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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Well, feeding time hasn’t changed, as I was distinctly made aware of this morning. His lordship was not pleased to be kept waiting.
Dogs think: “You bring me food. You must be God.”
Cats think: “You bring me food. I must be God.”
Oh no kidding! Ha!!
Absolutely!
So sez’ my cat
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While my male cat comes to the door talking loudly when it’s dinner time, one of his sisters expects me to pick her up and carry her inside to the food bowl.
It is said…
Eons ago cats were worshiped as gods.
They (the cats) have never forgotten this.
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Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up in fear and knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up hungry and knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.
A slit cuts through the golden eye.
Black as night. Sharp as sky.
A coat of fire burns the day.
And all the hope held by the prey.
Quickly and quietly fades away.
A fading hope is in the air.
A needing hunger drenched with despair.
The crown of power; oh, how it glows.
And the beast – he fully knows.
The time is now to return his soul.
The strength of god. The speed of lightening.
Intense fear. Frightening!
The rage of a thousand starving hearts.
All in tune. Tear apart.
Ripping the fabric of the art.
The blood glints off the teeth of fate.
Time extended. Now abate.
Those who witnessed, disappear.
Escaping filled with mortal fear.
Fed by death, the king is near.
The crown, the mane, the golden shroud.
Covers the body, of the proud.
Canines and claws gleam in the sun.
The fight is over, the proud has won.
The king of creatures: this war is done.
The slit, the cut, the golden eye.
The blackening night, the sharpening sky.
The coat, the fire, the burning day.
The pray, the hope, the fading away.
You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are.
If you want to get anywhere, you’ll have to run much faster.
-Lewis Carroll
And remember; wherever you go, there you are.
Two hikers are confronted by a hungry bear. One began to take off his boots and put on running shoes. The second says, “You can’t outrun a bear.” The first replies, “I know. I just have to outrun you.”
The Starfish Story
One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking up and gently throwing things into the ocean.
Approaching the boy he asked, ” Young man, what are you doing? ”
The boy replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”
The man laughed to himself and said, “Do you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make any difference.”
After politely listening, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it back into the surf. Then smiling at the man, he said,
“I made a difference to that one.”
So, who created Satan?
This is almost like the Intelligent Design dodge. Except the ID crowd are posing their Designer as a ruse to sneak God back in to their debate.
Well, I definitely get where the author is coming from. Human concepts of divinity do tend to collapse in contradictions. So let’s pile on some more contradictions to assure that the contradictions we’re dealing with are ironed out.
Dear Jim in TN:
The reality of the problem of good and evil is important for us to understand.
Hope the following video from my favorite living author/pastor helps. 35 minutes.
Great choice Frank.
Some thoughts on the matter:
It is evident that God has the ability to create that which has a degree of separation from Himself (cf. Col. 1:21). From the beginning, belief was evidently to be a distinguishing factor, going back to the angels before and after the fall, and to man going back to the Garden of Eden.
In the case of the angels, the limited amount of revelation in Scripture about how the fall of many of them occurred seems to indicate that even amongst creatures who figured to have comparatively high levels of revelation related to the Creator (such as direct knowledge of His presence and levels of interaction / communication), sin and rebellion remained possible (cf. 2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6). What occurred in the Garden may have a correlation to what occurred with the angels, with the questions (and evidently deceptive comments) from one created entity to another appearing to go towards raising uncertainty or doubts as to God’s words and intentions (cf. Genesis 3:1-7).
What happened in Eden appears to show how what God has created with degrees of separation from Himself can then have aspects of His presence removed as far as levels of influence, which can be related to the created being’s personal choices and courses of actions. Redemption history shows how the absence of God’s presence (again, often related to creation turning to its own ways and counsel) can lead to evil, chaos and sin, while God Himself keeps those with whom He has a restored relationship through His Son Jesus Christ (cf. John 10:25-30, 17:6-26).
We dwell in the reality of our created nature with its aspects of separation from God, with its failings and its distance from discerning and retaining truth etc. apart from God (cf. Romans 3:9-18, Psalm 14:1-6). The need for God’s enduring presence and a true mutual relationship (cf. 2 Cor. 5:16-21) seems to point to a critical purpose in His plan for His creation, especially when the relationship was severed by creation and needed to be restored after sin, rebellion, and unbelief.
In or out of the garden and before or after the fall, it seems clear that man was always going to need a relationship with God while recognizing his dependence as a created being and the need to rely on God and His direction and guidance. This figures to also have been the case with the created order of angels. Taking God at His word would have yielded one type of fruit (as appears to be evident from the angels who did not fall), while not doing so would evidently have yielded another.
Those with doubts, questions, and uncertainties figured to have done better to not deal with that apart from God, but rather, to humbly bring the matters to God directly. This seemed further reflected in Scripture when those in the time of Jesus (including his disciples) chose not to do so and instead turned to themselves in large measure (cf. Luke 7:49, John 4:27, 7:52). This seems in contrast to when people turned to God and appear to have received help and guidance (cf. Luke 18:13-14, James 4:8a, John 6:28-29, Mark 9:24b-27, Acts 16:30-31).
Thank you Frank for the video and introducing me to Pastor MacArthur. Will start following his teaching.
As someone who has followed and listen to “Johnny Mac” for years, you will not be disappointed.
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Read Genesis for yourself. Then read The Genesis Flood by Dr. Henry Morris.
Also: The Early Earth by Whitcomb is great. ?
God did not create the demon known as satan. The angel Lucifer rebelled against God. God cast him and the angels who joined in the rebellion out of heaven.
COME THOU ALMIGHTY KING
Thinking of “today”, thinking of “now”:
2 Cor. 6:2 (cf. Isaiah 49:8)
“For He says: “In the acceptable time I listened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Isaiah 55:6-7
“Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Hebrews 3:15a (cf. Psalms 95:7-8)
“As it has been said: “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts…”
Revelation 22:17 (cf. Isaiah 55:1)
“The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.”
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Thinking of why:
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 5:24
“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.”
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Thinking of how:
Luke 18:13
“And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’”
James 4:8a
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”
John 6:28-29
“Therefore they said to Him, “What must we do, that we may be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you should believe in Him whom He has sent.””
Mark 9:24b
“‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.'”
Acts 16:30-31
“Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.””
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Micah 6:8 — “He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”
John 13:34-35 — “A new commandment I give to you, that you should love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love among one another.”
Mark 12:29-31 (cf. Deut. 6:4-5, Lev. 19:18) — “Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘Hear this O Israel: The Lord our God is One Lord, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is not another commandment greater than these.”
50 rank pipe organs are magnificant instruments. When installed in great cathedrals they often achieve 5-7 reverbs. Just think of what that experience must have been in a time without electronic sound enhancement. Wow . . ..
I liked the picture of the shoeless feet on the pedal board. I used to play a Hammond C3 every Sunday and I would kick off my shoes to play the two octave pedal board. I set my own slide (no presets) and used upper and lower keys. There are times that I wish I could go back there. The days that I became part of the instrument were rare and blessed.
I never played a pipe organ. The ones that were installed around here were controlled by people that limited their access to only those that had the proper training and station in life. An improvising piano player did not qualify. I could look, but I could not touch.
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I don’t recall why I backed out of the above two posts. Sigh. Gettin’ old.
Older but wiser? ?
Have a wonderful Sunday Treepers . . .
Both the Illinois House and Senate have approved a change to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act that was championed by Illinois Governor Pritzker.
The Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act prohibits discrimination against anyone for objecting to a medical procedure for religious reasons.
The law will be amended to specifically state that people can’t use religious reasons to bypass any of Pritzker’s covid mandates, including the mask, vaccine, and testing mandates.
This means that Illinois law will now give greater legal authority to Pritzker’s covid mandates than to one’s own sincerely held religious beliefs.
Even though Pritzker is sure to sign this bill as he is the one who championed it and used his hand-picked minions to ram it through the Illinois General Assembly, it’s still important to express your opposition to Pritzker’s office directly.
Pritzker’s email address is https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/gov/contactus/Pages/VoiceAnOpinion.aspx.
The phone numbers for Pritzker’s Springfield office are 217-782-6830 and 217-782-6831.
The phone numbers for Pritzker’s Chicago office are 312-814-2121 and 312-814-2122.
Pritzker and his supporters have dismissed the fact that 54,217 people filed witness slips with the Illinois General Assembly as of 12:30 AM CDT on November 7 opposing this change.
They have falsely claimed that this massive number of witness slips was filed by bots and not real people.
This is an absurd claim that can easily be rebuffed by the fact that people typically submit witness slips using their real name and contact information.
This contact information could be used to confirm that the witness slips were submitted by real people and not bots or by someone using other people’s names without their permission.
By emailing and calling Pritzker’s office, you can demonstrate that this change to the Health Care Right of Conscience Act is indeed widely unpopular and that the witness slips were in fact submitted by real people and not bots.
https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/Witnessslip.asp?LegDocId=172397&DocNum=1169&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=133801&GAID=16&SessionID=110&GA=102&SpecSess=&Session=&WSType=OPP
https://my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/Create/133801?committeeHearingId=18832&LegislationId=133801&LegislationDocumentId=172397&fbclid=IwAR2qM8gDnwh6mKCa9POoLMJbpV_uNfVw80fSN-1_ZzmofoSmedpvqaBSj6Q
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2021/10/email-better-than-witness-slips-for-health-care-right-of-conscience-amendment/
Evil, thy name is Pritzker.
Evil & Satan can take many shapes and forms.
Pritzker is an example
He is, a repulsive human being.
“They have falsely claimed that this massive number of witness slips was filed by bots and not real people.”
Oh that is rich…they who themselves submit massive number of fake ballots by bots and not real people (and some real people) for their benefit…
What can I say – without doubt if the beast keeps this up, your revelations will come to pass as we unleash the dogs of war – Pink Floyd. Time to choose a side people – before they choose for you, or you/we are too far gone to even care.
November 7, 1917….Russian Bolshevik Revolution came as a result of the Russian Orthodox Church rejecting the move and outpouring of the Lord Holy Spirit.
And if one paid any attention to history, that might have been the spark – the fire was as a result of countless, ignored pleas for justice, fairness, and the total disregard of the right of every soul to be treated with the dignity and respect it deserves – being a direct extension and gift from God Himself. How many more times does humanity need to be reminded??
My most wonderful winter.
The year I went through 10th SFGs ski instructor training we started on a Glacier in Austria the first week of November. The Austrian ski team was training there. Then it was to the Zugspitze for German ski instructor school.
That winter the snows came late but when they came they were fantastic and sometimes I was skiing powder up to my waist off piste. It was also that winter I got caught in a small avalanche that put me under despite swimming like crazy but thankfully I was able to dig myself out of.
Then to the Brauneck for which we had season passes where I received further training from SF Ski instructors and then started training other SF soldiers. Followed by the annual winter warfare exercise in the Bavarian Alps moving on skis.
Then down over the Brenner Pass to Vipiteno, Italy in Sud Tirol to an Italian Army Alpini barracks where we met up with Italian SF and went through their ski instruction and their winter warfare exercise.
Did some night skiing with torches and believe it or not tactical night skiing off piste.
Over Christmas I went two days without skiing and a couple times during transit missed a day or two. Other than that I was on skies every day from the first week of November until the middle of March the following year.
The Italian and German styles are very different.
I received climbing training from the militaries of several different countries and have Berg Heiled the three highest peaks in Europe and many others in the US, Germany, and Italy. But the best training I received on ice and traversing glaciers was attending the Austrian Army Hoc Alpinist mountaineering course.
Great post. Thanks again.
love all your stories – thank you rah
My British husband has traveled in the areas you mention…driving a coach. Not easy. Especially when the weather is not ideal.
Celebrities demand climate action.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
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 Trisagion Hymn
and
the 50th Psalm (Septuagint)
The Great Reset Has Already Happened
A dramatic and thoughtful video from January of 2021 that lasts about eight minutes and features two players.
http://www.rumble.com/vddgfd-the-great-reset-has-already-happened.htm
The English royal family was pushing this Communist BS this past year. And people just adore these arse holes
For those of you in the East enjoy the warmth this week because the winter hammer is going to fall soon afterwards. High pressure dome over the Gulf of Alaska is going to be driving Arctic Air down upon us. The models are already indicating that there is going to be a significant stratospheric warming event over the Arctic stating around Thanksgiving. For several years now many of us have not enjoyed a white Christmas. Well this year the probability for a White Christmas is high for those of us North of I-70 and east of the Mississippi that have been missing the snow during the Holidays.
Global ACE is still at 89% and so it is now nearly certain that this years tropical cyclone season will end up well below the 40 year mean.
Meanwhile the NHC has about sucked as much out of TS WANDA as it can and predicts that storm that never should have been named, will once again become extratropical very soon.
Global Tropical Cyclone Activity | Ryan Maue (climatlas.com)
rah:
Yesterday I cancelled my paragliding trip scheduled for December in Kentucky.
I’m launching another business and am busy as a bee.
I was prepared for cold but I’m glad we’ll miss the arctic blast you described. ?
December in Kentucky can be brutal. Cold and clear is not too bad. What we often get is just above freezing with rain and wind that tends to taper off just as the temps drop below freezing leaving the roads and a lot of everything else glazed. The ground remains thawed at shallow depths creating mucky conditions that persist until March.
There is a special condition of Black Ice that is the most impossible driving condition imagined. It is invisible and so slick that it is nearly impossible to walk on it without falling. It begins in a moment when the roads go from merely wet to impossible often on clear mornings. These conditions are early winter phenomena. Late we get snow, sometimes over a foot that will stay around for just a day or two as late winter it is precipitation then warming rather than the early season precip then colder.
Most days are pretty good. The bad ones are really bad and most Kentuckians are surprised by them and not prepared.
? I was going to ease my way up from TX, friend from WV is still going.
thanks for the flashbacks, vibeman….NOT!???
used to live in N.C.
REAL black ice is the most treacherous driving imaginable,
tied only by an ACTUAL white-out.
i specify because, not to be outdone, so much of the rest of the country now classifies their icy roads as black ice and their heavy snow as automatically a white-out.
they ain’t, and you would know so if you ever experienced the real thing.
worst was watching a slow and carefully moving car just fall off an elevated on ramp. horrible.
and if you pull over, you run a good chance of getting hit.
absolutely no way to tell it’s out there by looking, either.
one thing i never understood, given the potential for those type of conditions, is where were the salt trucks??
I survived a whiteout driving from Chicago toward Bloomington on I55. It was a massive river of sideways blowing snow. I followed a trucker at about 30 MPH hoping that he could see. When I got to my exit, I went up the ramp and from the higher elevation I was above the flowing snow. It was beautiful and horrifying at the same time.
Here in Kentucky, they are pretty successful with a treatment of liquid ice prevention that is spread a day before icing conditions. It seems to work pretty good and the roads stay wet down to near 20 and when they do freeze it is a stickier sort of ice totally unlike Black Ice. (The capitalization is earned.) I was once on a work trip to Minneapolis when it came a 6″ snow on a -10 F day. I was surprised at how un-slick bitter cold snow could be.
Speaking of cold, I was working in Akron, Ohio, one January when Akron set the all time low temperature record of -23 F. There were tires freezing and breaking. It was the week that Kentucky closed all of the interstate highways due to hazardous conditions. They reopened the day before I returned from Akron. There were hundreds of abandoned cars in the medians and off the side of I71 and I65. There was a huge scandal when someone from the local paper in Louisville published pictures of unused snowplows sitting in a state equipment storage yard in Frankfort.
Back when I was on paper logs I was coming back from the GM Fairfax plant at KC, KA. It was really coming down and I was about the only one on I-70. No plows or salt shakers were seen all the way from KC until I got into Sant Louis. Not even any tracks in the snow. No lines visible on the road and it was feeling for the rumble strips that kept me on the road. It started clearing up as I approached Saint Louis and got better going east from there. Took me 14 hours drive time to make a trip that usually takes 8 1/2 hours.
That was one of those times when I would put my seat all the way up and open the window and reach out and pull the drivers side wiper away from the glass as it worked to bust up the baseball sized ice ball that would form on the end of the blade.
That kind of snow at night blowing in under the brow lights gets almost hypnotizing.
yikes!
I-55 can be brutal! very windswept, and like I-65, therefore prone to that horizontal snow!?
only a few hilly sections, but one memorable snowstorm had me watching an 18 wheeler to my left –
he was proceeding quite nicely down the hill with his trailer preceding his cab….
i guess he made it ’cause he was nowhere to be seen when i got to the bottom of of the hill.???
stay safe and take care, vibeman!
p.s.: is that road application kinda like aircraft de-icer?
Ha! Remember several years ago driving east on I-155 through Dyersburg, TN and then on up to catch the Western Kentucky Parkway after an ice storm. There were still downed trees blocking lanes but one could get through. So many of them the road crews apparently just went through initially cutting and moving just enough to get through before going back later to clear the rest. The pine trees looked like closed umbrellas. No fuel available along the route because power was out.
The very best luck to you, Frank.
Paul Gottfried wrote a short and thoughtful article for Chronicles Magazine on the failure of the world to deal with totalitarian mass killers on the Left.
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/overlooking-mass-killers-if-they-re-on-the-totalitarian-left
Dear Heavenly Father we humbly ask that.. You Lord instill in us the faith courage
and determination to resist this horrendous evil that the enemy of mankind is
plotting. Give us discernment Father that we may rightly choose our course of action
in alignment with Your Will.
We humbly ask Father that You give us the right words to speak to those in distress
and who are looking frantically for answers in this time of great confusion, fear and doubt.
We pray daily that You Father will break the enemy’s plan and bring humanity to its knees
in repentance and that You will bring utter calamity and confusion upon the adversary and this
horde of demons who would cruelly rule over we Your people. In the name of Jesus we humbly pray.
Amen ?
Dear mungrel,
When I read one of your posts yesterday, I was taken aback by one of your sentences and immediately wrote the following poem for one of my daughters and sisters. The first stanza contains your words. ?
mungrel’s poem
I will inject you for your daily bread said the globalist to the people.
Our finances dwindle, hungry we are, but we’re not sheeple.
We have the loot, the power, and plenty of time. Said the globalist.
We have the Savior. The Master. The King. We know of your crime.
Death you will face! So come! Roll your sleeve and eat!
Tyranny comes. Tyrants go. We will stand…alone if need be…when you make winds blow.
Eating is dandy. We fancy it much. Some think it’s a need. But it’s not much.
What you really want is our soul. Every fiber of our being. To bow the knee to an uncreated thing.
We may tremble. But we will certainly fight. And power we have to overcome your fright.
Luciferace you inject into children so dear. Your ends for elders and the rest of us. It’s clear.
You mock and snicker oligarch clan. Spawned by your master. Enemy of man.
Worse yet. You snub. The Great One. God’s Son. You. Will gnash teeth. Not fun.
So let’s let this sinister game you play. On the board of eternity. Out play. You can’t run away.
The suffering and death you plan. For your Babel. Read about it in the Bible.
You will be banned from the Presence. Forever you see. Unless YOU bend the knee.
To The King.
Of KINGS.
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So good Frank! Printing and saving and passing on….
Thanks. Was hoping mungrel would see it.
Amen!! Saving, Frank. Thank you for sharing this great gift with words God has given you.
Thankyou so very much Frank, I feel both humbled and inspired in ways I cannot fully relate.
Your poem is terrific and certainly apt in light of both mine and others situations across our planet.
I have seen much of late some good and some bad , I have both made friends and enemies , as a person that normally “sticks to themselves” I always look for solutions outside of others “mindsets” this gift I try to use as an advantage in this final battle and so far although not working perfectly works well enough for me to be able to “slip through the net” so to speak.
I have seen many fall for the satan stab some I thought would stand fell and those that I thought would fall have stood up !
For me if I took the biojab I would of failed in life as all the principles and understanding’s learnt would be destroyed by that one action then my life would truelly be not worth living.
I would like you to know that I am both proud and honored to call you my friend.
Onwards we march.
God bless you and yours.
mungrel.
Yes. Onward.
Grace to you and yours.
Mornin’ infidels!
Kudos to rondo. I copied all below from the presidential thread.
Excess Deaths Point to Depopulation Agenda
““I think it’s highly likely that the next phase will involve death on a scale which will dwarf the claims of “covid-19 deaths” to date.” Dr. Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer Vice President
Question– Why is mortality in Scotland higher in 2021 than 2020?
Answer– Because more people are dying. And the reason more people are dying is because more people have been vaccinated. In other words, there’s a link between rising mortality and the Covid-19 vaccine.
Question– You can’t prove that.
Answer– You’re right, I can’t. The evidence is all circumstantial. But it is compelling, all the same. For example, rising mortality isn’t just happening in Scotland. It’s happening in many of the countries that launched mass vaccination campaigns earlier in the year. They’re all seeing a significant uptick in all-cause mortality. Why is that? What are they doing differently in 2021 than they did in the years before?
Question– I can see what you’re getting at, but I still don’t think you have enough evidence to make your case.
Answer– Okay, then you tell me: Why are more people dying in 2021 than 2020? And, keep in mind, all-cause mortality isn’t just up a bit; it’s smashing the five-year average. Check out this recent post from Alex Berenson at Substack:”
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/excess-deaths-point-to-depopulation-agenda/
Also and first predicted by the estimable Dr Tenpenny.
THE UNDETECTED SACREDNESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES
“All things work together for good to them that love God.” Romans viii. 28
The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you cannot understand at all, but the Spirit of God understands. God is bringing you into places and among people and into conditions in order that the intercession of the Spirit in you may take a particular line. Never put your hand in front of the circumstances and say – I am going to be my own providence here, I must watch this, and guard that. All your circumstances are in the hand of God, therefore never think it strange concerning the circumstances you are in. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to enter into the agony of intercession, but to utilize the commonsense circumstances God puts you in, and the commonsense people He puts you amongst by His providence, to bring them before God’s throne and give the Spirit in you a chance to intercede for them. In this way God is going to sweep the whole world with His saints.
Am I making the Holy Spirit’s work difficult by being indefinite, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of intercession, and the human side is the circumstances I am in and the people I am in contact with. I have to keep my conscious life as a shrine of the Holy Ghost, then as I bring the different ones before God, the Holy Spirit makes intercession for them.
Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions can never be yours, but the Holy Ghost makes intercession in our particular lives, without which intercession someone will be impoverished.
Oswald Chambers
November 7th Devotional
Libera Choir – “I AM” The Day (4:43 mins)
Is Sundance in Twitter jail again? There should be a “Twitter” status on this website.
Three or four years ago, I was out hiking in the State Park near us and my little Welsh Terrier was with me. I came to the place where people around here place memories of their pets who have died. There must be at least 200 markers there. I told my dog this is the place where dogs wait for their people to come get them on their way to Heaven. Of course my dog didn’t have any idea what I was talking about, but I was not allowed to leave that area until she had investigated many of the memorials. While I waited on her Highness, I wondered if she knew what this little sanctuary was. I found a suitable piece of white shale later and put it behind my stack of wood pellets in the garage.
This last Summer she had had pancreatitis and her blood was found to be nearly completely lacking in white blood cells. She was finally diagnosed with leukemia and last month we had to put her down. We were crestfallen. She hadn’t even reached 7 years old yet. Yesterday I discovered the dusty piece of shale and felt compelled to make a marker for her and find a good place for it in that pet memorial. I am still grieving the loss of that dog and just maybe God wants me to look her on my way to see Him when my time comes. Anyone else have something similar on their mind?
I’m sad with you, Pokey. I had to say goodbye to my 9 year old cat in September after it was discovered the reason for his sudden limp was a large, nasty cancerous mass that was destined for his lungs.
Deuteronomy 29:29 is my “go to” when I know there isn’t a clear answer to a question: “The secret things belong to God but the things revealed belong to us and our children forever.”
I hope this helps in some way.
Pokey, I’m saying a prayer for you.
I lost a good companion to Feline Leukemia years ago.
It got to the point where I realized that even with medication, oral pills once a day, he would be needlessly suffering.
This is after I visited him at the vet hospital.
After two nights, no improvement, it was time to let him go.
I was able to hold & be with him before he crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
When my time comes I know he’ll be there to greet me.
It takes an unselfish love to let go. It’s so hard. We’ve had to do it many times, and after, we’ve known to our depths that we’ve done our animal family members a kindness.
When we had to say goodbye to our Penny, the vet who was so kind…in the tiny village of Chirk, Wales…sent us a handwritten note of sympathy. It was so unexpected and comforting. And I’ll never ever forget that.
We received a smpaythy card signed by all of the vet techs and the doctor at the vet clinic who helped us say so long to our 19 year old Siamese cat. I’ll never forget that kindness. I miss having pets 🙁
I’m in sympathy. How wonderful of them. They are in the right calling. We don’t have pets anymore either. The cost has become prohibitive. And I can’t tell you how that grieves us. Our home is now just a house, because a loved animal just completes a family. Or gives someone by him/herself, a companion that asks for nothing but affection. I know you feel the absence. We do as well.
Will Rogers said, “If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went.” He must have loved a few, like you. Twenty years on, we still miss our Jack Russell, Penny. Every now and again, her absence hits us like a bolt. We were so lucky that she chose us. For the 15 years we had her, we made sure she had the best little doggie life ever.
The second to the last sentence should have said “—-maybe God wants me to look there for her on my way—–. ”
Thanks to everyone for the replies.
Hello, It’s a beautiful Sunday and my heart goes out to the Jan 6 Political Prisoners and their families…May they have strength and survive to bare witness to their suffering….
Page 2. I can only imagine if these presoners were ANTIFA or BLM thugs lock up in solitary confinement and treated like animals.
The ACLU, Nancy, Schumer and the Commie left would have this issue before the SUPRIME COURT, and most of Washington DC would be smoldering in ashes while the tribe runs rampant thru the streets….
The cops take a knee for the Thugs while launching tear gas against Patriots
It’s Sunday, think about it!
They are always in my thoughts. The cruelty of their incarceration and torture is something I never ever thought I’d see in America. No communion, baths, haircuts, slim rations, and out and out blackmail to take the bioweapon. All involved up to and including the judges who keep them there, are inhuman. And when I’m praying for the POWs and their families, I add a plea that their tormentors are visited by the Holy Spirit, that they can all see how indescribably wicked their actions are in keeping these people in deplorable conditions…and return them to their homes.
For those that live in states that observe Daylight Savings Time……set your clocks back one hour tonight before bedtime.
Prayers up for Mike Lindell and his team preparing to file class-action lawsuit re: Nov. 3, 2020.
For Devine protection and the Holy Spirit to be all around them and filling the SCOTUS building to bring righteousness, all to God’s glory to a world that is amazed and falling to its knees – for the right reason this time.
I don’t get it! How can grown up men behave like this because of another man?
https://i.postimg.cc/VNXSgj5J/4-E30859-E-FEDA-40-DD-8625-EC69-DFBF429-A.webp
https://i.postimg.cc/y8Mg0f6q/E67-A0-F08-D787-4522-891-D-76-C527-FFAA16.webp
RE: Astroworld Festival, Houston, Travis Scott (who??)
https://i.postimg.cc/y8Mg0f6q/E67-A0-F08-D787-4522-891-D-76-C527-FFAA16.webp
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.
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.