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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Have a blessed Sunday, Treepers. Always know that Our Lord not only Loves us but He will always forgive us. All we have to do is ask His forgiveness.
🙂 🙂
🙂 blessings on you you jay . . .
Blessings on you and yours !
Thank you so much, jay!🤗. (Oops😉…should have attached to your lovely wishes below)
Good morning, jay💓 I pray your day will be blessed from start to finish..
Maidin Mhaith, Betsy may the good Lord guide you also. 🙂
Hi’ya, Betsy! I trust you are well and hope you have a wonderful Sunday.
Oh cheers, Garrison💓…looking for rain later. Prayers up for that! I hope you see some where you are. I know a watched pot never boils, but I’m watching for it!
This is my most favorite hymn of all, and often listen to it before bed time to close out the end of the day. There are many versions out there, but hers is one of the best.
Van Morrison
Wonderful! I love this hymn, too.
Amen!
Gracious Sunday morning , Garrison💓 All things are new every morning. Blessings to you, my friend.🙏
Good morning Treepers, Happy Sunday. Blessed be this Day.
God Bless America, 🙂
If you are looking for a cheap, but yet amusing distraction, check out some of the Johnny Depp trial. Never in a million years did I think I would be interested in such a thing. That woman he married is a true psychopath, fatal attraction type gal. He is no gem, but he is entertaining to watch on the stand. Her lawyers are as bad as the prosecutors from the Rittenhouse trial.
Good Morning leavemygunsalone!
Caught my attention too!! So far, it’s an interesting study on how your past can affect your personhood and,so far, how toxic a relationship can get sometimes. This week, we get her performance. Ought be entertaining. 😜
Snickered at the grumpy reference. She’ll be forever associated with it 😂
Hey treepers…. 🤔
You don’t supppose mungrel left a barkers egg in that bed? Mungrel!!!!! 🤭 😂 😝 😂 😂 😂
Where is the dear dog?
Howdy Feral!
Glad to know I am not the only one sucked into their drama. Crazy stuff, definitely one of Hollyweird’s finest cases.
I watched some of it too. It’s like watching a dumster fire. His former wife apparently has a specific personality disorder that manifests itself in “splitting” behavior—as described she exhibited violent outbursts but didn’t retain any memory of having done so. Hence: “Splitting”.
I’d say she is certifiable, she is nuts. And the lawyers are sooo irritating, it was fun watching Johnny beat them down.
Allie and Kyle’s New England love story continues. I was attracted initially to ther attractove and inventive video narriatives. On reflection, I still like seeing where they’regoing with all this. However, I have to admit that, while I like their videos, I’m always reminded that I probably wouldn’t fit in to well in their New England lifestyle. I’m good here in Texas. I’ll still enjoy seeing their New England adventures safe in the knowledge that I ain’t gonna be
up there . . .
Good morning Garrison – Born and raised in New England, I think you have the right idea about this area. Its a big meandering place filled with every darned thing you can imagine all within trekking distance. Ocean, mountains, rivers everywhere. Historical cities like Boston (1-hour), Manhattan (3 hours) and my little corner, Providence, where people sought religious freedom under Roger Williams (we have gone far astray these days I’m afraid with unholy influences like Brown University and other Liberal grooming schools) . Politics are crap but similar to so many places these days. Family-owned restaurants abound (unlike the shock of chain stuff I saw on Route 35 last time I was in Texas; whew!). I did find that if you look hard and ask the right people, you can find some really fine TX restaurants. Greetings from Rhode Island.
NATIONAL PIGS-IN-A-BLANKET DAY – APRIL 24
In the United States, Pigs-in-a-Blanket is often hot dogs or sausages wrapped in biscuit or croissant dough and baked.
One of my mom’s standbys when I was a kid. The dough for crescent rolls is perfect for making them using a regular sized hot dog.
For those of us who were teenagers/young adults during the 70s. this band, like several I will share with you, were largely ignored. If you appreciate good, uplifting music, I hope you will listen to this and their other excellent albums. I have several of their vinyls and think you will enjoy hem as much as I have over the decades. They are truly a timeless band.
Camel – Moon Madness
Excellent!!!😘
And another band that was ignored.
Perhaps this artist needed to age, like fine wine? Personally, their songs are a beautiful tribute to our Lord ❤️
Thanks again, bad dog!
Off topic! Spring in my neck of the woods! Summer tanagers are back and the rose breasted grosbeaks along with the Jays and crows! I have a new project! I sit outside on the stone porch with a paper plate filled with bird seed, very still, For long periods of time…Mr.Leenie laughs and laughs!
Wow. Your patience astounds me!!!! You need a hand held hummingbird bird feeder to accompany your quest!!!!! 😆. Remind mr Leenie, that’s how you captured him 😂 ❤️ only teasing….. 😜
Leenie, I’ve seen videos of a man’s hand still as still can be, open palm, seed and nuts resting in it. And little birds fly into it and get their dinner. In one video, his guests included a tufted titmouse and a nuthatch. I don’t know how he managed to hold his camera. But it was fascinating watching the little feathered things land, stay, peruse what was on offer, taste, reject, then finally find just the right nut or seed….and fly way, return and go through the whole process again.
Simply wonderful and amazing. He had to have beaucoup patience for that. Tell Mr Leenie you know what you’re doing and that there is precedent. You go girl!!!!
April 24 2016 Billy Paul [Paul Williams], American soul singer (“Me & Mrs Jones”), dies of pancreatic cancer at 81
More Barclay James Harvest
A great song by a great artist.
As often as that song was played on the radio somehow that bluegrass intro was never included.
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Yesterday getting the mowers in shape, picking up sticks, and mowing just kicked my butt. After a shower, cheeseburgers off the grill and baked beans and a couple Jacks & non cokes I was done! So fatigued I couldn’t even focus. So it was off to bed at 06:45. Other that waking up with cramps in my lower legs and getting up and using some Biofreeze and taking a couple aspirin, I did not move from 18:45 till 04:45.
Today my first chore will be to fix my mailbox door. Some mail person obviously got in a hurry and left it down and caught it with the side of their vehicle. So I have to straighten the brackets, drill out the old rivets and reinstall them them with small bolts.
When I put that mailbox in I put it in with a 3″ extra strong pipe post set in concrete and cast iron ornamental Iron corner bracket and a piece of 11 ga. (3/16″ plate) covering protecting the box from the snow thrown up by plows. I had the whole thing power coated to match the color of the shutters on my house and the rails and security door at the front entry of the house.
I never anticipated the mail people or Amazon, or UPS delivery people being hard on the mailbox door. If this repair doesn’t last due to abuse I will fabricate a new box myself out of 11 GA steel with a door of the same and see what they can do about tearing that up! A-holes! I still have some of the powder of the right color to provide to the powder coater to paint it with if that becomes necessary.
Next project, rake up some grass. I have a patch in the back yard over the septic tank that grows about 3x faster then the rest of the grass on my acre and I need to rake that area.
That’ll be enough I think for Sunday unless there is something urgent on the Honey Do list that I am unaware of.
Good Morning Rah!
I’ve added Ultra strength tiger balm to my first aid kit. For when biofreeze needs help. Imo, it’s amazing what a little dab will do. I’ve banged up my body pretty harshly lately and I’m amazed of the results in that little dab. Can get back in the saddle again, faster. 😎 😉
Good morning, Cat💓 Age doesn’t come on its own, does it? But we’ve found that taking turmeric every day moderates those aches and pains. Good to know about tiger balm. Blessings, girl.
Good Morning Betsy!! ❤️
Thinking your twins start sometime this week. Please tell them, feral said good luck and now, I’ve got an inside track for ordering my cheezburgers, I hope ☺️ make the money, honey!!!!
😂I certainly will. They are such great guys. I enjoy their company, quite a thing to say of 2 nearly 17 teens I think. Nevertheless, here come life’s hard lessons in the world of work. They’ll do just fine.
I told them to remember that in everything they do, be proud to put their name to it…and to make their employer glad he hired them. Bless you, Cat, for that message. I’ll pass it on💓
Morning, rah💓 I did the same as you in my yard a week ago. No big deal, or so I thought…weed pulling tidying up, etc. But it knocked me stupid. I quote Bette Davis…old age is not for sissies.
Hiya B – I bought a ‘lot’ of greeting cards a while back and there was a black and white series of cool cards with brief quotes on them. My favorite by Helen Hayes “If you rest, you rust’ ;o) No truer words.
Oh my, P😂 We were just saying virtually the same thing yesterday!! And it’s something WD40 can’t help…sad, no??💓
Sad indeed B! Get out the Vitamin D, any anti-inflammatory you can eat, drink or play with and fight the good fight! (hearts and tulips)
Ha!! All of it!!! You should see what I dish out supplements-wise. Practically a meal in themselves. So far so good. I don’t think I’m past my sell-by date yet. And in sympathy with your substitute emojis…(winky eye face). Love it!!
The Supplements!!!! So sick of swallowing all that stuff. A friend of mine suggested putting them in a spoonful of Cool Whip….UGH!!!!
I manage a handful are time😂. I just keep remembering they are good for me.
mee too – between the size of collagen (did anyone ever relate the word collagen to College Inn (broth) like I did?; quercetin, D, K (to make the D go down without calcium build-up), Super Lysine, C and, and, and as they say is Switzerland. I can take a handful too, wondering when I’ll max out. I knew a woman who couldn’t not swallow 1 little pill. Yikes!
Mind over matter…I’ve known people like that as well. Our biggest is the coconut oil one. The first thing I thought when we saw the size of it was (pardon me) it was about the size of a suppository. We had a laugh over that one.
And God bless Dr Zelenko who alerted us to quercetin. I’m sure it was a significant factor in my avoiding the dreaded lurgy, although I’m positive my husband got it. It knocked him for six. No test. But if it kept him away from what used to be called hospitals, which I’m sure it did, am so grateful for it.
ROFL
I’ve never tried a nurse’s suggestion….had a large potassium pill to swallow, she suggested a spoon of applesauce to place the pill in. 🤷♀️
So true.
Yes, it surprised me how knackered I was after. Sort of annoyed me as well.
My 0.02 cents 4oz tonic water a day sometimes makes leg cramps non-existent, it needs something to cut the bitterness, any kind of juice. 🙂
…and here I sit with my morning CTH friends while I can hear my husband listening to the health (anti-inflammatory, etc. effects of taking Apple Cider Vinegar 2x /day to help with all sorts of ails.
We’ve been doing that forever!! Many years ago, my beloved friend in Wales was telling me how her father was all over apple cider vinegar. We were a bit skeptical and laughing fondly about it. Of course as we got older and all that means physically, I was revisiting his pushing it. So we started adding it as well to our daily regimen.
In for a penny, in for a pound. I mean what did people who lived before us do for health and cures before the satanic pharmakeia metastasized into the cancer it has become? For us, the one thing good that came out of the past 2 grotesque years was our awakening to natural health.
It works. 🙂 Anybody remember DMSO?
And that is what, jay?
Horse topical anti inflammatory, works great, leaves a metal taste in the mouth.
Like putting metal filings in your mouth, yuck!
Hi grandpa 🙋♀️ ❤️
There you are, my dear friend! Been thinking of you all day. So good to see you…and good to know. 😘
We’ve discovered that adding a magnesium supplement works brilliantly. When I read about the benefits of that, we started on them. And guess what, jay??
After adding it to our supplement regimen, no leg cramps!! I commend it to you🤗
Trying something natural should be the starting point, if it doesn’t work theres’ other home cures for almost everything. I do magnesium also.
Magnesium???? I thought it was potassium for leg cramps!?
It is, amongst other things. But it surely does work on leg cramps, as jay was talking about. And apparently as we age, our magnesium levels decrease. A necessary thing is magnesium. I’m in!!
Man! Another pill! 😩
As they say in Britain, “Get it down your neck!”😘
How much?
We take one 400mg tablet at night.
I take 400 mg twice a day.
We might have to up our dosage.
does vodka work?
I prefer some good shine or Pisco – Peruvian grape brandy but vodka will do just fine. 😂🥃
With Tonic water. 😉
You might hate him, but but he was right.
And he could play a dang good guitar.
I think the people with the biggest cause to hate on him go by Dweezil, Diva, Moon Unit and Ahmet.
I don’t care what anyone says, some of his stuff was funny as hell.
Loved Zappa!
Very funny,especially in pointing out the irony in American pop culture: example (from memory)…
“I’m a moron and this is my wife,she’s frosting a cake with a paper knife,(Betty Crocker?)
All that we got here is American made,it’s a little bit cheesey,but it’s nicely displayed.
Well the toilet went crazy yesterday afternoon,the plumber he said never flush a tampoon,(one has to be told not to flush a tampon?!)
This great information cost me half a weeks pay,and the toilet blew up later on the next day… LOL!
Yippy eye oh tai aye! 🙂
Absolutely! Everything from Mother’s-Fillmore East to Sheik Yerbouti were excellent…very underrated musician in my humble opinion…
Afternoon, CBB!!!! So good to see you enjoying your time off!💓👍
Yep…thanks Bet! Round one down…very relaxing. I’m starting round two with a BLT and some Crystal Light pink lemonade.Gotta take the kitties out for a walkabout…everything must be sniffed and there are lizards etc. to hunt…No,they’re not spoiled! Lol…
Just watched Joe Dan’s latest episode…very good.
Speaking of walkabouts,’ole Mungrel must be on one.Prayers for all “treepers” past and present on their journeys… Pax Vobis.
P.S. – “The Quiet Man” was excellent…I always loved Maureen O’Hara too…Have a blessed Sunday amiga. 🙂
My absolute favourite!!!! I could eat them every day.
And you walk your kitties? I know people do. In Canberra now, we read that all cats acquired after July 1 have to be on leashes. To protect wildlife. I don’t think that’s going to work for a lot of them. HUGE fines. Plans to require people to exercise “responsible” cat ownership…said people who can barely spell “cat”.
But it sounds as if you started training early, which I would think one would have to do, or throw in the towel😉.
I knew I liked you, CBB…your being a cat person. We are as well. A cat should find you, as is said. And plenty have in our case. As I’ve noted before, the word is out that ours is a very good place to be.
And yes, Mungrel is obviously out of range at the moment. He’s done this before. Well just have to wait patiently. But this I know. He’ll have stories to tell. Can’t wait!
Enjoy the rest of your day! A day that includes BLTs is one for the books👍🤗
Don’t walk them…they walk around themselves…under direct supervision.Climb trees,etc…When it’s time to go in,the command HOME! is given.They have been trained since they were kittens.Sometimes they talk back,like teenagers…noooo,I don’t want to…raaah! HOME!…and they go thru the sliding glass doors inside again.It’s really funny…they have SUCH personalities.Ah,the small things in life that make us happy.
Buchanan Rides Again and A Lawless Street…Randolph Scott is playing now…again,simple things in life that make one happy.I will work extra hard tomorrow to make up for my utter and complete laziness today.It’s kinda like a “Catholic guilt” thing…if you understand that.
Enjoy the day that the Lord has made Bet and “fight the good fight every moment,every minute,every day”. 🙂
Oh how brilliant, your cats!😂. I can hardly take it in that they actually come when called, no matter how reluctantly.
And yes, oh yes. The small things do give great pleasure. But to recognize that they do is a grace, I think. A gift. A smile, a hug, this thread (though it is a big thing I think)…you know what I mean I’m sure. 😉 And I do understand Catholic guilt, as I had so many friends in Wales who were Catholic.
Nevertheless I’m so glad you had this day to refuel your physical and spiritual inner man. I know it’s not enough and the thought that your next day off is who knows when actually distresses me. Such is the fate of head canaries, I suppose.
And I did enjoy the day He made. Full of good conversation with friends here. How can it get any better? Blessings, my friend. May he keep you safe and in good spirits this upcoming week. 💓🙏 Bet
🙂
Again, Zappa was panned by a lot conservatives, but now?
Thundercat is a a great artist.
And the world has forgotten.
Good Morning bad dog!
Thanks for expanding my horizons today with your selections ❤️ very enjoyable, insightful and now, I’m wondering, what show was used in plastic people video? So timely, today, imo.
April 24 Oswald Chambers
The Warning Against Desiring Spiritual Success
Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you… —Luke 10:20
Worldliness is not the trap that most endangers us as Christian workers; nor is it sin. The trap we fall into is extravagantly desiring spiritual success; that is, success measured by, and patterned after, the form set by this religious age in which we now live. Never seek after anything other than the approval of God, and always be willing to go “outside the camp, bearing His reproach” (Hebrews 13:13). In Luke 10:20, Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice in successful service, and yet this seems to be the one thing in which most of us do rejoice. We have a commercialized view— we count how many souls have been saved and sanctified, we thank God, and then we think everything is all right. Yet our work only begins where God’s grace has laid the foundation. Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God’s sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others’ lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God’s testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.
Unless the worker lives a life that “is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3), he is apt to become an irritating dictator to others, instead of an active, living disciple. Many of us are dictators, dictating our desires to individuals and to groups. But Jesus never dictates to us in that way. Whenever our Lord talked about discipleship, He always prefaced His words with an “if,” never with the forceful or dogmatic statement— “You must.” Discipleship carries with it an option.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The message of the prophets is that although they have forsaken God, it has not altered God. The Apostle Paul emphasizes the same truth, that God remains God even when we are unfaithful (see 2 Timothy 2:13). Never interpret God as changing with our changes. He never does; there is no variableness in Him.
The Lord bless us and keep us. The Lord make his face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us. The Lord lift up his countenance upon us, and give us peace, this day, and forevermore. Amen.
Amen 🙏
And Betsy……
cael diwrnod heulog!!! ❤️
🤗!!! Diolch, Cariad.
Amen Betsy – love the power and simplicity of the prayers you write (or borrow) 🙂
Thank you, P. They come from my Book of Common Prayer. Mine was given to me upon my confirmation when I was 10. I have always loved the language in it. It is my companion and my treasure. I only wish I could construct prayers like the ones I put here. But they are so comforting for me, and so I share them with my friends🙏💓
God is great!!!!
Praise the Lord!!!!!
Hallelujah 🙏
I wonder if mungrel’s preparing for winter, like this? And that’s why he has been quiet lately. ❤️
Miss you Mungrel ❤️ MEOW 🐈
Now that was cool!
Just now sent it to a buddy.
Thanks for posting that!
Oh my back hurts! Wow!
I always loved the phrases I picked up when living elsewhere in a different culture. One of them oft used by my dear friend was this…what I don’t know I’ll make up. Or this…I make up my own stories. The latter when we were worried about someone who suddenly “disc-appeared”, as my granddaughter used to say when she was about 4.
So that’s what I’m doing right now. Prayers up, Mungrel. Get your Aussie self back, and do it quickly…lest I have to start making up my own stories!! 😉💓
And prayers for GrandpaM and all his family, especially his mother in the aftermath of his and her loss.🙏
Oh my goodness, P!!!!! So lovely!! Those harmonies and the words. Thank you for that, my dear friend😘 Beautiful and so moving…
Miss him, too.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
From Small Compline
Rejoice Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. (Thrice)
Sunday of Pascha, the Lord’s Bright Resurrection
Orthodox Christian Church
“On the Holy and Great Sunday of Pascha, we celebrate the life-bearing Resurrection of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.”
From the Synaxaria of the Pentecostarion
by Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (+ ca. 1335)
April 11th on the Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
April 24th on the civil or commercial calendar
Christ is Risen!
Truly He is Risen!
I wish you a Blessed and joyous Easter, Sepp🙏💓 All glory be to God and his risen Son, our hope and our salvation.
T H A N K
Y O U ! ! !
Betsy !
You are so welcome, Sepp🙏💓 I’m experiencing the joy with you.
Indeed, He is risen!
Blessed Pascha to you, Sepp
Mornin’ comrade infidels.
Thank you, WeeWeed. I have seen this happen in Wales also. They have very very tight communities. And it was just glorious to see.
No guns though…
Morning all. It’s gorgeous here. Everything is greening up. What a nice day to be outside. Noticed that the Red Headed woodpeckers are back at my feeders. Very pretty birds.
Art’s Pizza for dinner tonight. Was going to get one the other day when I got in from the run to KC but Sherry had made Chicken Breasts over rice for dinner. I however, still had the craving and so a large combo it will be! The beer to go with it is already in the fridge.
Been months since I had one.
Then it will taste better than ever! Get those taste buds ready.
And this…
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
John Burrows
…which is how I feel.
3 pizza joints in western WA, Olympia pizza house exit 206 I-5 and Cascade pizza in Sedro Wooley Hwy 20 or Annie’s pizza in Concrete WA also on Hwy 20.
Hi jay – I really hate to brag, but… with our deep Italian heritage, Rhode Island has so many good pizza places, I’m telling you it is difficult to try them all without purposefully going on a pizza ‘bender’. Then if you exhaust all of them, you can meander down to New Haven CT and gorge yourself on Frank Pepe’s Pizza (OMG, is all I can say) – then head down to New York City and have at it… I LOVE PIZZA! If you ever get over this way – I’ll make a you a locals list of the best.
Haven’t been on the east coast other than southeast since the 70’s but I’m sure your right.
Even back then with a 45 foot reefer behind parking was a premium.
Been years since I was up that way. A couple years ago I got close doing a team run. Departed the terminal in Anderson, IN. Drove down to a drop yard in San Antonio, TX. Dropped the trailer there and went to the huge Toyota facility there and hooked to a trailer.
Took that trailer across I-10 then up I-5 to Hayward, CA ESE of Oakland. There we did two stops. Then down I-5 to a brokerage warehouse a 1/2 block from the Mexican border in San Diego, CA.
Then back across I-8 to I-10 to San Antonio and the Toyota facility where we dropped the trailer. Then back to the same drop yard down there to hook to a trailer coming out of Laredo to take back to the terminal in Anderson. That was the longest run I have done since being with the company I work for now.
My 1st trucking job was Dad and I hauling mostly produce in the 18 western states BC & Alberta, Yukon territory and Alaska. Wishing he was waking me for my shift now, but he’s with Mom in heaven and I’m sure it’s a better place!
Burp! Excuse me! Well that was every bit as good as I remember it!
😂!! Good!!!!
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Dzien Dobry (good morning)
Ms Idaho, Dzien Dobry!!!!
miej słoneczny dzień ☀️!!!?
Spellcheck is getting atrocious again 😂
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.
Verse of the Day for Sunday, April 24, 2022
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“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
James 2:26 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
“lest you dash your foot upon a stone…”
Good morning, Aggiegirl💓
I just love this. I firmly believe His Angels are all around us. And I am of the belief that one never knows when we might actually meet one in our daily lives without realizing it.
We have a dear friend who was ordained as a deacon in the Catholic Church a year ago. He sent us a prayer about Guardian Angels. I keep it on my phone. Just knowing it is there is such a great comfort. Blessings to you, girl🙏
These are great! 🙂
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
John Denver’s ‘shortest’ song ‘Tools”
Tools took me down this rabbit hole 😝
Thanks parichute 😊
Now you know… Tools was a baby rabbit
I love this one. Friends. So much heartfelt truth and meaning in this uplifting song!!!
A deep track from Eva Cassidy.
Niiiice ❤️ 🥰
Good Morning parichute!!! ❤️
Guten Morgan Damen Katze! Glad you enjoyed; I’ve spent far too much time in Switzerland and Germany over the last 10 years – these are my leftover salutations. 🙂 Keep purring.
P, you and commenter Ausonious would have a lot to share. He sometimes posts on this thread. He has spent many years in Germany, and his daughter lives in Cologne. He set up courses there (I’m assuming for teaching the language). Just giving you a heads up if you every run across him here👍.
Grüß Gott !
alas Sepp I know mostly greetings, how to order beer (read a menu) and count to 10 (oh, and how to say excuse me (Entschuldigunga), which said quickly sounds like ‘chil-de-gung’).
Ah, ‘grusse’ (grut-tze) is the Swiss way. Good day to you as well.
Chores done. Mailbox door fixed. Sticks I missed the first time picked up. Grass clippings I wanted to rake up gone and put in the fire pit.
Now one more thing. Heading out to buy bird seed and some of this stuff: 30 Seconds Outdoor Algae, Mold, Mildew Cleaner 64 oz – Ace Hardware
Best stuff out there for cleaning the house. Spray it on, wait a minute or two and spray it off. Makes your gutters, vinyl siding, screens and outsides of your windows clean as new. Get rid of algae and mold and is biodegradable.
I only use biodegradable stuff around my house because I am on a well. No Round up or any of that stuff gets sprayed around my place.
Howdy rah, How is it that after you pick up sticks, you have to pick up so many more – I found this to be true 2 weekends ago when, after a long, windy winter the task seemed never-ending. Finally, after having a wonderful 9-ft diameter, 5 hour firepit burn, its all gone. The weather was finally perfect for the chore. The saying ought to go… sticks and stones will break my back :o)
We get the winds too. In fact today there is a south wind gusting up to 30 mph. Yesterday too we had a good strong south wind and that helped make the work in the 81 degree heat more tolerable for me. Far too windy to burn the dead fall and grass in my 8′ fire pit today.
Sometimes in the spring we have gotten gusts over 80 mph here when a powerful thunderstorm is coming in.
The conditions hadn’t been so for almost two years, that’s how much yard waste we had heaped up. It had poured rain, ‘like a cow peeing on a flat rock’ for two days and then the sun came out but the wind did not. Perfect – burn permit required so the trucks don’t come for a house call.
And thanks for the PSA – I’ll share the product type with hubby.
New episode of intellectual frog legs!
https://www.intellectualfroglegs.com/episodes/shoulder-to-the-wheel
Anak Krakatoa erupts. The Son of Krakatoa emitted and ash cloud about 1.8 miles into the sky.
Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano erupts, spews huge ash tower (yahoo.com)
This volcano emerged from the submerged caldera of its father after the father basically blew up in 1883 and killed about 35,000 people. The son already claimed about 450 people in an eruption back in 2018 and this current eruption is larger than that one. In fact the largest since that new volcano emerged from the sea.
This is on of those volcanoes located in the tropical zone that can change the climate and it almost certainly will sometime in the future, because it has been growing steadily and having ever larger eruptions since it emerged.
The eruption of the father in 1883 is rated the 4th largest eruption in recorded history.
9 Largest Volcanic Eruptions in History – Largest.org
We that think we know everything wonder why people around such dangerous volcanoes don’t move away. The answer, besides natural human optimism, is money, or at least the ability to make a living. The volcanic soil that has been laid down by past eruptions is fantastically fertile for growing certain crops.
It is Orthodox Eaater today. A Happy Easter to all treepers active and passive.
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Indeed, He is Risen!
The “Get Woke go broke” news was wonderful last week.
Nolte: Woke Chickens Come Home to Roost at Disney, Netflix Twitter, CNN (breitbart.com)
We Will Ride! Sent to me by a friend, seems an appropriate song for this day and that news:
We Will Ride – Joseph Larson – YouTube
Beautiful – never heard this song before. To add to some of the good news hiding in the rubble of bad… several more states have passed more restrictions to abortion at heartbeat or later than 15 weeks. I hope its ‘catches fire’! God Bless the unborn.
Stunning Upset! LePen Trounces Globalist Macron in Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guayana! (thegatewaypundit.com)
Food for thought. I’ve made this twice now and it is spectacular – follow exact.
Roasted Pork Loin – Try This Method Of Making Juicy and Tender Pork! (willcookforsmiles.com)
Sounds like braising to me, but it sure looks delicious.
Hey Jim in TN – I think so too, now that you mention it. I could be the lower-than-usual addition of liquids, compared to traditional braising, that eeks it into the roasting realm. Either way it is the most flavorful, tender and juicy pork roast I’ve eve made. dinner plates, sandwiches and leftovers into a frittata make it disappear.
I’ve got a trick question.
What bible book, chapter, and verse tell us not to add or take away anything?
The trick? Chapters and verses were added to those books much later.
DEUTERONOMY 4:2 KJV “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye…” (kingjamesbibleonline.org)
REVELATION 22:18 KJV “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add…” (kingjamesbibleonline.org)
REVELATION 22:19 KJV “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part…” (kingjamesbibleonline.org)
A lot of claims out there for who first did these things.
Here is one. Who divided the Bible into chapters and verses? Why was it divided? (neverthirsty.org)
Here is the same claim but modified. Who divided the Bible into chapters and verses? Why and when was it done? | GotQuestions.org
Trailer
2000 Mules
2000 Mules Trailer (rumble.com)
This I am going to watch!
Extremely compelling title.
My 40 year old daughter called me up the other day and asked if I have been watching all the news about Disney. She said I was right, when she was a little kid, when I told her the tooth fairy was a boy.
Ha!
Amen
Amen.
Amen 🙏
Amen.
Amen.
Cooking oil begins it price hike. https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/chicago-soyoil-climbs-as-indonesia-bans-palm-oil-exports
Job well…done?
Nuland’s other half from 2014 Kiev gets the Hunter treatment. Refried Obama’s ambassador to Greece is a joke.
https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/23/pyatt-state-department-energy-security/
Dedicating this song to Boogywstew, who recently stood up for me, like a true gentleman. Hope he finds this here. In the tradition of his moniker…
That’s so sweet of you! Thank you for the heartfelt sentiments.
Crooked Raffensperger Certified the Stolen 2020 Election, Now He’s Unilaterally Hired Salesforce, Headed by WEF Board Trustee, to Run GA’s Voter Rolls Going ForwardBy Joe Hoft
Published April 24, 2022 at 7:00pm
220 Comments
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/crooked-raffensperger-certified-stolen-2020-election-now-unilaterally-hired-salesforce-headed-world-economic-forum-board-trustee-maintain-georgias-voter-rolls/
And so it begins in Italy. Straight from the council of hell via Herr Klaus. May it die a quick death.
Italy Announces Rollout of Dystopian ‘Social Credit System’ to “Conserve Resources” – First of its Kind in the EU – Compliant Citizens Will Be Rewarded for “Good Behavior”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/italy-announces-rollout-dystopian-social-credit-system-conserve-resources-first-kind-eu-compliant-citizens-will-rewarded-good-behavior/
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.