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And the winner of Mr. Clean magic erasers!!! - is Comment # 24 - Amy!
Congrats and Happy Tackling my dear!
Oh, and just for some old fashion fun, check this out :o)…
Man I’m I loving the accountability God has given me through blogging Meme’s!
Just gathering up my Bible and study books every Sunday night to get these posts going is such a wonderful time for me… and I know God is using it because the enemy attacked on Sunday last week!
I am doing better now knowing that God has given me a little insight on the “flaming arrow” that hit me.
I noticed that my enemy is threatened by my growth and he is doing his best to make me feel defeated… he wants to handicap me so I will no longer be that threat! He wants to stop my growth again. Let me tell ya - in Jesus’ name - I am not the defeated one you are Satan!!! A-men ladies?!
I learned a lot in my Beth Moore study on “Ancient Ruins” this week, or generational sins. It was nice to look back not only to see the good (that I don’t often see) in my mommy, but also to (possibly) find some answers as to why my dad’s family is how they are. It’s nice to find some positive in the situations I have been through learning that “enslaved parents teach their children how to live in bondage even with the best of intentions to do otherwise.” Read this story Beth shared, it really hit me hard…
“When I was little, my nurse Dibby’s cousin had a dog, just a mutt,
and the dog was pregnant. I don’t know how long dogs are pregnant,
but she was due to have her puppies in about a week.
She was out in the yard one day and got in the way of the lawn mower
and her two hind legs got cut off. They rushed her to the vet and he said,
“I can sew her up, or you can put her to sleep if you want, but the puppies are okay.
She’ll be able to deliver the puppies.”
Dibby’s cousin said, “Keep her alive.”
So the vet sewed up her backside, and over the next week the dog
learned to walk. She didn’t spend any time worrying, she just learned to walk by
taking two steps in the front and flipping up her backside, and then
taking two steps and flipping up her backside again. She gave birth to six little puppies,
all in perfect health. She nursed them and then weaned them.
And when they learned to walk, they all walked like her!”
I am willing to break the chains Satan has placed in the generations of my family and Satan wants to leave them there so he can choke me with them! God allowed my family to be tempted with these things, and since it is a possibility with Satan, he tries to increase the probability! He is an opportunist!
Now this promise was really awesome! In Exodus 20:5 & 6 God shows us that 3-4 generations may suffer from the sins of their fathers, but to those who love Him and keep His commandments He WILL show lovingkindness TO THOUSANDS of their generations!
This is the heaviest thing I learned this week and I feel very strongly about giving Satan NO MORE opportunities. I no longer want to cooperate with him in my lazy and careless attitude, but I want to deliberately cooperate with God.
“The blood’s already been shed. Isn’t it worth a little sweat and tears?”
This week’s Bonus Question: What is the very first scripture you ever memorized? Or the one you first - remember - memorizing? And when was it?
My Answer: Romans 8:1
- “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
- My good friend and Bible study leader shared it with me on the night of a youth home fellowship where I confessed a heavy sin I hated myself for… (Thanks Joshie for sharing this most important scripture with me.)
Link up ladies after you share something on your walk this Monday :o)
TA-DA… Yes I got some of my to-dos done from last week - are you proud?
Here are my favorite photos of JJ’s 2nd year…
And here are my favorite’s of B.Boy’s 1st year…
If you want to see the photos chosen for my daughter’s 1st year CLICK HERE, and if you want to see the layouts that became of them CLICK HERE.
And here is my running TO-DO list that I will update through the week until next week! (Next week will be exciting for Scrappin’ Sunday because it is National Scrapbook Day next weekend!!! - and I am going to my sister’s house for my first overnight crop!!!)
I’ve decided to keep a rolling list from now on of things I would like to get done scrap-wise to keep myself accountable. And what I mean by rolling list a lot of it will probably ”roll” on for a couple weeks until it gets crossed off :o)
Time to explain another button on my blog… the 2 weeks of toys button. This is for another long running giveaway over at 5 Minutes for Mom. Can you believe it? 2 weeks of giving away toys!!! It must be soooo fun to be able to be that generous! Go check it out ladies… (And if you win something after hearing it from me I would LOVE to know :o)
Here are the ones I decided to enter for… (in picture form of coarse)
My kids! :o) I got their pictures taken at Kiddie Kandids recently because B.Boy is now two and GG is 3 months old! (Yes she has grown VERY fast!)
The PMS club is this Thursday’s Thing!
If you haven’t noticed I have had their button on my sidebar for a while now and haven’t mentioned to you yet on what it is! It’s a group of ladies getting together to Praise their (My) Savior, I think it’s totally awesome! Check them out and come PMS with me :o)
On Thursday’s (monthly) they have an article called I’ve got the Joy written by my new bloggy friend Deborah at A Cup of Joy :o) I’d like to share something about my Joy in a second, but I would also like to share the award Deborah honored me with! I love it! Thank you Deborah!
Now on to that wonderful Joy!
I wanted to share this story with you that I read in my Healed and Set Free Bible study a while back. Thank you Tammy for sharing this story in your study I have not be able to forget it since I read it… Here you are ladies…
A man’s daughter had asked the local pastor to come and pray with her father. When the pastor arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows and an empty chair beside his bed. The pastor assumed that the old fellow had been informed of his visit.”I guess you were expecting me,” he said.
“No, who are you?”
“I’m the new associate at your local church,” the pastor replied. “When I saw the empty chair, I figured you knew I was going to show up.”
“Oh yeah, the chair,” said the bedridden man. “Would you mind closing the door?” Puzzled, the pastor shut the door.
“I’ve never told anyone this, not even my daughter,” said the man. “But all of my life I have never known how to pray. At church I used to hear the pastor talk about prayer, but it always went right over my head.”
“I abandoned any attempt at prayer,” the old man continued, “until one day about four years ago my best friend said to me, ‘Joe, prayer is just a simple matter of having a conversation with Jesus. Here’s what I suggest. Sit down on a chair; place an empty chair in front of you, and in faith see Jesus on the chair. It’s not spooky because he promised, ‘I’ll be with you always. ‘ Then just speak to him and listen in the same way you’re doing with me right now.”
“So, I tried it and I’ve liked it so much that I do it a couple of hours every day. I’m careful, though. If my daughter saw me talking to an empty chair, she’d either have a nervous breakdown or send me off to the funny farm.”
The pastor was deeply moved by the story and encouraged the old guy to continue on the journey. Then he prayed with him, and returned to the church.
Two nights later the daughter called to tell the pastor that her daddy had died that afternoon. “Did he seem to die in peace?” he asked.
“Yes, when I left the house around two o’clock, he called me over to his bedside, told me one of his corny jokes, and kissed me on the cheek. When I got back from the store an hour later, I found him dead. But there was something strange, in fact, beyond strange–kinda weird. Apparently, just before Daddy died, he leaned over and rested his head on a chair beside the bed.”
Isn’t that BEAUTIFUL?! Ever since the night my son ran into the street I have been inviting Jesus to the spot on the couch next to my bed…
I even slept with my Bible that night (which is something I used to do in High School) because the Word is God (John 1:1) and He is my comforter (Jeremiah 8:18) and I desperately needed Him! And as you know now I feel that He is calling me to that spot for my quiet time with Him (I’ve only made it twice since) but OH THE JOY! - It comes with such peace! God has been so good to me, calling me to obedience in tiny baby steps like…
Is He not WONDERFUL!
The first time I got there early in the morning I feel back asleep (but it was so wonderfully peaceful, like I was sleeping in His lap!)… and in my sleeping moments there was this POWERFUL, yet small and quite voice saying “Ephesians two, one through twenty two”. That has never happened to me, praise God! When I got up I read it and it was ALL encouraging on Mercy, Great Love, Kindness, Hope!!! Now that is a reason to be Joyful!!! A-men?
Yes ladies, it’s that time again to share with you what I have tackled for this week over at 5 Minutes for Mom.
I figured this week I would give you a little look behind the scenes to show you no one is perfect :o)
If you saw my tackle over there you know it’s was a looong one! Well, now take a look at what I have NOT gotten done :o)… it needs folded and put away!
Now look at what others have done for me (thank you Mena and Jon!)
And this is what little GG was doing while I was tackling the kitchen :o) She was in her bouncer on the clean table looking out the window till she feel asleep - she LOVES being swaddled! :o)
Welcome again ladies… I am blessed to have you here again.
I don’t know about you, but I have had an interesting week. Lately I have been feeling like I got hit by one of those flaming arrows, but so blind-sighted like I don’t know WHERE I got hit! I’m just trying to pray more and hopefully God will bring me to some kind of understanding of it.
I have been in the word though - Praise God! I finished reading through James last week and told you I would share everything I learned once I’m done… it’s a lot, but here you go, this is exactly how I write as I read…
I have also had devotion time in Ephesians 2, Colossians 3, and Genesis 4, with God showing me…
This week’s Bonus Question: What do you run to instead of God? How can you tangibly remedy that?
My Answer: I run to my husband - poor thing!!! God has been showing me to hold my tongue and go to Him in times when I want to go to Joshie. It been hard and wonderful all at the same time. I am just thankful God is slowing guiding me out of this one through obedience and quietness.
Oh dear, here I am again sharing that I (once again) did not get my to-dos done from last week… but I did get one layout done just yesterday because I went to a crop and had some great fellowship!! (Thank you Joshie for letting me sleep in then kicking me out to crop! I love you!)
Here it is my dears… TA-DA…
And my TO-DO… lets look through ALL the ones I have not completed and finish them huh?! UPDATED and added to…
(I am getting ready to Scrapbook at my sister’s house over night in two weeks :o) Ps. Give her a visit and a comment - she’s newer to blogging.
Bonus Question: Where is your favorite place to get craft supplies? That’s kind of a tough one for me… I guess I like to get them from anywhere because if I like something - I like it- period… it does not matter where it’s from.
And here’s a Bonus Question I missed from week 5: Where do you do your crafts? In my craft room! On the wonderful table my handsome husband and his daddy made for me. :o)
