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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It’s the expression in his eyes that makes this such a wonderful picture. LOVE that you posted it!
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The Grand Experiment. Two separate pieces of music by Joseph Blanchard. The Stolen Election
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/politics/video/2020-The-Grand-Experiment-Joseph-Blanchard-
Another thing we should never forget.
URL didn’t post well. Apologies.
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/politics/video/2020-The-Grand-Experiment-Joseph-Blanchard-V04.htm
Good morning, 🙂
All I gotta do is act naturally by Ringo Starr
Amazing rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”!
Yeah. For quite awhile, now. 🙂
Happy Cursday, Treepers. I know I showed this video awhile back but some stories are just so timeless that they deserve to be revisited. But then, I also have s soft spot for those sometimes-the-dog-gets-you stories where the bond between dog and her person is especially strong. Dogs are healing and can make us better people . . .
Mike Lindell and his associates have proved that we did not suffer from an “election steal”. we just saw the return of the “natural old world order” in which really smart people–far smarter than peasants–selected our President and congressional leaders. It didn’t matter what the American populace voted one-citizen-one-vote wanted to be their elected representatives.
Stupid American citizen voters had to be overruled. It did not matter that the selected President had Alzheimer’s nor that the selected Vice President was not liked by any American-citizen voter. The hidden powers-that-be threw it in our face that they are in control.
With their agenda, America will collapse. We should be asking, “Why do you want to destroy America? What did America do to harm you?”
Answer: “Nothing, but we love destruction. It’s really cool. For example, after we destroy
New York City’s economy we will be able to buy NYC businesss properties from belly-up businesses at pennies on the dollar. Same for mineral energy resources. We aren’t against fossil fuels. We just want to drive their values down, then swoop them up.”
It’s what Soros does. He destroys nations and then collects the reward. He needs hot lead pumped into his head. This kind of evil should never be allowed to exist. It’s one of the reasons I say the only way out of this is violence. Let the world watch and see what happens when weak men choose $ over life.
It’s the essence of Build Back Better, implying destruction of what is. How to rebuild? They didn’t think too much about that. They have no idea because they have no practical skills or talent.
It’s easy to destroy, and they destroy many good things because they are not in their minds perfect.
The magical thinking comes in when they assume that once they complete their destruction, utopia will break out all over. It’s an underlying belief of ideologues.
Instead, as history shows, it is hell that breaks out all over because of a power vacuum.
Rolly-Pachy.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1424424870188883975
Well, the kid kinda did it like Dad? ???
Kinda sorta whatever works!
Eau de spaz.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1425471115011534857
Wonderfully done!
Goosebumpy!
Beautiful!
THE THEOLOGY OF REST
“Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?” Matthew viii. 26
When we are in fear we can do nothing less than pray to God, but Our Lord has a right to expect that those who name His Name should have an understanding confidence in Him. God expects His children to be so confident in Him that in any crisis they are the reliable ones. Our trust is in God up to a certain point, then we go back to the elementary panic prayers of those who do not know God. We get to our wits’ end, showing that we have not the slightest confidence in Him and His government of the world; He seems to be asleep, and we see nothing but breakers ahead.
“O ye of little faith!” What a pang must have shot through the disciples – ‘Missed it again!’ And what a pang will go through us when we suddenly realize that we might have produced downright joy in the heart of Jesus by remaining absolutely confident in Him, no matter what was ahead.
There are stages in life when there is no storm, no crisis, when we do our human best; it is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal upon whom we rely. If we have been learning to worship God and to trust Him, the crisis will reveal that we will go to the breaking point and not break in our confidence in Him.
We have been talking a great deal about sanctification – what is it all going to amount to? It should work out into rest in God which means oneness with God, a oneness which will make us not only blameless in His sight, but a deep joy to Him.
Oswald Chambers
August 12th Devotional
Black Lives Matter never did serve a useful purpose. It always was a Communist front designed to make a handful of people rich by inflaming racial strife.
Sell a lie. “No Black Lives Matter” (Right after the election of the first black president.)
Use that lie to generate protests and riots.
Amp the lie and riots to force submission of whites to blacks while shunning and ostracizing all who don’t submit.
Then fundraise off of all that you have done.
And run to the bank while yelling “Suckers”.
And if you meant Bureau of Land Management, I don’t think they ever served a useful purpose either.
NATIONAL VINYL RECORD DAY
Get spinning on August 12th with National Vinyl Record Day!
August 12, 1967
Fleetwood Mac played their first show at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival. The band members included Mick Fleetwood, Jeremy Spencer, Peter Green and Bob Brunning. John McVie wouldn’t replace Brunning until a month later, which is rather odd since the band has always maintained that the “Mac” part of their name was taken from “McVie”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-C6p-GwHfA
August 12, 1984
Lionel Richie closed the Olympic Games in Los Angeles with his number one smash, “All Night Long”. 2.6 billion people watched on their TV sets.
Where did that style of stopping music to say words originate? My mind went to Zeppelin, but they hadn’t formed when this was played.
Very frustrating to video the singers guitar when the other guitar player has a big part. But I think that guy didn’t want to be focused on. He practically turned his back to the camera and hid behind the guy with the often unused guitar.
Any evidence from before Mac joined the band of what Mac originally meant? I just read some of Green’s wiki article and it said McVie was Green’s first choice but wasn’t ready to join. And that the first name for the band was ‘Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac featuring Jeremy Spencer’. So Mac could have stood for McVie in absentia. But then both Fleetwood and McVie are presented as Green’s property.
. . . 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.
Mornin’ infidels!
Keep calm and carry on. ——>
Keep calm and carry.
Morning Weedweed
They can KMA! It’s my body, my choice, my family, my community.
Hi rah, not sure if you read it to the end…
Nope I didn’t! Thank you. Work has pretty much got me in the zombie mod. Now I am just putting my head down and driving on.
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Yeah it ends up in a completely different place from where you think it’s going.
But it’s a GOOD ending!
Good Afternoon WeeWeed!
Verse of the Day for Thursday, August 12, 2021
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“Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”
Psalms 55:22 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
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.
For those of you that desire more in depth and longer range tropical storm forecasts I would suggest checking out Tropical Tidbits from Levi Cowan. Levi knows his stuff.
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Thursday of the Eighth Week after Pentecost
July 30th on the Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
August 12th on the civil or commercial calendar
First Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians 10: 28 – 11: 7
Holy Gospel according to the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew 16: 24 – 28
Among the many Saints and Holy Martyrs who are commemorated today are these:
Holy Apostle Silas, Bishop of Corinth, of the Seventy
Holy Apostle Silouan, Bishop of Thessalonica, of the Seventy
Holy Apostle Crescens of the Seventy
Holy Apostle Epenetos, Bishop of Carthage, of the Seventy
Holy Apostle Andronicos, Bishop of Pannonia, of the Seventy
Holy Hieromartyr Polychronios, Bishop of Babylon in Mesopotamia and those with him (+ 251)
New Hiero-Confessor Anatole the Younger of Optina Monastery, Russia (+ 1922)
The Holy Seventy Apostles
Short versions of their Lives are collected in one link in honor of their Synaxis although each is remembered on specific days on the Church Calendar.
http://www.cpress.orthodoxws.com/lives_4_january
Three very different songs from three very different singers, groups or bands. All with the same title.
“Games People Play” – Joe South – 1969 – YouTube
The Spinners Games People Play – YouTube
The Alan Parsons Project – Games People Play (Official Video) – YouTube
Hope they all show up.
Well, I failed to show the videos.
But the links work.
Time for some Elina Garanca again. I could listen to this over and over. Calms the mind.
What a beauty.
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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