User: S Burke I’d said it once, and I’ll say it again: being a Christian is not easy. At times in the Bible, even the most powerful figures—David, Elijah, Job, Jeremiah, even Jesus—felt like they were at the lowest point in their walk. Despite that, all of these individuals have one thing in common: although they were down, they never stayed down—they still held on to their faith. If you’ve been a Christian long enough, you may have heard a lot of external influences around you telling you to just “have faith” in God —and while that’s a good idea on paper, it seems a little too broad and vague when you're in a situation where it seems like all hell is breaking loose. Which is why — whenever it feels like your fervor for God is fluctuating day-by-day and your circumstances are full of principalities waiting for you to give up— the best thing to do is to keep standing firm in your faith in God. Holding on to your faith looks like continually praying to God, worshipping Him, obeying the decrees that were written in His Word, and reflecting His unconditional, agape love to other individuals in your life — even when all you feel like doing is lying in defeat. In Job 2:9-10, our titular character is covered in boils as part of the enemy’s attempt to steer Job away from God. Job’s own wife even comes up to him and tells him to just “curse God and die”, but Job refused to oblige, replying, “ Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” I believe that God has to make us move so that we can get our blessings; instead of Him directly spoon-feeding them to us, it is because — if we didn’t— we wouldn’t be able to develop the faith and resilience that God wants us to have — especially in situations like this, when our feelings begin to fluctuate like this.

Today, as I was in prayer, I felt God giving me the idea to do something different with my posts, to make these messages more personal — as if they're made for a specific someone rather than a certain group of people. So, I would like to start doing these message requests — which essentially involve anyone who stumbles upon this replying to this post with a testimony of some sort about how your current walk with God is going and a potential situation you're facing. You don't have to go too in-depth; just make them detailed enough so I can understand exactly what you're going through and make a prophetic post based on the situation I choose. When I make this post, I may or may not use your username in my post and briefly talk about the situation before I get to what God says about said situation. I would love for you to actually participate in this since I need to seek more ways to make these messages resonate with ya'll without repeating the same thing over and over. Can't wait to see your responses!

While God has given wise counsel through me before I've never been a dedicated "accountability partner" with anyone else before. This week our Lord brought me and some of the brethren together to form an accountability group. This came in a time right after I'd fallen after 2 months of being completely clean and many of the other brothers have similar interests in the spirit and in the carnal that we can all help each other with. We were brought together by the power of the Holy Spirit and I hope He keeps us together by that same power.

Day 1: Stacked wood for 2 hours Day 2: Cooked with my father in the world for him and my grandmother Day 3: Went out with my father in the world to multiple locations Day 4: Called my mother in the world for an hour Day 5: Lowk forgot Day 6: Helped my grandmother with preparing multiple things Day 7: Led a Bible Study on discord Tests of multiple things, mostly patience with other people which i struggle with. I showed the Lord's Love to the people closest to me because at the moment they're the only people I can truly access. James tells us that true and undefiled Religion is to be with thr widowed and the fatherless and my grandmother and father in the world are those respectively. I had been busy in prayer and work on friday and completely forgot about the quest but missing one day out of seven isn't that bad. The final day I was tasked with leading a Bible Study and though it was small it was fruitful.

Psalm 133:1: "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" A Psalm historically sung on the way to worship, the opening Verse exclaims the importance of brotherly love. It is both good in the sight of God and pleasant to experience and behold, and when brethren dwell together in unity, there will be no division in the Body.