Who's Giving Up Bread? NOT ME!

 

Who’s Giving Up Bread? NOT ME!

(dedicated to my mom, 1939-November 2025)

How much bread do you eat in a given week? What is your favorite bread? I really like sourdough bread. I’m not talking about the sourdough bread that tastes like white bread. You bread people know what I’m talking about. My brother makes a sourdough rye bread, but I don’t really care for rye. I think it’s because I have a sensitivity to it. Pumpernickel was never a favorite either.  Some people give up bread, as they don’t believe it gives them any health benefits. Are you one of those people? When eating out and they bring a basket of bread, yes, I have to try it. When it’s fresh and warm, I cannot pass it up. I have never restricted my diet to no bread or even super low carbs. I do try to limit the amount of refined sugars I eat. My husband reminds me that potatoes and bread turn into sugar. It’s not the same as eating a candy bar or even my beloved ice cream.

When living in New Hampshire, we would buy When Pigs Fly sourdough bread. When we moved to Georgia and then to Nevada, it was not available to me in those states. I did find out that I could purchase it online and have it mailed to me. I didn’t do that, but searched for a sourdough near me that would satisfy my taste buds. I would check out farmers' markets and bakery areas at the local supermarkets in search of a “just right” sourdough. I never did find a sourdough bread I consistently felt like buying. I have paid $12.00 for a loaf of bread. What is the most you have paid for a loaf of bread?

How many of us grew up with “Wonder Bread”? You may remember the packaging. It was white with colored circles on it. I just looked up a package of Wonder Bread, and yes, it has the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue circles on it. The packaging has changed a bit. The circles are bigger as is their logo. We did not grow up with much bread. I don’t recall one time in my life ,growing up, when we had homemade bread fresh out of the oven. What I do remember is that almost daily, we had fresh tortillas off the cast-iron skillet. We were making wraps before wraps were a thing. My mom would roll bologna in a tortilla, peanut butter and jelly in a tortilla, and of course, the homemade beans, cooked in lard and refried, with lots of cheese, were put in the tortilla. We did have bread in the house, but again, we ate a tortilla with our breakfast, not toast.

There’s a bread that has become my all-time favorite, forever bread. I will never stop wanting it, seeking it out, or being filled and satisfied by it. Some people may consider it “wonder bread”, it’s actually “life giving” bread. It’s always available, but the cost is more than anyone could ever pay. The great news is that it’s been purchased for you, free to all who desire it. All we need to do is receive it, and take of it daily. If you ever hear of anyone saying they don’t eat bread, tell them how good this bread is and the benefits it will bring to the body, mind and spirit. My mom received this bread.

Here it is: Jesus said:

Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness (my ancestors ate the tortillas ), yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which ANYONE may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Many people thought this was a hard teaching and quit following Jesus. I find it very hard when I hear people say, “I don’t eat bread”. That’s a hard saying for me. I don’t walk away from bread made on this earth and surely never want to walk away from Jesus, our bread sent from heaven.

Please read John 6:42-71

My mom is still living; she took this life-giving bread and lives today. Her physical body is no longer here. If you read 2 Corinthians Chapter 5, you will see that even if she is absent from the body, she lives with the Lord. No more groaning, pain, or enduring what physical life brought.

“For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now, He who has prepared up for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.”

LOOK AT THAT A GUARNATEE!! 

“So we are always confident. (ALWAYS CONFIDENT), KNOWING that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight.  We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

 2 Corinthians 5:1-8

I am confident my mom is in the presence of the Lord. She, just as well as you can be guaranteed of that. You must eat the life-giving bread, receive Jesus, and know He is who he said He is. God's loving kindness has provided for you and will continue to do so DAILY. Eat and be filled with God's Word.

I’m so happy for my mom and for her to be “HOME”. It’s only been a couple of weeks, and the incredible love poured out to our family brings comfort. The best comfort is KNOWING, BEING CONFIDENT she is living absent from this body and present with OUR LORD AND SAVIOR. I pray that you and your family may experience this Confidence.

IF you have any questions, please email me at evapopekjesusrx@gmail, or if you would like me to speak about what brings comfort, joy and peace, reach out. You can find the link to order The JesusRx Prescription for Life workbook at evapopek.com or https://a.co/d/fL7N7OB

Picture used by permission from Rolls and Wrinkles Bakery, Pahrump, NV  

 

Thank you!

Sincerely

Eva

Want Healing? Step into the Healing Pool!

STEP INTO THE HEALING POOL

Can you imagine if you were blind, deaf, crippled, arthritic, or had a sickness that didn’t allow you to get around easily? Today, many autoimmune diseases limit people's mobility. In Bible times, I don’t think they knew about autoimmune diseases, or at least they weren't labeled that way.

Was there cancer in Jesus’s day? Probably. We know there were bleeding disorders, mental illness, and addictions. We know, according to the Word of God, there was lying, homosexuality, fornication, and stealing.

What if you could go to a place called Bethesda that had a pool area where you could go for healing? There is a catch, though….you would have to wait for the water to be stirred by an angel, and you would need to get into that water right after it was stirred, before others could get there. If you are the person who is unable to move quickly enough, you would miss the healing. You are there to get healing and restoration to your sick body.

This happened to a man who had been sick for 38 years. Sounds like he may have been crippled. Jesus saw him. Jesus knew all about him. Just like Jesus knew all about the Samaritan woman I mentioned on another blog. The man lay there, and Jesus asked, “Will thou be made whole?” The man replied that he had no one to help him in the pool when the water was stirred, and that others went before him. The man continued going to the pool and lay there, who knows how many times, out of reach of what he desired. He desired to be made well. To be whole and walk.

Some of you go year after year for the same ailment to a “pool” of doctors, hoping for a cure. Hoping restoration will come to your body. Maybe you have given up hope, but keep going because you don’t know what else to do. You wait for another appointment, we will call it the stirring of the waters. Maybe this next visit will be the visit you are made whole. God sees you and knows you and your ailments.

Jesus said, “Rise, take up thy bed and walk.” And HE DID!

Jesus spoke healing to this man. This man could’ve said, “I have no one to help me up,” When Jesus told him to rise up and walk. It was Jesus' Words that helped him up. Jesus' Words can help you up, too.  

Are you getting it? Why could the man get up now, but before Jesus' Words, he had no one to help him get into the pool? HE NEEDED JESUS. We need Jesus.

Guess where Jesus saw this man again. In the temple. Jesus said to him, “Behold thou art made whole. Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee.”

Do you want to rise, walk, and be made whole as this man was? Are you tired of waiting for the stirring of water? I have some excellent news for you. There is water that flows freely and abundantly, and it brings life. Remember the Samaritan woman at the well?

The crippled man heard God’s voice through Jesus. Healing took place in his mind, body, and soul. I say this because he went to the temple and in his humanness, his mind was also transformed from his healing experience from Jesus' spoken word.

May you find healing —mind, body, and spirit — today!

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John 5:1-14

"How Do You Know Me"? Have you ever asked that question?

 

Words Spoken Can Increase Your Faith (John 1:47-51)

There was a man named Nathaniel, and he asked Jesus, "How do you know me?"

Jesus answered, "Because when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." 

Nathaniel replies, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel." 

How does God know you? Let's just start with He created you. He knows you and me, and we can know Him because He wants us to. He sent Jesus for that purpose. So we could come to Him and know Him.

Jesus tells Nathanial He will do greater things than just to know Nathaniel. If you, like Nathaniel, know Jesus because you know He knows you —yes, every hair on your head is numbered —then you can look to Jesus to do even greater things in your life and in things to come through Him.  

For Nathaniel, he got to see the heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man. 

I will walk by faith, even if I cannot see (2 Corinthians 5:7)

Keep walking, sister —God knows you; He sees you, and wait for even greater things in your life for God to accomplish. He loves you so much. He gave His One and Only Son for you. 

Reference verses: Please take a few moments to look them up. You will find blessings there! 

Psalm 139 

John 14:7 John 7:28-29 

 

Prescription for Speech. Healthy Communication.Truth Telling.

 

Healthy Talk. He is not my husband.  Prescription for speech. Episode 38 on the JesusRx Prescription for Life Podcast

In the prescription for speech, I can tell you how wonderful it is to say the right thing at the right time. We don’t hit the mark because the tongue can do one of two things: bring blessings or cursing. (James 3:10).

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. (Colossians 4:6) Is this difficult for you? It is for me many times. I know what I say is not ALWAYS full of grace. At times, it isn’t nice. Why? Because I don’t wait on the Holy Spirit to lead me, I start talking.

I want to cover two examples in God’s Word about believing words that were spoken. The first one is in John 2:22, the disciples believed Jesus' Words because what He said was fulfilled. Do you realize that it is the same for you and me? We can believe His Word because of the things He says He will do for us; He does. The biggest thing is removing our sins from us as far as the east is from the west. He forgives our iniquities and remembers our sins no more. (Psalm 103:12 and Hebrews 8:12) If we read Hebrews chapter eight, we see how this is possible with the giving of Jesus in our place. We no longer go to a temple to sacrifice animals, or go to a priest for forgiveness of sins; Jesus fulfilled it all, being the New Covenant. You should read chapter eight of Hebrews for a better understanding of how your sins can be forgiven.

I wondered why God would want to do such a thing. The answer is because He loves us. He had this plan so we could be with Him. If you accept Jesus, as the disciples did, and believe His Word, freedom will come to you. You will be set free from “stuff”. He wants our “stuff”. He is the ONE who can handle our stuff like no one else. You know, we as people have lots of “stuff”. We will never have too much “stuff” for God to handle. Sometimes we vent to other people about our “stuff,” and it is too much for them to hear and bear. I mentioned you will find freedom in Jesus. I want to tell you freedom does not come without pain at times.

Pain caused by my own actions is so much different from the pain caused by others that affect me. There is so much pain in this world. The way people talk to each other, post on social media, and yell at family members. At times, it’s all so hurtful. So, what’s the remedy?

I know I have control over the pain I cause to myself or to others. God will provide a way for us to escape self-destruction. To be tempted is not a sin. It happens. Look what God will do for us. “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make a way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13) This has to do with how I speak to others. When I am tempted to say hurtful or mean things because I’m hurt or because what a person may be saying is so untrue and ugly, I need to know I’m being tempted to speak in a way that is not gracious. This is what set Jesus apart. He was tempted in all respects, yet never sinned (Hebrews 4:15). This is the exact reason we were given the example from Jesus to pray that we are not led into temptation but delivered from evil (Matthew 6:13).

I realize I can only work on myself. As a cousin reminds me to “look in the mirror”. You gotta love cousins.

Pain caused by other people seems harder to handle and, therefore, harder to keep my tongue from speaking out against my hurt or those who have hurt me. I know this is the time I need to have the whole Armor of God on (Ephesians 6:10-20).  When what others say or do does not make sense to me, am I supposed to speak out? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. God will give His children the words they need. The words, the timing, and the strength to speak will be given to you. You have to be in tune to the Holy Spirit, drinking in the medication from His Word to know when and what to say. The Holy Spirit will give you the words to say at the moment when you need them (Luke 12:12)

Don’t ever be afraid to speak GOD’S WORD for a specific situation. I’ve told people before, it’s not what Eva says that’s important, it’s what GOD’S WORD SAYS that is important, and you can relay His Word all day long and be right! Read it, know it, stay healthy, and be blessed!

The second story I want to relay is found in John chapter four, where a Samaritan woman meets her Messiah. It’s important to point out that she was a Samaritan, as Jews and Samaritans did not get along. They pretty much hated each other. Jesus was a Jew, so he probably should not have had anything to do with her according to the customs of the time.

Jesus came to a well and was weary, so He sat down. His disciples went into town to get food. As He was there, a Samaritan woman came up and He said to her, “Give me a drink”. She realized Jesus was a Jew and questioned why He would be speaking to her. She knew Jews had no dealings with people of her kind. Jesus says to her that if she knew who it was that was asking for a drink, she would be asking Him for water, and He would be giving her living water. It appears she does not really understand what he is saying. She is just wondering how water is to be obtained, as He has nothing with which to draw the water. She then asks, “Where do you get that living water?” She was curious as to who He was and His standing among men. She wants the water where she will never thirst again or have need to draw from the well anymore.

Jesus had told her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” Upon hearing this, how might you have responded?

Jesus continues the conversation with her, asking her to get her husband and come to the well with him. The woman answered and said, “I have no husband”.  She could’ve said a number of different things to Jesus. She could’ve said okay and gone to get the man, pretending it was her husband. She could’ve asked Why do you want me to bring my husband here? She could’ve said okay, gone away, and not come back. She did not do any of these things. She answered honestly. The man she was with was not her husband. Jesus, knowing all about her, said, “You have well said, for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband: In that you spoke truly.

She perceives Him as a prophet. She knows that Jews worship in Jerusalem in the temple, and the Samaritans worship on Mount Gerizim. He explains to her that the hour is coming when worship will no longer be done on the mountain or in Jerusalem. He tells her the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

She knew the Messiah was coming (who is called Christ), and when He does, He will tell them all things. Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” He reveals Himself to her, plain as day. And she believed His words. He spoke with her at the well. Why? she wondered.

The answer is simple. He came to do what God sent Him to do. What did God send Jesus to do? It’s right here in John 3:17. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”  Wow, does this world need saving? Yes, it does.

Oh my goodness, here come the disciples and saw Jesus talking to a woman. Why would he do that? No one asked Him what he needed or why He was even talking to her. That was probably a good thing. Can you imagine questioning Jesus about who He calls? Actually, it was more about why talk to women, being diverted by them, and not focusing on the study of scripture or reflection on God.

The Samaritan woman used her voice and went back to speak about the Man who told her all the things she had ever done. Could this be the Christ? Because of Jesus' spoken words to her, she went and spoke to others, and they came to know Jesus. What is really cool to me is that the Jews and Samaritans did not get along, but now they are coming to Jesus, putting whatever they had aside to know Him. Of course, Jesus didn’t tell her about everything she ever did (or they would probably be there for a long time talking), but He knows it all. He knows all about us. He chose to speak to this woman, and He chose to give His life for those in this world who would choose to receive Him. He gave His life for ALL. Unfortunately, not all will come to God through Him. Some believe Jesus is not the only way to God the Father. In John chapter 14, Jesus tells His disciples, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. There is a great article about how many Christians believe there are other ways to God. This is why so many people are confused about “Christianity”. According to God’s Word, there is no other way to God. Here is the article; it’s a quick read. It explains what is happening today as Christians allow the world to guide their thinking, not God’s Word.

https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/is-jesus-really-the-only-way-to-god/

Back to freedom. This woman was set free, found living water in Jesus, and her thirst was quenched. She had a string of men who could never satisfy her. Now she was satisfied in the Messiah, the Christ, the living God. Jesus knew she was empty and needed to be filled.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God….God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.  (2 John 5:1, 11-12)

The word the Samaritan woman used was Messiah. Moshiach, meaning anointed, is the Hebrew word for Messiah. In English, Messiah means a savior, “hoped for deliverer.” The hoped for deliver has come to us. He went to the Samaritan woman that day. Some of the Jewish people are still waiting for “their Moshiach,” their messiah.https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/108400/jewish/The-End-of-Days.htm#Is

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/108400/jewish/The-End-of-Days.htm#Is

 It was pretty interesting, and if I interpreted the part correctly, the reason they live by such rules is to usher in their Moshiach. God has sent the Messiah, as the Samaritan woman saw. She didn’t have to wait any longer for His arrival, and neither does anyone else.

Jesus spoke words of life to her. He didn’t tell her she was a slut, slept around, had many men, and how disgusting that was. He didn’t ignore her, but confronted her with a need she had. His need was to provide life, living water, and a new way for her. How did he do it? He asked questions, knowing the answers. God will ask you questions that He knows the answers to. He wants you to arrive at the truth. Will you be truthful about your life, like the Samaritan woman was? He wants you to come and drink of the living water provided by Jesus, His Son. God finds you as you respond to His loving mercy in Christ, shown to us on the cross.

Stay healthy, stay in His Word, and may YOUR words bring life to others today