Tag: Love

~ Blessing ~

May Your Heart, Mind and Soul 

be Blessed with God's

 Peace that Goes Beyond Understanding,

Pure Everlasting Love that Never fails,

And Exceedingly Great Joy

as 'You Journey with Jesus'

~ Breakfast ~

Breakfast literally means the 'First Meal of the Day'.
The  word Breakfast explains itself perfectly – the First thing you eat is 'Breaking' the 'Fast' that your body has been in whilst you sleep.

There are 2 types of Breakfast that we all have.

The most obvious one is 'The Food we Eat'. 
I Enjoy a nice bowl of Porridge with a good handful of Raisins, a spoonful of Peanut Butter and a selection of Seeds such as Sunflower, Flax, Hemp and Sesame, all topped with a drizzle of Honey. All 100% Organic & Natural.

This Breakfast is full of Good Nutrients to set my body up for a Good Day. Because there are No 'Artificial Chemicals' or 'Junk' in it, then my body is Not being Polluted with things God did Not intend to be In our bodies.

By simply eating a Good Nutritious Breakfast I'm giving my body the Best Start to the day, and therefore the Best opportunity to Function how God 'Intended' it to Function. 

The other type of Breakfast that we all have is one that's often overlooked.
That is the 'First' things we 'Feed our Minds' at the Beginning of each day.

This includes a number of things such as what we 'Watch', 'Listen To', 'Read', what we 'Say' and 'Who' we talk with, and very Importantly what we 'Think'. All these are what we 'Feed our Minds' with at the Start of each day.

Many people turn the TV on to Watch 'The News'. Their Minds are Bombarded with Negative stories and 'doom & gloom' that the news reporters Dramatise to make it sound even worse than it is.

Many people Feed their Minds a Breakfast of 'Social Media', and their Minds are Polluted with 'Gossip', 'Childish Name Calling', 'Fakeness', 'Deceit',
'Lies and Manipulation'.

The Radio Pollutes peoples Minds with a concoction of sounds that our ears were Not designed to listen to, along with Strategically planed cunning Adverts to trick people into buying things they don't even want. 

Some people 'Check their emails' for Breakfast and Overload their Minds with 'Things To Do' before their Minds have even had chance to warm up.

And one of the most Dangerous types of Breakfast that people Pollute their Minds with is 'Their Own Negative Thoughts'. Dwelling on the past, Holding grudges, Plotting revenge, Worrying, Assuming the worst and Not Believing in themselves as the Wonderful Person God Created them to be. 

All of the above Artificial Worldly Rubbish will 'Pollute Your Mind' before your day has even Started. It will 'Set You Up' for a bad day. You'll be more prone to making mistakes, Your Mind will be less receptive to Helpful Advice, and it will make you more likely to lack in concentration. 

Non of this is how God Created You to be.

I prefer to spend Quiet Time with God saying a Prayer of Thankfulness when I wake up. 
The TV, Radio, Internet, Emails, Phone etc are Not a Priority for me, and they're often not even second, third, forth etc in my Priorities. There's Much Better and more Interesting things I prefer to 'Think' about and 'Do'.
I Read God's Wonderful and Nourishing Word in the Bible whilst eating my Breakfast. Then I sit Quietly and Relax for a while to give my body chance to Adsorb my 'Food Breakfast' and my Mind a chance to Adsorb the Breakfast I've just 'Fed my Mind'. 
By spending Quality Quiet Time with God when I First wake up and the First things I Do & Think about, then it 'Sets me up' for a Day with my Body & Mind Ready & Prepared to Function in the Best Possible Way ~ God's Way.

Feed 'Your Mind' with a Positive Breakfast. 

You Don't Need to know the 'TV News'. 
~ You 'Do' Need to know the 'Good News' of Jesus.

You Don't Need 'Social Media Gossip'. 
~ You 'Do' Need a Loving Relationship with God's Wonderful Son.

If you like listening to Music, then Treat Your Ears & Mind to a Breakfast of Inspiring & Uplifting music by Godly people.

Let Your smart Phone have a 'lie in', so Your Mind is Not Overloaded with a Polluted Breakfast of emails, texts and internet Junk.

And the Best Way to Stop your Own 'negative thoughts' from entering Your Mind, is to keep Your Mind 'Focused' on the Most Important thought of all, that is that 'God Loves You'.

God wants You to Enjoy a Wonderful Relationship in Your Mind with His Loving Son Jesus Christ.

Feed Your Mind a Healthy Positive Breakfast of God's Truth & Love. 

It will 'Set you up' for a Great Day where Your Mind can 
'Function at it's Best', just how God Intended it to.

The Greatest Breakfast of all is 'God's Love for You'. 

~ Preparing Your Time ~

Time management is not something that I'm good at , I usually end up running late for things.

Something I have learned that helps me with timing is to 'Prepare' my time. 

This involves a simple bit of planning ahead.

If you think about a chef making a top class meal in a restaurant. 
They prepare in advance the ingredients to go into the meal so that when the customer orders something, the chef has everything ready that they need so they can put it all together in an efficient way. 

If the chef waited until the order came in before they started even peeling the veg etc, then it would take a lot longer and would probably be a rushed job to get the meal made, resulting in the end product not being as good as what it could have been.

When you 'Prepare' your time in advance, you usually end up with more time to do whatever it is you are doing and you can be more relaxed. 
This helps reduce your stress levels and become more efficient. 
And then the end result of whatever you are doing will be a Lot Better.

By just taking a little time to plan ahead you can 
improve your lifestyle and also Enjoy your time a lot more. 

Prepare Your Time, so You can Enjoy Your Time.

~ A Full Loaf ~

My Wife and I have been making our own Home Made Bread for many years. We've made it By Hand and we've also been Blessed with a bread machine, which makes it a lot easier to make.

We use Wholemeal flour and 100% Organic Ingredients, (just how God Intended food to be). ~ The Bread tastes Delicious.

We always set the machine on the Largest Loaf size, and we still find it Fascinating how the dough Rises into Double its size.

Last year during the summer we put the ingredients in the machine and turned it on large size as usual.
When we came to take it out, it was only half the size it usually is.

We tried making another loaf on a different setting in case the machine was faulty, but it did the same.

We tested the dried yeast by leaving some in warm water, and it it produced bubbles so we thought it can't be the yeast.

We adjusted the quantities to see if that worked, but still only half a loaf.

We used a different bag of flour, but still the same. 

We tried all sorts of things but it just kept coming out as half a loaf.

After Many weeks of eating Dumpy loaves of bread, we tried some New yeast. 

We used the Original Recipe and set the machine on Large loaf size.

The dough Rose so much that it Rose above the bread tin and touched the top of the machine.

By using New yeast, the bread not only Rose to a Full size, it Overflowed.

We discovered that the old yeast had got too hot in the cupboard during the summer and it killed some of the yeast.

There was enough Life in the yeast to produce some bubbles in the water, but not enough to make the bread Rise. 

~  ~  ~

If you feel Your Life is only Half Full, or if You're merely existing on a Dumpy Lifestyle, or maybe Your Life isn't Rising like you had Hoped, then there is One Vital ingredient that You Need to Renew ~ Your Spirit.

Your Spirit is the Life Source of Your entire being.

There might be just enough Life in Your Spirit to produce some bubbles, but if You want to Enjoy a Full Life then there is only 'One Way'.

Renew Your Spirit with the True Source of Life ~ Jesus Christ.

The Bible verse (John 10:10), Jesus said 
“I have come to Give You Life, and Life to the Full”.

Only Jesus can make Your Spirit Rise so much that it Overflows.

Pray this simple yet Powerful Prayer.

“Lord Jesus, Renew my Spirit,
so that I can Live a Full Life with You,
Amen”.