Dear Mothers. Good Morning to you. Oh Happy Day! I think it is such a healing to have happiness in our homes. To get about our Father's Business. To cook, to wash, to sew.
We have been writing on the email about raising our children and not letting one rebellious child take over the family and ruin the Joy in the Home. The little ones need us and they want Mama to be happy and to play games and sing and have fun. And yet one rebellious child can just ruin the Joy and peace of the home. And as Mothers, we have husbands who come home from work who need our Joy and our cheer. Our husbands often face many trials at work and need to have a quiet place to come home to. So it's Mother in the Home who more or less runs the show by herself when Papa is at work.
Oh, we live in a wicked age. And yet our need for a quiet, loving home is still so needed. Mother has to trust in the Lord. She must remain in submission to her husband. She needs to run the home according to how she knows her husband would want her to.
The virtuous woman is a woman who will trust in God and keep her peace. She is strong enough to keep her home running in order, even though hell is goin' on around her. She has to pray as she goes. As she cooks and bakes and sews, she has to just trust in the Lord.
I speak in tongues and pray over my children. I go about the house as I do my work and call down the glory over my house. I call out to Jesus and pray the blood of Jesus over my children. I get their pictures and lay a picture of Jesus over the top. Saying to me that Jesus is doing a work, even when I have forgotten the whole thing. I don't have any anointing oil here at the house. But I take cooking oil and rub it on the frame of the children's pictures and I pray an anointing over them. My children have been raised with many godly family friends praying over them. God fearing people love our family and they pray with us over my children.
And ya know, often when I pray, I say, "Lord, I probably ain't prayin' right." My grief and confusion makes me pray in ways that no Christian book I have ever read would promote. A lot of my prayin' is "Lord help me Jesus!" But I guess I pray enough of it right, as He hears me and answers my prayers.
This evening, as I prayed, the Lord said, "Yes, things get bad but the devil can only go so far and no further." As in the life of Job and in our lives, the devil can't go beyond where God would allow. We as Mothers are tested and tried, yet we stand under His wings of victory.
As I write this morning, I look up at an old fashioned plaque on my wall. It reads He Careth for You. Be not afraid. "Only Believe!" Let's walk today in the power of the Holy Spirit, and only believe and trust in Him. Let's honour Him by our trust and faith in Him. Let's make happy homes, as happiness is the oil that runs the home and keeps it moving smooth.
I know it's hard, dear brokenhearted Mothers. Been there and done that. But God hears your prayers and He will answer them. You will see victory upon your children. I have seen much heartache in my family but many more victories.
Happiness and Joy
The Bible says, "Happy is the man (woman) who trusts in the Lord." When Queen of Sheba came to see King Solomon's temple, she noticed how happy the king's servants were. Solomon had wisdom and built the temple with wisdom. I am sure he had problems as we do today. But the Queen noticed that everyone was so happy. 1 Kings 10:8. And the Bible goes on to say that the King built his temple with wisdom.
Only wisdom can build our homes and make them happy. Read Proverbs starting with the first chapter where it talks about wisdom. We as mothers have to build our homes with wisdom. Exalt wisdom and she will promote you. We mothers need the wisdom of God beyond the natural realm or the flesh realm. Reading the right book or listening to the right tape isn't going to always help you. You must seek the wisdom of God to run your homes as Solomon did. The wise woman builds her home.
We must walk in faith. When your son isn't home on time, well, ya wanna sit and cry. But what would Wisdom do? Ask her -- she will tell you what to do. Proverbs says she speaks to us as mothers. She has a voice. Ask her what to do. She may say go wash the dishes and make a happy home. The strange woman is out there and she has a very obvious voice and the whole world listens to her and obeys her. She speaks to women in their soul. "Go get a job and leave this popsicle stand. No one is listening to you, anyway." Yes, Jezebel has a voice and we hear her voice as we go about. She is the voice of fear and panic. One that says to give up -- the problem is tooo big. But the voice of wisdom is a voice of love and Joy and peace.
The wise woman is strong and full of moral strength. She doesn't fall when the other mothers do. She is strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
See, the voice of fear is not the truth. The voice of peace that tells you that all is well, that God is in control? This is the truth. And as you walk in this truth and faith, then God can work and answer your prayers. As a believing Mother, all of your children will be taught of the Lord and great will be their peace. They will have peace and know the Lord. See, Satan hangs himself as he causes us to worry because then we pray the worry off and bless our children. Satan calls us to worry and to fret and to fear. And we need to nip him in the bud.
If you don't know about doing spiritual warfare for your children, then, Girlfriend, ya better learn how? You get in there and battle in prayer until you have a peace about the situation. You get scriptures out and memorize them and renew your mind. You cast down vain imaginations and all that exalts itself above the knowledge of God.
Don't let the devil condemn your children to you. If they have done wrong, they have done it under the wings of the Lord. He knows they did it. Sometimes ya don't know if your child is lying or not, but God was there and He knows. Let God punish the child, as He knows the problem. I mean, some things are obvious and you would spank the child. But so many times, you don't know the story. And tryin' to get it out of the kids is like pullin' teeth. So give it up to Jesus. If the child isn't doin' right, then sometimes the child will be used to directly come against the mother. Not that the child wanted this. But because the child is in rebellion and full of evil works, then the devil will use the child to hurt the praying mother with fear or some other work of Satan. The child that is full of rebellion may try to straighten up but can't, as the mother is godly and the child is used to keep the mother from goin' on in the Lord. But if the Mother will get strong and not pay any attention to the rebel child, then the devil will stop messin' with the Mother.
Our John nearly drove me nuts. I mean, we were watching the 10:00 News on TV one night? And on the TV someone had taken a movie picture of John flippin' a car over on the highway. Hello?
Spiritual Battles
Ya know, when I first began to homeschool, I was always under the gun. John just drove me nuts. He would go to the store and not come back for a month or so. I am not kidding. But I knew it was the devil tryin' to get me to say "Uncle." I finally just let him go and I quit worryin' about it. He would have killed me with worry, for sure. And I would see people come up missin' on TV and their loved ones would be handin' out fliers, etc. The devil would say to me, "Well, ain't you a nice mother -- you don't even go look for John." Well, Jim and I had spent years lookin' for John.
One day I just said "Forget it." Then John would call from another state and tell us that Mexicans were shootin' at him with guns. I would say, "Well, I can't help it, John, you can always come home, ya know?" Well, hell, that wudda been too easy, ya know? And then he would show up and try to borrow a thousand dollars. "Where am I to get a thousand dollars, John?" Oh, that kid was beyond me.
Christian Joy tried to get him to live with her and we all tried everything to get John to knock it off, but he didn't wanna. Now, at 30, he tells me, "Mom, I don't know why I did all that stuff." Well, I know why! Because I was one of the first homeschoolers to live in our city. And the devil wanted to persecute me and try to get me to quit homeschooling.
I am always stickin' my stupid head up where it don't belong and gettin' it whacked off. And ever since I said anything about starting a Revolution, it's been nothing but Hell. Well, no, I guess the devil don't like it.
I mean, we as Christians, if we are worth anything, will be persecuted. But we can't give up. And the devil is trying to stop some of you from homeschooling by using a rebellious child. But ya just gotta pay the kid no mind. I mean, do what you need to do as a loving mom but don't let the kid run the house and break you down.
Ya know, many of you mothers on here really mean business with God or you wouldn't be on here. This is not your fly by night group where we only talk about cooking tips and recipes. The homeschooling movement is the largest growing Christian movement in the world. And the News Media, for the most part, ignores it. As if the public schools are just fine. But there is an underlying power goin' on with homeschool. God is raising up many boys and girls for Himself. And the devil hates it and wants you to give up and throw the kids back in the street.
See, we have promises from God but we have to pray them in. Some of you mothers right now are raising children that will be mighty warriors for Jesus. How many unborn fetuses at the garbage dump would have been like Billy Graham or John the Baptist. Mothers who were not strong for Jesus have killed many Prophets and Handmaidens of the Lord. Lady preachers have encouraged them to do it. But we as wise Mothers must be strong in God and not allow a rebellious child who has demons all over him to ruin our homes and families.
Demons sometimes will attach themselves to a child at public school and they bring the demons home to the family. We love our kids and so we will do anything in the world to see them set free. But if a child is ruining the whole house and is old enough to leave, then let him go. I let John go and he came back to me with such love and devotion.
One time he got put in jail. And we said, "Well, good, that's where he should be." He called and begged us to pay his bond and let him out. We told him, "No, you deserve it." Well, what does he do? He calls all of our Christian friends and tells them that he is in jail over traffic tickets and we, as his parents, were so mean and wouldn't get him out. I am homeschooling and John was homeschooled for 2 years. So I look like the village idiot. Oh, yeah, homeschooling works? How I ever homeschooled for 15 years is beyond me. Our Christian friends would call after John had called from the jail and say, "Well, we will pay the bond if you want us to."
But ya know, I looked like the biggest idiot that ever homeschooled. Of course, while John was in jail, he called my mom and dad and even asked them to pay his bond. My folks were very against homeschooling to begin with. My mom thought I didn't want to send the kids to public school because I couldn't afford a pencil. The neighbor lady said that I didn't want to send them to school as I didn't want to get up in the morning. Actually, I was often up at 4:00 in the morning praying before I got the kids up at 6:00 for school. I worked so hard with homeschooling. And I did well and my children always tested out as being way ahead in their grades. David, in Math, was 2 years into college. But, oh, the persecution.
