1.) Retrain our tongues to give words that encourage, comfort and edify others.
2) Offer life-giving and grace-filled words to husband and children.
3) Make our homes a place of grace where mistakes and sins are not met with anger
but with love and hope.
4) Decorate our homes to make home a place of beauty. Beauty raises life above mere
existence.
5) Develop necessary cleaning skills and habits; clutter causes stress.
6) Face our anger, anxiety, fear and depression. Our homes reflect our mental/
spiritual/emotional health. Ask the Lord to replace these emotions with faith and
hope. (Check out the Core Lies Ebook for more information.)
7) Plan regular times away from home to rejuvenate and gain perspective.
8) Persevere in planning fun activities for family on weekends or ordinary weekdays.
9) Play praise or worship music to lift everyone’s spirits. (Even King Saul in the Bible,
when the Holy Spirit had left him, was refreshed and calmed by David’s worship.)
10) Ask the Lord: What areas of my home are causing stress or bringing spiritual/
emotional/mental ‘deadness’? What can I do to bring life to those places instead to
make them a place of refuge?
“And if you give yourself to the hungry, and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your
light will rise in darkness, and your gloom will become like midday. And the LORD will
continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your
bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do
not fail.” Isaiah 58:10-11 (NASB)
There are 2 challenges to go along with these. One is a Mary and one is a Martha. I just havent posted them.
2) Offer life-giving and grace-filled words to husband and children.
3) Make our homes a place of grace where mistakes and sins are not met with anger
but with love and hope.
4) Decorate our homes to make home a place of beauty. Beauty raises life above mere
existence.
5) Develop necessary cleaning skills and habits; clutter causes stress.
6) Face our anger, anxiety, fear and depression. Our homes reflect our mental/
spiritual/emotional health. Ask the Lord to replace these emotions with faith and
hope. (Check out the Core Lies Ebook for more information.)
7) Plan regular times away from home to rejuvenate and gain perspective.
8) Persevere in planning fun activities for family on weekends or ordinary weekdays.
9) Play praise or worship music to lift everyone’s spirits. (Even King Saul in the Bible,
when the Holy Spirit had left him, was refreshed and calmed by David’s worship.)
10) Ask the Lord: What areas of my home are causing stress or bringing spiritual/
emotional/mental ‘deadness’? What can I do to bring life to those places instead to
make them a place of refuge?
“And if you give yourself to the hungry, and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your
light will rise in darkness, and your gloom will become like midday. And the LORD will
continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your
bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do
not fail.” Isaiah 58:10-11 (NASB)
There are 2 challenges to go along with these. One is a Mary and one is a Martha. I just havent posted them.
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