The Successful Woman

Culture paints the successful woman with a briefcase in her hand, a smart suit, with an admirable six figure income stepping on anyone who gets in her way.

But the truly successful woman has a deeper understanding of her calling for wisdom is her guide, the fruits of the spirit is her instructor and her rewards are of eternal significance, not just temporal. She knows that:

1. A woman’s foremost responsibility is in the home, making a success of marriage and family and therefore give her best to those she loves--by doing this she brings glory to God.

2. A woman can best serve her Lord and her country by rearing a successful family--but notice that I did not say a perfect family. Success translates into serving and respecting her husband the best that she can and nurturing disciples that will share God's word with the world.

3. The best workshop for training children in moral and spiritual values is in the home. The mother is the master teacher and she must  work diligently to train them. While this looks different in every home, every master teacher understands that her home is the nursery of civilization--what is taught here is forever imprinted upon the soul to affect thousands, if not millions, with either good or evil.

4. It requires the very best of a woman’s mental capacity to be an ideal wife and raise a successful family so she gives her all to the sacred work that lies in front of her. It is indeed her life's work. She pours into everyone all that she has, she is strategic, she makes the most of every opportunity and she works late into the night and rising early to meet the new day.

5.. A woman’s glory is the esteem of her husband, the training of her children, and the overall success in the ordering and managing of her home and in that she fulfills her duties to the Lord. While she will never have perfected these things she is always working on improving them--she knows her work is a process.

As you begin your week, align your priorities with God. Start on your knees as you ask Him for wisdom and strength and blessings on the fruit of your hands.

And as you pour your all in every aspect of your home from helping your husband to educating your children do not grow weary but know that this is God's good and perfect will for you and He will strengthen and lead you through the sacredness and beauty of it all.

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Relevant Conference

I have been asked to speak at the Relevant Conference:




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I am not sure if I will yet, but please keep me in prayer while our family prays about this!

Also, if you are in the area, have you thought about attending?

Here are the speakers they have lined up so far.

Maybe I'll see you there! :)



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Children With An Outward Focus

Narcissism runs rampant in our culture---unfortunately we are so entrenched that we don't realize just how much our lives are inwardly focused. Not only that, but we teach our children those very same values unwittingly. I was thinking about that the other day and here are a couple ideas I thought of that would help to steer the children's minds into having a more outward focus---

We will be thinking MISSIONALLY---we are planning to use a map and write out all the different countries that we see, pull their names from a jar and we will pray for people to get saved in this country, that God will send out missionaries there and relieve those that are being persecuted and suffering for Him.

We are also going to start 'prayer-walking' the neighborhood. I have done some of this already but recently I have been taking Janai on my walks with me for discipleship purposes. We will have to take time out of our exciting conversation to pray for those lost in our area.
We'd like to be a blessing to our neighbors. We will probably try our hand at some baking/desserts to bless them with. I am also throwing around the idea of a block party to get to know everyone----has anyone ever done this? I'd like to hear your ideas.

And here's something me and the children have been planning all week which I think is totally exciting: They will be supporting Christian organizations throughout the world financially and through prayer. Here is an example...

Stephen, 8, loves Billy Graham---last year he sent him a birthday card and they sent him back various materials on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Stephen sent some of his hard-earned dollars to this ministry and began supporting them. They in turn sent back materials on how to pray, etc. Stephen prizes all the things he gets in the mail from 'Billy Graham' and often reviews them and copies verses from there in his copywork binder. He knows he is impacting the world through supporting this ministry. We have just gotten wind that James MacDonald's 'Walk In the Word' radio ministry is in need of financial help. Stephen wants to support that as well.



Janai, 15, recently got to meet local distributor's of 'Voice of the Martyrs' magazine. We now receive them and have been inspired by stories brimming over of terrible persecution of the saints all around the world. She loves reading the stories to our family out loud. Our family wholeheartedly agrees that this ministry is worth supporting.



Naomi, 10, loves reading Above Rubies magazines---a ministry devoted to encouraging mothers. She is going to support this ministry that has been pivotal even in her own mother's life. Although, she must admit that she is having a tough time deciding because she would also like to support Vision Forum, who focus on resurrecting the Biblical family.



Ravi, 7, wants to support Acts 29, an international church-planting ministry. I am so excited about this one---just think---my little Ravi, having a hand in church planting all around the world!!!! Does it get any more exciting than this? It probably does, but right now, that really stirs my heart as a mother.



See, mothers, our children can already make a huge difference in the world. They do not have to wait until they are twenty to begin an outward focus. We must teach them when they are young. They must see that there is more to the world than just their comforts and recreation. They must be challenged to stretch and grow and love their neighbors---and to have compassion on those they will never meet. This is how we raise the next generation for Christ--by teaching them to look outward unto their brothers and see their burdens as their own.