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Household Prayer: Community, city on a hill

Brothers, today I’m praying for the community in light of current events and the play to use administrative regulation to coerce private companies to enforce unlawful mandates. We may have those that lose jobs in our churches and community or otherwise have to wrestle with this decision. And if the state forces vaccines for children in government schools we may see many families needing help and encouragement to homeschool. I’m praying that we love and serve one another well in our CC and church communities through these times. Finally, I pray that our love for one another in our community would bear witness to the love of God in the larger community. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” Matthew 5:14

“Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!”

Psalm 9:19 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.9.19.ESV

““You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden… In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”

Matthew 5:14, 16 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.5.14-16.ESV

“The City on a Hill strategy shows that a small segment can have broad effects. One town—Magdeburg, Germany—probably saved the Reformation.”

The Confessional County: Realizing the Kingdom through Local Christendom by Raymond Simmons https://a.co/cP0eRdc

Reading list: FBI Stormtroopers, Local Christendom, Taxes, bug out plans

““Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.” Ezekiel 14:13-14 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/ezk.14.13-14.ESV

“For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭5:4-6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.5.4-6.ESV

“But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you. For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭5:11-12‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.5.11-12.ESV

More evidence of FBI stormtrooper Jan. 6 black flag operations

Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/

“What if the provocateurs, infiltrators and escalators of illegal activities weren’t coming from Antifa or BLM? What if they were coming straight from the FBI? … the Ray Epps story seems to suggest a similar, yet more egregious, explicit, direct and immediate degree of federal involvement in the breach of the Capitol itself.”

Three January 6 Red Pills for Your Friends and Family, Part 3: The Feds Breached the Capitol Themselves https://stream.org/three-january-6-red-pills-for-your-friends-and-family-part-3-the-feds-breached-the-capitol-themselves/

“Has the FBI gone into the business of helping the political party in power, by infiltrating and entrapping its opponents? That’s how the East German Stasi used to operate. And of course, the Ministry of Love in the novel 1984.”

Elon Musk slams Biden’s tax plan: “Eventually, they run out of other people’s money and then they come for you” “In other words, first the government “liquidates” the rich kulaks [Russian peasant class], then they come for the moderately wealthy kulaks, they they come for the poor kulaks, and then they come for you.” https://notthebee.com/article/elon-musk-slams-bidens-billionaire-tax-plan-eventually-they-run-out-of-other-peoples-money-and-come-for-you

Build Christian Community

CrossPolitic: #FauciLied, The Confessional County w/ Raymond Simmons, Push Back w/ Practical Christian Communities https://rumble.com/vo69im-faucilied-the-confessional-county-w-raymond-simmons-push-back-w-practical-c.html

The Confessional County: Realizing the Kingdom through Local Christendom by Raymond Simmons

“Social confessionalism is the model presented in the Bible where all-of-society comes together and representative heads of family, church, and state confess their societal sins, covenant with God (specifically with our mediating King, Jesus), and commit to following all of His commands.” https://a.co/eWJANOq

“A small number of Christians finding success can melt the heart of a pagan nation. I think we are well-postured for a second wave of Christian settlements, colonizing rural America and confessing Christ locally. This is our oblique.” https://a.co/82GRR3x

Resistance and Reformation: A Profile of George Washington https://subspla.sh/2vjqxyv

“After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.”
‭‭Judges‬ ‭3:31‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jdg.3.31.ESV

Warrior Poet Society: Family BUG OUT | the easy way https://youtu.be/s6FdXG65Awg

“John Lovell talks about how his preparation has changed since he ditched his bug out bag. The key here is to prepare not just you, but your family to bug out in the event of a societal collapse or other widespread disaster. BONUS: discussion on Walking Dead Zombies vs. World War Z Zombies.”

Warrior Poet Society: Best INEXPENSIVE AR-15s https://warriorpoetsupplyco.com/blog/best-inexpensive-ar15s/ https://youtu.be/2cG2uYTuVrE

“M&P 15 Sport 2: $600 (Best Value)… This was the favorite of the bunch… Palmetto AR-15: $350 For Gun Builders… CMMG AR-15… And of course, whatever AR-15 you choose, the key is to get high quality training and a high volume of practice at the range. It’s important as ever to Train Hard. Train Smart.”

Colion Noir: They Fixed The SCARS Biggest FLAW! https://youtu.be/yxn6_2WdHxQ

Reminder, your children belong to God. Money, in Matthew 22 a denarius (Matt. 22:21), has the states “likeness.” Therefore, we pay our taxes to the state. Our money is political (not to be confused with labor!). But our children and we ourselves have God’s “likeness” (Gen. 1:26), therefore we belong to God. We are pre-political. https://ministry.family.blog/2021/08/01/tyranny-politics-and-the-pre-political/

McConnell Warns of Democrat Plan to Sweep Toddlers Into a Big-Government Net https://cnsnews.com/article/washington/susan-jones/mcconnell-warns-democrat-plan-sweep-toddlers-big-government-net

“Democrats want to sweep the first five years of children’s lives into a new set of top-down, one-size-fits-all, Washington-knows-best regulations.”

Reading List: Police State, Coming Conflict, “boom stick” Training

“about 400 million privately-owned boomsticks between us and this depravity!”

“Check out this video megathread showing China’s vax checkpoints, forced jabs, and people climbing over barbed wire to escape the dystopia… [Warning: Disturbing images of government abuse straight out of a horror film]”   https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-this-video-megathread-on-chinas-forced-vaccinations-quarantine-prison-camps-and-people-climbing-over-barbed-wire-to-escape-the-dystopia

“If you’re wondering why people get salty about Covid mandates, lockdowns, the plan to have the IRS track your purchases over $600, or Critical Race Theory in schools, it’s because it inevitably leads to this. Communism is beyond evil. It is the greatest vehicle for mass suffering ever devised from the pits of hell itself. Fortunately, thanks to the foresight of founders who understood human nature and inherent rights, America has about 400 million privately-owned boomsticks between us and this depravity!”

Problems in America | HOW to fix them

Warrior Poet Society “Today, John talks with Senatorial Candidate Latham Saddler and his friends about problems in America and what needs to happen.” https://youtu.be/L4yM-LCcFDQ

‘This Is What the Communists Did’

‘This Is What the Communists Did’: Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Means More Misery for Millions of Americans http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/october/this-is-what-the-communists-did-bidens-vaccine-mandate-means-more-misery-for-millions-of-americans

“Dr. Jaroslav Flidr is a physicist and cyber security expert who was fired by George Washington University for refusing to be vaccinated. Flidr grew up in communist Czechoslovakia and was a student leader during Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution. He says the vaccine mandate is the sort of thing a communist government would do.” 

“This is exactly what the communists did in the old olden days. That is how they are rolled. And so, when I saw (the school’s demand to be vaccinated), I was quite surprised, and I thought, ‘No way, absolutely no way I would actually comply with this.’ They couldn’t force me to take an aspirin pill doing it this way.” “You want the fire me, fire me,” Flidr said. Based on his experience under communism, Flidr believes that when citizens submit to government orders like the vaccine mandate, it only encourages governments to do it again. Flidr said, “For me, there was this message, you know, ‘We own you and we will make you do whatever we want. He said to himself, ‘No, you’re not going to do anything to me. And I don’t care what the cost is.'”

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain

“On July 3, 2017, thirteen days after Egyptian and Chinese security officials agreed to exchange information, Egyptian police began raiding dorms, restaurants, and homes. They hauled away Uyghur students and residents and deported them back to China, even if they were legal residents of Egypt… All this shows the power of China,” Asman said ruefully. “It shows how willing governments are to do what China wants, once China gives money. It’s truly terrifying.”  https://a.co/5yyn9Gr

“Technology is supposed to serve the benefit of humankind, but some countries want to monitor, oppress, and punish people.… This is one of the greatest tragedies of our time.” Every Uyghur I interviewed from 2017 to 2020 had at least two family members and three friends who had disappeared, hauled away, probably to a camp. They often couldn’t say for certain what had happened to them, but about one-third reported that their entire families were gone, and they were the only ones who had escaped.” https://a.co/5HzT8UR

China Sends a Hypersonic Warning to the United States

Forward Observer: China Sends a Hypersonic Warning to the United States: The Daily SA for Tuesday, 19 October 2021 https://youtu.be/ExNtzGmpLzo

Explainer: What Are Hypersonic Weapons and Why Do They Matter? “the United States, its allies, and its enemies have no credible defense against most HGVs. https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/explainer-what-are-hypersonic-weapons-and-why-do-they-matter_4056767.html

“Lots of forces surging into the Western Pacific. Have it all in one sock, folks. Tensions with China are heating up. With #Brandon at the helm, our adversaries see weakness and opportunity.”

“’Are you ready?’ and, ‘Will you be able to protect, provide, and preside over you and yours?’”

Order of Man – MIKE GLOVER | American Contingency interview: https://youtu.be/dMNo–macFQ 

“There is no question that America is in turmoil right now. Between nationwide shortages of supplies, the unpopularity of our current President, the reaction and subsequent fallout of COVID, and the extreme polarity among so many of us, it’s clear that we’re likely to face some challenging times ahead. The questions that remain are, “Are you ready?” and, “Will you be able to protect, provide, and preside over you and yours?
“That’s exactly why I’ve been looking forward to the conversation with my guest, Mike Glover with Fieldcraft Survival and American Contingency. Today, we talk about building the next generation of warriors, the importance of service to community, the degradation and destruction of the family unit, “endless wars,” the turmoil in Afghanistan (which most of us have already forgotten), and how to be a man in and for your community.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS :
* What is being done in Afghanistan
* The degradation of Christian values
* The origins of Fieldcraft Survival
* Behind the curtains of the CIA
* Central government versus the people
* It is our role to assist the world
* Extreme incompetence or extreme intentionality
* Shipping troubles and Chinese involvement
* Developing a community of assets
* Become the solution to your own problem
Order of Man: https://www.orderofman.com/mike-glover-american-contingency/
Fieldcraft Survival: https://fieldcraftsurvival.com

Crimes of the Educators

“’Crimes of the Educators reveals how the architects of America’s public school disaster implemented a plan to socialize the United States by knowingly and willingly dumbing down the population. . . .’ A major move into homeschooling since early 2020 has reduced the influence of these educators. This is good news. But reinforcement helps. This book provides reinforcement.” https://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/snip/577.htm

T.REX TALK – Light/Dark Technical Q&A

“Isaac continues low-light October with a more technical Q&A about night vision, flashlights, and optics, and various other things that you use in the dark.” https://youtu.be/CiBOvX5P_Js 

Panama Caught 52 Al Qaeda Suspects Headed to USA

Panama Caught 52 Al Qaeda Suspects Headed to USA as All-Time High of 1.7M People Flooded US Border http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/october/panama-caught-52-al-qaeda-suspects-headed-to-usa-as-all-time-high-of-1-7m-people-flooded-us-border

see to it that you are not alarmed!

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Matthew 24:6-7

a three-step theology of resistance…

“The [1] first was prophetic denunciation of the civic evil. When the magistrate is defying God, then courageous men in the pulpit should be authoritatively naming what is happening, and denouncing it ( Matt. 14:4). The [2] second stage is for the believers to flee the persecution. Jesus said to do this — when you are persecuted in one city, flee to the next (Matt. 10:23). The [3] third and final stage is to take up arms defensively (1 Sam. 22:2). https://ministry.family.blog/2020/01/29/just-war-just-cause-theory/

Overcome Evil with Good – Where are the Men?

“I will not stand by in the presence of evil,” Alita Battle Angel

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. Proverbs 25:26

https://ministry.family.blog/2019/08/12/overcome-evil-with-good-where-are-the-men/

AMENDMENT II 

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Reading List: Oil and Gas Prices Spike, Chicago Crime, Security Training and Test, Biden’s Orwellian Tax Surveillance Policy

Stay home, harvest some more firewood.

Oil and Gas Prices Spike to Highest Level in 7 Years, America Now Paying an Extra $400M Per Day at the Pump – Biden Policies Undermine US Oil Supplies http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/october/oil-and-gas-prices-spike-to-highest-level-in-7-years-america-now-paying-an-extra-400m-per-day-at-the-pump

Dan Crenshaw on energy prices and green new deal policies, “Translation: “we don’t care if you can’t afford to heat your home this winter. If you’re not heating your home with unreliable renewables, you don’t deserve heat at all.” This is what happens to your brain when you treat wind and solar like pagan gods.”

Train!
“So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.”
Nehemiah 4:13 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/neh.4.13.ESV

RonPaulLibertyReport
You Thought Chicago Was Bad? Wait Till This Weekend!
“The head of the Chicago police officers union has advised Chicago Police Department officers to refuse to disclose their vax status to city officials, as they face a Friday deadline to disclose or be fired. He warns that this weekend may see 50 percent fewer cops. With Chicago already a killing zone, what will happen with only half the cops? Also today – creating doctor shortages, the virus religion, and a good news story from the rock music world.” https://youtu.be/ZQlyq9jtS3A  

Warrior Poet Society
HOW to take OUR country back
“Today, John Lovell talks about  tyranny and what we all must do to resist it.” https://youtu.be/7hmSIC7CnX8 

Colion Noir
Armed Citizen Shoots at 2 People Breaking Into Car At Buckhead Shopping Plaza, Killing One “The only things criminals are afraid of in this world are cops and armed citizens. Does anyone want to take a guess what these two types of people have in common? They both have guns. This is why the second amendment is so freaking important.” https://youtu.be/LxeGOXpccXE

Warrior Poet Society
Take my Security Test
“How safe are you? How safe is your home? How safe is your Family? Take John’s security test to find the gaps  in your personal security, travel, and home security areas.” https://youtu.be/ajKnXDt3qbE 

T.REX ARMS
The 5 Best Mapping Tools
“Thanks to smartphones and Google maps, we’re all navigation experts now. But what are the best tools to use offline? Paper maps, dedicated GPS devices, tablets, or something else?” https://youtu.be/rkouDgxnj1Y

T.REX ARMS
An Introduction to Radios and Emergency Communication

T.REX TALK – Rifle Loadouts Under $3,000
Lucas talks about various rifle upgrades and loadouts.

“He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons… He will take your daughters … He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards… He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards … He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys… He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.””
‭‭1 Samuel‬ ‭8:11-18‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/1sa.8.11-18.ESV

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain

“I had come with the intention of discovering how China had built the most sophisticated surveillance apparatus humanity had ever seen. I thought I could get a glimpse of how artificial intelligence and China’s vast camera surveillance network operated, maybe through the occasional comment from a local, or through run-ins with the police that I could then use for my reporting. Instead, I felt overwhelmingly that the state was reporting on me.”

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain https://a.co/cT9Z3B7

Biden Administration Buying Chinese-Made Drones ‘Harmful to National Security:’ Former Intel Director
“The Department of Defense said on July 23 that DJI systems ‘pose potential threats to national security.’” https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/biden-administration-buying-chinese-made-drones-harmful-to-national-security-former-intel-director_4042873.html

“The Biden Administration just bought military equipment from China, reports @DLoesch. Plus, the CCP just created an island in international waters. She talks with @YatesComms about all that, and more!” https://twitter.com/thefirstontv/status/1447713862527094789?s=21

Preparing to seize bank accounts for a bail-in and Federal Authoritarianism?

Biden’s $600 IRS Taxpayer Reporting Proposal ‘Massive Invasion of Financial Privacy’: Bank Association Exec
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/bidens-600-irs-taxpayer-reporting-proposal-massive-invasion-of-financial-privacy-bank-association-exec_4040433.html

Biden’s Orwellian Tax Surveillance Policy
“We are witnessing a real-time demonstration of the way a failing political order can lead to the imposition of Orwellian surveillance out of last-gasp desperation. That’s the only honest way to assess the Biden administration’s almost unspeakably bad proposal to require that all U.S. banks report data to the Internal Revenue Service about any account with more than $600 in annual deposits and withdrawals.” https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/13/bidens-orwellian-tax-surveillance-policy/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

‘Authoritarianism’: Federal Judge Condemns DC Jail Officials for ‘Deliberate Mistreatment’ of Jan. 6 Rioters http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/october/authoritarianism-federal-judge-condemns-dc-jail-officials-for-deliberate-mistreatment-of-jan-6-rioters

Household Prayer: Knowing God

To know God

“For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?”

J. I. Packer, Knowing God

Brothers, I am praying today that we would know God more, and that we would find joy in making Him known to our children. I pray that by making family worship and Bible study a priority in our homes their hearts would rejoice in knowing Him.

“And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”

John 17:3 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/jhn.17.3.ESV

““You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

Deuteronomy 11:18-19 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/deu.11.18-19.ESV

“Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.””

Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/jer.9.23-24.ESV

Reading List: Dissent, Parental Rights, Train Rifle Reloads, Dystopia

Children do not belong to the state!

CRIMINALIZING DISSENT “Darrell Castle raises the question of who has the right to decide what goes into the heads and arms of your children. Phrased differently, who owns your children?” https://www.castlereport.us/criminalizing-dissent/

“Replacing parental control with government control of education (and other aspects of child raising) has been a goal of authoritarians since Plato. After all, it is much easier to ensure obedience if someone has been raised to think of the government as the source of all wisdom and truth, as well as the provider of all of life’s necessities.” http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/october/04/parents-should-control-education/

Have you harvested firewood for the winter?

Energy Crisis May Trigger Winter Blackouts Across US: Coal Firm CEO https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/energy-crisis-may-trigger-winter-blackouts-across-us-coal-firm-ceo_4039344.html

Misinformation ignored by the thought police?

“New York Times Pens Major Correction After Overstating Child COVID-19 Hospitalizations… by over 800,000 cases” https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/new-york-times-pens-major-correction-after-overstating-child-covid-19-hospitalizations_4039143.html

“But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!” Acts 8:20 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/act.8.20.ESV

Big Tech for the Police State

‘The Perfect Police State’: China’s Digital Dictatorship Goes Global https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2021/october/the-perfect-police-state-chinas-digital-dictatorship-goes-global

“Since 2017, an estimated 1.8 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and people from other primarily Muslim minorities have been accused by the government of harboring “ideological viruses” and “terrorist thoughts,” and taken away to hundreds of concentration camps.”— The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain https://a.co/fPKOaLr

“… each place you go you scan your ID card at the entrance, in front of armed guards. After you scan it, a display next to the scanner shows the word “trustworthy,” meaning the government has declared you a good citizen, and you’ll be permitted entry.”— The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain https://a.co/esBPyA0

“When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he assembled his 318 trained men, born in his household, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.” Genesis‬ ‭14:14‬ ‭CSB‬‬ 

Warrior Poet Society “Today, John talks about the real worth of a man.” https://youtu.be/yMZZT0_rI14

T.REX ARMS “How To Train Rifle Reloads – Stop Doing 1R1s” https://youtu.be/xSleniGt5lU

Colion Noir “California Says LAPD New Service Pistol Safe For Police But Not For Civilians…California gun laws are designed to punish gun owners and not keep them safe, and here is yet another example.” https://youtu.be/xtMU0VlXpjE

New FBI Study Finds Knives Kill 2X More Than Rifles & Shotguns Combined https://youtu.be/ovz_Fb3dk7Q

Reminder: Tyranny always makes everything political. That’s how a tyrant can take control of all aspects of life… God made humans before the state and politics. God made humans in His image. This has huge implications that should not be overlooked. https://ministry.family.blog/2021/08/01/tyranny-politics-and-the-pre-political/

Money, in Matthew 22 a denarius (Matt. 22:21), has the states “likeness.” Therefore, we pay our taxes to the state. Our money is political (not to be confused with labor!).

But our children and we ourselves have God’s “likeness” (Gen. 1:26), therefore we belong to God. We are pre-political. https://ministry.family.blog/2021/08/01/tyranny-politics-and-the-pre-political/

Household Prayer: community, love one another

“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

1 John‬ ‭4:11‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/1jn.4.11.ESV

Brothers, today I’m praying for the community. Praying that we love and serve one another in the grace and mercy of God because He first loved us. Every family in our CC community will have joys and challenges and I pray we love and serve one another and rejoice and morn with one another. Finally, I pray that our love for one another in our community would bear witness to the love of God in the larger community.

“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us…
We love because he first loved us…
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

‭1 John‬ ‭4:9-12, 19, 21‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/1jn.4.9-21.ESV

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”

Hebrews‬ ‭10:23-25‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/heb.10.23-24.ESV

Household Prayer: faith to upend the world

“And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,”

Acts 17:6 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/act.17.6.ESV

Praying that we embrace “[our] responsibility to raise up the next generation to know Christ and His world… steeping them in the truth, goodness, and beauty of Christ and His ways… training them to believe and obey the King of the world.” (1)

I pray that we and our children would “follow Jesus at all times and in all places… in marriage, vocation, education, military service, recreation, financial exchanges, and political decisions.” (1)

And I pray that our faith would be so strong that like Paul and the other Apostles people would say “These men.. have turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6 ) and that our witness would “shutdown the very industry of idol making (Acts 19:27).” (1)

““Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it … You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

Deuteronomy 6:1, 7 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/deu.6.1-7.ESV

“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,”

Psalm 24:1 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.24.1.ESV

“And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

Matthew 28:18 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.28.18.ESV

“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

Matthew 6:10 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.6.10.ESV

1. “Strong and Courageous: following Jesus amid the rise of America’s new religion” https://press.founders.org/shop/strong-and-courageous/

Household Prayer: work

Brothers, today I’m praying that God would establish the work of our hands. Wether our vocation, day job, the work in the home, or the work of educating and instructing our children. Whatever we do, may we “work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,”

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,”

Colossians 3:23 ESV https://bible.com/bible/59/col.3.23.ESV

Creation mandate, cultural mandate, or dominion mandate: Genesis 1:26-28

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭2:15‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/gen.2.15.ESV

“I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3:12-13‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/ecc.3.12-13.ESV

“Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭29:5-6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jer.29.5-6.ESV

““Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭24:45-46‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.24.45-46.ESV

“Entwined in our natures as image-bearers of God, we have an integrated directive as vice-regents over God’s creation… God created the heavens and the earth and granted humans the privilege of work to order those raw materials and subsequent derivatives in a way that glorifies and honors him (1 Corinthians 10:31). We were not meant to sit idly and waste time, space, or resources. God intended for us to work and manage the assets he created—and it glorifies him when we do it well…

Creation Mandate: Why we work, how God’s labor directive permeates human culture, and the implications in your own life
https://answersingenesis.org/genesis/creation-mandate/

Household Prayer: eternal focus

Brothers, today I’m praying that we would be living for eternity and that our children would come to know that they are eternal souls. I pray that we can represent God and His eternal Kingdom well and that they would be more esteemed than the things of this temporary world.

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”

Mark‬ ‭8:34-38‬ ‭ESV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/59/mrk.8.34-38.ESV

“Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.”

Psalm 34:11 ESV https://www.bible.com/59/psa.34.11.esv

Fear God

“He is an awesome God. He dwells in unapproachable light (1 Timothy 6:16). He is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29). He makes mountains smoke (Psalm 104:32). He makes the waters divide. He created man from the dust. He gives life and breath to every living thing. And He has condescended to speak to us. If we do not fear God, then we cannot raise a generation to fear Him.”

Strong and Courageous: following Jesus amid the rise of America’s new religion https://press.founders.org/shop/strong-and-courageous/