#spirit core

[autumncottageattic]

majarebeckalarsson

[itsyourchoicedevotionals]

Core Convictions

“But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.” James 1:6NLT

Question: What are your core convictions concerning Eternity? My prayer is— this question will gnaw on your mind night and day, until you have a one hundred percent conviction regarding the truth about God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit in your life.

I’m not asking you— what do you believe? You might believe your mom was Pocahontas and your dad wrote the US Constitution. Your diagnosis would be schizophrenic, insane.

Scriptures say: James 2:19NIV “You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.” Did you ever consider demons believe Christ is God’s Son? Their disobedient rebellion cast them out of heaven for eternity. Do “You believe that there is one God”? Is your belief a core conviction or simple mental assent like demons have?

My grandson, (getting his Master’s Degree in Divinity,) explained Core Convictions. His explanation taught me soul-searching, why am I convinced Christ is who the Bible says He is? Am I just giving mental assent to Christ in my life, or living out core convictions I’d die for?

Core conviction goes deeper than belief. When using the word ‘conviction’ in legal terms— this points to finding someone guilty of a crime. A guilty ruling must be based upon irrefutable evidence for a conviction. Judges and lawyers don’t ask a witness, ‘do you ‘think’ this person ‘might be’ guilty?’ Witnesses can’t add personal opinion— aka ‘belief’— that’s considered heresy. The jury’s ‘guilty’ decision is a ‘finding’ based upon evidence.

Just as evidence brings a ‘conviction,’ in a court, evidence has to be present to obtain a core—‘verdict’— or ‘conviction.’ Thus convictions cannot be changed, or tossed “around by the wind.” People live and die by their convictions. Persecution quickly reveals spiritual core convictions

In order to have faith, we have to answer the question. What are our core convictions? Has God’s Word proved itself true in life? Is your core conviction— there’s only One God and Jesus is His only Son? If you’re being persecuted, tortured, killed— can you still maintain the core conviction, God loves you?

We must search deeply for our core convictions to find stability in our world, our church, our life, our family and our faith. I cannot begin to count the number of times my world has crashed. At that moment, doubt and fear wanted to overwhelm me back into a pity party. Always, I go back to the night God awakened me to tell me,—“My name is faithful and true.” He was yelling His name by the time my feet hit the stairs. Then He directed me to five scriptures proving His name, starting with Revelation 19:11. With my core convictions assured once again of His name, I wasn’t tossed about with the crashing around me.

Can you tell me your core convictions and what you base them on? The entire church world is stymied on this point of core convictions. Much of the church believes nothing, because individually, there are no core convictions. When the church awakens to her core convictions, she will dramatically change overnight into the Bride of Christ. She’ll know— WE WIN WITH CHRIST!

Are you blown around like waves, with divided loyalties? Can you accept a challenge to search deep within yourself to discover your core convictions? If you’re sick and tired of the status quo, you will search until you know. It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: Almighty God, I ask You to help us to totally seriously take our core convictions as primary. Help us to dig deep and find what we would live and die for, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

by Debbie Veilleux Copyright 2022 You have my permission to reblog this devotional for others. Please keep my name with this devotional, as author. Thank you.

[1msorr7]

[ryemoon]

Here's some thoughts on Danielle phantom/fenton!

So Dani was created both alive and dead. She never truly had a defined moment where she crossed the line between either sides. She is also fiercely independent and free spirited.

I don't think she's a ghost though. I think she's a psychopomp.

She fits the qualifications for a ghost and a halfa but halfas straddle the line while she never touched the line to begin with. She is definitely death adjacent.

Psychopomps are the unbiased guides of the afterlife. They do not judge, simply travel with the deceased. In earliest mention they are gods and demigods, later spirits, fae, and animals.

Dani is primarily a psychopomp. She wouldn't know it, she would write off anything associated with her abilities as ghostly, and by that perception she is enough of a ghost to pass as one.

Danny might wander streets, inexplicably called to a home covered paint-peeling wall to wall in crows or whip-poor-whils, help a new ghost to the zone many a time but the moment she notices it she will stop being a ghost and become something more. Something bigger.

I think her core would take the shape of a daisy. Dani is young, innocent and childlike in a way, but ultimately a free spirit. Ha, spirit. Daisies are also associated with venus by some vaguely leap of logic shenanigans. I think a big part of dani's character arcs would be learning healthy and safe love in all its forms.

[3lextrastar]

[glazedeye-s]

ghibli + nature scenarios (part 2).

[5nisan2001]

[amphibia-words-suggest]

“Peon?”

“Yes, my lord?”

The Core narrowed its many glowing, fiery eyes. Its mouth - a mouth that once belonged to another - hardened into a thin, scrutinous line. “We still fail to see the purpose in your… ‘additional measures’ regarding our host. It does not exactly help us to have her be injured in this way.”

Andrias turned his scarred head, not looking his lord in the eye. He never did.

“Forgive me, my lord, but it was bound to happen sooner or later. She’s- she’s just like them.”

He felt his voice waver, and tightened his jaw.

“I did what I felt was right, in the moment.”

A pause.

“Pathetic as always,” the Core commented finally. “Thinking of your own petty desires first, even when you end up hurting someone who thought of you as a friend.”

Green flickered in the corners of his overlord’s eyes. It was a brief moment, but it did not escape the newt king’s notice.

“You’ll never change, will you, Andy?”

[autumncottageattic]

gronlyckan

[coreofthebible]

Meditating deeply on God's word sets believers apart

Meditating deeply on God’s word sets believers apart

Joshua 1:8 – “This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to meditate on it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.” In our current age of instant information we many times are guilty of seeking to understand God on our own limited terms, not his. Browsing recently through a…

[carnivorecadaver]

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Vivien's Crocodile

"Regardless of where they come from, crocs are usually able to find their way home. For this one, home is me." —Vivien Reid

Artist: Bayard Wu TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[littl3d0ll-art]

Silly little trolls for my silly little enjoyment

[disemboweled-fish-pastry]

Soo... I was just trying to find a good reference for the design used on Yoosung's room wallpaper for a art thingy I started making. I knew it was some kind of Rococo motif used in designs but...

I did a simple google reverse image search using just the part of his wall

and I get a return that this design is an emblem called "Fleur de Lis". Curious, I do a google search on "Fleur de Lis" and one of the first results is a drop down asking of what is signifies, cool.

Suddenly, I feel a bit guilty for what I was drawing, lol. It's like the walls are constantly warding off the hungry wolves like a seal used to ward off malignant spirits... <__< *sweating*

[1msorr7]

[365dressestome]

2022 Red Carpet Best Dressed 064/365

Lily James in Del Core at 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards