Having Been Away For Awhile

Having been away for awhile due to illness I have missed posting here for a couple of months.
During my time of convalescence, the Lord spoke to me about weakness and faith in Him. His strength is made perfect in weakness: "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." (2 Corinthians 12:9) I have found in greater depth that God is so very faithful. Those who are His are kept by His power... we cannot keep ourselves, we are far too weak. We cannot make ourselves strong, but He will be our strength if we come to Him in faith and rely on Him. To resign ourselves to His perfect will, to submit ourselves in obedience to Him, to rest and lean on Him is a wonderful and peaceful place to be!
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7)

Dear Mothers, are you resting in Him? Do you know the peace that passes all understanding?

Our children need to see us falling on our knees in prayer, or just speaking out prayer, imploring our God for help and thanking Him for every trial. They need to see the peace of God in their mothers, assured by Him that He is in control. This will make a very worthy and wonderful impact on them. The life we live before them is an example to them... how should they act or live in times of trial? Go to man? Or Go to God?
Oh let us be true and holy women of God... no compromise, no pretending... just true children of the living God, obeying His Word, doing what He says, and let them know Jesus Christ is your strength. We are needy and helpless without Jesus Christ our Lord.

May our sweet Savior bless you today as you raise your children for Him.

I hope to post more soon... Let us keep praising God always!

Mothers, Are We Preachers At Home?

Be A Preacher At Home Dear godly Mothers, Our Children Will Benefit Greatly!

Yesterday, June 30, 2009, I was with my 21 year old daughter, sitting in the parked car while we waited for my son to finish his piano lesson. We had decided to wait at the park and read the Bible out-loud to each other since we are learning the power of the spoken Word of God.
While sitting we observed 3 boys who had just arrived at the park, they must have been about 13, 12 and 11 years of age. It was a wet and soggy day so the park was empty, except for the boys. Leah was reading to me and I watched those boys as they balanced and ran on a large fountain rim, then pulled out some picnic tables and jumped on them. As I watched I heard a "still small voice" say, "go talk to them about me".. I mused.. "ummm what, ummm really?" "Go talk to them about me, it will effect them for their entire lives." I looked at Leah and told her that God the Lord just told me to go give those boys the gospel, "so let's pray"... I felt ashamed for being so slow to obey, and got out of the car, with Bible in hand walked over to them.

"Hi there! Hey have you got ten minutes to talk about something?" The oldest boy, who had pierced rings on either side of his lower lip asked,"What about?", (I answer)......."The Bible." He jerked back as if hit, "No! I don't believe in God."........ "Don't believe in God? How can this be? just look at the grass and trees, nature and all He has created, How can you not believe in Him?" The youngest boy wanting to please the older chimed in that he didn't believe either. Eric, who must be about 12 yrs. took the gospel tract that the others refused and stood still with interest in what I had to say, so I began to show him scriptures in the Bible. Genesis and John is where God lead me and explained about creation and how God made man from the dust of the earth, also about sin and what Jesus did for us on the cross. Eric admitted his sin and I asked him what he has done about that sin, since God cannot have sin in heaven nor can He look upon sin. I pointed him to Jesus on the cross and His sacrifice, taking our sin upon himself, becoming sin for us and about his need to believe in Jesus and repent of his sin. I told him that Jesus Christ is God and that He arose from the dead and is alive forever more. During the whole time I was talking to Eric the other two boys tried all they could to interrupt me. They kept pulling on Eric and trying to get him to leave saying, "Why listen to her, you have better things to do with your time." I asked them, "Why do you hate God? Why don't you want to listen to the Bible, are you afraid to hear God's Word?" They were both very nervous when I read the Bible to Eric, the youngest ran over to me, grabbed my Bible and tried to pull it out of my hands, but God had given me a good grip on it and he couldn't, I said, "Young sir, this is my Bible." I asked him what he would do with it? he answered, "I'd burn it." The older boy took the tract away from Eric and pretended to rip it apart. I gave Eric another tract and told him to put it in his pocket right away or they would take that too, and he listened to me. The two boys took up pine cones and threw them at me trying to stop me from talking. I encouraged him to read the tract and look up the scriptures from it in his Bible and pray for God to show him the truth. Eric thanked me for talking to him, and I left. (Please pray for this child and the other boys.)

Mothers! With great earnestness, teach your children the Word of God! Eric was different than the other two boys... why? I don't know the answer, but here is a clue, he told me he had a Bible at home and had heard something about God, he knew a little bit about what I told him. The other two boys made me think of two demons running around trying to keep Eric from learning about God, (Leah, who was watching, praying, and reading the Bible out-loud in the car) told me that they looked like two demons to her.

This whole affair sobers* me so much! We as mothers must be keepers at home and preachers at home... love Jesus Christ the Lord, learn about Him, draw close to Him, obey, reverence, fear and honor Him, He is God, Creator of heaven and earth! *As we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us. We will be more like Jesus, He will lead us in the way we should go! *Our children will benefit as we seek God, they will learn to do the same as we set the example in our words and living till our very lives are "preachers at home". Let us be sober! The lives of our children are at stake.. Who will they be like?

*Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. (1 Peter 5:8-10)

*Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. (James 4:8)

*and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
(Deuteronomy 6:7-9)

Are Your Children Learning To Live A Holy and Sanctified Life?

Are Your Children Learning To Live A Holy and Sanctified Life?

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
(Leviticus 20:26)

The Lord Jesus Christ is everything to me in every way, in this life and the life which is to come. I delight to do His will! ( I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Psalms 40:8) Obedience and submission to God is not a legalistic thing when it is done out of pure fear and adoration of God . The prompting of His Spirit, the moving of God in the heart helps us and makes us want to obey Him. Our children will see the example of love and obedience to God and want to follow. We have liberty in Christ Jesus, liberty not to sin! "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." (Galatians 5:1)

I will never forget a conversation I had with a professing believer as we were watching our children at play, I said, "Oh I want my children to be godly!" She replied, "I want my children to go to heaven." Oh dear mother please beware! "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate."(Titus 1:15-16) Of course we want our children to go to heaven and it is a work of God that can save them. A holy and sanctified life in our Lord Jesus Christ is what He wants for His own, our children need to be taught what a holy life unto the Lord is.

With great zeal I wanted my young children to live a holy and sanctified life unto our Lord Jesus Christ, and I wondered, what does a holy life look like? There was a great deal of worldliness in the people of the church we were going to at the time, I was newly saved and wondered if there was something wrong with me, since the worldliness bothered me so much. We were home schooling our children and were involved in a "Christian" home school group but again, worldliness there too. One day a new family came to visit the group but only came once. If the only reason for that family visiting was for me to see what godliness looked like, then God fulfilled His purpose. The children in this family glowed and showed the light of the Lord Jesus Christ in their faces and talk, right then I knew, we were missing holiness in our family. (Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. Proverbs 27:17) That day I began to pray, "I want what that family has, please show us what we are missing." God was gracious to us and began a work in our lives that brought forth what I had prayed for.


I had so longed to be with other Christians, to be part of the fellowship at the church we were going to at the time. We were involved in the Awana program and worked in Vacation Bible School or anything that included fellowship. The only problem was, every time we left the activity, I felt heavy and sad inside, it didn't feel like we really belonged there but I thought there was something wrong in my own heart. One day my Husband's truck broke down for good and we were down to one vehicle, which meant no extra activity for us outside the home! My world was crashing in! We lived in the country and 30 minutes away from Church, all we could do was to go to church on Sunday, so now what? Oh how good God is !!!! Here is where many wonderful lessons of holy living began for us.


I found myself home and secluded with my 3 and 4 year old children, but this precious time in our lives was necessary for learning the secret of priority in obedience to God. Instead of looking for others to supply my need for fellowship, I learned to look to the Lord Jesus Christ and found that He is my comforter and dearest friend, He told me to be still, (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalms 46:10) As I grew in fellowship with Jesus, through prayer and reading His Word, He spoke to my heart that my children needed Him as well.


The first and most important thing God showed us was, we were listening to music that was not honoring to Him. Because it was called "Christian" music on a Christian radio station, I thought it was alright. However, we learned that this music is very seducing and deceptive, it causes emotions to rise internally which makes us more in tune with our physical bodies. I wanted to teach my children the difference between the holy things and the profane things, but the beat that is used behind the nice words actually harmed my children which manifested through their attitudes. When we stopped listening to this (addictive) music, my children were far more peaceful! My now grown daughter Leah, wrote an important post on the subject of music, to see it go to: "Music, God's Call To Holiness". Leaving the music that we loved took submission and obedience to God, but He blessed us richly.

After the music issue was resolved I had greater spiritual freedom to teach my children. We learned about prayer; see: Are Your Children Learning To Pray? It is very possible to teach your very young children to sit quietly while you pray, and listen to you. Just yesterday we were praying at a friends home with her 2 and 4 year old children, they were sitting and listening for almost 2 hours of our praying and were happy and sweet during the whole time. This is good training, Mothers.

God taught us to put on the Armor Of God, see: Are Your Children Putting On the Whole Armor Of God Daily?

We taught our children the Word of God, see: Are Your Children Filled With God's Holy Word?
Parents, teach your very young children to memorize the word of God!

It took Time, Work and Commitment, see: Are Your Children a Delight To Be Around?



Oh let us live a holy and sanctified life unto the Lord Jesus Christ! Our children will then learn what it means to be holy unto God!

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
(Leviticus 20:26)


Let us teach our children godliness!