Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Christmas and New Year came in a rush with all the preparation for fellowship, gathering and get together.
Last Christmas we wanted our family to focus on what really matters...Jesus and following his design for our family. We also wanted to spend Quality time with our children as much as we can. We want to enjoy and slow down. Taste the beauty of nature and target the hearts of our children.
We had our yearly family reunion last Christmas day. A yearly tradition that started centuries ago way back when I was still a child.
Then new year came and we were all together as a family in Tagaytay especially that my sister was here to celebrate with us.
We usually attend the Countdown party before but we decided not to do it anymore this year as we want to focus on reckindling the year that was and being thankful for God's faithfulness.
We had some family activities every hour. At 7pm we played farm bingo.
At around 8pm we started having our family discussion and devotion. We reflected on Psalm 23 Bible verses. We also asked each member of the family with the questions below to know our children more and to discuss their answers.
Goodbye 2017
I learned to
My favorite memory
Iam thankful for
My favorite book this year
My favorite time with mom and dad/ family
Something God taught me
My favorite verse in 2017
Hello 2018
I want to learn more how to
I want to be more Christlike in
I want to read a book about
I want to go with mom and dad to
I want to improve on
I believe God can
I got the idea from www.purposefulhomeschooling.com
The questions and the discussion helped us to learn and know our children more. Sharing their thoughts and what is inside their hearts.
We are thankful for this experience with our kids.
Then around 9pm we started playing our family favorite game UNO. This game makes us laugh so hard and at the same time we had an opportunity to teach our children in becoming good sports. We love this game and whenever we play it, it gives us a good quality time with our kids. Plus tons of laugh.
After that we also played chess while waiting for 12am to strike to greet the new year.
We ate together our favorite bread with hot chocolate. We love this tradition during this season and as soon as the clock hits 12am we were all ready to watch the fireworks at the veranda. With a grateful heart for 2017 and hopeful in Christ for 2018.
Words cannot express how we felt God's amazing hands and grace for 2017 and our hearts are really full with his faithfulness allowing us to be joyful and victorious in all circumstances.
We also wanted to start a new tradition. My husband and I decided to spend the first few days together with our children and continue to spend quality time.
And indeed the first few days of the start of the year was well spent together.
My eldest son Ivan even treated us on our first night at the hotel. What a blessing!
I remembered when it was raining in Tagaytay when I woke up and asked God to bless us with a sunny day instead. I told the Lord thay if it is His will for us to have our Family Time He will provide us with a good weather but if not my husband and I knew that God wants us to go home instead.
Alas, after breakfast we saw the sun shining and wind blowing, giving us a cool weather. Perfect to have for a family day!
The kids had a blast playing around and seeing different animals. My husband and I were also intentional in making sure that we also play with them. I am really not an expert in playing around like my childhood days but I followed my husbands lead as he was intentional in teaching and playing sports with our kids.
And of course we also played our favorite game UNO plus we also had movie nights and bonfire. We got hooked in watching Harry Potter. My husband and I also had our quiet moments together during breakfast where we would eat first while the kids are still asleep. Plus we had our date night.
We are not perfect parents and we still have a lot of shortcomings and challenges when it comes to parenthood. Not to mention the things that we need to improve on. But being intentional in nurturing the hearts of our children is our first step.
Just like what Elizabeth George said " The hearts of our children is the most beautiful garden that we can tend."
We want to be the gardeners of their soul.
This 2018 we will be doubling our efforts in tending their hearts. But we can only do this if we will nurture our hearts first. Yes, it should always start with us parents. With all of our flaws and shortcomings we can only tend by God's grace alone, that is why we should nurture our hearts. Hearts that are fully dependent on the Lord and will always choose to be joyful each day. Problems and challengea may still come but I am always being reminded by this verse..." The thief comes to steal and kill, I have come so that you may have life." - John 10:10
Being happy is a choice, you can allow Satan to ruin and give you a bad day but you are always free to choose. We cannot be intentional parents and tend the hearts of our children if we would always allow Satan to steal our joy.
Whenever we spend time with our family there would always something that may arise that will steal your joy but only if you will allow it. Like in our case...my kids arguing, a spilled food, wrong way or bottles that were left at home. But we Praise God that He is in control. We are always being reminded by John 10:10 and if we would allow Satan to steal our joy we will leave bad memories to our children and withdraw precious moments instead of filling their love tank full. This is quite hard to do but that is why we need a lot of GRACE from God.
And he who always ask grace from the Lord, He will provide.
We are grateful to God for the time He granted our family to commune with Him and have a joyful family time at the beginning of the year.
All Praise, Honor and Glory to God!
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
We are grateful for 2017. It was my first full year of being a full time wife and mom. From managing operations at work to becoming a home manager, the latter is the best and fulfilling job for me.
As I look back, we as a family was able to have a fruitful year by the grace of God.
Sharing with you our highlights for 2017.
1. Marriage - my husband and I became closer by God's grace and spent a lot of Quality time together. We had more time to communicate which is important in a marriage. We pray together and share our plans and dreams. Our date nights were also consistent and I felt more loved because as I witnessed him falling in love with Jesus more.
2. Family - I had time to plan, spend time and have quiet moments with my children. When Sean learned to write his name and started read. I was present. When he lost his teeth I was there to share it with him. When at night he is scared and would say "Mommy, hug me." I can cuddle him in my arms and sleep together. Moments I lost when I was working on a night shift but was restored by God.
The first time Simone said Praise God, he shared it with me. When he felt frustrated with writing, I guided him. When he started reading too, I was his biggest fan. I know his favorite food to eat and I am glad that I am able to cook meals and bake for my family.
When Kyle solved a word problem, we threw our high fives together. When we read about a touching Christian story, we cried together. We shared his ups and downs and we were together talking about lifes challenges. He is a growing boy and would be a teenager soon. I feel blessed that we can talk together about his life experiences.
When Ivan has his 1st paying drawing he was able to share it with me. When he bought me a bag, I felt that it was one of my precious gifts I received in my life. He would also share his plans with me and we feel that it is privilege tk be able to give an advice to a growig adult and guide him in his journey.
3. Ministry
My husband and I believes that we were saved to serve and through service our faith grew and the more we experienced God in our lives.
We are servants of Christ and we want to live His purpose and dreams for us.
Chosen Retreat - the biggest work that God has given us. We felt too small and too little to handle the task but we experienced God's amazing hands working. It has always been a privilege serving the Lord and we are in awe of God's faithfulness.
We were also able to serve through different retreats and other ministries.
4. Testimony
By the Grace of God, Arnel and I were able to share our testimony in our church and my husband shared his own testimony too and was also invited to share it at 700 club asia. These were surprising moments for us, but our hearts were blessed as we heard and see people that were blessed by our testimony. More than that, it is God's story in our lives and we are sharing it to be a witnessed of His amazing Grace.
5. God's faithfulness - God is truly faithful when you abide in Him. It is unexplainable how God was able to stitch together every detail that happened in our lives, how He provided for our family and how He allowed us to experience His greatness. We also learned to be completely dependent on Him.
There were also moments when we experienced challenges and hardships eapecially with relationships but these also helped us to call upon the Lord and turn every struggles into blessing for during these times that we have learned to be more prayerful and to depend and trust God's will and defense.
The most important breakthrough that we had as a family for 2017 is when we grew more closer to the Lord, allowing us to always see His hands and trust His heart in all circumstances. We are still imperfect people but we have one big perfect God!
All Praise, Honor and Glory to God!
As I look back, we as a family was able to have a fruitful year by the grace of God.
Sharing with you our highlights for 2017.
1. Marriage - my husband and I became closer by God's grace and spent a lot of Quality time together. We had more time to communicate which is important in a marriage. We pray together and share our plans and dreams. Our date nights were also consistent and I felt more loved because as I witnessed him falling in love with Jesus more.
2. Family - I had time to plan, spend time and have quiet moments with my children. When Sean learned to write his name and started read. I was present. When he lost his teeth I was there to share it with him. When at night he is scared and would say "Mommy, hug me." I can cuddle him in my arms and sleep together. Moments I lost when I was working on a night shift but was restored by God.
The first time Simone said Praise God, he shared it with me. When he felt frustrated with writing, I guided him. When he started reading too, I was his biggest fan. I know his favorite food to eat and I am glad that I am able to cook meals and bake for my family.
When Kyle solved a word problem, we threw our high fives together. When we read about a touching Christian story, we cried together. We shared his ups and downs and we were together talking about lifes challenges. He is a growing boy and would be a teenager soon. I feel blessed that we can talk together about his life experiences.
When Ivan has his 1st paying drawing he was able to share it with me. When he bought me a bag, I felt that it was one of my precious gifts I received in my life. He would also share his plans with me and we feel that it is privilege tk be able to give an advice to a growig adult and guide him in his journey.
3. Ministry
My husband and I believes that we were saved to serve and through service our faith grew and the more we experienced God in our lives.
We are servants of Christ and we want to live His purpose and dreams for us.
Chosen Retreat - the biggest work that God has given us. We felt too small and too little to handle the task but we experienced God's amazing hands working. It has always been a privilege serving the Lord and we are in awe of God's faithfulness.
We were also able to serve through different retreats and other ministries.
4. Testimony
By the Grace of God, Arnel and I were able to share our testimony in our church and my husband shared his own testimony too and was also invited to share it at 700 club asia. These were surprising moments for us, but our hearts were blessed as we heard and see people that were blessed by our testimony. More than that, it is God's story in our lives and we are sharing it to be a witnessed of His amazing Grace.
5. God's faithfulness - God is truly faithful when you abide in Him. It is unexplainable how God was able to stitch together every detail that happened in our lives, how He provided for our family and how He allowed us to experience His greatness. We also learned to be completely dependent on Him.
There were also moments when we experienced challenges and hardships eapecially with relationships but these also helped us to call upon the Lord and turn every struggles into blessing for during these times that we have learned to be more prayerful and to depend and trust God's will and defense.
The most important breakthrough that we had as a family for 2017 is when we grew more closer to the Lord, allowing us to always see His hands and trust His heart in all circumstances. We are still imperfect people but we have one big perfect God!
All Praise, Honor and Glory to God!
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are mine
As a homeschool mom with four boys I needed to take care of a lot of stuff. Having said that, I would always loose time in taking care of my hair and make up. Though make up is easy, my real problem is my long curly hair. I feel so ugly whenever my hair is going everywhere and I am experiencing a bad hair day. This would always cost me a lot of time to prepare whenever I needed to dress up. It even makes it harder as my hair is also thin and umanageable.
And there's more...my husband would love me to have a long straight hair, when we had our wedding 2 years ago I wore a thick wavy wig that was really stylish and classy. He likes it and even recommended that i use one. This was my first time to wear a wig and I love the result. It gave me an idea that wearing a wig can be my solution to a bad hair day.
Let me share with you some advantages of wearing a wig:
1. No more bad hair days :)
2. Hides split ends and other hair problems
3. Convenient and Time saver
4. Practical - no need to go to a salon to fix your hair especially on your date nights and other special events.
5. Stylish - you can always mix and match your hair with your outfit and have a beautiful look.
6. Safe to use - there is no harm in using wigs just make sure that it fits your head and wash your hair regularly.
I also came across in this website lace front wig and they have the latest in styles. As I was browsing the pictures I fell in love with the different hair styles that I can get when I invest on their products plus you can order it online
For ladies like me who is also not comfortable in cutting or changing hairstyles, I would recommend using wigs as an alternative.
Say goodbye to bad hair days and say hello to a new stylish hair with these beautiful products from blackspray.com
I am excited to try and use one!
As a homeschool mom with four boys I needed to take care of a lot of stuff. Having said that, I would always loose time in taking care of my hair and make up. Though make up is easy, my real problem is my long curly hair. I feel so ugly whenever my hair is going everywhere and I am experiencing a bad hair day. This would always cost me a lot of time to prepare whenever I needed to dress up. It even makes it harder as my hair is also thin and umanageable.
And there's more...my husband would love me to have a long straight hair, when we had our wedding 2 years ago I wore a thick wavy wig that was really stylish and classy. He likes it and even recommended that i use one. This was my first time to wear a wig and I love the result. It gave me an idea that wearing a wig can be my solution to a bad hair day.
Let me share with you some advantages of wearing a wig:
1. No more bad hair days :)
2. Hides split ends and other hair problems
3. Convenient and Time saver
4. Practical - no need to go to a salon to fix your hair especially on your date nights and other special events.
5. Stylish - you can always mix and match your hair with your outfit and have a beautiful look.
6. Safe to use - there is no harm in using wigs just make sure that it fits your head and wash your hair regularly.
I also came across in this website lace front wig and they have the latest in styles. As I was browsing the pictures I fell in love with the different hair styles that I can get when I invest on their products plus you can order it online
For ladies like me who is also not comfortable in cutting or changing hairstyles, I would recommend using wigs as an alternative.
Say goodbye to bad hair days and say hello to a new stylish hair with these beautiful products from blackspray.com
I am excited to try and use one!
Dear God,
May went by in a bliss, Lord! I got too busy with a lot of things instead of being busy in knowing you...
For some days I felt lost.
But I praise you for never giving up on me. For feeding me and quenching my thirst.
You are the lover of my soul, Jesus!
Today we started good and ended good with our homeschooling however we were not able to strictly follow our time table. But no chaos though. Smooth sailing except for the FB chats that I should have set aside.
Read aloud books for tots and found a good experience in studying Philippine Heroes with Kyle
Thank you Lord for Simone's heart thinking of making a lego heart for me :)
I need to focus on you Lord and guide my kids to learn and know you more before we master any subject. Please guide me Lord!
Thank you for reminding me that Knowing you and having a Love relationship with you cannot be found in the kitchen table.
For the time I started to listen to Having a Mary Heart in this Martha World and helping Arnel in preparing his message in our D12 my heart was full.
Help me oh Lord in building a love relationship with you! I need you to flourish my heart.
Thank you for allowing me to slow down and think about you today.
Thank you for bringing my husband home safely and please sustain him spiritually and physically. Lead him Lord that he may find confidence in you and he may seek you.
Please help me to be a mom after your own heart. Help me to guard my tongue and to prepare for Chosen.
I Love You, Lord!
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
It's been a while since the last time I blogged and posted personal stuff in my social media account and FB page.
I decided to limit my posts and just focus on God and what will be glorifying to Him VS posting a lot about myself and snippets of time that is happening in my life.
Quite a few months that I was able to do social media fasting and I was able to use my time with my most important work...my family.
It made me feel more of a private person and just really share what is happening in my life with my family and the Lord. Instead of blogging about myself in public, I started to write my Love Letters to God and I felt His warm embrace each day.
I felt secured and content.
However few days ago, I had this conversation with my husband about sharing the gospel. Our church - Christ Commission Fellowship has a challenge...to share the gospel to 33 persons until.the end of the year.
My husband achieved the goal in a week's time and even exceeded it, while I was left behind with a zero.
Eversince he started working, it has been his passion to share Jesus to others.
He reminded me that I can use blogging in sharing the gospel...and I prayed and thought about it.
Since I love to write and pour my heart in essays and stories why not really focus on doing it and use this gift for His glory!
Though this was my primary reason when I started my blog few years back however there was no clear direction back then.
I know the Lord will guide me as I do this work for Him...to be discerning and that He alone will be exalted for apart from Him I can do nothing.
And now I am back with a lot of thoughts in my heart to share. My prayer is that my blog will bless others and will see God's grace, goodness and faithfulness in our lives.
Using His gift for His purpose.
After all, it was the unconditional love of Jesus...that came down and rescued me :)
"By His wounds we are healed" - Isaiah 53:5
To the greater things!
All Praise and Glory to God!
I decided to limit my posts and just focus on God and what will be glorifying to Him VS posting a lot about myself and snippets of time that is happening in my life.
Quite a few months that I was able to do social media fasting and I was able to use my time with my most important work...my family.
It made me feel more of a private person and just really share what is happening in my life with my family and the Lord. Instead of blogging about myself in public, I started to write my Love Letters to God and I felt His warm embrace each day.
I felt secured and content.
However few days ago, I had this conversation with my husband about sharing the gospel. Our church - Christ Commission Fellowship has a challenge...to share the gospel to 33 persons until.the end of the year.
My husband achieved the goal in a week's time and even exceeded it, while I was left behind with a zero.
Eversince he started working, it has been his passion to share Jesus to others.
He reminded me that I can use blogging in sharing the gospel...and I prayed and thought about it.
Since I love to write and pour my heart in essays and stories why not really focus on doing it and use this gift for His glory!
Though this was my primary reason when I started my blog few years back however there was no clear direction back then.
I know the Lord will guide me as I do this work for Him...to be discerning and that He alone will be exalted for apart from Him I can do nothing.
And now I am back with a lot of thoughts in my heart to share. My prayer is that my blog will bless others and will see God's grace, goodness and faithfulness in our lives.
Using His gift for His purpose.
After all, it was the unconditional love of Jesus...that came down and rescued me :)
"By His wounds we are healed" - Isaiah 53:5
To the greater things!
All Praise and Glory to God!
Monday, June 12, 2017
One of the books we are reading together in our homeschooling is Trial and Triumph, a book about stories from church history.
My son also told me that this is his favorite book among all the others.
Few week ago, we read about the story of Blandina and some other Christians who were in prison. Blandina faced the snapping jaws of wild beasts rather than renouncing Christ.
Sharing with you some excerpts from the story....
Then the governor summoned Sanctus, a deacon of the church, from the crowd in the arena and asked,
"What is your name?" "I am a Christian," Sanctus answered.
"Where were you born?" asked the governor. "I am a Christian," Sanctus said.
"Are you slave or free?" "I am a Christian," Sanctus answered.
The soldiers started to whip and beat him, but still his answer to every question remained: "I am a Christian." The enraged governor ordered his body crushed between two red-hot copper plates. He died standing firm in his faith.
While reading the heartbreaking story my voice started to break and tears started to flow. After reading few lines again Kyle was also crying with me it touched our hearrs and felt how painful their suffering was. Our eyes were opened that there were early Christians who were persecuted but still stood with their faith and with Christ, while we are here having the freedom to proclaim our faith but we are not diligent in sharing the gospel and in talking about Jesus.
Oftentimes we have people around us that God gave and opened the opportunity to share the gospel but we say no to that privilege of being part of His harvest. We are saying no to God's invitation.
But these early Christians responded boldly and courageously in giving glory to God through their pain and suffering and through their lives.
These stories inspired us and made a mark in our hearts. God protected Blandina from the animals and through her life God was glorified.
When we answered God's call in our family to homeschool we thought we are only building the character of our children.
What we did not know is... it also God's way in allowing us to know The Savior more and more.
All Praise and Glory to God!
My son also told me that this is his favorite book among all the others.
Few week ago, we read about the story of Blandina and some other Christians who were in prison. Blandina faced the snapping jaws of wild beasts rather than renouncing Christ.
Sharing with you some excerpts from the story....
Then the governor summoned Sanctus, a deacon of the church, from the crowd in the arena and asked,
"What is your name?" "I am a Christian," Sanctus answered.
"Where were you born?" asked the governor. "I am a Christian," Sanctus said.
"Are you slave or free?" "I am a Christian," Sanctus answered.
The soldiers started to whip and beat him, but still his answer to every question remained: "I am a Christian." The enraged governor ordered his body crushed between two red-hot copper plates. He died standing firm in his faith.
While reading the heartbreaking story my voice started to break and tears started to flow. After reading few lines again Kyle was also crying with me it touched our hearrs and felt how painful their suffering was. Our eyes were opened that there were early Christians who were persecuted but still stood with their faith and with Christ, while we are here having the freedom to proclaim our faith but we are not diligent in sharing the gospel and in talking about Jesus.
Oftentimes we have people around us that God gave and opened the opportunity to share the gospel but we say no to that privilege of being part of His harvest. We are saying no to God's invitation.
But these early Christians responded boldly and courageously in giving glory to God through their pain and suffering and through their lives.
These stories inspired us and made a mark in our hearts. God protected Blandina from the animals and through her life God was glorified.
When we answered God's call in our family to homeschool we thought we are only building the character of our children.
What we did not know is... it also God's way in allowing us to know The Savior more and more.
All Praise and Glory to God!
Saturday, May 13, 2017
I was blessed to listen to a talk few weeks ago about depending on God and here are some of my learnings.
The Bible says " Blessed are the poor in spirit"
What does having a poor in spirit means?
I humbly depend on God instead of myself.
To be poor in spirit is having humility.
Do we depend on God? At all times?
Yesterday, we took our kids out to celebrate Kyle's birthday. The place we went to was full of fun, activities and it was like having a study tour.
For my kids last activity, I took my 2 kids to have some painting while Kyle was playing basketball and Arnel was watching him.
I asked how long the acitivity will take and the lady said 15 minutes so I said I will just come back.
I left and went to grab Kyle's CD and to take our bags to the ground floor near the basketball stadium.
When I went back to fetch my kids. They were gone.
I panicked instantly and told the girl in a condascending tone...I said I will be back!
Felt like going crazy that time.
I immediately called my husband to inform him that I lost them.
Then I asked one of the workers if they have seen my kids. It was easy to describe them since they were wearing identical clothes.
The worker said...they were taken at the Customer Service.
I ran to fetch them and from afar I saw my kids. In a proud tone, I said...Come on kids, let's go!
My kids ran to me and I asked what happened. They were both telling their version of the story at the same time.
The men in the customer service area approached me and I said " Why would you let them out when their fetcher was not yet around. They apologized and assured me that this will be look into.
While I was talking to them God was telling me...What are you doing? Will they see Christ in you with the way you are acting?
And it hit me...I failed! I was not blesseable :(
It gave me the urge to apologize immediately. My tone changed and I said " I am sorry I know it is not your fault"
I also went back to the lady in the art session to apologize.
It was not their fault. I should have made myself available after thesession. I should have waited. But my mind was clouded with doing other stuff instead of waiting.
My response was also not blesseable I panicked, instead of praying and resting in God's defense.
My husband told me that he did not bother to walk outside the stadium when he heard my call. He continued to watch Kyle. It was not because he does not care but he rested in God. He said that they cannot go out on their own and they cannot be taken because they have a security bracelet. I was convicted.
I heard God's voice asking me, What would Jesus do? What should you do?
And how I realized that I was not responding the way Jesus would do.
I did not have a blesseable heart. The way I acted did not bless others.
I was controlled by the circumstances not by the One who controls the circumstance.
I was not poor in spirit, despite of my failure I had a proud heart when I picked up my kids at the customer service. I should have been thankful because my kids were safe and they took care of them.
I could have depended on our ultimate Savior! But instead I allowed my emotion to control me.
To depend on our mountain mover versus the mountain.
I praise God that He is full of amazing grace. When I fail at times his mercies are new each morning and He allowed me to apologize and realized my mistakes.
This taught me that whenever we look or ask for blessings I need to look at my heart first and ask myself...Do you have a blesseable heart?
Psalm 146:5 " The Lord blesses everyone who trusts Him and depends on Him"
The Bible says " Blessed are the poor in spirit"
What does having a poor in spirit means?
I humbly depend on God instead of myself.
To be poor in spirit is having humility.
Do we depend on God? At all times?
Yesterday, we took our kids out to celebrate Kyle's birthday. The place we went to was full of fun, activities and it was like having a study tour.
For my kids last activity, I took my 2 kids to have some painting while Kyle was playing basketball and Arnel was watching him.
I asked how long the acitivity will take and the lady said 15 minutes so I said I will just come back.
I left and went to grab Kyle's CD and to take our bags to the ground floor near the basketball stadium.
When I went back to fetch my kids. They were gone.
I panicked instantly and told the girl in a condascending tone...I said I will be back!
Felt like going crazy that time.
I immediately called my husband to inform him that I lost them.
Then I asked one of the workers if they have seen my kids. It was easy to describe them since they were wearing identical clothes.
The worker said...they were taken at the Customer Service.
I ran to fetch them and from afar I saw my kids. In a proud tone, I said...Come on kids, let's go!
My kids ran to me and I asked what happened. They were both telling their version of the story at the same time.
The men in the customer service area approached me and I said " Why would you let them out when their fetcher was not yet around. They apologized and assured me that this will be look into.
While I was talking to them God was telling me...What are you doing? Will they see Christ in you with the way you are acting?
And it hit me...I failed! I was not blesseable :(
It gave me the urge to apologize immediately. My tone changed and I said " I am sorry I know it is not your fault"
I also went back to the lady in the art session to apologize.
It was not their fault. I should have made myself available after thesession. I should have waited. But my mind was clouded with doing other stuff instead of waiting.
My response was also not blesseable I panicked, instead of praying and resting in God's defense.
My husband told me that he did not bother to walk outside the stadium when he heard my call. He continued to watch Kyle. It was not because he does not care but he rested in God. He said that they cannot go out on their own and they cannot be taken because they have a security bracelet. I was convicted.
I heard God's voice asking me, What would Jesus do? What should you do?
And how I realized that I was not responding the way Jesus would do.
I did not have a blesseable heart. The way I acted did not bless others.
I was controlled by the circumstances not by the One who controls the circumstance.
I was not poor in spirit, despite of my failure I had a proud heart when I picked up my kids at the customer service. I should have been thankful because my kids were safe and they took care of them.
I could have depended on our ultimate Savior! But instead I allowed my emotion to control me.
To depend on our mountain mover versus the mountain.
I praise God that He is full of amazing grace. When I fail at times his mercies are new each morning and He allowed me to apologize and realized my mistakes.
This taught me that whenever we look or ask for blessings I need to look at my heart first and ask myself...Do you have a blesseable heart?
Psalm 146:5 " The Lord blesses everyone who trusts Him and depends on Him"
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Since day 1 that they had their fever we have been praying for healing. Resting in God’s sovereignity we knew we do not need to end up in... -
Being a mom of four boys was not an easy task though their age gaps became helpful. Our eldest Ivan is now 21 followed by our 2nd son K... -
Last year when I was searching for our Language Arts and Grammar curriculum, I came across this website Institute of Excellence in Writing a... -
" For when I am weak, then I am strong" - 2 Corinthians 12:10 God allowed me the privilege of teaching my children many things... -
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are mine As a homeschool mom with four boys I needed to take care of a lot of stuff. Having said th...
