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Trust and Obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey - Biblical Truths to instill into my Grandchildren

Instilling Biblical Truths into My Grandchildren – Trust and Obey = Gods’ Blessings

Trust and Obey is a life long learning experience for all of us! Why is it so hard to do this sometimes? We’ve obeyed God’s voice (affiliate link) and seen Him do marvelous things. Suddenly something new comes along and this time we fail to obey. God’s Word can be summed up in these three word: […]

Jesus will never leave you and never disappoint you

Instilling Biblical Truths Into My Grandchildren – Jesus will NEVER Leave You

It’s so simple and it will never change. You can always depend on the Lord. Jesus will always be there and He will never disappoint you. So gently and often remind your grandchildren that Jesus is there. Isaish 41:10 Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I […]

Desire the Word of God more than anything even more than much fine gold!

Instilling Biblical Truths Into My Grandchildren – What is your Greatest Desire?

What’s your greatest desire? Money? Fame? Fun? Happiness? Friends? All of the mentioned and more? What would you put on the list? There is one great desire that we all ought to have and I want my grandchildren to realize it while they are young. How thrilled I was when I received a gold ring or […]

You can serve the Lord at any age. It doesn't matter how young or old you are.

Instilling Biblical Truths Into My Grandchildren – You can serve the Lord at any age

Serve the Lord! No matter how young or how old you are, spend your days in service for the Lord. This is just a simple truth, but one that we all need to be reminded of. I often hear my grandchildren say, Can I help? Can I do it? Can I wash dishes? Can I […]

God has a special purpose and plan for each life no matter how young or old

Instilling Biblical Truths Into My Grandchildren – God has a special purpose for you

Purpose in life is most likely something that every human being desires. The devil is good at telling lies and even as I enter my old age, he continually lies to me and tells me I don’t have any purpose in life. Lies lies lies! The devil is the master of lies. The TRUTH […]

Instilling Biblical Truths into my Grandchildren – Wisdom comes from Knowing God’s Word – Free Printable

Wisdom was a characteristic of my dad; in fact he was one of the wisest persons I knew. I looked forward to spending time with him as a little girl and on into adulthood. One of my favorite things to do was ride along with him when he was working. (He spent a lot of […]

Instilling Biblical Truths into my Grandchildren – The fool hath said in his heart there is no God

Can you remember times when you were told, that’s a foolish thing to do? Or why did you do something so foolish or silly? We’ve all had those times. There have been many foolish and silly things I did in my life which I wish I could go back and undo, but that’s not going […]

All Life is for God's Glory - biblical truths to instill in your grandchildren

Instilling Biblical Truths Into My Grandchildren – All Life is for God’s Glory

All life is for God’s glory. Instill this into the minds of your grandchildren. God Himself, the one who wrote the Bible, is the only one worthy of our glory. In the Bible, it is obvious, that everything and everyone should bring glory to God. Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to […]

Teach your Children and Grandchildren that the Bible should be their sole authority for life

Instilling Biblical Truths Into My Grandchildren – The Bible is Your Sole Authority for Life

The sole authority for anyone’s life ought to be the Bible and this is something I need to instill into my grandchildren’s hearts. The Bible is where truth comes from. I need to tell them over and over that God’s Word is truth and it is where we should get final answers for our lives. […]

What biblical truths are you instilling into the lives of your grandchildren?

Instilling Biblical Truths Into My Grandchildren – Introduction

Here is a challenge which I needed for my own life – that is the challenge of what truths (Here’s One!) do I really want to instill into the lives of my grandchildren? The only real source of truth is God’s Word. He is truth and it is from His Word I must draw these truths […]

Mail

Who doesn’t love to get mail? Well, mail that is personal anyway and has good news and is encouraging. I know I love it, whether, snail mail, email, or even text messages. It is always nice to hear from a friend or loved one. Did you know that Jesus sent us a love letter and […]

Path – Which one are you on?

All of us are on a path. Some are on the path of life and some are on the path that leads to destruction. There are no other paths. Which one are you on? As I take part in Five Minute Friday this week, these were my thoughts: Are you on the straight and narrow […]

7 Ways To Help A Fellow Believer In Prison

Do you know someone in bonds? Do you have a loved one or a friend living out a sentence in Prison? Perhaps they are even there unjustly. Or maybe, in time past, they were not living right or didn’t know the Lord and therefore got caught in situations that have now caused them to suffer the […]

Lift – Lift Up Others

LIFT – Oh how I want to be lifted to higher heights. One day I will be lifted from this earth of sin and go into the highest place ever. Heaven is waiting for me. How about you? This song came to mind today as I took part in Five Minute Friday where the word […]

9 Lessons – Israelites at War With Amalek

Recently, I wrote about lessons on the Rock of Horeb. The war with the Amalekites is in the same chapter right after Israel received water from the rock. There were very many more lessons to learn from this very chapter as I went on to study the Israelites war with the Amalekites. It seems throughout […]

7 Lessons from the Rock of Horeb

How exciting it was as I studied a Sunday School Lesson for children on the Rock of Horeb. (Exodus 17) It is thrilling to see Jesus all throughout the Bible and the many spiritual applications that one can make to his own life. Below are seven lessons that stood out to me while I was studying […]

Happy-Are You Truly Happy?

Psalms 144:15 . . . yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD. This verse came to mind as I thought about the word happy. For one to be truly happy He must know the Lord and be yielded to His will. Note: You may find affiliate links associated with this post. Read […]

10 Lessons Grandma learned from the Littles

This grandma was privileged to go on an outing with a couple of her grand littles this past week. It is amazing what lessons can be learned from these special times together. Note: Affiliate Links are associated with this post – Disclosure Here “Grandma, you never got me anything for my K5 graduation!” said K. […]

Hidden

What do you think of when you think of the word Hidden? Have you hidden the Word of God in your heart today? When I think of hiding something, it goes into a secret place. What is hidden in the secret places of your heart? Is it worldly pleasures or is it setting […]

7 Inspiring Lessons from the Life of Mary

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is such a godly example to all of us! There are so many things we can learn from her life before the birth of Jesus. It is obvious that Mary loved God with all her heart and desired to serve Him according to His will and not her own. As […]

Help

Well, I’m a little late with Five Minute Friday, but I still wanted to join in as this word has been on my mind. I am so glad I can call on the Lord Jesus to help me. For without Him we can do nothing. Help Lord for the godly man ceaseth Psalms 12:1 Help, […]

Christian, Are You Living By Jesus’ Example?

Christian, Are you living by Jesus’ Example for it is the best way to live your Christian Life? One could never tell all the lessons that we can learn from the life of Jesus because there are so many. As I was reading and studying my Bible in Luke 4, I was simply amazed at […]

Build – Who is building your house?

When I looked at the topic for Five Minute Friday, I found that the word was build. I remembered that I had done a post a while back called What Kind of House are you building which fit right in with the topic for today. Right away I also thought about the verse that says, Except the […]

22 Blessings from Trusting God According to Proverbs 3

Blessings from the Lord is something that probably everyone would desire? Don’t we all love to be blessed? What a wonderful thing to know that the blessing of the Lord is upon you! God’s Word says: Oh, how rich we are when we are blessed of the Lord! While reading Proverbs 3, there were […]

Protect – Under His Wings

Protect is the word chosen for this week’s Five Minute Friday. This is the second week I have joined in for this little challenge and it is kind of fun. So set your timer for five minutes and start writing. Protect Lord, please protect us on the road, please protect us in this activity, please […]

Inner City Ministry – What do you take for granted?

What a joy to have received enough donations to take a group of inner city children to camp for a week. Wilds Camp Here We Come! Our Privilege What a privilege to take 18 children to The Wilds who would otherwise never have been able to a end if it had not been for the […]

10 Great Ways to Meditate On God’s Word

Meditating on God’s Word is something every child of God ought to do and yet I know I don’t do it nearly enough. So many times I have had my devotions and then walked away not even remembering what I learned from God’s Word that day. Sometimes there are just too many obstacles in the […]

Why won’t the Lord answer my prayers?

Why won’t the Lord answer my prayers? Maybe you have fervently prayed about something, but it seems as if God is not hearing or He just won’t answer. Are there times when God doesn’t answer? I was reading a devotional by Charles Stanley and he pointed out some very good reasons why He doesn’t […]

What can blind Bartimaeus teach us about Salvation?

How the story of Blind Bartamaeus teaches us how to be Saved

The story of Blind Bartamaeus teaches us how to be saved. This is yet another precious picture of how to get saved. Yes, the story is wonderful, because Jesus heard the cry of this blind man and called Bartimaeus to him and healed him. God’s Word says in Mark 7:37 . . . He hath done all things well: he maketh […]

Five Significant Lessons from the life of Hannah

5 Significant lessons from the life of Hannah

How Can I Give the LORD Glory?

Psalms 96:8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name. . . To whom do you give glory? Glory and Honor belong only to the Lord. But what are some ways that we can give the Lord the glory and honor that are due Him? How can I Give the Lord glory? Psalm […]

The Model Couple

The Model Couple – who do you think that is? There are probably several, but perhaps the ultimate model couple in the Bible is Joseph and Mary. Do you know someone who has fallen in love and is now planning a wedding? Perhaps someone you know wants counsel about entering into an intimate relationship. Why not […]

The Holy Spirit is the Gift of Gifts – 35 Reasons Why

The Holy Spirit is a wonderful gift from God. As Wesley states, “the Holy Spirit is the best of gifts and that which includes every good gift. “Our heavenly Father wants to give us the good gift of the Holy Spirit and all that goes with it. But, first and foremost, you must have had […]

Prayer – 10 Prompts for Saturday

How’s Your Prayer Life? Are You entering into your prayer closet daily? Why is it that prayer often seems the hardest thing to do? It really should be quite an easy thing to do. After all, we get to spend time with the King of Kings! We don’t have to ask permission to enter […]

How to be Truly Satisfied with Life

Satisfied with life is something that probably everyone craves. People want satisfaction. At least I know I do. There have been days that I keep thinking, what is wrong? Why do I feel so yucky? I try to think what it is that is bothering me and can’t seem to come to any conclusions. Maybe […]

10 Choices That Will Make You Successful - Are you making the right choices in life that will make your successful?

Ten Choices That Will Make Your Life Successful

Do you want to make choices that will make you successful? You Can. We all can. So how does one make choices that make you successful? Everyday life is made up of choices. There are simple choices and more serious choices that we need to make on a daily basis. Just like Moses, you can […]

HE IS ABLE!

He is able! God is able! Yes, He is able – I am not able, but He is! What a wonderful glorious thought and truth. When we think we cannot do it, then we can realize that God is able! God Is Able God was able to do all of the following: Joseph – He […]

Help send an underprivileged child to camp

Inner City Ministry – Is this the ministry for you?

If you think inner city ministry is for you then I hope you will read the following letter: Dear Christian Friend, Just this week I was out in a neighborhood at night visiting a young man to whom we’ve been preaching Christ for over two years. It was the kind of neighborhood that most […]

What if you do these following things? For if you do, then God will do so many wonderful things for you.

What If? What if you do these following things?

What If? Oh how I want to shout out these truths to my grandchildren. What if you do these following things? For if you do, then God will do so many wonderful things for you. Have you read the ifs in Proverbs 2, followed by the thens? What if? What if they will just […]

Inner City Ministry – An often unlovely ministry – can you love the unlovely?

My husband and I have been privileged to work with my son in an inner city ministry. When interviewing my son, who leads this inner city ministry, here are some important “Please dos” he mentions to those who think they may be called to work in an inner city ministry. Really, this is true if you want to […]

12 Things That Are Definitely God’s Will For Your Life

God’s Will for your Life – What is it? God’s will is all throughout the Bible for the believer. If we are spending time with Him on a daily basis, then He continuously points out His will to us. 12 THINGS THAT ARE DEFINITELY GOD’S WILL FOR YOUR LIFEIn Ephesians 5 and 6 you can […]

New Hobby for 2016-Really? I Never Would Have Guessed!

My new hobby for this year is ….. Can you guess? This new hobby is certainly not one that I would have chosen. But sometimes the Lord has a way of choosing things for you. 🙂 What is your hobby? Do you have a new hobby for the year? I would love to hear how […]

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