Using Your Weakness for Power

Failures, frustrations, disappointments, fall-shorts, bad looks and even illnesses. Why does God allow them? If I had a sick dog I'd lose no time to take it to the veterinary clinic for a quick remedy. You can't stand seeing your pet suffering there continuously, can you? So why do some "bad lucks" linger and keep you failing at what you do and seem to do so forever? There must be a reason.

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And it should be a valid reason. The good news is, there is. Everything has a purpose, even negative things. Or perhaps I should say, especially negative things. Good things served you on a silver platter is all the reward you'd get. Nothing more will follow. Adversities, however, have bonuses, perks, incentives and residual benefits if you know how to use them. You must learn how to use your weakness for power.

Take advantage of your helplessness, unfitness, powerlessness, indisposition or low station in life. They're put there because God wants you to have power. The bible says "power is made perfect in weakness," and this is why we should feel blessed to be weak, despised, rejected or all of the above. For the bible adds, "When I am weak, then I am strong." No wonder Jesus emphasized how "the least among you is the greatest."

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So much emphasis is on leadership today, so we see leadership seminars left and right and people eagerly grabbing seats. Everyone wants to be a leader because everyone wants position and power. I wonder why there are no followership seminars for leaders when the fact is good leaders should first be good followers.

Anyway, God is serious about his business of making the least the greatest through power in weakness. That's what true success is all about. It's not about advantages, positions, connections, money, possessions, titles or degrees. So if you think you're a loser or failure, you're blessed and favored if you see things as God sees them and act and live accordingly.

Through experience, I'm telling you there's nothing like using your weaknesses for power.

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Why Marriage Gets Sweeter in Old Age

It should get sweeter as you both age together. That's how marriage is designed. It should start very sweet and go on being sweeter each day. And I mean each day, through old age and all that, until death do you part. That doesn't mean love ends during death, because it continues in the hereafter. Nope, there's no marriage anymore in heaven, but love and sweetness go on there. Three things will stay after everything's gone, remember? Faith, hope and love.

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And anyway, who says you need to re-marry in heaven when you're already a couple?

When something grows, it's alive and it progresses to something better, by the day. Right? Anything that has life in it behaves that way. Even if a plant dies eventually, it's fruits have seeds to make it go on multiple times. Jesus said, "...but when (the seed) dies it produces many seeds." It continues. Yes, meroong forever. 😉

Dates Get Sweeter

Dates should increase and intensify in sweetness during marriage more than in courtship or engagement or in between. I'm speaking from experience. I and my wife still date at our age and get more excited each time. And I mean each time. It's not some theory or idea or wish, it's what we have each day since June of 1995.

And we don't need anything fancy to have a good time. Kahit Paotsin siomai or Yowell frozen yogurt with lots of blueberries (Php 50 per cup) plus a cup of gulaman lang yan, it's already a special date for us. Or enjoying food at Savory Classic restaurant now and then, pag me time and nasa budget. Sometimes we try street foods like toknene, fish, chicken or squid balls, kwek-kwek, isaw, kalamares and of course, balut and penoy. Sometimes we go for the giant Purefoods hotdog sandwich at the grocery area of Waltermart in Munoz. Yup, though health conscious, we try junks now and then, perhaps once a month or less. 

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I still have a big crush on her! I still see her as a wonderful lady who never fails to amaze me and keeps me in love like a silly teenager. It still gives me pleasure to make her laugh, appreciate all she does, and concoct for her the best mug of coffee in the world each morning. I often cook for her (she loves my cooking) and sometimes wash her clothes. All that as I make some money blogging, selling ebooks and now try my hands on real estate (I hope it works). 

Extreme Intimacy

Intimacy in marriage should get more extreme as you age together. It's bible truth--the two shall become one flesh. ONE FLESH! When God said this HE wasn't joking. I become my wife and she becomes me. Your unique personalities remain intact but you become one. Most importantly, you have one spirit and soul. You're one individual yet separate with your own personalities, preferences and tastes, and ideas and opinions which often also merge, agglutinate and amalgamate. Reminds me of the Trinity because I and my wife are one with Jesus.

When God looks at you, HE sees one person, one flesh. It won't do like what other married couples have when they try to avoid each other's company as they age. They have separate hangouts and companions and just see each other a short moment at home when they're already tired and sleepy. Sometimes, they don't even share the same room or bed. 

It's just like what Jesus and HIS true church have. They're one flesh. Jesus is in them and they're in Christ. It's no longer they who live but Christ lives in them. Intimacy and sweetness should increase as the church is one flesh with Jesus through the years--in ever-increasing glory or from glory to glory. Thus, church gets more excited and in love with Jesus like a silly teenager, younger and sillier in love as the teenager matures. 

It's not the programs or activities that will make people faithfully go to church---not the worship service or worship team or the top-of-the-line musical instruments or good sound system or good preaching. You can take them all away and true, genuine believers will still go to church ecstatic to worship Jesus together with gusto even over some cheap siomai or squid balls and gulaman to share with.

It's because they know they're married to Jesus in spirit and are one flesh with HIM.

So, what's the secret to getting sweeter with your spouse even in old age? Together as one flesh, nurture a sweeter and more intimate relationship with Jesus as you age. Get more in love with HIM like a silly teenager. And this is not of works or your own effort. It's by HIS grace and mercy, if you grab the grace and mercy with all excitement each moment of your lives. 

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Why You are Not Efficient

Most folks will say they're both--hardworking and efficient--or at least believe they should be. But efficiency really eliminates hard work. Hard work often loses sight of the goal and focuses on the work itself, instead of figuring out a way to get things done the smartest way possible. Being work-focused often make work harder than it really is.

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Being efficient is different. You weed out backbreaking, stupid work, effort or processes, get to the point and focus on what really is essential. Most hard workers think doing tiring, arduous work is productive. Efficient workers opt not just for productivity but especially success  at hitting targets with minimal hard work, cutting long, stupid processes short with common sense and diligence, choosing the simplest and most effective ways to accomplish things. Efficiency means less work. 

Investopedia says:

The term efficiency can be defined as the ability to achieve an end goal with little to no waste, effort, or energy. Being efficient means you can achieve your results by putting the resources you have in the best way possible. Put simply, something is efficient if nothing is wasted and all processes are optimized.

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In short, efficient people get straight to the point, what really needs to be done here, and do just that. Like in church ministries, for instance. Efficient believers do what God wants done as Jesus had done it in the Gospel---because he is the epitome of success in God's eyes. The rest we add or invent as "church works" are garbage. 

Diligence is a key idea here. Here's what I gathered from Google. Diligence is "careful and persistent work or effort," which is different from plain hard work. Diligence is carefully choosing only what gets the job done and being persistent with that, trashing what is wasteful, irrelevant and unnecessary.

It's also "steady, earnest (strong desire) and energetic effort." Diligence is powered by vision, inspiration and enthusiasm while hard work is often a drab, done only to finish a task and get paid or please people.

Another idea is "devoted and painstaking work," where painstaking is "done with or employing great care and thoroughness," or being "meticulous."

Last is "assiduity," which is "constant or close attention to what one is doing." 

These definitions may sound like what hard work is, but they really refer more to efficiency and diligence which always opt for simpler and more effective ways of working and getting the job done in the best manner.

Mass Production is Not Always Success

Producing a lot does not always equate to success. Big or large or many does not always mean better. The path to destruction, says Jesus, is broad and wide, "and many enter through it." The point here is not to produce as little as possible, but to not think that big and numerous is always a success---because people blinded by mass production (or, in ministry, those oriented to the mind of the world) always has this perspective. As long as you produce a lot, you're okay.

Hard work forgets about innovation and creativity and sticks doggedly to a traditional, boring pattern. Often, blind hard work establishes its own idea of "smartness" and "efficient work" based on a narrow-minded concept of what success is. It thinks that anything done hard is successful. Anything that costs you sleepless nights and overstress is "success." Hard work is plain work, period. Drudgery. Sticking to a fed program like a robot. Hard work was what God gave Adam and Eve after they proved inefficient with plain and simple obedience and opt to do things the hard way. 

So, are you hardworking or efficient?

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Increased Blood Sugar Even with Zero Sugar? Here's Why

I see lots of cases where blood sugar levels shoot up even with "zero sugar" intake--or so people think. They have eliminated all sugars from their diet, no sodas or softdrinks, no sugar in coffee, no iced teas, milk teas, shakes, frappes--nothing. In fact, no more rice and meat but only fresh vegetables and fruits.

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Fruits? No wonder. There's your culprit, especially fruits in the morning.

Fruits are good, don't take me wrong. I love them and make sure they're part of my diet. But the thing is, I have normal blood sugar levels. Do you? It's due to God's grace and mercy on my health, first and foremost, and I workout regularly. Besides, I watch what I eat. Even with good blood sugar health, I don't always eat fresh fruits.

Why?

Because most fruits have natural sugars, and natural sugars are still sugar. Specifically, fructose (natural sugar in fruits) is still sugar and in fact sweeter than sucrose or white sugar. If you have elevated sugar levels, minimize or avoid fruits that are sweet, like bananas--more so ripe bananas. Half-ripe bananas have less sugar and carbs, but less sugar is still sugar.

Eat instead fruits that are sour--lemon, kalamansi, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, santol, kamias, etc. Avoid pineapple and mangoes. Avocados are good. But always eat in moderation and consult your doctor first. The good news is, mushrooms are not just delicious vegetables but also have anti-diabetes properties. 

Here's what the National Library of Medicine-National Center for Biotechnology Information or NCBI says about mushrooms:

In vivo and in vitro data revealed that treatment with mushroom polysaccharides displayed an anti-hyperglycemic effect by inhibiting glucose absorption efficacy, enhancing pancreatic β-cell mass, and increasing insulin-signaling pathways. Mushroom terpenoids act as inhibitors of α-glucosidase and as insulin sensitizers through activation of PPARγ in order to reduce hyperglycemia in animal models of diabetes. In conclusion, mushroom polysaccharides and terpenoids can effectively ameliorate hyperglycemia by various mechanisms and can be used as supportive candidates for prevention and control of diabetes in the future.

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Like mushrooms, nothing beats ginger when it comes to lowering insulin resistance and inflammation. I enjoy freshly brewed ginger with green tea when I happen to eat sweet foods because I had no choice but to eat them. But ginger, green tea and even your maintenance meds are no excuse to indulge in foods that are bad for you.

To have a healthy mindset and discipline to go with it, you have to understand the real power in you which God put in your inner self to overcome all odds.

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Most Men Lack These 5 Nutrients

According to Men's Health, most men lack 5 nutrients, at least in the US. Men in other countries have better pay serious attention as well because a lot of us are not that meticulous about food, particularly nutrition in food. We just eat anything delicious and we think all we need is protein. The same goes for a lot of women. 

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Here are the nutrients we lack:

1. Vitamin D
2. Magnesium
3. Vitamin B12
4. Potassium
5. Iodine

Why do we lack them? The website doesn't say but common sense will tell us it's because we're not nutrition-conscious until we get seriously sick and medicines start to eat up our budget. Then we become health-conscious.

It's basic how getting enough vitamins and minerals is part of good health and vital for the immune system. We don't need medical and health experts to tell us this. Yet, we often demand "proofs" that we indeed need them in supplements. We'd rather believe that we get everything we need from the food we eat. So we say, "just eat."

But here's the problem with just eating food. Unless fruits and vegetables are freshly picked from trees and plants and eaten immediately, their nutrients are depleted when they're transported, exposed to heat, handled during packing and unpacking and stay long periods in grocery stores. Plus the fact that they're mostly grown with harmful chemicals and fertilizers, not to mention some are GMO treated.

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With meats, it's almost the same sad story. Domesticated animals are fed with GMO feeds and injected with antibiotics and artificial growth hormones. Eating raw vegetables is ideal (if you harvest them from your own backyard to make sure they're pesticide-free) but I wish we can do the same with meat, although some folks do eat raw meat.

The safest and most practical thing to do is to supplement. But choose the ones with high and proven quality for good results. Aside from my regular workouts I take supplements to make sure my body gets all it needs. And I eat healthy food that I often cook myself to make sure only healthy stuff go in it. In times I eat out (when I have no choice but to eat out), I take my fresh ginger brew with green tea in the early evening before bed for detox and getting rid of sugars. 

When you feel strong mentally and physically, you're ready to discover the power God put within you.

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Your Brain is this Powerful

For starters, your brain has some 100 billion neurons and can process 11 million bits of information per second. If anything, this tells me how awesome God is. Second, it tells me what I can do if I exploit my brain's potentials. Experts say that consciously we can manage only 40 to 50 bits of info per second, but imagine if we expand our conscious mind a bit more and use up about 10 percent more of the 11 million?

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Simply put, we have barely scratched the surface of our mind's possibilities. There are entire worlds left unexplored there and holding on to what we've been taught traditionally about what our minds can do will just waste all that potential down the drain. It's the same thing with creation. Our limited knowledge and limited brain use (40 to 50 bits of info per sec) leaves much of life truths (especially deep truths) untouched and unexplored.

Medical Science

And yet we act like we know everything, especially the "experts" and the titled and degreed. A lot of medical doctors confine themselves to the medical science that big pharma limits them to, merely matching illnesses to drugs, and outright dismissing other possibilities, especially remedies from nature or creation---not to mention supernatural healing, which they either shrug off and laugh off, or which they consider a little but barely believe in.

There are thousands, if not millions, of other possibilities out there hidden by God in creation waiting to be discovered, and which God wants us to explore and use. After all, God is the Author of all creation, the human body particularly, its health and healing, and how his creation---nature---fits into all that. Answers are out there, and deep within us.

What's really ridiculous is how some doctors even tell you taking natural, organic food can worsen your illness and detrimentally react with your synthetic medicines.

Human Theology

Doctors of theology and other religious experts also act like they have figured everything out, especially the right interpretation of Scriptures, which of course is their interpretation with their use of "hermeneutics" which is man's way of understanding the bible and which defines everything to them. It's their god, replacing the ministry of the Holy Spirit, who Jesus says "will teach you all things." The Holy Spirit is supposed to interpret everything to us, not anyone or anything else, especially NOT our educated, systematized understanding we learn from man-made religious institutions.

Hermeneutics is good---I use it when the Holy Spirit tells me to---but we must rely 100 percent on the Holy Spirit. He teaches believers supernaturally and often beyond what the human mind can imagine. Relying on our own understanding tries to put God in a box, as well as the Spirit's realms and dimensions. It confines our minds to the earthly.

But, Can Our Minds Grasp that Much?

Some ask---creation, the spiritual realms, the supernatural and even brain neuroplasticity (possibilities with the 11 million bits of information the brain can process) are so vast and overwhelming, can our minds absorb them? Can we just forget about them and keep things simple? Can we not just satisfy ourselves with taking traditional medicines, what we've always known about our world and the universe, and the traditional church doctrines?

I'd rather see it this way. Remember, we're using our conscious mind rate of just 40 to 50 bits of info per second out of the God-designed 11 million bits of info per second, which is stashed away in our subconscious. What if we find a way to use all the 11-million per second mind rate in our conscious mind, because anyway, God intended it for our use? It can happen if we have solid, unadulterated faith to do it. God can allow things to happen "contrary to nature."

After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree! [Romans 11.24]

Perhaps these bible passages answer this questions:

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
[Proverbs 25.2]

I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— 26 the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. 27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. [Colossians 1].

Sources: Very Well Mind    NPR

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This Can Keep Your Blood Sugar Normal

Almost everyone I know has blood sugar issues and taking medication. Of course, we know why. Everything we eat has sugar. One street eatery (karenderia) I tried puts sugar in their Dinuguan, and I don't know why. Youtube videos on cooking puts sugar in all their recipes. Ridiculous.

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Thank GOD my blood sugar levels are constantly normal and people ask me what my secret is. The same with my BP. I tell them about my health regimen---healthy foods, healthy lifestyle, workouts, etc.---but what I count as the real big deal is the right mindset.

Most doctors and experts say diabetes cannot be cured, it can only be managed. That mindset destroys all hope. Doctors and medical experts are good and we need them. The same with maintenance meds if you're taking them. But remember that doctors and "experts" do not know everything. They're not God that we need to take everything they say as bible truth. I'm no expert either, but GOD is.

He always has the last word on everything.

Mindset is Everything

Mindset is everything. The bible calls it faith. There's hope for healing for any illness, and I mean total healing. But first, we need to believe---because God says so. He says, "If you believe, nothing will be impossible for you," [Mark 9.23]. That mindset can keep your blood sugar normal. That's what keeps mine.

I can claim my strict health awareness and discipline are responsible. They're not. They're just an offshoot of the real reason, which is right mindset. To be specific, faith. Faith with works, faith with discipline and lifestyle. More importantly, it's faith that believes what God says alone goes---what God says is final. It's not something we just consider together with what experts say with their tests and analysis.

We listen to medical experts, take their advice and prescriptions, but we don't believe their conclusions that go against what God says. I do regular medical tests and checkups with my medical doctor but what God says and promises determines the prognosis. This mindset keeps you hoping for the best---GOD's best---and does wonders for how your body responds and behaves, especially to treatment.

A positive mind is important for healing, particularly for making our body respond well to medication and other treatments we get. Depression, anxiety, and a mind that expects no cure---any doctor will agree---are serious obstacles to recovery, much less, cure. Medicines may even fail with a negative spirit that limits itself to mere illness management, which is maintaining and petting the illness, not getting rid of it.

If we think otherwise and believe more what doctors say than GOD, the Author of Life and healing, then HE makes sure we get what we prefer to have faith in. He will do to us as our faith or mindset insists.

According to your faith (or mindset) it will be done to you. [Matthew 9.29]

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