"Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle." - Psalm 144:1
David was a man skilled in war. From his days as a shepherd boy to the days of serving in Saul's army to leading his own army, David learned to be a skillful warrior. How does one become a skillful warrior?
The only way one can become a skillful warrior is to be trained and placed in the middle of the battle. It is only when we are placed in the furnace of battle that we truly learn to fight the real battles. Practice doesn't make you battle ready. War games won't prepare you for facing your real enemy in the battlefield. The stark reality of being in the midst of the battle makes us effective warriors.
Simply reading your Bible will not make you a warrior for the Kingdom. Knowledge without experience is mere folly. Only when you are placed in situations where there is nothing or no one who can save you but God will you learn the lessons of warrior faith. This is the training ground of God, which will make you into a soldier for Christ in the workplace. Consider it to be suicidal faith - faith that says I want to be dead to anything that keeps me from fulfilling God's purposes for my life. It is when your efforts can do nothing to change your circumstance and you are at the mercy of God. These are the real training grounds of God. Do not shrink back from the battle that God may be leading you to today. It may be a training ground that is necessary for the calling He has on your life.
If you can trust Him in these times, you'll know that you have gained a faith that will move mountains and will sustain you in the most difficult of circumstances. "Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle." Daily Smile:
That’s Politics
During a terrible storm, all the highway signs were covered with snow. The following spring, the state decided to raise all the signs twelve inches at a cost of six million dollars. “That’s an outrageous price!” said a local farmer, “but I guess we’re lucky the state handled it instead of the federal government.” “Why’s that?”
“Because knowing the federal government, they’d decided to lower the highways.”
Foodie Friday:
Sweet And Sour Chicken Egg Rolls by Jen
Just when you thought chicken egg rolls couldn’t get any better – enter sweet and sour chicken egg rolls! These homemade egg rolls are the most delicious appetizer or meal and the best way to eat sweet and sour chicken! These chicken egg rolls can be baked or fried, are freezer friendly and the filling is made extra fast with your food processor – no hand veggie chopping!
Chicken egg rolls we kind of have a thing for egg rolls at our house. From sesame chicken to egg rolls, to southwest egg rolls, to Philly cheese steak egg rolls – hands down everything tastes better cocooned in a crispy, crunchy shell – and these sweet and sour chicken egg rolls are no exception!
Because these aren’t just chicken egg rolls but sweet and sour chicken egg rolls. They remind me of fried crispy Chinese wontons with sweet and sour sauce but with the added bonus of sweet and sour chicken filling.
They consist of stir fried chicken and vegetables that get enveloped in outrageously delicious sweet and sour sauce – so the filling is crazy delicious all on its own but becomes exponentially delicious as we wrap it in an egg roll wrapper and dunk it in more sweet and sour sauce.
In other words, the best chicken egg rolls ever!
What Goes In Egg Rolls?
The filling for these Chinese chicken egg rolls is a combination of:
• Chicken
• Onions
• Garlic
• Snow peas
• Carrots
• Broccoli
• Bean sprouts
• Red bell pepper
• Canned pineapple chunks
To make this chicken egg roll filling extra easy, I use a pre-assembled package of stir fried vegetables with snow peas, carrots, broccoli, and bean sprouts. This adds variety to the chicken egg rolls but you can also hand pick your favorite vegetables if you prefer, just be sure they equal 12 oz.
Can you use pork instead of chicken?
Yes! You may substitute the chicken for an equal amount of lean pork. Be sure to drain your pork of excess grease so the filling doesn’t become soggy which will cause your egg roll wrappers to tear.
How Do You Make Vegetarian Egg Rolls?
You can transform this chicken egg rolls into vegetarian egg rolls by substituting the chicken for extra firm tofu or your favorite plant-based protein, or add mushrooms or increase the volume of vegetables.
How To Make Egg Rolls
Step 1 – sweet and sour sauce: to make these easy yet tantalizing chicken egg rolls, start by making the sweet and sour sauce by whisking the the ingredients together and simmering until slightly thickened. I used my sweet and sour sauce recipe from my baked sweet and sour chicken which has a gazillion positive reviews because it is way better than takeout which means so are these chicken egg rolls!
Step 2 – stir fry: next, stir fry chicken, onions, pineapple and a medley of stir fry vegetables until crisp tender then stir in some of the sweet and sour sauce to infuse it with outrageously delicious flavor.
Step 3 – chop chicken and vegetables: next, add chicken and vegetables to your food processor and pulse until finely chopped (about 12 pulses). This is my secret shortcut method i use in all my egg roll recipes, my potstickers and wonton soup recipe because it creates the perfect consistency without any hand chopping in seconds! If you don’t have a food processor, you can certainly chop by hand.
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