joeswifemandy's Journal

Well, I got up at 8:30 today. That's a first in a long time.  I hate the fact that I sleep until 10:00 everyday. I HATE it!  I also hate the fact that I don't go to bed until 1 in the morning.  There is so much that I could get done in the mornings if I'd just get up.

I used to stay with my grandma a LOT when I was a kid. And one thing that I will always remember is that she was always up when the sun rose.  He housework was done by 8 or 9 everyday.  Of course she went to bed before midnight too. 

I used to get up every morning with Joe and get his breakfast and see him off to work. I believe that is part of being a Godly wife......(guess I better get working on that).  I really need to start appreiating the fact that I get to stay home with my kids and don't have to work outside of the home.  I want to start putting a lot more into my home and family.  I guess since I have been praying for God to help me with everything else, maybe I should start praying that he will help me get up earlier.  When your motive and objective are in the right place God promises to help us.  Well, my motive for getting up earlier is to get my housework done and make Joe and the kids breakfast, so since I have a good reason for it, God has to help me with it.....if I ask him to.  That is the key to it right there.....I have to ask him.  I will post my prayer on here right now, that way I am accountable to the fact that now if I dont' get up it's not his fault, it's mine. And I don't want to make God out to be a liar, so if I ask him here, publicly to help me get out of bed in the mornings, I will have to.  Here goes.....

Dear Lord,

                I am asking you here in front of anyone who reads this, to please give me the strength to get out of bed in the mornings before 8:30.  Earlier than that would be even better, but I will start out with that for now, although I know that you can perform miracles!!  

God,  I really do need your help with this. I want to be the wife and mother that you created me to be, and if I stay in bed all day, I am not pleasing you.  I am asking you that you please help me with this so that it may be a testamony to anyone who reads this.  I will give you the complete glory and honor for this Lord.  If I get out of bed earlier in the mornings it would have to be because you answered my prayer because I cannot do it on my own.  I ask you to break this spirit of laziness that seems to follow me around. Help me to start going to bed earlier, and getting the kids to bed earlier as well.

Now God, I place this in your hands.  I will pray every night before I go to bed that you help me with this.  God please give me the strength, because I know that you answer prayer, and I dont want to make you look like a liar because of my own laziness.  I want to testify of your goodness and mercy Lord.

Thank you for the works you have done in my life already God. And thank you for my friends that you have given me on here. Lord, I just pray that you will bless them and help them with their struggles. God give them all the strength to over come whatever problem that they struggle with, whether it be binging and purging, being obsessed with food, needing to lose weight, or any other problem they might have.

I ask this all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ......

Amen.