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When life gets tough…Don’t become normal!

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

My husband and I have been through a lot in the short amount of time we’ve been married and I got to tell ya, sometimes life just get tough! I’m not talking about some major crisis, but just every day living. It’s not easy being a biblical woman these days… every thing we do for the glory of God goes against the grain of this world, and we feel it. The more I walk with Jesus, the greater the reality that I am truly a stranger here. I keep thinking that it is going to get easier, but then I realize once again that I am not even a citizen of this place called earth! My citizenship is Elsewhere. Because I belong somewhere else, a war rages within me between the laws of this world and the laws of the one to come. Inwardly I long for the Day when I can live in the freedom I am called to with no conflict. I long for the day when it is “normal” (can you imagine?!) to show love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and temperance, when it is normal to worship my Creator in His Majesty! I am not normal here because I truly love God, I am not normal because I truly love being a helpmeet to my husband, not normal because I treasure my children and don’t want to stop having them, not normal because I am happy to stay at home… I am not normal because I choose love when hate should increase, not normal because I choose joy over depression, patience over discontent, gentleness over violence, faith over doubt, meekness over rebellion, and temperance over judgment… there, I said it!
I AM NOT NORMAL & I am OKAY with it! :)

Are you okay with not being normal? Sometimes life here wears us down and we begin to lose perspective… we get tired doing all the things that are difficult in this world’s system. But I’d like to tell you that it is NOT for nothing, praise the Lord! When we choose His Way, we will certainly not lose our reward! So chin up sisters, you can do it! Keep on keeping on!

Galatians 6:9 – “Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”

Welcome to Fruitful Vine Women’s Outreach!

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

My sincere desire is to see women set free in their identity in Christ! I grew up with all the wrong ideas of who & what a woman was supposed to be, and at the beginning of my twenties, I met Someone who changed my life forever! Jesus has gently led me into His will for my life and now, my hope is to encourage other women to live in total abandon to Him. :) The rewards far out-weigh the cost when choosing to make Him LORD in EVERY area of our lives! Here at my site you will find bible studies, articles and my thoughts on what it means to be a godly woman and how to walk in the Word daily. A Fruitful Vine, it is not just what a “wife” is supposed to be, but what the Body of Christ is supposed to be, what each individual believer is supposed to be! To be fruitful is to be ‘always producing, ever-growing and ever-bearing’, and that is how I envision God’s woman. What are your ideas on how to be fruitful? Do you know what God’s Word has to say about fruitfulness, specifically about women in the home? Let’s study and find out together! God is faithful to always bring us to His Truth, so let’s commit to seek after it, amen? Drop by as often as you like, let God’s Word refresh your soul and renew your mind! A little about me:

My name is Nicci, I’ve been a believer for 13 years now, I’ve been married to my gift-from-God-HimSelf husband, Daniel, for 12 years, whom I love being a helpmeet to, & I have four gorgeous sons: Jordan, who is 14, the child God used to draw me to Him; Noah, who is 11, the child God used to cause me to truly seek to be a godly mother; Judah, who is 8 years old, the Lord showed me the sweetness of motherhood through him; and Aiden, who is 3, the Lord has used him to bring fun and laughter to me. It is never boring in our house, nor does any day pass without some sort of lesson from our Lord, for which we are grateful!

We have always homeschooled our boys, and so here also, you will find resources and links to resources, as well as personal testimony, that have been a help to our family.

We are active in ministry within the Body of Christ and in our local church, we have a passion to see and communicate truth, plain and simple. A lot of people would say we are pretty simple folk, and we agree. We prefer to live out our faith in front of others, even when we are “weak”. Transparency is important to us, so that we and others can see the process of faith at work in our lives. What you see is what you get, at least in the moment, lol, no hidden agendas here!

Sister, my prayer for you is that God will bring you into the fullness of all that He has for you! May He remove the chains of fear that cause you to hold back in your faith and surrender to Him. May He cast vision in your heart to become the woman He created you to be. & May He grant you the ability to embrace & experience JOY in your identity in Him! In Jesus Name, Amen!