Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Prayer Time
Father thank you for this beautiful day. You have created everything in this world to your liking. The intricate details you have placed in all living things is unfathomable. You formed me in my mother's womb. You knew me before the beginning of time. Our society says everything has happened by accident. How unnerving this is to me. The earth is perfectly placed. We are perfectly protected where the earth is. We are each unique individuals. Not one person on earth is the same. How amazing is that? From cells we gain arms and legs, nerves that cause us to feel pain. We grow eyeballs that see the world You created. How can this be an accident? Thank You God for giving us some knowledge into how You created everything. Please forgive us for not believing that it is You that did it and not some cosmic accident. I truly believe in You as the Creator. You formed the universe and stars and planets, animals, ocean, land all from NOTHING. You spoke it all into existence and it was good. Thank you God for being Creator of all things. In Jesus name, Amen.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Not Capable
It is days like this I feel like Paul when he was asking God to remove the thorn from his side. I truly do love my kids. There are some days when I get so tired of saying the same thing over and over and still not reaching them. I do not feel equipped to handle it. I feel like I am failing. I am tired of hiding in this place that says to put on the front that life is so happy and easy. Right now its not easy. It is not easy to push my pride to the side to get my way. I want to throw a tantrum just so I can be heard. I am stretched to the point where I feel like I cannot say anymore without passing out. I have extended my lungs to what I feel is the breaking point. On days like today, I do not think I can make it through.
Am I alone in this feeling? Am I the only mom that struggles to hold it together for the sake of my kids. Am I the only mom is does not want to put her selfishness aside and get my way? I feel like I am. I get very tired of the facade to be the perfect mom. Patient and loving, ready to give the perfect advice everytime. Ready to lovingly hold my children and calmly tell them how to react to certain situations, that really cannot be what reality is. Reality is red faced, verge of explosion mom, who is tired of saying the same thing over and over and over. Why can't we be honest about it without feeling like someone will call in DHS when we have a bad moment of yelling? I am NOT perfect. I make mistakes and yell at my kids. Am I wrong in doing so? Yes, most definitely. So, here is where I hang my head and heart in shame.
But you know what? I have a merciful Father who chose me for this purpose. He chose me to raise these kids. He thinks I can do it. He KNOWS I can do it. He understands all of my weary frustrations. He knows when I am at my breaking point. He asks me to lay it all on Him and not on my kids. He will lift me up if I will humble myself. He will protect me if I will hide under His wings. He will be my tower of strength. I can run to Him and find refuge. His word is filled with so many verses about His protection. He WILL protect me. He WILL comfort me. God's promises are not empty. His love his unfailing. His faithfulness will remain with me. He is not out to hurt me. He has a plan for me. He has a future picked out specifically for me. He is my Shepherd. He leads beside STILL waters, not turbulent waters, STILL waters. He leads me to PEACE! He restores me! He FORGIVES me. Even when I am walking in the valleys of what seems like death, as in not feeling like I can go much further, His righteous hand will sustain me. So when you are faced with moments of not feeling worthy of His calling remember you did not call yourself. GOD Almighty called you. You were not meant to walk this path alone. You were meant to remain in Him. Stick tight to God. Do not look to the right or the left. Look into His glorious face and follow Him. Tear off what hinders you. THROW IT AWAY!!!! Run to God and finish this race He has placed you on, for HE cares for YOU!!!!
As I sit here, I am typing this a lot more calmly than what I began. I do understand that I will make it, and you can as well. We all have STUFF that causes us frustrations, use them to grow with God. Create a habit of turning to Him. Maybe this is what He wants from you at this point. Learn to lean on Him more than ever. Draw closer to Him and not to the frustrations. Do not sit in the midst of your frustrations and focus on them. Turn to God and He will lift you up and set your feet on a solid rock. Amen.
Am I alone in this feeling? Am I the only mom that struggles to hold it together for the sake of my kids. Am I the only mom is does not want to put her selfishness aside and get my way? I feel like I am. I get very tired of the facade to be the perfect mom. Patient and loving, ready to give the perfect advice everytime. Ready to lovingly hold my children and calmly tell them how to react to certain situations, that really cannot be what reality is. Reality is red faced, verge of explosion mom, who is tired of saying the same thing over and over and over. Why can't we be honest about it without feeling like someone will call in DHS when we have a bad moment of yelling? I am NOT perfect. I make mistakes and yell at my kids. Am I wrong in doing so? Yes, most definitely. So, here is where I hang my head and heart in shame.
But you know what? I have a merciful Father who chose me for this purpose. He chose me to raise these kids. He thinks I can do it. He KNOWS I can do it. He understands all of my weary frustrations. He knows when I am at my breaking point. He asks me to lay it all on Him and not on my kids. He will lift me up if I will humble myself. He will protect me if I will hide under His wings. He will be my tower of strength. I can run to Him and find refuge. His word is filled with so many verses about His protection. He WILL protect me. He WILL comfort me. God's promises are not empty. His love his unfailing. His faithfulness will remain with me. He is not out to hurt me. He has a plan for me. He has a future picked out specifically for me. He is my Shepherd. He leads beside STILL waters, not turbulent waters, STILL waters. He leads me to PEACE! He restores me! He FORGIVES me. Even when I am walking in the valleys of what seems like death, as in not feeling like I can go much further, His righteous hand will sustain me. So when you are faced with moments of not feeling worthy of His calling remember you did not call yourself. GOD Almighty called you. You were not meant to walk this path alone. You were meant to remain in Him. Stick tight to God. Do not look to the right or the left. Look into His glorious face and follow Him. Tear off what hinders you. THROW IT AWAY!!!! Run to God and finish this race He has placed you on, for HE cares for YOU!!!!
As I sit here, I am typing this a lot more calmly than what I began. I do understand that I will make it, and you can as well. We all have STUFF that causes us frustrations, use them to grow with God. Create a habit of turning to Him. Maybe this is what He wants from you at this point. Learn to lean on Him more than ever. Draw closer to Him and not to the frustrations. Do not sit in the midst of your frustrations and focus on them. Turn to God and He will lift you up and set your feet on a solid rock. Amen.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Christian Parenting
I find I get a lot of weird looks when I say how I parent. I want my kids to have a solid foundation of God before they are sent out into the world to live their adult lives. Our society seems to think lets just let our kids out into the world first without a solid foundation, then parents wonder what went wrong? Why do my kids not want to go to church? Why do my kids do drugs?
We have to teach our kids what God thinks of them. We have to get them away from the thinking that what they do is who they are. I want my kids to know what God says about them.
They are loved. John 3:16
They are chosen. Ephesians 1:4
They are blessed. Ephesians 1:3
They are forgiven. Ephesians 1:7
They are holy, blameless, adopted, redeemed, sealed with the Holy Spirit.
I went to a conference this weekend. One of the workshops stated that we need to impart the identity our children have in Christ. She used a gift bag as an example. The gift bag was full of things we impart to our kids as part of their identity, athlete, smart, talented, but the gift bag was flawed, there was no way to seal it shut. So, when our children lost a game (athlete) they became a failure, so athlete "fell out". They lost their identity. She then took a very nice gift box, one that is sealed ith a tight fitting lid. Inside were the identities we have in Christ, already there, they did not have to be put in because it is part of the gift given to us because of Jesus Christ. Those identities we carry with us every day. They do not fall out due to a flawed gift bag. This perfectly sealed gift, Jesus Christ, never falls apart, never dumps out our identity for us to be left with nothing. It remains the same throughout our lives.
Wow! I wish I had been taught these things when I was younger. My identity became what I did or who I dated. It was not an identity in Christ sealed with the Holy Spirit. Don't wait. Impart Christ to your children before the world tells them their identity.
We have to teach our kids what God thinks of them. We have to get them away from the thinking that what they do is who they are. I want my kids to know what God says about them.
They are loved. John 3:16
They are chosen. Ephesians 1:4
They are blessed. Ephesians 1:3
They are forgiven. Ephesians 1:7
They are holy, blameless, adopted, redeemed, sealed with the Holy Spirit.
I went to a conference this weekend. One of the workshops stated that we need to impart the identity our children have in Christ. She used a gift bag as an example. The gift bag was full of things we impart to our kids as part of their identity, athlete, smart, talented, but the gift bag was flawed, there was no way to seal it shut. So, when our children lost a game (athlete) they became a failure, so athlete "fell out". They lost their identity. She then took a very nice gift box, one that is sealed ith a tight fitting lid. Inside were the identities we have in Christ, already there, they did not have to be put in because it is part of the gift given to us because of Jesus Christ. Those identities we carry with us every day. They do not fall out due to a flawed gift bag. This perfectly sealed gift, Jesus Christ, never falls apart, never dumps out our identity for us to be left with nothing. It remains the same throughout our lives.
Wow! I wish I had been taught these things when I was younger. My identity became what I did or who I dated. It was not an identity in Christ sealed with the Holy Spirit. Don't wait. Impart Christ to your children before the world tells them their identity.
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