Love you all, praying for you.
God prompting me this morning. During Holiday weeks – often extended families get together for a few days. There is a lot of cooking and baking and eating and babies and cousins and diapers and football games and shopping trips, and game nights, and all those things that you do as a family. As quick as those weeks come, they are gone. And often the vacation and family time that God gave as a gift for a change of pace, can get consumed by a pace equal to or greater than the work week pace. And after the food and the games and the fun – often I’ve found my opportunity for extra time in His Word – got away from me, and some days – I even missed time with Him altogether. This isn’t religion – and many will say sometimes you just need to unplug… and I couldn’t agree more – unplug from the world, but not from Him, not from the One who wants to direct your vacation days just as much as He wants to direct your work days. Who knows how to get the most rest and refreshing out of a vacation day – as much as He knows how to get the most productivity and success out of a business day. Praying that you will consider even during a family get-together week – a quick 3-Day-Challenge with a family member. Even this week, a parent or grandparent, a sibling or cousin. Maybe you’ve been Daily Call partners with them before and now both of you have walked with others… Maybe they have never heard of a Daily Call – and you could just seek God together with them – even during busy family holidays. It will take you into His presence, and will help you hear His still small voice for you – His perfect timed word of revelation that you really need when spending a few days in a row with family you don’t see all the time. Maybe just do PiVAT before dinner together with them. Maybe do PRISM together for a day. Rotate your Praise the Word verse – Read the Word through the same Chapter. Rotate reading today’s Insight from the Word – in the Proverbs Chapter for today – together. And S.O.A.P. out what God reveals as your SOAP verse, and share together what God just spoke. And pick a PRISM topic to review together - and Pray It Over Them! It will take your family week – to a whole new level. It will focus you on Jesus, the LORD of love – (so you can love your family better) the SOURCE of wisdom (so you know what to say and not say, and when), and the God of Peace… (so you are seeking peace and pursuing it) when family tempers can at times be short. During busy Holidays, we could sometimes lose our connection with Jesus – the One who makes every earthly relationship more rich and rewarding. Praying that you’ll ask God who even in your own family – He might want you to invite for a 3-Day-Challenge this Holiday week. PiVAT before dinner will never yield nothing – When we ask for wisdom and His plan for us for tomorrow – He always tells us. It’s good! It’s better than we can come up with - whether a work day or a vacation day. PRISM will never return empty – He promised. And overcoming with your testimony on that Daily Call with a family member – will not only increase the effectiveness of this family visit – and make you a greater blessing to everyone, but the Holiday week will take on a new significance. There will be seeds planted that will reap a harvest for weeks and months and years to come. You won’t come away from this week with just memories – you’ll come away with all that God had for you! Love you all, dad
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