home - Lee Nienhuis

home
lee
blog
book
speaking
- topics
- calendar
- endorsements
- requests
resources
shop
- cart
contact
podcast

Receive updates via email

You have Successfully Subscribed!

Recent Posts

Every Single Day
What Fear Won’t Tell You
THREE THINGS WORTH FIGHTING ABOUT
Be Brave Enough To Be Transparent Before Them {Giveaway!}
What To Do With an “I Don’t Know”

On Instagram

Hey Friends! Happy Friday 🎉🙌🏻 I spent ho

Hey Friends! Happy Friday 🎉🙌🏻
I spent hours right here this week to bring you shows that will encourage you in your walk with the Lord. ❤️
It is my crazy cool honor to talk about things that matter in the Kingdom of God with thought leaders from around the world.
Wanna play a game?
2 Truths and a Lie:
1. I’ve cried twice while recording this week. In fact, I got all choked up talking to @trillianewbell today for the Moms in Prayer Podcast. ❤️🎤
2. I lost my sense of smell and taste at the beginning of this week.
3. I ALWAYS feel equipped for the job God has called me to do.

Can you guess the lie?
Bingo. #3 is a big, fat lie. ❌
.
I still feel butterflies when I hit record, and I still wonder how God can use a girl like me. Today’s interview with Trillia reminded me that when two of His girls unite their hearts, minds and prayers together-anything can happen. Don’t buy all the bad news, Friends. God is moving and stirring among us and I can’t wait for you to hear that interview next week.
❕🚫As for the no smell- yup-it’s Covid. And two of us are quarantined again. We feel a solid 6/10, complete with headaches. By the time we get out, I will have spent a collective 37 days in quarantine.
❤️I keep asking, “Lord, speak. Your servant is listening.” What else do you do at this point? It feels a bit like a holy timeout!
I’m just hanging these days, Friends, with zero desire to watch more tv.
What are you listening to or reading? Got any suggestions?

Prayer is the greatest weapon and tool we have to

Prayer is the greatest weapon and tool we have to available to us in our parenting journey. In God’s incredible mercy, we do not parent alone. The God of the universe is intimately familiar with the ways and workings of our families and has lovingly chosen to make Himself accessible to us. Unfortunately, however, we too often take this information for granted, forget it, or simply choose not to focus our efforts on the privilege of having an ever-present, all-powerful God listening when we cry out.
❤️
Friend, you are a “priest” in your home.
Sound like a stretch?
It shouldn’t, because you have been given the right and responsibility to go before the Lord on behalf of your family and intercede for their needs. 1 Peter 2:9 tells us when we are in Christ, we “are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God‘s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.“ Our ability to stand in a place of intercession between God and others is a blood bought right for us.
It’s time for you to arise.
Let’s pray with confidence.
.
Don’t know how, dm me and let me help.❤️
#momsinprayer #pray

In Christendom we toss around this phrase casually

In Christendom we toss around this phrase casually: “I surrendered that to God.” We sing it in songs all the time. When we say we surrender something to Christ, we mean we are turning it over to Him. We’ve decided to quit fighting and we recognize His authority over us. I love that powerful idea, but I was absolutely floored when I begin studying and found that Scripture doesn’t use that word to describe the process we are talking about. The use of the word surrender in Hebrew is strictly applicable for surrendering to another man, as in troop to troop in battle.
.
In no instance is the word used in relation to what man does toward God. Don’t get me wrong, though – the idea is there.
🖊Scripture uses other words to describe what man does when overcome with the realization that God is infinitely more powerful and worthy than he is. It uses words like submit, succumb, self-denial, yield, commit, and my favorite, entrust.❤️
this is such a relief to me.
🙌🏻We’re not in a battle with God, and we don’t need to quit fighting. Besides, the warrior mom instinct inside us is alive and strong, and there will be no giving up when it comes to protecting and defending our children. The word surrender just doesn’t seem to apply. But oh, the blessing of entrusting.
❤️
Nothing in this word “entrust” smacks of giving up because the fight is out of you. Entrusting means giving over the responsibility, putting something into another’s care or protection. This is what my heart longs for when it’s overwhelmed by my inability to keep my children safe, healthy, protected, obedient and faithful. I desperately desire to assign the responsibility to someone who will not fail at the task.
❤️
There is a deep yes in my spirit when I consider the invitation not to surrender my fight but rather entrust my children to someone who cares even more than I do and who has the strength and ability to care for them.
#bravemomsbravekids

Instagram post 17884660210930538

Instagram post 17884660210930538

New year, new family plan. 2020 hit and sunk my p

New year, new family plan.

2020 hit and sunk my personal and family devotional plans. Truth be told, I didn’t want to even make a plan for 2021 till our friends led the way and picked a plan for their family. Our kids are roughly the same ages and if they can put their heads down and seek Jesus with all their hearts, then we can do that too.
❄️And so can you, Friend.
It’s not too late to make a new plan or start a new habit.
❤️We’ve chosen a plan that is only 25 days of reading a month to give room for skips, sleep overs or sleep ins-because three teenagers and one tween. They can also listen to the reading if they’d rather. It counts!
✔️The accountability will be a daily text check in saying, “Done,” favorite verse, or maybe just a gif.
🔑This will require accountability for me, so I remember to ask them, nudge, or hound if I have to. It will also require that I set up a new email address for Ry because he’s 10 and doesn’t have a phone. He’ll text from an old iPhone over our WiFi.
💭Will it work? I don’t know, but I want it to! And printing them off, getting husband buy in, setting the expectations and the reward plan if we finish are all fantastic first steps.
🖊You can find this plan on the Navigators site(this is not an ad or an endorsement), or a million others online. Start with a week or a month! Just start, Friend.
❤️I’ll keep you posted on our progress.
Now, do you have a New Year plan in place? What has worked for your family? Any new habits you are working on?
🥂

These are our oldest best friends. We’ve shared

These are our oldest best friends.
We’ve shared 20 years of friendship, the highest of highs, and have knelt face to the ground during the lowest of lows. We’ve grown from a party of four to a party of 12 and we are still planning ways to arrange the marriages of at least two of our kids so we can actually be related.

❄️A couple things:
1. I cried three times in 48 hours talking about things that matter.
2. We chose family Bible reading plans and talked about the importance of these years.
3. We spoke of hard and holy things before us and our hopes for 2021.
4. Our kids built a 6 inch snowman in Texas on December 31st.
5. We went to Six Flags, ate enchiladas, and watched college football. Flipped thru her new recipes, snooped her pantry, and talked paint colors.
❤️
It all happened in less than 40 hours. And it was the perfect way to close one year and open the next.
❤️

Load More... Follow on Instagram

stay connected

Copyright © 2020 Lee Nienhuis | Design and Development by Fistbump Media LLC

Pin It on Pinterest