Mike and Jody Dooley need your prayers. Mike is my first cousin. Jody's son Chris went to take a nap yesterday. He was having a bad headache. When they went to check on him he had died.
Chris was 28 years old. A very shy, sweet , young man who still lived at home with Mike and Jody.

We are still waiting for autopsy reports to determine the cause of death.   Most likely some sort of aneurysm.

Please remember us in prayer.

Pray for our Nation.

Need

I need a strength to keep me true
And straight in whatever I do.

I need a power to keep me strong
When I am tempted to do wrong.

I need a grace to keep me pure
When passion tries its deadly lure.

I need a love to keep me sweet
When hardness and mistrust I meet.

I need an arm to be my stay
When dark with trouble grows by day;

And nothing on earth can these afford,
But all is found in Christ my Lord.

Author Unknown

Please put me in your prayers, DH has lost his job. Things are very hard. He lost his job of 20m years last August. He had a very hard time finding another. We went through our savings to make ends meet. Just before Christmas he got hired on at a wonderful job. But they did not keep the new hires and he lost that job. We know God is our source, thanks for your prayers.

Granndma Rosie

This came from a friend of mine. Please join us in prayer for this little boy.

Please pray for this little boy.

I'm relaying for the parents and just have enough for the prayer warriors to add another on their list, please.

Jonathan just turned 8 years old the 20th of Dec.

Apparently New Years Eve he had a Asthma attack so severe it caused him to die in his mother's arms, he was clinically dead for 45 mins, the rescue workers revived him as his 9 year old brother Taylor looked on and tried to get a flight for him, but had difficulties getting a helicopter near the home, they finally life flighted him to Columbia Hosp (Missouri) (not sure which one), he crashed on the flight and was brought back.

I recently got off the phone from his mother TeAna and at the moment Jonathan is in a coma, not sure if medically or self induced. He still keeps crashing.

Please keep him and family near in prayer. Thank you all.

In the Law, God gave the Jews strict rules about sacrificial animals. Each was to be without defect, or He wouldn't accept it--in fact, when the Israelites offered blind, lame, and sick animals, the Lord angrily called them to account (Mal. 1:8). The early system of spilling blood to cover sin foreshadowed the Father's ultimate redemption plan: He gave His Son to die in the place of corrupt men and women (John 3:16).

To be acceptable, the final sacrifice had to be perfect too. The Father's plan required that a man be sacrificed; however, only a member of the Trinity could remain sinless in life on earth. The other dilemma was that a being is either divine or not--divinity could not be bestowed on a child after birth. That is, the sacrificial Lamb had to be both God and man from the moment of conception (John 1:29). So Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit, since His earthly father could not be human.

The virgin conception and birth preserved Jesus' divine nature. His shift from heaven to the womb happened in an instant and was done without human intervention. Therefore,  unlike every child born of a woman and a man, Jesus was not corrupted by Adam's sin.

Jesus was the perfect Lamb, unblemished in every way. Therefore, God accepted Christ's sacrifice. The way we lay claim to the offering made on our behalf is by trusting in Him.. Denying that Mary was a virgin is not an option for believers. Our salvation depends upon Jesus' flawless nature because, as God made clear to the Israelites, only a perfect sacrifice will do.

As some of you know my lovely little grand daughter, Velvet Rose, age 11, lives with me. She has been here since around the first of the school year. Velvet suffers with Bi-Polar Disorder, ADHD and ODD. In early Sept. she was hospitalized for being suicidal. When she was released she came home with me instead of her parents. She has made great progress here with her grandpa and I. But on Tuesday she had to admitted to the hospital again.

She has been having bouts of very manic behaviour followed by severe depression. This is a way of life for those having Bi-Polar disorders.  She is a precious little girl who loves Jesus and her family very much. Please help us pray for her to be healed. I know God wants her to have a more stable life.  She needs peace of mind only He can give her.

God bless and keep you safe.

Follow this link:

International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

to learn more.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills...

Hallelujah!

Click on the title and go to Touching the King's blog. A must read to encourage the saints on this election day.

"The Lord reigns! Let the earth rejoice!" Psalm 97:1

I believe we are facing very perilous times in our beloved nation. Please remember to pray daily for our country and our leaders.

Blessings in Christ,

Grandma Rosie.

Remaining Faithful

Many people live with the unconscious or conscious expectation that eventually things will get better; wars, hunger, poverty, oppression, and exploitation will vanish; and all people will live in harmony. Their lives and work are motivated by that expectation. When this does not happen in their lifetimes, they are often disillusioned and experience themselves as failures.

But Jesus doesn't support such an optimistic outlook. He foresees not only the destruction of his beloved city Jerusalem but also a world full of cruelty, violence, and conflict. For Jesus there is no happy ending in this world. The challenge of Jesus is not to solve all the world's problems before the end of time but to remain faithful at any cost.

Henri Nouwen

In 2001, Islamic terrorists attacked the United States, crashing two hijacked airliners into the twin towers at New York's World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon outside Washington. A reported 2,974 people were killed, most of them in the trade center towers, which collapsed.

 A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania, apparently en route to Washington, when passengers jumped their captors.

America The Beautiful
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O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above thy fruited plain

America, America
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea

For beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
America, America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crowned thy good, with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea

America, America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!