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afairytalestray · 3 years

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The Deutabella Family (1)

So a while back I thought about sharing some of my Cats headcanons (extended editions) here, and since then I’ve been trying to compile them all into a document, which feels more a bit like herding unruly sheep. But I finally finished part 1 of many more to come :) So here’s my headcanons for the Deutabella family! All hcs in this little series will be pre-canon, if we accept the musical as the present day canon, if that makes sense. It’s basically my take on the characters’ past. Pls enjoy! (they won’t all be this long probably) (masterpost here!)

Old Deuteronomy and Grizabella are former mates, who had Macavity, Munkustrap and Tugger together. They got together and became mates at a young age. At that time young Old Deuteronomy was a lot more like present-day Tugger than Munkustrap. For a while they were happy, but when Old D became the tribe leader he had less time to spare. He changed a bit when he took on the leadership role, becoming more serious and less free-spirited and Griz became lonely. She never really had a lot of close friends within the tribe, she never really felt like she fit in and she always had big dreams of fame and fortune outside of the Junkyard which her peers just didn’t get. She always liked attention, but with her mate so busy all the time she begins to crave it in a less healthy way. When she wasn’t performing and basking in the limelight, she became sullen, withdrawn and moody.

Things got better for a while after she had her kittens. She never let go of her dreams of fame, but she had a distraction, somewhere to direct her restless energy. First came Macavity, then 3 years later Munkustrap, then Tugger 5 years after that. Grizabella loved her kittens, but gradually her brooding moods began to come over her again. Her dissatisfaction with her life grew and grew, and so did her itchy feet and panic that she was wasting her best years. The thought that she’d never be anything more than Old D’s mate eventually became unbearable to her and one day, not long after little Tugger was born, she snapped. She packed her bags and left with only the briefest goodbyes. Later in life, this lack of full farewells/explanations would be what haunted her the most. She didn’t mean to be cruel or to hurt anyone, she was only thinking of herself and her own happiness.

Old Deuteronomy never realised how neglected she felt until it was too late. He never meant to hurt her or make her feel alone, but being the tribe leader had taken over a lot of his time. A gap had slowly and subtly been growing between them, but he didn’t notice how truly bad it had gotten until she told him she was done. Grizabella’s departure sent their whole family into a tailspin, and none of them dealt with it really well. Old D felt it strongly, their strained mating bond began causing him pain, and he missed her dearly. Once she left there was a hole in his heart, one that no one else could ever fill. He felt guilty for pushing her away, and for his children losing their mother. Although he tried his absolute best to keep it together for them, he felt horrible and weak all the time, and thus withdrew a lot to try and shield them from it. This sure did not have the effect he wanted.

Little Tugger basically never knew his mother, and grew up only ever hearing how terrible a thing she did from the other adults and this was only ever countered by Macavity. He was raised by the tribe and so grew up with a great deal of respect for his father, but never had a particularly close bond with him until later on. He was closest with his two brothers, Macavity in particular. Tugger loved Macavity’s magic, especially how he could levitate him so high it felt like flying and then drop him and catch him in his arms. Munkustrap, bless him, was a bit of a wimp (once a stressed-out worrywort, always a stressed-out worrywort) who never enjoyed the “dangerous” games, but always seemed to end up having fun after being dragged along. As he grew, Tugger was caught between the tribe and Macavity. While the tribe was generally negative about Grizabella (although never to his face they avoided talking about her and brushed him off, never said anything more than “she did a bad thing”), Macavity would talk about her all the time and tell him how great she was and how when she came back for them she’d be a big star. However as time passed, Macavity began to realise his mother wasn’t coming back, and that began to push him down a dark path.

Macavity gradually went off the rails after Grizabella left. He had been his mum’s little star, and was the closest one to her. Griz was always very supportive of Mac, and adored the magic tricks he could do when his powers began to show. Unfortunately (and unintentionally) she leant on him a bit too much. Mac always wanted to spend all his time with her and not with the other kittens his own age (he knew she was lonely) and she let him, and as a result he never really learned how to interact with his peers or form any real friendships. He learned how to put on a fake smile and act at his mother’s knee. Griz would often vent to him; although he never quite understood how she was feeling, and he understood it as being with the Jellicles made her sad. When she left, he blamed his father and the tribe for it and began to grow angry and bitter, which would build until the events of the day of his banishment.

Munkustrap was the first one to see the change in Macavity. Tugger hero-worshipped his oldest brother, but Munkustrap was always the responsible one of the three. He saw that Macavity’s smiles had turned to sneers, that his jokes became more cruel than funny, that his little tricks became nasty. He saw that whenever Tugger went to play with Macavity he’d return worse for wear, but never thinking anything of it. Other adults wrote it off as the result of typical kitten rough and tumble play, but in truth Macavity began to bully Tugger, take advantage of his trusting nature and take his bad moods out on him (under the guise of “helping him grow big and strong”), but Tugger wouldn’t realise this until much later. Of the three of them, Munkustrap was the closest to his father, his natural maturity and steady/calm nature being a comfort to Old D, and he brings his concerns to him.

Old D could never acknowledge that Macavity had gone dark and evil, but he did recognise that a huge gap had grown between him and his son. He immediately began trying to bridge it, but he was never able to get through to Macavity. He tried really hard, but his eldest was too far gone, and threw all his efforts back in his face. Macavity, as the eldest, was supposed to be Old D’s heir, but the two always ended up arguing, and Mac would always end up yelling how Old D had neglected Grizabella and pushed her away and that he was the reason he no longer had a mother. The more Old D tried to reach out to him, the further away Macavity got. He began to push his magic deeper and darker, shirking his duties and lashing out at other Cats. Eventually he went too far.

One morning not much later, Old Deuteronomy named Munkustrap his heir. Macavity had become too unstable for the job. Macavity didn’t take this well. That afternoon he snapped, and when Tugger came up to play with him, he magically threw him away so hard he crashed through a large pile of garbage and was badly hurt. Munkustrap went ballistic, and he and Macavity got into a massive fight before Old Deuteronomy stepped in and physically separated them, and banished Macavity.

It broke Old D’s heart to banish his son. He spent some time with his younger two and successfully managed to salvage his relationship with them (loving, although still somewhat distant), but once Munk was fully set up as the heir he began spending less and less time in the Junkyard. He feels guilty for not seeing the signs sooner, for not listening to Munkustrap, for allowing Tugger to get hurt, and the pain of losing both his mate and now his son, too.

Tugger ended up blaming Grizabella for Macavity’s fall - he knew that her not coming back hurt Mac, and maybe if she had none of this would have happened. This was the first time he really felt alone and abandoned since she left. He barely knew her, but Macavity had adored her, and Tugger connected his upset about his brother with her. His relationship with Munkustrap also went downhill after the latter was named heir, and wouldn’t see improvement for a long time. Macavity would continue to try and hurt Tugger after his banishment; whenever he attacked and caused havoc in the Junkyard, he’d send visions and voices to scare his youngest brother, which leads to Tugger’s current knee-jerk reaction to run and hide whenever Macavity makes an appearance.

Although he had never developed any real relationships with other Cats his age, Macavity was a master of lies and manipulation. On the day of his banishment, before she knew what had happened, he convinced the kind Demeter to feel sorry for him and to elope with him. He paints a picture of rejection and sadness that he was passed over for Munkustrap, lying by saying that Munkustrap turned on him when it happened, telling him to leave, and that he feels so scared and alone and that he hadn’t done anything wrong. He tells her that she has always been so kind to him and that he has fallen in love with her. In reality he doesn’t give a crap, but he knows that Munkustrap has secretly been in love with her for ages but was always too shy to tell her. Demeter, unaware of the attacks, feels for him and agrees to the elopement. She was always a shy queen who never felt as pretty as her big sister Bombalurina, and so was overwhelmed by Macavity’s carefully constructed flattery. Bomba falls for it too, to an extent, and follows to protect her sister. However, by the time they realise the truth of what Macavity is, they’re both trapped in his web. They’re both his prisoners, and stick together as much as they can. They try to come up with plans to escape back to the Jellicles, but aren’t able to manage it until they’re joined by another one of Macavity’s tricked captives, a young tom just out of kittenhood, Mistoffelees.

#so this got really long I'm so sorry #once I got started I couldn't stop #cats the musical #my headcanons #deutabella #Old Deuteronomy #Grizabella #Macavity #Munkustrap #the rum tum tugger #Demeter #Bombalurina

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❝ Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn’t exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing. ❞

MARCUS ELLIS is a NINETEEN year old THEOLOGY AND RELIGION student at ST. JOHN’S in the University of Oxford. THEY are in their SECOND year of studies.

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When the other children were playing, you were singing hymns to the eternal glory of God. When they were reading picture books, your father had you memorising the Holy Scriptures. Being the child of a clergyman was difficult enough, but being the child of an archbishop was even more so. After all, a puritanical upbringing meant that you were deprived of much of life’s more earthly joys. You lived your life under the shadow of the cross, and you know that you too are destined to follow the same path that your father had paved for you, but you chafe under the burden of all that expectation. Divinity is something that feels foreign and strange all at once for you: equal parts captivating and terrible to behold.

You feel drawn to something you don’t quite know you’ll ever achieve; contentment is a fever dream meant only for those who are content with normalcy, but a life in green pastures was never for you. Neither, however, is a life of supreme excitement. What you want out of this life is a reason for all of it. You dream of God and wake up with nothing but yourself to believe in. It’s ironic and you’d laugh if you didn’t find it all so tragic. You do your utmost to cover up the hollowness in your soul. You carve a rough home out of books, trying to find meaning in narrative and interpretation, but there is nothing that comforts you outside of text. When you pray, there is only silence.

CONNECTIONS

Although you regret the death of CAESAR, you knew that it was coming sooner or later. The possibility of peace was always too good to be true and while you played along with his plans, you knew that not everybody would be so willing. What surprised you, however, was your participation in his murder. You have never felt an exhilaration like that before, never felt so human as you did when you held him down and plunged that knife into his chest. Perhaps this has been what you were looking for all your life; perhaps this was all you needed.

Like it or not, you can’t help but notice that MESSALINA and you seem to have a lot in common—not that they can see the similarities, but it is enough for you alone to notice them. Perhaps if you were braver, you’d try to reach out to this fellow lonely soul and establish a friendship (and here, you almost hear a condescending sneer) but you’ve always been a coward. So instead you watch and wait and brood on your loneliness, equal parts resenting and admiring her, a contradiction of emotions that you had eventually chosen to just ignore.

You grew up in the same social circles as CAESAR and JUSTINIAN (and, to a lesser degree, AUGUSTUS). You were never quite friends with them, nor did you really wish to be, but watching them felt like some sort of wish-fulfilment. It wasn’t that you envied them their lifestyle, for you lived in the same excesses that they did, but there was a certain itch that they scratched, even if unknowingly. You don’t know how JUSTINIAN’s taking in the death of CAESAR; you don’t know if you should feel guilty, or if you can feel guilty.

FACECLAIM: Niels Trispel

Their character tag can be found here.

BIOGRAPHY

trigger warnings: stillbirth

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ( John 1:1)

These words spill out of your lips, over and over again, as if you’re a broken record. Your father asks you to continue and you try to recite the next verse from memory alone, the Bible in front of you only ever to be consulted if strictly necessary. This could almost be a vigil, except you’re far too young to know what the words really mean, and so it ends up meaning nothing, the words just remaining words instead of whatever phenomenon your father had hoped to conjure up. It’s not that you’re stupid—you could, if you concentrate hard enough, conceptualise of a word given Being (and, even now, you know it’s with a capital B)—but the concept of divinity itself is foreign to you, even as your father exemplifies it with his very being and your mother takes great care to ensure that you’re brought up in the faith.

You know he’s an important man and that you are, in some ways, blessed for having such a man for a father but his title means nothing to you—at least not for now. It will in the future, but the future’s a long way away still. For now, you are a child.

( But were you ever really a child? )

This is an account of the heavens and the earth. ( Genesis 2:4 )

This is how your life starts: you are born to The Right Reverend Thomas Weatherby Ellis and a schoolteacher named Lady Margaret Anne Grosvenor. You are their only child, after complications from a birth after yours resulted into a stillbirth and the inviability of your mother’s womb to ever bear fruit again. The years of your childhood pass by without consequence, and you are hard-pressed to remember the details that surround your early life. If you concentrate hard enough, you can think of the feel of leather under your cheek as you dozed off while studying, the way you thought that gilding at the edges of the Bible would rub off on your fingertip and the disappointment when it didn’t, and the way expectation always seemed right around the corner, a familiar and dark thing that has been your nurturer more than either of your parents.

Beyond these, however, there is nothing much else—not for the reasons of tragedy or great harm, but because you’ve always been mature for your age: an adult in a kid’s body was what they called you, and you’ve realised through the passage of the years that you were never really a child in the conventional way other children were. In a way, you’re more mature than any of your other peers. (In another, this repression has made you capable of a childishness that shocks even you, resulting in a fearful wanting that only children are capable of—a wanting that you deny exists but continues to do so nonetheless.)

You do not remember much of your childhood because it blends from this day and the next and so on, an almost stunning replica of your life right now that it feels as if you have stood unchanging since the dawn of time. However hard you try, you can’t ever remember a time when you haven’t always been like this, as if the void has always been inside of you, swallowing any vestiges of real emotion, sapping you of the vitality that you keenly feel is so present in other people but not you, never you.

( Have you always been wanting? )

Pray, then, like this: our Father in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. ( Matthew 6:9 )

There is a great bustling in your life one day, a great rupture in the routine schedule of your day-to-day living. People tell you your father is a great man—no, a good man, a holy man—and they say this as if it should mean something to you. They hail your family as a paragon of virtue and they think that the knowledge you have is proof of your father’s upstanding virtue. His titles change and you move into a new place called Lambeth, a veritable palace in comparison to your former residence, which you are quick to forget. (Some days you forget even its name, until it hits you suddenly: Bishopthorpe.) It’s a stretch to say you’ve flourished in your new residence, but the library at Lambeth does become your home, for whatever it’s worth, and your mother often found you passed out in between stacks of books.

You stay for only a couple of years or so at most before you get shipped out to boarding school. It’s a tradition, after all, and that is what your family has stood for ever since time immemorial. The decision is not without its detractors—for how, some say, can a man who profess to follow the example of Jesus Christ justify the use of so much money?—but then you test as a Queen’s Scholar and the news of the extravagance of your tuition fees is swept away by news of your precociousness. They begin whispering that you will be like your father some day, a scholar in the service of Christ, knowledge pursued and discovered for the greater glory of God.

You don’t know what to think about that.

( And so it goes, and so it goes, and so it goes— )

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, casts spells, consults a medium or familiar spirit, or inquires of the dead. ( Deuteronomy 18:10-11)

Your father tells you the history of your family one night when you are home after Michaelmas term.

It is a long and proud history, he says, one in which he and your mother took part in, and which you will take part in one day soon. Oxford’s secrets will be laid bare before you, as well as the secrets of the universe and the meaning of life, but—perhaps most importantly—you will come to know the most important people who will undoubtedly make changes in the history of your nation, if not the world. The preparations have already been made, he tells you. A boy should have come up in Eton to befriend you and tell you all about it, but he’s just making sure.

The last statement confuses you. You have no friends. It’s the first fact anyone at your school knows about you. You’re the student that always keeps to themself with their books, distinguished academically but not much else. Your father frowns when you tell him this and tells you a name, while in the same breath asking if nobody has truly come to you before he said all this.

You recognise the name as a boy who you’ve ignored all throughout the year. You realise that your father probably won’t like it if you tell him you’ve ignored who was supposed to be your... mentor, you supposed (for lack of better term), so you tell him nothing and just shrug, saying you’ll follow it up when you get back for HT.

You never do. In fact, you don’t acknowledge the boy as someone who exists at all, and he does the same to you. You take your A-Levels and get into Oxford to read Theology and Religion and you expect nothing to come out of the heritage you inherited from both of your parents—but then comes the invitation and the initiation. You don’t refuse but neither do you really accept it: you just went along with everything, an almost fatalistic and nihilistic apathy tinging your actions. They give you the name Marcus not knowing that it already is your middle name, purely because of your reputation as an academic, never mind the fact that you don’t really follow the philosophical code championed by Marcus Aurelius. You say nothing about it: you don’t think they’re the sort of crowd to care much for historical accuracy, anyway.

Your membership is one that is at the sidelines. You are an audience member to the theatricality of the whole thing, knowing as you do that every words is blasphemy and realising that your father and mother (holy folk, people called them) have committed idolatry several times over—and that now you will follow in their footsteps: singing hymns to a pantheon that’s now defunct, toasting to spirits that aren’t even there, and committing cruelties that would make the hunting sessions some of your father’s friends go to look tame.

You take part in it, but you don’t believe in it. You believe in nothing, really, and perhaps that’s been your most fatal flaw. You’ve been oversaturated with holiness, with sacredness, with belief—so much that you must have gotten sick of it over time without your knowing, and now you’re condemned to a life half-lived as punishment for a sin you didn’t even know you committed.

It has always been like this, and it always will be like this.

( So it has been, and so it shall be, forever and ever. )

#lsrp #lsrpg #skeleton rp #new rp #rpg #s #skel: marcus #link: messalina #link: justinian #c

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mariespeaksg-dsgrace · 5 years

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The Bible study Wednesday!!!! Book of Matthew 7: 11-12

Praise God on High!

Thank you, God for blessings us with another day to come together in praise of your glory. Thank you for the times of today both in spirit and in the natural.

Thank you God, for the knowledge and growth that is occurring on all levels throughout the world. Thank you God, for many of your children raising up and taking their rightful place in your kingdom here on earth. Thank you God, for the changes and justice that is here and still to come.

We pray for wisdom, discernment, patience, and knowledge. We pray that we complete our mission and in so doing; we be welcomed in the bosom of God, Yeshua, and the Holy Spirit. Forever and ever.

We pray this in the loving name of your begotten Son; Yeshua Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Book of Matthew 7:11

11. “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things those who ask him.”

Let’s review the roles of a Father as defined on the Bible during Biblical times and still hold true today:

(I posted this to the OUR FATHER Bible Study posted March 19, 2019.)

Definition of Father in the Biblical:

Father name applied:

(1) to any ancestor

(2) as a title of respect to a chief, ruler, or elder, etc.

(3) The author or beginner of anything is also so called; e.g., Jabal and Jubal

(4) Applied to God

(retrieved from:https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/father/, date 20190315)

Biblical Roles of a Father during Biblical times as define in the Bible:

Be a husband: translate to present times no sleeping around. No multiple children by multiple women. Sex should not occur outside of marriage.

Lead: Christian man brings leadership into a home and family

Guide: Wife. Guide children in living a righteous life

To Be Loyal: to Wife and loyal to core family members aka…wife and children

Love: wife and children

Look after: all needs of the wife and children

Living by example: of a righteous life with relationship with God, follow God commandments, laws, and way of life

Don’t provoke wrath: in household, wife, or children: Just and fair, not a dictator or abusive

Spiritual head of the house hold

Accountability: for family

(Retrieved from: https://bible.org/…/responsibilities-fatherhood-deuteronomy…, dated 20190315)

(Retrieved from:https://tafj.org/…/seven-responsibilities-of-a-christian-h…/, dated 20190315)

I believe reviewing the Biblical roles of a Father are important.

And, to be fair the Biblical roles for a Mother are the same the only added portion was nurture.

Many times, we all may feel like we are fighting battles alone.

Many times, we all might feel weak or, that we are incapable, or not good enough.

OR, given the times of the world; we might feel we have done too many terrible things and have gone too far to be turn around.

So yes, I do feel it is important to review the roles of a Father, God being our Father is the ultimate provider, caretaker, and example to live by.

But, also it is very important to note that when we repent for our sins, with a humble and remorseful heart; our relationship with God is completely restored.

This means our sins have been washed clean. We have been made right.

Many of us may feel alone, because we can not see God in the natural. Some of us, haven’t met the level of righteous and spiritual living; therefore we can’t hear God’s voice. But’s not because God isn’t speaking to us; this might be because some of us are blocking God out.

Or some of us: are not able to understand God, the Holy Spirit, Yeshua, and our Angels have been speaking to us our whole life.

Or, Many of us feel that we have gone too far done too much wrong, messed up too many times…but the answer is God still is on our side. God has never abandoned us; even in or during our darkest times.

If one is willing to seek and ask God for help, restoration, guidance, love, and or mercy; ANYTHING!!!!!!!!;

God is more than ready to answer the call.

Just like parents here on earth: Parents love helping their children.

God, even more so and to a much higher level; is wanting his children to come to him. Wanting his children to spend time and have an open communication with him(PRAYER). God loves us to sing and meditate on the gospel with him.

Don’t we as parent love when our children come to us and ask for our advice?

Yes!!! Well, so does our Father in heaven.

God wants us to go to a quiet place and have a communication with him.

YES!!!!!!!

Think about this: do we want our ones or friends here on earth, to have an important or heart filled conversation with us; with the T.V.on……….loud, music going……., and cell phone in hand………?

No, I surely wouldn’t.

I would want my friends or loved ones attention. I would want my loved ones to look at me in face, and speak, or even sometimes just sit in silence with me and look out at a beautiful scene of the sky.

This is what God, is wanting from us. The difference is God can do so much more for us than our friends, and loved ones, or that bottle…… of whatever.

So let’s try today and everyday to wake up and have a communication with God. Let’s get ready for the day knowing for certain, God has heard our talks(prayers) and walk in Faith. Then, at the end of the day let's take time and Thank God for another wonderful day. OR, talk to God of how are day went. It’s a start to of building or changing our life habits into righteous habits and practices. Soon there will be no effort. It’ll just be how we live our days. For God and of God.

Book of Matthew 7:12

12. “Therefore, whatever you want men to you, do all to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”

What are the Laws of the Prophets???

The Greatest Commandment

39. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

40. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.”

41.While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them:…

Cross References

Matthew 7:12

In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the prophets.

Galatians 5:14

The entire Law is fulfilled in a single decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself.”

(retrieved from:, https://www.biblehub.com/matthew/22-40.htm, date 20190414)

Loving others as we love ourselves. The sad part or point, that might exist with some or many: Some of us don’t know how to love ourselves right.

What does “loving self right” mean?????

(Im am sure some might ask).

Some examples of one not loving themselves right: Boils down to if we loving ourselves how God wants to love ourselves.

Our we speaking to ourselves kindly?

Our we treating ourselves righteously?

Are we judging ourselves based off the gospel of living?

One might say ,”we can’t apply Biblical times to todays times, but I argue this is a fallacy.

We, can love ourselves right and righteously, but after years of being taught by the world it might prove difficult. We are capable of loving ourselves correctly based off of Gods love for his children but it requires knowing how and learning how God loves us.

Psalm 139:14 I will give thanks to you because I have been so amazingly and miraculously made. Your works are miraculous, and my soul is fully aware of this.

Ephesians 5:29 For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as the Messiah does the church.

Proverbs 19:8 To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper.

(retrieved from:,https://biblereasons.com/loving-yourself/, date 20190415)

This by the way… is not about putting ourselves up as idols or engaging in self-worship…That is a NoNo.

For different…..No..Love ourselves as God loves us. Treasure the blessings that God has given us and protect those blessings, by not “casting our pearls to swine.”

In the past Bible Study Yeshua, spoke about taking a “plank out of our eye before we attempt to remove a speck out of our brothers eye”.

This might be one of the planks that need to be removed.

Not treating or loving ourselves “right”, so that we can love others right; and for fill this commandment of God.

How does one know if they are loving themselves as God requires or wants us to love ourselves and then others?

There is one surefire way to find out; ask God.

BOOM!

Yes, ask God.

God how am I doing on loving myself?

God, what should I do regarding this problem?

God loves us to talk and ask him questions.

The Holy Spirit, loves to guide us.

Yeshua, loves us for beyond our understanding.

Our Angels celebrate us talking to God.

Our Angels celebrate us Singing God’s praises.

So why don’t we love ourselves right and therefore don’t love others right?

US. Ourselves. Poor love education. Poor love experiences.

It might be that we, are the largest and biggest obstacle standing in our own way.

Holding on to hurts, disappointments, and or pain.

Us not forgiving, not moving on from situations.

Us, refusing to slow down and study the Gospel, God’s word, and Yeshua’s teaching.

I can understand, how we might be are our biggest obstacle.

So let's remove that obstacle. Let’s ask God, what we can do to remove what we have been taught of love and focus instead on what God has done for us in love.

I believe as many others this is the key. Feeling God’s love with in us will allow us to truly love ourselves and a sure way we can love others.

We must feel the love within us and it’ll be connected to our mind and therefore actions, words, deeds; this way we can love others and ourselves right as God loves us.

Let us pray.

God today we pray for grace from our tongue to fall on those that wrong us. We, pray in difficult times to honor you.

We pray to be more mindful of who and what we allow into and out of our lives. Lord, we thank you for being merciful and giving us your word. Thank you God, for knowing our heart. Thank you God, for your begotten son Yeshua.

Thank you God, for giving us guidance of how we are to love ourselves so that we can know how to love others. Thank you God, for giving us guidance and knowledge of how greatly you love us.

God, we know through you all things are possible and because of you we are capable, worthy, redeemed, and made whole.

Thank you God, for pressing upon us the need us loving each other as we love ourselves. I ask that we go the extra mile and love others as we love you and you love us. Only then giving others love as you given us; can true love flow freely. We pray for the safety and guidance of all the Prophets. We pray for the protection of our Leaders who are truly of you and doing your work here on earth.

God, as always we pray for POTUS, Q, Q+++, and Patriots world wide that are fighting to rid this world of those who seek to destroy your agenda. I pray God keeps everyone safe and blessed. We pray for the Prophets of today. Let them not stray from your word. Let them speak from you and leave ego at the alter.

In Yeshua Jesus Christ loving name.

Amen

Prayer from 13 April, 2019

God, today we pray to take better care of the blessings that you have put inside of each and everyone of your children. Today Father, we pray that we guard our virtues higher and higher each and everyday.

God, thank you for breathing new life into us. Father we welcome the continued presence of the Holy Spirit within us. Lord, we thank you truly for always being with us even on days when we are not at our best. Father, thank you for always having grace and mercy for us.

We, pray to grow more each and everyday in our Spiritual growth with you Lord.

We pray for continued the safety and guidance of all the Prophets. I pray, the Prophets who are truly of you stay righteous.

I pray for the false Prophets and false leaders to be exposed and removed for the roles they are in, so that they can’t contaminated and mislead your flock Lord. We pray, for the protection of our Leaders who are truly of you and doing your work here on earth.

In Yeshua Jesus Christ loving name.

Amen

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What is the unpardonable sin?

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A church member once wrote to me that she “ran across this Scripture last night and it troubled me so much I could barely sleep.”

The passage is Matthew 12:31-32, dealing with “blasphemy against the Spirit.”

The reader continues:

“Am I to interpret this to mean that if you have blasphemed God you can never be forgiven? I have not always been a Christian and have had times in my life when I did not walk with God and doubted his power and authority. I have also doubted God’s intercession in certain events, like miraculous healings. Does this mean that I have blasphemed the Spirit and thereby am not saved?”

She asks very real, personal, and important questions.

So, what is the unpardonable sin?

Let’s discuss this difficult subject and learn what difference the answer makes to our lives today.

What is this sin?

We’ll begin by understanding Jesus’ words on our subject.

Our Lord has just healed a demon-possessed man; the crowds think he might be the Messiah, but the Pharisees say that he drives out demons by the devil himself. So Jesus responds, “Blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven” (v. 31). He repeats his warning: “Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come” (v. 32).

Peter could deny Jesus, Thomas could doubt him, and Paul could persecute his followers, yet they could be forgiven. But “blasphemy against the Spirit” cannot be forgiven, now or at any point in the future. This is the “unpardonable sin.”

So, what is this sin? Let’s set out what we know.

We know that Christians cannot commit this sin.

1 John 1:9 is clear: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” “All” means all. No sin is unpardonable for a Christian.

We know that this sin relates to the work of the Holy Spirit in regard to unbelievers.

Jesus is warning the Pharisees—those who rejected him—that they are in danger of this sin. So what does the Spirit do with non-Christians?

He convicts them of their sin and need for salvation: “When [the Spirit] comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin, and righteousness and judgment: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me” (John 16:8-9).

He tells them about Christ their Savior: “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me” (John 15:26).

He explains salvation: “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14).

When they confess their sins and turn to Christ, the Spirit makes them God’s children: “If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ… . And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you” (Romans 8:9, 11).

In short, the Holy Spirit leads lost people to salvation.

So we know that it is the “unpardonable sin” to refuse the Spirit’s work in leading you to salvation. To be convicted of your sin and need for a savior, but refuse to admit it. To be presented the gospel but reject it.

Why is this sin unpardonable?

Because accepting salvation through Christ is the only means by which our sins can be pardoned. It is “unpardonable” to reject the only surgery that can save your life or the only chemotherapy that can cure your cancer. Not because the doctor doesn’t want to heal you, but because he cannot. You won’t let him. You have rejected the only means of health and salvation.

The unpardonable sin is rejecting the Holy Spirit’s offer of salvation and dying in such a state of rejection. Then you have refused the only pardon God is able to give you.

Don’t do that.

Be sure you have made Christ your Lord, today.

What about suicide?

This subject inevitably raises a second and very difficult issue: What about suicide?

So many people mistakenly believe that suicide is the unpardonable sin. What does the Bible teach about this tragic topic?

God’s word consistently warns us that suicide is always wrong.

Deuteronomy 30:19 is God’s command, “Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.”

Job knew that the Lord gives and the Lord takes away, that life and death are with God and not us (Job 1:21).

Paul teaches us, “You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

And the sixth commandment is clear: “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13).

God gives us life, and he alone has the right to take it. It is always too soon to give up on life. God can always intervene, and often does. You’re not done until God says you’re done.

That said, why is suicide so often thought to be the “unpardonable sin”?

Not because the Bible ever teaches this, for nowhere does God’s word make this connection. Here’s the story in brief.

Eventually, the church came to separate “mortal” from “venial” sins. “Mortal” sins would condemn a person to hell, “venial” to Purgatory. Only by confessing a mortal sin could a person avoid hell.

Murder, including self-murder, was one of these mortal sins. And, of course, a person could not confess this sin after committing it.

So, by logic, suicide was defined as the unpardonable sin. But nowhere does the Bible teach that this is so.

Suicide is always wrong, always a sin, and always a tragedy. It places far more grief and pain on family and friends than life would have. It takes into human hands a decision that is God’s alone. It leads to judgment and loss of reward by God in eternity.

But it is not the unpardonable sin.

Those you care about who committed this sin are not in hell for having done so.

Rejecting Christ is the unpardonable sin, and the only one.

Why do we doubt our salvation?

So, don’t doubt your salvation—if you’ve trusted in Christ.

You cannot commit the “unpardonable sin” no matter what else you’ve done. And yet so many of us worry and wonder about the security of our salvation. Why?

We don’t always “feel” saved. But nowhere does the Bible say how it feels to be a Christian. My sons are my sons even when they don’t feel like it because they were born that way. A Christian has been “born again” as God’s child—whether you feel like it today or not.

We still sin and think that we may not be saved. But 1 John 1:8 teaches, “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” The bumper sticker is right: “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.”

We have doubts and questions about our faith. But Jesus on the cross could cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). It takes as much faith to believe you’re saved as it did to accept your salvation. You still haven’t seen God or proven him beyond question. Doubts are normal. We can take them to God’s Word and God’s Son and find the help we need.

And some of us don’t know all the Bible promises about our salvation through God’s grace:

Jesus speaks of being “forgiven” by God, in Matthew 12:31. The Greek word means to remove the sin from the sinner, to free him or her from it. It literally means “to liberate,” as in freeing a prisoner to leave the prison and live a new life.

Grace is why Psalm 103:3 tells us that God forgives “all” our sins. It’s why verse 12 promises that he separates our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. It’s why Micah 7:19 assures us that he buries our sins in the depths of the sea. It’s why Isaiah 43:25 tells us that God remembers these sins no more. All by grace.

Grace is why Jesus tells us that “whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). It’s why he says of his followers, “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish” (John 10:28). It’s why he says at the grave of Lazarus, “He who believes in me shall never die” (John 11:26). It’s why Paul rejoices to say, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). All by God’s grace.

Paul knew this grace personally. The greatest persecutor of the church became its greatest apostle, by God’s grace. And so, in every letter Paul wrote, “grace” appears no later than the second sentence. As Frederick Buechner says, “Grace is the best Paul can wish them because grace is the best he himself ever received.”

Don’t wait! Accept God’s grace today.

Have you received this grace?

Do you know that you have asked Jesus to forgive your sins and become your Savior and Lord?

If you’re not sure and you reject this invitation to trust in him, you reject your only means of grace and salvation. And if this is your last chance, as it may be, your sin is unpardonable.

If a thought in your mind says you can wait, know that it’s a lie from your enemy. Every soul in hell for rejecting Christ thought he or she would have another chance.

If you know you have made Christ your Savior, be as burdened as God is for those you know who have not. Their rejection of Jesus must change or it will one day be unpardonable. You have been forgiven by God’s grace. Will you pray by name for those who have not? Will you do all you can to see that they experience the same grace? And will you thank God for that grace today?

In his book, A Forgiving God in an Unforgiving World, Ron Lee Davis tells the true story of a priest in the Philippines, a much-loved man of God who carried the burden of a secret sin he had committed many years before. Though he had confessed and repented of that sin, he still had no peace, no assurance of God’s forgiveness.

In his parish was a woman who deeply loved God and who claimed to have visions in which she spoke with Christ, and he with her. The priest was skeptical. To test her, he said, “The next time you speak with Jesus, ask him what sin your priest committed while he was in seminary.”

She agreed to do so.

A few days later, he asked her, “Did Christ visit you in your dreams?”

“Yes, he did,” she replied.

“And did you ask him what sin I committed in seminary?”

“Yes.”

“Well, what did he say?”

“He said, ‘I don’t remember.‘”

Thanks be to God.

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What is the unpardonable sin?

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A church member once wrote to me that she “ran across this Scripture last night and it troubled me so much I could barely sleep.”

The passage is Matthew 12:31-32, dealing with “blasphemy against the Spirit.”

The reader continues:

She asks very real, personal, and important questions.

So, what is the unpardonable sin?

Let’s discuss this difficult subject and learn what difference the answer makes to our lives today.

What is this sin?

We’ll begin by understanding Jesus’ words on our subject.

So, what is this sin? Let’s set out what we know.

We know that Christians cannot commit this sin.

We know that this sin relates to the work of the Holy Spirit in regard to unbelievers.

Jesus is warning the Pharisees—those who rejected him—that they are in danger of this sin. So what does the Spirit do with non-Christians?

When they confess their sins and turn to Christ, the Spirit makes them God’s children: “If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. . . . And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you” (Romans 8:9, 11).