Dear Lord,
Please give me strength to make it day by day. I know that I MUST rely on YOU and only you for comfort. I don't want to be dependent on anyone but You.
Your child!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wisdom
Every devotion, Sunday school lesson, everywhere I turn, God is wanting me to ask for wisdom. I am begging for it now. To say the right things, to listen at the right moment, to let God speak through me. How hard is that?! UGH....HARD!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
My prayer journal
1. Cory's life and how he can become closer to God and lead our family
2. Naomi's life and how God can use her
3. Tamera and Jim to find God
4. August - HEALING
5. Work - to find joy
6. Sole2Soul Sisters - to reach ladies and win to Father!
2. Naomi's life and how God can use her
3. Tamera and Jim to find God
4. August - HEALING
5. Work - to find joy
6. Sole2Soul Sisters - to reach ladies and win to Father!
Bible days
My mind has been wondering today:
1. How can someone so smart, creative, loving, etc. create this world, and yet wnat to have a personal relationship with me?
2. Why do we let sin separate us from the faith that Father can do anything?
1. How can someone so smart, creative, loving, etc. create this world, and yet wnat to have a personal relationship with me?
2. Why do we let sin separate us from the faith that Father can do anything?
Monday, February 6, 2012
Nagging Wife
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Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 105 helpful votes
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
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Proverbs 27:15 ESV / 76 helpful votes
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
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Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 76 helpful votes
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
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Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 56 helpful votes
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
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1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
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Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
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Ephesians 5:21-33 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, ...
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1 Peter 5:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.
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Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
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Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 105 helpful votes
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
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Proverbs 27:15 ESV / 76 helpful votes
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
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Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 76 helpful votes
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
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Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 56 helpful votes
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
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1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
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Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
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Ephesians 5:21-33 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, ...
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1 Peter 5:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.
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Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
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Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Husband
Thank you Lord for the wonderful husband you have given me. Help me to dwell on the things that he excels out, and praying for the Holy Spirit will control me and helping him grown in areas that he needs to grow in. He is such an amazing husband, and supports everything crazy idea I have.
Points I'm learning:
1. I his wife to help him learn how to lead the family
2. He doesn't need me to nag him and condemn him
3. I should work on respect to him with my head, my heart and my hands!
Points I'm learning:
1. I his wife to help him learn how to lead the family
2. He doesn't need me to nag him and condemn him
3. I should work on respect to him with my head, my heart and my hands!
Friday, February 3, 2012
Prayer
Who do you pray for? What do you pray for? I pray for those things that are close to my heart. But God says, Pray for your enemies. You can't just love your enemies by not hating them. You are, I am to pray for them. The Supreme Demand from Scripture.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Worship
I jsut wonder how prepared I will be when I get to heaven and see Jesus face to face. I want to just throw myself at His feet and worship Him. However, I have been convicted lately about my response to worship. Do I worship Him with everything I have? Am I worshiping Him enough so I will be ready to face Him one day? I think not....I must worship daily in everything I do. I want to be ready.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Andy Stanley
Salvation is free...it will cost you nothing.
Following Christ will cost you something.
Refusing to follow Christ, will cost you...everything!
Following Christ will cost you something.
Refusing to follow Christ, will cost you...everything!
Jesus
My devotion today was on Jesus. God in flesh. How often I just that phrase without really thinking it through. Jesus...God in flesh. Not Jesus...God as God...but flesh. He took on the same temptations, the same desires, the same everything, just to dwell among us. It would be like me sending Naomi to a bad city or neighborhood just so she can dwell among them and love them, even though they persecute and abuse her daily. God did that for us. Jesus did that for us. How often I forget the sacrifice He made, the struggles he faced...just for me.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
"Gongusmon"
Philippians 2:14-16 says
14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”[a] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
The word used is gongusmon which means whining and complaining. My devotion said it is kind of funny how this word is pronounced and sounds like "gone goose mon" What a weird word. But yet so profound...God says do EVERYTHING. Not the things we like, not when we feel joyful and are in good moods, but EVERYTHING without grumbling or arguing. Sometimes, no a lot of times, this is extremely hard! WE think we deserve to be treated better. We think we deserve more respect. We are on situations daily where we think we have been wrong including work, home, with friends, church, and everywhere else we are. But we don't. If we truly got what we deserve, it would be much worse than what we go through daily. So today..my focus...do EVERYTHING without using grumbling for fear of being classified as a 'gongusmonite'
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14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”[a] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
The word used is gongusmon which means whining and complaining. My devotion said it is kind of funny how this word is pronounced and sounds like "gone goose mon" What a weird word. But yet so profound...God says do EVERYTHING. Not the things we like, not when we feel joyful and are in good moods, but EVERYTHING without grumbling or arguing. Sometimes, no a lot of times, this is extremely hard! WE think we deserve to be treated better. We think we deserve more respect. We are on situations daily where we think we have been wrong including work, home, with friends, church, and everywhere else we are. But we don't. If we truly got what we deserve, it would be much worse than what we go through daily. So today..my focus...do EVERYTHING without using grumbling for fear of being classified as a 'gongusmonite'
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Selfishness
Selfishness: thinking we deserve more for our lives, from our husbands, from our employers. God portrays the absolute selflessness. We abuse Him, spit on Him, curse Him, daily....yet we don't deserve His forgiveness, His grace. And yet, we whine we our spouse or our employers treat us bad. We deserve to be treated bad by everyone, including God. My prayer - a little less selfishness, and a little more selflessness.
We don't deserve anything good our spouse or friends, or job can give us!
We don't deserve anything good our spouse or friends, or job can give us!
Friend with Benefits...
AS work gets harder and harder, I find i go home to get rejuvenated with my family, friends and God (no particular order). Today as I was listening to a new sermon series on marriage by Mark Driscoll, he stated something profound. People often say in a marriage that they have fallen out of love. But here is the truth. Love begins and ends with God. You can't decided when you are and when you are not in love. Love is not of yourself, it is of and from God. The key is to let God love your spouse through you...your goal, my goal is to have an every lasting friendship with Cory. A friend with benefits...
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Abraham
A Bible study we are doing on Sunday nights is about the modern day Abraham. It is really amazing how you take a story you have known since you were a child and apply it to modern day times. Can you imagine the thoughts of he and Sarah at such an old age trying to conceive a child? After all they had been promised to be the father of so many nations. IN today's world, it would be fertility treatments, timing, and a whole lots of other things just to try and conceive. But as with life, it is all about God's timing. When I try to start planning my life my own, it just doesn't seem to be the best paths to take. Everything I know God has promised is His timing. Not mine. And as I pray and trust in Him daily, I have to let go. After all, I have the front row seat to see His amazing plans unfold in my life and the lives of those around me. (taken from wise words from a good friend).
So, my thought for the today....sit back, hang tight, and know He is in control!
So, my thought for the today....sit back, hang tight, and know He is in control!
Monday, January 23, 2012
I have had a lot of ladies ask me if I would start blogging again. Just like my own personal diary into what Father is showing me day by day. So, it now begins. Since my last entry, a lot has happened. I have grown so much closer to God and cory. I still have a long ways to go...but I have falling in love with my first love all over again...so the journey continues!
See you tomorrow!
See you tomorrow!
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