(Brad loves his baby brother, and it appears the feeling is mutual!)
Wordless Wednesday
Sunday, November 15, 2009
I thought this was just hilarious - I forgot that my husband had taken a video of this way back when Jacob was on baby food back in March-ish. Anywho, without further interruption, this is what happens when you give a nine-month-old baby food that he doesn't want!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Yesterday, I went to my weekly MOPS meeting and this week fell on our Bible study week. Last week, this week, and next week we have a guest speaker who is a Mentor Mom at our location, and her name is Christi Haag. Let me just tell you, she is an amazing, Christ-centered, Spirit-filled, Godly woman. I listen to her speak and I am immediately drawn in. She is married and has two boys, 14 and 15. Her oldest, Ben, recently confessed to her and her husband that he feels he is being led by the Lord to go into missions overseas, and is patiently waiting on God to let him know where. I mean, PRAISE THE LORD! I only hope and pray that my husband and I can be that kind of example to our children. I cannot say enough about how wonderful this lady is, and how much of a true blessing it has been to know her as the previous mentor mom for our table, and as a true teacher of the word. She speaks it with such clarity and conviction, she is just mesmerizing.
Last meeting, she spoke on "The Fruit of the Spirit" and the Spiritual Gifts that God gives to us. She let us know that without the Fruit and filtering each of our gifts through the Fruit, that our gifts are just like a loud noise to God and won't matter. Just think of that: How good would it be to have the gift of discertion without kindness? Or the gift of serving without love? Music without joy? It all makes sense and I have never seen it that way before.
She explained that the Bible teaches that each of us has at least one gift, and the Lord calls us to use that gift in our lives and in the church. She spoke on several passages, including Galatians 5:22, I Peter 4:10-11, I Corinthians 12, I Corinthians 13, and Ephesians 4:11-16, and Romans 12:1-8. If you have never studied these, I encourage you to do so, as I felt like I learned so much from these.
She then passed out four pages to us, where we took a quiz to find out what our main spiritual gifts were. It was 78 questions long and took about 20 minutes to complete, but when I was done - WOW! - I was surprised about a couple of the results. I knew that I would probably hold a gift for hospitality and giving, but exhortation and knowledge was an amazing discovery about myself, but it makes perfect sense. I scored lower on prophecy and teaching, but that's OK - God gave me the gifts that he did for a reason, and I can use THOSE to lift people up in my own way, and he will send those with the other gifts that he gave uniquely to them to help in their own way that someone like me may not excel at.
If you would also like to take this quiz, it was very neat and I even brought one home for my husband. The link is posted below (I uploaded it to Google Docs, if it doesn't work, post a comment with your email address and I would be more than happy to email it to you). Although he hasn't taken it yet, it will be neat to see what God has blessed him with and how we each compliment eachother in God's perfect plan! :)
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