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Justin Bieber Shares Reflection From 2014 Arrest To Millions Of Followers

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

Popstar Justin Bieber shared his reflections from his 2014 arrest to millions of followers on Instagram.

Justin Bieber

In 2014, the then 19-year-old Justin Bieber was arrested in Miami after allegedly racing a yellow Lamborghini under the influence. The pop star spent a night in prison and later agreed to plead guilty to the charges, take an anger management course and make a $50,000 charitable donation.

“7 years ago today I was arrested, not my finest hour,” he wrote in an Instagram post along with his photo during the arrest. “Not proud of where I was at in my life. I was hurting, unhappy, confused, angry, mislead, misunderstood and angry at God. I also wore too much leather for someone in Miami.”

Justin Bieber

2014 Arrest

That moment made a huge impact on the young artist. Seven years after that arrest, he shared how God pulled Him out of that dark past and brought him into who he is today. The 26-year-old “Holy” singer who now is a professed Christian also shared that God is closer to him now than before.

“All this to say God has brought me a long way. From then til now I do realize something. God was as close to me then as he is right now,” he continued.

Jesus’ forgiveness

The pop icon has recently been using his Instagram account with over 160 million followers to share about his Christian faith. As he reflects on his 2014 arrest, Justin encouraged his followers to receive Jesus’ forgiveness.

“My encouragement to you is to ‘let your past be a reminder of how far God has brought you. Don’t allow shame to ruin your “today” let the forgiveness of Jesus take over. And watch your life blossom into all that God has designed you to be.”

 

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Read also: Sick Girl Praying In A Viral Video Turns 10-Years-Old 

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3-Year-Old Declares Daily Affirmations With Mom

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

A 3-year-old adorable girl practices and declares daily affirmations with her mom.

Scarlett Gray Smith

The 3-year-old Scarlett Gray Smith is taking the internet by storm with her adorable daily words of affirmation. Her mom, Tiania Haneline, is the one who planted the seed of self-love in this young girl. The mother and daughter duo from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is taking the internet by storm with their adorable home videos.

Daily Affirmations

The Christian mom has been sharing their daily affirmations on TikTok and Instagram. Since she started letting the world see how she teaches her daughter to feel her best, she has encouraged many parents to also do the same to their children.

“I am brave, I am strong, I am kind. My friends love me, I am beautiful. I love my curls,” one of their videos shows.

Inspiration

They haven’t just brightened their viewer’s days, they have also inspired many people to love their true selves. In their videos, Tiania has been seen declaring positive words and Scarlett would follow after her.

“I am kind, I’m sweet. I listen to my teachers, I share my toys, I make others happy. My curls are poppin’. I love my brown skin, I’m smart and I’m gonna have a good day.”

“Jesus loves me”

Some of the affirmations they are declaring focus on loving the young girl’s brown skin, eyes, and curly hair. Tiania is teaching her daughter at a very young age to love her black identity. Despite looking different than her, she wanted Scarlett to know that she’s also beautiful. There is truly power in our words!

“I am loved, I’m cherished. I’m worthy. Jesus loves me. I’m beautiful, I’m healthy. My mommy loves me, my daddy loves me, my brothers love me. I’m a good sister, I’m an amazing daughter. And Jesus loves me.”

Read also: For King & Country’s Luke Smallbone Welcomes First Daughter After A Heartbreaking Loss 

Reference: Instagram | scarlettgray143 

 

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Actor Chris Pratt Welcomes Newborn Child By Posting Bible Verses On Instagram

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

Christian actor Chris Pratt and his wife Katherine welcomed their newborn baby by posting Bible verses on Instagram.

Lyla Maria

On Monday, Chris Pratt and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger welcomed their newborn child Lyla Maria. Christ took to Instagram to celebrate and announce to his 28.8 million followers the birth of their daughter.

“We are beyond thrilled to announce the birth of our daughter Lyla Maria Schwarzenegger Pratt. We couldn’t be happier. Both mom and baby are doing great. We are extremely blessed,” Chris wrote alongside a photo of their hands holding baby Lyla’s small hand.

Chris Pratt

After this, the Christian actor shared a Bible verse expressing his joy and his praise to the Lord.

“The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.” – Psalm 126:3

Finally, he boldly shared a Bible verse often associated with the pro-life movement. The Bible verses talk about children being a heritage from the Lord.

“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.” Psalm 123:3-4

Pratt Family

The “Guardians Of The Galaxy” actor and the “Gift Of Forgiveness” author expressed great joy at the birth of Lyla Maria. Other celebrities joined in celebrating with the couple on the arrival of their first child.

“So happy for you both,” Lauren Daigle wrote in the comments.

“Welcome to the world Lady Lyla,” Christ Pratt’s Marvel co-star Zoe Saldana also commented. “May your path be blessed with grace and joy always! we are so happy for you guys! Sending you so much Love.”

Read also: Justin Bieber Reminisces About Being Baptized With Wife Hailey Bieber On An Instagram Post 

Reference: Instagram | prattprattpratt 

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Justin Bieber Reminisces About Being Baptized With Wife Hailey Bieber On An Instagram Post

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

Pop superstar Justin Bieber reminisced in an Instagram post about the moment that he and his supermodel wife Hailey Bieber chose baptism.

Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber has always been open about his rekindled Christian faith. By using his media platform, he has been sharing the love of Jesus Christ to his fans and followers. He even recently explained how his relationship with Jesus helped him overcome his dark moments.

“When He sees us, He’s not this God that a lot of people think, that like judgmental,” Justin said in an interview. “He’s a God that accepts us for who we are, and loves us through our pain and through our dirt.”

Baptism

On August 5, the 26-year-old singer reminisced on Instagram about the moment that he and his wife Hailey Bieber were baptized. He posted photos of them in the water with their pastor. The photo shows the couple holding hands as they submerge themselves in the water.

“The moment @haileybieber my wife and I got baptized together,” he wrote in his Instagram post.

According to the award-winning artist, the day they were baptized was one of the most special moments in his life. Justin shared the photos from their baptism to his over 143 million followers on Instagram. The post now has over 3.8 million likes.

“This was one of the most special moments of my life. Confessing our love and trust in Jesus publicly with our friends and family,” he continued.

The couple has been speaking about who Jesus is on their social media accounts. For example, during the state lockdown because of the pandemic, the Biebers used their Instagram to host online Sunday services with their New York Hillsong Church pastor Carl Lentz.

 

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Read also: Lecrae Reveals Plans To Retire From Music After His Upcoming Final Album ‘Restoration’ 

Reference: Instagram | justinbieber 

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Justin Bieber Publicly Praises Jesus Christ After Overcoming Recent Assault Allegations

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

Canadian pop superstar Justin Bieber publicly praised Jesus Christ on his Instagram account after recently overcoming assault charges against him.

Justin Bieber

The newlywed Canadian pop superstar recently faced sexual assault charges against him during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A woman from an anonymous Twitter account claimed that in 2014, Justin Bieber sexually assaulted her at Four Seasons hotel in Austin, Texas.

Assault Charges

The 26-year-old artist disproved the allegation by providing pieces of evidence that the incident didn’t happen. Pieces of evidence shown include receipts, emails, press reports, and even photos from fans on Social Media taken during the alleged day of the incident to back up his claim.

“Thank you Jesus for my life”

This weekend, after clearing his name from the allegations, the pop star praised Jesus Christ on his Instagram account.

“Thank you Jesus for my life,” Justin wrote in his Instagram post alongside his selfie photo. “Thank you for your forgiveness. thank you for showing me I am enough! I no longer have to carry shame but can walk with my chest up and head held high knowing I am loved, chosen, and forgiven!”

The message of Justin Bieber

He also shared a message to his over 140 million followers, encouraging them to surrender to Jesus Christ.

“If you struggle with your past give it to Jesus,” he continued. “He isn’t burdened by it! He loves you and is honored to know all of the little details good and bad in your life. Jesus isn’t angry with you, he wants the best for you!”

While following the community lockdown protocols during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Justin and his wife Hailey have been hosting digital church services with their pastor Judah Smith.

Read also: Katy Perry Reveals That She Fought Off Suicidal Thoughts By Being Grateful To God 

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Instagram Disables A Ministry Account After They Share A Video Taking A Stand Against Porn

by Christa
written by Christa

Worship artist and missionary, Sean Feucht, has been calling out social media platforms after censoring posts and videos with faith-based content. Recently, he has spoken out against Instagram after disabling a ministry account. Apparently, the ministry took a stand and exposed injustices stemming from a leading porn site, Pornhub.

Worship Leader Sean Feucht Calls Out Instagram And Twitter For Censoring Christian Contents

Instagram disabling a ministry account

Moral Revolution is a Christian organization that seeks to promote healthy relationships and sexuality in line with God’s design. And just this Tuesday, they shared a video from a campaign against human trafficking in their Instagram account.

The video exposed sexual abuses and human trafficking from Pornhub. They are speaking out and wanting to see the porn site held accountable for their actions. The 2-minute video also asks viewers to sign petition in shutting down the website.

Moral Revolution

However, after sharing the petition and the video, the post was removed from Instagram and their account was disabled. They took to Youtube to their their story and initiated a movement to #bringbackmoralrevolution. And after just more than 24 hours, Moral Revolution was back.

An official statement from the group wrote, “WE’RE BACK! We are so honored at how you all have jumped in with us to help get our community and account reactivated. We wanted to let you know that our account just became reactivated! An INCREDIBLE thank you goes to you, our community who has jumped on and notified Instagram of the issue and joined our secondary page. Also, a great thank you to Instagram for helping us reactivate. We still haven’t heard what the issue was that caused the deactivation.”

They continued, “So we can’t speak to that. But [we] are extremely thankful and excited to be back with you and continue sharing life, inspiration, hope and resources with you.”

Take a stand

But the mishap only feeds Sean Feucht’s cause against the Big Tech Censorship and he’s urging everyone to take a stand.

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Worship Leader Sean Feucht Calls Out Instagram And Twitter For Censoring Christian Contents

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

One of Bethel Church’s worship leaders, Sean Feucht, calls out Instagram and Twitter for censoring Christian content like Bible verses and worship videos.

Sean Feucht

On Friday, Sean Feucht expressed his thoughts in Twitter on how social media has been censoring Christian contents. With his post is a screenshot of Bethel Church’s senior leader Beni Johnson’s censored Bible verse tweets. It was later reported that Beni Johnson’s account has been taken down.

“This account doesn’t exist,” says Twitter when you seek to visit Johnson’s profile “@prayfor5,” which had more than 32,000 followers.

Beni Johnson’s latest post on Twitter is the Bible verse Psalms 34:14.

“Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.” – Psalms 34:14

Worship Videos

Another tweet from Bethel Music’s Sean reads, “This is what we’ve come to in America! Instagram is now classifying my WORSHIP videos as ‘harmful or false information.’”

Two of the videos censored were videos titled “Worshiping through the riots in St. Louis,” and “HOPE RALLY at the George Floyd Memorial site.” Both videos show people from different races worshiping and praying amid the protests on George Floyd’s death.

HOPE RALLY at the George Floyd Memorial Site

“I’m a leader in the faith community. I’m also an artist and I have a worship and missions ministry,” Sean said in an interview with Fox News. “One of the things we’ve been doing since [the recent U.S. protests] started happening is, we’ve been going to a lot of these places and bringing a unified — black, white Hispanic, Asian — just a unified coalition of people together, worshiping and praying, and peacefully protesting.”

“Social media needs more peace”

The award-winning artist calls out on social media platforms to show posts that promote peace and Jesus.

“Not only is big tech blocking worship videos, now they’re blocking Bible verses about PEACE! RT if you believe social media needs more peace, more worship, and less censorship of Jesus followers,” he wrote.

Read also: Christian Hip-Hop Artist Lecrae Expresses Thoughts About Recent Issues In New Single “Deep End” 

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Multi-Platinum Rapper DMX Hosts Virtual Bible Study On Instagram

by Christa
written by Christa

More and more artists are using their influence to tell people about Christ especially in this critical time. Rapper DMX is one of them. He hosted a virtual Bible Study on Instagram Live.

Earl Simmons is better known by his stage name DMX. The multi-platinum American rapper grew to popularity in 1990s. In 2016, DMX shared in an interview with The Breakfast Club about his calling to be a pastor. “That’s definitely the final destination. Or, a destination. You never know how far God is going to allow me to get or how many people He is going to allow me to reach,” he said.

Rapper DMX responds to the call

And now, he’s responding on the call to ministry. Last Friday, the 49-year-old first teased his followers with a video on Instagram, saying he “feels it’s time to share something personal-live.” Fans could only guess what he was going to share.

Justin Bieber Hosts Online Worship Service For 150 Million Followers

Later that night, DMX went live and shared a sermon about keeping faith and hope amid a pandemic. Complex reported that DMX “explained that everything happens because of God’s will and trying to understand it would be doing yourself a disservice.” He expounded by saying everything has its season – reading verses from the Bible, focusing on Ecclesiastes 3.

“The most important thing that we could hope for, pray for,” he exhorted. “ask for, is that our desires coincide with God’s will.”

The rapper then closed the session by inviting people to give their lives to Christ.

His live-streamed event reached more than 14,000 viewers. Fans applauded his effort to encourage and bring hope. They took to Twitter with their appreciation and uploaded their recorded video clips from the Bible Study.

Reference: CBS News

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Justin Bieber Calls Instagram Followers To Accept Jesus Christ

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber called his Instagram followers to accept Jesus Christ in their lives while sharing the Gospel on a livestream.

Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber, who has been open about his Christian faith, took a bold leap of faith when he shared the Gospel online. On April 2, the 26-year-old pop star hosted a discussion about the Gospel of Jesus Christ on his Instagram account. Vous Church’s pastor Rich Wilkerson joined Justin for the livestream.

The livestream started with Justin asking Pastor Rich about the Gospel. It then led to Pastor Rich sharing to everyone about the Good News.

“Give me your 5-minute Gospel preaching,” Justin said. “Who is Jesus? What is the Gospel?”

What is the Gospel?

“The gospel is the Good News,” Wilkerson answered. “And the Good News of Jesus is that … all of us were born broken, we all have a desire for God, a hole in our soul … but Jesus came to fill the hole. We believe that Jesus is God’s Son, He came to this world in the form of a man, He lived a spotless and perfect life … and He became the atoning sacrifice; He paid the price for our sin.”

Justin also shared what Jesus did for him and why do we all need Him.

“That’s why we need Jesus,” Justin said. “That is the grace … [Jesus] took the punishment himself so that we don’t have to live in shame or fear. God sent His perfect son, who knew no sin and became sin so that we could become right with God. My future is secure knowing that I’m forgiven, I’m saved, I’m set free from my past. I don’t have to live in sin or shame … I can live free.”

Accept Jesus Christ

The award-winning singer then ended the Instagram video by inviting everyone to accept Jesus Christ.

“The Good News is that matter who you are or what you’ve done. No matter how bad you think you are or how messed up you think your life is … God is not afraid of your mess. He’s not ashamed of what you’ve done. He wants you to come with open arms and accept what He’s done for you.”

“It’s as simple as just saying ‘Jesus, I accept what you did for me, I believe you are God, and I ask you to forgive me for my sins.”

 

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Read also: ‘Twilight’ Actor Is Grateful For His Christian Faith Even After Tragic Experience 

Reference: Christian Headlines

 

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Tim Tebow Has A Powerful Message That We All Need To Hear

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

Tim Tebow has a powerful message for us that we all need to hear, “You are worth it!”

Tim Tebow

Time Tebow has always been open and bold about his Christian faith and uses his platform to speak life and hope to everyone. He even founded the Tim Tebow Foundation to help those who need of medical support. The 32-year-old husband of Demi-Leigh has always had a heart and compassion for the people.

Powerful message

The American professional baseball player, former professional football quarterback, and TV host recently posted a powerful message on his Instagram. Thousands of people were encouraged and inspired by this Christian celebrity’s message.

“You’re special enough for the God of this universe to send his only Son, for Jesus to take on bodily form and to live as a man but to die as a martyr for us,” Tim said in the powerful video.

 

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You were created in love, by love and for love. You are one of one. Tag someone that needs to hear this message!

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This is timely and much needed in a generation who largely struggles to know their value and identity. Many people have often questioned their purpose for being here on earth and wondered about their worth. People are often looking for temporary things to satisfy their longing but end up miserable because they don’t realize their value.

But, God sent his Son, Jesus, to die for us because you are worth it! You are worth the sacrifice of God and you are worth His pain because He says you are worthy of love!

“God is speaking to me through you”

One person commented on how God impacted his life through Tim, “Thanks for sharing that. You have no idea how close I am to giving up and ending my life. I’ve been reading your book Shaken and God is speaking to me through you! Thanks, Tim”

May this message of love inspire more people and may Tim continue to inspire and bring people closer to God.

Read also: Tim Tebow’s Encouraging Word is Going Viral and Will Bless You Immensely 

Reference: Instagram | timtebow 

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