Changed By Love

Changed By Love

Following the Lamb wherever he goes… Revelation 14:4

Thanks and Giving Trees

We made a lapbook called A Season for Giving Thanks by Pleasant Ridge Publishing for Thanksgiving last year. The twins and our neighbor’s daughter did it.

I finally thought of a good cover for it today! I used our extra copies of the Thanks and Giving Trees that we used for Thanksgiving 2 years ago. I put the Thanks tree on the front cover and the Giving tree on the back cover. Each of the kids named something they’re thankful for and put a leaf on the Thanks tree. Then they told us something they did that was helpful and put a leaf on the Giving tree. I got these printables from: http://chocolateonmycranium.blogspot.com/search?q=thanksgiving+tree

As I went through the lapbook with Garrett today, he knew all the answers.

You can see both the front and back cover at the same time here. This way it reads “Giving Thanks”.

The booklets give younger children a good introduction to the main themes of the Pilgrims and the Indians and the First Thanksgiving.

Front cover of Thanksgiving lapbook

Back cover of lapbook

We also played this game. We had to answer questions to go from England to America on the Mayflower. I think I got it from In the Hands of a Child in their free stuff.

We study about the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving every Thanksgiving, and we always manage to learn new things. There are lots of different ideas about how Thanksgiving actually started in our country. But it always comes down to being thankful for our blessings and directing our gratitude to the One who made us.

No matter what situation you are in this season, remember that God is in control. He is our loving, heavenly Father who takes good care of his children. He has good plans for you. He will bless you to be a blessing. Waiting for His promises can seem endless, but He really does take you to the other side of the lake, and there will be an end to the storm. Trust Him and with faith and patience inherit the promises.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Happy Thanksgiving!   from the Douglas family

“Hand”-some Turkeys for Thanksgiving

We unpacked our paints that have been packed up for 3 months so that we could paint hand turkeys.  We didn’t have any brown, so we had to mix colors to make our own brown.  We mixed blue and orange, and that made a nice brown for Kelsey.  Anna used those same colors, but she was not happy with the color she got, as you can tell by the look on her face!

Anna painted Emma’s palm and thumb brown and then each finger a pretty, bright color that she chose.

Here’s Anna still trying to make a brown that she could stand.  She added a little bit of this, a little bit of that, but I don’t think she was ever really satisfied with her brown.

Garrett was fascinated with the paint mixing.

I didn’t get any pictures of printing with their painted hands, because, as you can imagine with a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old, I was hopping to try to keep painted fingers off of things they shouldn’t touch.  Abby’s dress suffered lots of damage.  I finally had to take it off of her.  She kept wiping her hands on it!

After they finished their turkeys, I let them use the rest of the paint to draw whatever they wanted.  They love doing that!

I read them a Thanksgiving story while they painted.  It was called Mary’s First Thanksgiving by Kathy-Jo Wargin, illustrated by Robert Papp.  The subtitle is “An Inspirational Story of Gratefulness”.  It tells about a young immigrant girl from Ireland.  She is sad because the other children at school talk about the big Thanksgiving meals that their families are planning.  Her family will only have their regular food plus maybe an extra loaf of bread with some honey and a few sausages.

Her parents discover that she is feeling that way and they tell her about the difficult years that the Pilgrims endured and how they had to survive on clams, fish and ground nuts, and a few grains of corn during several winters.

After things got better, they still put five grains of corn on their plates at each year’s celebration to remind them of their hardships and five blessings.  To find out what those blessings were and to discover what Mary’s family’s blessings were, you should check out this book.

Fiona poses next to her pictures of a turkey and a mouse.  We used to have a mouse in our garage.

Aren’t these some “Hand”-some turkeys???

Let God Make You Wealthy

Leroy Thompson was talking to Kenneth Copeland on the Copeland’s show, Believers’ Voice of Victory, one day in 2003. He started prophesying in the middle of their conversation. I knew it was something that I would need to meditate on, so I transcribed it.

He is a very wealthy man as is Kenneth Copeland. God has made them wealthy.

Here is the prophecy that came through him when he was talking about letting God make you wealthy.

I declare in the name of Jesus Christ –
Every financial problem you have is destroyed now. This year you will move into arenas of finances that you never thought you could walk in, by the power of the Holy Ghost. I declare that you’re free from every financial captivity that ever held you back. No matter what your last name, etc.

Your days of financial captivity are over. You’ll never be broke again. As you follow these instructions, the Lord’s instructions, you’re moving out to a brand new place. This year is your year. You’re stepping into a flow that you’ve never been there before.

You need not see your way out. Yield to the Spirit of God. The reason you can’t see is He wants to lead you out. He’s leading you out through revelation knowledge. He’s leading you out by faith, not by sight. So yield to the Spirit of God this very hour. So yield to the Spirit of God. For things will happen to you that have never happened before, for the glory of the Lord has risen upon thee to set you totally and financially free.

Don’t doubt me, let me route you. And don’t worry about it because it’s not about you. It’s about Me, My Word, what I’ve said about you because you’re my child. Your inheritance, your inheritance is in Me. Don’t doubt the Scriptures, don’t doubt what I’ve said, don’t doubt my men and women of God who I’ve sent to you. Yield now. As you yield, the seed will start producing for you like never before. Don’t doubt Me, let Me route you. It’s not about you. It’s about Me. I’m going to lift you up and put you in places that you never thought you could go.

After the prophecy, he gave this teaching about letting God lead you into wealth.

Gen. 8:22
While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

11 Cor. 9:10
Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

To have financial breakthrough:

1. Yield to the Spirit of God – let Him tell you when it’s time to plant a seed.

2. We don’t want to become wealthy on our own because all that consists of is money. We won’t yield what we have to God, because we’ll consider it OUR money.

3. Money is no good without God governing it. The Holy Ghost must escort us into wealth. Keeps balance. We’re not servants to money. Money is to serve you to serve God.

Matt. 6:24

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.