The Whole Armor of God

We started this week teaching Adele about the armor of God.  I have been trying to decide how to go about this for a couple of weeks now.  So, Jason printed off some clip art and I taped it to a piece of poster paper, taped on the labels and voila... the armor of God man was born!  We are very excited about teaching this to her and to our family as well (I feel certain we will ALL benefit). 

My plan is to go over each piece of armor week by week.  My mom  helped too by purchasing the Armor of God outfit from Lifeway.  I am sure Adele is going to love putting all that on as we talk about each piece (she already has great plans to fight the dog!).  Another cool thing is that I was looking online at different ways to go about this and I saw a "Armor of God" board game for kids.  I thought, "how cute is that"!  Then I thought, "Oh, I have that game"!  DUH!!!  

Please pray for us as we learn and teach this to Adele.  Pray that God will use this time to grow our family spiritually, prepare us for His plans for our lives and honor Him.  I hope that during these weeks God will help me to see opportunities and/or situations in our everyday lives that can be used to explain the purposes of the armor of God to her and why it is so important.  

I am including some pics of the armor of God man and our "armor of God girl" too!

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.  Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.  Stand therefore, having fastened the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.  In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one, and take up the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.  To that end keep alert with all perseverance making supplication for all the saints.     

Ephesians 6:10-18

25 Random things...

I have read lots of other people's blogs lately where they have listed 25 random things about themselves and so I decided to try to think of 25 random things about myself that most people wouldn't know...

1.  Daisies are my favorite flower.

2.  I plan to start a garden this spring.

3.  My dad's middle name is Earl and my mom's middle name is Lula (boy did I luck out not to get a family name).

4.  Jason and I were pronounced husband and wife at exactly 2:41 pm.

5.  My daughter was born at exactly 2:41 pm (not on the same day!).

6.  When I find a movie I really like I will watch it over and over and over and over and... well you get the picture.

7.  I love photography and some day I hope to take a class on how to actually do it the right way!

8.  My parents have been divorced since I was 3 years old.

9.  Jason and I were high school sweethearts.

10. I worry a lot.  Don't worry (haha) my husband has informed me that this is a form of sin in my life (not totally trusting God's sovereignty) and I am praying about that.

11.  I have a step sister that is 4 months older than me and a half brother that is 10 years older than me.

12.  I love to play board games!

13.  At one of my birthday sleepovers my granddad made all my friends smell his pot of chitlins cooking on the stove.  Yeah... they still came back next year.

14.  Jason wrote a song for me and sang it at our wedding... mushy, I know.

15.  My favorite book of the Bible is James.

16.  I am scared of the dark... really.

17.  I LOVE to read the Farmer's Almanac... it has a lot of great information in there... really!

18.  In college I took a class on Evolution and even though I didn't believe a word the teacher said it was one of my favorite classes.  

19.  I really like to watch reality shows and my favorite right now is the "Biggest Loser".  

20.  I am totally scared of sharks but very much fascinated by them at the same time.  

21.  It makes me very nervous to be on a boat of any size... probably related to the shark fear.

22.  My granddad taught me how to swim at our hotel while we were on vacation in the Smokey Mountains.

23.  I drink a diet mountain dew every morning to start my day.

24.  I can't stand the way a newspaper feels in my hands... it makes me cringe.

25.  One of my favorite snacks to eat while watching TV is potato chips dipped in ketchup.

So, many of these things aren't very fascinating but I hadn't posted in a while and nothing super interesting has happened at my house lately... so there you go.