Colossians 4:2-4

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Withal praying for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
That I may make it manifest, as i ought to speak.    Colossians 4:2-4
     My grandmother was telling me the other day how my cousin, who just left for a mission trip to Africa had asked that, when praying for him, she pray those verses! I started thinking, aren't those verses something we should be praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ daily? I know i would love for people to pray that whenever i am explaining the gospel of Christ, God would open a door of utterance, that i would be able to speak the right words! As Christians we never know when the opportunity will arise where we are given the chance to speak about the love of Jesus, so to have a friends praying for one another on this behalf would be amazing! Also, please remember my cousin in prayers as he continues on his mission trip, pray that he, and the group he is with will be able to speak the mystery of Christ, and not only for them, but for the rest of your brothers and sisters in Christ as well!

What if i dared to dress DiFeReNtLy?

Its spring time and with spring comes the ideas of short cute dresses, beautiful elegant prom dresses and everything in between. Both Bek and I are going to a Formal party, where we are going to be dressed up in “prom” attire. The hardest thing about this party is finding a beautiful modest dress that covers you but is still well beautiful. As a little girl we have both dreamed of going to “proms” “formals” I guess it’s just the little girl thing to do to dream about being Cinderella in a fancy ball gown and have a prince come sweep you off your feet. Ha ha No we aren’t expecting a prince to sweep us off our feet we are just in high school. Prom dresses having been consuming our minds for the past months, I told my mom id looked at so many dresses they all started to look the same. This whole prom thing what is it really about? For us its about  getting a special dress and getting our hair and makeup done, for others it’s the partying after the prom. Proms having gotten a bad reputation for being filled with drugs, alcohol and all manor of ungodly things, but I think the one thing we miss a lot about proms is the attire . Many many Christian girls go to proms in ungodly attire; I’ve always tried to figure out why. These girls are godly girls I know they love the Lord but still something is missing, and we think we know what. When these Christian girls go shopping for dresses they say well all my friends have no straps so I’ll have one strap and still be modest. No No No. That is comparing yourself with the worlds standards not Gods. I said to my mom this afternoon “It would be so much easier to not worry about modesty” my mom’s quick reply was yes it would be so much easier to follow the world then to follow God where modesty comes in, and its true. The world’s modest standard is so much lower than God its much easier to follow it. Think about it the world makes it easier to follow it then to follow God. Whenever I see something I think would really cute but it’s a little shorter or more reviling my mom always says what would your guy friends think? Would they be embarrassed for you? Would they laugh? Those two sentences have kept me from buying so many articles of clothing that I didn’t think were immodest but when looking at it through a guys perspective it suddenly became horrific. So next time you go shopping try looking at the clothes through a guys perspective, or even better take a brother /Dad or good friend with you when shop!

The Husbands place, The Wives place

We’ve grown up in a culture that says men and women are equal;. In some situations that’s right, women can be layers, judges , and police like men. We think we cross the line when saying the two very different genders are the same because we are not. Physically men are stronger than women that’s the way God made us. Personally I don’t see anything wrong with women being business women until they are negating their children and husband. Through our teenagers people have said women are equal but people have also given the impression that they believe women are no bodies to some extent: house maids ect.. Personally we don’t agree with either statement! In the bible it says to honor and obey your husband, submit to his authority. A few verses over it says men love your wives just as Christ has loved the church. This is what we believe. When and if we get married we want to submit and love our husband, since they would be Christian men they would love us in return. Yes, we’d be under  our husbands will but they would never ask us to do anything against God or the law. Our husbands would try to model Christ’s perfect love to us and we would in return do the same to them. Unfortunately about half of all children in American have no dad in their life. That is a sad fact. Men need to step up to the responsibility and leadership God has placed on them. I thank God for all the men in our lives who love their wives, and children and who follow God with an intense passion. Women, we need to be pure, saving ourselves for marriage. Fidelity will lower the number of children born without a father in their lives. We, women need to step down, submit to our husbands and love the Lord with all our heart,soul,mind and strength!