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Yesterday, NewsMax aired Trump's June 6, 2019 D-Day speech from Normandy.

Father - You know. You know it all. Before we think it. Before we feel it. Before we request it. You know. And You care so deeply. More than we know, more than we deserve, more than we expect. You are Faithful and True. You are Wonder and Comfort. Take our weariness, our burdens, our worries, our frustrations, our fears. And infuse us with Your Hope, Your inspiration, Your Goodness. Let us see Your beauty in every aspect of our lives. Let us feel Your joy authentically, wholly, deeply. Help us make our homes cozy, warm, welcoming. Let all who enter feel the delight we take in and with You. Let our tones and touches be gentle and kind. Put Your song in our hearts and help us make You smile. All the glory belongs to You.

This guy falls somewhere between 😁 and 🤗 and he makes me wonder what other witticisms and pearls of wisdom he’s hiding. He’s right. I just need to make sure it’s God’s stuff I’m doing ♥️ Hat tip: BT

Good morning! Enjoy the day the Lord provides 😊

Good morning! Thank you, friends, for the kind birthday wishes for our kiddos 😊 The Lord woke me up very early this morning to spend some time with Him. I asked the Holy Spirit to lead me in what to read from my Bible. I started in Esther, went to Ezra then finished with Nehemiah. Am I the only one who thinks that reading the Bible is fascinating? Even fun?! The following verse gave me the chills -the kind that gets you all pumped up and excited for what the Lord will do. Not by our might, but by His! Be utterly and completely blessed today!

Hello dearest of friends! I worked hard before we left for Florida knowing how slammed I would be after our return home. The busyness (I hope!) should be waning soon. Until I can sit before my favorite keyboard at length, I have been jotting down notes here and there with what the Holy Spirit inspires. Can't wait to see where the Lord leads! Child #3's birthday is tomorrow. It's kinda a big deal. He's officially joining us two-digit folks. We use his birthday as a kick-off for summer so we do all kinds of fun summer-y stuff. Eleven days later it's the twin's birthday 😊 For all those who have had loved ones pass away while serving our country, I am sorry for this loss. Please know that there are many of us America-loving Patriots who hurt over their departure. We love their dedication, we appreciate their service, and we honor their sacrifice. Lord, forgive us. Heal this land. Fight the evil so our country is not lost. Lead us. Be our sole Provider, Champion and Preserver. You alone are worthy. You alone are our King. We follow You, we trust You, we love You.

Oh Lord of lords, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! We praise and magnify Your name! The heavens declare Your beauty, Your genius! We love Your perfection! We know Your goodness! You are holy and just. You have put in our hearts desire for justice. How we long to see Your intervention, Lord! You are faithful to the faithful. Keep us steady on the course You have set before us. Until You move on our behalf, until You bring reconciliation, until You bring judgement upon the earth, give us patience and renew our weary hearts. Infuse us with grace, patience, humility. Help us, Father, to implement the plans You have, and to do so with an energy You provide. Help us avoid the pitfalls and wiles of man, to remember it is You we need. You are our breath and bread. You sustain. You provide. You cover. You forgive. You offer. You guide. You love. You are our harbor. Our refuge. Our hope. Our salvation. Hear the strain in our voices, the ache in our bones, the pain in our heart. Answer us, Father! Give comfort to the lonely, to those afraid, overwhelmed, frustrated. Protect us from the sin crouching at our door and the evil that surrounds. Guide us away from temptation, from walking outside Your boundaries. Help us to give up the albatrosses! Help us to give up the notions and plans that go against Your will. Make us meek. Make us servants. Make us more like Your Son! Give us boldness in sharing Your Goodness! Give us testimony! It’s the pure love of Jesus that allows me to approach Your throne. It’s because of Jesus I can pray for all this for me, for my family, for my friends. You are a good, good, Father!

Daily Devotional from EP (courtesy of Ben D) May 25, 2023 Prayer is the air we breathe, filled with Your Spirit, Your Words be mine. Prayer is our food and drink, growing daily in richer fellowship with our God and I wonder LORD, if there were no blessings from You, would we still love and worship, have complete faith in who You are, would we pray? Teach us, teach us Holy Spirit to pray in Spirit - Words of glory to honor Father, Jesus and You, always the three in One. Praise You that we may come, are called to come to You Father by the Spirit’s help and guidance just to worship. Would we come if there was no gain? Teach us to pray because we love You, because of what Christ has done that we might have life and eternity. Pray through us Holy Spirit with power that surpasses words. Accomplish the will of our God who knows our hearts, our fears, our sins, our deepest needs and loves us still. We long to pray Holy Spirit, in harmony with Your will always. May we lift our open hands and hearts and say with surrender and celebration, Your will be done God of Glory, Majesty... Thy will ever be done. We worship and praise for the very air we breathe and thanksgiving that we are Yours. The love of Christ was proven in the Garden, on the Cross. The love of God showed the world and eternity what You would do to save us. We come to You and ask because You have said we could, but LORD, You have already given the best and the most. Sin forgiven, eternity in glory ahead… Life Giver, Gift Giver, it is to be Your people who long to give worship and honor to You. Rise up Church! Arise to praise, arise to worship our God! Prayer from Jude 20; Eph. 2:18; Romans 8:26; 1 John 5:14

Testimony We've been quiet because life has been messy. I'm a mess of grief from stepping into the role of grandparent when our hearts still struggle to see our daughter becoming a mother herself… years before we would have planned. I'm a mess of worry as my husband struggles against debilitating back pain, and I don't know how things are going to really work out with a new baby in the home and all the relational complications that will bring and hold. I'm a mess of overwhelm and fatigue as I struggle to do all the physical work my husband normally shoulders. I'm a mess of frantic rushing as I find moments to work with ever-pressing deadlines in the midst of the busyness of family life and baby showers and homestead chores and increasing shipments. But life is always… messy. And while we are being stretched in some of the unattractive and uncomfortable messiness that living as humans brings, we are also held in God's love. The messier we are and the more we wrestle (and my hip feels most certainly touched), the closer He draws near to remind us to TRUST HIM. He is the One Who Provides. He brought a messy newborn into the mess of a stable. Christ entered into messy relationships with a possessed prostitute, a tax collector, and sabbath-breaking fishermen. He was covered in the mess of his own sweat, blood, and ripped flesh as he hung on a tree on Calvary - a hill awash with the mess of death and stench of sin. God never shrinks from our messes. And through Christ, no matter the picture of messiness we see, we are still white as snow... being made new… two steps forward for every one step back. I prefer a bow. A nice package of repentance and order and peace and proper behavior. That's much easier for me. It makes me look and feel better. But when you are a God who sees and knows the wretched messiness of humanity, you don't care about the bows because they don't get anyone to heaven. You care about digging into the ashes to reveal your beautiful purposes. You care about bringing sin to light so repentance can be at hand. You care about bringing a man up a mountain with his only son, bound for sacrifice, just so you can show him the ram in the thicket and earn that place the name: The Lord Provides. When things are easy and smooth, we can back-pocket God. But it's during those easy days we must draw near and gird our loins because we face an adversary who prowls like a lion, bent on stealing, killing, destroying. But when life is messy and it messes us up, we must remember that if we can trust that His broken body resulted in an empty grave and that this isn't story, but the realest, truest Truth ever in existence, then we can also trust that He works everything together for the good of those who love Him, that He fights for us, that He restores all that is stolen and broken, and that there is no mess outside of His complete sovereignty and goodness. Everything messy is beautiful ... if we just let it be. - E.

The below was written by a homeschooling mom. This is one of those, "I Didn't Even Know I Needed To Read This Until I Read It" kind of posts. I got the Holy Spirit chills when I saw the name of her piece! I pray the Holy Spirit speaks to you as well. Love y'all! 👇🏻

Good morning! May you see God's majesty today... along with some happy little trees.

-5- Join me? Pray for God’s truth. Pray for God’s joy to be manifested in our lives. Pray for God to deepen our love for Him. Pray for God to expand our love for others. These are blessings God will increase for us. When we seek Him, above all else, He sees our devotion and honors our faith. His joy will be ours. His peace will overflow in our life. He will grant us His wisdom: we will know what to speak, when and to whom. He will give us testimony. Less of us, more of Jesus.

-4 of 5- What is your testimony? Do you have more than one? How did God gift it to you? What exactly does the Lord want you to share? When? And with whom? Do we need to share every thought we have? When is it okay to be silent? Are we spiritually obligated to correct every little opinion that is different from ours? What are insignificant, irrelevant issues? How do we avoid being smug, haughty, prideful? What Matters Most?