Do you see the signs?

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" the more it stuck out. I felt like Saul before he became Paul. I felt the Holy Spirit asking me why was I kicking against HIM. The more I struggled to make this blog mimic some other blog that I had seen, the more it would take on it's own shape and form. I decided to allow the Holy Spirit to lead me. I don't blog every day, but as I am led by the Holy Spirit, I write. 

I see the church mourning Jesus as if He were still dead and as they mourn the dead, its as if they have forgotten that He rose from the dead and gave us back the power that the devil stole from us. HE sent HIS HOLY SPIRIT to help us to live in HIM and through HIM - but it seems, we have forgotten.

So no, this blog might not bring you the success in the area of homeschooling that you might have expected but it can and will bring you to a clearer understanding of the power that comes with having a relationship with Jesus the Christ, Son of the living God.

As the home schooling days go by, I see several signs.  I look at the different signs and I can tell what is in the atmosphere. I cried out to the Holy Spirit, "Let me see your power, I need to see you power working." As the days went by, I started seeing things that I had not been able to see before. 

The teaching that had become so hard and such a struggle, suddenly started flowing and as I looked around I saw routines being followed for bed time. 

During the day I saw work being completed in a timely manner. Then as I looked a little deeper, I saw peace flowing over my home, I heard less arguing and fussing, I saw more working together and I heard more laughter - and that's when I realized, all these things were signs. 

I saw the signs that told me the peace of God was upon my children, I saw the sign that told me the Holy Spirit reigned over my home.

I saw the sing that reminded me to rest as HE works in me and through me. I saw the sign that told me, HE calmed the storm in my heart, that HE healed a place that was broken, that HE restored that which had been taken away and that HE has given back all that was stolen from me. 

I saw peace in the midst of the storm, I saw confidence in the midst of challenges, I saw hope and light in the midst of despair and darkness. I saw the signs. 

So I blog, not to replicate other blogs, not to produce the typical homeschooling blog that I thought I was going to do. But I blog to show the SIGNS of the POWER of the Holy Spirit at work, in me, in my home, in my children, in my husband, in my marriage, in the Kingdom Of God that is within me, in everything I do. 

Thank you Abba, Father for allowing me to see the signs. 

The Holy Spirit is not written in a curriculum to be followed like routine, HE is the power that lies within me, because of the finished work of Christ on the cross, so as you look at yourself and your busy home school schedules, tell me, what signs do you see? 

Do you see signs of REST in the Holy Spirit or do you see the tell tale signs of stress from the pressures of the world.

 
John 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 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.