Prayers / direction

I pray that this day my steps would be guided by you. May I learn to listen to your voice in everything I do. No area is too big or small for your light to lead me. Lord I still feel so undecided about so many things. Especially when it comes to spending money. My money is yours. Lord how do you want me to spend my money. I want to get fit but don't know how to with this body that feels pain every time I try. Father it will cost a lot to get help. Please Lord guide me in this for the money we have is little.

Child, you did not inflict this harm upon yourself. It was a selfless sacrifice of carrying each of your children to term. Your body is tired and broken in your act of service to them. Mary lavished out a gift upon my head for the amazing sacrifce I was to give now it is time for you to use the money you have saved to prepare your body for the next season of your life. I have much more for you to to my child but you must get fit to enjoy it.

I wil do it Lord. I will find a Sprts medicine Dr. and then once cleared get the trainer. I will learn to take care of my body.

Embaraced for Asking

Every had a longing in your heart for something and known that the only way it was going to happen is if you asked? I want to be dependant on God for his provision but really I want him to provide it to me, by the work of my own hand. Sure this latest thing I want for my family is nothing lofty, but it has been something that we have cut from the budget this past year.

I hope I can learn all that God has for me to learn in this season. Yet what I really want is to be out of this season. I am not asking to be able to go on a Cruise with my family or to be able to buy a new house. I just want to be able to get my kids hair cuts, buy them a coat, get professional pictures, go to fun places and buy a few extras when I feel like it. I want my budget to include more than just what is needed to live.

On the one hand I want people to know our financial hardship so they can be as amazed as I am at how blessed we are to be able to live on as little as we do. But on the other hand I feel selfish, desiring after a full year to be able to let up a little on strictly saving and only buying what we need.

This is our last family photo and I really want a new one, twins and all.

Genisis 13-14 Family Strife

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Genesis 13 (King James Version)

8And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Genesis 14 (King James Version)

14And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.


How awesome is this instruction. Sometimes I think as Christians we feel that we need to take all sorts of troubles at the hands of our family when the Bible clearly shows a way to be separate in love. As they separated in the right time Abram's heart was not hardened and he came full force to his brother's aid in time of need.

I praise God that such a separation is not needed at this time in my family but I am sure that someone needed to hear this message.

I pray that God will reunite all families.

Prayer / Hebrew 2

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Hebrew 2

10In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

This passage made me think that we have a wrong thinking when it comes to suffering. It also made me think of another passage:

Romans 5
2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[a] rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3Not only so, but we[b] also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope.


Joy, how crazy is that. I certainly don't like suffering, but then it wouldn't called suffering. I want out of the suffering but I guess it is what happens in your head once the suffering starts. Turning to God with full focus. Putting our thoughts fully on him believing and praying for relief.

Lord,

Please help me to embrace the suffering that you put in my life that I may know you more.

Prayer / Titus 3

These words struck me. I am not sure why. I am thankful that I have no divisive person currently in my life. I am just thankful to see instruction on how to deal with such a person and to see thier heart.

"10Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him. 11You may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned."

Dear Lord,

I just lift up such people as this that are stiring up all kinds of problems. Lord please bring them to a place of peace and desire for wholenesss within themselves.

Prayer / Psalm 99

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Lord,

Could I find your answer for when to forgive and when to punish by entering into worship of you at your holy mountain. Lord please bring me to the mountain that I may drink and eat at your table. That I find your truths as Moses found the commandments and heard your voice. My children deserve a mother lead by you.

Psalm 99

8 O LORD our God,
you answered them;
you were to Israel [a] a forgiving God,
though you punished their misdeeds. [b]

9 Exalt the LORD our God
and worship at his holy mountain,
for the LORD our God is holy.

Prayer / Key Areas

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I was telling Kay that everyone has something that God is working on them to improve on. Sometimes we learn quickly and other times they are like a strong hold wearing us down. I told her about Paul, in the Bible.

My families Key Areas are as follows:

Me - quick tempered (Lord, help me see them as you see them when I get frustrated. May my children rise up and call me blessed as they see mom walk out grace, and discipline in love. Lord my heart, my passion is to raise children that love you, know you, fear you and are disciplines in heart, mind and body. Lord show me how to do this without getting exasperated.)

Randy (this was his assessment) - Drinking and lack of motivation (Lord, let Randy not be drunk on wine but by your Spirit. Please light a fire of desire in his heart that the things you have directed him to do would be done swiftly.)

Kay - Involving herself in every one's jobs or problems (Lord help Kay to see that when she is being so outwardly focused on every ones elses issues she is neglecting her own. 1st take the plank out of your own eye so you can more clearly remove the speck from the others eye. Lord help Kay to not feel responsible for others yet to grow in her gift of teaching and helping.)

Reye - Focus (Lord please help Reye to enjoy and stay focused on the task at hand. I come against this dream world that wants to consume every part of him. Lord let the worshiper in Reye begin to worship you in Spirit and truth. My Reye's mind be fashions after yours Lord so he can see what is in front of him and conquer it with the same passion and desire he does the bad guys in his games. Let him no long fear or hold with disdain new things.)

Petra - Whining and Helplessness (Lord please help Petra to get control over her emotions. Help her to see that her words are powerful and that a kind word goes a long way. That her smile and joy will cause people to want to help her but her whining will not. Lord help her to not fall into helplessness. Being the middle child she wants others to do her work. Lord let her feel powerful and mighty as a big girl.)

Grant - Aggravation and Self control (Lord please bring peace to little Grant when he doesn't get his way or in his timing. Lord please help him to not have tantrums and give me direction as to how to direction this amazingly passionate leader in the making. Lord also please help Grant to stop bitting, hitting and hair pulling.)

Sherman - Health and Self control (Lord please open up Sherman's lungs and cause them to be healed by your Spirit. I stand upon your word believing that Sherman will not always suffer with asthma. Lord also please help Sherman to stop bitting, hitting and hair pulling.)

I praise God this day for these prayers being answered.

Prayer / 2 Chron 29

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2 Chronicles 29

Hezekiah Purifies the Temple

Dear Lord,

I know not what to say about this Scripture. I am thankful that as far as me and my house we serve the Lord. That we have not turned our eyes from you, oh Lord. That we do not need to make a peace offering to be back in your good graces. Lord I lift up the nations that have turned from you and that you have left to their own demise. Lord please bring them under leadership that will desire to follow you. Lord please be with our government that our nation will stay one after God. Lord if you see any way in me that needs to be convicted by this message please show me.

Prayer / 1 Tim 3

Lord,

Help me to walk out these traits.

1 Tim 3
2Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. 5(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church...

11In the same way, their wives[b] are to be women worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.

Prayer / 1 Tim 2

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Lord,

Help me to understand what is meant by this passage. The writer seems to have an attitude against women. I understand that the culture was different, but come on. I know that in my marriage that God has shown me to do my best to live like this in regards to not trying to have authority over my husband but what about this teaching and being silent. I know that he doesn't much care for me trying to teach and I certainly can talk to much. Please give me insight into how and why this is the way for perfect order in our homes. I understand the your ways are higher than mine and that this is probably more about our personal growth than about being under the thumb of man or being put down for having sinned 1st.

1 Tim 2

11A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15But women[a] will be saved[b] through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

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Prayer / VBS "Crocodile Dock"

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Soon I will be leaving to take all the kids to VBS. Lord please grant me patients and a listening ear for your prompting as I turn over the twins to the nursery and hopefully share the love of Christ to the kids put in my care. Lord let all my children be inspired to follow you more fully during this week and that I too would be encouraged in my faith. Lord I ask for a double portion of strength and joy for life. Please protect our family and all the staff from any ways the enemy may try to go against the plans God would have for us. May we all be in one accord and seeing the enemy for what he is a liar and deceiver aimed to steel, kill and destroy

Prayer / Pruning Inside of Me

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Lord,

May my heart be full of your joy and peace while we are working out these troubles of my soul. May my children see a women that prays and stays loving while toiling in the garden of my soul. My garden is about to bloom yet much work is to be done and sometimes the pruning of my soul is uncomfortable. Lord let me be calm, loving and focuses on those that I love and not on what the Lord is removing from me. Does the tree cry out as the wild or dead branches are being cut? No it is happy for the freedom to grow as it was meant to be.

Prayer / Speak Lord

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Speak Lord for your servant is listening. May my ears ever be open to all that you have for me to hear. Let my feet be ready to walk where you would have me to go and my hands ready to deliver kindness. Father I act as if I know so much yet their are so many unanswered question of my heart. Father everything I learn and begin to understand only shows another door yet to be opened. Thank you Lord for being my shield and my guide. Thank you for being strong when I am week. Lord thank you that when I am low you are lifted up. When I am weary you are full of vigor. Today with lack of sleep I am worn yet I trust you will shine through my deeds and desires.

Prayer / Eph 6. Armor of God

Armor of God

10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

Eph 6

I really needed this one today. I will not let the whiles of the Devil take over my thoughts and actions. I will stand firm in Christ for even though I may be in pain, feel overwhelmed and want to give up my God is greater than this body, greater than my thinking. It is only when I humble myself before God and recognize my shortcomings that He is glorified in me. Well I feel about flattened today so Lord rise up and empower this women of God that you may be glorified. For it is not by might, not by power but by thy Spirits says the Lord. Thank you Lord for answering my private prayer to be able to follow someone else's lead this day. I don't have to be in charge for my Father in Heaven has given me the Holy Spirit to lead me. I will rest in His leading this day.

Prayer / Public or Private Blog

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Dear God,

I really want to reach this world for you. My hearts passion is to be able to use all that God has given me to help others be it organization, budgeting, trials and hardships overcome or just a transparent life lived on purpose. Lord I have yet to hear one single comment back on this blog. I can see from the counter that since the airing of San Antonio Living people are coming and reading the blog but are they just one time lookers or are they return because they are finding something of value? Lord I could easily just turn this into a private blog and look at it as my personal road of day to day events. This would have purpose and may even one day be pieced together for a book to serve others. I just want to serve others now. My life is so about the kids and the laundry that outward missions is not a reality for me but this could be my mission field. Lord if this can really be a place where I can be a mouth piece for you then let others not only read but leave their reactions and comments. Lord please give me peace and a direction.

Prayer | Quote

"You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems. Like a braid of the good, bad and purpose. (Rick Warren)" I can see now how important it is for me to write down and know my purpose. For the good and bad that happens in my life will be woven in and out of my purpose.

Prayer / Where to Begin

My head is pounding, my body is tired yet I must clean this house. Do I nap or just dig in and hopefully not drag my way through. Lord, I need your direction. I have faith that all will come together and everthing will be fine even if the house isn't perfect. I am sure they will want it to be a good show. They will make sure that what they see is what they want. I think I will rest for a bit.

Prayers / Blogging Set-up

Well I really like my page. I hope we don't get any viruses from it. It sure would be nice to not have to worry about all that. I have so many ideas and things I want to post.