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Anything at all?

October 26, 2013
Anything at All?

There have been a number of times lately through quiet times where Christ has prompted me to ask Him. "LORD is there anything keeping me back from my relationship with YOU?" You can ask God questions you know. I believe this type can be some of His favorite to answer for us. He wants a deep intimate relationship with you. Like John the beloved, where you can come, lay your head on His breast and ask the questions in your heart and expect an answer ( John 13:21). I so desire to nurture this kind of friend of God/ beloved of God type of relationship with Him. I have heard some say that this type of intimacy with God is not respectful but I would counter that I can be intimate with my husband while being respectful. Are we not called to the high and holy calling of being the bride of Christ? Unfathomable I know, but God is all about relationship. His Holiness does tend to burn us into His likeness and that is the painful and beautiful part. The pain is always worth the weight of glory as we are transformed from glory into glory (2Cor 3:18). God wants us to enter with unveiled faces into His presence. We often wear shackles, unseen in the physical that God wants to reveal in the Spiritual. God open our eyes so we can walk and talk with you and nothing hinders us. Reveal if there is anything you want to release us from. Help us to come to the foot of the cross and release those things, anything to You so You Holy Spirit have free reign to do as You please. Anything at all Lord. We want to burn for you. No cost is too pricely for the treasure of You! - Crystal 

Posted by Crystal Jardine. Posted In : Becoming a woman of virtue 

 

Coming out of the closet

October 26, 2013
THIS IS ME !!!! 
Coming out of the closet !!!!!!! 

That is an interesting title, not just, because I am tired of hiding the embarrassing fact that I find certain issues for myself wrong. On the other hand, maybe it that I don’t want others to be offended by my personal opinion, to the point that they think I am judging them for their opposition, but from my closet to yours here it is! 
I Don’t Wear Pants!!! 
It has not always been so; actually, it was birthed in my heart at a bill Gothard seminar when I was 14. I thought skirts were romantic and my girlish heart embellished my whims as I sewed long beautiful country skirt so that I could walk through the long hay fields dreaming of my future life Mate. My prince to finally come and take me away And He did. My prince truly did come he came to train my horse prince, and seeing as we were city people in the country by the time my true prince came, Prince the horse was spoiled. I then no longer was I romancing my imagination but the heart of a true Young man. My skirt life tapered off to please his eyes in a world of visual competition, and I must admit, to make other girls jealous that “I had won the one they could not allure enough to bed down”, and to make guys think, “Man you’re a lucky guy to have caught that one”. I wanted my man to be proud of His mate, and proud to wear her on his arm, to feel he actually had something worth protecting. Then one day as we were out on a date I noticed men were looking at me, and not the way I liked. It did not make me feel beautiful it made me feel dirty and violated by the man's eyes. I had removed my ring to get it repaired, and could not even flash that, so I swiped Jeremy’s hoping it would help, then I switched sides of the table, then after a few dirty looks for my husband he finally left . Was I dressed immodestly? Not supper, I was wearing a slightly above the knee skirt and a blouse with heals. Did I look good Oh ya! So where is the problem?
Modesty is a matter of the heart 

Mark 7:19-21
New Living Translation (NLT)
19 Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)
20 And then he added, “It is what comes from inside that defiles you. 21 For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
With this verse said, It is not just what you wear that defiles you but the heart in which you were it .Were was my heart? 
I have seen many a modest woman, skirt, and head coverings, that pray only on there knees … All Good if that is what is in your heart. Then one day we showed up early unannounced, and she was wearing tights wow I thought, I don’t get this she is all-holy on Sundays, and in service, than on that visit, we had come, and she is normal. That is until supper. when it came time to pray she put on a skirt put on a veil and knelt to pray. All right now that I have stomped on some sacred cows! 
Here's the heart to heart ladies.
If you are truly modest, it is in your heart. That is wear modesty starts, it is a purifying of the inner woman to love, gentleness, and submission and when your heart is modest, your desires will follow.
Luke 11:34

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 
You cannot have a double image God does not desire sacrifice ,but a heart turned and submitted to doing His will whether, He has told you to wear skirt ,or even head covering or maybe your just not there. Let your heart be reflected with your appearance and not deceiving. If to skirts than let it be so with determination .But more importantly than your clothes, let our hearts be ever pure and modest, and not distracted by the things that matter to man 
1 Peter 3:1-4
Amplified Bible (AMP)
3 In like manner, you married women, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate yourselves as being secondary to and dependent on them, and adapt yourselves to them], so that even if any do not obey the Word [of God], they may be won over not by discussion but by the [godly] lives of their wives,
2 When they observe the pure and modest way in which you conduct yourselves, together with your[a]reverence [for your husband; you are to feel for him all that reverence includes: to respect, defer to, revere him—to honor, esteem, appreciate, prize, and, in the human sense, to adore him, that is, to admire, praise, be devoted to, deeply love, and enjoy your husband].
3 Let not yours be the [merely] external adorning with [elaborate][b]interweaving and knotting of the hair, the wearing of jewelry, or changes of clothes;
4 But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God.

So that being said, I am no longer skirting the subject of My modesty, and if one day God presses it into your heart to let your skirt down and trail through the long grasses with me, than we shall indulge our romances together. But until than may you find true modesty of a heart submitted to the Father and not just that of your apparel –  melody 

Posted by Melody Willment. Posted In : Modesty a personal perspective 

 

Shaping little minds

October 26, 2013
I just Love this time of year buying new school supplies, planning their achievement goals for the year then enjoying teaching them, and watching them feast on the knowledge. Moreover, seeing the fruits of my labors bring a yield of learning love into their fertile hearts. It is a passion, and you know what it all started in kindergarten for me, where my own fertile heart was plowed and planted for the future that God planned for me. I still love my first kindergarten teacher and strangely enough, I would say we are knit in spirit and a life long bond of friendship. 
It was at this tender age that the love for learning and teaching children was en-grafted in me .She fascinated me with her creativity and love. It is this passion to teach that still calls me away from chores, calls me to take a few moments to till the little hearts God has gifted to my teaching. My favorite age of teaching is kindergarten to grade 2 I suppose that is why my kids always wanted to dive into school far before their due date as harmony is in grade 3 @7 and Josiah started recognizing words at 2 and is now in kindergarten at 3 and reading three letter words . My mother also nurtured my love for teaching before I ever started school as she had an under two daycare and loved teaching them incredible things like being able to verbalize and recognize composers like Mozart and Bach just by sound ,she fascinated me . So now, I teach weather we are grocery shopping walking through a park or butchering sheep it is a passion and I love it! 

Posted by Jeremy & Melody Willment. Posted In : Home schooling 

 
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Melody (Belcher) Willment God has blessed me with a wonderful husband and the blessing of carrying and cherishing 11 children,4 of whom he keeps for me in his arm as treasure in heaven. I am a Author and writer of both adult Christian material, and children stories .I home school my children, and work along side my husband in full time ministry, and seek earnestly, to be a truly virtuous woman who has arose and embraced her calling. To mentor younger women and one day be called blesses In the eyes of My heavenly father ,my husband and children. Prov.31:28

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Crystal-Ann (Belcher) Jardine I'm a mother of three beautiful children ages seven,nine, and ten. As well as homeschooling and teaching music lessons God has enabled me to serve in a variety of ways in my local church. I especially love women's ministry and worship! One of the visions God has put on my heart is to see the bride of Christ drawn to love her Bridegroom more passionately and to purify herself for Him alone. He is so worthy of our utmost attention. Loving him in all we do and walking in His presence daily. I love the acrostic LORD: Love, Obey, Rely on Him, Daily. That is my calling and passion as I seek to bring The MOST WORTHY ONE glory!" Crystal-Ann Jardine

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Rosemary Belcher Rosemary Jean (Ronnlund) Belcher Is the Loving Wife, Mother of 6 Children all serving the Lord through ,music, preaching, teaching and servitude. She has a incredible heart for women and children. She has always been My mentor and teacher along with many a young girl, in her search for purpose. She is a gifted teacher,Author & writer And truly is worthy of being called blessed -Written By her daughter