- Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I consecrated you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5 MKJV) God's word says that even before babies are formed in the womb, God knows them!! This little one is a wonderful gift from God! I feel so privileged to have had a small glimpse of who God already knows, and even now, I can feel my heart bursting with love for them.
- Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD; And the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth. Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate. (Psalms 127:3-5 ASV)
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
A True Miracle!!
I am so blessed to have witnessed a miracle today. I was able to meet my new Grand-baby via ultrasound! They are a God given blessing from our Heavenly Father and they are truly loved!
Thursday, 14 April 2011
The Power of One Vote! April 2011
The power of PRAYER. God really touched my heart on this issue a few years back. I had been praying during a federal election and our local riding was coming close to the finish line. Then God gave me the picture of a child's toy.... a kaleidoscope.
The toy was in God's hands and as He shook the kaleidoscope, a whole new picture was created. Then God really showed me how HE could shake things up during an election.
Within the space of half an hour, one of our local candidates (who had been leading and had even accepted the win), was displaced and a rival candidate had won the election. It was a whole new picture for our riding. Just like a kaleidoscope in God's Hands, it only took one shake of His Mighty Hand, and
HE HAD CHANGED THE OUTCOME OF OUR ELECTION.
I know that the Kings are in the Hands of our Heavenly Father... The best gift we can give Canada is to PRAY. May God's perfect will prevail during this election. AMEN!!
Deliberations from Deb's Den...
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Prayer
Today's note on my perpetual calendar goes like this:"In my view... the greatest need is for husbands to begin guiding their families, rather than pouring every physical and emotional resource into the mere acquisition of money." James Dobson: From Straight Talk to Men and Their Wives, Page 64.
I have come to see this as one of the major factors in the struggle with rebellion in the youth at this time. I read a poll back in c2002 that said that 40% of children grow up in homes without a father. Separation, divorce, pride are all factors in this. And then their mothers work full time to pay even the basic bills. The opportunities for sharing quality family time together seems less and less.
Who is raising our children? I work as the administrator in a Christian daycare and I can see where today's children are being "institutionalized." Babies and toddlers in childcare, pre-school, earlier kindergarten ages, "Latch Key" kids... Don't get me wrong; our teachers at Little Lambs Christian Daycare are of the highest quality; nurturing and caring women who go above and beyond the call of duty to love these little lambs into the Kingdom of God. However, I also recognize that this is still not God's highest for these children.
Luke 1:17 says that "He shall... turn the hearts of the fathers to the children." God knows the answer to the problem... and He SHALL work in the heart of FATHERS!!!!
I had been reading the October Newsletter from Covenant Keepers where women are there to pray and call forth MEN who would become intercessors to stand in the gap. Husbands and fathers who are called to pray and become watchmen on the walls. (Isa 63:6) In Jeremiah 9:17-21 the LORD calls the mourning women: skillful wailing women, to pray so that repentance might come to the men… “that our eyes may run with tears and our eyelids gush with water.” Women must fulfill that
call and pray for more men (their husbands and the fathers to their children) to take their rightful positions as heads of households,and to become the Watchmen on the Walls. Not just to pour all their resources into making money, but to protect their families from the attacks of the enemy!!!
I had my heart transformed by this Covenant Keepers article… it was such an eye opener on how to pray into rebellion in our youth. The writer calls it simply the “outer manifestation of a broken heart.” Divorce between parents produces a brokenness in the Spiritual “One Flesh” unity…. It produces broken hearts in our children and teens that many times results in open rebellion.
Rebellion is also a sign of lost respect for authority, and children often lose respect for their parents who are unfaithful in marriage and not true to their promises and their words. This is characterized by rebellion to authority in schools and in the work place.. and ultimately in the cities, provinces and in the nation...
How wonderful it would be for men to see the need of their children for quality "Family Time." How valuable it would be for men to work on their relationships with their wives, so that marriage and divorce would not be an option... "NO BACK DOOR!! from day one of the marriage."
The best avenue to acquiring this... PRAYER.
Women, cry out that our men will get back up on "The Wall" and intercede for our families as only they can!!
I have come to see this as one of the major factors in the struggle with rebellion in the youth at this time. I read a poll back in c2002 that said that 40% of children grow up in homes without a father. Separation, divorce, pride are all factors in this. And then their mothers work full time to pay even the basic bills. The opportunities for sharing quality family time together seems less and less.
Who is raising our children? I work as the administrator in a Christian daycare and I can see where today's children are being "institutionalized." Babies and toddlers in childcare, pre-school, earlier kindergarten ages, "Latch Key" kids... Don't get me wrong; our teachers at Little Lambs Christian Daycare are of the highest quality; nurturing and caring women who go above and beyond the call of duty to love these little lambs into the Kingdom of God. However, I also recognize that this is still not God's highest for these children.
Luke 1:17 says that "He shall... turn the hearts of the fathers to the children." God knows the answer to the problem... and He SHALL work in the heart of FATHERS!!!!
I had been reading the October Newsletter from Covenant Keepers where women are there to pray and call forth MEN who would become intercessors to stand in the gap. Husbands and fathers who are called to pray and become watchmen on the walls. (Isa 63:6) In Jeremiah 9:17-21 the LORD calls the mourning women: skillful wailing women, to pray so that repentance might come to the men… “that our eyes may run with tears and our eyelids gush with water.” Women must fulfill that
call and pray for more men (their husbands and the fathers to their children) to take their rightful positions as heads of households,and to become the Watchmen on the Walls. Not just to pour all their resources into making money, but to protect their families from the attacks of the enemy!!! I had my heart transformed by this Covenant Keepers article… it was such an eye opener on how to pray into rebellion in our youth. The writer calls it simply the “outer manifestation of a broken heart.” Divorce between parents produces a brokenness in the Spiritual “One Flesh” unity…. It produces broken hearts in our children and teens that many times results in open rebellion.
Rebellion is also a sign of lost respect for authority, and children often lose respect for their parents who are unfaithful in marriage and not true to their promises and their words. This is characterized by rebellion to authority in schools and in the work place.. and ultimately in the cities, provinces and in the nation...
How wonderful it would be for men to see the need of their children for quality "Family Time." How valuable it would be for men to work on their relationships with their wives, so that marriage and divorce would not be an option... "NO BACK DOOR!! from day one of the marriage."
The best avenue to acquiring this... PRAYER.
Women, cry out that our men will get back up on "The Wall" and intercede for our families as only they can!!
LORD, men would die in wars past for our freedom and liberty... make men aware of this same need to lay down their lives for their families now... and battle and intercede in prayer.
Women pray that men would answer their calling to be "Watchmen on the walls" protecting their families from the attacks of the enemy!
AMEN!
Deliberations from Deb's Den
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