quick and easy idea – Valerie Rumfelt

The theme of my website is “Winning Ways to Follow Jesus,” and taking care of our bodies is a winning way to follow Jesus. So in this article, I have a healthy, easy recipe to help you out this weekend and spur you on toward love and good deeds(Hebrews 10:24). But since we’re on the topic of taking care of our bodies, let’s look a minute at verses from scripture that go along with this idea. These are not all verses that apply to this topic.

I Corinthians 6:19-20 – Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God with your body.

Every follower of Jesus has the Holy Spirit. He comes to live in us at the moment of salvation. We belong to God. He is our master from that point, so our bodies are to glorify Him.

Ephesians 5:29 – For no one ever hated his own flesh but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church…

We are not to hate our body. Jesus had a real flesh and blood body, which was given to pay the price for my sin and yours. Our body is His temple. How can we hate our body? We can make daily choices to lovingly care for it and protect it.

Ephesians 2:10 – For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

God has work for each of His children to do until the day we die or until Jesus comes again. When we fail to care for our body, His workmanship((Genesis 2:7), then we will feel bad. Then we don’t have the energy or desire to do the works God has for us to do. We will miss out on what He had planned and lose our purpose.

Have fun researching this topic for yourself. And enjoy this tasty recipe!

Roasted Vegetables:

Wash 2 boxes of cherry tomatoes and dry

Open 1 frozen bag of vegetables(keep frozen)

Combine tomatoes and vegetables in a bowl

Drizzle olive oil on the tomatoes and vegetables

Add your own spices. Last night I used garlic powder and a little salt, and generous pepper

Stir until all is covered with oil and spices

Spray oil on a foil-lined pan and arrange tomatoes and vegetables on pan

Bake on 400 until tomatoes pop and vegetables are browning

1st picture – tomatoes and frozen vegetables:

2nd picture – roasted tomatoes and frozen vegetables

Serving suggestions:

Serve as a side dish

Serve over pasta and mozzarella

Serve over rice

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Would you like a quick and easy idea for loving your neighbor? Now and then, I may post a healthy recipe or a decorating idea or helpful hint. It isn’t the blog’s central theme, but it does follow in line with following Jesus, which is the theme.

Today, I want to share with you an idea my sister had in service to her neighbor. It’s simple, but I know her neighbor appreciated the beauty brought into her life when my sister delivered flowers to her. My sister’s home grown roses invited the neighbor to lean into them and savor their fragrance immediately, an instant blessing. But the beauty will last for days inside her home.

The flowers are called Belinda’s Dream Roses. The vase is a spaghetti sauce jar wrapped in a lunch bag and a tied bow. So simple. So lovely. Another variation you could add to this is some glossy Modge Podge to shine up the bag a bit, but it is outstanding the way it is. You may not have roses, but if you do, this is an easy, quick idea for sharing God’s beauty with others. It’s recyclable since the jar can collect something like coins or place a candle inside. Even the bag is useful to ripen fruit or clean your window.

In the comments below, share a simple idea like this, you use to encourage others.

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing him. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians 2:14-16

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