A Hand Full of Blessing

Oct.27,2010

This morning when I woke up, I looked at my baby’s little hands. I just started blessing her little hands for whatever purpose God has for them. I prayed that God would use her hands to touch people with His love. That she would create and build things with her hands that would bring glory and honor to His name. That God would use her hands to heal hurting people. That He would use her hands to play an instrument that would bring comfort and inspiration to lonely, searching hearts. Or whatever way He chooses to use her hands, I prayed that they would be used to advance the Kingdom of God.

She seemed to know that I was doing something special. She kept her hands in mine while I was praying over them. I felt an anointing and leading to pray this over her. I’ve never done anything like that before. I’m learning to speak and pray blessings over my children and my husband. There’s power in the spoken word.

Juice Plus – What’s In It?

Oct.27,2010

In case you ever wondered, this is what is in Juice Plus capsules. They use whole foods, so they contain all of the good stuff that’s really in the foods instead of isolated vitamins that may cause more harm than good if not combined with the other nutrients found naturally in the food. You would be amazed at how many phytonutrients are in just one apple! The best way to eat healthy is to eat the actual fruits and vegetables, but Juice Plus sure helps when you can’t or don’t get enough of them in your diet.

17 Fruits, Vegetables, & Grains

Juice Plus+® contains a wide variety of nutritionally dense fruits and vegetables reduced to juice powder concentrate using a proprietary process. Fruits and vegetables contain many phytonutrients, from such familiar vitamins as vitamin C and beta-carotene, to less widely known antioxidant compounds, including polyphenols and flavonoids. It also includes the carotenoids, beta-cryptoxanthin, and lycopene. Below are a few examples of the broad range of phytonutrients found in fruits and vegetables, but remember that there are many more than those listed here:

* Apple: Pectin along with a variety of polyphenols and other antioxidants
* Acerola Cherry: Vitamin C and anthocyanadins
* Cranberry: Flavonoid and phenolic antioxidants
* Orange: Vitamin C, folate, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin
* Papaya: Vitamin C, potassium, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin
* Peach: Vitamin C and several carotenoids
* Pineapple: Vitamin C and bromelain
* Tomato: Vitamin C, polyphenols, and several carotenoids including lycopene
* Oat Bran: Dietary fiber, vitamin E, several B vitamins, and minerals
* Beet: Folate, iron and calcium
* Broccoli: Folate, vitamin C, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, and glucosinolates
* Cabbage: Vitamin C, folate, and glucosinolates
* Carrot: Several carotenoids including beta-carotene, along with vitamin E
* Kale: Vitamin C, folate, magnesium, and several carotenoids including beta carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin
* Parsley: Vitamin C, folate, several carotenoids and flavonols
* Spinach: Folate, vitamin C, vitamin E, several carotenoids, iron, and calcium
* Brown Rice Bran: Dietary fiber, several B vitamins, and minerals

God is Talking – Learn How to Listen

Oct.25,2010

David Wilkerson Today

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2010

HE WANTS TO TEACH US TO KNOW HIS NAME!

Those who truly know God have learned how to recognize his voice above all
others. He wants you to be absolutely convinced that he desires to talk to you and tell you things you’ve never seen or heard before.

The Lord recently showed me that I was still wavering about hearing his voice speak to my soul. Oh, I know that he speaks and that his sheep need to know the Master’s voice. But I doubted my ability to hear him. I spent all my time “checking” the voice I heard, and when it was too big or too mysterious for me, I thought, “This can’t be God. Besides, the devil can speak too. The
flesh speaks; lying spirits speak. A multitude of voices come at us all the
time. How can I know God’s voice?”

I believe that three things are required of those who would hear God’s voice:

1. An unshakable confidence that God wants to speak to you. You have to be
fully persuaded and convinced that God longs to speak to you. Indeed, he is a
speaking God and he wants you to know his voice so you can do his will. What
God tells you will never go beyond the boundaries of Scripture. And you don’t have to have a Ph.D. to understand his voice. All you need is a heart that says, “I believe God desires to talk to me.”

2. Quality time and quietness. You need to be willing to shut yourself in with
God and let all other voices hush away. True, God speaks to us all day long.
But whenever he has wanted to build something into my life, his voice has come only after I have shut out every other voice but his.

3. Ask in faith. We do not obtain anything from God (including hearing his
voice) unless we truly believe that he is able to convey his mind to us and to
enable us to understand his perfect will.

Jesus says, “If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he
give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or
if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?” (Luke 11:11-12). In
other words, if you ask your heavenly Father for a word—a clear direction, a
godly correction, a particular need—do you think for a moment he will instead let the devil come and deceive you?

Suppose a son calls his father every night for direction and advice. Then one
day the father decides to play a joke on him and hires an impersonator to

answer the phone—someone to mimic his voice. When the boy calls, the imposter gives him all kinds of off-the-wall advice and phony counsel. Suddenly the son is absolutely confused and heartbroken because everything he hears goes against what he has learned from his father. What kind of father would you say this man is? Yes, a cruel one! Yet that is what we accuse God of being when we do not trust him to give us his voice but one of an imposter.

God is not a tease. He will not allow the devil to deceive you. When God
speaks, peace follows and Satan cannot counterfeit that peace. If you are in a
place of quiet and rest, convinced that God can speak to you, then you have an assurance that never changes. You can go back to God a thousand times and you will receive the same word—because it is trust!

Read this devotion online: http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/devotions/2010/he-wants-to-teach-us-to-know-his-name

Mapping the Middle Ages

Oct.24,2010

Maps Help Homeschoolers Learn History

As homeschoolers, we need maps to help us make the history we’re teaching and the stories we’re reading make more sense to our children. If they can see where the events happened as we read a story from the Middle Ages or from the American Revolutionary War or even a classic like Treasure Island, the story will make more sense and will come alive and will be more likely to stick in their memory. And it works the other way as well. The story will help the Geography lesson to be more meaningful.

But maps change over the years. Cities, countries and regions change names. In a particular era, many places and landmarks may have had different names than they would be labeled on a modern map. We need to be able to find the right map at the right time.

These are the needs that homeschool mothers have told Terri Johnson of Knowledge Quest Maps are their greatest needs when it comes to maps:

1. Historical maps that will help you navigate through history studies.
2. Accurate maps that show what the world was like THEN and NOW.
3. Maps that are easily downloadable yet inexpensive to print.
4. Attractive maps that you and your children will be proud to display.
5. Lesson plans that will show you what to do with them each week.

If you are studying the Middle Ages, here is the answer to your map needs.

Map Trek: Medieval World

Map Trek meets all five of these demands and more. Here’s what the new Map Trek will provide you:

* 32 Full-color teacher answer maps.
* 28 Blank outline maps for the student.
* 4 Grid maps
* 2 Blank grids (different size grids)
* Instructions for how to use these maps
* Lesson Plans
* Glossary of terms
* 82 total pages
* $14.95

Since these maps are chronological in sequence, you may use them easily with any chronological history program. These maps are meant to enhance your current history program and make it even better.

To find out more about this fantastic resource to make your history study more complete go to:

http://tinyurl.com/2494mpn

Terri has Map Trek e-books for Ancient World, New World and Modern World and a CD of the whole collection also available at her website.

As the Breath of God Blew into Households, I Saw the Nations Tremble!

Oct.24,2010

As the Breath of God Blew into Households, I Saw the Nations Tremble!

Bill Yount

Genesis 2:18 …It is not good for the man to be alone…

I believe we have overlooked and underestimated the awesome power that is hidden in our families. When God created us He placed us in a family. There is something about a family atmosphere that generates the power for us to subdue the earth and bring His Kingdom into the affairs of this world. I believe satan feared the seed of the woman—for it would have the power to destroy him. He well knew that even our children would contend with him in the gate (see Psalm 127:5). I believe this is why the Lord’s desire has always been to “set the solitary (the lonely, widows, orphans and the fatherless) in families” (Psalm 68:6).

The Greatest “National Treasure” is in Your House

In the story in 2 Kings 4, Elisha visits a widow with two sons, and she happens to have just a little oil left. Her sons were about to be taken as slaves because of the debt she owed. The government could not help her. So, she comes to Elisha for help. Elisha asked her, “What do you have in your house?” She had looked everywhere for her answer except in her own house. In other words, Elisha was saying to her, “You don’t know the awesome miracle power that is in your own house!”

I believe today many are looking to see what is in the White House that will save our nation. But God is asking His people this hour, “What is in your house? Do you realize the greatest ‘national treasure’ is in your own house?” I believe that great “national treasure” lies within our family members. Many times, diamonds in the rough are hard to see. The troubles that have come into your family are about to bless you!

“I’m Equipping Families to Take Their Nations!”

Joshua 24:15 …As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!

I believe as Joshua was declaring to the nation of Israel to choose life or death, he was proclaiming the importance of not only his personal choice, but also his heart for his family.

I sensed Joshua’s heart for every father and mother was for them to decree that their families would serve the Lord, also. Was he sensing the power that families hold in influencing the whole nation from being destroyed? I sense he believed that if God could save him, God could save his family. And I further sense that he was believing if God could save his family, He could also save the whole nation! He believed that the “national treasure” was in his house!

Acts 16:31 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

I sense that we need to decree now more than ever that our whole household shall be saved, and begin to decree over America: “One Nation, Our Nation, Under God!” Our Father still has this dream in His heart that not only your family, but a whole nation can be saved in a day!

Isaiah 66:8 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

Could it be, ever since the garden of Eden, that the enemy well knows that families hold the hidden power to destroy his kingdom and deliver whole nations? Is it any wonder why he unleashes Hell upon families?

Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

I believe this great outpouring was intended for our families first, and then God knew nothing else could stop it from going upon all flesh! I even sense that each family member has certain keys for the family’s health and deliverance that could ultimately result in the deliverance for our nation. Look again. I believe the answer for our nation is right inside of our own house!

“O America, May I Blow My Breath into Your Households?”

“O America, may I blow My breath into your households? I want to blow My breath into the nostrils of every family member. Great-grandparents down to the babies in the womb. I am about to make personal house calls in this nation. I am coming 3-D Technicolor straight to where you live. There are angels standing at attention with your personal addresses written on them that will be released to set up camp round about your dwelling place, to deliver family members far and near. Houses will be turned into homes.

“May I blow My breath into your households? Prodigals will phone home. Missing children unable to be found for many years will be rescued by the breath of My Spirit! I have been patient in the past with your family members who have resisted Me. I have gently knocked on the door of their house and hearts. But now I will huff and puff and blow the front door down! I’m coming in!”

The Miracle for Our Nation is in Our House!

I believe God’s own shofar is beginning to blow into our households right now, releasing the sounds of salvation, healing, deliverance and the equipping of whole families to take their nations! Receive it now!

Prayer: “Lord, we receive Your breath of life into our families’ nostrils to live again. We call each family member a royal priesthood, a chosen generation. We call those things that are not as though they already are. We call them saved, healed and delivered. We call them our ‘National Treasures’! We are going to accept our family members right where they are and love them unconditionally. We are going to treat them as though they are already saved. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!”

Bill Yount
Blowing the Shofar Ministries
Email: theshofarhasblown@juno.com

I got this from http://www.elijahlist.com

I was going through old emails, cleaning out my email account. I almost deleted this without reading, but “something” told me not to. I’m so glad I listened to my Teacher! Let this minister to your spirit and increase your faith that your children- your family- will become all that God intends for them to be!