Mark Taylor Prophecy of 2011 proclaiming Trump win

My friend, Liza, pointed me to this prophetic word by Mark Taylor a couple of days ago.  He received the word in April of 2011.  It and the discussion I listened to on YouTube by Mark are some of the most encouraging things I've heard about our future in a long time.   If you want to hear Mark Taylor discuss it, go here to YouTube.  There are several different videos of him talking about this word and other words given after it.

I copied the April 28, 2011, word below from his SORDRESCUE.com website.

4-28-11 Commander in Chief

The Spirit of God says, I have chosen this man, Donald Trump, for such a time as this. For as Benjamin Netanyahu is to lsrael, so shall this man be to the United States of America! For I will use this man to bring honor, respect and restoration to America. America will be respected once again as the most powerful and prosperous nation on earth, (other than lsrael). The dollar will be the strongest it has ever been in the history of the United States, and will once again be the currency by which all others are judged.

The Spirit of God says, the enemy will quake and shake and fear this man I have anointed. They will even quake and shake when he announces he is running for president, it will be like the shot heard across the world. The enemy will say what shall we do now? This man knows all our tricks and schemes. We have been robbing America for decades, what shall we do to stop this? The Spirit says HA! No one shall stop this that l have started! For the enemy has stolen from America for decades and it stops now! For I will use this man to reap the harvest that the United States has sown for and plunder from the enemy what he has stolen and return it 7 fold back to the United States. The enemy will say lsrael, lsrael, what about lsrael? For lsrael will be protected by America once again. The spirit says yes! America will once again stand hand and hand with lsrael, and the two shall be as one. For the ties between lsrael and America will be stronger than ever, and lsrael will flourish like never before.

The Spirit of God says, I will protect America and lsrael, for this next president will be a man of his word, when he speaks the world will listen and know that there is something greater in him than all the others before him. This man's word is his bond and the world and America will know this and the enemy will fear this, for this man will be fearless. The Spirit says, when the financial harvest begins so shall it parallel in the spiritual for America.

The Spirit of God says, in this next election they will spend billions to keep this president in; it will be like flushing their money down the toilet. Let them waste their money, for it comes from and it is being used by evil forces at work, but they will not succeed, for this next election will be a clean sweep for the man I have chosen. They will say things about this man (the enemy), but it will not affect him, and they shall say it rolls off of him like the duck, for as the feathers of a duck protect it, so shall my feathers protect this next president. Even mainstream news media will be captivated by this man and the abilities that I have gifted him with, and they will even begin to agree with him says the Spirit of God. 

Total Forgiveness

      During research in trying to discover keys that unlock healing, I have become aware that unforgiveness is a major block and forgiveness is a signficant key to healing.
       Jesus had much to say about forgiveness.  In Matthew 6:14-15 he stated:  "For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins."
     This seems pretty straightforward.  We must forgive if we want to be forgiven but I think most of us have given this more lip-service than actual application.  We feel we have fulfilled the command when we say, "I forgive so and so" even though we continue to think about it and tell others how wronged we have been.
      Paul says in Col. 3:13:  "Bear with one another and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.  Forgive as the Lord forgave you."
     Whoa!! How has God forgiven me?  Well, Ps. 103:12 says:  "As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us."  And Jer. 31:34 says he won't remember them: "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.  And he tells us to be merciful and to pray for our enemies.  Luke 6:36:  "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
Matthew 5:44:  "But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."
       In attempting to understand what unforgiveness entails and how to release forgiveness in situations in my life, I came across the book Total Forgiveness by R. T. Kendall which I also wrote about a few days ago.  (See blogpost here.)  It has been totally messing with my concept of forgiveness!  I thought I had forgiven.  I had even maybe slipped into a little pride when I thought I no longer held the offense against the offender--pleased with myself that I had forgiven. But R. T. has been causing me to see forgiveness in a whole new light.

      In Total Forgiveness, he gives several steps to totally forgive a person.  As you read them you may be surprised how much more extensive God's idea of forgiving is than ours is.  (I have quoted much and paraphrased some.  In the book he also elaborates each point.)
         1. Make a deliberate and irrevocable choice not to tell anyone what they did. (He says if you must for therapeutic reasons (confession), you may tell one person who you trust to never reveal the confession.)...This isn't necessarily easy, but when our motive is to hurt another person by telling on them, there is sin on our part.
        2. Be pleasant to them should you be around them. Do not say or do anything that would make them anxious.  Put them at ease.
        3. If conversation ensues, say that which would set them free from guilt.  Guilt is most painful and we can easily punish people by sending them on a "guilt trip."...We get some satisfaction when we think they feel really, really bad.  That defuses us and eases our anger somewhat.  But if we want to be valiant and utterly magnanimous--thus showing true godliness--we will say whatever is the equivalent of Joseph's words: "Do not be angry with yourselves." (Gen.45:5)
        4. Let them feel good about themselves.  Not only does this mean never reminding them of their wrong and your hurt, but it also means helping them through any guilt they may have.
        5. Protect them from their greatest fear. (My interpretation: make it clear from your actions you do not intend to expose any deep dark secrets.)
       6. Keep it up today, tomorrow, this year and next.  Total forgiveness is a life long commitment...If we say we have no sin--that we are incapable of the same old bitterness--we are deceived (1 John 1:8). . . Read Luke 6:37 everyday, "Do not judge, and you will not be judged.  Do not condemn and you will not be condemned.  Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
        7. Pray for them.  Pray that God will forgive them--that is, overlook what they have done and bless and prosper them as though they had never sinned at all. . .  As John Calvin said this is "exceedingly difficult." (Especially, when we see God answering the prayer!!)

      I obviously have some work to do!  Just getting my head around this new way of seeing forgiveness is big, let alone putting it into practice!!

      I believe another step that will help in this (in addition to reading Luke 6:37 everyday) is to see the person as Jesus sees them.  He prayed in Luke 23:34:  "Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing."  I believe this is true of all of us.  If we really saw the consequences of what we were doing we wouldn't do the hurtful things that seem to come so easily for us.  I am commiting to learning this and to choosing to forgive as Jesus did.

Sarah Palin Article from Breitbart

This is a wonderful article by Sarah Palin which was published on Breitbart News. So true!!

EXCLUSIVE — Sarah Palin: Kaepernick, Take a Knee Over This One

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The child, yet unborn, spoke with the Father, ‘Lord, how will I survive in the world? I will not be like the other children. My walk may be slower, my speech hard to understand. I may look different. What is to become of me?’

“The Lord replied to the child, ‘My precious one, have no fear. I will give you protectors. They will love you because you are special, not in spite of it. Though your path through life will be difficult, your reward will be greater. You have been blessed with a special ability to love, and those whose lives you touch will be blessed because you are special.'” 
– From an embroidered plaque sent anonymously to me when my son Trig was born

Trying to fathom what is shown in the Chicago torture video is just too much. I watched a mere few seconds of it and will watch no more. I cannot watch more. Perhaps my family and I see the torture of an innocent young man with special needs through different eyes and with a greater, undeniable sense of responsibility to help; but this story playing out today is proving unbearable.

It’s time for a screaming wake-up call, America.

My extended family discussed the tragedy last night. We concluded we do not care about arguing the legalities involved in categorizing this as a “hate crime” or not a “hate crime.” Obviously it is a hateful, hate-filled crime centering on politics and race. Proof is on tape. Debating the merits of categorizing the disgusting racist and political taunts vomited up by thugs during their brutal beating of a helpless young man is, to us, a media distraction. I leave it to others to focus on that.

My sister Heather has worked professionally in the public school system with older special needs students for decades. She and her husband have also been raising a beautiful son with autism and disabilities. My sister seems to have seen it all. Because of Heather’s years of experience in this tough arena, she could understandably have grown necessarily less emotionally reactive than others when seeing such a news report. But Heather and the family reacted with more explosive shock and disgust, mixed with such profound sadness, than perhaps expected.

She knows her precious students — and son and nephew — could never defend themselves against attacks from such evil people. That’s such common sense, though, that even the depraved creatures haughtily recording their recent brutality knew their victim was as defenseless.

Heather and family remind the public that this targeted beating by young adults is equivalent to torturing a small child. (And media: quit hiding the alleged perps, especially the reported 24-year-old, behind your deceptively descriptive term “teens”!) We’re curious to hear where our public leaders and influential pop icons are on this.

But President Obama… shush. Just shush with your reaction to this racist attack with claims that race relations have improved under your reign. That is BS. And why, even in this, do you have to make it all about you, all the time? Your suggestion yesterday that there’s some silver lining in this shows how completely out of touch you are. Attacks on the helpless and vulnerable — no matter skin color — are society’s cancer. You still don’t get it. A better reaction is to acknowledge, for one, that your pride and joy hometown of Chicago is a mess.

Further, acknowledge that you’ve helped perpetuate a culture that disrespects innocent life by pretending that babies aren’t really babies, so their lives don’t matter; by mocking special needs children on national television (as the President!); by promoting vile gangsta “artists” and their cultural depravity; and by wasting time and public resources instead of using them to better society by, for instance, creating jobs and expecting able-bodied persons to work for self-respect and responsibility instead of incentivizing a lawless, selfish, hard-hearted entitlement culture. You have no credibility when twisting this into somehow being about your “accomplishments.” You fail by making this about you.

And we all fail as protectors of the innocent when we ignore solutions to create a culture of life.

We fail when we accept the killing of defenseless babies.

We fail when we don’t properly budget public resources to afford obvious funding priorities to assist the disabled and elderly.

We fail when we allow the celebration of gangsta’ thuggery and the twisted media that always demonizes anyone with conservative values.

We fail when we retreat and capitulate to the elitist PC thought police who command that we sit down and shut up about their double standards.

We fail when we don’t hold statisticians and pundits accountable when they fake numbers and scenarios to make all cops — and all non-liberals — look like bullies and racists.

We fail when we don’t support law enforcement, and further burden them by wasting their limited time expecting them to respond and resolve every dispute that mature adults used to be able to handle themselves.

We further fail when we choose politicians in self-preservation mode who ignore basic social issues in favor of just the “safer” fiscal issues. Look, we can’t make America great again by focusing only on bureaucratic ideas to hopefully put more money in people’s pockets. Really, it’s more soul in the American life that will make us great again.

Is it politically incorrect to call on leaders — including black leaders — to proclaim this the wake-up call society needs? If so, so be it. I call on them.

Is it politically incorrect to challenge pop culture “heroes” to join in? If so, so be it. I challenge Colin Kaepernick to take a knee over this one, for this cause is based in reality.

May we all do our part to be protectors of the innocent — as God expects. Then our nation will be blessed, for our lives will be touched by special people with a special ability to love. We’ve missed that for too long.

Johnny Enlow: 2017: The Ride of the Reformation Glory Train

This is a wonderfully positive encouraging word from Johnny Enlow.  Even though it is very long it every word is worth reading.  I especially liked the word about the 'blue hairs' since I am one.

"2017: The Ride of the Reformation Glory Train"by Johnny Enlow, Santa Clarita, CA

Every year at about this time I am moved to a place of great hope as God shows me some of the things He will do in the coming year. This year the hope and the joy is almost uncontainable. 2016 was a year of the convergence of the ages with the Azusa Revival's 110th anniversary and our national presidential election being the highlights. I have written much about both of them, and it is important to note that one year builds on a previous year and important events and celebrations release greater events and celebrations. 

Rosh Hashanah 2015 to Rosh Hashanah 2016 brought us the 70th year of Jubilee and this unprecedented year of Jubilee brought us God's choice of Donald Trump as President of the United States and Leader of the Free World. Trump at age 70 became elected President of this nation during the Hebraic year 5777. On inauguration day he will be 70 years, 7 months and 7 days old. Because the Electoral College changed some votes it allowed Trump to end up with exactly 77 more electoral votes. 7 is the prime number of God and is why there are 7 spirits of God. 

Only if you are still out of tune spiritually (or motivated by an unnecessary fear) should this presidency still be a struggle for any of you. Outgoing president Barack Obama's legacy-tainting final acts against Israel are an immediate, major proof that the insertion of Trump as President was an urgent need for us and our nation. We will avoid many national catastrophes because of the proper honoring and care of Israel that our new president will see to. Let me talk about that before I get to the Reformation Glory Train.

The Shed Blood of Jesus in Israel

Israel may be tiny in the natural but it is absolutely huge in the matrix of the spirit world. Every global kingdom assignment begins with a proper reckoning of the preeminent place of Jerusalem and Israel. Every major, false doctrine starts with diminishing natural Israel and natural Jerusalem ("Replacement Theology" etc.). Every antichrist spirit running among the nations begins with antisemitism at its core. For clarity's sake, while it is not wrong to want Palestinians to be properly treated, any passion towards Israel giving up land or being furthermore diminished is influenced by an antichrist spirit, and that's whether you are a "Christian" or not.

Furthermore, it reveals a basic dishonoring of God and His clearly-stated intentions towards Israel and Jerusalem as established both in the Old and New Testaments. Jerusalem is listed 669 times in the Hebrew Bible and is also further related to as "the place that God will choose". We see the passion of the Psalmist where he says:

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, If I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy. Psalm 137:5-6.

For those who would diminish Jerusalem to "Old Testament" importance, remember that this is the very location that Jesus Christ was crucified. I remember my first time in Jerusalem, being aware of the weight of the place where the God of the whole universe decided to allow His Blood to be shed for the salvation of the world. The very idea that God could shed His literal Blood in a literal place and that that literal place could then descend into being only incidentally relevant is beyond comprehension.

There is a reason Jerusalem and its destruction is the desire of every principality. Destruction of Jerusalem destroys the master plan, and it is the master plan of our God that will guarantee Jerusalem's future. There is also a guarantee that Jerusalem will ultimately be a place that reveals the salvation of God to the whole world—that guarantee is the spilled Blood of Jesus. You cannot understand the significance of the Blood of Jesus if you do not know how to also apply it to the geographical place He willingly shed it.

For more clarity, it is almost insanity to believe that the Blood of Jesus is powerful enough to give us access into Heaven despite our sins, and not believe it is powerful enough to spiritually secure the city and country where it was shed. Jesus does not return, nor does any great end-time objective take place without Jerusalem and Israel being central to it. To not know that is to be in deception and to remain almost willfully so. The Scripture is too clear on that and the Holy Spirit is too insistent on that. We will no longer get a "pass" on blindness to this reality. (Photo via Unsplash)

Besides the above passage let me quote out of Isaiah 62: For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet, till her salvation shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch. Is. 62:1

I have posted watchman on your walls, O Jerusalem: they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give Him no rest till He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. Is. 62:6-7

Israel Betrayed But God Won't Be Played

It is still almost surreal the level of betrayal that the Obama administration exhibited in its instigation of the UN vote against Israel. The pressuring of nations such as Ukraine to vote against Israel, and the intentional adding of language that includes Jerusalem itself— essentially making it illegal for Israel to go to the Western Wall—and then the attempt to pretend to look passive in the process.

Testimonies of Healing from Wellspring Ministries in Alaska

     I have mentioned previously that a group of us are studying healing.  I have been compiling materials from several different sources to supplement the Ken Fish videos.  One of those sources includes two books by Art Matthias, Biblical Foundations of Freedom and In His Own Image.  All of the material is being used to reinforce Ken's teachings on the videos that for physical healing to happen, usually underlying conditions must be dealt with first.

These testimonies illustrate this.  They came today in Art Matthias' December email newsletter.

Here are a few testimonies from two conferences that I [Art Matthias] taught this fall that will encourage all of us.

F.D. came to the First United Methodist Church in Clyde, Texas for a Freedom Conference. He could hardly breathe because of lung cancer. He listened and prayed on Sunday and said he felt a lot better. He continued to pray through the past and present bitterness in his life, and by Wednesday he was breathing great.  The following week he had a PET scan and the lung cancer was gone!  

Rev. N. P., a retired Methodist pastor had suffered with a broken hamstring. The doctors said there was nothing that they could do. He came to the conference using a walker and thinking he would never walk again.  He prayed through many things in his life and after the Wednesday morning session we prayed for a miracle, that God would reattach his hamstring.  After we prayed I asked him how his leg felt and he said it was tingling. He sat in his chair for a few minutes after the meeting was over and then he stood and put the walker on his arm, and walked out of the room with a normal walk. He went to his car, left the walker and then came back in, standing up straight and walking normally.  I asked him how he was doing, and he said, “I am healed! God has reattached my hamstring.”  

A young woman testified that she had suffered with daily migraine headaches for most of her life. She said that after receiving ministry from a person trained by Wellspring four months earlier the migraines were gone!

A young woman shared that her uncle suffered from diabetes and that he was in the hospital in Toronto waiting to have his leg amputated just below the knee. She said he was watching on the livestream of the conference and that she was praying with him and as they prayed his leg began to heal, and surgery was canceled!   

A person living in Peru who watched the livestream, called in and reported being healed of leprosy!

Jack Harley came to the conference from New Brunswick. Jack shared how he purchased a copy of Biblical Foundations of Freedom from my appearance on the Sid Roth show.  He shared how he began to do the simple things the book taught. He reported three different people being healed of cancers as they learned to forgive, and another healed of advanced Alzheimer’s disease. The Alzheimer’s was so advanced his wife had to do literally everything for him. Jack asked if her husband was a believer and she said yes. Jack then explained how her husband had accepted the false identity of Alzheimer’s and told her to explain to him who he really was in Jesus, even though he could not understand anything.  She did this that evening as she put him in bed. The next morning he was not there. She looked all over for him, he was not in the home. Then she looked outside and he was washing their car!  Totally healed!

I prayed with a lady who had back surgeries but still suffered with constant pain and unable to work. I asked when the pain started. She told me she had hurt herself four years ago while working out. She then shared she was working out to keep her boyfriend happy. We prayed and the pain left.

Several shared with me how broken relationships with their children and other family members were healed through forgiveness.

Time to Take Charge of My Health

     Well, it is time to get back to eating right and losing the extra pounds I gained over the holidays?  Mark Virkler's Communion With God Ministries is providing one free video/day from their Take Charge of Your Health series.  You can view day #2 here. 

      I also found this article by Dr. Merola informative and motivating.  Last year Country Guy and I were taking apple cider vinegar and seemed to have more energy, but then one thing led to another and before we realized it we had stopped.  This article has encouraged us to begin again.

Why You Should Take Your Apple Cider Vinegar at Night

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By Dr. Mercola

No doubt, you’ve seen them — lists touting the amazing curative power of apple cider vinegar for an amazing number of ills. “ACV” (as it’s sometimes referred to in studies) has been praised for its ability to balance you pH, increase good gut bacteriaand help control your weight, as well as many other beneficial things. 

Here’s the kicker: All those are true, and more besides. One of the most sensational is its ability to balance your blood sugar. A study1 at Arizona State University tested 11 volunteers with type 2 diabetes (diagnosed by a doctor) who weren’t taking insulin but continued taking their prescription medications. 

Each participant took 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with a snack — an ounce of cheese — before bedtime. The researchers demonstrated that in the morning, the study subjects had lower blood sugar readings than when they had the same snack with 2 tablespoons of water. 

This is important and potentially life-changing news for half of the American population, as NBC News reports that half the country suffers from either high blood sugar or full-blown diabetes. 

That’s a huge jump from the projection of 1 in 3 by 2050 made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010.2 Worse, half that number are unaware of how compromised their health really is.3

That wasn’t an isolated fluke; the benefits of apple cider vinegar have been tested in a myriad of studies, according to CNN Health,4 for many different types of health issues.

More Studies Reveal: ACV Positively Impacts Blood Sugar Levels

A recent study5 showed that three groups — adults with pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes and healthy people — after taking an ounce of ACV, all had lower blood glucose levels when they ate a high-carb meal consisting of a white bagel with butter and a glass of orange juice; again, compared with a placebo rather than the cider vinegar.

But there’s more: Those with pre-diabetes improved their blood glucose levels by almost half, and the subjects with type 2 diabetes cut their blood glucose levels by 25 percent.

Just as dramatic are the studies involving ACV’s potential for controlling weight. The Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry reported a study6 on mice that were fed a high-fat diet along with the active ingredient in apple cider vinegar: acetic acid. 

The animal subjects ended up with 10 percent lower body weight than the control subjects.

What this reveals, researchers assert, is that acetic acid can “turn on” trigger genes that initiate the enzymes’ ability to break down fat, which prevents weight gain. It also helps you feel full.

A study7 in Japan conducted a similar double-blind trial on obese adults, each with a similar body weight, waist measurement and body mass index (BMI), and split the subjects into three groups. 

For 12 weeks, members of one group drank half an ounce of ACV, one group had a beverage with one ounce of ACV and the third group had a drink with no ACV. When the study was over, those who drank the cider vinegar had lower body weight and belly fat, smaller waist measurements and lower triglycerides compared to the others.

The scientists wrote: “In conclusion, daily intake of vinegar might be useful in the prevention of metabolic syndrome by reducing obesity.” 

Apple Cider Vinegar’s Effects on Cancer Cells, Immune Support

Another thing apple cider vinegar provides is detoxification of your lymphatic system, which then helps optimize homeostatic function in your body. This may be as a result of the antioxidants in ACV reducing oxidative damage by free radicals, while improving both your blood and organs. The Truth About Cancer says:

“Cider vinegar was recently determined to be a strong antimicrobial agent and alternative to toxic and expensive chemical disinfectants. One of the most fatal bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is resistant to disinfectants but is found to be killed by acetic acid.5 

Especially in patients who are immunosuppressed, apple cider vinegar is an excellent natural antimicrobial tonic to rid of harmful bacteria and provide immune support.”8

Several test-tube studies show that vinegar can kill cancer cells. Authority Nutrition9cites several studies; one in particular in Japan used several types of fermented vinegars to induce apoptosis (programmed cell death) in leukemia cells.10

In another study, malignant breast and colon tumors, as well as lung, bladder and prostate cancers, were all inhibited using rice vinegar, but especially the cancerous colon tumors, which were inhibited by 62 percent.11

Vinegar Punch (or Drizzle) Recipes for Digestive Health and Sore Throat

If you’ve had problems such as colitis, ulcers or acid reflux (sometimes due to insufficient acid in your stomach), a double whammy of apple cider vinegar with the added bonus of fermented veggies has the potential to ease several kinds of stomach problems. 

The mild acid in fermentation is lactic acid rather than acetic acid, to help improve your gut microbiome. Animal studies have proven helpful when researchers want to test apple cider vinegar on digestion. In one study, Health.com reports:12

“Apple cider vinegar may also be a boon to digestive health, based on the results of a study done on mice with ulcerative colitis. 

The researchers found that when acetic acid was added to their drinking water, they had higher levels of good bacteria in their guts, such as Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria, and reduced symptoms of the gastrointestinal disease.”13

For everyday gut health, a mixture of 2 teaspoons of ACV with a teaspoon of raw honey in a cup of warm water will help. ACV with honey and ginger for a sore throat is a popular and effective remedy. Another mixture for sore throat, recommended by Bonnie K. McMillen, a nurse from the University of Pittsburgh,14 includes:

• 1 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar
• 2 Tbsp. water
• 1 Tbsp. raw honey
• ¼ tsp. ground ginger
• Optional: ¼ tsp. cayenne pepper

With this recipe, tiny sips every few hours or so and swallowing slowly for your throat to get the maximum contact of the mixture is recommended. It works! Rather than drinking ACV straight, for other applications, dilute it in a few teaspoons (or a cup) of water to help mask the flavor, which admittedly is a bit stringent. 

A simple and yummy recipe to serve over broccoli, asparagus or salad greens includes: 1 tablespoon each of apple cider vinegar and lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon of minced garlic, a dash of ground black pepper and a few fresh basil leaves, chopped. 

ACV for Beauty, Health and a Few Other Things

Some people swear that drinking a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar straight up will get rid of hiccups. The conjecture is that it will “overstimulate” your nerve endings to sort of “shock” the hiccups out of your system. It’s certainly worth a try!

Soaking a cloth in ACV and placing it on a bruise is said to reduce inflammation and speed the healing process.

It’s no secret that vinegar is highly acidic, but it’s this very element that gets several jobs done you may not have been aware of. Due to its potential to change your pH,15such as in the case of dandruff and evening out dry, tired skin, it’s been used for:

Bug bites	Toning your skin	Sunburn	Poison ivy
Acne	Wounds	Dandruff	Toenail fungus
Burns	Removing warts	Athlete’s foot	Detox baths

Then there are the hints that maintain how useful this common household commodity is for cleaning and cooking. One little-known “hack” for any savory soup, from chili to veggie soup, is to add a tablespoon or two of vinegar to increase the brightness and overall flavor.

The acidity in apple cider vinegar is useful as a mouthwash and even to clean your toothbrush (and dentures16) because of its antibacterial properties (soaked in a solution of one-half cup of water, 2 tablespoons of ACV and 2 teaspoons of baking soda).

Just remember though — that same acidity can damage your teeth, which one study17 refers to as “dental erosion,” so in all these applications, diluting it with water is best. As opposed to using some kind of toxic weed killer, apple cider vinegar is another remedy for weeds, especially in cracks in your driveway or sidewalk. Roundup and other toxic products can leach into water systems that provide your drinking water.