Não estejais inquietos por coisa alguma; antes, as vossas petições sejam em tudo conhecidas diante de Deus, pela oração e súplicas, com ação de graças. E a paz de Deus, que excede todo o entendimento, guardará os vossos corações e os vossos sentimentos em Cristo Jesus.
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.
She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.
And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.
To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.
I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?
Then I realized I was the wife.
I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.
And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”
He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”
That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.
He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.
Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.
Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.
The cross was Him naming the price.
Praise the Lord.
“Pela graça vocês são salvos, mediante a fé…somos feitura dele, criados em Cristo Jesus para boas obras” Ef 2.8-10
A graça salva; a fé recebe; as obras seguem.
sinceramente não entra na minha cabeça que essa nova geração não assista a nenhum desses desenhos, porque eu não consigo imaginar como teria sido a minha infância sem eles, meio que me criaram
“Finalmente, irmãos, tudo o que for verdadeiro, tudo o que for nobre, tudo o que for correto, tudo o que for puro, tudo o que for amável [belo], tudo o que for de boa fama, se houver algo de excelente ou digno de louvor, pensem nessas coisas.”
— Filipenses 4:8
mourning what was the start of us seeing more of the friendship being built between Lucy with Nyla and Angela, i want to see them mixing up the dynamics more and showing us more of these female friendships and being a found family who are there for each other PLEASE #TheRookie