and I may be getting a nap in during one of my breaks today. We were up late last night and I am struggling (and losing) to stay awake this morning. Why were we up late? Because at 8:30PM the driver coming to pick up Ms. Amy's car called and said he was 20 minutes out. I had come up with the idea that instead of him driving to our house, I would drive the car up to an empty lot about a mile north, and meet him there. With the transport truck, it would be much easier for him to load it up and move back out. When we talked, I explained my idea. So 20 minutes out - we got shoes on and got ready to head to the location. Hubby was coming in his car so he could bring me back home. We got up to the location after I talked with Ivan again (the driver) and he said he was 10 minutes out. No biggie. We can wait 10 minutes. So off we went. We got to the corner and I left the car running and the lights on, thinking I could flash the lights when I saw the truck so that he would know where we were. He didn't show up until 40 minutes and two phone calls later! Obviously, he is a worse judge of time and distance than I am! But this huge transport truck pulls into the parking lot with one car already on it. It looks like it could hold 10. But probably 8, right? Anyway, I handed him the two sets of car keys and we came home and headed for bed.
Of course with all the 'excitement', my mind was activated and would go shut up. So I laid there awake for quite a while before finally dozing off, only to awake about 3 hours later - as usual. Sigh. I did go back to sleep, but not enough to make it worthwhile to make it through today. I've slept some this morning. I text'd Ms. Amy's son in Indiana (at 12:30AM his time!), apologized for texting so late, and let him know the car had been picked up and now it was 'all his'. It was out of my hands. This morning at 4AM our time, I received a 'thank you!' from him. Obviously, my text did not wake him up. Glad it didn't.
It's all becoming bittersweet for sure. I sent a package to Ms. Amy's daughter last week that she wanted, and the estate people have been over there every day for the past two weeks. The estate sale will start at 8AM this Thursday and I plan to be there at 8AM (or a little early!) to go through things. Why? Cause although I know I don't need anything, there might be something I want! I don't know what, though, cause I never went through the house all the time I had the key! I didn't snoop into drawers to see what was there. So I have no idea what all she has. I did get the keyboard so if I get nothing else, I did get that. Now to learn how to play it! I bang on it some when hubby is gone to a study or an appointment. I have it on really low, and I will sometimes walk over to it and bang out with my right hand "When we all get to heaven". My mama's favorite song. I remember her singing it often.
I made a new dish for dinner yesterday and it was really good. It was called like a Tuscan Chicken Stew. It calls for a pound of cut up chicken thighs, one jar of pasta sauce, a pound of ground turkey (which I didn't have so left it out), and a teaspoon of basil. I put the chicken, pasta and basil in the crockpot on high for 4 hours - and it was oh so good when we had it for dinner last night! I fixed rice and put it in the bottom of the bowl then put the stew on top of it, but you didn't need to. It's quick and easy and delicious! See - just gave you a simple recipe that anyone can make!
I Peter 5:8-9 (NKJV): "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world."
Oh we need to be so watchful of the schemes the devil throws at us to get us to sin! It may seem like a harmless thing when we do things we are not supposed to do. But when we do, we are allowing the devil to grab hold of us. He just does it, one little thing at a time, because once we start, he easily pulls us into his clutches. Be watchful that you don't allow the things of the world to infiltrate your home and your life. The devil is sneaky. He comes in through the books we read - those full of evil and violence and sex and things like that. The devil comes in through the video games they play. And we allow him in when we watch movies that we know that Jesus wouldn't watch. It is the little things like that, that we allow the devil and his demons to get into our homes, into our minds, and into our words and actions. Sit back and think about movies you watched. If they have been full of sex and violence... what do you find your mind focusing on? Watching scary movies.... do you find yourself jumping when you hear a noise in your house, or do you find when walking to your car that you are looking over your shoulder more often to see if you are being followed? Do you find yourself edgy around people you don't know?
Those may seem farfetched - I'm sure! But - I learned a long time ago, before I learned how the devil uses those things, I cannot watch scary shows. Even now I remember the movie 'The Mummy' - and although I'm sure when I saw it that it was so tame to what Friday the 13th is now - if I allow the movie to play the picture in my mind, I get shaken. I know, you think I'm nuts. People laugh at me when I'm 'scared' for my grandchildren to be out at night or just out running around.... I've watched too many NCIS movies!
I tell you what, though, hubby watches some shows that I wish he wouldn't, and they aren't even that bad. But then sometimes at night when I get up, I feel a cold chill and I feel afraid. And when that happens, I have to verbally tell the devil to go back to hell where he belongs and that Jesus is Lord and has defeated him! Laugh at me if you want - the feeling is real and I have to do that for the chills to leave and the fear to disappear. We must be vigilant to keep the devil out of our minds and out of our homes, and away from our children and grandchildren! And I pray for each one to be covered by the blood of Christ.
Tonight at 4PM MT (7PM ET), on FreeChapel.org, Perry Stone will be preaching on breaking generational curses that have come down the lines of our ancestry and are in our children and grandchildren, great grandchildren. We won't be able to watch it live, but plan to watch it as soon as we can. If you will, please watch how you can break the curses than have come down through the centuries and have fallen upon your children. I know alcoholism has come down my line and I am praying to break that cycle so that it stops right where it is and does not continue down my line. I will be praying against the curses that have come down the generations. I hope you do as well.
How valuable are your children and grandchildren to you? Valuable enough to break the curses that you may not even recognize? Do they have excessive anger issues? Mental issues? Alcoholism? These are all curses from the devil - they are not from God!! But HE can break the curse - you got to pray for your children!
Pray now - don't let it be too late. Break the curse. Be watchful. Stand firm in Jesus Christ.
Blessings!
