Vic Johnson

Amazon best selling author, innovator, and Kingdom-driven creator. Join me every Monday for a weekly Spirit Spark.

[Vic Johnson @FollowVic]

@jason_howerton @MattWalshBlog AI is just another tool to express ourselves and I think you did a great job doing that. This is one of my AI efforts https://t.co/QKDY66XZCo

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.

I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.

One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”

It knocked me back.

I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”

I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.

That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.

I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.

I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.

People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.

I'll tell you why.

Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.

I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.

In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.

The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.

You just have to stop running.

[Vic Johnson @FollowVic]

@KatiePMcGrady Remember that Jesus challenged religious comfort and hypocrisy more than He challenged outsiders. Catholic creators should speak with courage — not just protect institutional approval.

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@j_fishback @grok what is the minimum waiting time in Florida dioceses for marriage preparation? How could this individual have avoided that in order to have a full sacramental Catholic wedding?

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This is an AMAZING read and revelation.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse.

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”

If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible.

‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now.

Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century?

I started looking into it and I have not recovered.

God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place.

But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin.

Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos.

The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill.

Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone.
The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word.

Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen.

None of them knew they were collaborating.

Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see.

And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared.

John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.”

Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person.

The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.

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@boondockdaddio @TaylorRMarshall @jzipple No, Biden went for the real thing to lead heath care initiatives at CDC. Meet Dr. Demetre Daskalakis

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Sorry Kathleen, you weren't taught that the Pope is infallible period. If you were listening, you were taught the Pope was infallible when he speaks "ex cathedra". That has only occurred twice in the history of the papacy. The Immaculate Conception of Mary (1854) and
The Assumption of Mary (1950).

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@TaylorRMarshall @grok did Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ever call out the Biden administration for their policies on abortion or transsexualism?

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Have enjoyed your comment over the years while always not agreeing. This time you're way out of your league. Until DeSantis flipped it last time, this has been overwhelmingly blue county. First time around, DeSantis lost to Gillum by 13 points. Biden beat Trump 13 points. Though narrowly, even Harris beat Trump. Donalds is polling consistent with current registration (within MOE). If you're trying to stir something up, start with a more reliable predictor than PBC.

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I'm on Hallow every morning before I even get out of bed. Have had some wonderful times with the Lord lying there listening to him speaking to me through the various programs and voices. He had my eyes sweating this morning. I think it's safe to say that He has certainly filled Ashley and used her. Incredible work!

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@catturd2 Here's a solid test in Florida too.

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@alexathallow I posed this question to one of the naysayers and have yet to receive a reply: "Would satan want Hallow shut down, or not?" After almost two years on the app I easily believe that thousands, if not more, have been separated from darkness by the light that goes forth from Hallow.

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@Amandasmylife @jmasseypoet I ask you a simple question: Would satan want Hallow shut down or not?

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@Amandasmylife @jmasseypoet So Mother Olga is pretending to be Catholic? Sister Miriam? Bishop Barron? Cardinal Sarah?

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@Amandasmylife I do hope all you people leaving the Hallow app because of an early investor will also give up the device you access X on because the investors in that have done a whole lot worse than what you're concerned about.

[Vic Johnson @FollowVic]

💔 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲’𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗳 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

Most people misunderstand this about God’s love — and it changes everything.

👉 https://t.co/yvvaTQUxe2

[Vic Johnson @FollowVic]

@trad_west_ Love your post but you might want to re-check your sources on this one. The role of Jesus has been recast, with Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen taking on the part.

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🔥 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵.

If you’re carrying something heavy right now… fear, uncertainty, exhaustion… hear this:

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲.

This message is for anyone who needs courage when life feels overwhelming.

Read: Courage For Hard Seasons
👉 https://t.co/QWiqT3lQn7

God hasn’t left your story.