Well I'm 26 but my parents are very strict. They won't let me drive out into the city which is an hour away and where the nearest Orthodox churches. I was thinking of going to the Nazarene Church or maybe even the Catholic Church. I'm not sure. What should I do

A little background about me....I first started posting on these forums around mid-late 2013 or so under a different account that has long since been deactivated and this coincided with the beginning of my Christian journey. I wont say what my old screenname was, but those who have been on this site for a long time can probably figure out who I was originally. Anyway!

My first two years being a Christian (or at least trying to be one) were very traumatic...my childhood experiences of neglect and abuse as well as being sheltered to the point of isolation left me very naive and vulnerable, and I wound up getting sucked into joining a church that was actually a cult. While I was in it, I was subject to mental-emotional and spiritual abuse, psychological manipulation, false teaching and even exposed to what I now believe was witchcraft. I finally escaped almost two years later in April of 2015 in a very dramatic fashion and the emotional upheaval of what I'd been through lasted until I got baptized at another church I'd started going to later that summer.....when that happened, it was a life-changing experience for me and after that, I finally felt like I had a genuine relationship with God and a new life. But, unfortunately, things didn't last long.

I didn't realize how traumatized or legalistic I still was and I wound up making some not so great decisions that lead me to miss a huge door of opportunity that God opened up for me during that time, and the loss of the life that I could have had has never completely stopped hurting. I believe this was also a re-traumatizing event for me and I ran from God and have been away for a long time. I'm at the place now where I know I need to get back to living life with Him, but when I think about stepping back into closeness with Him, all of the old fear, apprehension and memories of what took place come back and I start having emotional flashbacks that are difficult to handle. I've made some big steps in the last few years, going to pastoral counseling and even just got back into casually (and by casually I mean not studying and dissecting scripture as I used to when I was "going at it hard" like I was back then) reading the Bible, but to walk with God as closely as I was is terrifying to think about...at the same time, I feel awful knowing that I've failed God so badly by missing His intended plan for me and not becoming who I started to be...sometimes I think this is a disappointment to Him.

I guess the point of my post is, how do I untangle God from my trauma to where He's not a trigger anymore? How do I get back the desire to follow Him as closely as I started out doing after baptism? I am especially concerned and anxious about all of this seeing that we may very well be in the End Times, and I'm terrified at the thought of standing before Jesus on the last day having done next to nothing for Him or that He'd planned for me with the life He gave me. But at the same time, I'm just too afraid to get close to God again given my history. Any advice appreciated.

Was the book of Revelation written by Apostle John?

Two early objections:

first evidence of any real objection to the book of Revelation comes from the person of Gaius in the early third century who rejects the book on the grounds that it was a forgery of the heretic Cerinthus. ...
Dionysius of Alexandria, in the late third century, makes the argument that Revelation was written by another John besides the apostle. Eusebius appears to agree with him. But, it is worth noting that Dionysius does not reject the book on these grounds (despite the impression many give that he did), but still regards it as holy and inspired. ...
It was not the historical merits of the book, but rather Gaius’ objection to chiliasm (the belief in a literal millennial reign of Christ).

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Apostle John didn't write it and there is no Millenial Reign.

How did it survive inclusion into the normal bible?

Some canonical history:

Eusebius, in his Church History (c. AD 330) mentioned that the Apocalypse of John was accepted as a Canonical book and rejected at the same time.

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Cyril of Jerusalem (AD 348) does not name it among the canonical books

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The Council of Laodicea (AD 363) omits it as a canonical book.

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Then things got better for the book of Revelation:

The Synod of Hippo (in AD 393),[36] followed by the Council of Carthage (397), the Council of Carthage (419), the Council of Florence (1442)[37] and the Council of Trent (1546)[38] classified it as a canonical book.

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But then:

Doubts resurfaced during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther called Revelation "neither apostolic nor prophetic" in the 1522 preface to his translation of the New Testament (he revised his position with a much more favorable assessment in 1530),[41] Huldrych Zwingli labelled it "not a book of the Bible",[42] and it was the only New Testament book on which John Calvin did not write a commentary.[43] As of 2015 Revelation remains the only New Testament book not read in the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church,[44] though Catholic and Protestant liturgies include it.

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So, even today, Revelation is not universally accepted in Christendom.

I think it is inspired scripture.

We had a very spirit inspired meeting in Pittsburgh for dinner and got to also meet
Michael Voris of the Vortex.

Wonderful time.

Also sadly, boughtwithaprice lost his mother 4 days ok.
May she rest in Peace.

I said I’d start a thread about UFOs so here it is. The news reported recently that there definitely are UFOs which can’t be explained. Not saying they’re aliens, but they don’t know what they are. What do you all think of UFOs?

NEW YORK — Former Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri is joining No Labels ‘ increasingly contentious effort to lay the groundwork for a moderate third-party presidential ticket in the 2024 election.

Nixon, a 67-year-old lawyer, is stepping back into national politics for the first time since leaving office in 2017 and will serve as No Labels’ director of ballot integrity. He said in an interview that he was drawn to the role after learning that well-funded groups aligned with Democrats were working to stop No Labels from securing ballot access in key states.

He said that those seeking to block the group’s right to appear on the presidential ballot are attacking a pillar of American democracy.

While No Labels has yet to nominate candidates for president and vice president, its leadership insists there is a path to victory for a centrist third-party ticket “if the two parties select unreasonably divisive presidential nominees.”

No Labels’ leadership has promised a series of checks and balances that would allow the organization to withdraw its presidential ticket if it appears the group’s participation would help Trump win. No Labels has not outlined a detailed plan about that, and leaders acknowledge privately there is some urgency to come out with their specific safeguards, which would vary state by state. They intend to do so by “early fall.”

Do you exclusively memorize all of your verses in from one translation or do you use multiple translations?

I recently got engaged to someone who doesn’t believe in God. It concerns me and hurts me a lot that he does things like listening to bad music and play games with naked women. What do I do?

"Gesher Benot Ya’aqov (GBY) is a famous archaeological site in the Hula Valley in northern Israel. The site holds the remains of a number of large animals like elephants, as well as the stone tools used to butcher them. "

"Thousands of hand axes and other tools have been discovered at both sites, which belong to the Acheulian style, a type of usually oval stone tool industry often associated with Homo erectus that lasted from roughly 1.7 million years ago to about 200,000 years ago. The GBY site dates to roughly 750,000 years ago, while Ma’ayan Barukh dates to about 500,000 years ago."


750_Year_Old_Workshop

Col 2 does not mention "appointed times" nor does it say "This is referring to all - appointed times" -- as we all know.

Rather the real-world Weekly-Sabbath-related problem that the NT identifies for the gentile Christians at Colossae is that

1. gentiles attend a weekly Sabbath service in the Acts 13, Acts 17, Acts 18 synagogues "every Sabbath" Acts 18:4
2. and are there met by both non-Christian Jews and some Christian Jews who would no doubt notice the gentiles are not present for things like "festival or a new moon" and annual Sabbaths
3. Those are OT "shadows" as we see in Lev 23 that originate in animal sacrifices (Numbers 28)
4. - UNLIKE the weekly Sabbath of Gen 2:1-3, Ex 16, Ex 20:8-11 with no animal sacrifice and with gentiles present "every Sabbath" Acts 18:4

So the issue that "comes up" by those non-Christian Jews, and some Christian Jews - in those "every Sabbath" worship services is not "why are you here on the weekly Sabbath" - but rather "what about those other shadow holy days? Why do you not also attend them?".

And in fact that would be a question primarily from Christian Jews - not non-Christan Jews since the non-Christan Jews are used to gentiles being in the synagogues going back long before the birth of Christ.

Interesting that this "every Sabbath" attendance by believing Gentiles is a fact raised in the Acts 15 debate - a fact viewed as "The solution" to the problem raised by some Christian Jews who thought to ADD the doctrine that gentiles could not be saved unless circumcised.

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That is in addition to the Col 2 problem of "making stuff up" from pure imagination or over-zealous suggestions

Still dealing with her mental illness I discussed before. I don’t have a lot of details yet. Supposed to hear from my brother in law later. She is admitted in the hospital now under 24 hour watch. Prayers appreciated. I’m sorry about these constant requests. Seems it’s one thing after another.

There has been barricades of controversies and disagreement bombarding the global church today regarding the ministry of Spiritual warfare and deliverance as it concerns the Christians .
While a school of thought presupposes that at the point of salvation, we need no further deliverance of what so ever because of 2 Cor. 5:17 and Colo. 2:14-15.
Yet another school of thought asserts that after Salvation a Christian can still need deliverance through Spiritual Warfare prayers .
The paramount Question is CAN A CHRISTIAN EVER NEED ANOTHER KIND OF DELIVERANCE AFTER SALVATION ?

CAN A GENERATIONAL DEFICIENCY OR NEGATIVE FAMILY PATTERN ( reoccurring Sickness,traits, hereditary situation,etc) AFFECT A CHRISTIAN? .
I wait your inputs

Devon Archer, the former Biden family business associate set to provide closed-door testimony to congressional investigators on Monday, will likely be in no mood to shield the first family from incrimination in shady foreign deals.

Archer, 49, is staring down a year-long prison sentence for securities fraud, a conviction that he believed Hunter Biden and President Biden should have protected him from.

Messages uncovered on Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop computer show his once-close partnership with Archer unraveling in March of 2019, as Archer was trying to overturn his conviction and sentence of one year plus a day in prison.

Archer sent a series of texts to Hunter Biden, asking him, “Why did your dad’s administration appointees arrest me and try to put me in jail? Just curious. Some of our partners are asking out here.”

I don't use drugs or drink alcohol, but I understand that some people do.
I wonder what the Christian position is on such things?
I know the temperance movement was quite big for a while but seems less so these days.
I've heard that a more liberal approach to drugs can help people to get better help and not be a police record, and so help them to come out of that lifestyle. Also, it reduces the opportunity for organised crime... That was an issue when they tried to ban alcohol, organised crime was gifted a business opportunity!
What do Christians think about that?
Is there a biblical position?

1 John 5:

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

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John addressed the people in the church.

16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.

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What was this sin?

Perhaps John referred to blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, i.e., the unforgivable sin.

Let M1 = the person who stubbornly refused to admit his sin and therefore refused to repent.

I am not saying that you should pray about that.

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Don't bother praying for M1. He would never change.

17All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin;

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M1 was not born of God.

the One who was born of God keep them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. 19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.

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M1 worshiped idols in his heart, not God.

What was the sin that leads to death?

My guess is the unforgivable sin.

See Thou shalt not kill or murder?

Seriously? Talk about a society losing it, i thought Running Man was a fun B movie, not a documentary.

Yes, some are. Witchcraft involves evil beings in the spiritual realm.

Something like witchcraft is mentioned in Acts 19:19

A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.

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Contemporary English Version:

Some who had been practicing witchcraft even brought their books and burned them in public. These books were worth about 50,000 silver coins.

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NIV Gal 5:

19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions.

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Does witchcraft work every time?

No. Satan is not omnipresent. Sometimes when someone is practicing witchcraft somewhere on this planet, he does not even know about it. His resources are finite. He needs to allocate them effectively. The demons are just not present when invoked in these cases.

Satan is not omniscient. When you ask an established witch a question, her associates/evil spirits may not know the answer.

Satan is not omnipotent. The witch and her evil associates can try to make something happen and it doesn't because of circumstances.

Finally, the good spirits may stop the evil spirits. This is spiritual warfare.

Banishing Rituals:

A banishing ritual is often performed at the beginning of a ceremony in order to rid the ritual area of negative or unwanted energy or entities that may interfere with magick or unbalance energies that will be raised or summoned during the ceremony. Most magical paths prescribe a banishing ritual of this type prior to any spellwork or magick of any sort.

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That's when the witch wants to get rid of the good guys.

Is witchcraft real?

Sorcery (black magic) can be real when Satan and his minions are behind it to back it up.

We are all smart enough to substitute cutting grass with any number of things. The point is not the act, so let's not scrutinize grass-cutting, the point is a motivation to help someone in need. Christ tells us it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath but some wish to debate that this goodness has limits on the Sabbath. I for one would gladly lend a helping hand, be it cutting grass, lifting boxes, or some other act aimed at being helpful and showing love especially when someone has a clear need. The opposite focus of avoiding help seems counter-gospel. Some would call help immoral if done on the Sabbath which I find a bit bizarre. So please, if you call this immoral make sure you let people know so we can understand your perspective.

The context in chapters 7-10 tell us explicitly what changed, Verse 12, 13 and 14 of chapter 7 tell us that the law changed which told us what tribe the priesthood came from.

Heb 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Heb 7:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
Heb 7:14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.


Since the priesthood is not to be from the Levites here on earth but our Lord from heaven, all the laws that pertained to the priesthood and their ministry changed or transferred to Christ. Jesus being the High Priest and we His royal priesthood through and in Him. In this change also is a change in how we are to receive the law. Whereas before the people receive the law, the word under the priesthood now we receive it through Christ by His Spirit, No longer by ink or tables of stone by a priest but the through fleshly tables of the heart through the Spirit, being begotten by the word of truth. We are the first fruit of Him having the engrafted word. As God had said He will put His Law in our hearts and in our minds. He will give us of His Spirit. This is brought out in chapter 8.

Heb 8:3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
Heb 8:4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
Heb 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:


Chapter 9 begins by telling us the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. All this ended when the Levite's ministry ended through Christ, We are the Temple of God now as the body of Christ, having entered in through the veil, that is to say His flesh. They, the ordinances of divine service were only imposed on them until the time of reformation. Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, the inner man, the body of sin, who we are without Christ. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience, the inner man, who we are, the body of sin from dead works, sin: acts the cause death to serve the living God? That they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.


Heb 9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Heb 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Heb 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.


As we go into 10 chapter 9 says leading into it, that Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. Staying in context 10 goes on to say, For the law pertaining to the ministry of the Levites could never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. The Body of sin being destroyed, hence there would be no more serving sin, right? But in those sacrifices, the Levite's ministry, there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is and was not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. But we know that he was manifested to take away our sin. Wherefore Because of this, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once, one sacrifice for sins forever. For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Whereof, this perfection in which he speaks the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before. This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Having therefore, because of this boldness to enter the holiest of all by the blood of Jesus; through the veil that is His flesh, to be in the presence of God in Christ Jesus. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, who we are, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised) Amen!


Heb 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;

Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised)
Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Just a thought about the current disclosures being made by folks from the military about phenomena in the skies thought to be the activity of some advanced technology beyond normal human capabilities.

You can read about it on this thread... Whistleblower Testifies Under Oath to Congress that the Government has recovered "non-human biologics" from UFOs

Should these claims stack up and we are faced with there being life beyond the earth - will your theology cope with that ?

My thought is that such activity if real, is demonic in origin for these reasons.

First we know that angels can assume human form - otherwise we couldn't entertain them unawares as Scripture says.

It follows then that fallen angels are equally capable of appearing in physical forms and may present with very high intelligence and forms that are non humanoid.

Second the narrative in Revelation speaks about the deception to come involving signs and wonders on earth and in the sky.

Thirdly the temptation in the garden was all about knowledge and being presented with superior knowledge from such beings will again be Satans trump card to draw humanity away from Godliness.

Hey - these are my musings and it seems very soon this matter will be in our face to deal with if what we are hearing is to be believed.

When I went into the 7th grade I was picked on, bullied and beaten up repeatedly. One time they held me down and slammed a door on my head and gave me a concussion.
One day in PE they took us in a room with a Universal Gym and we started lifting weights. I could bench press more than anyone else. I had found my thing.
We had a weight set at home and I started lifting weights doing push ups and jogging.
I didn’t know what I was doing I just worked until I couldn’t do any more.
The next summer I flew to Georgia to visit relatives and when I came through the airport there was Arnold Schwarzenegger’book. I got it and started buying magazines and discovered Mike Mentzer’s high intensity training.
By the 9th grade I was a different person. The second week of school someone started a fight with me and I hit him so hard that his eye swelled shut.
After that I was popular.That’s what every kid wants.
The rest of my life I continued working out.
I never competed but I got pretty strong for someone who didn’t take steroids. My best lifts were
Bench Press 405 x 5
Squats 405 x 10, 315 x 20
Dumbbell Curls 80 x 10
Leg Press 1000 x 10
One Arm Row 120 x 20
Lifting weights helped me in my career in law enforcement and security.
6 years ago I remarried and moved 70 miles from where I worked. I started driving 2 and 1/2 hours every day. There was nowhere to put my equipment so I sold it.
I quit working out and I gained 100 pounds. I didn’t workout for 6 years.
3 months ago I started working out and again. I’ve lost 40 pounds and I am trying to lose another 40 by December.
I started with DDP Yoga because there is a program for beginners that are completely out of shape and have limited mobility.
I also started working out with the X3 Bar Band System, the Total Gym and dumbbells.
My strength has improved substantially in 3 months.
I had to tussle with someone at work last week and working out has made a big difference.
If you’re out of shape and need a program for beginners DDP Yoga is perfect.
If you don’t have a lot of room the X3 Band System stores neatly in a duffel bag when you’re done working out.
I’m trying to stay in shape so that I can keep working into my 70s

Pray that anxiety at work will go away and a respectable working environment. Also pray for my health and peace of mind Amen

Burning of Bibles and Korans

Some say: If a book belongs to me, I may burn it, of course.

I say:

It depends, whether I burn a book at home because it is old and I do not need it any more.
Or if I burn a Bible or a Koran in a public place in front of many people, as a kind of protest demonstration.

What do you think?

Hi, everybody. Now that I've moved back to my hometown, I'm more positive, but I have new challenges, such as how to survive financially and how to manage my medication/cope with depression and anxiety and insomnia. I humbly ask that you please pray for me, for fortitude. Please ask the Lord to stay closer to me than ever. I have a poor work history and am on a small disability grant. I get some help from an aunt of mine, but she's done for the time being. I share a house with about 8 other people and the various personalities clashing, the general ruckus, is quite disturbing. My landlords are always at odds. I feel unsettled and worried. Please pray for me that I may remain peaceful and focused during all this stress.

I do need to take medication for my mental health issues, but I often have trouble mismanaging it, not having access to proper healthcare.

I'm still grieving many losses, many injustices, and am very stressed, mostly about finances. Please pray for God's provision. And finally (this may be an odd request), please pray that my furbaby, my cat Lola, will find peace here, as well. She's been from home to home so much, I'm afraid she's quite bewildered.

May God bless everyone who sincerely and intensely prays for me. Thank you.