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2025-03-14T20:38:17-04:00

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Targeted by Evil: My Spiritual Battle in Gangland

Last updated on: March 14, 2025 at 8:38 pm By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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From Surveillance to Harassment: My Unexpected Journey When I relocated from NYC, I knew life in another state would be different, challenging even, but I never anticipated the terrain set before me would be littered with evil. As a city girl, I was used to all eyes on me given the nature of a metropolis: oogling construction workers, matching energies while tunneling an underground subway system, conducting a light conversation in a grocery store sparked by one of my quirky... Read more

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2025-03-05T14:51:06-05:00

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Salt is the Original Seasoning

Last updated on: March 5, 2025 at 2:51 pm By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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If salt is the original seasoning, why do so many ministers lack this special component? Instead, they boast of carnal seasoning to leverage themselves above others intensifying their already inflamed ego. For the past several years, I’ve been searching for a church home. As quickly as I thought I found one is as swiftly as I bowed out due to unwarranted disrespect. Disrespect, commonly, tagged as ‘church hurt.’ A pervasive and ubiquitous concept, it continues to raise its ugly head... Read more

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2025-01-11T21:37:36-05:00

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How Do I tell My Friend Their Mom’s a Witch?

Last updated on: January 11, 2025 at 9:37 pm By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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How do I tell my friend their mom’s a witch? I don’t. Plain and simple. It is my belief people whose parents double as occult agents often suspect they’ve inherited evil guardians, yet remain incredulous to being the target of witchcraft activity from their own godhead. Even if I do spill the beans, I’m concerned with the elongated period of denial they’ll undergo. If not shown by God Himself, sometimes a friend pointing out the fact, may send them into... Read more

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2024-11-18T11:31:46-05:00

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Hidden Transgenderism, Female Sports, and God

Last updated on: November 18, 2024 at 11:31 am By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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Hidden in plain sight Today, I listened vehemently to a clip from a conversation on CNN. The discussion totally disturbed me. I think I’m actually more stunned than perturbed. A panelist, accused of using a slur by calling a boy transitioning into a girl a boy, was censored from his First Amendment right. I wonder how God would feel with someone re-naming His trademark? Has anyone stopped to ask Him? The human body is scientifically immutable in terms of sex.... Read more

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2025-03-15T18:03:18-04:00

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Facing My Fair-weather Faith

Last updated on: March 15, 2025 at 6:03 pm By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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Facing my facadeRecently, I had to face my fair-weather faith in the face of losing it all. Cycles of abuse, and manipulation brought me to a point of desperation, discord and depression. I haven’t always been like this, but after sincere introspection, I’m finally able to acknowledge why. The Spirit, Himself, has shown me, that in the face of fear my faith that once stood tall, with increasing weathering became shaky. Unknowingly, casting my cares burgeoned into pressing God for... Read more

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2024-11-07T21:09:45-05:00

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Are you listening? No… Are you REALLY listening?

Last updated on: November 7, 2024 at 9:09 pm By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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While perusing my socials, I stumbled upon a few interesting posts. One after-the-other began adding up and causing me to see beyond the surface. Perhaps, I’m overthinking. Just hear me out, though. Kamala Harris concedes In her concession speech, Kamala speaks to young supporters seeking to encourage their ongoing fight for freedom, justice and a better society. In this speech, she notes that “the fight is not over.” Now, on a surface dig, it’s simple to see exactly what is... Read more

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2025-01-13T10:37:51-05:00

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The Fabric of This Nation is Rotting to its Core!

Last updated on: January 13, 2025 at 10:37 am By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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Today, as I rose, there was an eerie feeling quite similar to the days before September 11th, 2001. Clear skies. The smiling sun gifting us with 70 degree weather in November. Go figure. Yet, the stillness hoards a familiar undercurrent. A rage incomparable to the fury felt on the Capitol steps of January 6th, 2021. It derives from the voting effect. Trump won, so what? Shouldn’t he be in prison? If you voted against Kamala Harris due to her abortion... Read more

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2024-11-02T16:31:53-04:00

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Big People & Bullying… Where does it End?

Last updated on: November 2, 2024 at 4:31 pm By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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Adult bullying, really? Who would’ve thought adult bullying was a thing? Yes. Adult bullying. If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering how on Earth is that possible at this big age? Or, maybe not. I could ask the same of elder abuse and churches trafficking children. Sadly, it occurs. It transpires at church, work and adult play. I’d like to share a brief description of my personal experience with adult bullying. It emerged at an educational facility where bullying ran... Read more

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2024-10-31T16:42:05-04:00

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Simone Biles Finds Freedom through Foster Care

Last updated on: October 31, 2024 at 4:42 pm By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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Simone Biles, foster care, and me! I have been following Simone Biles‘ career for the last several years. Yet, beyond the fandom lies a spiritual resonance. Simone has triumphed from being foster, like me. Numerous interviews establish the source to Simone’s removal from her mother’s guardianship. It had much to do with her mom’s battle with addiction. When Simone and her sister Akira had gone hungry for the last time, her grandparents stepped in to rescue them. Although intermittently between... Read more

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2024-10-31T14:02:56-04:00

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Someone Wished Me Happy Halloween, Today.

Last updated on: October 31, 2024 at 2:02 pm By Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery

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Someone wished me “Happy Halloween,” today, and it was the most foreign thing I had heard in a while. Since being oppressed by occultic practices, I not only dismissed Halloween from my calendar, but I began researching its true nature behind the veil. The costumes, the candy, the haunted houses, none of it is for sheer pleasure. They exist as ploys to rot the soul and/or ruin an individual’s destiny. Costumes As a professional costume designer, I know... Read more

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