Mike Houston

Follower of Jesus Christ, husband to Kari, father to 5 daughters, grandfather to Yzzy, GOLF!!, and a disability integration advisor.

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

@benonwine Every. Single. Day. 🙏

Proverbs 18:10

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

@NUCLRGOLF The Open Championship, and the Masters

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

Jude 1, 24-25. Thank You, LORD for saving me! 😭

[RosarySon @SkyVirginSon]

THE MOST DANGEROUS PRAYER YOU WILL EVER PRAY

Jesus Himself taught this prayer.

Millions recite it every day.

Few realize what they are actually asking for.

“Our Father, who art in heaven...”

The moment you say those words, you are calling the Creator of the universe your Father.

“Thy Kingdom come.”

You are asking God to establish His reign in your life, even if it means removing the things that keep you from Him.

“Thy will be done.”

Not my plans.

Not my ambitions.

Not my desires.

His will.

Even when it is difficult.

“Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”

These may be the most challenging words in the entire prayer.

We ask God to forgive us in the same measure that we forgive others.

“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

Because the battle for the soul is real.

And no one reaches Heaven alone.

The Our Father is not merely a prayer.

It is a surrender.

It is a declaration of trust.

It is a roadmap to holiness given by Christ Himself.

The next time you pray it, do not rush.

Pray every word as if you mean it.

Because Jesus did not teach us empty words.

He taught us how to speak to God.

AMEN 🙏

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

Jude 1, 24-25! Thank You, LORD for being our salvation!! 😭🤟❤️

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Bad men
Can become good men
In the nail-scarred hands of the perfect Man, Jesus Christ
Who was crucified for all men

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of “racism” is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder!

So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

Jude 24-25!! Thank You, LORD for saving me!! 😭🤟❤️

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Why did C.S. Lewis say that Hell is locked from the inside?

He explores this idea in his book The Great Divorce.

In it, souls of the damned are allowed to visit heaven on a bus ride, but they are not pleased with what they see — and they leave of their own accord.

The fact is, the damned cannot touch Heaven. They can't so much as disturb the dew drops on the grass. Nor can they even gaze upon the garden properly.

Why? Because they are blinded by their own sins:

– The philosopher would rather philosophize about God than meet him
– The painter would rather make beautiful art than gaze upon the source of all Beauty
– The clingy mother would rather fret over her son than give her full love to God

Lewis' point is that God cannot force man into salvation. Damnation is not God's rejection of man, but God tragically accepting man's rejection of him.

Hell itself is the ultimate monument to human freedom; for a human with true free will is even free to divorce himself with paradise.

What Lewis suggests is that you don't fully understand human nature until you understand that some humans really do not want paradise.

Conversely then, true freedom does not mean using your free will however you want. True freedom means surrendering your free will by forming your soul to the Good.

By sacrificing your free will in this manner, you gain glory, virtue, and happiness — for man was made to know and love virtue above all.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Why did C.S. Lewis say that Hell is locked from the inside?

He explores this idea in his book The Great Divorce.

In it, souls of the damned are allowed to visit heaven on a bus ride, but they are not pleased with what they see — and they leave of their own accord.

The fact is, the damned cannot touch Heaven. They can't so much as disturb the dew drops on the grass. Nor can they even gaze upon the garden properly.

Why? Because they are blinded by their own sins:

– The philosopher would rather philosophize about God than meet him
– The painter would rather make beautiful art than gaze upon the source of all Beauty
– The clingy mother would rather fret over her son than give her full love to God

Lewis' point is that God cannot force man into salvation. Damnation is not God's rejection of man, but God tragically accepting man's rejection of him.

Hell itself is the ultimate monument to human freedom; for a human with true free will is even free to divorce himself with paradise.

What Lewis suggests is that you don't fully understand human nature until you understand that some humans really do not want paradise.

Conversely then, true freedom does not mean using your free will however you want. True freedom means surrendering your free will by forming your soul to the Good.

By sacrificing your free will in this manner, you gain glory, virtue, and happiness — for man was made to know and love virtue above all.

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

@MasterMaliq I can’t get past what Jesus declared in John 14:6 -
I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one gets to the Father except thru Me.”

Oh and the fact Jesus died/paid for my sins at the Cross and is the ONLY One who has resurrected and is alive forevermore. 🔥

Jude 24-25 🙏

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Why Isaac, Not Ishmael?

Today, Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, believing it marks the moment Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son Ishmael.

But this narrative, recast centuries later by Muhammad, hijacks the original account and distorts it.

In the Bible, the foundation of both Jewish and Christian traditions, the son on the altar was not Ishmael, but Isaac.

Ishmael was the result of human effort, Abraham’s attempt to fulfill God’s promise through his own performance, through Hagar, Sarah’s maidservant.

It was a solution born out of impatience and control.

But God’s redemptive plan was never about what man could do for God, it was always about what God would do for man.

Isaac was the son of promise. He was born not through human scheming but through divine intervention.

Sarah was barren. Abraham was old. His very existence was a miracle. Isaac represents grace, God doing the impossible, fulfilling His covenant not through man’s effort, but through His own power and faithfulness.

The apostle Paul said that Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, represented Mount Sinai, where the law was given, a symbol of human striving, condemnation, and bondage.

But Sarah, the mother of Isaac, represented Jerusalem above, freedom, grace, and divine sonship. Ishmael is law; Isaac is gospel.

If God had asked Abraham to offer Ishmael, it would mean He was demanding a sacrifice born of human effort. But He wasn’t.

He was foreshadowing the ultimate sacrifice, Christ, the Lamb of God, also born of a miraculous promise, also offered by His Father on a hill.

Isaac was the prototype of substitutionary atonement. He symbolized the Son not born of the flesh but of the Spirit, God’s initiative, not man’s.

To replace Isaac with Ishmael is theological vandalism. It exchanges grace for works, divine election for human performance, and the gospel for law.

That’s why Isaac, not Ishmael. Because salvation was never meant to begin with our striving, it was always meant to begin with God’s promise.

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

@redromatica Consider the 2 fellas who were crucified next to Jesus (both deserved their sentences!.. one mocked Jesus imploring Him to save them while the other said “LORD, remember me..” and what did He say to him? Today… this man believed and left the salvation part to Jesus. Jude 24-25

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

@edgaralandough Exodus 34:5-9, Jude 24-25, Matthew 5:8-9, 1 Peter 1:3-9

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

@DavidFischer I honestly recommend starting withGenesis. I’m currently doing a chronological yearlong read plan in YouVersion app (today is day 122) and even tho I’ve read the bible, this go round has been a fun journey. So much to discover about God and His plan for mankind.

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

@SaltyGoat17 Sure sounds like Zechariah 12… interesting times we live in.

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

@JesusIsLord0405 It’s all about Jesus.
Get into His word, the Bible.
Ask Him to open your mind to understand His word.
Speak Romans 12:1-2 - LORD, transform me by the renewing of my mind, give me eyes to see, ears to hear the Spirit’s voice.
And ponder Psalm 46:10, Jude 24-25, Exodus 34

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

We were there front and center.

That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government.

After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Great explanation...

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Charlie Kirk wanted blockchain technology applied to the federal government. Full transparency. Every dime of spending tracked in real time on a public ledger.

His framing was simple: "It is not the government's money. We are the sovereign. We earn the money and the government extracts it from us with our consent."

If that's the relationship, then taxpayers have a right to see where every dollar goes. Day by day. Department by department.

The technology already exists. Bitcoin proved a public, tamper-proof ledger works at global scale. Nobody can edit it after the fact. Nobody can hide a transaction.

Apply that same infrastructure to federal spending and waste doesn't survive long. Nobody overspends when the ledger has an audience.

The question was never whether we could do it. It's whether the people spending the money want you to see it.

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

@OG_Wick0 Luke 16:22 - “the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side (heaven). The rich man also died and was buried,”

I’ve repented and believe in Jesus and rely solely on Him for my salvation - when my time comes, I’ll experience the same! 😃🙌 shalom aleichem

[Mike Houston @MikeHouston67]

Rapha (let go!!), and know that I am God.

Psalm 46:10

[Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey @RelatablewABS]

Therapist @TTuck10 came on Relatable to talk about anxiety. I asked him, "If you could define anxiety, how would you define it?"

Tucker: "Fear of the future. Fear of the unknown. The verse, 'Be still and know that I am God' used to make me so angry.

I'm like, God, what do you mean be still? Like, I got a real problem here. I'm in a storm. Why do you want me to just be still?

And what I realized is that the word, and I believe it's "Rapha" in the Hebrew, it doesn’t mean just ‘don’t move.’ It means ‘release your grip.’

The idea that I thought that I had control, that was a lie anyway. If I can start to realize like, yes, the circumstances might happen that are negative or I might be in the middle of a battle right now, but if I can loosen my grip and stop white knuckling it, then I can realize that like oh—God is God, not me, and He’s going to take care of me no matter what happens.

That really is the solution to anxiety. It’s not changing your circumstances or slapping meds on it.”

[🍊🍊Capt'n Cornjuice🥃🥃 @BoCamaro]

My first time back in church since I was a boy, was Feb 22nd. I woke up and felt I needed help of some sort. I went to an employee's church.

I didn't have a Bible, and as everyone was singing songs I didn't know, and saying prayers I didn't know, the uncomfortable became unbearable...

Folks raised there hands in praise, and I looked at my stained hands and nails and kept them in my pockets. The night before, I had been working on a racecar, and my hands looked the part. Not dirty, just stained.

So there I stood. 6 weeks past time for a haircut, stained hands, broken heart, burdened mind, absolutely filthy soul. I left there that day feeling worse than when I went in.

Not because of the people, they were amazing, but because I felt so out of place. I felt like a house fly sitting on a birthday cake. I was surrounded by beautiful spirits rejoicing in their salvation, and the best I could offer is maybe I hadn't taken the Lord's name in vain for a few hours... mostly because I was sleeping.

But you know what I know now? Jesus was standing at the doors as I came in amd as I left, just hoping I would accept what HE sacrificed for me.... I just didn't know it.

The next week, I got me a new Bible, and new shoes, and I cleaned my hands and nails..... and I took my filthy soul, that I couldn't scrub clean, back to his house...

And this time, he didn't let me leave until we had us a proper meeting.

Everything changed March 1st. Everything.

Today, right now, my nails are dirty again. I am working on a race car again... but my soul? As clean as a brand new tailored suit! And by the grace of God, it won't ever be dirty again.

That beautiful salvation is waiting on us all. Every single one of us has Jesus holding the door, just waiting for us to come say hello.

And just like my hands and this gentleman's vlue jeans,He can clean any stain on your soul.