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[artofkhaos404]

A tip for those still in highschool:

Don't spend the highlights of your highschool experience with people that will dampen those memories. Please select the people in your life carefully, more so than I did, so that you can look back on those memories and smile. Differentiate who stuck with you through the hard times, who values your honesty, who tells you what you need to hear rather than what you want to hear, who brings you closer to Christ, who is loyal to you no matter what, who never talks shit about you, who believes in self improvement, who sees how much you care and appreciates you for it, who has their priorities straight, who reminds you what you're worth even when you forget... and who is all talk.

Coming from someone who is deathly afraid of being alone, it is always better to be on your own than to be surrounded by liars and manipulators and fake "I love you"s.

Because you are who you hang out with. Everything you hate about them is what you will become. And even after you come to your senses, discover your worth and emerge from the waves of half truths you were trapped under, because of the time already spent with them, their stench will remain.

And it will drive you mad.

Pray for discernment, my friends. There are few wounds in life as painful as betrayal.

[crazycatsiren]

Jesus Christ doesn't give a shit about witchcraft. He never said jack shit about it. Just like he never said jack shit about homosexuality. You really think a literal god would care about mortals' pastimes and love lives? Fuck outta here.

[samantabrzozowska]

"I am happy because I feel loved by Jesus."

~ Sam

[maddyrae00]

Daily Bread with Breakfast

It is so important for me to daily get into the Word of God. Some days I fail at this. But I try my best to be consistent at getting into the Word. I am currently reading through Psalms and Exodus.

[theyanderespecialist]

Story Time: Jesus Ride When I Came Out at 13 🏳‍🌈✝ (TW: Religious Trauma) #comingoutstory #lgbtqia

[gramarobin]

[fiercelyfavored]

A Hitch in the Road

There's nothing worse than going after something positive and ending up feeling so much negativity revolving your goal.

I started Fiercely Favored in hopes of creating a community of believers with scars and difficult stories. I asked my younger brother to help with graphics for the shirts and to make the logo. He suffered with alcoholism and apparently depression. He was traveling the road of living a toxic, verbally ,and mentally abusive relationship.

My brother grew up with me and I know the awful history or our childhood, as I healed and grew, he drank and stewed. To his shit life stew he added a baby momma that was totally dedicated to making babies and living in her own toxicity and the truth is I'm bias so I'll keep the details of their life limited.

My brother committed suicide in September 2022. He shot himself in the head in his closet, although graphic, it speaks to the devastation that I am experiencing. He lived a life so full of tragedy but was so talented and inspirational to many. It tears my heart to pieces to k ow it ended as a tragic story instead of the way I envisioned.

I started this story it started with disruption to goals and when I started my company I had such a deep desire to help others and when my brother left I lost a piece of my heart. It set me off course.

I began a downward spiral for 4 months nearly giving up all I worked for right alongside my brother. I was definitely a willing participant to my own demise at that time.

God did not let me go. He planted blessings in my life that made it impossible for me to quit and He revealed Himself to me by giving me dreams and signs. I thank God that my heart always remains soft enough for Him to make himself known to me in my times of pain.

Today I have rededicated myself to bringing the lost sheep of God together in a community that they can feel comfortable in.

In my next blog I will detail the next step in this amazing story of redemption for Fiercely Favored and a person that is a true believer and working to help us understand the first steps of reentry and recovery with God on her side.

[penningthoughts]

Who belongs to Jesus?

[theedgeofme]

[messymindpalace]

Christians tend to forget that our faith IS rational, not human rationatily but spiritual rationatily based upon the Bible and all the knowledge we have about God

He says:

And you shall remember [always] all the ways which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart (mind), whether you would keep His commandments or not. (Deuteronomy 8:2)

So it's not about what you feel or what you see but about what you KNOW of the Lord and you have to remember these things when times get rough or scary and you remember so as to not be guided by what you feel or see because your heart is not supposed to be trusted:

“The heart is deceitful above all things and it is extremely sick; Who can understand it fully and know its secret motives? “I, the Lord, search and examine the mind, I test the heart, to give to each man according to his ways, sccording to the results of his deeds. (Jeremiah 17:9-10)

i feel like this is a topic that needs more than just a tumblr post to fully expand on but. i think that in modern-day christian culture we place WAY too much emphasis on Feeling and Emotion . and i think that this attitude is part of the reason why the most common struggle you hear is "God isn't speaking to me/I can't hear God". feels like the standard set is that you're constantly feeling a Supernatural presence and it's Big and Obvious and it Shows and you can't contain it... when that's just not it. God can be quiet. God can nudge. God's voice is contained in the Bible that you hold between your hands. If you're not "hearing Him" then maybe your expectation of what hearing Him is is flawed.

[maquitadonyel]

“Buzzing

Fireflies

They tripled by a thousand and then another

Flickering around my veins

Landing on my bones

Pouring into my toes

Lighting up my intricate depths

“What is this?” I asked The Lord”- Maquita Donyel

[artofkhaos404]

Praying Taylor Swift will stop making music is where alternative people and true Christians unite...

AND I'M BOTH.

[crazycatsiren]

There's nothing wrong with being a Christian. There's everything wrong with being a bigoted Christian.

[samantabrzozowska]

"You are here only to be happy."

~ Sam

[scurvyboy]

Hi! May I request Wendy and Soos hanging out? Maybe some Dipper and Mabel in the mix too? If not then just Wendy and Soos :3

they're listening to danger days and having a great time doing it

[into-the-very-fires-of-mordor]

he's just like me fr

I will find no rest here. I heard her voice inside my head. She spoke of my father and the fall of Gondor. She said to me “Even now there is hope left.” But I cannot see it. It is long since we had any hope.

Art done by the wonderful: Lorbalith

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