Some people allow themselves to get eaten up inside with bitterness, hurt, and jealousy etc. We cannot allow this to continue in our lives for it will only destroy us and our entire family. We have a responsibility as mothers to keep our spirit whole--pure, blameless, and continually forgiving.
However, there is one area where the Bible tells us we are to get eaten up in our spirit? Do you know what it is? John 2:17 says of Jesus: “The zeal of thine house hath EATEN ME UP.” These words were spoken after Jesus made a whip and cleansed the temple, driving out all the sheep and oxen, and tipping over all the tables and money and cried out: “Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise” (John 2:16) and “It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves” (Matthew 21:13).
Your home is also God’s house if you have dedicated it to the Lord, which I am sure you have. We can’t be lackadaisical about building our home for the Lord, about making it a house of prayer, and about keeping it a holy place for God. Our passion and vision to raise a godly family in this ungodly world should consume us. It’s the only thing we are allowed to eat us up! Jesus was zealous for His house. We should also be zealous for the house we build for Him.
Jesus Christ redeemed us to be “zealous of good works” (Titus 2:14). Building your home and family for God is a good work. Do it with zeal. Don’t do it half-heartedly, allowing other things to consume your mind and time than the great commission God has given to you.
May you be zealously anointed for God in your home today.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
I wonder what kind of table you have in your home? Is it round, square, or rectangular? Is it old or new? It doesn’t really matter what it looks like. The real question we have to ask ourselves is: who does our table belong to? Is it my table? Or is it the Lord’s table?
Did you notice the comment from Renee Fogg with the post below, “Are you living in the bitterness of unforgiveness or the freedom of forgiveness? I’ll post it here for you in case you missed it. It is encouraging.
I remember seeing a cartoon many years ago. It was a picture of a mother looking at the adverts in the newspaper. Around her were children out of control and the house in utter chaos. The caption read: “I’m looking for a job, I need a rest!”
It’s so easy to get carried away without thoughts, isn’t it? I find that that when I don’t discipline my thoughts they can often tend toward self-pity, “poor me, why do I have to put up with all of this?,” selfishness, and even my own pitiful thoughts about God which are not worthy of Him.
THE GREATEST MAN in history 
What’s happening in your home today? Is everything piling on top of you--laundry, dishes, and teaching the children all waiting to be accomplished? Don’t throw in the towel, dear mother. Don’t look at everything waiting to be done. Just tackle one job at a time. Priorities first. But do each task with ALL YOUR MIGHT. Not half-heartedly, grumblingly, or lazily. And teach your children to do their chores with all their might, too. Inspire this attitude i
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The following are a couple of statements (of thousands that we could quote) stating publically and unashamedly the aim of the public education of our children:
King David was passionate about building as house for the name of the Lord, although his son, Solomon completed the vision. 1 Kings 8:17-19 says: “And the LORD said unto David my father . . . thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house UNTO MY NAME.”
We talked yesterday about living in the true reality, the reality of the heavenly world. How on earth do we do this?
To us mothers, the reality of life is the day to day responsibility to manage our homes; feed, nurture, and train our children; and everything else that clamors for our attention. But there is another reality, a reality that has the power to affect our daily life in our home. It is the reality of the heavenly.
The greatest blessing, stability, and power of the nation are godly homes--homes where the husband and wife love one another and together seek to raise godly children to influence the world. Satan also knows the power of the home and therefore tries to woo women away from their greatest place of influence.
For 100 years, Noah did the same old thing-- hammered, nailed, and kept on building his ark. He did not have time to do all the things that everyone else was doing. He just kept on slogging and being faithful, doing the same thing every day for all those years. In doing so he condemned the world.
Peter encouraged the believers in Asia: “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you.” The NLT says: “Don’t be surprised.”
Most of us have more clothes in our wardrobe than we need. Did you know that you also have an amazing spiritual wardrobe? And it’s free. It has been given to you by Jesus Christ, paid for by His death upon the cross and His precious blood which He poured out for you.
A little while ago I sent out a post about living for Christ. One mother wrote back and said that she felt condemned because she couldn’t fulfill all the Scriptures about daily living for Christ. As I continued to think about her, it dawned upon me that no wonder she felt like that. I omitted to give the very first principle about how to live for Christ. Without this principle none of the others work.
In my post below, I LOVE IT, DON’T YOU? I wrote how David loved the habitation of God’s house (Psalm 26:8). He was speaking of the tabernacle or the temple where the Shekinah glory of God resided. It was not the building David sought after; it was the presence of God. If God did not dwell there, it had nothing for him.
David confessed in Psalm 28:6 (ESV): “I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.” In the very next psalm he says he would like to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of his life (Psalm 127:3). Do you also love to go to the house of the Lord, to gather with God’s people, to worship and praise the Lord, and feed on HIs Word? This should be the natural desire of all believers.
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