Marriage is a covenant. You can endure it or enjoy it according to how you build into it each day. One of your most powerful building words are your tools! Speak loving, kind, sweet and encouraging words to your husband each day. Even when you don’t feel like it.
Better than gold is a peaceful home
The devil rarely changes his tactics. Obviously, he finds the ones he uses are effective. Back in the Bible days, he continually tempted the Israelites to become like the nations around them. He uses the same temptation today. Why are God’s people lured to become like the world around them? It happens subtly. Even without trying we become absorbed into our humanist society. We think it is normal when often it is abnormal according to the plumbline of God’s word.
Do you need help? Right now? Psalm 46:1 is a wonderful promise to you: “God is our refuge and strength, a VERY PRESENT help in trouble.” You may not feel it, but God is with you right now. He is present in the midst of your calamity and trial. You may feel as though you are left destitute, that you can’t see any light in the tunnel, and you can’t feel that God is near at all!
Each morning and evening when we come together to read God’s Word and pray, we use our Prayer Boxes. I have nine different Prayer Boxes on different subjects to keep us reminded about the needs for prayer. We choose two of the boxes each time. The other morning, we chose our Above Rubies box and my card read: “Pray for the older women of the nation to take up their Titus 2 mandate to teach the young women.”
I thought that the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon because of his fame, wisdom, and riches. However, I noticed in 1 Kings 10:1 that there was more to her curiosity. Let’s read what it really says: “And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon CONCERNING THE NAME OF THE LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.”
“Where there is complaining, it shall fail,
And your faith will grow as you feed on God’s word. Feed it to yourself and feed it to your family and you will become a faith growing family.
The first thing He did when He created the man and the woman was to bless them. And what was His blessing? He blessed them with fruitfulness. Children are the greatest blessing God delights to give us. Do you love to receive God’s blessings?
There is no other career that is so influential. Mothers determine the outcome of the nation. They influence generations to come. And they are privileged to bring forth children for eternity. No wonder the devil wants to decry motherhood. He knows it is so powerful.
What a beautiful vision for everyone in the home. If we can encourage each one of our children to outdo one another in being kind to one another, what a delightful home to live in.
A Mother!
In her kitchen on her stair,
What ups and downs! What wear and tear!
She is forever meeting needs;
Forever sowing tiny seeds,
So that the little feet may run
Upon the highway to the sun
And that the trustful eyes may trace
Redemption stories in her race,
Losing her own life hour by hour,
She finds it breaking into flower.
~ Fay Inchfawn
Satan will not tempt you with that which looks evil as you wouldn’t be tempted. Instead, he tempts you with that which looks wise and good just as he did with Eve in the garden. We must continually watch and pray that we are not deceived by the things that seem good and wise. Make sure they line up with God’s word.
Daniel 9:20, 21 tells us about Daniel praying and confessing his sin and the sin of the people of Israel before the LORD God. It then tells us that at the time of the evening offering the Angel Gabriel came and "touched" him and began to speak with him.
I am sure you have heard of Thomas Robert Malthus, the originator of Malthusianism. He believed that people would keep multiplying but food subsistence would only mathematically grow and therefore could not keep up with the multiplying of people! Consequently people must limit their families.
You are the best teacher for your children. No one has them in their hearts more than you do.
There are so many Post Syndromes these days, aren’t there? Many of them very real to those experiencing them. Another very real post syndrome is PTLS (Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome).
Always look for the joy and the positive rather than the negative and your day will be so much brighter.
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