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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Does Satan Need God’s Permission?
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
“In the middle of this pandemic, someone asked me if Satan has to get God’s permission for each individual act of wickedness like he did with Job?”
In Job’s day, everyone knew that God was rewarding good behavior with things like wealth and good health (Job 1:1-3). That’s why Job’s three friends all told him, in so many words, that he must have sinned to have incurred the loss of his health and wealth. This is also how God dealt with the people of Israel under the law (Lev. 26; Deut. 28). In such cases, God would use Satan and his host to effect the punishment (1 Kings 22:22; 1 Chron. 21:1), as well as the natural wickedness of men (Isa. 10:5-7).
But we are not under that kind of conditional blessing because we are not under the law, we are under grace (Rom. 6:14,15). Today God blesses us up front with “all spiritual blessings” in Christ (Eph. 1:3), and then beseeches us to walk worthy of them (Eph. 4:1; Col. 1:10). That means that pandemics and natural disasters are not Satan’s doing, they are just the result of living in a creation that is cursed by sin (Rom. 8:22, 23). Today Satan is “an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14), and his devils are “ministers of righteousness” (v. 15). They are busy teaching “doctrines of devils” (1 Tim. 4:1), not wreaking havoc in the material world.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/does-satan-need-gods-permission/
Job 1:1 ¶ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Leviticus 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:14 ¶ But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Deuteronomy 28:1 ¶ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy 28:15 ¶ But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
1 Kings 22:22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
1 Chronicles 21:1 ¶ And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
Isaiah 10:5 ¶ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Ephesians 1:3 ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Ephesians 4:1 ¶ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
1 Timothy 4:1 ¶ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
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Good morning America, ahh hah Lefty. 🙂 😉
3rd one — Now I know where Buffalo Bob got his costume.
Yeee Haww!
Just had to do my own version of buck dancing to Ida Red!!
Fortunately, nobody here keeps score . . . 🙂
If you want somebody to judge you, you can always join a buck dancing competition.
As I looked to find out what the heck buck dancing was, I found videos of such things. I had no clue, and I live in Appalachia.
Maybe we need a term like flyover country to represent everything we miss as we drive from city to city on the interstate.
I would suggest driveby country, but that would be confused with gang and media tactics.
How about “Interstate Drive Through” country . . . ?
Sounds good.
When I was a really little boy I was outside in the morning with my mama as she was hanging out the wash. I felt the sun on the skin of my back like a really deep tingle under my skin and looked up to see where that tingle came from. I reckon that must have been the first time I ever noticed the sun. I asked my mama what it was and she said, “That’s the sun, darlin.” And then I remember, clearly, asking her, “Who made the sun, mama?” She said, “God made the sun, honey.”
I don’t remember asking mama any more questions after that but since then, I have always understood that God our Father is the creator and administrator of everything in heaven and earth. As I grew into manhood, the Good LORD let me run out on a long leash before He began to reel me in and allowed me to begin learning about “worship in spirit and in truth.” So far, the words of Jesus to the Samaritan woman in John 4 and His words, “Before Abraham was, I am.” are some of the most encouraging, mind-boggling words I know
Nice, thanks for sharing that.
Beautiful post!!!
AMEN.
Early July, 1969, age 9, I had some business to tend to at our home on Galveston Bay. Settling my mind, dad’s machine would put neighbors on the moon, and bring them home.
Moon coming up, laid flat on my back in the front yard on our St. Augustine lawn. Needed to get business done before dad’s whistle, Time To Come Inside.
We had lived at Cape Canaveral, went back every year, I knew its distance from our front yard. Clear nite, somehow, it seemed quite ordinary realizing, Yes dad’s rocket (and the other dad’s in our neighborhood ~ all NASA) would succeed.
Objective met, brain settled, men on moon. Done.
Another objective arose, far more unsettling.
Moon, stars, spaces between, where did they come from? Yes, there’s God. Yet, first time asking myself, Where did God come from? Stayed much longer on the St. Augustine lawn, getting this figured out. Didn’t happen.
Thank you for posting this Whistling _Past. Wish I’d had it that nite.
NASA team putting first men on moon, was ready for far greater endeavors. Funding. Lack of funding. Cannot imagine the greatness they would have achieved. Mars was a given, as was a huge Space Station. For starters.
Age 9, already knew where NASA was going. THAT has been the disappointment, what didn’t come to be.
Godspeed the space teams, in future, their success. For all mankind. Prayerful the science is used for God’s righteousness. In Jesus’ name I pray.
NATIONAL STRAWBERRY SUNDAE DAY
On July 7th, it is time to indulge on National Strawberry Sundae Day. Each year on this day, Americans combine vanilla or strawberry ice cream, strawberry sauce, fresh strawberries, and whipped cream.
July 7, 1956
Johnny Cash makes his first appearance on the Grand Old Opry show in Nashville.
Sun Record vinyl ……… Cash-ville at its best.
THAT’S MINE!!
Some years ago, one of my almost retired champion poodles and I created a new game by accident. She loved for me to throw a tennis ball. One afternoon , I accidentally threw the ball on the metal roof…..she lost her mind, in a good way. Thus roofball was brought into existence. From that day forward she would not retrieve the ball unless it was thrown onto the roof. She went from being a fru fru regal dog in a funny haircut……to just a good old dog in less than 2 seconds. Good memories of a great dog.
Funny how a pic can bring good memories, that you haven’t thought of in a while…..when needing the boost.
To all the night owl’s out there, a little something to wind down…
On another board, someone said that the proper response to the woke is logic and reasonable criticism. Here is a part of my answer to that claim:
I believe it is a fallacy to believe logic and reasonable criticism mean anything to the woke. The woke say that the basic male-female division of human persons is not a fact but a political construct. The woke say that literacy and law are tools of racial oppression. The woke are systematically destroying everything for which western civilization stands. I believe the founders and leaders of “woke” are aware of how ridiculous their claims and theories are. I believe those founders and leaders are delighted and take sick pleasure in the destruction they cause. The founders and leaders of woke hollowed out the souls of their victims with lies, drugs and poor education and filled the vacuum they created with more of the same. The old saying, “You can’t reason with a sick mind.” applies directly and precisely to the woke.
As that great American philosopher Mark Twain said:
“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
Also, logic requires inputs. You can change the fifth input in geometry, for a point not on a line, there is one and only one line through that point that is parallel to the line, change that and end up with non-Euclidean geometries. In a similar way they change assumptions to get their desired results.
I had a useless debate with two Iranian students in Vienna in the early eighties. Their ‘logic’ made it their duty to force everybody to their salvation. Not sure if that was believed or just a debate trick, they weren’t actually doing that.
Also, people train in debate. Where you study a topic and then get assigned to argue a side. People who practice that skill eventually come across as slimy as any politician, but they can deceive lots of people before being rejected.
And I had an Indian acquaintance, so trained in logic, that he could run rings around anyone’s arguments just for his own amusement.
But it is worse than that. They pervert things we all cherish and value into their twisted delusions and make arguments that you support while promoting what you hate. The process of attaching good concepts to ugly things destroys a lot of good words, but they have surely succeeded in pushing a lot of ugly things upon us.
And now that they have buy in into their ugliness, they are now switching from the good they used to the evil they wanted at the start.
Take any issue the left pushed. Say being gay. First a libertarian take is used, who cares what someone else does behind closed doors. Then an openness is encouraged. Then enforced. Take a few more steps and now you must create artworks that celebrate their weddings and you dare not complain as they teach your children to be gay long before puberty. (And you must allow their pedophiles access to your children.) Everything they used to get you to buy into the first steps is thrown to the winds as they force everyone else to comply.
I look at people like Dershowitz, who stick with the left despite it abandoning every principle he holds dear and defends with his utmost, and I wonder why he doesn’t renounce them. They even abuse him, a long time proponent and defender of the left, denying him the very rights he champions.
Logic never works against the zealot either. And the left is full of them. But they all hide their zealotry and their evil by defining themselves as good and normal and their opponents as evil and as abnormal.
We first need to stop letting them define issues. Second we need to not buy in to their premises. Those two guarantee that your logic will lose. But mostly, we need to show their ugliness and their evil acts for what they are. Tough to do when they own the media and actively censor us.
I think Dershowitz is too afraid of being hounded and vilified if he openly declares he is a conservative/GOP supporter
I cannot see him having voted for Biden btw
Fundamentally they are spiritually ill – as is the entire godless Demonrat party.
Uncommitted Christians with never defeat committed communists.
ALL NOBLE THINGS ARE DIFFICULT
“Enter ye in at the strait gate…because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way…” Matthew vii. 13-14
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome. Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?
God saves men by His sovereign grace through the Atonement of Jesus; He works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure; but we have to work out that salvation in practical living. If once we start on the basis of His Redemption to do what He commands, we find that we can do it. If we fail, it is because we have not practiced. The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not. If we obey the Spirit of God and practice in our physical life what God has put in us by His Spirit, then when the crisis comes, we shall find that our own nature as well as the grace of God will stand by us.
Thank God He does give us difficult things to do! His salvation is a glad thing, but it is also a heroic, holy thing. It tests us for all we are worth. Jesus is bringing many “sons” unto glory, and God will not shield us from the requirements of a son. God’s grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to live the noble life of a disciple of Jesus in actual things. It is always necessary to make an effort to be noble.
Oswald Chambers
July 7th Devotional
Mornin’ infidels!
Mornin’ WeeWeed
Much as been said about the economics and social analysis of Marxism, but as a Christian, I want to look at the heart of Communism. Beneath all the philosophical verbiage and political rhetoric, what is the driving force of Marxist-Leninism?
“Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.” Vladimir Lenin.
“We must hate. Hatred is the basis of Communism.” Lenin
“Hatred is an element of the struggle, a relentless hatred of the enemy…transforming him into an effective, violent and selective, cold blooded killing machine. A people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.” Che Guevara.
“I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.” Karl Marx.
“The hellish vapors rise and fill the brain, till I go mad and my heart is utterly changed. See this sword? The prince of darkness sold it to me.” Karl Marx.
“With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant… Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.” Karl Marx
“Karl Marx is a monster possessed by ten thousand devils.” Frederick Engels.
Karl Marx “had the devil’s view of the world and the devil’s malignity. Sometimes he seemed to know that he was accomplishing the works of evil.” Robert Payne (a friend of Karl Marx).
“We do not fight against believers and not even clergymen. WE FIGHT AGAINST GOD to snatch believers from Him.” Velchernaia Moskva (a Marxist newspaper).
The slogan of the Soviets in their early days was: “Let us drive out the Capitalists from the earth, and God from Heaven.”
“The World has never before known a godlessness as organized, militarized and tenaciously malevolent as that preached by Marxism. Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin and at the heart of their psychology, HATRED OF GOD is the principle driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions. Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to Communist policy; it is not a side effect, but the central pivot. To achieve its diabolical ends, Communism needs to control a population devoid of religious and national feeling, and this entails a destruction of faith and nationhood. Communists proclaim both of these objectives openly, and just as openly put them into practice.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Let us never forget what Communism has done in Russia , China , North Korea , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Poland , Romania , Bulgaria , East Germany , Albania , Cuba , Cambodia , Viet Nam , Laos , Afghanistan , Nicaragua , Ethiopia , Mozambique , Angola and Zimbabwe. The millions imprisoned in concentration camps, the hunger and starvation, the civil wars, the persecution of Christians, the battering of pastors, the destruction of churches, the burning of Bibles, the massacres, the fear and the horror.
Let us never forget the results of this evil anti-Christ religion of Communism. And may we be faithful to God’s Word, loyal to Christ and steadfast in our prayers for the suffering Christians. May we be brave in our opposition to Communism and bold in our proclamation of the truth of God’s Word.
—Dr. Peter Hammond
Engels once said that Marx did not understand economics at all.
https://twitter.com/maybe60794885/status/1412545867249299463
Verse of the Day for Wednesday, July 7, 2021
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“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”
Ephesians 3:20 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
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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.
WOW ! Incredible Video !
Thank You , Dora ?
A bit of nostalgia from impressionist Rich Little.
Archaeology breakthrough as Jerusalem discovery ‘confirms complete chapters’ from Bible
ARCHAEOLOGIST made a stunning breakthrough when they found an incredible artefact dating back to the time of the Bible which, according to a historian, “confirms complete chapters” of the religious text.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1459567/archaeology-news-jerusalem-bible-jeremiah-god-jesus-christ-babylon-judah-spt
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
From the Book of the Holy Prophet Obadias
[4] Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence shall I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
From the 50th Psalm – Septuagint
(51 KJV)
“A sacrifice unto God is a contrite spirit; a contrite and humbled heart God will not put to shame.”
Raytheon, the nation’s second largest defense contractor, gets on board with authoritarian, racist, insanity:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/2nd-largest-u-s-defense-contractor-goes-woke-white-straight-christian-men-must-identify-your-privilege-participate-in-reparations-decolonize-your-boo
Excerpt:
The second-largest defense contractor in America is imposing an “anti-racism” program using critical race theory, arguing that white or straight or Christian men should “identify your privilege,” “participate in reparations,” and “decolonize your bookshelf.”Raytheon Technologies Corporation implemented a program titled “Stronger Together.”
Update from Tucker Carlson during an interview w/Maria Bartiroma on spying issues:
https://therightscoop.com/tucker-carlson-tells-maria-bartiromo-its-verified-the-nsa-is-not-allowed-to-spy-on-americans-but-they-are/
Happy 81st To Ringo Starr
Jul 7, 1940
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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The Nativity of the Glorious Prophet and Forerunner of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Saint John the Baptist
June 24th on on the Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
(July 7th on the civil or commercial calendar)
Just letting you all know I am recovering from my heart surgery.
Recovering is good.
God Bless!
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