To The Grandmothers!

​I recently came across an old shoe box while going through things, and in it was several letters I received from my grandmother! I was in tears to say the least! My grandmother has been gone for several years now, but still holds a deep place in my heart.

She had her flaws, yet she was a mighty woman of God. She was a powerful woman of prayer and she was bold. She loved her family very much and was not only a mother of her 3 biological children but was a mother to children that she didn’t birth.

I look back at these things within my family and the Lord continues to reveal such deep roots and heritage that He placed in my family line. I am forever grateful.

Back to the letters I found. My grandmother wrote these when I was a teenager and while I was living with my dad. My parents were divorced when I was 9 and I lived with my mother for a time and then moved to live with my dad. I was in much rebellion. I was angry and I was seeking any and everything I could get my hands on to numb my pain. Yet in the midst of all of this, my grandmother was writing me letters, which were poems, and was mailing them to my dads for me. I can remember reading one and I let it kind of roll off because I was too busy running down a road of my own, but the letter was something that stuck with me. The Lord has often brought back the memory of that letter from her as I would see myself standing in that old trailer reading it! I had forgotten she wrote several until I found them and saw they were all opened!  Now I know I had to read them! -And to have kept them was obviously of the Lord!

***I share my story because I believe the Lord is speaking something prophetically here!***

When I found these letters and read them, tears streamed down my face as I saw the deep intercession they carried for my soul. My Grandmother had a way of sharing the Gospel with me in a special gifting the Lord gave her. I can see it now; I see how she spoke things into me even when I couldn’t understand it at the time!

Prophetic Word…
So I say to the grandmothers! Rise up and release your gifting over your children and your grandchildren! Release those words and move in the Spirit as the Lord is giving you direction to do so! You are planting seeds of hope, seeds of restoration, seeds of salvation and deliverance in more ways than you can ever imagine! Be bold and tell your children and grandchildren how Jesus has kept you all these years and how He has been faithful to keep you and them time and time again! Tell them of the good ole’ days and your singing around the table and gathering to eat with family and the provision He gave over and over again! We need you grandmothers more than you will ever know! Your words carry so much weight for your family! Your words are lasting and carry life and Resurrection Power! Your words may be what springs back, in due season, for your child or grandchild to take hold of, to bow their knee, call out to God, and surrender their life to Jesus! Your journey and example may be the very thing that they look back on and say, THANK YOU GRANDMA FOR TELLING ME ABOUT JESUS!!!

I can say that now as I am a living example! This is one of the many things that I believe was planted in my life to "woo" me back to my Savior. -And oh, how I love Him so!!

I am determined as I am soon to be a grandmother myself. My words will carry weight for my family! My words will be full of Jesus and unashamed to point my family to Him!

Grandmothers we need you now more than ever in this hour! We need the faith that you carry to be planted into a generation just as Lois and Eunice's faith was in Timothy!

2 Timothy 1:3-7
I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Rise up and win your family Grandma! You have more to give than you know! Release your wisdom and words of life to your family and this generation in Jesus name!

Krista Lesher, Mountain Momma