Finding a Priceless Love in the Shadow of His wings

Chapter 3 of A Confident Heart by Renee Swope – Finding Love that want fail, even when I do.

Verse Psalm 36:7

How priceless is your unfailing Love, o God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

                The New King James version reads “How precious is Your loving kindness, O God!  Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings”. 

This verse reminds me of a mother hen, gathering her babies, under her wings to protect them from the soaring hawk or the pending dangers during the night.  The same holds true for us as Christians, as Children of God we can take refuge in Him.  All too often we get so busy in the things of this world that we become down (tired, weak, wronged, depressed etc.) from the cares or darkness of this world.  The more we work, the more we worry, the more we try yet the more we seem to spiral faster out of balance, out of control.  We fill our lives with so much, yet we fill empty.  How can this be?!?

When a baby chick wonders to far from its mother, the harder it is for the mother hen to protect her child and the greater its chances are to be lost.  The same is true for us as Christians,   when we allow the business of our daily lives to take us further & further away from our Father, it becomes harder for us to feel His love & protection. 

We must remember that He is our Father, our protector and come unto Him!  Like the mother hen, His love is unfailing and filling.  His Love is #priceless and is always a #perfect love.  The “worth’s” of this world always leak through your heart but if we allow our “worth” to be in God first and foremost, we will have the satisfying feeling of his priceless love that will comfort us during the good times as well as the bad. 

When you look up to find the light and only see darkness, you are simply in the shadow of Gods wings.  Protecting you while you rest, until the morning light shines again.  And it WILL shine again!

 

Go To The Ant

Both success and failure come little-by-little.  Like a garden, it just takes a little neglect to grow a lot of trouble.  A little neglect has cost teams their victory, people their lives, kings their power.  Think of the ant, consider her ways and be wise.  Proverbs 6:6

Fix your thoughts on God

 and

God will Fix your thoughts!

I Believe

In the Shadow of doubt

My thoughts from "A Confident Heart" by Renee Swope, Chapter one Discovering the Shadow of My Doubts.

Doubt is your thoughts gone astray.  Like a child who has wondered into the dark woods, our thoughts can lead us into the dark shadows of our mind.  Our thoughts, like our children, must be watched, nurtured & held accountable for their wrongs.  When the dark shadows sneak up on you, overshadowing you, do not get lost in its darkness.  Turn and follow the light.  God is our light and His word will change the way you think, which will change the way you feel and eventually transform the way you live. 

Fix your thoughts on God and God will fix your thoughts.

Then you will know that I am the Lord.  Those who hope in me will not be disappointed.  Isaiah 49:23b

And always remember,
 "What God told you in the light, remember in the darkness.  Rest in Him, stand on His Word!!" Paula White

Be Gracious

Be gracious in your triumphs and be even more gracious in others failures. Scott Penn

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Thank you Lord for my ears & eyes.  Please help me to remember that these fuel my heart, which in turn over flows out of my mouth, resulting in the way others feel about themselves, myself and you.

P31 Newbie

I’m a P31 Newbie

Living a busy life in a small rural area, I’m always looking for ways to interact with other Christian Ladies, so you can imagine my excitement to start my first ever online Bible Study with Proverbs 31 Ministry’s!!!

October 13^th will begin our study of “A Confident Heart” by Renee Swope.  This is a perfect follow up to the self-esteem study from “I Love me, I Love Me Not (a study of a Christian Woman’s Self-Esteem) by Rosemary Whittle McKnight that my Church’s Ladies Bible Class just finished.  I believe that in order to become the woman God wants me to be…., the woman God wants every woman to be, we must continue to search for ways to grow stronger in our Christian walk and a Confident Heart sounds like the perfect study for that!

Divine Intervention

When your day doesn't go exactly as planned, remember there is a Higher Power who knows best!  Think of those aggravating interruptions as Divine and thank God for taking charge of your direction…., Where would we be without it.   Patricia Gibson

Chapter 4: The World's Values

Chapter 4:  The World’s Values  

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.  If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever: (I John 2:15-17)

Clearly the “worlds” values should not be those of a Christian woman, however because we are forced to live in the “world” (so to speak) we are regularly subjected to the “World’s Values”.  Once we become adult’s, we should realize that “peer pressure” doesn’t stop just because we have finished school.  It is an ever present evil that nag’s especially to those with a low self esteem.  Others were around on a daily basis (weather on our jobs, or those through Media outlets such as Television, radio, Magazines etc are all trying to influence you to become what they believe in.  These all pull at our weakness’s to try & make of think we need to change & be more like “them”.

As Christian’s we must always remember the warning from  the above passage of 1 John 2:15-17

          Lust of the Eyes -  (the scripture list “lust of the flesh” first, but I chose to mention “Lust of the eyes” first because it is often THROUGH this lust of the Eye, that we fall into the other “Lust” mentioned.

Our hearts are filled through the path of the eyes.  What we see (and hear) goes into our hearts.  So we must be careful to recognize those things that are not pleasing unto God and shield out heart from them.  Don’t allow those things that “look good” to fill your heart & cloud your spiritual judgment.  These will cause us to take actions that are not pleasing to our path to God. (Examples could be: keeping up with the neighbors (from # of kids or what your kids do to the “man of your house” to materialism)

Lust of the Flesh - is a sinful actions brought about because of fleshly desires.  Sinful because it goes against God’s commands but fleshly because it is simply pleasing to “one’s self”, because of our lack of self discipline, allowing us to take action upon it.  The actions itself does not necessarily have to be a sin (going to an amusement park as opposed to adultery), however if that non sinful desire causes you to go against God’s command, still causing you to sin, it is a lust of the flesh.  Remember Jesus’ parable of the sower, we will eventually reap what we sow and Matthew 16: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (KJV) 

           Pride of Life - A strong Christian should find fulfillment in pleasing God. Whether a stay at home mom or a career driven supper mom who still puts God & her family first,  Don’t allow what others define you as, be who you are.  Each person has some quality that could be desiring to another.  Let those things that “stand out” about you be the type of thing that will make others be a stronger more faithful person/Christian.  Don’t “desire the praise of men more than the praise of God (John 12:43)

The opposite of Pride is humility!  The highest form of fulfillment comes from unselfishly giving yourself away. (See Phil 2:3-4)  Prides focuses our attention on ourselves while humility focuses our attention on others.  The person who is busy doing God’s will, God’s work, has no time to focus on themselves because all of their time & attention is devoted to service God through serving others.

Conclusion:  As Christian women, we have been “set apart”, we are called and are chosen.  Others may try to influence us to become what they believe in but as Christian Women, we must strive on a daily basis to influence others to become what we believe in…., which is what God has called us to do.