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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The Gallbladder
· The Gallbladder:
The gallbladder is a pear-shaped organ that is connected to the liver and the small intestine by a series of ducts. The gallbladder is the storage place for bile, which the liver makes. The bile helps in the digestion of the food. The bile flows from the liver through the hepatic duct into the common bile duct. Then the bile is emptied into the small intestine. When no digestion of food is happening, bile is not needed for digestion but flows from the liver, through the common duct to the gallbladder where it’s stored until needed. There is a special hormone called cholecystokinin. The gallbladder holds the bile until CCK signals for it to submissively release bile when fats need to be digested. Bile is a greenish-brown fluid, and it helps in absorbing some vitamins. Wastes from the liver, and broken-down blood cells give it the color it gets. Bile is also one of the most poisonous substances in our body. It keeps the food in the intestines from spoiling. Bile is very bitter when vomited up. It’s not usually in the stomach, but when someone is vomiting a lot and there’s no food in their stomach, bile is thrown upward into the stomach and then vomited out. Gallstones are formed because the bile becomes concentrated, becoming stagnant or filled with impurities. Gallstones are made from cholesterol, something in animal fats. The liver also makes cholesterol, and too much can cause hardening of the arteries. Also, when there is too much cholesterol and the bile is concentrated, the cholesterol crystallizes. Then all the little bows of crystallized cholesterol form together and make a small gallstone. If everything continues to stay the same, the gallstone becomes bigger and bigger. There can sometimes be many little gallstones in the gallbladder. When the bile flows out, sometimes the gallstone will flow along too. If the gallstone is too large to get through the duct opening, it will be terribly painful and a serious problem. With the bile not being able to flow freely, if nothing is done about the gallstone being stuck in the opening of the duct, a condition of jaundice will arise. That’s when bile is absorbed into the blood stream and the person turns yellow. If not taken care of it can be serious. Other causes of gallstones, are, too much sugar, too much protein, meat, dairy products, greasy foods, highly seasoned foods, foods containing baking soda, overeating (high in fat), not drinking enough water waise down the liver, making it hard to work and it makes the liver unhealthy. Also a lack of exercise can involve the cause of gallstones. Eating the right kinds of fat and foods are needed. Olives, avocados, walnuts, almonds, pecans, sunflower seeds, etc. are all full of good fat. Eating a lot of fruit and vegetables are needed!
· Spiritual lesson:
Just like bile flows from the liver to the gallbladder, our prayers are to be ever flowing up to God and His blessings will flow back to us! Just like when the CCK signals for the bile to flow and the bile submissively releases, so are we to be submissive to Christ when He signals for us to follow Him in every little thing. _ Just like bile is one of the poisonous things in our body as well as very bitter, so sin is one of the poisonous things and very bitter to God and the life that is alive in sin and not dead in Christ. Just like when a person is vomiting bile up after vomiting for a while, we are to vomit up our evil ways and become purified in Christ. Just like when the bile becomes concentrated, becoming stagnant or filled with impurities, and cholesterol becomes crystallized, forming gallstones and the liver becomes unhealthy and full of impurities from not eating right, not drinking enough water and not exercising enough; so with us in our Christian walk. Without drinking at the Fountain of Living Water, not the eating of God’s Holy Word, not exercising our faith and not staying apart from the bile of the world, we will become stagnant, unhealthy and full of impurities in our Christian walk! Just like it is so important to eat right, drink lots of water and exercise for the health of our liver, so it is with our Christian life. We must eat right spiritually, drinking and learning from Jesus and ever exercising our faith in Him. Staying away from the bile of the world, the evil pleasures and bad influences! We must ever keep an open flow between our hearts and Christ and not let the gallstones of life come between Him and us! If the connection between our hearts and Christ becomes closed by a gallstone of life, we will turn “yellow,” not having the victory in Him that we are to be having. At first it will be painful, but if we don’t let Christ through to our hearts by removing the gallstones of life, we will become yellow with sin and iniquity. Without a connection with Christ, we cannot live happy, healthful Christian lives!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
A Valuable Lesson from the Trees!
The day had been hard, it seemed everything was going wrong. All day I longed to get away to a quite, peaceful spot in nature and talk to God!
I sighed a sign of relief, I was now finally able to get away from everything; moreover, escape to a quite stop alone in God’s beautiful nature!
I skipped up the road with a smile on my face and a song in my heart. It was a beautiful day, clear blue sky, hardly a white fluffy cloud in view. The birds were singing gloriously and a gentle breeze was blowing across my face. I clasped my hands together in joy and my heart over flowed with anticipation for Christ’s soon return.
I saw my sinfulness, helplessness and my greater need for Christ, but the melody in my heart was, “More love for Thee, more love for Thee!” I finally arrived at the place where I loved to escape to talk with my Best Friend and Saviour. As I looked out over the rolling hills and saw the beauty thereof, I realized the awesomeness more fully of living in the country!
That day was a turning point in my life…I began to appreciate nature more and the place God had moved us to! I had enjoyed God’s nature before, but now I realized the greater beauty and the lessons we can learn!
I beheld the lofty trees and how they swayed with the breeze. The verse in Philippians 4:11 took a deeper meaning, “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” I realized God had planted me where I was (where He wanted me), so like the lofty trees of the mountains were content where they had been planted, I needed to be content too!
Contentment is something we so often forget about! How often do we find ourselves not content with how things turned out and we complain to God for not working it out how we wanted?! Both discontentment and complaining are sin in God’s eyes! First of all, we don’t know what is best for us (but we do know all things work together for good to them that love God, Romans 8:28), and secondly, we should rejoice in Christ no matter what (please read Philippians 4:4)! Being content no matter what and thanking the Lord in every situation!
Let us learn a valuable lesson from the trees of the mountains to be content with all things in Christ, in giving of thanks, rejoicing no matter what happens! May this your prayer be, “I will praise Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all Thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in Thee: I will sing praise to Thy name, O Thou Most High.” Psalm 9:1,2 Remember this, friends, “But godliness with contentment is great gain.” 1 Timothy 6:6
I want to encourage each of you to study God’s nature and learn the lessons that He would have you learn! There are many valuable, precious lessons for those who seek to learn! When we seek, we will find! “Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:12,13. What a beautiful promise the Lord has given us, and He really means it! So, be ye content in every situation, for “godliness with contentment is great gain!”
I sighed a sign of relief, I was now finally able to get away from everything; moreover, escape to a quite stop alone in God’s beautiful nature!
I skipped up the road with a smile on my face and a song in my heart. It was a beautiful day, clear blue sky, hardly a white fluffy cloud in view. The birds were singing gloriously and a gentle breeze was blowing across my face. I clasped my hands together in joy and my heart over flowed with anticipation for Christ’s soon return.
I saw my sinfulness, helplessness and my greater need for Christ, but the melody in my heart was, “More love for Thee, more love for Thee!” I finally arrived at the place where I loved to escape to talk with my Best Friend and Saviour. As I looked out over the rolling hills and saw the beauty thereof, I realized the awesomeness more fully of living in the country!
That day was a turning point in my life…I began to appreciate nature more and the place God had moved us to! I had enjoyed God’s nature before, but now I realized the greater beauty and the lessons we can learn!
I beheld the lofty trees and how they swayed with the breeze. The verse in Philippians 4:11 took a deeper meaning, “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” I realized God had planted me where I was (where He wanted me), so like the lofty trees of the mountains were content where they had been planted, I needed to be content too!
Contentment is something we so often forget about! How often do we find ourselves not content with how things turned out and we complain to God for not working it out how we wanted?! Both discontentment and complaining are sin in God’s eyes! First of all, we don’t know what is best for us (but we do know all things work together for good to them that love God, Romans 8:28), and secondly, we should rejoice in Christ no matter what (please read Philippians 4:4)! Being content no matter what and thanking the Lord in every situation!
Let us learn a valuable lesson from the trees of the mountains to be content with all things in Christ, in giving of thanks, rejoicing no matter what happens! May this your prayer be, “I will praise Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all Thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in Thee: I will sing praise to Thy name, O Thou Most High.” Psalm 9:1,2 Remember this, friends, “But godliness with contentment is great gain.” 1 Timothy 6:6
I want to encourage each of you to study God’s nature and learn the lessons that He would have you learn! There are many valuable, precious lessons for those who seek to learn! When we seek, we will find! “Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:12,13. What a beautiful promise the Lord has given us, and He really means it! So, be ye content in every situation, for “godliness with contentment is great gain!”
The Giant Anteater
The Anteater lives in Central and South America. The length of the head and body is 3-4 ft. and the tail another 2-3ft. The hair is coarse and stiff, gray-brown color on head and body, becoming darker on the hind-quarters and tail. Across the shoulders are black stripes bordered with white, which makes the Anteater surprisingly very camouflage.
The Anteater is found in swamps, open forests and savannahs from British Honduras and Guatemala to northern Argentina. It lives on the ground shuffling around with nose to the ground in an almost continual search for food. The Anteater doesn’t have a permanent resting place, but it sleeps curled up with head between the forelegs and tail wrapped round the body in any sheltered place.
Amazingly it walks on the knuckles of its front feet, giving it a strange crippled look, in doing so to protect the long, sickle-shaped claws from being blunted.
The Anteater’s diet consist of termites, ants and soft-bodied grubs. With its short front claws it tears holes in the tough walls of termite nests. With its long muzzle pushing in, the 8-10inch tongue probes around in the nest to get the insects with its sticky saliva. Another interesting thing about the Giant Anteater is, that their smell is 40 times better then ours.
After a few minutes of thought, I came up with some spiritual lessons we can learn from the Anteater that I would like to share with you.
Like the Giant Anteater is almost continually searching for food, we are to continually be searching the Scriptures and ever be open to what God would like to teach us and where He would have us go. Like the Anteater has no permanent dwelling place, we need to remember that this world is not our permanent home, that we’re just pilgrims traveling to a Heavenly Home! Like the Anteater tears into nests with its strong claws to get the ants, we are to brake down the walls of sin with, “Thus sayeth the Lord” to get our reward-victory in Jesus and eternal life! Just like the ants of the ant hills are in danger of a Giant Anteater coming and tearing up their home and eating them up, we must be on our guard continually, for there is a foe out there prying around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour! So stand guard against the evil one, and rest in the safety of the Rock, Jesus Christ!
The Anteater is found in swamps, open forests and savannahs from British Honduras and Guatemala to northern Argentina. It lives on the ground shuffling around with nose to the ground in an almost continual search for food. The Anteater doesn’t have a permanent resting place, but it sleeps curled up with head between the forelegs and tail wrapped round the body in any sheltered place.
Amazingly it walks on the knuckles of its front feet, giving it a strange crippled look, in doing so to protect the long, sickle-shaped claws from being blunted.
The Anteater’s diet consist of termites, ants and soft-bodied grubs. With its short front claws it tears holes in the tough walls of termite nests. With its long muzzle pushing in, the 8-10inch tongue probes around in the nest to get the insects with its sticky saliva. Another interesting thing about the Giant Anteater is, that their smell is 40 times better then ours.
After a few minutes of thought, I came up with some spiritual lessons we can learn from the Anteater that I would like to share with you.
Like the Giant Anteater is almost continually searching for food, we are to continually be searching the Scriptures and ever be open to what God would like to teach us and where He would have us go. Like the Anteater has no permanent dwelling place, we need to remember that this world is not our permanent home, that we’re just pilgrims traveling to a Heavenly Home! Like the Anteater tears into nests with its strong claws to get the ants, we are to brake down the walls of sin with, “Thus sayeth the Lord” to get our reward-victory in Jesus and eternal life! Just like the ants of the ant hills are in danger of a Giant Anteater coming and tearing up their home and eating them up, we must be on our guard continually, for there is a foe out there prying around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour! So stand guard against the evil one, and rest in the safety of the Rock, Jesus Christ!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
He Died to Set Me Free.
My blessed Redeemer came to this evil dark world,
To sufer, teach, heal and to die,
He died apon the cross, to set me free by and by.
For Him, If He sees best, I'll be willing to die!
Because what Great love He showed to me,
When upon the cross, He bled and died, you see.
You sufered all for me, so I'm willing to sufer all for Thee,
Dear Lord, Your love to show to others always to be!
He died to set a sinner like me free.
Oh how could it be,
That the Son of God gave up all for me,
Oh what great Love He has, you see!
I long to see my best friend Jesus
Who will one day very soon come for us.
Oh the way can sometimes be hard, be stand I must.
For my blessed best friend is coming soon, who is Jesus!
I can't thank you enough dear Lord, for
All You have done for me and more,
Your love is always forevermore,
Oh what would I do if I didn't have a friend like you evermore!
He died to set me free,
Free from Satans temptations sore,
From sins set free forvermore.
Oh what Sufering He bore!
By: Sabrina Kae Oliver 4-2-10
To sufer, teach, heal and to die,
He died apon the cross, to set me free by and by.
For Him, If He sees best, I'll be willing to die!
Because what Great love He showed to me,
When upon the cross, He bled and died, you see.
You sufered all for me, so I'm willing to sufer all for Thee,
Dear Lord, Your love to show to others always to be!
He died to set a sinner like me free.
Oh how could it be,
That the Son of God gave up all for me,
Oh what great Love He has, you see!
I long to see my best friend Jesus
Who will one day very soon come for us.
Oh the way can sometimes be hard, be stand I must.
For my blessed best friend is coming soon, who is Jesus!
I can't thank you enough dear Lord, for
All You have done for me and more,
Your love is always forevermore,
Oh what would I do if I didn't have a friend like you evermore!
He died to set me free,
Free from Satans temptations sore,
From sins set free forvermore.
Oh what Sufering He bore!
By: Sabrina Kae Oliver 4-2-10
Friday, November 12, 2010
Praise Him, Come What May.
Praise Him I will, come what may,
The blessings He gives me day by day.
Though sunshine or rain,
Sorrow and pain,
Praise Him, I will, come what may,
He'll fill my life with joy each day.
Though sorrow may fill my heart,
Praise Him, I will, for my God how great Thou art!
Though satans darts are throw at me,
In Christ's strength, I will gain victory!
Praise Him, how I must,
For His love and goodness for us!
Though trails may be pilled at my door,
Still He'll fill my faces with smiles forevermore!
Praise Him, I will, as life shall last,
When cares, sorrow, trails and tears are past,
I will praise Him when on that day,
My Saviour comes to take me away.
To reign with Him in the courts above,
I will praise Him, for how great His love!
Praise Him, Praise Him mankind,
Soon He is coming His glory to shine!
Praise Him, coma what may,
I'll praise Him what may cross my pilgrims way!
4-21-10
The blessings He gives me day by day.
Though sunshine or rain,
Sorrow and pain,
Praise Him, I will, come what may,
He'll fill my life with joy each day.
Though sorrow may fill my heart,
Praise Him, I will, for my God how great Thou art!
Though satans darts are throw at me,
In Christ's strength, I will gain victory!
Praise Him, how I must,
For His love and goodness for us!
Though trails may be pilled at my door,
Still He'll fill my faces with smiles forevermore!
Praise Him, I will, as life shall last,
When cares, sorrow, trails and tears are past,
I will praise Him when on that day,
My Saviour comes to take me away.
To reign with Him in the courts above,
I will praise Him, for how great His love!
Praise Him, Praise Him mankind,
Soon He is coming His glory to shine!
Praise Him, coma what may,
I'll praise Him what may cross my pilgrims way!
4-21-10
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