Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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DAILY DEVOTIONAL, October 5, 2020
Past, Present, Future
“Would you also go away?” John 6:67
Many pretend believers have forsaken Christ and walked no more with Him; but what reason do you have to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has the Lord Jesus not proved Himself all sufficient? He asks you this morning, “Have I been a wilderness to you?” When your soul has simply trusted Jesus, have you ever been defeated? Have you not until now found your Lord to be a compassionate and generous Friend to you? Has simple, child-like faith in Him not given you all the peace your spirit could desire?(1) Can you even dream of a better friend than He has been to you? Then do not change the old and tried for the new and false.
As for the present, can that compel you to leave Christ? When we are hard-pressed with this world or with difficult trials within the church, we find it a most blessed thing to simply rest our head upon the shoulder of our Savior. This is the joy we have today, that we are saved in Him; and if this joy is satisfying, why would we think of changing? Who trades gold for dross? We will not renounce the sun until we find a better light, nor leave our Lord’s embrace until a truer lover shall appear (2). And since this can never be, we will hold onto Him with an inseparable grasp and bind His Name as a seal upon our heart.
As for the future, can you suggest anything or anyone that can arise that will render it necessary for you to mutiny or desert the old flag to serve under another captain? Surely not. If our life be long, He doesn’t change. If all should abandon us, He is a Friend who sticks closer than a brother. If we are poor, what better than to have Christ who makes us rich? When we are sick, what more do we want than Jesus to comfort and to heal? When we die, is it not written that “neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come . . . will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”(3) And so we say with Peter, “Lord, to whom shall we go?”(4)
(1) Mark 10:14
(2) Mark 10:16
(3) Romans 8:38-39
(4) John 6:68
–Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834-1892
This article also speaks about “Past, Present, Future.”
https://www.raptureready.com/2020/10/04/all-sins-are-forgiven-by-nathele-graham/
FTA: “”If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us” (1 John 1:8-10).
All sin, past, present, and future, was forgiven the moment you truly recognized that you needed forgiveness and salvation that only comes from faith in Jesus. We still sin and need to take those sins before Jesus and ask Him to forgive.
“Even the righteousness of God which is by Faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God; being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:22-24).
Take your sin to Him. He will help you overcome it. Study Scripture and apply it to your life. God doesn’t change, so what was written so long ago still applies today.”
Faith in Jesus should have changed your life. Although we can always find forgiveness, we aren’t to continue to embrace our sin. When a prostitute was brought before Jesus for condemnation, she found forgiveness instead. “…And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more” (John 8:11b). He forgave her, but He also told her to move away from the sin she embraced.
There are many “secret” ways to sin today, what with the internet that can bring much perversion into our homes. Remember, you may be able to hide sin from your spouse, your parents, or your friends, but you can’t hide it from God. Make life choices based upon Scripture and not on what the world says is acceptable. Music, movies, and video games can allow evil thoughts into our minds and hearts.
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Romans 8:5-6).
Fill your life with songs of praise and other activities that glorify Christ.
God has forgiven all your sins. Now, forgive yourself and move forward in a closer walk with Jesus.
God bless you all,
Nathele Graham” [NOTE: Author of the article]
The Christian’s Prospect
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Those of us who trust in Christ for salvation have a glorious prospect. For the present, while waiting to go to be with Him, “we have redemption, through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Eph. 1:7). In infinite love God has made us to be “accepted in the Beloved” (Eph. 1:6) and has pronounced us “complete in Him” (Col. 2:10).
Our position is now a blessed and exalted one, for God has made us to “sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:6) and has “blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” (Eph. 1:3).
But this is only the beginning, for, referring to the Christian’s death, Phil. 1:23 tells us that “to depart, and to be with Christ… is far better”; far better, not only than earth’s sorrows and troubles, but far better even than earth’s dearest treasures and joys.
But even this is not all, for the time will come when, the Church, “the Body of Christ,” having been completed, the Lord will come to receive all of its members, living and dead, to Himself. Referring to the resurrection of the deceased believer’s body, I Cor. 15 declares that “it is raised in incorruptibility” (Ver. 42), “it is raised in glory” (Ver. 43), “it is raised in power” (Ver. 43), “it is raised a spiritual body” (Ver. 44), for “as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly” (Ver. 49). And as to those believers who will be alive at His coming, he says: “We shall all be changed” (Ver. 51).
“For… we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself” (Phil. 3:20,21).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-christians-prospect/
Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Ephesians 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Colossians 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Philippians 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
1Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. …
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly…
…. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Joint-Heirs with Christ
By Justin Johnson
From the moment you trust in Christ, you become a member of the body of Christ.
Like any membership, there are immediate benefits. The benefits are given to you freely by your identification with Christ.
For example, did you know that if you were baptized into Christ you were crucified with Him?
“I am crucified with Christ…”- Gal 2:20
A dead person has already paid the penalty of death. This is a huge benefit, but what is more is that you are also resurrected with Christ.
“Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:” – Rom 6:8
Life is a great benefit. Eternal life is eternally beneficial. The power to live after death is God’s gift to all who receive benefits with Christ.
“For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.” – 2 Cor 13:4
Since you are receiving benefits with Christ, and Christ is seated in heavenly places, you also inherit a position there with him.
“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:” – Ephesians 2:5-6
When Christ died and resurrected he inherited “all things” from God (Eph 1:22), so would not you receive all things as well?
“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” – Rom 8:37
Certainly. After all, you are with Christ and enjoy all the benefits of being a member of His body (2 Cor 6:10).
“[God has] blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:”- Eph 1:3
The Mystery of Fellowheirs
Perhaps you have noticed that all of these membership benefits in Christ are found in Paul’s epistles.
This is because God revealed to Paul the mystery that by faith in the gospel you can be fellowheirs with Christ, of the same body of Christ, and partakers of his promise in Christ (Eph 3:6).
It’s only by being a joint-heir with Christ that we have access to all of these immediate benefits (Rom 8:17).
Without being a joint-heir with Him according to the mystery, we would lack a host of riches given to his sons by grace.
Without the revelation of the mystery, we would not know the riches of the glory of His inheritance, and ours (Eph 1:18).
What do Members do?
If we have all these free benefits as joint-heirs with Christ, then what is a member of the body to do?
Being a member of the body of Christ gives you the duty of labouring together with him, and the opportunity to receive rewards for proper service.
“…every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God…” – 1 Cor 3:8-9
It may be that we suffer with him, and if you do, you will reign with him.
“If we suffer, we shall also reign with him:…” – 2 Tim 2:12
In the end, because everything we receive, whether freely or by our labour, is a result of our being joint-heirs with Christ, we are glorified with him.
“When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” – Col 3:4
https://graceambassadors.com/life/joint-heirs-with-christ
A prayer for our nation. A prayer for liberty and freedom.
HAPPY EARLY AUTUMN BENCH MONDAY
“Chinese Garden Path in Autumn” Photograph by Greg Matchick…
Come over to Stella’s and see the rest of Bench Monday in photo and not link form…
https://stellasplace1.com/
Lovely Chinese garden path.
It is pretty and serene. Glad that it finally showed up in photo form.
This is an incredible one minute video. Interesting comments at the tweet as well.
Watching a New York Times columnist leave Ted Koppel “speechless” after explaining that conservative voices like @BenShapiro are more successful online than the Times and “CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC combined” is one of the best things you’ll see today.
Dinosaur media hasn’t figured out yet that they are going extinct.
And Ben Shapiro is not my favorite commentator.
Mama Gypsy Rose, “Everything’s Coming up Roses” on Broadway. That’s determination.
Cuomo Wants National Guard to Pick Up New York’s Garbage
Mon Oct 5, 2020 Daniel Greenfield
The National Guard has been filling in, in all sorts of ways, during the pandemic. Including doing things it wasn’t meant to do, like helping care for the nursing home patients whose death warrants Governor Cuomo signed when he forced nursing homes to accept over 6,000 infected coronavirus patients resulting in as many as 11,000 deaths.
But this is insulting, abusive, and just wrong.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/10/cuomo-wants-national-guard-pick-new-yorks-garbage-daniel-greenfield/
He can go pound sand.
Citizen817?
We miss you.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
WordPress intentionally did this?
Apparently true.
Should not be surprising in this moment in time.
The dark forces are attacking all sources of light and truth.
Sundance must find a way to export the blogs archives to an intermediary format for safekeeping and eventual migration to a different and secure platform.
It will be costly so once the cost is determined we all need to donate to fund the move. The site is too valuable to lose.
Would archive.org work?
Probably not. They’ve been known to remove things that lefties find objectionable.
Good to know! TY : )
Mornin’ infidels!
https://twitter.com/badluck_jones/status/1312537633520672768
Mornin WeeWeed.
Keep and eye on 26, soon to become DELTA.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/110804.shtml?cone#contents
I heard! Mornin’ Rah!
Morning WeeWeed!
Mornin’ Bari!
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
Mornin’ DI!
Evenin’ WeeWeed!
It was a great day to be an infidel!
That fish had quite a jump! Thanks for the video.
Also, stay safe if that storm continues to gain strength.
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THE BIAS OF DEGENERATION
“Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” Romans v. 12
The Bible does not say that God punished the human race for one man’s sin; but that the disposition of sin, viz., my claim to my right to myself, entered into the human race by one man, and that another Man took on Him the sin of the human race and put it away (Heb. ix. 26) – an infinitely profounder revelation. The disposition of sin is not immorality and wrong-doing, but the disposition of self-realization – I am my own god. This disposition may work out in decorous morality or in indecorous immorality, but it has the one basis, my claim to my right to myself. When Our Lord faced men with all the forces of evil in them, and men who were clean living and moral and upright, He did not pay any attention to the moral degradation of the one or to the moral attainment of the other; He looked at something we do not see, viz., the disposition.
Sin is a thing I am born with and I cannot touch it; God touches sin in Redemption. In the Cross of Jesus Christ God redeemed the whole human race from the possibility of damnation through the heredity of sin. God nowhere holds a man responsible for having the heredity of sin. The condemnation is not that I am born with a heredity of sin, but if when I realize Jesus Christ came to deliver me from it, I refuse to let Him do so, from that moment I begin to get the seal of damnation. “And this is the judgment” (the critical moment), “that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light.”
Oswald Chambers
October 5th Devotional
How do you approach a God, our Lord, and learn from a deity who is without fault, when we are riddled with faults? Every thought and gesture is wrong.
“You must come to me as little children” leaving everything behind, all knowledge and thought, any understanding of wHo we are or more important who or what God is.
LOL! 60 Minutes turns to Michael Mann, a proven liar, demonstrably terrible scientist, and general A-hole, to make the case the wildfires in California were a result of human caused climate change. No opportunity given for rebuttal of course.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/05/a-manntastic-60-minutes-interview-yields-nothing-new/
60 Minutes has always been a leftwing smear outfit. Going back to the 90s when Mike Wallace “officially debunked” all the conspiracy theories about Vince Foster and formally declared his suicide case closed. And yes, he was a friend and frequent visitor of the Clintons over the years and often took his kid Chris along. Father and son both, registered Democrats.
Wonder why they arrested so arsonists….guess they all have the same family name …climate change!
Or how it stops at the California borders?
Verse of the Day for Monday, October 5, 2020
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“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Have a Blessed Week!!!
I hope we get all our baby messages and pictures back.
Baby Lives Matter.
When having made a comment here on CTH, if i want to see if there are any comments where a reply or a like to acknowledge a reply might be there at the end of my comment, if I click onto Stella’s Place beautiful WP blog site I can see the notification bell, however
when I click onto the Last Refuge WP blog link on Stella’s Place WP site, in order to return to CTH I receive this message:
“This site can’t be found. theconservativetreehouse server IP address could not be found”
WP is really doing a number to block people from reaching the site. Godspeed Sundance and all the moderators.
p.s. Also noted, the time it took for my above comment to post was just short of 5 minutes; and when I wanted to make this p.s. comment I had to leave this site due to a “wait or leave this page” timeout message. I left the page, returned to make this p.s. comment and that “wait or leave this page” message keeps trying to intrude itself. Hoping to see if this p.s. comment shows, just for the purpose of letting the admins know how access is, is not, working from a desktop, chrome, user.
“the time it took for my above comment to post was just short of 5 minutes;”
I have had just the opposite with my desktop. I previously had lots of problems before this current snafu.
Now they are fixed and my posts appear faster than ever before. I was the 1st & 2nd and the 1st, 2nd & 3rd commenter on the OT over the weekend.
Android phone, which I am using now, still has the same issues as previously described.
https://theconservativetreehouse.wpcomstaging.com/2020/10/04/dr-sean-conley-physician-to-the-president-provides-an-update-on-president-trump/comment-page-1/#comment-8856398
Unseal and release all of Obama’s personal life history documents/records from the time of his birth through to his election to the Senate.
Requesting for an avid Obama supporter.
And a good idea – to check and see if obama followed all the rules, since it turns out that even Crissy Wallace thinks rules must be followed by everyone….
Just one of those songs ya can’t listen to, and not smile…
I made a p.s. comment to my comment on how access from other sites is not happening and that comment has either disappeared, or perhaps it ended up in the moderation zone.
I had used the “reply” link to send that p.s. comment which disappeared; this comment is a stand alone ‘leave a reply’ comment box use.
the p.s. was that when making a p.s. comment I was saying that the, dang, I forgot what I said verbatim, but basically it took just under 5 minutes for the ‘submitting comment’ process to actually post – and then it disappeared, either into the ethers or the modification zone.
Simply sharing to let the site know this is happening, and it could just be nothing; but sharing should it be something needed while rebuilding the damage the hosting platform has been toying with.
Posting from a desktop, using chrome.
Totally agree bessie. Something is up for sure. I commented above and my browser address stays in “theconservativetreehouse.wpcomstaging.com” and never changes.
“They” are trying to get us to not post.
p.p.s. I see what’s going on – the first p.s. showed about 1 minute after the second one I did was sent – so a time delay is happening. this will be the last one. Thank you moderators for all you do!
But God…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bqRpVEDPac
Local schools are scheduled to open today at 25% capacity.
Yesterday teachers & union sympathizers protested at the school district HQ claiming that they should be given the option to teach from home just as student were given the option to stay home.
OK then. Either teach at a school or stay home with NO PAY.
That should be their ONLY options.
They already had 3 months (March-May) paid vacations this year.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313186529058136070?s=20
The fastest way I have found is to do a ‘reply’ to a post or go the bottom and ‘leave a comment’. If you’re not logged in, a box will open wanting your credentials. Fill it in, after the first time the info will be suggested, just click them. Then ignore the two options on “log in using” or “log in with”.
(I’m trying to remember here, bear with me.) I think I then hit ‘reply’, and another box opens allowing you to log in with WP. Click the logo, then click the ‘suggestion’ for credentials and ‘log in’, and you’re here!
Clicking a ‘like’ if you’re not logged in will open a sign-in box that works, but (for me, at least) usually takes about 1/2 hour to be recognized.
W10, Pale Moon, HP laptop. YMMV.
Hope that helps
Stella – Finally have my avatar and the bell back! Now I’m seeing replies to other’s posts that I was not involved with. Wondering if WP maybe hired Hillary’s old friends (OScare website) to “fix” this snafu?
Thanks Stella….
Whitmer and MI Supreme Court Ruling.
Far too many news sites – both controlled media AND conservative groups here in the state that drove anti lockdown rallies and recall efforts – are spreading complete misinformation regarding the ruling and how it applies to witch Whitmer’s unconstitutional executive orders.
They keep repeating that covid emergency power based executive orders issued after April 30th are null and void.
WRONG. All of her executive orders EVER issued that leverage the Emergency Powers of the Governors of 1945, which is every single covid related order and all the sub orders/ agendas such as school re opening to football stadium attendance to HS soccer players wearing masks in games to restaurant layouts – (originally termed the Anti Riot Act) are null and void. Right now. Period.
Exactly why her unhinged nasty AG held a little press conference yesterday to say “ummm, yeah, I’m not enforcing any orders with criminal penalties anymore. Thanks. Bye”. If a state trooper tased a soccer mom for not wearing a mask today, that’s 10 million right there. The AG knows it.
Sorry for rant … yet 99% of the compliant MI populace will actually read the court ruling. It truly is work of art. Thoughtful, clear, and the majority slams the slimy liberal minority for their wild public left wing blathering regarding the ruling. With logic.
Every single business here can go right back and operate any way they want. But most wont. The prison gate will open yet few will venture out for quite awhile. A county health agency has zero power to declare an emergency. Force a mask. Same as the state. Sheriffs office every county will not get near enforcing ANY so called mandate. Smart crew they are.
You folks may have no idea just how evil Gretchen Whitmer really is. She killed senior citizens and caused unreal havoc, upended the lives of millions, and she is always the victim. And she knew damn well the law she leveraged was purely to combat race riots a d was a complete unconstitutional delegation of legislative power. It should have been struck down in 1945.
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Reminded of this Corrie Ten Boom quote when I heard it on a podcast today.
“If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.”
A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
Amen
Over the weekend, Sundance put up a thread that explains how our government now functions and who influences our legislation at this point in time. In that thread, I tried to add some ideas regarding the relative role and power of nonprofit organizations (501(c)3) in the District of Columbia and, to some extent, globally (since foreign entities can operate NGOs on U.S. soil, and both domestic, as well as foreign nonprofit organizations have a good deal of power everywhere in the world, but especially in D.C.).
Someone pointed out to me this article about Non Governmental Office (NGO – this is the foreign term and acronym for nonprofit organizations outside the U.S.):
https://europe.infowars.com/greece-shocking-details-in-case-against-ngo-operatives-accused-of-espionage-human-smuggling/
At one point, our Congress tried to investigate nonprofit organizations in our nation through the formation of the Reece Committee and yet this working group was smeared, hindered and eventually shut down by socialist agents within our own government (the same ones that went after Senator McCarthy):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_to_Investigate_Tax-Exempt_Foundations_and_Comparable_Organizations
Many nonprofits are truly operated for good reasons and represent some of the finest missions of any organization (e.g. feeding the poor, taking care of the elderly, helping children with the materials needed to have some form of decent living).
Yet, there are those organizations that are no joke, and wish to change the “fabric of America”. Many of them wield significant power and do cause a good deal of our national problems, as well as those of other nations. Ms. Stanley Ann Dunham and her work for both the Ford Foundation, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency comes to mind with regard to Indonesia, and I would concede that she was a relatively small player in the schematic of things.
Just food for thought.
Wishing you all well.
Today I put in to take vacation days November 3rd and 4th as I said I would. Also put in for Thanksgiving day.
I’m at home now simply because I am the ONLY salary driver they’ve got right now to cover in an emergency. Randy is on vacation because he had 4 days he had to use or he would lose them and they had to team up the other four to do Laredo runs. I told the boss the pace they have been working us at is not sustainable over a month ago but it hasn’t let up and now I am starting to hear grumbling from some of the others about the work load.
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