment, paired with comparison culture that measures worthiness by circumstance.
She sees tangible resource gaps between her situation and others. Her emerging abstract thinking allows her to imagine alternate scenarios that seem better.
Hagar was a single mom wandering the desert with a dying child and no resources. God heard the boy's cry, opened her eyes to provision, and made Ishmael into a great nation through her.
I REFUSE the lie that my children would be better off without me. IT IS WRITTEN that God Himself set them in my family. I am exactly the mother they need because HE chose this assignment. I am not parenting from my lack but from His abundance flowing through me. IT IS WRITTEN that He brings those who are bound into prosperity—my limitations don't limit His supply. I stand in the BARAK blessing—my household is blessed, my storehouses are blessed, everything I set my hand to is blessed. The Father runs toward me with resources, not away with my children.
The Father looks at you and your kids together and says 'perfect match.' He's not scrambling to fix His mistake—He's delighting in His purposeful design and flooding you with everything needed.