Emergency Preparedness - As a Way of Life
The calm waters of life can quickly turn rough. Preparedness is a blog that will give you ideas for preparing for emergencies and the hard times that are coming our way. Preparedness can have many faces: Unemployment, Inflation, Local Crisis, National Crisis, and Sickness just to name a few. I'm betting that our great, great grandparents stored up food and supplies for the hard times they lived in. If you were to ask them I bet they might remember the old root cellar or mom canning things from the big garden that they had or feeding the animals on their farm.
Society is fragile and vulnerable and we live in very chaotic times. Have you watched the news lately? I know, I know the news people exaggerate things many times, but there are some very intense and serious things going on in the world we live in. If you haven't considered preparedness planning for emergencies or hard times, then I very strongly encourage you to do so.
Here's just one example of the reason for preparedness planning. A while back, an online friend's power was out for 10 days because of the damage done in the Alabama tornados. His house wasn't damaged, but the power was out. Wow! Ten days, no power, what would you do? Would you stay with a family member or friend? Rent a hotel room? Or stay at home because you had a backup plan for emergencies and had extra food, water and cooking options and supplies? Something to think about...
As a personal note, we've had to dig into our preparedness stores because my husband was off work due to some health issues. Having those stores really helped us out in our time of need. Thank you God for putting it into my heart to prepare.
Sincerely, Kitty :)
Prepping as a Christian, is it Biblical?
Editor at Large: Suni
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself is prepping Biblical? I have asked myself this question on more than one occasion. Since I am fairly new in my walk with Christ and I did not want to get out of Gods graces.
You are probably thinking what does this have to do with prepping? I want to share my journey with you on how and why I became a prepper.
Shortly after finding the Lord I began to have an uncontrollable urge to start stock piling food. I could not really explain that feeling. Later I would discover it was the Holy Spirit's unction's telling me something was coming. I still can not tell you exactly what I am prepping for, meaning a financial collapse, food shortage, wars etc., etc. suffice it to say I try to prepare for everything.
About 1 year after I started to prep I had a friend to ask me do you not trust in GOD? I was shocked, of course I believe, then she said well do you not trust the LORD to take care of you? After all he even feeds the birds. WOW, was I doing the right thing? Was I being disobedient to what GOD wanted me to do? This began my search to make sure I was staying in GODs will.
As you may or may not know the BIBLE is a huge book and looking for a specific scripture can be a bit daunting especially for someone who is not exactly knowledgeable about the Bible . Sometimes it would and does take me all day to find what I was/am looking for, sometimes I was not sure where to look and would have to ask for someone's help in finding it. But I have found that perseverance is critical, not only in learning the Bible but also in prepping. The two really walk hand in hand.
Let me give you a few examples:
Genesis 6 - This tells of Noah and how he had to prepare for a flood; something that had never happened and all the animals that were to be cared for, for an extended period of time. Sound familiar?
Genesis 41 - This tells of Joseph and the dreams he interprets for Pharaoh and how GOD is telling them to prepare for the coming hard times. Much like today's world.
Matthew 25 - Jesus is telling us with the parable of the 10 virgins to always be ready for anything at all times. Is not this one reason we try and be prepared?
Revelation - The entire book is telling us to be ready at any moment for our LORD and Saviors return. After I had found in the Bible GOD and Jesus wants us to be prepared I felt that I was truly on the right path. If you pray about all things before doing them then we will always stay in GODs will for us. I would love to hear about your story, do you have one?
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