Here’s the second testimony of 6 moms I promised you. Michelle H. admits she was unloving toward her children when she went through “Making Heart-Level Connections”, and now her family is learning how to love. [See our personalized 15-min intro video here.]
Michelle ~ One of 6 Moms
“After having gone through all five coaching programs I know that I will never be the same person again. I am becoming much less angry, irritated and frustrated with everyone. I am letting go of my need to control my children and my husband. My tone of voice has become much more loving. I am becoming more affectionate with my children. My children are becoming more affectionate with me and with each other. They seek me out for affection and want to be near me when they feel lonely or scared, since I’m not getting frustrated with them for being scared anymore. This is all new!
I am much faster to seek forgiveness for my unloving ways, and much more able to forgive my family’s unloving ways. I can scoop up my very angry seven-year-old, amidst her tantrums and just love on her, and help her to calm down. She is having fewer of these tantrums now, as am I. Because I can now accept the Lord’s forgiveness, I am much more filled with peace and more likely to run to Him, and not away from Him, when I feel convicted. Self-condemnation and blaming others for my sin are gone. I turn to Him in prayer and worship and thanksgiving much more often. I am coming to love Him more and more, and I am coming to love my family more and more. We still have a long way to go, but changes are happening.
The Lord has captured my heart and revealed His true loving identity to me. I will listen for the Lord, through my conscience, and run to Him for forgiveness and instruction. The love I have always desired in my relationships is possible, and will be a reality as I obey my Lord and am changed by Him. Thank you, Lord!”
Can You Identify with Michelle?
If you’re like Michelle, you may be thinking that there ought to be more loving treatment between family members, but you don’t know how to encourage it.
Maybe you’ve been upset with yourself because of angry outbursts that you know are wrong, but you just can’t seem to stop them, even though you’ve been praying that the Lord will change you.
Worse yet, you may feel like a failure as a parent and as a home educating mom, and when you think about it, you’ve always felt like a failure. These thoughts and feelings are more common among moms than you might think! But there are answers and solutions!
The heart-level changes Michelle describes are impacting her whole family! God is helping her to create the environment that serves a bigger purpose for her family.
What “Becoming Real” Did for Me
Do you remember “The Velveteen Rabbit”—the story of the stuffed toy a boy loved so much it became real. In a true sense this is what happens when we experience God’s love enough to break through the barriers we’ve erected to keep people out, forcing them to relate with our false personality [our habitual unloving relational patterns]. When barriers come down we become real people, able to love others and touch their hearts.
Becoming real began when I simply allowed God to tell me the truth. Before I began to agree with Him, I, like Michelle, had been a mere shell of a real person, bereft of love and void of the Spirit. But when I allowed Jesus to break through my defenses, He changed me and filled me with His love. I became alive unto God and present to Him and His purposes in my home.
Becoming real brought me into a tangible spiritual significance of being in the center of God’s activity, where His focus is, where His best work is, where love is, and where vital purpose is.
Becoming real led me to give out what had so generously been given to me, beginning with pouring out into my own children.
Becoming real enabled me to communicate at the heart-level with others and help them overcome their sin and carnal relating patterns, leading to healing in their relationships.
Becoming real made me an authentic Christian who had a greater capacity for life and purpose.
There is nothing more rewarding in this life than close, meaningful relationships between people who love to be together, choose each other as their favorite ones to spend time with, go out of their way to bless each other, love you no matter what you go through, and stay with you through thick and thin.
Do you know how to make the heart-level connections with the Lord, and your spouse and children that will assure the future of your family holding close, meaningful relationships? Do you know how to help your children develop their faith in God so they will continue to do so for the rest of their lives?
I’ve been so blessed to hold my children’s hearts, but it didn’t happen only through the natural ways that all good parents do for their kids. I invited God to become personally and intimately invested in my heart so I could receive the parenting I needed. Then I was able to become highly invested in the true soul-felt needs of my children, and help them to connect into their own relationship with God.
I invited Him to become personally and intimately invested in my heart so I could receive the parenting I needed. His wisdom empowered me to become highly invested at the heart-level with my children. I spent my relational efforts focusing on meeting their soul-felt needs so I could help them connect into their own relationship with God.
You can do the same thing too! You can read (PDF) or hear (audio) some more of “My Personal Testimonies” when you go get the free gifts I have for you.
You can find the answers your heart is searching for like Michelle did, and like many other moms who are finding real answers for their families too. The “Making Heart-Level Connections” mini coaching programs can help you get connected with the Lord toward a personal growth process like you’ve never known before! Are you ready to build the sustainable growth process that will support the healing of your family’s heartbeat?
Each of the six moms you’re hearing from made a quality decision and commitment to allow God, her Heavenly Father, to parent her. Yes, that’s right, parent her—at the heart-level. And now they are healing the heartbeat of their families and you can too! Continue reading their testimonies here. And I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!
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I’m grateful to serve the Lord with what He’s given me to share with you. I hope you will join me in the journey toward Christ’s Heartbeat!
Marilyn Howshall ~ Family Heartbeat Mentor
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