Chick-pea Dal – We Love God!

Let’s never be intimidated or depressed by our ordinariness and inadequacy and unimpressiveness. Most of us are quite ordinary. All of us can improve our preaching, and we will. But the sacred given is the message of the cross, which the Holy Spirit empowers in men of the cross. Let’s not disempower it. Let’s trust God’s strategy. God Himself entered into His own strategy through an egoless nobody named Jesus Christ, whom this brilliant world crucified. That Christ is sending us out to preach His message by His power. We are fully equipped in every essential with the testimony of God, the message of Christ crucified, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Will you decide to stake your whole ministry there?

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Grains			6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

125		Vegetable oil, 4 fl oz
1	t	Chilli powder
1/4	t	Ground turmeric
1	t	Caraway seeds
500	g	Kabli chana, chick peas or
		kala
		chana brown chick
		peas soaked
		overnight in cold
		water and drained
		1lb
1/2	T	Tamarind paste or lemon
		juice
1/2	t	Salt
3		Garlic cloves, chopped
900		Ml, 1 1/2-2 pints hot
		900 to 1200
		water
2		Fresh green chillies
		de-seeded if wished
		and chopped
1	T	Chopped fresh parsley, to
		garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat and cook the
chilli powder, turmeric and caraway seeds for 2-3 minutes.  Add the
drained pulses, stir, and cook for 3-5 minutes more, stirring
occasionally.  Mix the tamarind paste, if using, with 4 tablespoons of
water and add  to the pan with the salt and garlic.  If using lemon
juice, just add it without extra water.  Add the hot water and the
chillies, cover tightly and cook over a low  heat for 2 1/2 - 3 hours,
until the pulses are tender, stirring  occasionally and adding more
water if necessary.  Sprinkle with parsley before serving.  Converted
by MC_Buster.  Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

A Message from our Provider:

“Many people give thanks to God when He gives. Job gave thanks when He took.”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 21 Calories From Fat: 14 Total Fat: 1.6g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 284.1mg Potassium: 26.8mg Carbohydrates: 1.8g Fiber: <1g Sugar: <1g Protein: <1g

The Bible teaches clearly that the evidence of God’s work in a life is the inevitable fruit of transformed behavior (1 John 3:10). Faith that does not result in righteous living is dead and cannot save (James 2:14-17). Professing Christians utterly lacking the fruit of true righteousness will find no biblical basis for assurance they are saved (1 John 2:4). Real salvation is not only justification. It cannot be isolated from regeneration, sanctification, and ultimately glorification. Salvation is an ongoing process as much as it is a past event. It is the work of God through which we are “conformed to the image of His Son” (Romans 8:29, cf. Romans 13:11). Genuine assurance comes from seeing the Holy Spirit’s transforming work in one’s life, not from clinging to the memory of some experience.

John MacArthur