Dear CSN newsletter readers,
The Citizen Sentinels Network has maintained a project, originally deemed the “David Project,” since 2018, and this year we are developing the project into my full “ministry,” which I see simply as an assignment from Heavenly Father, or the mission He assigned to me. So, from this point, the Messages of Light will be known as the “Light Wing Messages.” For those readers of faith, the Messages of Light originated as a genuine inspiration from our Heavenly Father. It was initiated to bring Light into the dark, in such a time as this. And especially at this time in our nation and in the world, there is clear and present danger that requires the faithful to hold boldly and securely onto the foundations rooted in faith.
If you consider the messages in our Sunday edition relevant or meaningful and know others who might value them as well, consider yourself a Light mail messenger and please pass this newsletter on to those whom you feel could welcome it. Or simply, please receive it yourselves.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to all the Dads out there!!!
The Blessed State of the Righteous
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who delights greatly in His commandments.
His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed.
Wealth and riches will be in his house, And his righteousness endures forever.
Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
A good man deals graciously and lends; He will guide his affairs with discretion.
Surely he will never be shaken; The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.
He will not be afraid of evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
His heart is established; He will not be afraid, Until he sees his desire upon his enemies.” Psalm 112:1-8 (NKJV)
Love and Obey the Lord
Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.
So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him— then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. Deuteronomy 11:8-23 (NIV)
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Today is the day in the United States that is set aside for the Dads; we call it Father’s Day. So, Happy Father’s Day to all the dads who are reading this! Although Father’s Day may not seem as popular or as robust a holiday as Mother’s Day, it is a day to consider the value of all fathers.
The day was created as a legal holiday in the United States as a day honoring fathers and as a day to remember them for all that they provide for their children and families each day of each week. Hopefully, gratitude for dads would not be limited to just one day a year. And, that was not
the point of the holiday for Sonora Dodd, the “mother of Father’s Day.” Simply put, her desire as a dutiful and loving daughter was to provide a proper or “official” day to honor fathers throughout the world. Ms. Dodd was the daughter of a father who lost his wife, and who helped her dad to raise her five brothers. The history is well worth reading, for many reasons. Yet, the message I offer today again provides a unique perspective of Father’s Day. In 2019, I offered a somewhat similar message on Father’s Day that year.
In 2019, I was expressing that Father’s Day represents a day to honor fathers all over the wide, wide world, but children often forget to express their love for their fathers, for multitudes of real, or seemingly real, reasons. However, the question I raised then, and one I am raising again is whether it is the same in withholding our children’s love for our Father in Heaven. So, while the world is celebrating Father’s Day, this message explores the love we freely express to Heavenly Father. Some of the message today incorporates some of that Message of Light from 2019. And, like that message it is a bit lengthy, but it is a deep subject to consider.
The rest of our message follows the same general format as we have done in previous Sunday editions; however, from this point, as part of our overall rebranding effort of utilizing the Citizen Voice umbrella term for our media outreach, we are formally elevating the “David Project” to the “Light Wing Mission,” which is my personal ministry, which I have announced in a few messages previously. As we migrate all of our printed media outreach to Substack, the three posting days will remain the same, but the names will basically stay the same.
In addition to my Light Wing message, as usual we have additional articles in “Recommended Reading” and our Video Views sections, as well as essential news entries in our “Around the Republic” area. Remember “What affects one, affects all.” We do have ten great videos for today - including the “American Minute” feature by William Federer. Most of the videos have some connectedness to Father’s Day or families.
As always, we hope you at least watch one, or a few, or watch them all! All of our aggregated features are to help get to some very pertinent articles and videos to help direct our readers to quickly get an overview of current events. We hope that you would also please check out the presentations relevant to you. Again, we wish all the dads a Happy Father’s Day!
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Our Heavenly Father and Filial Piety
By Dennis Jamison
June 20, 2021
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.” 1 John 3:1
People across the world, who believe in Father’s Day, manage to celebrate this day and honor the fathers of the families, in their own manner of custom or practice. It seems quite fitting and proper to honor fathers for all that they do for their families -- it would be the ideal. Christians may understand it as an important day, and together with those of the Jewish faith would view it as a way to keep the Fifth Commandment -- “to honor thy father and mother.” Yet, for lack of a legal holiday to honor God, the Father in Heaven, it is my intent to call attention to readers to use this day as a way to also honor our Heavenly Father. Far be it for the secular world to have a legal holiday honoring our Father in Heaven; what government would create a legal holiday to honor God? Even in the United States, with the contorted concept of “separation of church and state,” it would seem a monumental task.
Yet, what of the First Commandment? The first four are directed upward and have to do with our relationship with God, but the first is usually familiar most to those of the Jewish faith: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.” But, according to Jesus, when asked about the greatest Commandment, he quoted Deuteronomy 6:
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. -- These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-8
So, what Jesus was teaching was not new, and yet it was new. If one looks at what Jesus had to encounter when he walked the earthen roads, the central relationship between God and man, up to the time he came, was between God as Lord and those of the faith. Yet, the relationship that Jesus introduced was as God the Father in Heaven. There is an incredibly different type of relationship that he shared, and it was a more intimate relationship of Father and Son. The real simple point of this message is whether people of faith today share such a deeply intimate and personal relationship with God, our Father in Heaven. Honestly, people of the Judeo-Christian heritage are all over the “spiritual map” in their personal relationship in faith with God. However,
when Jesus prayed, he addressed God as Heavenly Father, even though when he often spoke, as he taught, he spoke of God.
Herein lies the dilemma that creates a great deal of confusion, not only in one’s relationship to Jesus, but in one’s relationship to God. Jesus taught his disciples how to pray:
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This, then, is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in Heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom come,
Your Will be done,
on Earth as it is in Heaven…’
Yet, even though Christians claim to follow Jesus, they pray to God, they pray to the Lord, they pray to Jesus, and they even pray to Mother Mary or various saints. The real simple question one needs to ask themselves is: whose Kingdom is Jesus referring to in his instructions? What is the point of this part of the prayer? Is it not to develop a deeper consciousness of relationship with the Father in Heaven? Is it not linked to the First Commandment of the Ten? It emphasizes the relationship to God. But, Jesus is teaching his disciples that they are children of God in truly
a deeper or more intimate relationship with God. Yet, based upon the specific traditions of those various streams of “Christian” teaching, one develops a relationship with a “Supreme Judge” of the universe, or the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or one’s Father in Heaven. The genuine relationship between father and son, or father and daughter, is not always replicated in the way in which Jesus intended.
Certainly, when the Jewish authorities, specifically the Sanhedrin, viewed Jesus’ claim that he was the son of his Father in Heaven, it was considered blasphemy, and his followers were seen as heretics, and they were marginalized as a cult within the Hebrew society and in the greater reaches of the Roman Empire. How much pain and persecution haunted the followers of the “Way,” which was the name given to the earlier followers. And “Christian” may have been more a derogatory term by those who looked down upon these religious “fanatics.” But, a real deeper examination of what a Christian means in this time, may be needed, as we have several people who are Christian by birth only, or in name only. This means they are not truly Christians. But, it is understandable that Jesus was showing the “Way.” He certainly said he was, “...“the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me..” John 14:6
Jesus was showing his followers the “Way” to the Father, not to the Supreme Judge, or Almighty God. He was offering the pathway to know that intimate relationship with our Father in Heaven. Yet, there is more than one way to look at this, despite how difficult it is for people to grasp the distinction. Jesus was not only the way to God, but he was showing the way to have such a real relationship with the Father in Heaven. In other words, through his life, he was also revealing to us the way to relate to God as a father. It was not just his relationship he was teaching about, he was extending the understanding to those who could receive it, that they too were children of the Father. The passage from I John is not that complicated, but the message comes from one who knew the son, and helps to point the way to the relationship of filial piety that Jesus had with our Heavenly Father.
Truly, if one considers Jesus’ words in such a light, Church doctrine, or traditions, or theology pale in comparison to such a concept. Jesus was the way to develop this personal and quite intimate relationship with God in Heaven that was a love relationship. So, once one realizes the relationship God intended to have with His children, what else did Jesus teach? Again, it is not complicated. The Lord’s Prayer gives a deeper meaning as to what must we be doing to do the Will of God? It is centered around the Kingdom of God. Jesus did say: "...seek ye first his kingdom and his righteousness..." Matthew 6:33 And, Jesus, at another time, is quoted as to who were those in his real family:
“Someone told him, ‘Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.’ He replied to him, ‘Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the Will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.’”
Jesus’ relationship with his Father in Heaven should not just be a mere intellectual approach to him, but he was the way to know the Father through the love relationship he was reminding the people of, but he showed the way to relate to our Heavenly Father daily. How deep, how rich, how intimate that love relationship with God becomes is up to each of His children. And like an earthly relationship with our fathers, is as real as we want it to be, as real as we make it. And, for those seeking to do the Will of our Father in Heaven, that would be to allow Him to be first in our hearts, and then to focus upon doing what is most precious to Him. Jesus already told us.
It would start a true revolution if we could just put Jesus’ words into practice each day! Let us take Father’s Day to a new dimension - every day!
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Video Views - Onward and Upward!
From Rock Church: Fathers Day Skit - 6/29/2009
From YouTube Rascal Flatts ~ “My wish for you” ~ with lyrics 12/27/09
From Promise Keepers: Be A Leader https://promisekeepers.org/promise-keepers/videos/
The Irish Blessing - over 300 churches from our island sing a blessing over Ireland and beyond -
Review> From YAHOO Unfiltered: 'The democratic plantation really is worse than the plantation I grew up on.' - 10/18/2918
From Enni Francis: No Longer Slaves | Jonathan David and Melissa Helsa | by Enni Francis and Kanaan Francis - 10/5/20
From CBN News (w/video): Supreme Court Rules 9-0 for Catholic Social Services, Can't Be Forced to Violate Their Faith - 6/17/21
From CMA Awards 2020: Thomas Rhett, Reba McEntire & Chris Tomlin - "Be a Light" - 11/12/20
From CBN News (w/video): Catholic Bishops Advance Effort to Deny Biden Communion Over His Pro-Abortion Policies - 6/18/21
From Psalter Studios: Nearer My God to Thee - Anna Weatherup (Live (9/10/2012)
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American Minute by William J. Federer - for June 20 --
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Citizen Voicevideos In June, we still offer our video presentations although we no longer offer a live-stream feature. Viewers can still catch the link to the recordings -- all recordings are posted in several places on the internet. They will continue to be posted on the WCN-TV site: https://wcntv.net
They are also on the Youmaker site: https://www.youmaker.com/channel/30dd354d-4de8-4a79-802f-659021debbc4
and the Strike Force of Prayer site: https://strikeforceofprayer.tv/
However, viewers would be able to see a description of each episode on our Citizen Sentinels Network site: https://citizensentinelsnetwork.com/category/citizen-voice/
From Citizen Voice - Citizen Voice with Dennis Jamison | Episode 12 | William J Federer, 29 May 21 02:12 UTC
ICYMI > From Citizen Voice - “True US History” with Dennis Jamison | Pilot Episode https://wcntv.net/video/163/citizen-voice-with-dennis-jamison---pilot-episode?page=2
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Recommended Reading - follow the links… From The Daily Caller: Trump Wishes A Happy Father’s Day ‘To All,’ Including ‘Losers Of The World’ - 6/20/21
From The Daily Mail: Furious mother blasts nursery after they renamed 'Father's Day' - 6/19/21
From The Daily Signal: Why Juneteenth Should Serve as Reminder That 'Family Matters' - 6/18/21
From The Gateway Pundit: Here's Why it was So Important for Democrats to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday… - 6/18/21
From The Daily Signal: 14 States Side With Christian Wedding Photographer Against NY’s Public Accommodations - 6/18/21
From The Daily Signal: Since the First Juneteenth, Black Americans Have Struggled to Participate in Elections. Now, We Must Defend Election Integrity. - 6/19/21
From Communities Digital News: Father's Day Uncanceled: A legacy message for American Dads - 6/19/21
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Around the Republic - What affects one, can affect all! News From Arizona - From The Epoch Times (w/ video): Exclusive Interview: New Audit Timeline, Final Report Expected Date | Facts Matter - 6/15/21
News From Florida - From The Gateway Pundit (w/ video):Mike Pence Drowned Out by Hecklers at Faith & Freedom Coalition Summit with Chants of "Traitor!” - 6/18/21
News From Georgia -From The Gateway Pundit:WE CAUGHT THEM: President Trump Warned Raffensperger and His Attorney Ryan Germany About Election Fraud - New Evidence Shows Germany Was Made Aware of Election Fraud on Election Night And Hid This From President Trump - 6/20/21
News From Michigan - From FOX Business News: Emails reveal Michigan AG urged police to go after restaurant owner: report - 6/15/21
News From Oregon - From FOX News: Entire Portland riot squad resigns after officer's indictment cM - 6/18/21
From FOX News: Judge Jeanine sounds off on Portland liberals after entire riot squat resignsvj-U - 6/18/21
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