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Acts 22

Paul the Roman Citizen

22 The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He’s not fit to live!”

23 As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, 24 the commander ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. He directed that he be flogged and interrogated in order to find out why the people were shouting at him like this. 25 As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn’t even been found guilty?”

26 When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and reported it. “What are you going to do?” he asked. “This man is a Roman citizen.”

27 The commander went to Paul and asked, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?”

“Yes, I am,” he answered.

28 Then the commander said, “I had to pay a lot of money for my citizenship.”

“But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.

29 Those who were about to interrogate him withdrew immediately. The commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put Paul, a Roman citizen, in chains.

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God Bless America.

ML/LTOS

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Our Father,
Who Art in Heaven,
How Wonderful and Magnificent is Your Most Holy Name!
For You Alone Are Worthy,
You Alone Are Holy,
You Alone Are The Most High!
Omnipotent,
Omniscient,
And Omnipresent,
You Know The End from the Beginning
and the Beginning from the End.
We Bless Your Name and Thank You,
Most Gracious and Hallowed LORD

Let all that has been Concealed
Be Revealed.

Father, We Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem,
According To Your Will and Promise.
We Pray That You Will Forgive The Sins
of Our Own Nation,
and Lead us all to Godly Repentance.
Create in Us Clean Hearts, Oh LORD,
and Renew a Right Spirit Within Us.

This we Pray Together,
As We Await Your Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Set Up His Kingdom,
And Make All Things Right.

God Bless America.

ML/LTOS

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Acts 22

Paul the Roman Citizen

22 The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He's not fit to live!”

23 As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, 24 the commander ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. He directed that he be flogged and interrogated in order to find out why the people were shouting at him like this. 25 As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn't even been found guilty?”

26 When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and reported it. “What are you going to do?” he asked. “This man is a Roman citizen.”

27 The commander went to Paul and asked, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?”

“Yes, I am,” he answered.

28 Then the commander said, “I had to pay a lot of money for my citizenship.”

“But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.

29 Those who were about to interrogate him withdrew immediately. The commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put Paul, a Roman citizen, in chains.

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New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Dear Friends, I am really sick with a nasty cold (or maybe the flu, it's that lousy), so I hope you will forgive me for retelling a story I wrote about five Christmases ago. Please pray for me that I get better soon, as I hate being sick.

The following is not really a Christmas Story, but it does start out that way:

In 1963, when I was 11, I asked "Santa" for a guitar. Well my Dad only wanted the best for his little girl, so he went to a pawn shop in Downtown Boston (presumably where starving musicians went to pawn their instruments in order to pay the rent) and bought me a Harmony Arch-Top Acoustic guitar (STEEL-REINFORCED NECK!). Since it was not set-up, the action was really high, but I taught myself using a Mel Bay instruction book, and was soon playing Dylan songs which only had three chords at the most. I loved the Beatles, but their songs had more chords so I stuck to the folkie stuff for a long time.

In the early 70's I bought a used Gibson SG Custom with three gold-plated humbuckers at "Mr. Music" in Boston. So my first electric was already top of the line and I didn't even realize it. It never stayed in tune, and I am partially deaf, so the guys in my band used to tune it for me. This was YEARS before digital tuners were invented. I was in a Blues Band, and I did a lot of "string bending" in those days.

I had a real stupid Samoyed Dawg, who was even stupider after eating a bottle of Valium and spending three days in a coma at the old Angell Memorial Animal Hospital (I'm NOT making this up!) There is more to the Valium story about the Dawg, named Preston, but I will continue on about the SG. (LOL)

Preston was afraid of thunder and firecrackers, and one particular stormy day I came home to a trembling, guilty dawg and the SG lying on the floor in pieces. I brought it to a Luthier, who offered me $300.00 to buy it as is, but I said it was my axe, and could he just fix it. The headstock was totally broken off, mind you.

After paying the Luthier, I got the guitar back with a barely visible scar where he had reattached the headstock. But now...HUZZAH!...It stayed in tune from gig to gig instead of from song-to-song.

Unfortunately, I had to sell the SG to pay the rent. I got $650.00 for it.

I have since seen a similar model in a Vintage Guitar Book for $15,000.00.

That would have paid my rent for two years!

The old arch-top Harmony was tossed around for years and got lost in the shuffle somewhere.

Just last month I saw the EXACT SAME Harmony Arch-top guitar in a music store for over $300.00. I played it in the store for nostalgia's sake. It had much better action than my old guitar, and I played a LOT better than I did 59 YEARS ago!

Paul has a secret weapon that saves him from being beaten by the Roman soldiers. ""I am a Roman Citizen" he proudly announces. The Guard is totally flummoxed by this, as he had to pay a great deal to achieve this, while Paul was BORN a Citizen. The beating immediately stopped, and the Guard was now in fear of himself being punished! It was like the $15,000 Vintage Gibson SG Custom Guitar hiding under a broken headstock and flopping strings, or the Vintage Harmony Arch-top with the STEEL-REINFORCED NECK masquerading as beat-up hippie girl guitar.

There was a time when one could be confident that, wherever one was in the world, one could get out of a jam by proudly saying, "I AM AN AMERICAN CITIZEN!" That is not as true today as it once was.

Paul speaks of even a more powerful "secret weapon" in his Second Letter To The Corinthians. He speaks of the Spirit of God within us as a Treasure in a Clay Jar:

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves; ( 2 Cor 4:7 NASB)

This is worth more than any Gibson Guitar, or even citizenship.

Now, I'm going back to bed.

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[luvie]

Prayers that you feel better really soon.

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Thanks! I appreciate that.

I’ve gone through so many boxes of tissues, I might get a call from the EPA. Eek.

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Thank You, luvie, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[etabeta]

Praying for your health, ML.

My prayers always for the Peace of Jerusalem and the World. God bless.

[luvie]

You and I need to own stock in Kleenex! LOL! Now...go back to sleep. Tippy will nurse you. :)

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Thank You, Etabeta, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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Tippy will climb on me if she needs anything...LOL.

She does not “cuddle”.
She “CONQUERS”.

[ConorMacNessa]

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH FOR
THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!
And for the Preservation of the Valiant
Israeli Nation!

"The Apostle Paul" (Detail)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ~ 1657

they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.

And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.

Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.

And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

_______________________________________________Acts 22:22-29 (KJV)

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For ML In This Time Of Tribulation.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For the Repose of the Soul of ML's Mom.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For the Repose of the Soul of Our Own Yorkie.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our FRiend Uri'el2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Safety Of Our Gallant Troops And For The Success Of Their Vital Mission.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Repose Of The Souls Of Our Embassy Staff In Libya Who Were Assassinated 11 September 2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Deliverance Of Our Beloved Nation From The Lion's Mouth.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For Our Brethren Of All Faiths Throughout The World Suffering Persecution.

We pray in particular on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and throughout the Mideast. The members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, some of which date from the days of the Apostles, suffer under cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors, we are all "Nazarenes."

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Thank You, ConorMacNessa, For Your Prayers and Beautiful Graphics For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[redryder_90]

Amen

[stars & stripes forever]

Praying for a quiet recovery.

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Thank You, redryder_90, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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Thank You! (((HUGS)))

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Thank You, stars & stripes forever, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[Kitty Mittens]

Our Father,
Who Art in Heaven,
How Wonderful and Magnificent is Your Most Holy Name!

Amen to your Beautiful, Anointed Prayer, Dear Servant of the King of kings.
Hugs and Prayers for a Quick Recovery from the illness.

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Thank You, Kitty Mittens, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[DarthVader]

Amen !!! <><

Psalm 76

To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

1 In Judah God is known,
his name is great in Israel.
2 His abode has been established in Salem,
his dwelling-place in Zion.
3 There he broke the flashing arrows,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war.
Selah

4 Glorious are you, more majestic
than the everlasting mountains.*
5 The stout-hearted were stripped of their spoil;
they sank into sleep;
none of the troops
was able to lift a hand.
6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both rider and horse lay stunned.

7 But you indeed are awesome!
Who can stand before you
when once your anger is roused?
8 From the heavens you uttered judgement;
the earth feared and was still
9 when God rose up to establish judgement,
to save all the oppressed of the earth.
Selah

10 Human wrath serves only to praise you,
when you bind the last bit of your* wrath around you.
11 Make vows to the Lord your God, and perform them;
let all who are around him bring gifts
to the one who is awesome,
12 who cuts off the spirit of princes,
who inspires fear in the kings of the earth.

[Hiskid]

Amen. Praying your health springs forth speedily. You pray for others. May you be healed.