September Positivity Scripture Challenge Day 14

Hello friends! 

The month is almost gone but we are still plugging away at scripture and I hope you are learning and meditating on these verses this month.  I have enjoyed writing and digging into them with you all! 

Positivity Scripture Challenge Day 14 

“For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.””

Romans1:17NASB

As a believer and follower of Jesus, we are made righteous through the blood of Jesus Christ.  There is not anything in me that is good.  Jesus Christ makes me good. 

God is who we must learn about in order to know who we should be and how we can through faith grow.  I use to think since God saved me from sin, I didn’t have to worry about anything else.  I could just sit back and not really do anything else.  My faith would just be there.  My knowledge was still second hand from the Pastor.  My knowledge came from the world more than the Bible and as a result my faith was weak. 

I since have learned my faith can not grow without more knowledge of God than anything else.  I can not expect to know how to walk in faith if my faith is still only what others tell me.  

The Bible is for every one of us.  God expects us to learn and become His partner in growing our faith together. Today will you open the Word with me and pray that the Holy Spirit will fill us and help us to learn more about who God is?   

Blessings- 

Tracy 

September Positivity Scripture Challenge Day 2

Hello Friends!

This is day 2 of the September Scripture Challenge

Today’s positive verse: 

“The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, But the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.”

Proverbs 15:28 NASB

I have to remember this because my mouth sometimes wants to speak before I really have all the information.  

I have spoken harshly without thinking things through and it is sad that I have let that happen. God doesn’t want us to beat ourselves up but for us to be in tune to Him. Listening and being slow to speak. 

Let us speak in love not in our own authority but in God’s. 

What does He say about this before I start blurting out comments.

Ouch! Proverbs is full of wisdom for our daily walk.  Share your comments below and let me know how God’s Word is changing you.


Blessings -
Tracy

Jesus Follower is the only title I want!

Hey there friends! 

There is a lot of weight given to the number of followers you have in the world of influence online and I have to stop myself and remember these things often.

*Remember that follower of Jesus Christ is the only title I need in this world. .

*Remember who God is in my life .

*Remember His Word and power is where I can be strengthened to teach and share the gospel with others. It is Not the number of followers or the title someone has. It’s my spiritual growth and relationship with Jesus that matters. .

Who else needed to hear this? 

 I sure did because these past few weeks I have felt the pull of striving and I don’t want to strive for anything other than Jesus follower! Jesus is my future and hope! 

I would love for you guys to tag your bible study thoughts and notes on social with this tag 

#knitthegospelintoyourheart

Also the free bible study group on FB is starting a new Summer study of the women of the Bible

Join us here!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/177043056429871/?ref=share

  

How I read my Bible in a Year

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Hello there friends!

Last year I decided to read my Bible in a whole year. Yes one year. You see I had decided to do this many times in the past. I just had not gotten very far when I got behind a day or so. Then months went by and my daily reading the Bible was a thing of the past.  I would just resolve to try again next year.  I easily gave up but I realize now that I was giving up on God. I was giving up on something like spending time in the Word for the World even if I was "behind" according to these expectations I had set up for myself.

God doesn't care about a reading plan! This is a lesson I learned this year while doing this discipline which by the way is what it is. The spiritual discipline of reading our Bible daily.  We have to learn to do things in our Christian faith that doesn't come naturally like reading the Bible.  How else will we know what it says.  For some of us reading is not our favorite thing to do.  I actually enjoy reading when I actually stop doing other things and sit down and read.

So for me to dedicate time to read this year this is what it looked like :

1.  Set a time to read/spend time with God, set an alarm if you need to.  I would write this down in my planner so I would schedule the time and not forget.

2.  Gather your supplies for your reading time such as Bible, journal, planner, notebook and pens and place them where you can easily have them together.

3.  Prayer time before and after reading my Bible. This is so important and should come naturally while reading your Bible. Ask the Holy Spirit to illuminate the time spent in the Word because to be honest we wont understand everything or always know what is going on sometimes while reading. This is the beauty of the Bible. We can live a lifetime and never know everything in the Bible.


The last lesson is that you dont have to read the entire Bible in a year.  I do think we should at some point do it but do it at your own pace.  I also study slowly other books of the Bible if you follow along, you know that we have studied this past year 3 books of the Bible in   KNIT THE GOSPEL INTO YOUR HEART GROUP
Reading through the Bible this year has grown my intimacy with God so much this year.  The more you are with Gods Word the more of a desire He places in you to share Him with others.  I had not had that desire before and this year God has shown me He equips us for the work of ministry even when we doubt and have insecurities.

I will be doing this another year. In 2019 I will be reading through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation in the THE DAILY WALK  You can find all kinds of reading plans but I like using a Bible with dates and a guide for me to read as I go.  Last year I read through the Everyday with Jesus Bible
It was a really great one to read through because it read some from the OT, NT, Psalms and Proverbs everyday.

Here is my challenge to YOU!

Just start!

Just begin with me and so many others January 1st reading your Bible. It will change your life.   I wont tell you it will be easy to start something new if you have never done it before but I will tell you that God will show up in your life if you show for Him.

Let me know if you will be joining me again this year and we can encourage each other! I really enjoyed all the encouragement I received this year and I believe you will too once you join the community.  Share pics on social with the tag #bibleinayear so we can cheer each other on in 2019!

Blessings
tracy

Encouraging Tools for Brave Moms

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Hello friends!

This Sunday we will celebrate Mother's Day and I am not sure how many of you are mothers but you probably have a Mom who raised you right? Moms are brave because they are fighting the battle for our children.
Motherhood for me was something far off and never did I desire to be the mom. It wasnt until I married that I had the desire and maybe it was a combination of emotions at the time but my husband and I began our family very soon after our marriage. It is now that I can say that motherhood was a blessing. For years in the trenches of youngsters I couldnt have given you one bit of encouragement or advice I dont think. It was hard. It is with age comes wisdom in parenting.  Anyway motherhood was a gift from God. I realize not all women will be a mom like they hoped or maybe they have lost the baby they prayed for. We can still mother in so many ways.  If I know anything it is that God provides.
 It is with the strength of my Lord that I have raised my children, two adults and one teenager. I can not say a word with out praising God my Father for providing for us and loving us.  Prayer is the one tool not only moms use but we as believers must use it daily as well.
Our families are battle grounds for satans attacks so be on guard.  I thought I would share some of my favorite tools that maybe you can use to declare truth over your family as a mom.  And maybe you get an idea or two for gifting them :)



-Well Waterd Women 
 This is a company that believes as I do putting the Word before the world can change your day and life. It will be a practice that changes you for your family.  They have great free study resources as well as beautifull tools like my favorite prayer journal

-Find Wonderous Things
This company has my favorite bible tabs I use in my bible as well as beautiful journals and tools.  There are some free resources as well to encourage your heart. I love the declaring truth printable. 

-Risen Motherhood
This company of women is also an excellent resource for encouragemnt in the study of God's Word not only for you but teaching it to your children. If you have small children you will want to check them out! I love that they have free bible study guides HERE  You can use these to learn if your new to studying the bible. They have a podcast as well so you can get in some parenting encouragment during the day.

-Tokyo Blossom Boutique
This company is a fun boutique that creates cute and practical gifts for mom. Julie is the owner and she creates the cutest coffee cozies HERE and tote bags HERE  As a mom I use totes all the time and carrying all the coloring books and essentials to church. Moms need a tote.

Well I hope you found something helpful in some of these places I mentioned.  I would love to hear any resources you would like to share with me in the comments. 
I pray each of you have a blessed week celebrating you mom and family as a Brave Mom!

your sister in Christ,
trACy

Are you Praying BIG!

Hello Friends!

Gods word always changes my worry into worship. Hebrews 4:16 says come confidently to God and He will give us mercy and find grace in our time of need.

Are you praying in confidence to our Heavenly Father? He wants all of our heart, mind, and body and our Big Prayers to Him that if He isn't in that thing your praying for or about it will not work, be healed, or happen in our lives.  We have to give it all to Him in confident prayers.

PRAY BIG BRACELET
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My WHY 

I started creating bracelets that encourage women began about a year and a half ago when I needed to be encouraged during a season of life that felt like I was suffocating and drowning in the pit of parenting struggles with teenager. Have you felt that way before? Or maybe you are there now? I can tell you you are not alone friends. Prayer and God's Truth is where you can find an ever present help, always 💞 

His Word fed my soul and words just seemed to leap off the page and I wanted them to wear daily. So I began this dream to create bracelets using my God given talent, knitting and the need for scripture to be in front of me and you guys have blessed supporting me and more importantly God has used you guys to encourage me when I doubted in myself. 

So today I pray for the mother, sister, wife, friend and woman who needs to feed her faith and not the lies, pray big to our Heavenly Father. 

Grace to you friends!
trAcy