How do you feel?

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

(Pro 13:12)

Pro 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Ever wanted something so bad or prayed for something to happen or change in your life and it just doesn't seem to happen? I know I have. But did you know that much of this is due to the thought process and how we think on things. I have heard and people say I would like this to happen in my life but I don't see it being possible. God is not a God of impossibles but a God of infinite possibilities. If you can see it in your mind and it is a good thing all that is required of you is to have faith and believe it to be possible. The way to accomplishing it will be made clear to you if you truly look, if you truly desire it and believe it can happen. Much of the time this takes a little reconditioning of the mind such as one saying over and over in your mind that you are a good person and that it is possible. In the bible we are commanded to love our neighbor as our selves, and did you know that every one does. As I watch and observe others I notice that the ones who are loving and kind to others are also this to them selves but those who don't treat others well cant even stand to be with them selves. The bible also says what you sow you shall reap, the moral of the story if you want more love give more love, if you want wonderful friends be more friendly if you want more give more. The bible also tells us that it is better to give than to receive, but it is also a biblical promise that you will get back more than you give.

Love to all

How big is a thought???

It is not just a coincidence but a reality. We were made after Gods image, in his likeness and to follow his lead. If we follow through the process of our every day going ons we can see a clear and stated format that is always and consistently followed with out exception. There is not ever a variance or a wavering of change nor is there a possibility for it. The basic steps to each and ever thing we do is the same, always will be all ways has been. The science called Quantum Physics has taken on and verified that not only are the teachings of the bible true but they are consistent. Now for the most of us we don't need science to prove these things but on the other hand some may wish for a clarification on different things. Science has come to discover that the smallest substance of every particle of any matter is one and one thing only…..thought….. the natural process for our everyday thing all start with a thought then an idea followed by the goal continuing on by the stated path of action to accomplish afore mention goal, and finally completion. If any one of these steps fails to materialize your mission is in jeopardy of failure. God has shown us by many examples that we are to be courageous fearless and devoted before we can accomplish anything. If your mission goes into failed status is this due to Gods unwillingness to bless you or your unwillingness to follow his example. Study each and every single great man or woman in history and you can see how the system works, and begin to understand

Luv to all

Faith and Well - being

Mat 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. In the new testiment we are given many examples of what faith can do in our lives. What are the main steps to faith? Well first we probably need to know the definition of faith. Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11 is the explanation of what faith is and many of the works that have been accomplished through this acting in such a manner. What is hope? Webster defines it as such …….

intransitive verb1: to cherish a desire with anticipation <hopes for a promotion>2archaic : trust transitive verb1: to desire with expectation of obtainment 2: to expect with confidence : trust synonyms see expect

now faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for, ok what is substance? Webster defines this as such..…..

1 a: essential nature: essence b: a fundamental or characteristic part or quality c Christian Science : god 1b2 a: ultimate reality that underlies all outward manifestations and change b: practical importance : meaning , usefulness .

We can see the evidence of the existence of God, we know that he is all around us but many times we fail to do the steps and recognize him and what he wishes for us. Many of your inner desires can only be manifested unto you through your trust and expectation of receiving them. Read matt 9 and Hebrews 11 and look for the essence of God and expect him to do great things in your life! Love to all

 

 

 

The complete picture?

I WANT TO KNOW WHO DECIDED THAT THE SCRIPTURES WE KNOW AS THE BIBLE ARE THE COMPLETE WORKS AND WRITINGS OF GOD ? Is there more?

Circular reasoning

Mar 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? What are you missing today? As habitual creatures we tend to see but not really see. The man that reportedly discovered the cities of Sodom and Gomorra after centuries of being undiscovered said that he had been traveling the same road for months on his way to work. One day while driving along something caught his eye and upon second glance he had to stop he looked and looked, finally going over and looking and upon examination was thoroughly amazed that it was an entire city. As the report goes the city is completely incinerated but the ashes are still in there form of the buildings from centuries ago! Do you think he was the first person to travel that road? Then why hadn't others before him seen this fantastic marvel and work of God? In some of my readings of literature it was brought to my attention that we see but don't really train our selves to see! I pondered that and did a lot of recollecting of personal data and find this to be so true. We really need to train the eyes to see. I had a good friend once go into the mountains with me and as we were driving along he would stop often and say look see there, and me I looked and looked and saw nothing. I would ask him what am I suppose to see. And he would say the particular type of animal. Ok so I looked and looked again and would see nothing, then he would chuckle and say watch …. honking his horn and not 50, 60 yards away a mule deer or elk would jump and take off running. The animal was right there in front of me in plain view but I could not see it! There is a saying that goes like this (with a trained eye you can see…..). The training of the eyes and ears is as important to a Godly life as prayer. Why do I say this because if you don't you wont know how to seek out the truth or know what to pray for!

I heard a lesson recently about how people expect physical signs from God and how wrong these people are for doing this. Silly people, God doesn't work like that, he doesn't do that anymore. The speaker said that we have no need of these signs (he was not talking about the gifts of the spirit either but physical and material blessings) due to the fact that we have the bible and it is complete! We do have the complete scriptures true but the rest was very contradictory to the scriptures!! Then what I thought really silly or redundant was that at the end of the service the gentleman giving the closing prayer says this….. and father be with ---- as she is recovering from her operation and be with ------- as she is preparing for her operation and father be with them and care for them in their times of difficulty, and bring them again soon into our midst healthy and well. I was like huh??? Either one of two things happened here….. One, either the gentleman didn't listen to the lesson or ….. two, the speaker as others before him are confused with the power and love of God and his movements and are unfortunately promoting this confusion. People you acquire nothing in this world!! God has permitted you the usage of everything you have in your possession!! Is this not physical or do you believe you really acquired it through the sweat of your brow? If he didn't wish you to have these abilities or physical material blessings, trust me friends you would not!! My question to you is this if God is the same then, now, and forever, and all through out the bible he uses physical demonstrations to show his power and abilities so that we all fear yet glorify him why would he stop now? If you don't believe in miracles then why pray? To give gratitude to some thing you really don't believe in, to waste ones breath and time asking out of duty, not expectation? Aren't his answers to your prayers works of a physical nature and the fulfillment of your desires for you, your family, and friends? Ohhh ohhh wait not desires! We are to desire nothing more than the needs in life. Wow, how confused can people be!!

 

Gray area….and life…

I heard the statement that life is a gray area. When one thinks about it, it is. There are many areas of life that seem to be mysteries to us yet mystery is what keeps us going; the unknown, the excitement of what is just on the other side of each and every thought and decision which causes every one of our actions and or reactions. Some one once said the world was conquered by actions not reactions. When one takes a minute to think about their lives we can see how they seem to be a chain of reactions and not a whole lot of actions. We have become a society of weak and feeble objects, existing from day to day with a lack of focus and dreams; a lack of courage and stamina to reach our goals. As I read the stories of the athletes on the Olympic tour I see their dedication and energy, the test of courage and sacrifice that they over come to get where they are, and that is really impressive. Friends, God is a God of action, not reaction; not complacently sitting by and watching the world go round and round and just reacting to the different scenarios that play out in this physical realm. The whole ministry of Jesus was a call to action not reaction. Why am I saying this, God gave us a world full of color and glory, full of beauty and opportunity, it is up to us to take our gray areas in life and paint the picture that we wish to see! So dream big, focus on achievement and paint your life full of color as God wishes for you! God gave us the foundations; it is you who is to finish construction. With your desires and his help nothing is impossible!

Love yall

And may God bless you

End of the day

Good morning friends. I was looking today during my studies at different words and their contextual meanings (meaning the meanings pertaining to the languages they were written in) and came across a scripture that Jesus spoke (that I have heard used and I am sure all of you have also) that caught my eye in a slightly different sense. That verse was Luke 5:39. In this verse he talks about old wine and new wine. He says that after tasting old wine nobody wants the new. Well we all know that wine is considered better with age; in fact many sit on some for years and years even to the point that it soon becomes a vintage wine. Well now you are asking how this struck me in a slightly different way. Well we often hear it in reference to the way we lived before we came to Christ in Christianity and how some often look back and prefer to go back to the old ways instead of trying to live in Christ. What strikes me funny is that not only is that true about people of the world but also many of people of or in different faiths or beliefs. Due to the mental state and our individuality we often times tend to read or understand what we have been raised up or instructed to believe rather than to learn for our selves.

Having the same book with the same teachings and the words all meaning the same why is their over 10,000 different beliefs or types of faith? I think that we try to make the way or path of right way to difficult. I personally don't understand why. God is not a God of confusion, disorderly, or difficult. He is a God of simplicity, order, and clearly in control. How can we take a verse and twist it and form the definition to be as we want? We all know the route to salvation, and that is an easy step to start, the difficulties start after the initial steps have been taken. Jesus says that we need to be as a child to enter into the kingdom of God. Now we also all know the characteristics of a child, but we tend to forget some important parts. We know that a child has no worries, that they trust their parents to provide for them and that they have unconditional love for their family. Now you may be asking what the parts that we miss are. How about for starters imaginative? Most children have a tremendous imagination and ability to drum up a wealth of ideas and dreams, not only for the present but also the future. Next we will say how about creativity. Children are very creative and many times ingenious in the way they color and pretend or act out their ideas. Next we will move on to accessible; now another term that one may use is trainable. They accept your firm words as law as one raises them in the best way one knows how. Ok now lets move on to the next one lets say serving. They give no thought to doing what one asks them to do, and a child that is taught to respect his elders they give no thought to helping other either. Next will be forgiving they forgive and forget and continue to love as if nothing had happened. Next let us continue with ambitious; they don't let a small thing such as one telling them no get in their way. They take the time to learn you and they actually know one better than you yourself do.

Now if you will allow me to bring this to you as I see it. God put us here and created us perfect and in his image right? All the above mentioned characteristics are the same ones that God contains except the fact that he needs no training or teaching for he is the teacher. Why have I said all this? You will never create the universe or an animal or humankind, but you are responsible for your life, for your surroundings, for your goals and for your future. One can never change another no matter how dominating one is. One can change the lives of others by being as a child, by giving the unconditional love, by letting their imagination show them who they are and dreaming big dreams with a definite goal in mind. By being creative and ingenious in the forms of executing them and always looking to the future, to always learn and allow others to have access to your heart and love and forgiveness. And last of all not killing ones ambitions or desires thinking that they are not a need for ones life. One of the greatest forms of service to others is by allowing yourself to have dreams and live a happy and fulfilling life. Why? If one is unhappy they carry stress, hate, anger, and just a life that at the end one looks back and asks what did I do with my life? A desire is what guides you, your heart, your life, but if one doesn't allow it to fulfill itself you live with a sad heart for you are not doing what you are sent to do. some may argue that we are not to have desires for that isn't Godly but when it is all said and done if one chooses to serve God that is only because they so desired. You are the creator of your own life, your own future, your dreams and your limitations. Look to God for the way and allow him to show you. He tells us the do's and don'ts but puts no limits to what one can accomplish through him.

Now what did all that have to do with Luke? I am going to leave that to your imagination, and your own interpretation. Just remember when you sit down at the end of the day and look back over your accomplishments and dreams how will they match up? Will they make you smile with the contentment of achievements God desired for you or the sadness of unfulfilled dreams and wonderment if you full filled his desires for you.

God bless!!

It’s a beautiful day!!

Good morning to all and what a beautiful morning it is!! I was sitting out side this morning at the picnic table, sipping on my creamy concoction of coffee, sugar, and a light touch of creamer, and observing the beauty of nature and listening to her song. With a slight breeze coming across the dewy grass and wisping through the tree tops, the birds chirping, the morning sun warming the earth, the horse chomping away at the grass, the rabbits running to and fro, and the squirrels carrying on like old maids. I sat there in deep thought just thinking of God and appreciating his glorious creation. Then it brought into a different perspective as to what God is…. God is a God of beauty, peace, joy, happiness, abundance and love; A God so powerful and overwhelmingly large yet so simple. We may perceive a thing as being large or a task to great or a need or desire too much, but for God (whom effortlessly spoke the world into creation) size is no issue. God is not a God of limitations but a God that loves you and I much more than we could ever love him. He praises every good deed you do and forgives the bad ones, bestows unlimited blessing upon us which many we take for granted. It has been my experience that the more one appreciates and tries to recognize them the more he bestows unto you. In the bible Jesus mentions the flower called the lily. The lily is a highly recognized flower for its beauty and peace for its sweetness and fragrance. If God created so much beauty in a plant of that nature, imagine what he could create through you if you allowed him to. We as humans tend to put self imposing limitations on ourselves due to the fact that as the saying goes we can't see past our noses. Is your God the limited God who works on our level, or is he the almighty and all powerful the great I AM ready and willing to assist you, to bless you, to heal you, to carry you to greater and greater levels of service and abundance. One may say but I don't deserve all the blessing or luxuries in life, and my response to them is in reality we not only don't deserve that but neither do we deserve to live, but through Gods love we are doing that. He doesn't allow us to be here so that we can be like blocks of dirt on the beach of life waiting for the tides of death to just come and wash us back into the ocean of forgotten mankind, but he wants us here to glorify him, to allow him to show his glory through us, and the only way to do that is by allowing him to do it; By allowing him to bestow upon us all his glory and blessings, by allowing him to work through us. Many times in the bible God tells his people that he is doing what he does so that all may see him and his glory. God is not a God of limitations or lack but a God of unlimited abundance, we have yet to run out of our natural resources….gold has been mined for thousands of years in large quantities, as has silver and all the other metals and minerals, crude oil has been pumped out of the earth for over a hundred years and there is no end in site. They say that we have enough under the U.S. to meet the present demand for over 300 more years. So my question to you is who is limited you or God? Jesus told us that with faith the size of a mustard seed we can move mountains, so then what are the limitations that God has put on us? The answer is that the only limitation God has put us under is that we serve him with love, gratitude, and a strong dedication to carry out his will and all the rest will be added unto you. Is it wrong to ask God to bless you with an abundant life? Is it wrong to ask for great things, Beautiful things? No. I find it rather strange that many like to think so. If you look in the scriptures at a little prayer given by a supposedly unrecognized man in the long list of the genealogy in 1 chronicles 4:9-10 you can see that it is not only proper but totally recognized as a great prayer. Why else would it be smack in the middle of a long list of begats? If you read in matt.6:9-13 Jesus almost replicates this prayer but with a little more description. Well I have said enough for today and hope you have enjoyed the thoughts. May God Bless

WELL HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY....

Hello friends, I find it a little strange that no one has any had any comments or ideas to voice on the last couple of posts. One can only speculate as to why, but I won’t due to the nature of speculation. I post here to open new avenues of thought concerning who we are and how we relate to God, not to impose on some ones beliefs. It is great to know how they relate to each individuals belief and to know how they are either good or bad so that they can be elevated in ones thought process or put to rest and not utilized, or continued. I said I wasn’t going to post a response to my last post and to how I see what it says but I will say a few short words here as to part of what I think. I too had to read it several times to understand the depth of what it says but the short version is this when a person tries to be pleasing to God they act and respond as they think their God would through their interpretation of who God is. As adults we create the God that our children try to be pleasing to. We (through our actions) show them how we perceive God, and they being our children follow through as they try to be pleasing to us their parents. Well that is a start for you and MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS

HONEST MAN…..OR GOD…..

Hello friends and dear readersJ I am going to post a cut out of a piece of literature that I read. Not asking for opinions here what I am going to ask is for a depiction of what you see here. I am not claiming belief or disbelief of what the author says, but that we as a group examine it to find it true or false. Once the first round is in I will tell my views and thoughts. Thank you and enjoyJ

Some one has said that "an honest man is the noblest work of God." Ten thousand thousand others have repeated his little speech—with a solemn wag of the head and sidewise squinting which conveyed the opinion that God is chary of his noble works.

Then there came another man who paraphrased that. "An honest God is the noblest work of man," he said. And a thousand or so of us wondered why we hadn't thought to say that! Why, of course. And the other thousands of thousands lifted up their hands and cried, "Blasphemy—stone him, stone him—put him out of the church, where the bogies'll get him!" They put him out. But the bogies haven't got him. And many of the thousands are taking up his cry—"An honest God is the noblest work of man."

Why not? An honest God is of greater value than many honest men, is he not? God is the creator of man; unless God is himself honest his honest man is but an accident, instead of an image and likeness of himself.

But, according to the paraphraser, man creates his God. Well, that is a paraphrase only, and true only in a sense.

Man's creation of God is simply his mental concept of God; it is God as he sees him, or it, from his viewpoint.

An honest God is the concept of a man whose soul recognizes honesty and loves it. A God of power is the mental creation of him whose soul recognizes and loves power. A God of love is the mental creation of him who recognizes and loves love. A God of vengeance is the mental concept of him who loves vengeance.

Perhaps you think your mental concept of God is not so very important, since it is all in your mind and the real God is what he is regardless of your idea of him. But it matters vitally to you.

It is not God as he really is, that is creating you; but God as he appears to you. Your concept of God is creating you in its own image and likeness.

If you think of God as a great man on a throne, with a long white heard and an eye-for-an-eye-and-a-tooth-for-a-tooth expression, you may depend upon being made over into a sour-visaged decrepit old man who will want to die and get away from it all.

If you think of God as a God of power, love, wisdom, beneficence, you will aim to be perfect as he is perfect.

If you happen to be one of the fools who has said in his heart there is no God, your life will be a crazy patchwork and your end that of the stoic who defies earth to do its worst by him; which it probably will, being a willing earth and ready to give each according to his demands.

You are being created in the image and likeness of the Lord your God, the God enthroned in your heart.

What kind of a God is in your heart? Is he small and revengeful and capricious, a sort of policeman to tell your troubles to, to receive consolation from, and by whom to send punishment to your enemies?

Or is your God the Principle and Substance behind all creation, the power, wisdom, love, of all creation, a God who loves all, is just to all, generous to all, favors none?

But no matter how lofty a God you carry in your heart he will do you little good unless he is an "I Am" God.

Most men's Gods are "I Was" Gods. They believe God did wonderful things for the children of Israel; that he performed great miracles for the apostles and disciples of Jesus; but to this age they think of him as merely the I Was God, who stands aloof and lets man run things—man and the devil, or "malicious animal magnetism."

Believers in the "I Was" God are also great sticklers for the "I Shall Be" God, who is coming again to judge the wicked and set up his kingdom on earth. And these believers in the I Shall Be God think that their only business in life is to wait around until the great I Shall Be makes his appearance.

People who worship the "I Was" and the "I Shall Be" are never demonstrators. Between admiration of the "I Was" and anticipation of the "I Shall Be" they fall to the ground and—wait for the I Shall Be in themselves and others.

Only the "I Am" God does things. "I Am" love impels you to love now. "I Am" wisdom inspires you to act upon your ideas. "I Am" power performs miracles, not yesterday or tomorrow, but now.

I Am God is the God who works to-day, in you and in me. His ways are not the ways of the I Was God, nor of the I Shall Be God; they are the ways of the "I Am"—new, different, the ways of to-day, not of yesterday or to-morrow.

I know a dear woman who worships the I Was and the I Shall Be. She entertained Schlatter the healer, and was firmly convinced that he was a literal reincarnation of Jesus Christ. She took Schlatter's word for it. She also accepted his excuses for not immediately setting up a literal kingdom here on earth, as described in the book of Revelations. He told her he had other work to do just now, that he was going away, but would soon return and establish a literal kingdom. She swallowed it all—without a single chew. Schlatter went away, and later a body was found in the mountains which was said to be his.

Since Schlatter's disappearance some years ago, this lady has spent her time in writing about him and looking for his return. The I Was and the I Shall Be absorb her entire spiritual attention.

In the meantime she lives in a small mining town where in the life surging about her she sees no God. Not long ago she wrote me to help her speak the Word of freedom for a man on trial for his life. She said he was absolutely innocent and that a "terrible conspiracy" existed against him. The man was condemned to die, still protesting, not innocence but self-defense. It was a case of mix-up with two men and a woman, followed by a drunken brawl and the usual plea of "didn't mean to."

This lady's sympathies were all with the man, and her letters to me were pitiful. Her heart was wrung with agony for him and his bereaved wife, and convulsed with horror and impotent rage at the "wickedness" of the "wretches who falsely swore away his life." The way "evil" triumphed over justice was awful, she said, and she knew when Schlatter returned justice would be done and the wicked wretches annihilated—or words to that effect.

You see, she has no conception of an "I Am" God, who rules now. She sits in judgment on men's acts and prays to Schlatter to come back and set things right.

She remembers that the "I Was" put 10,000 to flight with Gideon's three hundred pitchers and candles—simply sneaked up and scared them into a panic. She knows the "I Was" hardened the heart of Pharaoh to lie repeatedly to the Israelites. She knows the devil had to ask permission of God before he tempted Job. She knows God said "I make peace and I create evil," and that "The Lord hath made all things himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." She knows that "Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all the deep places." She knows all these things of the Great I Was.

But that the I Am works now in the hearts of men; that God now hardens one heart to perjury and another to truth, one to murder and another to lay down his life that his friend may live;—that God now works in these apparently antagonistic ways and thereby works out perfect justice, wisdom, love, has never entered her mind.

She cannot imagine that no man meets any form of death until he himself has ripened for that particular form of death. She has read that eighteenth chapter of Ezekiel, where God explains that every man dies for his own sins, not for the false swearings of another. But the great "I Was" said that, and the "I Shall Be" says it; but the "I Am" is absent—so she thinks.