Crystal A Murray

#Writer & #creative mind; #blog at Loves hubby #God #USA #cats #photography #kaleidoscope designs & praising #JesusChrist always.

[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

The #BloodOfJesus was shed for me #andforyou, and #HeRoseFromTheDead to give us #EternalLife. #HappyResurrectionDay!

He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying.
Matthew 28:6 NLT

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[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

So true!

[Calvin | Fight of Faith @FightofFaith]

4 reasons to follow Jesus

- He made you.
- He knows you.
- He died for you.
- Your past doesn’t scare him.

Repent of your sins and trust in Jesus.

[Altine Kasire @altinekasre1]

Can we normalize praying this prayer?

“Lord, make me wise enough to recognize what isn't good for me, humble enough to accept Your correction, and strong enough to walk away when You lead me away.”
📖 Psalm 139:23–24 🙏🏾

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

Out of respect for the spirit of revival that is taking place around the world, I humbly ask if everyone on my timeline who believes in the power of prayer would you please stop what you're doing to just take a moment, and post this short prayer. Not all will but I hope some will.
II Chronicles 7:14
Lord we need you ! Please sweep across this nation and heal this land. Restore our strength, renew our minds, and banish everything that is not of You.

In Jesus Christ’s name we pray.

Amen.
Thank you.

I copied and pasted. You can too….

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran DOESN'T have.

Namely, exact dates, exact places or exact titles or names you can check.

Bro, when you read the Quran’s stories there is literally zero chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year. It is incredibly vague.

You cannot get answers to questions like: Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it, which conveniently means you can’t check it.

Now, contrast that to the Bible, read the opening of Luke 3:

“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”

SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.

An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.

And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…

UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.

Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.

Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”

Certainty. That’s the offer of the Bible.

The Quran floats above history where nothing can touch it.

The Bible planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.

I dug. It’s still standing.

Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.

[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

@QuriousDeb @1True_American_ Hi Debs. I was so sad to learn that my Kentucky husband never got to see Hobo Kelly or Sheriff John. Apparently, they were only Southern California superstars, but we even went to see Sheriff John in person one time. 🪀

[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

@1True_American_ Mead Superstar 3-ring binder for 3rd grade with a dreamy (and kissable) picture of David Cassidy. My first crush along with Donnie Osmond. 😁

[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

@1True_American_ Love means never having to say banana.

[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

@arttforlife @1True_American_ This is my favorite one! 🤣 I hope I can figure one out as perfect as this.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Hero NYPD detective Jose Mercedes, who just survived a stabbing by two illegal aliens, walks out and immediately thanks GOD for giving him a second chance at life

"I almost died."

"The first thing that I want to do is thank GOD I have a second chance at life."

"I want to thank that that person that I asked for help...I want to thank that person that called 911 on my behalf. When I thought I was gonna die, he came to me and called 911."

Stabbed 7 times by illegals. HE LIVED 🙏🏻

This is a patriot who the media REALLY should be focusing on, not illegal aliens who resist ICE.

Because if ICE were actually cooperated with, maybe the illegals who attacked him would have been deported already.

Every sanctuary politician in New York owns this. Pray for his full recovery!

[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

@1True_American_ Definitely Jim Rockford! (Side note: James Garner is great in the Christina movie "The Ultimate Gift" from 2007. It felt like I was watching Rockford after he left that trailer on the beach and became totally successful. 😁)

[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

@1True_American_ Thank you so much! It has inspired others to do the same. My sister and brother-in-law are trying for 43 date nights. 😍

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Jesus was Jewish.

Mary was Jewish.

The apostles were Jewish.

Jesus was circumcised on the eighth day. He attended synagogue, observed Passover, and taught from the Hebrew Scriptures. He walked through Judea and Galilee.

He came to fulfill the law.

The Christ you worship is the Jewish Messiah. You cannot separate Him from His Jewish roots.

“Do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.” (Romans 11:18, ESV)

[Marlene Bagnull @mbagnull]

Remembering October 7. See Email linkhttps://conta.cc/4yc6LBU

[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

Wow! Awesome Lord and Creator indeed!!!

[Laura W. @BumpstockBarbie]

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?

Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.

Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.

Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.

Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.

Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.

There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.

There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”

Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??

And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?

Your body started as ONE CELL.

ONE.

And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?

The iron in our blood was made inside a star??

We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?

We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

[Crystal A Murray @CrystalWriter]

This testimony is absolutely wonderful and inspiring. This is hope and love and true grace and mercy.

[✞ @bornagainsteph]

Fear of going to hell wasn’t the reason I accepted Jesus Christ..

I was at my lowest point in life. I hit rock bottom and I was about to jump out of a hotel window and end my life. I was ashamed of the sinful lifestyle I was living as an Onlyfans girl.

The shame and the feeling of disgust was overwhelming. I hated my life, I hated the world and I felt like nobody loved me.

For some time, I wanted to get out of that lifestyle. But after being deceived and tricked out of my money by a man I thought loved me, I ended up facing homelessness.

I reflected on my life and all I could see was how much people had hurt me, the pain and suffering I had experienced in my life and I just wanted to escape all the feelings of sadness and shame. But I realized that it was all my fault. I was the one who made certain choices leading up to this situation.

All I could think was “just kill yourself”, “you’ve ruined your life”, “no one cares about you”, “the world is better off without you”, “you’re just a whore”, “your family is ashamed of you”, “no one will ever marry you”, “you’re homeless and will suffer even more”, “you’re stupid”, and etc.

In desperation, I cried out to God for the first time in life. I yelled at God and told Him that if He was real, He needed to show me He is real because I was ready to end it all. No one was there to stop me. I could easily jump out of the window and die without anyone intervening or knowing until it was done. I was at my breaking point, and I had accepted that this was it for me. After crying my entire heart out to God, I stood up off the floor ready to go open the window to carry out my ending.

When I stood up, I instantly became lightheaded, I walked to the bed and layed down. As soon as my back hit the mattress I felt a presence I had never felt before ever in life.

It was an overwhelming love that I can’t put into words, this presence came over my entire body and every single thought I had was silenced. I didn’t have a single thought, my mind went completely blank and all I could feel was overwhelming peace, love and it was so beautiful that I never wanted it to end. Every moment was better than the last and nothing was even happening. The best word I can use to describe it was pure bliss.

The first thought I had was “I am here with you”

I felt a tear come out of my eye.

And I knew, that that was God.

At that moment I was absolutely shocked. It’s an experience I will never forget and I will always long to be immersed in that bliss, peace and love again..

I went to sleep and the next morning, I posted on all my socials that I was quitting onlyfans and I wanted to give my life to God.

Now, I didn’t know who God was. All I knew was that I had an encounter with God in that hotel room. I was raised a spiritist, and I never went to church and I had never read the Bible in my life. I didn’t know anything about this God. All I had known was sin, darkness and the brokenness I lived in up until that moment.

After I posted that, a girl I had met one time asked if I wanted to go to church with her. This was the first time anyone had ever invited me to church. I said yes, and when I arrived I spoke to a woman there who told me about Jesus for the first time. I couldn’t believe it.

I wanted to end my life, and Jesus wanted to give me a new life.

The gospel hit me like a ton of bricks.

I was in awe of this Jesus she spoke about. I wanted to know Him because He was unlike anyone I had ever met.

After I accepted Christ, a group there huddled around me, prayed for me and I felt the same overwhelming presence again that I felt the night before. I now knew that Jesus is God.

They asked me if I wanted to get baptized right on the spot and I agreed. Then they gave me my first Bible.

I was born again as a new creation in Christ and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

I used to be a victim. Now I’m more than a conqueror! Thank you Jesus!

[Altine Kasire @altinekasre1]

My favorite thing about God is that He has never once needed me to explain why I am broken.
He already knows.
And He shows up anyway.
Every single time.
Without fail.
Without condition.
Without limit.
That will never stop being the most extraordinary thing I have ever encountered.

[Michael A Youssef @MichaelAYoussef]

If you listen to Cain, he will tell you that righteous Abel was the problem.

If you listen to Potiphar’s wife, she will tell you that righteous Joseph was the wicked man.

If you listen to Pharaoh, he will tell you that Moses was an enemy of the state.

If you listen to Saul, he will tell you that loyal David was a traitor.

If you listen to Haman, he will convince you that Mordecai was a dangerous enemy.

If you listen to Ahab and Jezebel, they will tell you that Elijah, the prophet of God, was the troublemaker.

If you listen to the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, they will tell you that the sinless Jesus was a blasphemer.

If you listen to Judas Iscariot, he will find a way to justify betrayal.

If you listen to Pontius Pilate, he will wash his hands while Truth stands directly in front of him.

And if you listen to the world, do not be surprised when it calls righteousness evil and evil good.

My friends, listen carefully: a lie does NOT become Truth simply because it is repeated loudly, confidently, or by powerful people.

Be careful what you hear.
Be careful whom you believe.
Be careful whom you follow.

Test everything by the Word of God.

The world may condemn you for standing for Biblical Truth but the only verdict that ultimately matters is His!!!

Stand firm. Stand faithful. And above all, listen to Jesus.