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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

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Matthew 5:10 ESV https://t.co/cXrHCdE4rs

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Matthew 5:7 ESV https://t.co/w7JE48WCdk

[Andreas Huebner @_AndreasHuebner]

A powerful biblical truth is:

You do not overcome negative thoughts by trying to think positive thoughts. You overcome negative thoughts by replacing lies with truth.

Jesus never said, "Think positively." He said:

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)

Examples:

Fear says: "Something terrible is going to happen." Truth says: "God has not given me a spirit of fear." (2 Timothy 1:7)

Lack says: "I don't have enough." Truth says: "My God shall supply all my need." (Philippians 4:19)

Rejection says: "Nobody cares about me." Truth says: "I am accepted in the Beloved." (Ephesians 1:6)

Failure says: "I will never make it." Truth says: "I can do all things through Christ." (Philippians 4:13)

Notice how Jesus handled Satan in the wilderness.

He did not argue. He did not use positive affirmations. He did not discuss his feelings.

Three times He answered:

"It is written..." (Matthew 4)

The battlefield of the mind is not won by optimism. It is won by revelation.

Romans 12:2 says:

"Be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

Not by suppressing thoughts. Not by denying reality. But by replacing old beliefs with God's Word.

A practical formula:

Negative thought → Find the lie → Replace with Scripture → Speak it aloud repeatedly.

Because eventually the loudest voice in your life becomes the strongest belief in your life.

That's why faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17).

Not merely hearing God's Word once.

Hearing it until it becomes more real than the negative thought.

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Whoever said ‘out of sight, out of mind’ never had a spider disappear inside their tent.

[Catbckr @catbckr]

Matthew 5:6 ESV https://t.co/O87KOYQIOz

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[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

Regardless of your hockey team, this Stanley Cup Finals intro is absolutely unbelievable…

Ray Bourque interview, @TheKillers ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’ playing, Jon Hamm narrating… Just perfection. Made me tear up.

Extremely well done 👏🏽👏🏽

[Catbckr @catbckr]

Matthew 5:3 ESV https://t.co/yJkrv8cxUx

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

Dear Lord,

Thank You for bringing me into the month of June. I place this month in Your hands. Go before me and make every crooked path straight. Bless me with good health, peace, wisdom, favor, and success in all that I do.

Protect me and my family from every danger. Open new doors of opportunity, strengthen my faith, and help me trust You every day. Let June be a month of blessings, breakthroughs, joy, and answered prayers.

May Your grace be sufficient for me, and may Your presence guide me throughout this month.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

[God & Country @GodandCountryy]

Thank you 🙏

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

Stubbornness is a virtue. Try & fail 80 times. Do the same workout for 10 years. Repeat the same prayers until they truly work. Forgive not once or twice but sevenfold & then some more. Love hard and get burnt, then love bigger than before. In Old English stubborn was used to describe a fiercely resolute & untamable spirit. Hold true to it. Be rigid enough that reality has no choice but to bend. Be strong enough to stand firm when the world wants you stirred. Be resilient enough to not allow anything to sway you from obeying what God's commanded your soul. That's what stubborn means. The man who can't fathom no as a possibility - it's he who gets the crown, the girl, the victory. We like to use the term perseverance, but raw human stubbornness is more common and relatable. We are all already stubborn. We just have to be so in the right things

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Romans 10:14 ESV https://t.co/BU5gC7opiC

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

“Lord, when anxiety fills my heart, replace my fear with peace, my worry with faith, and my stress with Your calm presence. 🙏”