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Sharing Scripture: Proverbs 16:9

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This weeks scriptural focus comes from Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.

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Will You Answer the Call and Fulfill Your Purpose?!

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When I first became a mother, I had no idea what it was going to be like.  I couldn’t imagine the amount of responsibility that I was going to feel for the lives of my children.  I went to a class for a few months that taught me a few things that I needed to know about taking care of my newborn baby.  I then acquired the “What to expect when you’re expecting book.”  However, that book stopped once the baby became one years old.  There have been other books and resources come out since then, but the truth is that many of us are still learning what is required of us when we answer the call of being a mother.  Yet, as you find out, will you answer the call and fulfill your purpose?

Yes!  It is a call.  

It’s not just flower peddles and roses.  It’s a calling.  If you are a mother, you were purposed to birth and raise your children.  (If you are not a mother, please keep reading because you may have a mothering spirit.)  Now that is the most general way to put it, but it encapsulates so much more.  It starts from day one of conception.  If I am to be real with you, it actually starts before our children are born, with taking care of ourselves.  I could go really deep into this, but let’s just briefly think about it for a moment.  

Your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health are all time stamped in your child, when they are conceived.  These are the things that will be a part of their reality, when they are born.  Once you find out that you are pregnant and begin to make the necessary changes, your child has a greater chance at living a healthy life.  Still, there is a lot that falls on our shoulders as mothers.  I don’t say this to remove fathers from the picture, but I am talking to you…the mom. 

From day one, we are feeding our children.  We are training them how to be emotionally fit.  As we listen to music and experience life, our children in the womb have those experiences.  None of this goes away once the children are born.  They are just no longer housed within our bodies.  Instead, we see them and have now gained the ability and responsibility of teaching them how to live, apart from our physical bodies.  We are still responsible for the feeding and nurturing of our children.  

No matter what the world wants to tell you about the relationship between a mother and her child, the truth is that mothering is one of your highest callings. 

I could sit here all day discussing some of the things that are required of us as mothers, and I can add to this at another time, but today I have one primary focus.  I want to sir you up in your innermost parts.  I want to call you to a place where you realize that you are needed inside of your household.  You may feel like you are called to do many other things, but they should never take you away from the call of being a woman of God, wife to your husband, and mother to your children.  You have a very high calling, sister.  

You and I cannot get distracted with the things of this world, that we are not able to recognize the ways in which God has assigned us to build up His kingdom.  Your children are apart of His kingdom.  Your calling is to man the post of your home.  You are supposed to cover your husband and children in prayer.  You are supposed to oversee what comes in and goes out of the home.  You are supposed to pay attention to what they are eating and taking in one a daily basis.  You are supposed to recognize the struggles that they have and go to war for them in prayer. If it’s required, you’re also supposed to go to war for them in the natural. 

When you feel like the burden is too heavy, you are supposed to wail for your children.  When you recognize that the future is too harsh for them, you are supposed to cry out to God, asking Him to fix it.  I know that you are probably saying that prayer doesn’t fix everything, but let me tell you God does and prayer is how we connect to Him. 

In His word, God makes it very clear.  He tells us that He wants to help us and gives us exactly what we should do.  

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. ~2 Corinthians 7:14

Children are dying everyday.  We hear about the shootings, killings, cancers, diseases, and so much more.  Beyond that, they are being exposed to things that enable a slow deaths and are robbed of the blessings that God desires for them to have. 

The truth is that when we take the blinders off, our world isn’t so beautiful.  I tell you to find the beauty in this life, but don’t turn a blind eye to what is wrong in it.  It is too easy to be entertained and forget that our world needs us.  You and I can’t just sit by and watch what is happening.  I’m not calling you to request gun control.  I’m not telling you to leave the country and feed the hungry.  No!  I’m telling you to stay home and fight on your knees.  Start where you are, with what you can do.  Give your children a change.  Start there, and from there do whatever else God calls you to do.  

Pray that you are forgiven of your sins and the sins of your mothers and fathers before you.  Seek the face of God and ask Him to make a way for your children.  

Look!  You and I are not SUPER-WOMEN!!! We are not, but through God we are mighty and powerful.  (Ephesians 6:10-18)

Do you want to change the world?  Fall on your face and pray.  

Do you want the massacres to stop?  Seek God and cry out for the children.

Turn off the television.  I’m not saying that you can never have fun, but while we are busy playing, the enemy is executing his plan for our children.  Yes! I said our children.  

What are we going to do when they look at us and ask us to explain why their world looks the way that it does?  When our grand parents are gone and are no longer able to be held responsible, the burden falls on us. What will you say?  How will you help and still be in their lives?  How will you answer God when He says that He gave you a work to do, but you never did it and children died.  

Even if you don’t have children, you have a calling.  

We have to do something!  It goes beyond what we can see and into the unseen.  It goes into what we eat and drink.  It goes into what we hear and speak.  It goes into our spiritual and relational lives.  It has to do with God.  

Woman, wake up from your slumber and do the work of the Lord!  Your responsibility is great and you must answer the call!

Should you consider seeking God for wisdom?

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Have you ever felt overwhelmed in your decision making?  Perhaps you were at a place where life felt unbearable.  Have you ever experienced situations that threw you out of your comfort zone and left you wondering how you were supposed to handle life, live with joy, or even move forward?  If you know this feeling or have experienced it for only a short period of time, then you have also wondered how you could acquire the wisdom that you need to move forward in life.  You may not have contemplated these words exactly, but you have tried to determine the steps that were necessary to make good decisions in your life. You began, in some way, to seek wisdom. 

This may cause you to feel a bit distraught because everyone else seems to have it together, but the truth is that everyone is searching for wisdom.  They are searching in books, movies, people, social media, and in so many other places.  However, there is one place where we, as people should turn first.  We should turn to God.  Yet, many don’t because they believe that it is inconceivable to ask the Most High God for wisdom.  They wonder if He would even consider their request.  For this reason, they continue to utilize the wisdom of men.  

Should you consider seekingGod for wisdom?

The wisdom that comes from men, that is mankind, is sensual and wicked.  It derives from the flesh and stirs up strife.  If you want to know how to destroy your life and relationships, just seek the wisdom of ungodly people, who have no desire to seek God or encourage you to do so, either.  

That being said, if you desire to be successful in life and to have some sense of fulfillment, you must turn to the Lord.  When you do, He will give you wisdom and send people your way that are full of godly wisdom, as well.  

Let’s pause for a Biblical account

I know I’m doing a lot of talking on this topic, but let’s visit the Bible for a moment to get clarity on the subject. 

Have you ever heard of Solomon?  He was the son of King David.  Prior to his birth, his mother and father had a child that died, due to the sins of his father.  As a result, his father promised his mother that he, Solomon, would be the successor of his thrown.  However, there was a problem.  David had other sons that were older than Solomon.  They wanted to be king and had no knowledge of the promise that had been made to Solomon’s mother.  Just before King David’s death, while bed ridden, one of his son’s took it upon himself to establish his kingdom, and in his father’s name.  Solomon became aware of this fact, but he remained patient because he loved the Lord and kept the statutes of his father, a wise man. (1 Kings 3:3).  

In 1 Kings 1-3, we see the situation unfold, where God sent the elders to work out the situation for Solomon.  As he waited on God to establish his place on the thrown and his father to fulfill his promise to his mother, and essentially to him, he simply trusted God.  When the kingdom of Solomon was established, he was a young man.  He had to be younger than 30 and some believe that he could have even been 12 years old.  Can you imagine what it would be like to rule over a kingdom as a young person?  I don’t think that overwhelming explains how he may have felt at times.  Yet, this is how he handled it.  

7 Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. 8 And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. 9 Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

10 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.  ~1 Kings 3:7-10 

One translation says that he asked God for an “understanding mind to govern.”  This type of request takes great humility, but it also takes great faith in God.  Solomon clearly felt that he was incapable of fulfilling the call of king on his own, thus he did what he knew his father, a wise man of God, would have done.  He asked of God. 

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.  ~James 1:5

God is pleased when we go to Him with our requests.  He is a loving Father waiting to give to His children.  He wants us to lack nothing and this includes wisdom.  When Solomon asked God for wisdom, the Bible says that this pleased the Lord.  Not only was God pleased, but He also responded.  He confirmed to Solomon, that He would indeed give him the wisdom that he desired and so much more.  (1 Kings 3:10-14)

 And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore.  ~1 Kings 4:29

Now if God gave Solomon the wisdom that he requested, you have to know that He will also give it to you.  He doesn’t look at you or me and determine that He isn’t going to give us wisdom.  His word says that if we are lacking wisdom, we are supposed to turn to God and He will give it to us. 

What is required to be able to ask?

Sure!  I understand that you aren’t seeking God to rule over a people as queen.  You may be asking Him for wisdom in your marriage, finances, or as a mother.  Perhaps you desire to be wiser in life.  Please make sure not to minimize your request because you aren’t being crowned as a queen.  You don’t have to be in a specific earthly position to ask of God.  You just need to have the position of a humbled heart.  

A moment of clarity 

Today, I want you to take a moment to think about how you have struggled in your mind and decision making.  It is important that you and I take the time to realize that without God, we fail miserably.  People that don’t have godly wisdom may appear to be successful, but the truth is that they are miserable and striving to achieve pleasure that will sustain them for a mere moment.  This earthly wisdom leads them down a path of destruction.  You and I cannot be like the people of the world.   We are called out and set apart, so we have to do things differently.  We have to seek God for wisdom.  When we do, He is faithful to supply wisdom and godly resources that are full of His wisdom.  

If you feel lost and confused, turn to God.  If you are unsure and afraid, turn to God.  If you need wisdom and direction, turn to God.  He is faithful and will respond to your request because He loves you and wants you to succeed more that you do.   If you are still wondering if you should consider seeking God for wisdom, you know my answer.  Don’t hesitate!  Seek God for wisdom today.

Sharing Scripture: 1 Peter 4:8

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1 Peter 4:8

And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”

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Being Strong When You Feel Weak

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The other day, I went to my son’s practice and watched as his coach taught them. After doing a few sprints around the gym, his coach told the kids that he needed them to say a special prayer for his friend, when they said their prayers at night. With tears in his eyes, he told them that his friend had been injured and although she was alive and conscious, all of her bones were broken. I watched this man as he led the children and then I saw it. He turned around for a moment, to gather himself, and shed a few tears. I could see that this thing was breaking his heart and he really wanted God to heal his friend, but in the middle of he is weakness he had to be strong.

This Spoke to Me

After he said these things, I sat and thought about everything. I realized that there are times in our lives that we have to be strong, even though we feel weak. We have to pull ourselves together and push past how we feel, but sometimes this can take a lot out of us. We crumble underneath the pressure of the day and life can feel like a burden to carry. If we are not careful, we could allow it to weigh us down and anxiety or depression will try to seep in.

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In our own human frailty, we try to handle our situations alone and carry the burden. For some reason, we have all convinced ourselves that we have to try to do it for others and we must do it for ourselves.  God did call us to be strong and courageous, in ourselves, He called us to be strong in Him.  He also gave us communities of believers to help us be strong in faith.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Ephesians 6:10

Yes, He wants us to be courageous, not because of who we are, but because of who He is. He gives us the armor of God and enables us to fight battles that aren’t humanly possible. Ephesians 6:10-20 He tells us that it is because of who we are in Him, that we are capable of standing against the wiles of the enemy.

Being Strong God’s Way

He calls us to shine our lights out into the darkness, so that all men can see our works and declare His glory. (Matthew 5:16)  What an honor it is to be a vessel of the living God. As vessels, we have to be willing to surrender to the Lord when we are too weak to handle the situations that life has brought us. In the surrender and weakness, we will find God strengthening, equipping, and leading us in how to be strong, the godly way. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)

Although we may not always know how to handle life’s situations, we must remember that God is with us and if He is for us than no one can be against us. You and I don’t have to be a super hero. We don’t have to live life alone either.  We simply have to follow God and trust Him with our lives. There may be moments when we are overwhelmed and cry out to Him for help, ask others for prayers, or need someone to encourage us, but sometimes those are the moments when God shows Himself faithful the most.

 

His Thinks of You

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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” and You were on His mind. 

When His Spirit hovered over the deep, He look to a place where you could place your feet, 

A place for your to sleep, 

But there was none, so He made it. 

When He stared out into the abyss, 

the void, the darkness, 

He knew the harshness of how life would try to overwhelm you

So…He said “Let there be light” and there was light, so that the darkness would not overtake you

As the waters ran and flowed with no end in sight, 

God made it right 

Because He wanted you to have dry land. 

He wanted to remind you that He thinks of you more than the grains of sand, 

upon the earth

He wanted you to remember your worth

He gave the sun and the moon, the trees and the seas

And all have their boundaries 

Because He wanted you to rule and reign and your desires to be fulfilled by the fruit that came 

from the earth

So, why do you question your worth? 

In the beginning God and the Holy Spirit and Jesus our Christ, 

thought of you

Were concerned about your life

So they place everything in perfect order

It’s all for your daughter

And because He knew that evil would come, 

He sent His Son 

upon the earth

Begotten of Him, a virgin birth

Born to fulfill all of His promises to me and to you

Yes you!

He did this all for you because He loves you 

He delights in you

He thinks great thoughts of you

So just love Him and be the person that He created you to be

I can only be I and you cannot be me

Nor can I be you

But that’s because God doesn’t want us as an imitation

He chooses His people, calls us a royal priest hood, a holy nation

But you have to begin to see it

You have to make sure that you believe it

My prayer is that He would help you understand

That your name is written on the palm of His hand

He dances over you with singing

Yes! Your life is filled with meaning

So don’t give up

I know times get hard

But remember that you’re never alone

You have your God

And He thinks of you

 

I have created a quick video of this encouragement.  Listen to me read this poem and be encouraged.  You are loved.  If you enjoyed the video, subscribe to my Youtube channel, leave me a comment below, and give God glory for who He is.