Who Is A God Like You?

                            Who Is A God Like You

You are the God who hears and speaks. . . .

     My voice reaches Your ears. . .my language is understood 

     by You.

     You acknowledge Me. . .

     You teach me how to hear You.

     Speak Lord, for Your servant is listening.

You are the God who knows me inside and out.

     Nothing is hidden from You. . .yet You love me.

     Where could I go that You are not there before me?

     I matter to You.

You care for me.. . .a God who concerns Himself with what concerns me.     Isaiah 64:4

     Encourage me. . .I need Your perspective in this painful

     place.

     I need to see the bigger picture.  Hold me together.

     You act on behalf of those who wait on You.

You are a good Father.  You know how to give good gifts to Your children.

     You are always working for my highest good.

     You make even the unwelcomed things work for good.

     You are molding me into the image of Jesus.

     Give me grace to yield to You, to the Master Potter's hand.

You are the God of infinite love.  And You define the term.

     I learn to love from You.  The price You paid for me, sets   

     my value.

     Help me see others in that same perspective. . .valued.

You are the God close at hand. . .I can't tell You something You don't already know.

    Your wisdom is without measure.

    You are the master of the games people play. 

You are the God who reveals Your thoughts to man.

     On several occasions You said,  "He who has ears, let him 

     hear."

     Pierce through all the junk. .all defilement. .all resistance so

     that  my ears hear Your still small voice of LIFE.

Because I know You to be the God who wants to be known.

     Who are we, that sovereign God wants to be known by us?

     And not as servants, but as friends in fellowship and 

     partnership. . .heart to heart.    

You are the God who promises to keep me, keep me from falling.  

     You have sealed my heart by Your Holy Spirit.

     I am Yours.

If I gained the world and made it my paradise but failed to build a relationship with this God through Jesus Christ, it would not be paradise.  He is my treasure and my portion forever.

I leave you friends with this reminder: 

He is the God who is able to make all grace abound and be released in me, so that I, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound in every good work to the glory of our magnificent Creator God.

A 70/30 Breakfast Idea

                                          

     A Breakfast To Start The Day Strong

Layer fresh Spinach on you plate.  I like to rough chop it.

In unflavored Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, real butter or the grease of clean bacon, cook one or two eggs on medium heat, so the yoke is really soft but the white is cooked. Pull the white away from the yoke as it cooks if you want the yellow soft.

Place the egg on top of the spinach. Allow the yoke to break and run into the Spinach.

Add  Tomato creatively.  (chopped, sliced or quartered.)  
Chopped Green Onions or sliced sweet.  Onions are optional.
Drizzle with Lemon Juice.
Salt and Pepper to taste.
 Top with a clean Bacon


The spinach, Coconut Oil, Tomato and Onions,  Lemon juice and mineral Salt are alkaliing.  The Bacon will be acidic. But could count for a healthy acid if not full of preservatives.   If the Egg is from a farm where chickens are free range and eat only natural food and have access to a rooster, they  will have a good PH balance. 

So you see that this breakfast will be at least 70/30 alkaline to acid.  If you drank 1 Tbs. raw Apple Cider Vinegar first thing in the morning, you are giving your body an excellent start for the work it has to do for the day.

Most breakfast  foods are very acidic.  Cold cereals and milk,  toast and jam,  sweet breads, bacon/sausage, grits, pancakes & syrup, coffee and store bought passturized fruit juices.  Instead of boxed dry cereal,  try cooked Quinoa and fresh fruit.  Even soaked Oatmeal is better than the prepared in a box.

By mid morning you can re-inforce your body alkaline reserves by drinking your refreshing  Green Liquid made from fresh spinach, cucumber, parsley, lime/lemon juice, etc.  See my blog recipes for Detox Smoothies and Elixirs.

Note:  If you want to continue to use a quality bread occassionally, toast one slice, lay it on your plate.  No butter.  Your yolk will be your fat and a good one.  Allow the Yolk to soak into your bread instead of coating the spinach.  In a bowl of chopped Spinach, add chopped onions or sliced, a squeeze of lemon juice, quality mineral salt and a little drizzle of Olive Oil which is optional.  Top your egg toast with this salad mix.  Add a slice of tomato or some chopped tomato or cherry tomato.
 
The picture in this blog is the evening meal that I fixed for us recently.  I used mayo with lemon juice to make it dressing consistently.  I added two soft cooked eggs or use hard boiled eggs.  Or no eggs at all.

# 12 Detox Fresh Juice

I was visiting my daughter a few days ago.  She was fighting a head cold that came on fast.  She treated herself entirely free of over-the-counter drugs.  I have two drinks that she used to share with you.  Using these drinks to treat your cold/flu symptoms is not a promise to prevent the cold from developing.  It needs to be viewed as a means to support the body in the healing crisis.  Your body is designed to heal itself and is strengthened in this process when we provide losts of liquid, rest and nutrients that increase the immune system.

Another reason for avoiding as much as possible over-the-counter medication to treat symptoms of cold and flu.  If the body is allowed to fight it's own battles, it get stronger and creates it's own rhythm for maintainance. 

                                          Apple Lemon Ginger
This drink is a very alkalizing delicious nutrient boost full of natural vitamin C.  This is not a blender drink as in smoothies.  Use a juicer.

In a juicer, run the following ingredients in the order given.
2 Apples
chunk Ginger
1 whole Lemon

I leave the Lemon peel on because I want the lemon essential oil in my system.  Essential oils are very health giving.  If you do not enjoy that much essential oil for the taste, remove half of the peel.

You want to get all of the juice in the Ginger Root, so I put it between the apples and lemon.


                                          Beet Carrot Blackberry

Beets are an excellent blood purifier, but many people do not like this root vegetable.  These blends of ingredients masks the objectable taste many object to of the beet. 

1/4 or 1/2 of a large Beet   (start with a forth of a beet)
2 Carrots
chunk of Ginger Root
1 cup Blackberries
1 whole Lemon  with peel for the essential oil.
1 cup water

Run all ingredients though your juicer except the water.  If blackberries are frozen, allow to thaw so they will juice and leave the seeds behind.  Seeds in Blackberries are very undesirable.  Add the water to the extracted juice.

If you do not have a juicer, but do have an industrial blender, you can still make this drink. 

Blend the Blackberries in a cup or less of water, then run it through a seive to remove the seeds.  Add this Blackberry water instead of another cup of water.  I would remove half of the peel from the lemon.  Also the seeds.  The rest of the ingregients should blend up in an industrial blender or a Nutra Bullet, etc. 

If it does not all blend and you don't like any pulp, allow it to drain through a seive.  Play around with this one.  What Beth fixed for herself and me was delicious! 

#11 Detox Smoothie - Ultimate Green

This smoothie is a strong green drink that is a range of sour to sweet, depending on the fruit you add.

         This is how I did it this morning.

I placed the following greens in my blender:
2 handfuls of fresh Spinach
2 stalks of Celery  (chopped in large chunks)
Handful of Kale 
Small handful of Cilantro  or Parsley  or both
Half of an Apple
1 Lemon juiced
1 1/2 cup of water

Taste it so you will begin to get a baseline on the taste of certain combinations.  Drink some so as to get this strong alkalizing vegetables and lemon juice working for you.
Pour up the rest in a quart jar, leaving enough to make one smoothie.

Add 6 to 8 oz of green liquid to the following:

Half a frozen or fresh Banana
1 cup of frozen or fresh Pineapple  or more according to taste.


By this time you should have a pleasantly sweet smoothie.  Dilute it with more water or Kefir Water or coconut water if you prefer.  You could also add 1/4 of an Avocado to make it creamier and thick.

I would like to have feed back from any of you who are interested in these or are finding them useful.

#10 Detxox Smoothie - Orange Basil

Here is a great tasting Orange Basil smoothie to keep the detox going on and nourish you at the cell level.

We must give our bodies quality food if we want to build a strong immune system against present day toxins in our environment.  Much of our food has been greatly diminished and poisoned by chemicles to preserve them for long shelf life.  Supplements seem a necessary addition to our daily food intake.  When you look for the answer for rebuilding health and reversing disease process, look for a product line that has integrity in the health field, not just making money.  I have used  several quality product lines like Garden of Life and New Chapter and now have discovered Reliv.  I would be glad to discuss the pros and cons of each of these. 

 I believe Jesus Christ should be consulted first when His physical design begins to break down.  We must assume responsibility for maintaining health.  There are basic laws that govern all humans, however, there are unique paths to health and He wants to share your every concern.  Be prepared to consider internal stress generated by wrong thought patterns and destructive emotions.  How you think and feel offer huge red flags for correction.  Unresolved issues that protect feelings of resentment, bitterness and unforgiveness are precursors to disease process. 

Orange Basil Smoothie

1 cup of fresh squeezed Orange Juice
4 to 6 leaves of fresh Basil
Half of a frozen or fresh Banana
Half cup of water or crushed ice
I add my Reliv supplements to this mix.  No need for sweeteners.

Blend until smooth.  Remember that fresh is best.  Bottled orange juice or any juice is pasturized and therefore has no life in it. I call it dead because a fresh orange or carrot, if planted, will reproduce itself. A cooked orange or carrot can only mold and spoil.  Which do you think will help your cells reproduce themselves in a healthy manner?

You could take this recipe and add a small handful of Spinach or Kale for a green smoothie.  You can leave out the Banana if you prefer.  Of course, other fruits can be added, like Blueberries, etc.  And of course the Basil isn't essential, however, I love to add it when I have fresh.  I brought a pot of it back with me from Florida to plant in May.

#9 Detox Spritzer

I am excited about this health drink.  It may just be the simplest answer for replacing toxin laden sodas like Cokes, Mountain Dews, etc.  Get yourself off of these kinds of drinks.  They are very asidic, full of toxins and the cans and plastic are contaminated.  Ocassionally your strengthened body can handle them, but not daily or even weekly. 

Some of you know about the power of raw Apple Cider Vinegar to dissolve kidney stones.  Apple Cider Vinegar has many health beneifts simply because it alkalizes body acids.  It is a great prep for digestion taken about 30 minutes before a meal.  This is also a great tonic when you have over-indulged in a heavy meal and you feel sluggish.  Lemon juice does the same and adds it's own nutritional properties.   A glass of Lemon water or ACV in the morning before breakfast and evening before going to bed,  is an exceptional tonic.  Ginger Root is in most of my smoothies due to it's own healing benefits.  (google ginger root for information I can't provide in these short posts.)

Lemon Spritzer

6 to 8 oz Sparkling Water  like Pellegrino Mineral Water)
Half of a Lemon juiced
1 T. raw Apple Cider Vinegar  (not a distilled ACV.  All distilled vinegars are acidic)

I like to add grated Ginger Root and Mint.
 (Put Ginger Root in freezer to keep it fresh.  It grates easily.  Return it to the freezer pronto, because it will thaw out quickly)

If you do not like ice in your drinks, leave it out.  This is a great party drink when you don't want to endulge in "soft" drinks or "hard" drinks.  It will also cut your craving for sweets offered.

I gave one of these to Tal to test out.  He said, "It's not very sweet."  That would defeat the purpose.  Then I thought about adding Stevia, which does not raise the blood sugar level, does not lower the immune system, does not put more toxins to clean out, etc.  However, be aware that all stevia on the market today is not equal in quality.  Check out Truvia, for instance.  When a product becomes popular as a healh food, you can count on the food industries providing their own corrupted product.  For instance, soy beans are a great protein food in it's natural state, but by the time the food industry offers it to you, they have GMO soy and have added many artificial substances and processed it in a way to destroy it's value for human consumption.  Milk is another.  Raw milk has nourished populations for thousands of years, but homogenized, ultra pasturized milk is poison to the human system.  And now to get your hands on raw milk you have to purchase it with the lable "for animal's only" or "not for human consumption".  What a reversal of the truth!

Wow!  I have strayed from the subject, haven't I?

Hope this simple and very inexpensive stritzer pleases you.  I raise my glass to your health!

 

#8 A Detox Drink For A Healing Crisis

Detox #8  Is a drink for a healing crisis like cold, flu and sinus irritation.

When your body goes into a healing crisis you need to know how to help it do it's work.  That is what I want to communicate in this post.

A healing crisis occurs when your body senses the need to cleanse and the task is more than it can handle in the normal night-time hours.  Your physical design dictates cycles between food intake and digestion and assimilation for adequate fuel during the day.  At night it goes into a cleansing fast for 12 hours.  We call the first meal of the day breakfast, indicating that it is time to provide the body with more fuel for the day's activities. 

If we are over-eating regularly, you are putting stress on your body to maintain health.  If we are eating and drinking toxic non-foods, dead cooked foods or too many artificial  factory produced foods the body becomes exhausted and will then go into a healing crisis of some discription.

A healing crisis can be as simple as the common cold or flue or more complicated as allergies and inflammation of all sorts.   Americans are opposed to fasting from anything, but since fasting from food is built into your physiology by our Creator, it is also wisdom to set aside certain times to at least simi-fast.  In our over endulgent society, even those of us who really want to change our destructive habits find it an "up hill" battle, because we are so emotionally invested in the enjoyment of food and drink.

With that said as an explanation for today's posted drink, I want to share a way to very quickly help your body cleanse and recover it's balance in self-healing.  I dare you to try it.  Don't load your blender full of these ingredients until you have tried a small amount.  I don't like to be wasteful.

1. Bring out the green vegetables from your refrigerator and add a small amount of each to a blender.
        Spinach, kale, chard, cucumber, parsley, romaine letture, celery
2. Add a chunk of Ginger Root.  You can chop fine or grate it.  This is optional.
3. Add some water and start the blender.  Use as much water as you need to process these "life-giving" greens.    Blend until all are incorporated - no chunks.
4. Add more water until it becomes the dilution you can "enjoy". 

I can hear you laugh at the idea of enjoying this straight green elixir.  But you may be surprised.  I was the first time I tried it.  If you think it is bitter instead of mildly sweet, that is a good sign that you are too acidic and desperately need this drink.  This is a quick way to alkalize your system and help your body heal from the cold or flu.

If you drink half of it and want to add a little fresh orange juice do it, so as not to waste it, or add orange juice and banana.  That would make it a smoothie.   You may need to keep it stirred up or run it through a tight seive.  I hope you don't have to do this.  When you add banana it smoothes out the pulp of the vegetables.  This may be what Daniel and his Hebrew friends asked for.  

Be brave my friends.