The lies of this world would have us believe so many false things about ourselves. It seems that there are two extremes…either we are supposed to be self-serving and out for number one or we feel worthless and full of shame. The self-serving type leads to extreme selfishness, placing ourselves upon a pedestal; while the worthless type creates an introverted people who are afraid to step out or believe in themselves at all.
The enemy does what he can to feed our minds with these lies and destroy what and who God truly created us to be. he doesn’t want us to see ourselves as God sees us. We are children of the most High God, created in His image with a great purpose and plan for our lives. Now does this sound like a selfish or worthless type of person?
This puts a drive in me to want to restore and refresh in my family their true worth in Christ. It’s been a while since I’ve written about our Family Growth, but I wanted to share something that God placed on my heart to do with my family. It is so important that we are constantly aware of our worth in Christ, without it we will fall. It is my desire that my husband and children be reminded often, if not daily about the blessings they truly are. That they be reminded of the great purpose on their lives to help fulfill the Kingdom of God.
Philippians 1:6 (NLT) 6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
I want my husband to know the king that he is and my children to know their true potential as children of God. My goal is to do something weekly to show them how truly special they really are, to show them that God loves them more than they could ever imagine. I have a few ideas in my head…like to pull certain scriptures that speak to their specific situations, explaining to them how that scripture pertains to them. I think it would be great to leave them little notes with the scriptures on them. To help them by encouraging them in the areas they are gifted at. With my efforts; my prayer is that they will understand that God started something in them before they were even born and through Him they can complete it.
John 15:5 (NLT) 5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.
I don’t take this lightly and also plan to pray about this so that God will give me ideas that will really resonate with their spirit and encourage them to seek Him even more. However, I also want to be careful not to cause them to be too prideful and think that what they accomplish is because of themselves. It is so important that we all learn that we are special and blessed, but also to understand that anything we accomplish or obtain is because of God and His hand on our lives!
I’ll also quickly say that the Family Prayer Board has had one of the biggest impacts on my family. It not only keeps us in prayer, but it’s teaching us to trust in God with and for everything. We have had many requests by family and friends to add prayers to it and have seen some answered already. God is so good and so worthy of all the praise!!
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