A Cup of Tea With Me

Over at Faith Filled Wives, I am sharing a 30 day challenge on encouraging our husbands, written by Nancy Leigh DeMoss of Revive Our Hearts. I thought I would blog my personal challenge here, so that you all would know I was doing the challenge, too.

Today’s challenge is:

Day One:
“The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.” Prov. 31:11-12

To refresh your memory . . . here’s the 30-Day Encouragement Challenge: for the next 30 days:

• You can’t say anything negative about your husband . . . to your husband . . . or to anyone else, about your husband.
• Say something that you admire or appreciate about your husband. . . to your husband . . . and to someone else, about your husband!

To help you get started, have you ever thanked your husband for “choosing you” above all other women? He found you attractive as a person, and appreciated you. Though many circumstances in your marriage may have changed, let your husband know that you are glad God led you together, and that you want to be a blessing to him for the rest of your marriage. Let him know that he can trust you to be in his corner.

One of the best opportunities to express your gratitude is first thing in the morning. How do you greet your husband each morning? Is he confident in your love? Give him a “wake up call” that he’ll never forget-a big “I love you” and an “I’m so glad I’m your wife!”

© Revive Our Hearts. Used with permission. www.ReviveOurHearts.com. Info@ReviveOurHearts.com.

I have been guilty of sharing negative things about my husband. I need this challenge as much as the next person does. However, with the main part of the challenge being “have you ever thanked your husband for “choosing you” above all other women?” oddly enough, I do that on a very regular basis. I love that he chose me over the other women that he could have. I tell him often what it means to me to be the one that he chose to spend his life with.

My Beloved is a good man. I am honored to be his wife and want to make sure that he knows it every day for the rest of our lives.

There is a 30-Day encouragement challenge being shared over at Faith Filled Wives, I encourage you to check it out.

God has led me to move forward with my ministry there. Please read the announcement on the front page.

I could be banging my head right now, but I am not. I had decided to work on the Faith Filled Wives website, and start it up again. It is time. Well, in that process, I hit the wrong key. OOPS! Well, I saved the beautiful design by Heather and that is about it. I can still import the old blogger posts, but I do not think I saved much of the stuff that has been added since we switched to WP.

It is ok, as I was changing the direction of the site anyways. Look for a new and improved Faith Filled Wives, soon, with the same look as before.

I just announced the future of Faith Filled Wives, over at the website.

I am sorry it has taken me so long to post this. We have a winner in the forum referral contest.

Congratulations to Becki for winning the contest. BlogMommas referred 2 people with one being active. I am sorry, but no one else referred any active members. Becki, I will get your paypal payment off to you today!

With the opening of the forums over at Faith Filled Wives, I would like to have a membership referral contest, to build our membership.

To refer someone for membership you must:
Be a member yourself.
Have posted an introduction.
Have a least 2 other posts in the first week of your joining (you can refer people before then, but you cannot get credit for that referral without the posts).
Remain active for the duration of the contest.

To qualify as a referral, they must:
Put your Faith Filled Wives user name as the person who referred them
Post an introduction
Have a least 2 other posts in the first week of their joining
Remain active for the duration of the contest

Prizes are:
The person who refers the most people will receive a $25 Pay Pal deposit.
The person who refers the second most people will receive a $10.00 Pay Pal deposit.

Contest starts 5-25-2007. Will run through 6-30-2007. Winner will be announced on 7-6-2007 to allow for posting requirements to be met for each referral.

Good luck and happy referring.

My pastor has been known to be a “toe stepper” in the past. However, yesterdays sermon took the cake. He did not step in toes, he stomped on feet!

Any one who is married, or is getting ready to be married needs to hear this sermon! Not a dry eye was in the auditorium at the end of it, even the manly men where speechless. When I got to my Sunday School class it was all we could talk about.

His sermon. Listen to it. If you have kids, download it and play it for them just before they get married. EVERY married couple needs to know this! I will be buying this on CD and listening to it every time I need a reminder.

Ro, over at Ciao! My Bella! did an absolutely amazing job on Faith Filled Wives! I wanted to take a moment to thank her and Becki at Blog Mommas one more time! Thank you Becki for having the contest, and thank you, Ro for donating your talent! I could not be more thrilled with the way it turned out.