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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He That Is Spiritual
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“He that is spiritual judgeth [discerneth] all things, yet he himself is judged [discerned] of no man” (I Cor. 2:15).
The truly spiritual man is so far above the wisest sages of this world, yes, so far above the mass of Christians with whom he comes into contact, that he can understand them, but they can never quite understand him.
We should all long to be truly spiritual, but what is true spirituality?
In the Pauline Epistles the human race is divided, by the Spirit, into four classes: the natural man, the babe in Christ, the carnal Christian, and the spiritual Christian.
All four of these are referred to in one passage of Scripture (I Cor. 2:14–3:4) and it should be noted that they are classified according to their ability to appreciate and assimilate “the things of God” as revealed in His Word.
Through diligent, prayerful study of the Word, and with a sincere desire to obey it, the spiritual man has come to know God and the Lord Jesus Christ more and more intimately. Babes in Christ and carnal believers about him cannot “discern” him, simply because they have not come to know God as he. But he, having grown to spiritual maturity, quite understands them. He is among those of whom it is written:
“But strong meat [solid food] belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (Heb. 5:14).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/he-that-is-spiritual/
1 Corinthians 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians chapter 3
1 ¶ And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Amen. Now let’s slay Goliath.
I had lunch the other day with a dear friend, a psychologist. Our conversation turned to how our entire nation seems to be suffering from various levels of clinical depression—including us! We had a wonderful 2 hour lunch and conversation and the very next day my feelings of depression had lifted. All of a sudden the day looked brighter and the things I’d been putting off suddenly seemed possible.
Depression is not a natural state. It is a chemical imbalance in the brain, a “mood disorder” that is brought on by stress. Sometimes the right kind of contact with others is just the right kind of experience to make it all go away.
I’ve always found solace in these musical passages. I don’t know if we can say that the performances of Sate’s music can cure or ameliorate depression, but the solace you can experience from just sinking into this gentle music is in itself healing in many ways. Enjoy, Treeper friends . . .
C’est vraiment comme j’etais la!
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The absence of “the right kind of contact with others” for a year and a half has taken it’s toll on our nation and our fellow Americans. So glad your mood has lifted and grateful for all you bring here that lifts others. Music is medicine.
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Wonderful music and artwork. Very calm and relaxing. Thank you for posting this!
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I cherish my daily dog park visit that has supplied sanity and social comfort throughout this nonsense. Us old folks just sit and talk about all sorts of things-families and health, death and destruction, and the unending supply of fools and idiots who claim to be in charge; and especially baseball, ’tis the season. The dogs have formed their own pack and I think they just enjoy being around each other. These days they just sit in the shade and let the world go by. They are such an interesting study in behavior–the arrival of a new dog to the park, how they treat puppies and old dogs, big dogs and small dogs. They just figure it out.
Halcyon days . . . 🙂
Hey Garrison! Check out Satie’s Gnosienne no. 1 as performed by Chica libre. Eric would have loved it.
Happy Cursday, Treepers!!! This is a happy ending ending Cursday story. Sometimes you get the dog . . . and then,—also—the dog you get really, really needs you . . . I think there’s a lot more to the Dodo stories than initially meets the eye. If you have the feeling that the world is becoming increasingly incoherent—and I sure do—then finding these wonderful little stories of how our animals can still enter our lives sort of tells us that we don’t have to abandon hope.
. . . 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.
Afterfeast of the Ascension of our Lord
Thursday of the Seventh Week of Pascha
June 4th on the Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church.
(June 17th on the civil or commercial calendar.)
Acts of the Holy Apostles 25: 13 – 19.
Holy Gospel according to Saint John 16: 23 – 33.
Saints Mary and Martha, sisters of Saint Lazarus (+ 1st century)
Saint Metrophanes, Patriarch of Constantinople (+ 325)
Saint Petroc, abbot in Cornwall (+ 594)
and many other Saints and Holy Martyrs who are commemorated today.
To Ponder
Let me ponder on the wonderful healing of the Gadarene madmen (Saint Matthew 8: 28):
1. How the Lord drove the demons out of the madmen, and they became calm and meek.
2. How the Lord stands near me and waits to be invited to come and help me, and cleanse me from every evil spirit that incites me to oppose God and live apart from Him.
(From “The Prologue from Ochrid” by Saint Nikolai (+ 1956), Serbian-born Bishop who reposed in the USA and was a former prisoner at Dachau.)
NATIONAL EAT YOUR VEGETABLES DAY
National Eat Your Vegetables Day on June 17th falls in the middle of National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month. Today’s celebration is one more opportunity to remind everyone to continue with this part of a healthy diet.
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NATIONAL APPLE STRUDEL DAY
On June 17th get whirled up in pastry dough, apples and spices and celebrate National Apple Strudel Day. In German, the word strudel means whirlpool or eddy. This tasty dessert is perfectly described by its German language as the sweet mixture of fruit, sugar, spices, and layers of thin dough rolled together and baked. The result is a bubbling, flaky treat.
Fave dessert of Sgt. Schultz.
NATIONAL CHERRY TART DAY
National Cherry Tart Day is a tart dispute. While usually observed on June 17th, it is also suggested that June 18th and 21st are also the days for this unofficial food holiday. To be on the safe side, make three.
THE UNCRITICAL TEMPER
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Matthew vii. 1
Jesus says regarding judging – DON’T. The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty of man; but in the spiritual domain nothing is accomplished by criticism. The effect of criticism is a dividing up of the powers of the one criticized; the Holy Ghost is the only One in the true position to criticize, He alone is able to show what is wrong without hurting and wounding. It is impossible to enter into communion with God when you are in a critical temper; it makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. Jesus says, as a disciple cultivate the uncritical temper. It is not done once and for all. Beware of anything that puts you in the superior person’s place.
There is not getting away from the penetration of Jesus. If I see the mote in your eye, it means I have a beam in my own. Every wrong thing that I see in you, God locates in me. Every time I judge, I condemn myself (see Romans ii. 17-20). Stop having a measuring rod for other people. There is always one fact more in every man’s case about which we know nothing. The first thing God does is to give us a spiritual spring-cleaning; there is no possibility of pride left in a man after that. I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
Oswald Chambers
June 17th Devotional
Verse of the Day for Thursday, June 17, 2021
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“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9 (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.
It’s from a live stream, how fun!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/could_there_be_anything_more_gross_than_the_masks_your_kids_are_wearing.html
God’s chosen people, the Israelites, missed out on His blessing of the land for 40 years in the wilderness because of fear. How many modern Christians have missed out on His blessings in the Year of Covid because of unseemly fear and refusal to trust in Him?
God keeps up a mighty drumbeat in His Word of “Don’t fear,” “Don’t be afraid,” “Be strong and courageous,” “Trust Me,” and “Fear not.” (Isaiah 41:10) “Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will also help you, I will also uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
Our God is stronger than any virus, vaccine, BLM, government, human or demon. It’s wrong when we don’t trust Him, and show our unsightly fear to a watching world. Unbelievers are not drawn to a God we refuse to trust. Don’t live in the world’s fear. Add trust to your skill-set.
Mornin’ infidels!
Good morning, Your WeeNess!
Good morning WeeWeed!
Shock Study: Scientists Implant Uterus In Male Rat, Make It Give Birth
I bet Bruce Gender was DEEPLY INTERESTED when he read that!
The things we will be harvesting from organ donors.
If they implant the ovaries too, the donor can be a biological mother with all the right to know and privacy issues carried over from adoptions and sperm donors.
Yet despite the donations, the Bruce types will still be biological males. Mutilated, but still male.
If said person wants to be the parent, they will need to preserve their own donations prior to mutilation. That or clone themselves.
Why are sickest amongst us so obsessed with having children they have no right to?
Simply to prove the world wrong in it’s innate understanding of their delusions?
To have a pure mind to warp as they please?
Our national nightmare might not have to go on for another 3 1/2 years.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/futurist_limns_out_future_of_the_biden_regime.html
“Faith comes by hearing, hearing comes by the word of God.”
You cannot hear the spirit until you know Gods word. I would expect one to be psychotic if voices were undistinguishable.
When the Holy Spirit speaks to a person it directs him or her in faith building. Reading Gods word allows the hearing to occur. Actually the Lord is always speaking to us we just don’t listen. Like a radio station, the word puts you on the right station. Faith is Gods way, it is in the very voice of our lord. Like the tune itself of a song.
Which brings up another point. Do you see how it cannot be stolen, or faked? It’s hidden from the unbeliever.
God is amazing.
not directed at any particular individual(s),
but not kindly disposed to the kamikaze posts on some of the threads….?
adults who lived through the ’70’s
(incidentally, the demographic targeted by “covid”)
aren’t as easy to scare as all that.
inflation, gas lines? been there, done that.
those who lived through the great depression
(coincidentally, the demographic nearly wiped out by “covid”)
don’t scare much at all.
hyperinflation, bank failures, bread lines? been there, done that, too.
(wish we had listened harder to our elders
before they were taken from us.)
pragmatically, the current run at this country may very well succeed.
those who know how to survive* will carry the torch of freedom.
brexit is the example i look to – after all those years of sublimation,
the freedom loving made their move.
and the good people conducting the az audit – against all odds –
should warm even the coldest of hearts.
am i discouraged? yes and no.
hard times are easier if you’ve been through them before.
very scary if you have not.
the generations that know what america can,
and dare i say, SHOULD be,
don’t use up their energy tilting at windmills
(hannity, ufos, hunter biden, etc.)
but we are out here, watching, listening, assessing.
we will do what we can for now, for the most part quietly,
to see how things pan out.
there will be a flashpoint, but who knows when?
until then, keep connecting with the like minded.
this is a great place to do so.
do what you can to inform the less informed.
try to sift out the outrage du jour and see the real plans behind it.
panic is the least optimal response to an emergency –
don’t let anyone push you into it.
be thankful you got up this morning.
(well, maybe a little less thankful if you waded through all this!?)
*to the fib agent provocateurs here: no, i’m not talking about stockpiling 8,000 rounds of 50 cal for a showdown with TPTB, of which 7,999 would never be used, assuming, of course, the stockpiler even got off the first round.
fyi, the people you really have to worry about are not trigger happy, nor suicidal.
Poubelle du jour, merveille!
⬆️ that’s translating as “trash of the day”….?
gee, and i generally like YOUR posts a lot!?
Zoom, I was playing off your outrage du jour, which I misremembered when I went to comment apparently!
Merveille means Wonderful, and I meant that! 🙂
Sorry for any confusion, I can do that sometimes . . . 😉
no worries!?
je parle un petite peu francais, so i was hoping it might be an idiom i wasn’t familiar with!?
glad to know i haven’t run afoul of a commenter i respect!
Merci!
https://twitter.com/PeterGriffo2/status/1405374802374713344
Pencil Neck Schiff and Pelosi………………..
Today is day one of our heat wave in CA.
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.
Amen.