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Jul10

Old Fashioned Southern Peach Cobbler Recipe

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5-7 fresh peaches based on size, peeled, cored and sliced

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar

If using canned peaches, omit the sugar.

For the batter:

• 6 Tablespoons butter

• 1 cup King Arthur GF Flour https://a.co/d/00sFOi9B

• 1 cup granulated sugar

• 3/4 cup milk

Instructions

• Add the room temp sliced peaches and sugar together in a bowl and set aside. If the peaches aren’t very ripe, you might want to let them sit for a bit in the sugar until sugar is dissolved.

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Slice butter into pieces and add to a 9×9 or 9×13 inch baking dish. Place the pan in the oven while it preheats, to allow the butter to melt. Once melted, remove the pan from the oven.

• In a large bowl mix together the flour and sugar. Stir in the milk, just until combined. Pour the mixture into the pan, over the melted butter and smooth it into an even layer. 

• Spoon the peaches and juice (or canned peaches, if using) over the batter.

• Bake at 350 degrees for about 38-40 minutes. Serve warm, with a scoop of ice cream, if desired.

Note:

1. Most recipes call for cinnamon, brown sugar and other spices. I am a purest. Dough, peaches and butter work for this old girl.

2. You can use all-purpose flour. If you only have that available you will need to add 2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt

Note: I have celiac. My go to/fave GF flour alternative is King Arthur Flour Measure 4 Measure Gluten Free Flour.

You can grab the 3lb bag on Amazon for the same price as Walmart.

Mar13

God Is Faithful Through The Ages

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A Wednesday Word….

God is extraordinarily and eternally faithful. When we seek Him, we will find Him. When we confess our sins, He will forgives us. And no matter what we do or where we go, He will love us with an everlasting love.

We enjoyed time with our daughter and family last night and attended the 1st and 2nd grade Spring Easter Program. Our sweet Emma sang beautifully and spoke with authority biblical truths. God is at work.

The scripture that was woven thru the story led to a beautiful invitation to become a follower of Christ.

My heart is so full. It is a joy to watch our children parent. It is an even greater joy to watch our grandchildren each navigate their individual journey of faith. My heart is to see them walk in relationship with their Heavenly Father and know FULL life in a faithful God.

While the world is clamoring and screaming at the tops of its lungs for the minds and hearts of the children to turn FROM God, I am one grateful mama and MeMe to hear children singing truth and praises to God last night.

So this morning, in the quiet before everyone else woke up, a few scriptures came to mind about the faithfulness of God. My friend, He is true to His Word and that is the ONE thing in this world we CAN depend on and put our hope in.

Thought I’d share a few Bible verses in case you would like to stay your mind on our God’s faithfulness too.

God is not a man, that He might lie, or a son of man, that He might change His mind. Does He speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill? Numbers 33:19

Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23

Know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commands. Deuteronomy 7:9

But the Lord is faithful; He will strengthen and guard you from the evil one. 2 Thessalonians 3:3

For the word of the Lord is right, and all His work is trustworthy. Psalm 33:4

Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! Lamentations 3:22-23

Drop hands of praise below if you have known God’s faithfulness! Let that be your testimony today!!🙌

Jan31

Those Who Know Your Name Will Trust In You

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I praise You, Lord, that You are intimately acquainted with my ways and that You always love me and have my best interests at heart.

Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name. Psalm 86:11

The foremost commandment is this: “Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” The second is this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no commandment greater than these. To love God with all the heart and with the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as himself are more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. Mark 12:29-31, 33

Take a moment to offer this day to the Lord and ask Him for the grace to grow in your knowledge and love for Him.

The Lord reigns forever…. Those who know Your name will trust in You, for You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek You. Psalm 9:7-10

What the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin; He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:3-4

God raised me up with Christ and seated me with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward me in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:6-7

Lord, I thank You that You are a refuge for me and that You sent Your Son on my behalf. I thank You for raising me up with Christ. With all my heart I want to honor and serve You for all of my days.

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Jan30

The Word Of The Lord Is Proven

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I am grateful to You, O God, for the blessing of Your forgiveness. I thank You that in Christ, You set me free from the law of sin and death and given me hope for today and into the future.

As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven. He is a shield for all who take refuge in Him. For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God? 2 Samuel 22:31-32

God set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in His blood. He did this to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He passed over the sins committed beforehand; He did it to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of those who have faith in Jesus. Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Romans 3:25-28

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ. Ephesians 1:3

The Lord Jesus prayed these words for the unity of all who would believe in Him: “I ask that all of them may be one, Father, just as You are in Me and I am in You, that they also may be in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected in one, that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them, even as You have loved Me.” John 17:21-23

Lord, I thank You for the perfection of Your way and for the blood of Christ that makes me righteous in Your sight. I thank You that You have blessed me with every spiritual blessing, and I ask that I would live in integrity and seek unity with other believers.

Jan29

Who is Like You, O Lord?

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Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the furthest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me; Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me,” Even the night will be light around me. The darkness is not dark to You, And the night shines as the day; Darkness and light are alike to You. Psalm 139:7-12

Take a moment to consider God’s awesome majesty and thank Him that He loves you and wants an intimate relationship with you.

Who is like You, O Lord? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders? Exodus 15:11

He who enters by the door is the shepherd of his sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep listen to his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he brings out his own, he goes before them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. And they will never follow a stranger but will run away from him because they do not recognize the voice of strangers. Jesus used this figure of speech, but His hearers did not understand what He was telling them. Therefore Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth: I am the door of the sheep. All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. I am the good Shepherd; I know My sheep and My sheep know Me—just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father—and I lay down My life for the sheep.” John 10:2-8, 11, 14-15

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, they have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

Lord, I thank You for Your holiness and for Jesus, the good Shepherd. I thank You that I am a new creation in Christ. I love You for the work You have done in my heart through love, grace and mercy. Help me to grow more like You in the days to come.

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Jan28

God Keeps His Covenant And Loving-Kindness To The Generations

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O, Lord, I am deeply grateful for Your wonderful acts, for Your abundant promises, and for the gift of my relationship with You through the merits of Christ.

The Lord my God is the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commands. Deuteronomy 7:9

I will tell of the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, The praises of the Lord, According to all the Lord has done for us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, And according to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses. Isaiah 63:7

Take a moment to express your gratitude for the many blessings that you have received from the Lord.

How great are God’s signs, and how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; His dominion endures from generation to generation. Daniel 4:3

The Lord said, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not stay in darkness. And if anyone hears My words but does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.” John 12:46-47

Lord, I thank You for Your great signs and wonders and for the light of Christ. I thank You that I am in Christ Jesus. Lord give me many days to shine Your light in the daily.

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Jan27

The Son Of Man Did Not Come To Serve But To Be Served

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You are my lamp, O Lord; The Lord turns my darkness into light. With Your help I can advance against the enemy encamped around me; With my God I can leap over a wall. 2 Samuel 22:29-30

The joy of the Lord is my strength. Nehemiah 8:10

No one has ever seen God, but the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, has made Him known. John 1:18

The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. Matthew 20:28

If I died with Christ, I believe that I will also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. In the same way, I must consider myself to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:8-11

I will lay up Your words in my heart and in my soul and teach them to my children, talking about them when I sit in my house and when I walk along the way and when I lie down and when I rise up. Deuteronomy 11:18- 19

Lord, I thank You for Jesus Christ who made You known and gave His life for me. I thank You for my new identity in Christ. I pray for opportunities for the gospel and for my life’s small role in making YOU known in every place that I plant my feet today.

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Jan26

I Will Learn To Fear God All Of My Days

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O Lord, You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thoughts from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, You know it completely. Psalm 139:1-4

Take a moment to lift up the needs of your family and friends, and to offer up any other burdens for others that the Lord brings to mind.

Lord, You have said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

You have asked the Father, and He has given me another Comforter to be with me forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But I know Him, for He lives in me. John 14:16-17

I will learn to fear You all the days I live on the earth and teach Your words to my children and their children. Deuteronomy 4:10

Lord, I thank You for searching and knowing me and for giving me rest in Christ. I thank You for the never giving up on us, for our Comforter, the Holy Spirit and for the freedoms to choose Your way as I observe Your word. May my heart beat to encourage others in their faith journey.

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Jan25

The Lord Is My Strength And My Song

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As I approach Your throne of grace today, I am grateful that You care about the things that concern me and that You want me to offer them up to You.

Turn to me and be gracious to me, For I am lonely and afflicted. The troubles of my heart have multiplied; Free me from my distresses. Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive all my sins. Psalm 25:16-18

Take a moment to share your personal needs with God, including your physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual concerns.

I will sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted. The Lord is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him. Exodus 15:1-2

When You promised to make a new covenant with the house of Israel, You said, “I will put My law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. No longer will each one teach his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will forgive their iniquity and will remember their sins no more.” Jeremiah 31:33-34

If I lack wisdom, I should ask of God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to me. James 1:5

Lord, I thank You that You are my strength and my song and that in Christ Jesus, You have given me a new heart. I thank You for filling me with Your Holy Spirit, and I ask that You guide my steps according to Your wisdom.

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Jan24

Seek First The Kingdom of God

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I praise You, Lord, that You are intimately acquainted with my ways and that You always love me and have my best interests at heart.

May I not worry about my life, what I will eat or what I will drink; or about my body, what I will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. The birds of the air do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet my heavenly Father feeds them. Am I not much more valuable than they? Who by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do I worry about clothes? I will consider how the lilies of the field grow; they neither labor nor spin, yet not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe me? So may I not worry, saying, “What shall I eat?” or “What shall I drink?” or “What shall I wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and my heavenly Father knows that I need them. But may I seek first Your kingdom and Your righteousness, and all these things will be added to me. Matthew 6:25-33; Luke 12:22-31

Take a moment to offer this day to the Lord and ask Him for the grace to grow in your knowledge and love for Him.

Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. I will ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. I will ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name and worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Psalm 96:4-9

I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forever. For great is Your love toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of the grave. Psalm 86:12-13

Lord, I thank You that we can live by every word that proceeds from Your mouth. Your truth is trustworthy and meant to build Your kingdom. I thank You for delivering my soul from the depths of the grave. I ask that I would obey Your commandments as I seek to serve my family.

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