Here's Melissa Kruger. God gave families as really the building block of all society.

Yeah, so this is this little insulation period where we have these children and truthfully, they absorb so readily what we put before them.

We teach them lots of things. We teach them what to eat. We teach them how to walk.

We teach them how to dress, how to tie their shoes.

But one of the important things we get to teach them is how to be in relationship with God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, October 16, 2015.

In order to effectively serve others, you need to be filled up yourself.

That's true for all of us.

And I think moms especially need to learn how to connect with the Lord while so many other demands are pressing in on their time. Melissa Kruger wants to help moms get

to know God through His Word and get filled up with his strength and then engage in their

important role with a renewed sense of purpose.

She helps guide moms through this process in a Bible study she's written called

Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood.

I'll tell you more about how to get a copy at the end of today's program.

Now, Aaron Davis is a mom with three young boys, and she talked with Melissa about ways to

pull the emergency break and to set aside time to connect with God in a busy season of life.

Erin and Melissa recorded this conversation at the Gospel Coalition's National Conference

earlier this year.

I know you'll be encouraged as we listen.

So in your Bible study, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood, you just kind of lay it all out,

which I appreciate. But you say, if we want to have children who take their needs to prayer,

we have to be women of prayer. If we want thankful children,

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