Our View Out The Front Window July 8, 2018

This is our view out the front window this week at Souls Harbor Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

This is my view looking out the side window from my chair. Pardon the window screen.

Here are all the links to our posts from the last week. Please take a moment to check them out.

Odie's Saturday Evening Post

Tent Revival and A Couple Projects

The Tent Going Up In Colorado Springs

Vintage View Vednesday

🌟 🌟 Happy Birthday Kelly Jo! 🌟 🌟

Weekend Woundup and Weview

I hope you have a terrific Sunday! We are planning to have two services under the tent today and then take down the tent and hit the road if the tent is dry. We need to make some tracks toward Ohio.

Thank you for tuning in.

Davy

My Prayer For America

Hey Friends, 

This is Odie reporting in from Colorado today. The gospel tent is set up here in Colorado Springs. Revival will finish up here tonight and tomorrow. When everything is packed away we will begin the trek home. I would appreciate your prayers for safe and smooth travels.

Did you see my post last Saturday? We had a virtual birthday party for my Mom. I was pleased with the outcome and Mom enjoyed it. Thank you again to everyone who helped me make it a success! You can click here to read it. 

Our great nation of America had a birthday this week too! Happy Birthday to the greatest place on Earth. I am proud to be an American! I thank our forefathers for their vision and their sacrifice so that I can live here. Thank you to everyone who works to preserve our freedom and protects us! I have visited almost every state in our union. I am amazed by the beauty in this land I get to call my home sweet home!

I may not agree with everything our country stands for now, but I love my home. I pray for revival across our land and for our country to return to God. I thank God for His blessings on us! I pray that He has mercy on us all! I am reminded of 2 Chronicles 7:14. I am standing on God promise. 

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

The last few days I have been thinking of the song “God Bless America.” It represents what I feel in my heart right now. It is easy to think of it only as a patriotic song, but it can truly be a prayer.

God bless America

Land that I love

Stand beside her 

And guide her

Through the night with the light from above

From the mountains 

To the prairies

To the oceans 

White with foam

God bless America

My home sweet home

Songwriter: Irving Berlin

God Bless America lyrics © Imagem Music Inc

According to what I read online it was first written by Irving Berlin in 1918. He revised it in 1938 and debuted it on Armistice Day. The author of this song was Jewish and he came to America at the age of 5 from Russia. I did not remember the history of this song. It was interesting to me to read about the composer and the song's history. You can click here to view what I read. 

Click here to see a clip of a Gaither video. This is the Homecoming crew singing “God Bless America.” This was recorded at Carnegie Hall shortly after 9/11/2001. 

Please join me in praying for our Nation, our Leaders and our Armed Forces! Thank you for stopping by to visit with us today. Have a good weekend!

Odie 

Tent Revival and a Couple of Projects

Colorado Springs gets two an average of 16.5 inches of rain per year. Who decided we needed most of that the last three days? Wow! The rain came after church on Wednesday but hit before and during service on Thursday.

We put up the sidewalls around the front to protect the equipment and instruments and had a great service. The crowd was less because of the rain, but there was still a super response in the altar service. Thank God we were able to have church.



By the time service was over the rain had mostly stopped. Hopefully rain will hold off for the rest of revival. There is no sense in getting the allotment for the whole year only because I am in town.

Projects

I mentioned a week or two ago that I had a problem with the second hydraulic lift in the tent trailer. As far as I know I had never owned any kind of hydraulic lift, other than a floor jack or bottle jack, but with this trailer I own two.

I have owned this trailer for nearly 6 1/2 years and all I have done is add fluid to one of the lifts and had one weld fixed on one of the support posts. That is not too bad.

The first one operates the tongue jack on the front of the trailer. That is the one I repaired the control on in OKC. I knew the second one was acting up and I had to tackle that while in Wichita.

The second pump operates the big lift in the trailer. In the picture below the lift is up. The white surface that looks like a low ceiling is actually the bottom of the lift. The chairs, the poles, the tent bags, the stakes and a few other things ride up on the lift.



That lift first gave me a little problem when we were in Alabama. It was hesitating at times to go up. I took the cover off the pump motor and found the black wire going from the solenoid to the motor was loose at the solenoid. I tightened it as much as I could but it was almost inaccessible without removing the solenoid.

I tightened it enough to get the lift going and placed the job on my "rainy day" list.

When I raised the lift Saturday in OKC, I could smell that connection getting hot and could see it glow. I took my time and finally got it up and put the chore on my "do it Now" list.

Monday in Wichita I removed the cover and took the solenoid off. The picture below is what it looks like except the big red wire has already been removed. You may be able to tell that the black wire is against the wall and it is hard access.

I was thinking the threaded post on the solenoid was loose and I would have to get a new solenoid. When I took it off the pump motor, I found the post still in working order. I was able to tighten it. Yay!

The end of the black wire was brittle though. It had obviously been loose (ish) a long time. It has probably been bouncing down the road in this trailer for 21 years without any attention.

It was a 6" wire and all I could find locally was 12". I bought it, cleaned everything up real good and put it all back together. This is what it looks like now.

The lift works great! When we arrived in Colorado Springs the other day, the lift went up and down perfectly. I think it is operating better than it has the whole time I have owned it. Terrific.

Yesterday I tackled another project somewhat less successfully. A while back a couple of my speakers were banged up a little bit. I thought I had everything in working order except for the plug on the back of one of them.

I had to order a new one and it came in last week. It had to be soldered and I know nothing about soldering. Pastor Paul Thomas did it for me in a few minutes yesterday and the connections are good.

However, both of the speakers are growling so there is obviously a deeper problem. I took them apart and checked the inside connections and all looks good. I will need to get them to an expert when I get a chance. Some things are out of my league.

We are looking forward to a great weekend of tent revival. Thanks for reading today.

Davy