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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.”

Safe and Secure
At the Festival of Dedication, the Jews asked Jesus to tell them plainly if He was the Messiah. His response was not “Yes” or “No” but rather, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me” (John 10:25). But then Jesus continued with a reason why they did not believe: “You do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one” (John 10:26–30).
Jesus states that the eternal life He offers is permanent. He holds His sheep—believers—in His hand, and no one can snatch them out of His hand. Jesus’ sheep were given to Him by the Father, who is greater than all and who also holds the sheep in His hand. No one can snatch believers out of the Father’s hand, either. Believers are eternally secure, held by the power of God.
In an extended metaphor, Jesus compares believers to sheep. A sheep without a shepherd can easily be snatched from the fold. “To snatch” refers to attacking, scattering, and stealing sheep like a wolf (John 10:12). There are people who claim to have truth but are really seeking to deceive believers (Matthew 24:5). The devil is described as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8) and as a thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). Yet believers are part of Jesus’ flock and cannot be taken away by spiritual wolves, lions, or anything else because Jesus is the Good Shepherd protecting His sheep (John 10:11). Those who belong to Christ are safe from anyone or anything seeking their destruction: no one can snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Jesus is God, and no one can take the sheep out of Jesus’ hand, either (John 10:28). Romans 8:38–39 assures us, “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Absolutely nothing can separate a child of God from the Father’s love, and absolutely nothing can take that believer’s salvation away.
A believer’s eternal security is purchased by Christ, promised by the Father, and sealed by the Holy Spirit. It is given and maintained by God’s hand, and it is permanent and irrevocable. The eternal life granted by Jesus to His “sheep” cannot and will never be stolen, revoked, or lost. A Christian who has trusted in Jesus Christ as the Savior is declared righteous before God for all eternity (John 3:16; Acts 16:31; Romans 5:1) and cannot lose his salvation. The Good Shepherd protects His sheep and ensures that no one and nothing snatches them from the fold.
“Great is Thy faithfulness,” O God my Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.
Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
“Great is Thy faithfulness!” “Great is Thy faithfulness!”
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—
“Great is Thy faithfulness,” Lord, unto me!
Taking care of sheep —
https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-sheepdog-fights-off-kills-coyotes-pack-attacks-sheep
WOW. That’s a heck of a story.
Note that this is a two-year-old dog.
Left eight coyotes drt, then chased the remainder of the pack for a day (probably leaving them in some other county [or dead]) before heading home to get patched-up.
If the farmer is smart, he’ll sell the sheep and start charging stud fees for the dog.
LOL! TRUE!!!
I lent out a dog like that as a stud… He was never returned!
So now I have a donkey and am trying to buy a second (If I can ever get my truck back from the shop to go pick him up!)
Our road is about 6 miles long and has well over a dozen donkey on it for herd protection.
This is the first thing I thought of when I read Carl’s post! What a great dog!
Great is Thy Faithfulness is a wonderful hymn! 🙏 ⛪
Thank goodness there is a difference between sheep 🐑 and sheeple.
Great discussion there. Many follow wolves. Some follow wolves who work for the good shepherd now!
Some are sheep in wolves’ clothing…
Stella’s Place has a great YouTube (which plays there) about MSM non-coverage of the Twitter files. Hilarious.
https://stellasplace1.com/2022/12/03/musks-twitter-files-make-watergate-look-like-jaywalking-clay-travis/
Hat Tip Mary from Marin!
Watergate was jaywalking.
Brazilian Military May invoke Article 142, Backing Bolsonaro
https://rumble.com/v1xo7i2-brazilian-military-preparing-to-back-bolsonaro.html
Under Article 142 when there are disputes between government branches that disrupt society, it’s up to the military to restore order
A HUGE geopolitical story, right now bigger than China
Via Martin Armstrong
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/wef/chaos-in-brazil/
There are no coincidences in politics. The Brazil election was also rigged by the international accord seeing to seize global power for the Great Reset and hand jurisdiction to the United Nations. This is not going to end well even for Klaus Schwab whose WEF is in fact attempting to take over the world and forecast their vision upon everyone and everywhere. The problem is, their vision of “improving the state of the world” is no different than Karl Marx’s or even Hitler who saw to resurrect of the old Roman Empire and one government for all of Europe.
Gonna be blunt. KlauSS does not fly with DA WOOF. All “deals” are off with that shit.
I hope some people here are paying attention.
No new Hitlers. Even highly educated ones.
Hopefully this will spill over to our own military. Then again …..the people in charge sold out to wokisum or is it communism?
What power over governments does the World Economic Forum actually have?
If we can ask how many legions does the pope have, we should be able to ask the same of the WEF.
It is power over individuals in the gubmint. And that is easy. Money. Paycheck before principles works 90% of the time. Unless you are already rich like Trump.
What RF121 says, but add in blackmail from their perversions. These people are controlled by what would happen if the populace knew what they do behind closed doors.
Great question. It’s very Kafkaesque, but it works – with a surprisingly small number of plants. The American military seems to be fighting WEF wars, if only by proxy. It almost got its orders to go after American patriots after January Sixth (hence insurrection narrative). DHS is playing Gestapo, FIB is playing SS/KGB, and we were to be the SA in their bogus history they are still trying to write.
KlauSS, like Hitler (but without antisemitic cover this time) doesn’t have a completely controlled army this time, but he’s trying hard.
Bottom Line – WEF is better than the pope at capturing armies for his Weffen SS.
Do not forget that Klaus is a protegee of HENRY KISSINGER!
The ReichsWEF – Part II
Kissinger’s Curse
Klaus Schwab Was Henry Kissinger’s Pupil And The Son Of A Nazi Collaborator Who Used Slave Labor And Aided Nazi Efforts To Obtain The First Atomic Bomb
…
The ReichsWEF Part VKlausian Kommand Zentral
Balenciaga drops $25 million lawsuit against company that worked on pedo campaign
https://thepostmillennial.com/balenciaga-drops-25-million-lawsuit-against-company-that-worked-on-pedo-campaign?utm_campaign=64487
I smell a rat. 🐀 🐀 🐀 ⬇︎
He needs to “learn from this”? He didn’t realize he was promoting bondage for kids? A person who does that won’t just turn around and “protect child welfare.” I imagine he has a whole industry built around horrible acts with children. And Balenciaga is standing by him.
CHRIST IS KING!!!
That’s the Good News!
I need to learn … engage with child protection organizations …
He wants to find out techniques and strategies so he can better avoid the fallout.
YUP. They’ll leverage what they can learn for the dark side.
Like the woman, Laura Silsby, caught kidnapping Haitian kids who is now part of the Amber alert system…
The Clintons, Laura Silsby, Haiti, Amber Alerts & Human Trafficking
You have to understand that these people (satanists) lie about anything and everything.
What BAALenciaga did here was very smooth. NOTHING.
They sued an EXTERNAL company, but then dropped the suit. Which means that nothing was done.
They had their own guy issue a ludicrous apology – and KEPT HIM.
Meanwhile, the images were promoted, and more souls will be captured by their side. Balenciaga will become even more edgy and more cool with their crowd.
There is NO downside to this, for the dark side, other than the fact that they’ve been IDed to a lot of people on our side, who will be harder to deceive.
IMO the company HAS to have been well-known in satanic circles for years if not decades, but now it is better known to the whole world.
Note that the film guy who talked about the “witch-burning Balenciaga promo” said it was just humorous – that right there is a lie. The humor is cover. He knows. He reminds me of the network TV fake news people who tried to set me up as part of the affirmative action conspiracy. They’re RUTHLESS LIARS.
Yes, they all know, and they are lying through their teeth about everything. They really think we’re stupid.
https://twitter.com/Xx17965797N/status/1598725866728484864?s=20&t=ZiTU0_1pgKQ8v0YxeQqtDA
The devil is the father of lies…..
The likelihood is that the law suit was a rouse all along to deflect from initial onslaught of attention and now they are finding out Denma is not allowing himself to be their fall guy and is ready to retaliate against Balenciaga.
It’s also quite likely as stated earlier yesterday the whole thing is a sacrifice move to draw attention from Musk’s release of “The Twitter Files”.
You can bet deep state has had Musk under surveillance where it concerns the treasure trove of information he has available now that he owns Twitter and have been preparing contingencies for the eventual release of information and part of that would of course be mass distractions.
My guess is Deep state sprang the Balenciaga episode a tad too early or else it was just Musk delaying the release to allow Balenciaga to play out. Might even be that Musk tricked them to play their diversion early, knowing it would need time to percolate. Which ever way Musk’s release of the Twitter Files was launched flawlessly without lots of other attention eaters, making for max exposure. Result, we got ’em both and now both must fry!
Yes, the Twitter Files release did go off perfectly!
Elon is a mad genius. The satanists are evil morons.
If you put on God’s armor and use your brains, it’s easy to outsmart the satanists.
Example:
Everything they’ve tried against Trump fails.
And there’s more…
Creative Director Of Balenciaga, Demna Gvasalia, Is Ambassador Of President Zelenskyy’s Fundraising Platform, United 24
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/balenciaga-demna-gvasalia-ambassador-president-zelenskyy-ukraine
One person’s reaction:
That is Dark. Very very very Dark! 😰
Suggests if you tweet or have other means to retweet @your congressmen
Accountability required for this one.
Those were just the ones I can think of off the of my head for the Quote tweet.
Great work! Yeah, there is something very bad here. VERY bad.
Seems the delivery lacks punch… has to go to the story and post a tweet from there so it all shows up… Ackkk!
It all goes back to Ukraine?!?!!!
!!!! Ukraine seems to be the center of the world stage. The amount of $$$ flowing in ( and out) is astronomical .
It’s nothing short of insane that on top of the money..it’s at the direct bullseye center of a clear Satan worshipping group.
Amen, Molly
Ukraine – is central
Before Trump was elected….
Before Russia attacked Ukraine…
US politicians were laundering and raking in billions there with investments, bribes, kick-backs.
US scientists were conducting unethical experiments there
Human adult and child human trafficking, human organ, drug and arms trafficking money-laundering cartels were operating there.
Balenciaga may be connected to all this?
You can bet Trump knew, knows what is going on.
And he, like GOD, hates all this.
The Haute Couture world tries to be outrageous, outré, shocking,’edgy’ – push the envelope of public acceptance, create new boundaries.
Beauty is not the goal.
The models, called mannequins, always look a bit jaded, freaky, cruel, unhinged, like they are about to eat a live kitten for pleasure.
Watching Paris Fashion Week runway shows has always given me the creeps.
AMEN.
I have always HATED so called ‘fashion’ It has never ever been to my taste. I prefer ‘classic’ styles that never really go out of style.
Advertisers are returning to Twitter. HA! Elon knew that his “hate speech” graph would carry weight in the half-way sane companies.
More on the story:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/elon-musk-says-advertisers-returning-twitter/
For the woke-ESG companies, it’s good that they bleed money in general, but the net effect of cutting marketing is that they’re shooting themselves in the foot.
Smart companies are not going to make their business – and marketing – decisions on the basis of where the wind’s blowing with ESG. They also know that Twitter is getting cleaned out – they’ve already had a mass-exodus of woke-leftist hater and combatant accounts that serve primarily to bully brands.
Any marketing cancellation should result in a loss of marketing sweetheart deals and if they want to play again they’ve got to get back in line and pay the premium prices now.
Pay up yer 8 bucks, suckers!
Ad buy decisions (in a sane world) are made based on the number of eyes (potential customers) on the ad. It was always this way in print media. If a giant number of viewers are actually bots, then the ad cost is deceptive. Old Twitter was deceiving not just its users but also its customers. If I were handling ad buys, that is why I would stop running ads in a particular communications space, not because of a political leaning.
Great point. Elon is earning trust.
FIB is bad news.
Oh goodie, another fake FISA warrant, this time on Giuliani!
Please, please… don’t let me stop you. Keep on digging that hole deeper.
“Here’s a bigger shovel for you.”
— [pgroup hands idiot FIB a sludge shovel]
One more related tweet by Jack Posobiec:
One commenter said this:
POSOBIEC:
COMMENTER:
If FIB had warrants to spy, then it wasn’t illegal. Unconstitutional? Likely. But not illegal.
If warrants were obtained under false pretenses — i.e., they just wanted to spy on some people but had no good reason — isn’t that illegal?
Not exactly. It is illegal to present false info to obtain a warrant but once the warrant is issued, the act of enforcing it is legal. This is primarily because it is unreasonable for an officer given a warrant to execute to expect that officer to legally analyze it before honoring it.
The evidence thereby gathered cannot be used against anybody. It is inadmissible in court.
What about 42/1983, and why are we not seeing those law suits everywhere? Very puzzling to me.
OK, but isn’t the person whom put forth the false info to get the warrant breaking the law, and can be prosecuted?
Yes.
In other words, you can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.
Rudy recently won his lawsuit. The FIB had NO reason to spy on him. It was all an illegal scam, just like illegal FISAs. So yes, this was all illegal. So were the hop hop hops to Miranda, Bannon, Bernie, Emma, Mac Isaac, Costello, and everyone else.
The warrant standing alone was not illegal. Unreasonable and unconstitutional but not illegal.
Proper use of words is the point.
Time to drag in REICHSTAG WRAY again.
He’ll just lie and blame it on a lack of communication, between the agents involved.
He will. But the goal is to ultimately destroy the corruption he refuses to fix. When America cheers ending the FIB, it can be ended.
Classified. Ongoing investigation. Not to my knowledge. I’ll get back to you.
Wray, like the rest of them, (Garland, Mayorkis, BiteMe, Hoe…) need to be impeached, fired…
Don’t forget Burns.
Big!
FISA is interesting. Designed to combat terrorism. The FBI’s Criminal Division has other tools in its toolkit for surveillance outside FISA. Here’s more on FISA that discusses Section 702 and the minimization of collection, retention, and dissemination of U.S. person info. https://www.intelligence.gov/ic-on-the-record-database/results/574-protecting-u-s-person-identities-in-fisa-disseminations
Almost as IF,
You got it. Now it’s all understood.
Repost – Øbastid was the king of warrantless surveillance.
There was a overall dramatic rise in warrantless surveillance during the Ø years – so much that it alarmed even the ACLU:

Obama changed the law TWICE (2013 & 2017) to make it easier to conduct warrantless data gathering.
*https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/12/obama-us-intelligence-greater-access-warrantless-data-foreign-targets
*http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html
85% of Obama’s warrantless surveillance searches were illegal! P 82 – https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf
It was exposed here – “Obamagate Is Not a Conspiracy Theory” “Obama normalized domestic spying….judge shopping to spy on James Rosen, journalist…” – David Harsanyi – National Review – 5/12/20 – https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/trump-russia-investigation-obamagate-not-conspiracy-theory/
Regarding spying on Trump – The FISA warrants were merely window-dressing. It is likely that Øbama was surveilling/spying Trump and his family, team, et al, without a warrant for at least a year, probably longer.
Trump knew.
Here are his tweets:
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
The FBI–with a warrant–would be watching all of Guiliani’s physical, financial, and computer activity, not just what he got from and uploaded to the cloud. It’s important to know what a “covert surveillance warrant” means to the FBI and to Justice. surveillance | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
Steve Bannon on GETTR, referring to this article from 10/19/2020:
Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276
ME: Liars, every one.
BANNON:
Every one of these guys should be hauled into the House, read the riot act, and then requested to lose their clearances.
At a minimum. I think they need to go on trial.
You’ll have to guess my idea of maximum. 😆
#TeamHugsAndKisses
😉 😇
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
#TeamNotInJail
😂
That’s just to get started.
Abuse of power, including abuse of the perceived power of their office
And, toward the end of interfering in the election
And, by using their positions as weight to undermine the Constitutitionally guaranteed rights of Americas
This group has a heavy weight around their ankles and it’s going to be hard to swim
Being linked to the likes of Clapper isn’t going to help their case either
There’re all going to use this as cover for themselves. The FIB told us so it must be true???
Oh I am sure the new House majority will make their usual smokescreen of hearings acting like they care. Some underling will become the sacrificial lamb and sent to prison. But not till the Justice Department is cleaned out nothing will change. Have all the hearings and trails they want,
Jack Posobiec:
OMG, I like that. He’s going there.
Trump was J6’D, before J6 was a thing.
Yes. And America was J6ed on 9/11. Maybe on 11/22.
A great “armed citizen” moment in Georgia.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/dont-make-me-kill-you-because-i-will-military-vet-holds-armed-police-chase-suspect-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive
Reminds me of the sort of risks one takes, even with a “good shoot” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shooting
Juries found him guilty only of unlawful possession of firearms, then he was found liable in a civil suit for “infliction of emotional distress”.
Bernie Goetz – HERO!!!
And note how much prosecutorial misconduct was involved at each step — running lies through the Grand Jury and getting indictments on only unlawful firearms that went to trial; doubling-down on lies at the Grand Jury and getting indictments for murder, went to trial, and still only got unlawful firearms. Taking a third bite at the apple with “infliction of emotional distress” based on purest horsepuckey….
Just to slap a point on the prosecutor’s withholding of evidence — Goetz had a five shot revolver, and one of his bullets missed. Prosecutors continued throughout as if one of the gang was shot twice.
Gun Free Zones, hazard to public safety.
Speaking of appropriate “self-defense” being maltreated by the system……
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Trayvon_Martin
Shaggy’s cuzzins in Georgia.
Love it! Thank God for THE POST!!!
America’s oldest daily newspaper, founded by none other than Alexander Hamilton:
https://nypost.com/2020/07/03/alexander-hamilton-founded-americas-oldest-daily-newspaper/
That’s cool!
Observe how hoaxing is done. The woke public school creates a problem and blames it on DeSantis. They made sure to pick on Hanukkah while Christmas was untouched, so it would escalate the way they wanted it to escalate.
SHAME!!!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/banning-of-hanukkah-discussion-in-florida-school-sparks-outrage/ar-AA14MkQu
Fake News. This is how it’s created.
Hope they got the 4AM talking points correct.
Does this mean we are past the faux praise of DeSantis and attack DeSantis? (Rhetorical)
Complicated business! 😉
ALPHABET ADVENT CALENDAR – ABCs of GOD – Father, Son, Holy Spirit
Father, glorify your Name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” – John 12:28
A – Adonai, Almighty, Alpha, Ancient of Days, Advocate, Able, Avenger, Abba, Authority, Anointed, All-knowing, All-powerful, All-seeing, Author and Finisher of our Faith, Angel of the Lord, Abiding, All in All, Apostle, Altogether Lovely, Anchor for our souls.
B – Bread of Life, Bread of Heaven, Bread of Sincerity and Truth, Balm of Gilead, Beginning and End, Breath of Life, Builder of the Church, Beloved, Beautiful, Blessed, Brother, Bishop of Souls, Beginning, Burden Bearer, Bright and Morning Star, Brightness of His Glory, Bridegroom, the final and true Blood Sacrifice, Baptizer
C – Christ, Creator, Comforter, Chief Cornerstone, Counsellor, Chastiser, Carpenter, Consuming Fire, Compassion, Conquerer of sin, evil, death, Courageous, Captain of the Armies of Heaven, Covert from the tempest, Consolation of Israel, Champion of fatherless, children, women, poor, sick, helpless, oppressed, persecuted.
D – Deliverer, Defender, Dunamis (power), Door of the Sheep, Dwelling place, Delight, Despised, Divider of wheat and chaff, sheep and goats, Dayspring from on high, Diadem of beauty,
E – Elohim, El-Shaddai, Emmanuel, Eternal, Ever-present, Edifier, Exalted, Elect Stone, Enduring Love, Eternal Life, Everlasting Father, Ensign of the people,
F – Father, Faithful, Friend, Fortress, First and Last, Foundation, For us, Forerunner, First born, Forgiver, Fairer than the children of men, Finisher of our Faith, Fountain of Life, Fragrance of Life, Freedom, Food indeed, Fulfillment of prophesies, promises, hunger, thirst, desires, needs.
Original Post May 2021 – https://www.theqtree.com/2021/05/16/dear-kmag-20210516-open-topic/#comment-740672
Explanation Why an Alphabet Advent Calendar – https://www.theqtree.com/2022/11/29/dear-kag-20221129-open-thread/#comment-1001222
Note – This is a work in progress – and new Names may have been added to the previous lists since day one.
Satire IS dangerous, for the stupid.
Have you ever noticed how low-I.Q. people entirely miss sarcasm? I have sent Babylon Bee items to people who actually BELIEVED they were TRUE!
So, in our culture of dumbing everything down to the lowest common denominator, satire becomes “dangerous.”
We used to know better than to let the dumbest among us dictate the culture. It was the other way around in better times.
Just so! We are witnessing people getting dumber and dumber, day by day, and it has been going on for years.
Someone should write a satirical book or make a satirical movie about people not getting satire. It could be hilarious. And it could prominently feature many character types from the other side.
Lol! That would be funny!
B Squared could do the screenwriting!
Sarchasm: The gulf between the guy being sarcastic, and the person who doesn’t realize that.
BARF!
Verse of the Day for Sunday, December 4, 2022
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“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Acts 4:12 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about it. « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
Oxfordshire, England, will begin this program in 2024. The city will be divided into “areas” (think Nazis corralling the Jews in Warsaw). Residents will have to register their cars with the city. They will be “allowed” to drive in and out of their “areas” up to 100 times in a year. More than 100 trips will be punished with fines. If a resident wants/needs to go beyond the 100 trips, they will have to apply for a special “permit” and be “approved.” This is part of a plan called C40. C40 cuts up cities into “15-minute travel zones” for everything and for the people who live in the “zone.”
Here’s the list of cities in the U.S. that have signed onto the C40 plan:
Austin; Boston; Chicago; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami, FL; New Orleans; New York City; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Portland, OR; San Francisco; Seattle; Washington, DC.
Another list of place NEVER TO LIVE IN.
Also a list of places mostly likely filled with morons, although not yet a comprehensive list.
D-Rat Shitholes.
Wonder if DeSantis knows Miami signed up for C40. FL State can easily nix C40, statewide.
Just as ESG is being singled out, trashed, C40 needs to join that trash heap.
Agreed!
Interesting. Let’s see if Abbott shuts this down, or leaves it to tick off voters enough to return to red? 🤔🤔 That’ll only happen if they can clean up Harris Co. voter fraud enough.
Just a stepping stone to the inevitable ban on owning vehicles for personal purposes. Just for the unimportant people, naturally.
“Meet C40 Chair, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan”
https://www.c40.org/
https://www.c40.org/funders-partners/
Damn. Nothing totalitarian at all about that. I hope the faithful Leftards are ready .
HOUSTON?!???!??? 😂 😂
Stoopid idjuts.
You can’t even go 5 miles in 15 minutes in the suburbs cuz the traffic’s so bad.
You can sit on the West Loop for 30 minutes and not even move up to the next exit. They’re Nuckin Futz.
How do they expect 4million people to move around inside the city spread out over hundreds of miles? People that work downtown or Galleria, They’re gonna have to pay everyday after 100. SHURE, that’s gonna fly.
Thank God I don’t live in city limits!!! But still, TURNER AND HIS ILK ARE MORONS!!!! AND GREEDY!! 🤑 🤑 🤑
Trying to find a decent map. Over 7 million live in the whole Houston area encompassing almost 350 square miles. The white circle denoted by Beltway 8 and HISD is Houston City limits. Mostly the lower income live in city limits. Middle class started moving to the burbs in the 70’s and 80’s. There’s always newer Burbs being built. Those people are CRAYZEE!!
Yup.
Only took one time to never, ever drive through Houston during the day. A few hours for few miles.
These days, if I must transit Houston, it is late night or early morning.
Tis true, all my life. And God forbid it rains, tack another 2hrs onto the commute. Doesn’t matter where you’re going, add 2hrs. People forget how to drive when it rains. 🙃🙃🤯🤯
Oh I bet that dog we were talking about remembers how to drive when it rains. Smart doggie.
Constitution doesnt limit travel of any means so sugning up for this should make them lose their jobs but beyond that its 1000% unenforceable.
Yea.
Hell, I don’t understand why HOV lanes are legal.
Whether it is vehicle occupant count, a fee for whatever lane, OR BOTH. It’s ALL wrong by me.
How does a city know when a person drives out of their area? That implies 24-hour surveillance. Maybe through street cameras? It means being watched and logged every time you travel. I don’t think this is Constitutional.
Sensors on a car. Sensors along streets. Ping, response.
Guess not much different than tracking cell phones.
Yea, I am NOT a techie. But this seems easy.
Not allowed IN the city unless you have something like PrePass.
PrePass
Yea, Pre Pass prolly far to advanced for what I’m thinking.
Our control freak government can adapt technology to track vehicles, where they are allowed and areas when fees (fines, penalties, etc.) can be levied.
Good morning!
Therefore glorify the Lord in the dawning light, The name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea. – Isaiah 24:15
Amen, beautiful.
More mask evidence.
Not Even N95 Masks Work To Stop Covid ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Thank you for posting this. I just gained ammunition for my war on masking.
Amen, Bakocarl. Thank you.
SD – more akin to reading War and Peace. Getting down into the weeds of what he equates to a 30,000 foot overview.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/03/a-baseline-understanding-mostly-missing-behind-the-twitter-discussion-govt-influence-over-social-media-influence-and-the-surveillance-state/#more-240540
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He’s going deep, granular again, eh?
I saw Wolf post a tweet where he used the word granular, and so now I’m thinking he’s really Sundance.
Not a chance. Wolf actually fraternizes with and compliments mere commenters.
LOL!!
My use of the word granular was an old longtime CTH insider joke. You know that, don’t you? I well remember the hour you got banned for daring to contradict and offer a minor criticism of something SD said.
Yes, I know that; that’s why I mentioned it. In fact I may have been the first one to USE it as a joke.
Another word he abused was “construct” (in its noun form). Everything was a “construct.”
I know I am guilty of it as well, but geez, a 30,000 foot view lends one to summarize a bit more than a Tolstoy novel.
He could just say the black hats have been winning and we have work to do if we want to turn it around. Then say what will fix it instead of talking about silos and shiz yet once again.
Hate to break it to him but this has been set up for well over 100 years. This just didn’t organically happen over the past 20 years.
Even the Patriot Act wasn’t organic. Getting that passed was one of the downhill objectives of 9-11, IMO.
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The FAST timing in getting that bill passed is THE BEST EVIDENCE that 9-11 was an ‘inside job’
Blowing up the buildings housing records certainly doesn’t hurt either…
Donald Rumsfeld revealed that the Pentagon had lost a whopping $2.3 trillion from its budget, less than 48 hours before 9-11 happened…
15 years later there were claims the same department could not account for a further $6 trillion…
It’s suggestive but by no means conclusive.
Mr. Power Hungry could have written the bill figuring there’d be some opportunity to pass it someday. It doesn’t mean he knew what the opportunity would be, or that he was involved in creating the opportunity.
These people are opportunists as much as anything else.
ThanQ for being sane about these things.
If this is correct it will be applauded as a good thing, but I seriously doubt it was the intended outcome of those who where pushing for a revolution.
“Iran reportedly abolishes country’s morality police – Iranian prosecutor general
Protests erupted in Iran after death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, allegedly arrested by morality police for wearing her hijab incorrectly, with Tehran saying her death is being used by foreign powers to DESTROY country.”
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The CCP has launched a secret war on America. My documentary on this is now out theepochtimes.com/the-final-wa
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Everyone should watch The Final War!
@JoshJPhilipp and @epochtimes did an amazing job.
#patriotgames #finalwar #China
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Great Gab meme!
To make it perfect – the baby’s onesie should have some sicko-woke elements and a Balenciaga label.
Hail the mark. Clever.
The Baby Will story – The Burning Platform
Patients Rights should prevail.
100%
“Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.”
Now the reverse:
Outsiders begin petitioning the company to release hidden speech as well
first a little, then more often, then constantly.
Former Covington high schooler Nicholas Sandmann asks Musk about ‘hidden’ Twitter files allowing death threatshttps://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/12/04/former-covington-high-schooler-nicholas-sandmann-asks-musk-about-hidden-twitter-files-allowing-death-threats-1314290/
Just a thought about all the “joyful” news of late. It feels as if a lot of justified anger is being dissipated. The sense of vindication has a lot of “all’s well that ends well” feeling to it (not to people on this site, but among the general population).
Like Sundance, I attribute no motives to Musk, good or bad, at this point. That would be speculation.
I anticipate a complete let-down with Brazil, and hope I am wrong.
The Republicans will do worse than nothing in HR.
There is nothing definitively favorable happening now that we can know, and even what seems good may in fact just be cover.
Hugs&Kisses are required.
The enemy has a lot in store for us, and what it has in store IMO anticipated all the “joyful” things that are happening.
But I will never quit, never lose hope, never surrender, and never stop being loyal to the truth.
Uh Y U P.
Elon has delivered truth, where truth was hidden and falsely denied. There is good reason for hope in this area.
Brazil, I am mildly optimistic. wild card is, US IC coercion in Brazil needs to be ignored. Then, Brazil will find their way to Freedom.
The House. Kevin wins, status quo continues. Kevin gets shit canned, then I’m mildly optimistic.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/already-primary-already-made-decision-kevin-mccarthy-lashes-house-republicans-wont-support-speaker-video/
Fundamentally, NOTHING much changed. Hoping.
Methinks this is a backdoor way of endorsing McCarthy. Surely he’ll be more direct as time passes. Dems and RINOs are putting up Upton as speaker and if our guys don’t endorse Kevin, we’ll be in big time trouble. Most of us don’t want McCarthy, but the point is not to give the power to the Dems and worst of the RINOs when we hold the majority. DRINO leadership will not allow subpoenas, stop the funding, do anything on energy or the border, etc.. McCarthy is on record listing things he’s going to do, we need to hold him to it. After negotiating to get as many concessions as they can from him, Biggs, Gaetz, and all the hold outs need to hold their nose and vote for Kevin in the end so we don’t all get effed over. Don’t let perfect murder good.
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Rep. Fred Upton, a Pro-Impeachment RINO, would be a disaster for anything having to do with the word Republican, but especially when it comes to Speaker of the House. My record on Endorsements in the General Election was 232-22, and in the Primaries was 98.6%. I would never have endorsed Upton, who quit Congress in the face of a challenge, and that’s not what Republican’s need. A very dangerous game is being played. Peace through Strength!!!
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IIRC, this Upton guy was one of the prime movers behind the laws passed some years ago to outlaw incandescent light bulbs. IMO, a complete DeepState/WEF tool and will do what he’s told.
His niece is the only thing that makes the family tolerable.
Why, is she good looking or something?
Yea. Went back looking, hoping. WTH? I missed sumthin again.
She’s…..exuberant….
Marjorie Taylor Greene was on Bannon yesterday. She reminded everyone that Congress has no power to indict or prosecute; they can only investigate and make recommendations. She was addressing those who complain that Congress never gets results. I know she and others are going to do their best, but we have a roadblock with the current AG and DOJ.
She also said that information will be coming out over a period of months, and she stressed patience. I’m not sure how she knows that, but it would be good if this stays in the news.
…we have a roadblock with the current AG and DOJ.
^^^ Impeach. Cut funding. ^^^
R-Cons need to DEMAND and NOT cave.
She did mention cutting funding.
I’m not sure impeachment would go anywhere, but I agree that it needs to be done. Always fight, always be on offense, and never let up. Keep the pressure on.
Impeach cuz it is the right thing to do.
Senate won’t agree, don’t care.
Impeach. Hold those hearings in the Senate, for ALL to see and hear.
You got that right. Charge the bastards with every bad thing they’ve done. If Senate wants to let ’em off, that’s their problem.
Amen. Time to rip open Kapo’s bag of dirty laundry for the world to see.
We need more like him
Great rant. ^^^ Video needs to go viral.
Wow. That is FIRE of TRUTH.
PAPA BEAR!
Another way they are using the language to manipulate people just occurred to me.
Every simple, common cold now has a SCARY NAME.
It’s not a cold, it’s RSV. Or COVID. I wonder what’s next? RINO-virus-itis, of which we currently have a plague in D.C.?
It sounds scarier, but it’s still just a COLD.
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/common_cold_causes
Although parts of that article are bullshit. Stating that being out in the cold or getting overheated don’t cause colds is bullshit. NO, they don’t GIVE you the virus, but they CAN depress your immune system, which allows the virus to take hold. So that’s deceptive and incorrect.
We have kids so we had a strong awareness about RSV before COVID BS. It’s a big deal for infants especially.
But just like COVID they’ve latched onto formal medical terminality – which serves a good purpose – and weaponized it into a fear/panic cycle psyop.
Really this is nothing new – they’ve done the same thing with “CANCER” for decades, justifying every idiotic leftist industrial crusade with eliminating “CANCER” agents. Fauci was deep in the AIDS game too.
They always hope the public is stupid. They won’t know what “RSV” is so let’s just start calling out stats on that.
What’s different now is that they’ve had to accelerate it because the public is losing it’s psychological reactance to this or that medical term.
1 Take something real.
2 Exaggerate it.
3 Fear-Project to manipulate people.
Just like any patent-medicine traveling snake-oil salesman. The only difference today is that Fauci doesn’t have a wagon hitched behind him as he travels from town to town.
If they could get a public health scare around the dangers of “halitosis” they would.
It