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Issacharian Daughters: ID077 - Blessed Fruifulness
By admin | August 30, 2008
Dear Girls,
Thank you for your patience! I said in the Issacharian Daughters newsletter #076 that I would be taking a four month break from the newsletter and, Lord willing, would start them up again after that. You will discover in this newsletter why the four months was extended to seven months! Here it is: id077-blessed-fruitfulness
With warm regards,
Genevieve de Deugd (nee Smith)
Introductions and messages
Name: Hannah Pietzsch
Introduction: Hello, I am the eldest daughter in a family of eight. Mummy has home-schooled us since I was 9 (I am now 17) and I finished year 12 last year. I am serving my family by helping Mummy schooling and furthering Daddy’s ministry which is by pastoring in our remote community. My daily goal is to truly live for the praise of His glory, and more of my King.
Name: Ruth Capill
Message: Hi! My name is Ruth and I’m 14. I live on a small farm right outside Christchurch. I have 9 brothers and sisters - it’s really great having such a big family! I’m homeschooled and I really enjoy it. I love swimming, reading, writing, and animals (especially cats!). My Mum told me about Issacharian Daughters and I have enjoyed getting the newsletters for about a year. They’re great! Goodbye, and God bless!!!
Name : Lydia Nugteren
Introduction : I’ve finally gotten around to joining this newsletter! I fully enjoy my role as wife and mother at home, supporting my husband as a pastor, and helping raise a daughter and four sons.
Dear Genevieve,
First off, I would like to congratulate you on your engagement and marriage to Pete. Your newsletter has been a blessing to my family, myself, and the girls that attend Heroines Of Faith & Hopechest Club. I’m so happy for you!!!! I was so excited to hear of your courtship, (I squealed and jumped around), and then when you got engaged, (I ran to tell my mom) I was ecstatic. You would have thought it was me getting engaged. I shared with the girls at Heroines Of Faith It Is So Worth It! . They were happy for you to, as were the mothers there that day. Anyways, once again, congratulations on your soon to be enhanced fulfillment. I can only imagine your joy.
Love a sister walking the same road,
Rejoicing with you,
LaReina
Wow, Genevieve, I just read your story. You have no idea how much it blessed me. I am 27 as well and am just as single as I can be. 
But God has taught me the value of being patient and loving my single years as a late twenties girl! I look to Rebekah in the Bible as my role model: when she was approached by Abraham’s servant to pursue her for Issac, she was watering sheep. She was honoring and serving her Dad when the servant met her. This was huge to me because it helped me understand: learning to serve your family and dad is a priceless gift while you are still single! I love how the very first time Rebekah sees Issac he is out in the field meditating. It just goes to show what kind of godly young man God had in store for her…and it makes me content to know that if God has someone in store for me, he will also be a godly man. So “all” I have to do is keep watering those sheep…you just never know who is watching!
May the Lord truly bless you as you enter this new phase of your life!
Thanks so much for sharing your story!
Rebecca Tucker
Name : Mrs. Keith Hayden (Sherri)
Introduction : I am encouraged and exhorted by all I have seen here with God’s faithfulness and truth evidenced. Godspeed to you!
I am Keith’s wife and mother to our five children (ages 12-25) who all live at home with us in Wichita, KS. We serve at home in obedience to the Lord, based upon Deuteronomy 6:4-18; 11:18-21; Psalm 34:1-3,11-22; Ephesians 6:1-4; 2 Peter 1:2-10. I look forward to reading more here in the days to come and sharing with my daughters. God’s blessings to you and your family (and your approaching gift of marriage to your husband)!
ID077 - Blessed Fruifulness 
27 Aug 2008
Dear Girls,
Work. Good, honest work.
When Pete and I finished our honeymoon we were both looking forward to getting back to Australia and working together. We knew that working together on projects and in Pete’s sawmilling/woodworking business would add another dimension to our relationship, strengthen our marriage, grow our friendship and be a whole lot of fun! The first couple of months were full from morning to night. We were settling into married life, Pete was teaching me about his machinery and I was learning how to be a helpmeet to my new husband. 
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply.” Genesis 1v28 We thanked the Lord often for the work that He had given us to do. It was a desire we discussed during our courtship that we could be fruitful for the Lord in business, in our personal lives, in every way we could (for example by running a successful and growing business, by assisting other believers and by seeking to grow in character and faith). Pete would set the vision; he would follow the calling God had for him and seek to be fruitful in the areas God wanted him to take dominion. And I would help him to be successful in being fruitful. I would help him to see his vision to completion. In the Issacharian Daughters newsletter 076 dated 4 February 2008 I said that Pete and I thought it would be prudent for me to take a break from sending out the newsletter for a period while Pete and I got married and established ourselves as a family and while I learned how to help Pete in his work. We hoped Lord willing that I could resume the newsletters four months later.
This break was a wonderful thing and has allowed me to concentrate fully on my wifely role. And it has been a necessity and a delight to be able to dedicate all my time and energy to this-my priority. Being a daughter in my father’s home and helping him was predominantly an intellectual and sedentary lifestyle. Being a wife in my husband’s home and helping him involves a lot of manual work and is a very active lifestyle. I’ve had a lot to learn. And on top of this, have gone through a very interesting process: the process of leaving behind my father’s vision and taking onboard my husband’s vision. Before I was married, much of who I was, what I believed and understood was wrapped up in my father’s vision. Since marrying I’ve undergone a surgery of sorts to replace Dad’s vision with Pete’s. My loyalties had to undergo a change. I was used to thinking that Dad knew best. Now I needed to learn to think that Pete knows best. I used to do things and invest my time in projects according to what I knew Dad would want me to do. Now I needed to be guided by what Pete wanted me to do. When faced with a problem or an option I couldn’t think, “What would Dad have done in this situation?” Now I had to think, “What would Pete do in this situation?” These were exciting times and difficult as during this state of flux-learning to replace one man’s vision with another-the devil would come around and say, “But what about what you want? What about what you think?” Ephesians 6v14 talks about girding oneself with truth as a spiritual weapon which will help one stand fast against the temptations and lies of the devil. Once again on this journey from Maidenhood to Mrshood I find myself ever so grateful to the Lord for how He brought me home and prodded me to prepare for marriage. The Lord was girding me with truth through the things He was teaching me and the books I was reading so that I could easily bring the truth to mind when presented with the devil’s lies. God is good! Taking on Pete’s vision is a very exciting thing. Studying him, learning more and more about his vision, his convictions, his desires for our family, our time, our money, our spiritual walk has been, well, romantic! Like RC Sproul Jr says, “the most romantic thing in the world is when a man shares his vision with his wife.” And this process of becoming more and more one with Pete will continue (!!!) every day I’m sure and as a result our love for one another will grow and our ability to be fruitful for the Lord will increase. This break from the ID newsletter has not only been wonderful, but more recently proved to be rather necessary too-and this is a big reason why four months came and went and still no newsletters were sent out.
The Lord decided to open up a new area of fruitfulness to us-through multiplying us. He has blessed my womb and is knitting together within a precious child. He is giving Pete an arrow for his quiver, an olive plant for around his table, a blessing to bring up in the fear and nurture of the Lord. This little one is due on 28 December 2008. When that four month mark drew up and passed I was taking a lesson on morning sickness and nausea! Pete was being my knight in shining armour. Like the thorough gentleman he is, he was changing my sick bowl, putting me to bed with hotties at night, checking on me and leaving me with a walkie talkie so that I could call him if I needed him. One day Pete saw me struggling to do the dishes. My energy was evaporating. He told me to go and lie down and said that he would finish them up after work. Work that day finished at 2am for him. He was overhauling a boiler to heat his kiln to dry out his wood using equipment which needed to be returned the next day so he had to keep working on it until the job was done. When he came in, he saw the dishes and remembering that he said to me that he would do them after work he finished them off before coming to bed close to 3am. That is my husband-my hero-a man described by Psalm 15, “He who swears to his own hurt and does not change…shall never be moved.” As I am learning about how to help my husband to be fruitful, may I encourage you as you do this too. Perhaps you too are married and learning the best ways you can be a help to your husband. Or perhaps you are learning how you can bless and support your father. Or perhaps you are preparing for marriage and God’s calling to be fruitful within this state by learning new skills now which may be of use to a husband in the future such as accounting, stewardship of money, home maintenance (painting, wallpapering, etc) and decorating, child raising, cooking and more. May God be with us all as we seek to be obedient to Him in this area. May He give us abundant joy in real, God-glorifying fruitfulness.
For the Greater Glory of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
Genevieve de Deugd
Issacharian Wife
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