January 29, 2012

Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character

Posted in Beauty, Encouragement, Inspirational at 7:14 am by belovedheart

Proverbs 31:10-31

(New International Version)

10 [a]A wife of noble character who can find?    She is worth far more than rubies. 11 Her husband has full confidence in her    and lacks nothing of value. 12 She brings him good, not harm,    all the days of her life. 13 She selects wool and flax    and works with eager hands. 14 She is like the merchant ships,    bringing her food from afar. 15 She gets up while it is still night;    she provides food for her family and portions for her female servants. 16 She considers a field and buys it;    out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. 17 She sets about her work vigorously;    her arms are strong for her tasks. 18 She sees that her trading is profitable,    and her lamp does not go out at night. 19 In her hand she holds the distaff    and grasps the spindle with her fingers. 20 She opens her arms to the poor    and extends her hands to the needy. 21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household;    for all of them are clothed in scarlet. 22 She makes coverings for her bed;    she is clothed in fine linen and purple. 23 Her husband is respected at the city gate,    where he takes his seat among the elders of the land. 24 She makes linen garments and sells them,    and supplies the merchants with sashes. 25 She is clothed with strength and dignity;    she can laugh at the days to come. 26 She speaks with wisdom,    and faithful instruction is on her tongue. 27 She watches over the affairs of her household    and does not eat the bread of idleness. 28 Her children arise and call her blessed;    her husband also, and he praises her: 29 “Many women do noble things,    but you surpass them all.” 30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;    but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. 31 Honor her for all that her hands have done,    and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

10 Virtues of the Proverbs 31 Woman

Posted in Beauty, Christian, Family, Marriage, Motherhood, Priorities, Purpose, Wife, Wisdom at 7:11 am by belovedheart

We want to encourage women to serve God in every aspect of their lives.

1. Faith - A Virtuous Woman serves God with all of her heart, mind, and soul. She seeks His will for her life and follows His ways. (Proverbs 31: 26, Proverbs 31: 29 – 31, Matthew 22: 37, John 14: 15, Psalm 119: 15

2. Marriage – A Virtuous Woman respects her husband. She does him good all the days of her life. She is trustworthy and a helpmeet. (Proverbs 31: 11- 12, Proverbs 31: 23, Proverbs 31: 28, 1 Peter 3, Ephesians 5, Genesis2: 18)

3.  Mothering - A Virtuous Woman teaches her children the ways of her Father in heaven. She nurtures her children with the love of Christ, disciplines them with care and wisdom, and trains them in the way they should go. (Proverbs 31: 28, Proverbs 31: 26, Proverbs 22: 6, Deuteronomy 6, Luke 18: 16)

4. Health – A Virtuous Woman cares for her body. She prepares healthy food for her family. (Proverbs 31: 14 – 15, Proverbs 31: 17, 1 Corinthians 6: 19, Genesis 1: 29, Daniel 1, Leviticus 11)

5. Service - A Virtuous Woman serves her husband, her family, her friends, and her neighbors with a gentle and loving spirit. She is charitable. (Proverbs 31: 12, Proverbs 31: 15, Proverbs 31: 20, 1 Corinthians 13: 13)

6. Finances - A Virtuous Woman seeks her husband’s approval before making purchases and spends money wisely. She is careful to purchase quality items which her family needs. (Proverbs 31: 14, Proverbs 31: 16, Proverbs 31: 18, 1 Timothy 6: 10, Ephesians 5: 23, Deuteronomy 14: 22, Numbers 18: 26)

7.  Industry – A Virtuous Woman works willingly with her hands. She sings praises to God and does not grumble while completing her tasks. (Proverbs 31: 13, Proverbs 31: 16, Proverbs 31: 24, Proverbs 31: 31, Philippians 2: 14)

8. Homemaking – A Virtuous Woman is a homemaker. She creates an inviting atmosphere of warmth and love for her family and guests. She uses hospitality to minister to those around her. (Proverbs 31: 15, Proverbs 31: 20 – 22, Proverbs 31: 27, Titus 2: 5, 1 Peter 4: 9, Hebrews 13: 2)

9. Time - A Virtuous Woman uses her time wisely. She works diligently to complete her daily tasks. She does not spend time dwelling on those things that do not please the Lord. (Proverbs 31: 13, Proverbs 31: 19, Proverbs 31: 27, Ecclesiastes 3, Proverbs 16: 9, Philippians 4:8 )

10. Beauty – A Virtuous Woman is a woman of worth and beauty. She has the inner beauty that only comes from Christ. She uses her creativity and sense of style to create beauty in her life and the lives of her loved ones. (Proverbs 31: 10Proverbs 31: 21 – 22, Proverbs 31: 24 -25, Isaiah 61: 10, 1 Timothy 2: 9, 1 Peter 3: 1 – 6)

Source: A Virtuous Woman

Duties of Housewives

Posted in Wife at 6:59 am by belovedheart

A housewife is the traditional female  complement to the male breadwinner in a married couple. Housewives are women,  although househusbands are becoming more common. These are men who don’t work  for a paycheck outside of the home, but instead focus their energies on caring  for the home and its occupants. Exact housewifely duties vary depending on the  individual desires and circumstances of the couple; however, there are some  commonly accepted duties among housewives.

  1. Husband

    • Housewives are to care for and support the husband in different ways. This  may include making sure the husband has a clean and restful home environment,  caring for the husband’s clothes, shopping for the husband’s personal hygiene  products, attending the husband’s work functions, listening to the husbands  concerns and being intimate with the husband.

    Children

    • If children are present in the household, the housewife is typically  responsible for their physical and emotional care as well as their education and  development. The housewife bathes and clothes the children, makes sure they are  fed, teaches and supervises grooming habits, provides intellectual stimuli such  as reading to them or playing games with them, expresses concern for their  well-being and shows affection. Other duties include chauffeuring the children  to school and lessons, organizing social schedules and helping the children with  their homework.

    House

    • The housewife is generally responsible for cleaning, maintaining and  provisioning the household. Cleaning duties include organizing, dusting,  cleaning, scrubbing, sweeping, vacuuming, doing the dishes and doing laundry.  Maintaining the household may include paying the bills, creating and maintaining  a household budget, running household errands, mowing the lawn, getting the car  serviced and caring for any pets. Provisioning the household can include  shopping for food and cleaning supplies as well as buying clothes and  accessories for the different members of the  household.

    Food

    • Housewives are responsible for providing regular meals for all members of the  household as well as planning and providing for other special meals. This  includes planning, preparing, cooking, presenting and serving breakfast, lunch  and dinner at the house as well as cleaning up afterward. The housewife should  prepare packed lunches for weekdays as well as plan and prepare meals and  parties for holidays, special occasions and work or school  functions.

    Self

    • A housewife has a duty to take care of herself mentally, emotionally and  physically. This may include getting proper nutrition and exercise, maintaining  a good physical appearance and grooming habits, and developing hobbies and a  social life outside of the house. This will help the housewife more successfully  fulfill her other  duties.

Source: eHow Family

January 28, 2012

7 Tips on How to be a Productive Housewife

Posted in Wife at 6:21 pm by belovedheart

Here are some tips for you to help you be a productive housewife and be happy even you’re just at home:
1.     Schedule Household Chores
Make a list on the things that you need to accomplish in the house and make a schedule when to work on them. From the time you wake up, cook breakfast, dish washing, drop kids to school, clean the house, pick up kids from school, grocery shopping, dinner preparation, gardening, and laundry. Grocery shopping, gardening and laundry can be done once a week, right? If you put things on a certain time schedule, you can accomplish a lot of things on time and you will have more time for yourself. You’ll not feel exhausted. This is time management.
2.    Dance to the Beat!
Housewives should look better than wives with a regular job. Yes,, because you have more time for yourself at home. That should be the case. Don’t take yourself for granted. While doing your household chores turn on the music and dance to the beat. While the laundry is spinning, groove it. You will feel great and will be healthy and fit.
3.    Read Motivational Books
When you read books that will help you change your old self defeating thoughts, it will really make a significant difference to the way you view life. Being positive opens your signal to good opportunities, happy family, and good luck.
4.    Social Media Networking
Who says it’s boring to stay at home? What is the internet doing? You can connect to your long lost friends from high school or college, distant relatives, business associates, and meet new friends online. This way you have a social life and it’s a high tech way of keeping in touch.
5.    Current Events
Since you are at home, this is your chance to be up to date on the current events. Be smart on knowing the weather forecast, showbiz issues, up-coming movies, political issues. This will help your family prepare for the day and be informed too on what’s happening in the world. You will be the home based reporter. How about that?
6.    Online Education
Staying at home sometimes make you feel you are not smart. But, hey you are! You just have to dig deeper. Believe in yourself and strive more. It’s not too late to have a degree or add something to your knowledge. Why not check on the best accredited online schools? There are a lot to choose from. You can try to enhance your present knowledge or learn a new one. Learning is for all and not just for kids. This is your chance to keep your mind sharp. Don’t be afraid to feed your brain. You will feel good doing this. I’m so sure.
7.    Virtual Work
I bet you are surprised with this virtual work. Yes, you can be a virtual contractor/freelancer. This is a person who works remotely and provides various services to different business people. Meaning, you can earn money while you are at home. But, be careful because there a lot of scammers out there. You can work as a freelance writer, blogger, transcriber, translator, English as Second Language Teacher, survey taker, website builder, recruiter, call center agent, bookkeeper, administrative assistant, and a lot more. There are some well known outsourcing platforms online where you can create your profile and bid for projects. All you need is your computer and your basic skills. It’s amazing because you’re at home but you are earning dollars and you can still do your duties as a wife and a mother. That’s what they call multitasking.
I think being a housewife is the most amazing status a woman can be because you can do a lot of things in one day without neglecting your family. Now that you know how to be a productive housewife, what are you waiting for? Go on and widen your horizons and be proud of yourself. I am a productive housewife. I know you can too. No one can say I am just a housewife doing nothing because I can do more things than any woman can do with a regular job.
Source: My Colleges And Careers

January 23, 2012

Prayer: The Power To Become All That God Created You To Be

Posted in Prayer at 7:05 am by belovedheart

Lord, You have said in Your Word that whoever believes in You will have rivers if living water flowing from their hearts (John 7:38). I believe in You, and I long for Your living water to flow in and through me today and everyday that I’m alive. I invite Your Holy Spirit to fill me afresh right now. Just as a spring is constantly being renewed with fresh water so that it stays pure, I ask You to renew me in that same way today.

Your Word says that “the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered” (Romans 8:26). Lord I realize I don’t know how to pray as I need to, nor as often as I want to, but I invite You, Holy Spirit, to pray through me. Help me in my weakness. Teach me the things I don’t know about You.

I am desperately aware of how much I need Your power to transform me and my circumstances. I don’t want to live an ineffective life. I want to live in the dynamic power of Your Holy Spirit. I don’t want to be a spiritual underachiever. I want to be an o vercomer. You paid a price for me so that I can be owned by You. Help me to live like it. You planned out a course for my life so that I could be defined by You. Help me to act like it. You make it posssible to defeat my enemy. Help me not to forget it. You sent Your Holy Spirit so I can live in power. Help me to fulfill that promise. You gave Your life for me. Help me to do the same for You.

I put all my expectations in You, Lord. I repent of the times I have expected other people or other things to meet my needs when I should have been looking to You. I know that you are the only one who can complete me because You are everything I need. All that I ever wanted in my life can be found in You. Help me to remember to live not in my own strength, but by the power of Your Holy Spirit living in me. Forgive me for the times I have forgotten to do that. Enable me to grow in the things of Your kingdom so that I can become a whole, properly functioning, contributing, productive child of Yours who moves forward in Your purpose for my life.

“My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthins 6:14)

*Note: Excerpt from the book “The Power of a Praying Woman” by Stormie Omartian (pp.21-22)

January 18, 2012

Family Prayer …

Posted in Prayer at 9:20 am by belovedheart

God made us a family.

We need one another.

We love one another.

We forgive one another.

We work together.

We play together.

We worship together.

Together we use God’s word.

Together we grow in Christ.

Together we love all people.

Together we serve our God.

Together we hope for heaven.

These are our hopes and ideals.

Help us to attain them, O God,

Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

 

January 8, 2012

A Prayer for Husbands and Wives

Posted in Prayer at 5:29 pm by belovedheart

Lord Jesus Christ our God Who taught us to pray continually for one another, thus fulfilling Your commandment and manifesting our desire for Your mercy, in Your compassion watch over and protect us from all seen and unseen enemies.

Grant us health and complete wisdom so that we may fulfill all our obligations according to Your will and commandments. Protect us from all temptations which we do not have the strength to resist. Strengthen us in the right faith and in perfect love, that we may live together in virtue, and direct our lives according to Your precepts.

We implore You, O merciful Lord: Help us to remember that marriage is indeed holy, and strengthen the sanctity, of our union. Shower Your grace upon us so that we may live our lives in true faithfulness and love. Help us to understand and trust each other fully, keeping quarrels and arguments far from us. Bestow Your blessings upon us, and in Your mercy, count us worthy of Your kingdom, for You are our sanctification, and we offer glory to You: to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit now and ever and unto ages of ages.

In Your Name we pray. Amen.

A New Year Prayer

Posted in Prayer at 2:48 pm by belovedheart

Dear Heavenly Father,

The God of our yesterdays, our today, and our tomorrows.

We praise You for Your unequaled greatness.

Thank You for the year behind us and for the year ahead.

Help us in Your new year, Father, to fret less and laugh more.

To teach our children to laugh by laughing with them.

To teach others to love by loving them.

Knowing, when Love came to the stable in Bethlehem, He came for us.

So that Love could be with us, and we could know You.

That we could share Love with others.

Help us, Father, to hear Your love song in every sunrise,

in the chriping of sparrows in our backyards,

in the stories of our old folks, and the fantasies of our children.

Help us to stop and listen to Your love songs,

so that we may know You better and better.

We rejoice in the world You loved into being.

Thank You for another new year and for new chances every day.

We pray for peace, for light, and for hope, that we might spread them to others.

Forgive us for falling short this past year.

We leave the irreparable past in your hands, and step out into the unknown new year knowing You will go with us.

We accept Your gift of a new year and we rejoice in what’s ahead, depending on You to help us do exactly what You want..

I say it again, we rejoice!

In the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,

Amen.

November 2, 2011

Birthday Prayer…

Posted in Prayer at 5:42 am by belovedheart

Thank you Heavenly Father, for giving me another year of life.
Thank you for all the  family and friends who remembered me today
by sending cards. emails, flowers, gifts, prayers and good wishes.

Thank you for all the experience of this past year;
for times  of success which will always be happy memories,
for times of failure which  reminded me of my own weakness and of my need for You,
for times of joy when  the sun was shining,
for times of sadness which drove me to You.

Forgive me
for the hours I wasted,
for the chances I failed to take,
for the opportunities I missed this past year.
Help me in the days ahead to  make this the best year yet,
and through it to bring good credit to  myself,
happiness and pride to my loved ones,
and joy to You. In Jesus Name, Amen.

August 3, 2011

Forevermore…

Posted in Love, Songs, True Love at 2:06 pm by belovedheart

I may have run out of songs to sing
I may have run out of words to say but
All that I want you to know is what I feel for you
I love you…
As endless as forever
Our love will stay together
You’re all I need to be with
Forevermore

There are times when I just want to look at your face
With the stars in the night
There are times when I just want to feel your embrace
In the cold night
I just can’t believe that you are mine now

Chorus:
You were just a dream that I once knew
Never thought I would be right for you
I just cant compare you with anything in this world
You’re all I need to be with forevermore

All those years I’ve longed to hold you in my arms
I’ve been dreaming of you
Every night, I’ve been watching all the stars that fall down
Wishing you would be mine
I just can’t believe that you are mine now

Time and again
There are these changes that we cannot end
As sure as time keeps going on and on
My love for you will be forevermore

Wishing you would be mine
I just cant believe that you are mine now

You were just a dream that I once knew
I never thought I would be right for you
I just cant compare you with anything in this world
As endless as forever
Our love will stay together
You’re all I need to be with forever more
You’re all I need to be with forevermore…

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