Undoubtedly, Indian food has gained a lot of popularity all over the world. There is not a continent where Indian food is not served copiously. Although, the Indian influence in food first travelled to Europe due to the British India Company, it was not long before travellers from Europe carried this taste to other parts of the world.

It takes a lot of time and effort to learn true Indian food as it is one of the most complex and massive cuisines of the world. Unlike some other cuisines, where variations and inventions are taking place every day, the bulk amount of famous dishes in Indian cuisine are very traditional and their history dates back to more than a couple of centuries. Indian cuisine is basically an art that can only be delivered when it is truly felt and understood. With its rich and abundant use of spices and other ingredients, it is able to deliver countless dishes to those who are hungry for delectable and flavourful tastes.

Famous and authentic Indian restaurants can be found in almost every big country. Those who are not able to build a restaurant at first or who don’t want to, start off with a small scale catering business which later expands depending upon the quality of food they serve and the appreciation they receive.

The popularity of some of the best Indian caterers in Europe and America also started the same way. However, if we were to trace back the history of all the popular Indian caterers, then we would reach the times when British India Company started trade with India. While bringing back spices from India, they also brought back some enthusiasts on their ship who dropped off in Britain and started to earn their livelihood by selling cooked food as some of them were able cooks.

Some of the best caterers earned a lot of popularity soon enough because the British recruits who were returning to their homeland became hungry for the same taste that they experienced in India. This led to the popularity of some of the Indian dishes that are still well known today like, Chicken Tikka, Chicken Tandoori, Mutton Pulao, Rogan Josh, Palak Paneer and the likes.

Indian caterers who were able to provide quality and authentic food to their customers soon became well known and now after many years, their chain of restaurants and/or catering service is widespread in the country.

Introduction

The primary requirement of blueberry plants is a soil full of good organic material, acidic soil that is well draining and with plenty of water available. All blueberry plants require good watering conditions but some are more drought tolerant than other varieties. Also some are more tolerant of heavy soils than other varieties. This article provides a listing of those varieties reported to be more tolerant of drought conditions and/or heavy soils than other varieties.

A soil pH between 4.5 and 5.0 is ideal for blueberry plants (pH 7.0 is neutral).

Almost all the plants in the following list have growing ranges that make them suitable for growing in south central Kentucky which is in growing zone 6. South central Kentucky also has heavy clay soil making the plants that grow best in this type soil a good choice.

Rabbiteye cultivars as a group, are easier to grow than southern highbush. They are more drought tolerant than southern highbush blueberries and less susceptible to Phytophthora root rot. They also can grow satisfactorily in soils which are lower in organic matter. Rabbit eye blueberries have a stronger root system than highbush blueberries and are more droughts tolerant. Rabbiteye blueberries are more vigorous, longer lived, and easier to care for than most southern highbush varieties. They are not self pollinating and require other varieties for cross-pollination. The recommended growing areas are zones 7 to 9. Thus growing rabbiteyes in south central Kentucky may be somewhat of a risk because of colder weather early in the spring. Tifblue is more cold-hardy than most rabbiteye blueberries varieties.

Southern blueberry varieties

Darrow is an evergreen blueberry with somewhat greater drought tolerance and develops superior fruit quality under Southern growing conditions. The recommended growing areas are zones 6 to 7

Jubilee is a mid-season ripening variety.it is a tough and consistent producer of very high quality fruit.It has distinguished itself by performing well in heavy soils through very hot summers and sudden winter cold. They are grown successfully in zones 5 to 9

Legacy produces berries that are medium-large and light blue with a robust flavor. Pickers refer to it as the “Gold Bush” due to its heavy production. The cultivar seems to adapt to most soils and cold to moderate climates. They are grown successfully in zones 5 to 9.

Misty is a heat-tolerant and drought tolerant variety for southern gardens. They are grown successfully in zones 5 to 10.

Ozarkblue is not bothered by heat, does not need as much irrigation, resists spring frost. It is highly productive of the highest quality berries. They are grown successfully in zones 5 to 9.

Sharpblue is a mid-season bush that is exceptionally vigorous, and slightly spreading. Its fruit is very large with medium scar and excellent flavor. Sharpblue has the lower chill requirement than most varieties and grows well in areas where it is managed as an evergreen blueberry with practically no chilling. It is the most adaptable of all the low chill types, performing well from the heavy soils. The recommended growing areas are zones 7 to 10.

Sunshine Bluetolerates higher pH soils better than all other southern highbush and rabbiteye types of.blueberries. It is self-pollinating. They are grown successfully in zones 5 to 10.

Northern blueberry varieties

Bluecrop is an early to mid-season ripening variety. It is very hardy and drought resistant. Its fruit is great, either as fresh or processed. Bluecrop is the industry standard of excellence. It is easy to care for in the garden and holds title as one of the most frost-tolerant highbush blueberry cultivars. They are grown successfully in zones 4 to 7.

Bluerays are drought-resistant plants. It is an old favorite and versatile variety, Blueray performs particularly well in areas with hot summers or very cold winters. They are grown successfully in zones 3 to 7.

Hardyblue is an old-established variety in the Northwest that is known for its exceptionally sweet berries. Hardyblue has a reputation for being adaptable to many soil types, including heavier clay soils. They are grown successfully in zones 4 to 8.

Jerseygrows well in most types of soil; it is one of the oldest and most widely grown blueberry varieties producing consistently high yields of very sweet fruit. They are grown successfully in zones 4 to 7.

Northcountry is vigorous and adaptable in less than optimum soil types. It is a classic wild variety growing 1.5 to 2 ft tall. They are grown successfully in zones 3 to 7.

Patriot plants are easy to establish, tolerating less than ideal conditions such as wet or heavy soils. They are grown successfully in zones 3 to 7.

Reka was developed in New Zealand. It is one of the fastest growing and most adaptable varieties. It is a very vigorous variety; it grows well in light sandy soils, peat and heavier clay loams and is more tolerant to wetter ground than many other varieties. It adapts well to a wide range of northern climates and soil types. They are grown successfully in zones 4 to 7.

I recently had lunch with my dear friend Darlene who is a Master Numerologist and one of my favorite people to brainstorm with. We often meet at a wonderful Thai restaurant in Wells, Maine where we plan workshops, discuss world events and simply enjoy being together.

I got my anticipated fortune cookie and it said,

“The greatest magic is transmuting of passions.”

Hmm. That gave me a lot to think about. Interpreting a fortune cookie feels a lot like English Literature classes when my conclusions about a book did not match that of my teacher’s. So, take what fits here and interpret it in another way.

In the Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams & David Carson, transmutation energy (fire medicine) is recognized with snake medicine and the life-death-rebirth cycle exemplified by the shedding of the snake’s skin.

In the Australian Bush Flower essences (vibrational medicine where flowers offer wonderful gifts of healing), transmutation is supported with multiple essences such as Bauhinia, when there is resistance to new ideas or ways of doing things, Mint Bush for burning off of the dross or impurities in order to move to a higher spiritual level, Banksia Robur to reconnect to your passions, drive and energy, to name just a few.

Often, in a kinesiology healing session, the Time of Cause is identified in order for the individual to release a block, issue or trauma that occurred. There is also a wonderful way to clear and transmute energy and that is with a process of identifying a Time of Clarity, a time in your life when all of the stars aligned. Let me give you an example:

Years ago I had a client who was working on releasing childhood abuse and trauma. In this particular session, her priority was to clear her belief that she would always be alone and never have a relationship. Time of Clarity was the priority option and the age identified was age 5. She was puzzled because that was the age when much of the abuse took place. She focused on breathing while I paced my hands on her forehead and the back of her head. Suddenly, she started to cry (happy tears) and said that she looked up and saw a picture of Jesus on the wall and knew that she would never be alone! That was a wow moment for both of us. That realization changed her thought pattern almost immediately and transmuted the old belief system.

• What do you need to release or fire in order to reclaim a passion?
• What is your passion?
• Is your glass half full or half empty?
• When do you have the most clarity?
• When in your life did the stars align and you were clear and focused?

New beginnings happen all the time. Be aware of new thoughts, new beliefs, new relationships, opportunities and passions. Don’t let them slip by. Keep an Awareness Journal and transmute anything that no longer serves you. Allow for greater clarity, passion and magic.

Located 18 kilometres to the east of Rotorua, and five kilometres to the west of Mt Tarawera, Lake Tarawera is a hidden treasure. It takes in some of the area’s most spectacular scenery including hot water beaches, lush native bush and forests, magnificent waterfalls bursting from fissures in sheer rock faces and the lake itself, teeming with rainbow trout.

This incredibly beautiful lake was witness to nature at its catastrophic best in 1886 when Mt Tarawera erupted, killing over 150 people, raising the lake by 12 metres, destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces and burying Te Wairoa village on the lake’s southwest shore. Today Mt Tarawera is a bush clad sleeping giant but from the air you can see the massive chasm created by the eruption.

Visitors have the opportunity to encounter nature at its very best. Lake Tarawera is revered by ornithologists for its plentiful and varied bird life, the setting for many incredible bush walks and is popular for fishing, boating, kayaking, water-skiing, picnicking and mountain biking.

First on the list of places to visit is the Lake Tarawera Scenic Reserve which includes the Landing, the Orchard, Hot Water Beach, Humphries Bay and Tarawera Falls.

The area where the Landing is situated was the original departure point for journeys during the 19th Century to the famous Pink and White Terraces. Today the Landing is the departure point for scenic lake tours, fishing charters, water taxi services, self drive boats, kayak tours and pedal boat hire. The Landing Cafe is one of the few lake-side dining options available in the Rotorua Lakes District and is a great place to enjoy a casual meal while admiring the views over the lake and Mt Tarawera.

Just a short distance from the Landing and of archaeological significance is the Orchard where early traditional Maori rock paintings can be seen.

Lake Tarawera is the ultimate picnic lake with many idyllic and private picnic spots dotted around its shores. One of the most popular and only accessible by boat is Hot Water Beach. Natural hot springs under the sand bubble up creating hot areas where you can dig your own sandy, heated outdoor bath followed by a quick dip in the lake to cool off.

Humphries Bay, at the southern end of Lake Tarawera is another pleasant picnic and camping spot accessible by boat or by foot along the Northern Tarawera Track. This moderate tramping track begins at the Tarawera Outlet which is also the starting point to view the spectacular Tarawera Falls.

While most waterfalls flow over the tops of cliffs, Tarawera Falls surges straight out of the middle of a tall rock cliff-face surrounded by native bush. Tarawera Falls is off the beaten track via private forestry roads that require permits but this all adds to the sense of remoteness and pristine beauty. Of further interest is a set of massive boulders, a legacy of the Tarawera eruption that destroyed the Pink and White Terraces.

Lake Tarawera is an angler’s haven and is famous for its trophy trout. The Te Wairoa stream mouth, just a short walk from the Landing, is a spawning area and known for its excellent winter fly-fishing. However, there are fabulous fishing spots all over this lake for fly and boat fishing plus local fishing guides who can help you find where the fish are biting.

From the Landing, you can head left along Tarawera Road to the Buried Village or right along the scenic Spencer Road.

Te Wairoa Village was wiped out by the 1886 Mount Tarawera eruption which also destroyed the famous Pink and White Terraces. Today visitors can visit this sombre, yet beautiful place to see the remains of many of the excavated buildings and recount the drama of that terrifying event.

Also of interest is the Buried Village Museum with displays of household items that survived the eruption and the straightest lines of trees in the world. These trees were once fence posts that have grown into fully fledged trees.

The main road to the Lake Tarawera settlement, Spencer Road, is noted for its many picturesque picnic and lake-side spots. If you take the short walk from Boatshed Bay through to Rangiuru Bay, you’ll come across the Spencer Mausoleum. This steep-roofed shingled structure with glass and rock walls tucked away in dense bush was built by Reverend F.H Spencer on the site of the missionary station started by his father Seymour Mills Spencer. Rangiuru Bay is a lovely spot to rest and relax and is locally considered to be one of the most reliable fly fishing spots on Lake Tarawera.

Further along Spencer Road lies Stony Point Reserve with its children’s playground, picnic and safe swimming areas and Cliff Road Reserve with its large grassy areas and beautiful clear water for swimming.

People are drawn to Lake Tarawera because of its timeless natural beauty. Come here to enjoy the serenity of the lake, go fishing or boating, take day walks into the native bush and stand in awesome wonder at the sight of the magnificent Mt Tarawera.

This week in Washington another house committee on energy debated the pros and cons of releasing some or all of the strategic petroleum reserve to help lower gas prices. Rep. Markey (D-Ma) presided over a panel of experts from consumer advocacy, MIT Energy Research fellows, and others who floated various ideas from suspension of gas taxes to switching expensive light crude for less expensive heavier crude reserves. Intentions are to provide a temporary cost reduction in gas prices as was accomplished in the 1980’s under a similar release of strategic reserves, With between 50 and 75 million barrels of oil in US strategic oil reserves, price relief would be short lived but would send a message to OPEC and others that the US is not happy with current high prices in the market.

Unfortunately, with the extreme demand for oil from developing nations including China and India, US influence over oil production and pricing continues to erode. Will Bush and his Big Oil cronies allow this measure to impact short term oil company profits? Most can predict the way the wind will blow on this decision.

Interestingly enough, Biofuels, long considered to be on the fringe of US energy supply are increasingly accepted in calculations of energy resources we are in fact depending upon more and more. This hearing, once again, banged the gong of our energy emergency, the need for more energy independence and the hope for a miracle in the short future through technology, drilling in US territory such as Anwar or rapid deployment of other energy alternatives.

If you have just set up a website one of the first questions you will ask is “how do I get traffic to my site?”. There are a number of methods for accomplishing this. If you are knowledgeable about search engine optimization (SEO) you can optimize your webpages for certain keywords and get lots of links to your site. Then all you have to do is wait (for months/years!) and you will receive free traffic. You can also try things like posting in forums with a signature, advertising on free classifieds sites and writing articles to submit to directories. All of these methods can generate free traffic, some more than others.

However, if you don’t want to wait and need large amounts of traffic, you can buy it. This means submitting ads to search engines such as Google (the biggest search engine in terms of traffic), ads that link to your website. Your ads only show up when people type in the search phrases that you have selected into Google. You pay Google each time someone clicks on your ad. Google’s paid search advertising program is called Adwords. From this short description the main pros and cons of AdWords are apparent:

Pros:

1. Immediate traffic: You can start getting visitors to your site within minutes.

2. Lots of traffic: You can send thousands of people per day to your site with Adwords.

3. Targeted traffic: You select exactly which keyword phrases will trigger your ads, therefore you only show your ads to qualified visitors. Thus the people coming to your site are looking for exactly what you have to offer.

4. Geographical targeting: You can choose to show your ads only in specific countries, states or towns.

There are also some less apparent benefits of using AdWords to drive traffic:

1. Flexibility: If you have SEOed a webpage for certain keywords its not so simply to change. With AdWords you can change keywords, ads and landing pages instantly.

2. Optimization: AdWords makes it easy to split test ads, monitor campaign and individual keyword performance, and make unlimited instant adjustments to all parameters.

3. Fine tuning: Its easy to do things like send people to different webpages based on their search phrase, make separate bids for every keyword phrase, exclude specific words from search phrases and choose exactly when you want your ads to be showing.

These pros combined together give the major benefit of adwords: Profitability – Its possible to make a 100% (or more) return on your AdWords spend.

Cons:

1. Cost: AdWords isn’t free. I spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Adwords.

2. Complexity: The features that make it powerful and useful also mean that it takes a while to learn to use effectively.

These 2 cons combined mean that you have to be careful using Adwords. Many people have lost hundreds or even thousands of dollars using AdWords without a proper understanding.

There are other problems with AdWords such as being at the mercy of instant rule changes by the search engines and competition from other advertisers, but these disadvantages are shared with SEO, the most effective source of free traffic.

In summary AdWords is a very effective tool for driving traffic to your website provided you have the time and motivation to learn its complexities.

Recently Apple has announced their super advanced iPhone – Apple iPhone 4G which has the latest and most advanced technology of communication present on the Earth. The CEO Steve Jobs revealed the magnanimously designed handset to the world at Apple headquarters’ WWDC.

The Apple iPhone 4G is one of the most vibrant and exciting phone ever released. It is a gem of technology, innovation and latest development into communication world. It has the same look as its predecessors but the display of iPhone 4G will take you by surprise. Never before you have imagined the images, files and internet web-pages will look so crystal clear and bigger than all the smart phone could offer with their handset.

The Apple i Phone 4G Deals comes with the first time introduced ‘Retina Display’ which is amazingly startling to see. It brings you the image you never believed could be possible on a mobile phone. It comes with the highest resolution, beating even the natural retina of our eyes and processes more pixel than the human retina can process which makes the images look unraveling in front of your eyes. The display screen is a TFT capacitive touchscreen which has the capacity to bring 16million colors in front of the eyes of 640 x 960 pixels and it is 3.5inches with scratch resistant surface. It also has Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, in addition to three-axis gyro sensor and proximity sensor for auto turn-off.

The i Phone 4G runs on the Apple’s home grown OS (operating system) iOS4 especially designed for the fourth generation of the iPhone which will open a whole new world for the users with 100 new features and 1500 developer API’s. The Apple i Phone 4G has a unique feature of Face Time video calling which can be possible to iPhone 4G only.

The device have a 5MP (megapixel) camera with auto focus and LED flash, featuring Touch focus and geo tagging to make the camera better than any other 5MP camera comes with any other smart phone.

It all involves staying awake late at night in an isolated place in the darkness. Most preferably in a cold environment and far away from fire. Do not even try to eat or drink anything hot because it is believed that the wizards have the ability to sense your presence whenever you take anything hot. During the day, wizards are normal people who socialize and mix up very well with ordinary people. When the night comes, they turn out to be completely different and dangerous personalities with very unique characteristics, ranging from producing fire from their tongues, running at an abnormal speed, swelling to abnormal sizes, turning into a bush or maiming somebody to death!

This adventure is mostly done by cultural tour operators organizing tours and safaris to western Kenya, a land full of superstitions and rich in traditional cultural beliefs. The tour guides know how to track them because they know their routes and their time of nocturnal operations. I titled this article as craziest adventure in Kenya because it is an activity that involves a fellow human being who is possessed with evil spirits. During this adventure, it is normal to experience a unique chill pass down your spine as you pass through a small bush nearby. This is one of the ways of detecting that something abnormal is happening around you, which is most probably a wizard hiding in the nearby bush.

Wizards have very sharp hearing abilities at night. To be sincere, it is said that they can hear better than the dogs do at night. Their ability to see is compared to that of a cat, and their sense of smell is so sharp, that they can detect a fellow human being in a hide-out. This characteristic is mostly hereditary in most families but in some cases, especially in a couple where one partner is not a wizard, a strong and thorough apprenticeship takes place.

Most women wizards even have the ability to look at somebody eating any type of food with an evil eye. This person would then develop a serious stomachache that can lead to death if not well treated. Funnily enough, this type of disease is not curable in a hospital, the communities which experience this type of problem have traditional doctors who use natural herbs picked only from particular bushes from particular shrubs.

I am traveling home tonight, it will take me 9 hours to reach, I have to start my journey early enough, lest I arrive late and fall a victim to the wizards! I will tell you more when I come back.

Satan has caused an unsuspecting church to adopt his days and names of false gods to keep them from coming to know the true God intimately by learning His covenant names and their meanings (Read more about this in the upcoming book, Bible Code Broken! — The Truth about the Christian Sabbath, soon available at Mill City Press, Minneapolis). God’s covenants and His names are closely related. The Sabbath opens the door to understanding His covenant names and to intimacy with Him.

Moses is a good example of a man of God with a literal mountaintop experience of intimacy with God. The circumstances of His calling at the burning bush demonstrate a principle that explains why the Sabbath allows us to know God intimately through His names. We can read the story in Exodus 3.

Like many who have not yet walked on holy ground, Moses was in a fleshly attitude when he saw the famous bush. He did not perceive at first that this miracle was from God (Ex. 3:3).

Then Jesus spoke to him from the bush and told him to remove his sandals since the area around the bush was holy ground. God’s presence permeated that ground, just as His presence fills the Sabbath day. The sandals represented walking the way of the world. Taking them off meant disposing of the outside world to come into the presence of a holy God.

The Christian world has not yet been blessed to understand that the Sabbath is holy like that ground in which God’s presence dwelt. We have been walking like the world and trampling down God’s holy Sabbath (Isa. 58:13).

When Moses took his dirty sandals off his feet, he began to be aware of God’s presence and holiness and to be in awe of this holy God (Ex. 3:6). Something wonderful happened that will also take place when we cease treating the Sabbath as an ordinary day. God is calling us to holy ground, as it were, to share a holy time with Him so He can reveal Himself to us. As we stand in awe of Him on that holy ground, we will open the door to the kind of awesome revelation Moses received.

What was that revelation? It is the same described in Exodus 31:13. The Sabbath was to be a perpetual covenant, the first one revealed to Adam, and a sign between God and the believers that “you may know that I am [the Eternal, the I AM] who sanctifies you [makes you holy].”

God’s words to Moses when he took his shoes off holy ground were quite similar. He told Moses: “I AM WHO I AM…” (Ex. 3:14). He revealed many other of His names to Moses, but YHVH or Yahweh or Yehovah was His “memorial-name” that showed He was the Eternal One who dwelt outside of time and could do anything we required of Him according to His covenants.

The knowledge of God’s ten covenants and His many names has eluded a church who has broken His Ten Commandments by profaning the fourth one (James 2:10). The church will only gain the intimacy and power it desires when it begins to recognize what God calls holy ground or holy time.

Makkadesh (“the [Eternal] who sanctifies you”) is not the only name God reveals in His Sabbaths. It is only representative of all His names that connect us to a holy God on His holy day. The Sabbath connects us to all God’s covenants and all His names that we can call on to make us more like Him — the goal of our existence and the reason for the Sabbath.

In the healing book we discussed some of the redemptive names of God. His covenant names are a vast subject on which we will only touch briefly here. We discovered many of these names by keeping the Day of Trumpets, an annual Sabbath that we will cover in the next book. While these names have greater power when used with the rod of Jesus released on that day, we can still claim these names in claiming our covenant rights in prayer.

Names of Intimacy and Power

The words written in many of the verses of Exodus 3 to Exodus 14 reveal names of God that we can use to call on His help in time of need. The combination of calling on God to remember His covenants with us and claiming the appropriate name of God for our situation is a powerful way of invoking God’s aid. These claims do not have near as much power when disconnected with the Sabbath covenant, the first covenant with man that opens the power of all the others. The names intensify that power.

We must first understand that in Genesis God reveals Himself as a Family called Elohim, a Family of Creator Gods into which He calls us (Gen. 1:26-27). That is the family name and the church name, the church of God. The personal names of God, however, are more powerful, intimate and anointed.

The three members of the Triune Godhead have three distinct personalities and are separate Beings. The word echad (“one” — Deut. 6:4) denotes unity, not one Being. All three, the Father Agape (Love), Jesus the Word who became the Son and the Holy Spirit are all eternal and thus all can be called Yehovah or the Eternal One, the I AM. Using their personal names, however, allows us great intimacy and anointing.

Our Father calls us all by name, and even has a special new name prepared for each of us (Rev. 2:17). He expects us to call Him by name, which the title “Lord” or “the Lord” does not allow us to do. While we are to honor Jesus as Adonai or Kurios or as Divine Master and Supreme Commander, he wants us to be intimate with Him by calling Him by His name, Jesus. Calling Him by His Hebrew name at times opens up all the conceptual meanings of that name, Yeshua — much more than simply the concept of salvation or Savior.

While we may hear at times the Father’s voice or the voice of Jesus in our spirits, our principle teacher is the Holy Spirit. While He is called Yahweh or the Eternal, He is not our Divine Master in the way Jesus is. Today many use the generic title “Lord” to refer to all three members of the Trinity. They confuse Yahweh, the Eternal, with Adonai, both incorrectly translated “LORD” or “Lord” respectively in most translations of the Bible.

In our songs of praise and in our prayers, the three members of the Godhead love to hear their names. By using their personal names, we show our desire to be intimate with them. Those names have special significance in the context of the day of intimacy, the Sabbath.

The Names Revealed in Exodus

A loving, intimate God reveals His redemptive love and power in the Sabbath, which pictures Him rescuing us out of our “Egypt” or time of sin (Deut. 5:15). It is no coincidence therefore that He reveals His names, including His redemptive ones, in Exodus. In Exodus 13 and 14 seven names of God emerge: the Eternal God my Shalom, my Shabbat or Rest, Yeshua, Savior, Salvation, Accomplisher, Defender, Vengeance.

Beginning in Exodus 3, more names are revealed to describe Yehovah, or the Eternal One: my Holy God (Ex. 3:5); my Creator Father and my Covenant (3:6); my Prosperity and my Adjudication, which means God will personally defend us in His righteous judgments in the court of heaven (3:7); my Deliverer, Power and Answerer (3:8); my Relief (3:9); my Supreme Commander (3:10); my Sustainer, True Sign (3:12); my Fullness, Answer to all my needs, Supplier (3:14 paraphrased — “I am whatever or whoever you need Me to be”); my God of Forever, Guide (3:15); my God of Inheritance (3:17); my Anointer (3:18, giving us the words to say and the power to say them); my Hand of Correction, Tower (3:20); my Enricher (3:21); my Plunderer of Enemies (3:22).

Exodus 4 gives more: my Belief, my One who comes, my “Empowerer” (4:5); my Chooser, Seer (4:22-23).

Chapter 5 adds the name, my Celebration (5:1), but how can we call Him that if we do not celebrate with Him at His times of celebration?

“I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments,” God says in Exodus 6:6. We can thus call Him “my Redeemer and my Administrator of judgments.” As we will see more powerfully in the sequel, Jesus is our Burden-lifter (6:7). He is also our Rewarder (6:8).

Exodus 7 continues the revelation: my Eternal God of hosts (7:4); my Revealer of Truth (7:7); my Commander of Serpents (including snaky Satan) and King of kings (7:9-12); the Eternal God of the Hebrews (7:16); the Water of Life, Giver of Life, Commander of Death (7:17).

In chapter 8, we see the God of serving, increase, restraining and binding (8:1-2); My God of boundaries (setting limits and limiting Satan, 8:22); God of the walls (8:23).

Another aspect of God’s character is highlighted in Exodus 9. He is the God of distinction, wanting His people to be the same (standing out above the others, higher, set apart, honored, majestic, the God of gods and High Priest of priests, 9:4); My God of health and healing, Controller of pestilence and consuming plagues, (9:9; 15:26; Yehovah Rapha, Healer); Controller of weather (9:18); God of punishment (9:19).

God then reveals Himself as the Breaker of pride, stubbornness and selfishness (10:3) and the Controller of the movement of plagues and diseases (10:4-20); God of light and darkness (Definer of good and evil, 10:21); God of heights and depths (10:21).

Our God is the Eternal God of restoration, promotion and compensation (Ex. 11:2); God of the firstborn (11:5).

In chapter 12 we see the God of the Passover and the God of redemption (Yehovah Gaal; 12:3); the God of mercy (12:8); God of cleansing and purifying (12:9); God of completeness (12:10); God of holy convocations and feast days (12:11); God of destroying the power of sin (12:15); God of commencing and finishing (12:16); God of permanent ordinances (12:17); God of issuing forth holiness (12:18-22); God of the circumcision (12:48).

God has declared the Sabbath to be holy, and He sets aside other things as holy. He is the God of sanctifications (13:2); God of the covering shade and the flaming pillar of fire (13:21).

More Names to Claim

The above are only a few of the names of God we can claim in the diverse circumstances and challenges of our lives. The power these names have when connected to the Sabbath covenant is exponential in its scope. When we connect the challenge we face with the proper covenant and the appropriate name of God, claiming the same in prayer, the results of this combined claim of covenant promises and God’s specific names are powerful. Our problem melts away like homemade peach ice cream in the sun on a smothering, 97-degree South Carolina day.

In communion for release from trauma, we give other names for Jesus that we can use in different circumstances. We repeat together, addressing Jesus with every name, “Jesus, You are my ……God, High Tower, Savior, Support, Rock, Deliverer, Avenger, Light, Path, Love, Bridegroom, Hope, Eternal Life, Substitute, Peace, Fullness, Delight, Thankfulness, Anointing, Sustainer, Partner, Friend, Strength, Power, Authority, Sabbath, Wholeness, Vindication, Helper, Claim, Redeemer, Blessing, Promise, Teacher of skills, Jealousy, Contender, Jerusalem (King of Peace for all my affairs), High Priest forever, Priestly King.”

In the book on healing, we gave some of Jesus’ redemptive names, preceded by His name Yehovah, the Eternal, Self-existent One. When we take apart the individual letters and combinations of letters in a Hebrew word, we add to the conceptual meaning of the term. In the case of YHVH, we see the word havah in the last three letters, literally that which comes from the nail (that secures or establishes) or exists. The first letter means “hand,” so the Eternal is the One whose hand brought all things into existence.

YHVH also suggests “to become known.” This shows a God who continually reveals Himself. He revealed Himself to Moses when Moses respected the holy ground. He reveals Himself to His people when they honor His holy Sabbath.

While many claim to be gods or elohim, and God even calls His sons and daughters elohim on the earth (Psalm 82:6; John 10:34), Yehovah is the triune Godhead that brought all things into existence. As the Creator Family, They do call themselves Elohim, yet when Jesus formed Adam, He called Himself Yehovah. It is a more intimate name and it indicates His special relationship with His people. Interestingly, no other commandment but the Sabbath commandment identifies the true God, the one who made all things. In a psalm often considered to be a Sabbath psalm and quoted in the Sabbath rest discussion in Hebrews, God refers to Himself as Yehovah Osenu, the Eternal our Maker (Ps. 95:6).

God’s Names Find Their Fullest Meaning in the Sabbath

Can we begin to see how connected God’s names are to His Sabbath? None of His names take on their full meaning unless we are keeping the day that identifies the real Jesus and those who are set apart as holy by Him.

God is the El or one true God above all others who aspire to Godship. The first letter aleph, literally meaning “ox,” with the idea of strongest and first, combines with the second letter lamed, literally “cattle goad” or “rod of authority,” and can mean “control, authority, or tongue.” God is indeed the first and foremost authority of the universe, the Creator of all things. Jesus is the One whose tongue speaks the authoritative law and Word of God. It was Jesus, as we shall see, that spoke the Sabbath commandment on Sinai.

Jesus is El Shaddai. In ancient times for a king to take a city he had to destroy the door that led into the walled fortress. Shaddai literally means “destroy the door.” Jesus is a King who takes every other kingdom by force, destroying every door, including the door to Satan’s kingdom. If we want to see Satan under our feet, we must keep the day of the Kingdom, the Sabbath. Shaddai also has the meaning of “many-breasted one,” a picturesque way of seeing God as both all-sufficient and self-sufficient.

The word shem is the word “name,” and when used for the name of God, it literally means “destroy chaos.” The word shalom, exemplified in the peace of the Sabbath day, literally means “destroy the authority (Satan) that causes chaos.” And Shabbat means “repent or return to the covenant or cross of Jesus (who defeated Satan by His blood).”

While some don’t like the idea of keeping the law, we must understand that Jesus is the Law or Torah, which in the word picture in Hebrew means, “what comes out of the man who was nailed to the cross.” That’s Jesus. He gave the law and He is the Law, which is love.

Jesus is our Sabbath or Rest. Shabbat means we rest by returning to the covenant, the first one God made with man. Returning or repenting means choosing God’s Kingdom over Satan’s. Satan has established Sunday as his day, while Jesus made it clear that His Sabbath pictures and explains the names and ways of the true King and His Kingdom. We cannot rest in Jesus, our Sabbath, if we do not rest on Kingdom day.

Jesus is also Yehovah Shalom. We cannot destroy the authority that causes chaos in our lives if we choose to “rest” with Satan on his day. How many Sunday keepers experience a true rest? Jesus says, “Come unto Me and you will find Shabbat shalom, for I am Your Shabbat and Your Shalom.”

He is Yehovah Shammah, the God who is always there for us or present with us. Yet Jesus says He made the Sabbath holy, so He is present in a special way with us on His day. His covenant promise says He will never leave us or forsake us. A covenant works both ways, however. When we find out about His Sabbath, He doesn’t want us to forsake the assembling of ourselves together with Him on His day. We must not forsake Him.

Jesus is our Raah or Shepherd, and He makes His sheep lie down in green pastures with Him on His day of rest. Satan wants us to keep his Sunday so we will not be able to be still and know that God is God and that He is Love. We can only know the true Creator when we rest at the exact time He did, being still on His Sabbath, getting to know Him.

Raah is literally the “man of the eye (letter ayin),” the one who watches out for the sheep. A similar concept is found in Yehovah Yireh (Jehovah Jireh). God sees ahead and knows our every need, already having devised His plan of provision for us. As you will see in this book, God’s perfect will of provision for us is impossible without keeping the day of provision, the Sabbath of “mannafold blessings.”

In Jesus’ ministry more dramatic healings occurred on the Sabbath than at any other time. Healing ministries are discovering inadvertently the Sabbath healing anointing. It is to be expected. After all, Yeshua Rapha, Jesus our Healer, has poured Himself and His healing power into His day.

Our Mighty, Jealous Warrior

Jesus is Yehovah Nissi, the Banner we rally around and seek refuge in so that He will lead us to victory. The word nes (noon samech) has a picture meaning of “life support,” yet its true meaning is an ensign, standard of identifying flag of the warrior that we follow and who protects us. The same word is used for Jesus as the serpent of sin that was lifted up for us and thus later became our standard of righteousness. Since He is our Sabbath, and the Sabbath was a sign between Jesus and us that He is our God and we are His people (Ex. 31:13), He is our Ensign, Our Identifying Banner of Identity and Victory. We take refuge in Him every Sabbath, being strengthened in Him, the Captain of our Salvation, our Mighty Warrior and Champion (Isa. 19:20; Jer. 20:11).

Jesus is the “Mighty One of Jacob…the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel…” (Gen. 49:24). He is our “refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble” (Ps. 46:1). If we dwell intimately with Him on His Sabbath, even an atomic bomb on ground zero will not touch us.

Jesus is our Protector. He is the Captain of the “host of the [Eternal]” (Josh. 5:14) and the “[Eternal] OF SABAOTH [or Tseva’ot, Hosts or armies of heaven]” (Rom. 9:29; Isa. 1:9). While technically we are not the army, we are officers and commanders of the armies of heaven. When we speak out the Word of God, angelic armies are released (Ps. 103:20). We can even call on Jesus Himself to fight for us. We officers meet for instruction from the Supreme Commander and Divine Master on His Sabbath. How can we benefit from the fullest protection if we do not dwell in God’s secret place of intimacy (Ps. 91:1) on the Sabbath and get our marching or commanding orders from our Righteous Captain on His day?

It is impossible to fully understand and be established in the righteousness of God without keeping the day that Yehovah Tsidkenu inhabits. The Divine Master of the Sabbath is Jesus our Righteousness.

Jesus is the “Holy One [Kadosh] of Israel [the believers]” (Ps. 71:22). He expects His saints or holy ones to meet with the Holy One, El Elyon (the Most High God), on His holy day. As we shall see, Makkadesh (or Mekaddishkhem, the Eternal our Sanctifier) sets us apart to be especially holy as we keep His sign between Him and His people (Ex. 31:13). The only other place where this name is used refers to God sanctifying us as we keep His statutes (Lev. 20:8). In the sequel we shall see that the annual Sabbaths and the laying down of long term burdens to Jesus on the new moons represent statutes of the fourth commandment (II Chron. 2:4).

Another of God’s names that applies to the Sabbath is Kannah, Jealous. As the church has unwittingly done today, Israel had made covenant with Baal instead of “the [Eternal], whose name is Jealous…” (Ex. 34:14). Respected prophets of God have come against the modern marriage of the church to Baal. They do not yet, however, understand that church as a who has been keeping the feasts of Baal without realizing it. Halloween is only one example. The others explained in the sequel may surprise you.

Jesus is a faithful Bridegroom who is jealous over His bride. He wants her to worship only Him on His day. He doesn’t like being stood up on His weekly date with His beloved. Through this book we believe He is beginning to woo His bride, weaning her from the day of Baal back to Him in Sabbath intimacy with the Bridegroom (Hos. 2:14-20).

While Baal is referred to as El-berith, the god of the covenant (Judges 9:46), that is a name that should apply to Jesus. When we keep a day other than the day He commands, we are in ignorance for the most part making a covenant with another god. We are in all sincerity breaking the very first covenant God made with man and thus sabotaging all the others. While not going against our free will, Jesus is jealous over us.

Jesus fights for us. He is called Ish Milchamah (Man of War; Ex. 15:3) and El Gibbor, the Mighty God, the Victorious or Mighty Warrior (Isa. 9:5-6; 10:21; Zeph. 3:17).

But will Jesus give His all for those who do not see Him as their Protection (Deut. 32:38, Sithrah) and Hiding Place (Sether, Ps. 32:7) in whom they rest on the Sabbath? In a great chapter to look for names of God, Moses spoke prophetic words even for the church today (Deut. 32:36-39). Jesus will indeed have compassion on His people when He sees their strength is gone trying to rest in the day He did not bless. Finally they will seek Jesus as their “hiding place.”

Jesus wants us by His side, learning from Him on His day. After all, He is King of Kings and High Priest. He wants to train us as kings and priests under Him on the day of the Kingdom. As Shepherd of the Sheep, He wants the sheep to show up when He calls them to assemble. As the Bishop and Guardian of our souls, He wants to renew our souls on the Sabbath, the day of refreshing. As Daystar and Light of the World, He wants to shine the light of His truth on us every Sabbath.

How can Jesus be the Chief Cornerstone of the building that is the church if the church does not present themselves as lively stones on the Sabbath day to be built up spiritually? As the Firstborn and as our Elder Brother, would He not expect fellowship with His brothers and sisters when He calls them to meet with Him? He is Head of the Body. He must ask sometimes, “Where is My body?”

Restorer of Body and Soul

He is the Great Physician and the Sabbath is His healing day par excellence. He wants His people to come to Him for healing of soul and body on His day of healing. He is our Rock of Defense and Stability in the storms of life, and we need the strength and support He gives us to face the tempest of another week.

As Author and Finisher of our Faith, He wants to build up our faith through the Sabbath manna of His Word. As the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world for us, He wants us to remember the Sabbath in the redemptive sense: His blood brought us out of our spiritual “Egypt” of sin (Deut. 5:15). As Emmanuel, God with us, He wants to be with us and us with Him on His day.

As our Burden-bearer, He wants us to lay on Him at the beginning of each Sabbath our weekly load of cares and problems so we can come and rejoice with Him. His joy is our strength. That phrase was written in the context of an annual Sabbath celebration (Neh. 8:10). Our Sabbath songs of joy and our fellowship with God and our spiritual siblings renew our joy and strength in Jesus for the coming week.

Let’s Get Personal

God’s personal names carry great power and anointing and produce intimacy. While elder Brother Jesus sometimes plays the role of Father, our Father Love, Agape, Abba, is called the Father of glory and of lights, Father of the fatherless, Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. He is the Ancient of Days, and His Fatherhood supercedes the fatherly aspect of Jesus: “Is not He your Father who has bought (kanah or qanah) you? He has made you and established (kuhn) you (Deut. 32:6).”

The conceptual meanings of kanah as used in this verse are manifold: procure, buy back; been jealous for you; recovered you from a worthless holder (death and Satan); made a plan for your life; given you a destiny; appointed you a time to exist in a certain place; planned for you; gave you authority; caused course corrections in your life so you could come to Him; assigned a program for you; enabled you to walk with Him; hindered your destroyer; given His Son’s life as surety for yours.

This same Hebrew word, also the word for jealous, is used when Jesus as Melchizedek refers to the Father as “God Most High, Possessor [Kanah] of heaven and earth” (Gen. 14:19). The conceptual meaning in this context is: create a contract for ownership; take away from one not qualified (Satan); receive from a worthless owner; redeem for a rightful owner; redeem in truth.

Melchizedek was one of Jesus’ names. It means King of Righteousness. Jesus in that human form was King of the city of Salem, peace, wholeness or perfection. Jerusalem was thus prophesied to be the city of the perfect King of Peace. Abraham added to the name Salem by declaring Mount Moriah to be called Yehovah Yireh, thus the Yeru or Jeru of Jerusalem. Yireh means “see” or “vision.” So the city and Jesus Himself are referred to as our Jerusalem, our vision of peace and perfection. The world will only know Shabbat shalom when Jesus returns to rule the world in peace from Jerusalem. He is the King of shalom for all our affairs and our Vision and Hope of Peace for the future.

“Your Father who bought you” is also “your Father who established you” (Deut. 32:6). The word is kuhn and includes: abide in you; gives you clarity of mind; continues with you through all trials; lifts you up; pitches a tent around you; raises His arm to defend you; becomes stirred up over you; causes you to succeed and upholds your righteousness; strengthens you.

While one description in the following verse applies more specifically to Jesus, praise to all members of the Godhead is evident: “For the [Eternal] your God is the God of gods and the [Divine Master over all masters], the great, the mighty, and the awesome God…” (Deut. 10:17).

The humble Holy Spirit, who inspired the Word of God, did not give us many of His personal names. He loves to shine the spotlight on Jesus and the Father. He nonetheless does give us a few of His names: Counselor; Comforter; Baptizer; Advocate; Strengthener; Sanctifier; Paraclete or Encourager; Teacher; Guide; Spirit of Truth, of Grace, of Mercy, of God, of Life.

Books could be written about the names of God. If you “google” the phrase “names of God,” you will discover some of the many names of our God.

God’s Names Come Alive in the Sabbath

When Jesus poured Himself into the Sabbath day, He had to include all of who He is — represented by His names. Without the understanding of those names as they relate to the Sabbath, we cannot truly know the real Jesus.

We are granted greater understanding and power to use God’s names as we keep the Sabbath. His names inevitably tie in with the meaning of the Sabbath. The shalom and sanctification we find in the Sabbath enable us to see Jesus as He really is (Heb. 12:14). As Hagar explained it and as God recorded it, “You are a God who sees [El Roi].” She named the well where she encountered Jesus as Beer-lahai-roi, well of the Living One who sees me. The implication is that God opens our eyes to see Him in His fullness and know His Word, which can only occur completely in the context of meeting with Jesus on His day (Col. 2:3).

As our Sabbath and as Divine Master of that day, Jesus has become a Stumbling Block to many, especially the believers. The good news is: you don’t have to stumble anymore.

The encouraging truth is that God is not a harsh, cruel God who loves to find us at fault so He can crush us. He is Love (I John 4:8). And He is, as I know well personally, Eloah Selichot, the God of Forgiveness (Neh. 9:17). He forgives us for being deceived about His day. The Good Shepherd welcomes us into the green pastures of Sabbath rest.

One of Africa’s best safari destinations, Chobe National Park is located in Botswana very near where four African countries (Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe) meet. In this list, we give you 10 reasons why you should visit this great game and conservation area.

1. Chobe National Park is the third largest wildlife park in Botswana, but certainly is the best in the country and one of the best in Africa.

2. The Chobe River which flows from Angola and into Botswana, in the northeast border of the park, is one of the major water sources for the animals of Chobe. The waterfront hosts various water-loving birds and animals, and serves as a watering hole for the bush animals.

3. The park is home to amazing animals such as the buffalo, lion, leopard, elephant, crocodile, hippo, zebra, giraffe, lechwe, sable, impala, leopard, wildebeest, hyena, jackal, bushbuck, monkeys and baboons, plus a whole lot more. It is the only place in Botswana where you can see the near threatened water-loving puku antelope in the wild.

4. You will find four distinct ecosystems within the national park – river, swamp and seasonal marshland area, the woodlands and floodplains. This is why Chobe National Park has such a large diversity of flora and fauna and offers a unique safari experience – certainly one of the best in Africa.

5. Annual animal migrations also give guests to Chobe National Park an unforgettable wildlife experience (especially in the Savute Area).

6. Possibly the largest elephant population in Africa is found in Chobe National Park, numbering 50 000.

7. Whether it is Green or High season, the area promises a magical experience. Between May and October (High Season) is the best time for game viewing as the bush is not very thick and animals tend to concentrate in wet areas in search of water. Some time in November, however, the rains begin to fall and the bush goes from dry savannah to lush dense woodlands and wetlands. This Green Season is the time when the baby animals drop in their thousands.

8. The town of Kasane is just 10 minutes away from the entrance to national park, and is the gateway into the area with Kasane Airport within reach. The border to Zambia is to the north and the Kazungula border with Zimbabwe is to the east, both border posts are less than 10 kilometres from Kasane town.

9. Activities in Chobe National Park include game drives, river cruises, fishing, photographic safaris, camping, and bird watching. For the more remote locations, fly-in safaris are a better and faster option. For those who wish to venture nearby, a visit to the croc farm, a cultural village tour, or a round of golf at Mowana in Kasane are activities that are easily accessible. One of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe), is just an hour’s drive from Chobe. There are plenty of activities on offer there too.

10. Beautiful luxury accommodation is available all over Chobe National Park (except in the Nogatsaa area), as well as in nearby in Kasane. These include Ngoma Safari and Muchenje lodges in the west in Chobe Forest Reserve, Chobe Game Lodge within the park itself, and Chobe Safari and Cresta Mowana lodges in Kasane town.