If I'm feeling discouraged or hear words of doubt, unbelief, or frustration in my head or coming out of my mouth, it's a red flag to me that I've not been meditating on the Word as much as I need to. Because what we pour in will eventually come out and when the wrong thing [...]
Category: Parenting
The Answers We Need Are in Our Spirits
We make an appointment with a counselor or trusted mentor when we are seeking answers for our lives, right? Seeking counsel = seeking answers. This verse is saying that the answers we are needing are actually in our spirit man; in our hearts. But we must make the effort to dip down and draw it [...]
Training Up a Child Means Being Their Example
Proverbs 22:6 says "Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he's old he will not depart from it." Many parents love to quote this promise from God's word, but if we are not actively keeping the command of training, then we cannot expect to claim the second part of the [...]
It’s OK To Move On
God's command to love everyone doesn't mean He expects us to be a doormat to people's lack of skill in walking in love and their poor behavior. Not everyone deserves the right to access your heart. We are called to LOVE our enemies and to PRAY for those who use us, but it's ok to [...]
God Is Not Moved By Needs
If you want to see that situation in your life change, then you've got to stop acting like a double agent, reporting to God everything the enemy whispers to you about it! He cannot work with that. He can only respond to faith-filled words. The Word says that Jesus is our advocate (our lawyer) seated [...]
Be You!
Sometimes we see others doing the exact thing we ourselves are called to do. It's so tempting to compare ourselves to others and feel like we don't measure up. Remember that what you may see in them today is what has taken them years to grow in and gain skill. It's great to have wonderful [...]
Teach Your Children Who They Are IN Christ
Let's work to fill our children to the brim with words of love, value, strength, and true identity from the very beginning so that when words that are contrary come, they will find no available space in them. Frederick Douglass said, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Do Faith Acts!
An action is a qualifying factor for faith. It's what faith is and what faith does. It begins by hearing faith words, then continues by speaking faith words, but then must have actions of faith. In Mark 5, the woman with the issue of blood heard something about Jesus. She must have heard that He [...]
Correction Is a Rescue!
Correction is always meant to be a rescue to us, if we'll let it. When a small child begins to step out into a street full of busy traffic, a parent must grab hold of them and pull them back to safety. When you are driving down the highway and you veer off momentarily, you [...]
Our Children Are Blessed Through Our Obedience
Living under the blessing described in Deut. 28 is not just limited to financial/material wealth. It means every arena of your life will be blessed. When we are faithful to diligently obey God’s commands, that means we keep His statutes: His commandments, serving, gathering together, tithing, etc...AND we obey the things He directs us to [...]
~JENNY RIEFLIN MINISTRIES~ 