The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ 40 Days of Anti-Pride!

Posted on June 18, 2023 by Chip Murray

And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. ~ St. Matthew 3:17—4:2

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ~ St. Matthew 16:24

The Psalmist says, “Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.” I was asked to share my story at a gathering of our steering committee…the committee responsible for the founding of the Eagle Classical Christian Academy here in Orange County New York…on this Father’s Day eve. So, I shared my story of affliction beginning with my 5-year high school career in Franklin Lakes, through partying with Satan’s Slaves in the San Fernando Valley, intercepting drunks from crew boats in Morgan City, jamming with Bert Wills and the Country Cadillac in Seabrook, closing the gap with my own father, and two failed marriages…before I finally bowed the knee on a Wyoming mountain top in 2015. Oswald goes on to say, “No man can do wrong in his heart and see right afterwards. If I am going to approach the holy ground, I must get into the right frame of mind—the excellency of a broken heart.” And now me, of all people, part of an amazing team of men and women bringing God back into American education!

Looking out on the wasteland of America on the tail end (thank God!) of PRIDE Month, I can only surmise that the critical mass of afflicted fathers has yet to reach its bottom. I will say there are encouraging signs we are drawing near. From the plummeting Target and Anheuser-Busch stocks to the massive FAN-SLAP across the face of wokeness at Dodger Stadium this week…there is a glimmer. I realized yesterday when I read a headline… Washington Examiner: Why are Western Feminists silent about the plight of Iranian women? Because their hatred of God is greater than their love for women…men…and children! Period. Exclamation point!

Imagine that…on Father’s Day…hatred…not just hatred, but brutal, crushing, murderous hatred that knows no bounds…for the Abba Father of ALL fathers. And WE, you and me, all have our fingerprints all over the crime scene…because of our own foolish pride and love of self.

We have to learn the first great stride of God—“I AM WHO I AM…has sent…you.” We have to learn that our individual effort for God is an impertinence; our individuality must be rendered incandescent by a personal relationship to God, and that is not learned easily. The individual man is lost in his personal union with God, and what is manifested is the stride and the power of God…. ~ Oswald Chambers, Getting into God’s Stride

Nehemiah knew the excellency of a broken heart when he looked out on the wasteland of Jerusalem in 1:4, 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.

Lamenting the sorry state of the lost church and churchmen, I shared with a remnant gathering of CLOTH (Christian Leaders Of The Hudson) from Isaiah 64:8, “these are not the work of the Father’s hand, but have molded themselves on the creature’s wheel.” And no longer will we wring our hands over those who don’t but lift our hands in praise for those who do. So, this week…this Father’s Day of all days, in honor of our heavenly Abba Father, we announce a 40 day Prayer & Fast commencing at sundown in the Upper Room next Sunday June 25th for all CLOTH members and those who wish to join us…as we continue to prepare the ground with the spirit and intention of 6:16 Nehemiah, And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that that this work was wrought of our God.  

St. Matthew 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

I do not believe there is a man out there who knows the excellency of a broken heart and understands the battlespace of spiritual warfare better than Scott Kesterson. Fishers of Men

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! ~ Psalm 133:1

John 17:21 Revival is coming to the Hudson Valley on September 23rd! Our Father wills it so!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Sackcloth & Ash

Posted on June 11, 2023 by Chip Murray

Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ~ Matthew 11:21

On a Thursday night in the Fall of 2019, in a men’s Bible study at Calvary Baptist Church in Warwick, we were in the “Warrior” chapter of the John Eldredge book, Fathered by God. I remember how I had so looked forward to this night because I had convinced myself that God was going to stir the hearts of these men I love to finally step into their armor as only He could. That dream ended when the moderator asked the question to the twenty of us in the room, “What is your red line…the point where you would risk your own life to stand?” Without a sliver of hesitation I responded, “The moment they bring Drag Queen Story Hour to the Wisner Library!” You could have heard a pin drop…

The same hidden wolf in the room that gave me the death stare that Thursday night would do it again months later when I tried to warn the flock of the insidious evil behind the covid scam “contact tracing” being rolled out…That was the beginning of the end of my days at Calvary.

But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter; and all we are the work of Your hand. ~ Isaiah 64:8

There is an ocean of reality that has since sent waves crashing over the protective barrier reefs of America exposing the hidden reefs Jude had warned of over two thousand years ago. Woe unto thee who refuse to see the hour…

Just yesterday I wrote, “There is nothing more beneficial to the enemy than lulling Christians into inaction based on times that haven’t ended yet. Please don’t get caught in that trap. I don’t know when He’s coming, but when He does, He’s going to find me with my shirt sleeves rolled up and very much in the game. Don’t know what to do? Get out of the anesthetized church and come to a CLOTH meeting. TRUST ME, your soul will thank you!”

Seth Gruber asking the very same question I’ve been asking for the past three years!!! “Where is the blood-bought bride of Christ?” “Sexual Perverts in the 20th Century Inspired Modern Leftists” “Child sacrifice is the conclusion of the sexual revolution.” ~ Seth Gruber

Meanwhile, back at the CLOTH Ranch:

CLOTH (Christian Leaders Of The Hudson) Forms ~ NO Calvary!

CLOTH births the Eagle Classical Christian Academy ~ NO Calvary!

5/7 Special “Arise & Shine” CLOTH, 15 Churches ~ NO Calvary!

83 attendees 6/8 CLOTH Revival Fundraiser, $5,351 raised! ~ NO Calvary!

CLOTH Alert! “Child sacrifice is the conclusion of the sexual revolution.” ~ NO Calvary!

…as prophesied in Matthew 13:11, He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

On the morning of our June 8 Revival Fundraiser, the Holy Spirit gave me Isaiah 64:8 as a sign of the Calvary churches of the world who have slipped out of the Potters hands and onto the wheel of the enemy, and that the time has finally come to cease “wringing our hands over those who don’t, and lifting our hands in gratitude and praise for those who do!”

For those with ears to hear, and eyes to see…

A great world crisis is coming as the nations are preparing for war on a global scale .

A new movement of God is being birthed as we speak as Everything had to be birthed by and depend on God rather than men. The days of Christian celebrities and self-help seminars is over. Health, wealth, comfort and prosperity is no longer. Everything you have gone through has trained you for this moment.

You are more responsible for this victory today than those men on the battlefield of both world wars. You must be dead to everything else but this fight,

No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier…( 2 Timothy 2:4 )

I believe the Church is starving for true leadership that has the ability to be scriptural, authentic, articulate, simple and fresh. Needed is a blueprint for the Spirit-empowered Church that is anchored in the ancient text of the Bible and breathed upon by the Holy Spirit.

Will we go back to the bondage of religion (Egypt) prior to the global pandemic, or will we follow the Holy Spirit and a new breed of pioneers and visionaries into the promises of God for the new era? Christian celebrities is over, we are back to new-found fellowship of rough neck fisherman or believers worldwide. As the crisis and darkness continue to rise and cover the lands, the Lord is bringing the Church into a new era. Men and women dedicated to the old ways…

Jeremiah 6:16, Thus says the LORD: ‘Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls.’” ~ F. Pierre

Finally, my Calvary brethren, Where Is Your Confidence? When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horse, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ~ Deuteronomy 20:1

Chambers answered the question this very morning…

It is the will of God that human beings should get into moral relationship with Him, and His covenants are for this purpose. Why does not God save me? He has saved me, but I have not entered into relationship with Him. Why does God not do this and that? He has done it, the point is—Will I step into covenant relationship? All the great blessings of God are finished and complete, but they are not mine until I enter into relationship with Him on the basis of His covenant.

Waiting for God is incarnate unbelief, it means that I have no faith in Him; I wait for Him to do something in me that I may trust in that. God will not do it, because that is not the basis of the God-and-man relationship. Man has to go out of himself in his covenant with God as God goes out of Himself in His covenant with man. It is a question of faith in God—the rarest thing; we have faith only in our feelings. I do not believe God unless He will give me something in my hand whereby I may know I have it, then I say—“Now I believe.” There is no faith there. “Look to me and be saved.”

When I have really transacted business with God on His covenant and have let go entirely, there is no sense of merit, no human ingredient in it at all, but a complete overwhelming sense of being brought into union with God, and the whole thing is transfigured with peace and joy. ~ Oswald Chambers, In Union with God

I pray thee, O Lord, give me the Spirit of David this day!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ You Can Run…

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Chip Murray

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, “Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefor I beseech thee to hear me patiently. ~ Acts 26:1-3

It has been three years to the day since Pentecost Sunday 2020 when I prayed to God to show me the way out of a place where just about every man I knew, including the pastor of the church I loved and never saw myself leaving, was hiding from the world. Yesterday morning, I woke up without the slightest hint of what today’s Tune-up message would be…until I read Acts 26:1-3 followed by my friend Lisa’s Damon post above, to which I asked, “Where are they?” …three days into PRIDE month.

I thought about Apostle Paul, in stark contrast to this generation of men, in the chapters leading up to 26, especially beginning in chapter 20:22, And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. And his response to the friends that begged him not to go to Jerusalem for fear of his life, in 21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart?   for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

As sure as Paul went bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, you and I are bound by spirits that hold us back and keep us down. There are many unholy spirits; fear, pride, and alcohol to name a few. There are ordinary spirits…

“Ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs. The order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” ~ Barack Obama …in his own words. *

But God did not make us to be ordinary men. Nor did He send His Son to save ordinary men.

The religion…of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may indicate. This right in its nature is as an unalienable right. It is unalienable; because the opinions of men…cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also; because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator….This duty is precedent both in order of time and degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. ~ James Madison

The ONLY difference between us and the greatest apostle of all is that we are bound by spirits we have yet to come to terms with. And I myself, until this very day, include myself in the lot with you. But until we do, we are but half men full of empty promises, leaders unworthy to be followed, mentors who fail those who looked up to us, and trusted friends who let friends down.

We ALL need to come to terms with that enemy within ourselves. We ALL need deliverance. We ALL have the power to change…IF we look to our “Universal Sovereign” for the key!

Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Great Governor of the Universe; And if a member of Civil Society, who enters into any subordinate association, must always do it with a reservation of his duty to the general authority; much more must every man who becomes a member of any particular Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. ~ James Madison

“Worry is a conversation we have with ourselves about things we cannot change. Prayer is a conversation we have with God about things we can change.”

…or we can continue to run.

* Brother Craig Seibert of The Christian Civics Training Initiative pointed out that this Obama clip was edited to make him appear to be saying the opposite of what he actually said. Of course there are very few people by now who actually believe he believed or meant what he said.  #WeLiveAndLearn!

But those ideals have also been tested, here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that “ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” Often this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others and that individual identity must be defined by us versus them, or that national greatness must flow not by what people stand for, but what they are against. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/transcript-president-obama-gives-speech-addressing-europe-russia-on-march-26/2014/03/26/07ae80ae-b503-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Choose Wisely

Posted on May 28, 2023 by Chip Murray

Known Only Unto God…

Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living. And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to one, and half to the other. Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no way slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof. ~ 1 Samuel 3:23-27

I was preparing this week’s P&FW Invite centered on how God is proving us (Judges 3:1-4) by offering His church, under the thumb of growing persecution, a revival (Promised Land) it must ARISE for in order to claim. As this was developing, brother George texted me his scripture of the day. When I heard the ding I knew it would fit before I opened 1 Kings 3:23-27. Brace for impact…the Lord had me in Genesis 3:15, seed of the serpent enmity with seed of the woman! George’s text revealed Solomon’s wisdom to discern and rule over the seed of the serpent in favor of the seed of the woman.

Which seed is it that seeks to use the 1 Kings sword to correct God’s perfect creation, cutting the baby in two in our day?  

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. ~ St. Matthew 13:25

Many are starting to realize that not only did man sleep, he’s been fast asleep for nearly half a century now. When he closed his eyes fifty years ago the first half of this meme applied. Today he is rapidly waking up amidst the strangling tares to realize the ultimate rude awakening…

Unfortunately, far too many men, including most pastors and church leaders have grown too comfortable in the darkness behind closed eyelids. So much so in fact, they will side with the enemy against those who would dare turn on the lights! Is there any greater evil than the one that would make you feel guilty for doing the right thing in a world gone so very wrong?

Houston, we have a problem here in “the land of the brave”. “A man-eating lion would starve!”

God wasted no time in proving Jesus immediately following His baptism in the Jordan. What is a baptism if not the awakening to the new life within? Well, my dear brothers and sisters, He is wasting no time in proving each of us, here and now, in our own hour…

Those with a pro-God worldview must become reengaged in society. They must not only vocally and politically reassert their support and approval for the public religious liberties expressions that Americans have enjoyed and cherished for four centuries, but they must also denounce those who attack and seek to abolish those liberties and expressions. If we do not, we will continue to lose them by default —by silence and inactivity. Remember that even though God told His people that He had given them the Promised Land, they still had to keep fighting the giants. In fact, the lesson the lesson of the children of Israel clearly demonstrates that if you don’t like fighting, get used to living in the wilderness; but if you want to enjoy the richness of what God has promised, learn to battle hostile forces. We must stand up and do all we can to preserve the national treasures that God has placed into our hands. ~ We Won’t Be Silent, The Founders’ Bible

Justice means rightness with God, nothing is just until it is adjusted to God. (Moral Found.)

“There are no victories at bargain prices.” ~ Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower

It’s a very sobering experience to wake up in a world where every single pixel of sensory evidence is screaming DUCK, while God is whispering stand…Jesus refused the Luke 4 offer in His obedience to the Father. Abraham was proved as well…

Personal acquaintance with God shows itself in separation, symbolized by Abraham’s physical separation from his country and his kindred. Jesus Himself emphasized this need for separation (see Luke 14:26). Nowadays, such separation often involves a moral rather than a physical severance as we detach ourselves from the way those nearest and dearest to us think and look at things, if they do not have a personal relationship with God. ~ Oswald Chambers, The Calling of Abraham

I encourage you to listen to the full interview with Lt. Col. (retired) Brad Miller, former battalion commander of the 101st Airborne. A man who chose to walk away after 19 years of service to his country and give up his pension rather than abandon his oath. Courage and the Oath

The rest of you can continue to hide…Good luck with that! “There is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.” It is God’s law that men cannot hide what they really are. If they are His disciples it will be publicly portrayed. ~ Oswald Chambers, The Power of Publicity

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. ~ Matthew 7:13-14

FAITH…in the darkest hour before the dawn. How many will endure?

Psalm (Heart) & Proverb (Wisdom) a Day Drives the Tyrant Away! PS 114:3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. PR 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

I never served or stood on a foreign battlefield. But I am standing on one now on my own native New York soil…exactly where my 4th great grandfather Andrew Murray stood over 240 years ago, chosen for a time such as this, knowing and trusting the God I serve, and truly blessed with the only friend I need…

Who was that man we did not know?…he was a friend o’ mine…Honor sang a different song and danced to a different tune. So long ago, how would we know the blind would lead the blind. Who was that man we did not know?…he was a friend o’ mine. ~ Honor

Dedicated: To the men and women in uniform who gave their lives for the sake of our liberty and posterity, and to Lt. Col. (retired) Pete “Doc” Chambers, Lt. Col. (retired) Brad Miller, Commander (former) of the 101st Airborne Battalion, and all those standing in the gap who’ve honored, and continue to honor their sworn oath. God Bless America!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ From Upbraid To Upgrade

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Chip Murray

…and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my father.

Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.~ St. Mark 16:14

I have followed the modern-day Joan of Arc (Ann Barnhardt) ever since she put the financial security of her clients before her own interests after Obama-bundler and former governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine pilfered MF Global in 2011. She contacted her clients, told them she could no longer faithfully manage their investments in a system (COMEX) that had just torpedoed its own integrity, and closed the successful commodity firm she had built…and went to war!

(Originally penned and posted on May 17, ARSH 2012. The conclusion and warning about the “brutality of totalitarian oligarchy being proportional to the effeminacy and cowardice of the men in a conquered culture” was taken at the time by many people as the ravings of an unhinged spinster, detached from reality and warning of things that could never, ever happen in the U.S.A.

Lee Greenwood, to this day, now a decade later, remains unavailable for comment. -AB) The One About Ascension Thursday, The Upbraiding

My Lady’s on a roll brothers and sisters! Just the other day she offered up this testosterone booster; “All right. They’re on our left.  They’re on our right. They’re in front of us. They’re behind us… They can’t get away this time.”

“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.” ~ Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller, Message sent during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir (December ARSH 1950) Vitamin Chesty Puller

In this week’s P&FW Invite I was shown the spirit of Eliab in contrast to the spirit of David his brother in that crucial darkest-before-the-dawn moment in 1 Samuel 17:28. It’s a very ugly spirit my friends because it is a legion made up of jealousy, envy, spite, and cowardice. It’s a spirit of consuming fear that is so frightened of its own success, it cannot bear the success of another…and it is the paralyzing cancer in the vast majority of men, and churchmen in particular, in this our crucial darkest-before-the-dawn moment…he will hide from his own revival.

Goliath is a midget in comparison to the monster before us, and so few among us now just as then will find the strength, the faith, and the courage to go on, but will choose instead to fall in behind the shadow of Eliab. They will find another church to shelter them from the truth of their own cowardice, rather than stand up to the beast that will eventually devour them just the same.

The Good News!

There are good “Spirit of David” men in our government agencies: FBI Whistleblower Garret O’Boyle

There are good “Spirit of David” men in our churches: Pastor John K. Amanchukwu Sr.

And best of all, think of the strategic mind of God who really let the boys have it * before lifting off from the Mt. Olive launch pad like a Saturn V rocket! He was preparing the ground for their full blossoming into the Acts men they became…just as we are now preparing the ground in Montgomery!

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do, he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my father. ~ John 14:12

I was with the lions and lionesses of the greater works at a unity breakfast in Queens, NY yesterday. “The Devil is a bully, but he cannot stand for a second before God. (ASK)”

Join us!

* Here is the Merriam-Webster definition of “upbraid”:

1. To criticize severely : to find fault with
2. To reproach severely : to scold vehemently

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “The Duty Is Ours, The Results Are God’s”

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Chip Murray

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; ~ Isaiah 61:1-2

I tell you my brothers and sisters, He is drawing SO close I expect to see Him as well as hear Him any day now…

From this morning’s Chambers read: The people of God in Isaiah’s day had starved their imagination by looking on the face of idols, and Isaiah made them look up at the heavens…Is your imagination looking on the face of an idol? Is the idol yourself? Your work? You’re your conception of what a worker should be? Your experience of salvation and sanctification? Then your imagination of God is starved, and when you are up against difficulties you have no power, you can only endure in darkness. ~ Oswald Chambers, The Starved Imagination

It seems, just as Pastor Dave Bryan pointed out to Scott just this week, that we…especially we men of the church (the people of God), are living an Isaiah déjà vu all over again! “In the West we’ve replaced spiritual reality with rationalism.” ~ Pastor Dave Bryan, Glad Tidings Church, Yuba City, CA  No truer words!

God is so amazing…when we finally look up to behold John Quincy Adams who looked up to behold Isaiah…

(John Quincy Adams) entire career was given to the service of his country, including as a diplomat, secretary of state, U.S. senator, U.S. president, and finally a U.S. congressman. In the latter position, his primary objective was to bring an end to slavery in the United States…For his unwavering opposition to slavery, he became known as “The Hell Hound of Abolition”…Despite these few successes, most of his proposals were voted down by Congress; but across all the years of losses, he remained fervent and steadfast in fighting slavery. Given that he had so few successes—and so much hateful opposition—what caused him to persevere? The answer can be found in his personal philosophy: “Duty is ours; results are God’s.” ~ Founders’ Bible, Liberty To The Captives

WEAPONIZED IMMIGRATION! “It’s a realignment of friendships…you sort out real quickly who’s serious and who’s not. One of the most dangerous people, as we go forward, are the cowardly people who just go along. They’re going to be just as dangerous as any traitor.” ~ Michael Yon https://www.bards.fm/e/ep2240_bardsfm-michael-yon-and-invasion-usa/

So, here in Orange County this week we witnessed the sad and tragic consequence of the epidemic of starved imagination in men. They become “one of the most dangerous people” Michael Yon just described, as homeless U.S. military veterans are thrown out onto the street to make room for child-trafficking gang members in hoodies. “Veterans Displaced”

Looking on the face of idols, we can’t see what comes next…because we’ve become too afraid to look. We can only endure the darkness of blind faith in a God we’ve long since walked away from. Our calcifying cowardice brings a gradual rigor mortis that will cause us to turn up the music to mask the screams of our own children when they eventually come for them…

Not on my watch. Not only has God blessed me with a very well-fed imagination, He also blessed me with the most heavenly angel of all, pictured above, to watch over me. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. ~ Isaiah 54:17

Dedicated to Betty Jean Murray

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Good & Bad Sorrows

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Chip Murray

For the little ones…

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. ~ 2 Corinthians 7:10

Only God! Maxwell juxtaposed Peter’s good sorrow (Luke 22:54-62) with the bad sorrow of Judas (Matthew 27:3-5) in yesterday’s The Tough and Tender Leader, and the Lord showed me how the very same line of truth that separated Judas’ death from Peter’s salvation is being drawn between us today…

“If Ukraine falls, the current world order will collapse.” ~ Gen. Mark Milley, US Army, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff…replaced this week!

Allow me to translate; If Ukraine falls, the current global corporate cabal of death, mayhem, and destruction orchestrated by the WEC and funded by its billionaire elite class of child-raping psychopaths will collapse.

FACT ~ An unrepentant Gen. Mark Milley will follow Judas to his death.

The CEO of Citigroup lying to Congress about their taking money from the CCP to betray America…BardsFM ~ DESPOTISM…Time For A Change

FACT ~ An unrepentant CEO Jane Fraser will follow Judas to her death.

Courageous truth-tellers with evidence that most all of the Orwellian transgender policies being implemented across our country were derived from the “fetish” of academic and scientific fanatical pedophiles! Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey   The Dark Truth of Transgender Activism

The article described the results of a new study — a study written by pro-transitioning researchers — concluding that young people who start transition therapy also tend to increase their prescriptions for psychotropic medications.

Not too good.

The study also found no improvement in mental health indicators after kids started taking hormone blockers. Specifically:

Among 963 [transgender/gender diverse] youth using gender-affirming pharmaceuticals, mental healthcare did not significantly change and psychotropic medications increased following gender-affirming pharmaceutical initiation; older age was associated with decreased care and prescriptions.

The most pronounced increases in mental healthcare were for adjustment, anxiety, mood, personality, psychotic disorders, and suicidal ideation/attempted suicide. The most pronounced increased in psychotropic medication were in SNRIs, sleep medications, anti-psychotics and lithium. ~ Coffee & Covid

African Nations choose God and family over a deal with the devil in the form of American Aid with LGBTQ/Transgender strings attached! ~ They Can’t Hide Their Agenda Anymore!

FACT ~ ALL unrepentant parties responsible for causing these little ones who believe to stumble, along with the mental illness leading to the mutilation and mass physical/spiritual suicide of an entire generation of children will follow Judas to a death far worse than they could possibly imagine.

Proof that our own Department of Defense turned what we now know was a bioweapon against the American People. ~ Proof that the Vaccines Were a Military-Backed Countermeasure ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Lara Logan WhistleForHumanity! FOIA’S Docs Expose CDC’S $13.8B Payoff to Buy Support for Vaccines and Eliminate Hesitancy!

FACT ~ Every unrepentant government, corporate, education, healthcare, and military person of authority, which includes, school BOE, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who profited from, and were complicit in the worst attack on the American People in history will follow Judas to their deaths.

Telegram video of one brave man calling out the main-stream press!!!

FACT ~ Every unrepentant card-carrying member of the 5th Estate, so essential to the survival of our Republic, who has sold their own souls for their 30 pieces of silver will follow Judas to their deaths.

Now stop and think a moment how many of us are thinking at this very moment, I’m safe, I’m with you Peter! Really?

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God. The LORD’s voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. ~ Micah 6:8,9

At present He is giving men opportunity to try every line they like in individual life as well as in the life of the nations at large. Some things have not been tried yet, and if God were to cut us off short we would say, “If you had left us a bit longer we could have realized our ideal of society and national life.” God is allowing us to prove to the hilt that it cannot be done in any other way than Jesus Christ said; that is, by a personal relationship to God through Jesus Christ who is God and Man—One. When sooner or later we come to the end of our tether, we hear Jesus Christ say: “Blessed are the poor in spirit” (Matt.5:3). ~ Oswald Chambers, who died in 1917, The Obliteration of Nations

Jesus taught that nothing in this life is more valuable than obtaining eternal life. He said, “This is eternal life, that they may know you” (John 17:3). No matter how precious something is, it all pales in comparison if it gets in the way of our relationship to God. ~ Founders’ Bible, The Far Surpassing Value

Finally, my brothers and sisters, think on this; Apostle Paul, inarguably as brilliant, if not more so, than any military strategist on the battlefield of spiritual warfare, gave us all through the Ephesians, our 5:11 marching orders BEFORE equipping us with our 6:10-20 armor…to stay silent in the face of the greatest evil to ever plague mankind? 

Oswald Chambers wrote The Obliteration of Nations over 100 years ago. We are finally down to the one and only line that matters, and it is a truly a heartbreaking line of sorrow on both sides of the truth. On the good side of truth, people you loved, thought you knew and trusted, will quietly slip away, unable to look you in the eye to tell you why. On the bad side of truth, they will seek to have you removed, eliminated, and destroyed. His last day in the world was a very lonely day of godly sorrow. The line Chambers wrote just before his quote above, Peter says God is “longsuffering toward us” (2 Pet. 3:9).

For the little ones…For Him…John 17:21

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Perversion and the Wrath of the Lamb

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Chip Murray

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb; For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? ~ Revelation 6:15-17

The new NYS law S123A will now monitor our speech and disseminate hate crime requirements across churches, schools, and organizations
The law allocates millions for Hate Teams and will work with Department of Homeland Security to shut down “domestic terrorism” and “white supremacy”. ~ From the enemy’s bag of tricks: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S123A

Per·ver·sion

/pərˈvərZH(ə)n/

noun

  • 1.the alteration of something from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended: “a scandalous perversion of the law”

Revelation 6:15-17 covers a whole lot of people from kings to every free man. You know what it doesn’t cover? It doesn’t cover the Remnant. It doesn’t cover the Warrior-Saint. Man looks at a thing in his time on his line of things…and hides himself in the mountains, rocks, and dens. God looks on everything in His time on ALL lines of things…and fulfills His Word…every jot and tittle!

So, while so many of us are desperately, and futilely I might add, clinging to the last straws of normalcy, the real chess game is on between the chess masters, God and Satan…as Nefarious rolls out in sparse theater locations and our Covenant with God is renewed at the very site it was first made in 1607; something of great historical significance those attempting to pervert our history don’t want our children’s children to know, and there’s more. There is a seed of Revival planted in the ground earlier this year in Sullivan County, New York, and its fast-taking root as God is bringing rain, reaching and soaking into the soil of the farm in Montgomery whose owners had prayed over the ground in Batavia where thousands came to the Lord, and asked the Holy Spirit to bring the same to their farm.

What we cannot imagine on our lines, God manages on His. On this same Montgomery soil this past April Fools Day 😊, He used a Drag Queen Story Hour event to create the Common Ground initiative as the means to heal and build community. We had our 3rd meeting yesterday. We are in the process of identifying and reaching out to community stakeholders who may not share the same beliefs and values, but who seek an end to the pain and bitterness of hate and division. So we have the Covenant renewal at Virginia Beach on Wednesday, and enormously successful Pro-Life Banquet on Thursday, and on Friday our Revival Committee had a meeting with Fr. Frank Pavone’s staff to discuss his appearance at our John 17:21 Revival at the farm in September. Here’s where God is starting to merge our line with His. Fr. Pavone is member of a fellowship of believers most of us would never have imagined possible in this country, the Coalition of Canceled Priests. Rev. Bill Banuchi and I met many of its members at the Serve God, Defend Liberty Conference in Delaware last August that involved 50 church leaders from 17 states, half of whom are Catholic. What I find both amazing and affirming is that three men from that 4-day conference were on the hallowed ground in Virginia this past Wednesday, including LTC (retired) Pete “Doc” Chambers who gave what I believe will long be remembered as the Remnant Call-To-Arms.  Again, God merging His line with ours through Doc and Fr. Pavone brought the term Warrior-Saint to my mind. What we can’t imagine on our line (binary), He accomplishes on His (quantum). Amen? The question is which line are you prepared to stand on?

If you are ready to bring in the new, bury the old, and be part of history; join Pastor Graves 😊 and the rest of us today at 4pm at New Beginnings Church 😊 170 N. Main Street in Liberty 😊 NY…followed by a Special CLOTH “Arise & Shine” next Sunday at 4pm at Circleville Church 890 Goshen Tpke. Circleville, NY…and it only gets better…as we come together to prepare the ground!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Spirit of Deception

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Chip Murray

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.~ Daniel 12:1-3

This came to my mind yesterday… When I grew up mothers sacrificed themselves to have children…totally in line with the natural world. Today we live in a society where mothers sacrifice their children for themselves…in abhorrent contrast to the natural world…on the same day I watched Michael Knowles neutralize the insane rationale of a trans-activist. And I thought to myself, how in the world did we get here? And then it dawned on me…at the dawn of AI…the irony of all ironies comes full circle. Women who sacrifice their own children for themselves ultimately kill themselves, which is exactly what we see happening in this fascinating Knowles clip. She is arguing for her own death!

Daniel’s 12:1-3 time of trouble sealed until the end of days, which I argue we are now in, seems remarkably self-evident from where I’m standing. One half of our societal means of procreation either already has or seems determined to take itself out of the equation. But, what about the other half?

Where are the soldiers of the Cross for Christ? Let the God-fearing, the honest, the strong-hearted, who look steadfastly to the glory of God. Prepare themselves for the battle against error. There are too many faint, cowardly hearts in this hour of spiritual conflict…Oh that out of weakness they might be made strong and wax valiant and fight, and put to flight the armies of the aliens. ~ E.Z. White

The greatest want of the world is the want of men. Men who will not be bought or sold. Men who are in their inmost souls are honest and true. Men who do not fear to call sin by its right name. Men whose conscience is as true to the duty as the needle is to the pole. Men who stand for the right though the heavens fall. ~ The Book of Education

These quotes come from Doug Batchelor’s message “Outnumbered by False Prophets” sent to me by my pastor this past week, answers the question as to the whereabouts of the other half. And it raises another question regarding the Daniel 12 prophecy. Who among us shall be found written in the book…the they that be wise?

This is an amazing hour to be alive. It really is a story of the lost and found. It’s a bitter/sweet hour. Bitter, because I don’t know that there is any hope for the trans-activist and those like her outside the church, any more than I hold out hope for those inside the church suffering the vice of effeminacy, choosing their own comfort over the battle against error…learned though they may be…

“God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God’s, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.” –St. Anselm of Canterbury, Benedictine Abbot, and Doctor of the Church, died 21 April ARSH 1109

Sweet, because He lives…and He’s bringing a new thing!

Sow for yourselves righteousness, Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you. ~ Hosea 10:12

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. ~ 3 John 1:4

Farmers know what it means to “break up your fallow ground” brothers and sisters.

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Cause & Effect on the Road To Perdition

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Chip Murray

“Prepping the Space”

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. ~ John 17:4

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation….It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ Robert F. Kennedy, 1966

…there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth…. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. ~ French historian Alexis De Tocqueville, from his Democracy in America, written after traveling our young Republic for 8 months in 1831…

I read these quotes from De Tocqueville and Kennedy this week and something profound hit me. They were not describing who we were. They were describing who we are. Yes, but if they are describing who we are, then how does one explain how and/or why we are allowing the physical, moral, and spiritual slaughter of our children…without so much as lifting a finger or uttering a peep? If you think that question is in any way false or extreme, then you need to listen to Scott’s show from Friday night: BardsFM, Sheriffs and the Trans-War on Rights

Strange, right? That brought me back to the weird experience when the men in my old church reconvened to resume our men’s Bible study after months of being separated by what we now know to be the forces of evil back in 2020…and their intellectual constipation around the science of Cause-and-Effect ~ noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.

We had just come through the greatest disaster in our lifetimes and grown American adult men who had no problem finding words to describe the effect were totally tongue-tied when it came to cause. So again, how is this possible…given who we are? That brings us to the Pastor Gregg Locke quote from the “Come Out In Jesus Name” movie trailer: “In the New Testament, is it verifiable that Christians can be attacked and oppressed by demons? And He said, ‘In the last days the church will give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. They will begin to listen to demonic doctrines.’ Christians can be under the influence of Satanic oppression…100% they can!” 

…this, in the same week of Jonathan Cahn’s revelation on the demonic possession of the Nashville Trans shooter who murdered 9 Christians; 6 adult, and 3 children. ~ Nashville Trans-Killer

Tying it all together, I sent this out to brothers and sisters I am honored to be associated with who are very much engaged in our great struggle, the very embodiment of who we are as God made us to be:

In the Year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. ~ Isaiah 6:1, 8

I read today’s Maxwell, The Call Of A Leader, and loved the three factors of Opportunity, Ability, and Desire, because I believe that each one of us are called in this hour to His purpose with our own individual God-given gifts. My friends, discernment is everything in these times. There are friends, and then there are apostolic friends. Isaiah 6:8 is the perfect example of the apostolic friend. Unfortunately, I see us heading into a bitter/sweet separation. Sweet, because God will provide everything His apostolic friends require to fulfill His purpose. Bitter, because there will be friends, who by their own confusion of spirit, will either fall away, or seek to hold us back…and to be clear, it is not the friend, but rather the spirit that has the friend.

Rev. Voddie Bauchman, author of Fault Lines, reveals the seducing spirits and doctrines of demons that permeate, and yes, possess our society through the enormous influence of pop-culture and the mega-churches. ~ Why Countless Christians Are Headed To Hell

So here’s the bottom-line brothers and sisters. Grown men, whether it be around a Bible study campfire, or a church board meeting, who are unable to discuss openly and candidly the essential cause and effect of what is happening around them, are controlled by a spirit other than the Holy Spirit of God. Period. Now would be a very good time to, as my dear brother’s departed grandmother advised with her final words, “Get right with God.” God will prove us (Judges 3:1-4) as He did two weeks ago in Montgomery. John 17:4 is the model He gave us to live by! If Bible studies and church attendance alone were the path to salvation, the highway to heaven would be a super highway, rather than the timid head-fake march to perdition so many Christians are on today.

God favors those who, as both RFK and De Tocqueville observed, stand for Him. By showing up, Christine, who encountered Kyle, turned into the vitriol of hate with a heart of love and the Holy Spirit took care of the rest. Here’s the note she received from a man…a complete stranger, who happened to read the article in his local paper describing the encounter at the Drag Queen Story Hour event.

“It is so rare that people with differing views engage in respectful conversation. I simply want to thank you and appreciate you for doing so. Toni Morrison’s words resonate with me, ‘There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.’” ~ S.S.T.

AND…that moment birthed the “Common Ground” path to healing and building community!

It’s never too late to get right with God…until it is.

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