Well it's been said that the hand that rocks the cradle

rules the world.

But in the day-to-day grind of motherhood,

women can lose sight of their personal value.

NARRATOR: With three children under the age of three,

it's no wonder Deven Wallace was overwhelmed.

Deven felt like she was failing at her duties

as a pastor's wife and mom.

But one day as Deven was crying, she

felt the Lord gave her a call to action for her and all mothers.

You mom, are that mighty warrior,

and you are a skilled archer.

And your children are your most powerful weapons.

NARRATOR: In her book, "The Warrior We Call Mom,"

Deven lays out a strategy for every mother

who is desperate to lead her children

and shares the steps for empowering our kids

to change the next generation.

Please welcome to the 700 Club, the warrior mom herself,

Deven Wallace.

Deven, it's great to have you here.

It's such an honor to be here, Terry, thank you.

You had at one point-- you were married at 19,

had your first child of 20.

Then you woke up one day and you had two sons, 15 months apart.

Yes.

That's a full plate for anybody.

What had changed in you?

Everything changed in me.

I tell moms when you birth life, you

have to find a new one yourself.

TERRY: (laughing) Yeah.

And that I went from being a very driven, productive,

a success driven young woman, to learning

that, wow, I have to find a new way to manage life.

And I felt like I was in a whirlwind I couldn't get out

of.

TERRY: Well, then you had a daughter,

and God gave you a vision after you had your daughter.

Tell us about that.

Yes, ma'am.

When I had Zion, I was up one morning--

as most moms are when everyone else is asleep.

You think God's asleep at that time--

just really crying out to the Lord

as I was feeding her and changing her.

And in that moment, the Lord really

began to rearrange my focus.

I think I wanted pity in that moment,

and that's never how the Lord answers us.

And he began to really arrest my heart and let me know, Dev,

you're off focus.

Right now you feel like life is passing you by,

but what you're holding is what I'm looking at.

TERRY: Yeah.

It's mom's having to realize that we think the world that's

going on around us is maybe where the kingdom is paying

attention to.

But it was right there in my living room

that heaven was watching because I was holding a mighty weapon.

You know, that's sort of true for everybody, man, woman,

child, we get all caught up in what's going on around us.

Why do you feel like women need to be warriors?

Absolutely.

I feel like it comes from our identity in the beginning.

This set me on an identity search.

I began to find out why did God create women to begin with?

And looking at that from the book of Genesis,

we find that when God said he created a helpmeet,

that word is the word ezer, E-Z-E-R.

And that word is not a weak term at all.

It is actually a warrior like term.

It's used in the scripture to refer to women,

but 14 other times it refers to God himself.

It means a helper in battle.

Someone who rescues.

And I begin to realize when God saw Adam was alone and decided

he needed a woman, he created a warrior

to stand beside him to help him have dominion in the earth.

You share in your book several examples

of moms who were warriors in the Bible.

Who's your favorite?

Oh, goodness.

I think I would have to say of all of them,

my favorite is Elizabeth.

Only because of John the Baptist.

I call him the Clothed in Camel Hair child.

And for the women out there who have that type of child--

I do, my second son Isaiah was--

I tell everyone Elizabeth was probably

made fun of by many other moms because she

had an unusual child that she had

to release into the wilderness.

And John the Baptist probably would

have been diagnosed with sensory perception, dietary issues,

anger management issues by the time he hit kindergarten.

He was just one of those unique creations.

And so I think I identify most with her

because of the unique children God has given me.

What practical steps can moms today

take to help lead their children in the path of God's

choosing for their life?

I mean, we have such an opportunity for influence

on them from the get go.

I think hands down moms need to learn

surrender and obedience, more than all things.

If you look at these kingdom mothers throughout scripture,

they change the world around them

just by the way they parented.

And it wasn't because they had a degree in parenting.

They heard the Lord and they radically obeyed.

So as mothers, I think to be a kingdom minded mom

and to steward our children properly,

we have to realize that they aren't ours, we don't own them.

We were given them to steward.

And the only one who really knows

how they should be shaped and fashioned

is the one who made them.

So any mom can change the world around her just

by learning to surrender to the Lord

and obey the words of the Holy Spirit to her.

The power of prayer in the life of a mom

is almost unimaginable, isn't it?

Yes, you can't live without it.

I tell moms all the time, when I hear my name being called,

someone's going to demand something from me.

You know, when I hear mom, I want to cringe.

And the Lord is the only one that, when he calls our name,

it's not to take from us.

It's to give to us.

TERRY: It's to give to us.

And when I learned that as a mom,

and I learned that taking that time to pray,

even if it was taking away from my list of things to do,

I was so much more productive.

Because in that short time I spent with the Lord,

he deposited something within me that

carried me throughout my day.

So prayer is a necessity for moms.

Boy, it really is for all of us as moms.

Deven's book is called "The warrior We Call Mom."

And it's available where books are sold.

Moms, I highly recommend this.

You can hear more from Deven.

We have a web exclusive interview later today

that you can catch on our web site.

So to watch that all you have to do is go

to Facebook.com/700club.

Deven, great to have you here.

Thank you.

And your word.