Happy Dance

Ingredients;

2 Cups plain flour
3 medium slices potato
1 tsp sugar

Boil slices of potato with 1 cup of water until soft. Cool to
lukewarm and mix in the flour and sugar to a paste. Cover and
stand in a warm place until the mixture has fermented.

5 Cups plain flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
Rewena (per above)

Instructions

Sift flour and salt into a bowl and make a well in the centre.
Fill with Rewena and sprinkle baking soda over the top. Combine
and knead mixture for about 10 minutes, adding a little water if
the mixture is too firm. Shape into loaves or place the mixture
into greased loaf tins. Bake at 450F (230C) for 45-50 minutes.

Ingredients;

½ cup of standard plain flour
1/3 cup of sugar
2/3 cup of coconut
¾ cup of rolled oats
50 grams of butter
1 tablespoon of golden syrup
½ teaspoon of baking soda
2 tablespoons of boiling water

 Instructions (makes about 20 biscuits);

Mix together the flour, sugar, coconut and rolled oats. Then melt the butter and golden syrup together. Dissolve the baking soda in the boiling water and then add to the melted butter and golden syrup. Stir the butter mixture into the dry ingredients that have already been mixed together.

Place level tablespoons of mixture onto cold greased trays, then bake at 180°C for about 15 minutes or until the biscuits are golden brown.

Ingredients;

3 egg whites
3 tablespoons of cold water
1 cup of caster sugar
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 teaspoons corn flour

Instructions;

Preheat oven to 150°C. Use an electric mixer to beat the egg whites until they are stiff. Add the water and vinegar and then beat again. While beating, gradually add sugar. Slow the speed of the beater and then add the vinegar, vanilla essence and the corn flour.

Line an oven tray with baking paper and then draw a circle of approx 22 cm on the baking paper. Spread the contents of the beater to within 2 cm of the edge of the circle, while trying to keep the shape as round and even as possible. Finally smooth over the top surface.

Bake the pavlova for 45 minutes, then leave to cool in the oven. While the pavlova is cooking, do not open the door to the oven!

Once the pavlova has cooled, carefully lift it on to a serving plate. For a good old Kiwi pavlova, add freshly whipped cream and either kiwifruit or strawberries.

Ingredients;

200 grams of softened butter
½ cup sugar
1 ¼ cups of standard plain flour
¼ cup of cocoa
2 cups of cornflakes
Chocolate icing (use icing sugar, cocoa and hot water)
Walnuts (optional)

 Instructions (makes about 30 biscuits);

Start by creaming the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy, then sift the flour and cocoa. Stir the sifted flour and cocoa into the creamed mixture and then fold in the cornflakes.

Spoon mounds of mixture onto a greased oven tray, gently pressing down on the mounds with a fork. Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes or until the mixture has set. Once the biscuits are cold, ice with chocolate icing and place a walnut on each biscuit.

I have found at least in my own life that success is usually given only at the end of a big struggle. at least it used to, these days I have learned to be more obedient and the struggle is not as often or as hard, and so the success comes faster and easier. The struggle is always my flesh against my spirit, the selfishness that is left in me. The flesh in me still wanting to dominate my spirit, that does not happen too often now; there is less of the flesh now and more of the spiritual me.

I was thinking on this the other day and I was trying to define for myself what this selfishness really was and why it was such a battle. Then I looked at the word sin… And there it was sIn it is the I in the middle of that word that makes it selfishness. Always when the I comes before our God and obedience to Him its selfishness and sin.

I cherish and love the peace that comes, when as His child, I know I have pleased Him, I have chosen well, I have obeyed and put His will before all else. My heart is so full of thanksgiving to Him for that peace and love that surrounds me.

When my God asks something of me, there is often a price to pay, but then everything of any value comes with a price, I am not called to negotiate with my God the price, or how much I am prepared to pay, I am called to just obey.

We can be assured that when God calls us to do a work for Him then that struggle will likely follow us, because someone will try to pull us off the job we are doing for Him.

I love the story of Nehemiah where he was doing a job for God, rebuilding the wall and one after another came and tried to pull him away from God’s work….Nehemiah said…

Neh 6:3

So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?"

I am learning to say no to people now and to try to have the mind of Nehemiah where nothing could distract him and pull him off the job he was doing for the Lord.

I find my rest and peace in my obedience to Him.

In His Love

Les

 I want to share a favourite devotion that I read some time back...somehow it seems to speak to me again today... Its from a favourite Author of mine... a wonderful man of God.. A.W.Tozer

Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.

I would like to be able to ask every Christian in the world this question: are you really interested in God's producing in you the beautiful fruits and fragrances of the Holy Spirit?

For every affirmative answer, I would quickly recommend:
Then look to your own willingness to be regular in the habits of a holy life -- for flowers and fruits do not grow in thin air!
They grow and come up out of a root and " the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit" [Proverbs 12:12]

For every beautiful garden that you see, whose fragrance comes out to welcome you, has its roots down into the hard earth.
The beautiful flowers and blooms will grow and appear and flourish only when there are deep roots and strong stalks.
If you take the roots away, the blossom and flower will endure perhaps one day.

The sun will scorch them and they will be gone.

What is the special likeness of Christ that He would reproduce in me?

What are the features of His life that He calls me to imitate?

What pattern would He set before me in my work, my circumstances, my difficulties?

What are the inspirations of grace that He would urge me to cultivate and cherish?

In His Love

Les