myTakes: Religion & Spirituality

My uncle was a very smart man but never applied himself in school or at work and died divorced, sick, and poor and after he died, my other uncle told me that while he was the dead uncle alive, he behaved exactly the way...

Songs 1:6 says, Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother’s sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I had to neglect. I want you to focus on...

One website I visited said you know it’s God’s Will if your not jealous or worried about distance when your interested in someone Another website I saw says God drops your husband into your lap when you trust him What I...

Psalms 89:22 says the enemy will not outwit him nor the son of wickedness afflict him What this means is intelligent strategies used by enemies to destroy you in secret will have no impact or retaliatory power in your...

Lately, God has been telling me to avoid men that do not have a history of abstinence in their romantic endeavours, not just towards men, but towards their previous partners too. Hailey Bieber married Justin who did not...

Songs of Solomon 1:2 says , “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for your love is better then wine.” The wine is a cultivated tool for fantasy enactment and mental bliss, based on an external physical variable...

I had mental disorders in my youth and what cured me was God and not my non existent therapists who I never consulted. God cured my anorexia, not the doctor God cured my anxiety disorder, not the doctor God cured my...

The early Jews regarded kindness to parents as a gift to God and not as a merit based act of social reciprocation that was found on the individualistic virtues and deeds of their domestic caregiver, it was an act of...

My parents weren’t religious and when I was a kid I was taught only to be beautiful and successful, communication and negotiation and conflict resolution were never taught, sympathy was punished cause my dad feared that I...

I learned that if God will not give you something you ask for and you are living a righteous lifestyle, it’s because the request you offer God is not good for you. Like one guy rejected me and I learned he was a coward....

The bible says, do not worry about your prospects in life, nourish the spirit of God in your life and be good to others and God will give you all the success you need and want. I had an atheist friend spend over two hours...

In the bible, a worshiper uses alabaster perfume to anoint Jesus and Judas Iscariot asks why the money was not given to the poor since the perfume was so expensive and the way that Jesus responded was, you can always...

I believe that my social composure comes by being submissive to God because when I serve and entrust my spirit to God, I get the audacity and follow through to put my money where my mouth is.

I got laid off around 5 months into the pandemic and began making money online after that and the main thing I believe God has been teaching me throughout this time was to trust in the Lord. Today I was depressed because...

What God taught me about money is that you can’t have everything you want, and a refusal to sacrifice one thing for another means you end up with nothing, like if I get married one day, the guy might not be the best in...

In the bible, Rachel had outer beauty but worshiped foreign Gods and Leah had inner beauty and worshiped the God of Jacob, Rachel was younger than Leah but her marriage was less than half the length of Leah’s marriage...

The bible says the godly woman is clothed with strength and dignity and I think of strength as another word for commitment and pacifism and I think of dignity as another word for confidence and nobility. So the godly...

What I learned is that people only care about you when you serve God’s principles, God’s purposes, God’s priorities, God’s poverties, God’s proclivities, God’s portion, God’s participation, God’s personality, God’s...

The bible teaches that when you worship God’s wisdom and pursue humanitarian causes, that God adds to you all the riches you require in life.

My observations on life suggest to me that humble people end up with happier lives then those intelligent ones that lack humility, I’ve heard of Harvard graduates who get conned into abusive relationships by men who...