Heart For The Home – Mother’s Day – Thriving In The Mundane

Phil 4:11 (NASU)
11. Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

“Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane.
The only preparation for that one profound decision that can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self-defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.”

Definition of the word mundane;

1. Of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular.
2. Relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary.

[Middle English mondeine, from Old French mondain, from Latin mund nus, from mundus, world.]

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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mundane
adj 1: found in the ordinary course of events; “a placid everyday scene”; “it was a routine day”; [syn: everyday, routine, unremarkable, workaday] 2: concerned with the world or worldly matters; “mundane affairs”; 3: belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; “not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind.

Phil 4:1-13 (NASU)
1. Therefore, my beloved brethren whom I long to see, my joy and crown, in this way stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
2. I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to live in harmony in the Lord.
3. Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
4. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!
5. Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.
6. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
7. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
9. The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
10. God’s Provisions But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, but you lacked opportunity.
11. Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.
12. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.
13. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

Key Verse:

Phil 4:11 (NASU)
Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

Acts 26:12-23 (NASU)

12. ” While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

13. at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining all around me and those who were journeying with me.

14. “And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

15. “And I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

16. But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you;

17. rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

18. to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’

19. “So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision,

20. but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.

21. “For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death.

22. “So, having obtained help from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, stating nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said was going to take place;

23. that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”

1. God has given you the to See the :

Eph 1:17-18 (NASU)

17. that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.

18. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Bill Bright said: “The way each day will look to you, all starts with who you are looking to.”

Psalm 121:1-2 (NASU)

1. I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come?
2. My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.

Bill Bright: “Study the attributes of God. Once we understand how awesome God is, we will not hesitate to believe great things for God’s Kingdom.”

How do I Increase my ability to see in the midst of the mundane?

a. Choose to that the Holy Spirit wants to the day with you
b. to take time to on Him
c. your mind with the

2. God has given you the to the Vision:

Acts 9:15-16 (NASU)

15. But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

16. for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.”

Rom 4:17-21 (NASU)

17.(as it is written, ” A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE YOU”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

18. In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “SO SHALL YOUR DESCENDANTS BE.”

19. Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

20. yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God,

21. and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.

“Saying, ‘it is impossible’ is not an excuse. Today we are doing thousands of things our grandparents knew to be impossible.”
~John Maxwell

Howard Hendricks once said: “A belief is something that you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.”

How do I Increase my faith to believe in the midst of the mundane?:
a. the Word Of God
b. your mind to what God says
c. it out

3. God has given you the to the Vision:

Acts 9:19-22 (NKJV)

19. So when he had received food, he was strengthened. Then Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus.

20. Immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.

21. Then all who heard were amazed, and said, “Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and has come here for that purpose, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?”

22. But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this Jesus is the Christ.

~Karl Barth has said: “Courage is fear that has said it’s prayers.”

How do I get the courage to accomplish the vision in the midst of the mundane?

a.
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c. Obey