Steve Bannon Suggests Donald Trump Has Been Bought by Billionaire Tiktok Investor/GOP Donor​

A bipartisan bill put forward by members of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party last week would work to "incentivize divestment of TikTok" by ByteDance by blocking it from appearing in American app stores and granting Executive Branch authority to take similar action in the future against social media companies operated by a "foreign adversary."

Lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy & Commerce advanced the legislation last week in a 50-0 bipartisan vote to the full U.S. House of Representatives.

Despite his past stances in favor of action against TikTok for its Chinese ties, Trump, the leading candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, wrote in a Truth Social post on Thursday that he opposed the recent bill, [suggesting that Facebook would gain if Tiktok loses, and Facebook is a "true Enemy of the People!"]

In response to this post, reports noted that the seeming shift in stance from Trump came after a meeting with Jeff Yass, a conservative hedge fund manager who has a $33 billion stake in TikTok. Yass, according to Intelligencer, has been allegedly threatening to pull support from GOP lawmakers who back the bipartisan divestment bill.

See also from 2020:

I know I posted in another thread about how I gave up watching all my favorite tv shows because I felt they all had some kind of sin in them, but now, I'm beginning to think there's sin in every show and wonder, if maybe I'm putting myself in a prison by restricting myself to nothing, but specifically Christian shows, Christian speakers, and the 700 Club or I wonder, if this is Satan making me think I'm putting myself in a prison just to try to get me to watch the shows I used to like again. So I was wondering, if I list the shows I like, could you guys let me know if you've ever heard of them and if so, do you think they're okay for me to watch, do you think they're bad and I shouldn't watch them, or do you think I can watch them, but just use discernment? Here are the shows I like: 90-Day Fiance, Dr. Phil, the Steve Wilkos Show, all the Gordon Ramsey shows, Worst Cooks in America, Judge Judy, any other kind of court show, ID crime shows like Deadly Women, Cops, Intervention, Wife Swap, Super Nanny, and Chopped. All advice is welcome. Thanks everyone in advance.

The tapestry was marvelous,
Well done, and was not frivolous.
All shown to fit together well
For all who on the earth do dwell.

For God had His design in mind
In hopes that Him the people find.
He showed Himself to everyone
Through His created works, well done.

But humans have a different mind,
And therefore not all God do find.
For many cast off truth they know
And worship God they do not show.

Instead they worship God’s creation,
The things of earth in jubilation.
They make the things of earth their idols,
And lusts of flesh they do not bridle.

So God, He gave them to their pleasures
To do what in their hearts do treasure,
To live their lives in much confusion,
To treat the Lord with much derision.

But God is calling out to all of us
To live our lives for Him who’s marvelous.
To make Him Lord and Master of our lives,
To live for Him, and to reject the lies.

An Original Work / March 10, 2024
Based off Romans 1:18-32

Katie Britt defends sex trafficking story she falsely links to Biden presidency​

Republican denied hiding fact that the abuse she referred to in her State of the Union rebuttal had actually occurred during Bush era

In her first interview since delivering her widely ridiculed rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, Republican senator Katie Britt refused to apologize for invoking a story about child rape that she implied resulted from the president’s handling of the ongoing crisis at the southern US border – even though the abuse occurred years earlier in Mexico while her party controlled the White House.

Britt, 42, appeared on Fox News Sunday and denied hiding the fact that the rape and sex trafficking case to which she referred had actually occurred during the presidency of George W Bush. She also made it a point to criticize what she called “the liberal media” for how they have covered her rebuttal to Biden’s speech on Thursday, which earned being parodied on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live.

She's not the first, of course. Marjorie Taylor Green lied about Biden's imagined role in a school shooting:
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She lied about when it happened, too. Happened before the Safer Schools law was signed into law by George HW Bush. (not Joe Biden)

As they get more and more desperate, they don't even care if the stories make any sense or are remotely believable. They're just tossing stuff out to see if any of it sticks.

Believers in the Lord Jesus, when Jesus died on that cross he put our sins to death with him so that by God-given and God-persuaded and God-ordained faith in Jesus Christ we might die with him to sin and now live to his righteousness in his power, strength, and wisdom, by the grace of God. This is the essence of the gospel message that we, if we are to come to Jesus Christ, must deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to his commands (New Covenant) in holy living.

Therefore, we are not to let sin continue to reign in our mortal bodies to obey its desires, for Jesus Christ delivered us from our slavery (addiction) to sin so that we will now serve him with our lives. We are no longer to live our lives for human passions (lusts), but for the will of God. For if our faith in Jesus is genuine, we are now God’s possession, and he owns us, and our will is now to do the will of God and not the will of our flesh. For if sin is what we obey, it leads to death, not to life eternal with God.

Thus, the Christian life should not be characterized by us living in sensuality, sexual immorality, sinful passions, drunkenness, orgies, and lawless idolatry. Instead we are to be people of integrity who live in moral purity, honesty, faithfulness, meekness, godliness, and in faithful obedience to our Lord, as a matter of life practice. For if sin is what we practice, and not righteousness, and not obedience to our Lord, we will die in our sins. We will not inherit eternal life with God regardless of what faith we profess with our lips.

[Hebrews 12:1-2; Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; 1 Peter 2:24; 2 Corinthians 5:15,21; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Luke 9:23-26; Ephesians 4:17-24; Titus 2:11-14; Matthew 7:21-23; Romans 2:6-8; Galatians 5:16-21; Galatians 6:7-8; Ephesians 5:3-6; Colossians 1:21-23; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

But when, by the grace of God, we make that transition from death to life, and from the power of sin and Satan to now following our Lord in obedience to his commands, we should not look, think, believe, talk, and behave like we did before. It should be obvious that we have had a heart transformation of the Spirit of God and that we are no longer who we were before we believed in Jesus. And we should come under the conviction of the Holy Spirit that many of the things we did before are wrong for us to do now.

And so when we change, and we should be continually changing and growing and maturing in our walks of faith in our Lord, it should be obvious to our friends, family, and fellow “church” goers that we are different than we were before, and that the things we used to be okay doing we can no longer do. Our attitudes, beliefs, and desires should all change for the better. But this will not make us popular. And those who were our friends previously may now malign and mock and criticize us for being different than before.

At one point in my life, my husband and I had joined a Bible study group with some fellow Christians (or professers of Christianity), and that seemed to be going well until some of them started following a particular book author who was teaching lies, i.e. who was twisting the Scriptures to say what they do not teach, and the opposite of what they teach. And they were following a particular religious movement which was also teaching lies and twisting truth, both of which were using misimpressions (indirect lies).

The Lord led me to write on these authors and movements and what they are teaching, and to post these writings on my blog and on Facebook. And this angered one of the men in the group who then came to my house and took it upon himself to yell and scream at me and to tell me that I needed to get with the majority, for the majority is right, he said, not the minority. And I was in the minority, he said. And this is what this passage of Scripture is talking about, how some people will treat us when we change course.

And if you dare to be different, which is what it means to be holy – set apart by and for God to be different from the world because we are being formed into the likeness of character of Jesus Christ – and so you go against the flow and you don’t join in with what everyone else is doing and teaching and believing and living, you can expect to be treated like I was, and to be hated and fought against and told that you are the one who is wrong because you are not with the majority. But make sure you are following God’s word.

But we are to be encouraged, for the Lord told us in advance that if we follow him with our lives that we can expect to be hated and mistreated and persecuted as he was, and that we might even be falsely accused of wrong, falsely arrested, falsely imprisoned, and perhaps even put to death. But we are to be strong in the strength of the Lord and to keep on following after truth and righteousness, but according to the Word of God taught in its appropriate context, while testing whatever we hear against God’s Word.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 6:22-23; Lu 21:12-19; Jn 15:1-21; Jn 16:33; Jn 17:14; Ac 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

On My Knees

By David Mullen / Michael Hunter Ochs / Nicole Mullen

There are days when I feel
The best of me is ready to begin
Then there days when I feel
I'm letting go and soaring on the wind
'Cause I've learned in laughter or in pain
How to survive

I get on my knees, I get on my knees
There I am before the love that changes me
See I don't know how, but there's power
When I'm on my knees

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A constitutional republic and a democracy are two different forms of government, each with their own set of principles and characteristics. A constitutional republic, such as the United States, is a form of government where the powers of the government are limited by the law, specifically by a constitution. In a constitutional republic, the citizens elect representatives to govern on their behalf. The government's powers are defined and limited by the constitution, and the rule of law is supreme. The constitution is the highest legal authority and protects the rights of the citizens. On the other hand, a democracy is a form of government where the people have the power to make decisions directly or through elected representatives.

In a democracy, the majority rules, and the minority has to accept the decisions made by the majority. In a direct democracy, citizens have the power to vote on laws and policies directly, while in a representative democracy, citizens elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.

The main difference between a constitutional republic and a democracy is that in a constitutional republic, the government's powers are limited by the constitution, protecting the rights of the citizens, while in a democracy, the majority has the power to make decisions, which could potentially lead to the oppression of the minority.

Biden’s speech at Pullman Yards, Atlanta failed to draw much of a crowd, as just a handful of people were seen waiting outside the event venue. Newsmax correspondent Addison Smith shared pictures of the sparsely filled room and reported that the entire outside viewing area was empty.
In one photo, less than 10 people could be seen waiting in line.

Don't expect to hear this on mainstream news.

Pray for those affected by the death of a lady named Kagney who died by committing suicide

Were/are Samaritans jews?
Is it a different religion?
What are the differences?

Is it wrong to be a Christian and be Pro for your race ?

I never believed in a God, and people always felt I was a little arrogent when it comes to other people`s problems. I never had a personal problem, and everything I solved just by doing hard work. But, there was always a side of me that had a soft spot for them, I lost empathy a little over the years because they always made me suffer, and I felt it a little degrading to be in a society. I prayed sometimes, though I never got heard in the sense that Jesus talked to me, or something changed. So many years now I have focused on making life better for everyone, you can`t expect life to be good if you don`t go through the hardships, but I didn`t want to be too judging. Why people have problems, I don`t know, I just wanted us to be together and have fun. For the first time, I feel Jesus don`t have an answer for me, we don`t mix me and society. I feel sad that people follow the gouverment and wants to be enslaved

If God is not in control of everything, how can he make the promise of Eternal life? How can he go a step further than eternal life but also promise that sin itself will never happen again? Think about it, if humans had free will as it is understood today how is it that they can live forever if the requirement to be in the very presence of God is eternal sinless perfection? What is stopping another human, angel, or other potential creation of God from rebelling against God again if God is not in complete control of all things? What caused lucifer and humanity to fall? Two creations from God who by the way, were created perfect in every way and at one point in time probably thought that they would never fall. Yet, they did and they chose evil. Why? If it was not in God's will for these to happen and they all had the free will to do whatever it is that they wanted how and why did they fall? There are two arguments that i can think of that can be made to explain this conundrum.

1. Lucifer, Adam, and Eve chose to fall and God had to make a backup plan for how to redeem mankind and how to deal with Lucifers rebellion. But this argument doesn't explain how exactly God is going to keep humanity, the angels, and other creation of God from ever sinning again. It doesn't match up with the scriptures that say that God planned from before he created the world to redeem his Elect, it denies Gods omnipotence as a God that knows all and does whatever he pleases yet never sins because he is God and none are greater than him.

2. The fall was part of God's plan from the beginning and this fits in with God's complete sovereignty and this explains how he can promise that sin will never again enter the world nor will we, God's chosen children ever sin against God again. It also explains why God created lucifer and sin entered the world in the first place, another brain teaser.

The second argument seems to answer what really happened and how a fall will never happen again. Because the fall was part of God's plan and the rest of God's plan is that it will never, ever, happen again whatever God decrees it comes to pass. It argues that God knew from the very beginning and the very end of time that the fall was going to happen and that he not only let it happen, but predestined it to happen as part of his eternal and divine plan.

And all of Nigeria...

Christian pastor Rotimi Obajimi has escaped from terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria after nearly 10 months in captivity and has been brought back to his church, reports said.

"We were so amazed to see him because we have been praying earnestly for a long time trusting Jesus that He would surely come back, but lo and behold he was brought to our headquarters in Maiduguri by the military," a pastor at Redeem Church in Maiduguri told SaharaReporters.


Obajimi, who led the church in the rural area of Borno/Yobe province, was kidnapped by Islamic militants on Jan. 6. He was then taken to Sambisa Forest, where he was tied down for months, before being moved to an unknown destination and brought back to Sambisa once again.

The pastor revealed that he managed to escape thanks to a heavy downpour that led to large floods in the area, forcing his captors to leave him. Obajim wondered for days through the forest, before finally arriving to a village, where the Nigerian military picked him up.

He was treated at Maimallari Hospital and debriefed by the military before being allowed to return to Maiduguri.

Boko Haram, who have been waging war on the Nigerian government for over five years now, have slaughtered Christian pastors and entire congregations in their mission to establish Islamic rule over the nation.

Earlier this week the militants beheaded seven villagers in the northeast town of Ngamdu, apparently as revenge attacks against locals who have aided Nigeria's military or have formed vigilante groups to fight back against Boko Haram.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed claims that he had been killed in a video last week, and said that he is implementing strict Sharia law on towns in Nigeria that have been captured.

"Nothing will kill me until my days are over. ... I'm still alive. Some people asked you if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah," Shekau said in the video.

We are running our caliphate, our Islamic caliphate. We follow the Quran. ... We now practice the injunctions of the Quran in the land of Allah," he added.

The militants made international headlines in April after they kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok.

There are fears many of the schoolgirls have been sold off as child brides, sparking international outrage. In July, prayer rallies and vigils in support of the girls marked 100 days since their kidnapping.

Initial hopes in September that the girls had been rescued were dashed after the Nigerian army clarified it had rescued some girls from the militants, but not those from Chibok. Boko Haram fighters have reportedly killed at least 11 parents of the schoolgirls in separate raids near Chibok.

please pray for sleep and for a toxic 'friend' to be kept at a distance from myself and other non-toxic friends in Jesus Name.
thank you for praying

Considering that we are dealing with “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” in the last book of the Bible, the fifth seal can only be rendered as the last judgment of the Church. Christ is not the mediator of the Old Covenant (Hebrews 12:22-24). Futurists and Preterists are only fooling themselves that the seven seals pertain to the Old Covenant people. The martyrs in the fifth seal are “slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held,” which refers to the Church, not the Jews that rejected Christ.

Revelation 4-5 mirror the judgment scene in Daniel 7 and represents the antitypical seventh month in the Hebraic cultus calendar, which is concomitant with what is revealed to the martyrs in response to their enquire,


The response is that the saints must endure a final judgment before judgment is meted out upon “them that obey not the gospel of God” (1 Peter 4:17). Again, futurists and Preterists are only fooling themselves; the seven seals pertain to the final judgment upon the Church, not the Old Covenant people.

The point is that the NT affirms there is a great falling away in the last days, and apostasy calls for judgment upon the Church in the last days,


Again, the house of God that Peter addresses the Church, not strictly the biological descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob under the Old Covenant.


No argument prevails against the truth that the Church is judged for its apostasy in the last days. Amos affirms Revelation prophesies about that judgment because “GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.”

Just a little bit after having gotten a company to post his bond for the bit over 90 million to be able to appeal, it's possible that Trump managed to open himself up for a new lawsuit by Carroll for defamation. Not sure if it'll affect his appeal, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable about how it works can tell.


At a rally, Trump complained about having to post 91 million bond for the appeal and called Carrolls words "a fake story, a totally made-up story." And while not in the link, on a clip from YouTube of the rally, I believe he called her a horseface and claimed again that he didn't know her. Claims that led him to the current 91 million judgement to begin with.

BUDAPEST, March 4 (Reuters) - Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet former U.S. President Donald Trump this coming Friday in Florida, shortly after he openly endorsed his long-time ally's bid to return to the U.S. presidency this year.
The right-wing Orban, who has regularly been at loggerheads with the EU over his anti-immigration campaigns and moves to put the judiciary, NGOs, and media under more state control, has been described by Trump as a "great leader".

Orban's conservative family policies have also earned praise among populist figures in the United States, and Hungary has hosted meetings of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, in the past years.

Hi,

Paul was a missionary and did the will of God,despite this, he had to suffer persecution sometimes, I sometimes ask , why didnt God protect him always ?

Br,

I've been having some suicidal thoughts or feelings swirling in my head lately. I didn't marry my girlfriend when I was twenty, so I didn't have kids. , now forties. No children, no marriage, I constantly questioned the value of my existence. Not having kids is probably the biggest reason why I question my purpose in life most of the time. Not very good. There will be no funeral services for next of kin. To make matters worse, I recently suffered from schizophrenia and other illnesses. I would hallucinate and have voices speaking to me. Thank God, schizophrenia can be cured through medication. I did attempt suicide on the high seas ,200 meters off the coast. I miraculously survived after hearing a supernatural voice speak to me, again I assumed it was a hallucination, an angelic voice spoke to me, taught me and reminded me of my time in the Navy, taught me How to swim and miraculously make it back to shore. I have been unemployed for several years. While I still had some savings, I felt like I was going to be a plane out of fuel sooner or later. My life was ultimately doomed. I think my biggest regret and fear is probably that I didn’t get married and have a few kids in the past. Children symbolize hope. I just don’t know how to stop these pessimistic views on life.

'He was an illegal alien, he was an illegal immigrant, he was an illegal migrant and he should have never been in this country and he wouldn't have been under Trump's policies,' the former president insisted.
He added that Biden has 'no remorse, no regret' and 'should be apologizing for apologizing to this killer.'
Meanwhile, Biden appeared just an hour down the road for a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia right before Trump came on stage.

The invasion has to stop.

I'm early to bed and early to rise.. to be healthy, wealthy and wise. -Benjamin Franklin

Hello to all. I joined for fellowship, and sharing God's Word and growing together in Him.

This is your clues

LORD OF THE RINGS

How many people have a form of godliness on the forum, talking about anything else other than Jesus Christ, reveals they have a form of godliness but no actual godliness.


2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.



When Jesus testified against the Jews of Israel they killed Him for it, and apostle also they bound as an evil doer as he testified, but shows the word of God is not bound.


Even though a forum may pretend it is Christianity, as the Jews of Israel feigned belief in God and put God to death, they all are releasing the truth by their attempted unjust actions...



2 Timothy 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

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Now, in an important advance supporting this RNA World theory, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., have carried out a small but essential part of the story. In test tubes, they developed an RNA molecule that was able to make accurate copies of a different type of RNA.

The work, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, gets them closer to the grand goal of growing an RNA molecule that makes accurate copies of itself.

To reach this point, the scientists overcame perhaps the greatest barrier to the plausibility of the RNA World theory. Up to now, no RNA molecule in the lab had succeeded in making copies of another RNA that were both sufficiently accurate and functional.

To show that their RNA was getting better at copying, the Salk team tested a 71st-generation version against one of its distant ancestors. The newer generation outperformed its ancestor when it came to making accurate copies.

In Christian churches all over the globe, we have a mixture.

All of the attendants claim to be believers, but only a tiny few are really His flock, truly born again.

The only pure church we have seen was at the very start of the church in the book of Acts.

Satan's attack, was indeed, this mixture. For the mixture, was like adding leaven, for the TWO CAN NOT fellowship (which is a Spiritual dynamic, not just physical) with one another, and neither does God move in the same kind of power with this mixture present.

Yet one more time on this earth, Jesus will make His church (Ecclesia) pure. This imho will be like a Goshen event were THEY are separated and gathered together, in one place, and there may be many of these places across the planet.