I stumbled upon this website. It's regarding about the harmony by Master Zohar through Aurelia Louise Jones
Master Zohar
Greetings my beloved brothers and sister, this is Zohar.
Thank you Aurelia for asking me to have a saying in your book; I am really please to offer my energy for such endeavor. Let me say this. In order for this world to be enlightened entirely and be lifted in the Light, it is of necessity that everyone living here must take on the persona of “harmony”. Everyone must do this; it is a requirement. Otherwise, those who will not will be dragged down by their own arrogance. They will acquire sicknesses created from their lack of light and they will simply die, mainly because they will not have the capacity of being happy in the new world. Understand?
This is now your choice, beloved ones. Either you choose to make it, or you don’t. The outcome of your evolution is entirely depending on your own choices that you make each day, and each moment of the day.
The surface populations are now getting close to what is called “The Gathering”. Know that the powers that be in this world, the powers of the shadow side, the Illuminati, are trying to stop this at all cost. Know that the more they are trying to stop it, the more you will know that you are doing it right and getting closer. Understand?
The governments of your planet do not yet realize that the people who live in the interior have been there such a long time, much longer than their limited mind could ever imagine. They do not yet realize that it is not them who are in charge of this planet, and that their time for ruling is soon coming to a dramatic end. Their bubble of illusion will soon be shattered, and their cycle of accountability will be born.
It is now time to distance yourself from all those who do not seek to embrace harmony in their lives. All those who wish to embody harmony or wish to be accepted into the family of Telos must do the following:
• You must strive to remain in a state of harmony at all times, with all of creation and all of nature. For without harmony, there is discord. Then with discord there is destruction.
• Regardless of what people may do or say, you “must remain in harmony”. If someone tries to hurt you, then bless them, and do not let them be part of your reality.
• If you encounter disharmonious situation, then distance yourself. You have no obligation to remain where harmony does not reign.
• Seek truth and harmony at all times, and do not ever again allow yourself to deviate from this course or you will self-destruct. Those who will continue to resist the new energies now flooding your planet will not be able to do this much longer. The new energies are now getting so very strong and intense to bring about the changes and transformations you have been all waiting for. Those who will resist will self-destruct.
• You should no longer entertain feelings of discord and guilt. Never be sorry for what you are or what you are going through to balance your debts towards life. Rather strive always to improve yourself.
• Harmony should be the number one quality in your life, and be assured that it will pave your pathway for admittance into the Halls of Ascension. You will know when you have reached that level because then nothing will bother you. Whatever people say or do to you, it will not grieve your heart one way or the other.
• Someone who is in total harmony is totally happy with Creation. That someone holds total acceptance of what is. When you become that, you are ready for your ascension.
Since I am almost a Telosian by association, I will also be there to greet you and champion your victory in the Light. Namaste my beloveds friends, I love you all so very much!
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Tribute to Bunga Alpina III
Who never thought that day, on thursday morning, 26 of July would be a tragedy. Sadly 5 person died. I offer my special prayers to the souls and their families to stay strong in this difficult time.
The ship was believed loaded with the liquified natural gas (LNG) and was hit by lightning at 2:30 am. The second explosion felt some area in Labuan around 7:00 am.
God bless their soul. My Healing energy sent to them and their family and around the world for those who are grieving for their lost one.....
The ship was believed loaded with the liquified natural gas (LNG) and was hit by lightning at 2:30 am. The second explosion felt some area in Labuan around 7:00 am.
God bless their soul. My Healing energy sent to them and their family and around the world for those who are grieving for their lost one.....
Monday, June 18, 2012
Guardian Angel
Angel assigned to us is our personal angel or guardian angel. They are our closest companion and guide us while we walk on earth. They help us through our transformation of birth and death, help us to carry out our divine plan, defend us and help to protect us in time of trouble and call the other angels when we need them.
HOWEVER, they will not interfere us many things unless if we ASK them to assist. When asking help from them, be precise and keep your intention pure and highest good.
Many of us lightworker have more than 2 guardian angels, assisting in healing, psychic etc. We are in tune with them and can feel their presence. The scent of flower and fluttering of their wings and sometime hear their beautiful music. If you fortunate enough, you may find feather when our celestial friend depart.
Here I leave you a prayers for your guardian angel to be nearer to you and assist in your life. You no longer to be Alone! May God Bless you!
Guardian Angel Prayer
by St. Gertrude
O most holy angel of God,
appointed by God to be my guardian,
I give you thanks for all the benefits
which you have ever bestowed on me
in body and in soul.
I praise and glorify you
that you condescended to assist me
with such patient fidelity,
and to defend me against all the assaults of my enemies.
Blessed be the hour in which
you were assigned me for my guardian,
my defender and my patron.
In acknowledgment and return
for all your loving ministries to me,
I offer you the infinitely precious
and noble heart of Jesus,
and firmly purpose to obey you henceforward,
and most faithfully to serve my God.
Amen
A Guardian Angel Prayer For Friends
~
Guardian Angel, watch over those whose names you can read in my heart. Guard over them with every care and make their way easy and their labours fruitful. Dry their tears if they weep; sanctify their joys; raise their courage if they weaken; restore their hope if they lose heart, their health if they be ill, truth if they err, repentance if they fail.
HOWEVER, they will not interfere us many things unless if we ASK them to assist. When asking help from them, be precise and keep your intention pure and highest good.
Many of us lightworker have more than 2 guardian angels, assisting in healing, psychic etc. We are in tune with them and can feel their presence. The scent of flower and fluttering of their wings and sometime hear their beautiful music. If you fortunate enough, you may find feather when our celestial friend depart.
Here I leave you a prayers for your guardian angel to be nearer to you and assist in your life. You no longer to be Alone! May God Bless you!
Guardian Angel Prayer
by St. Gertrude
O most holy angel of God,
appointed by God to be my guardian,
I give you thanks for all the benefits
which you have ever bestowed on me
in body and in soul.
I praise and glorify you
that you condescended to assist me
with such patient fidelity,
and to defend me against all the assaults of my enemies.
Blessed be the hour in which
you were assigned me for my guardian,
my defender and my patron.
In acknowledgment and return
for all your loving ministries to me,
I offer you the infinitely precious
and noble heart of Jesus,
and firmly purpose to obey you henceforward,
and most faithfully to serve my God.
Amen
A Guardian Angel Prayer For Friends
~
Guardian Angel, watch over those whose names you can read in my heart. Guard over them with every care and make their way easy and their labours fruitful. Dry their tears if they weep; sanctify their joys; raise their courage if they weaken; restore their hope if they lose heart, their health if they be ill, truth if they err, repentance if they fail.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Broken promises
Woke up this morning and felt that I was betrayed for without any reason?. I don't know why? I ask God, why I am feeling this way? He replied, this is how I feel if someone broke my commandments. Now I understand.. This is how He felt when we betrayed Him.
Every time we make promises. When we seal that promises just make sure you do it.
Deuteronomy 23: 21-23
“When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you. 22 But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you. 23 That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-5
When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it;
For He has no pleasure in fools.
Pay what you have vowed—
5 Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.
We as a Christian have rules to guide us. It's the commandments that guide us and should be followed but we often led to temptation and fell. God do weep if we break His promises. He loves us so much and that why He sent Jesus to save us.
God's love extends mercy and forgiveness. You pray, confess your sin and ask for forgiveness. Then you correct it, do what God want you to do/what you promised Him. He forgives. We've all made mistakes big and small. God want us to confess with meaning not just words.
If we made mistakes please repent and don't repeat the same mistake as God love us..
It's a blessing to weep with you dear Lord as in, John 16:20 I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. Bless are those who people who mourn and weep.. Amen
Every time we make promises. When we seal that promises just make sure you do it.
Deuteronomy 23: 21-23
“When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you. 22 But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you. 23 That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-5
When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it;
For He has no pleasure in fools.
Pay what you have vowed—
5 Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.
We as a Christian have rules to guide us. It's the commandments that guide us and should be followed but we often led to temptation and fell. God do weep if we break His promises. He loves us so much and that why He sent Jesus to save us.
God's love extends mercy and forgiveness. You pray, confess your sin and ask for forgiveness. Then you correct it, do what God want you to do/what you promised Him. He forgives. We've all made mistakes big and small. God want us to confess with meaning not just words.
If we made mistakes please repent and don't repeat the same mistake as God love us..
It's a blessing to weep with you dear Lord as in, John 16:20 I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. Bless are those who people who mourn and weep.. Amen
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Life as a bearer
In Galatians 6:2 we are told to bear one another’s burdens. Then in Galatians 6:5 we are told that each one should bear their own load. What does this mean?
The Sandfords describe burden bearing this way: “Burden bearing is predicated upon the capacity of our spirit to identify with another, to empathize, to share and shoulder emotional loads. In the same way that two physically can carry a log which one alone cannot lift, burden bearing takes one end of a load, and so enables a brother to survive and function. Whereas two must be in proximity to lift something physically, burden bearing requires no spatial nearness. We can feel, identify, share and pray about another’s burdens at whatever distance we may happen to be.”
Jesus Christ is the true burden bearer. His wounds is the witness of our sin. No other human can do this, but some do try. There is a place for picking up part of someone else’s load when they can’t to carry it alone, but there comes a time to put it down again. If we don’t it will damage us.
Burden bearer are born with this special gift not trained. They have ability to pick up others emotion load and carry it. They also know what the other people toughts and intention. Without proper guidance they will suffer and think their gift is a curse.
The gift of Burden Bearing is a powerful gift and the devil hates its operation in a self sacrificing cross bearing Christian. But, he will use it to spread stuff to others if he can’t destroy the Christian.
Also do not think it strange if you are despised by certain people; for this is some of the negative effects the demonic realm will try to project towards the Burden Bearer. Just know that you are in good company.
Isa 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
How wonderful is it to become a burden bearer. All praise and glory be to God’s wonderful love, who is willing to weep with those who weep and is willing to help us carry the things that are too heavy for us, according to his wonderful love that was demonstrated through Christ’s death on the Cross, and this demonstration of love is what the Burden Bearer is called; to carry the heart of God by carrying his or her cross and interceding for the transgressions according to God’s will.
Thank you Lord for this gift..
The Sandfords describe burden bearing this way: “Burden bearing is predicated upon the capacity of our spirit to identify with another, to empathize, to share and shoulder emotional loads. In the same way that two physically can carry a log which one alone cannot lift, burden bearing takes one end of a load, and so enables a brother to survive and function. Whereas two must be in proximity to lift something physically, burden bearing requires no spatial nearness. We can feel, identify, share and pray about another’s burdens at whatever distance we may happen to be.”
Jesus Christ is the true burden bearer. His wounds is the witness of our sin. No other human can do this, but some do try. There is a place for picking up part of someone else’s load when they can’t to carry it alone, but there comes a time to put it down again. If we don’t it will damage us.
Burden bearer are born with this special gift not trained. They have ability to pick up others emotion load and carry it. They also know what the other people toughts and intention. Without proper guidance they will suffer and think their gift is a curse.
The gift of Burden Bearing is a powerful gift and the devil hates its operation in a self sacrificing cross bearing Christian. But, he will use it to spread stuff to others if he can’t destroy the Christian.
Also do not think it strange if you are despised by certain people; for this is some of the negative effects the demonic realm will try to project towards the Burden Bearer. Just know that you are in good company.
Isa 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
How wonderful is it to become a burden bearer. All praise and glory be to God’s wonderful love, who is willing to weep with those who weep and is willing to help us carry the things that are too heavy for us, according to his wonderful love that was demonstrated through Christ’s death on the Cross, and this demonstration of love is what the Burden Bearer is called; to carry the heart of God by carrying his or her cross and interceding for the transgressions according to God’s will.
Thank you Lord for this gift..
Friday, June 8, 2012
Epilogue "Issues That Make Christians Squirm"
To become a genuine Christian is almost impossible
1. The standards required of a Christian are beyond me
Everyone who has missed the distinctive feature of Christianity feels this way. Non-Christian religions require their followers to reach a certain standard, but to become a Christian is to acknowledge that none of us can meet God’s requirements. Jesus has done it for us.
If you were drowning, would you refuse the help of lifeguards because you are not good enough at swimming? It’s precisely because you are not good enough that you need to be saved. And everyone who lets Jesus save them is a Christian.
A different view: People claiming inability to become a Christian usually think they are demeaning only themselves. What they are really asserting, however, is that Jesus is an inadequate Savior. Upon realizing how ridiculous that is, they yield to Jesus and let him transform their lives.
2. It costs too much to become a Christian
Offer me an ice cream for $500 and I’d refuse. It costs too much. Offer me a brand new car for $500 and I’d think it so cheap that there must be a catch. It’s not the cost that’s the real issue, it’s what’s on offer. The cost of becoming a Christian is so enormous that it is exceeded only by the benefits. Nevertheless, the rewards are so immense that the cost shrivels to insignificance. What’s in it for me?
The wonderful thing about becoming a Christian is that you never do it alone. You are entering into partnership with the One for whom nothing is impossible. He is always with you to comfort, encourage, strengthen, liberate, protect and to shower you with compensations for what you have left behind. Try as you may, you can sacrifice nothing for God. The most you can do is exchange fleeting pleasure for eternal joy. That’s not a sacrifice. It’s an investment.
God is a giver, not a taker. What he desires is like a perfect marriage. In every way we benefit from his proposal and God gets the raw end. But God is love. He wants this holy union more than we can imagine. Don’t break his heart by holding back.
True marriage costs. It involves total commitment of all that you have and all that you are. It is believing in someone so completely that you entrust your entire being to that person for life. The Lord is eager to be that devoted to you, but for marriage to work, the commitment must be mutual.
If a street kid married a millionaire, she would get his riches and he would get her debts. He would be tarred with her shame and she would gain his honor. For this to happen, she must turn from rival relationships and bind herself and her meager possessions to this man in marriage. Everything he has would become hers, provided she lets everything she has become his.
Similarly, if we entrust to God everything we have - our time, abilities, relationships and possessions - he will reciprocate, embracing us with divine extravagance. We hand our depravity to Jesus, relinquishing even our fondest sin. It becomes his. That’s what killed him. In return, Jesus’ sinless perfection envelops us, enabling us to be on intimate terms with the Holy God. (2 Corinthians 5:21) The culmination of this divine exchange of holiness for depravity will be seen when all evil is finally wiped off this planet - we will be spared and no one can accuse God of injustice or favoritism. He has borne the penalty himself.
In entering this love pact, we give God the right to do whatever he likes with our assets, but the Owner of the universe makes his riches available to us. (Philippians 4:19) We trade our talents, for his unlimited power; our attempts to run our lives, for his unrivaled wisdom. We give him our time on earth and he gives us eternity.
The following prayer corresponds to wedding vows in which you promise to love, honor and obey the Lord, thus making him your God. In turn, the King of kings makes you worthy of spiritual fusion with him and pledges to devote himself unreservedly to you. If the following accurately describes your feelings, you can make it your prayer by reading it to God.
Lord,
It’s hard to admit how sinful I’ve been. I have caused you grief, yet you sent your Son who gave his life and defeated death to secure my pardon. (Romans 4:24-25; 6:4-5; 1 Corinthians 15:3-8,14,17; Colossians 2:12; 1 Peter 1:3)
You have given yourself totally for me and I long to reciprocate. In response to your overwhelming love, I dedicate all I have to loving you. I yield to your loving protection and guidance. I surrender my sins to you, renouncing even those things that entice me. And in exchange I receive your pardon and purity and your empowerment to live a life worthy of you.
Thank you that we have now commenced a union that not even death can break.
The Lord of heaven and earth knows your secret thoughts. (Hebrews 4:13) If you prayed the entire prayer honestly, you have entered a new spiritual realm. That’s hard to believe. Everything seems the same. But not from heaven’s perspective. The spiritual contract is sealed.
The proof rests not in your feelings (such as whether you feel guilty or happy), but in the integrity of the Holy One. He has given his word (in the Bible) that whoever turns from sin and looks to Jesus for cleansing, has a radically new destiny. (John 3:36; 6:37; 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 6:11-18; Philippians 3:8,9; Colossians 1:20-22) God is no liar!
I’m not convinced
Our desperate need is not for clever arguments but for a powerful encounter with the living God. (1 Corinthians 4:20) And we need not more dramatic signs from heaven, but to act on what we already know.
The door to spiritual understanding is not human explanation, but supernatural revelation. It swings not on mind games but on a willingness to surrender our stubborn will to One who knows better than us. (John 7:17; 2 Corinthians 3:14-16; 4:3-4; 1 Corinthians 2:4-16; Luke 10:21)
Draw near to God and he will draw near to you, promises the Bible. (James 4:8) Until we respond to the light we already have, God is unlikely to squander further enlightenment upon us.
With insincere excuses we might even fool ourselves, but not the One who knows everything. We don’t decide how much evidence we need: God does. Neither do we have the final say as to when God will lose patience with us.
Right now God is offering the greatest conceivable experience with endless benefits. It’s our one hope and Scripture says he could withdraw it at any moment. (Romans 2:3-6; 2 Peter 3:9-11; Jeremiah 11:10-11)
It is understandable that you have a few doubts - this is all so new to you - but every moment you let a little doubt immobilize you, is an enormous risk. The stakes are so mind boggling that Christians are often reluctant to tell it as it is for fear of being labeled scaremongers. I, too, balk at it, but it is the plain teaching of Jesus that your need is desperate. The uncertainty of life and the reality of hell makes the time you remain undecided the equivalent of hugging a bomb that could explode at any moment. If you only knew, all that Jesus offers you would unashamedly beg for it.
A different view: Your reasons for not becoming a Christian may be more flimsy that you realize. Years ago, psychologists carefully explained to smokers the danger of smoking. They discovered that those who continued to smoke reported enjoying smoking more than before. Apparently, the discrepancy between their behavior and what they knew they should do, forced their minds to exaggerate the pleasures of smoking. Likewise, a reluctance to become a Christian could subject people to psychological pressures that distort their perception of the benefits or logic of remaining spiritually divorced from Jesus.
I’ll think about it
Good. If you are caught in a burning building, however, merely thinking about escaping will not bring you to safety. What is needed is not just thought, but action. The cold reality is that you are not guaranteed the next heartbeat. Do what you can now.
It is no use thinking, ‘I’ll enjoy my sin for as long as I can and when I’m old I will say I’m sorry.’ Do you really think you could fool God? Such a ploy proves you want your own selfish way, not heaven.
A different view: Scripture declares that our thinking on otherworldly matters will remain foggy until undergoing the spiritual transformation that only Jesus offers. Agree to be rid of your sin, just as Jesus agreed to be smeared with your sin. Trust God to treat you as being as sinless as Jesus, just as God treated the crucified Christ as being as sinful as you. Spiritually - not necessarily consciously - you will be instantly transformed. You then have the rest of eternity to think about it, pondering the marvelous implications of what has happened to you and rejoicing in its endless benefits.
If you have entrusted your life to Jesus as a result of reading this page, please contact hot@net-burst.net now so that We pray for you and do whatever I can to assist you further.
1. The standards required of a Christian are beyond me
Everyone who has missed the distinctive feature of Christianity feels this way. Non-Christian religions require their followers to reach a certain standard, but to become a Christian is to acknowledge that none of us can meet God’s requirements. Jesus has done it for us.
If you were drowning, would you refuse the help of lifeguards because you are not good enough at swimming? It’s precisely because you are not good enough that you need to be saved. And everyone who lets Jesus save them is a Christian.
A different view: People claiming inability to become a Christian usually think they are demeaning only themselves. What they are really asserting, however, is that Jesus is an inadequate Savior. Upon realizing how ridiculous that is, they yield to Jesus and let him transform their lives.
2. It costs too much to become a Christian
Offer me an ice cream for $500 and I’d refuse. It costs too much. Offer me a brand new car for $500 and I’d think it so cheap that there must be a catch. It’s not the cost that’s the real issue, it’s what’s on offer. The cost of becoming a Christian is so enormous that it is exceeded only by the benefits. Nevertheless, the rewards are so immense that the cost shrivels to insignificance. What’s in it for me?
The wonderful thing about becoming a Christian is that you never do it alone. You are entering into partnership with the One for whom nothing is impossible. He is always with you to comfort, encourage, strengthen, liberate, protect and to shower you with compensations for what you have left behind. Try as you may, you can sacrifice nothing for God. The most you can do is exchange fleeting pleasure for eternal joy. That’s not a sacrifice. It’s an investment.
God is a giver, not a taker. What he desires is like a perfect marriage. In every way we benefit from his proposal and God gets the raw end. But God is love. He wants this holy union more than we can imagine. Don’t break his heart by holding back.
True marriage costs. It involves total commitment of all that you have and all that you are. It is believing in someone so completely that you entrust your entire being to that person for life. The Lord is eager to be that devoted to you, but for marriage to work, the commitment must be mutual.
If a street kid married a millionaire, she would get his riches and he would get her debts. He would be tarred with her shame and she would gain his honor. For this to happen, she must turn from rival relationships and bind herself and her meager possessions to this man in marriage. Everything he has would become hers, provided she lets everything she has become his.
Similarly, if we entrust to God everything we have - our time, abilities, relationships and possessions - he will reciprocate, embracing us with divine extravagance. We hand our depravity to Jesus, relinquishing even our fondest sin. It becomes his. That’s what killed him. In return, Jesus’ sinless perfection envelops us, enabling us to be on intimate terms with the Holy God. (2 Corinthians 5:21) The culmination of this divine exchange of holiness for depravity will be seen when all evil is finally wiped off this planet - we will be spared and no one can accuse God of injustice or favoritism. He has borne the penalty himself.
In entering this love pact, we give God the right to do whatever he likes with our assets, but the Owner of the universe makes his riches available to us. (Philippians 4:19) We trade our talents, for his unlimited power; our attempts to run our lives, for his unrivaled wisdom. We give him our time on earth and he gives us eternity.
The following prayer corresponds to wedding vows in which you promise to love, honor and obey the Lord, thus making him your God. In turn, the King of kings makes you worthy of spiritual fusion with him and pledges to devote himself unreservedly to you. If the following accurately describes your feelings, you can make it your prayer by reading it to God.
Lord,
It’s hard to admit how sinful I’ve been. I have caused you grief, yet you sent your Son who gave his life and defeated death to secure my pardon. (Romans 4:24-25; 6:4-5; 1 Corinthians 15:3-8,14,17; Colossians 2:12; 1 Peter 1:3)
You have given yourself totally for me and I long to reciprocate. In response to your overwhelming love, I dedicate all I have to loving you. I yield to your loving protection and guidance. I surrender my sins to you, renouncing even those things that entice me. And in exchange I receive your pardon and purity and your empowerment to live a life worthy of you.
Thank you that we have now commenced a union that not even death can break.
The Lord of heaven and earth knows your secret thoughts. (Hebrews 4:13) If you prayed the entire prayer honestly, you have entered a new spiritual realm. That’s hard to believe. Everything seems the same. But not from heaven’s perspective. The spiritual contract is sealed.
The proof rests not in your feelings (such as whether you feel guilty or happy), but in the integrity of the Holy One. He has given his word (in the Bible) that whoever turns from sin and looks to Jesus for cleansing, has a radically new destiny. (John 3:36; 6:37; 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 6:11-18; Philippians 3:8,9; Colossians 1:20-22) God is no liar!
I’m not convinced
Our desperate need is not for clever arguments but for a powerful encounter with the living God. (1 Corinthians 4:20) And we need not more dramatic signs from heaven, but to act on what we already know.
The door to spiritual understanding is not human explanation, but supernatural revelation. It swings not on mind games but on a willingness to surrender our stubborn will to One who knows better than us. (John 7:17; 2 Corinthians 3:14-16; 4:3-4; 1 Corinthians 2:4-16; Luke 10:21)
Draw near to God and he will draw near to you, promises the Bible. (James 4:8) Until we respond to the light we already have, God is unlikely to squander further enlightenment upon us.
With insincere excuses we might even fool ourselves, but not the One who knows everything. We don’t decide how much evidence we need: God does. Neither do we have the final say as to when God will lose patience with us.
Right now God is offering the greatest conceivable experience with endless benefits. It’s our one hope and Scripture says he could withdraw it at any moment. (Romans 2:3-6; 2 Peter 3:9-11; Jeremiah 11:10-11)
It is understandable that you have a few doubts - this is all so new to you - but every moment you let a little doubt immobilize you, is an enormous risk. The stakes are so mind boggling that Christians are often reluctant to tell it as it is for fear of being labeled scaremongers. I, too, balk at it, but it is the plain teaching of Jesus that your need is desperate. The uncertainty of life and the reality of hell makes the time you remain undecided the equivalent of hugging a bomb that could explode at any moment. If you only knew, all that Jesus offers you would unashamedly beg for it.
A different view: Your reasons for not becoming a Christian may be more flimsy that you realize. Years ago, psychologists carefully explained to smokers the danger of smoking. They discovered that those who continued to smoke reported enjoying smoking more than before. Apparently, the discrepancy between their behavior and what they knew they should do, forced their minds to exaggerate the pleasures of smoking. Likewise, a reluctance to become a Christian could subject people to psychological pressures that distort their perception of the benefits or logic of remaining spiritually divorced from Jesus.
I’ll think about it
Good. If you are caught in a burning building, however, merely thinking about escaping will not bring you to safety. What is needed is not just thought, but action. The cold reality is that you are not guaranteed the next heartbeat. Do what you can now.
It is no use thinking, ‘I’ll enjoy my sin for as long as I can and when I’m old I will say I’m sorry.’ Do you really think you could fool God? Such a ploy proves you want your own selfish way, not heaven.
A different view: Scripture declares that our thinking on otherworldly matters will remain foggy until undergoing the spiritual transformation that only Jesus offers. Agree to be rid of your sin, just as Jesus agreed to be smeared with your sin. Trust God to treat you as being as sinless as Jesus, just as God treated the crucified Christ as being as sinful as you. Spiritually - not necessarily consciously - you will be instantly transformed. You then have the rest of eternity to think about it, pondering the marvelous implications of what has happened to you and rejoicing in its endless benefits.
If you have entrusted your life to Jesus as a result of reading this page, please contact hot@net-burst.net now so that We pray for you and do whatever I can to assist you further.
Issues That Make Christians Squirm! Part 3 By Grantley Morris
All religions are much the same
That’s what many religions teach, so you have nothing to lose by ignoring them and concentrating on Jesus, who declared that if you don’t surrender to him, you have everything to lose. (John 14:6; Acts 4:10-12) You and I are not in a position to claim to know more about spiritual reality than the greatest religious teacher earth has seen - Jesus. He upheld the Scriptures which insist that all other religions offend God. (Deuteronomy 32:16-20; Matthew 5:17-19)
To ignore glaring differences between religions might seem broad-minded. In reality it is about as conceited and narrow as a person could get. To assert that all religions are essentially the same would be to claim you are smarter than each of the billions of people who see the distinctive features of their religion as critical. You would be asserting that even though you are not an expert in their religion you know they are wrong - you know their religion is really no different. Jesus made Godlike claims of this magnitude but he backed them up by living a perfect life, walking on water, calming a storm, multiplying bread and fish, healing people born blind or deaf or crippled, rising bodily from the dead, transforming believers for 2,000 years, and so on.
Your decision about religion is as serious as a starving person deciding whether to risk eating something which might be deadly. To the casual observer, wild mushrooms are all much the same and who cares anyhow? But when there is nothing else to eat, it becomes rather important whether the variety you choose is poisonous. And if you eat nothing for weeks, indecision becomes as deadly as the worse decision.
New Agers and others mutilate all the unique features of Jesus’ teaching, distorting Christianity into a form of eastern religion and surprise, surprise, when comparing this grotesque perversion with other religions, it begins to look as if ‘all religions are much the same.’
What does it matter whether it’s Jesus you worship, or some other religion? It’s all religion. That’s equivalent to asking a wife, deeply in love with her husband, ‘What does it matter if it’s you that your husband has sex with, or a prostitute? It’s all sex.’ That’s the very analogy Scripture employs over and over, using such expressions as ‘playing the harlot’ for mixing true worship with another religion. To make the analogy even closer, involvement with another religion is like prostituting yourself to a carrier of the lethal AIDS virus.
One of the Bible’s most basic teachings is that followers of other religions have been enticed by deceptive spirits who are utterly opposed to the God who created us and loves us. (Romans 1:18-23; 1 Corinthians 10:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; 1 Timothy 4:1) Even the first two of the ten commandments - have no other gods, make no idols - show that God regards it as a grave offense to become involved in other religions. (Exodus 20:3-4) No matter how similar non-Christian religions are, their truths are laced with errors that entice their devout followers away from the true God. We despise this biblical revelation because it forces us to make a decision about religion. And it sounds narrow-minded, but Jesus affirmed that the way to God is narrow, and that few people go that way. (Matthew 7:14) Anyone really sincere, however, will seek truth no matter how unpalatable it seems.
To sit on the fence is a marvelous position. From the top of the fence you can look in any direction and watch life pass you by.
It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you’re sincere
What if you believe . . .
all you need for sky diving is a good umbrella
plumbers have better cures for constipation than doctors
red traffic lights mean ‘go’.
In the physical world, what you believe is critical. And the same God made the spiritual realm.
Try telling a victim of Hinduism that it doesn’t matter what you believe. Especially before Christian influence gained momentum in India, millions of Hindus sincerely believed that:
baby girls should be drowned in the Ganges so they can be reincarnated as boys
surviving widows should be cremated alive with their deceased husbands
the gross discrimination and prejudice of the Hindu caste system should be enforced
it is better not to relieve human suffering because that would be interfering with people’s karma.
‘It doesn’t matter what you believe,’ is the despairing cry of people whose beliefs have never brought them to spiritual reality. They are like people who have never won in their life, consoling themselves with the platitude that it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose. They are like people so out of touch that they answer multiple choice exams by guesswork and assume everyone else must do the same.
Find people who claim that sincerity is all that matters and try applying that logic to something they are passionate about, such as racism, rape, cruelty to animals, environmental vandalism, nuclear warfare, banning abortion. Suddenly they get hot under the collar. Suddenly it matters very much what you believe.
People apply this lack of logic only to things they could hardly care less about. Those who say all that matters is sincerity would like to include themselves among the sincere. Instead, they prove they have no sincere religious conviction. They are simply mouthing a lazy, potentially fatal excuse for avoiding life’s most important decision.
The genuinely sincere, would make seeking God their top priority. Instead, we bury our head in a thousand other activities and lame excuses for not confronting life’s most critical issue. We are like little children who have run away from home - hungry, tired and in danger, yet still hiding for fear of what mummy might do if she found us. The reality is that God longs to take us up in his arms, forgive us, and give us a life of fulfillment and challenge beyond our wildest hopes.
There are so many religions:
how could anyone know which is right?
Most religions say Jesus was a great teacher or prophet. So focus on that great teacher. Until you do, God will remain a blur.
Suppose I was off-color and two eminent doctors examined me. Dr A’s diagnosis was that I had a life-threatening illness, but treatment X would cure me. Dr B said it was only a cold and treatment Y would cure me. Dr A’s more drastic diagnosis doesn’t in itself mean he is right, but it means I’d be a fool not to give higher priority to checking out his claims.
Consider a worst-case scenario. Suppose another religion were right and instead of following that religion, I became a Christian. Many religions would say the Christian life is reasonably moral. So, according to them, although I would miss top spot, my life after death would be fairly comfortable. A few claim that if I ignored their religion, after death I’ll cease to exist. I can handle that. Some say I’d get another chance through reincarnation. That’s not too bad. But, relative to almost all religions, Jesus increased the stakes enormously. If he is right and I ignore him, the consequences are unthinkable. This man, renowned for his love, humility and honesty, warned that only by committing myself to him can I avoid an eternity of torment in hell. (Matthew 20:28, 25:32-34,41,46; John 3:16; 14:6) In addition, unlike most other religions, Jesus leaves his believers certain that they will enter heaven. Other religions typically place so many requirements on their adherents before they could be considered worthy of heaven that their followers endure a lifetime of uncertainty as to whether they have met those requirements.
You’re gambling with eternity. Jesus alone is the sinless Son of God who suffered an agonizing death so that you and I could escape eternal torment and enjoy heaven. Improve your odds on life’s most serious gamble by giving priority to weighing Jesus’ claims.
To determine if Jesus’ teaching is from God requires divine insight. Whether God grants a person this spiritual understanding hinges on a single factor. That critical factor, said Jesus, is your willingness to obey God. (John 7:17) Why should God bother to open your eyes to spiritual truth if you are unwilling to respond to that truth? Yet few of us are prepared to pay that price. It involves a willingness to relinquish our hopes and dreams for the future, to forego our pet sins and anything else God may ask. Such abandonment seems crazy until we consider who God is. The God who made and sustains the entire universe is the source of all knowledge, moral goodness and love. That means he is good, he is trustworthy, he has our best interest at heart, he is wiser than us and he loves us more than we love ourselves. Obeying God is the smartest thing anyone could ever do. Until we acknowledge this and are willing to obey God, we obviously don’t want God in our lives. (We might want him as our slave, or as a curiosity, but not as God.) If so, why should God waste time giving us the spiritual discernment to know whether Jesus is the only way to God? Until we rectify this we can expect God to let us remain spiritually confused, subject to the deceptive powers of anti-God influences, unable to determine which religion is right.
Even Hare Krishnas are more Christian than Christians!
Most Christians eat killed animals but, as Hare Krishnas point out, Jesus said ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ More accurately, Jesus said, ‘You have heard that people in the past were told, "Thou shalt not kill ..."’ (Matthew 5:21) Jesus was quoting from the Old Testament (Exodus 20:13) - the book he loved and frequently cited and affirmed to be the unique revelation of God. (Matthew 5:17-19; 22:29-32; 26:31; Luke 4:4-12; 16:31;22:37; 24:44-47; John 6:45) Over and over, that book records God commanding his people to eat the meat of sacrificial animals. (Exodus 12:3-8,24; Deuteronomy 12:20-22,27-28; 27: 7-10) And the more holy people (priests) were required to eat even more meat. (Leviticus 7:14-16,30-34; 8:30-31; 10:16-18; Deuteronomy 18:1-3) In fact, under Old Testament law, no vegetarian could belong to the people of God. (Numbers 9:11-13) (The point of animal sacrifice is that God was instilling the notion that an innocent must die for human sins. Ultimately, the innocent who dies for human sin must be human. That’s where Jesus fits in.) By quoting and exalting the book that emphasizes eating meat, Jesus was clearly speaking against murder - the killing of people, not animals. As would be expected, the rest of his life and teaching proves the same thing.
‘Eat whatever is set before you,’ Jesus ordered his disciples, knowing that their hosts, being Jewish, would be meat eaters. (Luke 10:1,5-7) Jesus spoke approvingly of a man who slaughtered a cow for a feast. In fact, he likened that man to God. (Luke 15:10,22-23) Christ ate meals hosted by all sorts of people. (Mark 14:3; Luke 5:27-30; 7:36; 11:37; 14:1; 15:2) Even in a nation of meat eaters his unrestricted diet caused a stir. (Luke 5:33; 7:33-34) He helped catch fish, (Matthew 17:27; Luke 5:4-9; John 21:5-8) cooked fish, (John 21:9-13) fed it to people, (Mark 6:41-43; 8:7-8) and ate it himself (Luke 24:41-43). He also ate the Passover meal in which the main dish was lamb. (Luke 22:7-8,15)
Followers of Jesus are not offended that their Savior ate meat because they know that, contrary to the claims of many religions, there is no spiritual link between animals and people. There is no such thing as reincarnation.
Yet Hare Krishnas, flying in the face of all the facts, misrepresent Jesus as supporting their views about animal life. This exposes the unfortunate lengths to which such religions will sometimes go to deceive.
That’s what many religions teach, so you have nothing to lose by ignoring them and concentrating on Jesus, who declared that if you don’t surrender to him, you have everything to lose. (John 14:6; Acts 4:10-12) You and I are not in a position to claim to know more about spiritual reality than the greatest religious teacher earth has seen - Jesus. He upheld the Scriptures which insist that all other religions offend God. (Deuteronomy 32:16-20; Matthew 5:17-19)
To ignore glaring differences between religions might seem broad-minded. In reality it is about as conceited and narrow as a person could get. To assert that all religions are essentially the same would be to claim you are smarter than each of the billions of people who see the distinctive features of their religion as critical. You would be asserting that even though you are not an expert in their religion you know they are wrong - you know their religion is really no different. Jesus made Godlike claims of this magnitude but he backed them up by living a perfect life, walking on water, calming a storm, multiplying bread and fish, healing people born blind or deaf or crippled, rising bodily from the dead, transforming believers for 2,000 years, and so on.
Your decision about religion is as serious as a starving person deciding whether to risk eating something which might be deadly. To the casual observer, wild mushrooms are all much the same and who cares anyhow? But when there is nothing else to eat, it becomes rather important whether the variety you choose is poisonous. And if you eat nothing for weeks, indecision becomes as deadly as the worse decision.
New Agers and others mutilate all the unique features of Jesus’ teaching, distorting Christianity into a form of eastern religion and surprise, surprise, when comparing this grotesque perversion with other religions, it begins to look as if ‘all religions are much the same.’
What does it matter whether it’s Jesus you worship, or some other religion? It’s all religion. That’s equivalent to asking a wife, deeply in love with her husband, ‘What does it matter if it’s you that your husband has sex with, or a prostitute? It’s all sex.’ That’s the very analogy Scripture employs over and over, using such expressions as ‘playing the harlot’ for mixing true worship with another religion. To make the analogy even closer, involvement with another religion is like prostituting yourself to a carrier of the lethal AIDS virus.
One of the Bible’s most basic teachings is that followers of other religions have been enticed by deceptive spirits who are utterly opposed to the God who created us and loves us. (Romans 1:18-23; 1 Corinthians 10:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; 1 Timothy 4:1) Even the first two of the ten commandments - have no other gods, make no idols - show that God regards it as a grave offense to become involved in other religions. (Exodus 20:3-4) No matter how similar non-Christian religions are, their truths are laced with errors that entice their devout followers away from the true God. We despise this biblical revelation because it forces us to make a decision about religion. And it sounds narrow-minded, but Jesus affirmed that the way to God is narrow, and that few people go that way. (Matthew 7:14) Anyone really sincere, however, will seek truth no matter how unpalatable it seems.
To sit on the fence is a marvelous position. From the top of the fence you can look in any direction and watch life pass you by.
It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you’re sincere
What if you believe . . .
all you need for sky diving is a good umbrella
plumbers have better cures for constipation than doctors
red traffic lights mean ‘go’.
In the physical world, what you believe is critical. And the same God made the spiritual realm.
Try telling a victim of Hinduism that it doesn’t matter what you believe. Especially before Christian influence gained momentum in India, millions of Hindus sincerely believed that:
baby girls should be drowned in the Ganges so they can be reincarnated as boys
surviving widows should be cremated alive with their deceased husbands
the gross discrimination and prejudice of the Hindu caste system should be enforced
it is better not to relieve human suffering because that would be interfering with people’s karma.
‘It doesn’t matter what you believe,’ is the despairing cry of people whose beliefs have never brought them to spiritual reality. They are like people who have never won in their life, consoling themselves with the platitude that it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose. They are like people so out of touch that they answer multiple choice exams by guesswork and assume everyone else must do the same.
Find people who claim that sincerity is all that matters and try applying that logic to something they are passionate about, such as racism, rape, cruelty to animals, environmental vandalism, nuclear warfare, banning abortion. Suddenly they get hot under the collar. Suddenly it matters very much what you believe.
People apply this lack of logic only to things they could hardly care less about. Those who say all that matters is sincerity would like to include themselves among the sincere. Instead, they prove they have no sincere religious conviction. They are simply mouthing a lazy, potentially fatal excuse for avoiding life’s most important decision.
The genuinely sincere, would make seeking God their top priority. Instead, we bury our head in a thousand other activities and lame excuses for not confronting life’s most critical issue. We are like little children who have run away from home - hungry, tired and in danger, yet still hiding for fear of what mummy might do if she found us. The reality is that God longs to take us up in his arms, forgive us, and give us a life of fulfillment and challenge beyond our wildest hopes.
There are so many religions:
how could anyone know which is right?
Most religions say Jesus was a great teacher or prophet. So focus on that great teacher. Until you do, God will remain a blur.
Suppose I was off-color and two eminent doctors examined me. Dr A’s diagnosis was that I had a life-threatening illness, but treatment X would cure me. Dr B said it was only a cold and treatment Y would cure me. Dr A’s more drastic diagnosis doesn’t in itself mean he is right, but it means I’d be a fool not to give higher priority to checking out his claims.
Consider a worst-case scenario. Suppose another religion were right and instead of following that religion, I became a Christian. Many religions would say the Christian life is reasonably moral. So, according to them, although I would miss top spot, my life after death would be fairly comfortable. A few claim that if I ignored their religion, after death I’ll cease to exist. I can handle that. Some say I’d get another chance through reincarnation. That’s not too bad. But, relative to almost all religions, Jesus increased the stakes enormously. If he is right and I ignore him, the consequences are unthinkable. This man, renowned for his love, humility and honesty, warned that only by committing myself to him can I avoid an eternity of torment in hell. (Matthew 20:28, 25:32-34,41,46; John 3:16; 14:6) In addition, unlike most other religions, Jesus leaves his believers certain that they will enter heaven. Other religions typically place so many requirements on their adherents before they could be considered worthy of heaven that their followers endure a lifetime of uncertainty as to whether they have met those requirements.
You’re gambling with eternity. Jesus alone is the sinless Son of God who suffered an agonizing death so that you and I could escape eternal torment and enjoy heaven. Improve your odds on life’s most serious gamble by giving priority to weighing Jesus’ claims.
To determine if Jesus’ teaching is from God requires divine insight. Whether God grants a person this spiritual understanding hinges on a single factor. That critical factor, said Jesus, is your willingness to obey God. (John 7:17) Why should God bother to open your eyes to spiritual truth if you are unwilling to respond to that truth? Yet few of us are prepared to pay that price. It involves a willingness to relinquish our hopes and dreams for the future, to forego our pet sins and anything else God may ask. Such abandonment seems crazy until we consider who God is. The God who made and sustains the entire universe is the source of all knowledge, moral goodness and love. That means he is good, he is trustworthy, he has our best interest at heart, he is wiser than us and he loves us more than we love ourselves. Obeying God is the smartest thing anyone could ever do. Until we acknowledge this and are willing to obey God, we obviously don’t want God in our lives. (We might want him as our slave, or as a curiosity, but not as God.) If so, why should God waste time giving us the spiritual discernment to know whether Jesus is the only way to God? Until we rectify this we can expect God to let us remain spiritually confused, subject to the deceptive powers of anti-God influences, unable to determine which religion is right.
Even Hare Krishnas are more Christian than Christians!
Most Christians eat killed animals but, as Hare Krishnas point out, Jesus said ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ More accurately, Jesus said, ‘You have heard that people in the past were told, "Thou shalt not kill ..."’ (Matthew 5:21) Jesus was quoting from the Old Testament (Exodus 20:13) - the book he loved and frequently cited and affirmed to be the unique revelation of God. (Matthew 5:17-19; 22:29-32; 26:31; Luke 4:4-12; 16:31;22:37; 24:44-47; John 6:45) Over and over, that book records God commanding his people to eat the meat of sacrificial animals. (Exodus 12:3-8,24; Deuteronomy 12:20-22,27-28; 27: 7-10) And the more holy people (priests) were required to eat even more meat. (Leviticus 7:14-16,30-34; 8:30-31; 10:16-18; Deuteronomy 18:1-3) In fact, under Old Testament law, no vegetarian could belong to the people of God. (Numbers 9:11-13) (The point of animal sacrifice is that God was instilling the notion that an innocent must die for human sins. Ultimately, the innocent who dies for human sin must be human. That’s where Jesus fits in.) By quoting and exalting the book that emphasizes eating meat, Jesus was clearly speaking against murder - the killing of people, not animals. As would be expected, the rest of his life and teaching proves the same thing.
‘Eat whatever is set before you,’ Jesus ordered his disciples, knowing that their hosts, being Jewish, would be meat eaters. (Luke 10:1,5-7) Jesus spoke approvingly of a man who slaughtered a cow for a feast. In fact, he likened that man to God. (Luke 15:10,22-23) Christ ate meals hosted by all sorts of people. (Mark 14:3; Luke 5:27-30; 7:36; 11:37; 14:1; 15:2) Even in a nation of meat eaters his unrestricted diet caused a stir. (Luke 5:33; 7:33-34) He helped catch fish, (Matthew 17:27; Luke 5:4-9; John 21:5-8) cooked fish, (John 21:9-13) fed it to people, (Mark 6:41-43; 8:7-8) and ate it himself (Luke 24:41-43). He also ate the Passover meal in which the main dish was lamb. (Luke 22:7-8,15)
Followers of Jesus are not offended that their Savior ate meat because they know that, contrary to the claims of many religions, there is no spiritual link between animals and people. There is no such thing as reincarnation.
Yet Hare Krishnas, flying in the face of all the facts, misrepresent Jesus as supporting their views about animal life. This exposes the unfortunate lengths to which such religions will sometimes go to deceive.
Issues That Make Christians Squirm! Part 2 By Grantley Morris
What’s in it for me?
You are right to reject a religion that’s a list of dos and don’ts, or a gathering of dour-faced, self-righteous Bible thumpers. Jesus would reject it too. Anything Jesus is involved in is vibrant, liberating, compassionate, powerful and supernatural.
People dismiss Christianity on the basis of an outsider’s glance, like a little boy certain he will always hate being kissed. Knowing Jesus is more wonderful than the uninitiated could dream.
All yearning is a yearning for Jesus, discovered someone enjoying the ultimate adventure. The love, excitement, challenge, fulfillment and understanding we crave are found in the One who made us.
Jesus likened the Christian spiritual experience to buried treasure. Millions walk past it, never suspecting the wonders that lie below the surface. Anyone who makes the discovery, however, would eagerly trade for it everything they had previously treasured, like trading trinkets for truckloads of diamonds.
To attempt description of the benefits of spiritual union with Jesus sounds as hollow and self-centered as listing receiving a gold ring as a benefit of marrying the most wonderful person. It’s like dissecting the most exquisite, priceless flower and offering the individual parts to the highest bidder. Moreover, it sounds like hype - just too good to be believable. This is to be expected. We were made to enjoy the God who made us, so it is hardly surprising that a relationship with him will fulfill our deepest longing. Nevertheless, it still sounds too good to be true.
Here’s a few of the consequences of being united to the One we were made for:
The excitement of living life on the edge, as God takes you beyond what you are humanly capable of.
Divine power to love the unlovable, to break destructive habits, to resist peer pressure and to control such weaknesses as temper, greed, and selfishness.
Being on the winning side - the obvious consequence of having in your life the God of infinite power and infinite wisdom.
The ultimate security of knowing you are forever loved and that nothing - not even death - can rob you of its endless joys.
The knowledge that you are of the greatest importance to the most important Person in the universe.
Having as your best friend the Person who not only sympathizes but knows your every weakness and triumph, your every thought, your every experience since the moment of your conception, your darkest secret, your fondest dream, and is committed to you with unswerving devotion.
A life that is highly demanding and challenging, with the greatest power in existence willing you and empowering you to achieve.
A brand new start in life.
The thrill of knowing you can now achieve things of eternal significance.
Involvement in the greatest conceivable good. Reaching your highest potential. Finding and fulfilling your reason for being born. Living life to the full.
Entry into the spiritual dimension. Supernatural dreams, visions, miracles, angelic visitations and other amazing spiritual experiences are possibilities.
Being at peace with God. No longer running from reality.
The lifelong opportunity to love and thank the Giver of every good and beautiful thing everyone has ever enjoyed.
The freedom to look in the mirror and know that no matter what your past, you are now pure in the eyes of the holy God.
Knowing that God is working within you and in your circumstances to make you more and more like Jesus.
Answers to prayer.
Joy and peace and fulfillment, each of which are so far beyond what anything else offers that it defies description.
Deliverance from the endless torment of hell.
Not even all God’s incomparable gifts, however, reach the ecstasy of enjoying and knowing intimately the most exciting Person in the universe. He is so special that falling in love with God is the inevitable consequence of truly knowing him.
You are right to reject a religion that’s a list of dos and don’ts, or a gathering of dour-faced, self-righteous Bible thumpers. Jesus would reject it too. Anything Jesus is involved in is vibrant, liberating, compassionate, powerful and supernatural.
People dismiss Christianity on the basis of an outsider’s glance, like a little boy certain he will always hate being kissed. Knowing Jesus is more wonderful than the uninitiated could dream.
All yearning is a yearning for Jesus, discovered someone enjoying the ultimate adventure. The love, excitement, challenge, fulfillment and understanding we crave are found in the One who made us.
Jesus likened the Christian spiritual experience to buried treasure. Millions walk past it, never suspecting the wonders that lie below the surface. Anyone who makes the discovery, however, would eagerly trade for it everything they had previously treasured, like trading trinkets for truckloads of diamonds.
To attempt description of the benefits of spiritual union with Jesus sounds as hollow and self-centered as listing receiving a gold ring as a benefit of marrying the most wonderful person. It’s like dissecting the most exquisite, priceless flower and offering the individual parts to the highest bidder. Moreover, it sounds like hype - just too good to be believable. This is to be expected. We were made to enjoy the God who made us, so it is hardly surprising that a relationship with him will fulfill our deepest longing. Nevertheless, it still sounds too good to be true.
Here’s a few of the consequences of being united to the One we were made for:
The excitement of living life on the edge, as God takes you beyond what you are humanly capable of.
Divine power to love the unlovable, to break destructive habits, to resist peer pressure and to control such weaknesses as temper, greed, and selfishness.
Being on the winning side - the obvious consequence of having in your life the God of infinite power and infinite wisdom.
The ultimate security of knowing you are forever loved and that nothing - not even death - can rob you of its endless joys.
The knowledge that you are of the greatest importance to the most important Person in the universe.
Having as your best friend the Person who not only sympathizes but knows your every weakness and triumph, your every thought, your every experience since the moment of your conception, your darkest secret, your fondest dream, and is committed to you with unswerving devotion.
A life that is highly demanding and challenging, with the greatest power in existence willing you and empowering you to achieve.
A brand new start in life.
The thrill of knowing you can now achieve things of eternal significance.
Involvement in the greatest conceivable good. Reaching your highest potential. Finding and fulfilling your reason for being born. Living life to the full.
Entry into the spiritual dimension. Supernatural dreams, visions, miracles, angelic visitations and other amazing spiritual experiences are possibilities.
Being at peace with God. No longer running from reality.
The lifelong opportunity to love and thank the Giver of every good and beautiful thing everyone has ever enjoyed.
The freedom to look in the mirror and know that no matter what your past, you are now pure in the eyes of the holy God.
Knowing that God is working within you and in your circumstances to make you more and more like Jesus.
Answers to prayer.
Joy and peace and fulfillment, each of which are so far beyond what anything else offers that it defies description.
Deliverance from the endless torment of hell.
Not even all God’s incomparable gifts, however, reach the ecstasy of enjoying and knowing intimately the most exciting Person in the universe. He is so special that falling in love with God is the inevitable consequence of truly knowing him.
Issues That Make Christians Squirm! Part 1 By Grantley Morris
There is no God
To see the logic of leaving God out of the equation, consider this:
Frog + Princess’s kiss = Handsome Prince (fairy tale)
Frog + Chance + Millions of years = Handsome Prince (science)
By definition, no one knows what lies outside their tiny circle of knowledge. To claim you know there is no God is to claim you have exhaustively searched every part of every universe and dimension with an infallibly accurate method of detecting every non-physical entity that could possibly exist. The claim that God has taken the initiative and chosen to reveal himself to some people is not nearly as unbelievable.
Don’t be like a blind person trying to convince himself that because he has never seen, everyone else claiming to see must be mistaken. In the realm beyond your present experience amazing things could dwell - even a God poised to shatter your insensibility to him.
Are you ready for the most daring adventure? Try saying this:
God, I would like you to show me if you exist. If you are God, you are so superior to me that I cannot put demands on you. Anything you choose to show me must be on your terms - your time and your method. I can understand you not showing yourself to people who have little desire to know you. I will demonstrate my genuineness by at least reading the material presented here, looking for clues that might help open me to your revelation. And why should you bother revealing yourself to someone who would continue to ignore you anyway? If you show me there is a powerful, caring God who made me and wants the best for me, I will give you your rightful place as God of my life by obeying and trusting your love and wisdom.
That prayer opens the most exciting possibilities in the cosmos.
Who made God?
Everyone is forced to conclude that there has always been something in existence, whether it be gas, God or a full-blown universe. Every physical thing we have ever observed tends to degenerate. There is even a scientific law - the second law of thermodynamics - that states this. So whatever has always existed must be radically different from anything we have ever seen - like God, for instance.
God, if he existed, would be impersonal
On the pretext of having a high view of God, people sometimes end up portraying God as sub-human - an impersonal force more akin to a machine or gravity than the Creator of us all. The secret attraction of this presumption is that it is easier to ignore a nebulous force than a God who thinks and feels and judges. If we can feel and love, our Maker can do all that - and more. If to some of us God seems impersonal, it suggests not the shallowness of God’s nature but the shallowness of our relationship with him. God is warm. His standards are granite. His heart is soft.
I hate God
You might have every reason to hate the person you think God to be, but is that ‘God’ real? Your anger feels justified. We can understand infinite wisdom, however, no more than a babe understands its mother. What if your resentment towards God is like that of a desperately sick child who bites his doctor, imagining the caring doctor to be the cause of his torment, rather than his only hope of recovery? What a tragedy if you let the simple fact that you don’t have infinite IQ rob you of your greatest source of comfort.
God weeps. No one in a lifetime has been so spurned, so misunderstood, so much hated without cause as God is every moment of every day by millions of people, each of whom he loves more than we could conceive. No one is touched as deeply by humanity’s anguish as its Creator. No one is as aware of suffering humanity as God is, and no one loves with the intensity that God loves. And your pain intensifies his pain.
Even when the cause seems beyond human influence, all heartache can be traced not to God’s will, but to rebellion against God’s will. Many things are murky or unknown to us - the view from eternity, the non-physical realm, the intricate chain reaction set off from person to person and generation to generation whenever anything happens. Relative to the all-knowing Lord, we are as short-sighted as King Midas, who wanted everything he touched to turn to gold. We have no idea of the full consequences of our wishes coming true.
We vainly pit our puny intellect against the Infinite Mind, using brain cells he gave us to try to out-think him. If God’s ways don’t always make sense to us it merely confirms that our combined brainpower couldn’t light a single galaxy. And too often we confuse a good life with a soft life. Too often virtue slips in our priorities. Of necessity, God’s love must be like that of a wise parent, focusing on long-term good, even at the price of tearing his own heart by infuriating the tiny minds of people he loves. His goal is the highest good for all humanity, not some short-term gain that fizzles or ends up robbing others.
Although we can gain a little insight into God’s wisdom, were all our attempts to fail utterly, we have the security of knowing that our sorrow plunges a knife into the heart of the all-powerful Lord. That’s the ultimate proof that secreted within the stupendous intellect of Almighty God is an ingenious, love-filled reason for allowing it.
If God made us, our moral failings are God’s fault
In other words, if we disobey God, it’s God’s fault.
If you object to God giving you the right to grieve him, then reject that right. Ask God to control you as a master controls a slave. Then let Jesus wipe clean your slate and spiritually remake you. Everyone will benefit.
To see the logic of leaving God out of the equation, consider this:
Frog + Princess’s kiss = Handsome Prince (fairy tale)
Frog + Chance + Millions of years = Handsome Prince (science)
By definition, no one knows what lies outside their tiny circle of knowledge. To claim you know there is no God is to claim you have exhaustively searched every part of every universe and dimension with an infallibly accurate method of detecting every non-physical entity that could possibly exist. The claim that God has taken the initiative and chosen to reveal himself to some people is not nearly as unbelievable.
Don’t be like a blind person trying to convince himself that because he has never seen, everyone else claiming to see must be mistaken. In the realm beyond your present experience amazing things could dwell - even a God poised to shatter your insensibility to him.
Are you ready for the most daring adventure? Try saying this:
God, I would like you to show me if you exist. If you are God, you are so superior to me that I cannot put demands on you. Anything you choose to show me must be on your terms - your time and your method. I can understand you not showing yourself to people who have little desire to know you. I will demonstrate my genuineness by at least reading the material presented here, looking for clues that might help open me to your revelation. And why should you bother revealing yourself to someone who would continue to ignore you anyway? If you show me there is a powerful, caring God who made me and wants the best for me, I will give you your rightful place as God of my life by obeying and trusting your love and wisdom.
That prayer opens the most exciting possibilities in the cosmos.
Who made God?
Everyone is forced to conclude that there has always been something in existence, whether it be gas, God or a full-blown universe. Every physical thing we have ever observed tends to degenerate. There is even a scientific law - the second law of thermodynamics - that states this. So whatever has always existed must be radically different from anything we have ever seen - like God, for instance.
God, if he existed, would be impersonal
On the pretext of having a high view of God, people sometimes end up portraying God as sub-human - an impersonal force more akin to a machine or gravity than the Creator of us all. The secret attraction of this presumption is that it is easier to ignore a nebulous force than a God who thinks and feels and judges. If we can feel and love, our Maker can do all that - and more. If to some of us God seems impersonal, it suggests not the shallowness of God’s nature but the shallowness of our relationship with him. God is warm. His standards are granite. His heart is soft.
I hate God
You might have every reason to hate the person you think God to be, but is that ‘God’ real? Your anger feels justified. We can understand infinite wisdom, however, no more than a babe understands its mother. What if your resentment towards God is like that of a desperately sick child who bites his doctor, imagining the caring doctor to be the cause of his torment, rather than his only hope of recovery? What a tragedy if you let the simple fact that you don’t have infinite IQ rob you of your greatest source of comfort.
God weeps. No one in a lifetime has been so spurned, so misunderstood, so much hated without cause as God is every moment of every day by millions of people, each of whom he loves more than we could conceive. No one is touched as deeply by humanity’s anguish as its Creator. No one is as aware of suffering humanity as God is, and no one loves with the intensity that God loves. And your pain intensifies his pain.
Even when the cause seems beyond human influence, all heartache can be traced not to God’s will, but to rebellion against God’s will. Many things are murky or unknown to us - the view from eternity, the non-physical realm, the intricate chain reaction set off from person to person and generation to generation whenever anything happens. Relative to the all-knowing Lord, we are as short-sighted as King Midas, who wanted everything he touched to turn to gold. We have no idea of the full consequences of our wishes coming true.
We vainly pit our puny intellect against the Infinite Mind, using brain cells he gave us to try to out-think him. If God’s ways don’t always make sense to us it merely confirms that our combined brainpower couldn’t light a single galaxy. And too often we confuse a good life with a soft life. Too often virtue slips in our priorities. Of necessity, God’s love must be like that of a wise parent, focusing on long-term good, even at the price of tearing his own heart by infuriating the tiny minds of people he loves. His goal is the highest good for all humanity, not some short-term gain that fizzles or ends up robbing others.
Although we can gain a little insight into God’s wisdom, were all our attempts to fail utterly, we have the security of knowing that our sorrow plunges a knife into the heart of the all-powerful Lord. That’s the ultimate proof that secreted within the stupendous intellect of Almighty God is an ingenious, love-filled reason for allowing it.
If God made us, our moral failings are God’s fault
In other words, if we disobey God, it’s God’s fault.
If you object to God giving you the right to grieve him, then reject that right. Ask God to control you as a master controls a slave. Then let Jesus wipe clean your slate and spiritually remake you. Everyone will benefit.
If there really were a God of love, the innocent wouldn’t suffer By Grantley Morris
Brilliant minds have reached this conclusion. It’s a time-bomb set to explode in Christians’ faces the moment they encounter personal tragedy.
To confront those who believe in a loving God we should first understand them. Let’s reduce their assertions to a few words.
Incredibly, Christians claim that only one innocent ever suffered! Few of us can face reality, they assert, unless Jesus cleanses our deeply suppressed but dirty conscience. They argue that only after that spiritual miracle dare we relax our frantic attempts to conceal and excuse and push from our minds the extent of our depravity. They say it is a devastating experience to have one’s supposed goodness exposed by God’s blinding purity. With every shred of pride within them shrieking in protest, Christians feel driven to a crushing conclusion: the moral gap between them and a serial killer is invisible, compared to the terrifying expanse separating even their best efforts from the infallible holiness of God. They even argue that there is a sense in which babies are morally corrupt! (See Are babies innocent?)
No clever argument, however, and no supposed spiritual experience can hide one unavoidable fact: a holy God would yearn to wipe out every cause of pain. And if he eradicated everyone who has ever caused pain by selfishness, cheating, lying, gossiping or hurtful remarks, who would be left?
‘Suffering is God’s fault!’ we sneer, conveniently forgetting times our anger, greed and lies hurt others. Naturally, there is a degree of hurt we deem excusable, and for some suspicious reason the hurt we have inflicted happens to fall within the standard we arbitrarily set. It is like failing an exam and then moving the pass mark to make our score look good. A holy God could not be partner to such hypocrisy. To wipe out some people who cause suffering and spare you and me would make God guilty of gross injustice. We have each added to humanity’s shame. If there is a God of love, the people he loves and longs to place in a pain-free world are the very ones who cause humanity’s suffering.
We will soon move on, but this question of innocence is central to the question of suffering. We are so far from being innocent that we owe our very existence to sin. If, for example, we traced our family tree far enough, we would probably each find an ancestor born as a result of sin - rape, unlawful incest, a despised pregnancy, and the like.
Then, having consigned everyone to the sin bin, believers back flip, seizing the pretentious assertions of a man renowned for humility. Christ claimed an existence independent of human ancestry. (John 8:56-59; 17:5) If true, and if he subsequently lived a perfect life, he alone could be innocent in every conceivable sense. And we know this man suffered.
He appeared as the uniquely perfect human who preached impossibly high standards, claimed they were God’s requirements and actually lived them. Turning the cheek, loving his enemies, just as he had preached, he yielded to abuse and torture, somehow absorbing within his mangled body the horrific consequences of all humanity’s sin.
Humanity can boast one perfect Person. (See Appendix) We killed him. Yet our only Innocent gladly suffered the injustice to free the guilty from suffering eternal justice. In this cataclysmic exchange, the Innocent and the guilty traded places, making it spiritually legal for his suffering to end your suffering. As incredible as it seems, this has ushered us to the brink of a new world where the longing deep within us will be met - deceit, abuse, and hurtful actions will be swallowed by goodness; misery will dissolve in endless joy.
But temporary earthly pain continues for a wonderful reason. A paradise of harmony, trust, openness and love would quickly spoil if just one of its citizens acted remotely like we presently behave. To enter a perfect world without shattering its perfection, would require a personality transformation more radical than ever seen on earth. Through Jesus’ intervention, God can perform this miracle and make us fit for such a world, but he won’t abuse us by forcing a personality change upon us against our will. We must be willing to let God take our pet sins from us and, in his unlimited wisdom and love, rule every part of our lives.
Humanity quivers on the brink of extinction, mesmerized by sin like serpent’s prey. Each moment that God suppresses his explosive urge to extinguish evil, is a moment in which billions of us have yet another chance to come to our senses and let Jesus deliver us from our infatuation with sin. But the end of this period of grace is hurtling toward us. Soon all suffering will cease. All wrongdoing will be destroyed, along with everyone still caught in its deadly embrace.
Are babies innocent?
In Australia, seemingly innocent rabbits are pests because their ancestors did something contrary to nature: they come to Australia with white settlers and became inhabitants of the Australian bush. Though cute, it is inevitable that as a baby feral rabbit matures it will damage the ecology. Likewise, claim Christians, when we were born we, too, were adorable and too weak and too dumb to sin, the darling of God’s heart, but it was inevitable that we would contribute to this world’s suffering - lying, cheating, slandering, etc - the moment we gained the strength and intellect to do it. That’s because our ancestors abused their God-given responsibilities. There’s no point blaming our ancestors or God, the argument goes. Had our ancestors been removed before genetically transmitting their predisposition to wrongdoing, we would never have been born.
To confront those who believe in a loving God we should first understand them. Let’s reduce their assertions to a few words.
Incredibly, Christians claim that only one innocent ever suffered! Few of us can face reality, they assert, unless Jesus cleanses our deeply suppressed but dirty conscience. They argue that only after that spiritual miracle dare we relax our frantic attempts to conceal and excuse and push from our minds the extent of our depravity. They say it is a devastating experience to have one’s supposed goodness exposed by God’s blinding purity. With every shred of pride within them shrieking in protest, Christians feel driven to a crushing conclusion: the moral gap between them and a serial killer is invisible, compared to the terrifying expanse separating even their best efforts from the infallible holiness of God. They even argue that there is a sense in which babies are morally corrupt! (See Are babies innocent?)
No clever argument, however, and no supposed spiritual experience can hide one unavoidable fact: a holy God would yearn to wipe out every cause of pain. And if he eradicated everyone who has ever caused pain by selfishness, cheating, lying, gossiping or hurtful remarks, who would be left?
‘Suffering is God’s fault!’ we sneer, conveniently forgetting times our anger, greed and lies hurt others. Naturally, there is a degree of hurt we deem excusable, and for some suspicious reason the hurt we have inflicted happens to fall within the standard we arbitrarily set. It is like failing an exam and then moving the pass mark to make our score look good. A holy God could not be partner to such hypocrisy. To wipe out some people who cause suffering and spare you and me would make God guilty of gross injustice. We have each added to humanity’s shame. If there is a God of love, the people he loves and longs to place in a pain-free world are the very ones who cause humanity’s suffering.
We will soon move on, but this question of innocence is central to the question of suffering. We are so far from being innocent that we owe our very existence to sin. If, for example, we traced our family tree far enough, we would probably each find an ancestor born as a result of sin - rape, unlawful incest, a despised pregnancy, and the like.
Then, having consigned everyone to the sin bin, believers back flip, seizing the pretentious assertions of a man renowned for humility. Christ claimed an existence independent of human ancestry. (John 8:56-59; 17:5) If true, and if he subsequently lived a perfect life, he alone could be innocent in every conceivable sense. And we know this man suffered.
He appeared as the uniquely perfect human who preached impossibly high standards, claimed they were God’s requirements and actually lived them. Turning the cheek, loving his enemies, just as he had preached, he yielded to abuse and torture, somehow absorbing within his mangled body the horrific consequences of all humanity’s sin.
Humanity can boast one perfect Person. (See Appendix) We killed him. Yet our only Innocent gladly suffered the injustice to free the guilty from suffering eternal justice. In this cataclysmic exchange, the Innocent and the guilty traded places, making it spiritually legal for his suffering to end your suffering. As incredible as it seems, this has ushered us to the brink of a new world where the longing deep within us will be met - deceit, abuse, and hurtful actions will be swallowed by goodness; misery will dissolve in endless joy.
But temporary earthly pain continues for a wonderful reason. A paradise of harmony, trust, openness and love would quickly spoil if just one of its citizens acted remotely like we presently behave. To enter a perfect world without shattering its perfection, would require a personality transformation more radical than ever seen on earth. Through Jesus’ intervention, God can perform this miracle and make us fit for such a world, but he won’t abuse us by forcing a personality change upon us against our will. We must be willing to let God take our pet sins from us and, in his unlimited wisdom and love, rule every part of our lives.
Humanity quivers on the brink of extinction, mesmerized by sin like serpent’s prey. Each moment that God suppresses his explosive urge to extinguish evil, is a moment in which billions of us have yet another chance to come to our senses and let Jesus deliver us from our infatuation with sin. But the end of this period of grace is hurtling toward us. Soon all suffering will cease. All wrongdoing will be destroyed, along with everyone still caught in its deadly embrace.
Are babies innocent?
In Australia, seemingly innocent rabbits are pests because their ancestors did something contrary to nature: they come to Australia with white settlers and became inhabitants of the Australian bush. Though cute, it is inevitable that as a baby feral rabbit matures it will damage the ecology. Likewise, claim Christians, when we were born we, too, were adorable and too weak and too dumb to sin, the darling of God’s heart, but it was inevitable that we would contribute to this world’s suffering - lying, cheating, slandering, etc - the moment we gained the strength and intellect to do it. That’s because our ancestors abused their God-given responsibilities. There’s no point blaming our ancestors or God, the argument goes. Had our ancestors been removed before genetically transmitting their predisposition to wrongdoing, we would never have been born.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
GOD'S WISDOM vs man's wisdom
Read: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16
There are a lot of people searching for 'human wisdom'. Whether it is through the education system or human philosophy. Whatever it may be, it's all foolishness in God's eyes, as 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 says. That's not to say we don't bother with education, but just to recognize that Godly wisdom is more desirable. What should we be running after, and desiring above all else? Proverbs 8:10-11 speaks of God's Wisdom being better than rubies or pearls, and there is nothing to be compared. You cannot learn Godly wisdom in a University and get a degree in it. It can only come to a heart in right relationship with God, and seeking it. The Holy Spirit that dwells within us leads us into all truth. "For the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels, and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny]." (V:10).
There were two things that were impressed upon me as a new Christian. The first was that the word of God, His teachings, is spiritually discerned. A person cannot possibly understand spiritual truths, unless they have the Holy Spirit within, teaching them the hidden meanings, (1 Cor.2:13-14). The human mind, no matter how intelligent cannot comprehend spiritual truths.
The second thing that was impressed upon me was that God raises up what the world considers foolish to shame the wise 1 Cor.1:25-28. This really stood out for me, as I was what the world would have considered foolish, not being well educated. But God chose me, and He chose you too. He can fill us with His wisdom and put worldly wisdom to shame. Let us desire and run after Godly wisdom. By doing so we will never be disappointed.
You may like to read the poem God's Wisdom; Man's Folly
© By M.S.Lowndes
There are a lot of people searching for 'human wisdom'. Whether it is through the education system or human philosophy. Whatever it may be, it's all foolishness in God's eyes, as 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 says. That's not to say we don't bother with education, but just to recognize that Godly wisdom is more desirable. What should we be running after, and desiring above all else? Proverbs 8:10-11 speaks of God's Wisdom being better than rubies or pearls, and there is nothing to be compared. You cannot learn Godly wisdom in a University and get a degree in it. It can only come to a heart in right relationship with God, and seeking it. The Holy Spirit that dwells within us leads us into all truth. "For the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels, and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny]." (V:10).
There were two things that were impressed upon me as a new Christian. The first was that the word of God, His teachings, is spiritually discerned. A person cannot possibly understand spiritual truths, unless they have the Holy Spirit within, teaching them the hidden meanings, (1 Cor.2:13-14). The human mind, no matter how intelligent cannot comprehend spiritual truths.
The second thing that was impressed upon me was that God raises up what the world considers foolish to shame the wise 1 Cor.1:25-28. This really stood out for me, as I was what the world would have considered foolish, not being well educated. But God chose me, and He chose you too. He can fill us with His wisdom and put worldly wisdom to shame. Let us desire and run after Godly wisdom. By doing so we will never be disappointed.
You may like to read the poem God's Wisdom; Man's Folly
© By M.S.Lowndes
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
What bible taught us about blaming others
It has been said that a wise man learns from his mistakes; but a wiser man learns from the mistakes of others. One of the reasons that the Bible tells us of the failures, and not just the triumphs, of the men and women of faith, is that we are to recognize their mistakes, learn from them, and avoid them.
Children of the Lord do not live error-free lives. They make mistakes; sometimes far too many mistakes. But there are four common errors that Christians make; four mistakes that could be avoided by a better understanding of the Bible.
Abraham was the father of the faithful. See Romans 4:16. He is known throughout the scriptures as a man of faith. See Galatians 3:9; Hebrews 11:8. But Abraham committed each one of these four mistakes. If we can profit from the mistakes of others, perhaps we can avoid them. But if we refuse to learn from the past, we are condemned to repeat the errors of the past.
Abraham did not need a lifetime to mess up his life. He made all four mistakes in a short period of time. All four are recorded in the 16th chapter of Genesis.
I don’t say these are stupid mistakes. From God’s, perspective, they were certainly foolish. But from Abraham’s perspective – in the problems and difficulties of life, his actions seemed reasonable and plausible at the time.
So many times we make mistakes in our dealings with the uncertainties of life. Looking back, we see that our decisions were foolish. But at the time, they seemed so logical and right. We need to be able to avoid wrong decisions; instead of just being able to recognize them later.
In Genesis 16:1, we read that Sarah, Abraham’s wife, was barren. This was a grievous condition for her. Sarah’s barrenness was seen as a curse in her time. She was suffering emotional pain. Her marriage was unhappy. At this time, she was 75 years old. Her inability to conceive was a torment that she had lived with for a long time. Now it was medically impossible for her to bear a child.
Sometimes humans cook up schemes to remedy problems that are worse than the problems themselves. Both Abraham and Sarah committed the first common error: they let fleshly desire overrule good sense. In Genesis 16:1-2, Sarah gave Abraham her servant to be a second wife. Sarah wanted a child so bad, that she proposed that Abraham take a second wife and have a child through her. Today we would call that surrogate motherhood. It was a common practice among the heathen in the land of Canaan at the time.
But polygamy was not God’s intended plan for His people. In Genesis 2:24, God had only made one wife for Adam. A man was to leave his parents and cleave to his wife, not wives. Malachi 2:14-15 shows that monogamy was to protect a godly seed.
Yet polygamy and surrogate motherhood were accepted practices among the heathen in the land. Sarah’s proposal would not have raised an eyebrow at that time, in that part of the world. But they should not have come up with this scheme. They were abandoning their faith in God’s promise.
In Genesis 13:16, Abraham received the promise of seed. In Genesis 15:1-6, the promise was confirmed again, and Abraham believed God.
When people are desperate, or frustrated, they do strange things. Has desperation driven any of your decisions? A young person, seeking a spouse, may get desperate and just take anyone, rather than waiting for the spouse God wants them to have. Men and women are driven to sin by desperation in the boredom of what we call a middle-age crisis.
Sarah wanted this – so she could have a surrogate child. Abraham conceded to fleshly desires, too. An old man had reason to want to be married to a young, shapely wife with the intent of having relations to produce a child. And Abraham gave in to those desires. Genesis 16:2b.
Hagar’s pregnancy did not bring peace nor happiness. Verses 3-4. The character of the home changed. It wasn’t just Abraham and Sarah anymore; it was Abraham and Sarah and Hagar. The relationship of Sarah and Hagar changed, and the relationship of Abraham and Sarah lost something very valuable.
Unfaithfulness to your spouse in marriage cannot produce happiness. Sometimes there can be forgiveness and even reconciliation, but it is almost impossible to restore the trust and closeness in the relationship that existed when it was exclusive.
The problem: “Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.” Verse 2b. Husbands, you should listen to your wives, and wives should listen to their husbands – except when their counsel violates the Word of God. God spoke to Abram, not Sarah about leaving Ur. God told Abram, not Sarah, that he would have children. How could Abraham believe Sarah knew more about the will of God than he did?
Today, many Christians make the second mistake: they listen to the wrong counselors. Especially when they are wanting to act outside the permissive will of God, they ask or receive advise from friends who are weak in the faith or from those outside the church. Fallen men and women seek advice from those who will tell them what they want to hear, instead of those who will tell them what they need to hear.
Psalm 1:1 teaches to walk not in the counsel of the ungodly. But Proverbs 12:15 shows that there can be good counsel. Seek good counsel from godly men and women. Proverbs 20:5.
Abraham should have refused Sarah’s suggestion and reminded her of what God had promised. But in Genesis 16:4-5, Sarah fell into the 3rd mistake: blaming others. Neither Abraham nor Sarah recognized their own fault in this situation. Each sought someone else to blame. Most humans do this. Very few people can say: “I was wrong, please forgive me.” Every error has to be someone else’s fault.
Hagar had been elevated from slave to second wife. She no longer treated Sarah with the same honor and respect that a slave had to have toward her mistress. After all, she was able to conceive – a sign of God’s blessing that Sarah did not have.
Things did not work out the way Sarah thought they would. (They never do when we violate the revealed will of God.) So what did Sarah do? She blamed Abraham. Verse 5. And Abraham could just as well blame Sarah – but they both were at fault for failing to trust God.
It is a mistake to blame others for the things we bring on ourselves. When man fell in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3:12-13, Adam blamed Eve; and Eve blamed the serpent. The fault was not in others, they should have each accepted their own responsibility.
Jesus said that most humans are mote-hunters, with beams in their own eyes. Matthew 7:5. It is a sign of Christian maturity to accept responsibility for your own faults. When King David fell into sin in II Samuel 12:7,13, he did not blame Bathsheba, or anyone else.
At this point in the family crisis, Abraham should have taken charge of the situation, and implement the godly principles in his home that would have defused and resolved the problems. He was to be the head of his home. Abraham should have accepted responsibility for the wrong that brought on the situation. He should have said it was his fault for letting the thing happen. He did not have to consent to the scheme. He should have asked for forgiveness first, and then told Sarah that she was at fault, too. She brought it on herself. And he should have told Hagar that she should not have been in the position of second wife, but now that she was, she must still treat Sarah with the respect and honor that she is due.
Abraham should have administered righteousness in his home. Instead, he committed the fourth common mistake: he shirked his responsibility for the sake of peace. Genesis 16:6 shows that Abraham told Sarah: “Do whatever you think is right, dear.”
Shirking his responsibility was wrong. Hagar suffered for it. But it got Sarah off Abraham’s back. Peace purchased at the cost of shirking your duty is neither valuable nor lasting. Queen Esther could not shirk her duty. Esther 4:14, 16b.
In four verses, Genesis 16:2-6, Abraham committed all four mistakes. He let fleshly desires overrule God’s will for his life; he listened to the wrong person; he blamed others for the thing he brought on himself; and he shirked his responsibility for the sake of peace.
Please note that there are no mistakes from God’s point of view. Everything that happens is according to His plan. Everything is either His direct will, or it is in His permissive will. Abraham’s mistakes were part of the process the Lord was taking him through to mature him. He learned to trust the Lord because he got into trouble whenever he failed to believe God.
But mistakes have consequences. In Abraham’s case, there were major consequences that continue to trouble his family until today. If you can’t handle the consequences, then don’t make the mistakes.
Abraham had a child through his relationship with Hagar, Ishmael, progenitor of the Arabs. Genesis 16:7-12 shows us that he was a wild man, a donkey’s colt. His hand was to be against his neighbor. And his descendents, the Middle East Arabs, are still that way. The current trouble in the Middle East, the bloodshed between the Jews and the Arabs, is a continuing result of Abraham’s mistakes. Abraham’s mistakes were part of the plan of God; but they had massive consequences.
Despite his mistakes, God saved Abraham. Sarah also died saved. They are both in the Hebrew Hall of Fame – Hebrews, the 11th chapter. God can raise you above your mistakes, too. But part of growing in Christ is learning to avoid mistakes. Philippians 2:12-15 speaks of Christian growth, reaching the point of being blameless & without rebuke. Part of reaching that point is to avoid the common mistakes of life.
Thanks to pastor biker for sharing.
Children of the Lord do not live error-free lives. They make mistakes; sometimes far too many mistakes. But there are four common errors that Christians make; four mistakes that could be avoided by a better understanding of the Bible.
Abraham was the father of the faithful. See Romans 4:16. He is known throughout the scriptures as a man of faith. See Galatians 3:9; Hebrews 11:8. But Abraham committed each one of these four mistakes. If we can profit from the mistakes of others, perhaps we can avoid them. But if we refuse to learn from the past, we are condemned to repeat the errors of the past.
Abraham did not need a lifetime to mess up his life. He made all four mistakes in a short period of time. All four are recorded in the 16th chapter of Genesis.
I don’t say these are stupid mistakes. From God’s, perspective, they were certainly foolish. But from Abraham’s perspective – in the problems and difficulties of life, his actions seemed reasonable and plausible at the time.
So many times we make mistakes in our dealings with the uncertainties of life. Looking back, we see that our decisions were foolish. But at the time, they seemed so logical and right. We need to be able to avoid wrong decisions; instead of just being able to recognize them later.
In Genesis 16:1, we read that Sarah, Abraham’s wife, was barren. This was a grievous condition for her. Sarah’s barrenness was seen as a curse in her time. She was suffering emotional pain. Her marriage was unhappy. At this time, she was 75 years old. Her inability to conceive was a torment that she had lived with for a long time. Now it was medically impossible for her to bear a child.
Sometimes humans cook up schemes to remedy problems that are worse than the problems themselves. Both Abraham and Sarah committed the first common error: they let fleshly desire overrule good sense. In Genesis 16:1-2, Sarah gave Abraham her servant to be a second wife. Sarah wanted a child so bad, that she proposed that Abraham take a second wife and have a child through her. Today we would call that surrogate motherhood. It was a common practice among the heathen in the land of Canaan at the time.
But polygamy was not God’s intended plan for His people. In Genesis 2:24, God had only made one wife for Adam. A man was to leave his parents and cleave to his wife, not wives. Malachi 2:14-15 shows that monogamy was to protect a godly seed.
Yet polygamy and surrogate motherhood were accepted practices among the heathen in the land. Sarah’s proposal would not have raised an eyebrow at that time, in that part of the world. But they should not have come up with this scheme. They were abandoning their faith in God’s promise.
In Genesis 13:16, Abraham received the promise of seed. In Genesis 15:1-6, the promise was confirmed again, and Abraham believed God.
When people are desperate, or frustrated, they do strange things. Has desperation driven any of your decisions? A young person, seeking a spouse, may get desperate and just take anyone, rather than waiting for the spouse God wants them to have. Men and women are driven to sin by desperation in the boredom of what we call a middle-age crisis.
Sarah wanted this – so she could have a surrogate child. Abraham conceded to fleshly desires, too. An old man had reason to want to be married to a young, shapely wife with the intent of having relations to produce a child. And Abraham gave in to those desires. Genesis 16:2b.
Hagar’s pregnancy did not bring peace nor happiness. Verses 3-4. The character of the home changed. It wasn’t just Abraham and Sarah anymore; it was Abraham and Sarah and Hagar. The relationship of Sarah and Hagar changed, and the relationship of Abraham and Sarah lost something very valuable.
Unfaithfulness to your spouse in marriage cannot produce happiness. Sometimes there can be forgiveness and even reconciliation, but it is almost impossible to restore the trust and closeness in the relationship that existed when it was exclusive.
The problem: “Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.” Verse 2b. Husbands, you should listen to your wives, and wives should listen to their husbands – except when their counsel violates the Word of God. God spoke to Abram, not Sarah about leaving Ur. God told Abram, not Sarah, that he would have children. How could Abraham believe Sarah knew more about the will of God than he did?
Today, many Christians make the second mistake: they listen to the wrong counselors. Especially when they are wanting to act outside the permissive will of God, they ask or receive advise from friends who are weak in the faith or from those outside the church. Fallen men and women seek advice from those who will tell them what they want to hear, instead of those who will tell them what they need to hear.
Psalm 1:1 teaches to walk not in the counsel of the ungodly. But Proverbs 12:15 shows that there can be good counsel. Seek good counsel from godly men and women. Proverbs 20:5.
Abraham should have refused Sarah’s suggestion and reminded her of what God had promised. But in Genesis 16:4-5, Sarah fell into the 3rd mistake: blaming others. Neither Abraham nor Sarah recognized their own fault in this situation. Each sought someone else to blame. Most humans do this. Very few people can say: “I was wrong, please forgive me.” Every error has to be someone else’s fault.
Hagar had been elevated from slave to second wife. She no longer treated Sarah with the same honor and respect that a slave had to have toward her mistress. After all, she was able to conceive – a sign of God’s blessing that Sarah did not have.
Things did not work out the way Sarah thought they would. (They never do when we violate the revealed will of God.) So what did Sarah do? She blamed Abraham. Verse 5. And Abraham could just as well blame Sarah – but they both were at fault for failing to trust God.
It is a mistake to blame others for the things we bring on ourselves. When man fell in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3:12-13, Adam blamed Eve; and Eve blamed the serpent. The fault was not in others, they should have each accepted their own responsibility.
Jesus said that most humans are mote-hunters, with beams in their own eyes. Matthew 7:5. It is a sign of Christian maturity to accept responsibility for your own faults. When King David fell into sin in II Samuel 12:7,13, he did not blame Bathsheba, or anyone else.
At this point in the family crisis, Abraham should have taken charge of the situation, and implement the godly principles in his home that would have defused and resolved the problems. He was to be the head of his home. Abraham should have accepted responsibility for the wrong that brought on the situation. He should have said it was his fault for letting the thing happen. He did not have to consent to the scheme. He should have asked for forgiveness first, and then told Sarah that she was at fault, too. She brought it on herself. And he should have told Hagar that she should not have been in the position of second wife, but now that she was, she must still treat Sarah with the respect and honor that she is due.
Abraham should have administered righteousness in his home. Instead, he committed the fourth common mistake: he shirked his responsibility for the sake of peace. Genesis 16:6 shows that Abraham told Sarah: “Do whatever you think is right, dear.”
Shirking his responsibility was wrong. Hagar suffered for it. But it got Sarah off Abraham’s back. Peace purchased at the cost of shirking your duty is neither valuable nor lasting. Queen Esther could not shirk her duty. Esther 4:14, 16b.
In four verses, Genesis 16:2-6, Abraham committed all four mistakes. He let fleshly desires overrule God’s will for his life; he listened to the wrong person; he blamed others for the thing he brought on himself; and he shirked his responsibility for the sake of peace.
Please note that there are no mistakes from God’s point of view. Everything that happens is according to His plan. Everything is either His direct will, or it is in His permissive will. Abraham’s mistakes were part of the process the Lord was taking him through to mature him. He learned to trust the Lord because he got into trouble whenever he failed to believe God.
But mistakes have consequences. In Abraham’s case, there were major consequences that continue to trouble his family until today. If you can’t handle the consequences, then don’t make the mistakes.
Abraham had a child through his relationship with Hagar, Ishmael, progenitor of the Arabs. Genesis 16:7-12 shows us that he was a wild man, a donkey’s colt. His hand was to be against his neighbor. And his descendents, the Middle East Arabs, are still that way. The current trouble in the Middle East, the bloodshed between the Jews and the Arabs, is a continuing result of Abraham’s mistakes. Abraham’s mistakes were part of the plan of God; but they had massive consequences.
Despite his mistakes, God saved Abraham. Sarah also died saved. They are both in the Hebrew Hall of Fame – Hebrews, the 11th chapter. God can raise you above your mistakes, too. But part of growing in Christ is learning to avoid mistakes. Philippians 2:12-15 speaks of Christian growth, reaching the point of being blameless & without rebuke. Part of reaching that point is to avoid the common mistakes of life.
Thanks to pastor biker for sharing.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Happy birthday to my mother
Hi mom, thank you for caring me all this time. I would like to wish you happy birthday. All the hardship you endure, it's time for you to settle down and enjoy the fruit of happiness. I Love you mom for your 65th birthday. God always bless you. Amen.
A Prayer for a Mother's Birthday by Henry Van Dyke
Lord Jesus, Thou hast known
A mother's love and tender care:
And Thou wilt hear, while for my own
Mother most dear I make this birthday prayer.
Protect her life, I pray,
Who gave the gift of life to me;
And may she know, from day to day,
The deepening glow of Life that comes from Thee.
As once upon her breast
Fearless and well content I lay,
So let her heart, on Thee at rest,
Feel fears depart and troubles fade away.
Her every wish fulfill;
And even if Thou must refuse
In anything, let Thy wise will
A comfort bring such as kind mothers use.
Ah, hold her by the hand,
As once her hand held mine;
And though she may not understand
Life's winding way, lead her in peace divine.
I cannot pay my debt
For all the love that she has given;
But Thou, love's Lord, wilt not forget
Her due reward,--bless her in earth and heaven.
A Prayer for a Mother's Birthday by Henry Van Dyke
Lord Jesus, Thou hast known
A mother's love and tender care:
And Thou wilt hear, while for my own
Mother most dear I make this birthday prayer.
Protect her life, I pray,
Who gave the gift of life to me;
And may she know, from day to day,
The deepening glow of Life that comes from Thee.
As once upon her breast
Fearless and well content I lay,
So let her heart, on Thee at rest,
Feel fears depart and troubles fade away.
Her every wish fulfill;
And even if Thou must refuse
In anything, let Thy wise will
A comfort bring such as kind mothers use.
Ah, hold her by the hand,
As once her hand held mine;
And though she may not understand
Life's winding way, lead her in peace divine.
I cannot pay my debt
For all the love that she has given;
But Thou, love's Lord, wilt not forget
Her due reward,--bless her in earth and heaven.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Let's suffer and reborn again
To suffer is something that we don't want to wish. Believe it or not we will suffer sometimes.
They are many types of suffering as you know. But for me I just simplify it to 4 types only. Physical, emotion, mentally and finally the one that people nowadays forgotten which is the most important it's the spirit.
When a person suffer, it comes with a package. Example, people involved with an accidents. He will be suffering from physical such as wound, emotion such as regret and mental such as nightmares. In spirit there will be feeling loss disconnected to GOD. Other example, if you shouted by your boss the effect will be the same but it start from your emotion and spread to your physical, mental and spirit.
What is the force that creating this? It's the negative energy. It attack these 4 bodies also. But the most destructive is the negative energy in spirit form such as unclean spirit, fallen angels, demon and whatever written in bible. That is why we should guard our spirit by keeping our physical, emotion and mental clean. That why we have religion and belief. It guard us well, if we fall we are going to suffer. Suffering cause by spirit level is far more destructive than you can imagine. It will destroy our soul and perish. We will live soulless.
My next question is how do we handle suffering? Simple.. Be strong. Never say or even think that at the time we suffer we blaming GOD. GOD never let us suffer for he sent his son to suffer for us because of our sins. GOD only have one pure energy that is HIS language. It's unconditional love. Love without term and agreement, non selective that why it's pure, border less, unrestrained..
There is reason why we suffer. There is only one. It's our own negligence and naive ness that cause our own suffering. That the law of cause of effect. You break you pay dearly.
The good thing about suffering is, it makes us realize there is mistake we made in the past. We can't fix it but we can accept it. It's not easy but eventually we will be a victor. Acceptance with an open heart will help us and elevate our spiritual consciousness even more. That is our purpose in life to attain highest spiritual level and reunite with our creator... Amen.
They are many types of suffering as you know. But for me I just simplify it to 4 types only. Physical, emotion, mentally and finally the one that people nowadays forgotten which is the most important it's the spirit.
When a person suffer, it comes with a package. Example, people involved with an accidents. He will be suffering from physical such as wound, emotion such as regret and mental such as nightmares. In spirit there will be feeling loss disconnected to GOD. Other example, if you shouted by your boss the effect will be the same but it start from your emotion and spread to your physical, mental and spirit.
What is the force that creating this? It's the negative energy. It attack these 4 bodies also. But the most destructive is the negative energy in spirit form such as unclean spirit, fallen angels, demon and whatever written in bible. That is why we should guard our spirit by keeping our physical, emotion and mental clean. That why we have religion and belief. It guard us well, if we fall we are going to suffer. Suffering cause by spirit level is far more destructive than you can imagine. It will destroy our soul and perish. We will live soulless.
My next question is how do we handle suffering? Simple.. Be strong. Never say or even think that at the time we suffer we blaming GOD. GOD never let us suffer for he sent his son to suffer for us because of our sins. GOD only have one pure energy that is HIS language. It's unconditional love. Love without term and agreement, non selective that why it's pure, border less, unrestrained..
There is reason why we suffer. There is only one. It's our own negligence and naive ness that cause our own suffering. That the law of cause of effect. You break you pay dearly.
The good thing about suffering is, it makes us realize there is mistake we made in the past. We can't fix it but we can accept it. It's not easy but eventually we will be a victor. Acceptance with an open heart will help us and elevate our spiritual consciousness even more. That is our purpose in life to attain highest spiritual level and reunite with our creator... Amen.
Twin Flames vs Soul Mates
Have you met your twin flames yet? Do you know what is it? Do you know soul mates is different from twin flames?
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Soulmates are our soul family's
the ones we do have many lifetimes and experiences with, who help us grow and evolve, create and dissipate karma. According to ancient wisdom, when the soul is "born" or descended from Source, it is created in a group. The souls in this group are our soulmates, ones who are very like us in frequency makeup. Then each of these souls is split into two, creating the twins.
A soulmate is someone you are close to at a soul level, and with whom you have had many shared experiences in different lifetimes, in various kinds of relationships -- siblings, parent-child, best friend, as well as romantic relationships. There is a deep love for each other, and a spiritual bond that sets them apart from the superficiality of most other people in your life. Conversations are generally deep, about personal growth and service to make the world a better place. We can have many soulmates in our lives, and they come to us to help us grow spiritually.
Twin flames, also called twin souls, are literally the other half of our soul. We each have only one twin, and generally after being split the two went their separate ways, incarnating over and over to gather human experience before coming back together. Ideally, this happens in both of their last lifetimes on the planet so they can ascend together. So you probably haven't had many lifetimes with your twin.
Reunion?
Twin Flame reunions are the most fulfilling relationships we can enter into as humans, on all levels. However, twin flame couples have been extremely rare on the planet, and for good reasons, which will be described later. Despite this, we are finding that more and more twins are finding each other now, because of the acceleration of spiritual transformation and opportunities for soul evolution we are all experiencing. People are evolving and learning and healing at such a fast rate that they are getting ready for their twins faster. What used to take lifetimes to learn and heal, people are now going through in years or even months. This is the astounding level of acceleration we and the planet are going through.
When twins get together, it is for some kind of spiritual service work. This is their primary reason for finding each other, because through their union a huge birthing of creative energy is released, to be used for their mission together. More and more twins are attempting to get together now to help the planet and humanity make a big shift forward in consciousness.
However, many of these attempts at reunion are unsuccessful because the individual people are not quite ready for the intensity of a twin flame union. It is more intense than any other union, and this intensity is at a soul level, not as much in the physical or even emotional bodies. This doesn't mean that there isn't a good attraction at those levels as well, but the strongest attraction is of spirit. This is one of the distinguishing characteristics of a twin soul. Many people think they have met their twin because the attraction is so intense, but it is a karmic attraction, one of need or bodily desire rather than the Divine Love of twins.
Your chance of meeting and staying with your twin depends on how evolved your soul is, and how much of your baggage from this and past lives you have cleared. The biggest reason twins have to separate after coming together is their individual emotional baggage. Because in the presence of your twin, there can be nothing between you, nothing blocking your closeness. This means that everything comes up for healing that you haven't previously healed. Everything!
When twins reunite, both of them experience an acceleration of their spiritual growth and awakening. They get on the fast track of learning about esoteric wisdom and experiencing other states of consciousness. They usually haven't been together all that often during their series of lives on the planet, and so their backgrounds may be different. Yet, there is a closeness and similarities of spirit that are almost uncanny, noticed in many ways, such as looking back at yourself when you look at your mate, and a remembering of the distant past when you first split up. Guidance is strong with these relationships, and usually one or both have a good channel for communication with Spirit. Their connection is telepathic, and hugging each other is like coming home for nourishment.
My next question is, have you met your twin flames?
I know it's rare to meet your twin flames because the person need to be at highest spiritual consciousness where their soul is closely to GOD unlike me. They are the one only will know and understand. If both individuals are at this level of consciousness, they will both complement and respect each other.
Having met your twin flames does not mean you separate from your current partner because there is karmic reason you have to fulfill to your current partner. Keep your current responsibility and don't neglect it or your spiritual wisdom will be taken back and you creating more burden in your life and to the others.
When one of the twin flames yet to reach highest spiritual consciousness the other half will or oblige to help his/other half to reach highest spiritual consciousness when they met. The love is at the spiritual level where he/she loves you not because of the emotion and physical level. Through unconditional love he/she will do the best to help. Or by law of freewill he/she can just let the things go and choose not to help since its the other half can choose to be or not to be. So it's all depend..
When twin flames together, it will be a great mutual relationship... So pray always and gain your spiritual level first to experience and meet your other half. He/she maybe just near to you if you don't realize... Namaste
P/s thank you old friend for reminding me...
I
Soulmates are our soul family's
the ones we do have many lifetimes and experiences with, who help us grow and evolve, create and dissipate karma. According to ancient wisdom, when the soul is "born" or descended from Source, it is created in a group. The souls in this group are our soulmates, ones who are very like us in frequency makeup. Then each of these souls is split into two, creating the twins.
A soulmate is someone you are close to at a soul level, and with whom you have had many shared experiences in different lifetimes, in various kinds of relationships -- siblings, parent-child, best friend, as well as romantic relationships. There is a deep love for each other, and a spiritual bond that sets them apart from the superficiality of most other people in your life. Conversations are generally deep, about personal growth and service to make the world a better place. We can have many soulmates in our lives, and they come to us to help us grow spiritually.
Twin flames, also called twin souls, are literally the other half of our soul. We each have only one twin, and generally after being split the two went their separate ways, incarnating over and over to gather human experience before coming back together. Ideally, this happens in both of their last lifetimes on the planet so they can ascend together. So you probably haven't had many lifetimes with your twin.
Reunion?
Twin Flame reunions are the most fulfilling relationships we can enter into as humans, on all levels. However, twin flame couples have been extremely rare on the planet, and for good reasons, which will be described later. Despite this, we are finding that more and more twins are finding each other now, because of the acceleration of spiritual transformation and opportunities for soul evolution we are all experiencing. People are evolving and learning and healing at such a fast rate that they are getting ready for their twins faster. What used to take lifetimes to learn and heal, people are now going through in years or even months. This is the astounding level of acceleration we and the planet are going through.
When twins get together, it is for some kind of spiritual service work. This is their primary reason for finding each other, because through their union a huge birthing of creative energy is released, to be used for their mission together. More and more twins are attempting to get together now to help the planet and humanity make a big shift forward in consciousness.
However, many of these attempts at reunion are unsuccessful because the individual people are not quite ready for the intensity of a twin flame union. It is more intense than any other union, and this intensity is at a soul level, not as much in the physical or even emotional bodies. This doesn't mean that there isn't a good attraction at those levels as well, but the strongest attraction is of spirit. This is one of the distinguishing characteristics of a twin soul. Many people think they have met their twin because the attraction is so intense, but it is a karmic attraction, one of need or bodily desire rather than the Divine Love of twins.
Your chance of meeting and staying with your twin depends on how evolved your soul is, and how much of your baggage from this and past lives you have cleared. The biggest reason twins have to separate after coming together is their individual emotional baggage. Because in the presence of your twin, there can be nothing between you, nothing blocking your closeness. This means that everything comes up for healing that you haven't previously healed. Everything!
When twins reunite, both of them experience an acceleration of their spiritual growth and awakening. They get on the fast track of learning about esoteric wisdom and experiencing other states of consciousness. They usually haven't been together all that often during their series of lives on the planet, and so their backgrounds may be different. Yet, there is a closeness and similarities of spirit that are almost uncanny, noticed in many ways, such as looking back at yourself when you look at your mate, and a remembering of the distant past when you first split up. Guidance is strong with these relationships, and usually one or both have a good channel for communication with Spirit. Their connection is telepathic, and hugging each other is like coming home for nourishment.
My next question is, have you met your twin flames?
I know it's rare to meet your twin flames because the person need to be at highest spiritual consciousness where their soul is closely to GOD unlike me. They are the one only will know and understand. If both individuals are at this level of consciousness, they will both complement and respect each other.
Having met your twin flames does not mean you separate from your current partner because there is karmic reason you have to fulfill to your current partner. Keep your current responsibility and don't neglect it or your spiritual wisdom will be taken back and you creating more burden in your life and to the others.
When one of the twin flames yet to reach highest spiritual consciousness the other half will or oblige to help his/other half to reach highest spiritual consciousness when they met. The love is at the spiritual level where he/she loves you not because of the emotion and physical level. Through unconditional love he/she will do the best to help. Or by law of freewill he/she can just let the things go and choose not to help since its the other half can choose to be or not to be. So it's all depend..
When twin flames together, it will be a great mutual relationship... So pray always and gain your spiritual level first to experience and meet your other half. He/she maybe just near to you if you don't realize... Namaste
P/s thank you old friend for reminding me...
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Be prepared master...!!
Last night, I was visited by a special friend.. Telling me that something very big is happening right now for me...
What is done is done and what will be, it will be.. So be it...!!
What is done is done and what will be, it will be.. So be it...!!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Personal Crystal
There are many type of crystal sold out there. Know which one kis suitable for you is a question. One of the simplest method is by your birth date. But do you know there is unique features of the crystal?
Each colour have it's own unique natural vibration that can affect us. Here are the two examples of the benefit of wearing these stone.
Amethyst is a stone of the mind. It helps to bring calmness and clarity where there is anxiety and confusion. Wear Amethyst if you want to get in touch with your intuition, your feelings, or your values. Amethyst helps one learn of all things spiritual, mystic and psychic.
Rose quartz is a stone of warmth and love, as it heals emotional wounds and pain with it's gentle calming salve. Opens the heart to the beauty within and all around us, and will begin its healing by reducing resentments.
I suggest you that you don't simply go to jewelry store, buy the crystal and wear it straight away because crystal have the ability to store negative energy as well thus affecting you as well. Ask the seller to cleanse the stone that you interested to buy. If he can't or don't know, there is a lot of store you can go. Keyword, cleanse cleanse and cleanse.
Crystal as well should be taken care as well if you already have one. It needed to be cleansed as well or it will loose its power. When the crystal loose it's lustrous colour that the sign it's loose it's abilities and better to throw it away. For me, I have the special way to reprogram the crystal to self cleansing and empower the crystal. The crystal will be self cleansing and more powerful.:).
As the crystal more infused with you, many of your abilities surfaced and the crystal will become more translucent. That the proof that you and the crystal are ONE.
Each colour have it's own unique natural vibration that can affect us. Here are the two examples of the benefit of wearing these stone.
Amethyst is a stone of the mind. It helps to bring calmness and clarity where there is anxiety and confusion. Wear Amethyst if you want to get in touch with your intuition, your feelings, or your values. Amethyst helps one learn of all things spiritual, mystic and psychic.
Rose quartz is a stone of warmth and love, as it heals emotional wounds and pain with it's gentle calming salve. Opens the heart to the beauty within and all around us, and will begin its healing by reducing resentments.
I suggest you that you don't simply go to jewelry store, buy the crystal and wear it straight away because crystal have the ability to store negative energy as well thus affecting you as well. Ask the seller to cleanse the stone that you interested to buy. If he can't or don't know, there is a lot of store you can go. Keyword, cleanse cleanse and cleanse.
Crystal as well should be taken care as well if you already have one. It needed to be cleansed as well or it will loose its power. When the crystal loose it's lustrous colour that the sign it's loose it's abilities and better to throw it away. For me, I have the special way to reprogram the crystal to self cleansing and empower the crystal. The crystal will be self cleansing and more powerful.:).
As the crystal more infused with you, many of your abilities surfaced and the crystal will become more translucent. That the proof that you and the crystal are ONE.
Monday, May 7, 2012
The law of ten fold
Anybody want to live in abundance? I have a very nice information to share with you. Past few years, world were amazed by the book written by Rhonda Byrne it's called The Secret. The book focus on one of there universal law, it is the law of attraction. I'm not going into this yet.
There are many universal law that working with us at the present. The law that I want to talk about is the Law of abundance. You reap what you sow. In bible, 2 Corinthians 9:6 But as to this, he that sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he that sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Let each one do just as he has resolved in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
The question is how to live in abundance? One of the way is by "TITHING". Ideally it should be given to God via the highest perceived channel, the neck in the hourglass which represents your connection to God. The target recipient must be that which sources you most, be it church, spiritual teacher, or whoever you feel is the highest level of sourcing for you. It might even be a charity that you have given your whole heart and spare time to.
The next question is how much? It's 10% of your income. Before you paying you bills or spend your money, tithe first as it is your top priority. Don't be scared or angry just give the without any negative feeling.By tithing to the highest, we acknowledge and trust the greater wisdom of who is sourcing us. We trust the recipient will use that money far more cleverly and wisely for the world good than a lesser person or we ever could.
Tithe received by lesser than our highest source can only be distributed with less love and less wisdom and is less beneficial to the world.
Tithe given with any resistance (anger, resentment, conditions, expectation, etc.) carries those qualities with it as money is inert, thus the universe then reflects that back to us in like manner, 10-fold! Bitter seeds sown, reap bitter fruit 10-fold! The proof is the current world economy creating ever greater poverty. Even though huge donations and tax collections are fed back to the needy, most donors have given with resistance because of greed, hoarding, lust, fear, hedonism and scarcity consciousness, and imperfect governments disperse money imperfectly. Hoarding is one evidence of the absence of tithing.
What next? As you give it freely just expect it to return from GOD graciously and full in Gratitude for HE will greatly reward you 10 fold back... It's comes not only in form of money but it can be anything such as promotion, gift or even winning something.
The full Law of Creation is:
As you sow, so shall you reap 10-fold;
and as you receive, so shall you return to God 1/10th.
Only in this manner is the cycle of God's Law completed and abundance reaped.
Don't just read now prove it to yourself as i did mine.
GOD bless you.
There are many universal law that working with us at the present. The law that I want to talk about is the Law of abundance. You reap what you sow. In bible, 2 Corinthians 9:6 But as to this, he that sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he that sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Let each one do just as he has resolved in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
The question is how to live in abundance? One of the way is by "TITHING". Ideally it should be given to God via the highest perceived channel, the neck in the hourglass which represents your connection to God. The target recipient must be that which sources you most, be it church, spiritual teacher, or whoever you feel is the highest level of sourcing for you. It might even be a charity that you have given your whole heart and spare time to.
The next question is how much? It's 10% of your income. Before you paying you bills or spend your money, tithe first as it is your top priority. Don't be scared or angry just give the without any negative feeling.By tithing to the highest, we acknowledge and trust the greater wisdom of who is sourcing us. We trust the recipient will use that money far more cleverly and wisely for the world good than a lesser person or we ever could.
Tithe received by lesser than our highest source can only be distributed with less love and less wisdom and is less beneficial to the world.
Tithe given with any resistance (anger, resentment, conditions, expectation, etc.) carries those qualities with it as money is inert, thus the universe then reflects that back to us in like manner, 10-fold! Bitter seeds sown, reap bitter fruit 10-fold! The proof is the current world economy creating ever greater poverty. Even though huge donations and tax collections are fed back to the needy, most donors have given with resistance because of greed, hoarding, lust, fear, hedonism and scarcity consciousness, and imperfect governments disperse money imperfectly. Hoarding is one evidence of the absence of tithing.
What next? As you give it freely just expect it to return from GOD graciously and full in Gratitude for HE will greatly reward you 10 fold back... It's comes not only in form of money but it can be anything such as promotion, gift or even winning something.
The full Law of Creation is:
As you sow, so shall you reap 10-fold;
and as you receive, so shall you return to God 1/10th.
Only in this manner is the cycle of God's Law completed and abundance reaped.
Don't just read now prove it to yourself as i did mine.
GOD bless you.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Healing energy exchange
Healing energy from the source can only be accessed for certain people and treated as sacred and pure. Sadly, people takes It for granted since it is free from the source.
There are some healers offer free healing without giving any charge which can be good and bad. The good things is, healer's healing channel becoming wider. The bad are, sometimes healing will not work since it is "free" patient will treat it like a free stuff.
As warned in bible Matthew 7:6 "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces. So it's better not to heal than healing to these kind of people from now on unless gratitude coming out from their mouth all the time or your angel will let you know is this person worth to be healed or not.
If you got sick we will see the doctor or buy some medicine to feel well. In exchange for healthiness we use money as a return. In healing, this thing exist. The exchange not only involve to money only but can be anything such as food, drinks etc as long as there is exchange, healing will be 100% more effective because that how universe work. It's under the universal law, " This is the natural principle of cause and effect. Every cause has its' effect; every effect has its cause. ". In other words, You gave me something I give you in return.
Would you believe me that our life is only illusion of ourself? Our partner is only our own reflection? And time we are living now is present and there is no such thing of past and future? If you don't understand yet it's okay. It's not your time yet to receive the knowledge of god.
Those who believe the Word of God and obey it (James 1:21-25) will grow in their understanding of the ways and wisdom of God... AMEN
There are some healers offer free healing without giving any charge which can be good and bad. The good things is, healer's healing channel becoming wider. The bad are, sometimes healing will not work since it is "free" patient will treat it like a free stuff.
As warned in bible Matthew 7:6 "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces. So it's better not to heal than healing to these kind of people from now on unless gratitude coming out from their mouth all the time or your angel will let you know is this person worth to be healed or not.
If you got sick we will see the doctor or buy some medicine to feel well. In exchange for healthiness we use money as a return. In healing, this thing exist. The exchange not only involve to money only but can be anything such as food, drinks etc as long as there is exchange, healing will be 100% more effective because that how universe work. It's under the universal law, " This is the natural principle of cause and effect. Every cause has its' effect; every effect has its cause. ". In other words, You gave me something I give you in return.
Would you believe me that our life is only illusion of ourself? Our partner is only our own reflection? And time we are living now is present and there is no such thing of past and future? If you don't understand yet it's okay. It's not your time yet to receive the knowledge of god.
Those who believe the Word of God and obey it (James 1:21-25) will grow in their understanding of the ways and wisdom of God... AMEN
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Healer as an energy conduit
Healing energy from the source/holy spirit are freely flowing through the healers body. It is during the Theta Brainwave state that there is a portal or pathway between the conscious and unconsciousness mind. This is when the healers connected to the healing energy source and perform miraculous healing.
Healer will act as a conduit to channel the healing energy to the patient. This energy is very intelligent and know where it will go in the patient physical body, mental, emotion or spiritual shell. By clairvoyance or clairstinence, one can see or feel there is/are dark spot of negative energy attaching the patience body or swirling around him/her or disruption of meridian flow at the physical body.
Pictures shows the main meridians in the body. (Source: Meridians – Qi Pathways on about.com)
When the healing energy enter the patient body, energy felt by them varies such as hot, tingling sensation, cold, swirling. There is one case that they felt nothing at all but that does not mean the energy is not present because they are not sensitive enough to feel it.
There is saying "life journey is experience" and this same goes to the healer. Those who new tend to do mistakes such as picking up the negative residue from the patient and confusion of energy will occur. Daily cleansing should be done everyday to clear them from this negative energy or it will become entities something that you wish don't want to know. Simple morning and evening prayers are just enough to free us from these energy.
Healer will act as a conduit to channel the healing energy to the patient. This energy is very intelligent and know where it will go in the patient physical body, mental, emotion or spiritual shell. By clairvoyance or clairstinence, one can see or feel there is/are dark spot of negative energy attaching the patience body or swirling around him/her or disruption of meridian flow at the physical body.
Pictures shows the main meridians in the body. (Source: Meridians – Qi Pathways on about.com)
When the healing energy enter the patient body, energy felt by them varies such as hot, tingling sensation, cold, swirling. There is one case that they felt nothing at all but that does not mean the energy is not present because they are not sensitive enough to feel it.
There is saying "life journey is experience" and this same goes to the healer. Those who new tend to do mistakes such as picking up the negative residue from the patient and confusion of energy will occur. Daily cleansing should be done everyday to clear them from this negative energy or it will become entities something that you wish don't want to know. Simple morning and evening prayers are just enough to free us from these energy.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Story of David and Saul
1 Samuel 24:4-14
4 The men said, "This is the day the LORD spoke of when he said to you, 'I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.' " Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul's robe. 5 Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe. 6 He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD's anointed, or lift my hand against him; for he is the anointed of the LORD." 7 With these words David rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way. 8 Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. 9 He said to Saul, "Why do you listen when men say, 'David is bent on harming you'? 10 This day you have seen with your own eyes how the LORD delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, 'I will not lift my hand against my master, because he is the LORD's anointed.' 11 See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. Now understand and recognize that I am not guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not wronged you, but you are hunting me down to take my life. 12 May the LORD judge between you and me. And may the LORD avenge the wrongs you have done to me, but my hand will not touch you. 13 As the old saying goes, 'From evildoers come evil deeds,' so my hand will not touch you. 14 "Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
What are we going to do if we get the chance to retaliate against our enemies? This reading is a good example why we should not. We are not master of others one life... Let God deal with it...
4 The men said, "This is the day the LORD spoke of when he said to you, 'I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.' " Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul's robe. 5 Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe. 6 He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD's anointed, or lift my hand against him; for he is the anointed of the LORD." 7 With these words David rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way. 8 Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. 9 He said to Saul, "Why do you listen when men say, 'David is bent on harming you'? 10 This day you have seen with your own eyes how the LORD delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, 'I will not lift my hand against my master, because he is the LORD's anointed.' 11 See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. Now understand and recognize that I am not guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not wronged you, but you are hunting me down to take my life. 12 May the LORD judge between you and me. And may the LORD avenge the wrongs you have done to me, but my hand will not touch you. 13 As the old saying goes, 'From evildoers come evil deeds,' so my hand will not touch you. 14 "Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
What are we going to do if we get the chance to retaliate against our enemies? This reading is a good example why we should not. We are not master of others one life... Let God deal with it...
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Hey... It's your destiny
Since we were born there is a life path that we are supposed to end up. This is what we call destiny. This is the plan from God given to us. God’s plan, since it belongs to God, is holy, wise, and benevolent. The providence of God is working to bring about His original plan for creation.
Often, when the Bible speaks of destiny, it’s in reference to a destiny people have brought upon themselves: “Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction” (Philippians 3:18-19). “This is the fate of those who trust in themselves” (Psalm 49:13). “A man who commits adultery lacks judgment; / whoever does so destroys himself” (Proverbs 6:32). “Each person was judged according to what he had done” (Revelation 20:13).
We sin because we choose to. We can’t blame “Fate,” kismet, predestination, or God. James 1:13-14 says, “When tempted, no one should say, ‘God is tempting me.’ For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.”
Interestingly, many people who choose to sin are annoyed by the negative consequences of their sin. “A man's own folly ruins his life, / yet his heart rages against the LORD” (Proverbs 19:3). This is a very insightful verse. When a man foolishly wrecks his life, he may yet insist on blaming God, or perhaps “Fate.” In this way, he persists in his folly.
Fighting against the plan of God is pointless. “There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan / that can succeed against the LORD” (Proverbs 21:30). This is why the Tower of Babel was never completed (Genesis 11:1-9), why Daniel’s detractors were thrown to the lions (Daniel 6:24), why Jonah spent time inside a fish (Jonah 1:17), and why I get in trouble when I sin.
There is another thing i want to share, No one can change your destiny for you. You are the key and it's a freewill to follow God's plan, if you deviate His plan ask Forgiveness and repent.
Nowadays, I can see and feel clearly someone else destiny. As light worker we are oblige to assist them back in the track according to God's plan. Its better to silence and give support rather than to say "your life will end up in ruin" for it will be quickly materialized.
There is saying,
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
It's all in our decision to end up in thrash or in heaven.
Often, when the Bible speaks of destiny, it’s in reference to a destiny people have brought upon themselves: “Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction” (Philippians 3:18-19). “This is the fate of those who trust in themselves” (Psalm 49:13). “A man who commits adultery lacks judgment; / whoever does so destroys himself” (Proverbs 6:32). “Each person was judged according to what he had done” (Revelation 20:13).
We sin because we choose to. We can’t blame “Fate,” kismet, predestination, or God. James 1:13-14 says, “When tempted, no one should say, ‘God is tempting me.’ For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.”
Interestingly, many people who choose to sin are annoyed by the negative consequences of their sin. “A man's own folly ruins his life, / yet his heart rages against the LORD” (Proverbs 19:3). This is a very insightful verse. When a man foolishly wrecks his life, he may yet insist on blaming God, or perhaps “Fate.” In this way, he persists in his folly.
Fighting against the plan of God is pointless. “There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan / that can succeed against the LORD” (Proverbs 21:30). This is why the Tower of Babel was never completed (Genesis 11:1-9), why Daniel’s detractors were thrown to the lions (Daniel 6:24), why Jonah spent time inside a fish (Jonah 1:17), and why I get in trouble when I sin.
There is another thing i want to share, No one can change your destiny for you. You are the key and it's a freewill to follow God's plan, if you deviate His plan ask Forgiveness and repent.
Nowadays, I can see and feel clearly someone else destiny. As light worker we are oblige to assist them back in the track according to God's plan. Its better to silence and give support rather than to say "your life will end up in ruin" for it will be quickly materialized.
There is saying,
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
It's all in our decision to end up in thrash or in heaven.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Step into your own power
Each of us is gifted with our own personal power since we were born. Most of us unaware of this gift and that why there are people we heard abused not only in a relationship, workplace and sometimes public place.
This common challenge many when working on their connection with God and in mastering the conditions placed on love, is stepping fully into their power. In our experience over these years, the average person in an altered state, says they are using almost ninety percent of their energy to keep themselves from taking their own power and to keep themselves out of love ! In the past, many of us gave our power away. We eventually had to stop this, for the people we gave our power to were actually using it against us.
The question then becomes, when we stop giving our power away, why are we hesitant or fearful to claim it for ourselves? There are three likely answers. The first one is we are all moving into instantaneous creation. Each day we find this to be true - have a thought and very soon, that thought changes our physical reality. For example, think about someone and they call you on the phone. We begin to know what is going to happen before it does.
Instantaneous creation is the most common vibration shared by all other dimensions. We are presently moving into these dimensions. Just how many are really ready to move into instantaneous creation? This might sound like a great thing; however, unless we are totally peaceful, feeling unconditional love for ourselves, having unconditional compassion for ourselves and others and have experienced all forms of earthly creation, would we be really be ready? Could we be responsible for the next thought that comes into our mind if it would create a completely different Earth or a completely different physical reality for us?
The second thing that might be keeping us from taking our power is how that experience might actually look and change our lives. What if, in the next few moments, someone snapped their fingers and said, “You are now a thousand times more powerful than you have ever been in the past.” How would this look to you? How would you feel? How would that change you?
Unless we fully understand our 'story' and why we have created our life experiences: why we picked our parents, our spouses, our choices both good and bad - how could we trust ourselves to create different experiences, to not create more of the same? Unless we fully understand what we have already created physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, we could subconsciously create more of the same past patterns in our future life.
The third reason we may not be willing to step fully into our power is: we have been taught our entire lives to co-create with others. Each of us are individually - a Creator. If we can not accept or do not realize that we are creators and rather, attempt to only be co-creators, we will continue to judge the creations of others based on our belief of what they could or should be creating. Only when we first acknowledge ourselves as a creator and fully realize we are solely responsible for the creation of our own life experiences, can we truly co-create with any other person.
The truth is: everyone’s creation is absolutely perfect. Who is to say one person is a better creator than another? Think about it. If we are all creating situations to test ourselves so we can evolve and be more like God, then who is to say another person’s creation, whether it is uglier or harsher then we might create for ourselves, isn’t exactly what they need in order to understand their life’s purpose?
Our subconscious patterns will continue to test our self love, our personal power and our definition of who we are. Understanding that, will allow us to fully step forward and take our own personal power.
So next time if someone makes us feeling uncomfortable or invade our personal space just reply a simple word "NO".
This common challenge many when working on their connection with God and in mastering the conditions placed on love, is stepping fully into their power. In our experience over these years, the average person in an altered state, says they are using almost ninety percent of their energy to keep themselves from taking their own power and to keep themselves out of love ! In the past, many of us gave our power away. We eventually had to stop this, for the people we gave our power to were actually using it against us.
The question then becomes, when we stop giving our power away, why are we hesitant or fearful to claim it for ourselves? There are three likely answers. The first one is we are all moving into instantaneous creation. Each day we find this to be true - have a thought and very soon, that thought changes our physical reality. For example, think about someone and they call you on the phone. We begin to know what is going to happen before it does.
Instantaneous creation is the most common vibration shared by all other dimensions. We are presently moving into these dimensions. Just how many are really ready to move into instantaneous creation? This might sound like a great thing; however, unless we are totally peaceful, feeling unconditional love for ourselves, having unconditional compassion for ourselves and others and have experienced all forms of earthly creation, would we be really be ready? Could we be responsible for the next thought that comes into our mind if it would create a completely different Earth or a completely different physical reality for us?
The second thing that might be keeping us from taking our power is how that experience might actually look and change our lives. What if, in the next few moments, someone snapped their fingers and said, “You are now a thousand times more powerful than you have ever been in the past.” How would this look to you? How would you feel? How would that change you?
Unless we fully understand our 'story' and why we have created our life experiences: why we picked our parents, our spouses, our choices both good and bad - how could we trust ourselves to create different experiences, to not create more of the same? Unless we fully understand what we have already created physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, we could subconsciously create more of the same past patterns in our future life.
The third reason we may not be willing to step fully into our power is: we have been taught our entire lives to co-create with others. Each of us are individually - a Creator. If we can not accept or do not realize that we are creators and rather, attempt to only be co-creators, we will continue to judge the creations of others based on our belief of what they could or should be creating. Only when we first acknowledge ourselves as a creator and fully realize we are solely responsible for the creation of our own life experiences, can we truly co-create with any other person.
The truth is: everyone’s creation is absolutely perfect. Who is to say one person is a better creator than another? Think about it. If we are all creating situations to test ourselves so we can evolve and be more like God, then who is to say another person’s creation, whether it is uglier or harsher then we might create for ourselves, isn’t exactly what they need in order to understand their life’s purpose?
Our subconscious patterns will continue to test our self love, our personal power and our definition of who we are. Understanding that, will allow us to fully step forward and take our own personal power.
So next time if someone makes us feeling uncomfortable or invade our personal space just reply a simple word "NO".
Monday, March 26, 2012
Water
Drinking water every day is very important to our health. But do you know that water also has its special properties?
Before i go further, let's do some experiment. Try to fill up 3 separate cups of water from the same bottle. Take the first cup and with all your intention to the water, say from the bottom of your heart "I hate you so much or You Fool". Repeat the second cup but this time your intention is to say "I love you so much". The last one just leave as it is.
Try to drink one by one. Start from the third to the first. Notice the differences?. Want to know why?
"An intriguing quality about water, and one that has only recently begun to be explored, is that it has the ability to "remember." Water will hold the frequency or vibration of a substance which has been placed in it - even after the substance has been removed. In other words, there is a lasting effect when water is influenced with any form of energy and it has the ability to carry this energy for prolonged periods of time."
Thanks to the research made by masaru emoto. We can see the water crystal structure after we hold our intention to the water.
By consuming blessed water, we will purify our body because we are consist
of up to 76% of water. So every time you drink a cup of water, just bless it and let's help purify our planet....
Love and Gratitude
You Fool
Normal water with no intention
Before i go further, let's do some experiment. Try to fill up 3 separate cups of water from the same bottle. Take the first cup and with all your intention to the water, say from the bottom of your heart "I hate you so much or You Fool". Repeat the second cup but this time your intention is to say "I love you so much". The last one just leave as it is.
Try to drink one by one. Start from the third to the first. Notice the differences?. Want to know why?
"An intriguing quality about water, and one that has only recently begun to be explored, is that it has the ability to "remember." Water will hold the frequency or vibration of a substance which has been placed in it - even after the substance has been removed. In other words, there is a lasting effect when water is influenced with any form of energy and it has the ability to carry this energy for prolonged periods of time."
Thanks to the research made by masaru emoto. We can see the water crystal structure after we hold our intention to the water.
By consuming blessed water, we will purify our body because we are consist
of up to 76% of water. So every time you drink a cup of water, just bless it and let's help purify our planet....
Love and Gratitude
You Fool
Normal water with no intention
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Four Agreements
The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel and Don Jose Luis Ruiz offer hope and wisdom as we journey along our spiritual, evolutionary path. Today, I will take a moment to reflect upon these four beautiful ideas…
1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
3. Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
3. Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Be patience dear..
Me, my wife and baby went to penampang clinic today for Baby Joanne blood check for bilirubin level and as I hoped and expected, its lower and okay now..
Thanks to GOD for giving me the healing and prayer to my Baby specifically on her liver for fast recover in the past few days.
Before that, there is something interesting happen today.. As we register at the clinic for the first time, both of us didn't heard quite well that the staff nurse instruct us to go to the lab first for blood test then wait at the next to be called.
After waiting for 2 hours, sitting and waiting, we were called and asked for the blood result from the LAB. We were both surprised and finally knew what the first nurse asked us to do at the first place.. I just smiled but my wife start to mumbling..(hahaha as usual). After everything settled up we were both relieved.
Upon leaving I saw a very nice picture and told my wife about it.. I just looked at her and told her to smile next time..:)
Thanks to GOD for giving me the healing and prayer to my Baby specifically on her liver for fast recover in the past few days.
Before that, there is something interesting happen today.. As we register at the clinic for the first time, both of us didn't heard quite well that the staff nurse instruct us to go to the lab first for blood test then wait at the next to be called.
After waiting for 2 hours, sitting and waiting, we were called and asked for the blood result from the LAB. We were both surprised and finally knew what the first nurse asked us to do at the first place.. I just smiled but my wife start to mumbling..(hahaha as usual). After everything settled up we were both relieved.
Upon leaving I saw a very nice picture and told my wife about it.. I just looked at her and told her to smile next time..:)
Monday, March 5, 2012
Question about forgiveness
Forgiveness is an act of releasing resentment and thought of revenge. It is our choice to learn to let go of a past wrong and it is our choice to no longer allow ourselves to be hurt by it.
Remove your ego from the equation. Now look at the situation. Does it appear differently? As it was so eloquently stated by Henry Ward Beecher, when someone says "I can forgive, but I cannot forget", it is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
If you're unforgiving, you might pay the price repeatedly by bringing anger and bitterness into every relationship and new experience. Your life might become so wrapped up in the wrong that you can't enjoy the present. You might become depressed or anxious. You might feel that your life lacks meaning or purpose, or that you're at odds with your spiritual beliefs. You might lose valuable and enriching connectedness with others.
Forgiveness is never about the other person. It is always about us. It is about letting go of the feelings that have been holding us back, weighing us down, and keeping us stuck. It does not condone what the other person did. It does not mean that what happened was okay. It just means that we are choosing to let go of it so we can move on in our lives.
Think of someone who makes you very angry, a person who has caused you pain. The first thing you need to do is have the intent to forgive. Then, start letting yourself feel your feelings, whether they be anger, guilt or sorrow. Give yourself permission to go into the feelings. Realize the intensity. If tears come up, let yourself cry.
Then, when you are calmer, feel the positive aspects that have come out of the painful experience. How did this experience serve you? Are you stronger, more compassionate, more loving to yourself and others?
Every experience serves us in some way. It furthers our growth and expansion - that is why we created it. As you can realize the benefits that you derived out of the painful experience, you see its value and start letting go. You start the process of forgiveness.
It is important also to practice forgiveness toward yourself. As you forgive others, then it will open the way for self-forgiveness. We are each on our own path and we make our choices based on our knowledge at that time. We learn and grow from our vast array of experiences. As you forgive yourself, you make room for new opportunities to come to you. You feel lighter and more in touch with your own sense of peace, love and joy.
So, as you begin this process of forgiveness, be kind and patient with yourself. You know you have forgiven when you think about that same person and the anger is gone, the emotion is gone. You may still have the memories, but without the emotions.
Practice forgiveness in every area of your life. It is truly a blessing and the rewards are innumerable.
Let the energy of love and light be with you.
Remove your ego from the equation. Now look at the situation. Does it appear differently? As it was so eloquently stated by Henry Ward Beecher, when someone says "I can forgive, but I cannot forget", it is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
If you're unforgiving, you might pay the price repeatedly by bringing anger and bitterness into every relationship and new experience. Your life might become so wrapped up in the wrong that you can't enjoy the present. You might become depressed or anxious. You might feel that your life lacks meaning or purpose, or that you're at odds with your spiritual beliefs. You might lose valuable and enriching connectedness with others.
Forgiveness is never about the other person. It is always about us. It is about letting go of the feelings that have been holding us back, weighing us down, and keeping us stuck. It does not condone what the other person did. It does not mean that what happened was okay. It just means that we are choosing to let go of it so we can move on in our lives.
Think of someone who makes you very angry, a person who has caused you pain. The first thing you need to do is have the intent to forgive. Then, start letting yourself feel your feelings, whether they be anger, guilt or sorrow. Give yourself permission to go into the feelings. Realize the intensity. If tears come up, let yourself cry.
Then, when you are calmer, feel the positive aspects that have come out of the painful experience. How did this experience serve you? Are you stronger, more compassionate, more loving to yourself and others?
Every experience serves us in some way. It furthers our growth and expansion - that is why we created it. As you can realize the benefits that you derived out of the painful experience, you see its value and start letting go. You start the process of forgiveness.
It is important also to practice forgiveness toward yourself. As you forgive others, then it will open the way for self-forgiveness. We are each on our own path and we make our choices based on our knowledge at that time. We learn and grow from our vast array of experiences. As you forgive yourself, you make room for new opportunities to come to you. You feel lighter and more in touch with your own sense of peace, love and joy.
So, as you begin this process of forgiveness, be kind and patient with yourself. You know you have forgiven when you think about that same person and the anger is gone, the emotion is gone. You may still have the memories, but without the emotions.
Practice forgiveness in every area of your life. It is truly a blessing and the rewards are innumerable.
Let the energy of love and light be with you.
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