Today is full of many opportunities that we choose to invest in or slam the door on. If you’re a parent, you know you have different opportunities to make time for your kids, but even during that time, you have the choice of how… Continue Reading “Encourage or Harden?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Close, Deception, Declare, Encourage, Evil, Give Evidence, Harden Your Heart, Instruction, Listen to His Voice, Not a Part of God, Opportunities, Resisting God, Sin, Spirit of God, Stubborn, Testifies, Today, Truth, Unbelief, Walk in the Spirit, Warnings
Early last school year, we saw a man and woman, running side by side together, attached with a tether. I hadn’t seen anything like it! The only thing I’d seen that was somewhat close was those little backpacks littles wear that tether them to… Continue Reading “Tethered to the Holy Spirit”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Acting out of Raging Anger, Actions, Behavior, Boast, Calling Attention to Ourselves, Difficult times, Disagreements, Division, Emotions, Empty Value, God's Guidance, Hatred, Instruction, Justify Things, Opposer of God, Pain, Perceptions, See Clearly, Seek Self, Senses, Sin, Sinful Nature, Spirit of God, Stinging Response, Thoughts, Walk with God
He went for the sandal one more time. He realizes you notice him and bolts under a chair, tucked under the Dining Room table. You get down on his level, peering under the table, and give him the command to “drop it.” Is this… Continue Reading “Positively Negative: Training Tools”
Category: KidsTags: Believers, Children, Disobedience, Frustration, Harmful Words, Harsh Tones, Instruction, Kids, Lies, Negative, Obedience, Positive, Positive Reinforcement, Resist the Devil, Speak Life, Speaking Negatively, Spiritual Growth, Submit to God, Training, Warnings
It was the…I don’t know (I lost count)…time that I told him, “No,” and redirected him to something he could have. My patience was getting exercised, for sure! Our puppy is growing quickly and has found that it’s pretty easy for him to get… Continue Reading “Take a Look in the Mirror”
Category: KidsTags: Absolute Word, Acceptance, Annoyed, At Home, Bring God Glory, Cain, Cheerful, Choose, Choose Differently, Choose Otherwise, Choosing Well, Control, Decent Choice, Decision, Desire, Desire Arises, Desire to Control, Desire to Serve God, Discussions, Do the Opposite, Do Well, Do What We Shouldn't, Doing the Wrong Thing, Don't Act out of Emotions, Don't Do Well, Door, Door of Our Minds, Door of Your Soul, Ecstatic, Emotions, Entrance, Exercised, Face, Facial Expressions, Filter, Forgiveness, Frustrated, Genesis, Gently Guide, Goal, God's Design, God's Intension for Us, God's View of Wrong, Good Things, Happier, Honor God, I Do the Same Thing, Instruction, Know, Lay Down, Lifted Up, Listen the First Time, Look, Look at Decisions as a Whole, Look in the Mirror, Make Its Home, Make the Right Choice, Making a Mistake, Making an Error, Master It, Maturing, Missing the Mark, Morally Right Choices, More Optimistic, No, No One Listening, Not a Comparative View, Overwhelms, Patience, Pleased, Preparation, Proud, Puppy, Redirect, Redirected, Right Decisions, Showed, Shown Me the Best Way, Sin, Sin Lurks at the Door, Stand Firm, Target, The LORD, Thought, Thoughts, Told, Verse, Visibly Different, What God Thinks is Right, Will
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