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How to Fast & Pray {Making Your Home a Haven: Week 4}

November 24, 2019 by Courtney 10 Comments

16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. (Matthew 6:16-18) Welcome back to Week 4 of the Making Your Home a Haven Bible Study! If you are wondering, what’s next?  I will announce the next Good Morning Girls Bible Study in […]

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Living a Pray Filled Life {Making Your Home a Haven: Week 3}

November 17, 2019 by Courtney 13 Comments

The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. (James 5:16) Welcome back to Week 3 of the Making Your Home a Haven Bible Study!  This week’s spiritual discipline is prayer!  Join me for Week 3’s video as we discuss Living a Prayer Filled Life —I’m sharing the many ways that we can pray including a peek inside my prayer life and my prayer journals.  After listening to the video – I encourage you to pull out your journals and begin!  Week 3 – Prayer Finding time to pray is not easy!  In the past, I have […]

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How to Meditate {Making Your Home a Haven: Week 2}

November 10, 2019 by Courtney 5 Comments

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (Joshua 1:8) Welcome back to Week 2 of the Making Your Home a Haven Bible Study!  This week’s spiritual discipline is meditation!  Join me for Week 2’s video as we discuss How to Meditate —then pull out your journals and begin! Week 1 – Meditation Sometimes I find myself distracted while reading my […]

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Living a Life of Gratitude {Making Your Home a Haven: Week 1}

November 3, 2019 by Courtney 25 Comments

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. (Psalm 136:1) {Cue the Confetti!!!} It’s time to begin the 10th Annual Making Your Home a Haven Bible Study!  This week’s spiritual discipline is gratitude!  Join me for Week 1’s video as we discuss Living a Life of Gratitude —then pull our your journals and begin!  Week 1 – Gratitude Jesus died on the cross and rose again for the forgiveness of our sins. Through our faith in Jesus, we have a personal relationship with Him.  Our God is personal.  Never forget that!  He is […]

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Intro Video and Resources for the Making Your Home a Haven Bible Study

October 20, 2019 by Courtney 13 Comments

The Making Your Home a Haven Bible Study begins on Monday, November 4th! If you’d like to learn more about this Bible Study and peek inside the journal – then check out this video below.   All the resources are free for this study but there is an optional Making Your Home a Haven Journal available for purchase exclusively on Amazon. This Journal includes the weekly challenges along with space for your daily gratitude list and daily prayer requests. It also has the Bible Reading Plan and SOAK pages for each day of the week, plus a place to take video notes. Below […]

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Introducing the 10th Annual Making Your Home A Haven Bible Study!

October 6, 2019 by Courtney 98 Comments

Welcome to the 10th Annual Making Your Home a Haven Bible Study!  10 years ago, we began this series and never could I have imagined how much it would resonate with so many women around the world! Our souls desperately need a deeper connection with God. So many times we try to mask our struggles, pain, confusion or emptiness by keeping busy and distracted, eating food, going on vacations, seeking success or elevating certain relationships. While many of these are blessings from God, they are not good substitutes FOR God. This Bible Study is going to help you slow down. […]

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Making Your Home a Haven: Week 4 – Fasting

November 25, 2018 by Courtney 13 Comments

Welcome back to Week 4 of the Making Your Home a Haven Series!  This is our final week! And this week is not an easy one. While fasting is sweet to the soul, it does have unpleasant side effects.  It requires discipline but I can guarantee you the blessings –far surpass the temporary pain. This week’s Spiritual Focus is Fasting and Solitude. Last November my heart was heavy going into the holiday season and so I chose a passage of scripture from Psalms and I began meditating on it every morning.  Alongside my meditation, I decided to also fast my morning […]

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Making Your Home a Haven: Week 3 – Prayer

November 18, 2018 by Courtney 33 Comments

Welcome back to Week 3 of the Making Your Home a Haven Challenge!    This week’s Spiritual Focus is Prayer. I was recently listening to a podcast where the man said that some Christians today have more of a “Cruise Ship” mentality than a “War Ship” mentality.  What he meant was that some Christians seem to want to live their life trying to entertain themselves.  Parents have become the “Fun Directors” of the family.  But we cannot fulfill the great commission this way!  Instead – we need to remember that we are at war against the enemy of our souls. 1 Peter […]

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Making Your Home a Haven: Week 2 – Meditation

November 11, 2018 by Courtney 32 Comments

Welcome back to Week 2 of the Making Your Home a Haven Challenge!  Keep your candles burning and your thankful heart going and let’s add to it! This week’s Spiritual Focus is Meditation. Some days a scheduled quiet time just can not happen. Emergencies, sicknesses, a busy season at work,  or family members who need us, just simply make it impossible.  It would be wrong for us to put pressure on ourselves to always create the “Pinterest Perfect” quiet time.  Life just does not work that way. So what’s the solution when an extended time alone with the Lord is not […]

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Making Your Home a Haven: Week 1 – Gratitude

November 4, 2018 by Courtney 93 Comments

{Cue the Confetti!!!} It’s time to begin the 9th Annual Making Your Home a Haven Challenge! This week’s Spiritual Focus is Gratitude. So, pull out a journal or your Women Living Well Habit Tracker and turn to the Gratitude page and begin!   If you don’t have a Habit Tracker – you can print these pages below. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,     for his steadfast love endures forever. (Psalm 136:1) Every day this week, pause and write down a few things you are grateful for.  It is scientifically proven that listing the things we are grateful for improves our […]

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The Making Your Home A Haven – 9th Annual Fall Challenge – is back!!!

October 15, 2018 by Courtney 162 Comments

Welcome back  to the Making Your Home a Haven — 9th Annual Fall Challenge! This is the Soul Care Edition and it will run through the entire month of November.  If you’ve been around a while – you already know all about this series and might even have your candle going right now! Each week I will give you one practical tip and one spiritual discipline that you can do to create a haven in your home. Is your calendar full? Do you feel tense, rushed and even panicked at times? You need soul care! I believe we can create a physical […]

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Weekly Challenges & Resources for Rest & Release

September 23, 2017 by Courtney 67 Comments

For those who have joined me, each fall, for the Making Your Home a Haven Series– that series is being replaced this year, with a study titled: Rest and Release.  This study is “Making Your Home a Haven 2.0″.   It’s going to be even BETTER than past years because we are mixing the familiar challenges WITH a study of God’s Word.  This is going to be SO good! Do you struggle to find rest for your soul, on the hamster wheel of life? Do you feel like your load – your portion in life – is a bit too heavy […]

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Fling Open Your Doors and Let Others In!

October 25, 2016 by Courtney 86 Comments

Welcome back to our final week of the Making Your Home a Haven Series! If you are just joining us, be sure to read the posts from the other weeks to get up to speed on what we’ve been doing. { Week one  Week two and Week three } Then, be sure to come back to this post for this week’s challenge! Karen Writes: Wow! Our time together has been flying by! We have come to our last challenge. I hope the past few weeks have made a real difference in your homes. In farmhouse and townhouses. Condos and cottages. Whether you live […]

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Lean In and Listen for a Heart Drop

October 18, 2016 by Courtney 33 Comments

{Welcome back to Week 3 of our Making Your Home a Haven Series!  If you are just joining us, be sure to read the post from week one and the post from week two to bring yourself up to speed. Then, be sure to come back to this post for this week’s challenge!} Karen Ehman Writes: Well, did you fire up your ovens last week and serve up something delicious for your family? Are you continuing to light that candle each day and pray for all your people—those souls who reside within your four walls? And now, are you ready for week […]

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Serve Up Some Lovin’ From the Oven

October 11, 2016 by Courtney 277 Comments

Welcome to week two of the 7th Annual Making Your Home a Haven Challenge!  Let’s welcome back our guest –> Karen Ehman. {If you are just joining us, be sure to read the post from week one to bring yourself up to speed. Then, be sure to come back to this post for this week’s challenge!} Karen Writes: How is it going? I’ll bet your homes smell amazing and your hearts are becoming centered on God and your heart-felt prayers for your family members. Don’t forget to keep the verse of the challenge before you for perspective. Even try memorizing […]

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How To Make Your Home Feel Cozy

October 4, 2016 by Courtney 357 Comments

Welcome to week one of the 2016 Making Your Home a Haven Challenge!  I’m so thankful for our guest – {New York Times Best Selling Author and Proverbs 31 Speaker} – Karen Ehman.  Check out her welcome video here – she made this just for you! Karen writes: I’m delighted to be leading us through this year’s Making Your Home a Haven challenge! Thanks so much to Courtney for allowing me to connect with you all. I’m so ready to get started sharing ideas as we all encourage each other to make our homes inviting and welcoming for our families […]

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Making Your Home a Haven 7th Annual Fall Challenge

September 27, 2016 by Courtney 243 Comments

  Welcome back to the 7th Annual “Making Your Home a Haven” Fall Challenge! If you’ve been around a while – you know all about this series and might already have your candle going right now!  I can’t believe we have been doing this for 7 years – it’s been such a life changer! Is your calendar full? Do you feel tense, rushed and even panicked at times? Do you feel like the rest of the family is feeling the same way? I believe we can create a physical environment, as well as a spiritual environment, that can bring peace, harmony […]

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The Kitchen Is Not Just For Cooking But For Connecting

October 27, 2015 by Courtney 13 Comments

{Cue the Confetti!}  We are to our final week of the Making Your Home a Haven Series! Next Wednesday, we’ll begin a special Thanksgiving Series to keep our candles and prayers going! This week we are focusing on the kitchen – the heart of the home.  At the bottom of this post you will find this week’s challenge, some fun conversation starters for kids and Women Living Well’s Favorite Recipes! The kitchen is not just for cooking but for connecting. God created taste buds, the sense of smell, and the eye that is drawn to beautiful things – to please our senses. […]

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Who We Are At Home Is Who We Really Are

October 20, 2015 by Courtney 45 Comments

On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most fun – where do you fall on the fun-meter scale? How about on the nice scale? Would those who live with you say — you make the home a brighter, happier, more joy-filled place? Who we are at home is who we really are. The words “fun” and “nice” are not in scripture – but “joy” and “kindness” are and a joyful and kind woman in her home is a blessing. J.R. Miller says “The richest heritage that parents can give is a happy childhood, with tender memories of father […]

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The Power of a Positive Woman in Her Home

October 13, 2015 by Courtney 56 Comments

Sometimes life throws us a curve ball.  As we seek to make our homes a haven, reality strikes — headaches, hormones, financial pressures, and difficult relationships stand in the way of our dreams. Recently, I was listening to a  speaker who said, “we should balance every negative interaction with 10 positive ones”. Our negativity can become like a heavy cloud in our homes when we are expressing frustrations (not just about our husband or children) but with the world in general.  We can seem unhappy and make others feel like they are walking on egg shells when they are around us. […]

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