There comes a time when talking about certain things over and over can get old. There are also times when a person should get tired of hearing themselves talk about themselves.
In my estimation true relationship requires being "Given"the opportunity to find out about the other person in order to reflect upon one another. There is a difference between a measured release and a Flood" of Information that can also drowned the other person.
Transparency is one thing whereas using the guise of transparency to try and cleanse your soul as if a confessional understanding of this word I'm of the opinion if a person in a relationship does NOT ask specifically about a matter, DO NOT volunteer information they did NOT request. Most assume they have to reveal
Everything their past holds, yet more often the "Release" of this information is just that a release to somehow "Cleanse" their Conscience. Chances are if you weren't assume the thought never crossed their mind. If it did cross their mind leave them in control of what THEY are willing to further investigate or NOT. Accountability is a two way street.
How different is a True relationship with the Lord?
Years ago I made the tough choice to prune a few of these type of people from my own life. The depth of this type of person will only allow you so far into their own lives yet they have no problem constantly probing into your life almost as if an excuse to not have to investigate their own.
It's almost as if they're constantly on a recon mission trying to gather "Intel" about you rather than employing a mutually understood "quid-pro-quo" type of approach.
What most souls do NOT trust about other souls is what those other souls then do with such information once they've obtained it. If you your looking for a friend, does a friend sit quietly while you do harm to your own soul (self)?
How then do you see Christ? As a friend who says nothing? Has He been reduced to a slave of a friend who only agrees with the harmful things your soul has justified?
That is if you can also accept the word "Justified" also then suggest, "Just as if I had"?
What has any man truly become who is also without the opinion of God? As if the ONLY opinion that's true? Even more who is the man that refuses to be questioned by the truth no matter the likeness of the one sent to question him?
Don't get me wrong because I too love a good round or two of "Poker" but even in poker there comes a time when your hand gets "Called" out.
You can spend months or years trying to get to know these type of people, yet after some times lapses it usually dawns on you that you really don't know any more about them today than you did 2 years ago..
Don't hear what I'm not saying because there are times when we just need good listener to enter our circumstances or else practice being one.
I just had to come to terms with the reality there are friends and there are "Killers".
Have you ever mistakenly invited this type of person into your circle only later find you only invited yet another "addict" whose drug of choice is drama? So much that you either begin to feel like a "Voo Doo Doll" or "Crash Dummy" they use to test drive their own advice?
Those type that are quick to give you their "Advice", yet you rarely see them applying that same advice in their own lives?
Maybe there's more to the root word "Vice" than we've been willing to look into?
Maybe there's also more to type of person who understands the value of Faith, Believing and Trusting as if a friend we've yet to encounter within the full scope of everything that "Truth" is?
Have you ask yourself lately "Just" how great is God you take time to "Observe" as though something that is only as beautiful as it is within the eye of the "Beholder"?
There's power in a name and in their given title yet without knowing and trusting in the source of that same power how can a man ever learn to trust in the name or the title that's been assigned?
If you can't see from there to wherever it is that You are now, is it any hope that's also "Real"?
Ps 89:19-37
Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: "I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have exalted a young man from among the people.
I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him. My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him. No enemy will subject him to tribute; no wicked man will oppress him. I will crush his foes before him and strike down his adversaries.
My faithful love will be with him and through my name his horn will be exalted.
I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers. He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.' I will also appoint him my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth.
I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail. I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
"If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes, if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands, I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging; but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.
I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered. Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness — and I will not lie to David — that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun; it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky."
NIV
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
What is a disciple if not a type and shadow of the same thing?
If truth were understood as the only survivor God has proved able to withstand the test of time, why then does man not find himself facing the opposite direction of an unpleasant ending. sw
If all that a man does were understood to be in direct relation to everything he also believes to be true, why question what any man does. sw
When does the compulsion to learn leave the heart of a father as though it were a desert. sw
Is a mans integrity not also a mans retention capacity. sw
What type of voice questions a starving man about where his next meal comes from. sw
How can a father discipline a child that does not recognize him as their father. sw
What does authority look like where a man also finds himself able to teach his brother in the light of truth. sw
When true Forgiveness becomes more than a feeling that can change at any given moment, only then can it become the place where two or more can find agreement on a regular basis. sw
There is a kind of evil that would have you to think you're not only one of the last ones but also among the least informed whose unjustly entered the room. sw
Do not spend or waste your days chasing a Joy that does not also belong to the Lord. sw
The man that has failed to see the reflection of his brother in the eyes of the Heavenly Father has only failed to see himself. sw
If God chose to prove himself an absolute mystery in the minds of men then why dispatch the message He's made himself known by way of his messenger. sw
John 16:15
All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you. NIV
John 5:19
Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing , because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
NIV
In terms of a existence, who has thought themselves able to limit what God intends. sw
What harm can result in knowing the answer to a question before you truly understand the question being asked. sw
If all that a man does were understood to be in direct relation to everything he also believes to be true, why question what any man does. sw
When does the compulsion to learn leave the heart of a father as though it were a desert. sw
Is a mans integrity not also a mans retention capacity. sw
What type of voice questions a starving man about where his next meal comes from. sw
How can a father discipline a child that does not recognize him as their father. sw
What does authority look like where a man also finds himself able to teach his brother in the light of truth. sw
When true Forgiveness becomes more than a feeling that can change at any given moment, only then can it become the place where two or more can find agreement on a regular basis. sw
There is a kind of evil that would have you to think you're not only one of the last ones but also among the least informed whose unjustly entered the room. sw
Do not spend or waste your days chasing a Joy that does not also belong to the Lord. sw
The man that has failed to see the reflection of his brother in the eyes of the Heavenly Father has only failed to see himself. sw
If God chose to prove himself an absolute mystery in the minds of men then why dispatch the message He's made himself known by way of his messenger. sw
John 16:15
All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you. NIV
John 8:47
He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God." NIV
1 John 4:6
We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us ; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
NIV
1 John 4:6
We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us ; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
NIV
Why does a man not have to pay His shadow to be like Himself. sw
John 5:19
Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing , because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
NIV
Rom 4:4-8
Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation.
However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
"Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."
NIV
God does not ask a question that is not worthy of the righteous response that Only He can provide. sw
Isa 28:23-26
Listen and hear my voice ; pay attention and hear what I say.
When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil? When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin?
Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field? His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
NIV
Everything that complicates who God is belongs to one that is Not ONE with God. sw
Ps 25:3
3 No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. NIV
If a man sees himself standing on the promises of God why should he be afraid of jumping in or out of the water. sw
Ps 25:3
3 No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. NIV
If a man sees himself standing on the promises of God why should he be afraid of jumping in or out of the water. sw
If you have to sneak up on a man in order to tell him about God, has that man truly been asleep. sw
In terms of a existence, who has thought themselves able to limit what God intends. sw
What harm can result in knowing the answer to a question before you truly understand the question being asked. sw
Eph 5:14
This is why it is said:
"Wake up, O sleeper , rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
Eph 5:8-14
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord.
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.
NIV
What is the verdict if not everything that has already been judged? Are you also convinced you've also "Believed? The very word(s) that have come from the mouth of God?
What is the substance as thought the evidence in which you've placed your eternal hope?
Surely God spoke John 3:16, yet did He also speak His verdict into the annuls of time as if speaking to those those He will find guilty of living a "Lie"?
There is a type of imperfection that tells a lie and there's certain type of evil that lives in order to continually give life to his words. sw
There is a type of imperfection that tells a lie and there's certain type of evil that lives in order to continually give life to his words. sw
John 3:19-21
This is the verdict : Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
NIV
A good brother can only remind his brother of the "True Wealth" both will "Hopefully" inherit when their true identity has been revealed. sw
Rev 3:3
Remember , therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
NIV
What Good is water if you don't come clean or leave thirsty. sw
A good brother can only remind his brother of the "True Wealth" both will "Hopefully" inherit when their true identity has been revealed. sw
Rev 3:3
Remember , therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
NIV
What Good is water if you don't come clean or leave thirsty. sw
Monday, August 18, 2014
For the sake of the Servant who responds to righteousness
How curious is a man when certain things don't seem to agree on the surface and at what point will he quit digging having convinced himself above all else he's seeking the unsearchable. sw
Is it a Godly question to inquire of the Lord, "When did my life begin and end if not in You". sw
The stones only have reason to cry out when all else God also created refuse to. sw
Isa 19:20-22
When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.
So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and keep them.
The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.
NIV
Matt 6:33-34
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. NIV
Who has truly ruled the heart of a man which measures the truth within him as if complete trust in the Lord. sw.
Is the living of a lie only the consideration only when caught living a life also assumed to be a secret life. sw
When a man concludes God does not want to be found in a specific manner, has that man not also determined his condition to be terminal?
The opportunistic nature of pride takes notice when truth no longer rules. sw
Such competition does not end well when the governmental interest of the souls mind has been divided and wagered. sw
Is a man only considered foolish only when caught in the act of sin. sw
Rev 22:14-15
Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
NIV
Just how long is everlasting where the verdict of God continues to remind the soul there was a season it refused the God sent symbol of His mercy and just enough grace in order to be found?. sw
John 8:6-8
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin , let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
NIV
The winning formula where the influence of "Peer" pressure then finds for itself a new home, is when the soul has been blinded with words and opens the door. sw
Come all who have set aside the blessings of the "Fathers house! May the blessings of the Father be received and flow down upon the face of gladness as though the true anointing upon the Headship we claim to be alive within those who do believe. sw
The religious spirit finds a way in when the soul of a man realizes he's become impaired because of all that a religious mind chooses to be believe. sw
Justice, truth and mercy when acting as one are not blind. sw
True mercy has already reached the conclusion of the matter before offering itself to another. sw
The potential of a question can only be found once tossed against the unyielding rock of the ages. sw
The rhetorical question in search of the truth also assumes the truthful answer comes from the depth of the Spirit of The Lord. sw
2 Peter 2:4-10
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)
if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority.
NIV
Gen 19:6-11
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
"Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
NIV
Is it a Godly question to inquire of the Lord, "When did my life begin and end if not in You". sw
The stones only have reason to cry out when all else God also created refuse to. sw
Isa 19:20-22
When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.
So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and keep them.
The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.
NIV
Matt 6:33-34
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. NIV
Who has truly ruled the heart of a man which measures the truth within him as if complete trust in the Lord. sw.
Is the living of a lie only the consideration only when caught living a life also assumed to be a secret life. sw
When a man concludes God does not want to be found in a specific manner, has that man not also determined his condition to be terminal?
Such competition does not end well when the governmental interest of the souls mind has been divided and wagered. sw
Is a man only considered foolish only when caught in the act of sin. sw
Rev 22:14-15
Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
NIV
Just how long is everlasting where the verdict of God continues to remind the soul there was a season it refused the God sent symbol of His mercy and just enough grace in order to be found?. sw
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin , let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
NIV
The winning formula where the influence of "Peer" pressure then finds for itself a new home, is when the soul has been blinded with words and opens the door. sw
Come all who have set aside the blessings of the "Fathers house! May the blessings of the Father be received and flow down upon the face of gladness as though the true anointing upon the Headship we claim to be alive within those who do believe. sw
The religious spirit finds a way in when the soul of a man realizes he's become impaired because of all that a religious mind chooses to be believe. sw
Justice, truth and mercy when acting as one are not blind. sw
True mercy has already reached the conclusion of the matter before offering itself to another. sw
The potential of a question can only be found once tossed against the unyielding rock of the ages. sw
The rhetorical question in search of the truth also assumes the truthful answer comes from the depth of the Spirit of The Lord. sw
2 Peter 2:4-10
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)
if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority.
NIV
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
"Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
NIV
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
How many is "One"?
How much of a believers sense of worth has been founded upon "How" they interpret not only the things of this world, but themselves as if a "Significant" participant within the lives of others?
Religion has placed more emphasis upon the saving of ones 'Own" soul that it all but bypasses the reasoning for the grace of God He intended to equally reach out to all mankind.
Many people believe many "Different things" all of which help shape and form the possibilities then discovered within their ability to reason through all that they assume they know about the person of God.
When and "If" the facts get boiled down to their essence, what do "Believers in Christ" truly believe to be true about the person of Christ as if EVERYONE is talking about the same person?
Some might ask why would those details be so important?
Simply put if ALL "People" were to see themselves the same "WAY" as if through His eyes, wouldn't that interpret into needing 'Fewer" details about Him? More people (personalities) usually interprets "More" differing opinions, yet how clear is One spirit, One Christ and One Baptism?
How much less would there be to debate or argue about if the mention of God were ONLY talking about "ONE" and the same GOD as though God's ONE and ONLY Begotten Son?
Is the reason (truth) Jesus did NOT consider it robbery from God to think on Himself as though God because they performed in heaven and here in the earth as though "One"?
In human terms they both have the same agenda?
Jesus did NOT say "By this SOME will know", instead He said "By this ALL men will know"!
What is the "THIS" he was speaking to?
Was it as simple as most think in terms of their own understanding as it concerns Love?
Or was he pointing us to do the impossible (Love at ALL times) as such that NO man is capable of doing what He did without Him as their guide and continual "Inspiration"?
Have you ever broke the word "In-spir-ation" down into smaller pieces? How can we if our spiritual understanding (Insight) remains "External"?
Why does God tells those who suggest they worship Him must also worship him in Spirit AND in "Truth"?
Why not just "Spirit"?
Could it be that the additional qualification of "Truth" also defines a specific type of Spirit?
Are there ANY other types of Spirit's we know of have or have at "least" read about in Holy depiction?
Clearly we can read the demons in this man ALSO Knew who Jesus was, yet thy did NOT worship Him did they? Clearly the demons OBEYED Jesus, yet once again did they "Worship" Jesus?
These demons were even smart enough to have said all the right things such as "The Most High God" yet did their actions follow suit without being MADE (Commanded) to obey?
How many "People" suggest that they OBEY Jesus and how many of those also suggest they WORSHIP Him in Truth?
1 Sam 16:14
Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.
NIV
DO we NOW stop, ask and deeply consider, "Who is My brother"? Maybe just as equal, "How will I know who is my brother and who is NOT while here in the earth"?
John 13:34-35
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
NIV
Exactly how many different ways can the thought of "One" be inferred?
In terms of somehow hoping to emulate Christ here in the earth, where then is the "Hope" that is also true if the entirety of our hope in Him has only been based "Realizing ourselves being "Saved"?
Many find themselves satisfied with, I'm eventually "Going" to end "Up" in heaven, yet how does that testimony then "Play" out as if their own commentary in terms their personal "Tape Reel" of their life lived while here?
When this life ends, what has any man become if the TRUTH is NOT found in the retelling of his story?
When was the last when we rolled the tape of our personal story where we also "See and hear" ourselves responding to Jesus who in the moment was also Lord over those momentary choices being made?
The continuance in the claim of imperfection somehow seems diametrically opposed to a series of victories won in life and those same realized victories ONLY because we see them as the GLORY which actually do belong ONLY to Christ.
What is the consideration of the Glory of Christ?
How do we see His Glory if not THROUGH the things that Only He could endure? Exactly how much of His Glory was the direct result of Gods Glory working THROUGH Christ Jesus?
How much of Christ Glory do we see today also working through the appointment of OUR person here in the earth? Enough that the Lord could say today as He did to Paul as though talking about an "Address" that belongs to God?
Acts 18:9-11
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.
For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city."
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.
NIV
Is it still any REAL wonder why many don't see themselves preaching the Gospel in their daily events along the WAY?
God didn't suggest Paul preach about his own person (saul), or use his person to emulate God's word. Instead it says, "Teaching Them the WORD of God"!
And ONLY because Paul was since found preaching Christ beyond his former established person (Saul) could his more recent actions then be brought into question, "Who is this man named Paul and WHAT is he preaching"?
It's too easy to suggest to ourselves "I'm NOT a teacher" nor am I an "Apostle" or an "Evangelist" yet are you NOT a disciple of Christ?
You might have allowed your body to be used in order to bring other small bodies into this world, but what did you "teach" them?
Still don't see yourself as teacher?
Much like guns don't kill people, it's people who kill people, neither do babies kill people, yet do babies grow up and kill people!
Exactly who are you emulating IF Christ has finished His purpose and the Apostles have completed their task?
Didn't Christ give of himself to many to be many different things? And if He gave from himself what did we inherit through what He freely gave? What are the details of Christ from which He gave?
In terms of a NEW creation what ARE His virtues as though He is still alive that He he also dispensed to humanity? Did He give this NEW born again creation a New mind that only tries to RELATE to imperfection still being OWNED?
Did He give us the "Mind" of His person that's NOW being found lacking in many area's?
Was it not He (Christ) who gave some to be a part of the all that they are within the body now desiring to be recognized as His body? A body that now has it's temporary residency in the earth?
So you've convinced yourself God did not make you to be a Apostle nor an evangelist, preacher, teacher or a prophet? Who then are you while claiming to be a child of God and in what capacity are you now functioning as that same Child that is Of God that Jesus said is "One"?
At what point will we have a truthful "Sit down heart to heart" with God and ask Him why we don't see such things today in terms of God being able to hear himself say, "Fear Not because I have MANY people in this city?
Still don't see different spirits today? Still don't believe there are Prophets in our midst today nor the testimony of Christ need be continued? Exactly whose spirit do you claim dwells richly within You?
Sound along the lines of what adam heard in the Garden, "Who Told you that you were Naked"?
Whose picture is in your wallet and who have YOU believed?
Rev 19:10
At this I fell at his feet to worship him . But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."
NIV
Religion has placed more emphasis upon the saving of ones 'Own" soul that it all but bypasses the reasoning for the grace of God He intended to equally reach out to all mankind.
Many people believe many "Different things" all of which help shape and form the possibilities then discovered within their ability to reason through all that they assume they know about the person of God.
When and "If" the facts get boiled down to their essence, what do "Believers in Christ" truly believe to be true about the person of Christ as if EVERYONE is talking about the same person?
Some might ask why would those details be so important?
Simply put if ALL "People" were to see themselves the same "WAY" as if through His eyes, wouldn't that interpret into needing 'Fewer" details about Him? More people (personalities) usually interprets "More" differing opinions, yet how clear is One spirit, One Christ and One Baptism?
How much less would there be to debate or argue about if the mention of God were ONLY talking about "ONE" and the same GOD as though God's ONE and ONLY Begotten Son?
Is the reason (truth) Jesus did NOT consider it robbery from God to think on Himself as though God because they performed in heaven and here in the earth as though "One"?
In human terms they both have the same agenda?
Jesus did NOT say "By this SOME will know", instead He said "By this ALL men will know"!
What is the "THIS" he was speaking to?
Was it as simple as most think in terms of their own understanding as it concerns Love?
Or was he pointing us to do the impossible (Love at ALL times) as such that NO man is capable of doing what He did without Him as their guide and continual "Inspiration"?
Have you ever broke the word "In-spir-ation" down into smaller pieces? How can we if our spiritual understanding (Insight) remains "External"?
Why does God tells those who suggest they worship Him must also worship him in Spirit AND in "Truth"?
Why not just "Spirit"?
Could it be that the additional qualification of "Truth" also defines a specific type of Spirit?
Are there ANY other types of Spirit's we know of have or have at "least" read about in Holy depiction?
Clearly we can read the demons in this man ALSO Knew who Jesus was, yet thy did NOT worship Him did they? Clearly the demons OBEYED Jesus, yet once again did they "Worship" Jesus?
These demons were even smart enough to have said all the right things such as "The Most High God" yet did their actions follow suit without being MADE (Commanded) to obey?
How many "People" suggest that they OBEY Jesus and how many of those also suggest they WORSHIP Him in Truth?
1 Sam 16:14
Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.
NIV
Mark 5:6-9
When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?
Swear to God that you won't torture me!" For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of this man, you evil spirit !"
Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?"
"My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many."
NIV
John 13:34-35
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
NIV
In terms of somehow hoping to emulate Christ here in the earth, where then is the "Hope" that is also true if the entirety of our hope in Him has only been based "Realizing ourselves being "Saved"?
Many find themselves satisfied with, I'm eventually "Going" to end "Up" in heaven, yet how does that testimony then "Play" out as if their own commentary in terms their personal "Tape Reel" of their life lived while here?
When this life ends, what has any man become if the TRUTH is NOT found in the retelling of his story?
When was the last when we rolled the tape of our personal story where we also "See and hear" ourselves responding to Jesus who in the moment was also Lord over those momentary choices being made?
The continuance in the claim of imperfection somehow seems diametrically opposed to a series of victories won in life and those same realized victories ONLY because we see them as the GLORY which actually do belong ONLY to Christ.
What is the consideration of the Glory of Christ?
How do we see His Glory if not THROUGH the things that Only He could endure? Exactly how much of His Glory was the direct result of Gods Glory working THROUGH Christ Jesus?
How much of Christ Glory do we see today also working through the appointment of OUR person here in the earth? Enough that the Lord could say today as He did to Paul as though talking about an "Address" that belongs to God?
Acts 18:9-11
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.
For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city."
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.
NIV
Is it still any REAL wonder why many don't see themselves preaching the Gospel in their daily events along the WAY?
God didn't suggest Paul preach about his own person (saul), or use his person to emulate God's word. Instead it says, "Teaching Them the WORD of God"!
And ONLY because Paul was since found preaching Christ beyond his former established person (Saul) could his more recent actions then be brought into question, "Who is this man named Paul and WHAT is he preaching"?
It's too easy to suggest to ourselves "I'm NOT a teacher" nor am I an "Apostle" or an "Evangelist" yet are you NOT a disciple of Christ?
You might have allowed your body to be used in order to bring other small bodies into this world, but what did you "teach" them?
Still don't see yourself as teacher?
Much like guns don't kill people, it's people who kill people, neither do babies kill people, yet do babies grow up and kill people!
Exactly who are you emulating IF Christ has finished His purpose and the Apostles have completed their task?
Didn't Christ give of himself to many to be many different things? And if He gave from himself what did we inherit through what He freely gave? What are the details of Christ from which He gave?
In terms of a NEW creation what ARE His virtues as though He is still alive that He he also dispensed to humanity? Did He give this NEW born again creation a New mind that only tries to RELATE to imperfection still being OWNED?
Did He give us the "Mind" of His person that's NOW being found lacking in many area's?
Was it not He (Christ) who gave some to be a part of the all that they are within the body now desiring to be recognized as His body? A body that now has it's temporary residency in the earth?
So you've convinced yourself God did not make you to be a Apostle nor an evangelist, preacher, teacher or a prophet? Who then are you while claiming to be a child of God and in what capacity are you now functioning as that same Child that is Of God that Jesus said is "One"?
At what point will we have a truthful "Sit down heart to heart" with God and ask Him why we don't see such things today in terms of God being able to hear himself say, "Fear Not because I have MANY people in this city?
Still don't see different spirits today? Still don't believe there are Prophets in our midst today nor the testimony of Christ need be continued? Exactly whose spirit do you claim dwells richly within You?
Sound along the lines of what adam heard in the Garden, "Who Told you that you were Naked"?
Whose picture is in your wallet and who have YOU believed?
Rev 19:10
At this I fell at his feet to worship him . But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."
NIV
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
So it is with Christ (Part II)
Earlier I was attempting to flesh out "How" a group of people desiring to be a "pleasing" assembled group of people unto God, might one day realize themselves as a people that's been "Well" established in the WAY of God.
I see the following a "Must Ask" question, "Is this life only about the results of what men do FOR God OR does the whole process we term "Life" all have just as much to do with the clear delivery of a deeper message to some others than can only be realized when God alone is "Believed"?
I suppose when we boil down to its essence what actually ails a true relationship with God, it's when we find such to be our "Self' oriented nature that prevents a True relationship with Him.
Beyond ourselves those said "Others" being of the sort which can only be realized once all that does exist and take place in the heavenly realms gets truthfully "Acknowledged" as to how God defines those same "Beings"?
As though the eternally important ramifications that speak to the WAY things God originally intended them to be managed in this world. Certain considerations which are then observed and followed as if the "Wisdom" of God has been "Found" worthy.
Wisdom which then points EVERYTHING God also created towards the example He would eventually send as His Christ that was given to this same created BEING God termed "Man" (Adam).
Wisdom that is "Proved" righteous as to how we (BECAUSE WE ARE BELIEVERS) live out our lives in the midst of such a great and far reaching "Truth" that has since become OUR collective reality.
"Pleasing" intended to interpret as a group of people which recognize themselves as though One and the same body, "God" alone "Chose" to assemble.
God chose to frame this image in one place as though One spiritual man being raised up in the earth and in another place One spiritual House with many rooms He will also "Indwell"!
Was Jesus NOT the leading edge of this living example? This same process and example "Given" to mankind in whom ONLY the Holy Spirit can then accomplish as our mutual and eternally mindful guide?
Does God only ask rhetorical questions without also providing the answer OR does He ask questions He trust the Holy Spirit will respond to once ask in a momentary revealing by way of the "Truth"?
Such divine moments that are ONLY relative to ALL that was accomplished through Christ and HIS example?
Does this also sound the likes of the "First" Adam BEFORE His soul was corrupted by the Hell bound Lie(s) satan spread in the Garden?
1 Cor 2:15-16
The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ.
NIV
I have to believe that the Apostle Paul was never found writing (sharing) from a clouded perspective, but from within the ranks of the understanding God had made clear to him enough that He (Paul) found himself able to righteously share.
Basically, Paul couldn't preach about the WAY of God until he'd lived through the essence of that same message he later preached.
Jesus as the likeness of all that was given to Paul to preach since he'd deemed the message of Christ "Such great Revelation" is only able to be poured into the earthen vessel where "Believing" the words of God come first.
First to mean the mind of that same vessel that's been made ready (believed) in order so that it CAN receive from God in order to House (Contain) a more complete revelation of that same message that concerns Christ in terms of His (Christs') influential capacity and involvement here in the earth within the hearts and minds of men.
The evidence of such influence which then affects not only that same being that message indwells, but also the surrounding world where God has also planted that same "Being".
Having then by way of His spoken word(s) appointed Him (man) to have dominion over such a consideration and that only because this Man (Adam) has since discovered the Wisdom of God to be "True".
Who is the "APOSTLE" Paul if not yet one more living example through which God has went to great lengths in order to make Himself known to ALL men?
In some parts of the world the word "Apostolos" still infers what we term here in the US as the"Mail Man".
In fact it can still be found written as such on the sides of the mail delivery trucks in certain cultures.
I didn't make that up, but as is everything we "Choose" to believe, the evidence remains invisible until we too then see it in order that it prove itself to be the PRE-requisite.
The telling of the Apostle Paul's story only became a Godly story worth retelling AFTER he (Saul) had received the entitlement to do so.
Enough that He (Paul) was now pleading for some NOT to be discouraged at His suffering many had heard about as though a weakness they might have in common. A weakness then considered as such that might somehow diminish what God was otherwise going to accomplish through the full effects and delivery of the Good News (Gospel) concerning Christ.
Yes the same "Greatly" admired Apostle whom God clearly anointed with the Grace to hand out what some might term "Napkin's" to where people would then be physically healed from the ailments found in their bodies simply by coming in contact with the "Virtue" (power) of God "Believed" to be upon those same napkins.
Why "Believed" and what medium did God choose to be used in order to deliver this same power? Why didn't God use a bolt of lightning or a talking horse in order to introduce the likes of Paul to the doubt filled and unbelieving people there at the time of Paul's tenure in the earth?
Apparently God thought it wise to demonstrate His power through a Napkin or maybe the powerful image of a mans shadow passing by and healing the sick as did Peter's in one story line?
What was their soon to follow testimony with respect to NOT only "Shadows" of things to come, but maybe more important the intent of ANY shadow that God also "Cast" for "Good" reason in order that the greater reality might then be found IN CHRIST?
Col 2:17
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
NIV
What does God try to tell man takes its rightful place when he (man) looses his connection with God who is also the head?
Col 2:19
He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
NIV
How else can God demonstrate anything he has to say to man unless He also takes him (man) by the hand on a stroll down the middle of all that is in a man? That in order to reveal to him (man) all that's in play within his being?
In the sight of men was Paul's greatness because He (Paul) was found to be "Believable" in the hearing and sight of the "People"?
As though THE God chosen messenger, disciple and Apostle sent of God who told them they would be healed AND followed suit by dispensing napkins as such having himself "Believed" in the same virtue of the One True God!
Many see the miracles that took place under the hands of Paul as though the focal point of the grace of God, yet He tries to tell us who now find ourselves struggling to believe His message sent (as did some back then), that His grace was such that was given Him (Paul) was in order so that he (Paul) might find himself able to preach concerning the 'Mystery of Christ"!
This same mystery concerning the Intent in Christ coming that had been kept Hidden in God up to that point in time.
Eph 3:8-13
Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
NIV
How "Just" and how great is the hope found within the overall "Being" that now defines its self as though a "Believer" who is also discovered as though ONE with God?
That same oneness being realized as "Glory" in such a fashion where ALL now "Know" and understand the importance of this consideration that reaches beyond the placement of doubt and unbelief?
It now reaches into such a place that ushers in the freedom and confidence which displaces a previous and poorly established sense of doubt and unbelief? As such that now delivers them to the God appointed place where they each (including the Gentiles) have determined they're "Accepted" of God?
In terms of "That was then and This is NOW" at what point does this same collective group who were at some point ALL beings recognizing themselves as "Sinners" who now find themselves acceptable to God?
At what point does this group "Realize" as the content of all that they choose to believe to be true as it concerns God is now being transformed through the "Renewal" process of their minds?
Quite frankly is such a message being taught today and that in ALL that "Truth" is as though a person?
Exactly how might this "Renewal" of their minds come to pass if NOT by way of exposure to all that Truth is as it concern the presence of Christ who walked among men?
It's one thing to simply send a message to humanity yet it's entirely another event to demonstrate the intent of that same message.
Surely God can put a NEW spirit within a man, yet how does this NEW spirit guide in the process where the MIND of the soul is then renewed?
That same part of a man that attempts to reason and formulate his thoughts in order so that He (man) can then find himself able to "Relate" to God?
The God derived objective being an absolute doubtless "Reconciliation" unto ONE and the same God who is the creator of ALL things both great and small?
It's one thing for God to think of mankind one "Way", yet what happens when "How" a man thinks (reasons) does NOT agree with what God knows it "True"?
The phrase "It is what it is" does NOT depict someone that has "Learned" how OR why it's important to reason together WITH the spirit of "God".
The "WAY" the word "Obey" has been introduced to mans reasoning faculty works as does a LAW that's directly opposed to the very nature that opposes a Man.
That Nature being the way God created this same man to "Be" and further "Become" in terms of his maturation in this earth while under the governing tutelage of "Truth and Righteousness".
I pray that you've found this encouraging, yet encouragement can only reach as far as does the things we believe to be True about God.
As is Pain or Comfort found in our lives, "Lies" are also an important part of our transformation, yet only when they've been properly aligned with their deceptive source the WAY God would have them to BE considered.
I see the following a "Must Ask" question, "Is this life only about the results of what men do FOR God OR does the whole process we term "Life" all have just as much to do with the clear delivery of a deeper message to some others than can only be realized when God alone is "Believed"?
I suppose when we boil down to its essence what actually ails a true relationship with God, it's when we find such to be our "Self' oriented nature that prevents a True relationship with Him.
Beyond ourselves those said "Others" being of the sort which can only be realized once all that does exist and take place in the heavenly realms gets truthfully "Acknowledged" as to how God defines those same "Beings"?
As though the eternally important ramifications that speak to the WAY things God originally intended them to be managed in this world. Certain considerations which are then observed and followed as if the "Wisdom" of God has been "Found" worthy.
Wisdom which then points EVERYTHING God also created towards the example He would eventually send as His Christ that was given to this same created BEING God termed "Man" (Adam).
Wisdom that is "Proved" righteous as to how we (BECAUSE WE ARE BELIEVERS) live out our lives in the midst of such a great and far reaching "Truth" that has since become OUR collective reality.
"Pleasing" intended to interpret as a group of people which recognize themselves as though One and the same body, "God" alone "Chose" to assemble.
God chose to frame this image in one place as though One spiritual man being raised up in the earth and in another place One spiritual House with many rooms He will also "Indwell"!
Was Jesus NOT the leading edge of this living example? This same process and example "Given" to mankind in whom ONLY the Holy Spirit can then accomplish as our mutual and eternally mindful guide?
Does God only ask rhetorical questions without also providing the answer OR does He ask questions He trust the Holy Spirit will respond to once ask in a momentary revealing by way of the "Truth"?
Such divine moments that are ONLY relative to ALL that was accomplished through Christ and HIS example?
Does this also sound the likes of the "First" Adam BEFORE His soul was corrupted by the Hell bound Lie(s) satan spread in the Garden?
1 Cor 2:15-16
The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ.
NIV
Basically, Paul couldn't preach about the WAY of God until he'd lived through the essence of that same message he later preached.
Jesus as the likeness of all that was given to Paul to preach since he'd deemed the message of Christ "Such great Revelation" is only able to be poured into the earthen vessel where "Believing" the words of God come first.
First to mean the mind of that same vessel that's been made ready (believed) in order so that it CAN receive from God in order to House (Contain) a more complete revelation of that same message that concerns Christ in terms of His (Christs') influential capacity and involvement here in the earth within the hearts and minds of men.
The evidence of such influence which then affects not only that same being that message indwells, but also the surrounding world where God has also planted that same "Being".
Having then by way of His spoken word(s) appointed Him (man) to have dominion over such a consideration and that only because this Man (Adam) has since discovered the Wisdom of God to be "True".
Who is the "APOSTLE" Paul if not yet one more living example through which God has went to great lengths in order to make Himself known to ALL men?
In some parts of the world the word "Apostolos" still infers what we term here in the US as the"Mail Man".
In fact it can still be found written as such on the sides of the mail delivery trucks in certain cultures.
I didn't make that up, but as is everything we "Choose" to believe, the evidence remains invisible until we too then see it in order that it prove itself to be the PRE-requisite.
The telling of the Apostle Paul's story only became a Godly story worth retelling AFTER he (Saul) had received the entitlement to do so.
Enough that He (Paul) was now pleading for some NOT to be discouraged at His suffering many had heard about as though a weakness they might have in common. A weakness then considered as such that might somehow diminish what God was otherwise going to accomplish through the full effects and delivery of the Good News (Gospel) concerning Christ.
Yes the same "Greatly" admired Apostle whom God clearly anointed with the Grace to hand out what some might term "Napkin's" to where people would then be physically healed from the ailments found in their bodies simply by coming in contact with the "Virtue" (power) of God "Believed" to be upon those same napkins.
Why "Believed" and what medium did God choose to be used in order to deliver this same power? Why didn't God use a bolt of lightning or a talking horse in order to introduce the likes of Paul to the doubt filled and unbelieving people there at the time of Paul's tenure in the earth?
Apparently God thought it wise to demonstrate His power through a Napkin or maybe the powerful image of a mans shadow passing by and healing the sick as did Peter's in one story line?
What was their soon to follow testimony with respect to NOT only "Shadows" of things to come, but maybe more important the intent of ANY shadow that God also "Cast" for "Good" reason in order that the greater reality might then be found IN CHRIST?
Col 2:17
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
NIV
What does God try to tell man takes its rightful place when he (man) looses his connection with God who is also the head?
Col 2:19
He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
NIV
How else can God demonstrate anything he has to say to man unless He also takes him (man) by the hand on a stroll down the middle of all that is in a man? That in order to reveal to him (man) all that's in play within his being?
As though THE God chosen messenger, disciple and Apostle sent of God who told them they would be healed AND followed suit by dispensing napkins as such having himself "Believed" in the same virtue of the One True God!
Many see the miracles that took place under the hands of Paul as though the focal point of the grace of God, yet He tries to tell us who now find ourselves struggling to believe His message sent (as did some back then), that His grace was such that was given Him (Paul) was in order so that he (Paul) might find himself able to preach concerning the 'Mystery of Christ"!
This same mystery concerning the Intent in Christ coming that had been kept Hidden in God up to that point in time.
Eph 3:8-13
Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
NIV
How "Just" and how great is the hope found within the overall "Being" that now defines its self as though a "Believer" who is also discovered as though ONE with God?
That same oneness being realized as "Glory" in such a fashion where ALL now "Know" and understand the importance of this consideration that reaches beyond the placement of doubt and unbelief?
It now reaches into such a place that ushers in the freedom and confidence which displaces a previous and poorly established sense of doubt and unbelief? As such that now delivers them to the God appointed place where they each (including the Gentiles) have determined they're "Accepted" of God?
In terms of "That was then and This is NOW" at what point does this same collective group who were at some point ALL beings recognizing themselves as "Sinners" who now find themselves acceptable to God?
At what point does this group "Realize" as the content of all that they choose to believe to be true as it concerns God is now being transformed through the "Renewal" process of their minds?
Quite frankly is such a message being taught today and that in ALL that "Truth" is as though a person?
Exactly how might this "Renewal" of their minds come to pass if NOT by way of exposure to all that Truth is as it concern the presence of Christ who walked among men?
It's one thing to simply send a message to humanity yet it's entirely another event to demonstrate the intent of that same message.
Surely God can put a NEW spirit within a man, yet how does this NEW spirit guide in the process where the MIND of the soul is then renewed?
That same part of a man that attempts to reason and formulate his thoughts in order so that He (man) can then find himself able to "Relate" to God?
The God derived objective being an absolute doubtless "Reconciliation" unto ONE and the same God who is the creator of ALL things both great and small?
It's one thing for God to think of mankind one "Way", yet what happens when "How" a man thinks (reasons) does NOT agree with what God knows it "True"?
The phrase "It is what it is" does NOT depict someone that has "Learned" how OR why it's important to reason together WITH the spirit of "God".
The "WAY" the word "Obey" has been introduced to mans reasoning faculty works as does a LAW that's directly opposed to the very nature that opposes a Man.
That Nature being the way God created this same man to "Be" and further "Become" in terms of his maturation in this earth while under the governing tutelage of "Truth and Righteousness".
I pray that you've found this encouraging, yet encouragement can only reach as far as does the things we believe to be True about God.
As is Pain or Comfort found in our lives, "Lies" are also an important part of our transformation, yet only when they've been properly aligned with their deceptive source the WAY God would have them to BE considered.
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