“Like cold water to a weary soul, So is good news from a distant land.”

Proverbs 25:25

(testimony to follow) 

The Lord brings good, refreshing news to me in many different forms along this pathway of life.  One of those is the Above Rubies magazine!  It arrived in my mailbox a couple days ago and couldn’t have come on a better day!  It always seems to be that way.  It always seems to come when I am weary and in need of refreshment!  Praise the Lord for this good news from a distant land!  If you haven’t subscribed to their magazine, please do so TODAY!  It is free to subscribe.  Once you receive this and find it full of the blessings it offers to me….perhaps you will feel led to support their ministry in some way.  They are only able so send out the magazines as finances allow.  I was SO pleased to get one last month AND this month!

Some things covered in the magazine this month:

Training a Champion

Does Breast Feeding Space Babies?

Healed from Eating Disorder

Memorize Scripture (wonderful ideas for ALL ages)

Peace in the Home

Waller Family Adventures (about a family with 11 children who lived off the land here in America before the Lord led them to live and minister in Israel!)

The Marriage Question

Training Young Children to Work

Also:

Ideas for prettying up your mail in a frugal way

BEAUTIFUL poems and sayings

An opportunity to bless orphans by way of knitting/crocheting squares for blankets

Home Etiquette poster

A Baby in the House!

Not only This Life (a story of one couple’s surrendering their fertility over to the Lord, losing a baby through miscarriage and another born still)

An article on  rebuilding a broken marriage

Thank you ABOVE RUBIES!  You bless my home!

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When I was struggling this particular day, I just kept crying out to the Lord to help me to be strong.  I was struggling physically, dealing with contractions along with leg pain.  Satan uses these times to really jab at me.  My older children were downstairs folding laundry, while I was upstairs feeding the babies a snack.  I could hear the children downstairs singing 'God Sent His Son' together.  They were on the second verse.....

How sweet to hold a newborn baby

and feel the joy and pride he gives

but greater still

the blessed assurance

This child can face uncertain days

because Christ lives!!!!!

The Lord used the children to remind me I needed to remember the song in my heart!  I started singing too!  I thought how worth it this time of suffering will be when I hold this precious baby in my arms.  Better than that, though, how wonderful to know that my precious child can face these sort of uncertain days because of ONE hope alone!!!  CHRIST LIVES!

I kept singing.  I started singing....

Come let us worship and bow down

Let us kneel before the Lord our God our Saviour.....

The babies sat in there high chairs soaking it in.  My one  year old even lifted her chubby little arm up in the air, as though she knew our family worship ushered in the Holy Spirit and scattered the evil away!  My 2 year old just sat smiling a precious and peaceful smile.

Sometimes it is so hard to remember what we must do when we feel that heavy oppression.  The Lord used my children to whisper His love to me, to reveal His presence and to remind me to just SING.  My day wasn't peaches and cream after that, but I had a different frame of mind and kept focusing on the fact that HE was right along beside me.....even carrying me through some of it!