Moi Thoughts: July 2009

Bible Study Time.....

Teaching Bible Studies is one of the most amazing practices an individual can partake in. There is nothing quite like the feeling of watching revelation hit a soul that is hungry as each one involved studies the Word of God together. Even more empowering, enriching and encouraging is to see those involved receive the Holy Ghost, to see them receive a renewing in the Holy Ghost, to see them receive restoration back into the place that God has for them in the body of Christ and to see them be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins. Also, the benefits of being a teacher of a Bible Study is the opportunity to strengthen one's own knowledge of the Word of God and to grow in Holy Ghost wisdom and understanding. Not to mention, the excitement experienced from winning a precious soul to God and stealing another person out of the grasp of Satan.

Another fun part of holding Bible Studies is the fellowship that one receives while studying together. Building relationships with each individual involved and getting to know them in a deeper way is a definite benefit. Having a Bible Study in one's home allows people to have a glimpse of the personal you. It allows each individual involved to laugh together, to snack together, to pray together, to bond together, to love together, to cry together, to reach together, to learn together, to grow together and to expand their vision of the kingdom of God. Bible Studies provide us an opportunity to explore how each of us fit in and contribute to this amazing culture called the family of God.

Many Bible Studies I have taught in my lifetime and many souls have I seen God bring to deliverance through the revelation of his Word applied to our lives. God has blessed my life by allowing me an opportunity to be used in this manner in his Kingdom. Some of my favorite Bible Studies are: 1.) Life and Times of Jesus Christ (great for a youth bible study), 2.) Into His Marvelous Light, and 3.) A Place Prepared for You. One of the most exciting experiences during one of my Bible Studies was in a coffee shop, while teaching a college student "A Place Prepared for You." The revelation of Baptism in Jesus Name hit the young lady being taught. Lights came on in her eyes as tears began to pour down her cheeks and she grabbed my arms, shaking me crying "Anna, I see it, I SEE it!" Needless to say, it was definitely an exercise in self-control to keep myself from shouting and worshipping all over that coffee shop!

There has never been a more rewarding effort in my life than that of teaching Bible Studies and that of sharing the Gospel with a hungry soul. My education cannot compare and traveling the world cannot compare. The perfect car, the perfect home, the perfect shopping trip, the best laptop and most current phone technology is all cool stuff, but cannot remotely compare to the feeling of being a small part of leading someone to The Cross. Some might ask if this ministry of teaching Bible Studies is only reserved for a chosen few. My answer would be "absolutely not!" Anyone can be used of God in teaching Bible Studies. Are we perfect when we start out? Not by any means! However, the more one teaches the more one learns. And, when one applies Prayer and Fasting to their efforts, God helps to make up the difference.

2 Timothy 2:15 (Amplified Bible):
"15Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth."

Currently, I am teaching my first "Search for Truth" Home Bible Study. My heart races with excitement when I think of the miracles of revelation and truth that God is going to perform the next few weeks. This is my first time going through the dispensations of time and following the blood line of Jesus in my teaching efforts. Therefore, there is much studying going on to make sure that my teaching is on track and in complete accordance with The Word. If anyone has any advice, tips or input that will help me become a better teacher, I definitely welcome your input.

Have you taught a Bible Study lately? Have you reached out recently to someone with the Gospel? If not, try it, it's seriously addicting! If you really want a revolution in your life, Bible Studies and Soul Winning will rock your world! It has mine..........

Matthew 5:13-16 (KJV):

"13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

Burlesque?

I've been baffled because my father keeps bringing up his confusion, following our attendance to various conferences, as to why Pentecostal young ladies are emulating Burlesque styles of clothing and leggings. My father, who is also my pastor, is an extremely balanced man, so hearing him mutter about "why on earth do these apostolic ladies want to draw attention to their legs with short skirts and patterned hose? What is their purpose and intention for this?" is not a common thing. This has been odd to me, because even though some of the styles have been edgy, some have been cute and different, although not my personal style. Also, I did not grow up during the periods of time where knowledge of "burlesque" was common. So, I went on the internet to do some research and to see what he was talking about.

I do not mean for this post to be offensive to anyone, nor critical or cynical; therefore, have found the most modest photos that I could find (and have covered some portions of the photos with boxes to ensure less offense). This exercise was simply to conduct research to see what my father was speaking of. He is right. Some of the leggings, shoes, clothing abounding with feathers, satins, bows, and fluff are extremely common from the Burlesque sect of society. I absolutely, 100% believe in ladies being feminine and understand that there is a certain amount of fluff involved in femininity. My question for pondering within myself now consists of "what is the balance?" So, is there a good reason we are buying into this fashion? Is it ok because Paris promotes it, or Cosmopolitan magazine? Is some of the fashion in Pentecost becoming too edgy? What are your thoughts about it? Or is this whole post simply way out in left field?

What does Moulin Rouge and Apostolics have in common?

Home at Last......

I've been a traveling soul the last two weekends...... ;) First trip was to Colorado for the wedding of two great young people and for a campus visit and networking trip for my job. Congratulations Bro. Kevin and Sis. Raquel Goward! God's best to your future! The second trip was to PEAK 2009 in Tulsa, OK.

PEAK = Anointed, Life Changing, Amazing, Intense, and Incredible! Defining Moments: "Defy the Decline" by Bro. Nathan Morton. Thank you Bro. Morton for taking a stand and preaching it straight!!! We loved it and want more of that type of preaching! We need it to shake us, break us, and make us think, grow, learn, and define who we are, where we're going and what we truly believe in. More later.....

2nd Defining Moment: "A Wind, A Whale, and A Worm" by Bro. Myles Young. Wow....my heart is so full from this sermon, I don't know where to begin. Every time I think of it, I want to find a place to pray, to check my heart, to clean out the hidden places, to review my level of submission and obedience to God, my pastor and the God-given authority in my life. By the grace of God, the fear of God will be a defining force in my life. Thank you Bro. Young for speaking to me! I needed that, oh how I needed to hear this word from the Lord.... These 2 sermons are going into my preaching library and will be my manna for the next few weeks. It is my desire to glean every hidden treasure possible from these two sermons. The rest was incredible, but my heart grabbed on specifically and strongly to these two day sermons.

Colorado = Fun, Sweet, Reminiscent, A Blast and Ordained........

God did an amazing work this weekend. My heart had been leading me to visit CO, it was time to overcome a confusing encounter and to see God work in two defining ways. In the process, I reconnected with special friends, saw God do a work in an area of specific prayer and fasting, and received a specific healing in my heart and spirit.

My heart is full and I could go on and on, but my body and my brain are incredibly exhausted. For now....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! More later....;)

Craving Cheesecake!

I found this incredible Recipe on ....Bakerella's site. Now I just need to buy a springform pan and have a baking party. :) Maybe I could start my own Cheesecake Factory locally. ;) It would definitely be a boost to the business of the local gyms. :) Visit the site, and check out the photos of the baking process. Oh, just a warning, it will make you seriously crave some cheesecake if you are a cheesecake lover! Happy Weekend!

Recipe:

Cheesecake

2.5 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 Tbsp sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted

4 (8oz.) packages cream cheese
1.5 cups sugar
3 Tbsp flour
5 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 Tbsp vanilla
1 Tbsp lemon juice

Optional:
raspberry jelly
fresh raspberries
1 cup heavy whipping cream + 2 Tbsp powdered sugar
white chocolate

Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Combine graham cracker crumbs and sugar.
Stir in melted butter until moistened.
Pour the mixture into a 9-inch springform pan (3 inches tall). Press the crumbs into the bottom and 1 inch up the sides of the pan.
Bake for about 10 minutes. Remove and cool to room temperature.
To make the cheesecake filling, cream the sugar, cream cheese and flour with an electric mixer on medium until light and fluffy.
On medium low, add eggs one at a time, mixing well with each addition.
On low, add sour cream, lemon juice and vanilla just until combined.
Bake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes at 325.
Make sure to take it out of the oven before the center looks done. It will be kind of wobbly and it will move in one piece. The center will look more shiny than the edges. That's ok because it will continue to cook a little while it's in the pan.
Remove from the oven and let cool completely to room temperature.
Hope that it doesn't crack.
Go ahead and separate the cheesecake from the sides of the pan by running a knife around the edges. I also opened and reclosed the springform pan to help separate.
Chill in the refrigerator overnight. That's right. It's best to make this the day before because it needs plenty of time to chill and firm up.

Before serving: Heat up some raspberry jelly on low heat until the consistency is thin. Spread on top of the cheesecake. Refrigerate while you do the following.
Melt some white chocolate and put it in a ziploc bag or squeeze bottle. Draw abstract (see first photo) shapes on wax paper and let dry.
Pour some heavy whipping cream in a small chilled metal bowl. Add 2 Tbsp powdered sugar and beat the cream on high until it becomes firm and thick.
Remove the cheesecake from the refrigerator and spoon on whipped cream or use a decorating bag with a 1M tip to decorate.
Top with fresh raspberries and white chocolate decorations.

Why the Political World Hates Sarah Palin.....

This satirical essay by David Kahane pretty much sums it up..............

July 07, 2009, 4:00 a.m.
I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin:
The Republicans bring a knife to a gunfight, and lose again.
By: David Kahane
Check it out online....Here

One of the most terrifying moments of my political life came last summer at the Republican convention in St. Paul. No, I don’t mean seeing John McCain careering around the Xcel Energy Center like Eyegore in Young Frankenstein, his face frozen in a Lon Chaney Sr. rictus grin as he reached across the aisle to his erstwhile friends in the media and got his hand bitten off. Rather, I’m referring to the aftermath of Sarah Palin’s outrageous acceptance speech, which whipped up the Rotary Club delegates into a frenzy of white-boy fury that not even heckling by a brave Code Pink embed could deter. Truly a fascist classic and one that sent shivers down our collectivist spines.

Even worse was the glaze of horror on the phizzes of the assembled heroes of the Mainstream Media. Andrea Mitchell — yes, the very same Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, whose employer saw no conflict of interest at all when she married then Fed pooh-bah Alan Greenspan — stood there gaping like a frog while the rest of the assembled Finemans and Matthewses and Olbermanns scurried around like roaches when the light gets turned on: What the h*** just hit us? For one horrible moment, it looked as if the carefully crafted plans of David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, George Soros, and the Second Chief Directorate, first department, of the old KGB were about to gang agley.

Not only were we offended at the sheer effrontery of McCain’s pick: How dare the Republicans proffer this déclassée piece of Wasilla trailer trash whose only claim to fame was that she didn’t exercise her right to choose? Where were her degrees from Smith or Barnard, her internships at PETA, the Brookings Institution, or the Young Pioneers? We were also outraged that the Stupid Party had just nominated a completely unqualified candidate nobody had ever heard of, a first-term governor of Alaska whose previous experience consisted of a small-town mayoralty. As opposed to our guy, Barry Soetoro of Mombasa, Djakarta, and Honolulu, a first-term senator nobody had ever heard of, whose previous experience had been as a state senator (D., Daley Machine) in Illinois. After eight long, illegitimate, lawless years of ****BUSH**** tyranny, how dare you contest this election?

And so the word went out, from that time and place: Eviscerate Sarah Palin like one of her field-dressed moose. Turn her life upside down. Attack her politics, her background, her educational history. Attack her family. Make fun of her husband, her children. Unleash the noted gynecologist Andrew Sullivan to prove that Palin’s fifth child was really her grandchild. Hit her with everything we have: Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, taking a beer-run break from her quixotic search for Mr. Right to drip venom on Sister Sarah; post-funny comic David Letterman, to joke about her and her daughters on national television; Katie Couric, the anchor nobody watches, to give this Alaskan interloper a taste of life in the big leagues; former New York Times hack Todd “Mr. Dee Dee Myers” Purdum, to act as an instrument of Graydon Carter’s wrath at Vanity Fair. H***, we even burned her church down. Even after the teleological triumph of The One, the assault had to continue, each blow delivered with our Lefty SneerTM (viz.: Donny Deutsch yesterday on Morning Joe), until Sarah was finished.

You know what? It worked! McCain finally succumbed to his long-standing case of Stockholm Syndrome (“My friends, you have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency”), Tina Fey turned Palin into a see-Russia-from-my-house joke, “conservative” useful idiots like Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker hatched her, and finally Sarah cried No más and walked away. If we could, we’d cut off her head and mount it on a wall at Tammany Hall, except there is no more Tammany Hall unless you count Obama’s Tony Rezko–financed home in Chicago. And it took only eight months — h***, Sarah couldn't even have another kid in the time it took us to destroy her. That’s the Chicago way!

Yes, my friends, it’s once again time to quote Sean Connery’s famous speech from The Untouchables, written by David Mamet — the lecture the veteran Chicago cop gives a wet-behind-the-ears Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner, back when he was a movie star) while they sit in a church pew. “You want to get Capone? Here’s how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way!” If you just think of us — liberal Democrats — as Capone you’ll begin to understand what we’re up to. And we just put one of yours in the morgue.

I don’t know why I’m telling you this, but maybe now you’re beginning to understand the high-stakes game we’re playing here. This ain’t John McCain’s logrolling senatorial club any more. This is a deadly serious attempt to realize the vision of the 1960s and to fundamentally transform the United States of America. This is the fusion of Communist dogma, high ideals, gangster tactics, and a stunning amount of self-loathing. For the first time in history, the patrician class is deliberately selling its own country down the river just to prove a point: that, yes, we can! This country stinks and we won’t be happy until we’ve forced you to admit it.

In other words, stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party, because it’s much more than that. We’re not just the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition. Not just the party of Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Richard J. Croker, Bull Connor, Chris Dodd, Richard Daley, Bill Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Emperor Barack Hussein Obama II. Not just the party of Kendall “Agent 202” Myers, the State Department official recruited as a Cuban spy along with his wife during the Carter administration. Rather, think of the Democratic Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.

If you had any sense, you would start using our tactics against us. After all, you have a few lawyers on your side. Sue us. File frivolous ethics complaints against all our elected officials until, like Sarah, they go broke from defending themselves. (David Paterson would be a good place to start.) Challenge the constitutionality of BO2’s legion of fill-in-the-blank czars — none of whom have to be confirmed, or even pass a security check. (Come to think of it, neither did Barry.) Let slip your own journalistic dogs of war, assuming you have any, to find Barry’s birth certificate, his college transcripts, whether he applied to Occidental as a foreign student, and on which passport he traveled in 1981 to Pakistan with his friend Wahid Hamid, for starters.

You might also want to think about interviewing New York literary agent Jane Dystel, who a) contacted the totally unknown Obama in the wake of an adulatory New York Times piece in 1990 and b) got him a $125,000 advance for a memoir that c) he couldn’t write, even after a long sojourn in Bali, which d) got the contract canceled, whereupon e) Dystel got him $40,000 from another publisher, following which f) the book finally came out to glowing reviews and g) Obama fired her. Wouldn’t she have an interesting story to tell?

Of course, you won’t. You’re too nice, too enamored of history and tradition to realize that the rules have changed. Remember, I live and work in a town where, “Hello, he lied,” isn’t a joke; we men of the Left are perfectly comfortable lying, cheating, and stealing — hello, Senator Franken! — in order to attain and keep political power. Not for nothing is one of our mottos, “By Any Means Necessary.” You see, we’re the good guys, and for us the ends always justify the means. We are, literally, shameless, which is why Bill Clinton is now a multi-millionaire and Eliot Spitzer is already on the comeback trail.

In Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, “the fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.” This is the book that “Reset” Rodham (what ever happened to her?) and BHO II grew up reading and continue to live by. If you don’t understand that that’s the way we see you — as the enemy — then you’re too dumb to survive. Remember that for us politics is not just an avocation, or even just a job, but our life. We literally stay awake nights thinking up ways to s**** you. And one of the ways we do that is by religiously observing Alinsky’s Rule No. 4.

Did Sarah stand for “family values”? Flay her unwed-mother daughter. Did she represent probity in a notoriously corrupt, one-family state? Spread rumors about FBI investigations. Did she speak with an upper-Midwest twang? Mock it relentlessly on Saturday Night Live. Above all, don’t let her motivate the half of the country that doesn’t want His Serene Highness to bankrupt the nation, align with banana-republic Communist dictators, unilaterally dismantle our missile defenses, and set foot in more mosques than churches since he has become president. We’ve got a suicide cult to run here.

And that’s why Sarah had to go. Whether she understood it or not, she threatened us right down to our most fundamental, meretricious, elitist, sneering, snobbish, insecure, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders bones. She was, after all, a “normal” American, the kind of person (or so I’m told) you meet in flyover country. The kind that worries first about home and hearth and believes in things like motherhood and love of country the way it is, not the way she wants to remake it.

What you clowns need, in other words, is a Rules for Radical Conservatives to explain what you’re up against and teach you how to compete before it’s too late. Luckily, since I care about money even more than I care about politics, I have just such a book in the proposal stage, currently making the rounds of various publishers, assuming any of them are wise enough to take me up on it.

And, yes, this time it really is personal.

— David Kahane is pushing for a new national holiday to commemorate the destruction of Sarah Palin, and is hopeful that his senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, will co-sponsor it, along with Henry Waxman in the House. You can second the motion at kahanenro@gmail.com or on Facebook.

Happy July 4th!

This year, I not only pray that God Blesses America but that He would also Help America. Each day, it seems, we travel further away from the greatness we used to be so proud of. We need God back in America again!

Have a Happy and Safe Independence day.....

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