It’s back to school time and everyone is trying to get into the swing of things. Getting everyone to bed at a decent hour, getting into the habit of setting alarm clocks and planning the night before for things such as what to wear?
This can be a very exhausting time for everyone physically, emotionally and spiritually – lots of preparation is needed. I have to keep reminding myself over and over again – patience – think before reacting, give my kids an opportunity to speak out what they may be feeling and keep my words positive over my kids!
One thing I try to do every morning before my kids go off to school is to give them a big hug and pray the following over them out loud: “I pray a blessing and prayers of protection over you in Jesus name.” Sometimes I get the ole “Oh, mom,” or the rolling of the eyes but that doesn’t matter – what matters is they are receiving this wrapping of blessing and protection from their Father in Heaven and bringing it with them wherever they go that day.
What are you speaking to your child before they leave for school in the morning? Is it something positive, affirming and uplifting or is it something negative, demeaning and destroying? Are you agreeing with what Father God says about your child or are you agreeing with what the enemy of their soul is saying? You get to choose.
Father God, I pray for all parents everywhere that your light would shine upon them, your love would flow into them and that this love would flow from them onto and into their children. Help us, Lord to equip our children with all they need to fulfill the destiny and calling you have prepared for their life – all for you and your glory – in Jesus name I pray – Amen!!!
As a parent, I never get tired of someone reminding me how important it is to tell or show my kids how much I love them! Oftentimes, it’s my kids that will remind me – they will ask if they can snuggle with me or just run into me and ask for a hug. Those are the best reminders of all!
It is our prayer, here at ThumbPeople, that every parent, grandparent or caregiver realizes the impact and importance of showing and telling their children, often, that they love them! It’s also our prayer that every adult will realize how important and valuable they are and how much their Father in Heaven adores and loves them so much!
This is why we offer the books, music and soaking CD’s, curriculum, written communication and videos that we do. To give these healthy, helpful reminders and resources that spark a renewed flame within to bond at a deeper level with those around them, especially their children.
This video is very powerful and speaks for itself; right from the children’s hearts to ours. We would love your help in spreading this message to as many people you know that would benefit from this helpful reminder of what it is their children really need from them.
Father God, I pray for every family represented here – that you would bind them together, in unity, with your supernatural power of Love. I pray for healing over broken families and hearts and draw each person closer to your son, Jesus which in turn will draw them closer to each other. Thank you, Lord – in Jesus name I pray – AMEN!!
How many times as a mother or father do you not feel like doing something that your kids would like you to do? There have been times that my kids will ask me to play a game, go swimming or hang and watch TV with them but I say “no” either because I’m too tired, too busy or too selfish with my time.
More and more I’m being internally prompted to stop, listen to what my kids are asking me to do with them and just act in a way that is opposite of how I feel. As I take that step forward and begin to play or talk or do that special something with my kids, it breaks off the chains that seemed to have been holding me back. Does anyone else feel this way sometimes?
I have to tell you, the video posted below has been an incredible saving grace to me. Every single time I watch it, it so deeply reminds me of what it is my kids need from me and why this is so important.
This video will melt your heart, make you want to run quickly to your child(ren) and give them a big huge hug and tell them how much you love them! You will not only want to love on your child but you will want to stop all that you are doing and spend quality time with them!
There aren’t too many videos I’ve seen that have had this type of an impact on me and my relationship with my kids. Why don’t you just stop for a moment, bless your own family by watching this video and then make a difference in other family’s lives by spreading this impactful message to as many people you know!
Lord, I pray that you would touch every person’s heart with your love – those that are reading this and watching this video. Lord, impress within us a deeper zeal for you which in turn will turn into a deeper love for those around us or those we come into contact with. Use this video Lord, to help us hear the cry of your children’s hearts – those that you have given to us as special gifts – help us to teach them more about you and your ways and unite our families together as you intended them to be! In Jesus name I pray – AMEN!
Have you had breakfast this morning? Have you had your first cup of coffee? Have you told your Father in Heaven that you love Him this morning?
Think about waking up in the morning and the first thought you have is “Good morning God, I love you – it’s gonna be a great day because you are with me!” WOW, would that help our attitudes and our direction for the day or what? Especially if you listen closely and sense His speaking back to you – “Good Morning to you Coreene, oh how I love you so much – I have great plans in store for you today – it’s going to be a wonderful day!”
It’s amazing the impact on our lives and others lives when we spend even a couple moments relating with and communicating with our Creator. It helps me to keep my eyes off myself and my issues and turn towards others around me. It helps me to want to focus on my husband, my kids, my co-workers even those I don’t know and extend a caring hand and heart.
It’s got to be such great joy and fun for God to watch His children receive His love and then share it with all who come into contact with that person. That person actually becomes a witness of who God is to those that may know Him and to those that may not know Him.
Our Thumbuddy message is about God’s unconditional love for all of us and also raises awareness in adults and caregivers of children to extend that unconditional love to their children. It stirs an urgency within us all that we can’t wait to show or tell of our love for these precious little ones in our life – that now is the time and it’s never too late!
So remember, every day is a good day to say “I Love You,” to the one who created us and to all those around you, especially those little ones!
“We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.” 1John 4:19-21
Dear Heavenly Father – thank you so much for first loving us, for sending your son to die for us, for showing us what true love really is. I pray for all those reading this that you would breakthrough any strongholds that are restraining your love from their lives – I pray there would be a supernatural downpouring of your love and a new understanding within their hearts of how deeply in love you are with each person. In Jesus name I pray - AMEN!!
The accuser of all people is satan himself – he will do anything to steal all of our blessings that come from God including our peace, joy, faithfulness, goodness, kindness, finances, health etc. He especially wants to destroy all of our relationships including our marriages, family and relatives; friends & coworkers, with our selves and most of all with Jesus.
How does he do all these rotten things? He entices us to agree with him about all the bad and wrong things about ourselves and others. So much so that we believe this is the truth about who we are and who others are and we speak and act out in terrible ways towards ourselves and others. We become tools in satan’s kingdom to partake in the worst bloodshed of all over ourselves and other people’s lives.
Pretty drab picture I know but we all have times that we partake in the above scenario – now let’s move onto the brighter picture!
God, who is love, sent his one and only son, Jesus, who sacrificed His life for each of us so that we may have abundant life in Him. He is the one that saves us from the ways mentioned above. The way in which He sees us and perceives us is with pure love and understanding of who we were created to be – not what we may look like right now. He knows the purposes and plans that God has for each one of us and when we’ve been caught in the enemy traps, He wants to set us free so we can become all that we were created to be.
We are to be the ones that the Kingdom of God uses to help set others free from the accuser. We have the living God, by the power of Holy Spirit, inside of us to help us see ourselves and others through the power of love. A love that knows that someone hurt them, but sees deeper into the heart of that person to see that they are being held captive by the enemy and we hold the power to help set them free.
The next time you start talking badly about others or have terrible thoughts about yourself – try to stop and ask yourself these questions – am I agreeing with the evil one by accusing this person or am I agreeing with God over this person’s life and being a lover? If you are agreeing with the wrong Kingdom, say a quick prayer asking God to help you to see yourself or the person from His perspective and what action you should take – He longs to show us!
Dear Father God –I am so sorry for the way we have agreed so often with the accuser and ask for you to forgive us. You are the one who loves and cherishes each one of us so much. We are asking for eyes to see and ears to hear your word. Open our hearts so that we may have a deeper understanding and knowledge of your ways. Your ways seem so unnatural to us so we need your guidance of how to become lovers not accusers of ourselves or others! In Jesus name I pray, AMEN!!!
·Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
·Custody; care.
·Something committed into the care of another; charge.
These are some pretty powerful words of what it means to trust. Now let’s talk about trusting God with our lives. Many times I think that I trust Him when in fact it seems I know very little about what trusting him is all about.
For example, I have struggled with migraine headaches for 20+ years. If any of you have ever experienced these you know how crippling they can be (physically & emotionally). I continue to pray and ask for complete healing, I continue to proclaim God’s words of healing over myself, I try to understand why I get them and what I can do to eliminate them and have exhausted myself in trying to get these migraines diagnosed by both the traditional medical field and the natural medical arena.
I’ve come to the end of what I know to do on my own.
Then this scripture came to mind - Proverbs 3:5-6 – “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.”
What is He telling me (us) to do?
To trust Him with all our heart; we need to rely on Him knowing He is a caring Father who loves us so much – who is looking after us all of the time, who does not want to see us, His children, sick or suffering. We really need to trust that He knows what is happening, He cares about what is happening to us and that He will (and is) helping us through this – He has not left us on our own during these times.
To NOT lean on our own understanding; We need to stop trying to figure this out with our own understanding and seek after His counsel.
In all our ways acknowledge Him and his promise to us is He will make our paths straight; we can continue to praise Him, love Him, thank Him and acknowledge Him for who He is all the time; when we are going through these painful times and when we are not. We need to trust that He will smooth out the road before us.
Dear Heavenly Father – I pray for a deeper revelation and understanding of what it means to trust you with our lives. We need your help to continually honor you for who you are in our lives and to really grasp how much you love us and care about us so we won’t be scared and left feeling insecure. Lord, I pray for all those who are going through painful situations that you would become so real to each person that they would receive confirmation from you that you are there and you have each person under your wing of security. We ask for your key that unlocks the storehouse of trust in you! In Jesus name I pray, Amen!!!!
A great resource for soaking in the truth of how much God loves you is our soaking CD Music; Words of Blessing, Words of Healing, Words of Love and Alone with God. Listening to these CD’s and spending time with the Lord has transformed my thinking about me and my relationship with God!
Thinking about 4th of July coming up and celebrating the birth of the United States of America, it reminded me of an incredible vision I had a while back. In the vision, I saw God picking up the United States – as if picking up a little baby. He wrapped the USA in white swaddling clothing, put us in his right arm and sang the following words to the tune of “hush little baby don’t say a word.”
Hush little children papa’s got a word
My love for you will not be blurred
I will awaken your soul with my fire
This will burn up the deception of the liar
My hands are tightly gripped upon your borders
Each of you will act upon my orders
To love me above all else is what I ask
No longer will you be able to hide behind your mask
To love one another unconditionally
This will be the new way you must believe
I am taking you to the next level
Don’t be surprised by attacks from the devil
He has no power over you now
Cause every knee will bow
To the name of Jesus Christ, my son
Whom I love and victory he has won
Little ones believe and entrust your souls to me
If you do this you will surely see
My perfect love will cast away your fears
Just turn your heart; I’ll wipe away your tears
Rest in my presence I have you in my hands
My Spirit is in place to complete my commands
WOW – these are powerful words of healing over the United States of America and for each and every one of us. Let the truth be known that our Father loves us, sent his son, Jesus, to be our everlasting savior and for each one of us that accepts Jesus into our lives we are forgiven and given the very Spirit of God to guide, transform, protect and teach us.
I strongly recommend you listen to a sample of “Words of healing” CD or watch this video and imagine, sitting quietly, just you and God, as you receive transforming words of healing spoken over you. It’s quite an exhilarating experience when we get a deeper revelation of who we are and who He is!
Dear Father, you are so good! Thank you so much for all the blessings you have given us as a country, as your people. Lord, help us not to forget that you are the reason that we even exist as people and as a nation. Father, forgive us for how we have drifted so far away from you. We need your healing as your people and as a country. Help us to keep you at the forefront of all we think, do and say. We love you so much and may our 4th of July celebration be about honoring and praising you! In Jesus name I pray …. Amen!!!
Some of you know what it’s like to await the birth of a newborn child – first there is immense excitement, and then there is a lot of preparation physically, mentally and spiritually and then there is excitement . . . . Then the time comes — oh, you’ve waited and now the time is here – you can almost hear the squeal of excitement coming through this writing!
It’s exactly how I’m feeling —- as we anticipate such excitement drawing near. Our ThumbPeople team has worked very hard preparing, physically, mentally and spiritually for the arrival of Thumbuddy and the delivery of this message of love, hope, and abundance for every life.
Starting Sunday, May 31st, we are teaming up with Crossroads Church in Burnsville to deliver this impactful message. Mark Arens, our amazing leader, will be starting the “You Are Set Apart” series off with a message entitled “God Loves You All The Time.”
Come join us as it will truly be a fun, positive, upbeat message you will want your whole family to hear and a message that is easy to continue talking about in the car on the way home or days later as you ponder this inspiring message.
Lord, I thank you so much for this message you have given Mark Arens and for the team you’ve gathered together to co-labor with you in getting this message out to your people. So many need your love, comfort and truth to be set free from all that is holding them back – I pray as we step into what you have called us to do your mighty power will annihilate the enemy’s plans against your people and each person will be drawn closer to you and fully open to receiving all that you have for them. In Jesus name I pray . . . Amen!
Our little guy, Thumbuddy, shows you how you can stand apart and know that you are truly special. You are special to God – your daddy in heaven.
God wants to have a relationship with you – He wants you to know that He has your best interest at heart, He wants to spend time with you, He wants to lead you, He wants you to know how beautiful you really are. He longs for you to talk to Him and tell Him how you feel. He longs for you to sit still and know He is there, - He wants you to listen for His voice as He so badly wants you to hear Him as He talks with you – He promises to tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. He longs to tell you secrets that no one else can teach you. He’s just plain crazily in love with you. Won’t you turn your mind and heart toward your Father God - let His Spirit guide you into His presence?
This world tries to take you away from this truth – it tries to get you to think only about what is happening in the world around you. The world wants you to think only about yourself and your needs and what’s best for you. This world can give you nothing – only God can give you what you need.
Give your kid’s a special gift – teach them the truth about themselves and who they are from Father God’s perspective. Read our book, Thumbuddy, Thumbuddy, I Love You! To your child and replace Thumbuddy’s name in the book with your child’s name. Now, after they know how much you love them read the book again explaining to them this is how God, who created them, loves them and cares so much about them! End each line with “this is what God thinks about you!”
Lord thank you so much for each person (& family they represent) reading this blog, they mean so much to you and you want to meet their every need. Bless them, Lord, with your presence and help each person take time to just be with you. Give them a passion to want to know you more for who you are and then guide their every step closer to you – in Jesus name I pray, AMEN!!!
This is not a super positive way of starting out a blog but I found it interesting that the word “severe” is found within the word perseverance.
All of us have had times in our life where we have needed to persevere through circumstances – some of us more than others and some of us may even be right in the middle of persevering.
Perseverence: to persist steadily in an action or belief, usually over a long period
and especially despite problems or difficulties. Severe: difficult to do or endure.
There are times in my life when I’ve had to come to a realization that I cannot fix my situation nor can any person in my life help me with it – it’s Him and Him alone!
Now for the positive twist — we do not go through these persevering times for nothing or in vain– if anything it is completely opposite of that. We need to understand the truth that when we acknowledge God for who He is as our caring Father, who loves us, is with us and is taking care of us during these times and we rejoice in the fact that we believe God has the power to do what he has promised, we are greatly strengthened in character which automatically produces great hope and deeper understanding of His love for us!
Romans 5:1-5 “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.”
I pray Lord for every person reading this that you would give them strength, courage and a super dose of your love right now. Lord help them to see you in their circumstance and know how deeply you care about them and are for them, not against them. Bless them with more belief in you — in Jesus name I pray – AMEN!
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