The Wedding...

Was amazing and beautiful and I will post a little more about it. Just WAYYYYY too tired right now.

blessings in Christ!
Linda Stevenson
Bridesmaid

The Lord's Supper

Unleavened Bread Ministries had a wonderful communion service last night. For those of you who don't have a regular ministry to go to, this is a wonderful way to participate.

I made my unleavened bread using the recipe I got from this website: My Little Kitchen but I didn't score it the way she did. I was a little leary of the whole sunburst pattern.

A good way to prepare is to listen to last weeks sermon which is found here.

Here is the communion service from last night:




The wedding is day after tomorrow. I will probably not blog until Sunday. Blessings to all of you in Jesus name.

The Lord my shield

I know I said I wouldn't be back until Oct 25th, but you know how sometimes the word of the Lord just burns in your mouth and you cannot hold it in any longer?

My desire is to do the will of the Lord and to learn how to submit in a Jezebel society. I see the wrongness of the women who stand in the pulpit and teach the congregations. I see the women who beat down their husbands with their words and never submit to their husbands. I see the women bucking the governmental authority.

I also see the brothers who never admit they are wrong and put all the blame on the women. You cannot have a Jezebel spirit without the workings of the Ahab spirit. You can not have a woman usurp the authority of a man, if that man has not allowed it to happen. I see the men who spiritually abuse the single women and say, don't talk back, you are supposed to be submitting and quiet. You cannot blame one sex without blaming the other.

I know that I fully lived in deception concerning submitting when I was in the world. How could I know anything different having been raised in this evil world with the Jezebel and Ahab example being my only teacher? I couldn't.

But now I have been washed. Now I have been sanctified. Now the Holy Spirit Himself teaches me how to submit to the authorities and to Christ first. I don't have a husband.

All my life in the world I was beat up and abused. I spent alot of time building up defences and ways of protecting myself until I became battle-hardened. Undoing these bad habits takes time. Every time I blow it, I cry out to the Lord to change me. Lord make me a meek and quiet spirit. Help me to submit when I'm supposed to and open my mouth when I'm suppose to. Make me a vessel clean for your use.

I realized that I was afraid to take down those walls and those protections. I trusted in my own defenses. I told the Lord my fear. If I let down my defenses what if I get hurt. (I know, I'm supposed to crucify my life. Don't you know that is what I'm trying to do? That is between me and the Lord.)

Then the Lord showed me that He is my sheild. He will be the one that stops the fiery darts of the wicked from penetrating into my heart and wreaking havoc there. He will be the one that puts my armor on for battle and it will be His protection that keeps me safe. He will be the potter that makes me into a new vessel.

O Thank you my sweet Heavenly Father. For your constant protection. For never leaving me in the midst of this spiritual battle alone. For always blessing me with all spiritual blessings. In the name of your son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Black & Blue - Back on October 25, 2010

This is my black and blue baby quilt. I finished it a couple days ago. I screwed up on it so bad! It was smaller than I wanted it so I decided to put a border on it. I think that was a bad idea from the start because the material for the border cost me $13 and I don't have alot of money for extras.

Then the top of the quilt was 26 inches but the bottom of the quilt was 28 inches. I don't know how that happened. So by the time I used the rotary cutter to make the quilt square so I could add the border, the bordered quilt was the same size as the original. Plus I now have a much healthier respect for the "measure twice, cut once" concept.

Then of course - I made the mistake of using the heavy-duty setting on the washing machine instead of the gentle, so I had some popped seams. Just another reminder to take things slow.

There are seven days until the wedding, and we are pretty busy with all the last-minute details. So I don't think I will be able to blog much until it is over. I will be back on October 25th. I pray my Heavenly Father will watch out for you all! God bless you!

NW Next week

Orange. It's the new Green!

This is the logo for the Orange cirriculum. It is a very scary brain-washing technique for all ages! Starting from two years and up! Here you can read: "If toddlers begin living out their values by age two, then how can we shape those values in their first 24 months?" It goes on to talk about God and Jesus and the Creator, but that is how this whole concept is very subtle. (how can WE shape those values?) yeah, they want to take a child's natural wonder at the world around them and focus it into what "they" want the child to think and believe. Find that in the Word!

It is even brought to you by reThink group! Oh! and then there are the Family Virtue packs that, "FamilyTimes™ Virtue Packs provide activities to be used once a week during each of these four family times--MealTime, DriveTime, BedTime, and MorningTime. All of this is designed to give parents simple ways to help their kids grow in faith and character.

The resources you will find in the Virtue Pack are designed to be strategically placed within your home as reminders of a specific virtue and its related principles each month. They should be placed in the location that corresponds with the time they are to be used. These pieces will be constant reminders to you and your children and help you to prioritize each of the four FamilyTimes™. As you go through the virtue pack you will notice that it introduces you to all the pieces and explains the concepts in more detail." Awwww! Virtues! Everybody wants those! Hurry! their on clearance right now!

I do recommemd that you go to the Orange website and discern for yourself the new marketing plan the adversary has designed to further blind the undiscerning masses. Don't be fooled by the few referrences to God and Jesus, that's just to hook you in and make you believe that this is truly Christian. It is a far far cry from the simplicity of Christ! If Satan can get the Christians to think the way he wants them to think (especially if he can start really early in their lives!) then he can suck the power right out of them. It's like reading a catholic bible. They've changed the words just enough to literally steal the Holy Spirit out of it.

But my favorite part is when they say, that Orange is a blending of yellow and red. Wow, how profound. "Orange is a path, a strategy that combines the strength of two—yellow and red—to create the brilliance of another, Orange. By combining the critical influences of the light of the church and the love of the family, the Orange strategy synchronizes efforts and shows a generation who God is, more effectively than either could alone." hhmmm, yeah, which god? Who writes this stuff!

Don't be fooled. The Lord wants us to have a relationship with Him, but He will set the standard, not some happy happy joy joy brainwashing cirriculum!

P.S. Look at the logo. Do you see the all seeing eye? yeah, I thought you did! GRRR!

Flee Fornication

(Wow, no aliens today? Hhmmm… heh heh)

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 Cor 6:9-20

When I was in the cult called the Way International, I took a class they offered called Christian Family and Sex. One of the things they taught in that class was that masturbation was a legitimate practice in order to avoid fornication. All us single people wanted to know the answer to the age old question, is masturbation a sin? In that class they taught that the bible does not specifically forbid the practice of masturbation, because the word masturbation is not in the bible. Well that is true because the word masterbation comes from a Latin word that means to defile by the hand. (I got that from the Masturbation Wikipedia page – but don’t go there, they have pictures.)

For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. Hosea 4:10-12

Most of the time baby Christians can’t get the answer to this question because no-one wants to touch this subject with a ten foot pole. Even me!

Although masturbation is not singled out, it is lumped together within the word fornication. Masturbation takes place in the mind – the spiritual battlefield. If you think you are alone in the house and want to engage in this behavior, think again. You are surrounded by demons who are egging you on, encouraging you and getting off with you. Masturbation is a satanic ritual. It’s not just looking at dirty pictures and porn that is bad, it is what you are doing while you are looking at them. When you are engaging in this activity it is self-gratification and flesh-worship and takes your mind off of the Lord and onto your self.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matthew 5:27-28

The time is coming when he who is filthy will be filthy still. The battle lines are being drawn and our minds have to be pure and clean and we have to be 100% sold out to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ or we will take the mark of the beast. No fleshly activity can be more important than Him.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. 1 Cor 10:6-15

The Lord will make a way to escape if you are tempted in this category. The bible does have the solution:

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 1 Cor 7:1-9

If you are single and cannot contain – to avoid fornication you should marry. If you are married, you should not be withholding sex unless it is agreed to by both parties for prayer and fasting. Otherwise Satan will be tempting you to masturbate! Which is fornication. Sex is supposed to be giving to your spouse, but when it is done outside the will of the Lord, it is always taking and you have two people who are mutually self-gratifying.

This is a huge subject and there may be special circumstances for your situation, and our world is saturated with temptations every way you turn. Prayerfully consider the things written here and seek the Lord for your individual situation. The Lord can completely deliver any situation or bring a wife or husband to you.

Thank you Heavenly Father, that you can deliver us from all evil. Thank you for always making a way to escape when we are tempted in fleshy things and can bring our flesh under subjection. Thank you for your Mercy and Peace and Sanctification in our lives as you perfect us. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.