A Cup of Tea With Me

Another of Katherine’s handouts:

If God has called you to be really like Jesus, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put upon you such demands of obedience, that you will not be able to follow other people or measure yourself bu other Christians, and in many was He will seem to let other people do things which He will not let you do.

Other Christians and ministers who seem very religious and useful, may push themselves, pull wires and work schemes to carry out their plans, but you cannot do it and if you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely penitent.

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My Sunday school teacher is always sharing handouts with us, and many of them are amazing. I thought I would share this one. Know that I do not know the original author:

Dying To Self

When you are forgotten or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don’t sting and hurt with the insult of oversight, but your heart is happy, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ.

That is dying to self

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I have been a very blah mood. I have not really wanted to do anything. I am not doing my house work which has my husband upset. I am not posting on my blogs, which probably has satan dancing for joy. I know he is thrilled that I am not doing anything.

Well, it has been a blah 3 or 4 days, but it is time for me to stand up and take control! Or rather let go of the control and give it to the Lord. My life is His. It seems that whenever I think I can do something with out Him this happens. Now, my question is, what am I doing without Him? I am embarking on another time of reflection. It may be an hour, it may be a couple of days.

I know in the past couple of days, I have made some decisions that did not please Him. I am going back over the past few days and trying to set things right. Another question is, what part of my decisions displease Him? All of them or just one side of them?

I hope my rambling here in the next few days does not chase any of you off. This is part of my journey with the Lord, and however unorganized it makes my blog, I must stick to His path, so I have to figure it out.

God bless you!
Melly

This is going to be a multi-blog post. I apologize to those who read more than one of my blogs, but it need to be shared in multiple places.

Titus 2:3-4 (AMP)
Bid the older women similarly to be reverent and devout in their deportment as becomes those engaged in sacred service, not slanderers or slaves to drink. They are to give good counsel and be teachers of what is right and noble,
So that they will wisely train the young women to be sane and sober of mind (temperate, disciplined) and to love their husbands and their children

Have you ever had a mentor, either through your church or just an “older woman” who taught you how to be a Christian wife and mother?

What about one that was not your mother?

Have you ever mentored a “young woman,” not counting your daughter?

I am asking these questions, because it is another thing God has impressed upon my heart. I finally listened to Him. For the past year He has been trying to get me to participate in the mentoring program at my church. I have ignored His call for this. Well, on Sunday, I went to the orientation coffee. I was the oldest woman there asking to be mentored to. All the rest were college students.

God had impressed upon me that this is a ministry I need to be involved in, and that I needed to go through it on the mentee side before I could mentor young woman, one on one, but that is also part of the purpose for Faith Filled Wives.

I am so excited about this next step in my journey. I think this is going to be a big thing in my life and I am ready to do what He wants me to.

I posted this on another blog, that I am deleting. This blog is it’s replacement. I am making some changes, as I have learned some things and have had some conviction since my original writing.

I used to work at a Christian Bookstore, and I really learned a lot about the different versions of the bible. While I am not going to be covering all the translations, I will provide a link where you can see the same verse in most biblical translations. This is not meant to “sell” you on one bible translation nor is it meant to change your mind on the translation you use. I will tell you right now. It is all the word of God. I personally suggest that you find the translation that you feel the most comfortable with or the one that is used in your church or study group.

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I found this this morning and HAD to share.

JUDGE GENTLY

Pray, don’t find fault with the man that limps
Or stumbles along the road.
Unless you have worn the shoes he wears
Or struggled beneath his load.

There may be tacks in his shoes that hurt
Though hidden away from view.
Or the burden he bears placed on your back
Might cause you to stumble too.

Don’t sneer at the man who’s down today
Unless you have felt the blow
That caused his fall or felt the shame
That only the fallen know.

You may be strong but still the blows
That was his if dealt to you
In the selfsame way, at the selfsame time
Might cause you to stagger too.

Don’t be too harsh with the man that sins
Or pelt him with word or stone
Unless you are sure - yea, doubly sure -
That you have no sins of your own.

For you know, perhaps,
If the tempter’s voice should whisper as soft to you
As it did to him when he went astray
It might cause you to falter too.

– Author Unknown

We are having our first “bad weather day” in years. The boys do not know what to do with themselves. I am not too sure what to do with myself, either. LOL! I had all sorts of plans today. I have some study notes that I wanted to get written out, in devotional style for FFW, and I have a lot of cleaning I need to do around the house.

The kids have the XBox 360 hooked up in the living room. This means I cannot put on my favorite Sirius station and clean. I guess I should put on my MP3 player. It does just as good.

Of course we have extra children. It seems that our house is the house to be at. Of course I do not mind. This way I know what they are up to!

Anyway, if you are affected by this storm, I pray that God protects you and yours. Be safe and stay warm.

There is much going on in my life right now. As I have said a million times in the past, and I will say a million times in the future. My walk with God has been more of a roller-coaster ride than a straight and narrow path.

You have to wonder about those people who claim that their life has been on a straight and narrow path. They have never sinned? They have never doubted God? They never get angry or upset? They never make mistakes? I do not think so. But that is not really what this was supposed to be about.

I am not perfect. I am not the perfect wife. I am not the perfect Christian woman. I am not a perfect mother. But I love the Lord with all my heart, all my soul and all my might. I have not always felt that way, but I do now. God is good, and we should give him praise and all the glory for his work.

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One of the blessings that God has given me, is good friends to share my walk with. He has blessed me with some of the most amazing women. They are faithful, godly women, who are not only caring, but great prayer warriors as well. I know that a big part of my “staying on His path” is due to these amazing women He has put in my life. Some of them are on-line friends, some of them are from my church, and some of them have been in my life all my life, and we just never realized how important we were to one another until the past few years.

Thank you, Father, for letting me share my life and Journey with these women!

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