Do You Need a New Battery?

Written By Betty Predmore
 
 

Sometimes we have to change the battery in our car. It gets rusted out, battery acid gets built up on it, and it no longer works correctly. And we all know our car needs the battery to run.

Our heart is a lot like a battery. Our body needs our heart to survive. Friendships need our heart to survive. Sometimes our heart gets rusted out by bitterness. Many times it gets built up with resentment and anger. Often it gets corroded with hurt and sorrow. Then it doesn’t work the way God intended.

Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many. (Hebrews 12:15)

Are you tending to your battery? Are you keeping it free of corrosion? Ladies, we have to maintain our hearts if we want to maintain relationships with others. We have to do the routine cleaning to keep things running smoothly. When resentment or bitterness rear their ugly heads, we have to replace them.

If we don’t show grace, we won’t receive grace.

God calls us to look after one another and not let troubles or aggravations come between us. In essence, God calls us to do routine maintenance on our hearts to keep them pure as ready to receive the beauty of relationship.

Betty Predmore

Betty Predmore is a writer, blogger, speaker and ministry leaders.  She is the founder of Mom-Sense, Inc., a ministry designed for mentorship, connection and service to women of all life circumstances.  Through this ministry, women are encouraged and supported with scripture and life application. Mom-Sense helps women overcome life struggles through small group classes with biblical curriculum, individual counseling, bible studies, and other areas of support.  

Betty also directs the Imperial Valley Life Center, which is a non-profit faith-based pro life women’s resource center.  She has a passion for saving the unborn and supporting mothers through pregnancy and motherhood.

Betty holds a certification as a Christ-Based Counselor through the National Association of Certified Christ-Based Counselors. She is also a State of California Certified Facilitator for Anger Management/Batterer’s Treatment Program. In addition, she is a certified Facilitator for Living Free, a faith-based curriculum for parenting, addiction recovery, and anger management.

Betty loves to speak at events, sharing the love of Jesus with other women.  She does this through practical life application mingled with God’s word, and sprinkled with humor.  Having experienced a broken home, divorce, abuse, grief, single motherhood, blended families, and adoption, she uses the broken places and movement of God in her own life to share His word in an inspiring way.  She enjoys sharing her blogs on social media as a way of reaching out on a broader spectrum. Betty has many speaking topics which can be found on her website.

As an author, she has had the opportunity to impact women and reach deep into their hearts with her words of inspiration and encouragement.  Through Pondering Virtue and Whispered Grace, she has created wonderful tools for the woman who is seeking direction in her spiritual walk.

Betty serves on the writing team of A Wife Like Me, and is also a contributor to Moms Encouraging Moms and Gift of Thorns.  Her blogs have appeared in several magazine publications throughout the years including Southern Faith Magazine, Purposeful Life, and Aspiring Woman Magazine.

While Betty thrives on her ministry opportunities, her greatest blessings come from being a wife to Jim and a mama to their wonderful collection of children, who bring joy, laughter, and an occasional tear to her days.

http://bettypredmore.com/
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