Abbynormals Journey from 24 acres to 24 feet.

Grab a cup of coffee or tea, cause this may take a while. 

Packed again!

For the second time, we were packed and ready to go. On March 16th we had one last teach-and-show-me-how tour for the new owners  then we turned over the keys of our farm to another family, and drove off. That was almost 4 months ago.  It all feels very surreal.  Like a dream. Daniel drove the box van that pulled our 24 ft. trailer and I drove the Honda Element. Everything we now owned was with us. 


The timing of our move was perfect. Even though we were frustrated after two buyers backed out. This third time was God's time. We had prayed for years that God would bring the right family to our farm. And because He is faithful, He did.  This new family has blended into the church and community perfectly. Even the timing of us leaving was perfect.

 We stopped in at the Birkenfeld church for their once a month community lunch to say our goodbyes.

In front of church.

After lunch we headed to Portland for a family gathering on Daniels side.

Daniel and 2 of his boys and grandkids.

Daniel and his daughter Bethany and grandson.

Heading to La Pine, OR

                                                                                                                                                                    Then we headed to La Pine OR for a few days to see my grandma, who is 98 and my mom and dad.

Timing #1.  As we crossed out of Oregon into the Nevada desert we were behind a women who drifted into the on coming traffic of an 18 wheeler!  They hit right bumper to right bumper which sent her little SUV flying and tumbling through the air into the desert. We were first responders and were able to pray with her and be there with her until the police came. She was okay!

Heading to Las Vegas to see family

Danny and Tamara's new home

Easter Sunday

Daniel-son, Tamara and me

The three Daniels

Timing #2  My daughter Tamara, her husband Danny and their two kids were in the middle of moving into a new home with land in Las Vegas, so we had room to set up our trailer. Their place also had a well and septic system. We had experience with these and were able to be there when some BIG issues came up....like tree roots in the septic line going to the house! Us being there to help them move in, start some remodeling and to get the water and septic all working right saved them tons of money. We stayed at their place for 3 weeks and also had time with my son Daniel and my friend Kate and very long time friends Mark and Melody. 

Kate

Mark and Melody with daughter

Timing #3 From Las Vegas we headed to Kingman to see my sister, Victoria for one night. She had a friend that had just found out that he had throat cancer. We laid hands on him and spoke healing and life to his body. We found out a few weeks later, no cancer!

New boots with my sis

It took us about 4 days to get from Kingman AZ to Austin TX where my daughter Natasha and her husband Kyle and their 3 year old son lived. We had a good fun visit with them.

Natasha and Bear

We made it to Wylie, Texas on Friday April 20, 2018. The mobile home/RV park was holding two spots for us, so we could choose the one we wanted. 

Our new home!

We picked the spot with a tree for my bird feeder. We have a family of Red Cardinals and a family of Blue Jays that hang out at our feeder now. Plus some doves, singing Mocking Birds, a snake and toads. Oh, and bugs! Wylie TX is a rural area that was mostly farms. There are still hay fields in the area. It is pretty green here with lots of large shade type trees, some lakes and small creeks with turtles, snakes, and fish in them. People in Texas are so nice, even strangers will stop and chat with you.

Our van works for a big screen for outdoor movies 

Neighbor kids enjoying an outdoor movie

We were at our new church on Sunday and met others that had also just moved here. One week later was the John G. Lake's  "Mind Renewal" Conference with people from all over the world. What an awesome way to kickstart all our training! (JGLM.org)

Dominion Bible School inside our trailer.

Within two weeks Daniel was signed up with Dominion Bible Institute, year 1. I had already done year one back in 2014. So I will review with him and then we will go through year 2 together.

We also joined a Life Team (small group training)The focus right now is on sharing the gospel with people. Believe it or not, I never really truly learned how to witness to people. Now it just flows out when I start talking with people. AND people are responding! A neighbor down the street told us about his 80+ year old brother-in-law, John, who was in a care facility who wanted to go to Portland Oregon so he could have assisted suicide. We went over to meet John and share God's love with him and to pray for his body. He received much pain relief and wanted us to  come back again. So we did, with more prayer and God's love. We left him a New Testament this time and by our 3rd visit he had read 116 pages and was ready to accept Jesus as savior and Lord!

Dallas view from Hospital

On Fridays a group from church drive into Dallas to a public, county hospital to minister. Everyone breaks up into groups of 2 or 3. Daniel and I have been going together. We walk around outside and minister  to people as they sit in the sunshine. Then we  ride the elevators up and down and meet people coming to see family or friends. Many invite us to come pray in the rooms. Since mid May Daniel and I have seen the Holy Spirit remove more then 24 people's  pain! God is Faithful! This is for all believers in Christ, we just have to know who the Bible says were are, and believe and do.   Be Know Do!
Following is a testimony we shared at church--

At Parkland Hospital, in Dallas we met a 23 year old woman in the elevator that was in a wheel chair . She said she had neuropathy in her hands and feet. (numbness and pain) She was on her way to visit her mother. We started ministering and her pain was getting less. We followed her to her mothers room to finish ministering to her, after commanding  her body about 5-6 times  all numbness and pain left, I took her hands and got her out of her wheelchair and walked her around the room, she had not been able to walk for 6 months!  We purposely finished healing her before starting on her mom. We wanted to build her mothers faith.(not needed but nice to have) Her mother also had numbness in her hands and very bad pain and numbness in feet. So bad was her pain that when her daughter touch her foot she yelled! We commanded healing and that all pain leave her body and again after about 5-6 commands all pain and numbness was GONE! I had her daughter squeeze her feet. NO PAIN! We then spent time sharing the gospel with them and teaching them how to speak life to their bodies. (Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.)

The intensive training and being around like minded people has produced incredible results! We still have more renewing of our minds and dying to self yet to do. Jesus healed all, and we have lost a few. Not a good feeling.  "The harvest is ready; the harvester (Holy Spirit) is ready. We are responsible to release Him!" "The Spirit that is in me is the one that has healed EVERY sick person...EVER!" Based on Romans 8:11.

We serve a Faithful God! His Word is true and what the Bible says that we can do, or commands us to do, CAN be done by us! ALL OF US...Jesus would not command us to do something that He had not made a way for.... If it requires God's assistance or power, it is expected that His power (Holy Spirit) will be available when required.

So here we are, living in a 24 ft. trailer, that's under 200 sq feet. Not much space by most people's standards. But, I really like it. I had always wanted to live in a small house, although I wasn't thinking of a trailer, I was thinking more like a rock or log cabin in the woods, not a RV park.

Paradise on Earth? No, hard work!

But, we were living in "Paradise on Earth" as the Jehovah Witness man said of our farm when he pulled up and saw the beauty of the peacocks, chickens, song birds, chipmunks, and squirrels all hanging out together near or on our porch.  (By the way he was driving a very nice clean car, and was wearing a suit, and I was down in the goat pen cleaning poo wearing mismatched raggy farm clothes). We did have a nice talk about the fact that the only paradise on earth is when we are doing God's work.  Jesus told his disciples in  (Mark 16:15.. And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.)  He did not say seek paradise on earth.


There is no greater joy then being with someone who is being healed and touched by the power of the Holy Spirit!  Romans 10:15  As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”

                           I want beautiful feet!

Photo from internet.

An Abbynormal Thought..."This looks like Oregon"

I was in the passenger seat as we were driving back from town the other day.  As I was enjoying the scenery a thought popped into my head. This looks like Oregon.  Really?!?!, that thought again!

I have been back living in Oregon going on 7 years now, ever since I became a mail-order bride, aka product of 2 weeks on an online Christian dating site.

The last time I lived in Oregon I was 6 years old living on a small farm with my family in the Pleasant Hill area. I loved it. I spent much of my time hunting frogs in the slough between our place and my cousins place.

This internet photo could have been me.

I also like playing with my pet hen and gathering the chicken eggs or eating strawberries out of our garden and climbing our fruit trees.  But, one of my most favorite things was hanging out at my grandma and grandpa's farm....across the street. She had lots of flower beds, a very large garden, fruit trees, bird houses, chickens, ducks.....and a two story house with wooden stairs (lots of fun to play on)! I would help my grandma weed her flowers, but really I was "kinda" weeding, but mostly hunting for garter snakes.  It was the prefect place to grow up.


But then the summer of my 7th birthday my father took a job in Las Vegas and that is how we ended up in this desert city.  So there we were driving across the desert, without air conditioning in our car in the summer heat. It was so hot our cat was panting! It was so hot that is took more then 2 weeks before the moving company found someone who would drive our furniture and stuff across the desert!
I hated it in the dry lack of much green desert. Plus there were no frogs around and the snakes  were poisnous!
So here started my 40 years in the desert.

Every home that we lived in became a mini Oregon. With lots of flowers and some trees planted. As I grew up and had my own homes this flower-tree planting continued. But then I added ponds.

The first house we bought I added a small pond, which was more like an in ground bird bath within the ever growing flower beds. We also planted lots of trees. Each year we would buy a live Christmas tree to then plant in the yard.

The second home we bought was on a half acre. It already had good size pine trees along two whole sides. (My sister and her husband planted them all, since it had been their place before we bought it from them). I had a cement bird bath about 2' by 2'. Then someone gave my a turtle! Oh....that little bird bath was  not big enough for him. So I dug a pond. It ended up being  around 10-12' long, shallow at one end with a waterfall and then about 2 1/2 feet deep at the other end. In the area around the pond I planted lots of flowers. AND....I found a pond store in town that sold tadpoles! Bullfrog tadpoles! I was so excited to finally have frogs again. At night I would sit out by the pond and watch all the pond life interact. It almost felt like I was in Oregon.

The front yard

The third and last home I bought in Las Vegas had one large tree in the front yard. That was it. The back yard was all grass. So I started planting trees. Around a dozen along the fence line in the backyard. Meanwhile I paid my son to remove the grass from the front yard and I beefed up the sprinkler system and turned the whole yard into one big flower garden!


Then I stared work on back yard again and I had a large 6 sided, 127 square foot bird avairy built in the center of the yard. I had decided a few years back that if I owned birds that they must have a flight cage. There were doves, cockatiels, parakeets and button quail within the aviary. Their sounds were awesome!

   

After the aviary I put in another pond with a waterfall. It was stocked with koi, goldfish, turtles and of course bullfrog tadpoles!

A one year old bull frog

 The place was starting to look like Oregon. Well, kinda.

To add to my weirdness, while on vacation in Northern California I found some moss on a piece of bark. I brought it home and put it in a terrarium. I kept it alive for about a year. Oh how I loved moss, a rareity in the Nevada desert.

Well, time keeps on going. All my kids had grown up and moved out. My job had ended and it was time to sell and move. I figuered I would go visit all the kids spred out in many different states and my mother in Arizona and also my grandma in Oregon. I was thinking that somewhere in my travels I would find a new home.

I never dreamed I would end up back in Oregon. But I did.
I met Daniel on a Christian dating site. 

Acually, he found me, and I was only on for two weeks! He lived in Oregon. I really wasn't trying to get back to Oregon anymore. I had learned to love the desert and all its wonderfull wildlife and rocks. I was leaning towards moving to Arizona.

So after Daniel and I married we bought a farm in the corner of NW Oregon.

The huge maple trees here are covered in moss. The ground is covered in moss. It is so awesome! I have no need for a terrarium to keep moss in. It is everywhere!

There are hundreds of frogs in the "everywhere you look pools of water" singing a chorus at night and you have to love those pretty little Oregon snakes!

There is a spring next to the house and a year round creek close by. No pond building needed. Then every spring and all through the summer the hills on and around our farm go through color changes of pink, purple, yellow, and white flowers! No flower beds to weed or tend to. It so feels like Oregon.


 So here I am driving through beautiful Oregon and still after 7 years my mind says, This looks like Oregon!  Maybe that is because it is Oregon....silly girl!

Well, um, after all this "paradise and moss on earth time" God told us to go. Time is short, He says, we need to be busy with people, not property. So we put the farm up to sell, and now WE have a buyer. We will be leaving Oregon soon, stopping along the way to visit kids and grandkids then headed to training Texas. I wonder how many times I will think, "This looks like Oregon" in Texas?

Abbynormals Journey towards health. Discovering the Keto Zone lifestyle.

My people Perish for Lack of Knowledge  Hosea 4:6

How many different size pants do you have in your closet? I know I have at least three sizes. I have been up and down in my weight so many times. I think about a year ago I stopped trying. I so was tired of being hungry all the time. I gave up. Then, of course, I gained. I bought bigger sizes, and I still gained. I wasn't sleeping well, it seemed that everything was starting to hurt, my hands, my feet, my arms, my jaw, bla bla bla. I knew I was reaping what I  had sown. I also knew this was not what God had for me. So I searched the Bible for answers. I prayed. My husband prayed. And God answered!

Stage One --Healing of my Spirit and Soul

When I became born-again my spirit was made alive. It was then that I started understanding the Bible and started seeing the world different. Yet, for years I kept waiting for God to "fix" me and make me whole, that someday I would just arrive at understanding. I didn't know that I had a part in my "maturing" in the Word  as a Believer of Christ.  I  did not know that it was my job to renew my mind and take care of my body, His temple. Somehow I missed that teaching... that I have work to do, work in transforming my mind and body. Surely my pastors taught on this...did I miss their teachings, or did they not teach this?  My thoughts were all over the place and  were full of self hatred, anxiety, and fear.  I did not know that I was destroying myself!  I am so glad that God does not give up on us!  God was faithful to help me understand how to renew my mind through Brother Curry Blake's teachings at JGLM.org.  What an awesome moment it was when this mind renewing revelation was made clear to my understanding! It was my job to renew my mind using Gods Word.  It was my job to take every thought captive!  MY JOB!

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

Through Brother Curry's teachings I have been learning how to renew my mind for a few years now with full understanding that it is my job.  But the body, well, it seemed to have a will of its own. The appetite of the flesh, especially towards food was deep in me, all the way back to when I overcame anorexia nervosa in high school. It seems that I always  had a "relationship" with food even when I was starving myself! 

Stage Two--Revelation from God

1 Cor. 3:16  "Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? "

In seeking freedom from food issues I have been studying the Bible with regards to food, eating, and gluttony, all within the relationship of our body being His temple. God has been dealing with me, because he wants all of me. He wants me free. Spirit, Soul and Body!  He wants me healthy! How useful is a sick overweight soldier? What sort of witness is this to the unsaved?  Jesus paid the price for my health....by His Strips I was healed. If I feed myself unhealthy food, then get fat and start having health issues, then go to God for my healing, but don't do my part and take care of this body, should I expect to stay healed? We reap what we sow. Period. If instead of putting good clean motor oil in your car you add dirty cooking oil, can you expect your car to run right??   God gave us good clean simple food.

It is amazing how your mind can talk you into eating more food then you need or unhealthy foods, because....there is always tomorrow to start eating right or start that diet. But, like most people when tomorrow shows up we have another excuse!  Sometimes we compare ourselves to others and say; "I am not as big as so and so"... Why do we always judge ourselves against others?  We must take every thought captive! Loves others as God sees them and we must know what the Bible says about being disciplined soliders in Gods army.

God had me searching and seeking freedom and Godly health and in my quest to find answers I came across a youtube video on BVOV (Believer's Voice of Victory Network) in which Kenneth Copeland talks with Dr. Don Colbert, a Christian and author of the "Keto Zone".  During this almost 2 hour video my life changed. I heard the truth like I had not heard before. Godly truth!  About 30 minutes into this program Kenneth shares what God had shown him a few years back. This is his statement: "There is a difference between one who desires to be well and one who is just tired of being sick. I need to be well for a reason. I am a soldier in the army of the Lord, I need to be well, I need to be strong, I need to be believing God!  One who desires to be well will confess healing scriptures everyday, will not dare miss taking his supplements, wouldn't eat anything excepts Gods way of eating, "organic and right portions", he wouldn't eat anything other then Gods way of eating under any circumstances!"

That is a pretty powerfull statement! Where am I at with this thinking? I had been pretty carefree, and thoughtless with my eating. I am told in  Romans 12:1-2  "I beseech you therefore, brethen, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God."  I present my body! Is my body holy? Is it a living sacrifice? Have I really taken care of it the way God would want me to? Not worship it, but take care of it, subdue it, make my flesh obey!   Just like it is my job to renew my mind it was my job to take care of this body, which He calls His temple.

Stage Three- Healing of my Body

In Lester Sumrall's book "Spirit Soul and Body" he says, quote "Nothing can so hinder us as the outward man dominating the inward man. If we have never learned how to release our inward man by breaking through the outward man, we are not able to serve the living God as we should."

In the video Dr. Colbert talks about how certain foods can cause inflamation within your body. Mainly nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, potatoes...) gluten, and dairy.  What if Dr. Colbert is right, in that most of the food I craved was causing inflamation in my body? I pretty muched lived on dairy,  gluten, and veggies from the nightshade family. Tacos anyone?? No more cheese,  salsa,  chips, or corn/flour tortillas for me! So it is somewhat of a challenge to be doing Keto Zone along with the no inflamitory foods. Many times we were already eating Keto style, veggies and meat, but our main diet was mexican food. Since watching the 2 hour video above I have been changed inside and out. The pounds are melting away and I have had no temptations to go back to the way I was. Plus no heart burn! I cleaned out my cupboards and refrigerator, and got rid of all foods that I will not be eating anymore. So much freedom! Such a simple way to eat. One of my daughters and her husband have been eating this way for years for health and fitness reasons. She had shared info with me, but I wasn't ready. They are very happy for us. Yes, us... I do the cooking so Daniel eats what I make. If it is good for me, it will be good for him.  I still have alot to learn, especially with meal planning. But, thankfully the internet is full of keto recipes. Plus, we are only eating twice a day, just brunch and dinner only. We just are not hungry. Before I was ALWAYS hungry! ALWAYS! I do not consider this a diet, this is a lifestyle heart change! Plus, almost all my aches and pains are all ready gone!

There is a lot of information on the internet about the Keto "lifestyle diet" if one is interested. I would encourage anyone interested to watch the youtube video Kenneth Copeland talks with Dr. Don Colbert . Just copy and paste it in the youtube search window.

It doesn't cost much more to buy good healthy food when you cut out all the junk.

1 Cor. 6:20 "For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s."

Just like renewing my mind to who the Bible says that I am, taking care of my body, Gods temple, is my responsibility. Mine! We must, through the Word, find out who we are.  It is our job.
Be. Know. Do.

1 Peter 1:13-16 Therefore grid up your minds, be sober, set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."

One final thought...Kenneth Copeland ask God... God, you delivered me from alcohol, and you delivered me from smoking, how are you going to deliver me from eating? I have to eat. God told him...I did not deliver you from drinking, I delivered you from drinking alcohol. I did not deliver you from breathing, I delivered you from breathing smoke! and I can deliver you from eating wrong foods!