BLESSING YOUR CHILDREN, an oldie!

This post was done three years ago..

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Proverbs 31:27

I love starting my week with My Walk Mondays and ending my week with Fearless Friday's. I thank God for His leading me to participate with Scrapping Servant on her Meme, and for God's leading me to start my own with Fearless Friday Meme's.

I will be sharing a YouTube video later of how I blessed my daugther Shaneah yesterday.

I love the Proverbs 31 Woman. She is a wealth of wisdom, encouragement, vision, focus, dedication, blessing and love. Some may find her very overwhelming, something that is too far above their reach. She has become my heart's cry, my inspiration of the woman I desire to be in God's hands.

I was like the Proverbs 31 Woman, watching the affairs of my household. The only difference between her and I though was I DID eat the bread of idleness.

There was a time, not too long ago I may add, that my laundry would be spilling out onto the floor from the laundry basket that was in the hallway. That was about 12 to 15 loads of laundry right there that I allowed to accumulate.

Yesterday I cleaned Shaneah's room. It took me about an hour and a half. I was OVERWHELMED. I wanted to give up so many times. I wanted to break down and cry. I wanted to go back to bed and lay around. I wanted to cut corners, just do a surface cleaning (who would know right?). I wanted to give up. I wanted to spend my day being idle.

My spirit would well up within me, reminding me that I am blessing my daugther, that I was not only watching over the affairs of my household but I was not being idle either. I went through her clothes, her toys, her drawers and cleaned out items that were too small, broken, not being used. I found two pieces of clothing that STILL had price tags on them! I added these items into a gift bag for a birthday party Shaneah attended yesterday.

As I stated above, I will share the video that I made after I cleaned her room.

God has really been ministering to my spirit to love my family passionately, to do them good all the days of their lives.

I remember when I would find something that, say my husband didn't put away properly, I would leave it there, either waiting to see how long it would take for him to finally put it away, or start nagging him to put it away. We would have HUGE stinkin fights over this I may add. I the martyr, would be so justified by my actions, who did my family think I was, their slave, their maid, a door matttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!! I DON'T THINK SO!! bla bla bla bla bla!

Same with my own children. My thoughts were, "I have to teach them to clean up after themselves, they need to have discipline, they can't be growing up to be slobs", etc. Well I sure was not teaching in love, I will tell you that. My household was run in martrydom!

Thank God He hasn't left me this way!! Thank God for the Holy Spirit working in my life and helping me, intereceding on my behalf, counselling me and strengthening me to be a godly woman, one that believes the best and does the best for her family (or aspires too, instead of the crumbs I would hand out).

Jesus came to serve.

Oh how my flesh has a hard time with that one. Serve..come one,,I was born to BE SERVED!! That's what I thought for a long time..lol. Blush!!

So I begin praying, "Father God, give me a servant's heart, help me to have a love that believes the best of those around her and to bless them with the best I can offer".

Thy Kingdom come on earth Father God as it is in Heaven.

amen amen amen

Part one

PART TWO:

BLESSING YOUR CHILDREN, an oldie!

http://www.freespirithaven.com/2012/01/blessings-your-children-oldie.html