I am a mom that survived cancer when I was 25 and had a hemipelvectomy at 26, which left me in a wheelchair. I attend school myself. As God has called me to Bible School and to homeschool our only daughter. My husband of 9 years is a Medic in the Canadian Army. May our HomeSchool Always Give God the Glory. Proverbs22:6 (AMP) Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Tue, 1 Sep 2009 01:12:00 -0500 Tue, 1 Sep 2009 01:12:00 -0500 How did I get here? So lost as of right now? Trying to find my way back? Doing all the wrong things. God calling me at every turn. Thank goodness that God is ALWAYS good, always true to His Word, that He will never leave us or forsake us. That no matter where I am or where I have been, HE IS THERE, calling to me. Sometimes I have listen and others I have to say I wasn't. I want to be on track now and I have to listen to His voice all the time. Things have changed in our house and I thought this change would be a good one with daddy home every night. But things seem to be going the wrong way and I wasn't listen to God tell me how to get back on track!?! I am listening now and I have heard Him and I have shared this with my husband,hoping that he will make the changes that our Precious Faith needs, to fill her emotional tank each night before he disappears to study. I have heard God when HE told me to get rid of the things that were getting in the way of His time with me, (even my family). I have left Facebook, no longer to be found there. I have deleted ALL the games off my BlackBerry, I have left all the homeschool support groups(this was hard), I never even wrote a good bye, not sure if they will even notice?? I kept the one that I run, (it's not doing so well and not sure how to get it going??), I left all the mass mail type things, letters on homeschooling helps, devotionals, whatever mailing list. BOY IS MY IN BOX QUITE NOW!!! I wanted to get rid of cable but Huddy isn't there yet, so I have to be diligent in NOT turning it on.  He(God) has allowed me to blog and wants to me start doing so again. I wrote my next article, but the ending wasn't right and huddy has been taking the computer with him every night that I never got to rewrite it the way God wanted and not me, but got lost in the mess of what gets lost in a computer crash!! All the emails I had to get to, all the blogs I like to visit, and other lost in space sites. So do you see what I do? that the crash was part of GOD'S PLAN??!! How great and wonderful He is that not matter how far I feel and how messed up I got, HE WAS RIGHT HERE, calling me back. 2 Thessalonians 3:3 (Amplified Bible) Yet the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen [you] and set you on a firm foundation and guard you from the evil [one]. James 3:17 (Amplified Bible) But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled); then it is peace-loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). [It is willing to] yield to reason, full of compassion and good fruits; it is wholehearted and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering, and insincerity). Romans 4:21 (Amplified Bible) Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/722773/ Tue, 1 Sep 2009 01:12:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/722773/ It has been so long since I have written and so long since I have done many things. I had planned last summer to take the summer off from studying my extra course for Bible School and from studying Photography. Well that summer break has now been a year. I am FINALLY getting back into studying. I have stop writing for the Pastor that has asked me to write, I have stop writing in my blog. It's time to restart these things. I feel the tug of God so hard in these areas. As I have stated in my last few entries that I have been having problems. I have FINALLY figured out what the cause of the problem was. It was taking a month off from school, we had formed a new habit that my Faith was having much to much trouble breaking. I also believe that the problems came as the Bible says and we have to use wisdom and ask God where these problems are coming from. Are they coming from God as this is what is building me, making me stronger and getting me ready and closer to my call? Or this satan trying to stop the things of God and the plans of God and get us off track. It was satan. God has such big plans and it is in the church we are attending, the curriculum that we are using, the time that we are spending with God, in moving forward and closer to His plan which He has place those desires in our hearts. I have gotten so far off the path that I was to be on. We are not to go to the right or to the left but stay in the middle. I was so far off the path, that I couldn't see right, couldn't hear God. It is so important for us to spend time with God. We will not know who He is if we don't spend time with Him. If we don't draw near to Him, He can't draw near to us. If we don't pray at all times with out ceasing then we wont hear His voice. If we don't build our relationship with Him, like we do with a spouse, how will we ever know HIS voice. When we are homeschooling and we are doing what God wants us to be doing. Not what we want or what is popular, or what other mom's are telling us to do. Then we have to fight and fight had to keep satan away.  Fight to keep ourselves strong. I have let that last year pass me by without doing the things that God has called me to do, in my studies. I haven't been giving myself time with the Lord, spending time doing the desires of my heart and that of course lead to not feeling the best about myself. Then that flooded into other areas to. I am happy to say that with the fight, we have in the end, stayed the course that God has called us to. We might be a bit behind but we are stronger for all that we have been through this pass year.  We are where God wants us to be and doing what God wants us to be doing and He has rewarded us greatly the last few months for the fighting of this pass year. I have a new van, fully paid for!! We have all our grade 3 curriculum bought and ready to go!! Harvey is starting his P.A. course right on track to what God told me, ahead of the "systems" schedule. He has a long two years ahead of him but the rewards at the end are going to be even greater!! Even in our hard time God is a rewarder. Remember that God can ONLY DO WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN HIM FOR. If you can't believe for Him is be a good God and a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Then He can't give you good things. Start believing for small things, build your faith up, hear the testimonies of other to build your faith. Don't hear it and think oh that is for them, rejoice in their news, as if it was your news. Believe for a God who will do everything He says He will do. Here are a few picture to run down the year!!! Here is my amazing girl getting ready for her dance with the leader and 8 other girls. Faith finished 2 books in Awana this year. We also have great friends that introduce us to Awana. They have been a blessing to us this year.    Faith was asked to do an interview on TV. Well so was I. I was shocked to see that we both were on the news.      Here is a picture of Mom and Dad, Mom and Me and Husband and I      Here is a little of our math on the wall.    Then my little girl all grown up. Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. Luke 11:28   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/690040/ Mon, 18 May 2009 00:03:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/690040/ I am finally up and running again!!! I was having some more "school" problems and when I finally prayed about it and asked God to help it was more "mom" problems than school. Things are better. I wasn't up to writing at that time. Then I got a blackberry and it has a password keeper in it so I put ALL my passwords in the program and now can't get into it and couldn't get the password for the blog. I finally took the time to write and get some help with a new password set up. So much has happen and so many things have changed that I am not even sure where I will begin? I want to give God the glory for being the God His word says He will be. He has me reading through the Bible in a year, reading the New American Standard Bible, and using two commentaries to go with it. The SPIRIT FILLED LIFE STUDY BIBLE and BELIEVER'S STUDY BIBLE. I am learning so many great and exciting things. He also has me doing a yearly devotion A LIFE OF MIRACLES, by Bill Johnson, it is based on three of his books. I have the first two the he uses in the devotion so I am reading the book for a deeper study. The book we are in now, is When Heaven Invades Earth, A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles. I am looking forward to a year of God's Power in our home, life, and church!! I am so happy to be finally back to blogging and writing out feeling and such. It will be nice to get things going again. I also want to say Happy Birthday to our Faith. I have spent the week trying to wrap my mind around the fact that she turned 7 today!!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL. Love Mom and Dad. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/655162/ Fri, 6 Feb 2009 01:17:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/655162/ This is the writing the I do for Pastor King's Web site. I hope that you enjoy it. It’s time as Christians to step up to the plate to think about what we are, and who we are, to the people that are around us everyday. We are called to a higher standard then the world. We are called to a different place than the world. Yet, more Christians live in worldliness, than they live in the place to where God has called them to. Quite often, Christians act no different than Non-Christians. Romans 12:1-2(Message) Place Your Life before God So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. We have to realize the time that we are in. We are not to worry about tomorrow, and what it will bring. We are to understand these times that we are in, and not stress about them. This is the time, this is the now. We have to be Christians of the greatest CHARACTER then ever before. We have to be setting the bar high. Matthew 6:24-26 (Amplified Bible) No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in). 25Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing? 26Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they? I want people to look at me and see my peace, my joy, and my confidence, so that when they ask I can tell them were my confidence comes from. I am tired of this battle that I am in, being tossed to and from by Satan. It is time that we all stand on our own two feet and proclaim the glory of the Lord. It is time to be the persons that God called us to be. 1 Thessalonians 1:4-6 (Amplified Bible) [O] brethren beloved by God, we recognize and know that He has selected (chosen) you; 5For our [preaching of the] glad tidings (the Gospel) came to you not only in word, but also in [its own inherent] power and in the Holy Spirit and with great conviction and absolute certainty [on our part]. You know what kind of men we proved [ourselves] to be among you for your good. 6And you [set yourselves to] become imitators of us and [through us] of the Lord Himself, for you welcomed our message in [spite of] much persecution, with joy [inspired] by the Holy Spirit; It is time to do the things that God has placed us on the earth to do. We can no longer say; I will do it tomorrow. We know that God created us for this time, and this day. We also know that God has a plan for us. If we don’t know what that plan is then it is time for us to spend time in the Word, in prayer and listening to God’s Voice. MEASURING UP Jeremiah 1:5 (NKJV) “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Remember, He is a good God and He gave us free will, He will NEVER make us do anything. Each of us knows when we aren’t happy. Many times we just go from thing to thing or from place to place looking for happiness that only God’s plan for your life can ever fill. Only in the place that God has called you, will you find the greatest joy you have ever felt. As I sit here and think about what it is that I do that causes others look at me and think; “she is a Christian”, I realize the importance of seeing the threat of the deceiver. He will find things that draw us away from our time with God. He will also fill our time with what ever appeals to our weaknesses, in order to keep us away from God. Let’s really think about how much each of us doing in reality are good things such as doing for people helping people and all these good tasks. We must ask ourselves, is the deceiver making us so busy that we can’t think of the last time we read our Bible or when we last spent time talking to our Heavenly Father, studying His Word, listening to His plans or soaking in His Presence. We have to be so careful. We need this “God time”. God has a plan for our lives. Many times we think that it’s not so far from what we are presently doing. However, there are big differences in the worlds busy and God’s busy. In the world’s agenda, there’s just never enough time to get it all done. But if we do God’s Way, He will teach us how to get it all done. He may even bring in the right person to help us get it done faster. He will help us plan our time, not only will it all get done, it will be done better and faster then if we had done it the worlds way. If we simply ask God for “His Plan,” He will provide us with answers and in ways we never thought possible. If we don’t spend time with Him, we will not want to hear from Him. Joshua 1:7-9 (Message) Give it everything you have, heart and soul. Make sure you carry out The Revelation that Moses commanded you, every bit of it. Don't get off track, either left or right, so as to make sure you get to where you're going. And don't for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be out of mind. Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice everything written in it. Then you'll get where you're going; then you'll succeed. Haven't I commanded you? Strength! Courage! Don't be timid; don't get discouraged. God, your God, is with you every step you take." Let’s just think about the people around us and what they see in our lives. Do they see peace, joy and love? Or do they see stress, sadness and unkindness. Do they see us spending too much time watching TV, on the computer, or wasting time? Be assured, people are watching us, and needing us more today then ever before. I have come to the conclusion, that normal and powerless is no longer good enough. I want people to see Jesus all over me, in everything I do, in everything I say. I want them to see the peace of God in my life and His glory on my face so that they will have no other choice but to walk up to me and ask for prayer. I want to sense His presence so strongly that whenever I walk into a place, He will reveal a person’s needs and strengthen me so that I might pray effectively for that individual, so that they too, will experience His power moving and working in their life. STANDING UP What will it take for the body of Christ to desire this in our every day lives? What will it take for us to desire more than the “norms” we have become used to? I feel that it’s time to stop worrying about what someone else might think, and just do what God has asked us to do. Just think about having the power of God over us and working through us and changing someone’s life each and every day. Imagine experiencing “His Abundance” to where all your needs are met. Again, just imagine the joy of sharing this wonderful experience and blessing the needy person in front of you. Just think about walking into Wal-Mart and seeing a person in a wheelchair and having God tell you to set that person free. Just imagine walking the down town of your area, setting the young people free from Satan’s traps and healing them of their addictions. Then again, imagine helping that man or women that has been on the street for years and laying hands on them and setting them free of the bondages they have been fighting for so long. Matthew 28:16-20 (NLT) The Great Commission 16 Then the eleven disciples left for Galilee, going to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him—but some of them doubted! 18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Where will the hunger come from? What will it take for us to realize the power of the God we serve, who He really is and what He wants to do for us. This is the time! This is the place! This is the now! Let’s get up and take our place! Let’s do the things that our Heavenly Father has called us to do! Let’s be who he has called us to be and let’s give “HIM” the Glory at our every turn! Matthew 10:7, 8(NKJV) And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. By Teresa R. Martin http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/619389/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:59:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/619389/ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/619388/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:56:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/619388/