Abisha Kasiyamhuru

I hope to be the Christian that neither needs adversity to seek God nor depravity to give Him attention. May my loyalty to God never be based on my circumstances. Neither my praise and trust in Him premised on my prayers being answered the way I want but on His Sovereignty alone.

Whatever God decides to withhold…we will be fine without it

It is not love to define people by what they need to work on... It is also not love, to never tell people what they need to work on... It is especially not love, to forget — you are always the one who needs the most work.

The Church is two thousand years old. If a teaching has never been said by anyone in that span until some person’s reel went viral the other day, that should at minimum prompt a question. Not “is it possible they have discovered something new.” But “why has the Spirit waited this long, why through this person, and what does it mean that the great cloud of witnesses said something different.” Novelty is not a virtue in theology. The fathers, the mothers, the martyrs, the doctors of the Church across every century read the same Scripture you are reading. They were not stupid. They were not less spiritual than your favorite influencer. Ask why no one before now saw what he or she claims to see. Sometimes the answer is that there was nothing there to see.

“We are not ourselves until we are lost in you.” — Charles Spurgeon

@LianaPlease @DailyLoud @Carlwinshigh So now that we're here, what do you recommend her recourse should be?

Catering can make mistakes & tbh airlines don’t always prioritize getting food count correct especially if it’s going to delay the flight to get the food brought to the plane before takeoff. Hopefully they compensated you tho. But just a note…window passengers are always served first (just etiquette) so had you been at the window you would’ve had food

American Airlines is facing backlash after a Black influencer says she was the only first-class passenger not served a meal—claiming the airline “ran out” right when it got to her, while everyone else had already been served.

The Word did not become argument. The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory. This is the pattern for every faithful response to persons in distress. Argument addresses the intellect while leaving the hungering heart untouched, which is why Jesus so rarely argued and so often healed, fed, wept, and embraced. He met the woman at the well not with a refutation of her theology but with the offer of living water that would become in her a spring welling up to eternal life. The frustrated self cannot be debated into peace. It must be met by a presence that knows it, names it, and offers it something no argument can supply, which is the person of Christ Himself.

“God's love is electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, and conquering.” — Charles Spurgeon

“If the Lord is your joy, your joy will never dry up.” — Charles Spurgeon

Gregory Nazianzen’s axiom governs any theology of troubled souls: what has not been assumed has not been healed. If Christ did not take to himself the experience of being inwardly thrown, dismayed, bewildered by the weight of what presses upon the soul, then that region of human life remains outside the scope of redemption. The hypostatic union is not a filter that admits only composed emotions. The Logos took to himself the full register of blameless human pathos, and consternation belongs unmistakably within that register.

Scripture is relentless in its insistence that God’s face is not hidden. From the Aaronic benediction to the Pauline unveiling in 2 Corinthians 3 and 4, the movement is always the same: the face of the Lord shines, and the question is whether the human face turns. Metanoia, the word we translate “repentance,” is at root the turning of the nous, the reorientation of the innermost faculty of perception toward what is already there to be seen. The refusal of metanoia is not the absence of light. It is the fixing of the gaze upon one’s preferred shadows. The face of God does not move. The creature’s face does, or does not. And what is beheld without being received becomes reproach rather than benediction, because the Glory that would otherwise unmake and remake the one who turns now falls upon a surface hardened against its own purpose.

Gethsemane shows the Incarnate Word under the weight of dread. Mark 11:43 uses, "he began to be distressed and troubled", in the Greek, this is language stronger than ordinary grief, suggesting a man seized by consternation. Maximus the Confessor, reading this scene against the Monothelites (those who erroneously believed the God-Man had only one will - that one being divine - when in truth he had two, divine and human), insisted that the agony was not pretended. Christ's "natural human will" (as Maximus referred to it), assumed in full, truly recoiled from death, and yet was brought into concord with his divine will without coercion. The shuddering soul is the very terrain on which the two wills meet and are reconciled. It is not a Christological embarrassment but a Christological necessity.

@I_am_Liandra Happy birthday Sokhela. May every grace be extended to you this year and may the best of your yesterdays be the worst of your tomorrows.

@pj_schreiner @derekradney @trevorilaurence May I asked where you fit the book of Enoch and how you know it hasn't been altered? I'd love to read the original unredacted text

@derekradney @trevorilaurence i. 2 Peter 2:4-5; Jude 6; 1 Enoch 6:1-7:7; 8:2; 10:11-13 ii. Sons of God: Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:6-7 iii. Has some explanatory power for nephilim.

I held the "fallen angels" view of Genesis 6 long before I read Heiser and I'm still most persuaded by this interpretation.

Each of us will be measured by the truth, not by our opinion of it. Truth does not change because we accept it or reject it. It stands, and we will be judged by it. “The word that I spoke is what will judge him at the last day” (John 12:48). We may ignore it now, argue with it, or reshape it to suit ourselves, but none of that will matter in the end. “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:10). So the issue is not whether we believe the truth, but whether we are willing to submit to it. Because one day, we will not stand over the truth. We will stand under it.

“If you will not believe until you can understand all mysteries, you will never be saved at all.” — Charles Spurgeon

“Prayer and fasting: The first links us to heaven. The second separates us from earth.” — Charles Spurgeon

“God is near, and therefore hope is near.” — Charles Spurgeon

Reinhard Bonnke: Souls Over Money ​"I paid $50 rent per month, and one Friday my rent was due. I was to pay it at 5:00 p.m. that day, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket. And the whole day I was praying, trusting God. I said, 'Lord, I need $50 before 5:00. I trust You. I trust You. I believe You are going to send someone.' I know $50 isn't much, but if you haven't got it, it's a lot. ​I tell you what happened: 5:00 came, but not the 50 bucks. I locked the office and I walked down. On my way home—we lived as a family with our three very small children just about half a mile from the office—I walked along the road. While I was walking on this public road, suddenly the Holy Spirit was there, and I heard clearly the voice of the Holy Spirit speak in my heart. ​He said to me, 'Do you want Me to give you $1 million?' ​I thought, 'Wow.' I asked for 50! And for seconds, it raced through my mind what I could do for Jesus with $1 million. Suddenly, a second thought crossed my mind. And you know, I'm not a weepy man at all; I am a tough old German. But I stood there on the public road, people passing me left and right, and tears were gushing out of my eyes. I didn't care. I threw up my arms and I cried to God. ​I said, 'No, Lord! I don't want $1 million. I'm asking for one million souls!' Hallelujah. ​It was the first time the word 'million' came to my mind. I was a poor little missionary in those days; I didn't know better. And then the Holy Spirit spoke back to me. He said words I'd never read, I'd never heard, and they have accompanied me my whole life. He said to me: ​'You will plunder hell to populate heaven for Calvary's sake.' Credit:Reinhand bonnke

“In God, my heart shall be exceedingly glad, even if all things should fail me here below.” — Charles Spurgeon

Stillness requires surrender. We do not quiet ourselves into God’s presence; we consent to be quieted by it. So much of our inner unrest is the refusal to let go of what we have been gripping: a fear, an outcome, a reputation, a wound. The hand that clenches cannot receive. In the sheer silence Elijah heard, the prophet had already been emptied by the journey, by the collapse of his courage, by the food given twice in the wilderness. Only the surrendered soul can hear what the sheer silence is saying, because only the surrendered soul has stopped arguing with it.