Queen Esther

Approach the throne of undeserved kindness with freeness of speech.—Heb. 4:16.
Jehovah in his undeserved kindness grants us the blessing of approaching his heavenly throne in prayer. He has afforded us this privilege through his Son, “by means of whom we have this freeness of speech and free access with confidence through our faith in him.” (Eph. 3:12) Free access to Jehovah in prayer is indeed a wonderful expression of his undeserved kindness. Paul encouraged us to approach Jehovah freely in prayer, “so that we may receive mercy and find undeserved kindness to help us at the right time.” (Heb. 4:16b) At any time that we are plagued with trials or turmoil in our life, we can cry out to Jehovah for his merciful help. Undeserving as we are, he answers our call, often through fellow Christians, “so that we may be of good courage and say: ‘Jehovah is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?’”—Heb. 13:6. w16.07 3:12, 13
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2018/6/10

Sure ??    Then,  millions  come  along......

More  for  lady - legs....   but  NOT  for  faces, 

This article is virtually incomprehensible!

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2018/6/11

Approach the throne of undeserved kindness with freeness of speech.—Heb. 4:16.

Approach the throne of undeserved kindness with freeness of speech.—Heb. 4:16.

Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you have become her children.—1 Pet. 3:6.
Although Noah and his three sons each had only one wife, polygamy was practiced in patriarchal times. In many cultures, sexual immorality became a way of life, even being incorporated into religious rites. When Abram (Abraham) and his wife, Sarai (Sarah), obeyed God and moved to Canaan, that land was filled with practices that made a mockery of marriage. Jehovah therefore decreed that Sodom and Gomorrah be destroyed because inhabitants of those cities practiced or condoned gross sexual immorality. Abraham took the proper lead in his family, and Sarah set a fine example by submitting to her husbandÂ’s headship. (1 Pet. 3:3-5) Abraham made sure that his son Isaac married a worshipper of Jehovah. Similar concern for true worship guided IsaacÂ’s son Jacob, whose sons became the forefathers of the 12 tribes of Israel. w16.08 1:10
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2018/6/11

Here's a relevant quote:
Angela Merkel is now the leader of the free world, not Donald Trump  -https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/angela-merkel-donald-trump-democracy-freedom-of-press-a7556986.html
The US President isn’t motivated by protecting liberal democracy or freedom, his sole ideology is Trumpism: corporate autocracy with a populist facade. And he surrounds himself with white nationalists even more hostile to liberal democracy than he is
Also see the Daily Mail article from a couple of years ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3303677/Putin-declared-powerful-man-world-Forbes-magazine-Angela-Merkel-replacing-President-Obama-second-place.html
Putin is declared the most powerful man in the world by Forbes magazine... with Angela Merkel replacing President Obama in second place
Vladimir Putin is declared world's most powerful for third year in a row German Chancellor Angela Merkel steals runner-up from Barack Obama First year a sitting U.S. President has not made it into the top two   
It's a comment on how much power the US has supposedly lost due loss of trust in the US Gov't for negotiating power. Trump's pulling out of prior international agreements indicates to nations that the US cannot be trusted to keep an agreement, and therefore the US loses powerful leverage as a player among other nations. Germany keeps control over international monetary policy in a way that the US can no longer manage. And the potential drain on the "full faith and credit of the US Govt" backing our Treasury bonds. (The way we [USA] try to sell our debt to other countries to pay for things like Trump's trillion dollar tax cut to favor the wealthy. As it is we will have to raise interest rates on Treasury bonds to entice foreign countries to fund this trillion dollars.)

@JW Insider  Ah!  Now I see what you are referring to. Thx.

Approach the throne of undeserved kindness with freeness of speech.—Heb. 4:16.
Jehovah in his undeserved kindness grants us the blessing of approaching his heavenly throne in prayer. He has afforded us this privilege through his Son, “by means of whom we have this freeness of speech and free access with confidence through our faith in him.” (Eph. 3:12) Free access to Jehovah in prayer is indeed a wonderful expression of his undeserved kindness. Paul encouraged us to approach Jehovah freely in prayer, “so that we may receive mercy and find undeserved kindness to help us at the right time.” (Heb. 4:16b) At any time that we are plagued with trials or turmoil in our life, we can cry out to Jehovah for his merciful help. Undeserving as we are, he answers our call, often through fellow Christians, “so that we may be of good courage and say: ‘Jehovah is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?’”—Heb. 13:6. w16.07 3:12, 13
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2018/6/10

YOU  GUY'S  NOT  SEEN  ALL  PERSONS  ON  THIS  PIC ??
I  SEE  A  VERY  SPECIAL  BODY - LANGUAGE.....  OH  YES !!
ALL  MEN  DOING  NOTHINGS !!    ALSO  TRUMP'S  ARM'S  SHOWING  A LOT !
ONLY  OUR  ANGELA  IS  ACTING  -  LIKE  ALWAYS !!
SHE  IS  MOSTLY  SO  TOUGH !   WOW !!!!
TRUMP  ONLY  CAN  "TWITTERN"....  OR  MAKING  OTHER  MISTAKES  -
THE  WHOLE  WORLD  IS  LAUGHING  OVER  HIM
WHAT  A  CRAZY  AND  DANGEROUS  USA  "PRESIDENT"......

Just curious as to why you think Angela Merkel is the most powerful?
I wouldn't have thought that.
More powerful than Donald Trump?

Imagine those who once had beards but had to shave later. Now that it's allowed they again decide to have a beard.
What will the public think when they open the door to a calling person and see what appears to be someone who apparently hasn't shaved for a few days. Especially when the person introduces himself as a Jehovah's Witness. The first one to have a beard.
 

Keep looking, keep awake, for you do not know when the appointed time is.—Mark 13:33.
As Jehovah’s Witnesses, we take seriously Jesus’ warning. We know that we are living deep in “the time of the end” and that there cannot be much time left before the “great tribulation” begins! (Dan. 12:4; Matt. 24:21) We see distressing wars, increasing immorality and lawlessness, religious confusion, food shortages, pestilences, and earthquakes taking place around the world. We know that a phenomenal Kingdom-preaching work is being accomplished by Jehovah’s people everywhere. (Matt. 24:7, 11, 12, 14; Luke 21:11) We eagerly anticipate what the Lord’s coming will mean for us and for the accomplishment of God’s purpose. (Mark 13:26, 27) However, try as hard as we might, we cannot pinpoint the exact year, much less day and hour, when the great tribulation will begin. w16.07 2:2-4
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2018/6/9

Thanks for your wonderful and true words, dear brother @John Houston 
I so hope, we can see us soon in a world full of only LOVE & PEACE ?❤️
Agape love from your sister in far away Germany! 

MY  THOUGHTS  SIMILAR.....   BUT  WE'RE  ALL  LITTLE  DIFFERENT  JW   JEHOVAH  KNOWS  IT !    MAY  JEHOVAH  DAILY  BLESS  YOU  AND  YOUR  FAMILY.....      DEAR   BIBLE SPEAKS....
Perhaps  you  can  write  us  the  link  from  the  new  Education of Health and Emotional Support ?  thanks?
THANKS  FOR  YOUR  BIG  ENGAGEMENT  FOR  ALL  YOU  GAVE  US  HERE !!
GREETINGS  AND  LOVE  FROM  YOUR  SISTER  A.A.  from  GERMANY
See  us  in  the  NW,  so  Jehovah  will  allows  

 

BREAKING NEWS | Wives of Imprisoned Witnesses in Russia Send Open Letter to Putin Adviser !
On the morning of June 8, 2018,  10 of the wives of the 17 imprisoned Witnesses in Russia sent an open letter to Mikhail Fedotov, adviser to President Putin and chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.  -       2  long  pages....     MORE  here:  ( with  all  names  and  Regions )
https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/
https://jw-russia.org/sites/default/files/openletter_to_pchr_and_fedotov_en5064.pdf

Thats  not  her  name....  I  tell  you  all  after  I  reached  her,  okay?  Maybe  in  pn !
Thanks  @JW Insider.....

I can tell it's not Brother Barber, but I never met Ernie Beavor. Remember this about him though, as G.A. already mentioned:
*** w01 2/1 p. 15 par. 7 Are You Living Up to Your Dedication? ***
One such individual was Ernest E. Beavor of England. He became a Witness in 1939 at the beginning of World War II, and he gave up a flourishing press photography business in order to take up the full-time ministry. Because of maintaining his Christian neutrality, he went to prison for two years. His family stood by him, and in 1950 his three children attended the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead for missionary training, in New York. Brother Beavor was so zealous in his preaching activity that friends called him Armageddon Ernie. He loyally lived up to his dedication, and right down to his death in 1986, he proclaimed the imminence of GodÂ’s war of Armageddon. He did not view his dedication as a limited-time contract with God! This is something like the way he looked in 1980. The pic above could be 6 years later, or earlier.

 

Hmm. I thought that was Ernie Beavor? Armageddon Ernie we called him??

Women  don't  have  long  beards....  so  I  never  heard  from  such  of  permission !  Sounds  like  a  funny  JTR  -  joke  -  hahaha

Women are allowed. ?

I too will miss your perspective on many things. I have shared them with my congregation because they have not seen or thought as you have. That is why there is 8. so many of us, 'unified' not uniformed of a people in this faith. We are all on the same transportation ride to the exact same destination, to eternal life under perfect theocratic sovereignty with Jehovah as One to everyone as he was in the very beginning before Adam sinned. Then each of us can make the choice as they did, do we want to stay, or follow after Satan.
But now we need all of us, really, we do. We have barriers that we have to tear down now, because we are a 'human race' a family belonging to Jehovah God. We have never had to think like that. Truly brothers and sisters common on all levels and loving each other for no other reason than to gain a smile and hug! For no evil will not exist any more after Satan is destroyed. Earth will be fill with the knowledge of Jehovah. Man, I can't wait. Take care and agape! You will be missed from this home site, I personally will miss you. ???????