Things life has taught me

I went forward last night for prayer for healing. Later, we were praying in general and also for other people and I had a vision. I don't have a lot of them, but when I do, they're profound , and I can't get them out of my head until I do something with them. I did tell the Pastor, but I don't know who this is for. By then church had been dismissed. Maybe it was just for me, but somehow, I have the feeling that it's for someone else too. Maybe even more than one person, so I'm going to blog about it, too. .......................... Thank you, God, for showing this to me. It speaks volumes. As I have promised, I will share what you reveal to me as I continue to pray for the Holy Spirit to show me what gifts are bestowed on me. In Jesus' Name, Amen. .......................... It was pretty simple. At first, the vision showed a green, distressed, uneven, messy, dirty woven square, much like an old abused knitted dishrag or potholder, but worse. It even had deb...

Forgiveness - in this past year, I have finished clearing the slate that had every offense marked on it that I kept carrying with me that weighed thousands of pounds.  Generally, I'm pretty quick to forgive and it's not hard for me, but there were certain things that I kept carrying because they were so wrong, and extremely difficult. I couldn't manage to completely let them go. I'm a million pounds lighter in spirit now. Too bad my body didn't follow... Haha! I'm writing this in hopes that it helps someone else. Otherwise, there's no reason to. It's just my testimony to help other people. Please understand that I am not saying it to toot my own horn. In all things, there's good and there's bad. Therefore, I am listing these things with pros, cons and bonuses.... Con: I had an abusive childhood, both mentally and physically. Pros: What it taught me was how to be tough. Praise God that I'm not weak and I can handle what life throws at me witho...

I was having leg pain for days and days and it was a horrible deep ache I could not get rid of. I don't know what was causing it and it was freaking me out. I already have so many issues, and that added to it just made me miserable beyond words. I prayed for healing... But what came to me was that I was poisoning myself with the food I was eating... I already knew it and I was already wanting to start a juice fast, so on Sunday evening I just fell into the fast. I don't know if that makes any sense, but it was gentle and easy. I had been wanting to do the juice fast and I'd been putting it off and putting it off because I thought I needed to get all the food and get rid of all the bad food in my house and all of that and I put it up for too long in my opinion.  The fast I started that Sunday evening was just a switch to drinking water, hot tea, iced tea, and clear broth. That's all I had to work with at that point. I was very concerned about how I would do on it, becaus...

Yesterday I decided to go ahead and fall into a juice fast since I got paid.  I purchased all organic fruit and all organic vegetables. My grocery bill was higher than it usually is on getting enough food to hopefully make it through 2 weeks. My rationalization is, this is for my health, and how do we put a price on that?  Right now, I desperately need to be saving money for my future and retirement because it's going to be rough, but I have to trust God to provide for me as needed. My health is much more important and I could die tomorrow, who knows? If I do, then yay! I'm ready! Juicing is interesting. I hate to waste anything, so the juice that I make creates the pulp that grinds out of the juicer. With vegetable pulp, I make a vegetable broth and I do end up having to throw out all the pulp that was in the broth, but that broth is what I use in the evening that I heat up. I drink the vegetable JUICE in the afternoon or early evening when I feel hungry. I really try to test...

I'm reading the Bible again and I slack about it sometimes, but I'm trying to go from Genesis all the way through. Once I do that, I will go into a guided rereading that doesn't include every single word of the book all the way through. If I'm still alive by the time I finish that is, lol. I love to read, I'm just easily distracted and other things take precedence. I just finished reading about Abraham & Sarah and how they decided to have Abraham marry and knock up the servant chick, Hagar... If they would have just prayed, trusted in God, and been patient, that wouldn't have even been necessary. We all have that struggle. It's so hard to just trust and not get impatient! They were doubtful Sarah would ever reproduce, which I totally understand - but if you can't have kids, there's always adoption. Yes, that was my humor at play, but then I seriously wonder if they really coulda taken on some other child that had no mom or something.  Anyway... H...

I don't know about anyone else, but I get aggravated when people say incorrect things when you're going through something, and especially when they base it on a scripture that isn't really about the situation at hand. A good scripture and relevant to other circumstances, but not right then.  One of those things is "God won't put on us more than we can handle". Please stop saying that unless you're referring to temptation... ... 1 Corinthians 10:13,  ESV : "No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it." ... So the scripture was about temptation. The next time you're tempted to say something like that, please either refrain, or have a better scripture to quote instead that deals with the situation at hand, or better yet, tell a person that you're praying for ...