Tamale Stuffed Shells

*GOD*day!

So you can’t do desserts every day.  What am I saying?  You can, you can, you so can.  Along with that though you also need some nutritious sustenance, so along with all my baking that I do I also have to cook up some dinner goodness to serve on a plate.

I’m blessed to get to cook for a living.  I don’t just demo food items in a grocery store, Publix affords me the ability to be sort of a chef.  They come up with recipes I cook.  It’s a pretty cool gig and one that I don’t mind saying I enjoy, and not just because people tell me I’m a great cook.  Truth is I’ve always loved to cook for my family and I’ve always loved to play with food.  Now I even get paid for it, and to do the dishes as well.  Not a shabby way to earn a living, eh?

It’s Fusion Cooking Day

This past week we did a recipe that was called Easy Tamale Casserole.  Now I really liked this recipe but from the moment I made it on the first day I knew I wanted to do something else with it.  So today, being it’s my day off from cooking, what do you suppose it is I’ve gone and done now?  Yes, yes I went and played with the recipe and lo and behold we have a winner.

Now back in the day, and in fact long after, before someone stuck a label on all this mixing together of ethnic dishes, we all called it pantry cooking, or kitchen sink cooking.  Everyone has a name for it, and finally it took some fancy pants to put a name on it that makes it marketable and well, actually quite nicer.  It will be however for many a cook cooking with what you had on hand.  I do though like thinking now that I can “fusion” cook.  I personally like the sound of saying fusion cooking.  It’s like saying “salsa” it’s just a fun word.

As I was talking about this at work someone said they had a great white enchilada sauce recipe to share with me, so I could use that as my sauce.  I couldn’t wait, and because I’m doing a fusion thing, I thought I’d go ahead and keep that Mexican Italian flair going so I used Alfredo.

Tamale Stuffed Shells, by Jeannie Bee

1 16oz. container of salsa

2 cups of Yellow Self-Rising Corn Meal Mix

3/4 cup water

1 can 15.25oz. Black Beans, rinsed and drained

3 ears of fresh corn

1/2 cup of cilantro or 3 tbsp. Garden Gourmet Cilantro Herb Blend

2 cups Mexican Blend Shredded Cheese

1 12oz. box Jumbo Shells, cooked

1 16oz. jar Alfredo Sauce

1 can Ro*Tel Mild Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies

2 8oz. bags of Tyson Ready Grilled Chicken Strips, shredded

Preheat oven to 350ºF.

Prepare 15×10 jelly-roll pan by spraying with cooking spray, set aside.

In a large bowl mix together salsa, corn meal mix, water, beans, corn, cilantro and cheese, and chicken, just until blended.

Fill each shell with about two tablespoons of mixture, repeat until done and place on prepared pan.

In a small bowl mix together Alfredo Sauce and Ro*Tel tomatoes.  Pour over shells.  Cover with non-stick foil, or foil that has been lightly sprayed with cooking spray.

Bake 30 minutes, remove foil.

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The Death, The Feeding, and The Living Walking

*GOD*day!

It’s just after 4AM and I’m soon to head out the door to work.  This morning however it’s, as it always should be, first things first.

Matthew 14

The Death of John the Baptist

14 When Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee,^[a] heard about Jesus, ² he said to his advisers, “This must be John the Baptist raised from the dead! That is why he can do such miracles.”

³ For Herod had arrested and imprisoned John as a favor to his wife Herodias (the former wife of Herod’s brother Philip). ⁴ John had been telling Herod, “It is against God’s law for you to marry her.” ⁵ Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of a riot, because all the people believed John was a prophet.

⁶ But at a birthday party for Herod, Herodias’s daughter performed a dance that greatly pleased him, ⁷ so he promised with a vow to give her anything she wanted. ⁸ At her mother’s urging, the girl said, “I want the head of John the Baptist on a tray!” ⁹ Then the king regretted what he had said; but because of the vow he had made in front of his guests, he issued the necessary orders. ¹⁰ So John was beheaded in the prison, ¹¹ and his head was brought on a tray and given to the girl, who took it to her mother. ¹² Later, John’s disciples came for his body and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus what had happened.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

¹³ As soon as Jesus heard the news, he left in a boat to a remote area to be alone. But the crowds heard where he was headed and followed on foot from many towns. ¹⁴ Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped from the boat, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

¹⁵ That evening the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.”

¹⁶ But Jesus said, “That isn’t necessary—you feed them.”

¹⁷ “But we have only five loaves of bread and two fish!” they answered.

¹⁸ “Bring them here,” he said. ¹⁹ Then he told the people to sit down on the grass. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave the bread to the disciples, who distributed it to the people. ²⁰ They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftovers. ²¹ About 5,000 men were fed that day, in addition to all the women and children!

Jesus Walks on Water

²² Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that his disciples get back into the boat and cross to the other side of the lake, while he sent the people home. ²³ After sending them home, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell while he was there alone.

²⁴ Meanwhile, the disciples were in trouble far away from land, for a strong wind had risen, and they were fighting heavy waves. ²⁵ About three o’clock in the morning^[b] Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. ²⁶ When the disciples saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. In their fear, they cried out, “It’s a ghost!”

²⁷ But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take courage. I am here!^[c]”

²⁸ Then Peter called to him, “Lord, if it’s really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water.”

²⁹ “Yes, come,” Jesus said.

So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus. ³⁰ But when he saw the strong^[d] wind and the waves, he was terrified and began to sink. “Save me, Lord!” he shouted.

³¹ Jesus immediately reached out and grabbed him. “You have so little faith,” Jesus said. “Why did you doubt me?”

³² When they climbed back into the boat, the wind stopped. ³³ Then the disciples worshiped him. “You really are the Son of God!” they exclaimed.

³⁴ After they had crossed the lake, they landed at Gennesaret. ³⁵ When the people recognized Jesus, the news of his arrival spread quickly throughout the whole area, and soon people were bringing all their sick to be healed. ³⁶ They begged him to let the sick touch at least the fringe of his robe, and all who touched him were healed.

The Death

John’s death impacted Jesus.  What a visible reminder of how Jesus understands the loss of a loved one.  How even Jesus understands the desire to retreat, to flee from everyone and be alone with His Father GOD.  However, just like in real life, cause Jesus’ life was real after all, the people follow, and Jesus, even in death, can’t get away from The Living!

The Feeding

The people Jesus is about to die for *sinners-you-me-everyone* have just killed His loved one.  Have just sent His human heart into heavy laden and here is a prime example for us of how to respond.  Not only does He still keep going about the business His Father has for Him to do, His mission, He attends to the needs of the people.  To top that off, the need, it’s hunger.  It’s not hungering and thirsting for more of Him, well, sort of it is, they followed Him to hear Him, but this is the man hunger to eat.  Jesus feeds them in two ways, just as we should.  He brings sustenance for the body and the soul.  He is still willing to lay down His life to this day for sinners such as you and I.  He is still at the ready to feed us so that just like His mission from GOD which needed to be accomplished, so it is that we too can fulfill our purpose regarding His plans for our lives.

The Living Walking

All throughout our lives it takes courage to face all things we face.  Courage isn’t enough though.  We need to keep the faith that whatever it is we are facing we remind ourselves each and every time we are alive and well and Jesus is living for us still.  He’s in our corner.  He’s reaching out His hand on those sinking sand days, the days we are drowning in doubt, debt, what have you, and He says “Come!”

So today, or tomorrow, or the next day when you begin to wander in the world of weariness, remember this passage and how Jesus responded to those who were standing before Him hungering to hear His message, all the while knowing that in just a short time they were going to be some of the same people to give Him a different shout out, “Crucify Him!”.  Yet His example is one of bringing to the table for them, while He still could physically do so, even to those who’d seen Him do so much, witnessed each wonder He performed before their eyes, His Hands of Hope, so they could continue to be people who had a choice to choose faith, hope and yes, Love for Him.

Yes we are. If have the faith to Believe.

Until all have heard and know, His Love,

Jeannie Bee

Plumb Right!!!

*GOD*day!

It has been a while since I’ve posted.  Life has been crazy hectic for everyone these days.  I’m pretty sure that satan is keeping everyone quite busy because He wants us to have distractions that get even thee most seasoned Believer off course.  Nothing new, right?  There is coming a time when his come-up ins from Jesus are coming.  In the meantime we are to be aware, fully aware, fully guarded, and fully clothed with all that armor as it’s open season on anything, anyone, and everything.  This, these thoughts are why I’m sharing today, and posting just what He gives me to share.  I know I’m not every persons cup of Jeannie.  I am however, obedient, and so here we go.  Read along, share, comment, repost on your Facebook if you dare.  I know I’m no major popular speaker, let alone writer.  Most of what I’m sure I say, is said better by someone else later.  That doesn’t matter to me though, if Jesus leads me to do it, I’m going to post it.  There are a few people who’ve encouraged, allowed me to be me with my grammar flaws and all, and to you, I’m most appreciative.  Truly I know how Paul felt when those whom He walked with, left him standing some-what alone.  I say some-what because Paul, like all of us, always has our unchanging Father GOD beside us to guide us.  Like Paul, there are a few ladies and gentlemen who’ve also written me when I don’t write and say they miss my sharing.  That I have a way about me that might not be the popular thing, but if it even touches one ♥, one soul, one mind, don’t “we matter”?  Yes, yes you do, because that is the theme of the day today.  You and I, we are one.  We just forget that.  We just decide that those who wind up with the perfect pitch get to win the masses and the game.  I’m not that woman, never will be, don’t want that sort of claim to fame.  I don’t want to sell books, sell something on my blog, or be the woman who people remember.

Being remembered would be nice.  I’m learning lessons how forgotten by people feels lately.  I have a family that has disowned me, sisters whom I love who’ve decided that I’ve never been born.  I’ve run into people from a former job whom I daily worked side by side by, and they say things to me like, “Do I know you?  You look familiar but I can’t place you.”  Does that hurt?  Sure it does.  It hurts only in the sense that these are people I’ve not forgotten about.  These are people I still love.  And while some are still willing to play games, GOD is saying enough already.  It’s time to get the  plumb line out and see who measures up.

The Plumb Line

Anything out of plumb is not centered.

Do you know what a plumb line is?  I know because my first husband was a carpenter.   Funny yes, cause Jesus was a carpenter.  You think there is a reason GOD chose this profession for His Son?  I do!

plumb line :

A line from which a weight is suspended to determine verticality or depth. 2. A line regarded as directed exactly toward the earth’s center of gravity.

I’m thinking that maybe if someone is going to make some sort of jewelry for a Bible Believing CHRISTian to wear it should be a plumb line.  In fact I’m not a jewelry wearer but I’m thinking just maybe I’ll make something like this and wear it.  I’m not going to wear it because it shows the world who I am though.  I’m going to wear it because it displays for me a reminder of who I am suppose to be.

Times are getting tougher and tougher.  People in the Body are forfeiting what is solid Biblical Truth for popular speakers, teachers and preachers who water down the Word of GOD.  Sure I know that this has been going on for generations, but these times are not the times of old.  These times we are living in now, they are the times of decision making alright.

Today:

Get out the plumb line of His Word.  What you and I are right now could be measurably more.

Don’t allow someone else and their watered down standards, beliefs and ways to be living this life for Christ, how you decide to direct the steps of your life.  Don’t allow someones twisted version of His Truth to be what you align up with.  Just because it sounds good, feels good and all is going good for you, or the person who’s telling you something you know, know, know is wrong, and things are just going super-duper for them, that doesn’t mean they are living some blessed and bountiful rightful life.  Truth is, if it doesn’t plumb line up with the very Word of GOD it’s out of alignment.

Not I, but the Grace of GOD!

I have to also share that I’ve been some hefty mistakes in my life.  I’ve made choices that if could be done over, I’d do differently.  Believe it or not, wait for it… I’ve been wrong! LOL  Really though, I’ve been wrong, I’ve wronged people.  Sometimes it was because I was stubborn, sometimes it was because I was hurt, sometimes it was because I was immature and wouldn’t compromise over something that can be comprised.  There are times though, times that I’m proud of living, even if it meant a whole lot of people didn’t understand the choices I made.  All that matters is that I didn’t at those times do it my way, I did it the way He directed.  Today, as I was reading Paul’s words about people making choices in not standing up for him, I truly understand the place he was coming from.  Amazingly Paul actually said they’d be accountable.  This goes for me as well.  If I do not stand up for someone in the Body who is being wronged, I fail GOD, I fail them.  Every time we see someone in the Body be beaten down in any way, especially by those in the Body, wrongly, and we choose to do nothing, to turn a blind eye, we are just like those who turned a blind eye to Paul’s situation.  Every time we don’t stand firm on the Word, and keep thinking “what will people think of me?” we’ve chose to get our plumb line, lined up not with Christ, but with the world.

Next time get the plumb line out.  Next time make sure that it isn’t about your rep, but the reputation of that GOD-age old Truth, and nothing but that Truth, so help us GOD!!!

Until all have heard of and know, His Love,

Jeannie Bee

Canyon Between Us!

*GOD*day!

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged.  I’ve been crazy busy with my somewhat now still new job.  In fact I haven’t really been given the actual title change to my position but I’m fully owning and on the job.  That’s sort of how this blog came together this very morning as I was thinking about that.  I was thinking how the place where I work has given me full entitlement to my job yet, yet I’m owning it.  I’m doing the best I can even though I’m still listed as a Meals Clerk.  What the company does is up to them, but the doing, that relies on me.  You see the doing, that’s the worker Jeannie Bee who is going to do the best she can no matter what.  I’m just going to do my job, as described, to the best of my ability.  I have to however have heart for the job and do what needs to be done too.  So that’s what I’m doing.  I haven’t gotten to the point where the company I work for has fully invested themselves in me, given me my benefit package, title, etc.  That doesn’t mean I’m not a part of the plan they have.  It just means that all the benefits and rewards haven’t been laid out on the table yet.  Oh yes, they are coming, but they haven’t yet been installed.

It’s sort of that way for us as Bible Believing, CHRIST-centered CHRISTians.

When we are allow anything to separate us, we are also allowing a grand canyon between GOD and ourselves.

Hopefully this song, Grand Canyon will be the inspiration to motive us all to know that what we say, what we do, and how we are living together here on this earth, for the time we have together, it matters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB5amNtvFok&playnext=1&list=PL4F56AA1F7DA47468&feature=results_video

This is, as is each day, a day that the Lord has made.  Throughout many areas of the world, in many CHRISTian faiths, this is considered “The Lord’s Day”.  Many Believers, and even non-believers will be gathered together to sing the Lord’s praises.  Words will flow forth, unharnessed and free.  Words will be sung at the tops of the lungs with a shout out.  How much of those words have a heartbeat that is alive and well and living within each person?  Let’s just take a test and see.

Now this little test is given for you and me, but nobody has to have what is now known as the big reveal.  GOD placed this little blog on my heart and so it is between you and He, that big reveal moment.  Just don’t short change yourself and not own it though.  One of the things many people are getting way to good at in the Body is hiding behind words.  Words mean something to GOD, and GOD… well, let us just come to our words being out there, our words spoken need to match the heart behind them.  So, when you sing a song in church today, or in your car on the way to where-ever, or in the morning when you rise and shine and want to give GOD all that glory-glory, make sure you’ve had a bit of self-in-check to match those words.  Or, sing the words and clean house with them.  Allow GOD to have His big reveal to you!

I’ll tell you something here, I did this last week and came up short changing GOD and myself.  I was living out a couple of things that didn’t match what I believe.  One was hurting me and my growth and the other was hurting GOD.  You see I know I’m not perfect.  Yep, it’s a factoid!  None of us are.  That however should NOT stop us from desiring to grow in all the areas that needs growing.  One of my areas in which I can stunt my growth as a Believer is allowing others to hold over me my imperfections.  People who can’t forgive me, allow me to be able to be flawed.  People who ignore me, and I’m not talking non-believers, I’m talking Believers who will walk right near me and ignore me as if they never walked and talked with me in the halls of my living words.  They have, and yet these individuals for some reason known to them and GOD ignore me.  I’d be a liar if I didn’t own that it stings.  It does.  It’s insanely unbecoming to them, their witness, but also if I allow it, it stunts my growth to show grace, GOD ‘s grace to them.  So, when these individuals come before my eyes, and they will daily because that’s how GOD desires for life to be so we can deal with His BIG Reveals, I’m owning myself.  I’m owning the fact that the true facts are that I’m an imperfect individual doing my best to move on.  In that moving on, growing and becoming a better CHRISTian, I want not to have any of these stumbling blocks in the way of where GOD is leading me.  I don’t think these individuals do either, but that’s for them to allow GOD to reveal for them, and for them to decide I’m on owning this area that needs an update, or am I going to ignore it and allow myself to live as if I have no area of my life that needs a some cleaning up, so that when all is said, it reveals that this is how I’m living my life.  That when we look in the mirror it’s polished up and clean and GOD knows we are working on making what we reveal, more of Him and oh so much less of us.

Ladies and gentlemen of the faith, if what we are doing is showing snobbish or ignorant behavior out in the world, our own Bible Believer-to-Believer world, we are going to continue to have full-blown system failure for Father GOD!

So, come along with me and take the test of words.  Words that you need to fill in the blank with, being completely honest with yourself, because GOD who knows your heart will know if you tried to harness your heart and not reveal what really the tongue of your heart is saying.  This time it’s time to unharness your tongue and speak words that ring true, so that we can walk in a more honest and upright way in the future one to another.

In this test you are asked only to fill in the blanks if in fact this is how you have been living.

♪♫ Sing, Sing A Song ♪♫

1.  In my heart there rings a melody of ________.

2.  In all I do, I honor ______.

3.  Here I am to ______, here I am to show that I ______ You.

4.  All for _____, I surrender.

5.  Mercy found me, now I extend it to ___________. (This could actually have multiple answers =)

6.  I was made to love _________.

7.  Shine ________, shine!

8.  Your glory GOD, goes beyond my ________.

9.  You above ______.

10.  I’m willing to open the eyes of my ♥ because I want to _____ myself and allow You alone to shine.

11.  I am willing this very day, for the sake of being Your witness, allow You alone to ____ me, and ____ me, after Your will.

12.  I am willing to allow the Cross to be before me, and the world behind me, because my life is going forth all for ____ and your glory and name.

5.  I could sing of your love forever, but instead I choose to _____ it.

6.

Raise The White Flag

I’m raising my white flag, will you join me?  Come on now, it’s the BIG REVEAL!  There is no more important action for any one of us CHRISTians to take but to show that the One who took our place has revealed to us, so that we can reveal to others that we surrender all to Him.  We can rise above all the stuff that has come between us.  We can rise above because LOVE won on that day at Calvary.  We lift up our lives as a testimony to that very LOVE!

So raise up your white flag, the one with the Cross on it that says, we are free to LOVE because He first loved us.

In all honesty give these songs a listen and know that if we don’t stop singing just praise and worship and live them out, we are allowing our worship to be a big old waste of time.  Life is more than a song…

White Flag, by Chris Tomlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lMuKIbzsUE

Not To Us, by Chris Tomlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwWzhEIlxUo

Until all have heard of, and know His Love,

Jeannie Bee

The More of Two Goods

*GOD*day!

The Lesser of Two Evils?

Who wants that?

I know right, therefore it seems to me this is more the way we should be choosing, not the lessor of two evils, but the one choice that is good.   This is how my mind really works.  I was thinking today if everyone is always concentrating on choosing the lesser of two evils, this could explain so much of what is going on in our evil infested world.

More of Two Goods

Now of course I can’t do a whole lot about removing evil from the world.  Goodness is within the hearts of all, if they choose to exercise it.  That’s what I did today, I decided to start small and work my way up and out into the world doing two by two cookies.

Today my two good on the plate of life are:

Cookies that come forth two by two. Because this is how at Bee It Ever So Humble we present the The More of Two Goods. =)

Happy Baking,

Jeannie Bee, The Cookie Bee

Keep Calm and Gobble On

*GOD*day!

This morning I knew the Lord was leading me to share here on the blog.  It’s been a while I know, and yet my stats have been really high for people visiting.  In fact, my stats have been higher than ever.  In just slightly over a year I’ve gone over the 11,000 visits to my blog, without ever really shooting for anything but that of pleasing the Lord in obedience to share.  It’s been a journey for sure.  A journey of me being transparent, of my sometimes my quick to blog, slow to learn self.  Through it all though I’ve realized that no matter what happens on other blogs, blogs like those that have people chit-chatting and sharing with each other, my blog is different.  Yes, yes I know, I’ve shared that before too.  What I’m trying to say now though is a different sort of realization.  I’ve realized that the people who will choose to visit this blog come for all sorts of reasons.  Some by accident, but will revisit.  Some even visit by accident, share, and forget about it! LOL  Some however come and read and share with me how the Lord stirred their heart because of something I’ve posted.  Something I’ve experienced and allowed to be oh so real in my life, allowing them to know that going through struggles and coming out on the glorify GOD side, that’s all that matters.  Some people have written me and shared that thought they don’t say it often, I’ve done what I say I want to do here, I’ve given them the conscience to be clear on one thing, that of allowing the Lord to work in them, not me, not this blog.

So often I’ve shared here that I don’t ever want to be like even some popular CHRISTian blogs.  I don’t want people needing to flock here to read something that came in an e-mail, or some give-away this or that.  Not unless what you see I’m giving away, was there all along.  All I desire is for any one reader, visitor, or traveler along the super highway, see that it is having that personal walk in the Word, or with their Savior that is the end to the means, and the means to the end.

Flip Side

Cause there always is a flip side, right? LOL  I begin to think and wonder how GOD feels about all the people chatting it  up with each and  ♪♫ going from this blog to that blog, from this blog to that ♪♫.   Did you catch the tune in that little sentence?  “Have you ever seen lassie go this way, and that?”  That’s how I think GOD is seeing many of our lives.  Instead of just sticking One to one, with the Holy Spirit, this new generation of church goers has begun to clung to listening to all the sharing, all the fellowship, and oh so little Bible.  Oh so little Holy Spirit speaking One to one.  Yet we’ll have pastors in shock wondering why there are so many people problems, or why their offices are inundated with people coming through the revolving door, over and over with the same old, same old.  Why?  Because instead of gently showing them that they don’t need another blog, or another person to help them:

We want to gobble up everything everyone is serving up today.  We want the newest method, motions, movement without ever once stopping to consider if what we are gobbling up is what GOD wanted on our life feasting plate.

It’s time to gobble alright, but what we need to gobble-gobble up is a more of the Word of GOD, and less of man-mouthwatering feeding frenzy.

Proverbs 15:18
Hot tempers start fights; a calm, cool spirit keeps the peace.

Everyone keeps filling them with the gobble-gobble gobbling of filling themselves up with people fixes.  Instead of truly bringing people to a place of resting and trusting on their own, with the Shepherd, they make them have attachment issues to the group, the study, the office visits.  Heck, we were about OTC medications, but within the Body there is an OTC thing going on that keeps the people coming in the doors keeping oh so busy, and hopefully oh so giving.

I know, that was harsh.  I do believe if we own it though, we can remedy this separation anxiety and heal the land of the people problem that is truly at the forefront.  There are bookend encampments.  The people in the Body who say they are the doers, doers, doers.  That because nobody else does, they do all the doing.  The middle group are the people who came to help, but found out that  they wanted to serve, but when they came to serve, someone tried to fit them into a service not fit for them.  In trustation *another jeannieism word*, they submitted, and failed.  That failure, although not final, made them frustrated and they pulled away.  Come on, own it, you are either the fitter, or the fit to be unfit for the job they tried to suit you up with.  See, that’s the problem.  It never should have been feeling like a job, but service.  When any sort of service to the Lord begins to feel like a man-made manipulated job, it’s oh so unfitting and wrong.  It occurs because these people fitters, think like the bath fitter people.   They think if they clean you up, get you serving where they need you, life is but a dream.  Only it become a nightmare of sorts.

Now there is that other spectrum of people who get to serve in the way the Lord intended.  It even shows in the ministry because the confirmation of whatever is being shared/taught ends up being confirmed during the message.  The only problem though, there is no life-support given to this Body of teachers.  Why?  Because they didn’t do what the so called ministry fitters wanted you to do.  Plus there are those who are serving who were looking to be relinquished from where-ever they serve with your serving self.

STOP-DROP-KNEEL NOW

Gobble-gobble all the stuff up and get rid of it.  Stop allowing the reigning Body at large to rule and bring in the refreshing breath of the Holy Spirit.  Imagine a Church that actually allowed those who had specific gifts to serve where they belonged.  What a concept right?  What an amazing change we would see in the Body of Christ if we just allowed a lot less gobble-gobble fellowship and a whole l0t more stopping, dropping and allowing the Holy Spirit to lead running of our churches, our blogs, etc.

I myself can catch the vision, and that is why this blog will not change.  Yes, I’m impressed with the over 11,000 hits to hit, and the links to it, and the bit of this and that to my blog here.  I’m impressed only because that is not what I was shooting for.  That is all truly just because the Lord took this drop in the bucket woman called Jeannie Bee and transported her into what I really am, just a woman learning as she goes.

Yes, I’ve made some verbal blunders on here.  Sometimes, and I admit it, I’ve said more than I ever should have said.  Which brings me to my point, we sometimes have so much to say, and say little share from the Lord.  However, in all that I’ve shared I’ve just been a vessel for Him to help others through whatever they might be experiencing in the Body as well.  There are many of you.  I’ve heard from you.  The governing church bodies might not have a place for you on their survey says, but the Lord does.  He’s listening and He gets you.  He knows your heart, so stick with Him.  Go where He is leading you and do what He is leading you alone to do.  It might not get you on the roster at church, but you will always be in the center of His will, and that ladies and gentlemen of the internet blogging reading world, is just where you and I forever and always belong.  It might not be popular, you might not be on the hit parade of mans viewpoint, but if you are at peace, and you are growing, going and leaning and learning, you are doing just fine.

No More This Way and That

Gobble up only one thing:

I know I’m going to keep calm and Bee myself because that’s just how Jesus and I roll.  Just remember this because Jesus is the Rock and your name, if you are saved, is on that Roll.  And when that roll is called up yonder, in the final conclusion, how did you handle all that He brought to your table of life?  Did you squander it doing what man wanted you to do, serving when he was trying to squeeze you in, going where no Savior told you to go.  Or, did you go where He was leading, if it was dis-pleasing to a church group of people so busy with their services on their table they forgot what true to Life ministry, led by the Holy Spirit really and truly is all about.

Go forth and gobble up the Word for your life living!  Don’t just keep filling yourself up with church business and building, when what needs to be done by each individual in service, is as individual as each individual is in His Eyes.  Does that make sense?  I hope so, because it is the Truth.

Psalm 89:5-18
God! Let the cosmos praise your wonderful ways, the choir of holy angels sing anthems to your faithful ways! Search high and low, scan skies and land, you’ll find nothing and no one quite like God. The holy angels are in awe before him; he looms immense and august over everyone around him. God-of-the-Angel-Armies, who is like you, powerful and faithful from every angle? You put the arrogant ocean in its place and calm its waves when they turn unruly. You gave that old hag Egypt the back of your hand, you brushed off your enemies with a flick of your wrist. You own the cosmos—you made everything in it, everything from atom to archangel. You positioned the North and South Poles; the mountains Tabor and Hermon sing duets to you. With your well-muscled arm and your grip of steel— nobody trifles with you! The Right and Justice are the roots of your rule; Love and Truth are its fruits. Blessed are the people who know the passwords of praise, who shout on parade in the bright presence of God. Delighted, they dance all day long; they know who you are, what you do—they can’t keep it quiet! Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us— you’ve been so good to us! We’re walking on air! All we are and have we owe to God, Holy God of Israel, our King.

And the rest?  It’s just obedience and service on your individual part and mine.
Until all have heard of and know, His Love,

Jeannie Bee

I, the Lord, have spoken!

*GOD*day!

Read this passage from Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 20

Life’s Been Nothing but Trouble and Tears

 ^1-5The priest Pashur son of Immer was the senior priest in God’s Temple. He heard Jeremiah preach this sermon. He whipped Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate of God’s Temple. The next day Pashur came and let him go. Jeremiah told him, “God has a new name for you: not Pashur but Danger-Everywhere, because God says, ‘You’re a danger to yourself and everyone around you. All your friends are going to get killed in battle while you stand there and watch. What’s more, I’m turning all of Judah over to the king of Babylon to do whatever he likes with them—haul them off into exile, kill them at whim. Everything worth anything in this city, property and possessions along with everything in the royal treasury—I’m handing it all over to the enemy. They’ll rummage through it and take what they want back to Babylon. ⁶“‘And you, Pashur, you and everyone in your family will be taken prisoner into exile—that’s right, exile in Babylon. You’ll die and be buried there, you and all your cronies to whom you preached your lies.'”

 ^7-10You pushed me into this, God, and I let you do it.
   You were too much for me.
And now I’m a public joke.
   They all poke fun at me.
Every time I open my mouth
   I’m shouting, “Murder!” or “Rape!”
And all I get for my God-warnings
   are insults and contempt.
But if I say, “Forget it!
   No more God-Messages from me!”
The words are fire in my belly,
   a burning in my bones.
I’m worn out trying to hold it in.
   I can’t do it any longer!
Then I hear whispering behind my back:
   “There goes old ‘Danger-Everywhere.’ Shut him up! Report him!”
Old friends watch, hoping I’ll fall flat on my face:
   “One misstep and we’ll have him. We’ll get rid of him for good!”

 ¹¹But God, a most fierce warrior, is at my side.
   Those who are after me will be sent sprawling—
Slapstick buffoons falling all over themselves,
   a spectacle of humiliation no one will ever forget.

Jeremiah Is In Big Trouble Now!

Or so you would think if you just stopped reading right there.  Now granted, I’m not sure I would want to own up to being so verbal before GOD, but Jeremiah, he’s just telling it like he feels, and like it is, well, at least to his worn out, weary troubled soul.

Read on now and find out how just Jeremiah hit that high not of woe is me, he quickly pulls back and knows that he’s got to get it together.  As we often say, if GOD calls you to it, He’ll see you through it.  Jeremiah and many other folks in the Bible teach us this.  So, take a read and see for yourself just how Jeremiah turns a frustrated and quite honestly, I think a very lonely time in his life, over to GOD quite quickly.

Jeremiah 20

 ¹²Oh, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, no one fools you.
   You see through everyone, everything.
I want to see you pay them back for what they’ve done.
   I rest my case with you.

 ¹³Sing to God! All praise to God!
   He saves the weak from the grip of the wicked.

 ^14-18Curse the day
   I was born!
The day my mother bore me—
   a curse on it, I say!
And curse the man who delivered
   the news to my father:
“You’ve got a new baby—a boy baby!”
   (How happy it made him.)
Let that birth notice be blacked out,
   deleted from the records,
And the man who brought it haunted to his death
   with the bad news he brought.
He should have killed me before I was born,
   with that womb as my tomb,
My mother pregnant for the rest of her life
   with a baby dead in her womb.
Why, oh why, did I ever leave that womb?
   Life’s been nothing but trouble and tears,
   and what’s coming is more of the same.

Jeremiah, Bold Before Men, Oh So Broken Before GOD

He’s my hero Jeremiah.  I mean that.  I know a lot of people choose so many of the NT people as their role models but I just loved Jeremiah from the get go.  I truly think there are a lot of people like me out there who also love Jeremiah and his desire to want to get the Word out to the Body.  The Body before him that just kept on getting all excited during the miracle and blessing times, the times of being saved, but then they go back to all their planning and fun and games, and well quite honestly if you can’t see this is how it is today, and I do believe it, and that we have way, way to many good feeling times going on, as opposed to someone being willing to step out of their comfort zone, like Jeremiah did, and be oh so bold before the Body.

I can’t help but think of a line from a movie, well two actually.  Here is the first:

Eric Matthews: Why don’t you just shut up?
Gracie Hart: Why? You’re shutting up enough for both of us.

I think that sometimes that is exactly what GOD is saying to us.  We’re doing way to much shutting up to each other.  Last evening at dinner my son and daughter and I had this amazing conversation about judging.  I know right?  We had sides, yes it’s okay to judge, no it’s not.  You know how it goes.  What in the end we discovered, or at least I was hearing, is it is okay to have those scales of justice on the table of life.  Something we don’t see to often in all these super duper big new shine, shine on me churches.  We have people still doing the same old go to retreat and come back all refreshed, but quite honestly, all that money spent to feel oh so good, didn’t really make any lasting changes.  It just was whoop-d-do feel good times.  It keeps going on and I think GOD is saying, you know pastors, governing church bodies, you are shutting up way to much.

I’m just saying, if you take a look at how Jeremiah handles things, even in some of his most frustrating times, GOD is right there beside him to guide him all the way, even through the woe is me, beam me up GOD times.

You can even jump ahead and just as sure as shoot’n you can see that GOD has something to say about some of those preachers out there who are trying to get people to behave in a manner becoming of a CHRISTian.  It’s that balance, those scales of justice and love.  We’ve got to get on with the business of not going on retreats, but maybe holding a few all night events within the Body where we do some crying of our own, some cleaning up of not the church grounds, but of the church people.  I think it’s high time, I truly do.  I think it’s high time before we hit our lowest time and GOD says, enough is enough.

We’re so busy trying to get the outside world in, but how can we when what’s inside isn’t all that appealing; trust me I know this I work in a very secular world.  Sure you’ll always be able to draw in people who don’t really want to change, but how is that any different?

We had a discussion last evening as well about traditional services vs. contemporary.  We discussed how each of us like something different, or how we don’t care for one or the other because of how people behave.  Neither side came out a winner.  That in itself should tell us all that something within us all has to change.  It has to change because we can no longer afford to do business as usual.  Usual has to leave the building completely so a brand new, not survey says, but GOD ordained and led ministry can come forth out of us being willing to submit to the harshness of that change.

Personally, it sure doesn’t sound like good times does it?  Yet, can we afford any longer that furnace of transformation?  I think not.  I know not.

Any one up for a quick fire?

Probably not.  At least I was willing, as the song says, “I will not be silent any more.”  I’ve got everything to gain and that which I let go of is for His glory, and always my good.

Jeremiah P.S.

I’m not recommending that we all get out there and get all sassy pants in GOD’s face about whatever we are going through.  I’m just saying that GOD understood the passion behind Jeremiah and his obedience to do what needed to be done for GOD.  Jeremiah’s failure comes with frustration and getting all up in GOD’s face about it.  Let’s face it though, it happens.  I have a friend who say’s “Ministry would be great if it weren’t for the people.”  I know, right?  If you work with people you get this.  We the people, tend not to do much that forms that perfect union thing.  We in fact do much that hinders the plans of GOD.  So, just be really careful going, and doing what GOD leads you to do, and don’t get all crazy up in GOD’s face when the people don’t get you.  GOD does, and in the beginning, middle and end of it all, if you are obedient unto His plans, it’s all gonna work out to His perfectellence!

Until all have heard of His Love,

Jeannie Bee

Hanger Recipe Holder

*GOD*day!

Hang On – help is on the way!

Proverbs 19:21
We humans keep brainstorming options and plans, but God’s purpose prevails.

Every day should have purpose for each of us.  It’ll be as individual as GOD made you.

Purpose can also be in the form of repurposing, which is exactly what this blog is about today.  Sometimes though, we even have to repurpose ourselves.  Sometimes in order to find or have purpose, you have to let go of that which doesn’t even begin to define what you were made for, and allow the Holy Spirit to reuse in a manner becoming of something new.

Inspiration or Desperation,

Take your pick…

Today’s purpose  came in the form of reusing a hanger in way that it was not intended for.

I’m just going to keep this one short and simple and let the picture do all the talking.

 

Living His Dream

*GOD*day!

We get it all so wrong.  What do we get wrong?  We get the whole idea of living the dream wrong.  People say it all the time, but what they are really talking about is having.  Having more and more things, and more and more money.  More, in the commercial is what everyone wants.

No, not everyone.  I’m a part of the not wanting more generation.  I’m at my best when I’m living in the center of His will.  Right now, I don’t believe I am.  I truly now believe that this position I’m in, was of GOD, but not meant for a permanent thing.  If that upsets the apple cart of someone else and their dream, well, they just have talk to GOD to get on the same page.  And no, don’t even try to manipulate me into thinking that I’m failing GOD.  I put my best foot forward and sometimes, that’s all GOD wanted of you.  Everyone after all is always telling me to get out of my comfort zone.  I look at them as if they are speaking a foreign language when they say those words.  Why?  Because I’m seldom comfortable.  People who say that just think they themselves are some big old risk takers, or they are miserable minded people who want you to be in their dream, aka. nightmare on people street.  No thank you!

So today, once again I’m keeping it short, sweet and all because of being inspired and fulfilled by the Holy Spirit.  Tomorrow when I get to work I’ll put that best foot forward again, and if I end up crying again, or it doesn’t work out, this day to shall end.  It always does.  All I know is the beginning and ending of my day just needs to be in the center of His will and way for me.

Until all have heard of and know, His Love,

Jeannie Bee