Before I continue our talk on “Stopping the Chaos in the Family”,
I want to update you on the Prague, Czech Republic trip.
Our team is together! There will be 14 of us traveling to
minister to the missionary women in Central Europe .
Our flights were booked yesterday and we are on go!
Registration opened up online for the missionary women Tuesday
and we already have six women signed up to come. I met with the Oklahoma
portion of our Prague team last night for prayer time and it was so sweet! There
is nothing like praying and watching God move on behalf of the missionary
women.
For those of you that have participated with us on Pure Joy
trips, you know what it is like to start the preparations for the journey
toward Prague. Start praying for the team, the missionaries who will be going,
sponsorship of the 50 missionary women who will be in attendance, their
families, our families, the messages, worship music, hospitality, and other
activities that God would have us provide for the women. If you would like me
to come speak to people in your home churches about how to get involved, email
me at vickie@purejoyinternational.org.
Monday night several team members who went to Dominican
Republic this past May and I sat down to follow-up with women from local
churches that were part of the stateside team for Dominican Republic. It was so
exciting to hear their hearts as they shared what it meant to them to participate
in the preparation of what ministered to the women missionaries in Dominican
Republic. It was also sweet to hear how God used their time to connect and
minister to one another. Also, hearing them talk about the personal
relationships they have established with a missionary because of Pure Joy and
their continual encouragement to them through email warms my heart. All these
things are why we call Pure Joy an ‘inside out’ ministry.
So keep praying, giving, and always be open to going
someday!!
Stop the Chaos Week 5
So far in our discussion of “Stopping the Chaos in the Family”
we have established:
- God is
Sovereign over all and therefore the ultimate Authority
- He is
Creator and Maker
- He is
a God of order and provision
- Chapters
1, 2, and 3 of Genesis are the garage you can always park the car in.
First, we know that Adam illustrates the first Father-son
relationship for us. That is significant because it foreshadows the Father-Son
(Jesus) relationship.
Adam was to be God’s provision for Eve just as Jesus Christ
is to be our provision for eternal life. Remember Genesis
2:15 when the Bible says: The LORD God took the man and put
him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
The term Eden in its original Hebrew language means “Garden
of Delight”. I love that because God literally provided everything for Adam he
could possibly want and then said (even though this is unspoken in the Bible,
it is implied), “Now take care of what I’ve given you because it’s my best!” Wow!
Keep that thought!
God created and made woman from man (Adam). So, the order we
have now is God, Adam, and Eve. Remember God NEVER created or made anything
until He made provision for what He created and made. Adam was to be Eve’s
provision with the principle at work that Adam would take care of that which
God had given him.
Can I ask you this question today as a woman reading this
blog? Do you feel that your husband is taking care of you? Does he see you as a
gift that God has brought into his life? The answer to those questions, more
often than not, would be “no!”
Next week we are going to be looking at the first time chaos
enters the world as we understand it from God’s word. A good read of Genesis 3 would do us all good this week. Why? Well,
at the end of reading it, you tell me.
I love you all!
His,
Vickie
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