(Introduction excerpt from “Don’t Give In – God Wants You to Win”)
© 2009, Harvest House Publishers, All Rights Reserved.

Sometimes I enjoy talking to myself. Well, they do say it’s good to talk to somebody intelligent at least once a day.  But I’ve learned to be careful about what I say to myself, especially if I’m giving myself the third degree like a lawyer in a courtroom.  Or maybe I should I say the thirty-question degree—as I’ve done below. I started asking myself questions and just couldn’t seem to stop.  Have you ever…

• felt the world was closing in on you?
• wondered why your life in is chaos and you had done nothing to cause it?
• questioned God about your pitiful circumstances?
• tried to figure out why people hurt you and seem unkind go you?
• whined about your physical condition?
• been financially broke?
• worried about your health?
• cried over a wayward child?
• blamed yourself for a failed relationship?
• found it hard to forgive someone who has wronged you?
• committed a sin that you knew compromised your faith, but you deliberately kept doing it over and over again?
• degraded or judged someone because of their sex, age, physical condition, or ethnicity?
• neglected to help someone who you knew was in serious need?
• gossiped?
• caused embarrassment or shame to anyone?
• thought you had to perform for God to earn his love?
• manipulated other people―or even God―to get what you want?
• neglected, abandoned, or abused anyone—even yourself?
• considered yourself better or less than someone else?
• wanted something that did not belong to you?
• been greedy?
• been jealous?
• embellished the truth?
• given more attention to something else than you gave to the Lord?
• tried to control the decisions and actions of other adults?
• encouraged or enticed someone to do the wrong thing?
• cheated anyone, any business, or the government out of what you owe them?
• used a mind-altering substance or activity to cover up your pain?
• struggled with self-esteem issues?
• been caught up in a fight that wasn’t yours, but you were determined to win?

The Battle We’re In

These thirty questions are just samples of the kinds of things we’re involved in daily—things that let us know we’re in a spiritual battle. This battle is about whether our bodies, souls, and minds will be given over to evil. It’s a battle of our endeavors to cajole people, situations, and circumstances—our attempts to play God with our lives. The answers to these thirty questions reveal how our self-centeredness and selfishness are personified—and how mercy, justice, grace, and favor are nullified. They leave little place for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to be magnified.

So, what are we going to do?  Are you ready to win?

(Add your comments to this blog and share specific examples of how you have overcome the battles that have raged against you, your family and your friends.)

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*Facts on honey and cinnamon: It is found that a mixture of honey and cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a “Ram Ban” (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.

Today’s science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients. Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada, in its issue dated 17 January, 1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:

HEART DISEASES:

Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and ve ins.

ARTHRITIS:

Arthritis patients may take daily, morning, and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and hal f teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:

Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.

TOOTHACHE:

Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be applied three times a day until the tooth stops aching.

CHOLESTEROL:

Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:

Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure MOS t chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.

UPSET STOMACH:

Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.

GAS:

According to the studies done in India and Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon Po wder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:

Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION:

Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

INFLUENZA:

A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

LONGEVITY:

Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also in creases and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.

PIMPLES:
Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:

Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:

Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one
Cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER:

Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.

FATIGUE:

Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than! than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken i n a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the bo dy within a week.

BAD BREATH:

People of South America, first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:

Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restore hearing.

Remember when we were kids? We had toast with real butter and cinnamon sprinkled on it!

*Mama T suggests you use these “natural cures” at your discretion. She is not representing that they work or not!