Anointing of Motherhood: Fast, Pray and Study about Caring for God’s Precious Little Ones

By Shereena Monique Osai

What if being a mother is one of our highest callings? An employer can have dozens, hundreds or thousands of employees, yet your children only get one mother. This book is a guide to help encourage you to be the greatest mother you can be, while calling on Yah to give you strength, courage, and joy. It is a 40 day journey that will help you be strong as you face the various challenges of motherhood, with a sharp focus on seeing your calling through scripture. You are anointed by God to love, teach, train, disciple, discipline and send out the children He has given you. YOU ARE!

Going through this devotional while fasting simultaneously will
bring a level of power and deliverance that cannot be obtained any
other way. Not because of the book, but because God said that some
deliverances we need can ONLY happen when we fast and pray.

Of course, fasting is NOT a requirement to read this book!

However, I am compelled to share the tremendous impact that fasting can have when you are trying to grow spiritually at a moment in
time of your life, or if you need great breakthrough or deliverance

If you have friends who are also mothers, it may be fun to go
through the devotional and fast together. Having someone to talk
with and pray through the topics with may help enrich the experience.

But if you do not have anyone to go through it with, I trust that
you will still get what you need and Yah will walk with you.

Resist the urge to read ahead. The book is designed to give you
food for thought to meditate, and really pray about. So read it one
day at a time.

Read it with a journal to write down any thoughts, questions or
ideas that may stir in your mind. This will help you chart personal
applications and remember your thoughts down the line.

I pray that you would experience a life changing breakthrough
from God's word as it relates to being a Godly mother. It is a high
calling that changes the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jun 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667851716

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Preface

On Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 11:15 a.m, my son Champion was born and I became a mother. After twelve hours of laboring through the night, pain and contractions, and countless pushes, my son finally laid in my arms. His eyes were beautiful and calming. When I saw his face, the distress of the past twelve hours melted away. I was a mother. My connection with him felt so strong. As soon as he was laid in my arms, I felt that I instinctively knew what he needed. I was smitten.

After having my son, I developed this urge to connect with other moms; to surround myself with women. I needed their stories, advice, remedies, jokes, and to connect with women walking the journey.

Having a community of women around you as you learn and grow can be so valuable. Playdates, book clubs, bible studies, and meeting strangers at the park that became close friends were all ways that I was able to glean from other women and feed that hunger for connectivity that raising children created in me.

During the first year of motherhood, I felt like I was discovering secrets about my own mother, finding answers to questions that always puzzled me. As I got up through the night to feed my son, going without sleep for days to care for him, and putting my to-do list on the backburner to give him the care he needed, I felt I was finally discovering the sacrifice it took to raise my sisters and I.

Mothers are gifted by God to nurture and meet the physical needs of their children. But a mother’s love can go even deeper by reaching into the spirit realm. When you are a mother and a follower of Christ, God can use you to not only nurture your child physically, but to disciple, lead, and guide them spiritually. God can pour on you an anointing to mother your children both naturally and spiritually. What a powerful combination.

My mother gave everything she had. She gave everything she did not have. Always trying to give us more than what she had growing up. She always said that each generation should be better than the one before and she did her best to live that. She definitely struggled through motherhood and made lots of mistakes, but I knew she loved us and was grateful for that.

As children, we got to witness her complete transformation from a life of clubbing, smoking and drinking, to receiving salvation through Jesus Christ. What a wonderful transformation it was. Our lives drastically changed for the better. The light of Christ Jesus truly does shine bright, piercing through gross darkness.

Because my mother gave her life to Christ, I was able to hear the gospel and make a decision to follow Christ as well. Now that I am a mother, I am able to teach my children about the Savior as well. Giving them what my mother gave me: discipleship in Christ. This is the greatest gift a mother can give her children. How blessed to give birth to a child, then lead them to rebirth in Christ Jesus! For Jesus said, you must be born again.

This is my greatest joy as a mother, leading my children to their heavenly Father, their creator, and the One that promises to never leave them. So far, Yahuah has touched all of our children’s hearts and they have all asked to receive salvation through Jesus Christ by the time they were two years old. It came by prayer, reading and explaining the Bible to them daily, having discussions, and teaching them right from wrong based on God’s living word. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth (3 John 1:4).

For me, becoming a mother created a need in my life for my mother on a different level. As I mentioned before, I gained a greater understanding of my mom after giving birth. But I also felt a need to just connect with and learn from her.

I spent so much of my adolescence thinking my mom was nuts. Now, I realized what I thought was her craziness, was really her motherly insight and intuition. In my youth, I needed that at more than I ever knew. When I became a mom, I needed to cultivate that in myself.

Sometimes, I needed advice from my mom about motherhood or about my marriage. When I called her, she was an empathic listening ear. Other times, she would give me the word of God on the matter and set me straight. It seems she took this charge to heart: That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed (Titus 2:4–5).

My mother had such a hand in Yahuah bringing my family into being. God really used her. She moved to Michigan from our home in California when I was a senior in high school. I thought she was crazy. Then God told me to follow her to Michigan one year later. We lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan and I started college there. A few years later, my mother moved to Detroit; I thought she was totally crazy to move there. God has the last say and told me to follow her to Detroit one or two years later. God brought my husband and I soon after I moved to Detroit. Turns out my mother wasn’t crazy, but led by the Holy Spirit. She was literally like Ruth, leading me to God’s plans for me. I could not be more grateful.

Just as my mother’s strengths have left an indelible mark in my life, so do her shortcomings. A lot of the struggles I faced in motherhood were due to the things my mother lacked or things she never conquered. My mother suffered abuse at the hands of her mother, which affected her and her siblings greatly. She did a lot better than her mom when raising us, but there was still an unhealthy level of verbal and physical abuse my sisters and I were subjected to growing up. These are the things that God has been dealing with in me, healing me, rebuking, and correcting me so the cycle of generational abuse can be stopped. I work through, pray through, and overcome these things to be the mother Yahuah is calling me to be, and bear the Godly seed that He is calling me to bear.

God has called me to be a wife and a mother. I tried to be other things and do other things while being a wife and mom. However, Yahuah keeps bringing me back to this as if to say, focus. I wanted to be a fashion designer, interior designer, fashion stylist; the list goes on. But after God told me to let go of those goals, I had an epiphany. God never told me I would be any of those things. He told me was that I would be a wife and a mother. And that is what I am.

Through all of this, God has taught me so much and has been forming His character, witness, and perseverance inside of me. I hope to share that with you to encourage you and build you up as you walk your own journey of motherhood. God is definitely not done with me and is completing the work He started in me. It is my joy to share with you what I have learned.

This book is a mix of things that God has taught me in His word or spoken to me by the Spirit, things other women have shared with me, things my mother taught me, and things I have observed as I labor in my home with my family. I pray that as you read, God would speak to you in a unique and powerful way.

This book is for mothers in every way the word can be defined. For the married, single, adopted moms, foster mothers, moms raising or providing support for children who have lost their mothers: this is for you. Being a mother takes so much courage and requires such a sacrifice of yourself. I hope that this information can help give you encouragement to keep going when you are weary, persevere when days are hard, and thrive in your role as you raise up the next generation.

Fasting and Praying for the Anointing of Motherhood

Mark 9:²⁸ And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

²⁹ And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting

Matthew 9:¹⁴ Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

¹⁵ And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast

Daniel 10:¹² Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

Fasting is an amazing spiritual tool that sets your heart to seek God, moves God, and brings deliverance and breakthrough like nothing else can! All the major victories in my life with Christ come by prayer and fasting. ALL OF THEM! Even Christ himself (God in the flesh, without sin) fasted.

When I was in high school, the Lord gave me a warning, revealing that if He were to come back, I was not ready and that I was not right with Him. Growing up in deliverance ministries, I knew I had a lot of demonic strongholds that needed to be broken. So, I fasted. It was so long ago now I cannot remember the specifics of the fast, but I know it included no television, no secular music (which I knew was demonic), and praying and reading the Bible in my room after school. I cannot remember the food aspect of the fast or the duration. But after that fast, I was NEVER the same.

One night during the fast, I was in my room listening to gospel music; I was getting tired of the music honestly. I could feel the demons/darkness inside me