Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Monday, September 19, 2011
caution faint of faith
I'm reading 'The Power of a Praying Wife' by Stormie Omartian and I love it. Caution to the faint of faith, this book may be to shocking to you. You see, the woman God designed us to be and the woman the world tells us to be are two entirely different women. Unfortunatley women today are so caught up in being independent, strong, equal to men (just to name a few), that words like "submit" tend to immediately evoke negative reactions. We think that to submit makes us weak, so we throw out the idea of submitting to our husbands and all that go along with it. We throw out God's words and make up our own. This is tragic. When we throw out God's words because we feel they are outdated or unrealistic in today's world we are letting the enemy supply our words to live by, and the enemy leads to death. God is life. When we start living by the enemy's words, making them our own, we move away from God. We choose death over life. Why? Why do we do this? Are we as women so afraid of saying "God made me to be my husband's helper, to pray for him, support him, forgive him, love him unconditionally, respect him as the head of the household while we are the heart" to live by God's word? What are we afraid of? That society will regard us as weak? The Lord makes me strong. He is my stronghold. Why would I want to live any other way than by His words? That's why I love this book. It shows us the power of praying for our husbands. It encourages us to take God's word into our hearts and our prayers to help us be the women God designed us to be. The world is constantly changing and evolving but God remains the same. He is invincible to ever changing fads and trends. Don't let the enemy trick you into thinking something is okay because society says it's okay. Stand strong in your faith. It literally means life or death. -end rant.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Closer to God
Is it any coincidence that my life is better when I am closer to God?
The days when I wake up thinking about how blessed I am and thanking God for my family, my home, and my health are the days that seem to breeze by. The more time I spend in prayer seems to be directly related to the more time I feel happy. I feel like life has a purpose, like I have a purpose and God is leading me in the right direction.
Is it also just coincidence that the days I forget my morning prayer, forget to thank God, spend time in His word, those are the days that things don't seem to go right. That no matter what I do nothing seems to make me happy.
It's no coincidence. God is in control of our lives if we let Him be and our lives are better when we give ourselves over to God. The enemy tries to pull us away with this or that, tricking us into thinking we can be happy be some other means. Satan doesn't care about us. He wants to ruin our day, ruin our lives. He will do anything to keep us from loving and worshipping God.
Here lately I feel like I have fallen away from God. Not that I've been doing anything bad, just that I haven't been spending the time with Him that I should, and I can tell. It's amazing what just a few mornings of not praying can do. For whatever reason, I overslept, I don't have time, the baby is crying, I'll just check my email, watch this tv show. It doesn't matter what the excuse is, not spending time with God can hurt us.
It's strange but I've noticed that if I don't start my day with God I usually don't end my day with God so you can imagine the inbetween part. I think it is very important to make God a part of your day from beginning to end.
I'm going to challenge myself. Every morning I'm going to get up before Lukas wakes up and spend time in uninterrupted prayer. If for any reason Lukas wakes up first I will give him his bottle and kneel and pray anyway. Sometimes I pray aloud including my 18 month old and usually he is quite during this time. The second part of my challenge involves my husband. Every night after Lukas goes to sleep I'm going to challenge us both to sit down, no tv, no internet, just the two of us with the bible and our devotional book. Every night we will do a different devotional. We've tried this before and never got too far but I'm going to try very hard this time. If you, whoever is reading this, would like to make us accountable for this please feel free to email me or leave a comment reminding me that you are watching us. It also would hurt to pray for us. Especially my husband. He is really good to go along with me when I want to do stuff like this but I would love for him to want to do it as badly as I do.
If I begin my day and end my day with God then I know my days will be better. No matter what life might throw at me I know that God will not give me anything I cannot handle, and it is a lot easier to handle things when God is with me.
If you don't pray spend time with God every morning and every night, and you don't study His word, give it a try. See if it makes a difference in your life. Then let me know how it goes. I love to hear how God works in the life of others.
thank you and good day. :)
The days when I wake up thinking about how blessed I am and thanking God for my family, my home, and my health are the days that seem to breeze by. The more time I spend in prayer seems to be directly related to the more time I feel happy. I feel like life has a purpose, like I have a purpose and God is leading me in the right direction.
Is it also just coincidence that the days I forget my morning prayer, forget to thank God, spend time in His word, those are the days that things don't seem to go right. That no matter what I do nothing seems to make me happy.
It's no coincidence. God is in control of our lives if we let Him be and our lives are better when we give ourselves over to God. The enemy tries to pull us away with this or that, tricking us into thinking we can be happy be some other means. Satan doesn't care about us. He wants to ruin our day, ruin our lives. He will do anything to keep us from loving and worshipping God.
Here lately I feel like I have fallen away from God. Not that I've been doing anything bad, just that I haven't been spending the time with Him that I should, and I can tell. It's amazing what just a few mornings of not praying can do. For whatever reason, I overslept, I don't have time, the baby is crying, I'll just check my email, watch this tv show. It doesn't matter what the excuse is, not spending time with God can hurt us.
It's strange but I've noticed that if I don't start my day with God I usually don't end my day with God so you can imagine the inbetween part. I think it is very important to make God a part of your day from beginning to end.
I'm going to challenge myself. Every morning I'm going to get up before Lukas wakes up and spend time in uninterrupted prayer. If for any reason Lukas wakes up first I will give him his bottle and kneel and pray anyway. Sometimes I pray aloud including my 18 month old and usually he is quite during this time. The second part of my challenge involves my husband. Every night after Lukas goes to sleep I'm going to challenge us both to sit down, no tv, no internet, just the two of us with the bible and our devotional book. Every night we will do a different devotional. We've tried this before and never got too far but I'm going to try very hard this time. If you, whoever is reading this, would like to make us accountable for this please feel free to email me or leave a comment reminding me that you are watching us. It also would hurt to pray for us. Especially my husband. He is really good to go along with me when I want to do stuff like this but I would love for him to want to do it as badly as I do.
If I begin my day and end my day with God then I know my days will be better. No matter what life might throw at me I know that God will not give me anything I cannot handle, and it is a lot easier to handle things when God is with me.
If you don't pray spend time with God every morning and every night, and you don't study His word, give it a try. See if it makes a difference in your life. Then let me know how it goes. I love to hear how God works in the life of others.
thank you and good day. :)
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