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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Cuteness on steroids!
🤔 wonder what kit is dreaming about??
Goodaye everyone!!!
Goodaye Spicy 🌶️ !
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Hi Patience! ❤️
Gimme da beenz!!
(Toe beans)
Hello Fellow Treepers!
Geese on Ice — Canada Geese in silhouette walk across a frozen pond at sunset. Fine art photo taken by me years ago in Northeast Ohio. Wishing all here a great start to the week! It looks to be turning colder, so bundle up.
And here’s the perfect music to go with the geese as they make their way across the ice – “Sabre Dance” by Aram Khatchaturian, as played by the Berliner Philharmoniker. This song makes me think of hockey, and a certain team from Buffalo … now all we need is a zamboni to clean up all the geese footprints …
Real Art! Amazing colors with the Geese silhouettes; it looks like you were there at a once in a lifetime moment.
Thank you for your kind compliment, Michael! The longer you’re a photographer, the more you come to realize that they’re all once in a lifetime moments. The Lord provides them, and you do your best to make the most of them.
🙂 I do enjoy
Thank YOU
Very nice the phoenix!
Thank you very much, ColoradoChloe! Wishing you a wonderful new week!
Your great with that camera. Enjoy the day phoenix.
Thank you very much, Colkitto! May you see your favorite birds this week!
Speaking of which — sort of:
Mountain Bluebirds graced my front yard this morning. T’was an utterly joyous sight since I’d never before encountered them. Out on the straw-colored prairie, their vibrant blue hues bejeweled the golden setting. I consider these rare sightings a special gift from God. A year and a half ago it was a horned Lark flock that was my special visitation. (Do you know that they walk rather than hop when on the ground in their hunt for seeds?)
Unforgettable — and duly recorded in my Peterson’s Field Guide to Western Birds.
Wow harrietht3!
Thanks for sharing about the Mountain Bluebirds! Have only seen one once on a vacation out West. They’re truly lovely! Also against rock formations! Saw a Horned Lark this past spring, and yes, it was walking sassy as you please right up close in the parking lot … while singing! 😀
Always great to meet another birder! And I bought the Peterson’s Field Guide to Western Birds specifically for the trip where I saw the Mountain Bluebird. Wishing you a week of seeing your favorite birds!
How sweet. Thank you the phoenix.
Your comment warmed my heart.
Do you remember the very first bird you identified, using the field guide? Mine was a dipper, at whose antics creekside I was captivated. So Cute!
God bless your birding week and all other aspects of your life, journeying as we are through time and space, enjoying God’s goodness in creation.
It was either a Western Kingbird or a Eurasian Collared Dove, the hotel was right near a suburban neighborhood that had both. Would love to see a Dipper someday! Hail and well met, harrietht3!
“Geese Footprints”.
It is best to enjoy these creatures from a distance.
That way you never step in it.
A flock that spends quite some time in an area pretty much inundates it with fertilizer.
If one is walking and hears a flock of geese overhead, it is best to slow down or speed up the pace so as to avoid being in the “drop zone” at an inopportune time.
If caught in the drop zone, do NOT look up!
Beautiful! 👍👍👍
Thank you very much, GrandpaM! Wishing you another gorgeous week in the Texas Hill Country! 🙂
Hi, Pa❣️
Hi Patience, second time 😍!
Grey Goose on the rocks?
Gotta love Gerswhin! 🙂
Have heard the melody before was not familiar with this version … cool! 🙂
They recorded a lot of tunes. Always brings an instant smile to my face listening to them.
Never heard of this song until now … Love how upbeat it is, and it’s just perfect for us night owls! 🙂
Harmonica’s really great in this one.
Yes it is, and my last one for the evening, especially since it’s a slow song, one to wind down to … 🙂
Another version of the song… from Sam Cooke
GREAT SONG !!!!!
Sam Cooke was the best. Sooo many good songs.
Thanks sunnydaze
love it
I am always finding great music on this thread. 😃
✝️ DAILY DEVOTIONAL, January 30, 2023
Luke 9:57-62 “And it came to pass, that, as they were going in the way, someone said to Him, I will follow you, Lord, wherever You may go. And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the heaven nests; but the Son of man has not where to lay the head. And He said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, allow me going away first to bury my father. But Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead: but you going forth declare the kingdom of God. And another also said, I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to take leave of them at my house. But Jesus said to him, No one, having laid his hand upon the plow, and looking to the things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
The “Would Be Followers” of Jesus
If Jesus were of this world, He would have a home here, and somewhere to lay His head. If we desire to follow Jesus, it must be the first thing understood, that we are no longer at home here; and we are not of the world, just as Jesus is not of the world.
The Holy Spirit had moved this man, and was drawing him to come follow Jesus; and the Lord received him; but under the condition, that he understood up front what he was getting into. The Lord wants us to understand the choice we make to come follow Him, and to be realistic, in terms of what we should expect to encounter, because we belong to Him. We need to be realistic, and understand the spiritual separation that God has made, as the meaning for what we must expect while we are in the world.
The second one, Jesus particularly calls to come follow Him. Jesus saw, that there was something in this person, that he needed to be told, Come, follow Me. What then comes out confirms this; for immediately is his hesitancy revealed, on account of his natural sense of duty to his family, to bury his father. This is a strong and difficult thing for many to get past; and keeps many from really and fully following Jesus. The Lord’s answer to this seemingly good and honorable and normal request; is shocking and offensive to many; “Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but you go and preach the kingdom of God.” But what they do not perceive, is that, this is the Light shining in the darkness, which the darkness cannot comprehend.
The course of this world is a set law of God from the beginning; “Until you return to the dust from which you come; for you are dust, and to the dust you shall return.” It is not some sad tragedy, or anything that’s not supposed to happen! These are the terms of our probation, and the punishment of sin we must accept; while we look for redemption and salvation in Christ, beyond the grave. Therefore, Jesus telling this man, to let the dead bury their own dead; but you go and preach the Gospel; was for showing the Glad Tidings of God; that His plan for man does not end at the grave; and the grave is nothing we should be upset by, when we are right with God in all His plan for us. As Christ’s ministers, it is our business to announce the Glad Tidings of God’s mercy and grace and salvation, to those who would otherwise have no hope.
The third person here also seems determined and committed in his convictions, and is planning how to set out for his new life in Christ’s service. But again, he asks if he can go away first, and tell everyone at his house goodbye. In other words, he doesn’t understand how the coming of the kingdom of God supersedes and dissolves all previous natural relations. We are part of God’s family now, and nothing anymore connected to the old life and natural family, in the kingdom of God. Having put the hand to the plow means, a decided and determined commitment to the things of the kingdom of God. But thinking of it as a young person going off to College, or joining the Military, misses entirely what has transpired with the New Birth.
So the Lord makes it a point, now for the third time, that if anyone desires to come after Him, he has to understand what it really means, that we are no longer of the world, just as Jesus is not of the world. It is so popular around the churches today, to think in terms of, “accepting Jesus,” and, “asking Him to be the Lord of your life,” and so on: but Jesus already is Lord of lords and Master of all;and it is God that does the accepting through Christ, if His conditions are fully and sincerely met. We don’t decide to come to Jesus out of ourselves; and we have no place asking for leave to delay our obedience. We come to Jesus by obeying God’s command, by yielding to His Authority. Hanging on to earthly affections and relationships, that delay, hinder, obstruct, and postpone obedience to God’s charge upon us; shows a double heart. We are either for Jesus, or we are against Him; we are either full in and all the way, or not at all. And the fearful warning in Jesus’ persistence on this point, is that “Not fit for the kingdom of God” means, not fit for the Presence of God!
James 1:6-8 “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”
One more . . .
Good morning, Garrison. These excellent selections, a few posts, a cup of tea then off to gwelli.
As I mentioned Mr van der Leun yesterday, I thought I’d leave an example of his remarkable story telling for you. This was published on a Memorial Day, and I found it…well…. no words are adequate to describe. Blessings, my friend.
https://www.newamericandigest.com/the-name-in-the-stone/
Good morning, Bet. I don’t know if you’ve called it a night yet, but I’m back again from visiting the wife. This time she had a grilled chicken and cheese sandwich. She must have really liked it; she finished it off. She also had a tangerine instead of a candy bar. So that gives me more options as to what to bring her for the late night dinner.
21 degrees outside, cloudy. It looks like snow is on the way though I didn’t see anything showing on the weather radar. Not for Monday anyways. Brrrs.
Stay warm, blessings to you.
Good morning, dear Joe. What glorious news! So happy! I can tell you I would have enjoyed it too, so I know she did. Love tangerines as well. As we say, you done good. Probably gave her a lift in spirits as well.
27 here, with a winter storm warning in effect until Wednesday morning…with snow and some rain. Messy and potentially dangerous on the roads because of the sub freezing temperatures.
You’ll probably get it first. Stay warm if you can. Fingers crossed for a short duration.
Good morning Bet! What a difference 24 hours make. Yesterday morning we were running outside taking pictures of Nipper and the fog. This morning I woke up to temperature of 32 on it’s way to 30, and a high forecast of 34. Yesterday afternoon when it started blowing in my daughter and son in law were visiting my mom together with miss V. SIL had taken Violet and Nipper for a walk on the ranch. Since they wore light clothes I decided to go and retrieve them with my truck. It was still 50 but that Norther…
And you’re an excellent Grandpa, M.
Thank you, JWoo! 😁
Mornin’ Gramps . . . 🙂
Morning, my friend😘.
And no kidding. For us it started about mid morning yesterday. Checked the unreliable and ever changing weather app on my phone. Talk about schizophrenic!
Up and down like a fiddler’s elbow, as they say in Blighty. Now it seems sub freezing and moisture alternating between rain and snow. The boys (17) have no experience driving on icy roads so I am a bit 😬😬😬. Will text them to tell them to go slowly and take it easy. Maybe the schools will close..But they have to learn sometime how to navigate perilous roads.
I hope your lot weren’t blocks of ice when they got in the truck/car. That wind can be brutal. What a treasure you are. Their own personal chauffeur!😁 Everyone needs one I say. Blessings this day to you all, G. Stay inside and warm…..more is coming💕
“The boys (17) have no experience driving on icy roads so I am a bit 😬😬😬”
I’m gonna give you a testosterone laden pro tip to pass along to your 17 year olds.
More likely, a bad example, however….
When I was learning to drive, it was with a rear wheel drive car.
A few years later, in a different rear wheel drive car, I learned more about snow and ice than I had previously by doing something that police officers would frown on.
One particular winter when I was a kid in college, there was quite a bit of snow. I worked in a shoe store part time.
I’m here to tell you that if a kid can have a large, empty parking lot after work, with no customers around, nature will take its course and he will figure things out.
May come at the expense of some working to get unstuck a time or few, but a kid can figure things out in snow and an empty parking lot.
A kid can also do things that would wig out parents in a snow filled, empty parking lot….and a Trans-Am.😱
Hope your young’uns do just fine.
Oh bless, Greg😘
Just texted them. Luckily for them they learned from the best…my husband, in an empty school parking lot. He covered every base. They are good drivers because of it.
He has taught no end of people how to drive, mostly in the UK, for both HGV and cars as well. And he would always say to them…
“I can teach you how to pass your test, but you will learn to drive afterwards.”
Boy, THAT’S the truth!
Experience really is the best teacher. One of our grandlads has a front end drive car, and the other has a 4Runner which is solid. Both are years old models. It’s not so much them as it is others on the road who seem to have no clue that ice is a tricky substance.
They really are very careful and receptive to advice. But it never hurts to reinforce and repeat, which I’ve done.
Thank you for your tale of long ago😁. I believe from the sound of it had I been a passenger I would have been screaming to get out!😂👍🏻
I will hire you (BIG BUCKS) to train my 17 year old. Taking applications!!!
She’s fine in a parking lot, but won’t accelerate past 4 MPH (yes… only 4… no higher, no lower. The most control I have EVER seen her exhibit.)
That said, there’s no way in God’s green earth that I’m taking that kid on the freeway – on I-65 or 465 in Central Indiana! Rah, can attest???!!!!
I’ll loan you my hubby, JWoo😉 He’ll make a confident driver out of her. No NASCAR stuff. Just more confident than she is now.
Promise😘
I would so appreciate it. Pretty sure my nerves can’t handle it. 🙄
Betsy……I almost forgot.
Potholes. A young’un HAS to know all the potholes in an empty snow covered parking lot.
Hitting potholes at speed, sideways, can get expensive in a hurry!
Good advice! It’s a job even avoiding them on our main roads. My husband, as it happens, just came in commenting on how the road surfaces on our 4 laners are starting to crack and break up. Just poor engineering and materials. The Romans’ roads have stood the test of time better than our modern ones.
Car parks (Brit term for parking lots) at the high school are mint. But they know better than to go there with their vehicles for “extracurricular activities”.
We’d have their “guts for garters”… and they know it😁
Nah, they we’re still walking so that was helping them to stay kinda warm.
I’m sure your hubby will have some good driving tips for the grands.❤️
Oh good…
Plenty, G. He’s one savvy driver. And not just the actual driving, but checking the vehicle for everything before they start, maintenance, what to look for on the road and not just the 6 feet in front of them, etc. Yes, they got very good tutelage all right.👍🏻
Frozen rain now. Looks like snow on the ground but isn’t….Winter hath arrived!
Hi, Bet. We are are getting some freezing rain and sleet. It doesn’t look like snow yet. 19 degrees outside. Winter storm warning still in effect here.
More brrrs.
Oooo, just answered Grandpa above. Same here. Stay waaaarm!!!
Good morning Joe, and blessings!
Thanx, and blessings to you, sir.
You’re a good hubs, Joe. Blessings to you and your bride.
Thanx, JWoo. Blessings to you.
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Good morning, Garrison.
Missing you, Mr jay on Bench Monday.
Praying all is well🙏🏻
Good morning, Betsy. Thanks for the link. I’ll read it in a little bit. Be well, love. 🙂
You’re welcome. A piece to linger over and let sink in. I felt you in particular would appreciate the strength of it. I’m sure I’m not wrong on this. You take it easy, my dear friend.😘
I love the song “the lucky one”… it is a nice melody, but it also reminds me just how fortunate we are to live in this great nation. Despite her problems and issues, it is still one of the most wonderful places in the world in which to live. We truly are so lucky.. lucky to have to opportunities so many others don’t… lucky to have the freedoms many in other places do not enjoy… lucky to have some modicum of influence in what is done here (even if it sometimes doesn’t feel as though we do)… Lucky to be able to disagree and still call each other countrymen.
Morning Garrison!
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There was Oskar Schindler…
…and there was Sir Nicholas Winton.
I’m not a crier but tears are running down my face. Mr. Winton is a truly great man. Few are they who would go to such great lengths to save those they never knew but who were in such dire straits.
I cried so much, patty, that I ran dry. He was 106 when he died. To say his was a life well lived would be a monumental understatement.
Truly, his living testament….
I know that he and the others, who did this, at great risk and cost to themselves…heard the Lord say
“Well done, my good and faithful servant”.
John 15:13, greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Irene Sendler also lived a long life…died at 98. She was up for the Nobel Peace Price and was beat out by some piece of American political trash.
The Nobel Prize Committee long ago soiled itself with political muck, degrading Alfred Nobel’s intent. And isn’t it a shame.
Never mind…there is a more worthy reward in Heaven…so much more worthy. 🙏🏻
One of the parts that gets me, is how he said,”If only people at the time would have realized the urgency”
I like to watch music reactions sometimes, and I saw several last night, and I wanted to post one here; reactions to Another Day In Paradise, by Phil Collins – an older couple from England, who were both Polish/Romanian had very thoughtful discussion and reaction; but for the most part, everyone else’s reactions always circled back to themselves, and didn’t really show if they thought anything more than; Oh, that’s sad. Indifference is just accepted as the norm.
One man, however, paused the music to say how it reminded him of something that happened one time while he was in Indianapolis. As he was coming up to an intersection, there were many Police and Emergency Vehicles around. What had apparently happened, there was a homeless woman who froze to death (temps around 5 degrees), and people were just standing around her video recording with their phones, watching her die.
I tell you, Patty, so much of this hardness and cruelty and indifference everywhere; I don’t know whether to scream or cry or what. Jesus has to come back soon; its so terrible, and disgusting in the world today, and almost no one cares!
If we would just treat people, all people, with the basic respect they deserve we would be much better off. Basic respect includes acknowledging their existence. When I grew up there was a common saying, but for the grace of God there go I. You don’t hear that saying much anymore. That saying reminded us to be humble. We are ho longer a humble people. We are a proud and arrogant people now. Hence the hardness of heart.
So true my friend.
Ironically Yesterday in church…the sermon was about, ‘pride’…..
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
There are angels walking amongst us, often in disguise. A thought that is always with me.
A saying I think of often, patty. We are all the same, no matter our circumstances. Loved of God and the sheep of His flock.
Morning Bet. I marked your 3 movies off for later. I know a few relatives who would love them.
Cheers
Good morning, my brother😘 Oh good! They are truly just plain enjoyable. I tend to focus not so much on the stories, but on the acting.
And some of the most remarkable acting comes from actors whose faces could be anyone you would meet in the street. Unknown faces, unknown names, ordinary looking . people. That is why I prefer British films….blessings to you, Colkitto. Stay warm if you can.
There were so many like him…the quiet, invisible and unsung hero’s of those horrendous times. It is nice to see them recognized, because truly, we must never ever forget….
Here is another, quiet one…not to outdo Sir Winton…which is not my intent.
https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/sendler.asp
She now has a tree planted in her honor…the significance of the tree rests with the fact, I think that she buried a jar with the names of those she rescued…
Sir Winston is like the little boy and the starfish on the sea shore tale.
And what was at the bottom of this?
The destruction/separation of “family” and “family values”, in this time, notably then, the Jewish families, but families nonetheless. Here, we see the rescue of the most vulnerable.
Fast forward…global covid lockdowns…It must never happen again? It did. With hysteria on steroids.
A woman about whom I knew nothing. Thank you, Aggiegirl. How many more just like her whose faces and names we will never know who braved all sorts of terrors to help even one other?
But Almighty God knows…
The vile architects of it all, including what is happening now per the evil last three years, hate Him…if they even acknowledge Him at all (which I firmly believe they do not). Everything good must be destroyed, and they set/have set a steady course to do so. Dehumanization is their weapon which has been used with surgical precision.
How powerful is a smile and a good morning said to those we run across in our lives day to day, no matter how briefly?
We can start where we are with that acknowledgment. If only millions would do it, planting those seeds of “I see you. You are not invisible”.
I have found when doing that, that I am met at first with shocked faces which quickly turn into their own smiles and acknowledgment. One soul at a time.
There is nothing the soulless entities trying to dehumanize us all can do about it. That is our power and the Power of Christ.
It is immense. And we should use it for all we are worth.🙏🏻
Betsy, ….. 😇
😘😘 to you and Ma, Patience
Holy Mackerel, I’ve sprung a major leak. The Lamb of God is basking him in His Golden Light and Peacefulness.
Of this I feel we can be certain, parichute💕
Good morning Treepers . How do we rate this one on the cute scale?
Methinks I’d have a hard time comparing one kitten to another of a similar age … they’re basically born cute!
That one is “off the charts” of the cuteness-o-meter
On a scale of 1-10?
12.6-ish
I often think of Ogden Nash who wrote
“The trouble with a kitten is that
Eventually it becomes a cat.”
I see no trouble with it at all…love them little or large💕
This little fella must’ve watched Puss-N-Boots a few times. Looks like one of the so called munchkins. 10+++
The Corgi version of a kittah? Leaping might be problematic.
I hope the itty-bitty grows some legs. Those look impossibly short.
Rating: I’m with Greg1 – 12.6-ish
One of my favorite “light you up” songs from Shawn Mullins.. enjoy
Awesome. Good tune.
There’s some speculation that a 5.5 magnitude earthquake was caused by the recent bombing of an Iranian nuclear power plant. Both events took place at approximately the same time. There was a powerful explosion at the nuclear facility, but I don’t think it would have triggered a 5+ magnitude quake.
That region is still getting aftershocks ranging from 4.1 to 4.7 on the Richter Scale. Which is typical for any medium sized to larger quakes that are reported around the world.
What kind of Nuclear blast would register like that? Wouldn’t it have to be . . . kinda big?
When N. Korea said they conducted a hydrogen bomb test, a 5.1 was detected. Experts said that was not big enough to be a hydrogen bomb.
Quake or Bomb? Seismic Waves Speak Truth, Even If Nations Don't – Eos
The largest measured blast we have caused was a 6.9 generated by a 5 megaton underground test.
Can nuclear explosions cause earthquakes? | U.S. Geological Survey (usgs.gov)
Between the two links, we see bomb tests are shallow, and show up on seismograms differently than natural earthquakes. And that triggered earthquakes are smaller than the bomb test, with aftershocks being even smaller than the triggered quake.
The 2nd Nordstream pipeline explosion registered as a 2.3 on the Richter Scale according to Swedish seismologists. It was determined that an explosion, not a quake, was what registered on the Richter scale. And there’s speculation, far-fetched as it may sound, that a nuclear device was detonated, causing the massive explosion at the nuclear facility.
I looked, and bombing seems to be in Isfahan, in central Iran and earthquake in Khoy in the northwest up near Turkey.
Iran earthquake kills 3, injures hundreds | CNN
See the map in the CNN article to see how far apart they were.
Here’s another odd thing about the earthquake that was that was brought up. Khoy is not normally prone to quakes as that location is not close to a zone where earthquakes occurr.
Here’s a video by Gonzalo Lira. I don’t know if you’ve seen this or not. He raises some interesting questions about the 2 events towards the end of the vid.
Density of water
Cora’s puppies
God cares for every mommy! The Lord bless those nice people who help God find the lost!
And her name is Killer. 😂
MISS Killer (of fashion) to you, G, if you don’t mind!!😉😂
I stand corrected. 😁😍
I’ve never seen a happier pup😍
First Time Hearing Bread – “Everything I Own” Reaction | Asia and BJ
comment: rubbersole 5 months ago
“I played this on guitar at my Mom’s funeral with my niece on vocals. When she broke down and could not continue, I began to sing ( as loudly as I could, with no mic) when one by one, the entire congregation joined in and finished the rest of the song, amazingly, knowing all the words. A very special memory for me.”
Phil Collins – Another Day In Paradise (Official Music Video) REACTION
comment: Deborah Cornell – 2 years ago
“I love your kind heart, James. Try to stay that way throughout life, even though it hurts like hell sometimes. . . ”
Stage Presence coach reacts to Johnny Cash ‘Hurt’
comment: Scott Lovenberg – 2 months ago
” . . . I know Johnny didn’t write the lyrics, but you could feel the way he sang them that they were his words. “If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.” ”
Romanian girl appears on AGT All Stars 2023 with a puppet dog made by her mother. Watch this new ventriloquist stun the world:
January 30 Oswald Chambers
The Dilemma of Obedience
Samuel was afraid to tell Eli the vision. —1 Samuel 3:15
God never speaks to us in dramatic ways, but in ways that are easy to misunderstand. Then we say, “I wonder if that is God’s voice?” Isaiah said that the Lord spoke to him “with a strong hand,” that is, by the pressure of his circumstances (Isaiah 8:11). Without the sovereign hand of God Himself, nothing touches our lives. Do we discern His hand at work, or do we see things as mere occurrences?
Get into the habit of saying, “Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance (1 Samuel 3:9). Every time circumstances press in on you, say, “Speak, Lord,” and make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline— it is meant to bring me to the point of saying, “Speak, Lord.” Think back to a time when God spoke to you. Do you remember what He said? Was it Luke 11:13, or was it 1 Thessalonians 5:23? As we listen, our ears become more sensitive, and like Jesus, we will hear God all the time.
Should I tell my “Eli” what God has shown to me? This is where the dilemma of obedience hits us. We disobey God by becoming amateur providences and thinking, “I must shield ‘Eli,’ ” who represents the best people we know. God did not tell Samuel to tell Eli— he had to decide that for himself. God’s message to you may hurt your “Eli,” but trying to prevent suffering in another’s life will prove to be an obstruction between your soul and God. It is at your own risk that you prevent someone’s right hand being cut off or right eye being plucked out (see Matthew 5:29-30).
Never ask another person’s advice about anything God makes you decide before Him. If you ask advice, you will almost always side with Satan. “…I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood…” (Galatians 1:16).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The vital relationship which the Christian has to the Bible is not that he worships the letter, but that the Holy Spirit makes the words of the Bible spirit and life to him.
https://utmost.org/the-dilemma-of-obedience/
I think this is such an important thing to bring up. Since faith is something that God gives to us when He sees that we are of the truth, and that the “natural” way for thinking about anything only accounts for what it can tell with the physical senses; the fact that God is the doer of all things is very foreign to people. But God is the Creator of all life, and the sustainer of all things that He has made. Even the world itself is made by God the way it is, because of the kind they are. Man has no power outside his own body.
God speaks to us, as He has always spoken to man, any way He pleases. If He wants to do so through a Moses or Elijah, or through the man who comes to mow the neighbor’s lawn every week; if He does it with a still small voice, or through many people all telling the sinner the same thing over and over again, to get some help and save himself: God has His way to communicate, and it is up to the person respond.
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30 January 2002 Carlo Karges, German guitarist and songwriter (Nena – “99 Luftballons”), dies of liver failure at 50
30 January Lightnin Hopkins
(1912-1982)
American blues musician (Ball of Twine), dies of esophageal cancer at 69
Verse of the Day for Monday, January 30, 2023
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“Pray without ceasing.”
1 Thessalonians 5:17 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
We have a religion/ethnicity in America where 85% of the group supports abortion and many of those claim it is their right because it is part of their religious activity. And that same group has been on a 60 year campaign to destroy Christianity and our Christian culture.
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.
But let us who live in the light be clearheaded, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:8
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Oh duchess. I love this of Spurgeon’s. What a way with words he was given.🙏🏻💕
All the prayers and Scripture you placed here today are so powerful. Thank you.🙏🏻😘
It’s sad…sincerity has been replaced by suspicion by quite a few…
January 30
MORNING
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. Heb. 12:1, 2
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 9:23
Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:33
Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness. Rom. 13:12
Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. I Cor. 9:25, 27
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Phil. 3:13, 14
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD. Hos. 6:3
EVENING
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lam. 3:27
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. 22:6
We have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us; and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Heb. 12:9, 10
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Psa. 119:67, 71
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jer. 29:11
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. I Pet. 5:6
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/01/0130.html
Hey Poyeema, We could take every one of these beautiful powerful Scriptures, and make a whole Bible Study and prayer meeting around them. I keep hoping that others will catch on to this. You and Stevie and Oldspeak have come forward; and it would be so wonderful to grow this. I have to imagine, that its because of the way everyone has been ‘programmed’ by the way church services are run: the pastor and the worship team are up on stage, and the rest of the congregation is in the audience, like going to a concert or a play, etc… But the way assembly is described in the New Testament (Acts in particular), that is nothing like it was intended by God for us to do, to just sit and listen in the audience; but for everyone to have an active role and something to contribute.
We all have received gifts of the Holy Spirit, that we have to exercise for the edifying of the whole body. Remember how in the beginning they had all things common? and no one cared for anything to be called his own; for the newness and purity of the Holy Ghost in them, had not been squelched by the spirit of the world that since then so terribly infiltrated and desolated the churches.
Long winded . . . Sorry! I just want to ask, if anyone is so inclined, we could make more of an effort to come out of our shells and fellowship in the Spirit. We all have received gifts and a talent from the Lord; which He expects us to use while He is away. Exercising the things which we have been given, will cause them to increase and be perfected.
Anyway, Thank you Poyeema, for faithfully doing what the Lord has put in your heart to do.
Mornin’ all!
Elon Musk on Twitter: “https://t.co/zXeDTL7LFm” / Twitter
Brilliant. Should be plastered on huge colourful signs on every wall in Congress…with Gorilla Glue so they can’t be removed.
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will exult over you with loud singing. – Zephaniah 3:17
Trusting God to see you and love you, meet your physical needs and save your soul in eternity requires a leap of faith. Many popular theologies today include bits of self-sufficiency in a hybrid message of God helping those already helping themselves.
But Almighty God is strong enough to rescue the most unlovely, least likely, and seemingly least deserving person you know.
A faith that pleases God means you take your hands off the wheel and acknowledge His presence in your everyday life, regardless of how difficult your circumstances may be. When you believe in His strength rather than your own, He will bless you with peace, gladness, and wonder. Jesus tells a story about a son who squandered every good thing in his life.
He wallowed in the foulest mire, embracing a sin-filled life. Yet, the father watched for him daily, anxious to answer his request for help, hoping to place the family ring on his finger and welcome him home (Luke 15:11-24). Is that the Father you are trusting today? Or does your God expect you to strive for your own solutions, winking at your shortcomings and ignoring your addiction to sin? Those are two very different versions of grace!
Embrace God’s mighty salvation through the blood of His Son, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Pray that God’s strength would be preached in fullness across America this year.
Intercede for the many holding positions of leadership to hear that saving message and respond in faith.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
Powerful and beautifully written.
It really is too bad none of the Bidens, and I’m certain others wallowing in the DC sewer will never see this.
“. . . the most unlovely, least likely, and seemingly least deserving person you know.” I know that guy! And you are right, God can do everything, and more than we ask or think, regardless of how things appear to be impossible.
Great message, Thank You!
Hahahha good one Joe. Cheers sir
Thanx. And good morning to you.
What makes you wonder; How does someone get like that? What choices all through their life, that they so completely lose touch with reality and are so hostile to the truth?
Hysterical and terrifying! These kind are not only not kept safely in their rooms, but have the keys to the car!
Something we’d all like to see…
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/renowned-mit-professor-drug-safety-analytics-specialist-calls-immediate-suspension-mrna-covid-vaccines/
I just had one of these Hermit Thrush’s in my backyard and my Mockingbird who guards the bark butter feeder viewed him as a threat and chased him. Their call is beautiful and I used to hear them in my old woods. The call is worth the listen.
Hermit Thrush Singing
A gloriously uplifting song!
The Wood Thrush, Gray Cheeked & Veery are enchanting also. Perhaps I’ll put some of them up to listen too. Some of my favorite bird songs. Slainte
Wood Thrush is very familiar, Veery also familiar, never seen or heard the Gray Cheeked Thrush or its song in person, if you post it I can practice learning it! Slainte indeed … Guinness is good for you! 🙂
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
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.
Amen. Amin🙏🏻
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)
Important INFO, treepers.
READ and SPREAD!
And remember the name: Matthew Pottinger!
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/musings-on-the-militarization-of?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Think of the name “Operation Warp Speed”
That’s a military designation.
And this was definitely a military operation from start (developing a poison for as yet then “virus”) to military like enforcement of orders….against the citizens of this country whose military conspired against them and executed their satanic mission.
There is no question about it.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-defense-dept-secretly-controls-covid-vaccine-production-process-that-cannot-be-traced-researcher/
Pottinger gave a speech in Mandarin. I remember watching him give a soeech and being envious because I have studied Mandarin but never achieved anywhere close to his language level.
Have been reading boriquagato for quite a while and I think he is onto something here
The official terror organization of the American government, the US Department of Justice, apparently plans to prosecute any cops who were merely in the vicinity during the Tyre Nichols arrest. Of course this is just as outrageous as their prosecution of the cops in Minneapolis regarding the Saint George Floyd matter.
If I may, HT77…
“The official terror organization of the United States government…”
…which is itself a Terrorist State.
Nothing American at all about this government.
I know it sounds picky. But for me there is a huge difference.
We who pay our taxes (theft), salute the flag, sing God Bless America…and mean it, do our best to rear our families, revere Almighty God, work our backsides off (because there is honour and pride in hard work) to put food on the table, obey the law (no matter how unrighteous it may be), and more?
We are Americans. We are America.
And the government is the government of a foreign
nation, the United States. A country which I do not recognize anymore.
(To address your post…of course they are. Because there were no white officers involved. So they have to extend the perimeter out until they find one…or two…or three.
Diversity, doncha know. Plus their contrived narrative was spoiled, and they can’t have that!!
OTTA-orchestra “Royal Safary”(FullHD&HiFi audio) – YouTube
RUSSIAN ORCHESTRA WELL DONE. HOPE YOU ENJOY.
The musicians look like they are having fun.
And like their nutrition, or whatever in their life, has not depleted their thyroid function like so many of my community post-1970
Hey, today is someone’s birthday…
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Whoopi Goldberg (no, NOT Jewish): ‘Do We Need to See White People Also Get Beat Before Anybody Will Do Anything?’
My response to Whoopi: Ashli Babbitt, Ashli Babbitt, Ashli Babbit
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/01/30/whoopi-goldberg-do-we-need-to-see-white-people-also-get-beat-before-anybody-will-do-anything/
Yes, and rosanne boyland , who was stomped, beaten, and trampled to death on jan 6th
Bobby Hull passed away today. Here are a couple of remembrances of the Golden Jet:
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20230130/sports/230139973
tinyurl.com/2p8umwpk
Apologies if these pop up later. I don’t see them yet from earlier. Two-state stomp.
‘Blinken stresses countering Iran, affirms need for two-state solution to Netanyahu
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/01/30/Blinken-stresses-countering-Iran-affirms-need-for-two-state-solution-to-Netanyahu-
Blink once for a mess, twice for no mo’.
Put on your boots.
‘Blinken hints disapproval of Netanyahu government’s proposed judicial overhaul’
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjbz11drni
https://www.newsweek.com/israels-judicial-reform-will-strengthen-its-democracy-opinion-1772077
Give it a rest
https://allisrael.com/watch-full-interview-netanyahu-s-judicial-reforms-dangerous-must-be-modified-alan-dershowitz-tells-the-rosenberg-report
ALERT, if you are a SMALL BUSINESS OWNER… I am posting some information I experienced during our annual Commercial business and Workers Compensation policy audit that I just completed.
*** ASK FOR A PAPER COPY OF THE AUDIT TO COMPLETE ***
When you go online to complete the audit electronically, our insurance carrier is asking some strange questions that do not appear on the paper version. My recommendation is to request a PAPER COPY (within your rights) for your submission and you can compare the two to choose what to include and what to exclude that may not be the business of the insurer to know.
If you try to complete the audit electronically, the software will not allow you to proceed to the next question without an answer to something maybe we shouldn’t be answering????
The strange content on our insurer’s online submittal includes:
“If you employ any individuals that have a religious exclusion exemption, the following information is required. A copy of the Religious Exception of Specified Employees application filed with the PA Department of Labor and Industry and one of the corresponding forms are needed for verification purposes.
Does a religious exclusion exception apply to any specified employee?
Did anyone receive free housing or rent deduction during the policy period?”
THIS WHOLE SECTION DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PAPER FORM. Remember, when you have a PAPER FORM, you can include or exclude that which you deem is not appropriate to answer for your business. Make the insurer come back to you for it – if it is mandatory to them. Last year, I skipped these questions and refused to answer. The insurer did not come back to me about it. This year – it’s missing from the paper version, but mandatory on the online version.
This is where schools get us too… by using online google docs where we HAVE TO answer the questions or else the forms will not move forward to allow you to complete. If you have paper copies – you can skip sections that are NONE OF THEIR DANG BUSINESS.
And, folks… PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY… READ FORMS BEFORE SIGNING THEM!!! Had an FAA (Future Farmers of America) form last year that caused my daughter to be pulled from the club because of it’s OUTRAGEOUS INDEMNIFICATIONS. Folks… IT WAS OUTRAGEOUS!!!! And people just blindly sign them.
They are stealing our rights – so FIGHT BACK and THROW SAND wherever possible!
Love to you all.
And you know what they call “Conspiracy Theorists” six months later? Foregone conclusions.
Thanks for posting this. To all who read their Bibles, I say, read the Book of the Prophet Joel. There are written instructions for us, specifically for this time. Also the end of Malachi; how “then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another . . .” instead of just sharing the News, which is very important; we should be searching the Scriptures, to see why these things are, and what we are to do. “Having understanding of the times, to know what Israel (the house of God) ought to do.”
Wow.
Some republicans will not vote to 86 Omar from committee.
Dolts.
Accomplices.
Romans 8:29-30.
Reassuring in the extreme, WP. Deo gratias 🙏🏻
Amen
Amen!
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen and Amen!
And, Father, in the Name of Jesus, we come before You, and ask for Your light to shine on our innermost parts, that we may set all in order before You, and walk with a perfect heart all our days. Thy hands have made us and fashioned us; give us understanding, that we may learn Thy commandments.
Give unto all of us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus; the eyes of our understanding being enlightened, that we may know what is the hope of Your calling, and the exceeding greatness of Your power towards us who believe, according to the working of Your mighty power when You raised up Jesus from the dead, and set Him at Your own right hand on high.
Give us wise and understanding hearts to discern Your thoughts and purposes being done in the world. And be with us every day, all the way, as You promised, that we may be strong and of good courage to endure to the end, a people after Your own heart.
Amen
Amen
Amen…
Amen.
Amen.
NBC News reports- The operative, who worked as an aide to Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker last year, told NBC News that Schlapp “reached in between my legs and fondled me” during a car ride that followed a night of drinking at two Atlanta bars on Oct. 19. He is seeking $9.4 million from Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, on four civil counts related to allegations of “sexual battery” and claims that the Schlapps and others dishonestly tried “to discredit” him, according to a copy of the lawsuit.
https://100percentfedup.com/two-fox-news-personalities-quietly-disappear-after-groping-allegation-of-male-republican-campaign-aid-surfaces/
Hey Flyover, I don’t understand that Oswald Chambers quote. For the things that do appear are temporary; but the things unseen are eternal. Temporary is reality, true; but only temporarily; and appearances can be manipulated to be misleading. That is the definition of hypocrisy, ‘stage-playing’ in order to give a misleading appearance, to conceal one’s true nature, behavior, or intentions. “Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same,” doesn’t make any sense to me. Sorry.
“O, for a few truly sincere conservative leaders in our government and churches.”
I agree. But then again, none of us is going to be able to line up behind any “leader” when we stand before Jesus. Let’s us, you and me, be the ones like Noah and Daniel and Job, like Moses and Samuel, and see how He wants to make His own purposes come about in the world. It may be, (as terrible as it is for many to even imagine), that God is actually directing everything that’s going on right now, to let the devil sift out this generation? If we really want to find out how to make sense of everything, then we have to go to Him who has ALL KNOWLEDGE, and ask. And what we can’t understand, He can give us understanding.