A “Star Wars” spinoff is receiving negative attention from fans for pushing LGBT ideology in what has become a trend in recent adaptations of legendary franchises.

While “The Acolyte” premiered Tuesday, it has been clear since long before the series officially became available to the subscribers of Disney+ that the program was designed to appeal to a progressive audience. In an X post last year, the “Star Wars” fan account The Direct announced that “THE ACOLYTE has cast Abigail Thorn as Ensign Eurus, making her the first transgender actor to appear in a #StarWars series.”

Earlier this year, series creator Leslye Headland openly admitted to the goal behind the show in an interview that surfaced on X. “When I saw ‘Frozen’ as a grown woman, I cried through the entire movie,” she recalled. “There was just something about the relationship between the sisters, the … devillainization of the classic kind of fairytale bad guy, you know, the concept of true love being between two sisters and not a heterosexual relationship ... it just destroyed me completely.”

Continued below.

The Atlanta-area pastor has said he affirms a New Testament sexual ethic, but his words and deeds have muddled that message.

Late last month, North Point Community Church hosted the Unconditional Conference, billing the gathering as an event “for parents of LGBTQ+ children and for ministry leaders looking to discover ways to support parents and LGBTQ+ children in their churches.” It would stake out a “quieter middle space” on a contentious topic, the organizers said.

As critics were quick to note, the Atlanta-area conference featured speakers who are either in same-sex relationships or supportive of those who are, and on Sunday, North Point pastor Andy Stanley preached a sermon responding to criticisms of the event. That message is now available online. (Stanley delivered it twice, and outside recordings of both services have been posted elsewhere.)

Stanley spent much of the sermon providing the backstory to the conference, which was developed to meet pastoral needs both of young people in the church wrestling with same-sex attraction and parents in the church whose children (who themselves were often—but not necessarily—adults) were coming out to them. He argued that this pastoral purpose warranted involving these particular speakers, outlined what he teaches about sexual ethics, and spoke to how churches can move forward on this issue. Unfortunately, though Stanley articulated a commitment to a New Testament sexual ethic, he also seriously undermined that very teaching.

Stanley outlined his understanding of Christian sexual ethics with three directives:

1. Honor God with your body.
2. Do not be mastered by anything.
3. Do not sexualize any relationship outside of marriage.

Biblical marriage is between a man and a woman, he said, noting that every New Testament text addressing homosexuality teaches that it is a sin. “It was a sin then,” Stanley said, “and it is a sin now.”

Continued below.

In an article Published in History Is Now Magazine I begin to explain the vital differences between a Medieval king, and a monarch.

https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/bl ... n-emperors

I published my first article (a short bit on feudalism) for historymedieval.com

Feudalism: Origins and Life under Lords
https://historymedieval.com/feudalism-o ... der-lords/

The king said.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

Esther 7.

Love God is love so love is the greatest power in the universe love will conquer all evil its the only thing that can how can we aquire this love its nothing we can do its a gift from God it comes with the HolySpirit.
We have many good examples of this Godly Love.

‭1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV‬
[8] Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.


‭1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV‬
[13] So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.


‭John 3:16 ESV‬
[16] “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.


‭Mark 12:30-31 ESV‬
[30] And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ [31] The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”


So lets learn to love as we are commanded.

Love and Peace
Dave

Pray that Jesus Christ strengthens the fragile peace at the Israeli-Lebanese border​

I am in Ulm Germany and unfortunately one of the only English channels is CNN. Bleh

Joe actually did a good job

Galatians 5:1 (NKJV)
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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What is this liberty that one is instructed to stand fast in…?

It is the liberty that any dead man has from all the entanglements of this world….. For as free as any dead man is, that is as free as every believing one is, if indeed the believing one will believe into their death and resurrection with Christ…. For the yoke of bondage is the yoke of selfhood that one is freed from by being joined with Christ in His death on the cross…. For believers are to believe something and this something is that Christ is the Savior of the world, He became the Savior of the world by being the Head of a new creation of people, this group of people becomes this new creation by believing into their death and resurrection when Christ died and was raised from the dead…. Henceforth they are called believers because they believe what is true, that Christ did indeed die for them that they might be born again into a new creation….

For it is the strength and depth of one believing this that will determine how much of Christ will be formed in one…. For Christ being formed in one is the end all of the Christian faith, for it will determine how much of Christ one will be able to express, manifest and enjoy for all of eternity…. It is that critical of a belief for all things hang on one believing into Christ, for of one would go on with God one must of all necessity believe both in their death and resurrection with Christ, that the old might die and the new come to life….

Be blessed all in the death of the old and the new coming to life…..

A fellow believing one believing into their death and resurrection with Christ…


In His love, Not me….

February 24, 2012

I was reading in Revelation about the power and majesty of God, and of Jesus Christ, God the Son. Jesus, the Lamb of God, was the only one worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because he was slain, and with his blood he purchased men for God. And he made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and we will reign with Christ on the earth. For the Lamb, who was slain, is worthy “to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”

This song, “Praise the ‘I AM’,” is also a song of praise to Jesus Christ, my Savior, who is my gracious Redeemer, who, by his grace, pardoned me, forgave my sin and he set me free! Now, I am His servant and witness.

Praise the “I AM!”

An Original Work / February 24, 2012

Jesus, my Savior, full of compassion,
Glorious in power, mighty in strength;
Gracious Redeemer, mighty deliv’rer,
My heart adores Him. Praise to His name!
Perfect salvation my Lord provided
When He died for my sins on a tree;
Crucified my sins; conquered in vict’ry,
When He arose, so I could be free!

I am so thankful for His forgiveness;
Grateful that He chose to pardon me,
Giving me new life full in His Spirit,
So I can serve Him; His servant be!
Walking in daily fellowship with Him,
Obeying Him whate’er He commands;
Forsaking my sins, living in freedom,
I will endure with Him to the end!

He gives me peace and calm reassurance
In times of sorrow, or in distress.
His grace is sure, and oh, how sufficient
To meet me in my need for sweet rest.
Oh, how I love You, Jesus, my Savior.
My heart longs for You where’er I am.
Your word is precious; speaks to my spirit;
Brings comfort, healing. Praise the “I AM!”

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A spirit can be a demonic spirit or it can be the Holy Spirit or the spirit of human beings. In this case, I believe it is speaking of the human spirit, which is the human soul, life, heart, inner self, nature, temperament, attitude, and/or character. It is the essence of who we are as individuals, i.e. what we are made of, and what we are about. It is who we are when no one else is looking and no matter who we are with. And it is what we believe, in truth, and it is what we practice, in truth. For it is the REAL us.

Now there are many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ who do not believe in Jesus in truth and in righteousness. They give lip service to the Lord, but by their actions they deny him. They still live for self and for self-pleasure, and they are still lord of their own lives, determining their own course. And they are still making sin their practice, and not godliness and righteousness and moral purity and honesty and faithfulness to God. And some of them are pastors of church congregations, leading the people.

So, we are not to take everyone at face value and just assume that they are who they say they are, for then we might be ripe for being deceived. Especially in our day and age, liars and deceivers and those who trick and manipulate others to get what they want are everywhere – in the governments, in the media, and within the gatherings of the church, etc. So we must be those who test the spirits to see whether they are from God, and we do this by comparing their words and actions to the Scriptures.

Now, when this says that “every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,” we have to compare that to the teachings in the Scriptures which talk about “wolves in sheep’s clothing” and the servants of Satan who disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. For there are a whole lot of people who are confessing Jesus Christ with their lips but whose actions are far from him. They put on a show of righteousness, but while they continue in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord, lying, tricking, manipulating, and deceiving others to believe their lies.

So, we can’t always go by what people profess, for what they do shows what they really believe. And many profess faith in Jesus Christ for the sole purpose to deceive others, sadly so. But we can go by what they talk about and what they teach and how they present the message of the gospel and by what is important to them and by what they talk about the most. And we should then compare that to the Scriptures to see whether or not their words and actions and lifestyles agree with what God requires of us.

Now, not one of us is going to be absolutely perfect in everything that we do and say, so we must be very careful that we don’t make quick judgments and that we don’t judge people by one or two incidents in which they might not have been having their best day. But we can observe patterns of behaviors and of messages given and we can test those against what the Scriptures teach, and they will give us a pretty good indication as to whether or not this is someone who is to be trusted. But please read the Scriptures in context! For many lies come from Scriptures taught outside of context.

And this is not written to encourage us to just go around judging everyone. But we do need to pay close attention to what we hear and read and think we see, for liars and lies abound, and much is being photoshopped and altered and manipulated today to appear the opposite of what it really is. So we do need to be those who exercise godly wisdom and discernment. But be careful that you don’t judge others falsely by your own selves or by your culture or by your own religious practices, for that is false judging.

Now, if what you are teaching is faithful to the Scriptures, as taught in their appropriate context, then others who are genuine followers of Christ should have no argument with what you are teaching. But we all must make certain, to the best of our understanding, that what we are teaching or sharing with others, with regard to the Scriptures, is really what the Scriptures teach, and not something we might have been taught erroneously. So we should even be testing our own teachings.

[Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-14; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 1:1-25]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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In the same manner in which Jesus laid down his life for us, we are to lay down our lives, not only for other believers in Christ, but also for the people of the world. So, how do we do this? First of all we must, by faith in Jesus Christ, be crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. For Jesus said that if anyone would come after him, he must deny self, take up his cross daily, and follow (obey) him.

[Romans 6:1-23; Luke 9:23-26; Ephesians 4:17-32; Titus 2:11-14]

Then we are to walk (in conduct, in purpose, in practice) according to the Spirit and no longer according to the flesh. Sin must no longer be what we practice, but now righteousness and obedience to our Lord are to be what we practice. And now we should be sharing the message of the gospel of our salvation with other people, and we should be engaged in encouraging and edifying and exhorting one another who are in the faith in our walks of faith in holiness and in righteousness and in obedience to our Lord.

[Rom 8:1-14; Gal 5:16-21; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 5:13-16; Matt 28:18-20; Jn 4:31-38; Jn 13:13-17; Jn 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18; Acts 26:18; Rom 10:14-15; Rom 12:1-8; Rom 15:14; 1 Co 12:1-31; 1 Co 14:1-5; Eph 4:1-16; Eph 5:11-27; Php 2:1-8; Col 3:16; Heb 3:13; Heb 10:23-25; 1 Pet 2:9,21; 1 Jn 2:6]

All of this involves us surrendering our lives to Jesus Christ to do his will and to serve his purposes for us and to show love to our fellow humans. We can no longer be selfish and self-centered, in practice. Now we must be God-focused and have our eyes, minds, and hearts set on obeying the Lord and to doing his will, even if it gets us hated and rejected and cast off by others, even others who profess the name of Jesus, because our walks of faith in the Lord are an offense to them. And this is how we lay down our lives.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-19; John 15:1-21; John 16:33; John 17:14; Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Eph 6:10-20; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

Now our ministry to our brothers and sisters in Christ, and to the people of the world, is not just on a spiritual level, but it is on a physical level, too. We are to care about one another’s needs (spiritual and physical), but the physical needs should be legitimate needs and not just wants, and there should be good reason to believe that they are not able to provide for their own needs in their current situation. For the Scriptures teach that we are not to feed those who are idle and who are not willing to work (see 2 Thessalonians 3:10). So this calls for much wisdom and discernment.

For sadly we have many people in this world, and even within the gatherings of what are called “churches,” who take advantage of others and who lie and manipulate and scam others to get from them what they want. And then we cannot meet everyone’s needs unless we are the wealthiest of people that there are, and even they can’t meet everyone’s needs. So, again, we must be wise and discerning and pray to the Lord regarding what needs he would have us meet, and in what ways, and regarding how much we should give. But definitely we are not to love in word only, but also in actions.

Now we can know that our faith is genuine by how we love God and other humans in action and not just in words. Now words may be part of those actions, such as what I do each day in writing out my devotions and sharing them with the people of the world and with other believers in Christ, but we aren’t supposed to just mouth words of love but then live the opposite. And we can know that our faith is genuine because we keep (obey, put into practice) our Lord’s commandments (New Covenant), and because we do what pleases the Lord, according to his word, and not by our own thinking.

Love Must Be Genuine

An Original Work / October 22, 2013
Based off Romans 12:9-21

Love must be genuine.
Hate what’s evil; cling to good.
Love each other with affection.
Show respect for ev’ryone.
Never lack in your zeal.
Serve the Lord with diligence.

Rejoice in steadfast hope.
In affliction, patient be.
Keep on praying; share with others.
Practice hospitality.
Bless those who persecute.
Feel with others sympathy.

Be not filled with conceit.
Daily sit at Jesus’ feet.
Live in harmony with others.
Live at peace with ev’ryone.
Repay not to someone
With the evil he begot.

Do not take your revenge;
Leave it to the wrath of God.
If your enemy is thirsty,
Give to him something to drink.
Do what’s right for mankind.
Evil: overcome with good.

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Hello folks. I just called my friend, Abby, that I met at a former job that I had (grocery) about the two verses below. Pray that she avoids and is freed from the teachings of Akashic spirituality, syncretism (buddhism + Christianity) and angels, as God told us to trust in Christ alone, and not angel cards. Also, pray that her partner of eleven years treats her with respect, instead of cussing her out, and that if the relationship fails, that her partner may find a Christian teacher to help him form a wholesome Christian marriage with someone. Pray that Abby may let go of this 11 year anchor, and be free in Christ to marry someone who walks closer to God.


Leviticus 19:31 (ESV): "Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God."

Isaiah 8:19 (NIV): "When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?"

So I struggle with intrusive thoughts that cause my depression ... I work, I passed my nursing entrance exam but..

I was in an accident, my car was totaled, I have no car and now it's hard getting my son to his therapy( he has autism) I was warned today he could be kicked out of therapy bc he's missed days ( I'm trying not to quit my job)

My daughter was kicked out of daycare bc I was behind on payments and she's regressed in potty training.

I only work part time and can't work much more bc I have to pick up my kids ect. K just feel my hands are tied. My ungrateful parents are back in my home ( my mom is on the lease so I just have to deal with 6 people and 2 dogs in a 1 bedroom. No one pays me any mind or listens to me. It's a mess constantly. My dad doesn't work. Lays on my couch which they now broke. )

I just feel a bit hopeless kind of. I feel I don't have what it takes to get through nursing school. I'll never finish. I feel like I'm failing as a mom. I feel ill never be much.. I don't feel like I'm enough. I just feel ill be in poverty forever..


I do therapy but she doesn't give me cbt work to do just meds. I'm nervous to try meds bc I feel like I shouldn't let depressive anxious thoughts overwhelm me but they do.

Vermont’s Bernie Sanders is a relative conservative in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate. And self-styled socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is hardly the hardest-Left House member.

The Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Legislative Analysis made these and other discoveries after reviewing 58 Senate votes and 133 House tallies in 2023. It then rated lawmakers from zero (most liberal) to 100 (most conservative). ILA figures confirm that Capitol Hill Democrats are almost uniformly left-wing radicals while Republicans are more moderate than even GOP voters imagine.

God has appointed times and I believe we are fast approaching the convergence of God`s 3 purposes.

Acts 13:39 “And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.” Plus nothing meaning you don't have to do anything to be saved, and minus nothing meaning you don't have to stop doing something to be saved (giving up all your sins, live a good life, etc.). The only thing you must do to be saved is Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved Acts 16:31. the simple gospel, Jesus paid it all, we pay nothing all our works are filthy rags before God and can never save us. Living a good life, stopping the sinning, that's not salvation, salvation is Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:19-28 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Over and over we have clear scriptures saying its faith alone, yet people still come along and say "I still think you gotta have the works" well Romans 4:5 destroys this wicked false teaching.

Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Hello everyone, I am a 28-year-old Haitian American male struggling badly with spiritual immaturity - among other things. Please pray for me

“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? ” - Micah 6:8

Introduction​

To “walk humbly” with God is the essence of the Law of God, the spiritual side of it—its Ten Commandments are an enlargement of this verse. The Law is spiritual and touches the thoughts, intents, emotions, words, and actions—but especially God demands the heart. Now it is our great joy that what the Law requires, the gospel gives. “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth” (Rom 10:4). In Him we meet the requirements of the Law, first, by what He has done for us and next, by what He works in us. He conforms us to the Law of God. He makes us, by His Spirit, not for our righteousness but for His Glory, to render to the Law the obedience which we could not present of ourselves. We are weak through the flesh, but when Christ strengthens us, the righteousness of the Law is “fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Rom 8:4).

Only through faith in Christ does a man learn to do righteously, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God—and only by the power of the Holy Spirit sanctifying us to that end do we fulfill these three divine requirements. These we fulfill perfectly in our desire—we would be holy as God is holy if we could live as our heart aspires to live: we would always do righteously, we would always love mercy, and we would always walk humbly with God. The Holy Spirit daily aids us to do this by working in us “to will and to do of [God’s] good pleasure” (Phi 2:13). And the day will come, and we are pining for it, when, being entirely free from this hampering body, we shall serve Him day and night in His Temple and shall render to Him an absolutely perfect obedience, for, “they are without fault before the throne of God” (Rev 14:5).

Today I shall have a task quite sufficient if I dwell only upon the third requirement, “Walk humbly with thy God,” asking first, What is the nature of this humility? And secondly, Where does this humility show itself? First,

I. What Is the Nature of This Humility?​

The text is very full of teaching in that respect.

A. Humility belongs to the highest form of character.​

Observe what precedes our text: “to do justly, and to love mercy.” Suppose a man has done that; suppose that in both these things he has come up to the divine standard, what then? Why, then he must walk humbly with God! If we walk in the Light of God, as God is in the light, and have fellowship with Him (1Jo 1:7a), we still need to walk before God very humbly, always looking to the blood—for, even then, the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses and continues to cleanse us from all sin (1Jo 1:7b). If we have done both these things, we shall still have to say that we are unprofitable servants—we must walk humbly with God. We have not reached that consummation yet, always doing justly and loving mercy, though we are approximating to it by Christ’s gracious help.

But if we did attain to the ideal that is set before us, and every act was right towards man—and more, every act was delightfully saturated with a love to our neighbor as strong as our love to ourselves—even then there would come in this precept, “Walk humbly with thy God.”

Dear friends, if ever you should think that you have reached the highest point of Christian grace—I almost hope that you never will think so—but suppose that you should ever think so, do not, I pray you, say anything that verges upon boasting, or exhibit any kind of spirit that looks like glorying in your own attainments, but walk humbly with your God! I believe that the more grace a man has, the more he feels his deficiency of grace. All the people that I have ever thought might have been called perfect before God, have been notable for a denial of anything of the sort—they have always disclaimed anything like perfection! They have always laid low before God—and if one has been constrained to admire them, they have blushed at his admiration. If they have thought that they were, at all, the objects of reverence among their fellow Christians, I have noticed how zealously they have put that aside with self-depreciatory1 remarks, telling us that we did not know all, or we should not think so of them. And therein I admire them yet more. The praise that they put from them, returns to them with interest!

Oh, let us be of that mind! The best of men are but men at the best, and the brightest saints are still sinners—for whom there is still the Fountain open. This Fountain is not opened, mark you, in Sodom and Gomorrah, but it is opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that even they may still continue, with all their lofty privileges, to wash therein and to be clean. This is the kind of humility, then, which is consistent with the highest moral and spiritual character. It is the very clothing of such a character, as Peter puts it, to “be clothed with humility” (1Pe 5:5), as if, after we had put on the whole armor of God, we put this over all to cover it all up! We do not want the helmet to glitter in the sun, nor the armor of brass upon the knees to shine before men, but clothing ourselves like officers in civilian clothes, we conceal the beauties that will eventually the more reveal themselves.

B. The humility here prescribed involves constant communion with God.​

Observe that we are told to walk humbly with God. It is of no use walking humbly away from God. I have seen some people “very proudly humble,” very boastful of their humility. They have been so humble that they were proud enough to doubt God! They could not accept the mercy of Christ, they said. They were so humble. In truth, theirs was a devilish humility, not the humility that comes from the Spirit of God. Oh, no! This true humility makes us walk with God. Beloved, can you conceive a higher and truer humility than that which must come of walking with God? Remember what Job said, “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:5-6).

Remember how Abraham, when he communed with God and pleaded with Him for Sodom, said, “I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes” (Gen 18:27). “Dust” set forth the frailty of his nature. “Ashes” were as the refuse of the altar which could not be burnt up, and which God would not have. He felt himself to be, by sin, like the sweeping of a furnace, the ashes, refuse of no value whatever. And that was not because he was away from God, but because he was near to God. You can get to be as big as you like if you get away from God, but coming near to the Lord you rightly sing,

“The more Your glories strike my eyes,
The humbler I shall lie.”

Depend upon it that it is so. It might be a kind of weather gauge showing your communion—whether you are proud or humble. If you are going up, God is going down in your esteem. “He must increase,” said John the Baptist of the Lord Jesus, “but I must decrease.” The two things go together—if this scale rises, that scale must go down. “Walk humbly with thy God.”

Dare to stay with God! Dare to have Him as your daily Friend! Be bold enough to come to Him Who is within the veil! Talk with Him, walk with Him as a man walks with his familiar friend—but walk humbly with Him. You will do so if you walk truly. I cannot conceive such a thing—it is impossible—a man walking proudly with God! He takes his fellow by the arm and feels that he is as good as his neighbor, perhaps superior to him, but he cannot walk with God in such a frame of mind as that! The finite with the Infinite! That alone suggests humility, but the sinful with the Thrice-Holy? This throws us down into the dust.

C. This humility implies constant activity.​

“Walk humbly with thy God.” Walking is an active exercise. These people had proposed to bow before God, as you notice in the sixth verse, “Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God?” But the answer is not, “Bow humbly before God,” but “Walk humbly” with God.

Now, Beloved, when we are very actively engaged, pressed with business, one thing after another coming in, if the great Master employs us in some large concern (large, of course, only to us), if we have work after work—we are too apt to forget that we are only servants. We are doing all the business for our Master; we are only commission agents for Him.

We are apt to think that we are the head of the firm. We would not think so if we thought steadily for a moment, for we would know our right position. But in the midst of activity, we get cumbered with much serving, and we are too apt to get off our proper level.

Perhaps we have to rule others, and we forget that we also are men under authority. It is easy to play the little king over the little folk, but it must not be so. You must learn not only to be humble in the closet of communion, and to be humble with your Bible before you—but to be humble in preaching, to be humble in teaching, to be humble in ruling, to be humble in everything that you do when you have as much as ever you can do! When, from morning to night, you are still pressed with this and that service, still keep your proper place. That is where Martha went wrong, you know—not in having much serving, but by getting to be mistress. She was, “Mrs. Martha,” and the housewife is a queen! But Mary sat in the servant’s place at Jesus’ feet. If Martha’s heart could have been where Mary’s body was, then had she served aright. The Lord make us “Martha-Marys,” or “Mary-Marthas,” whenever we are busy, that we may walk humbly with God!

D. This humility denotes progress.​

I do not think it far-fetched to say so. The man is to walk, and that is progress, advancing. “Walk humbly.” I am not to be so humble that I feel that I cannot do any more, or enjoy any more, or be any better. They call that humility, but it begins with an “s” in English and the full word is sloth. “I cannot be as believing, as bold, as useful as such a man is.” You are not told to be humble and sit still, but to be humble and walk with God! Go forward! Advance! Not with a proud desire to excel your fellow Christians, not even with the latent expectation of being more respected because you have more grace—but still walk, go on, advance, grow! Be enriched with all the precious things of God. Be filled with all the fullness of God. Walk on, always walk. Lie not down in despair! Roll not in the dust with desperation because you think high things impossible for you. Walk—but walk humbly.

You will soon find out, if you make any progress, that you have need to be humble. I believe that when a man goes back he gets proud. And I am persuaded that when a man advances, he gets humbler—and that it is a part of the advance to walk more and more and more humbly. For this the Lord tries many of us. For this He visits us in the night and chastens us, that we may be qualified to have more grace and get to higher attainments by being more humble, “for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble” (1Pe 5:5). If you will climb the mountainside, you shall be thirsty among the barren crags. But if you will descend into the valleys, where the red deer wander and the brooks flow among the meadows, you shall drink to your full! Does not the hart pant for the water brooks? Do you pant for them? They flow in the Valley of Humiliation! The Lord bring us all there!

E. The humility here prescribed implies constancy.​

“Walk humbly with thy God.” Not sometimes be humble, but always walk humbly with your God. If we were always what we are sometimes, what Christians we would be! I have heard you say, I think, and I have said the same myself, “I felt very broken down and lay very low at my Master’s feet.” Were you so the next day? And the day after, did you continue so?

Is it not very possible for us to be one day, because of our great debt to our Master, begging that He would not be hard with us—and is it not possible, tomorrow, to be taking our brother by the throat? I do not say that God’s people would do that, but I do feel that the spirit that is in them may lead them to think of doing it—one day acknowledging your Father’s authority and doing His will, and another day standing outside the door and refusing to go in when the prodigal son has come home. “You never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. I have been a consistent believer, yet I never have any high joys; but as soon as your son came, which has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf. Here is a wretched sinner only just saved and he is in an ecstasy of delight! How can this be right?” (Luk 15).

O elder son, O elder brother, walk humbly with your Father! Always be so under any circumstances. It is all very fine to have a lot of humility packed away in a box with which to perfume your prayers—and then to come out and to be “My Lord,” some very great one in the midst of the Church and in the world. This will never do! It is not said, “Bow humbly before God now and then.” But as a regular, constant thing, “Walk humbly with thy God.” It is not, “Bow your head like the bulrush under some conscious fault which you cannot deny,” but, in the brightness of your purity and the clearness of your holiness, still keep your heart in lowly reverence bowing before the Throne of God!

F. The humility that is here prescribed includes delightful confidence.​

Let me read the text to you, “Walk humbly with God.” No, no, we must not maul the passage that way! “Walk humbly with thy God.” Do not think that it is humility to doubt your interest in Christ—that is unbelief! Do not think that it is humility to think that He is another man’s God and not yours—“Walk humbly with thy God.”
Know that He is your God! Be sure of it—come up from the wilderness leaning upon your Beloved. Have no doubt, nor even the shadow of a doubt, that you are your Beloved’s and that He is yours! Rest not for a moment if there is any question upon this blessed subject. He gives Himself to you—take Him to be yours by a covenant of salt that never shall be broken—and give yourself to Him, saying, “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine” (Song 6:3). “Walk humbly with thy God.”

Let not anything draw you away from that confidence. But then, in comes the humility. This is all of grace! This is all the result of divine election! Therefore, be humble. You have not chosen Christ, but He has chosen you! This is all the effect of redeeming love—therefore, be humble. You are not your own, you are bought with a price, so you can have no room to glory. This is all the work of the Spirit—

“Then give all the glory to His holy name,
To Him all the glory belongs.”

“Walk humbly with thy God.” I lie at His feet as one unworthy and cry,

“Why did this come to me? I am not worthy of the least of the mercies that You have made to pass before me.”

I think this is the humility prescribed in the text. May the Spirit of God work it in us!

And now, secondly, with great brevity upon many points, I have to answer the question,

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I decided to edit the post and remove the complicated discussion by saying that I was probably worrying too much. I was asking a question about Google disabling a Google account I created and requiring me to verify the account using someone else's phone to re-enable the account. After further research I found a Google support webpage that explained they limit the number of Google accounts someone can verify using one phone number to prevent spammers from abusing their service. So I think I successfully resolved this by verifying my Google account with someone else's phone number (which Google said was okay to do).

Good day, I'm asking for prayer for salvation of The Royal Philanthropic Lodge, DISTRICT GRAND Lodge, LODGE UNITED BROTHERS 251, LODGE EASTERN STAR 368, LODGE ROSSLYN 596, LODGE ARIMA 899, LODGE ALEXANDRA 1044, LODGE CARIBBEAN LIGHT 1391, LODGE ROYALIAN 1605, LODGE TOBAGO KILWINNING 1643, LODGE FELICITY 1681, LODGE TRINITY 1733, LODGE HESPERUS 1738, LODGE SAINT ANDREW 1794, LODGE BI-CENTENNIAL 1812 & families. Thank you for all your prayer.

In short, recently I felt led to fast and pray for 30 days. I've broken the fast early 2 or 3 times already. At around day 3.

My issue is that I feel so pointless on this fast. Whether listening to the Word, praying, journaling, meditating.... I don't feel like I hear Him. I know others say that they become more sensitive to His voice. I'm not having that experience right now. I feel like I'm checking boxes and not getting anywhere.

I'll share what I sent Dad,

I had a dream a couple nights ago and was in Iran. I had a church there but they began to persecute and say we couldn't preach no more, and not gather.
But what stood out was people were saying "See, Iran isn't all desert, there's plenty of green fields, and forests." I lost much detail of the dream but remember that much. I was not in a desert area.
So I looked it up, yup:








The girl on the right looks much like someone in the dream.

And this just posted yesterday too: Even that part was real:
Simin, a Christian Imprisoned for Leading a Church in Iran

Simin, a Christian Imprisoned for Leading a Church in Iran​

We should pray for the Christian believers in Iran. Except for the authorities telling me I couldn't preach in the building or hold meetings, it was actually not bad otherwise. I never looked to see if Iran had forests, and yesterday I was totally away from the computer till this afternoon, so this is more than just a random dream.

"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions" (Joel 2:28)

Old men? I had my first prophetic dream when I was 19! But I had more visions when younger, not a whole lot, but a few.

About time!