good morning my beautiful lovelies. I pray that you are doing well and that you are enjoying your day where ever you are on this globe. I pray that you can say that God is good. I woke up this morning, God is good!!! the sun is shining brightly today and it give hope and great anticipation for warmer days and spring approaching. sadly though, it's still cold. but the sun will feel good when we get out in a few minutes for our walk this morning. we let it warm up a little before we get out. when it gets warmer, we'll go walk as soon as we get up and then have the rest of our day to do what ever we need to do. I like walking early and getting it over with so it's not something we have to remember to do before it gets too hot. it won't be long until I'll start setting my hydroponics up to get seeds started for my garden. I'm looking forward to my garden this year and I just pray that God will continue to bless my efforts. I hope you are looking forward to spring too. but, until then, we'll enjoy the days as they come. sounds like a good plan to me. so, lets enjoy today!!!
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we're still in Leviticus. Chapter 24 is where we pick up today. it's really hard to describe what's taking place in all of this. my take on this is all the laws that God is giving to His people. He wants his people to different and set apart from all the pagans that are in the country. this side of the cross, God has called us out to different and set apart from the rest of the lost world, of let's just go ahead and say it, different from the pagans around us. we don't think of the lost world today as being pagans, but they are. when the inside of the church resembles pictures of night club and the ear bursting music and people dancing and screaming, that's chaotic at best. and no, I've never been to one of those churches and with that as an option, I'll stay home. when the inside of the church looks like the local bar, then it's pagan. and I can assure you that Jesus is on the outside knocking, wanting to come in, but no one in the church recognizes Christ. all the laws was to show us how badly we needed a Savior. Jesus said, "love God and love your neighbor as yourself". that summed up all the laws that God put before the Israelites. Jesus didn't do away with Gods laws, He lumped them into 2 thinks to do. I believe when we love God and love our neighbor as our self, that covers it all. sounds too simple. but then again, people want to be the biggest part of their own salvation by "doing" it all themselves. there's nothing that you or I bring to the table when it comes to our salvation. God does it all, thru the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
at the end of Chapter 24, it's talking about taking human life. God says one life for a life. this is where this country and all the other countries on the globe will have to answer to God someday for all the lives that have been taken due to abortions!!!! for all the people that have actively taken part in and all the rioting that has taken place for women to have womens health rights, you will pay dearly for all this. if you are woman and you care about your health, you might consider a little modesty and just say no when it comes to have sex with anything that looks at you. you might consider finding a good Godly church, instead of the night clubs you attend. act like a woman. if your health is of importance to you, then keep your legs closed. there, I said it. look in the what an abortion actually does to your health.
Chapter 25 is going into resting the land and returning what has bought to the original owners. I don't understand all of this. I make no pretenses that I understand it all. one thing I do know and realize is that we own nothing. it all belongs to God, He owns it all. what little I have is mine till I lay down in rest and then someone else will have it till they lay down in rest. it all belongs to God. my husband always says not to get attached to temporary things. and all of this is temporary. but for today, if you're in a business deal with someone, be honest. pay your debts, don't steal, don't try to get rich off the backs of the working poor. these are some lessons that could be put into place in our local governments. but politicians wants as much of your money in the form of tax dollars as they can get. they haven't learned the concept of not living above your means. or if you don't have the money for, you don't buy it. the govt will just raise taxes on the poor to get what they want. we see that all the time and with the housing mkt today, people can't afford a roof over their heads. hell keeps getting hotter. we have to keep our eye on our Redeemer, Jesus Christ!!!
Gods just wants our obedience!!! when we are obedient to Him, He will bless us. but there are stubborn strong willed people that will not be told what to do. so be it. disobedience has a price to pay.
next we go into Numbers, a book about, you guessed it numbers. counting all the people of that are ready to cross over to the promised land. like doing the modern day census taking. every family was counted except the Levites. they were set apart to do the work of the Lord.
Numbers chapter 5 is a chapter on adultery, unfaithfulness and how to see if the wife has been unfaithful. I've always found this a little curious, but I'll not question God on the matter. He knows His intentions in all things.
Chapter 6 is concerning the laws of Nazarites and well see a prominent Nazarite on into the bible as we read more. this is where we'll call it for today.
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let's go back to the kitchen for a "2 minutes in the kitchen with me", again.
first off, my sourdough is in a fancy new container gifted to me by my bestie in arizona, thank you Sylvia, I love it!!!!! it's perfect and so nice!! now "Stinky Bubbles" has a forever home.
I had used the last of our sourdough mini loaves yesterday for our lunch, so I had to get my starter from the fridge and get it up to room temperature.
once it was at room temperature, I fed it before bed time and let it set on the counter overnight.
it rose well, so it will be ready to make dough tonight and let it sit out again all night and rise and then first thing in the morning, I'll work it up and divide it and make my 3 mini loaves and let them rise and then bake them. so good!!!
it's good and bubbly, ready to make a dough, but I'll wait alittle later, closer to bed time and then it can ferment all night long.
it's ready to be stirred down and I'll do that after supper and get my dough made to rise overnight. when the bread is done, I'll share pics, if I remember to take them. hahaha
