Lyrics:
"Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art;
Thou my best thought, By day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, Thou my true Word,
I ever with Thee, Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, and I thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle-shield, Sword for the fight,
Be Thou my dignity, Thou my delight.
Thou my soul's shelter, Thou my high tower.
Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise:
Thou mine inheritance, now and always;
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart;
High King of heaven, my Treasure thou art.

High King of heaven, after victory won,
May I reach heaven's joys,
O bright heav'ns Son!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art;
Thou my best thought, By day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light."

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Democrats Have Become a Party
of 'Rage, Hate and Lies'

3-1-19, Brandon Straka, founder of the #WalkAway movement, explained that he had assumed he was supposed to "go along in lockstep" with the Democrat Party because he is gay. He began to investigate and question the strange conflicting reports and listen to some conservative voices; he said:

"The conservative point of view makes so much more sense than all of this identity politics, political correctness, divisive, divisive, divisive nonsense."

He discovered he was a conservative and he vowed that he would not stay in the closet with his political beliefs. He realized that it wouldn't be enough only to share his story, so he started the #WalkAway campaign:

"I know there are millions of other people who are feeling exactly the same way I'm feeling: that their party has left them, that the Democrat Party has become a party of rage, hate and lies. They're sick of it."

​Mark Levin Interview with Brandon Straka - 12 min video here

Ilhan Omar To Fund Raise For Hamas-Linked Muslim Organization
2-17-19, Democrat from Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is scheduled to raise money for Islamic terror group in Israel Hamas linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) only a week after she used an anti-Semitic trope to claim Israel has paid for GOP support. She will be the keynote speaker at CAIR’s 4th Annual Valley Banquet in California on March 23, 2019 to discuss advancing justice and empowering Muslims. Single tickets start at $55 per person and a table can cost upwards of $500. In 2015, CAIR’s Los Angeles director suggested that the U.S. was partly to blame for the San Bernardino CA Muslim terror attack when 14 people were killed, due to American foreign policy. CAIR also offered legal assistance to the family of the terrorists who carried out the attack. More here

Rep. Eric Swalwell: I Won't Accept Barr's Version Of Mueller Report Want Mueller to Testify ... 

Mar 22, 2019 - You would compel Mueller to testify if he doesn't want to testify? On 3/22/19 California Democrat Eric Swallwell said, he believes President Trump colluded with Russia and that he will not accept attorney general's Barr's summary/version of the Mueller report "unless its veracity is testified to by Bob Mueller."

1 Corinthians 15:12-13, 14-15, 16-17, 18-19, 20-22
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Before asking if the Bible is true we need to have some understanding of truth.
What is truth?

While this question is often presented as a deep philosophical puzzle suitable only for the "brainy" to tackle, the answer is not so complex.

Truth is what corresponds to reality.

Simply, what is real is true, what is unreal is false. Christians and Jews believe that the Bible is true, God really exists, Jesus is not a myth and the resurrection really happened. How do we know this? The cornerstone of Christian belief is the resurrection of Christ. [Mark 16:5-7] Paul the Apostle admitted that if the resurrection did not happen, "Christian faith is futile; we are still in our sins." [1 Corinthians 15:17] In this sense, making a case for the truth of the resurrection also makes a case for the truth claims of Jesus and, in turn, the reliability and truth of the Bible.
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Bible and Science
How the earth is held in space: Over 3,000 years ago the Bible correctly noted that the earth has no visible support, a fact that is in harmony with the more recently understood laws of gravity and motion. Bible stated: “[God] is stretching out the north over the empty place, hanging the earth upon nothing.” (Job 26:7) Also it told us that it was round; Columbus read the Bible! Isaiah 40:21-22 [1]
 
Bible and Health
The Bible directed the safe disposal of sewage. Up until the present century the danger of leaving excrement exposed to insects and flies was generally unknown; this resulted in the spread of serious fly-borne disease. Yet, all the time, the simple remedy was on record in the Bible and it was followed by the Israelites over 3,000 years ago. “When you squat outside, you must also dig a hole with [a digging instrument] and turn and cover your excrement.” Deuteronomy 23:13

Mankind's Goodness
It’s contrary to human nature to admit mistakes or failures, especially in writing. Most ancient writers reported only their successes and virtues yet:

• ​Moses wrote how he had “acted undutifully,” and so was disqualified from leading Israel into the Promised Land. [Deuteronomy 32:50-52; Numbers 20:1-13]
• Jonah told of his own waywardness. (Jonah 1:1-3; 4:1)
• Paul acknowledges his former wrongdoings. (Acts 22:19, 20; Titus 3:3)
• Matthew, an apostle of Christ, reported that the apostles at times showed little faith, sought prominence and even abandoned Jesus at his arrest.—Matthew 17:18-20, 18:1-6, 20:20-28, 26:56.

If Bible writers were going to falsify anything, unfavorable information about themselves, certainly would be at the top of the list! So, then, the honesty of the Bible writers adds weight to their claim that God guided them as they wrote.—2 Timothy 3:16.

The Bible is true! See video here
 
*Excerpted and adapted full original report here
[1] Earth round here

​EARTH Hour - Lights out

3-31-19, CBS -- It may be darker than usual in your neighborhood tonight, but don't be alarmed. People around the world are participating in a movement called Earth Hour.

Annual event when people turn their lights off to spread awareness about sustainability and climate change. This year, Earth Hour takes place on March 30, 2019 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time.

Earth Hour first began in 2007 in Sydney, Australia by the World Wildlife Fund [WWF] — the leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species. WWF encouraged millions of people to switch their lights off and since then, the movement has grown globally and is now the world's largest grassroots movement for the environment. 

Landmarks including Big Ben in London, Egypt's Great Pyramids, Brazil's Christ the Redeemer statue, the Sydney Opera House, the Colosseum in Rome, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Burj Khalifa in Dubai and New York City's Empire State Building have all taken part in going dark. See video of earth at night here: https://goo.gl/nyE96v

US State Dept says US cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
3-30-19, CNN -- Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signed what she called a "first of its kind" regional compact agreement with the Northern Triangle countries aimed at preventing irregular migration, combating criminal organizations and ultimately helping with US border security. Otherwise known as the Central American countries:

1. El Salvador
2. Guatemala
3. Honduras

On Friday, 3-29-19, President Trump said they [the So Amer Nations] had "set up" migrant caravans for entry into the United States. "We were paying them tremendous amounts of money. And we're not paying them anymore; because they haven't done a thing for us. They set up these caravans."

At the Secretary's instruction, we are carrying out the President's direction and ending FY 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance. Officials wouldn't say exactly how much money would be affected by the directive with some of it likely already spent; but between 2018 so far in 2019 approximately $1.3 billion was allocated mostly to those three countries

3-29-19, Six baby elephants have been rescued from a mud pit after spending a night trapped in a hole. Officials at the Thap Lan National Park, in northeastern Thailand, discovered their dilemma during patrols to deter poaching activity. Rangers found signs that the rest of the elephant herd were still circling around the pit, so they decided to wait to see if the animals could rescue themselves; they couldn't so they were rescued. See video

2 Timothy 3:1-7; Jude 1:18; Isaiah 46:6-9
 
3-20-19, * -- Imagine the world with no rules, accountability or consequences for evil actions; where people take a life with no remorse. A place where life savings are greedily stolen, women and children abandoned and respect for the elderly, mother and father is absent.
 
This place of our worst imaginings is one fraught with lawless, heartless and treacherous people who are concerned with no one but themselves. It’s a world without love and compassion; a world where more and more people are without God. It is an accurate analysis of the condition of our current world. 2 Timothy 3:1
 
The Lord’s name is commonly blasphemed, homosexuality is considered normal, sex outside of marriage is accepted, babies are aborted up to and including their birth. Marriages are crumbling in record numbers and families are disintegrating because of sin and selfishness. In just one generation all of these conditions have skyrocketed. Too many people are all about being free, self-made and autonomous. 
 
The Bible describes the last days & we have all seen this ugliness. The level of depravity of the human heart cannot be masked; hearts swollen with conceit and a total lack of self-control. [James 3:5] Today, self-absorption and narcissism is the rule, not the exception. People are lovers of pleasure and God doesn’t even factor into their existence. If He does, it’s simply to keep up an appearance of godliness. Matthew 24:12

Our God and Christian faith is reviled by many; but the Lord is watching OUR behavior as the world’s godlessness reaches epidemic proportions. We should live to hear: “Well done thou good and faithful servant.” from King Jesus Christ. Matthew 25:23; Hebrews 11:6

“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of:
but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” 2 Corinthians 7:10

*Excerpted and adapted full original message from Howard Green here 

3-29-19, JACKSON, Miss. — The member of a black church, Hopewell Missionary Baptist in Greenville, Mississippi, Andrew McClinton, 47, has pleaded guilty to vandalizing and burning the church, also spray painting graffitti “Vote Trump,” a week before the 2016 presidential election. His sentencing is set for late April 2019.

Mike Chaney, state fire marshal said that investigators believe the graffiti was intended as a distraction from some other sort of wrongdoing. More here

Interesting we never hear of any hoax leftist hate crimes ... their crimes are genuine.

3-29-19, Until Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel tabled its final report showing no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 election,  Trump-hating television network ratings were soaring sky high. However, MSNBC Rachel Maddow saw her ratings plummet after the Mueller investigation closed without the promised "goods," and happily for the hanging-tough deplorables, she’s not the only one.
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Trump hatred rides higher than ever in the mainstream and social media
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Their high ratings are destined to make a comeback as soon as the Democrats come up with a replacement scandal for the Russia-stole-the-election one. It’s only a matter of time.

Boosted by Democrats who took control of the House in November midterms, Trump hatred rides higher than ever in the mainstream and social media. “I hate Trump” is a mantra heard as far away as Britain.

A funny thing is happening to haters on their way to the Hatefest, where it is now plain to see that the presidential hopeful who hates President Trump most will be the one sanctioned by the DNC. The more television networks make a show of hating President Trump, the more viewers are tuning out. Meanwhile, the reality of our times is that Mueller’s $25-million investigation goose chase; the one Mrs Clinton called him to ... came up short and without any convictions. Visceral hatred will always come up empty.   Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is the president and he's doing a good job. Considering that 92% of the media's reporting these three years of Donald Trump have been negative ... amazing that his approval ratings stand at 42% today, 3-29-19. Rasmussen here More here

Romans 8:37; Nehemiah 8:10

3-7-19, Archives Oswald Chambers -- In Romans 8:37 the Apostle Paul was speaking of the things that might seem likely to separate a saint from the love of God. However, the remarkable thing is that nothing can come between the love of God and a saint. [Romans 8:31-32, 35-39] The things Paul mentioned in this passage can and do disrupt the close fellowship of our soul with God and separate our natural life from Him. The underlying foundation of the Christian faith is the undeserved, limitless miracle of the love of God that was exhibited on the Cross of Calvary; a love that is not earned and can never be. Paul said this is the reason that “in all these things we are more than conquerors.” We are super-victors with a joy that comes from experiencing the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us.

Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them. Let’s apply that to our own circumstances. The things we try to avoid and fight against— tribulation, suffering and persecution— are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. “We are more than conquerors through Him” “in all these things”; not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. Paul said, “I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.” (2 Corinthians 7:4)

The undiminished radiance, which is the result of abundant joy, is not built on anything passing, but on the love of God that nothing can change. And the experiences of life, whether they are everyday events or terrifying ones, are powerless to “separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:39) Source

'SEA OF RED HATS' Thousands in Line for Trump Grand Rapids Rally ...

3-28-19, Before dawn thousands of red MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters lined up in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the President's rally. A 'sea of red MAGA hats!' Seen as a defiant Trump crowd especially since people have been accosted for wearing them and since the Mueller Russia Collusion investigation comes up empty. Tonight 3-28-19, Thursday at 7 pm President Trump will hold another rally at Van Andel Arena in the Heartside district of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. It is a 11,004-seat facility and many more than 11,000 red hatted Americans are in line. More here

SHOULD BE LOADS OF FUN! See online here

NUMEROUS DERAILMENTS 
IN THE USA - CAUSE UNKNOWN
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EUROPE: Alleged ISIS terror cell busted - Iraqi man suspected of attempted sabotage of trains
3-28-19, Authorities say Islamic terrorist group HEZBOLLAH interfered with the train tracks in an effort to cause a high-speed train derailment. Two Muslim suspects are believed to have formed a terrorist cell were arrested in Prague. They allegedly tried to commit mass atrocities twice in October 2018. Interfering with the train tracks leaving a steel cable stretched over the tracks between electrification masts on the Nuremberg-Munich line. The attack was unsuccessful and damaged only the driver’s cab, with no reported injuries to train passengers.

Tennessee USA train derailments increase 27% in 2018 
2-28-19, Last year, 2018 trains derailed 37 times in the Tennessee; a 27 percent increase in from 2017....

 USA ANOTHER Train Derailment
Sept 2016 -- Rush Hour Train Derailment -- More than 100 injured, one dead in NJ Transit Hoboken crash ... subway riders to sue ... More here

​ABC News -- Washington State Train Derailment 
12-18-17, ABC News -- Near Tacoma Washington Train derailed over freeway, 13 cars jumped tracks going 81 mph .... falling to highway ... several deaths​

Fox News -- Amtrak 26 derailments since 2014
Timeline with details behind the incidents here

Orange County, California Terminates Contract With US Immigration Authorities
3-27-19, Orange County has announced that it will stop housing illegal migrants from U.S. Immigration. "Since 2015, we have seen a 40 percent increase in open mental health cases in our jails, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said in a video announcing the change. "The number of mental health cases now exceeds 1,800 on any given day. Consequently we must focus on enhancing our mental health services and expanding the number of beds for individuals with mental health needs." 
ICE said in a statement, "The county will stop housing detainees as of Aug. 1, 2019 that the move will negatively impact local ICE operations and force it to relocate detainees farther away reducing the opportunities for in-person family visitation and attorney coordination they will most likely be transferred outside of California." More here

​​Time to Investigate the Washington Post's Qatari Collusion ...
3-28-19, Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left.

Reportedly the guy who disappeared in Turkey, Jamal Khashoggi and assumed dead, was a Qatari lobbyist whose columns, as The Post was forced to admit, were shaped by the Qatar Foundation. The Foundation, an arm of the Qatari regime, proposed topics, drafted them and translated his columns. Khashoggi was not a journalist; he was a front for Qatar to plant columns attacking Saudi Arabia and promoting the Muslim Brotherhood in the Washington Post.
The Washington Post is a paper that is uniquely willing to not only advocate on behalf of Islamists and their causes, as it frequently does, but to provide a forum for some of the most toxic Islamists around. And those Islamists are invariably aligned with the Qatari-Turkish-Iranian axis and the Brotherhood.
The paper’s decision to provide Osama bin Laden’s old friend, Jamal Khashoggi, with a forum for promoting Qatari interests, from the Brotherhood to attacks on Saudi rivals, and to then turn his death into a crusade, is part of a larger picture of collusion between The Post and Qatar’s Islamist axis. More here and here

​Genesis 18:1-2, 2-6, 7-18; Mark 4:33-34

3-27-19, Archives of Oswald Chambers -- God has to hide from us what He does, until and due to our spiritual growth when we get to the level when He is able to reveal it; as it can only be achieved through the higher level and practice of our personal character.

Jesus said, "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." Matthew 13:13

If we live up to the highest and best that you know in the outer level of your life, God will continually say to you, “Friend, come up even higher.”
Revelation 4:1

Jesus taught in parables depending upon the character and spiritual maturity of the hearer. For the disciples, Jesus taught to provoke their deeper thinking, with the goal of giving a full explanation in private. Mark 4:33-34 To His enemies, His teaching in parables was to conceal the truth while provoking interest and belief in others. Matthew 21:45-22:1

There is also a continuing rule in temptation which calls us to learn and go higher; but when we do, we only encounter other temptations and character traits. Both God and Satan use the strategy of elevation, but Satan uses it in wicked temptations. When the devil elevates us to a certain place, he causes us to fasten our idea of what holiness is far beyond what flesh and blood could ever bear or achieve. Our life becomes a spiritual acrobatic performance high atop a steeple. We cling to it, trying to maintain our balance and daring not to move. However, when God elevates us by His grace into heavenly places, we find a vast plateau where we are able to move about with ease.

Compare this week in your spiritual life with the same week last year to see how God has called you to a higher level. We have all been brought to see from a higher viewpoint working through it, staying in its Light. Source More here

"For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe." Hebrews 5:13

10-23-18, Natural News -- Severe cases of stress and anxiety can be difficult to deal with and may even require medication. Unfortunately, prescription medicines are not only expensive, but they also cause a wide variety of side effects.

Magnesium, an important dietary mineral, has been called the “original chill pill” because of its ability to lift mood and improve anxiety. Because of its effects, it is now being considered as a natural aid for stress management.

It has anti-inflammatory effectsChronic inflammation in the brain is one of the causes of anxiety, depression and memory loss. As an anti-inflammatory nutrient, magnesium inhibits the expression of cytokines that trigger inflammation and destroy brain tissue and disrupt brain function in the process.
It stabilizes blood sugar levelsGlucose is the brain’s main fuel. When there is not enough glucose in the blood, the adrenal glands release epinephrine and cortisol, which trigger a stress response. Low levels of glucose, also known as hypoglycemia, is characterized by symptoms similar to those of a panic attack – nervousness, tremors, perspiration, palpitations and dizziness. Hypoglycemia may also lead to anxiety. Hypoglycemia-related anxiety may be treated not just with diet, but also with the supplementation of magnesium. ​More here and here

The Top Food Sources of Magnesium

• almond
• spinach
• cashews
• shredded wheat cereal
• soy milk
• black beans
• edamame
• peanut butter
• whole grain bread
• avocado
• chocolate

Nutritionists in Canada find sunflower, squash and pumpkin seeds, black-eyed peas, tempeh, and Brazil nuts to be the richest sources of magnesium per serving. (Source)​

3-25-19, JPost -- A senior Hamas official, speaking anonymously to Israel Hayom on Mar 26, 2019 claimed that the rocket which struck a private home in central Israel was ordered by Iran. Reportedly Hamas gave its blessing for the rocket attack in hopes of disrupting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's election campaign in next month’s Knesset election on April 9, 2019. [Note: this should improve the Prime Minister's chances if the enemy is trying to keep him out of office!]

The Islamic terrorist rocket from Gaza hit and destroyed a private home leaving seven family members injured, including two infants, as well as a neighboring child. Iran "went over the heads” of Hamas leadership and ordered an Islamic Jihad cell operating out of the Gaza Strip to carry out the attack. Senior officials in both Egypt and Gaza confirmed that Iran had ordered the attack that has led to a major escalation of the conflict between Israel and Gaza. ​More here

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Israel strikes Hamas targets after rocket hits house
3-25-19, CNN -- Israel launched strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza, hours after a rocket fired from the coastal strip hitting a home in central Israel. 

Mueller Madness:
The media pundits who got it most wrong

March 25, 2019, Special counsel Robert Mueller has finally and definitively put to rest the collusion theory of President Trump’s election.

That’s not a little embarrassing for the many journalists, talking heads, celebrities and instant experts who spent more than two years furiously speculating about Moscow “pee-pee” tapes, treasonous rendezvous and the president’s imminent arrest was enough to begin the $25 million investigation based on the so called 'Dossier.' That caused the illegal Fiza warrants and destroying so many lives.

The president’s haters no doubt wish to memory-hole collusion and move on to the next anti-Trump theory; but not so fast. First we conservatives want to laurel the punditry “champion” — the one who peddled the most nonsensical nonsense, the wildest inanities, the weirdest theories and unsubstantiated stories.

There are the Network collusion peddlers, my picks: 

The top seed is Alec Baldwin whose cringey impersonations of a clueless, jail-bound Trump revived his battered career and kept hope alive for liberals and Trump haters across the land. Will he reprise the role now that Trump isn’t heading for jail or impeachment?
The second seed goes to Joy Behar, who confidently predicted that Trump is “going to end up in prison.” The live audience at “The View” cheered. They should ­demand a refund...

See 30 inch full sized brackets - you fill in the blank here​

Sohrab Ahmari, NY post

Famous poem
 'CASEY AT THE BAT'
By: Ernest Lawrence Thayer, 1863 - 1940
Last stanza:
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"The sneer is gone from Casey’s lip, his teeth are clenched in hate,
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate;
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey’s blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
​And somewhere men are laughing,
and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Mudville--
mighty Casey has struck out!"

Hilarious when you insert 'Mueller' for Casey ... chuckles
​Full poem here

Esther 4:16
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This Jewish holiday of 'PURIM' commemorates a failed attempt by the Persians [modern day Iran] to exterminate the Jews in 4 BC. It was celebrated March 20-21, 2019. A short outline and history:

1.         Esther Made Queen (Esther 2:1-18)
2.         Mordecai Uncovers a Plot (Esther 2:19-23)
3.         Haman's Plot (Esther 3:1)
4.         Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help Defeat Haman (Esther 4:1)
5.         Esther's Request to the King: Her First Banquet (Esther 5:1-8)
6.         A Sleepless Night (Esther 5:9;6:14)
7.         Haman Hanged: Banquet (Esther 7:1)

On the 13th of Adar the Jews began to fight back; all through the Persian Empire the Jews mobilized and killed all the enemies who had wanted to kill them and also hung Haman's ten sons. The Jews rested and celebrated on the 15th of Adar.

• Feasts of Purim (Esther 8:1, 10:1)
• The King's Edict in Behalf of the Jews (Esther 8:1)
• The Institution of Purim (Esther 9:1-10, 18-29)
• The Promotion of Mordecai (Esther 10:1)​

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Mordechai and Esther established a holiday to commemorate these amazing events. Today, Jews worldwide celebrate this holiday, called "Purim," it is the most joyous holiday on the Jewish calendar. More here and here