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Are Contraceptives and Sterilization Okay?

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  This post is connected to the post I put out earlier today: The Blessing of Children.  Some women experience some degree of infertility due to hormonal birth control use, using it for many years, and when they want to conceive it takes very long, or worse, it has lifelong effects. Some mothers actually put their daughters on birth control from the age of 13 years old, by the time they get married, they struggle to conceive. Some women (young and old) have said to me that they regret getting sterilized. Because I have many children, it is fascinating to some, and I often end up in a conversation about conception to a woman, so I've heard many different stories, from women who have walked this road. Be careful about contraceptives and sterilization, don't make a decision right after you have just given birth, obviously at that stage you will be thinking "never again". If you would like to learn more about the dangers of hormonal birth control, you can watch an intervi

Understanding The Blessing of Children

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  This post is dedicated to children (especially my own πŸ’•). May you know that you are deeply loved and chosen by Yahweh God. No mistakes in the Kingdom, but you are called from the womb to live out His will in this earth. " For You are my hope, O Yahweh God; You are my trust from my youth. By You I have been upheld from birth: You are He who took me out of my mother's womb. My praise shall be continually of You.  I have become as a wonder to many, But You are my strong refuge. Let my mouth be filled with Your praise and with your glory all day." Psalm 71:5-8 One of the saddest things within the body of Messiah is the zero understanding of why we are called to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28). Do we know why we have children? Have you ever sat with a group of mothers, or even one or two mothers who DID NOT complain about how hard mothering is or complain about her children (me included) ......you probably have not experienced that. When asked, "do you want mor

I Want to Stay Home, But What About the Finances?

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  I first want to start off by saying that each married couple's financial circumstances are different. Ours won't look like yours and vice versa, so when navigating this area of your life, both you and your husband need to be in regular communication about it and of course being prayerful as well. You won't be able to apply every single thing that I share, to your own life, but just as you are reading this blog post, so have I done, reading from other experienced wives/mothers, and finding what would work for us, using some of the advice and seeing that it actually works! I hope and trust in the Father, that it will be the same for you here. BUT....if you think that you will be able to walk this road without having faith, you are mistaken, we walk by faith and not sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). While I worked my resignation months finished, Lorenzo and I did our best in our human efforts to pay debt and learning to become good stewards of our finances, but our budget still did

Submitting to Our Husband: Why and How

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In the post I made, sharing my testimony about how I became a full time wife and mother , I mentioned the "feminist movement". If you would like to learn more about this movement, you may watch these two videos by a YouTube channel called "TruthUnedited": What is Feminism and The History of Our Mind Control I highly recommend that you take the time to watch the videos, it goes into great detail about how this movement came to be (FYI, the gentleman who is behind "TruthUnedited" is a follower of our Messiah, and so these videos are made from a Biblical perspective). If we want to break free from satan's mental bondages, then it is good to be renewed in our minds by knowing his works, so that we do not conform to the patterns of this world. (Romans 12:1; Hosea 4:6). I will give a very small summary about the movement in this post. It was in the 1950s/1960s that this movement started arising among women, it was not inspired by the Holy Spirit, and it was

God's Practical Plan

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  When I shared our journey to homesteading , it is no coincidence that yesterday I read thisπŸ‘‡πŸ˜Š, which I will share with you. This reading was taken from the book " 100 Days of Blessings, Devotions for Wives and Mothers, Volume 2" by Nancy Campbell. I'm not a big fan of "Daily Devotionals" but this, as well as Nancy's others are very "meaty", a daily devotion is usually 2-3 pages long.    Day 18 God's Practical Plan Part1 "Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce" (Jeremiah 29:5 NASB) Iam always amazed as I read God's Word to find how practical it is for our daily lives. God comes down to our "nitty gritty" and leaves us without a doubt as to how He wants us to live. In Jeremiah 29:5-11 NASB God sent a charge through the prophet to the Jews who were taken captive to Babylon. It was a practical message, reminding them of His original plan. Remember, they were commands to people living in ca

Journey to Building Our Homestead

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  As with many homeschooling families, the homesteading bug has bit us toπŸ˜ƒ. This old-fashioned lifestyle drew us in. We love that we can grow our own food, raise our own animals for meat, eggs and milk, and have a slower, simpler life. The quality of our food would be much better! no pesticides, and healthier raised animals. Anyone can start a little garden; herbs and some vegetables can be grown in containers on the balcony of a flat. I only started getting into gardening when I came home full time, I never knew that something like this would be for me, but apparently it is! 😁. When we lived in the city, we had a small space in the front of our home to plant, and in that little space we had harvested cherry tomatoes, spinach, green beans, potatoes, beetroot, green pepper, cabbage, thyme, mint, parsley and rosemary. I had no need to run to the grocery store to buy those things, I could just get it out of our garden! how rewarding! Being that we are a large family, this way of living