I was in the livng room praying and thought of what Emily Dickenson wrote about closing the door on the world and making your own society. There is a lot of power in closing the door on the world.

Ya know, the men are to run the country and the politics. We have to forget the world and do what God has called us to do. He hasn’t called us to take care of this world. He has called us to take care of our husbands and our homes. He has called us to learn of Him in our places as Keepers at Home. If we are worried about the world’s sins, etc., we can’t care for the children properly. We can’t submit to our husbands.

Our homes are to be our world, our own society. By faith, you can see yourself in a little cabin in the woods. You don’t have to bounce off from the world and their wickedness. Our society seems to be in such a turmoil. What has this to do with us? Our country is not trying to help the family out. Yet we can be a blessing to our country by being good examples to the folks around us. We can show the Christian folks about us how to walk in faith and how to mind the business God has given us to mind. The home is not the extention of the world.

Our homes are to make the rules for the country. In years past, as mother has left the home, our society has fallen head long into every kind of evil. We have lost the Mothers of our Nation. Now as a country, we seem to have no one to sooth us or create peace for us. Winston Churchill said, “If we want to change our nation, begin by enlisting the mothers.” It takes Good Mothers to change a Nation. Our nation will be changed according to Mothers’ Hearts. Keep your hearts pure, dear Mothers, for out of your heart is the issues of life. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

So many of we wives have wooed our husbands by our prayers to righteousness. It seems in the home the mother is the keeper of the morals. Sometimes we are more spiritual than our men. Not always, no. Yet, generally, Mother is more sensitive to the children and has a more sympathetic heart. And our Nation is like a big home and yet, for the most part, Mother has abandoned her post.

Yet we Christian Mothers are as little lights of obedience. Little promises of something greater. As we stand in obedience to God and light up a little place in God, we will grow. And as our little lights get brighter and brighter and blend with the lights of other obedient housewives, then we will make a light to be seen in our country. Somehow through our obedience we can have a voice. Not maybe in my lifetime … but soon. It’s coming, dear Hearts, it’s coming. Leaving the children at home to carry signs of protest ain’t gonna do it. Watching the enemy on tv isn’t going to change our Nation. Disobedience and rebellion against God on tv isn’t going to help you to understand anything. No, this country is so out of the move of God that it will take more than an act of the flesh to change it.

Mother, as you wash the dishes and care for the baby you are changing the nation one day at a time. As you are obedient to fix breakfast and forgive your husband and scrub the floors, you are helping to change your world. By the obedience of One many are made righteous. Jesus was obedient on the Cross and changed His world. His followers thought that He had failed as He died at Calvery. They couldn’t understand that such a simple act of obedience could change the world … and yet it did.

I never dreamed that my simple acts of obedience as a young wife and mother would later speak to hundreds. Yet, had I not been obedient in the tough places, I couldn’t be here at my email today encouraging all of you to not give up. I just kept on doing the dishes and sweeping the floor and being obedient in the tough places. This is how to change your world, as Christ did.

Ya know, this stuff I am writing is the most important writing I will ever do. It is telling you how to cross the river of hope and into the realm of faith.

Before I met Dixie, I knew about faith, but I didn’t know how to walk it out. And ya gotta know how to live by faith.

So Dixie I talked the faith. After I got to know her, I said “Well, you don’t know what I have been through.” Jim wasn’t healed yet and I was mighty tired of believin’ God. And Dixie, she said she believed God for Jim.

And I said “Well, a lot of folks have believed with me and I am worse off than when we started 10 years ago.” I felt so forsaken of God. I was so bone weary of believing God and never seeing an answer.

And Dixie would tell me, “Connie? Jim is healed.”

I wanted to run over Dixie with a truck. I kept explaining, “You don’t understand. Many have believed with me and nothing has happened.”

She would say to me, “Connie, quit confessing defeat. Proclaim that your husband is healed and set free.” And I would try, but I felt so defeated from years of battles.

And then here would come Dixie with baby clothes and a play pen to give me. She said “Connie, get out your maternity clothes and put them on. God is gonna give you more babies.” Well, I had 3 children and I figured I wouldn’t have anymore. And, ya know, I would go upstairs and I would look through that box of baby clothes. I would look at the little undershirts and fold them and refold them. Jim was gone and I was alone with my 3 children.

I cried and cried out to God in prayer, “Lord can You heal Jim?” And, of course, the Lord did heal my husband. And I went on to have 3 more children. But I had to walk by faith, always confessing the word over my family.

Now, you all can do that, too, and see the miracles of God. But you can’t keep saying the same thing over and over and reliving the past over and over. If you want a new future, you have to see it in your mind.

It is not God’s will that your husband die as an unbeliever, or that you bore children fuel for hell. It is God’s will that you take unto your soul strength and courage. It is His will that you glorify Him in this life.

You must quit speaking the past and the defeats of the past and begin to proclaim the future victories in Christ. Refuse to be another statistic of divorce. But don’t go after your husband and try to fix him. Go after the Lord God and His word. And don’t just read it … walk it out … be it. Be Sarah or Mary. Act out the faith of God.

Noah built a ship on dry land and told everyone rain was to fall out of the sky and the earth would flood. No one beleived him but his family. And Noah didn’t wait to build an ark when he saw the rain come. He built the ark on dry land. And we must build our homes on dry land in the wilderness.

We must fight the good fight of faith and not let Satan have our minds and our mouths. Satan will say, “Well, you are stupid. Why make a home for a husband who is drunk all the time and will never amount to anything?” Well, I will tell ya why. It’s because God rewards those who are diligently seeking Him.

And faith is something you don’t see but it has substance — and can move mountains. We can’t see the wind but we know it is there as it blows our hair and we feel it on our skin. Faith in a home moves hearts and causes them to get in line with God.

• Learn to walk by faith and not sight.
• Learn the word of God and count on His promises to take you through.
• Quit listening to this and that counselor that has told you that your marriage is hopeless.
• Get up off your bed of sorrow and make a home in your wilderness. Create a fruitful land — a spiritual land of milk and honey.
• Let yor spirit soar to places in God where miracles reside.
• Let go of the past and dream of a new and wonderful life in Christ.
• Seek the wisdom of God and be the wise woman who builds her house upon the rock.

You must seek wisdom to find her. And if you want her with all of your heart, then you will find her.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Do you fear God or do you fear your reputation will be ruined more than you fear God?

Are you goin’ out to find a job so that your close friends and relatives will think better of you? Even though you know the Lord has called you to be Keeper at Home?

If friends and relatives are intimidating you and pushing you to do things and you do it — then you won’t find the wisdom of God. You can’t find His wisdom until His word means more to you than the words of your relatives and friends.

If you are easily intimidated and you fear man — then you won’t find wisdom. You must be pulled and intimidated by the Holy Spirit and His words.

If you can’t forgive your enemies — then you won’t get wisdom. Your enemies and the things they have done against you cannot move you to sin. You may feel angry at them but the fear of the Lord has to be the stronger emotion. The fear of God has to be the passion above all other passions that leads you.

And if you can’t live on your husband’s income, and can’t live the humble life because of the fear of your neighbors and their low opinion of you — then, Darlin’, you will never know the wisdom of God.

The door to Wisdom is the lowly door and you must bow your heart to enter it.

Oh, yes, in the end, wisdom will produce the silver and gold, and you will have respect and power. And your enemies will be ashamed. But if you chase the gold and the power, you will never find the wisdom of God.

If you will exalt wisdom, then she will exalt you. As you put the cross before you and the world behind you, you will find eternal life.

Jesus died upon the cross to pay for your sins. He gave His life. Nothing less would do. He gave His life that you would have an eternal life in heaven that will last forever. And His sheep are asked to give their lives for Him. Nothing less will do. As we give up our lives and our fleshly wants, we find our lives anew.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.