People have asked me how do I prepare for Sabbath, since we are commanded not to cook on Sabbath. We call the 6th day, “Preparation Day” or Prep Day for short this is the day with the pagan name friday. I can spell it out to you, but Yahuah wouldn’t want me to have the word on my lips if it can be avoided. The reason we call it Prep Day is because this is the day you do the preparations for Sabbath which includes getting your groceries in and preparing the food you need to have for Sabbath. We don’t eat evening meals (bad for the digestion), so all I have to prepare is Sabbath Breakfast and Sabbath Lunch.
Breakfast is easy, I bake muffins. I used to buy muffin mix, then I discovered how easy and inexpensive it is to make them from scratch and avoid all the ingredients whose names I can’t pronounce (yuck). I have to bake enough muffins for the boys to sample while they are fresh out of the oven and have enough left over for the breakfast the next morning. We use our coffee maker, because it isn’t really cooking. We warm the muffins up in the oven to have the fresh baked flavor. Coffee and muffins make the Sabbath morning a delight.
Lunch is harder. There are a number of things you can make, put in an oven dish or slow cooker and warm up in the oven the next day. Our cook top is gas and we can’t use it on Sabbath because that would be starting a fire. Our oven is electric, so I use that or a slow cooker. We avoid the microwave as much as possible because there may be health issues associated with that. Some of the successful things I prepare include, beef stew, oven baked chicken with mashed potatoes and vegetables, Roast and vegetables, Chili, Spaghetti, Mexican casserole, chicken cacciatore, tacos, fajitas, barbequed beef, and cold-cut sandwiches.
The best dishes are the ones I can prepare and transfer to a slow cooker. BBQ, stew, chili and small roasts are among these. You can put spaghetti sauce in the slow cooker, but you will need a way to heat up the noodles. I only have one slow cooker and as I write this I’m seeing the value in getting another smaller one!
Here are some hints for preparing food for the oven warm up. Make your mashed potatoes a little thinner. I like to leave some of the water the potatoes were boiled in when I drain the potatoes. This keeps the milk from over powering the taste of the potatoes when you heat it up the next day. Take an oven dish that has a cover and spray it with a olive oil. Make sure the dish has a cover or use foil to cover the top. When you warm the dish the next day, you may want to start the potatoes first because you want to start them at a low temperature (300-350). Twenty minutes later after I’ve stirred the potatoes and see that they are starting to soften up, I add the chicken to the oven because it doesn’t take as long to heat up. Next come the vegetables. Canned vegetables may be easy, but there is no food value. We shouldn’t eat just for flavor and filling. Health depends on good nutrition.
See my blog on Cancer at http://torahzone.net/blog/2012/why-doesnt-he-just-heal-me/ .
Yahusha has put something in me to say that all believers in truth need to hear, and I have learned a great deal by simply writing these thoughts down. Reading, may you glean something of value from it as well. It will not be all roses and fluffy clouds to take in. Walking in the Truth is not easy in a dark world, and the way is broad that leads to destruction. may everyone who reads this understand that it’s submitted with the upmost respect and love. Please, if you start reading, I beg for you to finish reading:
First some history: I was born into the truth knowing Elohim and knowing His name, Yahuah, before I could really even talk. As I grew up, I watched a wave spread over all the earth, the Father’s name was being proclaimed on the mountaintops to ears that had never heard it before. When I was old enough to have some small understanding, I talked to many people that were filled with extraordinary zeal, they had just found a priceless gem in a field and their hearts were burning with a desire for truth. I did not know why they were so excited, to me this was normal, and I have always known it. I could not comprehend the feeling of being in utter darkness for most of ones’ life and suddenly seeing a blinding light…I still can’t, not entirely, but I have some understanding now at least. Seeing as how I was 10-13 years old it was extremely difficult to relate to how people felt, the only way I knew that the name was not “normal” is that most other people called the Creator God, Jesus, Christ, etc., and for some reason those that did would reject the true name with such unbelievable hatred.
Those that had accepted the truth were filled with such zeal, they still are, and it’s wonderful to behold now that I do have some comprehension. Over many years, since I was very young, there have been numerous winds of doctrine as well; I have seen them rise and fall, some have stayed, others have disappeared and are hardly practiced today. Those that followed these were as zealous about it as when they found the truth to begin with, as the day they became an Israelite. The truth had left them wanting more, everyone got out their magnifying glasses and searched for something that might be hidden. I’ve seen brothers and sisters take ten verses from various parts of Scripture, ignore their context and meaning, piece them together, then say “aha! I have found something new! Look at me everyone!” I’ve often wondered why this was, they completely missed the message.
Scripture is like a message that Yahuah has sent forward in time since the days of Mosha and the Ten Commandments. [knock, knock, knock] “Did you get my message? Did you understand what I was saying to you? Or did you pick apart my words and examine every tiny little bit…” I do understand, to some extent, the things that people do. I like to call it the “all or nothing” syndrome; I actually suffer from this myself at times, let’s just say there’s a reason my nickname is “Train”. Fellow believers often find the truth, and next thing you know they’re wearing prayer shawls, yamakas, exceptionally long zitzit, the women immediately cover their heads, the men grow great big beards, some people even start wearing robes, others may even start reading various texts like the Talmud or want to study paleo Hebrew as if this will bring them closer, or maybe they try to take a Nazarite vow. Most do one of these things, others will even do them all, and the one thing that follows with this is a puffed up chest and a head so big it hardly fits through the doorways. I’ve seen more believers strut around like peacocks than there are sticks to shake at them.
Yahuah’s message is very simple, it’s clear for all to see, yet is missed by so many: love Yahuah with all your heart, mind, soul and strength; love your neighbor as yourself. Above these, there is no greater command. As I have said, there have been many various ideas, believers picking the Scripture apart piece by piece as if there was some hidden message to find. This always leads to new splinter groups that break off and go huddle in a corner somewhere, they always turn venomous and lash out at any and all who do not accept their new wind of doctrine, as if they need to defend it since it can’t stand on its own. Believe me, if something is true…you do not need to defend it, it will defend itself, or be destroyed. If you build a house in sand, I promise that it will be swept away…if it is built on the rock (Yahusha), then no force in existence can touch it.
I’ve always been curious as to why believers search so hard to find things that aren’t there in the first place; I’ve wondered this since I was a small child, and only now am I beginning to understand. A new believer has just learned to walk for the first time in his/her life. They’ve taken a few small steps, and now they wish to run a marathon. The feeling is so wondrously great, and just like a child who wants to walk more now that they’ve walked a little, a believer sets out to prove themselves…as if there’s something to prove in the first place. What happens is they start running, they take off across the room thinking that now they’re entirely free, but we all know what comes after pride…don’t we…
I’m not saying that there’s something inherently evil about searching for more, I’m not saying these things are bad. They show that people are thinking outside the box and are not going to take anything at face value, but that’s part of the problem, nothing is taken for what it is. All these ideas are great, it’s just that they’re never kept in check and tempered with: “well, this could easily be as wrong as it seems right”. No one ever looks at anything objectively, they feel they must take a side right away and go to battle. The zeal is so incredibly wonderful, it’s on a scale that I will never know, of this I am envious; however, it truly breaks my heart to see such anger and hatred displayed by people who should be at peace.
The destruction caused by these winds of doctrine is the real issue, not the doctrine itself necessarily. The problem is that a ball of string rolls across the path of a believer, they become distracted, and their eyes are taken off of Yahusha. There’s only one question you’ve got to ask yourself…”am I following Yahusha?”….well?…are ya’?….punk. The Christians may have some very serious errors, but we can also find some powerful truth and great wisdom in them too. Especially in their famous (or even infamous) WWJD, the only problem with this is (a) the name they’re using is wrong, which is very critical, (b) they don’t truly comprehend the meaning of this. What would Yahusha do? Also, what did He do? Well, what He did was give us all a second chance, He washed the slate clean with His blood, all of Israel’s previous transgressions are completely null and void, and any who ask forgiveness from their heart for what they have done are granted forgiveness. In doing this, He also set an example for us as well. What He did was sacrifice Himself for us; we too should also be more than willing to lay down our lives for Him and each other.
Self-sacrifice, this is what it truly means to be His; to put away all selfish pride, to look at others as if you’re their servant. While the disciples were arguing among themselves and childishly bickering about who was greater, or this and that, Yahusha was washing their feet. They didn’t even realize it until He was practically done, and that’s when His message began to truly sink in. He was, and is, greater than all of them, and all of us, but did you notice that while you were prancing about and declaring yourself righteous, He was washing you, serving you…carrying us through the rough times and unbeknownst to anyone He kept us from a terrible fate that we more than deserved, but will never even know about? Because of His immeasurable love and unwavering kindness He has kept us all from dashing our feet across the stones, He catches us when we fall (if we let Him), He carries us when we’re too weak to walk.
He asked if any of us were there when He formed the heavens and earth, He asked who among us was worthy of eternal life with Him. His power is infinitely greater than any are even able to conceive of, yet He is humble enough to wash our feet. What would Yahusha do indeed; He has the power to end our pitiful lives at any time, yet He allows us to continue, to do as we will, to love Him, or spite Him. We are of a select few that know His name, are we to bicker about this or that? Maybe I should come up with a wind of doctrine and tell everyone who doesn’t believe in it that they’re going to burn in Gehenna. Would you believe me if I told you that there’s evidence to suggest we should sacrifice our first born son on Passover? How about Abraham? He was told to sacrifice Isaac, maybe I’ve found something in the text that says he did actually do it and it was kept secret…then tied it in with the Passover lamb and that it’s not a lamb they were sacrificing at all but their children. Would you believe me? I can prove it with my twisted logic and patched together verses, so doesn’t that make it true? (I’m being sarcastic, just so you know)
I apologies if that sounds a tad harsh, but I ask you to understand that I’ve seen and heard so many ideas that are just as wild and ludicrous as that. Every tiny little idea that comes along causes such grand distress, and to be honest I could care less about the doctrine itself; but the hatred and anger that emerges on both sides shows the fruit of the people no matter which direction they go in. Yahusha talked about the sower planting his seed:
“See, the sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some indeed fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them. And others fell on rocky places, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered. And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them. And others fell on good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear!”
Brothers and sisters, I say all this with love; I love you all. I would ask that you put away this petty desire to prove yourselves; you have nothing to prove, just watch as Yahusha makes a footstool out of your enemies. We are not to act, let Him act; He is only waiting for us to stop buzzing around with all our to-do and simply watch Him. If you allow Him to, He will use you for things that you did not know were even possible, some things you may never even know happened at all. We are members of the body of Yahusha Messiah…I ask that we act like it. Shalom.
I must share with you what Yahuah revealed to me. (if you don’t have time to read all these words, there is a summary in the last paragraph for people like me.)
Yahuah answered an age-old question for me. Why doesn’t He just heal me miraculously? Simple answer, because I needed to change the life style that brought on the illness.
When I had cancer in my first breast. I prayed and prayed that He would heal it. I told no one about it because I was so scared and so ashamed that I didn’t have the faith for it to be healed. (That was wrong because an illness needs to be shared with brothers and sisters so they can experience your healing and praise the Father.)
So, Yahuah had to let me experience the illness enough to go to the “doctors” for healing. Not because my faith was weak, but because I had to experience the treatment. Why did He allow that to happen? I pondered that question for 14 years. I’ve been maimed by the doctor/butchers and will never have my whole body again in this life.
Why? So I would know what they do to you and fear that more than the cancer. When the cancer came to my second breast, I feared the doctors more than the cancer. I was then able to put myself completely in His Hands for healing. Also so I would go on a journey.
After my surgery, the doctors wanted me to take chemotherapy. Which I did at first. Then I refused to go back. It was killing me.
I went on a journey to find alternative ways of preventing cancer. My search was fervent at first. The Internet had not yet been the source for information it is now so I had to do it the hard way. Write to companies and read books. We started selling the products that we thought were the best you could buy to fight cancer. We even went vegetarian, but I really didn’t understand what that meant. We substituted cheese for meat. How foolish. Soon we lapsed back into old habits.
After a while the experience faded in my mind. I was still counseling people to take Flor-essence, but I wasn’t really changing my eating habits. In fact, I was starting to gain weight. I was working so much I didn’t take time to fix myself a good lunch because I was by myself, and I’d just get something from a drive through window. I started doing that more and more, it was my special “comfort” time with myself. On weekends I’d indulge in sweet treats which would make me sick and I’d have to eat some form of protein to counteract it.
As I got heavier and heavier and failed at attempts to lose weight, I cried out to Yahuah for help. I asked Him to motivate me to lose weight.
That’s when I noticed the signs of cancer in my remaining breast. He allowed the cancer to be there to be my motivator!!!
14 years later it was back! I ignored those signs as well because they were different. When my breast became extremely painful, I made changes.
First I cried out to Him to heal me. Nothing. Silence. In desperation I went looking for a guide on this earth to help me. He sent Lucinda Robinson. She is someone who has helped me in the past and whose book I just happen to have in stock for sale. I started out reading the book, and recalling everything I had learned over the years about diet and nutrition and realized I needed to change.
I was not going to change my eating habits until something scared me so bad that I had to make a choice. I was determined not to fall into the hands of the doctor/butchers again. My only choice – change!! As I changed my diet, I lost weight, it was then I made jokes about how I asked Yahuah to help me lose weight and He sent me cancer. The epiphany is that is exactly what happened. He knew the cancer was being fed by my diet and He put the desire on my heart to ask for help to lose weight. What better motivation than cancer?
Now, 8 months later, the cancer is healed. Lest I forget, I still have a lump that remains. When I fall prey to my taste buds, I feel it immediately that night. One day I gave in and had a drink with corn syrup in it. That night I was in pain. That lump is like a thorn in my side to keep me on track.
IN SUMMARY: Why not a miraculous healing? I needed to experience the doctor’s treatment so that I would be determined not to fall into their hands again. I was driven to find an alternative that required me to change my eating habits. Now I’m no longer a slave to food. Had He simply healed me either time, I would not have changed my habits.
Don’t keep treating a blister if you don’t fix the cause.
I’ve been so distressed by the back stabbing and name calling among the brothers and sisters, I want to reach out to each one of you and give you a set apart kiss. I truly wonder what Yahusha is thinking as He watches and listens to how the Messianic Brethren are treating each other.
As a reminder to each of us, Here is a reprint of an email that Lew White sent around not long ago.
THE NATSARIM WEAPON OF LOVE NEVER FAILS (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
Sowing love, we will reap life. Sowing hatred, rebellion, selfishness, and contempt, we will reap death. There is a way that seems right, but its end is death. Wormwood is the bitterness that results from changing the Words, or intentions, of the instructions (Torah). See Amos 5:7, Jer 9:15, 23:15, Lam 3:15).
As evidence of this alteration of Yahuah’s Words (Commandments), we see a continual lack of love in the world. There is death in the tongue, so guard your mouth. We will be forgiven as we have forgiven others. Think upon pleasant things (Phil 4). Love all those redeemed by the precious blood of Yahusha, and do not allow divisions between yourselves (Pro 6:16-19, 1Co 1:10). Put away all slander and maliciousness (2 Co 12:20, Eph 4:31, 1 Ti 6:4, Tit 3:2).
Yahusha told us to stay in His Word, and that we should love one another, and be known by that love:
John/Yahuchanon 13:35“By this shall all know that you are My taught ones, if you have love for one another.”
IT DOES NOT SAY: “By this shall all know that you are My taught ones, if you have CONTEMPT for one another.”
More contempt is seen among the Natsarim today than any evidence of love. Division is the norm, with a spirit of Nicolaitanes, arguing over new moons, Sabbaths, hats, how to spell the Name, re-setting the week by the New Moon (Lunar Sabbaths), when a “day” begins and ends, how many wives a man may have, Yahusha’s identity, and many other matters. Many have taken their eyes off Yahusha, our Shepherd, Redeemer, King, High Priest, and Creator of all things seen and unseen. They have strayed to follow false shepherds. Their teachings are the storms, winds, and waves that will utterly lay waste the lives of those who build on any other foundation than Yahusha and His Word that never passes away.
Stay in His Word, and read the Torah every day.
When you speak to one another, speak His Words, not your own.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE HAVE BEEN HAVING DIFFICULTY SENDING OUT THE NEWSLETTER THIS MONTH. I won’t bore you the details, just know we’ve had several people trying to make it work and it won’t go out.
We will need to rebuild our email base for subscriptions to the newsletter. This is a good thing. Out with the old and start over with fresh! In the meantime, please pass the word around that the newsletter for November is available at http://www.torahzone.net/NatsarimNews-November-2011.html
Our nutrion department (that’s me) has decided to discontinue the Calcium with Vit D3. We have replaced it with a much more effective Calcium capsule. Another plus – they are easier to swallow!
We now carry CAL/MAG CAPS. The Calcium is in the form of Calcium amino acid chelate. This is when the calcium is attached to two amino acids allowing for the highest absorption rate of all calcium supplements. It’s better than drinking milk!
The Torah for Children series is an aid for parents to teach their children the Torah of YHWH. The books are designed for children of all ages. Portions from Scripture are simplified to make it easier for children to understand. There are many coloring pictures and fun-filled activities throughout the books.
132 pages written by Petro Wolfaardt from Qodesh Publishers.
Great News! We now have a blog dedicated to all things torah! We are going to be quite busy here in the next couple of months, and we will be updating this blog on a regular basis. Let the learning begin.
The only true way for healing is to have a heart for Yahusha, our Provider and Healer.
Having a personal experience with Him is the only way to live. He allows us to experience things for our learning and healing. I’ve learned a valuable lesson, and through it a deeper relationship with Him.
Please start with prayer and be prepared to lay your life in His Hands.
PREVENTION
The best cancer prevention is a healthy body. Yahuah created our bodies with the ability to fight cancer cells. Cancer is not new, it’s always been with us.
What is new is the bad nutrition, chemicals and electromagnetic smog. We have to step up our nutrition, avoid chemicals and walk around in a titanium body suit.
Well, maybe we can’t do all of this, but we can definitely help our bodies to fight cancer cells before they get started.
I am not an “all or nothing” person. I know that “raw” is the best diet, but it doesn’t always fit our lifestyle. To be honest, it takes extra time and money. Some would look back while in the midst of fighting their cancer and say, “I wish I’d taken the time and spent the money”. Until cancer strikes, most people (like I did) said, “it won’t happen to me. I’ll worry about that when the time comes.”
That’s why I say, eat mostly raw vegetables and cut out as much meat as you can (you don’t need that much, honestly). Avoid corn syrup at all costs (you’d be surprised at how many products has it as a main ingredient.) Totally avoid sugar substitutes. Stevia that you have grown in your herb garden is fine, but I’m concerned about what processes the stevia on the market has gone through. If you feel like you have to have a sweet taste in your mouth, natural cane sugar would the best choice.
One of the best ways to prevent cancer is to keep your body alkaline. You can do this by avoiding acid-producing foods and taking a little baking soda in water.
Cravings for tastes – sweets, sours, fats, comfort foods of all kinds – what is that all about? Are we controlled by our taste buds? If you had ever felt the pain of cancer as I have, and known the fear of possibly suffering a horrible, painful death, you’d realize that you don’t need to be controlled by your taste buds. You have to discipline yourself to always make healthy choices.
TREATMENT
I’m not a doctor. I can’t tell you how to treat your cancer. I’ve done it both ways. I went to the doctors, scared and ready to do whatever they told me. They carved me up, and after they removed my whole breast and lymph nodes under my arm, they still wanted to do chemo. I took two treatments and stopped. They sent me to a support group to try to convince me to continue. Sitting at the table with me were 14 people who all did what the doctors told them and were back for another round of cancer. In other words, I could ignore the doctor and have a chance for recurrence or do what they say and still have a recurrence. The real question that begs answering is, “do I destroy my immune system, or build it up to fight what is attacking my body?”
Those people at the table were not told how to prevent their cancer. They were already pegged for suckers because they bought-in to the system and the doctors knew they’d be back. I ran away!!!! I’m still above ground, and glad to be here.
I learned about nutrition and alternative treatments. I studied for 13 years how to prevent cancer. Then I became lazy, and forgot the pain and fear.
Two years later, after letting myself go and not taking my Flor-essense, a large tumor developed in my remaining breast. This could have been avoided if only I’d kept making healthy choices and avoided the no-no’s.
Now, I’m treating myself successfully for breast cancer again. Yahusha is healing me, but He’s making me participate.
At first I tried fighting it with Flor-essence alone, but as Lucinda Robinson says in her book Natural Herbal Therapy, (I’m paraphrasing here) “just taking Flor-essence or Esiac Tea isn’t good enough today because of the bombardment our bodies are exposed to.” In spite of stepping-up the Flor-essence, the tumor continued to grow and another one was forming, my breast became swollen, red and painful.
Through the regimen recommended in Lucinda’s book, the second tumor has gone away and the older one is slowly shrinking. My breast in general is feeling normal to the touch and the pain is completely gone. All praise and honor to Yahusha our Healer!
At this point an obnoxious advertiser would say: buy this book and on page ?? you’ll learn the miracle treatment!
Lucinda’s book is the book Yahusha gave me as a guide to good nutrition and the proper dosage of 18-20 different products. I could list all those products, but without the schedule and proper diet, you’d only get part of the treatment.
Please, if you have a serious health issue, any at all, I recommend you buy Lucinda Robinson’s book Natural Herbal Therapy where ever you can find it. You can find it here Natural Herbal Therapy and soon, Yahuah willing, you will find all the products assembled in one place at this same website.
Start here in your battle against cancer.
On your knees, ask Yahusha to save and heal you, and Believe that He will! Then thank Him for healing you!
NEXT:
Eat only raw fruits and vegetables.
Cut out fats from meat and hydrogenated oils.
Take Flor-essence tea or Esiac Tea three times a day on an empty stomach.
Drink 8 oz. of fresh carrot juice 3 times a day (you will need a juicer – you won’t be sorry).
Take a very good multi vitamin and mineral daily.
Take additional Vitamin C, Neem, probiotic, selenium, Wobenzyn, Colloidal Silver, Kyolic well, the list goes on.
Make sure you keep your body alkaline with baking soda three times a day.
Foods you should make sure you are getting include, asparagus, mango and avocado.
This is not a complete cancer treatment plan. This is simply a guide to get you started, while you research what you really want to do. Remember, the sooner you do something the sooner the tide will turn.
I stayed in denial for several months before I realized that my lack of attention was making things worse. I’d play at treating it and then slack off and the tumor would just leap frog forward. Get serious and get busy!
Yahuah bless you and guard you; Yahuah make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;
Yahuah lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.
