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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Beautiful cats~are they yours?
This is excellent 🐱
The pitfalls of the city are extremely real . . .
One more . . . Just as we know that all dogs go to Heaven, there is also a Rainbow Connection. It’s within us. We just have to make it happen. Some people can. Some can’t. But I firmly believe it’s possible.
🙂 🙂 😉
Mornin’ Jay! 🙂
🥰
GM Garrison!! ❤️
Mornin’ Cat! 🙂
And another “one more”… Willie tossing aside his country roots to give us a wonderful bluesy version of a Kris Kristofferson classic
🙂 Willie’s roots are actually more in Texas Swing than country. His guitar playing owes a lot to French Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. He could fit right in at the Paris “Hot Club” in the 1930’s. Willie is a very sophisticated musician.
I don’t disagree at all, Garrison. Willie is a true musician and can fully manage a WIDE variety of musical styles and genres. I still laugh when watching his collaboration with the Beach Boys when Mike Love tried to “teach” Willie the proper phrasing… which Wille promptly ignored and put his own unique ‘spin’ on the song.
Happy Caterday, Treepers. Pet your kitties for me!!! 🙂
Hi Garrison, 10 more days left of my trip. I already miss my bride, my grandchildren and my animals. Heck, I reckon I miss my children, too. 😂
Morning gramps 🇺🇸🇺🇸😁
Morning jay!
Good Morning grandpa and jay!!!! ❤️
💖Good Morning to all the crew above…Cat, Mr jay, Garrison, G….all dear friends and the best companions to have in this small part of the world. Your presence makes life all the sweeter. Love to all…🤗
Hurry Ya’ll Betsy’s refilling the feeding device ! 🙂 😉
😁😁😁!!!!! And I really need to as well, running enough.
Funnily (!!!) enough…not running….autocorrect has returned with a vengeance.
Good afternoon, Cat and Bet! It is early evening where I am ❤️.
I’ve been wondering the exact time difference…8-9 hours I’m assuming.
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Mornin’ Bet! 🙂
I know that cat is here somewhere!! 🙂 😉
Good morning, G🤗. We’re counting down with you, my friend. Hurry home safely🙏
I’m Bet. Can’t wait. 😍
We can’t either!! 🤗🙏
Hey, Bet. If you get a chance, watch “Executive Action”. It came out in 1973. If you get to the scene where Robert Ryan is talking to Burt Lancaster outside the mansion; listen to what Robert Ryan says to Burt Lancaster’s character. Something about reducing the world’s population to 550 million people. Where have we seen this number before? How long has this plan been in the works?
Hi, Joe!! I will!! Sounds interesting in view of where we are today.
Have you ever seen SEVEN DAYS IN MAY? Also Burt, Martin Balsam, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, and Frederic March.
Now that’s a exceptional movie to even rewatch if you’ve seen it. Tell me that one does not also marry up with 2020.
Coincidences? I think not. Sometimes I feel we are being harder into a miserable place by screenwriters. I will have a.look. Thank you, my friend. And blessings to you and all your four legged family and all the residents you look after.🤗🙏
I have watched 7 Days in May. Interesting movie. Does art imitate life or is it the other way around? I have the DVD but it’s scratched in a lot of places. Picked it up at a pawn shop. Some scenes in the movie were filmed on the USS Kitty Hawk.
100 degrees outside. Yuck.
Yuck indeed. There seems to be no end to this, and not only here. It seems to be all over the world where it’s summer. Is there a message I wonder? We’ve added a smaller fan which doesn’t use as much as electricity and at least keeps the air circulating. We did just have a dollop of ice cream. Were watching an old British fave Kavanaugh. A multi series programme wth John Thaw as a barrister. Absolutely no politics correctness. Bonus.
Sounds like you’ve become a ‘homebody’. Being away will do that do you . . . which is why I don’t travel much any more. 🙂
East, West, home is best!! Isn’t that the way it goes?🤗
🙂
Pelosi’s Taiwan trip now has a revealed purpose. It onky took 2 days.
She visited to setup her graft payments from an aid package.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sen-menendez-pushes-bill-designate-taiwan-major-non-nato-ally
This is intended to aggravate China and heighten tensions, it won’t help Taiwan.
Leonard Cohen 2008.
How prescient was he!
Anthem Lyrics: The birds they sang at the break of day
“Anthem”
The birds they sang
At the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don’t dwell on what
Has passed away
Or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
Be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
Bought and sold
And bought again
The dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
We asked for signs
The signs were sent:
The birth betrayed
The marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see.
I can run no more
With that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud.
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up
A thundercloud
They’re gonna hear from me.
Ring ring ring ring ring
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
You can add up the parts
But you won’t have the sum
You can strike up the march,
There is no drum
Every heart, every heart
To love will come
But like a refugee.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.
Good Morning Charlotte!!!
Leonard Cohen’s song is a perfect reminder of current events. Thanks for this!!!
May the world unite as one for this battle!!!
May your days be filled with love, laughter, and happiness ❤️
Thanks for posting this, Charlotte. Listening to Leonard Cohen reminded me that we here at the Treehouse . . . are the crack . . .
My CTH addiction explained.
6 August 2012 Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (The Sting; A Chorus Line), dies at 68.
Nobody Does
6 August 2004 Rick James, American funk musician (“Super Freak”), dies of pulmonary failure and cardiac failure at 56.
Good morning, Maquis
I am unaware of the particulars but apparently USSA, Inc is in the process of funding atheism abroad, in cooperation with the UN and the abominable WEF. The story has appeared in The Federalist. Republicans are “demanding” answers in that ineffective poseur way that they do.
More typical UniParty “shuck-and-jive” Bet.
It is that, Garrison. In fact I feel nothing but contempt when I see Rs stick their heads above the parapet, only to sink back down into the safety of their irrelevance. They seem to enjoy tweeting though, about how outraged they are. Which angers me even more.
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
1990..
season of syzygy..
visually documented..
then deeply fathomed in Company History..
what is hidden.. will remain hidden..
what is lost.. will remain lost..
seeing.. what is unseen..
telling.. without telling..
Eclipse..
coming soon..
You really are alone down there aren’t you, Texian? Except for His presence…
Depraved New World.
Synthetic embryos grown from stem cells don’t need sperm or eggs
In the year 6565
Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube.
From the comments @ your link, quite appropriate, 4543 years early tho.
👍 😎
Technically, the cells they grew them from needed sperm and eggs.
It must bug them that they aren’t able to do it from scratch. Yet.
Still, would you want a heart transplant that is 95% similar to your own heart? They have a long way to go.
And, does your clone have rights? It is a separate distinct human being. It is your twin.
If you donate a few cells and they grow your clone, how do they justify harvesting this new life for body parts? They are going to have to keep that clone, or at least its parts alive for years before those parts can be transplanted into the adult you.
‘Tis an abomination.
The parts clones can always vote for Democrats while they’re in deep freeze
Would it surprise you to know that this topic was explored in a Sci Fi novel?
Set in northern Mexico, the protagonist is a boy who is a clone of the Big Man oligarch. As he discovers who he is, why he was created, and his ultimate purpose, the reader discovers the horrors with him. He is unique, because all of the other clones are deliberately brain damaged shortly before or after birth, and then are kept alive as intellectually disabled bodies to be used when and as needed.
The boy is only fully alive and undamaged because the big man has directed that he be left to grow normally, in a house outside the main mansion. In a sort of narcissistic act, the old man enjoys seeing himself as he was.
Things devolve into violence as the boy chooses to fight to live.
Btw, all the other oligarchs have a stable of clones too.
August 6 Oswald Chambers
The Cross in Prayer
In that day you will ask in My name… —John 16:26
We too often think of the Cross of Christ as something we have to get through, yet we get through for the purpose of getting into it. The Cross represents only one thing for us— complete, entire, absolute identification with the Lord Jesus Christ— and there is nothing in which this identification is more real to us than in prayer.
“Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him” (Matthew 6:8). Then why should we ask? The point of prayer is not to get answers from God, but to have perfect and complete oneness with Him. If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.
“…I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; for the Father Himself loves you…” (John 16:26-27). Have you reached such a level of intimacy with God that the only thing that can account for your prayer life is that it has become one with the prayer life of Jesus Christ? Has our Lord exchanged your life with His vital life? If so, then “in that day” you will be so closely identified with Jesus that there will be no distinction.
When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason— God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don’t agree with us.
August 6
MORNING
Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth. Prov. 3:12
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. Deut. 32:39
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jer. 29:11
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Isa. 55:8
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. Hos. 2:14
As a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Deut. 8:5
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Heb. 12:11
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. I Pet. 5:6
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Psa. 119:75
EVENING
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof. Psa. 24:1
She did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and my flax. Hos. 2:8, 9
All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O LORD our God, all this store … cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own. I Chron. 29:14-16
Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Rom. 11:36
The living God … giveth us richly all things to enjoy. I Tim. 6:17
Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. I Tim. 4:4, 5
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Phil. 4:19
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/08/0806.html
Good morning all.
Hurricane development outlook.
The graphics at the NOAA site are png so I will post links.
This link shows the SST (Sea Surface Temperatures) anomalies (departure from the average)
Current Operational SST Anomaly Charts – OSPO (noaa.gov)
Notice that the blue coming off the coast of Africa across the Atlantic. This denotes cooler than average SSTs along that band. That band is the MDR (the Main Development Region) for long running tropical storms.
Although not shown in that graphic there is plenty of sand dust being blown west along that band also. Both of these factors inhibit tropical storm formation.
Now on the same graphic look along the east coast of the US. Much higher than normal SSTs along the US eastern seaboard. And then look at the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. They also have somewhat higher than normal SSTs.
Thus, just from this graphic alone, one can make a good guess that, at least for now, if there is any tropical storm development it will occur closer in the US along the eastern seaboard or in the Gulf or Caribbean. This all can change is a week or less.
Now, look over at the Pacific. Notice the blue coming off the coast of S. America. That is the La Nina signal. Right now we are in Neutral conditions but those cooler than average SSTs are forecasted to increase and it is believed that La Nina conditions will continue right into and possibly through the winter.
This winter much of the US is likely to have a much colder December than we have experienced in the last few years.
Went to the license branch yesterday and renewed my Class A CDL. I also took the documentation to get the Gold Star which starting May of next year will be required for a person to board an airline or visit a US military installation.
I do not intend on flying commercial ever again. Haven’t gotten on an airliner since they started harassing Grandmas after 9/11. However, I do intend on visiting military posts to visit museums and for reasons of nostalgia or perhaps for using VA benefits.
Renewal is a good thing. 👍🏼
Nor will we ever fly again, rah.
When we came from across the pond for our daughter’s wedding, we returned to Blighty on the day the war started, and we had a healthy taste of what was to come for travellers. Disturbing wasn’t the word. My British husband, our two British friends who joined us, and I were considered enemy combatants when we presented passports. Even I with my American one.
Air travel used to be something to look forward to. It has been made to be so unpleasant and intrusive, a process to be endured with complete obedience to whatever is dished out. Really a small scale example of the worst of Stalinism or fascism. No more for me either.
I am so glad your license is sorted.
Hmmmm
Between monkey pox infestation the children and this….
[video src="https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/112/377/205/playable/18b3e8f7900015f6.mp4" /]
Someone was correct. 😢
Crazy @“&)(,
So it has come to this. First behind the scenes, and now boldly, brazenly (even proudly) out of the darkness and into the klieg lights… a demand that we all “must” accept their disgusting and unholy proclivities. Our precious gifts from God in their crosshairs, as they have always been.
I’ve said the most powerful weapon available to depraved creatures like this is language and the manipulation of it. And so it has been with this most abhorrent mental and psychological aberration.
Paedophilia equates with “sexual orientation”?? It is a matter of who one ” loves”?!??? The wordsmiths have been very diligent and have worked overtime.
Look with extreme attention when a child shows up with monkeypox. That just might be a terrible terrible indication of what is happening to that child.
Satan has cast his net wide. Dear Lord please help us to protect our precious gifts whom You have given to us.🙏
For my absent friend. I haven’t dropped the ball. Boomerang polished and kept in good working order. LBT.
Hi, Bet. 12:16 pm, already 92 degrees outside. Another heat advisory in effect today. We are one more day closer to October…
Got called into one of the staffing coordinator’s office a couple of days ago. Nothing bad. I was informed that I’m getting a substantial pay raise along with a couple of bonuses for perfect attendance. Wow. That made my day. A lot of nursing staff either call out or just don’t bother showing up for their assigned shifts. Creates more work and stress for those who do show up. But I survived the weekend 3 shift crucible. Sometimes we just have to lower our heads and shove (quoting Jerry Kramer). Yes, indeedy….now, I’m off for a couple of nights.
Hope you’re staying cool and comfy during the intense summer heat.
God bless.
Oh JOE!!!! I am overjoyed for you, my friend!! What glorious news!!! So happy for your well deserved raise.
The way you work, your work ethic, is what we’ve drilled into our grands nearest, twins 17 and their sister 14. How right you are. If you don’t mind I’ll share your good news to show them what happens when they take that attitude.
We’ve moved our AC up from 86 to 89/day now that we’ve had an atrocious bill. Gotta do what ya gotta do. But we will survive. Praying for rain so badly needed and an early end to this oppressive heat. I’m so glad you’re all right.
Enjoy you’re well deserved break! A beer or two and your furry friends is a good start. They’ve probably been missing you something fierce. Blessings, Joe.
Are you speaking of “Mungrel”?
For my friend who has fought paedophiles all his life, God bless him for it.🙏
LBT? What does that acronym stand for?
Little Big Thunder…a nickname given to me by my friend. I am shrinking in size…and getting shrimpier. And I am known for, shall we say, forceful opinions. 😁 I was quite pleased to receive it.
Well that’s lovely, thanks for explaining. Sorry about your problems, but as you know, many of us can identify.
I try to keep up, but missed where everybody knew what LBT stood for. Several years ago, a few friends on this site used that same acronym, as I recall. Very confusing.
Now that I know, I shall refer to you as Besty, LBT!
God Bless, and take care!
The first gal speaking on the video proclaims we are not responsible for our feelings, we are only responsible for our actions. I have to disagree. We are responsible for our feelings. Feelings you feed, give energy to, will become stronger. If you refuse to give those feeling energy by thinking about them they will become less and less. You can learn to completely control your feelings.
For years I was completely depressed by feelings of inadequacy. I wallowed in feelings of despair, inadequacy, and failure. Then one day I said enough. I made lists of happy times in my life and when the despair took over I got out my lists and read them and thought about those good times. It took about 2 months and I was able to completely control those bad feelings. They still come from time to time but I can immediately banish them. I CAN control my thoughts and my feelings. With God’s help and refusing to allow Satan entrance I have been depression free for many decades now.
Was it easy? No. Was it do-able? Absolutely.
We all have our crosses to bear in life. You are not supposed to succumb to them, you are supposed to overcome them with God’s help and the desire to live in accordance with God’s will.
If you choose to allow your feelings to control your thoughts and your life that is your choice.
Thank you patty for sharing something so personal and for the encouragement that it may be overcome. ❤️ 😘
Patty, what a magnificent victory! I am so pleased for you. And so glad you didn’t (I’m assuming) resort to prescription anti depressants. You weren’t alone in your struggle, as you know. We are all as God made us. And I think we are our own harshest detractors and critics. I know I am. Thank you for, as Cat said, sharing your story of overcoming a thing which was so debilitating. Winston Churchill suffered the same and called it his “black dog”. I’m so glad you, and Almighty God, have prevailed🙏
Thank you Betsy and Feral Cat for your kind words and thoughts. (When I was a little kid I wanted my name to be Betsy, just loved the name.) Nope, didn’t use any drugs, never believed the whole your brain is missing some magic ingredient malarkey. I just came to realize I am either in control of myself, including my thoughts and feelings, or I am not. Took me some trials and errors till I came up with my lists of happy thoughts.
At first it was really hard. But over the several months it became easier. It also taught me that I have more personal strength than I ever thought I had. That knowledge was very empowering. I hope maybe it might help others, too.
Will be saddling up again soon.
Sunday NLT 18:00 depart for Carol Stream, IL. Four stop Toyota milk run in the west Chicago area that goes back to the Vandalia, OH terminal. Josh told me to be prepared to do it twice. I’ll be going in early for an early departure this time.
My chimney sweep called me back and I have an appointment set up for 09:00 this coming Friday. Soon I will have to start laying wood in for the winter. Got a great source of hardwood. Some of it already cured since some was from standing dead trees and some from living trees that were cut down last summer. Today, among other things, I will be ordering a meter that measures the moisture content of wood so I can select that which is cured the best.
So I gotta dig my chainsaw out, get it in optimum running condition and sharpen the blade. Steve has a log splitter I can use any time. We will be going to get a few loads here pretty soon so I can get busy laying in the wood.
Wood for the insert can be a maximum of 18″ long. I think that the lean-to on the back of my garage can probably handle about 3 full cords of wood cut and split to the optimum size for the insert. If this thing turns out to be as efficient as it is supposed to be I think my lean-to will hold enough to get me through the longest and coldest winter we’re liable to have.
You may want to ask if they’ll supply you the glass cleaner, as it gets totally black.
Oh, and safe travels❣️
Using well cured hardwood having a moisture content of less than 20% is part of the key helping the glass stay clean. Well cured hardwood also minimizes creosote soot buildup in the ducting/chimney.
That is why I am buying this:
General Tools MMD4E Digital Moisture Meter, Water Leak Detector, Moisture Tester, Pin Type, Backlit LCD Display With Audible and Visual High-Medium-Low Moisture Content Alerts, Grays – – Amazon.com
I had a fireplace insert in another house that had a black covered window and it was a bear to get clean.
BTW while 20% is acceptable the ideal limit is 12%.
A perfect summertime movie was just posted on EncourageTV. Yes, it’s corny and cheesy but, you might be delighted to see some familiar faces from the teen movies from the John Hughes era.
There is something for everyone of all ages. It’s for grandparents, moms and dads…but especially youngsters discovering what summertime might unexpectedly offer for them.
Thank you, Justice. John Hughes always delivered the type of movies that are no longer made, more’s the pity.
And as an aside, perhaps my favourite of his was Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. I really really miss John Candy, a comedic talent unsurpassed since his very much lamented death.
Thanksgiving weekend Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a must watch in this house. I just love that movie.
For Christmas it is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Die Hard and New Years is Casablanca.
Lizzie, it was one I enjoyed the first time I saw it. My appreciation of it has only increased with subsequent viewings. While it is laugh out loud funny, there is embedded in it a message so tender that even now as I think of it, I can feel my eyes moistening. I really REALLY love that movie.
And I’ll recommend one for you now…
“What We Did On Our Holiday”
It is British. It is funny as only life can be. It is tender and one of the sweetest ones I’ve ever seen. You’ll recognize a lot of the faces in it. It’s not often I’ll recommend a film.
I have NO hesitation in doing so with this one. As you love John Hughs’ movies, I hope you’ll look this one up.
NPR vias for fake climate news championship.
Mornin’ comrade infidels.
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PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Duchess, you have no idea how much your postings add to the richness of my life, and I am so sure to the lives of everyone who sees them. Thank you for your faithfulness in making certain they appear every day. Bet 🤗🙏
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.
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Verse of the Day for Saturday, August 6, 2022
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“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Genesis 1:27 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Amen and Amen🙏
The UK shuts down the nuclear plant that provided 2% of the electricity needs.
Now 1 in 3 households would be classified as in “fuel poverty” so what does the government do? It changes the way it calculates who is suffering from “fuel poverty”.
It will get worse!
Rah, the UK, unbeknownst to most who live there, has been served up to the ungodly, unholy apostasy of “climate change” and the WEF…lock stock and barrel.
In fact, the government’s indoctrination of the ill educated, uncurious, unquestioning public has been one of that benighted country’s greatest triumphs. The propaganda spewing forth from the BBC, the royal family, and every mandarin in Whitehall from Covid to this cult has been unremitting, one sided, and deliberately false.
What the Luftwaffe couldn’t accomplish during WWII, those who have governed Britain (into the ground) since have done. It’s a tragedy.
Oh.. And this….
Above I mentioned the manipulation of language as a tool of ideologues and those with unholy intentions. As the brief video you posted shows, every government with nefarious goals uses this tool. Don’t like the definiition? No problem…here comes the “new and improved” one.
exactly betsy, just like they manipulated the definitions of pandemic and vaccine.
and of course, recession…
sheesh.
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. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm (Septuagint)
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)
Saturday of the Eighth Week after Pentecost
Holy Great Martyr Christina of Tyre (+ 300)
Saint Declan, Bishop of Ardmore in Ireland (+ 5th century)
Holy New Martyr Theophilos of Zakynthos (+ 1635)
July 24th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
August 5th – civil or commercial calendar
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Hello friends – a moving update: survived the 2,200 mile trip out of CA back to the midwest, but it seems the furniture did not. It is stranded somewhere along I-80 as the truck broke down and apparently parts are unavailable for the repair. Delivery was supposed to be yesterday, now promised for next Wednesday, who knows when it will eventually get here. So, surviving on what was brought along in the Jeep, which includes one of those mattresses in a box, several camp chairs, a folding table (upon which I type this note), a small office chair and various electronics. A Spartan existence in the new place, for yet a little while longer.
Hope everyone is well and keeping up with the (expletive deleted) show we’ve been dealt. Carry on…
Wow will , sounds like a journey!
glad you are at least safe, and out of CA!
like your new name!
“Happy cartoons and cereal day” friends, and thinking of levi, whose quote that is.
levi, we are missing you…
“Biden tests COVID-19 positive for sixth straight day!” My suggestion would be to give the worthless SOB more boosters!
220million Americans can’t be wrong!
Fauci and the CDC wholeheartedly confirm this approach. Please, don’t hesitate. It’s for the good of the country!
Well I’ve kept this under my hat for a couple weeks so my son and his wife could tell who needs to be told, but I am going to be a paw paw. I think I’m probably too young to be a grandfather, but the math does check out I suppose. I already bought a bag of candies to throw at the kid like my paw paw did, but apparently you aren’t supposed to chuck Werthers at babies. We’ll see. Maybe it will be a highly advanced baby that likes candy and has high hand-eye coordination and dexterity.
What great news! Congratulations!!!
Congratulations! My first grand was born last Friday, I’m 49. Seeing as how I was 18 when my daughter was born, doing ok, lol.
Excellent response to any post I make is music like this. Congrats to you too grandpa!
Lt Col Scott Ritter: USA is not realizing that but She is in War with China. PLA Can Sink US Pacific Navy Today!
https://rumble.com/v1et0lf-lt-col-scott-ritter-usa-is-not-realizing-that-but-she-is-in-war-with-china..html
Ritter is raising the alarm that we did indeed cross a red line and are not prepared for the consequences.
I would expand on that and say the financial west has already sold their citizens out, decimated all of our federal institutions, softened us up culturally, and is preparing to use China to bash us into submission.
The nuclear danger is escalating, because that’s really all we got against China in a pacific war. They will missile anything we put on the board near their shores.
Sorry, but China has very little chance of ever really challenging the US Navy. China has really half-assed their own naval power and think that missiles would be the way to somehow equalize things. The problem for them is that the US Navy hasn’t exactly been resting on their laurels when it comes to missile defense, and there is almost zero accounting for the US submarine force which could itself destroy most navies in the world, if not all of them.
I have my doubts as to whether or not the US under current leadership would actually commit to defending Taiwan, but if they choose to, China could potentially destroy Taiwan from afar, but it would never be able to invade the island if the US Navy is involved.
Amen 🙏
Amen
Amen.
Andeclain, my Internet was off most of the day and I didn’t manage to get it back on until about 5:30 here. I thought I was going to have to apologize again to you.
Amen…
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Jesus Christ is Lord