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Prayer with no work ethic is empty prayer with no intention to follow through. Half-Baked. Faith without works is dead. If you are dealing with pride and get frustrated fast. If you are in a place you would not like to be. If you are dealing with a bad relationship If you are dealing with a porn addiction/Lust. If you are dealing with lack of direction with poor work ethic/Laziness If you are dealing with lack of faith in God. If you pray everyday but not getting the results you want. If you are a sinner.... This is for you. Pray with gratefulness you are in a situation to learn and avoid Purgatory or Hell. Change your perspective by viewing them as an opportunity instead of a bad situation. Example: You are living with your parents and siblings that bother you. You don't like the situation you're in. What You're being Called To Do: You are called to work the hardest you possibly can for them and yourself. (Let's reverse the bad with the good.) 👇 Everytime I come home my mom greets me and asks me what I want to eat. She constantly asks me to go out with her to bring groceries to continue making me food. I really dislike her way of being talking about me and showing me off to her friends. I hate how she comes into my room motivating me to get a job. Yes you can argue she does incorrect things or things to the guy in the example but no one is perfect. There is always a good alternative or things coming out of a situation. Focus on the goodness coming from the situation and thank God. He needs to start his prayer like this. Thank you God for giving me such a caring mother who gives me shelter by allowing me to stay in her house. I love how she cooks me food and likes spending quality time with me. I am currently searching for work to move out on my own and find a wife that has some traits like my mom. God I am willing to work hard and I will show you by sacrificing every distraction that isn't applying to jobs even good ones. No more going out with friends, watching youtube, procrastinating, wondering around, or sleeping early and waking up late.

The Pope blessed my marriage 4 months ago. As a newlywed, here's what I've learned so far... -Love is a non-negotiable: Love is doing the good will of the other. Meaning intention and behavior is above all. So, ACTION is what truly matters, not feelings/emotions (even if they are valid). This idea bleeds into everything else. Example 1: Work is demanding and I need to work my best regardless of my current condition: sickness, physical pain, or feelings have been hurt). Since all work is for the Lord. That's what makes a good servant of God. Example 2: My son has embarrassed me many times in public. Normally a lot of other parents treat their kids less during the moment or take their frustrations out on them. This is called resentment and placing feelings/emotions above what actually matters. This is a great opportunity to teach him. Communication Improvement: Our communication style has changed. We removed filler words whenever we're addressing each other. Be as straightforward as possible to remove confusion. Example: Filler / vague: “I don’t know… you’re kinda being rude and it’s just making me feel some type of way.” No filler + verbs: “Lower your voice. Speak slower. Repeat your point without sarcasm.” This improves patience and forces the other person to be accountable for what they are communicating, resulting in helping each other improve. We try communicating like this before addressing a serious conversation: 1. Compliment - For a compliment to come off authentic it has to be true and during the moment. 2. Question - Ask for clarification with no negative connotation. 3. Reinforce - Reinforce her/him even if the belief or thought is wrong. ( Be on her/his side ) 4. Concern - Now with context address your concern. 5. Resolve - Solve the situation together. This form of communication resolves any bad conflict. I am still trying to get better. Only through repetition/consistency will this improve. This is a life-time commitment that comes with sacrifice. Being married young is an investment that compounds over-time.

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Dear Friends at Calvary Chapel and Beyond, Something has come alive in me these past few weeks. I haven’t told anyone yet, but I’m writing now because I believe this needs to be said. Not out of condemnation, but out of conviction. Not to attack, but to awaken. What I’m about to say may challenge what you believe. But it’s not meant to insult. It’s meant to invite. I've decided to return to the Catholic Church. Why? Because I’ve come to believe something devastatingly simple: that Protestant churches—including the one I’ve attended—are not real churches. They are playing church. They may be sincere. They may be passionate. But they are not rooted in the original vine planted by Christ. They are branches that broke off—and I believe it is time to come home. Let me explain. The word “Protestant” means what it says: a protest. A movement not born from divine commission, but from rebellion. If the Church was truly founded by Jesus Christ—and has continued unbroken since the Apostles—then why would I cling to a movement that began fifteen hundred years later in protest against it? My faith is not a protest. I don’t want to build my faith on protest. I want to build it on Christ. ✠ What Martin Luther Really Did The man most responsible for that protest—Martin Luther—is often treated like a hero. But when I took a closer look, I saw a different picture. Toward the end of his life, Luther was sickly, angry, bitter, and deeply dissatisfied with what his rebellion had produced. He referred to the Epistle of James as an “epistle of straw.” He said the Book of Revelation was neither apostolic nor prophetic. He doubted Hebrews. He wanted the entire canon of Scripture rearranged to fit his theology. Let me say that again: Martin Luther wanted to remove books from the Bible—not just the Apocrypha, but even James, Hebrews, and Revelation. He succeeded in removing the following books from the Old Testament, now known as the Deuterocanonical books (or “Apocrypha” in Protestant circles):