Prayer, Purpose, Passion webinar 2 coming up!

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Are you experiencing purposeful, passionate living for Christ – and passing it on to your children?  Join Tara McClenahan and Beth Jones for an exciting, fun webinar coming up on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at 11 a.m. Central Time!  This is Module #2 of 3 P’s in a Pod: Prayer, Purpose, Passion.

Tara is an anointed speaker and writer, and is a Christian Parenting/Life Coach associated with Ibloom, an organization dedicated to inspire Christian women to allow God to have an impact in and through their lives.  Tara’s focus is helping Christian moms have an impact on their children’s spiritual development by being a Godly example and nurturing them as God gives us guidance in His Word.  Her website, Live Your Legacy Today, is  at http://taramcclenahan.com/.

I am SO excited Tara will be joining me for this event! I am also thrilled that this time, attendees WILL be able to chat during the webinar. Now I have my own webinar room at Christian Women Affiliate, which has great webinar features.

Now, why should you attend this webinar?

• It’s fun! You will make new friends and be able to network!
• You will be encouraged and empowered to discover and fulfill your purpose, pursue your heart’s passion, and intentionally pass on a Godly legacy to your children!
• You will learn something new!
• No expensive costs! (It’s free to attend.)
• No hassles, no crowds or waiting in line, no parking places to worry about!
• You get great bonus goodies just for coming!
• You will both see and hear the speakers on video and be able  to chat with the speakers and attendees in real time during the webinar presentations!

It’s going to be great.  Are you excited? Well, I am. I can’t wait! 

To learn more, just click here.  Listen to the video testimonials about my first webinar, 3 P’s in a Pod: Prayer, Purpose, Passion, which was the launch-off for this July 27 webinar and more to come.

But hurry!   Space is limited for this webinar, so be sure to sign up today.

Spring cleaning our hearts

This is the time of year we spring clean our homes, getting the dust, dirt, and clutter under control!  Just as we like getting our houses clean, why not let’s take some time to spring clean our hearts?  Join Beth Jones today for some practical, Biblical tools to help you do just that.

How to achieve your success

Beth Jones

Today I was riding along in my car, minding my own business, when suddenly God spoke to me – from the tailgate of the truck in front of me!  The sign on the tailgate simply said, “The groundwork for your success.” Of course, this got the wheels to moving (pardon the pun!), and I whipped out my FLIP recorder and made a short vlog. 

The key to our success will be found in our daily quiet time with God as we seek His face. Learn more below.   I present this vlog to you now, potholes and all!  (Talk to the city about the bumps in the street!) 

Enjoy!

Quiet Time For Kids

Today’s blog is a guest post from my dear friend, Lois Graham, speaker and author. Lois has two wonderful websites you will just love, http://lois-graham.com and Building Blocks 4 Life, http://buildingblocks4life.com.

Enjoy!

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Quiet Time For Kids

by Lois Graham

Encourage your children to have a personal quiet time with the Lord. Having a quiet time doesn’t have to be complicated or difficult. Even young children can have a personal quiet time.

Spending time in prayer and Bible study helps us to build a close and personal relationship with the Lord Jesus. The content will vary depending on their age, but the habit of having a time to grow in the Lord is what’s important. Don’t make having a quiet time a drudgery. It should be like spending time with a special friend.

Come near to God and he will come near to you. James 4:8 (NIV)

Try these tips to help your child start a quiet time:

• Work with your child to find a time each day they can have a personal quiet time. Don’t nag, but encourage them daily.

• Find an age appropriate Bible and devotional that includes scripture.

• Get a CD or Mp3 player with the Bible on it for young children.

• Give them ideas on how to have a quiet time. Include reading their Bible and devotional and a time of prayer. Explain to young children how to listen to God’s word and pray.

• Give young children paper, crayons, and a pencil. Let them draw pictures of the stories they are listening to.

• Older children can dig into a topic that interest them or a study on a specific topic. It could be a book of the Bible, growing into a godly woman or man, or a specific character trait.

• Teach your children that their time of prayer doesn’t need to be a time of just asking for things. Let them know they can talk to God like a friend. God wants to hear our requests and praise. Help them make a prayer journal they can write request and praises in.

• Set an example. Have your own quiet time with the Lord. Dig into the scriptures and let God speak to you. Talk to God through prayer. Write your prayer request and praises in a prayer journal.

• Ask your children about their quiet time. Show an interest in what they are learning.

Acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. 1 Chronicles 28:9 (NIV)

Knowing God in just a few minutes a day

Beth Jones

Do you have a busy, hectic schedule and find it hard to fit having a quiet time with God into your day? Do you feel guilty or under condemnation about your prayer life?  Well, relax!  You can get to know God in just a few minutes a day!

This week my article on just that topic was published at Ezine Articles.

Here is the link. Enjoy, and pass it onto your family and friends!  Take 5: Growing Closer to God in Just a Few Minutes Each Day

VIEW BETH’S “GET AWAY” VIDEO HERE.

Praise report on the car!

Recently I shared the humorous video here with you of our only car smoking from the engine, after breaking down (again!) on the highway on our way to eat out as a family. I told you that I’d soon be sharing the praise report with you of how God answered our prayers for another car. 

After a month of not having a car with Ray having to walk to work a couple of blocks each shift, sometimes in the snow or rain, us looking at different cars, praying much, and waiting on the Lord for a car that we believed we could make payments on, God answered our prayers.  Praise the Lord, we now have a car:  a 2004 Saturn Ion.  Thanks so much to all of of you who prayed for us! 

What is it that you are praying for and believing for?  Remember, God wants to answer YOUR prayers, too.  He hears your voice. To learn more about answered prayer, click here.

“O give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!  Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works!  Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!  Seek the Lord and his strength; Seek His face evermore!”  (Psalm 105: 1-4, NKJV)

Here are the pics of  God’s blessing to us:

God’s unstoppable power

Do you need a best friend who will be there for you forever?  Have you been praying for something for awhile and haven’t seen any answers? Do you have dreams in your heart but haven’t seen them manifest yet? Has the enemy satan been having a heyday with your life?   Then cling to Jesus!

As we draw nearer to God in prayer and in reading His word each day, we will begin to understand our true identity in Him, tap into our great potential and destiny, and walk in His authority wherever we go.

Your prayers matter. Your prayers make a difference. Your prayers are effective.  With faith and trust in Christ, you will discover GOD’S UNSTOPPABLE POWER in prayer!

God hears your voice. Do not stop praying! 

To learn more about this unstoppable power in prayer, click here for my LIVE recorded audio of my teaching in Phoenix, Arizona, Clinging to Him.

Red Sea moments

Today’s and tomorrow’s posts are guest blogs from Jonathan Pearson, an anointed young man whose posts I ran across on Twitter and I asked his permission to use here at Tablet Of My Heart.  He has deep insights from God’s word that I believe will bless you as they have me.

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Life hurts.

It often seems like life is a series of unfortunate events.
When you think you’ve found the conclusion to one problem, two more pop up.
When you think you’ve survived one storm, another is on the horizon.

When you feel you’re growing, something tries to tear you down.
When you think you’re doing right, something goes wrong.
When you follow the rules, someone that isn’t reaps the benefits.

Life hurts.

It has since Adam and Eve in the Garden.
The Old Testament is filled with “Life hurts” kind of stories.

But also…

Life comforts.

Sometimes, life does have it’s highs.
Sometimes, we feel like we’re exactly where we were meant to be.
Sometimes, we find the good in difficult circumstances.
Sometimes, God does the unimaginable in what seems like the inescapable.
Sometimes, God parts the seas and allows us to walk through on dry land.
Sometimes, God drowns the enemy that has pursued us.

We all have those “Red Sea” moments in our life.
It’s these moments that we must remember when we’re facing a “Life hurts” moment.
You’ve always made it through.

Life hurts.

But, God has been faithful in the past.
He’s never let you slip away.

Remember the Red Sea moments.

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Jonathan Pearson is a young leader with a heart for people that have never encountered Christ.  His passion is to lead people to live in their full potential, in Christ.  He graduated from Charleston Southern University in December 2009  and married the love of his life a week later. They moved to a small town outside of Orangeburg, S.C. to serve some amazing people. In his spare time, you will find Jonathan watching sports, talking about sports, or doing anything with sports. 

His blog is designed with the common person in mind, and his desire is that people learn from each other as they seek to become common people of uncommon faith. For specific questions, you can contact Jonathan via email at JonathanFPearson@gmail.com. You can also connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Flickr. You can find the above original post at http://www.jonathanpearson.net/2010/01/red-sea-moments.html.

One at a time

Yesterday I finished the last class of my 2010 Spring Clean Your Business coaching class with Cindy Rushton, and learned, among many other wonderful things, that in order to get to where we as writers and speakers desire to be, we need to take one step at a time. Reaching for those goals by accomplishing our to-do lists. Pushing through every obstacle to the finish line.  When one task is done, going to the next priority A thing, not losing any momentum.  Doing and becoming what God has called us to do and to be for His glory.

Today my daughter Leah and I made home-made pancakes. Since this was not a boxed pancake recipe, we had to carefully measure each ingredient: the flour, sugar, milk, vanilla, egg yolks and egg whites (separated), salt, and baking powder. If we stirred the mixture too much, the baking powder wouldn’t react correctly. The pancakes with butter and raspberry syrup turned out delicious. To cook the pancakes though, we had to take one ingredient at a time.

In life sometimes things happen that we don’t understand, or we have prayed and nothing seems to be happening. Has God gone on vacation? Is He chatting with or texting someone else on His giant Iphone?  We as humans with our finite minds just don’t get everything that God is doing. Maybe we never will fully understand God and His ways, which are so much higher than our ways. But we must learn to trust Him and to obey Him.

We get through the dark valleys and climb the mountains of glory in life one simple way:  we take every moment, every day, every situation, one prayer at a time.

God hears your voice. Don’t stop praying.

“Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless—cheerfully. Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God’s words; if help, let it be God’s hearty help. That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes!” (1 Peter 4:7, The Message)

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Did you enjoy this post by Beth?  Learn more about prayer here.

Pray for those in landslide in Uganda, Africa

From Ray’s Semsar-Africa Director pastor O. J. Felix, I learned that a landslide hit part of Eastern Uganda on the slopes of Mt. Elgon, killing hundreds of people and thousands yet to be traced. The government is also warning of floods from heavy rains which will complicate rescue efforts.

Please keep these people in your prayers.  This is the third major disaster killing a majority of people within the last two months.

The story can be located on Uganda’s daily paper of the Daily Monitor at www.monitor.co.ug OR

The New Vision newspaper at www.newvision.co.ug.

“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.  Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” (Luke 21:20-29, NKJV)

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