My husband and I have had missions impressed upon our hearts lately. Not only doing mission work ourselves, but teaching our children what mission work is. Teaching them to do things for others without the expectation of reward and to look for/fufill needs of the people who surround us. We want them to think of others, put others first, and to do nice things for others because that is what Christ does for us. If they learn to show the love of Christ to others, they will improve at showing the love of Christ to each other.
The Great Commision tells us : "Therefore, GO and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. (20) Teach these new disciples to obey all commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20
Most times, we do not hear verse 20 when referring to the Great Commision. We have some new little disciples in our own home. Hopefully, as we teach them to obey Christ, our little guys will be an encouragment to others around us and will be used to plant seeds in the hearts of people around us.
A challenge from our family to yours....think of a need you can fufill or an encouragment you can give to someone each week. Let your kids do it with you. Maybe even do it in secret. Take someone who is sick a plate of cookies and a homemade get-well card. Mow someones yard, go visit at the nursing home, leave your spouse a hidden letter telling them how much you appreciate them. Fix something for someone that needs fixing. Just a few of our ideas. We have just started this this week with our own kids, so we are still lookig for ideas.
Think about it, wouldn't it be an absolutley amazing and miraculous thing if this caught on all over town? People everywhere doing suprise things for others??? WOW! We most certainly would see a change in attitudes and hearts.
ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE!!! SHARE YOUR COMMENTS AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOUR FAMILY DID THIS WEEK TO BLESS SOMEONE ELSE SO WE CAN ALL USE EACH OTHERS' IDEAS!
About Me
- Momma Mel
- Getting started...from 2 halftimers to 8 kids in 5 years and how it happened. Whoa...to fully understand this we have to go back about 10 yrs ago when I was 16. At this point in my life, God placed a desire in my heart to be married and have kids and stay at home to raise them. And so I went about my life....only this desire kept getting stronger and stronger. I never had any plans to go to college because I knew what I was supposed to do. Only one problem...graduated high school and didn't even have a boyfriend, so I went ot college and was miserable for a year. When I was 20, I ran into my childhood sweetheart (you know the guy who was my boyfriend for a week at a time, and my friends boyfriend on all the other weeks) We began dating steadily and within 2-3 weeks I knew he was "The One". We were engaged in 2 months and married in 6 months. God listened to my desires and gave me a husband complete with 2 kids upon marriage. You see, My husband already had a son (Pickle) and also had stepped in as Father to Pickle's older half-sister (J). We are blessed to get to spend half of every single week with Pickle and J to this day. Now...
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