Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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✝️ Weekly Devotional, May 13, 2024
One never knows these days!
I thought it was a bad case of bed-head….
I thought he just encountered Maxine Waters or Nancy Pelosi. His hair will never lay flat again.
Lololo🤣🤣
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Jay, you always post such great-looking coffee beans
But then, of course, there’s this:
BLS Announces Coffee Prices Will No Longer be Factored Into CPI Inflation Data to Help Joe Biden During Presidential Election
They always scrape those stickers off the gas pumps . . .
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Gotta take out everything in the CPI basket that actually and accurately shows the hideous inflation which is eating everyone alive.
Just goes to show how manipulated government statistics are, as if we didn’t know already.
Mornin’ Bets,
Isn’t it absurd to remove the very categories that contribute the most to inflation?
Justifies the attitude of mistrust many of us have for anything government.
I wonder how much it costs us to even have a “CPI” in order to lie to us!
Morning, Corny 💕 Yes…no item which we on the ground use to judge inflation…food, energy, and the rest…is included. Why? “They” say those are too volatile. LOLOL!!! Plus can you imagine if they were honest about how high inflation is? They’d have to increase COLA for SS, which is already broke from having been ransacked, to bankruptcy levels.
Here ya go!! 😘
“Too volatile”
As I commented upthread
Volatility is NOT a reason to exclude them
It’s a reason to run a smoothing average though them
Every day is coffee day for me!
Gotta take out everything in the CPI basket that actually and accurately shows the hideous inflation
IKR?
Already, the CPI excludes “food and fuel” “because they’re volatile”
Volatility is NOT a reason to exclude them
It’s a reason to run a smoothing average though them
Can I get a witness?
What do you do every week?
You fill your tank with gas and make a shopping trip to the supermarket … you know … for FOOD
Is it just me?
Am I taking crazy pills here?
No your not. They’re skewing the numbers any way they can. All one has to do to know this is look at their “adjustments” the next month after they made headlines.
Mornin’ Patience
I got an electric percolator for Christmas over 50 years ago – avocado green, of course, which was all the rage! Loved that thing.
But, I must say, I really do like the single cup convenience, and almost no waste.
Nothin like the smell of percolating java: yum.
When I was going to school living by myself I bought that avocado green pot from a Salvation Army shelf. I would fill it with grounds and it lasted me a week, just add more water.
This Grama still makes the whole pot in a $40 Brewmaster.😁 My daughter, on the other hand spent $$$on Zeurig and $$$ on pods to wait in line.
Best coffee:
Take guts out of percolator pot
Put in water
-turn it on
-or put on stove (non electric pot)
When water is hot
put in coffee grounds
Drop 1 raw egg into pot
Put on lid
You’ll know by the fragrance when coffee is brewed.
Pour yourself a cup
-yum
The egg collects all the grounds
When coffee is all gone, dump the contents
Good morning Jay! 🙋♀️☕🌞😁
Gorgeous, heartwarming pics to start our Monday on the right foot! Makes my heart smile! Thanks! 💝
Hey stevie my pleasure 😇 🙏🏻🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Morning, Miss stevie!!! 😘🕊
Good morning Betsy! 🙋♀️💝😁
Good morning juststevie! ❤️
Good morning Grandpa! 🙏✝🙏
Good morning, Jay,
That looks like a perfect way to start my day. Thanks, friend. Blessings.
Dia Duit Woo 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Good morn, Woo 💕
Good morning Bet and JWoo! ❤️😍
Good morning, Woo woo😜
Blessed morning to all, Betsy, Grandpa, Patience, Ma, Stevie and those I hope to have not missed (but I’ve not been able to read the entire thread yet today).
Hammering away at Monday, Monday.
Mornin’ Woo
Haven’t mastered linking – yet! But, I thought Savannah would enjoy the website for a horse rescue near us. It was begun as a rescue for “Premarin” horses, but has branched out. I think it is easily found by searching, Equine Voices Horse Rescue in AZ.
These are my burro kids eating one of their favorite things, which is pyracantha. It is loaded with inch long thorns, which they chew through like pudding! But, the red berries are apparently irresistible!
Niiiiice!
-thank you, jay
😎———————✝️❤️🇺🇸
Morning, Patience and Ma 💕🕊💕 I’d love to see the rest of this glorious building.
Morning, Besty💞
Morning Patience! ❤️
Good mornin, Pa ❣️
-💖
Can’t Bets – you can only have the truncated version!
Bwah haaaaa!!! Good one! Blessed day to you, Corny girl 🌼
Back at you, Woo! 💐
Hope it’s been a good day , Woo❣️
Good one!
Good morning all.
Ducked in for two minutes now back to the old grindstone
Oh mercy me!!!! LOLOLOL!!!!!
How can you be so quick this early in the morning?????.😂
Bets
Not sleeping has its advantages, like not just waking up! 😛
Howdy Patience bet it’s hard keeping the squirrels out of the attic 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸😂
…. nor my belfry
🙃
🦇🦇😂😂
Morning, Mr jay 😘 Your bench this Bench Monday …. the breath left my body for a moment🕊
Yes, yes YES, dearest sir!!
A bench for all the ages!!!
Amen 🙏🏻💕
Maidin Mhaith Betsy yes indeed 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Howdy jay!
Howdy Gramps 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Hey, G!!!!! Morning, my brother.😘🕊
Mornin’ Jay
That first dish looks like shakshuka – which is delicious! I’m game.
Shakshuka is basically eggs poached in a chunky tomato sauce with peppers and spices. Mmmmmmm
The caption was a Georgian breakfast 🇺🇸🤠😂
That egg dish is called shakshuka, I think. It recently came around on my Pinterest page. Want to try it.
Great looking skillet of shakshuka!
Good mornin’ jay. Have a good day, my friend.
Howdy Garrison 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Good day to you, my man Garrison😘
Israel pushes deeper into Rafah as offensive in last Hamas stronghold continues over mounting objections
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces pushed deeper into Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Sunday and battled Hamas in parts of the devastated north that the military said it had cleared months ago but where militants have regrouped.
Rafah is considered the last refuge in Gaza for more than a million civilians as well as Hamas’ last stronghold.
Some 300,000 people have fled the city following evacuation orders from Israel, which says it must invade to dismantle Hamas and return scores of hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack against Israel that sparked the war.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Memorial Day speech vowed to continue fighting until victory in memory of those killed in the war.
Netanyahu has rejected postwar plans proposed by the United States for the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to govern Gaza with support from Arab and Muslim countries.
Those plans depend on progress toward the creation of a Palestinian state, which Netanyahu’s government opposes.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/world-news/israel-pushes-deeper-into-rafah-as-offensive-in-last-hamas-stronghold-continues/
Rafah
Hamas shooting Palestinians
some G-force at play here
… aka “centripetal acceleration” as I learned in physics class
Happy Birthing Person’s Day
Republican Senators standing with Israel. God bless them!
Good morning, Garrison 💕 Monday coffee will taste better while I’m listening to this 😘
Howdy Garrison!
IE -they were us. It may even be possible that if we were able to trace our “roots” all the way back, through all the different branches and sub branches of our family tree, there is a good possibility that we may well be “family” of any of the above. Many may feel a “connection” or a likeness, a similar life story (Job comes to mind – lol), and that is because we “were” once one or more of them – or at least have an ancestral spark in our soul.
👍 👍 👍 ❤️
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God Hovers Over Us (Daily Devotion text and audio)
13 May 2019 Doris Day [Kappelhoff], American singer (“Sentimental Journey; “Que Sera, Sera”), actress known as the “girl next door” (Pillow Talk; The Man Who Knew Too Much), and animal rights activist, dies of pneumonia at 97
Qeu Sera, Sera
Sentimental Journey
13 May 2012 Donald “Duck” Dunn, American bassist (Booker T & The MG’s; Stax Records house band; The Blues Brothers), dies at 70
Green Onions
13 May 2006 Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave), dies at 56
Always And Forever
13 May
Chet Baker
(1929-1988)
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (“My Funny Valentine”), falls to his death from an Amsterdam hotel balcony at 59
Chet Baker Live @ Ronnie Scott’s
13 May 1987 Phil Moore, American jazz pianist, arranger, and bandleader, dies at 70
Phil Moore Four Who Put The Whiskey in the Well
13 May
Cyrus McCormick
(1809-1884)
American inventor and businessman (mechanical reaper), dies at 75
Biography: Cyrus McCormick was an American inventor and businessman who revolutionized agriculture with his mechanical reaper. This machine, which was designed to harvest crops more efficiently, represented a significant advancement in farming technology. McCormick’s reaper had profound impacts on agricultural productivity, enabling farmers to increase their crop yield and significantly altering agricultural practices.
McCormick’s invention was patented in 1834, but it wasn’t until the 1840s that the mechanical reaper began to gain widespread use. McCormick and his brother Leander established a factory in Chicago, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, to produce the reapers. The company was very successful, eventually becoming part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.
Beyond his technical innovation, McCormick was also a pioneer in business practices. He introduced innovative marketing strategies and after-sales services, such as warranties, training, and repair services, which were groundbreaking at the time. He also expanded his market internationally, spreading the use of his invention to farms around the globe.
In the broader historical context, Cyrus McCormick’s mechanical reaper played a significant role in the 19th-century transformation of agriculture that was part of the broader Industrial Revolution. His invention and its widespread adoption increased the efficiency of farming and led to larger scale farming, contributing to the shift from subsistence to commercial agriculture. This had profound economic and social impacts, including the growth of urban populations as fewer people were needed to work on farms.
13 May
Stanislaw Ulam
(1909-1984)
Polish-American mathematician and nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project, H-bomb), dies at 75
Biography: Stanislaw Ulam was a Polish-American scientist best known for his involvement in the Manhattan Project and his development, alongside Edward Teller, of the Teller-Ulam design for a thermonuclear weapon.
Ulam was initially invited to join the Manhattan Project by Hans Bethe, following which he went to work at the top-secret Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. He worked on hydrodynamic calculations for the atomic bomb and then on the “Super” bomb project for Teller and Enrico Fermi.
Apart from his involvement with nuclear weapons, Ulam also made major contributions to the nuclear propulsion of rockets and, in computational statistics, developed the now-important Monte Carlo method.
The HABIT of a GOOD CONSCIENCE
“A conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.” Acts xxiv. 16
God’s commands are given to the life of His Son in us, consequently to the human nature in which His Son has been formed, His commands are difficult, but immediately we obey they become divinely easy.
Conscience is that faculty in me which attaches itself to the highest that I know, and tells me what the highest I know demands that I do. It is the eye of the soul which looks out either towards God or towards what it regards as the highest, and therefore conscience records differently in different people. If I am in the habit of steadily facing myself with God, my conscience will always introduce God’s perfect law and indicate what I should do. The point is, will I obey? I have to make an effort to keep my conscience so sensitive that I walk without offence. I should be living in such perfect sympathy with God’s Son, that in every circumstance the spirit of my mind is renewed, and I “make out” at once “what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
God always educates us down to the scruple. Is my ear so keen to hear the tiniest whisper of the Spirit that I know what I should do? “Grieve not the Holy Spirit.” He does not come with a voice like thunder; His voice is so gentle that it is easy to ignore it. The one thing that keeps the conscience sensitive to Him is the continual habit of being open to God on the inside. When there is any debate, quit. “Why shouldn’t I do this?” You are on the wrong track. There is no debate possible when conscience speaks. At your peril, you allow one thing to obscure your inner communion with God. Drop it, whatever it is, and see that you keep your inner vision clear.
Oswald Chambers
May 13th Devotional
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This Little Light (Live At UCLA, Los Angeles/1961)
Kingston Trio
My favorite from the Kingston Trio was always Tom Dooley….
It’s a short but grim story of a condemned man who’s about to be hung for a crime of passion……
M.T.A.
Kingston TRio, Released on: 1959-06-01
Remember The Alamo
Kingston Trio, Released on: 1959-06-01
Good morning all. A wonderful story.
American Woman
@AmericanFWoman
Here is a wonderful little story A young cashier told an older woman that she should bring her grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my day.”
The young clerk said, “Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.” She gave him a firm stare and a hard grin and said “Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles, and beer bottles. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over. They were recycled. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, which we reused for numerous things.
We walked upstairs because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power did dry our clothes back in our day.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. The TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded-up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn.
We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades with a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
Back then, people took a bus and kids rode their bikes instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles in space to find the nearest burger joint. But the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing.”
The cashier stood there still and quiet as the old lady found her wallet to pay. Then lady turned to leave but stepped back and turned toward the cashier. She said “You have a world of knowledge in that little device in your hand. Pity you just use it to gossip, take pictures, and waste time. It would do you good to search a bit of history before you embarrass yourself like this again.
Forward this to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNab2H3WgAAgtHK?format=jpg&name=900×900
Gosh …. I’m feeling kinda old, ha, as so much of that was the life of my youth.
True story or not
-that is all true.
Thanks.
When Mom brought meat home from the store it was wrapped in butcher paper and not in a styrofoam tray wrapped in plastic.
When I was a kid McDonalds was a rare treat.
The ice cream person peddled a tricycle with a metal cooler kept cold by dry ice mounted between the two front wheels and we heard them coming because they had a line of bells that played a tune when they were moving.
When I was 6 the black doctor that took care of me had mom put medical alcohol on the case of ring worm on my back to treat it. It worked but burned like hell! I stayed inside and out of the sunlight for nearly a week getting over a case of the German measles.
Until I was nearly 8 y/o our white family lived in a neighborhood that was predominately black and I went to a grade school that a large modern structure that had predominately black students and we didn’t have a lick of trouble. But when we moved to an upscale suburb I was held back a year in school because the curriculum of the new school was so far more advanced and that school was in a wooden “T” structure dating from WW II until a new one was built which we moved into when I was in 4th grade.
Yes, I remember the butcher paper….
Fabric bought, and shirts from the Chinese laundry was wrapped in brown paper (off the same kind of butcher roll) , then bound up with string; run by a foot pedal and then a wooden dowel that had a hole drilled through it; with copper wire through that was curled on each over end that hooked onto the string to became a handle.
Yes, segregation existed and there were various gangs across the country …. but there wasn’t the kind of violence that has become the norm of today.
You have a lot of friends here with similar experiences, Patience.
Milk bottles with cardboard seals… Pickles and similar items were kept in markets in barrels and bulk containers, and then portioned out and sold in small foldable waxed cardboard containers similar to those used for Chinese food carryout / deliveries today. Eggs were always in cardboard / paper maché cartons.
Fast food drive-ins and carryouts used all paper and cardboard / waxed cardboard containers & cups for food and drinks. All of those materials degraded relatively quickly in landfills. Even drinking straws were made from a lightly waxed paper. Ice cream cups had flat thin wooden spoons.. Six packs of beverages – glass bottles or metal cans only – were all in cardboard; no plastic was ever used.
Currently only about 5 % of all plastic sent to be recycled actually gets recycled. The other 95% is tossed into landfills where it will remain for eons, or in too many 2nd and 3rd world countries, tossed into nature where it causes harm to wildlife on land and in the sea.
The article linked below is from NPR which I normally do not trust on political issues, but I found similar articles from other generally reliable websites yet this one seemed better-written.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse
Big Oil has inserted itself into every aspect of our lives. I am all for eliminating 95% of plastic “disposable” containers and reverting to 100% biodegradable / 100% recyclable cardboard / waxed cardboard, glass, or metal for everything. We survived without plastic containers before the 1970s so we can do it again with a few little technical improvements.
This really is a refuge; in so many ways.💞
Glass gallons of milk with the heavy paper wrap. I dropped one on the way home once. 😔😳😢
Ma had me back and buy another one.
She got me back on the horse. 🤗
Also: gave me a brown paper bag to pick up the broken glass and told me to be careful! I was 8.
Allllll the dang plastic packaging is sinfully wasteful and unnecessary
-not to mention a real pain in the hands!
rah
Those were good times. When we are out and about, it is obvious by its absence, that kids no longer ride a bike anywhere but in their driveway. (with a helmet and kneepads).
My brother and I wouldn’t have gone anywhere if not for our bikes – rode it miles every day. My mom would have taken my temp if I had asked for a ride!
Amen Rah!
The convective outlook shows enhanced probability from south central TX, through LA, MS, AL, to the western end of the Florida Pan handle today.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html
As Joe Bastardi sees it, and so do I, the biggest problem this week will not be tornadoes, but flooding rains running all the way from east TX across the Gulf states and into south Georgia. Likely to be lots of flooding disasters in those low lying areas along the Gulf.
Come next week the temperatures nationally are going to shift again and the potential for major tornado outbreaks from the central plains to the Ohio Valley will be very high.
The European and now various other long range models are showing tropical storm development coming into the Gulf the first 10 days of June. If this comes to pass and makes landfall then someplace that has received those flooding rains this week is going to get a double whammy.
Greetings Treepers!
🙏✝️🙏
Mornin’ all!
Good one.
That wrecking ball should be labeled “Democrat Democracy”…..
“Threat”? No, I call that “INSPIRATION”!!!
🧐Inspiration comes from within.
-The threat motivates. 😜
Patience,
So true. I tell friends I invited them over so I could get my house clean! 😃
May 13
MORNING
Pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. I Tim. 2:8
The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:23, 24
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. Isa. 58:9
When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any. Mark 11:25
Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Heb. 11:6
Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the LORD. James 1:6, 7
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear me. Psa. 66:18
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not, And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins. I John 2:1, 2
EVENING
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me. Psa. 38:10
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. Psa. 61:1, 2
He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For when I am weak, then am I strong. II Cor. 12:9, 10
When (Peter) saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Matt. 14:30, 31
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Prov. 24:10
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Isa. 40:29
The eternal God is. thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deut. 33:27
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power. Col. 1:11
Bagster
https://www.dailylightdevotional.org/05/0513.html
Can you imagine?
Marble that looks like fabric.
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. – John 14:13
Johann Sebastian Bach was the Baroque composer of 1,128 finished pieces of music, including the familiar Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, the Brandenburg Concertos, and “Sheep May Safely Graze.” He was born in 1685 and, when he died 65 years later, he left behind nearly 30 unfinished works.
As he began his compositions, he would often initial the manuscripts JJ for the Latin Jesu juva, “Jesus, help.” At the conclusion, along with his own initials, he would add SDG for Soli Deo Gloria, “Glory to God alone.”
Whether he was writing a piece commissioned by Prince Leopold, something for the church, or for a friend, he began asking Christ to help him. Bach saw what he was writing as having a singularity of purpose: to bring God glory.
In John 14, Jesus was telling His disciples He would be leaving them soon, reassuring them of the coming Holy Spirit, and reminding them that He would remain “only a prayer away.” Jesus said that by providing answers to their prayers, the Father would be glorified, just as He had been through Christ’s life on Earth.
From the start, that had been Jesus’ singular purpose in His ministry, death, and resurrection. Jesus would later tell His disciples that the Holy Spirit would, in turn, glorify Christ, and thus also the Father.
Is it your purpose to glorify God? Do you begin your day seeking the Lord’s guidance? Do you live a life that honors Him, loving Him with all your heart, mind, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself? Are you investing time in the development of your personal relationship with the Living God? Have you made it a practice to meditate on His love, justice, and mercies on the Earth (Jeremiah 9:24)?
Reaffirm your commitment to acknowledge Him in all your ways (Proverbs 3:6).
Pray for members of the federal judiciary who know the Lord to mentally, if not actually, sign “SDG“ to their opinions and mean it.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing#devotional
I recall a scientific study to determine the cause of a dog’s affection that found that it’s about 50% food and 50% companionship. Results here may indicate the human females (whatever those are, right?) in these tests are around the dogs more than the males and/or are the ones who usually feed them and/or the ones who display the greatest affection toward them and/or the ones who the dogs consider to be a fellow beta member of the pack and therefore feel most comfortable with. When you put the odds of any or all of those being true, it explains why the human females usually win here.
The first test shown is the funniest one.
Run In Opposite Directions And See Who Your Dog Loves More
ALL the dogs we ever had have LOVED my dad. Everyone else was–meh–okay, but if he was around, you didn’t exist.
Seems he has done this before
Before they leave home he always says,
“I put the bucket in the car, Honey”
bandmate’s sister who drank over the line wanted me to make a pass at her
compelling neckline but I somehow passed
thankful to this day
🤣🤣🤣🤣 😂
Smart!
Did you know?
https://historycollection.com/parisian-prisoners-offered-freedom-agreed-marry-prostitutes-move-mississippi-coast/
Just couldn’t wait till Caturday😁
Where’s that comes from?
Verse of the Day for Monday, May 13, 2024
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“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.”
1 John 4:12 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
BE WITH ME, JESUS
Be with me – take not – Your presence from me;
Let Your Spirit dwell – in me – let Him be;
My strength and solace – in turmoil of heart;
From me, Oh Lord – let Him never depart!
Without You, Lord – there is no breath of life;
Without You, Lord – the sorrow – it is rife;
Happiness eludes me – from my soul – it is gone;
Your peace in me – is vacant – totally withdrawn!
Hide not Your face from me – show me Your love;
Touch my heart with Your grace – sent from above;
Abandon me not – in my hour of need;
In Your great love, Lord – I am blessed indeed!
Fill me with your Spirit – right to the brim;
Let not hopelessness enter – faith be dim
Renew me – redo me – all over again;
Today – tomorrow – forever – Amen!
Infuse me – use me – for Your Glory, Lord;
Let me not forget – the truth in Your Word;
Raise me up, Lord – both steadfast and strong;
Be with me, Lord – where You only belong!
Strengthen me – Lord – oh, please hear my cry;
I don’t need to know the what, where or why;
I trust in Your judgment – Your mercy, Lord;
I trust in the truth revealed in Your Word!
I trust in Your Love poured out on the Tree;
I trust in Your Promise to always be;
Faithful and true for eyes that can see;
There for us all – who trust in Thee!
Be with me – Lord – refresh me – renew me;
This pain and discomfort – really threw me;
Jesus, come quickly – come quickly, I pray;
Let this doubt not take hold – unravel – fray!
Oh, precious, incorruptible Blood of the Lamb;
Encompass me – protect me – the sinner I am;
Enthrall me – befall me – change me within;
Blot my sin – from Thy sight – let it begin!
Wherein and where out – let the demon flee;
Far away – to the dry place – let it be;
Confined in the spaces – to do no harm;
To cause no distress – disruption – alarm!
Wash me – and cleanse me – pure white as snow;
Be near me – cheer me – wherever I go;
Lift my distress – give me some rest – I pray;
Be with me, Jesus – and love me Your Way!
D01: 07/14/2013
TEEHEE !!! 🙃
Psalm 91.The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
#psalm91 #psalms #prayer
Pray Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-8GLitn-KQ&t=0s
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Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms
Pray Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKUPiqPMs8M&t=2s
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Psalm 91 is known as שִׁיר פְּגָעִים, Song of the Stricken Ones.
It is one of eleven psalms composed by Moshe (Moses), who recited it as he ascended Mount Sinai to gain protection from the spiritual forces of impurity known as the Other Side.
Good Doggie. Perfect!
LIVE WITH JULIE – 05/13/2024
JULIE GREEN MINISTRIES
https://rumble.com/v4uu5ee-live-with-julie.html
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TODAY’S SCRIPTURES:
1 Peter 5:8
Luke 12:2
Luke 8:17
Proverbs 6:30-31
John 10:10
Galatians 3:13
John 8:32
Proverbs 29:2
Philippians 4:13
Acts 16:25
Romans 12:2
Joshua 1:8
Hebrews 6:19
Psalm 23:4
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DECLARATIONS, DECREES, AND DEFINITIONS:
God is in control! He is the protector of Israel and His children.
Your enemies will always try to appear like they are bigger and stronger, but God will always show His upper hand and that He is the one in control.
Everything hidden will be revealed.
God is light and exposes all darkness.
The enemy tries to steal everything good, but if you catch him then he must return it sevenfold.
Jesus has already paid the price.
It is so important for you to know the truth.
You will start to see your enemies make more and more mistakes. They will not get away with what they are trying to do.
God wants everything stolen to be returned.
God loves you so much and sent His son to die for you.
Get into the Word of God daily. Renew your mind with the Word of God.
It’s time to start believing and receiving God’s reports.
God is exposing “secrets”. Every secret that has been used against God’s people will come out.
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Prophecies mentioned:
https://www.jgminternational.org/prophecies/2024-the-year-of-the-great-release
https://www.jgminternational.org/prophecies/my-david-is-coming-back-with-vengeance
https://www.jgminternational.org/prophecies/a-storm-is-brewing
https://www.jgminternational.org/prophecies/the-best-is-yet-to-come-for-my-nation
https://www.jgminternational.org/prophecies/giant-moves-have-been-made-to-secure-this-nation
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PROPHETIC WORD:
JGM – LIVE WITH JULIE – [13 May 2024]
[NOTES]…When we spend time with the Lord God will always show us what to do and how to do it. He will always give us the strength to do it. The more we spend time with God the more refreshing we will have, the more strengthening we will have, the more joy and peace that comes because that’s what comes in the presence of the Lord.
TODAY’S ENCOURAGEMENT:
Spend more time in the Word of God, with Him, in His presence, in knowing who you are with Him and not without Him. You’re never alone because the Greater One lives on the inside of you. So if you know you’re not alone and you’re going into these battles/impossible situations, your attitude will change because you know you’re not alone, it’s not your strength, might, ability, or wisdom, knowledge and understanding. IT’S GODS.And you come out victorious, that winner God always intended you to be. Because you’ll believe, trust and rely on Him. That’s what we need to do at this time.
TRUST IN ALMIGHTY GOD MORE THAN WE EVER HAVE BEFORE.
The enemy will try to put obstacles in your way, to try to make you busy so you don’t have time….MAKE TIME ON PURPOSE. Starting your day out right with God…then when you’re at work, things that used to frustrate you, bring you down, weigh you down, get you so angry…God will show you how to deal with those things a different way, so those things don’t frustrate you, devastate you, torment you, overwhelm you AND YOU’LL BE ABLE TO ENJOY WHAT HE HAS FOR YOU EACH AND EVERY DAY. Something good is about to happen to you today [Oral Roberts]…
GOD IS A GOOD GOD. Say EVERYTHING’S GOING RIGHT. Put God in control of your words and see where that leads you.
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PRAYER FOR ALL !!!
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EVENING REFLECTIONS:
Saw his announcement on Twitter/X – Cartoonist Ben Garrison is starting a new rumble channel show, to start up soon, and here is the link for those who want to follow his new show, he’s going to call it Cartoon Commentary.
https://rumble.com/v4uwk26-grrrgraphics-presents-cartoon-commentary.html
and here is his tweet/X about it “BREAKING NEWS: Ben and Tina Garrison will be producing a new podcast – “Cartoon Commentary” beginning this month! Current events, cartoons and more! #staytooned. Follow our rumble channel and subscribe and enable notifications. Check out our into video below” and then it links to the above linked rumble channel.
Just want to impart hat I think should be common knowledge;
We, as human beings, cannot go back in time, not even for a millisecond.
And no one can predict future human events, with reliable accuracy, without premeditation.
Jus saying.
Trust God. Fear not.
Amen
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen
Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms
Pray Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKUPiqPMs8M&t=2s
Never mind 😜