*The first call of Christian womanhood is to Christ–be wary of making service to your family an idol.
*Glorify God in failure.
*Rest in Christ, and receive vision and inspiration and strength.
*Your husband cannot meet your needs; God can.
*Ask God to grant you the strength to be peacemaker.
*Behold the handmaiden of the Lord–the goals come from God–I have no career goals.
*My life for yours is Biblical womanhood. Put others first and keep tender love alive in your home.
*Our daughters belong to God. Don’t put worldly ambitions on them–how about being wives and mothers?
*Desire to make the lives of others around you richer inside. Women are shapers of destiny, molders of dreams, nurturers of lives–cherish what your children cherish.
*If you have to cast aside feminism to achieve a goal, is it worth pursuing? Refocus your heart and change the way you live.
*Strive for modest dress amidst our society of immodesty. Even in churches the hemlines are creeping up to be ever shorter!
*Abandon your view of yourself as the center o f your universe.
*Have children, and raise up a Godly seed.
*The glory of God comes through broken repentance.
*Success–service, purity, noble life, faithfulness to those closest to you (who help you overcome sin).
Consecrated Home*Whenever we are willing to put anything before God or sin to accomplish something, it is an idol. *Men do like order, but they especially like cheerful wives.*Be wary of doing the work of God in the spirit of the devil, or beginning the work in the Spirit only to finish it in the flesh.*There is beauty in order and cleanliness first.
*Plan time to be messy and/or clean.
*Make sure you don’t worship the work of your hands.
*We are insufficient, but Christ is our sufficiency.
*God is a very present help in troubles.
*Monthly, weekly, and quarterly chore charts may be helpful. Have a place for everything and everything in it’s place. If you want to keep or buy something, where will it go? A master grocery list to mark as you go may also be a help. Try an errand box (library books, borrowed items, etc.), and a card organizer, To Do list and To Don’t list.
*We are just human, we are not angels.
*What do children teach each other when left alone? How to sin.
*Do not gossip, especially in the sight of your children. Instead fast, pray, believe God, and lift others up.
*Etiquette helps us learn to put others first.
*God’s word is our chief delight; holiness is unto the Lord.
*Our heart is our greatest classroom for our children–ought we sweep it clean?
*Teach your girls to pledge lives of purity.
Shaping a Heart for Purity and Purpose*Cleanse your home–especially of bad books and TV. As a man thinketh, he is. The people you meet, books you read, and ideas you hear will shape who you are next year.*The imagination of the people in our society is wicked continually.*The senses can pull you back into the “old man”.*Your ugly, angry face is a picture in your child’s imagination–make a radiant countenance your and their imagination.
*If you have a strength for communication, therein lies your greatest weakness. Repent of your words.
*You don’t need to tell children the whole truth–they don’t need to know the details of sodomy, crimes, etc.
*Read aloud, read aloud, read aloud.
*Shape the imagination for purpose, and impart a sense of destiny.
*Once we are swept clean, we and our households will be set free. Cleanse to be given God’s purposes.
*God’s word and people’s lives are the only important things, and they should be bound in a woman’s heart.
*If our life was an offering, God would flood us with His purposes.
*Be a Titus 2 woman! Invest your life into your siblings’ lives.
*More people fail from a lack of encouragement than anything else.
*Women are building lives–major on the major and minor on the minors.
*Women are encouragers through childhood and adulthood. The ministry of encouragement is so very vital!
*Don’t let anybody tell you that the job you’re doing as a mother is not the most important in the world! Invest your life in your child’s.
Something I found from Edith Schaeffer: “You cannot expect to have a close relationship with a teenager who, after all, is still the same person as a two-year-old you stuck crying into bed, the three-year-old you spanked and shoved aside, the four-year-old you wouldn’t listen to, the five-year-old you never shared beauty with, the six-year-old you found boring, or you “trained” never to butt in, but never gave time to make a cozy and beautiful background out of which you could talk to him or her.”
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Shelley Hendry is always such an encouragement to me. I have cut and pasted this post to print out and keep in my purse for a gentle reminder. Thanks for sharing.