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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✝️ DAILY DEVOTIONAL, November 21, 2022
So beautiful, Dan. There is such joy in this, and it has always been one of my favourites.
And good morning to all my Treehouse family. May all His blessings be with each one of you, my precious, irreplaceable friends.
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I can see everything else.”
~CS Lewis ~
And to reprise Dr Spurgeon…
“Within Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.”
Is there anything more comforting than that?
Good afternoon Bet and Frank, and amen!
Good afternoon, G. A busy Monday here trying to get shopping done before the last minute crowds step in. Plus our super dooper plumber is installing another garbage disposal for us. I’m thinking of setting up residential quarters for him as this is the 3rd time (for different things) he’s had to come out in 2 months. And bless him, he always cuts us some slack on the end price, for which we are so grateful. Small blessings always welcome😉😘
Same here, Bet. Busy day, early lunch with our adopted couple, then off to work out, then back home and a drive to pick up step dad’s old truck from the oil change place – had to flush the radiator and put some fresh antifreeze in. Finally home but had to make a few calls to cancel a couple of the business credit cards. And finally a call to Patriot mobile to figure out why my phone didn’t want to give me a mobile hot spot since my satellite internet is down. All in all a productive day. Got it all taken care of. Forgot a stop at HEB after the workout. 🙂
You never stopped! I’m tired now just reading about your day😉 But yes, at the end of it, I bet if feels brilliant that you took care of it all one day…as we did.
Done and dusted, as we say. Phew!!😘
Amen Dan and sis. ❤️✝️❤️
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claws are out, I notice
*Red* sayz : “The Better to Catch *Slate* With 😺
😻😸
” after With and Before 😺 🙄
“When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood, but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
A place to wait.
Good morning, Mr jay 🤗
What a splendid bench for this Monday. Well worn for travellers to rest a while on the road to who knows where.
Maidin Mhaith Betsy 🙂
Gorgeous!! I don’t see room for a bench there, but I certainly can imagine sitting on one and marveling at the beauty in front of me. Stunning!💕
Nice place for a bench up on 1 small plateau 😁
😁!! It’s the getting up to that plateau that would offer a challenge for this lady of a certain age….
It’s right there, dear sis, right on the side of the cliff. 😂❤️😘
I see it!! Lovely! And yeaaaah…not happening!😂
A great capture ❣️
Good afternoon Patience! ❤️
Hellllo, Pa❣️
Whatever happened to ‘Bench Monday’ here in the Treehouse?
Did we run out of benches?
This is Monday…there sits a bench. Lucille used to bless us with them.
And now Mr jay has thoughtfully restarted what was a very much missed Treehouse tradition. Keep watch, Aggiegirl. Bench Mondays are back!! Whoever thought there could be so much happiness in seeing benches?😁💕
In addition to benches, miss all of the beautiful artwork posted by Dora and Smiley. Thank you to Mr. Jay for return to Bench Monday. More artwork would be appreciated, it is uplifting.
~If you appreciate John Singer Sargent
Good morning Patience and Ma🤗🤗
Imagine staring at a blank canvas with a vision in your head of what you want on it…and stroke by painstaking stroke being able to render such a beautiful painting.
All art is personal of course, but it simply amazes me to contemplate a painter’s God given gift to start with nothing and end up with something like this.
I feel the same about sculptors of old. Thinking of that most sublime piece Pieta. Apocryphal perhaps but I remember a quote (vaguely) attributed to Michelangelo where he said all he was doing when sculpting was getting rid of the superfluous to expose the work that was already in the pieces of marble he was laboriously chipping on.
Marvelous to think of.
I am a mechanic, I work on about everything it’s not the greasy mess or broken knuckles it’s the finished accomplishment.
As of now I work on 737’s and I am amazed how those planes fly thousands upon thousands of hours with the engineering that is in them. One engine can fly the entire plane. On one wing, full of passengers, and fuel. People have little understanding of that marvel flying everyday all over the world nonstop. All based on principles that can be relied upon over and over.
I have eluded to this many times but it never gets old, we cannot touch that plane without the manual reference, open and understood, you think that manual God gave us is less important than a plane? That’s called reverence.
Face book and tic tock said I should take the shot, I should not judge pedophiles, or homosexuals, or liars, murders, that character is no matter it’s ones intellectual standing with society that matters, and here we are.
I saw an incredible picture last night, Palerider, of a magnificent restored steam train as it exited a tunnel. The shot from ground level gave a clear view of all its parts, and I couldn’t help but stare and marvel at the intricate engineering of it…tiny bits of metal, big bits of metal…all of it working to make this glorious steam engine. I can absolutely understand your amazement as you write about those planes you work on.
Another photo I saw was one of a single cell in the human body and its contents. A breathtaking photo of the incredible “engineering” in that one cell….it was only a small leap to thinking of how many of those little miracles we are made of.
And an even smaller leap to understand how great is Almighty God! So now we have foul forces trying to “reengineer” His work because they in their filthy arrogance consider that they are the gods. They have so stated, all the while waving dismissive hands in the direction of heaven, sneering while they speak.
So let their mouthpiece technology get on with their antihuman, unholy, ungodly agenda. You, and I, and so many millions understand who is the driving force behind trying to separate us from God. Because in the end, those doing the pushing and their dark overload directing them will not be victorious.
It is written.
Blessings to you, sir.
Good frisky morning, Betsy☺️!
Yes… it really takes a lot of nerve; if only one chance. But excitement, joy, drive and confidence exude when execution begins.
Frustration and fear of losing the vision …and the light; light is everything, while in progress must be dealt with.
Staring at a blank canvas can be a downer without inspiration, an idea, and a plan.
There are of course happy accidents -thank God. 🫣
If I could be a true painter🤔.
So true, my friend.
My husband is, among other things, a watercolourlist of not unconsiderable talent. My granddaughter has stunned us with her artistic abilities and which showed up when she was only 12. I have a small pencil portrait of a cat we had which she drew. It is in every way, in every detail an exact image of this cat, right down to the expression in his eyes.
For me there is no question that their gifts are God given. And there is no question for me the same is true for the visions that come to those who have been blessed with talent. Lucky the recipient of such a gift…and your point about the light, or should I say Light? Yes…it really is everything. In more ways than one…😊🙏
Thank you.
Mornin’ jay 🙂 My back-in-the-day had a well positioned bench her yard so inviting that walkers would leave thank-you notes on it.
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My high school Malibu had a bench seat, prefer that to bucket seats actually! 😁😁
Hmm
Bench-pressing?
Night moves or paradise by the dashboard 😁
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Yesterday…… (sigh)
Afternoon jay!
Howdy Gramps 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Mornining, jay 🙂
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My name is most assuredly waaaaaaaaay down on that list.
But my name is in THE BOOK, which means I’ll make it home.
Can hardly wait. 🕶️✝️🕶️
Just dawned on me that Elizur means My God is a Rock.
turn the sound down, it’s annoying
Today’s maxim: “Just because you CAN weld, doesn’t mean you SHOULD”
Imagine the amount of time people spend thinking up videos.
Andrea Motis is one of Joan Chamorro’s Barcelona jazz band students. Now she’s pushing 30, is all grown up, and fronting for big bands. Joan Chamorro must be proud. Wouldn’t it be great if she teamed up with Brazil’s Joao Bosco’s big band?
One more . . .
To the Moon, Howdy Garrison 🙂
🙂
Morning, Garrison. Love the different interpretations. Emmy Lou has always been a fave, but I did like the orchestral tempo of that rendition. 😘
Good Morning, Bet. Andrea Motis started out as a little kid and, over time, matured into a straight ahead jazz musician. I have to say, she’s my favorite in this selection (although I always like Emmyloy’s music). There’s a lost Emmylou Austin City Limits video where she does this live that I wish I could find. It’s also p;retty amazing to realize how long ago Les Paul and Mary Ford were doing their stuff on the radio. I was just a little kid when I first heard this . . . and now I’m pretty doggone old . . . 😉
Scoot over, my friend. You’ve got company. Emmy Lou sang it well, but to my ear, I think that one suited Andrea’s style and voice better. It is always interesting to hear different interpretations. Sometimes I’ll hear something sung which I didn’t particularly like, only to hear it performed differently by someone else and find I absolutely love it. To each his/her own…right?🤗
Les Paul was not only a stellar class jazz guitarist, he was also a recording pioneer. He invented multitrack recording before there was multitrack recording. His early 50’s technology was primitive . . . but he figured out how to make it work to get the sound he wanted. By comparison, look at the 10cc documentary on making I’m Not In Love to see how they were doing basically the same thing only on modern equipment.
Both Emmylou’s and Toni’s guitar players had to have real chops to get so close to les Paul’s riffs. 🙂
He’d have been would I would call an “aural artist”. Amazing!
Morning, Garrison❣️
-wonderful
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Afternoon Garrison!
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Addendum: I’ve now listened to the Andrea Motis VTR Big Band performance several times. Her work is, of course, first class but there is something additional that she’s added to her performance. Did you notice that her English pronunciation is a lot better? She’s obviously spent some time working on her accient and is clearly edging away from Spanish/English toward singing with a vernacular American standard accient. If she begins sounding like Diana Krall she’ll make millions.
it’s a quarter to 1
just ah lookin for fun ….
Energy Crisis: German Minister President Suggests Heating One Room in Winter Is Enough – Watts Up With That?
I reckon their plumbers will love this idea. So many frozen and burst pipes and so little time!
Maybe the government can provide solar powered steam shovels so that Germans can dig caves into hillsides. Then use battery operated chain saws to cut down trees for heat and cooking. They could hunt bear, elk and deer for food. Don’t you just love “progess”… at least the kind progressives want to bring us?
Hunting in Germany
Is highly regulated and ritualized. It has to be because of the size of the human population relative to the amount of area they have. No Elk that I know of. Red Deer are pretty good sized though.
There are smaller deer species and wild boar.
Anyway you go you go through a Yeagermister.
Yeager.. and hard boiled eggs
Will the true German populace ever rise up from their icicle decorated homes and put an end to this madness…to the lunatic Greens in government? Admittedly it seems they all bought into how glorious the world would be without life sustaining energy.
But now that the existential consequences of their dead end fantasies are here, are they capable of doing what they should do?
The more I read articles written by those who understand the German psyche, the more I believe they will not. Go long on winter funerals and cremations (that is if there is enough fuel to conduct the latter).
Their taxes have most likely conditioned them to being silent.
-Staying lateral with no way up.
It remains to be seen if Germany as such will exist once the Green cultists and their installed government get through with them this winter. I am looking for the worst unless there is a mass awakening. So far I see no signs of it.
The unmitigated gall …
Harry and Meghan to Receive Kennedy Award for Fighting ‘Structural Racism’ in Royal Family
Harry and Meghan are to receive a human rights award for fighting “structural racism” within the Royal Family from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organisation.
For their efforts in causing chaos within the monarchy, renegade royals Harry and Meghan are to receive a human rights award, with the pair being credited as fighting “structural racism” within the institution.
The announcement has largely been ridiculed online, with a former aide to Margaret Thatcher describing the move as a “disgraceful attack” on the British monarchy.
According to the announcement … the pair are to receive the Ripple of Hope award alongside Bank of America tsar Brian Moynihan and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Justifying the award, the organisation’s president, Kerry Kennedy, said that both Meghan and Harry lived up to her father Robert F. Kennedy’s belief in racial justice with their actions.
“They went to the oldest institution in UK history and told them what they were doing wrong, that they couldn’t have structural racism within the institution; that they could not maintain a misunderstanding about mental health,”
That is PATHETIC! Harry and Meghan, but especially Meghan, are an annoying and irritating embarrassment to the Royal Family. And neither one of them, sadly, has two functioning brain cells to rub together.
No link available but I remember a quote from Prince Phillip, allegedly to ‘counsel’ Harry regarding his choice of spouse:
“One steps out with actresses, one does not marry them.”
I guess it applies equally to actresses, but I have always said there is one clear advantage to having a relationship with a beauty queen: you always know who is the most important person in the relationship.
*snort*
Self-important
flakes
It is even more pathetic to see new terms put into dead people’s mouths. Even when it is done by their children.
Just when did Robert Kennedy speak about racial justice?
Robert Kennedy Jr was appalled by this, and has said so.
Stupid boy, Harry. What might have been for you…and this raging narcissist and shameless self promoter trapped you in her spider’s web. He has taken the scissors which she has handed to him and thread by thread is severing his relationship with his family for a mess of potage.
I knew when I first saw the picture of her strolling into his Kensington Palace apartment (said photo no doubt organized by her) he would marry her. Lucky his previous girlfriends who after years of being vetted for the position of Mrs Prince Harry, realized a whiny, insecure over indulged plonker wasn’t worth the title they’d get and beat a hasty retreat.
Oh well…on his head be it…
them mooslums spoiling everyone’s good time again
PHOTO – Budweiser Cases Fill Warehouse Due to World Cup Ban: ‘Who Will Get Them?’
Catleidoscope
Amazing!
So there’s only one cat there and 2 mirrors at an acute angle, do I have that right?
You betcha!
Cute puppy
“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
Ain’t it the truth?? Nice one, Feisty🤗
21 November 2018 Devin Lima [Harold Lima], American singer (LFO), dies of cancer at 41
21 November 2017 David Cassidy, American singer and actor (Keith-Partridge Family), dies at 67
21 November 2005 Bill D’Angelo, American heavy metal guitarist (Femme Fatale, 1987-90), dies of a drug overdose at 43
21 November 2003 Teddy Randazzo, American pop singer-songwriter (I’m on the Outside Looking In), dies at 68
10 Major Retail Stores Took A Stand To Say “Merry Christmas” Instead Of Happy Holidays
https://tnews1.com/10-major-retail-stores-took-a-stand-to-say-merry-christmas-instead-of-happy-holidays/?fbclid=IwAR3XYqprGUDQLOY6WuuFlCbUV40OEO3P77-HZVErULYnniuu-w413-BiNx0
From the article: “Bass Pro Shops is a gun shop that celebrates and promotes Chrismas.”
Proofreading is a lost art. Oh, and we all know that Bass Pro is not just a gun shop, It is a guns and ammo and accessories supermarket embedded in an outdoor sporting goods supercenter.
My British husband’s upmarket car employer ordered “Happy Holidays” and not “Merry Christmas”.
He told them straight out he would not comply. Nothing more was said. He simply said it more and more…and more…
And miracle of miracles!! All his colleagues started saying it as well! How about that!
For a number years, there was a video on YouTube of Sandie Shaw in a rehearsal segment for this song on a TV show, with the worst set design imaginable. She acts like she’s being held hostage, but does a good lip sync anyway.
If anyone knows what happened to that video I hope you’ll inform. I can’t find it anymore.
This is a another one that is similarly strange of the same song.
Long Long Live Love – Sandi Shaw:
You are probably looking for this one <Rehearsal for top of the pops>.
Follow the link to his google drive for the un-jail barred version, original was removed for copyright claim by someone.
Okay…that’s the one. The copyright trolls are always ruining everything. Appreciate your help with this. I was able to download it too, so YouTube can pound sand.
You are welcome.
Linux can still D/L utubes, and yes from his google drive no problem other than a right click.
Windows last program I had that would, utube finally made the right threat to get them to quit so utube could sell you a monthly subscription to “allow” you to do it for “some content”.
Elon Musk Is Addressing Issue of Child Sexual Exploitation Content on Twitter After Years of Inactivity Under Platform’s Past Management
https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/elon-musk-started-tackling-child-exploitation-on-twitter-after-years-of-the-platforms-passivity-under-the-previous-management
I saw this yesterday. Whatever else he may do with twitter, this is unalloyed great news.
November 21 Oswald Chambers
“It is Finished!”
I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. —John 17:4
The death of Jesus Christ is the fulfillment in history of the very mind and intent of God. There is no place for seeing Jesus Christ as a martyr. His death was not something that happened to Him— something that might have been prevented. His death was the very reason He came.
Never build your case for forgiveness on the idea that God is our Father and He will forgive us because He loves us. That contradicts the revealed truth of God in Jesus Christ. It makes the Cross unnecessary, and the redemption “much ado about nothing.” God forgives sin only because of the death of Christ. God could forgive people in no other way than by the death of His Son, and Jesus is exalted as Savior because of His death. “We see Jesus…for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor…” (Hebrews 2:9). The greatest note of triumph ever sounded in the ears of a startled universe was that sounded on the Cross of Christ— “It is finished!” (John 19:30). That is the final word in the redemption of humankind.
Anything that lessens or completely obliterates the holiness of God, through a false view of His love, contradicts the truth of God as revealed by Jesus Christ. Never allow yourself to believe that Jesus Christ stands with us, and against God, out of pity and compassion, or that He became a curse for us out of sympathy for us. Jesus Christ became a curse for us by divine decree. Our part in realizing the tremendous meaning of His curse is the conviction of sin. Conviction is given to us as a gift of shame and repentance; it is the great mercy of God. Jesus Christ hates the sin in people, and Calvary is the measure of His hatred.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
https://utmost.org/it-is-finished/
November 21
MORNING
Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. John 6:37
It shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. Exo. 22:27
I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God. Lev. 26:44
I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. Ezek. 16:60
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isa. 1:18
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Isa. 55:7
Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke 23:42, 43
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. Isa. 42:3
EVENING
His dear Son. Col. 1:13
Lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matt. 3:17
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. Isa. 42:1
The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father. John 1:18
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love. I John 4:9, 10, 16
The glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. John 17:22-24
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. I John 3:1
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/11/1121.html
How beautifully your choice of Scripture ties in with the Chambers devotional above, Poyeema.
Holy Rebellion
Monday, November 21, 2022
How often we used to rebel as kids. I rebelled as a little kid. I rebelled in school, life, against authority. Generally, rebellion isn’t a good thing, especially when it’s against God. Yet it can be good in one sense. Jonah arose and fled, rebelling against God’s will. Finally he repented when he arose and went. The same way he went away from God, now he’s serving God. The way he rebelled, now he’s serving the Lord. There’s a way to be a holy rebel. The way we used to rebel against good, now we need to rebel against what’s evil. The enemy gives us commands and is always issuing things like you have to submit, sin, fear, depression, fall into this bondage. You have to rebel against that. Rebel against sin. Rebel against the darkness. Rebel against all the orders of sin and habit. You can rebel against all the orders of the old life and the flesh. You don’t have to obey the voice of sin, flesh, darkness, or the enemy anymore. Be a Holy Spirit rebel. Obey God, but be a rebel to the enemy.
From Message #1109 – Thou Wilt
Scripture: Acts 5:29
Today’s Mission – Stand firm against the enemy.
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By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. – John 15:8
If you follow Jesus, your life will bear fruit and the Father is glorified. This is the natural consequence. But what fruit? Surely not bananas or apples. There are three kinds of Biblical fruit. First, the fruit of your character. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23).
To determine the extent to which you are truly following Christ and yielding to the Holy Spirit, take a look at your character growth.
The second type of fruit is good works. These may include giving food and clothing to the poor, helping those who are in need, offering encouragement, or simply considering others as important as yourself. As the apostle James indicated, the good you do shows your faith (2:18).
And Paul wrote, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
The third type of fruit is the lives you touch with your witness. Your testimony, lifestyle, and loving behavior have the potential to cause others to turn to Jesus.
“And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation’” (Mark 16:15).
As you pray today, ask the Lord to continue to work in your life so that these three types of fruit increase and that He be glorified. Pray that believers in the United States live in such a way that the fruit of their character, action, and influence will persuade citizens and government officials to turn to Christ.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing/?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
Mornin’ all!
Actions speak louder than (spoken) words. 😂🫣🫣
-Silence is golden
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. – John 15:8
If you follow Jesus, your life will bear fruit and the Father is glorified. This is the natural consequence. But what fruit? Surely not bananas or apples. There are three kinds of Biblical fruit. First, the fruit of your character. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23). To determine the extent to which you are truly following Christ and yielding to the Holy Spirit, take a look at your character growth.
The second type of fruit is good works. These may include giving food and clothing to the poor, helping those who are in need, offering encouragement, or simply considering others as important as yourself. As the apostle James indicated, the good you do shows your faith (2:18). And Paul wrote, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
The third type of fruit is the lives you touch with your witness. Your testimony, lifestyle, and loving behavior have the potential to cause others to turn to Jesus. “And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation’” (Mark 16:15).
As you pray today, ask the Lord to continue to work in your life so that these three types of fruit increase and that He be glorified. Pray that believers in the United States live in such a way that the fruit of their character, action, and influence will persuade citizens and government officials to turn to Christ.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing/?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
Hey how about that social security raise just great right? But hold up there Medicare has to get their cut first!!! My so called raise was $126 after medicrap took their cut of $110.70 I get a whopping $15.30.
My spouse is still working so I’m actually paying $361 a month for that crap, no supplemental that’s just the medicrap cost🤬🤬
I was self-employed for 30+ years. Still am. That Medicare premium is much cheaper than my private insurance and the standardization in claims and paperwork make it easier. I like it, but I am not yet to the point that they are trying to kill me and get me off the rolls.
We are to that point, Vibeman. We will not comply.
Yes I know some people that are self employed and those premiums are terrible.
Think I was just making the point we don’t really get a raise medicrap gets the raise.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Such glorious photos of His creationn to go with reassuring Scripture. A most wonderful way to start the week. Blessings to you, dear duchess.🙏
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 Monday, November 21, 2022
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“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you…”
Philippians 1:3 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
A blessed Thanksgiving week to all and may we graciously remember our history and these great traditions as we enter our holiday season. May we also remember with sadness what a great country we had including its Christian culture where we were a thankful people and appreciative of God’s great gifts to supply all our needs. I miss it so much.
May yours be blessed as well, HT77. Thank you. You are right. I miss it too. I have been thinking
how there is nothing too small for gratitude.
Perhaps with all the misery being inflicted on us all, some crushingly so, we will relearn what it is to be thankful even, and maybe especially, the smallest things.
. . . 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.
Amen and Amin🙏
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)
Monday of the 24th Week of the Epistles
Synaxis of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel and All the Bodiless Powers
Saint Willihad, Bishop of Bremen (+ 789)
Repose of Saint Philaret, Metropolitan of New York (+ 1985)
November 8th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
November 21st – civil or commercial calendar
Random thought about artificial meat/ artificial proteins:
Treehouse has had some commenters decrying these developments.
I have mixed feelings about it. A long-time friend of mine (who is short and tends to obesity easily) used Medifast packets made in Owings Mills, Maryland to get her weight under control. She said Medifast was the only thing that worked for her. The plan is basically five protein shakes (or bars, or souffles) plus one low calorie meal per day, veggies and protein.
I was curious so I tried it myself. It works (although I discontinued after I broke out with an itchy rash, probably unrelated).
Just read an article about planned colonies on Planet Mars, and the food and medical supplies they will need there. These alternative protein foods are going to be a big factor in space travel, if it happens.
Also, “lab grown meat” has relevance to artificial knee cartilage and other things which will be sweet if they are developed.
I abhor the suppression of farmers and the sabotage of “normal” food supplies. Any forcible mandates are automatically a bad thing. However, artificial proteins/meats are not necessarily a bad thing (although I am told there is risk of prions if mishandled).
Remember fountain pens? I loved those, but they were messy. Ballpoint pens, reportedly developed for astronauts, were a marvelous development.
Food innovations have their place, just saying
Pretty interesting excerpt from a book set to be released tomorrow (with a forward from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) titled “The Courage to Face Covid-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex” by John Leake and Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH:
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/for-the-love-of-money
Wonderful! God bless this persecuted doctor who has never backed down from what is true, even unto the now carried out threats to strip him of the magnificent credentials he has rightly earned.
Would all doctors value their principles and ethics and duty to their patients over the Pharma backhanders and their oaths, the latter tossed aside like so much superfluous packaging, as Dr McCullough has.
Have a blessed day folks. If it’s adversity then it’s Gods way of promoting you, if it’s not, just an easy day of relaxation, enjoy every moment as if it were eternal. That is for the flock. For those outside the church of our lord, better join in.
Now here’s a weird story, in the LA Times no less. The Club Q shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, was arrested 17 months ago after an hours long standoff in which they thought he had a bomb. Then, abracadabra presto change-o, no charges filed, he’s let go, and nothing more is said about it. WTF?
It’s almost as if …….
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-21/colorado-springs-nightclub-suspect-history
It also seems some intrepid reporters dug through this shooter’s history and viola! Found out his grandfather, who lives in California is a former councilman who is full-on MAGA – the press finally found their right-wing connection; doxxing him in the process.
Learn who pulls the strings to screw up our society and children.
“Through investments in the techno-medical complex, where new highly medicalized sex identities are being conjured, Pritzkers and other elite donors are attempting to normalize the idea that human reproductive sex exists on a spectrum. These investments go toward creating new SSI using surgeries and drugs, and by instituting rapid language reforms to prop up these new identities and induce institutions and individuals to normalize them. In 2018, for example, at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center at the University of California Los Angeles (where the Pritzkers are major donors and hold various titles), the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology advertised several options for young females who think they can be men to have their reproductive organs removed, a procedure termed “gender-affirming care.”” https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
Remember that brief moment when the press condemned the genital mutilation of young African girls? Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali born Dutch and American citizen married to British historian Niall Ferguson, has spoken passionately and unrelentingly of the FGM horrors which she endured herself.
Oh how everyone who heard her, liberals included, condemned this barbaric practice. Inhuman, they all cried.
But that was then…now?
It’s all the rage, doncha know. And what is being encouraged and celebrated by depraved physicians and medical entities is EXACTLY what these hypocrites once threw their hands over their mouths for.
Mutilation. Peter McCullough is stripped of his credentials for telling the truth and holding all liars to account. While his doctor colleagues get on with their grisly Mengele experiments, to the applause and adulation of all in the now debauched US.
Head of CSIS, Canada’s spy agency, is hiding the identity of the Nazi flag bearer and the Rebel flag bearer at the Trucker Convoy in Ottawa, from the Canadian Parliament inquiry to protect Justin Trudeau. It is rumored that they were Liberal Government plants. BREAKING: Canada’s Top Spy Accused Of Hiding Identity Of Racist Flag Waver (mailchi.mp)
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen🙏
Did the American colonialists try to ‘infiltrate’ the British Parliament parties before the American Revolution? Of course not, they had their separate governing structures in the colonies.
Perhaps there is a takeaway there for MAGA. Eventually it will be necessary for MAGA to abandon change in the existing system and build separate political structures.
Without separate political structures in the British colonies, would revolution have been possible at all against the monarch?
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.