Friday Blessings

What a lovely day to give thanksgiving to the one who gives brand new mercies everyday! It’s already May and that means spring is in full force and summer is right around the corner. Let’s take a few moments to simply say “thank you” for the blessing of seeing another day.

I wanted to take a few moments just to let you all know how wonderful and amazing you are. Thanks so much for your continued support of this ministry and this blog. It is my prayer that this ministry will continue to bless you as your support has blessed me. I can’t believe it’s been a year already. God is truly incredible!

I will be taking a week off from posting and would love for you all to take time to check out some of my earlier posts. You can do so by scrolling mid-way through www.savedmom.com and looking under “Blog Archive” on the right side of the page. I hope that you enjoy the archived posts and I pray that blessings and peace are with you always. “All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:”(Deuteronomy 28:2).

Until our next appointed meeting time. Stay tuned for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment). If you would like to submit prayer requests send them to info@savedmom.com. Thanks for your continued support!

Mommie Blessings,

Saved M.O.M.

Word Wednesday

Today is officially “Word Wednesday” otherwise known as “Hump Day.” We’ve made it half way through yet another week on the wonderful, exciting and bumpy road of motherhood. Therefore, some of us are looking for some encouraging words to make it through the rest of the week with Joy and Peace. At night before my son goes to bed, in addition to reading bible stories, I read him a passage out of Prayers That Avail Much, First Blessings for Your Child by Germaine Copeland. Mommies we have to keep our children prayed up and constantly put Gods Word in their hearts.

Monday’s passage read, “Lie down in peace this evening, dear child, because our dwelling place is secure. You can rest; you are secure in God. God has shielded you all day long. You can look about and rest in hope.” After reading this scripture I thought about a message that I recently heard Pastor Joyce Meyer ministering on. She was talking about being in the rest of God and letting your soul go on vacation. In this message she wanted to convey to the audience that in the midst of trials and stressful times you should give your situation over to God and let your soul take a vacation. When your soul is on vacation you don’t worry or stress over what you see in the natural, but you allow your soul to rest while God fights the battle for you.

It’s quite evident by the fact that so many stress-induced diseases and illnesses are killing and affecting God’s children daily, that we aren’t letting our souls go on vacation. We aren’t REALLY giving the “issues” over to God, but we need to. The Lord our God is our shield, therefore, we can always rest securely in Him. “About Benjamin he said: "Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders."” (Deuteronomy 33:12). So the next time you feel stress creeping up on you, stop and take a much needed “soul vacation” and let God bring you out in victory!

Until our next appointed meeting time. Stay tuned for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment). If you would like to submit prayer requests send them to info@savedmom.com. Thanks for your continued support!

Mommie Blessings,

Saved M.O.M.

Blessings and Curses

Good top of the week to you and yours! Here we are blessed with another beautiful week in the life of. Today it was placed on my heart to simply post a chapter out of the bible for your reading pleasure. Below you will find chapter 28 from the book of Deuteronomy (New International Version). Enjoy!

Blessings for Obedience

1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you. 11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.

12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

Curses for Disobedience

15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. [a] 21 The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24 The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29 At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34 The sights you see will drive you mad. 35 The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. 37 You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the LORD will drive you.

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

43 The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.

45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

53 Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities.

58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God- 59 the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God. 63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!"-because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. 68 The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

Until our next appointed meeting time. Stay tuned for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment). If you would like to submit prayer requests send them to info@savedmom.com. Thanks for your continued support!

Mommie Blessings,

Saved M.O.M.

Feature Friday

I am so excited that we have been blessed to see another Black History Month! It’s imperative that we not forget the many African Americans that came before us and were an essential part of American history. As we celebrate Black History Month, Saved M.O.M. will feature African American Women whom played significant roles in the progression of American History, every Friday this month.

This Friday I am doing things a little differently. I sat for what seemed like several hours today trying to figure out who I would spotlight this week. After much research and praying it finally hit me. I came to the realization that there are so many women that have played an important role in Black History, so why single out just one for this week? When in doubt, don’t try to figure it out! Just go with the flow… So, in going with the flow I want to direct you all to a web link that will give you an opportunity to read about many Notable African American Women.

Take some time to learn more about our history by visiting http://womenshistory.about.com/od/africanamerican/a/black_women.htm. There is so much wisdom to be gained in learning about the past. Take time out of your busy schedule to speak with an elder about things of old. I’m sure they would love to have a listening ear as they share their stories with you. The Word tells us, “Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.” (Deuteronomy 32:7). Let’s not forget the people that paved the way!

Until our next appointed meeting time. Stay tuned for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (http://www.savedmom.com/), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment). If you would like to submit prayer requests send them to info@savedmom.com. Thanks for your continued support!

Mommie Blessings,

Saved M.O.M.

Testimony Tuesday

Hello beautiful people! Today is Testimony Tuesday and we have been blessed with an anonymous testimony to share on today. As we all know, the miracle of child birth is an amazing testimony in and of itself. Today’s testimony is a story God’s restoration and the blessing of childbirth.

In December of 2008 a loving couple seemed to have conceived a baby. Symptoms of pregnancy prompted them to schedule an appointment with the doctor to confirm their suspicions. According to the ultrasound, it seemed as though the woman was pregnant. Although, it was soon discovered, that there were visible signs of a placenta but no fetus. When this phenomenon occurs, one is considered to have a blighted ovum. This condition is actually much more common than most people think.

In the case of a blighted ovum, the woman is given the option to have the placenta removed or to allow the body to naturally purge itself of the placenta. In this instance, the woman allowed nature to take its course. About 10 weeks after conception the woman’s body released the placenta and the husband and wife proceeded to attempt to conceive again. A few months later they conceived again and the woman experienced a healthy full-term pregnancy!

Two weeks ago today, husband and wife welcomed a beautiful baby into their loving arms. Exactly one year after the "miscarriage" this family was blessed with a beautiful bundle of joy! This woman wanted me to share her testimony to show that God is faithful and true. The word tells us, “Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.” (Deuteronomy 7:9).

What we all must understand is that God answers the prayers of His faithful children and His timing is always best. There may be something that you have been believing God for and things are not look so great right now. Rest assured that if you are keeping His commands and walking in love, the Lord hears and knows what’s best for you. Just be patient and it will all work out for your good!

Until our next appointed meeting time. Stay tuned for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment). If you would like to submit prayer requests send them to info@savedmom.com. Thanks for your continued support!

Mommie Blessings,

Saved M.O.M.

Word Wednesday

Today is officially “Word Wednesday” otherwise known as “Hump Day.” We’ve made it half way through yet another week on the wonderful, exciting and bumpy road of motherhood. Therefore, some of us are looking for some encouraging words to make it through the rest of the week with Joy and Peace. At night before my son goes to bed, in addition to reading bible stories, I read him a passage out of Prayers That Avail Much, First Blessings for Your Child by Germaine Copeland. Mommies we have to keep our children prayed up and constantly put Gods Word in their hearts.

Sunday’s passage read, “I pray for the Lord to bless your skills and be pleased with the work of your hands. I thank God for creating a desire in you to work, to do something useful with your own hands so you may have something to share with those in need.” Immediately after reading this passage I started to reflect on a dismal moment that I recently experienced. As we know, during our faith walk we are sometimes attacked in our minds. Well, as I laid in bed a few days ago I was overcome with feelings of worthlessness and negativity. I started to feel as though I wasn’t good enough and that my contribution here on earth was miniscule at best. Soon thereafter I started to pray to God regarding these feelings and I talked to my husband about it as well.

At that very moment my husband began to minister life to me. He started showing me just how important my life and ministry are. I began to remind myself that we were ALL placed on earth with a divine purpose and with the necessary skill set needed to carry out that purpose. This makes me think of something that Moses said as he blessed the tribes in the book of Deuteronomy, “Bless all his skills, O LORD, and be pleased with the work of his hands. Smite the loins of those who rise up against him; strike his foes till they rise no more." (Deuteronomy 33:11). Today I want each of you to know that God has placed greatness on the inside of you. You were born with a purpose for your life and whenever the enemy starts to attack you just remember, “…When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. (Isaiah 59:19).

Until our next appointed meeting time. Stay tuned for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment). If you would like to submit prayer requests send them to info@savedmom.com. Thanks for your continued support!

Mommie Blessings,

Saved M.O.M.

Feature Friday

Congratulations, you made it through another week in the life of a Saved M.O.M.! Here at Savedmom.com we take time out on Fridays to feature Saved M.O.M.’s. There are so many wonderful mothers that don’t get the recognition they deserve. I have to preface this post with a bit information for you to chew on. The following interview was completed over 2 weeks ago. Then a series of unfortunate events occurred, which kept the feature from getting posted. I am assuming that this young lady is destined to touch many with her walk and something greater was keeping her feature from the masses. So, without further ado, I present to you Mrs. Elise Wilder. Elise currently resides in Atlanta, GA. She is a devoted wife and the mother of an adorable baby boy. She is extremely active at Free Chapel working with the Prayer Ministry, assisting in the Youth Ministry, distributing food to those in need and serving as Small Group attendee and co-lead with her husband.

Elise grew up going to church with her aunt and was baptized during her childhood. As she grew older she started to stray away from living a submitted life unto the Lord. She recalled, “Once I returned home from undergraduate studies, I found myself feeling like I needed something… at this moment of my life I knew something was truly missing. The Lord guided me to do something that would change my life - I began attending Lincoln Avenue’s (in Pasadena, CA) Bible Study, only. The members would ask me to attend Sunday Service but I knew in my heart that the Lord wanted me to maintain this process. All of my life, my involvement in church was just that… pure involvement. I was not serving the Lord because I did not know Him as my personal Savior and Lord.” Elise began to build her spiritual foundation on God’s word instead of getting caught up in the “busyness” of church. She said, “This would cause me to serve the Lord and not man. This walk was very difficult because many of my fellow Christians did not understand and did not agree with excluding Sunday Service from this way of fellowship.” After some time of purely seeking God and His word she started to attend Sunday service as well. Later the Lord led Elise to move to Iowa and there her prayer life grew and she started to seek the Lord on a much deeper level. Elise explained, “I never thought I would ever witness this kind of love but I am so happy that He loves me so much.”

When asked what being a Saved M.O.M. means to her Elise stated, “Being a Saved Mommie On a Mission means various things to me. As a believer it means; God is my Father and Jesus is my Lord & Savior sent to save my life. Through the gift of Salvation, the Lord has given me Eternal Life with Him during this journey, that the Lord has given me. I rely on Him to guide me and to give me strength to be obedient to His purpose for me.” Then Elise went on to explain, “As a Mommie On a Mission (M.O.M.) it means; The Lord has given me an assignment to care for the gift He gave me in my child (and future children). He has given me the responsibility and provided me the wisdom to train up my child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6). The Lord has given me the freedom to choose life or death, blessing or cursing… I choose life that both my child and I may live. (Deuteronomy 30:19-20). The Lord has given me the spirit to pray for others. I am lead to place requested at His feet that He will help us as mommies (and our children) to live for Him. (Colossians 1).

Elise’s favorite scripture is I Samuel 30:6 “Now David was greatly distressed … But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.” (NKJV). Elise wanted to leave our M.O.M.’s with these words… “The Lord has blessed us with wisdom and passion to carry out our mommy duties. And He has given us all talents and skills that we utilize throughout our lives to give Him glory. “Mommies, your children arise up, and call you blessed; your husband also, and he praiseth you.” (Proverbs 31:28). Elise states her life mission as follows, “My mission is to not only edify/exhort others but to educate/teach hurting, misunderstood people to encourage themselves in the Lord and recover all through the Lord’s power. This in turn will encourage the ability to live the life that is directed by the Lord. (I Samuel 30).”

Elise is currently collecting childrens items to aid an orphanage in Haiti. If you have items that you would like to donate please email me at info@savedmom.com. Until our next appointed meeting time. Stay tuned for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment). If you would like to submit prayer requests send them to info@savedmom.com. Thanks for your continued support!

Mommie Blessings,

Saved M.O.M.

Word Wednesday

Today is officially “Word Wednesday” otherwise known as “Hump Day.” We’ve made it half way through yet another week on the wonderful, exciting and bumpy road of motherhood. Therefore, some of us are looking for some encouraging words to make it through the rest of the week with Joy and Peace. At night before my son goes to bed, in addition to reading bible stories, I read him a passage out of Prayers That Avail Much, First Blessings for Your Child by Germaine Copeland. Mommies we have to keep our children prayed up and constantly put Gods Word in their hearts.

Yesterday’s passage read, “I pray that the Father will watch over you when I am absent and we are hidden from one another. I ask Him, to cover you with His feathers. Under His wings you shall take refuge. I thank God that you are never alone.” As parents it’s not uncommon for us to worry about our children when they are not in our presence. Although, as Christian parents we can find comfort in knowing that our Father will watch over them in our absence. The Lord our God will never leave or forsake us or our children. “The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” (Deuteronomy 31:8).

This is one of the many reasons that it is important that we live submitted lives and cover our children until they can spiritually cover themselves. In the midst of me typing this I just heard about the devastation that has taken place in Haiti. I am going to turn my focus away from this entry to pray for the people of Haiti. I ask that each of you take time to send your prayers up and go www.redcross.org to make donations to aid Haiti in their time of need. Peace and blessings to you.

Until our next appointed meeting time. Stay tuned for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment). If you would like to submit prayer requests send them to info@savedmom.com. Thanks for your continued support!

Mommie Blessings,

Saved M.O.M.

Blessed to Be...

Good day to all of you wonderfully made beautiful people! I am extremely elated as I sit down to write today. Over the weekend I celebrated my birthday and enjoyed some much needed fellowship with some of the people I love the most! Thanks to all of you that made this one of my best birthdays thus far. I love you all more than words or actions could ever express. Thank You!

As a child I hated the fact that my birthday was in winter and so close to the holidays. It always seemed as though my friends that had summer birthdays had so many more options than me when it came to celebrating. I could never partake in celebrating outdoors like they could; no pool parties, no amusement parks and no trips to the beach. Also, having a birthday so close to the holidays meant that people were often tired and running low on cash when my birthday came.

Now that I have grown and matured, I can truly say that I appreciate my birthday exactly where it falls on the calendar. It gives me the opportunity to celebrate triple new beginnings; the birth of Jesus, the beginning of a new year on the calendar and the beginning of a new year in my life! Talk about triple blessings!

My birthday weekend got off to a rough start and I let stress and frustration overtake me. Then I had to take a few deep breaths and reflect on the many blessings that I have to be thankful and grateful for. I thank God for the blessings that He promised us in Deuteronomy 28. He explained that if we obey Him and His commandments we will be blessed in many ways. It’s amazing how we can let a shift in circumstances disrupt our joy in a matter of minutes. As children of the Most High God, we must remember that according to Isaiah 54:17 no weapon that is formed against us shall prosper. Then proclaim that “…we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” (Romans 8:37). So the next time you feel that shift coming in, take a few deep breaths and meditate on those scriptures. Then you will be able to smile and bask in the joy of the Lord.

Until our next appointed meeting time. Stay tuned for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment). If you would like to submit prayer requests send them to info@savedmom.com. Thanks for your continued support!

Mommie Blessings,

Saved M.O.M.

Too Busy For God

Hello everyone, I hope your day has gotten off to a great start! My day is going pretty well, just busy as usual. Sometimes I wonder is it really necessary to be so busy, and what am I so busy doing? It seems as though we all have a tendency to get caught up in the everyday things that life may throw our way and we end up being way too busy.

Every week I make a To Do List of things to accomplish and it never fails that day by day I end up adding many other things to the list. The To Do List literally goes on and on! In the midst of frantically attempting to complete my To Do List I sometimes miss out on my prayer, devotion and study time. I get so frustrated with myself and keep saying that I am going to do better. In reality, I need to stop talking about it and just plain out be about it.

We should never let our daily “busyness” allow us to be too busy for God. I shutter to think how awful I would feel if God were too busy for me. What if at the very moment that I asked for salvation God was too busy? Or, if when I prayed to God He was too busy to answer? That would definitely not be a good look! I am so thankful that God is always there whenever I need Him, no matter what. “The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." (Deuteronomy 31:8).

That makes me think of a song by Ashanti that was popular when I was living footloose and fancy free in the world. The song went a little something like this… “Baby, I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time.” I feel like that’s how it is with God. He may not always answer our prayers when and how we want Him to, but He always works things out right on time.

Be sure to tune in tomorrow for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment).

Mommie Blessings,

Shonte’ Press