Prayer & Motherhood: An Interview With Valerie Woerner | Ep. 61
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
When schedules are full and urgent needs abound, it's a struggle to run to God in prayer. We are hindered by distractions, unrealistic expectations, and even guilt, because we haven't already gone to our Father with our needs. In this episode, Valerie Woerner, joins Emily and Laura in a conversation about how moms can intentionally rely on God through prayer in each season. Valerie is a wife and mom herself, and is the founder of Val Marie Paper, which she started with a heart to provide women with practical tools for consistent prayer. If you are a mom hoping to be refreshed with gospel-truth and practical ideas for prayer, we know you'll be encouraged by this interview!
More from Valerie Woerner:
- Val Marie Paper
- Women's Undated Prayer Journal (as mentioned on the show by Laura & Emily)
- House Prayers + Free Printable Worksheets - Resource from Val for intentional prayer in different rooms of your house
- Checkout Val's Blog Archive on the topic of Prayer for more great articles!
- New Morning Mercies - Paul David Tripp (Devotional mentioned by Val on the show)
- E.M. Bounds on Prayer - Book mentioned by Val on the show
Other Articles & Resources:
- Praying the Bible - Donald Whitney
- Prayer - Tim Keller
- 10 Questions on Prayer with Tim Keller
- Praying the Bible - Video Series (5 parts) with Donald Whitney
- The Lord's Prayer - Audio series by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
- 31 Biblical Virtues to Pray for Your Children - Free printable (could tuck in your bible or hang next to your rocking chair!)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood is hard. |
| 0:05.8 | One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel like the worst |
| 0:09.9 | mom on the planet, which is why we need the repression truth of the gospel to be repeated |
| 0:15.0 | over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. |
| 0:19.4 | So mama, whether you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll |
| 0:23.9 | find truth, encouragement and laughter here. |
| 0:27.7 | This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:34.7 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Risen Motherhood. |
| 0:40.2 | I am Laura Whiffler and today I'm excited for all of you to hear an interview with Valerie |
| 0:43.9 | Warner. |
| 0:44.9 | Val is a wife, a mama to two little girls, she's a business owner and a blogger. |
| 0:49.4 | She runs a company called Val Marie Paper and she creates some of the best prayer journals |
| 0:52.8 | that Emily and I have ever seen on the market today. |
| 0:56.0 | As you can imagine, Val writes and talks about prayer a lot. |
| 0:59.2 | So we want to have her on the show today to talk about prayer and motherhood. |
| 1:02.8 | She'll talk about what prayer actually is, what hinders as we face, especially in motherhood |
| 1:07.8 | and share some practical tips to help amp up your prayer life. |
| 1:11.7 | One quick note to make is that at the beginning, the recording is a little bit fuzzy when Val |
| 1:15.4 | comes in. |
| 1:16.4 | We're not sure exactly why but it does disappear fairly quickly so we do hope you'll just |
| 1:20.4 | hang with us for a couple minutes into the interview when the voice clears up and all |
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