Christian Homekeeping: Speaking Faith & Fighting to Keep It

I remember back when we started to get all our medical bills and how I spoke defeat. I spoke it to a friend, I spoke it to my parents and my own family. A day or two later, I was very convicted and thought of the following verse came to my mind:

Luke 18:8

"...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"

I want God to find faith in me! So, I called my parents and my friend back and apologized to them for my faithless talk. I told my husband and daughter that I was sorry for the doom and gloom I forecasted and then I said that we are going to speak FAITH over these medical bills.

And that is when God started moving. In just a few weeks, the faith spoke down $8,000. But it didn't stop there, I started speaking faith in other parts of my life and it wasn't long before Satan got upset! See, Satan doesn't like it when Christians start claiming their promises. He doesn't like it when we start speaking faith and believing and conquering mountains. He will bring all the forces of hell out against you when you do this and try and knock you back down into a pit of despair but I can tell you that anything worth having in God is worth fighting for!!

I prayed a prayer specifically a few weeks ago and didn't voice it to anyone. My prayer was that God would bring money to our door. I thought I would open the door one day and money would be sitting there. I spoke faith.

Monday, God kept dealing with heart to do something for someone. I mean it wouldn't leave me alone! I kept saying to myself I was too busy but finally at 8pm at night, I realized it was God........and I did what he said to do!! I didn't think much of it but I knew it was God's leading.

Late Monday night I had been dealt a blow that kept me awake and feeling like God wasn't even there. I thought maybe I wasn't even His child because I mess up so many times saying and doing the wrong things and causing problems to people I care about. I thought I should just give up entirely and I asked God to show me that I was still His child and that our family was worth something to God. Satan made me feel absolutely useless to everyone around me and that our family was just something to laugh at - I mean what were we doing for God? Nothing.

I got a knock on the door yesterday and someone left us a card. I opened the card up and there was a large amount of cash and immediately I knew God had brought it to our door!! Literally brought the money that I had prayed for!! The card was a thank you to our family from someone we barely even knew but had been watching our lives as neighbors who don't even go to church. They said that people like us are rare these days and they are so thankful we are in this world and they just wanted to give us some money to show their gratitude. They went on to say how great our family was........Oh God, how sorry I was to believe the devil's lies that our family was nothing, that I'm only a person that causes problems and we are useless to anyone. I realized that there are souls living around us that have watched our lives and they SEE our walk with God, even when you think no one is looking, no one notices.........God sends a reminder that though you may not be doing great things that people recognize you for, though you may not have anything before your name - you are still doing something for God by just living a Christian life. You are the light in your neighborhood, you are the light in your home and you can shine bright to a lost, dark and lonely world and they can see God everyday by looking at your life.

So for all those that say how hard life is, how you don't have money to buy food or pay bills - stop speaking defeat and despair and start speaking FAITH!! God is a responder and He has told us in His Word to PROVE Him - give God His and prove Him if He won't keep His promises.

Malachi 3:10

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Quotes to Ponder

If you’re a friend to all and an enemy to none, then you’re leading no one. - Unknown

The objective in Christian homeschooling is not to teach children how to "deal with the real world." I do not want to teach my children how to merely survive this life. As believers in Christ, we are called to be overcomers! - HE magazine

The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romances, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver, or their eyes. - Oliver Goldsmith

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world. - Charles Spurgeon

In a time of universal deceit, telling the TRUTH, is a revolutionary act . -George Orwell

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchill

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Christian mothers too often neglect their home-centered role for the empty promises of fulfillment in the workplace, while they warehouse their children in daycare centers. Parents send their children to secular schools where God is outlawed, and they allow them to watch trashy movies and listen to vile music—and hang out with those who do the same. After years of training in the ways of rebellion through godless schooling, debauched entertainment, and peer association, Christian parents are somehow surprised when their teenagers rebel, forsaking the God of their fathers.- Philip Lancaster

You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, and training them up in God's fear, and minding the house, and making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts. - Charles Spurgeon

“Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininty, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error….”-Tasha Tudor

SECULARISM is a philosophy that claims that there is no God-or that if there is a God, He is irrelevant. HUMANISM essentially says that in the absence of God, humans can and should act as gods by judging, choosing, and defining what is right for themselves. The philosophy pervading the public education system combines these two philosophies into one.-Ken Ham

The true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don't have to do anything else. What do they do? Do they do frivolous things? That's when you define what you are. -Kevin Rollins, former CEO of DELL

How can there be too many children? That’s like saying there are too many flowers. -Mother Teresa

Fifty-nine modern nations are plagued by the high-tech benefits of birth-control pills. Each of them have waged a cultural war against babies. Each of them suffer below-replacement birthrates. Each of them face potential extinction. But concerns such as national suffering, dangerous international geopolitics and the disappearance of entire nations are matters that would require mature thinking – something that was successfully bred-out of the American people when they accepted the pill as, in the words of Hugh Hefner, the greatest invention of the 20th century. - Geoffrey Botkin

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength. -Corrie ten Boom

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