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Sabbath Request

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Before we start claiming that God is hearing our prayers and answering them, let us study the entire Bible and see whose prayers God answers and whose He does not.

Before we think because God died for us while we were sinners we think it’s ok to keep sinning and rebelling, let’s not forget that He died so that we might live for him, not for ourselves and our own pleasure.

The effectual fervent prayer of a RIGHTEOUS man avail much. Find that in the Bible.

Or find the scripture that says that if you keep sin (iniquity) inside your heart, God will NOT hear you.

I’ve had two extremely openly hateful (of God’s will) people claim that the heavenly God is answering them and hears them and cares about their requests.

God hears us based on what His word says. To the true seeker, He will give knowledge. He will always hear if you are asking Him to make you holy. He will always hear if you are asking Him to take away all desire to do evil. To those with the answers right in their hands, on their phones I plead. Read. That’s where God is. In those pages. He’s not in your self-filled human version of godliness where there are no consequences to sin.

God is in the Bible asking you, demanding of you, commanding you to live a life like His. Sacrificial, humble, pure, godly, holy.

Yes…HOLY.

Be ye holy, even as your Father which is in heaven is Holy. Can you find THAT one?

There is a call God has made. To not take His name in vain by claiming Christianity without Christ living within us. Check the commandments.

Read, please…Read! If we are not fully Christ’s, we are fully Satan’s. We can’t serve two mastered. My goodness, it’s all written plainly for us in both Testaments🥹Church attendance won’t save us, clean, pure, obedience hearts will. Hearts that love God supremely.

If you love God, I plead with you to never stop. If you love reading His word and acting upon it, you are blessed and He accepts you in the Beloved.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after RIGHTEOUSNESS..for they SHALL be filled.

Find that one too. Cling to His promises if you think you are too impure for Him. He died exactly for you who mourn over your state. He exchanges your torn garments for His perfect robe of righteousness. He loves you. He loves you. He loves you.

He wants you to hand over the controls. Let Him lead. He is a very good Shepherd. He will not lead you where He himself has not walked. Deprivation, false allegations, accusations, unbelief, abuse, perfection, humility, self denial, lowering Himself so God may be lifted up, the road to Calvary- that’s where Christ walked. But He was leading somewhere where none of these things will ever happen again. And He leads us there too.

Read. Read. Love. Study. Pray to be every good thing He wants you to be. If you love Him, keep His commandments. Find that one too.🙏🏾

What did YOU do on Sabbath?

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Well, I decided to take the children to Tygerberg Nature Reserve. The flowers, birds, a turtle…

Our usual crier was remarkably happy! This is someone who once got to a park and immediately screamed and screamed because we didn’t want to stay next to some tree she liked. So she played around it with her dad. Now with dad not being there, we weren’t sure who would be doing what she wanted. Nor did we know what she would want.

Besides wanting to enter the men’s loo when her brother went in, she was FINE!❤️🥰

But her twin! That girl can talk the monkeys off the trees! And she is such a typical Miss Independent. There were times I knew the path was ok so I let her go, there were times she AND her twin wanted to hold my hand when I really would have been ok on my own😉and times she decided she knew better than me and ran, fell into a hole and her bunny flew into the air and onto a bush!

It was good. We had never used that path or trail before so turned back when we felt we’d walked long enough. Next time I’ll go without little ones and see how long it is and if they’d have made it all the way round.

Oh, the other thing of note was Twin A nagging as we walked back that she needed an EYE doctor for her sore finger. One of the bushes she didn’t want to stay away from stings! I tried to mollify her by telling her I’d put cream on it when we got home, she didn’t buy it, she wanted the EYE doctor. I told her I’d give her pain meds. Nope, “eye doctor!” But lo and behold, when we got into the car and I handed her some Vaseline, the placebo worked immediately! She was suddenly and very quickly, “Better!”😉

And yes, as Flydah and my husband predicted-which they always do when they know I’ve had an active day, I paid dearly for it with even more pain later. I read a thread on Reddit where 5000 steps a day was the max some people could do and know they’d be fine the next day, no suffering from the after effects of too much. But man, that doesn’t leave me with much time to do chores etc if I have to do so few steps. I’ll keep hoping that we get to the other side of the surgery, that we find a biologic that will reduce my symptoms and slow down the disease.

My first daughter and I

Oh. One thing I added which nobody commented on was how I kept sleeping when we’d stop at a red light. I’m the driver… I don’t know if AS fatigue is increasing (I’ve read others’ accounts of them falling asleep in a parking lot or dropping their children off at school..), I don’t know if I’d taken way too many pain pills (Some make you drowsy) or if it was lack of sleep catching up on me. But either way, I realised I’m really not well!

But here we are, home safe. Nobody had to hoot to wake me up and the children didn’t even notice. It was a good Sabbath.

Adventist?

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I was born a Seventh-Day Adventist. I will die one. What that looks like on paper, I don’t know. Outside people used to say we are a cult following a deluded lady called Ellen White. Not at all. Everybody is just living how they want and Ellen White, who gave us the name SDA-is a thing of the past, according to some hard hitting stats that came out last week.

See, I love my church. But I don’t love what we are doing. We USED to be like a cult in that we all used to be modest or get into trouble if we weren’t. But now we are all just doing what want, dressing how we want, eating what we want, and definitely not following Ellen’s writings. We once were banned from watching anything untrue,how that’s all we ever do. Well, you could choose to fill your time with fiction, but with that choice,came the choice to no longer be an Adventist. Now those who don’t read or watch fiction are the outliers. Those who read the Bible and EGW writings are a dying breed. And of course, just because someone is reading doesn’t mean they take to heart what they’ve read.

This church will never again be viewed as a cult. Which is sad, for Christ was one of the greatest Sabbath-keeping cult leaders ever. I wanted to be known for being different and rebellious with my fellow cult members. I wanted us to be one, as Christ prayed. I want us to share everything like the disciples did. To help those who need help and be united with one goal-purity.

All I can do is press together with those who love the Word and love God and love His people. One day, we will indeed all be dressed alike in our white robes and crowns. The best ‘cult’ ever.