| Heaven
Ministries August 2006 Volume 4 Issue 33 |
Marriage Alive Newsletter |
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| Articles Motivated by Love 5 Healthy Ways to Save on Your Monthly Groceries Joke of the Month Monthly Devotion for Mom's
Heaven
Ministries Updates Love
The Woman You Married
Finally, the companion book to Love The Man You Married is finished! God knew what
he was doing when he created Eve for Adam. First He created Adam a strong
powerful male specimen. God did not make another Adam for Adam. Instead he
made a smaller more feminine version of the first, with a few variations
in the sexual organs and personality and she was amazingly beautiful. He
made sure that when He created Eve that Adam was going to find sexual and
emotional pleasure from this new feminine creature. And it was good!
(Quote taken from Love The Woman You Married)
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What motivates you? You
wake up in the morning and you decide to make a positive change in your
life. Maybe you decide you want to stop a bad habit that has been
controlling you. Maybe you have decided to start your own home based
business. Maybe you want to spend more time with your children or work on
your marriage. Or, maybe you have decided to wash all
of your windows inside and out. Our attitude plays a big
role in many of our positive life changes that we make throughout our
lifetime. Unfortunately, our attitude can also bring about many negative
results also. I would venture to say that when an individual wants to do
something positive and productive with their life, no matter what it is,
they are being motivated by love in some way shape or form.
Besides using coupons and
scanning your community advertisements for the grocery and sundry products
that are on sale, here are several other tips and tricks for saving on
your groceries and staying healthy at the same time.
When
your favorite imperishable food and sundry products come on sale, don’t
just buy one or two, buy ten, fifteen or twenty. For an example in our
family of five, we only use extra virgin olive oil and that tends to get
expensive. Occasionally it comes on sale and when it does, depending on
how many gallons we buy, we usually save two dollars per gallon. This
amounts to anywhere between $20 and $40 dollar saving just on olive oil! Olive
oil lasts indefinitely in a tinted jar or can away from light.
If
you can limit the buying of boxed and processed foods you can save a
tremendous amount of money each month and eat better too. For instance
take a box of instant potatoes vs. a ten pound bag of potatoes. Which
do you think is more food in the long run? Fresh potatoes are also
healthier for you than the dried version.
Boxed
sugary cereals are good, no doubt about it, but they also don’t last
long when you have three children. Cereal tends to get expensive when the
average box of cereal cost $3.50 and only last for two days. I did the
calculations, and for one month buying boxed cereal for just two children
will cost around $52.50 just for breakfast! Boxed cereals are a waste of
money and they aren’t good for you.
Wondering
what you’re going to eat for breakfast if you don’t have boxes of
cereal in your cupboard? Make homemade granola, add milk and enjoy. Your
kids will love it. Granola tastes good and is healthier than the other
boxed sugary cereals. You can add nuts, seeds, raisins, figs, sesame
seeds, blueberries, pumpkin seeds, coconut flakes to your granola to
prepare it the way you like, and it’s healthier. The possibilities are
endless. Oatmeal
too, is a tasty hot cereal. Prepare the oatmeal as directed and add apple,
raisins, cinnamon, and a little real butter, yummy. Hot
foods keep your children satisfied longer than those sugary cold cereals.
You can also make oatmeal cookies using half the amount of sugar it calls
for and you would be getting less sugar than the boxed cereals. Crumble
the cookie up, add milk and enjoy! Make oatmeal honey bars. Freeze them
and take out what you need the night before.
I
know that schedules and time constraints has a lot to do with how we eat
and what we eat. But did you know that healthy eating makes us more
productive and happier in the long run. No one wants to feel run down and
bloated because of not eating right. Get that crock pot
out from under your cupboard, get a crock-pot cook book, throw the
ingredients in and let the pot do the cooking. Ironically,
by cooking your own beef, chicken, lamb, pork, etc in your crackpot you
will be saving money. Why? Because fresh food makes way more food than
those frozen dinners ever could. By putting a roast and some potatoes in
your crock pot before you leave for work, you will not only be saving
money but you will also be eating healthier. Your family may eat two or
three times on your crock-pot pot-roast. Crock
pots make better stews and soups because it cooks the food very slow and
gives the food a chance to come out with all its flavors. Crock pots are
very safe and can be left on while you are at work. Go ahead, let the pot
do the cooking. A man goes to his doctor and says, "I don't think my wife's hearing is as good as it used to be. What should I do?" The doctor replies, "Try this test to find out for sure. When your wife is in the kitchen doing dishes, stand 15 feet behind her and ask her a question, if she doesn't respond keep moving closer and asking the question until she hears you." The man goes home and sees his wife preparing dinner. He stands 15 feet behind her and says, "What's for dinner, honey?" He gets no response, so he moves to 10 feet behind her and asks again. Still no response, so he moves to five feet -- still no answer. Finally he stands directly behind her and says, "Honey, what's for dinner?" She replies, "For the fourth time, I SAID CHICKEN!"
by Jill Hart Resting in the Lord Recently, my 4 year-old daughter asked me to get down a toy from up on a shelf that was too high for her to reach. “Just a minute,” I said to her, “I’m right in the middle of something. Let me finish this up and then I will get it down for you.” A few minutes later I heard something scooting across the carpet in her room and then a large thud. I found her lying in a pile of dress-up clothes with a tipped over pink plastic chair on top of the heap. When I asked her what had happened she admitted that she hadn’t wanted to wait for me and so she took matters into her own hands and tried to reach the toy by standing on a chair. As I reflected on the incident later that day, I realized that I act the same way in my spiritual life. I ask the Lord for something and if He doesn’t immediately bring it about, I take matters in to my own hands to try to make it happen. God’s Word tells us that we are to have self-control and that we are to trust Him even when his answer is “Wait.” We are to trust Him, resting in the knowledge that He will do what is best for us. Psalm 37:7 tells us, “Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for Him.” Fellow mom, have you learned to rest in Him? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jill Hart is the founder of
Christian Work at Home Moms, CWAHM.com.
This site is dedicated to providing work at home moms with opportunities
to promote their businesses while at the same time providing them
spiritual encouragement and articles.
FEED THEM
WITH LOVE
“If
a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you
say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding
ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it
profit?” James
2: 15, 16 King
James Version If
we see people who are hungry and don’t feed them, it will be impossible
to prove to them that Jesus loves them. It is the same
with people who are hurting and desperately need to know that someone
cares about them. If we don’t put our arms around
them and hug them for Jesus, all our words are in vain. When
we see people that are cold because they don’t have the proper clothes,
if we don’t make sure they have warm clothes, all the preaching in the
world won’t convince them that Jesus loves them. We
must put action to our words. It is not enough to tell
someone that Jesus loves him or her; we need to prove it to that person by
our actions. Jesus is Love! We must
feed people the love of Jesus so they not only will know that He loves
them, they will want Him as their personal Saviour. There
are many cold and lonely hearts that desperately need the touch of warmth
from our Saviour. Has
there been a time in your life when you were discouraged and needed
someone to remind you that Jesus loves you? If so, then
you know how painful it is to feel like you’re all alone with a heavy
burden. If we want people to encourage and love us,
then we must
also encourage and love them. There are too many one
sided relationships in this world. We must treat others
as we want to be treated. Are you feeding your family,
loved ones and friends the love of Jesus? Do they see
Jesus living in you? Joanne
Lowe July 16, 2006 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I
hope you enjoyed this issue of the Heaven
Ministries Newsletter.
God bless!
Copyright 2006 Heaven
Ministries
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