Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.


So since we are currently in a pre-70th week time status, the rapture could happen pre-70th week.

Should the rapture not take place as the 70th week begins, then we should continue to watch - as the resurrection/rapture is even closer.

My point is - don't be so dogmatic (as to insisting pre-trib, mid-trib, pre-wrath, post trib timing). The key is to watch, be prepared, Matthew 24:44

Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

We all should be able to adopt the "watch rapture view".

Acts 2:36 KJV
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

"Therefore let all" My Interpetation- Jesus Christ seated on the right hand of God-throne. My faith have giving me power endued from on high.

"House of Israel " My interpetation: Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation through Jesus Christ.

" Know Assuredly " My Interpetation: God's word is not void. Jesus Christ is only God Performes signs, healings, wonders.

" God hath made" My Interpetation: John 14: 6 KJV Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father.

"Whom ye crucified" My Interpetation: Jesus Christ resurrection on third day.

"And Christ " My interpetation: Jesus Christ allows us to receive his inheritance myself becoming heir of God.Gkd responding giving me my faith , hope and to ne done today, past, future years.

Word Spoken and Written by Reginald Taylor Jr

What is prayer? As a child I learned prayer as ACTS = adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication. So it should not all be just asking God for something. And it is not a one-way conversation with God to where we do all the talking, and he does all the listening, and to where it is all about what we want, but not about what he wants. Prayer should not be self-centered, but it should be God-centered. For this is a two-way relationship, and it should be a two-way conversation where we listen to what God says, too.

Prayer should not be about just getting what we want, but it should be about seeking the will and the purpose of God in what we are praying for. And, to the best of our understanding, we should be praying according to the will of God. But if we don’t know what the will of God is in any given situation, we can express our requests, but they should not contradict God’s divine will and purpose expressed to us in the Scriptures. But then I would add, nevertheless, not my will but Thine be done. We should want God’s will.

Now, when we pray, we will receive from God anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him (1 John 3:22), and because we ask according to his will (1 John 5:14), and we do not ask with the wrong motives (James 4:2-3), and because we remain in him and his words remain in us (John 15:7), and because we believe and we don’t doubt (James 1:5-8). And that is just a few Scriptures describing for us what our prayers should look like and what God requires of us for him to answer our prayers.

But what about when you pray for something that you believe is within the will of God, biblically speaking, and it doesn’t turn out the way that you had hoped and believed that it would? Take this situation for example:


Now, there are many different opinions floating around as to what Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” actually entailed, but none of us knows for certain. What we do know, based upon Paul’s own personal testimony, and according to all that he taught about what it means to be a Christian and a follower of Christ, is that it was not a sinful addiction. God would never and will never refuse to deliver us from a sinful addiction, for Jesus died to free us from our slavery to sin so that we will now serve the Lord in obedience to his ways.

And it could have been a physical ailment of some kind, but whatever it was, it was torment, and the torment came from the enemy, and the purpose of the enemy was to get Paul to reject Christ, because of this ailment, and to stop preaching the truth of the gospel of our salvation, and to give up, and to deny Christ. The enemy’s purpose was to destroy Paul and his testimony for Christ so that God could no longer use him to take the gospel to many people who would, by faith in Jesus Christ, then die to sin and obey God.

But God had a different purpose in it. God’s purpose was to keep Paul from exalting himself and from becoming conceited. So it was God who gave Paul that thorn in the flesh, much like it was God who permitted Satan to do all the evil that he did to the Lord’s servant Job. God allowed Satan to inflict Job and to inflict Paul, or Satan could not have done what he did. And in both cases it was to humble or to keep humble the Lord’s servants. Suffering was to teach Paul to rely fully on God and not on himself (2 Corinthians 1:8-9).

So, the point here is that God is not always going to answer our prayers in the way that we had hoped that he would, which we believed to be according to his will. For he heals in many different ways, and he allows suffering in our lives to work his good in our lives. And sometimes suffering is healing for us because it keeps us humble, and it keeps us seeking after God, and it makes us ever aware of our need of God in all things, in all ways. And God can use our suffering in ways which will reach other people with the gospel.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-39; Matt 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-19; John 15:1-21; John 16:33; John 17:14; Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Eph 6:10-20; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

Pray, Pray, Pray

Based off Various Scriptures
An Original Work / September 6, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Pray that eyes may enlightened be,
So they may know Christ.
Pray that they may Him better know,
Strengthened by His pow’r.
Pray that they may grasp
How wide and long
And high and deep
Is Christ’s love.
Pray that they may be filled
To the fullness of God’s love.
Pray with thanksgiving.

Pray for an open door for me,
So I may share Christ.
Pray when the gospel is proclaimed –
Shared with clarity.
Pray words are given me so
I declare the gospel fearlessly.
I pray for you to be active
Sharing your faith, too.
Pray continually.

We oft not know for what to pray,
So we ask for help.
The Spirit intercedes for us –
Words cannot express.
Just keep on praying for the saints
With all kinds of requests to God.
Pray they may have faith to
Please their God in ev’ry way.
Pray with joyfulness.

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Pray Unselfishly
An Original Work / June 26, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

We cannot let un-elected rogue judges run our country.

Hey all! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted but I’ve been around! And I wanted to reach out today for wise counsel and fellow believers advice

So for about a year ago I met a girl on upward, the Christian dating site and me and her have a lot in common, she also most certainly doesn’t live in worldly ways. Like me she doesn’t swear, Loves Christ, has never touched any sort of drug, has never had any sexual activity outside marriage, has never been drunk, and shares the same beliefs and political opinions as I do.we’ve met a handful of times and had a great time together.

I just however want to make sure she is a right one to Date. i keep praying for wisdom I guess a part of me is foolish for thinking God will answer in my emotions change, which I’m letting go of. But I confess I’m scared and a hint of hesitant to receive his answer, I’m so scared I’ll never find a woman who doesn’t have a history like me; and I guess I’m scared of the possibility of letting her go if he doesn’t approve. Could anyone help me out with this?

Please pray to give me and my wife strength during this difficult time. We have to put our dog (Jessie) to sleep, because of debilitating arthritis. We have had her on a variety of meds and therapies for over a year, but it has reached the point where she can no longer walk and has lost interest in food. She hasn't wagged her tail for months. It is just very hard and sad for us. Thank you.

Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, this week slammed a so-called “drag Mass” performance put on by a University of Nebraska student, calling it an “offensive” display marked by “lies, evil, and ugliness.”

The higher education news website the College Fix first reported on the performance on May 30. The LGBT-centric demonstration was hosted by a local Lutheran church; its creator, music doctoral student Joseph Willette, said the event was meant to “bridge the gap between queerness and spirituality.”

Explicitly describing the performance as an “appropriation of the traditional Mass,” Willette said the display “blurs the lines between the sacred and the profane.” The College Fix said the incident “imitated various parts of the Mass, including the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.” It reportedly featured a chamber orchestra and singing along with drag performances.

In a June 24 statement, Conley called the event a “blatant public display of faith-based discrimination,” one that led to Willette himself earning a doctorate.

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“The poll behind you, behind our ranking member, it adds up to 110 percent,” Jack said. “Just wanted to clarify, is it meant to add up to 110 percent or is that an error?”

Towards the middle of this article, the author writes about a solution and who has authority over the Senate Parliamentarian.
What say y'all?

Is there a standard set of days with fasting exceptions on the calendar? I noticed a difference between my church calendar (physical, sold in our parish bookstore) and the calendar app I use. If the schedule isn't standard across jurisdictions, at what level is it standardized (by calendar, by jurisdiction, by diocese)?

Also, on days with fasting exceptions, is it generally better not to make use of them if you don't need to, or should they be viewed more in the sense that the Church (at whatever level these exceptions are set) knows better than we do when we need a break?

Hi all,

I only work 12 hours next week, and desperately need more income.

I am applying to different jobs ATM.

Please continue to pray for me.

God bless

I think that ensuring reports of child sexual abuse are brought to appropriate legal authorities makes society safer for children period.

End of story; regardless of circumstance (note that mental health experts are all REQUIRED by law to report these things).

And because I believe that, I believe priests should be submitting that information.

DOJ sues Washington state over law requiring clergy to report possible child abuse

If you are concerned about the safety of children but believe priests shouldn't have to report these instances, how do you arrive at the conclusion that the safety of children is secondary to a sexual predator freedoms?

Or, I guess, how does one hold such diametrically opposed ideas in one's head?

A page-one hit piece reveals contempt for traditional faith-based values.

The New York Times, in a page-one hit piecepublished this week, went after Trump Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy for — of all things — having a large Catholic family and being happy about it, revealing the contempt the “Gray Lady” has for traditional faith-based values.

The profile takes aim at Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy for celebrating life with nine children on their podcast, From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys, and daring to suggest that having lots of kids is a good thing.

The premise of the piece, titled “The MTV Reality Star in Trump’s Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids,” is that the 53-year-old Duffy was not always a paragon of virtue and therefore shouldn’t be taken seriously because of the way he behaved on three episodes of a reality show in the ’90s.

“Over three decades, Americans have watched him evolve from a sex-hungry 25-year-old on MTV’s ‘The Real World,’ gyrating with a woman on a pool table, to Secretary Duffy, a devoutly Catholic husband and father at the helm of President Trump’s Transportation Department, pushing young Americans to have families as large as his own,” the Times tut-tuts.

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Investors got a snapshot of the health of the economy in a clutch of data Thursday. The highlights: The US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, according to the government's final estimate, worse than previously thought. Meanwhile, jobless claims rose, with continuing claims rising to their highest level since late 2021.

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Just saw this on Yahoo finance. Stocks have been rising, but it does not sound as if the economy is that healthy right now. Trump's solution is to announce who he is nominating to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Fed as soon as he can. While Powell can't be pushed out until his term ends next year, if Trump telegraphs his replacement It is believed that will hurt Powell's influence on the economy. As usual, Trump wants to push Powell into lowering interest rates sooner than may be prudent and punishing him if he does not.
As a retired person, I feel much more comfortable with a president who appoints well respected experts in their fields and lets them do their jobs. Powell successfully helped our country recover from global inflationary pressures. Lowering interest rates too soon can reignite inflation, which could also be ignited by tariffs.
Are you concerned, too?

Most Christians in the United States have little to no trust in the Democratic Party and would never vote for a Democrat, a new poll suggests, as liberal Christian advocates remain confident that there is a path to win over voters of faith.

The progressive Evangelical advocacy group Vote Common Good released the survey documenting the views of Christian voters on a wide variety of issues, including their views on the two major political parties. The poll surveyed 1,761 Christian voters from May 6-11 and was conducted by Change Research, whose clients often include Democratic politicians. The sample contained a margin of error of +/-3 percentage points.

The full results of the poll, shared with Time Magazine, suggest that 75% of Christian voters have little to no trust in the Democratic Party. Similarly, 62% of Christian voters surveyed insisted that they would never vote for a Democrat, 58% characterized the Democratic Party as hostile to Christianity and 54% believed that Democratic voters were hostile to Christianity.

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"The Man on the middle cross said I could come."

And for no other reason.

This short video is, IMHO, about the best summation of the Good News I've ever heard.

I do disagree with one statement at the end, if I understand correctly but I'm sure he clarified... our profession of faith is VITAL. To paraphrase Jesus, no one filled with His Light hides HIM from the world. "So let your Light shine" can only be genuinely expressed by placing oneself on a stand where everyone can be drawn to Him.

If we don't openly glorify His Name and His words, then anyone looking at us will conclude that we are bragging of our own goodness, and seeking the praise of men.

No different or unrecognizable from the sinful pursuit of the unbeliever.

Luke 9:26
"Whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels."

"The Man on the middle cross said I could come." is in fact the very best profession we can make before men.

Saved by grace, sustained by grace.

Christ's invitation to ALL...

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Is this Old Covenant law? Yes, it is! Are we now under the Old Covenant law? No! We are not. But Jesus Christ and his New Testament apostles taught the same things under the New Covenant. We are to love even our enemies, i.e. those who do evil against us. And we are to pray for them, and to do good (not evil) to them, and to speak to them what will be beneficial and helpful to them, for their good (to bless them), but never to approve of evil, and never to compromise truth and righteousness. And we are not to retaliate. We are not to trade evil for evil, but we are to return evil with good.

Is reproving our neighbor taught in the New Testament? Yes! For we are to be those who are spreading the truth of the gospel of our salvation with the people of the world. And this gospel message confronts people with their sinful condition, and it calls them to repentance, to die with Christ to sin, and to leave their sinful lifestyles behind them. It calls them to now follow Jesus in walks of obedience to his commands, and it warns of judgment to all who refuse to let go of their sins and to obey our Lord’s commands.

And, as followers of Christ, we are called of God to reprove (to admonish) one another daily so that none of us falls back into sin. And if a fellow professer of faith in Jesus Christ is living in sin, and is making sin their practice, and if they are not walking in obedience to the Lord and to his commands, we should admonish them. We are to let them know the critical nature of the need for them to repent of their sins and to turn back to God and to follow him in obedience to his commands. For if they do not, they will not have salvation from sin. They will not inherit eternal life with God.

And on the subject of hate and love, it is hate to speak lies to one another to make each other feel good, while we say nothing about what we know are other professing Christian’s sinful practices and of their need to repent and to obey God. Now, I believe women should speak to women, and men to men, if in person and/or in a private conversation. Yet they could post on a public platform what the Lord is teaching them through his word each day, and let the Holy Spirit speak truth to people’s hearts, to whoever will listen.

For love speaks the truth in love, not the lies which make people feel good but which do not lead them to biblical repentance and to walks of obedience to our Lord’s New Covenant commands. Lies are selfish and they are about people liking us, rather than them following the Lord in obedience to his commands. Or they are deliberate deception by those who want to trick us into following the lies and not the truth. But so many people today think that lies are kind and that truth is harsh and unloving. The opposite is true!

Now if we speak the truth out of hate, and out of spite, to get even with those who have injured us, then that is hate, not love. A phrase for that is “trading tit for tat.” In other words, you do something evil to me, and so to get even, I do or say something evil and spiteful back to you. That is not love. That is retaliation. That is like someone stabbed you with a knife and so you stab them back, to make them pay, to make them suffer as you have suffered. The motivation for that is hate, not love, not to produce good.

But we need to be so careful that we don’t get caught up in the lies which say that lies, which make us feel good, are loving and kind, while truth that hurts is evil and unkind. For truth will hurt if the truth is confronting anyone in their sinful behaviors and practices, even if the truth is spoken with the kindest of words. But sometimes, when people are stubborn in their rebellion, and they fight against the truth, we may have to speak with a little more force. And just know that gentleness is controlled strength, not softening the truth to where the truth has no impact on other people.

Read some of the conversations which Jesus had with some of the Jews and with some of the religious leaders and biblical scholars within the temple of God of his day. Although Jesus was gentle (humble, meek), he was not weak when it came to speaking the truth in love to the people. He spoke the plain truth, and he called things what they were, and he didn’t dance around difficult subjects to make them less offensive. And he didn’t apologize for the strength and the power of his words, either. So don’t confuse the power of the words of the Scriptures with hate. We all need to hear the truth!!

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

In Harmony

Based off Romans 12:9-21; 1 Peter 3:8-17
An Original Work / September 2, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Love each other truly.
Cling to what is good.
Hate all that is evil.
Never lack in zeal.
Serve the Lord with fervor.
Joyful in hope be;
Patient in affliction;
Praying faithfully.
Honor one another.
Live in harmony.

Share with all God’s people
Who are found in need.
Do not be conceited.
Sympathetic be.
Love, and show compassion
In humility.
Keep your tongue from evil.
Peaceful you must be.
Honor one another.
Live in harmony.

God sees who are righteous;
Listens to their prayers.
But He’s against evil –
Is His to avenge.
Do not fear what they fear.
Suffer patiently.
In your hearts, make Christ Lord.
Serve Him faithfully.
Honor one another.
Live in harmony.

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Loving One Another
An Original Work / June 26, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I feel so depressed and fearful, please pray that Jesus would comfort me and make me happy and take the fear away. Also, please pray that I will go on new medication, and one day off all medication for good. Also, I have lower back pain that’s been going on for a year now, I think it’s an injury, please pray that Jesus would heal me. Thank you so much. In Jesus name. Amen.

Edna May?

There was a time when people knew, whom many then considered to be, the globally-recognized No. 1 A-list entertainer celebrity in the world, Edna May Pettie. She was born in Syracuse, New York, 1878, and died in Switzerland in 1948.

If anyone now reading these words knows her name, that would be truly amazing.

The same can be said for many so-called stars and celebrities of the past; e.g. : Thomas Pope; Thespis; Eleonora Duse; Richard Perkins; Helena Modjeska; Helladia; Fanny Kemble; Ellen Tree; Henry Irving; Charlotte Cushman; Thomas Percival; Metrobius; and Quintilla. Today, not only are these folks no longer household names, they are virtually unknown on this earth.

For many reasons, there will be a similar story about every so-called “star,” headliner, “icon,” and top celebrity alive today. No one will think of them. No one will know their names. No one will care that they were once “somebody.”

Their earthly awards from their other celebrity friends who applauded as they were accepted – oscars, globes, emmys, palm d’ors, tonies, grammies – will be doorstops, sold on eBay, or stored away in a dark closet and utterly forgotten. The same for nobels and plitzers-each of these name begun with a lower case letter on purpose.

No one will know, and almost no one knows now, that Gale Sondergaard won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in 1937. Few even know her name. Who won the hundred meter dash at the 1908 Olympics? Who was Arfinn Bergmann? Who was the world heavyweight boxing champion in 1906?.

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A Texas-based burger company that celebrates President Donald Trump is getting spammed online with orders for chicken tacos,