our greatest joy

" I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth."
3John 4

This should be our greatest desire and focus for our children.

All other things we may want them to learn, do, and achieve in life, completely pales in comparison to this.

And we can't just leave this to chance, we have to have this as our goal, and daily work on; instructing, guiding, and leading our children in God's word and truth.

And we can't leave this to churches and the pastors, this is our role as parents.



" And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And these words , which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thy liest down, and when thou risest up.

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."

Deuteronomy 6: 5-9
It is our role to teach our children the truth.
May we not shirk that duty, but wholly embrace our great role and responsibility as parents. And may it become our greatest joy and desire in life!!
In Him,
Mae

strong in Him

Just wanted to write a quick post to share what the Lord has put on my heart lately.

I have always been so careful not to say or write anything that may offend someone, that I am certain there have been times I could have been a help to someone, but instead I kept quiet.


Recently I have been convicted that I need to be more concerned for those I can be a help to in the things I say, and less concerned over those that I may offend in what I say.


Of course I would never intentionally say anything to hurt or offend another.


But yet my focus needs to be on helping and encouraging. I never know who I may be able to help or encourage by what I say.


If I am always timid in proclaiming the truth how am I to help someone that way?

And through my strength another can be strengthened .

So I writing to say if you have truth to say, say it!
Do not be timid, or shy ,or worry of offending.

Of course say it in the most nicest way you can. But get it it out there. It won't help no one if you have some wonderful truth but it goes no farther than you!!


Let us be bold in the truth and in the Lord!!
And let us share with one another what God puts on our hearts.
For we never know who we can be a blessing to.
In Him,
Mae

Pictures

A family pictuer of us in a wheat field in Alberta, in Sept. 2011.

Mae wearing baby! Dec. 2011.

Picture of Benjamin. He is 4 months old.

Here is a photo of the kids at Mt.Rushmore took in Oct.

The power of Satan

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about , seeking whom he may devour." 1 Peter 5:8

Satan has great power, and we need to be aware of it. If we do not acknowledge or make ourselves, and our children aware of Satan's power then we can easily be effected by it. We need to know how and in what ways he works.
He trys to get at us each and every day. And each and every day we need to knock him down!

Here is a few ways Satan uses to get at us....

~~ giving us negative and ungodly thoughts

~~ tormenting our minds with worry and doubt

~~Tellling us God is not big enough to protect us.

~~ wearing down our moral standards and Godly principals via the media

~~ keeping us so busy that we don't have time for family devotion time

~~ bad influence from wrong friends

~~ by lack of communication with our spouse and children

~~ through false prophets

~~ by ruining the home atmosphere with a T.V. going all the time

~~ slipping in some bad things in a " good" movie, or convincing us that bad movies won't hurt us
~~ by appearing like a sheep in stead of that famous picture of this scary red devil with horns and a pointed tail!
(Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15)

So what can we do to stop Satan's power.

~~ by being aware of Satan's great power and the ways he works

~~By Loving and obeying God with all your heart, mind and soul.

~~Stand strong on the word of God.

~~Never believe anything unless you can back it in the Bible.

~~ Beware of false prophets

~~ Do not neglect Bible reading and prayer time.

~~ keep communication lines flowing all the time between you and your spouse and children

~~ do not let your home be controlled by a T.V.

~~ " Submit yourselves therefore unto God. Resit the devil, and he will flee from you." James 4:7
~~ beware of man's traditions ( if they don't line up with the Bible, then throw them out)


Let us never forget the power of Satan, yet remember God's power is greater, and through God we have the power to destroy all the works of the devil. Satan has no more power or control in our lives than what we allow.

May you live strong for God always!!!

In Him,
Mae