Happy Faith Friday, Garden Fam 🌱
I hope you’ve had a wonderful week!
This week, we’re keeping it candid. I’m sharing a bit of my journey with God and the importance of listening to the Holy Spirit. I pray today’s video blesses you and strengthens your walk with God! See the notes below for the scriptures referenced. If you decide that you are ready to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, or you’re a prodigal who is ready to come back home, welcome / welcome back! See the Salvation Prayer & Scriptures below & check out this blog for support in growing your relationship with God.
I love you bunches & Jesus loves you more!
Have a healthy & wholesome weekend 💖
Prayer of Salvation
Heavenly Father,
I have sinned against you! I repent of everything I’ve ever done that was against your will (you can also confess specific sins here). God, I thank you for sending Jesus Christ to die for my sins. I welcome you into my life and into my heart. Please cleanse me of all unrighteousness and lead me into all truth, Your truth. Please begin to work in me so that I may look more like You from the inside out. I lay down the life I have. and choose to pick up the life you have for me.
Thank you God for receiving me!
In Jesus’ name,
Amen 🙏🏾
Salvation Scriptures
John 3:16
God’s love & Jesus’ sacrifice
Romans 10:9-10
How salvation works
Luke 15:11-32
For those who strayed away and are coming back home
Who is the Holy Spirit?
John 14:15-17
“If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
The Holy Spirit is the helper and comforter that Jesus left for those that have received salvation. The Holy Spirit helps us to know God’s Will by guiding us into all truth according to God’s Word and God’s divine plans for each of our lives (which are in line with the Word, of course). When we quench the Holy Spirit, we extinguish His influence over our lives in a particular area, or many areas. Because He is the one that was sent to lead us into all truth, we put ourselves in danger of being outside of God’s will.
Other Scriptures Referenced
Romans 1:28
Romans 2:5-16
Joshua 24:15
Ezekiel 36:24-27
James 4:17
Luke 12:47
1 Kings 13:11-25
Closing Prayer
Lord, we repent of all of our sins and iniquities against you.
We repent for quenching the Holy Spirit’s leading in our lives and allowing ourselves to be overtaken by sin.
Father, we thank you for sending Jesus to die so that we may have our sins forgiven.
Please forgive us and cleanse us of all unrighteousness as you promised to do in 1 John 1:9.
God, we ask you to strip us of any idols we may have that stand against us following your will and your way. Please take your rightful place in our lives and help us to willfully submit to your perfect plans for us, plans to prosper us and not to harm us, to give us a future and a hope.
If there is anything that we love, but you hate, please take it away from us and give us the willingness to let go, for you said in your Word that it is You who worketh in us both to will and to do of Your good pleasure.
God, I prophesy over us today, that according to Ezekiel 36:24-27, You will
For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
Help us to be radically obedient to the leading of your Spirit within us.
We thank you for being such a loving God who cares enough not to want anyone to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
Please receive our repentant hearts today and lead us in a new direction, along the path of righteousness for your names’ sake. Realign us to the plans you had for us before you formed us in our mothers’ womb.
Thank you for being our God and embracing us as your people.
We love you and we honor you, Lord!
In Jesus’ name, Amen!
Happy Wellness Wednesday, Garden Fam 🌱
I hope you are doing well and having a wonderful week 💕
Today, we continue our Natural Remedies Series focusing on our immune system and treating seasonal allergies. Overall, God has given us bodies that are wonderfully complex, but simple to care for. As such, you will hear a lot of repetition in this series, as a few key things are foundational to health in most areas of our lives. In addition to following God’s Word and the leading of the Holy Spirit, We should do our best to healthy habits, such as:
Drinking plenty of water
Getting regular exercise
Getting enough quality sleep
Limiting stress
Eating a well-balanced, nutrient-rich diet
Vitamins
Minerals
Limited added sugars
Probiotic foods, like yogurt, sauerkraut & kimchi, pickles, tempeh, miso
Check out today’s video to learn some healthy foods, supplements, and practices for keeping our immune systems at their highest, and allergies at their lowest.
Note: Consult with your trusted medical professional if you have severe allergies and/or have been taking a prescribed allergy medication before switching out anything.
Love you bunches 🍇
Have a healthy & wholesome week!
Focus Scriptures
Deuteronomy 7:12, 15 — Blessings of Obedience
“Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgements, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep you with the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers… And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you…”
Video Notes
Additional Immune System Support
Load up on Vitamin C
Foods
Broccoli
Spinach
Tomatoes
Lots of fruits, like lemons & oranges
Load up on zinc
Foods
Shellfish
Meat
Dairy products
Nuts
Whole grains
Other Foods, Herbs, and Supplements
Ginger
Anti-inflammatory properties support immune system
Turmeric
Anti-inflammatory
Garlic
Antimicrobial, antifungal, antibacterial, antioxidant
Elderberry & Echinacea
Herbs that are said to help reduce the severity & longevity of cold symptoms
Seasonal Allergies
Local honey
Saline nasal rinse
Probiotics
Essential oils
Peppermint oil
Said to reduce allergic rhinitis (reaction in eyes, nose, and throat)
Eucalyptus oil
Add to your laundry during allergy season
Frankincense oil
Dilute and use behind ears or diffuse into the air
Will link to previous blog about home fragrances
Suggestions for how to use essential oils
Visit your local Sprouts for homeopathic suggestions and options for replacing your allopathic allergy meds
Happy Faith Friday, Garden Fam 💕
Today, I am here to remind both you and myself who God says we are!
God knows who He created each of us to be.
He knows the things He deposited into us.
God knew us, the true us, before He formed us in our mother’s wombs, so…
He is just waiting for us to let Him in and let Him lead, so that we can blossom into all that we already are in His eyes.
So, know today & everyday that…
You are beautiful
You are loved
You are forgiven
You are righteous
You are restored
You are gifted
You are His ❤️
Check out today’s video and the notes below for encouragement from the scriptures on how you can see yourself the way that God sees you!
Love you bunches!
Have a healthy & wholesome weekend 💞
Focus Scriptures
You are beautiful
Psalm 139:14
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. (NKJV)
You are loved
Psalm 139:16-18
You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! (NLT)
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (NKJV)
John 15:9, 13
I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (NLT)
You are forgiven
Colossians 2:13-14
You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. (NLT)
1 John 2:12
I am writing to you who are God’s children, because your sins have been forgiven through Jesus. (NLT)
You are righteous
Romans 3:22-24
We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. (NLT)
1 John 1:9
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (NKJV)
You are restored
Job 33:26
He shall pray to God, and He will delight in him, He shall see His face with joy, For He restores to man His righteousness.
Psalm 23:3
He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
Joel 2:25-57
“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. (NKJV)
Isaiah 61:7
Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
You are gifted
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. (NKJV)
1 Corinthians 7:7
For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that. (NKJV)
1 Peter 4:10
As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. (NKJV)
You are His
Psalm 82:6
I said, “You are gods, And all of you are children of the Most High. (NKJV)
Jeremiah 30:22
‘You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’ (NKJV)
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; (NKJV)