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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You post the best photos, Leon – are they yours?
Good morning, Spring is definitely here. 🙂
Sometimes you just have to sit back and smile. You gotta’ love Spain. . .
Rita Payes is one of Joan Chamorro’s students from his music school in Barcelona. She can perform in 3 or 4 languages and play great jazz on several instruments. Pretty impressive for someone who’s just in her early 20’s. Wow. Her collaboration with Elizabeth Roma was a good match. The two work together very well, I think.
Alfonsina y el Mar is a famous haunting melody from Argentina . . . Rita’s performance here reveals an emotional maturity well beyond her years. She really gets it. Elizabeth’s guitar accompaniment is perfect. This is minimal music that also has the magic of perfection. This is what makes makin’ music fun!
Conversation Peace
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
“Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel” (Phil. 1:27).
Interestingly, whenever Paul uses the phrase “stand fast,” it is always to challenge people to stand fast in an area in which they were not standing fast! For instance, he tells the Corinthians to “stand fast in the faith” (I Cor. 16:13), for they had lost their faith in one of the fundamentals of the faith, the resurrection (I Cor. 15:12-50). He told the Galatians to “stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free” (Gal. 5:1) because they were forsaking grace for the law. He told the Thessalonians to “stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught” (II Thes. 2:15), especially the “tradition” of working for a living (3:7-12). The Thessalonians had become so excited about the Rapture that many of them quit their jobs in anticipation of the Lord’s coming!
But here in Philippians 1:27, Paul tells the Philippians to “stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.” This is because two ladies in the church were quarreling (4:2), and some in the church were siding with Euodias and some with Syntyche. “Striving together” is the Greek word sunathleo. The prefix sun means together with, and athleo is the word from which we get athlete and athletics. Athletes are often teammates who must strive together to achieve a common victory, and this is what Paul was calling on the Philippians to do for the cause of Christ.
Notice Paul isn’t talking about faith in the gospel. The faith of the gospel is our faithfulness or fidelity to maintaining the gospel as God gave it, just as old “high-fi” or “high-fidelity” records claimed to be highly faithful to the sound recorded in the studio. We are to strive together to maintain fidelity to the gospel God gave to Paul.
Finally, Paul does not say we should strive with one another for the faith of the gospel. He rather says we should be striving “together” as those who see the fellowship of the mystery with those who don’t. With all the talk about “peace on earth”, how refreshing it would be if we could enjoy the “conversation peace” Paul longed to see in Philippi! (Psa. 133:1; Eph. 4:3).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/conversation-peace/
Philippians 1:27 ¶ Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
1 Corinthians 16:13 ¶ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Galatians 5:1 ¶ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
2 Thessalonians 3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Philippians 4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
Psalm 133:1 ¶ <<A Song of degrees of David.>> Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Ephesians 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
I got one yesterday on my business line that has never been used in conjunction with Social Security. It was quite ominous and would catch many people. The come on is to call a number and get it fixed. I would guess the first question would be your SS# to help identify the caller.
Thanks for giving people the heads up on this scam.
You get $1400 now and junior gets saddled with another $25,000 of debt his and future generations will have to deal with.
Ez 47:1-9, 12
The angel brought me, Ezekiel,
back to the entrance of the temple of the LORD,
and I saw water flowing out
from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east,
for the façade of the temple was toward the east;
the water flowed down from the right side of the temple,
south of the altar.
Sucky weather.
Driving the big truck back from Portland, TN the weather got progressively worse as I went further north on I-65. Rain all the way but getting colder the further north I went. Close to home it was freezing rain. When I had gotten back to the yard and dropped the trailer in a door and did my post trip inspection, fueled, and parked the truck my wife called and said the power was out at the house. The swing on our deck had been blown over, and a large branch had been torn off of one of our willow trees.
We were without power from about 15:30 to 23:45. Yep. As soon as I see where we stand with the medical bills that whole house generator is a priority. That is enough!
You drove right by my house. I agree, to both. Sucky weather and generator shopping.
In addition, if anyone has a wood-burning fireplace, it sure wouldn’t hurt to test it out with your trusty carbon monoxide detector, get it in good working order, and have a supply of firewood stacked on one of those racks that keep the wood off the ground.
I used to view working fireplaces as a nuisance, and that they make a lot of mess for not much in return. Not anymore. I know of a family here that kept warm that way during our prolonged electricity outage here in Texas.
I have been considering doing something with an outside fire pit and one of those smokeless fire stoves. I want to combine it with a flat trampoline setup, so I would be digging a big round hole, and make a rim to receive the trampoline (for happier times!) and then shape a seat all around, with some steps down. I may need to tie in to the municipal drain. Then what, a tepee cover and an insulated chimney thingie?
Anyway, I’ve needed to add soil to level the yard, and this gets me the soil I need.
It doesn’t hurt to have a plan B for when the generator runs out of diesel.
We have a fireplace and I used it yesterday when the power was out. I also have a portable generator in the garage that I can run my furnace and fridge and a light or two and TV with but I didn’t feel like digging it out. Places a mile away from me along our line had power and so I knew the outage was local.
Our lines run through a bunch of woods. They haven’t come through and cleared the trees from those lines for years and that is where a big part of the problem lies. We’re at the end of line for both electrical and cable service.
Morning Treepers. Bad storms here, and a rainy week ahead. Hope weather is better wherever you are.
God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has commited some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
— St. John Henry Newman
Soooo good Menagerie ~ Thanks! and be safe…
A soul punch.
Thank you !
Enjoy the official music video of “Feel Like Going Home” by Mark Knopfler’s The Notting Hillbillies. The song was released on the album “Missing…Presumed Having a Good Time” in 1990.
The Bangles – Walk Like an Egyptian
THE MASTER ASSIZES
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” 2 Cor. v. 10
Paul says that we must all, preacher and people alike, “appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” If you learn to live in the white light of Christ here and now, judgment finally will cause you to delight in the work of God in you. Keep yourself steadily faced by the judgment seat of Christ; walk now in the light of the holiest you know. A wrong temper of mind about another soul will end in the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. One carnal judgment, and the end of it is hell in you. Drag it to the light at once and say – “My God, I have been guilty there.” If you don’t, hardness will come all through. The penalty of sin is confirmation in sin; sin confirms itself in the sinner and gives back full pay. No struggling nor praying will enable you to stop doing some things, and the penalty of sin is that gradually you get used to it and do not know that it is sin. No power save the incoming of the Holy Ghost can alter the inherent consequences of sin.
“But if we walk in the light AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT.” Walking in the light means for many of us walking according to our standard for another person. The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
Oswald Chambers
March 16th Devotional
Cookie Test!
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XX – Marietta’s Unfitness Revealed by Contrast
20:1
“Listen, Marietta,” said the angel; and with her right hand she pressed my temples, and lo! from that deep silence came forth music like the angelic breath, of the most inward and hallowed life of the spirit. I could scarcely hear it; still in softest melody it moved over the octavian organism of my inward being. Until then I had not known that within me were elements which could be awakened to such symphony; or if tuned, could vibrate to the touch of such sacred and interior melody. For surely it appeared like the spirit of interior song. As the notes of that spirit of music arose, I thought a new nature was given me to enable me to realize harmony so perfect; and I seemed to blend with it, until my own violation sought to unite, and then – oh! then – I felt the effects of a soul unstrung. Note after note from the invisible source approached this inward life of mine, but no more moved in unison with the music chords of my being; since in striving to blend in the movement they produced discord, and the several cadences were by it repelled and broken like the fall of smooth waters upon some rocky and uneven surface. The music became harsh to me, in that I knew my unlikeness to its nature. Then I suffered. Oh! the agony of that moment. The contrast was dreadful. Every part of my being was out of order. The waves of harmony that moved softly and gently throughout the dome, fell like disturbed waters into my unfitted and discordant heart. I fain would have escaped, for any other condition would be preferable by far. I thought even the arena of mimic worship would better comport with my nature, and there I could more easily harmonize with the prevailing law. But I could not escape. I was a perfect wreck; and each moment rendered my condition more awful, until an hour would appear an age. At length I cried in the bitterness of my soul, “Away; oh! let me fly from this scene. Other music has filled me with delight – other melody rendered me happy. To it I listened; and while I heard I drank in the spirit of the sacred song. But now, by some unknown law, I am prompted to attempt union with this harmonious sweetness, and lo! I am in my unhallowed nature discovered. All are witnesses of my discordance; and to myself I now appear unfit for angelic association, and lost beyond redemption. My spirit is wounded, broken, fallen; no part thereof is adapted to its fellow. Oh! let me fly away where darkness, with her sable pall, may hide me forever from myself. Angel, veil, oh! veil this light that discovers my deformity, and save me from the torments of this angelic harmony. Oh! is there a deeper hell? Should demons mock around the lost spirit, there would be nothing to awaken this new life, or by calling into action the unstrung spiritual being, crush it with a sense of its unfitness; and no other power but this interior harmony can touch the spirit’s most conscious element, and break up the hidden fountains of the unstrung and unsanctified soul.”
Thus I plead to be released by some method, from the light, the harmony, and the bliss that filled to the utmost capacity of enjoyment, the great congregation. My suffering was beyond expression, and yet at the time I did not consider the cause any farther than the fact that my soul was unstrung. I realized my entire unfitness for the employment, the society, and the happiness of the members of that paradise. On former occasions I had desired to be admitted with them, and to ever abide in that holy sanctuary, but had not properly considered what qualifications were wanting in me, in order that I could join them in their holy anthems. True, I had witnessed the deformity of the infant spirit, and had with wonder beheld the operations of Grace in its restoration; but never had I understandingly applied this knowledge to myself.
To be continued…
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (Psalm 51 KJV)
The Prayer of Saint Ephraim of Syria (+ 373) has been translated into English with various wordings, although the sequence of prostrations and bows are consistent.
The Saint calls upon God to help him remove four passions and replace them with four virtues. And especially to ask God to “grant me to see my own faults and not to condemn my brother.”
The Holy Fathers of the Church saw it was fitting to include this prayer in Great Lent services and for private prayers.
Revival in the land.
Luke Bryan – Play It Again
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.
Mornin’ infidels!
Mornin’ WeeWeed
Mornin’ DI!
Clearly someone is telling The Big Lie. Now the only question is who.
You might want to take deep breath’s while watching this video because your blood pressure is going to go through the roof. May I suggest you send this video to everyone you knowFisted hand. Who else feels betrayed by Thinking face, there’s to many to list Face with look of triumph
Dr. Derick Knauss, PhD in virology and immunology is a clinical lab scientist and tested 1500 “supposed” positive Covid 19 samples collected here in S. California. When his lab team did the testing through Koch’s postulates and observation under a SEM (scanning electron microscope), we found NO Covid in any of the 1500 samples.
What we found was that all of the 1500 samples were mostly Influenza A and some were influenza B, but not a single case of Covid, and we did not use the B.S. PCR test.
FrontPage Magazine is being deplatformed by Disqus, as of tomorrow, March 17:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/disqus-de-platforming-frontpage-frontpage-editors/
Southern Poverty Law Center. I’ve never been able to tell if they were just money grubbers or a communist front. Maybe they’re both.
From Conservative Hardliner:
A few critical items for conservatives https://conservativehardliner.com/few-critical-items-conservatives
March 15, 2021 by DC
“Let me leave you with a few points:
“Take note of the little battles that are being won to lay the groundwork for winning the war. It’s easy to be manipulated into thinking things are dire, but they’re not. From the Capitol Building lie to the lie about President Trump on the call with the Georgia Secretary of State, we’re still advancing.”
Edited. Testing lists.
A note about something at the end of this article: Even now there are people who have fallen for the old Democratic campaign to spread disinformation about Sen. Joseph McCarthy. They should know better. Time has proven him right. Hollywood and academia really were infested by Communist agents and their hangers on.
Well it’s time to get cleaned up to go to work. Another run to Smithville. Got some heavy fog here right now. Supposed to burn off this afternoon. Hope it happens real soon. Otherwise the first part of the trip is going to be slow going.
Safe trip.
I missed this from Glenn Reynolds a few days ago:
To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/to-beat-woke-tyrants-rest-of-us-must-treat-them-like-monsters/
Glenn H. Reynolds March 11, 2021 | 6:48pm
“Most Americans hate woke politics — and most minorities don’t share “woke” priorities. Indeed, according to pollster David Shor, woke excesses are causing black voters to flee the Democratic Party. Despite endless charges of “racism,” former President Donald Trump took the biggest share of minority voters of any Republican in my lifetime.
“Woke tyrants ride high, even so; according to a Cato/YouGov poll, 62 percent of Americans self-censor their political expression. Only a tiny minority of consumers care about Mr. Potato Head’s toxic masculinity, about “Aunt Jemima” as a brand or about the #MeToo aggressions of Pepé Le Pew. Yet corporations, universities and governments rush to placate that minuscule slice of the population, trashing large chunks of our culture in the process.
“It’s happening not because anybody voted for it, but because a small but determined and vicious minority is bullying people to go along, relying on cowardice and groupthink to achieve ends that could never happen via majority vote: How do you think Dr. Seuss would have done in a referendum?”
“The relentless de-platforming of conservatives in general and of the David Horowitz Freedom Center specifically, continues.
That was it. As of tomorrow, March 17th, Disqus is de-platforming us. They have refused to respond to inquiries seeking further explanation. Disqus has taken on faith the libelous accusations of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a widely-discredited, partisan group that frequently characterizes mainstream conservative organizations as “hate groups.”
As loyal and dedicated readers of FrontPageMag.com, you know how vital the comments section is to a website. It engages the readers, provides a platform for lively debate and discussion, and allows for a community of like-minded readers to converse with each other. Comments are critical to the lifeblood of a website that engages in opinion and discussion.
Rest assured, we will still have comments flowing tomorrow. We are switching to a new service and while the look and feel will be a little different, we ask for your patience in getting used to the new section.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/disqus-de-platforming-frontpage-frontpage-editors/
Keepin It Classy 😛
In Sharyl Attkisson’s case the judge has dismissed the case against two of the agents involved, Rod Rosenstein and Shawn Henry:
https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/03/new-decision-in-attkisson-government-computer-intrusion-case/?fbclid=IwAR0ZZ3bZIRTs-cKsp7tVdF18AJ5BIG6mV-cf_UsHofrLRzA4XSBz5FJniYU
ChiComs coming to Anchorage Thursday to meet Blinken and the politburo from the Cringelin in D.C. Did any of them get their shots? Japanese prime minister did for his April trip to meet JoeBama. https://www.ntd.com/trump-says-he-would-never-meet-china-in-anchorage-like-biden-officials-are-doing_582301.html https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/us-china-meeting-alaska-blinken-wang-biden-xi-trade-war-quad-14419668
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen.
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