I have found that hearing God becomes easier and easier with practice. Sometimes the carnal mind gets really obstinate and just hits me with “NOT RIGHT NOW DON’T WANNA I’LL DO IT LATER WHAT’S FOR DINNER” and similar mind-numbing nonsense, hoping to lull me into a stupor. As soon as I wake up to this malarkey, I focus on/as God and the journey becomes joyfully exhilarating once again!
All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck
Looking down from above the clouds, problems seemed puny
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
I remember my first flight in an airplane:
looking down from above the clouds
I could hardly remember my problems
that loomed so large down below.
How puny they all seemed!
How insignificant!
We can be like that with Spirit, you know.
Seeing things in their proper proportion
Sets us free to dial up anytime at all!
Wisdom from Message Bible
We, of course, have plenty of wisdom to pass on to you once you get your feet on firm spiritual ground, but it’s not popular wisdom, the fashionable wisdom of high-priced experts that will be out-of-date in a year or so. God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest—what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn’t have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross. That’s why we have this Scripture text: No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it— What God has arranged for those who love him. But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.
1 Corinthians 2:6 MSG
When we refocus, life is sublime again!
When one is in the world, affected by all the world’s demands and influences, it can seem so hard to let go of our darling “issue”! . Lol . But all we need to do is refocus and life is sublime again!
Frank Johnson quotes
Belief systems (religion) promote an image of ourselves and another separate image, called God. Under this paradigm, the struggle continues to be ours, to always do the right thing. There is a deeper reality that we don’t see, far different from what we learn in church. We need to change the imagery completely; namely, we need to realize that it is God, who is the LIFE (the only Life), and that Life is ever seeking to live through us. This can only be experienced when we are ready to let go of self. We don’t lose our sense of identity, but rather, we discover our true identity. We are not this body of flesh, but are one in God, just as Jesus demonstrated.
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Jesus told us that the Kingdom of God was (always) within us. The Jews were living under the ‘spell’ of a false religious understanding, and simply were unaware of the life of the Spirit in them. Had the Spirit not been present, the person wouldn’t even exist. God is the only LIFE there is. “There is one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all” (Paul).
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Living from our old nature means we are still living from our finite, natural mind. We haven’t yet realized our true Nature, which is oneness in that same Spirit of Christ. Most Christians are taught to believe, but are never shown how to let go completely of self. As long as self is seen as real, God will remain simply a belief held by the mind.
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“Body and Soul are created components though which Spirit expresses itself in a physical world (when realized). The body is obviously physical. The Soul is where we find mind or intellect, will and emotions. This is also where so-called psychic phenomena resides. The Soul has a lower (intellect) and a higher or psychic ability, which can be used for good or evil. The Soul is necessary for Spirit to be able to function in a physical world. Next is Spirit, and this is where church theology completely fails us. We are told we have a human spirit and in addition, there’s something else called the Holy Spirit. False. Jesus spoke of his oneness with the Father, but we just don’t get that, and it’s certainly not something attained through the mind (soul). Churches have completely destroyed the call of Jesus to be Born Again. That experience was meant to awaken us within to our true nature, which is God. But don’t misunderstand, it’s not magic, and it doesn’t happen overnight. The finite mind has to let go in order for the infinite Spirit or that inner Awareness to emerge. I love the quote that states: “We are not having a divine experience, God is having a human experience”.
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What happes when we don’t grow spiritually, is we often fail to realize that God is not just taking care of us, but that His Life is our Life. There never was any separation. Only the human mind believes in duality. Jesus said it so very clearly, “When you see me, you see the Father”. Jesus revealed in himself the model of reality.
Take back spontaneity from New Age
JESUS SAYS
“Take back newness
Freshness & spontaneity.
New Age hasn’t a lease on
Bright sunshines, cascading
waterfalls, flowing rivers
Or the entire quantum world!”
All reality is ONE,
Allness, Oneness, Love
Is
God.
[DrRobinStarbuck.com]
What God you believe in you’ll find
The God that you believe in, will be the God that you read in the Bible.
If you believe in the love of God you will be able to navigate your way through the mazes of different theologies in the Bible.
However if you believe in the wrath, anger and judgement of God, it will lead to a disturbing dual concept of God, that your mind cannot internally process.
The Bible is a historical document of man’s journey to discover who God is.
Some got it right, and some got it horribly wrong, which is the detrimental dilemma of those who still try to read the Bible literally.
But for those whom the Bible points to the spirit of God within;
They are free to experience, explore and discover the spirit of freedom and love.
This is life eternal and eternal life.
~Dan Shaffer
Rouse yourself
“ROUSE YOURSELF !!!”
was racing through
my mind last night.
“But why?” I queried.
“I want to sleep.”
“GET UP! GET UP!”
Reluctantly, obediently
I arose, shook off
The intruding quasi-thoughts
Replaced them with
Divine assurance and
Got back in bed.
This morning I awoke
More alert, better equipped
From the sweetest sleep
I had ever known.
Skeptics must stop pulling everything down.
WHAT IF skeptics were to
Make a firm decision not to
Question the Spiritual by pulling it
Down into the material realm and
Examining it from the wrong
Standpoint anymore?
God never intended us to be
So cut off and separated
As we SEEM TO BE in a
Dimension of thought
So lowly and beneath us.
rjs
Yes. Case in point. What religion does in trying to assure and comfort us, is actually to hold us down in this lower dimension of thought. Religion gives the thoughts of the mind a new name, calling it Belief. What we’re not told, is Belief is not the same as inner transformation or inner realization. The result is, intellectually we know things, but spiritually we have no awareness of the truth of our being.
~Frank Johnson
I caught myself thinking “I wonder what it’s like knowing stuff but having no experience of them?” Then, oops! that was me until I read and heard often enough (from ppl like us) that it’s gotta go much, much deeper. And then BOOM !! amazing things began to happen! Your juxtaposition, Frank, of belief vs inner realization just may hit some sleepy reader between the eyes! The second step of course occurs between the ears!!
rjs
Brain worship debunked, Lol
BRAIN WORSHIP DEBUNKED, LOL !!
There’s more to us and God than only an egotistical, highly fallible brain. The brain – if it’s a smart one (!) – can take you to that place where God, Spirit, takes over and reveals its multifarious dimensions and realms where miracles take place and human logic is no longer seen as the be-all and end-all of life.
