I always ask God for billboards. I figure He knows how stubborn I am so He knows i need black and white answers. But after my devotion this morning, and after thinking about it on the way to work, I act like God wants to trick me or something. God doesn't want to play games with me and make me search for what He wants. He just wants me to seek Him. Seek His plan. I often have to relate it to my own kids. Sometimes I have to prove to Naomi that she can think and make good decisions on her own. She just has to seek God and remember to talk and listen to Him. The same with Father. He can give me answers every where I turn. Whether it be a billboard, a simple word from my husband or a friend, a situation, and the list goes on and on. Today, I want to be like Samuel..."Speak God. Your servant is listening."

Patience

I haven't wrote anything in awhile. Been busy with work, kids, church, etc. But today I feel a need to get some thoughts down. I may have to start doing this every day again. It seems I was closest to God when I was writing what I was learning. And I miss that. Today I couldn't stop crying this morning. So many people in my life are struggling with their marriages and it breaks my heart. I want to get my story out so bad, but trying to learn to wait on Him more. I want to use it when He wants me to and not of my own doing. Not to mention, Cory has the better story. I pray God will open up a door for both of us...a way to help others and proclaim that God is how we made it! A way to give HIm the glory..not of ourselves..but HIM!

strength

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!

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!

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!

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?

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.