Some of you, former procrastinators, are excellent with accounts, money, computers, documentation. Some of you are perhaps grooming yourselves to be “that woman who was lost about her affairs when her husband died.” I lean toward the latter camp and admire you in the first group. I’m involved in a great deal with my husband….
Former procrastinators, I cannot begin to express my deep gratitude for the three women who invested in me over the years. Although I geographically moved away from each one, we grew closer as we maintained friendship and they continued to counsel and pray for me. We also grew closer as I began to learn to…
He is risen, former procrastinators! We serve a living Savior! “Pray for me!” A one-on-one discipling relationship gives us someone to confide in, rejoice with, mourn with – and someone with whom we can “storm the gates of heaven” when we meet together or contact each other in between times. As we grow, we become…
Remember, former procrastinators, that excited-scared feeling that gripped you when you approached a roller coaster for the first time? Or jumped into the deep end of the pool? You hesitated. You procrastinated. Finally you did it. “Again! I wanna do it again!” That’s how I feel about one-on-one discipleship. What a fitting topic as we…
There are parallels, former procrastinators, between us before the Lord and ourselves as children and as parents. Understanding this even a little increases my desire to enjoy God and bring Him glory. God loves His children deeply. Our relationship has been established through the blood of Christ. It does not change. However, our fellowship with…
As a preteen, former procrastinators, I had a ready answer when my mom called: “In a minute.” Sometimes I knew what she wanted; sometimes I didn’t. But “in a minute” was my default response to hearing her voice. After a while, I received a little talking-to. Now I see my fall-back response was a mark…
How do we figure out the will of God, former procrastinators? Discerning whether or not a prompting is from the Lord is vital before we say “yes” or “no.” We need not muddle along, hoping we’re okay. These aids help me discern what is of the Lord and what is not: First, attitude. Position yourself…
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
. . . you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
Colossians 3:9-10