3 Simple Steps in Becoming a Homemaker

I am encouraged and inspired to perform the God given role for me as a woman. And I know that in every woman there is the desire...Let's make a little step at a time. so please join me in discovering what it means to live a biblical homemaker and a Christ centered family. I will be sharing some resources and guide on our journey of womanhood and homemaker that is intentionally for the glory of God...

HERE'S HOW:

1.GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ROLE AS A WOMAN:

• Check out: Biblical portrait of womanhood By: Nancy Leigh De Moss

This will answer some of our questions what it takes to be a biblical woman, a home keeper and a wife. For sure after reading this you will be inspired just like me and a lot of things will juggle into your mind, in that case the next action will be...

2.PLANNING:

 Plans are nothing, Planning is everything - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Planning will help us do the things we need to be done in a day week or month. This will not be necessary the same because each of us have different lifestyles. Just do what will be appropriate in your way of living. Like me, I am a working mom, so things are different from a stay at home mom. (SAHM).

Proverbs 16:9 - The heart of a man plans his way but the Lord establishes his steps.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE EXAMPLES THAT MIGHT HELP IN PLANNING:

• Creating your daily routine (from morning to night)
• Menu Planning - This helps in creating variety of healthy foods for the family as well as food budgeting. (remember: If the body is well, the soul dances)
• Creating you’re home a haven - Make every family members enjoys staying at home after a tiring work outside or after school feeling comfortable, safe and secure. (make them feel like " There's no place like home".
• Managing family finances - Being a wife, we are our husband's helper, every little cent count. we should make a way to secure it.

Those ideas are done? Have you thought about your plans? For sure each day new ideas will come, as the Lord will show us all the ways along our journey. Last steps?

3.PRAYER/MEDITATION:

Let us ask our Lord God, our creator for the divine grace and wisdom that we may be able to perform our duties as a woman with full focus, attention, intention, love and clear conscience.

7 Advantages of Planning

During my younger days, my life evolves with impulses. I plan but it keeps on changing. To be honest, I am really a poor planner. That is my weakness. I live by the day (that is me). I end up without accomplishing anything except that I could feed my family and provide the basic needs for us without any savings and a home of our own. But God is good, I met my husband, it was his Strength. He was good in planning. (he is a Plan a head man) Little by little, I am learning the art of it. Although still not as good as him but I can say, I have improved a bit. In terms of money, spending what is important most, and planning for our daily activities at home with kids, cleaning and my work.

We plan because the very act of planning helps us organize our thinking, shape our future actions, and prepare us for the good, the bad and downright ugly that might go wrong. - JD Meier

In his best-selling book, Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want — Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible, Brian Tracy shares the formula for success, along with 7 advantages of proper planning. Here’s the six P formula for personal and business success:

‘Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance’

It’s a simple formula for success, but it emphasizes the idea that those that fail to plan, plan to fail.

7 Advantages of Planning

According to Tracy, here are the 7 distinct advantages of performing proper prior planning:

1.Organize your thinking.

  First, the planning process forces you to organize your thinking and identify all the key issues that must be dealt with if you are ultimately going to succeed.

2.Plan your actions carefully.

 Second, thinking through what you must do to accomplish your goals enables you to plan your actions carefully before you begin, thereby saving you enormous costs in time, people, and money.

3.Identify potential flaws in your approach. 

 Third, a good plan, thoroughly discussed and evaluated, enables you to identify flaws and errors that could prove fatal to your business later on.  It enables you to ask, ‘what if?’ questions.  For example, ‘What are the worst possible things that could happen if you were to take a particular course of action.’

4.Identify weaknesses in your plan and create corrective actions. 

 The fourth benefit of proper prior planning is that it enables you to identify weaknesses in your plan and make provisions to compensate for those weaknesses in your plan and make provisions to compensate for those weaknesses.  Often, you can identify a ‘fatal flaw’ that would lead to the failure of the enterprise.  This is only possible by going through the planning process.

5.Identify strengths and opportunities to improve success. 

 Fifth, planning enables you to identify strengths and potential opportunities that you can take advantage of to increase the likelihood of success.  Often, you will be unaware of your particular strengths or the opportunities that exist in the situation before you go through the planning process.

6.Concentrate your efforts on the vital few objectives. 

 The sixth benefit of planning is that it enables you to focus your time and money and concentrate all your resources on the one or two objectives that you must achieve to make an enterprise successful.  In the absence of clear focus and concentration, you will tend to spread your energies over a wide area and accomplish very little.

7.Save time, money, and energy by avoiding confusion and mistakes. 

  The seventh benefit of proper prior planning is that it will inevitably save you hours, weeks, and months of confusion, mistakes, and losses of both money and energy.

While your plans may change, hopefully it’s the act of planning that provides you some stability and a firm foundation to propel your way forward.

Understanding a Woman's Role (The Biblical Way)

I am skeptical on how should I start to get to know myself and my role better as a woman. I have a lot of things in mind but getting started is a tough one. I’m glad I was able to spot this blog site as a guide on things I should ponder more on my self-evaluation. This includes common questions and answers that can be found in the bible.

Biblical Portrait of Womanhood

By: Nancy Leigh Demoss

In this article, you will find questions such as:

1.Why I was created as a woman?

-        The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him” (Genesis 2:18)

-      “For a man did not come from woman, but a woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man” (1 Corinthians 11:8-9)

-        “The woman is the glory of man” (1 Corinthians 11:7)

-        “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living” (Genesis 3:20 kjv)

2.What makes a woman beautiful?

-        “Your beauty should not come from outward adornment…Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit” (1 Peter 3:3-4)

-        “This is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful” (1 Peter 3:5)

-        “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised” (Proverbs 31:30)

-        “I also want women to dress modesty, with decency and propriety”… Not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes” (1 timothy 2:9)

-        She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue, is the law of kindness” (Proverbs 31:26)

-        “Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone” (Proverbs 25:15)

-        A woman should learn in quietness and full submission” (1 Timothy 2:11)

-        “It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman” (Proverbs 21:19)

3.What is God’s plan for me as a wife?

-        “The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her” (Proverbs 31:11)

-        “She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life” (Proverbs 31:12)

-        “She took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” (Genesis 3:6)

-        “As the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything” (Ephesians 5:24)

-        ‘For the husband is the head of the wife” (Ephesians 5:23)

-        “… and the wife see the she reverence her husband” (Ephesians 5:33)

-        “The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband” (1Corinthians 7:3-4)

-        “If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home ( 1 Corinthians 14:35)

4.How does God want to use me in other’s lives?

-        “I exhort therefore, that … prayers… be made… for all that in authority” (1 timothy 2:1-2)

-        “She watches over the affair of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness” (Proverbs 31:27)

-        “… well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of saints, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds” (1 timothy 5:10)

-        “Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality (Romans 12:13)

-        “Teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good”(Titus 2:3)

-        “ Train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure;  to be  busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God” ( Titus 2:4-5)

I pray that we women joyfully embrace the essence of being a true woman designed by God. This will truly be filled with challenges and sacrifices... But when done with LOVE and with the help of divine grace and wisdom, we can be a better woman...