My Dreamhouse Wishlist

Someone asked me what I wanted in my dream house.

1. Make a slide from the kids room to the kitchen.

2. Make secret rooms

3. Make secret hideouts for the kids

4. Laundry chutes from all the rooms

5. Heating and cooling system in floors and walls

6. Holes for shelving in walls

7. No corridors - waste of space

8. Butlers pantry 

9. Heated Indoor swimming pool

10. Glass ceiling for master bedroom so I can see the stars

11. Green house kitchen

12. A garden in the bathroom

13. Skylights in every room 

14. North facing (if in Australia)

15. Energy efficient with solar panels and water tanks

16. Sewerage system that goes straight to the plants 

17. Lazy river in the house

18. Helicopter pad

19. Glass dome enclosed over the whole house

20. Waterfall with hidden room

* tRUST & OBey the LORD *

The Homeschooling Review

I realized that what I emphasized on - workbooks, did not really matter much in the review but the stuff we were not planning on doing but ended up doing and had “nothing to do with school” ended up being the highlights of the review. This is my first review so it’s left me in quite a shock.

Some of the not planned stuff were when my hubby decided to drive up to bow hill and surrounds to see the flood waters, or when we drove down to Kingston for my birthday, or when we drove up to Berri for our anniversary and it is considered educational.

Other unplanned stuff is like when I decided to incubate the eggs, adopted four rabbits and four Guinea pigs — none of which were supposed to be educational but ended up being pretty scientific.

And going to Bunnings for the DIY course was really not something I planned but just tagged along, and benefited so much from.

And her playing Lego which I thought was a waste of time but turns out to be looking pretty good in the review. 

And a book on the periodic table which I just so happened to bump into in Kmart and picked it up, and she fell in love with to the point of writing her own story about it. 

These were all unplanned but happened and everything I actually did plan didn’t materialize or didn’t matter.

* tRUST & OBey the LORD *

Hearing from God

Is it possible to have a relationship with someone you cannot communicate with? The most important thing in life is to hear God’s voice. We cannot have a relationship with God without hearing from Him. Prayer is a two-way communication. Pray and ask God to speak to you regarding your situation— ask Him to give you a verse, then close your eyes and wait for it. Might take some time if it’s your first time. Ask Him for a book, chapter number and verse number and turn to it.

This is how I found God’s will for my life — from which guy to marry to which country to migrate to. When I prayed and fasted about a certain guy, He gave me the verse about Timothy “receive his love in obedience” and “he will help you in your ministry”. And when we both prayed about a certain country, He gave my husband the chapter about “a land flowing with milk and honey” which is what this land literally produces. God speaks all the the but we need to listen.

Please pray about where God is sending you. It’s not always the easy road but there’s nowhere better than the perfect will of God for you. And how important is it to live this out in front of your kids - that life is not where is easy but where God sends us. I’m sure you know that, just reminding.

* tRUST & OBey the LORD *

No going back now

So you have not been going to church but worshipping at home with the family and now you want to know which church God is leading you to?

Pray and ask God what you should do. A church is not something we can go shopping for. It’s something God has predestined for you. A church is a family; a place we pour our hearts and lives into, other than our actual family. So pray about it.

To be entirely honest, we’ve not been going to an actual church for many years because our church is overseas. We tried joining a local church but it just isn’t the same. I felt God calling us to focus on Family Altar. And to be honest, after not going to church and then going to church, I see false religion and traditions of man rather than what I think a church is supposed to be and I just can’t go back to it anymore. I just want the Holy Spirit to move in the worship but it can’t be done in some of these church environments. I just have to do church at home again. 

But that’s me. Just do what God is calling you to do..

Well, how can a church environment not allow the Holy Spirit to move? Sometimes, there’s just so much expectation— i.e. the worship has to have a certain number of songs, sang a certain number of times, starts off at the bottom of the chart and then slowly builds up and finally when it reaches the peak, the pastor is to take over and pray for the people, followed by communion, tithes and offerings, and then the word for a certain number of minutes, etc.

And there’s women’s ministry, men’s ministry, youth ministry, basically all serving people, ministering to the people, some fun, food and laughter. And words of comfort, stuff they are happy to hear. I’m so tired of doing church. After serving in the local church for a year, I just couldn’t unsee what I’ve been “missing” pre-covid and its irrelevance to what God is doing today — something powerful, new and different.

The Church has got to get to its original form in Acts 2 — full of power, signs, wonders and miracles, — and the ekklesia mentioned being built on the ‘rock’ — a governing body, of authority at the heart of today’s society. 

We simply cannot crawl back into the comfortable bubble we used to call home, and expanding our little churches the same way we used to. There is just no going back now.

Our kids need to experience God and to have a personal relationship with Him, and sadly, the church is no more a place for that. It has become a religious institution, teaching the word, with fun and games, and cool songs but nothing more than that.

* tRUST & OBey the LORD *