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Asking For Prayer/s in Coming Back To Christ

I’ve been at a crossroads recently to the point where I broke down in tears which I haven’t felt in a long time. I want to serve the Lord but I’m afraid I’ll leave him again I am a wandering soul searching for love, companionship, peace, joy and a sense of purpose. I’ve tried what the world has to offer and it is all vanity like King Solomon said. I miss Jesus and love him. I want to be a part of heaven and the new earth someday.

Keep me in your prayers so that I keep on the straight and narrow path.

God bless.

Psalm 23: "A verse-by-verse understanding" (Part 3)

PSALM 23: "A verse-by-verse understanding for us all" (Part 3)

verse 3


'HE RESTORETH MY SOUL; HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE" KJV

'"HE RESTORES MY INNER PERSON. HE GUIDES ME IN RIGHT PATHS FOR THE SAKE OF HIS OWN NAME (Complete Jewish Study Bible)


What is David saying here, being always guided by the Holy Spirit, as ALL scripture is? As we consume the Word of God, being our "Green pastures and still waters," the words of scripture enter our hearts and minds through our eyes and ears, either by reading or listening. When we let the message of scripture into our hearts, there should be a transformation. Yet that is up to each person. Some may read the Bible only as an interesting novel, or fiction, not believing it is true.

For those who DO read and believe, then, our "inner person" gets transformed. We understand where we stand before a "Sinless and Holy God." We are all "guilty as charged" sinners. Yet the Word of God offers hope through Yeshua/Jesus. He becomes our Mediator and Redeemer. We understand what is right and wrong, what is sin and what is Holiness. Our inner person, the "real YOU," becomes transformed little by little. Actually, it is an "ongoing" process, which is complete once we leave our earthly bodies at death.

The pages of scripture and the words of God written down are our "right paths." These lead us into "right-living," which is another way of saying "righteousness." We have been "righteously saved" by grace to walk in "righteous works." The commandments of God teach us what is "right living," and by reading scripture, we can see the fate of those who chose to rebel against God, those who took "another path," and those who were faithful to God, walking on the "paths of righteousness."

So, the shepherd has taken his sheep to feed in green pastures and to drink cool, quiet waters. Now, the food is being digested and the nutrients are being distributed in the bodies of the sheep. Allow the WORD of God to penetrate your inner being, receive HIS "spiritual nutrition" which has been authored by "His Own Name"

Confessional with a real window in the room.

I went to confession at a different parish recently and when I went into the confessional, there was a real window in the room - the first time I've ever seen this. I liked it, actually. It was a beautiful sunny day and the light just beamed into the window beside me. I don't think this kind of thing is very common, is it?
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Workers visit Sudanese refugees. Mother kept from Church. Evangelist ambushed, assaulted and hospitalized.

  • Jul. 03, 2025 | Central African Republic​

    Front-Line Workers Visit Sudanese Refugees

    [8] prayers in [3] nations have been posted for Christian refugees.
    Some of the Christian women at the Birao refugee camp.
    Front-line workers were able to minister to displaced Christians seeking refuge. Millions of Sudanese have fled the civil war in their country that began April 2023. Some escaped to neighboring nations, including the Central African Republic (CAR), which borders Sudan's Darfur region. Though Sudan has a predominantly Muslim population, a small percentage of Christians also live there. Some have found refuge in Birao, a town in the far north of the CAR near its border with Sudan, Chad and South Sudan. Front-line workers visited with about 100 of the estimated 300 Christians living in a camp of around 20,000 refugees. Read More.
  • Jul. 03, 2025 | Laos​

    Christian Mother Kept from Church

    [5] prayers in [2] nations have been posted for Lomg.
    Lomg at home with her youngest child, In.
    A Christian woman's husband has attempted to divorce her for her faith and has forcibly prevented her from attending church. Lomg, a 33-year-old mother of four children in Laos, has been under constant pressure from her husband since she began to follow Jesus Christ. In April 2025, he tried to initiate divorce, saying, "I hate her because she believes [in] God." When the divorce was not granted, Lomg's husband escalated his efforts to make her recant her faith by taking her and her children out to their remote fields and leaving them there to work and sleep. Read More.
  • Jul. 03, 2025 | Pakistan​

    Female Evangelist Ambushed, Assaulted and Hospitalized

    [7] prayers in [2] nations have been posted for Naila.
    Pakistani Christians, like these in Jaranwala in 2023, face increasingly violent Muslim attacks.
    A Christian woman was attacked and hospitalized after sharing the gospel. On Tuesday, April 29, Naila visited a family in one of the hardest-to-reach cities in her region to share the gospel. She said soon after she started to share, an older woman in the family suddenly became angry. She yelled at Naila and then began to beat her. Naila ran from the house, but men were waiting for her and hit her with some kind of sharp tool. Naila again tried to escape, running down the street and crying for help before she collapsed, waking in a hospital with serious injuries. Naila currently cannot walk and suffers from external and emotional wounds, and she is unable to care for her young child. Read More.

Quiet high schooler paints portraits of entire class to reconnect before graduating...

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According to many of her senior classmates here at Waunakee High School in Wisconsin, 18-year-old Molly Schafer was a loner. But before graduation, she leaned on her artistic skills to reconnect and learned an important lesson in the process. Steve Hartman has the story "On the Road."

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Hot Button Issue: Can You Be Pro-Choice and Be a Christian?

There is a woman I know who is Pro-Choice. She is a Christian. I know this is a hotly debated thing. My perspective is that she may not know why the Pro-Choice perspective is wrong fully. I am trying to talk to her about it. It's a very heavy topic for her as she has had an abortion herself.

She has changed her perspective on some things. I told her watching shows about mediums is bad, and she stopped watching them. I've also told her to stop doing sports gambling, and she stopped that as well. But I also understand that I am working against decades of propaganda. She has been secular most of her life, and I live in MN, which has some of the worst laws about abortion there are. I'm thankful she is willing to even have the conversation in the first place. But I have to "weigh" how much I share with her and when.

If anyone has any advice on what the gentlest way to make the case for Pro-Life is, I'd love to hear it.

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Christianity no longer seems moral to me

Edit: I think it might be okay to mention that I have schizophrenia/bi-polar if this seems like a stupid read.
First off I have a tendency to only post negative feelings or experiences, so let me reiterate that I have indeed had a lot of very good moments in my faith

But. Recently going through a rougher patch and it's not necessarily even my patch.

My family seems to be struggling a lot. I have siblings as well and we all know siblings can argue a lot.

The reason for me doubting morality is rooted in the way Christianity is portrayed through mainstream media. It's very counter intuitive to Christianity. I feel like it tries to over emphasize it without explaining the Word of God and including the Holy Spirit into teachings leaving everyone with less than nothing.

In the same way that growing up my parents never mentioned God once. The time I was trying to believe in Jesus was a horrible time as well. I've had a hard time coming to peace with that and constantly ruminate on the mistakes I made through just going with the mainstream Christianity or lack thereof. In the bible it explains how bad it is for anyone who causes the little ones to stumble, yet in the broken world we live in that seems to be the overwhelming majority of people.

And if parents don't teach their kids anything of spiritual sustonence how can God hold that over them growing up with none? It's a habitual cycle of brokenness as I feel the way to finding God is obviously a hard test of faith because I remember not even understanding how to call on the Lord.

I've just seen the way this leads to absolute brokenness and I have a hard time trying to believe God's morality as anything that is actual morale. Morale is based on clear evidence of right or wrong when we are born into this world missing the very Spirit that tells us right from wrong. Unless I'm just so off and he is always actually there allowing our mistakes to happen. Even so though?

It's just is seeming a chaotic cluster fluff to me right now. Deception has been a big topic I'm studying lately and it's hard to believe we live in a world like this, being hated and a target

Dr. Phil's media company files for bankruptcy, sues TBN for breach of contract

Merit Street Media, the Texas media company founded by TV personality and psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, has filed for bankruptcy amid an ongoing legal fight with Trinity Broadcasting Network.

The Fort Worth-based company claims that TBN failed to "live up to its contractual obligations" as the "controlling shareholder" of Merit Street, leaving the media company founded by McGraw with over $100 million in debt, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Dallas.

Launched in April 2024, Merit Street is "going dark" just over a year after its debut because, it says, TBN "has refused to honor its commitment" to provide national distribution for the network, which features a programming lineupanchored by "Dr. Phil Primetime" along with "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace" and "The Island with Bear Grylls," among other shows.

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The Lord Restores The Tabernacle Of David

The Lord never has nor ever will desire a stone temple for His habitation. This Truth was made clear by the words of Nathan the prophet in response to David's wish to build the Lord a Temple. When David brought the Ark of the Presence to Zion, it was placed in a tent, known as the Tabernacle of David.

Second Samuel Six:

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So they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

David expresses his wishes to the prophet Nathan.

Second Samuel Seven:

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And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies; that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, see now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the Lord is with thee.

Nathan is so confident that David has the favor of the Lord that he tells him to "go for it". And then the Lord spoke to him.

4-6 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

The prophet Amos prophesied the restoration of David's Tabernacle, not the Temple built by Solomon.

Amos Nine:

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In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

This Word was confirmed by the Holy Spirit at the Council of Jerusalem

Acts Fifteen:

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And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

16-18 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

Isaiah sees the Tabernacle of the Millenium

Isaiah Thirty-Three:

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Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home,
A tabernacle that will not be taken down;
Not one of its stakes will ever be removed,
Nor will any of its cords be broken
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The Throne is established within the Tabernacle of David

Isaiah Sixteen:

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In mercy the throne will be established;
And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,
Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.

The Presence of the Lord in His Tabernacle will be our security

Isaiah Four:

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And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

The Tabernacle will never be taken down, but the servants of God will expand His Tabernacle over the nations. This is the vision for "the children of the barren woman".

Isaiah Fifty-Four:

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Sing, O barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman says the Lord.
2 Enlarge the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations
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And make the desolate cities inhabited.

Jeremiah does not lament the Temple destruction, but the removal of the Lord's Tabernacle. The Ark of the Presence housed within the Temple was kept behind curtains. This is the Holy of holies.

Jeremiah Ten:

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My tent is plundered,
And all my cords are broken;
My children have gone from me,
And they are no more.
There is no one to pitch my tent anymore,
Or set up my curtains.

This is God's Eternal Habitation With Man

Revelation Twenty-One:

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Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.

22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
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Chris Pratt lists Jesus as one of the things he 'can't live without'

Prominent Hollywood actor Chris Pratt recently included Jesus on the list of things he "can't live without" in the latest example of the entertainer proclaiming his Christian faith.

Pratt took to Instagram last week to create a list of "things I can't live without." Included on the list of 10 items was "Jesus."

Oxygen took the top spot on the 46-year-old's list, followed by organs, his own blood and gravity. Coming in behind Jesus were food and water, the National Football League, his wife and kids, bass fishing and his "glam team." The video accompanying the Instagram post showed a member of Pratt's "glam team" applying makeup to the actor.

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Child sacrifice, a transgression/ God sacrifices his only begotten

How do you reconcile that the Bible explains many times in the Old Testament that people should not pass their children through the fire.You know talking about the pagans? And likewise god did not want us to sacrifice our children even to him.Then in the new testament God gives his only begotten son to atone for our sins. Why would God forbid his own people to do such a thing?And then he would do it himself?

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This is great news for the USA.

Pope Bus Tour Coming to Chicago

From the Chicago NBC news station:
A Chicago bus tour will explore sites related to Pope Leo's upbringing. Here's what it'll cost you


A bus tour centered around Pope Leo XIV’s upbringing will soon traverse the Chicago area, and tickets are already on sale.

Starting in August, Chicago Pope Tour will offer four-hour guided bus tours visiting landmarks from Leo’s early life, according to the tour’s website. Per-passenger ticket prices are listed at $59 on weekdays and $79 on weekends.

Leo, the first American-born pope, was born in Chicago as Robert Prevost.

He was born at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital and was raised in the St. Mary of the Assumption Church parish, which sits near the city’s border with Dolton, the southern suburb where Leo grew up.

“Before he led millions, the Pope was just another Chicagoan,” the tour website said. “Our unique bus tour hits the real places where he lived, studied, prayed - and yes, ate.”

The tour will highlight the pope’s birthplace on Chicago’s South Side, childhood home, seminary and childhood church, according to the company. The historical trek starts and concludes in Lincoln Park, near the Chicago Public Library.

Included in the tour price is a slice of pizza at Aurelio’s, a south suburban pizza parlor where Leo has dined.

The pizzeria recently added a “Pope-a-Roni” pizza to its menu, although the suburban chain closed its only Chicago location in May.

The Chicago Pope Tour claims to cater to “history lovers, curious Catholics, Chicago enthusiasts, and anyone who enjoys a good story.”

Tickets can be purchased through the company’s websit

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Lady: Are you the police?
Elwood Blues: No, ma'am, we're musicians ... We're on a mission from God.

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Hakeem Jeffries politicizes on and on for over eight hours

and it is having an effect - but not the one he thinks it will

Vice President JD Vance shared a text message from a Republican Congressman who was initially undecided on a bill but became a firm supporter after witnessing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ performance, likely referring to Jeffries’ marathon floor speech during the vote on President Trump’s tax and spending mega bill. The text, as posted by Vance on X, read: “I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I’m a firm yes.” Several X posts echoed this sentiment, with some users suggesting Jeffries’ speech inadvertently bolstered support for the bill among Republicans,

How is it effecting the Democratic House members?

  • Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH): Posts on X specifically noted her appearing to doze off during Jeffries' speech.
  • Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): She was observed with her head down and eyes closed during the speech, as reported by the Daily Mail and echoed in posts on X.
Additionally, reports mentioned "multiple Democrats" were seen with their eyes closed, but no other specific names were provided

Five years on, Covid-19 continues to hit theaters hard

article said:
Major U.S. Movie Theater Chain Collapses Into Bankruptcy

article said:
The U.S. movie theater industry has taken a big blow from the COVID-19 pandemic as U.S. movie theater chain CMX Cinemas has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a second time, five years after its first filing.

CMX is not alone; other chains face similar financial distress. Regal Cinemas closed all 536 of its U.S. theaters and furloughed 40,000 employees in 2020. Its parent, Cineworld, filed for bankruptcy in 2022 after accumulating nearly $5 billion in debt, seeking to renegotiate leases and secure loans.

Five BILLION??? :oops: Holy Moses.

I knew the theaters were hit hard by Covid, but I personally haven't been to a movie theater in decades; the last three movies I actually watched in a theater were Titanic (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and The Passion of the Christ (2004), which gives you some idea of how long it's been. :) I know for me personally, I would much rather just stream a movie at home from the comfort of my recliner. I can pause it any time I want to take a bathroom break or go get a snack, I can control the volume, and I can rewind to a certain spot if I need to clear up a question of what's going on in the picture.

Plus, I grew disenchanted with theaters; the admission prices were steep, for sure, but the prices they charged for a measly bucket of popcorn were absolutely astronomical; I refused to pay exorbitant prices for a snack. Also at that time, the volume levels in theaters were always set so high that it literally used to hurt my ears....and no way to turn it down. And, of course, you had the rude, stupid people, who talked loudly throughout the film, or engaged in horseplay, or were just plain disagreeable in various ways; nobody seemed to grasp the concept of sitting down and quietly watching the movie. Not having to deal with that was a major factor in driving me out of the theaters. Finally, as my PTSD got worse, I could no longer deal with crowds, especially in tight, confined spaces---and let's face it, those movie theater seats were designed to fit a 13-year-old Japanese boy with severe malnutrition, not a fat 200+ pound middle-aged American. By the time I left the movie, I usually had one whale of a backache from sitting in those seats.

So, I was pretty well finished with movie theaters well before Covid hit; but it's still sort of jarring to think that a theater chain went into five billion dollars' worth of debt because of it.
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Why seek the living among the "dead"?

Peace in Christ.

His body…the church….has been baptized with the same baptism He had endured. His body…the church…has also gone through suffering and death just as Him.

Mar 10:38-39 KJV
(38) But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

(39) And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:

We are the “temple of His body” that has been destroyed.

Joh 2:18-22 KJV
(18) Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
(19) Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
(20) Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
(21) But he spake of the temple of his body.

(22) When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

This is not about the physical temple. We are His temple…the one that has not one stone left upon another. When Jesus spoke of "bread," His disciples thought He was talking about literal bread but He was not. The same principle applies here. Jesus is not telling about the literal temple but about His church...the temple of His body.

Mat 24:1-2 KJV
(1) And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

(2) And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

We are those “living stones” that is supposed to be built up a spiritual house.

1Pe 2:5 KJV
(5) Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

But the “people of the prince that SHALL COME” have come forth and have destroyed the “temple of His body.” They are preaching that Jesus SHALL COME some day and not that He IS COMING NOW in the flesh...our mortal flesh (the manifestation of the Son of man.) They are preventing His life from appearing in this earth.

Dan 9:26 KJV
(26) And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

His manifest life in our mortal flesh (the Son of man) is being delivered NOW unto the chief priests and unto the scribes (the church rulers and their handwritings of ordinances.) They are condemning Him to death as they are preventing His life to be made manifest in the mortal flesh of those who they are “ruling” over in their churches.

And while this has been going on inside the man-based churches, the people of the outside world (the “gentiles”) mock Him and scourge Him and spit upon Him. They actively blaspheme His holy Name while the church rulers prevent His life from being made manifest in their congregations.

Mar 10:33-34 KJV
(33) Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:

(34) And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

He is not there in the “grave” of the man-based churches where there is no work, and plan, and knowledge, and wisdom.

Why seek Him among the man-based churches where He is staying crucified in the minds of the “dead” ….as they are “dead” in their trespasses and sins? Why seek the living among the “dead” man-based churches?

Luk 24:4-8 KJV
(4) And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:

(5) And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

The Son of man (His manifest life in our mortal flesh) is being delivered into the hands of sinful men and has been crucified among them. It has been in their power to crucify Him. His life is not there among them. It is not being made manifest among them.

(6) He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
(7) Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

(8) And they remembered his words,

They are claiming that “here is the Christ” or there…believe them not. His is not found in the man-based churches...the dead man-based churches.

Mar 13:21-22 KJV
(21) And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:

(22) For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

He is not there among the “dead” man-based churches where they are keeping His manifest life “crucified.” He is not there for He is risen now. If Jesus is indeed risen now, we are to have resurrected life NOW in this mortal body. They are keeping His life "crucified" by their false teachings. His life is not being made manifest among them....and so we must depart from the "dead" churches. We must no longer be attached to a "dead body."

Mar 16:6-8 KJV
(6) And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

We are to go forth from the “grave” …the man-based churches. We are to follow Him out of them and go into “Galilee”…the circle of the nations…the world.

(7) But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

They went out quickly and fled from the sepulchre for they trembled and were amazed.

(8) And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.

We must also go OUT QUICKLY and flee from the “grave”…the man-based churches. They will persecute you for doing so. But we are to not be afraid of their terror neither be troubled. Give them a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.

1Pe 3:14-17 KJV
(14) But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
(15) But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
(16) Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
(17) For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doin
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Bodies of 8 Evangelical Christian leaders found in mass grave

In an event that has shaken the country, Colombian authorities located on Tuesday a mass grave in a rural area of the municipality of Calamar, department of Guaviare, which contained the bodies of eight Christian religious leaders.

The victims, natives of Arauca, were carrying out humanitarian and spiritual work in that region when they were disappeared.

According to the first reports from the prosecutor's office, these leaders were summoned in April by FARC dissidents, specifically by the Armando Ríos Front under orders from alias Iván Mordisco. It is presumed that the crime was intended to block the alleged emergence of an ELN cell, although the authorities found no evidence of links between the victims and that guerrilla group.

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Pastor arrested for soliciting photos of 11-year-old girl at his church

A Kentucky pastor has been placed on administrative leave following his arrest for requesting photos from an 11-year-old girl who attended his church.

The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office announced in a June 25 Facebook postthat two days earlier, it had been “contacted by the family of an 11-year-old female juvenile who wanted to report that the female had been solicited for photos of her body from the pastor of her church.” Following an investigation, detectives determined that Pastor Clarence Barry Hungerford, 58, of Mayfield, had sent messages to the underage girl requesting the photos.

Following his arrest, Hungerford admitted to contacting the girl and destroying his cell phone in an effort to hide the evidence. Hungerford was charged with tampering with physical evidence and unlawful use of electronic means within the Commonwealth to induce a minor to engage in sexual or other prohibited activities.

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'You're not a weak Christian if you see a therapist,' pastor tells congregants after attempted mass shooting

A week after 31-year-old Brian Browning attempted a mass shooting at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, the congregation’s pastor urged his members to forgive him while acknowledging the trauma from the incident.

“The Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood but powers and principalities, wickedness in high places. That's what we wrestle with. Satan tried to destroy us. Don't be mad at Brian. Don't harbor unforgiveness toward Brian,” Pastor Bobby Kelly Jr. said in his sermonon Sunday. “We are called to forgive, and if he were alive right now, we would be forgiving him because that's what God told us to do.”

Kelly’s message of forgiveness comes after Browning was fatally shot by a member of the church's security during a shootout shortly after he attacked the church.

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Lord Bless Me With Good People



Friends,
I discovered that people who did great stuffs in history and at present are often blessed with the right kinds of people around them.

People who built sustainable and transgenerational wealth for example are often blessed with good people that will help them manage stuffs;

You really can't do much if you don't have the right people around you:

we need like minds,
pure spirits,
people with sincere hearts,
selfless people..

We need them o;
If your have them as family member, you're blessed,

If you have them as friend, accomplice, companion, you're blessed;

If you have them at your work or business, you're made for life;

Ensure you appreciate them always!

May the Lord bless us with a lot of people like this!

But first of all, are you like this too?

Are you trustworthy?
Are you dependable?
Are you reliable?
Are you a good man?
Do you have a good heart?

You'll always attract your kind.

So, look like what you desire and attract the right atmosphere and aura around you.

Work on yourself if need be.

I love you!

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