Thursday, August 18, 2011

Staff Interview on Messianic Lifestyles and One New Audio Magazine Article

Messianic Lifestyles is an audio on-line magazine that expores what living life Torah style is all about through the eyes of the diverse people living it. I recently joined as a staff producer. Check out my staff interview at Messianic Lifestyles and also an additional new article posted today just under it. All Glory to YHVH!



Many blessings to you in Messiah Yahshua

More than a Conqueror

Promotion of New Blog...........

Don't worry. I am not going anywhere. We are still on this journey together Desiring to Worship in Spirit and in Truth.

I just wanted to let you know about a new blog I am starting in addition to this one. It is called Abundant Health. You can find it by going to  http://www.abundanthealthnewnan.blogspot.com/

Abundant Health is dedicated to sharing information that promotes a healthy lifestyle, both physically and spiritually. Abundant Health recognises that we have a very smart Creator that tells us in His Torah how to live a life full of abundance and blessing.

On this site you will see upcoming events, articles and information regarding The Herb Shop in Newnan Georgia.

Please check it out and give us your email address so we can help you in your pursuit to have an Abundant Life!

Blessings to you in Messiah Yahshua,
More than a Conqueror

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Grateful..........

To my husband,

Tomorrow we celebrate another year of your life.

You are my best friend and my love. I want you to know that I am so glad and grateful that when the wind and the rain blew the four walls down, our lives were found to be built on the Rock of Messiah Yahshua. I am blessed beyond measure to have you in my life. Thank you for being the "strength of our house."

All glory to YHVH!!

Love to you in our Messiah.

Your wife




Sunday, August 14, 2011

Examine My Heart

I found this on Torah Teachers.com and thought it was excellent. So I grabbed it and posted it here. Like Victor I agree with this guy on pretty much all he says. A little Hebraic understanding to this would make it even better, but it is excellent and something that should motivate many of us, who choose Him, who desire to please Him, who are "over" doing it the way everyone else does it, to continually exam our hearts. Aren't we suppose to do that? It is so easy, I mean so VERY easy to get sucked into the "world" and they way the "world operates." Our churches, bible studies, study groups, congregations......whatever, are not exempt from that temptation. I don't want to think that somehow I have arrived. I don't want to ever be content with my flesh. I want to continually die to myself and be made alive in Him. I don't want to except less or embrace what is not His best for me. In this day, this is what we need to hear. I DON'T EVER WANT TO LOSE SIGHT OF WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR ME!  More than a Conqueror.



Psalm 139
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.

Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall[a] on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;[b]
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.

Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your name in vain.[c]
Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.

Lyrics to "Witch Hunt" by Petra, Something to think about...........

Everybody look there's a new bandwagon in town


Hop on board and let the wind carry you around

Seems like there's not enough to keep us busy

till the Lord comes back

Don Quixote's gotta have another windmill to attack



Another Witch Hunt looking for evil wherever we can find it

Off on a tangent, hope the Lord won't mind it

Another Witch Hunt, takin' a break from all our gospel labor

On a crusade but we forgot our saber



There's a new way to spend all our energies



We're up in arms instead of down on our knees

Walkin' over dollars trying to find another dime

Never mind the souls 'cause we really haven't got the time



So send out the dogs and tally ho

Before we sleep tonight we've got miles to go

No one is safe, no stones left unturned

And we won't stop until somebody gets burned.

Bro Bro Bro Bro Bro Bro Brothers. ..

Friday, August 5, 2011

Pride, Pain and the Process

Early this summer I injured my back. It came on the heels of some other very stressful stuff. I have never been that incapacitated in my life. Not even when I partially amputated a finger 4 years ago. The pain was out of this world and the intensity dragged on for weeks. My back was in a constant state of spasm. I am not a "pain killer" person. I typically use herbs to manage everything that might come up. But, this injury forced me to succumb to that, just to keep my sanity. I thought I would never say this, but my 24 and 21 hour labors' with my children, paled in comparison to how this felt. With a lot of prayer from wonderful family and friends, neuromuscular treatment and chiropractic care, I have recovered fairly well. I have apparently, do to wear and tear, lost a lot of my two lower disks and one is protruding outward and I have injured my hip joint as well. Unfortunately, it forced my hand to close my business, because you see, what I do for a living is very physical. I just can't risk my health anymore. Letting go of a successful business after 10 years hasn't been easy. I will just say it was and it wasn't. It is really complicated and I am filled with mixed emotions.

I am really grateful to be improving. Please don't get me wrong. I have made some serious progress and this has forced me to take a hard look at how I treat my body, how I eat and how I manage stress. But, the hardest thing for me has been depending on others to help me. Since I was a little girl I have been fiercely independent. I was raised with the belief that I should never depend on anyone or ask anyone for help, because they will always expect something in return or hold it over your head. To some degree I have experienced that from time to time in my adult life, but by and large that is not true of everyone. Isn't it awful that pattern of thought is ingrained in my mind? I would not be completely honest if I did not tell you that I am wrestling with this still. I just didn't know it, because there were no circumstances difficult enough to test and see if that deeply ingrained thought pattern was still there, until recently. And....it was still there. It is really difficult for me to ask anyone for help! Can you relate? If you can, lets pray for one another to overcome this and be delivered of it, OK? It's pride and it's not pretty. If you cannot, then good for you. I hope to be like you one day. It's a process and I am getting there even if I trip on things from time to time on the way.

Well, anyway, I was thinking about how this applies or effects my walk with my Creator, because He is really most important in my life. I mean that will all sincerity. If you know me, really know me, you'd know that is true. I don't always love Him perfectly like I should, but I am learning. To please Him is my deepest desire. To worship Him in complete Spirit and in the depth of His Truth my heart's call. I was searching my heart and wondering if there are things I do not fully surrender to Him. Are there things I hold back? Ways I don't trust Him completely? To Him, I know that trust, that faith in Him, is His desire of me, for it is impossible to please Him without it. It is His most important love language. Am I loving Him, completely, the way I should? If I answer that honestly, then I'd say, no, not all the time. Not that I don't have the desire too. It's just sometimes I don't know how.

I really believe in my heart of hearts that trials and difficulties are about much more than causing us pain or making us miserable. It may look like that at the time, but even if He didn't do it or bring it upon us, for some reason it was allowed by Him. Nothing comes to us for no reason at all. Sometimes it is because of our own actions or lack of actions and sometimes like Yahshua said in John 11:4 it is so that the "Father may be glorified" when we come out the other side and are healed, relieved and or delivered. Sometimes I think it is just because we live in a fallen world full of corruption and our bodies are corruptible and decaying as we age. Whatever various trials befall us in this life isn't as important as learning what we can learn from them when they do happen. I am in the process of trying to do that. I am the last person that would say I have arrived or ever will for that matter. I don't claim to understand everything and I think that is OK. I think I'd rather be here, asking Him to show me and confessing I just don't know, than delude myself into thinking I have it all together and am some sort of spiritual giant. I'd rather be honest. As if we think He doesn't know anyway. We are funny creatures aren't we?

His Word says in James 1:2 "Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy" and Romans 5:3-4 says "And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope."

These days I am filled with great hope about the future. No, not about the economy or really anything in this world. Just about Him. That He will finish the good work He has started in us and bring it completion. That His kingdom is coming! That one day I will no longer have to contend with the corruptible flesh that continually tries to get in the way of my relationship with Him. He is where I place my hope. I even have joy in the uncertainty. I am not always "happy" about the challenges the day brings or the happenings in our world. My joy is found in Him!! Joy is a different thing all together then happiness. It is so far superior.

I do hope that what I have written will bless you. I hope if you have had some challenges of late, like I have, that you will be encouraged in knowing that you are not alone in them.

Many blessings in Messiah Yahshua to you!