Psalms
Chapter 69

1 (To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.) Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Christian, do you celebrate both God's mercy and His judgement? So many see the verse "God is love" (1 Jn. 4:8), and then neglect to account for God's other attributes.

Our God is merciful. If He was not, none of us would be saved. For, "He did not save us on the basis of works we've done in righteousness, but according to His mercy" (Tit. 3:5). How blessed we are that, in our sinfulness, God would show us mercy and grant us the gift of eternal life!

Likewise, our God is just and righteous and rightly metes out just judgement against all unrighteousness. If God was not to judge, mercy would not be necessary. But God must judge because He is just. Is it not right that He should judge sin and those who commit it? And how would we know what mercy was if not for God's justice? Thus we should sing His praise for His judgement, because it reveals to us our need for salvation as well as revealing His mercy in granting us that very same salvation.

Let us therefore, brethren, sing God's praises for His mercy and judgement!

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Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, September 12

"I will sing of mercy and judgment." Psalm 101:1

Faith triumphs in trial. When reason is thrust into the inner prison, with her feet made fast in the stocks, faith makes the dungeon walls ring with her merry notes as she I cries, "I will sing of mercy and of judgment. Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing." Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath. Faith looks up at the cloud, and sees that
"'Tis big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on her head."

There is a subject for song even in the judgments of God towards us. For, first, the trial is not so heavy as it might have been"; next, the trouble is not so severe as we deserved to have borne"; and our affliction is not so crushing as the burden which others have to carry. Faith sees that in her worst sorrow there is nothing penal; there is not a drop of God's wrath in it; it is all sent in love. Faith discerns love gleaming like a jewel on the breast of an angry God. Faith says of her grief, "This is a badge of honour, for the child must feel the rod"; and then she sings of the sweet result of her sorrows, because they work her spiritual good. Nay, more, says Faith, "These light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." So Faith rides forth on the black horse, conquering and to conquer, trampling down carnal reason and fleshly sense, and chanting notes of victory amid the thickest of the fray.

"All I meet I find assists me
In my path to heavenly joy:
Where, though trials now attend me,
Trials never more annoy.
"Blest there with a weight of glory,
Still the path I'll ne'er forget,
But, exulting, cry, it led me
To my blessed Saviour's seat."

NC has had some horrific murders over the years. This one was particularly disturbing to me. It happened in Wilson, NC not far from Raleigh.
https://abc11.com/post/cannon-hinnant-darius-sessoms-guilty-plea-life-in-prison/12627734/

More of this, less prisoners.

Unpopular opinion: I think Bill Cosby is the funniest comedian to ever hit the stage. I also think there was a sinister plan to take Bill Cosby down because of his pushback against the Hollyweird machine. Bill Cosby shot himself in the foot by some of the things he did that he should not have done, and Hollyweird, coupled with the judicial system, ruined his reputation and sent him to prison. He still has my respect as a comedian and voice for family friendly programming. I own several collections of his work on dvd, and I own most of his books. I pray for his salvation when I think of him.
https://youtu.be/lIyvxREShsg?si=MxzcvS56u9eqiUYW

Though the concept often causes men to cringe and even Christians to draw back, could there really be anything more comforting than our knowledge of God's sovereignty? For the Christian, this should be cause for rejoicing, because we know that He works all things together for the good of those who love Him, to those who are called according to His purpose (Rom. 8:28).
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Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, August 12

"The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice." Psalm 97:1

Causes for disquietude there are none so long as this blessed sentence is true. On earth the Lord's power as readily controls the rage of the wicked as the rage of the sea; His love as easily refreshes the poor with mercy as the earth with showers. Majesty gleams in flashes of fire amid the tempest's horrors, and the glory of the Lord is seen in its grandeur in the fall of empires, and the crash of thrones. In all our conflicts and tribulations, we may behold the hand of the divine King.

"God is God; He sees and hears
All our troubles, all our tears.
Soul, forget not, 'mid thy pains,
God o'er all for ever reigns."

In hell, evil spirits own, with misery, His undoubted supremacy. When permitted to roam abroad, it is with a chain at their heel; the bit is in the mouth of behemoth, and the hook in the jaws of leviathan. Death's darts are under the Lord's lock, and the grave's prisons have divine power as their warder. The terrible vengeance of the Judge of all the earth makes fiends cower down and tremble, even as dogs in the kennel fear the hunter's whip.

"Fear not death, nor Satan's thrusts,
God defends who in Him trusts;
Soul, remember, in thy pains,
God o'er all for ever reigns."

In heaven none doubt the sovereignty of the King Eternal, but all fall on their faces to do Him homage. Angels are His courtiers, the redeemed His favourites, and all delight to serve Him day and night. May we soon reach the city of the great King!

"For this life's long night of sadness
He will give us peace and gladness.
Soul, remember, in thy pains,
God o'er all for ever reigns."

Job
Chapter 3

1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 And Job spake, and said,

3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, July 25

"He left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out." Genesis 39:12

In contending with certain sins there remains no mode of victory but by flight. The ancient naturalists wrote much of basilisks, whose eyes fascinated their victims and rendered them easy victims; so the mere gaze of wickedness puts us in solemn danger. He who would be safe from acts of evil must haste away from occasions of it. A covenant must be made with our eyes not even to look upon the cause of temptation, for such sins only need a spark to begin with and a blaze follows in an instant. Who would wantonly enter the leper's prison and sleep amid its horrible corruption? He only who desires to be leprous himself would thus court contagion. If the mariner knew how to avoid a storm, he would do anything rather than run the risk of weathering it. Cautious pilots have no desire to try how near the quicksand they can sail, or how often they may touch a rock without springing a leak; their aim is to keep as nearly as possible in the midst of a safe channel.

This day I may be exposed to great peril, let me have the serpent's wisdom to keep out of it and avoid it. The wings of a dove may be of more use to me today than the jaws of a lion. It is true I may be an apparent loser by declining evil company, but I had better leave my cloak than lose my character; it is not needful that I should be rich, but it is imperative upon me to be pure. No ties of friendship, no chains of beauty, no flashings of talent, no shafts of ridicule must turn me from the wise resolve to flee from sin. The devil I am to resist and he will flee from me, but the lusts of the flesh, I must flee, or they will surely overcome me. O God of holiness preserve thy Josephs, that Madam Bubble bewitch them not with her vile suggestions. May the horrible trinity of the world, the flesh, and the devil, never overcome us!

House Oversight Committee to depose Ghislaine Maxwell in Tallahassee prison on August 11
The deposition is set to take place on August 11 at the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, where Maxwell is being held.
Just remember she is NOT suicidal!!!!

A very good article, thank you, Stone!

Gators and Prisons
When the politics-of-the-moment can have long-term consequences
https://stonebryson.substack.com/p/gators-and-prisons

Very Interesting Article!

Brave Doctor Faces 35 Years in Prison For Not Killing His Patients During the Pandemic
Dr. Kirk Moore is being prosecuted by President Trump's DOJ, but pressure could get this case dismissed.
https://diedsuddenlynews.substack.com/p/brave-doctor-faces-35-years-in-prison?publication_id=2896549&post_id=167582313&isFreemail=true&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Epstein List Debacle is a HUGE Chink in Trump Armor:
YET I Still Support Trump Because Dem-Marxist Tyranny is Far Worse!
https://oneway2day.com/2025/07/08/epstein-list-debacle-is-a-huge-chink-in-trump-armor/

SUMMARY: I want to write upfront, I AM STILL A TRUMP SUPPORTER! But this post definitely will not come across as Trump supportive. There are plenty of issues for MAGA adherents to criticize about President Trump decisions and Trump Administration actions. … BUT THERE IS A BIGGER PICTURE! I am very convinced if Trump’s TOO BIG TO RIG reelection in 2024 had not happened, more MAGA-Patriots would have joined J6ers in prison AND Dem-Marxist Reeducation Camps would…MORE TO READ!
#EpsteinCoverUp #UnaccountableElitists #CoverUpMotive

Imagine that, many of have known this. I'm so glad that more are speaking out... NEVER believe it when the demons tell you that it is for the "good". Or "safe"

Prison, no, they need, TORTURED beyond what they did to the CHILDREN, then HUNG.


Hundreds of Dead Kids Found in Mass Grave at Oprah's School in Africa - Media Blackout
https://rumble.com/v6vmqjp-hundreds-of-dead-kids-found-in-mass-grave-at-oprahs-school-in-africa-media-.html?e9s=src_v1_eh_us

I LOVE THIS!!!!! What a Great Metaphor!!! I wonder if people will ever realize, there is a way out....or even if they want too....grow a pair!

Illusion Of The Prison
https://terrylclark.substack.com/p/illusion-of-the-prison?publication_id=934525&post_id=165050703&isFreemail=false&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

John H. Bryan - Grandmother Arrested on 25 Year-Old Warrant for Someone Else:

https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2025/06/24/grandmother-arrested-on-25-year-old-warrant-for-someone-else-lawsuit-filed/

#Phoenix #Arizona #USMarshals #USMS #PoliceMisconduct #Police #Misconduct #Malfeasance #Lies #Incompetence #WrongPerson #MistakenIdentity #Identity #ArrestWarrant #OldWarrant #Warrant #FalseArrest #WrongfulArrest #WrongfulImprisonment #SearchAndSeizure #FourthAmendment #InstituteForJustice #CivilRights #Lawsuit #ConstitutionalLaw #Law

Documentary – ‘The Agenda: Their Vision – Your Future’
https://oneway2day.com/2025/06/07/documentary-the-agenda-their-vision-your-future/

SUMMARY: I’m sharing the Youtube Documentary “The Agenda: Their Vision - Your Future (2025) | Full Documentary”. It “premiered” on June 4th. … “The Agenda: Their Vision, Your Future examines the digital prison which awaits us if we do not push back right now. How your food, energy, money, travel and even your access to the internet could be limited and controlled; how financial power is strangling democracy and how global institutions…WATCH & RESIST THE AGENDA!
#ResistGlobalistAgenda

SPEAK LIFE: Commanding Healing Through God’s Word (Part 1)
TODAY’S FOCUS IS: How your words create either a pathway to healing or a prison of defeat
https://myr2b.substack.com/p/speak-life-commanding-healing-through?publication_id=1361476&post_id=164567179&isFreemail=false&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Wayne Allyn Root nails my sentiment with a WND article you should READ. Title: “President Trump, why isn't Obama in prison? Time to investigate”. https://www.wnd.com/2025/05/president-trump-why-isnt-barack-obama-in-prison-time-to-investigate/

One day everyone, May come to know what #adrenochrome is and Who does what to the Children. And GOD says in His Word what will happen to them. HE Also says Not to Pray for certain People. So, people need to Read their Bibles. They will see it IF they do. Instead of listening to what "man " says.

Mom who sold daughter, 6, so her eyes and skin could be cut out and used for ‘medicine’ gets life in prison

https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/world-news/south-african-mom-kelly-smith-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-trafficking-6-year-old-daughter-joshlin-smith/

https://anonup.com/thread/15373921

HAITI’S HORROR: Clinton-Epstein Orphanage Scandal, Q’s Pharma AIDS Plot & Elite Rituals EXPOSED

The conviction of Haitian orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld for child abuse is just the tip of the iceberg
• Clinton Foundation’s “Adoption” Ruse: How donations funded trafficking pipelines (WikiLeaks emails + Epstein flight manifests)
• Mother Teresa’s 1987 Endorsement: Geilenfeld’s cover to exploit children, tied to Clinton’s missing funds
• Big Pharma’s AIDS Profit Scheme: pharma “cures vs containment” and Red Cross corruption
• Elite Rituals in Haiti: Epstein’s “temple” operations, third-world child abductions, and occult ties paused but not stopped
https://rumble.com/v6te3b3--haitis-horror-clinton-epstein-orphanage-scandal-qs-pharma-aids-plot-and-el.html

Founder of Haitian Orphanage Sentenced to 210 Years in Prison for Sexually Abusing Boys in his Care
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founder-haitian-orphanage-sentenced-210-years-prison-sexually-abusing-boys-his-care

CREEPY: Harvard Medical School Morgue Director Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Stolen Body Parts – Faces 10 Years in Prison
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/creepy-harvard-medical-school-morgue-director-pleads-guilty/