Johnnys Appleseed Outreach Ministries
an unconventional ministry
Ladies Corner of J.A.S.
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By a LADY and for ALL you ladies out there young and older alike !
PRAISE GOD FOR ALL YOU LADIES DO AND SACRIFICE.
How do you “HOLD” on to FAITH?
HOLDING ON TO FAITH
How do you “HOLD” on to FAITH?
I am learning how, even today as I write this, how to hold on to faith.
This is “hard” and yet “easy” to do. We need to “walk by faith”, “not by sight.”
When things look their worst, and all seems to have been lost, there is nothing left but a certain hope!
A “faith”!
This faith is what helps our spirits and hearts to KNOW things will work out.
Here is a good question many people have asked over the generations and passage of times.
“How do you, (get), or receive faith?
Many teachings and many opinions exist on the subject.
I have learned that the principle is so hard that it is easy to answer this question.
No need for a theological degree, years of bible study nor Bible College or school can explain this principle.
WHY? Because this is a principle from God’s Holy Spirit!
By reading God’s word and studying He communicates to us.
When He comes into our heart, His Holy Spirit imparts to us a “measure of faith” His word teaches. We only need to “believe” then accept this into our hearts.
There are a host of promises in HIS word, we need this faith to receive and believe them for our lives. This is how we "take ownership unto ourselves" GODS word, HIS promises to us!
We will learn then how to apply them into our lives by fellowship in HIS spirit.
HOW DOES FAITH WORK?
LEARNING HOW FAITH WORKS SEEMS VERY HARD.
Learning His principles seems to be hard, very hard to learn.
We must desire to “learn” faith.
You may “know” HIS grace, you may “know” HIS mercy but we need to “know” HIS faith gift to us in order to add this to the rest, creating the whole of HIS gifts to us for life.
We may “know” unconditional love, we may “know” understanding, but nevertheless,
we need to “know” faith with them.
We may have “wisdom” but we “need” faith.
With faith in our hearts we can say then to GOD to “return to us/me what was stolen”.
We can then ask for GOD to “heal our bodies”.
We can ask and know He will protect those we pray for.
We can ask Him to complete the tasks set before us by His spirit.
So all gifts and promises are completed with faith, for without it we only become clanging cymbals as written in God’s word in 1st Corinthians 13.
A Womans Journey
A mother’s heart
When she finds she is with child. She eats right and talks to her child growing inside her.
She does everything she can to give the child a healthy start in life. She loves the child so much.
When she feels the first kick it gives her a feeling of love and peace that her child is
Ok
.she goes through nine months of feeling like she is.... fat, and a whole lot of other things.
She goes into labor*****
And all the nine months is almost over of caring a child inside her.
She brings the new life into the world......
And she sees her son or daughter for the first time in life.
She counts toes and fingers******
She looks at the face and she loves the child even more than life itself!
She gets to take the child home to care for it.........
She feeds and changes it, gets up in the middle of the night to feed them.
She holds the child in her arms and sings
When they cannot sleep.
She tells it stories and rocks them.
Then all too soon they are crawling......they are walking ...talking and, finally...... going to school
She loves her child as they grow up. ***********
When they are little.... they think you know everything! As they grow up they feel like you know nothing!
As the years go by......then comes, jr.high ...............they find boys or girls they like and you go though the ups and downs of
Relationships and hopes and dreams they live with you and share.
Then high school comes........ And they change even more, they get to drive? ...... Get there first jobs,
Not just summer jobs but jobs after school and they save for a car. You try to help them make plans for college and getting a higher education.....
So that they will get good jobs and make a good living, so they can have a dream....... as you send them off to college....... you feel good about what you have done for them and with them and their accomplishments’.......
Sometimes it doesn't work that way.......... they go there own way anyhow ..........and you worry and fret that they are out there hurt ************ you pray to god for his protection for them always, no matter what! You have sleepless nights and bad dreams and you wonder where you went wrong?
No parent is perfect, they/We all make mistakes in raising children....... it's what you learn from those mistakes So that you can help your child not to make the same mistake you did.
sometimes the child goes another way and you find yourself a grandparent(MOMMA) before your child is out of high school so you help your child best you can financially and emotionally.
You see the dreams you had for your child go down the drain, or so it may seem for a season. But you can help the child still by sending them college or getting a good job.
To make the most of the situation is the most important part of who you are and they are.
As a mother you love your child any and all ways. In all the most important part is how you spend your time with your child
You talk to them and tell them no, they may get mad when you say no but they get over it. The child learns how to get what they want from you at an early age. They can pull you in so many directions sometimes you don't know what to do.
Some times I as a mother feel like they learn how to play head games with you when they are in the crib.
To get there own way. The child does not always know what is best for them......... so it is up to you to say yes or no but mean yes or mean no. when you change your mind it sends the child mixed signals.
Some times a child learns early in life if you can't get it out of mom go to dad and he will say yes!
That is when you need to be a united front with your child; ya know the ones you said earlier, you "love no matter what?”
Sometimes you play both a mom and a dad in the Childs life and you try your best to be both for your child.
It is hard on you and them. They seem to do things any way to see what you are going to do about them and you have to enforce what you say.
I know this is hard to do but, ****** “if you TRULY love your child then be there for them, and be wise as a serpent and gentle as the dove!
We all make mistakes so you do your best. I know I have made many mistakes along the way and you deal the best way with them that you can as you gain understanding.
In My heart I know that my child loves me and will do the right thing in the long run, as scripture promises, why? Because the prayer and love of a parent is the bond, the bridge for them to their GOD.
As they turn 18 the law says they are adults and they can do what they want.
That is the hardest age that can come! It tells who they truly are and how you have done at this all important time.
When they go out on their own you pray a lot.
You know you planted good seeds in them and you get to see when they use them as well as when they do not.
There are allot of drugs and drinking out there and you pray and hope that they don't fall into the wrong crowd.
The peer pressure is so great on them to do the wrong thing .............when they do the right things..... Praise them and trust them to do the right things.
When they do the wrong thing help them pick up the pieces and go on with their lives and pray that next time they will do the right thing. As a mother or a father it hurts when that child makes mistakes or does the wrong thing but you must forgive and go on with life and by so doing you rear the rewards of a fruitful life and family.
Written by...Sherry J. (a mothers heart)06