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.
He is The Absolute Sovereign One.
Amen!
Blessed be His Name!
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Paws for prayer …
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Good morning, Frank. How are you feeling today?
Good. Went for a jog/walk. Still need meds.
I’m just about to nap.
Hope you and yours are well. Hollar if you need me. If you are where I think you are, it’s a few hour pop.
Things are…well. You know. ✝️💪✝️
Saying a prayer for this cold to be over. I am in the Hill country, in the boonies. 🙂
Thank you & God Bless you to all who replied to my post about my failing kitty, on the Caturday thread.
There were so many touching replies, and I wish I could respond to each and every one with a hug. You’re the best.
I was able to get her in, but it’s complicated. Regular tests show that she is healthy in every “normal” way. Doesn’t look good, but I’ll have to wait until midweek to see if anything results from an expensive aspiration test which may or may not produce answers.
Please keep saying a prayer for my sweet little brave furry soul. She’s not herself, and I’m afraid of her suffering. I’ll update when I can.
Until then, thank you all who care and understand and pray. You are God’s best creations, and I am praying for all of you, and your families, and your animal companions.
PJ…I’m not sure what the final diagnosis will turn out to be for your failing kitty, however, the site below has just about everything you can imagine relating to cat care. It was a blessing and fount of knowledge for me as our family progressed through the final days …”Saying Goodbye”.
We knew the signs to look for and what to expect when things were hopeless, so I don’t think he suffered too needlessly at the very end.
All my prayers go out to you and kitty for a full and lasting recovery.
If you feel you should need it…. ❤️ http://www.felinecrf.org/index.htm
Kind words can be a real blessing since they really can lessen grief. So, thank you Ad Rem . . . from all of us. 🙂
Dear Preroria,
Our kit kids are amazing creatures. Have 2 kits who either rescued me, or I them. Does not not have to be mutually exclusive. The younger, about 2 1/2 has had a fractured hip that healed; and then developed the most horrible rasping cough. Spent buckets of money on tests, “Doc” gave him a steroid that I think almost killed him. Was so furious.
Anyways, I love this “medicine” by Hawaii Pharm. “Allergy Season.” My kits cough soon let town. Yes, aspiration is a serious thing. Too many times it happened with my Mom.
God bless you and your kitty.
Dear PJ, More prayers from us all for wonderful you and your wonderful kitty.
Praying for Your Kitty Baby , Peoria , and for Your Peace of Mind .
GodSpeed
PJ, I am so sorry about kitty. Please consider a raw diet for saving your pal. We have a 10 year old Brittany Spaniel who was near death. We didn’t know why. So we researched and went to raw.
The idea is commercial food causes the body’s immune system to attack the commercial food in the belly and the GI tract.
In times of unexplained sickness your kitty needs all the fighters it has going to the cause of the issue and not to attacking the commercial food.
We saved our Britt. Took about 3 days and bam like he got kicked by mule. Raw saved his life. Check it out for yourself on line.
PJ. I agree. What is there to lose by providing natural for your kitty? Humans, for themselves, and their pets, should live and eat as naturally as possible. The pharmacy industry has brainwashed doctors and vets into prescribing Chemicals which do more harm in the long run than good. GOD provided us with all we need.
you can find info on the BARF diet on line. (Bones and raw food).
PJ, I don’t grind bones. That’s my limit gross out right there.
I use food grade bone meal from the health food store.
1 teaspoon 2 meals a day sprinkled on the raw meat.
Never use garden store bone meal- never, it has to be food grade.
Bless you Kitty
Continued prayers for your kitty cat and for you.
“Beyond the Blue Horizon” is a song that might take some time to grow on you and get used to, and then you get it. At first that alarm clock ticking was so annoying that I had to stop listening and come back to it later … thankfully that ticking didn’t last for the entire song or I would probably still hate it. Excellent singing. Over all, I’d rate it as either brilliantly weird or weirdly brilliant. (Yeah, kind of like what you might expect if you set a hundred monkees in front of musical instruments to see if they could compose Shakespeare … or make that four monkees … or just one.) 🙂
Some thoughts about Joanne. I’ve listened to this song dozens of time over the years and, each time, I’ve felt the poignancy of Michael’s words. He’s describing a relationship built on love that turns out to be impossible to maintain. There’s a back-story to this. Was it his? Or someone else’s that he observed? We have to ask why this love relationship didn’t work, couldn’t work?
One simple answer is that if you’re a working musician, moving from town to town, the settled lifestyle required of a solid love relationship is impossible to maintain. Maybe that’s what he’s talking about here. Listening to this wonderful love song again, makes me realize how lucky we can be if we have lasting love relationships. We’re now in our 55th year and counting.
And/or perhaps it was because Joanne’s love started out as the love of a fan girl who then comes to find out that Michael is in fact a human being who cannot live up to her overly idealistic expectations of what he appeared to be in her mind as a celebrity, actor, singer? Just surmising here, I could be totally wrong …
This interpretation may be based on a rather weird personal experience I once had with a friend who apparently valued me more for a fictional character I portrayed in an online role-playing game adventure story we both participated in writing than for who I was as a person, even after we met in person and even after I mistakenly thought she was sensible enough that she would value the real me and real friendship more than she valued the fantasy character she wanted me to be for her daydream world of let’s pretend.
55 years qualifies you to the seasoned by marriage category.
Shucks, I’m still getting pickled, only aged 46
Question- do the pruny hands ever smooth out when done soaking?
Congrats on your longevity 💐
Good morning, FC. I don’t know if the pruny hands will ever get smooth but my wife’s hands look as beautiful as ever to me.
OTOH, we have so much to look forward to. Our resurrected bodies won’t have any pruny hands, varicose veins, etc., etc.
praise be to God! 🙌❤️
Good morning, GrandpaM💓. You are the cookie cutter image of my husband. When I’m looking my absolute worst with no makeup, he always says I look beautiful to him. How lucky am I and how lucky is your wife?🤗
Good morning Turbo!
Vroom vroom!
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Amen bro
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Basically, she’s been putting up with me for all that time . . . 🙂
Garrison, you’ve been blessed to have 55 years and continuing with the love of your life. I have been too with mine but as FC says in our 33d year I’m still in the middle of getting pickled. 🙂
It works because we’ve always had trust and loyalty. If you have that love becomes a natural extension of the relationship. 🙂
And I’ll bet you are best friends as well, Garrison…as comfortable with each other in silence as you are in conversation. Bless you both.
True Betsy. All kinds of things that happen in routine life can go on at the surface but, underneath, way down deep, trust and loyalty is never questioned. 🙂
I like to compare that sort of relationship to the coal fires we had in Wales. Blazing at first then settling to the warming sustaining heat that keeps us truly warm.
Thank you for Joanne! What a beautiful, poignant tune
Your pathways down memory lane are lined with beautiful wildflowers. Every day you take us on different one❤️
This nesmith path…thought I spied,cannot locate, a memory of a video tune he did which was showcased on the hbo early days when they played videos as fill ins until the next programming hour.
Roller skating and singing maybe?
Perhaps just my imagination, visions of sitting in my moms basement(cable tv was banned to the basement in those days), sitting on a sectional sofa, watching on a console color tv watching as he sang and cruised by roller skating down the street.
Shortly thereafter, mtv and vh1 was born.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, that’s how I remember it
Hope your day is as bright as the journeys you leave us everyday🌻
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Morning G Hall, thanks for all of your music you bring, especially yesterday’s Lynyrd Skynyrd sampling, my favorite band. Love the sound of their guitars!
Anyways, there was a documentary put out a few years ago, Muscle Shoals, which shows the history of Fame Studios located there, and I was very much surprised to see the list of artists who recorded there.
The “Swampers”, the studio band there, laid down the grooves for “Respect”, by Aretha Franklin! Many other artists as well, including Etta James, Wilson Pickett, Steve Winwood, the Stones, and yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd did some demo recordings there.
The “Swampers” were described as “doughy, greasy white boys”, and yet, were the musical genius behind many great R&B classics you’d be sure came out of Motown.
Skynyrd’s “First- The Complete Muscle Shoals Recordings” album have some of my favorite lesser-known songs by the band, including “Comin Home”, “Trust”, “Was I Right Or Wrong” amongst others. The album was released after the crash. Should definetly be included in your collection if not already. I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news.
Fascinating documentary, available on NetFlix, Amazon Prime, Roku stream and Pluto free stream TV.
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Coming Home – Bing video
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Comin´ Home – YouTube
Yep. A very well done documentary. The “Swampers” were/are first class studio musicians. With that kind of talent available it’s little wonder people flew into Muscle Shoals to record records.
Garrison,
thank.you for Blue Horizon,
I think its so typically ‘Nes. He was very much into fusing imagery into his music. 🙂
WP, I ran across this comment on another site long ago and I kept it. One soul in utter despair, and the bless-ed answer he received from another.
“Why the hell does God keep me around to keep living through this? Why do I keep suffering bad things only to experience worse ones? I’m told we suffer to seek His help and reveal His glory? WTF? THAT is an omnibenevolent diety? Allowing THIS? With no real escape that doesn’t end up worse?
My faith is gone. I don’t know anymore.”
Here is the answer he received.
“Brother Tim, I hear you. This ordeal has strained my faith as well. Particularly the COVID. I thought at times that maybe I had no faith at all, I was that low. But God is faithful, even when we are not. If you can’t hold on to Him right now, let Him hold on to you.”
Thank you for your post. It gave me an opportunity to share this man’s simple beautiful and comforting reply to an unknown(to him) fellow traveller in this upside down world which makes no sense. I pray that answer so full of compassion in the knowledge of Christ made a difference and will make a difference to those struggling today in the same way.
Late one evening about midnight, my wife came to me in a panic. She had the worst headache she had ever had. After consulting Dr. Google, we headed to the ER. Within three hours she was being rushed to a brain trauma center for emergency surgery for a ruptured brain aneurysm. My wife was being prepped for the surgery and the surgeon gave me the speech I will never forget:
50% of the people that have what you wife has do not live to get to the hospital.
If we can not relieve the pressure on her brain, she will die.
If we can relieve the pressure, I will attempt to fix the aneurysm. 50% of my patients do not survive the surgery.
Of those that survive, 80% have significant mental or physical defects after the surgery.
Why do we have to go through these things and why do we survive? My wife came through better than most. The people that are survivors are sharply divided. Many are bitter and angry at what has happened to them. Their lives have been turned upside down in an instant. Others, like my wife, see it as yet another rescue by God on life’s journey. She spends a lot of time on the aneurysm boards consoling people that are going through this. She has become a minister to people that have lost hope. It may not seem like a lot, but it is everything to one who may be at the end of tolerance of the pain.
I realized something a few years ago that I have adopted as a principle of life. Life is never going to be a series of unending blessings that we enjoy without pain. Rather, life is an unending series of trials from which God rescues us. The rescues are the unending blessings.
What a miraculous story, VB. Deo gratias🙏.
No, life isn’t a straight line and it’s not meant to be. I have always thought that God shows His unending grace and power when we find ourselves in the depths, dark and seemingly unending. And like most I have been in a few as well. What they turned out to be however were preambles to, I believe, the place He has guided me. And for those dark days I am grateful. Easy to say now, but only in hindsight can we dispassionately and honestly evaluate the road we’ve travelled, His light guiding the way.
God bless you both. Your lovely and loved wife has no doubt made an incredible hopeful difference to those who are travelling the road she went down. Is He using her to bring that hope to those in their personal depths? I can’t not believe it.
Thank you for your personal story which just reinforces my long held thoughts. I believe as you do. And as I said, I am grateful.
God is Great! A lot of it is a matter of attitude. Nobody at work, even those closest to me there, thought I would come back after my illness.
Solomon St Lighthouse who has been missing from this site for a couple of weeks now, but said he’d be back, said the same about a terrible ordeal he went through…that the doctors said they’d never seen worse. He is here by the grace of God.
I’m glad you made it, rah. The is thread wouldn’t be the same without you. God is indeed great.
YOU ARE A SWEET, KIND AND GENEROUS SOUL
That comment is so appreciated, Leenie.💓 Bless you🤗
I hadn’t seen you for while and hoped you were all right. New year starts are always hard for me to get into fourth gear.
No, I’m fine and doing well. Sometimes I just lurk. 😂 . Sometimes subjects get me so fired up, it’s better to tie my hands behind my back!!!
But you raised a good point and something I’ve been wondering about…. What if Garrison or you or feral, or mungrel, or grandpa or frank, and many others, just never showed up again.
I always had a rule with the advent of cell phones. It wasn’t like you could call the “home number” since a lot of people ditched the land lines. My rule was, I want all your friends’ cell phone numbers, all of your roommate’s cell phone numbers, one or two co-worker’s cell phone numbers, your girl/boy friend’s cell numbers. I asked my friends for their husbands cell phone numbers. No one objected and I made clear it would only in a case of emergency where I could not make contact with someone for a “long”. period of time…. Never had to use any of them.
Then I gave all of my friends my husband’s cell phone number…
That’s easy to do in a family. But do we have a mode to keep track of our Treeper Family? I am definitely NOT suggesting we all exchange phone numbers!!!!!! 😂
Maybe one already exists (Grandma Cofeve updates spring to mind!)
Rah, please tell us….
Many here know. I was posting on and off during the ordeal. After months of having problems I woke one day and couldn’t pee. A trip the ER, cath to relieve the pressure, and X-rays and sonogram showed I had two diverticulum (abnormal pockets) on my bladder.
To shorten the story the corrective surgery was to take 3 hours with a 3 day recovery in the hospital. I was under the knife for 5 hours because of complications and in the hospital for 5 days. I had regular foley cath and one in my side that went down into my bladder and a surgical drain.
I had a second surgery to clean out urethral strictures.
Many here prayed for my recovery and I did recover but when I first went back to work I had lost over 35 lbs and you could see my ribs.
And by the grace of God, here you are. An awful thing to go through, rah. You had good surgeons. God bless them as well.
How long ago was that???
A very excellent realization 👏🏼❣
Good morning, dear sister! I have a little story.
When our youngest granddaughter was 2 days old she was facing what turned out to be a 7 1/2 hour surgery. The night before that I was so numb I couldn’t even pray. As I lay awake I experienced deep into my core the Spirit interceding for me with groans that cannot be uttered. God was speaking to me. Since that time we have witnessed countless medical impossibilities turn into miracles. It has taught us to really trust the Lord in every circumstance.
Today she is a thriving 7 years old. There still are some medical challenges but nothing is impossible with God.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
May your Sunday be blessed, Bet definitely NM! 😀❤️
G, there is no describing those moments where all goes blank because you daren’t give room to the thoughts, the imaginings, the “what ifs”. Especially when it involves those we love…but a much wished for grandchild?
I’m so sure that day the Holy Spirit sat with you and your wife and your granddaughter’s parents during those interminable hours. And I know you are certain as well. Trusting in the Lord in the dark is a mark of deep faith and comfort I think, when no words are possible. I doubt you ever look at your precious granddaughter without being grateful, and I bet you hug her that much harder. Joy!
Thank you for your sweet wishes on this Sunday, my dear friend. BetNM still definitely!💓
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Oh, that little girl is a pistol. Sometimes she lets you hug her and sometimes she doesn’t. LOL! But we play a game. On her no hug days I tell her, “Don’t you touch me!”
You are too clever by half, G😂. I bet you’re her favourite💓
She caught on and that stuff is not working anymore, lol! We are close but she adores her mama and her daddy. After God, they are the second reason she is here and thriving. They know more about her condition than most of the hospitals and staff and have been her fierce advocates.
a month or so ago she stayed the night at our house for the first time ever. We actually can do it now. And we are going to have her over again very soon.
Her older brother would like for them to spend separate weekends here. A little sibling rivalry going on, 🙂
Oh dearie dear!!😄 I actually think in a way it’s not a bad think to have one on one visits. They’ll grow closer as time goes on I’m sure and that rivalry will turn into a wonderful relationship. It worked that way for my husband and his sister. She is 6 years older which is quite a difference when they were younger, but nothing now. I’m so glad she’s finally able to come and stay.
When you think how she started this life I’d say God performed a miracle💓
Hands still untied!
We had our four kids between 1991 and 1995.
I instituted two things: Date night once a week with my husband, not on a weekend. And “kids’ dates” every week . Each kid got a lunch or an activity with me only, without siblings, once a month for years! It was so easy to lump them all together in everyday settings.
So many wonderful memories!!!!!
Many of us have been through situations of despair, and if not yet, rest assured at some point we will. (I said to my husband, in a VERY strange conversation, “Do you realize that one of us will cause the other untold grief?” And then I said, “I sincerely hope it’s not you doing the grieving!!! ( I have my faith to eventually fall back on, he doesn’t.). Fear is the most horrible thing.
Here’s when I tie my hands behind my back!!!! Lurking for a while!!! ❤️
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Thank you, W_P! Per Francis Schaefer one way to translate YHWH is The God Who is there. Our God is always with us in the middle of our circumstances, whether we realize it or not. Not at a distance looking at them but smack dab in the middle.
‘Hallelujah!
Indeed
Preach it! Make it clear!
You have. Don’t stop.
Good Sunday morning, Frank!💓 Are you done with your sickliness? I pray so. I thought of you this morning as I listened to the carol service at St.Paul’s in Britain for the Feast of the Epiphany. Just glorious. On Sirius XM Symphony channel on Sunday mornings are some of the most beautiful reverential works, most unknown to me. The joy of discovering them is a gift. But the St. Paul’s choir I know so well, and it was a treat to hear them. Like being in the pews. Meditation ongoing as I listen.
Hope your health is restored and you’re back to no warning lights coming on😉. BetNM, as usual.
Grace to you sis!
Over the hump for sure.
You’re a blessing here. 👀
Thank you, sir. It’s home for me, complete with the most wonderful family🤗
Amen!
Have a blessed Sunday Treepers. Always know that Our Lord loves us and waits for us to reach out to Him. I did that tonight and immediately felt His presence. Trust me. Prayer works! Be blessed and be well . . .
ALL GLORY BE TO GOD ON HIGH
[Jesus said,] “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. …”
— John 14: 23-37, ESV
This hymn confesses trust in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and it prays to each of Them in turn.
According to hymnary.org, both the music and text of the hymn were written by Nickolaus Decius (1485-1546), a German pastor, composer, and schoolmaster.
38 degrees here and raining. I’m quite thankful that the temp is above freezing. Still the temp will drop and the roads and everything will ice, but I much prefer this than freezing rain. We seem to get hit by a big ice storm around here about every 20-30 years and so we’re due, but not this time.
My buddy Randy got stuck driving down in Tennessee on Thursday. His Volvo just wouldn’t make it up a hill there in the slick icy and snowy conditions.
The Volvo’s in the fleet have a “Tag axle”. Big trucks are driven by the rear axle under normal conditions. The Volvos have a front axle that lifts when the load is light for fuel conservation and lowers when the load on the tractor it heavy enough it requires that axle to bear weight in order to be legal. That “Tag axle” does not have a drive shaft to it.
And that is one big reason why I have kept the 2015 Freightliner Cascadia. My front axle stays down all the time and when I hit slick conditions I can hit a switch and engage the drive on it and thus have two axles pulling.
The guy that runs the garage and head boss of the company have claimed that by hitting a couple switches on the Volvo to engage positive traction that the Volvo does just as well in slick conditions as the Freightliner. That’s BS, and every driver that has driven both knows it. That detail is the only thing I have ever witnessed company officials blatantly lie about.
So far this winter I’ve been pretty lucky and not hit any really bad stuff. But the way the longer range forecasts looks, it’s probably just a matter of time before I will.
For Randy to get up over that hill the wrecker pulled up ahead of him set his brakes and put down his stabilizing legs then extended the cable out as far as it would go to a towing eye on the front of Randy’s tractor and pulled him up with the wench . He had to repeat that operation four times to get Randy to the top of the hill. Once there Randy was fine because it there were no more significant hills between him and the interstate.
Rah, prayers for your safety and comfort. And Randy’s.
Glad Randy finally made it, thanks to the wrecker!
It’s nice when you can cross lock so that all four hubs are working together. Type of tires make a big difference too. Thought you said at one time your outfit ran super singles? I don’t remember seeing traction style tread on those.
My tractor had the super singles with the traction tread when new, but I wore those out and now the ones on my tractor are Hwy tread. That’s all they’re buying.
Great stories. Thanks much.
Ground report request:
Do the people you come in contact with understand what’s going on in our nation? Please splain’.
Roll safe!
On the road, I really don’t converse with people that much. All I can do is assess their opinions by their actions. Almost all the places I go to are only paying lip service to COVID precautions, if they are even doing that. The signs that one must have a mask to enter have disappeared in the most places and when I go in, if they are wearing masks, many are wearing them on their chins.
At the few places that still do have stringent requirements, it is pretty obvious that it’s management driven and not employee driven.
Last week when I got back in from the run up to Ligonier, IN I went back into dispatch to the Drivers Managers area to see if Josh had any idea what I may be doing yet. All but one of the DMs was there. We got to talking about the possible coming vaccine mandate. Then I found out that not a one of them have taken the jabs and all of us will have to tested if that crap goes through.
Treatment is the solution. The jab is neither a preventative or a therapeutic.
Canceling the spike protein
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v17n24.shtml
Excerpted
“In addition to the mechanisms already discussed by which the spike protein can inflict damage, it appears the spike protein itself is significantly toxic. Such intrinsic toxicity (ability to cause the oxidation of biomolecules) combined with the apparent ability of the spike protein to replicate itself like a complete virus greatly increases the amount of toxic damage that can potentially be inflicted. “
I’m taking mega doses of zinc, D-3, C, and Quercetin. Today on Fox Maria had a great segment on HQC, Ivermectin, and fluvoxamine —all of which work well as early covid therapies. This is a good information site: FLCC.net
Thanks again.
Amazing days.
Rah, we had a feed truck with a tag axle. We were told that the taxes were different for a tandem and a single, so we had to keep a log of when the tag was down and pay taxes based on the mileage for each. That was 40+ years ago, so things may have changed. One thing we did know, lifting that tag axle in a muddy barnyard might get you out as the weight all on a drive axle would be helpful. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it allowed you to go even deeper. If one was lucky, the load was off before getting stuck.
That Volvo front axle function seems to be aimed more at laws and $$$ rather than driver & truck safety. I agree with your dim view of it.
The 6×6 tractors I drove in the Army back in the early ’70s had power to all 3 axles in 6×6 mode. Otherwise, with the shifter up, just power to the middle axle. These could pull a load up a dirt path on a 30 degree incline. I never drove one on ice. They were reportedly not great on ice unless you used tire chains. And those were mostly for packed snow. The chains were extremely heavy and required two men to install them, and that was a dangerous task itself. The chains went on the 4 outside rear tires, or in extreme conditions, on all 8 rear tires. Glad I never had to deploy them.
Blast from the past….
Louisiana Hayride, 1953
“The rest of the story”
At the 1:10 mark you can see a stage-hand walk through the background (left side). This wasn’t caught until the set had already been struck, so it had to be left in the film.
I don’t know when or where I wrote this down but I found it in amongst my old research material and thought you mob might like it .
To my Heavenly Father.
He is my guiding light.
He is my deliverance and my salvation.
He is my fortress and defense.
He is my shield and buckler.
He is my rock and my strength.
It is He who fights for me, and I shall not be moved.
Cheers.
Good Morning ☀️ mungrel!
Woof, woof…….wooof, sniff,sniff….sniiif , lick, lick, fart,cuddle !
Morning 😜.
😂just don’t leave a Brandon tootsie roll, please🤪
Those are great declarations! Me likes!
🤔dog spelled backwards is God🙃
I do like it! Short and oh so beautiful. One does not need but the simplest words to make their pleas to the Almighty. There is such power in this, my friend. I’m so glad you posted it🙏💓B
Like it very much, son!
Verse of the Day for Sunday, January 9, 2022
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“Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.”
Psalms 106:1 (KJV)
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/verse-of-day.php
Amen
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
Duchess01 ,
💞 .. and Nice to See You 😊
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.
Tearing down religious statues in front of churches in France now?
France as we knew it or thought we did is long gone. They have invited in their own destruction. The situation has been growing for years and years. The Notre Dame Cathedral fire quickly disappeared from the front pages, a desecration one would think would cause the ire of all France. And what will the inadequate rebuild look like?
A paen to multiculturalism with no room for God. With, I assume, the explicit approval of the clergy. France has lost her way and turned her allegiances to Schwab and his unholy foul agenda. Statues torn down? Expect much more of this. Tragic.
Great insightful post.
It was a statue of St Michael the Archangel. A grievous error, Frank, and a disgraceful foolish thing to do.
It is such a pity, Betsy.
I find it horrifying GrandpaM. To me it is like spitting in the Face of God. Do they feel no need of St Michael’s protection, or God’s? Foolish, foolish people.
I see the first string of our team started practicing early , as usual.
They sure have an unstoppable attitude and a determination rivaled by none ❤️
Their enthusiasm is infectious 😘
Good morning, Cat! True. Absolutely the finest first stringers anywhere😊. Who could ask for more?💓
Good morning Betsy.
How’s your daughter? Thought I remembered she wasn’t feeling up to snuff. Hope she’s improving.
My apologies if I’m mistaken
No apologies needed, Cat. She’s just fine so far but we are on watch as she attended her boss’s wedding and was exposed to 3 now confirmed sickies. I very quickly sent her a list of everything she should start taking in earnest, and for once she listened and went the next day and procured it all. If the Bucca ( my grands all call me that…a story for another time) Protocol works for her as well as it has for me, she’ll be good.
Bless you for asking💓 🤗
God Bless America, 🙂
Hell was once described as a place where: ‘The British are the cooks, the Germans are the police, the French are the politicians, and the Italians organize everything.’ I think everyone is learning now that is not an adequate description. Hell is obviously anywhere the leftists are in charge.
I am stealing this. I have never heard it put quite so eloquently. Are the left in charge in all of the above? LOL
But I must tell you as a long-time ex-expat in Britain, some of the best meals I’ve ever eaten were home cooked ones there. Roast dinners as they are known. Any meat…beef, chicken, lamb (though because we were surrounded by spring lambs and their mommas I just couldn’t eat them)…with delicious gravy, accompanied by fresh vegetables cooked to perfection. No place to hide. No nouvelle anything with pretentious sauces to hide behind if one is not a good basic cook.
But the finest meal I ever tasted was the basic fish n chips, served in newspaper.
Oh MY!! We’ve tried the American version in several places which purport to offer “authentic” fish n chips since we returned, in hopes of getting a good slice of home, but no. Nothing compares. Just wonderful.
Since I’ve never had a home cooked meal in my short visit to England I’ll take your word about it. The only meals I remember were in a couple of pubs and a so called Mexican restaurant in Mildenhall. Their idea for Mexican food was to pile jalapeno slices on top of whatever the food was but it was not Mexican.
OTOH, the food in Ireland was great. Our very fist day there we sat at our table by the Shannon river, pigging out on bangers and mash, and sipping Black Rock stout, an exquisite local brew.
Mexican food in Mildenhall?? Oh my never! Especially in a country that pronounces Houston “Hooston”… I could never figure that one out. Bangers and mash? Nothing better in Ireland. And with a local brew. Perfection.
🙂 🙂 🙂
So far, so good for the Webb Telescope:
NASA’s Webb Telescope Reaches Major Milestone as Mirror UnfoldsNASA’s Webb Telescope Reaches Major Milestone as Mirror Unfolds – Watts Up With That?
Been watching the feeds off and on. Can’t wait to see some stuff
Mornin’ infidels!
Just excellent! I dread to think.
Good afternoon, WeeWeed.
Stopped in here to try and find some inspiration and uplifting reading. Am at probably the absolute lowest point in my life. Facing eviction at the end of the month. Less than a month’s worth of savings left. Credit cards maxed out. Car trouble but can’t afford to repair. Out of work for years. Too sick to work but not sick enough to get disability. Did not receive a penny of help from anywhere during covid despite applying for UE multiple times in my state. Have tried selling furniture for funds but no one buys old furniture it seems. Looks like I will end up having what few material things I possess hauled off for donation and the rest put in a storage unit. And at this point, today, January 9th I have no idea where or how I will be living in a month. Most likely living out of my car. Don’t have any friends or family members with spare rooms available to couch surf in for a bit. Sorry for the depressing rant but, well, it is depressing to realize a lifetime of living is about to come crashing down around me. Sadly, like George Bailey at this point I am worth more dead than alive. Don’t want to play that card yet but I can see it from here. I have prayed and prayed and prayed to (it seems) little avail. More self-pity, I know. I don’t know what to do, where to turn, or where to go. Pray for me and others like me in similar hopeless situations. I am sure there are many out there.
🙏.
Folks, in the days to come, sad to say, there’ll be many is the same situation.
How do we communicate with and help them?
I’m at a loss on how.
see article at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/01/joseph-mercola/how-to-win-the-war-against-tyranny/
❤️. Moody blues Tuesday afternoon playing in my head. Replaced Tuesday with Thursday 😘
Is Give Send Go an option here?
http://www.givesendgo.com
Had not heard of that organization until now. Will research. Thank you for the suggestion.
William, perhaps there is an organization near you that is able and willing to work with GiveSendGo to receive funds on your behalf (and perhaps for others facing hard times) without compromising anyone’s personal identity.
Dearest sir…please see my reply to WP above. If ever I’ve posted something more pertinent to your terrible situation, I don’t know what it would be. As if I were guided to do so today of all days. PLEASE don’t play that card. PLEASE in your despair, hold on to Him, as I know He has not abandoned you.🙏💓
I, like Feral Cat below, am at a loss to offer anything other than my deepest and most heartfelt prayers for help for you, which God in his abundant mercy will deliver.
Are there any churches near you that offer assistance? Community organizations that can sustain you with food and perhaps shelter? Not knowing where you are exactly I assume that there will be some. No government assistance at all? God love you and may He provide a way.
We are always here waiting to hear you. Always. Don’t make this your only post. If nothing else at the least we can provide love and support for you.
My prayers and entreaties on your behalf start right now and in earnest. Stay with us as we will be with you.🙏.
Thank you Betsy. From the bottom of my heart. I read your reply to WP above. Will attempt to hang on.
Don’t leave us, please. Nothing goes on forever, not even the bad. There are answers for you which have not yet appeared. I wish I were with you to help in ways I cannot here. But I’m asking in earnest for help to be given to you. God go with you and stay with you each and every day, Wdp🙏💓
Would you feel comfortable to share your first name or first initial?
The one that God knows you by.
It will help someone else in praying at least.
My name is William. I am 57 years old. Thank you for the thoughts.
🙏
William, have you been able to eat something today or perhaps go outside for a little air and sunshine, too?
KEEP US UPDATED.
Thank you William
Wrong…imo Betsy is one heckava cheerleader when we all get a little down.
She loves cheering us up as much as we love listening to her conversations 💗
Prayers for you going up, William. Please, don’t ever play that card. hang on. although you can’t see it now, God is right there with you. There are some good suggestions from the regulars here to try for starters.
Dear William,
Are you on Gab? They have Private Message capability, which means you’d be able to send a phone number to me (or to anyone else here who also has a Gab account if you prefer to contact someone else) privately.
On Gab I’m known as American_Phoenix. You may have to add the @ sign to do a search in Gab, for example, @American_Phoenix.
In any case, praying for you that the Lord will richly provide for all your needs.
William,
Check out the work of Pam Popper and the organization Make Americans Free Again. ref: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/01/joseph-mercola/how-to-win-the-war-against-tyranny/
She talks about building parallel societies:
“So, everything you need, you get from your group … and I can tell you right now, I can say this with a great deal of confidence, if I needed something, a place to live, if I didn’t have any food, if I needed money, if I needed medical care, if I needed a job, you know where I get that?
From my Thursday Group and the Thursday Group network.
She talks about how to start your own “Thursday group”
what I call the Make Americans Free Again parallel society. A year and a half later, we now start a new group every three or four hours in the United States. I’m not kidding. They’re all over all 50 states. They’re everywhere.
How do you start your own Thursday group?
“It’s easy. We provide everything you need. My email address is [email protected]. You can email me. I hold conference calls every week during which I share our entire strategy and tell people how to get started working with us … Get engaged with us, donate money if you can.
Do what you need to do to keep yourself in a positive frame of mind, and starting a group and gathering a group of like-minded people is important … We can go from having felt quite powerless to being the most powerful people in the country, if we’re smart about it.
You start with one other person.
consider creating your own Thursday Group. To do that, send an email to Popper at [email protected] and ask to be added to her weekly conference call.
For more information, you can also visit http://www.Makeamericansfreeagain.com.
God bless you
Binged watched the real mccoys yesterday on some channel.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could sit this younger generation down as a class, to discuss the show and it’s fine lessons? So many introspective topics
Well, looks like I just booked next Saturday. Fetv is doing them again🥰
Quip O’Day – Sunday January 9, 2022 – this seemed to fit
“I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I succeed.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
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 be to Thee.
The Trisagion Hymn
and the
50th Psalm (Septuagint)
Psalm 51 (Masoretic)
Kontakion XIII
from the
“Akathist to Almighty God for Help in Trouble”
O most loving and all-good Lord my God, helper of the oppressed and hope of the hopeless: With the eye of Thy compassion look upon mine affliction and sorrow, and for the sake of Thy mercy save me who chant to Thee: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thank you, Sepp. An incredibly well timed post today. Praying…
Blast from the past ……. another local gathering, 1952
America has always been hometown……
Hank Williams – Jambalaya, 1952
“dress-in-style and go hog-wild”
The de Havilland Mosquito gets my vote as the most versatile aircraft of WW II from any country.
Known by its crews as the “Mossie” and by many others as “the wooden wonder”, no aircraft of any type did so many jobs so well as the Mosquito. Almost every man that flew in one loved them and didn’t want to go in any other aircraft.
de Havilland Mosquito – Was It The Most Versatile Aircraft of WW2? – YouTube
Bomber- low level, medium level, high level.
It was Mosies of the Light Night Strike Force later renamed the Fast Night Strike Force that were over Berlin the majority of the nights from May 1943 until the end of the war. They dropped 4,000 lb. “Cookies” which were light case block busters. They could go when the heavy bombers were weathered out or regardless of how bright the moon shine was because they were so fast an maneuverable. They did many special low level jobs too.
And despite this, out of total of about over 27,239 operational sorties, just 108 of the aircraft were lost and another 88 that returned written off due to battle damage. By far the lowest loss rate for any type in bomber command.
Pathfinder-marking targets for the big bombers. Also dropping window and flash bombs to light the night sky from the air so that effective bomb damage assessment photos could be taken immediately after a raid.
Intruder- Taking out Luftwaffe night fighters as they took off or landed.
Night fighter with radar.
U-boat and small craft killer.
Long range photo recon at any level. It was photos from a Mosie that first revealed the secret German facility at Peenemunde where the V-1 and V-2s were being developed. It was recon and photos from these aircraft that kept track of the Tirpitz and the rest of the German capital ships in their anchorages.
Courier of both vital communications and important individuals.
thanks
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ckY32fyEy4SQ/
Not sure if this will show but very worth the watch.
Yes!!!!! Where on earth is he? Offering prayers for his good health. Loved your posts, Texian. Hope to see you again.
Idle thoughts for a Sunday afternoon
There’s a cartoon I remember: Ewe’s not Fat; Ewe’s Fluffy.
My Polish ancestors were farmers. The women in our family tend to be ‘fluffy’. Not sure why, but I think it is a survival thing – keeps you warmer in the winter and well ‘fueled’ during times when food is scarce.
I keep noticing the weight loss ads – and Sundances warning about the coming shortages got me to wondering… I know we cannot go very long without water – but i know we can go a long time without food. Those of us who have good fat stores, especially. It is a survival asset…
That, an no ‘clot shot’, of course.
2021: A year of Tough Lessons and Painful Reminders
This has been a difficult year for me, as it has for many of you, so please bear with me as I share a few of the lessons I’ve learned through suffering – with the hope that someone somewhere may be comforted through my pain.
15 Years ago I was taught that the real fight is not with others, but within my own heart. I was sent to fight evil with the weapons of this world (USAF 16TH SOW), and saw firsthand the power of loving self-sacrifice. I lost my faith in humanity – that the world’s brokenness could be solved by human effort – which brought me to the edge of despair – but I found the ONE who has conquered sin and death!
Let me say that again: HE has CONQUERED sin and death! (1 Corinthians 15:55).
Through this I learned that “despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.”
As I have watched our withdrawal from Afghanistan, I’ve been tempted to conclude that our victories have been squandered. But the lessons remain – let us never forget them! There is a time for mourning those who have died for us, but they are most honored not in our mourning but in our living. Circumstances could always be worse. Hope, however small, always remains. I am grateful to be alive, and it is out of gratitude that I seek not to waste a single minute of the life I’ve been blessed to live.
Would my dearly departed want me to live the rest of my days in mourning? Would they want my memories of them to be overshadowed by grief? Would they want me, in my regret, to reject the gifts they died for me to have?
I came home from OEF with the lesson that love is the only good reason to do anything. But over the years my familiarity with this truth had dimmed. I have been caught up in the cares of this world; in providing for my family, in preparing for the future, in expanding my own kingdom. Doing, doing, and more doing. I knew my “doings” were somehow motivated by love – if not in the giving than in the hope of receiving – and yet my desire to claim something as “MINE” had pulled me away from people and distracted me with things.
It took the death of a dear friend, followed by the suicide of another, to wake me from my living slumber.
And so I have some confessions to make, in the spirit of 1 John 1:9. I’ve learned obedience through the things I’ve suffered, and I share my lessons in the hope that my suffering is enough for others to learn from as well.
I believed the lie of greed, which put me in the mindset of haste, in which I assumed that I don’t have the resources I need to be the husband, father and friend I want to be. This subtle foothold brought poverty to my relationships (Proverbs 21:5).
Please forgive me!
I also believed the lie of gluttony – that satisfaction was almost within my grasp – which led me to over-work, over-think, over-eat and over-drink. All of this left me even more unsatisfied. The truth is that satisfaction is not my real aim – it is Joy – I just had to let go of my stupid fantasies to see that I’m completely surrounded with opportunities to rejoice (1 Thessalonians 5:16).
Please forgive me!
Last for now, and of course not least, I believed the lie of Lust. I lusted after accomplishment, after intimacy, after something beautiful in this life to claim as “MINE,” after the salvation of those whom I love! (Romans 7:7).
Lust is the lie of possession, and it had eclipsed – for me – the Love I have access to. “Love never fails” (1 Corinthians 13:8); but in my striving I had failed to allow it to illuminate my life. NO MORE. Please forgive me!
If you’ve made it this far, thank you for bearing with me. May you not be so stubborn, vain and foolish as I have been. Whatever is holding you back, use confession to lay it to rest, allow yourself to be cleansed in Truth, and please join me in freedom in 2022.
Amen, brother Andrew! I’ve been guilty over the years of a lot of the same but you know what? With Jesus we win.
Thank you for sharing your heart and may the Lord Bless you abundantly!
Andrew…
I appreciate what you wrote. It gave me much to examine and reflect on in all things being FC.
Thank you ❤️
Gotta say…and share! So much joy in my heart today! I’m getting a new daughter-in -law!!!!!!!! With all the crappy things that have happened in the last year or so, it is with tears that I tell my Treeper friends, I wasn’t sure i would ever feel this again, so I wanted to share! Leenie
Congratulations, Leenie61! Best wishes to the happy couple! 🙂
Can’t stop smiling!!!!! How many of us have been able to say that?
Congrats, Leenie! Wishing blessings and all the best to them and you!
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.
Amen. And Lord please
Comfort and relieve political prisoners everywhere, especially Pastor Pawlowski, Julian Assange, and the victims of Jan. 6 entrapment
Amen
Dear God, I’ve come to you with worries, with petitions, with anger, with pleas for help, for mercy. But today, Dear God, Thank you! Wonderful and Joyous news, that lifted my heart and filed my soul with joy! Can’t stop smiling and rejoicing! Never despair. NEVER GIVE UP!!
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.