Sunday, October 15, 2023

Week in Review (October 1 - 14, 2023)

Abundant Family Living Week in Review
Abundant Family Living Week in Review

Happy Weekend!

I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful fall weekend.  The trees here in North Georgia are beginning to show off their colors.  Usually, the foliage is almost at their peak by now, but we have had such a warm fall.  I guess it will take a little longer for them to reach their peak this year.  We've been enjoying our fall festivals.  We've been to two, one last weekend and one today.  I love small town America and all the fall fun when everyone comes out to display their gifts and talents and socialize and shop.  My favorite is Gold Rush Days in Dahlonega, GA next weekend.  I always come home from that one with a few goodies in my shopping bag.  It has been a busy couple of weeks, but I did manage to add a few new posts to the blog while my feed was frozen.  I think I have fixed my feed issues so I thought I would recap this weeks posts in case you missed them.  Here is my week in review.

Week in Review (Two Weeks, Actually) 🙂🍂

Fall Count and Color Packet

Fall Count and Color Packet
Fall Count and Color Packet

How We Should Treat One Another

How We Should Treat One Another
How We Should Treat One Another

Fall Activity Packet for Young Children

Fall Activity Packet for Young Children
Fall Activity Packet for Young Children

Praying the Scriptures Over Israel

Praying the Scriptures Over Israel
Praying the Scriptures Over Israel

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Bible Gateway Bible Studies

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Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Living Abundantly in Him,

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Abundant Family Living Week in Review
Abundant Family Living Week in Review


Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Praying the Scriptures Over Israel

Praying the Scriptures Over Israel
Praying the Scriptures Over Israel

I keep trying to type out my thoughts about the horrors happening to Israeli families, but no word in my vocabulary accurately describes the demonic horrors they are facing even as I type this post.  While my words fail me, God's Word is clear concerning the nation of Israel.  Like me, you might be feeling helpless, but we are not helpless.  There is something we can do right now.  It's the most powerful thing we can do.  Please join me in praying the Scriptures over Israel.

Praying the Scriptures Over Israel

Father God, 

Your chosen people are hurting.  While we find it challenging to speak adequate words over the horrors happening to Israeli families, Your Word never fails us.  Please hear our hearts as we pray Your Holy Word over Your chosen people.

God, you established Your everlasting covenant with Abraham and his descendants for generations to come.  You are the God of Abraham and the God of his descendants.  You gave to Israel, Abraham's descendants, the whole land of Canaan as an everlasting possession and You will be their God.  (Genesis 17:7-8)

Father, thank you for rescuing Israel form the hands of the Egyptians.  You brought them into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.  (Exodus 3:8)

Lord, Israel is a people holy unto You.  Out of all the people on the face of the earth, You have chosen Israel to be Your treasured possession. (Deuteronomy 14:2)

Lord God, there is no one like Your people, Israel, the one nation on earth that you redeemed from Egypt for Yourself and to make a name for Yourself.  You have performed great and awesome wonders by driving out other nations and their false gods from your people Israel.  (2 Samuel 7:23)

Lord, to Israel You have given the adoption to sonship, divine glory, the covenants, the law, temple worship, and promises.  To Israel You gave the patriarchs, and from them, Jesus who is God over all, forever praised. (Romans 9:4-5)

Father, deliver Israel from all their troubles.  (Psalm 25:22)

Oh God, do not be silent or turn a deaf ear or remain aloof.  See how Your enemies growl and rear their heads.  They cunningly conspire against Your people.  They plot against those you cherish.  They want to destroy Israel so that no one will remember Your chosen people.  (Psalm 83:1-4)

Make Israel's enemies like tumbleweed, Lord, like chaff before the wind.  As quickly as a fire engulfs a forest and mountains, so chase Israel's enemies and terrify them.  Cover their faces with shame so they might seek You.  May the enemies of Israel be ashamed and dismayed forever.  My they die in disgrace.  May they know that You, Lord, are the Most High God over all the earth.  (Psalm 83:13-18)

Lord, now we lift our eyes up to the mountains knowing Israel's help comes from You, the maker of Heaven and Earth.  You will not let Israel's foot slip.  Lord, You who watches over Israel never slumbers or sleeps.  Your Word tells us that You are Israel's shade so that the sun does not harm them by day nor the moon by night.  Father God, keep Israel from all harm.  Watch over Israel.  Watch over their coming and their going both today and forever.  (Psalm 121)

In Jesus' name we pray Your Word over Your chosen people, 

Amen

If you would like to pray this prayer over Israel every day as they face the horrors of this war, right-click and save the following document to your device.  Then, print it out and place it in your Bible, on your refrigerator, a mirror, a cabinet door - any place where you will see it every day as a reminder to pray over the nation of Israel.  Thank you for joining me in praying the Scriptures over Israel.

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Sunday, October 8, 2023

Fall Activity Packet for Young Children

Fall Activity Packet for Young Children
Fall Activity Packet for Young Children
 

Young children benefit from activities that help them practice beginning skills on which they can build a foundation for life long learning.  Even better than that is when they can build a LOVE for life long learning.  Activities created around certain themes can make learning more fun.  Our Fall Activity Packet for Young Children will help children practice counting, practice tracing, and identify the tallest item in a series of 3.  Children will identify items that are same and items that are different.  They will practice holding pencils and crayons correctly as they write numbers, trace lines, and circle objects.  They'll get even more practice with those small motor skills as they color fall items on a page.  

One of our activity pages in this fall activity packet involves tracing lines.  Tracing is a pre-writing skill.  According to Baby Sparks, tracing helps young children refine their pre-writing skills.  Baby Sparks lists several ways tracing is beneficial for kids.  Tracing helps build fine motor skills, pre-writing skills, concentration and focus, visual-spacial skills, and creativity and drawing skills.  

What's in our Fall Activity Packet?  

Page 1:  Fall Vegetable Count

Children will count fall vegetables.  (pumpkins, sweet potatoes, beets, and winter squash.  Then, they will write the correct number beside each row.  

Page 2:  Fall Tracing

Children will trace the lines on each row to help the farmer fill his empty basket with pumpkins, corn, sweet potatoes, apples, and winter squash.

Page 3:  The Tallest Things of Fall

Children will identify the tallest item in each row in a series of 3 (pumpkins, acorns, and leaves).

Page 4:  Same and Different in Full Color

Children will identify the item in each row that is different in a series of 4 items per row including leaves, pumpkins, trees, acorns, and corn.  Then, they will circle the item that is different.

Page 5:  Same and Different Coloring 

Children will identify the item in each row that is different in a series of 3 items per row including leaves, pumpkins, trees, and acorns.  Then, they will color the item that is different.

Get your fall activity packet here!

Fall Activity Packet for Young Children
Fall Activity Packet for Young Children

We hope you are enjoying this beautiful fall season and we hope your children will enjoy our Fall Activity Packet.  When they are finished with it, get them outside for large motor play and fresh air!

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