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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Yep! I’m up and staying up for the next 5-6 hours before going to bed to rest up for taking the first driving shift tonight. It’ll be from 22:00 until 11:30 plus what ever time we spend in dock(s). Should get us to KC and if we have only one stop then I should get us back to beyond St. Louis.
Think I’ll be able to sleep because I’m still feeling the effects of 2 days of hard work around the old homestead. Since Steve had some kidney stones blasted Wednesday, he is in no condition to be jostling around on a mower or even weed wacking so I did all three yards today, including all the trimming, and Betty did the back field. Though I feel beat up, I also feel my stamina increasing and that makes me happy.
Sherry was out most of the day weeding her flower beds and getting the leaves wand weed out of the river rock that borders the house where the lilac bushes are. So now that the house and deck and flower beds and river rock bordering is in shape the next project will be to clean out and reorganize the contents of my two sheds and the garage. Need two dry days to pull everything out of the garage and reorganize it while putting it all that stuff back in.
Yesterday late in the afternoon one of the Turkeys from my neighbor across the street came across the road to see me. For some reason the Chickens stay close to home and don’t cross the road but if the Turkeys see you and there isn’t anyone else around they come right across the road. It’s like they want to be close to humans, but if I put my hand out to touch one of them they back off a bit.
So I was on my hands and knees digging with my hands and pulling the weeds out of the pea gravel that serves as the safety area around my 8′ diameter fire ring. The circle is 16′ in diameter leaving 4′ of safe area around the ring that has to be weeded every year. I had burned off the stuff in the ring earlier since it was piled high with limbs, leaves, cardboard boxes, and even an old rug, and while it was still smoldering I was chucking the weeds I was digging up into it.
I had been working on it over an hour and had gotten about 2/3rds around it when I looked up and saw a turkey walking down my driveway towards me. So I had to get up and walk over to my neighbors across the road to get the bird to follow me. It was getting towards sunset and I was sure someone over there would come out to put the birds in the pen or coup pretty soon.
So now that everything is in order around the house I will be sprinkling Ant Guard all around the foundation this morning. That stuff works! Keeps the ants out of the house and spiders too. Good stuff. Use it every year around the foundation of all my structures. That is the only insecticide that I put on the ground at our place since we are on a well.
Soon the lilac bushes will be done blooming and it will be time to get out the hedge trimmers. We have learned the best way to deal with the clippings is to lay down heavy plastic sheeting on the ground to catch them.
Trying to blow or rake them out of the river rock bed is a real time consuming pain. So we use the plastic to catch the clippings and fold the pieces up with the clippings in it and take it over to the fire ring and dump it. We have a dozen of those bushes and do them two at a time that way. That is a job we usually do twice every year unless we have a very dry summer and then we can sometimes get by with a single trimming.
Wow!! I’m shattered just reading this epic!! I’ll have to take a couple of ibuprofen on your behalf now.😉
Good morning Bet! Me too, I am ready for a nap but heading to church in a bit. 💗
Good Morning grandpa!! ❤️
Have a blessed Sabbath ❤️
Goodaye 😘
A second good morning, Cat🤗💓!!
Good morning, G💖 Blessings always to you and all you love🙏
Hi Bet and Cat, almost 3/4 through my shift.
Last night after the birthday party in New Braunfels we stopped for an evening service at the weekend retreat. On the way home we drove through heavy lightening, rain and hail. Only to find out that we didn’t get a drop at home. The good news is that we didn’t get our garden hailed on. 😄
I left a birthday prayer for the birthday on yesterday’s OT, G💖
Phooey on the rain, but yes…look for the silver lining.😂 My iPhone says M-W here chance of rain. Yeah…right…
That was a beautiful prayer Bet, thank you! We gave him cash in his card which he liked a lot but the present that elicited the most joy was a little box that great grandma brought with a few things from his great grandfather (my step dad). A knife, a flashlight, and a watch (stepdad had a collection of all) and the boy loved them all. Mom was tickled pink. 😁
And such a funny LOL story. I wonder if LMAO has a different meaning across the pond?
Oh I AM pleased!!!!!!!!!!! I started to say yesterday but got distracted, that for our granddaughter who is the sister of the triplets last birthday right before Christmas (poor thing) I was struggling as you and Mrs G were yesterday, sent her a book The Night Before Christmas. It was beautifully illustrated and was new, but mine. I told her it wasmine and that thrilled her the most.
Sounds as if your young grandlad has a big ole heart in him. What a marvelous gift! I know that pleases you. Wonderful!!🤗
I dread to think what LMAO means over there😂. They, knowing Brits as I do, would stick an extra letter in….as in ( pardon me😬) LMFAO…in the vernacular of course. The Brits aren’t particularly PC, which is why their comedy shows are far far superior to ours in many ways.
So your granddaughter’s birthday wouldn’t be Dec. 24 now, would it?
Go Unicorns. Class of ’70.
I’m being a little dense today and not getting this…🤔🤣
“Last night after the birthday party in New Braunfels …” – GrandpaM
Oh, I see, thank you. The grandkids are still in elementary school so I haven’t gotten into the Unicorn stuff, yet. 😂
It’s a very good school district and has been for a long time. It will be beneficial for them and hopefully they will enjoy growing up in that small town. Cheers!
Had some cramps last night but nothing the biofreeze and a couple aspirin couldn’t deal with.
Yes, you are one tough guy when aspirin will do the job.😉
Terro Ant Killer (Multipurpose insect control. Orange bag that you tear open on one end and grab the handle on the other and just shake the bag broadcasting a band around the foundation of the house or building you wish to protect. Bag is resealable if you don’t use it all and it stores well. Used it for years. Do it twice a year.
Here you go:
Good stuff. We use the Terro product for ants in the kitchen. It is a slimy something that ants show up by the thousands to eat. After two days, no more all year.
What is it? I want one, whatever it is.
Now that’s precious!
I am about to drop some words of wisdom here…..and a word to the wise is sufficient.
I have long believed that if one is to take a cat nap it helps to include an actual cat.
Just sayin’….
Well more likely than not, when I go into the bedroom to sack out a little later Gabby the cat will come in with me to lay on me and get her scratches and pets before I doze off. The problem is I’m laying down for more than a nap and she will wake me up to let her out.
Good Morning Leon!! You spying on me again? I just uncovered my older Christmas present that I neglected for so many years. Perhaps it was a good thing to wait until now to start. Being tone deaf and all, no one complains in my forest 😂
Have a blessed Sunday. Always know Our Lord loves us and looks after us. Be well, tonight. 🙂
One more . . .
Thank you Garrison.
— thank you💕
You’re welcome. Enjoy. Have a wonderful and blessed Sunday! 🙂
Your words brought on a heartfelt smile —that’s lingering.
-A joyful and Blessed Sunday to you and your Love.
Garrison, thanks for these. I sampled them briefly and will listen to them in the morning.
Very nice music. Wishing you a happy week.
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Good Morning Garrison ❤️
Beautiful way to break in my recently connected Bose/blue tooth!! Thank you for the peace and contentment today 😘
May you and your sweetheart’s day be filled with love and laughter ❤️
Good morning, ‘Cat. This music over good speakers is a real treat. I have a pair of Klipsch 2.0 computer speakers that i’ve had for years and years. They are excellent, came with a good subwoofer, and are perfect for the kind of music I listen to. They aren’t very sophisticated like your Bose/blue tooth setup but they’ve moved from computer to computer (about 6 I think) and still sound great. In case anyone is interested, I just checked the Klipsch site and they’re selling 2.1 refurbs for $99. Thank you for the kind wishes. Our Sunday will be, mercifully quiet. 🙂
Sophisticated 😂
You’re talking to someone who has a 1972 marantz receiver with big box speakers from that era!!!!
That’s another project….to get hooked up 😝
Smiles to you two lovebirds ❤️
Dual 1019 tone arm/turntable, floor standing Klipsch speakers. Pretty high-zoot for their time.
Good morning Garrison💖 VOCES8!!! And The Parting Glass! Those voices…Now you are really spoiling me, Garrison. Just perfect. Peace and blessings to you and your lovely wife, good sir.
The first time I posted the Face Vocal version of The Parting Glass it felt like a benediction. So, I’ve just continued it in my Sunday music posts. It just seems to fit. As for Voces8, they just seem to fit well also. Hadn’t posted them for awhile. Glad you liked the selections. Blessings to you and your’s , Betsy . . . 🙂
Thank you so much. You know I love The Parting Glass, A very emotional piece. I know it has been sung by many, but the voices here just really get to me, along with the musical accompaniment.
As for VOCES8, I don’t recall how I came to hear them. But it was well over two years before you started posting their exquisite performances. The first time I heard them, I was transfixed. They are quintessentially English (as opposed to British) voices, perfect for the compositions of Byrd. Others may sing him, but English voices are just made for his works. Simple, no frills, pure voices. Memories and peace is what they deliver…effortlessly. What a joy it is to listen to them, and I thank you.😘
Even though I am a thoroughgoing redneck, I do know there is a difference between English and British. . . 🙂
Oh gosh!!! I wasn’t woman-splaining, Garrison!! I really hope you don’t think I’d do anything like that. I would be truly upset if you thought I was being condescending in my reply…oh dear😢
Not at all, love. Although most non Brits don’t know the difference, the fact is I do know that important difference. So, you weren’t being condescending at all. I’ve known that difference for a very long time, in fact.
A devotion for today
Speaking of devotion
Roy Orbison
Good morning, Home💖 I awoke this morning with the single thought that all the madness we see today, all the grotesque evil we hear uttered from the likes of it seems resurrected Mengeles…from Gates, Fauci, and the now out of the murky shadows Yuval Noah Harari (perhaps the most monstrous of them all)…is God showing us Satan himself in the flesh.
All so that the world cannot deny that Christ is the Light, the Way, the only hope we have for our souls.
Perhaps those entities could take a lesson from CS Lewis…
“I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man’s actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner…I used to think this is a silly, straw-splitting distinction. How could you hate what a man did and not hate the man?
But years later it occurred to me there was one man to whom I’d been doing this all my life~~namely myself.
However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed. I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about it. In fact the very reason why I hated these things was that I loved the man. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did these things.”
I wish all of His mercies and unending blessings to each and everyone in the branches. Have a very blessed Sunday.🙏
Again, you have outdid yourself Betsy!!
As always, thankful for all the treepers 🥰
Goodaye Betsy! 🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ 😉
A veritable treasure trove of personal observations and introspection by a man who came to his faith later than one would expect, given the insightful words he wrote. Blessings, Cat.
God Bless America , 🙂
and with your indulgence, one more
Good Morning Jay and feisty! ❤️
I’ll see you and raise you one feisty!!!!!😉
🎶 walking in the moonlight ❤️
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Good Sunday morning, Mr jay💖. What pleasure you must get from searching the vast wealth of past performances to choose the songs you post. Like Garrison…are you certain he’s not a long lost brother?😉 One has to ask these things, you know😊
Maidin Mhaith Betsy you are my sister in Christ as Garrison is my brother.
One of the reasons why I quit lurking here and began contributing so that we can fellowship with other like minded followers of Jesus Christ. 🙂 🙂
P.S. Lots more here that I pray for when the Good Lord nudges my spirit.
I’ll treasure that, jay. It’s tucked up safely in my heart. Your spirit is so beautiful, my friend. I truly believe we are all nudged (I love that) at various times, though we may not at first recognize it as that. It’s all down to actually listening. God bless you💖🙏
Church can exist wherever and whenever people gather in Christ. There are an infinite number of ways to do that and, like Betsy said awhile back, we’ve made this space into a church.
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JERUSALEM, O CITY FAIR AND HIGH
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.” He said to me, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
Revelation 21:1-7, WEB
1 Jerusalem, O city fair and high, Your towers I long to see;
My longing heart to you would gladly fly, it will not stay with me.
Elijah’s chariot take me above the lower skies,
To heaven’s bliss awake me, released from earthly ties.
2 O happy day, O yet far happier hour, when will you come at last,
When by my Father’s gracious love and power, I see that portal vast?
From heaven’s shining regions to greet me gladly come
Your blessed angel legions to bid me welcome home.
3 The patriarchs’ and prophets’ noble train, with all Christ’s followers true,
Who washed their robes and cleansed their guilty stain, sing praises ever new!
I see them shine forever, resplendent as the sun,
In light diminished never, their glorious freedom won.
4 Unnumbered choirs before the shining throne, their joyful anthems raise
Till heaven’s arches echo with the tone of that great hymn of praise.
And all its host rejoices, and all its blessings throng
Unite their myriad voices in one eternal song.
This hymn was written in 1626 by Johann Meyfart, a German professor of theology. The music is from German composer Melchoir Franck (1579 – 1639). According to Wikipedia, Franck wrote “an enormous amount of music,” including over 600 motets.
We’re scheduled to sing this at church this Sunday.
Wishing you all a happy Sunday and a good week.
Thank you 1530 ❤️
Wishing same for you and yours ❤️
Gracious Sunday morning to you, Cat🤗🙏
You too Betsy!! 🙏
Upthread is another good morning to you!!!! ❤️
Good morning, 1530💖 Can you imagine the glorious sound?? What a beautiful thing it will be. When I listen to all the miraculous choral works (as I am doing at this moment) of composers now gone, and the splendid voices that perform them in such a way that I actually well up listening, they are probably as nothing compared to what it will be in His presence. Blessings to you, sir.
Thank you 1530, have a blessed rest of your Sunday!
Never thought it would happen, but I am going to get to see Tuba Skinny Live! I am psyched.
What a blast. Enjoy.
How wonderful for you, Leaves!! I’m excited for your excitement. A kid again is what you are, waiting for Christmas😁
Good for you! I hope they have Erika Lewis singing with them. 🙂
22 May 2005 Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger), and bass singer (“You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”), dies from prostate cancer at 91.
Yesterday I went to meijer to get groceries but was met at the door by meijer employees, telling people that they could only accept cash payment because they were having trouble processing credit cards. I had a little cash so I went in to investigate further…. This is western Michigan by the way….. a few employees were saying some cards were working and that they were just processing very slowly, so I decided to try to get my groceries anyway. By the time I had filled up my cart, there were very few people in meijer. When I got to the checkout lane they could not process ANY credit cards. I fumbled through my wallet and amazingly discovered I had enough cash to cover a cart if groceries. I had to leave some behind but got most of what I needed. I asked the employees if they knew what was going on and they said it was rumored that there had been a hack by Russia on chase bank and others and the credit cards system. They also said that other businesses in the area were experiencing the same issues, including other meijer statewide, Walmart as well as some gas stations. I got home and notified friends and family to go get groceries and if need by get cash out of their atms! Sent my husband back out to get cash out of our banks atm but it wouldn’t work! Not trying to create panic snd have no validity to any of what the cashiers were saying but wanted to see if anyone else experienced the same issues???? Or if anyone knew of why this is happening???!!! As someone who follows world situations I of course am thinking the worst here and not about Russia. I wouldn’t put it past the powers that be worldwide to create this mess, blame Russian cyber attack and there you have WW3. I guess Monday may shed more light on if banks truly are experiencing issues. I’m going to try to go to the bank. We are preparedness minded and already have cash in hand and have a pantry but for those who don’t, might consider both!!!!!
Good Morning Freedom!
I had heard it was related to Hughes net malfunction. 🤷♀️
Good morning Cat! Didn’t know that Hughes net was in CC processing. Had them for many years as my satellite Internet provider but their service got progressively worse so I finally had to switch to Viasat and am very happy about that decision. Interestingly enough I can still receive emails in the old Hughes accounts just can’t email from them. ❤️
I visited my brother saturday, and coincidentally he told similar story.
His ATM card didn’t work at two places. He then went to the credit union from where it was issued and tried it in their ATM, and it worked.
Also in michigan.
That explains my problem. I had my card rejected for gas at three places before I found one that worked.
There have been simulations for a cybercrash by the hideous WEF and associated vile entities. You are not off base wondering. And of course there has to be a scapegoat for this. It seems Russia is being set up to be just that. Whatever the reason for your experience today , you are wise to keep cash. We have done the same going back 2 or so years. Good advice.
Isn’t it interesting how quickly we have gone from a well run country under the dastardly, evil, Russia colluding, Present Trump to this . . . complete chaotic systemic failure under the progressives and Biden?
It’s been in the works for a lonnnng time, Garrison. Once the orchestrated coup was complete, that was the starter’s pistol for the execrable monstrous globalists to complete their godless plans.
By the way (and please do not ask where I read this) this strain of monkeypox has apparently been analyzed. The results show it is a lab grown strain. And “curious” how the fear headlines are now everywhere. Oh and this…vaxxes approved and at the ready. Fancy that…with the WHO meeting this weekend where the illegal Biden will hand our sovereignty to them. Dot connecting complete.
Fortunately, sovereignty isn’t that easy to just assign, at least not here. That’s why we have a 2nd Amendment. The intent of the 2nd’s armed citizenry and tyranny language is quite clear. There are 400 million privately owned firearms in America. And the AR15 style rifle—which Biden keeps talking about banning—is America’s most popular (20 million at last count) firearm .
Don’t know how the WHO issue will work but tyranny is always lurking in our darkest corners and free people have to be ever alert because of this. Our founders knew this which is why the 2nd’s language is so clear and unambiguous. It means exactly what it says. And, contrary to what gun-controllers like to claim, the 2nd isn’t about shooting people—it’s about power sharing as a way of insuring that we avoid tyranny. Ain’t no power sharing in this WHO deal.
I took my truck to be smogged last Thursday (Porterville, CA) and was told they were unable to process any credit card transactions. No problem for me as I don’t use/have any credit cards.
Hmmmmmmmm🤔
May 22 Oswald Chambers
The Explanation For Our Difficulties
…that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us… —John 17:21
If you are going through a time of isolation, seemingly all alone, read John 17 . It will explain exactly why you are where you are— because Jesus has prayed that you “may be one” with the Father as He is. Are you helping God to answer that prayer, or do you have some other goal for your life? Since you became a disciple, you cannot be as independent as you used to be.
God reveals in John 17 that His purpose is not just to answer our prayers, but that through prayer we might come to discern His mind. Yet there is one prayer which God must answer, and that is the prayer of Jesus— “…that they may be one just as We are one…” (John 17:22). Are we as close to Jesus Christ as that?
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy. If we will pray, regarding our own lives, “Your will be done” (Matthew 26:42), then we will be encouraged and comforted by John 17, knowing that our Father is working according to His own wisdom, accomplishing what is best. When we understand God’s purpose, we will not become small-minded and cynical. Jesus prayed nothing less for us than absolute oneness with Himself, just as He was one with the Father. Some of us are far from this oneness; yet God will not leave us alone until we are one with Him— because Jesus prayed, “…that they all may be one….”
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Both nations and individuals have tried Christianity and abandoned it, because it has been found too difficult; but no man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
Thank you for this post. God Bless you today and always.
It’s a nice one, isn’t it? Personally, I find Oswald a pretty good teacher. Someone speaking so I may truly relate to all things God. Perhaps you will too. 😉
Have a most blessed happy Sunday Robert ❤️ may God bless you always 💕
“Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body, in the end submit wth every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life.”
Guess who said that, Cat…hint: look at my post above. And yes, it’s the hardest but most worthy thing we will ever do.🙏
Ahhhh, Betsy!!! Surrender to our Lord!! Great ponderings on my makeover weekend 🥰
M correct. Betsy very astute and smart!!! ❤️ 😘
I’m a Whosoever. I am also a work in progress. It’s a long term project, but definitely so worthwhile🤗
Good Morning Treepers, lurkers and non lurkers alike! ❤️
You are all overwhelming my thoughts, in a good way. Casual thoughts, how’s your life? What’s happening? I think this song sorta sums up my thoughts about you. Yes,you ❤️ have a most blessed Sunday everyone!!
Say a little prayer 🎶
😘 ❤️
Good Morning FC!… I’m on late you seem to be early… LOL
Hi magic!!!
And great minds start to meet ☺️ the others should be here soon. ❤️
Long night for me, just finished off my salad.. even tho its quite warm now and just did the dishes.
A little relaxing and my peepers will probably forcefully shut on their own.
Have a good mornin’.
May you have sweet dreams magic ❤️
Good SUNDAY morning FC, in caps because it is always a special day. May you be incrementally blessed and immersed in love and laughter throughout your day. Cheers!
Good Morning Levi!! 😂 you keep my days straight!!!😂 not to be confused with mondays as I don’t do mondays anymore 😝
Have a loved filled blessed Sunday ❤️
LOL. Easy to lose track of days once out of the work world. Happens here all the time. Thank you. Every day is. Live, Love, Laugh are the words I live by and, fortunately, I am surrounded by. All the best!
Good morning, Levi. It should always be shouted out! In all caps🙏💖. Blessings to you.
Amen, Betsy. Thank you. All the best!
Second good morning Cat! I’m short on sleep and feel like crawling back in bed but got to head out to church for a 4 hour security duty. 😻
Same here grandpa 🤭
You have been busy, as usual 😉
Goodaye pops!! ❤️ 😉
22 May 1965
The Beatles attained their eighth Billboard number one hit with “Ticket To Ride”, on which Paul McCartney, not George Harrison, played lead guitar. The song was the third of six number one singles in a row on the American charts, a record at the time.
22 May 1971
The Rolling Stones achieve the rare feat of having both the Number One LP (“Sticky Fingers”) and Number One single (“Brown Sugar”) in the US.
22 May 1981
Hall And Oates‘ “Kiss on My List” is awarded a Gold record. The song will make it to #1 in the US and become the first of three chart toppers the duo will amass in the next 12 months.
Very specific memories of a time and place for each tune. Early 1982 I saw H&O. They were good but my most vivid memory was of of Donny Iris, who warmed up and then stuck around for about half of the H&O show. He was dancing, side of stage, nearly the entire time. Can’t say I’ve every seen anything quite like that at any other concert. Cheers!
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Happy Sunday, Feral Cat
NATIONAL VANILLA PUDDING DAY – MAY 22
Most medieval puddings were meat-based and seasoned with herbs and spices. Even sweetened cooks usually served them hot. Toward the end of the 18th century, people more than likely made puddings from grains or day-old bread with nuts, fruit, or meats. They used these puddings to stretch meals for a large family.
My-T-Fine produced the earliest packaged pudding in the United States in 1918. This and other puddings like them still required cooking on the stove. The instant version came along in the mid-1940s.
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.
Verse of the Day for Sunday, May 22, 2022
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“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:10 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Amen
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
May 22
MORNING
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. John 14:27
The world passeth away, and the lust thereof. I John 2:17
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. Psa. 39:6
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. Rom. 6:21
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Luke 10:41, 42
I would have you without carefulness. I Cor. 7:32
These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world. John 16:33
The Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. II Thess. 3:16
The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: the LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. Num. 6:24-26
J. Bagster
Amen 🙏
Good Morning poyeema! Sending you love, happiness and blessings from our Lord!! ❤️
Good Sunday morning, everyone. Sunday is special for re-grounding us in spirit and faith. Sunday is, as the good book tells us, the Lord’s day.
May this day be blessed for each of you and all of yours.
Good morning Levi, blessings back at you!
Good morning gramps. Had a grand spend the night. A little basketball player. Game later. It’s a better than average Sunday morning here. Cheers to you!
Amazingly, Bob Dylan turns 81 this Tuesday (5/24/2022). One of the most covered songwriters in world history? I think so.
Over at Powerline, Scott Johnson has offered up a nice collection of some of his favorite covers of Dylan songs by other artists. Worth a read and listen.
Happy birthday Bob. And thanks for your great contribution to the American experience. May you stay “forever young”and God Bless.
Side bar: The Dylan Center (Museum) has opened up in Tulsa, OK. Yes, Tulsa. Why Tulsa?
“When news broke in 2016 that Bob Dylan had given his vast archive of recordings and artifacts to the George Kaiser Family Foundation of Tulsa, people were taken aback. Why was this cultural trove going there, of all places?
Now we know the answer. That initial cache of Dylanalia has become the cornerstone of an entire museum: the Bob Dylan Center. Recently I asked the singer-songwriter, who is 80, why he’d chosen Tulsa. ‘There’s more vibrations on the coasts, for sure,’ he explained. ‘But I’m from Minnesota and I like the casual hum of the heartland.’”
https://bobdylancenter.com/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/not-dark-yet-contd-6.php#disqus_thread
Good Morning ugly! Have a blessed Sunday! ❤️
Happy birthday Bob!! 🥳 what sort of music will be highlighted on this thread? 🤔 😎
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Dzien Dobry (good morning)
błogosławieństwa dla twojego domu 🙂
Thanks bunches
Have a Blessed Sunday
Piękne słowa
I’ve got three Fox squirrels living in the trees in my yard. They just love teasing the dogs. Yesterday Steve had Cooper tied out. Cooper is a stoutly built Beagle. As friendly as can be and smart too. He sleeps in Steves barn, which has concrete floors . and beds down either in his box or on the seat of the golf cart. He uses a litter box! I mean he pees in it. He likes to do #2 outside though and holds it well until let out on his lead.
He has the typical Beagle howl and two of those squirrels teased that dog yesterday morning until he went horse.
May we please put an end to the currently fashionable endeavor of fabricating from whole cloth sub Saharan African (that’s Black African, not Arab African) and African American histories and contributions to civilization that never happened? Please?
In order to fully grasp sub Saharan African (“sSA”) contributions to civilization generally, not just Western Civilization, I suppose we should first look to the great sSA philosophers.
Oh. Right. There weren’t any.
OK, perhaps we could look to the great pre-20th Century sSA art.
Hmmm. Right. There wasn’t any.
Well, maybe the greats of pre-20th Century sSA music.
Uh. Right. There wasn’t any.
I know. Literature. Pre-20th Century sSA literature. That’s where we will find those contributions.
Oh. Right. There wasn’t any of that either. There was no sSA written language, so …..
The sole exceptions to the above is perhaps Ethiopia, because it is Christian.
A book review recently appeared in Foreign Affairs that promotes the idea that sub Saharan Africa is the root creator of the modern world. I confess I have not read the book, but I expect it begins “Once upon a time, on a continent far away, there thrived an ancient Black civilization and its band of domesticated unicorn herders …” Take a look, and begin your day with a hearty laugh.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2022-04-19/out-africa
They want us all down in the pit with them.
Yesterday in the Daily Mail UK, there was a story of a black prelate who is aspiring to become an Anglican priest. He says he doesn’t see the racism within the church there…at all.
And that is a huge problem for the Anglican Church hierarchy, who have refused (so far) his request because, as the (woman) Bishop of London says but of course the Church is riven with “institutional racism”. She is joined by other bishops in this view. The Anglican Church there is lost, so lost. On many levels. She sees no irony in proclaiming what she has said. The mind boggles.
(I shall not indulge my views on “women” bishops.)
Biden is turning our country lock, stock, and barrel over to globalist forces per the signing of amendments to a WHO treaty. That’s our sovereignty gone, if it is allowed to stand..
Today on Gateway Pundit, His Excellency Archbishop Vigano addresses this in his usual forceful way. His whole letter is there for anyone wishing to read it.
EXCLUSIVE: “Yielding of Sovereignty Is Considered the Crime of High Treason” ~~Archbishop Vigano on Nation States Handing Over Sovereignty to the WHO
AND, by the way, Brazil’s outstanding President Bolsonaro has said that Brazil will NOT capitulate, will not sign. A brave man. Mau God continue to protect him. Forces there and elsewhere are doing their best to get rid of him in the most permanent way.
The White Horse Guitar Club perform the beautiful song ‘Wide River to Cross’ by Buddy Miller at the Spailpin Fanac bar in Cork City.
Beautiful. Thank you for posting. Very American sound? Invokes feelings of the American west for some reason. I don’t detect any Irish influence. No surprise, Buddy Miller being from Ohio.
Remember this one? Garbage in, garbage out.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Christ is risen!
Truly He is risen!
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)
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
From Small Compline
Rejoice Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. (Thrice)
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
Fifth Sunday of Pascha
On this day, the fifth Sunday of Pascha, we commemorate the conversation of the Lord with the Samaritan woman.
From the Synaxaria of the Pentecostarion
by Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (+ ca. 1335)
Betsy, over at gateway is new letter from archbishop vigano. Sorry I cant link.
Oops, sorry, I see above you are already on it! I had this comment drafted then got busy, and posted without doing a refresh!
Glad you already saw it, and thankful for Archbishop vigano. (and brazil’s president)
Both of them!!!
Neither can I, Slowcobra. I do so appreciate you’re giving me a heads up. I very well could have missed it. Blessings, girl…
🙂
I know Treepers have a wide range of knowledge so can anyone recommend a good 12 volt self-prime water pump ?
Reviews at several retailers / catalogs call most offerings JUNK that quit after short use.
Thanks in advance for any input.
Sunday night entertainment!!😂 😂 😂 😎
Solomon’s article at the American Thinker:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/america_has_reached_a_crisis_point_of_socialism_.html
Lonestar!!!!!! I love you!!!!!
❤️
God bless you!!!!!
Solomon writes the best things. ❤️ Did you notice, too, comments are allowed? 😉
Couldn’t leave a comment cause you need to pay to leave one so I’ll leave my comment here. Well done, Solomon 👏. Good job!! Miss you 😘 💐 🌺 🌸 ❤️
Solomon is spot on. I’m sure he’ll read your comment, Cat. 💜
I seem to remember Betsy commenting that Solomon once upon a time studied under Solzhenitsyn.
He met Solzhenitsyn in the old USSR from what I’ve understood and learned quite a few things from him. I guess you can call it a study.
Hi Lonestar 🤗
Bless you, FC ❤️
Yes, I saw where they are now allowing comments again.
Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
Amen
Amen 🙏
Amen!
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Something soft for my friend ❤️
Billie Holiday – you go to my head 🎶
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.