EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. ~ Psalm 127:1-2
Keep an eye brothers and sisters…old friends and new worlds…I read these words of wisdom from our old friend Oswald Chambers just this morning in The Test of Loyalty, “It is only the loyal soul who believes that God engineers circumstances. We take such liberty with our circumstances, we do not believe God engineers them, although we say we do; we treat the things that happen as if they were engineered by men.”
Doc’s Remnant A-Team gave me the title for today’s Tune-up in this video he made last Summer where he introduced them. He had reposted it a week or so ago. In God’s perfect timing it landed on the shores of my consciousness smack dab in the middle between the Industrialization of Islamic Child Rape in the UK, and the Firestorm that has, as of this writing, consumed 38,000 acres of home-filled land in Las Angeles (City of Angels) California. High places rise up when Biblical Manhood dries up…as it so tragically has. The time has come for Biblical Manhood to rise up to tear them down {Leviticus 26:30}. Jesse Waters says “we’re witnessing the collapse of Liberal Society” with the LA Fires in yesterday’s report. I say we are witnessing the collapse of Western Civilization without a resurgence of Biblical Manhood…where men are conditioned by God rather than by men who want or pretend to be God…or worse.
It’s a strange world growing stranger by the minute, out with the old, and in with the new? They use to say the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys…as 38,000 acres of very expensive toys just went up in smoke…on the heels of the Western North Carolina disaster. I just wrote the other day that If you’ve watched the events of the past year and haven’t dusted off your Bible and cried to Jesus, you are truly on your own.
Like the Bette Midler tune, God Is Watching Us…I said to Him in my prayers this morning, “You know my every thought before I think it.” He’s doing so much more than simply watching us. He’s giving us every opportunity to prove ourselves loyal to Him. He knows who will and He knows who won’t… Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. ~ Psalm 55:11-14
Everything changed in 2020…you SEE…God gave us the year of perfect vision…but my former pastor who took a knee to the man called me “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” for warning my brothers and sisters of the REAL wolf and the threat to our children, our communities and our country! Its very hard to step out and cut against the grain of a society that has been as thoroughly conditioned as ours, but I am here to tell you He favors us when we do!
In closing, I will leave you with two nuggets of hope for the future for those brave enough to choose it; Young Men Find a More Masculine Alternative:
As the article correctly stated, the Orthodox Church is decidedly more masculine than “traditional” mainline US denominations. One reason why is because the Orthodox tradition is the most dominant tradition in Eastern Europe and the most dominant Christian tradition remaining in the Middle East. Curiously, and most narrative-smashing, Russia has the largest Orthodox body in the world. Meaning, Orthodoxy has largely escaped the ravages of wokeism.
The article’s second misleading element was that, when you boiled it down, all the personal anecdotes actually described converts of young men to Orthodoxy from atheism rather than from other traditions. In other words, growth. So it really was a story of a growing church, in particular rapid growth in the American Orthodox church, and altogether a rising spiritual movement with a decidedly manly character.The article continued dropping some appropriate criticisms (from a young man’s point of view) aboutthe feminization of the Protestant tradition in the US…https://archive.ph/ab7YV
And…
A young man named Joe:
Shawn Ryan ~ How do we fight against the evil that wants to destroy Western Civilization?
Joe Lonsdale ~ There’s a lot of different ways. One way is, as a leader, being a role model, speaking out and role modeling courage. Classical virtues are very powerful against this stuff. The moral people that show courage, it snowballs. Once enough people are showing courage, they can’t get us anymore. They need us to be afraid. ~ An Absolute Must Watch!
Whether you attend a church that flies the rainbow flag, or one that preaches the unfiltered and undiluted Word of God, calling all believers to be as 1st Century Disciples, the photo above reflects the church God sees today. Somewhere in that abandoned old house, there’s a mirror, a door, a stair rail or floor tile that is in perfectly good condition…like the church I am blessed to have found. But God doesn’t see His church as individual parts of His Body, He sees us as one. One body that has failed every test He has put to it since the removal of prayer in our schools and the legalization of child sacrifice (abortion) in 1973. Each of us will be held to account for this body of which we are a part, and this time in which we live.
The dilapidated, run-down, and abandoned body you see pictured above, is the result of what Kevin D. Roberts described as America’s state of spiritual enervation in the SMTU “The Paraclete vs The Parasitic” from two Sunday’s ago, and is responsible for the proliferation of the “Swamp” President Trump was elected to drain in 2016. The same swamp that tried to kill him three times, the swamp destroying America, the swamp Larry P. Arnn wrote about this past week…
He also convinced the people who inhabit the swamp, and they have scorched the earth to stop him. He has been canceled, derided, slandered, libeled, investigated, searched, impeached, arrested, prosecuted, tried, convicted, shot, and yet…reelected! Now the battle will begin anew. What will it be like? There are so many problems. The border. Crime. Inflation. Education. War. Ukraine. China. Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran. Debt stacked to the far reaches of a SpaceX mission. Which matters most? ~ Drain The Swamp
Perhaps one of the most renowned and respected authorities on the “Beast” behind the swamp creatures gave this rather gloomy prognostication sometime before he passed in 2003. “Confronted with the choice between Jesus the Lamb, and the antichrist, the wild beast, the great majority of the human race are going to choose the beast.” ~ Derek Prince
A man who refers to himself as “a watchman” puts it this way, this week. “People are already taking the Mark of the Beast. They’re taking the mark spiritually, in the way that they live their lives, in the way that they allow themselves to be conditioned.” ~ A Watchman
Right on the heels of Prince and the watchman, I receive the following prayer request from DC-connected Heather Johnston to pray for unity of our House, Senate, and incoming President Trump and for the continuation of Speaker Mike Johnson who “is surrendered and submitted to DJT”? ~ Prayer Request
Which brings us to today’s message from above, The Righteous Foxhole. My pastor unwittingly sparked today’s title with these words to me last month, “May the Lord embrace you with His love, peace, and joy, and may He continue to strengthen you, as we stand together on the battlefield of spiritual warfare, and in the victory of faith over fear.” I actually told him, and meant every word, “There is nobody on this planet I am more honored to share a foxhole with than you dear brother.” What is most interesting to me now, is how God connected my pastor to Special Operations warriors, John “Tig” Tiegen (Benghazi), Craig “Saw Man” Sawyer (Vets4ChildRescue), and Pete “Doc” Chambers (Remnant Ministry) on that very same day! You see, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting both Saw Man and Tig at the Rod of Iron Freedom Festival in 2019. I was honored to meet Doc at a Serve God, Defend LibertyConference in 2022. On the very same day God gave me The Righteous Foxhole through Pastor Steve, he reconnected me to Saw Man and Tig through Saw Man’s Spiritual Warfare Brief Doc posted on his Telegram channel!
The rest of today’s message is going to hurt my brothers and sisters in the church community because it needs to. On Thursday night Justice in America hosted an interview with Nadine from the FQXHOLE FOUNDATION. They are doing the heroic work of bringing relief and saving lives in Western North Carolina that our own government (FEMA) has refused to do because its too busy running the largest child-sex-trafficking operation on the planet, and money-laundering scheme in Ukraine. When one of the 22 participants on the call asked Nadine how much help and support they had received from the churches, her answer, and I quote, “NONE, this has been ALL patriots.” This coming on the heels of the Hyde Park BOE church No-Show to protect children! The cold hard fact I am heading into 2025 knowing? I am going to war, and there is nobody in my own church (other than Pastor Steve), and greater church community, I would want or trust in the foxhole beside me. Those who possess the most superior armor of all…who lack the faith to wear it do not belong on any battlefield. Period.
Lastly, I do not know Matthew Livelsberger. But after what I have read and listened to on Shawn Ryan’s podcast yesterday, I would take him in alongside myself, Pastor Steve, Doc, Saw Man, Tig, and Nadine all day long…’til death do us part! Going with Doc on this one, New Years Day in Vegas wasn’t a terror attack, it was a WAKE-UP CALL!!Judge For Yourself!
And when he had made a scourge of small chords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables.And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. ~ John 2:15, Luke 15:2
Oswald breaks it down…
For thirty years Jesus did nothing, then for three years He stormed every time He went down to Jerusalem. Josephus says He tore through the temple courts like a madman. We hear nothing about that Jesus Christ today. The meek and mild Being pictured today makes us lose altogether the meaning of the Cross. We have to find out why Jesus was beside Himself with rage and indignation at the Pharisees and not with those given over to carnal sins. Which state of society is going to stand a ripping and tearing Being like Jesus Christ who drags to the ground the highest respected pillars of its civilized society, and shows that their respectability and religiosity is built on a much more abominable pride than the harlot’s or the publican’s? The latter are disgusting and coarse, but these men have the pride of the Devil in their hearts. ~ Oswald Chambers, Pharisaic Invincibility
Today’s Tune-up will undoubtedly fall harsh upon the female ear, but I especially urge my sisters to hear the word I received early Saturday morning, and ask yourself, Why did the Serpent choose to launch his assault on Eve rather than Adam? Please consider…I will bring us back to the Garden before my closing. The event which sparked Saturday morning’s intense HS download, which I feel is nothing short of an epiphany/revelation, was the simultaneous delivery of Anita Estes’ book, Armed For Prayer, A Strategic Guide To Victory via Amazon delivery, and Craig “Saw Man” Sawyer’s Spiritual Warfare Situation Brief, which I was blessed to find on Doc Chambers’ Telegram channel. What are the odds? Spiritual Warfare Situation Brief
Since the reprehensible and illegal COVID lockdowns in 2020, a small remnant group of pastors and church leaders, organized as CLOTH (Christian Leaders Of The Hudson), have worked tirelessly to bring John 17:21 unity to the Body of Christ, His Ecclesia. We’d have had greater success with a herd of feral ally cats. So, to borrow from Einstein’s definition of insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results,” or what I like to call business as usual, is slowly but surely killing us. And so here we are five years later, right where we started. Now, mind you, in these five years, God has given us The Letter to the American Church, book and movie. Megan Basham’s Shepherds For Sale, James Lindsay’s Beneath Sheep’s Clothing…He even sent Pastors Artur Pawlowski and John Amanchukwu…all to little or no avail! Nobody, it seems, is willing to address the elephant in the room. What God gave me this Saturday morning was the formula (smelling salts?) for our desperately needed Ecclesiastical Adjustment. But let’s start where the American dream first began to unravel into what most honest folk today would see as an American nightmare. Some might argue that would be with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. I’m by no means courageous enough to make that claim just yet, but bookmark it for later…
I had a friend posit the theory that while our men were in the Pacific and European theaters of WW II securing our freedom and liberty, the women had no choice but to assume the head-of-household leadership role while the men were overseas. A Biblically traditional territory that many if not most men were in no hurry to reclaim upon their return. And just like that, America let her guard down giving way to decades of socialist sucker punches, left hooks, underworld uppercuts, and the one-two knockout punch delivered by the removal of the Bible and prayer from our schools, replaced by the Altar to Baal, otherwise known as Planned Parenthood and the Abortion Industry, leading to the Death of Camelot, LBJ (the most evil and corrupt man to ever occupy the Oval Office) eliminating black fathers from black families with the stroke of a pen…WACO…Ruby Ridge…9/11…Patriot Act…2007-2008 Economic Meltdown…Obama…MF Global…COVID…ALL a direct result of men relinquishing their primary role as men, from household, to community, to government, to corporate boardroom; PROTECTOR! Now in comes Saw Man’s Spiritual Warfare briefing contrasting with Anita’s. and the Holy Spirit takes Oswald Chamber’s Pharisaic Invincibility and drop-kicks to the opposite end of the field where it emerges as the true story of Vince Papale of the Philadelphia Eagles told in the fabulous movie Invincible, starring Mark Wahlberg as Vince, and Greg Kinnear as coach Dick Vermeil. The very beginning is the perfect “rough & tumble” glimpse of men being the men God the Father made us to be! I purchased it so hopefully you will be able to watch it for free here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwmc25wMIg
So, then I had an exchange with a single-mom-friend who is raising two teenage sons in the Warwick Valley school district discussing mega-Dem-donor Lindy Li’s defection from the party of Crazy, in which I commented that “every man should be showing up at their BOE meetings, but they’re not. It’s like they are waiting for permission to be men again.”
Look what else has transpired since the PROTECTOR went AWOL:
I promised I would bring us back to the Garden…with the formula which is and must be our final Ecclesiastical Adjustment. Because, my friends, God has given us a second chance to get it right. He has allowed us to stretch ourselves so far beyond the truth of who we are, which is who He made us to be, it hurts with a pain we’ve never felt before. He used Anita and Saw Man to show us that you can make the woman out of the man, as He did (Genisis 2:22), but you cannot make a man from a woman, regardless of what your teacher tells you. We have been lied to for so long…
The moral law never alters, either for the noblest or for the weakest, it is eternally and abidingly the same. The moral law ordained by God does not make itself weak to the weak, it does not palliate our shortcomings, it remains absolute for all time and eternity. ~ Oswald Chambers, The Absolute Moral Law…This law was the very essence of His message through me to the Hyde Park School Board using the words of Thomas Jefferson, Justice David Brewer, and FDR.
Hang in there with me ladies, this next part will only first appear a bridge too far…until I show you as He has shown me, the other side! Most of us who know our Bibles are very familiar with Joshua, one of the greatest of God’s warrior men to ever live, and these words he spoke, And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (Josh. 24:15). What you probably don’t know is what the brutal realist and Bible scholar Dr. Peter Ruckman had to say about them: Unnoticed by most of the brainwashed, programmed, 21st Century Christians is the fact that if Joshua’s wife was present, she had no voice in the matter of what Joshua’s household was going to do. They were going to do what he said they would do. “Mrs. Joshua” has spent nearly forty years as a slave in Egypt, followed by forty years as a wandering nomad in the desert, and then had to sit at home thirty years while her husband was fighting all over Palestine. Joshua speaks for her and the whole household (Acts 16:31).
(Smiling) Please allow me to show you the other side by way of a question that formed the basis of my steak-dinner-challenge to the Hyde Park School Board. How many of us, brothers, sisters, sons, fathers, mothers, pastors, priests, and rabbis, would not come together if God showed us the way to reclaim our true selves, our purpose, and our destiny? The only thing standing in our way would be the same three things He showed us last week: The three S’s from Thursdays Prayer & Fast…selfishness, self-interest, and self-indulgence…
What most of us cannot see or imagine right now is the present Babylonian money-magic financial system is about to come tumbling down. God has given us, We the People, the authority to rebuild it. The two-income need was an engineered lie to break the family apart. We need to give permission, as Anita sought permission from her husband, for men to become the men God made them to be to lead their households again…to once again be the PROTECTORS God made them to be by engaging their local governments to set the wrongs right, using the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate along with our 1st Amendment Right to Petition our local, state, and federal governments for redress of grievances…so that our children will be free to live as children again, and our wives, mothers, sons, and daughters will be able to be who God made them to be.
Finally, if you watch the movie Invincible, you can see Wahlberg’s character playing the American man, beaten down, marginalized, told for so long we were not good enough…until we were. Until we finally locked into the truth of who we are. Please, as Saw Man humbled himself in his tutorial to invite correction, I too would love to hear any positive or negative feedback in the comments. God Bless and Happy New Year! Oh…I nearly forgot, Judges 9:7-15 applies. We must NEVER settle for less. Amen?
Judges 9:7-15 Jotham’s plea, The Hierarchy of the Trees, And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? ~ Acts 19:15-17
Par·a·site
/ˈperəˌsīt/
noun
1.an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other’s expense: “the parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes”
2.a person who habitually relies on or exploits others and gives nothing in return: derogatory “he was a parasite who lived off other people”
Par·a·clete
/ˈperəˌklēt/
noun
1.(in Christian theology) the Holy Spirit as advocate or counselor (John 14:16, 26).
From P&FW 12/4 ~ Immediately following this (Tucker’s interview with Dr. Mark Hyman exposing the evil behind our Healthcare Industrial Complex), Oswald Chambers shed beautiful rays of sunlight on the Vampires that have preyed on generations of our children: There are people you come in contact with who “freeze” you, you cannot think, things do not “go,” everything feels tight and mean; you come into the zone of other people and all those bands disappear, you are surprised at how clearly you can think, everything seems to “go” better…The one personality brought an atmosphere that froze the heart not only physically, but psychically; kept it cold, kept it down, kept it back; the other personality gave the heart a chance to expand and develop and surge throughout the whole body…Anything that keeps the physical blood in good condition and the heart working properly, benefits the soul life and spirit life as well. That is why Jesus Christ said, “Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of life…” ~ Oswald Chambers, The Heart Is The Center
But we are militarily and strategically weaker, fiscally endangered, and SPIRITUALLY ENERVATED. ~ Kevin D. Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation Imprimis_Oct_6pg_10-24web.pdf
EN-ER-VA-TED: Lacking Physical, mental, or moral vigor
“Christianity has become toothless,” the billionaire posted recently on his X social-media platform. “Unless there is more bravery to stand up for what is fair and right, Christianity will perish.” ~ Elon Musk
As soon as Jesus Christ comes in, He produces havoc because the whole world system is arrayed against His redemption. It was the world system of His day, and particularly the religious system, that killed the Son of God. (Glory) ~ Oswald Chambers, Our Devotion as Disciples…The coming of Jesus Christ is not a peaceful thing, it is a disturbing thing. (Place Help)
So dear friends, I pose to you the following question. What do the Acts 19 Sons of Sceva, the parties and principals behind our Healthcare Industrial Complex exposed by Dr. Mark Hyman, the diagnosis of our nation by Kevin D. Roberts, the Heart is the Center by Oswald Chambers, the sexual grooming of children we called out at the Hyde Park BOE last Thursday leading up to what Attorney John Klar refers to as “public school hesitancy,” the false shepherds exposed in Megan Basham’s book “Shepherds for Sale,” and the sisters who think they can pray away the elephant in the room they fail to acknowledge and hold accountable, leading to Elon Musk’s spot-on description of “toothless Christianity,” all have in common? The parasitic nature/spirit of the antichrist holds sway!
It is an easy business to appear to be what we are not. (Sermon Mt.) On the other hand…
Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered…One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. “Because you have kept my command to persevere.” Remain spiritually tenacious. (Utmost) ~ Oswald Chambers, Spiritual Tenacity
Just as the enemy spirit could see the lack of His Spirit in the Acts 19 sons of Sceva, the enemy can also see the very same lack of His Spirit in the vast majority of today’s Laodicean pulpits…which is why they don’t show up. If you recall from SMTU “Someone to Love” back on November 3rd, I posted messages from two Laodicean pulpits contrasted with two fuel-injected with the fire of the Holy Spirit, Pastor John Amanchukwu being one of the latter two. Parasitic nature vs the power of the Paraclete. What I’m about to tell you may shock you, but remember, “truth is treason in the empire of lies:” The Laodicean church, wittingly or otherwise, has been grooming its congregations for years to be the perfect submissive and compliant hosts. On the other hand, I encourage you to observe for yourselves the power and force of the Holy Spirit in this video clip from our visit to the Hyde Park Board of Education Thursday before last. We met an hour before the meeting to pray over Pastor John and ask for the Holy Spirit’s anointing on all the speakers, and over the event itself. I was the first to speak at the 3hr 17min mark, but if you tune in 3-5 min before my comments, I want you to pay attention to the infantile coddling voice of the woman in charge of our children’s education as she tries to paint lipstick on a 37% literacy proficiency rate. Pay attention to the Spirit in the room, and in particular, the comments of the local woman who was the last to speak (21 minutes in total). When we show up, the Holy Spirit shows up. When we don’t…
PRAY—STUDY—ACT!God has heard our prayers. God has given us a 2nd chance. God has empowered us and provided us with the tools we need…
“To save the soul of this nation that He gave us, WE only need to demand that HIS law (i.e. the Constitution) that He inspired be fully complied to.~ GR Mobley, Reclaiming the Republic, “Why Counties Matter Most”
And finally, as any farmer will tell you, we need to stop feeding the fox that’s killing our chickens!
Answering the Call! Leading By Example! Blessed By The LORD!
And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. ~ Deuteronomy 28:63
(Deut. 28:63) “The mostterrifying verse in 31,102 verses in the Bible,” according to Peter Ruckman, “I do not know of a ‘Christian celebrity’ in America who dare try to expound the verse publicly or privately. Its counterpart is Proverbs 1:25-32. It is the apotheosis of hate and vengeance and has never been surpassed.” In chapters 27 and 28 there are fourteen blessings (positives,) and 54 curses (negatives) God spells out as a warning to His children. I think anyone who has been a father knows why our Father would place 75% more emphasis on what could go wrong than focusing on the positive.
Is it possible to be a church-going, good deed-doing Bible scholar…living outside the will of God? If we tell our children great stories, teach them great lessons, but fail to demonstrate all we have taught them by how we conduct ourselves with the world around us, would they not see us as hypocrites? Wasn’t that our LORD’S greatest rebuke of the Pharisees of His day {Luke 11:42-51}? Jesus not only taught them about what it is to be the good shepherd, He showed them by His example. He not only talked to them about sin and defilement, he fashioned whips, flipped tables, and went after those who defiled His Father’s house {John 2:15}. They actually saw him leave the ninety-nine to go after and save the one that was lost. Just as Pastor John Amanchukwu did this past Thursday at the Board of Education meeting in Hyde Park, NY. If Jesus was moved to the John 2:15 action over defilement of His Father’s house, imagine his action in response to the defilement, abuse, and sexual grooming of His children! And yet, Pastor John, who flew in from North Carolina, and Pastor William Green, who drove up from Pennsylvania, were the only two pastors who showed up.
Treasure in heaven is faith that has been tried (cf. Rev. 3:18). ~ Oswald Chambers
Maybe Chambers is onto something here…maybe we have grown to feel we have too much to lose by driving an hour to call out evil.
Professional Christianity is religion of possessions that are devoted to God; the religion of Jesus Christ is a religion of personal relationship to God, and has nothing whatsoever to do with possessions…The scare of poverty will knock the spiritual backbone out of us unless we have the relationship that holds.~ Oswald Chambers, A Religion of Relationship …Possessions, to be clear, means all kinds of things. Feelings and Time, for example: I can possess a feeling of safety, and time is an extremely important possession for so many these days…The attitude of our Lord’s life was that He was disconnected with everything to do with things that chain people down to this world. Nobody in the entire Bible knew the curse of possession more than Achan and his entire family {Joshua 7:11-26}…and then have ye a gander at the certain man who said, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest…BUT…or him who said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father…another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house {Luke 9:57-62}.
The ignominy of the modern pulpit knows no bounds!
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. ~ Joshua 1:9
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. ~ Proverbs 16:9
I want you to know I am nobody special. I have no great claims or accomplishments in this world…no letters after my name, other than Jr. But I have learned to listen to God tell me what He wants me to do, even and especially when I’m afraid to do it! And here’s what I am here to tell you with absolute certainty from my own experience. When you answer His call, He favors (Blessings) you in ways you can’t possibly imagine. On the other hand, focusing on the 75% negative (Curses) and the Nadab/Abihu violation of the Law of Solid Ground (Trust & Obey)…the very foundation of leadership, the laundry list of curses I hear every single day from those around me is staggering. It really is simple. Preacher…repent, and LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY!
Come let us walk together in the scriptures that we may cleanse our mornings and set our hearts aright before it is too late…Dear brethren, consider the soul who rises with the sun but fails to lift their heart heavenward in prayer. Such a one begins the day unarmed, naked before the wiles of the enemy, vulnerable to the snares that lie ahead. ~ Charles Spurgeon, 4 Morning Habits That Anger God
It is not sentiment but an implicit reality that the conditions of dawn and communion with God go together. ~ Oswald Chambers, Devote the Dawns to God
It dawned on me this week after a sister shared a horrific story of her being hacked and frauded, shortly after I had finished the above message from Charles Spurgeon on the importance of starting each day in the Word, that our days are made in the pre-dawn hours, and our lives are shaped and determined by our communion with God in these hours. And then, the following morning I read what I took as clear affirmation, Oswald Chambers’ Devote the Dawns to God. I guess I had assumed that everyone started their days this way, but then realized that many commuting fathers, and mothers getting kids off to school, etc., aren’t as able or likely to find the time. I am here now to urge everyone to make the time for exactly the reasons Spurgeon lays out.
God has our perfect attention in these critical early hours. The world is stopped, the house is quiet. Its just God and me in solidarity. Think of the earthly father/son relationships where the father is always there for the son, at every game, etc., compared to those where the father never seems to find the time. Our Father is ALWAYS there for us. It is we who never seem to find the time for Him. And often times it takes a crisis, and then we run to Him. I am telling you, in fact I will make you the following promise; If you will start each and every day in prayer and give your undivided attention to His scripture, and seek his guidance and will for you, you will see your life begin to change and develop in ways you never imagined…from ordinary to extraordinary. Doors will start to open, connections will be made, relationships will be nourished, sporadic happening-based happiness will give way to the (wait for it) joy comes in the morning!
One of my favorite writers, Maureen Mullarkey, introduced me to a quote in her recent Trump’s election/Thanksgiving piece which brilliantly describes the bullet America, and the entire world just dodged…
The Endarkenment is the pathological disorientation that convulses a society after it has extinguished all sources of meaning . . . . It is the triumph of wish over facts, the infantilization of top echelons of the social pyramid—of hyper-credentialed, globally mobile people, welders of power and wealth and media, who, on a routine basis, confuse their self-important imaginings with the world itself. It is the widespread descent of everyone else, now deprived of teachers, preachers, and role models, into a cognitive underclass, prone to the most bizarre theories about how things work. ~ Martin Gurri, Trump, Thanksgiving, & the Puritan Mind
That, my friends, is the portrait of a world that evolves when moral people allow themselves to be ruled by immoral, Godless, psychopaths! And as Kevin D. Roberts frames it…
EN-ER-VA-TED: Lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor.
God has given us a second chance. President Trump could install a cabinet of superhero all-stars, the likes of which the world has never known, but if the church continues to shirk its leadership role and remain silent and irrelevant on the social issues of our time, then we will have chained our own children to the hell of Endarkenment. If we, as the Body of Christ, continue to put Him last in our days instead of first where He belongs…we will reap the whirlwind. Mark my word.
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others…it is the only thing.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. ~ Deut. 31:6
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: ~ II Timothy 4:6-7
War for all its ugliness is, in many ways, a great purifier. When REAL men are put to the test on the final line of choosing life, liberty, and happiness over submission to the pure evil of abject tyranny, a glorious spark is ignited in their hearts by their Creator. That is the spark the coward will never know.
“Christianity has become toothless,” the billionaire posted recently on his X social-media platform. “Unless there is more bravery to stand up for what is fair and right, Christianity will perish.” ~ Elon Musk
I wonder…what are the odds that we should be honored with the visit by the President of the Bonhoeffer Forum on the weekend we decide to see the movie Bonhoeffer? And…the very same weekend that the CLOTH will celebrate the installation of Cuddybackville’s new pastor of the very church he had a hand in saving? What, do we suppose, God could be trying to tell us?
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The new Cuddybackville Pastor Mark Weller was the Orange Strong Good Shepherd of the Year 2023 for a number of reasons. His heart for discipling young men through Baseball Church being one. But also, he took the hard stand against the attack that came from the pulpit, of all places, last year. In fact, it was the very same church that turned from God to bow the knee to Hitler in the movie we watched last night. Pastor Mark’s memorable quote from the ordeal, “Somewhere along the line the church has taken up the practice of safe Christianity.” Again, my friends, repeat after me, there is no Creator’s spark for the cowards practiced in the art of safe Christianity. Period. Exclamation point!
A Psalm (Heart) & Proverb (Wisdom) A Day Drives the Tyrant Away! PS 93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
PR 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
“So here are my thoughts on the incoming Trump administration. First, I want to address the reactions to it from conservatives. The way I have long viewed ‘reactions’ is somewhat like a sliding scale. On one end you have the doomsdayers and the extreme opposite end you have the hopium crowd. Both can tend to get annoyed with the others and even those who fall in the middle if they do not agree with their perspective.” ~ Corey’s Digs Soul Over Mind, Mind Over Matter
The one perspective missing from Corey’s well-researched and very sober down-the-middle reflection of our post-election world in this moment…is our Creator’s. This war is far from over. Our visiting pastor hails from Michigan. The state capitals of Michigan and New York have declared war against God, our state and federal Constitutions, and against the people themselves. What are we prepared to do? Church?
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. ~ Psalm 23:5-6
I wanted to take some time this morning to pause, take a breath and focus on Thanksgiving. We, despite all the division and corruption that seems to surround us, are a blessed nation. We always have been, and we always will be…as long as we keep first things first. I am grateful for every single one of you that God has placed in my life. I pray for each and every one of you to be blessed to gather around a Psalm 23:5-6 table on Thursday, and that God will continue to lay His 2 Timothy 1:6-7 hand on our nation in the NewYear and the years ahead.
For Him
Chip
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. ~ 2 Timothy 1:6-7
…That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? ~ Proverbs 22:17-21
His Word to me this past week…
Brothers and Sisters …God spake so to me: “I who have now welded back together what Satan has divided say to you now, the first of the two commandments shall be joined to the first two amendments to our Constitution!
Sister Sash, in response to Michigan Pastor Austin Kreutz informing us of their HR 6068, summarized the evil from Albany now at the door of every single family in the state of New York:
Here is the New York version (of Michigan House Bill HR 6068) and others currently sitting in Albany positioned to pass and be upheld with the passage of Prop 1.
NY Assembly Bill A4604 (Required Comprehensive Sexuality Education, K-12)
NY Assembly Bill A6761 (Allows minors to consent to medical/dental interventions w/o parental knowledge or consent – Please note that the summary deceptively references “homeless youth”, however, when reading the bill this applies to ALL minors, no low age threshold)
NY Assembly Bill A1829B (Nonpublic School Dignity for all Students Act (DASA) directs schools to, among other things, allow “transgender” students to participate in opposite-sex gym classes; and “eliminate” any “gender-based policies, rules, and practices” that “do not serve a clear
NY Assembly Bill A276B (Provides testing and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases for minors w/o parental knowledge or consent, no low age threshold.
Brothers and Sisters, I cannot conceive of four greater recipes from the cauldron of wickedness than these four you have just read. THIS IS THE HILL TO DIE ON! But God is delivering the enemy into our hands! That is the point of His welding our love as His saints, with the authority He has given us in self-governance, unique in all the world. Albany is the “creature” created by the counties, created by We the People, created by our Creator. Albany has no legal authority other than that which exists within the enumerated powers of our New York State and U.S. Constitution. Prop.1 is a repugnant assault on the Constitution and a vile insult to every New York citizen. But His saints in the church must come together in this fight…
Church leaders: Say to wickedness, “You shall not pass!”
All our fears are wicked, and we fear because we will not nourish ourselves in our faith. ~ Oswald Chambers, Jesus Is Our Salvation
I’ve seen weakness turn to strength I’ve seen failures met with grace And it’s not from what I’ve done, it’s Christ in me A miracle I can’t explain Oh, He’s given me His Name I’m the richest man that I could ever be…If I got Jesus, I’ve got it all! ~ Ben Fuller – If I Got Jesus (Visualizer)
Joy means the perfect fulfillment of that for which I was created and regenerated, not the successful doing of a thing. ~ Oswald Chambers, Joy in the Lord
If Jesus does not mold my every thought and deed on his potter’s wheel, then another very talented artist will sneak in to make his mark to form the final me! ~ Standupnsing, November 17, 2024
God is moving His church out of the basement and aft decks of the good ship USA, BUT…He is also calling “ALL HANDS-ON-DECK!” Amen?
Sunday November 17, 10:30am Howells Church 41 Church Street Howells, NY 10932 PASTOR MARK WELLER to kickoff special season of Thanksgiving, beginning with a special Week of Consecration and seeking the LORD! “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your follow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, Till He come and reign righteousness upon you” (Hosea 10:12)!
Tuesday, November 19th, 7:00pm (Howells Church): Our special guests are PASTOR VINCENT & ANTOINETTE BARNES!
Wednesday, November 20th, 6:30 PM (First Congregational Church, 35 East Main Street, Middletown, NY 10940): PASTOR JOHN VELEZ will lead the meeting!
Thursday, November 21st, 7:00pm (Howells Church): PASTOR JIM BRAUNIUS from The Circleville Church will be our special guest!
Saturday, November 23rd, 6pm VERY SPECIAL WISP (Worship-Information-Strategy-Prayer) MEETING! Hosted by Pastor Bill Banuchi, New York Faith & Freedom Coalition 436 N. Robinson Ave. Newburgh, NY 12550 Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute and Bobbie Anne Cox of Cox Lawyers LLC., will bring us up to date on the legal issues facing us here in New York and in the nation after the Trump election. We will pay particular attention to Proposition 1 to answer the question, “Where do we go from here to undo the evil that this Constitutional Amendment will unleash.” Every Christian leader and concerned citizen needs to be at this meeting. There is no registration fee, but seating is limited, Use the button HERE to register.
NEXT SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2024! SPECIAL 10:30 AM THANKSGIVING SUNDAY SERVICE WITH PASTOR TIM MERCALDO (worship plus.org)! Having served the Lord in ministry for thirty-three years, Pastor Tim is an internationally known Christian minister & pastor, anointed musician & worship leader, and conference speaker! He has just returned from South Korea, India, and Nepal, where he ministered to thousands! He has also served in music ministry at the Moody Memorial Church, and worked closely with such faithful men of God and pastors as Dr. Erwin Lutzer! Please invite others to join us for this very special service of ministry from the Word and in worship music!
And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God. And in every work he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered. ~ 2 Chronicles 31:20-21
In the predawn hours of Wednesday Nov 6, I felt an extraordinary equal connection to my Abba Father and our Founding Fathers which I’ve come to interpret as God welding the communities of Christians and patriots together in His Spirit…a dream I have dreamt since COVID gave birth to CLOTH (Christian Leaders Of The Hudson) in the Summer of 2020. CLOTH Christians and Orange Strong patriots coming together to stand in this hour; America’s Hezekiah Moment.
It’s nearly impossible to overstate the sense of relief and optimism the overwhelming majority of Americans are feeling after Tuesday’s historic and pivotal election. I believe Jeff Childers sums it up best in yesterday’s C&C: Next, things are already heading in the right direction south of the border. We found out Mexico’s migrant “caravans” began breaking up the day after Trump’s election. Imagine that. ~ THE TRUMP EFFECT
Why, if I didn’t know any better, I would declare us officially Out of the Woods!
Not so fast my friends…
However, because of a few dreams that I have received, I do sense that the LORD is not finished with HIS people in America. The TESTINGS will continue, to TRY Christians…. to see what they are really made of….and who they REALLY TRUST! For the LORD looks at the hearts, to see who will remain faithful to HIS cause alone. ~ Elizabeth Marie, Don’t Let Your Guard Down!
When Canada’s persecuted Pastor Artur Pawlowski spoke at Liberty Christian Fellowship in Saratoga Springs, and Howells Church in Middletown last month, he said, “The church lost its greatest opportunity during COVID,” the first of the many tests Elizabeth prophesied above. He also stated the following in his visit with us, invoking the courage displayed by Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego {Daniel 3:16-28}, “If you want to see Jesus you must go into the fire of faith.” Pastor Pawlowski, whose latest book Lions Never Bow is absolutely correct; the church pastors failed church, God, and country miserably by running away from the fire!
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. ~Psalm 73:17
I am having a classical déjà vu moment all over again. You see, I would have bet the farm back in 2020 that COVID would have snapped the church out of her lukewarm Laodicean {Rev. 3:15} business-as-usual slumber. So, naturally, I’m not bursting with any expectation whatsoever of a church pastor…a pastor of the largest congregation in this Hudson Valley, who could not bring himself to protect his own flock by warning them of the insidious evil coming for their children in Prop. 1…the Prop. 1 that passed on Tuesday, largely because of his cowardice… suddenly somehow finding his inner Hezekiah after Trump’s win on Tuesday. I have zero expectation of our church leaders in any real number stepping up to have Trump’s back and lead the Christian community through the door he has opened for us! Which brings us back to Elizabeth Marie’s prophecy and the second chance God has granted His church.
O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.~ Psalm 31:23-24
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.Selah. ~ Psalm 32:7
Let your mind soak in the deliverance of God. (Good)
If I was stranded on a desert island with only 2 Bible chapters to help me know who God is, I’d be hard-pressed not to pick Psalm 73 and Proverbs 18! But, I digress…
What was Hezekiah’s moment back then and what exactly does it look like today? Then, it was a total and complete realignment of church and state to the will of God. Our Hezekiah moment today will be the exact same. Here is the very significant difference my friends. In Hezekiah’s system of government, the power and authority flowed from God to king to the people. In our Constitutional Republic, the power and authority flows from God to we the people to the government WE created from county to state to federal. Clearly, as the map above indicates, We the People have spoken. BUT, as Gen. Flynn pointed out this week, the real fight has only just begun. This was our D-Day, and we’ve secured the Normandy beachhead. Now the real fight for hearts and minds begins!
Yesterday at a diner in Middletown, New York, I was overheard congratulating a gentleman wearing a Trump hat and yelled at by two ladies for taking away their rights. That kind of mindless self-absorbed thinking reflects a severe systemic dysfunction in the two most important institutions of American life; our church and our state. Both have been thoroughly corrupted and co-opted by the enemy. There is only one reason you, as senior pastor of the largest congregation in the Hudson Valley don’t use your influence to call the Body of Christ to answer His John 17:21 prayer, close your church for fear of a flu, and fail to warn the people who look to you about the Prop. 1 wolf; you’ve been bowing to and serving the wrong authority. Since God’s power and authority has to come through His church, that needs to be corrected before we can deal with the corruption and dysfunction of our state and federal governments.
Let’s assume for the time-being that our church leaders are struck by an epiphany, a Road to Damascus moment in domino fashion across our fruited plains, and our Hezekiah realignment with God is complete…at the church level. Now, from God to we the people, we work to reclaim our Republic, county by county, using the tools God has given us from the very beginning. Think Dorothy! This is, I believe, the impetus of my Abba Father/Founding Fathers connection Wednesday morning. Our legal authority to “interpose” to right the wrongs via our 1st Amendment right to petition for redress of grievances is absolute. The rest is up to us.
The horrors inflicted on our nation by very, very wicked and evil people who have infiltrated every level of our society will eventually reach the consciousness of every American. God had me focused on Capital Punishment in Numbers 15:32-35, 16:1-50 for good reason. In order to make America great again, she first needs to be made moral again, and then she will with the help of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., be made healthy again. FOR THE CHILDREN! Amen?
Beware of the tendency to water down the supernatural in religion. (Approved)
Lawfare—the regime’s exploitation of our legal system to prosecute its political opponents—reaches far and wide. It has corrupted our criminal and civil justice systems, administrative bureaucracy, state and federal courts, colleges and universities, electoral system, bar licensing authorities, and congressional proceedings, among countless other institutions. ~ From law-fare to lawful…
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