Perspective

Hubby and I are trimming down the spending and going on a budget. First time we have been able to actually do this. Like anything else, you have to make it a habit.  Kinda like this blog.  Stopped doing this and it has been so hard to get back in the groove.  Back to the budget. It is amazing how much money you can throw away and not know it.  I challenge anyone to keep track of everything you spend in the month and you will find ways to save. Our biggest spending was on food and eating out. We now have a budget for our food weekly and actually have fun trying to find a better deal. We go to a farmers market every week and get shrimp, chicken and beef for the week.  This farmers market has great prices. Better than the grocery stores. We take our lunch every day and keep it simple with the chopped salad bags and a piece of grilled chicken. The other thing we are doing is not using credit cards. That is very hard to do when you have used them your whole adult life. Cash or nothing. If you are under 30 start now to live on half what you make.   Yes, I heard that the other day.  It sounds crazy but if you did this you would never have any money issues and could retire very early in life.

If you have any great ideas and advice, we would love to hear about it.

Remember to Love God, love others, and love yourself.

I've Got The Power!

 

Do you remember the song back in 1990, "I've got the Power"?  It was a great dancing song. I think they played it a lot at sporting events.  The good news as believers of Christ, is we really do have the power. 2 Timothy 1:7 is my new favorite verse.  

2 Timothy 1:7

for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

The Holy Spirit is dwelling within us. We have a Spirit of power, love, and self control.  This is the same power we read about in Acts.  Today, we need more examples of miracles and healing through the power of the Holy Spirit.  Pray. Believe. Be bold.  Pray in the Spirit. Expect miracles.  Let God's glory shine through you so that all may see and believe.  

Love and peace

In the moment

Living in the moment.  Being present. Living each day with intentional purpose.  Unless you are very deliberate about this, it is so easy to be concerned about tomorrow. God wants us to be living for the now and focus on his desires for that moment.   Matthew 6:34 says,

“Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”

Excerpt From: Peterson, Eugene. “The Message New Testament With Psalms and Proverbs.”

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The key is to become outwardly focused and God focused.  Not only are we to not worry, but our focus is to be on God.  What an amazing world it would be if we can be so focused on God that we are constantly in the moment going about our Father's concerns.  We won't have time to get caught up on gossip, or trivial matters when our heart is with God. We could then be outwardly reaching those around us who need God in their lives.  May you live today in the moment with God leading you.

Peace

A Life Worth Living

My sister in law passed away this past Thursday.  She fought the fight of metastatic breast cancer.  My family and Kathy's close friends gathered on Saturday to celebrate Kathy's life.  It was at the home of her very dear friend who had taken care of Kathy during her illness.  We had a time where we could say something and remember Kathy. It was very clear how much Kathy was loved and what a great spirit Kathy had for life, fun, joy, and happiness.  She could have played the pitiful victim but chose instead to live life to the fullest and make her life happy and full. 

The other thing that was revealed to me was how much love is in the world.  God brought the right people to Kathy to be by her side and help her through the storm.  So many people who never met Kathy were praying for her daily.  A love that is selfless and Christ like to do what is needed for a person in need.

It can be so easy to focus on the negative world we live in.  But within all of this you find beauty, kindness, joy, hope, and love.  My prayer is that you can focus your life on loving and caring for those around you.  

Peace...

God working through others

My sister Liz is a chaplain at a hospital and is assigned to the neo natal ward.  Today there is a memorial service for the babies who went on to be with God.  She said there are over 400 that die from miscarriage to still births to complications after delivery every year in her hospital. Liz has a special gift to love on these families and pray for them.  What a gift God has given her to use for His purpose.

Life can really stink.  Everyone will experience loss during their lifetime. One of our reasons to be here is to help those who are suffering.  Love on those who are lonely.  Feed those who are hungry.  

Everyone wants to know their purpose in life.  This is no secret.  We were created by God to be used for His purpose and bring glory to God.  We do this by loving God, loving others, and loving yourself.  Don't make it complicated.  Take every moment and use it as an opportunity to help someone. To forgive someone. To love someone.  Take this moment and change your life to live and to love.  Let go of hatred. Stop being scared and mean. Start living for others.  Share your love with everyone.  

Ask God to make you more loving in your heart.

http://youtu.be/dBQqda_YDxw

Why do we pray?

This is taken from www.one place.com by Adrian Rogers

Why do we pray?

It's very important to understand this: we are inviting God into our lives when we pray.

When we pray, we experience —

• Fellowship. 

We become "workers together with Him" (2 Corinthians 6:1). When we pray, God gives us the joy and privilege of administrating His kingdom, His affairs — working together with Him. He could do it without us. We could not do it without Him. But what a glory that God allows us the privilege of doing it with Him!

• Development. 

When we pray, God is growing us. Have you ever prayed and didn't receive immediately what you asked for? What did you do? You kept on praying, but you also began to search your heart and life to see if something was hindering God's answer. Many times there is. God uses prayer to grow us.

• Dependency. 

God never wants us to live lives independent of Him. If God just did everything for us and we never had to pray, soon we would begin to take things for granted. We would cease to depend upon God.

Prayer Binds Us to God

That's why we tell God what He already knows. He knows what we have need of before we ask, but we're definitely, specifically, unqualifiedly told to pray and to ask — not to impress or inform God, but to invite God, so that we might have that fellowship with Him, so that we might grow, and we would learn to depend upon Him.

God Is With You

Back about 15 years ago was what I would call my spiritual transformation. I went deeper into my relationship with God through prayer, meditation, and journaling.  I would wake up around 5 in the morning and just spend some time with God. I wrote phrases and sentences that turned into verse. I borrowed my sisters piano and just started playing around with music and created melodies. 

Around this time, my sister was very sick and several of my friends were dealing with cancer.  I wrote "You Are Not Alone", to express how God is always with us through every storm in our lives. We can find rest, peace, and comfort in God. 

I hope you can find a message of God's love for you in this video. 

Peace

http://flipagram.com/f/HlJTeSPgJW

Chapter 2. Look Around You

Suffering from migraines and prescription drugs

Lonely and suffering from anxiety

Need a job

Cancer

Car accident with neck injury

One month old baby died

Cancer

Depression 

All of these things are people who I work with every day or near me as a friend or relative.  I don't think I am unusual. We have so many people around us and in our day to day lives to reach out and help. 

1. Pray for them

2. Listen to them

3. Give them your gentle spirit

4. Help where you can

5. Encourage them

6. Love them

Peace..........

http://youtu.be/muH70QDnGko

Chapter 2. Becoming Outwardly Focused

Love God.  Love Yourself.  Love Others. 

 It is rather simple.  We make things so complicated. Our issues in our minds fight with the natural creation from God to be made in his image.  God is love.   We are love.  Others are love. 

We need help. Our family, friends, neighbors, leaders, the world needs help.  Imagine a world where everyone is outwardly focused to love one another. We are God's hands and feet.  Anyone reading this should be able to think quickly of someone who needs our help.  Try to help someone today. Show them your love.  Be nice and smile.  Loosen up.  Stop thinking only about you.  Become outwardly focused.

Love and Peace....

Memories

On my drive to work, I tried to go back to my earliest memory.  I got to pre-kindergarten.  My mom would read these stories to me that had words with pictures throughout for me to say.  I remember picking up grasshoppers in our back yard.  Then I remembered an earlier time when I tried to push open the storm door and my wrist went through the glass.  I had to get stitches.  I also remember we lived across from a funeral home. We would go in there from time to time.  I decided most of my memories are creepy.  Except for the stories.  Wait...I remember before kindergarten when we lived in Indiana and my mom and I would ride the bus downtown and eat cinnamon rolls at the dime store counter. So now creepy things and good things.  Other than the above, most of my memories were saved because of photos.  The photos let me relive my life of love, family, and a wonderful, meaningful life.  The photos preserve the time and help keep the memory alive.  The say a picture is worth a thousand words really makes sense to me.  With IPhone and social media we have a great way to share and keep our memories.  

Life is good and we have been given a way to share life with each other.  Make sure when living life you take a pic now and then so if you are like me you will be able to remember.

Good

Do Christians think we are better than non believers?  Apparently that is what some non believers think of us.  They think we consider ourselves the only nice people on earth.  Is it the way we try to convert everyone because of the great commission?  Perhaps it's because we tend to hang together.  Whatever reason, we must embrace the phrase "perception is reality".  

The only reason I'm bringing this up is to challenge you to review your image and perspective to other non believers.  Everything we do or say should be done in love.  We are called to be light in a darkened world.  We are to bring help and hope to anyone in need.  Everyone should be considered precious in God's eyes.  Do we see everyone as precious?  Or do we pick and choose who we want to be invited into the kingdom? Seek to love everyone unconditionally.  Become very humble and remember that we are All Sinners.

In your prayer time, take a moment to ask God how you can be shown how to become more loving towards everyone.  To not pick and choose.  To have your heart opened and lead by the Spirit.

For me, Mother Teresa was the type of person that could love unconditionally.  She lived to help those around her and saw everyone as a child of God.

peace......

In Honor of Cheryl

Cheryl is a inspiring woman from our church who went to be with the Lord yesterday.  My husband and were in several small groups with Cheryl and her husband.  There is a quote, "Be the person that if anyone ever said anything bad about you, no one would believe it." Cheryl was that person.  Her faith in Christ was a living testimony.   Cheryl battled breast cancer for the last 10 years of her life. She was paralyzed from the waste down the last year as the cancer moved into her spine.  In spite of it all Cheryl had a quiet loving spirit.  I would say she was a perfect example of living by the fruit of the spirit as we are to become as Christians. 

I want us to take The Cheryl Challenge.  We can all live like Cheryl.  We can all be an example of Christ.  It doesn't matter how old you are or what you have done in your past or just did a few moments ago.  With Christ, we are a NEW CREATION.  New meaning CHANGED.  Accept this NOW.  We are free.  If you are already a follower of Christ then change from your old ways.  Get rid of hatred, anger, bitterness, selfishness, rage, and unforiveness.  Through the Holy Spirit living in you, live with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self control.

If you have never accepted Christ into your life, then I beg you to do it right now.  Christ provides a way for us to have everything above and receive this for eternity.  Our life on earth is but a second.  We can make a choice.  But this choices offers us a chance to live with God forever.  To have the Holy Spirit enter our soul and give us everything in that picture above now.  You can and will experience peace so wonderful, love so amazing,  joy never ending.  No matter what you will endure on this earth, God will never leave you and promises that.  That is why we can suffer and still live by the Fruit of the Spirit.  

Our small group is studying Hebrews.  The book of Hebrews was partly written for Jews who converted to Christianity.  They were persecuted and lived a very hard life.  The Jewish people disowned them. To some it was so hard they wanted to go back to the old ways and give up.  Throughout Hebrews the message is clear.  Turn you eyes to Jesus.  Fix your eyes on Jesus.  Jesus came down to give us a new way and and new life.  When we turn to Christ, we can find rest here on earth.  Cheryl was able to find rest through Christ in spite of her troubles.  

Change today.  Don't be so prideful or embarrassed.  Take the Cheryl Challenge and become the person God intended you to be.

If you want to become a follower of Christ.  Just pray,  Jesus, I sin.  I don't like my life and I want you to be a part of me.  I believe that you were the sacrifice for me.  By dying on the cross you saved me.  I believe in you and want you to be in my life forever. Amen!  

I will leave you with a quote that is on Cheryl's Pinterest board. 

Day ? 2/23214 stillness

I am still here.  Although. The new job and changes with my husbands job have changed my time and schedule.  Things are good.  We have both transitioned well into our new jobs.  I am surrounded by Christians and have a great place to work and utilize my skills.  God is good.  In the midst of all of our lives, and stuff, and issues, and up, and downs God doesn't change.  He is always our loving God.   He says Be Still and know that I am God.  Rest in God and thank him continually for His love.  Our lives are but a moment in the scheme of eternity.  

Peace.....

Day 158 Next

I am not very good at multi-tasking at my personal life.  I am great at work.  Probably because one is expected to multi-task in order to get it all done.  The whole job change thing took a lot of focus and energy.  Leaving not much mentally for me to tackle anything else.  Now that I am settled into the new job, which I really enjoy by the way, I am ready to tackle the next part of my journey.  Hubby and I are keeping God first in our life but will be joining another small group that will work with our schedule.  

My next journey is back on the be healthy journey.  My goal is to take priority of my health through diet and exercise.  I don't have to tell you that health insurance is so expensive.  I have accumulated a few RX drugs that I hope to eliminate by improvement of health.  So.....  What I began earlier this year and got sidetracked will become a focus now.  What does that mean?  Water....treadmill....eating right...and back to weekly pictures!  I know it's cruel but that keeps me focused with mini goals!  Never give up and always keep striving to be your absolute best.  I hope you are becoming your best.  Remember to Love God, love others, and love yourself.  

Live in peace......

Day 151 - Change is good!

Yes, change is good.  Change can be like a breath of fresh air.   It gives us a new attitude.  A chance to begin.  It is like the new year.  We think of it as a way to start over or begin again with a goal or a belief or a task.  I think the one thing we should be ready for is change.  Life is unpredictable.  It can be scary and unknown.  Don't be afraid of this.  

I have three special prayers for you In 2014.

1.  I pray you love God.

The one thing you can always count on is God.  He is the unchangable part of your life.  My prayer for you for 2014 is get to know God.  Yes,  you can know God.  There is a relationship waiting for you.  He can bring you through the changes in your life.  He will guide your path.  He will make a way when you think there is none.  Find like minded people who are God seeking people.

2.  I pray you love others.

We are created to love.  Be nice to your family and love them.  Tell them you love them.  Forgive those who have caused you pain.  Help those around you.

3.  I pray you love yourself.

God created you.  You are special and unique.  Love yourself and become the best you can be.  Break bad habits.  Believe in yourself.  Make yourself better.  Live life to the fullest.  Make 2014 your best year ever.

Love God, love others, love yourself.  Amen

Day 144 - New beginnings

2013 is almost over.  2014 is going to be a great year.  New job. New attitude.  New love for God. New friends. I came across a website. 365promises.com. It contains a daily verse of a promise of God and a short devotion.  I want to challenge you to go deeper in your walk with God.  He wants a relationship with you.  Not a "hi how are you, fine thanks" passing relationship. A jump off the cliff, peal back the layers kind of relationship.  The kind that will challenge you.  Change you. Fix you. Make you reach up to be the person God created you to be.  Are you scared?  Can you let go?  It would be a kind of experience you have never imagined.  One more thrilling than anything you have experienced so far.  This is my challenge to you.  If you don't know what to do, write me.  We can go through this together to get you in with God.  Nothing else in life will compare to this new way of life.

Ready.  Set  Go!    

Peace........

Day 140 - Merry Christmas!🎄🎄🎄

My family had a wonderful Christmas.  There wasn't any toy to put together the night before.  We didn't have a child waking us up all night because they couldn't sleep.  Cliff and I woke up first. We had to wake up the kids.  So the timing was perfect.  I made the easiest cinnamon rolls out of biscuits courtesy of Pinterest.  The opening of presents was very relaxing.  Everyone got what they wanted but it wasn't overdone.   The real joy of the day came when we went with friends to three different nursing homes and sang carols to the residents.  We met the nicest people in the world today.  Many sang along with us.  We mixed jingle bells and frosty with O Come All Ye Faithful and Silent Night.  Nicole sang solos and sounded like an Angel.  The mother of our friends spent months making little Rudolph's filled with chocolate kisses that was given out to the residents. The last gentleman we sang to cried at the end of silent night.  Another gentleman's daughter came up and told our friend what a great thing we did.  He father's first day was today.  He loved the singing and sang with us during all of the songs.  We thought he had to have sung in a choir but he said he just liked to sing.  His daughter said it helped him a lot to feel more at home.  They all welcomed hugs, smiles, and love.

Jesus came as a gift to us.  The best gift we could ever get.  He came to help the weak, the poor, and the needy.  We are called to be like Jesus and love God and love others.  Both Cliff and I agree today that this Christmas is one of the most meaniful of all because of the joy we got while sharing the love of Christ with others today.  

My prayer for you today and everyday is that you know the love of Christ.  That this love will fill your heart mind and soul so that it overflows toward those around you.  Give yourself away.  Be kind to those around you.  Go out of your comfort zone.  Be God's hands and feet.  In Jesus name.  Amen

Day 137 - Inner Joy

Do you have inner joy?  It is the knowing that no matter what is going on,  you have the confidence that God is with you, protecting you and taking care of your life.  Will you have struggles and sorrow?  Yes. Life happens.  The world around us continues. We experience ups and downs.  We get sick.  We loose jobs.  We experience losses of loved ones.  But God loves us so much.  We celebrate his love by the birth of Jesus.  He came down to be the sacrificial lamb for our sin.  God is with us now in this life.  His promises tell us what he will do.  Because of this we can be at peace and have an inner joy so filled with love that we are protected and free within the trials of this world.  Take a moment this Christmas to find your inner joy.  Rest in God's promises from his word.  Share your joy with those around you.  

I have a fun song for you to celebrate your joy.  It is for kids, but says it so clearly why we have 

J to the O to the Y!!!  

Peace....

http://youtu.be/uY03LAOc1ro.  ( paste into you tube)

Day 134 - Plans

I have a new job.  God worked out an amazing timeline for me to transition to my next job.  It was an awesome experience.  My last job was not going to be able to accommodate my needs.  The new job came up out of the blue with a recruiter who did not know I was looking for a job.  It was so perfectly timed that God could have only been the one to do this.  Everyone I work with are Christians.  The  job is so closely related to my skills.  It is just so amazing.  I love the way God works things out in our lives. 

Take time to know how God can make things happen in your life.  It changes everything.  

Peace

Day 123 - Healing

I wanted to share scripture for healing.  We all know people in our lives we can pray for.  Lift your hearts and prayer requests up to The Lord.  He hears our requests.  

May your heart rest in the faith he has placed in your heart.

Romans 10 tells us that faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of Christ. To help us believe God for healing oursleves, our friends and our families it helps to have a good grasp of the Scriptures concerning healing. These Scriptures are small enough to be written on a business card sized bit of paper, carried around and memorised. 1. (Exodus 15:26 NKJV) and said, "If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you." 2. (Deuteronomy 32:39 NKJV) 'Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. 3. (2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV) "If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 4. (Psalms 30:2 NKJV) O LORD my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me. 5. (Psalms 6:2 NKJV) Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am weak; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled. 6. (Psalms 103:1-4 NKJV) Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! {2} Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: {3} Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, {4} Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 7. (Psalms 107:20 NKJV) He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions. 8. (Psalms 147:3 NKJV) He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds. 9. (Proverbs 3:7-8 NKJV) Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil. {8} It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones. 10. (Proverbs 4:20-22 NKJV) My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. {21} Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; {22} For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. 11. (Isaiah 53:5 NKJV) But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 12. (Isaiah 58:8 NKJV) Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. 13. (Isaiah 61:1 NKJV) "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 14. (Jeremiah 3:22 NKJV) "Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings." "Indeed we do come to You, For You are the LORD our God. 15. (Jeremiah 17:14 NKJV) Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. 16. (Jeremiah 30:17 NKJV) For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,' says the LORD, 'Because they called you an outcast saying: "This is Zion; No one seeks her."' 17. (Jeremiah 33:6 NKJV) 'Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. 18. (Hosea 6:1 NKJV) Come, and let us return to the LORD; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. 19. (Hosea 14:4 NKJV) "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him. 20. (Malachi 4:2 NKJV) But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves. 21. (Matthew 4:23 NKJV) And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. 22. (Matthew 8:13 NKJV) Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you." And his servant was healed that same hour. 23. (Matthew 8:16 NKJV) When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 24. (Matthew 9:35 NKJV) Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 25. (Matthew 10:1 NKJV) And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. 26. (Matthew 10:8 NKJV) "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. 27. (Matthew 12:22 NKJV) Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. 28. (Matthew 14:14 NKJV) And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick. 29. (Luke 6:19 NKJV) And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all. 30. (Luke 9:6 NKJV) So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.(The twelve are sent out) 31. (Luke 10:8-9 NKJV) "Whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you. {9} "And heal the sick there, and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you.'(The seventy are sent out) 32. (Luke 17:15 NKJV) And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God,(The story of the ten lepers) 33. (Acts 3:12 NKJV) So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: "Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? 34. (Healing of the lame man at the Gate Beautiful) (Acts 4:29-31 NKJV) "Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, {30} "by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus." {31} And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. 35. (1 Corinthians 12:9 NKJV) to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 36. (James 5:14-16 NKJV) Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. {15} And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. {16} Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 37. (Revelation 22:2 NKJV) In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 38. (Luke 8:47 NKJV) Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately. 39. (Luke 8:48 NKJV) And He said to her, "Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace." 40. (Luke 5:17 NKJV) Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.