good morning my lovelies!!!! I pray you are doing well this morning and that the Son is shining in your heart. the weather finally got here this morning, around 7:45 am. we was in what they call a "snow dome", or just a hole in the weather. hahaha that's my story about it. I looked at my phone about 2:30 am and I seen it and seen that's where we were, so we finally got out of the hole and now it's snowing. so, from the looks of it, we may be socked in for a while. we'll just have to ride this out and see what happens. I pray that God will keep the power on. it is with a heavy snow, which this is, that brings down power lines when trees and branches get heavy and fall on the lines. we'll see what happens. I'll try to remember to take a pic or two and share them.
I have some baking to do today and some plain old cooking to do. I'm making an instant pot full of pinto beans. yum!!! we love beans, so they will last for a few hot meals. I'll get another batch of chicken corn chowder made. maybe even another batch of chili. who knows. right now, I sure don't. hahaha
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picking back up in Exodus 9, we're still dealing with the plagues and hardened hearts. how much pain did they have to go thru and how much pain do we allow ourselves to got thru while living and thrashing around in sin? pharaoh offered a little, but not all that God was allowing. how many times do we do a little, give up a little, turn aside from a little, but keep dabbling with the sin that is keeping us apart for the Lord? this is what pharaoh represents in the life of a Christian. I'll give up a little, but I ain't giving up all!!! does that sound familiar? sure it does.
sometimes when we are in the midst of our greatest sin, is when it feels the darkest. but we keep plundering around in the dark with hardened hearts. our atrocities keep getting greater and greater and we keep turning our backs more and more. even during this, we offer a little, but not all that God wants from us. He wants all of us, not bits and scraps that sin is offering.
do you have the Blood of The Sacrifice over the lentil of your door? if not, why not? are you pharaoh over your own heart? does our sin have to be the sin that destroys our families? our sin has destroyed many families down thru the the ages. one of the great sins of the late 19th century and so far into the 20th century that has destroyed so many families and murdered generations of children is abortion. that is something that this country will have to answer for. another sin, that is an abomination to the Lord is homosexuality and everything that this country has turned that abomination into. we're seeing parts of california burn to the ground right now. most of the perversion in this country hit the shores over there from other countries and then we took it and run with like no other country ever has. I think it's possible that we're seeing some retribution for all the filth that we have let invade our homes. prayerfully, God will spare His people.
how long have you lived in sin? there is comfort in the familiar. living in sin gets comfortable and when God calls you out of it, everything changes. you can't have the old and the new. you stay in sin or you walk in freedom. the Israelites were walking in their freedom with some urgency. do we run towards freedom in and thru Christ? I think sometimes we want to, but there is comfort in the familiar way of life, or sin.
yeast bread takes a little work to get going and then it has to be worked and punched down and worked and allowed to rise and then worked more. yeast bread is not a quick bread. and in true form, a little bit of yeast will overtake the whole batch. and that's a good thing when you have time. this was a situation where time was very important. in this situation, yeast represented sin in the form of wasted time, or no time to spare. some situations call for action on the spur of the moment and you can't just do as you please with yeast bread. so that's why it was important that NO yeast be found in the bread or even in the home. this is my take on yeast and that's all it is.
can we say, "it is with a powerful hand that the Lord brought us out of sin into the land of freedom", if not, why? do we remember why and when the Lord brought us out from the slavery of sin to freedom? we don't need to go back and roll around in the sin we once lived in, but we do need to remember where we've been and who led us from there. sometimes God will lead us in the direction that makes no sense to us, but He knows that we can change our mind on a whim. so sometimes, He'll take a longer path to freedom. He sees the end results already, while we're just putting one foot in front of the other. "I AM THAT I AM" is still in the business of leading us from slavery to sin into the new life of freedom. we have to be willing to give up the "comfort in the familiar" and step out into the "newness of freedom".
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so, what do you do when inclement weather is upon you? I don't know what others do, but I break out the bread machine and cook. yes, I do!! so we'll do another "2 minutes in the kitchen with me". I use my bread machine to make the dough and then I'll either bake it in bread pans in the oven or I'll make buns and freeze them. I needed to make so brioche buns and get them in the freezer, so as I was getting the ingredients together, my eyes kept glancing on the counter to where I had 2 containers of sourdough bread starter going. I was ready to do something with it all. there just isn't a good reason to have 2 starters going, not for me anyway. so, as I was putting everything in, I picked up the container I was going to dump out and instead of dumping it out, I put most of it in this batch of bread, even after the yeast had been added. I kept an eye on the dough as it was mixing. I always take my bread out after the machine stops for the first time. so by the time I had gotten to it, to take from the machine and make my buns, it was growing big time!!! so I'll be really anxious to see how these taste when I get some baked. I'm really excited about these.
this is the 15 buns I made and put them on my silicone trays and popped in the freezer. when they get frozen solid, I'll take them from the tray and put them in ziplock bags and then take 6 out at a time to bake. when I bake some of these, I'll try to remember to take a pic and show y'all what they look like.
this dough ball is one of my batches of cornbread swirls. we love those and I like to keep these in the freezer too. so I'll make a couple of batches at a time just for the freezer. this was about half way thru the mixing. the recipes for both of these breads are somewhere on my blog. they should be easy enough to find by going to the search area at the top left hand page and type in either bread and it should come up. these are so good with all of our soups and chili and just down home comfort foods.
this is a batch made into swirls. they are varying sizes. I made 2 batches of these and they are already in the freezer bags and just waiting for me to bake them. these will be so good. we love these with just about everything.
when I get some of these baked, I'll try to remember to share a picture of these too. keep you eyes peeled, there's no telling what you might see me sharing on here since we are supposed to get snowed in over the weekend. we'll see how bad it gets. I'll try to remember to take a pic of the snow and share it too. it will have been all the inspiration for all the bread making and freezing. that, and the fact that I just needed to get some in the freezer.
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well, that's about it for today. stay tuned for more bible study, more cooking and more baking and maybe even a snow pic or two!!! blessings as you stay warm. may peace, grace and mercy be yours today. hugs and love, patty
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