This doctor has helped a ton of women through the principals of dealing with our hormones through fasting. May this bless all of you women out there who don't understand why you can't loose weight or think as well as you used to. This information could change your life!
Hugs,
Dawn
Hi saints,
I just returned home from 6 days in the hospital. I had a severe case of pancreatitis. Now to figure out how to keep a pancreas more happy when I hardly eat any sugar. There must be more to it than that. It was confusing to me as my gall bladder had no stones and my liver was happy.
I was put on narcotic level drugs for the pain and for the nausea for 5 days. I was also on the IV/ice chip diet for 4 days. This was to give my pancreas a chance to totally rest. Then I went to broth and finally to soft food. Now I have no diet restrictions except not to eat much fat.
It was confusing to all of the nurses and the doctor I was assigned to that I would have pancreatitis. The usual causes are high alcohol consumption; gall stones; high triglycerides, or a stone on top of the pancreas. Being I had none of those, why was I so sick?
A bit of light came when I mentioned to my doctor that I have MS which is an auto-immune disease. "OH," he said "It must be autoimmune pancreatitis!" And off he went to study that.
When the doc returned the next day, he told me that he had learned that there are 2 kinds of autoimmune pancreatitis. I guess there is a test to differentiate which one I have. When my good doctor tried to order the test, he wasn't able to because he's not a gastroenterologist. sigh
So he's sending me to one and I need you all to pray that I can get in soon. All of the nurses said that it's almost impossible to get in to one but our God is the God of impossibilities. PLEASE pray that I can get an appointment with a person who can give me the test; find out what this is all about; and set me on a path towards healing.
I am not well yet. I still have pain and today there is a fever brewing so I thought I would come here and ask you to pray for me. I bless you for thinking of me to the Father.
Other than that, harvest is right around the corner. I so want to be strong so that I can help with the harvest.
I love you all,
Dawn
PS This picture is not me but how I must have looked in the hospital. I was in extreme pain with nausea and exhaustion. May God bless each nurse and my doctor for getting me through the worst of it.
I've just returned from 10 days in Minnesota with my daughter and her family. I was needed to help them through sickness and their gardening rush. As usual, it's hard to tear myself away from them but my work needs to be done here.
It's September now and the days are shorter. This week the temps are going to be in the lower 90s, so Summer is still here, but we can feel it slowly slipping away. I went in search of a poem about how I am feeling and found this one.
It's so true. We have tons of work on a farm and especially at harvest time. Recently a friend had his father die in a farm accident. Please pray for that family but also pray for the safety of all farmers everywhere.
Being my garden is calling me, I will leave you all with this lovely poem. The harvest that matters the most is the empty souls needing Jesus. Let's share Him with everyone if it's only through a smile. I've had smiles change my whole day for the better.
May God bless your week,
Dawn
Happy Sabbath everyone,
This week was so wonderful!!! My daughter, Cora, wrote on Monday that she and her Littles were coming over THE NEXT DAY to pick choke cherries. I praise God for her amazing mother-in-law who likes to drive. It's a 5 hour trip so Kathy drives and Cora keeps her 3 children content as they travel.
We had joint meals with Andrew and his family so the food wasn't an immense burden to anyone of us. We picked choke cherries and made choke cherry juice. We went to the park. We had tea and Cora went and visited her dear friend who was just hospitalized.
We got to use my new chairs that Kathy picked up for me recently at a thrift shop. It was adorable watching my grandchildren walk into the room and look around. Then they spotted the little chairs and went and sat on one. It was their own little place to be comfortable. Sometimes they still sat with us at the big table but most of the time they sat here. What fun we had together!!!
I'm writing today to share "The Passion Translation" of the Bible with all of you who are aching to know how much God loves you.. I was raised memorizing and quoting Scriptures from "The Revised Standard Version" of the Bible. You know how it is when you learn something one way then all other ways seem "Strange?"
Later on it seemed strange to memorize Scriptures from "The King James Bible" but that was what everyone thought was the best version. When Robert and I got baptized in our mid 20s, our church gave us "The New King James" version of the holy Scriptures. That at least read the way that people talk.
Then I got involved in the whole war between the "King James" only folks and "King James changed a lot of things in his translation to keep us from having any power" folks. He was, after all, a King..... I wasted a lot of energy in that battle and ended up just as confused as I was when I entered it.
About a decade ago I purchased THE COMPLETE JEWISH BIBLE even though I'm not Jewish. I LOVE how the names of God and the people and cities are pronounced as they would have originally been. I really cherish that perspective of Christ as having been Jewish and our Messiah. That seemed to fit in well with our changing from Sunday keeping to Sabbath keeping 27 years ago. I still enjoy reading this version once in awhile.
However, why is there always a however? However, I felt alone when I read these versions. When I'd go to Bible study, I loved hearing what the Scriptures mean to my neighbor ladies but they just didn't mean that to me. I didn't get out of it what I was needing or what they were getting out of it.
Because of having been raised by a father who hated women (which led to the incest) God the Father always seemed cold and a bit stand-off-ish. Jesus I was madly in love with but His Father was something else. True, God the Father is our final Judge but, also true, He loved us so much that He allowed His only son to come to this Earth to die for us on the cross!!!!!!!!!
To make a long story short, I needed a different Bible. Then I heard about the Passion Translation. People would share passages from it on Facebook. At first I snooted my nose at it as it didn't sound like the Bible I've been memorizing all my life. As it started to sink in, though, my heart started to open up to the Father. I started to feel His love for me! I started to heal!!!
So, with great joy I share with you the passage that He just had me read. Think about God the Father loving you this intimately. Sometimes tears of joy begin as I ponder how much HE LOVES ME!
Happy Sabbath everyone.
Song of Songs 2:10 - 15. From God the Father's perspective to His child on Earth.
Arise, my dearest, Hurry, my darling. Come away with me! I have come as you have asked to draw you to my heart and lead you out. For now is the time, my beautiful one. The season has changed, The bondage of your barren Winter has ended and the season of hiding is over and gone. The rains have soaked the Earth and left it bright with blossoming flowers. The season for singing and pruning the vines has arrived. I hear the cooing of doves in our land filling the air with songs to awaken you and guide you forth. Can you not discern this new day of destiny breaking forth around you? The early signs of my purposes and plans are bursting forth. The buddings vines of new life are now blooming everywhere. The fragrance of their flowers whispers "There is change in the air." Arise, my love, my beautiful companion, and run with me to the higher place. For now is the time to arise and come away with me. For you are my dove, hidden in the split-open rock. It was I who took you and hid you up high in the secret stairway of the sky. Let me see your radiant face and hear your sweet voice. How beautiful your eyes of worship and lovely your voice in prayer. You must catch the troubling foxes, those sly little foxes that hinder our relationship for they raid our budding vineyard of love to ruin what I've planted in you. Will you catch them and remove them for me? WE WILL DO IT TOGETHER!
Can you feel the Father's love for you? He passionately wants us to trust Him. He has so many blessings for us but we must know that we can trust Him---that He is the one who has brought us through EVERY trail so far!!!
BUT WE MUST DO OUR PART!! We must hunt down every lie that has been planted in us thinking that God the Father is a big, bad meanie. That is a LIE from the enemy and perhaps the biggest one EVER!!
HE LOVES US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh what bliss!!
Go to Him and tell Him what you believe about Him. Ask Him to tell you the truth. Ask Him to show you where He was when you were being raped or beaten or slandered.... HE WAS RIGHT THERE HOLDING YOU AND SHELTERING YOU FROM THE BLOWS OF THE ENEMY. He has brought us ALL through every attack of the enemy and He will continue doing so. It's up to us to trust Him for we can when we know the truth.
May God bless your new week and bring you His richest blessings that He has planned for you. Just open your arms, look up and say, "I receive your blessings today."
I leave you with this song about how massive God's love is for ALL of His children.
Dawn
PS. Father said to add this passage from THE PASSION TRANSLATION as it fits so well with His message above. It's from John 16:22-24
So you will also pass through a time of intense sorrow when I am taken from you, but you will see me again! And then your hearts will burst with joy, with no one being able to take it from you For here is eternal truth: When that time comes, you won't need to ask me for anything, but instead you will go directly to the Father and ask Him for anything you desire, and He will give it to you because of your relationship with me. Until now you've not been bold enough to ask the Father for a single thing in my name, but now you can ask, and keep on asking Him. And you can be sure that you'll receive what you ask for, and your joy will have NO LIMITS!!! .
Good morning everyone,
We've gotten 2 showers in the early morning hours these past few days. It is TOTAL BLISS to wake up to rain gently falling on the roof when the crops are so desperately needing rain. I praise the Lord for this HUUUUUUGGGE blessing!!! We got .15 on Friday morning and nobody has been out to check the rain guage yet this morning but it must be at least that much again.
I think I may have mentioned here a time or two that I am following the program called EAT STOP EAT. You eat nothing after 8:00 PM until 12:00 PM the following day. I drink water but, if I am weak, I will have a little protein powder with it.
In order to keep the body from thinking it's starving, you then eat a meal at noon and another one at supper. There are no requirements except to avoid foods that you're allergic to. The mind has to be free to eat those 2 meals until the body is full or it will shift the body into starvation mode and weight loss becomes impossible. You will find, though, that after fasting that long every day the stomach is much smaller and the meals are smaller too.
Eating like this the past 2 years has brought many wonderful health changes to my life but, alas, weigh loss has not been one of them. That's why I keep thinking I must be missing something. My wonderful daughter may have supplied the needed information when she mentioned the book "Fast like a Girl." Apparently, females need additional information in order to receive ALL of the benefits of fasting. I urge you female readers to check out the book here.
In the meantime, Cora sent me to the author's videos on YouTube. This one is full of helpful information that hopefully will get this old body shedding unwanted and unhealthy pounds here soon. I'm already fasting so I'm eager to fill in the needed information and see what changes.
Have a great week all of you wonderful readers!
Dawn
What a way to end out the Fire & Glory Tour in Colorado Springs! It might be the greatest night I’ve ever been a part of under the Tent.
As they’ve done each night Catherine Mullins and her team kicked off the meeting with an incredible time of worship. As Mario said, no one sings “I Speak Jesus” like Catherine does. But for their final song of the night they pulled out the old classic, “Look What the Lord Has Done!” and the place exploded!
It was the right song to sing after all the wonderful things we had seen over the course of the week, and it ushered a spirit of joy into the room. The atmosphere was light, but God’s presence was very real, and people were being touched even during the worship.
Mario began by saying that there is segment of the body of Christ who don’t believe healings occur today. He said it is very shameful for someone to stand in a pulpit and declare that.
He recounted the story in scripture where the paralyzed man was lowered through the roof to Jesus. And said the statement Jesus made right before healing the man is a silver bullet against the cessationist theology that says God doesn’t heal today.
“But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house” (Mark 5:24 NKJV).
He then told about a cessationist preacher who sat next to him on a plane and told Mario that his gift was a fraud. Mario asked him, “Does the world need to know that Christ forgives sin?”
If forgiveness of sins is a catalyst to Christ healing, then we are overdue for more healings now than even happened in the Bible, and that almost every cessationist who believes the gifts stopped, still believes in demonic miracles. They are saying indeed the supernatural has left the world except for the devil’s part in it.
Mario asked us all: ‘Why would God in America’s darkest hour want us to fight with one hand tied behind our back?’ Adding that all the gifts are at work today in great power.
He said that what you have to learn as a weapon in the hand of God, is WHEN to prophecy, WHEN to give a message in tongues, WHEN to heal the sick, WHEN to preach repentance, and WHEN to cast out devils.
Mario then told about a time at San Jose State University he was preaching to university students. While he was preaching a young man came into the room and screamed an agonizing scream, as if he was being burned alive.
He ran down the aisle, fell on the floor, and began writhing on the floor and foaming at the mouth. Mario didn’t know what to do, but God told Mario to do everything He told him, so, as God directed him, Mario knelt down by the man and whispered into the man’s ear and command this thing to leave. There was no shouting, screaming, ranting, or raving. It was nothing like in the movies. It was instantaneous. Mario led him in the sinner’s prayer and the man was set free and saved!
Mario said there has never been a good time to be without Jesus, but we are now living in the worst day in history to be without Jesus, because the Bible states that in the last days the battlefield will shift from sickness, to the mind and emotions. 75% of American’s are on a prescription medication and the overwhelming category is antidepressants.
There has never been an American public that has such contradictory declarations: ‘I am enlightened as no other.’ ‘I’m more Woke than any previous generation.’ There has never been an American public that boasts so proudly of their knowledge and yet has so much depression alongside of it.
It begs the question, “If you’re so wise, why are you so miserable?”
So he asked, “If I’m so dumb and I’m so delusional—living in a fantasy world with a book that is nothing but a pack of myths. Why do I have so much joy? Why is my marriage so strong? Why is my direction so clear?”
You cannot live a life where what you believe is so ineffective and so terrible, where you can’t see that what you are doing again and again hurts you, unless demonic power is involved.
Mario said, “There are two things I’m trying to do. I’m trying to win souls and trying to teach you how to witness.”
He talked about how Scripture says, “Perilous times will come” and that another way to look at it is, “Demon-possessed times will come.” Unless you as a pastor learn to have authority over demons, you’ll be irrelevant in the next five years, if you’re going to win the lost in America.
He said you can take all the antidepressants you want, but your depression is not going away. You don’t understand, you think you know why you’re depressed but you don’t. It’s not because you broke up with a girl, or didn’t get the job, or any other reason other than you are separated from Christ.
Mario then told a story about an event he attended in Marin County, called The Holy Man Jam. They had invited a representative from every major religion to speak for five minutes and try to convince everyone that their religion was the true one.
As he listened he noticed none of them had mentioned Satan. So when it was his turn, he told them he was going to tell them what Buddha and Muhammed can’t say, what none of them can say. It is what Jesus said, “I saw Satan fall! And until your faith can break the power of the devil it is useless.”
He asked them, “Who here has power over Satan? When the Devil comes at you, what assurance, what reality, what do you have that will stop him? I have the blood of Jesus!”
He began his altar call by saying, if you want to get rid of the demonic power that’s trying to control you, then you need to respond. He said sanity is not guaranteed to anyone who does not have Christ.
The worst person to talk to is the modern intellectual who tells you humanity has the wisdom to get rid of the power of Satan, because this problem came from the curse that was put on man and was confronted on the cross by Christ. It is the cross where your misery and agony ends. It is at the cross where the devil has to leave.
Mario made the appeal, hands went up everywhere and then when he called them forward, they kept coming and kept coming. It was one of the largest crowds I think I’ve ever seen at the altar.
At first I thought it was similar to the crowds I’ve seen before, how they stretch across the stage out the sides and down the aisles, until I remembered that this tent is twice the size of the previous tent. What a response! It was a beautiful sight!
Mario described conversion as: needing to convince the devil that you have surrendered to Christ. The devil needs to know you are the property of Christ.
Mario led them in the following prayer:
“Lord Jesus! You defeated the devil. You defeated his lies, his power, his tricks, his addictions, his destructive emotions. You defeated them. So I know that if I admit that I am lost, that I need to be saved, that I’ve done wrong. And I need You to forgive me and after You’ve forgiven me I want You to live in me. I want to live by the power of Jesus. I want to be cleansed. I know you died for me, I know You rose from the dead. I know You are the Lord of Lords. And today I am a new creation. I belong to God! I don’t have the problems I used to have, I don’t have the fear I used to have, and I will not be depressed or anxious like I used to be. Because You are in me now and the devil is gone! and the demons are gone!”
Then Mario declared to the people, “You have witnessed a mass deliverance!”
After this the people were led out to be ministered to by our many wonderful workers. Then Mario began to give exhortation and instruction about the importance of a deliverance being active in our lives.
And then there was a shift in the atmosphere as God began to move. It has become a very familiar feeling when the Spirit of God begins to move on His people and to heal their bodies.
But tonight was very different from last night where Mario walked throughout the Tent highlighting individuals and calling out the various illnesses and diseases. Instead tonight, he equipped and charged the people.
“For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established” (Romans 1:11 NKJV).
He said, “Maybe if I called out healings you’d walk out and say, ‘Mario is a man of God.’ But I want you to walk out and say, “I’m a man of God, ” or “I’m a woman of God.”
Mario told the people that tonight we were going to create 4,000 healing ministries. He effectively turned the Tent into a mass healing site. He said it would divide the demonic power, because they wouldn’t be able to focus their attack on just one person.
Mario had the people put one hand in the air and to pray out loud in the language of the Holy Spirit.
“And these signs will follow those who believe” (Mark 16-17).
He told the people that within the next 30 days they would lay their hands on someone who would be physically healed. He said, “Each one of you will lay their hands on someone and they will be healed.”
I loved this because it’s what needs to be happening in every church in the country. Each of us are to be equipped to go out and do the work of the ministry, healing the sick, and saving the lost. And we can do it if we just allow God’s power to flow through us.
He said that this is a new era of supernatural power, and then had the people repeat the following: “I believe that I am going to be healed of my disease, when the army of God touches me on my shoulder. I believe I am going to be healed of everything that is hurting me, no matter how long it has been hurting me. It’s going to go away by the power of the prayer of God’s people. These signs will follow them that believe. I believe. These signs are going to follow me.”
Then he told the people, if they needed a miracle in their body, they were surrounded by ministers of healing. He had the people who needed a miracle raise their hands, then instructed everyone to lay hands on those around them who were holding their hand up, and to pray for them with authority!
There were groups of people all throughout the Tent praying for one another. And it wasn’t a casual, simple prayer. There was power flowing through that tent like nothing we’d felt all week. It was incredible, and I can’t wait to hear the many reports I know are going to result from this night.
Mario ended the night by having Catherine and her team come back and sing “Look What the Lord Has Done” one more time. And, once again, the place erupted with joy. It was the perfect end to a perfect week.
If you were not able to be there you missed an incredible time. You can always look back through Mario’s Facebook page or on YouTube to watch the replay of the streams from each session.
But I would really encourage you to make plans to be in Los Angeles, in September, especially if you were one of the volunteers during this crusade. It is something no one is going to want to miss—because Jesus is going to do many mighty works in the Tent, once again!
Volunteer for Los Angeles here! https://bit.ly/LA-Volunteers
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