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 28, 2022
“Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, ‘Do as Thou hast said.’
‘The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.'”
~Charles Spurgeon ~
That is something to carry in each of our hearts this Advent Season, a Season full of joy and expectation.
Blessings to all in these beloved branches.
All due to the lighting.
Ever wonder why heaven is always depicted as so vivid, joyful, eternal bliss? It’s the lighting. And what illuminates heaven, God himself.
Our precious Lord gave us a light to light our path here at this dark place, and dark it has become. No matter what technology we see, our world gets darker with every invention. But, place Gods lighting in any place with any person and life is reborn with new eyes and ideas. Spiritual eyes now see, even the darkest is illuminated.
Ive read that hell is dark on purpose by our lord, because the true nature is seen when heavens light shines on it. Hideous creatures who once were called human, his mercy. I know people see the true nature of others here also. When the word of God is shed on a person. Many see themselves, turn to God or from God.
As his spirit comes closer in any instance, the true appearance is revealed, our decisions become more obvious, our world becomes more obvious. Sin can only survive in the dark, lies are darkness, Gods word, Jesus is truth.
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Oh, Hi there!
Want to get in on this while there’s some left? 😺🧻
At least a dog will look at you like… I didn’t do it… it just exploded.
This one here is like…. yea I did it and still doing it…what are you gonna do ……
LOL
“And it coulda been your hand”
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Lovely , Jay , and with Benches , Too 😊
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Good morning, Mr jay. I keep forgetting we have Bench Mondays once again. So when I saw this beautifully composed photo, I felt a little frisson of joy which comes with seeing something much missed unexpectedly. And that’s just so nice. 🤗
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Mornin’ jay 🙂
Howdy Garrison. 😎
Good morning jay!
Mornin’ Gramps 🙂
Howdy Gramps. 🇺🇸🥶🇺🇸
Once upon a time . . . About 1975 or so I attended a Pepe’ Romero master class in Houston. I wasn’t a participant, I was just a spectator. I had long ago admitted to myself that I was never going to be good enough to play on a concert stage—which almost all of Pepe’s very talented students were obviously capable of doing. Nonetheless, Pepe and I were friends, I’d known him for several and I’d come to Houston to see him teach and bask in the presence of one of the world’s truly great virtuosos.
Pepe’ was scheduled to give an interview when he turned to me as asked if I would mind tuning his guitar which was on the concert hall stage. Would I???? Well duuhhh . . . Mounting the stage I carefully opened the guitar case holding Pepe’s guitar.
I was expecting something remarkable and I wasn’t disappointed. Inside the case was a Miguel Rodriguez concert guitar. The Rodriguez brothers were world famous luthiers and had been building guitars for the Romero family for several decades. I carefully removed the guitar from its case, found Pepe’s tuning fork and began tuning his guitar. Immediately, I realized I was playing a very special concert guitar. Even just tuning this fine instrument communicated to me that I was playing what was probably the finest guitar I’d ever played.
I’ve described the experience as going to church. What I had the great good pleasure to tune and then gently, reverently play was “La Wonderful” one of the greatest concert guitars ever made.
I mention this now because it is this very guitar that Pepe plays on this famous Giuliani guitar concerto recording. Years later I reminded Pepe of my tuning session. He smiled and simply said that’s why he wanted to try his guitar . . .
Garrison, I think you are being modest about your skills regarding the guitar.
You know, it is never too late…
Well . . . I do actually own a Rod . . . 🙂
Garrison, what a magnificent memory you were blessed to carry with you for all of these years. I know with certainty that it brings you great joy each time you receall it in your mind. What a thrill.
Oft told stories are not always mere repetitions. Sometimes they become lore. Along with Segovia’s famous Herman Hauser I guitar, La Wonderful is a piece of history. 🙂
Oh myyyyy, Garrison! One of my favourite guitar concertos (well, any of Giuliani’s works really) AND Pepe Romero. Add your wonderful story…this week couldn’t start off any better.
I have always adored the Romeros, but Pepe’s performances always are a joy. The thrill of being asked to tune his guitar! And such a fine one. Oh my! Thank you for this story, which I’m sure gave you as much pleasure to share as it did for me to read it…
Yesterday, coincidentally, I had the extreme pleasure of listening to the Romeos playing the Nutcracker…not a work for amateur guitarists. I could only marvel…a real treat.😘
Morning, Bet. To this day, I think the Saint Martin’s In The Field’s Giuliani recordings with Pepe are the best ever done. I think the recordings are non-digital too. None the less the quality of both the recording and Pepe’s playing is stunning. Pepe knew his guitar was very special. “Tuning” it was a sly way of showing it to me.
St Martin’s for me were the bar set at the highest level. Any recording of theirs is the sine qua non. Sir Neville is very much missed. But what an indescribable honour for you, Garrison. I bet it took you a few seconds to catch your breath before you started to tune. I think it’s the most wonderful story I’ve read in a long time.
Good morning Bet! We have a treasure trove of wonderful stories told by dear friends here on the OT. Speaking of dear friends this past Thursday and Friday I was able to spend some time with Frank. A lot shorter than both of us would’ve liked but we had a great visit. ❤️😍
Oh G….how wonderful!!! How that has made my heart sing. Would any length of time be enough? I doubt it. I can only imagine the conservation…smiles, smiles and more smiles.
I VERY often think of Solomon as well. I know he struggles terribly physically… when next you are in touch, please deliver my continuous prayers for him with you. I miss his presence more than I suspect he can imagine. Tis the season to spend thinking of dear friends here or absent.😘🙏
“Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.”
Spurgeon, of course…😘
I hope Sol still lurks here. Haven’t heard from him in a while. Frank tried a few times, I tried a couple of times to no avail. Frank got one random text but that was it.
To Solomon:
💐 🥀 ❤️
From Feral Cat 😘
Passed on msg from a friend…
You can but try, dear friend. No one knows what is happening in the lives of others….but always hoping, praying for his comfort.
It’s early…Romeros…obviously….
Garrison m good morning and thank you for a great story!
Good very early morning all.
This trucker is not looking forward to this coming Arctic blast.
If Joe Bastardi is correct just about everyone in the northern hemisphere is in for a blast of arctic air masses. Dec 6th through 14th I think he said. It will start in the NW US a spread east and south. Europe is also going to bet nailed along with the far east.
This driver is not looking forward to it at all. Not just the driving in it but dealing with getting the equipment going. It sucks coming in during the wee hours in -15 deg F temps to find your fuel line frozen and brake shoes frozen to the drums. It sucks trying to slide the tandems on trailers when there is ice everywhere and you can’t get traction. And it sucks dealing with frozen trailer brakes and climbing under the trailer and beating on the brake drums with a 3 lb. hammer to get them to release.
One would think that as an old winter warrior I would be used to the difficulties of operating in very cold temps. Everything is harder and slower to accomplish except for the occasional slip that puts you on your ass. But age makes it ever more difficult to deal with the cold and the challenges it brings.
These are the times that try a man’s soul. I will put my head down and push through it but I am thinking that this will be my last winter trucking. We shall see.
God bless you, Raj. Take care.
May you have the health and stamina to continue my friend. This is the work that allows many others the possibility to do other things than gathering the goods you deliver. Thank you from the southeast. Bless you
You are entitled to your retirement rah. There is a lot to enjoy in this world, while you can still do so.
It’s hard enough just to deal with light vehicles, snow plows, etc. in extra bad weather, I can hardly imagine dealing with a big rig. Prayers for your safety. 🙏
I have a feeling it’s going to be one of those years where I have to throw down the grimy blue plastic tarp & chain up all four wheels on the plow truck. Always good for a vocabulary workout. 🤬
times that try a man’s soul.. you already know what you have to do.. but it still fck’n sucks.. I’ve been there too..
the only solace is to reflect on a time when you were subjected to the coldest extremes ever.. and remind yourself that you’ve been in even colder conditions before.. and even then it still sucks.. you just have to get through it.. or just fck’n die.. (but don’t do that.. know your limitations..).
my coldest.. I was freelancing during winter.. doing jobs others would not do.. it was early February.. ripping north wind.. blowing sea snow.. in open ocean.. jobsite at the 60 f.s.w. level.. meaning long bottom times..
and the hot water machine had broken down.. so only using a regular wetsuit.. (body heat loss is around seven times faster in water than in air).. but we had to get the job done.. we all wanted to just finish the fck’n job and get the hell out of there..
I was the last one in.. with a three hour bottom time.. and due to the cold and extreme exposure.. another hour of some nekkid cold steel decompression chamber time was added to the icy cold mix..
stripped down butt naked on deck before going into the chamber.. in gale force winds and sea snow.. the chamber heaters weren’t working either.. I was fck’d..
pushing the limits.. that put me in the “Z” repet group.. meaning a mandatory twelve hour period before making another dive.. a “Z”.. in only 60 f.s.w. ..
it was the coldest I have ever been.. so cold.. while in the chamber.. despite my uncontrollable whole bodily shaking.. the cold feeling went away.. and I started laughing at my predicament.. pitying what I was doing to my body..
one of the top three or four closest final events I had ever experienced in diving.. it was fck’n cold..
Those of us NOT crawling under that trailer to unfreeze the brakes or NOT shivering while trying to make those connections are immensely grateful to you and the others who do those unenviable tasks. Please know that there your efforts and sacrifices are truly appreciated
Thank you all for your kind words.
This one is for you, rah . . .
And it’s not just what you have to deal with rah…it’s other drivers who don’t know how to drive in such conditions. My coach driving husband, as he used to do, could tell you what he had to deal with in such weather in the hilly, winding roads in Wales…and in Germany, Switzerland in conditions such as you describe. I know you’ll soldier through, with the provisions you need just in case, but we will all send prayers for a safe journey and a quick return home. God and St Christopher go with you…
Early on in the season is the worst for that. After the first couple snows those that needed to learn or relearn now to drive, or should I say how not to drive, in slick conditions have passed the test or crashed.
Oh I believe it. Ice, if ice there is, is unforgiving. People don’t realize this. I was reading your post to my husband. Everything frozen that you have to deal with, so has he. You know Germany in harsh winters.
I’ll be praying for you rah. Having cut my teeth driving on snow and ice my biggest concern s when driving during the occasional freeze in the Texas Hill Country are always the other drivers.
AMEN!!
Oh, Rah! Wish the meteorologists could be wrong with this!!!
Mine is such a minor complaint, but we are venturing an evening to OHIO from Central IN to catch the MercyMe / Chris Tomlin concert. Been trying to see MM for three years for my teen’s birthday and when you have a teen who loves Christ and Christian music… a parent does what she should to feed that joy.
Soooo… a few weeks ago, I found out MM was going to be OH and bought us the tix. We have Andrea Bocelli on 12/7 and MercyMe on 12/13. (We don’t have family, so when Thanksgiving and Christmas roll around, I try to give experiences, so that we do not become lonely and I build memories with my girl for this short precious time I have left.) Both performances are on school nights and the latter is on a finals night! The plan is to leave immediately at 3:30 PM and head to OH, watch the concert, sleep for a few hours at a hotel, and then head home around 5 AM to get her to school on time.
Can we please PRAY that the weather will miraculously cooperate? I so want these memories to be very special.
For the AB concert, she requested we both wear modest evening gowns… a girl who is more a tomboy than a dignified lady wants to wear a fine dress with her mom. Sure would like the weather to accommodate, but I know… we live in Central IN… what can be expected?
We are blessed to go… no matter the weather.
Praying for you and yours, Rah.
Prayers for cooperating weather. May I ask that you post a reminder a day or two before the events?
Thank you, GrandpaM.
I feel ridiculous and incredibly small asking for prayers for these things at a time such as this. Kiddo attends a public school (private is not an option anymore after 10 years of that) and the onslaught against her is relentless. I’m trying to give her as “normal” as I can… in an absolutely abnormal and uncertain time.
We have so much more important things to pray over. Lord help us and may He wake people up from their Pharoah’s sleep.
You wouldn’t have known it by the hype, but the 2022 wild fire season was a relatively quiet one.
Thanks, Wall Street Journal, for Reporting on the Quiet Western Wildfire Season – Watts Up With That?
The fact is that we in N. America don’t see nearly the mass conflagrations that were once far more common. Because of that fact our government, true to form, just scrubbed the long term record in or to make is appear that wild fires are getting more common and severe than they once were.
Here is how they did it:
Gaslighting Fires | Real Climate Science
Living here in wildfire territory I can only suggest that it has all burned up recently and will take a few years to build toward more global warming propaganda fuel. If the Forestry Service would do their job and clear brush things would go better.
However, in fairness, since the Napa fires a few years ago I have seen crews out clearing brush from the sides of the roadways here in NorCal.
“If the Forestry Service would do their job and clear brush things would go better.”
Yea well that’s not something they are allowed to do anymore (clearing underbrush).
Heaven forbid we could make money from people who would clear it and pay for the privilege of doing so.
When we were having severe fires here in Colorado in 2012, 2013 and to an extent 2014, I asked the forestry service man that they sent around to post the fire warnings in public places when he asked to put one in mine.
We had a rather long talk because I asked him what they are doing as the fires were ki!!ing the tourist economy we have. Some / most of his answers floored me as it was S.N.A.F.U. for them.
Question one, why are we not logging out all the dead trees from beetle ki!!.
A: None of the leases to log were renewed because of the backlash for logging (the greenies). He went on to say that those companies that were lumbering expected renewal of permits so they had MILLIONS of board feet stacked about their worksites that could no longer be legally removed. So my followup was ? so it’s just going to rot or burn when dry…….yep.
So the greenies would rather bitch about forests being burnt with all the dead and dying (beetle-kill) timber about than allow anyone to log it……..yep.
OK then…… my business managed to survive with basically just me cooking and 2 waitresses (8 others out of work), many others in town folded to be replaced by antique stores that only lasted a summer, until someone else tried their idea for a business in the same spot the next years tourist cycle.
Government also scuttled any deals to cut down said beetle kill for furniture making, beetle kill wood I hear is blue streaked making it in demand for said purposes….. nope … guess It will burn sometime, hopefully after I sell my business or go outta business.
I guess it will look much more beautiful to someone charred black than as a … kitchen table. Good thing China makes and exports tables & other furniture.
I’m sure they are very conscientious about their deforestation to make goods to export. /s
I guess the sooner it burns down the sooner the Aspen trees get to take over for 50 to 100 years before the pines choke them out again, at least they will look better than the dead or charred remains of the pines.
Out in California one problem they have is the imported Eucalyptus trees. Those trees are highly flammable.
As for Colorado? 2020 was supposedly the worst wildfire year in the history of the state but newspaper clippings from early times suggest otherwise.
You’ll find the claims and the clippings at the link which is the last line of my post above.
As for Aspen moving in when the pines have burned that is exactly right for many places and those trees are beautiful. A massive patch of yellow in a sea of green.
For example: “The burn area from the 1890 fires in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains north of Santa Fe are now some of the largest and most spectacular Aspen forests anywhere.”
I’m not sure where to put this so I’ll drop it here. This is a video of an interview of a CIA drug pilot. It’s pretty long but very good info. https://conspyre.tv/video/4486/beau-abbott—cia-drug-pilot-tells-all
“Falling In and Out of Love With You”
“Just Like A Woman” by Bob Dylan
“Stay” by Maurice Williams
Love it!
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28 November 2005 (Daniel) Tony Meehan, British rock drummer #12/13 (Vipers; Drifters: Shadows), dies from head injury after a fall at his home, at 62
28 November 2002 Dave “Snaker” Ray, American country blues musician, dies of lung cancer at 59
28 November 2001 Kal Mann, American pop lyricist Elvis Presley’s “Teddy Bear”, plus “Butterfly”, a hit for both Charlie Gracie and Andy Williams, and “Let’s Twist Again”, sung by Chubby Checker, dies at 84
28 November 1997 William “Smitty” Smith, American rock keyboardist and Smith became a session musician and played on and contributed background vocals to recordings by artists such as Bob Dylan, David Clayton-Thomas, Billy Joel, The Pointer Sisters, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Etta James, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Richie Havens, Tracy Chapman, Rod Stewart, Bruce Willis and Brenda Russell. dies of a heartattack at 53
28 November 1993 Jerry Edmonton, Canadian rock drummer #13/13 (Steppenwolf), dies at 47
November 28 Oswald Chambers
The Riches of the Destitute
…being justified freely by His grace… —Romans 3:24
The gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the truth that it reveals is not palatable or easy to swallow. There is a certain pride in people that causes them to give and give, but to come and accept a gift is another thing. I will give my life to martyrdom; I will dedicate my life to service— I will do anything. But do not humiliate me to the level of the most hell-deserving sinner and tell me that all I have to do is accept the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.
We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God through our own efforts. We must either receive it as a gift or do without it. The greatest spiritual blessing we receive is when we come to the knowledge that we are destitute. Until we get there, our Lord is powerless. He can do nothing for us as long as we think we are sufficient in and of ourselves. We must enter into His kingdom through the door of destitution. As long as we are “rich,” particularly in the area of pride or independence, God can do nothing for us. It is only when we get hungry spiritually that we receive the Holy Spirit. The gift of the essential nature of God is placed and made effective in us by the Holy Spirit. He imparts to us the quickening life of Jesus, making us truly alive. He takes that which was “beyond” us and places it “within” us. And immediately, once “the beyond” has come “within,” it rises up to “the above,” and we are lifted into the kingdom where Jesus lives and reigns (see John 3:5).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don’t agree with us.
https://utmost.org/
“When you are invited to sit at God’s table, it no longer matters who doesn’t invite you to theirs.”
The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector comes to mind.
There are no pride parades in Heaven.
The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector
https://findinggodamongus.com/parable-of-pharisee-tax-collector/
I think of that one so often, G…humbling…very much so.
Greetings Treepers!
Grace, mercy, and peace to each of you!
I haven’t been around for awhile. Hope all is well with you and yours. 🔥✝️🔥
Good morning, dear Frank. So happy to see you, and I had noticed you were missing, so to speak. In fact, you’ve been on my mind over the past few days…more than you might imagine. 😘
See my post above, Bet! 😘
Here’s me after reading 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)
November 28
MORNING
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James 2:26
Not every one that saith…. Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Matt. 7:21
Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Heb. 12:14
Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. II Pet. 1:5-10
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. 2:8, 9
EVENING
As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that he might deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Heb. 2:14, 15
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. I Cor. 15:55, 57
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. II Cor. 4:16
We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. II Cor. 5:1, 6-8
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:1-3
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/11/1128.html
Somebody needs to create a Timeline that shows the true dates and sequence of events of the State and Federal Governments reactions to COVID. It seems to me that a significant number of Conservatives are thinking that the oppressive measures instituted by the Federal Government came when Trump was in office but my memory is they came AFTER Trump had left office.
Some before…but the worst after.
can’t remember what feds did but Gov Brown shut the schools after spring break 2020. that was March 23, I think. shortly afterward restaurants were forced closed. early April The Timbers closed and were cleaning the grill out on the sidewalk. I was shocked! then we had to mask up in grocery store. some restaurants allowed take out then somebody would get the flu and it would close again.
Newport Newstimes would list cases of the flu and how people died. I laughed at all the crap but wondered what was going on. when old guy in his 80s drove in front of a fully loaded log truck with a fully loaded pup out here on rt.20 and his caused of death listed as covid I fully realized the total scam.
all I remember of the fed is Pence “15 days to flatten the curve.” ventilators. hospital ships to CA and NY. hospital gowns and N masks.
Pence…put in charge of the government’s covid response. In conjunction with Fauci and Birx.
Do we need to go further? The three biggest dots connected right there, Merry.
Trump put moratorium on flights in from China on March 1,2020. Daughter flying in from Bangkok via Inchon to SeaTac. got in Feb 28. She remarked airports Bangkok and Inchon very clean with gangs of cleaners wiping down walls, scrubbing & polishing floors dusting seats bathrooms pristine and well appointed with plenty soap and paper and an attendant. SeaTac filthy with poop in clogged and unflushed toilets, dirty papers on floors, broken toilet seats, filthy water oozing over floors no one to ask for help.
Let all that you do be done in love. – 1 Corinthians 16:14
If you have written a resumé or letter of application, you know the importance of a good summary statement! It is meant to reflect the key elements of the entire document in just a few words. Paul, the apostle and author of much of the New Testament, was a master at using words effectively and it is evident in his letters to beloved friends in the church at Corinth.
In the letter, he addresses difficult issues they were wrestling with—divisions and tension among leaders, lawsuits between believers, arrogance and selfishness, lack of generosity in fellowship, and ignorance of God’s word. In each scenario, Paul drew a direct line from the problem to the gospel of Christ, applying it specifically to the heart of the issue, “You were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:20).
Toward the end of the letter, he offers “a still more excellent way” (1 Corinthians 12:31) to navigate a life of faith in a faithless society. Distilling his message to its finest point, he writes, “Now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13). As mentor, pastor, friend, and guide, his letter closes with a simple summary statement advising believers to approach every situation, regardless of its complexity, first in love.
Living like Christ is as tall an order for people today as it was in Paul’s day. Pray for those in positions of authority in the United States to be moved by faith and motivated by love as they look for solutions to the challenging problems facing this diverse nation.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing/?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
Mornin’ all!
This is brilliant.
Sad… and true.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Good morning, duchess. As always so beautiful and uplifting.💕
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 28, 2022
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“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
JohYoun 14:6 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Kinda speaks for itself.
This is for any Treepers who needs some wholesome entertainment (Anne Of Green Gables). I highly recommend the Sullivan Entertainment version which the YT video trailer is from. There are other versions on Roku, but I will only vouch for Sullivan Entertainment. https://www.sullivanmovies.com/productions
Anne of Green Gables Trailer HQSullivan Entertainment
My family loved this! We watched it several times!
There’s a few remakes of this series, but this version is our favorite.
My daughter bought all of the Anne of Green Gables books and in a few other languages.
She then bought all of the other L. M. Montgomery books.
My dear Grandmother loved them. After she passed on to Heaven/Spirit I watched them and loved them! Sullivan Entertainment has some other good ones.
Book reading has always been a passion of mine. Always a good thing to introduce reading to children/grandchildren. Ty for your post!
I always said I would be The Book Grandma. I started when all of the grands were tiny supplying them with British children’s books with the most magical and beautiful illustrations…starting with the Samson and the Church Mice series (still available on Amazon the last time I looked). Sweet stories, clever…but the illustrations? I could sit down now and spend a lovely few hours just poring over them page by intricate page and get so much pleasure from doing so.
Fast forwarding my youngest with her triplets plus one over the years has sent me pictures of those four curled up on the couch and the floor with their black lab sleeping beside them, covered in quilts and totally engrossed in whatever they are reading. She reads alongside them.
No tech, no television, in the peace and quiet. Does my heart no end of good to see it.
The picture really does not do it justice. If you are lucky enough to see a Gray Jay in person they are quite striking. I went up to the Adirondacks in NY state to see them in their most southern range.
Leave out late this afternoon. Bobtail to the Vandalia, OH terminal and pickup a load. Take that up to Carole Stream, IL in the Chicago area and take a break in the parking lot of an closed hotel. Two stops and then back to the Vandalia terminal to drop the trailer and hook to an empty and bring that back to the Anderson, IN terminal.
Easy run.
Keep on Truckin’ friend. You guys keep America on its feet. Keep safe and watch for the crazy drivers!
@betsy Jones,
Hope you had a peaceful and enjoyable Thanksgiving Dinner with your Husband/family. I enjoyed reading your wonderful posts and especially loved your welsh saying “Train people the way you want them to treat you”. That is gold!
My missing Junco(s) still missing unfortuantely though I did see some in NC.
Oh joy, Colkitto!! Bless you!
What a beauty he is. I can see why you miss them. Don’t give up. One day you’ll look out your window and there they will be. Just like our little Carolina wrens which arrived in the spring, disappeared, and now have returned en masse. What loud voices these little gems have, with varying songs. Chez Jones is open 24/7 for feeding so I expect the word got out😉
Thank you. It was just the two of us so I made a pot roast, enough for a few meals. And a lemon meringue pie, which is our fave. Quiet, with our beautiful Christmas music which we always look so much forward to on Sirius XM Holiday Pops (though I do puzzle who in that organization ever thought that was the perfect name for English choral music, oratorios, Bach cantatas, etc.) So much to be grateful for in this sordid world of ours…which we definitely and faithfully are.
I hope your Thanksgiving was all you wished it to be. I thought often of you in Asheville and that beautiful scenery. And it is beautiful. I remember it well…
Yes…you do teach people how to treat you. It takes a few times with some. The corollary to this is the other lesson my father in law taught to my husband in post war Britain when there was actual law and order only intermittently, and one very often had to deal with thieving and the like when the local bobby wasn’t around in small town England was this…”Warn them once, Son.”
That’s the way things were then, something that horrified American insulated me when I first arrived. But I came to understand it very well indeed. Back then, men took care of and protected their families. Not as now wherein the police in the UK will prosecute victims and slap perpetrators’ wrists…if even that.
And this…wondered if you saw that Ireland is busy enacting a “hate speech” law, 5 years imprisonment for a conviction. What type of speech will be designated hateful is at the moment undetermined, but I suspect you and I know where this is headed.
The first thing I thought of was the IRA, anything but dead…
I thought you’d be interested in this development, if you weren’t already. Fascism comes to The Emerald Isle…worse than appalling.
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good times for mutes in Ireland. wonder if you can be jailed for “hate signing?” mum’s the word
The New Criterion accurately describes itself as a “monthly review of the arts and intellectual life … at the forefront both of championing what is best and most humanely vital in our cultural inheritance and of exposing what is mendacious, corrosive, and spurious.” It is a journal of the arts, literature, humanities, culture generally.
FTA below, their monthly Notes and Comments section: “Roger L. Simon, in a column for The Epoch Times, got it exactly right about the FBI. It must be dismantled, and not just the leadership, ‘but the whole organization and everyone in it.’”
Holy smoke! When TNC editorializes for dismantling the FBI and everyone in it, the FBI is in serious trouble. Dad’s home. Party’s over. Everybody out!
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/12/decline
Revolver: Darren Beattie blows the lid… SBF’s FTX extremely dark money laundering operation “bigger than Soros”… fueling “Clinton-Underworld Democrat Machine”…
“Hymn to Jehovah” sung by the Fiji Rugby Team. Very uplifting!
Fiji rugby team can (seriously) sing… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
I am looking a d find some nice clips. This is on tiktok: “alleluia”
Here is another. Rugby team:
https://www.thecoconet.tv/songbook/islandjams/noqu-masu-fiji-batis-pre-game-hymn/
Okay, it finally showed up!
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/fiji-rugby-team-has-harmony/
Hi all! Just got off the Lindell thread…I hope it works! He is a true American success story…He picked himself up by his bootstraps and made a success of himself! In spite of the odds he faced, (of failure to elude the addiction demons)…He succeeded. Definitely, a man to be admired.
For the last month, I have been trying to remember a highly esteemed Catholic (global, dare I say it?) organization and it finally came to me…as I contemplate a Treeper’s comment about Mike Lindell ‘walking the walk and talking the talk’….knowing despair, self destruction almost….
The Order of Malta…many high ranking politicians have been inducted, if that is the word, to be Knights of the Order of Malta…a 900+ year old institution that is Humanitarian in nature. A “lay religious order of the Catholic church…”….
Highly acknowledged people such as Teddy Kennedy–I had read once somewhere, that he had been a member when alive
, have/had membership…(note I say “acknowledged” and not ‘esteemed’…)…what I never understood, as members of the Democrat party in favor of abortion…how could the Order, in good conscience, have anyone with those beliefs? Or the issue of Chappaquiddick?
Ah, just philosophical wanderings of my aging brain….trying to find logic….
https://www.orderofmalta.int/about-the-order-of-malta/
Netherlands To Close Up To 3,000 Farms To Comply With EU Environment Rules
The Dutch government plans to buy and close down up to 3,000 farms near environmentally sensitive areas to comply with EU nature preservation rules.
The Netherlands is attempting to cut down its nitrogen pollution and will push ahead with compulsory purchases if not enough farms take up the offer voluntarily.
Farmers will be offered a deal “well over” the worth of the farm, according to the government plan that is targeting the closure of 2,000 to 3,000 farms or other major polluting businesses.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.