If I was asked that question I would say Yes, but not all the time.  The thing about faith is this it’s easy to have it when everything is good in your life but when everything isn’t going so good it seem to be not so easy for faith to be alive.  Faith is not supposed to be easy in fact faith is to step out in to the unknown, faith is to whole heartedly give it to God and tell God that He is in control. The best definition of faith (I think) is found in the Bible (Hebrews 11:1) Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen, or in other words like to say to believe in the invisible hope.  The gantlet has been laid down now do you dare to live by faith?

Many in the Bible had a…

Psa 29:3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.

The go to verse in this chapter is verse two – “…worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” The true emphasis is on the voice of the Lord. We find the voice of the Lord is “upon the waters.” We find that His voice “thundereth.” We also see several other things about the voice of the Lord. It is “powerful,” it is full of “full of majesty.”

We then proceed to the results of the voice of the Lord. His voice “breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.” He makes the cedars to “skip like calves.” The voice of the Lord “divideth the flames of fire.” It “shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.”, It makes the…

King James Bible
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised..Luke 4.18-

I was recently pondering the state of my heart. My mom passed and my sister did not tell me. She has made it really difficult for me to see my mom. She lied on me to my mom and well my mom believed her. These things broke my heart. I longed for a good relationship with my mom. Something like what I have with my daughters but I never really had that. I wondered how I would ever mood past this pain. I have the answer. It is directly from the mouth of the Lord, he…

We will be closing next Monday!!! I can’t believe it! But I will breathe a sigh of relief after all the papers are signed. Here are broken down updates:

Garden
The only thing I know about the soil is that it is clay heavy. I didnt know what this meant or what to do about so I went to my friends Emily and Roberto, who suggested a mix of soil, sand and mulch thrown right on top of the existing grass. So that’s the plan. I cannot wait for the heaving breaths, the breaking back and the blisters all over my hands from working this!!! I’m so desperate for some down and dirty work!

I’m hoping I won’t need fencing right away around it and am not planning for it. Getting the bed ready and the seedlings started seems to be enough at the moment. But if the garden begins…

Is God sovereign? For the vast majority of humanity, the answer to that question – by the sheer implication of His Name – can be nothing less than a “given.” Yet though God’s sovereignty is almost universally accepted as an axiom, we’ve all nevertheless heard on more than one occasion a query like this: “If God’s really sovereign, then why is the world in the ‘jacked-up’ condition it’s in?!” (I toned down the descriptor because this is a G-rated family site.) Or like this one: “Well, if God’s in charge, why did He allow this awful thing, that horrible thing or the other terrible thing to happen??”

Although those questions – and all similar forms of them – may sound reasonable and legitimate, they share one common flaw: they all wildly miss the very point upon which they’re seemingly based. And that point is this: The Truth that God is…

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Posted on November 26, 2015November 24, 2015 by Personal Liberty News Desk

For the first time since the country’s founding, white Christians don’t constitute a majority of the U.S. population.

That’s the finding from the Pew Research Center, which published data this month showing whites who identify as Christian make up just 46 percent of the American population.

Pew’s “Religious Landscape” survey, published Nov. 23, finds Americans increasingly polarized along religious and political lines. While it’s an interesting finding, the narrative is predictable: As conservatives become more conservative, the study insinuates, they also cling harder to their religion. And for some reason we can’t quite pin down, being a white Christian makes the results more noteworthy.

From the summary, which Pew handed off to National Journal for an exclusive release:

As the nation relentlessly diversifies, both in its racial composition and religious preferences, White Christians…

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection. As inspired by Maurice Edmond Sailland (Curnosky), French writer and food critic [1872-1956].

The most important thing first is to know how to convert a grain of rice into a Pula ($). If you cannot do that then, there is a problem bigger than you. Yet, you must be more pleased since chefpertise has unveiled themselves to help you meet your business’ financial goals.

Pasta & Spinach salad with Berries

Competitiveness

Competition is good. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. Foodservice operators will often review the menus of competitors to see what they are charging for similar items. This can be a way of helping to lock in a Menu Selling Price, however, it should not be the only method utilized. Although competitors often appear to have similar menu items, be careful to examine the quality of ingredients…

POETRY Awakening Souls

POETRY Awakening Souls

I want
to open my heart
in the sunlight
so that You can see
beyond the eclectic shadows
of time’s consequence
where the moon whispers
ever so softly
to our awakening souls
so that I in turn can feel
the sage of your warmth
intimately
blissfully
and take You
to the fruitful orchards
and then into the flowering meadows
where I can further inhale
the perfumes of your nectar
so sweetly
into every moment
with You
that I want
too also see you dance
naked with your soul
gazing incipiently
at your inner reflections
bathing in the untamed desires
of love’s bountiful quest
ebbing as one with the ocean waves
flowing with all that is life
all that is You
and your vibrancy
flowing as the river streams
uniting our innate oneness
monolithic as waterfalls
tasting the pelting rain
that caresses your form
I…

Never will I leave you; Never will I forsake you. — Hebrews 13:5

Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted. — Hebrews 2:18

God says: See Jesus, still incarnate as a human but no longer on earth, still the crucified One with nail-scarred hands and feet but no longer on the cross, still resurrected but no longer visible among you, and still ascended but no longer ascending through the devil-filled heavens. See Jesus where He is right now.

• Where He is when you awake in a cold sweat at two in the morning.

• Where He is when you’re alone in a hotel room and tempted to watch what should never cross the path of your eyes.

• Where He is when you’ve been devastated by loss or rejection.

• Where He is when your failure has…

It was a beautiful sunny spring day and everyone was so cordial.  I guess with the blahs of winter finally moving out of it’s season, people were so ready for the Spring weather to come.  Everyone seemed so nice and inviting, saying hello to each other in the stores and at the bus stops.  While in a conversation with a young woman who had just told me she was late for a class she was teaching, something caught my view at the corner of my eye.  So I turned quickly because it was moving so fast.  I mean, here we are standing at a large intersection in the early afternoon of the day.  The traffic was very heavy as it was nearing close to noon time and the people hurrying during their lunch breaks.   As I turned quickly to look, there it was… a mouse scurrying across the large intersection…

Today I am starting a new journey with my skin and health. Being a passionate Esthetician my focus is on skin and its health, slowing the aging process and getting and keeping that youthful healthy glow. For the most part, I am very diligent when it comes to this part of my wellness; however, I have been severally lacking when it comes to the inside of my body. I know that great skin does come from the inside out. Our skin reflects our overall bodily health. If we eat clean and good our skin will appear clean and good, when we fill our bodies with sugar, greasy fatty foods our skin will also show this in a lot of different ways and through varies skin conditions.

So this morning I set out on this new journey to get that healthy youthful glow on the inside of my body. I am…

WHEN Jesus is near, all is well and nothing seems difficult. When He is absent, all is hard. When Jesus does not speak within, all other comfort is empty, but if He says only a word, it brings great consolation. Did not Mary Magdalen rise at once from her weeping when Martha said to her: “The Master is come, and calls for you”? [14] Happy is the hour when Jesus calls one from tears to joy of spirit. How dry and hard you are without Jesus! How foolish and vain if you desire anything but Him! Is it not a greater loss than losing the whole world? For what, without Jesus, can the world give you? Life without Him is a relentless hell, but living with Him is a sweet paradise. If Jesus be with you, no enemy can harm you