Monday, January 12, 2009

Living BLESSED, Instead of STRESSED

MOPS Meeting

January 8
Speaker:  Sharon Hoffman

What an amazing meeting we had!!  I hope each of you left feeling BLESSED!!!

B - Bring your burden to the Lord.
Matthew 6:25-32
We must make a decision to live blessed (We need to focus on the blessings and praying for those in our life..... remember Sharon's ex. of her prayer notebook).

L - Love God and Love Your Family
Love them WELL - like God loves them.  God loves on us every day IF read His Word.
Isaiah 43
We cannot give out anything we don't have in us.

E - Encouragement
There are days when your child (or husband) will only get encouragement from you.
Live blessed, spew positivity, not negativity (what spews our when our family comes in the door?)
Ex - Remember the water bottle example - What goes in, must come out.  If we are not daily filling ourselves with the Word, we are not filing ourselves up with anything to spill out!

S - Sweet Speech
The tongue can be a fire.
Matthew 12:34 "Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks"
Rome wasn't built in a day, but it WAS destroyed in a day!
Ephesians 4:32 "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."

S - Sizzle
Don't let your marriage fizzle.
The four A's
Accept
Admire
Adapt
Appreciate
The four A's are key!
It's my job to make my husband happy, it's GOD's job to make him holy.

E - Each other
We need each other.

D - Devotion to God