godmoves:

Dining hall food gets a bad rap, but incoming college freshmen don’t seem to have a problem packing on the infamous “freshman 15.” Honoring that tradition, here are 15 ways incoming freshmen (or upperclassmen for that matter) can seek to glorify God as they head off to college this month.

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mighty2save:

dailyfaith:

I know we are constantly surrounded and in the presence of Angels and Demons but tonight I felt it. As my dear friend and I left my house we ventured to find a nice quiet place to have some meaningful spiritual discussion. It was about 9pm when we left and we decided, somewhat on a whim, to drive to the water falls 15minutes away. I knew it was friendly to evening visitors with well lit pathways and nothing made me feel unusually uneasy about it.

Looking back I realize how eerie it was from the very beginning but in the moment nothing seemed strange and I just thought my “I’m scared of the dark” side was freaking me out. We walked over one viewing area and down the stairs and headed for another but it looked really dark so I said “I liked this one better” so we went back. In the moment nothing felt too strange but I kept glancing over my shoulder just expecting something to pop up. I really just felt like I was being paranoid. We discussed a little bit of deep stuff but stuck to the basic stuff we’ve talked about in the past before.

We talked about what God might be wanting to do through us in our lives in ministry and as we started talking about it I felt like an angel came up behind me and was like a blanket over me. I wanted to tell my friend but something made me think it was not important enough. So we kept talking, the more we talked the weirder it felt staying and she kept looking over my right shoulder at something. At this point I was a little nervous but not as freaked out as I would usually be. You see, my friend sees angels but can usually block out them when she wants to focus on people. But she finally said what’s on her mind and goes “Why are there 40 angels over there?” so naturally I look and think, maybe they are protecting us from something. she apologized for not paying attention to me but looked back up and says “Oh my goodness there are more!”. At that point in time I really felt like we needed to leave. So we got up and walked to the car, I was a little freaked out but in hind site I’d say I was very calm.

The second we get in the car my friend basically breaks out into a spiritual panic attack if you will. We spend the next hour and 45min sitting in a parking lot praying, I prayed in tongues for the first time, and trying to figure out what God wanted us to know! In the end we came to the conclusion that there was some SERIOUS dark spiritual involvement in that place and we are never going there un-armed without our guards up AGAIN! We do plan on returning because the more we prayed we felt like God was telling us we need to go there and pray for the people there because if the evil spiritual realm is active imagine how much God’s glory would do in that place! SO that is our current game plan. I wish I was better at explaining I am just emotionally and spiritually worn from tonight! I will post a more eloquent condensed and all encompassing version some time soon!

But, as of now I am sitting here in complete disbelief! Did that really just happen? God is AMAZING and He is so far beyond our realm of knowledge it is ridiculous!

My friend prayed and got this verse:

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

   - Romans 16:20

God is good and God is present! He rescued us from our own fear and comforted us as much as was necessary! Never doubt that the word of God is active! God Bless!

I am so glad I have a friend who can write her thoughts into cohesive sentences because I am still pounding spiritually after this!

 absolutely incredible. so blessed to have you two in my life, you both write so eloquently!