Mountaintop With Jesus

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January 18, 2022How much is enough
Episode Notes
Podcast #4, January and February 2022
How Much is enough?
No one can buy it all, even if they are the best at e-bay or garage sales or the best couponer. This month’s podcast addresses this question by setting forth ideas which can help complete your Lord aided prep plan which we started last month.
So how much is too much? Here are conversation starters which you and our wonderful Lord can discuss. Remember, He knows your situation and His love reaches out to guide you. This is not just a thought, a nicety, it is important and the point of this podcast that you pray and hear from the Lord exactly what should go into the plan.
Last month’s podcast. Last month, we looked at for whom you are prepping. Several items were presented to help you and the Lord plan which fits your place in life and your future. If you have not listened to last month’s podcast, I suggest you listen to that one before this one or in addition to this one!
After prayer and hearing from the Lord, count the people which you included in your plan. Remember this plan is for now and does not mean that it is carved in stone. In fact, it should not be. But it is a starting point of a well guided plan.
Yourself: Must follow the mandate of preaching/sharing the gospel. So, include yourself!
Your Family: So how far did you take the family tree which will be included in your first planning?
Your close and not so close friends: Count your initial structure of persons
Community and drop-ins: Neighborhood and those who happen to know that you have prepared.
Now let us look at how to turn this information into an action plan or development of the item priority list.
Make a table of people, gender, ages and other dietary (must haves) not simply whether they like something or not
Total each group and look up average caloric needs for everyone based upon gender, age, and possible workload.
Add a column for how likely they are to get to your current location or bug out location. (The place/places where preps are stored) Use a numerical value such as the list below: (Note, I have included abbreviations or values as suggestions for each item as this would make input to your spreadsheet or written record shorter)
Not able to get here/there 10% yes and 90% no (n) (1)
Probably not able to make it; 37% yes and 73% no (pn) (2)
Mid-level chances 50% yes and 50% no (m) (3)
Probably able to make it 73% yes and 37% no (pa) (4)
Barring unforeseen circumstances, they will make it 90% yes and 10% no (a) (5)
Now sort the table via their likeliness of arriving
This table will allow you to prioritize your item or caloric purchases
When completed, please make a printed copy in put it in your prep-book/binder
Pray about your storage capabilities. Look at some of the items below:
Under furniture; Lots of room! Beds especially. Just put them on risers and this creates a large square footage quickly
Closets, garages, or spare rooms; Use shelves in these areas because they give you the ability to get something out without unstacking all the other items. Garages are great but make sure their temp swings are not outside of the range for the type of supplies you are storing
Basements; Be careful of this one! If it is needed, have a pump to keep water out. Second, but not store items at floor level. Raise them at least 18 inches above floor level and have a backup for that all important pump. Also, if damp, use a dehumidifier.
Out buildings; Again, lots of space but must be temp controlled
Rented storage areas; Think of this as an investment. The money you spend is offset by rise in costs, price, or availability at time of disaster and the inability to get those items at any price in an emergency. A small facility (even 7 x 7 feet) will store a lot of stuff. This should be climate controlled. Many places have a prohibition against food storage but most of the time this refers to open food. Storing in plastic containers or buckets with mylar bags inserted would be fine. Applies to renters, mobile homeowners, and other life situations in which one may not have a lot of storage or do not want others to know about your preps. Keep storage facility close to your living space or bug out area. Use shelving, if possible, as again, it can be selectively accessed, shelf by shelf. Remember climate control. Know your access times and alternate ways of access if after hours.
Know your group member to whom you are trusting your preps too. However, this is a way to work with those in your group and develop trust and relationships.
A retreat location you plan to get too. Boost their capability and put into the group for yourself and those you are bringing with you.
Make sure that your group has planned for storage and people by sharing a copy of your plan with them and getting there OK to include this in the total group plan. They must also consider storage and environmental controls and conditions.
Next month: the completion of this series.
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39min
December 01, 2021Who are you prepping for? (Part 2)
Episode Notes
For whom are you prepping for as a beginning plan?
Podcast 4, December 1st 2021
Second half of the November podcast
Even though this starts with #1, it is #4 in the November outline when it was originally published. Sorry about the confuion.
You’re not so close friends:
If Christian and have a skill, I would approach them and discuss your group with them
If not a professing Christian, but having a skill, I might approach them with a full explanation as to the Christian roots and steering/leadership of it’s calling. (Give no details as you discuss the group at first and only after much prayer, and seeking the Lord’s direction, should you make any offer. It would be better to ask the Lord to bring someone who is spiritually in line with the groups purpose.
Your community:
Since this one is much like the last one, items a and b apply here also.
However, there is one additional item which will also be the highlight of the next section. And that is those who come to your house looking for handouts. While this is a discussion we’ll come back to in the future, it also belongs here as it directly effects the question as to whom you are prepping for.
Your drop in(s):
While you might not have a problem sending 2 healthy men down to the community center in an emergency, how about:
Children alone traveling or your next-door neighbors for whom, their parents did not make it home
A young woman, alone and clueless as to what to do!
A widow or widower in their 70(s) or 80(s) from your neighborhood?
A handicapped person with not so many apparent outward skills
All of these are difficult choices which must be prayed over by you as an individual or group leader. Seek a personal direction from your Lord. Pray often, unceasingly and earnestly and through the Holy Spirit, God and His Son will direct you. Their guidance and direction will be the wings you hide beneath as a son or daughter of Our Father Which Art In Heaven!
Because this is a personal walk with the Lord, I can not answer these questions for you, but I know who can and desires to guide and lead this part of your preparation.
The End
Next month:
How much is enough? My answer will surprise you!
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November 27, 2021Who are you prepping for? (Part 1)
Episode Notes
Who are you prepping for?
Podcast #3, November 1st, 2021
While I understand that both the personal need to survive and the personal responsibility to one’s family are both of paramount importance, the primary goal in survival should be the sharing of the gospel and the completion of God’s assignment to you while here on earth and then you go home with a warm welcome from our Lord, saying “well done good and faithful servant” . While you may not understand the entire assignment, you need to be committed to following the Lord’s leading. So that step by step, He can show you and guide you, your family and others in His “all knowing” love!
Our Father, His Son and the Holy Spirit have charged us with preaching the gospel unto the ends of the earth. Thus, snatching as many souls from the clutches of the devil as possible should be our driving force because that emanates from the commandment and leading of the Lord!
This session discusses the aspects of (who) we are prepping for. As we answer these questions, it will also answer some major un-resolved questions put forth by the survival community. God brings wisdom in His plan and love for us through Christ.
Myself; OK, this is not entirely as self-serving as one would think. Because if prepping for yourself also includes the recognition of your chores in the Lord to be completed, then you are not only responding to your own need but responding to the assignment which God has called you too. Make sure that the Lord’s assignment is your priority.(“God’s will”)
Your family: The scriptures are clear that care for our families must be one of our top priorities just as God’s care for His family is His priority. For you:
Who does that include?
Are there rules to which they must adhere?
What’s the best way of sharing these rules?
What is the priority when family buts up against God’s leading for you and or others in your close group?
Relationship with the Lord
Willingness to take part in the spiritual life of the rest of the family/group
Their willingness to repent/change toward living a life in Jesus
Your close friends:
Close friends are like brothers and sisters, but are they? Their relationship with the Lord is of great importance to group cohesive and the receipt of group direction.
The first question for you/your group is; are we evangelist from within or a witness to the exterior world?
The second question is the willingness to participate in Christian activities and be open to the Lord or are they hostel? If hostel, I would be very careful to include them and share about vitally secret resources.
Why is the above so important? Because in a life and death survival situation, divisive/destructive behavior will break the group in many factions if not destroy it completely, thus defeating the purpose to which God has called you to. One of the devils’ greatest tools.
Next month: December 1st 2021.
The conclusion of this podcast.
Originally, this was a single podcast. It was broken into two parts to achieve the time limits set for the podcast. So come back next month (Dec 1st) for the rest of this outline.
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23min
October 01, 2021Difficult days ahead
Episode Notes
Difficult days ahead!
Podcast #2, October 2021:
In Martin Luther King’s last speech, he articulated many things which were originally shared in the gospel of Matthew, Chapter 24 where Jesus and the disciples discussed the end times.
In this podcast, we’ll take this speech apart and talk about how both the scripture and this speech especially speaks to our times and the times we may face soon.
This will be a basis for future podcasts. It will allow me to set the tone for many of your questions to be answered from scripture. Of course, none of us know the future and in fact, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated the very next day. But I think his contemporary outlook on his peaceful struggle for rights and our battle for survival have many corollaries and lessons to teach us today.
So, listen as we examine this challenge to us even today, some 53 years later. The battle may be for different reasons and for a much bigger cause, but the words of encouragement and inspiration are still appropriate to examine.
His relationship to our Father, His Son Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit is the base and power for these words of challenge to us today!
I don’t know what will happen now! We’ve got some difficult days ahead:
Not knowing but recognizing that urgent issues were/are at hand
Matthew 24: 32-35 (32) “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. (33) Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. (34) Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. (35) Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Explain a shadow project it’s effect ahead and not behind. A shadow is a forecaster not a Monday morning quarterback.
The battle must be fought by people’s driving convictions of caring for their brother and sisters or their selfish personal ambition. Which would it be? (Power or caring) (following this world’s leader, the devil who is and will always be bent on power and destruction of God and His world or the Father, Son and Holy Spirit who are committed to survival for all through salvation!
The days will be stressful.
Because it will call upon men and women, peoples of all nations and colors within a nation to take sides. Either because they agree with the issue at hand and a desired outcome or because they simply do not act, thereby giving credence to status quo
Because disagreement/conflict, strife, and division cause some to take rolls of conflict or quiet and peaceful change
Because, in the final analysis, people do not like making decisions. Fence sitting is the preferred position, is socially correct and has no connection to, or commitment to any actions upon important or relevant issues or outcomes
Deuteronomy 30:19
This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live
But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountain top.
Doesn’t matter; I know who’s in charge and who holds tomorrow
Why, because I’ve been to the mountain top seeing the vision and heard the voice of my heavenly Father and His Son and delivered by the assuring and affirming voice of the Holy Spirit.
Like anyone, I would like to live”
But he had seen the results, perhaps that of a scene in heaven or that one day, this nation would elect a black man as president by both whites and blacks. But if he were to live, a choice in God’s Hand, he would see the reality of what he had seen in a vision. So, his certainty depended on the giver of that vision which was the Godhead and who made that promise and His/Their promise can always be counted on to come to pass
“Don’t care as this is God’s work”
This is His sequence of events and promise!
“But I’m not concerned about that now, I just want to do God’s will”
Only God’s will is my guiding force in my life. I need to seek it and listen to it and live out His instructions
It’s His will that is our first responsibility to follow to bring us to the vision and promised future
“And he’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, And I’ve seen the promise land!”
“I’ve looked” Searching
“He’s allowed me to see” Rewarded my seeking and listening
“The promise land” the vision
“I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight but we, as a people, will get to the promise land”
That plan is in motion; I may or may not be with you here on earth, but the plan doesn’t depend on me being here with you. It depends upon the vision giver and the promise maker
The outcome is the vision and as a people we will get to that reality/vision together in that future time set by the author of that promised outcome
The vision of the final outcome was, and in our case is a promise from God Himself!
So, I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything, I’m not fearing any man
Happy; content, assured and confident in the outcome
The plan is set by a power larger than I
No man can alter the outcome, cause its demise or change the completion
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord”
“Mine eyes”; Personally, I’ve seen!
“The coming of the Lord” He is the final Word and the author of the outcome here on earth and in heaven His promises are trustworthy and unshakable, and I’ve witnessed them in my own life through my personal relationship with my Lord!
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August 16, 2021 Come to the Mountain Top with The Lord and I:
Episode Notes
In this first episode of mountain top with Jesus, I'll explain what this show is all about.
Its' format, its length, content, target audience and its' publish duration.
There will be a short segment about how the name came to be. We will also discuss some thoughts pertaining to upcoming shows.
So, join me as we journey to the mountain top with Jesus.
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23min

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