Raising up a legacy of life is a calling planted in my heart by a holy God. It is my duty to pass on a mantel of nobility and grace to those who will go on after me. I do not see this duty as frustrating, boring, or downgrading.
I pray that you hear my heart, dear homemakers. God wants us to picture ourselves as reigning queen of our homes; valiant, strong, and prevailing. We are to have dominion over our homes and govern the domestic affairs therein. Your home is the center of your life.
Please do not misunderstand me to mean you have the right to rule over your husband, but rather God has given you the awesome responsibility of mastering your home under your husband’s protection and guidance.
Home is a place of challenge, creativity, chores, and celebration. It is a birthing place where family members gather to welcome rewards from God. A haven for a mother needing rest from planting and sowing.
You rule over your kitchen making sure that the health needs of your family are met. You give thought to what you will feed them and how to make them feel special. You delegate chores and responsibilities allowing for an orderly home. You direct the daily projects and events taking place in the lives of your children.
You practice serving and helping those in need. You administrate the constant flow of activity giving your family the opportunity to learn and become successful.
Yet, there are many who are bored and unhappy in their home. They do not understand the calling placed on their lives by God. Home is the greatest sphere of influence, rest, and healing.
Without vision and understanding of the calling placed on homemakers, mothers, and wives, we will be unfulfilled and discontent finding our place of dominion somewhere other than home. When we come out from under our husband’s protection it causes a breakdown in marriage and the proper functioning of society.
We should find fulfillment in our homes; embracing the simple and noble things of life. It is not as complicated as one might think. It is a choice.
PRAYER:
Father, may we gain a clear and vivid understanding of the calling placed on our lives as wives, mothers, and homemakers. Break down strongholds that have held us captive to complaining, discontentment, and lies. Thank you for the gift of home and the privilege to direct, plan, administrate, govern, and teach those under us to love you with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength. Amen.
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Thanks for this post. I wake up every day and try to live by those guidelines. I do find myself grumbling and frustrated at times. I need to remember and pray about my goals in my home. I can make or break the tone of the house. Blessings!
Lisa, thank you.
This post was beautiful & I concur … thanks for sharing
You’re welcome, Kimberly.
This is a truth that I never stop learning. I have been ‘queen’ of my home for almost 22 years. Though at times I have felt like the ‘servant’ or the ‘chauffeur’ or the ‘cook’ or the
‘laundress’, through prayer, God always gets me back into perspective and I can truly say I love my role as Queen!
Prayer has been a big part of my life, too, Suzanne. Prayer and thanksgiving has always put me back into the right perspective.
This post made me smile, because there is never a boring moment over here, and I never heard our little one say “I’m bored” because they know they will be put to work if they do lol!
But making a home is so fascinating,for those willing to put effort in it, who are willing to learn, who are willing to WORK with a joyous heart! Because being home is a blessing both for our family and us.
Never a boring moment here either.
Thank you for sharing this I needed it today.
Christina, you’re welcome. May God continue to do a mighty work in all of us.
This was a beautiful post. I agree with it. Thanks for writing it!
God bless you,
Mrs. A
Mrs. A., think about you often. God bless you, too.
excellent!! only when women realize and take their God-given place in the home and learn to cherish it will we be on the right track!
Tami, thank you.
Beautiful Jasmine! So true, so needed, so biblical!
Thank you, Jennifer.
just came across ur website n must confess u post really touchn words.am touched t tears…