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“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;
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Do not sorrow,
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Let My Spirit Groan!
Sometimes we find ourselves at a loss for words. Thankfully, when we pray as Christians, we have a helper—the Holy Spirit—who aids in our human weakness whenever words fall short: “For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words” (Romans 8:26, ESV), or, as the KJV has it, “with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
In Romans 8:18–27, the apostle Paul encouraged believers to hold on to the hope and assurance of our ultimate adoption, redemption, and glorification even as we patiently endure suffering in this present life. We find strength amidst our human frailty when we depend on the Holy Spirit’s assistance in prayer. When we are unsure how to pray or don’t know what to pray for, the Holy Spirit “groans” within our hearts with words that cannot be uttered or expressed.
The phrase rendered in English “groanings that cannot be uttered” means “indescribable, wordless groans” in the original Greek language. Other things in the same passage also utter “wordless groans”: all creation now groans “as in the pains of childbirth” (Romans 8:22), and believers “groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies” (verse 23).
The indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit reminds us that our redemption is guaranteed: “We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. . . . While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit” (2 Corinthians 5:2–5, NLT).
Most of us have struggled in prayer, wondering whether to pray for deliverance from our suffering, miraculous relief and rescue, or the strength to endure through it. Even Paul the apostle pleaded with the Lord to take away his “thorn in the flesh,” only to be told that God’s “power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:7–9). Like Paul, we often think we know what we need, but we’re not always good judges of God’s perfect will. What a relief it is to realize that the effectiveness of our prayers does not depend on us. We don’t have to have the knowledge or the words to express what we need because “the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will” (Romans 8:27, NLT).
Our limited vision is no excuse to abandon prayer altogether, for it is essential to the Christian life. But we must realize that prayer is a trinitarian activity. We pray to the Father. The Holy Spirit is our advocate and intercessor in the process (John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7). We cannot truly pray without the Holy Spirit’s assistance. Through Jesus Christ, we have access to the Father by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 2:18), who helps and intercedes for us with inarticulate groans. “In language we cannot understand, the Father searches the human heart, the abode of the Spirit, to hear the Spirit’s prayer. When the Father hears his will being prayed by the Spirit (because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will), then the Father and Spirit are in perfect harmony for the purposes of God to be accomplished in the believer through the instrument of prayer” (Boa, K., and Kruidenier, W., Romans, Vol. 6, Broadman & Holman Pub., 2000, p. 259).
The Holy Spirit’s intercession with “groanings that cannot be uttered” ought not to be confused with speaking in tongues. In Scripture, tongues are expressed in audible, uttered words that are meant to be understood and interpreted (Acts 2:4–47; 19:6; 1 Corinthians 14:13–40). In Romans 8:26, Paul referred to unspoken groanings. These wordless, soundless, speechless groanings are spiritual in nature and divinely understood.
We live in a fallen world that is not our permanent home (Hebrews 13:14; Philippians 3:20). We are caught between “our present sufferings” and the future “glory that will be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18). We are hounded by weaknesses within (Matthew 26:41; 2 Corinthians 12:5–10) and powerful enemies without (Ephesians 6:11–13). We can pray with words using our human understanding, but God has not left us alone in this endeavor. He has given us the ministry of the Holy Spirit who prays on our behalf with groanings that cannot be uttered. We can rely on the Spirit’s divine intellect and infinite vision to pray effectively according to God’s good purpose and will (1 Corinthians 14:15; Ephesians 6:18–20; Jude 1:20).
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Love those pics of the drowning guy getting saved. No captions needed.
AMEN!
A very helpful lesson! Thank you!
Interesting info for PAVACA.
Lol. Aren’t CIA chicks supposed to be hot? I mean, could that face seduce a source for information? I think CIA and this is my mental picture:
Thank you.
Yours Truly had “Suspicious Dog” about Dr. Susan Monarez from the start. Wonder if she and Sen. Elissa Slotkin know each other?
More and more evidence of “algorithmic slop” in Steal 2026.
Steal 2026 is falling apart in real time.
A picture is worth a thousand words!
By re-posting that truth-post, DJT is signaling to his base that he’s up to speed.
What’s interesting is that all the motor mouths of talk radio are not talking about it. They are all taking shots at the RINO wing and the leadership in general.
It was even more obvious this time, they did not try to hide it at all.
The Republic falls when the guilty go unpunished.
Ball is in PDT’s and his cabinet’s court.
We the People hang in the balance.
EXACTLY.
I refuse to get invested or travel down the rabbit hole. Either Trump and Co. will fix it this time, or the country is over. I mean that quite literally. And being essentially powerless while we wait to see is infuriating, so I am consciously not dwelling on it.
Wrong caption for the cookie pic.
Should be: “Whoa, Mom really loves me!”
do not equate food with love.
People have no idea how important what you just said is. More adult obesity is the result of parental food abuse than from any other cause.
Food should never be: a reward, a punishment, withheld, enshrined, or vilified.
Food is fuel so we can live. That’s it. Good fuel keeps the engine healthy. Bad food will run the engine, but badly.
Almost nothing makes me more mad than seeing a parent punish a child with food.
agreed.
Insomnus
@nighttimemedia
This is going to become a big problem. Statistical analyses are beginning to come in, showing that the odds of such an overwhelming “blue wave” are literally trillions to one against.
If the Republicans do nothing, or if they do something, but it doesn’t work, then their supporters will lose all faith in them. It will be seen as proof that, from now on, Republicans will lose everything, to the most blatant cheating imaginable.
If they do something and it does work, then millions of Democrats will refuse to believe that there was any cheating, no matter what, and there will likely be riots all over America.
We seem to be entering a loose-loose situation.
Regarding Democrat-fueled riots — they will make it easy to follow the money since those ‘rioters’ don’t riot on principles. They expect to get paid.
If they are paid, it’s like a trail of bread crumbs.
you’re good!
Well, if they do nothing, the country is doomed. We will be islamic in 20-30 years.
If they do something, we will have 1960’s-style riots for a couple of years. We survived it then, we can survive it now.
But it is going to take nerves of steel to do it, because it will require severe methods of dispersal for the rioters, or they will devastate the cities. Water cannon, rubber bullets, tear gas, and other methods will have to be used. And the left will squeal like little children. Most women, even conservative ones, will freak out.
I don’t know what’s going to happen. I guess we’ll see.
the states have their own national guards I believe. if they refuse to protect their states, by using what they have at their disposal, when the dust settles, they should not expect federal dollars to clean up the destruction. it’s going to get ugly for sure.
islami 100% unacceptable. Not an 80/20 issue. 99+/miniscule few. F the latter.
America for the in. Riots. Not the first time. Let the chips fall where they may.
A wise person once shared this.
Trump, Trump Team 2.0 AND Patriots Will rise to the occasion.
got another address for the pic?
Love that, was thinking that reading you yesterday, it was not a lot of people, just very very brave and dedicated
data republican says it’s more NGO’s getting $19M for 19M votes. there were 20 million new registrations (without proof of citizenship) that mostly went to Dems.
Troublemaker10
November 8, 2026 3:30 am
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 16: HOW THE MIDTERMS WERE PULLED OFF https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg
Among today’s talk of voter fraud, a critical role is overlooked: the importance of NGOs in early voting.
Below, I show the receipts where NGOs directly take a role in making the midterms happen….
….Just know the two main points:
Republicans have an institutional blindness. They believe getting voters is all about branding and messaging. They pay enormous sums to consultants and TV ads and have endless conferences on what the right “message” is.
Democrats, meanwhile, have built an entire and expensive institutional machinery around getting people physically to the polls.
Cont…
https://nitter.click/DataRepublican/status/2119254886818922904#m
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
9h
THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 16: HOW THE MIDTERMS WERE PULLED OFF
Among today’s talk of voter fraud, a critical role is overlooked: the importance of NGOs in early voting.
Below, I show the receipts where NGOs directly take a role in making the midterms happen.
It’s been a long week, and I’m too tired to type up a summary.
Just know the two main points:
Republicans have an institutional blindness. They believe getting voters is all about branding and messaging. They pay enormous sums to consultants and TV ads and have endless conferences on what the right “message” is.
Democrats, meanwhile, have built an entire and expensive institutional machinery around getting people physically to the polls. And they were more motivated in 2026 than any other year.
I do NOT deny the existence of voter fraud. Saying the data doesn’t show that others claim to show, is not equivalent to saying there is no fraud.
As I’ve said in several posts today, the election system in the United States is structurally set up such that citizenship verification is an honor system. The biggest swings in 2026 were among young people and Hispanics.
And 2026 was a concerted effort by NGOs like none other. Watch them in their own words how they pulled it off:
(i coudn’t bring the video with her nitter post…)
Video within this X.
awesome, thanks kal!
Troublemaker10
November 8, 2026 3:37 am
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg NOW: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Scott Presler support Sen. RON JOHNSON (R-WI) for the next Senate Minority Leader over John Thune
LUNA: “The Senate needs one more person to sign onto the letter to block Thune from being the minority leader. Who will be the patriot to do it?”
Cont…
https://nitter.click/EricLDaugh/status/2119245186576314513#m
redfrecknj
November 8, 2026 5:06 am
Britain comes to New Jersey…putting Muslims in a special protected class to stifle legitimate dissent and public discourse (In other words…to shut you up)
Individuals, journalists, and academics will now become fearful of criticizing religious doctrine, foreign policies, or cultural practices of Muslims out of fear of being accused of hate speech.
Guyski
November 8, 2026 5:32 am
Reply to redfrecknj
Yep, literally Britian comes to New Jersey. From the bill:
‘This bill provides a State definition of Islamophobia modeled in part after the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), which is composed of British Parliament Members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.’
TO HELL WITH THESE COMMIES
https://joelange.substack.com/p/the-storm-is-incoming
The Storm Is Incoming
It’s now go time.
At the risk of repetition…also applies here.
Would like to see this be reality. Trump is the only one that could lead this.
Hoping here. <<< Admittedly, not a strategy.
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/was-the-election-a-trap
Would like to see this be reality. Trump is the only one that could lead this.
Hoping here. <<< Admittedly, not a strategy.
FWIW, Yesterday Hubby spent about a 1/2 hour talking to a teacher who studied under Victor David Hanson.
Ramble.
Even a Village Idiot, knows US election system, process is designed for fraud.
2026 election results 100% unbelievable, from my vantage.
IF we have absolute, undeniable proof of election fraud that delivered 2026 election numbers as provided 3/4 November, Let The Chips Fall Where They May.
2026 stolen election canNOT stand. IMO.
Let the riots begin, if that is what Lawfare’s handlers wish for.
Last week, Hegseth increased National Guard presence in DC.
When, will DOJ, FIB drop the hammer? HLS have a play?
As I understand it, there is no National certification for mid term elections.
Drop the hammer as each state certifies their election?
Unlike, after 2020 Coup, we’ve seen several key Trump Team deliver unequivocal support for Trump.
Ramble ends.
Unlike 2020 Coup, when I KNEW, the Coup would be put down,
Will Justice prevail in 2026?
No hopia here. No Tik Tok here. 100% support truth, accountability…
when government becomes a pay-for play corrupted version of what the founders envisioned, we may be too far gone already. fame/fortune drives too many into politics–there is no more desire to make our country better imo. it’s all about what’s in it for ME?
^^^ All to common in today’s America.
Thankfully Trump is not onboard with it.
and they are trying to destroy him so more like him to do not rise again.
At this point it’s not even to make the country better. It should be to save the Republic. Lower fuel and food prices will mean little when when governed by people who are proud to say they hate America, prison or death to conservatives and nowhere to turn with a corrupt judiciary.
on the left Austin Payne murdered by the 4 on the right.
https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-a-rose-by-any-other
Sunday Strip: A Rose by Any Other Name…
Canada doubling down on stupid
Freedom Ring
November 8, 2026 5:45 am
Canada’s Prime Minister has announced he will import 2.3 million extra migrants to reanimate an economy paralyzed by millions of prior migrants.
“We are masters of our destiny,” banker and liberal party chief Mark Carney posted on Twitter, as his deputies revealed his sure-to-pass budget plan that will bring a record 2.3 million migrants over the next three years — even though 1.5 million Canadians lack jobs.
Carney’s bloc of 2.3 million includes new migrants, temporary migrants, and permanent status for prior temporary migrants. They will enter a nation of 42 million, which already includes roughly 8.3 million subsidized migrants — and a declining number of jobs. In the last three months, Canada lost 114,000 jobs.
His very unpopular plan is so ambitious that it will deliver two immigrants for every Canadian birth over the next three years. It will add one migrant for every 20 people, or one migrant for every fourteen native Canadians.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/11/07/banker-mark-carney-doubles-down-adds-2-3-million-more-migrants-to-shocked-canadian-economy/
CanuckiStan, meet UK, France…
we needed the wall built on the northern border as well–because those “migrants” couold be part of the dems strategy to invade from the north.
Much better weather here.
right??? they won’t be staying up north.
Exactly.
I think this is cool! Translation:
A biologist connected the biological activity of a mushroom in a forest to a synthesizer. Signals from the mushroom were heard as music from the instrument.
The mushroom mash!
LOL!!!
Funded by the USG – taxpayers. 
Laughing here.
Where the hell is PITA for plants!
Next libtards will connect a synthesizer to trees.
Trees screaming? Can’t have that! Citizens must live in concrete huts!
OK, the mushroom was signalling along a recognizable musical pathway of:
E flat – F – A flat (starting with the F tone) — in other words, the span of a perfect fourth. The pattern is a configuration of:
F – E flat – F – up to A flat – back down to F – E flat, etc., rising and falling.
There are couple of “hints” of another tone (G) within the perfect fourth range that the mushroom is emanating, but these “hints” aren’t clear.
The “placement” range of the “mushroom perfect fourth” is pitched the octave below Middle C on the piano.
(Yours Truly’s perfect pitch is still kicking.)
Truly worthy listen.
hmmmmm….
Charlotte99
November 8, 2026 8:01 am
World events live updates: US Vice President J.D. Vance blasted for being ‘disloyal’Several MAGA media figures are laying into Donald Trump’s Vice President, J.D. Vance, over his reaction to this week’s election shellacking.
A couple of big pro-MAGA media voices in the United States have accused Vice President J.D. Vance of being “disloyal” for trying to distance himself from pieces of Donald Trump’s record.
Mr Vance published a quite lengthy postmortem on social media this week after Mr Trump’s Republicans were trounced in the midterm elections. He blamed the Iran War, in particular, for his party’s unpopularity.
“J.D. Vance calling out Trump is funny because, it was his memorandum of understanding (with the Iranian regime) that has this war going on an extra three months,” radio host Sid Rosenberg said during a conversation with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly.
“Trump, in his heart, wanted to get this done four months ago. Vance, and those other clowns, are the ones keeping this going.”
“I think there is a bit of opportunism here by J.D. Vance, and he’s starting to signal, ‘Oh yeah, I’m going to run, and I’m not the same guy Trump is, because you guys don’t like Trump anymore,’” said Mr O’Reilly.
“And I don’t like that aspect of politics, and I’d never do it myself.”
“J.D. Vance was a nobody. He wouldn’t even have won that Ohio Senate race without Trump, let alone be the guy he is now. That’s so disloyal,” said Mr Rosenberg.
Mr Vance was a senator representing Ohio before Mr Trump picked him to become Vice President. The Senate seat he vacated fell to the Democrats this week.
In the off chance, Trump put JD up to that X. Was it a loyalty test for MAGA or JD sliding off the rails.
Still find it odd. Trump’s son, Don Jr chimed in quickly with three on target emojis.
Paging TB. DMSO, DW eye issues treated with DMSO IIRC.
From last evening.
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Best news of the day!
Incredible. DMSO delivers a win!
Fantastic story.
NOT surprising. His eye doctor has NEVER asked why he thought his vision improved. He states doctors are dismissive of DMSO…
Edit. It’s a thread.
Quacks are annoying full of themselves. unwilling to listen to new ideas, unless their holier than thou AMA blessed it.
This 75 year old who’d been blind since birth suddenly regained his sight after using DMSO to cure sinusitis.
DMSO has been repeatedly shown to heal eye issues medicine still can’t solve like blindness and macular degeneration along with eliminating floaters and cataracts by it’s unique affinity for concentrating within the eye, restoring both blood flow and drainage, rapidly eliminating inflammation, refolding the degenerative proteins which characterize many eye disorders so they can be eliminated and reviving damaged tissue so it can resume working—even after being dormant for 75 years.
In fact, Murray’s case is not unique, and as I show in the article below, in addition to numerous readers regaining lost sight, many similar ones were documented but then essentially forgotten, as were the myriad of other challenging eye conditions which rapidly disappeared following DMSO use, and still remain “incurable” fifty years later.
That’s truly incredible!!!
This is one of the sources we used to affirm using the DSMO drops. IMO – 100% believable and accurate. We use the midwesterndoc’s recommendations.
Wifey has completely recovered her eyesight from her cornea infection. We use 25% DSMO wtih saline. She is on her own maintenance type plan, usually once per day subject to how her eye feels. I use them once per day, 5 days per week. Sometimes I take a week off as he suggests.
No floaters, no increase in cataract growth for either of us. Eyesight is stable.
Thank you bakocarl 💕
It’s just temporary, gotta remind myself so often.