Family dinners.

Family time with your elders and cousins was special πŸ’—

Hello all,

How many of you remember the family dinners from a child?

Back as a small child, when we had family dinners, I would see cousins I have not seen since the year before.

Elders that would hug you so hard while giving you those juicy kisses on your cheek. and then realizing you still didn’t understand who they were from the 1st time you met them. So many people.

All of them seemed so tall back then that I had to tilt your head back to see their face. Yes, I was that small then. Now I am taller than them all.πŸ˜„

I recall when we were about to eat dinner, there was prayer. Prayer over the meal that my Grandmother laid out on the kitchen table. Looking extra special with the table cloth, silverware, and plates.

Saying grace over our food is a tradition that was done then, and I still do now. GOD is good, and blessed us with my Grandmother who was an excellent cook. As my Grand uncle said grace,every eye was closed, head bowed, and hands clasped.

We had our hands clasped, but in the picture, they are holding hands while praying.

Proverbs 15:17

β€œBetter is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”

King James Version (KJV)

The meal took from early in the morning to prepare and was ready in the afternoon with our cousins and elders would arrive.

We all were catching up with our events from the last time we met.

Proverbs 22:6

I remember those graces that were told. They came from the Bible and it felt like I was in church again as the food was being blessed.

When the “Amen!” was said all you could hear was chewing. Some would some like “mmm-mmm!” Or you outdid yourself! Once they got their fill , they began to talk again. Laughing over good memories.

From eating good meal, the men dozed off in the living room. The women washed dishes, and we kids played.

I miss those family meals. We kids have all grown up now. And most of the elders are with the LORD GOD now. πŸ™πŸΎ

Peace and blessings ❀️

Sustainable living with learning to gardening.

Are there things you try to practice daily to live a more sustainable lifestyle?

These 3 photos are from: https://youtube.com/@LyThiCa10091993

I love to watch any gardening show where I see them growing food I like to eat. I also learned new vegetables I have not seen before being grown as well too.

I watched @LyThiCa10091993 on YouTube. I do not know this young woman’s name, but she has a method of growing food in I think it’s Korea.

She will forage for food to sell at a market. Now that I thought it was an excellent example of a sustainable lifestyle.

She has a small farm of fish, goats, chickens, pigs, ducks, and pigeons. She grows cabbage, beans, eggplant, onions, garlic, and cucumbers, to say the least.

I first started watching it when she built her houses. I got ideas on that, too.

We have rain barrels, stored and jarred food, both dry beans and rice. I am still learning from these shows.

Using ashes from wood and weeds for fertilizer is something I learned, too. I already knew about cow and chicken manure for fertilizer since I was a child.

All from our garden. Thank GOD for all of HIS blessings!

Power (energy to run things), water, food (saving seeds), canning, and knowing how to store these things for the long term. That’s our goal.

Growing dates from the seed of dried dates from the store. Storing pickeled eggs. Hot peppers made into “cowboy candy.” Tomatoes from the garden made into sauce. Corn from our neighbors farm all canned up.

Peace and blessings ❀️

2 Corinthians 6:14. Removing yourself from unequally yoked people.

Have you ever had surgery? What for?

This type of “surgery ” is a must to survive as a believer. They will take you down with them, too!

The surgery of being away from people who do not love GOD is a major surgery that needs to be done. For they are a hinderence and a distraction to all positive things you want and need to get done.

I got new friends when I went off to college from high school. The type of friends there were more ambitious, and we had the same mindset. We have a professional attitude on earning a living. And people I am still friends with today.

We are also believers, and we are equally yoked, too. That is what kept us in touch with each other through all of these years. Not many people can have that. GOD and HIS SON JESUS is who we depend on.

2 Corinthians 6:14

β€œBe ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

King James Version (KJV)

The so-called friends I had in high school were not mature enough to even think about college. They were content to get a job working at McDonald’s or something like that.

You can not have a comfortable life on a salary from McDonald’s or Burger King. There are too many things to consider regarding what you can afford and can’t even if working in a white collar job. You need to spend your earnings wisely.

2 Corinthians 6:17

β€œWherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,”

King James Version (KJV)

The Bible calls it avoiding the company of unequally yoked people. This applies not only in marriage but also in the company you keep. The word of GOD is perfect, righteous, and sound.

Living by GOD’S plan and HIS word keeps our friends and family close. JESUS is our guide as to how to honor GOD’S word. And by doing so ,we (my family and friends) have been blessed by the grace of GOD. πŸ™πŸΎπŸ™πŸΎπŸ™πŸΎ

Peace and blessings ❀️

John 8:24 “….ye shall die in your sins.”

Hello everyone,

I pray all is well with you who are reading this post and that our beloved FATHER GOD will be with you to grant you the righteous desires of your heart.

We all need all of the blessings we can get in these days and times from our FATHER GOD. For HE is the Creator of our body and soul. HE knows what we will need even before we ask of it. HE knows what some people will need to hear from those of us who are HIS beloved messengers who want to share the love of JESUS.

I want to tell you all about a conversation I had with a male co-worker who is lost in a sexual addition. Yes I was bold enough to talk to this man about the LORD.

For he thought because I am polite, and said good morning as I did with everyone, I wanted him. That is exactly how the devil will deceive people. Putting those kinds of thoughts into the minds of the lost.

I did not want to see his soul wind up in hell not more than anyone else. For years I would tell him about the LORD. Even gave him a bible with only the New Testament in it that were free from a chapel within the building. He thought that when I had the 1st conversation with him that I was interested in him. He even said the common thing that adulterers will say,

“My wife doesn’t understand me.” Waiting for me to reply.

“You both need to see the Pastor that married you to get the problems you both have resolved with prayer.” I said . Feeling that he was going to say something else stereotypically common with cheaters.

“No, she won’t do that.” His face began to drop from the smug look as though I was a fornicator like his self.

“Why? Did you ask her already to do that?” I asked.

“No, I just know she won’t do that, I know she won’t.” I couldn’t believe it as soon as he said that because I have heard that before. And how he said it was like he was telling an untruth.

As soon as I asked him about seeing a pastor, that I saw his neck stiffen as he began to shift from one foot to the other. He may not even had spoken to his wife about any issues they had. Or he thought they had. When people say that their spouse does not understand them so openly and freely, they have been cheating before and will continue to do so until they get caught.

This is sad, for being deceptive towards the one or ones you live with, having them to believe that all is well, is wrong. Me being me, and stubborn for the LORD GOD, I had no intentions of being like this lost co-worker on his way to hell if he does not change.

John 8:44

β€œYe are ofΒ yourΒ father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

King James Version (KJV)

Deception is something that will come out later by this co-workers wife. She will find out about the lies he was keeping. And then there will be a situation where he will need to fall on his knees asking for help. This life can only last for so long.

And this has been going on for years with him cheating with more than one woman. Him being persistent, still aiming for me to cave in even after 12 years of telling him about salvation, I told him about being left behind. He has health issues that are worsening. I asked,

“Have you read that Bible I gave you?”

“I don’t know were it is.” He said. And that means he never read it. Nor broken the plastic seal that comes on those new Bibles.

“You need to find it and read it. That’s one of the reasons why you are going through what you are going through. You don’t want to be left behind”.

He was quiet and turned away getting back to his work like he should have been. His health issues were concerning him. I pray that my conversation with him that day and the years before planted a seed that only our beloved GOD can make grow.

John 8:24

β€œI said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.”

King James Version (KJV)

The Bible is very clear about sexual wickedness. We either follow GODS laws and enter into heaven or do our way and enter into hell by our choice of life style. You can not have a ungodly life style and expect to bring that nonsense into heaven and be saved.

That’s not how it works. We choose the life we want to live. And suffer the consequences of an unrighteous life. It is sad to see the people who you know either at work or in the family on the way to hell because of the sin of sexual perversion. Sex is a sacred gift from GOD for mankind to use righteously between a natural man and woman that is married to each other alone. It is exclusively for marriage and procreation.

Bible Verses About Sexual Immorality

1 Corinthians 6:18Β –Β Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5Β –Β For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:Β Β Β (Read More…)

1 Corinthians 10:13Β –Β There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Matthew 5:28Β –Β But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Ephesians 5:5Β –Β For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

1 John 1:9Β –Β If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Hebrews 13:4Β –Β Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10Β –Β Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Β Β Β (Read More…)

1 Corinthians 7:2Β –Β Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 6:13-20Β –Β Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.Β Β Β 

Colossians 3:5Β –Β Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

1 Thessalonians 4:3Β –Β For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

1 Peter 2:11Β –Β Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Galatians 5:19Β –Β Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

2 Timothy 2:22Β –Β Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Leviticus 18:22Β –Β Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Mark 7:20-23Β –Β And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.Β Β Β 

We don’t need sex in our lives like we need air, water or food. We can live without it. But when you are addicted to sex, you may think you cannot live without it. What you cannot live without is our beloved FATHER GOD and HIS son JESUS!

Leave the sin and follow JESUS! You don’t need any temptations leading you off the path to righteous ever. Be strong in the LORD GOD.

Peace and blessings to you all.