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 dog did it.
Yes he did, Betsy..
My offering, Spicy.
“I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat”
Sung by Mark Steyn (Yes, THAT Mark Steyn!)
It’s rather catchy😉💕
Good morning Bet! Several hours of blessed rain this morning. Praise the Lord!your son and his upcoming back surgery have been in my prayers. 🙏🏻❤️❤️
Hello there, Pa ❣
Good morning, G😘 Bless you for those prayers. I know, I truly know, Almighty God has him in the palm of His hand. Just as I know He has heard the beautiful prayers from my family here who have lovingly offered them.
Raining now here as well. Praise the Lord indeed. Such a welcome blessing so much needed, my beloved brother.
Diabolical dog!
I bet if we could see his “Who, me?” face, butter wouldn’t melt😉
…more likely Partners in Crime…
The dog made me? / !!!
-that rat!
😂
We know who the mastermind is…right??😁
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Your not looking at me? Right? I don’t have to remind you what happened last time?
(These Grays are no one to mess with!)
Collins’ Dictionary definition ~ Grey is the color of ashes or of clouds on a rainy day.
Like their temperament?
When I got in a laid down last night, Gabby curled up right in the nook of my arm with her head on my chest and purred up a storm as she got her pets and head scratches. She was laying beside me when I woke up an hour ago.
🐾🐾It was quite thoughtful of Gabby to “allow” you in her bed. My two fuzz balls “allow” me to sleep in my own bed. We argue over whose head gets to claim a pillow.🐾🐾🐾
When she is not getting attention she lays at the bottom of the bed and watches the TV if is on. She watches no matter what we have on, but really likes the animal shows.
Awwwwww. Hey, kitty. you’re gorgeous.
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Morning, Mr jay. Gawgeous!😍
Maidin Mhaith Betsy 🙂
Beautiful! Look at that sky on fire at the horizon!
Stunningly beautiful… and oddly calming
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Good morning Patience! How did the procedure go? ❤️
Hello again, Pa.
Hats or not… sunned skin or dna 🤔 ? ; 2nd one in six months. 🤨🙄
Doc cut it out, tested it, said all is well (yeah!!!) and stitched it shut.
Thanks for your follow-up. 💞
Good news! I had an Aunt die from multiple melanoma.
Yes, rah. Thanks.
Now, now…., none of that “m” word!!! 😜.
Just 2 varieties of “cee’s”.
-Sorry about your aunt; hope it wasn’t long agonizing suffering for her.
Had a cousin with “m”. Gosh! What an adonis….the kind of handsome seldom seen in real life, who had almost the entire side of his face -from below his eye carved out.
Even that didn’t really mare his facial beauty though.
Fortunately , they’ve come a loooong way since the 70’s with the cutting.
He passed on a few months ago at 94.
Hallelujah!!!💕🙏🏻
🙌🙌🙌 At this point I’d invest in a very wide brimmed hat for the outdoors. 😍
Hate the hat-hair, but I have em in pert near every color, and some with the wide rear brim.
Matter of fact, I look like I’m on safari when golfing. 🥸
Been wearing them fer years.
They’re even donned when swimming; chin-strapped.
-Imagine that! 😂🤣😅
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😎❤️
Nothing like the original 🙂
Their non-musician bodyguard/road manager, Mal Evans, usually played tambourine on the Beatles recording sessions. Note his uneven, interesting accents yet always keeping in tempo.
🙂 🙂
Hi’ya, jay 🙂
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Morning jay!
Howdy Gramps 🇺🇸😁🇺🇸
Good morning, Garrison. A whole playlist! Nothing else to say except thank you, my friend. God be with you 😘
Mornin’ Bet. Just thought these would fit well. Enjoy . . . 🙂
They really do.
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Good morning Patience and Ma💕💕. Thank you for the cuppa! Hoping all went well.
Note left above on your good report😘
Hi Bet,
I read later on about your son and his surgery. My best wishes and prayers.
Thank you, my friend. I’ve passed on all the prayers to him. He’s a strapping man with no health problems bar this wretched disk issue. I’m just so grateful he has managed to arrange private help for it. Bless you, Colkitto.😘
Hello Betsy, I will be praying for your son, his family and all medical pros tomorrow. And you..🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻
Thank you, Della. I can’t tell you how much that means. He is in the Almighty hands. Bless you.😘
Praying for your son and the skill and wisdom of the surgeon, Betsy.
Yes, Betsy…
Prayers all around ✝️
for The Lord’s guidance over all participants in your son’s journey to wellness.
Afternoon, Betsy. ❤️
-yes, thank you.
Really
We look after one another. The beauty of this wonderful Tree.🤗
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Howdy Garrison 🙂
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Thank you Garrison.
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No one quite expresses an image of 19th century like Chopin.
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😎Wonderful!!!!
-and the sun is shining.
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Morning Garrison!
Mornin’ Gramps 🙂
Beautiful 🥲💕
Yes! Come Lord Jesus!
You are our only treasure. ✝️
“Sure, mom. I’ll try some of that tuna casserole.”
Sorry, I just had a blank!
You were talking about Tuna Casserole?
“That one time you shuffled out into the kitchen to start the coffee maker and put out some cat food but forgot to put on pants.”
That was a good one! ROTFLMAO!
Too cute!
Too Cute (TV series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Cute_(TV_series)
You guys are on a roll this morning!
A generous deed, unannounced…as it should be.
https://ijr.com/towns-pharmacy-bills-secretly-paid-years-hero-behind-revealed-blessing-lord/
Oh Betsy, What a wonderful story! This is really what we were made for; loving one another!
Thank you Sister. Does my heart good 🙂
You are so welcome, Michael. There are so many good hearts. This one made mine swell, too.🤗
Great story Bet! Did my heart good this morning. 😘
So glad. Mine, too. Carried it with me for days when I read it😌.
Betsy, that was lovely!
Bless him and kindhearted people everywhere!🙏💕
Wasn’t it wonderful, Lorrie? One pebble…so many ripples.💕
Smith Wigglesworth – Ever Increasing Faith
Chapter 3 – The Power of the Name
continued . . .
Scripture Reading — Acts 3:1-16
There comes before me a meeting we had in Stockholm that I shall ever bear in mind. There was a home for incurables there, and one of the inmates was brought to the meeting. He had palsy and was shaking all over. He stood up before 3,000 people and came to the platform, supported by two others. The power of God fell on him as I anointed him in the Name of Jesus. The moment I touched him he dropped his crutch and began to walk in the Name of Jesus. He walked down the steps and round that great building in view of all the people. There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.
Someone said to me, “Will you go to this Home for Incurables?” They took me there on my rest day. They brought out the sick people into a great corridor and in one hour the Lord set about twenty of them free. The Name of Jesus is so marvelous. Peter and John had no conception of all that was in that Name; neither had the man lame from his mother’s womb, who was laid daily at the gate; but they had faith to say, “In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And as Peter took him by the right hand, and lifted him up, immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength, and he went into the Temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. How can it be done? Through His Name, through faith in His Name, through faith which is by Him.
REVIVALS IN SCANDINAVIA
The writer had the privilege for three months one year of being in the center of Mr. Smith
Wigglesworth’s meetings in both Sweden and Denmark. It was a time of visitation from on high. I dare to say that hundreds of people received Jesus as their Saviour, thousands were healed from all kinds of diseases, also thousands of believers awoke to a new life, and many, many received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost as on the day of Pentecost. For all this we give glory to Jesus. Here are a few examples of miracles my eyes have seen.
It was in Orebro (Sweden) where at that time there was held a Pentecostal Convention. I came to seek help myself, being worn out with long, unbroken service in the Lord’s work. The next day there was a meeting for healing. After the preaching service I went forward into the other hall and I was surprised to find in a few minutes a crowd following. The hall was soon full with hundreds of men and women patiently waiting for a touch of God through His servant, and, glory to God, we were not disappointed. As hands were laid upon me the power of God went through me in a mighty way. I was immediately well.
It was wonderful to notice, as the ministry continued, the effect upon the people as the power of the Lord came over them. Some lifted their hands, crying, “I am healed! I am healed!” Some fell on the platform under the power of the Spirit, having to be helped down. Others walked away as in a dream; others as drunk with new wine, lost to everything but God; but all had faces as transfigured with the glory of the Lord and magnifying Jesus. A young blind girl, as she was ministered to, cried out, “Oh, how many windows there are in this hall!” During the three weeks the meeting continued the great chapel was crowded daily, multitudes being healed and many saved. The testimony meetings were wonderful. One said, “I was deaf, then prayed, and Jesus healed me.” Another, “I had consumption, and I am free.” And so on.
At Skofde, in the smaller hall, set apart for those seeking the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, I shall never forget the sight, how the people with eyes closed and hearts uplifted to God waited. Did the Holy Spirit fall upon them? Of course He did. Here also many were healed. At another place there was a young man whose body was spoiled because of sin, but the Lord is merciful with sinners. He was anointed, and when hands were laid on, the power of God went mightily over him. He said, “I am healed,” but being broken down, he cried as a little child, confessing his sin; at the same moment the Lord saved him. Glory to God! He went into the large hall and testified to salvation and healing.
At Stockholm, long queues waited for hours to get in. The hall held 1,800 people. At nearly every meeting crowds were unable to enter the building, but they waited on, often hours and hours, for the chance, if any left the building to step into the place. Here a man with two crutches, his whole body shaking with palsy, is lifted onto the platform. (Behind him five or six hundred more are waiting for help.) This man is anointed and hands laid upon him in the Name of Jesus. He is still shaking. Then he drops one crutch, and after a short time the other one. His body is still shaking, but he takes the first step out IN FAITH. Will it be? He lifts one foot and then the other, walks round the platform. The onlookers rejoice with him. Now he walked around the auditorium. Hallelujah!
During this meeting a woman began to shout and shout. The preacher told her to be quiet, but instead she jumped up on a chair, flourishing her arms about, and crying, “I am healed! I am healed! I had cancer in my mouth, and I was unsaved; but during the meeting, as I listened to the Word of God, the Lord has saved me and healed me of cancer in my mouth.” She shouts again, “I am saved! I am saved! I am healed of cancer!” She was quite beside herself. The people laughed and cried together. Here was another woman unable to walk, sitting on a chair as she was ministered to. Her experience was the same as hundreds of others. She rose up, looking around, wondering if after all it was a dream. Suddenly she laughed and said, “My leg is healed.” Afterward she said, “I am not saved,” and streams of tears ran down her face. They prayed for her, and later she left the meeting healed and saved and full of joy. We have a wonderful Saviour; glory to His Holy Name!
Out of many miracles in Norway, I quote two taken from Pastor Barratt’s paper, “Korsets Seir” (the Victory of the Cross). A man and his son came in a taxi to the meeting. Both had crutches. The father had been in bed two years and was unable to put his leg to the ground. He was ministered to. He dropped both crutches, walking and praising God. When the son saw this he cried out, “Help me too,” and after a little while the father and son, without crutches and without taxi, walked away from the hall together. That word again is manifested; the same Jesus, the wonder-working Jesus is just the same today.
Now Copenhagen, my homeland! During three weeks thousands daily attended the meetings. Each morning two or three hundred were ministered to for healing. Each evening the platform was surrounded. Again and again, as each throng retired another company came forward seeking salvation. Here many were baptized in the Holy Ghost. The testimony meetings were wonderful.
Now I will close with a vision a brother had who attended these meetings. He was lost in intercession for the hundreds of sick waiting to be ministered to for healing. He saw an opening from the platform, where the sick were, right into the glory. He saw wonderful beings in the form of men resting who, with interest, looked on. Again he looked at the platform and saw a heavenly Being clothed in white, who all the time was more active than any other in helping the sick, and when HE touched them the effect was wonderful. Bent forms were made straight, their eyes shone, they began to glorify and praise the Lord. A Voice said: “Healings are the smallest of the gifts; it is but a drop in the bucket in view of what God has in store for His children. Ye shall do greater works than these.” — Anna Lewini in “Confidence”
Psalm 102: Title
“A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the LORD.”
While we get very excited and cheered up in the Hymns of God’s Military Triumphs; both for our encouragement in a victorious walk in Christ, as well as in hope of that great Day of Christ’s coming: yet by and large, many more of the Psalms are directed to the sufferings of the weak, the poor and needy, the afflicted and oppressed, the broken and bruised, who have no helper or refuge, but in God’s kind understanding and compassion. The LORD anointed David and filled him mightily with the Spirit of the LORD, and led him the way of trouble and persecution and humiliation; through the furnace of purification through affliction.
In order for David to grow and mature into the man after the LORD’s own heart; He had to inspire in him the need for searching study of his own heart, and true nature in the people he was charged with shepherding for God. By the times that David had to pass through, he was led to study and discern and judge; and so by the same Spirit, to write into the Psalms, what is the life of God’s anointed while in this world: first therefore being, Messiah Himself, who was declared by God, that He would come through David’s seed.
So it was not for himself only, that David went the way he did; but for a sign and instruction unto Christ; and as well, to all those who should be in Christ; that we might know the way that we take. How did David learn tender mercies? By the things he suffered. How did he know what to write, of the revelations of Jesus Christ? By walking in the Spirit through the opposition and contradiction of sinners against him. David was also writing to us for Christ. By the way in which God brought David into the walk with Him, He was able to use David to write on His own behalf to us. The Lord has compassion on everyone who is wearied and harassed and driven away. He brings us, if we are willing to walk with Him in the fellowship of His sufferings, to the place where He will do and teach directly through us to the needs and sufferings of His people. That’s why He has left us in the world, to continue His ministry until He returns.
We are the children of the prophets and apostles, and of them with whom God has made His holy Covenants of Promise. All things are ours by faith in Jesus Christ. The things we must walk through in this world, are for bringing us into the place of God’s overcomers and triumphant. In order for us to fully and really be transformed by the Spirit; and for our being made partakers of His divine nature to come to the full; we have to go the way of the cross with Him. It starts with our repentance and conversion; and we are baptized into His Name; and so we continue as we began with Him, steadfast to the end. We start out by coming to the cross for our sins to be taken away; and we continue as crucified with Him, reckoning ourselves dead to sin. This is the only way that the power of His resurrection will be able to flow through us, to meet the needs of the afflicted, to whom He sends us.
It is important to note here, that the first three of the Beatitudes were addressed to the afflicted and the overwhelmed by the evil. Many have worked very hard to explain how that they are for showing us the needed character formation, that must accompany the grace that has been brought to us. I believe that to be true; but I also believe, that these words of our Lord, are just what they are on their face value: a word of comfort and assurance from God, that none of His little ones will be forgotten or overlooked. Some of us have a lot of work to do, and much chastisement due to us, to correct our very non-poor in spirit, and hardness of heart for the sufferings of others, and not being meek. But there are many millions who are really the poor in spirit, they that mourn, and the meek of the earth; who don’t need to be told to be that way; for they really are.
The Lord’s speaking to these kind first; was not for just telling us generally, what will be the “lesson plan;” but the genuine love and pity of God for those who are suffering wrongs, and have no way to defend against it; to let them know, that He knows, and that they will be first, when He comes to take account. Remember what John the Baptist said to the Pharisees and Doctors of the law, who came to see his baptisms, and what he was doing? He told them, “Who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?” In other words, Christ wasn’t coming for the hypocrites and the arrogant, self-serving, ruling elite of Judaism; He was coming first and foremost for the poor and the needy, and him that had no helper. He who dwells in the high and holy place, dwells also in the heart of him that is broken and contrite; and in all their afflictions, He Himself is afflicted.
So the Holy Spirit has put many prayers and meditations in the Bible, to minister to those who really need Jesus most: and these prayers always reflect the criminal cruelties and abuse of their oppressors, as what He Himself is against, and will deal with in due time.
LOL!!!!!
What was in there, that he was so bent on getting to? Did you see how strong he is?
That is so funny! I love my monster cats! Life is never dull! 🐾🐾🐾
24 January 2018 Mark E. Smith, British rock vocalist (The Fall, The Post-Nearly Man), dies after a long illness at 60
24 January 2017 Butch Trucks, American rock drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), dies at 69
24 January 1998 Justin Tubb, American country singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 62
24 January 1991 Harold “Shot” Jackson, American country dobro player, and pedal steel guitarist (Roy Acuff), and guitar designer and builder (Sho-Bud), dies after his second stroke at 70
24 January 1986 Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel), dies of pneumonia at 64
Allman Brothers ! Thanks !
Hi DG,
If your a big Allman fan, you may like this documentary. Regards friend
Muscle Shoals
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/muscle-shoals/
Hey Ecologist ! Ha ha
I really like – In Memory of Elizabeth Reed. Beautiful song.
Thanks for the link. my friend.
And ty for the song link. I’m going to listen to it at work. Be well friend
In my search for Mr Truck, his nephew popped up as opening for the Allman Brothers band @ the tender age of 13 in 1993.
Ended up joining the Allman Brothers in 1999 and currently has his own band and seems to have teamed up with Susan Tedeschi / Trucks Band.
I guess talent runs deeply in the family.
He is one awesome guitarist!🎵
Tickling the Ivories
Chopin Berceuse Op 57 D Flat Major
A Military Polonaise type feeling, intermingled with familiar Rachmaninoff melancholic reminiscence
Rachmaninoff Prelude in g minor op. 23 #5
She looks like she’s just having too much fun!
Valentina Lisitsa Liszt La Campanella from Paganini Etude No.3
Love her passion and emotional involvement in the pieces she plays! Plus, she has suffered being banned from concert appearances in Canada and elsewhere due to her tweeting “politically incorrect” views on Ukraine – decrying the West’s interference in that country and supporting pro-Russian separatists since the Ukrainian Azov Nazi’s atrocities against the residents in the Donbas in 2014. Good for her!
All beauty from the classical world must be destroyed if one doesn’t toe the Ukrainian line. Stalinist purging at its finest…philisitines.
She was born in Kyiv of Polish and Ukrainian parents! She’s a native Ukrainian who defends the people of the Donbas!
Wow! So she is a sister! Thanks for sharing that. Ya don’t really know what’s all in many people’s hearts. Well, that goes with her incredible strength and grasp of the music, in the way she plays, doesn’t it!
Ahhhhh…Rachmaninoff’s Prelude. Adore this one.
Genesis 5 pretty much secures it as a fact for all of us: how many times it says, “and all the days that (so and so) lived were (so many) years: and he died. . . and he died. . . and he died. . . and he died. . . (etc.).”
Its funny how none of us really believes that we are mortal, (until of course we get in real life danger), and seem so shocked when someone dies. Not at all to make light of it; no way! But it makes me wonder, when people act so shocked when someone they admire leaves this world. I think of those very moving words from Randy Travis’ song, Three Wooden Crosses: “Its not what you take, when you leave this world behind you; but what you leave behind you when you go.” All the souls that come and are here for just a moment, and then all have to leave! What am I doing with the short time I have left? And how many are my days?
Psalm 90:12 “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
Randy Travis – Three Wooden Crosses (Live At Calvary Assemble Of God, Orlando, FL/2003)
Just tossing gatherings in the pot, since I’m up late:
Delicious! A little bit of everything. 😉
Even if it is accidental (or almost so), good taste is still good taste. Thanks for posting. 🙂
How an easy 10 hour day turns into a more difficult 13 hour day.
Was to depart at 09:30 to run to Indy with an empty trailer. I hooked to the last available empty at the yard. License Plate light out, ABS light on! Over to the express bay I go. Not just a bulb in the license plate light but the fixture bad and must be replaced.
For the ABS (Anti-lock Brake System) fault light, they said someone had put the wrong cable on in the past. So anyway it was over an hour before they said I was good to go. Not five miles later the ABS fault indicator light came on again. I drove on.
When I got to Indy I took care of the outside indicator light myself.
In Indy I dropped the trailer in a door and hooked to another loaded to the doors with freight bound for Lear in Romulus, MI. I then took off for Romulus, via I-70 W to I-465 N to I-465 E to I-69 N to I-469 E, to US 24 E to I-475 N to US 23 N to I-94 E to the Middle Belt Road exit to Smith Rd.
On the way I called Alicia, our new salary driver dispatcher to tell her I was running an hour late. She told me plans had changed. After dropping the loaded trailer at Lear Romulus I was to go to the company terminal in Romulus and they had a loaded trailer for me to bring back to the Anderson terminal.
At Lear in Romulus, MI I dropped the loaded trailer I had brought and eventually found where they had stashed our empties after idling around their very muddy yard. Now usually when you find the doors open on a trailer parked in the yard that means that trailer is empty. Only after I had backed under the trailer did I know it had freight in it. The feel of the weight as I backed under it tipped me off. So before hooking up the umbilical and air lines I walked back and looked and sure enough it had freight in it.
So I found another trailer and made sure it was empty before backing under it. While there I used the Transflow app to make scanned images of the trip ticket which has a company identifying bar code on it and the first page of the Bill of lading stamped to prove I had delivered and transmitted that over the phone.
I took that empty the 4 miles to the company terminal in Romulus and dropped it and got the paper work for the loaded trailer I was to take back to Anderson. Hooked to the loaded trailer and then headed home. Noticed a SW wind gusting on the way home. Not strong enough to cause any extra work, but enough that I knew it was there. I do not need a weather report to know what is coming.
So I ended up backing under five different trailers and hooking up to and pulling four different trailers.
Got back to Anderson and turned in the paperwork and dropped the trailer, then stopped at the dumpster and got rid of my trash and pee bottle. Then over to the fuel island where I fueled, topped off the DEF, and washed the windows and mirrors. Then over to a pass door at the garage where I got a the grease laden brush to grease the fifth-wheel. Then pulled up in a position to pull into my parking spot.
I started up my new-old pickup and pulled it out of the spot. Pulled the big truck into the spot and shut it down. Logged out of the system on the Samsara. Then I plugged the truck in to the auxiliary heat. Grabbed my go bag and travel cup, and locked up the big truck.
Scrapped the frost from the windshield of my pickup. And drove the 12 miles home.
There is a “winter storm” warning out now here starting early Wednesday morning. It says 6-8″ with 35 mph winds. That is not a “storm”. That’s just descent snow! All drama, all the time these days I guess.
How often do you have to do that? Is that like a regular day’s work for you? I just retired a year ago from the Commissary working in the Produce dept. I’ve had a number of Trucker friends, and a lotta times your work aint really easy; especially if you have to drive somewhere where there’s weather. Well, The Lord is with you, may He always keep you safe.
Be careful out there!⛄️
Good to know you’re home safe and sound, rah.
Per your last paragraph…
Just saw this on Zerohedge for Texas late January. Before this gets to us, it will get to those above us.
It’s not Joe Bastardi. Nevertheless, I thought I’d leave it with you, our resident trucker and weatherman. 😉
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/texas-warns-energy-operators-prepare-cold-snap
I check them out occasionally.
Tonight at 23:00 depart for Brighton, MI and do a drop & hook there. Then I got to the terminal in Romulus, MI and do another drop & hook there. And then come back to the terminal in Anderson.
BTW it is looking like the SE US will remain warm for a time and the battleline between warm and cold will be a line running generally along the paths of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnPQrs6WYAAi4pE?format=png&name=small
Thanks, rah.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
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.
January 24 Oswald Chambers
God’s Overpowering Purpose
I have appeared to you for this purpose… —Acts 26:16
The vision Paul had on the road to Damascus was not a passing emotional experience, but a vision that had very clear and emphatic directions for him. And Paul stated, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision” (Acts 26:19). Our Lord said to Paul, in effect, “Your whole life is to be overpowered or subdued by Me; you are to have no end, no aim, and no purpose but Mine.” And the Lord also says to us, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go…” (John 15:16).
When we are born again, if we are spiritual at all, we have visions of what Jesus wants us to be. It is important that I learn not to be “disobedient to the heavenly vision” — not to doubt that it can be attained. It is not enough to give mental assent to the fact that God has redeemed the world, nor even to know that the Holy Spirit can make all that Jesus did a reality in my life. I must have the foundation of a personal relationship with Him. Paul was not given a message or a doctrine to proclaim. He was brought into a vivid, personal, overpowering relationship with Jesus Christ. Acts 26:16 is tremendously compelling “…to make you a minister and a witness….” There would be nothing there without a personal relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person, not to a cause. He was absolutely Jesus Christ’s. He saw nothing else and he lived for nothing else. “For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
https://utmost.org/god%E2%80%99s-overpowering-purpose/
Thank you for the message. An important thing we have to keep in mind; is that whatever way people respond, or what difficulties and opposition we come up against; none of those is really anything to measure whether or not we are in the will of God, and doing what He has called us to do. Enoch preached for 300 years; and how many listened to him? And how about Noah? He was a hundred years building the ark, and no one ended up with him and his family, but the animals. I like what he said about knowing something of your calling early; “. . . we have visions of what Jesus wants us to be.” I understand its a very serious thing to be a servant of the Lord; and I never want to be “went but not sent.” The only way I know to be sure, is to continually put Jesus first, and never forget, and never let slip, Who He is, who is our First Love, and we are His. Everything then that we do, we will have been asking for Him to show us and guide us, and it all be of Him.
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, January 24, 2023
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“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Proverbs 1:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
And for all the blessings to come. Amen🙏🏻
Looking like a good chance that some places in the upper plains will have the coldest Ground Hog day on record.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnNhqNiWIAAdgjs?format=png&name=medium
So far for the US they say it has been the 2nd warmest January on record. Don’t believe them. But believe me the flip has come and February is going to be when most of us from the heartland east get our real winter weather.
Yes, that’s right; never mind what you see and know for sure: think what we tell you to think!
Thank you.
The “adjustments”, What they have done and are doing is to lower the temperature records of the past more than 1 deg. and raise those of current times by a degree. They are attempting to make the temperature record follow the rate of increase in CO2. This is from NASA GISS climate. And it shows how blatantly they have adjusted their own records.
In the end though, if the concentration of atmospheric CO2 continues to rise at the present rate, and they continue to try and raise current temp records, there will come a time when even the some of the dimmest bulbs will catch on.
How do they get away with such blatant lies?!?
They are the Federal Government. The same way Fauci has gotten away with his lies. Who’s going to stop them?
Anyway the GIF should be shared far and wide, especially with the true believers.
Good points.
And yeah, that should be shared far and wide!
Like how they changed the normal parameters of blood glucose (lowered the low end) so they can call more people pre-diabetic. ( roughly 10 yrs ago or so)
Also , similar to how the FAA recently changed the parameters of ECG readings to deflect the numerous incidents of pilots failing their required six-month physicals (clot shot abnormalities becoming clinical).
Thanks rah. 🙌
Hey mods, a great GIF showing how NASA GISS had adjusted the temperature record went into the bin. Please release it. It is a great graphic that really shows how we are being lied to about weather and climate.
The 1930s saw far more extreme weather than anything we have seen since.
And ClimateGate showed how the computer modeling climate charlatans hide the very inconvenient Medieval Warm Period.
And the Roman. That was what Michael Mann’s Hocky stick was all about. Disregard the research of many decades in many fields and act like it never was published and just hype the hockey stick.
Poor Mark Steyn…still being held prisoner of Mann’s lawsuit. The process is the punishment.
“Me and Paul Revere”
Goodaye!
Countdown to jailbreak starts now
The living end… prisoner of society 🎶
Oppps here’s the right song 😂
“Atheists Don’t Have No Songs”
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
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)
Good morning Treepers!
Jesus is Lord. 🔥✝️🔥
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness
and the power
and the glory
and the victory
and the majesty,
indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth;
Yours is the dominion, O Lord,
and You exalt Yourself as head over all.”
1 Chronicles 29:11
Mornin’ all!
“unemployment check and a six pack of Budweiser beer.”-Lonesome George. John Hammond wails on that harmonica
Hey Joe,
Not telling who I love ! But I love this !
Who do you love ? !
God, country, family for starters. Cats, dogs; also love the Treeper site. Lots of good people here.
I don’t want to get mushy, but that’s how it is….
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-23-two-nutritional-supplements-trigger-spike-protein-unfolding.html
This article is about bromelain (an enzyme from pineapple) and N-acetyl cysteine, to help neutralize effects of the spike protein.
Don’t forget about ivermectin, another enzyme called nattokinase, and all our old friends like vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, and probably chicken soup.
NAC was in the crosshairs of the evil FDA.
They asked Amazon to stop selling it. Amazon stopped.
It must be a very powerful supplement. So say Dr Malone, Dr McCullough, and others, or the FDA wouldn’t try to ban it.
We get ours at Sprouts.
Actually Amazon didn’t stop. I just recently bought some there. Lots of brand choices.
Oh is that right?? Well, well….
I hadn’t looked recently, it was months ago when this “order” came out.
I was toying with getting some and knew how t was there. Then when I decided to buy, it was gone. No sign of it.
This is good to know. Thank you!
It looks like, in addition to adding K2 to the mix that Magnesium also has an important part to play in recovery from this thing called Covid-19 new 42 minute Dr.Been video reviewing several new studies on the efficacy of Magnesium in both acute and long Covid
I take Magnesium once a week or so for Muscle cramps. Good to know ty
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I’ll see your ❤❤ and raise you ❤❤
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For the low, low price of twenty cents….sign include.
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. – Hosea 6:6
People of faith, as they face adversity, often cling to the words of the prophet Jeremiah when he eloquently addressed an afflicted people in a crumbling nation: “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23).
God’s steadfast love is the anchor of faith for all who call upon Him.
However, flipping the script as you seek to discover what God is looking for in you, have you ever considered He gives what He would like to receive?
Giving to get something in return is a decidedly human trait and not in the holy character of God. However, in essence, He trains His children to be like Himself, and it brings God pleasure to find His qualities in you!
Perhaps you have wondered if steadfast love is something you can give to God and others. Yes, you can! When you invite the Holy Spirit to take residence in your heart, He brings strong love and faithfulness, plus all His beautiful attributes, making them available in and throughout your life.
The Bible describes the end times as being full of false followers whose love is cold because it is not sustained by God’s Spirit. You honor God and bring great blessing to those in your life when you are full of His Spirit.
Pray for God’s people in America to be recognized by their steadfast love. Ask that those governing the nation will see that example, setting aside false philosophies to seek God in their hearts and discover His gifts.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
January 24
MORNING
The Lord is at hand. Phil. 4:5
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. I Thes. 4:16-18
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly; Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Rev. 22:20
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. II Pet. 3:14
Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. I Thes. 5:22-24
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. James 5:8
EVENING
The choice vine. Gen. 49:11
My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, . . and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. Isa. 5:1, 2
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me. Jer. 2:21
The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness…. envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:… but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Gal. 5:19, 21-23
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Abide in me, and I in you…. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: so shall ye be my disciples. John 15: 1, 2, 4, 8
J.Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/01/0124.html
Great article on how CO2 works and how it is self limiting in its warming effect.
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In Search Of A (Near) Perfect CO2 Global Warming Analogy – Climate Change Dispatch
It’s been out for a while but I had noticed many dog movie lovers did not know about it. Based on a true story, quite good.
Chestnut-sided Warbler. Quite striking. They used to nest in my old woods back in the 50’s & 60’s before the abandoned farm area reverted completely back to woods. That was according to the breeding bird surveys. I saw them during migration in the area where the Blue-winged Warblers nested every year.
These little creatures just get prettier and prettier with each picture😍
Because they’re doing the DC Swamp’s — correction — 0’Bama’s work…
OK! Ready wood and kindling stocked up. Pickup truck topped off. Did the FJ cruiser this weekend. Milk and a few other groceries laid in. Birdseed stocked up. Found some decent ratchet straps on sale to keep in my pickup and bought 4 of them. The only thing I was going to do that I did not accomplish was get a hair cut. My barber wasn’t in. Think he’s having health issues. But that’s ok, that can wait.
Now I’m going to make me another Sandwich from the left over roast and hit the sack shortly. Watch something that will put me to sleep.
Sleep well.
Oklahoma! Snow! Snow! Snow! 🤗
About 5 minutes of it for us as well…just!
da dada duh dah dah dot
Replying to @WHYHWN, @Arkancided, and 6 more
Desantis signed a bill that had a clause for forced vaccinations and involuntary quarantine hidden way down at the very bottom of the bill flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021
Never forget that Trump gave us a choice where we could refuse peacefully without fighting or being carted off to a fema camp and never heard from again. Desantis also locked down Florida even after Trump said lockdowns weren’t necessary. Desantis is not the guy people think he is.
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svgTRUMP IS THE ONLY CHOICE!https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg
Replying to @WHYHWN, @Arkancided, and 6 more
Desantis signed a bill that had a clause for forced vaccinations and involuntary quarantine hidden way down at the very bottom of the bill flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021
Never forget that Trump gave us a choice where we could refuse peacefully without fighting or being carted off to a fema camp and never heard from again. Desantis also locked down Florida even after Trump said lockdowns weren’t necessary. Desantis is not the guy people think he is.
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/2006/BillText/er/PDF
Amen🙏🏻
Amen.
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Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Is this happening to anyone else? Each time today, and yesterday, when clicking onto the Rantingly website Malwarebytes blocks it stating that site is Fraud. I tried to access that website twice yesterday. This morning got notification from Malwarebytes two attempts to lodge active malware onto my computer were moved into quarantine (their version of a lockbox I guess).
If others are having similar notifications when accessing that news aggregator site perhaps someone from Rantingly can be informed they need to clear up whatever advertising service is trying to lodge stuff onto visitors computers?