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[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

"For our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies." (Ephesians 6:12)

We must remember this and put on the Whole Armor of God.

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

Concerning. ✍🏽 Will investigate.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

Someone praying for you in another building can change your brain in real time. There is a study that proves it.

Researchers at North Hawaii Community Hospital placed 11 people inside fMRI scanners, fully isolated. In a separate building, spiritual leaders who knew them personally sent focused intentions toward them at random two-minute intervals. The receivers had no way to know when. Their brains lit up at the exact moments the senders focused on them. Specific regions associated with attention and awareness activated on cue. The odds of this happening by chance were less than one in seven thousand.

Most people have never heard of this. Here are three more.

Hand-holding and pain. Researchers placed 22 couples under EEG caps. When the woman was in pain and her partner held her hand, their brain waves synchronized. The more empathy he felt for her, the more their brains coupled. The more their brains coupled, the more her pain decreased. Touch combined with focused care produced a measurable analgesic effect. The lead researcher got the idea while holding his wife's hand during the birth of their daughter.

Two brains in shielded rooms. A Mexican neuroscientist named Jacobo Grinberg ran a series of experiments at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Two participants meditated together for 20 minutes. Then they were placed in separate electromagnetically shielded rooms more than 14 meters apart. One participant was shown 100 random flashes of light. The other, hooked to an EEG with no sensory contact of any kind, registered matching brain-wave responses one out of every four flashes. Pairs who had not bonded showed nothing.

Group prayer. Andrew Newberg at Thomas Jefferson University has spent more than two decades scanning the brains of praying nuns, meditating monks, and chanting Sikhs. His imaging work shows a consistent pattern. The frontal lobes activate. The parietal lobes quiet. The effect amplifies in groups. Brains in shared prayer entrain to one another the way two pendulums swinging in the same room eventually fall into the same rhythm.

These studies measure what physically happens to the human nervous system when people focus caring attention on each other, in the same room or at a distance. The findings are consistent across labs, methods, and decades.

The basic finding, that human brains synchronize during empathic connection, is now mainstream neuroscience. Newberg alone has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers.

People have been doing this for thousands of years and calling it prayer. Christians alone offer a window into the variety. Latter-day Saints kneel as families. Catholics pray the rosary. Protestants join hands in prayer circles.

What is actually happening when you pray? On the imaging, something measurable. On the EEG, something synchronized. On the pain scale, something diminished.

Prayer works.

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

Amen 🙏🏼

[jada lynne @A_RottieLover]

Heavenly Father,
I lift up the whole X family to You. 🙏🏼So many hearts are carrying heavy loads — some are grieving, some are anxious, some feel lonely even in a crowd, and others are just tired from fighting battles no one else sees. You know every single story behind the posts and the quiet replies.
Lord, meet each person right where they are. Wrap Your arms around the ones who are hurting the most. Give them comfort that feels real and close. For those who are scared about tomorrow, breathe Your peace into their minds. For the ones smiling on the outside but breaking on the inside, remind them they are seen and deeply loved by You.
Fill this community with kindness and encouragement. Let us be quick to lift each other up, slow to judge, and full of the kind of hope that only comes from You. Turn our timelines into places of light, even when the world feels dark. Heal what’s broken, restore what’s been lost, and give fresh strength to everyone who needs it.
Thank You that no one on here is ever truly alone. You are with us in every scroll, every tear, and every late-night prayer. Help us keep holding on, knowing that You are still writing beautiful stories in our lives.
We trust You with all of it.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

@A_RottieLover @JusticeGirl6119 Amen 🙏🏼

[jada lynne @A_RottieLover]

Heavenly Father,
I lift up the whole X family to You. 🙏🏼So many hearts are carrying heavy loads — some are grieving, some are anxious, some feel lonely even in a crowd, and others are just tired from fighting battles no one else sees. You know every single story behind the posts and the quiet replies.
Lord, meet each person right where they are. Wrap Your arms around the ones who are hurting the most. Give them comfort that feels real and close. For those who are scared about tomorrow, breathe Your peace into their minds. For the ones smiling on the outside but breaking on the inside, remind them they are seen and deeply loved by You.
Fill this community with kindness and encouragement. Let us be quick to lift each other up, slow to judge, and full of the kind of hope that only comes from You. Turn our timelines into places of light, even when the world feels dark. Heal what’s broken, restore what’s been lost, and give fresh strength to everyone who needs it.
Thank You that no one on here is ever truly alone. You are with us in every scroll, every tear, and every late-night prayer. Help us keep holding on, knowing that You are still writing beautiful stories in our lives.
We trust You with all of it.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

@gypsyOTR Amen

[Coleen Guzman @gypsyOTR]

“Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation.” Selah
~Psalm 68:19🕊

[Terri @Erellsro]

🙏✝️🕊️

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

@honeymoon250 @E101FA82C13S Amen

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

@thompsonb2569 Amen

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

@educatedhustler @E101FA82C13S Amen!

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

BOOM! Couldn't have said it better myself🤣 Kill the Kill Switch!

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

@E101FA82C13S Yes

[Kate @kate_p45]

Islamists just slaughtered Pastor Rev. Ayuba Choji, his wife Chundung, and their two young children — Cyril and Endurance — in Plateau State, Nigeria.
An entire Christian family wiped out in their home.

But sure… keep listening to the Woke Right and @Pontifex telling you “Islam is peaceful,” “it’s just a tiny minority,” and there’s nothing to worry about for Christians or the West.

This is the same pattern destroying Christian communities across Nigeria — and spreading everywhere.

Christianity is under attack.

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

This young man is amazing!

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Holy Moly! This young man can sing!🎤

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Holy Moly! This young man can sing!🎤

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

@atensnut @LorenzoCastane3 Wow!!! 🤩

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Don’t allow the news to distract you from Jesus.

Regardless of what’s happening in the world, He wins in the end.

Our hope isn’t in politics, it’s in Christ alone.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

I believe in the power of prayer. Please join me in praying for Maddox. Dear Jesus, please heal him and help his family get through this difficult time 🙏✝️🙏

Last night Maddox Graser had two hits and helped his Wooster High School baseball team win 10 to 0.
He was perfectly fine.
By 8 pm he was throwing up at home. It got worse fast. He was rushed to the hospital in Wooster and then life flighted to the Pediatric ICU at Akron Children’s Hospital this morning.
Maddox is a sophomore. A second baseman. A teammate. A son.
Right now he has no brain activity.
From a baseball field celebrating a win to a pediatric ICU fighting for his life in less than twelve hours. His family never saw this coming. Nobody did.
His mom and dad are sitting in that hospital right now needing every prayer they can get.
If you believe in miracles please stop scrolling right now and say one for Maddox. His family is pleading for them.
Please share this post. The wider this reaches the more people are praying over this young man tonight.
Maddox Graser. Remember that name and lift it up.

[SJ Dees-DePriest @CharlieJFreedom]

@TimTebow @BonnieL27773370 The angels are singing and rejoicing, celebrating his arrival! Oh what a celebration it must be!! Thank you, Lord, for our blessed assurance in Jesus!! Amen.