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Weekly Devotional: Finding Grace in Fragile Seasons

Week 1

Encamped in the Shelter of the Most High

Opening Prayer – Week 1


Lord, as I enter this quiet space, I come beneath Your wings—seeking refuge, comfort, and peace. Encamp me in Your presence and let Your Word be a balm to my soul. May Your promises in Psalm 91 awaken trust within me, and may Your nearness calm every storm. I surrender this time to You, believing that You are my shelter and my strength. Amen.

Devotional Message

To be encamped in the shelter of the Most High is to live surrounded by divine presence, even when life feels uncertain or fragile. Psalm 91 reveals a God who commands angels to guard us, who responds to love with deliverance, and who satisfies us with eternal promises. His protection is not passive—it is personal, active, and all-encompassing. In every season, whether we feel strong or weary, seen or forgotten, God is near. He hears our cries, knows our name, and walks with us through every valley. This is not a distant hope—it is a present reality. We are not alone. We are encamped by Heaven.

Psalm 91:11 NKJV
“For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.”

Meaning This verse reveals the unseen realm of God’s care. His angels are not distant or decorative—they are assigned to guard, guide, and protect. The phrase “in all your ways” speaks to the totality of life: every step, every season, every sorrow. It is a promise of divine oversight and spiritual companionship.

Application Trust that you are never walking alone. Whether you’re navigating grief, illness, or daily responsibilities, God’s angels are present. You may not see them, but their presence is real. Reflect on moments where you’ve been spared, comforted, or strengthened—these may be glimpses of angelic intervention. Let this verse remind you that Heaven is actively involved in your journey.

Psalm 91:14–15 NKJV “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him…”

Meaning These verses reveal the intimacy God desires. To “set your love” upon Him is to choose Him above all else. Knowing His name means knowing His character, His mercy, His justice, His faithfulness. God responds to love with deliverance and to relationship with elevation. This is not a distant deity—it is a personal Father who answers when called.

Application Cultivate a love for God that is intentional and personal. This isn’t about performance, it’s about presence. When you call on Him, He promises to answer. Let this be your assurance: your prayers are heard, your love is seen, and your relationship with Him is honored. In seasons of silence, this promise becomes a lifeline.

Psalm 91:16 NKJV “With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”

Meaning This verse is God’s final promise in the psalm—a declaration of satisfaction and eternal assurance. “Long life” may speak to earthly years, but it also points to spiritual fullness and eternal life. To be shown His salvation is to be invited into His presence forever.

Application Let this verse be comforting when life feels uncertain or brief. God’s definition of satisfaction is not limited to time—it includes peace, purpose, and eternal reunion. For those who dwell in Him, life is not measured only in years, but in grace and glory.

Closing Prayer

Father, thank You for meeting me here. Thank You for Your angels who guard me, Your love that delivers me, and Your voice that calls me by name. As I rise from this sacred moment, let Your truth remain—You are with me, You are for me, and I am encamped by Heaven. May I walk forward in peace, knowing I am never alone.

In Jesus’ name, Amen

Journaling & Questions to Ponder


Reflect gently on these questions as you dwell in the shelter of the Most High:

  1. Where have you felt God’s shelter in your life?
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  1. What does it mean to you, to do not visit His presence?
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  1. How can you speak truth aloud when fear tries to take hold?
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  1. Have you ever sensed divine protection in a moment of danger or uncertainty?
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  1. What does “setting your love upon God” look like in your daily life?
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Feel free to share your reflections below, or simply hold them in your heart. This is a space of grace.
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I think I know what they mean by craving alcohol.

I think what you are experiencing is more of a natural reaction that revolves around eating and drinking—anything! Try the same thing with a Coke or tea. Try to eat just one Lays potato chip. I think we are just made to desire that extra sip or nibble. I may be wrong, but that is just my two sips.
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So.....did your insurance premium go up?

What is the better Republican plan?

Let's not mention at the moment that Obamacare was a Republican plan.
I dont think there is one. No one has a real plan because I dont think anyone really knows what to do. I dont care a wit about who's plan it was. Obama is the one who created what we have and it caused everything to go up in cost.

When it passed tge Republicans all voted against it. So if it was their plan they decided it wasn't a good one after all.

As of today I haven't heard anything from anyone that will help lower the costs except for getting rid of Ovamacare. And I have no idea if that would do it either.
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Why do people hate ICE...

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting

The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources told NBC News.

ICE is struggling to hire officers — even after lowering its standards

DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it's not getting nearly enough applicants.

Hedley Lamarr is not far off.

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The Schumer Shutdown

As long as the democrats in the Senate solely and entirely vote to keep the government shut down, they are solely and entirely responsible for it being shut down.
Nonsense. It’ll open back up as soon as the GOP show a willingness to work with the opposition. They refuse to so the government remains shutdown. That is entirely on the GOP-led dysfunctional Congress.
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President makes historic trip to Asia

Donald Trump is the only American President who has been awarded the Grand Order of Mugunghwa
He's also the only American President to meet with a Japanese PM on board a U.S. aircraft carrier.

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Texas judge still fighting to deny wedding ceremonies to gay couples

Texas judges who don’t perform gay weddings for faith reasons won’t face sanctions, high court says

Texas judges who decline to perform a wedding ceremony based on a “sincerely held religious belief” do not violate the state’s rules on judicial impartiality, according to a comment the Texas Supreme Court added to the state’s judicial conduct code Friday.

The court's clarification amended Canon 4 of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct, which prohibits judges from doing things outside their judicial role that would cast doubt on their ability to act impartially or interfere with the proper performance of judicial duties.

It’s the rule the commission accused Waco Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley [i.e. judge in OP] of violating when it issued a public warning against her in 2019, saying her refusal to marry people based on their sexual orientation cast doubt on her ability to appear impartial as a judge.
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The auto-pen scandal is going to be massive

Wow. That's dumb.

You should believe a doctor's health report.

We are supposed to believe the nonsense lies in Trump's health reports.

Find me the Biden report that says he's looney tunes or stop with this issue.
You would believe a health report on Biden but don't believe the same on Trump?
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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

White House fires commission charged with advising the president on design as Trump pushes construction projects

The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency charged with advising the president, Congress and the city of Washington, DC, on “matters of design and aesthetics,” according to a source familiar with the matter.

The email received by commission members contains similar wording to those that dismissed Biden appointees on other boards and organizations this year, including the National Capital Planning Commission and the US Holocaust Memorial Council.

Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

Plans shared by the MAGA administration suggest “a hurried process,” the New York Times reports, noting that a miniature mock-up of the 90,000 square foot annex, proudly unveiled to the press Wednesday, featured some truly bizarre architectural features.

These include a staircase leading up from the South Lawn directly into a brick wall, and at least two woefully misaligned windows that appear to open out onto one another.

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These are not exactly causally linked. As I understand it, Trump has submitted no plans to any of the appropriate bodies for comment. Because Trump just does whatever he wants -- I forget what kind of political system that's called where a one-ruler has absolute say. Anyway, it's not that this panel had criticism for the plans and that's why they were fired -- they will now never see the plans.

Reminds of a song from "Fiddler on the roof".

One staircase going up and one coming down, aand one leading nowhere just for show.
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Hubble Constant (Ho) fixed to light speed, C and calculated as 71 k/s/Mpc. God did it!!

There is now fierce debate over these Ho equations. The Vera Rubin telescope operators are also on the case, and will produce Ho information soon, done by their measurements. If those agree with my calculated Ho value of 71, you will have to accept my equations as truth. Then, the concept of a dynamic Aether will become necessary to accept the basis of my equations. It looks like the big bang hypothesis will soon fall. BB has misled too many for far too long. We cannot know the age of the universe.
This is the classic Dunning Kruger effect.
John Cleese describes it in a non diplomatic way.
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Hubble Constant (Ho) fixed to light speed, C and calculated as 71 k/s/Mpc. God did it!!

I'm truly puzzled: Is the OP actually saying that 71 is somehow a magic number? Is it special somehow? I can't parse thru the "word salad" to figure out what the point is.

Too, what's the motivation for dividing by π²¹? May as well divide by e²⁴.
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The Trump Crypto Scam

Exactly! An argument can be made that investing maybe 1% of your holdings in crypto is a reasonable way to potentially boost returns with minimal risk, but since crypto has zero intrinsic value, let the buyer beware: the same people who buy stocks also buy crypto. So the two markets are highly correlated and tend to move together, which means crypto doesn't really add diversification.

I had a friend who bought several computers to mine bitcoin and he let them run for weeks on end. Finally he went on vacation and left unsupervised, the computers overheated and shut down. In the end, he basically broke even. Anecdotal, yes, but while the blockchain is a clever piece of ledger engineering, it doesn't make me wanna run out (or sit down) and buy crypto. YMMV.
I'm a little wary of investing in anything with "crypto" in the name, ever since I lost a bundle when a friend talked me into investing in his cryptohamburger joint.
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The Thing Most Sabbath Keepers Do not Talk About.

I do not need to interpret Jesus, just believe what He says. He speaks plainly. That's the issue is trying to insert something it doesn't say.
Then tell me when after resurrection did Jesus say to the apostles and believers to keep the 4th commandment. If it is that important then I’m sure He would have been all over it and offered plenty of teaching about it.
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‘TERMINATED!’ Trump Calls to End FEMA and Let States Manage Disasters for ‘BIG SAVINGS’

An investigation into FEMA didn’t fit Trump’s narrative. His DHS ordered a new probe that did

In the final month of the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump put his critique of FEMA’s response to Hurricane Helene front and center, making false claims that funding was stolen for illegal migrants and the agency ignored requests for help.

Days after his inauguration, Trump visited western North Carolina and floated the idea of eliminating FEMA.

An investigation that began under then-President Joe Biden and carried over into the Trump administration ultimately cleared the Federal Emergency Management Agency, finding no evidence of a systemic effort to deny aid based on politics while singling out one supervisor’s actions as illegal and improper.

But at the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, leadership including Secretary Kristi Noem weren’t satisfied, three former senior FEMA officials told CNN. Within weeks, leaders ordered a new investigation that came to a much different conclusion.

The investigation looked at whether FEMA workers who went door-to-door in disaster zones recorded any protected private information about survivors’ political views. It found roughly 100 field reports — a small fraction out of tens of thousands of cases during the Biden administration — where FEMA workers visiting homes mentioned campaign signs or made notes related to “political beliefs.”

Investigators flagged a few instances where canvasser notes mentioned “Trump” or “Biden,” but in most cases, workers were documenting gun signage, which also was categorized as political. The report does not show that disaster survivors were denied aid because of these notations, and sources say the gun notations were often made for safety reasons.

Yet Noem portrayed the findings as proof of FEMA’s “widespread” and “systematic

Meanwhile....

Trump gives disaster declarations to Alaska and others but denies Illinois, Vermont and Maryland

The decisions fell mostly along party lines, with Trump touting on social media Wednesday that he had “won BIG” in Alaska in the last three presidential elections and that it was his “honor” to deliver for the “incredible Patriots” of Missouri, a state he also won three times.
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The auto-pen scandal is going to be massive

1) Didn't Trump commute sentences for ALL the J6ers..including those who injured police officers' pepper sprayed them.
This nonsense "Oh gee willikers, look how distasteful THIS particular case is" is not something to discuss at length because Trump's pardons are no better.


Presented "such congnitive decline" that there is exactly how much medical evidence indicating thusly? Because none seems to be the number.

Why should we trust people who look at Trump and think "This guy has got his finger on the pulse of everything" to judge whether ANYONE more sentient than a piece of toast, experiences "cognitive decline".

Find me the doctors reports and then there is a conversation to be had. As it is, it's a bunch of dishonest Republicans hating on Biden.


It's hard to take the Republican party seriously as a party of integrity....they just never seem to act like it.
Rant all you want about Republicans but I can't take you seriously if you can't acknowledge that Biden was suffering from cognitive decline
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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

These include a staircase leading up from the South Lawn directly into a brick wall, and at least two woefully misaligned windows that appear to open out onto one another.

Build it!
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The Thing Most Sabbath Keepers Do not Talk About.

Only if we do not believe what Jesus tells us to live by. I do not believe we can believe in Jesus but not what He taught or how He lived for our example. But I guess we will all find out soon enough.
I firmly believe in what Jesus teaches but I firmly reject your interpretation. And you have still not posted a post crucifixion verse that requires the Christian to keep the 4th commandment.
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President makes historic trip to Asia

...while addressing the sailors....3 minutes on "steam or electric" catapults....(and what is his obession with magnets?)


"… And I asked you, Captain. I'm building the aircraft, I'm building a lot of things, but I said, "Captain, you're going to tell me something. I know a lot about these ships, I know a lot about these things building, I want to know, catapults, which is better, the electric or the steam?"

Crowd (32:45):

Steam.

President Donald Trump (32:47):

Okay, ready? You guys, that's what you do, right? This is so much better. They go out hire a consultant for millions of dollars that was never on an aircraft carrier before, so they switched to electric. I disagree with it, but it's all right. Let me ask you. We're going to go steam first and then electric. Catapults, which is better, electric, or steam?

Crowd (33:11):

Steam.

President Donald Trump (33:15):

I'm going to put in an order. Seriously, they're spending billions of dollars to build stupid electric. And the problem when it breaks, you have to send up to MIT, get the most brilliant people in the world, fly them out. That's ridiculous. The steam, they say they can fix it with a hammer and a blowtorch, and it works just as well, if not better. And I love the sight of that beautiful steam pouring off that deck. With the electric, you don't have that.

(33:41)
So we did the Ford in electric, the cost overruns, everything else, but I hope it's going to be okay, but I like steam. We're going to go back to steam. They changed just for the sake of changing. I said to the architect, "Have you ever designed a ship before? You only did the biggest ship in the world, right, the Ford? But we're going to go back."

(34:01)
Now, let me ask you the second question, hydraulic for your elevators, or magnets? The new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic, you can be hit by lightning and it's fine. You take a little glass of water and you drop it on magnets, I don't know what's going to happen. So the elevators come up in the new carriers. I think I'm going to change it, by the way. They have magnets.

(34:26)
Every tractor has hydraulic, every excavator, every excavating machine, if any kind has hydraulic, but somebody decided to use magnets for your … But maybe they're good. Which is better, hydraulic, or magnets? What the hell is wrong with these people? Can I ask you, the top ranking gentleman right here? Seriously, I'm putting out an order. I'm going to sign an executive order. When we build aircraft carriers, it's steam for the catapults and it's hydraulic for the elevators. We'll never have a problem, okay?

Speaker 1 (35:05):

Aye aye, sir.

President Donald Trump (35:06):

Do you agree? He agrees, everybody agrees, but these people in Washington, all right, we're going to do that. I'm serious about it. It bothered me so much. I see the costs come in, they spend 900 … This is not on my watch. So if it was on my watch, I would be very quiet about it. I wouldn't be talking about it. They spent $993 million on the catapults trying to get them to work, and they had steam, which works so beautifully and it has for 50 years, right? So we're going to go back. Seriously fellas, I want to make that change. I'm going to do an executive order. I'm not going to let them continue to do this now. They're trying to make it work. They're trying so hard and they have something that's perfect. So we're going to go back on that and the magnets, thank you very much.


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Hubble Constant (Ho) fixed to light speed, C and calculated as 71 k/s/Mpc. God did it!!

For clarity I will repost the Hubble equations:-

Hubble Constant (Ho) fixed to light speed, C and calculated as 71 k/s/Mpc



Ho is now "fixed" to local light speed, C by this simple Ho equation worked in the old algebra style of Maxwell:-


2 x oneMpc x C, divided by Pi to the power of 21 = 70.9449 k/s/Mpc



In this equation, directly input the values below:-

oneMPC is 3260000 light years

C (local) is 299792.458 k/s

Pi is 3.142..........


Astronomers measuring Ho give the "ballpark" values of Ho, and now we have an Ho equation that "fixes" Ho to
local light speed, C, which has to be much more precise.

Note:- In the numerator, distance (Mpc) is multiplied by speed (k/s), and that is NOT an error in this situation, as the "distance squared" does not affect the numerical value of the Ho redshift by
"spreading out" (as any light source does) when viewing that redshift for Ho along just
one dimension only.


The dimensionless denominator Pi^21 sets the scales of this Ho equation correctly into the Dynamic Aether framework.
The Dynamic Aether Framework is not the static aether that the Michleson-Morley experiment could not detect, but
the Dynamic Aether that Faraday knew caused electrical "reluctance", and that Maxwell used as the basis for his
electric and magnetic "inertia" constants, and used in his Aether equations to calculate light speed. C..


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Hubble Constant (Ho) Hubble Horizon Distance light years calculated from Ho of 70.9449 k/s/Mpc.



oneMpc X C, divided by Ho, and then divided by one billion = 13.7758 billion light Years



In this equation, directly input the values below:-

oneMpc is 3260000 light years

C (local) is 299792.458 k/s

Ho is 70.9449 k/s/Mpc

one billion is 1,000,000,000 used to give the answer in convenient units of
billions of light years.



Note:- This Hubble Horizon Distance equation prevents falsifying the terminology of
declaring
light years as years only.



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The "Hubble Tension Issue"

Note:- In the "Dynamic Aether Framework" of the Ho calculating equation in which Ho is "fixed" numerically to C,
the "Hubble Tension issue" is caused by the "DISTANT LOCAL VALUE" of C in the observed space regions being
directly affected by the presence of huge galaxies, black holes. or void areas, RELATIVE to the observer.


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