Psalm 25:4

Teach me your ways , lead me in your path. (quoted by Kadin)

Kadin says "we want God to lead us and to live the life that God has planned for us. ". He played Mercy Me song called Goodbye Ordinary. He said " this song reminds us to live 1 day at a time and to live extravagantly. Maybe people will come to know Jesus by thinking about choices and get on the good path. "

Well said K-diddy!

Devin - psalms 9:1-6

I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High. My enemies turn back;
they stumble and perish before you. For you have upheld my right and my cause,
sitting enthroned as the righteous judge. You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever. Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,
you have uprooted their cities;
even the memory of them has perished. (Psalm 9:1-6 NIV)

We should talk to each other like this to remind us of who God is in our lives. God has saved us and we have so much to be thankful for.

Gina - Psalm 33:1-3

I will exalt the Lord at all times his praise will continuously be on my lips my soul will boast in the Lord may the afflicted hear and rejoice glorify the Lord with me let us exalt his name together!!

Or something like that. I wrote that verse from memory thinking that quoting scripture from our hearts is powerful. We talked about how much it means to hear someone quote a truth from the word of God - it gives the hearer the feel of what the meaning word is to you. It's awesome to have that word penetrate your heart coming from the depth of someone else's soul.

Let's make every effort to write His word on our hearts as much as we can!!!

Liv - Acts

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of them and prayed. (Acts 20:34-36 NIV)

Liv pulled it is more blessed to give than to receive " out of this message this morning. It was very timely for our family since we hosted a few extra children last night. Wonderful , adorable kids who just needed a little kindness. I know this may sound boastful so forgive me but I tearfully watched my kids go into action with love and kindness towards them. One of our lines on our family creed is to "give from our time and stuff so that others may experience God's love". And the Wessel kids rose to the challenge. Thank you Jesus for working in our hearts and for an awesome example of giving to follow.

Devin - Philippians 1:9-11

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. (Philippians 1:9-11 NIV)

Dev says that this is Paul's prayer for the people. For us to love like God takes depth of insight. Gods love is so deep that we will never fully get it till we are with him. Discern what is best is something we all should all want to do. Our goal is that we live without offense till the day of Jesus Christ who is where our righteousness comes from.
Being careful to put on his righteousness and not doing a good life on our own.

Gina - Proverbs 17:19,22

Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin;
whoever builds a high gate invites destruction. A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:19, 22 NIV)

It was a good reminder today for this family of 5 that engaging in quarrels with one another can be sin.  That being okay with a good fight with a brother or sister is NOT GOOD.   This verse talks about a "high gate" and in further study we learned that a high gate is like PRIDE.... and we've all been there where we can't admit we are wrong or say I'm sorry but rather we "build the gate" and say no, I'm not fixing this.  That kind of decision invites destruction to our  family and our home.  
We choose PEACE!

Last night Kadin and Devin noticed a girl next to our car dancing to the music and then she did a double take as she realized the boys were watching her and she just stared back with big eyes and no expression and the boys just busted out laughing.... so hard!  It made us all laugh and then Kadin would think about it again and that belly laugh would come back.  I seriously felt a warm sensation over my heart and face as I was laughing with them.   Truly laughter is good medicine for our souls.  It made me realize that I need to allow more time to laugh - I get so busy that I miss out on the cheerful things happening all around me.  Lord forgive me!  I feel more like the crushed spirit these days with dried up bones than a warm cheerful heart.

Our prayer today is for peace among us all and lots of laughter!
Lord LET IT BE!

Livia - Acts 6

Now Stephen, a man full of God's grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people. Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia—who began to argue with Stephen. But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke. Then they secretly persuaded some men to say, "We have heard Stephen speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God." So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin. They produced false witnesses, who testified, "This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us." All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel. (Acts 6:8-15 NIV)

Stephen was stoned by the people. He cried out like Jesus "lord do not hold this against them!". He was a man who was bold about his faith. People misunderstood his proclaims to "destroy the temple" again like Jesus.
And wow, Saul (later , Paul) approved his stoning.