Plants that will clean the Air in your House

Did you know there are plants that will clean the air of toxins!?

I never knew this until today.  Here are the plants that will do this:

Plant, Top remover of:	benzene (NASA)[1]	formaldehyde (NASA)[1] (Wolverton)[4]	trichloroethylene (NASA)[1]	xylene and toluene[4][5]	ammonia[5]	Poisonous or Edible?[6]

Dwarf date palm (Phoenix roebelenii)	No	Wolverton	No	Yes	No	Non-toxic to cats
Areca palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens)	No	No	No	Yes	No	Non-toxic to cats
Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata "Bostoniensis")	No	Wolverton	No	Yes	No	Non-toxic to cats
Kimberly queen fern (Nephrolepis obliterata)	No	Wolverton	No	Yes	No	Non-toxic to cats
English Ivy (Hedera helix)	Yes	Wolverton	No	Yes	No	Toxic to cats
Lilyturf (Liriope spicata)	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Non-toxic to cats
Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum)	No	NASA	No	Yes	No	Non-toxic to cats
Golden pothos or Devil's ivy (Scindapsus aures or Epipremnum aureum)	Yes	NASA	Yes	Yes	No	Poisonous if eaten or chewed by pets or children[7]
Peace lily (Spathiphyllum 'Mauna Loa')	Yes	Wolverton	Yes	Yes	Yes	Toxic to cats
Flamingo lily (Anthurium andraeanum)	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Poisonous[8]
Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema modestum)	Wolverton[9]	Wolverton[9]	No	No	No	Toxic to cats
Bamboo palm or reed palm (Chamaedorea sefritzii)	No	NASA, Wolverton	No	Yes	No	Non-toxic to cats
Broadleaf Lady Palm (Rhapis excelsa)	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Non-toxic to cats
Snake plant or mother-in-law's tongue (Sansevieria trifasciata 'Laurentii')	Wolverton	NASA	Wolverton	Yes	No	Toxic to cats and dogs [10]
Heartleaf philodendron (Philodendron oxycardium, syn. Philodendron cordatum)	No	NASA	No	No	No	Toxic to cats
Selloum philodendron (Philodendron bipinnatifidum, syn. Philodendron selloum)	No	NASA	No	No	No	Toxic to cats
Elephant ear philodendron (Philodendron domesticum)	No	NASA	No	No	No	Toxic to cats
Red-edged dracaena (Dracaena marginata)	Yes	NASA	Yes	Yes	No	Toxic to Dogs and Cats [11]
Cornstalk dracaena (Dracaena fragans 'Massangeana')	No	NASA	No	No	No	Toxic to cats
Janet Craig dracaena (Dracaena deremensis 'Janet Craig')	Yes	Wolverton	No	Yes	No	Poisonous if eaten or chewed on by dogs[12]
Warneck dracaena (Dracaena deremensis 'Warneckii')	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Toxic to cats
Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina)[13]	No	Wolverton	No	Yes	No	Poisonous if eaten or chewed by dogs, cats and horses[14]
Gerbera Daisy or Barberton daisy (Gerbera jamesonii)	Yes	Wolverton	Yes	No	No	Non-toxic to cats
Pot Mum or Florist's Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)	Yes	NASA, Wolverton	Yes	Yes	Yes	Poisonous if eaten or chewed by dogs, cats and horses[15]
Rubber Plant (Ficus elastica)	No	Wolverton	No	No	No	Toxic to Cats
Dendrobium orchid (Dendrobium sp.)	No	No	No	Yes	No	Non-toxic to cats
Dumb cane (Camilla) (Dieffenbachia)	No	No	No	Yes	No	Mildly toxic to children and pets if eaten or chewed[16]
Dumb cane (Exotica) (Dieffenbachia)	No	No	No	Yes	No	Mildly toxic to children and pets if eaten or chewed[16]
King of hearts (Homalomena wallisii)	No	No	No	Yes	No	?
Moth orchid (Phalenopsis sp.)	No	No	No	Yes	No	Non-toxic to cats

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air-filtering_plants

Bible Passages on Answering of Prayers

• Matthew 7:7 (NLT) Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
• Matthew 18:19 (NLT) I also tell you this: If two of you agree here on earth concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.
• Matthew 21:22 (NLT) You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it.
• Mark 11:24 (NLT) I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you've received it, it will be yours.
• John 14:13 (NLT) You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father.
• John 15:7 (NLT) But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!
• John 15:16 (NLT) You didn't choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.
• John 16:23-24 (NLT) 23 At that time you won't need to ask me for anything. I tell you the truth, you will ask the Father directly, and he will grant your request because you use my name. 24 You haven't done this before. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.
• James 1:5-6 (NLT) 5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6 But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.
• 1 John 3:22 (NLT) And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him and do the things that please him.
• 1 John 5:14-15 (NLT) 14 And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. 15 And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.

Five Bible Passages to Help Us Understand John Chapter 4

13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

Jesus was in Sychar, which is in Samaria. He was resting at Jacob's well and asked a woman for a drink of water. The woman was confused because Jesus was a Jew and she was a Samaritan. Jews wouldn't share the same cups and bowls as Samaritans. Jesus metaphorically offers her a "life giving water." She then asks him if he thinks he is greater than Jacob the prophet. Jacob built the well they were at. Jesus replied with this passage. People who drink from the well of Jacob will become thirsty again. But Jesus offers us salvation. Through this salvation all our needs are met, and we will never be spiritually thirsty again. This salvation, this water that Jesus gives us freely will well up inside of us and bring us eternal life. We are reminded that once we receive the gift of salvation from Jesus it ought to overflow within us!

21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

The woman Jesus was speaking with asked him why the Jews says everyone ought to worship in Jerusalem, when Samaritans believe they must worship on a nearby mountain. We learn that we may worship God wherever we are in the world. We learn that during and after the time of Jesus, God then started to receive the worship he truly wanted, which was in spirit and in truth. What does this mean: worship in spirit and in truth? Well Jesus tells us that God is the spirit. So when we worship we ought to have the holy spirit active in the forefront of our minds. Worshiping in truth refers to the individual being in the word of God mentally, and repentant of their sins.

Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."

Jesus while speaking to the woman asked her to call her husband. Jesus did this to test her, and she passed the test. She confessed to him that she didn't have a husband. Jesus then told her about her life, and how she had been with many husbands and was with a man now that wasn't her husband. Jesus did this for two reasons I believe. He did this to test the woman and see if she would be honest. He also did this so should would believe that he was the messiah. Jesus had to perform many miracles and wonders to get people to even believe in him! After hearing this the woman testified to the people in Sychar that Jesus was the messiah and many came to believe.

34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."

Several of the disciples returned to find Jesus speaking to the woman at the well. They offered him food but Jesus told them that he had food they knew nothing about. The disciples were confused, had someone given him food? In fact Jesus was using parables to communicate his message. Jesus tells his disciples that the fields are ripe for harvest. We could probably assume that John the Baptist had at least a small part in preparing the way for Jesus. The sower is Jesus himself, and the reaper is the people of Israel. Jesus sows eternal life for all. We see that eternal life is a free gift, and that all we have to do is accept the bounty of it.

48 "Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe."
This is an interesting passage at the end of chapter four. A roman officer came to Jesus and asked him to heal his son who was sick. Jesus spoke this to him. Jesus then told the man that his son would live. Later the man learned that his son became well the very hour that Jesus spoke those words. But why did Jesus say this to the officer? We don't really know for sure. It could have been that Jesus was speaking his frustration at people only coming to believe because of seeing wonders and miracles. I don't think so though, personally. Jesus didn't whine or complain. He wasn't mean or condescending. Jesus loved and does love us. It is interesting to note though, that the Roman officer trusted Jesus at his word and left without seeing the miracle. He was only later informed that at that hour his son returned to health. And because of this him and his family came to believe. It's open to interpretation.

Five Bible Passages to Help Us Understand John Chapter 3

3 In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. "

This first passage is from a conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus, one of the pharisees. This passage is also where the idea of "born again Christians" comes from. It's something I do hold with, for I have seen myself personally born again in Christ's love and mercy. It's something that has been taken by society and confused. We need not be confused. Before we know Christ we are a prisoner of sin. Jesus sets us free, and we are born into a new spiritual life. We then become children of God, and we are no longer of the world!
12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven-the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

This passage is also from the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus. This passage reminds us that only Jesus has been to heaven with God. He came from heaven and heaven is where he returned to. When Jesus talks about Moses hes referring to a time in the Old Testament when God instructed Moses to put a snake on a pole in the desert. He told Moses that whenever anyone looked at it they would live. In the same way Jesus saves us from sin. Jesus often referenced Old Testament scripture because the people of that time we raised on that scripture and knew well of it. We see that through the sacrifice of Jesus we receive eternal life.

16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

This is one of the most well known passages in the Bible. This is a really important passage because we are reminded of God's incredible love for humanity. He could have left us in our sin, but he allowed those sins to be wiped away for all time. I never really understood the love of God in my early spiritual life. This lead me to abandon it! The love of God is something that ought to be taught more prevalently because it's not something easily received by the human mind. We are raised in a way that shuts us off, and we feel little or nothing but misery. If we train ourselves to constantly be aware of God's love, we start to feel it at all times, and nothing is better than living in that mindset. People think God is a punishing, vindicating entity. He is not! He overflows with love for us. God did not send Jesus to condemn the world, but to save it!

19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

I love this passage, as it starts with the phrase "This is the verdict." What a great way to start a passage. There is no lie in these words! Jesus is the light of the world, and through Jesus we become the people of the light. Humans love darkness, because they have to constantly hide their many sins. We learn that many of the reasons atheists feel the way they do, is because they don't want to come clean of sin. They think their sins are so bad they have to bury them. All sins are equally forgiven by accepting Christ. So as Christians we become the people of the light. We do so by living by the truth, which is the Bible. The light shines on us, and by our example others choose to accept Christ.

27 To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ but am sent ahead of him.' 29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30 He must become greater; I must become less.

This passage is from a moment when several of Johns followers were telling him that Jesus was baptizing and more were following him. John tells them plainly that he completely obeys the will of heaven. He reminds them of his testimony that he is not the Christ. John was sent ahead of Christ to prepare the people to receive the savior. John explains that the meeting of Israel with Jesus is a time of joy for him! He is extremely happy that Jesus is in the world working. He explains that his mission is now complete, and he must become less important in the scheme of things.