Nobody needs God’s help to find Islam. The flesh already approximates to it.
To polygamy, to violence, to the idea that standing before God is something you can earn with the right volume of works and the right length of prayers. To the kind of spirituality that leaves the ego largely intact and asks it to simply try harder.
The flesh is not threatened by any of that. The flesh is comfortable there.
What you actually need God’s help for is to be Christian. To be humble enough to admit that you cannot earn what only grace can give. To turn the other cheek when every sinew in you is screaming for retaliation. To accept that what you need is not better behavior but a complete newness of being, that the old self must not be reformed but crucified. Islam makes demands of the flesh. Christ makes demands of the soul. That is a completely different religion.
You don’t pray anyone toward Islam. The flesh already knows the way. What everyone needs help getting to is the cross.
@Dame_Salvatore@wearegst@bigbrutha_ nope, find out yourself because that would be promoting another brand which will tarnish the entire aim of the callout and shift the narrative around to something else
@seoulcittyx This is how people get into politics, not with the mindset to bring positive change, but with the expectation of using power to intimidate others.
Y’all deserve your leaders
I evaluate my behavior every night. I will literally be in the shower like "I didn't like how I responded to that today but tomorrow I will be better".
Good people make you feel terrible about yourself when you first meet them.
I spent years thinking I could spot authentic kindness from across a room. Warm smile, eager to help, quick to compliment, always available when you need them. All the social signals we associate with "nice."
Then I started paying attention to who actually showed up during the worst moments of my life.
The person who drove three hours in silence to sit with me in a hospital waiting room wasn't someone I'd ever describe as "friendly." She barely speaks in group settings. Never posts about her volunteer work. Has resting face that looks perpetually annoyed. But when crisis hit, she appeared without being asked and stayed without keeping score.
Meanwhile, the people with inspirational quote collections and hearts in their Instagram bios were suddenly busy when I needed them most.
Real goodness operates below the frequency of social performance.
Genuinely good people have mastered something most of us resist: they've separated their worth from external validation. They don't need you to witness their kindness for it to feel real to them. This creates a strange paradox. The people most capable of genuine care often appear the most emotionally unavailable on the surface.
They listen to understand, not to respond. Most conversations are elaborate turn taking. Person A talks, Person B waits for their opening to talk about themselves. Good people actually absorb what you're saying. They remember details you mentioned months ago. They ask followup questions about things you assumed nobody cared about.
They disagree with you without trying to destroy you. Bad people treat disagreement as warfare. Every conversation becomes a battle for dominance. Good people can think you're completely wrong while still treating you like a human being worth engaging with.
They keep promises to people who can't do anything for them. Watch how someone treats a waiter, a janitor, a customer service representative. Watch how they behave when there's nothing to gain and no audience to impress. Character reveals itself in asymmetric relationships.
They've learned to be comfortable with other people's discomfort. Most of us rush to fix, solve, or cheer up anyone experiencing negative emotions. Good people can sit with someone's pain without making it about their own anxiety. They don't need you to feel better to validate their helpfulness.
They have boundaries that actually protect something valuable. Bad people either have no boundaries or boundaries designed to make them look important. Good people have boundaries because they understand that saying yes to everything means saying yes to nothing that matters.
The strangest sign: "they make you want to become better without ever suggesting you need improvement." Something about their presence elevates your own behavior. You find yourself being more honest, more patient, more thoughtful when they're around. Not because they demand it, but because they demonstrate what's possible.
We mistake performance for character because performance is visible and character is mostly invisible until tested.
Good people are almost never who you expect them to be.
This is why shy introverts & low agency people have worse outcomes in life. So simple, yet most wouldn’t do this bc they’d have talked themselves out of asking & made up reasons why it wouldn’t work.
Audacity compounds like this in so many invisible ways. Most rules are illusory
The truth about Nigerian Muslims is worst than you think.
October 11, 1991, a German evangelist named Reinhard Bonke planned a large Christian crusade in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
Christians were excited about the event, and the hype was widespread.
Many Muslims did not like this, and they opposed it, believing that Kano belonged to Islam and that Christians should not hold such a crusade there.
Fearing that Christianity was becoming too popular in Kano, members of the so-called "religion of peace" then took to the streets and began rioting.
Within hours, they started lynching innocent Christians, burning their homes, churches, and businesses.
Christian Children, women and men alike.
Christians were lynched, raped, impaled, butchered, and burned alive.
This targeted violence against Christians continued for days. Many Christian families disappeared, never to be seen again.
Entire Christian neighborhoods became empty, with homes and businesses seized by Muslims after the owners were killed.
By the time the army finally intervened and stopped the killings, hundreds of Christians were dead, thousands were injured, and hundreds of thousands had been displaced.
The military government underreported the death toll as about 100 to 200.
However, survivors and other accounts claim that more than 500 Christians died.
These acts were not carried out by Terrorists, they were carried out by everyday Muslims that knew the people they were killing, the type of Muslims you call your friends.
The crusade was canceled, and the victims never received any justice or compensation.
Today, some of those who carried out the killings, or their children, can be found online proclaiming that Islam is a religion of peace and accusing others of being Islamophobic and saying there is no Christians genocide in Nigeria
Don't ever let anyone massacre your people and then come online to gaslight you.
As a Christian I was shocked when I researched the history Christian genocide in Nigeria.
I made a post about how in 1999, 500+ innocent Christians were killed in Kano, simply because an Evangelist wanted to do a crusade.
And some Muslims took offense.
Since I made that post, I have gotten over 13 threat messages telling me to delete it.
So I pinned the post on my profile.
If you are a Christian share it so that more Christians will see it and understand what we are dealing with.
I am the wrong Christian to threaten.
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The weird thing about reading so much as a child and gaining a huge vocabulary from that is I can't define a lot of the words I use, I just know that they would fit correctly in a specific sentence. Does anyone else experience that?
not specifically about being slow, more about mindfulness. be present with what youre doing. rest as the awareness of direct experience of the present moment without clinging resisting, allowing everything to be as it is without interference and noticing everything. this is basically the secret to life
Your brain doesn't age because of time. It ages because of repetition. The more predictable your days become, the faster your neurons quiet down. Your brain builds neural pathways based on experience. New experiences create new connections. Repetition strengthens old ones. But when you repeat the same patterns for years, your brain stops building. That's why time feels faster as you age. Your brain stops encoding new memories. It just references old ones. A year at 40 feels shorter than a year at 10, because at 10, everything was new. At 40, everything is familiar. But neuroplasticity doesn't stop. You can still grow new neurons. You can still learn. You can still change. You just have to break the loop. Your brain will wake up. And time will slow down again.
Listen, I felt a strong urge in my spirit to tweet this. It doesn’t matter how deep you are in sorrow and depression, the JOY of the Lord pulls you out now! Right now!
A ray of hope shines in your spirit right now! This is NOT the end! God is making ways for you! Amen!! ❤️❤️