#Capture every thought

[s-o-a-p-ing]

2 CORINTHIANS S.O.A.P. ~ CHAPTER 10

Thursday, 1/30/25

SCRIPTURE:

Our weapons that we fight with aren’t human, but instead they are powered by God for the destruction of fortresses.  They destroy arguments, and every defense that is raised up to oppose the knowledge of God.  They capture every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:4-5

OBSERVATION:

I know I've been given all the weapons I need...

...but do I use them to destroy the fortresses I've constructed - or allowed to be constructed - in my life?

...in my thought life?

...in my "knee-jerk-reaction" life?

...in my distractedness?

I know they destroy arguments and defenses about "oh, I just wanna..." that put my wants ahead of His will...

...ahead of increasing my knowledge of Him...

But too often I'm afraid I don't let these weapons capture and make every thought obedient to Christ ... 

APPLICATION:

Use His weapons...

Destroy my fortresses...

Capture every thought and make it obedient to Christ...

PRAYER:

Father God - You know every thought and every defense I make trying to convince myself that that what I want is or can be acceptable - to others and myself, if not completely to You - despite knowing it is more about what I want than about wanting Your will... I thank You for bringing these thoughts and actions to mind, and ask that Your Holy Spirit continue to remind and empower me to lean into His leading and pick up Your weapons to surrender my fortresses to Your coming Kingdom... In Jesus's Name, Father, and for Your ultimate glory and praise...

As always, yours always, in all ways - through Him...

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[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

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[flamingpudding]

Cassiopea and Orion

Ellie had a plan. She promised she had one. This wasn't like when Clocky would sent her off on a mission through time with nothing more but a little note with a cryptic message on what to do.

Danny had given her clear instruction. Before one of her many travels to see the world, Danny, in his mid twenties and she in her late teens, had taken her aside once. Telling her about specific instruction she should follow, should she ever find herself in a moment of need, and Danny wasn't able to help her.

Well, now she was in that kind of situation. Amity Park was destroyed with no survivors. Vlads castle was no more. Both Dan and her got deaged, but Dan had to be put in a frozen state when he started to destabilize. And Danny, he had gotten captured by the GIW shoving her out of harms way and telling her to remember what he told her before.

Ellie was pretty sure Danny was telling her to follow the emergency instructions.

So here she was now. In Gotham. Keeping to the shadows and trying to find her way around.

No one ever bothered to tell her how hard it was to navigate through a city like Gotham. You would think it would be easy to find some guy running around at night in an armored spandex furry costume.

But no, here she was, in a random alley. In a city, Danny had specifically told her to avoid it unless the emergency instruction came into play. Maybe she should just steal a map.

She was contemplatingly staring at a gas station for that until she noticed a shadow jumping over the roof tops. It took her only a second to decide on her next action. Ellie was pressed on time after all.

"Hey you!" She shouted loudly flying up to follow that shadow. "Wait up!"

Thankfully, the shadow listened and stopped on the next rooftop toward her. She insanity noticed it tensing. Now, she noticed that the shadow was a kid. He looked small, and Ellie figured he was probably around 11 or 12.

"You are one of the Bees and Birds, right?" She questioned once she floated a bit closer. Also the kid tensed up.

"You mean Bats and Birds." The kid clicked his tongue at her, crossing their arms.

"Bees, Bats, who cares. My question is you know the big bad bee, right?" She waved the kid of, she had more pressing matter than getting their animals right. "I need to get a message to him."

The kid clicked their tongue once more, huffing and muttering something she couldn't hear. Probably talking to someone on a com. Either way, Ellie took his silence as a form of telling her to continue.

"Can you tell the big bad bee-" "Bat" "-the following?" She ignored the kid cutting in trying to get her message across and follow Danny's instructions to a T.

"Cassiopea is calling out to Orions Nursery before Rho dies to help her youngest."

There was long, drawn-out silence, and the kid was hissing something into coms. Ellie fidget with her finger nervously. Going through Danny's emergency instructions through her mind again until she hear a thud close to her and wirled around.

With wide blue glowing eyes, she looked up at the man dressed like a bat for a couple of seconds before taking on a defensive position. Eyes now narrowed at the man that was clearly studying her.

"I was under the impression that Phantom's youngest child was older. You appear to be no older than five."

"Yea well shit happened!" She shot back, still unsure if she could trust the man even if he mentioned Danny's hero alias. Her hands started to glow slightly as she prepared to attack in case things went back. But the man didn't appear to be phased by it. Not like the kid that was tensing up.

"You will be safe with us. But what happened to Phantom?"

Ellie eyes flicked over to the other kid that had now come closer to stand next to the bat guy before looking back to the big guy. She did not drop her stance yet. Still unsure of how much trust she can put here despite what Danny had told her, she had not yet heard the right response.

The man appeared to sense her distrust, as he kneeled to be on eye level with her. "Jupiter and Rho Cas will not be harmed. Orion gave Cassiopea his word."

Finally, Ellie relaxed, dropping her defensive stance but still watching the man with narrowed eyes. She hesitated a short moment before carefully saying her next words, hoping the man knew enough to k ow the grave meaning behind them.

"Phantom lost his haunt."

[beneathsilverstars]

idea 1: romance does not occur to siffrin; they would never think to think about someone that way unless the idea has been introduced to them by an outside source, after which they'll need some time to get used to the idea in order to decide if they're interested.

idea 2: siffrin gets huge embarrassing crushes at the drop of a hat; you say one nice thing to him and he's all butterflies.

synthesis: siffrin gets crushes so easily that they are merely background noise in the profusion of uncomfortable longing that makes up their entire life, and they've only ever had reason to suppress and ignore these sorts of feelings, not recognize and name them. even if evidence of their own infatuation became too overwhelming to misinterpret, the idea of any kind of reciprocation or action would never occur to them independently, and it would take some purposeful consideration to decide whether they'd even want that.

[rhinoyo]

a little fan animatic for @lostxmelody's mikofuu fic parts of a human...! <3 a very very very good read :') <3

[cecoeur]

I should've taken more photos | Singapore 2024

[nelkcats]

Allies in unusual places

J'onn J'onzz didn't have much hope of receiving help after he was captured. He spent his nights locked up in those terrible laboratories, surrounded by selfish people who saw him as an experiment.

Still he did not give up, he continued to ask for help from the heroes he had heard about. Heroes who could save him and stop the future invasion. Many of those calls were futile, but there were times when he really felt that someone had heard him.

Perhaps it was because he was distracted that he didn't notice the fact that he wasn't the only "experiment" in the facility. It was only after he was moved that he noticed the teenager huddled in one of the containment units.

The boy looked exhausted, doing everything he could to make sure no one got to him, kicking and biting every time they tried to grab him; J'onn's heart broke. It was obvious that the boy wasn't human, he didn't look like a Martian either, but it was clear that he was a living being. A living being that was constantly being hurt by human greed.

The Martian was an adult, an adult who could endure pain, an adult who understood how horrible people could be, but that boy? He looked like a child, a child begging to be seen as a sentient being. J'onn hated it.

The days when he heard his sobs were the worst. That's why when the heroes came to "rescue" him, the first thing he did was set the boy free. Not caring about the looks he was getting, he wrapped the boy in a blanket and took him away (he was so scared, kicking and flailing, afraid he was going to get hurt again).

Even as they argued about the invasion, J'onn never left the boy's side. The same little boy who told them in a weak voice that he could help them, that he knew people who could help them.

Danny wanted to do something for the Martian who had helped him (and wasn't it amazing? there was a Martian in front of him! Someone who knew space!), and he thought that a couple of ghosts owed him some favors.

Unknown to the halfa, many of his former enemies were looking for him, desperate for the disappearance of the youngest of their own. The ghosts were furious, and perhaps an alien invasion could help them release their anger.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

guys please pray for me

[myokk]

“Class, today we’re going to repot the baby mandrakes because they’re getting a bit too big for their current homes! Aren’t they cute?”

[thegreatyin]

rip my heart out and shoot it, why don't you???

at least it makes for a great mantlepiece item!

[wiirocku]

2 Corinthians 10:5 (NLT) - We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.

[skunkes]

not an ask, but I saw ur post and relate a lot to it.

anticipatory grief sucks. people will tell you not to think about it, not to let it steal from today, but some days are just so hard. sometimes it feels unavoidable, like it’s some goliath mountain in the distance or even the sky and you can’t not look at it. it’s like you have to keep trying to distract yourself not to think about it, and it’s exhausting, and you’re so fucking scared of the inevitable.

like how does anyone even function? the idea of the world continuing to spin when there’s this terrible, horrible thing that will happen some day is unfathomable but it does, and it’s horrible. Some day will mark the before and the after. nobody can ever be ready for it.

I hope the love you have keeps you strong. wishing you the best.

this is literally it. i know thinking about it Now wont make the actual day it happens any easier. but it's impossible to not think about it, especially since there's no tangible way to preserve memories or feelings or the like forever. i cry easily and get emotional over most anything and everything, which is another layer of difficulty wrt it because I spiral. I want to squeeze out of my body. im not meant for any of it

[adrift-in-thyme]

Warriors singing The Underworld

That is all

[meownotgood]

wish i could send in pictures anonymously since this is just a little doodle :')

i wonder if you could harvest aki like a carrot

OH MY GOSHHH AND LITTLE DENJI AND POWY 😭😭😭💞💞 aki looks so grumpy I think he is not ripe yet.......

[dewdoles]

Personality development headcanons

[thecourtofteeth]

so I just finished s7 and...

wtf was that?