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Motivation Monday

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“Our religious obligations begin in serving God faithfully in the home life. I am urged to bear earnest testimony to parents in public and private, that they may be led to devote all their powers in sanctified service for Christ. I am instructed to urge upon our people the need of being imbued with the Spirit of God. This Spirit will teach believers to work in harmony with Christ whenever and wherever opportunity offers. As different families among our people have been presented before me, I have been shown their great need of the converting power of God.

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that we might have a pattern of true holiness. Let parents study the pattern, that they may become true laborers together with God for the salvation of their children.”

Letter 90, 1911

Monday Bible Promise – Isaiah 40:11

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He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm,

and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

Isaiah 40:11

Motivation Monday

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“It costs something to bring children up in the way of God. It costs a mother’s tears and a father’s prayers. It calls for unflagging effort, for patient instruction, here a little and there a little. But this work pays. Parents can thus build around their children bulwarks which will preserve them from the evil that is flooding our world.”

Child Guidance, 479

Happy Sabbath- 1 Chron. 16:34

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“Train your mind to search the Scriptures. In this way you can gain a knowledge of God, and work out your own salvation. Fill it with divine truth. It will then be in perfect harmony with the heart, which, cleansed from all selfishness and moral defilement, rejoices to render homage to the law of God.”

The Signs of the Times,   April 1, 1897

Monday Bible Promise- Isaiah 61:3

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To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

Isaiah 61:3

Growing In the Garden – Zucchini Squash Blessings

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When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God has done.

I was feeling a bit down this morning, as I considered some challenges that have recently come into my life.   Determined not to start a pity party, I decided to count my blessings instead.   As I started to count, my eyes lit on my pile of gifted squash and I was reminded that the blessings of God are as endless as my current supply of zucchini.

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God has done!

Despite making eight loaves of zucchini bread so far this week, I still haven’t made a dent in this pile of homegrown squash!   None of these beauties came from my garden.  I did not plant a single squash.   You guessed it- these came from my gardening friends and neighbors who are currently drowning in an abundance of zucchini and the like.  It seems like every time I use a zucchini,  more gets dropped off at our house.    As a matter of fact, my husband met a local farmer this week who practically begged him to come take some excess squash out of his field!

So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
Do not be discouraged, God is over all;
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.*

Be encouraged, friends.  When you stop and think about it, we’ve been gifted with more blessings than we know what to do with!  My challenges are nothing that God can’t handle.   God is good!

PS- Can I offer you some peppers or onions from my garden?  I seem to have an abundance of both….

 

*Lyrics from the hymn, Count Your Blessings by J. Oatman Jr.