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Why Do You Believe That?

Posted on by Christy Petty

The Nina Pinta and Santa Maria, with Christopher Columbus,  never landed on the coasts of the USA, or any North American coast.  I was taught a lie in school, for years. I think they still teach the same lie.(Along with others).  Technically,he did not ‘discover any land, any New World, because the lands he ran into on his way to India/Asia were already inhabited, with Native ‘Americans’. Peoples who had already populated the area’s. Chris did get close, by accident, but no cigar. Or maybe he did get a Havana because he did land in Cuba. I will give him some credit, he did find some ‘new people’ to tell others about. He did somewhat prove that the earth was round and not flat as many ignorant people believed,at that time. He was a great explorer. Though, some say he was not so great to the ‘natives’ he found. He tortured them and enslaved them, which to me is also ironic that the USA would celebrate ole Chris with a national holiday.

I realize more EVERY DAY, the lies we were/are told by the powers that be through media and educators(government influenced).

What was all the government  shut down about? Was it  the Republicans in the senate don’t like President Obama and his Obamacare?.  Is it because the USA does not have enough money to pay it’s bills? Or is it that Obamacare does not work on the internet? Does the website not work because we ran out of money and cant pay our internet bill?  The Debt ceiling had something to do with it, because it got raised.  Kind of backwards thinking actually. Debt means you are in the hole, so the way I see it is ,we actually just dug the hole a bit deeper. Some of the truth of the shutdown is in this article

One main point I think should be taken from this is “Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt.”  The USA is not out of money. We The People are giving money daily to the government, via taxes taken from our pay checks and the numerous taxes  we pay daily on fees and gasoline and purchases. The money for paying employees, and maintenance and upkeep of parks and government buildings is already budgeted and set aside. Just as our SSI and Medicare is. (supposed to be).  The money was/is there. Even IF the monies were frozen (they were not) pay does not come at the end of each day.  The reason people were furloughed and parks were closed and gliches occured with food stamps is because the evil President and his liberal crohnies were blackmailing those that are trying to save this country , by deceiving We The People into believing the sky will fall ,if we don’t have our government to hold it up. The President wants MORE MONEY to run HIS empire. The senate has asked the president for a budget, and to keep to the budget. The president has refused.

Why do we believe the earth is flat? Why to we believe it is round? Why do we believe a man should be honored for getting lost ?Why do we believe only Africans were enslaved peoples? Why do we believe dinasaurs died off before man walked the earth? Why do we believe blood letting with leaches will cure? Why do we believe wheat is a good food source? Why do we believe public education is best? Why do we believe someones soul leaves their body when they sneeze?  Why do we believe immunizations cure and not infect? Why do we believe only an MD can deliver a baby? Why do we believe we should be free of the tyranny of the Old World monarchy?  Why do we believe chemical additives  are needed in our foods? Why do we believe the side effect is better than the illness? Why do we believe independence means dependence on a government? Why do we believe prejudice is to not agree with someone of a different origin? Why do we believe it is respectful to recognize others idol gods?Why do we believe the world is getting warmer? Why do we believe there was an Ice Age? Why do we believe we can control the climate? Why do we believe in one true God? Why do we believe guns kill people? Why do we believe our government will and can protect We The People from all harm? Why do we believe someone must be crazy to stand and speak of God and His displeasure with this nation? Why do we believe it is right to give support to peoples who will not work? Why do we believe that stopping a beating heart is not murder, as long as it is inside of it’s mother? Why do we believe conservatives to be oppressive and liberals liberating? Why do we believe Obama is a black man? Why do we believe anyone who does not bow down to the liberal dictatorship of our government is of the rebel Tea Party?  Why do we believe a husband is a male and a wife is a female? Why do we believe it is wrong to think that? Why do we believe the President is removing all of the citizens liberties and moving us to communism? Why do we believe there could be a classless society and freedom?

We believe what ever ‘they’ tell us. Truth and lies.  Some of us get lucky and we hear the truth we know it, and believe it. Sometimes we get experienced and we learn the truth. WE ‘got’ Celiac, so we KNOW the truth about wheat.  Some of us get caught up in the rhetoric. Some of us know the truth but are too afraid to stand up and point out the lie. Some of us would rather be dumb and never search out the truth, never take responsibility. Some of us don’t want to admit we are wrong, our pride keeps us down. Some are willing to loose their freedom, but not their lives because they have no hope for change. Even though they voted for it. Some are willing to loose their lives for freedom because they know the only hope is the Truth.

Posted in Rants Raves

Change in the Wind

Posted on by Christy Petty

I know, I know, I know. I changed the look of the blog TWICE in 24 hours.  But most of you don’t follow me that close, especially if I don’t post, which I haven’t.  I will though, get back in the swing of posting. Another change.

The season is changing, so my routine may too. Or my lack of routine, may change to another lack of. We are not 100 plus anymore, just a a bit  below. Clouds have been teasing us for a couple of weeks, a change. No rain though, so no change there.

Still gluten free, always will be, no change, ever, there. Always cooking a different dish every night , never the same thing 2x a week, unless it is left overs.

I went back to teaching my favorite Sunday school, Firm Foundations, a change from a change.  So Sunday’s I HAVE to go to the first hour again. Got a purpose again.

I have 3 grandkids in school now and 2 in preschool. I don’t get to have a few here during the week, just to have em. I HATE this change. :(. But it is so fun to hear them all talk about their lessons, their new friends and to see them grow more everyday.

We are planning on adding some out door landscaping soon, a change. We will be working and scheduling people to work. We will have an amazing outdoor world soon

A stray showed up a while back, not really anything new. I started my usual fostering and searching for it a home, nothing new in that either. It attacked my mini horse and one of my dogs and taught my dogs some BAD behavior. I caught it, caged it, and took it to the nearest animal shelter. BIG change of heart for me!! I used to only take animals FROM ‘kill’ shelters.

One of my closest friends moved to Dallas. HUGE change. Her son gets to play football,. She will see her husband every night because he will be working in the same town they live in. Her girls will have a homeschool coop and be making many many new friends. I miss her, but what a positive change for her!  We will change to be 99% text and 1 percent calling. Instead of 80% text, 15% face to face and 5% phone calls. She hates to talk on the phone. I hate to text.  We will change.

Someone was trying to convince me to get back into activitiesin the church the other day, assuming the changes with the new building and the new church were the reason I had stepped away a bit. I responded with- “Change is NOT the problem the changes we had in our church were NEEDED!  I like change, I change always. If things are not changing then nothing is moving or growing.”  I believe this to be true.

Change is necessary. If no change is happening, then things become stagnant. Stagnant stinks. You get stuck. No change is like quicksand.

So many people refuse to change their thinking and realize eating bread at every meal is NOT necessary, gluten full or gluten free.I hear celiac diagnosed folk say  ” I am just used to having my toast in the morning, it is hard to change.” Really? Toast? Doctors refuse to change and still insist positives must be seen on gluten intolerance tests (that don’t work) before a diagnosis is made for Celiac. Doctors wont change their thinking and see a gall bladder attack or lymphoma’s or skin reactions as symptoms of something else, like an autoimmune disease, like Celiac.  Change is hard for some, I think because they are afraid. Afraid of stepping outside of the box. Afraid of trying something new. Afraid someone might judge them. Afraid to trust themselves. Afraid they may be wrong. Afraid they may be right.

I say change, or be very very afraid.

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1 Corinthians 14

Posted on by Christy Petty

Spiritual gifts are gifts from God. The exist and only through God. I have heard it said that we can possess only one gift, or that God gives one specific, and then will bless with other gifts in times of need.  I am not sure why those teaching on gifts need to set man made rules and interpretation on the gifts from God, I personally do not read God’s Word to say one gift per believer.  In 14:1 it says to desire giftS, especially prophesy. This sounds like it is for us to only ask and want and God will give.  I think the most important thing to know is God does gift us with spiritual gifts, to do HIS work, for HIM. Once a believer, we are given the tools by our Father to walk our walk well. 

14 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. 2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. The ‘tongue’ here does lean to being a language for God. IF in this circumstance it is, it is obvious it is not meant to be a bunch of mumbo jumbo BABBLE in front of a bunch of men. It is praying, speaking conversing with God, and I still think in OUR own native language.   3 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. 4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. To have a gift, such as prophesy, that allows one to tell of God, His Word, the meaning of His Word, is a gift to everyone.  5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.  Paul wants everyone to converse with God, but more so to speak God’s Word to others. 

6 But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching? 7 Even things without life, whether flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played? 8 For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle? 9 So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance. 11 Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.  First remember the attitude of these people, many think they are ‘better’ than others, because of their prestige, and possibly because they can MAKE themselves speak mumbo jumbo and claim it is ‘God’ speaking through them.  SECOND: IF tongues is ‘God’ speaking, how is that of use to anyone if no one can understand.  So instead of getting attention for yourself by babbeling, speak the TRUE words of God, to explain God’s wants of man. 12 Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel.  Addressing the attitude again, don’t make up a gift blessing that is useless, ask for one that is for others. 

13 Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret. 14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding. 16 Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not understand what you say? 17 For you indeed give thanks well, but the other is not edified.  If you speak in tongues, you need MORE, or you are useless.  Obviously saying there is more than one gift per person. 

18 I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all; 19 yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

 

20 Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be babes, but in understanding be mature.

21 In the law it is written:

“With men of other tongues and other lips
I will speak to this people;
And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me,”[b]

says the Lord.

22 Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.   It seems Paul is saying that tongues is a different language not mumbo jumbo. Seems he has found a nice way of saying you that brag about tongues are faking it. Like a bunch of kids pretending to speak a different language. 23 Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say that you are out of your mind?  If the Corinthians all stand around and speak mumbo jumbo, and unbeleivers come, they will not hear of God.  If a church denomination gets caught up in their own legalist rules of don’t do this or wear that, instead of just living out God’s true Word, then unbelievers will never hear the Truth.  24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all. 25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.  Hearing the Truth and nothing but the Truth from those who live the Truth, one can not help but believe in the one true God

26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. 30 But if anythingis revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.   Don’t compete to  be HEARD and seen. This is about GOD not you.  Let ‘new’ interpretations, and ideas be studied between other believers, don’t spout out every worldly thought, this only confuses those who are seeking the truth. 

34 Let your  women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says. I HATE this.  I want to believe this is about these Corinthian women being over bearing and needing to find their place.  These Corinthians are messing up EVERYTHING in their church. BUT women, especially ‘church’ women over step their bounds more often than not, I think this pertains today, to all of us. 😦  Just think how much different things would be if Eve had just asked Adam, or if Sarai had discussed her fear of never getting pregnant with Abram, instead of giving him her servant 35 And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.  Shameful? REally Paul?

36 Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached? Don’t know if he is addressing women still.  I think this could be teaching for anyone who has tendency to interpret the Word to fit their agenda. AND to point out to ALL that God speaks the Word, not any MAN, EVER.  37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.  Remember ignorant is to be uneducated, not knowledgable of, it is not being an idiot. 

39 Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues. 40 Let all things be done decently and in order.  

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What are You Standing On?

Posted on by Christy Petty

Well, I wouldn’t back away from what’s right just because it’s hard. My father used to say: plant your feet and stand firm. The only question is where to put your feet.   This was a line spoken by President Vampire Killer Wife Character Mary Lincoln.  I like it.

I believe this. I try to live this, make decisions based on it.   God has been saying this to me over and over and over and…. Ever read Esther? Esther 4:16 I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

Our media and government is for and against, mostly against  Edward Snowden THE whistleblower.Ed ward revealed what he sees as a wrong against the citizens of the United States.  The government and much of the media that feeds us says he has jeopardized all of our ‘safety’, because now the ‘enemy’ can know how we watch them and protect ourselves from them.  I am not sure that is true. I think the government is like the bully, or the middle child, they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar and then have to point the finger at everyone else and their wrong, to take the attention off of themselves.  Edward took action, he stepped up, he sacrificed his comfort for what he believes is important.  He said “you can’t wait around for someone else to act. I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.”

Abusers intimidate their victims with threats to cause harm to them, or their family members, then and they will play on the sympathy they will tell the victim of the harm to the abuser the victim will be responsible for, if they tell. Not the same thing? I think it is.

Why did Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight stay in captivity, for 10 years?  What brought Amanda to the point of finally sticking her hand out of the door? She still feared. I suppose, she finally came to the point of being more afraid of never being free.

People doing wrong, manipulating and scheming,to get what they want, will not take the blame for their wrong. They do wrong and lie to EVERYONE to do what they want to do. I think they believe their own lies.

Intimidation. Coercion. Bullying. It exists because somewhere somehow ‘we’ have stepped down. We don’t stand up. We give in to be socially, politically correct. Why? Because we fear. We fear rejection, losing our jobs, losing our status. We fear physical harm. We fear retaliation. We fear we may be wrong, standing for the ‘wrong’ thing. We fear we will be alone.

We hear of bullying in the schools, which is intimidation, which is coercion. It is NOT just in school it happens EVERYWHERE. The government. The school. The home. The workplace. The church. In all relationships, parent vs. child, husband vs. wife, employee vs. employer, doctor vs. patient, student vs. teacher,  pastor/elder vs. parishioner, man vs. animal, buyer vs. seller, gluten free vs gluten full, government vs. We the People. Liberal vs Conservative. …. All of this VS goes visa versa.

Because we want to not make waves. Because we don’t want to be accused of being tattle tales. Because we want the other guy to do it. Because we don’t want to lose a friend. Because we don’t want to expose and hurt others wrongs. Because ‘they‘ may not believe us and believe the ‘lie‘ instead. We compromise.

 

com·pro·mise [noun1.a   settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.

2the result of such a settlement.

3.something intermediate between different things: The split-level is a compromise between a ranch house and a multistoried house.

4.an endangering, especially of reputation; exposure to danger, suspicion, etc.: a compromise of one’s integrity.

verb (used with object)

5.o settle by a compromise.

6.to expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.; jeopardize: a military oversight that compromised the nation’s defenses.

Ironically Snowden compromised #6  by #6 compromising the government by not compromising his values. He also compromised #6 himself, by not compromising his values.  

The difference between a ‘good’ compromise and a bad compromise is the difference between ‘1’  and ‘5’.    Good compromise: Keith and I with cats; He does not like them at all, especially in the house.  I love them and want them to sleep with me.  Compromise: They live outside, get to come into garage for overnights if weather is horrible, and visit me in house if Keith not home. I have to deal with Keith throwing them out if he comes home early ;).   Bad compromise:  doing ANYTHING because you FEAR losing ANYTHING.  Not DOING the right..

We concede when we let the doctor intimidate us with his ‘knowledge’ and order test after test and pill after pill for an illness caused by wheat.  We compromise. We cover the the evil.  when we don’t expose the liar. We compromise.  We give in by not doing our work, our calling, our best because those ‘above’ are conspiring wrong.  We back down when we ignore the wrongs, the broken law, the immorality.  We surrender to fear, when we let evil continue. We compromise

On ’41’ George HW Bush said the true wrong of Nixon was not the listening in of the Democratic campaign,everyone finds out things about others in politics.  It was the cover up, the lie’s created in order to not be caught.

The insider trading Martha Stewart was ‘caught’ doing, was actually her just knowing of a deal before it happened, through an acquaintance, and acting on it. It was the attempt to cover up the lie of why she did what she did  that was the problem. She conspired, or compromised to cover herself.

A doctor not knowing everything about gluten intolerance is not a problem. A doctor, because he is the one with with the ‘education’  ignoring the facts, the elimination of symptoms with wheat removal, the patient’s input, knowledge,is the problem.  A doctor compromises his oath of ‘first do no harm’ when he gives into the pride of the degree and the kickbacks of the pharmacuticals.

The government intelligence having ‘spy’ techniques is not the problem.  It is them using the techniques on citizens of America, to find out what ever they want is the problem. The government using it’s power to intimidate to cause fear of the free people, to cover their sins, to keep their control, is the problem. The government compromises itself in order to keep on top of the people, everyday.

The boss, the CEO being aggressive,striving for the best, competitive, is not a problem, it brings success. The executive being driven in order to be in power, in control  of his employees is a problem.  A head bullying the competent, experienced, because they refuse to be intimidated is a problem.

In Esther, Esther’s uncle Mordecai overheard a conspiracy to kill the king. He reveals this to Esther, who in turn tells the king.  Mordecai gets no recognition for this,(till much later) he asks for none, he just does what is right. Hamen,is  a man given too much power and wants for more. Hamen is a bully he wants to intimidate, all like Mordecai, Jews, because Mordecai will not compromise and bow to him.(I think he is a wee little man, a kiss ass a brown noser, willing do do whatever for the one with power, even lie, JUST to have some power himself) Hamen conspires to kill them all, and lies to the king to get his way. Plays on the fear of the king, that the king will be destroyed by these evil people. Mordicai does not run, he does not hide, he does not compromise. Mordecai wails for his people, he calls to Esther persuades her to stand strong for the truth,“Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”Esther does not compromise she does not fear “I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

Hamen(the corrupt government, the company tyrant, the appointed leader) is so sure of his position, that he did nothing to attain, in disdain for someone of better character of himself. So blinded by his desire to be a leader, in power. Too sure.  

When the king hears of the conspiracy to kill the jews, the people of his queen. When he realized he himself was used to bring about the demise of these people that he was manipulated, he is furious. Hamen was hung on the gallows he had intended for Mordecia. 

None of this would have come to pass,  a king would have been assassinated.  A population of people, Jews, annihilate because of prejudice of a single man, a bully, if ONE man had been intimidated, and compromised and said nothing.  

How many ONE’S have compromised, to the demise of hundreds? Thousands? Nations?

How many have put their trust in man, others and themselves and been obedient to the flesh.

What if just one, maybe YOU put your trust only in God and were obedient only to Him. “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work” (John 4:34).

2 Samuel 22:31As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

Jeremiah 17:“Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength,Whose heart departs from the Lord.6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,And shall not see when good comes,But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,In a salt land which is not inhabited.7“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,And whose hope is the Lord.8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,Which spreads out its roots by the river,And will not fear[b] when heat comes; But its leaf will be green,And will not be anxious in the year of drought,Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

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Same Ol Story New Cover

Posted on by Christy Petty

I have been working on changing publishers for my cookbook Throw the Wheat in the Sea, for a few months.  I went through the many many steps to revise with my previous printer/publisher in order to get it into ‘brick and mortar ‘ distribution (Barnes and Nobles) . Made the few corrections I had and  found that the printer had changed the options on book covers, so had to change my book cover, then I ‘ordered’ my proof, so I could then turn around and approve the printing.  I did all of this because Lulu had said I must revise, to  ‘order’ the brick and mortar option. In the end, of it all I found Lulu had changed it’s programming and I would actually have to start over completely, which I almost had in revising. Only difference was I was not assigned a new ISBN.  I then decided to go back to my original thought and change publishers, bite the bullet and download and use Firefox browser, I did, and it has been soooooooo simple!

This is lots and lots of techno stuff to say I have RE published my cookbook!! It is now being published through Createspace– You can order it here    CreateSpace eStore:  and by clicking on the picture of the cook book on the right side of the front page of this blog.  Soon it will be available through Amazon AND you can order it through Barnes and Nobles also.  It would be oh so grand if you ask Barnes and Nobles to have a couple on their shelves!! AND your library can have one placed on their shelves too, if someone asks.

I did change up the cover some, not a lot though, because of the cover options through Create Space. The price of the book is $18, seems expensive but for over 200 recipes I think it is a good deal.

Go buy lots and lots today– Tell your friends, your gastrointerologist, your GF groups, everyone that Throw the Wheat in the Sea is available through Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Creates pace and could be on the shelves if your just ask!!

As Elvis would say, Thank you very much.

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Weeping with Pride

Posted on by Christy Petty

We here in our drought parched land have received rain two days in a row. Blessed rain. God has opened up the clouds for us. I wonder why our drought is here. What should we learn ,how should we repent? I also wonder on the reasons of God bringing the rains to us.

Weeping with Pride.

Thank you God, for the rains, in spite of our not deserving. Thank you God for your Son, allowing us Living Water