When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.

Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey!

With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.

What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.

Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!

And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My job is to receive. you give me Your peace. My job is to take it. You lead me to Your still waters. My role is to follow. You extend Your hand. My role is to take hold. My I enjoy Your presence and the tranquility of the still waters where You pour out your promise of peace. Amen.

By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!

Doing things God’s way is always a matter of the heart.

When we accept God’s invitation to commune with Him through prayer, He will transform our hearts and change our lives.

Obedience is the key ingredient in living out God’s plan for you.

Out of the will of God, there is no such thing as success, in the will of God there cannot be any failure.

Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother.

God’s Word is a map you can safely follow as you travel through life.

YOU might be limited by a life situation, but GOD is never hampered. Praise Him!

Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified.

As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today’s trials as well as for all tomorrow’s challenges.

Prayer is a mighty ministry that any believer can have—anywhere, anytime, and in any circumstance.

To last, a marriage and family must be built on love—love for God, and love for one another.

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

God’s beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.

Nothing else in this world can renew our minds like the Bible.

There is no better way to live God’s way than to have His Word in your heart and mind.

We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him.

God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His.

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

Whatsoever things are true...think on these things.

Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them.

Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God’s power.

Between the Bible and the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to grow spiritually. And the more you grow, the more God can use you.

We must look to God for His grace and His power to perfect godly qualities in our lives.

For this cause…for this privilege…you were born—to shine lights into the world for God.

Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.

Don’t let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

When you choose to work with a willing, happy heart, you become a beautiful source of joy to all.

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle!

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.

To be God's people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life’s problems when you count them as joy.

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.

I want God to be first in my life, so I’m putting Him first in my life today.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

There's no more secure investment in the next generation than your prayers for your children!

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God’s highest callings upon your life.

Faith in Jesus is the most important event in the history of a child’s life.

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

It’s never too early to begin pointing your little ones’ souls heavenward.

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.

Faith is not a hothouse plant that must be shielded from wind and rain, so delicate that it has to be protected, but it’s like the sturdy oak which becomes stronger with every wind that blows upon it. An easy time weakens faith, while strong trials strengthen it.

Sometimes God’s way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.

Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

How do you live out God’s plan for your life? By living God’s way one day at a time.

Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.

Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!

God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

When you love someone, you can’t help but pray for them.

When you stop worrying about your problems and start praising God for His magnificent power you will experience His peace.

Prayer is the expression of your heart’s sincere desires poured out to God.

Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith.

Prayer allows you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.

Prayer enables you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child’s situation.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

Life is too short to be wasted on anything that does not help you to live out God’s plan and purposes for your life.

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.

Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose.

No matter what you’re facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.

What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth—truth you can stand on, live by, and trust…forever.

Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.

She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.

Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends.

Your friends are a reflection of you.

Home is the best place to teach young men and women about God’s kind of love.

Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!

When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.

Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.

Time is redeemed when you make the most of your life by fulfilling God's purposes.

It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.

God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.

Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That’s why unity in the body of Christ is so important.

Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.

Only one life, it will soon be past,only what’s done for Christ will last.

God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.

It’s easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

God’s Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.

God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

To live out God’s plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself…and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past.

You can live each day in the confidence of God’s promises.

Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God’s plans.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

Pray for God’s grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

God’s Word changes the way you think, feel, and live.

Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.

Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.

When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.

When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.

The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.

We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.

The Bible is the most important part of your faith.

The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips with praise.

The Bible changes your perspective on the people, events, and circumstances of your day.

The Bible will teach you, correct you, instruct you, and give you hope.

It’s not what you get, but what you give that is God’s true measure of a life.

God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

God’s peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths.

The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him.

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won’t want to gossip.

When you study God’s Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

In the Bible we find everything we need to guide and energize our lives, to keep us on track so that we live out God’s plan.

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

God’s Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

The only wrong way to read the Bible is to not read it at all.

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

Application is why we study the Bible.

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.

When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

Let your life choices tell others of your wonderful God as you walk through life worshiping Him.

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God’s help.

A woman who walks with God honors Him in the way she manages her home.

A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.

Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.

With God’s help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.

An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.

A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside--in the inner woman and her heart--and then works outward.

If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend!

The goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others.

Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God’s will.

A God-focused attitude is positive and directs you to better the lives of those you love while giving God the glory.

Your attitude of serving the Lord can transform even the most menial of tasks into a magnificent sacrifice of love.

Looking at your day from a “golden day” perspective helps you prioritize.

Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love.

Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.

Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.

When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

Each day is God’s gift of a fresh unspoiled opportunity to live according to His priorities.

God has already provided all you need to live this one day His way!

Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

So why do we worry? Why do we worry about food and clothing About finances and money? About security and the needs of life? We have Jehovah-Rohi! We have the Lord as our caring Shepherd. When fears regarding the cares of this world set in, we need to confidently lean on God's promise to care for us. Then we can declare to God, "Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You" (Psalm 56:3)

Realize that God uses the fires of life to purify your faith, to shape you into Christ’s image, and to cause you to love Him…even more!

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

If a couple isn’t following God’s guidelines for life or being led by the Holy Spirit, disagreements and misunderstandings skyrocket.

The act of committing yourself to the Lord daily allows Him to guide you.

The key is putting into practice what God has taught you through His Word.

One of God’s high callings for His people is that they be teachers of good things.

If you want to grow spiritually, the place to start is with God.

God’s Word transforms you into someone who reflects His glory.

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

I've always found that a rather unfortunate quirk in our species. Everyone pants towards orgasm without pausing to realise that its merely a biological trap designed for the purpose of reproduction. What utter nonsense.

He managed to make his request with the minimum of time given to speculating what she looked like naked, forgiving himself for the instant of fantasy by telling himself it was the curse of being male. In the presence of a beautiful woman, he had always experienced that knee-jerk reaction to being reduced - if only momentarily - to skin, bone, and testosterone.

Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.

Don’t waste your most important resource—your life.

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

When you view yourself through the lens of God’s Word, you will better understand God’s love for you and the worth you have in His eyes.

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.

When God gives you a mission, He also gives you everything you need to fulfill that mission.

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

God’s ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.

Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life.

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.

Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day.

Remember to take time for God—it is life’s only lasting investment.