Welcome to Set Apart Daughters, a proud episode of the Setup Heart Daughters podcast, where you will be empowered, encouraged, and equipped to become the woman that God has created you to be.

I'm your host Denise Copeland and I'm so happy that you're joining me on this week's episode.

Welcome.

How have you been?

How's your summer going?

It's super hot.

Are you cooking out there outside?

Anyways, it's been pretty good over here. I love hearing from you ladies and just seeing how the episodes have been a blessing to you. So thank you so much for just sharing your heart about the podcast and just following a set of heart daughters and so happy that you're growing in the Lord or just being

encouraged and refreshed. So today I want to talk about being set apart to raise kingdom children,

set apart to raise kingdom children. Now, if you have children or don't have any right at the moment, you might have heard the

rumor that children are exhausting, annoying, and lots of hard demanding work, right?

Like raising kids is just this hard demanding work.

And there is some truth to this as far as it being demanding, but a greater truth than that

is that God chose you, woman of God,

and I to raise kingdom children that will love the Lord with all their heart, mind, soul,

and strength. So recently, I sat under a teaching that discussed about grace parenting parenting and it literally changed my whole perspective

on raising children and the blessing that children are to our lives and what we get to do.

Like if you think about it, like these kids, your children, our children, whoever it is that

you're investing in, they have souls.

Like these children have souls and you are able to pour into them and point them in a direction

where, you know, they choose to serve the living God and that they will live forever, right?

But not also that, but that they would make an impact in this world to share the gospel, share the good news, the kingdom of heaven. Now, as I sat under that teaching, like, before that, you know, obviously, like before I, I said that, you know, raising children is really a privilege and it's a holy calling.

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