Persistence and endurance…we LOVE these character-building lessons (that often come through tests), don’t we?!
Who voluntarily signs up for resilience training?!? 😵💫🫣🤔👀
And yet, we must be patient.
So we endure.
Because we know the end is worth it.
Blessings & stay encouraged, Kayren
“7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”
“…the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong…” (Ecclesiastes 9:11)
Sometimes just holding on and maintaining your current position takes all the strength and energy you have.
And sometimes that’s all that is required.
Stay encouraged, Kayren
“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
(Matthew 24:13)
“8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”
We admire the Proverbs 31 woman. How can we put more of what she embodies into our own lives?
Let us desire to walk in godly wisdom. We start by saturating ourselves in God’s Word – the holy scriptures are FULL of wisdom that we can apply to our daily lives with awesome and proven results.
Here are some characteristics of godly wisdom we can begin (or continue!) to work on:
Discretion – knowing when to speak vs. when to be silent
Maturity – developing through stages (not staying static or rigid); being pliant, pliable, and yielded – able to be transformed
Bewilderment addressed through God’s Word = reassuring.
Joy baked into the process.
Joy experienced = fulfilling.
Jesus is our example of unconditional love – a requirement for successfully completing our assignment as mothers.🌟
Some days, we do better than others, but our goal must always be to partner with Him in the process, and to never think we’re able to unplug or disconnect from the Source and do it on our own. 🎁
Because we can’t. It wasn’t designed for us to be able to do it on our own.
Being a godly mother is a BIG job.💪🏽 With more than 2 decades of momming under my belt, I can say it’s one of the most significant jobs I’ve ever undertaken. When we show up in His presence daily for fellowship, refreshing, refilling, and guidance, He equips us with exactly what we need – a measure of HIS love.😇💓
Blessings to all who take on the BIG job of momming – and to those who are honoring mothers today…and EVERY day, Kayren 💞
“1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Everybody shouldn’t have access to you in every season. At some point, it’s gotta be just you and God.
Not isolation, but insulation.
Not retaliation, but restoration.
Not rejecting others, but protecting the gift God has placed in your earthen vessel.
Cuz some folk won’t see your value until – like an episode of Antiques Roadshow – it’s REVEALED TO THEM that they had a priceless item in their midst all along…#UNaware
So you may as well know your worth NOW. And live like it is so – because it already IS.
Blessings, Kayren
“6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
I admire Greg McKeown’s focus on living what he teaches about Essentialism. One of his recent emails with the subject line “The Story Your Calendar is Telling” challenged me in a beautiful way.
“Your calendar is a mirror. It doesn’t reflect your ideals – it reflects your choices.
Most people try to make progress without making space. High performers do the opposite. They build a system that supports their priorities – not one that competes with them.”
That’s a whole mouthful right there. I’m still chewing on it.
Feel free to drop a comment if this resonates with you.
I’d love to hear any adjustments you’ve made (or are currently making) so that the way your time is spent or invested is truly aligned with where your heart is…
Blessings, Kayren
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
What a beautiful gift! It just rolls off the tongue when you say it aloud – and you can’t help but to smile.
There’s even a Psalms 117 song to help you remember and meditate on this scripture passage – I already added it to my playlist!!! Yep – it’s on repeat…
May we lavishly bestow merciful kindness upon others today as we have abundantly received.
Blessings, Kayren
“1 O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.”
Each test develops our testimony. It’s designed to teach us what we’ve learned, and to expose areas we need to work on.
Can you relate?
Admittedly, it doesn’t always feel good.
Yet, we build muscle, skill, acumen, and endurance as we encounter resistance and learn to fight.
I can’t say I voluntarily signed up for my current course, but God has fitted this set of tests just for me. So I’m pressing to obtain the prize.
No need to waste your suffering, pain, and tribulation – let it produce some peaceable fruit of righteousness!
Stay encouraged, Kayren
“13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
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