The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ A Great Awakening

Posted on April 12, 2026 by Chip Murray

…From the Great Entanglement!

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. ~ Joshua 24:15

Brothers and sisters, I beg you to indulge a great awakening in me sparked by the Sight & Sound movie masterpiece A Great Awakening we went to see on Friday. First off, to state an irrefutable fact, our Founders were much closer to God than we are today. This being the case, it would be safe to reason that they were in a far better place to discern in and trust His wisdom than we are today…

The man who does not know God depends entirely on his own wits and forecasting. If instead of arranging our own programs we will trust to the wisdom of God and concentrate all our efforts on the duty that lies nearest, we shall find that we meet God in that way and in no other. ~ Oswald Chambers, God’s Haphazard Order

We were very close to not becoming a United States in the Summer of 1787. The colony delegates were locked in what seemed a hopeless stalemate. I knew that Benjamin Franklin’s call to prayer broke the stalemate. I did not realize the existence of the business partnership Franklin had formed with the British Evangelist George Whitefield, and his influence on Franklin bringing about the conversion to Christ in one (candle) that changed the course of history.

Then this morning…and bear in mind our Orange Strong Bible study has been focused on Derek Prince’s 12-part Demons and Demonology since January. I woke up to the following two articles which I will connect to Joshua 24:15, God’s Haphazard Order, Galatians 5:1, my AXA boss’ “That ship has sailed” quote following the same-sex-marriage ruling, and last but FAR from least, the  pièce de resistance; the 19th Amendment of the Constitution of these United States.

My favorite New York Attorney asks a question: Is There A Demonization Within Our Nation?

My friend and brother Chad from Texas answers: Few and Defined

In one of the many powerful scenes in the movie, the will of man attempts to thwart the Spirit of God during Rev. Whitefield’s sermon to the people of the Church of England. Not only did it fail, it captured the essence of our churches in America today…weak, impotent, and devoid of Holy Spirit! I don’t think, I know God is about to bring the same miracle He brought to our thirteen colonies in 1787. The church today is the pre-conversion Franklin…full of itself with nothing to show. Why? Weak men. The demon missing in Bobbie Anne’s piece shows up clear as day in Chad’s. Read the woman’s comments and know for a fact you are reading the Jezebel spirit that the pre-conversion church has submitted to through weakness, cowardice, and silence…until now. God tells us in His Gal. 5:1Word that we can in fact disentangle ourselves: Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

We disentangled ourselves from the dreadful mistake of Roe v Wade. My AXA boss now admits the same mistake exists in same-sex-marriage ruling. Disentanglement is not a matter of if, but of when…leaving the last and perhaps most devastating entanglement of all…the 19th Amendment. God made man to rule over his house; as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. The Serpent split the vote, and the rest is bloody history!

Starting Over

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ When the World Turns Around, L.E.A.D.Encouraging

Posted on April 5, 2026 by Chip Murray

He gave you this day…OWN IT!

And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. ~ Luke 24:2-3

Brothers and sisters, please bear with me today. My heart is heavy with the grief and despair that comes with losing EVERYTHING you believed and trusted to be true. We believed in Him and who He was all the way until He wasn’t…and then our world fell completely apart…

The Holy Spirit has been given; Jesus has been glorified; now the waiting depends on our fitness, not upon God’s providence. ~ Oswald Chambers, The Promise of the Highest

Second, let us briefly examine the substance of this sacrifice. “Let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.” To praise God continually will require a childlike faith in Him. You must believe His word, or you will not praise His name. Doubt snaps the harp strings. Questions mar all melody. Trust Him, lean on Him, enjoy Him—you will never praise Him unless you do. Unbelief is the deadly enemy of praise. ~ Charles Spurgeon On Prayer & Spiritual Warfare.

Yesterday I read a post from a brother I grew up with in Wyckoff, NJ. He and his wife were having lunch or dinner in a restaurant, and they decided to leave the minute a couple walked in wearing “No Kings” T-shirts. He did not come and die on the Cross for us to surrender territory to the enemy! Waiting depends on our fitness. All I see in my church, brothers and sisters, is surrender…

Last week on Palm Sunday, Frocine, Stephen, and myself left Howells Church following the service to drive to the Westchester Bluegrass Club in Purdys to see my favorite band, Chris Jones & The Night Riders deliver two hours of beautiful music on a beautiful day. I am pretty certain that we were in the middle of a “No Kings” crowd, BUT I wore my Orange Strong colors and owned the space because He died to give me the authority to do so! “What If You’re Wrong?”

In 2019 I knew He was turning the world right-side-up again, and I have lived every day since preparing for what that means in my local community…contrary to what the enemy would have us believe. “Being on the Left is a disease of the soul.” ~ Javier Milei

The Holy Spirit is absolutely honest; He indicates the things that are right and the things that are wrong. ~ Oswald Chambers, The Promise of the Highest…be right brothers and sisters. He made you to be so! And MOST importantly, be encouraged.

When we’re right-side-up again, no matter where and when, gotta give the Devil his due. Gotta send him back to Hell, that ain’t no easy sell, just the price of a heavenly view. When it all goes down, won’t find me sittin’ around, wonderin’ what am I gonna do. When TRUTH is back in town, honest men will come around, make a better world for me and you! ~ When The World Turns Around

“America is back. We refuse to accept an “acceptable facsimile” of anything anymore. We want the real things. Real health, not pills. Real peace, not pallets of cash. Real space, not ‘political outreach.’ The Great Reformulation isn’t just about food— it’s about a return to truth itself. And it’s about time. And I, for one, am here for it.” ~ Coffee & Covid, Reformulated

Today’s Tune-up is dedicated to the memory of Steven who tragically lost his life in a fire yesterday morning, his wife Yvonne and my brother in Christ Ryan, his wife Celia, Steven’s sister, and the entire family suffering this enormous and painful loss.

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ No Kings? (38)

Posted on March 29, 2026 by Chip Murray

He weeps…

The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.            ~ Proverbs 29:4

As Paul wrote in his “prison epistle” to the Ephesians in chapter 6, verse 12, For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. There is no better place to view the truth of Paul’s words than to see and feel the energy and spirit behind most Progressive-Liberal events these days, whether you were at the No Kings Rallies yesterday, or any anti-ICE protests, or LGBTQ events. We had a promising young man; a Teen Republican at point of graduating to Young Republicans last year who defected to the Democrat Party here in New York last Summer. He was the kickoff speaker at the No Kings Rally in Warwick yesterday! He tried feebly to explain his defection to one of our Orange Strong members who was there photographing all of the out-of-state license plates…as this report from the Daily Signal comes  on the same day, Teen kills mother for misgendering her.

Today is day 38 of the Nehemiah 40-day prayer and fast. It’s also the day Christians around the world celebrate Jesus’ triumphant arrival in Jerusalem, Palm Sunday. Luke 19:41 tells us, “And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it.” They did not know who he was then, and they do not know who the true King is now…the former Young Republican didn’t choose the party that turns children into monsters because of values. He chose it for the Proverbs 29:4 gifts. In other words, he consciously sided with the principalities, the powers, and the rulers of the darkness, to the eternal damnation of his own soul…as Jesus wept!

Nehemiah wept over the same city 445 years before Jesus. He tells us in Nehemiah 1:6 “Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my Father’s house have sinned.”

Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; and also the (King’s) words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work (Nehemiah 2:18).

How To Take Our Country Back

  1. We have to take our counties back first. Counties are parent to the states are parent to the Fed.
  2. We cannot do that without the Constitution. Just because our people and our politicians have ignored it does not mean it doesn’t exist as the supreme law of the land!
  3. We have to change the focus from Progressive v Conservative to shift the argument from moral authority to Constitutional authority.The Blakeman Example: We will support a pro-choice candidate who makes our Constitution the foundation of his platform.
  4. The Republican Party IS the apparatus.
  5. We have to convert the party to the Constitution. Candidates to be vetted accordingly. Candidates who want our support must sign the pledge.
  6. Interposition through 1st Amendment Petitions is the ONLY way back to Constitutional governance.
  7. The Proverbs 29:4 Challenge: The lower magistrates receive “gifts” from the higher magistrates designed to restrain their higher calling to interpose. They must understand the long-term gain outweighs their short-term interest.
  8. Finally, we need to rally and unite our church and patriot communities to come together on our Nehemiah Wall. We have to present a force of remonstration to let our interposing magistrates know that we will have their backs!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Creature Comforts

Posted on March 22, 2026 by Chip Murray

The Love to Die For…

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? ~ Luke 6:46

A fellow Christian I’ve known for the past fifteen years or so posted the following Francis Schaeffer quote on Friday, “Here is the great evangelical disaster – the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. ACCOMMODATION – the World Spirit of This Age.” To which I responded, “There is only one pulpit that has called it out, and I have watched the Jezebel spirit drag husbands by their snout rings away from it.” The Proverb from A Psalm & Proverb a Day just happened to be 31:3 “Give not thy strength to women, nor thy ways to that which destroys kings.” EXACTLY what we have done!

Rounding out Friday’s Creature Comfort Trifecta, this gem from Luke 18:25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God…because WE never understood why the cheese was free.

Could this be why…

When we hear or read about population control, it does not mean that there are too many people, as the propaganda implies. It means that there are too many non-producing, consuming people. Not only do we have an aging population, but we also have a growing population of poor, non-producing consumers. Thus, we get reports like the one in The Federalist that “Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., signed into law a bill that would allow doctors in Illinois to prescribe the deaths of their own patients. Under the new law, which goes into effect in September 2026, terminally ill people above the age of 18 will be able to get a suicide drug from their doctor, making Illinois the 12th state in the country to allow assisted suicide.” ~ Bob Livingston

Brewer’s 1894 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable defines “creature comforts” as “food and other things necessary for the comfort of the body”. Man being supposed to consist of body and soul, the body is the creature, but the soul is the “vital spark of heavenly flame”.

And then He showed me the creature behind it ALL… (This is all on Friday mind you!)

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin

“The book is controversial and has been debunked for its factual inaccuracies and antisemitic and racist conspiracy theories.” In other words, it was ALL true!

The very same creature who fattened Solomon for the kill, and sidelined Western “Too in Love With His Stuff to Fight” Man in this hour of all hours, is him that Jesus saw fall like lightning from heaven (Luke 10:18).

Charlie Kirk, the ZIONISM debate and the question of our salvation. Ye shall know them by their fruits (Matt. 7:16). The creature battles in the flesh because it knows it has no power against those with “the vital spark of heavenly flame.” So, it will come at you with name-calling, threats, coercion, censorship, manipulation, intimidation, blackmail, and in Charlie Kirk’s case, murder. But…

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. ~ Revelation 17:14

“Can a Believer Lose Their Salvation, Part 1?” ~ Ashley Hays

“Can a Believer Lose Their Salvation, Part 2?” ~ Ashley Hays

On the other hand, a Nicky Cruz contemporary and longtime friend of Pastor Steve’s shared his personal testimony with Howells Church earlier this year. Years ago he suffered a heart attack, died, and was taken up to heaven where he saw everything to come, and that 95% of those who call themselves Christians will deny Christ. Check your “heart posture” brothers and sisters…that’s all I can tell you.

The God who loves us reveals Himself in six beautiful verses! “It’s not what you know…” Molly Deprato

Oh…the last portion of my response to the fellow Christian on Friday, “We are the best equipped army on the face of the earth…too afraid to take the field. Denial is not a river in Egypt!”

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful creator. ~ 1 Peter 4:19

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Self-Preservation at the Narrow Gate (24)

Posted on March 15, 2026 by Chip Murray

Count your storms a blessing! He’s preparing you to pass through…

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. ~ Luke 13:24

My Deliverance on March 11, 2026

Background: I’ve always enjoyed a good drink; cocktail before dinner, wine with a meal, and a beer or two now and then. It always seemed to make life a little more enjoyable. Except for that DWI in 1984 (.86 in the breathalyzer), I’ve lived a responsible life, built a successful financial planning practice, which I sold and retired from in 2020. All in all, a pretty good ride, blessed with good friends, not so lucky in love (except for my church family), married and divorced twice. But here’s where it gets VERY interesting brothers and sisters…

When I accepted Jesus Christ and was born again in 2015, a new life began to take shape in me. From that day to this, the promise of God’s Word in James 4:8, slowly, steadily, and patiently transformed me into more of the new man, and less of the old…except for one very clever, shrewd, and conniving houseguest that has still remained…until Wednesday, March 11. Up until then folks, I may have been the most functional Alcoholic in the world! Here’s what happened leading up to March 11th…

Orange Strong Bible Study began a 12-part study of Derek Prince’s teachings on Demons & Demonology on January 20th. At the very beginning I predicted/hoped there would be deliverance in our group/circles. We have completed part 6. One of many things we’ve learned is that saved believers can, and often do, host unclean spirits. What’s another word for alcohol? Spirits!

On Monday of this week, I met with a young brother to pray. During our time together I sensed a heaviness and struggle in him. Fortunately, he opened up about the addiction struggle he and many other men are having today and we were able to pray over it and against it. Here’s the kicker: I remember thinking, “This is what is taking men out of the fight!”…oblivious to my own demon!

That same night I joined a 7-9pm Zoom call hosted by patriots in Virginia with patriots joining in from around the country. I was asked to be one of the speakers to share with the group what we’re doing here in Orange County.

The next day I watched the recording, and I could see the houseguest…in my place! I’m probably the only one who saw it. I spoke early but fell asleep at about the 1hr 30min mark missing the last segment and closing prayer. This shook me to my core, as I believe He meant it to. At that moment I saw the spirit for what it was; the deceiver, the hypocrite, the liar…it had no place to hide. I woke up Wednesday morning and it was gone!

I get up every morning at 4am, shower, light a candle, prepare for prayer, and pray before spending time in the Word. Wednesday morning everything was different. I was lighter and brighter…in the candlelight of preparation with eyes closed, I could see images joyfully dancing around me…they felt like angels to me.

My Chambers read that very morning:

And then the following morning, God plants this seed of affirmation in my Psalm & Proverb a Day…

A Psalm (Heart) & Proverb (Wisdom) a Day Drives the Tyrant Away! PS 119:57 * CHETH.* Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

PR 23:30, 33 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

MAX ~ LEADERSHIP INSIDE—THEN OUT ~ Numbers 32:13 “The first and best victory is to conquer self.”

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. ~ Luke 14:11

There is something amazingly humbling …in being loyal to God. ~ Oswald Chambers, Defiant Humility 🙏♥️🙏

Fellow patriots, I know I am not alone in having been blind to that which was holding me back from who my Creator made me to be. From my perspective, everything was OK. If you have God’s Holy Spirit in you, His perspective will eventually win, OR, you will choose to stay with your own. Before we get too hard on ourselves, we need to realize that the American church let its guard down a very long time ago. It is time for men to hold themselves and our churches accountable and choose: Are we to be loyal to ourselves, or loyal to God (Joshua 24:15)?

We cannot fix what we will not face. ~ Catherine Austin Fitts

“When self-preservation gets a foothold, we fail miserably.”  ~ Jamie Walden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNBth6OPdWo&t=302s

“Stop cursing your storms and start giving thanks for them.” ~ Jorge Vega, Orange Strong Train Them Up Committee (Prov. 22:6) https://www.facebook.com/reel/1227288362410420

Please feel free to share with anyone you know who is going through the same struggle. Tell them from me that love may be “a many splendored thing,” but liberation is the father of true love, not found in any of the ISM’S, but in the Christian. For who can truly love while under the yoke of Satan? Lastly, please feel free to give them my contact info to be available to them as a brother to pray with and talk to…in this late hour.  

Your brother in Christ,

Chip

Chip.murray253@gmail.com

845-544-4005

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Honor In The Valley

Posted on March 8, 2026 by Chip Murray

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; ~ Psalm 23:4

Think about it…we were all children once. If you were abducted or lost, wouldn’t you want to know that someone was coming to rescue you? The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. We hold ourselves to the highest moral consciousness, knowing that children are the future. If we do not protect them, then we do nothing more than sow the seeds of destruction within our own nation, as well as others. In a world of changing and declining moral values, one trait distinguishes us from the other more clearly than race, gender, creed, or color. That trait is honor…honor feeds the spirit and soul of those who take it as their way of life. Honor must be freely embraced and treasured, not for the material benefits which it might bring, but for the knowledge that one has obeyed the moral law. ~ Bazzel Baz, Association for the Recovery of Children

On June 1st of last year, the Holy Spirit interrupted our CLOTH right in the middle of prayer with, WHAT ABOUT MY CHILDREN??? We spent the rest of that meeting in intercessory prayer and appeals to Heaven focusing on the horrors of child-sex-trafficking, abortion, and the insanity of transgenderism. Since that moment, Orange Strong members attended a conference in Yuba City, CA. to raise monies for Peace of Heaven, a Safe Home for children rescued from CST, attended the intense 6-day training taught by Bazzel and his wife Tina in Minneapolis last September, and formed two brand new committees; Protect Our Kids for the purpose of making it next to impossible for our children to become prey to trafficking predators, and Train Them Up (Prov. 22:6) to plant Christian Clubs in our High Schools to teach them God’s way…

The teachers tried to mold him with words and fancy rules, but Honor sang a different song and danced to a different tune. ~ Honor

I wrote Honor years before I was saved, but today in the context of Bazzel’s message above and the discernment of the Holy Spirit, I realize He was preparing me for this very hour. CLOTH sister Anita received the following Word in the same morning hours God gave me last Sunday’s Beware the Tares…

I am calling the men of this nation to rise up in prayer and fasting and to seek the Lord for your position of leadership in your family and church. It is not too late. It is never too late to love me and lead where I have called you. It is time to unstop your ears and take the blinders off your eyes. It is time to step up to the plate and hit a home run for the kingdom! ~ (Anita’s full Word in comment section of the last Tune-up)

I had lunch yesterday with a wonderful brother in Christ who lives God’s calling, but my heart broke when he raved about all the men’s Bible studies he attends with many of the men I know. They are the very see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil brethren He showed me in the last Tune-up. The very same who God is calling out through sister Anita. Blind, deaf, and dumb to God’s many messengers, including Eric Metaxas, Megan Basham, Donica Hudson, Trevor Loudon, Artur Palowsky, Matt Trewhella, Tricia Lindsay, Earl Wallace, Austin Kreutz, they have cemented themselves into the religious system of our day. Please pray for their awakening…

If we can stand before God apart from Jesus Christ, we have proved that Calvary is not needed. As soon as Jesus Christ comes in, He produces havoc because the whole world system is arrayed against His redemption. It was the world system of His day, and particularly the religious system, that killed the Son of God. ~ Oswald Chambers, Our Devotion as Disciples

Find a place where you can sit quietly alone for just a minute…and listen. Can you hear it? The sound of children crying out from Hell on this earth for honorable men. When He returns, as much as I love my Bible, the next to last place I want Him to find me is in a men’s Bible study while they are all out there! Maybe YOU can help rescue the next Lucy.

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Beware the Tares

Posted on March 1, 2026 by Chip Murray

They Disassociate From The Light

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?  But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. ~ Matthew 13:24-30

This past weekend we were honored to host Trevor Loudon at Howells church, and later that same day at CLOTH. Some tares are more obvious than others. The anarchists and Antifa are very easy to spot. But the Communists who have infiltrated every cultural institution in America are not nearly as obvious or visible. They are all about deception. But they are not the subject of today’s message.

The deadliest tares we face in America today are those the enemy sowed in our churches. It is no coincidence that our Orange Strong Bible Study is in the middle of Derek Prince’s 12-part series on Demons and Demonology at this very moment in time…because we are not dealing with flesh and blood, but with principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). These spirits have willpower, emotion, knowledge, self-awareness, and conscience as we’ve learned from Derek Prince. And, they serve Satan through deception, enticement, manipulation, and ultimately defilement…all while appearing saintly and loving.

The giveaways are fairly easy to spot: They have a strong aversion to patriotism. They fear man more than God. They preach a hyper-grace, half-Gospel, feel-good lie from Milquetoast pulpits, and they disassociated themselves from the martyred man who came closer to filling the shoes of the apostle Paul than perhaps any man before him, in Charlie Kirk. Oh, I almost forgot…Zero discernment allowed them to close their doors over a bad cold and lead their flocks to inject a bioweapon into their own bodies and the bodies of their children. Finally, they seek the company of their own see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil brethren over the final John 17:21 unity Jesus prayed for before going to the Cross.

Brothers and sisters, comfortable and safe is a very dangerous place to be in this hour. We’ve been led by the enemy within not to trust our own intuitions and gut judgments…the very tools God gave us as He did the Sons of Issachar. Trust in God and beware the tares. In fact…  

…have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them (Ephesians 5:11).

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ What We Ought (3)

Posted on February 21, 2026 by Chip Murray

: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. ~ Ephesians 6:20

Deuteronomy 28 is often referred to as the most terrible chapter in the Bible, and 28:63 the most terrible verse in the entire Bible. Why? Because, as Dr. Ruckman writes, “it is the apotheosis of hate and vengeance and has never been surpassed.” The same God who rejoiced over us to do us good, will rejoice over us to destroy us…for refusing to do what we ought. During Nehemiah’s 1:4 certain days of mourning and weeping over the destruction of his beloved city of Jerusalem, he faced and owned his own sin and the sin of his people, “We have delt very corruptly against thee,” he acknowledged to his God. He came to the place of true repentance: The place where the behavior dies. Where the habit loses oxygen. When the sin you used to defend starts to disgust you. (Credit Jason Bowden)

Over and over again we blame God for His neglect of people by our sympathy with them…we imply that we are filling up what God has forgotten to do…In all probability the Spirit of God will begin to show us that people are where they are because we have neglected to do what we ought. ~ Oswald Chambers, Instant Social Reform

Don’t take the bait. United We Stand

Satan’s not targeting the unbelievers, he’s coming after the lukewarm Christians. The Deception Christ Warned Us About

The only power Satan has is the power we give him through our ignorance, fear, and sin. ~  Derek Prince

Oswald continues, Today the great craze socialism, and men are saying that Jesus Christ came as a social reformer. Nonsense We are the social reformers; Jesus Christ came to alter us, and we try to shirk our responsibility by putting our work on Him. Jesus alters us and puts us right; then these principle of His instantly makes us social reformers. They begin to work straightaway where we live, in our relationships… “Consider how God has delt with you,” says Jesus, “and then consider that you do likewise to others.” Because if we don’t, we know who will.

When we do what we ought, we grow. When we know what we ought to do and don’t, our spiritual life begins to atrophy, decay and slowly die. God gave us this life and everything we need to do so much more…

Wherefore he saith, wake thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. ~ Ephesians 5:14

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ From Our Captivity, Against All Odds

Posted on February 15, 2026 by Chip Murray

The bars we cannot see…

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,  And said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: ~ Nehemiah 1:4-5

We Americans have not known true freedom since we surrendered to the black robe tyrants in 1963 and then again in 1973. America has been captive to a Romans 1:28 reprobate mind ever since. A reprobate mind sees what it wants to see and do what it wants to do without regard to “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” as Thomas Jefferson put in our Declaration of Independence 250 years ago. The reprobate mind is unable to see the bars of its own prison cell.

Communist and Islamic wolves circle our bread & circus-addled neighborhoods mesmerized by the endless parade of Bad Bunnies dangled before them by the true master their pride won’t let them see…until its too late. Most all of you reading these words know exactly what I am saying. It doesn’t matter who you are; a town supervisor, a court clerk, a teacher, a county legislator, a farmer, a pastor…whether you live in Texas, Virginia, California, Washington, Wisconsin, or New York…whether you have a D or an R after your name. You feel powerless to do anything other than react to what the world is bringing down around you and your families in this very hour. That was never so…before 1963!

THE GOOD NEWS: Our God is the very same covenant-keeping God today as He was in Nehemiah’s day.

THE BAD NEWS: Most of you have grown too comfortable in your captivity to leave it.

Nehemiah’s vision was founded on his knowledge of Scripture, and faith in God’s covenant promise. Nothing has changed from that day to this day. Please join us as we humble ourselves before the LORD and enter into our own certain days of fasting and praying from sunset on February 19th to sunrise on April 1st. That we too may tell them that the hand of our God is upon us (Nehemiah 2:18). Amen?

I’ll see you on the wall in April!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Plan

Posted on February 8, 2026 by Chip Murray

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven. ~ Nehemiah 1:4

Nehemiah was a patriot who loved the country God gave His people, and the holy city of his youth, Jerusalem. The only way I could possibly relate more to the grief and despair Nehemiah was feeling in that hour, would be for God to put me in his shoes. Well, let me tell you friends, that is exactly what He has done with this former Jersey boy who grew up just across the river from the city we all loved. The ONLY difference between Nehemiah’s country and Jerusalem, and America and New York City is we are in ruin…without the smoldering. As hard as this is for me to grasp, there are friends and neighbors we grew up with cheering on and celebrating our own destruction from within. They are actually possessed by the spirits of Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem. But we are the sons and daughters of liberty, patriot sons and daughters of the very same God whose hand was upon Nehemiah then, and upon us now in this very hour!

From sundown on Thursday February 19th to sunup on Wednesday April 1st, I am calling on every man and woman who is willing and able, from Orange County, New York to Orange County, California to join me for our forty certain days of fasting, and praying before the God of heaven in preparation for nothing less than the restoration and reclamation of our Republic.

Our country, corrupted and poisoned from the top down, and outside in, will be restored and reclaimed from the bottom up, and inside out by God’s grace and good will using the very tools God gave us to build her in the first place…our Constitution. Beginning in April we need to show up in numbers wearing colors that reflect our patriot spirit and heart for God. Here in Orange County, NY we will be wearing T-Shirts and Hoodies imprinted with the image of Rosey the Riveter in tribute to the mama grizzlies who kept the wolves at bay through the Covid years. The blue state governors, their administrations, and most all of their legislative bodies are in violation of their oaths to the Constitution…well beyond lip service. God, through us, will hold every last one of them accountable via our 1st Amendment Right to Petition (Sec. 3 of 14th Amendment). Amen? So, dear friends, that is the plan. God will provide the laborers on the wall. Please contact me to learn more about our petition effort led by one of the greatest Constitutional scholars in these United States. Remember brothers and sisters…the forty days is about repentance and humility…self-denial.

Jesus Christ had no sin to deny, no wrong self to deny; He had only a Holy Self. It was that Self He denied all the time, and it was that Self that Satan tried to make Him obey. What could be holier than the will of the holy Son of God? and yet all through He said, “not what I will, but as You will.” It was the denying of His holy Self that made the marvelous beauty of our Lord’s life. ~ Oswald Chambers, The Beauty of Self-Denial

Human liberty can only exist or be restored with an accurate perception of reality. Mind-distorting lies by government and external authority must be exposed. To do otherwise is to keep us dependent on an ivory tower mysticism based on lies and the duplicity of elitists and bureaucrats. ~ Bob Livingston

Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible. And fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. ~ Nehemiah 4:14

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