Hey, welcome to The Young Faithful Mama Blog. My name is Justice Rodriguez and helping young mamas like you stop feeling unqualified, overwhelmed, and chaotic so you can start raising your babies with more peace and joy. By sharing some of my experiences and things that I learned through my journey so you can become a Young Faithful Mama too as you navigate through your life as a wife and mother.
The aim of this week’s blog is to share a bit of my testimony and see if you are being called to become a Young Faithful Mama .
Being a mother was something I’ve always looked forward to as a little girl, But what I could never prepare myself for is motherhood. Always thinking about the well-being of my boys, worried sometimes it’s I’m doing it right, trying to make sure that my mental health is good because they deserve a healthy mama, feeling like I’ve lost myself from time to time but trust that it’s all apart of God plans while I’m here and that He will provide me with the wisdom, strength, and guidance each day as I mold them.
Becoming the mama that I didn’t have required a certain level of faithful that at first, I didn’t have, for me to feel H.O.P.E (healed, overqualified, peaceful, and empowered)
I had to put my trust in Jesus and trust that God had a plan for me (Jeremiah 29:11).
The Young Faithful Mama was birth in early 2019 as I was in the middle of transitioning into a new apartment and being pregnant with my second child. I was newly saved, hungry for God but struggling still with my mental health, being a stay-at-home mom, and was neck deep in some marriage issues.
When I got what I now understand was a vision of what was to come, He showed me praying before I got pregnant with my first son, I was deep in sin, bound with shame, depression, and anxiety, and I was being fueled by money and drinking my pain away. I was in deep need of a savior but wanted to be blessed with a child and in return, I promised to come to Him and Follow Jesus.
He showed me how it all fell together me and my husband praying, and finding out I was pregnant a few weeks later, my pregnancy stopped me from drinking and I ended up having to stop working due to my pregnancy which meant I had a lot of time to think and The Lord is so gentle and gracious because He gave me that time to start renewing my mind.
God reminded me that that tiny mustard seed of faith I had was enough and that with Him all things could be possible but when I came back to the reality that the Lord wanted me to write for His Glory to help mothers like myself that were drowning in generational curses, struggling in their mental health stop feeling overwhelmed, unqualified and find their H.O.P.E by building and growing a relationship with God and learning the power of prayer.
I was in disbelief not because I didn’t believe in God but because I didn’t fully understand my identity in Christ, I hadn’t accepted myself just how God made me and I had no peace in my motherhood journey.
So I put it aside and looked for a different route to finding my fulfillment. Long story short all the detours that I took trying to avoid the elephant in the room which was that I needed to unpack my baggage, heal from my traumatic childhood and leave it at the feet of Jesus and walk in obedience to what He was calling me to.
How do I know God is calling me to become a Young Faithful Mama?
Are you new to the faith or in need of a refresh in your walk?
Are you looking to raise your children with God at the center of your decisions and discipline?
Are you tired of being triggered by your child and ready to work through different traumas and embrace the growth God has for you?
Are you looking to grow deeper in your faith, dive deeper into God’s word, and surrender to His will for you and your family?
Are you teachable? Are you open to looking at parenting, mental health, and motherhood from a biblical perspective?
If you have answered Yes to more than 3 of these questions I want to encourage you to get in contact with me so we can talk and see if you would like to be invited to my Free Facebook Support Group that’s Re-opening for the first quarter of the year. The Group is an extended resource where you can get into a community with other like-minded mamas, and have weekly chats, devotionals, and scripture studies to help you stay connected to the Word. We have monthly topic discussions to help with different areas you need help in and a safe place to share, vent, and feel understood.
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The Young Faithful Mama 