During the first month of being in Uganda, I started reading Teach Them Diligently: How to Use the Scriptures in Child Training by Louis Priolo that had been recommended to me a couple months before but I haven't had a chance to start it with the move etc. 

Two of the main ideas in the book are based on

  2 Tim 3:16 
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching,
 rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.
and
Deut. 6:6-9 

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home 
and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 
Write them on the doorframe of your house and on your gates. 

During the same time, Ethan started to become very scared of the thunderstorms here and loud noises which was so not his demeanor before. So we started to use scripture to combat his fears and as a family learnt Psalms 56:3-4, When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise - in God I trust and am not afraid. 

Anytime he would mention being scared we would ask him what his verse said and pray to ask Jesus to help him not be afraid and slowly his fears diminished. 

Having the verse in your heart as you adjust to life in a new country and having fears of your own was very helpful to Curtis and I as well. 

As we have over the past months come across something that was wearing us down we would pick another verse and use it to combat the attacks of the enemy. 

Our verses at this point include Psalms 56:3-4,
Colossians 3:20, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 and Philippians 4:13.

It has been so encouraging to see Ethan learn these verses and to see how God is using His word to change his heart. Not to mention the impact it is having on Curtis and I as we hide His treasures in our hearts and use them for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness in our own walks with the Lord. 

Our God is good! 

I thought I'd share some of the verses we have learnt through these 3 months in the hopes that you might print them out and use them to live in Gods word in the situations that cause you to be anxious or worry, or take away from the glory of God. As we add new one's I'll try to upload the wall art for you to use too.

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