“I don’t know about you but I think God is fun. He is a lot of fun. Hahaha.” - Tom Crandall (Bethel brother)
Joshua, Mesmerized by Yahweh
I am Josh.
I am learning my Lover's ways and Truth.
I explore.
Charismatic. Pacifist. Ecumenical.
One day, I wish to present Jesus around the world, but first southern California.
Southern Louisiana, bruh.
ENFP.
Rest: Hard Yet Why
It’s odd.
These years have been really this break. This charring of my own strife.
When I was a kid, I would freak about a lot of different things. I was a little intuitive and full of anxiety. I had the weirdest thoughts were really painful.
I would question: “Is God real?” “Are we really not just blobs?” “How am I real?” “Why am I so sensitive?” “Why am I so hurt all of the time?” “Why are girls so comfortable around me?” “I seem charismatic. Am I the antichrist?” “Am I the beast?” “Am I a demon?” “Will I kill myself one day?”
In junior high and high school, I underwent a period of social awkwardness to where everyone was really confused around me. I had barely any idea of my personal social abilities. I tried to be nice and funny, but people just came to draw blanks around me.
The awkwardness seemed to supernaturally break off, and I went for the grades, the popularity, the good rank, and the school.
I won most school-spirited twice in a row at Who’s Who and my friends were all popular (even though mostly girls). I graduated 5th of my class of 162. And I got a 1/2 paid scholarship to Louisiana College for pre-medicine.
After I graduated, it all crashed. I oddly went from an ENFJ to an ENFP. It’s on record.
I started getting exposed to “hipsters,” Calvinist critics, blog junkies, and art nerds. I started going against things. Against routine, the American Dream, being into everything, consumerism, and Republicanism.
Yet, the questions in my life started expanding and eroding my mind. I was losing control. I started getting depressed and full of anxiety. The hipster, Calvinist, “bullshit is everywhere”, “smoking my cigar now” mentality came. The pride. The shit.
In April, I was hit hard going and meeting some tumblr Charismatics in Michigan for a conference. But, in all reality it was their community with the Holy Spirit and I that hit hard. I was convicted, pushed hard with love, broken, and freed.
Ever since, it’s been this sense of conviction, yet freedom upon my soul. I have high anxiety at times, but then someone tells me “Peace, Joshua.” God, a Spirit-filled friend, or my parents.
It hits.
Tonight, I was sent a message from one of the few charismatics at my school. It was about 25 sentences long in what God has for me.
It was said by God, “He is loved. He knows me. This is confirmation. Nothing shall move him away from me. As John the Baptist stood out, he will seem different in the eyes of the world. He has so much more for him.”
The urge was “What now?”
Yet, my spirit resonated, “Taste it. The glory around you.”
I don’t understand. I don’t have any idea. In my emotional thinking, I’m stunned. But He is teaching. I am sitting. I am feeling.
I don’t understand. And I mean that I can’t fathom. It goes past my man. My nature gets it, though. I feel the chill. The joyous fire. The calm.
Joyous fire. Glory. shopapa
Just ran over an alligator on the interstate!
Only in weezyyyanna
Like what the hell
#NOLAatMidnight
good rebukes, my friend. good.
I love both of these guys actually.
If you’re trying to spread Christianity through coercion and government and not love and influence via friendship, you’re doing it wrong.
Q
Isn't the bible representative of what God will do for us? So Jeremiah 29:11 can be for us too. If what is written in the bible is only for who it was written to or spoken too hardly any of it would be for me, but God told them to tell me, so therefore it is for me. Right?
Anonymous
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Hey there!
first question, mostly. It is really to show the character of God and what is for our lives in devotion to Him.
second question, yes! I got a good bit of criticism back on my post about it involving money. But that’s not what I was speaking of at all! God wants us to prosper in His glory! In His love! And that can be however God wants it to be, whether it is in your spiritual life, physical life, emotional life. You are His child! And He wants to pour out His love on you and that is what He is speaking of in Jeremiah 29:11. For His people.
third question, I wouldn’t say that they were told to write it for these people in this day and age, per se. But, God did have in mind for Scripture to be written for this day and age. So it’s more God than the human authors themselves.
Hope this helps.
Q
are u one of those people that's obsessed with their religion and it's their life bc i know people like that and it's frightening
Anonymous
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hahaha is this a troll?
like my God is my god (obsession), bruh? what can I say? hahaa
I’m sure God has cool plans for your life anyway, but unless your name is Exilic Israel, Jeremiah 29:11 is not about you
contradiction.
we are the people of God…they were the people of God…same meaning different audience at the time. so it works for His love, the Church.
(via bornofthespirit)
Fire always falls on sacrifice. Are you willing to become that living sacrifice for His fire to rest upon?
Bill Johnson
