The Truth That Sets Us Free

I have been frantically reading everything I can by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. She is an wonderful Godly woman who has a true gift for teaching women about "Biblical Womanhood". I have read her book "Lies Woman Believe", I am doing the 30 day challenge on Proverbs 31 where I listen to her speak and I have just begun "Biblical Womanhood in the Home".

She is passionate about women breaking free from the lies and bondage of our current culture and encouraging woman to embrace their role as servant and help mate. I pray that we are all able to serve our husbands and children joyfully and selflessly so that we may glorify the God that made us that way!!

I wanted to pass on a few TRUTHS that I have not embraced for too many years!

The Truth That Sets Us Free

By Nancy Leigh DeMoss

1. God is good (Ps. 119:68; 136:1).

2. God loves me and wants me to have His best (Rom. 8:32, 38-39).

3. I am complete and accepted in Christ (Eph. 1:6).

4. God is enough (Ps. 23:1).

5. God can be trusted (Isa. 28:16).

6. God doesn’t make any mistakes (Isa. 46:10)!

• Everything that comes into my life has been “filtered through His fingers of love.”

7. God’s grace is sufficient for me (2 Cor. 12:9).

8. The blood of Christ is sufficient to cover all my sin (1 John 1:7).

9. The cross of Christ is sufficient to conquer my sinful flesh (Rom. 6:6-7).

• I don’t have to sin (Rom. 6:14).

10. My past does not have to plague me (1 Cor. 6:9-11).

• My past failures can become stepping stones to greater victory and fruitfulness.
• If I will let Him, God will cause everything that has happened to me to work together for my good and for His glory.

11. God’s Word is sufficient to lead me, teach me, and heal me (Ps. 19:7; 107:20; 119:105).

12. Through the power of His Holy Spirit, God will enable me to do anything that He commands me to do (1 Thess. 5:24).

• There is no one that I cannot forgive (Mark 11:25).
• There is no one that I cannot love (Matt. 5:44).
• I can give thanks in all things (1 Thess. 5:18).
• I can be content (Heb. 13:5; Phil. 4:11).

13. I am responsible before God, for my behavior, responses, and choices (Ez. 18:19-22).

14. I will reap whatever I sow (Gal. 6:7-8).

15. The pathway to true joy is to relinquish control (Luke 1:38; 1 Peter 5:7; Matt.16:25):

• of my life
• of my husband
• of my children
• of my circumstances

16. The greatest freedom I can experience is found through submission to God-ordained authority (Eph. 5:23).

• The husband is the head of the wife (Eph. 5:23).
• The wife is to reverence and submit to her husband (Eph. 5:22, 33).
• “The heart of the king is in the Lord’s hand . . .” (Prov. 21:1).

17. In the will of God, there is no higher, holier calling than to be a wife and mother (Titus 2:4-5).

18. Personal holiness is more important than temporal happiness. (Eph. 5:26-27).

• Happiness is not a right.

19. God is more concerned about changing me and glorifying Himself, than about solving my problems (Rom. 8:29).

20. It is impossible to be godly, without suffering.

• Suffering is a tool in the hand of God to conform me to the image of Jesus (1 Peter 5:10).

21. My suffering will not last forever (2 Cor. 4:17-18; Ps. 30:5).

22. “It’s not about me; it’s all about Him!” (Col. 1:16-18).

“If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” John 8:31-32

Sorry For The Delay

I am sorry to delay the book club even more. I still have not received my book!! Lifeway could not promise that my book would be in by this week, so I purchased one on Amazon. Alas, it still has not come. I will check my PO Box today and hopefully be able to start reading. I have not heard from everyone interested if you have received yours, so lets again shoot for next Monday, January 19th!!

Also, I have come down with a pretty bad cold. I have lost my voice and have a very congested head. I am not sure if my brain could handled reading, pondering and expounding today anyway! I hope you all stay interested! I am really looking forward to this!

Have a blessed week!

My Husband Rocks

If you know him.... you know why he ROCKS.. He loves God with all of his heart and gracefully loves and forgives.

GOD IS GOOD...HE IS FAITHFUL....HE BLESSES US ABUNDANTLY!!!!

Psalm 128
Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways. You will eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table. Thus is the man blessed who fears the Lord. May the Lord bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem, and may you live to see your children's children.

New Book Club

Several of you have emailed me about the online book club I want to get started! I really wanted to start today but my book has not come in at Lifeway (I went through them in order to avoid shipping costs). My aim right now is to start next Monday the 12th. I have never done a online book club, or a book club at all, and would appreciate any advice.

If you would like to join in....

* The book is Biblical Womanhood in the Home by Nancy Leigh DeMoss

* The Goal is to break free of the "feminist movement" in our culture and embrace the Godly purpose of a woman. "The purpose is to spread the seeds of a new movement the 'seeds of hope, humility, obedience, and prayer'."

I feel strongly that we have really missed the beautiful way that God has created us as women. The feelings of inadequacy, ugliness, competitiveness, pride, jealousy, depression and overall discontentment is not from God. I have been struggling with all of those things my entire adulthood. I am committed to crying out to God to help change those things in my life!! I can not do this on my own will, I am learning that!!

I hope you will join us in reading and discussing this book together. If you don't want to read the book, please feel free to read over posts and glean from the wisdom of other Godly women!!

I pray that you that have already said they wanted to join in would be patient with me as I figure this all out!! And most importantly, pray that God will work a wonders in our lives as we seek to fully embrace His love and desire for us.

I will post info later on in the week concerning the new blog!! Again, if you have any ideas, suggestions or advice. please chime in. This is not MY blog but ours!!

Keep your hearts on God and your minds in the Word!!

New Year Celebration

We had a wonderful and fun New Year's celebration. The evening started off with dinner at Shogun's with The Neals, Dempsey's and my cousin Traes and his family. There was 17 of us in all. The show was good, the food was wonderful and the company even better!!

After dinner, we headed home to have dessert and coffee. The kids were really over the top excited and ready for fireworks!! There is a tradition in the Hill Family to stuff their Christmas tree with Black Cats and set them off. We have never put this tradition into practice at our home but last night we decided that it would be the first annual Texas Hill's fireworks! We stuffed the tree with 2000 Black Cats and lit it up!! It was very loud but the kids loved it!! I am having trouble uploading the video but will post it as soon as possible! Its way to good not to share!

In the meantime, here are a few pics to share.....

Stacey & Jack Jack

Suzannah, Isaac, Maggie Kate, Ethan and Arden

Ethan and his wishing coin

Maggie, Isaac and Suzy Q

The show beginning

Ethan throwing the egg
Maggie and Suzy Q aren't so sure about this

Big fireTraes and Donna

The Grands at the end of the table