<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservative Christian/ Isaiah 6:8]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LXMq!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5754c557-a9c1-4afd-adc0-4977b1d6a61a_367x367.png</url><title>Scarlet Cummings</title><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:54:33 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://scarletcummings.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[scarletcummings@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[scarletcummings@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[scarletcummings@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[scarletcummings@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion is MURDER; Here's Why (Calling out the people)]]></title><description><![CDATA[*READER DISCRETION: BLOG GOES INTO DEPTH OF THE PROCEDURES USED DURING ABORTIONS. VERY VIOLENT AND DETAILED. VIEWER/READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED*]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/abortion-is-murder-heres-why-calling</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/abortion-is-murder-heres-why-calling</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:50:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aa2fc524-01d6-4cab-b1ef-89426128735a_1179x658.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>**</strong><em><strong>READER DISCRETION: BLOG GOES INTO DEPTH OF THE PROCEDURES USED DURING ABORTIONS. VERY VIOLENT AND DETAILED. VIEWER/READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED</strong></em>**</p><p>Everywhere liberals are screaming and spitting in our faces, trying to shove abortion down our throats, and telling us it is &#8220;healthcare&#8221;.</p><p>The people are trying to shove it into every. single. state. They want abortions up to full term or even after the birth. They worship abortion. They want every innocent life dead. And if you speak against them, they threaten you.</p><p>They shed innocent blood everyday. But when you tell them it&#8217;s murder they say it&#8217;s not. So this one is for the liberals, tell me if you think abortion is still healthcare after this. Let&#8217;s see if you still worship it after this, or will we pretend abortion doesn&#8217;t involve any of this like you always do.</p><p>Abortion Pill- In the abortion pill there are two major drugs involved in it that help to terminate the child&#8217;s life. Mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone blocks all necessary hormones and cuts off all nutrients and oxygen to the babies body in the womb. Mifepristone is a drug that will essentially cut off every needed thing for a baby in the womb, such as oxygen, major nutrients, and blood supply. Misoprostol is suppose to help to mimick a heavy miscarriage. If the abortion pill fails, the baby will be missing arms or legs or both as it develops.</p><p>Suction Curettage abortion- This surgical procedure is also often referred to as the vacuum aspiration where the &#8220;doctor&#8221; dilates the cervix and inserts a sterile plastic tube into it that has a strong suction that is twenty-nine times the power of a household vacuum. This strong suction tube tears the baby apart, limb by limb, and sucks it into a container.</p><p>Dilation and Evacuation- The dilation and evacuation method, also called the D&amp;E, is done around 16 weeks or anytime later. In this method, they take forceps and pull the baby apart limb my limb with the forceps until the entire body is out of the womb. Forceps in question:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-6eF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e17abbe-e774-452b-8699-fc30af1e1b49_394x394.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-6eF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e17abbe-e774-452b-8699-fc30af1e1b49_394x394.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-6eF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e17abbe-e774-452b-8699-fc30af1e1b49_394x394.png 848w, 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Essentially, this solution is used to burn the unborn babies body.</p><p>Skull Compression- In this method, the unborn babies skulls is crushed that way they can fit it through the cervix. This method can be done up to the second trimester.</p><p>Kermit Gosnell was charged on the accounts of murder when he was found out to kill three babies after they were born. He and his staff referred to this abortion outside of the womb as &#8220;snipping&#8221;, where Gosnell would take scissors and stick them into the back of the babies neck and severing the spinal cord, killing the baby immediately. He was considered a serial killer. Even though he was charged on only three accounts of first-degree-murder for three specific babies, his staff testified to agents investigating the crime, that Gosnell had murder hundreds of babies after they were born with the same procedure. He faced life in prison without possibility of parole.</p><p>But somehow we now live in a world where they are trying to push abortion up to birth and as they continue to do so, then it will be legalized and they will be enabled to murder not only unborn lives, but born lives without consequences. </p><p>There are MANY, MANY other cases of abortions and procedures used for it.</p><p>We have to stop these murderers. Millions of innocent and unborn voices have been silenced due to the incompetence and wickedness of millions. We have to take a stand against these wicked people and we have to be a voice for all those unborn and born babies that never had the opportunity to have that voice.</p><p>Every single advocate for abortion or someone in the medical field (or not) who has committed an abortion is a MURDERER. And deserves death penalty. </p><p>Abortion has murdered over 73 million lives <em>every year</em>. </p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Planned Parenthood&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:314463911,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/864e0914-5d90-4b8d-af16-7db43bd518a3_150x150.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;8bfa8f1f-924d-43fd-8579-b3d995d78feb&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> has planted itself in every single state trying to shove abortion done the throats of those who&#8217;ve been raped or sexually abused, or teenagers (even some adults) who have gotten pregnant. They trap these people and tell them abortion is the only way. We need to stop them before they murder our entire population. </p><p> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Reproductive Freedom for All&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:404873493,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f0f812fb-bcc3-4272-beb4-f03944f79eb0_600x600.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;23092170-cde9-4da9-a32b-4b6e8284239e&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> is trying to protect abortion rights. They want every unborn and innocent life murdered.</p><p>NAF works to protect abortions and those who preform abortions and advocate for it. They want to push abortion rights into every state so that they can intentionally murder unborn babies up to birth.</p><p>NOW is a organziation that is (no surprise) feminist that campaigns for abortion rights. They want every unborn baby murdered.</p><p>ACLU files major, major lawsuits to challenge abortion restrictions and bans. They want to stop you if you do not support the murder of unborn lives. They want you gone and thrown into prison so they can continue to murder every unborn life until our entire population is gone.</p><p>We&#8217;ve got plenty of governors and senators that want abortion to be LEGAL. We&#8217;ve got millions of advocates for it.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Gavin Newsom&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:354255572,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z0Ew!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F997b9f29-c1cb-45c2-b9c0-7e97c9c9573d_2498x2498.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;58e795ea-9803-4316-b5ab-bd31ebb47062&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> is ensuring that we murder any and all babies and he wants to push it into every state to the point were abortion is legalized up to birth. We need to stop these wicked intents and stop his wicked works. He is murdering innocent lives and the worse part is he is able to do it without possibility of an consequence for his actions.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Governor Maura Healey&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:339595229,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a58c49d0-62f1-4c3b-894e-043736f4f553_1085x1085.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;70771c14-f958-4f3a-a660-9b3f90b91081&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Maura Healey&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:428475695,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cf86d844-841c-467b-8c33-8c8279efc29e_3022x3022.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;55b3c154-aa4a-4399-be0b-cae1c26aee9b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> is supporting abortion in the state of Massachusetts. She wants to murder any and all unborn babies and she wants to give the freedom to anyone else who wants to. This cannot be continued. If we continue to allow such than these wicked people will be capable of murdering millions more of babies.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Gov. Kathy Hochul&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:367018502,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dff9e7cb-470b-428b-a721-f63765381641_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;1e3b5308-1468-43a5-8014-a58dce4821f6&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Is trying to protect abortion in the state of New York. She is absolutely for it and will fight til it is legalized in EVERY SINGLE STATE. We can not let this be. When our babies are intentionally being murdered left and right we need to take a stand against the people advocating for it and supporting it.</p><p>Katie Hobbs is trying to use her executive authority to protect doctors and patients who have preformed or had an abortion done. She wants to make sure anyone who supports or preforms abortions are in the clear and safe from any punishment.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;JB Pritzker&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:268322669,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cbe9b77e-8fe8-447c-aa87-82b11751099e_1000x1000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;3305be16-ecb6-4a25-88ad-6aea6c9b2ca8&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> established an Illinois hub to support abortion rights. They want abortion rights pushed into every single state. They believe murdering innocent unborn lives is fine, and sooner than later if we let them, they will try to push abortion up to after birth.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Senator Elizabeth Warren&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:152446155,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5f8c9d7e-4a1b-4777-af83-e9661010b0de_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f8cc9c79-80de-49cc-88c9-13bce80902c4&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> is located in Massachusetts and leads federal pushes to protect abortion AT ALL COSTS. She could care less about the amount of lives that have been harmed by abortions. Millions of lives have been brutally murdered because people like her don't see anything wrong with murdering the unborn.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kirsten Gillibrand&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:100530330,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2c5aa4af-c54b-4fc8-914f-6845920bf63e_225x225.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;87f4d75b-5d43-4a49-a9a4-7eb7ddec1b0d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> is in New York and wants/supports every single abortion. She believes everyone should be entitled to murdering unborn lives and this is very much so wrong.</p><p>Patty Murray is in Washington and is a longstanding leader on &#8220;health&#8221; committees to fight against any person or organization that tries to shut abortion down. </p><p>Tammy Duckworth advocates for reproductive rights and worships abortion.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Ron Wyden&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:140722929,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f1a79ec3-8b13-48c7-8eaf-5ead8089d7e9_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;9d965337-ab88-4d74-b1e8-7b028875ec83&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> from Oregon frequently challenges federal agencies that try to restrict abortion.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Mary L Trump&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1226035,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0A9w!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b9aeb8-9cb0-4250-aeec-e86318746ce2_774x774.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;19e0a810-83a3-4052-99b2-641238a8a9a5&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Huge liberal and loves her abortion rights! She will push it into every single state possible and be a continous advocate for it.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Aaron Ford for Nevada Governor&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:369609927,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5ac5e43b-5bf5-419c-a299-a1fe1c00ad16_2000x2000.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;cbd741a6-24f4-4040-a1e8-2933307878c2&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Aaron Ford is partnering up with Gavin Newsom to try and push abortion in my home state. He wants it legalized and supports the sacrifice of the unborn babies.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Kamala Harris&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:386409469,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0141b584-5c36-4274-9388-efc0e06f7a40_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;c8577e2a-e550-4f0a-8356-7ef911fa04a6&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> absolutely loves her abortion and wants EVERY SINGLE PERSON to get an abortion if they are pregnant. She could care less for the innocent, unborn life that lives in a womb. She&#8217;s under the belief that these lives are worthless and deserve to be aborted.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Hunter Biden&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:401188266,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/408e3ce8-0ed9-4616-b21e-6526aac5b462_1792x1792.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;43cfe49f-2b36-4a3e-90b5-2f87fbc32244&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> also loves his abortion. He wants to make sure every unborn baby is murdered up to birth. He will fight for it, with Joe Biden, until they can get it legalized EVERYWHERE.</p><p>Joe Lombardo is governor for my home state, Nevada. And has supported and advocated for abortion in every single way, even though he claims to support republican beliefs. </p><p>Millions of other people are supporting abortion. We must fight against them and shut down any organization or movement they&#8217;ve started. WE NEED TO FIGHT FOR THE UNBORN. These people are murderers and we CANNOT let them in any sort of executive leadership or anywhere part of the government.</p><p>These people deserved to be arrested and face consequences for their legalized support of murder. </p><p>If you are part of any organization or are in support of abortion, I have one message for you. Stop murdering our babies. Stop supporting child sacrifice. Stop worshiping abortion. Repent of your sins and turn to the Lord that you may be saved and turn from your wicked ways.</p><p>Be the voice for the babies who never had a voice. Fight for the babies that have been victimized by these intentional murderers.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Viral Christianity, is not Christianity at all (part 1*)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christianity has gone viral but among what seems like something good going viral, there is a very big issue arising in it.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/the-viral-christianity-is-not-christianity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/the-viral-christianity-is-not-christianity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:36:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dd5e6e56-6d96-4e53-bfed-216064f6c966_1179x1536.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christianity has gone viral but among what seems like something good going viral, there is a very big issue arising in it.</p><p>You might&#8217;ve seen a reel or two on social media that has a video of someone breaking down into tears with some emotional caption about faith or Christianity. You may have seen a video where it&#8217;s some influencer that has been known to do bad things all the sudden swinging into a new Christian trend just for the views. There are so many more videos like this on social media. But this is not just happening in social media, this is happening in the public.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>It&#8217;s trendy to wear crosses on your neck and not know what they stand for. It is trendy to wear some Christian shirt and be cussing around with your friends. It is trendy to claim you are Christian but turn around a live a life disobedient to the Lord. Many people, even Christians, nowadays think that because someone claims to be Christian or the algorithm on social media has more Christian stuff on it, that it means Christianity is rising in popularity for the modern public. And it seems to be true, but in the worst way.</p><p>A lot of people want to record aesthetic videos of them doing a Bible study or for some going on a Bible study date. A lot of people like to record videos of them sobbing with an overly dramatic caption about how hard their life is and how hard it is to have faith. Now some of these captions can be true or heartfelt or biblically based, but the way they are being used are not for the sake of bringing people closer to God, but rather getting more views, likes, and followers. Which is hands down, absolutely wrong.</p><p>This viral Christianity, is something only out there for the views. There is no genuine meaning behind it, it is lifeless and meaningless, the person posting it has no meaning set to it except for the want of having everyone pity them or obsess over them in all the wrong ways.</p><p>Another thing on this note to point out is also some of the &#8220;modern&#8221; day churches, and not to call anyone or any church out, but specifically the rock-star, concert churches. I&#8217;ve seen one too many reels of people showing themselves breaking down from spiritual impact in those churches as the flashing lights and, let&#8217;s face it, extremely loud music plays in the background. And then they get about five minutes of not even a sermon but a verse and the simplified meaning of it and immediately shoot right back to their concert. It&#8217;s as if the only purpose for the church is to entertain, not to bring the raw truth of the Word. Not to lead people closer to God. But for the purpose of entertainment. It&#8217;s almost like the church replica of viral Christianity. It&#8217;s meaningless. You can&#8217;t even say it serves an actual purpose besides entertainment or things to fuel peoples emotional urges.</p><p>And call me weird or whatever, but I find this absolutely horrible. We have twisted the meaning of Christianity and we have twisted the meaning of church. We aren&#8217;t giving the raw truth, we&#8217;re giving the sugar coated meaning of things to make everyone feel validated. </p><p>The church isn&#8217;t there to feed to your feelings or validate them, rather it is there to direct you and steward you in the way a godly man or woman should go. And if we aren&#8217;t getting that church, then what is the purpose? If we are saying Christianity is something it isn&#8217;t just to get the views, then what is the purpose? There is none. It is meaningless and it is something there for nothing good. We as Christians <em>need </em>conviction. And the viral Christianity wants to avoid conviction.</p><p>Christians need to be criticized and reminded of the truth everyday, and if it is sugar coated, people are going to teach them that they can let their feelings be their truth and not the Word of the Lord.</p><p>Christians should love conviction. But this viral Christianity doesn&#8217;t want it. They want to stay feeling comfortable and they want to continue believing that the Bible is there to validate their feelings. They become blind to the truth of Christianity because they&#8217;ve gotten so comfortable in the way Christianity is displayed through social media.</p><p>We don&#8217;t need social media Christians, we need Christians who love the truth and love the conviction that comes with it.</p><p>Don&#8217;t aspire to be a social media Christian, aspire to be a biblical Christian that loves conviction.</p><p><strong>Scarlet Cummings</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send Me Lord]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?&#8221; Then I said, &#8220;Here I am!]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/send-me-lord</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/send-me-lord</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:42:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7565d101-03f2-456e-b8c5-b103c0b5608e_281x424.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?&#8221; Then I said, &#8220;<strong>Here I am! Send me.</strong>&#8221;~ Isaiah 6:8</em></p><p>A year ago, if someone told me I&#8217;d be here on Substack talking about my faith and conservatism in this world, I would&#8217;ve stared at them as if they were some dumb person. Because a year ago I was sure that God was calling me different places, and maybe He was. But I was under the belief He was calling me to stay in my comfort zone.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Let&#8217;s face it, a year ago I would&#8217;ve never thought I would be on here, or studying political and Christian books daily, or getting involved in TeenPact and making speeches there or even thinking of joining TPUSA. But that&#8217;s just how God works. He pulls you out of your comfort zone and shows you all the blessings outside of it.</p><p>Sometimes saying &#8220;here I am Lord, send me&#8221;, means God will send you out of your comfort zone to places you never expected to go or places you don&#8217;t feel ready to go to.</p><p>In such a broken world today, many Christians are called to step into the arena of this world and correct the error that many people have fallen under. We are called to go out and proclaim the truth, boldly and fearlessly. Now some people presume that this means we must stay in our comfort zone, but if you think that, you are very wrong. Yes, it can be scary to step out of your comfort zone, but God calls us to (Joshua 1:9) . If you don&#8217;t take a stand don&#8217;t expect the people looking up to you or around you to take a stand. You must be the change you are wanting to see. You have to be willing to take that step of faith if you want other people to do the same.</p><p>Recently I&#8217;ve stepped out of my comfort zone by beginning to do speeches at political camps and what not. I have terrible stage fright at times, so as you can imagine, this was not and is not easy. But I realized that if I want to fulfill my dreams, if I want to have a change in this world, I have to start here. The place that throws me out of my comfort zone the most. I have to be willing to stand up and do what scares me if I want to encourage other people to do the same. Instead of encouraging others to do something I can&#8217;t even do, I decided it was time to put actions into my words and not just use empty, meaningless words that even I couldn&#8217;t follow.</p><p>Sometimes that is what following God is like. We have to be willing to go visit new places or areas where even we feel most uncomfortable in. We have to be willing to excuse the scary part of it and just trust God (2 Timothy 1:7 , Proverbs 3:5-6). </p><p>Remember the part in the Bible where Jesus is walking on water during a storm to His disciples in a boat? Peter told Jesus that if it was really Him, then Jesus should enable Peter also to be able to come on the water alongside Jesus. Jesus said &#8216;come&#8217; and Peter got out of the boat and walked on water. Imagine being in that scene. That would be a huge step of faith, you would really have to trust God in order to have faith that you would not drown in the water. No one can walk on water. Jesus showed Peter that he had to have faith in Him in order to be able to do such. As soon as Peter began to be frightened and freak out though, he began to drown and cried aloud to Jesus saying, &#8216;Lord, save me!&#8217;, and Jesus pulled Peter up and questioned why he doubted Him. (Matthew 14:22-33)</p><p>In this part of the Bible, we are reminded that even through the scariest things, we are called to have faith and set our eyes upon the Lord. This applies to stepping out of your comfort zone in this world nowadays. We must have faith that even though it may be scary and intimidating, God is ultimately in control. </p><p>So even when you feel uncalled for, or unready to step out of your comfort zone, just remember that God doesn&#8217;t call a ready you, He calls the you that you are and then changes you. </p><p>Do not be afraid to be that voice for Christianity in this world, or the truth. For man are can do nothing but make us closer to God. So don&#8217;t have fear of man, but rather of God. Every time God calls you out of your comfort zone, be ready to do it. Be ready to say &#8220;send me Lord&#8221; and then go out fearlessly to serve the Lord.</p><p>Be that voice for this world. Be ready to fight, because the state of this world now has progressively gotten worse and will continue to until we stand up and fight for the truth. Even if people hate you, persecute you, or stand against you, do not be afraid. For it is better that we stand alone in truth, then join a million people standing in lies. </p><p>God isn&#8217;t calling the ready you, He&#8217;s calling the you that you are now so He can change you. And if you let Him, He will. One voice, no matter how small it is, is still a voice. One voice is capable of raising up millions.</p><p>Be ready to step into that arena. Be ready to step out of your comfort zone. When you are given that opportunity, don&#8217;t wait, don&#8217;t hesitate, go straight for it in prayer and submission to the Lord.</p><p>The choice is yours. You can stay back and cower to the lies of this world and remain in your comfort zone, or you can step out of your comfort zone with the willingness and faithfulness to want to glorify God in all that you do.</p><p>It is time to change America and this world for the better. It is time to fight the good fight, for our families, for this country, and for the Lord. Do not be afraid but place your faith in the Lord.</p><p>Praying for you all,</p><p><strong>Scarlet Cummings</strong></p><h4></h4><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></title><description><![CDATA[I woke up to the sound of my own anxieties echoing in my head.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/anxiety</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/anxiety</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:34:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3cbb9cc4-31e1-4239-8c8a-7d1091176c7e_1179x1720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I woke up to the sound of my own anxieties echoing in my head. <em>This was it, this was the third week I couldn&#8217;t get a full night of sleep.</em> This was my life. I was the person who spent every night awake, staring at the wall even though my body ached with tiredness. I couldn&#8217;t go to sleep, even if I tried.</p><p>When I tried, I&#8217;d usually be lucky enough to maybe just get 5 hours of sleep. The feeling was constant. That feeling I got deep in my soul that smothered all peace I had ever had. This wasn&#8217;t a new feeling, this was a feeling that I felt for awhile. Something that never left me, only trailed after me as an aroma of stress and anxiety.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I looked to my alarm clock, <em>3am&#8230;</em>I had fallen asleep at 2:30am and was already awake within thirty minutes with my heart pounding from nightmares. Not the small bad dreams, but a literal nightmare confirming every single one of my anxieties I had.</p><p>Waking up was something that relieved me so much. Specifically because I could escape all those nightmares or sleep paralysis that kept me awake at night. That night, I woke up to another horrid nightmare. Is <em>this really the life I will be stuck with? I haven&#8217;t slept in 3 weeks. Just one night, one night of rest, please God. </em></p><p>Anxiety doesn&#8217;t leave us. There is no way to get rid of it, but there is ways to fight it. It doesn&#8217;t take our strength to fight it, it takes God&#8217;s.</p><p>If someone told me I could not get rid of my anxiety awhile ago, I would&#8217;ve looked at them with the most confused face ever. I was the person who tried to solve my problems&#8230;.though half the time I only made them worse. But only if I knew that there really was <em>no way</em> of getting rid of my anxiety. </p><p>It wasn&#8217;t just a mental battle, but a <em>spiritual battle.</em> The devil uses anything and everything he can to get to us and get in our head. Even anxiety.</p><p>When we are vulnerable, we are easy to get in our own minds, which only means the devil has no problem sneaking in and fully breaking us. The devil will tell you that it&#8217;ll be never ending, that you can&#8217;t do anything about it, that God is not in control, and that you will be trapped in your anxieties and they will happen.</p><p>The root of all our anxieties, is unbelief. When we doubt God, when we wonder what will happen or wish we had control, that&#8217;s unbelief. We have to trust everything is going to work out for God&#8217;s will. We stress about the unknown and things that we are incapable of controlling, because we doubt that God has a plan and most importantly, we don&#8217;t believe He does. Establish that unbelief, and destroy that unbelief. Let God be where your hope and faith is placed.</p><p>But the truth is, God is in control. And He will turn the evil for good, He will deliver us from our suffering, but we have to have faith. Sometimes that doesn&#8217;t always mean having a mountain full of faith, but faith of a mustard seed. Even that faith counts, and if you continue in obedience and exercising that faith, it will grow (Matthew 17:20). </p><p>During our panic attacks or anxiety, we need to remember to pray most importantly. God calls us to cast all our anxieties and worries at His feet, because He cares (1 Peter 5:7). God ultimately is in control of our lives, just think He planned who you are, where you were born, who your parents would be, and so much more before you were even alive. That gives us reassurance that even our anxieties, God is in control of. Not a single thing happens that is not apart of God&#8217;s plan or within His control. </p><p>Even at night, even when our anxieties seem to never stop, even when we are tired and stressed and anxious, God is near us. Not at the end, not waiting for us, but with us through it. </p><p>Another thing that really works is breathe prayer. It&#8217;s pretty much something where you breathe while reciting Bible passages to calm yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually down. </p><p>But even through the darkest night, even through the worst panic attack, don&#8217;t forget that God will lead you through it. He will be the strength for you when you don&#8217;t have any strength yet. He will be the light for you through it even when you can&#8217;t see. So take courage, have faith, and never forget God is right beside you during this.</p><p>Prayers for y&#8217;all!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I am Paedobaptist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Through multiple debates and discussions of baptism, I&#8217;ve found myself feeling like I can&#8217;t fit in every single one of my points within just one or two debates.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/why-i-am-paedobaptist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/why-i-am-paedobaptist</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 22:31:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ddb289b4-acbd-4159-ac86-03fe1e1ec457_1179x1659.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Through multiple debates and discussions of baptism, I&#8217;ve found myself feeling like I can&#8217;t fit in every single one of my points within just one or two debates. So, as a much requested article, I decided to share my view on baptism/why I am Paedobaptist.</p><p>Disclaimer: I respect both sides, I see where both are coming from but for me I&#8217;ve found that paedo baptism actually makes more sense in my opinion. But I do respect all the Credo baptists and encourage you all to keep discussing this topic!</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I&#8217;ll start with the general definitions of each term for any of you guys who need it. Paedo Baptism- Paedo means infant, so paedo baptism is for the baptism of infants and Credo baptism- credo means believer so it is against the baptism of infants.</p><p>To me personally, as a Paedobaptist, baptism signifies the outward sign and seal of God&#8217;s covenant of grace, pretty much confirming the promises of salvation to the person being baptized. It signifies the recipient belonging to God.</p><p>I&#8217;m going to start by breaking down some of the common arguments Paedobaptists are given from Credobaptists, from my experiences and then I&#8217;ll respond :)</p><h4><em>&#8220;Where is one account in the Bible where an infant is baptized?&#8221;</em></h4><p>Often times during a debate or discussion, Credobaptists have asked me if I have a very specific verse where an infant is baptized. But, they fail to realize though there is not a specific verse saying &#8220;an this infant was baptized&#8221;, there are household accounts. Which are more vague, but let me get into that point in just a minute. Even though this seems like a strong argument, and overall it&#8217;s more of a 50/50 argument, neither do credobaptists have a single verse explicitly excluding infants from baptism.</p><p>Now, back to my previous argument on this about household baptisms. Though it doesn&#8217;t say word for word that infants were baptized, there is a substantial possibility that infants were included. See back then, having a big family/multiple children was considered a huge blessing. Household could also be referring to not only children but extended parts of the household.</p><p>Another thing to point out concerning household baptisms. Often times in passages/scripture that have a household baptism we see two words to keep in mind (Acts 16:15, Acts 16:33, 1 Corinthians 1:16, and Acts 18:8). We see that the head of the household believes <em><strong>with</strong></em> his household, but him <em><strong>and</strong></em> they are baptized. This signifies the belief that through the covenant parents/head of households belief, it fully suffices for the children&#8217;s belief, even the infants. Similarly, we see in 1 Corinthians the children are made holy or not holy depending on the action of the parents. The children of these converts formed a third category. They were called into the fellowship in Christ <em><strong>with</strong></em> their parents. (Or a possibility of one parents faith).</p><h4><em><strong>&#8220;But what about the passage in Acts 2 where Paul says repent and then be baptized?&#8221;</strong></em></h4><p>Common argument I&#8217;ve heard. Credobaptists like to emphasize the passage in Acts 2 where Paul says repent and be baptized (Acts 2:38). Credobaptists like to use this argument because the word &#8220;repent&#8221; precedes &#8220;baptized&#8221;. So, to argue this point I would like to bring up a major passage in the Bible instructed to all parents.</p><p>Matthew 28:19-20, &#8220;Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age.&#8221; Baptism is the beginning of discipleship process. Children of believers should be discipled and taught God&#8217;s commandments. Going back to the fact that so many Credo&#8217;s believe that word order establishes prerequisites, then that means that this passage requires children to be baptized BEFORE they can be discipled and taught.</p><p>Acts 2:42 then describes how they received the apostles&#8217; teaching and entered fully into the life of the church. Baptism establishes entrance into the church, but according to Credobaptists theology children weren&#8217;t baptized. But going back to the word order, if it establishes prerequisites, then by the authority of the Great Commission those children cannot be discipled, taught God&#8217;s commandments, or included in the church at all.</p><h4><em><strong>&#8220;The recipient of baptism should make a profession of faith first though&#8221;</strong></em></h4><p>How are we sure that it&#8217;s the recipients faith that is needed for their baptism? If we look at it, as a Paedobaptist I believe that ALL children born into a covenant family part of a believing church, should/can baptize their infants due to it being the sign of the New Covenant. A believing parents faith fully suffices for the child&#8217;s as seen in the household baptisms.</p><h4><em><strong>What is Baptism to you as a Paedobaptist?</strong></em></h4><p>So though I have so so much more to say, I find that I&#8217;m running out of time and space so I&#8217;ll leave it on the note of my personal beliefs on the topic of baptism as a Paedobaptist.</p><p>Baptism to me is a the sign of the New Covenant. The Old Covenant was circumcision, given to infants as old as 8 days old. Baptism is the New Covenant and therefore I believe that baptism should be given to infants as well.</p><p>I&#8217;ll leave you guys on one question.</p><p>Where in the Bible does it explicitly exclude infants from baptism?</p><p>If you disagree with me on anything, I have way more to say but I find it also way easier to debate to get out more of what I want to say. So, if you disagree with me, prove me wrong, I will have a debate with any Credo or really anybody, anytime.</p><p>God bless.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm Fine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Christians sometimes we get in the tendency of always responding to someone saying &#8220;I&#8217;m fine&#8221; instead of saying how we actually feel.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/im-fine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/im-fine</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 03:24:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac6dada7-4001-4ac3-9aad-eed296f8b482_1179x1743.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Christians sometimes we get in the tendency of always responding to someone saying &#8220;I&#8217;m fine&#8221; instead of saying how we actually feel. Sometimes we feel like we&#8217;d be dishonoring to God or a bad Christian if we admitted that we weren&#8217;t okay. </p><p>I personally have struggled with this and I&#8217;ve talked to numerous people who have as well.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>The hardest thing to realize is that through this life you will go through times where you are not okay, and you&#8217;re not a bad Christian to admit that. We&#8217;ve all gone through something difficult and we will but the most important part is to not say you&#8217;re fine when you&#8217;re not. If you do that, then it shows fellow brothers and sisters in Christ that it&#8217;s not okay to not be okay.</p><p>We see many people in the Bible who struggled with depression or difficult times. But through it all, God never left them. God was always near, just like He is to us still through the heartbreak and trials we may face (Psalm 34:18). If the Lord was with Paul, Job, David, and so many others in the Bible and worked through their hardships for His glory, then He can do the same for you. He is knitting together for you a life better than what you can imagine or think of, He is knitting together your heart and soul to turn your hardships into a beautiful testimony you can share with others going through the same. </p><p>You don&#8217;t automatically become a bad Christian just because you go through one bad hardship. Have faith and hope through it, realizing that our pain is not eternal, rather there is something more beautiful that will be eternal.</p><p>Don&#8217;t dismiss your pain or think you&#8217;re not Christian for having it. It&#8217;s perfectly normal to face hardships and pain, we all do as Christians. God never leaves you during these times, He never thinks less of you. </p><p>So even though it&#8217;s prying on your soul to go through any pain or hardship you&#8217;re going through right now, just know our Lord is not done yet rather He is only in the process of bringing so many blessings out of this trial. Pray, praise, and push through it but most importantly, don&#8217;t be afraid to tell people the truth if you&#8217;re not feeling okay. We as brothers and sisters in Christ are called to be there for each other, and if you&#8217;re not doing okay you better bet you have a whole lot of people behind you ready to help you get through it. </p><p>Keep faith, because not once has God ever not been there for you. It will get better, this is just a tunnel on the road. One day you&#8217;ll look back and it&#8217;ll become a testimony to share with others going through the same.</p><p>Praying for all of you, and if you ever have a prayer request or going through a rough time and need help, I am always always always here.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's Revival]]></title><description><![CDATA[Generations after generations we are facing even more problems in this world then ever before.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/americas-revival</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/americas-revival</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:57:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ed1b3a08-65b6-4442-b880-6cd7ae1d5b2b_489x282.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Generations after generations we are facing even more problems in this world then ever before. Between the murder of innocent people to the persecution of Christians day in and day out and millions of other issues, we are faced with two options; stand up and be bold in your faith or sit there and quietly watch the world fall apart.</p><p>This is not something that changes over night, it takes time and it takes people stepping up. Specifically the younger generation. Don&#8217;t wait for the next generation to, <em>you are</em> the next generation. Be the generation that leads the one after it. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Many, many people say that you cannot have an religious or political opinion at a young age. <em>But that is all lies. </em></p><h3><em><strong>Liberals are terrified of the younger generation</strong></em></h3><p>The reason liberals try to tell you you&#8217;re too young to know the truth or speak it, is because they are <em>terrified</em>. They know the truth, but they deny it. They cover it up with lies they&#8217;ve forced themselves and expected everyone else to believe. </p><p>The reason they immediately attack you or hate on you when you say something that goes as far as simply offending them, is because they will do anything to shut you down. They will hate on you, they will try to distract you, and they will publicly spread lies around about you. They will try to distract you from the truth and get you caught up in the lies or them denying the truth. They want you to stop, so they will continue hating on you and lying about you until they can distract you completely. </p><p>The truth is the only thing that makes people uncomfortable, that is why they try to cover it up or lie about it in a way that satisfies their standard of truth. But the ultimate truth comes from the Bible, not what man says.</p><p>You were not made to stay silent or be apart of this world. As Christians we are called to step up in our faith. The world will hate you for it. Everyone will, but just know before you, they hated Christ. You will be told repeatedly that you are too young to know the truth or publicly share it, but it doesn&#8217;t take a genius or an adult to know the truth. It takes knowing the Bible and having a foundation of faith in the Lord.</p><p>John 10:10, &#8220;The enemy comes to steal and kill and destroy. I came that you may have life and have it abundantly.&#8221;</p><p>The enemy will use people to get to you. Don&#8217;t think the devil is hiding still, he is fully alive and working through our country to try to steal, kill, and destroy. </p><p>Armor yourself with the armor of God, and fight your battles with the truth given by God, not the lies spoken by man.</p><h3><em><strong>We were not made to stay silent</strong></em></h3><p>God didn&#8217;t tell us to be silent. He told us to be different, to be set apart from the world. For that, we will be hated, fear, and mocked, just as Christ was. </p><p>Through God our courage and strength is found. Through us, God will speak. </p><p>Our purpose on this earth is to glorify God, through everything. Our opinions, our actions, our words etc. </p><p>We are faced with two options. Either stay silent or fight. There will come a time, if there hasn&#8217;t already, where you will have to make that decision. What will you choose?</p><p>If you know and can obviously see something is wrong in this country, and you have a standard of what is right to compare it to, then why do you cower away? Stand up, do not be afraid.</p><p>We are not made to seek the world&#8217;s validation, but rather as Christians we should seek the truth, and unfortunately, not everyone is very receptive to the truth. Light makes the darkness uncomfortable. </p><h4><em><strong>Generational Revival</strong></em></h4><p>To make an American Revival, the younger generation needs to make an <em>astronomical </em>change. Generation after generation, we&#8217;ve progressively gotten worse. The only way to stop the generational issue, is to be the breaking point in it. </p><p>In order to be part of that change you have to step out of your comfort zone. Get out of the algorithm of this generation, and start stepping up in faith. Your courage will be the lead courage to others. So if we have multiple young Conservative Christian teenagers step up, then they can encourage others to do so. Sooner than later, we can start the American revival. </p><p>Through the mercy of Christ will we be able to do this. Through Him comes our courage and faith. So let Him lead you in this. Don&#8217;t take control, let Christ take control.</p><p>It&#8217;s time to break the generational issue of stepping down and being quiet while the world erupts into pieces. It is time to stand up and fight for the truth.</p><p>It takes on voice to raise up more. </p><p></p><p>Lastly, through Christ, have courage and take strength. It takes one voice to raise others, you can either be that voice or stay quiet. Your choice. We were given a purpose on this earth and that was not to stay silent, but to fight the battle we are constantly facing. Do not be afraid of what man will do to you, for there is no power greater than the power of our Lord.</p><p>Make America great again, literally. Stand up and fight. My prayers are for all of you, may the Lord bless you.</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have Faith]]></title><description><![CDATA[-I wrote this to reach out to the people without faith.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/have-faith</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/have-faith</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:54:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d1db7aad-2618-46aa-8556-f746a91a7872_1179x1285.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>-<em>I wrote this to reach out to the people without faith. To the people who are struggling to find hope. I want to encourage other people that it&#8217;ll be okay, you just have to keep going. Because great will your reward be in Heaven when you finish the race. So have faith dear one, you will make it.-</em></p><p><strong>*Credits at the end*</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>To the one without faith:</p><p>I know you&#8217;re wondering if things will get better, maybe you&#8217;re wondering if things your facing will ever end. But I promise you it&#8217;s gonna get better, but you have to have faith now. For beauty will prevail from these challenges you go through in your faith. God&#8217;s not done with you yet, and He never will be. But you have to not be done with God. </p><p>Have faith. Because there is a greater ending to this story than what you&#8217;re thinking of, and it&#8217;ll all end one day with such a great joy overcoming all that pain and hardship. </p><p>Have faith because there is a God bigger than your troubles. And He cares. </p><p>Have faith because there will be an end, even when you cannot see it.</p><p>Have faith because light will flood out the darkness soon, you just have to keep going.</p><p>Have faith because this is not the end, for there is a better ending.</p><p>I promise you it&#8217;s all going to end, and when it does you&#8217;ll look back with courage, knowing you just conquered what you thought was going to be unending. </p><p>Do not fear, do not be dismayed for the Lord your God is leading you through this. Keep going til&#8217; the end of the race.</p><p>Lean on Christ&#8217;s strength during this time, for through hardships our strength is found in the Lords.</p><p>Rest in His arms, have peace. Have faith.</p><p>Light and victory is around the corner. Fight on.</p><p>It&#8217;s gonna be okay, and you&#8217;ll see that soon. But until then, keep going. Keep going because there is a whole army cheering you on. Keep going because God is cheering you on through this. And you will make it through. You just have to breathe.</p><p>Faithfulness will produce obedience, so have faith.</p><p>Count it all joy, through everything.</p><p>Keep going, for at the end of the race your Saviors arms are wide open. </p><p>Have faith, because your strength is in the Lord. And what a blessing that is to have.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>&#8220;&#8230;your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Mark 5:34</p></div><p>_                                                         _                                                        _</p><p>Here are the list of songs/verses that inspired me to write this as well as some that were incorporated into the letter.</p><p>Credits/Verses included</p><p><em>Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 46: 1-3, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 5: 3-5, John 16:33, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Psalm 34:4, Jeremiah 29:11, 2 Timothy 1:7, Matthew 11:28, Psalm 30:5, James 1:2-3</em></p><p>Songs Inspired</p><p><em>Take Courage- Kristene DiMarco, You&#8217;re Gonna Be Ok- Jenn Johnson, Don&#8217;t You Give Up On Me- Brandon Lake, Black Sheep- Ben Fuller</em></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA["It is Finished"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well everybody, it has officially come to the Easter Weekend (aka the weekend of Good Friday AND Easter), and I&#8217;ve decided to write a blog just for it.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/it-is-finished</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/it-is-finished</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:21:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0fca81c0-d40a-41ea-8127-a73721ecb61b_1179x1859.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well everybody, it has officially come to the Easter Weekend (aka the weekend of Good Friday AND Easter), and I&#8217;ve decided to write a blog just for it. I mean this is like the most important event in the whole world! So let&#8217;s discuss it, what does Easter really mean? What does Christ dying on the cross and rising up from the grave three days later mean?</p><p>You&#8217;ve probably read one of the books in the Gospel, if not all of them. Or you&#8217;ve probably heard the story of our Lord and Savior dying on the cross for our sins. We often look at this event as something small and sometimes we tend to overlook the actual, very important meaning of it all. It&#8217;s like one of those things where we easily overlook it because we&#8217;ve heard about it a million times and just because of that we must know everything about it! Well, no. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>If we look all the way back to Genesis, we remember the story of when Adam and Eve were in the garden and fell into the evil lie of the Devil and brought sin into this world. That was the beginning of it all, the beginning of the sadness, the pain, the darkness, the lying, the murdering etc., stuff like that was all sin. Humans became sinful and were constantly sinning every single minute of the day. Things only got worse. There seemed like no hope for a better future and with each day the burden of sin was continually weighing down onto people. But through all of this darkness, there was a hope. Greater than what many people may have thought and certainly way more powerful than any sin.</p><p>God didn&#8217;t leave people when sin entered the world. He was right by the sides of many people, guiding them through the hardships and trials they&#8217;d face through life and constantly making miracles happen. God never left people. But what happened was their sin became so thick that it literally blinded them to Christ. And because people were born into sin it was their natural habitat and so if they ever had to step out of their bed of sin and go to Christ, it would be very difficult. But through all of this God was still working miracles.</p><p>Many of the books in the Old Testament (specifically Isaiah) prophesied the coming of Jesus. And all of those prophecies were fulfilled in the New Testament. As we see in the books of the Gospel, Christ comes down to the earth in human form to save us from sin. Just think about that for a minute: Christ, a perfect person who has never committed a single sin, comes down into human form to save the very people who&#8217;ve mocked, betrayed, hated, etc., Him. It goes to show how humble Christ really was.</p><p>Eventually, once Jesus is born and grows into adulthood, He is hated even more. Only because He spoke truth and He told people that they needed to repent from their sins. So what did the people do? Well, they planned to murder Him. To crucify Him. The very night of the Last Supper, when Jesus was betrayed by His very own disciple, Judas, He was not afraid. Jesus knew what He was going to do, and He would not stop till He did it.</p><p>As Jesus was arrested, He was beaten and mocked. And when He was brought up to the people, they screamed &#8220;Crucify Him! Crucify Him!&#8221;. And that&#8217;s what they did. Jesus was forced to carry His own cross, the very cross He&#8217;d be crucified on, up to where He&#8217;d make the ultimate sacrafice for the payment of our sins. He was nailed to that cross and the wrath of God was upon Him. But whilst He was being crucified, our Merciful Lord forgave the very people who were crucifying Him, as He says while being on that cross in Luke 23:34, &#8220;Father forgive them, for they know not what they do&#8221;. And then on the cross Jesus cried out to God,&#8220;Eli,Eli, lema sabachthani?&#8221; (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?) (Matthew 27:46). And then He finally said, &#8220;It is finished&#8221; and breathed His last. (John 19:30).</p><p>Just think about that for a moment. Like, truly think of that. Jesus died for our sins. He took the very place we were suppose to be in, because He loved us. And that is what love is. Such a love that a perfect Man would lay down His life for people who would only hate Him and sin against Him even more. Jesus forgave us of our sins. He gave us the opportunity of salvation, to be in paradise with Him. Yet we did not deserve it. We deserved to be on that cross, we deserved to face that death but Jesus faced it for us because <em>He loved us.</em> And even though we sin again and again and again, Christ forgives us just as many times.</p><p>So take that into consideration.</p><p>After Jesus died, three days later, Jesus conquered death. He conquered that grave. For that grave could not hold Him, He was too powerful. He then later descended back into Heaven, until He comes back to this earth. But this time, it will be with wrath. For if He is not your King now, He will be your Judge.</p><p>Easter is not just about the Easter Bunny or maybe the candy or whatever else comes with it, it is about the revival and the crucifixion of Jesus our Lord and Savior. So think about that next time, and really do think about it to the fullest.</p><p>I hope you all have a blessed Easter, praying over all of you as you go about it.</p><p>Grow in your faith and live boldly,</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, Movies, and Songs (Growing in your Faith, Blog #5)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello all,]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/books-movies-and-songs-growing-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/books-movies-and-songs-growing-in</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:41:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3a77702c-22d7-4ee1-bb28-c773cd84b932_315x210.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello all,</p><p>Today I&#8217;m going to be talking about the "controversial&#8221; topic of movies and books and of course, songs. In other words, the kind of movies where you go &#8220;should I watch this?&#8221; or the type of books where you ask, &#8220;is this God-honoring?&#8221; or the music that makes you go, &#8220;was that really good to listen to?&#8221;. This is going to be the blog where I not only refer you to some Bible verses, but I speak the hard truth about it.</p><p>_________________________________________________</p><p>Let&#8217;s start with the first question I&#8217;ve been asked:</p><p><strong>Are horror movies okay to watch as Christians?</strong></p><p>Now, this topic I&#8217;ve talked about and to with plenty of my friends. And in a way I get where their coming from, but I also want to answer this question with some Bible verses.</p><p>First, what are horror movies? 99% of the time these movies consist of killing, violence etc., literally anything related to those things. From what I&#8217;ve heard (I&#8217;ve never actually watched a horror movie, but my mom has told me about some of it), there&#8217;s often some jump scares that people find amusing. You might find some that are full of demonic things or maybe you&#8217;ll find some that are just full of killing and jump scares. I don&#8217;t know for sure what you&#8217;ll find, but you&#8217;ll find something along the lines of that.</p><p>What does the Bible have to say about this?</p><p>1 Thessalonians 5:22, &#8220;Abstain from every form of evil&#8221;</p><p>This verse directs us to stay away from evil, to not find delight or enjoyment in seeing or watching or anything to do with evil. Since, I&#8217;d dare say, horror movies mainly consistent of things that would be considered evil, this verse would apply to them.</p><p>Ephesians 4:27, &#8220;And give no opportunity to evil&#8221;</p><p>Horror movies could more than likely be a way the devil tries to sneak into our lives. You see, if we find delight in watching something that contains evil of some sort, than we are giving the devil a free passage into our hearts. Soon, what was a fun horror movie that we just enjoyed watching for entertainment will turn into a horror movie that you&#8217;ll become obsessed with. One where all you want to do is watch it. Your obsession is constantly fed on the slightest mention of that movie. It can become an idol, something you only want to see. Instead of doing productive things, you spend your time being obsessed over it by continuously watching it or searching up facts about it so you can know every detail. I&#8217;ve experienced this before. Maybe if I watch a show I really love, I tend to want to watch it more or want to know more about it. Whether or not it is a horror movie, obsession is still bad. Obsession is a passageway to idolizing things. Obsession is the devils guidance to putting things above the Lord. </p><p>This two verses are some of the most important, I have a whole list but I fear if I listed them all it&#8217;d be like reading twenty essays. So for your sake, we&#8217;ll stick with these two.</p><p>Next question: <strong>Are songs with curse words or bad lyrics okay to listen to?</strong></p><p>No. If we look at the previous verses I&#8217;ve listed for the question, these verses also apply to this question. I would also like to add. Some people like to argue the answer by saying, &#8220;well, maybe it&#8217;s just <em>one</em> song with <em>only a few</em> cuss words, what could really be bad about that?&#8221;</p><p>The thing is, it&#8217;s never just <em>one</em> song or <em>only a few </em>cuss words. Over time if it becomes our daily routine to listen to it, than it&#8217;ll become something like &#8220;oh well it&#8217;s just a good song with a few cuss words, but they don&#8217;t matter&#8221;. </p><p>The influence songs, movies, and books can have on you by mere words is actually quite crazy. A few cuss words turn into nothing. Why? Because when we play that song on repeat we get it into our minds that it&#8217;s nothing so we can excuse ourselves to listening to the song because <em>we know it&#8217;s bad.</em></p><p>Last question (quite similar to the previous): <strong>Are books with bad scenes that last two pages long good to read?</strong></p><p>If I could answer this question with a conclusion of my previous answers to the other questions, I would. But it&#8217;s probably best I don&#8217;t make you go through that again. So to simplify it, no. Do not read a book that has two pages full of nasty, evil things. Often times people will just say, well I&#8217;ll just skip reading over it. Well, that&#8217;s great! But there is still a temptation to, and it&#8217;s so easy to access it so it&#8217;d be so easy to be tempted into reading it. I would say, a few books here and there may have bad things, but if it&#8217;s two pages long, you&#8217;re better off reading baby shark. (is there a book for baby shark?)</p><p></p><p>Now, I&#8217;ve read, watched, and listened to things that go against what I&#8217;ve said in here. That go against what the Bible says. But, as humans we all are going to fall short and that shouldn&#8217;t be an excuse. If you have the option to not sin, then why do you still choose to do it? If you have the option to not fall into temptations, then why do you still choose it? That&#8217;s a question I&#8217;ve been asking myself recently. So I want you all to take these questions and really ask yourselves them.</p><p>Thank you all for reading, if you have any questions comment them down below!</p><p>Grow in your faith and live boldly,</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Today I will be talking about emotions (Sparkle, sparkle). Emotions, to me, is a very important topic to talk about, especially as Christians. You see, nowadays, some people let their emotions drive the way they think and the way they make decisions. Some people might not be able to control their emotions.</p><p>Let&#8217;s get into it:</p><p>As we probably have seen, some of our world leaders have made TERRIBLE decisions pretty much based on how they felt emotionally. Everyone has made this mistake. The thing is, the new trend in this generation is to over exaggerate every single feeling you feel and expect attention for it.  </p><p>What does the Bible have to say about this?</p><p>The Bible has a lot of verses to relate to this issue, so lets break them up. </p><p>Our first verse: Proverbs 29:11, &#8220;A fool vents his feelings, but a wise man holds them back.&#8221; In this verse, I would say it exaggerates the importance of self-control. If you feel mad, you can&#8217;t just get irritated at everyone around you until your not angry anymore. Neither can you blame your sadness on everyone you see as if they somehow were the cause of it. No, believe it or not as Christians it is a key for us to have self-control and control our emotions instead of letting them get a hold of us. Just think, is it really your siblings fault that you feel sad all of the sudden? It&#8217;s not like someone just walked into your room all of the sudden and put a magical spell of sadness, anger, or some random feeling your feeling on you. No, it&#8217;s your mood swings. And believe it or not, sometimes our feelings aren&#8217;t accurate.</p><p>Second: 2 Corinthians 10:5, &#8220;..take every thought captive to obey Christ.&#8221; This verse stresses the importance of containing yourself. Just think, if you get the thought to let your anger out on someone, is that an obeying thought to the Lord? Would that obey the Lord?</p><p>Sometimes, emotions can get a hold of us. They can tend to mess with our minds. Now, yes, you will absolutely get emotions, BUT if you let your emotions control your actions, then it&#8217;s obvious you don&#8217;t have any control over your emotions.</p><p>A common trend in this generation is feeling bad for yourself just so you can get attention from others. Some people like to do this thing where they say their &#8220;depressed&#8221; but they don&#8217;t act like it. They simply do it for attention. I bet you, a huge majority of online influencers and just other people(kids and teenagers being the huge majority) all say their depressed but they simply do it so they can get one of those comments that are something like: <em>&#8220;Omgosh! That is so horrible, you are going through such a hard time and you are such a survivor. Oh my goodness.&#8221; </em>Uh-yeah, those comments and really just the attention of anyone.</p><p>Now, I&#8217;m not saying some people are not depressed but I am saying that some people use it as a trend for attention. I get that some people do genuinely go through depression, but it tends to be a trend to mistake sadness for depression nowadays.</p><p>Now, I really want you all to think about this. Sometimes I too fall short of this, I am not any better than you. I struggle with the same. But we have to remember, our emotions are not our king, our emotions should NOT control us, and most importantly our emotions are made by hormones 99% of the time. (especially for teenagers, and of course, adults!). Next time you feel sad, mad, or super happy, literally any feeling, pray to God. You want Him to look on your heart, rather than you. He will guide you and He will work wonders.</p><p>We have one leader and one king, and that is not our emotions, that is our merciful Savior.</p><p>Praying for everyone of you guys!</p><p>Grow in your faith and live boldly,</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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now.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/hope-and-faith-growing-in-your-faith</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/hope-and-faith-growing-in-your-faith</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:22:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LXMq!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5754c557-a9c1-4afd-adc0-4977b1d6a61a_367x367.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a hot minute since I&#8217;ve gotten on here and wrote a blog, so I decided I would go ahead and write one for you guys right now. I wanted to write about hope and faith because these have been the two words I&#8217;ve been focusing on for this month. This month has definitely taught me more about having both faith and hope. I hope you enjoy!</p><p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;During this month, I&#8217;ve been through some hardships that taught me about having faith and hope. </p><p>The beginning of this year marked a year since one of my best friends took her life. Something I tried to deal with, I prayed on it and did plenty of Bible studies over it. Everything seemed to go fine after this, until one night I got in a debate with one of my friends about suicide and deaths. Remembering the past few events that happened, it affected me more than I wanted it to, but perhaps in a good way. </p><p>That night I talked to my mom about it. We talked about it for awhile, considering this month has been a month full of some tragedies, it was a good thing for us to talk about. My mom said something along the lines of, &#8216;Sometimes when bad things like deaths happen, we tend to lose faith and hope in the Lord because we wonder why He&#8217;d let such a horrible thing happen. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important to have hope AND faith in the Lord in these situations, He and only He knows what the future holds. Whether or not we like that certain deaths happen, we have to remember that our Lord is working on something better and we can have hope in that because we&#8217;ve seen it.&#8217;</p><p>My mom said other things, but this was something that stuck with me. I knew that I should have faith in the Lord because when tragedies strike, that&#8217;s when the devil tries to break you down most. That&#8217;s where some people become so little in faith and hope in the Lord, that it&#8217;s easy for the devil to break them.</p><p>Now, I know some people might&#8217;ve (or currently are) going through super difficult times or maybe even super difficult deaths. I want to encourage any of you who are going through a difficult time (whether it&#8217;s a death, waiting season etc.), have faith and hope in our Lord. Yes, you are not capable of getting through this by yourself, that&#8217;s why you give it to God. He has a better and bigger plan than we can see. Faith does not mean having faith because you know what&#8217;s coming, faith means having faith even when you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s ahead. We are not in control of these things, however, we are in control of how we respond/deal with them.  Psalm 55:22 says, &#8220;Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never permit the righteous to be moved.&#8221;  and 1 Peter 5:7 says, &#8220;Cast all your anxiety on Him because He <em>cares</em>.&#8221;</p><p>Have faith and hope in the Lord for only He knows what will happen. You will not know what the future holds, but you can have faith and hope that whatever it holds the Lord will help you through. It&#8217;s all going to work out for His will.</p><p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p><p>Have faith <em>and </em>hope my friends. Whatever you are going through, just know you are fighting a battle that has already been won.</p><p>If any of you guys need prayer or need to talk about something going on, please feel free to reach out to me. I&#8217;d love to pray with, for, and over you.</p><p>Also, if you guys have any suggestions or want to hear a specific blog on something, let me know in the comments!</p><p>Many blessings dear friends,</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insecurities (Growing in Your Faith, Blog #2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being insecure is something I am sure a lot of people struggle with.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/insecurities-growing-in-your-faith</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/insecurities-growing-in-your-faith</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:21:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c5dbbf92-63a5-48f1-bc9e-3df8f8dac4db_367x368.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being insecure is something I am sure a lot of people struggle with. I personally, always have struggled with being insecure. But from a Christian viewpoint, this is how we should look at it:</p><p>Throughout my life, I&#8217;ve often been body-shamed by people I thought were my &#8220;friends&#8221; and people I barely knew. Me, already being a very insecure person, made it only worse when I heard what they were saying. I always compared myself to my friends, wondering why I didn&#8217;t look like her or why she looks more pretty than me. But, the Bible says a lot about this particular topic. God knit you in the womb, which means, for all nine months (or more, or less) you were in your mothers womb, God was knitting every piece of you together. When you judge the way you look, or the way God made you, your judging God&#8217;s creation. Psalm 139:14 says, &#8220;I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.&#8221;</p><p>Not only were we made in the image of an all-loving Savior, we were <em>fearfully and wonderfully made.</em> God has never looked at you and wanted you to be someone else, He has never compared you to him or to her. He looks at you and see&#8217;s someone He loves, someone He has made with love. We can be confident, because we know that the Lord has made us with such love nothing can compare too. </p><p>The internet is also a big influence for insecurities. They often have what we would call, &#8220;beauty standards&#8221;. Whether that means you need to look super skinny and thin or super fit and muscular (and if you do look like that, that is still a good thing!). It&#8217;s easy to be watching videos on any social media platform and compare yourself to someone you see on there. If we think about it though, the reason that when you try to change your body, your look, your outfits etc. to look like a certain person and you still don&#8217;t look like that person is because you <em>aren&#8217;t </em>that person. You were never made to be that person, so no matter what you do, even if you change your style in clothing, hair etc., you still won&#8217;t be or look like that exact person. That&#8217;s whats special about all of us, is because we are all made differently, not a single one of us are the exact same (if we were that would be quite confusing!).</p><p>The main solution for helping with insecurities is being confident, but that&#8217;s not as easy as it sounds. 2 Corinthians 3:4 says, &#8220;Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.&#8221;  Our confidence is found in the Lord, we can be confident in our bodies and the way we look because we know that God created us with such love and admiration that nobody could have for us. Our Lord is a glorious, merciful God. </p><p>AND, remember that our outward appearances don&#8217;t matter when it comes to our salvation. 1 Samuel 16:7, &#8220;Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.&#8221; You should never put your outward appearance (as in outfits, makeup, hair) as a main priority if your heart is empty.</p><p>I hope this helps with your guys&#8217; insecurities. Just know, you all are beautiful people and God has never looked at you wishing you were someone else. </p><p>Grow in your faith and live boldly!</p><p>Scarlet Cumming</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[2025 Recap]]></title><description><![CDATA[First of all, here was a picture my friend sent to me from Chat- GPT, an AI generated picture for my Faith & Politics Blog.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/2025-recap</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/2025-recap</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:16:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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I don&#8217;t know how I feel about it&#8230;. what do you guys think?</p><p>Now to the recap&#8230;</p><p>____________________________________________________________________________</p><p>Where do we even begin? This year has gone by in a blink of an eye. Since there would be too much to put in one paragraph, let me break down each month for you.</p><p>But before we do that, let me summarize my 2024 for you..</p><p>2024 was a great year, I started my first year at Logos Online school, and I have no regrets of joining the school since then. It was also the time where I started taking following Jesus more seriously and stopped messing around.</p><p>2025 January-</p><p>Not much happened in January, at least of what I can remember. Mostly I and my family traveled across the country to visit family, as well as see the beautiful state of Oklahoma. </p><p>2025 February-</p><p>This month was a very difficult month, yet it had many lessons to offer. During the month of February, I went through a very difficult time of hardships. I grew farther away from God, and though I hate to admit it, I was far away from God and had no desire of coming back. That month, I let the devil break me down and I had no desire whatsoever to fight back. Eventually, I got back to God after going through a series of hardships, and it taught me a lesson, the devil is never resting. He is on a mission to break you, in every way possible. </p><p>2025 March-</p><p>March was a very good month. That month I got to see my cousin, after almost 2 years of not seeing her. There wasn&#8217;t much exciting things in this month, but overall it was another month to grow closer to God.</p><p>2025 April- </p><p>This month I, yet again, visited my cousin. We spent a week together, which was very great. We often would do a Bible study together everyday. </p><p>2025 May- </p><p>A very exciting month overall. The month started off with my birthday and then later in the month I finished off school.</p><p>2025 June-</p><p>This month was a month of waiting seasons for me, I faced many, but through them I learned multiple valuable lessons. God taught me many things through these seasons, and they were things I still to this day hold tightly to my heart. They were lessons that helped to shape my life, which is how God works, He shapes you through lessons, trials, and tests.</p><p>2025 July-</p><p>This month I was promoted in Jiu-jitsu with my dad and later after I got to see my cousin (yes, again) for two weeks. My dad&#8217;s birthday also happened in this month.</p><p>2025 August-</p><p>This month was pretty plain, nothing much happened except for my wonderful mom&#8217;s birthday. During this month, I did begin planning on starting this blog.</p><p>2025 September-</p><p>An unforgettable month. First, I began school again. </p><p>There is more to this month though, we experienced the death of a man who spoke truth, who sparked hope. We watched Charlie Kirk be murdered by a liberal in front of many people, some who celebrated. Afterwards, liberals mocked and joked about his death in the faces of those mourning. Just the day after (9/11), we were reminded of the great tragedy that happened years ago. And if this all isn&#8217;t depressing enough, we witnessed many shootings after it all. During this month, I learned that the liberals have lost their minds, they want every conservative dead, and that&#8217;s not exaggeration. Charlie Kirk&#8217;s death sparked a flame in my soul that wouldn&#8217;t burn out, and I was sure of that. Through tears I watched Erika Kirk fearlessly speak of Charlie, I watched his memorial, and all the things after that. I refused to be silent after this, and I still refuse. We all have a calling in our hearts by the Lord, and whether or not that is revealed to us yet, we all have a calling. I will not be silent until my last breath,  I will continue to serve the Lord and do what I can to make this country a better place.</p><p>2025 October- </p><p>Between September and October, I started this blog. With a desire in my heart to reach all the unbelievers and bring them closer to God, as well as reach the believers and encourage them in their Faith.</p><p>2025 November-</p><p>During this month, I was very thankful. It reminded me the year was coming to an end, and most importantly, it reminded me the blessing of God giving me another year to shine His glory through my life. </p><p>2025 December-</p><p>A wonderful month, I celebrated Christmas with my lovely family and I also went and visited my cousin again. Matter of fact, I just got back from that. And during the visit with my cousin, her older sister gave birth to a very precious baby (welcome to the world Gabriel! &#129653;)</p><p></p><p>Throughout this year I have faced hardships, triumphs, and trials, but through them all God has taught me unforgettable and valuable lessons. My message to those who might be facing any hardships or trials that feel never ending is, never give up. Know that there will be an end, because the battle is already won, dear friend. God has won the battle and that is why we have hope that even our worst hardships and trials we will win because we have a glorious, powerful God! Through Christ, our strength, beauty, and hope is found. Don&#8217;t place your hope or faith in this world, place it in Christ who strengthens us.</p><p>Now, here&#8217;s to another year.</p><p>Remember, through this year you will face triumphs, trials, and hardships, but you will get through them. Remember, Jesus has already won the battle, the day that He was crucified and rose from the dead three days later shows us that the battle is won.</p><p>Many blessings,</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://scarletcummings.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing In Your Faith With God (Blog 1# "Hardships in Faith"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s talk about hardships in Faith.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/growing-in-your-faith-with-god-blog</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/growing-in-your-faith-with-god-blog</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:21:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LXMq!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5754c557-a9c1-4afd-adc0-4977b1d6a61a_367x367.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s talk about hardships in Faith. Many of you are Christians, and you understand the many hardships we often times face as Christians. Some hardships are so hard it makes us question our faith.</p><p>James 1:2-4 says, &#8220;Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.&#8221; Hardships are seasonal, pain does not last forever. Never in the Bible are we promised a life without hardships on this earth. </p><p>Now, the devil uses hardships in a way. Normally when you go through spiritual battles, you question your faith. You think of giving up. The devil yearns for you to loose faith, he loves to see you be so broken down that you want to give up. That&#8217;s what he seeks. The devil has a way of doing things. He tries to wear you down, he tries to break you down and then he tries to get in your head and say, &#8220;there is no way you are going to get back up&#8230;unless you give up.&#8221; and that is what the devil does.</p><p>I remember there was one season in my life, I was so close to God and then all the sudden something happens. All the sudden I am in a deep, dark valley. I feel myself fall away from God so I struggle to get back to Him, by myself. I hit rock bottom, and I gave up. I stopped doing Bible studies, I stopped praying to God. I only prayed to Him when I wanted something or when I was in need. And then God came, once again, and helped me carry my burden. I still go through seasons like this, it&#8217;s normal. But one thing I&#8217;ve learned is to never give up, you giving up is the devil winning. When you go through a trial or a hardship you should be praying even more to the Lord, even harder. When you go through hardships you have to fix your eyes on the Lord and trust He is going to bring you through.</p><p>One quote I heard before was, <em>&#8220;When you feel like God isn&#8217;t there, remember, the teacher is silent during the test&#8230;&#8221; </em>God&#8217;s silence is not an absence, it is a test. God doesn&#8217;t abandon you, He tests your faith. In the Bible when God commanded Abraham to sacrifice His son, Isaac, Abraham was hesitant, but he did it out of faith in the Lord. &#8220;The Lord will provide&#8221; he said. Sure enough, right when Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac, the Lord provided a ram to use for a sacrifice instead. Abraham was put through a test, and it might seem easy because we knew the end result. But when we go through our own tests, we are unaware of the end result, we doubt that their will be an end. No matter what trial or hardship or test you go through, GOD. WILL. PROVIDE! So stand strong in your faith, stay firm. Look upon the Lord, trust Him.</p><p>Grow in your faith and live boldly!</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Made It To Thanksgiving]]></title><description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving everyone!]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/we-made-it-to-thanksgiving</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/we-made-it-to-thanksgiving</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 03:49:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LXMq!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5754c557-a9c1-4afd-adc0-4977b1d6a61a_367x367.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy Thanksgiving everyone!</p><p>It is such a joy to be able to celebrate this amazing holiday with friends and family. This holiday, to me at least, is also a sign that we have almost finished another year!</p><p>If I could list all of the things I was thankful for, the list would go on and on, I wouldn&#8217;t even be able to list it all! But to shorten it down, I am most thankful for this wonderful opportunity I have on here to share God&#8217;s word. I am of course thankful for my beautiful family, and especially my amazing parents. Credits go to my parents for proof-reading all of my blogs! I am also so thankful for all of you wonderful people and the support you give me everyday. </p><p>Thanksgiving is a day full of thankfulness, family, and of course food. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed Thanksgiving, it is a holiday that reminds me of everything God has done for me and my family. Everyday is a day God has revealed His many blessings to me, but Thanksgiving day is like a recap of all of those blessings plus more. Many people may look at Thanksgiving as a day to get together and enjoy a feast, but there is so much more in it! When you go about your Thanksgiving day you should think about all the blessings God has given to you. Be thankful for what God has given you, even the simplest things.</p><p>I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving day!</p><p></p><p>Grow in your faith and live boldly</p><p>Scarlet Cummings  </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trusting God's Plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is not a very political topic, in fact it is really just a topic about growing in your faith with God.]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/trusting-gods-plan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/trusting-gods-plan</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 03:13:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LXMq!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5754c557-a9c1-4afd-adc0-4977b1d6a61a_367x367.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>This is not a very political topic, in fact it is really just a topic about growing in your faith with God. I needed this reminder so much these past couple weeks and I thought I would share it with you guys.</p><p>&#8220;Just trust God&#8217;s plan&#8221;, is one of those phrases that is easier said then done.</p><p>Even as Christians we often times forget who is really in control of our lives, our futures, our decisions, and so much more. We often find ourselves trying to paint our picture for our life, but you can&#8217;t paint a picture your living in, only the artist can. Letting go of your control over your life is so hard, and it doesn&#8217;t sound right to some people. </p><p>Some people even wonder why you would even consider giving God control of your life. When God puts it in you to accept Him into your life, you aren&#8217;t just doing it to declare yourself as Christian, your actually <em>giving </em>your life to God. Your giving Him control and letting go of your ways. Your becoming a new you. God doesn&#8217;t break you down for you to build yourself back up leading your life, He breaks you down so <em>He </em>can rebuild your life, with Him leading it. </p><p>Next time you try to take control of your life, take a minute and realize that God&#8217;s way is going to be better than yours. Let God lead your life.</p><p>Grow in your faith and live boldly!</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Recent Election ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello Everyone!]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/the-recent-election</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/the-recent-election</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 03:05:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LXMq!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5754c557-a9c1-4afd-adc0-4977b1d6a61a_367x367.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Everyone!</p><p>A couple things happened since my last blog. First, I want to say it has officially been a year since President Trump became president again! We aren&#8217;t safe yet though because Trump still has A LOT to fix, because of what Biden left. Thank the Lord for keeping President Trump safe and may He continue to keep him safe. </p><p>Concerning the elections, NYC recently elected Zohran Mamdani for their mayor&#8230;have fun with that one NYC.</p><p> For those of you who don&#8217;t know, Mamdani is a self declared socialist and someone who will only seek to maintain power. And if you think Mamdani won&#8217;t ruin NYC, then sorry to burst your bubble, he in fact will. He gladly will. </p><p>If this isn&#8217;t worrying at all, let&#8217;s go ahead and take a look at Virginia. First, Virginia is now officially blue, so congratulations Virginia you&#8217;ve joined in on/supported the communists that are destroying our country! But let&#8217;s look at something, even more crazy. Jay Jones had sent a text message fantasizing shooting his political rival, Todd Gilbert who ironically is a republican. This is absolutely insane, I mean liberals are SO offended by conservatives that all they can do is seek to kill us. One of my favorite quotes Charlie Kirk said was, &#8220;<em>If you want to be a rebel, be a conservative.&#8221; </em>In this quote Charlie Kirk is telling the truth. Liberals are so offended by republicans that all they can do is throw tantrums and wish death upon us. Sorry to hurt your feelings liberals, but no matter how much you scream and cry and act like a victim on social media, what we believe is supported by common sense.</p><p>  Now let&#8217;s look at this from a Christian viewpoint:</p><p>The world is seriously falling apart right before our eyes, and so many people are ignoring it. If you don&#8217;t stand up for the truth now, no one will. As Charlie Kirk said, &#8220;<em>You are working on something bigger than you.&#8221; </em> Some people nowadays want to stay in trend and be &#8220;cool&#8221; or be like everyone else. But that is not what God has called us to do. He says we are <em>set apart</em> from the world. </p><p>Let&#8217;s pray for Mamdani, though it is really hard to pray for your enemies. God explains/says this in Matthew 5:43-48.</p><p></p><p>Grow in your faith and live boldly!</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lgbtq+ at its Finest (From a Christian Viewpoint)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello Everyone!]]></description><link>https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/the-lgbtq-at-its-finest-from-a-christian</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://scarletcummings.substack.com/p/the-lgbtq-at-its-finest-from-a-christian</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scarlet Cummings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 03:09:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LXMq!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5754c557-a9c1-4afd-adc0-4977b1d6a61a_367x367.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Everyone!</p><p>In this blog I will be talking about the lgbtq+ community. Now, I did write a blog about some of the recent events but that will not be posted until this weekend! Let&#8217;s get started!</p><p>So as many of you know, in the queer community a man is able to identify as a woman and be considered a woman, and woman can identify as a man and be considered a man. Though this is what the lgbtq+ community apparently thinks can happen, it is not the case and it is far from the truth. </p><p>Not only do democrats agree with the lgbtq+ community, but they also support men going into women restrooms or locker rooms freely if they identify as a woman. This should not be the case whether or not a man identifies as a woman. I have encountered this before. Once I was at a store and had went to the bathroom, right as I went to open the door to the women&#8217;s restroom and a man dressed in woman clothing and makeup walked out. It was a horrific sight to see, almost like something you&#8217;d see in a horror movie. The fact that women aren&#8217;t able to go into public restrooms that are specifically for their gender without seeing a man in a dress and makeup is insane. And all the democrats and lgbtq+ community support this. It is very disturbing as a girl to walk into a restroom specified for women and see a full grown man there. </p><p>  Now let&#8217;s look at this from a Christian viewpoint:</p><p>In Genesis 19, God burned down a whole city (Sodom) because in the city people did many homosexual acts. In Leviticus 18:22, &#8220;You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.&#8221; There is so much more verses/passages in the Bible that all point to this being wrong, if common sense doesn&#8217;t already tell you that. What we can take from this is, yes this world is very broken and confused and we have all strayed so far from God. Though the lgbtq+ community does these things, we still must pray for them and their hearts.</p><p>Grow in your faith and live boldly!</p><p>Scarlet Cummings</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>