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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I need to get the word out- the GOP reorganization for KY is coming up! Check your county party for details. I’m in McCracken county and ours is June 5th 9 am at the convention center! We must replace the RINO leadership!
Need to replace your democrat governor also.
Good luck and prayers for your success
God’s Purpose in Satan’s Hindrance
By Pastor Kevin Sadler
“Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us” (1 Thes. 2:18).
God has a plan for each of our lives, a plan that is for our good and His glory. We should not forget, however, that Satan has a plan for the believer’s life as well. His designs are for destroying our lives and testimony for Christ through sin, false beliefs, and poor decisions. Paul’s mention of “the wiles of the devil” in Ephesians 6:11 teaches us that Satan has strategies, methods, and schemes to make us fall or run away in the spiritual battle. Satan can’t take away your salvation (Col. 3:3), but he can destroy your testimony. Like a thief, he can also rob you of your joy in Christ and your assurance of salvation.
After establishing the church at Thessalonica, Paul had tried “once and again” to reconnect and visit them, but it had not worked out. The reason, Paul wrote, was that “Satan hindered us.” The Greek word for “hindered” is used of making a road impassable. In the context of athletics, it meant cutting someone off during a race. In a military context, it referred to cutting a trench in front of an advancing army to prevent the enemy’s progress. Satan does the same thing in our Christian lives: he blocks the path, cuts us off in mid-stride to trip us up, or impedes our spiritual progress.
We do not know specifically what Satan did to keep Paul from going back to Thessalonica, but we do know that Paul attributed the obstruction to Satan himself. However, we see now how even Satan’s hindrance was part of God’s providence for Paul’s life. God allowed and used Satan’s opposition and brought good out of this roadblock which Paul perceived as bad. As He did with the Cross, God accomplished His own purposes, using the devil to do so.
The consequence of Paul’s inability to go to Thessalonica was the writing of a letter, a letter that became part of our Bible. This letter, in turn, has resulted in glory to God and, for the past 2000 years, untold multitudes have benefited from Paul’s First Epistle to the Thessalonians and have been blessed by its divine truths — our blessed hope of the Rapture (4:13-18), to name just one. It was because Paul faced a satanic roadblock in his life that we have 1 Thessalonians. We do well to remember this anytime we face a blocked road or barrier in life that we perceive as bad, because God can work to bring something good out of it for His glory and our blessing.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/gods-purpose-in-satans-hindrance/
1 Thessalonians 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 ¶ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
RIP Eva. You passed much too soon. Long may you wave darlin’ . . 🙂
I usually observe a self-imposed limit of 3 performance per post. However, I just happened upon this one and found it so compelling that it seemed appropriate to post it. There aren’t many Eva performances where she is backed by a full orchestra. This is just another example of how this wonderful artist left us much too soon. Agatin: RIP Eva.
Eva cassidys rendition of somewhere over the rainbow makes both my husband and me cry every single time…..best ever! Rip Eva. Why God takes the young is beyond me but Heaven is even better with Eva s voice. We can all enjoy her recordings here…double blessing! If you can post somewhere over the rainbow Garrrison…I think all will be moved. I don’t know how to do that, otherwise I would.
Good idea. If ever there was an honest expression of hope this is it. May we all find those blue skies . . . 🙂
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Thank you! That was lovely!!!!
I’ve posted this before here, but for those who don’t know, all of the Eva clips with the brick background and round Blues Alley sign are from one show and Eva had a bad cold at the time. So those performances are even more remarkable! She left us less than a year later; so very sad.
Thank you!!!!! And Thank you Garrison, for posting it!
First I heard Eva was on npr! O Danny boy and the story was amazing. I don’t listen to nor anymore but am thankful for learning about Eva Cassidy.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (Psalm 51 KJV).
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.
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
(From Pascha or the Lord’s Bright Resurrection through the Feast of the Lord’s Holy Ascension, Orthodox Christians use this greeting. This is a joyous rebuke to suffocating secularism.)
The Paschal Troparion
Christ is risen from the dead, by death hath He trampled down death and on those in the graves hath He bestowed life.
(sung thrice)
Well I see the Chinese space junk came down in the Indian Ocean. I doubt anyone here lost any sleep worrying about where it would come down. Over 70% of the earth surface covered in oceans.
“Ocean Acidification”
The claim is that increasing atmospheric CO2 will cause the oceans to “acidify”. It is one of those scare tactics the left is using to push their radical “climate Change” agenda which is really about forced social/political change through the redistribution of wealth with the UN being in control.
The very term “Ocean Acidification” is totally misleading hype. Sea water has about the same pH as our blood. It is Alkaline or Base. That being opposite of Acidic.
Any so called scientist or any politician that claims that the oceans are getting acidic is a liar or an idiot.
Look at this graph understanding that the current atmospheric level of CO2 is less than 415 parts per million (ppm):
Hard corals and bivalves first appear in the fossil record in samples from Ordovician when atmospheric CO2 levels were somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 ppm depending on which source one believes. In fact according to the fossil record the greatest explosion of sea life on earth occurred during that period. How can any so called scientist concentrating on studying corals and other reef life in their environment and declaring “ocean acidification” has a negative effect on such life claim not to know this?
Then look at the Cambrian period before the Ordovician when CO2 levels peaked 2-3,000 higher!
Also notice that CO2 levels do not correspond to temperature.
Climate change is about wealth redistribution and controlling the U.S. Big money.
The green tree has red roots.
They don’t even know what the weather will be next Thursday, how do they know what it was 600 million years ago?
It is called paleo evidence. Fossils revealing the characteristics of the animals and plants, both big from the big to the microscopic, and the types of rocks that formed tell much of the story. Much of the evidence is found in cores taken from ocean sediments that have laid un disturbed for 100’s of millions of years. In some cases gases from the specific periods have been trapped allowing direct sampling of what the atmosphere was like at the time they were trapped.
Then there are the Milankovitch Cycles which tell us what the distance and attitude of our planet was relative to the sun at a given time there by effecting the amount of insolation and which hemisphere is getting it.
It is a compilation of evidence from many scientific disciplines. That evidence is subjected to the Scientific method. We actually KNOW very little as facts but a theory that stands the test of time, as the chart you questioning has, without being falsified is what is accepted as most likely until it is demonstrated to be flawed or incorrect by new evidence or advances in technology or methods of testing and interpreting the existing evidence.
I highly suggest anyone interested in science watch this video as the brilliant theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman, explains the Scientific Method.
It is called paleo evidence. Fossils revealing the characteristics of the animals and plants, from the big to the microscopic, and the types of rocks that formed tell much of the story. Much of the evidence is found in cores taken from ocean sediments that have laid undisturbed for 100’s of millions of years. In some cases gases from the specific periods have been trapped allowing direct sampling of what the atmosphere was like at the time they were trapped.
Then there are the Milankovitch Cycles which tell us what the distance and attitude of our planet was relative to the sun at a given time there by effecting the amount of insolation and which hemisphere is getting it.
It is a compilation of evidence from many scientific disciplines. That evidence is subjected to the Scientific method. We actually KNOW very little as facts but a theory that stands the test of time, as the chart you questioning has, without being falsified is what is accepted as most likely until it is demonstrated to be flawed or incorrect by new evidence or advances in technology or methods of testing and interpreting the existing evidence.
I highly suggest anyone interested in science watch this video as the brilliant theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman, explains the Scientific Method.
Verse of the Day for Sunday, May 9, 2021
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“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10 (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.
Happy Mother’s Day infidels!
Good afternoon WeeWeed
Good morning Treepers. I submit that modest is a virtue we dearly need to re-commit to teaching our young people. And older too, as I sometimes see. I am privileged to know some you women who have been home schooled. Almost all are very modest, self confident, and that means knowing their own great worth a person, their own dignity. I submit that teaching modestly contributes to healthy self respect.
https://www.familiesofcharacter.com/devblog10809/modesty-in-a-kardashian-world
GRASP WITHOUT REACH
“Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint.” Proverbs xxix. 18 (R.V.)
There is a difference between an ideal and a vision. An ideal has no moral inspiration; a vision has. The people who give themselves over to ideals rarely DO anything. A man’s conception of Deity may be used to justify his deliberate neglect of his duty. Jonah argued that because God was a God of justice and of mercy, therefore everything would be all right. I may have a right conception of God, and that may be the very reason why I do not do my duty. But wherever there is vision, there is also a life of rectitude because the vision imparts moral incentive.
Ideals may lull to ruin. Take stock of yourself spiritually and see whether you have ideals only or if you have vision.
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?”
“Where there is no vision….” When once we lose sight of God, we begin to be reckless, we cast off certain restraints, we cast off praying, we cast off the vision of God in little things, and begin to act on our own initiative. If we are eating what we have out of our own hand, doing things on our own initiative without expecting God to come in, we are on the downward path, we have lost the vision. Is our attitude today an attitude that springs from our vision of God? Are we expecting God to do greater things than He has ever done? Is there a freshness and vigour in our spiritual outlook?
Oswald Chambers
May 9th Devotional
Yesterday the wind finally allowed me to burn off the 6 foot high pile of dead fall and the cut up parts of my damaged willow that are not suitable for fire wood. My rolled carbon steel fire ring is about 6 feet in diameter and 18″ high sitting on fire bricks to allow air to pass under the steel ring. It sits in the center of a 3″ thick bed of pea gravel that is round and about 15 feet in diameter.
Sherry and I spent more than an hour pulling and raking the weeds out of the pea gravel and throwing them in the fire along with the leaves raked out of our rock and flower beds around the house. Before I came in for late dinner I put a big log on the smoldering fire.
It is raining now and has been raining pretty much all night and yet when I looked out the kitchen window at the fire ring at 08:30 this dreary wet morning I saw there is still smoke rising from it.
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I don’t know if thus will work! happy Mother’s Day to all who have had the privilege of hearing that word screamed!!! ❤️
Sorry, it didn’t work!!!!!
Good Morning!
Happy Birthing Person’s Day!
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“Dr. Rachel Levine was not a particularly aggressive football player at the elite all-boys school she attended in Massachusetts four decades ago. She loved drama and glee club, but when it came to football, she said, “I told the coach, ‘Well, I’ll tackle, but I don’t want to hurt them.’”
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https://dnyuz.com/2021/05/08/this-is-politics-dr-rachel-levines-rise-as-transgender-issues-gain-prominence/
F-Y-I… not The Onion.
Love those teeth!
Maybe should expound, they are from drugs, probably for severe mental problems.
Looks like tetracycline given as a young child, before adult teeth come in. Me, too, but I finally got up the nerve and $$$ to get veneers. Veneers are translucent, so have to get the best by the best for it to even sort of turn out.
If Liz Cheney had an older sister, she’d look like…………………ah, never mind.
Like Hell.
We have barn swallows at our place during the summer. They nest in the unused chimney of my neighbors garage. When mowing during the summer they swop down around us as we mow picking off the insects the mower stirs up. Amazingly quick.
In the evening just before sunset they fly in formation in a circle. As their formation passes by their chimney nesting place one bird peels off and goes down in. On the next circuit another goes. And so it goes until all are safety in their nests which are adhered to the inside wall of the chimney.
Then the little brown bats take over.
Have witnessed this happen as well. Amazing how the change in residential shifts takes place.
Blast from the past.
Fun video – one year on a game trail in Northern Minnesota (about 15 minutes in length):
That tree is not gonna make it!
Sunday of Saint Thomas
On this day, the second Sunday of Pascha, we inaugurate the celebration of the Feast of Christ’s Resurrection, which revolves in a weekly cycle, and also the saving confession of the Apostle Thomas when he saw the hands and side of the Risen Lord.
From the Synaxarion.
Thomas Sunday
Dismissal Hymn
Whilst the tomb was sealed, Thou, O Life, didst shine forth from the grave, O Christ God; and whilst the doors were shut, Thou didst come unto Thy disciples, O Resurrection of all, renewing through them an upright Spirit in us according to Thy great mercy.
Thomas Sunday
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With his searching right hand, Thomas did probe Thy life-bestowing side, O Christ God; for when Thou didst enter whilst the doors were shut, he cried out unto Thee with the rest of the disciples: Thou art my Lord and my God.
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.
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Calling Duterte by Filipinos over his ChiCom grabbing of the ankles. sounds like Biden.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1429445/robredo-hits-dutertes-pro-china-stance-on-wps
https://opinion.inquirer.net/140086/what-explains-dutertes-behavior-toward-china
Apparently, the current lumber shortage has been a problem at least two years in the making. Starting with a pile of lumber misgraded in Europe.
The newest aspect, the prices have gotten so high that Russian lumber is now in play, with all of the layers of bribes required to get a sale.
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