The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Man Who Thinks He Can

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Chip Murray

2020: The Most Revealing Year In American History

So he said to Him, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manaseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” And the Lord said to him. “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.” ~ Judges 6:15-16

I would pay a fortune for the key that unlocks the door separating the man who thinks he can from the man who doesn’t think he has to. We crossed the Rubicon of all Rubicons when we said goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021. Washington D.C. has devolved from political theater into full blown kabuki theater of the absurd. The WH Press Corps and Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki can best be described as two deer in the headlights looking at each other. “Circle-Back” Jen has yet to answer a serious question. Trump left the room, and they all seem lost…disoriented. How about you? How are you feeling right now…about your country, your future, the future of your children and your grandchildren? We are now seeing the emperor has no clothes. The question is, who cares?

I know how we got ourselves into this theater of the absurd. I would love and appreciate your thoughts in the comment section below. I keep going around and around with a Christian friend who wants to believe he can fight without setting foot onto the battlefield, knowing that God’s will has always been brought to bear by ordinary people; women like Ruth, Esther, Rahab, and Mary…men like Moses, Joshua, Caleb, David, Nehemiah, and Daniel who answer His call…at great personal risk to themselves. This is exactly what I mean by the locked door between the men who think they can, and the men who don’t think they have to. Can you imagine if God’s reply to Gideon in the Judges passage above had been, “You just sit tight, and surely I will whoop those nasty Midianites for you!”?

We are in a war for the soul of our nation in this hour. Some call it an information war. Gideon asked God how he could save his nation. The man who doesn’t think he has to is too afraid to ask the question. Wherever the lie seeks to take hold, that is the battlefield. Allowing the lie to go unchallenged is the same as surrender. Two summers ago the battlefield was the Wisner Library in Warwick during an LGTBQ Transgender Indoctrination event. We did not go there to protest, fight, judge, or condemn. We went there, in the full armor of God, to bring the light of truth (Matthew 5:13-16), to question. What the young people saw that day was a nervous energy in the speakers and moderator as they surrounded truth and struggled to put it back under the bushel. Just the other day a local Democrat Committeeman wrote the following in his letter to the editor; The committee firmly believes a healthy democracy is one in which voters are presented with a real choice of candidates. Again…full armor, no protest, no fight, no judgement (Ephesians 5:11)…my response; Serious question Doug: Is infanticide, censorship, stealing elections, allowing biological males to compete in female sports, forcing healthy people to wear face masks for a virus with a 99% survival rate, and targeting local business owners for their political beliefs your idea of a “healthy democracy”? No response as of yet.

The Matrix

The Matrix operates much the same as a casino. The difference is that most of us are free to walk out of the casino. Both are the same in that both are rigged in favor of the house, and both require just enough winners to make everyone think they can. The casino is real. The Matrix is not.

Historians will write 2020 as the most revealing year in American History because it was the year President Donald J. Trump (played by Toto in the Wizard of Oz) pulled back the final curtain on the wizard, fully exposing the Matrix…leaving all Americans with the ultimate Red Pill/Blue Pill choice. What I find most fascinating of all is God’s hand in all of this. Watching so many of my friends, neighbors, former work associates, and fellow Christians waiting for Trump or God to save them. I can’t speak for God, but President Trump made it pretty clear on July 3rd from Mt. Rushmore. He has done his “miraculous” part. The rest is up to us!

The first thing to know about the Matrix is that everything is made to appear perfectly normal. The second and probably most important thing to know and understand is that Fear rules the Matrix. The third thing to know is truth is whatever the wizard tells you it is. If you are ok with that, then you might be ok…for a while. Like my friend who is too afraid to ask the question, people in the Matrix are too afraid to think. Afraid to think, and afraid to question…is there a better definition of comfortably numb? Maybe a Matrix Church could be the answer…except, how can a Matrix Church save a soul from the Matrix it selected? It’s hard I know…believe me. This goes back to the story of my Realtor friend stuck, or so she believes, in her Matrix job. The reality is that we have all been liberated. On November 3rd the greatest contest in the history of the world was decided…Corporate Media vs We the People, and We the People won by a landslide margin. This is where faith and discernment come in to play.

Its exactly like the “no place like home” scene where Glinda tells Dorothy she had the power all along. Get out while you can my friends. Don’t be afraid to think for yourselves. Don’t be afraid to question. Don’t be afraid…and PLEASE take off that silly face diaper. We miss your smile!

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don’t;
If you’d like to win, but think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will,
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you’re outcasted, you are;
You’ve got to think high to rise.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

~ Walter D. Wintle

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Quiet Before the Storm

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Chip Murray

Did Somebody Remember To Pack The Doves?

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, ~ Ephesians 5:11

In the quiet before the storm, we untethered from the norm…

Winston comes to see that he knows nothing of the past, of real history: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified,” he says, “every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” Does any of this sound familiar?

…we said goodbye to all we’d known, set sail on the twin ships Noah and Moses, and cast off from the evil-grown with a tip of our hats. It was far easier done than said, the day God gave us the right of way, out of the din and into the ‘morrow with nary a speck nor spot of sorrow. There was a sadness for those left behind, the lost and embittered, the dumb, deaf, and blind.

Parts handed out on the day of our birth, some to despair whilst others to mirth. To dance on this stage so short and so sweet, never minding the score, who’s rhythm…who’s beat? Who cast this spell upon our feet, to bring us low and swing us high, never stopping to question why…the melody so light and thin…like angel hair to draw us in, ‘twas Medusa in the light of day. No place to hide, no place to run, the end of the end of their last setting sun.

We prayed for the friends who couldn’t quite see the plain as day forest for the plain as day trees. From Genesis to Revelation and the pages in between, all were given the same roadmap as we. While some are born to follow the others born to lead, still others are born to heed the light of discernment and wisdom without bend…into the final port and safest harbor without end.

The sea is a tranquil emerald here…red sky at morning…the Quiet before the Storm. I felt akin to Noah’s wooden planks beneath my feet. He was, after all, the world’s very first conspiracy theorist…before the rain.

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. ~ Genesis 6:11

 

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Know What You Should Do

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Chip Murray

“That Heart in the Church would change the world.” ~ Dutch Sheets

When you know you should do a thing and you do it, immediately you will know more. If you revise where you are stodgy spiritually, you will find it goes back to the point where there was one thing you knew you should do, but you did not do it because there seemed no immediate call to, and now you have no perception, no discernment. Instead of being spiritually self-possessed at the time of crisis, you are spiritually distracted. It is a dangerous thing to refuse to go on knowing.                                                                    ~ Oswald Chambers, Know What You Should Do

I really do miss the carefree days of the Shire. The last twelve years have been hard. Life has always known it’s trouble, but trouble took a serious turn for the worst…or so it would seem, this past week. I watched two men I know respond to it in each his own way. NY Republican Assemblyman Colin Schmitt showed up at 4am Wednesday January 6th to deliver a message to 90 of his constituents as we boarded two buses bound for DC to support our President. His message was a warning about a new draconian bill that would give Governor Cuomo the power to round people up and send them to medical detention camps. By the early evening of that same day, Colin was attacked and viciously maligned for “supporting radical domestic terrorists on their way to storm the capital”. He responded by holding a press conference the next day surrounded by more than a dozen of those of us who were on the bus to show how absurd and out of touch with reality the attack was. He stood on principal and fought for us. Later in the same week, Orange County Republican Executive Steve Neuhaus stood in front of a microphone alongside NY Democrat Congressman Sean Maloney calling for President Trump’s head on the proverbial political platter.

Two men, both Republican, both Conservative, both military. One stood, and one took a knee. I am praying, and I would ask you to pray alongside me that our County Executive took a knee in the fashion of King Leonidas as he feigned surrender giving the men behind him the advantage of surprise and his own body as the platform for attack in the last battle of his life. Learning of the apparent betrayal in a phone call from a friend this past Tuesday triggered a very dark moment for me because I received a text from another very well DC-connected friend within minutes of the phone call saying that President Trump had surrendered. What I did not realize at the time was that his text was sent on a gut feel from hearing Trump refer to the “next administration” in his Alamo speech. I asked my colleagues and close friends to give me space as I took the following day for my own mental health to pray and fast, and to be with Him…Here is the invite to Prayer & Fast Wednesday that went out the same day…                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ALSO He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be on a lampstand? For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” ~ Mark 4:21-23

As shocking as the events of this past week have been, greater is the shock and heartbreak of watching people you love choose to side with a lie over truth. A very important question is this; have they made their choice because they actually believe the lie, or because they know it’s a lie and fear the pain of their associating with the truth? We must be patient with the former, bring the truth of this historic moment to them with love in the context of His word. As for the latter, may God have mercy on their souls.

Please join us for Pray & Fast Wednesday tomorrow, with prayerful focus on Mark 4:21-41

The New Demon Controlling America ~ Perry Stone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRkdgwn78UE&feature=youtu.be

The following Wednesday morning God provided refreshing witness in the heart and soul of a new friend whose message dovetailed perfectly with Maxwell’s daily devotion…the Why and Who we fight for…

Yesterday was a pivotal day in my walk. The disinformation frenzy and a local betrayal of political trust was perfectly seasoned with refreshing wisdom from a wonderful soul in young Katie late yesterday afternoon, and reinforced in today’s Maxwell, “What Makes Followers Love to Serve?”

In this hour of hours, is it not water but truth that is the precious liquid from the Bethlehem well? To Katie’s point, how easy it is to thirst for ourselves rather than pouring it out to Him. On this Prayer & Fast Wednesday I would like to do just that. If you are not familiar with Beacon of Light, we run a pregnancy consulting center for young women facing unplanned pregnancy, known as My Choice, and housing for same women in need known as Faith House.

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Interestingly, it was this message that went out to many that triggered a call from a friend I hadn’t heard from in a while. He was calling in the hopes that my pivotal day and refreshing wisdom would alter what he experienced as my “hurting” a friend by using his words (anonymously) in this space. I don’t know how else to say this, but I have to be very clear here. If I walked up to you for no apparent reason and threw a glass of ice-water in your face, you’d be mad as hell…unless of course you realized that you were sitting in the middle of a house on fire, and I did it to wake you up. Well guess what, that is exactly what many of us are still sleeping through. Sometimes, as the song goes, you have to be cruel to be kind.

Welcome to the Matrix where truth exists as an obtuse shadow to satisfy the want of the observer. Action is predicated on perceived and anticipated outcome rather than principles and moral values. You are in the Matrix if you’ve…

  • Watched the Big Tech Oligarchs silence a sitting President and his supporters…
  • Watched the same people who not only remained silent during torching, looting, and violence in 2020, but incited every bit of it, and now accuse Trump of inciting a riot, and his supporters of insurrection on January 6…
  • Watched as our civil liberties are ripped away over a virus with a less than 1% fatality rate, that was clearly a biological weapon attack by the very same Communist Chinese that bought and now own the Democrat Party, Hollywood, and Media Elites.

…and still believe that a man who spent 47 years enriching himself and his family on the backs of the American People, who campaigned in his basement, who struggles to complete a gaff-free sentence, somehow beat the hardest working President in U.S. history.

Let’s go to the source of Truth…

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret; but when anything is exposed by the light it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.” Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ~ Ephesians 5:11-17

What is being forced to wear a face mask as healthy people, the surrender of our Constitutional Rights, our freedom of speech, our right of assembly, and our religious liberty, if not taking part in the unfruitful works of darkness? I got into this discussion with a brother last Sunday. He actually admonished me for my refusal to take part in the unfruitful works by wearing what I’ve come to think of as a face diaper. He rationalized his compliance with, perpetuating of, and thus further enabling the unfruitful works out of being respectful and considerate of the business-owners. NEWS FLASH: If we’ve deluded ourselves into thinking that enabling evil is somehow the will of the Lord, we are the problem. We’ve chosen the Matrix…out of FEAR.

The other thing I’ve noticed about people in the Matrix is how they all seem to see themselves as mere observers of the events that shape their lives. If I had a dime for every time I’ve heard the words “we can only hope” from Matrixville. There are two wonderful shepherds I go to daily for strength and encouragement for what is about to go down. Scott Kesterson’s Bards of War Riders on the Storm, and Dutch Sheets, Give Him 15. I urge you to do the same. Dutch focused on the Navy Seal Creed as part of yesterday’s message, The Committed, adding “That heart in the church would change the world.” He is right as rain brothers and sisters…right as rain! Know what you should DO.

The Navy Seal Creed

In times of war or uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call. A common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country, the American people, and protect their way of life. I am that man. My Trident is a symbol of honor and heritage. Bestowed upon me by the heroes that have gone before, it embodies the trust of those I have sworn to protect. By wearing the Trident, I accept the responsibility of my chosen profession and way of life. It is a privilege that I must earn every day. My loyalty to Country and Team is beyond reproach. I humbly serve as a guardian to my fellow Americans always ready to defend those who are unable to defend themselves. I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions. I voluntarily accept the inherent hazards of my profession, placing the welfare and security of others before my own. I serve with honor on and off the battlefield. The ability to control my emotions and my actions, regardless of circumstance, sets me apart from other men. Uncompromising integrity is my standard. My character and honor are steadfast. My word is my bond. We expect to lead and be led. In the absence of orders, I will take charge, lead my teammates, and accomplish the mission. I lead by example in all situations. I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. My Nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight. We demand discipline. We expect innovation. The lives of my teammates and the success of our mission depend on me – my technical skill, tactical proficiency, and attention to detail. My training is never complete. We train for war and fight to win. I stand ready to bring the full spectrum of combat power to bear in order to achieve my mission and the goals established by my country. The execution of my duties will be swift and violent when required yet guided by the very principles that I serve to defend.  

Brave men have fought and died building the proud tradition and feared reputation that I am bound to uphold. In the worst of conditions, the legacy of my teammates steadies my resolve and silently guides my every deed. I will not fail.

 

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ And they all forsook him, and fled.

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Chip Murray

Just Before The Dawn

And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man.  And then he will plunder his house. ~ Mark 3:25-27

As a Christian patriot, I have done my utmost best to be true to both God and Country in this space every Sunday for the past ten years. We have literally come full circle since my very first post, The Power of Prayer, Divine Intervention, and Our Birthright, on December 14th, 2010. I have likened these days since November 3rd to the Book of Esther for its nearly unbearable level of palace intrigue, betrayal, and the ultimate boomerang hallmark of divine intervention. Back on the same ground ten years later, this week in Washington we rode in on the power of prayer, seeking His divine intervention, to reclaim our birthright. We found the very same level of palace intrigue and betrayal as in the Book of Esther, but my friends, I must tell you…what I experienced in this pivotal moment in time was more Mark 14:50. I watched all of those around me as they all forsook him, and fled. Washington had become Gethsemane!

Last Monday became my day to pray and fast because on Wednesday morning at 4am 90 of us boarded two buses in Monroe NY, bound for DC, in response to our President’s call for a show of support. This was the P&FW Invite sent out the day before…

There seems to be a great deal of confusion in our ranks about what it means to be His. That’s troubling enough in good and tranquil times when our confusion presents no real or significant danger to ourselves or our loved ones. Unfortunately for us, these times are everything but good and tranquil.

The “Good Shepherd” knows we are called “to be 1st Century Disciples” for this reason. Any one of us can shine the light in the light, with small price to pay…because who can tell? Paul knew he was called to shine the light in the dark where it mattered most…where the price he paid from the account of his faith presented real and significant danger to himself.

I’m pleased to say there are more than a few brothers and sisters from our ranks who will be carrying such a light to Washington DC tomorrow. We are asking those unable to join us to pray and fast, with prayerful focus on our safe return by the power and promise of His Word as reflected in Psalm 91.

I had the mother of two small children tell me yesterday that she had only decided to come at 7:49pm the night before because she could not bear the thought of trying to explain to her children years from now, why she wasn’t there. It brought a tear to my eye.

Wednesday January 6th was it folks. The Esther trap is sprung in the cloudy fog of chaos and mayhem. Donald Trump learned who his real friends are…and so did I. Within moments of the treasonous Swamp Haman’s certifying the fraud, a half dozen or so of my own Christian friends asked to be taken off my email list. Here’s where things get very interesting…

Days before Gethsemane, they had come into Jerusalem fully expecting their King to be crowned. There was no possible way to their minds eye this was not about to happen. It was the It was the disciples, not the crowd outside, who were perplexed. They constantly asked Him questions, and He constantly expounded things to them; but they only understood after they had received the Holy Spirit (see John 14:26). ~ Oswald Chambers, Alone with God

We have the benefit of what the disciples lacked prior to the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen? We have the blessing of His Holy Spirit, wisdom, and discernment. We know what they were unable to know. We see what they were unable to see. And we have the faith they only acquired after they received the Holy Spirit. Any of us in their sandals on that fateful night in the garden would have done the exact same. There is no excuse from here on out. There will be no “I did not know.” Choose wisely my friends.

I’ve Sent to Warwick PD (via online submission), several LEO’s as well as Steve Neuhaus office.  Please disseminate this to local PD and elected officials you deem appropriate:

I write you to alert you and hopefully all local law enforcement agencies of a perceived grassroots local terror organization seeking to infiltrate and menace local community members in every capacity.  They have continuously accosted a member of the community who attended in peace, the well-known protest in Washington DC on January 6th.  I encourage you to disseminate this information swiftly and seek to do everything within the confines of law to shut this menacing activity down. 

cow·ard·ice

/ˈkou(ə)rdəs/

noun

1-lack of bravery.

2-the behavior of someone who is not at all brave and tries to avoid danger.

As I told my friend from Nigeria yesterday, watch and learn little brother. What the Christian patriot and Mama Grizzlies do in their finest hour…the darkest hour just before the dawn. Watch and learn.

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Chip Murray

Déjà vu All Over Again

So much of the influence of the Church has turned people into mushrooms and marshmallows…spineless. Faith was never intended to be a spineless act. ~ Scott Kesterson, Christian Journalist and creator of the Bards of War

If you believe Kesterson is wrong, then tell me…why have we stopped seeing what they don’t want us to see? Catherine Austin Fitts-Full Interview-Planet Lockdown We’ve been conditioned to look away from our own trouble…to walk compliantly to our enslavement and worse.

On December 29th our President issued the Proclamation On 850th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket. “For the name of Jesus and the protection of the Church, I am ready to embrace death.” ~ Saint Thomas Becket…a man who gave his own life for “the protection of the Church”. What remarkable timing for such a powerful statement from the same leader who, from the foot of Mount Rushmore on the 244th anniversary of our Independence, spoke these words: Throughout our history, our country has been tested and tried, but we have always fought to victory. Whenever our way of life has been threatened, our ancestors have responded with the same resounding answer as those first patriots who fought for independence. We are Americans, and we never back down. We never give in, and we never give up, and we will never yield defense of our nation. We love our nation. We will only fight to win. Today, we thank God for the gift of life and for the blessing of liberty. We honor the legends of our history, the glories of our founding fathers, and the giants of the past, and the heroes of today who keep us safe, who keep us strong and proud, and who keep us free.

From the greatest President so few are willing to fight for … history will remember. God will judge. “In every age, there have always been those who seek to lie about the past in order to gain power in the present.”

I encourage you to listen to Scott Kesterson share the amazing story of Saint Thomas and how his remarkable life and death changed our world for the better. Defiance and Power

Unfortunately, Kesterson’s assessment of the “mushroom, marshmallow, spineless” Christian is more accurate than many would care to admit. How much easier would it have been for Saint Thomas to have left it all in God’s hands? To have lived to a ripe old age, to have continued a very comfortable life-style, with the wife he adored, and the family he loved.

As we sit in the early hours of 2021 watching and witnessing the coup d’etat play out in Washington, it holds the tension and suspense of an old Hitchcock thriller…and then some. The difference, of course, is that North by Northwest was a movie. This is OUR life! How can any self-respecting Christian man see what is happening and choose to do nothing? In response to the excerpt of our President’s Rushmore Speech and this very compelling 4:30m Fight For Our Country video, I get this: Praying for the Lord’s will for this country, with the understanding that His Kingdom will continue to thrive no matter what direction the USA travels…He has a plan! And He loves us!!! Yes, our Lord most certainly has a plan, and He most definitely loves us. The question I would ask my friend, “What is your plan?” It seems to us that your plan, requiring no action other than prayer, is to wait on the Lord. That’s fine…who are we to judge? But let’s fast-forward…

The NY Governor has a plan too. His plan is to leverage the Chi-Comm Flu to force vaccines and create medical detention centers.  LIBERTY ALERT! (Every New Yorker needs to call their Reps immediately and let them know this is unacceptable!) What will you say when they come for your family? We’re waiting on the Lord? Good luck with that…seriously.

We are in this mess because somewhere along the line, men stopped being men. Throughout our history, God has used Becket’s, David’s, and Trump’s for His plan. Nowhere in all of Scripture can I find a single instance where God relied on a “waiter” to achieve His glory. We are not called to wait in this hour of all hours. We are called to march…this coming Wednesday to be precise. And that my friend, is only the beginning. From our good Shepherd, Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause. ~ Teddy Roosevelt

 

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ One of Us Is Out of Tune

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Chip Murray

“Conflict doesn’t create character, it reveals it.”

King Ahasuerus laid tribute on the coastlands of the sea. And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? For Mordecai the Jew was next in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brethren, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people. ~ Esther 10:1-3

As we prepare to enter the new year, it is important to reflect on the old. What can be said about it? What will be said about it…years from now when many of us will be gone? Thirty-one years ago the late Robin Williams played an English teacher in the movie Dead Poets Society, in which he popularized the Latin phrase Carpe Diem, which means seize the day. All Christians should live to hear the words well done good and faithful servant at the very end of their days…but do we…have we? There is a popular American phrase, it ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings. Any who fail to hear her warming up have simply stopped listening…

Perhaps a recap of the year would help. But before I do, let me set the stage with some very important Christian context…as the fat lady is hitting her scales. Sheep and Goats. Discernment and the Mark of Revelation. Oh…almost forgot…the Ten Virgins. How many of us believe we will be saved as sheep because we call ourselves Christian and attend church…when allowed? All ten virgins believed, but only five were saved. Discernment is the greatest tool God has given us to protect us from the Mark…and mind the lamps.

Now we can recap. 2019 came to a close with the official collapse of the Russian Hoax and the American economy in full rebound swing. The future was bright on New Years Day. BOOM!   Just like that, a new hoax was born in Wuhan China. We were told that millions would die. Churches, schools, and small businesses were shuttered, while the corporate box stores, government, and liquor stores were granted the “essential” exemption. God’s favorite woodcarver founded the Fear Not Fellowship in response to not being allowed to celebrate Easter in church for the very first time in his life. We held our 1st service on May 3rd with Pastor Bill Banuchi bringing the “We Are at The Crossroads” message. The time to choose. The messages from the Holy Spirit to the Fear Not Fellowship were crystal clear about the season, putting on the full armor, and God calling us together (John 17:21)…before the wrath.

By the end of May it became clear to those paying close attention and doing a little research that all of this was much ado about a bug with a 99% survival rate…and a political agenda! Inspired by a Delaware man, I wrote to 136 local pastors in Orange County New York (copy attached). Only 4 bothered to respond. I began to realize that all but the precious few were positioning themselves to let the greatest carpe diem opportunity in the history of the church to come together pass them by. While many of them were acquiescing to draconian civil rights violations and the political Black Lives Matter movement, the good shepherd was ministering to the saints in calling his flock “to be first century disciples”. California Pastor John McArthur says it best, Pragmatism has had such a huge impact in the church that the church is more concerned about what the unbelieving world thinks of it than it is about ministering to the Saints.

Every human tragedy, disaster, and catastrophe, whether it be natural or man-made can be understood, prevented, and/or best prepared for by the assessment of cause and effect. A mid-summer campfire conversation about one of the most devastating disasters to strike our country revealed a serious cause/effect problem. Because we have allowed ourselves to become divided and fractionalized as the one body of believers our Lord prayed for us to be, we were too constrained and even hamstrung to dissect and figure out the cause, which made our discussion of effect…ineffectual.

Never one to give up the ship, a core remnant of us drew a group of shepherds together asking the Holy Spirit to guide us in what became the CLOTH (Christian Leaders of the Hudson) as what we hope to become a strong fabric of support to one another in what could be very difficult days ahead for the church. Our meetings are focused on prayer, fellowship and building trust by getting to know one another…as the summer faded into fall.

I think I can fast-forward here by placing everything I’ve just shared in the context of an American society coming apart at the seams from the mayhem in Portland to and through the hotly contested election, and the very mysterious Christmas bomb blast in Nashville. We are a nation in serious trouble. In fact many of us fear that America’s days as “one nation under God” are over…which brings us to this week’s Prayer & Fast Wednesday focus;

With all hearts and minds on the birth of our Savior, permit me to draw your attention to another less important Biblical savior, but significant nonetheless. The number 17 is a very important number to the enemy that stages everything around numbers…and symbols. Esther, the 17th book of the Bible, is a particularly fascinating and timely read because it contains political theater easily, almost perfectly, superimposed on the political theater of our present day.

In Queen Esther’s day, it was the entire Jewish people who were targeted for extinction. In ours, it is America as a sovereign constitutional republic that is targeted for extinction. In the Book of Esther, Haman was the one who was poised to take power and destroy the Jewish people. In ours it is Biden who appears poised to dowse the flame of freedom.

Please join us for a very special “Flip & Boomerang” Prayer & Fast Wednesday tomorrow with prayerful focus on Esther 5:1-14 which mirrors our own 12/17 flip point from the brink of extinction to a replay of: For Mordecai the Jew was next in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was popular with the multitude of his brethren, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people. ~ Esther 10:3

Interestingly, three “Christian” brothers politely requested to be removed from the P&FW email list after receiving this week’s invite. One because “I do not support your political views”, and another citing 2 Timothy 2:15 and Hebrews 13:17 as scriptural reasoning, I can only assume. Rather than question which views and start a debate, I simply replied “As you please dear brothers. Ephesians 5:11 & Matthew 5:13-16.”

This to my mind was another campfire moment and carpe diem opportunity lost. Three chose to flee from cause rather than discuss what we are all facing as brothers. If we are not able to come together as moral-minded men on sanctity of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and honest elections what hope is there? Conservative journalist Tracy Beanz gave this great interview  in which she said the following: “The power of social media and the legacy media in general is that they can amplify the one and two percent to make them seem as though they are the sixty and seventy percent and trick the American People into thinking that their normal wholesome views are the minority, but they’re not, they’re the majority.”

DISCERNMENT brothers and sisters. We are allowing thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans to suffer unspeakable hardship, grief, and pain for our lack of it. As we draw to a close in the final hours and minutes of 2020, the flip side of Stop the Steal, is the Great Reveal. I can almost hear from heaven, This has been a test of the emergency Godcast System! There’s still time…to tune our instrument…before the curtain rises.

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the lord that will be established. ~ Proverbs 19:21

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Matrix & Comfortably Numb

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Chip Murray

The Light and the Way…For All to See

I believe Jesus wants to return to earth and begin the restoration of all things. And I believe he will do it in partnership with a pure and spotless bride. I also believe Satan will do anything and everything to prevent the bride from uniting in this identity and to prevent Jesus from sitting on the throne of David in Jerusalem. ~ Luis Cataldo, Something Bigger Is Going On–Are You Missing It?

God has blessed me in a number of ways. First and foremost, He has given me a resilient heart. Once I see the way, I never give up. Second, He has blessed me with the tools to follow through. And third, He has connected me to a fellowship of believers who, through Him, can never fail. Yesterday’s Maxwell read: There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it when its convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses. ~ Ken Blanchard

This past week’s Prayer & Fast Wednesday provided the music for this, the greatest and most important dance of our lives…

We are living through the most pivotal moment in American history. The evil and the wicked, invisible to our perception for most of my lifetime, has been flushed into the open for all to see. This same evil and wicked have managed to move a significant flock of Americans to see patriotism as a dirty word. To a mind so deceived, Liberty loses the shining value paid for by the blood and sacrifice of those who came before us.

We are about to experience a storm so few of us see coming. The “summer soldier and sunshine patriot” will wither in the face of it. Please join us for Prayer & Fast Wednesday tomorrow, with prayerful focus on Mark 4:35-41 He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?”

I encourage you to tune into Christian Journalist Scott Kesterson’s Bards of War livestreams on YouTube at 12:45pm and 9pm Eastern every day*. God gave us our Liberty, It is up to us to fight for it. Time for us to become the “change agents”!

I LOVE the term change agent. The very first sentence in Luis Cataldo’s “Something Bigger Is Going On” is, “The Church in America is not handling the election process very well.” Could this possibly be because the Church in America is full of people waiting and praying for God to be the change agent? And, if that’s the case, what could possibly please the devil more? Which brings me to this wonderful quote that came to me this week from a great freedom fighter by the name of Tom Luongo, “The first rule of screenwriting, or in fact any fiction writing, is, ‘Conflict doesn’t create character, it reveals it.’ People are who they are, and we only find out what they are made of when tested to their limit.”

Here’s a double scoop of truth for the reader to ponder. Both Moses and the Pharaoh knew slaves have to believe that they can be free. If you’re not ready to Fight For Trump, then you are preparing to be a slave. When the threat of the Nazis was the most dire, and his war cabinet was advising him to surrender, Churchill said, “Nations that go down fighting rise up again, those who surrender tamely, perish.” China is at war with us. We have two choices, stand up and fight, or surrender and perish. ~ Judd Garrett

Something compelled me to watch The Sound of Music this week. It might have been the Kitty Werthmann story I came across two weeks ago. Kitty Werthmann: Her Riveting True Story and Her Message (deeprootsathome.com) I believe it was something deeper. Kesterson has likened this time to the great Exodus story of God working through Moses to free His children from the bonds of slavery. He connects the ancient slavery to the modern-day world-wide-web of slavery he refers to as the Matrix, and he connects the Matrix to the Matthew 7:13-14 “Narrow Gate” path for the Remnant…exactly the “Something Bigger” Luis Cataldo is referring to.

The CCP-fueled Global Elites are rolling out their “Comfortably Numb” mandatory just-a-little-pin-prick plan you must take to keep your job and feed your family. The same gathering storm of evil that swept the world into the second great war eighty years ago is looking to finish the job today. I loved watching the Sound of Music more now than ever before, because I can now feel what Baron von Trapp was feeling on the eve of his Exodus from the home and the country he loved…while the vast majority of his fellow Austrians slept their way into tyranny. Today’s Maxwell uses Josiah from 2 Chronicles to illustrate a victory over self-quality that only God can infuse leaders with. He blessed Churchill with it then, as He has blessed President Trump who is now facing the greatest evil any American President has ever had to face. Now, more than ever, with the eyes of the entire world on us, we need to pray for him, stand with him, and fight for the hope of all mankind…for we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him. For the first time in 800 years…“Christmas Star”

But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.~ Jeremiah 20:11

Chip Murray: Wide Awake
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A Great New Years Resolution! “The Importance of Starting Well”

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Chip Murray

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and spoke, saying:          I will sing to the Lord, For He triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea! The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him. ~ Exodus 15:1-2

God’s justice is about to be served brothers and sisters. The veil is lifting across this nation fully exposing the wicked. God has done His part, now it is up to we. When we step off on the other side, it must be onto the “Law of Solid Ground” as given us in Leviticus 10:9-11

52,000 Americans listed in the Zhenhua CCP database leak. https://parler.com/post/c2d80eb6424b48f9a4c12ca1ebe9679a

Lawyer Sidney Powell asserted that due to alleged foreign interference in the Nov. 3 election, “it’s more than sufficient to trigger” President Donald Trump’s executive order on foreign interference issued in 2018. https://www.theepochtimes.com/sidney-powell-trump-could-trigger-2018-executive-order-on-foreign-interference_3616680.html?st=49YAG9JUDMd1ZuQAFaiVovYOzfTSFwYdx95OKwACiHXbE7tFj-lv4bcZx8nORK9K8C2cWZFkjvtendcGOmBCVHNZ9e5kg1S02Ns

We will “address one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all our hearts.” We will pray and fast and lead our brothers, sisters, friends, and neighbors out of the fear-based Reset matrix and into a new beginning. Out with the old, in with the new. Kind of like Starting Over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3svABDnmio

For Him,

Chip

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Freedom and the 2nd Exodus

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Chip Murray

With God ALL Things Are Possible!

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart, always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father. ~ Ephesians 5:15-20

I need to get a little more political than I normally do here. Friends, we have crossed a very dangerous threshold since last Sunday. A rapidly growing and significant portion of the American people believe that their votes were changed or deleted while phony votes and ballots were counted, and that President Trump won the election by a huge margin. Since last Sunday we have learned that AG Barr deliberately withheld pertinent facts regarding the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop making the entire Biden family subject to blackmail by the Chinese Communists. Since last Sunday we have learned that California Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell of California, who happens to sit on the House Intelligence Committee was sleeping with a Chinese spy…and with ALL eyes on Georgia, we are learning of the China/Kemp connection. We are 41 days out from the election with President Trump’s legal team fighting to overturn the election, with only the media referring to Biden as President-elect, while the Democrats appear to be setting the stage for President Harris to assume power in 2021.

Now, everything I have just written is well-reported fact now in the realm of common knowledge. What I am about to share is less reported and well outside the realm of common knowledge. But, if you are fortunate enough to have internet access and make it through the day without a power outage, you can research what I’m about to share for yourself. It is reported that Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau invited Chinese troops onto Canadian soil for “cold weather training”. American military ground, air and naval assets have been re-deployed to defend the American homeland from foreign invasion. This past Wednesday an F-16 was scrambled in response to reports of suspicious troop movements near the Canadian border and was shot down over Michigan. The pilot is missing. Chinese President Xi Jinping told his people to ready themselves for war on October 20th…after declaring the U.S. a threat in September.

All of this points to what the world globalist elites have been planning as part of The Great Reset I wrote about last Sunday. They’ve been very busy preparing the entire world population for the “New Normal” scheme of one Klaus Schwab. More fun than a family trip to Disney, this ride includes mandatory vaccination for each and every one of us…with a vaccine that incorporates nano-technology and the substance Luciferase to literally “mark” us with. It is the ultimate offer most will be economically unable to refuse, as our new normal will include digital currency and social behavior monitoring. They will simply starve us into submission. This is why Donald J. Trump had to be taken out. He made it clear from day one, that he was not going to go along to get along. Quite the contrary, he was going to drain a swamp most of us never knew existed…until he pulled the curtain back for all to see. NY Law-makers waste no time PATCH-PM

So…how does this all have anything to do with our “2nd Exodus”? Simple really. God provides for His people in this one just as He provided for His people in the first. BUT that choice is ours to make. This is the ultimate red pill, blue pill choice just as Scott Kesterson referred to last Sunday as the Great Reset v Great Awakening. As all of this unfolds, we are hearing the term civil war more and more. That’s because half the country insists on the blue pill/reset, while the other half insists on the red pill of awakening. I have no idea how this all turns out. I have a very difficult time imagining President Trump surrendering our country to the Communist Chinese. I also know the same forces within our country who refused to accept his victory in 2016 will do so with greater vitriol if he is inaugurated on January 20, 2021.

Either way, now is the time to take control from those who plan to take it from you. The weapon they are using to control us is FEAR. I loved this quote from Scott last week, “When we free ourselves from the burdens of the past and fear of the future, we are free to live in the moment.” This is why I LOVE the Ephesians quote above. This is exactly why they need to close the churches. We are literally disarming the enemy with our Faith. I will close by strongly encouraging you to follow Scott’s Bards of War live-streams on YouTube…12:30pm and 9pm Eastern, and join us for Prayer & Fast Wednesday every week. Email me at chip.murray253@gmail.com and I’ll include you on the invite with specific scriptural focus that goes out every Tuesday. Finally, I encourage you to make intercessory prayer…fervent intercessory prayer a part of your daily life from now on. I leave you with the best coaches I can think of to guide you:

Derek Prince – Ruling by Prayer:  Intercession Basics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_7akj9eiMA

John MacArthur – Prayer:  The Highest Form of Worship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSckFz-1aWI

Tony Evans – The Authority of Binding and Loosing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kh0_GTFiCU

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I’ll see you on the other side!

 

Chip Murray: Wide Awake
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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ The Slavery of Fear

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Chip Murray

The slavery of fear had men afraid to think. ~ Thomas Paine

Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon the good and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. ~ Thomas Paine

I made the decision in the early Spring of this year to retire at the end of 2020…twenty-five days from today. It was the easiest decision I have ever made in my life for two very important reasons:

  1. I cherish freedom as God’s 2nd greatest gift to man and protecting it as my duty to God.
  2. I have never been afraid to think.

As the events of 2020 unfolded, I began to see those around me stop thinking. Imagine you go to great lengths (like sacrificing your only son) to give this sensational gift to the love of your life. You meet her at her favorite restaurant to present her with this wonderful gift. And after the meal she walks away leaving the gift on the table. Imagine how utterly devastated that would make any of us feel. Amplify that by a million times and you might come within a galaxy of understanding the depth of agony we put on the heart of our Creator by our thoughtlessness and indifference. For what…the fear of losing stuff? And it’s not just my industry…my realtor friend sent me this the other day; The National Association of Realtors has, for all intents and purposes, made quoting Bible verses on a private Facebook profile into an ethical violation leading to a hearing and expulsion. ~ National Association of Realtors Imposes Cancel Culture On 1.4 Million People

When I told my friend that is exactly why I am retiring from the company I’ve been part of for the past 26 years in the financial industry she said, “I’m happy for you, but I can’t retire. If I cancel my membership, I will not be able to make a living.” I wanted to cry. It was no different to my mind than her voluntarily putting herself on a cattle car headed for Auschwitz eighty years ago.

I cannot imagine what it must have been like for a man of honor like retired Lt. General Michael Flynn to have been put through the hell he and his family have been put through for the past four years. But I can certainly relate to what he learned in those four years when he said the experience taught him who his true friends were. Here’s an amazing clip from a man fighting to save the world who learned the very same lesson many years ago. Charlie Rose Interviews Young Donald Trump

As Trump said in the Rose interview, “You can’t guess it…you can’t predict it” when it comes to who’s going to remain loyal to you after you lose everything or, as his much older and wiser self might say, after it appears you’ve lost an election. I and most all of us who remain unafraid to think know he won the election. Here is the Prayer & Fast Wednesday invite that was sent out this past Tuesday…

Please allow me to share some wonderful news with you on this first day of December. We are a blessed nation on the face of this earth, cursed by an elite few who attempted to re-define us, demoralize us, and enslave us. They have failed.

This morning’s MAXWELL “Go To The Very End” is God showing us who we are. These “32 Rules To Teach Your Sons” (at the very bottom of today’s message) came from my friend Tracy this morning. Go to the very end…

# 32 – Change the world, don’t let it change you.

Please join us for Prayer & Fast Wednesday tomorrow with prayerful focus on 2 Timothy 4.

History books will refer to 2020 as either the year of revelation or the year of Revelation. Who can say? Modern-day prophet Dutch Sheets, whom I was just introduced to this week, and others seem to subscribe to the small r theory. Did the Prophets Get It Wrong?  “Why would we not want to fight for truth?” Sheets asked about the efforts to determine whether or not cheating went on in this election. “Let’s make sure it was a righteous vote. Let’s make sure that it wasn’t a sinful vote, that it wasn’t dishonest. Some Christians say, ‘let’s just forget about it, get along; it’s not worth it.’  Are you kidding me? Why would God say ‘just go along with sin’?”

Whether 2020 turns out to be small r or capital R…or both, the hardest revelation pill I’ve had to swallow is watching those I know, or thought I knew, distance themselves from truth as defending truth devolves from being respectable to unpopular to deplorable to dangerous. But there is no better way I can think of learning the painful Trump/Flynn “True Friend” lesson. And Lt. General Flynn is 100% correct in his assessment of the excuse many will use for failing to act to defend Truth, Life, and Freedom. You cannot sit and say, ‘I didn’t know’. There are too many ways to educate yourself. ~ Scott Kesterson Interviews Lt. General Michael Flynn

Here’s a great example of what General Flynn is saying. If God gave man a brain to think, why should any man be afraid to think? Wouldn’t God naturally want us to use our brain for good, to find and defend truth…to protect our cherished freedom? So using the brain God gave me, just this week I used it to educate myself to The Brain Initiative of all things! A little treat Barack Obama left for us, which links synthetic telepathy to the CIA, DARPA, National Institute of Health, and the Director of Human Experimentation who happens to be married to the man who is calling for mandated vaccination, Anthony Fauci.

You see, I know that “when Truth is back in town honest men will come around and make a better world for you and me.” BECAUSE I am not afraid to think, and BECAUSE I trust in God as I happen to know and trust the MEN who are fighting in this very hour to make it so. Today’s Tune-up is dedicated to one such man. We simply call him “G”.

RULES TO TEACH YOUR SONS:

  1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down.
  2. Learn how to cook a signature dish.
  3. Spend 30 min a day reading up on current events.
  4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer.
  5. Request the late check-out.
  6. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.
  7. Hold your heroes to a higher standard.
  8. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas.
  9. Play with passion or don’t play at all.
  10. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye.
  11. Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.
  12. Stand up when she enters the room.
  13. Carry two handkerchiefs. The one in your back pocket is for you. The one in your breast pocket is for her.
  14. You marry the girl, you marry her family / children
  15. Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like crazy underneath.
  16. Experience the serenity of traveling alone.
  17. Never be afraid to ask out the best looking girl in the room.
  18. Never turn down a breath mint.
  19. A sport coat is worth 1000 words.
  20. Try writing your own eulogy. Never stop revising.
  21. Be nice to your elders.
  22. Open her door and walk on the outside of the street.
  23. After writing an angry email, read it carefully. Then delete it.
  24. Ask your mom to play. She won’t let you win.
  25. Manners make the man.
  26. Give credit. Take the blame.
  27. Stand up to Bullies. Protect those bullied.
  28. Write down your dreams.
  29. Add value everywhere you go.
  30. Be confident and humble at the same time.
  31. If ever in doubt, REMEMBER WHOSE SON YOU ARE and REFUSE to just be ordinary!
  32. Change the world, don’t let it change you.

 

Chip Murray: Wide Awake
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