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Take back your TRUST and place it in the Lord.

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But blessed in the man that trusts in the Lord, whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her life shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8 In my morning quiet time, gazing out toward the water, I remembered a command that the Lord gave me a few weeks ago. The word was TRUST.  Of course up to this point in my life and given all that has happened, I would have thought  I do trust the Lord.  Obviously, if he gave me a command to trust him, then there must be an area in my life where I still do not trust him and therefore I needed to find out what that was. So I asked the Lord. Lord, In what was am I not trusting you? Help me to draw nearer and where am I standing in your way?   This was the Holy Spirit response to me:- Every question does not always have the answer that you want. You want to fix
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Take Back Your Heart

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THIS POST WILL WALK YOU THROUGH TAKING BACK YOUR HEART UNDERSTAND THAT NOTHING THAT YOU HAVE BELONGS TO YOU!  Read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Your heart does not belong to you. It belongs to GOD! The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof – Psalm 24:1-2 You have given your heart away to several people and things… ·          Husbands/wives ·          Children ·          Parents ·          Jobs ·          Homes ·          Money ·          Cars ·          Friends ·          Pastors ·          Churches And so on and so forth… It was and is not yours to give away repentance is necessary It’s time to take back your heart… The kingdom of God works by speaking… Example Genesis 1, God spoke, HE said “LET THERE  BE…” and there  was Open your mouth and speak… Father God, in the name of Jesus, I repent for having given away my heart. I acknowledge that everything belongs to you and everything that I have is yours.  I am sorry for
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Why Did I Do It?

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"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."  Psalm 51:10 That is the question that came into my mind as I lay in the bed one night.  It’s was after twelve a.m. and I was looking through a FaceBook home school group, that I am a part of online. As I scrolled down and read through the posts, they were one heartbreaking post after another. I read as much as I could without giving in to the disappointment in what I was seeing. Mom, after mom, after mom, complaining about what was wrong with their children, themselves and their homeschooling method of choice. That's when the question hit me and I had to stop and ask myself… WHY? Why did I start homeschooling? Curiosity first captured my interest in homeschooling way back in about 2004. I can’t say for sure what led me to this idea, it had to be the Holy Spirit, but I remember researching and digging into how homeschooling worked. I ended up with a bunch of papers and infor
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Be Encouraged!

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1 SAMUEL 30...and David encouraged himself in the Lord. Sometimes on this journey, you have to encourage yourself. When you are at that place in the race where there seems to be no one cheering you on, there are no more water refreshing stops, and the finish line is some miles down the road. There are times when you just need to keep going but you can't seem to find the strength or figure out how to put one more foot in front of the other, it is during those times that you have to encourage yourself in the Lord. In 1 Samuel 30... It came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. David lost everything he owned, the enemy had cleaned out his camp. There were times when I felt like David, like the enemy had invaded
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Religion or Relationship?

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‘These people draw near to  Me  with their mouth, And honor  Me  with  their  lips, But their heart is  far   from  Me . (Matthew 15:8) I woke up one morning and these words were in my spirit. Religion or relationship?  As I pondered the words in my heart, I began to evaluate my own self and my children to find out what we have been studying. You see, like myself, my children have been in church for approximately seven years and in those years we learned a multitude of traditions and rituals but as my children got older and I looked at them, it was becoming harder and harder for them to do what I was expecting them to do.  We were taught the traditions of men, jumping and dancing and spinning around in church and shouting and praising and so we happily adapted to those teachings. Now my children seem so disconnected from all theses things. Even when they were in church it was becoming progressively harder for them to do certain things that were 'expected' of them. Pretty soon
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Do you see the signs?

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John 20:  30  And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:   31  But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. When I started this "home schooling" blog, I was determined to make it as good as the other blogs out there. This was going to be one of those top notch blogs that gives you all the perfect schedules for homeschooling.  This blog was going to have every important link that you needed and it was going to surely bring you success in your homeschooling. This blog was going to be another fabulous blog with all the right pictures and all the right words and millions were going to love it and it would let the world know how awesome and capable God was, and how wonderful it was homeschooling my five children. This blog set out to be phenomenal. The more I struggled to make my writing "fit in" th
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Experiencing the SWORD

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For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12) As the homeschooling days roll along sometimes discouragement sets in. Some days, the children are downright zoned out and other days, everything is right on target. Well yesterday I was having one of my own melt down days and suddenly, all I could see was everything wrong. So I picked up my notebook and bible and was going into some quiet time. Just then my husband beckoned me to watch a movie with him about a book that he had just finished reading to the children. I resisted for a minute. I had other things to do, but I sat down with him and we started watching the movie. It was awesome, the story of Ruby Bridges. Needless to say, after I saw the perseverance and dexterity in that mom in the movie, I was worse off than I was before. I fuss
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