THIS IS HOW TO TALK :>).. To improve the day and change the weather..

The first words out of your mouth when you wake up are -

‘THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE,

I WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT .’

THEN the praising begins.. even before you brush your teeth.

Praise you Father for another wonderful day.

Praise you Father for the gifts and manifestations of the spirit, that will serve me today.

Praise you Father that today, none of my words will fall to the ground.

Praise you Father that today I will walk in power, and in the way of your steps.

I will praise you O Lord with my whole heart, and show forth all thy marvellous works!

For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous, with favor wilt thou compass ME as with a shield!

George Mueller always began his day with praise, prayer, and Bible study; to FILL his spiritual tank for a day in the present evil world. And to boost his believing and power.

I went out to my yard this morning to pray and praise the Lord. It was another beautiful day here in Central New York.

The beautiful 3 tiered stairway that my son built, (his first attempt at such a thing) will soon be the ‘stairway to heaven’!

My yard is all torn up right now, as somehow after 7 years of wanting to do so, we’re finally working on the yard: Funds for the work have come in here a little, there a little, and the workers that showed up, like Nehemiah’s men, have had a mind to work ! Praise the Lord!

We’ve taken down a number of trees blocking the sun (and taking up useful space, not to mention dropping troves of black walnuts¹).. ground their stumps, graded the ground -to a point- (much more needs to be done) installed some new fencing.. basically opening up the property - which is finally SUNNY, and looks so much BIGGER. It’s looking like a place that we could finally get some use from.

But it’s not done yet. There’s mountains of dirt and piles of brush and tree trunk sections to deal with. Then, my man with the Mega-SKIDSTEER is VERY busy, and the season is closing- as the weather changes..

We spoke on Monday.. he said his guys are finishing a job today or tomorrow, that the earliest they can make it is Thursday,.. Of course - Thursday they’re calling for 10 days straight rain or snow!. You can’t use the skidsteer in either, and we need him for at least 2 days...

Syracuse weather forecast

They’re even calling for the season’s first blizzard in the mountain states and northeast.

BUT like the good Apostle said - ‘NONE OF THAT MOVES ME’.

You know what I told the man? (A nice Christian fellow with his own landscaping company, large machines and a good crew) I said - “YOU take care of the schedule, and I’LL take care of the weather’.

You see, it helps my case that he can’t schedule any work if it’s going to rain or snow. (I’m a comparatively small job, and a Johnny come lately’ project, so I don’t get priority). GOD put rain on the weather report to open his schedule for me!

Thus, I DECREE that on Thursday and Friday there will be NO PRECIPITATION. NOT RAIN. NOT SNOW. We’re going to have more nice weather like today. :>} )

I sat out in the yard this morning with my coffee.. surveying the large open dirt on the approximately 1/2 acre, and said..

‘THIS IS THE LAND THAT THE LORD HATH MADE,

I’M GOING TO REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT. Psalm 118:24

‘FOR THOU LORD, ART MAINTAINING MY LOT.

THE LINES ARE FALLEN UNTO ME IN PLEASANT PLACES -

YEA - I HAVE A GOODLY HERITAGE.’ Psalm 16:5 & 6

And I told the rain:

→ “YOU STAY PROUD RAIN; YOU STAY PROUD CLOUDS - I COMMAND YOU TO STAY IN GOD’S STOREHOUSES UNTIL HE RELEASES YOU. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, BUT I COMMAND YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM FAYETTEVILLE NY THIS WEEK, AND THE WAY HERE FROM CHITTENANGO. YOU HAVE NO PLACE HERE, NOT UNTIL MY WORK IS DONE THIS WEEK. IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST”. Amen.”

Tell you one more funny thing about my yard and the Lord’s help..

About 2 months ago, my neighbor to the East came over and said to me that my ‘temporary’ wire dog fence was on his property. (The fence had been up for over 6 years, to keep my Aussies from wandering. I wondered why it was suddenly an issue.) He showed me a metal marker where in fact, we had gone over the line a bit. He said he didn’t care, but that his daughter- who is going to inherit his property → is a lawyer, and…“she will care.”

Sure enough, she did.

I got a letter in the mail from his daughter, but not as a ‘daughter.’ She wrote on official letterhead from her law office, demanding $2,500 on the part of her ‘client’, (her dad) to ‘rent that space on the ground’, for a ‘few months’. I kid you not. (I had told her dad that day, that the wire fence was just to keep our dogs in →till we moved. So for only $2,500 his daughter was going to give us a few months to keep the fence in place).

My attorney (Jesus the Christ) told me how to answer her. She wrote me twice more, and twice more I answered as he advised. She dropped the complaint and demand.

But we removed the dog fence anyway, pending the installation of something more permanent. But our disputes had included the question of ‘which of us should hire [read ‘pay] for ‘Surveyors to mark the property.’ My neighbor wanted me to do it, but I suggested he ought to do it, seeing as they were the ones asserting encroachment. They got a bit testy. (Not on our part, we’ve always been kind to this older couple.. but he started to give us the cold shoulder).

Anyway, the Lord showed me to write the man a nice card, and even gave me the words to say. So I wrote a card.

2 days later my neighbor called me on the phone, and said he was going to go ahead and hire surveyors to mark the boundary between out lots.. !

The surveyors came out, and marked the boundary between our houses. You won’t believe what happened.. I GAINED LAND. While we’d encroached a tad in one place, our dog fence was mostly INSIDE of our own property. So I gained land - just in time to put up permanent fencing. :>)

And that’s not all, I saw his wife in the grocery store and she was a sweet as a peach. Praise the Lord. It pays dividends to be on talking terms to Jesus.

If we ask, Jesus will give us the words to say. Then, whenever we say HIS words, he lets none of them fall to the ground.

And the best part is that -

..this week, it isn’t going to rain until my yard is graded and completed - and the man with the machinery is going to show up, and so is the $$.

Wanna maka bet!?

1. I know how wonderful black walnuts are for herbal medicines and iodine, but the processing of the nuts is extraordinary.. and out of my reach.