Zucchini Pizza

Zucchini Pizza .... Crust: 3 cups zucchini (Shredded) 4 eggs 1-1/2 cups mozzarella cheese Mix together -pat into pizza pan-bake20 minutes at 350* Remove from oven, top crust with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and other desired toppings. Bake at 350* for 20 additional minutes.

Get Up and Get Out

Get Up and Get Out

Your mission today (should you choose to accept it) is to get yourself up out of bed and throw yourself out into the world. That's right: Get up and get out.

My, how daring we are! Well, yes, when you consider how dangerous a place the world is, and how inadequate we feel when we try to make a difference in it. But just read this:

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? (2 Corinthians 2:15-16 NIV)

Now there is a picture you and me having a significant effect on people, churning up reactions as varied as life and death by our mere presence. It's no surprise Paul would wonder, in the next breath, who, if any, might be equal to this task. It's a rhetorical question that he intends to answer, and he does in the next chapter. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God who has made us adequate(2 Corinthians 3:5-6). In other words, we aren't adequate, but we are. We aren't adequate in ourselves, but we are in Christ. And we find this out we when we jump into the world, believing.

By believing, you are taking the particular characteristics of a believer (a person in whom God's presence is a factor) out into the world, and by nature of your presence in the world and the presence of Christ in your life, you will make a difference. So, you see, it is all about literally throwing yourself out there and trusting that God shows up when you do, even when you don't exactly know what's going to happen next, you just know you'll be ready when it does by nature of the Spirit of God in you. How about that for living dangerously?

As a friend of mine said last night, almost nonchalantly, a true Christian is choosing the most dangerous occupation in the world. I think he's right, not only because Satan is alive and well on planet earth working to discredit those who believe, but because God likes us living on the edge in believing Him. I really don't think faith is mainstream. I don't think it gets the popular vote. Real faith does not win mass-market appeal. True faith is a challenge of wits. It's the mover and shaker of the status quo. Faith kicks us out of our safety net and into the world. If nothing's on the line, then there's no faith required. That's dangerous, but all the more exhilarating when God shows up and shows Himself to be true to His promises.

So get up and get out. It's the only way to truly find out!

Neglect

How serious a sin is the habit of neglect?

Value of Human Life

What makes human like so valuable?

10 years ago

Ten years ago I had the privalige of working with YFC and going to Kenya to do a missions project with Project Serve. With the team I had an oportunity to build a home for these street boys. Fifty boys living in and sharing 3 tents. the tents were only 6-man tents. The work was laboriest, we had to manually use a pick axe to break up the ground and pour the foundation. We had to dig our our sand to mix with the cement, hand carry it about 1/2-3/4 of a mile. We ended up spreading ourselves out and only had to walk about 15 steps carrying bagfulls of sand. These boys worked hard and did not whine about the heat or the hard work. Some of the children worked as hard as the adults. We had to hand mix the cement, sand and water using only 2 shovels. I have several slides, I will try to convert them to pictures and post them here. By the way, the little boy pictured with the young lady has already spent 1 year in prison just for being a street kid.

THE STRENGTH OF SEEING

"And when the servant of [Elisha] was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, 'Alas, my master! How shall we do?' And he answered, 'Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them'. And Elisha prayed, and said, 'Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see'. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha" (II Kings 6:15-17).

To be an overcomer does not mean that we deny the existence of the enemy. We are not going to overcome by pretending we are not really surrounded. Denying the existence of the adversary will not make him disappear. We acknowledge and admit that there is a real enemy, a real spirit of Antichrist, that is out to destroy the Remnant and hinder the Testimony of Jesus. We also acknowledge and admit that more often than not, this spirit of Antichrist seems to get the advantage over us.

Even so, the issue is not the enemy. We may look at the enemy, study him, and build an entire movement around different ways to fight him. We can write books and hold seminars on "spiritual warfare". But when we look out from the mountain, what do we really see? Here is the difference between those who overcome and those who are defeated: it is not in their ability to fight, but in their ability to SEE, and this seeing is not of themselves, but is of God.

Marriage Saver.

Insufficient disk space

Why is it we seem to get more of the world than we do spiritually? I have more of the world downloading to me at times I can't see Jesus. It's sad but true. Lord I so want to download You but my space is already taken up. Help me to remove the worldliness and fill me with Your Spirit. Better yet, why not just format me and give me a new operating system.

Internet Speed

Have you ever read that your ISP internet speed is 3MPS u/d. My ISP says that the speed is upto 3MPS. I have done close to the speed 2.88MPS u/d. Lately My speed has only been around 1.5MPS download and 60kps upload. I called to inquire into this speed reduction. It appears that someone has been using all the bandwidth slowing everyone down. As the result the ISP has installed a regulator which will throttle back an individules speed to prevent all the bandwidth from being used by one person/business. No, I am not the culprit. Tech support said they believe its a virus or a trojan which is causing the problem. They have it narrowed to four users. They may have already located the user as I have noticed an increase in internet speed. In Joshua 6 and 7, Joshua was given the orders not to take any of the spoils set apart for destruction at Jericho. The battle at Jericho, was a great defeat of the enemy, but teh battle at Ai didn't go so well. Infact, God's people were defeated because of the sin, of one man, Achan. What is slowing you down, today? What is causing you to be defeated? Peace and Blessings