First 2021 Happy Monday!!!

Soooooooooooo TRUE!!!

Anyone besides me gonna 

ACTUALLY admit to this???

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! This is literally SOOOOOOO ACCUTATE!! Yesterday, Pastor was like, for everyone in the church that has been stating that they have weight loss goals for this new year, I'm going to help you all out by doing a 3 day fast!!! AHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! We're like, Oh YAAAAAAYYY!!! BAHAHAAA!!!

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Then me and one of the brother's were talking after church and he was like, I actually had to STOP doing the Daniel Fast because after 10 days on it I was gaining weight. I was OMW!!! So I'm NOT THE ONLY ONE that has GAINED WEIGHT on the Daniel Fast?!?!?! 😂

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I'm like, I feel sooooooo much better knowing this!!! He's like, yeah, I guess three baked potatoes in one day is STILL too much!!! I'm like, YEAH, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllll, I found out that ONE JAR of raw-unsweetened almond butter in one day, is ALSO TOO MUCH!!!!!😂😇😂

♥Mary Frances :)

#Biblegoals

With it being the beginning of the year, I thought I would to a Bible reading push with a reposted blog written by a question Bishop Abbott asked us in his preaching one time!!! Buuuuuuuut before I do that repost, I thought I would also share with you all something really neat that Bishop Abbott did with us recently at church...
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He read with us the last two chapters of Revelations to finish up his Bible reading for the year, HOWEVERRRRR, this was a very significant moment he shared with us because it was his 50th time reading the Bible through in his life and he wanted to complete his 50th time, WITH US!!!

#Biblegoals

I thought that was superrrrr cool and just wanted to share that with you all!!! Its very inspiring to push us to strive and be better with our Bible reading. I've read the Bible all the way through two times now, my sister completed her first time this year!!!

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My personal tip for completing Bible reading is this: I started reading it like I would any other book, in the sense that I stopped using a Bible reading program and started just reading it straight through and book marking it when I stopped for the day! I always got so frustrated if I got behind a day and then I would just give up for the year when I got TO FAR behind and couldn't catch up, buuuuut I thought, when I'm reading a good book, If I missed reading it one day, do I just STOP READING IT??? NO...I just start reading it again right where I left off and when I started that, that was when I ACTUALLY read my Bible ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!!

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One thing that PUSHED me to ACTUALLY read my Bible all the way through was from a story Bishop Abbott would tell us in his preaching growing up. It was about a man that was fighting something in court to do with his religious freedom and the judge asked him, Sir, Have you ever read your Bible all the way through and the man had to say NO he had not and because of he had never read it through the judge couldn't grant him favor, That story stuck with me, I've always thought, I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO ANSWER NO!!! Even tho I never read my Bible through til I was an adult, that story was the inspiration that ALWAYS pushed me to read it through!!! In a year??? NO, but ALL THE WAY THROUGH??? YES!!! 

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It's never too late to start and you may be saying, OH i'm THIS OLD and I was raised in church and I still haven't read it all the way through, don't beat yourself up, just START NOW!!!

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Annnnnd now THE REPOST...

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What is MORE important...???? That is the question that Bishop Abbott asked us one day while he was preaching.

What is MORE important praying or reading your Bible?!

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He said, that so often we think that prayer is MORE important than reading your Bible and he said that while prayer IS indeed VERY important,  JUST REMEMBER, when we pray, it is, US talking to God, (OR with God)THE BIBLE is ALL GOD TALKING TO US!!!

NOT that God can't or doesn't talk to us while we pray, BUUUUUT praying still involves us talking, while the Bible is THE WORD OF GOD, and ALL OF IT IS GOD TALKING!!!  I think that it is pretty safe to say that they both go hand in hand and work together for the GOOD!!! The WORD of God will be enlightened even more to us when we pray.

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 Yet at the same time, We will find the very answers to our prayers IN THE WORD OF GOD!!! Furthermore, the Bible will even begin to show us WHAT we need to praying about!!!

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 Quite awhile ago, I was havin a conversation with fellow Apostolics,  and in the group someone stated, "oh I just wish there was a book that told us ALL the answers to the questions in life." I'm standing there thinkin ummmmmmm HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOO....So I'm like not wantin sound like a halier-that-thou-self-righteous-NO-IT-ALL...but I'm just like, well there is, its called THE BIBLE!!! (Like ...ummm...DUH!!!)Sometimes we think that life is soooo complicated that we need something MORE instructional that the Bible...buuuuut NO, the BIBLE IS GOD'S WORD TO US!!! Every single part that you read has the annointing of God on it! It is the INSPIRED WORD OF GOD...imagine, THE BREATH OF GOD breathing down your back...READ YOUR BIBLE...IT HAS THE ANSWERS!!! 
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 Get your Bible and begin to read...JUST THNK, Today, YOU have the opportunity for God talk to you!!!! Start your year off THE RIGHT way...

PRAY AND READ YOUR BIBLE!!!

Mary Frances :)

Aunt Mary IS...

This blog post is by special request of my nephew Joseph!!! I was laughing so hard after this incident happened he said, your going to post about this on your blog, AREN'T YOU AUNT MARY??? I was like, do you want me too???? He said YES!!! Pretty, pretty please Aunt Mary, WITH A CHERRY ON TOP!!! Who can resist a plea like that??? I'm telling you all, THE CHERRY gets me EVERY TIME!!! AHAHAHA!!! This is how the story goes...

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So the other day, Saturday, when I was treating the kids to free samples at Costco, Mary Jo had said she would get the younger kids buckled in while I was getting my purse from my room. So a few minutes later, when I walked out to the car, the kids were all buckled in and waiting for me. While they were waiting, my nephew Joseph was singing a little song he had written about his Aunt Mary while he was waiting for her to come out to the car. It went like this...

♫♪Aunt Mary is the most beautiful-ist.... (Awwww) ...

BUUUUUUT...It had a second part...

♪♪Aunt Mary is the most beautiful-ist, BUUUUUUT her car is the most disgusting-ist...

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT????

AHAHAHAHA!!! Okaaaaaaaay before anyone wants to start judging and reprimanding me for my car being a mess, I want to say TWO THINGS!!!

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#1. Everything in the back of my car are from CHILDREN THAT ARE NOT MY OWN!!! Nieces, Nephews, Children I babysit, Sunday School kids, etc, etc...Sooooooooo obviously, their parents haven't been teaching them to pick up after themselves... (jk! Jk parents! ;)

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#2. It was part of my New Years Resolution this year to get my car cleaned and organized AND to keep it that way...I would like to emphasize on the that says, BY THE END OF THE YEAR...I still have two whole months after this month to accomplish this goal...AND I WILL DO IT!!! I have completed just about ALL of my other New Years Resolutions!!!

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 SOOOOOO...by the end of the year my nephew will be singing, ♪Aunt Mary is the beautiful-ist AND her car is NOT the most disgusting-ist, its NOT the handsome-ist buuuuuut it IS the awesome-ist...

JUST LIKE AUNT MARY IS!!!

 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)
P.S. You guys, he said I'm BEAUTIFUL!!! Awwww my lil gwappo!!! I love him!!! Purrrrrr Joseph, PURRRRRRR!!!!