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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😺 The Cat Life is Good 💛
Heck yeh it’s good. This house is maintained soley for the comfort and convenience of Gabby the inside cat! At least she has had it good enough that is what she thinks. And if she feels that the help is letting her down she lets us know about it. As I write this she is sleeping in the dogs bed next to our bed. All beds are hers you know.
However every great once in awhile reality strikes when I stuff her furry butt in a carrier and she goes to see the Vet.
“However every great once in awhile reality strikes when I stuff her furry butt in a carrier and she goes to see the Vet.”
Ha!
If she’s anything like mine that all but requires high level skills you acquired long ago at Bragg!
Cats ain’t nuthin’ but miniature lions and tigers!
Lovable little demons….
Lots of strategy and precision in execution required, no question.
Deception is the key.
Oh boy!!! Is it ever!!
Speaking of strategy and precision
For me there is no other artist to have captured light as did
John Singer Sargent
Patience, thank you – just brilliant.
Artistry like that, the ability to produce paintings like this always astounds me. I feel this way about sculptors, painters, watercolourists, anyone who can see something in their minds and produce what they see. God given gifts that I can only marvel at.
LOL , Rah 😄
Sounds just like my Cat , *Baby* ,, she lets me live with her 😺 Lucky me 😊
We know who the Queen is
and it ain’t us ! 😄
How long does “furry butt” stay mad at a trip to the Vet?
Bless all our lovely furry companions. Cats always find the sunny spot. It looks as if this one is being blessed from above. I’d like to think so…
I get a kick out of watching a cat ENJOY a nap, or sunshine, or a nap IN the sunshine….
Kitty in morning prayer.
Good morning, Patience and Ma🤗🤗
St Francis approves.🙏
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Gooood mornin, Betsy❣️
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Just poured out…delicious!💖
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Beautiful
https://mobile.twitter.com/morissaschwartz/status/1558419103261630466
That singing cat’s got talent
God Bless America 🙂
Amen!
++++ Jay. 🙂
Is this “us” ?? I think it is. Welcome to the Treehouse Church. 🙂
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Good morning, Casco, my friend.💖
Great afternoon amiga! 🙂
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It is, Garrison….you know it is. 🙏🤗
Yep. Feels like it. 🙂
🤗🙏!!
Hopefully if some can’t make it to their regular service this may help with some inspiration. Seems to be plenty of scripture to read and some very good teachings posted, I mean Spurgeon should work for all.
Blessings to all who find their way here! 🙂
Amen!!
Yes, it is us !! God bless our Treehouse Church.
Yes ma’am! Is there a better place? I think not. Especially on a Sunday.
Bless-ed Sunday morning to you, Mr jay. How utterly perfect for the Lord’s day.🙏💖
Oh thank you, sir! I agree. Dr Spurgeon is simply perfect for me.
What a nice thing to do . . . 🙂 Thanks for posting this.
Brilliant, right?!
And a really lovely thing to do at this time, cuz I think a lot of people who got pets for companionship during the Covid Lockdowns are having to let them go now as the price of pet food gets more and more expensive.
Wouldn’t work here unless under some kind of roof. Too much rain. And around here it would also serve as a racoon, possum, red fox, coyote, and even bird feeder. Yes birds! Jays and Starlings swoop in to eat dry dog and cat food here.
My neighbor Steve feeds his barn cats on the covered porch of his barn. They have four wooden rockers and a couple small tables there. Just last week I helped them clean up all the bird crap off the slab and furniture using house wash and a hose. This is because the birds come in to eat the food despite there being windchimes up to try and keep them away.
That was my first thought. My raccoons would be all over this.
It is not the small wild creatures coming in that worry me, it is the bears coming in and tearing up everything. We take down all feeders early in the spring. Had a bear in front door yard last year the day after I took down the feeder. He rooted around the ground where the feeder was and then left. My only feeder out is the humming bird feeder on second story back porch.
Ohhhh…..my heart!!!! Lord love him🙏💖
(Is someone peeling onions in here??)
Live channel presently offering Archbishop Vigano:
Thank you for posting this Ma McGriz. Blessings to you.
Hi Casco, and blessings to you! It is morning where I am so I am about to put on my running shoes and get going. 😁
Top o’ the morn GrandpaM.Hope you are enjoying your travels over in the mother country.Casco 🙂
Good afternoon (where you are), G! Start packing! Home awaits, and we all pray for an uneventful return for you and your mother, my dear brother😘🙏
Good morning Bet! Packing day is tomorrow. 😍
Thank you for the prayers. We have a little shorter layovers than what I’d be comfortable with both times we switch planes. But God willing it will all work out.
((((( Hello ))))), Grandpa❣️
Hi Patience 🤗
It will work out. I’m working on making it happen🙏😉
😁 ❤️
We will welcome the conquering hero!!😘
Gracious God and Father
We are your people embraced by your love.
We thank you for your presence with us
Throughout all time.
Create us anew through Jesus Christ your son.
Liberate us from all that keeps us from you.
Send your Holy Spirit,enabling us to share in your work
of recreating our world and restoring justice.
Heal us from every form of sin and violence.
Transform us to live your Word more profoundly.
Reconcile us so enemies become friends.
Awaken us to the sacred;nurture our relationships.
Enliven our parishes;reunite our families.
Fill us with joy to celebrate the fullness of life.
Empower us to be a community of love
growing in your likeness,
by the grace of Christ our Lord.Amen.
Amen 🙏
Great Sunday morning FC and many blessings to you on this here,the Lord’s day! Casco 🙂
Good morning, Cat💖 …and God Morning especially. It’s gratifying to see our church so full. Blessings as always, my friend.🙏
Morning Cat, in my travels I’ve seen some great forests for a feral cat to run and play. 😂❤️
Amen, amen🙏
I am currently listening to Albrechtsberger’s Missa Solemnis. It is beautiful and glorious. The voices!!! Your prayer has only added to the joy.and hopefulness of this Sunday morning for me. The joy of knowing that our God is always where we are and works His will always for good. May He answer this prayer for us all. Blessings, my dear friend🙏
Blessings to you as well Bet! Sure hope you get some precip soon… Casco 🙂
Thank you, Casco. Had some last week and it was glorious. But I wouldn’t say no to some more🙏😉
Amen
Morning Patience!
Hello (again) Pa ❣️❣️❣️
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Amen
Afternoon SC! 🙂
Amen !!
Thank you so much, Ma!! I was thinking about him quite strongly in the night. 🙏
“Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord.“ (Jeremiah 17:5)
“I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” (Jeremiah 17:9-10)
And so……
“It is much better to put full trust in the Lord” (Proverbs3:5-6)
Good morning, GB. This exact thing has been much on my mind especially lately. Putting our faith and trust where it is meet and right so to do. Not in any man. But in Christ, our Lord, from Whom all blessings flow.
Bless-ed Sunday morning to you, sir.
I am late to the thread tonight. Been a busy day, but a good one .
Some days I just have to let the Lord worry about the evil ones; I trust He has their “just desserts” already planned….
A Blessed Rest of the Sunday evening to you, Betsy.
And I am back late as well. So glad you had a fruitful day. Ignoring all the fraught events swirling around is no bad thing. They’re going nowhere, so it’s good to shut the door on it all, especially on the Lord’s Day and recharge your spiritual gas tank. Best part? There is no charge for doing so. Thank you for your good wishes.😊
Have a blessed Sunday, Treepers. Our Lord watches over us. Honest, He does . . . 🙂
Howdy Garrison 🙂
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Morning jay and Garrison!
Morning jay, garrison and grandpa ❤️
Just got back from making my rounds, Cat. Good morning again. 😍
Mornin’ Gramps! Mornin’ Cat! 🙂
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A glorious and blessed Sunday to you and your Love, Garrison ❣️
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Here’s a little solace, Treeper friends . . .
Garrison, always love when you post this video.
It’s one of my favorite videos. The music and period paintings are perfect together. Timeless. 🙂
Garrison, you have ‘no idea’ how much this video and music assisted me over the past year (or more?).
It became almost a nightly aid to calm, sooth and clear and restore …during some of the most trying of times.
Thank you🌹
Been there. Exactly there, Patience. Be well and blessed, friend. 🙂
The most soothing music I’ve ever heard.
Satie used to play piano at Art Gallery openings in Paris.
Can you imagine that experience?
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Thanks Garrison. This is really very nice.
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Much needed solace, Garrison. Thank you for this.😘
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Amen! Thanks be to God!
Amen.
G, the devotional above made me think of this from Lewis…
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
How gracious is our Lord.
🙌 🙏🏻 🙌
🤗!!
Simply wonderful
Amen.
And with that, a good night.
14 August 1992 Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters, 1953-59 – “Only You”; “Great Pretender”), dies at 64.
14 August 2002 Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
Bodies
14 August 2008 Lita Roza, English singer (“How Much is That Doggie in the Window”), dies at 82.
👍 😊 ❤️
D.W cause of death was cardiomyopathy.
30 y.o.
2002
Funny how they “forget” to list cause of death in young people that are not self caused.
Thanks for the update.
Good Morning all. Hope you all have a blessed Sunday.
Think we overdid a bit yesterday. Despite rubbing my calves and shins down with Blue Goo – Muscle Pain Relief, Joint Pain Relief, Performance Foot Care – bluegoodothegoo and taking two extra strength Tylenol before I went to bed, I woke up with my right calf aching. Blue goo is cheaper and seems just as effective as Biofreeze. Better now that I have got up and stretched it out a bit.
Joe Bastardi’s Saturday Summary is short and sweet. Scroll down if you wish to watch. I especially recommend it for those of you that live in the Lone Star. Your in for cooling rains over all of the south of the state and the worst of the summer heat is probably done for you. As usual scroll down for the free video.
WeatherBELL Analytics
You folks in the NW and along the west coast are in for some hotter than average temps again.
Meanwhile there is absolutely no Tropical Cyclone activity anywhere on earth as I write this. A couple lows and the Invest that will bring drenching and cooling rains to Texas is it. Some of the coast of Texas may see gale force winds as that Invest comes ashore today. That’s it. Joe calls that fact “astounding” relative to the doom and gloom projections of the alarmists that claimed tropical storms would become more frequent and powerful due to “climate change”.
The MJO is just entering phase 2 so expect that to change and the high impact season forecast for the US still stands by NOAA and Weatherbell. But I don’t think that the Global ACE can be anything but well below average when this season ends even if the Atlantic basin fires up big time.
Thanks rah! Looks like I’ll be getting back home to a cooler wetter Texas. PTL!
The only things I have found for my hand pain is CBD lotion and Voltaren. Neither is cheap but a little goes a long way.
Thanks but I have determined to stay away from CBD products because as a commercial driver I’m subject to be drug tested at any time. Some products do not show up positive for THC and others do, and manufactures have been known to make false claims on that point and so I just stay away from all such products.
BTW it rained here last night so our efforts to get the OSB safe under some form of roofing product were justified.
Oh please, please, please…
How wonderful that would be. We had a glorious rain last week. Hard and furious at first, easing off to a few hours not what I call a soaking rain. I gave immediate thanks.🙏
Hi Rah, yes, it does seem you over did all your work. Besides the topical stuff on your legs a hot soaking in an epsom salts bath would probably help ease the soreness. Its the magnesium that helps. I find it helps my aching legs when I’ve overdone.
Our weather here in north MS is to be dry for the next couple of days, we are still getting up into the 90s but with blessed cool downs into the 60s at night. Good sleeping weather. Going to Memphis on Wednesday for cataract surgery pre op at VA. Of course its supposed to rain. Maybe we’ll get another rainbow to visit us in our car.
Happy Sunday to you and yours.
Oh bless, gramadeb🙏 I read so many comments from those who say that procedure changed their lives and they sailed through it. I’ll pray your experience is exactly the same😊🙏
Betsy, thank you for your prayers. I had my right eye done 2 weeks ago and I’ve healed quickly. The only way I can describe the difference is the dimmer switch has been turned all the way up. I’m testing at 20/20 from 20/80. The procedure itself is about 1/2 an hour. Tiny incisions and dissolution of the cataract by ultrasound then placement of the new lens. An IV is in place to administer a small amount of anesthesia if needed for anxiety otherwise I was awake the whole time and talking with the surgical staff.
My husband had his eyes done in February and March. He now only needs readers, no prescription. Even the astigmatism was fixed with the new lenses.
I’ll have my final checkup and vision check in about 6 weeks. I’m praying that my outcome will be as good as my husband’s.
I hope your surgery comes out well. I am sure one day I will have to get the same thing done.
Thank you, rah. Over the past year I’ve become pretty much night blind. I am so thankful my VA offers this surgery.
I am believing the Lord will bring me through as He did with the first eye.
Have a great week and be blessed with safe travels.
O WORD OF GOD INCARNATE
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’” From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
John 1:14-18, ESV
Good morning 1530 and amen!
Good morning, 1530. What wonderful words to read on this Sunday morning.🙏 And no, we have not seen God face to face. But if we lift our eyes and our hearts, we can see Him everywhere. All Glory be to Him, His beloved Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
Have you ever wondered what Stephen saw right before he was martyred? Martyrdom Of Stephen, Acts 7:55-60 KJV (kingjamesbibleonline.org)
What is the glory of God that Stephen saw? And what does it mean to see Christ at the right hand of God?
And do we do the same thing as the crowd, ‘cry out … stop our ears …’?
And what does it mean for Moses to ‘speak with God face to face’ but be told that ‘there shall no man see me and live’?
Exodus 33 KJV – And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, – Bible Gateway (verses 11 and 20).
Technically Stephen died because of that vision. But what did he see? He didn’t lie. But he didn’t drop dead right away. They seized him, cast him out and stoned him.
There are lots of different possibilities and different takes that can be made from the words used, how they mesh together and how much is allegorical.
Love that song
August 14 Oswald Chambers
The Discipline of the Lord
My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him. —Hebrews 12:5
It is very easy to grieve the Spirit of God; we do it by despising the discipline of the Lord, or by becoming discouraged when He rebukes us. If our experience of being set apart from sin and being made holy through the process of sanctification is still very shallow, we tend to mistake the reality of God for something else. And when the Spirit of God gives us a sense of warning or restraint, we are apt to say mistakenly, “Oh, that must be from the devil.”
“Do not quench the Spirit” (1 Thessalonians 5:19), and do not despise Him when He says to you, in effect, “Don’t be blind on this point anymore— you are not as far along spiritually as you thought you were. Until now I have not been able to reveal this to you, but I’m revealing it to you right now.” When the Lord disciplines you like that, let Him have His way with you. Allow Him to put you into a right-standing relationship before God.
“…nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him.” We begin to pout, become irritated with God, and then say, “Oh well, I can’t help it. I prayed and things didn’t turn out right anyway. So I’m simply going to give up on everything.” Just think what would happen if we acted like this in any other area of our lives!
Am I fully prepared to allow God to grip me by His power and do a work in me that is truly worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me— sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me. But He has to get me into the state of mind and spirit where I will allow Him to sanctify me completely, whatever the cost (see 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
There is nothing, naturally speaking, that makes us lose heart quicker than decay—the decay of bodily beauty, of natural life, of friendship, of associations, all these things make a man lose heart; but Paul says when we are trusting in Jesus Christ these things do not find us discouraged, light comes through them.
https://utmost.org/the-discipline-of-the-lord/
“I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.”
~~Isaiah 44:22~~
Good, blessed -and feisty morning, Cat😻!
14 August 1965
The McCoys‘ “Hang On Sloopy” is released. It will enter the Hot 100 three weeks later and top the chart by the first week of October.
14 August 1971
Rod Stewart‘s “Maggie May” is released in the US where it will reach #1 and become his first Billboard chart hit. Rod would later remark: “I cannot see how the single is such a hit. It has no melody.”
14 August 1976
Cliff Richard‘s biggest US hit, “Devil Woman” entered the Billboard Top 40 where it would reach #6. A huge star in his native UK, Richard achieved nine US Top 40 entries, including “We Don’t Talk Anymore” (#7 in 1979} and “Dreaming” (#10 in 1980).
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Good morning rebel ❤️
Good morning Feral Cat ❤
Putting this new Bose sound system on my Christmas wish list.
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That oughta bring on quite some movement!
yes, but cleaning it?
https://www.brondell.com/cleanspa-luxury-hand-held-bidet/
And
https://emerginc.com/protect/reusable-face-shield/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs–tyMvG-QIVjMLCBB1cfQcSEAQYASABEgK7pPD_BwE
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Those could work nicely too, with one of the above, er.. below. /s
Perhaps a quick trip to Home Depot:
/sarc
Seriously tho, If it existed, it is nothing compared to cleaning a grease trap in a restaurant 2x a year and that is on my schedule to do in the next couple a weeks.
I should have become a plumber instead of a mech-a-nix, would have made a boatload more money, especially in this town of retired plumbers not wanting to do anything more than quick, easy & clean big money jobs.
Mornin’ comrade banana republic infidels.
Chillix on Twitter: “THIS!!! THIS!!! THIS!!! https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f447.svg Whoever made that phone call to stop the count it he keystone to everything… and NOBODY will bother to find out who did it.” / Twitter
This week my lesson is Isaiah 61. There is this nugget in Verse 8 that seems important at this time:
“For I the Lord love justice;”
God’s justice is perfect, without fault or error. It is fair and does not show favor. It is righteous justice. Throughout scripture we are taught how to administer justice in our communities and nations with the justice of God as a pattern. The inalienable rights from the Constitution are modeled after these principles.
When the justice of man is administered without thought of God or righteous action, we get the justice of the depraved mind. Depraved justice give us lies, false charges, abuses and show trials, all antithetical to justice as designed by God.
The good news is that the real and final Supreme Court is not the one in Washington.
Amen!
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
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Ain’t God amazing….
-sigh.
🙂 🙂 😉
Ahhhhh… (head tilt n sigh)
-Thank you, jay.
Nicely done.
-Thanks and gooood morning, duchess!
Someone on here posted a link to a YouTube video yesterday.
It was a “Dear Kitten” cat food commercial and it.was.AWESOME!
I sent it to several folks.
I rooted around for more and laughed every time.
Somewhere along the way, and somehow on Twitter, I found this and thought I’d post it in case anyone needs a smile.
A dog smile can make anyone smile, right?
https://mobile.twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1558356806082109442
It does that, Greg. Thank you!
Heavenly Father, Abba Father,
Lord, we enter into Your throne room in full supplication, on the floor, faces down. We are in the midst of an evil that we never fathomed or realized was growing among us. We are guilty of not studying Your Word and for abiding as those who sought to destroy faith in You took over. We laughed, sometimes uncomfortably, but we acquiesced and embraced the coexist mindset. We left matters to You to sort out and now we have created a much bigger problem. We are living an event of Biblical proportions. Thank You for giving us Your Word to discern it and to prepare us for what lies ahead. (Both in the laying and the lying!)
Light and darkness can’t share the same room.
2 Chronicles 7:14 “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
Give us the confidence, stamina, presence of mind, courage, and backbone to learn, study, teach, defend, and assert our God-given and forefather defined Constitutional rights. Restore us back to a great nation UNDER GOD and help us to fulfil Your Will and Purpose for our individual and collective lives.
Lord, we love You and we are sorry. Never let us fail to speak up again in the presence of tyranny. Let no weapon formed against Your people prosper. We accept and embrace Your Will and know that Romans 8:28 “all things are for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His Purpose”. All things… the good and the bad. You can shape all things for our ultimate good. Come, Lord Jesus, come… though we respect Amos 5:18 and understand what appears to be long-suffering in the desire that no righteous shall perish eternally.
Thank you for giving us Luke 12 (all of it) for the here and now. Thank you for Revelation 4 where you define the Nicolaitans as those within the church who compromise with pagan secularism. Nicolaitans are those who are within the faith who go along to get along to gain favor from those who seek to destroy True Faith in Christ and Your Word. When Jesus returns, He not only wars against evil, but against the Nicolaitans too… the hypocrites… so the church can expect a real “come to meet Jesus meeting” with the double-edged sword that Jesus will yield.
Turn and repent for the time is near – as a voice calling out from the desert “make way for the coming of the Lord”.
Bless and create hedges of protection around the treepers and their families reading this Father. Bless Sundance and his team for the platform where we can find one another… a true tapestry of Your people. Bless Sundance and his team with increase, so that they may continue their valiant efforts on our country’s behalf. Open many eyes and ears Father to the tyranny and give Sundance and the team supernatural stamina.
In Jesus’s Holy and Saving Name, AMEN
Amen
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Amen, JWoo.
Archbishop Vigano, God’s faithful servant, has described the Nicolaitans within the Catholic Church. They also exist within many other denominations. Vigano never rests in showing every one of us, Catholic or not, the fearful state of His churches and the faces of those meant to serve Him…and not the satanic cults of grotesque ideologies so offensive to us and to God.
This is a beautiful prayer you’ve shared with us. Thank you.
Hi Betsy jones,
Prior to my study in Revelation this year, I always thought the Nicolaitans were the principalities. I was so wrong. I was shocked when in my NIV study Bible, the footnotes cleared that up.
Having served in hospitality and leadership in the past, I recognized a cancer growing within the church. Especially our former one (Pence’s church). Pure evil and it is appalling how their ilk reveal themselves in society when they think no one is looking, or that I am so inconsequential they choose to reveal their true selves to me. God sees it all.
Now, we are no longer in church and worship at home. We’ve also taken up camping, which is so soothing for the senses. Very interested in a campfire worship with scripture and worship songs. Just need it pure with fellow believers. We are a party of two, my teen girl and me. Working on building this little group of Central Indiana believers, so we will no longer be an island as the world would have us believe.
What a GREAT idea! I don’t attend a brick and mortar church and I love camping and campfires.
Oh how wonderful!! I often say I miss my childhood Episcopal church. We had a family friend who was our rector. A deep voice that resonated in our smallish church. But something evil crawled into that denomination. As it has in others.
I find this thread has become a church for me, Jwoo. Friends…good friends with whom we share a love of Christ and God. And we share the most wonderful fellowship, as one would in a brick and mortar building, which we do not need…because as I’ve said, we ARE more than two or three gathered together.
I wish you so many blessings in your and your beloved daughter’s endeavours to provide for yourselves and others who feel as you do that place where God is the absolute centre of your worship. Free from ideologies and earthly distractions (except for nature, where He always is). God bless you both, sir.🙏
A little ditty we all know with a wee twist on the lyrics. Enjoy
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-Some vintage Alex Jones
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Golly.., How did he know what was planned and coming; and became today?
Isn’t he supposed to be a crazy liar???
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
And amen.
The 50th Psalm
Septuagint
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)
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord (1164 in Constantinople)
The Seven Holy Maccabees and the Holy and Righteous Solomonia and Eleazar (+ 166 B.C.)
Saint Cennyd (Kenneth), Monk of Llangenydd, Wales (+ 6th century)
Saint Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester (+ 984)
Saint Nicholas, Equal-to-the-Apostles and Enlightener of Japan (+ 1912)
August 1st – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
August 14th – civil or commercial calendar
Beginning of the Fast preceding the Dormition of the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
August 1st – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
August 14th – civil or commercial calendar
After having a little time to ponder what 87,000 IRS agents might be used for I am going to put my guess in the hat.
Since most large metropolitan areas are Democrat controlled already this expanded lethal force ( both literally and figuratively ) are going to be used to intimidate conservative county and city councils to mandate drop boxes and approved voting machines or their municipal and private finances are subject to politically motivated audits.
In short the fix is in for upcoming midterm elections.
These 87,000 IRS agents are, in essence, the Democrat Party’s private army. A dirty cop mixed with a dirty IRS agent.
Tears. The look of love on that old woman’s face is beyond description. Thank you for posting this.
Oh my!!! That precious lad looks exactly like one of my 17 year old grandlads. And it is something he would do. God please bless them both. That was so lovely!! We need more of that💖
Volume up.
Thank you, Sharon. The feeling this engenders goes very deep, given the times in which we find ourselves. How have we come to this. It was so good to hear this hymn tonight. Blessings to you.
Amen 🙏
Amen.
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Amen!
Amen.
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Amen.
Amen.
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.