Breaking The Cycle

Sometimes people believe that because their own pasts were difficult, it is impossible for them to create a lifegiving home for their families. I have known many excellent women over the years who had extremely difficult backgrounds. By following the Lord through studying and obeying His Word, they became beautiful reflections of Christ. It’s a question of priority: Who will you spend the most time with? Who will you pay the most attention to? Whose voice will you tune your ear to hear? Whose words will be held nearest to your heart?

How can you become a lifegiving person, whether you had a lifegiving background or not? Determine that you will read the Word of God every day. Choose to believe in and trust Him each moment, in every circumstance. Pray for His guidance and know that His presence goes with you. It is the engaged, loving heart that points others to Jesus, the wellspring of life. There is nothing else to replace it—no cleverness or self-strength or rules or formula that can replace the palpable life that comes from living day by day, holding on to God’s hand.

Do you want your children to draw from the life that is bubbling over from your heart, mind, words, and attitudes? Then you must spend day after day with the Word of Life who will give you the true source of wisdom and love you long for. Even as a house is built one brick at a time and yet has the potential of becoming a mansion, so a wise woman builds her house—one brick at a time—into a home of spirituality that comes from spending regular time with Him.

His Promises

For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.

Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.