#Christian advice

[4him-iwrite]

Everything the world offers, is a bootleg version of what God offers

Think about it. You’re getting hoodwinked, scammed, and bamboozled when ever you receive the things or the pleasures of this world! Some of you are even paying a high price for something that has NO VALUE, and that high price is your life. The things of this world cannot satisfy, fill up, or make you whole the way God can! All it can do is give you temporary pleasure and satisfaction. Why pay and waist your time for the false version when you can have the real thing from the One who created it! God offers high value, high quality, the purest of the pure for FREE and all you have to do is receive it. When you pay high value for something, you want it be real, 100% authentic, right? When you come to the realization that you have paid a high price for a dupe, for something this world gave you, how embarrassing that will be. How angry you would be with the one who sold it to you. But there is a seller, a provider who GIVES the real thing, that satisfies, that fills up, that makes you whole for FREE and all you have to do is receive it. How awesome is that! Don’t you want the real thing!?! Too often we search for fulfillment in places that cannot provide or give it to us, when all along we should have been looking to God.

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[forhisgrace]

welcome to my account !!

hi i’m Grace !! i’m a Pentecostal Christian, and saved as of august of 2023. i love Jesus, cats, and literature (feel free to discuss the last one with me i need more reader friends)

i want to post mainly (basic) theology, as well as basic analysis of Bible verses and passages, and tips for other christians on here.

as i am a minor, adults dni, unless submitting asks pertaining to christianity or my posts

feel free to give constructive criticism regarding my posts. im quite new to this (though i was raised christian), and will probably make a lot of mistakes !!

any images posted on here are most likely from pinterest.

#christian #christblr #jesus #new account #pentecostal #christian theology #theology #pink aesthetic #bible verse #bible study #advice #christian faith #christian blog #christianity #christian bible #christian advice #forhisgrace

[thepoet31]

Today’s Verse is:

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understandings, in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight” 

Proverbs 3:5-6

#bible verse #christian advice

[kitkat1128]

Things I’ve Learned During my SNS Fast

(Hello, everyone! The reason I have been inactive is because the Lord guided me to have a SNS fast for 40 days. It was one of the most quietest, nervous, yet relieving days I’ve ever had.

I had no social expectations, no connection to the world. I was living almost off the grid socially. With that, I had more time to read my Bible instead! It was like stressful and more meaningful. It was a wonderful experience that maybe I want to do again to keep myself in check. Maybe for even longer 😳

Either way, in case you have been thinking of fasting, it CAN be something other than food. The Lord would want you to restrict you from feeding your flesh in different ways. Just pray. And don’t be so hasty to want an answer. He is listening. He knows you more than anyone, if He is speaking to you He would let you know.

Again, pray and continue in communication with the Lord! That is the great privilege given to us by Jesus Christ 🥰 )

1. I have been thinking that God will answer like a Google search. He will always reveal the answer immediately or in just a few days. Sometimes He does but I’ve become too impatient. I must be patient in God’s timing to reveal things to me through prayer and LEAVE IT.

Therefore, if you have a question about something, petition it to God and LEAVE IT THERE. It will come. Or it may not. Either way, trust in God. He will help you get there. You will know what to do when He reveals it.

2. I rely too much on social media posts and have been using them instead of doing personal prayer with God. Posting Christian things and being exposed to Christian content is nice but if I simply rely on it too much, it may has forced God to talk to me that way. The best times I talk with God is the ones without my phone!

Thus, if you want to set a time limit on your phone, put an actually challenging time on it. Not a convenient one. The biggest challenge would be at best 2 hours! 6 hours is not a challenge at all. Look closely again at the screen time you put and cut it in HALF. Or maybe even more. There is no such thing as reading the Bible too much! 😉

3. Silent time is ACTUALLY okay! It’s okay to not talk to God and just sit with Him! Be still! Meditate on the things He has done for you. Not on the wrongs that people have done to you or the wrong you have done. In God I have put my trust, I will not be afraid, what can man do to me? (Psalm 56:11)!

Therefore, make a time in the morning and set some calming music and a cup of coffee or tea and have a good long-as-you-can time with God! Quiet time and meditation on a recent memory verse or your favorite one is a great opportunity to have some intimate time with God. 🥰

4. It’s actually okay to be angry with God. The psalmist in Psalm 13:1 even blatantly asks God why He has forsaken him and how long he has to wait for Him to answer. Psalm 77 is another example of anger towards God. These emotions were given to us BY Him. Even in anger, show your trust in God to correct the things of this world. To lament is actually okay. Practically 70% of Psalms is laments! And of course there is the book of Lamentations as well as Ecclesiastes.

Therefore, tell God what is grieving in your heart. Any anxiety, insecurities, heartbreak, frustration, and of course anger towards anything that you find unfair and harmful to you or others. Ask God to correct it or correct you in prayer and don’t sugar coat your feelings. Give it to Him raw. Do not hold back. It’s okay to cry. Sure, complaints are seemingly frowned upon but the psalms are full of complaints and calls for justice against the wicked or sins of this world that torment God’s children.

5. You DO have the self-control. You just have to use it in practice. You can not brag on how holy you are without acting on it. When you feel tempted, call on Jesus. Keep going even if the temptation doesn’t disappear immediately. It is because the enemy wants you to mess up so badly and fall back away from being the person you were meant to be.

So, when you feel tempted, say Jesus’ name either in your head or out loud. Do not quit until the temptation stops. His name has the authority and He gave you His name to use. He gave you the resources, His Holy Spirit, His holy name. So use it. It’s not there just because it’s there. It’s there because you can use it. He loves you and wants you to be aware of the authority He has over sin. You are not alone on this.

6. There will be days where you will feel low and high. God is not upset with you. He doesn’t ever push you away but you can push Him away. You have that choice, but don’t ever choose it. Remember how you felt before Jesus and see how far you’ve come. Yes, you will mess up, but Jesus picks you back up if you allow Him to.

Do not blame yourself or shame yourself for not doing something properly. Yes, God is pleased with someone who fears Him and does things heartily BUT do not make what you do as a way to get close to God. “I did a good thing so God loves me.” No. It should be the opposite.

“God loves me so I want to do good things.” Allow God to influence your actions. Let the Holy Spirit guide you and listen.

#Christianity #Christ #Jesus #God #Abba Father #Holy Spirit #Christian #Christian fast #fasting #religious fast #Easter #Pentecost #Yahweh #Christian advice

[m-yes]

Where i am...

hi, i'm a person reading the bible. I have always pushed it away, but i recently started reading (since november-december).

Just thought i could share my experience and possibly help others on this journey or even bring those along with me!

Things I've learned that really helped a "paranoid atheist" convert:

"God Fearing" isn't necessarily "fearing" god (as in anxiety, being scared, eg.) but is more so respect and love. This was a sentiment that personally scared me, but now that I read I realize that this concept is a really complicated one

Jesus is real. He was a real documented person, along with all the other people in the bible! There are historical documents that prove this and I recommend looking at them

Many events in the bible happened! The bible is very credible and even has multiple sources proving events like the plagues in Exodus

Get a friend to help you, or even a S/O! It's a good bonding experience and encourages a dialogue.

Finding a good church with a community is important, though prioritize your own studies. Personally, for a anxious person like me church can be quite overwhelming and sometimes not welcoming. Church is very beneficial though, so if you can, do look for one and form a community!

The old testament is very strict...But don't worry, the New Testament puts a lot of resolution to that. Jesus teaches forgiveness, and forgives our sins so that we don't have to "sacrifice a Bull" or even "offer bread"! We simply should pray

The bible and what churches do are often very different. Abuse from within the church, racism, or any discrimination is what a church should not do. Remember that the word of god is what we should listen to, Pastors are simply here to lead us to a better understanding and a relationship with god

Research Bible translations! I personally recommend ESV, NIV, or NLV for more understandable and closer translation. Translations like KJV can have changes that aren't desirable (eg. Tyrant is replaced by another word) but still are useful for study!

Online Audiobooks help! I read along with this bible! NIV has audio

Messing up is apart of the process. we must fall to succeed, so don't beat yourself down.

Hope this helps! Hope to see you join me in my journey someday :3

#christianity #christian faith #new to christianity #advice #christian advice #bible #faith

[goodwriterblog]

The correlation between money and Christian marriage

The correlation between money and Christian marriage

What is the essential thing in a Christian marriage? Faith? Hope? Love? Of course, these three are indispensable elements of Christian marriage. But can marriage be happy only with these three things? What would make a happy Christian marriage possible? Let’s hear what the Bible says about the standard of Christian value judgment. Bring happiness to the wife Deuteronomy 24:5 If a man has…

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#christian advice #Christian divorce #christian marriage #Christian remarriage

[benjaminnambu]

Windows into God

God communicates less with words. He speaks more through pain. Learn to listen. He speaks through circumstances. Pay attention. He lives in your thought processes. Think back and recognize his invisible feet, trekking your thoughts, leading you to decisions and places you know not how you arrived there. The concept of impossibilities does not make sense to God. In fact, you will have a hard…

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#Christian Advice

[itgirlblogger]

Study Icons୨ৎ

Blair Waldorf

2. Spencer Hastings

3. Elle Woods

4. Rory Gilmore (when she was smart)

#studyspo #study motivation #school advice #it girl #beauty and brains #girlblogging #blair waldorf #spencer hastings #elle woods #rory gilmore #gossip girl #pretty little liars #legally blonde #gilmore girls #christian girl #study aesthetic #studying #study movitation #study mood #smart girl #gaslight gatekeep girlboss

[oasisr]

When men neg you by putting down your talents, run. Things will not get better.

Even if you aren't good at something and are just a beginner, he should not be mocking you or bullying you for that.

I'm not a great singer or painter, but I enjoy singing and painting sometimes. My ex would mock me and tell me that he wanted to marry someone who could actually sing.

I gave him another chance after he hurt my feelings. He was good for a couple of weeks, and then went right back to mocking me and putting me down.

Just run. You are beautiful even if you aren't good at everything you try. You don't need someone to put you down and try to harm your self-worth.

You are worthy of someone who will treat you like you are a special and beautiful woman. Because you are.

#fds #female dating strategy #pick me #pick me girl #dating #dating advice #Christian woman #Christian dating #courtship #stay strong #narcissistic abuse #verbal abuse #manipulation #neg #negging #men #moids #scrotes #Christian man #courting #pro tip #relationships #ex boyfriend #ex #exes #artist #art #singing #painting #singer

[4him-iwrite]

Jesus first

When Jesus came down from the “Mount of Transfiguration,” there a man met him and begged Jesus to heal his son who was having seizures and suffering terribly. He told Jesus that he asked his disciples to heal his son but they couldn’t do it. They didn’t have enough faith. In the end, like always, Jesus came through and He showed out, doing only what He can do… When you find that people fail you, and at times they will, don’t get discouraged. Go to the One that cannot fail. Go to Jesus.

#jesus #jesus christ #god #christian #christianity #christian living #christian advice #faith #faith in jesus #god first

[c-kiddo]

(been relistening to cr2 some more) love so much when caduceus has his vry religious very ritualistic moments. its nice. love the slow methodical ritual of it all . love him talking to others like yasha or fjord about it and the extremely slow and careful wording of exactly what he wants to say . love him gently laying a body to rest or growing tea for it . its just niceys

#religious characters when ur not viewing all religion thru an american christian lense ❤️ #<- referring to people saying he pushed his religion onto the other characters too much when mostly he just spoke about it alot #because it means tha world to him . its a huge part of his life . and also he mostly only gives advice when people come to him anyway #sometimes hes a little arrogant about it all but mostly he waits for things to happen (including people needing help) #(and isnt that also an interesting character trait. him learning that he cant just wait for things to happen forever) #(but not abandoning his faith either) #kiddo say #sad and basically no spoons today so lets all think abt him

[forhisgrace]

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[anxiety-banana]

Things I have learned as a practicing Christian I feel can help anyone of any religion:

-giving people love and trust and compassion in the hopes you'll get it in return is both the scariest and the most worthy risk you will ever take.

-you will not be able to help others if you don't care for yourself. Serve from the overflow, rather than scraping the barrel of your own life.

-you cannot claim to love if you don't give it freely, without stipulation. Love means the most where it is found the least.

-a claimed religion does not guarantee any specific traits unless they are personally backed up by aligning actions.

-don't trust people simply because they have the same beliefs as you. Opinions are still only opinions. Humans are still humans. Mistakes are made, and a title does not come with a guarantee of accuracy on a certain topic.

-you'll screw up so many times in life, but you will be okay anyway.

-you always have less time then you think you do. Use it wisely, enjoy yourself, be kind to others.

-the people you surround yourself with will always influence your character. Be mindful of who you associate with, how often, and your intentions behind it.

-you're not a failure if you doubt your beliefs. Take time, ask questions, and assure yourself in it rather than hold onto it despite the doubt. It will only grow bigger if you don't confront it.

I hope this was of some use or interest, and I love you <3

#ab rants #poetry #religion #religious advice #religious trauma #christianity

[artist-issues]

How many times do we have to say:

Create characters with strength of virtue, not strength of skills.

I just finished A Tale of Two Cities with the character Lucie Manette, who "does" nothing but love the people around her and extend compassion toward everyone within her sphere of influence. She makes no "choices" that contemporary audiences would award the stupid badge of "giving her agency" to. She doesn't make a speech that saves Charles Darnay's life. She doesn't lead the victims of the French Revolution into a counter-revolt. She doesn't fight off the soldiers that come to take her husband, or beat up Madame Defarge when she threatens her child, or even come up with the escape plan to flee Paris.

She makes none of those kinds of choices. (You know who does? Madame Defarge. But the compare-contrast between those two can wait till another day.)

But she makes these kinds of choices:

She'll give her honest testimony in a trial for a potential traitor to the crown, and demonstrate her compassion and grief for a near-stranger, wearing that vulnerability on her sleeve in front of a huge court of people clamoring for blood.

She'll be compassionate toward Sydney Carton, even though he's rude, careless, and brings a bad attitude into her happy home.

She'll spend the energy of her life making that home happy.

She'll stand for two hours in any weather on the bloody streets of the French Revolution so her husband might have a chance of glimpsing her and getting some comfort from the prison window.

She'll trust the older men in her life when they ask her to.

She'll allow an old woman to care for her and go everywhere she goes, and treat her like a child, as long as it makes the old woman in question happy.

And what, WHAT is the consequence of these kinds of decisions, choices, that some ignorant people call "passive?"

That old woman is allowed to love Lucie Manette so much that she defeats the villainess in the climax of the story, holding Madame Defarge back from getting revenge with sheer strength that comes directly from that love.

Her father is allowed to draw strength from the fact that Lucie believes she can depend on him--because she chooses to let her father take the lead and do the work of saving her husband, Dr. Manette is fully "recalled to life;" he doesn't have to identify as a traumatized, mentally unstable victim anymore, because Lucie is treating him like he can be the hero.

Her husband does see her in the street, and does draw strength from that--just that--instead of losing his mind the way her father, starved for a glimpse of his loved ones, did during his own imprisonment.

Lucie's home is so full of the love and kindness that she fills it with that not only does her father return to remembering who he is after his long imprisonment--but Mr. Lorry, a bachelor with no family, can feel at home with a full life, there. Miss Pross, whose family abandoned and bankrupt her, has a home with a full life, there. Charles Darnay, whose life of riches and pleasure as a Marquis was empty, has a home with a full life, there. In Lucie's home, because she spends her life making it the kind of home others can find rest in.

Sydney Carton, a man whose whole life has been characterized by a LACK of "care" for himself or anyone else, suddenly cares about Lucie. When he thought it was impossible to. And he doesn't care about her because she's pretty. Her beauty was just a source of bitterness for him--one more pleasure he could've had but can't. Until he "saw her with her father," and saw her strength of virtue, of pity, of compassion, of self-sacrificial love--then he felt that she "kindled me, a heap of ashes, into fire." He started caring about life again, where it was associated with her, because she brought to life every good thing. Just by being a woman of good virtue. And we know what that inspiration led him to.

Without Lucie's strength of virtue, and the decisions that naturally came from that, none of the "active" choices other characters made would have happened. Sydney would not have been redeemed. Darnay would not have been saved. Her father never would've been recalled to life. Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry would've had no light or love in their lives. Even Jerry would've had no occasion to learn from his mistakes and resolve to stop abusing his family.

A character like Dickens' Golden Thread, who does what a woman should do, inspires the choices other characters make. That makes her more powerful, in her own way, than the heroes and any decisions they make. Because she's the cause. She's the inspiration. She's the representation of everything good, right, precious, worth fighting for.

Lucie Manette's not the only character like this. Cinderella. The original Disney Jasmine. The original Disney Ariel. Lady Galadriel. Jane Eyre. Amy March.

"Behind every great man is a great woman," indeed! Absolutely! Bravo!

Hang on! Hang on to those kinds of characters. Those a real "strong female" characters. The muses, the inspirations, the reminders of The Greater Good. The people who make fighting the dragons worth it at all. Who cares about fighting the dragon? That's not so great, without her.

Don't forget those kinds of characters! Reading Dickens just makes me desperate for our generation to keep up the reminder: make characters that the next ten generations can learn from: strength of virtue is much more important than silly little strength of skill.

#Dickens #Charles dickens #writing #storytelling #behind every great man is a great woman #strong female characters #strong woman #Lucie Manette #a tale of two cities #classics #writing advice #feminism #feminism is poison #Christianity #Christian fiction #tropes #Sydney carton

[kolyviahrosette]

"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still."

— ‭Exodus 14:14

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[ave-immaculata]

Why even bother praying for someone else? Their lifestyle, what they do and how they feel do not affect you personally. People are allowed to express themselves in whatever way they want, people are allowed to believe whatever they want. Just grow up and ignore it, not everyone believes the same prudish bullshit as you.

anon are you acknowledging that our prayers may affect what someone else believes or does?? you acknowledging that prayer is efficacious? watch out then, you might end up believing the same prudish bullshit as me 😘

#I can't find the christian bale I am praying for you without your consent meme but it feels very appropriate #semi real talk though do you ever wish good upon anyone?? do you ever give anyone advice? do you ever help anyone?????