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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Amen! Come Lord Jesus!
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Hello Feral. Very glad you’re here!
Agreed old coot.
LOL!
The use of “hearing” to mean understanding was a central theme of the calling of Isaiah (Isaiah 6). As Jesus came to fulfill the law and prophets, his use of the language of Isaiah would connect him directly to prophecies of Isaiah in the hearing of the people, particularly the scribes and pharisees. These would be exactly the ones that would hear the words in their ears but fail to hear them in their hearts. Taking on the language of Isaiah to himself is a claim to the messiah that these same scholars knew that Isaiah predicts. Additionally, Isaiah prophesies of judgments for exactly the same sins of the people that Jesus would accuse the leaders of the day of committing. The Revelation references are similar.
In the end, hearing without really hearing is a call to judgment and the people listening knew.
Great synopsis!
Love reading your comments along spiritual lines.
You are a blessing here!
Ah yes. There’s a Second Coming.
All will see. All will hear. All will bow.
Can’t wait!
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Message from Garfield: Forget the pasta and meaballs and go for the lasagna!
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Garfield would say eat the nuts and keep the Lasagna, Meatballs and Pasta for himself.
I beg to differ!
“The Letter that Never Came” … Love the visuals as well as the instrumental mood! … Both filled with wide open spaces, and the beauty of promise after all.
And no worries about the message that never came … it’s just temporarily suspended in the ether, as I discovered on seeing “The connection timed out …”. I’ll try again tomorrow, and perhaps find it is then the time is right.
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Oh, wow. Mesmerizing. To the ears and the eyes. I wonder if that first video was somewhat choreographed using leaf blowers. Irrespective, it was amazing to find that the plastic bag movement along with the music created such a palpable feeling of fragility… something bittersweet… loss… the feeling of mortality…. Hard to put into words, but, wow, that was magical.
🙂 Thomas Newman is genius. His gift of lyricism always comes through.
Second follow-up to my comment about being that bag tossed to and fro and not comforted…to rest…yet.
Perfect words from God through Isaiah 54:11:
O you afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted…
Also 50:10 is instructional when we are tried in the fires of life.
Solomon, what you described is exactly it. It was one of those things that evades one’s thought until someone points it out and then it seems so obvious: Indeed tossed about and not comforted to rest. yet. And then the perfect quote from the Bible…..
Thank you! 👍👍👍
I hope you’ll read some of the book I sent to Mungrel this morning.
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God in pdf.
It’s a good read dear brother
Your first video brought me to tears.
I am that bag getting blown around.
Seeming no place to rest.
Can’t settle.
But God knows where I need to be.
Where you need to be.
Guitar and pipe organ music of our souls.
We need that.
No tornado or hurricane ever threatened more than what is against us today.
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All that back to ‘ya Cat! 💙⚘
Agreed 🙂
I’m so glad you know the Savior.
Can you imagine sufferings without understanding His purposes?
Thinking of “today”, thinking of “now”:
2 Cor. 6:2 (cf. Isaiah 49:8)
“For He says: “In the acceptable time I listened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Isaiah 55:6-7
“Seek the LORD to while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Hebrews 3:15a (cf. Psalms 95:7-8)
“As it has been said: “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts…”
Revelation 22:17 (cf. Isaiah 55:1)
“The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.”
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Thinking of why:
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 5:24
“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.”
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Thinking of how:
Luke 18:13
“And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’”
James 4:8a
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”
John 6:28-29
“Therefore they said to Him, “What must we do, that we may be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you should believe in Him whom He has sent.””
Mark 9:24b
“‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.'”
Acts 16:30-31
“Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.””
TM:
Thank you so much for further wisdom you addressed to my quandary.
I count on God’s wisdom in my brothers here and there.
Bless you!
🙏 imho my quandaries have been God’s way of teaching me the skills I need to acquire and master for a future “event” that I cannot foresee. I try to remember, during those times, that’s when God carries me. 🛐✝️
Hi Solomon 💁♀️🌸
🙋♂️Hi Cat.
Yours is a good attitude!
He does pick us up when we have done our best, exhausted our mortal measure.
Sometimes He lets us come to a place where we just “run out” then infuses us with the the grace if His power to get us up and going renewed in hope.
Better than a bowl of “Wheaties” 😋🤭
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He picks us when we fail to perform our duties and when we sin too. True?
Great perspective. ❗️✝️❗️
I should have said brothers and sisters here and there. We have wisdom from both.
Speaking as a “sister,” I have no problem when anyone uses the male reference only. I know what it means and never feel offended or left out. But that’s just me. But since you went out of your way to make this gracious comment, I wanted to chime in should one female’s voice on the matter, matter. G-d bless you, sir.
I have had great women in my life, sometimes stronger than the men in my life.
Not going into the gender craze thing, but I have to confess with glee, the women in my life sometimes helped keep me alive in impossible odds.
And we have a lot of you sisters here in the CTH that I appreciate as much as our brothers.
And I am remembering the wonderful women of the New Testament.
Also considering Deborah in the book of Judges and also Queen Esther who risked her life and helped save her nation!
Yeah, us men really do appreciate our women “sisters!”
Bless you back sister!
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Thanks for not being thin skinned Sarah Lee.
Grace to you. Glad you’re here
Thanks TM.
For Garrison:
So appreciated your post and pipe organ pieces the other night.
Thank you for that.
I have a personal relationship with the pipe organ in a rare place many years ago.
Garrison, you are a blessing of music greats here.
All of you here in the CTH mean a lot to many who read but may not comment.
An inspiration to all❤️
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Garrison, most prolly you know this piece, but for you:
The camera of the finger work is great!
Good morning, Solomon, that was great! Good to see you back after a couple of days. Heading to work, will check back here tonight. Be blessed!
Good morning back to you. G.
You sir, are a great blessing here!
Good Day Solomon,
Just checking in on you to see how your healing is coming along. Have been working like mad the last few days but had to take a chance of finding you on the thread today.
Be well and God Bless!
Good day back to you.
Thank you!
I’m better. It won’t be overnight, but progressing.
Actually had a whole night last night without my shoulder making me want to scream.
The eye has cleared up.
God is good and He uses the prayers of His people for each other.
Again, thanks for checking in. It is GREATLY! appreciated.
Bless you!
Didn’t realize😯. Hope last night’s peaceful sleep is just the start of many more🙂
Ditto for all who need some restful nights 🙏
🙂 I’ll go with you on that one!
No wonder I love cats! 😉
And yes, we pray for all here going through health issues on whatever branch of the CTH they are nesting!
Just reading this comment now. Had no idea you were struggling with some health issues. Sending prayers for healing….
Solomon, didn’t realize that you weren’t well, brother. Having had both rotator cuffs repaired I know very well about shoulder pain. Prayers for full and speedy healing .
And yes, God is good, all the time!
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Jubilant Sykes. What a voice!!!
A real heart-wrencher!
Deep love is built into this song!
Yes. Every track on that album (“Wait for Me”) he recorded many years ago is amazing. He took pop songs written by and/or sung by well known pop, rock, or folk artists and arranged them in genius ways. And then, well, there is his voice which is incredible. And if you’re not familiar w/him, he is a deeply religious man. His Christian faith is the centerpiece of his life.
Really good. Thanks! 🙂
It’s hard to listen to that and not have your digital screen go all blurry.
Yes, the voice!
The piano is pretty awesome too.
I was not familiar with him.
Thank you for the introduction!
I am a heavy music lover, but always welcome a new voice I haven’t heard.
I love music as well. And love when someone opens up a new world of voices, choral groups, etc. This open thread has been a treasure trove for that, in large part due to what Garrison posts, but others, as well.
I heard about Jubilant Sykes many years ago when he was doing interviews before this album came out. I was blown away because during the interview he did a bunch of examples of different sounds and genres of music and I could not believe the quality of his voice and how facile he was (not that that is necessarily a good thing if a singer exploits it, but he didn’t do that). I treated myself to the CD and was amazed by how incredible the recordings were. It was apparent that everyone involved paid attention to every single detail. And it showed. Just incredible.
Since then I occasionally search for him over on YouTube but don’t always love the performances as I strangely find some of them a bit mannered. Wierd.
Anyway, here’s another beauty.
Okay, you’re making my screen blurry again.
Just the first words of his song…
Oh boy, what a connection to my own life!
You can’t write words like this without the experience of it.
Again, thank you for introducing me to him.
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Yes, as soon as I read your comment I thought of the opening lyrics to this song and felt it would resonate with you…. And, yes, per your comment below: velvet is the perfect word for the quality his voice. The other thing I love about him is that there’s an amazing balance between the singing/melody and the words. He really attends to the words and I often feel like I’m hanging on his every word. (His rendition of Motherless Child is probably one of the most powerful that is like that for me.)…………..
Lifegiving
Thank you, Sarah. This is some exquisite music.
Thx for the additional videos.
I have one adjective for his voice.
Velvet! 🙂
Goodaye Pop,
Yes Sheaf Stout is still widely available, not only that, it’s the best selling Stout in OZ.
In better times I’d send you a box , the Irish in me says ” A nip of bullet ” would nice in return !
Cheers.
Another drive by post day…I thought you might use this.
“Nothing ahead of you is bigger or stronger than the power of God behind you.”
LBT, as always…😊
Good morning, Betsy, may your day is full of blessings.
Yours, too, GrandpaM. And full of unexpected joys!😊
Hello Bet!
So glad you shine so much brighter than Bet Midler.
She just wouldn’t fit in here. 🙌
Ha!! No she would not! Can you imagine?!?! Thank you for that nice compliment😁I’m smiling broadly now. Bless you, Frank.
Good morning Son 😀 , glad you saw that post. I posted something short in response to you and PK, but it disappeared. I just was reminding us all the Word of the Lord to Joshua, “Only be strong and courageous.” And one more, not by might not by power but by my Spirit, sayeth the Lord.
The victory is His and we are all soldiers in His army.
Cheers.
Amen! 👍
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M. when things get back to normal and we’ve kicked satan’s minions asses from here all the way to the gates of hell, I’d like to send you a bottle of Garrison Brothers Texas bourbon. Real good stuff. Done right and aged right.
Cheers
I want one! 😉
We can take care of that.
I don’t sip anymore but was partial to Glenlivit 12.
I did some stupid stuff and left off from doing stuff I should have been doing.
Oh. The memories…
Glenlivit? That makes you partially Scots. How you would have enjoyed a tour there. They give out samples, you know😉
Betsy, one of my regrets is that we never made it to Scotland. Always wanted to do the whiskey tour. Still enjoy a sip of single malt here and there.
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Crackup!
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
…give us today our daily bread.
He does!
It’s a shame some of His people complain about His life-giving manna.
It is life-giving!
Niiiiiice
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.
The Trisagion Hymn
and the
50th Psalm (Septuagint)
14 December 1961
Jimmy Dean’s “Big Bad John” is 1st country song to get a gold record
14 December 1969
“Leaving on a Jet Plane” single sung by Peter, Paul and Mary, written by John Denver hits #1 on US Billboard’s Hot Top 100
14 December 1999
Paul McCartney played The New Cavern Club in Liverpool, thirty-five years after his last appearance at the original venue. The concert was broadcast live over the Internet and attracted fifty million visits. A young fan who changed his name to John Lennon, won a ticket to the show. The original Cavern Club closed in 1973 and was demolished to enable an underground railway to be constructed. In 1984 the present building, known as Cavern Walks, was opened on the site and contains a rebuilding of the original Cavern Club in the basement, as well as shops, offices and an internal nine-storey atrium. The edifice also includes statues of The Fab Four on the outside walls.
………sausage?
Righteous Philaret the Merciful (+ 792) lived in Asia Minor and was noted for his almsgiving, generosity, hospitality, and steadfast faith in God through temptation.
His Life is shared at the link below.
Saint Philaret is honored today, December 1st on the Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church, which is December 14th on the civil or commercial calendar.
http://www.cpress.orthodoxws.com/lives_1_december
Mornin’ infidels.
Knew you had to be up Wee. Good morning!
Wee’s contributions always make the day brighter 🙃. Love starting the day with the smile the treehouse never fails to bring❤️
Agreed 😊
So good!!! I saw the same meme the other day…only the man on the left was labeled “Mengele”… Rowan Atkinson on the right was ” Fauci”.
That works, too.
At least you got a sense of humour, not like some, but alas as on Aussie you will be receiving a little “Payback” for this gag !
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Visions of Sylvia with her shovel having wee’s back flashed through my mind😅
Hahaha!😁
Wherever did Sylvia and her shovel get to? I hadn’t seen her post here for a year or two.
To Mungrel the Treeper,
As far as I’m concerned as a Christian, the most loving single thing I can do is pass along my Treasure. My Treasure is Jesus Christ.
The link below is for you. I’m asking you to read David Powlison’s words in a beautiful book. Please read pages 145-174 in the pdf link below.
It sounds like you’re going through and have gone through some serious stuff. I have too, and this book helped, but the chapter I’ve selected for you is my favorite. I hope you find it as savory and useful as I have:
https://document.desiringgod.org/suffering-and-the-sovereignty-of-god-en.pdf?ts=1439242069
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Will read 🌉
One brother, you, encouraging another.
Mungrel has a lot of us praying for him during his trials!
This was a great offering.
I did download it.
I’ve not read that book, but certainly know the issue of that struggle in my own life, to the point of sitting under my own broom tree like Elijah did and asking God to just take me home.
But you know God’s response to him. Sent an angel to feed him twice, then made him go to Mt. Horeb and taught him through that still small voice, then sent him back to accomplish God’s will before catching him up to heaven as Elisha witnessed.
It is okay to just want to pass on sometimes (never by suicide!)…but as Christians, we are not finished here until the last page of individual books God has written about us, turns over.
We have much work to do before then.
Amen, brother!
I surely have not done my utmost for His Highest, but I’m a late bloomer!
I tell all the young fellas not to waste my scars!
Goodaye Frank, I have just read the chapter ” God’s Grace and Your Sufferings” I will give you a full reply on the next OT as I don’t know if you would see it here ! Time thingy !
Yes I completely understand.
Cheers.
Frank, downloaded the book, too. Will read it.
✝️ God Bless You All
This Day ✝️
✝️ JESUS IS KING ✝️
Now and forever, PK! I hope your day brings many blessings, great and small😊
“…and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:11).
“if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is LORD…” (Romans 10:9).
Yeeeeeeeesss!
PK, and he is coming back soon. This time not as the suffering servant but as the Warrior King! Maranatha!
Yeeeeess. ❗️❗️✝️❗️❗️
Thanks so much…and…
YES. HE. IS. 🎄
THE GREAT LIFE
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you:…Let not your heart be troubled.” John xiv. 27
Whenever a thing becomes difficult in personal experience, we are in danger of blaming God, but it is we who are in the wrong, not God, there is some perversity somewhere that we will not let go. Immediately we do, everything becomes as clear as daylight. As long as we try to serve two ends, ourselves and God, there is perplexity. The attitude must be one of complete reliance on God. When once we get there, there is nothing easier than living the saintly life; difficulty comes in when we want to usurp the authority of the Holy Spirit for our own ends.
Whenever you obey God, His seal is always that of peace, the witness of an unfathomable peace, which is not natural, but the peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, tarry till it does or find out the reason why it does not. If you are acting on an impulse, or from a sense of the heroic, the peace of Jesus will not witness; there is no simplicity or confidence in God, because the spirit of simplicity is born of the Holy Ghost, not of your decisions. Every decision brings a reaction of simplicity.
My questions come whenever I cease to obey. When I have obeyed God, the problems never come between me and God, they come as probes to keep the mind going on with amazement at the revelation of God. Any problem that comes between God and myself springs out of disobedience; any problem, and there are many, that is alongside me while I obey God, increases my ecstatic delight, because I know that my Father knows, and I am going to watch and see how He unravels this thing.
Oswald Chambers
December 14th Devotional
A welcome and calming post today. And interesting for me, because in watching in abject horror at all we endure today, I find myself in the same frame of mind as Oswald Chambers.
I’m “on watch”, as it were.
I know He is working His will. I have faith that it shall be done. And I’m looking for any seemingly small yet significant signs that His hand is at the tiller. I’d like to think I am seeing His work proceed apace, but at the end of each day I pray “Thy will be done” and know with certainty it will be so.
In an ever changing world such as we live in…one with such upheavals and sorrows for so many…there is the comfort of knowing that God is constant and unchanging, our Anchor. So I continue to actively watch. There is a peace in that indeed.
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All blessings to you, FC.
Good day, Betsy.
Sometimes, we don’t know what can happen in our lives from one 60 second minute to the other.
Wholes worlds in our lives can be drastically altered at once.
But living in pure faith in and about God, we can be assured that every minute and hour of our lives is in His Hand, even a necessary correction of our paths at times.
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Gracious good day (almost evening), Solomon. Yes, I agree, but I would, wouldn’t I. Because I’ve experienced it and watched it happen in others’ lives.
And as you commented elsewhere a few days ago, it is God who has the ultimate power to effect those miraculous moments in a split second.
Historically, I remember how quickly…and suddenly…the Berlin Wall came down. To me it was always there, and then it wasn’t. I use that as only a reference within my lifetime. It still seemed to me after decades of the subjugation of millions that it was a Divine occurrence. And looking at that same subjugation for today in far too many places, I await prayerfully for the same once again.
I saw above you are making slow but definite progress in your recovery. I am so glad. Recovery is like that, slowly then all at once. I’m praying that holds true for you. 🙏
Betsy, having coming to the US from the other side of the Wall a couple of years earlier, I’d never, even in my wildest dreams would’ve thought that it would come down so fast. I’d had discussions with friends that most likely the two Germany’s would unite after the end of the 50 years of Soviet occupation sometimes after 1995. But at the time it seemed to be merely a wishful thinking.
The satanists are trying today to turn the whole world in one communist sh!thole but as always they never account for God.
Your perspective is needed in this fallen land.
True.
Man plans. God decides.
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Good morning juststevie! Waiting for my lesson of the day🙃
Thanks teacher😉I’ll study hard for the test on this lesson😇
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So inspiring, WP. He was touched by God, and he was reclaimed by Jesus Christ. A special and loving man.
That! Was an unwasted life.
Sobering. Inspiring. Beautiful. 💪✝️💪
Anthony Paul Duncan
Thank you, WP. Now that we have his story, it is lovely to see his face. There is something about his eyes. One can tell by looking at them they’ve seen a lot. A man who dedicated his life to Christ by helping those who needed it badly. His Book of Life has no missing pages.
Amen beloved. I love gritty men of God.
Thank you, W_P!
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Sitting along the curb at the Vandalia, OH terminal where I took my break last night.
Changed my under armor, shirt, and socks and just need to brush my teeth to finish my clean up routine.
The stops were, Farmington, MO, Perryville, MO, Salem, IL, and Flora, IL. No tornado damage in evidence.
The facility at Salem is the only one I had been to before. All stops got me in and out quickly.
Going to the facility in Perryville my GPS led me astray and before I caught it I was out in the country. That’s the kind of thing that panics rookies. They get into trouble trying to turn around in places where it can’t be done.
I ended driving 12 miles and then took a left, drove 5 miles and took another left and came right back into Perryville and found the truck entrance for bldg #3 of Siegel-Robert’s Inc that I was looking for.
There is a park near the gate of my first stop and in its parking lot is where I take my break. From there I can idle in and put it in the door without starting my duty clock.
So one rotation done and two to go.
Keep safe, rah. And have a donut (or two for sustenance😉). May God guide your journey.
I had a couple this morning. That’s why I was waiting to brush my teeth.
Rah, Godspeed and clear roads.
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Verse of the Day for Tuesday, December 14, 2021
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“Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.”
Psalms 95:2 (KJV)
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/verse-of-day.php
BE MY VOICE
Thanks again Duchess 👸
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.
Oh, BTW, when I got here last night I had 1 hr and 40 minutes of my 11 hour drive time remaining. It takes a minimum of 1 hour and 45 minutes to get from the Vandalia terminal to the Anderson terminal.
Looks like I’ll be using the 16 hour exception rule to get home Friday night.
I have 2 hours remaining to listen to of Teddy Roosevelt’s excellent detailed history book ‘The Naval War Of 1812’. It would be a tedious and very dry read for someone not versed in sailing ship jargon and interested in details.
Have you read any Patrick O’Brian books?
Sorry Joe. Look below for my reply.
As Under Sec of the Navy, some think he helped cause it. Your thoughts?
Same war?
No. The Spanish American War was in 1898. I don’t think T.R. Helped cause it, but I’m sure he was eager to enforce the Monroe Doctrine and so was as eager to get the Spanish and every other European power out of the Americas as anyone else. There were plenty of the powerful that wanted the same but I don’t think Hearst’s “yellow journalism” caused it either. Though it certainly reflected exactly what the majority of the powerful in the US wanted it to. The tensions over multiple issues between Spain and the US had been simmering long before the Maine blew up.
But any way you cut it the man proved he would fight on the battlefield for what he believed and that is probably why his image is on Mt. Rushmore.
There was another motivation for some. The fact is prior to the Spanish American war the US was still a nation divided by the still fresh wounds of the civil war and reconstruction. The Spanish American war reunited the north and south to a greater degree than anything else could have.
Thank you rah.
I see the Democrat ghouls are out in force. Trying to use this disaster to promote their “Climate Change” agenda even before all of the bodies are recovered. Sick, nasty, scum. Facts or even common decency doesn’t matter to them. All they care about is money, power, and control.
Apparently Old Man Biden is going to Kentucky today, where I suspect he’ll be in the way for the recovery efforts. Sickening. But he’s not going alone. He’s taking setups for booster injections. Despicable man.
Maybe his handlers think he won’t be heckled there.
I think people are so full of rage now, it wouldn’t surprise me if they did. Its late now and I’ve been reading a lot today and so far have seen nothing reported. Unless I got my day wrong (which honestly is possible).
They are pushing the idea that tornadoes never occur in December and that this one was caused by “climate change”. But the NOAA tornado database shows 1,612 December tornadoes since 1950 which averages out to almost one tornado per December day. They are also saying that one of them had a track of 223 miles, the longest EVAH. Not only that but, like Kyle Rittenhouse, it Crossed State Lines. So it was a White Supremacist tornado. However, the longest known tornado occurred on May 26, 1917 – covering 293 miles of Illinois and Indiana. That was seventy miles longer than this weekend’s tornado (H/T to Tony Heller). To the left facts are simply an impediment to their narrative and should be disregarded
Got to fuel today on the way to Farmington. Will refill my coffee thermoses and buy enough Chester’s fried Chicken and sides for two meals. Ate Baby oysters for lunch yesterday and Dinty Moore Beef stew for dinner last night. Also ate a couple of the oranges I brought with me.
Gee. Thanks. Wasn’t feeling hungry. But now!
Ditto!!
Nope. Do have the Movie ‘Master and Commander’. But I will look to see if there are any of his Novels in free audio books.
I read all 18-19 in 6 months–couldn’t wait to see what Aubrey and Maturin were up to next. I think you would enjoy. Have your nautical dictionary handy
This is an excellent explanation of what caused the Tornado outbreak.
I think we all know that everything is caused by Climate Change. There was a “peer-reviewed” paper last year which stated that climate change was causing spiders to be “angry”. Seriously. I dismissed it until a big brown spider got in my camper this summer and I tossed him out. As he hit the ground with an audible thud, he turned around and glared at me. That meets the diagnostic criteria for anger, a psychiatric disorder common to Toxic Males. That’s how I knew the spider was male. It may be that angry spiders are causing climate change to worsen, or conversely, worsening climate change is causing spiders to be angrier. More research is needed
Will, with a little more polish, you could right that up and get a research grant that will pay for your study, and then write up the study and get it published in a premier scientific journal, and then you could come here and join us in mocking what passes for science these days.
Hahaha! Thanks for a good laugh!
Same thoughts. 👀
LOL!!
Save the taxpayers’ money. Just step on and squash it.
I like your sense of humor.
BRING IT❗️
Great video. Thanks Rah!
How to help with Disaster Relief for the recent tornadoes:
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2021/12/how-to-help-with-disaster-relief-for.html
As folks get more excited about Christmas decorations and shopping for gifts, i’ll repost this oldie but goodie
Proud to be British
December 24, 2011 ·
Did you know that the chopping down of the Christmas tree represents the death of Christ and putting it back up again represents the resurrection of Christ.
Did you know that the wreaths we hang are never ending circles, that represents eternity?
Candy canes were made to look like shepherd hooks and the colors… Red, for Jesus’ blood, White for purity.
The gifts represents the 3 gifts the wise men brought for Jesus.
So when you are running around trying to get the “perfect gift”, stop yourself, take a deep breath and remember we have been given the perfect gift.
Jesus Christ was given to us to remove all of our sins…MERRY CHRISTMAS
The German contractors in Bavaria often put a tree up on the highest point of the building they are constructing once the frame is up. Doesn’t matter what time of year it is.
rah
did you see my posts from the other night re: landing on a nosewheel?
and a true emergency landing?
Check later. Gotta drive.
I did. Incredible!
They did that here in America when raising barns also.
I’m passing your post around.
Thank you.
can you imagine what it must have been like to be onboard that refueling tanker with jet fuel everywhere?
gulp
i said in another post that it was not good form to kiss the ground after one like that – but there are exceptions
The reality of that has struck me more forcefully this year than any other. A lovely timely post, ms idaho
This looks like it would be fun to try!
That thing looked a lot more like those things the storm troopers flew through the forests in the third Star Wars movie than it looked like anything from the Jetsons.
Why do people design ‘sporty’ transport machines that you have to squeeze and contort yourself into? You would never get me in one of those things. Literally. Maybe half of me would fit?
Play toys for the wealthy. They only for about 15 or 20 minutes before the batteries are kaput.
Will it also mow the lawn and edge? LOL!
Short ride and the whole flight in ground effect.
Winnie the Xi and Mao under Glass are wondering, is he blinking when he says this? https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/blinken-says-us-advance-defence-economic-alliances-indo-pacific-2378231
Wow! 136 posts! Good evening Treepers!
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.
Amen
Amen.
Amen. And Lord, please
comfort and relieve political prisoners everywhere… Julian Assange, Pastor Pawlowski, the Jan 6 prisoners held in DC, and all others around the world who suffer without justice
Amen.
Amen.
for those that use the iPhones, starting with iOS 15.2 people can create a way to pass on the information in it when they themselves pass away by creating a legacy account. Here is an article about how to do that:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/13/pass-iphone-data-to-loved-ones-legacy-contacts/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0ytZLUftnv1coYPs5WDDx7n9Ya3QVOHWMWFfgNEI1fMaXCgcd5pXIoiwE
Thanks for the link
Looks like we can stop using Sweden as an example of how to handle the CCP bioweapon (covid) response:
Spread that! Thanks!