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Thursday, April 12, 2018

The Living Love Series, A Dad's Love, by Teresa Naidoo




A child left to their own devices will often choose the wrong devices. We see it time and time again, how children find their own answers, in their own ways – often to their own detriment. 
In a world of overworked parents, stressed out teachers, a straggling and struggling education system, an increasing cry for religion to be removed from mainstream schooling, technology advancing at such an amazing speed that children are overtaking their parents in their abilities to manoeuvre around the internet and social media. 
Easier access to the internet and social media mean that we can now reach people on the other side of the world in the blink of an eye. It also means that child traffickers and child predators can also reach a child in a blink of an eye.
Now, more than ever, children need solid, real, relevant and useful answers to the mountain of questions they have. A Dad’s Love is a simple, relatable story of both a child having an experience and a child observing an experience that they need guidance and support with. It stresses the open, trusting nature of a child, and the tendency of children to observe and model our behaviour. Children come to us pure. It is the world that contaminates them. We need to grow more hearts for children so that they have more models of how to live full, happy, safe, and healthy lives.

A Dad's Love: My best friend's Dad is always screaming and shouting at him and hitting him! I don't know what to do to help him! (The Living Love Series Book 1) is free on Amazon Kindle through Monday, April 16. To purchase or learn more, click on the title link above.




Teresa Naidoo has a deep and abiding love for God, children and writing. She hopes for a world where more and more children have a chance at a full, happy, safe and healthy life. And that she can help achieve this by combining the three things she loves - sharing the love and guidance she found in God with others through writing. 

Teresa believes strongly in the need of children for solid, real, relevant and useful answers to the mountain of questions they have and the need to provide them with guidance and support in this tenuous and precarious world. She's spent many years working in the secular world in IT and studied psychology with a special interest in child development before she finally turned her hand to get her words out into the world. She's South African, of Indian descent and lives a simple life focused on God, writing, family and good friends. 

Monday, November 3, 2014

God is Doing Awesome Things in Nepal Through the John 3:16 Marketing Network

Mount Everest
Author Lorilyn Roberts
October 31, 2014


We are back from Nepal. 

Joy and I returned from Nepal three days ago after spending 22 hours traveling on three planes and racking up almost 40 hours of travel time with layovers in three airports. The 14-hour plane trip from Abu Dhabi to New York was LONG. God answered my prayers:  We didn't get sick, we lost none of the books entrusted to us, and we were able to meet with many Nepali children from sponsored homes and more at church on Saturday.

The kids loved receiving the books and the bookmarks, which made the trip all the more worthwhile. I shared with Shanti (Silas's niece and youth leader at the church) the Kindles, and showed her how to use them. I look forward to hearing how God uses the hundreds of ebooks on the Kindles in the future.

Please pray for healing for one young girl we met at Ram's house (Silas' brother). God promised me I would see amazing things. The young girl, around twelve, didn't make an appearance until the day before we left. Ram explained to me that she had been with them for almost four months. Her mouth was grossly disfigured as well as her ears and fingers. However, the worst disfigurement was emotional scarring. Her birthmother had died and her father had left her with a distant relative who gave her minimal care. She had quit school because the other kids shunned her, and no one had bothered to take her to the doctor to find out what was the cause of her horribly disfiguring malady.

Ram asked her family if she could live with them for a while, and he and his wife, who have adopted nine children as well as have two biological children, took her to the doctor for diagnosis and treatment. The treatment has only helped partially. The doctor diagnosed her skin disease as a fungal infection. I am praying for healing. Please pray with me. I am claiming God's promise of seeing amazing things in Nepal. An amazing promise would be to see God heal her completely.

Her condition reminds me of leprosy-I found it difficult to look at her, not because of the disfigurement, but because of her embarrassment, her humiliation, her hurt at being so ugly and different. Ram and his family love her as one of their own, but healing from God will also heal her heart and make it a fertile ground for receiving His unconditional love. I don't want a healing that will take many more months. I want a miraculous healing that can only come from the power of God. James 5:16 states, "The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." I believe we can pray this young girl to complete health in Jesus' name.

I have asked myself since returning, how has the trip impacted my life? What do I think God showed me or wanted to teach me? This requires some introspection, but I will share a few thoughts that have struck me.

1. God's kingdom is expanding. Despite the evil in the world, God is greater. Give God fertile ground to grow-in my heart, in my mind, in my emotions, in my words, in my deeds, and in my soul. Why do I doubt? Why do I give so much credit to the enemy? God is exceedingly capable of doing all that I want or ask if I ask with right motives and a pure heart. Quit making God too small-He is big enough for every task and every problem that comes before me. Let Him be God and quit trying to do it all on my own. His ways are better anyway.

2. Love more. Take time. Slow down. Listen. Be kinder. Be gentler. Be more patient. The only thing I can take with me from this world into the next is relationships. Give God the most. Don't sweat the rest. Life is too short. Keep it simple. Live each moment to the fullest. Don't hurry.

3. Be thankful. Give thanks in everything. All that I have is on loan to me. I don't own it. Be content with less and remember my brothers and sisters on the other side of the world who have so little. Look for opportunities to thank God, even for the hard things.

4. Enjoy life more and work less. I have God's permission to swim, read, go for walks, and enjoy the ordinary. I don't have to live in the fast lane. In fact, I shouldn't.

5. Make time to write. God gave me that desire. Don't let anyone or anything take it away. Keep smiling. Good is everywhere if I look for it and make sure that "good" starts in my own home. Love my daughters unconditionally. Spend more time with friends. God is God of all-put Him first and expect His blessings. God is not stingy. He desires to give me His best. Give God my best. Spend quality quiet time with Him each day. Make it the best part of each day. God deserves it and I do, too.

6. Don't waste time feeling guilty about all of my failures. God doesn't hold them against me and I shouldn't either. Instead, look ahead, start each day anew, and be content in all situations. Quit complaining. Set an example for others. Live with a spirit of forgiveness and a short memory of wrongs suffered. Have a gentle response-and see the difference. With God helping me, I know I can do it!

Author Lorilyn Roberts
Enjoy a short two-minute video highlighting the children receiving the books. Click here. 
Children reading books.
Thank you for your prayers, donations, and encouragement. God used you in a mighty way as I could not have made the trip without your help. Please continue to pray for Nepal, for God's hand in the affairs of the nation, to raise up Christians, and to protect the children from exploitation. God is at work and reaching new believers in massive numbers. Pray that our books will be read and re-read for years to come and draw many more to Christ. 

In Jesus' precious name,
 

Lorilyn Roberts
Author Lorilyn Roberts

Friday, July 12, 2013

Fearless Friday with Rose Chandler Johnson!


Meet Rose Chandler Johnson

Twitter: @rechanjo



 
Rose Chandler Johnson, a Southern girl from a tiny Georgia town, is the author of the popular devotional blog, Write Moments with God. In spite of years of disappointments and overwhelming obstacles, she has grown in her relationship with the Lord and learned how to find Him in the midst of everyday moments. A devoted Christian and mother of six, she has been a French and English teacher over the last twenty years. She likes to take walks, garden, read, and bake.   

 

 
God, Me, and Sweet Iced Tea:  Experiencing God in the Midst of Everyday Moments 

Published by Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas 

 ISBN 978-1-938499-86-9

 

Rose Johnson’s devotional offers the reader sweet balm and encouragement through wise and thoughtful reflections on God’s grace and provision in the midst of all life can throw at us. Use it as a wonderful way to start the day off right with God’s Word and friendly counsel from a woman whose soul knows. ~ Elizabeth Musser, award winning Christian writer and author of The Swan House
Through honesty and compassion, Rose lets us see into her life and heart so that we can also examine our own heart. As I read these devotions I was sometimes comforted and other times challenged, but always I thought about the person God sees when He sees me. This devotional is simple enough for the newest believer or even someone not sure about God but deep enough to make a life-long Christian feel challenged to go higher. This is a wonderful book and I am thrilled to encourage others to read it and share a copy with friends. ~ Tiffany Colter, author, writer, speaker, writing coach, and mom.


Available from Amazon


Available in print from your local bookstore, online, or from the publisher at:  www.lighthousepublishingofthecarolinas.com


Your unique talent:  Je parle francais!  I speak French.



Rose, share something not many people know about you: Once I was mugged in Paris, but I held onto my money.  A little French lady intervened.  I got through it with only a bruise on my hip and a broken fingernail.
 

Are you a “pet person” or prefer no pets?  Once, I had my own little dog, which I adored, and I’d ride around with her in my bicycle basket.  Then I had twins, followed by four more children.  Even though we’ve had a half dozen pets over the years, I’d prefer none.



Would you rather travel or stay at home?  Honestly, I’m a stay at home gal.  When I do travel, I love it, but most of the time I’m content to be home.



Do you read more or write more? I’m still reading more than writing.  It seems I’m always reading at least three books at once, and I have a stack waiting, but I do write some everyday.



Prefer cake or pie? Pound cake. 



Would, or do, ride a motorcycle or prefer to ride/drive a car? Just let me drive a car please.  Although, I’ve ridden a motorcycle many times in my younger days, I don’t think you could get me on one now. 

 

Bus or taxi or walk? Walk if I can; taxi if it’s from the airport; bus if it’s a daytrip to Chartre or Giverny J



Are you part of a big church congregation or a small church? Small church



Do you like to telephone people or prefer to use e-mail? Prefer email



Are you happy or joyful?  Joyful



Do you eat at home or eat out?  Eat at home most of the time; I’m a good cook.  I enjoy eating out occasionally as well.



Listen to music or prefer quiet? Prefer quiet most of the time

 
Prefer sunrises or sunsets? Love sunrises, trees, flowers, and all God’s beautiful creation.

Thanks so much for stopping in, Rose, and blessings upon all your work.