[Verse 1]
I will tremble at no other name
My heart’s surrendered to no other reign
I will bow at no other throne
Rest my heart at no other home
Let these hands lift no other crown
Let these knees fall on no other ground
Draw these eyes from the gold that won’t shine
You turn this life from water to wine
[Chorus: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
Oh, I tremble (Ooh-ooh)
I tremble, oh (Ooh-ooh)
In your presence (Ooh-ooh)
In your presence (Ooh-ooh)
[Verse 2]
You take my breath with every starry night
Show Your power in downtown city lights
You are higher than the tallest of the hills
And stronger than the walls we try to build
You blind me with the beauty of Your face
And draw me close with Your divine embrace
You speak to me with healing in Your words
And fix the things I didn’t know were hurt
[Chorus: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
Lord, I tremble (Tremble)
I tremble, oh, Lord (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh)
Lord, I tremble (Tremble)
I tremble, oh, Lord (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence, uh (Ooh-ooh)
[Bridge: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
My Lord (My Lord, my Lord, my Lord)
My Lord (My Lord, my Lord, my Lord)
My Lord, (My Lord) my Lord, my Lord
To you alone, to You alone be praise (My Lord)
Who can take the place of? (My Lord)
Oh, what compares to Your Love? (My Lord)
For everything that You’ve done (To You alone)
To You alone be praise (My Lord)
Oh, who can take the place of? (My Lord)
What compares to Your Love? (My Lord)
For everything that You’ve done (To You alone)
To You alone be praise
[Verse 3]
You invented all of time and space
Called the morning and midnight into place
Made the mountains, tamed the wildest seas
And still You set Your holy eyes on me
I will always live in wonder of
The fact that I awaken jealous love
Eternity will almost be enough
Eternity will almost be enough
[Chorus: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
Oh, I tremble (Tremble)
I tremble, oh, Lord (Ah-ah)
In Your presence (Ah-ah)
In Your presence (Ah-ah)
Oh, I tremble (Tremble)
I tremble (Ah-ah)
In Your presence (Ah-ah)
In Your presence, oh, yeah (Ah-ah)
[Breakdown: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
(Tremble) Oh, I will always live in wonder of
(Ah-ah) The fact that I awaken jealous love
(Ah-ah) Eternity will almost be enough
(Ah-ah) Eternity will almost be enough
(Tremble) Oh, I will always live in wonder of
(Ah-ah) The fact that I awaken jealous love
(Ah-ah) Eternity will almost be enough
(Ah-ah) Eternity will almost be enough
[Chorus: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
Lord, I tremble (Ooh-ooh)
I tremble, Lord (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh, Lord)
Oh, I tremble
I tremble, oh, Lord
In Your presence
In Your presence
“Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things and to turn thyself to things invisible”
I just decided to add or insert this music here for it’s tone which to me is about caring enough to say you’re sorry and meaning it! Forgive and Forget!
I posted this in June about a week before this huge announcement rippled with lightning speed around the planet!
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark Roe V. Wade
“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness—helping a friend, ministering to a spouse, caring for an ill child, etc. Jesus extends selflessness far beyond normal expectations—we are to love our enemies, even, and pray for our persecutors (Matthew 5:44). Jesus taught that it’s easy to love a friend or a spouse—even unbelievers do that (Matthew 5:47). The Christian is expected to love the unlovable, because this is how we become more like God, who gives blessings to everyone (Matthew 5:45). It’s a difficult thing to lay aside hurt feelings and wounded hearts, but that’s part of being selfless.”
“The characteristic of being selfless is one of the most important traits any Christian can have. It’s so significant that Jesus said it is the second most important of all God’s commandments: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31; cf. Galatians 5:14). Jesus wasn’t creating a new law here; He was merely agreeing with and expounding on an Old Testament law (Leviticus 19:18). James calls this the “royal” law to emphasize its supreme value to God (James 2:8).”
“Do you want to be a saint? Then place your faith in Jesus. Believe that he is making you into a saint. Drink deeply of his grace, and take possession of your inheritance. Take hold of Paul’s prayer that “your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ.” By God’s grace, you can manifest his love to the world as one of the Lord’s saints. You can shine as one of God’s holy ones.
“Father, thank you for giving me a share in the fellowship of your saints. By your Spirit, empower me to embrace Jesus and his life in me. Empower me to be a saint.” catholicexchange
So if you do get around to reading this rather long essay; know that I do say there is obviously hope for humanity far above the tone I projected in this previous writing, but that due diligence is required and there can’t be any resting on our laurels! So let’s keep praying and doing our best daily! Just yesterday I sent this out with a rather long comment to another bloggers posting and I happened to have mentioned this title and content to a very special woman I met yesterday during our conversation! Time to repeat it!
I found that a Christian brother’s posting today to be exactly on the same track that I’ve been on while doing some writing also, which to me proves that we are on the same wavelength or frequency; which is to say we are listening to the Holy Spirit! Here is one sample of a quote I used contained in my extensive dissertations today which is exactly to the heart of what he was writing about selflessness and what people value most in these perilous times!
“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness.”
As Saint Gianna states the respect of human life is the paramount factor that can’t be denied, but, as I see it mankind has virtually ignored this God given Truth and not only turned its collective back on one another and basic moral decency too extensively, but has by doing so, turned its back on “God our Father” in heaven, to instead go on and live like decadent heathens and materialistic selfish gluttons, as so many “live to take and only for their own pleasure;” which we can see in plain site by just looking again at that hellish nightmare of a Congress, which now in unison with an equally diabolically corrupted Vatican have signed, sealed and delivered their pact with the Devil.
St. Gianna Molla is so beautiful and I adore that woman! This article starts off with a horrific and sad historical event about the demonic possession of Anneliese Michel; of the movie title “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” upon whom the film is actually based.
There are saintly persons living and devoting their entire lives to serving God’s will in the fostering or the many needs of the Church Body! If you or I really look around and see what is truly going on there are very few real saintly persons living that way and I see most Christians if they are really that as servants of God seeking to know and do His will in their daily lives! There have been many actual real saints living such lives but when they die their work doesn’t necessarily end in helping God’s plan to bring the Church Body together and save souls! Do you know you have a guardian angel and angels are in the ready always to serve God in the unseen world and at times in the seen world where we dwell? Same with saints who have been elevated to that special place God prepared for each of them as Jesus promised He does for any of us if we believe in Him as our Savior but those saints are still very special and God didn’t invent such a thing as saints to just be a passing purpose that ends with physical death of the body. Again, we have potential to be saints, but let’s be real; the majority of human beings are far from any such classification.
“However, when Paul used the word “saint,” he used it with a small “s” not a capital “S.” and thus meant all Christians-even us today!
In one sense, everyone who is baptized into Jesus’ death and resurrection is a saint. This is not to diminish the special role of the canonized saints but to highlight the immense gift that is all of ours in Christ. Because of the power of the cross, each Christian has the same inheritance in heaven as the great saints whose lives we commemorated in a special way on All Saints Day.”
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That isn’t who or what I wish to emulate or try to model my own life after, “just another Christian,” who is given this label, no God forbid I could be another Biden sort of fake Christian devil; but instead I pray to be a “genuine saint in the fullest terms possible,” is more of what being a saint is about as far as I’m concerned! With this other soft and loose definition, a Joe Biden is a saint or any number of claimed Christians, but, I see sainthood as a “great sacrifice of material life and pleasures” and one who is only interested in being “a footstool to God and His will.” Mother Teresa of Calcutta carried out that type of saintly duty; but the crybabies I see all around and who pose in photos thinking they have something to offer in service to sainthood or even a true servant, is rubbish. Today few people have what it takes, nor the desire to sacrifice to any great degree like that, and are fully too wrapped up in gaining fame, fortune or praise of one kind or another, self-worship, and you know that for a fact I’m sure, if you are a general internet surfing person seeing what it’s all about! Unless you’re deluded or ignoring Truth!
Martin Luther did a lot of damage and Protestantism is still helping that degenerating cause as its even part of the Catholic Church now since the Second Vatican Council manipulation which led to a heretic now Francis who is really doing evil. Freemasonry, Marxism, Satanism and all manner of blasphemies have infiltrated most to all churches now with evil people within the inner workings of these Christian organizations.
I read a comment that spoke about where Christian households are “undefiled by paganism” when at least one parent is a Christian then they are saints for God; but what I’m driving at is that the majority of the human race today because of “rampant materialism and self-worship within this culture of death” are “defiled and pagan” in this “secular world by default,” and there is much less to no excuse for it today than in the past prior to the industrial revolution, because the mentality is there and educational opportunity is light years ahead of where it was for the common folks of long ago! What I’m saying is most people today take way too much for granted, and are very vile when you look into the tradeoffs they make daily and in their overall lives, because “gain and getting things or somewhere in this world” the “Ways of The World” is far outweighing “any great merit or inner virtue” that they exemplify continually through painstaking dedication and “sacrifice of self to God” and the service He compels them to do while in this world! I worked in Mass Media News and jumped off that crazy ride when I saw the “plastic lying phonies” who were only looking for “self-promotion and bigger dollars” not truth or humanities improvement, just like most movie stars and the like, so now this is many years later and look what these current trolls are doing with our system of government and a once great Nation under God; “making it a dirty rotten lie and evil,” and they don’t care or bat and eyelash over it; so I know from whence I speak! “Saints are hardly around in this toxic poison soup everyone is being conditioned and told to eat up!” I just see the failure and desperation of it all more than many and most average folks or other people in this toxic man-made hell, which nearly killed me with intent. I don’t quietly accept dictates from hell. Believe me when I tell you I’ve been around the track more than several times and all around that track I’ve seen far too much horse shit and it’s not getting better its getting “exponentially worse,” so some of you folks out there can try to prove how saints are on the increase in this environment, and I’ll “eat some” for breakfast!
The world is right now on the precipice and on its way to hell in a hand-basket and far too many people maybe even you or some that you know personally, think it’s not so bad, and hey it will work out somehow; “that is conditioning” and “lowering standards until there are none,” and America is almost as far down that slide into the cesspool as it can get! No it won’t get better but it will be far worse than now in the not too distant future! Evil experiments are taking place right now on human beings to create other species by the most sinister derelict non-human persons that have ever lived, the truly diabolic, and that is in Holy Scriptures; this has all been prophesied, so that is why I say people let’s get freaking real here, and stop the jive turkey limp noodle nonsense of playing games and kidding ourselves! Apparently some fools are backpedaling like there is no tomorrow with their antichrist anti-life agenda!
Abortion since 1973 worldwide has produced 1.5 billion destroyed unborn human babies, and I know it’s from conception that a human soul and body are created; this is so serious and God is going to judge it hard; and look how evil is fighting to keep it all going, that action alone speaks volumes as to who is behind all of this mayhem and evil, it’s clear as day to me! And in the US it’s now 63 Million alone that have been destroyed, and look at the animals ready to kill judges and screaming like filthy demons in public or walking into houses of Christian worship stripping naked while saying “it’s my right to kill it!” We all need to look at reality hard and not through any “rose colored glasses feel good Christian jive,” in order to see it right; as far as I’m concerned! Like I say, People Get Real!
So many people on this net are so self-glorified and deluded it’s numbing to my mind to hear and see it, so I tune them out now, block many of these game playing imbeciles and they are adults?! Follows mean jack to me, and so many think the opposite, so you tell me where these multitudes of saints are that some Christians seem to characterize most if not all professed Christians as being! Do you think for one minute the majority of these people you contact even on this silly internet are saintly? If so why? Are they saving souls or stopping any of this evil running rampant throughout? Do you even really know any of them personally and well enough to know what they are truly all about? I know people in person that I’ve known for decades that I’ve become aware of as people that I don’t really know for sure what they are anymore; because they say or do nothing to stop anything that’s wrong in our society, so they are content to follow sin?! The blind leading the blind!
“Do you want to be a saint? Then place your faith in Jesus. Believe that he is making you into a saint. Drink deeply of his grace, and take possession of your inheritance. Take hold of Paul’s prayer that “your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ.” By God’s grace, you can manifest his love to the world as one of the Lord’s saints. You can shine as one of God’s holy ones.
“Father, thank you for giving me a share in the fellowship of your saints. By your Spirit, empower me to embrace Jesus and his life in me. Empower me to be a saint.” catholicexchange
Check this out because this is explaining this absolute essential crux of the matter I’m talking about which I see is far less in people in this modern age than in past ages; it’s becoming extinct!
“The characteristic of being selfless is one of the most important traits any Christian can have. It’s so significant that Jesus said it is the second most important of all God’s commandments: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31; cf. Galatians 5:14). Jesus wasn’t creating a new law here; He was merely agreeing with and expounding on an Old Testament law (Leviticus 19:18). James calls this the “royal” law to emphasize its supreme value to God (James 2:8).”
“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness—helping a friend, ministering to a spouse, caring for an ill child, etc. Jesus extends selflessness far beyond normal expectations—we are to love our enemies, even, and pray for our persecutors (Matthew 5:44). Jesus taught that it’s easy to love a friend or a spouse—even unbelievers do that (Matthew 5:47). The Christian is expected to love the unlovable, because this is how we become more like God, who gives blessings to everyone (Matthew 5:45). It’s a difficult thing to lay aside hurt feelings and wounded hearts, but that’s part of being selfless.”
“As in so many areas, Jesus is the ultimate example of selflessness. In coming into this world, “he made himself nothing” and took upon Himself “the very nature of a servant” (Philippians 2:7). Now, as followers of Christ, we are to “have the same mindset” (Philippians 2:5). Jesus came not for His own benefit but for ours. He came to minister to us and die for us: “Even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
“Humanly speaking, Jesus gave up His will for God’s will (Luke 22:42)—and this is another salient point: selflessness involves more than putting other people first; it is putting God first. As John the Baptist said concerning Jesus, “He must become greater; I must become less” (John 3:30). More of the Lord; less of us.” gotquestions
I’ll leave with this; “Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things and to turn thyself to things invisible.” My Imitation of Christ.
“But he who would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ must study to make his whole life conformable to that of Christ. What doth it avail thee to discourse profoundly of the Trinity if thou be void of humility, and consequently, displeasing to the Trinity? In truth sublime words not make a man holy and just: but a virtuous life maketh him dear to God.”
“Vanity of vanities and all is vanity.” Eccles 1. 2. “Except to love God and serve Him alone. This is the highest wisdom, by despising the world to tend to heavenly kingdoms.”
The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi), first published in 1418 by the German-Dutch monk and scribe, Thomas Hemerken of Kempen, better known as Thomas à Kempis (1380 – 25 July 1471).
“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.” ― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
This is what being a human being that works at being saintly is really like not this poppycock nonsense people try promoting all over the place!
Some say they know and are following “God’s standards,” but I see this is exceedingly far beyond any such thing, and is clearly in the territory of transgression, an abomination; total blasphemy! People should be shamed strenuously! I just recalled my dear sweet good grandmother decades ago saying to me “people today, many have no shame!” I say a lack of conscience or even love.
Matthew 7:22-23 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!”
I was told by a fellow Christian how this world needs so badly to be purified now, and I added it needs to be FLUSHED; as in even more now than in Noah’s time!
And you brought out the crux about “what people put value in now” and anyone with a brain that functions can get a clue by just looking around anywhere; but more importantly if they have a genuine heart with love in it for God in and through the sacred heart of Jesus they can realize God’s Truth easily! Here is what I was thinking today!
I meant to emphasize this, “discern what is of value” in that passage, because I see it as “the crux of the problem” with most people in this “Culture of Death” world where people scream bloody murder to say, “leave our bodies alone we can kill a baby in us because it’s only a fetus,” and yet where is the responsibility in that, are they saying we can do what we damn well please, have out of wedlock sex all we want and get knocked up by the millions, because we didn’t even have the responsibly to use a birth control; but best to abstain, in other words, shut up I’ll do what I want, and Lucifer said the same way back in the time of his getting booted out of God’s kingdom; blatant rebelliousness and transgression!
So we can see clearly people have so “many things they consider of the greatest value and importance, and all of them are not the right thing!”
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit”
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” Edmund Burke
Check out this previous posting and at the end the video presentation that talked about Taylor Swift’s portrayal of Lucifer. Society has really turned its back on God Big Time!
And this where an appointed not elected New York governor a cohort of Satan; blasphemes God doing her best to support evil! From her own mouth and tongue! The video is quite clear!
“Total humility is the beginning of acceptance and understanding”
First this life and my thoughts now aren’t about believing in Santa Claus or not!
A year passed and have things changed; not really the same game but worse!
Let me ask you; do you really prefer to think that not being born would be better for you and your children? Because I can absolutely guarantee you that is exactly what the Devil wants you to believe, that master of all lies wants any of us to think we are defeated before we start. Start what you might say with; how about the greatest and most magnificent journey that the brightest of minds couldn’t imagine in a million years! A way for everything to add up and come out perfect! Who else can sort all of this out, but the author of existence, certainly we mere inklings of a shadowy concoction of energy, matter and substance don’t have a fart in the winds chance of coming up with The Solution to all that has, is and will be happening on this planet our home we call earth.
You see I’ve learned that God absolutely exists and God’s purposes and Plans are all that matter not we free willed sometimes foolish, silly or arrogant creations of; His.“Total humility is the beginning of acceptance and understanding” that we are here for a God given reason not our imperfect sometimes self-righteous thinking or vision of what this has to be about living among the dead as we do; for I say to you this isn’t really living not with a price on all of our heads that says nobody gets out alive! We are looking with eyes half shut or in many cases wide shut in which case even though we think they are open they see nothing, not the Truth of God; never really seeing the length and depth of all that is really going on, and is always beyond our grasp; yet it’s as plain and simple as the morning turns to night and after the night a new dawn comes. No degree in rocket science required, only a genuine humble heart on bent knee which will open not only your heart to God but will open up the ultimate world of possibility and endless love! Something must bridge that enormous GAP for us, and that can only be the One who set this all in motion to begin with! Being BORN into this at times so chaotic and even rotten world is I assure you a Blessing, and no matter who it is or what they have or don’t have, being able to exist is our one sure ticket to the Ultimate Destination. Which is to be with God the One who made this all possible and is always waiting first for our recognition of Him to acknowledge we know we are helpless babes in the woods and need Him above all there is in this existence! That He must be our primary focus and then to learn with His unrelenting undivided help and attention; to Trust in Him! If we are making this connection as individuals that I’m speaking about to you placing Him front and center in our lives, then that will ensure us of our lives being worth something and a whole lot more than we can ever come up with or concoct on our own for being here in the first place!
Life is the most beautiful incomparable gift and blessing of absolute LOVE! We are suffering here and some so much more than others;many through NO fault of their own but the world is riddled with sin and evils that effect even the most innocent among us! What’s fair and fun about that you might ask, and I say not much, that at times to me really sucks, that so much pain and suffering is going on and so many dreams and hopes getting dashed or crushed under the enormous weight and burden of sin, imperfection, stupidity, hate and the list goes on as you are well aware I’m sure! But for this to all get sorted out and for any of us to make heads or tails of it all, is a fool’s errand, unless we have God on our side, you hear that; God on our side. He actually is, that is why this whole damned world didn’t get wiped away like so much chaff in the wind long ago, to our concept of time; but really a flickering flame to God which He hasn’t extinguished yet! We are absolutely at His Mercy and He wants us with Him in His Glory! How do we get that you might wonder here; we start by wanting Him so badly that it becomes our life force and breath our very REASON for LIVING, so we can be a part of His heavenly eternal Glorious and totally wonderful kingdom! I see it clear my friend, we are so lucky to be here and each of us will be nothing but dust, these bodies in the end, with our souls damned to oblivion or complete separation from God’s glory, his eternal kingdom; not even being a memory without God setting the record straight and bringing absolute Justice to all things in His good time when it is appropriate for any of us!
Now that was coming from my own heart that God has opened and restored countless times because due to my own errors and shortcomings, He knows I belong to Him though I don’t deserve to in a sense, yet I do; because I decided with my Own Heart that I want to and must if I’m to be worth anything after it’s all said and done and this carcass I occupy is eventually in the dirt where it belongs, “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak;” but my soul belongs to Him my Maker, who Gives, who gives all things; to those who love Him back! But how much grander is what comes for us if we stay strong in our faith no matter what, and “keep Jesus Christ front and center in our hearts and minds!”
The star-forming region NGC 3603 – seen here in the latest Hubble Space Telescope image – contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around a million years ago. The hot blue stars at the core are responsible for carving out a huge cavity in the gas seen to the right of the star cluster in NGC 3603’s centre.
1 Corinthians 2:9
9 But as Scripture says:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
and no mind has imagined
the things that God has prepared
for those who love him.”
Love must be a two way street and we can never give a fraction of what God is giving or ultimately offering!
Saint Dismas a scoundrel of a man and bad dude before he met Jesus Christ who was nailed to the cross next to his, he Dismas to the right side of Jesus saw all that transpired that day his final day, when his heart opened up like never before watching this man who said He is the Son of the Father in the heavenly Kingdom saying things like, “Forgive them Father for they know not what they do!”Dismas was so rapt in awe he asked this dying man the Savior to “just remember me when you join your Father in Your kingdom.” He as then in that moment being honest and humble having admitted he deserved every bit of what he was getting being tied to a cross and crucified for all of his crimes against men, as well wasting his life being a scoundrel, but, then surely as Dismas correctly said to Jesus, in essence his meaning being; you deserve none of what they have done to you, you have to be who you say you are, just by how you are forgiving these same people doing this to you, you have shown not even one complaint or modicum of anger or hatred, you are praying for them instead!
“One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
—Luke 23:39–43 (NIV)
And so Dismas then asking Jesus in all humility and heart felt compassion not thinking in the slightest that he deserved even this opportunity to ask, the Messiah; “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise” (verses 42-43).
“As Jesus was hanging on the cross, paying our penalty for sin, He made a promise to a dying, repentant thief. By the grace of God and the power of Christ, that promise was kept. The thief’s sins were washed away, and his death that day was his entrance to paradise.” gotquestions.org/today-paradise.html
What does “if God is for us, who can be against us” mean in Romans 8:31?
Romans 8:31 says, “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” The “things” are the dozens of amazing proofs of God’s unfailing love listed in the preceding verses. Romans 8 contains many of the cherished verses that comfort us, such as “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (verse 1). And the one that gets us through difficult times: “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (verse 28). Verse 31 of Romans 8 is a culmination of all those wonderful promises. It reminds us who God is and how He helps us. When we grasp the truth that God is for us, we have nothing to fear.
God is “for” us in the sense that He is on our side; He is working on our behalf and for our good. He has proved His benevolence in that He has adopted us (Romans 8:15), He has given us His Spirit (verses 16–17, 26–27), and He has determined to save us (verses 29–30).
The follow-up question, “who can be against us?” is rhetorical. It’s another way of saying, “There is no one who could possibly be more powerful than God”or “No one can destroy us.” The idea is not that we will never face opposition; it’s simply that our opposition is doomed to failure. They may be against us, but not successfully against us. Since God is on our side, we have nothing to worry about.
Romans 8:31 is an echo of other passages that say the something similar:
• Psalm 118:6 says, “The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”
• 2 Kings 6:16: “‘Don’t be afraid,’ the prophet [Elisha] answered. ‘Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.’”
• Psalm 56:9: “My enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me.”
• Hebrews 13:6: “So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?’”
• Psalm 27:1: “The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”
Sometimes our hearts respond to verses like this with consternation: “I’ll tell you who can be against me! The IRS, my in-laws, terrorists, corrupt politicians—” and the list goes on. Our real-life enemies seem to overshadow the ideas conveyed in Romans 8. Despite spiritual promises, we still have to endure physical, mental, and emotional struggles—so much so that we may wonder if God is truly for us.
The man who penned Romans 8:31 (Paul) faced the same struggles we face and many more. He lists some of his sufferings in 2 Corinthians 11:22–28 as proof that he did not write from a plastic bubble of ethereal peace. However, his intimate relationship with the risen Christ had become his all-consuming passion. He said he considered everything else “garbage” compared to knowing Christ (Philippians 3:7–9). He had learned the secret of contentment, whether he was celebrated or imprisoned, and he stated that secret: “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:13, BSB).
So when Paul writes, “If God is for us, who can be against us,” he is comparing earthly opposition to the eternal power and presence of Almighty God—and he declares the winner. No one can overcome God’s love for us.
Jesus taught the same thing. In Luke 12:4–5, Jesus said, “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.” His point, as was Paul’s, is that, no matter what may happen to us here on earth, there is a higher reality. There is a bigger war than the one we think we face, and God is the ultimate winner (Ephesians 6:12). If we are on His side, then we will win, too. (Revelation 21:7–8, 27).” gotquestions.org/if-God-is-for-us-who-can-be-against-us
I Lawrence say with absolute confidence God is with us right now and never leaves our sides but we do have crosses to carry while here which is absolutely worth it! He Jesus Christ overcame all of this conflict and suffering and did it out of “Pure Absolute Love” and I tell you as I look around this world, me an imperfect nobody, I see so much I wouldn’t want to be any part of, yet I’m so happy to be dealing with the blood, sweat and tears of it all; because I have a shot through Jesus Christ of making sure that my life a gift from God was and is all worth it because He overcame all obstacles to Paradise; our path is to follow Him our Lord Savior and Redeemer. Amen.
I knowing through and by my own heart with Him Jesus Christ that we are going to make it there to the Promised Land, Hallelujah!
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November 20, 2021
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò appealed to Catholics, Christians, and people of Faith to unite against the dark forces of globalism.
Archbishop Viganò sent The Gateway Pundit his video and Appeal for an Anti-Globalist Alliance.
Please watch his moving call for unity, courage, strength, and faith.
Archbishop Viganò shared this moving text and video with us on Wednesday. The video and text are an international call for the creation of an anti-globalist alliance to defeat the evil elites who wish to enslave free men and women and promote a “Religion of Humanity that cancels Faith in Christ.”
From Archbishop Viganò:
“This Anti-Globalist Alliance will have to bring together the Nations that intend to escape the infernal yoke of tyranny and affirm their own sovereignty, forming agreements of mutual collaboration with Nations and peoples who share their principles and the common yearning for freedom, justice, and goodness. It will have to denounce the crimes of the elite, identify those responsible, denounce them to international tribunals, and limit their excessive power and harmful influence. It will have to prevent the action of the lobbies, above all by fighting against the corruption of state officials and those who work in the information industry, and by freezing the capital used to destabilize the social order.”
The whole pandemic issue is instrumental to the Great Reset, and it is the latter that we must fight. I think that, at this moment, it is most appropriate to create a movement of the people that calls together, in an Anti-globalist Alliance, Catholics, Christians, and people of goodwill. This is the first appeal I make to that effect.
…If the attack is global. The defense must also be global.
Here is a text of Archbishop Viganò’s message (see video of the same message below)
But for many decades all of this was unfolding and being carefully planned by the most nefarious diabolical humans on earth directed by “Satan himself pushing the agenda of the Mark of the Beast and Global Control” for the Antichrist to take his throne as god and totally crushing any worship of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior; so that Satan rules mankind and forces all to worship him via the Antichrist!
I saw this graphically occurring on September 11, 2001when just having a late breakfast I turned on the TV to see the weather report and instead saw the Twin Trade Towers in NYC being destroyed in real time from start to finish! Being so shocked and in tears I ran out to my immediate neighbor’s home that was a retired couple to see how they were if they were acting seeing this horrible thing happening on their television too which they were and had me sit with them as we all were shocked to tear together! The gentleman and his wife both had served in the US Army in World War II and I felt so bad that they were witnessing this evil in our own Nation under God!
Mind you; these two videos when I just watched them again make me tear up immediately again to see such evil is so rampant in our world and getting far worse now all these years later with the conducting of mass depopulation, Crimes Against Humanity and other horrors upon the peoples of tis world! These two videos I was able to find are new to me and I only saw them for the first time yesterday when I prayed to God through Jesus Christ to help me say something worthwhile to people out there especially now that I was going to post my one thousandth essay/article on Word Press! I hope that it’s exactly what I felt God’s Holy Spirit telling me; that my feelings and effort are serving some purpose for Him doing His will; and that is all I care about!
But the really profound thing about all of this is what I had looked at just prior to Archbishop Viganò’s message and then stumbling as it seemed upon these videos instantaneously after when I had just seen another blog essay prior to all of this unfolding, which to me struck me clearly as what the false teachers or prophets peddle all over the place now; the false prophets and liars of our age that do not know God Almighty or seek him as they are the blind leading the blind with false religions, paganism or this New Age nonsense of all religions can unite as one, or just love and that is the answer to anything; even our fallibility and coming death!
Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you cannot foresee the outcome. ~Deepak Chopra
In other words more lies that are telling people to ignore Jesus Christ and what He said; and more importantly who He said and proved He is! The Living God Almighty our Creator and none come to the Father but through Him Jesus Christ! They remind of me of John Lennon’s false religion song “Imagine” which is all about a false belief system and basically communism and a rejection of Jesus Christ being who He told us or the world He is! That song is just what the false prophet non pope Bergoglio is chanting and projecting to the world from his Marxist ideology and Satanism Freemason beliefs!
Do you think that this Diabolical Evil from hell was or is going to be stifled or not continue to escalate the Final War upon Humanity?
I recall thinking how this event of 911 was a line in the sands of time and prophecy a specific demarcation point in the battle for justice which had been crossed by Satan in this ensuing Battle between Heaven and Hell that began with the great fall; now passing through an hour glass to the end of this world as we know it. As if all-time is passing through this figurative hour glass!
I couldn’t see how this wasn’t the beginning of the most horrific evils being unleashed from hell, with our high tech modern age going in the direction it is; with AI taking a grip on humanity while many power mongers gloating with earthly power want all they can grab and only seeing an opportunity to cease all earthly power now as they are driven and possessed by Satan!
This by Archbishop Viganò is the opposite of what this other blogger was spewing to lost fools dragging them to Hell.
Abp. Viganò calls people of faith to unite worldwide to join the anti-globalist alliance to free humanity from this totalitarian regime! I hope you all get it now if you haven’t up to this point; because your immortal soul is at stake!
“The Vatican, along with the draconian infiltration of the trained militants of the Jesuit Order, bring their combined objectives to infiltrate all world governments and cultures with the ultimate goal of achieving global satanism. This includes the implementation of Armageddon software and instigating wars and conflicts in partnership with the NAA. The Jesuits are behind the key soft kill methods being used in the attempt to accelerate the death rate for global depopulation and eugenic models through deploying and weaponizing multiple toxic exposures: GMOs, vaccine injections, chemtrails, radiation, nuclear and toxic waste ‘accidents’ and the transhumanist agenda. Their sinister plan is to destroy sovereign nations and cultural identity in so to lay the groundwork for the one world religion, which is based upon the open acceptance of practicing Satanism by the ruling elite satanic families. The cornerstone of these depraved practices includes child sexual abuse, child sexual ritual, human blood sacrifice, blood drinking and cannibalism. Packaged as a religion that is desired and promoted by non-human alien entities, assorted lunar forces and demonic spirits, these most vile planetary controllers carry out abhorrent anti-human agendas. Covered in opulent robes, they publicly profess to be devout men of God praying for world peace, while behind closed doors, the top echelon is negotiating to incite terrorism, war and run child trafficking rings to every corner of the globe. Pedophilia is a prime tool used by the NAA to conquer various races, planets and solar systems. This is why it’s prevalent in the organizations they control, such as the Vatican, the Catholic Church and Washington, DC.”
These elaborate satanic rituals are meticulously well organized to directly communicate and interact with the anti-Christ forces, mainly nonhuman entities. Through black magic sorcery, human sacrifice and blood harvesting, they receive detailed instructions from the off planet anti-Christ forces, to carry out the next moves for their One World Order agenda. These black magic rituals, with child sacrifices, go back to the NAA invasion and the introduction of the Kabbalah teachings, when the Artificial Tree of Life and demonic hierarchies were presented in Babylon by the Saturnian blood worshippers. This spiritual template is still being used by Satanists and Luciferians worldwide, it is their religion. Some believe they are the descendants of superior alien Gods and through the practice of blood ritual sacrifices, it gives them the means by which to contact demonic entities and their spiritual master, Satan or Lucifer, and carry out his wishes. Satanists and Luciferians are masterful deceivers who cloak themselves in many assorted names and labels, which go way beyond the Church of Rome, choosing their disguise to hide behind many different religions, atheism or secret societies. This makes them appear to be separate groups, but they are actually running the world under the same unifying umbrella of hidden satanic practices.
Packaged as a religion that is desired and promoted by non-human alien entities, assorted lunar forces and demonic spirits, these most vile planetary controllers carry out abhorrent anti-human agendas. Covered in opulent robes, they publicly profess to be devout men of God praying for world peace, while behind closed doors, the top echelon is negotiating to incite terrorism, war and run child trafficking rings to every corner of the globe.
According to the Apostle Paul, spirits of wickedness thrown down from the third heaven are dispersed in a multitude throughout the first heaven. It is with this abode of fallen angels and demons that Indian god-men (2), shaman, and contemporary New Age mediums interact and to which astral plane travelers from the time of Nimrod to our own have been visiting:
“Western observers began participating in shamanistic sessions involving hallucinogenic plants, (and) found, to their astonishment, that they could have experiences similar to those described by shamans.” ‘Life’ magazine popularized shamanism in a 1957 story, “In Mexico, American banker Gordon Wasson ate psilocybin mushrooms in a session conducted by (a) shaman.” Wasson described to ‘Life’s’ readers his experience of “flying out of his body.” Narby and Huxley report that “hundreds of thousands of people read Wasson’s account, and many followed his example.” (Modern Shamanism: Spirit Contact & Spiritual Progress, James Herrick, p. 17, from “On Global Wizardry, edited by Peter Jones)
When the soul comes out of its’ body upon its death, it is immediately within the realm of evil spirits. According to early Church Fathers, if the soul is that of a faithful believer it will be met by one of Gods’ Holy Angels and escorted to the third heaven. If not, it will meet with deceiving, malignant spirits.
Shamanists and practicing occultists such as Carl Jung know that all about us and even here on earth there exist powerful, intelligent, evil beings that move so fast we cannot see them, who emit rays outside the spectrum of our vision and communicate among themselves on a wavelength beyond what man can hear and apprehend, thus they can observe us, inflate our most disordered, evil passions, overcome our wills, and influence our dreams and thoughts for good or bad. They can also, by way of telepathy or automatic writing, transmit through someone like Nietzsche or Carl Jung teachings from the demonic realm.
According to the highly celebrated Jung, Philemon, a winged, horned demon, supervised and inspired the writing of the “Seven Sermons to the Dead.” Jung described the occasion like this:
“The whole house was…crammed full of spirits. They were packed deep right up to the door, and the air was so thick I could hardly breathe…Then it began to flow out of me, and in the course of three evenings the thing (Septem Sermones ad Mortuos) was written.” (Jung relates how his soul departed into the timeless realm)…the mystical land of the dead (and) soon after the….’dead’ appeared to me and the result was the Septem Sermones.” (To Hell and Back, Maurice S. Rawlings, M.D., p.143)
Spirits can, and do, influence the minds of God-hating evolutionary humanists who then trumpet the demonic ‘isms’ dropped into their minds as their own brilliant ideas and do the work of devils by leading astray millions of people with their damnable soul-destroying teachings.
The whole evil goal of the evil Multicutural-Diversity Movement is to make man more Worldly, and less Spiritual. To falsify, embellish and over-emphasize the Material World over Eternity. To amplify all worldly passions and portray them as “good” and “natural” and “scientific”, and their acceptance by man as “Progress”. To have the Darkness overcome the Light.
Again, the goal of Jesus is Division. And again, Satan Unites.
Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it. He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. Matt 10:32-42
These are the quoted words of Jesus Christ, the Lord thy God. We either take Him at His Word, or we do not. That is the eternal dividing point.
We see today the outraged and enraged Leftist Loony-Tunes acting out with screaming obscenities and even violence, rehearsed and orchestrated by the Marxocrat Party, Funded by the likes of George Soros, organized by Alinskyians and continuously incited by the overheated rhetoric of the likes of Maxine Waters.
Over what?
Over the mere possibility of the Darkness being overcome by the Light.
Over the slightest possibility of the shutting down of the evil, Satanic, Marxocrat Party’s Central Sacrament of Abortion.
And, of course, over perhaps Satan’s greatest achievement, the cultural acceptance, blessing and legal protection of the “Lifestyles” of Sodom and Gomorrah. And the establishment in law of LGBT “Rights”.
Culturally Marxist and therefore “Progressive” Upper Academia today incorporates anti-American and anti-civilization Marxism and Homosexuality into all formative education, from elementary school all the way through the most advanced university degree programs. Whatever else is taught, pro-Marxism, anti-Capitalism and unnatural sex are also taught in the background. Along with the instilling of hostility toward America and American history, the American Constitution, white people, men, Christianity, Christians, the bourgeois independent working class, corporations, and all those among the most successful rich people who are not Marxist or otherwise anti-American.
Globalist Pope Francis’ Marxist Program to End All Sovereign Nations.
Our Globalist Pope leads the attack on all National Sovereignty to bring an end to all national borders in favor of Total Global Disorder, ostensibly for the good of the Planet and the Poor.
We have spoken of Pope Francis’ obvious Marxism among the Papal Imperfections Pages, among other places. His unfailing support of Marxism’s total global agenda leads to one possible conclusion, that he may actually be a Radical Marxist Revolutionary in deep disguise. Or, of course, he could be stupid; a mere Marxist Useful Idiot. Or something somewhere in between, like a Progressive. Whatever he is, he opposes national sovereignty and the right of nations to have borders and rules of entry. And, whether he believes it or not, he fervently supports the Marxist-Globalist-driven Climate Change hoax aimed at all nations subordinating themselves to Global Governance, for the good of the planet.
(And for the good of Globalism.)
Without naming names, specifically without naming President Trump, Pope Francis has embarked on a program directly opposing anti-illegal immigration “Right Wing Populism” in all sovereign nations with borders. He wants all nations to allow floods of un-vetted, undocumented, aliens to enter their borders without restriction.
No need to apply for immigration papers at any embassy, no need for any immigration papers, no need to do anything the law requires in any nation, or even to enter through the appropriate entry points. Just flood right on in, from any point on any border. And bring your Marxism and/or your Islamism with you, right on into your new host country.
Lots of Cardinals, Bishops and Priests have jumped on Francis’ Globalist bandwagon and are welcoming criminal aliens with open arms, all over America. Publishing foreign language lists of “rights” for them to learn and take advantage of, as if they were citizens with citizen’s rights, and not criminal aliens at all.
We can understand, if not forgive, Pope Francis’s Marxism since he was born and raised under Socialism. But for American clerics to be pushing all this treason against America and promoting condemned Marxism over Catholicism is shocking. How did they learn to hate America so? How did they come to support worldly Globalist-Communist Utopian ideals over Catholicism?
The question applies to them as well as to the Pope:
Are they stupid, or are they evil?
Who am I to judge?
Barnhardt video on Lindsey Graham the jackass!
Barnhardt on dying America and Christianity.
Towers hit
An energy beam can be heard not a cruising jet airliner as the second tower is hit!? (Millions of Watts of Microwave Energy?)
God bless you!
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
Couple of great truthful comments to keep in mind!
Lachesis Atropos
Nov 19
Look at all the Roman Catholic Church bashing on this site. No surprise, you are no different than the liberals who attacked the Roman Catholic Church since the 1950s. You are in great company.
Finally. Many so called “born again Christians” continually attack Roman Catholics. This has been going on since at least the 1930s and is no different than liberals who attack conservatives. In fact, it was the leftist who mercilessly attacked the Roman Catholic Church since at least the 1950s. The Roman Catholic Church is not a building or structure. Many do not recognize the heretic Francis or the current Novus Ordo Mass/Vatican II mass created in the early 1960s to destroy the Church and it succeeded. The tradition Latin Mass and those who refute the Vatican II mass are few, and demonized by the Vatican. Many do not realize that those who helped create Vatican II were not Roman Catholic, but leadership of various Protestant religions.
Savvy Chipmunk
Nov 19
This is inspired by the Holy Spirit. I thank God, as a Protestant type Christian, that this man loves the Lord and loves truth. What an amazing succinct summary of the issues, no words wasted, this is calm but passionate fire. Thank you Father, bless his life and may he complete all your work you have for him to do. In Jesus’ name I pray.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò appealed to Catholics, Christians, and people of Faith to unite against the dark forces of globalism.
Archbishop Viganò sent The Gateway Pundit his video and Appeal for an Anti-Globalist Alliance.
Please watch his moving call for unity, courage, strength, and faith.
Archbishop Viganò shared this moving text and video with us on Wednesday. The video and text are an international call for the creation of an anti-globalist alliance to defeat the evil elites who wish to enslave free men and women and promote a “Religion of Humanity that cancels Faith in Christ.”
From Archbishop Viganò:
“This Anti-Globalist Alliance will have to bring together the Nations that intend to escape the infernal yoke of tyranny and affirm their own sovereignty, forming agreements of mutual collaboration with Nations and peoples who share their principles and the common yearning for freedom, justice, and goodness. It will have to denounce the crimes of the elite, identify those responsible, denounce them to international tribunals, and limit their excessive power and harmful influence. It will have to prevent the action of the lobbies, above all by fighting against the corruption of state officials and those who work in the information industry, and by freezing the capital used to destabilize the social order.”
The whole pandemic issue is instrumental to the Great Reset, and it is the latter that we must fight. I think that, at this moment, it is most appropriate to create a movement of the people that calls together, in an Anti-globalist Alliance, Catholics, Christians, and people of goodwill. This is the first appeal I make to that effect.
…If the attack is global. The defense must also be global.
Here is a text of Archbishop Viganò’s message (see video of the same message below)
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“not to hate the messenger”
“therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me”
Let’s not forget that Lucifer was the Bearer of the Light and the most beautiful of all the angels before Lucifer fell from that high place of relevance that God bestowed upon that angel! But God gives and God takes with His purposes always overriding the myriad of differing opinions or responses to God’s Plan; in the End all that matters is the Absolute and that is God and only God who has the last word in everything!
Then it occurred to me how a beautiful article had been published which I could see was presenting some of the most relevant and of paramount importance information bringing God’s Truth to the fore for all eyes to see! So I was inspired to respond by republishing this vital Truth for anyone who may benefit by it as I go about my days serving God Almighty which is and should be my only concern!
There are so many people as I see them now missing the point of why they are living their lives. And as they witness the sheer and utter madness of this totally out of control human race just like I do, as I’m bewildered to see the multitudes who won’t face reality or their own awaiting demise if they continue down the wrong road they are on! They keep thinking the “Ways of The World System” is going to bring them the answers or comforts they need or desire in good time! They falsely believe that putting faith in men is wise or is the only alternative to their own seeking of truth and the balance that all living flesh desires.
People are not facing the fact that this life is not just a battle to survive in the flesh but is more importantly a Spiritual Battle for their immortal souls, which they are losing by following the crooked “Ways of The World!” Then there are even those who come along saying or giving an impression of being Christian, whether in practice or appearances, but are not anything of the kind; only being con artists, rabble-rousing persons who look to bring conflict or distraction from the truth, thus not serving God but the Devil. Of course my knowing about this for a long time, I realize that some of us are to be “warriors” in this battle for souls; that not only Archangel Michael with his army of angels do all the heavy lifting or fighting of God’s enemies but also those persons that God chooses as His anointed!
So in my recent writings I was pointing out how beneficial and forthright a certain high society aristocrat was in taking a stand for “God’s truth and purposes;” when she was interviewed by one of the best Christian News Sites on the planet which is founded and operated by some Catholics! This woman a so called “Princess” in upper-class nomenclature was attacked in my republication as being a total failure and waste of time to listen to, when actually I could see very clearly God’s purposes at work; and on the contrary, what she had to say was of vital importance!
This upper crust woman who lived in the lap of luxury and for all I know was frittering away most of her youth and life over the years on self-serving activities just like so many multitudes in the public are doing right this minute, was now regardless of her past, is serving as a wake-up call to all of us! Her mission statement to this news service was one of pointing out the “Hard Truth about the Elitists” from which she was spawned if you will! She points to the fact of how they are not serious or good benevolent people at all; and she also pointed out clearly they’re massive contradiction of purpose as they go along destroying civilization and humanity, while saying they are out to do the opposite, true hypocrites; as they function in their own personal world of delusion or madness!
So the disconnect that came between me and this person who as I see her “wasn’t seeing the forest for the trees” or was in some form of denial and maybe even worse serving as a minion of darkness and lies. This I say because all that was being said was “negative and an attack against the bold and forthright upper crust woman who was daring to step up and be counted,” while saying “what is wrong with the same group of people she hails from!” You must understand that none of us can even begin or should think we can see beyond that which God has made available for us to see and understand; beyond which we have no business questioning or countering in any way! The Aristocrat Woman brought some “vital truth” to the fore and I’m grateful to God for inspiring this woman to have the “intestinal fortitude” to present it to the world via this News article/video interview!
You see I know how this world works and more importantly I understand through hard knocks how God can lift up any human being from whatever lowly or high place in the human man-made world construct spectrum to serve His purposes, and all of which is shaped around saving souls, “His children” from the pits of hell where vast numbers are going, by following their current paths of which there are many leading to hell!
We must focus decisively on and never forget what this Scripture tells us!
Matthew 7:12-14 “In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets. 13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Let me be clear here; this tells us verbatim that most people do not find and make it through the narrow gate to everlasting life with God! Then what does that ultimately add up to for humanity! To me it says far more are going to hell than to heaven, with one caveat worth making sure we don’t miss, which was the biggest and first Master’s Class for the entire world, which was “The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ our Savior!” That scene as we all know it from reading about it or watching films was ordained of course by God Almighty and framed perfectly to convey a massive teaching lesson, for all human beings to learn and understand what God is telling us! As far as this Aristocrat woman who just spoke up conveying a message of importance, I say; if she is a former fool and even a derelict selfish person who is now awakening to her own folly, but, more importantly for us as she tells it, the folly of the Elitists who are running this planet into the ground with everyone along for the ride by their utter sheer madness! That special window framed up in time at Calvary by God’s plan, when Dismas contrasted with Gestas was the forerunner example of what battle was going to be fought on earth by all human beings; because we all should be on that cross suffering! Dismas, who was condemned as a scoundrel and criminal that deserved crucifixion according to the government empire, we learn as the event unfolded, and now know this as a matter of historical and Scriptural record! But also, as it turned out Dismas was someone who had a genuine sorrow and place in his heart, which proved he loved Jesus Christ, the man whom he realized was the Savior being crucified next to him! So to my point, the benefit was enormous because God made certain that not only was Dismas forgiven for his sinful life, but by serving God’s purposes and doing His will, respecting and loving Jesus with all of his heart; similarly multitudes of people to come would be saved just like on that most eventful day, when Jesus said these words; Luke 23:43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you today, you will be with me in paradise.”
In conclusion, while we are alive and able to think enough to seek truth we have an opportunity to be saved too; I think the great takeaway is that this princess could be getting closer to that “Narrow Gate” and that is what our “primary intention” should be too!
Consider these statements that were part and parcel of what I had to say about the attack on the princess and her message. And take note that we are “not to hate the messenger” or do one any harm.
Ezekiel 3:17 “Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.”
Ah yes, isn’t that part of the curse being born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth? At least that’s what I’ve always considered it to be from my own observations; but this Scripture helps me to see deeper!
Romans 8:28 “And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose.”
I just thought what qualifications was I born with? I can remember being a bit of a brat at times but mostly very caring or wanting to be helpful; having wise good parents made a world of difference in my case! Well, I’m very grateful and thank God I never went off the rails!
“Man’s law is nothing!” Corruption abounds! Social status or affluence still abound, the ruling class is intact!
Proverbs 13:24 “He who withholds the rod [of discipline] hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines and trains him diligently and appropriately [with wisdom and love].”
I mean a person doesn’t choose what family or heritage they are born into but even with that fact, opportunity comes when a person can decide for his or her self who their real master is, and then with effort change course accordingly in order to serve God, instead of self which is what a spoiled brat does impulsively or automatically.
Sure the Princess could be a fool or up to some self-serving nonsense, that may be very well true and you can refer to that point, but it isn’t pertinent to what the show was pointing out in the article, which I’m saying is good because God has the final say in all things and will use anyone He chooses to accomplish “His will on earth as it is in heaven!”
Proverbs 16:3-5 “3Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved. 4The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster. 5Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.”
People tend to have their heads up their asses to be blunt; thinking that “mankind is its own means to an end” and will have a final say in this universe, let alone even their own puny mere lives of finality and finite existence; but that is nonsense and many are on a fool’s errand in a fool’s parade, as man has no real power at all! To me that is plain stupid and many people today are either stupid or trying to prove to the world that they can be as stupid as the next person and will always do their damned best to prove it to each other; thus endless conflict and nefarious evil deeds! Look at this “click bait” nonsense “cyber world” that so many multitudes of idiots are caught up in as if it were the greatest thing since sliced bread! It’s all an illusion and temporary facade to oblivion!
I perceive how people have changed so much from just not many decades ago becoming more mechanical or even robotic; to me almost mindless machines or what some would classify as zombies! What got me going on this bent is how so much is now digital and internet with less and less actual real physical world tactile interaction, or loss of genuine community, yet these people think for some reason being bait clickers is just fine and the best thing since sliced bread! To me I see it as a loss of humanity and a retreat from being real as in pioneers or brave souls who each day wanted to face the elements and take life head-on, but now they prefer to be couch potatoes and sit cloistered in some room alone in some delusional trance; a new kind of drug this bait clicking!
I recently wrote the following.
Bishop Fulton Sheen had these words of wisdom to share in his “Way to Happiness.”
He had this to say about the deep seated need of humans to search for Life, Truth and Love.
“These three things are not to be found in this life in their completion: on earth life is shadowed by death, truth mingles with error, love is mixed with hate. But men know they would not long for these things in their purity if there were no possibility of ever finding them. So being reasonable, they search for the source from which these mixed and imperfect portions of life, love, truth derive.”
Fulton Sheen also pointing out how we imperfect and greatly flawed humans upon seeing this fact about ourselves is very demoralizing but is the beginning or preparation to then realize it is necessary to take a step toward humility for without it achieving real joy is not possible; as “humility is Truth” and I say the facing of it makes us stronger not weaker!
“Humility is truth about yourselves. A man is six feet tall, but who says: “I am only five feet tall,” is not humble. He who is a good writer is not humble if he says: “I am a scribbler.” Such statements are made in order that there might be a denial and thus win praise. Rather he would be humbler who says: “Well, whatever talent I have is a gift of God and I thank Him for it.”
“…this perennial tension in man can be accepted and made bearable only by a surrender of the self to God. Then whatever happens is welcomed as a gift of love; frustration cannot happen to us for we have no clamorous, selfish will.”
“Joy can be felt in both prosperity and adversity. In prosperity it consists not in the goods we enjoy but in those we hope for; not in the pleasures we experience but in the promise of those which we believe without our seeing. Riches may abound but those for which we hope are the kind which moths do not eat, rust consume, nor thieves break through and steal. Even in adversity there can be joy in the assurance that the Divine Master Himself died through the Cross as the Condition of His Resurrection.”
And all things in moderation is something I learned as a boy from my parents which they obviously learned through experience and from their parents along with the teachings of Fulton Sheen I happen to know!
“The most intense and lasting joys come only to those who are willing to practice a certain self-restraint, to undergo the boredom of a preliminary discipline.” The Venerable Fulton Sheen.
So these are the kinds of things that truly matter to me and should to any sensible sane person in my humble opinion! Because the seeking of praise or confirmation by others is a vain and fruitless cause and an actual illness or diversion from Truth, and is rather a delving into foolish arrogance, conceit, self-worship or confusion which are not of God at all but the opposite! And those are the attitudes or behaviors too often times displayed and propagated on the internet, what become the actual motivations behind many of the “bait clickers” as I call them, and following chasers or praise seekers, by the multitudes of lost souls spending far too much time living in an artificial, fake and deceptive false world that has many allures or even snares to trap those foolish enough to partake of such a Pandora’s Box! And “I don’t give a rat’s ass if they all hate me;” what does it matter, they don’t own my soul or destiny!
Time as we live it out in our short lives is far too precious to be frittering it away with triviality and non-reality such as we find on the internet; but those precious moments should be spent with the actual living in person and accomplishing tasks that need to be accomplished in order to do good in the world that which must be God’s will not our own! Amen.
To me this “artificial cyber bullshit world” is too damn frustrating as it proves daily how lost humans really are! Caught up in the “hoopla of the herd mentality” and really “getting nowhere ultimately;” just look at the “lying evil scum” that own and operate these “Mega Big Tech Monstrosities” just the same kind as the Big Pharma breed, humanities “New Oracles,” and the government devils that use and control it for their ultimate ulterior designs of control, enslavement and murder! “Lost in space, cyberspace” is all this is going to yield as a byproduct of just “more of the same stupidity that mankind has been plagued with since day one, but, now exponentially amplified!”
Sorry to project such a dismal portrait of human kind but “Reality and Truth” do hurt when faced head-on! I’m no longer the sweet talking sugarcoating sort of guy I once was; I opened my eyes and mind to the reality and truth about this crazy world, but more importantly “my genuine heart” as to where it stands in regard to absolute truth; “God’s truth.” That is all that matters, not “mankind’s delusional escapades or willful stupidity!” The absolute end of all this turmoil is fast approaching and that is something every capable breathing human being should be caught up in every day as the primary or paramount concern; as to “whether they are worthy of anything more than this total mess!”
The wake-up call has long since passed!
Blessings.
God Speed.
And so I can’t be sure if you understood this comment of hers, the princess, which made total sense and is highly accurate in my mind!
“If you ask the historians or if you read the lives of the saints, you learn very much about history and you come to the conclusion that it has always been the goal of the ruling classes to acquire more power. That is the name of the game,”
Here she was going on to add this which gave more power to her overall statement than any of the Democrat useless lying trash in Congress who talk gibberish most of the time and or lies! Look at the Soros propped up puppet imbecile AOC!
Princess Gloria adds later in the episode that “there’s a great contradiction” between the globalist push for greater economic consumption and their view that the earth is overpopulated.
“If that’s really true, then why do you kill your clients, the future clients?” she points out. “We are not dealing with serious people.”
Again she spoke nothing but truth there; because that is what I’ve always known the ruling class and most politicians to do; I know from firsthand inside knowledge, News Media and former government employee here! Criminals all!
And this was quite ripe with Truth! “Whoever sits on the steering wheel of power wants more power. And therefore we can see that all of these measures that have been taken during the pandemic come in very handy for governments who seek to have more power over their subjects. And it is our duty to fight that.”
And I say Anyone with a clue now realizes if they hadn’t from February 2020 to this year that the pandemic Fraud was all orchestrated by the most evil scums of the earth who are in the same category occupied by diabolical monsters like Hitler, Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Xi, Putin and others; just how corrupted and evil our governments leaders are, and how little they care about humanity or God’s will. They are the epitome of antichrist!
I’d say she has lots of fortitude to stand up and be counted which is something most fools in society aren’t willing to do unless they are crybaby insane Democrats and far left fridge loose liberals that are able to rant and burn down cites as they did in the summer of 2020 while the crooked government protects and advocates for their madness; useful idiots, serving an agenda for now, but eventually they will get the axe!
“Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things and to turn thyself to things invisible”
I found that a Christian brother’s posting today to be exactly on the same track that I’ve been on while doing some writing also, which to me proves that we are on the same wavelength or frequency; which is to say we are listening to the Holy Spirit! Here is one sample of a quote I used contained in my extensive dissertations today which is exactly to the heart of what he was writing about selflessness and what people value most in these perilous times!
“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness.”
As Saint Gianna states the respect of human life is the paramount factor that can’t be denied, but, as I see it mankind has virtually ignored this God given Truth and not only turned its collective back on one another and basic moral decency too extensively, but has by doing so, turned its back on “God our Father” in heaven, to instead go on and live like decadent heathens and materialistic selfish gluttons, as so many “live to take and only for their own pleasure;” which we can see in plain site by just looking again at that hellish nightmare of a Congress, which now in unison with an equally diabolically corrupted Vatican have signed, sealed and delivered their pact with the Devil.
St. Gianna Molla is so beautiful and I adore that woman! This article starts off with a horrific and sad historical event about the demonic possession of Anneliese Michel; of the movie title “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” upon whom the film is actually based.
There are saintly persons living and devoting their entire lives to serving God’s will in the fostering or the many needs of the Church Body! If you or I really look around and see what is truly going on there are very few real saintly persons living that way and I see most Christians if they are really that as servants of God seeking to know and do His will in their daily lives! There have been many actual real saints living such lives but when they die their work doesn’t necessarily end in helping God’s plan to bring the Church Body together and save souls! Do you know you have a guardian angel and angels are in the ready always to serve God in the unseen world and at times in the seen world where we dwell? Same with saints who have been elevated to that special place God prepared for each of them as Jesus promised He does for any of us if we believe in Him as our Savior but those saints are still very special and God didn’t invent such a thing as saints to just be a passing purpose that ends with physical death of the body. Again, we have potential to be saints, but let’s be real; the majority of human beings are far from any such classification.
“However, when Paul used the word “saint,” he used it with a small “s” not a capital “S.” and thus meant all Christians-even us today!
In one sense, everyone who is baptized into Jesus’ death and resurrection is a saint. This is not to diminish the special role of the canonized saints but to highlight the immense gift that is all of ours in Christ. Because of the power of the cross, each Christian has the same inheritance in heaven as the great saints whose lives we commemorated in a special way on All Saints Day.”
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That isn’t who or what I wish to emulate or try to model my own life after, “just another Christian,” who is given this label, no God forbid I could be another Biden sort of fake Christian devil; but instead I pray to be a “genuine saint in the fullest terms possible,” is more of what being a saint is about as far as I’m concerned! With this other soft and loose definition, a Joe Biden is a saint or any number of claimed Christians, but, I see sainthood as a “great sacrifice of material life and pleasures” and one who is only interested in being “a footstool to God and His will.” Mother Teresa of Calcutta carried out that type of saintly duty; but the crybabies I see all around and who pose in photos thinking they have something to offer in service to sainthood or even a true servant, is rubbish. Today few people have what it takes, nor the desire to sacrifice to any great degree like that, and are fully too wrapped up in gaining fame, fortune or praise of one kind or another, self-worship, and you know that for a fact I’m sure, if you are a general internet surfing person seeing what it’s all about! Unless you’re deluded or ignoring Truth!
Martin Luther did a lot of damage and Protestantism is still helping that degenerating cause as its even part of the Catholic Church now since the Second Vatican Council manipulation which led to a heretic now Francis who is really doing evil. Freemasonry, Marxism, Satanism and all manner of blasphemies have infiltrated most to all churches now with evil people within the inner workings of these Christian organizations.
I read a comment that spoke about where Christian households are “undefiled by paganism” when at least one parent is a Christian then they are saints for God; but what I’m driving at is that the majority of the human race today because of “rampant materialism and self-worship within this culture of death” are “defiled and pagan” in this “secular world by default,” and there is much less to no excuse for it today than in the past prior to the industrial revolution, because the mentality is there and educational opportunity is light years ahead of where it was for the common folks of long ago! What I’m saying is most people today take way too much for granted, and are very vile when you look into the tradeoffs they make daily and in their overall lives, because “gain and getting things or somewhere in this world” the “Ways of The World” is far outweighing “any great merit or inner virtue” that they exemplify continually through painstaking dedication and “sacrifice of self to God” and the service He compels them to do while in this world! I worked in Mass Media News and jumped off that crazy ride when I saw the “plastic lying phonies” who were only looking for “self-promotion and bigger dollars” not truth or humanities improvement, just like most movie stars and the like, so now this is many years later and look what these current trolls are doing with our system of government and a once great Nation under God; “making it a dirty rotten lie and evil,” and they don’t care or bat and eyelash over it; so I know from whence I speak! “Saints are hardly around in this toxic poison soup everyone is being conditioned and told to eat up!” I just see the failure and desperation of it all more than many and most average folks or other people in this toxic man-made hell, which nearly killed me with intent. I don’t quietly accept dictates from hell. Believe me when I tell you I’ve been around the track more than several times and all around that track I’ve seen far too much horse shit and it’s not getting better its getting “exponentially worse,” so some of you folks out there can try to prove how saints are on the increase in this environment, and I’ll “eat some” for breakfast!
The world is right now on the precipice and on its way to hell in a hand-basket and far too many people maybe even you or some that you know personally, think it’s not so bad, and hey it will work out somehow; “that is conditioning” and “lowering standards until there are none,” and America is almost as far down that slide into the cesspool as it can get! No it won’t get better but it will be far worse than now in the not too distant future! Evil experiments are taking place right now on human beings to create other species by the most sinister derelict non-human persons that have ever lived, the truly diabolic, and that is in Holy Scriptures; this has all been prophesied, so that is why I say people let’s get freaking real here, and stop the jive turkey limp noodle nonsense of playing games and kidding ourselves! Apparently some fools are backpedaling like there is no tomorrow with their antichrist anti-life agenda!
Abortion since 1973 worldwide has produced 1.5 billion destroyed unborn human babies, and I know it’s from conception that a human soul and body are created; this is so serious and God is going to judge it hard; and look how evil is fighting to keep it all going, that action alone speaks volumes as to who is behind all of this mayhem and evil, it’s clear as day to me! And in the US it’s now 63 Million alone that have been destroyed, and look at the animals ready to kill judges and screaming like filthy demons in public or walking into houses of Christian worship stripping naked while saying “it’s my right to kill it!” We all need to look at reality hard and not through any “rose colored glasses feel good Christian jive,” in order to see it right; as far as I’m concerned! Like I say, People Get Real!
So many people on this net are so self-glorified and deluded it’s numbing to my mind to hear and see it, so I tune them out now, block many of these game playing imbeciles and they are adults?! Follows mean jack to me, and so many think the opposite, so you tell me where these multitudes of saints are that some Christians seem to characterize most if not all professed Christians as being! Do you think for one minute the majority of these people you contact even on this silly internet are saintly? If so why? Are they saving souls or stopping any of this evil running rampant throughout? Do you even really know any of them personally and well enough to know what they are truly all about? I know people in person that I’ve known for decades that I’ve become aware of as people that I don’t really know for sure what they are anymore; because they say or do nothing to stop anything that’s wrong in our society, so they are content to follow sin?! The blind leading the blind!
“Do you want to be a saint? Then place your faith in Jesus. Believe that he is making you into a saint. Drink deeply of his grace, and take possession of your inheritance. Take hold of Paul’s prayer that “your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ.” By God’s grace, you can manifest his love to the world as one of the Lord’s saints. You can shine as one of God’s holy ones.
“Father, thank you for giving me a share in the fellowship of your saints. By your Spirit, empower me to embrace Jesus and his life in me. Empower me to be a saint.” catholicexchange
Check this out because this is explaining this absolute essential crux of the matter I’m talking about which I see is far less in people in this modern age than in past ages; it’s becoming extinct!
“The characteristic of being selfless is one of the most important traits any Christian can have. It’s so significant that Jesus said it is the second most important of all God’s commandments: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31; cf. Galatians 5:14). Jesus wasn’t creating a new law here; He was merely agreeing with and expounding on an Old Testament law (Leviticus 19:18). James calls this the “royal” law to emphasize its supreme value to God (James 2:8).”
“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness—helping a friend, ministering to a spouse, caring for an ill child, etc. Jesus extends selflessness far beyond normal expectations—we are to love our enemies, even, and pray for our persecutors (Matthew 5:44). Jesus taught that it’s easy to love a friend or a spouse—even unbelievers do that (Matthew 5:47). The Christian is expected to love the unlovable, because this is how we become more like God, who gives blessings to everyone (Matthew 5:45). It’s a difficult thing to lay aside hurt feelings and wounded hearts, but that’s part of being selfless.”
“As in so many areas, Jesus is the ultimate example of selflessness. In coming into this world, “he made himself nothing” and took upon Himself “the very nature of a servant” (Philippians 2:7). Now, as followers of Christ, we are to “have the same mindset” (Philippians 2:5). Jesus came not for His own benefit but for ours. He came to minister to us and die for us: “Even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
“Humanly speaking, Jesus gave up His will for God’s will (Luke 22:42)—and this is another salient point: selflessness involves more than putting other people first; it is putting God first. As John the Baptist said concerning Jesus, “He must become greater; I must become less” (John 3:30). More of the Lord; less of us.” gotquestions
I’ll leave with this; “Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things and to turn thyself to things invisible.” My Imitation of Christ.
“But he who would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ must study to make his whole life conformable to that of Christ. What doth it avail thee to discourse profoundly of the Trinity if thou be void of humility, and consequently, displeasing to the Trinity? In truth sublime words not make a man holy and just: but a virtuous life maketh him dear to God.”
“Vanity of vanities and all is vanity.” Eccles 1. 2. “Except to love God and serve Him alone. This is the highest wisdom, by despising the world to tend to heavenly kingdoms.”
The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi), first published in 1418 by the German-Dutch monk and scribe, Thomas Hemerken of Kempen, better known as Thomas à Kempis (1380 – 25 July 1471).
“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.” ― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
This is what being a human being that works at being saintly is really like not this poppycock nonsense people try promoting all over the place!
Some say they know and are following “God’s standards,” but I see this is exceedingly far beyond any such thing, and is clearly in the territory of transgression, an abomination; total blasphemy! People should be shamed strenuously! I just recalled my dear sweet good grandmother decades ago saying to me “people today, many have no shame!” I say a lack of conscience or even love.
Matthew 7:22-23 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!”
I was told by a fellow Christian how this world needs so badly to be purified now, and I added it needs to be FLUSHED; as in even more now than in Noah’s time!
And you brought out the crux about “what people put value in now” and anyone with a brain that functions can get a clue by just looking around anywhere; but more importantly if they have a genuine heart with love in it for God in and through the sacred heart of Jesus they can realize God’s Truth easily! Here is what I was thinking today!
I meant to emphasize this, “discern what is of value” in that passage, because I see it as “the crux of the problem” with most people in this “Culture of Death” world where people scream bloody murder to say, “leave our bodies alone we can kill a baby in us because it’s only a fetus,” and yet where is the responsibility in that, are they saying we can do what we damn well please, have out of wedlock sex all we want and get knocked up by the millions, because we didn’t even have the responsibly to use a birth control; but best to abstain, in other words, shut up I’ll do what I want, and Lucifer said the same way back in the time of his getting booted out of God’s kingdom; blatant rebelliousness and transgression!
So we can see clearly people have so “many things they consider of the greatest value and importance, and all of them are not the right thing!”
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit”
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” Edmund Burke
Check out this previous posting and at the end the video presentation that talked about Taylor Swift’s portrayal of Lucifer. Society has really turned its back on God Big Time!
And this where an appointed not elected New York governor a cohort of Satan; blasphemes God doing her best to support evil! From her own mouth and tongue! The video is quite clear!
I send this message out to give honor and reverence to our Mothers!
Let’s honor and cherish them as the great gift they are, especially in light of the fact that they are the first human being we knew in a most miraculous way!
Connected in body, mind, heart and spirit we grew to know and depend on our Mother’s in every way that matters; developing a bond that can never be broken in this world and the life to come when we meet our Creator in heaven!
As a special honor to my own Mother and hopefully to many of you out there and your Mothers I wish to pass along and dedicate this message that I received, to bring people together in support of a fine and beautiful outreach mission that is doing so much good to help children in need around the world! These sponsors and missionaries devout so much attention, love and resources to the needy throughout many societies, making a real difference in their lives!
If you can consider making any offering to this great cause I’m sure you will be making a great good grow as your help will foster and expand this mission’s ability to reach many lives of the children out in the world that need our loving support!
God bless you!
Thank you!
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
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Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me starlight and dewdrops are awaiting thee Sounds of the rude world heard in the day Led by the moonlight have all passed away
Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song List while I woo thee with soft melody Gone are the cares of life’s busy throng
Beautiful dreamer awake unto me Beautiful dreamer awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea Mermaids are chanting the wild lorelei Over the streamlet vapors are borne Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn
Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart E’en as the morn on the streamlet and sea Then will all clouds of sorrow depart
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
“Beautiful Dreamer” is a parlor song by American songwriter Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published posthumously in March 1864, by Wm. A. Pond & Co. of New York. The first edition states on its title page that it is “the last song ever written by Stephen C. Foster, composed but a few days prior to his death.”
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ARE YOU A FOLLOWER OR A LEADER? In either case where will you end up at journey’s end? I say there is only one path to be on!
Marcus Aurelius is a fine example to point out to the people of today as to promoting the facing of challenges with an even temperament!
Marcus had some big setbacks or struggles which I can absolutely relate to, but, his doing such positive with them like promoting strong reminders that were designed to make him humble, patient, empathetic, generous, and strong in the face of whatever he was dealing with, which is what I’ve been doing or trying, but need to do even more and better!
I had a response to one of my postings that straightaway was straying from the topic at hand and appeared to be more of a statement to ridicule belief in God Almighty which today is rampant in the highly secular pagan atmosphere and people mostly striving for attention as they worship self or in the least are seeking adulation from others especially on social media which tends to be mostly a lot of dribble and just diversion from reality by joining the club of clicking and getting more likes or follows, a sort of baiting humans to do a Pavlov’s Dogs Tricks Behavior, while the Tech Titans gain enormous wealth and data mine all of our private information, which to me is idiotic to be willingly a part of it; thus I’ve never wanted to have Facebook; and now with so much truth surfacing over the last few years of what these Tech Giants are really up to its reassuring to know I wasn’t falling for the hype and propaganda from the get goes!
But, here is the response I made to this comment on my blog essay that I want to share here because I can only imagine what Marcus would say about how ridiculous people have become and what might even be considered so far from hallow men but instead hollow with little integrity, character or actual guts; as they live sitting cloistered in their pretend cyber world!
I’m not discussing thermodynamics and or particle physics as those debates in the world at large continue, as to whether the basic laws that govern the time space continuum are invariably set or have absolute boundaries as Einstein was referring when he stated that “God doesn’t play dice,” while there are those that still concur that beyond the fourth dimension which they believe quantum mechanics appears to indicate there are fluctuations or vibrations that function outside of all established know physics leading one to consider alternate universes and the like, or multiple outcomes are randomly possible for the same static event or particle’s path when considered in the expanded time space continuum based on that conjecture; but some would or try to say that any such intriguing possibility that seems to be presenting such a potentiality; this is to me for all intent and purposes the God particle as a reference here far exceeding our conceptualization capacity, or that aspect that all else is based on which is God, which nobody is infinitesimally capable of understanding let alone competing with such enormous and vast power and understanding that which knows anything and everything!
Take a look at what we really are to equate what I say; otherwise we are heading down the rabbit hole of atheism and non-belief in any highest intellect and presence in the universe and that in itself is ridiculous on its face, because it concludes that all is just random and there is no order or design intelligence to anything while reaching such a conclusion based on Nothing; making it all gibberish and a total fool’s errand; so in such a mindset anything goes and morals or integrity should be non-existent as well, so there is no right or wrong and if you hail from that arena I can tell you categorically you are totally a wet blanket and dead wrong! In such a world murder and any malicious act is fine and all that matters is who gets the advantage over someone else say like the way the CCP in China function where they as of 2014 had exterminated 1.2 million Tibetans, and so my point is morality counts above most things on earth and there is a reason it does, and was meant to be such!! It is not meant to be the opposite of rule by the toughest and wickedest or only the most vicious bloodthirsty can prevail with brute force and cunning! I have even experienced supernatural events that proved to me 100% that there is absolutely way more than meets our puny minute vision and comprehension! Oh and yes, there is diabolical evil it exists, and is a force that one way or another we will all grapple with to some degree in our own short lifetimes, or in the least when each of us dies and our immortal souls are then presented with the absolute truth; then each soul will see the basic truth and finds whether it has been in alignment with the inner light of God or instead the opposing force of darkness and evil. Which I have to tell you or anyone interested you don’t want to be on that side of the ultimate judgment equation, because the agony of what awaits such souls is far too difficult to fully comprehend in this present state of being; but, it is real and eternally final for such souls!
I would only tell you no matter where you stand in all of this you owe it to yourself not to cut yourself off from the life giving source, that which is all encompassing and made all things. Your point is based on the finite particle physics world, and what I’m talking about is far beyond mere matter and energy extrapolations! You’ve seriously put yourself at a great disadvantage speaking about the spiritual in this limited finite closed system of terms! For now I can assure you there is far more to existence than meets the eye or what any equations arrive at as conclusions, all basically missing the bigger part of the picture, and therefore; not knowing enough to say there is no evil. This all takes many years of delving into multiple disciplines to break it down deductively; and or experiencing events beyond the ordinary to have any valid concise conclusion of science and beyond it; unless of course you’re happy with your limiting process, then you get what you pay for or pay for what you did when your time comes to face the music! The choice of course is and must be your own, but, I have made my mind up long ago and nothing in this world or anywhere else can alter my perception or understanding in a negative way! I’m all set!
I want to provide a bit more for you to consider what I’m saying about evil, and how real it is or how it manifests in human beings intellectually and physically; by reading these two previous essays and then I hope you will begin to understand my accurate perceptions that provide enough of a solid footing to say I have the best possible answer to our human dilemma or condition!
I must warn you I only offer this outpouring to you as a conscientious solid faithful believer in God Almighty, and I absolutely do not believe in arguing with set non-believers who have drawn what they believe is their proper conclusion based on nothing but rebelliousness, and I have to say darkness! I do this for your benefit not mine; I am all set, thank you!
In any event I hope this long comment has some positive effect for anyone who is reading this fine posting and considering or reassessing what they do with their spare time and what forthright personal investment they are making in this life that would be considered honorable and noble before a man like Marcus Aurelius if he were here; and more importantly before God!
God bless you.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
For a Roman emperor and the most powerful man in the world, Marcus Aurelius lived a notably uncomfortable life. Choosing a life of stoicism rather than comfort, Aurelius shirked the luxuries that his high status provided him. He slept in a simple cot with an animal skin rather than a comfortable bed. He worked incessantly, never foregoing his imperial duties even while on holiday. Even during his later years, Aurelius never relaxed his commitment to duty. During the latter two decades of his 58 year life, Aurelius spent the majority of his time cold and hungry, huddled with his men at a military encampment in the lands surrounding the Danube River. Here the hardened philosopher-king and his legions drove back barbarian incursions from Roman lands, maintaining imperial borders at a high cost to himself and his men.
Though the dedication he showed toward his royal duties was unmatched, perhaps the…
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January 3, 2022
I’m like that man in a very important way
After reading and watching this video I agreed with what Kurt Warner because I have to say many years I can see I have been a lot like him not in athletic prowess or any other mundane attributes and stature in life, but in our view of faith in Jesus Christ and how truly committed we both may have been throughout our lives and in the right ways, as I too have been raised as a good Catholic boy and on into my adulthood staying with the Church being comfortable in that faith even though I see so many attacks by Satan upon the Church over the years and how its now horrible to see a heretic ruining the Church from within; just like Biden and all the other destroyers working with him are dancing around like criminally insane drunk with power Banshees seeking more power and total control while tearing apart the Greatest Nation on earth bar none for so many years, which is now being reduced to rot and cannon fodder as these communist dictators are obliterating it from within.
I could identify immediately with how Kurt loves children and can connect so well with them as he did with his now wife’s son so early on in their relationship; as I’ve always been one to watch over the younger siblings or cousins growing up and then eventually wanting to help any of my nieces or nephews when I could by always at least wanting to be there and give them the best advice and genuine love I could. Like a second dad or just a really loving uncle should. There is so much need out there in this messed up screwed over world right now and what a shame, that so many children are falling through the cracks and into serious hardship or even much worse turmoil, as they grow up in broken truly dysfunctional insecure and even godless homes! Add to that now a world that is even more dysfunctional than that, which is coming apart at the seams! I see how guys like me not due to being cold or indifferent but how we can want to disengage from this horrendous mess because there is a slippery slope out there too, an ugly underbelly of troublemakers, where a person man or woman can have great noble intentions, and then end up in some quagmire of insanity because evil is getting its due; especially where and when it comes to true goodness, which it hates with a vehement passion. End times Good will be despised it says right in Scriptures, by so many people in all stations of life.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.”
A world where the following adage has taken a full grip and bite out of genuine giving humanity, due to the dangers of even being good! Like being a walking target in an upside down world now; where the bad guys are allowed to burn cities down and rape or pillage and walk away scot-free!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions is a proverb or aphorism. An alternative form is “Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works“.[1]
“Another interpretation to consider would be; One is naive and acts in good faith with no altruistic objective. It merely seems as the proper or even sensical thing to do. In this scenario the act, regardless of its virtue, leads the actor to unintended negative consequences.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_road_to_hell_is_paved_with_good_intentions
This is like asking oneself now, do I feel OK to get in the cage of a ferocious lion even turning my back to him, let alone stick my head into its mouth when it hasn’t eaten in days! I see why more people than not are saying, not my problem, and I didn’t cause all that grief for those people, even those innocent kids, which is so opposite of when I was growing up and people were more willing to be engaged and helpful to at least some reasonable human degree, when it was appropriate; but now people ignore their neighbors or see something that looks or seems pretty sad, and don’t even want to ask if everything is OK!
Anyway, my main point is times have so severely changed for the worse, that if we don’t see the writing on the wall yet, we never will; and this battle we’re all in, whether you accept that fact or not, requires at least the best, brightest and strongest who have genuine faith in the Lord, to be ready to follow the Father’s will to whatever place He requires of those of us that get that calling, just like Kurt did; God bless him! Amen.
Watch the video or read the text its the same, but, I did both to not miss a beat and see what the Lord is saying here!
WHAT IS LIFE ALL ABOUT!
God bless you and yours.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
Kurt Warner Reveals Moment He Realized God Is Not a ‘Spare Tire’ – ‘I Had’ it ‘Mixed Up’
Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Thursday, December 30, 2021
Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner says in a new video that his Christian faith soared after he met his wife Brenda, who he says challenged him “early and often” about what he believed about God.
As a child, Warner studied at a Catholic school and went to church every Sunday. Yet, his faith “was never really personal for me until after I met my wife,” he says in the new video released by I Am Second, an organization that interviews well-known individuals about their faith.
Warner’s story is the subject of the new movie American Underdog (PG).
When they were dating, he said, Brenda was always “talking about Jesus.”
“She challenged me early and often in our relationship about what I believed – and why I believed it. I think before that I always felt faith was kind of, well, God was out there, and whenever I needed Him, He was like my spare tire – that when I get a flat, I’ll go and pop the trunk and pull out the spare and God, You know, I need this.”
When he read the Bible closely and in “context,” he said, he realized he had his view of God backward.
“I had this mixed up. … God’s not just here for me …. [T]he goal is that I’m here for Him. I’m here to give my life for Him as Jesus did for me,” Warner said. “And it started to become real. I started to understand and take a different perspective on what life was all about. And it took some crazy moments to really understand that.”
One moment that impacted him, he said, was the tragic death of Brenda’s parents in a tornado – a subject that’s confronted in American Underdog.
“I remember how she didn’t have all the answers,” Warner said. “She was angry. And she was willing to call out to God and ask God why and yell and scream – but never lose her faith. It was never one of those things where, ‘Oh, God, you allowed this to happen to us. So now I’m going to walk away from You.’ That’s what a relationship is to me. It’s about being able to disagree in moments, to be angry in moments, but not allow that to stop the relationship. And, to me, that was when I kind of stepped back and [thought], everything that she’s been talking to me about, ‘This is what it looks like, this is what it’s supposed to be.’ And it was in those moments where I came to realize, ‘Okay, I’ve never had that. And that’s exactly what I want.’ And it was at that time where I really committed my life to Jesus.”
Warner won a Super Bowl and played in two others. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017.
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