TIS WONDERFUL FOR ME TO WAKE EARLY IN THE MORNING WITHOUT A SET ALARM GOING OFF. The naturally built-in alarm clock that wakes me has not always gone off early in the morning so when I am waking early without an mechanical alarm, I am starting the morning in a better mood. Seems I have more energy as well.
My THURSDAY morning has been quiet and I had time to read some before my HUSBAND and our company woke up. After I had my morning bathroom break, I sanitized the vanity top. Can I get a cheer of thanksgiving that it finally was done? It only took a few minutes and now it is shining pretty. grins. I can see my reflexion staring back at me. Relief that it is cleaned.
Each morning, I should sanitize parts of the bathroom then by the end of the week, the bathroom has received attention and not been neglected, but is sanitized.
There was a time I could clean the entire house in a day. Those days are long gone. I've had to change my pace. Important thing is, the cleaning is still getting done. The timeline has changed.
I worked on paperwork early this morning and straightened up the items on the side table area beside my recliner. This area tends to morph into a mess so easily. My old 2025 bill book is waiting for me to transfer important papers into the new 2026 one. This month I'll get to this a little each day and watch less TV in the evenings.
We are getting ready to detox from the squawk box (television) as some call it. The talking heads on the internet can become a distraction from spending time in a more productive way. I know firsthand about dat. I am proud of us for not watching television through the day, but work on other matters. I remember the day, a lady in one of the Bible Studies I attended said she did not watch TV during the day. I was impressed because I usually had our TV on for background noise when I was home alone.
I no longer watched SOAP OPERAS. I didn't watch talk shows or sitcoms. I did watch some Christian programs and felt justified in doing so as to feed my soul. The radio would be tuned into Christian programs and music. These days, I no longer listen to the radio except while driving the car somewhere. I am contented to the quiet these days. Teaching programs have been exchanged for the quiet which feeds my soul in a different way.
I don't seem to have the need to constantly be listening or watching others on the radio, television or computer that have ministries. My cup is full. I use to be a parched sponge wanting to be drenched in a Christianity lifestyle that wasn't real not knowing it wasn't real. Twas a fantasy world I was headed toward. I got into troubled getting fed by false teachers and manmade prophets that I had no idea were in the wrong. I made a mistake of thinking that these entertainers had to know more about the Christian life than I could possibly have. I made the mistake of thinking I had no testimony and did not embrace the beauty of being BORN AGAIN in Christ. I failed to see the miracle of what happens when being BORN AGAIN.
I failed to acknowledge how awesome it is to receive eternal life and be filled with the Holy Spirit. I'd learn later in life that I experienced a life changing supernatural event by receiving Christ as the SON of GOD and my personal SAVIOR saving me from myself, a fallen creature living in a fallen world. My human spirit had become regenerated. I was sealed for the day of redemption. I'd been pulled out of the fire and called by name. The lamb of GOD, Jesus, saved me, but I failed to know that after being born again, I had gone from the darkness into the light. I failed to embrace that I was a child of the most high GOD inheriting the mind of Christ. I failed to accept that I was now a member of a peculiar people and became a chosen person of GOD. I did not accept that I had received blessings from GOD. How dense and deceived I was.
I marveled at false teacher's sermons, speeches and talk shows. I was enthralled by what they said. There were so many conferences I attended and drove for miles to attend their speaking engagements. Hours spent being a part of the madding crowd was on overdrive. As the years have passed, my desire to know GOD for myself increased and spending time alone with HIM without a corporate setting became the norm for me. I wanted to know what it was I was to believe as a Christian.
My road of recovery from being mislead by scripture that was twisted to being a stable woman took time and years. I sought God for myself without referring to what the word of faith clones twisted and preached as truth. There is abuse in various places. The JESUS they created was another creature than what HE really is. They changed HIS ways from BIBLE BASED to another realm of greed for takers.
I am contented to not rub elbows with clones that had twisted the scriptures to mean something that God never intended for the scriptures to mean. When you attend so many services where the preachers continually go to the same scriptures over and over to back their point of view to achieve getting the bucks from the hungry people sitting in the audience then it might get your attention that there is an entire BIBLE with much more to offer than the few verses that they preach about getting rich in the material way. Materialism abounds. How can you debate that there are so many others in other countries plus in the States that do not have great materialism, but glow with a radiance so bright it cannot be denied that they're far richer than someone that bases their self worth to the material possessions they have such as a house in the Hamptons? A yacht floating at a harbor? A Rolex watch resting on their wrist? A automobile that can fly as well as travel on the highways? Tattoos inked all over their body? Body piercings in places where the sun don't shine? Gold chains weighing down the torso of an individual to where it hurts the back?
Constantly, false teachers and preachers even Bible based churches shame us into not being a good enough steward with what we do have and we should be giving offerings plus tithing so we receive God's blessings. We are not focused on the GOODNESS of GOD, but we are focusing on paying GOD off with our money so we get money back and supposedly blessings of some sort. It works well for the ones that are saying this to the ones in the audience or listening over the air waves. It takes money to spread the GOSPEL and by the way I am wanting a new tour bus and/or jet so I get to the places I need to go FASTER without having to wait on flights and deal with delays. Did you notice the mansion I have in various places in the world? AND to defend their luxurious automobiles, watches, clothing, etc. they have or desire, they will inform you that a worker is worthy of their hire. Your money offerings are for them, not the KINGDOM of GOD. Behavior modification without the HOLY GHOST is often the approached used. Shame, shame. What you are in Christ isn't shared. Misinformed statements are spoken along the lines that you are not doing very well and need to improve your giving to the church.
Where is GOD'S truth being taught from the pulpit?
The books and tapes I purchased during this time in my life when I was following the word of faith teachers were plentiful. I should have quieted myself at HOME reading for myself at a pace that worked for me instead of rushing through life thinking I was not honoring GOD enough.
The books and tapes were disposed of. I have my BIBLES. After wondering why certain churches did not hand out buckets of money to the people that were gathering to support their philosophies that if you give money you will get money, the financially troubled churches should have been giving away money to get money to dissolve their own financial problems. Right? Instead they hammered the people to give them more money so they would supposedly get rich quick. "You are a god," would be preached instead of submitting to the real GOD.
One video I watched in disbelief was P a u l a White-Cain taking an offering at a very poor church in the south telling the people if they couldn't give money, she'd accept their jewelry. She is presently our President's spiritual advisor. Paula. He has attached his wagon to a false teacher/preacher.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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