You Can’t Silence the Voices of the Little Prophets

Hey Prayer Closet Warriors!

Are you ready for Part 3 and even more behind-the-scenes moments from this year’s retreat “She Had Faith to Believe”? I’m going to take that as a yes… because you’re here lol.

Now, I’ve shared many times how the Lord will use my son, Jiraiya, and speak through him in ways that are so pure, so raw, and so unfiltered… it’ll stop you in your tracks.

Listen… having a Kingdom kid is not for the weak or faint of heart! Because what looks like a simple moment can turn into a full-on encounter. What sounds like a child just talking can carry conviction, confirmation, and clarity straight from the heart of God. And as a parent, you don’t get to brush it off, you have to lean in, discern, and be willing to receive, even when it stretches you.

Do we always catch it in the moment? No. But we have a perfect Heavenly Father who does.

I am called to women and families. I know the assignment on my life is to pour into daughters, to help them heal, grow, and walk boldly with God,  but I also carry the heart of a mother. I’m raising a son in the presence of the Lord, and I understand that what God does in a woman doesn’t stop with her… it flows into her home, her children, and generations to come.

So the spaces I create reflect that calling. They make room not just for women, but for our children, for the legacy God is building through them. They’re inclusive of our babies, because they are part of the promise, part of the process, and part of the overflow of what God is doing.

Having Alex and Jiraiya at this year’s retreat was pivotal to what God was doing.

When Aykesha and I talked about the retreat, she wasn’t sure if she should bring Alex and I understood that hesitation. I’ve had my own moments of questioning whether I should bring JJ into certain spaces. But time and time again, God has proven to me why he needed to be there.

A lot of times, I hear women say that bringing their child might be a distraction… but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

So I shared with her how God has used JJ in the spaces I’ve brought him into, how even in his innocence, God speaks, confirms, and moves in powerful ways. How what may look like a “distraction” can actually be a divine interruption… a moment where Heaven steps in and says exactly what needs to be said.

And baby… these two boys together had us look at each other like ,“Wait… did you catch that?” 😭

They weren’t just playing or being “kids”… there were moments where what came out of them carried weight..real spiritual weight. On the day of the worship night experience, the boys were outside that afternoon playing with their water guns, just running around and having fun. At one point, they came over and started spraying the house. We stopped them and asked, “What are you doing?”And they responded..“We’re spraying the house because of the fire that’s happening.”

At the time… we didn’t fully catch it. We kind of thought of it as kids being imaginative, doing what kids do. But that night? It all made sense.

During the worship experience, as we entered into prayer, the fire of God hit the room. And when I say it was intense… I mean it was intense. There was a real battle happening, one that caused us to rise up in prayer like we hadn’t before.

Let me be honest… you never fully know what someone else is carrying, but God does. And when His presence shows up like that, anything that is not of Him has to go. At the name of Jesus, it cannot stay. There was a weight, a heat, a tangible presence that rested on us in a way that shifted everything. God was moving, confronting, breaking, and releasing all at once.

And what took me out even more was the kids were in a separate room during this time. Later, they told us that while we were praying, they were praying too. They said they were fighting the devil because he was trying to get in. Whew.

God was confirming what was happening in the spirit. While we were pressing in on one side, they were engaged on another, unaware of the full picture, yet completely aligned with it.

What they said earlier wasn’t them just play. It was prophetic. The boys were outside “covering” the house before we even stepped into what God was about to release inside it. 

And I kid you not, it was happening like that throughout the entire retreat! They would say something, and then we would see it unfold, in real time. Listen, God will speak however He chooses and one thing you can’t do is silence the mouths of the toddler prophets!

To the mama who is reading this, I want you to really get this…

God isn’t limited to age, platform, or presentation… He just needs a yielded vessel. And sometimes, that vessel comes in the smallest package with the loudest truth.

We need to be training up our children in atmospheres like this, where prayer is normal, where God’s presence is welcomed, and where warfare is seen and they know how to fight back. Where they can see, hear, and participate in what He is doing, not just be present, but be engaged.

Because they’re not too young to hear God. They’re not too young to pray. They’re not too young to be used by Him. When we expose them to these environments, we’re not just raising good kids. We’re raising spiritually aware, grounded, and bold children who know the voice of God for themselves, children who won’t be intimidated by any darkness, because they know who they belong to and the authority they carry in Christ.

So don’t count them out as distraction. Don’t silence them. Don’t separate them from what God is doing. Bring them with you, train them, cover them. Because what you nurture now will speak later and it won’t just impact them… it will impact generations.

Catch you on the next post...stay connected!

With love,

Natasha Bennett

The Prayer Closet Mama®