Whose Truth are You Living? A Tip

We have heard a lot here lately about people and their truth.    People walking in their own truth.    I just have to say that that scares the daylights outta me!!!!!     Most of us have not set the bar for truth very high for ourselves, thus you have people saying that they walk in their own truth.    Here are a few questions I want to ask and then we will try to answer these questions and see where we end up.

1. What exactly is truth? 

2. Can an individual even have their own truth? 

3. And, would I suggest you and I follow in the footsteps of someone walking in their own truth?

1.  Now, what exactly is truth?     A simple answer right off the top of my head would be, anything that isn't a lie.     Simple enough, right.     Who determines what a lie is?     What determines a lie?    Ok, I'm asking more questions now, so I gotta stop that.   hahaha 

Ok, So I googled the word truth and this is just a sampling of what I came up with.    Truth = the true or actual state of a matter;    conformity with fact or reality;     a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like;    the state or character of being true;    actuality or actual existence; an obvious or accepted fact;    truism;    platitude;    honesty;    integrity;    truthfulness.

Now, read that very carefully and google them again, if necessary.     I have to tell you that right off the bat, there are a couple of words in there that scare the willies outta me!!!     It's those two words that some people are using to talk about their platform of walking in their truth.   Do you see the 2 words I am talking about?    Truism!   Platitude!     Those two words have very little to nothing to do with truth!!!!

Truism stands for a certain kind of truth—a cliché, a platitude, something so self-evident that it is hardly worth mentioning.     One can use it to accuse another writer or speaker of saying something so obvious or evident and trite that pointing it out is pointless.

A platitude is a trite, meaningless statement, generally directed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease.       Platitudes are geared towards presenting a shallow, unifying wisdom over a difficult topic.      However, they are too general and overused to be anything more than undirected statements with ultimately little meaningful contribution towards a solution.

Truisms and platitudes is what most of the people claiming to "walk in their own truth" is actually walking in.   Well, it's actually garbage, but that garbage has a name and it's truisms and platitudes.

Now, what does the Bible say about truth?

John 14:6 ESV

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 8:32 ESV

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 16:13 ESV

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

John 17:17 ESV

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Ephesians 6:14 ESV

Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

John 4:24 ESV

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

John 1:17 ESV

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Psalm 25:5 ESV

Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

1 John 5:20 ESV

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Proverbs 16:13 ESV

Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

This is just a very small sampling of all the verses in Scripture that talk about truth.   Not a one of these or any of the others, mention one iota about you or I walking in our own truth.   Because quite, frankly, we wouldn't recognize truth if it slapped us up side the head.    The only way we can recognize truth is thru the grace, mercy and truth of Jesus Christ!!!      It is really frightening when I hear a mere mortal being proclaim "walking in her own truth" as though she is god or something!!!    What's even more frightening, people that would classify themselves as "highly intelligent", jumping on that bandwagon!!!!    That truth, my friends, is straight up from the pits of hell!!!   I don't care who is telling you about their truth, if it has NOTHING to do with the truth of who Jesus Christ is, RUN from it!!!!!!     The enemy is running rampant and he is using people who are more than ready to be used.    Now, there is no doubt that these people would deny being used by the enemy,,,,but, as they say, "proof is in the pudding".     If someone is claiming to walk in their own truth and that truth has nothing to do with a relationship with Jesus Christ, well, they are walking in a lie, straight up LIES!!!   So, before we jump on the bandwagon of someone tooting their own horn, see if what they are ranting about lines up with scripture in any way, if it doesn't, run as fast as you can in the opposite direction!!!!

2.   NO!!!!!   NO!!!!!!   NO!!!!!!!    You can not have you own truth!!!!!    If "your truth" does not line up with God's truth, someone is wrong, and I can promise you with 100% accuracy, "it AIN'T God!!!!!!"

3.   NO!!!!!!    NO!!!!!!      NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!     I don't care who it is!!!!    I don't care how much notarity and fame they carry with them, I don't care if they had a television show............I don't care what kind of pedigree they think they have!!!!     They are a liar, used by the enemy, doing the enemies work, and taking as many people to hell with them as they can, all the while, claiming to be a good person, who walks in "her own truth"!!!!   How scary is that??????      It should scare you as badly as it scares me.     And if you ever come in contact with anyone "walking in their own truth", my best advice would be to run as fast and far in the opposite direction as you possibly can.   

1 Thessalonians 5:22   says  "abstain from all appearances of evil".      Claiming to walk in ones own truth, is about as evil as it gets!!!

So, who do you listen to?     I can not tell you what to do.     All I can do, is hope and pray that all who read this is walking in the truth of Jesus Christ and can and will recognize the slimy lies of the enemy, regardless of who's mouth is spewing those lies.

That's one reason I don't watch a lot of tv or any of the awards shows anymore.   There is always someone "walking in their own truth" and the majority of those at the awards shows will eat that stuff up like hogs at a slop trough!!!!    I don't care what they believe, well I do, but they will never be here on my blog to read the truth, but I do care what y'all believe!!!   If you are here, reading my blog, I hope and pray that you are already a Christ follower and walk in His truth, grace and mercy.    If you are not a Christ follower, then I hope that Christ will convict your heart right now of the sin in your life and that you will make the decision to walk in the truth of Christ from this day forward and study the Word of God and ask God to give you wisdom, knowledge and understanding when you are reading His Word.   He will!!!!    When we are studious in God's Word, we recognize immediately, the lies that spew forth from the enemies mouth and we will flee!!

I hope you have read something here today that has been a blessing to you.   More than anything, I hope that you have read the truth here today.   Because I can tell you, I DO NOT WALK IN MY TRUTH!!!!!!    I do walk in the truth, grace and mercy of Jesus Christ.   My desire is for you to walk in that same truth, grace and mercy!!!!

My tip for this blog post is to get a concordance and look up every scripture of truth in the Bible and read all of those.   Make notes on them.    Commit to memory as many as you can and then when you are confronted with someone "walking in their own truth", you will recognize it for the filthy lies that it is and flee.

Have a great rest of the day.   Be blessed in name of Jesus Christ.   Tell someone that you are walking in the truth of God's Word.     Remember that God loves you enough to provide a way for you to be in right relationship with Him thru the shed blood of Jesus Christ our Messiah!!!!   I love y'all too!!   Hope to see you back here real soon.    I have some projects to share with y'all and will share some more of my beads that I have been making.   Have a wonderful rest of the day and thank God for allowing you to be a part of such a magnificent day!!!!  Many hugs and much love, Patty

Happy New Year!!!! Motivate, Recipes, a Tip

Good COLD and FRIGID evening y'all!!!!    I am already ready for spring!!!   What about y'all?   I bet you are too.   hahahaha   Oh well, we are just a few days into winter and it's already smacking us around a little.     So I send out warm wishes and prayers for all my family, friends and blog family.   Stay warm!!!   I got up this morning at 4:30 a.m. and came thru and looked out on the deck and it was 0*!!!!!  Yes, it was!!!     While on Facebook a little bit ago I seen where the TVA is asking for people to conserve electricity.  I know they mean well and a lot of us probably can cut back some on our usage.  I just don't like seeing that because as a result, I'm afraid we will see where some of our older people have frozen to death.   And we will never know whether they were trying to conserve or couldn't pay a bill.  At any rate, it is cold temps and challenging times.    The best we can do is try to check on neighbors and see if they need anything.    I just hope and pray that the cold snap doesn't last a long time.

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I remember back in the mid to late '70's that we had a cold spell starting just before school was to start back after the Christmas Vacay, but the weather changed, and we didn't get back to school till the mid to late February!!!   Yeah, that's right, we was out of school for many many days and it was so cold that the lake behind our house froze solid!!!!   Yes, it did!!!   My brothers went to the lake and built snowmen and I don't know what all they done!!   Oh my gosh, it just makes me almost have a heart attack just thinking about what all they done back then!   I was really mad though, because Mom wouldn't let get out with them!!   hahahaha    She is a wise woman for sure!!    They might have buried me in a snow lady,  hahahaha.    

It was really scary sounding when the ice began to thaw and the water began to run again in the lake.   It sounded like there may have been a Loch Ness monster in there or something.   If your heard it groaning and didn't know what it was, it would scare the slippery snot out of ya!!!   hahahaha

It was so cold during that time, that my Dad and brothers couldn't even go to work.  They were carpenters and it's really hard to drive nails in frozen lumber!!   My Grandmother lived on the hill above us and every evening before dark, someone would go up and draw water for her from the well and fill her coal buckets up for her so she didn't have to get out.   I had long hair at the time and my Mom had to crochet me a boggin to pull down on my head so I could tuck my hair up in it.   If not, when I reached up to my hair, it would break off in my hand like brittle straw.    That boggin saved my head of hair during that cold spell.   My parents had gotten me a brand new pair of gloves for Christmas that year.   The first time I went up to draw the water for her, the palms of both gloves stuck to the well chain and pulled the palms out of those stinkin' gloves!!!   hahahaha    I guess when the chain finally thawed out, my glove palms fell in the well.   I don't know.     And when I had to fill up her coal buckets, that was awful!!!   I had to take a pick axe and try to bust it up.   It wasn't any different from being in the coal mine with a pick axe!!!   Well, I'm sure it was, but hey, this is my story and I can be as dramatic as I wish!!   hahahaha   It was tough to do and even  my brothers struggled with it, so I guess I was in good company.

So, if you gotta be out in the tough weather, put your gloves and boggins on, you won't be sorry.

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Speaking of Christmas I got an Air Fryer, so now the fun starts.   I am learning to use it.   Haven't had any flops yet.  But I know that what I cook, I can and will, get better with as time goes on.

I have to stop right here and tell y'all that there is a LOT of hateful and mean spirited people on FACEBOOK!!!    If they are that way in real life, I pity the people around them.    I finally asked a question on one the groups that I joined.  I asked "Do people ever fixed anything from scratch?   It seems to me that everyone is just opening boxes and bags and that my sole purpose for getting the machine was for cooking from scratch and making healthier versions of food and that I hadn't seen any recipes from scratch."   Oh my good gollie gosh, you would have thought that question was gonna start world war 3!!!   Bunch of idiots!!!!!   That is the best word I can bless those people with.  After I spoke as sweetly as a "sweet southern belle" can, I dropped a couple groups quicker than you would drop a hot tater!!!   For the life of me, I can't figure out why some are so STINKIN hateful!!!!   I am telling ya', times been, there woulda been a regular street brawl, but I just don't sweat over idiots anymore!!!!   You know, "don't sweat the small stuff".   Well, hateful people are the "small stuff" and I don't deal with them.   I'll let 'em cuss each other and I'll move on to  kinder, gentler territory.   So, if you happen to be in a group on FB or anywhere for that matter, and it's not conducive to friendliness and helpfulness, you don't have to put up with people like that.   Just sayin'!!!!

Recipe 1.   But I have been cooking a few things with it.  The first thing I made was salmon fillets with a mix of 1 tablespoon low sodium soy sauce and a tablespoon brown sugar and 2 tablespoon water mixed well till the brown sugar dissolved and brushed it on the salmon and air fryed it for the time on the fryer said to do and it was FABULOUS!!!!!    It was, without a doubt, the BESTEST (yes I said BESTEST, hehehe) salmon that I have ever eaten!!!!!    I had started to think that I was gonna have to scratch salmon off my list, but not this recipe!!!   It's da bomb!!!!  Yes it is!!!!  And my hubby gave it 2 thumbs up and tried to stick a toe up too.   hehehe

Recipe 2.   I then sliced up 2 taters into french fries and air fried those.    Oh my good gosh gollie (sorry, I used that phrase twice, but who knows, I may use it again before I get done with my food, hahaha) we scarfed those down like we hadn't eaten in a month of Sundays.    Just a small sprinkle of sea salt when they were done and we were happy!!!    Crispy on the outside and yummy on the inside!

Recipe 3.   Last night, I took a large boneless skinless chicken breast and cut 4 tenders out of it.   I used somewhat of the same marinade for the chicken that I used for the salmon.    I did make a larger batch because I also had 4 chicken legs to marinade too.    The chicken tenders were AWESOME!!!!   My husband loves them, so he will be getting them.   How's that?    They were really good.   I am so thrilled that I finally found something that I can use on my salmon and chicken.   So, I still had the legs in the fridge soaking in the marinade and I threw them in the fryer this afternoon and oh my good gollie gosh (3rd time hehe) they were SOOOOOO fantastic!!!  I cooked them at 360* for 25 minutes.   I checked them at 22 minutes and they were not done because they had a bone in them.  Crispy on the outside and moist and tender on the inside.   I can't wait to experiment more.

Recipe 4.   I had almost forgot about the veggies I cooked on Sunday night too.   I took yellow squash, zucchini, bell peppers and mushrooms and sliced and diced and tossed it in the air fryer for a few minutes and stirred it and cooked it a few minutes more and they were so GOOOOOD!!!!   I had some ranch popcorn seasoning and I sprinkled a little of that on the veggies when they were done.   Yummo!!!!!

I am going to continue with my "Tip" of the post.    So, the tip this time is to remember to season your fryer basket each time to keep it stick free..    I just brush a little coconut oil on my basket and that gets it ready to be cooked in.    If I think something may stick anyway, I cut a circle of parchment paper the size of my basket and just scissor cut slits in it and the air will still circulate.    I also put a sheet of aluminum foil in the container that the fryer basket  sits in.   That really helps with clean up!!!

I am gonna check into some of the silicone baking cups and small pieces too.   I see people using those pieces in their fryers to bake in and also making egg dishes and casseroles and things like that.    People even bake their biscuits in it.    I have a toaster oven that takes a full sized 13 x 9 cake pan, so I will continue to use that, for the stuff that I have always used it for.   But I am looking forward to creating dishes that are wholesome and healthy and  NOT fatty, greasy, and lardy.   hehehehe

I hope that if you have one of these Air Fryers that you will let me know and share some of your favorite healthy dishes with me.   Keep a look out here, because as I have successes, I will share them here.

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I had a word of the year in 2017 and that word was dream.    It was not my dream, but God's dream for me.  Well, I just have to tell you that God done a magnificent job dreaming for me last year!!!    Yes, He did.    He done things that I would never have imagined for my life and He just keeps on doing for me.   Praises to God for being the dreamer of dreams.    I wanted to keep the word for this year also, it was such a good word.   But I think God wanted me to take a different direction this year.   The word I have decided on this year, 2018, is "motivate, motivation or any other form of the word".   I don't know why this word in particular, but I am sure God will show me as we get into the days ahead.   I think I may have an inkling of where He wants to take me with this word.    So, I will wait with great anticipation to see where He takes me this year.

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Well, I hate to cut it so short, but I have been sick since last Thursday and I'm still under the weather and ready for a rest and a good night's sleep.    This is a hard thing to shake for sure, but I think I am on the uphill swing now.   I sure hope so anyway.   I am excited to get over this and get back on the exercise schedule and get my hiney moving again!!!   hahaha

I pray that everyone has a cozy comfy night of sweet healing rest!!     Give the day to God before you go to sleep and thank Him for being a part of it.   Ask Him to give you some motivation, if you need it.   I sure am because I need it!!     I am looking forward to the direction He will take me this year.   I hope you found something useful here today.  I will have some pictures to share sometime of some of the food I am cooking with my Air Fryer, just didn't feel like it tonight.   I wish each of y'all a very Happy and Blessed New Year!!!!!   Keep God in it and it will be the best year ever!     Remember that God love's y'all and so do I!!!   See ya' in a few days with some fun stuff!!   Love and hugs, Patty