Frugal Friday! Week of August 19-25, 2018

Good Morning Everyone!

How has your week been?  In my neck of the woods, the weather this week has been glorious, finally dipping down into the mid to high 70’s during the day!  I love being able to turn off the air conditioning and get fresh air into the house! I am especially trying to enjoy it since the weather prediction is for it to get back up hot and humid again this weekend.


What frugal things have you been able to do this week to bless your family?  My favorite frugal find this week has been a free online class that I found available for the month of August on the subject of Prayer.  I have been going through this Prayer class this past week, and have been blessed by the thoughts and advice shared.  If you are interested in checking out this free online class, you can read more about it here:

Secrets of Prayer

With the nice weather, we have also been enjoying smoothies for several different days this week.  And since I make smoothies with only healthy ingredients, we even eat them for breakfast! This morning I was wanting to use up some of the things in my freezer, so I went in search of what could be made into a smoothie.  I had my base of frozen bananas—which I found this week at a 25% discount at our local grocery store, discounted because they were spotted and soft, but that is the perfect type for things such as smoothies and banana bread! I then found a freezer bag of frozen mango pieces.  I had found mangos on sale a while ago, and bought several boxes of them.  We ate many fresh, but finally they all started to ripen at once and I had more than I could eat without them spoiling first, so into the freezer they went.  Today, those mangos came out and went into my smoothie along with the frozen bananas.  They were yummy, and made for a wonderful and refreshing breakfast!

So there you have it—a couple of the things that I have been up to this week.  What ways have you found to bless your family?

~Susan

Free Prayer Secrets Class!

Hi Everyone!

Just popping in here for a minute to share with you a great FREE resource that I have just learned about--a free class on how to have a better, more Biblical Prayer Life.  This class is free for the month of August only, so if it is something that interests you do not wait too long to sign up for it.

It is a self paced class--you will be required to create a free account at Fast Missions, the ministry that created and is offering this class.  After your free account is created, you will be able to sign up for the "Prayer Secrets" class.  At that point, you will receive one e-mail a day, for seven days.  That is the entire length of the class--seven lessons long.  I signed up a few days ago, and this morning just completed day three and I can tell you that it has already been a blessing in my life!

I have already been using a Prayer Journal during my Quiet Time, and I have loved the organization that my Prayer Journal gives me--but this "Prayer Secrets" class is a nice compliment to what I have already been doing, helping me to be more specific in my prayer time.

SO--thinking that there may be others who may like this free class and be blessed as I am being, I thought I would share the link for the class here.  I do not benefit in ANY way from your using this link and signing up for the class.  Fast Missions does offer paid classes from time to time, and a paid membership on their site---but their basic membership is free and you will find a LOT of wonderful, Biblical resources there!  So here is the link to check out the "Prayer Secrets" class:

Prayer Secrets

And if you are interested in a blog series I wrote previously on my own Prayer Journal, and how I set it up and organize it, here is a link to the first post in that series:

How to Organize your Prayer Life Part 1

And if you are curious about Fast Missions, the ministry offering the "Prayer Secrets" class, you can read more about them here:

Fast Missions

Hope these links are a blessing to you!  Have a wonderful Wednesday!

~Susan