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Wicked Lose your salvation Documentary on YouTube promoting a works based salvation

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Salvation is through Christ from God's grace applied to those of us coming in response to God with the essential faith that includes our repentance. That salvation would not be lost, God promises the security that no one snatches us from God's hand. And such believers are grafted in to the stock that means those of Israel. That does not have us replace those of Israel, promises from the old testament are not applied to us certainly with dismissing observance of the law from God. There will be the time that all Israel remaining then will be saved, which means that way any are saved, through Christ. They will be the true witness of Christ to this world. He will reign in this world from Jerusalem.
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Pyramids and the flood

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Within the biblical framework, a global flood explains the fossil record completely.
If the flood occurred exactly as described in Genesis, it would serve as the primary engine for creating the massive layers of fossils we see around the world today. Instead of representing millions of years of gradual evolution, Creation scientists look at the fossil record as a single, catastrophic snapshot of a world being destroyed over the course of one year.
Here is how the biblical model explains the key features of the fossil record:

1. Rapid Burial and Preservation
Fossils do not form under normal conditions because dead animals rot or get eaten by scavengers before they can turn to stone. To make a fossil, an organism must be buried instantly under deep mud and sediment to shut out oxygen.
  • The Flood Explanation: The opening of the "fountains of the great deep" and torrential rainfall would cause massive, continent-wide mudslides, underwater avalanches, and volcanic upheavals. This would instantly trap and suffocate billions of creatures, creating the perfect conditions for widespread fossilization.

2. The Order of the Layers (Ecological Zonation)
One of the biggest questions is why fossils are found in a specific order—such as sea creatures at the bottom, amphibians higher up, and mammals near the top. Within the flood model, this order is explained by habitat and mobility, rather than the passage of time:
  • Bottom Layers (Deep Sea): The ocean floor ecosystems would be overwhelmed first by shifting underwater plates. This explains why the lowest fossil layers are overwhelmingly filled with marine invertebrates like trilobites.
  • Middle Layers (Coastlines and Swamps): As the waters rose, coastal areas and low-lying swamps would be buried next, trapping amphibians and slow-moving reptiles.
  • Top Layers (High Ground): Highly mobile land mammals and birds would naturally flee to the highest elevations to escape the rising waters. They would be the last to drown and be buried, placing them in the topmost layers of sediment.

3. Marine Fossils on Mountaintops
Marine fossils, such as seashells and ancient whale bones, are found at the peaks of major mountain ranges like the Himalayas, the Rockies, and the Alps.
  • The Flood Explanation: Genesis states that the waters covered all the high hills under the heavens. In a flood model, these mountain regions were either underwater during the cataclysm, or the mountains themselves were pushed upward by tectonic forces near the end of the flood year while the sediment layers were still soft and wet.

4. "Polystrate" Fossils
Geologists frequently find fossilized tree trunks standing completely upright, cutting through multiple different layers of rock.
  • The Flood Explanation: In a slow-evolution model, each rock layer takes thousands or millions of years to form, meaning the top of the tree would have rotted away long before the upper layers accumulated. In the flood model, these trees were violently uprooted by floodwaters and deposited vertically in rapidly accumulating mud layers during the cataclysm.
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Pastor sentenced to 8 years. Evangelized family comes to faith. 30 killed on Palm Sunday.

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  • May. 28, 2026 | Central Asia​

    Pastor Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison​

    [8] prayers in [1] nation have been posted for young pastor and family.
    Local ministers across Central Asia can face repercussions for carrying out Christian acts of worship, such as baptisms.
    A young pastor has been arrested and sentenced to eight years in prison for his ministry. Not long after this pastor had launched a church in Central Asia, local and secret police arrested him for simply conducting Christian ministry, actions considered by many Muslims to be offensive and even illegal in that region. "The young pastor has a wife and little children," said a front-line worker. "Please pray that they will be encouraged and that this gospel worker's faith and witness will be strong inside the prison." Read More.

  • May. 28, 2026 | Maldives​

    Family Comes to Faith Through Strategic Evangelism Effort​

    [7] prayers in [1] nation have been posted for Hamko and family.
    Evangelism and discipleship in the restricted Maldives is done strategically, seeking out people of peace like Hamko.
    A man and his family have come to Christ through strategic evangelism efforts of Christians in the Maldives. To avoid drawing persecution from Muslim fundamentalist groups in this restricted nation, Christian workers must be intentional about how and with whom they share the message of the gospel, using creative approaches to discipleship. Hamko and his family are among those who have come to faith in Christ through one such effort. Read More.

  • May. 28, 2026 | Nigeria​

    Over 30 Christians Killed in Palm Sunday Attack​

    [7] prayers in [1] nation have been posted for Nigerian Christians.
    Islamists have attacked many Christian communities, such as this one in another part of Nigeria, in recent years.
    More than 30 Christians were killed by radical Islamists on Palm Sunday. On March 29, 2026, around 7:45 p.m., a group of jihadi terrorists on motorbikes rode into a crowded outdoor market in the Christian area of Jos, Nigeria. The group was yelling "Allahu Akbar!" and began shooting unarmed people. Bystanders ran for cover, but the Islamists killed some 30 people and injured even more. "The area is a 100% Christian community," said a front-line worker. Read More.
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Inside “Magnifica Humanitas”: Pope Leo XIV Rejects Transhumanism

Akita Suggagaki
14. Finally, building for the common good requires an evangelical language. We must avoid humiliating or antagonistic words, opting rather for a clarity that sheds light and a frankness that unlocks new possibilities. We cannot condone naïve enthusiasms, nor fuel unfounded fears. Instead, let us establish standards for discernment
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the dignity of the human person,
the universal destination of goods,
the preferential option for the poor,
care for our common home and peace


I wonder if anyone can agree on those standards for discernment.
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Please pray that there is a reasonable & responsible check-and-balances that will hold Ethiopian Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed accountable for his actions

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Please pray that there is a reasonable & responsible check-and-balances that will hold Ethiopian Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed accountable for his actions:

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Think You’re Holy? Don’t Get Cocky.

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We can't get to heaven while we're on earth . . . but the Church provides a way to get close​


We have already two installments on the interior life in our series of articles presented here. To recap, if Lent corresponds especially to the purgative way, and Easter with the Ascension opens before us the illuminative way, then Pentecost is a fitting image of the unitive way: the spiritual age of the perfect, in which the soul, having been deeply purified, lives in a more stable, intimate, and abiding union with God.

Naturally, the only true expression of the unitive way is our own resurrection. I repeat that we are simply using the gift of the liturgical calendar to contemplate the progression of the spiritual life with fitting mile markers.

The unitive stage does not mean that the soul has arrived at heaven. It still walks by faith, not by sight. It still suffers. It still carries its cross. But there has been a real transformation. The soul no longer lives merely in the first efforts of conversion, nor only in the painful light of deeper purification. It has passed, by grace, into a more profound conformity to God, a life marked by habitual recollection, deeper peace, purer charity, and a more constant docility to the Holy Spirit.

That is why Pentecost provides such an apt point of reference. Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange says of the Apostles that, after the Ascension, they were left deprived of “the presence of Christ’s humanity,” but that on Pentecost they were “transformed, enlightened, strengthened, and confirmed in grace by the Holy Ghost.” That movement—from deprivation, darkness, and waiting, to transformation by the Holy Ghost—is exactly what makes Pentecost such a fitting image of the unitive way.

Passive Purification Continued​


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Think You're Holy? Don't Get Cocky.

We can't get to heaven while we're still here on earth. There is a way to get close, but even the holiest among us will have a hard time doing it.
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CatholicVote CEO to Washington Nationals: 'Catholics will not be quietly pushed out of public life’

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After reports that a senior executive with the Washington Nationals excluded Catholic pitcher Trevor Williams from the team’s social media because of his faith, CatholicVote President and CEO Kelsey Reinhardt called on Nationals owner Mark Lerner in a May 27 statement to explain the decision and urged Catholics nationwide to support Williams and “build something good” from the injustice.

As Zeale News previously reported, Sean Hudson, the Nationals’ director of community relations, was recorded on hidden camera saying the team avoided featuring Williams in social media content because he is “very Catholic” and had publicly criticized the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2023 for honoring a group known for mocking Catholicism.

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CatholicVote CEO to Washington Nationals: 'Catholics will not be quietly pushed out of public life’ - Zeale

After reports that a senior executive with the Washington Nationals excluded Catholic pitcher Trevor Williams from the team’s social media because of his faith, CatholicVote President and CEO Kelsey Reinhardt called on Nationals owner Mark Lerner in a May 27 statement to explain the decision and...
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Just Keep Knocking

Christsfreeservant
I am reading in Acts 12:1-19, and it is long, so I will summarize some of it, and I will quote some of it. Herod was the king of that time period, and he stretched out his hand to mistreat some of the church (the people of faith in Jesus Christ). And he killed James, the brother of John, and he seized Peter, and he put him in prison. But the church was praying for Peter. And that night an angel of the Lord delivered Peter out of the prison and set him free.

Acts 12:12-17 NKJV

So, when he had considered this, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together praying. 13And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a girl named Rhoda came to answer. 14When she recognized Peter’s voice, because of her gladness she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate. 15But they said to her, “You are beside yourself!” Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, “It is his angel.”​
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16Now Peter continued knocking; and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. 17But motioning to them with his hand to keep silent, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Go, tell these things to James and to the brethren.” And he departed and went to another place.​

In Prison to Sin

And that is an awesome account of God’s grace, is it not? But as I read this account from the Scriptures this morning, I could not help but see a parallel here over to the grace of God in delivering us out of our bondage to sin. For to be living in addiction to sin is to be in prison to sin with no way out that we can create on our own, in our own flesh. And the “king” who put many people there is their own selfish will, and their unwillingness to be set free. Pride and self-glory and stubborn rebellion will keep many in prison to sin.

But the church was praying for his deliverance. And the church should indeed be praying for the deliverance of all people who are living in bondage (slavery, addiction) to sin. But sadly, in our day and time, at least here in the USA, much of what is called “church” is actually placating people in their sin who profess faith in the Lord, keeping them still bound in sin but convinced that all their sins are forgiven and that heaven is their eternal destiny. So, in a way, “the church” serves as the jailers which keep people in prison to sin.

Set Free From Prison

But, praise be to God, Jesus Christ was put to death on a cross to put our sins to death with him, and he rose victorious over death, sin, Satan, and hell, on our behalf, that we might now die with him to sin and live for him and in his righteousness in walks of surrender to our Lord in obedience to his commands. For Jesus taught that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and self) and follow (obey) him wherever he leads us in doing all that he commands us to do.

Don’t Give Up!

And many of those who have truly been set free from their imprisonment to sin are knocking on the door of “the church,” and they are requesting to be let inside so that they can share with them the message of the gospel of our salvation from sin. But so much of what is called “church” here in America is not listening to the one knocking, and is not believing them, and so is not letting them inside. And sadly, if the Lord chooses a woman to be his messenger, she is often treated as though what she says is worthless.

But if we do not give up, and if we keep knocking on the hearts of the people of this world, including on the hearts of many who profess Jesus as Lord, but who are still living in prison (bondage, slavery, addiction) to sin, perhaps some of them will let us inside (not inside buildings, but inside their lives). And they will listen to us share with them how Jesus sets us free from our prisons. And they will, in turn, repent of (turn away from) their sins and they will now serve the Lord Jesus with their lives in surrender to his will.

And then we should encourage them to go and to share the good news of our salvation, that we can, by the grace of God, in the power of God, and by biblical faith in Jesus Christ, be crucified with Christ in death to sin, and be raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord in doing all that he commands us and he leads us to do, for his purposes, and for his glory, and for the salvation of human souls from hell.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

There’s a New Song in My Heart

By John W. Peterson

Once my life was filled with discord, sadness reigned within,
For my heart was heavy laden with a weight of sin.

What a wondrous transformation in my life was wrought
When I trusted Christ as Savior and His pardon sought.

Someday, I will go to heaven where the angels sing,
And I’ll join their happy chorus, praising Christ the King.

I shall never cease in praising Jesus Christ my Lord
For the wonderful salvation that He did accord.

There’s a new song in my heart
Since the Savior set me free;
There’s a new song in my heart,
‘tis a heavenly harmony!
All my sins are washed away
by the blood of Calvary;
O what peace and joy nothing can destroy:
There’s a new song in my heart!

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Chicago’s low seminary numbers contrast with Tyler’s vocations record

Michie
The Archdiocese of Chicago, which serves more than 2.2 million Catholics, currently has only a handful of men in formation for the priesthood, while the much smaller Diocese of Tyler in Texas, with just 121,000 Catholics, had 27 seminarians at its peak under bishop Joseph Strickland.

The striking contrast has been highlighted following recent vocational statistics and continues to fuel debate about the factors influencing priestly vocations in the United States. Chicago, Pope Leo XIV’s home town, is one of the largest archdioceses in the country and has struggled with declining numbers of seminarians for several years, while smaller, more traditional dioceses have seen notable growth.

Bishop Joseph Strickland, who led the Diocese of Tyler until his removal in 2023, was known for his strong defence of traditional Catholic teaching and support for the Traditional Latin Mass. Under his leadership, the small East Texas diocese consistently produced one of the highest per capita rates of priestly vocations in the United States.

By comparison, the Archdiocese of Chicago under Cardinal Blase Cupich has promoted various initiatives aligned with the synodal process and has taken a restrictive approach to the Traditional Latin Mass following Traditionis Custodes. Chicago’s seminary numbers have remained persistently low despite the archdiocese’s vast Catholic population.

The pattern is not unique to Chicago. Similar trends have been observed in other large archdioceses led by more progressive bishops. In Germany, Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German Bishops’ Conference and a leading figure in the Synodal Way, reported in 2024 that his diocese of Limburg had ordained no priests in a given year for the first time since its creation in 1821 – a development widely linked by observers to the controversial direction of the German Church.



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Wyoming’s Mountain Monks: Simple Men Of Faith Go High-Tech To Build A Gothic Monastery

Michie
Wyoming’s Carmelite mountain monks are using computers, heavy machinery and robots to build a massive Gothic monastery in the mountains of the Bighorn Basin. It’s a stark contrast to the simple lives of faith these men live making coffee and raising cattle.

Wyoming’s Carmelite monastery began in 2007 with $400 and a dream to build a Gothic-style monastery in the mountains of the Bighorn Basin.

The style known for dramatic arches, stained glass windows, ribbed vaults, spires, and elaborate stone carvings would traditionally require a century or more of work from teams of highly skilled stone artisans.

Today, it is estimated that the monastery’s church, located along Meeteetse Creek, will be finished in another six years.


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Churchgoers hear about political, social issues in U.S. from pulpit, Pew survey says

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White evangelical Protestants and U.S. Catholics were the most likely to report that clergy recently spoke about abortion.

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Ainsley Earhardt Opens Up About Faith, Her New Children’s Book, and Raising a Daughter: ‘Please Pray That She Knows the Lord’

Michie
Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt says her Christian faith and love for America were central inspirations behind her new children’s book, “America, I’m So Glad You Were Born,” releasing June 2.

During an interview with ChurchLeaders, Earhardt said the book follows the success of her previous children’s title, “I’m So Glad You Were Born,” and was reimagined to celebrate America’s upcoming 250th anniversary.


“So, we just added the word America, ‘America, I’m So Glad You Were Born,’ which obviously we are,” Earhardt said. “Without America, where would we be? It’s just the greatest country in the world, and we’re so fortunate to be a part of it and I was born here and I don’t take that for granted.”

Earhardt also discussed how her faith shaped the message of the book.


“I feel like God created our founding fathers, brilliant men, successful men that got together to form this amazing country and wrote a Constitution talking about how our rights are given to us by God,” she said. “Not by George Washington, not by anybody else, but by God.”

The longtime television personality said she believes it is important for children to understand America’s history and the freedoms the country offers.

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Ainsley Earhardt Opens Up About Faith, Her New Children's Book, and Raising a Daughter: ‘Please Pray That She Knows the Lord’

Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt says her Christian faith and love for America were inspirations behind her new children’s book.
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In the Nicene Creed what is the intended meaning of the phrase "Εἰς μίαν, ἁγίαν, καθολικὴν καὶ ἀποστολικὴν Ἐκκλησίαν." Into one, holy, catholic and...

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ViaCrucis said:
Do we place the locus of the Church's oneness in her external structures of human authority, or in the grace and work of God by which we are brought to faith, plunged into the Mystery of Christ by Baptism. This does not, at all, suggest we minimize or consider certain things (such as whether the Eucharist is the true body and blood of Christ or some memorial meal); but it does present a question of whether the Unam of Christ's Body is chiefly in the Mystery of Grace in Word and Sacrament, or in human institutionalism (without denying the importance of human institutionalism).
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Can you find anywhere in the Nicene or ante-Nicene Fathers where the unity of the Church is placed in a shared subset of beliefs between different sects? It seems abundantly clear to me that unity in the sense it's intended in the Creed refers to being in communion with the visible, orthodox hierarchy of the Church, and this with the understanding that the visible Church is not a human institution but a divine one, "the institution of God" (St. Ignatius, Ep. Smyrnaeans 8).
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What renders the Church as holy?
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At least in part it's that the Church is divinely instituted and divinely guided. A human institution is not holy.
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So what does it truly mean to be catholic? Does Rome get to claim a monopoly when the ancient Sees of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem reminds Rome that the Councils and Canons don't allow for that? Does Constantinople get to claim a monopoly, even as Alexandria (e.g.) remains non-Chalcedonian?
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Is your position that no church can claim to be catholic as long as there are Trinitarians in schism from it? What does the existence of schisms have to do with any claims of catholicity?
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And what of apostolicity? Is apostolicity found exclusively in the historic episcopate? ...Or should we instead discover true apostolicity in fidelity to the apostolic teaching.
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You've presented a false dichotomy between apostolic succession and fidelity to apostolic teaching when apostolicity derives from both: there were Arian bishops with a line of succession going back to the Apostles, but they weren't part of the Apostolic Church, and St. Clement praises the faith of the Corinthians while condemning them for their usurpation of presbyters who have apostolic succession. St. Irenaeus argues against Gnostics who claim to hold the apostolic faith by pointing to the apostolic succession of the episcopate. The two go hand in hand.
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Whistleblower Testifies Under Oath to Congress that the Government has recovered "non-human biologics" from UFOs

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But God Has Shown Me

Christsfreeservant
The passage of Scripture is from Acts 10:1-48 and Acts 11:1-18, which is all one story, so I am going to summarize much of this and I will quote sections of it, so I would encourage you to read the whole passage of Scripture.

There was a man named Cornelius, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who prayed to God always. And one day he had a vision of an angel of God calling his name. And he said for him to send for Simon Peter, so that is what he did. And the next day Peter had a vision where he was told to eat that which had been forbidden under the Old Covenant law. So, he said, “Not so, Lord!” But the voice spoke, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.” And this was done three times.

While Peter thought about the vision the men sent from Cornelius showed up at Peter’s house. And the next day Peter went away with them to see Cornelius. And many people had gathered there to hear Peter.

Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean. 29Therefore I came without objection as soon as I was sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me?” (Acts 10:28-29 NKJV)​
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Then Cornelius told Peter his story. And then he said, 33“Now therefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things commanded you by God.” 34Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. 35But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. (Acts 10:33-35 NKJV) ​
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Speaking of Jesus Christ, Peter said, “Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly, 41not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. 42And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead. 43To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.” ​
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44While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. 45And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 46For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.​
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Then Peter answered, 47“Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” 48And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days. (Acts 10:40-48 NKJV)​

The Lesson For Us

God can and will speak to us through visions and dreams and parables to lead us in the way that he would have us to go if we will be willing to let him do that. For, even though the Scriptures do teach us the ways of the Lord, and they give us his commands in the “do’s and do nots,” the Scriptures do not lead us all in very specific ways the Lord has for us individually in letting us know where to go and what to do and what to say. And this is one reason we are given the Holy Spirit within us to counsel us in the ways we’re to go.

For God has gifted us with spiritual gifts, who believe in Jesus, and he has given us our “body part” assignments within the body of Christ, and he has very specific callings upon our lives individually. And he has specific tasks he wants us to do each day which we may not know what it is until that day comes. And so he has to have a way to communicate those things to us. And so sometimes he will use dreams and visions and parables as a means to get across to us his very specific assignments he has for us, one day at a time.

Now, when I was young, and I would say, “God showed me,” I was scolded by my pastor and told I should say rather, “I think,” as though it was just my opinion. But that wasn’t true that it was just my opinion, for the Lord did speak to me in ways that were specific to my life as I studied the Scriptures and as I was being led by the Holy Spirit living within me. And that is how I knew what I was to do and where I was to go that was very specific just to me and not general instructions given to all followers of Jesus Christ.

But what if Cornelius and Peter had ignored their visions from God? What if they refused because someone told them that God doesn’t speak to us that way, although he certainly did speak that way to people in the Bible? The people who were saved may have been saved anyway, but they would have missed out on that blessing from God and how God wanted to use them. And then God couldn’t use them in the ways that he did because their ears and hearts would be closed to allowing the Lord to lead them in that way.

But because they both heard from the Lord, and they listened, and they did as they were instructed, many people who did not know Jesus previously believed in the Lord and received the Holy Spirit. And from that the gospel of our salvation was spread to the Gentiles, which had been prophesied in the Scriptures a long time ago. And because I obeyed the Lord’s calling on my life, the message of the gospel is going to people all over the world via the internet. And people are hearing the truth of the gospel. All glory to God!

So don’t shut out the Lord’s voice speaking to you through dreams, visions, or parables in order to show you specifically what he has for you to do. Test what you are seeing or hearing against the truth of the Scriptures, and in prayer, to make certain that what you are hearing or seeing is from God, and that it aligns with the Scriptures, but then follow the leading of the Holy Spirit within you. Go where he sends you, and say to the people all that he gives you to say, and do not put out the Spirit’s fire because men say to.

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:11-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

There’s a Stirring

By Annie Herring

There's a stirring deep within me
Could it be my time has come
When I'll see my gracious savior face to face when all is done
Is that his voice I am hearing?
'Come away, my precious one'
Is he calling me?
Is he calling me?

I will rise up, I’ll rise up
And I’ll bow down
And lay my crown
At His wounded feet

There's a stirring deep within me

But God Has Shown Me
An Original Work / May 28, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
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