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Matthew 9:37-38 NIV
[37] Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. [38] Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

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@JJNHLNFLetc @BoCamaro God’s throne is built on righteousness and justice. Just as a judge can’t simply wave off a violent crime, God cannot ignore sin. Justice requires payment/some penalty—either by the sinner or a substitute. Enter Jesus Christ.

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So I watched "The Passion of the Christ" last night. And I am on my back deck tonight thinking.

Think about this.

In the movie, they have beaten him to near death and when they first take him to his cross, Jesus clings to it, and the thief chastised him for embracing his own cross. Mocking him for doing so.

Then Christ gave all he had to carry that cross which weighed as much as him.. They beat him while he did. It came to the point that his physical body couldn't carry it any longer, so a man was ordered to carry it with him. Yet Christ still clung to the cross.

Do you know why?

Because he knew at the other end of that short journey was OUR freedom. Not his.... OURS..... with every single step, with every drop of blood, with every single tear, he knew he was one moment closer to being at the right hand of the Father and his mission complete to free us all.

The man embraced the cross. Begged God to forgive the men nailing him to it. Begged God to forgive those that had beaten him with whips and canes and hammered a crown of thorns on his head.

He embraced it all.... for US......

And now, when times get hard and life gets even slightly uncomfortable, we claim that "God isn't listening and won't take my burden" as if we even know what a real burden is...

How many times would we cling to the proverbial cross for another and suffer as he did to free them from the pain? Would we ever do it at all? Maybe for our own child? Maybe?

As you lay down tonight, pray a prayer of thanks. Not for the normal things. Not tonight. Tonight, pray a special prayer of thanks that he held on to that cross and carried it as far as his mortal body would allow... because that took more dedication than any of us could give for anyone.

By the time you wake up in the morning, he will have risen, 2000 years ago. He will have beat death. 2000 years ago, all the sin you and I will ever commit was paid for because he clung to that cross like it was a lifeline.... not for him... But for you and me.

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[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In April 1916, thirteen thousand British soldiers surrendered at Kut-al-Amara. It was the largest British capitulation in living memory.

Three months later, the War Office gave one man command of what remained. He was told, in writing, to hold the line and do nothing.

The army he inherited was a theatre defined by catastrophe. Three separate British forces had attempted to break through to the garrison at Kut before it fell. The 13th (Western) Division, which he had already commanded at Gallipoli, had lost roughly half its strength before arriving in Mesopotamia. The Mesopotamia Commission would later describe the administration of that campaign as "one of the most distressing documents ever submitted to Parliament."

He had been a soldier for more than thirty years. Commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in February 1884, he had served in the Sudan the following year at Hashin and Tamai. He was in South Africa from January 1900, earning a Distinguished Service Order before returning home in February 1901. A bullet at St. Eloi in April 1915 put him briefly back in England. By August of that year, he was on the Gallipoli Peninsula with what remained of the 13th Division. He had not had a failure.

In July 1916, the War Office gave him command of the Tigris Corps. The Dictionary of National Biography would record, without commentary, that he was at that point "nearly the junior major-general in Mesopotamia." He had been promoted over two divisional commanders his senior in rank. The appointment was not made by seniority. It was made by judgement.

His first act was not to wait. Despite the written instruction to hold and do nothing, he spent the next six months rebuilding the force from its foundations. New railways from Basra. River transport overhauled. Medical services reorganised. Accurate maps produced for the first time in the theatre. Two corps formed: I Indian Army Corps under Major-General Alexander Cobbe VC, and III Indian Army Corps under Major-General William Marshall. By December 1916, the force stood at approximately 166,000 men. He had been told to hold a line. He built an army.

His colleagues called him Systematic Joe. The name was not an insult. His day ran from five in the morning until half past nine at night without variation. Meals lasted fifteen minutes. The structure never changed. London, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia. The Times described him as "a cautious thruster." His subordinate commander Latter called him "a tactical genius." The Dictionary of National Biography recorded: "Punctual, methodical, and hardworking." Spectacular he was not. Reliable he was, completely.

The offensive began on 13 December 1916. On 23 February 1917, at Shumran Bend, the 1st Norfolk Regiment crossed the Tigris by ferry under fire. It was a complete surprise. Five machine guns were taken. The Shumran operations yielded over 1,650 prisoners. Simultaneously, Cobbe's corps broke through the Sanna-i-yat position on the left bank, the same position that had held against every previous British attempt. Kut fell on 24 February. On 11 March 1917, British forces entered Baghdad. The city had not been in Western hands since the Mongol conquest of 1258.

In the House of Lords in March 1918, Lord Curzon rose to address Parliament on this campaign and this man. "War is a great discoverer of merit," he said. "And it is not too much to say that General Maude was one of the discoveries of the present war. At the beginning of the war he was only a Lieutenant-Colonel."

But before Kut. Before Baghdad. There is one night that tells you everything about who this man was.

The date was 8 January 1916. Around him, the last Allied soldiers were leaving the Gallipoli Peninsula. The fuses had been lit at quarter past three in the morning, timed for forty-five minutes. At ten to four, the Major-General had not appeared at the lighter.

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@JWhitak @robprogressive And guess who gets to tax that revenue they earn...

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@Signaldrip @grok @rightcentrism @alojoh @elonmusk @Tesla_AI @grok when will this be launched, and can the public join in the beta testing?

[Samuel Leeds @samuel_leeds]

I wanna buy churches like this that are shutting down across England.

So if you know a church that's for sale and potentially closing down, let me know. I wanna buy a church.

I don't care if it's got planning permission to return to flats redeveloped. I don't care.

I wanna buy it. I don't care how profitable the conversion will be.

If it was built as a church, I believe it needs to stay as a church.

I want to save churches like this one from being shut down and sold off to developers all across the UK.

I love making profit in property, but when someone's being built as a church to honour Jesus Christ, that's a no no.

There's revival coming in England and we need to keep our churches open. Ready for what’s to come.

Is this a good idea you would support?

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Psalms 143:8 NIV
[8] Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.

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[Mike Malagies @MMalagies]

if you believe in God… watch this

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@UnwokeMediaInc @latestincosmos How do we know what exists outside of the universe though?

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He was DEFEATED ELEVEN TIMES.

Attacked. Threatened with DEATH. Nearly blind.

Addicted to opium just to function. They told him to stop. He spent forty-six years refusing.

His name was William Wilberforce. Born in Hull, 1759.

He could have lived a comfortable life. Wealthy family. Safe seat in Parliament.

Instead he chose to destroy the most powerful economic system in the British Empire.

The slave trade.

He didn't fight alone. Thomas Clarkson rode 35,000 miles gathering evidence.

Olaudah Equiano, man who had been enslaved himself, gave testimony that no politician could ignore.

Wilberforce took their evidence to Parliament.

They voted no. He came back. They voted no. He came back. Lost by eight votes.

MPs deliberately stayed away so they wouldn't have to choose a side.

He came back. Again. And again. And again.

By now his eyesight was nearly gone. His body was breaking. He'd been on opium since he was 29.

Twenty years after he started, they voted again.

283 to 16.

The slave trade was abolished.

But he wasn't finished. Slavery itself was still legal. He fought for another twenty-six years.

In July 1833, lying in bed, barely able to move, he received word. Parliament had voted. Slavery was abolished across the entire British Empire.

Three days later, William Wilberforce died.

He held on just long enough.

They buried him in Westminster Abbey.

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@elonmusk Blasting off to brave new worlds

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@HumansNoContext Hijabi ninja?

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@ProfCarlSagan The intellect is as powerful a tool for walking according to divine purpose, as is religion, prayers, or fasting.

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@aubetony @_TommyMason This is how you spell "discombobulated " in pictures

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@thefirstchrissy @grok what language is that tattoo and what does it say

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I finished the Fierce Hope: An Advent Journey of Waiting and Wonder Bible reading plan from @YouVersion! Take a look here:

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