my fears are drowned in perfect love ❤

[sasselhoff]

when you've had this blog since you were 15 and haven't logged in in years

what a throwback (doubt anyone will see this but hiiiii if u do. i haven't listed to kpop in years but am going to onew in la in may!!)

[heart-for-god]

Psalm 55:22

[worshipgifs]

Until God has become your treasure, until your own sin has become the thing you hate most, until the word of God is your supreme authority that you feel to be more precious than gold, sweeter than honey, until the gospel of Christ’s death in your place is the most precious news in the world to you, until you have learned to deny yourself short-term pleasures for the sake of long-term joy and holiness, until you have grown to love the Holy Spirit and long for his fruit more than man’s praise, until you count everything as loss compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ — your attitude towards your clothing and your appearance will be controlled by forces that don’t honor Christ. And there’s the aim for both women and men. Together we desire to not be controlled by outward appearances. Instead, we make it our aim to be compelled by the invisible love of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:12–15). Words by John Piper

[worshipgifs]

Paul Washer

[the-soul-doctor]

[hopeloveandpray]

[gratitudechangesthings-deactiva]

You turn my pain into purpose. You shower rain on this deserted land. Be my guide. Be my eyes. I want You.

[hopeloveandpray]

[greater-than-the-sword]

“You’re not being persecuted because you’re a Christian, it’s just because you’re being intolerant/a bigot/whatever. There are plenty of Christians who keep quiet and don’t get targeted.”

Well, what do you think religious persecution IS? Why do you think they killed the church fathers? For posting aesthetic calligraphy and listening to hillsong? No! They spoke out against sin! They told people to repent and turn to Christ! When those actions are no longer protected, Christianity itself is under attack.

[autumnsopossums]

It’s also funny because these same people often say, “Jesus was just a chill guy who wanted us to love each other!”

Yeah. Okay.

So chill that the Roman government itself killed Him. Literally executed Him. He pissed them off so badly that they executed Him with a torturous method they perfected to be excruciating and horrible. All for being such a chill guy. :)

Like, Jesus Himself is THE example of being killed for preaching the Gospel, but then non-believers want to use Him as some sort of “Gotcha!” against Christians who do exactly as He did.

[thy-lovelylionheart]

Just a note, the Roman Government executed him, but it was at the behest of the Jewish religious leaders. His OWN PEOPLE turned against him, then convinced Pilate, who found no wrong in Jesus, to execute him. The crowd of Jews chanted for Pilate to crucify him and asked him to release a convicted murderer instead of Jesus.

When your own people turn against you and chant for you to be crucified, can you really be called “chill”?

[theknowledgecorner]

So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” - Matthew 21:21-22 New King James Version (NKJV)

[jspark3000]

You cannot be a force for good without being held accountable. Otherwise, you only reinforce your own ideas of good, and soon “good” becomes whatever keeps you in power. The most dangerous person is one who does evil believing it is for a noble purpose.

[gratitudechangesthings-deactiva]

“When someone says, ‘I haven’t felt God in a long time. I feel like He is gone. He left me.’ I would just tell them, ‘He said He would never leave you nor forsake you. He is as close as the mention of His name. Just believe that. You don’t need to feel Him to know He is with you. Just believe Him. Don’t make God a feeling. He is not a feeling. He’s Spirit and Truth, and He lives in you.’”

— (via koinohnia)

[thesovereignword]

[womanintheword]

Sometimes when I’m having a hard day I imagine God sitting next to me, walking next to me, running next to me, holding me, telling me He loves me and that it’s all going to be okay, and I take a deep breath, and know that He’s right. And know that with Him anything and everything is possible. Even the hard day I’m currently wading my way through. 

[fear-not-beloved]

“Maybe repentance isn’t a threat at all; maybe it’s an invitation. Maybe, “repent for the kingdom of God is at hand” means “hey, walk away from that junk, because there’s a better way that’s here.” Maybe repentance is God’s way of saying, “I have such deeper waters for you to swim in.” Maybe repentance is Jesus’ way of saying, “Listen, you can live that way, but it’s just going to bring you pain. There’s life over here if you want it. There’s healing over here if you want it. Won’t you walk this way? Oh, I know, I know, I know. I know your shame; I know your guilt; I know your despair; I know you think that I heal everybody else, but you’ve just gone too far; I get it. My yoke is easy, My burden is light. Come on. Walk away. Come to Me. Approach My power with confidence that it can heal you. Approach My power, knowing that that guilt and shame and despair that you feel, I felt, and I long to lift it from you. I long to lift it from you.” That’s the Gospel.”

— Matt Chandler (via both-seeker-and-sought)

[jspark3000]

I was telling my story to somebody the other day and I got to the various injustices of racism I’ve endured, and he told me, “That doesn’t happen. Not anymore.” I insisted it did, and he counter-insisted, “That’s just something everybody goes through, you’re just injecting race into it.”

I tried to tell him about the times someone had physically assaulted me while yelling “ch_nk” or “go_k” or “yellow kid” or “your dad killed my dad in the war,” but he kept telling me, “That’s not that bad.” So I excused myself from the conversation. I felt a bit humiliated, honestly. This was a guy I really trusted, who I was sure would understand. He was absolutely adamant he was right.

I’ve seen this sort of thing with mental health, sexual abuse, family upbringing, classism, gender, religion—you try to tell your story, and a wall comes up. You get the reply, “It’s never happened to me, therefore it never happens.” And you start to wonder: Am I the crazy one? Is it just in my head? Am I overreacting and too sensitive, like they’re saying?

But then I’ve found those who heard me. Who listened. Who weren’t just treating me like a sad pity project or asking out of voyeuristic curiosity. I’ve found safe people who may not have gone through the same thing, but they can literally become the other. They pause to believe. I’ve also found those who have walked in the same shoes and skin. Sometimes they thought they were walking alone, against insurmountable forces with no community and zero support—until they heard someone say a similar story and they knew they weren’t crazy. That gives me enough courage to keep speaking, to keep sharing. It’s in the telling of our stories we find healing, and each other. You may be lonely for a while, but you are not alone.

— J.S.

[joseph4inspiration]

(Romans 13:14)

God told the children of Israel that He was with them those 40 years in the wilderness to humble them and to test them, to know what was in their hearts to see if they would keep His commandments. (Deuteronomy 8:2) The children of Israel, because of rebellion, was unable to adopt the character God wanted them to, even after SO many years of wandering around in the wilderness. Often times that how it is with us. Our wilderness experiences are meant to teach us things - important things, but we have to make a conscious decision to walk in those changes. We have to wake up determined to put on the ways of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have to realize that God expects us to walk in what our storms taught us. If your storm was meant to teach you patience, then you need to walk in patience. If your storm was meant to teach you self control, then you must walk in self control. If your storm was meant to teach you to have a better attitude, then God expects you to have a attitude change. It’s only when God sees us walking in the changes that He wants will He then bring those changes that we want.

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