“Why does she concern herself so much with the origin and underpinnings of the UNI-VERSE?” you may rightfully ask.
In fact, I care very deeply about the rift that has emerged – and is spreading – between different Christian factions. If all Christians would look up – way, way up – they’d dis-cover that eternal, immortal, omnipotent God has the absolutely perfect spiritual answer to every possible question, and infinitely more.
God is, after all, entirely spiritual, perfect and eternal. Issues being debated, on the other hand, aren’t. As a matter of fact, anything less than eternal is as fleeting as a gossamer web.
Redemption is one example of an attribute of the eternal: it cannot be messed with by our multifarious reinterpretations. Given freely to mankind by God, setting up a new covenant, redemption simply is. Salvation can be argued about til the cows come home, but nothing we might do or conclude can contribute one jot or one tittle in the infinite scheme of things.
Jesus acted in a dimension beyond our meager comprehension when he calmed the storm, fed the multitudes, transported himself through locked doors and healed untold millions. Thank God he could and did!
God’s love for us supercedes any victory that may be gleaned by quarreling over scriptures. We treat other ‘Christians’ like pariah because they’re following a different track (albeit temporarily) than ours. But God, in his multi-dimensional existence can smooth everything out in the blink of an eye. We just need to lift our sights high enough.
Have you ever wished that you could “want” differently? Give that wish to God and He, in turn, will give you a thing called “answered prayer”!
Imagine this scenario, if you will: A man says within his heart “I’d give a million bucks to be free of alcoholism! Another day, this same genius says “I wish to God I had a million dollars!”
God, not being a respecter of persons nor a judgmental being, healed his alcoholism.
Would we have the same presence of Mind to say, in deep humility and gratitude, “Thank you, God, for answering (fulfilling) BOTH my prayers?
VIBRATING STRINGS OF ENERGY AS THE GIFT OF GOD
Physicists and mathematicians alike have tried in vain to avoid the inevitable – staring into the face of the Creator of the entire universe and beyond, way beyond!
In most cases it’s quite the challenge for scientists to accept that Scriptures have explained the phenomenon of the universe having been brought into existence – out of nothing. Hebrews 11:3 KJV declares: “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” Said mathematicians and physicists now confidently assert that our everything is held together by and placed into existence as vibrating (“M”- shaped) STRINGS of energy – and all by the command of our Daddy (God) who ordered it so.
God said, ‘Let there be light and there was light!’ Light, the very essence and be-ing of the Almighty translates for our comprehension into matter.
HOW LONG CAN YOU STAY IN THE SPIRIT ?
30 seconds? 2 minutes? 1 hour? This is a habit that can be improved upon!
LET’S BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: IT’S NOT OUR HUMAN EFFORT THAT BRINGS US TO GOD, BUT WE DO NEED TO MAKE A DECISION … WE NEED TO CHOOSE THE KINGDOM OF GOD … IN ORDER TO BECOME AWARE OF ITS PRESENCE, ALREADY HERE, WITHIN US.
Psalm 139:7 KJV
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
BUT … BUT … BUT… IT TAKES RIGOROUS EFFORT ON OUR PART. The “devil” will certainly want to thwart this achievement. He will want to, like the dickens!! But, that’s too darned bad — for him!! With plenty of exercise and SON-shine in your thinking, you could be spending ALL YOUR TIME WITH THE LORD.
“EMERGENCY MODE”: IS YOUR BACK AGAINST THE WALL?
Emergency Mode has a very unusual ring for me: it means to regroup and refocus, putting absolutely everything on track for God. That’s when God is able to answer your most urgent prayer(s).
I wish nothing for you – for your whole life – but great success, excellent health, wonderful friends, etc. I honestly do. But probably if you have all these things you won’t want to continue reading. On the other hand, if you need help, if you Really NEED help, you’re much more likely to open the receptors within that will ALLOW for the possibility that God is alive and well and living right there on the inside of you! How exciting is that!
The unfortunate answer is that it’s usually not exciting at all until prompted by a dire predicament. So, let’s take a moment to thank God for this call on our lives and find out what He really has in store.
When your back is to the wall you are potentially in a very GOOD place and you merely need to cash in on your position. Tell God you’ve had it up to -here- with fiddling around (I’m being polite) with the devil [NEGATIVE, PUNISHING, TREACHEROUS AND DECEPTIVE -T-H-O-U-G-H-T-S- THAT SEEK TO DESTROY]
In the name of Jesus Christ, satan (OUR OWN AFOREMENTIONED NEGATIVE THOUGHTS) may as well go back into the abyss because he’ll only receive the mockery he deserves here. Ask God what He’d like to use you for. I guarantee the rewards will be far greater than you can possibly imagine.
November 18, 2014
LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION: in your walk with Jesus, in your study of the word, did you or did you not glean understanding little by little, step by step, here a little there a little? And did you not find many corrections along the way where God was finally able to deal with you on a higher level because you had finally completed the levels leading up to it?
Do you know that it is human nature to forget the levels leading up to your present attainment and just expect everyone to measure up to your new level, forgetting that other people have been learning differently than you and not necessarily in an inferior way?
They have been learning similar lessons from a whole different vantage point and for all we know they could be way ahead of you! When you get a great and golden new insight do you ever think just how naive you were about 10 seconds ago? And when you’re busy with self congratulation did it ever occur to you that the other person may be sailing right past you at the very moment?
You thought you had everything all figured out and suddenly you realize that something no longer makes sense. This would be a very good time for you to remember that you are dealing with the realm of the spiritual and we are all mere mortals trying to comprehend the incomprehensible!
RAPE THWARTED MIRACULOUSLY:
She was a college freshman, full of promise and purpose, prepared – as she’d ever be – to give an oral presentation in front of her acting class that day.
Making her usual trek through Central Park to Hunter College, she began to realize that she was quite alone in a rather secluded area of the park, when SUDDENLY, out of nowhere, a man appeared and wrapped his arm around her waist. Panic set in along with one single thought, “God…”
She sized up the situation in a millisecond, took a deep breath and began to BABBLE (meaningless confusion of words) like a lunatic! “You didn’t have to startle me,” she babbled in feigned admonishment; and he responded by tightening his grip on her waist … as they continued walking together.
“If you had wanted to walk with me, you could have just asked me without startling me” she cooed with amazing self-composure. When she became cognizant of her own lack of fear in the face of an ever-increasingly dangerous threat on her life, she had but one thought in mind as they rounded the corner near the lake: “KEEP BABBLING!” – “Where are the ducks? There were always ducks here, you remember? This is the duck pond and I remember I used to always feed the ducks” … she continued babbling incoherently: “I didn’t even know if it was allowed but I fed them ‘cuz they were so cute, … so where are they?”
Around the corner she noticed a steep staircase leading up and out of the park. She knew he had noticed it too by the tightening of his grip on her waist, which prompted her to BABBLE MORE: “Ducks …are… strange… animals … well … I … don’t … know … if … they … qualify … as … animals….”
His grip finally relaxed a bit. IN A FLASH, she darted up the stairs, taking two at a time, until she heard the sweetest sound emanating from below (his screaming an obscenity at her): “YOU B.I.I.I.I.I.I.T…!!
She had reached a safe distance from her would-be attacker. (I can vouch for the veracity of this account as I was the “She” in question.)
Some years later, as I was coaching a Japanese student of mine, the famous actress, Eri Ishida, on how to prepare her lines for an upcoming movie performance, as English practice, I told her this story in broken Japanese and she translated it back to English. Then, rather dismissively I confessed that I had been taking a college course in acting at the time and it wasn’t really myself who was so calm, cool and collected in the face of an inevitable rape and very possible murder. Eri very forcefully countered this argument by asserting, “THAT WAS THE REAL YOU, TOO” and added that this part of my be-ing was under the surface, but very present. “As a matter of fact it’s the ‘you’ that surfaces whenever there’s an emergency.” my loving student advised her teacher!
SEQUEL to “Rape Thwarted Miraculously”:
Many of my students and friends said “Oh, I could never do what you did. Where did you get the courage?”
I explained that I had been keenly aware that my very life was in danger and instantaneously turned to God – where I got the directive to ‘BABBLE’. For another person, it might have been to run or swim or I don’t know what; but God chose to instill in me the gift of ‘babble’ to distract and quell an otherwise horrific threat.
YOUR IMAGINATION CAN HEAL YOU !!
Imagination, guided by the Holy Spirit and faithfully applied, reveals more of Truth than can ever be found dissecting and trisecting so-called ‘physical evidence’ to the contrary.
RJ Starbuck
Truth, once gleaned, has a way of expanding to the ultimate exclusion of all that is unlike itself.
. Truth will have its way!
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; [2] (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it , and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) [3] That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. [4] And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. [5] This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 John 1:1-5 KJV
That pesky negative thinking didn’t even bother knocking: it was right there to greet me with thoughts of anxiety and depression. But I had a comeback for it that sent it reeling: “No, I get to decide what makes me happy, and it ain’t you!”
Many of us approach prayer trying our level best to ignore a grocery list of things that ought to be fulfilled, put right or adjusted because we want to give God our full attention. We want to praise and thank God and try really hard to listen to Him. But that pesky list is still there – clamoring for our attention – while we’re begging God to help us with our list so we can get happy. Well, the demon that needs to be yanked out is the very one that equates happiness with the notion that anything at all needs to change.
“I’m putting you on notice, negative thinking, I get to choose where my peace of mind comes from, and it ain’t from you! No, I don’t NEED to always be able to see things my way. No, I don’t NEED him/her to call. No, I don’t NEED to finish that project. My God-given happiness is right here within me and that makes me immensely happy.”
