Tuesday 18 February 2014

M.A.N.Y

Text: Psalms 34:19, John 1:12

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
----- John 1:12

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
----- Psalms 34:19

The things you need to do with the word. 'MANY.' Even though there are many tests, there will also be many testimonies.

M - Make a list of your desires (Reference: Pslams 34:17)
A - Always Praise (Reference: 1 Thessalonians 5:18)
N - Never give up (Reference: Phillippians 4:13)
Y - Yes to God (Reference: Luke 22:42)

Make a list
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
---- Psalms 34:17

Always Praise
In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
----- I Thessalonians 5:18

Never Give Up
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
----- Philippians 4:13

Yes To God
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
----- Luke 22:42

Source: Doris


A word for you!

Esther 7:3-6, 10 AMP
Then Queen Esther said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition and my people at my request. For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, slain, and wiped out of existence! But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I would have held my tongue, for our affliction is not to be compared with the damage this will do to the king. Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, Who is he, and where is he who dares presume in his heart to do that? And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and queen. So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

The Rope Holder...
The story of Esther and her uncle Mordecai is an exceptional one. Rising from nothing to something and in order to keep the position and not fall by the axe of enemy there had to be an agreement. If you read Esther4:16 you would see where Queen Esther requested that all the Jews go into fasting and prayer for her. There was a time when Esther was just a slave and ordinary Jew. She rose to become the Queen in a foreign land. Mordecai never let off the rope of right and godly parenting and this led to him being able to pass on Haman's threat towards the Jews to Esther. Esther who was at the receiving end of the rope is now the rope holder. The fate of the Jews depended on her role as the Queen. Had it been she neglected them God would have made a way out of no way. Esther remembered who she was, were she is now and knew it was the will of God. She did everything prayerfully with wisdom and Knowledge to get justice for the Jews against Haman. Tides can turn at any time friend if God bless you its not for your sake alone but for the sake of others. When you pray for blessing ask God to make you a blessing. Esther rose from being blessed to become a blessing to her generation. Are you holding the rope or at the receiving end, whichever that applies to you do it to the glory of God remember God is not a man you can't deceive Him.

Have a favourable and blessed day! –by Leah

Monday 17 February 2014

Dump Sugar, Eat and Cure Diabetes?

More than 26 million People suffer from diabetes. That’s 10 times the number from just 50 years ago.
But even with diets filled with sugar and soaring obesity rates, there is hope. Some people are reversing their Type II diabetes, getting off their medications, and feeling great.

This report focuses on Type II diabetes, which represents 90 to 95 percent of all diabetes cases.
Like millions of Americans, Janet Huffstetler felt diabetes was ruining her life. Then she changed her diet.
“I will tell you I have never felt so good,” she said. “I think having my body free of sugar and carbs and processed chemicals has made such a difference in how I approach everything. I am just an entirely different person.”
It’s a far cry from the fear she felt eight years ago when doctors first diagnosed her with diabetes. She had seen what the disease did to her uncle.
“He ended up on full dialysis and blind,” she recalled. “He also had coronary bypass surgery. They had started talking about amputation, but he died.”
Diabetes is when you have too much sugar in your bloodstream. The standard treatment is largely medication.
More Meds, More Problems
Huffstetler’s first doctor put her on medication that led to weight gain and depression.
“[It] kind of made me feel sluggish, it made me dizzy, it made me lethargic,” she recalled. “It was very hard to get motivated to do anything I should have been doing, more exercise and everything.”
Daily life became a series of finger sticks, constantly monitoring her blood sugar levels.
“I was doing it four times a day, and they would tell you ‘You have to do it on this side, so you can do it on that side the next time.’ And your fingers became very sore,” she said. “And I work at a computer and it’s not fun.”
Believing there had to be a better way, she changed doctors.
“I came home and Googled and Dr. Westman’s name kept coming up. And I was fortunate enough to get in to see him within a month, which, I must have called and gotten an immediate cancellation,” she said.
Diet-Only Approach
That appointment sent her to the nationally recognized Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic led by Dr. Eric Westman. He helped reverse Huffstetler’s diabetes through his diet-only approach.
“Diabetes and obesity is complicated,” Westman explained. “There are lots of factors that are involved, but most experts agree that it’s the foods and the beverages that people eat that are the major cause for diabetes and obesity in the U.S., and so that should be the major focus of treatment.”
Instead of treating the sugar in his patients’ blood with medicine, Westman instructs them to eliminate their sugar intake.
Westman said he gets diabetes patients who are unhappy with the treatment they’ve received thus far.
“I took someone off 180 units of insulin for their diabetes in two days. And this is not unusual,” he told CBN News. “This individual was on diabetes medicine, injectable insulin, for 10 years. And just by changing the foods that person no longer needs insulin in two days.”
“And that’s because the insulin was treating the sugar in the foods that the person was eating,” he continued. “In that case the individual was drinking two liters of sugar-sweetened beverage every day and taking insulin to treat the sugar-sweetened beverage.
“Now this could be sweet tea in the South, orange juice in the North, any beverage that has sugar in it, this was raising the blood sugar,” Westman explained.
“And the doctor, the clinical doctors, put him on insulin without addressing the food component, the cause from the foods,” he said. “I instructed him to take away all the sugars, the starches in the foods and in the drinks. He never needed insulin again. It’s pretty amazing.”
Westman said his program is tremendously successful for the patients who do it.
A Success Story
Susan Hollowell did it and went from spending $400 a month on diabetes drugs down to zero.
“I was insulin-dependent, five injections a day,” she recalled. “The third day of my diet my blood sugar dropped to 150 and I asked Dr. Westman, ‘What should I do about my insulin?’ I didn’t want to go over. And he said, ‘Get off of it.’”
Three months later she was 20 pounds lighter and had more energy than before.
“I wasn’t involved in any clubs or organizations, didn't want to go to church very often, and now that's not the case,” she said.
Managing Sugar Withdrawals


Westman admitted it’s not easy for some people to give up sugar.
“There’s a feed-forward, a drive that comes from eating sugar, that eating sugar makes you want to eat more sugar,” he explained.
So his patients use artificial sweeteners to manage their withdrawal symptoms. Huffstetler remembers how she did it.
“When I first started, the little individual sugar-free Jello things, I would come and put whip cream on it; it would take care of the sweet,” Huffstetler recalled.
“Now I was so amazed with this program,” she said. “After a while you don’t crave those things any more. You don't want it. When I have family dinners I have to really work on thinking about dessert for Thanksgiving or whatever because my mind just doesn’t go there anymore.”
In addition to sugar, Westman’s diabetes diet also limits starches, like bread, pasta, and rice, because they also raise your blood sugar.
Butter and Oil, It’s All Good!
Surprisingly, the diet allows patients to eat fats: the unsaturated kind like olive oil and avocados, and saturated fat like coconut oil and butter.
Although this diet might sound revolutionary, it’s actually a throwback. If you notice, old medical textbooks dating back to the years before insulin was discovered, advised physicians to put their diabetic patients on a low carbohydrate, high fat diet.”
Westman tells his patients not to worry about eating saturated fat because he says the latest science reveals it does not cause heart disease.
“So now we’re in a phase of education, trying to get the word out about the cholesterol in the blood and the arteries and all that, do not get adversely affected by a high fat diet,” he said.

So to avoid diabetes, or reverse it, put the brakes on sugar and starch. It’s not always easy but well worth the effort. charismamag.com

Repentance, Not Remorse

TEXT: EXODUS 8:1-15

Key verse: “But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said” (Exodus 8:15).

God is too just to overlook sin and take remorse for repentance. In His justice, He warns before bringing judgment. The only response He expects from man is repentance, which is total turning away from sin. In His righteous judgment, He shows mercy to the truly penitent.

Pharaoh was warned to expect the epidemic of frogs if he refused to let Israel go and serve the Lord. On Pharaoh’s wilful refusal, Moses and Aaron, with outstretched rod, performed the miracle of judgment. It was a plague of frogs, that came from the streams, the rivers and the ponds throughout the land of Egypt. Frogs invaded the houses, the ovens, the kneading troughs of both the king and his subjects. Pharaoh’s magicians, in their folly, conjured more frogs with their enchantments. At this stage, Pharaoh could not bear it and, therefore turned to Moses for prayers. He now seemed to have confidence in God. Moses, having a right standing with God, prayed at Pharaoh’s request. Moses did everything according to the word of God and the Lord in turn, honoured his words. God honours those who honour Him. The frogs all died. You would have thought that Pharaoh had permanently learnt his lesson after going through series of torments. But he remained obstinate.

How many people provoke God and invite His judgment by rejecting His word and slighting His servants? How many people resort to physicians of no value who, instead of alleviating their problems, add more burden to their clients? For the careless believers, how soon do they forget their commitment and promise to serve God. Let us fear, lest we be found to be hypocrites like Pharaoh, who in times of discipline, walked soberly, prayerfully and carefully, promising to serve God, but failed to follow through after receiving a respite.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Mere remorse is hypocrisy.
 

Sunday 16 February 2014

Prayer For New Week

I declare new levels of favor for you, new doors of opportunity and new level of success. God is breaking you free from limitation and discouragements; He is taking you to a new and higher level. It is not over yet until God says it’s over; so, keep pressing forward. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”. Failure is not your portion, God is in the business of working things out to your advantage and He will make all things beautiful for you in Jesus mighty name. Be Empowered,

I declare and degree that
You shall be great
You shall be celebrated.
You shall be successful.
You shall be favoured.
You shall be blessed in abundance.
You shall be prosperous.
You shall have peace beyond limits
You shall excel in all that you do.
Where the road is thirsty of flesh and blood, you and your loved ones will not go there
I pray wt u your picture will not be used for RIP Jesus name (Amen).

Happy New Week from us ASB-World.

MARRIAGE SPOUSES

The best of life is to have a companion, someone who will ever be ready to listen to you and ready to share with you. The Bible says “it’s better to have a partner than go it alone. Share the work, share the wealth. And if one falls down, the other helps…” Ecc 4:9-10. In marriage, there is need for hand to be in hand.

TWO TYPES OF SPOUSES
1. All-weather spouses
2. Fair-weather spouses
  • All-weather spouses: these are spouses that fit all conditions of life whether pressure or pleasure, pain or gain, scarce or surplus, rain or sun, loss or profit, they are there by your side like a mountain. When trouble comes and wind blows, when life is not favorable to you, trust them they are there for you. If you are sick they are also sick, their joy lies in your comfort and happiness.
  • Fair-weather spouses: these are spouses that can only be there for you when things are fair, either rain or sun, warm or cold base on their own interest. These set of spouses can only go along with you when things are rosy. Some house wives are always happy and cheerful at every beginning of the month while resentful and nagging when the month is ending, why? Salary is not enough again and the husband is telling them to manage. Likewise some men can turn things around when their demands are not melt, whether food or sex.

EFFECT OF FAIR-WEATHER SPOUSES ON MARRIAGE
1. Emotional instability: your spouse cannot trust you for everything
2. Insecurity
3. undependability
4. Selfish interest: there won’t be much problem in your marriage if you are not selfish
5. Under achievement
6. Loss of confidence. etc

Don’t forget that you are a spouse and, what kind of spouse are you?
May the GOD of Heaven always give you the season of grace in your marriage. –By Ojo.

Health: 10 Amazing Uses Of Used Tea Bags

Okay, so you’ve made up your mind and have restored to drinking healthy teas. That’s great – but what’s not so good about all this, is that you’ll now have a whole lot of used tea bags in your garbage bin, which you can otherwise use for many other cool stuff.

Yes, you read that right- used tea bags can work wonderfully with possibly everything… don’t believe us? Read on… we’ve brought you the 10 best cool things you probably never imagined, that you can do with used tea bags.

1: A Meat Tenderizer
About to grill a good steak but still want it to be juicy and tender? It’s used tea bags to the rescue – marinate the meat cut of your choice in some regular black tea (4 tbsp of black tea in a cup of boiling hot water, strained) and then cook it as per your convenience; even the toughest of meats will turn melt-in-the-mouth tender after this trick.

Make sure you add the other ingredients like stock, onions, vegetables and garlic to the marination mixture too! Another plus of using tea for the marination is that it will lend a nice earthy, rustic flavor to your meat.

2: Rust-Proof your Cookware
Looking for a simple solution to rust-proof your cast iron cookware? Try used tea bags- rub the vessel with a damp used tea bag, making sure that every area is covered well. The tannins in the tea create an invisible layer around the cast iron vessel which prevents oxidation and rusting.

3: Heal Cuts and Bruises Faster
An aggressive game of football later, you return with a bruised knee and ankle- speed up the healing by simply pressing a used tea bag, moistened with water, to the bruise for a couple of minutes. The tannins in the tea help constrict blood vessels, which stop the flow of blood and speed up healing.




4: Clean your Home
Yes, that’s right- tea can be used to clean your homes as well. Boil a couple of tea bags (used ones work too) in a cup of water. Now dip a soft clean cloth into this solution, drain the excess, and wipe away the dirt and grime from your windows and doors, furniture and even mirrors!

5: Natural Fertilizer for Plants
Your old waste vegetables and fruit peels go straight into your compost pile for your outdoor gardening activities- but don’t shy away from adding the used tea bags too! It is believed that used tea bags draw acid-causing bacteria towards the compost pile, preventing early decomposition and creating a desirable acid-rich compost.

6: De-stress the Eye
Stress and anxiety are an undeniable part of our lives now, and that’s where tea bags come in to help- the tannins present in tea reduce puffiness and tiredness of the eye, soothe them, and revitalizes them.

7: Heal Sunburned Skin
Got a nasty sunburn? Don’t worry- a simple tea bag will help you in miraculous ways. Throw used tea bags into your bath water, and allow your entire body to soak in this healing water for as long as you like- a natural treatment for sunburns.

8: Stop a Cut from Bleeding
Accidentally pricked your finger while chopping and dicing in the kitchen? Instead of heading for a band-aid and creating a bloody mess around you, reach out for a used tea bag and hold it against the injured area till it stops bleeding. The idea behind using tea bags to staunch blood flow is that the tannins in the tea accelerate blood clotting, making wounds heal faster.

9: Relieve Pain From Injections
Used tea bags also work great as a pain-reliever. Is your baby still wailing over that inoculation shot? Wet a tea bag and place it over the area where your baby has been injected – the tannic acid present in tea will soothe the area, remove any soreness that may be present and speed up healing of the area.

10: Natural Mouthwash
Mouthwash? Tea? Yes- peppermint tea solution works as a wonderful natural mouthwash, and is even more beneficial since it contains antiseptics and menthol, which help relieve pain and inflammation, if any. Infact, this mouthwash could help you ease tooth and gum pain whenever it strikes- no need to pop that painkiller.
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