Commanding respect

Religion No More!!

COMMANDING RESPECT
I once followed a pastor
Because his insights were
Most revelatory and new
And he commanded a certain
Kind of respect that drew me
To the safety of his
All-knowing wisdom.
I felt so many illusions
Dissipate from whence they came.
Noticed too that all the precious
Reverence for God and his Son
Was fast departing as well.
Dear friends, don’t get sucked in
To a brand new idol worship.
The Holy Spirit of
Almighty God is capable
Of talking to you quite directly
Up to and until You start
To command respect.

[For my ESL friends: “command respect” generally has a very positive application. However I’m deliberately using it here to denote man’s taking the issue too far, taking it upon himself when it is the purview of God; used like ‘demand’.]

The real you vs. religion

Religion No More!!

THE REAL YOU VS. RELIGION
Do you ever find a great
big smile come to your face?
For no reason whatsoever?
You want to laugh
or cry tears of joy
or sing or shout?
That’s your awareness of Jesus
inside you, happy as a lark!
Do you ever feel like you
should criticize and condemn
another person for any reason?
THAT’S religion.

God’s way

Religion No More!!

Did you make a mistake already today? Think unloving thoughts? Wallow in self-pity? Look down upon anyone? Dwell in fear and doubt a lil bit? Already?? Today? . YOU GOTTA LEARN TO FORGET IT !!!!!
IT’S NOTHING !!! . NO THING, MIND, NOR POWER !!! . ZILCH !!! . ZIP !!! ZERO !!!!! . You can even say to that ‘mistake’ that ‘you’ made: HAH !! Grace has just used you for a major Victory!!

Beyond the Cosmos

Quantum world

TRULY EXPANDING OUR HORIZONS
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God has the capacity, thus, to move and operate along an infinitely long time line, or along as many time lines, infinite or otherwise, as He chooses. He can operate, if He desires, on a time line parallel to our time line or on one intersecting our time line, but He is not compelled to do either. Thus, God has the capacity to cause effects for infinite time on innumerable time lines that never intersect or touch our time line. As such, we could point to no beginning and no end for Him. Since beginnings only make sense where time is linear in some way, God must be a beginning-less Being. He has always existed and will always remain. He never required a causation, or creation, event.
Dr. Hugh Ross, Ph.D.
Beyond the Cosmos

John 1:3 KJV
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Colossians 1:16-17 KJV
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: [17] And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

U.N. General Assembly prep

Humor - remember that? LoL

This is downright scary!
Sitting in Hammarskjold Park
Minding my own business
As I am wont to do (lol)
When I reached into my bag
To retrieve a container of coffee
No fewer than four
Count them … 4 !!!
Uniformed police officers
With fingers on their shotguns
Four of them there are
Watching me – just in case ….
I wanna take a photo for you
But it might cost me
A night in jail :'(
(Could be fun….!)

My heart needed 3 more minutes!

Consciousness

You’re absolutely not gonna believe what happened to me AFTER I literally spent my early morning hours taking dictation from the Lord. We wrote on the subject of “Destination: Oneness”. I finally got to a resting place in the writing when, ALL OF A SUDDEN, the nastiest, most ungodlike, hateful thoughts rushed in and clamored for attention!!! For a moment, I was so shocked and disappointed. Then God told me to read what I had just written. A huge smile – inside and out – replaced the insidious, fleshly attack. I glanced at the clock and saw that the entire mesmeric episode lasted approximate 3 minutes! My heart needed 3 minutes to catch up.

Just needed 3 more minutes!