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[sheismo]

⚠️LONG POST ALERT ⚠️

Witchcraft is real. Manifesting is real. Spells & rituals are real. Yes, there are other gods. But you know what’s more real than all ? GOD. The one and only messiah, the Lord of lords. The King of kings. The father, son & spirit. Jesus. I want to give yall a mini testimony on how REAL & GOOD God is. I pray one day if you don’t know God you seek him & he comes to you. ✨

I was once a self proclaimed witch. I did rituals and spells to aquire money,happiness,love and montery gains. I have always been a spirituality in tune person. Very young I realized I had the gifts of clairvoyance,clairempathy & dreaming. All given to me by God. A few years back I was searching for a deeper meaning and I began to dabble in new age spirituality. Not knowing the consequences of my actions ,I began trusting others with my energy and relying on them with the help of readings & rituals for messages forgetting how powerful and annoited my purpose was from God himself. I needed NOBODY but God yet I was so native to think that I needed the help of others when I should’ve been calling on him to help me with my gifts & the things he had blessed me with. I know now that was the devil though. Spirits of mammon & ego were wrapped all around my life. I was cocky,materialistic & just ignorant to my own ways. While God was blessing me the devil was working behind the scenes to make things around me fall apart. The enemy is out to kill, steal & destroy. The devil will show up in MANY ways. A lot of things aren’t demonic because of what it is but how it is used to pull you away from God (i.e : crystal bracelets,music & etc) Remember that. Spirits and entities can literally latch onto your life and cause havoc especially when there is a special light within you ! I am now a strong believer in God’s WILL & PURPOSE for each and every one of our lives. It’s not our job to manipulate the scales for our own gains. We must wake up to the fact that we need nothing that isn’t from God ! We must understand material things & things of the world are not eternal. Seeking & standing with the Lord is. Spells & rituals aren’t necessary when you wholeheartedly stand with God. You will see your power then. We must die to our flesh,sins and our desires.

Throughout my childhood my ancestors & relatives unbeknownst practiced hoodoo & not going to lie I ran with that as an excuse to do my rituals & etc but the main thing I abandoned was my relationship with GOD. One of my great great grandfathers by the name of Fountain Love (what a cool name) was a well renounced pastors in a small country town just 30 mins from where I grew up. That stuck with me. So ignorantly I ran with that I also am very blessed to have praying grandmothers who I swear prayers are just ELITE. ✨ If you know anything about hoodoo you know how deep Christianity runs in that practice. Prayer is literally so powerful & the Bible itself is seen as talisman. But overall your relationship with God is essential. Jesus to be specific. Old hymns,shouting & speaking in tongues is native to African Americans. Our people.

Ignorantly, I was one of those “God knows where my heart is.” & “The Bible is fake & man made.” Two things can be right at once. God did know where my heart was & he knew I loved him but I was NOT doing the right things nor seeking him & yes the Bible is man made but it’s the living word ! It is real accounts orally passed down which was written into a book. Look at the world then look at the Bible. The profit is in the pudding. The Bible is timeless. I had never really opened a Bible as an adult & most of the things I remember from going to all those churches were a few bible verses & sermons. I had never dug deep in the word of God. As a child I went to many churches and I still struggled to connect with God & I prayed prayed prayed but only when I was in need of something. I even spoke in tongues before but still it was like a wall was up between my connection with God. I also had a preconceived presumption as well about how the Bible was used to manipulate slaves during slavery & how “church folks” were the most judgmental. Again, two things can be true at once. The Bible was used to manipulate our ancestors however the Bible has been around longgggg before the transatlantic slave trade. Christianity has been dated back to African literally in the 1st & 2nd century however slave masters used the Bible centuries later as a manipulation tactic & twisted scripture to fit their own agenda. And yes a lot of have us have church hurt and “Christians” in the church can be very ill-mannered but Jesus hated religion himself because there was many hypocrites and hypocrisy. Everyone who claims to know Jesus really doesn’t & everyone who claims him won’t go to heaven. It’s that simple. Stop putting a name on it & running to the church but seek God on your OWN ! Relationship over religion. I don’t consider myself a Christian because of the blasphemy on that term I just identify as a follower of Christ. I follow God not man. The elders and the church have been lukewarm & a lot of them rely on their pastor/leadership for guidance instead of God himself. Also the whole “White man religion” topic is blasphemous. Jesus was just a vessel of the lord himself. Understand that first. And although I walk with Christ don’t get it twisted.. I’m not ignorant to the fact that the Jesus we see on murals & pictures again was a manipulation tactic during the transatlantic slave trade. Jesus appearance is described in Revelation 1:14-15 that his skin was a darker hue and that his hair was woolly in texture. The hairs of his head, it says, "were white as white wool, white as snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace.” To be honest I don’t care if he was purple. Jesus was and is the almighty. We must not get caught up on appearances or looks. That keeps us divided. Some people might even question why would God allow slavery and segregation be a thing or bad things in general. We must understand that God has given us free will. Humans were made imperfect yet we disobey God and has had to reap the consequences of our actions since then. Even through misery & hardship God has been with us. The devil is in some things but God is in EVERYTHING. Sometimes God wants us to be taught lessons as well. There is rules,commandments & laws we must abide by to have favor in the most highs eyes. But know that you’re forgiven as long as you repent & dwell with him.

February 2024 I found God. I accepted him as my savior again. I remember doing it as a child but this time I had do reiterate my LOVE & FAITH to him. I confess with my heart and my tongue that Jesus Christ is my SAVIOR. I was tired of being tired. I really cried out to God to show me signs. I went from doing rituals to reading the Bible. I literally began to see my life and my disobedience in front of me. I prayed for God to show who I was and ever since then it’s been UP. My load is so much lighter already being I have denounced so many things from my life. He’s playing no games it’s uprooting me from the attacks that the devil has put on my life & areas where Ive been too comfortable; I feel his presence more than ever. I hear his voice as clear as day, he’s opening my eyes to who and what is around me , I’ve even thrown so much new age stuff away. I was tired of carrying the load along. I was yearning for his presence & deliverance. I know I still have a ways to go, he’s calling me more and more each day to align with his will for my kids. He’s convicted me of so many things such as lust,anger,greed & etc and i know i must begin to change and work on myself in order to be fulfilled. The spiritual warfare is real as i expected. The devil doesn’t want me to find out what my calling is .. he knows how powerful I am. But with God on my side I’m good. 💪🏾 I’m so happy to say I am a child of GOD. 💐

I’m so thankful I’ve been awaken to the glory of God. Everything is spiritual and everything is deep. Jesus is coming back & we must prepare ourselves for his return so that we may live an eternity with him in paradise. Seek the lord & live by his commandments and you shall see him in everything and everywhere. 🌟🙌🏾

“God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. “ - Psalm 46:5

[anandashreeastrology]

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[colourandmyth]

Loving the Void

I’ve hit points before where I've realised being in the heart is the only thing that is real. That everything else is illusion. I then go swimming into blissful joy of being. Easy.

Yesterday was different [13.8.18].

I went about my business and witnessed all the ways that I distracted myself. I saw the distraction, I felt where it was coming from, and yet I couldn't stop. It was like the old record was playing and yet I couldn't lift the needle. I knew it wasn't serving me and yet I couldn't stop. The disconnect between the observer and the doer was so eerie. It was as if a monk had awakened in me, observing from behind my eyes and tutting at everything I did – There he is again, distracting himself. A whole day of that and I’m feeling hopelessly defeated.

I receive a call. A friend is struggling – Lonely. Defeated.

I speak to another friend – Isolated. Hopeless.

This wasn’t me. This wasn’t us. This was an energy that we were experiencing collectively. As is always the case.

The problem comes when we think we are that.

We’re not our thoughts. We’re not our emotions.

In this case we’re not our existential crises!

What was arising was a fear of the gap. Of that void space of nothingness and the constant craving to have it filled. I observed this craving to keep my mind constantly occupied with new learning. For someone else it might be a need to fill it with people, with words, with cheer. We each have our drug.

But what lies in the void? I don’t mean going off meditating for 10 minutes. That too is filling the void. It’s an activity. You’re now meditating. I’m talking about afterwards. Where is your head at immediately after you come out of it? Do you go straight into looking for something else to do? That’s what I mean by the void. The space in-between. Between the activities. Between the doing. What lies there and why do we avoid the void so much?

There lays the heart.

Outside lays a madman.

The things we do. The thoughts. The anxiety. The spinning around and around. It’s madness! I need to do this. But I feel anxious. I’ll do something else. Why am I doing this when I should be doing that? But I don’t want to do that. It’s uncomfortable. Water! That’s what I need. I’ll get that. I’m back. Right, I should do that thing now. I don’t want to do that thing. What’s happening on Facebook...

The ego is an awful author.

Then there’s the other thing. The quiet space.

There’s nothing to do. What could I do? I could be still. Or I could…

Then it’s bedtime. I should really go to sleep now... But…

Given everything that we’ve been going through collectively it feels like now we’re having to really face our insane behaviour before we finally let it go. All that schizophrenic insanity. All THAT that we’ve been doing all this time. MADNESS. Take a good long look into the face of this lunatic as he is being carried out of the building.

Why all this lunacy in the first place?

When we go to do something we feel anxious. Will I be judged? Rejected? The thought of not doing something is depressing. Lonely and empty. I must look for something.

What if what we’re looking for already lies within but we’re constantly pushing ourselves away from it?

Who wants to be still? Really feel into that. Don't just take it on as another happy concept. It’s almost like asking who wants to be lonely? To feel empty? Who wants to feel that!? Ask who wants to be loved? Everyone wants that! That’s what we’re all looking for. We feel so empty of it that we’ll spend all our subtle currency that we call time, on it. Always anxiously avoiding rejection. Always desperately craving acceptance. We’ll bankrupt ourselves in search of love.

Maybe we’ve got it the wrong way round.

What if the looking is the empty loneliness and it’s the stillness that is the love?

The child pulls itself away from the loving acceptance of it’s mother to look for the love of others. Or worse the child didn’t feel acceptance from it’s mothers love and then they go on looking, but never accepting, the love from others.

The dance of the solar system mirrors the dance of the atom. Over these past 12 months we’ve really been seeing how everything mirrors our dance. I want to fight and therefore reality gives me ample opportunity to fight. I wish to be empowered so then I receive angel after angel in the form of abusers until I'm pushed enough to step into my power.

If everything is a mirror then what might be mirroring here?

We pull away from the moment.

From the Love of mother.

From the Love of the moment.

From Love.

From being Loved.

To Be Love.

Love is God.

To Be Love is to be God?

Does this desperate pain of the void go all the way back to the pain of separating from source at the very beginning?

So we're always hurting

Because we're always separating

From what's always there.

The void.

Maybe we always hurt because we want to return to that which always is?

To surrender and just Be.

With the Void.

With God.

To Be That.

To Be God.

Is this Ascension?

[jodiedyerstephens]

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[missveganbanana]

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[iairmenachem]

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[danielginerman]

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