Katie, is a mother of six, yes six children. As wife and mother she brings a lot to the table, a lot for us young mothers to think about and learn together.
We are mothers today, right here, right now! I don't know how many of us dressed up dolls and dreamed of having a family. Guess what! We are living our dream.
Katie talked about how God knew she would need all six of her children to get to the end of herself. I have to agree that God knows what we need when we are completely unaware.
Katie talked about what truly matters and chasing what matters in our lives and teaching our children to chase what matters. Our children know what we are chasing, people who know us, know what we are chasing.
Our family, spouses, children, and friends truly watch what we do. Proverbs 31 reveals to us how we can be a godly influence and then in turn there is a blessing that comes to us when we chase after what is important to us.
28Her children rise up and call her blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied); and her husband boasts of and praises her, [saying]29Many daughters have done virtuously, nobly, and well [with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness], but you excel them all. 30Charm and grace are deceptive, and beauty is vain [because it is not lasting], but a woman who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord, she shall be praised! Proverbs 31:28-30 Amplified Bible What is the most important thing to you and what do you chase? I will be honest with you in my own answer to the question – “The bills being paid, enough food in the house to feed little ones, and of course diapers. I chase my husband and nag him into doing chores, and my children too.” I had not really thought what ‘Truly Matters, or to Chase What Matters.’
Katie had couple of points I want to share with you on ‘What Truly Matters’ and ‘Chasing What Matters’. I agree with Katie in; Our vision has been blurred…cluttered mind and cluttered lives. We are chasing to many things that do not matter.
Our time is short, we really only have the here and now. We are only promised one day at time.
Matt 6:19:2219"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
What Truly Matters?
The Word of God, Souls of Men, and Living for his glory
Scripture gives life. The words that have been penned in the Bible can help us to raise our children, encourage our husbands, and encouragement to us when we feel frustrated with our children.
Katie used a great example of how we train our children with the Word of God.
Katie has teenage boys and she is teaching them the importance of looking for a woman who will love, honor, and respect and cherish them. They have dates and study the two types of women Proverbs talks about; those two women can be found in Proverbs 31 and then in Proverbs 5, 6,and 7; teaching her boys to look for the wise woman.
Be creative in ways to help you and your family to understand the Bible.
One way that was suggested was to have easy scripture verses in the ABC’s.
Mommy is not perfect, is really. Our children can pray for us. Asking them what they (children) think we need prayer for. We need them and God gave them to me and we are a family. We got to be a team.
Chasing what Matters:
Our Maker Matters:
“24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?” Matt 16:24-26 NIV
I don’t know about you, as for myself I set my Maker aside. I have to many other things that need to be done.
We need to continually learn what pleases the Lord. Remember he has good things in store for us.
During the awakening – There was a saying about what had happened to those who had been touched by God.
“I have been seized by the power of a great affection.”
“11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
Our Maker knows us inside and out as stated in the Psalms.
“13For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.15My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.16Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.” Ps 139:13-16
14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.15My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.16Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.” Ps 139:13-16
We need to become passionate about our Maker. Many of us are not passionate, yet we want our children to be passionate and they are getting confused. When our hearts do not go with our passion A children are watching talk the talk and not walking the walk.
Marriage Matters –
Our marriage does matter, even when feel like it doesn’t.
Our children are aware of how we treat our spouse. If we are not treating our spouse with respect, neither will our children. A lot more of marriage is caught rather than taught.
God designed our marriage.
Beauty of the picture of Christ in the Church
– the Church is a beautiful bride –
We have to remember we are the beautiful bride to our spouses. Even when our hair is a mess, the baby’s spit up is all over us. We are still beautiful to our spouses.
There are times we feel like we are just mommy, and our self-worth, as an attractive, sexy woman is gone. Take a few minutes to make the effort in being the beautiful bride God created.
As we love our man – we can always be a better wife to our husband.
You better know what you sign up for before getting married. They were witnesses that were to hold me accountable –
Not many brides hear – for worse, for sick, and for poor – we want the nicer things of life.
Life is hard. It just doesn’t this side of heaven.
Our Children Matter:
Than hand the rocks the cradle rules the world. Send them out as mighty warriors. Shine the light, fight for my marriage, have the power of the truth where ever they go.
We will have no regrets as mothers…make that our prayer.
We want to be women in our society that rises our children right. The best way for us to raise our children is to be able to help them walk though tough choices and teach them to walk through with prayer.
I am going to rule the world from within my home, by praying and showing my children what really matters. To teach them to chase what matters.
Deut 6:5-9
5You(A) shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6And(B) these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7(C) You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8(D) You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9(E) You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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