u/DubiousFalcon

After much thought and consideration these last several weeks, I have decided that I am going to delete my Reddit account. As a result of that, this community will be transferred to other hands. I did not make this decision lightly, but I do think it is the best interest of myself and this community.

I will offer an explanation, but not a thoroughly detailed one. I do not think I am spiritually or emotionally in the best place to lead this community where I think God wants this community to be. I also think being away from social media will be of more help than I could fathom. I am dealing with a lot and that is an understatement, so while today is my last day owning this subreddit, please remember me and pray for me.

I'd like to thank you all for the love, insight, and contributions to this community. I am thankful that I revived this community after years of inactivity. I would like to believe that reviving this community has contributed positively to at least one person. It is good to have platforms where the Gospel can be shared and Jesus can be glorified.

I do feel the need to say this, in hopes that it might help at least one person. I would have never knew the love of God or revived this community if it wasn't for the horrible situation I endured. This community alongside the other one I founded answered a prayer that I prayed to God over a year ago. I told Him that if He wasn't going to remove the pain then let Him use it to bring people to Him.

The Lord has answered more than I ever could imagine. He gave me closure regarding the horrible situation I endured in the form of meeting the person responsible in a dream. He has opened doors that I never imagined He would. He has given me new eyes and a perspective on life that keeps me fighting on - the reality that this life is temporary. He allowed my decisions to get in an ungodly situation to result in my complete ruining, so that at the end of myself all I could see was Jesus.

He has given me the heart to pray for the individual who did all kinds of harmful things in the name of God. He has given me His heart in seeing this person as a broken person who does not actually know Jesus. I pray one specific prayer for this person now, I pray that this person gets everything that they want in this life so that when it is not enough they beg God for mercy and that God will hear from Heaven and heal their heart and mind.

I am still left with scars, but I am not left with open wounds. I no longer have the nightmares, but I have the flashbacks. I no longer have a longing for purpose, but I still have the sadness. I no longer desire revenge, but I still want acknowledgement. This is to say simply that God does answer in His own timing and in His own way, but God does not remove the obstacles that we want. He, however, walks with us and helps us carry our crosses - just as Jesus had help with carrying His.

Jesus can meet you where you are. His mercies are new every morning and this life is full of suffering, but the Lord is full of mercy. The Lord has walked in flesh and experienced suffering beyond our capabilities and He might not remove the thorns, but He has felt them before and He walks with all of us to help us endure and to help us to love and know Him.

Thank you guys for everything and above all thank God that He turned a situation meant for evil into something for His glory.

With all the amazing and beautiful testimonies being posted recently, I'd like to know if there are any other more. They are a blessing to read and I know they encourage many within the body of Christ.

If you are willing, feel free to share your testimonies here.

May God bless you all and keep you,
Acelia

I have an upcoming job interview for a state job and it’d be a good opportunity to improve my resume. Pray that I do well on my interview and that I’ll be able to secure this job.

I am nervous my previous supervisor will give me a bad recommendation because after I got injured communication between us deteriorated. I did give sufficient notice, however, so hopefully everything will turn out alright.

The Prosperity Gospel is a movement that promotes tithing and giving to a pastor or church community in exchange for material and spiritual blessings. It has become interwoven in certain charismatic communities and non-denominational communities. This movement creates followers seeking God for what He can do for them to help them prosper in this life, not because we are destined for Hell because of our sinful nature and only He can save us from that destination.

This movement is damaging and unbiblical. The Bible never promises us an easy ride in this lifetime, but it does tell us we will suffer as a result of His name (Philippians 1:29, Romans 5:3-5, James 1:2-4, John 16:33, 2 Timothy 3:12 explicitly.) Jesus suffered the thorns and the cross and even single one of His disciples except John was killed for the Gospel. To this day, there are still people killed because of preaching the name of Jesus.

We suffer for a variety of different reasons and because we live in a broken world. Suffering produces endurance and builds character within us. Suffering can bring us closer to God when we lean on Him knowing He is all we have. We also suffer as a direct consequence of our sins. God never promises to remove suffering from us, but He promises to walk with us in our suffering. The Bible tells us we have a Shepherd who relates with our sufferings, as once He suffered by the hands of those whom He created.

God does bless people, because it is in His nature to bless those who love Him. His blessings, however, are not material but spiritual. Matthew 6:20 talks about storing treasures in Heaven and not the ones on Earth. God even blesses the wicked by allowing their rebellion to run rampant. The righteous and the wicked suffer and prosper, which is the design of a world governed by free-will.

Psalm 73 and even Jeremiah 12:1 are the lamenting of the prophets who asked the same question as to why the wicked prosper. Job did as well, as one who was considered righteous before God. He wondered why He obeyed and was righteous and was still dealing with the brunt of turmoil's. Job suffered righteously and obeyed radically and was rewarded generously. Our goal as Christians is not to lessen the suffering on our plate, but to trust the One who can walk with us in it and get us through it.

This life is temporary and there are only a number of hours and days before death greets us all. We need to get this idea out of our head to seek more prosperity and more things that we will not take us with to our graves. The love of money, as said in Scripture, is the root of all evil. Which in return, comes to the greatest problem, the love of self and self-perseverance.

God will not reward you for giving to your church, His blessings are never tied upon things we do for Him. They are tied to who He is for us, our Provider, our Savior, and our Leader. If you are tithing and giving to the community in exchange for a reward then you are treating God like Walmart and exchanging money for a gift. The gifts of God, however, are free and because of His grace not because of our actions.

When we weigh our salvation and life upon what we did for the Kingdom instead of relying upon what God has done for us through Jesus, we become like the people in Matthew 7. The type of people who casted out demons, and prophesize in His name, but never knew Him. It's a position of heart to be a servant and acknowledge the King and that every good thing comes from Him.

There are many folks out there in the world who claim to know Jesus, but their hearts are far from Him. It even talks about people who praise Him with their lips, but their hearts are far from Him. This is the majority of people in the churches. When it talks about the gate being narrow, it is very narrow. Knowing God is to die to yourself and your desires and surrender wholly to God. There are times God will crush you and you will feel nothing but silence, but God is also a merciful and loving God that loves His children and above all He is truth. He loved us so much that He gave His Son and through Him we may be reunited with Him, because without Jesus all of us would go to Hell.

The Prosperity Gospel is a Gospel that teaches God will exchange His time and "blessing abilities" if we give something in return. God gives because of who He is, not because of who we are or what we have done. Remember this, and do not be deceived for the Bible says in the last days many will have itching ears and fall victim to a false gospel. Even Satan presents himself like an angel of light.

The Gospel is simple. This life is temporary. Look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

Hi community,

I'd like to thank all of you for your posts, comments, and overall participation in this community. It brings my heart joy to know that I am not alone in my deconstruction from deliverance ministry. However, it is now time for me to turn this community over to hands more dedicated to maintaining and growing this place. God laid it upon my heart to make this community and my hope is that many people will come out of deliverance ministry and come to know the joy and peace that only Christ gives.

I will still maintain control over my other community r/Christ, but at this point I would like to step back completely from dealing with the remnants of deliverance ministry. I thank God for delivering me from deliverance ministry. Without leaving this movement, I would have never found peace with the Lord. I always thought the Lord didn't cherish or love me and that's why things never got better for me.

Deliverance ministry is wrong in this and it gives many folks a false message to expect healing and perfection. The Bible tells us we will carry our crosses and that we will suffer in this world. God doesn't heal everyone for a number of reasons. I tend to believe some of those reasons is we would lose insight of the Lord and only come to God when we need Him for something. I also believe that suffering allows us to grow in our faith and allows us to help other people. Without my suffering, this community would not exist. So I am thankful for my suffering and I am so thankful God walked with me in it but He did not remove it from me.

The same God that rose His Son from the grave, has more than enough power to keep our souls from the evil one.

Generational curses, alters, and fire talk are remnants of new-age philosophies and borrowed from Polynesian/Eastern religions. If anyone tells you, "God said" I want you to remember what the book of Romans say. It says let God be true, and EVERY man a liar. The Gospel is simple. We sinned against God and our hearts are unable to do good. Therefore, because of the love of God He sent Jesus to die the death that we deserve so through Jesus we could be forgiven from our sins and be with Him forever.

The Gospel does not promise us a good life. It does not promise us generational blessings. It does not promise us physical and mental healing. Jesus is our purpose for enduring the agony of existing on a planet where insanity and chaos continue to run rampant. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life and no man can come to the Father except by Him. The Gospel, however, does promise us that if we know the Lord and we believe in Jesus Christ and what He has done for us, that we will be saved.

Do not lose heart of the Gospel. The wicked continue to perish and rebel, but we must individually and collectively spread the truth that it is and will only be Christ alone, it will not be the words of a local deliverance minister who probably is further from God than the atheist down the street.

Genuinely, let's pray for the deliverance movement. Let us pray they know the love of the Father and the peace that only Christ alone can supply. Let us pray that the scales will be removed from their eyes and they will be healed of the delusions of their heart. Let us pray that they will know the fear of the Lord and turn away from this unbiblical movement.

Thank you all for your commitment, thank you Jimmy for agreeing to take over this community, and above all thank you God for opening my eyes and giving me the strength to leave this movement and the people attached to it.

God bless all of you.

Please pray for me in the times to come, as I am still healing from everything that occurred. I know God saw everything and He will deal with it in His perfect timing.

Hi community.

I know some of you may take offense to this, but I think it’s important as the body of Christ to have discussions sometimes. It helps us edify one another and to grow closer to the Lord. I welcome your thoughts, because this community has never and will never become an echo chamber where discussion and reason is not shared.

The Bible talks about the body of Christ being one mind. 1 Peter 3:8, Romans 15:6, Philippians 2:2 are some places it mentions this. Denominations have existed throughout the existence of the Christian faith, but being around for so long does not mean it is right.

Denominationalism has caused such destruction, especially among the Protestant branch. People unilaterally interpret the Bible through their own interpretations and desires and can deceive an entire multiple of uneducated people that they are right and everyone else is wrong. Biblical interpretation gets degraded down to ice cream flavors instead of substance of fact and life.

We have denominations now that don’t have a policy on the trinity or water down the doctrine to be hyper-inclusive. We must have standards for our faith, because Jesus even had standards for the faith. He said He was the only way to God, and that my friends is how you get to God. Some people like Paula White in my opinion, seem to imply God can be reached through prosperity and tithing to a local church community.

The idea of tossing money into a wishing well and getting answers immediately like using an Ouija Board. It is dangerous and some of these extreme examples is why we must look into ourselves and stop the division and problems from denominationalism.

We, and by we I am referring to first-world Christianity, have made Christianity like a sports team. The Methodists here, the Presbyterians, the Catholics, the Baptists, the Eastern Orthodox, and others. We sow discord so much among ourselves by saying we are unilaterally right and the rest of you are wrong and instead of agreeing to disagree many arguments arise and make Christianity look fragmented.

How can we reach a dying world when we’re all dying to debate who is wrong and who is right? If God is right, and His Word is right, shouldn’t the priority be on the foundation of our faith - Jesus Christ - and not the minor differences of how to interpret non-essential rhetoric?

Is it worth the hours of debates we have with people because they believe communion is symbolic or they have their Sabbath on Saturday or the women there wear pants to church? When the world continues to worsen, should we not have better priorities?

Being of one mind to me means this: One mind knowing Jesus is the only One who can give us salvation and despite the disagreements, we should put those aside for the greater good of the lost coming to know Him.

It does not make us look good when the nonbelievers see us quarreling with one another about such non-important factors. Before I came to know Christ, I thought the same. I questioned what is Christianity if even they can’t agree on it for themselves. If it’s such a quarrelsome religion, why does it call itself one that grants peace?

We also should stop making a new church just because one person disagrees with a minor doctrine. This has happened so many times that now the Protestant movement has over 40,000 denominations. I don’t agree with Catholicism and Orthodoxy either, but I do concede their point with that.

But I’d like to know your thoughts, because I think it’s important to have discussions where everyone can engage so we may wrestle and pray for the truth and correction. If not for any of you, then for myself.

Thank you all,
Acelia

I feel like a burden for the number of times I ask for prayer, but I sincerely hope you all keep me in your prayers.

I've decided to neglect my degree after this summer and relocate in hopes of finding the heart of God. I've cut my mum off recently and I feel a weight off of my shoulders. My nightmares have stopped regarding my ex-husband, so those are things I'm grateful for. God has blessed me with a huge community with thousands of people and activity has continued to uptick and gave me a wonderful moderator who is patient and insightful regarding how to nurture and assist the community here on Reddit. I should be thankful and I am, but I am suffering.

I don't have any friends and I'm tired of being alone. I don't connect with people my age and I feel like a stranger walking through lands that aren't designed for me. I recently found out I am on the spectrum, so maybe it is as simple as that. I've asked many times for prayers and I struggle with the fact that certain things get better and then bigger problems surface. I'm dealing with chronic pain and mental illness that leaves me the inability to function properly. I feel void of purpose and no matter how much I pray and beg God for direction and mercy, His silence is more noticeable than my pain.

The only joy I have is in this: this life is temporary. I know one day the sufferings of this world will be gone with the wind and that gives me peace to know there's a release coming. I pray God extends mercy and salvation to me, but it's hard going through the process and never knowing if it will occur. God doesn't owe me anything and I owe Him everything, but I get angry seeing people buying houses, having children, and moving on with their lives and being stuck with the effects of having someone claim the name of Christ only to divorce me for reasons that were completely unbiblical.

I'm still grieving and I'm still suffering having the desire to pray for someone I know God probably won't change. It is so hard to accept that the reality that someone I loved with every fiber in my being will never know the living God. I'm still struggling to find Him in a world where thorns hit me at every side, but I can only hope that God sees me and extends mercy towards me.

In this incoherent explanation, just please remember me. I know there's many with worst dynamics going on, but I am so tired and I don't know how a human being can endure this for another possible 50 years.

I’ve been thinking with the uptick in activity, it might be a good idea to have an outlet that allows us to encourage and build community together. I’ve even thought about the group chat option within Reddit, because last I heard the group chats cap at 100 members.

I’d rather not use Discord and I do want to use wise counsel when navigating this idea. I’ve come to realize there’s a lot of lonely people with not much Christian counsel and it could be better than slow one message back and forth like we have here.

I know on the other hand, people are a stumbling block to other people. There’s many who think legalism and telling people what to do is appropriate and I do see it could cause problems.

I’d like to know your thoughts as the community owner, because I think making decisions unilaterally without the input of the community I seek to help and point to Christ is unwise and disrespectful to all of you.

Thank you,
Acelia

Currently, I work as substitute (float) at a local school district. I’ve been trying to find work more aligned with accounting. I have 36 credits with my accounting degree which will get transferred into business admin after this summer.

I’m having major problems with finding work related to that field. I don’t have a lot of experience and I have barely any being a secretary for the school district. I look for AP/AR, Bookkeeper, etc on Indeed and out of my entire state (WV) there’s eight posted within the last 7 days.

The other problem is most of these jobs require 2-3 years of experience, a bachelors degree and only offering $22 an hour for that. The entry level jobs like receptionist and AP pay like 12-14 an hour and I made more as a CNA within home health. I’m burnt out being a CNA, dealing with chronic back pain and hours are unstable which is why I got out of that sector.

I don’t know if it’s just a problem with the job sector right now, my state, or the state of the economy but I’m worried. I don’t want to do another two semesters to have a useless degree I can’t even use.

I know this community has shifted into inactivity, but I wanted everyone to know if you’re looking for a more active community r/Christ is around.

I’m going to step back completely from this place for right now. I still strongly affirm the truth that Christians cannot be possessed, but there’s only so much we can humanely do to combat the ravenous wolves that have blinded the people of God.

As always, if anyone runs into this post while deconstructing and wants help, my messages are open.

Continue to keep the deliverance movement in your prayers. It’s difficult to leave and even a year and a 1/2 out of this movement – I’m still hurting and damaged from it. Pray for me too.

I hope this community has helped someone. It’s always been my goal to be a beacon of truth and help people heal from the trauma of the demon obsessed community. I have to be realistic and be honest though, I can’t really do that when I need the healing myself.

This has been a small token to amend my guilt for participating in the deliverance movement. What I experienced through spiritual abuse and domestic violence was bad, but what I put others through was just as bad.

God has been patient and mercy beyond what I deserve in any capacity. I have hope that He is guiding me and that I will see His face when He calls me home. He’s allowed numerous people throughout to see the testimonies and the truth and validity of Scripture. Unfortunately many folks will choose their experiences and feelings over God’s Word.

We can only pray for them at this point. Many, if not all of them are in the Matthew 7:23 crowd. Chasing signs and wonders when the only sign is Christ. Chasing healing and prosperity instead of His mercy. These folks are fixated upon power and wellness in their bodies, but their hearts are far from Him.

There are a lot of reasons that people around the world make the choice not to follow Jesus. A lot of people have been hurt by the church or raised in environments where cruelty was excused in the name of Christ. A lot of people see the suffering in the world and wonder how a good and loving God could be apart of it. There's others who simply don't believe because of being raised in other religions or investigating the world and finding secular ideologies to be more of an explanation.

I was once one of those people. I thought I had a relationship with the Lord, but my faith was at best lukewarm. I considered Christianity like a political position. It was something I was very knowledgeable about but something my heart wasn't actually in. I would debate constantly and my arguments were sound. My arguments, however, were not rooted in love but the desire to be right. I viewed Christianity as this nice movement that provided a little comfort and meaning to my life. I did believe in Jesus, as one believes that the sun will rise again in the morning. The thing is that type of belief is not one that leads to salvation.

I too believe that salvation is through faith alone, but belief and faith are not same thing. A lot of people call themselves Christians because this has been watered down to draw more people into congregations they do not need to belong to. We are saved by faith, but faith means to surrender your life to Jesus and to turn away from your sins. The very first thing that Jesus told us in the Gospels is to repent for the kingdom of God is near. Every recorded instance that was recorded in the Bible shows people coming to know Jesus come out radically changed. The disciples and apostles were radically changed, even some dancing and singing while being tortured for the name of Jesus Christ.

Jesus drew me at one of the lowest points of my life. I was deconstructing from deliverance ministry and the Pentecostal movement and dealing with the separation from my husband. My identity, my values, and my entire aspirations for the future were completely broken. Everything I prided myself on looked like broken glass I was standing upon and for once my heart of stone could feel remorse. I would not say this was an instantaneously conversion and I would continue to say that I am working out my salvation and coming to know God. Salvation, at least in my instance, is something I am growing as I come to know the heart of the Father more.

Jesus has held me together in times that should've broke me apart. When my husband decided to divorce me on unbiblical grounds, I was devastated and broken as a person. When my biological family rejected me, I felt abandoned and worthless. When guilt overwhelmed me, Jesus comforted me and reminded me I was worth dying for. When I looked back at all the people I've hurt and how I used my anger as a mechanism for pride, I felt such shame and regret. When I realized the pain I felt was not a justification or shield I could lean upon to account for my wickedness, I realized that Jesus is the only hope for me.

Jesus has given me a heart that can see the bigger picture, instead of just feelings that sway with the wind. Somewhere along the line, I could feel a piece of the Father's heart. That enabled me to forgive my husband for all the horrible things that he did and realizing that if he knew how much God's heart was broken over it and how much pain he has inflicted, he would beg God for mercy. It allowed me to forgive the people who falsely prophesied to me and gossiped about me. It allowed me to forgive my parents for all the neglect and emotional abuse I experienced. But most of all, it allowed me perspective to forgive myself for all the pain and suffering I have put other people through. I view it through the lens of it's hard to blame blind people for not seeing what is really there.

He has given me the hope and joy of knowing that my physical sufferings are nothing in compare to the glory that awaits me. He has given me the peace of knowing this life is temporary and despite all the suffering I endure that it will eventually cease and I will come face to face with my Creator. I suffer greatly with chronic pain and mental anguish, but this reality gives me purpose to endure all of this.

I've realized that many people who call themselves Christians have no idea what following Jesus entails. It's an identity to some, it's a means to become popular and well-liked, it's viewed as a membership to a club. The thing is following Jesus is about knowing who you are and knowing who He is. It's to know that He leads you and guides you and that He will never let you go. It's to know that we have severed our purpose on Earth and sinned against our Father by our sin and only Jesus can give us purpose and forgive us because the Father loved us enough to give us His Son to suffer and die by the hands of those whom He created.

People can say God is cruel for what He allows on the Earth. If God were to prevent all the evil in the world, He would have to get rid of us. Love freely at its core is unconditional but it is also freely given and received. Love doesn't keep a record of wrongs, but desires that justice and mercy prevail. Jesus, being God, the perfect and holy One to suffer a death that we as humans deserve who only asks us to return with our hearts to Him. He loved us enough to shed His own blood so we could return back to Him.

When the Bible says there is no greater love than when one lays his life down for his friends, it's the truth.

Jesus calls all of us to repent and come to know Him. Jesus offers us peace and forgiveness. The sufferings of this body might never fade, but neither will the mercy of our Savior who walked in suffering alongside with us.

I grappled with experiences that caused me to question my faith.
Awoken from nightmares, where I still remember the pain.
My hands still get clammy and I look over my shoulder.
Even if logically I know that experience is over.
A lot of regret and guilt I feel for the things I've done.
I built up walls of escape that have finally become undone.
I look in the mirror and I can't believe the person I have become.
I struggle to believe that I'm capable of being loved.
The things that were done to me were far from being right.
Deceptions of evil that were painted as anchors of light.
I wrestled with God in the depths of my anger.
I blamed Him for things that were done by strangers.
Accusations stemmed from my fiery tongue.
The audacity of me asking Him what He has done.
Yet He extended mercy when I deserved none.
Many times I turned my back and abandoned my faith.
Yet Jesus had mercy and still extended His grace.
He left the 99 and found the one who ran far away.
He gave me the strength to return and the wisdom to pray.
He has healed the bitterness and anger in my heart.
Now I know He was there for me when I was falling apart.
When the abandonment spoke louder than His presence.
When the pain spoke louder than His answers.
God gave me a heart to forgive the ones who hurt me.
For the ones who used His name as an excuse to desert me.
I realize the reality that they do not know what they do.
Jesus showed me His heart, so that way I could become someone new.
I'm still growing and wrestling, like a flower among the weeds.
But I know the Lord Jesus Christ is still looking after me.
I pray the ones who hurt me are extended the same mercy.
That they come to know the Father and His heart for humanity.

Hi community,

I’d like to introduce a topic of discussion. This is a topic I have been struggling with trying to explain in a biblical, but compassionate standpoint.

There are numerous accounts in the Bible, where Jesus talks about casting spirits out of children. These passages are:

“And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭17‬:‭18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“And as he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his father.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭9‬:‭42‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Then He said to her, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.”
‭‭Mark‬ ‭7‬:‭29‬-‭30‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Then one of the crowd answered and said, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not.” When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it: “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!” Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, “He is dead.” But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.”
‭‭Mark‬ ‭9‬:‭17‬-‭18‬, ‭25‬-‭27‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

I find it troubling, and the explanations that I’ve looked into do not provide adequate explanations in my opinion. The concept of demons is not a very well explained concept within the Bible. It never explains how people become demonized, but through virtue of the Scripture it does show that demons do exist and occupy people.

At the same time, it is the perspective and position of this community, especially with regard to the leadership of this community that believers in Jesus Christ cannot have evil spirits possessing them.

Jesus is the light of the world and those who know Him and love Him abide in Him. The Bible states a man cannot have two masters, so the only Spirit a believer can have possessing them in the Holy Spirit.

The troubling part of this conversation is the implication that children can have or at least could have evil spirits according to the Bible. Jesus also mentions letting the little children come to Him and how it’s better to have a millstone around your neck than to cause the little ones to stumble.

I think as anchors of the truth, which is what I feel like this community strives to be. We must address the difficult questions and figure out biblically accurate explanations for what we read in the Bible.

Knowledge with love is our friend in combatting the deliverance ministry, but it is God who continues to guide and anchor the foundation of this community.

I’ve been thinking about going back into CNA work once I relocate until I get work more stable since my certification is still active.

I used to do home-health, but I got burnt out because the clients didn’t require much help and just used us as transportation services more than anything else. I’m also on the spectrum, so my ability to hold down a natural flowing conversation is HARD. I did LTC for a few months and it was back breaking. Expecting me to turn someone over 300+ pounds alone is insane and unsafe. I don’t know how I did it.

I’m trying to get ideas of any other type of work I could get into with my CNA. Hospital work is out of the picture because of certain things I won’t compromise on. I don’t know what else there is besides assisted living and group homes, but I’d love suggestions if any of you have any.

I was wondering from all of you, what do you think the best type of CNA work out there is? What kind do you prefer as well? I love hearing other opinions.

I’ve been thinking about something quite a bit recently.

I think about the times I have cried out to the Father asking for His intervention and direction. I think about the times I’ve prayed for the salvation and healing of others. I also reflect with a somber heart, the lack of presence and answers I was looking for.

I’m reminded though in the times of emptiness and deep anguish that God continues to be good. God continues to be good, in the midst of depression, anxiety, grief, and hopelessness. He continues to be good in a world with famine, wars, poverty, and death.

Sometimes God doesn’t answer us in the ways we’d like. Sometimes it’s not His timing and sometimes it’s just not His will. Just because things aren’t working out now doesn’t mean the Lord does not hear, but maybe He hears and sees more perspective than your human mind can comprehend.

I struggle with believing God is good, but Jeremiah tells us our hearts are deceitful. Our emotions lie to us and can become idols that we prioritize over the Living Truth. Our faith in Christ should be built upon our heart for Him. Our knowledge and faith in His Word that despite what is going on, this life is temporary, and God remains good even in the midst of undeniable and unbearable suffering.

Jesus suffered, much more than us. He understands betrayal. He understands grief. He understands compassion. He understands mockery and scorn. He understands what it’s like to pray to the Father for a way out and to know the Father didn’t change His mind. He walks beside us in our pain, even if He doesn’t always remove it. He knows our weaknesses. He knows what it’s like to walk in weakened flesh and bone. He knows what it’s like to love and be rejected. It is such a good thing we have a Savior that has empathy and has walked in our shoes.

There is a strength that comes from sitting at God’s feet and being honest that even if His answers are hurtful that you know that He continues to be good. I have only recently hit that point.

There’s people I’ve prayed for and I’ve seen no results. We talk too much as a community about how God can change hearts and He most certainly can. We don’t talk much as a community about when prayers go unanswered. We don’t talk about how God gives agency and free-will and doesn’t always open the eyes of the wicked.

I’m at peace right now, because I truly believe at this point God has freed me from praying for this person, at least for right now. It’s not a coincidence I stumbled upon Daniel 3. Sometimes people have to become Nebuchadnezzar and sometimes people overstep mercy and become Lot’s wife. Only God knows the line for each person.

I want you guys to remember that God is good, even if you don’t feel like He is. His Word doesn’t lie and our hearts aren’t omniscient like He is. Faith isn’t meant to be an easy road. There’s times the Christian walk will take you to indescribable suffering, but what a comfort it is to know the One we serve has dealt with it much more than we will.

Since I won’t be praying for this person anymore, at least for now. I ask you guys too. This person needs to be healed and to know Jesus because they don’t.

Which on a final note, I want to speak on forgiveness. This person destroyed my faith in God and I am thankful God had mercy upon me to open my eyes and my heart. It was hard to forgive, but it does state that we are to forgive if we want to be forgiven. If people truly knew the harm they’ve put others through, I believe most would feel shame and guilt. God forgave us when we spit on Him as human beings and cursed His name. If God being perfect can forgive us imperfect beings, how can we as imperfect human beings not forgive others who are just like us — imperfect flesh that Jesus bled and died for.

Our love for our Father should outweigh the hatred and disgust we feel with other people about the things they’ve done. They don’t know the harm they’ve done, just like we don’t know how much our sin has hurt our Father in Heaven.

Just know God is good, even when people are not. Even when God says no and you feel no comfort.

To see His face will be worth it all.

I have a distant family member who I don’t talk to, but what happened to them wasn’t right and I’m asking you guys to pray for them and this situation that the truth will come out.

They work within a school district and was accused by several students of sexual battery after attempting to assert more discipline in the classroom.

I don’t even like this family member, but as someone who also works in a school district it is very scary and disgusting that students would make false accusations like that because they don’t like their teacher.

This person has their own family and is being investigated criminally and it’s very hard for everyone involved.

Itching ears holding fast to dogma draped in prosperity.
Negating the ministry of Christ where His commandments are based on clarity.
Adding to the Word where it testifies they’ll be accursed.
Yet they claim all of us in Christ are underneath a curse.
The curse laid upon Christ, who rose victoriously from the grave.
Nothing from the gates of Hell will ever stand in His way.
The movement testifies that the sheep of Christ can coincide.
With entities that Christ crushed under His feet when He was crucified.
Deception dips from the pen of charlatans in wolf’s clothing.
Selling their specialized dogmas and prayers for money and notoriety.
Every struggle is an entity that has a simplistic fix.
Break curses, cast them out, and surely you’ll be fixed!
But if somehow this doesn’t occur, just know you’re the one to blame.
Because apparently your will can triumph Jesus’s name.
On the other hand they borrow from many other religions.
If you pinpoint the details they’ll call you a hindrance.
If you mention the fact that alters are from new-age ideologies and slaying in the spirit is from Hindu mythologies.
Surely you’re a hindrance and not a true believer to the ones who don’t really view Jesus as their leader.
They’ll justify communicating with spirits and divorcing their wife because prophets can contradict Scripture and still be right.
No accountability for the harm upon God’s children or acknowledge that Paul had a thorn of affliction.
No acknowledgement that Job, Elijah, and many others struggled with mental anguish.
Or that the Father provided comfort and protection in proper time.
No accountability for the lust, or the anger in your hearts because it’s actually Leviathan and not your wicked heart!
When Jesus says repent, He actually means get delivered because a sin can never be a result from coming from a sinner.
The same power that rose Jesus from the grave isn’t powerful enough to keep your soul from harm’s way.
It’s powerful enough to cause demons to bow down but surely it’s not enough to be free His children from being bound.
A false and harmful dogma that needs to be opposed.
Mainstream deception promoting darkness that needs exposed.
A movement that takes Jesus away from
His throne.
And where His children are not actually His own.
That’s why we need to speak up and let our voices be heard.
We will all be accountable when we see our Savior.
That’s why speaking out is forever worth our labor.
Let all things be said in love, but don’t be silent about the truth.
Deliverance ministry is heretical and the Bible is the proof.