Janet Partial says every woman is called to invest in future generations.

Whether you have biological children or not, we are all spiritual mamas to somebody.

And we can be praying single women, childless women, women with a quiver full of children,

women who've never had any children. God has put us in the position of

being true women for children through prayer. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, April 26,

2016. Yesterday we heard part one of a riveting Bible story about motherhood and about unfulfilled

longings. Janet Partial delivered this message at True Woman 08. Janet Partial has been a really good friend to revive our hearts.

She's a syndicated talk show host, and she's involved in many public policy issues.

But even though she's in a public role during this season of life, she's always made motherhood a top priority.

In the message we began yesterday,

Janet left off with the biblical character Hannah in the temple praying fervently for a child. Oh, Lord Almighty, if you will only look upon your servant's misery and remember me and not forget your servant but give her a son

dear one she could most of us would have ended the prayer at that point give me a son that's the

self-evident want is it not but oh my oh my, oh my, she does not end the prayer there.

She says,

Then I will give Him to the Lord for all the days of his life.

Wait a minute, the one thing she's begging God for is a son, more than anything else, bitterness of

ridicule from Panina, emptiness of her womb, knowing it's been closed by God, oh God, give me a son,

give me a son. Perfectly reasonable, perfectly understandable. And then I'll give him right back to

you. Could you have prayed that? Could you have prayed that?

Could you have said, God, if you give me the one thing I want more than anything on the face of this

planet, I'll turn right around and I'll give it back to you? How could she do that? Because she was

God-centered.

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