How Long to Read It's Hard to Have a Mouse-Free House

How Long Does it Take to Read It's Hard to Have a Mouse-Free House?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 58 minutes to read It's Hard to Have a Mouse-Free House by Mary Ellen Stewart

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As Christians, we sometimes feel overwhelmed and discouraged about the various problems in our lives. Instead of trusting God the way we should, we often wind up berating ourselves and despairing over our failures. The Old Testament tells us about the rights we have inherited as children and heirs to His kingdom. However, we are living in a world where Satan’s goal is to keep us from realizing our full potential and what is rightfully ours. In 1983, at a women's fellowship meeting, I presented the message the Holy Spirit had given me regarding the ten areas of discipline: worldliness, words, thoughts, pride, fear, unforgiveness, finances, health, prayer, and perseverance. Shortly after teaching that lesson, the Holy Spirit led me into a three-year study of the disciplines to facilitate my own spiritual growth. He showed me that: • worldliness, negative words, and negative thoughts are things that come against us; • pride, fear, and unforgiveness are negative emotions that come against us. When Satan keeps us in a negative mode, he can affect our finances, health, and prayer life. The good news is that God has given us a tool to help us overcome physical and spiritual battles: perseverance. Several years later when I was feeling overwhelmed and discouraged about various problems in my own life, I heard a message from the Lord: "It’s hard to have a mouse-free house. But with God all things are possible." He was reminding me of how a little mouse had sneaked in and violated my house for three weeks when I was away on a trip. As I meditated on the "mouse-free house" concept, I remembered the lessons the Holy Spirit had taught me regarding the ten areas of discipline. God was showing me that Satan violates our spiritual houses the way a mouse violates our physical houses. It was then I realized the Lord was compelling me to put His ten disciplines into a book for instruction and meditation. The ten disciplines are divided into four sections. They show us how to fight Satan’s barrage of tricks and traps that his forces use against us. They will help us develop and maintain a spiritual "mouse-free" house. PART 1: Negative Things That Come Against Us • The negative things that come against us are worldliness, words, and thoughts. Worldliness is anything that keeps us from fellowshipping with God. The section on worldliness defines the covenants that God made to help mankind fight spiritual and physical battles. God never breaks a covenant and His Word does not return void. However, through worldliness, negative words, and negative thoughts we get into unbelief and lose God’s blessings. PART 2: Negative Emotions That Come Against Us • All negative emotions stem from pride, fear, and unforgiveness. Pride originates from Satan, and it wears many faces. It stimulates selfish ambitions and leads to moral decay. It causes us to glorify ourselves instead of God. Fear violates our faith. Satan uses all aspects of fear to keep us doubting our ability to succeed in what we are attempting. Forgiveness is contingent upon an act of the will. Do we choose to forgive and forget? Or do we choose to let an offense stay alive in our spirit, wrestle with it from time to time, and allow old wounds to keep festering? PART 3: Battlefields of Life • The daily battles of life affect our finances, health and prayer. God’s Word teaches us how to have our finances blessed instead of cursed. He listed the blessings we would receive if we obeyed His commandments, and the financial curses that would follow if His commandments were not obeyed. Good health can be maintained by adhering to God’s wisdom and discipline. The body is a homestead given to us by God. The length of our life and our happiness on earth will be determined by the wisdom we use in the upkeep of our temporary home. Prayer is an open line to God’s throne. It helps us deal with the stresses of life. We use it to praise Him, seek His counsel, and enjoy a personal relationship with Him. PART 4: Perseverance: God’s Tool for Overcoming • Perseverance is the key to living in God’s disciplines. It is a steady heartbeat of faith. Not the kind of faith that is tossed about like the waves of the sea. All of God’s disciplines require that we polish up the tool of perseverance. This tool is necessary whether we are attempting a small feat or a large one. "He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Micah 6:8). As we continue to practice these ten disciplines, we will develop the ability to walk in love. This will enable us to receive the happiness, health, and prosperity that God has wanted for us from the beginning of creation.

How long is It's Hard to Have a Mouse-Free House?

It's Hard to Have a Mouse-Free House by Mary Ellen Stewart is 473 pages long, and a total of 119,669 words.

This makes it 160% the length of the average book. It also has 146% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read It's Hard to Have a Mouse-Free House Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 53 minutes to read It's Hard to Have a Mouse-Free House aloud.

What Reading Level is It's Hard to Have a Mouse-Free House?

It's Hard to Have a Mouse-Free House is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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