Faith - Blog Posts

Yes, you will suffer for a short time. But after that, God will make everything right. He will make you strong. He will support you and keep you from falling. He is the God who gives all grace. He chose you to share in his glory in Christ. That glory will continue forever.

1 Peter 5:10

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JOHN BINDER!!!!!!

John binder? John binder.

"Somebody will say something like "I can't help myself" but let me tell you something. Listen, the devil can't make a Child of God do anything. He cannot make you. He will lead you, he will guide you, he'll entice you, tempt you but he can't make you." - Dr. Charles Stanley.

Once you have surrendered yourself to Christ, once you have been born again, and once you're gifted with the Holy Spirit, you are a Child of God and therefore you're no longer a slave to the world. You're no longer a slave to the spiritual principalities that rule this word (Ephesians 2:2, Proverbs 1:10).

As a Child of God we are called and expected to walk in step with the Holy Spirit on a "moment by moment" basis. Meaning we don't seek him once a day, once a week, once a month, only when we're in trouble and distress, but on a moment to moment basis. Seeking him every moment of everyday.

We do this because everyday we wake up we face three enemies:

The world

The flesh

The devil

This is why we seek the Spirit on a moment by moment basis. We seek his council, his wisdom, his strength. We seek him when we are inevitably confronted by one of these three enemies and they can come at any moment.

Moment by moment we should be listening to the Holy Spirit. Why? Because he is our guide. He is our gift from the Father above.

Trust me, I know how hard it can be to struggle with sin, to struggle with giving in. I understand just as much as anybody. But I promise you, it's possible to live life without sin, I've done it before, I can do it again. And I know you can too. Amen, may God bless you, always. 🤍

Ephesians 1:14 NLT

[14] The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.

Romans 8:4

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

yall seem to like my faith memes so heres a dump of them

Pretty christian boy 💃✨️

DID U PRAY 2DAY??? DID U PRAY TODAY??????

finally finished this... the great colour wheel circle of indie horror games.

Daily Doodles- Day 108- 01/08/24

My OC Faith from my yet-to-be-written short story called 'Diary of an Ex-Witch'

The tag for this is #agdoodles

I've been thinking a lot about Constantine. The movie, not the show or comic, as I'm not really familiar with them.

Specifically, I keep thinking about the scene with him and Tilda Swindon, Gabriel, in the church near the start of the film. It's when the film first tells us that Constantine is doomed to go to Hell when he dies (since a large portion of this film is based on a misunderstanding of Catholic doctrine regarding suicide). They start talking about the necessity of faith, which Constantine argues he has. But Gabriel corrects him. Constantine doesn't have faith in God, he has knowledge of God, which are very different things.

And it makes me think of how a lot of evangelical Christians try to argue that there is proof that the Christian God exists. There are alleged miracles, people who have claimed to hear His voice, accounts of near death experiences. There's a whole subset of Christian fiction that involves atheists or people of other faiths literally meeting God and being told that Christianity is the way to go.

And this all just seems very antithetical to the entire point of having faith. If you believe in God due to perceived proof, that's not faith. It's knowledge - at least from their perspective.

I don't really know where I'm going with this. It's just been swirling around in my head for a while.

Just wanna repost this in light of what the Catholic Church said recently

There is literally no demographic more interesting than queer religious people. Even if you never had much of a crisis in faith (like me), we are still forced to reconcile what we believe in with our own existence in a way that straight religious people, and nonreligious queer people, will never fully experience. I once spoke to a lesbian minister of a queer-centric nondenominational church who said “the god you believe in is always a reflection of self, which is why queer people see god as so much more loving and forgiving than other people do. Our god is a form of self-love and acceptance” and i will never forget that.

A gun with one bullet

Hope has dirt under her fingernails

Hope has dirt under her fingernails. Her broken foot trembles beneath her as she stands up, reading herself for another punch.

Faith clutches the rim of the sink, breath fogging up the mirror. Then she takes her meds and closes the door behind her.

Perseverance hands bribes to cops and takes the first cleaning job she gets, eyes averted as she gets slapped for tardiness.

Selflessness shivers on her bedroom floor, the memory of loosing a patient on the operation table replaying behind her eyelids again.

Love sits in the visitors hall of the hospital, waiting to replace the wilted flowers beside the coma patient.

Passion only leaves the house to go to therapy, the world too painful to look at for long.

Strength looks at the others and decides to make a home in their hearts.

You don’t think Mary knew what it was to sacrifice?

Don’t think she spent every day of her son’s life wondering if it would be his last?

Don’t think she asked herself if his first steps would be his last?

Which of the times he told her goodbye would be the final one?

Which of the miracles he preformed would paint the target on his back?

Which of the gods he opposed would be gifted his head, Mary’s heart resting aside it?

You don’t think she grew to resent her God?

The man who gifted her the most precious of things, for the sole purpose of taking him away?

You don’t think she warred with herself for questioning God’s will?

Don’t think she ever wondered why it had to be her?

Did she ever look at the people amongst her and wonder why they deserved salvation?

Ever question why they should live while her child should not?

Ever pray to take his place?

Ever blame herself for what was to come?

For it was not simply God who made her child, she accepted him. She agreed.

Is she not as guilty and morally objectionable as those she scorns?

Is she not as blood coated as those who hammers the nails?

Mary, who knew the fate that beheld the lamb once it reached the wooden alter, cradled it in her arms.

The lamb felt warmth. The lamb felt love. The lamb looked upon his mother and saw the good in humanity. So what was the lamb to do but step upon the alter himself?

What could he have done but lay his head before the knife, in reverence to the woman who carried him there?

How was the lamb to repay his mother’s kindness with damnation? When she above all deserved absolution.

Mary raised her son with love, kindness and faith. Praying what she knew would occurs never came to pass. What else was she to do?

Her son felt the love and kindness she gave with no ask of repayment, saw her faith. Believing the good in humanity flowed and shined from her. What else was he to do?

Palestinians pray in the rubble of Rafah's al-Farouk mosque, destroyed in Israeli attack

Palestinians in the Rafah city of Gaza, perform the last Friday prayer before the holy month of Ramadan in the rubble of al-Farouk mosque, which was destroyed in an Israeli attack, on March 08, 2024." from Abed Zagout:

wardsz and a cole

"Let your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you." Psalm 33:22

"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure." Hebrews 6:19

"Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord." Psalm 31:24

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you,plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds." Hebrews 10:24-25

john ward = baby girl

john ward brainrot moment