Where is your mind today? Dwelling in the past? Or even in the present as you mull over the difficulties you face? To dwell in the past or the present can be depressing unless you are doing it with joy and thankfulness.Did you know that God wants us to LOOK AHEAD! To that which is BEFORE! Paul confessed in Philippians 3:13, 14: "This ONE THING I DO, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
Things may look pretty bleak at the moment. But it's not the end of the world. God has got so much more ahead for you. Look ahead to what God has. Forget the past and keep pressing forward to the prize.
Recently in our Family Devotions my husband talked about how we can easily get stuck in an eddy. An eddy is where some flowing water gets sidetracked and stuck to the side of a river. Instead of flowing with the current it goes around and around in circles going nowhere.
If we don't keep our eyes on what is ahead, we can be sucked into an eddy. Instead of looking up, keeping our eyes upon Jesus, and the hope of what is before, we can stay in a rut (or an eddy) going over and over our problems and never getting anywhere. Remember, that's what happened to the children of Israel in the wilderness. Because they didn't believe God was bigger than their enemies, they ended up going around in circles in the wilderness for 40 years!
We'll never find an answer to our problems while we keep worrying about them. We'll only know the way out when we look to the Lord and trust Him.
When our eyes are upon Him, He can show us the way He wants us to go. And it will always be FORWARD. GOING AHEAD. PRESSING ON TOWARD THE MARK.
Keep out of eddies and keep running your race. It's not the end yet!
Love from Nancy Campbell
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Dear mothers, you are doing a GOOD WORK. This is confirmed in 1Timothy 5:10 and Titus 2:3-5. I know that sometimes you feel as though you are hardly making it, that you are not accomplishing much, and it's all so hard. Yes, it is hard in your own strength, but God does not intend you to do this great work on your own. He stands behind you with all His power. He waits to give you His wisdom. He wants to refresh you and strengthen you as you trust Him.
It’s getting to the end of another wonderful Thanksgiving Day. We squashed about 90 plus people for a sit-down meal at our home today. A great time of feasting and fellowship and speeches. Plus tug-of-wars and egg-throwing.
The life God gives us in His kingdom is an abounding life. It is above the normal status quo. He wants us to abound in everything in our lives (2 Corinthians 8:7). That means abounding and overflowing as we face the challenges of motherhood each day. Yes, right in your kitchen, when a child is annoying you, one is crying, and everyone seems to want you at once!
Do you like waiting? Well, in the natural world it is hard to wait, isn’t it? We like things to happen just when we want them. I remember growing up as a child. We had everything we needed but we didn’t have excess. We didn’t expect to get what we wanted each time we went to town with our mother. We received gifts for birthdays and Christmases and that was it. To get an orange in our Christmas stocking was a gift from Heaven. A little packet of raisins was heavenly!
Don’t allow the devil any space in your home. Don’t even let him get a foot in the door. Once he is in he will take over more and more. Speak the name of Jesus out loud. Take authority in Jesus’ name over any evil in your home.
I was reading the psalm we all know so well this morning, Psalm 23:2: “He leadeth me beside the still waters.” We know that a shepherd always leads his sheep to peaceful and tranquil waters. They will not drink from turbulent waters.
Today is the 18th November and so I began to read Proverbs 18 (31 chapters for 31 days in the month). As usual, I didn’t get very far. I didn’t get past verse 1! This is usually what happens wen I read God’s word each morning. I rarely get through a chapter. As I begin to read, I find something so wonderful and revelatory that I stop to study and meditate upon it more! God’s word is new and refreshing each day.
Your home is a haven providing protection,
By Judy Folsom
Oh, don’t you love this picture of these most adorable twins? I received this picture the other day from my dear friend, Sarah, and I just loved it so much I asked if I could share it with you all. Sarah and Daniel Bausum are now the parents of 12 amazing children.
. It’s refreshing to be reminded to stop, look past all that mess, and see the people we call our children.
It's over to you, Mom. You can make your home a dreary, boring place, or you can make it the most exciting and productive place in your whole city. God has given you your home, whether small and humble or big and spacious, to raise your children for God and to use for His glory and blessing to many.