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What Does God Do?: notes to myself (part 2)

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What does God do?:  notes to myself He brings times of drought. Haggai 1:9-11 9 "You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?" declares the LORD of hosts, "Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house. 10 "Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 "I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands ."   "COME BACK TO ME." He brings blasting wind, mildew, and hail. Haggai 2:17 17 'I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me ,' declares the LORD.   SEEK GOD, LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS   He brings judgment. Isaiah 26:9 9 At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You dilig

Walking with God: notes to myself

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Walking with God: notes to myself. Enoch did it. Genesis 5:22-24 22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. 23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.    BLAMELESS Noah did it. Genesis 6:9 9 These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. RIGHTEOUS  Abram did it. Genesis 17:11 11 Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless.   LOVE THE LORD  God told the Israelites to do it to. Deuteronomy 30:16 16 in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments , that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the

Mothers Need Jesus (every second of every day)

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#1 During a normal homeschool day I'm sure that I personally learn more than all the kids combined. #2 Sometimes, though, no one really learns anything...we just trudge through a slop of bad attitudes. #3 The only way to change this is to get to the heart of the Mother... Mothers Need Jesus We're on the countdown to summer.  The countdown to any break from school is always exciting, but it's usually the most tiresome, nerve-wrecking, patience-testing, final-10k-of-a-marathon-painful time! This is where the bad attitudes come in and the learning goes out.  The chain of events: Mom and kids get excited about summer break. Mom and kids get in a hurry to get school work done. Mom and kids get frustrated because it seems like the work is never-ending. Kids complain, Mom fusses. Repeat #4 again and again with mounting tension and frustration.  Mom breaks, kids give up. Mom feels like a failure, kids think Mom is kind of a freak. Throw in the normal life stresse