Posted on 05/17/2025 7:45:26 PM PDT by SisterK
I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
1 Timothy 2:1-2
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Dearest Father God, You are perfect and wise. You have provided The Instruction Book on wisdom and community. But we have failed to abide by Your Truth. By not extending Your Truth, we have slipped into the mire.
But Your mercy endures forever. We thank You for providing the Trump Administration as a life line out of the mire. Lord, we pray that this Administration will bring back American industry.
Lord, we pray that young people will have desire and opportunity to work. We pray that they will adopt the wisdom and virtue of hard work. Thank You, Lord, for the young people who do have work ethic. Bless and keep them.
Lord, let us revive our work ethic in obedience to Your Word.
In Jesus’ name we do pray Amen
He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. Proverbs 10:15
The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway. Proverbs 15:19
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys. Proverbs 18:9
Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give. Proverbs 25:14
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Ephesians 4:28
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men Colossians 3:23
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. 2 Thessalonians 3:6
Nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. 2 Thessalonians 3:8
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. 2 Thessalonians 3:10
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Hebrews 10:5
Father God,
Thank you for the opportunities you give us every day to sow the seeds of faith and courage others to give their life to you. There are still so many yet to be reached for
you so use our mouths and our life for your purposes Father - just as we are - for you will always use the willing.
For your sons Glory and Honor oh Lord,
Amen❤️
AMEN!
Amen
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Psalm 94
1 O Lord, you God of vengeance,
you God of vengeance, shine forth!
2 Rise up, O judge of the earth;
give to the proud what they deserve!
3 O Lord, how long shall the wicked,
how long shall the wicked exult?
4 They pour out their arrogant words;
all the evildoers boast.
5 They crush your people, O Lord,
and afflict your heritage.
6 They kill the widow and the stranger,
they murder the orphan,
7 and they say, ‘The Lord does not see;
the God of Jacob does not perceive.’
8 Understand, O dullest of the people;
fools, when will you be wise?
9 He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?
10 He who disciplines the nations,
he who teaches knowledge to humankind,
does he not chastise?
11 The Lord knows our thoughts,*
that they are but an empty breath.
12 Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord,
and whom you teach out of your law,
13 giving them respite from days of trouble,
until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For the Lord will not forsake his people;
he will not abandon his heritage;
15 for justice will return to the righteous,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.
16 Who rises up for me against the wicked?
Who stands up for me against evildoers?
17 If the Lord had not been my help,
my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
18 When I thought, ‘My foot is slipping’,
your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
19 When the cares of my heart are many,
your consolations cheer my soul.
20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
those who contrive mischief by statute?
21 They band together against the life of the righteous,
and condemn the innocent to death.
22 But the Lord has become my stronghold,
and my God the rock of my refuge.
23 He will repay them for their iniquity
and wipe them out for their wickedness;
the Lord our God will wipe them out.
Amen, SisterK
Joining in your pithy, powerful prayer for our beloved America.
Through the power of His Word and His Spirit, may we turn back to righteousness and Make America Great Again.
Amen to your prayers for our nation. May we be diligent people and no longer pamper the slothful, like many politicians!
My prayers always for our beloved Country. God bless.
Amen.
Amen
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/05/18/39-sunday-of-the-samaritan-woman
Kontakion
The Samaritan Woman came to the well in faith; / she saw You, the Water of Wisdom, and drank abundantly / she inherited the Kingdom on High and is ever glorified!
John 4:5-42 (Gospel)
5
So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
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Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
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A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
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For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
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Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
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Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
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The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
12
Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13
Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
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but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15
The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17
The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’
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for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
19
The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
20
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22
You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
23
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
24
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25
The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”
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Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”
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And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
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The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,
29
Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?
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Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
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In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
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But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
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Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
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Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
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Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
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And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
37
For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
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I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
39
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.”
40
So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
41
And many more believed because of His own word.
42
Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
Amen
In the Name of the Lord Jesus, we now bind the strongman operating over, under, around, inside and through the following persons and entities in the article excerpt below:
“Alexander Soros, the son of the 94-year-old Democratic megadonor with the same last name, has laid out his plan to defeat Trumpism.
Back in 2023, George Soros shocked the world by handing control of his $25 billion empire to Alexander, who goes by Alex. That’s because he is the second youngest of the family and wasn’t previously thought to be a natural successor to his dad.
Alex was also made the chair of Open Society Foundations, the nonprofit through which Soros has donated billions to Democrats and other progressive causes throughout the years.”
We now loose, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, the spirits of burning, destruction, confusion and judgement upon said strongman spirits, and also we loose the Angels of the Lord upon them to attack and destroy them.
Upon the human persons named and mentioned we loose the spirits of Salvation, Adoption as children of God, repentance, and deliverance.
All in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ and according to Matthew 18, Matthew 16, and Hebrews 1.
Amen.
Prayers and Amen
AMEN!!
Amen! Father, please take away from us our stony hearts of defiance and rebelliousness and give us soft hearts of patience, endurance, commitment, and willingness to work. Amen
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