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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Dogs cry tears of joy when reunited with their owners: New study
Sloppy wet kisses, lots of jubilation and jumping — and, now, tears of joy?
Turns out, yes.
When dogs are reunited with their owners after being away from them from 5-7 hours, they tear up with joy, a new study indicates.
“We found that dogs shed tears associated with positive emotions,” Takefumi Kikusui of Azabu University in Japan said in a media release about the study.
“We also made the discovery of oxytocin as a possible mechanism underlying it.”
the outsider lives down the street and comes up every day to say hi to his buddy
That place look almost identical to where I live here in SE Asia. The gate is identical to one we have, ( everyone has one ), and paneling on the gate is what everyone here does.
Even the tiles on the driveway where the dog is standing are almost identical to the ones we use on the side of the house and the black mold on concrete is usually only present in high humidty regions. The concrete road for the village and the drainage at the edge of the road as well is almost identical.
Even the huskie looks like one down the street from where we live.
Adorable picture !
Yeah, showed my wife the picture, she looked at it for 5 seconds and she said the flowers above the baby blue painted wall are called ‘birds of paradise’. The tree in photo we have in the garden out back and eat, and she mentioned the architecture of house in by background is that of a certain region of Asia ( Not going to say where to protect Nimrods anonymity ).
She just said it’s morning time in the higher elevations and those houses follow a certain “culture” made for cooler climates to keep the house warm.
But then she went on and on about how cute the dogs were and how much it reminded her of her old Labrador !
She couldn’t get enough of it.
Gabriel said: ( Not going to say where to protect Nimrods anonymity )
Thx for the courtesy, but it’s not my neighborhood
It’s just a photo I saved from the internets
But the source did have the story that the one dog is from down the street
Hello, Sherlock.
Greetings Intense !
Yeah, it’s just one of those things we do, analyze data and come to a conclusion.
More people should get into that habit as to avoid @#$%ed up situations.
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Good morning, Mr jay. Blessings to you, sir.🙏
Hey Betsy may your day be blessed too 🇺🇸🇺🇸😁
Good morning Bet and jay! A late one for me, been working outside all morning.
Morning, G😊 Before it gets too hot, right?? Looks as if we’ve got a chance of more rain next week but I don’t put my faith in my phone’s weather thingy. Back from a minor shop at my neighbourhood Walmart. Pretty certain I forgot the main thing I went in for…time will tell😉
LOL! I’m doing my daily trip to Fredericksburg. Workout then got to get some corn for the deer. Need to star my feeders, too but at over 10 bucks a bag, sheesh…
Whoa!!!! That’s pricey all right! That’s just one thing I couldn’t cut back on, feeding God’s creatures. I can’t see any of them going hungry…birds, squirrels and the occasional others.
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Greetings Treepers!
Please pray for my 86 year old mother in law. She’s getting a stint in her heart.
Massive thanks to one and all.
Maranatha! ✝️
Heavenly Father we pray for your guiding hand for these surgeons during this procedure so that all goes well in Jesus Holy Name amen. 🙂 🙂
Amen!
Amen !
Amen
Good evening Frank. Said a prayer for your MIL. Hope it goes well and she pulls through.
Of course, Frank. I will offer prayers as well for the doctors whose skilled hands will see she returns to good health. All will be well, my dear friend.🙏
Amen.
Good morning, Bet. Looks like we will have temps in the 90s again this weekend. Hopefully it cools off next week. News 9 weather says temps will drop down to the 80s after this coming weekend.
I visited my wife last night around 1 am. I probably wasn’t much company; dozed off a couple of times while sitting in her wheelchair. The TVs were turned off and I heard the resident next door sawing logs when I woke up. The whole facility was quiet. They don’t enforce visiting hours any more after the covid restrictions eased up.
Hoping Frank’s MIL makes it through the surgery….
Stay cool and hydrated. We’re almost done with the summer heat. One day closer to fall.
Morning, Joe. I hope she knew you were there and wasn’t sleeping. Thank goodness those dreadful rules are going away. Cruel on the extreme. A lot of people have a lot to answer for. Bless her and your hearts. Prayers up for the both of you, my friend. I’m sure it’s hard being away from one another.🙏💕
Oops…posted before I was through.
Yes, one day closer. I was thinking that this morning actually. Our temps have dropped about 15 degrees over the past week,and there is a look about the sky, and with the light changing, that tells me we are headed in the right direction.
Going to our daughter’s tonight with her three teens for breakfast for dinner. Bless her. Like you, she works all the hours that God sends but with the grands getting older and having jobs (the twins at least at 17) and their sister all involved with her high school volleyball team, we don’t see them too often now. Alas….but that’s life. Busy remembering when they were in preschool “yesterday”. I have no idea where the time went, but ” went” it did…
You take care, Joe, and YOU stay cool and hydrated as well!! That’s an order😉
Praying!
Frank, praying for a successful procedure for your MIL.
First it was Alex Jones warning, then Bongino says his vax was the greatest regret of his life. Now Politico positioning the narrative shift.. How long do you think before the rest of them realize they are just part of the stage?
Do they suffer from delusions?? Do they think that we will just forget that ALL of them were FULLY onboard with “the vax will save us” nonsense. President Trump was graciously trying his level best to “save” as many lives as possible, given the information he was been given. Do these fools think we forget their mocking, their ridicule of every possible “treatment” President Trump and others (we all know them by now) were and are still fighting for. They WANTED the vaccines in each and every one of us on earth – they still do. So they can take their fake blame and shove so far up, it bleeds.
It seems the lid on this abomination is about to blow off. My feeling is this is a repositioning all right, with the intent to pour all blame for the engineered genocide and destruction onto Mr Trump. It won’t work.
And we must not forget who was head of his response team…Mike Pence.
You are so right Betsy. We must NOT forget the TRAITOR!!!
He’d like to forget that he was “in charge” I’m sure, Marti. But in charge he most definitely was. I always thought that eventually when all the horrors of this beastly jab started becoming apparent, Mr Trump would be in everybody’s crosshairs… and here it comes.
It’s a pivot. This is just a trial balloon to see how it floats. They might need it if they can’t find anything on which to indict Trump. There are problems with this pivot:
Somehow, all of the above, and more, will have to be dropped into the Memory Hole if the TRANSNATIONAL OLIGARCHY decides to blame Trump for all the bad results of the vaccines, including huge jumps in the numbers of EXCESS DEATHS and the insurance companies start asking questions to try to avoid being bankrupted.
Someone’s well-laid plans are unraveling.
It looks like the DNC is going to come after Trump for the vaccines.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/F4NtsK23FnU/
They are going to step on the rake again.
…going to be made to step on the rake again, G. He works in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform.🙏
And I feel the unraveling is coming from a Mighty Source. He shall cause their foot to slip….🙏
Discovering these Concord CDs back in the day was a real treat. The recordings were excellent and Rosemary, bless her, was in wonderful voice despite her advanced years. She was obviously having a great time on these recordings. The best of the best . . . 🙂
One more . . .
Discovering these Concord CDs back in the day was a real treat. The recording were excellent and Rosemary, bless her, was in wonderful voice despite her advanced years. She was obviously having a great time on these recordings. The best of the best . . . 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvdeK0XmG2I&ab_channel=Thejazzsingerschannel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plUwe5Yac4g&ab_channel=Thejazzsingerschanne
One more . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5URQ9n3euhU&ab_channel=vladimirsmartins
Howdy Garrison 🙂 🙂 🙂
She was from Eastern Kentucky….Maysville, KY
Morning, Garrison. Those were the days…sigh.
Hi, Bet. what always impressed me is that she always, without fail, understood what it was all about. RIP Rosmary. . .
She really was a songbird in the best sense…I agree.
It’s Cursday Treepers. This gives us an opportunity to celebrate dogs and the people who genuinely care about them. Looking through a stack of old papers—got a lot of that stuff, unfortunately—I came across on years-ago birthday car I’d given my wife. She’s saved it under on old purse. I’d signed it, including our long departed border collie Sweetie and and our recently departed Boots . . . When you find the things they always tug at your heart.
I chose this video because of the obvious love these women have for the dogs they rescue. This little puppy was obviously on its last legs until they saved it. I have no idea where this video is from but one thing is clear: people who do this are blessed . . . 🙂
Oh, well. Here’s another . . .
Garrison, the first video says it is from UnderdogsSriLanka.. I would guess that would be the country where the video was filmed
🙂
I Wish We All Could Leave California (Beach Boys Parody)
Thanks for that! 🙂
I’m young, pushing 30. I took out $40k of student loans, and I paid back every penny with interest (until interest was paused in 2020).
Some people might have $10,000, but I have my self respect. Worth every penny.
You did it right. I was backward. I saved up until I could afford it and paid cash.
My wonderful phd daughter…Paid In Full
We saved every month after our triplets were born, and family members chipped in, too, for the kids college. Now they are all in college – one at AUM and two at UAB. They will be debt free when they graduate next year – one in Psychology and two in Business Management. They work part time while attending college to pay for their personal expenses.
Why do we have to pay for others who did not scrimp and save?!
Kudos!! I’m remembering my dad working his way through medical school in the 40s. His generous aunt helped as well, bless her. He paid her back every single penny with interest.
This is a huge own goal for this debauched administration. Even Dems are pronouncing it so. Saving is a virtue, and as such Marxists cannot understand it.
Self respect and personal honour have no price. You can look at yourself in the mirror and not flinch. Well done!
My son – College and Law School – student loans paid in full.
You did a good job, Mom. And he is a credit to you. I had this discussion tonight with my two grandlads, 17, now considering their options. I am turning them over to Almighty God.🙏
Those teens again
Teenage hooligan orcas! Young killer whales are attacking sailing boats off the coast of Europe in the latest ‘temporary cultural fad’ – more than 30 years after the animals were spotted wearing dead fish as HATS
— also disembowling great white sharks and eating their livers
I remember after the Exxon Valdez incident, where environmentalists used all those animals affected by the oil spill as stage props for their own cause.
The did a publicity stunt where they cleaned up one of the sea otters, gathered the media for the big send off once the otter was ready to go back into the wild.
They released the otter, and everyone thought it was so cute, he was swimming on back and it looked like it was waving to the crowd, oh how wonderful.
About a minute later, with cameras still rolling, Bam ! An orca came up out of nowhere and made the cute little otter it’s dinner.
Rush Limbaugh used to tell that story from time to time.
I miss Rush.
RIP El Rushbo 😇
Saw a show where an Orca attack on GW shark was observed, and all the GW sharks they were tracking fled the area. And it was a big area. Took a long time before they came back too.
It is good to be an apex predator until an extinction event occurs, then the species at the top of the food chain get wiped out because their prey either dies off or evolves to the colder conditions. Thus we have no Megalodons to contend with. Most likely wiped out by an ice age that cooled the oceans enough they could not survive in the colder waters, while their primary prey, whales, which are mammals, evolved and adapted to the colder conditions and continued to live and thrive in waters where those huge sharks could not survive.
It is cold that kills far more than heat.
I’ve watched several documenties on the Megalodons and they found the teeth, some almost as big as an adult hand, on the beaches of New York.
I know the Great Whites still prefer the colder water, some off the beaches in Santa Cruz and one even reported off San Francisco when I lived there, all cold water, as well as South Africa and Southern Australia.
Went to the boardwalk on Virginia Beach one time, and they had a tiger shark on display caught a few miles offshore of where we were, 20 feet in length. and they also prefer the warm waters of Hawaii.
Bull sharks are the wild card, they are the ones that attack without reason and have been known to swim inland in rivers in fresh water.
All fascinating animals.
The Megalodon and Great White are not of the same genus. The entire branch to which the Megalodon belonged went extinct.
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lotta knowlege here at the ol’ Treehouse
25 August 2000 Jack Nitzsche, American composer, arranger, music producer, keyboardist (Rolling Stones; Neil Young), and songwriter (“Up Where We Belong”), dies at 63.
25 August 1995 Doug Stegmeyer, American rock bassist (Billy Joel Band, 1976-87), dies of a self-inflicted gun wound at 43.
Feral Cat: enlightenment for abacab
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/genesis/abacab
Hi magic!!! Thanks
And here’s a fun watch!!
Thanks Cat. Haven’t heard this song in many years. Always liked it.
More fun to watch and listen.. thanks ..
the Treehouse is so informative …
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Cools beans, Magic!
Thanks for this… always fun to learn new things 🤣👍
Music for today:
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver – I Don’t Care
The Steeldrivers – Lonesome Goodbye
Flatt Lonesome – Runaway Train
August 25 Oswald Chambers
Sacrifice and Friendship
I have called you friends… —John 15:15
We will never know the joy of self-sacrifice until we surrender in every detail of our lives. Yet self-surrender is the most difficult thing for us to do. We make it conditional by saying, “I’ll surrender if…!” Or we approach it by saying, “I suppose I have to devote my life to God.” We will never find the joy of self-sacrifice in either of these ways.
But as soon as we do totally surrender, abandoning ourselves to Jesus, the Holy Spirit gives us a taste of His joy. The ultimate goal of self-sacrifice is to lay down our lives for our Friend (see John 15:13-14). When the Holy Spirit comes into our lives, our greatest desire is to lay down our lives for Jesus. Yet the thought of self-sacrifice never even crosses our minds, because sacrifice is the Holy Spirit’s ultimate expression of love.
Our Lord is our example of a life of self-sacrifice, and He perfectly exemplified Psalm 40:8, “I delight to do Your will, O my God….” He endured tremendous personal sacrifice, yet with overflowing joy. Have I ever yielded myself in absolute submission to Jesus Christ? If He is not the One to whom I am looking for direction and guidance, then there is no benefit in my sacrifice. But when my sacrifice is made with my eyes focused on Him, slowly but surely His molding influence becomes evident in my life (see Hebrews 12:1-2).
Beware of letting your natural desires hinder your walk in love before God. One of the cruelest ways to kill natural love is through the rejection that results from having built the love on natural desires. But the one true desire of a saint is the Lord Jesus. Love for God is not something sentimental or emotional— for a saint to love as God loves is the most practical thing imaginable.
“I have called you friends….” Our friendship with Jesus is based on the new life He created in us, which has no resemblance or attraction to our old life but only to the life of God. It is a life that is completely humble, pure, and devoted to God.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are not fundamentally free; external circumstances are not in our hands, they are in God’s hands, the one thing in which we are free is in our personal relationship to God. We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us, or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
https://utmost.org/sacrifice-and-friendship/
Good morning, Cat.
Good Morning Betsy!!!
Been thinking of you and all treepers….
Hope you all are enjoying the last bits of summer!!! ❤️
Shouldn’t wish the time away…but I find myself really looking forward to Autumn this year. I think most people are.
Goodaye Cat!
August 25
MORNING
Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Isa. 51:1
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity. Psa. 51:5
None eye pitied thee, . but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee…. Live. Ezek. 16:5, 6
He brought me up … out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. Psa. 40:2, 3
When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Rom. 5:6-8
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. Eph. 2:4, 5
EVENING
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God. Isa. 61:10
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. Psa. 34:1-3
The LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. Psa. 84:11, 12
Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Psa. 103:1
Is any merry? let him sing psalms. James 5:13
Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things. Eph. 5:18-20
Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col. 3:16
At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. Acts 16:25
Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again, I say, Rejoice. Phil. 4:4
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/08/0825.html
25 August 1962
After Cameo Records producers passed on the opportunity to have Dee Dee Sharp record a Gerry Goffin / Carole King song called “The Loco-Motion”, Don Kirshner at Dimension Records decided to take a chance on it. He liked the demo record’s singer, Eva Boyd, who was Goffin and King’s babysitter, and had her re-record it. The result was a US number one hit.
25 August 1976
Boston releases their self-titled album, which will become the best-selling, debut Rock album of all time.
25 August 1979
Nine weeks after being released, The Knack‘s infectious tune “My Sharona” reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 where it would remain for six weeks. Billboard magazine would name the record as the number one single of 1979.
The group’s lead singer and rhythm guitarist, Doug Fieger would later say that he put words to guitarist Berton Averre’s melody in about fifteen minutes, writing about his 17-year-old girlfriend, Sharona Alperin.
I’m curious where the drumming and base playing sits in the Knack’s song creation process. If they were added afterwards, they still managed to drive the song.
The creation process is always fascinating. Despite watching shows that talk about it, they never really cover it well.
I use to install car stereos, amps, speakers, equalizers, etc. when I was in college to earn to some extra money.
Boston, came out of MIT, they had a certain “sound” that could not be reproduced. I use to use the song ‘Don’t Look Back’ to to tune the equalizers with.
Home.
They told me they had the last two runs I was to do covered at Romulus so I bobtailed home last night. This morning at 10:00 I go out for a three stopper in Illinois. Should be my last run of the week. I have to go in at 09:00 to talk to the safety department. I don’t know what that is about. Hard telling.
Keep us in the loop, rah.🙏
Ok! I have been a bad boy and must be punished!
They caught me touching the screen of my GPS too much while driving on August 8th.
Best I can remember I was trying to find a route around a backup.
My punishment is Safety School! 3 to 4 hours out of a Saturday.
Will not effect my pay or safety and performance bonus.
Oh dear golly…….jobsworths we call them. You? In Safety Class? I’m doing my best to stifle a guffaw. Without much success. HONESTLY!
Do you have one of those “How am I driving?” notices on your truck? I used to call in all the time with kudos when I saw truckers being particularly courteous or miraculously dodging idiots on the road. I figured they did not get many good calls.
Came up on a truck one time that had one of those stickers, but the driver put a piece of duct tape over the phone number.
Thought that was clever.
There is an 800 number on the back of the company trailers.
Been years since anyone has called in on me.
Dems and Libs in the office?
New assistant safety director that never drove a truck but loves spending time checking out driver and dash cams I hear.
Really though it seems silly, I get it! The bias has always been against truckers and trucking companies in the courts and so the company has to be strict.
The ONLY reason why we have driver cams and not just dash cams is because even when the dash cam shows that the other person was wrong in what they did, a judge awarded the decision to them saying that he could not see what the truck driver was doing and how they reacted.
Lawyering to get huge liability awards from trucking companies is big business.
For the 4th time in the last 6 years the surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet is above the 30 year mean.
But according to the media the ice sheet in Greenland is melting away.
End Of The Greenland Melt Season | Real Climate Science
In the end, all one has to do is pay attention to sea level rise (SLR) and absolutely nothing unusual is happening with that. The Obamas have built two sea shore mansions with a total value of between 4 and 6 million dollars. They obviously don’t have any worries about SLR.
That graph bugs me.
Looking yearly, you start fresh every year. So 0 at the start.
They pick the start of the cold season to start the year. So it grows steadily for 9 months.
And it declines in the three warm months. All understandable.
But the average year ends with an addition of ~385 Gt more ice than it started.
And there are No years where there is a net Loss of ice.
Yet everybody is worried that these glaciers are melting?
Mornin’ comrade banana republic infidels.
Love Stephen Miller. He’s got a first class brain…and uses it. Possibly Mr Trump’s best hire amongst so many who betrayed him, and us.
I always wished he was the “Sr. Advisor”, he has a good head on his shoulders.
He always seemed to have another higher mental gear he’d shift to. No interviewer could get anything past him, and brother!!! Did they ever try. Each time he left them in the dirt. Glorious. I agree with you, Gabriel.
Another data point in the long list of data points about how this is the dumbest administration ever. Democrats are motivited to vote by what is promised and almost never delivered. You don’t pay them off before the election as that lowers the motivation to vote. Take abortion. The Democrats think it will be a huge motivator. For years they have said “Vote for me and I will protect abortion” and now they have proved there is no reason to vote for them on this issue. It has become a demotivator.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/cms/CROSSCARDS/24272-faith-mark–39-414-1280-x-854.jpg
Thank you duchess. I stumbled on that last one a while back, and I loved it so much I saved it.🙏
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
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)
Thursday of the Eleventh Week after Pentecost
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord
Dormition Fast
Holy Martyrs Photios and Anecitos of Nicomedia and many with them (+ 305-306)
Holy Martyrs of Belgorod, Russia (+ 1918)
August 12th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
August 25th – civil or commercial calendar
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.
I always appreciate this prayer and this image!
Powerful, in words, and in the image.
Verse of the Day for Thursday, August 25, 2022
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“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
Acts 1:8 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Went to see Kid Rock last night in Mass and the support for 45 was next level.
45 actually recorded a video message for Kid Rock’s show, make America ROCK again! His best cover of the night was cat scratch fever from Nugent.
I recorded the message from 45 you can see and hear the support:
I can listen to his album ‘The History of Rock’ on repeat and never get tired of it, even to this day.
Dude can just flat out rock the crowd: rock, rap, country, hip hop, doesn’t matter whatever your taste is he can play it.
What a great idea for President Trump and KR to put that together!
Aside from the failed lizard hunt, won’t go much into that other than the wife blew a hole in patio wall and spooked the intended target, ( she was jumping up and down saying “oh wow, I almost hit it !” ), I’m screaming “Come over here, over here before you shoot !!!”, but no, she’s not a good listener. All I could do was a palm smack to my own forehead and say “Eh ….”.
But another funny story. We were at the pool tonight and she told about a patient they had that came in from ICU for surgery.
The guy was getting a tracheotomy ( spelling ??? ) in his throat so she had to shave his throat to prep him for surgery. She told me that he had a beard and it was kind of nasty and so was the skin underneath, so she thought she would be nice, shave the beard, and clean up the skin underneath before they took him in to have the procedure, ( She’s the Sr. Nurse at the local govt. hospital here. )
She said a short time later, everyone on her team came over to her and was asking her what the hell she was doing ?!?!?!?
She didn’t understand why they were upset and then they told her that the man was Muslim and she just shaved his beard off.
She said, ‘I was just trying to do something nice.’, at this point, all I can do is just shake my head. Then she said, “It’s ok, he don’t know where he’s at and can’t think so he won’t know.”, another palm plant to my own forehead.
Night time now, listen to some music, drink a couple of beers, go to bed, and head to a resort in mountains tomorrow for the weekend after wife gets off work.
Y’all have a great day and good weekend, above all, stay safe …
Romans 12:2 be ye not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
That is what school should be about but it is exactly the opposite. Gods plan to educate or guide us in anyway is turned by the enemy, bent for evil.
Government wants you to struggle if you stay with your children and teach them at home. Sacrifice is what it’s all about with God. It builds faith.
I have also seen a strange thing with us humans. When we have it good, we look solely on the bad and gripe and moan. When we are in desperate circumstances we shine. Why is that?
As individuals we can see good and enjoy but in a group we tend to envy, which is addressed as sin.
It’s why I see our potential limitless, we are best achieving, overcoming, advancing constantly. It is our nature. Socialism is opposite to that, I assume why we fall into communism or Marxism, to engage in a challenge once again. Overcoming the struggle of oppression.
Under that idea, only Gods plan achieves our advancement without the downfalls. To do for others, as unto God. Imagine never looking back or at ourselves, but forward. I believe that very quickly we would ascend into a higher form of consciousness, it is the only limitless place to go.
Which brings me to one more place. If there were occupants on other planets that did not fall, they would be far from our ability to comprehend. The only forms would be of a lower nature of consciousness. Bodies are a hindrance, and in a limitless consciousness it would not be needed in a physical form.
Anyway, three people left this earth without dying, mosses was unaccounted for but assumed to have transcended without death. Jesus came back to show us a different form. All were advanced in Faith in God to a point of leaving this world. Jesus came advanced, and returned to his place. More to this then we think. It is also why religion came into being, control. Ancient people knew this.
And what keeps “us” here? Our minds rebellion, our envy and thoughts. I will even go further. We are influenced by other entities.
God is the only being who can advance us and fulfill us. He gave us more in the manual then laws he gave us freedom, unlimited freedom. By looking at sin, before, during and especially after it is committed, it tethers you to it and this place of consciousness. It’s why he said “your sins are as far from me as the east is from the west”, it releases you, that you may advance.
God is here, always but we do not see him, angels, passed loved ones. The war in our bodies is against the constant pressure to sin. What happens when we refuse? The ultimate rebellion! Hmmm, I believe “that” is why the manual is here. A contract for those who wish sign on with God.
It has been said in different ways by different people, our world in itself has a gravity that binds to sin. I see no other way but God in his mercy or grace to escape that force. It is a gift, and may be equal to a curse if it is granted in our current form. His protection has to be present at all times. All cannot be feared, for fear is not of God only by faith can we advance. There are natural forces that are examples to us. Gravity is one. If we are in constant fear of falling and death we will never fly, or even attempt to fly.
Our sin, in many circumstances is held by us in fear of losing it, the sin, because it is familiar. When you see someone that will not advance from sin it is there fears that bind them. Sin is a mistake that separates us from God. It bends us and binds us. Our choice must be love of God in all our heart and mind. It cleanses us and is a goal to keep us focused.
“Sacrifice is what it’s all about with God. It builds faith.”
Strongly disagree, you are in a spiritual war, you win wars by making the other side sacrifice themselves for their beliefs, just my thoughts. The fact that the other side has yet to make a move is a sign there is still something of the Light left, otherwise they would be all over you right now.
“If there were occupants on other planets that did not fall, they would be far from our ability to comprehend.”
If there is anything on other planets, then they descended from humans, how and why is another two day discussion. I’m just saying you’re more important than you think you are.
Angels ? This world if so full of chaos and darkness right now, they can not exist in this envrionment at the moment, they would go insane the second they assume a human form.
“The war in our bodies is against the constant pressure to sin.”
We are our own worst enemies, no question about that, but to sin is to be human, and that’s what you are right now, human. So why people knock themselves out over ‘sin’, I’ll never know.
The “war” inside you mention is called a “conscience”. Bad people don’t have one, good people do.
Hmmm, Angels?? We are all “taught” to believe and have “comfort” at the thought of Angels “protecting” us. Sorry, not quite. There has always existed a “war” between Angels and humans. It is written that God said “Let US create man. The Angels “advised” NO – humans, they contented would never be truthful (pure) enough to stand in front of God. You see Angels do not have “freedom of choice” – they work for God – period, their main function being to never allow ANY form of contamination or “evil” to stand in front of God. If they do appear to be “on our side”, it is purely by instruction from God. It is told that when Moses (in the spiritual world) went to receive the commandments (word) from God, fierce terrifying Angels blocked his passage, arguing how could such holy and highly wisdom be given to sinful man. Being terrified Moses asked God what to do – and was told by God “Hold on to my throne of honor and answer them” Moses then answered the Angels thus – do you have parents that you should honor – do you have an evil inclination that causes you to sin -it is man and not you that require the word and mercy of the Creator.
Bottom line – they are on our side (sorta) but their primary purpose is to protect the honor of God from any and all. If you are pure, in truth, and intent, you got nothing to worry about.
Four score and one years ago my parents brought forth upon this continent a new baby and it was ME. Yep, 81 today. Am I the oldest Treeper?
Congratulations and Happy Birthday !!!
Oh HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Merrie!!! I bet you can hardly believe you’ve reached this wonderful age. And I bet you are even wondering where the time went. The days are long, but the years are short. Ain’t it the truth. May God’s Blessings continue to be with you, fellow Treeper. I hope this will be a day to remember, with so many more to follow🤗💕
81, by the way, is not your age…it’s the number of years the world has had the pleasure of your company😉💕
Betsey, I’m stealing this reponse, but I will credit you when I quote you. Honestly!
Hahaha!!😁 That’s all right, Andeclain… Truth will out…actually I saw it long ago and…what’s the word?? Purloined, borrowed, stole it myself. Be my guest. I loved it so much because it is possibly one of the nicest birthday greetings I have ever seen, and I swore up and down I’d pass it along.
As Ad rem said to me long ago when I posted a good one and admitted to theft, “Omerta…shhhh!”
Blessings to you.🙏💕
I think many have put themselves up in that age category with you. So probably not. But I’m not in contention.
It is to be hoped, Jim, you will be eventually😉
Hope you are having a great special day merrie!
still debating if this is an Open Daily Thread, or Presidential Thread topic, so posting here.
Linked is a new Rounding the Earth substack post where the author, Mathew Crawford, looks at the actuary numbers of mortality numbers, titled “Reanalysis of the Society of Actuaries Group Life Covid-19 Mortality Survey Report Destroys Vaccine Efficacy Narrative” :
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/reanalysis-of-the-society-of-actuaries
Do both!! I often do…
Rain, rain rain. It’s been raining nonstop for a week here. Can’t wait for a glimpse of the sun again!
Send to Texas please🙏
And South Carolina!
🙏!!
Sundance, you recently posted about utility bills in florida skyrocketing south of I-4. I have to correct you in that Gainesville Regional Utility has the highest rates in the state of Florida.
Recently gru sent out an email that they will not enforce late fees and per the attached article are now refunding People’s deposits to help offset their skyrocketing bills.
Well that’s something anyway. But this can’t go on.
Just reading about small businesses, pubs and restaurants slamming their doors shut in the UK.This is intended. Britain’s in the green cult camp. And today the nearly gone but not quite Johnson after his trip to Ukraine the other day actually said the pain and deprivation and poverty being experienced in the UK is most certainly worth it and will continue, because while citizens there are being bankrupted, Ukraine is paying in blood. A buffoon and a dangerous Schwab acolyte. His successor, either dimbulb Truss or globalist Sunak, will not lift a finger to make anything better.
Things will get very nasty in the UK in the next few months.
Prayer request update:
Doctors decided MIL needs a valve, not a stint so they are sending her home tomorrow morning.
Doctors will meet in the morning to determine next steps. Open heart is not an option.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR VERY EVIDENT CONCERN AND PRAYER.
This place is a great haven of rest and repose and inspiration for me.
More later. 🔥✝️🙏🔥
Gosh frank, keep us posted.
Oh dear, Frank. She has been on my mind all day. I’d hoped you’d be back with good news, and I am distressed to learn her road back to health will be longer and more complicated. I’m sure she is unhappy as well, and I am so sorry. But it WILL be all right in the end. Its the waiting that I think must be the hardest. I pray she’ll be able to know Almighty God is with her and that she has the best most loving family surrounding her. Keeping my prayers for her eventual successful surgery…with great affection. Bet🙏💕
I’m not a wordsmith like you, but know this…I love you sis.
Grace to you and yours. ✝️
From the vault of fond memories, better times, and hair. Queued to final duet. Awesome. She really belts it out.
HBO had Meat do a concert recording for them, I recorded it on VHS, wish I had converted it to digital back when I had the capability functioning before the VHS/DVD recorder quit functioning and was no longer available to purchase.
So many things to transfer, I have tried to find this HBO special and been unsuccessful, I don’t think HBO ever released or repeated it again.
They did this tune as well…one of them or both were punking each other as she repeated intro lines multiple times to him….they were having a blast.
Amen
Amen.
Anadeclain, good morning. I have a visitor and we are going on a tour and won’t be back until long after time to post. I thought I would let you know ahead of time today if you can do it. I hope you get this and thanks.
Amen…
Amen and amen🙏
Amen.
Jesus Christ is Lord.