God is good!

Some of you may remember I wasn't entirely satisfied with the way my bike upgrade went. You may also remember I connected it to a word from the Lord about the timing of a national crisis. I rode the bike for a few days with the imperfect setup, until my pal got back to work at the sporting goods store. I waited for him at the store until he returned from an errand. Then I showed him what I had done and asked a few questions. He assured me it should just work, since all manufacturers are using an agreed standard.

I was disappointed because he couldn't offer any advice. I came home and looked up the parts again, and found a page listing a dealer's manual. In that manual one can find stuff not normally known by individuals on the bicycle discussion forums. One of the items was an adjustment screw I'd never noted before, and was frankly hidden on the new shifters. And it was way out of adjustment. So I tightened it down all the way and noticed that the cable moved a lot less -- it had previously moved too much with each stroke of the lever.

So I tried it again and this time I was able to get it installed and working properly. Not ideal, mind you, but it works and shifts a lot better than the old parts. It's just a case of things coming together to prod me to take another look at the whole thing. I had read enough about it before to know what was mechanically allowable, so my mind was ready for that final detail.

The bike is now upgraded as much as I'm gonna get it for awhile. I suppose that means the chaos can begin. Watch out!

I have long known in my heart that there was one last mission adventure for me. I've spent an awful lot of time praying about it. Fact is, it's been an obsession for me.

I still have no idea what that mission adventure will look like, but I do have something even more critical for me: I know what the primary focus of my message will be. No surprises here, but it did hit me like a thunderbolt this evening -- I'm going to spend most of my time countering the Zionist and Dispensationalist lie. This, in the face of persecution from Zionists.

I'll post about that tomorrow morning, but here on the forum I wanted to offer a more personal testimony about it. There were several influences working on my mind today that prepared me for that revelation. Not least of those things was Iain's comment on today's post. I knew he was reacting mostly to my mention of the threat of Zionism as an excuse to oppress. In my reply to him, I noted that there will surely be a need for some to resist with violence, but that the biggest part of what we will do is resist by telling the truth. It's all about exposing their big lie. My mission is to counter their propaganda, even to the point of being a spoiler. Not with debate so much as just poking a hole in their gasbag.

I'm betting that most of the adventure part will be online. I'm expecting some cyber warfare. Mossad is no slouch about that, so I'm praying about how to prepare for it. I remain utterly convinced the Lord will keep me from harm and will frustrate their efforts to shut me down. But I'll need to be ready to put some work into it and be faithful to the calling. Pray with me, as this is where I'm going to invest increasing amounts of energy and resources in the future.

I've noticed that men in the westernized Christian Church spend a disproportionate amount of time fighting sin with their heads, mainly over sex. They reach an age where, whether through medications, disease or natural reduction in hormones, their libido diminishes to the point where they just don't care about sex. When this happens they start praising the Lord for getting their minds right. An old gent at church Wed night gave an excruciatingly long prayer thanking God for right thinking. I wanted to scream "You idiot! You've wasted your entire life focusing on something that is fallen, irreversibly broken and that no amount of praying, self flagellation, determination and rigorous self discipline will ever make right!" Man, I am so over that. It is the washing of the heart by the blood of the Lamb through faith given solely by God's grace that gives the Spirit a fit place to dwell. When that becomes the reality of your heart, you are able to see that the mind is just a blob of fallen grey sludge and wicked thoughts are what it does. Fighting bad thoughts through any medium but the heart is a sucker bet that you will always lose. Now I would like to convince some people of this truth but, I guess the time is yet to come, one day when I've been prepped the Lord will say "sicc 'em boy" and I will.

Some new episodes from The Bible Project. I thought these were well-done, like their Wisdom series videos, and in terms of understanding Ancient Hebrew thought, they are helpful enough to include them in our Sermons forum.

I took a longish walk today, at least a couple of miles. During this walk I tossed around a lot of things in my mind, as my heart led.

The net result is that I began praying the Lord would grant us more souls. This is all about His glory, and what could be more glorious than more souls living the heart-led faith life? I realize it will require something substantial to break people free from the way churches have tied up the truth in knots. This kind of thing won't happen quickly on a human scale. But I am praying that we are ready in ourselves to see more people join us. In particular, I would like to see some of us have a chance to actually hold group worship with other heart-led believers.

I've had no doubts this would eventually come about, but I pray that we keep in our minds what it is that glorifies Him as we walk forward into this time of tribulation.

Last night was part of a series of clear nights we've been having in the area, so I did some stargazing, using an app to find some constellations/stars easily. Mars was bright. Looking at it with my very low-powered telescope, you could really pick up on the reddish-orange color and I could see the shadowed curve of the sunlight. Crazy stuff.

Turns out, this week is a good week to see planets, as they are in formation one on side of the solar system (as opposed to scattered in their orbits). So the planets will be visible during nighttime hours.

A horrible photo I took of Mars last night:

Does this come through?

As i type this, my husband is wandering through the house singing the words to Tom Petty's song, "Roll another joint" - 

"But let me get to the point
Let's roll another joint
Turn the radio loud
I'm too lone to be proud

And you don't know how it feels
You don't how it feels to be me"

while the music is blaring outside in his shop, which is almost a mini amphitheater.   No doubt our neighbors aren't too happy.  The bass is loud and each drumbeat echoes through the windows of our house.

I guess the beers have been going down the throat a bit much, maybe?  Anyhow, I am agitated and trying not to be.  That music is not what I listen to anymore.  

Pray that I may have patience and compassion.  It's kind of hard for me to right about now.

Please pray for my good friend Doc (Douglas Ossie Campbell). He lives in the sticks near Roan Mountain, Tenn. He don't "compute" so, we mostly talk on the phone. I've been trying to get a hold of him, unsuccessfully. This is very unusual because either his wife or one of his daughters will normally answer on the second ring. He is 65 and doesn't go far from home due to health issues. If I can't raise him in the morning (tuesday) I'm going to go check on him and it's a 90 mile round trip. Pray for him and his family first, then pray that I have a safe ride over there, I just decided I'm going regardless. The Lord is mashin' my heart so, I must obey. Doc is the closest thing I have to a best friend/brother and if anything has happened to him it will hurt something fearsome. Doc is of a cheery disposition and can make the most dour sourpuss laugh. That is a rare thing indeed.

One of the primary effects of the Internet on society has been to make geography far less relevant to our human condition.

Granted, we still stand under God's prohibition against globalism. He still requires us to live in tribal communities, but now we don't quite have to live in each other's armpit to have such a community. The ubiquitous communications network makes it possible for those of us who ought to be in the same tribe to find each other. Radix Fidem would not be possible otherwise.

Over at ZDNet, Jason Hiner misses the point on Facebook. He's obviously a globalist idolater, because he laments how Facebook missed the chance to break down our tribal barriers. Hiner fails to understand that God will always intervene when any agency tries to do that.

Where Facebook succeeded was in making it possible for the scattered soul brothers and sisters to find each other and keep their tribal loyalties alive. Facebook began to die when it yielded to objections from the globalists and SJWs who insist we must rebuild the Tower of Babel. Now it's in steep decline and cannot climb out because the management lacks the will to tell the globalists to get lost so they can get back to making money off an entirely natural and necessary human trait.