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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When Americas greatest theological/philosophical thinker died, his beloved wife Sarah had a wonderful response.
That response is found in the short read below, and gives a glimpse into the bright treasure chest of the attributes of God.
Like Job, Sarah Adams understood the Sovereignty of God and therefore was able to endure like so few.
https://www.samstorms.org/all-articles/post/-cheerful-resignation-to-the-divine-will-:-learning-from-the-death-of-jonathan-edwards
I love that verse above DD … you made my day.
I’ve got a few “oxen in the ditch” so I’ll be thinking of Job’s and Sarah’s great God as we prepare for 🌧️ rain.
Morning dear Frank!
Good morning, as G says, Dear Frank and Dear G. What a joy to see you both one right after the other this morning. The two of you so close to my heart.🙏😘
Greets!
Short, beautiful, and powerful. The words as well as the sustaining message. Much to contemplate and take to heart.
Thanks beloved Bet.
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Ewwww!
Update on Larry the Cat, Chief Louder at No 10 Downing Street, residence of the UK PM…
Larry has now outlasted 4 Prime Ministers. He holds true power over the country. And in my view would be a safer four paws to run it than any of the globalist yahoos making their bids to be PM.
So sayeth I!!😼
That’s CHIEF MOUSER!!! Goodness, Autocorrect…educate yourself!
She no longer needs you . . .
One more . . .
Bless-ed Sunday, Garrison. Love her, perhaps the purest voice ever in country and western music.😘
No jay two days in a row…praying all is well, Mr jay.🙏
I think the R&R must be vacation.
jay 1776
October 19, 2022 12:18 am
Morning Ya’ll
Off on another R&R be blessed!
Thank you so much, Magic. I missed that. Good for him…blessings to you😊.
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Good morn, Patience and Ma🤗🤗. Praying you girls have a peaceful Sunday in this upside down world of ours. Second cup of tea in hand here…thank you for the beautiful pot, girl.😊
Thank you, Betsy❣️
May this blessed Sunday be the beginning of a joy-filled week
for you
and all those you hold dear.
Oh bless….thank you, my friend😘
Mornin’ Bet. Just realized I forget to post the Treehouse Church’s Sunday benediction . . . Gettin’ old. Sorry. Have a blessed Sunday, everyone! 🙂
Thanks and Blessed Sunday morning, My man Garrison❣️
Hi, Patience. Reality bites . . . 🙂
Oh bless, Garrison…I do love this so much. A benediction is exactly how I hear it. Blessings always,, my friend🙏😘
Blessings to you also, Bet. i had planned to post Voces8 with the Parting Glass video. I think I’ll do that in tonight’s thread. Be well, love. 🙂
Thank you, sir….I’ll look forward to VOCES8. Crystal clear voices that cut right to the soul🤗
Nice choices, Garrison… as they say in some parts… “Ya done good”
Thanks, benzy. . . As in “Ya’ll done real good! . . . ” 🙂
Good morning Garrison, Bet, and benzy! Been wondering about jay myself. May your day be blessed.
Hey there, Grandpa.. Good morning back your way too
Mornin’ Gramps. Have a blessed Sunday.
Blessed Sunday morning, Pa❣️
Back at you Patience! ❤️
🙂
Amen. ✝️
Amen!!
I hope you all have a blessed Sunday.
This day in 1927.
Two weeks later, the worst flooding in Vermont’s history occurred.
This happened just as the worst flooding in US history was starting to dry up along the Mississippi.
The tornado season was particularly bad that year. St. Louis was wiped out.
The Red Cross said that 1927 was the worst year in it’s history due to the number of natural disasters that year.
Heatwave Of October 23, 1927 | Real Climate Science
BTW
Atmospheric CO2 in 1927 was at about 280 ppm.
Wow. Great read. Great picture.
Whoever took that pic was risking their life!
Thanks for sharing. 🙌
Good morning rah! There you go again, confusing the libtards with facts. 😂 How we’re them pork chops last night?
Great! IMO for grilling, chops about 3/4″ thick are perfect. Sherry had marinated them all day in just butter, garlic , and Season All. The escalloped potatoes and homemade coleslaw were perfect sides. Some things just go better together than others.
Thanks a lot Rah for the description.
Now, how the hell can I get all my drool off the keyboard…………………..
Good morning all!
Have a very Blessed Sunday!
And to you SouthernHeart🙏
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
By John Barry
Great book!
Sad to look at its diminishing waters now.
Herbert Hoover organized much of the relief efforts for the 1927 flood and was elected President subsequently.
23 October 2014 Alvin Stardust [Bernard Jewry], English rock singer(“Jealous Mind”) dies of prostate cancer at 72
23 October 2005 Pete Nelson [Lipscomb], British pop singer (The Flower Pot Men – “Let’s Go To San Francisco”), dies at 60
23 October 1978 Maybelle Carter, American country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
After the conclusion of President Trump’s Save America speech tonight, the standard song, “Sam and Dave – Hold On, I’m Coming”, was played. After that I am pretty sure that I heard David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’.
Makes sense since both President Trump and I are big Bowie fans!
David Bowie – Heroes
David Bowie – Absolute Beginners
David Bowie “My way”
Remember this one?
In addition to singing, David Bowie is a great actor.
COME HOLY GHOST, CREATOR BLEST
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 14: 15-21, KJV
1. Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,
And make our hearts your place of rest;
Come with your grace and heav’nly aid,
And fill the hearts which you have made.
2. To you, the Counselor, we cry,
To you, the gift of God most high;
The fount of life, the fire of love,
The soul’s anointing from above.
3. In you, with graces sevenfold,
we God’s almighty hand behold
While you with tongues of fire proclaim
to all the world his holy name.
4. Your light to ev’ry thought impart,
And shed your love in ev’ry heart;
The weakness of our mortal state
With deathless might invigorate.
5. Drive far away our wily foe,
And your abiding peace bestow;
If you are our protecting guide,
No evil can with us abide.
6. Teach us to know the Father, Son,
And you, from both, as Three in One
That we your name may ever bless
And in our lives the truth confess.
7. Praise we the Father and the Son
And Holy Spirit, with them One,
And may the Son on us bestow
The gifts that from the Spirit flow!
Niiiiiice ✝️
Hi Frank. Best Sunday wishes to you
Have a blessed Sunday, 1530.
And you too, GrandpaM.
Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
About doubt. Four minutes.
This program is a mission to youth. But very old me gets more out of it than most things at the bible book shop.
October 23 Oswald Chambers
Nothing of the Old Life
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. —2 Corinthians 5:17
Our Lord never tolerates our prejudices— He is directly opposed to them and puts them to death. We tend to think that God has some special interest in our particular prejudices, and are very sure that He will never deal with us as He has to deal with others. We even say to ourselves, “God has to deal with other people in a very strict way, but of course He knows that my prejudices are all right.” But we must learn that God accepts nothing of the old life! Instead of being on the side of our prejudices, He is deliberately removing them from us. It is part of our moral education to see our prejudices put to death by His providence, and to watch how He does it. God pays no respect to anything we bring to Him. There is only one thing God wants of us, and that is our unconditional surrender.
When we are born again, the Holy Spirit begins to work His new creation in us, and there will come a time when there is nothing remaining of the old life. Our old gloomy outlook disappears, as does our old attitude toward things, and “all things are of God” (2 Corinthians 5:18). How are we going to get a life that has no lust, no self-interest, and is not sensitive to the ridicule of others? How will we have the type of love that “is kind…is not provoked, [and] thinks no evil”? (1 Corinthians 13:4-5). The only way is by allowing nothing of the old life to remain, and by having only simple, perfect trust in God— such a trust that we no longer want God’s blessings, but only want God Himself. Have we come to the point where God can withdraw His blessings from us without our trust in Him being affected? Once we truly see God at work, we will never be concerned again about the things that happen, because we are actually trusting in our Father in heaven, whom the world cannot see.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The fiery furnaces are there by God’s direct permission. It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances; we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
https://utmost.org/nothing-of-the-old-life/
Good morning, Cat. More and more I get the feeling that we are being forged in the fires of today’s inexplicable chaos. 🙏 This today is a very apt sermon. Blessings to you, my friend, on this, the Lord’s day.
A second good morning Bet, today I’m greeting at church 😁. After the services the church has our fall celebration from 1-7 but another one of the greeters will be on duty. I’ll be going on a corn buying mission after church. Discovered yesterday afternoon that one of my feeders was empty. A young two yo buck was doing his thing , rubbing his antlers, pawing at the ground waiting for the feeder to go off. And it went but ping, only one little corn came out. Should’ve checked before I sat in the blind for an hour but it was very peaceful and relaxing even at 83 degrees. ❤️😘
I can imagine the peace, G. Perhaps there was a reason you didn’t check? Enjoy your peace and the thoughts that come with it…there is so little in this world at present. Lovely…🙏😘
Hi Feral! I left a message for you and Mungrel on yesterday’s thread. 💪❤️
Good morning Cat! 💜😍
Blessed Sunday to all ❤️
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Mornin’ all!
Thats exactly the strategy that the DemocRATs are trying to use….only they “disguise” it by calling it “women’s rights.”
Or women’s “healthcare “.
But definitively not the baby’s. Our language and thinking has been corrupted by those who think the words change the deed.
…..but they refuse to define what a woman is.
. . . 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)
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
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, October 23, 2022
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“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Matthew 16:26 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
FOR THE CHILDREN IN CAPTIVITY
RESCUE ME
Angel of the Lord stay with me tonight
Help me to endure till the morning light
When the soldiers arrive to help me flee
Thru the maze of the tunnels and be free
Rescue me from this horrific plight
From the daily pain help me take flight
Take all of the babies heaven bound
No more suffering the terror sound
Let silence bring peace from abuse
And nightmares cease to induce
Memories of frightful occurrences
Bring forth the mighty deterrences
Sweet Jesus come and comfort me
Let nothing that hurts come to be
Let no one touch me unnecessarily
Bring forth the soldiers militarily
Let this be the last horror I see
Come quickly Lord and rescue me
Get me out of the oppressors way
Guide me out of the tunnels today
Take me to freedom into the light
Take me far from the oppressors sight
Bring me into the open arms of love
Follow the Angels sent from above
Thank You for ending my agony
Thank You for setting me free
Thank You for so caring be
Thank You for rescuing me!
D01: 07/10/2021
Amen 🙏
One of your finest, duchess, imo.. thank you says feral through the tears….
Awww…how sweet of you to say, Cat!!! (whispering) I cried as I wrote it – poor babies 🙁
BTW Pfizer raised the price of the COVID jabs 400% on the heals of the CDC putting them on their recommended vaccinations list starting at age 6 months.
“These people are sick”
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Please don’t forget another peaceful Oct. 23 Sunday morning, 39 years ago in Beirut, Lebanon.
When the smoke cleared, 241 Marines, sailors, and soldiers — peacekeepers — were killed in an explosion that represented the largest loss of life in a single day for the Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
May God grant them peace.
Semper Fi!
I flew into Beirut International as part of an Army SF MTT (Mobile Training Team) consisting of two “A” teams and a “B” team on the following January 4th.
By that time the Marines had piled up the rubble, tunneled into it and had a strong perimeter around it.
Two weeks later the Marines started pulling out and things went to crap as the Muslim Militias fought the LDF (Lebanese Defense Forces) for control of the airport. The Lebanese “Rangers” we were training went into the city to fight. They got themselves in tight place and were retreating up the coast and the US and British embassy, then combined on the same ground right on the coastal hwy refused to let them pass through their grounds.
Needless to say it was a job for us reestablish rapport with those troops we were to train after that!
While they were up to that half of us were dedicated as a quick reaction team for the US ambassadors residence and the other half were guarding Donald Rumsfeld’s staff as he was there as a special envoy for President Reagan.
The fact that those Marines were killed can be laid right at the feet of officers who failed to recognize the threat, did not brief their Marines as if they were in a hostile situation, and being more afraid of an accident than an attack, did not even allow the Marine guards to have locked and loaded weapons with mags having live rounds in their weapons.
All the training in the world does not prepare either officers or men for the harsh reality that there are people out to kill them. Let alone terrorists that will blow themselves up to do so. Only veterans know the real deal.
https://www.agriculture.com/farm-management/farm-land/bill-gates-is-about-to-change-the-way-amer-ca-farms
Interesting article about Bill Gates and farm land purchases.
https://www.agriculture.com/farm-management/farm-land/bill-gates-is-about-to-change-the-way-amer-ca-farms
This is a video about pet dogs in Ukraine. “So many families leave the country and their pets are just left behind on the streets. We don’t leave the country, we continue to feed stray dogs and rescue as many animals as we can
Please pray for Ukraine, please pray for us and our Furry Friends to be safe .
LORD, YOU GIVE ME LIFE
I love you, Lord – You are my rock – my strength;
A fighting, forceful – unwavering – wavelength;
My buckler – my shield – who has led me sure;
Out of the darkness – into Your light so pure!
In You – I take refuge and rest assured;
From temptation and sin – I am secured;
You have rescued me from the evil throes;
In my distress – You have foiled my foes!
Lord – You Give Me Life – grace and peace;
The turmoil around me – You calmly cease;
Through the anguish and torment – You console;
In, through, and with You – I’ve become whole!
Through Your Spirit – I am comforted best;
In my weakness – I am surely put to the test;
I cried out in prayer – and You answered me;
With true repentance – You have set me free!
On the cross – the ransom You paid for my sins;
Your sacrifice there is where new life begins;
For it is in dying – we are born again;
And it is in rising – eternally – we gain!
Lord – You Give Me Life – Your Gift of Grace;
And I so long someday – to see Your Face;
For You are my light and my salvation;
The grantor of joyous jubilation!
You ask only I love as You have done;
You laid down Your life – for victory won;
If I deny myself – and follow You;
I will experience Your victory, too!
Just as it is in giving that we receive;
It is in dying to self – we will conceive;
An end to the turmoil – the gift of strife;
The fruits of our labor – the Crown of Life!
Lord – You Give Me Life – life eternally;
With an increase in faith – less fearfully;
I can rise to new heights of blessedness;
Because You are my life’s assuredness!
D01: 09/25/2013
…You ask only I love as You have done;
❤️
Thank you ✝️
Does anyone else use firefox for their browser? They updated a couple of days ago and now YouTube won’t download nor will my library audio books. There is no way to communicate with the idiots who designed this mess.
Ouch. I can’t help. Try again early manana.
I actually held this letter in my hands and read it. It is the July 3, 1776 letter from John Adams to Abigail. It was a privilege to hold and read the very words that have been quoted in history books so many times. I wonder what those two founding Americans would say today.
The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.
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I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.
Wow. Wonderful!
Where were you when you read it? I’ll check back tomorrow.
I’ve read a great work you should consider buying:
The Love Letters of John and Abigail Adams. ✝️
I was on a trip with a group of teachers for the Teaching American History grant about 17 years ago. It was one of the best learning experiences I’ve had. We got to read the letter as well as many other artifacts at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The staff there were very gracious. We also got to view and hold an original Paul Revere Boston Massacre print. The colors were very vivid. It is clear that he meant to inflame passions as the blood was very prominent in the print. It was one extrordinary week.
Well, here I am sleeping in the truck parked in the back lot of this Toyota plant in Owensboro, KY.
Dinner tonight was a can of Dinty Moore chicken & dumplings.
The rest of my nights down here this week will most likely be spent in a motel room.
I will be on call 24 hours until Friday night.
I see pizza in my near future.
Amen…
Amen 🙏
Amen
Amen.
Amen!
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.