Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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I can relate to David.
Thanks for your responses regarding loving our enemies on yesterday’s thread.
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A little beauty! Thanks Leon you always bring the light with your comments
they are greatly appreciated.
Gotta’ love Kathy Mattea . . . This is for those of us who are caregivers. Good on ‘ya! 🙂
Happy Cursday, Treepers. The people of foster-care animals who devote their spare time to rescues deserve our respect. It really isn’t easy doing this—you don’t get lots of attention or rewards for what is basically a thankless job. So, why do people rescue homeless animals? They do it because it is the right thing to do. It doesn’t matter what other people think, doesn’t matter that it costs them time that they could be doing other things. They simply know that, looking at an abandoned dog like Tyson, they are doing God’s Work with animals. All dogs go to heaven.
My wife is one of those caretakers of the abused and forgotten “best friends” of mankind.
Over 45 years of a very happy relationship my wife and my daughter have brought home cared for nursed and found homes
for more abandoned critters than I can count. Disruptive sometimes but very rewarding. All that can be said of folks
who treat critters abusively and abandon them is…They ain’t human
🙂
Not speaking of fraudci et al
Satan stood at the bar in a court of “law”and demanded his ritual sacrifice.
May The Creator guide the justices who still value their souls and human life
regardless of what stage of development. Abortion is America’s greatest sin.
Abortion IS the judgment of God and brings more.
I’m remembering a small post I read that has stuck with me.
A man was crying out to God, asking why he had not sent someone to cure cancer, which has devastated so many. And God answered him, “I did, my son, but you aborted him.”
How many of our prayers has He answered by sending someone who would be instrumental in relieving earthly tribulations? Only to have His gifts thrown away before we could realize the fruits of His mercy. I tremble to think.
If the opportunity presents itself..reach out to one who has had an abortion.
Let them know that they can find forgiveness through the shed blood of Christ. And that one glorious day they WILL be reunited with that child. That child is even now sitting at the feet of the Savior waiting to embrace them.
I would pray for that opportunity, Clay. I miscarried a child. I look forward to the day when I will be reunited with someone I grieved the loss of and never knew here but will in a better place.
In the meantime, women who see abortion as a quick fix don’t realize how it takes part of themselves with it, often years after. A tragedy well beyond the act itself.
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Reminds me of a Bible verse. Ephesians 5:16. ESV
Just sayin’
Genius!
2 December 1967
Finally allowed to play instruments on their recordings, The Monkees scored their third US number one single with “Daydream Believer”.
2 December 1972
The Temptations‘ version of “Papa Was A Rolling Stone” gave the Motown group their fourth US number one song.
The Temps’ Otis Williams would later say that he considers “Papa” to be the last real classic the group recorded.
2 December 1991
The US Supreme Court rules that The Shirelles, Gene Pitney and B.J. Thomas were owed $1.2 million in unpaid royalties.
A whole lot more instruments in that recording than the ones the Monkees played. Just say N.
It must have been hard for them to not be allowed to play. So many bands of that day and age relied on professional studio musicians for recording, watch the documentary on the wrecking crew, but to be totally controlled, just puppets on a string.
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.””
Thanks for getting the gospel out.
Amazing days!
CHRISTIAN PERFECTION
“Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect…” Phil. iii. 12
It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do; God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. The emphasis of holiness movements is apt to be that God is producing specimens of holiness to put in His museum. If you go off on this idea of personal holiness, the dead-set of your life will not be for God, but for what you call the manifestation of God in your life. “It can never be God’s will that I should be sick.” If it was God’s will to bruise His own Son, why should He not bruise you? The thing that tells for God is not your relevant consistency to an idea of what a saint should be, but your real vital relation to Jesus Christ, and your abandonment to Him whether you are well or ill.
Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection. Christian perfection is the perfection of a relationship to God which shows itself amid the irrelevancies of human life. When you obey the call of Jesus Christ, the first thing that strikes you is the irrelevancy of the things you have to do, and the next thing that strikes you is the fact that other people seem to be living perfectly consistent lives. Such lives are apt to leave you with the idea that God is unnecessary, by human effort and devotion we can reach the standard God wants. In a fallen world this can never be done. I am called to live in perfect relation to God so that my life produces a longing after God in other lives, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God is not after perfecting me to be a specimen in His showroom; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He likes.
Oswald Chambers
December 2nd Devotional
Can’t upvote yet. Seems appropriate cause I ❤️This
I often look upwards and say, Lord, what instrument do I get to practice today?
God bless juststevie and all who pass through the site, including those we haven’t “met” yet😘🙏🙏
There is another meaning of perfection that also fits. I am a printer by trade and some presses are called perfecting presses. This simple means that the product comes out finished. The product has been perfected in the operation. Our perfection is not so much a description of our visible condition, it is a description of what God has done to us. The operation he has performed on us is complete and without error. We have been perfected in his eyes.
That was very helpful.
“God is not after perfecting me to be a specimen in His showroom”
This is the phrase that He constantly brings be back to as a reminder to refocus. Growing up in church it seemed to me that this is precisely why people got saved – in addition to escaping hell.
Seems it was really promoted. How shocking it was to discover that is not what Father desires.
How awesome to discover that the real purpose is to make me in harmony with Him for a deep and meaningful relationship. That is all.
How liberating!
Perfection? Gods perfect work.
How do we fit anywhere in that? We don’t, we die to ourselves.
The only thing that matters is your relationship with God. Sin is not sending you to hell, sin is separation from God, Which is hell, And a choice.
How is a man redeemed. Redeem himself? that’s religion, It’s a repression of our soul.
It amazes me how God will grab anything in my life and use it. My thoughts and desires become his teaching ground. The more open and honest you become the deeper and quicker he will perfect you.
When you fear your own thoughts or desires they are repressed, hidden. When revealed God can test them and transform.
It’s the “beauty for ashes” described in the manual.
He is tender, and merciful. Guilt and shame are not his way.
OMGosh….such great responses! 🤗🙏
Mornin’ infidels!
Verse of the Day for Thursday, December 2, 2021
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“I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”
Psalms 91:2 (KJV)
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/verse-of-day.php
Good morning fellow Treepers:
I wanted to give an update on my wife’s employment at the Columbus Children’s Hospital.
As (i am sure) you are aware, the recent decision by Judge Douty rendered the health care worker mandate void. This, was at first thought to not affect ‘private,’ corporations. However, since the basis of the mandate was predicated on facilities receiving Medicaid and Medicare funding, this decision affected more than just government entities.
As a result, my wife has/had been notified she would be placed on , ‘administrative leave,’ effective, December 5th, 2021.
In the meantime, my wife was notified, yesterday, by her immediate supervisor that she has been on the, ‘COVID surveillance ,’ list for several weeks. In his effort to assist in retaining my wife, he discovered she was apparently approved for her religious exemption without being notified. Thus, she has been subjected to this anxiety and uncertainty for months. Nevertheless, we are grateful for this reprieve from tyranny for now.
Thank you all for your prayers. We know, all things work together for good, for the Lord always provides even the sparrows.
Now, we need to find out what this mysterious, COVID surveillance list is and why it was hidden and why my wife was not notified of her approved religious exemption.
When you get the vaccine, they ask for your insurance provider and SS#. Either one of those can be used to look for the records of whether someone has received the vaccine. One is available to the insurer for the employer and the other is available to the government if it is Medicare or Medicaid. It may simply mean that they were looking for the vaccine record to come through so that it could not be faked. They would do that for both the willing and unwilling. I don’t want to think that they would do this, but they certainly have incentive to.
I also suspect that there will be a lot of suddenly approved exemptions. Without the force and cover of a government mandate, a lot of employers will not take the risk to force non-voluntary compliance.
Thanks for your reply. My wife is unjabbed hence her previously notice of termination. Also, I brought up the ‘COVID surveillance,’ list because I watched a video which featured our fascist CDC director Wallensky last evening announcing plans to implement such a program. The name was identical thus I doubt it was a coincidence my wife was on this list. I’m guessing her employer had been instructed to create this surveillance list prior to the CDC officially announcing this stealth operation.
Nevertheless, my wife is, apparently, not being terminated due to her double secret exemption approval and things will continue as ‘normal,’ for now.
Outstanding!
Please do update us on the list.
Crazy days!
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.
BE MY VOICE
In honor of the Texas Heartbeat Case, the Mississippi Dobbs V Jackson Health Case, and the Governor Noem V Planned Parenthood Case, we pray the…
PRAYER IN DEFENSE OF THE UNBORN
Father God:
We come to you humbly on our knees before the Throne of Grace to ask You to exert Your Mighty Power in defense of our Precious Unborn Babies.
We give You all Honor and Glory and Praise as we put our trust in You to hear our prayer.
You know only too well the challenges the Pro-Life Movement faces in defense of the Unborn and how hard they have worked to overturn Roe V Wade.
By the Power of the Holy Spirit in Us, we have marched, petitioned the Supreme Court, and prayed for relief from the stranglehold of Roe V Wade.
By the Power of the Holy Spirit in Us, we sent Comfort Angels to cuddle the babies in distress whose lives are viciously taken from them.
By the Power of the Holy Spirit in Us, we sent the Reasoning Angels to mothers contemplating abortion to remind them of the alternatives.
As the Protector of the Unborn, we ask You to strengthen our resolve at the state level where it is lawful to kill a viable newborn.
We ask You, Father God, to bless all of the law firms who are fighting for the right to life of the Unborn.
We ask You, Father God, to bless the young adults who are marching and raising money to save the lives of the Unborn.
We ask You, Father God, to bless those at the state level in positions of authority who are fighting for the Unborn.
We ask You, Father God, to remove the funding for organizations that provide and profit from abortion in nefarious ways.
We ask You, Father God, to overturn Roe V Wade and all laws at the state level that promote abortion amd defy the right to life.
We ask You, Father God, to establish in the courts that life begins at conception.
We ask You, Father God, to forgive those who have had abortions due to pride, persuasion, and/or personal limitations.
We ask You, Father God, to change the minds and hearts of the Supreme Court in favor of the Unborn.
We ask You, Father God, to defeat the enemy and remove this scourge on our nation once and for all.
We ask You, Father God, to increase our patience and perseverance in prayer.
We thank You, Father God, for those who are fighting alongside us at every level of government in our nation.
We thank You, Father God, for our Prayer Warriors who pray for the unborn daily.
We thank You, Father God, for those who are fighting to defund organizations that support abortion.
We thank You, Father God, for supporting us on a daily basis as we fight the good fight.
We thank You, Father God, for reminding us that greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.
We thank You, Father God, for the little blessings received and prayers answered in our fight to protect the Unborn.
We ask and acknowledge it all in the Precious and Holy Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
. . . 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)
>>>Before I forget – LISTERINE is shown to kill the virus – Link to Study
>>>Also – Rinsing of the Nasal Cavity – here’s the article on how, and the Links to the Studies.
Simple Cheap and Easy to get.
Thanks for the links
“CIA” PysOp training exercise, 1952”
How to get people to follow without questioning.
It really is this easy if you have the media behind you and you bribe the medical organizations.
Note: “CIA” stands for “Communists in America”
Keep thinking about this one.
New BOMBSHELL FDA docs released through FOIA show Pfizer vaccine caused over 1200 deaths in just the FIRST 90 DAYS
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/court-orders-fda-comply-foia-release-information-pfizer-eua-first-batch-documents-shows-1200-vaccine-deaths-within-first-90-days/
It’s the Christmas season, regardless of the wet blanket that the media and the communists keep trying to throw on it.
And this is a new arrangement and performance of a great tune that glorifies the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ:
The New York Times has identified the latest culprit that’s to blame for the egregious spread of online “misinformation.”
BY TYLER DURDEN THURSDAY, DEC 02, 2021 – 02:26 PM
New York Times Complains That Cat Videos Are Being Used To Spread “Misinformation”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-times-complains-cat-videos-are-being-used-spread-misinformation
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”.
Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Jeffrey Epstein’s access to the Clinton White House has been laid bare by visitor logs exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, which reveal the pedophile visited at least 17 times during the former president’s first few years in office.
Epstein, who died in 2019, visited Bill Clinton at the Executive Mansion over the course of three years with the first invitation coming just a month after his inauguration in January 1993. The logs show the late financier showed up on 14 separate days, even making two visits in a single day on three different occasions.
Epstein was invited by some of Clinton’s most senior advisers and aides, including one who later served as treasury secretary, according to records. The documents reveal that the vast majority of Epstein’s visits stated that he was going to the West Wing, meaning there was a strong likelihood he was meeting Clinton.
Blast from the past …….
“It is in the Book (of knowledge)”
After Little Bo-Peep there is Grandma’s Lye Soap, cures what ails ya or kills you ….. sound familiar?
grandmas lye soap
good for everything in the house
for pots and pans
for dirty dishes
and for the hands
and for the face
it doesn’t suds
it doesn’t foam
They liked their Lye Soap music in those days.
Lye Soap Seven Foot Dilley and his Dilley Pickles
Music with a little local commentary…….from Seven Foot Dilley…. he is the big one on the left, the leader of the band.
I’m not happy to admit that I largely agree with you and I’m disappointed.
We all have our blind spots but this one is a real head scratcher for me.
Another head scratcher for me is Trump passing on starting another party.
I love the man though. Best president since Lincoln❗️
✝️💪✝️
The never-trumpsters gloss over the facts, presented by many, but summarized in great form by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that this vaccine hoax has been in the works for decades with conspirators in and out of governments across the world.
They are well organized, but not geniuses for sure, into a criminal enterprise funded by the globalist.
They were here well before President Trump and we will be cleaning out the last residue of the crime syndicate years after President Trump’s third term ends.
We thank President Trump for bringing the light of freedom back into the United States to expose this evil globalist conspiracy against our country.
Today, concentrate on the real enemy, the communist coup plotters in dc:
democrats,
GOPe,
media,
globalist CEOs,
medical organizations and the
educational organizations.
MAGA isn’t just a motto, it is our duty.
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.
Amen.
Study shows how Ivermectin anti-viral properties work, at the cellular level.
And BTW, look what website published this info.
Interesting.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7536980/
Pretty cool, grandsons of Johnny and Waylon.