In Veritas

This is my testimony. I've given it before, but I'm pinning it here so people can understand who they're getting with me. Hint: He's a permanent resident! I gave up on self-help on my birthday last year. Formally. In a short speech to my family. Then I redoubled my efforts to seek Him, while pretty much abandoning any attempt to live uprightly. I was still an alcoholic. Still smoked. Still depressed and a mess, while my life seemed to fly by in a dull and dreary haze. But I continued to seek Him anyway. Learn about His goodness. I was already a Christian. I'd been saved at the age of 8 and attended church at most points of my life, aside from a couple short breaks in my younger years. I prayed. I read the Bible. I even read books about Jesus. I listened to sermons on Youtube. I was looking for the secret, the secret that I was missing. I knew that there had to be power here somewhere. That it wasn't just a theology or philosophy... at least I had that hope. And I wasn't going to give up on Jesus without really giving it my best shot to find Him. When the dam broke, it broke quietly. I was listening to yet another book on Jesus when the realization dawned on me how GOOD He is, and how He did care for me. I realized that I'd never actually surrendered my life to Him. Never had the guts, didn't think I could hold up my end of a bargain like that anyway. And what if He asked me to do something I couldn't do? Something like Abraham with Isaac on that altar... I just couldn't fully trust that kind of lion's leap. But when this dam broke, I suddenly realized that He loves me better than I love myself (which honestly wasn't a lot at that point), His plans for me are bound to be better than anything I could dream up. So, in a moment of passion, I surrendered all of me to Him. Asked Him to make of me whatever He could, broken and flawed as I was. And He came. One by one he rifled through the things that weighed my heart down like a stone. Healed those unhealable wounds, and settled my heart about the things which had happened and I'd been unable to face. I cried for four hours, more or less straight. My face was a mess. My eyes actually hurt from all those tears. I felt a little bad for the nice Korean family sitting around me on that international flight. A big white guy with tears streaming down his face for hours . . . might have been disturbing. When I got home, the next night, I prayed before sleep and I had a visitor. Jesus? Holy Spirit? I had a conversation with them back and forth for about an hour and a half. It was amazing. I was immediately cured of my decades-long addiction to alcohol. I realized that when I noticed a total lack of any urge to drink after days. I put it down forever, and haven't had any since. I don't even have a desire for that. What I have a desire for are the things of God. I get up early to pray and read my Bible. I post on X about Jesus. I listen to sermons by my favorite pastors. And that's all in addition to church and a men's group. Jesus has become my passion. He's my life. He's my reason for joy and peace. And, I swear this is true . . . my life slowed down! Before this, it was going by so fast. Now, the days crawl by, and that suits me just fine! I'm loving this new life in Christ. SO what happened to me on that flight? It took me a while to figure that out. At first I thought maybe I wasn't really saved before . . . for 40 years. But that seemed pretty harsh, and didn't line up with my experiences. So, I dug deeper and found some people with testimonies of non-traditional receivings of the Holy Spirit. Testimony after testimony lined up with my experience. Holy Spirit has totally changed my life! And He wants to do more... I hear the sound of an abundance of rain! The power wants out!

@Sassafrass_84 If they’re all at their homes, it will make arresting them for crimes against the State much easier, and less public.

Seriously. Another recess? Not surprised. Taxation without representation.

@harryfisherEMTP @UberTruthChick @zev_dr @stkirsch @drkirkmoore @weldeiry @RobertKennedyJr @HHSGov @NIH @CDCgov @VivekGRamaswamy @RepThomasMassie Bless you for persevering in Truth where so many have bent to the lies, Harry. I think it’s because you know the Truth (and He set you free!)

Paramedic venting truth: During the COVID period, I didn’t see an abnormal number of people dying at home. Everything was slow, the world was terrified and stayed inside. The TV actors screamed that hospitals were packed, but I was inside those hospitals. They were practically empty. So empty that staff were being sent home to save money. Then the shots rolled out. The same lying TV told us the shots were “safe and effective.” The second those shots hit the streets, everything changed. Empty halls turned into a non stop, horror show. Lots of hospitals were now short staffed due to people quitting. The ambulance service was short staffed as well. Most people either quit or took higher paying jobs with emergency federal money available for travelers. I started getting called to vaccine lines where people were dying. Kids having strokes and heart attacks. People in their 20s with aortic dissections, injuries in age groups I had never seen in my entire career were happening. I started speaking up and got banned from every platform. Anonymous cowards gaslit me, claiming I wasn’t a medic and wasn’t seeing what I was seeing. But I was the one doing the CPR. I was the one writing the reports. I am the one telling parents theres nothing more we could do. And every time I’ve asked, “Did they take the COVID vaccine?” the answer almost always yes. Fast forward to today. Most people now know the shots are dangerous. Most have lost friends or loved ones or are suffering injury themselves. Few are taking the boosters out of justifiable concern. Yet nothing is being done. The product is still on the market. Pharma is still making money and receiving tax dollars. I’ve burned through the screaming stage of grief. My tears are mostly dried up at this point. So I just pull on my 5.11 pants, put on my uniform shirt, and go to work. I sit in the rig or my bunk and wait for the next tone to drop. In the last two days alone I’ve run a heart attack in someone under fifty, two strokes, and a sudden death we couldn’t revive. Not one will be officially checked for a link to the COVID vaccine. They, the powers that be, won’t even ask. And now the CDC director position is likely going to someone who laughs at the injured and the dead. That’s where I live. That’s where you live. Believe it. Don’t believe it. Doesn’t change reality. Harry Fisher Paramedic God bless

@jackunheard TBH, how would you even go about finding a good upstanding Democrat citizen who wanted to run for office? Those must be more rare than unicorn farts!

JUST IN: Democrats in Maine have officially chosen a U.S. Senate candidate facing allegations of mortgage fraud and assaulting a woman. He literally threw a bottle at her. Democrats really know how to pick em.

@iNUNi2001 @JeffHow82493818 @CherylSchatz I will ALWAYS like a reply of a scripture. Because it shows the Mind of Christ.

@PartisanOracle @JeffHow82493818 @CherylSchatz "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known."

The forbidden fruit was not an apple, because apples have seeds and the forbidden fruit did not have seeds.

@DelectableM @stopvaccinating What the hell does a wine taster know about medicine?

So, we never needed vaccines?! Whoa!

@SaraWoo92447376 @stopvaccinating They don’t exist. Measles deaths are as rare as unicorn farts. The couple of deaths in Texas were hospital malpractice.

@stopvaccinating What a load of bullshit, ask the grieving mothers in America who have lost their children to measles because JFK Jnr denied them the vaccine that could have prevented them from catching the illness, people like you should be prosecuted for manslaughter.

The graphic looks good but the last frame could use something more. Glorification is more than that. It’s the acquisition of SIGNIFICANT WEIGHT as in the heaviness of God, who is so utterly significant that His importance to the fabric of the universe would crush and kill us if we beheld it. The Hebrew word “kavat” is what’s used to describe this, and its primary translation is weight. Jesus was glorified on the cross. His sacrifice made Him significant in a way which was more than ever before. We are told in Revelation 2:26-7 that if we are overcomers, Jesus will set us beside Him to rule the nations. That is a measure of significance.

What's the difference... If we believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, we are saved. We become justified, or righteous in that moment. To become sanctified, we must take our daily walk with God alone🧵

@Apologetics941 Well isn’t that convenient! Salvation by donation!

I want you guys to notice what it says in Mormon chapter 8 verse 32. "Yay it shall come in a day when there shall be churches built up that shall say: come unto me and for your money you shall be forgiven of your sins." Now go to Mormon Doctrine and Covenants 64:23

@garrettham_esq I was a Protestant for 40 years until I was reborn. Some of us are stubborn.

@PartisanOracle I came to faith in Christ as a Protestant. Growing in my Protestant faith is what led me to the Catholic Church.

To my Protestant friends: I'm not Catholic because I rejected what you taught me. I'm Catholic because I passionately followed your teachings. The love of Scripture, the desire for the ancient faith, and the need to cultivate a personal relationship with Christ led me to Rome.

@Jim_Gorman_2001 @stewiexgreen I’m sorry that you decided to bail on this discussion without even attempting to address the points I presented. God bless you as well and I hope you meet Jesus and become reborn someday. That’s the only Way to Heaven.

I wish you were sticking with Jesus, but rejecting His Church keeps you outside the fullness of the Body He established. I’ve shown you from Scripture that your understanding of the dead is wrong, yet you just keep falling back on your own interpretation. At this point you’ve proven the Protestant stereotype true it’s not the Bible that’s your authority, it’s you. God bless you. I hope one day you come to embrace true biblical Christianity.

This is the same tired Protestant argument that’s been repeated for 500 years. I encourage Protestants to actually read Revelation 5:8, Revelation 8:3-4, Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:22-24, Luke 20:38, James 5:16, 1 Timothy 2:1, and 2 Maccabees 15:14. The saints are alive in Christ, they present our prayers to God, and Scripture says the prayers of the righteous are powerful. The intercession of the saints is right there in the Bible. You don’t have to like it, but pretending it isn’t biblical doesn’t change what’s written.

@JeffHow82493818 @CherylSchatz @iNUNi2001 I’m compiling a list of questions for God… He’s answered so many of them lately.

@PartisanOracle @CherylSchatz @iNUNi2001 Well, I don't see significance to whether or not there were seeds in the fruit of good & evil. What about the tree of life? It doesn't explicitly state the fruit of that tree has seed in it. Yet, they were allowed to eat it until they sinned against God & were corrupt kicked out.

You’re calling it a Christian practice when it was NOT practiced by the apostles, or taught by them, or anyone else throughout the entirety of the Bible. Except by soothsayers and magicians and others who do things that God hates. If you want to be on the side of sorcerers, that’s your choice. I’ll stick with Jesus.

Read it again. Abraham is aware of Moses and the prophets who came after him, so you completely missed the point. You’re so determined to argue against the Christian practice of intercession that you’re overlooking what the text actually says. The saints may be awaiting the resurrection of the body, but they are still alive to God and aware.

@JeffHow82493818 @CherylSchatz @iNUNi2001 It’s true that it makes no difference whether the fruit of the forbidden tree has seeds or not. At least not that I can see. Can you see any reason we’d need to know that?

@PartisanOracle @CherylSchatz @iNUNi2001 stated & check to see if there's anything more specific about it elsewhere in the Bible. If not then, it was purposely left generalized or ambiguous.

@JeffHow82493818 @CherylSchatz @iNUNi2001 Indeed. But this reasoning is based on one of the most intrinsic truths about God. His Word never fails and He does not change it or go back on it. That’s why I immediately took Cheryl’s meaning here. And I don’t agree with people lightly….

@PartisanOracle @CherylSchatz @iNUNi2001 It's human logic. We need to be careful not to logic scripture into a meaning that isn't explicitly there. I know that it's sometimes difficult to handle things that the Bible says. But, one of the hermeneutical principles is that we should look at things not specifically.....

Abraham is shown in Sheol, in the good section. He’s aware of someone in the good section and someone in the bad section. Both are dead. So your argument fails there. Jesus came to save us from the bondage of sin by inducting us to His family. Those who have been reborn of spirit are those who have joined His family and are inheriting the kingdom of heaven. They will also be resurrected from the dead as Paul says here: “For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.” I Thessalonians 4:15-17 And those new bodies will be immortal and incorruptible. “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.” I Corinthians 15:53 But while they await the resurrection, they are waiting in Heaven.

Now you’re talking about two completely different things. Samuel was called up before Christ’s sacrifice, before heaven was opened. He wasn’t in heaven with Christ he was in Sheol. You’re trying to compare necromancy with asking the saints in heaven to pray for us, and they’re not even close to the same thing. The saints are alive in Christ and aware of what’s happening. Jesus even shows Abraham aware of what’s going on in the story of the rich man and Lazarus. You have to make those distinctions if you want to understand what Scripture is actually teaching.

@CatholicDrip___ @SolveableSea Sola meme?

@SolveableSea What elevation? She’s the queen Your the guy in the picture

Mary is Queen of Heaven and Earth 👑 But for some reason, not everyone gets it Christ is King. The king’s mother is the Queen Mother. Mary is the Queen💧

@Catholic_Smores @CatholicDrip___ Truly the blind lead the blind

@CatholicDrip___ I'm convinced that if you can't understand that Mary is the mother of God, then your understanding of the trinity is messed up somewhere

@CatholicDrip___ The first postulate is false. Hebrew tradition is not binding on Heaven. This should be obvious to anyone with understanding.

@Jim_Gorman_2001 @stewiexgreen Was Samuel alive or dead when Saul convinced the Witch of Endor to use her powers as a medium to raise his spirit to speak with Saul?

Like I’ve already shown you, what you call the dead, God doesn’t call dead. He’s the God of the living, not the dead. You’re building your whole argument on a false premise. The Bible’s prohibition is against conjuring the dead, but those in Christ are alive. Jesus said whoever believes in Him will never die, and even as Stephen was being stoned he saw heaven opened because he knew he was passing into eternal life, not into nonexistence. You’re taking verses about the dead and applying them to people God Himself says are alive.

@FbaKiLLAnopity Wow, maybe I should do a post like this where I make a statement I don’t agree with! Lol

Yeah he had to go !