HOW TO START BEING SELF-RELIANT

Looking ahead.

Many people recognize the way the world is going and feel uneasy.  They think of their family and look ahead and see problems.  World war, natural disasters, losing their job, sickness in the family and many other possibilities. 

They ask themselves, how can I prepare for the future? 

In the following articles I will give you some ideas, some references on how to begin.  It is up to you to take those ideas and research them and then decide to do it for yourself and your family. 

Some even think of extended family, friends and neighbors.  You know that some of them are not looking ahead and you want to be able to help them.  You should strive to get a year supply.

Remember: To eat an elephant, you eat a bite at a time. 

So, start to get a week’s supply, then a month, then two, then three.  Do that 3 more times as you go.  If you can do it faster, Great.  But, DO NOT go into debt to do it.

Getting Started.

Go to this website and click on all the links and make notes.  Employment, Food storage, Finances.

A main goal is to have a good job that will provide you with what you need to live on.  To have sufficient food to exist on for a period of time needed.  To have your finances in order, out of debt as much as possible and some money set aside to live on until things get straightened out. 

NOTE

At this very moment, while I am talking to you, my power went out in my home.  I had looked ahead for possibilities like this and prepared ahead. 

Yes, my laptop can go for a while, but another source of power would be helpful.  I know this is not an EMP (look that up on Google and learn) because everything would have been fried, burnt out, computers, wiring in homes, cars made after 1972 with computers in them. 

I am Lucky this is a regular power outage, BUT I was prepared.  My laptop is charging and I am typing to you now.  I have some small portable solar generators.  It is a great test of my being self-reliant.  Even though I got bumped off the Internet, I can send this later.  This is a good, unexpected example of being prepared.

If this was an EMP, I would still be OK.  I have FARADAY cages for protecting all of my electronics, except this computer and my I-pad that I am currently using would have been fried, but everything I had in the cages would be OK. 

My regular phone connection is out so it is just my area.  This computer went down to 87 percent but it has only been a few minutes since I plugged into my solar rechargeable battery, the computer is now at 100 percent.  GREAT. 

My cell is working so I just called my solar company, and told them how great their portable power items are and soon I will have the link on my site for them. 

Getting started – Continued.

What an advertisement for preparedness. 

Look over some of the websites I will give and make your plans.

For a great reference and learning manual, pick up (in paper form in case your computer goes out) “MAKING THE BEST OF BASICS” by James Talmage Stevens, 12TH edition 2012.  It may cost about $20.00 or so, but to have the paper form is in itself, preparing for all problems.

In a nutshell, here are the basics that most people can get together to sustain life.  Once you have this amount for each member of your family, you could live for a year.  Once you have this, build on it by adding extra things to it so you don’t have to eat the same things over and over.

Store what you eat and eat what you store.  Rotate it.

Here are the basics to sustain life.

Wheat, powdered milk, salt, sugar or honey, water and sprouting seeds.

If you have this, you need a grinder, electric and/or a hand grinder if your electric goes out, and a mixer tough enough for bread, though you can do it by hand. 

You can live without food for a while longer if you have at least water. 

Sprouting seeds can be grown in a window, out of sight of people and this will give you what you need in place of a regular garden.  It is live when you eat it so your body gets what it needs for good health.  This has live ingredients.  If you had a year’s supply of sprouting seeds, and water, you could live a year but the diet would be sickening without having other different items for change.

Keep all Water and foods in a cool dark place for longer life.  Water grows bacteria in light.  The book mentioned above, covers all of this in detail.

For cooking it would be wise to get an All American Sun Oven, (not a Sport Sun Oven).  Most days it can be used.  It can get up to 400 degrees on a winter day too.  Just needs sun. 

Wood, propane and charcoal would be good to have as another source.  If you run out, there is always the Solar. 

Try to store food that does not need to be cold or frozen.  Can goods, Dehydrated and Freeze dried is the best.  They last 20 to 30 years but the way things are going in the world right now, you may not have to wait that long.

You can go to www.foodinsurance.com 

and download the FREE 2013 PREPAREDNESS GUIDE.  This is a good checklist.   You don’t have to do everything on the list so pray about it as a family or if you are single, yourself, and do what you feel is right for your circumstance. 

 

Listen to the Still Small Voice of the Spirit when it talks to you inside and most of all – OBEY IT. 

The company is a little higher in price compared to Emergency Essentials but it depends on what you get.

I consider Utah the Preparedness Capital of the World because of the thinking ahead of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and its people. 

That is my personal opinion.

I will be blogging about different topics of self-reliance and will post information from time to time under this title on this blog.

For more information, search www.lds.org

Comments and questions are welcome.

 

 

 



PART 2 - THE PROPHET NEPHI'S VISION

 

Chapter 13 of 1 Nephi describes Satan's setting up the Church of the Devil throughout the world. 

 

It is not a specific church, but the world itself, the society and wickedness of obtaining and worshiping of worldly things, in other words:  BABYLON.

 

1 NEPHI 13: 1-9

 

1 And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me, saying: Look! And I looked and beheld many nations and kingdoms. 

2 And the angel said unto me: What beholdest thou? And I said: I behold many nations and kingdoms.

 

3 And he said unto me: These are the nations and kingdoms of the Gentiles.

 

(Meaning nations and kingdoms that were NOT Jews.  That is what Gentiles are, people who are not Jews.)

 

4 And it came to pass that I saw among the nations of the Gentiles the formation of a great church.

 

5 And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and bindeth them down, and yoketh them with a yoke of iron, and bringeth them down into captivity.

 

6 And it came to pass that I beheld this great and abominable church; and I saw the devil that he was the founder of it.

 

7 And I also saw gold, and silver, and silks, and scarlets, and fine-twined linen, and all manner of precious clothing; and I saw many harlots.

 

8 And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the precious clothing, and the harlots, are the desires of this great and abominable church.

 

9 And also for the praise of the world do they destroy the saints of God, and bring them down into captivity.

This was done long before the discovery and colonizing of America.

Then Nephi see more things happening.

1 NEPHI 13: 10-19

10 And it came to pass that I looked and beheld many waters; and they (The Waters - Atlantic Ocean) divided the Gentiles from the seed of my brethren.

 

11 And it came to pass that the angel said unto me: Behold the wrath of God is upon the seed of thy brethren.

 

12 And I looked and beheld a man among the Gentiles, (Columbus) who was separated from the seed of my brethren by the many waters; and I beheld the Spirit of God, that it came down and wrought upon the man; and he went forth upon the many waters, even unto the seed of my brethren, who were in the promised land.

 

13 And it came to pass that I beheld the Spirit of God, that it wrought upon other Gentiles; and they went forth out of captivity, upon the many waters.  (The Pilgrims)

 

14 And it came to pass that I beheld many multitudes of the Gentiles upon the land of promise; and I beheld the wrath of God, that it was upon the seed of my brethren; and they were scattered before the Gentiles and were smitten.

 

(Nephi's seed were now the Indians or the Lamanites of old, who the Gentiles discovered and they scattered and killed them and eventually put them on reservations)

 

15 And I beheld the Spirit of the Lord, that it was upon the Gentiles, and they did prosper and obtain the land for their inheritance; and I beheld that they were white, and exceedingly fair and beautiful, like unto my people before they were slain.

 

16 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles who had gone forth out of captivity did humble themselves before the Lord; and the power of the Lord was with them.

 

17 And I beheld that their mother Gentiles (England) were gathered together upon the waters, and upon the land also, to battle against them.

 

(The War of Independence)

 

18 And I beheld that the power of God was with them, and also that the wrath of God was upon all those that were gathered together against them to battle.

 

19 And I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles that had gone out of captivity were delivered by the power of God out of the hands of all other nations.

Now Nephi sees a book that the Gentiles bring with them.  It is the Bible.

1 NEPHI 13: 20-36

20 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld that they did prosper in the land; and I beheld a book, and it was carried forth among them. 

 

21 And the angel said unto me: Knowest thou the meaning of the book?

 

22 And I said unto him: I know not.

 

23 And he said: Behold it proceedeth out of the mouth of a Jew. And I, Nephi, beheld it; and he said unto me: The book that thou beholdest is a record of the Jews, (The Bible) which contains the covenants of the Lord, which he hath made unto the house of Israel; and it also containeth many of the prophecies of the holy prophets; and it is a record like unto the engravings which are upon the plates of brass, save there are not so many; nevertheless, they contain the covenants of the Lord, which he hath made unto the house of Israel; wherefore, they are of great worth unto the Gentiles.

 

24 And the angel of the Lord said unto me: Thou hast beheld that the book proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew; and when it proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew it contained the fulness of the gospel of the Lord, of whom the twelve apostles bear record; and they bear record according to the truth which is in the Lamb of God.

25 Wherefore, these things go forth from the Jews in purity unto the Gentiles, according to the truth which is in God.

 

26 And after they go forth by the hand of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, from the Jews unto the Gentiles, thou seest the formation of that great and abominable church, which is most abominable above all other churches; for behold, they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away.

 

27 And all this have they done that they might pervert the right ways of the Lord, that they might blind the eyes and harden the hearts of the children of men.

 

28 Wherefore, thou seest that after the book hath gone forth through the hands of the great and abominable church, that there are many plain and precious things taken away from the book, which is the book of the Lamb of God.

 

29 And after these plain and precious things were taken away it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles; and after it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles, yea, even across the many waters which thou hast seen with the Gentiles which have gone forth out of captivity, thou seest—because of the many plain and precious things which have been taken out of the book, which were plain unto the understanding of the children of men, according to the plainness which is in the Lamb of God—because of these things which are taken away out of the gospel of the Lamb, an exceedingly great many do stumble, yea, insomuch that Satan hath great power over them.

 

30 Nevertheless, thou beholdest that the Gentiles who have gone forth out of captivity, and have been lifted up by the power of God above all other nations, upon the face of the land which is choice above all other lands, which is the land that the Lord God hath covenanted with thy father that his seed should have for the land of their inheritance; wherefore, thou seest that the Lord God will not suffer that the Gentiles will utterly destroy the mixture of thy seed, which are among thy brethren.

 

31 Neither will he suffer that the Gentiles shall destroy the seed of thy brethren.

 

32 Neither will the Lord God suffer that the Gentiles shall forever remain in that awful state of blindness, which thou beholdest they are in, because of the plain and most precious parts of the gospel of the Lamb which have been kept back by that abominable church, whose formation thou hast seen.

 

33 Wherefore saith the Lamb of God: I will be merciful unto the Gentiles, unto the visiting of the remnant of the house of Israel in great judgment.

 

34 And it came to pass that the angel of the Lord spake unto me, saying: Behold, saith the Lamb of God, after I have visited the remnant of the house of Israel—and this remnant of whom I speak is the seed of thy father—wherefore, after I have visited them in judgment, and smitten them by the hand of the Gentiles, and after the Gentiles do stumble exceedingly, because of the most plain and precious parts of the gospel of the Lamb which have been kept back by that abominable church, which is the mother of harlots, saith the Lamb—I will be merciful unto the Gentiles in that day, insomuch that I will bring forth unto them, in mine own power, much of my gospel, which shall be plain and precious, saith the Lamb.

 

(Speaking of The Book of Mormon, the book translated from the plates that Nephi and others were recording on and has the TRUTHS that were taken away from the Bible and is NOW being restored.)

 

35 For, behold, saith the Lamb: I will manifest myself unto thy seed, that they shall write many things which I shall minister unto them, which shall be plain and precious; and after thy seed (Nephi)shall be destroyed, and dwindle in unbelief, and also the seed of thy brethren, (Lamanites) behold, these things shall be hid up, to come forth unto the Gentiles, by the gift and power of the Lamb.

 

(Jesus Christ did this and appeared to them in this land after His resurrection and its recorded in 3 NEPHI)

 

(This is where the Prophet Joseph Smith comes into the picture and he Translates the Gold Plates into the Book of Mormon.)

 

36 And in them shall be written my gospel, saith the Lamb, and my rock and my salvation.

I will be continuing Nephi's Vision in Part 3.

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