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On this day and every day –
God is in Control
. . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . .
Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God;
do not mourn nor weep.” . . .
“Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet,
and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared;
for this day is holy to our Lord.
Do not sorrow,
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
In 2 or 3 days, I hope we will be in the position of seeing a great political victory that will mark the beginning of our journey from the darkness of a godless and corrupt administration to a nation led by leaders who respect God, love America, and work toward changes that will benefit our people as a whole.
This post is a repeat of a post from Aug. Hopefully, it won’t be seen as a killjoy, but as an example of the attitude God wants His children to possess, as difficult as it might be in times such as these.
Proverbs 22:17—24:34 contains thirty “Sayings of the Wise” compiled to nurture faith in God, correct or warn against wrong attitudes and behaviors, and instruct those seeking wisdom from the Lord. Proverbs 24:17–18 cautions, “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him” (ESV).
This saying warns wisdom seekers to be careful not to celebrate when an enemy experiences misfortune. The word for “rejoice” is translated as “gloat” in other versions (NIV, CSB). This term means “to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight.” Gloating over an enemy’s misfortune is associated with an arrogant and mocking attitude. It’s not easy to control the urge to gloat when our enemy experiences hardship, but Scripture says, “Those who rejoice at the misfortune of others will be punished” (Proverbs 17:5, NLT).
God is always watching our hearts (1 Samuel 16:7; Jeremiah 17:10; Hebrews 4:12; 1 Peter 3:11). Jesus taught us to love and forgive both enemies and friends and pray for our persecutors (Matthew 5:44). “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you” (Luke 6:27–28). As Jesus hung on the cross, He practiced what He preached, forgiving His torturers and executioners (Luke 23:34). The first Christian martyr followed Christ’s example. As Steven was being stoned to death, he prayed for God to have mercy on his accusers (Acts 7:57–60).
If we disobey these commands, if we turn around and revel in our enemy’s downfall, we reveal attitudes of pride and superiority that God hates (Proverbs 16:5; 8:13; James 4:6). According to the proverb, if God sees us gloating when our enemy experiences a disaster, He may yield, turning His anger away from our enemy. The Lord may even turn against us in punishment (Proverbs 17:5).
The same disciple who retaliated by chopping off his enemy’s ear (John 18:10–11) later taught, “Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will grant you his blessing” (1 Peter 3:9, NLT). Taking malicious delight in someone else’s failure is a form of revenge and an evil that God forbids. Peter grew to understand that God wants His followers to “turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace, and work to maintain it” (1 Peter 3:11).
To rejoice when our enemy falls is the opposite of expressing genuine Christian love, which Paul outlined in Romans 12. “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. . . . Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath” (Romans 12:14–19). Paul went on to cite Proverbs 25:21–22: “If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.”
Why do we not rejoice when our enemy falls? Because the believer’s ultimate goal is to see an enemy become a brother or sister in Christ. The Lord taught us to accomplish this by treating our enemies with kindness, generosity, and humility (Matthew 5:39, 43–48). We “conquer evil by doing good” (Romans 12:21, NLT). Just as God’s kindness is intended to turn us away from our sin (Romans 2:4), our kindness might be just the thing to turn an enemy away from a life of sin toward repentance.
xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/not-rejoice-when-enemy-falls.html
I know that this lesson today is true: we are not to rejoice in the sufferings of our enemies. We should not be glad if they become ill, and we should not rejoice in their misfortune. At the same time, there are Scripture verses that ask God to stop those who are perpetrating evil and to protect those against whom it is being directed.
Psalm 141
9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
Psalm 35
1 Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.
6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
I believe the key is to submit to God’s will, asking him for protection but not gloating at the downfall of the enemy. I pray that the enemies of this country — and therefore of me and of all of us — will be stopped in their tracks and that we will be delivered from their schemes. It is a fight for good vs. evil. Boundaries have to be set, and battle lines have to be drawn. If they will not repent and insist on marching to destroy us, then we have to fight. If we win, we can be utterly thankful and pray that our enemies will repent and change their ways.
Amen!
Repeating “fight” three times?
What on Earth could he possibly be alluding to???
The mysteries of this election!
Oh, bother!
— Winnie the Pthulhu
Yuk.
The good news is we shortened it back early in the year.
Look at it this way, it’s another hour in which undecided voters might hear about Peanut before going to the polls.
That story is worse than calling us garbage. Those bastards.
Which makes it better, in a way…it will infuriate more people.
Yes.
😂
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2022-11-06-08.15.41-i0.wp_.com-db875174ea2c.webp
Amen!
Hope this might let it show here, running it through Gab
This is great news. This is one of the first real reforms that is needed, to depoliticize science.
The government’s own report said that fluoride in water was hurting kids, which matches everything we know about the substance, but the Demmunists can’t back down on fluoride, because American socialism has bound itself to that error as a symbol of its control and power.
Fluoride has to go, and Dems cannot do it. They’re incapable. Politically paralyzed.
Rinocons are incapable too. Politically enslaved to politically paralyzed Demmunists.
Same applies to daylight savings time IMO.
Why can’t they just be done with the nonsense of changing time?
The vast majority of people want to make it permanent…until they end up waking in the dark in the winter.
Personally I think it should be abolished and we should stick to standard time (i.e., what we just went onto).
Exactly, if they can’t agree on one, just split the difference.
One suggestion I saw once was to put the east coast permanently on standard time, the central timezone on DST, mountain time on standard, and PT on DST…year round.
The effect is to have two timezones in the US, with a two hour clock change in Western Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, the OK panhandle, and Western Texas. Where almost no one lives. Time zone boundaries that run through the Florida panhandle, etc, would disappear.
ThanQ.
I have always thought that it would be more reasonable for organizations to change to “summer hours” than actually change the time.
Agreed.
So what are dentists going to do?
They promote the use of fluoride (I would much prefer it was spelled flouride, I have to fix it every single time…) constantly, to prevent cavities.
It’s not too terrible as a rinse or a treatment — but it’s stupid to take it internally.
So fluoride in toothpaste or in a concentrated oral rinse treatment is not dangerous, only ingestion?
It would have helped if my dentist had just said that, instead of fighting me over it for the past 5+ years.
HTH are people supposed to know?
I can’t become a scientist, a doctor, a lawyer, and an expert in every other area of life, I don’t have enough years.
Methuselah might, if he hit the books young and didn’t get sidetracked until he was in his 300s or 400s, but we don’t.
Or I’m just not smart enough. That’s usually the correct answer.
If you look at the cited problems — neurological disorders, arthritis, bone cancer, bone fractures, IQ loss — there’s not a lot of problems if you just spit it out. All that internal stuff starts when you swallow it.
I don’t know if toothpaste is a good idea for kids, because they probably swallow a lot of it.
But fluoridated water? That’s a bad idea for anyone.
Exactly. I do not drink fluoridated water. I do use fluoridated Pronamel toothpaste, which has been excellent in protecting my teeth from cavities. Spit out and rinse with non-fluoridated water.
TradeBait2
Agreed. Same here.
What truly protects your teeth from cavities is for you to not mouth breath while you sleep. Lack of saliva is tooth decay bacteria’s optimal environment.
BTW if you snore, you need to be using a CPAP machine. But your teeth will still dry out which is very bad for them.
BTW, it is the brushing that helps you; not the paste. Flossing is even better than brushing alone.
Lost my remaining 17 teeth at 44yo. No matter what I did; none of it helped. It is a good thing that your experience is better than mine; keep it up.
I was thinking this the other day, when two different professionals made me feel as if I were in the Twilight Zone because nothing made sense. I’ve heard this from other people, too. It’s as if people have lost their ability to listen and to think logically. But they’re the ones we’re supposed to be able to rely on.
But you know what is the beginning of real wisdom and the foundation of truth…upon that – reality and sound logic are built.
Their house is built on sand, ours on The Rock.
Many dentists, who are giving up on pushing fluoride treatments and fluoride toothpastes, are now pushing a newer and trendier alternative – hydroxyapatite (microscopic calcium phosphate) toothpastes. I’m sure similar treatments are coming.
Hydroxyapatite is what naturally remineralizes our teeth. Our bodies secrete it into saliva to fix our teeth. It’s totally safe.
I won’t get fluoride treatments.
Fluoride is intermediate in toxicity between LEAD and ARSENIC.
Ask yourself – would you get LEAD TREATMENTS on your teeth, if you just “didn’t swallow”? Especially knowing that many drugs are now given by dissolving them IN THE MOUTH???
No way. Keep that nerve-damaging shit away from me.
Thank you! 👍
Wait until I ask my dentist about Hydroxyapatite toothpaste… he and his assistants are just gonna love me more!
I guess I better learn how to pronounce it… hydroxy – appetite? 😁
harmless, lovable little fuzzball 😉
“harmless, lovable little fuzzball 😉”
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That I am… and I am what I am… and that’s all that I am! 😁
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👍 👍
Yup! That’s it!
https://askthedentist.com/hydroxyapatite-toothpaste/
“Ask yourself – would you get LEAD TREATMENTS on your teeth, if you just “didn’t swallow”?”
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Pretty sure I have mercury in my fillings.
Less filling, tastes great 👍😂
Yikes!
Yup. That’s what I’m talking about.
Thankfully, my dentists used every possible opportunity to replace them!
Found the vid of Peanut and Fred’s Mom…
https://twitter.com/itsDivasChoice/status/1852789704481005882
Saw something saying the Peanut parents have an “OnlyFans” channel – seems more believable now.
After Ashli Babbit being in a throuple, and one of the Moms For Liberty founders (and her husband) being exposed as swingers, it just seems like there’s a lot more libertarianism out there in MAGA than sometimes seems on the surface.
What’s this about Ashli Babbit? I never heard anything about it. Got a source?
I had forgotten about that.
Search duckduckgo for “Ashli Babbit being in a throuple”, lots of links.
ThanQ.
This is the first I had heard of it as well.
“Saw something saying the Peanut parents have an “OnlyFans” channel – seems more believable now.”
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Found a page called ‘linktree’ that has all of the squirrel owner’s social media links, and the first one is OnlyFans: https://linktr.ee/peanut_the_squirrel12
The OnlyFans link page shows what looks to me like a very gay pose of a photo of himself for an avatar, with the tagline “S q u i r r e l D a d d y 🐿
@squirrel_daddy
Peanut’s dad, VERY kinky player 😈 🔥 ”
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The squirrel, devil and fire emojis don’t copy from the OF page to here, so I found the same emojis in my list of emojis to replicate the emojis that won’t transfer with ‘copy & paste’ from the OF page.
I don’t know why the ‘devil’ emoji turns purple, it should be red like normal (the way it looks when I put it in the post), and the ‘fire’ emoji also looks different after the post goes ‘live’, compared to looking normal when I edit the post to add it.
Do you ever notice how the sin is always about sex? ALWAYS.
Of the “Big Seven,” lust always seems to be the deadliest to me.
Pride, actually, leads to the others.
Pride of Lucifer is the original sin.
Maybe so, but Original Sin which is washed away at Baptism is Adam’s pride.
I have a different understanding of Original Sin 🙂
Romans 7 deals with this, here’s a snippet
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[d] a slave to the law of sin.
Footnotes [a-d at the site but shows numbered here]Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21Romans 7:18 Or my fleshRomans 7:25 Or in the flesh
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%207&version=NIV
Here’s the version you use, I think, for comparison
14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do.
16 If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish that which is good, I find not.
19 For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil which I will not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members.
24 Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of sin.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%207&version=NIV,DRA
I guess I think of “the sinful nature” or “the flesh” as “original sin” & this is Paul discussing its continuing presence even though he is a Believer, & presumably baptized.
It also leads to a lot of fun. Until the true cost is revealed.
Then it’s not fun any more.
It’s always fun until somebody gets hurt. Said every mom, everywhere.
And when mom was out of sight, earshot, boys continued the fun.
Until mom returned or one got hurt. Youngest of four boys here..
Bet your brothers toughened you up to counteract your mom’s theoretical babying 😉
Likely, although I never thought so. Also two younger sisters.
Ah you didn’t carry the “baby” label. Neither did my daughter who was our youngest. Because of her next oldest brother’s developmental challenges the two of them kind of shared being the baby & being the bigger sibling. It actually enhanced competence for both of them…thankfully 🙂
Apparently, this POS Karen was angry that Peanut got more followers than her on Instagram. (I hope this is not false reporting)
(It seems the Twitter links work again)
LMAO!!!
https://twitter.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1852790585469423859
:Poor babies…my word!
Seems like a good time for reflection….
(I was hoping it might dovetail with Carl’s teaching.)
One of the startling thing I noticed in our nation’s Capitol building is that there are various aphorisms painted above the doors — copybook headings so that our legislators might be reminded of them as they draft the laws of our Republic.
There are none of these on the walls of the adjacent House and Senate office buildings. Maybe there should be.
Likely pointless. Once they’ve been there a month they’d drop out of their awareness.
This is not addressed to Bakocarl specifically, I appreciate his efforts here every Sunday. I just don’t know how to reconcile these things.
How can we care enough to actually fight for what is good and right and true, how can we be hot (or even cold, but not lukewarm, cf. Revelation 3:16), and then not be glad if what is good and right and true actually prevails?
How do we reconcile these?
“Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: [18] Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.” (Proverbs 24:17-18, KJV, boldface mine)
and
“Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.” (2 Chronicles 20:27, KJV, boldface mine)
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Proverbs 17:5 reads differently (to me) between the NLT and the KJV:
“Those who rejoice at the misfortune of others will be punished” (Proverbs 17:5, NLT).
“Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.” (Proverbs 17:5, KJV)
It would seem (to me) that there is a world of difference between mocking the poor, and mocking the powerful who do abominations:
“And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.” (1 Kings 18:27 KJV, boldface mine)
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Imagine playing football, from Pop Warner League, through high school and college, and you make it to the pros, and you win the national championship, and you’re in the Super Bowl.
The team you’re playing against cheated their way to the Super Bowl and purposely injured as many players as they could along the way, including you and many of your teammates.
Game day arrives, and your team wins the Super Bowl on the last play of the game.
But nobody celebrate.
Nobody rejoice.
Just turn out the lights, go home and pray for the other team and their fans who burned and looted the city in anger.
If that’s what victory looks like, if that’s all there is, then how do we care enough to fight for it in the first place?
Is there not an appropriate time and place (e.g., Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) to rejoice in the triumph of good over evil?
We are human beings, we are flesh and blood, we are not robots.
I want to understand this, because it happens at church too.
I once asked our church leadership if we were supposed to be pacifists, because I didn’t think we were, or understand how we could be. There were members of the military in our congregation, and more importantly, the first gentile to be baptized into the Lord’s church was a Roman Centurion named Cornelius.
I didn’t get an answer. It was part of a larger inquiry, so I’m not suggesting he dodged the question, I just don’t know why, whenever it seems that victory might be in sight, it seems like we are admonished to question ourselves, dash our spirits when they need to be strengthened, and hobble ourselves so that defeat can be snatched from the jaws of victory once again.
I’m not expecting anyone to have the answer, and I don’t think I can get an answer at church either, so where do I go?
Who do I talk to in order to get clarity on what is right and what is wrong according to God, when the Scriptures present two different instructions? Since God does not contradict Himself, it would seem that context makes the difference.
But it seems like we always assume whatever context makes us the bad guy must be the correct one. And this is positively debilitating if we are somehow (miraculously?) in the right, causing us to subvert ourselves from seeing it through to victory, because we are habituated to always see ourselves in the worst possible light, i.e., we are never right, no matter what we do.
If we do evil, we are bad and deserve punishment. No one questions that.
But if we do good, we are also bad, because it is not possible for mortal men to do good perfectly, and if we are wrong in even the tiniest thing, then whatever victory we might obtain is for nought, and we would have been better off if we had never tried.
It’s like we’re taught to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It’s like a form of psychological abuse. We are to do to the best we can for what is right and good, but if we ever glimpse the finish line, we are to cut ourselves down, engage in debilitating self critique, search desperately for an interpretation of Scripture that justifies sabotaging ourselves, and get dragged off the course to the hospital tent.
Whose victory is that? Is that a victory for God, or is that a victory for our Adversary, who walketh about, seeking to finish off those who are already wounded by self-inflicted gunshots?
I need to understand how to engage in this constant battle/tension between fighting for good, but never allowing ourselves to be in a position to actually win. It’s like the intentional self-defeat of the RINO.
I can’t go through what remains of this life doubting and sabotaging myself every time I believe that I’m doing the right thing.
I want to know and be sure what is right.
It seems like we (and I include myself) are experts at pointing out all the ways we can stumble and miss the mark — but nobody ever shows us how to HIT the mark.
And that is the thing we need to know.
Because no matter how hard we try, no matter how much progress we might make, the moment victory appears to be within our grasp, we are taught to doubt, second guess and sabotage ourselves with all the ways God would be displeased with us.
I want to know how to do what is right according to God’s will.
There appears to be hundreds of paths that are wrong, and we are taught every last one. Preachers seem to never miss an opportunity to tell us how bad we are. Why does no one teach the path that is right?
No one ever says “Here is what God’s Word says we ought to do” when it comes to doing some thing… like, for example, trying to save our country from being orders of magnitude worse than Sodom and Gomorrah.
Instead, we all know that we should do something, but no matter what we try, we are hastily admonished that we’re ‘wrong again’.
So what is right? Why doesn’t anyone show us that, so we can just do that, instead of showing all the ways that we are wrong?
Can you imagine if we tried to build a house that way? The building inspector never shows us how to do anything right, he just stops by after the house is completed to tell us everything we did wrong, none of it is to code, and that we need to tear it all down and start over.
Can we imagine doing anything that way? By trial and error, where if any fault in the finished product is detected, the whole endeavor is scrapped?
Then why do we do it that way in matters of God?
If defeating the grotesque evil that has overcome the government of our land, a government that betrays their oaths and their own people, a government that facilitates every kind of sin under the sun, a government that hates God and those who try to follow Him, if we somehow manage to survive long enough and overcome this great evil, how is that not worthy of rejoicing?
there’s a slight difference between rejoicing over a victory and overpowering an enemy…and gloating over an enemy’s (or anyone’s) misfortune.
I agree, it’s very difficult not to harbor a secret glee when we see the demise of our enemies and/or those who have tried to hurt or abuse us & who murder innocent squirrels and kids and puppies & kittens (and got away with it, time after time).
but that’s kinda like taking a sadistic pleasure in it….it suggests malice….ill will.
whereas, feeling victorious over a win puts the emphasis on the victory ….instead of on the demise of the baddies.
and keeps us above the level of guttersnipes and lefties.
there but for fortune go you or I.
very hard to do.
There’s a difference between rejoicing over a victory and overpowering an enemy…and gloating over an enemy’s (or anyone’s) misfortune.
On the nose!!! We can fully rejoice when good defeats evil! And so we should!!!
Amen!
Well said.
Well, it began with ‘an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth’, so the concept of fairness and justice is well established.
Today we have a legal system as an intermediary, so people don’t take matters into their own hands. The justice system is supposed to punish wrong-doers.
If someone murders a member of our family, we don’t generally hunt them down ourselves, we call the gov’t sanctioned Pension Protection squad.
Then the PPs are supposed to bring the murderer to justice.
If that ever actually happens, then the family members of the victim are supposed to take some kind of comfort in knowing the murderer will spend the rest of his life breaking rocks in prison.
Or get out in 30 days, depending on which state you’re in, which admittedly (and intentionally) diminishes the effectiveness of the whole justice / punishment paradigm.
The idea being that although we can never get our family member back, at least we have the satisfaction of knowing that the murderer can never hurt anyone else again, and just as importantly — the murderer, though he lives, is not living his best life.
He is paying a penalty for the crime he committed. That’s our system, and if we don’t have a system like that, the only other option is everyone takes justice into their own hands, and we’re back to ‘eye for an eye’, vigilante style.
I’m not a big fan of terms like ‘closure’, because there isn’t any. But what there is, or at least should be, is a necessary sense that JUSTICE has been served.
Is that the same as ‘rejoicing’?
I don’t know, but I suspect so. It certainly seems related.
If you ask the family of the murder victim “Are you GLAD the murderer is in prison?”, I’m pretty sure their answer is going to be “Yes“.
You are a blessing to have here, and we are blessed to be here with you.
The answer to your question, as with many others like it, is not to be found here on earth IMO. I believe that we are to rejoice over our victory of our enemies’ quest to defeat us but not to rejoice over the personal cost to them.
“They got what they deserved” is a spiritually dangerous phrase.
If it means that bad things happen to bad people, fine. If it means that I get pleasure from that, not so fine.
Similarly, rejoicing over victory in battle is about the cause, not the participants.
At the end of a football game, the coach of the winning team crosses the field of battle and shakes hands with the coach of the losing team. Often they will embrace. This is a public expression of victory not vanquish. It is NOT a show – the coaches genuinely respect each other.
All across the USA, statues are being removed, schools, streets and military bases are being renamed, and state flags are being redesigned, all in the name of ‘not honoring civil war rebels’ from over a century ago.
But why were all those statues erected, schools and streets and bases named, and flags designed in the first place?
To show honor and respect to the defeated heroes. And to reconcile them.
If there is no reconciliation, then there is no respect. And that is why there is the push to eradicate all remembrance of respect and honor for fallen Confederates. Compare this to how Germans deal with WW2. Even the mention of Nazism is a crime. No honor is to be given to those who were part of the losing cause.
Christ [and His Apostle Paul] said that we should strive to reconcile those outside the family. IOW, preach the Good News of the Gospel; hoping to get them to turn from their ways and follow Him. This is loving your enemies. The current push to erase is the opposite. The way the US treated the defeated Confederates is an example of loving your enemies, until they aren’t your enemies any longer.
A very insightful comment.
Well said! TY
“I believe that we are to rejoice over our victory of our enemies’ quest to defeat us but not to rejoice over the personal cost to them.“They got what they deserved” is a spiritually dangerous phrase.”
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But our entire system of justice is designed and intended to do exactly that, because without it, lawlessness, chaos and vigilantism would reign.
Whether civil or criminal, the objective is to make the victim ‘whole’ again, plus damages for time lost, expenses, missed work, pain and suffering, etc.
The person who committed the crime is required by the justice system to pay a personal cost, either in money (the court awards financial compensation to the victim from the perpetrator) or time in prison, or both.
If people don’t get what they deserve often enough and for long enough, if there is no penalty for criminal behavior, then the behavior in question spreads and increases exponentially.
That’s the whole reason why we establish a police force full of pension protectors and a judicial branch (full of pension protectors) and a prison system.
So that when people do something heinous and reprehensible, they are removed from society and/or punished financially.
So herein lies the problem.
Someone like me was raised under this paradigm. I suspect everyone here was raised under this paradigm, to the exclusion of any other.
Is that paradigm in conflict with the gospel?
I don’t think so:
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“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. [2] Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
[3] For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: [4] For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” (Romans 13:1-4, KJV)
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Now this is where many preachers and I will likely get into a very strong disagreement, and I think it is because the preachers usually don’t understand what form of government we have, or WHO our ‘rulers’ actually are.
In their minds, they’re living in the 1st century, but we’re living in America, in 2024.
So I would ask the preacher a few questions.
Me: “Does Romans 13:1-4 apply today, in America?”
Preacher: “Yes, of course, absolutely.”
Me: “Then shouldn’t we give America back to England?”
Preacher: “Wait, what?”
Me: “England was our ruler, the ‘higher power’, and according to Romans 13:1-4 King Georgie boy was ordained by God, and our Founding Fathers resisted that power and rebelled against dear leader George, declared Independence and then had the audacity to fight a war against the monarchy to win their freedom — and under the doctrine of Romans 13:1-4, how are we not obligated to give America back to the English monarchy, with a great big apology?”
I haven’t met a preacher yet who has a response to that.
Clearly, something is amiss.
Then I continue.
Me: “Is it reasonable to say that God blessed the efforts of our Founding Fathers?”
The preacher will likely be grateful to be back on comfortable footing and say “Yes, of course”, but if not, then my follow up question is “Could the Founding Fathers have succeeded in throwing off English rule against God’s will?”
The answer to that one is an obvious and reassuring “No.”
So we have established something important here.
There are times when God appears to approve and bless the efforts of the common man to resist and overthrow tyranny of those who have rule over them.
Moving along.
Me: “Who created America once the English were defeated?”
Preacher: “The Founding Fathers.”
Me: “Who wrote the Constitution?”
Preacher: “The Founding Fathers.”
Me: “Does the Constitution create and establish and authorize the creation of the government?”
Preacher: “Yes.”
Me: “Does that government include representatives of the People (a legislative branch), a system of courts and judges (a judicial branch), and a President (executive branch)?”
Preacher: “Yes.”
Me: “So We the People declared Independence from George, We the People created America, We the People created the Constitution, and the Constitution in turn created the government, correct?”
Preacher: “Yes.”
Me: “And the created cannot be greater than the Creator, right?”
Preacher, confidently: “Definitely right.”
Me: “Then in America, who is the RULER, and who is the SERVANT? We the People created this nation, no ‘ruler’ did. God blessed the efforts of We the People to throw off the tyranny of George, and establish a new country, under God. We the People wrote a Constitution which created the government, so by definition, in America, the government serves the People, and not the other way around, right?”
Preacher (not so confident now, he smells what the Rock is cookin’): “I think so.”
Me: “So when our civil servants become corrupt and criminal, in America, We the People have not only the right, but actually an affirmative duty, to overthrow such tyrannical government, right?”
Preacher: “Now hold on, I don’t know about that…”
Me: “Who declared Independence and founded this nation?”
Preacher: “The Founding Fathers.”
Me: “What document did they write to declare their Independence?”
Preacher: “The Declaration of Independence.”
Me: “Then let’s take a look at what it says, right here, bigger than life:
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” — excerpt, Declaration of Independence
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So We the People, who created this nation with God’s blessing, We the People are the Rulers of this nation, and We the People created a Constitution which in turn authorized the creation of a Government to protect our God-Given Rights and to protect our borders.
So the hierarchy of authority and power in America is this: We the People –> Declaration of Independence –> Overthrow of king George –> Constitution –> Federal Government civil servants. That makes We the People at least 4 levels of authority above the federal government.
Now let’s go back to Romans 13:1-4, and this time, every time we see the word “rulers” or ‘power’ or ‘higher powers’, let us read it with the proper understanding that We the People are ultimately those rulers and powers, that We the People were blessed and ordained by God to rule over this country called America.
That is how our country was established — as it is written, plain as day, in our Founding Documents:
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“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. [2] Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
[3] For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: [4] For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” (Romans 13:1-4, KJV)
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Let that sink in. Read it again with the new understanding that We the People are not servants to rulers, but our elected leaders are in fact and in deed servants to We the People who created this country, and without whom, this country would not exist.
Furthermore, our leaders only have authority to lead by CONSENT of the governed. Don’t take my word for it, it says so right there in the Declaration of Independence:
“–That to secure these rights (the reason for the government’s existence), Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”
So when someone does wrong to We the People, especially when one or more of our subordinates in government do wrong to We the People, Romans 13:1-4 establishes that it is the government civil servants who are subject to the ‘higher powers’, which necessarily means We the People, who CREATED the government, and we have already established that the created cannot be greater than the Creator.
God blessed our Founding Fathers in the creation of America. In America, unlike nearly every other country on earth, We the People are the Rulers, ordained by God, and the government serves We the People. And therefore, ‘whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God’, correct?”
Preacher: “…silence…”
Me: “Our government is beyond wicked, beyond corrupt, to the very core. Remember our Founding document, the Declaration of Independence:
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
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So if We the People, being the rightful Rulers of this nation, are following the Founding Documents of this nation, Documents written by the Founding Fathers who created this nation with God’s blessing, if We the People do NOT defend our Rights and accept our duty ‘to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security’, then are We the People, the lawful Rulers of this nation, not resisting the ordinance of God?
And if our wicked civil servants have done great evil, should they not be afraid, for the Ruler, We the People, beareth not the sword in vain? Are We the People not the ‘minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil?’
What then shall we do, what must we do, if our servants in the government, which We the People created to protect us, become wicked and doeth evil against us?”
Preacher: “…silence…”
Me: “You see, it’s comparatively easy, when the ‘rulers’ are some outside ‘other’, and we can dodge responsibility by claiming God instructs us to be subject to them, so we’re just ‘following orders’, at least so long as their ‘orders’ don’t contradict God’s Word.
But it’s much harder when we realize that unlike everywhere else on earth that I’m aware of, in America, We the People ARE the rulers, so the responsibility is OURS.
And in order to carry out our duty, do We the People not have to throw off these tyrants — these same tyrants that no one in church wants to acknowledge or talk about?
Is it according to God’s Word for us to shirk that duty?”
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The preacher has likely stopped listening some time ago, because he is not prepared to accept the reality of our situation, because he has probably been living in the delusion (of the matrix) his entire life.
It is unlikely the scales are going to fall from his eyes while I’m standing there talking to him, or that he will suddenly have ears to hear and eyes to see.
And that creates an impasse.
Because the preacher wants to wear the mask, and take the shots, and encourage everyone else to do the same, and generally to do whatever our civil servants tell him to do. And if the preacher or elders have legal counsel, no doubt legal counsel will tell them to do exactly that.
And because I am no one, the least of all my brethren. And because ultimately everyone believes what they want to believe, and comfortable people generally believe whatever maintains their comfort, their position and their place, and preachers, being people too, are not excluded from that part of the human condition.
Regardless, the truth remains.
If We the People are indeed the Rulers of this nation, then We the People (and that includes Christians, just as many of our Founding Fathers were Christians) have an affirmative duty to take back our country from these wicked servants, and put our house back in order.
This is well reasoned & hard truth–Thank you!
You’ve sparked a lively discussion between Hubby & me 🙂
Well I certainly hope you’re both on my side 👍😂
Absolutely…AND God’s as far as we can make “sense” of scripture 😇
I would not have recognized J.Lo, but I don’t keep up with her and all the “work” she’s had done.
Is it just me, or does she look somewhat less than pleased to be there?
Dealing with the great unwashed brainwashed who didn’t pay to see her 😉
Almost certain he was leeching off taxpayers to go to law school.
So it’s prior to 1975.
BQQM!
Trump rallies
JD rallies.
These are Trump’s for today:
Have heard repetition is a good thing.
found this OT…can’t vouch for it…
Tala Smith ⚔️
@Tala_NoExcuses
Updated info on the wrongfully euthanized squirrel Peanut, & raccoon Fred…
Some ridiculous judge DID sign a warrant. For a squirrel? On a called -in “complaint” by this photog Monica Keasler to the DEC, for unknown reasons. The woman proceeded to brag on her now deleted FB account – she’s also ditched IG & Linked In because people found out who she is.
Reviewing facts, it’s a pathetic case of government waste, overreach, & misuse of resources.
These people rescued & raised Peanut as an orphaned kit. They had him for 7 years. The man created an animal rescue sanctuary as a result, and had allll the app. process done, & it was SIGNED. The only thing waiting on approval was an enclosure. This animal was not capable of wild survival. They tried that initially, but Peanut came back with injuries. Some rescued wildlife is not releasable – this is exactly why rehab sanctuaries will keep select animals after rehab capability is maxed.
A few potential reasons:
Missing limbs
Birds with lack of flight
Loss of vision or hearing
Predators unable to hunt sufficiently
Prey unable to evade predators
Failure to thrive due to health deficits
Captivity-raised lack of survival instincts
Conditions requiring ongoing medication
This RAID involved making the victims sit outside their home for 5 hours while these maniacs tore up everything. They were denied the right to call legal counsel. Feds went thru closets, leaving a complete mess. They broke soap bottles in the bathroom. They took apart the man’s TOILET upon escorting him before he could use it because apparently there could be some important squirrel propaganda hidden in there (I’m assuming in the tank). 😒 Please make it make sense.
They further questioned his wife’s immigration status (Germany), in spite of her having all necessary docs & ID.
Because these psychos descended unannounced & hunted down these ordinarily docile rescues in their normally peaceful home, somebody supposedly got bitten. They used that as justification for killing them to examine brain tissue for signs of rabies.
(Let’s be clear… they were observed putting on gloves. Was anyone ACTUALLY bitten?)
What’s really going on here?
We all want to know.
If you are thinking, “It’s just a squirrel “, look at your pets. Do it right now. Why do you think you are exempt from over-reach like this, & what’s different from your dog or cat?
WHAT???
I am a feline rescuer. I’ve also rescued other animals to either be rehab-released, or homed as appropriate. I have been doing this most of my life, in fact. Birds, including a baby hummingbird once. Rabbits. Lizards. Snakes. Dogs. What’s the difference, I ask you. This is NOT about permits. He had the paperwork. Signed. It was in final process.
Why do Feds have the time & resources for one MF squirrel that’s not bothering anybody? If they need something to do, I have a few suggestions. Some legit tasks first… and a couple of impolite instructions after that.
I usually try to avoid posting things that end up in the political arena, but here we are. This is as far as I’m concerned a bipartisan concern anyway, so today I am speaking up. NONE of us should be ok with this type of abusive home invasion. Do you want to be treated like a criminal, like a drug dealer, on your own property.. when you have done nothing harmful to anyone? I’m absolutely certain that I don’t.
AS a rescuer MYSELF, this hits hard. I’ve had tragic abuses committed by other organizations that I had to then correct & be the responsible party – costing me hundreds in the aftermath, plus deciding under duress of the situation to adopt as a result. Over the lifetime of a pet, that’s thousands. I continue to do this, in spite of not having a donation for it in 4 years. So to me, it’s an important issue. We talk all the time about being responsible citizens, but when it comes to actually demonstrating it, who steps up? In my neighborhood, it’s just me. Out of pocket.
So YEAH… #JusticeForPeanut
THAT^^^ was in response to this
Sarah Fields
@SarahisCensored
Monica Keasler is the one who called in the complaint about Peanut. She has now deleted all of her social media. Make her famous.
I know from extensive first hand experience, issues involving animals and goverment is motivated by destruction of free people, not concern for animals. Even the SPCA, maybe especially the SPCA, is a leftist political organization disguising itself as concern for animals, when in fact it is a government cut-out to harass Americans.
And I want to add: if you look into the background of the people involved in the raid, IMO you will discover connections to PETA and American SPCA, communist organizations who use animals (IMO) as a pretense to destroy normal Americans, family farms, and anyone else who arguably falls within their jurisdcition and needs to be destroyed.
This is AI doing good.
agreed
I have known some asshole squirrels in our woods…none of them look this pleasant
😂
My squirrels are the Tren d A of the species. Gangs of marauding troublemakers. The latest offense, literally ate through a 3 strand electric wire on a yard decoration. Ate it clean off. I never even found the missing piece. Kept as a souvenir I suppose As DJT says..they’re not sending their best to my trees..
LMAO 😂
lolol watching a few of the vids of sweet lil Peanut hopping all over his owners almost gave me PTSD.
It is definitely a depressing tale.
hubby made me a wooden “tree” one winter that i decorated with bird seed pine cones for the birds. the first night it sat on the deck we heard loud noises. we turned on the lights and saw 2 squirrels had knocked it over and were attempting to drag it off the deck.
😅 ..!!! ahhh bird feeders…so nice but the #$&^@*&%%$$ squirrels just can’t let it be.
Grandpa used to hang bird feeders from a wire stretched between two trees. He took flat metal plates, one square & one circle, & attached them between the trees & the feeders but the squirrels still crawled over them. They fell off those metal plates more than they got past so lots of entertainment value in the viewing 🙂
They’re tenacious little monsters! Glad your fam had fun watching .
They’re also noisy which I never knew until having all these live oaks.
I had a chipmunk Loudly chattering at me when I was hanging laundry Up North last month. That little imp could generate A Lot of noise LOL
they gotta get them before the bears find them…LOL
Next year buy hubby a .22LR plinking rifle.
It’ll bring out the best in him. 😂
😂
squirrel stew…Yum!!!
Goes well beyond D-Rats. Think about it.
As I said this morning, but on yesterday’s page, this sort of officious prickery goes on at state and local levels all the time, and oftentimes in “nonpartisan” jobs.
If someone is the sort of louse who can’t be happy unless he’s forcing other people into a line he has drawn, those petty local government jobs are just the ticket.
She is vermin.
It’s not easy to be an evil airhead, but somehow Jena Griswold manages to do it.
“evil airhead” With Kakula it seems it’s that season everywhere 
Practice practice practice.
Makes perfect.
“Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.’ And they divided up His garments by casting lots.”
Among the many striking moments in the life of Jesus, this is one of the most extraordinary.
First, this is the sort of detail which in itself proves (to me) the truth of the gospel accounts. Not just the forgiveness, but also the following, contrasting behavior.
I keep in mind the humanity of Jesus when understanding the details of His life, and this detail reflects the best potential of humanity, something within our own capacity, but rare and beautiful.
Second, what about those who do know what they are doing? Intentional, deliberate, self-conscious behavior? JMO. That sort of “knowing” behavior is knowing only in the strict legal sense, it is not knowing in the deeper sense, the sense of knowing what is truly important.
Third, who is Jesus talking about? He is talking about the sort of people who cast lots for the clothing of a Man who is right there above, suffering in agony, the Man who is forgiving them. They are showing what it means to not know.
Fourth, IMO there is nothing maudlin or sentimental in the words of Jesus. His words express the deepest meaning of what existence is about, and what existence is about is God’s love for us. Who knows better? The person who understands what existence is about, or the one who does not? And if we know that the fundamental meaning of life is God’s love for us (and we DO), then how can we coldly, indifferently, or worse with heated passion, hate those who do us harm?
Fifth: JMO, but I very much see the evil arrayed against us as a function of people who are casting lots for our rainment. In a sense, worse, because they are looking at the man on the cross and laughing at his suffering, enjoying his helplessness and their unfettered domination.
Knowing this is not cold comfort. It is essential to the meaning of existence, and living your existence in accordance. It is the only true source of happiness.
Sixth: Jesus suffers alone, unjustly, unfairly. There is no equality of outcome in life. Each person must go through his own experience of existence. And sometimes we have to choose our fate, to be with the Man on the Cross or to cast lots.
I think He meant that they don’t know that He is the Son of God. It can also be the way you describe it.
AMEN!
To be sure, withholding didn’t start until WWII.
That doesn’t minimize the fact that both the income tax and the fed are cancers.
TY Carl, very timely reminder for the days we’re in.
Ground report.
Flag waving at Voyager and Interquest in Colorado Springs.
Most people honked and were happy to see us. BUT…this is in one of the better areas of what might possibly be the largest Red county in the United States (it’s certainly in the top ten). Go to the south end or downtown, and we’d have seen a lot more fingers that weren’t upraised thumbs.
That’s good news AND glad you were there.
Got to do something positive for a change.
Hope you had fun in the doing!
Verse of the Day for Sunday, November 3, 2024
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“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”
1 Corinthians 14:33 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
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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.
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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN
OUR PRAYER – FOR BOB
We come to Your Altar on bended knee
In the name of Jesus – we pray to Thee
One of our loved ones is in peak peril
Demons they have him over a barrel
Another test will be taken real soon
Could sink hope or take him over the moon
By the Blood of the Lamb – we are healed
By His sacrifice – our fate – it was sealed
Protect him from all danger hurt or harm
We’re calling all Angels – set the alarm
Warring Angels by the dozens dispatched
Go after those demons – get them detached
Comfort Angels dispersed to quell the fear
Through Faith – we command fear disappear
Healing Angels anoint him with the oils
Cover him completely before he spoils
Relaying Angels with a message from God
Rest in His Arms – prepare to be awed
We take authority over our friend today
By the Power of the Spirit we humbly pray
We unite in our prayer – strengthen him
To guide those in charge of him to concur
Set all instruments so accurate they be
By the Power of the Spirit command them we
Take care in your analysis – through Hope
By your training and insight help him cope
God has given you the means to infer
A possible treatment that will deter
The failure of systems rightly attached
Your expertise surely cannot be matched
Let the Hand of God guide competent hands
To do what must be done – what He commands
As we lift him up to the Heaven on High
We give it all to You – and breathe a sigh
He is in good hands – the best there be
The Angels surround him – a sight to see
We lay our petition at the feet of Your Son
Whose victory over the cross He surely won
We know in control – You must ever be
We pray for a miracle for all to see
God can fix anything – He has the clout
The Power of God is awesome no doubt!
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Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
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Pray Everyday
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Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
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The best science money can buy.
the commenter makes a GREAT point in this comment. all these people bringing their “emotional support” pets everywhere–they don’t have to show that the animals have vaccination papers or do not have rabies.
Clarion
November 3, 2024 8:13 am
I think that the covid psyop contributed to the murder of a couple of pets, because it enabled the fearful nuts to feel entitled to have the government bust in and legitimize their mental health issues.
The hydrophobia phobics start to freak out and demand action whenever someone sees a wild animal in the daytime, or someone gets scratched by a feral kitten.
Now they feel justified and empowered. Think of the flight attendants actually asking the age of babies, so they can demand that their airways be blocked with a rag.
Think of the reactions to the Black Death in medieval times.
There were multiple complaints about the squirrel. The owner says he was getting the squirrel certified as an education animal.
The tiny thing could not harm anyone.
Ironically, we see people nowadays, the fearful, bringing dogs into places the rest of us cannot bring out pets, and they don’t have to show any certification that these animals are even trained to be safe around people and other pets, and no one demands to see their rabies “vaccination status”.
Think of the reactions to
the Black DeathCovid AND Un-Vaccinated inmedieval“modern” times.Well … if they didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have any standards.
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/mike-benz-the-intelligence-agencies-started-rigging-elections-in-1948-in-italy/
So long as Americans vote, Nate is spot on. IMO.
Nate Silver to pollsters: “You’re f*cking herding. You’re cheating … Your numbers aren’t all going to come out at exactly one-point leads when you’re sampling 800 people over dozens of surveys. You are lying. You’re putting your f*cking finger on the scale.”
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1852067613934821804
NEW: @ggreenwald tells @JesseBWatters that legacy media attempts to influence the American electorate are repeatedly failing, and they’re just now realizing their slide into irrelevance:
“You can see in everything that the American people are doing that nothing the media says day after day after day about [Trump] has any real effect.”
“There’s obviously half the country about to vote for him again. And not only half the country, but a huge number of nonwhite voters — as the media is saying that Trump is a white supremacist, a Hitlerian N*zi figure — have been migrating from the Democratic Party over to Trump.”
The “bizarre part is that it’s taking them until now to realize that their relevance has been rapidly diminishing.”
https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1852149829712974109
“Those who rejoice at the misfortune of others will be punished”
I am going to be ecstatic when Trump wins on Tuesday. I am going to REJOICE for all of America.
I don’t believe for one moment that Trump winning is a misfortune for anyone, whether they know it or not. That’s the key; these people, our “enemies,” are just misguided and brainwashed into walking towards their own doom like sheep to the slaughter.
A Trump win is good for us ALL. A Camel-Uh presidency would ultimately be terrible for everyone.
100%. I’ll celebrate and rejoice… Perhaps tap dance.
Trump’s win. If we are fortunate enough to take the Senate and retain the House.
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Moving on, celebrate and rejoice are starters for…
Indicting, arresting, trying, convicting and Maximum sentences awarded.
Government shitbags at All levels allowing, supporting the invasion of America. Toss in the complicit NGOs. then from a Global perspective.
Saving the 300,000 plus children sent into slavery, sex trade or murdered for their blood, body parts… <<< In America. Think about that.
The assholes in government now, and previously that have actively been trying to actively destroy America.
Covid. Jabs. Where the hell to start. Endless lies, forced mandates and Jabs on Americans. FUBAR corrupt lying assholes in CDC, FDA, NIH, medical systems, quacks, nurses….All Of Them Fuck Sticks. Toss in liars over HCQ, IVM…
Pravda News AND Big Tech promoting all of the above. Denying Free Speech.
Shifting a bit..
When these assholes, criminals against humanity, criminals against America, are punished, I’ll rejoice AND celebrate their demise. With ongoing wishes for their misery.
Cold seething anger roils here, until maximum justice meted out..
No Fucking Apologies.
gees I hope your wife takes video of you tap dancing!
Wifey would send it to, America’s Funniest videos. 😂
hey i love to laugh…please share!
Always celebrate when the Light triumphs over darkness. Pray for the lost.
^^^ This.
Thank you for the reminder. Yes, we need to pray for the lost ones, for sure.
Don’t forget to
FALL BACK
your clocks.
Lily Tang is a major plus for conservatives in NH AND Trump.
JD has a rally in Derry, NH. Hope JD invites Lily to the stage to speak.
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Lily slays David Hogg in under one minute.
Lily slay Jake Sullivan’s biotch wife…
Ms. Tang nailed the b!tch. Goodlander is worth $$$$ millions. Guaran–damn–tee that Goodlander’s financial people work overtime to make sure she has every tax deduction / tax loophole covered.
GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr
November 3, 2024 9:44 am
ELECTION INTERFERENCE https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Indiana Department of Transportation removing Donald Trump signs from roads BUT NOT KAMALA HARRIS SIGNS
“The only political signs that they’ve been picking up are the Trump ones. Indiana Department of Transportation. Look at that. Look.”
— “Those are the only political signs that we’ve seen them take. We’ve been behind them for a half hour.”
We have the most amazing winds here in western WA state – they can read!!!
Only the Republican signs get blown down.
FIRE ‘EM ALL – EVERY FUCKING ONE OF ‘EM.
First, ** they ** came after the general public (“mandated” COVID-19 “vaccination.)
Now, ** they ** are planning to come after those who refuse to take these dangerous, deadly injections. (Yours Truly warned about this a few days ago):
https://rairfoundation.com/who-chief-tedros-declares-aggressive-action-needed-against/
WHO Chief Tedros Declares ‘Aggressive Action’ Needed Against Growing Anti-Vaccine Movement
1 November 2024
Yours Truly: By the way, Tedros is deeply associated with the Chinese Communist Party. https://rairfoundation.com/blinded-by-beijing-world-health-organization-chief-is-a-china-funded-marxist-revolutionary/
28 March 2020
Zero chance if Trump is in the WH and RFK Jr in a leading support role.
If not the above, Houston We Have A problem Is An Understatement.
Intel Slava
@Intel_Slava
2h
Hip-hop singer Cardi B’s teleprompter broke while speaking in support of Kamala Harris, leaving her confused for over a minute until someone brought her a phone with the rest of the text
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1853076468177494019/pu/vid/avc1/464×250/mUFQpO4KvmwZUl7j.mp4?tag=12
😂
Clearly she was delivering a sincere message from her own heart LOL
Unless she’s rapping about her private parts, she has nothing at all to say. There is no brain there.
Work for food…
Intel Slava
@Intel_Slava
12m Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court, Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Mamaluy believes that Ukraine is one step away from the introduction of labor service. “And then no one will have any salaries. There will be rations, money for cigarettes, gasoline on coupons. The war will last for a very long time,” Mamaluy said.
OK. No problem.
Ukraine obviously does not need OR deserve additional US taxpayer dollars.
I was reading about generals and members of their gov’t that have fancy cars, villas, estates–maybe the armed forces out to investigate how they GOT all those fineries
Trickle down payoffs.
Cool, but not fancy cars. Simpler homes. Gold.
Kamkles is in TROUBOOOOL.
TY Carl for this hard but necessarily timely teaching.
When I was going through a broken dating relationship I’d heard about my ex BF having something bad happen to him. Immediately I was gloating, as I had been the wronged party & thought he’d deserved what he had coming. Almost instantly I felt sick inside as my attitude was not at all God-honoring. I prayed for forgiveness & prayed for my ex to find God through his trials. It actually helped to let some of my (in my mind justified) bitterness roll off of me so that in a way I was the one released from bondage then.
May God’s will be done & may He be glorified in what is coming in America. Lord help us keep our feet firmly planted on the Rock that is Christ Jesus, whatever storms may come!
Bondage has many facets, as you found out. 😍
Valerie is into bondage?
bwah ha ha
I’ll never tell…AND neither will Hubby!
This scene we “quote” to each other periodically 😉 😉
And I won’t either. 😂
layers of an onion friend…& I’ve never gotten to the center of That Tootsie Pop!
Mini ground report
A couple days ago there was a knock on our door, midday. A middle aged, swarthy skinned man was there with a clipboard & flyers saying he was from the AFL-CIO & they were doing a “voter survey” & he asked what was my most pressing issue for the coming election & then he gave a number of possible answers, but I came up with “morality”.
He found my answer interesting & we had a discussion of several minutes. He saw that we had a Trump sign laying down on our porch (Hubby had pulled it out of our yard for Halloween) so this man Might Not have even come to my door had the sign been up.
He wondered if I was a Republican & I said I mostly despised the Republicans (though didn’t admit that I am still registered as one). He pulled a flyer out & said that he was supposed to hand one to any Democrat & encourage them to vote if they hadn’t yet.
He mentioned that his sister was a diehard Conservative & a Trump supporter & she’d almost convinced him to vote for Trump. We had a brief discussion about how Trump was different from other politicians & how he had plans to restore many aspects of our country, which could include manufacturing, bringing jobs back to America, eliminating the (unconstitutional, per me) income tax, & getting us back on tariffs to fund government.
He mentioned that Union leadership was supporting Democrats, per usual, but that many of the “rank & file” were considering Trump.
We had a bit of a discussion of voter fraud & I mentioned a number of the fraud mechanisms in play including fractional vote stealing (I told him about Antrim County, MI in 2020 & how the fraud was exposed there) & lamented that my city had Dominion voting machines that were heavily involved in fraud, as was the state of Michigan. He was smiling or smirking like he understood and agreed but didn’t verbalize this view.
Anyway it was an interesting interaction that might have continued but he got a call from his boss & had to move on.
If unions are going door-to-door (during work hours when employed people are less likely to be home) the Dems must be worried about their voter turnout in Michigan. As in it’s possible that higher up Dems realize that there aren’t sufficient votes to overcome Trump’s apparent significant lead in Michigan. I think this is a hopeful data point 😎
Interesting.
Door knocker likely union. getting union for knocking on doors.
Yes I thought that he was part of the AFL-CIO but I could have misunderstood 🙂
Citizen Free Press:
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1853135289402691658
54 seconds long.
That was uplifting!
Excellent!
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Progress.
The task. Lots more to WTFU.
https://twitter.com/MartyMakary/status/1852894301459509452
https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/rumors-of-ceasefires-should-israel-accept-being-stopped-in-place-for-a-60-day-halt/#more-9775
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/11/02/service-members-complain-about-lack-of-absentee-ballots-n2647157
This should never happen.
micro ground report
Young black woman walking through the neighborhood hanging pro-Trump fliers!!! This is in Metro Detroit. I yelled “go Trump” to her & she waved back with a smile 😉
Mini-ground report from me as well. We are home from our Fall Frolic to the beach.
In our community, the highest early voting total for any election was a little over 4 K. According to a close friend who has worked at it for three decades.the final total was 10,815. In our county that means that about 9 K voted for PDT at that one early voting location. We had about 28K as a county – record – over 38% turnout with the state over 2.2 M and a 46 % turnout.
The Georgia TV stations around Savannah saw a marked decrease in Harris ads as this past week went on. All of them were answered by Trump ads times two. She continues to run an ad occasionally in TN, which is wasted money that could be used elsewhere. So I am fine with it. TN will blow the doors off for PDT, Marsha, etc.
In the 3+ weeks we were in the HHI level we saw a half dozen people in masks that worked in stores. The public has no interest in them. People have accepted COVID as a part of life.
Servers in restaurants love cash tips. Everywhere we went they were pros as servers as well. It has been a long time since that has been the case.
Many of the illegals are gone. We always saw them in lawn service, cleaning and construction work. There is a severe shortage of construction workers as a result. A couple contractors told me they had.6 month backlogs on jobs and not enough workers and subs.
The SC interstate system is really improving, especially in the mid-state around Columbia. I-95 is lagging behind.
We were able to go home along our normal route on I-26 for much of it. As we neared Spartanburg the tree damage from Helene became very apparent. They will be cleaning it up for months. The lanes squeezed down to one on each side about ten times at various locations during a 35 mile stretch. Tractor trailer traffic is down due to the road/bridge wash out issues on I-40 and I-26, which helped our journey.
A few days before we left we learned I-26 in Unicoi County, TN; an area devastated by the floods of Helene, was reopened to passenger vehicles and smaller commercial rigs. The dedication by contractors and the TN DOT to open the route to two lane traffic in the affected area was amazing. They built a land bridge over large culverts that could accommodate the traffic on one side. Larger rigs were prohibited from using.
We were not looking forward to going over the mountain from Cherokee, NC into Gatlinburg with all of the elevation changes, hairpin curves and leafers gazing at the colorful foliage. It is a difficult route, especially with wifey having inner ear problems. So when they opened the I-26 route we were overjoyed. It is a longer in distance, but is much easier to drive and takes less time. Our 10+ hour trip to HHI via Atlanta became an 8 hour trip home. However, we did have to see what Helene did to that beautiful area from Asheville, NC to Johnson City, TN.
Even though we did not go through the most affected area around Black Mountain that you have seen in videos and photos, the representations are accurate in the areas as well, especially around Erwin in Unicoi County. I recently posted a video demonstration of how the surrounding mountains and hills caused that flooding to be far worse as it flows down into a bowl. But seeing it in person was heart wrenching. The large plastic products plant was in shambles along the river with its goods scattered all over for better than two miles. Six employees lost their lives and the CEO is under investigation for not clearing the workforce out in time despite notice. Crews have been working 24/7 through the weekends. The debris alone will take at least a year to clear. The interstate bridges will probably take at least 18 months. Homes, businesses, and road/bridge infrastructure will take longer than that.
But rebuild they will. Hopefully that will be with PDT and MAGA. It will get done right and in a timely manner with more resources assigned to the task. FEMA was nowhere to be found.
Excellent report! Thank you!
almost forgot! we went on a ride yesterday. someone had their Christmas decorations out and ON already.
And just now there was a tv ad with Jennifer Hudson signing a Christmas carol!!!
OK, that’s EARLY. Halloween just finished, and straight to Christmas!
Traditionally, we couldn’t put up Christmas decorations until the day after Thanksgiving.
There’s a wonderful short video ad with Do You Hear The People Sing @CTH
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/03/the-rebel-alliance/#more-265808
https://twitter.com/i/status/1642991441785032704
^^^ Link to, Do You Hear The People Sing.
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Wondering, if after Tuesday, Xs will show normally.
Thanks, Kalbo!!!
That was uplifting & excellent!
JUST IN: Nicole Shanahan drops INSANE TRUMP UNITY video, 2 day out of the 2024 election..
SHARE THIS WITH ANYONE ON THE FENCE..
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1853166653145547150
Excellent! It includes input from the Dream Team.
WOW – top drawer stuff there.
Wow! That’s amazing.
Some encouraging replies seen on Nitter to a tweet shared here…
MTM 14
@mtm14
20h
Replying to @MartyMakary
Well they all can read. Effectiveness is in the basement. We now know definitively that the Pfizer vax has SV40 promoter which Pfizer did not disclose. We now know thanks to @Kevin_McKernan this and that the Pfizer vax has DNA plasmid contamination at high levels…and it quite possibly will not degrade quickly due to liquid nanoparticle encapsulation. We have NO IDEA the health impacts of this contamination. There was no informed consent for this…. 2
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Jessica Adams
@RxRegA
20h
Replying to @MartyMakary
Will the FDA/CDC blame it on “misinformation “? Will the Head of FDA refer to this large group as “anti-science” and “vaccine defiant,” in the words of Peter Hotez, whose book Califf promoted at a conference? Will they ever honestly ask why and acknowledge why and take a nuanced stance?
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https://nitter.poast.org/mtm14/status/1852896017248600409#m
https://twitter.com/mtm14/status/1852896017248600409#m
https://nitter.poast.org/RxRegA/status/1852895371858440634#m
https://twitter.com/RxRegA/status/1852895371858440634#m
Here’s the original tweet
Marty Makary MD, MPH
@MartyMakary
20h
NEW CDC REPORT: 85% of health care workers have said NO THANK YOU to the COVID vaccine booster 2023-24 shot for themselves*
This low uptake in acute hospitals follows a massive push by the CDC dir. & FDA commissioner–the nation’s chief drug regulator.
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/m…https://nitter.poast.org/pic/card_img%2F1852035456495468544%2FROQ_p-jm%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419
Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among …This report describes influenza vaccination and COVID-19 vaccination coverage among health care personnel during the 2023–24 respiratory virus season (October 1, 2023–March 31, 2024).
cdc.gov
https://nitter.poast.org/MartyMakary/status/1852894301459509452#m
https://twitter.com/MartyMakary/status/1852894301459509452#m
seen in further replies
Here’s some good data in another reply, likely something CV might appreciate
Julie4Butte5
@julie4butte5
4h
Replying to @MartyMakary
Good. It’s poison. And NOT A VACCINE. Are you finally accepting that NO ONE, NOT ONE HUMAN, SHOULD TAKE THIS SHOT. Or the flu shot. Or shingles shot, pneumococcal, Hep B, TDAP, MMR, Hep A, HPV, HiB, RSV. ALL BIG PHARMA POISON FOR PROFIT. @MarbleBenjamin VAERS Data by Vaccine.
https://nitter.poast.org/julie4butte5/status/1853137491471261911#m
https://twitter.com/julie4butte5/status/1853137491471261911#m
further found in replies
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2112981
also
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/6/ofad209/7131292
TRUMP: “Do you want to lose your life savings because we put a weak and ineffective person in the White House? Do you want to lose your job and maybe your house and pension because Kamala has the economic understanding of a child?”
Funny how suddenly, over just the past 4 years, every state can report their election results that night except the 6 swing states that Democrats need to win.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1853215804411793422
Would be great if Tina can trounce AOC.
I’m Tina Forte – Bronx born and raised.
I’m not a polished politician, I’m a New Yorker who’s had enough!
Politicians make beautiful promises and deliver ugly results.
AOC is corrupt, ineffective, and rarely seen in her district.
Help me Fire AOC at http://FireAOC.com
https://twitter.com/TinaForteUSA/status/1853196079468089642
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-needs-500-000-more-troops-amid-slowing-mobilization-senior-lawmaker-says/
The previous goal had been 160,000 thousand.
Looking at this thing below it seems like 500,000 will to be slow going. They need a new plan. 😮 Maybe they can set up recruitment booths down at the Darian Gap? or just wait till Trump gets into office and set up recruitment booths on the south going lanes of Mexican Border. 😯
https://twitter.com/cheguwera/status/1851373394446418011
NYT Finally Admits Russia Is Winning the War, Ukrainians Are Falling Into Despair and Only Have Human Resources for 6 More Months of FightingPaul Serran Nov. 3, 2024 12:00 pm 465 Comments
Meanwhile these things keep growing like weeds and have been for a long time.
https://twitter.com/Intel_Slava/status/1853149004802203869
https://twitter.com/lll_Tatarinov_H/status/1853122917422293141
Just in case we did not note this one.
Republican Lawmakers Sound Alarm as U.S. Military Bases Report Depleted Stock of Write-in Absentee Ballots
https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/1853052753628578181
Harris-Biden Regime Fails to Send Absentee Ballots to Active Military
Democrats are registering illegals to vote but those fighting and dying for this country are robbed of their most basic right. These destroyers are printing innumerable duplicate, multiple, illegal mail in ballots who but the Pentagon claims their stockpile of ballots is depleted. Absolute tyranny.
https://gellerreport.com/2024/11/harris-biden-regime-fails-to-send-absentee-ballots-to-active-military.html/
7:32 AM · Nov 3, 2024
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Wolf Moon
Thank you for his.
IMO, this was done by design and with malice aforethought.
PLEASE, somebody SUE the bastards into oblivion while, at the same time, FORCING them to get absentee ballots to our military. AND make sure it’s done in a timely way. AND make sure they’re counted.
…make sure they’re counted.
^^^ T H I S. ^^^
Incredibly deflating, when I found out many absentee ballots are NOT counted, once the the number of remaining absentee ballots won’t change the outcome – person ahead..
color me unsurprised. 🙁
I called the asshat running for Senate in Montana (Tester), who has run every campaign on his support of veterans, and blew a gasket over this one.
I doubt it will do a bit of good, but it felt awesome!
EVENING PRAYER
Dear Almighty Father,
Tonight, I am full of gratitude. The blessings you’ve showered upon me all day – they have been bountiful. “Give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thessalonians 5:18), you’ve taught us, and I heed this wisdom.
Your love, Father, is limitless. Your compassion – it’s a river that never dries. Amidst life’s ebbs and flows, your love remains my anchor. Much like it says in Lamentations 3:22-23, your steadfast love never ceases.
Lord, your faithfulness is remarkable. Despite hunger gnawing at millions, you’ve filled my plate. It reminds me of your promise in Matthew 6:26. Just as you feed the birds, you’ve fed me, too.
Your protection, Father, is a fortress. Dangers lurk, yet they can’t reach me. Just as Psalm 91:14 assures us of your protection, I have felt your guarding presence.
You are Jehovah Rapha, our healer. My health, a testament to your divine healing power, reflects the promise of Exodus 15:26. You’ve mended me where I was broken.
In the face of tall challenges, you’ve granted me triumphs. I’ve witnessed the truth of Luke 1:37. Indeed, nothing is impossible for you, Lord.
Trials of the day have come, yet here I stand. Your strength, my Lord, has fueled my resilience. Like the apostle Paul says in Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through you who strengthens me.
Amidst distress, you’ve gifted me peace. My soul finds rest in you, mirroring the promise of Matthew 11:28. Come to you, I have, and found rest.
My financial woes, they’ve been swept away. Your provision, a reflection of Philippians 4:19, has shielded me from ruin.
In the name of Jesus – I pray – AMEN.
duchess01
Thank you so much for these! More than can be described. Especially about peace.
Election Fraud,National Guard Activated In Other States,Something Big Is About To Happen – Ep. 3490
November 3, 2024 x22report
https://x22report.com/election-fraudnational-guard-activated-in-other-statessomething-big-is-about-to-happen-ep-3490/
US banks are seeing money flowing out. Institutional investors are dumping their stocks, elite are and now dumping their stock, what do they know? Trump gives an economic warning, the entire system is going to crash, [KH] will continue the crash, Trump will turn it all around. The patriots are now building the case for election fraud. The more cases that are brought to the courts, the more cases that are won the better the chance the patriots will have standing when it goes to the Supreme Court. Election fraud is being exposed before the election this time around. National guard is now activated in three states. Something big is about to happen.
Ep 3490a – Buffet & Bezos Dump Billions Worth Of Stocks, Trump Sends Major Economic Warning
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3490a-buffet-bezos-dump-billions-worth-of-stocks-trump-sends-major-economic-warning/
Ep 3490b – Election Fraud,National Guard Activated In Other States,Something Big Is About To Happen
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3490b-election-fraudnational-guard-activated-in-other-statessomething-big-is-about-to-happen/
Sen. Tuberville Speaks Out “They Have Destroyed Our Election Process”
Nov 3, 2024 #election #politics #news
Senator Tommy Tuberville strongly criticized the 2024 election process, declaring, “They have absolutely destroyed our election process.” His remarks reflect deep concerns about the integrity and fairness of the current electoral system. Tuberville’s statement brings to light concern for an unfounded attack on democratic processes.
#election #politics #news
OK – Candace Owens appears to be sticking to her story about Kamala having done SOMETHING very fake with a picture of an alleged relative who is said to have died before Kamala was born.
Candace offers in the “video within this video” several pieces of evidence that she has the record of the correct person.
It sounds convincing to me that she at least has identified the right person.
But has she?
What do you all think of Candace’s explanation here?
PS – the headlines on the wrapper video are a bunch of clickbait. Ignore those.
Your words are showing.
Then a blank box. No link. Nothing to click on.
Could be my computer, which has been pretty screwy today.
Try reloading the page!
Beril is a very common name in Jamaica in this early 1900s. Yes, even spelled with the ‘i.’
The death certificate is for Beryl Christie. Not Beryl Christie Harris, or Finegan, or whatever married last name.
Beryl Christie was a real person, who lived in Saint Andrew Parish in Jamaica. She had children out of wedlock, who died in childbirth, as I reported and linked before.
Candice Owen is FULL OF SHIT on this issue. The woman in the photo with Kamala is Beril Christie Harris.
Please, make it stop.
P.S. On the death cert, Beryl Christie is listed as a spinster, i.e. never married. Yet another problem with Candace’s bullshit story.
More good news out of NH. At JDs rally, Lily Tang was well received by the crowd. Hope it gives her a boost against Sullivan’s wench. Lily’s D-Rat opponent.
At @JDVance Rally in Derry earlier before he spoke. There was so much love, energy and fun. My husband was shocked when we got out of his truck, the huge crowd started cheering “Lily, Lily, Lily”. He was not prepared to take a picture of that. Thank you all!
https://twitter.com/Lily4Liberty/status/1853261356054503439
Kakala only had one rally / event today. ONE. Tampon Tim three.
Is it even possible to imagine the night Doug Emhoff is having right now?
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1853246257558433945
O MG….Guessing above is in response to this one…
>>> Doug brutally honest
“Kamala did what she always does. She put her head down and she went to work.” – Doug Emhoff
From the mouths of #NannyHumpers come words of wisdom.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1853238387471192359
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Edit. Cuban sidelined two days ago. Doug sidelined tomorrow.
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Why Christians Must Speak Out During This Election
Some things for this sermon were borrowed from pastor Josh Howerton from @LakepointeChurch and @Josh_McPherson
Research from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University estimates that 32 million regular churchgoers will not vote in this election.
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. Matthew 5v13
1. We are the salt of the earth, not the sugar of the earth. Salt slows the natural decay of something that’s rotting. Therefore, we have to vote for the option that best slows social decay. You’re not choosing a pastor or a date. Vote for policy, not personality. Personalities fade in 4-8 years; policies impact generations.
2. Jesus said, ‘You are the salt of the earth,’ not ‘the salt of the church.’ Salt does no good if left in the salt shaker. Don’t keep religion out of politics or your values from the voting booth. Jesus’ kingdom is not of this world, which calls us to engage, not withdraw, from culture. He taught us to pray, ‘Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as in heaven.’
3. Jesus warned that when salt loses its flavor, it ceases to be as effective as salt. Salt could lose its flavor due to impurities. We can lose our flavor through conformity to the values of the culture (Rom 12v2) and by being cowards, bending to the pressure of the culture (Rev 21v8), or by being contaminated by the political spirit (Mark 8v15).
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Two days from now polls will have closed everywhere but the west coast, Alaska and Hawaii.
Then it gets interesting.
Sundance is calling it for the Outlaw and the Hillbilly.
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1853063544654225453
I wonder if Flep is still involved in credible polling?
Not sure. He may be retired now, and can come out of hiding.
I wish he’d drop back in here & speak up. I miss his take in times like this 🙁
I miss his joie de vivre, with his fishin’ and moo-shoo good spirits.
Yes & his current events line up was great & uplifting!
Do we know if Flep retired, left NYC and moved to FL. IIRC.