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Jan 24
And the Top 4 priorities of the new Department of War National defense strategy are…. 🧵 Image
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#2 Deter China Image
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Jan 24
Seven Ways to Use the Psalms in Your Daily Life

INTRODUCTION

There is no book in the Bible that matches the emotional range, theological depth, and spiritual honesty of the Psalms. The Psalms were the hymnbook of Israel, the prayer book of saints, and the battlefield manual of believers who knew what it meant to walk through both green pastures and the valley of the shadow of death. A Christian can pick up the Psalms in any state of mind and find words for it. When the heart is burning with praise, the Psalms provide a vocabulary of worship. When the heart is crushed under sorrow, the Psalms provide a language of lament. The world talks about “emotional intelligence.” God gave the Psalms to give saints spiritual intelligence in emotional seasons. David did not merely survive emotions — he sanctified them.

The Psalms are not sentimental poetry. They are Scripture. They carry doctrine about creation (Psalm 8), prophecy about the crucifixion (Psalm 22), second advent warfare (Psalm 2), repentance (Psalm 51), millennial reign (Psalm 110), and daily Christian sanctification (Psalm 119). A Christian who avoids the Psalms is like a soldier who refuses to learn how to use his shield. Paul writes in Romans that we learn “patience and comfort of the scriptures” (Romans 15:4), and nowhere is patience and comfort more accessible than in the Psalms. They take the theology of the prophets and the historical narratives of the kings and put them into the bloodstream of devotion.

Most Christians read Psalms occasionally — like spiritual first aid kits — but the Bible believer learns to use the Psalms as part of his daily arsenal. In dark times, the Psalms provide refuge. In bright times, they provide perspective. In confusing times, they provide clarity. Too many saints are emotionally dislocated because they feed their hearts on news cycles and self-help clichés instead of letting the Psalms tune their soul. So in this essay we will outline seven ways a Christian can use the Psalms daily — not as museum pieces of ancient Hebrew poetry, but as living, breathing Scripture that transforms the inner life.

1. USE THE PSALMS FOR PRAISE IN THE MORNING

The first way a Christian uses the Psalms is for praise at the beginning of the day. David writes, “I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised” (Psalm 18:3). Praise is not a booster shot for God’s ego; it is realignment for the believer’s perspective. Morning praise sets the compass of the soul. The devil wants a Christian to begin the morning with self-pity, anxiety, checking notifications, checking the market, checking the headlines — anything except checking in with God. But praise in the morning reminds the believer that the world is not governed by chaos but by a sovereign Lord who “hath prepared his throne in the heavens” (Psalm 103:19).

Psalm 5:3 says, “My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee.” David begins with vocal praise, not silent dread. He points the barrel of his prayer life upward. A Christian who wakes and immediately praises God with a Psalm — for His mercy, His sovereignty, His holiness, His goodness — is like a pilot setting instruments before takeoff. The turbulence of the day may shake him later, but the bearings were set when his feet hit the floor. Praise is a shield against the creeping bitterness and cynicism that attempt to attach themselves before breakfast.

Morning praise from the Psalms also trains the affections. The heart is not neutral; it must be tuned like a harp. Psalm 33:2 says, “Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him.” When a believer sings Psalm 100, or quotes Psalm 103, or recites Psalm 145, he teaches his affections where to dwell. The flesh defaults to complaint. The spirit defaults to praise when fed by Scripture. A Christian who begins the day with praise from Psalms begins the day with God above the headlines, above the bank account, above the anxieties. That is notImage
sentimentalism. That is spiritual warfare.

2. USE THE PSALMS AS CONFESSION IN TIMES OF SIN

The second way a Christian uses the Psalms is for confession. Psalm 51 is the nuclear warhead of repentance. David writes, “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned” (Psalm 51:4). That is the vocabulary of a broken saint. Modern Christianity treats sin as a misalignment, a mistake, or a “struggle.” God calls it sin. David does not go to therapy. He goes to God. The Psalms teach a believer how to confess. Confession is not explaining sin; it is naming it. Confession is not self-loathing; it is God-exalting. “Wash me thoroughly” (Psalm 51:2). “Purge me with hyssop” (Psalm 51:7). “Create in me a clean heart” (Psalm 51:10). That is confession with theological accuracy.

Without Psalms like 51, a Christian tends to confess vaguely. “Lord, forgive me for messing up.” That is not biblical confession. David confesses lust, transgression, iniquity, filth, and bloodguiltiness — he drags the sin into the light and refuses to downplay it. Modern confession is therapeutic; biblical confession is surgical. The Psalms give vocabulary for that surgery. A Christian who regularly reads Psalm 51 will learn how to pray with precision. He will understand that sin is vertical before it is horizontal, doctrinal before it is emotional. That prevents self-pity and cultivates holiness.

Confession through the Psalms also prevents despair. Psalm 32 shows the other side of repentance: “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered” (Psalm 32:1). David moves from guilt to joy. Confession is not the endpoint; cleansing is. Psalms teach that a saint can be filthy at breakfast and restored by lunch. That is not license to sin; it is permission to repent. When a believer fails, the Psalms prevent two errors — minimizing sin and drowning in guilt. They teach repentance, not self-hatred. They teach cleansing, not denial. Every Christian who masters Psalm 51 and Psalm 32 becomes spiritually resilient.

3. USE THE PSALMS FOR COMFORT IN SUFFERING

The third use of the Psalms is comfort. The Psalms contain more lament than celebration. That is because life contains more valleys than mountaintops. Western Christians imagine that suffering is abnormal, and they crumble when it comes. The Psalms teach that suffering is part of the believer’s curriculum. Psalm 34:19 says, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” That verse destroys prosperity theology in one clause. The righteous have afflictions. Not a few. Many. But they have a Deliverer.

Psalm 23 is the psalm of comfort par excellence. “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me” (Psalm 23:4). Notice that the Psalm doesn’t promise to remove the valley. It promises company in the valley. Most Christians demand that God reroute them around the valley. God walks with them through it. The presence of God is the comfort, not the absence of sorrow. When a believer reads Psalm 23 during grief, he realizes that the rod and staff are not decorations — they are protections. God uses His rod to protect from predators and His staff to pull sheep out of ravines. That is comfort.

Psalms of comfort are not weak. They are militant. Psalm 27 begins, “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?” (Psalm 27:1). That is not sentiment — that is courage. David is surrounded by enemies. His family is fractured. His kingdom is threatened. And he writes about the beauty of the Lord. The Psalms teach a believer how to suffer without collapsing. They give the saint language to process grief without blaspheming. When he wants to weep, the Psalms weep with him. When he wants to collapse, the Psalms stand him upright. Comfort is not found in denial but in Scripture.

4. USE THE PSALMS FOR GUIDANCE AND DECISION-MAKING

The fourth use of Psalms is guidance. Psalm 119 is the theological
headquarters of biblical guidance. “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105). Notice the lamp and light imagery. A lamp shows the immediate steps. A light shows the direction. God does not give spotlights for ten miles ahead. He gives a lamp for the next three feet. The Psalms teach that obedience is incremental. A Christian looking for guidance must submit to illumination, not demand clairvoyance.

Psalm 25 is another guidance psalm. “Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths” (Psalm 25:4). David asks not merely for answers, but for ways and paths. Modern Christians want events to change. Psalms teach them to change direction. Guidance is not always a yes or no answer; sometimes it is a path correction. The Bible believer who reads Psalms for guidance learns to obey his way into clarity. The psalmist says, “The meek will he guide in judgment” (Psalm 25:9). That means the prerequisite for guidance is meekness — not intelligence, not talent, not natural foresight.

Guidance through the Psalms also protects from self-will. Without Scripture, a man interprets circumstances as divine signs. If the door opens, he thinks God opened it. If the door closes, he thinks God closed it. Sometimes the devil opens doors. Sometimes God closes them. Psalms prevent superstition. They anchor guidance to Scripture. They teach the heart to wait, to ask, to meditate, to submit. Psalm 119:130 says, “The entrance of thy words giveth light.” Without that entrance, a Christian stumbles in the dark with religious language. With it, he walks in doctrinal certainty.

5. USE THE PSALMS FOR SPIRITUAL WARFARE AGAINST FEAR

The fifth way to use the Psalms is for warfare. The Psalms are combat literature. They are full of enemies, battles, ambushes, deliverances, and divine interventions. David was not a poet hiding in a study; he was a warrior writing between swordfights. Psalm 56:3 says, “What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.” That is spiritual warfare against fear. David does not pretend he has no fear. He weaponizes faith against fear. The weapon is trust, not denial.

Psalm 91 is the fortress psalm. “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1). Shadow implies proximity. When fear attacks, a Christian hides not behind theology but behind God Himself. “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress” (Psalm 91:2). The Psalm describes terror by night, arrows by day, pestilence, destruction — and then the believer untouched in the midst of it. That is not delusion. That is doctrine. Fear is not conquered by courage. It is conquered by refuge.

Psalms for warfare are also doctrinal weapons against the devil’s accusations. Psalm 3 begins with enemies multiplying. It ends with “Salvation belongeth unto the Lord” (Psalm 3:8). Satan accuses. Psalms answer. The devil whispers that God has abandoned; Psalms reply that God is a shield. The devil whispers that destruction is near; Psalms reply that deliverance is nearer. A Christian who uses Psalms daily learns to counter-attack fear, anxiety, worry, and spiritual oppression with Scripture instead of coping mechanisms. Warfare Psalms are not optional; they are ammunition.

6. USE THE PSALMS FOR WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH HOUSE

The sixth use is corporate worship. The Psalms were written to be sung. “O come, let us sing unto the Lord” (Psalm 95:1). Worship is not entertainment; it is doctrinal proclamation in melody. When the saints gather and sing Psalms, they are not boosting morale; they are declaring truth. Psalm 96:10 says, “Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth.” Worship is evangelistic. It announces God’s kingship to a listening world. The modern church uses music for atmosphere. The Psalms use music for theology.
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Jan 24
1 Corinthians 3:16 (ESV): "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?".

Psalm 68:5-6 (NIV): "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing..."

Psalm 90:1 (NIV): "Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations."

Sharing this is not to promote transcendentalism or R W Emerson

but to share a wisdom Emerson borrowed from the deep knowledge over the Bible to transfer it toward his movement and dilute it to the Astrian Vedic system in favor of his movement.

"A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964).

In comparison to the three verses above, Emerson in his sentence here projected his Biblical knowledge into a paraphrased sentence by a different theme of us instead of God. Resemblance of the gothic architecture into very complicated structure like the creation of the world by God shines in this sentence while the divine connection substituted into a projection from man solely.

Why is it Antichrist and does it have parts parallel to Christianity at all!
The rejection of the creation of gothic architecture by previous generations similar to the document below was a unified movement from departure of divine into human projectory world. The best description of human projectory world exists in Hindu and Vedic texts;

In Vedic and Hindu theology, the concept of making the world by projection from inside the human is rooted in the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism) and the Microcosm-Macrocosm relationship (Yatha Pinde Tatha Brahmande—"As is the atom, so is the universe"). It posits that the external world is not entirely independent, but rather a manifestation or projection of the inner consciousness, or Atman, which is fundamentally one with the ultimate reality, Brahman.
Core Principles of Inner Projection
Maya as Projection: The material world is considered Maya (illusion or magic), a divine simulation or projection produced by Brahman. Because the individual self (Atman) is considered a reflection or manifestation of Brahman, every sentient being participates in the unfolding of this reality.
Advaita Perspective (Shankara): Advaita Vedanta teaches that the world is a projection of the mind, similar to how the mind creates a whole universe within a dream. In the waking state, the mind projects the phenomenal world onto the screen of consciousness.
The Microcosm-Macrocosm Relationship: Yogic and Tantric traditions hold that the entire macrocosm (universe) exists within the human body (microcosm). Everything in the outer world—rivers, oceans, planets, and gods—is present within the body.
The "Inner Temple": The heart is considered the seat of consciousness, or the inner sky, where the entire universe is projected and experienced.
Key Concepts in Vedic/Hindu Philosophy
Hiranyagarbha (The Golden Egg): Mentioned in the Rigveda (10.121), this is the source of creation, often interpreted as the cosmic womb from which the universe emerged. It represents the first form of consciousness that projected the world, which then continues to exist within all beings.
Manah-javah (Speed of Thought): In the Bhagavat Purana, this is a yogic siddhi (accomplishment) described by Krishna, where an individual can move their consciousness {or "astral body"(this is rejection of Holy spirit)} wherever thought goes. This implies that consciousness can traverse and project beyond the physical body.
Leela (Divine Play): The creation of the world is seen as a playful projection by the divine (Brahman), rather than a calculated, external action.
Observer Effect (Vedic View): Vedic sages believed that reality is shaped by the observer, similar to quantum mechanics(not biblical). The world comes into existence through the act of observation by the conscious subject(based on your biblical knowledge you analyze this!).Image
This comment is not to promote sorcery but just to shed light on shadows easily are accessible these days on Internet:

The Process of Inner-to-Outer Projection

And

Astral projection

The world is going toward full magic and sorcery and no one cares about the matter!
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Jan 24
1. (Trans)gender ideology is not real.
It is an invention of people who have absolutely no skin in the game (apart from making: a name for themselves, money, & status amongst other equally lonely people)

They are not trans,
They haven’t got trans identified children …
2. Most of them don’t know any trans people (except to point at)

Certainly hardly any of them have had a trans person direct any aggression at them

And yet:
They think they have an absolute right to stop one of the most successful (98% satisfaction) healthcare treatments …
2. … of the last century

They imagine they know far more about a health concern (mental or physical) than the experts who spent 10yrs training & another 10 gaining experience with real patients

They have never slept with a TP but apparently they know …
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Jan 23
The Inside Job Guys not only used explosives to cut through the vertical columns, and then blast them outwards; they also used other explosives to pulverize the concrete.
I believe this was done for 2 reasons: a) to create a lot of dust, floor by floor, to obscure the
column-blasts; and b) to reduce the amount of debris that needed to be removed from the site. There were about 60,000 tons of concrete (4" thick floor slabs) in each Tower. By pulverizing all of it, the time to clean up the site was greatly reduced.
Why would they do this?
Because the longer it takes to clean up, the more eyes there would be looking at the blasted vertical columns - and the evidence of incendiary explosives would be very noticeable.
Instead, Giuliani arranged for the rapid clean-up of the site, evading all the usual protocols for
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Jan 23
I’m 54, a physicist, have spent decades using mathematics to study the universe, solve problems, and build things.

If your work touches numbers, now or in the future, and you want to learn math properly, this thread shows a from-the-ground-up math you’ll actually need:
The roadmap has two parts.

The first 25 threads follow this diagram:

Algebra → Geometry → Trigonometry → Precalculus → Calculus → Linear Algebra & Multivariable Calculus

After that, we map this math to real careers. Make sure to bookmark, you’ll need it later.
1. Start with algebra. Learn to manipulate symbols cleanly. If you struggle here, everything later becomes noise.

2. Algebra is about rules and structure, not calculation speed. Slow down until each step feels obvious.
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Jan 23
Listen close. The "pathways" she's advocating mean:

Your job/life is already selected for you by the State, AI, Oligarchs, genetics, profiling algorithms, Technocrats or some combination of all the above. So you wont have to "choose".

Dawg. They're straight up Bolsheviks.
They talk about it right in front of you like you dont have the awareness or cognition to understand what they are saying.

Like how spelling words is steganographic covert-channel cryptography for toddlers & dogs.

They do it *right* in your face dawg.
The "living wage" she refers to is like when the Soviets chose your job for you and gave you a Stipend and/or food rations. basically THE EXACT SAME SCHEME morons are now reintroducing as "Universal Basic Income" (UBI) & "state owned grocery stores".

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Jan 23
"A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release."

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2/ "The lawyers learned the child and her father had already been placed on a commercial flight to Texas.

'To me, that is clearly part of this effort to try to evade the court’s jurisdiction,' Vaynerman said.

'We have never seen this level of depravity with a 2-year-old.'”
3/ source:

startribune.com/agents-detain-…

Court order:

"IT IS ORDERED AND ADJUDGED THAT:

1. Respondents shall release C.R.T.V. to the custody of her attorney ...."

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2650… Image
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Jan 23
President Trump — Abortion! 🧵

Everyone wants President Trump to stand against abortion and other things that go against Biblical values, like homosexual marriage! I more than most want this and that is my prayer.
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Almost everyone in his family supports the right to choice. His son Eric has stated as recently as July of 2024 that his dad, Donald Trump has always been in the center on the issues of abortion and same sex marriage!
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Let’s look at the facts, and not turn a blind eye just because we hear words in a speech that sound good!
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Jan 23
Silver is now trading in triple digits in the West: $103.11.

Not just an intraday spike, but a daily close above $100.

And not just a daily close, but a weekly close above $100.

To celebrate, here are 12 reasons why the silver rally is far from over 🧵Image
1) London lease rates are flashing red.

London is the world’s main hub for physical silver. Professional players there don’t just buy and sell silver, they also lend it to each other. This happens, for example, when one trader has to deliver silver soon but doesn’t have it yet, while another party does have silver in stock but only needs it a few weeks later. So the silver gets borrowed for short periods to bridge that timing gap.

Under normal circumstances, 1-month lease rates trade around 0%. Sometimes slightly higher if the lender wants to earn something, sometimes slightly lower if someone has too much inventory. Anything above 1% already signals stress. Right now, lease rates are around 2.5%. That is extreme. It tells you there is a serious shortage of physical silver. And these elevated lease rates put a very solid floor under the silver price.Image
2) Structural deficits in the silver market.

This is now the sixth year in a row that the silver market is running a deficit. In 2025, that deficit reached about 295 million ounces, the largest on record. The core reason is simple: demand keeps growing. Part of that comes from renewed inflows into silver ETFs, but also from steadily rising industrial demand.

At the same time, retail investors are still nowhere near fully back. If you look at the number of shares outstanding of $SLV, we are still below the 2021 peak. And that’s remarkable, because last year we had the strongest silver price increase since 1979, while the general public barely participated.

Historically, real manias and true market peaks only happen when retail investors finally pile in en masse. If deficits are already this large without retail participation, imagine what happens to the physical balance once the public does return. These shortages are not going away. They are set to accelerate.Image
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Jan 23
SHOCKING 🤯

In 1948, this woman discovered a code to bend "reality" at will.

She used it for 30 years with 100% success rate.
Her answer?

A "4-letter code" that breaks the matrix: 🧵 Image
Her childhood set the stage.

She grew up in the Great Depression.
Survival was a daily challenge.

Her parents told her: "If you want something, you have to work for it."

She often wondered, "Is there a better way?"

That curiosity shaped her beliefs.
Meet Helen Hadsell.

An ordinary woman with an *extraordinary belief*:

"The mind creates reality. "

And...her belief change her life forever.
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