A good word......

Do Not Grow Weary In Well-Doing

My child, do not grow weary in well-doing. Do not allow the enemy of
your soul to wear you out, drag you down, or discourage you. Don't
you realize that this is one of his strategies against you, designed
to shut you down and make you ineffective.

At times he uses direct attack and confrontation. At times he tries to
get you so busy with tasks that I have not assigned to you, so that you
are too exhausted to do the things that I have given you to do. And at
other times, he will play mind-games with your expectations. He will
tell you that you are working so hard, and no one appreciates what
you are doing. Or he will try to convince you that all of your efforts
to obey and honor Me are for naught, and are accomplishing nothing.

But I say to you--don't listen to his voice, for he is a liar and he
has no power over you.
Choose to believe My truth, and know that I am with you always. I am
doing a good work in you life, and I desire to do good works through
you. So again, I say to you: do not grow weary in well-doing.

Amen :)

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.


In His time, in His time,
He makes all things beautiful, in His time,
Lord, please show me everyday,
As You're teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say, in Your time.

In Your time, in Your time,
You make all things beautiful, in Your time.
Lord, my life to Your I bring,
May each song I have to sing,
Be to You a lovely thing, in Your time.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are in authority,
the people rejoice:
but
when the wicked beareth rule,
the people mourn.

Why we feel at peace about our 12 passenger :)

Did you know it wasn't the giants that kept Israel out of their promised land? It was their murmuring and complaining about the price of gasoline being $4.00 a gallon, the high mortgage rates and the price of milk going up! (paraphrased in our time).

If the enemy can get us to even start thinking about these things we will miss seeing the Lord's mighty resources and abundant provision He has stored up for us for such a time as this. Jehovah Jireh means that the Lord has seen ahead and has already provided for the things we have need of before we even know what our needs will be.

Wow isn't that awesome!!!! Don't feel bad for me when I fill up my van! My God has promised to fill it up for us! We are only following where He leads. And we feel He is leading to more orphans finding a home!! And if not, we followed in faith!! :)

I want to dance with God......

When I meditated on the word Guidance,
I kept seeing 'dance' at the end of the word.
I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing.
When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.
The movement doesn't flow with the music,
and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky.
When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead,
both bodies begin to flow with the music.

One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back
or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another.
It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully.
The dance takes surrender, willingness,
and attentiveness from one person
and gentle guidance and skill from the other.

My eyes drew back to the word Guidance.
When I saw 'G': I thought of God, followed by 'u' and 'i'.
'God, 'u' and 'i' dance.'
God, you, and I dance.

As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust
that I would get guidance about my life.
Once again, I became willing to let God lead.
My prayer for you today is that God's blessings
and mercies are upon you on this day and everyday.

May you abide in God, as God abides in you.
Dance together with God, trusting God to lead
and to guide you through each season of your life.

Eggs...............

"With the help of an adult, take a couple eggs and make an omelete or scramble them up. Talk with whoever is helping you and explain how the shell of the egg needs to be broken to be able to use the egg. Discuss how when the limits of the shell are taken off, and when the egg is combined with the other eggs, and then whisked together, that the thing that once was a yolk and a white inside a shell, has now turned into something that is bigger than it was to begin with (and useful!). Talk about how this applies to God using us and others to help us live a limitless life!

The next activity is using eggs. Show your child a regular egg out of your refrigerator. Have your child look carefully at the outside of the egg. Then have your child crack open the egg and put the contents into a bowl. Explain to them that when we are born, we have sin in our lives. Our hearts are not good, they are filled with foolishness and evil. Then take another egg and boil it. Talk to your child about what Jesus did for them. After the egg has boiled and cooled, have your child crack open this egg. Talk about how when we come to Jesus and ask for forgiveness and make him the Lord of our lives, he makes us a new creation, different from what we were. Talk about how the outside of the egg was the same whether or not it was fresh or boiled. Then talk about how the outside of us doesn't change, but our heart and lives do change when the Lord is our Savior.

A Quote.....

When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better

What an awesome God we serve.....

Hebrews 4:16 KJV

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

LOVE this!!!

"Faith is not a belief that everything will turn out to please us; rather it is the confidence that no matter how things turn out, God will somehow use the events in our days for His glory and for our good."

E. Stanley Jones