Challenge begins 4/16…
I Choose Wisdom – Declarations of Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs
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...draw people into the inspired, dynamic, life-changing Word of God, so that His Word can be implanted into their hearts.Love Dare for Families
I am very excited about this challenge! Putting a twist on the popular "Love Dare" book from the movie Fireproof, join me as we walk through a love dare for FAMILIES.
On Facebook, and also on Twitter! @LoveDareFam
31 Days to Clean
I will be posting the Mary and Martha challenges here daily.
You can also join us on Facebook as we work through this challenge together.
Don't have a copy? Buy the book here.21 Days of Prayer for Children Challenge
We really enjoyed this challenge. In June we focused on sons. I enjoyed this so much, we did this again in September - but for sons and daughters. Grab your copy now! or view the challenge here.
True Woman Makeover Challenge
Praying Proverbs 31 – Prayers for a Daughter’s Virtue
We walked through nine weeks of daily prayers for our daughters using Tracy Glockle's book, Praying Proverbs 31 - Prayers for a Daughter's Virtue. Read my intro post here or buy the book here. Join our Facebook page here.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
The Love Dare for Families – Begins October 3rd!
We had plans to do the 40-day Love Dare for marriages – but I feel led to tweak them so they can be used for the whole family. Kristen mentioned she had done this with her family, and has graciously offered her notes to share with us. Love Dare for Families will be starting Monday, October 3rd. I will publish each day’s portion here on Well-Watered Garden, at 5am, for you early birds For your convenience, I created a Love Dare for Families Facebook page where I will be sharing the link to the portion for the day sometime mid-morning. We also have a Twitter account – @LoveDareFam so you can get notifications that way, too. Finally, we have an RSS feed you can subscribe to so you will get an e-mail as soon as the portion is posted. I look forward to doing this challenge with you! Shared on: Women Living Well.
21 Days of Prayer for Our Children: Humility, Day 21
Day 21: Humility
Encouragement from Brooke:
I chose humility as our last day’s topic because it is such an amazing posture of the heart. Scripture just seems to scream God’s favor over those who are humble in heart. James 4:10 says that if we’re humble before the Lord, He will lift us up. 1 Peter 5:6 says that if we humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God He will exalt us. Most importantly, in Psalm 149:4 we find that it is the humble who are adorned with salvation. Do you show humility before your sons? Pray and ask the Lord for specific ways you can show humility today so that when the time comes, your sons will know how to show it, too.
“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” Ephesians 4:2 Continue reading
Coming up next…The Love Dare
We’ve done a challenge for ourselves, for our children, and now I want to focus on our marriage. Beginning October 3rd, I will be posting an excerpt from the book The Love Dare as a challenge for strengthening your marriage. You can also use this as an opportunity for strengthening your relationship with other family members – consider this another version of random acts of kindness! However you choose to implement this challenge, I hope you will join us! I will be posting the challenges here, as well as on our Facebook page.
The Story of God and Man – and the winners are…
We have been so blessed in using this wonderful tool.
I hope that if you were not a winner, you would consider purchasing a copy to use in your home – you won’t regret it!
I used random.org to pick the winners. Here’s what they came up with: Continue reading
21 Days of Prayer for Our Children: Salvation, Day 20
Day 20: Salvation
Encouragement from Brooke: Day after day you will parent, intentionally seeking the heart of your son. But until the King of kings and Lord of lords turns his heart of stone to a heart of flesh, your son’s actions will be motivated by what is pleasing to him, rather than what is pleasing to the Lord. Everything hinges on this.
“Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9 Continue reading
21 Days of Prayer for Our Children: Anger, Day 19
Day 19: Anger
Encouragement from Brooke:
So much of the Christian life is a choice. Every day (multiple times a day) we’re presented with a choice to choose God or choose ourselves. Anger is a perfect example. You can just feel it coming, can’t you? Anger is an almost total body experience. Muscles get tight. Temples throb. Jew clenches. Explosion feels imminent…wooing us into believing we have no choice but to react. But it’s not true. We almost always have a choice when it comes to anger. We can choose to embrace it and sin. Or choose to put it away, and instead choose kindness, self-control, compassion, and love.
“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.” Ephesians 4:31 Continue reading
21 Days of Prayer for Our Children: Self-Control, Day 18
Day 18: Self-Control
Encouragement from Brooke:
I wonder, out loud, how he could possibly want to choose discipline over joyful obedience. After days of willful rebellion from two little men, I’m spend and I cannot understand in that moment why ANYONE would choose this chaos – this misery – when simple obedience would change everything. Don’t they know the sweetness that would be theirs if they would just obey? The choice to love Him begins from the beginning…hearts made to worship Him…choose Him. Hearts that left to themselves will choose our own way every time. How can I expect my little ones to choose the good all the time when their own mama, a Jesus-follower for over 20 years, still gets it wrong? Grace. Grace. And more grace. And choosing to love Him more.
“So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31
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21 Days of Prayer for Our Children: Gentleness, Day 17
Day 17: Gentleness
Encouragement from Brooke:
Personally, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with aggression. I don’t want to break my sons of their aggressive streak and I’m learning not to be afraid of it. But I do want to teach them how and when to use it. I’m beginning to think that gentleness is more of an approach to life than a specific characteristic to develop. Since they were born, we’ve whispered these words into our sons’ ears: God made men to protect women and care for them…Your job is to protect your little brother, not hurt him. There’s a time to play and a time to listen…God wants you to use your strength to protect, not to hurt. Superhero’s don’t look for fights, but they will fight to protect others. It’s OK to want to be the best, but the best people in life are the ones who serve others. A gentle word turns away wrath…
“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” James 3:17 Continue reading
21 Days of Prayer for Our Children: Faithfulness, Day 16
Day 16: Faithfulness
Encouragement from Brooke:
What I want to talk about…what I want to pray about today…is that our sons would be faithful to God. Doesn’t this one prayer bring with it the solution to everything else we could talk about? A man whose first love is Jesus, will be faithful in all of the areas above [this is just an excerpt, this refers to faithful husbands, men faithful at providing a home, etc.]. He won’t be perfect, but he will possess the ability to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to be faithful. It is something worth praying for.
“Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness…” Joshua 24:14 Continue reading
Beginning the day declaring truth and promises from God’s word will strengthen your family’s spirit. Speaking the Word aloud with our children is the greatest blessing we can give them. 
Discover and experience God’s design and calling for your life! Join me as we walk through Nancy DeMoss’ True Woman Makeover series.
The Word of God is opened up to me in such depth with the amplified version. I like that I have the NASB right there as well. So blessed!
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