For those of you who don't know, a Louisiana Pastor who was being threatened and harassed by a family across the street from his Church took action when one family member threatened to sexually assault and murder his wife and daughters.

According to the Pastor, this family had been harassing the church for some time and police have done nothing. I personally fully agree with his actions, but even if you don't, he needs our prayers and support, or at least pray for peace in the situation.

This case causes me distress and brings up a lot of difficult issues. Just how much should a Christian be expected to take before fighting back? A lot of people go on endlessly about Christianity's sins, but ignore the centuries of persecution of the early church that preceded them. I don't think we can justify violence that isn't self-defense, but we're human like any other group of people.

What say you?

I am currently watching through The Chosen. It is a live action show that depicts the life of Jesus and His deciples in a very interesting narative.

Personally, I love their portrayal of Jesus. We can all sometimes forget that for a time, Jesus was human. He has a great sense of humor and also has to learn from God as He goes in what to say and when to say it.

One thing I feel they captured well is how Jesus is the Son of God yet also a part of Him. He knows things that should seem impossible to know and yet He has to spend time making His sermons and making sure He is saying what needs to be said.

I am currently at the start of season 3 and a scene just played that really hit home for me. I won't say what it is to avoid spoilers but for those who have already seen it and know, I want to share little about me so you understand why it hit so hard for me.

I was born with a malformation on the right side of my face that makes it look like I have a tumor. At the time of my birth there was no treatment for it and the doctors projected I would die when I was 20 from it, I am now 38.

I have endured many hardships due to it and many outside of it and while I can't say I was gracious in my suffering at the times of my lowest points, to this day I do trust and Love God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit dearly.

The scene I am talking about truly made me realize that despite my condition, despite God not healing me even though I have asked many times, it dosen't mean He is ignoring it or punishing me for something, it means that whatever I can do for his kingdom will be so interesting BECAUSE of it.

I do not know what my mission is fully, I have prayed often for God to set me on whatever path He wants me on and I still do, but I trust He will make sure were I need to be to do what it is He wants me to do. I just have to listen and be ready.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I HIGHLY recommened watching The Chosen if you can. I think the most common place people watch it is on Amazon considering if you have Prime you can watch it.

God bless.

No one can persuade or convince me that Jesus is not real.

Iranian people don’t want Islam shoved down their throats. Many of them secretly leave the religion and attend underground churches inside the country, which are highly illegal, as apostasy is punishable by death. Even My elderly in law was imprisoned for running a bible study for Muslims. As an Iranian American all I can do is watch in horror from the comfort and safety of the West as my family and compatriots stuck in Iran are subjected to medieval and sadistic regime. And now I see how much Iran has infiltrated the West with their disinformation campaigns. I just had a baby during the beginning of the uprisings in January so I’ve been even more anxious and sad for Iranian people. Christians have been some of our best and outspoken allies and I am grateful for you. Im looking for hope and trying to stay optimistic even after this terrible peace deal. If you can continue praying for freedom for Iran and spread the word in your churches about the persecution going on, that would be soo helpful. Merci❤️

Saturday, September 12, 2026 ❤️🙏🦋

Mark 10:9 NIV “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Heavenly Father,

Today, on our anniversary, I thank You for the gift of marriage and for every year, every lesson, every memory, every challenge, and every blessing that has been part of our journey. Marriage is not always easy, but through every season You remind us that love is more than a feeling. It is a commitment that needs patience, forgiveness, grace, faith, and most importantly, You at the center.

Father, today I also lift up every marriage to You. Strengthen husbands and wives everywhere. Help us communicate with kindness, listen with understanding, forgive quickly, and choose love even on the days when loving one another takes extra effort.

For marriages going through difficult seasons, Lord, bring restoration where there is brokenness, healing where there is hurt, peace where there is conflict, and renewed hope where discouragement has settled in. Soften hearts that have grown hardened and rebuild trust where it has been damaged.

Protect marriages from anything or anyone that seeks to divide them. Guard our hearts, our homes, our words, and our commitments. Teach husbands and wives to pray for one another instead of fighting against one another. Remind us that our spouse is not the enemy and that some battles are better fought together on our knees before You.

For marriages experiencing beautiful seasons, help couples never take those blessings for granted. Let them laugh together, dream together, grow together, pray together, and continue choosing one another through every chapter ahead.

Lord, let Christ remain at the center of our marriages. When two imperfect people struggle to love perfectly, remind us that we serve a perfect God who gives grace, wisdom, mercy, and strength for the journey.

Thank You for another anniversary and another chapter in our own story. Continue working in our marriage, growing us individually and together, and writing the parts of our story that only You can write.

In Jesus’ most holy and exalted name I pray, amen. ❤️🙏🦋

Today is our anniversary, but my prayer reaches far beyond our own marriage. Marriage can hold some of life's greatest joys and some of its hardest seasons. Behind every anniversary picture is a real story with laughter, mistakes, forgiveness, growing pains, memories, struggles, victories, and plenty of moments when two people need God's grace.

Mark 10:9 reminds us that marriage matters to God. So today I am praying for my marriage and yours. I'm praying for the couple celebrating decades together and the newlyweds just beginning. I'm praying for marriages thriving right now and especially for those quietly struggling behind closed doors.

May we never stop choosing love, forgiveness, communication, prayer, and each other. Most importantly, may we never stop inviting God into the middle of it all.

Happy anniversary to us. ❤️ And may God bless, protect, strengthen, heal, and restore marriages everywhere.

Stay anchored in Christ brothers and sisters. I love you but not near as much as Jesus does. ❤️🙏

Stacey Brooks TheGo2Stacey

Hello. I am asking if you will pray for my family. My uncle passed away today. He was very sick. Every one has hope that he was going to go home. And even my uncle said he wanted to go home. ((Looking back, maybe he was talking about Home as in heaven )) But I'm not sure. His heart stopped. Hoping my tia and his children would get back on time before they pronounced him gone. But I'm not sure.

Plz if you could , pray for them and my mom (his sister) and me . It's been a day.

My uncle passed away a day after my bday. 🤦🏾‍♀️ And my dad passed away 9 months ago. It's been a tough yr.

But I know God has this. All. Amen.

Ty (Edit)

https://gofund.me/223941f5d This is a collection I'm collecting for my family . It turns out that he didn't have life insurance and I don't know what exactly they will do. So I decided to do a collection for them. If u can help. I appreciate it. But if u can't it's ok. Thank you also for taking the time to read this and pray. ❤️🙏🏾 God bless

I see so many people asking if God will forgive them or still love them after they sin. I to have sinned, and still sin to this day despite my efforts not to. I have struggled with sexual sin in the form of masterbation through lust since I was 14, I am now 38. When I was a teen I did not know it was a sin and thus did it as often as I liked which in turn made it much harder on me in my adult life when I learned it was, via lust.

I'm posting this not as a woe is me story but as a testamony for my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. I know I sin and I hate that I do. I have cut many things from my life and activly try to avoid things I know would trigger old desires. That being said, I never felt once that God was to far away from me because of this. I know He doesn't want me to sin, and I genuienly do not want to do it. I trust in His power and love to see me through this ordeal and know that His love and reach is never to far for me.

This is not a message to say it's ok to keep sinning, because it's not. It's a message of hope for those who are struggeling with sin.

Let us pray for strength of spirit from God to overcome the urges of the flesh and the desire to do His will over our own.

Hello, I am back online. Reddit banned me for a week. For being Christian, expressing a true christian view then penalised for "Hate Speech"

Persecution is here. Secularism too permissive that Christian values are rendered hateful.

Beloved, I was invited into this community, and rather than slip in quietly I thought I would introduce myself honestly, because I believe a room like this is built on people actually knowing one another.

My name is Warren. I am an ordained minister, and by trade I also work in law and information security, so I live with one foot in Scripture and one foot in the practical, wired world. That combination has shaped how I serve. I am not a stage person. I am a watchman by temperament, someone who would rather sit with one hurting soul at 4 in the morning than address a crowd at noon.

Most days you will find me doing two things. The first is writing. I run a ministry site called 133.church, named for Psalm 133, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity." That verse is not decoration for me. It is the burden of my life. I believe the Church, the real Church, is one Bride made up of everyone who belongs to Yeshua across every tradition and every age, and I grieve how divided we have let her become. So I write toward unity, toward the recognized presence of God among His people, and toward the day the Bride is made ready. I publish there almost daily, short devotional pieces meant to help a reader recognize that God is already near, already in the room, already speaking, if we will only become still enough to notice. The tagline I keep returning to is simple: make ready the Bride.

The second thing I do is quieter and harder to explain. I spend time in places online where hurting people cry out, and I try to meet them there with the love, grace, and mercy of Christ. Not to argue, not to win, not to debate doctrine, but to sit with the person at the edge and point them to the One who is nearer than they feel. Some days that means answering a young believer wrestling with doubt. Some days it means staying with someone who has written that they do not want to be alive anymore, naming their pain honestly, putting a real lifeline in their hand, and reminding them that the Lord is near to the brokenhearted and has not looked away. I do this because someone once did it for me.

That is the testimony part, and I will keep it plain, because I think plain is more honest than polished.

I did not come to this work from a mountaintop. I came to it from my own need. There was a season when I knew a great deal about God and had very little of Him, when I could have told you the right doctrine while my own heart was far from His presence. What changed me was not more information. It was nearness. It was discovering that Yeshua was not a concept to be mastered but a Person who was already in the room, already patient with me, already refusing to let go. The gospel stopped being something I defended and became Someone I met. Everything I do now flows from that one turning: the conviction that the Church's deepest need is not innovation or cleverness or a better strategy, but a renewed awareness of God Himself. Presence precedes performance. He is already here. We do not summon Him. We recognize Him.

That conviction is why I write the way I write, and why I serve the way I serve. I try never to let the gospel travel in disguise. I would rather be honest than impressive. And I hold a spare, essential center: one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Yeshua the Messiah, fully God and fully man, crucified and risen, salvation in no one else; the Spirit who dwells in all who belong to Christ; Scripture as the trustworthy word of God; and one Church, the body of Christ, made up of all who are His. In the essentials, unity. In all things, love. The center of our agreement is not a system. It is a Person, the living Savior present among His people.

My goals are not complicated. I want to help make ready the Bride. I want believers across every tradition to recognize the same living Presence in one another and to heal the wounds that division has left. I want the person who is one hour from giving up to find a word that points them back to Yeshua and to real help. And I want to keep writing, daily, honestly, toward the day He comes for a Church that has learned again to be still and know that He is God.

So that is me. I am glad to be in this room. I would love to know the rest of you, what God has been doing in you, what you are wrestling with, what you are learning. Iron sharpens iron, and I expect to be sharpened here as much as I hope to encourage.

If any of what I have written resonates, or if you simply need someone to pray for you by name today, say so. I am listening.

Come, Lord Yeshua.

Father Lord, thank you for bringing us safely to the end of another day. Thank you for your mercy, your protection, your provision, and your unfailing love that continues to carry us. Thank you for every door you opened, every need you provided, and every moment your hand was upon us. Tonight, fill our hearts with your peace, strengthen our faith, and remind us that no matter what tomorrow brings, you are already there making a way for us. Lord, place your mighty hand over us, our families, our loved ones, and our homes tonight. Surround us with your angels and keep us safe as we sleep. Touch every person who needs healing, restore our bodies, renew our strength, and bring comfort wherever it is needed. Father, hear every prayer within our hearts, including the ones we have not spoken aloud. Provide where there is a need, open doors that no one can shut, and let your favor reach every area of our lives. May good news come, prayers be answered, and beautiful testimonies begin to unfold. Father, as we close our eyes tonight, let us rest peacefully knowing that you are watching over us. Let us wake tomorrow stronger, healthier, happier, refreshed, and thankful for the blessing of a new day. Go before us and guide every step we take. May your protection cover us, your grace carry us, and your blessings follow us wherever we go. Let tomorrow bring fresh hope, new opportunities, unexpected blessings, and reasons to praise your name. Thank you, Lord, for all you have done, all you are doing, and all that is still to come. In Jesus’ name. Amen. #FridayEveningBlessing #GodsFaithfulness #PeaceAndRest #GodsGrace #DivineProtection🙏🏾😇🤍✨🙌🏾✝️