"Father, I thank you that you created me to be a mother. I thank you that it is as a mother that I will fulfill the destiny that you have chosen for me before the foundation of the world. I embrace the mother heart you have given me. I give myself to this great calling.

Father, I thank you that you have not left me to cope on my own. I am so thankful that in the heart of God there is a well of motherhood that never runs dry. I draw from this inexhaustible well today. I thank you that motherhood comes from your heart. I know that this is in the anointing that you have chosen for me to walk in. Father, fill me again today with the anointing of motherhood. I want to walk in the fullness and power of motherhood that you have ordained. Fill me with your wisdom. Fill me with your gentleness. Fill me with your longsuffering and patience. May you love, nurture and nourishment flow from me to my family today.

Father, I do not want to be a miserly mother. Make me a great mother. Enlarge my heart and my capacity to mother. Open my eyes to continually see the needs of others. Help me to forget my own selfishness and to continually serve in self-sacrificing love. Let me truly be a revelation of your mother heart to my family and those around me.

In Jesus' name. Amen."

Taken from The Power of Motherhood by Nancy Campbell