All God's Daughters Ministry

01/25/2026

Excellent resource.

There are so many commands in the Bible. This post will equip you with the tools you need to correctly handle, understand and apply them.

01/24/2026

Hey everyone, Have you ever found yourself wondering why you bother doing what you do because it seems like no one cares? Whether it is the never-ending mounds of laundry or dirty dishes, gassing up the cars and checking the oil or the hours you work in addition to those never-ending chores or the time spent ensuring that the kids are doing their chores.
Maybe it is just you and your husband going to work and taking care of things at home and you still wonder if what you are doing is being noticed by anyone at all.
I am in a season of life where I don't have the pressure of working outside the home. We have been empty-nesters for some time now and I will freely admit that I have wondered that same thing at different points in our lives. Also, and I am sorry to be the one to spoil your dreams for your future, even in this season of life there are all the same chores to be done!! The reason for that is we keep wearing clothes thus laundry, and we keep eating thus dishes, and we keep going places thus cars and the list goes on.
It dawned on me somewhere along the way that it was the expectation that those things would be taken care of by me without any apparent appreciation for it that was the problem. You will run into this throughout your life and not just in your home life. So how do we resolve it? The most common method is deciding to just stuff it and pretend it doesn't matter to us. Bad choice. The more you stuff the more it festers until it finally erupts and whomever the eruption is directed at is at a total loss because they had no idea there was a problem building. You cannot expect someone to correct something when they have no idea it exists. Honestly, if you do this long enough with any issue within a relationship it can be a deal breaker because when you finally blow, you will not feel vindicated unless the response meets the level you have allowed your initial frustration to feser to. In other words, you will need a response that will make up for what could be years of what began as frustration but festered and grew with each new stuffing of it until it became anger, rage, offense, hurt. And because you didn't say anything the receiving party will be left trying to figure out how you feeling like your efforts were not appreciated could truly be a reason for a relationship to end.
Folks, before it gets to that point I would like to offer some insight from what God taught me over the years.
Romans 12:10, Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
God wants us to live our lives putting their others needs before your own. What does that mean? Try to see things from their perspective. Work to understand their point of view. And then think about meeting their needs and desires first, before your own. OK, I can hear you asking yourself, "Isn't this what I have been trying to avoid? Don't I want him to be thinking more of my needs?" Why can't you have both? This verse was not specifically written exclusively to women, nor was it written exclusively about marriage although it applies to both. The verse is God's word to believers. This is how we are to treat our husbands, our friends and relatives and all other believers God blesses us to work alongside. And if we are living this way in all our relationships our lives will be filled with love and joy. And PEACE. How do I figure? The more you honor someone the more you will love them and the more joy you will receive from honoring them. God blesses obedience. God will bless you with His peace that cannot be shaken in any circumstance and He will bind you together with His love. But what about all the injustices you endured? Hebrews 6:10 (ESV) says,
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
God sees everything you do. He also sees what motivates you to do those things. He also hears the grumblings in our hearts as we work at whatever job He has blessed us with. Hold on. Those words don't go together. If we are working at something God has blessed us with should there be grumbling or complaining while we are doing it? If we are complaining and looking for the bad stuff in the blessing are we still receiving the blessing God intended for us to have or are we nullifying it and making it just something else that we feel burdened with? God also sees every act of kindness and love, every act of obedience done quietly for Him to know of, but none other. Living like that makes our love start looking like this:
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 (ESV) We should do all things to honor Him and give Him glory first and foremost. Then our spouses and then our body of believers. This is His order for life and it brings us intimacy with Him, your husband and others but don't do this to get a response from the one you are honoring. You will be sucking the blessing out of the honoring.
So to resolve our initial dilemma, don't stuff how you feel. Talk about it in a living, respectful manner. And start looking at those irritating chores as blessings and thank God for the little feet that fit in those socks as you search for it's mate, and for the great meal that gave your family the nutrition they need and for the vehicle that is so important to to life these days, etc.
Don't be a blessing sucker!
Philippians 2:3-4 (ESV)
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests but also to the interests.

Praise His holy name!

01/23/2026

Don't let guilt keep you from running to God.

01/21/2026

Let's make it personal

01/17/2026

Mom's check this out!!!

01/17/2026

Enjoy

01/17/2026

Important words for those who feel church is unnecessary. Find a good one and go!

Church matters to me because it’s one of the few places that still says: Come as you are, but don’t stay as you were.

It’s where grace sounds louder than shame.
Where prayers get prayed even when words fail. Where someone else’s faith helps carry you when yours feels tired.

Church is important to me because isolation breeds lies, but community speaks the truth.

Because faith grows best in proximity. Because iron sharpens iron, hope rubs shoulders with pain and joy learns to coexist with grief.

Church reminds me that God still builds with broken people—and somehow makes something beautiful come from the brokenness.

That’s church! That’s my family! ❤️

12/28/2025

Christmas has come and gone once again. For years I was sure that the big family Christmases would continue in my home just adding in grandchildren and great grandchildren but I am finding that was just me trying to hang on to something that is impossible to hold. The lives of young people growing up and moving away and marrying and living their lives cannot be held onto. You just pray for them all and hope that they will stay in touch. So amidst the shifting and changing of family dynamics you have to find your ground zero, the place that never shifts or changes. As one of God's precious daughters, I know where my firm foundation lies. I know that when I stand on the Word of God and live my life believing every word of it, I cannot be shaken by the shifts and changes life on this earth seems to supply without end. No matter what you think your future holds...loneliness, heartache, a life without meaning or purpose, or nothing but blue skies and success. Please hear me on this. You were created for a purpose and God, your Creator, laid forth a plan for your life before you were born. That plan is full of good things and when the storms come, and they will, He will walk through them with us doing a work inside us that will make us stronger and more confident to meet the next thing that comes. He created us to be 'more than conquerors' when we do battle with Jesus by our side. He wants us to meet life's junk head on
Loneliness. Find somewhere to serve the Lord and People. Could be at church or a nursing home or any number of places. Get involved in a Bible study. Get out of the house and make some friends.
Heartache can come from a lot of different sources and can be really difficult to get past but the longer we hang on to it the harder it is to push past it. Forgiveness is key if it is needed. Forgive yourself 1st of whatever wrongs you have committed including waiting so long to forgive. And ask the Lord to forgive you Forgive those who have injured, neglected or caused you pain. Forgiving doesn't mean you are saying they were right, it doesn't mean that God won't deal out justice to them should they never repent. He is a just God. But unforgivness only hurts you further. They likely don't know how you feel about them and they may not care. If God leads you to it, that may be a conversation for later.
As for meaning for your life, we are to be worshippers in spirit and in truth (no faking it), we are to spread the good news of Jesus Christ and the work He did for us on the cross, and we are to take every opportunity to encourage and help those who God puts in our path in any way we can.
As for success, there is no better success than a life lived abundantly in the presence of our savior.
I think I will let Christmas be a time for family, yes, but a time to recenter myself on the Rock of my salvation.Jesus.

12/25/2025

To all God's Daughters and their families, May God bless you in every way this Christmas and throughout the New Year. May we learn to draw close to Him and live in His presence moment by moment.

04/01/2025

I am sorry for the time it has been since I last posted. My husband and I have both been struggling through some health issues. But then which of us doesn’t have troubles. The Bible uses several names for them. Trials, troubles, hardships, storms, etc. They can be financial problems, family relationship problems, work issues, health issues, spiritual battles, etc. They vary in length and intensity and most of us are more familiar with them than we would like to be. What troubles are you dealing with? If you can’t think of any, enjoy this time because you will undoubtedly be dealing with some in the not-too-distant future. How do I know this? Because scripture says we will have troubles in this world.

So how do we handle them? Of course, each situation is different so you must talk to the Lord about the specifics of your problem. Give Him the anger, physical and emotional pain, fear, grief, whatever you are wrestling with. Then you must work at taking your eyes off the problem and put them squarely on Jesus. Don’t let the emotions or the storm pull your focus away from the Lord. Why? Because He is where your answers lie. He is here for us and guides us through our troubles if we will let Him. James 1:5 says, "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him." If we put our focus on our storm, we will become discouraged and feel defeated because we will not see a way out, it will look hopeless to us. The more we get lost in that hopelessness, the more defeated we will feel until we are too afraid to move and we hang our heads with the weight of it all. The heaviness of our troubles can be almost unbearable when we forget that we have a savior who will walk through them with us, guide us in the way we should go, and refresh and renew our strength when we just can’t go on.

Psalm 3: 3 “But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, And the lifter of my head.”

Psalm 3: 3 is a beautiful Psalm written by King David during the time when his son Absalom was trying to kill him. We get a feel for his state of mind when we look at the verse. He is looking to God to be a shield around him. He is looking to God to be his protector. The protection he needs is from his own son who is hunting him down to kill him and take his throne. This is a storyline that is written and rewritten throughout history. One or more child revolts against parents in rebellion to their authority over the family and how that authority is wielded. David and his loyal followers had to flee Jerusalem to evade Absalom and his army. Absalom pursued them and this is where he is in Psalm 3: 3. He needs God’s protection all around him because Absalom could strike from any direction and only God could protect him like that. We have a much larger enemy than Absalom and his army. Our enemy is fierce and strong. We are warned in 1 Peter 5:8 to Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But the Lord promises us that He is our shield of defense! We may live in a culture that hates God, we may be in the middle of the darkest storm we have ever experienced. But the Lord is a shield about us! He protects us from every side. Above, around and beneath.

The next thing David says about God in this verse is that He is the "Lifter of my head".

Picture the Father reaching out and gently putting His hand beneath our chin and lifting so that our face is looking up, not down and when we open our eyes we are gazing into the eyes of our Father.

God will reach out to you and rescue you when you need it or bring you through to the other side of your trial after being your constant companion through it. You will look a bit more like Jesus when you get through it and you will be better equipped to help others who share your trial bringing them comfort and reassurance that God is with them and this too shall pass.

02/15/2025

Hi everyone,
I have been a bit quiet these past weeks. Once again I am recuperating from a surgery and this one has really slowed me down. I know you all are aware of how much I love the Lord's sunrises. It is like the Father is saying "Good morning, kids,! Let's see what adventure we can go on today! It is an exciting way to live and learn to trust Him and often loving others is involved. But if we are honest there are days that we don't want to go on an adventure. Maybe we just want/need to stay in bed and sleep longer, or mope around the house in our old pj's and pink bunny slippers doing absolutely nothing. You know, a personal day or a mental health day where we binge watch whatever on our phones while snug in our beds, while we let our mind just vegetate. But while we vegetate we have deprived ourselves of the blessings that go along with every adventure. What blessings, you ask? Well right off the bat you missed that God blesses obedience and He longs to bless us in ways we can't even imagine. When we are being obedient and when we truly want to spend time with Him, you have just blessed our Father. Didn't know you could bless God, did you? Well you can. You can make Him smile, make Him proud, and more. He even loves you so much that He sings over you like a daddy singing lullabies to His children and He gives us His peace so we can rest because He Is Mighty to save and faithful to always be there.
So the next time The Father wakes you Oh Wait! Next time He comes to waken you, what if you blessed you both by already having been in His word and in prayer for those we love and those we aren't so inspired by. What if His worship was still on our lips? What a way to start the day and whatever God has in store for us!!
Get really quiet tonight. No TV on or phone, etc and listen for Him singing over you. It will blow your mind and bless your heart.