Bless each of my Children

Hebrews 11:21 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

²¹ By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. 

In faith today I want to bless each one of my own children.  I have been blessed with three beautiful, successful and talented children of my own.  I also have the responsibility of taking care of two step children.

I am not dying, thank goodness but it is my heart’s desire that each of my children will be blessed and be a blessing in the future.  May the Lord God Almighty bless each of my children and stepchildren and keep them.

 Lord God Almighty will make shine His face on you and be gracious to you; Lord God Almighty will lift up His face upon you, and He will give you peace.  May the Lord God Almighty put His name on each of my children, and God Lord Almighty will bless them.

Prayer

Abba Father, I am not dying but in my living life I do want to appeal to You today to please bless each one of my children and step children.  Lord I ask that Your face will shine upon them, that You will keep them safe and may they all serve You Lord.  In the Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Amen

#Tuesday { Heart – to – heart }

Attitude meter

My dad always used to say ‘your attitude determine your altitude’ and that is so true, if you have a bad attitude it will bring you down from where you find yourself.  You just cannot do things and are in an impossible mood.  You cannot focus and life seems to be too difficult to deal with.

Watching a TV drama they showed how the pilot of the plain tried to level the plain according to the ‘attitude meter’.  While watching this it reminded me that each and every day we need to level out our attitudes.  You need to have some sort of balance in your own life.  No one can be chirpy all day long, it just isn’t natural (I would start wondering what’s the person taking).

How do I level out my attitude?

1                 Balance in life is important and I believe in starting my day right, with prayer and focusing on my daily word for the day.

2                 Reminding myself ‘that no one is out to get me’; people don’t always have a hidden agenda, trust them.

3                 Being friendly and understanding is important, it changes other peoples point of view in that instance.

4                 Stay focused on the positive, dismiss the negative and keep up at working at excellence.

You are a blessing, God has a purpose for you today, keep your attitude positive, smile and work on your excellence.

‘The thing you hate the most, will come to you.’

Job 3: 25 Young’s Literal Translation

25 For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.

I watch people and I love to think that it is well with all people, I look at the way they walk and talk and it makes me believe that they actually don’t have a care in the world.  How totally wrong!  Of course each of us are facing some difficulty, there could be someone sick at home, or financial crisis.  But we have the ability to hide our emotions and looking in from the outside it seems well with my soul.

I also used to say ‘the thing you hate the most will come upon you’ and it actually did.  Drugs are something I despised and the sad part it destroyed my family.  The person that was involved with drugs didn’t come to realize the destruction he caused.  

 

Sadly we cannot turn back time and go and fix our mistakes, we all have learned from this destructive mechanism and since moved on.  It took a very long time to get over the hurts and disappointments but by God’s grace we have moved on.

Lessons learned: 

*)  never speak about the things you hate, it comes to you.  

*)  Nothing is in stone and live can and does throw you a curve ball, catch it. 

*)  Deal with it and move one, let go of bitterness and learn to forgive.

‘Do it heartily,’

Colossians 3:23 KJV

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Have you heard the phrase “good help is hard to find”?  Yes I am sure you have, when someone does a job and they really have not excelled or done their best people normally make that statement.  I feel so irritated when people are given an instruction to do something and then you can see how half-heartedly they perform the task.

When I was a young girl both my parents would remind me that I should always strive to do my best in whatever I am doing.  If you do the dishes, do it to your best ability.

Today it is on my heart to encourage and remind you to be excellent, doing your best and remember its not for people but for the Lord.  It will be pleasing in the sight of the Lord and He will reward you in due course.  How?  You never know when you will be promoted or receive a bonus for a job well done.  

You are a blessing and I believe we all are capable of being excellent at everything we do, so go and be excellent!!

Happy Birthday Mommy - your days are still important

#1 – 2 – 3 Great Weekends

As we approached the Town house I saw my mom walking towards the car she looked demure and pretty, and her graceful picture of black and white skinny pants and shirt let her stand out.  Her graceful appearance and the smile upon her face was absolutely glowing.

As I got out of the car and hugged her, kissed her and wished her a happy birthday.  She looked so happy to see me and my husband.  We all walked back toward the gated and greeted my stepdad whom himself looked so dashing.  

God surely looked down upon us and it was clear we were where we were supposed to be this weekend.  She served us something to drink while we sat in front of the fire waiting for my sister to arrive we chatted.

Before long my sister arrived and we all enjoyed catching up and just having a wonderful time, the men braaied the meat and we all visited and enjoyed the beautiful day.

The day turned out excellent, everybody had such a lovely time.  We finally enjoyed our lunch and after cake we all took too the road.  Time was running out and we needed to go home.  Back to our normal routine filed days.

God has smiled upon my mom and I believe she will enjoy many, many more to come.  She is a blessing and a wonderful person.  Our lives will be empty without her in them.

The great weekends are still lying ahead of us and we are all looking forward to living excited lives.