Why?
Why not just live peacefully and happily on this beautiful planet?
Why not spend resources in protecting our own home, Earth. 🌍
I don’t want to go to other star systems. I don’t even want to go to the moon. I want to go to the clear Caribbean beaches. I want to go to the Swiss Alps. I want to see the rainforests, I want to go to Africa and see the beautiful wildlife.
I’m a landlord. It’s a tough business. I had a tenant, Mr. Alvarez. Never late on rent for 5 years. Then, the checks stopped. I went to his apartment. He didn’t open the door. I used my key. The apartment was empty. No furniture. Just a mattress on the floor and Mr. Alvarez sitting on it. “I’m sorry,” he said, looking down. “My wife got sick. The medication… I sold everything. I’ll leave today.” I looked at the empty room. I went to my truck. I grabbed my tools. “I’m not kicking you out,” I said. “But I am raising the rent.” He looked terrified. “I’m raising it to $0 for the next six months.” He started to cry. “And,” I added, “I’ve got an extra sofa in storage. And a table. Let’s get this place looking like a home again.” That was three years ago. His wife recovered. He’s back on his feet. He insists on paying me double rent now to "pay back the debt." I put the extra money into a fund for other tenants who struggle. A roof over someone’s head is a business. Keeping a roof over their head when they’re drowning? That’s a duty.
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“Don’t ever say to yourself, ‘I got all this wealth by my own power and ability.’ Remember the Lord your God is the one who gives you power to do these things. He does this because he wants to keep the agreement that he made with your ancestors, as he is doing today!”
Deuteronomy 8:17-18 ERV
Thanks to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ 🙏🏾
I support this outstanding Kenyan patriot: The only parliamentarian who has eloquently demonstrated full commitment to social justice and understands her role. Viva Asige. Solidarity.
Dear Pilgrim,
In living for Jesus and His Kingdom on this side of the divide, life sometimes will hit you hard. What to eat, what to wear, what to put on, and where to live. It will literally feel like you're walking the valley of the shadow of death. Just because of your allegiance to Jesus and refusal to walk as the Gentiles walk; having their understanding darkened and being alienated from the life of God.
In that day, the burdens will be intense. Satan's suggestions of compromise will offer you a very attractive and "easy" way out. Nights will be lonely and sometimes tearful. It would seem that with every rising of the sun, your chances of remaining faithful to God dims.
Beloved, know this. The hands of God are perpetually committed to holding you. What you are going through is part of the tests and the challenges the Christian faces.
Like Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, you must look at the situations in the eye and say, "My God is able to save me, but even if he doesn't save me, i will still not bow"
This is the posture you must sustain.
There are situations where it's in delivering us from it that God will take the glory. But there are others where the only means for Him to get the glory is for you to go through it; no matter how painful and come out on the other side, after all, with the joy of your salvation raging!
So, lift your head up, plant your feet on the ground, and keep walking. The way the story ends is with you winning. Either in this life or the next.
Stay strong, soldier!
Syria: In the wake of yesterday’s horrific church bombing, Christians in Damascus marched through the city to loudly proclaim – “We are all for Christ!��
Stunning faith in the face of stunning evil.
God bless the courageous Christians of Syria.
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and rescues them. O taste and see that the Lord is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
Psalm 34:7-8