“These candidates’ statements, news stories and opinions that you have heard today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”‭‭

Psyche…

now go back and read this:
Deuteronomy‬ ‭6:6-7‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Friends, PC users, Windows 7-ites, lend me your ears…I come to bury windows 10, not to praise it.The evil that Windows did lives after it. 

My documents were interred within the read-only depths of the system; so let it be with 10. 

The noble Gates hath told you Windows was ambitious: if it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously the upgrade has answered it. 

And Gates is an honorable man, but his Window hath brought all my documents into the captivity of Administrator rights, which for some unknown reason I no longer possess. 

And the faithful CNET was at a loss to expound on the settings and rights that could and should be changed yet to no avail.

But here I am to speak what I do know… Windows 7- you did love it once, not without cause: what cause withholds you then to mourn for it? 

My judgment then? Re-install, yea, re-install Windows 7 and restore your files to their former glory and restore your rights Administrator!
For those of you who have Windows 7 and struggle with Shakespeare-a-la-PJ, here is the Cliff Note version:

Do NOT install Windows 10! If you have, you have 30 days to restore 7. 10 makes all your folders read-only and will not give you permission to change settings. It will OWN you!

This performance was possible by viewers like you. Thank You.

Some of you know that Tara’s iphone was stolen at school last Wednesday. We have been praying for recovery, not only of her phone but her faith in the students.

So here’s the rest of the story. Going back to Tuesday, when she called me from school asking for prayer, not for herself, but for her students who felt their lives didn’t matter after the Baltimore situation. They were agitated and shared how hopeless they felt. She was crying for them. 

On Wednesday here phone was taken during a fire drill.

On Thursday she informed her students that her phone was “lost” and if anyone “found” it please place it on her desk – no questions asked. Many of the students laughed, knowing her phone would never return.  Surprisingly the  “gang” kids, were upset. One young man, a boy that has challenged her all year, summed up everyone’s feelings, saying it was unfair because she never hurt anyone and she respected the students.  He told her she’d get her phone back Friday morning. Other students were sharing that they might know where it was and would find out for her.

Well Friday came. Apparently someone turned her phone on and the app vaguely located it in a high-school district some miles away. No phone appeared on her desk on Friday. She had to give the serial number and location to the resource officer and police. Apparently many phones were taken that week. She activated her old flip phone and kept believing God would change hearts and deliver her phone to her.

Fast forward to Monday morning. She’s helping in another classroom when she is called into the office. The secretary, grinning, asks, “Is this your phone?” She delivered the phone into Tara’s hand.  Apparently, one of the toughest students, whom all agreed was most likely to be a career criminal, not even one of Tara’s students, took it to the office and said he “found” it on the floor.

When Tara shared the story with the other teachers at lunch, they all teared up. No teacher has ever received their phone back.  Later the gang member in her class asked her if the other kid returned it yet? He must have been persuasive after all. 

 That, my friends, is what happens when we live a life of salt and light. She didn’t preach, scold or threaten. She just kept her love on and believed the best of these children and God. There is no telling what this testimony will do for the students at teachers at school. But I know Holy Spirit touched many, including me.

Isaiah 41:10, 13, 20



So this past week I drew this in my journal while thinking about how He has made me Brave because I rest in Him and see circumstances through His sacrifice. But I couldn’t put my finger on a scripture to go with it. Until Rebekah Jones posted Isaiah 41:10 on her Bible Art Journaling page this morning. Perfect!

What I love about this verse is how I rest in His Right Hand (vs 10, 13) with no worries and v 20 says I will see what His Hand has accomplished on my behalf.

A few weeks ago, as I was worshipping I heard the Lord say, “As in the days of Noah.”

Then He showed me individuals who had sought Him daily, such that they were full of His Living Waters. All were like deep cisterns, bottled up.

As more people sought His face and were filled, we all came together and worshipped Him.

Suddenly the fountains of the deep inside each person were broken up and burst forth. And, in response, the Lord opened the floodgates of heaven and poured forth His Glory. Then a mighty flood covered the earth, but not to the destruction of man, but the washing by His Spirit to carry the harvest in.

His Church must get these points : We must KNOW Him and WE are the hope of Glory for the world. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

I am called by His name, I will humble myself and pray, seek after the Lord’s face, and turn from my own wicked ways. He will Hear and Heal when we each do this individually and then corporately.

2 Chronicles 7:14, Genesis 7:11, Matthew 24:37, Romans 8:19-23, Colossians 1:27