Adventures in Faith & Motherhood

Lea Goetz Barbara

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With 5 children and 15 grandchildren, author Barbara Lea Goetz knows well the peaks and valleys of motherhood. In Adventures in Faith & Motherhood, Barbara invites mothers to a year in God's Word - 52 weeks of Scripture, biblical wisdom, and family recipes. Each week provides mothers a path for Scripture reading, Scripture memorization and personal application.

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• Philosophie et théologie

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• Publié par: First Edition Design Publishing
• Date de parution: 29 juillet 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781622873807
• Langue: English

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Adventures in Faith & Motherhood
Barbara Lea Goetz


First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
Adventures in Faith & Motherhood
52 Weeks, Exploring God’s Word and Family Living
For God’s Glory
Copyright ©2013 Barbara Lea Goetz
ISBN 978-1622-873-14-2 EBOOK

July 2013

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Week 1 - Prepare for Adventure
Week 2 - Establish Yourself in God’s Word, the Bible
Week 3 - Memorize Scripture: A Secret Weapon Against Sin
Week 4 - Endeavor to Become an Excellent Cook
Week 5 - Come Along on My Journey of Prayer: Discover that Prayer Works
Week 6 - Ask God to Lead You — He Wants to be Your Shepherd
Week 7 - Turn Away from the Ungodly Culture of Our Times
Week 8 - Utilize the Tremendous Power of the Holy Spirit
Week 9 - Become a Wife and Mother of Character
Week 10 - Forgive as God Forgave You
Week 11 - Read Your Bible Daily: A Fortress Against Evil
Week 12 - Take Time to Pray
Week 13 - Accept the Realities of Marriage
Week 14 - Set Aside Time for the Spiritual Needs of Your Children
Week 15 - Examine Dynamic Bible Passages on Prayer
Week 16 - Recognize the Secrets of a Happy Marriage
Week 17 - Explore Old Testament Stories; Let Them Come Alive as You Read
Week 18 - Count on Facing Trials, Hardships, and God’s Discipline
Week 19 - Know That God Delights in Answering Your Prayers
Week 20 - Claim the Strength and Courage that Only God Can Give
Week 21 - Uncover Facts about Old Testament Kings: Principles God still Uses Today
Week 22 - Express Appreciation to Your Mate and Accept his Deficiencies
Week 23 - Pray for What is Ahead
Week 24 - Instruct Your Children in God’s Word: The Most Important Thing You Do!
Week 25 - Equip Your Children to Handle Life
Week 26 – Discover the Lost Art of Canning
Week 27 - Note the Promises, but Heed the Warnings in the Prophetic Books
Week 28 - Keep Your Marriage Positive
Week 29 - Model Prayer, Your Best Teaching Tool
Week 30 - Have Fun Making Pickles
Week 31 - Respect and Yield to Your Mate
Week 32 - Meditate on the Book of Psalms; Let God Satisfy Your Deepest Needs
Week 33 - Provide Opportunities for Your Children to Learn Responsibility and Perseverance
Week 34 - Enjoy Making Jam; You’ll Never Buy It in the Store Again
Week 35 - Reflect Upon God’s Faithfulness and Deliverance
Week 36 - Learn Financial Responsibility
Week 37 - Work Together as a Team
Week 38 - Find Amazing Wisdom in Proverbs and Throughout the Bible
Week 39 - Nurture and Protect the Minds of Your Children
Week 40 - Choose the “Better Things”
Week 41 - Trust the Lord to Build Your Home
Week 42 - Study the New Testament, Your Guide to Life Eternal
Week 43 - Teach Your Children the Difference Between Right and Wrong
Week 44 - Persist in Prayer; Never Give Up
Week 45 - Discipline and Love Your Children
Week 46 - Search for Answers on How to Deal with Sin; It’s in the New Testament
Week 47 - Train Your Children to Love Others as Themselves
Week 48 - Seek After What is Truth
Week 49 - Overcome Family Difficulties
Week 50 - Spread the Good News; It Begins at Home
Week 51 - Walk Faithfully With the Lord; Plant a Beautiful Life
Week 52 - Prepare Now to Meet Jesus
Closing Thoughts
Author Barbara Lea Goetz
Recipe Index
Introduction

For the next 52 weeks, explore with me adventures in faith through God’s Word, the Bible, by following a weekly Bible reading schedule and memorizing Scripture. This is something you’ll want to continue the rest of your life. It will change you!

Also discover adventures in motherhood by reading challenging devotionals written by a woman, wife, and mother who spent a lifetime weathering the journey you are taking. Through 54 years of marriage, God taught me a great deal about being a wife and mother (raising five children), pursuing a career, and living a life that brings satisfaction and joy. I have put all these spiritual concepts from God’s Word and practical ideas for family living into the 52 chapters (one for each week of the year). In addition to food for the soul, you’ll also find food for the body, offered through family recipes, canning instructions and more.

This book is for moms of all ages, married, single, separated, or divorced. My main focus is to encourage mothers to read the Bible, the Word of God, as well as to pray daily and raise their children to be upright and godly. In fact, this book has something for every woman. You’ll find many weeks of devotionals specifically related to marriage and children, but many that are not.

I did not do everything right, and none of us ever will. However, the Lord proved His faithfulness as my husband and I focused steadfastly on the Lord Jesus Christ and His Word. Now, we clearly see how God miraculously worked in us and in our family. God can do the same for you, no matter where you find yourself now. God loves to forgive our pasts.

The upcoming decades of your life may seem as though they are ages away, but those years will fly by so quickly that you’ll be amazed. By filling yourself with God’s Word now, you’ll reap a “harvest of righteousness” for yourself and your family; not only in this life but in the eternal ages to come.

Author Barbara Lea Goetz
Week 1 - Prepare for Adventure

As a mother, you’ve embarked on a journey that has far-reaching results, many of which will never be known this side of eternity. In order to remain strong through the trials and tests that are sure to come, you must build upon a strong foundation. This happens as you read and make God’s Word, the Bible, and prayer a part of your daily life. Jesus is the rock that holds us steadfast when the storms of life bear down upon us.

As I thought more and more about the critical role of a mother, I felt burdened to write a book utilizing some of my lifetime experiences. I’ve been even more convinced after studying Titus 2:4-5 (NKJV). In these verses, Paul admonishes older women to train the younger women “to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.” A woman’s role in today’s society is a controversial one. We’d better know what we believe.

It’s impossible to realize the eternal consequence of our task as mothers. What we teach our children affects not only this generation, but should the Lord tarry, the generations that follow. This is stated clearly by the Psalmist: “Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. . .That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children” (Psalm 78:4, 6 NKJV).

Throughout this book, you’ll discover that I love to use Scripture. Some verses are so significant, that I use them more than once.

In reading God’s Word from cover to cover for over forty years, I heard the Lord speak to my heart again and again in whatever version of the Bible I was reading. Therefore, in writing this book, I felt it would be helpful to look at verses and passages from different versions. Often this enables us to see truths in a fresh way. I have used mainly four versions: New International Version (NIV); New King James Version (NKJV); New American Standard Bible (NASB); and the New Living Translation (NLT). There are also some verses taken from the King James Version (KJV) and several from the paraphrase edition of The Living Bible.

Whenever I refer to a Bible passage and don’t quote it or a portion of it, you can find it in the footnotes at the end of each page of the devotional. You’ll note that most of the large portions of Scripture mentioned are not included in the footnotes. If you find a word or words enclosed in brackets within a quoted Bible verse, they are my words.

In each of t