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Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.

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Our God is great.
God is a deliverer.

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@BiblicalBeauty Nobody has the "will" to do anything about it. This is a spiritual matter. The unjust will continue to be unjust until Jesus comes and rights the wrongs.

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@minanikzad1 On the outside looking in. No one sees the real me.

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@Fair_and_Biased God is love verses Rescue the Perishing.

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@the_coral_lea It's a lot easier to say you're a Christian than it is to bring your heart under His controlling influence.

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@megbasham Who would investigate? FBI.

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@MoniFunGirl Define: Peace Deal.

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@the_coral_lea Not a day goes by I don't kick myself for not giving it to her. What others overlooked, she saw as value. Blessed are the pure in heart.

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@the_coral_lea Years ago, I dug out a sweater, I loved, from the closet to wear to church. And the only one to compliment me on it was a little stranger with Down Syndrome at the Drug Emporium. She came in the store and asked to touch it. She then walked off with her mother.

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@MikeBuce @AndrewKolvet It doesn't matter if no one is willing to do anything about it.

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@JoshuaBarzon

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@MoniFunGirl @jk_rowling "Get him to a hospital. Fast" (Cliffhanger, 1993). Got to love him as a villain.

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@miles_commodore

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@Aaron710David History has a way of repeating itself, even in the strangest of ways. https://t.co/kgvpbOWVms

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@buitengebieden

[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.

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Replication of rainbow, attack on God's throne.

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"To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with
Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne" Revelation 3:21. The 24 elders of Revelation 4 all encircled around the Father's throne with golden bowls of incense offering the prayers of the saints.

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@WxZachary She'll be starring in Polar Bears a documentary over on Netflix.

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@JamesBryantWX Wait until she gets outside.