Prayer for Boston/A City ... Evil Angels

I am praying for those who were afflicted as well as there family and communities.

Petition/Prayer for a city .... Jonah 3

Moses' prayer that God would protect them ... Numbers 10:35.36

Prayer defeats the evil one/Satan .... Luke 22:32; I Peter 4:7


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The Scriptures below were included in this link for the week of 4/10/2013 .... http://angelawatkins57.blogspot.com/2013/04/4-10-2013-truth-honesty-integrity.html ....

John 8:44 .... Evil Angels; Satan; Deceiver & Liar

Luke 10:18 .... Evil Angels; Satan; Overpowered






I Peter 5:8 ... Evil Angels; Satan; Tempts Men to Sin ... External Nature; Mammals; The Lion, Strong & Terrible

I John 3:8 ... Evil Angels; Satan; Prince of Demons

I Chronicles 21:1 ... Evil Angels; Satan, Tempts Men to Sin

I Corinthians 11:14-15 .... Evil Angels; Satan, Deceiver & Liar

Revelation 20:10 ... Evil Angels; Satan; Overpowered, Satan's final destiny

2 of 2 ... Power to Change ... 4/14/2013

Sunday School Lesson for 4/14/2013. Unit II. Resurrection. Acts 2:1-13 (Devotional Reading John 15:1-7).


Sacred Seasons. Pentecost. Miracles


Scriptures in various languages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_by_language

http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/dictionary-of-bible-themes/5374-languages


There are world events shaping the course of mankind's history today. The Day of Pentecost changed the world of Christ's disciples unlike any other event in their lives.

Often people will make fun of others whose behavior is different from what they consider normal.



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Acts 2:1-4

Verse 1 ... Sacred Seasons; Pentecost, The Apostolic Pentecost

Pentecost is the birthday of the Church.


Verse 2 ... Miracles; Miraculous Deliverances & Phenomena; Sounds

There was a "sound" that was "like the rush of a mighty wind" but it does not say there was any wind.

In different languages listen to voices expressing the same words of praise to God.

Breath or Wind is a symbol of the Spirit of God (Ezekiel 37:9, 14; John 3:8)

Festivals of Israel ... there were seven in all.,

Pentecost/Festival of Weeks was the second festival. It was celebrated fifty days after the Passover. It lasted one day (Deuteronomy 16:9-12).

(Acts 1:4; Acts 1:5; Acts 11:15; Deuteronomy 16:16; Joel 2:28-32 - Reference Scriptures in the Sunday School Book)








Acts 2:5-11

Verse 5 ... The Hebrews; Judaism & Christianity; The Field a Hopeful one

Verses 6, 7 ... Miracles; Effects Of Miracles; Amazement

Verse 8,9,10,11 ... The Hebrews; Judaism & Christianity; The Pentecostal Beginning 30 A.D., Realized

Those who were present on the Day of Pentecost in Jerusalem... God-fearing Jews from a number of nations and fifteen different groups that heard about God's power and deeds (verses 9-11).

The Holy Spirit is active today at work in the lives of believers/Christians/Saints of God - to lead, guide/direct and or arrange change in the life of the believer when necessary.


Acts 2:12-13

Verse 12 ... Miracles; Effects of Miracles; Amazement

Verse 13 ... Miracles; Effects Of Miracles; Unbelief and Doubt

Some were amazed and some were in doubt. The outpouring of power on the apostles on Pentecost was the fulfillment of Jesus'/Yeshua' promise. The Church entered upon the last days as a result of the coming of the Pentecost (Acts 2:17).

(Joel 2:28-32; Acts 2:14-21; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:17)


Mankind (male/female) in some point of their lives will face experiences that produce dramatic changes in their lives. Life transforming power is provided by the Holy Spirit.

To the fearful, change is threatening because they worry things will become worse. To the hopeful, change is encouraging because mankind (male/female) feel things may become better.

Buck Rogers quoted, in Getting the Best Out of Yourself & Others, "We live in a time of paradox, contradiction, opportunity, and above all, change (Speaker's Sourcebook).

Personal Assignment: Are you a doer/motivator, or are you fearful of change?


Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Topical Reference Bible

4-10-2013 ... Truth, Honesty, & Integrity

April/May/June 2013 Devotional & Education Quarterly Emphasis is covering "Building Character ... Truth, Honesty, & Integrity."


Devotional Scriptures... Proverbs/Mishle 6:16-19; John 8:31,32

Topic Scriptures ... Luke 10:18; I Peter 5:8; II Peter 2:4


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Key Verse ... John 8:44 ... Evil Angels, Satan, Deceiver & Liar


Call to Worship ... Psalm/Tehillim 1:1,2

Verse 1 ... Fallen Man; Sins Against Our Neighbor; Causing Others to Sin, By Enticement.... The Upright are Blessed & Prospered

Verse 2 ... Scripture; Duty To Know & Obey Scripture; Meditation on the Law; .... The Upright are Blessed & Prospered






Proverbs/Mishle 6:16-19

Verses 16,17,18 ... Fallen Man; Punishment of Sin; The Wrath of God

Verse 19 ... Fallen Man; Sins Against Our Neighbor; Falsehood, In General


John 8:31.32

Verse 31 ... Man Redeemed; Blessedness Of The New Life; Perseverance Unto the End

Verse 32 ... Man Redeemed; Blessedness of The New Life; Christian Liberty

Luke 10:18 ... Evil Angels; Satan; Overpowered


I Peter 5:8... Evil Angels; Satan; Tempts Men to Sin; ... External Nature; Mammals; The Lion, Strong & Terrible

II Peter 2:4 ... Evil Angels; Their Fall & Imprisonment


Topic Discussion Scriptures... Isaiah 14:12-17; Revelation 12:7-9; John 8:44; I John 3:8; Job Chapters 1 & 2; Romans 123:3; Proverbs/Mishle 16:18; II Corinthians 11:14-15; Hebrews 10:24,25; Revelation 20; Revelation 20:10; John 3:16; I Peter 5:8; II Peter 2:4

Isaiah 14:12-17 ... Isaiah Chapters 13-23, prophetic utterances related chiefly to foreign nations (Chapters 12-14:23, against Babylon).

Revelation 14:12-17 ... (consists of seven visions)... 4. The vision of the woman and her enemies.

I John 3:8 ... Evil Angels; Satan; Prince of Demons ..... Fallen Man; Nature & Genesis Of Sin; Sin Defined & Described

Job Chapters 1 & 2 ... The piety & prosperity of Job. The overthrow of Job's prosperity was permitted in order to test his character, and Job's continued trust in God in spite of overwhelming sorrows is narrated. (The Book of Job seems to be written to point out such suffering is often permitted as a test of faith and a means of grace... The Book of Job is an inspired poem, based on actual occurrences.

I Chronicles 21:1 ... Evil Angels; Satan; Tempts Men to Sin... The Hebrews; The United Kingdom; David's Reign over All, His Second Offence

Romans 12:3 ... Man Redeemed; Duties & Graces Of The New Life; Humility; Required

Proverbs/Mishle 16:18 ... Fallen Man; Sins Of The Spirit, & Against Ourselves; Pride, Its Hatefulness

II Corinthians 11:14,15 ... Evil Angels; Satan; Deceiver & Liar


Hebrews 10:24,25

Verse 24 ... Man Redeemed; Duties & Graces Of The New Life; Mutual Edifying

Verse 25 ... Sacred Seasons; Sabbatical Seasons; The Lord's Day, Diligence Enjoined


Revelation 20 ... (The seventh vision) .. The vision of final triumph

Revelation 20:10 ... Eschatology/Last Things; The Millennium; Apostasy & Final Struggle... Evil Angels; Satan; Overpowered, Satan's final destiny

Millennium ... a period of 1,000 years, that of Christ's prophesied reign in person on earth(Revelation 20:1-5).

Apostasy ... renunication of the Christian faith.


John 3:16 ... Everlasting Life & Heaven Promised .... Man Redeemed; Faith; Immunities & Rewards of Faith; Life Everlasting.... Man Redeemed; The New Covenant; All May Be Saved


Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Topical Reference Bible, KJV Precious Promise Bible & Reader's Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder

Turkey Burgers - Mini Mac & Cheese Recipes from Bread & Wine - Book Review

I am sharing two recipes from Bread & Wine a love letter to life around the table with recipes by Shauna Niequist. The book also list a few dessert recipes as well.

Turkey and Macaroni & Cheese are one of my favorites.


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Turkey Burgers Adapted from O, The Oprah Magazine

Ingredients:

1/4 cup scallions, thinly sliced

1/2 cup celery, finely chopped

3 Granny Smith Apples, peeled and diced

Olive Oil

4 pounds ground turkey breast

1 tablespoon salt

1 tablespoon black pepper

2 teaspoon Tabasco

Juice of 1 lemon

1/2 bunch parsley, finely chopped

1/4 cup mango chutney


Special sauce:

1/2 cup mango chutney

1/2 cup mayonnaise

1/2 cup ketchup

2 dashes Tabasco, or to taste


Instructions:

Saute' the scallions, celery, and apples in olive oil until tender.

Let cool.

While the mixture is cooling, make the special sauce. Mix chutney, mayonnaise, ketchup, and Tabasco. Adjust for heat and then refrigerate until serving time.

Place the ground turkey in a large mixture bowl. Add saute'ed items and the remaining ingredients.

Shape into 12 burgers.

Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Place on a preheated, lightly oil grill set to medium-high heat. Grill each side for 7 minutes until meat is thoroughly cook. Let sit for 5 minutes.

Makes: 12 burgers

When Oprah visited Donald Trump at his famous Palm Beach house, Mar-a-Lago, his Chef served these amazing turkey burgers. She asked for the recipe because they were the best turkey burgers she'd ever had.

The burgers take a while to assemble, so don't try to prepare them before your friends come over for a barbecue. Make them the night before, and while you're at it, make a double batch and freeze half of them.

Most grocery stores carry mango chutney in the international ethnic aisle. The secret ingredient in these burgers is mango chutney. When you find it, stock up-get on jar for this recipe, another for chicken salad, and one for serving with cheese and crackers.


Mini-Mac & Cheese from Food & Wine & another Food & Wine macaroni cheese


Ingredients:

1/2 pound elbow macaroni (or 4 cups cooked)

2 cups sharp cheddar cheese, shredded

2 tablespoons butter, plus more for pan

1 tablespoon Dijon

2 dashes Tabasco

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 egg yolk

1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Smoked paprika


Instructions:

In a pot of boiling water, cook the macaroni, for about 5 minutes, to just al dente, which is just a touch firmer than how you would like to eat it. Drain.

Brush mini muffin pan with melted butter, then sprinkle half the grated Parmesan into the muffin cups.

On medium-low heat, warm butter and cheddar cheese, and whisk till smooth.

Off heat, add Dijon, Tabasco, egg yolk, and whisk again.

Add macaroni and mix well coated with cheese.

Spoon into muffin cups, making them slightly rounded and packing them lightly. Top with grated Parmesan.

Bake at 425 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes, until golden on top.

Let cool at least 10 minutes before serving, because they will set as they cool. Sprinkle with smoked paprika.

Serve warm or at room temperature.

Be generous when you dust the Parmesan, both in the empty cups and on top, because that's what holds them together - that and the egg yolk.

These can be made gluten-free by using brown rice or corn pasta. Watch the cook time on the pasta, as gluten-free pasta seems to be a little more unpredictable than conventional pastas.

1 of 2 ... Power to Change ... 4/14/2013

My Sunday School Lesson Bible Reading for the week of April 14, 2013 is coming from the Book of John and Acts.

Monday - April 8, 2013 - I Will Not Leave You Orphaned - John 14:18-24

Final Discourse & Events (John 13:1-21:25) ... Discourse - lecture, sermon, talk, speak or write learnedly ....



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The Upper Room Ministry (John 13:1-21:25)

Comfort for the disciples in distress (John 13:36-14:31)

Tuesday - April 9, 2013 - Abide in Me - John 15:1-7

Union with Christ & its consequences (John 15:1-27)


Wednesday - April 10, 2013 - The Coming of the Advocate - John 16:1-11

The disciples, the world, and the Advocate (John 16:1-33)


Thursday - April 11, 2013 - Raised Up & Freed from Death - Acts 2:22-28

Pentecost & The Preaching (Acts 2:1-47)

Peter's Speech (Acts 2:14-36)


Friday - April 12, 2013 - The Promise of the Spirit - Acts 2:14-21


Saturday - April 13, 2013 - The Promise Received - Acts 2:29-36


Sunday - April 14, 2013 - The Day of Pentecost - Acts 2:1-13

The descent of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-13)


Acts of the Apostle ... published between 62 & 70 A.D., not long after 62 A.D.

Luke the physician is the writer, a companion of the apostle Paul.

This Book has been called "the Gospel of the Holy Spirit," who is mentioned in the Acts more often than in any other book in the New Testament.


Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible, Zondervan Commentary & Reader's Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder

Bread & Wine a love letter to life around the table with recipes - Book Review

Enjoyable read and family-friendly.


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I am not promoting the sale and use of wine or any alcoholic beverages but, I am promoting harmony and a time to slow down and enjoy your family, loved ones and true friends around the kitchen and dining table. There will come a day when all you have is memories, because one day the chain will be broken.

In my home as a child and some of my adult life I can remember meals at the table just like on a television show "Soul Food." There is nothing like good food, loved ones around at the table laughing and some sad when a loved one has passed on.

Bread: I Corinthians 5:8 ... Sacred Seasons; Historical Sacred Seasons; The Passover Becomes a Christian Festival ................ I Corinthians 10:16 ... Sacred Rites & Forms; Sacraments, Worship, & Church-Fellowship; The Lord's Supper, Its Significance

Wine: Wine Prescribed; Abuse of It; & Prohibited to the Priesthood When On Duty .... Psalm/Tehillim 104:15; Joel 2:24; I Timothy 5:23; Titus 2:3; Ephesians 5:18; Ezekiel 44:21

Gather the people you love around your table and feed them with love and honesty and creativity.

Shauna Niequist mom's dad is Irish, a storyteller and her mom is German, a rose gardener and meticulous baker. They were married just before her grandpa joined the navy, and her mom, their first child, was born at Pearl Harbor.

Neither of them grew up in religious home, but when they married, they decided that religion was important, and that they wanted to join a church. They visited all sorts of churches before settling at Lake Center Bible Church.


There is a difference between religious and righteous.

They were meat and potatoes people, men who work long days on the farm and ate accordingly.

Six brothers - Shauna's grandfather and her dad's five uncles - all died of heart attacks before they were fifty-five. When she was born her parents knew something had to change.

Because of Shauna's dad scary family history, her mother became a health food person before it was fashionable.

Now that Shauna is an adult, she can appreciate how much effort this entailed, how expensive it was for her to feed them that way.

Sunday afternoons were family time - private, casual, silly.

The Cooking Club began when Aaron and Shauna moved back to Chicago from Grand Rapids three years ago. There are six of them in the Club.

They met once a month, and sometimes more, and whoever's hosting the theme and cooks the main course, and then the rest of them fill in - appetizers, side dishes, desserts.

They have attended funerals and birthday parties together, reported bad tests results, gotten advice about sick children, made trips to the ER, walked together through postpartum depression. They have talked about faith and fear and fighting with their husbands, sleeping through the night and anxiety and how to ask for help when they needed it.

It all started around the kitchen table, once a month and sometimes more.

Each of us should be able to nourish ourselves in the most basic way and to create meals and traditions around the table that tell the story of who we are to the people we care about.

Marketing and advertising campaigns are created to influence us to eat our or buy prepared foods. They want us to think that plain old cooking is difficult and not worth learning. In order to sell canned food and cake mixes, advertisers had to convince American women that cooking is too hard and troublesome for our modern world. But it wasn't true then, and it isn't true now.

When you're dependent on prepared foods, you don't get to decide how something is seasoned. You don't get to add flavor according to your geography, your story, your table.

Shauna started buying cookbooks and reading them cover to cover in bed before turning out the lights at the end of the day.

In my case, I have my bigmomma cookbooks which some of them might be older than I am.

Our goal is to feed around our table the people we love. We're not chefs or restaurateurs or culinary school graduates, and we shouldn't try to be. Make it the way the people you love want to eat it, and the way you love it.

During a three-month period after Shauna's last book came out she traveled to twenty-two cities to speak at forty-four events.

Near the end of that season, she became aware that her appetites were escalating. The longer she was away from home the more intensed her appetites became.

She was all feasting and no fasting - all noise, connection, go: without rest, space, silence. At one event, she licked the icing off a cupcake right as she walked onstage to speak, mouth full of sugar and butter as she walked up the steps to the podium. She lost her manners and lost her ability to slow down.

You say grace before meals.
All right.
But I say grace before the concert,
And grace before I dip the pen in the ink. - G. K. Chesterton, "A Grace," Collected Poetry

Shauna feels that women feel shame about two things: their bodies and their homes. She feels men have no shame about their homes. She thinks for men its about paychecks or cars and these are stereotypes, but in her house, they hold true.

When she and her husband were first married, they lived in a one-bedroom town house so small they couldn't sit at their kitchen table at the same time, and the only place for her husband grand piano was their bedroom. It was mostly a big piece of furniture on which to pile their clothes, but sometimes in the middle of the night, Aaron would terrify her out of sleep by sneaking out of bed to play "Great Balls of Fire" at a shattering volume.

Their first home was not fancy, but it was their first home together.

In the years they lived in that tiny home, they must have had a hundred parties.

You'll miss the richest moments in life - the sacred moments when we feel God's grace and presence through the actual faces and hands of the people we love - if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.

She doesn't knock herself out for picky eaters. Homes are are not restaurants and your host is not a short order cook.

Depending on medical condition of your loved ones and friends some may not be able to eat certain foods so that should be taken into consideration when inviting guests into your home. I know of one person who was taking radiation and was at a business meeting and he could not eat smoked meat. He was doing well until he went to this meeting and he thought that the turkey meat was baked and it was smoked. He had a little back set, but he is doing well now back in his office.

Shauna is learning that feasting can only exist healthfully - physically, spiritually, and emotionally - in a life that also includes fasting.

Some things only come by fasting and prayer.

A few years ago she went to a natural health doctor, after a particular indulgent summer. She was getting sick more easily than usual.

No one changes their life until the pain is unmanageable, and in all sorts of ways for her, the pain level had reached the unmanageable point. She followed his advice for more than four months. She felt great. She lost some weight, started sleeping better, didn't ache at all.

Her work these days is to find that fine balance - allowing her senses to taste every bite of life without being driven by appetites, indiscriminate and ravenous.

Me, myself I am not having any problem staying on my level. For it is just the way I was raised to eat and I have lost weight and losing weight. I am not starving and I am not on any weight loss medications - injections. Just back to the basic. My doctor placed me on the diet that I am on and then I decided to take another look at my bigmomma's cookbooks and nutrition list.

During Christmastime we find ourselves most tempted to abandon Christlikeness in favor of overspending, overdoing and overconsuming, but she finds it to be true: the season that centers around the silent holy night; the humble baby; and the star very quickly becomes the season in which we over - everything - overspend, overeat, overindulge, overcommit, all int he name of celebration.

Let's honor the story - the silent night, the angels, the miracle child, the humble birth, with each choice that we make.

Food and cooking are among the richest subjects int he world. Even more, they sit us down evening after evening, and in the company that forms around our dinner tables, they actually create our humanity. - Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb

For more than thirty years their church has been giving food to families in immediate need all over the city.

Hunger upsets her. It upsets her and makes her angry.

The Church is at its best, in her view when it is more than a set of ideas, when it is a working, living, breathing, on-the-ground, in-the-mess force for good in our cities and towns.

The last several times the Cooking Club has gathered, they've talked about hunger. They are moms, and aunts, and sisters. As they talked about hunger, privilege, waste and wealth, they talked about how easy it is to settle into a lifestyle of accumulation.

This is how they arrived at the Cooking Club garage sale and bake sale with all the proceeds benefiting the Care Center.

They earned a thousand dollars for the Care Center.

A thousand dollars in the face of a problem like hunger in a city the size of Chicago isn't that much. It's so easy to think that because you can't do something extraordinary, you can't do anything at all.

She wants to be a part of making sure the kids in her town, and in every town, have breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and she wants to be clearer about what money can and can not buy.

Gather the people you love around your table and feed them with love and honesty and creativity.

I was sent an advanced review copy of this book from Zondervan.

Shauna Niequist is the author of this book as well as Cold Tangerines & Bittersweet. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Aaron, and their sons, Henry and Mac. Shauna writes about family, friendship, faith, and life around the table.

Wordpress vs Overblog ... How My Account Was Suspended

I was updating my angelawatkinsblog (http://angelawatkinsblog.wordpress.com) last night with one of my writing profiles(http://angelawatkins.overblog.com) and as soon as I edited my "wordpress blog" with my writing profile it was suspended in the administration-edit.

Angela Watkins - http://angelawatkins.overblog.com

I have that same writing profile at my "blogger blog" and "pinterest" and there is no problem with it.


My Blogger Blog: http://angelawatkins57.blogspot.com and as soon as I edited my "wordpress blog" with my writing profile it was suspended.


Angela Watkins - http://angelawatkins.overblog.com

I have that same writing profile at my "blogger blog" and "pinterest" and there is no problem with it.

Angela's Blogger Blog: http://angelawatkins57.blogspot.com

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