Hello Friends,
I hope you’re enjoying this beautiful Spring! The air is fragrant and inviting, and the temps are just right for Jim and me to go run in the early mornings before beginning our work day.
On this past beautiful spring Saturday, we held our first of the spring/summer season, Moms Day Out, with the theme of “Hope Inspired.” We continue to reach out to our local community, and this year we decided to use our 5 new mini coaching programs in Making Heart-Level Connections as the ministry focus for each Moms Day Out, which will include a beautiful Tea Party hosted by one of our friends.
We heard testimonies from four of our local moms about a specific relational challenge with one of their children, and how God reconciled the situation as they obeyed their conscience, which resulted in creating a stronger heart-level bond for both mother and child. We want to create hope and inspire moms to allow God to reconcile their relationships with their children at the heart-level. Barbie shared some thoughts about the definitions of hope and inspire and I wanted to share them with you here.
Hope Inspired
Inspire means to suggest, to introduce, to instill, and to implant ideas into the mind; to fill you with what brings new life, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate to the spirit a superior or supernatural influence. We all need a superior influence! All around you, you can witness the same old thing happening to just about everyone’s family as their children approach the teen years. Hearts begin to close off more and more, broken relationships begin to be more noticeable, kids begin to go their own independent ways, and parents begin to lose their influence. It’s pretty difficult to comfort yourself with the thought that, “It must be normal, it’s happening to everyone.”
So, the idea that we want to implant in your mind—to inspire you—that has the potential of filling you with new life. We want your spirit to receive communication from a superior influence. That influence is the Holy Spirit as He provides your conscience with both correction and instruction. The hope is that as you cooperate with God’s desires for your family, it will result in healed, whole heart-level relationships with your children.
Hope is a desire of some good accompanied with at least a slight expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable, based on substantial evidence. Hope provides pleasure or joy and is confident in a future event.
We want to provide you with substantial evidence that your cooperation with God’s desires for your family will result in healed and whole heart-level relationships with your children. We want to stir up in you the expectation of obtaining this and the belief that it is obtainable in your life….We encouraged the moms at our Moms Day Out to begin to listen to their consciences.
Here are a few more of the comments we received after just one 2-hour coaching call about the conscience.
“I never knew my conscience could be so sharp. I get poked if I even begin to clench my teeth. This is a good thing, because I see that I start to clench my teeth when I am about to speak in irritation or anger. I love that the Holy Spirit wants me to “Stop It!” even before I get started, and will lovingly warn me that it is coming. I don’t want to miss the REAL God anymore. I can hardly contain my joy today. I have found Him!!! I have been singing and dancing all morning.”
“My conscience has been sharpened—as soon as a single sharp word or clenched teeth begins to happen I’m reminded to just STOP! Thank you so much for this ministry!!!”
“After this first call, there is a new peace that has come over my soul. The Lord is fully meeting my needs. I am so excited to be in this place. It has been a very long time coming. I am so grateful that God’s love is more than enough, that His heart is to forgive. I have been enabled to completely forgive. How grateful I am.”
“I am breathing the perfume of hope and forgiveness. My god, who was always angry and disapproving, is the wrong one. Praise Jesus! I now can see The True Forgiving Savior. I caught a view of Him, through Barbie’s description of Marilyn’s forgiveness of her, that I have never seen before. I did not realize that is how Jesus is with me. I have seen Jesus all wrong for a long time. The picture I am seeing in my mind is Jesus standing in front of me, offering himself to love me, forgive me, etc., but I am turned toward the guy next to Him, who is angry and disapproving, thinking he is Jesus. No wonder I have had no relationship. I have been appealing to the wrong person. How sad that must make Him!”
“After the call I was just crying out to the Lord! I poured out my heart in repentance and He lavished me with His amazing love! Then later in the evening when my husband said that he’d like to hear about the call. I had to chuckle, because after all the tears, I was exhausted and felt like there would be NO WAY to ever share with him all that God is doing in me. It was then that the Holy Spirit whispered, ‘you don’t have to share it all just start by humbling yourself and repent.’ I did exactly that and it was an amazing time of breakthrough and forgiveness! Not only was my husband receptive, but God showed up in a powerful way and brought so much healing and hope over us!”
“After the first call, my gratefulness is overflowing. I am a different person today—no longer taking up offense. I’m showering forgiveness and grace on my kids and my husband and seeing my sin for what it really is and, without even waiting one second, repenting and receiving God’s mercy and forgiveness in real time. My desire to turn away from God to my own ways is GONE. He IS Who He says He IS! Thank you so very much, Marilyn and Barbie. God has used your ministry to draw me to Himself. I have listened to the call again, and I’ve already gotten more out of it…I just want to LOVE everyone the way I have been loved. Lord, You are so merciful and so precious. I love You, Lord!”
Moms are now recognizing what the Lord wants to do, and who He really is! They are making heart-level connections! They are choosing to cooperate with Him toward the mending of their family relationships, and they are allowing God to begin with them! To God be the glory for the good works He is doing! We are truly grateful!
“May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope.” ~ Romans 15: 13
There is so much more! God keeps working everyday in these moms.
Click Here to Learn More about the programs, Making Heart-Level Connections
Our brand new product from the first mini coaching program “Your Conscience” will be available for purchase by the end of this week. If you missed the live calls and want to hear what it’s all about, you can purchase the program in our eStore. It has 4 1-hour audios of Barbie and me discussing with the moms on the calls what their disconnect is that prevents them from knowing God and receiving His blessings. It includes the same questionnaire they filled out, a 12-page article “Resetting Your Conscience” and our answers to specific questions the moms asked during the two weeks of the program.
Go Here to get the program “Your Conscience”! Regular price is $63.00. LOLACHE members pay only $47.00 in the Members eStore. They will be available soon!
Hope you can get in on the next live coaching program “Your Desires” coming soon! Details will be in the next eNewsletter.
Grateful to be in the Lord’s service,
Marilyn Howshall for Lifestyle of Learning™ Ministries
[Lifestyle of Learning™/LOLACHE eNewsletter ~ April 25, 2012, Issue 21]