The Warrior Mama Podcast

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is sharing more on what it truly means to walk with Christ as a grace filled warrior. Second Corinthians 2:14 says, “but thanks be to God in Christ who always leads us in triumphal procession. We are invited to triumphantly follow Jesus everyday in our motherhood. He is victorious and we can walk in this procession with him, and let him lead us to triumph. He leads this triumphal procession even in our motherhood. This week Bethany is reminding us the these simple truths: -God has already won the victory and now we can walk with him triumphantly -We have a new identity in Christ and our motherhood lies within that identity -We have been commissioned by God Not only has he commissioned us to be a warrior out in the world. But he has also commissioned you as a warrior of a mother for the children that he has set inside your home. He believes that you are the best person to lead and walk with your children as you raise them up. Grab Bethany’s free manifesto to help you walk triumphantly here. Don’t forget to head over to https://bethanykimsey.com or @bethanykimsey on Instagram to share how you are striving to walk triumphantly as a grace filled warrior!

Everything Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is talking all about feeling overwhelmed as a mom, and what design God has to help us from having this feeling creep in! Do you ever see other moms who just seem to have it all together. Maybe they have that picture perfect life on social media. They always have the best family photos, they do all the fun activities with their kids, and their house always seems to be perfectly decorated and clean! That’s when we begin painting these pictures in our head. We start assuming, she must be so patient, so organized, her husband must be so much more helpful than mine, her kids must listen so well. Don’t let yourself fall victim to the bondage of this thinking mama! Jesus has invited us to walk with him in a relationship that allows us to walk triumphantly. You are no longer under the bondage of performance. God has given you everything you need to be fully equipped to take on motherhood. This week Bethany is sharing with us: How to stop those feelings of overwhelm, imperfection, and fear from creeping in. Letting God take control over your motherhood journey. What it means to be a grace filled warrior. Don’t forget to head over to https://bethanykimsey.com to download a copy of the Manifesto. And as always I'd love to hear from you over @bethanykimsey on Instagram to share your overwhelming or insecure moments and how God helped you to overcome them!

This week, Bethany is talking all about potty training! If you aren’t a mom at the potty training age, or maybe you have long passed that stage, don’t worry this episode is still for you. God takes little moments like potty training and uses it to teach us a motherhood lesson that can be applicable to all stages of motherhood! Bethany shares this week on the podcast how God used a moment in potty training, to teach her about what a good shepard He really is. Have you ever felt like you are all alone in a situation, you are stressed, anxious, tired, weary, and just feel like you're in the dark. You want to hear a truth mama, we all face dark seasons in life. We all face times that we are scared, and the path seems dark, lonely, and never ending. I worry about the things I can and cannot see on the path that I am trying to navigate. Oftentimes this leads me to be anxious, and I work myself up into a panic. The good news though, we are not on this path alone. Psalm 23 tells us, The great shepherd tends his sheep with diligence and great strength. I shall not want. He brings rest and restoration to our weary, anxiety ridden selves. He restores my soul. He does not leave us alone in the dark as we try to get from point A to point B. We have a good Shepherd who cares more deeply for us that we can ever imagine. Those moments when we feel lost in the dark, all alone, with nowhere to turn, that is exactly when God breaks through. Don’t forget to head over to https://bethanykimsey.com or @bethanykimsey on Instagram to share your potty training stories with Bethany or even just a story about your good shepherd leading you through a messy moment in motherhood!

Welcome back to the kitchen table this week with Bethany Kimsey! This week we are getting a little more personal. Do you ever just feel like a failure as a mom? Maybe like that everyone else is getting it right besides you? And that just maybe, you weren’t cut out for this whole motherhood thing. This week Bethany is sharing her own worries and insecurities when it comes to being a mom. Being a mom is hard, no matter what age your kids are or how many you have. But the good news is that we have a heavenly father with a plan to gently lead us through this time. He doesn’t want us to be afraid of messing up, but to know that when we do, he will be there to guide our hearts as to how to handle each and every situation. His heart is to extend grace to us in every moment. Even those messy moments of motherhood. Head over to https://bethanykimsey.com to share some of your own feelings from your motherhood journey with Bethany and don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey. Want to hear more about how intimately our God wants to get to know you? Check out Episode 5 “God Hears Our Prayers” Here.

Last week on “When God Breaks Through”, we talked about changing our mindset in the midst of sibling rivalries. This week, Bethany is talking about how we approach our child in the situation. When it comes to these moments, we have to think about what our long term goals are for them, despite the upclose mess of whatever fight or squabble is happening today! Sometimes the best thing to do is for everyone to take a step back and spend some time in reflection. This allows the child to examine their hearts and the true emotions behind their actions. This also allows us moms to prepare our hearts for how God would have us respond in the moment. When we enter into these moments, we want to approach it with grace and humility. Our goal is not to bust the kid in that moment, but to help them examine their heart. Through careful conversation, we can guide them through the true emotions and feelings, how what they did would be viewed by God, and how they can use this situation to recognize their sinful nature. And even better, God’s love and grace for them despite that sinful nature. Head over to https://bethanykimsey.com to share with Bethany the tips and tricks you’ve learned in sibling rivalries! Don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey

Welcome back! Today’s episode is all about sibling rivalry. Let's be honest, we all have this in our homes from time to time. Kids fight, they argue, quarrel, and fuss! The problem is, we live in a culture that says this is okay! Yes it is going to happen, but what if God wants us to have a different perspective on this? What’s sometimes difficult in this moment is not to just focus on sibling rivalry or the issue at hand, but to prepare our hearts as moms to figure out how we are best going to handle it. At the moment, it can be hard to seek God’s guidance about the situation when you feel like you just have to quickly put out the fire. Today Bethany shares how we can view messy moments like these as a way to share the gospel with our children. How to use these moments as a way to help our children understand their sinful nature and our loving God. Don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey and check out her website https://bethanykimsey.com

Welcome to the kitchen table! Christmas can be hard! Do you ever feel like you make all these plans for fun activities, crafts, or devotionals to do with you kids, and then none of it gets done? It can leave you feeling like a failure. In this week’s episode Bethany shares with every mom that this is just not true! We cannot measure ourselves by what we do, but how we do it. God isn’t worried about you completing a devotional book. He isn’t limited by how well or how poorly you believe you have fleshed out the fullness of Jesus' birth. This does not hold him back from showing how much he loves your child based on anything you do or fail to do. These were simply just short-term goals you had for this Christmas season. What if we looked at Christmas with more of a long term vision? That we are pivoting our children back to Jesus in the everyday mundane things. That IS the Christmas story! In every moment, Jesus came for you! It is great to have short term goals in Christmas, but hold them loosely. We want to see the long-term vision of continual pivoting to point them to Jesus. Don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey and check out her website https://bethanykimsey.com to share what Christmas traditions are a staple in your house! May this Christmas season be the best that you have had! You can grab Bethany’s free prayer guide here to learn more about praying effectively for your children.

What does it mean to really pray for your child? We all know what prayer is and we know the power of prayer. But do we know how to effectively pray? This week Bethany dives into what it means to pray for our children and the effect this can have on motherhood. It is one thing to tell someone you will pray for them, but it's another thing to be a woman who defines her life by prayer. How often are we actually turning to God in prayer? Too many times we tend to say “I got this God” and attempt to handle it ourselves. Psalm 116: 1-2 reminds us that even in the smallest moment, God hears us. No matter what messy moment you are dealing with in motherhood right now, God hears you and he wants to offer his help. We were never meant to tackle this alone. Not only is God listening, but he wants to hear from you! You can grab Bethany’s free prayer guide here to learn more about praying effectively for your children. Don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey and check out her website https://bethanykimsey.com for more tips on handling the messiest of moments in motherhood with God’s grace.

Welcome back to this week’s episode of, “When God Breaks Through”. This week Bethany answers another fellow mama’s question. Don’t forget you can send in your questions, as well. Just visit Bethany’s instagram and facebook page @bethanykimsey to send a message with your question. One mom asked, “How do you do Christmas? How do you lead and have devotions that lead your children well? What is your perspective with all the craziness that Christmas can bring?” Have you been good this year? Are you on Santa’s nice list? What is Santa bringing you this year? Have you ever heard people ask these questions? It’s not that these are bad questions, however it could give children the wrong view. This kind of view could lead them to thinking that their performance determines their goodness. It is important to remind our kids, it does not matter what you have done, it matters whose you are. The enemy tries to convince our children that their performance factors into the equation of their salvation. If he can convince them of that, then grace is lost. Christmas is such a great time of year to instill the truths of the gospel in children. Through our actions, our Christmas traditions, and how we handle the whole Christmas season, children can be shown what Christmas is truly all about. Don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey and check out her website https://bethanykimsey.com to share your perspectives on Christmas and what traditions your family has adopted to teach the gospel through the season! We pray this Christmas season that children would learn that Jesus is the greatest gift they could ever receive. Being a mom in the culture we live in is hard! As moms, be fierce in your prayer life and fierce in the way we pray for our children. Check out Bethany’s free prayer guide here to open your eyes to ways that you can pray for your children. https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5e5dbf8c68c50e00262b7db9

On this week’s Thanksgiving episode of When God Breaks Through, Bethany shares a listener’s question. “How do I successfully help my children navigate the world’s culture of entitlement and how do you teach gratitude and speak into this area with Gospel conversations?” Bethany has discovered three different areas where we can find the opposite of gratitude in our children’s lives. -Possessiveness -Selfishness -Entitlement In parenting, we can identify each of these at certain times of growth in our children’s lives. Each one steers Bethany in the right direction of how to speak into each of her eight children. Addressing these three sinful nature highlight reels, Bethany reminds us that these are opportunities to bring the Gospel conversation to the attention of our children. Through various age ranges, she explains how we can begin to see and notice and gracefully guide our children to experience freedom from selfishness, entitlement, and possessiveness. Culturally, we see a child-centered approach which suggests that our child’s happiness is number one. When we center our family on the happiness of our children, we feed into the sinful nature which says, “I am owed happiness, contentment, and comfort.” Those things are not true in the Gospel. Before we have these redemptive Gospel conversations with our children, we have to look inward and evaluate where we are discontent or are feeling entitled. Bethany discusses the practical ways we can observe, confront without shame, and create opportunities to share the Good News from each childhood stage. Do you have a question for Bethany? Head to Instagram or Facebook @bethanykimsey and submit your question. Want a free prayer guide to walk you through how to pray the Word of God over our children and over ourselves as Moms? Click here. To find out more about Bethany Kimsey, head to her website https://bethanykimsey.com

Welcome back to the kitchen table with Bethany Kimsey for this week's episode of When God Breaks Through. This week Bethany answers another fellow mama’s question sent in via Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget you can send in your questions, as well. Just visit Bethany’s instagram and facebook page @bethanykimsey to send a message with your question. Kimberly asked, “How do you have a good friendship with your children while at the same time carry the authoritative role? How do you balance the two?” To answer this question, we have to answer some other pertinent questions: How do we tend to the heart that was given to me? How am I holding my child’s heart? Am I holding it too tight? Or have I dropped their heart? Characteristics of disconnect to their heart include: distance avoidance eye rolls It is up to us to come before our children. In our homes, we have a chief opportunity to display reconciliation and the Gospel in moments like these. We are called to be ministers of reconciliation. When we recognize we have a problem with a child and their hearts are not softly placed in our hands, our role as the more mature believer is to come to that child and humbly sit before them and say honestly, “I think there is a problem in our relationship. How have I wounded your heart? What has caused this riff between us?” They may respond with “I’m fine.” Maybe they aren’t ready to discuss yet. They may need space to process, but we need to be willing to wait and ready to discuss when they are ready. As mamas we want to get to the root of the problem, into the crevices of their hearts. Bethany discusses in this episode the way we participate in holding our child’s heart through key conversations and communications, through prayer, and through constant humility. This, in turn, brings friendship naturally because our children are assured their hearts are being tended too. Listen to be encouraged and led into a beautiful mentoring conversation in our motherhood. Do you know another Mom who needs some encouragement? Share the podcast! If you don’t know where to begin with praying over your children, Bethany has a free prayer guide to walk you through being a fierce prayer warrior. Click here for the guide. For more information about Bethany Kimsey, https://bethanykimsey.com

Welcome to the kitchen table with Bethany Kimsey! Have you ever walked away from an interaction with one of your children and thought, “I have NO IDEA what to do?” Motherhood can leave us floundering in our thoughts. Sometimes we don’t know what to do with the situation that has presented itself. It leaves us feeling befuddled. Bethany Kimsey encourages us that we can find refuge and an invitation in Jeremiah 33:3 “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. We can call to Him even in the day to day, in the potty training, in the sleepless baby, in the mood swings of our teenagers, and God will answer. Mama, He understands these great and hidden things. He has given us a great task, and at times it can feel so daunting but I share how to step into the throne room and trust God’s invitation. For more information, head to my website https://bethanykimsey.com.

Bethany Kimsey welcomes you for a quick cup of coffee, some laughs and maybe a few tears as we talk about the realities of motherhood. As a mother of 8 children ranging in age from 5-21, Bethany has learned the freedom of applying gospel truths to the daily details with children. Together we will learn how to take spiritual truths into the micro and macro moments of motherhood. How do we make this fuzzy intersection of real life mothering and the gospel clearly defined for vision and confidence? Connection happens when we meet together in the real spaces-- the kitchen tables of life-- sharing stories of hope, truth, and grace. When God breaks through everything changes about our motherhood, and we can walk with confidence and purpose. To find out more about Bethany Kimsey, come join her at https://bethanykimsey.com.