Reality...

Reality is... is that we live in this world but are not OF this world. (John 15:19)

As Christians, we are living in a world of sin. We are bound to be tempted, hurt and face the sicknesses and colds that every parents hates.

Well, this was my week!

I have five beautiful children... all five were sick this week! Runny noses, stuffy noses, sore throats, fevers, coughs, loss of appetite... it was a bad week. SO I bad I declared a full week off of school so we could recover! (Nice being the principal, teacher and mom all in one- that is why I love homeschooling!)

But God told us in His Word that we would have trials and hardships. It tells us to consider it JOY when we face them.

James 1:2-4

2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Now I can't say I was 'joyful' of my situation. I knew that I would get through it and I just left my kids in God's hands. We prayed often for healing and for protection over Mom and Dad getting sick... It has been a week and a half that we have had 'yuckys' in our house... Mom has NOT gotten sick. Dad got a little soar throat, but was able to sleep most of it off and all the kids are on the up! We do have those lingering sniffles and have a box of Kleenex in every room, but all are doing better. :)

IS there a reality that you need to look at in the Bible.

Are you suffering? Look at the apostles, they suffered. Jesus suffered. Are you losing family members to death, take a look at Job. Are you being persecuted for your faith, look at Stephen, Paul, Silas.

We live in this world, therefore we will suffer. But be encouraged:

2 Corinthians 4:8-9

8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

Be blessed!

-Praying Mom

#1~Prayer for Good Health

Right now in my household we are playing 'pass the cold to the next person'. I am sure everyone has played this horrible game before in there family It doesn't matter that you use Clorex wipes and Lysol on everything, or that you seclude the sick person from everyone else and give everyone 100 glasses of Orange Juice eachday... they share the germs!

Well, it brings me to my first prayer topic:
Prayer for Good Health

Let's prayer for the health of our family, whether you are all well all the time (Praise God if that is you!) or you have someone who is always sick. God is a God of healing. His word says that 'By His strips we are healed.' (Is 53:5) So let's claim it in our families!

PRAYER:
Lord Jesus, Your word is true! It has stood the test of time and has been dug through by so many scholars and it still stands whole today. Your promises are the truth and we stand on them today. We pray life, health and wholenss into our kids, our husbands and ourselves today.
We speak to the sickness that is in bosied right now to be gone. We speak to sickness that wants to creep in to lose it's effect and be gone in Jesus Name.
Lord, I thank you because cancer, colds, migranes, insomnia, MS, diabetes, Lupus--- you are bigger than each and every one of these and you are the ultimate Physican!
Jesus, take our bodies and make them whole in You.
In Jesus Name, Amen

I encourage you to uplift each family member by name right now- maybe you have a daughter who constantly gets headaches....maybe your son deals with catching every little cold/bug that goes around....maybe your husband has a bas back... God is bigger tahn all of it... lif toyur family up to Him and TRUST and BELIEVE that He can and WILL heal them.