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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Buying Up The Time
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Nineteen hundred years ago Paul wrote to his fellow- believers in the vicinity of Ephesus: “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming [Lit., buying up] the time, because the days are evil” (Eph. 5:15,16). Those were indeed evil days, when a wicked tyrant ruled the Roman Empire, when Messiah had been rejected, not only in incarnation, but in resurrection, and Christianity was fighting a life-and-death battle to penetrate the prevailing pagan darkness with the light of God’s grace. Surely Paul never dreamed that the dispensation of grace would continue for more than nineteen hundred years. He expected the Lord to come at any time to recall His ambassadors and bring the day of grace to a close. Hence the urgency of his appeal to be “buying up the time, because the days are evil.”
But if Paul had reason to suspect that the day of grace would soon be brought to a close, we today have greater reason to think so. Now that the light of the gospel has been brought to Europe, America and many other parts of the world, men are turning their backs on it. Only a small minority of even Christendom truly believe the Bible and know the Christ it presents — and how very few know the riches of His grace!
Meanwhile our governments, our educational institutions and our social systems are becoming ever more godless. The result? The newspapers, radio and TV — even a trip downtown to any fair-sized city, will tell us all we need to know. Once again “the days are evil” and the Lord’s coming for His own seems imminent. There is still much talk about lasting peace and prosperity, but no thoughtful person believes that we are headed in that direction. Rather the world appears to be heading straight toward the prophesied “day of wrath.”
What a comfort it is to the believer, then, to know that “God hath not appointed us unto wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us…” (I Thes. 5:9,10). “For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed” and “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 10:11,13).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/buying-up-the-time/
Ephesians 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
1Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Romans 10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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Appetizer?
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE MACAROON DAY
Each year, National Chocolate Macaroon Day celebrates a tasty treat. Last month we celebrated National Macaroon Day on May 31st. Now we add a little chocolate to the mix, sweetening the deal.
The main ingredient is always shredded coconut, usually sweetened and sometimes toasted. Other ingredients include flour, sugar or sweetened condensed milk, and egg whites and flavoring. Once the ingredients are combined, the mixture is dropped by spoonfuls onto baking sheets and baked. Chocolate is added either to the batter or the baked cookie is dipped into melted chocolate. While these cookies are quite beautiful, people either love or hate coconut.
NATIONAL EGG DAY
June 3rd is time to get a crack on the annual observance of National Egg Day!
Eggs are an essential ingredient to baked goods and are a part of our everyday diets. There’s so much to celebrate in these small packages.
Eggs, parmesan and carrots with cream
Time for a cattle prod . . .
Plastic spaghettis’ spoon, stings like the dickens but no skin damage or fold your leather belt over and snap it good for some mental effectiveness.
On this day ~
June 3, 1926
✝️ Bob Childress and his family packed into the car and headed for the hills of Buffalo Mountain Virginia. “We’ve got a [mission] field in the mountains where they’re shooting each other, they’re ignorant, they don’t have a chance, they have no schools or Sunday schools,” the Presbytery had told Bob, “There’s enough work to kill you, but we’ll furnish you a living while you’re at it.”
For the next thirty years Bob poured himself out for the mountain people, establishing churches and schools. He visited five or more families a day. For years he had the only car on the mountain, and he took people to the doctor and the hospital. On Sundays he traveled a circuit of 100 miles on the mountain, preaching four or five sermons. In winter, when his car couldn’t make it through the snow, he went to church on a mule or by horse and buggy. Under his ministry the mountain became more civilized and the killings less frequent. Christ changed the hearts of many people on Buffalo Mountain.
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco was another composer (Italian this time) who so greatly admired Platero y Yo that he also composed guitar accompaniment to poem. The intent was for the guitar to accompany a vocal performance of the poem. Segovia greatly admired Castelnuovo Tedesco’s workl and both recorded it and played it in concert for years and years. Here are three performances of Castelnuovo Tedesco’s guitar music played to accompany this English language recitation of Platero. Enjoy . . .
The animals that accompany us through our lives always leave us much to soon . . .
There’s an additional piece that will link and play if you wait a bit. It sort of ties the whole poem’s narrative together.
I probably should have made this the 3rd piece posted. BTW, all of the Platero pieces with English translations are on Youtube. Search for “Platero y Yo and Frank Koonce”.
I got nothing. . .
MUSIC HISTORY FOR JUNE THIRD
1939 Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
1967 Aretha Franklin’s Respect reaches #1
1972 “Hot Rod Lincoln” by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
I think there’s something spiritual that happens when you rescue a good, loving dog who desperately need help. Dogs are, of course, God’s creatures. And when we save a dog who then gets us to such an extent that he/she bond and become soulmates—like this dog obviously did—then our Lord smiles on us. We’re doing what we’re supposed to do. 🙂
Wild dog pups in South Africa:
Verse of the Day for Thursday, June 3, 2021
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“Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
Matthew 19:19 (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.
THE SECRET OF THE LORD
“The secret (friendship R.V.) of the Lord is with them that fear Him.” Psalm xxv. 14
What is the sign of a friend? That he tells you secret sorrows? No, that he tells you secret joys. Many will confide to you their secret sorrows, but the last mark of intimacy is to confide secret joys. Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys, or are we telling God our secrets so continually that we leave no room for Him to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are full of requests to God, then we find that God wants to get us into relationship with Himself, to get us in touch with His purposes. Are we so wedded to Jesus Christ’s idea of prayer – “Thy will be done” – that we catch the secrets of God? The things that make God dear to us are not so much His great big blessings as the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us; He knows every detail of our individual lives.
“…him shall He teach in the way that He shall choose.” At first we want the consciousness of being guided by God, then as we go on we live so much in the consciousness of God that we do not need to ask what His will is, because the thought of choosing any other will never occur to us. If we are saved and sanctified God guides us by our ordinary choices, and if we are going to choose what He does not want, He will check, and we must heed. Whenever there is doubt, stop at once. Never reason it out and say – “I wonder why I shouldn’t?” God instructs us in what we choose, that is, He guides our common sense, and we no longer hinder His Spirit by continually saying – “Now, Lord, what is Thy will?”
Oswald Chambers
June 3rd Devotional
Mornin’ infidels!
Proof!
We’ve thought for quite awhile that something smells fishy with Fauci…..
Good evening WeeWeed!
Oil to $200
The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
They list all the areas that the government will no longer invest in and will regulate out of existence
P. 57
The first four:
Fossil fuel procurement
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS)
Direct air capture
The procurement of nuclear power
https://tinyurl.com/szmjp9z7
Possibly also mining permits could be stymied, slow-walked or pre-denied like the Obama Admin did to the Pebble Mine permit process in Alaska.
That one the agency simply denied a permit before the application was even submitted. During the Trump Admin the company was finally allowed to submit their permit, which was, as expected, not approved, but it was the first time in the nation’s history an agency of the federal government pre-determined to deny an application before even being submitted.
Did Texas just pass the most pro life law in our nation?
No abortions allowed after the 6th week of conception. And individuals can sue parties that aides such abortions – hospitals, doctors, organizations.
This is a so-called “trigger” law; intended to force SCOTUS to review Roe V Wade?
https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/05/texas-passes-trigger-ban-to-outlaw-abortion-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned/
They had no case…the FBI agent made it all up
DOJ Moves to Dismiss Case Against January 6 Protestor — It Always Begins With a Trickle
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2021/06/02/doj-moves-to-dismiss-case-against-january-6-protestor-it-always-begins-with-a-trickle-n389823
Lessons On Life From Home Plate
https://onevike.blogspot.com/2021/06/lessons-on-life-from-home-plate.html
Wednesday, June 2, 2021, Chris Sperry
“Most people won’t take the time to read this all the way to the end. I hope that you will. 17 INCHES” – you will not regret reading this
“An excellent article to read from beginning to end.
“Twenty years ago, in Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA’s convention.
“While I waited in line to register with the hotel staff, I heard other more veteran coaches rumbling about the lineup of speakers scheduled to present during the weekend. One name kept resurfacing, always with the same sentiment — ‘John Scolinos is here? Oh, man, worth every penny of my airfare.’
“Who is John Scolinos, I wondered. No matter; I was just happy to be there.
“In 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948. He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt, and a string around his neck from which home plate hung — a full-sized, stark-white home plate.
“Seriously, I wondered, who is this guy?”
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
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.
The Holiness of God!
While reading Romans it was brought to me the “holiness of God”.
Through the Old Testament Gods name was not spoken. Some say, unpronounceable. I don’t believe that at all. We can butcher just about any word why not his name?
We are not worthy to speak his name. We are not worthy of anything of God EXCEPT through Jesus. Who is Jesus? The word!
All things of God are Holy, and when you give the reverence due to God, you see him more clearly.
Look at your Bible. Do you see that is Jesus? In all his glory and holiness.
When a word comes from the HOLY spirit, receive it with great reverence and it’s fullness is opened more.
I will leave you all with what I received.
Romans 4:13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was NOT to Abraham or to his seed ‘through the law’, but through the righteousness of faith.
“Through the faith of righteousness”
Doing what you know is right (the word is the only measure of what is right).
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Pascha
May 21st on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and June 3rd on the civil or commercial calendar.
Acts of the Holy Apostles 14: 20 – 27
Holy Gospel according to Saint John 9 : 39 – 10: 9
Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles, Emperor Constantine (+ 337) and Helen, his mother (+ 327)
Saint Hospicius of Trier (+ 581)
Synaxis of the Holy Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Vladimir (+ 1521)
and many other Saints and Martyrs who are commemorated today.
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)
One week from today is the Feast of the Holy Ascension of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ
May 28th / June 10th
“Cottongrove Country Store”
https://www.dempseyessick.com/default.asp?p=cottongrove
“En route to her job as Postmaster in the small community of Southmont, NC Shelley Essick daily passed the old derelict and run down Cottongrove Country Store on Hwy 8. She had for over two years begged Dempsey to do a watercolor of the local landmark to hang in her quaint little office. When she finally received it as a Christmas gift in 1988 she was thrilled.
“The couple took the painting to be framed and when picking it up they were told that the shopkeeper had taken orders for 50 prints. ‘We were shocked as we had never considered doing prints,’ Dempsey said. Amazed, they took the painting to another frame shop and there received the same response. Up until now Dempsey had painted only for a hobby and he was quite shocked with all that had taken place.”
Edit: H/T to The Freeholder https://www.thefreeholder.net/2021/06/02/fine-art-tuesday-on-wednesday/
a copied ballot: “it’s almost like a real ballot, but not quite’….. just don’t look too close…..
Article on msm worried about sequoia trees burning. Poor millennials didn’t get the facts again. Of course they used to be safe from fire but in the slick article the issue of course is now….
Wait for it….
Climate change !
Indiana midget week ” USAC ” Paragon on Floracing now. 🙂 🙂
6/4/89: Fighting the CCP propaganda https://hongkongfp.com/2021/06/04/taiwan-group-launches-website-to-counter-tiananmen-massacre-trolls-and-denialism/
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.
Amen
Amen…
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Surprised Iran hasn’t pulled a Biden and installed a designate. Did Blinky even go there? Just name Ghosn the leader. https://yalibnan.com/2021/06/02/diab-urges-friendly-nations-to-help-save-lebanon-now-warns-regrets-wont-help/ https://www.the961.com/inactive-dollars-traded-bank-lebanon/