From My Family to Yours
How do you celebrate the New Year?Our family does with gatherings, sharing meals, and “down time” with each other. However, the “down time” isn’t always calm. 🙂 This year we were blessed with a busy three year old, seven month old, and two month old grandchildren. Even in the midst of joy and love, there were poopy diapers, spilled milk, sick babies, and midnight wakings. Those are minor in relation to tragedies occurring in our neigborhoods and world: drunkenness, drug overdoses, car wrecks, hospitalizations, job loss, suicides, marital tension, child run aways, spouse and child abuse, threat of war, economic woes, weather disasters, kidnappings, persecution, and hunger.
What do you do and how do you feel in relation to all that lies before you in 2012? We might do as some and say, “I don’t watch the news on TV or read the newspaper any more.” Or, we might keep up with the news, but also hold our Bibles tightly to our chests. We might become more purposefully prayer warriors. Rather than sticking our heads in the sand, we might stick our heads in the heavenlies and stand against Satan’s ploys with spiritual power and energy.
If you’re looking for a way to pray more purposefully and live more passionately for Christ, I hope you’ll consider reading my book, Pray with Purpose, Live with Passion. I believe it can provide spiritual insight that can kickstart your year. Even better, consider doing “Pray with Purpose, Live with Passion” for your weekly Bible study at your church or life group. My teaching DVDs are available so you can have small group discussion (questions provided in the book) and then watch the DVDs.
The material is also available in my conference, P.R.A.Y. with Passion Across the Nation. We’ve held this conference in 25 states and are praying to take it every state in the nation. You can see where we’ve been, and we’ve not been to your state, contact us. We can talk and discuss optional dates and schedules.
Most importantly, take action to “gird yourself” for 2012. I don’t mean to sound doom and gloom, but I do believe it is going to be a challenging year. Other studies to consider are “If God is In Control, Why Do I Have a Headache?” to help you with your personal life and grasping what it means that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and that you are not your own.
The Plan A Woman in a Plan B World is for all of us! I address 9 land mines that we need to be continually diffusing. Some are those the enemy plants in our minds. Some are those we have as a result of how we’ve been raised.
The Plan A MOM in a Plan B World is for ALL moms. If you’re still communicating with your children, you need to be aware of how you’re influencing. This is a MUST for Moms!
Gird yourself, my friend!
“Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,” Ephesians 6:14.
Father, thank You that we can gird ourselves with YOUR Word and YOUR truths rather than live in despair or fall prey to the enemy. I pray each person reading this will discover new and effective ways to gird themselves as they study and practice Your teachings. In Jesus’ name, Amen.