So Why Didn't Jesus Just Rent A Prayer Room For Three Years?

"The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate."   ---Proverbs 8:13

"Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes."   --- Ephesians 6:11

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Why re-run this post again? Because lately I'm hearing Christians say, "Just pray. God will fix everything through our prayers."

And well I----no, don't get me started. Just read this post from January 24th, 2020. Again. Please. ジ

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I hear Christians say, "I pray  for our Country and our President everyday." And that's wonderful! It is. Many folks don't even do that much. There is power in prayer.

But is just praying for our Country/President enough? As I heard Lance Wallnau ask, "How's that working for us so far?"

Think about it. Oh my. What a cloudy, divided mess. 

And partly what's gotten us here? Our silence. And smaller-ratio, anti-Bible-truth groups who've united themselves and spoken out for what they wanted--and gotten it. 

There's great power in unity of any spirit. People unified in spreading lies can take a nation down dark, ungodly paths to a new land where lies appear as truth.  

It's happened. We are in a spiritual battle, you know. 

But satan? He says, "It's just politics. Go on about your little life. There's nothing to see here. Don't stir things up. Your friends will snap at you if you stand for truth."

You've heard that, right?

So here's Today's lesson: Basically, Jesus had a 3-year ministry on Earth and how did He spend it? Well, He did not just rent a prayer room apartment for Himself and the 12 disciples, then pray 24/7 for or against stuff. They did not seal themselves away in prayer closets day and night and day and night and--

No. Instead--


" ... Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him. Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. "  ... Acts 10:38, John 21:25

Wow.

And before He left? He told us to:

Go.

Love.

Teach.

Heal.

Give.

Serve.

Pray.

Feed.

Sow.

Clothe.

Encourage.

Work.

Believe.

Meet.

Preach.

Follow.

Learn.

Save.

Worship.

Seek.

Forgive.

Visit.

Trust.

Stand.

Speak.

Lead.

Shine.

And expect to get this for it:

“An hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God” (John 16:2).

And the way I see it? If God gave us President Trump as a bold defender of truth who's setting new precedents and holding back much of the darkness we were headed for? We need to stand with him. Vocally. Online. In Real Life.


If God truly sent us this President? I believe He expects us to 

Appreciate the gift.
Share the good which Trump does.
Stand with him. Encourage him. Pray for him.
Be ready with a (calm) biblical answer as to why we believe as we do.


But to remain silent out of fear? To be cowardly? Oh dear. God has a huge problem with cowards. (Go here.)

Personally, I'd hate for God to someday ask me,

"Why didn't you stand for truth? 
As Aaron and Hur held up the arms of Moses in battle, why didn't you do the same with my 'Cyrus Trump'? 
Why did you choose to view him exactly as the God-haters saw him?"
"Why were you silent in the face of evil?"

Oh, may that never, ever be. 

"Passivity is often the coward's way of acting like a vessel of peace. Passivity avoids the necessary conversation. Passivity refuses to discipline the errant child. Passivity will coexist with the evil it should confront.

Conservatives will need to find their courage." --- Lance Wallnau

"We're in the days where the greys are disappearing. The greys become black. They become white. These are the days when you have to choose. Now that which seeks to stay on the fence will be swept away. 

But those who will stand, God will empower. A candle in the night lights up a room. We have gone past the days where we can be a candle in the daytime, comfortable with the culture. We are now in the times where we must be a candle in the night. We must shine, go all out against the darkness, go total for God."    --- Rabbi Jonathan Cahn


Yes, Jesus told us to win souls. And well, it's the soul of America for which we're fighting.


Faith without works is dead, you know.

The reference to Aaron, Hur and Moses during the battle can be found in Exodus 17.


The money changers in the temple? The scribes and Pharisees? Jesus did not use niceness. He confronted them vocally. With truth.

(A scribe in Bible times was a professional writer who copied government documents, business transactions, or, most important, the Scriptures. Scribes could be described best as a combination of lawyers, teachers, and students.)



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And as I stated at Facebook:  


Wow. I am not a bigtime crier, but I cried during this whole speech. What a beautiful, historic day. Color me grateful to God that I would live to see this.





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A few posts ago I mentioned taco mixes. Here's a sweet video about how to make your own mixes at home.

And you're still stocking-up on life-saving supplies, right? More than ever our homes need to be prepared for anything. Just think of all the 'anythings' we've seen happen in the last 3 months. Oh dear.


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"For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." ... Matthew 6:14,15

The Doers. They're Blessed.

 "Be doers, not just hearers... The one who looks into the... law of liberty and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets, but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing." --- James 1:23, 25


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4:45 a.m. I slept-in this morning! But I swung my feet over the bed and thought, "Well, back to the battle." Then I smiled.

'I am blessed in my doing.'

After those first 2 weeks of coronavirus shut-down? You know, the time they'd told us we'd be released? That's when I 'heard', "Help many others expose the darkness, the hidden sins. Now is the time."

Consistently I've tried to speak out. Have lost friends, gained others. Have supported people, businesses. Given. Spoken against lies-presented-as-truth, made mistakes, done right then been criticized, have prayed and taught and stood until I'm tired. Yet 'I am blessed in my doing.'

I've rested, then returned to the battle. Reminded myself myriad times to hold balance dear, that through balance it'll all get done: battle-wise, home-wise, relationship-wise, preparedness-wise. And 'I have been blessed in my doing.'


The battle is terrible, yet wonderful.
Foggy, yet clear.
Discouraging, yet encouraging.
Wearying, yet strengthening.
A learning place, a recalling one.
A place of loss, but of great gain, also.


And oh, what the battle is exposing in us all. Strengths, weaknesses, good, awful, God-in-us, sin-in-us. What the battle helps purge! That which drops from us, finally, in no other way.


When you look back upon these days? May you say, "I fought!" and also, "I was blessed in my doing". 

Gotta go now and return to the battlefield. I'll see you out there, ok?

"But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled..."   --1 Peter 3:14

"We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle."       ----Mahatma Gandhi

One of my favorite fighters. I read or watch her each day at Facebook.

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Seriously. Someday we'll wonder how we coulda ever been such gullible nitwits.

            This young lady was receiving a scholarship. 

"Just got off an airplane. I was told that face masks were required for the duration of the flight, and then I was served snacks and a drink." :o   -- @KelemenCari

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Fear is irrational.
Fear torments our minds. ---1 John 4:18
Fear is not from God. --2 Timothy 1:7
For we did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear..." --Romans 8:15

How tragic to arrive in Heaven without blood spots upon ones face from having fought godly battles, never wielding the sword of the Spirit at lying demons of deception.

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"For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." ... Matthew 6:14,15

Where She Creates Her Own World Since She Doesn't Like The Other One Much Anymore

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me...
112 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.   ... from Psalm 51


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It's clear now, right? 

Now we all know why God created a new heart within us. Also why He inspired us years ago to then create a sweet, but wise home-world for our families, for He knew someday we'd remain there for months. Then when we'd burst out the door to outside? He also knew ahead the sadder, madder world we'd behold.

Oh dear.

So these days color me a deeper shade of grateful for the Hobbit Cottage world God nudged me to create. My appreciation runs deep and I'm doubly thankful for certain corners--

                          At the bottom of our stairs in our office.

Here in my office/guestroom 

Above our kitchen stairs leading outside.

A corner of my 'Farm Garden Bed' where I'm planting seeds on cool mornings.

Our front steps and the table where I sit and read and stare at the river.

Peonies opened today! (And oh, I'll be cleaning and repainting the front lower half of our house this summer(!))

Snow-in-Summer blooming at the flagpole.

From these corners I seek to understand how God views our turbulent world. From His perspective I can remain calm, but not to the point of zombie stillness. These days, I believe, there is no standing still for Christians. Standing still = falling backward.

A last thing--

Folks have told other preppers they're now declaring Never Again! 

Never again will I be caught unprepared!
Never again will I make fun of preppers!
Never again will I procrastinate learning how to garden, grow food!
Never again will I spend money foolishly!
Never again will I take a good life for granted! 
Never again will I not deeply appreciate family and friends!
Never again will I ignore the promptings of the Holy Spirit!


Any of my readers also singing that Never Again song lately? Always there's Good to be pulled up from anything Bad for --

... we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."   ... Romans 8:28


No, really. We do.

"Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord."   ... from Isaiah 55

"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."   ... Romans 12:21



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Oh, and as I said at Facebook:


Oooo... if I had a real job, I'd probably take this mug there and everybody would either laugh or hate me. heh. :) (Love this!)

Find the mug here.






"For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." ... Matthew 6:14,15