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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Ha! The little Piney squirrel (Technically known as the North American Red Squirrel) will run Fox squirrels and Gray squirrels off by going after their testicles in a fight. I have not seen that, but I have seen that neither Gray nor Fox squirrels will stand up to a Piney and run away every time even though the Piney is smaller.
“…going after their testicles…”
The GOP could take some lessons!
Darn this cute praying squirrel, he is making me struggle with my usual sentiment of wanting to shoot all bird feeder thieves.
So Soon
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
How highly the Galatian believers had esteemed Paul; how heartily they had loved him when he had first come to them proclaiming grace! The Apostle recalls it in Galatians 4:13-15:
“Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
“And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
“Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.”
How happy in grace, how thoroughly blessed, had the Galatian Christians been — when Paul was with them! But let the Apostle turn his back, as it were; let the legalizers come courting on the morrow and suddenly these same believers were ready to go back under the Law. “So soon” had they fallen from grace! The Apostle was dumbfounded! “I marvel,” he says, “that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel”(Gal.1:6).
How unspeakably sad! And how natural that, hearing the news, the Apostle should sit down immediately to write them this urgent epistle, in large letters.
The temptations to “fall from grace” are as great today as they ever were. It would be well, therefore, to read this letter to the Galatians often so that we might be among those who “stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free” (Gal.5:1).
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/so-soon/
Galatians 4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Galatians 1:6 ¶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
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.
Things hadn’t worked out in Tucson. Sometimes you just need to work a bit harder but sometimes, it all just doesn’t feel right. Looking back, I was expecting something which may not have been there at all. I’d convinced myself it would be good for both of us but that was complicated by the fact that she had a job she liked, liked where we lived. We hadn’t had the What Comes Next talk. She’d driven out with me to help me get set up and it had been a good trip. We were always good traveling companions . . .
And so I turned around and headed back to Texas. I loved her deeply but when my job ended I felt like a failure. Did she really need someone like me, I thought? As the miles went on, I knew I wasn’t coming home in defeat. Instead, I was coming home because something didn’t turn out right. Our life together didn’t have to end because of that. Emotionally, that was huge difference.
I was simply coming home to try something else.
I’d driven straight through El Paso and when I hit Ft. Stockton it was time to take a break. It was about 3AM or so—a time when there’s nobody on the road except long-distance travelers—and there was a brightly lit roadhouse café sitting right on I-10. It was the kind of place that never closed, served a great cup of coffee and good food if you needed it. After driving so many hours, after thinking through all that had happened and come out the other side in one piece, that roadside café felt like an Oasis.
The first time I heard “5 O’clock In The Texas Morning” I immediately understood what Michael Martin Murphy was talking about in his song. The big difference for me, the important difference, is that it was me who’d left—and now I was returning to someone I loved deeply. Make or break we were going to do it together. That café was so perfectly the kind of place that he was singing about. I’ve always thought it was that place. It sure was for me.
Guy Clark once titled one of his albums, “Somedays the song writes you”. This song by Michael Martin Murphey is definitely one of those kids of songs. It tells a story of romance, of loss, love of animals, and magic. The story itself is so cinematic even though I’ve listened to it for some 46 years now I can still see the movie version when I hear him sing. “Wildfire” was an immediate hit and quickly became the kind of enduring favorite that it has drawn millions of Youtube listeners.
Oh, that’s so weird!
When I posted mine, your posts were not up yet (on my laptop), even tho they were from a couple hours earlier. There was some kind of CTH “delay” on my laptop.
Great song!
🙂 Great minds and people with consummate good taste. . .
Have wonderful and blessed Sunday Treepers. It’s our Lord’s day of course, but he want’s it to be our day too. We can celebrate it with prayers that count. And prayers do count.
“Especially when you know the truth. . .” Amen, Mississippi John.Hurt.
Wildfire
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. . . 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.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (Psalm 51 KJV)
Great Lent in the Orthodox Christian Church begins tomorrow, Monday the 2nd of March on the traditional Church Calendar.
Today is Forgiveness Sunday (also known as Cheesefare Sunday because it is the farewell to dairy foods during the Great Fast).
These Sundays and the weeks preceding Great Lent are days of preparation for entering the arena of the spiritual struggle of fasting and increased prayers.
All of which takes us to the Holy Resurrection of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, to the Lord’s Pascha, the only authentic Great Reset, which has already happened.
Forgiveness Sunday (Cheese-fare)
Kontakion. Plagal of Second Tone.
“O Thou Guide unto wisdom, Bestower of prudence, Instructor of the foolish, and Defender of the poor: establish and grant understanding unto my heart, O Master. Grant me speech, O Word of the Father; for behold, I shall not keep my lips from crying unto Thee: O Merciful One, have mercy on me who have fallen.”
Three explosive issues regarding use of gene therapy biological devices and what some have claimed and are concerned may represent misleading or otherwise deceptive and false characterization of same as a vaccine; that the public has been misled by misbranding and is being further deceived that injection with such gene therapy treatment is not a vaccine and is not a vaccination and therefore may not be exempt or otherwise worthy or entitled to the liability exemption reserved for vaccines and vaccination.
The term “vaccine” is a highly specialized and tightly defined term of art. To brand or label a gene therapy product that does not meet the definition of a vaccine is to misbrand and deceptively label a product introduced into commerce.
Despite the potential issues that may arise from claims against Express Warranties, there is the matter of Implied Warranty. Should misbranded products enter into interstate commerce with an inherent defect which may cause, in full or in part, significant damages or bodily harm to the user, there is the matter of the UCC Implied Warranty of Merchantability and Fitness for a Particular Purpose.
When you add consideration of prior guilty knowledge, conflicts of interest, and collaboration to mislead, misbrand and commit acts of wrongdoing, well. What a mess. What an enormous and calamitous mess.
Personally, I have real doubts these mRNA gene therapies are properly characterized as vaccines. Who knows what the future holds regarding these questions and concerns.
That said, it looks like a potentially explosive and complex issue that goes to the very heart of what it means to be American.
It goes to the very heart of what it means to be a human being.
Well said! My thought process thru this has been to remain an ‘organic’ human being as God intended!
We’re of the same mind, Stevie…eat, sleep and live a healthy lifestyle. My friend has a cousin diagnosed with Covid who was able to get a prescription for the same drugs Pres Trump used. He said the symptoms were mostly gone in one day. Whether or not there are nefarious actors involved in the ‘vaccine’ (or whatever it is), there are entities making obscene profits at our expense.
Haven’t heard from the Dutchman recently. Hope he is ok.
Verse of the Day for Sunday, March 14, 2021
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“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
Galatians 5:22 (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.
I enjoy all my birds, including the black capped Chickadees. Even the European Starlings.
Starlings can sing beautifully but oh what a messy bird.
They descend in a group on my seed blocks covered in their spring time bling and dominate. Only the Jays and the Red Bellied woodpeckers stand up to them,
I feed Finches, Humming birds and the smaller birds in the area. They’re fun to watch and listen to while the sun comes up on my days off. We’ve got some red tailed hawks up in the tree tops that are quite vocal.
Mornin’ infidels!
? Morning Wee!
Mornin’ Wee! You’ve solved another crime….
Marvin Hagler’s passing may be of little interest to most people, but to me he was an inspiration. I was part of a Marine Detachment assigned to The State Department, stationed at The American Embassy in Rome, Italy in 1989 when I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Hagler. He was in Italy making movies, a career change made after the controversial decision of a fight between he and Sugar Ray Leonard in 1987, a fight that I had listened to on the radio while stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA. A Navy man working at the Embassy was a personal friend of Marvins and he asked him to attend the Marine Corps Ball celebrating the birth and accomplishments of The Marine Corps. It turned into a typical political dog and pony show. After we Marines had conducted the ceremony we were relegated a table in the back of the ballroom as the Ambassador and his personal guests were sitting at the honered position in the front. Marvin and his entourage was running late and we were just beginning to think he would be a no show, when the energy seemed to pick up for some reason in that ballroom. You see Marvin had arrived outside the ballroom and there was some maneuvering by the political staff to have Marvin sit at the Ambassador’s honered table. Marvin made the choice to sit at our table in the back instead. He was humble and he was gracious, appreciative and accomadating, at one point only taking pictures with the Marines. In that moment when hundreds of guests had watched him, an American story of a man who rose from the projects of Boston to international fame, choose between honoring himself at the Ambassador’s table and honoring the Marines in the back table, he forever established himself as one of the Greatest Americans I have ever met with the choice he made. I’ll be forever grateful for that moment in time, it was a true example of The American Spirit and I ask that you say a prayer for this man’s family and take the time to reflect and pray for the people who have made a positive impact on your life. Thank You Marvin.
How lovely….
He truly was a man to admire.
Good morning, God Bless America. 🙂
LOVE THESE! Thank you!
My pleasure. 🙂
Menagerie, Thank you so much for today’s Gospel.
~Praise God!
Also want to Thank you Menagerie for posting this Sunday in Lent message.
You’re welcome Patience and Bessie.
RIP Maha Rush, KOOK Dittos.
OBEDIENCE
“His servants ye are to whom ye obey.” Romans vi. 16
The first thing to do in examining the power that dominates me is to take hold of the unwelcome fact that I am responsible for being thus dominated. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because at a point away back I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because I have yielded myself to Him.
Yield in childhood to selfishness, and you will find it the most enchaining tyranny on earth. There is no power in the human soul of itself to break the bondage of a disposition formed by yielding. Yield for one second to anything in the nature of lust (remember what lust is: “I must have it at once,” whether it be the lust of the flesh or the lust of the mind) – once yielded, you are a bond slave to that thing. There is no release in human power at all but only in the Redemption. You must yield yourself in utter humiliation to the only One Who can break the dominating power viz., the Lord Jesus Christ – “He hath anointed me…to preach deliverance to all captives.”
You find this out in the most ridiculously small ways – “Oh, I can give that habit up when I like.” You cannot, you will find that the habit absolutely dominates you because you yielded to it willingly. It is easy to sing – “He will break every fetter” and at the same time believing a life of obvious slavery to yourself. Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
Oswald Chambers
March 14th Devotional
Good morning. This Zero Hedge article, “Here’s How 30 Preppers Have Adapted and What They Forsee” which was posted on their site yesterday, has some great links:
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/heres-how-30-preppers-have-adapted-and-what-they-foresee-happening-next
Thanks, I missed this one yesterday!
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XVIII – Marietta Arises to a Sphere of Harmony
18:3
“Marietta, these scenes and the opening of thy spiritual perceptions are permitted for a wise purpose. The movement of human minds, unsettled in religious truth, thou hast represented when attracted to paradise, thence to vacant regions, where Chaos and Night rule chief monarchs; and thence to scenes of wretchedness where are those whose characters have been formed by wrong indulged, and the love thereof cherished, until the receptive powers have become drunken with the excess of vice, and delirious under the influence of hallucinating pleasures. And where at last the elements of evil operate uncontrolled, and the soul made sensible of the nature of false influence, realizes the tendency and the effect of sin.”
“Thus it is revealed, that when left to itself, the perverted spirit drives madly on under the insatiable action of evil, and by association devoid of restraint, spirits aggravate each other’s woe; and therefore those in the broad arena were mutual sufferers.”
“So also in the world of mortality, sin is strengthened in proportion to the number of minds actuated by its principles. Thus one evil doer supports another in the ways of evil. And herein is seen how one sinner destroyeth much good. Sin added to sin enlargeth its capacity, and increaseth its movement, until families, tribes and nations arm themselves to do battle in its behalf. O, that mortals but knew the power of evil influence! Then prompted by the law of heavenly love, the Spirit of Grace, they would unite to prevent its workings in the carnal heart. Marietta, woe may well be written upon the dome encompassing the race of man, for by their indulgence in sin they embitter their mortal existence, and too often enter the world of spirits preponderating to evil, and thence become united to those existing where like elements prevail. But the grace of God if admitted into the understanding and affections, changes the character and inclinations; since Divine Life descending into the soul, causes the affections thereof to incline to its source. And such when they enter here, by the law of holy attraction, mingle in life’s sustaining sphere, and from God receive the inspiration of holiness, the ever-increasing spirit of divine attainments.”
To be continued…
As if it was written today.
I went to another website that asked for a prayer chain for Trump. I did not know how to reach the different places you had to go with information. So I will bring this prayer to a place I know will accept my prayers for our former leader. May God send his perfect peace to our former leader and protect him and us from the enemies of faith in God, liberty and happiness in the Lord. Amen.
We have two seed blocks in cages hanging from a double shepherds hook outside of a dining room window. My wife and I sit and talk and drink coffee there after we get up. This morning a Pileated Woodpecker landed on one of the seed block cages. It wasn’t there long. I was just turning to get a picture with my phone when it took off. Wasn’t a really big one but of course much larger than any other birds that come to our feeders.
I have a block with meal worms in one of the cages and I think that it what attracted it.
Also have seen the first Red Winged black bird of the year at the feeder this morning. They will stick around, but with spring comes the migrants that come for a feed and then move on to parts elsewhere.
Thanks Millie…..one of my favorites!
Pileated Woodpeckers are fairly common around my place. One day one of them smashed into one of my windows and knocked itself out. It laid on my porch for about a half hour before recovering and flying away.
Usually they are out back in the woods and when they dig a deep hole in a tree, then you know that tree is infested with termites.
Still a few Trump 2020 signs and flags around.
From today’s reading:
Psalm 112:1–10
The Righteous Will Never Be Moved
112 1 hPraise the Lord!
iBlessed is the man who fears the Lord,
who jgreatly delights in his commandments!
2 His koffspring will be mighty in the land;
lthe generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 mWealth and riches are in his house,
and his nrighteousness endures forever.
4 Light dawns in the darkness ofor the upright;
he is gracious, merciful, and prighteous.
5 It is well with the man who qdeals generously and lends;
who conducts his affairs with justice.
6 For the righteous will rnever be moved;
she will be remembered forever.
7 He is not tafraid of bad news;
his uheart is firm, vtrusting in the Lord.
8 His heart is steady;2 he will not be afraid,
until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.
9 He has wdistributed freely; he has given to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever;
his xhorn is exalted in honor.
10 The wicked man sees it and is angry;
he ygnashes his teeth and zmelts away;
athe desire of the wicked will perish!
From the ESV
Sundance. I don’t know if you follow JR Nyquist, but he does offer some very valuable insights into the Democratic party.
https://jrnyquist.blog/2021/01/27/the-communist-program/#more-5176
DD
‘Clown Me’, an NGO, attempts to shame anti-vaxxers into getting jabbed.https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/clown-me-lebanese-have-2nd-thoughts-about-jab-1416259
Endless war. And the JoeBama actions towards Lebanon look to create another. https://yalibnan.com/2021/
03/14/u-s-will-not-normalize-relations-with-assad-regime-diplomat/
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.
Amen.
Amen.
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