Pure love On March 25, 2010, Kate Ogg gave birth to premature twins. The fraternal twins were just 27 weeks old. Emily managed to survive the birth, but her brother Jamie was not breathing. Doctors tried to resuscitate Jamie for 20 minutes but were unsuccessful. Jamie was placed on his mother’s chest so that Kate and her husband David could say goodbye to their son. Five minutes into the agonizing process of biding a final farewell to their child, the parents saw their son start moving. The doctor claimed that such movements were merely reflex actions, not signs of life, but Kate and David asked for a few more minutes with their dying son. A few minutes turned into two hours, and Jamie opened his eyes.
The doctor took some convincing to believe that there was actually a tiny Lazarus in the room and not just a pair of grieving parents desperate to deny the painful reality. When the doctor put a stethoscope on Jamie’s chest, however, he realized that Jamie had somehow fought his way back to life. The boy made a full recovery and has not had a single medical problem since.
Voice of an Angel In March 2015, 25 year old Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck ran off the road into the Spanish Fork River in Utah. Groesbeck’s 18 month old daughter, Lily, was in the backseat. More than 12 hours after the original accident, first responders heard a voice calling for help from the inside of the car. The voice did not sound like a child and could not have belonged to Groesbeck as she was already dead at the time and likely had been since the impact. Still, the first responders investigated. What they found was Lily suspended upside down inches above the freezing water. She was still alive. The water was so cold that rescuers had to work in shifts as each person could only stay in the river for short periods of time. Eventually, however, a firefighter managed to cut the infant free. Lily was passed through a human relay back to shore where she was given treatment. No one can explain what happened, but Lily has since made a full recovery and is living with her family.
Most people think of miracles as incredible events that took place long ago. They assume that miracles no longer happen today. This, however, is incorrect. Miracles continue to happen today. Part of the reason modern miracles are overlooked, however, has to do with what most people think of when they hear the word “miracle.” For most people, a miracle is something big and flashy. It is flowing lava that mysteriously parts around a home and then converges on the other side of the house. It is a lightning strike that hits a would-be murderer and saves a parent and child. Such events are undoubtedly miraculous, but they are not the only sorts of miracles that occur today. Some miracles are small and quiet. There are also a number of miracles that made use of human intervention. These are the sort of miracles like when a sinking boat does not suddenly empty of water but another boat appears out of nowhere to rescue the passengers. Such events tend to make up the bulk of modern miracles but the human element of them often leaves third party observers unaware that they have just witnessed a miracle. As a result, miracles sometimes get overlooked such as these four modern miracles. Voice of an Angel
Gospel music has always been close to Lynn’s heart, reaching back to her youth in eastern Kentucky. “My daddy’s first cousin was a preacher, Elzie Banks, who I wrote a song about. All of us kids would sing in Sunday school as long as we could carry a tune. Gospel music and church are what I knew. We knew Sunday school, and the preacher, Elzie Banks. We had church in a little one-room schoolhouse that my great-grandfather built.” (The song she wrote about Banks, “Elzie Banks,” appeared on her 1988 album Who Was That Stranger?)
Lynn has made three gospel albums during her career, including Hymns in 1965 and Who Says God Is Dead! in 1968. Both albums allowed Lynn to include her son, Ernest Ray — with “When I Hear My Children Pray” on the first and “Mama, Why” on the latter.
“I wrote ‘Mama, Why’ after my daddy had passed away. I lost him when I was 27. He was only 51,” Lynn says.
Fans of the Coal Miner’s Daughter will be glad to know that she has quite a bit of unreleased music in the can. “I’ve got about 90 songs cut right now,” she said, confessing that she still gets excited about creating music. “I still love it. It’s a way to find out if you can still sing or not.” ................
Johnny the Lord knows what you need and want but He wants you to ask Him Is it not mind blowing that the great I Am, wants you to talk to Him? Yes, you have a right as the child of God to have your prayers answered. "You have not because you asked not" so ask...............Johnny.......
When Biden set the date for planes being allowed out of Afghanistan, many of those having worked with Americans and Canadians were left behind. Today they are hiding and living in fear of being discovered by the Taliban, The send a letter to Canada, pleading not to be left behind. Canada should give them a Visa so they could at least try to make it into Pakistan, Canada is not even doing that. Canada is allowing many from the Ukraine's into the country and that is fine but please don't forget those in Afghanistan who have helped Canadians and Americans they really need our prayers!
Johny perhaps because I was not raised in a church, perhaps because I had to find it all on my own, when I asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior, I found it a bit amazing that I now was a believer. So being a "baby Christian" One evening I sat with my back against a wall and said; "Lord I am not leaving here until You show me that I am now your child" Several hours went by and then I saw a large lake and many people sitting there all dressed in white. And then? I saw myself among all the others..........God had given me my answer.
John if you are sincere you can also ask like; "Lord help me with my unbelief" Or whatever question you have and need an answer for...................
Yes, whosoever wants to believe this; The prize for our sins has been paid in full, when Jesus died on the cross and he shed His blood for us, there is not one thing we can add to this. All we need to do is accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior............ At the beginning of the book of Revelations 3- 21, It says; "Behold I stand at the door and I knock, If anyone hears my voice I will come in and dine with him" Who is the one doing the knocking? It is Jesus Himself! Amazing He is giving you unbeliever, His last call personally.........can anyone be more humble and loving? One of the reasons some people have a problem believing is because it all seems so easy. Some say well if the prize has been paid in full we can now sin all we want? If you are a believer and you willingly sin, you will first find out that your relationship with the Lord is not as good the way it was before...........You avoid Him Your prayers are no longer answered, yes there are always consequences. If you love the Lord you won't like this, and seek to restore your relationship with Him............
Mom is baking cookies and tells the child; " Now don't touch them okay?" Mom leaves the room and the child takes a cookie. Mom comes back into the room and the child hides and can not look at mom. The child confesses to mom, she forgives the child and all is well again between mom and child..............
Yes, whosoever wants to believe this; The prize for our sins has been paid in full, when Jesus died on the cross and he shed His blood for us, there is not one thing we can add to this. All we need to do is accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior............ One of the reasons some people have a problem believing is because it all seems so easy. Some say well if the prize has been paid in full we can now sin all we want? If you are a believer and you willingly sin, you will first find out that your relationship with the Lord is not as good the way it was before...........You avoid Him Your prayers are no longer answered, yes there are always consequences. If you love the Lord you won't like this, and seek to restore your relationship with Him............
We are never good enough, we will never be able to do enough for others. We sin and are sinners until we die so then how? If you can not earn it by doing good work then how? By accepting Jesus as your Savior.
For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God;
If we had no Bible but only one scripture it would be enough. For God so loved the world, you, that He gave His only begotten son. That whosoever believes in Him, will have everlasting life.
We are never good enough, we will never be able to do enough for others. We sin and are sinners until we die so then how? You can not earn it by doing good work yes then how? By accepting Jesus as our Savior.
For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God;
You are right Johny God is alive He is a spirit, not as so many see Him sitting in a chair with a book on His lap watching what you are doing and writing it down in His book. The Bible is true. I often have prayers answered not always in the time that I want them but the answer always comes. All that we have done is recorded in our own brain like the hard drive in a computer. If a person wants to believe but has trouble doing so, tell God this and ask Him to help you with your unbelieve........
Tennessee Erny; Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling Calling for you and for me See, on the portals he's waiting and watching Watching for you and for me, (for me) Come home, (come home) Come home, (come home) Ye who are weary come home Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling Calling, oh, sinner, come home! Oh for the wonderful love he has promised Promised for you and for me Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon Pardon for you and for me, (for me) Come home, (come home) Come home, (come home) Ye who are weary come home Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, Calling, oh, sinner, come home (Sinner come home, sinner come home, sinner come home) Sinner come home.
We had a great many horses, of which we gave them what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return. All the Nez Perces made friends with Lewis and Clarke, and agreed to let them pass through their country, and never to make war on white men. This promise the Nez Perces have never broken. No white man can accuse them of bad faith, and speak with a straight tongue. It has always been the pride of the Nez Perces that they were the friends of the white men.
When my father was a young man there came to our country a white man (Rev. Mr. Spaulding) who talked spirit law. He won the affections of our people because he spoke good things to them. At first he did not say anything about white men wanting to settle on our lands. Nothing was said about that until about twenty winters ago, when a number of white people came into our country and built houses and made farms. At first our people made no complaint. They thought there was room enough for all to live in peace, and they were learning many things from the white men that seemed to be good. But we soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy to possess everything the Indian had. My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white men, and he warned his tribe to be careful about trading with them. He had suspicion of men who seemed so anxious to make money. I was a boy then, but I remember well my father’s caution. He had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
Next there came a white officer (Governor Stevens), who invited all the Nez Perces to a treaty council. After the council was opened he made known his heart. He said there were a great many white people in the country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and white men could be separated. If they were to live in peace it was necessary, he said, that the Indians should have a country set apart for them, and in that country they must stay. My father, who represented his band, refused to have anything to do with the council, because he wished to be a free man. He claimed that no man owned any part of the earth, and a man could not sell what he did not own.
When the first people entered the Capitol they met ONE surprised guard. I still see his surprised face in my mind.......... Why were there not more guards in the beginning? They knew what was expected ................
The religious encounter of Christian missionaries and Native peoples cannot be separated from the progressive seizure and settlement of tribal territories by European colonists. Throughout most of American history, however, there has been little recognition of the distinctively religious claims of Native peoples to the land and its sacred sites.
The encounter of Christians and Native peoples is too complex and varied to be characterized in general. There are surprising instances, such as the late 18th century Russian mission in Alaska, where early missionaries saw the Tlingit or Sugpiaq people of Kodiak Island as deeply religious, understanding that faith in terms of their own. More often, however, Christian missionaries did not recognize the customs of the Native peoples as spiritual or religious traditions in their own right and many mission schools effectively removed Native young people from their cultures. Many Christian colonists and missionaries, even those most sympathetic to the lifeways of the Native peoples, categorized Native Americans as “heathens” who either accepted or resisted conversion to Christianity. They did not place Native American traditions under the protection of religious freedom that had been enshrined in the Constitution. It was not until 1978, almost 200 years after the Constitution was signed, that the American Indian Religious Freedom Act gave specific legal recognition to the integrity of Native American religions.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? … O Yehova, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” (Psalm 8:3–9) There is nothing that we can say, think, or do that God doesn’t know!
“Can a man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 23:24)
And as David sings in Psalm 139:7: “Where can I flee from your presence?”
But God also knows things before we do them.
The “Song of Moses,” as it is called, describes how His Chosen People would behave once they entered their Promised Land (Deuteronomy 32).
Do you remember when you were little your mom would say, when she saw you had trouble putting on your clothes right, "Let mommy help you" You would answer her; " I can do it myself" I was reminded of this just last week when I needed to find an important paper. I looked everywhere except the toilet tank lol. Then I finally thought to pray and ask the Lord. Within 1/2 hour I found it, there it was. "Thank you, Lord" I needed you but thought I could do it myself. I feel the Lord's presence all the time and yet did not pray until I could not find that paper having wasted all morning trying to find it................... Yep, the enemy hates it when you pray and will always try anything so you forget to pray..........
Have to agree with you Chat, it is called packaging rage.............. Jars are often difficult to get open and I often wonder how some people with arthritis manage.............
There was a time when going by train you were able to enjoy seeing cows grazing. Not tied into a barn but free in the meadows. The Dutch government had so many restrictions on the farmers, Intentional, that many farmers moved to Brazil and Venezuela. The object is to get rid of all the farmers for another reason, building homes there instead. The land is needed as Holland is over populated, that tiny country has at least 35 million inhabitans while in comparesant Canada has aprox 39 million..............................jenny
Despite its recent surge in popularity, fasting is a practice that dates back centuries and plays a central role in many cultures and religions.
Defined as the abstinence from all or some foods or drinks for a set period of time, there are many different ways of fasting.
In general, most types of fasts are performed over 24–72 hours.
Intermittent fasting, on the other hand, involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting, ranging from a few hours to a few days at a time.
Fasting has been shown to have many health benefits, from increased weight loss to better brain function.
Here are 8 health benefits of fasting — backed by science.
1. Promotes Blood Sugar Control by Reducing Insulin Resistance Several studies have found that fasting may improve blood sugar control, which could be especially useful for those at risk of diabetes.
In fact, one study in 10 people with type 2 diabetes showed that short-term intermittent fasting significantly decreased blood sugar levels (1Trusted Source).
Meanwhile, another review found that both intermittent fasting and alternate-day fasting were as effective as limiting calorie intake at reducing insulin resistance (2Trusted Source).
Decreasing insulin resistance can increase your body’s sensitivity to insulin, allowing it to transport glucose from your bloodstream to your cells more efficiently.
Coupled with the potential blood sugar-lowering effects of fasting, this could help keep your blood sugar steady, preventing spikes and crashes in your blood sugar levels.
Keep in mind though that some studies have found that fasting may impact blood sugar levels differently for men and women.
For instance, one small, three-week study showed that practicing alternate-day fasting impaired blood sugar control in women but had no effect in men (3Trusted Source).
Summary Intermittent fasting and alternate-day fasting could help decrease blood sugar levels and reduce insulin resistance but may affect men and women differently.
2. Promotes Better Health by Fighting Inflammation While acute inflammation is a normal immune process used to help fight off infections, chronic inflammation can have serious consequences for your health.
Research shows that inflammation may be involved in the development of chronic conditions, such as heart disease, cancer and rheumatoid arthritis (4Trusted Source).
Some studies have found that fasting can help decrease levels of inflammation and help promote better health.
One study in 50 healthy adults showed that intermittent fasting for one month significantly decreased levels of inflammatory markers (5Trusted Source).
Another small study discovered the same effect when people fasted for 12 hours a day for one month (6Trusted Source).
What’s more, one animal study found that following a very low-calorie diet to mimic the effects of fasting reduced levels of inflammation and was beneficial in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, a chronic inflammatory condition (7Trusted Source).
Summary Some studies have found that fasting could decrease several markers of inflammation and may be useful in treating inflammatory conditions, such as multiple sclerosis.
3. May Enhance Heart Health by Improving Blood Pressure, Triglycerides and Cholesterol Levels
And now may the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you, and may God give to you his peace in your going out and in your coming in, in your lying down and in your rising up, in your labor and in your leisure, in your laughter and in your tears, until you come to stand before Jesus in that day in which there is no sunset and no dawning" only life everlasting in the presence of God and arms of our savior. Amen.
A lot of people from all walks of life have had a bad experience with the ouija board please believe these stories and don' be curious................ Hexed Justin played with a Ouija board one day with several of his friends. They asked questions, but instead of the planchette moving to certain letters, it began to move in a strange pattern. “It went to all four corners of the board and made an X,” the 32-year-old New Jersey resident tells Reader’s Digest. “Then it just went in circles.” The next time he used the board, it was with a different friend at his house. Again, the planchette moved in the same strange pattern. “I felt like it was some kind of hex,” he continues. Later that night when he was sleeping, he felt a forceful hand grab his arm and wake him up. Everyone else in the house was sound asleep.
I like to add that if Royalty would come to my town I honestly would not go and look. It cost Canada plenty to entertain them when coming here they never pay for anything
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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Pure loveOn March 25, 2010, Kate Ogg gave birth to premature twins. The fraternal twins were just 27 weeks old. Emily managed to survive the birth, but her brother Jamie was not breathing. Doctors tried to resuscitate Jamie for 20 minutes but were unsuccessful. Jamie was placed on his mother’s chest so that Kate and her husband David could say goodbye to their son. Five minutes into the agonizing process of biding a final farewell to their child, the parents saw their son start moving. The doctor claimed that such movements were merely reflex actions, not signs of life, but Kate and David asked for a few more minutes with their dying son. A few minutes turned into two hours, and Jamie opened his eyes.
The doctor took some convincing to believe that there was actually a tiny Lazarus in the room and not just a pair of grieving parents desperate to deny the painful reality. When the doctor put a stethoscope on Jamie’s chest, however, he realized that Jamie had somehow fought his way back to life. The boy made a full recovery and has not had a single medical problem since.