Power Thoughts by Joyce Meyer

Posted on July 29, 2011 by rachel

My women’s Bible Study has been going through Joyce Meyer’s book “Power Thoughts”.

It has been a life changing experience for everyone. Joyce really brings the Word alive and makes it very practical to our daily lives. The subtitle of the book is “12 Strategies to win the battle of the mind” and it certainly gives that.

I looked everywhere on the internet for a guide on how to study this book in a home group situation and I couldn’t find anything. So I had to work it out myself.

How I tackled this book:

I required everyone to buy their own copy from The Book Depository (the cheapest by far). Then the group was to read up to page 71 (the introduction) themselves and then we came together for the first night and discussed what we read. We then had 12 weeks looking at one Power Thought each week. We would all read the Power Thought during the week then come together on the Tuesday night and discuss it. As the leader I would briefly review the next week Power Thought with the group before they read it. I did this by choosing Scripture that went with the Power Thought and wrote the references on little pieces of paper and then gave these out to the women to look up and read out to the group.

I also created some Power Thoughts Cards that go with each of the 12 strategies. I gave out the next weeks Power Thought to each group member and they would stick these cards on their bathroom mirror or any place that they would see frequently. This helped to keep the Power Thought in their minds while they study the chapter for the week.

I am happy to share the Power Thought Cards with you. I printed them onto A5 paper with page 2 on the back and then laminated them. Or you could print them onto cardstock.

Power Thought 1 “I can do whatever I need to do in life through Christ”

Power Thought 2 “God loves me unconditionally”

Power Thought 3 “I will not live in fear”

Power Thought 4 “I am difficult to offend”

Power Thought 5 “I enjoy people and I love helping them”

Power Thought 6 “I trust God completely; there is no need to worry”

Power Thought 7 “I am content and emotionally stable”

Power thought 8 “God meets all my needs abundantly”

Power thought 9 “I pursue peace with God, myself and others”

Power thought 10 “I live in the present and enjoy each moment”

Power thought 11 “I am disciplined and selfcontrolled”

Power thought 12 “I put God first in my life”

Enjoy!

Rachel Larkin

 

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Apologia Science – Zoology 1 free notebooking pages

Posted on July 5, 2011 by rachel

I have some free notebooking pages for Zoology 1 click here to go to the download page

Enjoy
Rachel

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Freebie — Bird Watching Journal—Apologia Zoology 1

Posted on July 8, 2010 by rachel

We are going to be studying Apologia Zoology 1 next term and I have made up a Bird Watching Journal for my boys. I would love to share it with you!!

There is only 4 pages on this PDF file – I have left it up to you to make as many copies of pages 3 & 4 (the actal journal pages) as you like. I made one up with 15 journal entires. Once printed I took it down to the local printing shop and got it bound. It looks very professional. Please note that I have made it for A5 paper so that it is an easy thing to carry around while bird watching.

Here is the link Bird Watching Journal

I also have notebooking pages for sale on Currclick based on the zoology books

Rachel

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4GB Digital MP3 Player Giveaway – Christmas on The Lounge

Posted on December 13, 2009 by rachel

I have just entered into The Homeschool Lounge’s Christmas Giveaway!

It is for a 4gb MP3 player!!!!!!!

You can too – here is the link The Homeschool Lounge Giveaway

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Things To Do Before You Die!

Posted on May 17, 2009 by rachel

We all need to have a list of things we need to do before we die! I have only just realised this recently.

Time is just so short and it is so easy to spend it on absolutely nothing worthwhile.

Well, yesterday I totally surprised myself – I managed to cross off a couple of “Things to do before you die”

1. I watched my younger sister’s netball game – wow I have a new respect for her fitness level – I became so tired just watching those girls run around the court. It is a good thing to spend a bit of time encouraging someone doing their thing.

2. At this same netball game , the referees asked me to score the last two quarters of the day. I was so apprehensive , I was worried that I wouldn’t score correctly.After I had done it, I felt so good – for the rest of the day I kept saying – “I scored a netball game!”

3. I was due to go to a 30th birthday party last night – we all had to wear a flash dress. Well, I thought – why not get my nails done? So my sister and I went (after the netball game) to the mall. The nail technician suggested that we get nail art as something special. I just giggled all through the nail art session – it was so wild. I have never had my nails half painted black with gold sparkles and diamonds before!

These three “things before you die” may seem to you to be so insignificant but to me this was a very different way to spend my Saturday – chuck the TV away and start doing something new today! It just changes your attitude towards what you can do. Confidence Building 101!

Until Next Time
Keep Connecting with God!

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Dining on a Dime Book Giveaway

Posted on April 15, 2009 by rachel

Living on a Dime is having a giveaway!!!

I have just received an email from Tawra from Living on a Dime about a crazy sale they are having. Here’s what she said:

We are going to be having a 50% off sale on all our books and 63% off if you buy 3 you get one free. (yes, this is just barely above our cost but it’s not worth having books sit around :-)

Here is the link to check it out:Mothers Day Crazy Book Sale

She has given me one ebook to give away to one of my blog readers – this is the giveaway lowdown

Dining On A Dime – e-Book
Eat Better and Spend Less with Real Food for Real People!
Dining On A Dime Cookbook – Money Saving Recipes, Grandma’s Home Cooking

Save $10,000 a year on food?

Without cutting coupons! Unbelievable? Read Tawra Jean Kellam and Jill Cooper’s advice in their e-book: Dining on a Dime (formerly Not Just Beans) and find out that it really is possible.

Tawra has told her story to millions of listeners and readers on the radio, on the web and in women’s magazines (including Woman’s Day and Woman’s World) and now she’s put her best tips and tricks into a 476 page e-book. Using these tips and suggestions, Tawra shows how anyone can tighten his or her food budget.

Dining on a Dime is packed with over 1,200 money saving recipes and tips, kids tips and snack ideas, gift baskets, menus, food storage directions, Cleaning Cents and Pretty for Pennies. The recipes are easy to cook with ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry. To make shopping easy and economical, Tawra has also included a pantry list and a shopping list.

This is worth $19.95 and 481 pages!!!!!!!!! – you could be the lucky reader who will get this for free!!!!

Here is how you can be in to win:

I am a speaker at New Zealand’s H.E.A.R.T retreat this year and my topic is “Avoiding Burnout” I would love to hear your ideas on how you avoid burnout as a wife, mum, homeschooling mum etc.

Just leave a comment with your avoiding burnout advice and the suggestion that appeals to me will win the “Dining on a Dime” ebook. You will have until 20th April to post your ideas.
Good Luck!

Rachel

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Six Steps to Successful Personal Change

Posted on April 7, 2009 by rachel

I came across a short article from John C. Maxwell about change. I am going through a lot of change right now. It can sometimes be quite disconcerting. My changes are all external changes that are happening to me ,but John Maxwell was talking about internal changes and gave 6 steps towards how to change.

We sometimes wish that our lives were a little different – well this short list of steps shows us clearly where we start and that we can change our lives – we are the only one responsible for our own life and we can change it.

1. When you change your thinking you change your beliefs.

2. When you change your beliefs you change your expectations.

3. When you change your expectations you change your attitude.

4. When you change your attitude you change your behavior.

5. When you change your behavior you change your performance.

6. When you change your performance, you change your life!

It all starts with our thinking!

Let’s change our thoughts today towards what we what to see our lives become.

Rachel

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Turning Typing Mistakes into Liquid Gold

Posted on April 2, 2009 by rachel

Anyone who has ever used a typewriter has experienced the frustration of hitting the wrong key. Depending on which year you made this mistake, you had very few choices as to what you could do after making the mistake.

For most of the typewriter’s existence, if it was an important piece of paper you were typing you had no choice but to throw away the one with the mistake and start over again.

This was very time consuming. For some, it was impossible to actually type a whole page worth of characters and not make a mistake. This meant many people couldn’t use the typewriter…at least not until someone could solve this problem.

A Valuable Solution

In 1954, an executive secretary, Bette Graham, decided that there was a better way. Her mother was an artist and Bette decided to use tempura paint to cover up her typing mistakes.

Soon, others in the office saw what she was doing and wanted some of this magical liquid Bette called “Mistake Out.”

The demand for it grew and she started making it at home. Her son and his friends would bottle it up.

In 1958 an office magazine ran an article about “Liquid Paper” which resulted in over 500 orders. This grew to over 5,000 bottles per week by 1962.

By 1975 she moved the headquarters of Liquid Paper from San Antonio to Dallas. Three years later she sold her company, Liquid Paper, to Gillette for $48 million.

Bette’s Acres of Diamonds was sitting in her mom’s painting supplies. She turned an irritation with typing mistakes into a multi-million dollar fortune.

Other Solutions

Over the years this same problem has led to many other solutions:

* Typing training (teach people how to not make mistakes)
* Typing tests (screen out the bad typists)
* Erasable paper
* Erasable ink
* Ink remover
* Cover-up sheets – looked like white carbon paper
* Different keyboard layout like the Dvorak keyboard
* Correcting typewriters
* Type ahead buffers with built in dictionaries
* Dedicated word processors like the Wangwriter
* Word processing software like Wordstar, Word Perfect and Microsoft Word
* Voice dictation software like Dragon Speak

Each of these solutions is someone else’s Acres of Diamonds. There can be more than one successful solution to a problem.

Finding Your Own Acres of Diamonds

Ask yourself a series of questions:

What problems are you facing that others face?

Which of those problems would people be willing to pay money for a solution?

What possible solutions are there for that problem?

Which solution seems like the right one for you to pursue first?

What are your next action steps?

You don’t have to have a degree, a special background, previous experience or certification to come up with a great solution to a persistent problem. You just have to decide you want to find a solution and take action. The power of intention and persistence will yield great rewards.

About the Author

Dan Swanson is an Internet marketing consultant, who systematically increases qualified traffic and improves conversions of visitors to customers for client’s websites. For more information on his Internet marketing consulting services visit http://www.iq2.com. For more Acres of Diamonds success stories, visit http://www.AcresOfDiamonds.net.

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Get Wisdom!

Posted on February 23, 2009 by rachel

I have just had a revelation this morning – my middle son found a verse in Proverbs in our Bible time. It was Proverbs 3 v 19 :

The Lord by skilful and godly wisdom has founded the earth…

This really struck me between the eyes! Wisdom is what created the earth. The kids and I started thinking about what is inside the earth – iron, gold , silver, metal, diamonds, precious gem stones etc.

Wow! Wisdom created all these precious and valuable things. I am sure that there is more to discover that hasn’t already been revealed inside the earth. All through the book of Proverbs the writer is trying to get the reader to value Wisdom – to get Wisdom.

I sure what Wisdom if it has the ability to create diamonds! don’t you?

Writing to Inspire
Rachel

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Character Training your Kids Part One

Posted on January 27, 2009 by rachel

The most important education is Character Training. What is the point of having a highly intelligent adult if their personality or character is corrupt or grating on everyone else? It is better to spend the time on gently guiding our children into God’s paths and His wisdom in dealing with life’s issues than to feed them lots of facts and figures.

The first character issue that I encountered with my oldest son was an extremely negative attitude. If someone said “yes”, he said “no” and vice versa. It seemed like he was determined to go through life miserable and making everyone else miserable.

After much prayer God showed me the cause of my son’s negative attitude. It was a lack of confidence in his own abilities. He didn’t want to try new things because he didn’t think that he would be any good – he thought that he was a big failure at everything.

So little things like learning how to tie his shoelaces to playing sports to attending a homeschool field trip seemed to be too hard for him to attempt.

Well, now that I could pinpoint what the issue was I had to sit down and work out a solution. I tried to praise him and encourage him but it didn’t seem to be very effective. I prayed some more and asked for God’s answer to our issue. God is so faithful , He showed me exactly what I had to do to help my son build up confidence inside.

My words weren’t being effective but God said that His Word is always effective. His Words work and they are alive. He showed me last year that His Words create something out of nothing. His Words – Light Be created light!. Jesus’ words to the fig tree caused it to die. His words to the rough waves and sea, calmed them.

So my job was to inject God’s words about my sons abilities into his heart. His faith in God and himself had to be built up. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). So I had to find God’s Words on confidence.

My son was 10 at the time so he was able to understand the things that I was to interject into his life. I wanted him to own these words for himself. So I encouraged him to do a bit of research and discover what the word confidence & courage means. Then I showed him how to look up God’s Word for verses on confidence. He came up with the following:
Proverbs 14:26
Ephesians 3:12
Hebrews 4:16
1 Corinthians 16:13
2 Timothy 1:7

I picked out two verses that suited my son and our situation and personlised them. Then at the end of everyday when I was tucking him into bed , he would read out his personlised verses.

Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the LORD I have strong confidence and I will have a refuge”
1 Cor 16:13 I am watchful. I stand firm in the faith. I act like a man. I am strong”

The result was awesome! The Word of God sent forth always accomplishes that for which God has purposed it to accomplish. My son grew in confidence that year.

The answer to whatever character issue that you are facing is to be found in the Word. I highly encourage you to spend time in prayer asking God to reveal to you the perfect Word for your child.

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