My Hebrew Name

I found this website that you can put your English name into and get the Hebrew name.

Here is mine:

Over the Top Blog Award

I received this blog award from Angie at Messy Cars and Muddy Shoes. Angie is a mother of a large family and the wife of a pastor. Blessings to her!

I nominate:
Michelle at Delightful Learning: her blog is over the top because she loves her YHVH and has great homeschool ideas.

Jen at Beautiful Mess: because she is such a sweet hearted, Christian woman who loves God and loves others.

H-Mama at Family Team: her blog is beautiful and her pictures are over the top awesome!

Rhonda at down to earth: She has over the top recipes, natural ideas and homemaking tips all the way from Australia!

Rachelle at With One Step: Her blog is cute and they have just adopted twin boys from China! They call them the "twin men". Those boys are totally over the top!

This blog award comes with questions that are supposed to be one word answers. ?? Is that even POSSIBLE? We women have 35-50,000 words that we have to get out of our mouths each day ~ AS WE BIBLICALLY HOLD THE TONGUE!! Hmmmm.... is this considered temptation? Thinking... slow to speak, quick to listen... Ok, that was ALL written BEFORE blogs!

1. Where is your cell phone? on the table next to me

2. Your hair? needing washed

3. Your mother? suffering from shingles but is well in Jesus/Yeshua!

4. Your father? just put in a new fireplace for her

5. Your favorite food? Mexican

6. Your dream last night? I pulled glitter out of my hair and sprinkled it all over (my secret wish is to be a pixie)

7. Your favorite drink? coffee

8. Your goal? uhhhh, that's too deep

9. What room are you in? the basement ~ but not for long!!!!!!!!!!!

10. Your hobby? decorating, painting, scrapbooking

11. Your fear? failure

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? busy with children

13. Where were you last night? church and our new house!!!

14. Something you aren’t? a phone talker (kinda makes it hard to get those words out!)

15. Muffins? lemon poppy seed

16. Wish list item? a home of our own again someday (it's on the way!)

17. Where did you grow up? in the house my mother grew up in

18. Last thing you did? took a nap

19. What are you wearing? jammie pants and my shirt from earlier

20. Your TV? don't have one until Christmas ~ my brother is giving us their BIG screen (husband: loving that!)

21. Your pets? Boxer

22. Your friends? becoming closer

23. Your life? Blessed and highly favored!

24. Your mood? very excited

25. Missing someone? uhhh, don't think so

26. Vehicle? dirty

27. Something you’re not wearing? anything constricting

28. Your favorite store? Salvation Army or anything thrift

29. Your favorite color? pink

30. When was the last time you laughed? yesterday

31. Last time you cried? not too long ago

32. Your best friend? Dream Latte

33. A place that I go over and over? Meijer

34. Someone who emails me regularly? my mom

35. Favorite place to eat? I don't know... I like food ~ I said, "LIKE"

Word For the Day

אלהים

Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 (NLT)

And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God's purpose is that people should fear Him. What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.

God:
H430
אלהים
'ĕlôhı̂ym
el-o-heem'
Plural of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: - angels, X exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.

Fear:
H3372
ירא
yârê'
yaw-ray'
A primitive root; to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten: - affright, be (make) afraid, dread (-ful), (put in) fear (-ful, -fully, -ing). (be had in) reverence (-end), X see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).

Blog Award

I feel so bad. Someone left me a blog award a couple of weeks ago and then I left for out of town. (Or I was out of town.) I didn't have time to pick it up and now I don't know where it is.

Can you help? Did you leave one for me?

Thank you,

Janet

God

I don't know who this is for but God just placed something in my mind to say:

God's love knows no bounds.

Have a beautiful day!

Holding the Tongue

Let me tell you, sometimes God decides to test me on holding my tongue. (Or practically biting it OFF!) That is HARD for me especially if I know you are wrong! (Hah!) It is HARD for me especially if the person is speaking out like a fool. Seriously, it's HARD for anyone I suppose but it's REALLY hard for me.

I know that there is a time and a place... yada, yada...

I was tested and I'm sure it won't be the last time. (Did you know that they don't stitch tongues? They just let them heal.)

Let me tell you, I have been in a great stretching and growth period for a long time now ~ WITH NO BREAK! I'm ready for a break... I guess I better just rest in Jesus because life IS growth.

A Little Update On the House Situation

Well ladies, it looks as though we will be in an apartment or rental house within the next couple of months. We could settle for anything and be in by the end of the week, but we are waiting on the LORD. I, personally, would like a miracle act of God. I would love to have an awesome story for how we found the "house". That's probably selfish of me but I so want to BRAG on my God.

There is plenty to boast about in the Lord... I don't know... just thinkin. I probably shouldn't do that!

We are going to look at a place but I just don't have that peace feeling about the location. Some of the other ones I have but they fell through or weren't a stable enough lease.

Thanking God Today

I am thankful for:
my awesome husband
the boys and their individuality
my vacuum
a safe trip
beautiful scenery
pets
my Hebrew roots
Yeshua
the ability to learn
the desire to learn
Spiritual gifts and the manifestation of them

the home we will have (SOON)
the crafts that I will be able to do
the children our God is going to bless us with

Wonderful Week (and a little excitement)

I love to go on road trips! We went to Tennessee for Thanksgiving to visit family. It was so wonderful! The dinner was great, the hospitality was great and we ladies went to a tea room! I don't often get girl time like that!

Espresso got to shoot a gun and go hunting. They didn't get anything but he got to use his own deer stand and be dressed in camo ~ head to toe! Double Espresso got to shoot a bow at targets and play with his little, adorable cousins. They had a blast!

You know, trouble and exciting times just seem to follow us! Thursday night we went to bed in the "Prophet's Chambers" at my Uncle's church. It really is nice staying out there but this night I woke up 3 times in about 3 hours. The fourth time I woke up is what started the excitement.

About 3 AM we heard 6 gun shots all in a row. It sounded like it was right outside the window but very well could have been down the road several hundred feet. We got up and looked around but didn't see anything. We prayed (because I was frightened) and laid back down for sleep.

About 3 minutes later, we saw headlights come in through the window. Two vehicles had pulled up into the church parking lot. One guy got out of his vehicle and got into the other one. (All four guys had the typical gang banger look.) We didn't know what to do. After a minute, they all drove away in one vehicle.

I called my uncle; turned out that they had heard the shots too. My uncle called the police and in a few minutes were there. They said that there had already been 3 shootings that night right down the street.

We had decided to go ahead and pack to leave since we were going to leave around lunch that day anyway. I wasn't going to stay out there and once we woke up the kids to go to my aunt and uncle's house, they wouldn't have gone back to sleep.

We were packed in about 15 minutes and out the door we went! I felt so bad leaving in the middle of the night like that but I knew we would be too tired for the drive home if we didn't. Turns out that the car that they left there had New York licence plates and is STILL there! Hmmm...

Thank You, Jesus

I received a word from the Lord at church tonight.

In response I say:

Thank you Jesus!

A Cool Story

I have to share a cool story about something that happened to me a couple of years ago.

I was at church (our first church) and was greeting parents that were coming in to pick up kids. This old man (70's) whom I did not know walked in to pick up his grandson.

He saw a brace on my wrist that I was wearing that evening and approached me. He asked why I had it on and I told him that I had tendinitis in the wrist and it was hurting.

He proceeded to ask if I believed that Jesus could heal my wrist. I said, "Yes! I do!" He said, "Be healed in Jesus name. Do you accept that healing?" I said, "Absolutely!"

This was the first time anyone had ever done that to me. I was excited and wouldn't you know, I haven't had a bit of pain in my wrist (a several year old injury) since that day.

Praise the LORD God.

I love Yeshua!! He is my Salvation.

Definition of the word: Yeshua

H3444
ישׁוּעה
yeshû‛âh
yesh-oo'-aw
Feminine passive participle of H3467; something saved, that is, (abstractly) deliverance; hence aid, victory, prosperity: - deliverance, health, help (-ing), salvation, save, saving (health), welfare.

Amen... let it be so.

Imprisoned for being...

I made the blog post below a while back and would like to update you. These two women have been released from prison in Ir_n. They were accused of and guilty of being Christians.

Praise the LORD!





There are actual people in our world who have been put in prison just for being a Christian.
Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad and Maryam Rustampoor are two such people. These two ladies are in a prison in Ir_n. You can read more about them here: Prisoner Alert

There is a way to reach out to them! You can write letters and send the letter right to them! If you go to the Prisoner Alert website, you can find others to write to also.

Thankful Thursday

Want to join in thanking our Father? Truth4theJourney

I am thankful for:

...the protection God gives even when we aren't looking!

...the Spiritual gifts that I see forming in Double Espresso (huge faith)

...the talents that are developing in Espresso (art, photography)

...the great deal that I got on a pair of pants yesterday ($58 pants for $11)

...for God giving me peace that He has a plan for a home for us!

The Simple Woman's Daybook

FOR TODAY... from Janet's Daybook

Outside my window... a cool, breezy evening

I am thinking... about how selfish some "Christians" are ~ that's sad

I am thankful for... people with the gift of faith (1 Corinthians 12:8-10)

I am wearing... black sweats and a hot pink shirt (my blogging outfit)

I am remembering... that God loves me and I am precious in His sight

I am going... nowhere fast ~ it was a restful day (Leviticus 23:3)

I am reading... Numbers, I'm in chapter 24

I am hoping trusting... that God has the perfect house picked out for us ~ soon

On my mind... not a whole lot!

From the learning rooms... we are studying Ancient Greece and we love it!

Noticing that... that I need less and less to live

Pondering these words... uhhh, not pondering right this minute

From the kitchen... brownies! (Read all about that here.)

Around the house... a typical, restful Monday

One of my favorite things~ dressing and feeling like a lady

From my picture journal...

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Weekend Worship

This Is Our God
(My favorite part is after 2:50)

Thankful Thursday ~ Harvest Church

For more Thankful Thursday or to participate in Thankful Thursday: Truth4theJourney

Today, my thankfuls are going to be about our church.

I am thankful for:

1. the freedom God has given us in starting a new church from scratch.

2. the freedom from the denominations that we grew up in. (We are nondenom.)

3. the awesome worship time that we have ~ Harvest style!

4. the people that God has lead into this ministry.

5. the people that God is going to bring into this ministry.

This is the new (for us) song that we are going to sing on Sunday!!!!!

Oh yah, that's right!

I got a new (new to me) vacuum!!!

That's right! I did something that I never thought I would do. I bought a used vacuum from the Salvation Army for $10. Yah, I could have splurged to get a new one but I tripped over this beauty and it said, "Plug me in! I work great!" So I did and it did.

I've been carrying my mother in law's vacuum down the stairs for a year and a half.

I know that God is providing a home for us and I am going to need MY OWN vacuum! I am believing God! He will provide! I have faith in my Daddy in Heaven! (My dad on earth is pretty great too ;)

Praise God with me! He is gooooood!

Faith - Faith Like Potatoes

(If you don't want to watch the trailer, scroll down over the screen and push the pause button.)

We just got done watching "Faith Like Potatoes." My family suffered through sat nicely and watched this rather dry (no pun intended) movie. It was interesting but kind of long. They did drive the point home and I am glad that we got to watch it as a family.

All in all, I did like the movie.

I know that God is growing my faith. He is showing me step by step, baby steps really, how to have faith and what it looks like. I'm not sure where He is going to take us but I know it will be good.

I believe God.

I believe that God has already blessed us. It is already done.

Thank you, LORD, for Your blessings upon our family and we give YOU all of our praise.

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for... blessings and people who CHOOSE blessing! Deuteronomy 11:26-28"See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of theLORD your God, which I am commanding you today;and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of theLORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today,by following other gods which you have not known. I choose blessing! For more Thankful Thursday - Truth4theJourney

Our Worship

Mask Clip Art by: Bobbie Peachey

Our worship on Sunday should be a reflection of our worship all week.

If we don't worship Monday through Saturday, it will show on Sunday.

We can put on our "church mask" and pretend like we worshiped the Lord all week but HE knows the truth.

We often forget that HE knows the condition of our hearts.

We might fool everyone else, but we don't fool Him.

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for...

1. ...brainstorming! I love to brainstorm with my husband and come up with ideas! (About anything really, doesn't matter to me.)

2. ...a Godly heritage. My husband is the 11th out of 12 pastors in my family on my mom's side. That is amazing considering I married an autoworker! That's right folks, I didn't know how God was going to radically change us!

3. ...my new shoes! A friend of mine got some "hand me down" shoes from a lady at her church and only one pair fit. She gave the rest to me and they are GREAT! 3 pairs of Sketcher's and a pair of running shoes. They are all new and those Sketcher's are at the store for $54 a pair.

4. ...getting blessings and being a blessing!

5. ...for my femininity. I am a girly girl most of the time. I heart lace, doilies, table cloths and frilly stuff.