A Promise Is a Promise!

This report is on a lesson called Keeping Your Word. The lesson is from Created For Work by Bob Schultz.

You've probably guessed what the lesson is about by the title.

Sometimes you make a promises that will be tempted by something fun (or anything that you would like to do) after you have made that promise. When that happens you need to be strong and resist the temptation to give up what you have to do. If you do the Lord will bless you. It may not happen at that instant, or it may not happen in this world;but the Lord will bless you! Most of the time that blessing will always include peoples trust in you.

If you are a person that does not do what he promises then the people that make promises to will not trust you any more. We should always be seeking to please our Heavenly Father and He commands that we should not lie.

Pray For Haiti

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Children pray.

Horrible destruction.

Mr Peter Bradrick from my church is in Haiti right now. He is part of the RESCUE HAITI'S CHILDREN team founded by Mr. Doug Philip of Vision Forum.

Haiti is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. On Jan. 12, a huge earthquake hit Haiti. Since January 23 more than 150,000 people have died and many more are still missing.

Mr. Doug Phillips has put together a team called RESCUE HAITI'S CHILDREN and they are now in Haiti helping the survivors. This paragraph is from Mr. Doug Philips website where he explains his team's mission. He has live reports on his blog.

My mission to Haiti is four-fold: First, I will be establishing one of the only distinctively Christian reporting operations to tell stories of both the present crisis and the work of Christians on behalf of the sick and the widows and the orphans in the midst of Haiti’s present horror. Second, I will be working to facilitate the rescue and delivery of orphans to Christian families in America. Third, I will be identifying specific families that need direct support from the people of God in America. Fourth, my team will be providing specific relief to people in distress.

I can't even imagine the awful destruction and pain in Haiti right now. I think of all the people who have lost their wives, or husbands, and children. Many children are now orphans and many orphans from the orphanages have died or are hurt with no family to comfort them.

I pray that God will have mercy on the children and people of Haiti.

This makes me think about how we are bothered by the little things happen to us and we despair about them. I think about these people, they have no money, food or family to take care of them and love them and almost everyone was very poor before the earthquake. Little things shouldn't bring me down and I should be grateful for everything I have. Pray for the people of Haiti.

Slush and Ice

The snow is melting a little bit every day. We still have snow, just not as much as before. Now we have ice! My siblings sled on the ice now. It's faster than riding on the hard snow. It's also a relief for my chickens! Now they can get to the bugs, frozen or not!

Here are some more pictures:

Nathan sledding down the driveway.

Our driveway and street.

Our snowman.

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow....

My chicken enjoying the snow.

Here I am snow-boarding.

Oh no! Dad has the shovel! Run!

Dad, giving me a cold and wet surprise!

My snow brothers, sledding down the hill.

My sister and I awoke at 6:40 to a bright morning. The reason being was that there was snow all over the ground! As soon as my sister and I saw the snow outside we ran to our parents room and asked them if we could get our snow clothes down from the attic. Our parents agreed and got up to get dressed for the snow. The depth of the snow ranged from 3-5 inch. Here are some pictures...

Discouragement

Yesterday my Dad and I read a chapter from Created For Work by Bob Schultz. We read this book and another one which I will write about later, when we spend time together to talk and learn. This lesson was called Side Stepping Discouragement. The lesson was about dealing with discouragement.
Fact: When we work we will always meet up with discouragement.

Here is an example that I made up from my own life.

I won't clean my room anymore becausethe last time that I did my parents said that I missed alot of areas. That thought comes from feeling discouraged.
What I Should think: My parents pointed out areas that I need to work on. Next time I'll do an even better job and make sure I take care of the areas they told me about.

We should never allow discouragement to stop us from doing what we have to do.

If I don't feel like cleaning my room (or any other job), instead of feeling bad about what I have to do I should just do it! If you do what you don't feel like doing the feeling of discouragement may disappear completely.

Discouragement makes a person lazy because they feel sorry for themselves and have no motivation to do what they don't feel like doing. We don't always have motivation to do what we have to but that is life and being responsible. Remember, discouragement will make you lazy and then selfish, thinking only of yourself. The feelings of discouragement, laziness and selfishness can destroy a person. Crash through the walls of discouragement like a real soldier of God should.

Finish First

Two nights ago my Dad and I were reading a book called Created For Work by Bob Schultz.

The lesson we read was called Promptly After, But Not Before.

The lesson was about not excepting pay before you start or finish a job. Think about it...

Let's say that you offer to clean Mr. Stern's yard tomorrow (Friday) . He will be at a business meeting and won't be there the day you clean. Mr.Stern offers to pay you in advance and you except the offer. The next day(Friday) you're not feeling well. You're not able to go clean Mr. Stern's yard like you said you would. The next day (Saturday) Mr. Stern comes back amd sees that his yard is still a mess. And as you can imagine Mr.Stern is not exactly a person who takes excuses kindly. This causes difficulties and now Mr.Stern is sorry he trusted you and that he gave you money in advance. He will definitely not want to hire you to do yard work for him again.

When you get paid before you finish your work or job you may have little motivation to finish your work. You may not try as hard to do your best work when paid ahead because you were already paid before time. When you wait until you finish your work to get paid you look forward to receiving your reward after you finish your work. This often motivates to do your best to please the person employing you.

Teasing and Murder

I read a really great verse from Proverbs 26 while reading my devotions yesterday. V.18-19: As a mad man who casteth firebrands,arrows,and death, So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor,and saith,Am not I in sport?

This verse means that the person that says, "I'm just joking!" or "I'm just kidding!" is like an out of his mind murderer. We should not take this lightly. We should never take any part of the Bible lightly.