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March 9th, 2011

Some recipes…

I’ve been having fun cooking lately. I feel like I go through stages. Sometimes it seems like an impossibility to get inspired and then other times I want to cook everything!
I’m totally in the “cook everything” stage. It might have something to do with being pregnant and wanting to eat everything??
So, I thought I would share some recipes with you.
For those of you with an iPhone, check out the Whole Foods App. It’s got tons of great recipes and you can even search for a recipe with whatever you have on hand.

One of their recipes that I tried and love is the “Dutch Oven Pancake”. It tastes kind of like french toast. Now I have to be honest when I read the name I thought “really?!?!”
Growing up with an older brother a “dutch oven” has a whole different meaning. Needless to say it scarred me many times for life!

It’s such an easy recipe that I totally had the girls make it with me.
I’m sure you could also get adventurous with this and add fruit (blueberries or pears) or chocolate chips…
Anyway, here it is:

Dutch/German Pancakes:

Ingredients:
2 TBLSP unsalted butter
4 eggs
1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup whole milk

Optional Toppings:
Lemon Juice
Powdered sugar
Maple Syrup
Cinnamon

Method:
Preheat oven to 425*F.
Melt butter over low heat in a 10- or 11- inch cast iron skillet. (I just used a regular stainless steel one)
Whisk eggs in a medium bowl. Whisk in flour and milk until mixture is no longer lumpy.
Pour the batter into the skillet over the melted butter.
Bake for 25 minutes until pancake is puffed and golden brown.

Remove from the oven, transfer onto a plate and cut into wedges.
Sprinkle whichever toppings you choose and serve!

Hope you like it!
xoxo

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December 29th, 2010

Christmas…

Just a couple pics from our Christmas…

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December 16th, 2010

Effective Prayer

There was also a prophetess, Anna. . . . She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.(Luke 2:36–37)

There is no doubt that it is by praying that we learn to pray, and that the more we pray, the better our prayers will be. People who pray in spurts are never likely to attain to the kind of prayer described in the Scriptures as “powerful and effective” (James 5:16).
Great power in prayer is within our reach, but we must work to obtain it.
We should never even imagine that Abraham could have interceded so successfully for Sodom if he had not communed with God throughout the previous years of his life.
Jacob’s entire night of wrestling at Peniel was certainly not the first encounter he had with his God. And we can even look at our Lord’s most beautiful and wonderful prayer in John 17, before His suffering and death, as the fruit of His many nights of devotion, and of His rising often before daybreak to pray.
If a person believes he can become powerful in prayer without making a commitment to it, he is living under a great delusion.
The prayer of Elijah, which stopped the rain from heaven and later opened heaven’s floodgates, was only one example of a long series of his mighty pleadings with God. Oh, if only we Christians would remember that perseverance in prayer is necessary for it to be effective and victorious!
The great intercessors, who are seldom mentioned in connection with the heroes and martyrs of the faith, were nevertheless the greatest benefactors of the church. Yet their becoming the channels of the blessings of mercy to others was only made possible by their abiding at the mercy seat of God.
Remember, we must pray to pray, and continue in prayer so our prayers may continue.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Sent from the Streams in the Desert Devotional, by L. B. Cowman

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December 8th, 2010

“Babble on in Babylon”

We’re going thru the Daniel study (Beth Moore) in our women’s group at church.
It’s amazing, I highly recommend it!!
You can find it at Lifeway stores and online…

This week (wk 4), Beth read a poem that someone sent to her.
It’s a huge challenge to us to be set a part from this world (“Babylon”).
To clarify it’s referred to Babylon because that’s where Daniel was taken captive to. He purposed in his heart to not be defiled by all that was going on around him…

Here’s the poem:

Babble On in Babylon
Author unknown

Brimming closets, shoe racks bulge.
One in every color, I’ll just indulge.
My wildest whim will oft be met
Bigger, faster, give me, get.
Travel on in Babylon

May I go first, do you not care?
For my time’s precious, you’ve lots to spare.
I’ll slip in front and off I’ll go
See I’m quite fast and well, you’re quite slow.
I and me, fast friends life long
Prattle on in Babylon.

Nip it here, just there a lift.
I just turned forty. It was a gift!
The eyes, the lips, the bosoms do,
Sculpted, lasered, injected too.
No wrinkles left; the tummy’s gone.
Journey on in Babylon.

Enough of me, how do you view me?
You get one, but give me three.
I couldn’t bear to just say no.
It’s my desire and rightly so
Add another and on and on
Shuffle on in Babylon

No end in sight that I can see
Today’s blocked by the mirror in front of me.
A wreck, a death, tsunami tide
It mildly stirs me, I must confide.
TV claims, tens of thousands gone.
Oh well, let’s see what else is on.

Numb to stunning sight of each new dawn.
Sinking fast in Babylon.
Like a lobster in a pot
Who begins to like the water hot,
I’ve been duped, been tricked, been had.
Convinced that truth was somehow bad.

Evil coddled and cooed and purred,
And beckoned me and called and lured.
Now in a place with the light turned on
I’m racing home from Babylon.

I hope this encourages and stirs you as it has me, to be intentional and deliberate about being set a part and not being absorbed into the standards of our society.

Much love to you guys!

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October 26th, 2010

”Streams” – October 26

He went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.(Matthew 14:23)

Christ Jesus, in His humanity, felt the need of complete solitude—to be entirely by Himself, alone with Himself. Each of us knows how draining constant interchange with others can be and how it exhausts our energy. As part of humankind, Jesus knew this and felt the need to be by Himself in order to regain His strength. Solitude was also important to Him in order to fully realize His high calling, His human weakness, and His total dependence on His Father.
As a child of God, how much more do we need times of complete solitude—times to deal with the spiritual realities of life and to be alone with God the Father. If there was ever anyone who could dispense with special times of solitude and fellowship, it was our Lord. Yet even He could not maintain His full strength and power for His work and His fellowship with the Father without His quiet time. God desires that every servant of His would understand and perform this blessed practice, that His church would know how to train its children to recognize this high and holy privilege, and that every believer would realize the importance of making time for God alone.
Oh, the thought of having God all alone to myself and knowing that God has me all alone to Himself!
Andrew Murray

Lamartine, the first of the French Romantic poets and a writer of the nineteenth century, in one of his books wrote of how his mother had a secluded spot in the garden where she spent the same hour of each day. He related that nobody ever dreamed of intruding upon her for even a moment of that hour. It was the holy garden of the Lord to her.
Pity those people who have no such Beulah land! (See Isa. 62:4.)
Jesus said,”Go into your room, close the door and pray” (Matt. 6:6), for it is in quiet solitude that we catch the deep and mysterious truths that flow from the soul of the things God allows to enter our lives.

My soul, practice being alone with Christ! The Scripture says, “When he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything” (Mark 4:34). Do not wonder about the truth of this verse, for it can be true of your life as well. If you desire to have understanding, then dismiss the crowd, just as Jesus did. (See Matt. 14:22.)
Let them “go away one at a time . . . until only Jesus [is] left” (John 8:9) with you. Have you ever pictured yourself as the last remaining person on earth, or the only person left in the entire universe?
If you were the only person remaining in the universe, your every thought would be,”God and I …! God and I …!”And yet He is already as close to you as that. He is as near as if no heart but His and yours ever beat throughout the boundlessness of space.
O my soul, practice that solitude! Practice dismissing the crowd! Practice the stillness of your heart! Practice the majestic song “God and I! God and I!” Let no one come between you and your wrestling angel! You will receive conviction yet pardon, when you meet Jesus alone!
George Matheson

Sent from the Streams in the Desert Devotional, by L. B. Cowman.

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September 21st, 2010

waiting on the Lord

Where there is no vision, the people perish.(Proverbs 29:18 KJV)
Waiting upon God is vital in order to see Him and receive a vision from Him. And the amount of time spent before Him is also critical, for our hearts are like a photographer’s film—the longer exposed, the deeper the impression. For God’s vision to be impressed on our hearts, we must sit in stillness at His feet for quite a long time. Remember, the troubled surface of a lake will not reflect an image.
Yes, our lives must be quiet and peaceful if we expect to see God. And the vision we see from Him has the power to affect our lives in the same way a lovely sunset brings peace to a troubled heart. Seeing God always transforms human life.
Jacob “crossed the ford of the Jabbok” (Gen. 32:22), saw God, and became Israel. Seeing a vision of God transformed Gideon from a coward into a courageous soldier. And Thomas, after seeing Christ, was changed from a doubting follower into a loyal, devoted disciple.
People since Bible times have also had visions of God. William Carey, English pioneer missionary of the eighteenth century who is considered by some to be the Father of Modern Missions, saw God and left his shoemaker’s bench to go to India. David Livingstone saw God and left everything in Britain behind to become a missionary and explorer, following the Lord’s leading through the thickest jungles of Africa during the nineteenth century. And literally thousands more have since had visions of God and today are serving Him in the uttermost parts of the earth, seeking the timely evangelization of the lost. Dr. Pardington
It is very unusual for there to be complete quiet in the soul, for God almost continually whispers to us. And whenever the sounds of the world subside in our soul, we hear the whispering of God. Yes, he continues to whisper to us, but we often do not hear Him because of the noise and distractions caused by the hurried pace of our life. Frederick William Faber
Speak, Lord, in the stillness,
While I wait on Thee;
Hushing my heart to listen
In expectancy.
Speak, O blessed Master,
In this quiet hour;
Let me seeYour face, Lord,
Feel Your touch of power.
For the words thatYou speak,
“They are life,” indeed;
Living bread from Heaven,
Now my spirit feed!
Speak, Your servant hears You!
Be not silent, Lord;
My soul on You does wait
For Your life-giving word!
Sent from the Streams in the Desert Devotional, by L. B. Cowman. For devotionals like this one for your iPhone, visit us at 43rdElement.com

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