King's Daughters

I have nothing interesting to blog this week as I have had the busiest week of my LIFE! There is lots of great & exciting news, some difficult situations we had to deal with & lots of driving around, visiting & caring. It's amazing to see what is doing through our church & if I wasn't so tired I would write a really long post to tell you all about it - but I am way too tired! So how about you, why don't you tell me about your week so I can read all about it rather than write to you this week :) What is God doing in your life?

When Eric brought this movie home for us to watch I was really nervous about watching it - I really thought it was going to be rubbish. Usually Eric has excellent taste in movies so put this bad choice down to the fact that he was a bit ill! Well as the old saying goes - don't judge a book by it's cover. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, it was not at all what I expected based on the "cover". A very entertaining movie with a great message at the end - we don't need to be perfect. Funnily enough this even fit the theme of our day ha ha, I was having one of those days when I just didn't feel good enough as a wife. All the things the wives did in the movie is exactly what most men would like their wives to be like & what we as wives would like to be like. Never-the-less our husbands love us even though we are not perfect all the time. Now Eric & I have a nice personal joke between us - he says to me; "You don't need to be a Stepford wife"

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble ." James 4:6 Recently I have noticed something and it has changed my life. The scripture above says that God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble. This is always a good thing to keep in mind as I really don't want God to resist me! My eldest daughter, Lorah, has helped me understand this principle. As I have watched her and learned from her I have seen more and more of how important it is to be grateful. This is not directly humble but I do believe being grateful is a part of a humble nature. By nature, Lorah is always grateful. She never demands or expects anything and this attitude actually makes you want to give more to her. If we are out shopping and she asks for something I don't want to say no to her. The way she humbly asks is so lovely that I just want to give her WHATEVER she asks for. Most people are attracted to Lorah - she is so lovely to

This Sunday I preached the second part of BATTLE OF THE MINDS. I had a long, hard look at the tongue! It's quite something to see how evil our tongue is - yuck! At least we have the Holy Spirit to help us tame out tongue & the mind of Christ to help us know what to speak :) Let's all help each other to speak in a way that pleases God & if one of us fails in any way gently encourage that person to try again. If you are in a situation where there is gossip - get out - by any means necessary! If you are feeling down don't speak it out but speak words of life into your own life. Most importantly read your Bible, get to know God's will for your life & speak it into you life and those around you. Let's speak our life better! Well that's me done with preaching for a bit - I hope I managed to give Eric a nice little break & I hope that I managed to speak the Word of God to our Church. It's such an honour to be allowed to preach at Church, I know

I know this may sound simple & obvious but recently I have been surprised at how few people actually intentionally work on their marriage! At church we are running a couples evening called The Love Dare , based on the book by the same name. We are working through one dare a week over a lovely meal. It has been so amazing & such an eye opener. When Eric & I started this I thought that our marriage was just fine. I went thinking we were just there to lead & help other couples. Much to our surprise we realised how many things we need to work at. The Love Dare is an awesome book & so is the Fireproof movie that this book is based on. As we have begun highlighting areas in our marriage we have seen how essential it is to take time to work on our marriage. I have realised that if we don't intentionally build our marriage we may actually be breaking it. You end up getting familiar, tolerating mediocrity & generally slacking at the things that used to be i

This Sunday I preached the first sermon in the series called BATTLE OF THE MINDS - how our carnal mind is at war with our spiritual mind, the Mind of Christ. I have battled in this area for years so feel I have a lot of personal experience & victories to share. Also I long to see people in our congregation free from all sorts of things that hold them in bondage & I firmly believe that dealing with the carnal mind is a strong step in the right direction for all of us. Here are 7 steps to a free mind: 1.Renew your mind - Romans 12:2 2.Control your thoughts - Romans 8:5 3.Take one step at a time - Proverbs 23:7a 4.Don’t give up - Galatians 6:9 5.Be positive - 1 Peter 3:15 6.Think about what you think about - Colossians 3:2 7.Know your enemy - John 10:10 Right thinking can... Bring health to your body - Proverbs 4:20-22 and Bring prosperity to your life - Psalm 1:2-3 Can you believe how powerful this stuff is!!! Have a listen to the full message here if you

I may be hopelessly flawed but thank God for Jesus! I never quite understood the story of the prodigal son in the Bible - I always thought it was a bit unfair that the faithful son seem to get so little and the son that messed up got all the praise and honour. It never quite made sense to me how that was fair in any way. Since doing my own eating with the pigs and squandering the goodness that my daddy in heaven gave me I have come to be grateful for that story. I still don't think it's very fair but I am grateful that God sees things that way and sees me the way He does! Without his grace and seemingly unfair ways of dealing with things I may not be where I am today. I am still hopelessly flawed and very far from perfect in so many ways, but at least now I know who I am in God's eyes and I know that no matter what I do wrong or how far away I walk from Him, he will always come running to me when I need him - ready with a fine robe & nice meal of fatted calf. Do I