Author: LB

Wasp Spray or Pepper Spray for Protection

If you don’t have (or want) a gun, here’s a more humane way to wreck someone’s
evil plans for you.
A friend who is a receptionist in a church in a high risk area was concerned
about someone coming into the office on Monday to rob them when they were
counting the collection. She asked the local police department about
using pepper spray and they recommended to her that she get a can of wasp spray
instead.
The wasp spray, they told her, can shoot up to twenty feet away and is a lot
more accurate, while with the pepper spray, they have to get too close to you
and could overpower you. The wasp spray temporarily blinds an attacker until
they get to the hospital for an antidote. She keeps a can on her desk in the
office and it doesn’t attract attention from people like a can of pepper spray
would. She also keeps one nearby at home for home protection. Thought this was
interesting and might be of use.
On the heels of a break in and beating that left an elderly woman in Toledo
dead, self defense experts have a tip that could save your life.
Val Glinka teaches self-defense to students at Sylvania Southview High School .
For decades, he’s suggested putting a can of wasp and hornet spray near your
door or bed. Glinka says, “This is better than anything I can teach them.”
Glinka considers it inexpensive, easy to find, and more effective than mace or
pepper spray. The cans typically shoot 20 to 30 feet; so, if someone tries to
break into your home, Glinka says “spray the culprit in the eyes”. It’s a tip
he’s given to students for decades.
It’s also one he wants everyone to hear. If you’re looking for protection,
Glinka says look to the spray. “That’s going to give you a chance to call the
police; maybe get out,” and maybe even save a life.
Please share this with all the people in your life.

Also heard it suggested to keep a can in your car under your seat.

I’d rather see a sermon than to hear one any day;

Author Unknown

I’d rather see a sermon than to hear one any day;
I’d rather one should walk with me than merely show the way.
The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but examples are always clear.

And, best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds;
For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
I soon can learn to do it, if you’ll let me see it done;
I can see your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.

And the lectures you deliver may be very fine and true,
But I’d rather get my lesson by observing what you do;
For I may misunder­stand you and the high advice you give;
But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live!

Is your focus on others or yourself? Sometimes we need to examine ourselves.

Jeremiah 5:2-4 (NIV)

2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’
still they are swearing falsely.”

3 O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth?
You struck them, but they felt no pain;
you crushed them, but they refused correction.
They made their faces harder than stone
and refused to repent.

4 I thought, “These are only the poor;
they are foolish,
for they do not know the way of the LORD,
the requirements of their God.

Luke 6:42
How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Hebrews 10:25
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (NIV)

  • Are you attending church or making excuses?

Hebrews 4:11
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

  • Don’t allow sin in your life to separate you from God. Repent and get rid of it. Don’t allow the sin of others to cause you to turn away. Others will fail you. Concentrate on your relationship with God and don’t look at their relationship as an example or a standard.

God Can Make It Better

God  wants to be a part of your life but He will not force himself on you. He wants you to prosper and have a good life. It does not mean you have to be a radical Christian and be in church 10 times a week. It means He want to have a relationship with you where you tell Him your heartaches and He heals your sorrows and guides you to make decisions that are wiser than you can make on your own. Sometimes those decisions don’t make sense at the time but they work out to the good of those who love Him.

If you have made decisions that have made a mess of your life, God wants to help you clean it up. He takes big messes and small messes and makes something beautiful. If you are tired of dealing with the mess, simply ask God if He can do any better than you and that you want His help to make life better. He realizes you want to do it on your own, but He knows so much more about you than you know of yourself. He knows your hearts desire and what you want even before you ask. He does not give without us asking and He will not help without us inviting.

God has created all things and has the power to give and the power to take away. He has the power to run our life but He won’t do it. He allows us the free will to mess it up if that is what we want to do. We can be stubborn until the thief destroys us or we can choose to have life and have it in abundance but it comes down to our choice.

God loves you so much that His dying on the cross has relieved us from following rules to just enjoying the relationship with Him that is available for the asking.

Parents: We Are Not Perfect

PARENTS: We Are Not Perfect

Let’s give God the freedom to do in our children what we cannot do. No matter how hard we try, we will more than likely look back and wish we would have done something differently. That is because we are not perfect and all children will be different. There is no set pattern for parenting. We must use all that we know and do all we can and let God fill in where we cannot.

We must pray continually for our children. For our prayers to be effective, we must be right before God. The example that we set will be the example they follow. Our children will change as we change. The tone we use with them will be the tone of our household and the tone that they develop.

Begin by asking God to show you where you have failed. Ask for forgiveness and wisdom to make changes where needed. This may also be asking your child to forgive you for an action or attitude that was wrong. Thank God for your children and the plans that He has for them. Focus on the positive.

Let’s trust God with the plan He has for our children. His plan is better than our plan all the time. A better plan for them and a better plan for us. Lets submit ourselves to both.

 

 

Prayer: Father God I bring myself to you. Show me where I need to change and where I have failed so that I can be what you want me to be. I thank you for my children that you have given to me for a time. Help me to guide them according to your will that they will fulfill the marvelous plan you have for them. Thank you for a plan to prosper them and not to harm them, a plan to give them a hope and a future.  Help me to not want to control my children but to love them and to guide them, to show them your perfect love that they will have the desire to serve you. Amen.

Jeremiah 29:11(NIV)

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Ephesians 6:4(NIV)
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.[a]