Deuteronomy 28

Blessings for Obedience

1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in obedience to him. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you. 11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

Curses for Disobedience

15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.[a] 21 The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24 The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29 At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34 The sights you see will drive you mad. 35 The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. 37 You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you.

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

53 Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God— 59 the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God. 63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. 68 The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.



They are not bleaching creams, they are toning creams. It just makes the skin clean and pretty.’

With her own first-hand experience, popular dancer Keiva says she is now the face of two skin-toning products.

Speaking with THE STAR yesterday, Keiva explained that she has been using the products, Glow & White and Diva Maxi Tone, since January. It was after using it that she was approached to be the face.

“I am using this from January and I have a nice skin tone. If it was a bleaching cream, I would be white. My friend introduced me to it first. I started using it and I realised that it just makes my skin pretty in two months’ time,” she said, noting that it is available at different locations in Kingston.

Keiva also stressed the fact that the products are not for skin-bleaching.

“They are not bleaching creams, they are toning creams. It just makes the skin clean and pretty. It is not something that people hide and sell, it is approved,” she told THE STAR, noting that they are sold in the form of lotions and creams.

promotion

As part of her contract, Keiva said she will be helping to promote the products and do interviews about them. One such promotion will take place in downtown Kingston next week with radio personality Miss Kitty.

Although it is a skin-toning cream, Keiva says she is cognisant of the fact that people will think it is a skin-bleaching cream.

“I can’t stop people from thinking what they want to think,” she said.

However, she believes that when they start using the product they will realise that it is merely a skin-toning product.

And, with this new endorsement, Keiva says she is very pleased.

“I am feeling marvellous, great. As long as I am making an honest bread, I am going to work. I can’t wait to get the word out,” she said.

The Only Person Cheated is Yourself (Adultery)

My name is Niki I have been with Mike for ten years. After the birth of my first child things got sour. In the fifth year of the relationship I realize that Mike was having an affair with a married woman by the name of Marcia. I was very loyal and could not understand why he would do this to me. While at work a colleague of mine used to comfort me through the hard times. We developed a great friendship, Carl was compassionate and understating something I never got from Mike. Shortly after we developed a secret intimate relationship that I could not avoid. His wife did not have a clue as he made her feel like she was the only one and well Mike was not really paying any attention to me.

Two years had passed and I was still seeing Carl and Mike was still having the affair. I had no idea what would happen next because I was using birth control. I got pregnant and did not realize until I was nearly three months. Carl said that it was up to me what I wanted to do but Mike told me that he was happy because it could be a little girl since we already had two boys. I carried the baby and all this time I did not know whose child it was. Nevertheless on paper she was Mike’s child. After I had the baby and returned to work Carl was very distant and his attitude was not the same. I realised that the reason was he was now sleeping with Sophie a very promiscuous girl that was transfered to our department. Sophie slept with everyone in high office to secure her job.

There was no comptetion there so I had to move on and I was very pleased to now that Mike’s friend Peter was interested in me he was a very successful man and well I could not turn him down. It was a very good relationship but when his girlfriend would visit he would give all the attention to her. For the most part I was confused and started to think about my daughter and her paternity. I did an abortion between the affair with Peter and Carl and things were getting to me. Carl called me out of the blue one day and told me that he found out that his wife was sleeping with his best friend and he could not cope. He also said that he caught Sophie red handed with another man at her apartment.

Mike was spending a lot of time at home now these days and I just could not understand because Marcia was granted her divorce and free. I was surprised to hear that she had left Mike for the lawyer who handled her case as it was common knowledge that he was bisexual. Things were just too much for me. Carl did not have any children with his wife and now he is requesting a paternity test and has threatened me to take it to court. I was in shock and tried to reach out to God. I was invited to church by a friend and I had to think about my life. I could not come to terms with my poor decision and how many people I had actually slept with. My calculations was the harsh reality of adultery. Mike was sleeping with Marcia who was sleeping with her husband and her lawyer. Her lawyer was bisexual so he was sleeping with another man. it is alleged that Marcia’s husband was having affairs even with his helpers. I was sleeping with Carl who was sleeping with his wife and Sophie he were both sleeping with other men. Peter was sleeping with his girlfriend who I later found out was his cousin’s wife. What had I gotten myself into? I have left myself exposed to more than twenty people. I have also made my child apart of this madness. I have made Mike’s mistake my own. What will I do? I am now at the hospital to get the results from my tests. I am so ashamed, I have cheated myself.

written by realking

History of The Dildo

People often think that the dildos are a thing of the present generation and were introduced by mankind a few decades ago. The credit for this line of thinking goes to the modern generation people who perceive the dildo as an object, shaped like the male sexual organ, with some electronic circuitry built in that causes the head of the dildo to vibrate. It is this vibration that stimulates the inner vaginal wall and the clitoris and provides thrills to the user.
However, if one bothers to check out ancient history, they will discover that objects shaped like a phallus and made out of leather or wood were used by ancient Greeks as far back as the third century BC. In fact, if one goes by the ancient cave drawings, they will observe that the dildo, in one form or the other, has been around nearly since the evolution of mankind. However the phallic shaped objects used during those days were crude and were unsafe. Advances in science and technology are responsible for presenting us the dildos as we see them nowadays.
Till a few decades back, the dildo was nothing but a small phallic shaped piece of plastic casing housing an electric motor with a rotating head. A pair of electric cells provided power to the motor and caused its head to rotate. The vibration caused by the rotating head was passed on to the exterior walls of those dildos providing a thrill sensation to the user. Compared to the dildos available in the market today they were quite crude. Quite a few of them had sharp edges which could cause serious harm to the soft vaginal walls.
However, since that was the only available dildo during those days, people were forced to use them. The whole scenario has changed nowadays. There are many shops, including those that have an online presence, that provide a wide variety of dildos, guaranteed to thaw even the most frigid of woman. The current generations of dildos are available in a nice range of shapes and sizes. They are available in different hues and are made out of various materials. Whilst the humble plastic is still used to manufacture dildos, the manufacturers have now come out with dildos manufactured using materials as diverse as glass and steel. One can also find dual headed dildos that provide thrills to both ends.
Why keep a hole unplugged when you have the options of a dual treat? In stark contrast to the simple vibration that the dildos of the old days provided, the current generation of dildos also boasts of a head that, apart from vibrating, also moves in a forward and backward direction. Those who are willing to try the extreme can opt in for dildos that come with a tank and a ball pump. A fluid that has a consistency of semen is stored within the dildo that is connected to the ball pump. On pressing the ball, the fluid comes out of the tip of the dildo emulating ejaculation.