Find refreshment for your heart, home and life
Hello Friends!
Please forgive my absence this week – our internet didn’t get set up earlier this week as we hoped. I have missed being able to blog this week, but I’ve had fun getting settled in the new home the Lord has graciously given us!
I’ll be back as soon as we’re online!
With love,
What a wonderful and very full week and a half this has been! We have moved out of two houses (my MIL’s and ours), moved into ours, gotten partially settled in, gone to The Wilds to speak for Family camp, cleaned the parsonage to ready it for selling, and then added all the other regular routines of ministry and life into those busy days. But you know what? It’s been so great! Our hearts are rejoicing in God’s goodness to us.
Last week while I was unpacking, I came across a little decorative plate that came from my Grandma. On it is written:
We’re still working on getting our internet set up out here in the country, so I don’t have a typical Monday post for you. However, I’d like to take this opportunity to let you know that my oldest daughter, Whitney, is launching her blog today! You’ll find her blogging about all the things she loves at Come Home For Comfort. Be sure to stop by and tell her I sent you!
I’ll catch you (hopefully) tomorrow!
Has your marriage reaped any of the fruit from your encouragement? Keep at it! You’ll see it come in due time.
This Sunday when you head to church, give your pastor some verbal encouragement. Tell him you’re praying for him. Tell him what you’re asking God to do in his life. Tell him you appreciate him!
Pastor’s Encouragment: Ask God to protect your pastor’s marriage and keep it strong as a model of Christ’s relationship with the Church. Pray that your pastor will tenderly cherish and lead his wife, and that she will respect and encourage her husband, submitting to his leadership. Eph. 5:23-33
Husband’s Encouragement: Tell your family why you love your husband. Do you praise your husband to his relatives and yours? Does your husband’s mother know how much you love him? How about your dad? Perhaps you can drop a word of praise into a conversation or letter. Be creative in letting your relatives know that you respect your husband, love him, and support him—in spite of whatever flaws and weaknesses he may have.
Keep working at your marriage every single day!
See you in church!
Be refreshed,
Now for today’s Pastor and Husband Encouragement:
Pastor’s Encouragement: Pray that your pastor will counsel and teach with discernment through the wise use of Scripture and faith in god’s power to work. Pray that he will be protected from the effects of sinful or negative attitudes that he encounters as he counsels. Mal. 2:7; James 1:5,6
Husband’s Encouragement: Praise his servant’s heart. Maybe your husband’s not a handyman, but does he run errands for you? Let you go first? Take care of you when you are sick? Help you make decisions? Praise him for his willingness to serve others. Let him know that you see his unique service as a great strength
With love,
RefreshHer 