#relationship over religion

[vicbella-toria]

Today is a great day to press into God. May we become a people hungry enough to move His heart.

[etanaru-joi]

God bless this prodigal woman. I see her being a powerful vessel for Christ. God you finish what you start and this seed has been planted into this good soil.

Such powerful evangelicalism. Ordained and an amazing move of God. Not by our might but HIS! — so much boldness and love and POWER of Christ exuding from Ptr. Richard. I also declare and decree that this woman will never be the same in the name of Jesus. For Your glory and Yours alone.

1 Corin 2:4 — “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power”

[river-of-wine]

If it’s meant to be, then it will be

[kindaorangey]

well i'm comforted by the knowledge that book!armand has some faith in the christian god (and, like, that this faith is vital to his character) because it means theres absolutely no fucking way they'd just do that one-to-one in the show and so we're one step closer to an exploration of show!armand's relationship with islam

[etanaru-joi]

2 Kings is so outta pocket lol

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. [Word of God is ALIVE-John 1:1/John 1:14]

Starting by asking God sincerely in your heart for the leading of the Holy Spirit to understand will change everything. Anyone, including professing Christians, can read scripture by the mile yet remain unmoved, untouched, or worse rather more hard-heartened towards God, yet the Holy Spirit, of many things, He is the greatest teacher to open our eyes to understanding—we can’t understand the things of God on our own, not with our itty itty itty bitty human comprehension.

John 3:3 — Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Daniel Isaiah and Revelations though, no movie that is out could even compare (though we are seeing the book of Revelations/Daniel unfold before our very eyes).

so i started reading the bible cus i was interested in what it actually talks about and the stories and like the first section is about God and he just straight up creates everything?

[dreampearls]

whatever man

[river-raven]

Crowley would listen to Vide Noir

[etanaru-joi]

You’re never gonna heal continually loitering in the same old and dark areas/mindsets you once writhed in, around and aligned and submitted to the same roots that kept you bound.

Enough is enough of writhing with those who rejoice in your brokenness and the unhealed version of you— where are those who are going to rejoice in the healed and transformed (glory to glory) version of you in Jesus Christ?

We are called to Love God, and Love Others as we ourselves. Loving with compassion and yet with wisdom, but you have seen a great light. No more writhing not by our might but by God’s mighty Spirit.

To those crowds, it’s you that suddenly starts to look like the crazy one even when you’re getting set free from every curse, bondage, and stronghold and getting set on fire by the grace, love, mercy and the FIRE of God The Most High, who all the splendor, honor, praise, and glory belongs to.

[vicbella-toria]

Strive to be faithful in the growing.

[etanaru-joi]

1 TIM 4:1 — Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

MATT 24:6-14 — And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

No coincidences — everything all by design though, we choose whom we’ll serve today.

[quietwingsinthesky]

i don’t know man, if i remade my entire self in a shape that my god could love and then i lost her, i’d be a lot worse. ten could have been far more batshit and i would have forgiven him completely.

[minecraftbookshelf]

Fic Snippet: Complicated Relationships

Religious trauma comes in some interesting flavors when gods walk among you.

random little snippet from The AU In Which All the Marriages Are Arranged that i thought y'all might like

~500 words, canon-typical gods and possession talk, also some referenced murder.

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Xornoth had been inside Aeor's church exactly once since...since Everything.

It had been the night they'd taken the throne; once they'd talked Scott down from his panic enough to sleep they'd left him in the palace and gone straight to the church. They'd thrown the door open and stormed across the threshold and up the aisle to the altar. Lurching side to side with exhaustion and unfamiliarity with the added gangliness they'd gained from their most recent growth spurt. Trailing mud and blood and the smell of the soot and smoke that was all that remained of their parents' corpses.

The few priests still there had scattered. Even those who had taken their side. Xornoth had ripped the crown from between their antlers and slammed it down on the fine woolen altar cloth, staining the white and gold with the rusty-brown of old blood. Their father's blood.

"If he ever hears your voice the way I hear Exor's," Xornoth had proclaimed through gritted teeth, the heat gathered at their fingertips singeing the fabric. "Then I will burn this place to the ground, grind the ashes into the midden, and turn that statue of yours out there into so much dust."

That's not how it works, you fool! The demon in their head roared in rage, You cannot escape me. And he cannot escape my brother. It is fate! Balance! A Battle forever locked!

Xornoth did not look away from the golden antler crest above the altar. "Do you understand me, Aeor?"

There was no response in words but the atmosphere in the sanctuary shifted, the few candles still lit flickering as if bent by a breeze. A vague sense of acknowledgement rolled over Xornoth's soul and they took the choked off anger from the place in the back of their mind where Exor dwelt to mean it was an affirmative.

Xornoth had never been an elf of many words. They left the heat-warped crown there on the altar, glistening golden in the low lights.

And Scott's mind had always been his own.

His mind but not, apparently, his life, Xornoth thought as, decades later, they once again stood on those same, flawless quartz stairs, a different crown for the same kingdom settled between their antlers, a weight rendered almost invisible from familiarity.

And whose fault is that? Exor sneered. Xornoth ignored him. Turning on their heel to jab a finger at the back of the stag statue's head.

"If I step foot in here and you smite me, Scott will be sad. And he'll have to be king and then he'll never have a full nights sleep ever again and you know it."

They pause a moment. There is no response but there is no roll of thunder either or sudden stormhead over the mountains, so that is probably as good as Xornoth is going to get.

Enough procrastinating. They have a brother to apologize to.

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AU Masterpost

[ghostsmp3]

THE CHOSEN - 2x03 // 3x07

What about love?

[caliburn-the-sword]

other than the entire adultery plotline, the only thing i would retcon in the entire season 1 of ouat is the fairies are cursed to become nuns in storybrooke. WHAT EVEN WAS THAT??? so many characters became their exact opposites, so why was blue the exact same stuffy woman both as a fairy and in storybrooke? in my mind, the fairies became a giant lesbian commune (so essentially what they already were in the enchanted forest) living on the outskirts of town. and because storybrooke shouldn't have any contact with the outside world, the fairies collectively own a farm that sources most of the food for all of storybrooke. when the curse broke they were like hey actually this is pretty good. and kept being a giant lesbian commune.

[nach0]

"Over there is Housemaiden Stagnation." "Someone named Stagnation? In a House of Change?" "They say they lost their first name, it's more of a title... but honestly. Could they not think of anything less fitting?"

aka i know that i've got lucas' isat trip all planned out but i go What If anyway

putting them through the horrors (having them go through world after world, feeling like they're going insane helping the same people who never recognise them over and over) to the point they've started disconnecting from who they used to be

[kyuala]

SOOOOOO hard to go through everyday life trying to ignore the never-ending feeling that im just irreparably fucked up and therefore should just give up on everything