Falling of the Wagon – pt 2

Falling off the wagon can happen to anyone, none of us are exempt from it. It happens when you allow things to become idols and you dethrone God off your heart. It happens slowly you almost don’t notice it! But as I have pondered many messages and people with good intentions sharing methods and such, my heart goes out to the listeners. I know what it is to here great ideals, and say "They sound like a wonderful family". And realize mine is far from that and so sets in frustration and disappointment.

But what I want share with you is well, your source. The great cleaning method is not your source. Organic food is not your source. The look of biblical womanhood is not your source. God is!!! It is a life of prayer, daily prayer that will give you answers and solutions for your home. Now don’t misunderstand me there is a saying that "curriculums are tools" in the same way all other things are tools. Our intentions may be good but they can become acts of the flesh dearest mother. Shall we walk any longer according to the flesh? Shall we try to look like others? I don’t want to!!! I want God’s plan for my Family the vision he has given my husband and I. But each of us has unique circumstances, an unbelieving husband, a past, and other such challenges.

You need God’s unique plan for your family. That lines up with the Word. While some things may work in my home, they may not in yours. You must prayerfully allow God to speak to your heart concerning your home. We are all called to be mothers who are to keep their home! Do you know anyone else that is going to do it? Sorry just being funny! But how we implement things into our home depends on our hearing from the Most High. Here is a personal example; my beloved works 2^{nd shift and for years and I mean years! I have tried to set a schedule that looks like;}

5am- prayer and intercession

6am- workout

7am-breakfast kids with bright happy smiles

8-chores

9-12-school

1-lunch

And so on goes my story. What you don’t understand is that to spend some time with my Beloved it was usually better suited to when he comes home. Otherwise I am batting foul balls. He works a lot of 12 hrs. Shifts bless his heart. In my ideal there was no room for him, I was trying to look very proverbs 31. Nothing wrong with that except if I would have covered my schedule planning in prayer and waited on the Lord. I would have discovered that my above schedule would not work and could have avoided unneeded stress.

So after many bumps lots of grace my schedule now allows for a late start in the day but we spend time with daddy and he is even able to lead devotions. Is that not worth my idol called "schedule of the perfect mother". Are there people who do rise early? Certainly, and it works for them. So all of this is to say allow the Holy Spirit to guide you and infuse life into your marriage, home school, schedule, chore chart! You get the picture. It’s a process that only God can give you the scoop on. We are all individual families. Now don’t misunderstand me I am not advocating for those who say God has not called me to be a keeper or wife (and you’re married).

You have such a precious privilege to impact generations by allowing God to use you as a woman after his heart. To do in your generation and family line what no other has. That is powerful! You have been anointed and appointed for that job no other can take your place dearest mother! No other. So let’s go over some pointers to this process;

1-Pray-Father how do I apply what I have learned? How does it build my family or does it break down?

2-Wait- Wait for an answer, for direction follow his lead! You follow remember?

3-Check and compare- To your family vision and mission.

4-Take the good throw out the bad!

I hope this article has blessed you. It has been my long journey. I pose a question to you that I ask myself all the time. If in loving God so much I neglect the thing he has given me as a treasure what difference can we make in this fragmented world? Our difference is that we would build his kingdom one family at a time!

In order to do that we need to get Father’s and mother’s back home heart and soul. And we need to encourage mothers out of their dizzy state. They have becoming ever learning and not understanding.

Love with all my heart

Mrs. Arroyo

Are you a Merchant Ship 4 Him?

Oh, Mother be watchful,

What are the goods you bring?

Are they Egypt’s plans and ideas?

Or someone else's goodies.

Be mindful, Oh Mama

Danger lies ahead!

For only the meat of God is the best,

For the souls God has put in your care.

Watch out Mama!

Have you paid the price?

Prayer and fasting are some of the keys,

Those unlock heavenly treasures and goodies.

So I warn you Mother bow down at his feet,

And be a Merchant Ship and part of his fleet!!

By Angelique