It is easy to be proud. Perhaps too easy. But pride is a problem - it is a symptom of sin and can lead to further sin. This is eminently evident in "pride" parades. God, however, calls us to be humble, to have an honest opinion of ourselves. This is often difficult, especially in a culture where so much is based upon competition. Yet no one has anything of which to boast before God. Pride only gets in the way of having a fulfilling relationship with Him. So set aside your pride, and humble yourself before the Lord; then the Lord will honor you.

Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, April 5

"Before honour is humility." Proverbs 15:33

Humiliation of soul always brings a positive blessing with it. If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love. He who desires close communion with Christ should remember the word of the Lord, "To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My word." Stoop if you would climb to heaven. Do we not say of Jesus, "He descended that He might ascend"? so must you. You must grow downwards, that you may grow upwards; for the sweetest fellowship with heaven is to be had by humble souls, and by them alone. God will deny no blessing to a thoroughly humbled spirit. "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," with all its riches and treasures. The whole exchequer of God shall be made over by deed of gift to the soul which is humble enough to be able to receive it without growing proud because of it. God blesses us all up to the full measure and extremity of what it is safe for Him to do. If you do not get a blessing, it is because it is not safe for you to have one. If our heavenly Father were to let your unhumbled spirit win a victory in His holy war, you would pilfer the crown for yourself, and meeting with a fresh enemy you would fall a victim; so that you are kept low for your own safety. When a man is sincerely humble, and never ventures to touch so much as a grain of the praise, there is scarcely any limit to what God will do for him. Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace, and fits us to deal efficiently with our fellow men. True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden. This is a sauce with which you may season every dish of life, and you will find an improvement in every case. Whether it be prayer or praise, whether it be work or suffering, the genuine salt of humility cannot be used in excess.

Greedy Judas Iscariot – One of the Twelve
Too Much Devil to Seek Forgiveness
https://slantedright2.blogspot.com/2025/04/greedy-judas-iscariot-one-of-twelve.html

SUMMARY: … America’s infamous traitor – Benedict Arnold. If you are young, WOKE history may not have explained this to you. The New Testament infamous traitor – Judas Iscariot. … The treason of Judas appears to be a case of greed (he was the treasurer of the Jesus Ministry before the Resurrection) and perhaps an expectation of a supernatural Jesus-ruled Kingdom of God on earth. …IF THAT INTRIGUES YOU – TAKE A LOOK!
#JudasIscariot #GreedyTraitor

The Christian life isn’t an easy one; it is one filled with trials. But Jesus promised that His burden is light. That is because He helps us to bear it. Do not shy away because you think our will be difficult. Embrace the trials with joy and watch your faith grow.

Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, April 5

"On Him they laid the cross, that He might bear it after Jesus." Luke 23:26

We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after Jesus. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer.

But let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry. When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you, then remember it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus!

You carry the cross after Him. You have blessed company; your path is marked with the footprints of your Lord. The mark of His blood-red shoulder is upon that heavy burden. 'Tis His cross, and He goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Take up your cross daily, and follow Him.

Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. It is the opinion of some that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier part, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross, Christ bore the heavier end.

And remember, though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honour. Even so the cross we carry is only for a little while at most, and then we shall receive the crown, the glory. Surely we should love the cross, and, instead of shrinking from it, count it very dear, when it works out for us "a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

ABLECHILD: Butler Assassination Attempt Documents Locked Down in Congressman Kelly’s Office, as Case Goes Cold on Link to ‘Crooks’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/ablechild-butler-assassination-attempt-documents-locked-down-congressman/

Jesus had every right to defend Himself, He was without blame. Yet He remained silent on the cross, taking a punishment He did not deserve so that we would not face the punishment we do deserve. He deserves our faith and allegiance. He not only earned it, He bought it at a price higher than any other - His own blood.

Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, April 2

"He answered him to never a word." Matthew 27:14

He had never been slow of speech when He could bless the sons of men, but He would not say a single word for Himself. "Never man spake like this Man," and never man was silent like Him. Was this singular silence the index of His perfect self-sacrifice? Did it show that He would not utter a word to stay the slaughter of His sacred person, which He had dedicated as an offering for us? Had He so entirely surrendered Himself that He would not interfere in His own behalf, even in the minutest degree, but be bound and slain an unstruggling, uncomplaining victim? Was this silence a type of the defenselessness of sin? Nothing can be said in palliation or excuse of human guilt; and, therefore, He who bore its whole weight stood speechless before His judge. Is not patient silence the best reply to a gainsaying world? Calm endurance answers some questions infinitely more conclusively than the loftiest eloquence. The best apologists for Christianity in the early days were its martyrs. The anvil breaks a host of hammers by quietly bearing their blows. Did not the silent Lamb of God furnish us with a grand example of wisdom? Where every word was occasion for new blasphemy, it was the line of duty to afford no fuel for the flame of sin. The ambiguous and the false, the unworthy and mean, will ere long overthrow and confute themselves, and therefore the true can afford to be quiet, and finds silence to be its wisdom. Evidently our Lord, by His silence, furnished a remarkable fulfillment of prophecy. A long defence of Himself would have been contrary to Isaiah's prediction. "He is led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth." By His quiet He conclusively proved Himself to be the true Lamb of God. As such we salute Him this morning. Be with us, Jesus, and in the silence of our heart, let us hear the voice of Thy love.

Most go through life never acknowledging the spiritual sickness they suffer, the sin to which they are enslaved. It is easier to reject God or any moral responsibility to a higher authority. But God knows. God sees. And rather than leave us to wallow in our fallen state, in His love, He sent His Son, Jesus, to suffer a brutal death on a cross to bring us spiritual healing. Only through faith in Him may we receive this blessed benefit.

Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, March 31

"With His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5

Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews; so that every time the lash came down these pieces of bone inflicted fearful laceration, and tore off the flesh from the bone. The Saviour was, no doubt, bound to the column, and thus beaten. He had been beaten before; but this of the Roman lictors was probably the most severe of His flagellations. My soul, stand here and weep over His poor stricken body.

Believer in Jesus, can you gaze upon Him without tears, as He stands before you the mirror of agonizing love? He is at once fair as the lily for innocence, and red as the rose with the crimson of His own blood. As we feel the sure and blessed healing which His stripes have wrought in us, does not our heart melt at once with love and grief? If ever we have loved our Lord Jesus, surely we must feel that affection glowing now within our bosoms.

"See how the patient Jesus stands,
Insulted in His lowest case!
Sinners have bound the Almighty's hands,
And spit in their Creator's face.
With thorns His temples gor'd and gash'd
Send streams of blood from every part;
His back's with knotted scourges lash'd.
But sharper scourges tear His heart."

We would fain go to our chambers and weep; but since our business calls us away, we will first pray our Beloved to print the image of His bleeding self upon the tablets of our hearts all the day, and at nightfall we will return to commune with Him, and sorrow that our sin should have cost Him so dear.

Great faith was found in a woman who sought not riches, but even the mere crumbs that fell from the Master’s table. She recognized how great Jesus was, and that the favor she asked was a mere pittance. Such humility in seeking not self-sufficiency not great wealth, but the Master Himself. Oh that we all would have such pure and simple desires and let our worldly pursuits melt away.

Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, March 27

"And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table." Matthew 15:27

This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST. The Master had talked about the children's bread: "Now," argued she, "since Thou art the Master of the table of grace, I know that Thou art a generous housekeeper, and there is sure to be abundance of bread on Thy table; there will be such an abundance for the children that there will be crumbs to throw on the floor for the dogs, and the children will fare none the worse because the dogs are fed." She thought Him one who kept so good a table that all that she needed would only be a crumb in comparison; yet remember, what she wanted was to have the devil cast out of her daughter. It was a very great thing to her, but she had such a high esteem of Christ, that she said, "It is nothing to Him, it is but a crumb for Christ to give." This is the royal road to comfort. Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace. "My sins are many, but oh! it is nothing to Jesus to take them all away. The weight of my guilt presses me down as a giant's foot would crush a worm, but it is no more than a grain of dust to Him, because He has already borne its curse in His own body on the tree. It will be but a small thing for Him to give me full remission, although it will be an infinite blessing for me to receive it." The woman opens her soul's mouth very wide, expecting great things of Jesus, and He fills it with His love. Dear reader, do the same. She confessed what Christ laid at her door, but she laid fast hold upon Him, and drew arguments even out of His hard words; she believed great things of Him, and she thus overcame Him. SHE WON THE VICTORY BY BELIEVING IN HIM. Her case is an instance of prevailing faith; and if we would conquer like her, we must imitate her tactics.

Here are the 26 Republicans that voted against codifying DOGE foreign aid spending cuts into law:
Time to audit everyone of them.

Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Barrasso
Senator Boozman
Senator Capito
Senator Cassidy
Senator Collins
Senator Cramer
Senator Crapo
Senator Fischer
Senator Grassley
Senator Hoeven
Senator Hyde-Smith
Senator Lankford
Senator McConnell
Senator McCormick
Senator Moran
Senator Mullin
Senator Murkowski
Senator Ricketts
Senator Rounds
Senator Scott (SC)
Senator Sullivan
Senator Thune
Senator Tillis
Senator Wicker
Senator Young

Interesting video

There was NO PANDEMIC
https://freedompodcast.substack.com/p/there-was-no-pandemic-f3b?publication_id=1486205&post_id=158900944&isFreemail=true&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

FBI handing over records on “investigation” of J6 pipe bombs, but NOT on the Seth Rich case
https://govmikehuckabee.substack.com/p/fbi-handing-over-records-on-investigation-08d?publication_id=247754&post_id=158930808&isFreemail=true&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

I listen to several podcasts daily. This episode of the Steve Deace Show (carried on BlazeTV) from yesterday (3/14/25) was a special pre-recorded episode used as a filler while Deace was out of town speaking at a conference. It's a 96 minute discussion between Deace and his co-hosts of a deep dive article published in Tablet magazine this past January analysing how the social/cultural/political/media landscape was changed and manipulated since 2000. It explains most of what we've seen in the last couple decades and the dizzying speed of the changes jammed down our throats. The term blitzkrieg came to mind (COVID) and the term signal jamming was used in the discussion. Make sure to listen to the last segment.

It's a wide-ranging discussion that meshes nicely with Dr. Robert Malone's discussions of PsyWar; I've included a link to one of his most recent Substack posts on the topic below. His book PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order was published last October and is available as an audiobook.

How Obama Attempted to Reshape Reality — and Lost | 3/14/25 | Steve Deace | Runtime 1:36:07
Steve and the crew spend two hours discussing an essay at Tablet magazine called "Rapid Onset Political Enlightenment." It's a fascinating conversation illuminating the origins of the deep state, the remaking of the expert class in Barack Obama's image, and how Trump's victory in 2024 may have put the final nail in the coffin of Obama's worldwide legacy.
https://youtu.be/QT_GFsQiZ9k

Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment
How Barack Obama built an omnipotent thought-machine, and how it was destroyed | DAVID SAMUELS
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment

The Mathematics of PsyWar
Do you have the right to be treated by your government like a human rather than a drone?
Robert W Malone MD, MS | Jan 14, 2025
https://www.malone.news/p/the-mathematics-of-psywar

Referenced in the first few minutes:
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
By Molly Ball | February 4, 2021 5:40 AM EST | 35 minute read
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

Facts vs Lies: A Look at Jew-Hating Pseudo-Palestinians
Yup, I’m a Christian Zionist
https://johnhouk.substack.com/p/facts-vs-lies-a-look-at-jew-hating

SUMMARY: I’ve come to the conclusion Jew-Hating Antisemites exist in every sector of the political scale: Left-to-Right and in between. The Left have largely joined radical Muslims (aka Jihadists or terrorists) to cast hate on Jews. Sadly many Conservatives and Patriots that I otherwise join, hate on Jews because of a history of Jews embracing different degrees Marxism or Socialism. … LOOK AT four videos that examine the faux-Palestinians and Zionism!
#Antisemitism #FauxPalestinians

I listen to several podcasts daily. This episode of the Steve Deace Show (carried on BlazeTV) from yesterday (3/14/25) was a special pre-recorded episode used as a filler while Deace was out of town speaking at a conference. It's a 96 minute discussion between Deace and his co-hosts of a deep dive article published in Tablet magazine this past January analysing how the social/cultural/political/media landscape was changed and manipulated since 2000. It explains most of what we've seen in the last couple decades and the dizzying speed of the changes jammed down our throats. The term blitzkrieg came to mind (COVID) and the term signal jamming was used in the discussion. Make sure to listen to the last segment.

It's a wide-ranging discussion that meshes nicely with Dr. Robert Malone's discussions of PsyWar; I've included a link to one of his most recent Substack posts on the topic below. His book PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order was published last October and is available as an audiobook.

How Obama Attempted to Reshape Reality — and Lost | 3/14/25 | Steve Deace | Runtime 1:36:07
Steve and the crew spend two hours discussing an essay at Tablet magazine called "Rapid Onset Political Enlightenment." It's a fascinating conversation illuminating the origins of the deep state, the remaking of the expert class in Barack Obama's image, and how Trump's victory in 2024 may have put the final nail in the coffin of Obama's worldwide legacy.
https://youtu.be/QT_GFsQiZ9k

Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment
How Barack Obama built an omnipotent thought-machine, and how it was destroyed | DAVID SAMUELS
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment

The Mathematics of PsyWar
Do you have the right to be treated by your government like a human rather than a drone?
Robert W Malone MD, MS | Jan 14, 2025
https://www.malone.news/p/the-mathematics-of-psywar

Referenced in the first few minutes:
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
By Molly Ball | February 4, 2021 5:40 AM EST | 35 minute read
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

I believe that while this case is being litigated, other pastors' knowledge and involvement will be exposed. I don't believe that Morris kept this little secret to himself all that time. This will be explosive.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2025/03/12/robert-morris-indicted-on-child-sex-charges-oklahoma-attorney-general-says/

Wait... What?!
This actually proves that there is sufficient quantities of alcohol for one to want to mate with that.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maxine-waters-has-given-over-1-million-in-campaign-cash-to-daughter

Monica, thank you so much for this article. My Momma, never really said much, though I do remember some of what my Grandma and Great Grandma told me. I do still have Frost cousins that live now in Kentucky. I love to read and listen to as much Cherokee information as I can. My Great Grandma Sophie was full blooded Cherokee. I miss her very much....

Southern Heritage & The Terrible Swift Sword
Why the Cherokees Allied With the South in 1861
https://monicascorner.substack.com/p/why-the-cherokees-allied-with-the