Jesus focused on the joy!

Just a thought: When Jesus “despised the shame” he didn’t despise the people … no, not ANY of them.
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HOW IN THE WORLD WAS JESUS ABLE TO ENDURE ALL THE SUFFERING ? . HE LOOKED PAST IT TO THE – JOY – HE WAS ABOUT TO ACCOMPLISH !! . YES, HE LOVES US THAT MUCH !!
Hebrews 12:2 KJV
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Suddenly my light afflictions seem infinitesimal!

HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF PAUL’S LIGHT AFFLICTIONS:
2 Corinthians 11:23-28 KJV
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. [24] Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. [25] Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; [26] In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; [27] In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. [28] Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

The mathematics is astronomical!
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HOW MANY YEARS DID PAUL SUFFER ?? 5? 10? 15? HE HAS BEEN IN HEAVEN NOW FOR 2,000 YEARS …!
Romans 8:18 KJV
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Have you a “light affliction” too?
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WHEN YOU ARE PERSECUTED FOR DOING GOD’S WILL FOR YOU , GOD HIMSELF MINISTERS UNTO YOU !!
Remember Paul’s description of his light affliction? And, yet he was always so joyous! You don’t have to be overcome by all the negativity either

What quantum physics tells us about our origins

“God is not dead! The existence of God has been verified by much scientific evidence.” – Amit Goswami, Ph.D. particle physicist.

Professor of physics at the University of Oregon’s Institute of Theoretical Science for over 30 years, (now retired) Dr. Goswami is a revolutionary in a growing body of renegade scientists who in recent years have ventured into the domain of the spiritual in an attempt both to interpret the seemingly inexplicable findings of their experiments, and also to validate their intuitions about the existence of a spiritual dimension of life.

Non-Locality – We are all interconnected – even without signals, and experimental evidence is proving our inherent unity.

Tangled Hierarchy – In our brain, we become one with the neuronal images of an external object because of a tangled-hierarchy, a circularity. The observer is the observed.

Goswami is convinced, along with a number of others who subscribe to the same view, that the universe, in order to exist, requires a conscious sentient being to be aware of it. Without an observer, he claims, it only exists as a possibility. We don’t live in a world of electrons or particles. We live in a world of potential electrons and particles that exists in wave-form until the conscious observer comes along and focuses that wave to bring it into existences. The Double-Slit experiment is a perfect example of how consciousness effects the behaviour of quantum objects. Consciousness is the ground of being and is underlying fabric of the universe. Consciousness itself literally gives rise to everything in the universe and the universe can only exist as waves of potential without it, meaning that consciousness itself is more fundamental than material. It is the ground of which the material is a part of. This Unified Field of Intelligence (consciousness) is the Creator of the Universe.

“You can call it God if you want, but you don’t have to. Quantum consciousness will do. Nonlocality, tangled hierarchy, and discontinuity: these signatures of quantum consciousness have been independently verified by leading researchers worldwide. This experimental data and its conclusions inform us that it is the mistaken materialist view that is at the center of most of our worlds problems today. To address these problems, we now have a science of spirituality that is fully verifiable and objective.”

Video: http://myscienceacademy.org/2012/09/23/amit-goswami-quantum-physics-consciousness/

John Hagelin, Ph.D. from Harvard on consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrcWntw9juM

http://www.amitgoswami.org/

Amit Goswami vs Richard Dawkins’s “The God Delusion: https://www.scimednet.org/sapphire/main.php?url=%2Fa-tangled-hierarchy%2F

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_psycho08.htm

Let’s pray effectively!

ON THE SUBJECT OF PRAYING EFFECTIVELY … I have kinda learned to go into a “verbal translation mode” in my own mind when I hear self-defeating prayer; so, while everybody else is wailing “OH, God, if it be your will, PLEEEASE Create in me a clean heart” I’m saying “Thank you God that you have already created in me a clean heart (through Jesus)!” BUT THEN IT HIT ME: What about all the other people who are visibly waiting, waiting, waiting, for God to show up? Jesus’ great gift to humankind occurred at the cross. The method of praying before this earth-shaking event occurred totally pales in the Light of Jesus’ FINISHED work.

Seeing beyond “evidence”

LOOKING AWAY FROM THE “EVIDENCE” AND LOOKING DEEP INTO THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT BEING EVASIVE. It is how we apply the truth that heals.

We cannot do anything helpful at all if we’re overwhelmed by the seeming “evidence”. We know that God’s view of the universe as well as His Kingdom is impeccable.

What are you impressed with?

Preterist Promise

THE PRETERIST PROMISE

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

John Lennon

Learn to live in your imagination morning, non and night.  Neville
Learn to live in your imagination morning, non and night. Neville

Imagine … Jesus really accomplished what he came to do!

IMAGINE . . . . . if it’s really true that Jesus actually completed everything he set out to . . . . . imagine what that means for all mankind . . . . every last one of us . . . . finally free !!!

Free of religion, free of competitiveness, free of fear, free of pride, free of sickness and disease, free of thinking that any group of people is more loved than the next. Finally free of the whole stinking religious mentality!

IMAGINE !!!