I used to work in Cardiac Rehab. One of my duties was to teach the people about diet and exercise. One day I walked into a room containing a bright-eyed 84-year-old woman who was sitting in a chair dressed to go home. There was something about her that told me that she was not to get the normal teaching session. So I sat down and asked her some questions. I asked her if she grew up and lived on the farm all her life? She replied, "Yes, I did". She acknowledged raising her own vegetables, putting up fruit from her own trees and vines, eating yard eggs, butchering her own chickens, hogs and beef. She ate head cheese, souse meat, lungs and livers, fried chicken and fish from the lard melted from butchering her own hogs. I thought to myself, this can't be! This flies into the face of all I was taught to teach the people. Yet, this lady was 84-years-old and this is the first time she has had any heart problems. She was ready to go home and plant her garden. I told her that there was nothing I could say to improve upon her lifestyle and wished her well and to keep on doing what she was doing. While I also know genetics play a role, her healthy lifestyle is reinforcement to her long life.
My next patient was in is early 40s and ate store-bought food all his life. He moaned and groaned about getting out of the bed to walk the hall. She was strong at 84, up and out walking without complaint.
I wish I had the will to stay away from the hot fudge sundaes....
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It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. (Psalms 118:8)
I agree; better to go the "clean food" route and have real butter in moderation than dastardly chemicals textured and conjured to resemble butter.
I did have to stop my love affair with heavy whipping cream. (In my coffee.) Goodness. I've graduated down to half and half, and learned to drink coffee without sugar. Maybe the occasional Tbsp or so of honey and a dash of nutmeg. The problem is, there's no way to do cream in coffee in small amounts. You either put the right amount or you don't use it. And if you put the right amount, well...the right amount of whipping cream in coffee is a sin in and of itself. The Eighth Deadly.
OMGosh! You are not kidding! I absolutely LOVE Columbian coffee with vanilla caramel cream and I use Stevia instead of chemical sweetener or sugar.
However, the caffeine in the Columbian coffee makes my heart race and I cannot drink it anymore. So I am settling for organic decaf. very mundane but will do until I make up my mind to quit drinking coffee all together.
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It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. (Psalms 118:8)
When I read that the first thing that came to mind was a man in a straight jacket and an old Dr Demento song playing
"They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
They're coming to take me away, ho ho, he he, ha ha,
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young
Men in their clean white coats and
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile
And twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young
Men in their clean white coats and
They're coming to take me away! "
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Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
Good grief this thread started out so stalker-esque... ewwww...
But all the talk about natural food made it worth having a peek. Yes do eat the real stuff when ever possible. The current food pyramid is designed to sell products that are produced on government subsidies cheaply- corn, wheat, veggie oils, even petroleum byproducts are found in our food.
Easy rules for healthy eating:
Eat as close to the ground as possible Veggies, meats and fish, fruits.
Eat as close to raw as possible.
Avoid anything that comes in a package.
If you must eat packaged or canned food no more than 3 ingredients on the lable. Example 1.Greenbeans, water, salt. 2. Oats.
Example of good food:
Wheat, water, butter, salt, honey, yeast.(Bread)
Cream, salt (Butter).
Example of bad food:
Ingredients: lliquid soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, water,whey, salt, vegetable mono and di-glycerides, soy lecithin, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, artificial flavor, phosphoric acid, vitamin a palmate, beta carrotine. (Margarine)
It only took four ingredients to get a piece of my homemade bread and butter but somehow it took over 30 to get a piece of store bread and margarine. That is because food is now produced with esthetics, shelf life, waste control, ingredient cost, travel-ability and many other factors that have nothing to do with feeding you healthy in mind. As a matter of fact your nutrition is at the bottom of a long list of concerns for food 'manufactures'. Fortunately God already gave us everything that we need to be healthy
Easiest question to ask yourself when making a food choice is: Could someone have eaten this 100 years ago? If not pass it up
I received this in my inbox from an "anointed" man of God.
WOW.
Thoughts????? Opinions???? Anyone else receive similar VooDoo?
I got the same VooDoo warning too.
Does this mean we are of the elite few Miss Bratt?
__________________ You can't reach the world with your talents. People are sick and tired of religious talents. People need a Holy Ghost annointed church with real fruits to reach out and touch their lives. ~ Pastor Burrell Crabtree
In fact I think that the insinuation of "hateful" Pentecostals is coming mostly from the fertile imaginations of bitter, backslidden ex Apostolics who are constantly trying to find a way to justify their actions. ~ strait shooter
I have not had time to read the entire thread but the message sent to Miss Brat looks like something that was written in a foreign language and then was sent through the google translator to turn it into english.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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very mundane but will do until I make up my mind to quit drinking coffee all together.
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