Women's Fellowship

Hello Everyone, I’m so glad you are all here to learn about the meaning behind  the “Silver Boxes”.

My love for Silver Boxes was birthed from watching Florence Littauer videos.  It began more than 25 years ago.  And I have dreamed of being a part of doing this ministry for a very long time. My Husband Ric and I have been married for almost 7 years now and it is such a joy to have a husband in full agreement with serving God. Ric began watching the videos with me shortly after we met, he loved them as much as I do and we decided this would be a great series to watch regularly. To this day we still try to watch her videos at least once a year or more, it helps  to  keep her words always fresh and flowing in our hearts.

Also it helps us to remember how to relate to others, on their level and to be able to speak encouragingly into their lives, and it reminds us to keep on track with our goal of always improving in our thinking and  to keep our attitudes in check.

we should all treat others that come into and through our lives with the Love and respect that Christ has given us.

Florence taught us the importance of giving kind words of encouragement.

But along with that the scripture of Ephesians 4:29

“We are to let no corrupt communication come out of our mouth, but only what is good and edifying to build up the listener, that they may be equipped in every good works.”

I thought about that scripture and Taught it to my children when they were very young along with Ephesians 4:32

But that whole group of wording from the 29th to the 32nd verses should always be grouped together as they are in Sequence and form the whole truth that we need to learn for ourselves how we need to act if we are to win others over to the Love of God in our lives. So let’s read those scriptures together out loud.

Ephesians 4:29-32

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, along with all malice:  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."

What the Author is trying to do here is to teach us how we ought to act or behave around others so that by our gracious words and actions they may be won over to The Lord.

But even though I tried to teach these scriptures to my children I still had not quite “gotten it myself”.

No I did not swear or use fowl words, doing that just wasn’t in my nature to do.  But I believed in order to be treated like a lady I must ooze the persona of a lady. However my life was very messed up, for many years, making it difficult to accomplish my goal.

I always thought you dress for the part you want to play in. So I taught myself to be a Lady. In the hopes of being treated like one.

I tried to install this teaching in my children as well to dress for success. And 2 of them are leading very successful lives.

The Silver boxes are meant to become words of kindness that will build you up when you feel down. People today need “Little Silver Boxes” of encouraging words in their  lives more than ever before. People are becoming more vulgar and evil and disrespectful in their speaking on TV.  And by the way TV’s are very bad teachers.  I don’t recommend people allow the TV or Video games as a babysitter. It is teaching our children and grandchildren and their friends that it’s okay to say whatever you want to whom ever you want regardless of who it hurts and how much it hurts, when confronted, those types of people generally say, “I’m just speaking the truth, why, do you want me to lie?”

These people need more “Silver Boxes”, experiences in their lives too!

Perhaps they were given very few “encouraging words” growing up. Like me, I was not given “Silver Boxes” very much in my childhood.

But back then I don’t think people really studied the Bible much to learn about how our words affect others. They words very hurtful words at times and I vowed I would always do my best to treat everyone I met with loving kind words, because when I would receive “Silver Boxes” of encouraging words from others it was such a refreshing change from the normal.

In reality it should have been the normal and the bad words that cut like a knife should have been the words so much less spoken. But how and where do you start?

My Silver Boxes help you on the path to doing just that.

My children would always try to make me laugh or smile, and I would try to do the same with them but my  choice of husband way back was not used to kind words being spoken to him either. But I did not have any videos that taught on the subject of talking nice to others. And it seems that most people just simply don’t know how to control what they feel or think. Or choose not to, According to the Bible we cannot expected the people of the world to understand this type of behaviour,  they have been taught to satisfy their our needs and desires to get ahead in life, to look out for #1 (that is themselves) the JOY method is something that does not come natural to the carnal mind. You see it is only to those who study (Gods word) and his teachings that really can learn to love others the right way. Jesus cornered the market on teaching us about giving Love and kind encouraging words to one another.

It is His Holy Spirit that empowers and equips us to do good. Human nature is to just get back at others who have hurt you or wronged you in some way.  They take and take and take from others until their (Love Tanks) are empty and they have nothing left inside them to give. But that’s the total opposite from what Jesus teaches. His word says that those  who water others will be watered themselves. In other words you get back what ever you put into the relationship. However Jesus never encourages us to treat others unkind or to speak ill of others. No, instead,  his word teaches us to love on one another with the love Christ has loved us with, using kindness puts salve on their wounds to promote healing. And even though the scars may show, your changed attitude about  getting even or towards not taking revenge shows that Christ lives in you, and enables you to walk in forgiveness, which in turn makes you more willing to forgive because you know that you have also been forgiven.

Life can sometimes throw us a lot of curve balls, but by the grace of God. We can dodge some of them. But when it hits you square between the eyes how we respond to it will show by our words and actions if we have become overcomers in those areas. We all need to be a part of the solution and not add to the problem.

I believe we all have an important role to play in Winning others to Christ.

I know that sometimes it is very hard to get along with other people’s personalities, some people may seem harder than others to get along with.  But if you learn their Love language and study their personality types, you can learn to effectively speak into their lives and learn to communicate with them with much greater understanding and hopefully you will win them over to be your friend and then be able to one day lead them to the Master.

But the personalities studies, will mostly be at a different time for today we need to keep our focus mainly on the “Silver Boxes”. With Christmas coming up soon, it’s the perfect time to display your “Silver Box”  in a place where people will ask you about it like a conversation piece. Invite them to check it out and read the back side. After they have looked it over, encourage them that you have a pen and paper if they feel like they would like to add to your “collection” of encouraging notes and write something out for you to open and read on Christmas Day, that way your “Silver Box”  will become more full for you to have more to treasure as time goes by. With a heart full of so much Love you will be able to give more of yourself to help encourage your family and friends in their walk and you both will have your love tanks full to overflowing.

God wants us to become each others “Champions”. In the Love of the Lord. Encouraging each with words and prayers and fellowshipping with one another. The Bible says “Love never fails” so let’s begin our days with giving each other Silver Boxes of encouragement and Golden Boxes of wisdom. And see how it can transform to become more like Jesus in all that we say and do. God Bless you