So you dont have to feel too bad after the holidays and those meals...

I am praying about offering to start a first place group for men only. It combines the spiritual, emotional, and physical in order to give men a handle on the weight thing. The program helped me loose twenty-five pounds, and keep it off (mostly!) Would be nice to get with a few like minded guys to deal with the old belt line and I am not talking about the street!

The way that it helped me most was: I did not really know of what good nutrition consisted. For me to maintain my targeted weight i need only to abide by my budget: 8 meat units, four units each of :veges,fruits, and breads. then two units of milk items and fat items. I came off of a "Adkins Hybird" diet, and the hardest part for me was that of cutting down my meats. After four weeks of making no progress, I was challenged by a leader to just try the actual program. When I did, to my geat surprise,I dropped three pounds. Not much, but it was my first success. After two go arounds, of the thirteen week group, I lost my twenty-five pounds. I since have gained seven back as I have gone through some stresses. Would like to get a handle on it again. Sadly one of my remedies when life is loosing it is to eat contraband. I think that if I had group of guys and a little accountability, I might get back in the discipline.

The thing that particularily grabs my attention right now is that in the last two months I have persnally witnessed two men who I knew up close who had, not a bad weight problem, but "just a little overweight" problem. This combined with the poor nutrition choices, alerted me to the eminence of death. Within a week of my eating a meal with one, and answering the call to pray for the other, they each died. I asked the second about his diet, and he said he used to worry about it but not any more. I have worried about this ever since. I felt like both were exemplary Christians and are already missed by more than their immediate family. Could either of these senseless deaths have been prevented? I don't know, but would be nice to get the information out to guys who have an ear to hear. What do you think?

The program costs a little for the reference books as to what constitutes a unit of meat, bread etc. And for instance how many raisins I can have to count one fruit. It is seventeen by the way. The miracle is that as Psalm 139 points out we are fearfully and wonderfully made and that I know right well. Eating a balanced diet adequate to support as much as 90% of a persons weight eliminates real hunger, and when emotional cravings are dealt with, the body doesn't scream too much. There are several acceptable "cheat foods" like carrots, or celery that give you that chew but don't really blow the whole day! Rather than try to tell a guy what he can not do, it gives him trade-offs. For instance you can have a huge piece of cheese cake if you are willing to walk to the top of the "empire state building" and back down a couple of times. That is how much sugar,fat, and carbs that you getting. It is okay to have a feast once in a while if you realize the trade-offs. Cutting only 10% of food needs does not throw the body into starvation mode, therefore adipose tissue is burned with out eating . Most diet programs cause the body to devour muscle first, and after it is over the last to replace is the muscle. Most of the toxins are fat soluble, so we have to drink an abundance of water to flush the system as the inches melt away. These are the kinds of lessons that we learn in the progress toward a heavenly bod! Does this sound like something you could make time to look into? Do you know anyone else willing to make a few changes. Please reply or call me. Hal

What do you do when you're facing a particularly stubborn problem? A problem
that resists your every effort to solve it?

Put the power of love to work on it! The power of love is the greatest power in
the universe. It's beyond defeat. It never fails (1 Cor. 13:8).

Having done all to stand STAND!

Having done all to stand STAND!

Thank you also for your faithfulness. I sincerely believe that there is a place open and waiting for the someone with very gifts and experience that X______ has to bring to the table! Having shared with him over the Christmas season, I believe in you and that your contribution will continue to be valuable!

1. . Keep the switch of faith turned on!
   
   (By that I mean; we remain expectant of the greatest of Job Opportunities.)
   
   
   
2. . Be faithful in the little.
   
   (By that I mean; keep doing the little daily disciplines that no one but God sees; prayer,bible, encouraging others)
   
   
   
3. . Corresponding Actions
   
   (By that I mean; do in your daily life what you would be doing if you already had the Prayer request. )
   
   
   
4. . Remember that you are not alone.
   
   (By that I mean; If you find your self down, contact someone who believes in God for some encouragement and prayer.
   
   
   Two are better than one and a three fold cord is not easily broken. If one stumbles, the other can pick him up.
   
   
   My experience has shown that close before the answer materializes, discouragement is the strongest.
   
   
   I have learned to take this lying symptom as a signal that the answer is near. )
   
   
5. Give and it shall be given you.
   (By that I mean look around for others to encourage, or even pray that they receive the very thing that you are needing. It helps me believe for others needs and it is much easier to stand in the gap for another than to stand alone for your self. )

Hope that these thoughts are more help than hindrance.

Hal

A time for all things

A time for all things

per Tommy H. Briggs, Sr. Associate Pastor, Freedom Ministries

Passage in Ecclesiastes a time for all things.

Time most valued commodity

No rewind, you will never be at this point of time again.
You will never see this second again

You can see the life of God in the face of people,
• the light of God can be seen in peoples' faces
  
• At times, when I am in public I like to see the faces of people
  
• light of God is in people's faces at times
  
• you can always tell the presence of God or
  
• lack of it in the faces of people in public
  

There is a seen and an unseen world in all people and in all places. Book of Job was the first written book of the Bible, it was the first concept that God thought was necessary for people to know. This is evidenced in the time of it's writing. If it was the first piece of inspired writing bearing God's message. It must have been the most important concept to understand. The first chapter features a dialogue. This dialogue shows God and Satan In this dialogue, Satan is not in the presence of God but God does invite him into the throne area of heaven. In it one can see that neither world was fully cognizant of the other one. It was not until God questioned if Satan had considered Job that Satan saw that Job had left an opening where by Job could be tempted. So the book of Job clearly reveals a heavenly and an earthly kingdom.

The God of the Bible is the only true God,
• but there are other gods
  
• both in the Bible and in our world today.

After the Children of Israel, left the Desert, God said I am the God who delivered you out of your slavery and out of Egypt , therefore, He required Worship and Honor as Such. There are other forces who would lay claim on them and will upon you if you surrender to those voices. but God is the only one with the right to do so. This is the contrast between religion and Christianity: We who are in Christianity are the ones that know the only true God. When we confess sins we are really forgiven, For so many years we walked around nor knowing this simple fact. To ask for forgiveness is to have it. .It is like throwing out the Garbage. We don't need to walk around with the junk any longer . Only by pitching the bgage of guilt may we walk in freedom. This is the way that we walk in freedom.

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Additional comments

Healing room is closed the weekend of Christmas, DEC 26-28.

Healing Ministry Response cards are only for people making Dedications, Rededications, Confessions of salvation etc. They are designed to prompt our followup volunteers to make a follow-up especially where new birth is indicated. The purpose of the healing room is strictly to disciple people .
We want to translate people from the outer fringes
to the center of God' will for their life.

A time for all things Ecclestias chapter 3

1. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
   
2. A time to be born, and a time to die;
   a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
   
3. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
   
4. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
   
5. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
   a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
   
6. A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
   
7. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
   
8. A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
   
9. verse 17 says:
   I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked:
   for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
   

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The Creed of the Teacher

I saw a man hungry today,

Gave him a fish his hunger to stay;

On the morrrow he returned again

To find relief from the pain within.

Now, thought I, to teach his hand

to catch each day his fish to can;

So bears he, his own self, the burden of life

And with the toil, wins the pride of his wife!

An old proverb adabted by Wes Gibsond

Basics of Healing

Dan Bennett presenter healing precepts and concepts

Prerequisites

God's Will for Health and healing

• 
  IIIJohn 2 Beloved I wish above all things that you would prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.
• 
  Psalm 107:20 God Sent his word and healed them and delivered them form all their destructions.
• 
  Isaiah 53
• 
  Isaiah 61
• 
  Luke 4:18
  

God's approach to mankind is typically very simple

• Naaman- go wash in the Jordan
  
• 10 Lepers Jesus healed - go report to the priests
  
• Miriam -Bitter waters

David sought the Lord ....pursue Him, OR don't pursue Him

The enemy tries to make it hard and confusing and complicated

• - don't allow Devil to succeed
  
• - whatever you do, don't help Devil !
  
• - watch your words, don't talk a lot about the circumstances

A key mission and purpose of the Holy Spirit is to

• guide,
• to teach, and
• to reveal
  
  Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show you great and mighty things that you do not know.

Be followers of Jesus

Doers of the word

Sign follow those that believe Mark 16:15

Purpose of salvation....

What does saved mean????

Holistic and complete word

Faith and Belief

To Know God is to respect Him

It isn't truth that sets you free ...
• 
  John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
• 
  John 14:6 Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• 
  To believe God's Word is to Honor them.
• 
  To live by God's Word is to Obey them.

God's One step Plan

• 
  Jesus the man receiving the anointing of God
• 
  in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit
• 
  Actions of Jesus showing us how to walk in the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
• 
  Five things in the process of healing


Mark 16:15
1. 
   Redemption of the Spirit
2. 
   Healing of the Soul (inner Healing)
3. 
   Healing of the Body (physical Healing)
4. 
   Freedom from demonic oppression
5. 
   In-filling of the Holy Spirit

I Corinthians 11:29

scripture

Fulfilling the Great commission is a commandment of God

• 
  Matthew 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
• 
  Matthew 10:11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
• 
  Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
• 
  Mr 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.



We will not receive if we do not believe
James1:5-8
5. 
   If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
6. 
   But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7. 
   For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8. 
   A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.



Trust in God


It was an 11 day journey across the desert that took the children of Israel 40 days,

when they doubted (disobey and disrespect) the Power of the Lord to deliver a victory
it instead took 40 years (a day a year)



Promises of God

The promises of God were always there, always valid, and God was always able to fulfill it.

but how many people did not put themselves in a position to receive it.
They did not believe and they did not obey.
All of them suffered for it!


The Anointing is for you



• Isaiah 61/ Luke 4:16 The Spirit of God is upon Me
• 
  
  Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
• 
  Definition of anointing God is with Jesus, i.e. God is with you
• 
  Jesus sent the anointer to dwell within us!
• 
  The word anointed means the same as the Hebrew "Messiah"
• 
  Christ is often, but not always a reference to Jesus.
• 
  Christ is sometimes a reference to the anointing (Philippines 4:13)
• 
  Christ is always a reference to the person and/or the action of the Holy Spirit.
• 
  Christian = Christ -person, one who is anointed.
  
• Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, but he has given you the Holy Spirit to be with you.
• 
  If you are a Christian, you also are anointed with the anointing of the Holy Spirit
• 
  Just as Christ was and you are operating in that model of disciples,



What is that model? ....




The Sending of the Disciples and the Great Commission

• 
  Matthew 10:1-8,40 scripture
  
• 
  Mark 16:15-20
  15. 
      And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
  16. 
      He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
  17. 
      And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
  18. 
      They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
  19. 
      ¶ So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
  20. 
      And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
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  Everything in the Bible is truly stated, but not necessarily a statement of truth (circa Ever increasing Faith, Dr Frederick Price, www.faithdome.org )
  1. 
     Our focus in scripture is on the life and example of Jesus as our prime model for how we are to conduct ourselves.
     
  2. 
     We do not focus on the people who came to Jesus;
         they are not our model
  
  
  Disciple- A person called and chosen to learn practical and theoretical knowledge form a master-
  
  as an approach in close relationship to the master.
  and in a position of submission and service.
  A disciple is a strict adherent to all that the master teaches.
  As an apprentice, a disciples' actions and works are meant to as nearly as possible, exactly replicate those of his master.
  
  
  Disciple from Easton's Dictionary,
  A child of Christ is one who
  1. believes his doctrine
  2. rests on his Sacrifices
  3. imbibes the Spirit
  4. imitates his examples
  
  
  5. Matthew 10:24
  6. Luke 14:26,27,33
  7. John 6:69

scripture

Matthew 10:24
24. 
    The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25. 
    It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. ......
    
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Isaiah11:29
29. 
    For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30. 
    For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31. 
    For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
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Isaiah 61:1-2
1. ¶ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2. 
   To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,


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Luke 6:18
18. 
    The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
    
19. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
    

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Acts 10:38
38. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

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Isaiah 53:
4. 
   ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
   
5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
   
6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
   
7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
   
8. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
   
9. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
   
10. ¶ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
    
11. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
    
12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
    


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