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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awwww, cute little grays
There is something so beautiful about solid greys. The one on the left doesn’t look too secure about how to get down.
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Morning Ya’ll 🙂
You always have the loveliest garden shots. We’re enjoying our azalaes here, too.
If I had a stream in my back yard this one would be perfect, even if it’s man made.
If…
I Like Dreamin
https://www.google.com/search?q=i+like+dreamin+rumble&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c4629985,vid:SCl9fCq23dg
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Good morning, Jay 😎
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Howdy jay! I wonder if you envision a still in the vicinity of this picture? 😁
Lol 🤣
Hi, Pa ❣️
Hi Patience! ❤️
Howdy Gramps it’s a possibility 😁😁
I would love to spend some time here, just drinking in the beauty and serenity. Thanks for sharing this slice of heaven, Jay!!
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Looks like a spot within Augusta National
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Good morning Jay
☘️
The answer to 1984
Is 1776
☘️
Mornin Molon.
Good morning Patience on this fine day
Nice to see you friend
☘️
Just busy 🐝
digging moss out
from in between pavers 🤪 this fine day.
Hope you have a winderful day🪴
It’s not windy
But it is full 🤪
☘️☘️
Winderful
See, I learn new words here all the time.
This one I like 😊
So if it’s windy outside n someone says
“How’s your day”
You can say
“ it’s winderful” 😝
Good afternoon Molonlabe! It is very winderful here. 🙂
just saw this now . gotta nice chuckle gp 🙂
Howdy Garrison 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Yo, jay 🙂
Morning Garrison!
Mornin’ Gramps! 🙂
Hi there, my man Garrison💖
Mornin’ Patience. darlin’ . . . 🙂
Good morning Garrison
Hope your day is a good one friend
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Did NOT know a puppy could make this sound
That little fellow is just adorable.
Just beautiful. A wonderful way to start the day.
🙂
Good morning Rusted and Mary!
Good morning, Grandpa and Mary.
🙂
Good morning, Garrison!! Enjoyed the musical selections today.🌿🌺
Morning, Rusted. You can hear the birds waking up in that shot, as well as pulling your sweater a little closer.
For sure 😊
🙂
Seem like a bunch of very friendly fish!
air version
Incredible!
Is that the mom look?
I TOLE YOU………….
I don’t know, Feisty. Is that the look they give you just before you become dinner? 😂😂
Bees
posted this not long ago, but I just love this one
Clapping enthusiastically.
Good morning Mary
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By now, it’s good evening, Molonlabe. Sleep well.
Or ANTIFA or Trans marcher.
Same game during my teen years………………..global cooling.
Remember reading THOSE articles, scientific details how/why………….sky is falling, we’re all going to die. Freezing to death. Pearl Clutching.
Wait a few more years, and it will be BOTH………..at same time………………SCIENTIFIC for sure……Looking forward to that science, why some of the earth will heat up and kill swaths, and the rest of the earth is freezing others dead dry.
Found some science, by accident, after Turkish Earthquake, liked the headline. How’s that for cherry picking science education ?
You’ll enjoy it too, promise. Long, with videos inserted, do watch them all. Your human nature will say, “I ain’t got time for that.” Not only will the science stretch you, pleasurably, how science has been hijacked geopolitically will change forever how you read a any ‘Science’ headline.
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/will-the-turkish-earthquake-unleash
Good one, Nim!!
While at the Vet earlier this week ran into a couple about our age that just moved here from California. They were conservative and just couldn’t take it anymore.
We got fed up early and left in 2010.
I’d get suckered in by the first two, for sure
The bottom two are 100% identical….there can’t be any make-up on that bottom-right photo….
Just mean.
perfect
What’s that saying
Can’t put lipstick on a pig
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🐷👜
Piggypocketbook
With lipstick in it
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4/27/2023 – God gives to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds a body
1 Corinthians 15:35-38 “But someone will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come? Fool (without mind, thoughtless, inconsiderate), what you sow, is not made alive unless it die; and what you sow, you sow not the body that shall be, but bare grain, it may be of wheat or some other (one of the rest); and God gives to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds a body.”
Luke 18:13-14 “And the tax-gatherer standing afar off would not even lift up the eyes to the heaven, but was striking upon his breast, saying, God, be propitious (conciliatory; to overcome distrust and hostility) to me the sinner. I say to you, This one went down to his house justified (rendered [shown or regarded as] just, innocent, righteous) rather than the other: because everyone that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.”
Why was not the Gospel of Christ rather spoken to Adam and Eve, than to the serpent? And why, after having told the serpent about his undoing with regards to man by the coming of Christ in the flesh; did God only tell the man that he would bear the punishment of his sin, and return to the dust from which he was made? The word of faith started with our first parents hearing God telling the devil what He was going to do to save His elect. Meanwhile, the sentence upon the now alienated heathen man and his wife, were sentenced to punishment of humiliation and toil and sorrow and finally death.
The seed was sown in the beginning, where the natural had to first die, before the spiritual could come: and nothing with respect to the natural was said, to give any hope for its survival in that condition. For the man’s part, thorns and thistles, toil and sorrow and sweating face, until he faded and fell back into the ground from which he was taken: “For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.” The word of Christ coming to break the serpent’s head, by His own being bruised by the serpent, was kept separated from the life of the alienated natural man, except by faith and hope.
There is a lot that needs to be said about the “righteous in their own eyes, who despise others;” but for the purpose of this message, we need to look intently upon the kind which God accounts as righteous; even though he only sees himself as unfit for the Presence of God, and wholly relying on God’s mercy and power to make him another man.
They that are of the truth hear Jesus’ voice, because they receive the word in a good and honest heart; and therefore, because they acknowledge the truth, God counts them righteous for their faith in Him; apart from, and against, their own natural condition, which must die.
The tax-gatherer presented himself before the LORD with a good and honest heart; thus showing his understanding of the truth, and acceptance of the just punishment; IN HOPE of God’s kindness, and power to change him into WHAT WOULD BE PLEASING TO GOD, in a time to come. And the answer of God, looking upon both kinds of men who came in that morning to present themselves to Him, was known of God in secret; while the men went home in all likelihood not feeling much different than when they came.
We could imagine the Pharisee leaving the temple feeling very pleased with himself; and the other man going home with no other opinion about himself either. Whether or how much it was perceptible, the peace and assurance of the one who was respected of God; or contrariwise, the empty disapproval of the “righteous in his own eyes;” we can only guess, by our own experience. So it remains, before and after, that we still walk by faith, as long as we are in this body; until we die, when we truly know by our fruits what kind we are.
So what was the good and honest acknowledgement of the truth, which God rendered as just? We can put our own words to the spirit by which he spoke, and of what came from his lips, from his heart.
He stood before God too ashamed even to look up to Him; but set everything out in His view, an honest account of himself: God, I am not fit for Thy Presence; since for as long as I was ever old enough to know the difference between right and wrong, and make moral choices; I have been inconsiderate and incorrigible. I have been easily influenced by the bad, and been willing to go against my own conscience, for the imagined benefits of gaining acceptance and respect from other sinners; and for hoping in some kind of greatness or god-likeness, by doing what was forbidden.I have trampled upon the feelings and rights of others, especially of those who loved me, and whom I owed love. I have willfully disregarded and made light of the long term effects of such evil choices; both on my health and my life; as well as my capability to be a good contribution to my family, my community, and those who would have needed me to be a good man. Be propitious to me O God; be merciful and forgive my sin and stupidity and selfishness, that has brought harm to others and to Thy Name. Overcome my untrustworthy and hostile nature; and all the ruin I have caused in my own life; and restore what Thou did not take away. I acknowledge my sin and my transgressions, that Thou might be justified, because Thou art good and right and have never deserved anything but love and loyalty and praise. Make me another man, a man after Thine own heart, which may fulfill all Thy will, and be pleasing to Thee. Thou hast done all, and has given Thy Son to redeem me, and to save me from my sins, and make me a new man in Thine image again. Receive me in Jesus’ Name, and accept my repentance and confession of faith in Thee. Make me as one of Thy children, of those who will rejoice in the light of Thy countenance forever. And let me be accepted of all Thy children, my likewise brothers and sisters in the world; that I may be a blessing to them, and they to me, and all of us to Thee, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
“What did I learn at the volcano? I learned that God specializes in doing things that I think are impossible. How about you: do you have something in your life, that you think is impossible? Right here at the volcano, we have a challenge to believe God for the impossible . . . And finally we’ve asked the big questions, of what the volcano says to us individually and personally, and about our view of ourselves and the earth around us . . . Now that we’re looking back we can see this laboratory for the study of catastrophic process, and a scale model for us to study creation and the global flood” – Dr. Steve Austin
Flood Geology: Mount St. Helens
2013 · 36 min
TV-14 – Documentary
In this film, Dr. Steve Austin looks at how the eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980 can provide insight into the Biblical record of earth’s history.
https://tubitv.com/movies/681330/flood-geology-mount-st-helens?start=true
A Huge Lamb in the Oven Filled With Pilaf! An Oriental Dish Cooked in the Mountains
AWAKE O SLEEPER, RISE FROM DEATH
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. Therefore don’t be partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord.
Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
— Ephesians 5: 6-14
AMEN! Wonderful Scripture and worship! Thank you 1530
Amen!🙏✝️🙏
Good morning 1530 and amen!
Michael, Frank, and GrandpaM, thanks. Hope you have a very excellent day!
How It’s Made – Uranium Part 1
How It’s Made – Uranium Part 2
Micheal: Fascinating videos. How engineers, chemists and physicists figured out these processes is beyond my comprehension.
Hey Bill,
Yeah, that was my reaction also. And then I couldn’t help but think, What kind of mind goes for those things? and although they were talking about their use in Power Plants; still, the whole reason they were researched and developed to begin with, was for Military use. Then I saw this next video in the thumbnails on the side; and watching it; it brings it all into the real world, the idea of a Military Industrial Complex: That’s where all the BIG $$ is, and JOBS!
What kind of country, and countries, could be so thoroughly swallowed up in the devil’s hatred against God, that they devote EVERYTHING to killing God and everything He has made!
So Christians have to make a decision; either come follow Jesus, and take up their cross, as those who are NO LONGER OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS JESUS IS NOT OF THE WORLD; or negotiate terms of surrender to the devil, and pretend you have safety in the anonymity of the Broad Way to destruction.
Explore Russian The Anti-aircraft Missile Factory And Ammunition Production Facility In The US
Psalms 68:30 ” . . . Scatter Thou the people that delight in war.”
Psalms 11:5 “The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence His soul hates.”
Isaiah 2:4 “And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
Micah 4:3 “And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
Psalms 140:1 “(To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;”
Psalms 140:4 “Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.”
Psalms 121:7 “The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: He shall preserve your soul.”
Psalms 18:48 “He delivers me from my enemies: indeed, You lift me up above those that rise up against me: You have delivered me from the violent man.”
2 Samuel 22:47-50 “The LORD lives; and blessed be my Rock; and exalted be the God of the Rock of my salvation. It is God that avenges me, and that brings down the people under me, and that brings me forth from my enemies: You also have lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: You have delivered me from the violent man. Therefore I will give thanks unto You, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto Your Name.”
Proverbs 16:29 “A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.”
Psalms 140:11 “Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.”
28 April 2021 Anita Lane, Australian rock singer-songwriter (The Bad Seeds – “From Her To Eternity”), dies at 61
28 April 2020 Bobby Lewis, American rock and roll singer (“Tossin’ and Turnin'”), dies at 95
28 April 2015 Jack Ely, American singer and guitarist (The Kingsmen – “Louie, Louie”), dies at 71
28 April 2014 Dennis Kamakahi, American Grammy Award-winning slack-key guitarist, dies from lung cancer at 61
28 April 2013 Lonnie Turner, American rock and blues bassist (Steve Miller Band – “Fly Like An Eagle”), dies of lung cancer at 66
28 April 2012 Jackie Kelso [John Joseph Kelson Jr], American jazz saxophonist & session musician, dies at 90
28 April 2009 Vern Gosdin, American country singer (“Set ‘Em Up Joe”), dies after a stroke at 74
28 April 2007 Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist & bandleader (The Tonight Show), dies at 78
28 April 2005 Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet), dies at 81
28 April 1984 Moses “Whispering” Smith, American blues harmonica player and singer (“A Thousand Miles From Nowhere”; “Hound Dog Twist”), dies at 52
28 April 1980 Tommy Caldwell, American rock bass player (Marshall Tucker Band), dies in a jeep crash at 30
Greetings Treepers!
Maranatha!
Amen Brother Frank!
WHAT YOU WILL GET
“Thy life will I give thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.” Jer. xlv. 5
This is the unshakable secret of the Lord to those who trust Him – “I will give thee thy life.” What more does a man want than his life? It is the essential thing. “Thy life for a prey” means that wherever you may go, even if it is into hell, you will come out with your life, nothing can harm it. So many of us are caught up in the shows of things, not in the way of property and possessions, but of blessings. All these have to go; but there is something grander that never can go – the life that is “hid with Christ in God.”
Are you prepared to let God take you into union with Himself, and pay no more attention to what you call the great things? Are you prepared to abandon entirely and let go? The test of abandonment is in refusing to say – “Well, what about this?” Beware of suppositions. Immediately you allow – What about this? – it means you have not abandoned, you do not really trust God. Immediately you do abandon, you think no more about what God is going to do. Abandon means to refuse yourself the luxury of asking any questions. If you abandon entirely to God, He says at once, “Thy life will I give thee for a prey.” The reason people are tired of life is because God has not given them anything, they have not got their life as a prey. The way to get out of that state is to abandon to God. When you do get through to abandonment to God, you will be the most surprised and delighted creature on earth; God has got you absolutely and has given you your life. If you are not there, it is either because of disobedience or a refusal to be simple enough.
Oswald Chambers
April 28th Devotional
Good morning juststevie!
Good morning GrandpaM 🤗🤗🤗🙏✝
Good morning GrandpaM
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And good morning stevie
Morning Molon!! Have a blessed day today. 🌿🌺🌿
Happy Friday, juststevie. Really enjoy your devotional posts. Thank you. 🙏🌺🙏
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Thoughts on work and working…
Sometimes I grow weary
in my business dealings so I arm myself with Scripture and Scriptural thinking.
“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.” 1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” Colossians 3:23, 24 ESV
I’ve determined that any work I’m doing professionally or otherwise in the name of Jesus, for the glory of Jesus, in reliance on the power of Jesus, to give glory to the Lord, expands my joy and further opportunity to get the gospel out.
We have 2 sod jobs; 1 tree removal job; multiple stump grinding jobs; about 90 plants to install; 6 large trees to plant; 2 sod jobs; 1 very large and one small mulching job; 1decorative fence and one cedar fence job…plus regular maintenance.
If not for the grace of God coupled with bone crushing joy? I’d be a tad overwhelmed.
But I’m not 😎
Howdy Frank 👍🏻👍🏻
Good morning Frank…🤗 Have a Blessed day as the Son shines on your soul! 🌞
Have now outlived 2 of my contractors across 30+ year career. Moved rural, not easy finding someone to do all of the, above, (and more) with knowledge.
Awful standing with a new client in their landscape, some work already done by ‘who knows’, grading done, directing water everywhere it should not go. I mention, needing grading, and how it should flow. Clients say, no worries grading guy said he’ll put in a French drain.
Pause.
Thanks karma, I get to explain why that French drain will not work, and we need grading.
One thing I truly want to know about all my clients. Where is their money tree? Ahead of the bid, getting the bid, settling on work to be done, it’s all no money-no money-no money. As it should be. But then, work commences, after a few days, client says, Can you add XYZ? Maybe we do need the ABC you mentioned…… They ‘see’ what all our words/ideas meant. And, we aren’t scamming them.
Thoroughly enjoy your words Frank. Garden & Be Well……………. Your clients fortunate in you.
Good morning bro!
Oh MAN! That’s hard work ! I’ve done some things like that. Used to love it when I was in my twenties and thirties.
Be nice to your back, Brother.
It always filled my heart with joy singing Hymns, and memorizing Scriptures, and reading my Bible at my breaks. Didn’t have too many friends, but it was alright; the Lord answered me with joy in my heart.
Crying…😭🙏
Simon Khorolskiy (3:50 mins)
I quietly entered the room,
As Jesus in spirit appeared,
He looked, and my soul, as a book,
With boundless love, He could read.
I thought I was holy and pure
I thought serving God I deserved.
But how to explain, Jesus, You
Came humbly and bowed to serve.
Chorus.
You, Lord, washed my feet and I wept,
The veil from my soul fell off.
The King of all kings as a slave,
Has taught me the lesson of love
O, Lord, I was blind,
I admit, Forgive me my arrogant pride.
Your covenant, don’t write with ink,
Inscribe it in soul and mind.
You offered me wine and bread,
My soul trembled, humble and meek.
The cross I was destined to bear
You took on Your shoulders for me.
Wow, a keeper. Thank you juststevie.
stevie
I agree with Poy
This is very nice
So are you sister
Your a keeper
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Good morning everybody. So yesterday I had the Bing AI window pop up and ask me to give it a try, so I did. At the time I was researching some FBI shenanigans, so my first question to AI was something like, “what should be done with feds that ignore the Bill of Rights and wage war on the natural rights of citizens?”. The answer it gave was long and unimpressive, making excuses for why each right enumerated in the Bill of Rights has ‘exceptions’.
After that answer it told me that I had four questions left. I was already irritated at the FBI, so my second question was, “who killed LaVoy Finicum and why?”
I had to wait a long time while it considered the question. Then the screen started scrolling with a long, detailed description of the death of LaVoy Finicum on the side of the highway with the FBI drone hovering overhead.
It was on the screen for about five seconds…then it erased itself and Bing told me, “I don’t think that I want to talk to you anymore”, and the AI session ended.
Yep…Nothing weird about that at all…
Amusing.
You got a personalized, Winky Winky Winky AI experience.
re: “Bing AI” window—-anyone know how to disable it or delete it?
Wow, that’s freaky. I give you credit for asking because “they” track everything.
They track me anyway, so I might as well have fun with it…
How interesting!
I appeal to you brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. – 1 Corinthians 1:10
In reading today’s verse about agreeing and having no division, you might think, “Well Paul has never had a church pick out carpet color!” Obviously, the verse does not mean all Christians have to think the same way. Even Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement over Mark as a ministry partner and went separate ways over the issue (Acts 15:36-41).
Paul’s point was that the church is grounded in the Lord Jesus. To the Philippians, Paul wrote, “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men” (2:5-7).
A church united in Christ, willing to submit to God’s Spirit and love their brothers and sisters as themselves, will be unified.
Jesus, in His prayer before His crucifixion, prayed for the unity of the church, “That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me” (John 17:21). This is a good prayer to repeat.
As you pray for the United States, pray for believers to be grounded in Christ alone and willing to give and take in the daily life of the church. Pray for unity and love to be so strong that unbelievers will be drawn to the name of Christ.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing/?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
Good morning Poyeema
Great message for today!
And please let me say ,
When I post things that are obviously part of MY faith,
I am in no way trying to convince or claim that others should “here what I say
and do it this way.
No way
I just love my Church
Love my faith
Love your faith
It’s easy
Love
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Loving testimonial Molonlabe. God is good.
Good morning all.
Yesterday was a busy day and today promises to be the same.
I gave my old white Chevy 3/4 ton pickup to my Granddaughter and her husband. I just figured they could sell it for parts and get a $1,000 or so out of it. But they want to fix it up and use it. So today they are up here from Ft. Campbell to work on it.
The brakes are completely shot. She already has the parts to do a complete brake job on it and to fix the brake lights that aren’t working and to reseal the back window, and to replace the rusted out hinges on the tail gate. but of course the weather is not cooperating. So Steve made a space to work on it in his barn!
Yesterday I tried to start it and the battery was dead and wouldn’t take a charge. Took the old one to NAPA and bought a new one and put it in after cleaning the studs for the side terminals. Went ahead and sealed the connections after getting that done.
While I was out Sherry was cleaning out the inside of the truck, which was an absolute mess, and getting my stuff out.
Once I got the battery changed out I trimmed and mowed the lawn.
Then I took to Steves and pulled it in the barn. We jacked it up and put it on jack stands and using his impact gun took off the wheels. It is raining now, but the truck is inside and dry and ready for them to start working on the brakes.
They are in Carmel (suburb of Indy) with her dad and will be here at my place at around 09:00. I’ll be helping them in any way I can. Jason and Corbin are great kids and we’ve been trying to help them out when they need it.
I had a new alternator for it and new oil filter and I hadn’t used them. So they’re in the back seat along with a can of ‘Liquid Wrench” I picked up because there is a lot of rust under there and they’re going to need it.
Good day to you Rob
Your a Great American
☘️🍀☘️
April 28
MORNING
Behold the Lamb of God. John 1:29
It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Heb. 10:4-7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Isa. 53:7
Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold…. but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: … manifest in these last times for you who by him do believe in God … that your faith and hope might be in God. I Pet. 1:18-21
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom; and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Rev. 5:12
EVENING
I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more Psa. 71:14
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect. Phil. 3:12
Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works of faith toward God. Heb. 6:1
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Prov. 4:18
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. Psa. 116:1, 2
I will bless the LORD at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psa. 34:1
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion. Psa. 65:1
They rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. Rev. 4:8
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. Psa. 50:23
Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. I Thess. 6:16-18
Rejoice in the Lord, alway; and again I say, Rejoice. Phil. 4:4
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/04/0428.html
Mornin’ all!
They all should have been shown stunted.
Good morning Wee
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Today let me offer you Psalm 150 by the great Belgian-French composer Cesar Franck: I first heard it when I was six or seven, and have been awed by it for nearly 70 years:
Earlier I offered an essay on the bravery and example of an Austrian farmer named Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to serve in the Nazi Army in any way. For daring to oppose the Nazis and continuing his resistance against them he was beheaded.He is now on his way to canonization, i.e. sainthood, in the Catholic Church.
For the entire essay:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/25/april-25th-2023-presidential-politics-resistance-day-826/comment-page-3/#comments
Of interest to me were the many reactions with religious sentiments.
On that basis, I wondered if any prayers existed concerning Blessed Franz Jägerstätter (“Blessed” is the stage before Sainthood), which could be used to focus our thoughts on steeling ourselves and securing a positive future for America.
In English I could find nothing.
An Austrian website in German, however, offered this salient prayer: (my translation).
Lord God,
You filled the Blessed Martyr and Father of a Family
Franz Jägerstätter
With great Love for You,
For his family,
And for all people.
In a time when politicians despised their own people,
In a time of Violence,
He came to a clear and incorruptible judgment:
You granted him the Grace to stand against Evil.
In union with Your Son,
And in faithfulness to his conscience,
Franz decided to stand and say NO
To the denial of Your presence,
To the disregard of Human Dignity,
And to an unjust war.
With his trust in You,
He sacrificed his life
Because he loved you above all things.
With the Power of Your Spirit,
And with the example and intercession of Blessed Franz,
Strengthen us in Love for You and for all People,
Help us to stand up for Justice, Peace, and
The Dignity of Humanity!
* Since these and other virtues
Are now under attack in America,
Through his example and intercession,
We ask that America rediscover its virtues
And become again a shining example
Of the best which Humanity can accomplish.
Through Christ, Or Lord,
Amen.
* My addition to the original German prayer (Author Unknown).
It struck me, after writing the essay mentioned above, that if we really believe in the power of prayer, it is time to enlist the aid – however such things work – of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, whose example of Courage is an example for us today, as we see Evil spreading across the land, and an example for all times.
Every day we see the Evil of The Deep State on the march, sometimes in small ways, sometimes in large ones, a bulldozer of Evil claiming to be for us, claiming to be Christian (take your pick of lying politicians), claiming to be “building” America, when in fact they are wrecking everything from our virtues, to our schools, to our economy, to our heritage, and on and on!
Resisting this bulldozer can be wearing, as much of it is psychological and spiritual: a simple prayer like the above may have more power in it than we can know.
Good morning Ausy
Keepin it simple
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Good to have you here brother
Many thanks for your kind comments!
For those who may not know: “Molon Labe” is the reply given by the King of Sparta, Leonidas, to the Persian emperor Xerxes, when the latter demanded that the Spartans must surrender their weapons.
Technically, the first word translates as “Having come,” i.e. “Having come (over to us),” and then the second word is the singular command “Take” i.e. “Take (our weapons).”
“Laconic” in English means “using very few words, taciturn,” and comes from the name of the area around Sparta, Lacedaemonia (Laconia).
Apparently people from there spoke as succinctly as possible! 🙂
Love the clips..🤣.. love the explanation of your name..🤣.. always learning something here 👍..
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yes, knew that about your avatar…speaks for you…as mine does for me…🏹⚔🛡
Verse of the Day for Friday, April 28, 2023
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“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”
Matthew 5:9 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Colossians with a cat
I like that
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Good day to you my sweet sweet Sister
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BE MY VOICE
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.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
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While we’re working on the truck today, Sherry will be making a big pot of chili.
Good day for it. Rainy and temp in the 40’s.
“general” Milley still a problem? Reminder: The Joint Chiefs of Staff are NOT in the operational chain of command.
Their duty is to train and equip. According to the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act.
We are almost out of ammo. So they have failed in their duty.
Fire those generals. Abe Lincoln fired lots of generals. FDR fired lots of generals. Lincoln and FDR actually won wars.
https://twitter.com/bellisima_3/status/1651517185498529793/mediaviewer
Agnus Dei The Lamb of God statue, Loggia Mercato in Florenc
The Our Father
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. Amen.
Thinking about this post…THE LAMB OF GOD…a sacrifice…for us…😭
Fontaine Saint-Michel , Paris, Franc
PRAYER TO ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
Oh, My, Molon!!! I. got Goosebumples!!! Awesomesauce!!!
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Goosebumples n
Awesomesauce
Love that
Think I’ll have some with my pancakes!!!
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Statue of Saint Matthew ,Archbasilica of St. John Lateran – Laterano, Rome, Italy
Matthew 18:20
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
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To love God is the easiest and sweetest of all the commandments
-Dom Gueranger , O.S.B.
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What each man is in the eyes of God, that he is , and no more.
-Saint Francis of Assisi
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He who is truly poor in spirit has no desire for what he does not possess.
-Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
Good morning Treepers
Good morning to you Molonlabe … always enjoy your pics and music…🤣👍
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Hey, Bro. – Are we wandering around the same field of flowers? 🙃
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I think that is a strong possibility.
Just sayin
Sometimes I do
Look at
What you do
And I go there
There is always good
I like what you do Sister
Makes me feel good
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Good that you are feeling good today, Bro!!! 🙃
Good morning, molon. Your pictures and posts are so uplifting. Thank you for sharing and making the day more beautiful. 🙏🌺
peace friends . find joy , find love , find the peace . just make sure your lookin in the right place. right here is a good place to start. peace . friends

The Spirit Song – A Nordic Lullaby
Just wanted to try posting music …hope it’s not to early ..🤣👍
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Keep at it friend
Don’t worry about it
Go with the flow
It will show
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My morning laugh. Clever.
Good morning Mary.
Good evening, Joe. Just waking up from my evening nap to see how the tree is shaking.
Good evening Mary. I woke up a little while ago. Took a nice evening nap; slept pretty well.
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Good morning Treepers

Majestic and lovely. Could spend a lot of time wandering through the shapes. Beautifully composed and time of day well chosen.
Betsy and JWoo , i know your out there . miss you

I Know You’re Out There Somewhere-The Moody Blues
Good morning molon. Nice pic of the snow-capped mountains and flowers in the foreground. Wonder where the photo was taken?
Haven’t heard from JWoo in a few days. Hope she’s ok. Bet has commented recently on both Open and Presidential Threads. I think she’s ok.
Thanks Joe
Both are busy I’m sure
Really enjoy looking at images of wooden model ships. USS Bonhomme Richard

The patience this took some caring person… just amazing.
That’s cool
I wanna know how they get em in the bottles
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An Eastern Phoebe visited today.
Possibly a fledgling of the one I photographed in March.
Not a rare bird but new to my miniscule, but ever expanding, bird knowledge.
We have a bird clock tweet the hours and I STILL haven’t learned their tunes.
HMS Serapis
