ISAIAH 1:1-27

The prophet has a difficult calling, he tells Israel of their unfaithfulness, sinfulness, and how they wander away from God, and Adonai has to put up with the sacrifices, and celebration of “new Moons” the High Holy Days. Etc. not that there is anything bad in celebrating them, BUT…. when these are done in the “flesh” and not with the heart, and because these are “things that you just have to do” then, God wants NONE OF THESE! Many people that adhere to “religion” go through “rites and traditions” just because they are used to “doing them” This in no way pleases Adonai, HOWEVER…when we do things with a pure heart, and with a spirit of “worship and praise” then…Adonai welcomes it. The LORD says through the prophet;

Come now, let us reason together, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool… IF…ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land” It is all CONDITIONAL!

We have the same choice, IF we choose to love and follow the LORD, by accepting HIM as LORD and Savior, then follow and do his commandments, following in his footsteps, THEN… we will reap the rewards, first is eternal life in Heaven, second will be spiritual blessings and perhaps even physical blessings while we are on earth, and even more, in Heaven. Again, the choice is ours to take.

JOHN 4:1-5:47

This tells the story of the woman of Samaria, who comes to the well to draw water and receives an even better blessing. She gets her water and even more, the “Living Water” She meets her “Messiah”. Interestingly, she is the first person who Yeshua reveals himself as Messiah, without riddles, just in plain words;

The woman said; “I know that the Messiah is coming, and when he comes, he will teach us all things” (John 4:25. Yeshua responds by saying; “I AM the one who speaks to you” In Aramaic it’s “Enah-na damalel na amehee” as this was the common language of the street then. Or one could rephrase and say, “It is I, (the Messiah) who speaks to you.”

Messiah Yeshua came for the first time to teach the Torah, heal the sick, raise the dead, and pay our sin debt with his own blood. He came as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world, to receive punishment and suffering on our behalf. He came as Yeshua Ben Yosef, the suffering servant. Yet he will return as the Lion of Judah, as Messiah Yeshua Ben David, to set up his kingdom, establish Shalom, and reign with perfect justice. we imagine Yeshua as all merciful and full of love, yet He is also the God of vengeance who will punish evildoers, and put an end to Satan and all who follow him by casting all evildoers into the Lake of Fire. Many don't want to hear that part, only the "God is Love" part, yet He is both.

No doubt she had a life-changing experience, she went to tell the others about Yeshua. Isn’t that what we are supposed to do? Receive Yeshua as LORD and Savior, then, tell the world, go and teach others to respond to the calling of Adonai in their lives. Is HE part of YOUR LIFE?

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump dance to Bee Gees' 'stayin' alive' in viral video​

The AI generated video has attracted over 650,700 views and received more than 3,500 retweets.

Billionaire Elon Musk shared an AI-generated video today featuring himself and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dancing to the Bee Gees' song "Stayin' Alive."

The edited video features Musk in a gray suit and Trump in a navy suit with a red tie, as they dance together.

Hello my name is Linda and I am new. Thank you for accepting me. Hello to everyone

Some years ago I joined a celebrate recovery group in a local church.
I sometimes attended the church meetings.

I had my own church to attend.

I'm still friends with the Church pastor, (on facebook) although I don't know her that very well.
I was surprised to see her FB update where she was talking about a game her and her grandchildren
play where they add random products to people's shopping trolleys in supermarkets. The object of this, is to watch random people pick up groceries they didn't select, only to put them through the checkout scanner.
They were not doing it as much now, due to the economic crisis(I am not in America)
but were now choosing to tie the plastic fruit/vegetable bags to other shoppers trolley carts
and watch the plastic bags being torn along.

This woman and her pastor husband hand out free food and vegetables to the community which is a wonderful
testimony but I cannot fathom why they want to play jokes on unexpecting random supermarket shoppers.

It sounds quite childish but I am in shock that a woman in her 60's would be encouraging her
grandchildren to play such anti-social games.

Should we fear YHWH like the Muslims do, who do not know His Name, and trample it underfoot at any opportunity they get?

Or should we fear YHWH like the Jews do, who keep His Name in a box, and never read the iconographic meaning?

The foundations of the earth tremble.

Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan criticizes the Biden administration for deporting fewer migrants and Kamala Harris' past statement comparing border agents to the Ku Klux Klan.

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Hello everyone!

I wanted to ask people's thoughts on this job related issue. Basically I am an IT guy for a company that has 7 offices across the state that I live in. This company has offices around the entire US and has an HQ in another state, but I only support the employees at offices in my state. Awhile ago, my manager, the regional IT manager was fired for being incompetent and never showing up for work. When that happened, I was given a "dry promotion". I was given all the responsibilities and duties of the IT manager, while receiving no title or pay increase. It's also worth mentioning that I'm now the only IT guy for my entire state.

I was obviously bothered by this, and arranged for a series of meetings with my mangers and HR. The first meeting resulted in them telling me that they were short staffed so I had to pick up the slack and help the team. The second meeting was a lot of vague corporate jargon that did not tell me anything. The third meeting was them confirming that they would not be hiring anyone else, besides a guy from another state who's office had been downsized, and would temporarily help me if I needed anything. He's entirely remote. Given the nature of the job, there's very little he can do being remote, so since then, I've been the primary point of contact for all IT stuff in the entire state.

Now what I thought it was fair to do since I'm doing all the duties and responsibilities of the IT manager, was to change my job title and description on Linkedin and my resume to better reflect it. My career focus is trying to get into IT management, so having this on there would help me. I don't personally see any issue with it as it more honestly reflects the work I do. However my wife thought it was a bad idea and makes me look bad to future employers. She also said it could be sinful. Obviously if I were in a job interview, I would explain the whole situation, but not having that on there would likely prevent me from getting an interview at all.

I am wondering what people's thoughts are on this. I understand it is likely a gray area. My view is more based on the motive behind it. I'm not trying to be deceitful, just trying to showcase what I actually do and what my experience is.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

I've very mentally worn and tired but I'm happy to say I passed my TEAS and I start my nursing program Oct 2

Justice and vengeance are distinct concepts. While some argue for punitive justice, which may appear akin to vengeance, others support rehabilitation as the aim of justice, differing significantly from vengeance. Holy scriptures suggest that justice is a divine mandate, emphasizing fairness and restoration, whereas vengeance is an emotional response, often leading to further harm. Justice is about balance and equity, guided by principles and laws, while vengeance is driven by personal retribution. What do you think that the holy scriptures have to say about the systems of justice used in your land?

In a letter to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote that Walz (D) had “concerning ties” to China, citing the governor’s dozens of trips to the country, and requested a trove of documents and information related to Chinese entities that Walz has engaged with.

“Americans should be deeply concerned that Governor Walz, Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, has a long-standing and cozy relationship with China,” Comer said in a statement. “Mr. Walz has visited China dozens of times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders.”

[red flag...politicians telling us what we should be deeply concernced with]

And what did Tim Walz do? This reeks of McCarthyism....

Walz first went to China in 1989 as part of a teach-abroad program run by Harvard University, and he taught English and American history for one year. Later on with his wife, Gwen, Walz established Educational Travel Adventures, which coordinated trips to China.

In the years since, during his time in elected office, Walz has served on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and spearheaded legislation that censured the country’s human rights record. He has been critical of the Chinese government’s actions for most of his time in public office.

Another political circus compliments of your GOP Oversight Committee led by James Comer.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is requiring its employees to be “up to date” on COVID-19 vaccines, according to a job listing from the campaign, which is searching for National Booker.

The Harris campaign has a job listing for a “National Booker,” tasked with working “with the Surrogates Communications Director and Deputy Communications Director to execute Harris for President’s strategy for deploying surrogates and allies across national and regional media outlets.” According to the listing, the National Booker is also tasked with managing daily reservations with media bookers and “developing strategies to increase the visibility of campaign spokespeople and surrogates across TV networks, radio, digital streaming programs, podcasts, and more.”

Required skills and qualifications for the job are fairly run-of-the-mill: three to five years of experience in media or communications, a strong interest in media or politics, good instincts, and the ability to thrive in a “fast-paced environment.”

However, in the fine print at the bottom of the listing, the campaign makes it clear that it also expects the would-be employee to be completely caught up on his or her coronavirus vaccinations.

The requirement reads:

Harris for President requires all employees to be “up to date” on COVID-19 vaccination status as prescribed by the CDC as a condition of employment, unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law. If you seek a reasonable accommodation in relation to the campaign’s COVID-19 policy, you should speak to the HR Department prior to reporting to an office location.

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It remains unclear what the campaign considers a “reasonable accommodation” to sidestep the coronavirus vaccination rules, such as concerns over adverse effects.

Pray The Heavenly Father Stops all attempts by Antisemitic spirits to sanction and/or punish Israel just for defending herself:

• “The winning formula for President Trump,” his White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Fox Business, “is fewer insults, more insights.”
• Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, recently released from prison and now guest hosting the show of another former Trump adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, while he does his stint in prison, told viewers: “When Trump attacks Harris personally rather than on policy, Harris’s support among swing voters rises.”
• Deposed House speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed that Trump “make this race not on personalities. Stop questioning the size of her crowds.”
• Vanquished Trump primary opponent turned Trump supporter Nikki Haley added that his campaign “is not going to win talking about what race Kamala Harris is. It’s not going to win talking about whether she is dumb.”
• Another primary opponent turned supporter, Vivek Ramaswamy, told Politico that he had advised Trump to “shift the focus to policy.”
• And longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz told CNN that “if it’s about attributes, Harris is much more likely to be successful, because, quite frankly, people like her more than they like him.”

The name-calling Trump does is childish and many of his insults come from a school playground. Add to the conspiracy theories and untruths. It is no wonder that globally he is regarded negatively.

Evangelicals for Harris Support Candidate Who ‘Better Reflects Christian Values’


A group called Evangelicals for Harris has formed to back Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, in her run for president. As part of their “Christian belief in the common good,” supporters urge people to reject Donald Trump, the Republican candidate and 45th U.S. president.

On social media, Evangelicals for Harris is publicizing an upcoming Zoom call for “fellowship and action.” The speaker lineup for the Aug. 14 event includes Dwight McKissic, Jemar Tisby, and Raymond Chang. “All Christians and people of good will” are invited to join the call and exercise “our God-given citizenship by voting for someone who better reflects Christian values.”

Evangelicals for Harris: VP Is Christian, Respects Other Faiths​

According to a July 24 press release, the Rev. Jim Ball founded both Evangelicals for Harris and, during the 2020 presidential campaign, Evangelicals for Biden. “Kamala Harris knows how to stand up to and stare down bullies,” Ball said. “We’re going to win, and she will make a terrific president. Tough on bad guys. Compassionate for those in need. Ready to unite our country.” The VP’s policies are “pro-family” and “pro-environment,” Ball added.

On its website, Evangelicals for Harris highlights “Kamala’s Faith Story.” The group recaps her Baptist background, her “calling” to public service, and her “great respect for other faith traditions,” including Hinduism and Judaism. Harris’s favorite Bible verse, according to the group, is 2 Corinthians 5:7, about walking by faith, not sight.

Evangelicals for Harris notes that the VP, “a deeply committed and faithful Christian,” supports religious liberty and separation of church and state. It quotes her as saying, “Like many people of faith, I have private conversations with God where I usually ask for the strength and protection to make good decisions and do the right thing.”

In response to pro-Trump comments online, Evangelicals for Harris contrasts each candidate’s supporters. “Too much of the Church has been consumed by worship of Trump and the false prophets that deify him,” the group stated. “We support Harris but she is not our savior. See the difference?”

Faith Leaders Stump for Kamala Harris​

One scheduled speaker for Wednesday’s online event is Dwight McKissic, senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. On Aug. 11, he posted, “Anyone who has, or plan to vote for Donald J. Trump has absolutely no moral authority…as in none, zero, nada…to question the morality or immorality of the Democrat presidential nominee or their platform.”

Last month, McKissic wrote about a developing “coalition of the least, the last, the locked out, the disfavored, the disinherited, the rejected, the ridiculed, and those who can empathize, identify with, or who understand that to heal America, we have to heal the historic wounds of alienation, separation, division, and devaluing.”

Harris, added McKissic, “represents all of us who fall under the category of the rejected, and those who desire to heal, help, and welcome us to a seat at the table, even sitting in the chair designated for the POTUS.”

Professor Jemar Tisby, a former pastor, posted about the Aug. 14 Zoom call, “Democracy itself is on the line, so I will be, too.”

About his support for Evangelicals for Harris, pastor and activist Raymond Chang wrote, “You don’t have to stand with everything that a politician stands for in order to support them or back them. There are Christians doing this with both parties.”

“If your support is unwavering loyalty, that’s a different thing,” he added. “You should be able to say, ‘I disagree with them, but I still support them because I think they are better for the nation as a whole.’”

Some church leaders have voiced harsh criticism for Evangelicals for Harris, specifically noting Harris’s positions on abortion and LGBTQ+ issues. Denny Burk, president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, took issue with the group’s description of the vice president as a “deeply committed and faithful Christian.”

“This isn’t evangelical. It’s not even Christian. Don’t fall for it,” he said.

Pastor Darrell B. Harrison expressed a similar view: “Harris, taking into account her own words, is, at best, a moralist-humanist-globalist and, at worst, a religious syncretist-pluralist.

I need perspective on this please.

In the past year, I've opened my heart to the Lord. It's objectively made my life better and I have Jesus to thank for that.

Although this seems to be a particularly political issue, it's been well documented that like the US, Europe is facing it's own issues in terms of mass immigration and rising crime.

For a long time, I was indifferent to immigration, after all my own Mother was an immigrant. In the past few years, I've witnessed the consequences that unchecked immigration brings and the affect that has on local crime. It bothers me because the political establishment wants you to believe we live in some sort of melting pot utopia and the police are limited as to what they can do. They practically have to wait until something tragic has happened, to even make a statement.

As a family man, I fear for my children's future. As a relatively new Christian, I'm seeking guidance in how I can keep my heart from hate. In the past, I realised in myself how I was beginning to hate others I didn't know just based on the assumption that they're immigrants, I know that's wrong but it's a survival mechanism at the end of the day. In any case, I pulled away from that and politics in general.

What can I look to in the Bible that will keep me level headed in these uncertain times?

Hi my name is Linda and I was wondering if someone can interpret my dream?

I live near Hoboken, NJ, and recently, a Pride Mass at a local Catholic church stirred a lot of controversy among Catholics.


Personally, I’m politically independent and prefer to assess situations based on context, not ideology. I find both far-left and far-right views often extreme, especially when they enter spaces like churches. Churches should be places of refuge and hope, not political battlegrounds.

That said, I don’t understand why some Christians react so angrily to churches welcoming LGBT individuals. If the goal is to help people find God, isn’t the church precisely where they should be? Who are we to deny anyone the chance to seek faith? If a person struggling with their sexuality is willing to explore a relationship with God—even if they’ve been told He hates them—shouldn’t that be encouraged?

We see churches accepting people with various sins, yet some react harshly to LGBT individuals. Unless a church explicitly endorses actions contrary to its teachings, why object to them extending a hand to those searching for God?

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“Miriam, I watched (Sheldon Adelson, her late husband) sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better, because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor – that’s soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead,” Trump said.

“She gets it and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal,”

I heard excerpts from a recent Vance speech. It seemed naive and out of touch.
Children are a blessing. I had three myself. But we can't just "encourage" without addressing certain factors.
Like family and medical leave (implemented by Walz in Minnesota).
Doubling the child tax credit which temporarily cut child poverty by half.
Affordable daycare and after-school care
Safe schools and serious steps to prevent school shootings
Business policies like flexible hours, telecommuting, etc.
Most of these ideas have been vetoed over and over by Republicans.

An argument I’ve heard Christians is “if you lived in the Holocaust, it’s morally justified to lie about keeping Jews in the attic.” (In case police investigate.)

So I have a thought experiment. Trump is Republican, which is the pro life party. If trump were to campaign and say “I’m not banning the abortion pill”, or “I’m not setting a 15 week ban it’s all up to the states”

And then he wins and in office, starts becoming strict on abortion, is that a sin? He would have lied to get in office, but it would result in less abortion.

So what’s the verdict?

Recently Nagasaki just commemorated its 79th annual event of the bombing of the city. Being a deeply tragic event many nations were invited to participate in the memorial. By tradition all nations that have an embassy in Japan will be invited. And this year 3 nations were left out; Russia, Belarus & Israel. The other G7 ambassadors opted to boycott the memorial because of Israel's exclusion. This much is said officially by these nations. It was all for Israel's optics. The US ambassador even have the gall to said Shiro Suzuki the mayor of Nagasaki is politicizing the event.

I find this very hypocritical from the other nations of G7. They can't divorce themselves from Israel-Gaza conflict for even one day just to commemorate this event with one of their staunchest ally in East Asia. But they have no problem making appearances in other more contentious events such as going to Ukraine or Israel to show solidarity.

It is not hard to see that the Japanese do not want their event to be marred by protests and unwanted disruptions. It is a solemn day for them. It is no secret that activists hijack important events to bolster their own causes. Nagasaki mayor didn't want to deal with such "distractions" and said as much.

Suzuki told reporters that the city had put the decision on hold to ensure the safety of participants and smooth proceedings at the ceremony, given the risk of unexpected incidents and other factors.

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Now we know who the other G7 value more in their diplomatic relations and it is not Japan. It is Israel above all even a simple concession for a memorial is asking too much.

Baffling since Japan compared to Israel has caused far way less diplomatic issues and provided US with more economic benefits than many nations - being the single largest holder of US treasury bonds. Not to mention after being stabbed in the back with the Plaza Accords (that started the lost decades), Japan stood by the US and the G7 on majority of their international positions. The US and other G7 don't value Japan as a true friend.

Written on August 12, 2024: I have been a little under the weather today and I am very tired. We had no plans for today, so I have been resting up a bit. When I was up for a little while, and my husband and I were talking, the subject somehow went to the songs that the Lord had given me to write, and I mentioned how I had listened to one today that I had totally forgotten existed, for I don’t take the time to go back and listen to them anymore. So he encouraged me that I should do that. So as I was resting, I began listening to those songs.

All of a sudden, I recognized that I was listening to the very first song that the Lord had given me to write on April 6, 2011. Now, before he gave me this song to write, I had not really written songs other than whatever I had to write in one of my music classes in high school and college, and other than me putting a tune to a poem that I had written back in the 1980s. Yet, my husband had been encouraging me for years to write my own songs, but I kept telling him that it was not my gift, which at that time it definitely was not.

Then, on April 6, 2011, all of a sudden I had a tune in my head and I knew that I was to write it down, so I did. And then I asked the Lord for words, and he gave me the words to go with the tune, but just one verse. Later in the day I asked him if he had more words, and he gave me the second verse. Now it had been 40 years since I had last studied music, and I really had no clue what to do with this song or how to communicate it with others, or who I could get to sing it, for I had not really sung much at all for maybe 2 years.

Long story short, I ended up singing all but one of them, because I had no one else to sing them, and I needed to be able to share them, although my voice had certainly met better days. My husband sang with me in a few of them and our daughter sang one of them. But I had to learn how to write them in a format to where they could be recorded, and I had to learn how to record them and then how to share them with others, and that was a long process of learning all sorts of things I had no clue how to do previously. But with the help of my husband and some of my children and two in-law children I learned what I needed. And it was the Lord who strengthened and helped me all throughout this process or I would have never survived it all.

Now, back to the beginning. I was listening to these songs today when the very first song the Lord had given me to write began to play, “Gracious Father.” And the day that he gave me that song I was thrilled beyond measure that he had given me just that one song, for that was a miracle of God! But now back to today, the song that came next I recognized as the very last song the Lord had me write, “When I Was Walking,” dated January 16, 2020.

And as I thought about that for a moment, I realized that he had just taken me “from beginning to end” with just those two songs (a total of 185). For he was showing me the first and the last, the beginning and the end, who is God. He was showing me God, in other words, because all of these songs which were written were not written by me, in reality, but by God, and then he just shared them with me for me to share with others for their encouragement. And he gave me all the tools I needed to do his work.


And then I went to where I had left off last in my reading of 2 Corinthians, and the above passage of Scripture is what came next, perfectly in tune with what the Lord had just given me to share with all of you. For what the Lord was having me share with you, prior to me reading this passage, was that the ministry of song writing that he gave to me was from him and not from my human flesh, and I can definitely attest to that. Certainly I had to participate in the process, but it was all under the direction of the Lord.

And that is how it should be for all of us who are ministers for the Lord Jesus and for his gospel message. Not one of us should be operating in our own flesh, doing whatever we decide to do, but we should all be led of the Holy Spirit and we should speak or write or sing or whatever he has us doing as we are inspired and guided by the Spirit of God living within us so that we are giving out His messages and not our own. Again, we still have to do the work, and we still have to participate in the process, but by the Spirit of God.

And, yes, all of us who are doing the work of the ministry, under the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, will face criticism and false judgments from other people, some of whom may accuse us of operating in the flesh and/or of promoting our own flesh. But we can’t let the opinions of other people affect what we do in love response to our Lord Jesus and in obedience to his calling upon our lives. I have to write and publish each day whatever the Lord gives me to share, regardless of how others respond.

When I Was Walking

An Original Work / January 16, 2020

When I was walking along the way,
My Lord was with me, and He did say,
“My child I’m with you. I hear you pray,
‘Oh, help me, Lord! Need You today!’”

He is my friend, near to the end.
Gently leads me. His servant be.
He helps me pray – knows what to say.
He’s all I need. On Him I feed.

When I am wond’ring of what to do,
He gently leads me to what is truth.
He is my helper. He strengthens me.
When I’m in want, supplies my need.

He comforts me with all His love.
Gives me His grace from heav’n above.
I heed His call to watch and pray,
To guard my heart throughout each day.

When He is calling to come to Him,
To let Him lead you, trust Him within,
How will you answer to Him today?
Will you say, “Yes, Lord, have your way”?

Do not neglect to let Him in,
Cleanse you from sin, made new within.
Leave all your sin, obey your Lord,
Trust in His Word – His mighty Sword.

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Asking for prayer for my stepdad. He had a stroke a couple years ago and his brain is still messed up. I praise God that He helped him to survive it though.

Too many family members in the Trump campaign. He needs someone to keep him on message, instead of complaining about what Kamala/ Biden/ the media are doing/ not doing.

It WAS his election to lose.