“American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks has revealed the powerful prayer she prays over her 4-month-old son, DJ, and shared how his birth deepened her faith in Jesus Christ.
“Having my son completely changed my perspective on everything,” she told The Christian Post. “Everytime I rock him to sleep, I start drifting into prayer over the choices he makes, the people he meets, and everything that’s going to happen in his life. I pray, ‘Lord, let him be strong when he needs to be, let him be kind in certain moments, let him be soft in certain moments, let him be compassionate, let him be passionate about other things and other people.'”
“That prayer usually trails into a whole bunch of other prayers, depending on how long it takes him to get to sleep,” she added with a laugh.
The 28-year-old “Battlefield” singer and her husband Dana Isaiah Thomas welcomed their son into the world on May 2 — a day Sparks said forever changed her relationship with Christ.
“My faith became so much deeper because I caught a glimpse of the love the Father has for us,” she said. “I wasn’t prepared for the level of love I felt and the feelings that I never could’ve imagined before. I just look at DJ and I smile and I just want to cry because he’s so incredible.”
“My husband and I are so aware that we need to set a good, godly example for him, because he’s going to be looking to us,” she continued. “But it’s been such an incredible experience and made my relationship with the Lord so real.”
Amid the busyness of new mom life, Sparks credits her husband, who she married in July 2017, with helping her stay grounded in her faith.
“As a mom to a newborn, you’re so focused on the baby and that’s all you think about 24/7,” she said. “My husband has helped and guided me so much. He’ll say, ‘Hey, did you do your devotions today?’ And he’ll send me ‘Jesus Calling’ devotionals or posts that encourage me.”
While she grew up in a Christian home and accepted Jesus at the age of 4, Sparks told CP it wasn’t until 2016 that she really began to own her faith and understand what it means to have a relationship with the Lord.
“I got down to a point where I felt so far away from Jesus and I questioned whether He was listening to me,” she admitted. “He smacked me on the head on Easter 2016 and said to me, ‘I’m here. I’ve always been here. You just have to come close to me.’ It changed the moment of my faith and my life, as well.”
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SOURCE: Christian Post, Leah MarieAnn Klett
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