Able to See having heard from a Friend

I've always been fascinated with the various perceptions that are floating on the cultured air ways which express the consideration of someone that is a "A Good listener".

I think some having discounted true friendship have made it more of a practice in the way they physically "Appear" (posture) while supposedly listening, but the underlying question remains "Were they really hearing what's being said"?

How does the consideration of truly being "Heard" get proved over time?

I trust that we all want to be heard in this life, yet how willing are we to take the time to absorb/study what's been spoken for the sake of our own hearing which then becomes "Effectually" evident?

Maybe it should be stated concerning a shared opinion, "I was Infected by what was said"?

In terms of all that's been said from the mouth of the Lord through His prophets to include Jesus, how well of listeners have any of us proved ourselves to be through the course of time?

Some might suggest in terms of their own ability to listen, "I listened with intent" while others might say the same as "I listened with interest".

What if the words "Listening, Heard & Interested" were assigned "Symbols"?

What would the math formula then appear as in terms of an "Action" that is not only complete, but also one that is true having been proved effectual?

If measuring the effects required a ruler, what standard would find itself "Acceptable"?

Further to mean "An expression which reflects the impact of an opinion after considering what's been said"?

Whatever is spoken towards another normally also gets weighed on their own set of scales of all that they presently consider to be "True"?

Now, what if the said "Golden" rule were copied and pasted along side all that's been said above, "Love thy neighbor as thy self"?

The contemporary version to that might be, "To thine own self be true". Yet the reality that needs to be checked and proved first "Are we always TRUE to ourselves"?

I used to never have a problem with loaning things to others. In terms of loaning things to a friend all that was needed was the simple request.

How different are opinions though?

How are they treated once loaned/borrowed as if they DO still "Belong" to someone that is also valued/esteemed?

It was as if an unspoken rule when someone did borrow a piece of property from me that it was understood, "Just treat it as if it was your own" or maybe "Just make sure it's in the same condition it was when I loaned it to you".

In the course of seeking out a "good" listener, I've also unexpectedly uncovered a more personal deeper meaning of the word "manipulate".

How often do we find ourselves trying to manipulate others by way of our outward expression(s)?

Better still, "How do we allow ourselves to be manipulated by our own words and actions we seem to love to toss around as if the mass weight of ourselves as a "Being" in this world? I think often times people see themselves as "Human Doings" instead of "Beings".

Just food for thought, but are we not simply manipulating ourselves in the bigger picture if we're not governed foremost by the truth?

What of those instances where someone uses to their own advantage their polished practice of presenting themselves outwardly as if they are good listeners?

You know the kind eyes routine, the occasional nod of agreement and maybe a bright smile to top it all off that would have most believe they've been heard?

Yet in reality in those instances instead prove over time to be those where you were simply allowed to go on and on about something that is otherwise not true?

Until the whole consideration presents itself, have you truly encountered a friend?


3 John 11
Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God
NIV


Matt 13:14-15

In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 

"'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears , understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'   
NIV

The opinion of a Fugitive

It is my opinion one of the greatest evil(s) found within a relationship with the Lord that is also True, is the assumption that He as Lord is not able to examine every dark corner where your thought life gets warehoused.

In a relationship with the Lord that is True, there is no such thing as privacy and or a private room where evil can be stashed "Away" from His knowing.

Many people appear to get "Away" with many different things in this life in their OWN mind within their said close relationships with family and friends.

There remains a much deeper reality though within a relationship with the Lord which IS based only upon the truth. A truth which goes beyond such thoughts that are assumed are also hidden away from His knowledge in darkness.

I think it's important to revisit the definition of a fugitive (thank you Webster).

Definition of FUGITIVE

1

: running away or intending flight <a fugitive slave> <a fugitive debtor>

2

: moving from place to place : wandering

3

a : being of short durationb : difficult to grasp or retain : elusivec : likely to evaporate, deteriorate, change, fade, or disappear 

4

: being of transient interest 

It is my opinion the Lord is not as much concerned with a lengthy list of things within a man conscience he alone assumes need to be healed of (change) as much as it is the Lords primary concern that a man (person) remain willing to be "healed" of the smallest trace as to what started the whole corrupt process to begin with.

To thine own self be true is not an entirely truthful expression. Instead it's only a portion of the entire consideration concerning the origin's of truth which was with God since the beginning.

It is one thing to assume a man "Knows" the Lord, yet isn't it an entirely different consideration for a life that's lived while striving to understand the deeper truth that you are "Known" by God?

There are many people that walk the face of the earth content with the thought(s) they've never killed anyone, fornicated nor had an adulterous relationship with someone else in physical terms, yet from within the annuls of their thought life a voice all it's own "Screams" to the contrary.

All such things a man considers are NOT the fullness of all that he does NOT more fully Know about the Lord as well His acceptance of their willful and continued existence. More importantly due to the fact all those considerations have not been more clearly defined by the righteousness (mind) of the Lord.

There is much that has been stored up within a person, yet that person should not enjoy Harboring such a mindset as if a fugitive.

In terms of enmity towards the Lord as well all that He considers to be "Evil", the roots of such run so deep within us that without the saving redemptive character of a helper (Savior), man has zero chance of saving himself from all that he can not fathom.

If a soul does not know they're dis-eased and dying, how could a cure in the form of a Savior find itself of any value that is True (or Real)?

The dis-ease (seed) from which a mans present fallen identity and his current outward expressions stem from.

Matt 15:19-20
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.'"
NIV

The deception and corruption of mankind began with a thought seed that was planted. A seed which was introduced into the same soil Gods thoughts, hands, words and breath then formed into a life that's been given.

Where did mankind go wrong?

He believed a lie to the contrary of what God had already "Said" concerning the definition of mans continued existence beyond what took place within him having Believed such a lie.


Believing is more than a passing thought. Believing is the occurrence where a thought is first given a home (entitlement) where it then gets provided the nutrition needed in order to grow within ones reasoning into an action that's "Taken"

There's an old saying which I'm not exactly sure where it originated, "The criminal is never as sorry as he is the day in which he gets caught and brought to justice"!


Are you harboring the the opinion of a fugitive?

Faith that has worth

I'm at the age of an opinion today, "Place less expectations upon all that you assume you know about yourself and more upon all that Christ and His character teaches you and you'll end up far less frustrated having become a better student".

I used to think that loving relationships provided the strict venue where all that we thought we knew about ourselves and someone else would then be the ONLY attributes we'd then find enjoyable.

The harsh reality though outside of two individuals being equally yoked together in Christ in a said "Relationship" instead becomes, "the venue for discovering everything we Didn't know about the other person as if the limits of all that we assumed Love is and does".

It's far too easy to become frustrated with everything we assumed Love is, does or is supposed to look like when it comes from another person, especially if that persons governance is NOT of Christ the Lord.

Many simply need to accept the "New Standard" of love. One by which they now measure themselves against.

That standard then appears much more like the type of "Ruler" we then measure ourselves by in a relationship which operates in Love.

The beauty of the Christ that is also True, is that He does NOT change and is more than reliable once we truthfully come to know Him.

Simply knowing that particular fact about Him should always make choices which are final so much easier.

A faith that is considered alive in heaven can ONLY be found in Christ AND as one that will never die.

A faith at work as if a verb in action found within a mans heart which pursues all that righteousness truly is as seen through the eyes of God the creator of ALL things.


Prov 15:11

Even the depths of Death and Destruction are known by the LORD. How much more does he know the human heart! 
NLT

I love the way apostle Paul more often than not cuts straight to the chase.

1 Cor 15:19
If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. 
NIV

Just because our opinion doesn't escape the confines of our lips, doesn't also mean that same opinion doesn't rule supreme within the deceived perception of privacy as if somehow hidden within our own minds. 

Here is where Jesus must rule supreme as the highest of opinions which has also been highly esteemed.

I see much of my own frustration as something which stems from everything which I've allowed to date to help form my opinion concerning a hope which rest upon Christ Jesus. Things which result in frustration always prove to NOT be genuine and or full of Truth.

Still what do I do with such considerations? I subject them to the influence of the mind of Christ.

It all boils down to whom you've assumed deals out the results of choices made. NOT being of the Faith (in Christ) can a opinion have any hope that's also true of as if being used as an instrument of righteousness? 

That is to say an instrument of righteousness that gets used for the benefit of another? 

Enough to where the results of having been a messenger of righteousness then produces the reward of a righteous man? 

The same cane ONLY be found "In Christ" as if an integral portion of His person?

Either way they all work together for the Good of those which love the Lord in order to help shape a future opinion of a Christ (savior) that is True. 

True to mean those that are not only in pursuit of His righteousness, but by way the net result Prove to be in and of Christ. Those in pursuit of Him have to allow our naked opinion of Him to be changed in many area's of our mental conditioning much like a diet that produces the specific result(s) of a promise made.

A hope that is "True" should be the only hope you also have in Christ. If your hope is not built based upon the truth should you expect anything less than disappointment once truth does arrive on scene?

This hope as if the ONLY hope that is also real is built upon everything that's been said about Him as if a consideration to ponder. Why? Because of the mouth which spoke such things concerning Christ the Lord all of which having come from the mouth of God. 

The only requirement is truly believing what's been said of Him. Enough that is that we can then be believed in what we testify to. It must be more than having simply mimed a few empty words. 

Here is where the dark cloud of frustration seems to follow many of around day to day.

When I mention frustration I say that to mean, "Frustration which stems from what seems to be a lack of co-operation from the Lord".

Almost as if an expectancy towards His full co-operation from all that He remains in control over. 

Could anything less then truly satisfy Gods likeness if it were to be found within a man? How else could He then find His likeness found within a man also pleasing to himself if it does not desire to shadow His own likeness?

I don't think many are willing to grasp just how far man fell away from the Lord in the Garden. It was surely one small step of mankind, yet that step has proved to be a universal leap away from the mind of the Lord.

Frustration to mean not so much those instances when things don't Seem to want to work out a certain way, but more to mean when everyone else's opinion seems to tug and pull against what I consider to be our own best efforts while attempting to understand a more finite reconciled relationship unto the Lord.


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. This is why it is said:

"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." 
NIV

What owner of any opinion doesn't want to be considered righteous?

I suppose simple logic might suggest an even greater need would be to know not only who is "Right" but also what could possibly establish their opinion as if a ruling made that is truly dominated by all but  blinding "Light of Truth"?

A fragmented analogy might even go as far as to suggest that such a high opinion could have only originated from within God as if its progenitor?

Allow me to ask this, "Do you have and find the mind of Christ functioning harmoniously within you" or "Does the mention of what is considered right or wrong stir up the strongest of negative emotions within you?

Food for thought, God does have enemies, yet those thought to be enemies are simply not in agreement with Him as it pertains to ALL things He has also made and set in motion by giving them life"!

Caring enough to continue to Need

Short of sounding opposed to doing good, what is that seems to reside in the heart of humanity as if the root cause for doing "Good" deeds?

Could it be as simple as we've all been created equal in so much that we all deeply desire one and the same "Need" for the recognition of doing or being considered good?

Some might even go as far to suggest such a thing as if the need for, "Recognition for time served"?


Eccl 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He (God) has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
NIV

Was the wording, "They cannot fathom what God has done" to suggest that man is incapable of searching out AND discovering the essence (nature) of their creator or is it more accurate to say that their creator states that the world cannot "Accept" the truth about Him that was sent?

I suppose all one would have do to in order to reject the truth concerning the nature/essence of their creator would be to also reject the representation of His person which has been sent.

Does the said "World" simply Reject or just not Accept the entire consideration of the One that was sent (as the spirit of Truth)? 

Both sound to me as if one and the same opinion or at least as if two opinions that will meet with one and the same end result?

The following depicts those which do accept Him (through faith) as well those (the world) which cannot accept the truth about their Lord (creator).

John 14:16-21

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever — the Spirit of truth. 

The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him , for he lives with you and will be in you. 

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. 

Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 

Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.

NIV

Could it be that deep within a mans soul it cries out for the sake of hearing, "Well done my good and faithful servant"?

Could it be that it's one and the same desire which the one and only Creator also designed or equipped each of us with?

That desire being designed as if a mutually shared desire within our spiritual DNA where we are drawn towards a greater understanding of the word "Need"?

I guess at minimum that notion would require that we All at least be asked One and the same question?

A question which then sets in order our divine nature as if the mutual remedy which one day gets realized as if  the result of a mutual hope that was intended to guide us all to the same conclusion?

We all have a need and it is for the likeness of God, yet not all will interpret this mutual need as it was intended because one and the same truth has NOT been fully accepted.

John 6:45-46
It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God .' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
NIV

Respectfully yours are the words of your savior Jesus the Christ if only you'll believe the one that was sent to tell you the Truth concerning the realities of YOUR eternal consideration.

Jesus spoke these words to the religious minded leaders that claimed to be aware of God's activities within their midst during the time of His visitation

John 8:19
"You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
NIV

The full consideration you now attempt to enjoy as if a life that gets lived in the Lord is also a life he's also given and sustains.

To live your life as if to consider all that freedom really is in Christ, yet how can one know or converse with Him if they do not acknowledge that He exist within everything they set their mind and hands to do?

The opportunity to consider the entirety of all that Truth is,  if in deed Truth is a person which dwells richly within you.

Matt 10:41
Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.
NIV

SW

Is the only thing that's really free in this world the Truth?

In my opinion one of the most needed considerations while being enjoined with a physical existence in this world is the very question that's contained in the above title.

I'm thoroughly convinced that what man is not capable of handling on his own (without outside counsel) is the essence of the very thing he's also the most confused about.

Confused as if to say, "Having been steeped in our OWN understanding (without righteous counsel) which continues to execute feeble attempts as if our only hope of finding ourselves able to relate to a Freedom that is also True".

A freedom that can only be found in a savior (Jesus the Christ) because we've decided to accept the reality that we're not able see or find enjoyment unless it is the Joy of the Lord as our only real strength.

A strength that is also righteous in every thing we set our hands to do and our lips to then speak. As if what we then believe, live and speak is the same Truth which has successfully set us free.

The only truth that can save you from yourself having been caught and trapped by a world full of lies and deception.

A man must first find himself able to see exactly how poor he is and or has been within his own history of somehow finding himself reconciled to the Lord.

A lord that is truly understood and approached as if He is "The Lord" over all that He's also created to include how we each see ourselves through His eyes.

Luke 4:18-19
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. 
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, 
to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."  
NIV

There remains a multi-dimensional confusion concerning said "Freedom", yet only because of the taint which Lies in wait as if it is "The Truth".

All one has to do in order to temporarily escape the reality contained in the Truth is to deny the reality which will one day enforce the boundaries which embodies a freedom that is also real.

If there is no such question within the conscience, that individuals actions might as well be considered lifeless or "Without life".

Every culture beneath the sun at some point has adopted the minimal understanding that there is a right and wrong way to approach the consideration for "A life that is presently being lived out".

If not, then why the need for "Law(s)" which are adopted and then implemented (enforced).

One might ask, "How is that true"?

Are laws set in place in order to guide the activities that are being enjoyed within a mutual freedom or are laws enforced so that some won't encroach upon the rights of others whom are also seeking out the discovery concerning the results of having been given the opportunity to experience "Freedom"?

The divine words spoken from the lips of the only living God attempts to expose all humanity to the Truth which can set them free.


John 8:31-32
If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free ."  
NIV

What many cultures refuse to place on their billboards is the over shadowing question, "Why have I been given the opportunity of a physical existence that was originally intended to be enjoyed within a mindset that is in all truth one that is "Free".

Is what is truly Free also to good to be true?


The real weight of such a question rarely gets seriously considered until a persons (continued) physical well being and or existence gets questioned in the light of Truth.

Brought into question to mean, having been exposed to the consideration of death and all that it holds (maintains) as something that's consistent beyond our own omnipresent understanding that's currently being "Enjoyed"

Outside of having truthfully considered the question, "Is there an existence after this present realm of life" one would have to alter what they also accepts as if their own read concerning the Truth.

What is the truth concerning an existence beyond a natural death?

It's the very reality which presently awaits your acceptance concerning the entirety of truth that is real.

As if waiting for the mind of your existence to acknowledge the entirety of all that you've denied as the truth.

It has been written with the ink of righteousness concerning those who know beyond doubt to whom they also must listen to.

Listen in order to one day discover there is only room for the direct results for having accepted the truth that will remain.


Rom 14:7-8
For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
NIV


John 6:45-51
It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.

Is it a simple matter of knowing that a God exist or believing beyond doubt that you are known and loved by the only God that is true and real?

The following words will be a reality for some in another day. A day where there is no longer room for the excuse of having ignored the otherwise obvious aspects which Truth has more than made known to all humanity.


Matt 25:12
"But he replied, 'I tell you the truth , I don't know you.'
NIV

Emerging from this life as a New Creation

It is my hope to launch you into a new thought while in this life time instead of driving you back into an old way of life.

2 Cor 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation ; the old has gone, the new has come!
NIV

I would like to begin with the following hope filled thought which should draw us as believers into the knowledge that we as believers in Christ in light of the truth actually do have a great need of a savior.

Gal 6:15
Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation
NIV

Because Christ is considered to be the savior of as many as do believe in Him, that savior should also be one which we as believers in Him should also strive to be more likened to.


1 John 4:16-18
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
NIV

I personally believe that in most instances of error it's the simple matter where we've either not been asked and or not allowed the right(eous) questions to be asked of us.

Please allow me to ask this, "Has the full intentions of God as He set out to accomplish from the beginning been finalized here on earth"?

If Gods intentions have been fulfilled, then why are you still here?

Is what we say and do today just a contemporary version and repeat of what was done in the previous generation(s)?

What continues to prove itself so strong that it forges the destiny of history?

Could it be that still too few are defending the presence and interaction(s) of a God they're assuming they know instead of seeking out "The God" they've yet to know more fully?

The importance of intimacy within a relationship is to come to know the one you've been joined with.

Maybe a relationship that is true should be more clearly defined as if the method of coming to terms with the things that you Don't otherwise know about someone instead of what you've assumed you Do know?

If you doubt what I suggest, then try and have an intimate relationship with a large number of people at the same time to then find yourself able to truthfully say "I know what each would do in any given scenario"?

Consider the wife or husband which gets presented with the allegation of their spouses infidelity? Whose testimony concerning that same allegation is then considered to be true? Who's weighing what's been said?

Is the innocent spouses denial believed or will it be the one which presents the false allegation that's believed?

What if man had the opportunity to preview his own history as if he were to aid in the drafting process for  his eternal blueprint while at the same time living it out moment by moment?

Can you see the importance of guidance from one moment to the next or do you view such guidance as the infringement of your God given right to maintain and then live out and through your own opinion?

Allow me to ask what many are not willing to present today.

Why is God being painted as so mysterious when it has been plainly spoken from His lips the following?


John 6:43-48
"Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God .' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life
NIV

Could it be the simple case in light of the truth that You are the only one that's allowing all the wrong question(s) to be asked of You?

Could it be true that You remain convinced as if in control of the outcome of your life choices made by way of remaining unwilling to answer such questions in the light of truth?

Instead could it be that the net result of your choices made have come to pass due to your denial of the voice of God as if the loving voice of a father or is it that you're not familiar with the voice which originates from everything that true love is?

His voice as if the essence of each attempt that has been made in an effort to pierce through your opinion that may in the light of truth be wrong?

Do you know the Lord your Jesus the Christ (your savior) or is the character of His person still just some big mystery?

John 17:3
Now this is eternal life : that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
NIV

When and how does one come to "Know" the character of another person?

Is it in that persons presence or in their absence that you truly "Know' the one they claim to know?

If you're ever questioned by a third party about someone else in their absence, can you then speak for them if they're not here with you?

Now suppose that person were here with you, could they not simply speak for themselves once questioned?

If the following were a promise made by someone you don't presently know then how would you prepare to receive such a promise as if it were intended for you too in all truth?


Ps 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go ;
I will counsel you and watch over you.
NIV

You see we are more in control of the "Who" we do allow to counsel us more than we are willing to consider.

Some reject their parents and maybe rightfully so, while others reject the oversight that's volunteered themselves to be assigned in their lives.

I can say this with all confidence that very few are beautiful day in and day out straight from the womb, yet anyone can be taught if they're willing to be instructed.

I've yet to meet the parent or child who could in ALL truth say that they've been "Completely" satisfied every single moment with "Every" choice of the person that's been placed in their life whether that perspective is from a parent or child.

Many can make the later in life comment that they wouldn't change a thing if they had it all to do over again, but is that the truth or simply a comment that's offered that is void of any spiritually deeper knowing (knowledge)?

Is that the truth or just a feel good statement which loving parents or children are programmed to say while reviewing and hoping to bolster an self esteem which should be viewed as one which is immature (not more fully developed)?

Here's my point, if your life were given the opportunity to happen all over again would you expect to make the same mistakes as you did before or would you expect to make fewer mistakes because of what you've "since" learned? 

I can somehow hear some saying, "God doesn't make mistakes" which I also believe to be true, yet if he doesn't make mistakes then who does that leave to consider in the instances of error(s) made?

Here is where pride has a field day in most peoples lives. The very beachhead where a mutual enemy (if We have one that's mutual) looks to land his troops on the shores of you life.

Now let me ask you this, "Is it only the tough times resulting as choices made which (make you uneasy) mold and shape you or is it more to do with the poor interpretation of the net result(s) of choices made which cause you to then consider them as comfort(s) in life"?

Next, how does either find their way into your daily life and who ultimately makes all the "Choices"?

Now fast forward to where you are now. 

Next let's assume that you've  moved out of the child "Hood" and have managed to position yourself because you've assumed you do know others so well.

If that be true, then why do you still blame them as part of the reason for where you are now or as the reason why you can't seem to get to where you want to be from the address where you are now?

Do you feel as if you've been shut out or shut in with regards to "Needed" guidance while enduring your life span?

Which side of the door of your life do you see yourself standing?

Especially if the choice of life eternal gets made here and now which is only the humble beginnings of a life that has been filled only by way of the Truth.

Better still, which side do you see others standing? On the inside with you or on the outside knocking so they too can come in where it's warm and comfortable where you are?

The next time you find yourself where it's cold and uncomfortable while with someone else, listen to not only what gets said but also to the suggestion itself and who offers up the suggestion, "Let's (us) go inside where it's warm and much more comfortable"!

If you are a part of the church (those who have been called out by God as if to be a separate people) will you not then hear what has been said as if to the church (assembled house of Gods children from every corner of the earth)?

Rev 3:19-22

Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. 

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."  

NIV

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it

There are many words today which have lost their meaning, yet is it truly their loss or the loss of the intended recipients which such words were designed to serve?

The essence of such words fall short of providing their (true) benefit. The nutrients of their deeper (spiritual) meaning fails to sustain because of what's been forgotten.

What's been forgotten?

The importance of who spoke them and why.

Is it still any great wonder when the "Why" gets asked? What about the head when it isn't honored?


1 Cor 12:26
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
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In my opinion a man does not lose his soul as if it were a wallet. Instead he's seduced having believed lie upon lie having ignored the forth coming and forever present truth concerning heavenly realities.

Quite plainly, "I've yet to meet a person that hasn't at least heard of Jesus". Now the one which represented Jesus as the "Christ" in everyone of those discussions is completely another story to unfold.

Matt 16:25-27
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.

What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?

Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul ?

For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
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Someone can choose not to touch the man yet they can still assault him by confusing his words.

1 John 2:24-25
See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us — even eternal life.
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1 John 4:2-3

This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist , which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. 

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Many will acknowledge there was a man called Jesus. Some will even go as far to acknowledge that Jesus was also a prophet.

Some say that Jesus could never have walked on water or have never been able to have raised anyone from the dead here on earth to then experience continued existence and walk among his fellow man.

Many continue to refuse to acknowledge (believe in) Jesus as their Savior which came in the flesh as a man, having been born of a virgin. This same Jesus who then realized death at the hands of humanity who now sits at the right hand of God on His everlasting throne having risen from the dead.

In lite of such unbelief how could there be any hope of life eternal once their natural body encounters the first death?

The plea of this same Jesus can be read below.


John 14:10-12
Don't you believe that I am in the Father , and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
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Is it still any wonder why in this season of time and its conditioning being presented that there is such a great need for the miraculous of our father to manifest?

How can he when we don't believe that He is more than able to perform the miraculous he also came to demonstrate as the obvious that's now so easily ignored?


John 6:45-51
It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.

No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life. 


Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
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John 14:5-6

Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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