Lessons in being a preachers wife

Hey y'all

Sorry it's been so long been sifting through emotions and life in general. You all know how life gets overwhelming well I have been choosing to not let it define me. I choose to not let it have an effect on the peace of my home and well being of my children or my husband for that matter.

Anyone who knows me knows I am the typical woman with somewhat raging hormones. I am a cryer. I cry at the drop of a hat. I cry when I am sad, angry, concerned, or happy...You name it I when overcome with emotion (usually any type)I end up crying. Some say it can be a weekness but I know God made me this way and Pastor Bode told me to never lose my tears. I think as a pastor they were an encouragement to him. :) God still working in the heart of people.  In saying that it brings me to the reason I write in the few short minutes I have.

God is still working on me!.... Trials, changes, and trust they all come together in the end. Our faith has to be excercised Scott preached on this the other day. I praise the Lord that He is excercising my faith...even though it is difficult and much like excercise it is straining. God is using this straining in my life to mold me into the wife and mother that I need to be for my family! I have areas the Lord is specifically working on and I can pin point them quite clear thanks to the Lord revealing them to me.  I am to trust the Lord with my future concering my husband. I am to be calm and gentle when speaking to my children and show them love in action rather than just words. I am to forsake all for His cause. When saying this it means really giving it all over to Him. This includes my family immediate and extended, my desires, my body, material things, financial things, my children, homeschooling, praying for my husband like I ought to; you name it the list goes on and on. But I know daily I am to give it all over to the Lord and not take it back up in my hands.  When I think about the possible next steps in our life I am to give it to Him and ask Him for his perfect will. Also I must stop my thoughts so I can allow God to work in His way and that way I don't put my own thoughts into trying to have an effect on His perfect will.

God is showing me that He has alot of work to do on me as a future pastor's wife. I know as much as my husband is called to be a pastor to the church the Lord would give us in the future; I am to be the wife to my husband that a pastor needs. There will be many life lessons from here on out my prayer is to be obedient to the Lord and have open ears to hear His will.