Saturday, 13 August 2016
Encouragement For Today...Have You Lost Your First Love?
To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, . . . “Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.” ~ Revelation 2:1, 4
The risen Lord Jesus asked His servant, John the apostle, who was exiled on a small Greek island, to write some letters to a group of churches for Him. And that’s how we know what Christ thought about the church! He wrote to the believers at Ephesus and reprimanded them because they had lost their zeal and first love for Him.
What do you think of the church? Do you consider it outdated, boring, cold? Have you ever stopped to think what Christ thinks of it? He tells us in the Book of Revelation. The church is not a building, but the people that meet inside it. It is not somewhere you go, but something you are!
First love motivates us to serve others.
If God sent you a letter telling you He was upset with you for losing your first love, how would you respond? How would you answer His letter?
Everyday we should make an effort to spend time with the lord who loved us first even before we loved him. Renew ourselves in Him by waiting on Him. When we do that our lives will be immaculately lit, the presence of peace from the lord will rest on us. The grace to also love others will come upon us and struggles and trials will become easier to bear because we have the Lover of our soul right next to us, bearing the burdensome load with us.
Return to your first love today, will you?
Stay blessed
By Jill Briscoe and additional words by somethingbeautifulandblessed
Return to your first love today, will you?
Stay blessed
By Jill Briscoe and additional words by somethingbeautifulandblessed
Planting Seeds When Kids Are Young
By Jill Briscoe
A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:2
You don’t plant seeds in frozen soil. You don’t wait until autumn to prepare the ground. You plant seeds in the warm moist springtime. That way you have a chance to pluck up that which you have planted.
I take every opportunity I am given to tell young mothers these things. It’s hard to be a young mom these days. Many a single parent is left to cope with two or three toddlers. Trying to juggle a job and manage a home leaves little time to plant seed thoughts from God’s Word in the moist soil of a child’s springtime.
I am convinced the first five years of a child’s life are vital. What they learn in these years shapes much of their future. This is the time to talk of Jesus and His friendship, and of God their Father and His care. This is the time to share picture books of their Savior, and to tell stories that make Bible people walk off the pages and become their friends.
Read time is seed time! It will have to be a priority or it will never get done. The Devil will see to that. He hates the little children and their springtimes. But if you would harvest a crop of Christian children who would minister to others, and perhaps to you in your old age, you will have to minister to them in their youth!
Culled from:http://justbetweenus.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=216264
Dukan Diet, Queen of All Diets.
It has been called The New Diet That Works Wonders.
Jennifer Lopez and super model Giselle Bunchen say that's the trick to getting bodies like theirs.
The question however is what is this diet, and why is it different from every other diet on the planet?
The diet is very simply called, The Dukan Diet.
Created by French physician, Pierre Dukan about 10 years ago, the diet is broken up into 4 ‘phases.’ The length of phases depends on the amount of weight you want to lose. Phase 1 is short, but Phase 2 can last weeks or months if there is a lot of weight lose. Phase 3 is the "in between" of weight loss and maintenance, then Phase 4 is supposed to be the lifelong part of this.
How does it work?
All phases are heavy on protein and light on carbs, similar to another famous ‘diet doc’ in the States, Dr. Atkins. And all phases are low in calories (because of this strict rules), though you’re not asked to count calories and can eat as much as you want, whenever you want.Phase 1 — eat as absolutely much lean protein as you want, take 1.5 TBS of oat bran daily, and drink 1.5 L of water (about 6ish cups). That’s it. No veggies. No fruits.
Phase 2 — stick with the unlimited lean protein, but this time every other day you can add in unlimited non-starchy veggies (like green leafy veggies and celery are examples). And, up your oat bran to 2 TBS per day.
Phase 3 — you know the drill — unlimited lean protein, veggies are now allowed daily, 1 piece of fruit, 2 slices whole grain bread and 1 or 2 "cheat" days where you eat whatever you want.
Phase 4 — this is where you’re supposed to maintain. There are no "rules" per say, outside of 1 day per week going back to one of the all protein days in Phase I and continue with the oat bran, 3 TBS/day at this point.
Oh yeah, and exercise. According to the book, 20 minutes/day of walking is all it takes. Just 20 mins of walking, no running, how easy is that!
We have our eyes on this diet and will be sharing our results with you. Slimmer and healthier body here we come.
Additonal info from: http://www.menshealth.com/weight-loss/j-los-fat-loss-secret-the-dukan-diet
Friday, 12 August 2016
Smart Money Challenge With Tosin Dada
Write down 3 Short Term Money Goals
Your Financial Task today is to write down 3 short -term money goals.
Identify the three most important short term money goals on that list and focus on them first.They probably all seem important but which top three would make the biggest impact in your life within the next 90 days -1 year.
Rumour Has it. Season 1 Episode 3
Obi decides to move back home with her parents like her mother advised, and a meeting with Wole's parents puts any hopes of mending her marriage in jeopardy.
Encouragement For Today: You Are A Good Thing.
Read Proverbs 18:22
Almost every single woman is consumed with the desire to get married. There are so many women who are longing for a relationship when they aren't entirely ready to receive it. It is the same even with married women, women in business and women in ministry.
If you are going to walk with God so that you can receive the best of everything, you must understand one thing.
Timing is Everything.
When God prepares the right man for you, and you for him, that man will show up at the right time and so you must be at at the right place with the right perspective to receive all that God wants to release to you.
Proverbs 18:22 talks about a man, that when he finds a wife, he finds a good thing and obtains favour from the lord.
Often because of old issues that you haven't quite dealt with or old wounds that haven't healed, you may find yourself wandering around in a stupor somewhere, emotionally unprepared for a healthy relationship, then you won't be able to be the "goodness" that your husband is meant to enjoy in your relationship.
Unless you are healed and whole, your man will not feel that he is enjoying the Lords favour in his relationship with you.
If you are a woman in ministry or business, you must first submit to the Lord and seek him so that He can make your path straight.
Jeremiah 29:11-13 says “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
For single women, the minute you understand that men do not exist to bring the favour of God into your lives, the better you will be able to deal with life's experiences. As Women in business or ministry, the minute we understand that only God can bring us profit and help us to bless people in a profound way, the easier our work becomes.
Every woman regardless of her position and desire needs Gods guardiance and favour. The only way to get Gods favour is by knowing the Lord passionately and intimately, by walking and working in His power and by worshiping Him with your life.
Stop going around looking for a husband, for an idea, for an opportunity. When you walk with and in the Lord, he brings divine connections your way in a supernatural manner.
When the hand of God is upon you and your business, you will not need to announce your success or arrival because your work will praise
you in the gates even before you enter into it.
God is a master planner, the best planner. No wonder the bible says seek ye first the kingdom of God and every other thing will be added unto you. Let go and Let God.
Do what you need to do in order to be fully restored and recompensed. Walk in obedience to the Lord, He will make you a woman of strength and grace and wholeness, and when He has touched your life, your business and your ministry will ooze goodness because the Lords hand will be upon it, and your husband will shout it from the rooftops "I have indeed found a good thing"
Original Title: A God Thing by Bishop T.D Jakes Woman Thou art Loosed Edition
Addtional Words and Commentart By Somethingblessedandbeautiful
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Soft Drinks and Alzheimers. Why you should stop NOW!
True, there is nothing better than a cold coke on a sunny day or a glass of chilled fanta with real orange slices in it (sorry that doesn't make it healthier) to cleanse your palate after some deliciously cheesy pizza right?
Well, a lot of things taste great but not all of it is good for you. A diet in high fructose not only makes you add on a few kilos, it can surprisingly damage genes in your brain. Scientists at the university of California have recently found that out. This means that the changes in genes caused by the high fructose sugar found in soft drinks can have really huge implications that have been linked to Alzheimer's, heart diseases and diabetes.
Another trick is to stop buying soft drinks to be stored at home/work.
Kicking a bad habit is never easy but with help from friends and family, It should be a little easier. Gods speed.
Rumour Has It Episode 2
This is a riveting and moving story of Obi, a successful Nigerian vlogger and the emotional turmoil her husband, his mistress, and his family put her through.
If you've never seen Nigerian movies before, welcome and enjoy.
We will post a new episode everyday.
If you've never seen Nigerian movies before, welcome and enjoy.
We will post a new episode everyday.
RIO 2016: Yolande Mabika Fighting for her Family at the Olympics.
Meet Yolande Mabika another representative on the ROT, (Refugee Olympic team)
As a young child Yolande was separated from her family during the Congo Civil War. This was during the deadliest conflict in modern African history that left more than 5 million dead and millions without a home.
All she remembers is running alone through her village, being picked up by a helicopter and left in a center for displaced children in Kinshasa.
Yolande says “I got separated from my family and used to cry a lot.” but then decided “I cannot cry every day…”, so she joined the Judo sessions in the camp, and it soon became her focus. She now says “Judo never gave me money, but it gave me a strong heart.”
Her skill led to her representing Congo, but when competing overseas, her coach would take away her and her teammate’s passports, leave them without food for days at a time, and cage them when they lost.
In 2013 while in Rio competing at the World Judo Championship, she and her team were left for three days in a Rio hotel before the competition with no food and no money. Yolande recalls “A few days before our fight, I was very, very hungry. I almost died.”
So she decided to escape the hotel with fellow teammate, Popole Misenga, and they ended up walking the streets looking for help.
Yolande and Popole seeked Asylum in Brazil, and approached the Brazilian Judo Confederation who gave them food baskets, medicine – and judo uniforms to train in.
Brazilian Judo Coach, Geraldo Bernardes took them under his wing, saying “Their previous treatment seemed to be subhuman. Here, everyone supports them.”
He got them to train towards and try to qualify for the Rio Olympics.
This month – Yolande and Popole are two of the ten athletes competing in the Olympics as part of the first Refugee Olympics Team.
Having no country to represent doesn’t phase Yolande. She says “I represent everyone. I’ll get a medal for all refugees”. She and the Refugee Olympic Team will be representing over 66 million displaced people worldwide – a number larger than the populations of England and France
She says “I cannot fight for my country. I will fight for the Olympics.”
“I will fight for all refugees in the world, to defend all refugees in the world.”
If Yolande’s story inspires you, ask yourself “What am I willing to fight for? How far are am I willing to go?”
Lifting a torch instead of casting a shadow is a choice we each get to make every day. Yolande’s story is about her choice – and how every Olympian represents, above all else, the human spirit.
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” ~ CC Scott
And her biggest goal of all? To reunite with her family: “If my family see me on television, I can give my number, everything. Because I want one day to talk even with my dad and my brothers… If I participated in the Olympics, I think it would change my life.”
You can follow Yolande’s progress at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games with the Refugee Olympic Team
Republished from: http://www.rogerjameshamilton.com/yolande-mabika-inspiring-story-about-finding-her-family-with-the-aid-of-her-skill/
Additional words and re-titiling by somethingbeautifulandblessed
Encouragement For Today: Who's Runway are you Walking?
1st Peter 3:1-12
Have you noticed that during a fashion show, The models always look completely put together. From the clothes to the shoes and to the walk down the runway itself. The designer isn't just concerned about the dress alone, he or she selects the right accessories, and creating the overall environment in which to show of designs.
If you were a model of life, who's runway are you walking? The runway of the world or of The Word?
God created you as a composite. He gave you certain talents, feature and personality traits. Then He added a variety of emotional responses and spiritual gifts. He was concerned about the total you and so made you whole-body and soul.
God designed you to be a vibrant, thinking, feeling, fully functioning person with a unique attractiveness.
He decorated you with far more than physical attributes.
God made you with flesh which is an outer appearance.
He has also blessed you with creativity and an appreciation for beauty. You can and should recognize your appearance as an area in which you can express yourself to the glory of God.
Know this - it is very important. Know that the outer you does not replace the inner you. The inner you does not negate the need for the outer you. You must have a balance. Remember that the inner qualities are eternal and therefore the most important. The inner qualities should give rise to the outer ones. In other words, it is who you are on the inside that should define what you choose to do with your outside.
The woman who is confident in the Lord may choose to wear a $1.50 dollar dress she finds at the thrift store or a $150 dollar dress she buys at an upscale department store. She is confident either way that her looks do not deter her character.
You see dear sister, the greater part of your beauty cannot be bought, taken off a rack, applied like a lipstick, or put on like a hat. The greater part of your beauty and attractiveness lies within you. It wells up from the inside and finds an appropriate creative expression on the outside. That's what Peter meant when he wrote that "the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit has a great price in the sight of God. (See 1 Peter 3:4).
God sees what no one else can see. That's the part of you that HE values the most. God bless you.
Title of Original Article: The Beauty of the Spirit by T.D Jakes, Woman Thou Art Loose Edition.
Additional words and re-titling by somethingblessedandbeautiful.
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
Riddle of the day!!!
Rumour Has It- Nigerian Soap
This is a riveting and moving story of Obi, a successful Nigerian vlogger and the emotional turmoil her husband, his mistress, and his family put her through.
If you've never seen Nigerian movies before, welcome and enjoy.
We will post a new episode everyday
If you've never seen Nigerian movies before, welcome and enjoy.
We will post a new episode everyday
Not all Africans are like this- It is Pretty Hilarious Though
Straight from Nigeria, Outta America.....
Left Over Foods for Losing Weight Fast.
Not only will eating left over food polish your wallet, guess what? It is an amazing healthy way to trim down.Researches say that every year, we throw out eight billion dollars worth of food. Unbelievable! That is a lesson for another day, today we will focus on reasons why eating left overs is in vogue for weight loss. Let's start with:
WHAT TO DO:
Don't reheat left over potatoes, eat them cold in a salad. Excess kilo lowering properties trimmed off instantly. Awesomeness!
Preppy Pasta and Pasta Sauce:
Pasta sauce on the other hand is full of tomatoes which when cooked and exposed to heat a second time has Lycopene. This is restructured in a way that makes it easier to absorb. People with high levels of Lycopene are 55 percent less likely to develop a stroke, this is because Lycopene reduces inflammation and blood clot risk which play a major role in stroke risk.
WHAT TO DO:
Choose whole grain pasta for its added benefit. also toss it into a salad. For the pasta sauce add some olive oil when you reheat, the oil in combination with the heat is what alters the shape of the Lycopene for added benefit.
Rice that has been boiled with a little oil and then cooled, when eaten helps you to absorb 50 percent less of of its kilo-joules. The combination of the rice and the cooling process changes the structure of the rice's starch, making it more resistant to the body's digestive enzymes.
WHAT TO DO:
Cook the rice with a teaspoon of coconut oil per half cup of rice and refrigerate it for at least 12 hours, the awesome thing is you don't have to eat it cold because reheating it will not alter the kilo reducing properties.
THE CORRECT WAY TO USE LEFT OVER FOOD
STORE: As soon as the food has stopped steaming.
REHEAT: Until they are hot right though and don't cool down to restore in the fridge more than once.
RESEARCH: Research recipes that you can use left overs with.
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