2/2. In the end, u come out a better person. You’ve learned wisdom in listening, patience in waiting, strength in following orders from someone who knows the future, good health from a wise Father who has lived it, loves you,prepared you, & has your best interests at heart.♥️🕊️
@thisisfoster So very sorry for your pain, but thankful you’ve not turned your back on the only one who can heal you. The good Lord will explain it to you, just ask. He is a loving Father. Praying for you and your loved ones. 🙏🕊️♥️
Friends, there’s no easy way to say this. Yesterday, we lost the baby.
We’re not sure why. Emily was 14 weeks along, and everything appeared to be going well. But the Lord saw fit to bring him home sooner than most.
He was a boy. We have named him Pascal Watson.
Physically, Emily is doing well, but we are all heartbroken.
Even so, we trust the goodness and wisdom of God. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
For us, Pascal has become another reason to long for heaven.
We are deeply thankful for the strong community of Christian friends God has surrounded us with through our church, my employer, and the broader community. We are being well cared for and have lacked for nothing.
We do, however, appreciate your prayers.
“To the people of Iran, don't let your dreams die. Know that Israel and others in the free world stand with you. One day, in a free Iran, Israelis and Iranians will build a future of peace together. Don't lose hope."
- Benjamin Netanyahu, Nov. 12, 2024
@NewEmergingKing Excellent! No job is too low to put forth your best effort. God will see & bless you for it. Jesus loves you regardless of how you feel about him. Blessings. 🙏🕊️♥️
Yesterday the boys got a real look at the work most people never see.
Express Disposal taught them about trash pickup, damaged cans, tire pickups, daily routes, and what happens at the landfill.
The bigger lesson: respect the essential workers who keep our communities moving.
Thank you Express Disposal and Mr. Clint.
Our family is taking a trip through Greece and Lauren and I just had the most amazing journey-trading the steps of the Apostle Paul from Athens to Corinth to share the gospel. Unbelievable history and scenery.🙏🏽
My sister lives in Los Angeles.
She's a Democrat but voted for Spencer Pratt.
I was with her when she dropped her ballot in the mail weeks ago.
We checked today and it hasn't been received back.
Are they just TOSSING ballots for Spencer Pratt?
🚨Los Angeles Election Fraud Caught on Hidden Camera
LA election petitioners were caught on tape giving homeless individuals other voters' information, instructing them to forge voter names and signatures, and offering cash and drugs as incentives to register to vote.
Despite having hundreds of mosques in New York, mass street “prayers” are becoming a staple of life in the Big Apple.
And it’s not prayers, my friends, but assertion. They are claiming turf, like hyenas pissing to mark territory.
@rj_hbt Who needs mimosas when you have great speakers! Awesome information that businesses need! Looking forward to each speaker..you always guarantee good quality conference.🤩
People in Pittsburgh are gearing up for AlphaLab's event tomorrow. I'm looking forward to connecting with the new cohort and seeing a few friends as well.
I bet some of tech leaders will also be at this event in July: https://t.co/qGkP394TiY
When trouble comes, our first instinct is often to look for a person, a solution, or a strategy. Yet God has given us something far greater - direct access to His throne through prayer. King David declared, "Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver you." God never intended prayer to be our last resort; He intended it to be our first response. When we call upon Him, we invite the unlimited resources of heaven into our situation. No problem is too great, no circumstance too difficult, and no burden too heavy for the God who answers prayer.
The same God who walked into the fiery furnace with the Hebrew children still shows up for His people today. He does not merely send help - He comes Himself with power and purpose. Prayer activates heaven's intervention in earthly circumstances. When we pray in the name of Jesus, our Advocate stands before the Father on our behalf. Whatever challenge you face today, remember God's promise remains unchanged: You call, He delivers. Trust Him, seek Him, and watch Him do what only He can do.
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.
The Israeli military said it detected incoming ballistic missiles from Iran for what appears to be the first time since early April. The military sent alerts warning of incoming fire to residents of northern Israel. https://t.co/0y7fws36f4