Chapter 22: Nice Earrings

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

PSALM 139:14

Reflection Questions

1. Do you struggle with feeling physically inadequate? Have you accepted others' assessment of you as not being beautiful?

2. Does it help heal your heart to know that you are beautiful physically? Are you ready to accept God's opinion of you as truth?

Chapter 21: The Money Tree

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

PHILIPPIANS 4:19

Reflection Questions

1. Do you need to look to yourself (or your husband) to meet your needs, or do you look to God? Why or why not?

2. What can you plan to do first when your next need arises so that you look to God to meet your needs?

Chapter 20: Shut the Door...of Not

I will place of his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

ISAIAH 22:22

Reflection Questions

1. Do you usually seek indications as to whether God has closed or opened a particular door, or do you tend to step through whatever doorways look good to you?

2. Are you facing an important decision right now, and you need to know whether God has closed or opened a particular door? Have you been seeking Him consistently?

3. Has there ever been a time when God closed a door that you wished was open, but later you were He closed it?

Chater 19: Stop the Whining

Do everything without complaining or arguing.

PHILIPPIANS 2:14

Reflection Questions

1. Spend a day, or even an hour, keeping track of how many times you say something whiny or negative. Is it more or less often than you thought?

2. How might your personal and family life change if you were to spend more time speaking positive words, and less time speaking negative ones?

Chapter 18: Running Ahead

Trust the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all the ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

PROVERBS 3:5-6

Reflection Questions
1. Can you think of a time when you've run ahead of God? Were the results what you hoped?

2. What steps can you take to make sure you don't run ahead of God next time you have to make a decision? Are you willing to take those steps?

Chapter 17: Infinite Love

The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

ZEPHANIAH 3:17

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 JOHN 4:10

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

ROMANS 5:8

I pray that yuo, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpases knowledge- that yotu may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

EPHESIANS 3:17-19

Reflection Questions
1. Hvae oyu ever truly opened your heart to God so He can fill it with His love? If not, what holds you back?

2. Did you know that God love yoou even more than you love your own children? Is this a new idea to you?

3. How can you make sure that you spend time in the next few days meditating on God's love for you?

Chapter 16: You Made Me Do It!

When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.

JAMES 1:13-14

Reflection Questions

1. When confronted with your sin, do you tend to make excuses? DO oyu feel the need to point out what others did that may have contributed to your sin?

2. If it's difficult for you to admit your sin, why is that? What needs to change in order for you to start taking responsibility for your actions?

Chapter 15: Train Fright

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

PSALM 18:2

Reflection Questions

1. When trouble comes, do you flee to your Father? If not, why not?



2. When you flee to God in your times of trouble, what do you receive from Him? If you flee to other "comforts," how do they compare?

Chapter 14: Why Not?

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:17

Reflection Questions

1. Do you like to try new things? Why or why not?

2. Is there something new you'd like to try, but you've been hesitating? Why not make plans to pursue it?

Chaoter 13: Roly-Poly Summer

For you make me glad by your deeds, O Lord. I sing for joy at the works of your hands.

PSALM 92:4

Reflection Questions

1. What aspects of God's creation do you truly delight in?

2. How can you spend time enjoying at least one of those aspects this week?

Chapter 12: No Getting Away with it

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

ROMANS 6:1-2

Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

ROMANS 8:2

Reflection Questions

1. Do you ever resent someone's "getting away with something" while you have to do the right thing? What is your inner conversation like?

2. Have you bought into Satan;s lie that sin brings life while God's law brings death? If so, what do you need to do to adjust your perspective?

Chapter 11: Facing Life's Tangles

Surely you desire truth in the inner parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

PSALM 51:6

Reflection Questions:

1. Are there tangles in your life that are hard to deal with? Are there areas of pain you'd prefer to keep hidden? What do these questions bring to mind?

2. Are you ready to share those secret places with God (and perhaps another trusted person) and let Him help you work through these areas? If not, what would have to happen before you were ready?

Chapter 10: No laughing matter

Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

HEBREWS 12:9

Reflection Questions:

1. Which of God's commands do you tend to have difficulty following (or refuse to follow)? Why?

2. How can you submit your heart more fully to God in these areas?

Chapter 9: Forever

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

2 CORINTHIANS 4:17

Reflection Questions:

1. Do you view your circumstances as the whole point of life, or as stepping-stones on the way to eternity? Either way, what difference does it make in the way you view your life?

2. How would seeing painful circumstances as fleeting and temporary change the way you endure them?

Chapter 8: Skilled Building

The whole body depends on Christ, and all the parts of the body are joined and held together. Each part does its own work to make the whole body grow and be strong with love.

EPHESIANS 4:16, NCV

Reflection Questions

1. What gifts has God given you to be used for the benefit of the Body of Christ?

2. How are you currently using your gifts to serve the Body?

Chapter 7: The Ten Commandments, Revised

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 JOHN 5:3, ESV

Reflection Questions

1. Do you see God's commandments as restricting your fun or showing you the way to abundant life?

2. Why do you obey God? Because you have to, because you love Him, or both, depending on the situation?

Chaoter 6: More than Enough

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you"

HEBREWS 13:5

Reflection Questions

1. Is there something in your home that you don't appreciate? What further possibilities can you see in it?

2. Are you content with what God has given your, or do you often need more? If your answer is "more", how can oyu learn to be content with what you have?

Chapter 5: Juggling Monkeys

I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?

JEREMIAH 32:27

Reflection Questions

1. Isn't it amazing how God can lovingly rear all of His children at the same time?

2. Is it hard for you to manage your child(ren), logistically speaking? Is there someone you could ask for help in making things run a little easier?

Day 5 & 6

Take the weekend to reflect back on what you read over the past few days. Spend time with family, friends and God.

Be back Monday with more devotions and reflections.

God Bless!

Day 4: The Best Cake Ever

The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

1 SAMUEL 16:7

Reflection Questions

1. Do you tend to look at results, or at how hard someone (including you!) tried, and the attitude of the person's heart?

2. What difference might it make in your personal life and home life if you began to concentrate on your family's heart attitudes and left the results to God?

Day 3: Spiritual Sunlight

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything but only God, who makes things grow.

1 CORINTHIANS 3:7

Reflection Questions

1. Are you growing spiritually? Do you spend enough time in God's Word? If not, why not?

2. If you don't, what could you do to resolve some of these factors so that you give priority to time spent in God's Word?

Day 2: Racquetball as a Shower Sport

If any of you lacks wisdom, [she] should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to [her].

JAMES 1:5

Reflection Questions

1. Does it sometimes frustrate you or even threaten to drive you crazy that kids can be so unpredictable? How might you learn to rejoice in this fact instead?

2. Are oyu quick to ask God's wisdom in your parenting? If not, why not?