The Funny Farm

We are so blessed to attend a large church where many influential Christian speakers come on Sundays.  This past Sunday Lon Allison (He is on the Billy Graham Team) came to speak on being ready to serve God.  He spoke how we need to train every day like training for a big race.  Well, God placed it on my heart that my family needs to be "Fit" for God. 

So the three areas we are training are

1. Mentally - being in God's Word each day as a family - reading the Bible and talking about it before we do anything else in our day!

2.  Spiritually - We have made a family prayer journal.  We used a 3-Ring binder and made a cover.  The pages are simply note book page with three columns -

Column 1- Date, Column 2 - Prayer Request and Column 3- How God answered our Prayers 

Everyone can add the prayer requests.  Each night before bedtime we have family prayer time and at that time we will pray over these requests.  Also, each morning when we do Bible time we open in prayer, lifting our day to God and then petitioning these prayer requests.  God has done amazing things in our lives and friends/ family - this is an exciting way to document and remember how He answers on those rough days!

Here are pics below:

 Journal Cover

- My daughter picked a Bible Coloring page she liked and then we glued onto Construction Paper and put in the Clear pocket on front.

Inside Journal

3. Physically  - we are making it a commitment as a family to have family exercise time - walking 30 minutes a day and keeping a journal of exercises done and progress.  WE are starting with sit-ups - yikes!!!

Blessings,

Flossie

We are so blessed to attend a large church where many influential Christian speakers come on Sundays.  This past Sunday Lon Allison (He is on the Billy Graham Team) came to speak on being ready to serve God.  He spoke how we need to train every day like training for a big race.  Well, God placed it on my heart that my family needs to be "Fit" for God. 

So the three areas we are training are

1. Mentally - being in God's Word each day as a family - reading the Bible and talking about it before we do anything else in our day!

2.  Spiritually - We have made a family prayer journal.  We used a 3-Ring binder and made a cover.  The pages are simply note book page with three columns -

Column 1- Date, Column 2 - Prayer Request and Column 3- How God answered our Prayers 

Everyone can add the prayer requests.  Each night before bedtime we have family prayer time and at that time we will pray over these requests.  Also, each morning when we do Bible time we open in prayer, lifting our day to God and then petitioning these prayer requests.  God has done amazing things in our lives and friends/ family - this is an exciting way to document and remember how He answers on those rough days!

Here are pics below:

 Journal Cover

- My daughter picked a Bible Coloring page she liked and then we glued onto Construction Paper and put in the Clear pocket on front.

Inside Journal

3. Physically  - we are making it a commitment as a family to have family exercise time - walking 30 minutes a day and keeping a journal of exercises done and progress.  WE are starting with sit-ups - yikes!!!

Blessings,

Flossie

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - What a great idea!

Posted by AprilinRI
Thanks for sharing! This is such a wonderful and purposeful way to commit to prayer.

Blessings,
April

Monday, March 17, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by RachelsReasoning
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