Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. Hebrews 4:1

Busyness is an effective thief of joy during the holiday season.  We simply spend too much of our time running from one party to another, tramping through malls looking to finish our gift lists, and trying to remember who we still owe a Christmas card to.  The final result is exhaustion, disappointment, and often irritability.  If we’re not careful, exhaustion enters our marriage.  We begin to snipe, argue, or just ignore the other person in plain indifference.

There are practical steps you can take to break the cycle of busyness, overcommitment, and holiday burnout.  Create  margin for the two of you in order to sp end unhurried time together.  Limit your engagements.  Say no to some invitations.  Don’t leave everything to the last minute.  Most important, decide as a couple to spend time together in the presence of God.  Sit down and read Scripture to each other.  Listen to soothing and uplifting music that celebrates Christ’s birth.  Rather than go shopping, use the time to pray in an
unhurried fashion.  God rest ye merry spouses.

We were making last-minute preparations when we heard a loud knock at the front door. Another interruption, we thought as we trudged toward the door. When we opened the door, we were greeted by two delivery men from Sears.

“Will you sign for this?” one of the men asked as he shoved a clipboard my way.

“Sure, what is it?”

“A freezer,” he answered.

“We didn’t order a freezer.”

“Someone did,” he said. With that, he and his burly partner pushed past me and wheeled a full-length deep freeze up the steep steps and into our church.

As we studied the invoice, we discovered a sister church had purchased the appliance for us. That’s strange, we thought. They never told us it was coming.

Our minds returned to the Thanksgiving dinner. Within a few hours, the first flakes of snow started coming down. In Minnesota in late November, that can mean anything from a dusting to three-foot snow drifts. On this particular day, it meant the worst. By 4:00 p.m., the flakes had turned into a major-league blizzard. The timing couldn’t have been worse. By that late hour, all the food for our dinner had been prepared—a dozen turkeys, nearly a hundred pounds of mashed potatoes, and scores of piping-hot pies.

But we had no one to eat any of it. All our food and effort was about to go to waste.

That’s when we remembered the gift we had received only hours earlier. We wrapped the food and carried it upstairs to our new storage freezer. One week later we held the postponed dinner and served a hot Thanksgiving meal to a church packed with grateful neighbors and needy friends.

Looking back, we realize we received more than an appliance from a department store that day. We received a postcard from God.

What’s a postcard from God? It’s one of those providential, serendipitous events that appear in our lives, marriage and family—a reminder that God has not forgotten us. For us, it’s like receiving a short note that reads, “Dear Cheryl and Bob, I was thinking of you today. Just thought I’d let you know. Love, Your heavenly Father.”

The ways in which he sends these timely postcards are as unpredictable as they are amazing. The net effect seems always the same: to encourage and strengthen us, often when we need it the most.

POSTSCRIPTS
Piles of unwanted junk mail are delivered daily.  As catalogs, sales brochures, newspapers, and a host of other materials accumulate on our desks, our goal is to dispose of the piles as quickly as possible. In the same way, our lives and schedules can become cluttered with carpools, shopping, taking care of kids, committee meetings, weekly deadlines, and urgent calls to make. Our goal can become simply to get through the day.

In the midst of sorting through such clutter, it’s easy to overlook the simple notes our heavenly Father sends to remind us of his love. When we take the time to sort through “coincidences” of my life, we discover simple but much-needed messages reminding us, “I love you. I haven’t forgotten you.”

Signed, Your God.

About the Authors:
Bob and Cheryl Moeller are marriage conference speakers and authors (as well as columnists for cwahd and cwahd). Learn more at www.marriagevine.com
Cheryl’s latest book is Baby Saves Christmas, written with daughter Melissa,
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- Walter Seward

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If you’re a husband, it’s a good exercise from time to time to try and follow your wife’s schedule for a day. If she works an outside job, you’ll quickly realize that household chores don’t just disappear because she’s put in eight hours at an office. If she works primarily at home, you’ll soon discover how many roles she’s expected to play in just one day: banker, nutritionist, counselor, interior decorator, chauffeur, educator, and the list goes on and on.

Yet a wife’s work often goes unnoticed or unrecognized. Ingratitude is wrong, if not sinful. So what are two ways to express true appreciation for all the work your wife does on behalf of your marriage and family?

1. Praise her for her resourcefulness. In any given day, wives solve numerous difficulties, problems, and crises. Ask what dilemmas she faced that day, then praise her for her ingenuity and resourcefulness in solving them.

2. Notice the small things. As you walk through the house, notice all that’s orderly. Imagine the state of affairs if you had to manage everything. Thank her for the small things she does each day to make life so much better and easier for the two of you.

—Bob Moeller
www.forkeepsconference.com

Marriage Minutes, Moody Press

If you really loved me, you’d know what I was feeling.” “If I have to tell you what I’m thinking, I won’t do it.”

Have you ever said things like that to each other? It’s not uncommon for hurting spouses to expect their mates to know exactly what they’re feeling and why. It’s also very unrealistic. The truth is we can’t read each other’s minds. (Would you really want anyone to have complete access to your mental data files?)

The apostle Paul offers a wonderful alternative to the impossible task of reading minds: speaking the truth in love. He tells us to “put away all falsehood and ‘tell your neighbor the truth.’”

When we’re upset with our wife we should quit expecting our spouse to read our mind. Instead, we should say something like, “Dear, when you walked ahead of me through the mall, I felt unimportant to you.” Or, “when you criticized how I painted the eves, I felt unappreciated.” That will end the guessing game and let the reconciliation begin in your marriage. So what’s on your mind today?

—Bob Moeller
www.forkeepsconference.com

Adapted from: Marriage Minutes (Moody Press)

Wayne found a 1926 Star Coupe in a garage. Because this car had not been driven for 65 years, it had deteriorated immensely.    It took 20 years searching for replacement original parts, replacing rotten out wood frame work with new hard wood, carved and shaped for the roof structure.

Many hours of work has paid off, the 1926 car runs like it did 82 years ago when it was new! I know it takes time to build a home-based business. However, I also know it will not take 20 years to make a very good profit when you have the right tools. When you have the right system to follow.

The production of the Star automobile only lasted two years. Like many other car manufacturers of that era, it ceased to be. Why did this car manufacturer fail when Ford prospered? Ford used and followed a system. Like Ford your home business will only prosper when you follow a proven system.

Systems are the keys to a life of prosperity and abundance.

Now you too can enjoy life as much as Wayne and Sheila enjoy their 1926  Antique Car, a 1926 Star Coupe. Did you click on the link to see their car?

I don’t know about you – but my story could be this.

I get up early, 5 am before most of the world gets turned on. Before God turns the lights on, outside! I have plans, I have a project scheduled to do before the world wakens.

Coffee is perking, I turn my computer on, the project to work on is on my desk, which is also giving a yawn and waking up to the smell of coffee.

Distraction.

My computer tells me there is an important email from a colleague. Read it now. I do. He has given me a link to another website I really need to review – now. I do.

Distraction.

It is now 9 am, time for another cup of coffee. And to make my wife her breakfast cup of tea. She loves her cup of tea while doing the bathroom getting ready for the day stuff a wife does.

Distraction.

It is now 9:45 am – must finish up the project that my colleague directed me to before he calls me about 11 am to review.

My personal to do project is patiently sitting on my desk taking another stretch and smiling knowing that sooner or much later I will get to her.

Distraction.

An hour with my colleague on his project well that was not the plan for today. However, it was important.

Distraction.

Noon and I always eat lunch right at 12 noon. Never a minute late either.

This day is going by quickly and really so far all I have accomplished were the Distractions.

Distraction

Afternoon, Oh, the ballgame is getting started. This is a very important game this season. I know I have a priority project sitting on my desk ….. but…….

A Distraction is always a distraction.

My success is following a system and being focused on “this one thing I do”.

Life quickly passes by – with Distractions unless I make certain that PRIORITIES supersedes the Distractions.

The apostle Paul once found himself in a terrifying storm at sea in a ship filled with criminals,
mutinous sailors, and ruthless Roman soldiers. The sailors were about to abandon ship,
the soldiers were about to spear all the prisoners, and the boat seemed about to break up
like a matchbox underneath a truck tire. The despair and gloom on that ship was so thick
you could cut it with a chain saw and stack it.

Notice Paul’s response. He told everyone to keep up their courage because God had assured
him no one would drown. Why did Paul, at this time a prisoner, get a word from God when no
one else did? Because he belonged to God.

Can you say that? Can you say that your marriage and children belongs to the heavenly Father?
If so, you are a servant of God. And if you are His servant, you have every reason to be filled
with hope for this coming year. Not sure? Get on your knees and trust your lives, marriage,
and children to Him today.

By Bob Moeller
You can check out Bob Moeller’s books and conferences at www.forkeepsconference.com

You have heard it said. Get involved in network marketing and “fire your boss”, work for yourself and make more money. We all have that dream. Oh to be self-employed and get rich!

That is a dream.

The reality is this.

Yes, do add a second stream of income working from home.

At the same time Do NOT fire your boss. Keep your present job.

Those who are accumulating wealth say this:

“I am working full time at my job –

and part-time on my fortune”

You see, your full time job pays the mortgage, car payments

and normal household living expenses.

Your part-time working from home income will build your

fortune when you invest that income to accumulate wealth.

Investing your part-time income into your mortgage, paying it down;

paying off other debts then investing into other real estate etc

will create for you a fortune in a few years.

The prudent and wise person will not “fire their boss”.

What if… the part-time income from home does not work out?

What if…. you need the benefits that “the boss” provides?

The prudent and wise person will keep his job

until the commission checks from working at home income

doubles the job income for at least six months.

“Wages make you a living

Profits make you a fortune” - Jim Rohn

Be wise in choosing a home based business.

Work with a company that has long term (more than 5 years)

integrity and a proven track record.

Who are the principals of the company?

What do they know about working from home?

- Walter

http://www.zoom4Cash.com

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What is the Secret to a life of Abundance and Prosperity?

Is there a secret? Is there a plan?

God’s ability to meet any need. That is prosperity.

However, it is conditional.

1. Meditating and delighting on His laws, His Word day and night.

2. By being a generous giver. Principle of sowing and reaping.

My life of abundance and prosperity ( A&P) is limited only by

my capacity to receive from God His unlimited abundance.

Prosperity is my ability to use God’s ability to meet any need.

The 4 keys to increasing my capacity for abundance are:

1. My ability. What am I capable to manage well?

What are my skills and talents? How responsible am I?

a) My passions. What am I passionate about? What do I love to do?

What excites me? What things do I naturally pursue?

b) What are my skills or talents? What strengths do other

people see in me?

c) What are my values? What is really important to me?

Is there something that I would risk my life for?

d) What was I born to do?

God is the holder of it all, of everything. He created it all.

I just get to hold some of this for a while.

How much I am entrusted with and how much I get to hold is

dependant upon by capacity, my trust worthiness and my dependability.

2. My resources.

As I increase my value to others, my prosperity will increase.

Leaders are readers. Therefore as I become educated through books and CD’s,

doing something each day to increase my personal value – my ability

for a life of abundance and prosperity also increases.

3. My attitude. My attitude comes from my self-image, the person I think I am.

I am of much greater value to others when I see myself as God sees me.

My attitude determines my altitude suggested Earl Nightengale.

How I feel about myself determines the impact I have on those around me.

My attitude also determines what I will do and be.

Phil 4.13 “I can do all things……”

4. My Stewardship. My capacity to hold and be responsible for

what God provides me. Am I trust worthy and dependable?

Abundance is the result of having something of value that others want.

Prosperity is the result of increasing my value (my personal worth to others)

Stewardship involves doing. Faith + Action = Results.

Stewardship involves responsible giving.

Stewardship involves managing the increase that follows.

Abilities + Resources + Attitudes + Stewardship = my capacity.

- Walter

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walter@waltseward.com

* excerpts from “Greatest Secret” by Ron McIntosh.

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The Law of Attraction is Ask, Believe, and Receive.

Why is it that the law of attraction seems to work for some

people and not for others?

What are the three keys to results and law of attraction?

1. Ask. To ask means to want or desire something

for which I am willing to sacrifice. It is asking specifically

for something. It is to be razor focused on my desire.

One reason I do not receive what I want (desire) is because

I have not determined my God-given goals with clarity.

I must know what I want.

When I am focused and know precisely what I want (desire)

then I will recognize the people and the books that will

provide the information I need to make receiving happen.

Desire means “to long, wish for, want or crave.”

Psa 37.4 “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will

give you the d e s i r e s of your heart”

2. Believe. To believe means to “ take as truth or real”.

The law of belief is “what I believe in my heart with

conviction becomes my reality”.

Why is belief so difficult?

Is it that I don’t have enough faith?

My belief (faith) is negated because it is mixed

with unbeliefs. Unbeliefs that were taught me

as a child by parents or in school. Now my mind is

confused between what I believe and what I want to believe.

Comments were made such as: “This is our ‘lot in life’”,

“don’t try this”, “don’t try that” “money does not grow

on trees”.

It is like having two ropes to pull a heavy object.

I am not successful in moving the heavy object, not

because it is too heavy, but because I have one rope

tied to opposite ends and pulling in opposite directions.

My faith (belief) is negated by my unbelief.

What I believe (expect) in my heart with conviction becomes

my self-fulfilling prophecy.

What I believe becomes my reality.

3. Receive. When I know the truth of what God desires for me,

I need to accept and take action towards my convictions

and my priorities and follow through with action.

When I ask, knowing what I want (desire),

and believe, God will give me the direction and strategy

to bring my desires to arrive.

Now that I have asked, believed and received,

I need to be thankful and thank God for His truth and

provision.

My continual attitude of thanksgiving will keep me

from being distracted by any unbelief.

I possess the faith (belief) to be productive

and to receive a life of abundance God intended for me.

The law of attraction is Ask, Believe, and Receive.

Adapted from “The Greatest Secret” by Ron McIntosh

Walter Seward.

]]> http://cwahd.com/wordpress/2008/07/14/law-of-attraction-is-ask-believe-and-receive/feed/ 0 http://cwahd.com/wordpress/2008/06/05/one-reason-behind-trouble-in-our-marriage-might-be-pride/ http://cwahd.com/wordpress/2008/06/05/one-reason-behind-trouble-in-our-marriage-might-be-pride/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:45:17 +0000 cwahd http://cwahd.com/wordpress/?p=1273 “God opposes the proud but gives Grace to the Humble” James 4:6

Our financial plans collapse. We suffer unexpected setbacks in our career. We have a house that won’t sell. How can we explain such difficulties in life? They may have a number of causes. But one overlooked explanation is our pride. The Bible teaches us that God opposes the proud. When pride enters our heart, He blocks our advance, frustrates our plans, and lets us spin our wheels. It all adds up to God saying, “I’m not letting you go anywhere until you humble yourselves before Me.”

We went through one particularly difficult period of life where we couldn’t understand why one calamity seemed to pile on another. We had to replace an engine and a transmission in our car; some of our kids got lice; and every major appliance in our home needed repair. At the end of this incredibly hard time we realized God had been working to break us. God was telling us it was time to pray. Only when we began to seek Him
together in brokenness and humility did the light break through in our lives once again.

We would never suggest all trouble in anyone’s life is caused by pride. But if we’re not praying and seeking God with all of our hearts, pride may very well have slipped into our lives. The remedy is to humble ourselves
before God this very hour. Seek His forgiveness. The choice between God’s opposition and God’s grace is clear to us. Which do you want?

About the Author:

Matthew

Freedom Project

My son was born on Good friday at 7:17 PM We named him Luke Ryan.

Matthew

Freedom Project