New Online Bible Study coming up…

Just wanted everyone to know I am starting a new on line bible study on my other blog Seeking His Will.  The title of the study is Spiritual Exercise written by Helen Krudop.

Have you started …and stopped…numerous fitness programs in an effort to be healthy and fit?  Look no more!  Here’s a unique program to get you in shape where you need it most — in your spirit!  This biblically sound study will lead you through 10 steps designed to tone up your spiritual life, stretch your faith and strengthen your heart toward God.

Helen is a Missouri Untied Methodist Pastor’s wife, a Bible teacher, and talented musician.  Helen has ministered extensively in churches throughout Missouri with her husband for over 40 years.  The Krudops are blessed with two married children and four grandchildren, all of whom reside in the St. Louis Missouri Area, close to their parents.

I had the privilege of meeting Helen at Annual Conference this year.  She spoke at the pastor’s spouses luncheon.  She is a dynamic speaker and I was intrigued by her book.  I searched her out in the expo and got permission from her to use her book to do a Bible study on line at Seek His Will.  I was worried, as I am with all authors that I do my on line Bible studies from that it would cut into her profit sales from the book as I told her in my area not all people would have access to the book.  She was gracious enough to let me know that this book was NOT hers but it was the inspired work of and from God.  The book belonged to Him.

Helen is a wonderful lady and I admire her for taking the time and courage to write a book to help others in their spiritual journey.  I thank her for this opportunity to use her materials to help others in their spiritual walk in finding their way closer to our Savior.

The Bible study will be starting on July 13th.  I encourage you to buy the book.  You can purchase it here.  It will change the way you look at exercise, and at the spiritual aspect of your life.  I have read it twice already!

Looking forward to studying with all of you.  Please feel free to leave comments as the study goes along.

I Am Still Here!

Hey there! Long time no write.

I apologize to my readers, if I have any left, for not writing for so long.  My life has been so incredibly busy that I haven’t had time to breath let alone write anything.

Here is a little bit of an update:

Our oldest daughter, Ima, graduated from High School 2 weeks ago.  She has been accepted to Central Missouri University, Warrensburg.

Kelsey has finished school for the year.  We had some prayer time and had thoughts about enrolling her in public school for Jr. High.  I spent a lot of time in God’s word trying to figure out if this was for us or not.  I realized after reading God’s word that I already had my answer.  We are going to continue to home school.  She was thrilled.  She is almost a grade level ahead of everyone in her “PS” grade and hopes to finish her education earlier than her peers.

Richard continues to pastor three churches in the United Methodist Conference.  The only change there is that God has give us the blessing for him to quit his full time secular job that he has worked at for 6 years and is now able to minister full time.  This is a blessing handed to us from God and we only hope and pray that we are able to spend more time leading others to Jesus.

I have been busy catching up on my reading.  I have also started a new business called “Heavenly Creations”.  It consists of Recipes in a jar like brownies, cookies, and muffin mixes, and bagged spice mixes such as meat rubs and seasonings.  So far I have been selling at craft shows and the farmers market and done quite well.

Our lives have been busier than ever the last couple of months.  We are starting to slow down now, and I hope to get back to blogging on a regular basis.

We arrived back home from the Missouri Annual Conference last night and what a blessing it was.  It was a very spirit filled time in worship and decision making.  Emmanuel Clever ll gave the closing address the last morning of the session.  That is truly a man that is on fire for God.  I only wish we could put more men like him into Congress.  Imagine how this country would be if we turned our faces back towards God and allowed Him to work in our lives.

As I said I will get back to writing soon.  Even tomorrow maybe..:)  I have plans to start a new Bible study on line via my “other” blog which is titled Seeking His Will.  The study will start July first and it is titled “Spiritual Exercise” by Helen Krudop.  I met her at AC and she was a very delightful woman.  She is a dynamic writer and hopefully will continue to spring up writings.

So that is about it for us.  All is well in the Davis household.  God continues to be gracious and good to us offering many blessings in our lives.  Praise be to God!

Rachel’s Tear’s – Book Review 10th Anniversary Edition

Title: Rachel’s Tears  10 years after columbine…Rachel Scott’s Faith Lives On
Author: Beth Nimmo and Darrell Scott with Steve Rabey
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Publish date: 2008
ISBN-13-978-1-4003-1347-1
Format: Paperback 191 Pages
Price: 9.95

What an incredible story of faith and trust in God.  This girl who is but a young 17 years of age accepted Christ as her savior at the age of 12 and made the decision to live her life for the Lord.  The outpouring of faith that this book gives of her personal journals and through relationships with friends and family is phenomenal.

Rachel Scott was one of the victims that died in the horrendous school shooting 10 years ago at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.  This book, just short of 200 pages is made up of first hand accounts and pages from her journals that she had compiled for about 5 years.  It also has new interviews from her parents and several tributes of others caught in the tragedy.  I found it incredible that she always seemed to have a sense that she would not live a long life.  Her parents wrote the book and displayed may thoughts on her faith.  One being that when she was a young girl she traced her hands on the back of her dresser and wrote these words above them:  “These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott.  One day they will touch millions of peoples hearts.”  What an incredible statement.

Her love for people & for God gave her great strength & confidence.  She, just like most Christians, struggled with her faith from time to time but always seem to return to His graceful and loving arms.  She always looked out for the underdog at school and everywhere else she went, refusing to conform to the standards that most kids place on their peers in today’s day and age.

I think this is the MUST READ book for teens today.  It challenged my faith in Christ after reading about a 17 year old named Rachel’s genuine love for Him and pursuit of him.

Update…no really an Update!

Well I thought I would give my readers (however few I have left) an update on my life. 

I haven’t had time to write here much because we have had a very busy household of late. 

Kelsey turned 12 yesterday!  My baby is not a baby anymore.  She is such a sweet girl that is turning into a young woman right before my very eyes.  We had a quaint little lunch with her daddy and I .  We went to her favorite Mexican place.  I would post a picture but I am out of town on a laptop and I don’t have any pics on here.    We are celebrating her birthday on Sunday with lots of friends and relatives at Tequila Jalisco, you guessed it, her favorite Mexican place.  She will get the full treatment from the wonderful employees there, complete with Happy Birthday in Spanish, which dad of course sings along.

We are still gearing up for Ima’s graduation and the start of her first semester at Warrensburg.  Her daughter Catlynn continues to improve her vocabulary, very rarely does she not speak in full sentences now.  She is so cute!  We are really going to miss them come fall.

The churches that God has placed us in continues to grow leaps and bounds.  We have officially started our youth group and kicked it off with a lock in last weekend.  There were 11 youths there and they all made it until about 2:30 we put a movie in and within 30 minutes they were all asleep.  Richard and I stayed up and woke them up at about 6:15 to start cleanup and have breakfast.  They all seemed to have a really good time and wanted to do more things like that.  We are planning a bowling excursion and several other activities that will hopefully increase interest and attendance.  We are hoping to do some VIM’s to help out area churches.  The kids seemed excited about that.

As far as Richard and I.  We continue to be foster parents to 5 kids.  We are busy every night of the week and wouldn’t have it any other way.

In leu of Valentines day, I want to say I love my husband so very much.  With God’s help, he rode into my life into on a white horse and saved me from further destruction.  I don’t tell him often enough how much he means to me and how I can’t live without him.  Richard you are my hero, my knight in shining armor.

I would also like to ask for prayers for the family of Donald Palmer.  He is a parishioner in our church and he is dieing.  Pray for peace for the family and that he not suffer.  He is a great man of God and is always more worried about others being taken care of than his own pain and suffering.  A true saint in every aspect of the word.

I will try to write more as soon as I can.  Oh I almost forgot… visit my other blog and see what has been taking up my time.  It is an on line Bible Study called “Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World.”

What’s AGE got to do with it?…review

Title: What’s AGE got to do with it?

Author: Robin McGraw

Classification: Self-help

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Price: $24.99

Hardcover: 240 pages

ISBN: 1400202140

I must admit I ordered this book for review because I was intrigued about how a woman of 55 can look so good.  Hair, skin, nails, clothes, even shoes everyday, and all day.  For those of us who don’t have an unlimited budget to work with, taking care of your health as well as we would like doesn’t happen for the most part.  Looking our best may be being swamped in the middle of 6 children at one time, homeschooling, 2-3 loads of dishes in the dishwasher and 2-3 loads of clothes.  Fixing 3 nutritious meals everyday, cleaning and all while trying to maintain some balance in the world of being a pastors wife.

After reading the first part of this book I realized that this book is really about Robin, not about the rest of us.  I got out of it that she was more excited about telling us about herself than she was about how to stay healthy and look good so we would BE healthy and feel good.  I think that by the time a woman has reached her 50’s, none of the things that Robin has talked about doing will make much of a difference.  Most of the things had to have been focused on during their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s to make a difference.  If they are looking for a quick fix to look like Robin McGraw, they aren’t going to find it in this book.  This book was a huge disappointment for me.

Prayers Needed

I would like to reach out to all who read this blog and ask for two specific prayer requests.

First, Donald Palmer, one of the greatest giving Christians I have ever known, needs prayers as do his family.  Donald is in the hospital, where he has been for 2 weeks or so, and is not doing well at all.  Please pray that God watch over him and his family, in particular his wife Marion.  The have been married for 64 years and have been inseparable.  She is currently in a nursing home and unable to be at his bedside.  They were together up until Donald had to go into the hospital to manage pain.  The family takes Marion to see him as often as they can but she doesn’t move around to well and with it being so cold out they are not getting to spend much time together.  Please pray that God’s will is done in the healing of Donald.  He is a precious child of God and has done insurmountable things to help others, always giving of himself, just as Jesus commands us to do.  He is a true follower of Jesus Christ in every way.

Second, I belong to a Pastors Wives group on yahoo and there is a fellow PW that is dealing with a family crisis right now.  Last night about 10:00 they found him in the shower, he had hung himself.  The managed to get his heart beating and breathing again, however he is unable to breathe on his own and his heart is only beating at a very low voltage rate.  He left no note and no one knows of any reason why this tragedy happened but they need our prayers.  Prayers for a miracle of healing in his body, and prayers of comfort for the family.

Please remember these two families in your prayers.  I will update you as I receive information.  Thank you and God bless.