Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies – GF

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

Here is a favorite zucchini recipe from the Gluten Free Mama Cookbook. The zucchini make these cookies moist like my pudding cookie recipe, but even healthier. This yummy snack stays soft as a muffin, perfect for any time of day.

Ingredients:
2 1/3 cups Gluten Free Mama Almond Blend Flour
2 tsp. guar gum
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup coconut oil, softened
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup grated zucchini
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups Enjoy Life chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put the dry ingredients in a medium mixing bowl (flour, guar gum, baking soda, salt) and mix with a wire whisk. In a big mixing bowl, combine the coconut oil, sugars, vanilla, zucchini and eggs. Slowly add the flour mixture to the big mixing bowl. Fold in the chocolate chips.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Scoop rounded teaspoons of batter onto your cookie sheet, 12 to a pan. Bake 14 minutes. Let sit on pan 2 minutes before moving to cooling rack. Makes approximately 4 dozen yummy cookies, but it will be hard to count them as they are eaten so quickly. Store leftover cookies (if any) in refrigerator or freezer.

I will sing to the Lord,
Because He has dealt bountifully with me. Psalm 13:6 (NKJV)

Hear Their Prayers

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

And may You hear the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive. 2 Chronicles 6:21

I can’t pray all the prayers that need to be prayed. There are just too many needs in this world for me to pray them all. So I ask the Holy Spirit to intercede for me.

King Solomon also asked God to hear others’ prayers. When he dedicated the temple which he had built with instructions from his father King David, Solomon asked God to hear anyone who prayed toward the temple. King Solomon said, “Hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.”

So, sometimes I also pray for God to hear the prayers of others…

Like Judy, for her son…she knows better than I do what he needs…

Like Dorothy, for the persecuted Christians.. she knows the world news better than I do…

Like my pastor, for our church family…he knows so may in need of prayer…

I pray, “Lord, in Your mercy, hear their prayers.” And their prayers are multiplied by my prayers and the Holy Spirit, and even before we ask, our prayers have reached heaven and God has heard! Amen!

TODAY’S TEA CUPP: Is your prayer list overwhelming at times? Lift your list to the Lord, calling Him to take each person and need. Ask Jesus to hear the prayers of others. Pray King Solomon’s prayer, “Hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.“

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Romans 8:26-27 (NKJV)

Preparing Places

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:2 (NKJV)

I’ve had a busy summer of work. We prepare guest houses for visitors to Montana. My husband and oldest son mow the lawns and keep the yards looking green and welcoming. I get to clean the inside of the cabins, with help from my husband. Sometimes it can be stressful to ready the guest houses in time. I worry the bathmats won’t be dry before check-in, or I’ll miss a hair on the toilet seat. Everything has to be just right, because it’s my job to prepare these places. Does Jesus know how I feel?

Yes! He’s preparing places, too! Jesus promises me in is John 14:2 that He is going to prepare a place for me! Do you think He worries I’ll show up too soon with groceries for the refrigerator? Is He concerned about dust under the beds? No! He will have my room ready for me at just the right time, because He promises He will. I wonder what it will be like… Will there be window boxes of flowers and a big feather bed? I can’t even imagine how wonderful it will be!

To visit the vacation houses we serve, there is a website map available for guests to follow. Guests are cautioned not to use a GPS, for those directions take you up the wrong valley. Where are the directions for getting to heaven? They are right in the Bible. In this same passage, Thomas asks…“Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:5-6 (NKJV)

Today’s TEA CUPP: Are you looking forward to the mansion Jesus is preparing in heaven? Are you getting your heart ready for that day when you will meet Jesus face to face? Remember, Jesus is the Way and He is preparing a place for you! Oh, Jesus. Find me faithful. Forgive my sins and prepare me for heaven someday! Amen.

But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NKJV)

David’s TEA CUPP Prayer

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

Did David have TEA with God? You know, David, the young shepherd boy from the Old Testament who killed the giant Goliath with a stone? I’d like to think he had TEA as he sat in the fields with his sheep, singing psalms…this was his special quiet time with God, much like my TEA CUPP Prayers are to me.

David grew up to be the second king of Israel. He did everything with great pomp and circumstance, delighting the people. When the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord was returned to the City of David, he danced in the streets. The Levites put the Ark inside the special tent and presented burnt offerings to God.

David celebrated by giving everyone cakes of dates and raisins and a loaf of bread (think of this the next time you have cinnamon-raisin bread!). And then David instructed the Levites to lead prayers, including THANKS and PRAISE (EXALT) and PETITIONS. David prayed this Psalm to God which included all the parts of My TEA CUPP Prayers. I’d like to share it with you today….

David’s Song of Thanksgiving

On that day David first delivered this psalm into the hand of Asaph and his brethren, to thank the Lord:

THANKSGIVING

Oh, give thanks to the Lord!
Call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples!

EXALTING
Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;
Talk of all His wondrous works!
Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!

CALLING for my life

Seek the Lord and His strength;
Seek His face evermore!
Remember His marvelous works which He has done,
His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,
O seed of Israel His servant,
You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!

PROMISES (Claiming God’s)

He is the Lord our God;
His judgments are in all the earth.
Remember His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,
And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the allotment of your inheritance,”

UNDERSTANDING my story

When you were few in number,
Indeed very few, and strangers in it.

When they went from one nation to another,
And from one kingdom to another people,
He permitted no man to do them wrong;
Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes,
Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.”

CALLING for my life

Sing to the Lord, all the earth;
Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
Declare His glory among the nations,
His wonders among all peoples.

EXALTING

For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised;
He is also to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.
Honor and majesty are before Him;
Strength and gladness are in His place.

CALLING for my life

Give to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
Give to the Lord glory and strength.
Give to the Lord the glory due His name;
Bring an offering, and come before Him.
Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!
Tremble before Him, all the earth.

PROMISES (Claiming God’s)
The world also is firmly established,
It shall not be moved.

EXALTING

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
And let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”
Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;
Let the field rejoice, and all that is in it.
Then the trees of the woods shall rejoice before the Lord,

PROMISES (Claiming God’s)
For He is coming to judge the earth.

THANKSGIVING

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.

ADMITTING/PETITION (Pouring out my heart)

And say, “Save us, O God of our salvation;
Gather us together, and deliver us from the Gentiles,
To give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.”

EXALTING

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!

And all the people said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord. 1 Chronicles 16:4-36 (NKJV)

Today’s TEA CUPP: As you sit with God for TEA today, pray David’s Psalm and consider the wonder of it all…this is the same God who heard David’s prayer, who created the world, who sent His son Jesus to die for our sins. What a mighty God we serve!

My Best Friend Jesus

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

…there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24 (NKJV)

I always wanted a best friend. When I was three years old I had a friend down the block named Susie Brown. We played together, watched Sesame Street, planted pieces of wicker to grow a pretzel bush, and got into her sisters’ things. It was fun to have such a close friend. But then Susie moved to Texas when I was six.

Over the years God sent other friends to fill Susie’s place…Andi, Michale, Jennie, Jennifer, Mary Anne, Jean, Laura, Sarah, Becky, Jill, Lisa, Nancy, Jodi, Cindy, Susan (all very special to me!!!)…but they had other friends, too. It seemed no one needed a best friend.

Yet today I encounter folks with best friends. My scrapbook buddy had a surprise 40th birthday party given by her best friend from high school. My neighbor was driving to Saturday morning coffee with her life time best friend, a weekly date. There still are best friends in the world, after all.

With my Christmas card basket full of cards, I know I do have friends. But none are best friends. Who will be my best friend? God tells me it is Jesus.

Jesus is the One who is ALWAYS there for me. He never lets me down. He holds me when I’m sad and wipes away my tears. He carries me on days that I can’t carry myself. On happy days, He is there to share my joy. When I mess up, He forgives me right away. He promises to never leave me nor forsake me. I’m so thankful that Jesus is my best friend!

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. John 15:15 (NKJV)

Today’s TEA CUPP: May the words of this old hymn bring us comfort and joy today, as we have TEA with our best friend Jesus…

What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!
Oh, what peace we often forfeit,
Oh, what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer!

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged—
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful,
Who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy-laden,
Cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge—
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In His arms He’ll take and shield thee,
Thou wilt find a solace there.

Blessed Savior, Thou hast promised
Thou wilt all our burdens bear;
May we ever, Lord, be bringing
All to Thee in earnest prayer.
Soon in glory bright, unclouded,
There will be no need for prayer—
Rapture, praise, and endless worship
Will be our sweet portion there. By Joseph M. Scriven, 1855

Friends & Family Egg Casserole – GF & DF

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

Can flavorless food be eaten without salt?
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? Job 6:6 (NKJV)

Here is the perfect egg dish for breakfast or dinner, and even makes great leftovers for lunch. I recently updated this recipe to make it diary free for my son and me. It still turned out delicious, especially served with Gluten Free Banana Muffins. What a yummy meal! Thank you for our dear friends the Nash and Johnson families who have served egg casserole to us on our visits!

Friends & Family Egg Casserole – Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free

2 large potatoes, peeled, diced, and cooked in microwave (or substitute cauliflower if you are not eating potatoes)
1/2 cup onion, chopped
1 red pepper, chopped
veggies of your choice (i.e. asparagus, mushroom, brocolli, etc.)
15 eggs
2/3 cup almond milk or goat’s milk

salt and pepper
1 cup Daiya cheddar cheese substitute or goat cheddar, optional

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Oil a 9 x 13 inch casserole dish. Place the cooked potatoes in the bottom of the dish. Saute the onions and peppers, and other veggies, as desired. Layer on top of potatoes. Whisk together eggs and almond milk, salt and pepper and your favorite seasonings (my oldest son likes cayenne pepper, tumeric, garlic and oregano). Pour over veggies. Sprinkle shredded Daiya cheddar cheese on top. Bake for 45 minutes or until done.

This casserole may be refrigerated overnight and baked in the morning, if you wish.
Serve with fruit and muffins, a great meal for any time of day!

Here’s a link to the gluten-free banana muffins: https://www.myteacuppprayers.org/2011/06/gluten-free-banana-muffins/

A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity. Proverbs 17:17 NKJV

Impossible Pie

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

Impossible Pie (Gluten-free and Dairy-free)
Heat oven to 400 degrees.
Oil a glass pie plate with coconut oil.
Sprinkle 1 cup shredded Diaya cheese in bottom of pie plate.
Top with any of your favorite veggies (i.e. green peppers, black olives, tomatoes)

In a blender combine:
1-1/2 cups almond milk
4 eggs
1 cup rice flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
dash nutmeg
Mix in blender for 15 seconds. Pour over veggies in pie plate.

Bake 40-50 minutes, until golden brown and firm.
Cool 5 minutes. Serve with a fresh salad.

“With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26 NKJV

Peanut Butter Balls

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

Absolutely the best, yummiest, easiest, quickest, protein-filled snack you can make for your family is Peanut Butter Balls!

I’ve been making this gluten-free treat with my kids since they were little. The recipe first came from my sister who found it in a Ranger Rick magazine. If you’re feeling hungry between meals, one peanut butter ball is just the snack to pick you back up!

Check out these ingredients:
1 cup oatmeal (gluten-free)
1 cup powdered coconut milk
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup honey
shredded coconut (optional)

Mix together oatmeal, powdered milk, peanut butter, and honey. Shape into balls. Roll in coconut, if desired. Store in air-tight container in fridge.

You won’t have to store them long, they will be eaten in a hurry! Enjoy, and God bless your healthy eating!

If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey. Numbers 14:8 NKJV

The Best Brownies – GF

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

If you want a tray of the BEST Gluten-Free Brownies, we have a recipe just for you. This started as a famous Clement Brownie recipe, named for our cousins in Minnesota and Illinois. We modified it to remove the gluten.

Ingredients:

1 cup coconut oil, melted
2 cups coconut sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup rice flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon guar gum
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup Enjoy Life chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Oil a 13 x 9-inch baking pan. In a medium bowl, mix together the dry ingredients: flours, cocoa, guar gum, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In a stand mixer, cream the coconut oil and sugar. Add the 4 eggs and vanilla, mixing the batter well. Add half the dry ingredients to your mixture and stir. Add remaining dry ingredients, stirring until well mixed. Fold in 1 cup chocolate chips. Using a rubber scraper, spread the brownie batter into your prepared baking pan. Bake for 35-40 minutes, cool, cut, and enjoy! This is wonderful right out of the oven with a scoop of coconut ice cream.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 (NKJV)

Crying Out to God

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Jennifer Grace

Hear my cry, O God;
Attend to my prayer.
From the end of the earth I will cry to You,
When my heart is overwhelmed;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. Psalm 61:1-2 (NKJV)

My favorite devotion book, Our Daily Bread, had a wonderful devotion a few weeks ago called “Crying Out to God.” Sometimes our hearts are so overwhelmed for our children, our families, our friends, and our country. All we can do is cry. Jesus hears us and comes to us. And so I share this devotion link with all those who need Him to hear today…

http://odb.org/2013/02/15/crying-out-to-god/

Cast your burden on the Lord,
And He shall sustain you;
He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22 (NKJV)

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Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies – GF

Hear Their Prayers

Preparing Places

David’s TEA CUPP Prayer

David’s Song of Thanksgiving

My Best Friend Jesus

Friends & Family Egg Casserole – GF & DF

Impossible Pie

Peanut Butter Balls

The Best Brownies – GF

Crying Out to God