What's In A Name?

Summer Solstice...



Here I am again asking myself, "How can I know this and no one else does not seem to know this or care?" 

Lev_19:26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Deu_18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Gal 4:9-10 but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?   Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.


Summer Solstice

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Summer Solstice

Christ Jesus came so that we might be freed from the yoke of bondage (traditions).  This leads me to a new word:  IRRITATED!  I have been irritated at the offerings of the Gospel being sold for mammon.  What are you selling?  Is it yours' to sell?  Remember Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple.  And if we are going to celebrate, then let's stop trying to Christianize the pagan holidays and take back what the heathens are trying to steal - The Rainbow.  The rainbow was given as a sign along with the promise that God would not EVER flood the Earth again.  Let's take back the Rainbow.  Where are the warriors? 
Addendum:  I felt compelled to come back and explain that the call for warriors is not a call for violence against anyone.  It is a spiritual battle cry.  The cry for the truth to be told.  You see, we are to love the sinner and hate the sin.  We are to love others enough to speak truth and quite frankly, I am more afraid of God than I am of a human who disagrees with me.  See, I don't think God sends us to hell as much for our sin, but more so for our rebellious ways which if we are being rebellious, we are sinning.  Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.  We are all sinners.  The only difference is Christians know they are forgiven if they have repented and asked for forgiveness of their sins. 

Still on Perspective...

It seems things are not
so easy to discern, while you are discerning...the path is dark.  The motives and intents are not clear.  It's about as clear as mud.  You ask a question.  You get a snarky reply.  It shuts you down so you are afraid to ask a question.  If you react in this manner, you don't grow...so now you ask questions only to be told you think too much and assume too much. 

Or, you go happily through life and along comes somebody with the intent to spitefully use you.  They take advantage of your good nature.  You are the type of person who doesn't mind wanting to help someone.  Meanwhile, "Someone" has their own agenda and you are the pawn they see themselves advancing their agenda with...Oy, Have I ever repeated this one too many times? On the wrong side and as the pawn - Lord, please help me to see clearly and how you would have me respond. 

So then you become the paranoid person who is raving mad at the world and decide "No one is ever going to take advantage of me again!"  Ummmm, yea, how did that one turn out?  Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.  It doesn't work.  Now, I am having to claw my way out of the pit of despair and anger and, and, and .... LOVE MY NEIGHBOR! 

Why do we humans do this to one another?  Most especially why do we Christian humans allow these tactics whether motivated from the flesh or from our enemy, Satan, to rule and reign in our lives.  Why is it so hard to just 'love' our neighbor.  To love those who spitefully use you.  To love those who rub you the wrong way...when you know it, you messed up.  You bragged and should have kept your mouth shut.  But most especially when you were mean to someone, and now that they are kicking back, you dare to get outraged and decide to put them in their place when you were the one that was out of place in the first place. 

My hubby posted a prayer on our wall by Jennifer LeClaire from Charisma magazine.  It was a prayer for spiritual warfare and it was asking the Lord to burn out all the game playing, the manipulations, the shenanigans...Lord, please burn it out of us.  We are so tired of the game playing. Could we just lay aside all of our faults, all of our motives, all of our agendas, and just start looking at the other person and try to help them to do better?  Let's take off the masks.  Get real with one another with the church body as a whole, not just our little cliques...

Angry people kicking back are people who have been hurt and felt not acknowledged or accepted.  They are responding because they feel no one cares.  No, you don't have to pay someone to teach you to do this either.  Just pick up your Bible, read it, and then start doing what it says you can do and don't do what it tells you not to do.  It really is that easy...and then maybe, the mud will clear and the discernment will come for what is the next step.  In the mean time, I have learned you really cannot help someone.  They have to learn to help themselves.  And that is hard for me as the happy, go through life person I am and not be a pawn in the enemy's game plan.  Lord Jesus, I need you now more than ever.  Please teach me, guide me, lead me to what you would have me to learn, and what you would have me to do.  Amen...

Step In to The Eye of the Storm...

As I sat looking out my window, I heard the Lord say to me, “Step into the eye of the storm.”   In the days and weeks that have followed after hearing this short statement and I see every aspect of my life in chaos.  Never knowing what the next day is going to bring, I look out my window and I am reminded “Step in to the eye of the storm.”  Every word coming from the prophetic scribes are all pointing to a cleansing, a shaking, an encouragement to keep fighting - that we are being attacked because we have upset the enemy…”Step in to the eye of the storm.”  Calmly, consistently, every worry, every concern – “Step in to the eye of the storm.”  Growing up in hurricane country, I knew this meant the only peace I can find is in the eye of the storm.  This brought me assurance, Jesus has me and he is my eye in the storm.  The only peace is in him.  The only assurance is in him.  The only solid, non-shaking foundation is in him. 

As I am learning to step in to the eye of the storm I then heard him say, “ Filter everything by My Word.  Every song, every cute cliché, every thought, every imagination, every book, every movie, EVERYTHING, FILTER EVERYTHING BY MY HOLY WORD!”  Every deceit, trickery, imaginary ploy of the enemy is being played right now and the only way for us to know the truth from the deception is to filter it by the Word of God.  If it goes against what God has spoken, do not take it in.  “Step in to the Eye of the Storm.” 

 

ESCAPE!!!

I was going about my housework, vacuuming and having issues with my old vacuum cleaner.  The Lord quietly reminded me:  "It's important what you feed on..."  because I was listening to my favorite playlist, and I found myself thinking..."Why Yes, I would like to escape."  "Why yes, a Pina Colada sounds great right about now!"  Point taken...


So Then I immediately started thinking of my husband, as I could hear him working on a project outside.  Escape!  Escape!  I bet he wanted to escape too. 

How many wives want to escape as they can hear the current project in progress?  ?? 
 

 

Lord help me to take on your desire for me to be the best wife I can be and to do my housework with a grateful heart.  Amen...

 
 

What Are They Teaching Our Children?

I had a very interesting disturbing encounter the other day...I was out and about, getting some items for meal preps looming on the horizon.  One of the plans is for the event of Passover.  I was sorely disappointed that the store I frequent did not have any of the Kosher unleavened crackers that are used at the time of Passover.  Then, after seeing no crackers I proceeded to the jam aisle to look for mint jelly.  I wanted real mint jelly, not apple jelly flavored as mint.  Nope, nada, ZILCH! 

I am usually not one to complain to people when I am out and about, yea, on here...but really, when I am out and about, I try to not complain.  Especially for items that I for whatever reason cannot get at the store.  However, this time I made an exception.  They asked if I was able to get everything I needed and I decided to say something: "Something!"  They responded with (the clerk looked to be in his late 20s' early 30s' to me) and the young girl bagging my groceries looked about 20ish...maybe younger... It's really hard to tell.  Anyhow, the young man proceeds to tell me how he has never heard of Passover and I asked something about the Jews..."You've never heard of the Jews?"  The story of Passover which really is more than the story of the Jews but of the Israelites...I said to him, "You need to study your history!"  STUDY YOUR HISTORY!!!

So as the young lady and I proceed to go out to my car she asked more about Passover and WWII and said, "They do not teach that to us in school anymore."  "Really!"  I was really shocked that she really did not seem to know anything about WWII...and was very interested in Passover.  I look at the two very closely related...the extermination of the Jews in WWII and the Israelites being brought from enslavement to freedom by the exodus of the Israelites told about usually at this time of year, you know Easter, however, the real Easter is the Passover Lamb!  The sacrifice made that saved any and everyone during "The Pass Over." 

Jesus Christ, My Passover Lamb...

I was really excited I got to share with her the story of Jesus Christ, the Passover Lamb, who came to restore us to right relationship with God, the Father.  The symbology of marking the doorposts with blood so that the Angel of Death would pass over the household therein.  The fact that Christ willingly laid down his life for me, a sinner, who could never repay the price or meet the requirements of the sacrifice.  A part of history of where over six million people died and they are not teaching this to our children...What are they teaching our children? 

The Worship of Tammuz

Do you ever find yourself reading your Bible, like a good Christian, and ask what was the worship of Baal; what was the worship of Tammuz?  What are the traditions of men that make void the Word of God? 

I have walked with the Lord for a long time, ever since I was a young child.  He has led me down paths and when I became a parent myself, I did have to ask myself, "Self, What are you going to let in to your children?"  I decided from day one that I was not going to lie to my children about:  The Easter Bunny, Santa, The Tooth Fairy, etc., etc.  If we read fairy tales, we did so with an intent to learn about literature.

Even though my children are grown, I still find myself in battles over the traditions of men.  I cannot open-heartedly jump in to the activities of the day.  If I would not do it with my own children, why would I want to do this with someone else's child?  It has brought pain in my life to stand on this principle in my life.  The enemy attacks vigorously with:  "See, you're just being fanatical on this issue..."  My own thoughts attack my mind.  Yet, I cannot with good conscious before the Lord celebrate Easter. 

When I first heard the pagan background of most Christian holidays, I was heart-broken.  First, I was heart-broken in how I thought something that would be pleasing to the Lord was, most likely, highly offensive to the Lord.  Secondly, I detest lying and to have been lied to and finding out the deceit and trickery involved, well...let's just say I never have a good reaction when I have been lied to about something.  So I hope that with telling you a couple of things about me, you will read for yourself and find truth for yourself.  I am on a mission of truth-seeking, truth-finding, and sometimes I just do not like the answers.  But there the truth is, as plain as the black and white text of your Bible or your app, or whatever colors you choose to paint your world.  Please understand that God's paint is the truth. 

Eze 8:14-15  Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.  Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

Mar 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

This explanation and writing tells much better than I can The Worship of Tammuz.  But if anything, it is a very good reason to study your classics including Greek Mythology...you will find it in your Bible. 

The Worship of Tammuz  ( please see for explanation of pagan worship)

Here are two more links that I hope you will read for yourself and more importantly look up the scripture references and see what your Holy Bible says about pagan traditions and worship that is pleasing to our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Links:  More Information   Queen of Heaven
And Even More Information    A great intensive study of the Bible and Greek Gods


I make it a point to celebrate Resurrection Day and the Passover Feast to remind me of the great things Jehovah God has done for me.  I hope you will take time to learn about the above information and through prayer, reading of your Bible and being led by the Holy Spirit, decide what is right to do for you and your family.  I can no longer in good conscious celebrate Easter, or better known as Ishtar, the worship of the Babylonian Goddess Ashtoreth.  I can, however, whole-heartedly celebrate the Passover Lamb that God provided in His Son, Jesus Christ.  I  can celebrate that He died, rose again, and is alive today moving and intervening in our lives.  I celebrate Passover in remembrance of what He did for His people and I use it to remind me and encourage me that He is still doing so for us today.  He is alive and He lives.  The tomb is empty.  The grave could not hold Him.  He defeated the enemy and He is coming back again. And not only did he defeat the enemy, Satan, Jesus Christ took the keys to the Kingdom.  In the atonement, we not only have salvation, we have (fill in the blank.)

So you go ahead and have your Easter Ham (the wild boar that killed Tammuz).  I'm going to partake of lamb in remembrance of The One who sacrificed Himself so that we might be restored to a right relationship with God, Our Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ! 

More verses on pagan deities: 

Jer. 7:18
Jer. 44
I Kings 11
Jdgs 2:11

And Even More...

1Co 10:21-22 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?








 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

March 17th is almost upon us...
 
I always look forward to celebrating St. Patrick's Day.  I feel that it is one Holiday that all Christians should celebrate.  I never thought much about this particular holiday until home schooling my children.  As I studied to teach them the significance of St. Patrick's Day, I found out how much St. Patrick did for the cause of the Christian faith.  His life story is a testimony to an enduring faith in God...He escaped slavery and came back to his slave-masters to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with them.  He also did a lot to fight against the paganism that was so entrenched in 'the Isles.'  As a Christian, celebrating St. Patrick's Day is a day we should really take hold of and not let the enemy use for a day of other celebrations.

What are your colors?  History moment - There was a period of time where Christian faiths were battling each other...it is still a source of conflict to this day.  Every now and then, you will hear of a bombing in Ireland.  It goes back to this conflict between the Protestants and the Catholics.  The color orange was for the Protestants and the Green was for Catholics.  May God get his body of believers to join with each other rather than be at odds with each other. 


My favorite meal for this day in keeping with the traditions of men -

Corn Beef and Cabbage - MMMMM, MMMMMM!!

Ingredients:

1 medium onion, cut into wedges
4 large red potatoes, quartered
1 pound baby carrots (I use regular carrots as many as I might need five or six)
3 cups water
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 Bay leaf (I use two to three Bay leaves)
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar unrefined
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 corned beef brisket with spice packet (2-1/2 to 3 pounds), cut in half
1 small head cabbage, cut into wedges       

Directions: 

 

 Place the onion, potatoes and carrots in a 5-qt. slow cooker.  Combine the water, garlic, bay leaf, sugar, vinegar, pepper and contents of spice packet; pour over vegetables. Top with brisket and cabbage.  Cover and cook on low for 8-9 hours or until meat and vegetables are tender. Discard bay leaf before serving.

 

 

And last, here is a song for remembering the Irish Washer Women - It is a familiar folk song that people know the tune, but they do not know the meaning behind the song...History is intriguing to learn when you have perspective on the issues involved.  I hope to encourage to do your own study in learning more of our rich Christian heritage.

Sheet Music

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6hmqAHE1gkIrish Washer Woman

 

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