How Wine from Water Teaches Us To Be Humble

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Take 15 minutes to read this article, watch the video, and learn how to apply these concepts to your life.  It will make things so much better in more ways than one.

 

5 things we can learn from the following verses:

1. A great way to show one another love and favor

2. Be honest with others about who you are from first meeting one another

3. If we do what Jesus commands we can perform miracles

4. Our subordinates help us to learn

5. Be humble

There is a quick video clip here for you to see, just a few scrolls down this page.

Let’s read the passage with these 5 things in mind.  If you have already read the passage skip down to where it says “Gleanings” in bold. The insight that this miracle affords just keeps blossoming.   You are gonna have fun with this knowledge for a while.  Each lesson leads to more.  It will help you to unfold your understanding of who Jesus is and how spirituality can be used to get closer to Him.  All praise and honor is Yours Almighty Father, we love You and thank You for loving us!

This is John 2;1-11 from the KJV

¹ And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

² And both Jesus was called, and His disciples, to the marriage.

³ And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.

⁴ Jesus saith unto her, woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

⁵ His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.

⁶ And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

⁷ Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

⁸ And He saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.

⁹ When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,

¹⁰ And saith unto him, every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

¹¹ This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory; and His disciples believed on Him.

 

 

The Gleaning:

1.When Jesus performed this sign He did it in such a way that kept many of the people present out of the loop of knowledge that a miracle had even occurred.  This made it so that the bridegroom could take credit for having such a supply of fine wine.  Socially this must of had all kinds of implications for the bridegroom.  This is an example of how we can treat one another in Ha Mashiak’s (Christ’s) love.  By putting a lot of thought and effort into trying to get the people around us to show respect and favor to a friend, loved one, or an enemy we are doing Christ’s work.

2. We learn also something very simple.  You see, if we do as Christ commands, miracles will be performed by Him through us.  Jesus never touched the wine.  He ordered the servants to fill the jugs, then the cups.  The remuneration of these acts caused the water to be turned into wine even finer than the original wine set out.  We also learn that the chief servant was a drunk, as it was the third day of the party and he was still drinking and able to tell the difference between good and bad wine.  straight up professional drinker that head servant was!

3.This leads us to another lesson.  We can learn from our subordinates.  This message is in many, many of the scriptures. Sometimes subordinates know much more about what is going on than we do. Our Father has the power to put the scales over our eyes so that we don’t see something while everyone else does.  He is always allowing us the chance to become humble if we so choose to accept His offer.  It was the servants that filled the jugs with water and only them that knew what had occurred.  At the time of the event, nobody else knew.

4.Humbling ourselves is important as a heart set in pride is great soil for the seed of sin.  Pride hardens us in our ways, unfortunately.  Instead, we are to be ready to adapt to what Christ wants of us at any moment and at any time.  We are to be chameleons of action and our color is to be chosen by what we know is true and right through our daily devotion to prayer and readings in the Living Word.

5. As an example of how Jesus wants us to act among one another He purposely turned the wine into better wine than usual.  Imagine the social implications of this!  Most everyone likes to alter their state of being. Fermented wine was one of the only ways to do this.  Many people worshiped alcohol and therefore became like it.  The social implications of this act would leave people singing about how the bridegroom set out inferior wine before fine wine.  We are to consider allowing other saints to see who we are, good and bad, from the beginning.  This will create a situation where we are more forgiving of the errors and faults our brothers and sisters make.  We are to be forgiving and keep on trying when people pick up our fault like a knife and stab us with it.  This takes great strength and trust that we can only receive from having faith and believing in The Savior.  It will be hard and it will help you to believe more fully in The Savior.  Remember in Proverbs 27:6 it says:

<The wounds of a friend are trustworthy>
When you do what The Savior tells you to do and get wounded, remember that The Savior is your friend and can act through your friends and your enemies.

Our faith leads straight to the Father.  That Faith is reliant upon Him.  He is the tether that brings us to Him.

 

 

Exodus: In An Angel’s Bosom

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In the last three months she had developed a clairaudiance.  Dodging, bobbing and weaving so to speak, in an effort to keep her son from the guards; From the soldiers; from the wise men; and the sorcerers.  It had served her well.  Now, though, came the time for her to put the babe in the hands of The Lord in a tough way.

Yeshua had motivated her to do some peculiar things, especially as of recent.  Never misleading her, she had learned to trust Him.  This though was not an easy step.  Some weren’t.  It seemed to be murder.  Nevertheless, the voice of God would not abate.  It was clear that she must place her son in the river.

The rain was warm on the Levite woman’s brow.  There was an easy mist forming in pockets as she was lead to the river’s edge.  Her motivation was that of any mother’s.  The idea of allowing the Egyptians to take her newborn son’s life was not an option.  Was she the only one striving to keep hers?

She walked briskly, holding the babe under her garments.  Drawing closer and closer to the Nile, she was nearing the place where people might see her.  The Levite woman’s clothes were damp, yet they still hung over her with ease.  The Levite woman looked for a good place where she could place the child.  Hearing footsteps, slow and meticulously placed in the wet sand and mud: squish, drain, pop, another pop and a long squish, “Oh no” she thought. She needed a place to hide and a distraction so her movements weren’t heard.  She tossed a small cobble into the air.  It arced up and over the path and into the sage brush on the other side.  She made a jump for a small hill next to her, not nearly enough for shelter but she landed and rolled flat with the baby in her arms at the same time that the cobble brushed through the foliage and plopped into the mud.  She hugged the ground and her energy was kept low.  The baby didn’t make a sound, the Egyptian passed, spooked and without a glance in her direction.

The desert was a land full of superstitions.  Over the generations these superstitions had woven themselves into the very nature of the Egyptian.  This, she had found was right in front of her all the time.  Once she could see it was so plain.  It worked to her advantage remarkably.

She was not even on alert at moments like this anymore.  Her energy was very balanced.  If she had been caught the Egyptians would have dealt with her in a most licentious way.  God had her heart and mind.  It was not easy to walk so close to Him.  She was derided by the leaders, both religious and non.  She was in constant warfare with herself. Against the wiles of her carnal mind:  it telling her how childish this God stuff was;  Yet, He prevailed when she was with Him in mind, and even when she wasn’t.

The basket she had made the day before was still there, waiting for to take it’s place in history.  What was His name?  She placed him in the basket.  She took a moment and just sat.  This was another step in her personal journey with The Creator.  There was a chorus happening all around her.  The falling drops on the water, in the vegetation, on the land, and over her son’s golden brown skin.

The river tugged him in as she shed her motherly tears.

A small, condensed ray raced toward the earth from the sky.  The water caught in it was, for a moment, a swirl of of beautiful bright colors.

“What have I done” The Levite woman wailed.  Her guts and better judgement immediately lashed out at her for being such a fool.  She prayed that she be given the strength to understand and abide in God’s will.   But alas it is written <For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.  We are fools for Christ’s sake.>

And goes the journey of the faithful.  She then remembered the situation at hand and that her options were slim to none.  She remembered the construction of trust that had developed between Her husband, YHVH, and herself.  She chose to allow her mind to be put at ease and she continued to morn the loss of her son.

The Unseen

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Hi Lo, reader.  How are we today?  Let’s say a prayer that Yeshua really lords over our lives for the remainder of this week.  That He brings us into deep fellowship with the church through His word.  He is king and loves us and we thank Him for that.  Change is what we seek, we want our knowledge of who He is to grace our minds and to bring us into a deeply intertwined communion with the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 1:

 {In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.  And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.}

Please, before reading ,watch this beautiful video that will aid us in this study.  If you don’t care to watch the whole thing just skip to four minutes and fifty seconds: Reuben Margolin: Motion Sculptor.

That is an artists perspective on this natural occurrence.  Here is another perspective from the scope of people who study God’s creation and all its behavior’s (most of them miss this point: that if God created such awe inspiring things than He must be eons greater than His own creation, and more complicated too!).  The only difference for this video that we might suggest is that at four minutes and twenty five seconds Dr. Quantum says “the electron decided to act differently”.  As we believers know, the electron was created, by Yahova, to act whichever way it acts in a given situation.  Check this out!: Double Slit Experiment.

If you are anything like me, you skipped over the verse above thinking I already have read that.  Tens of times.  Let’s concentrate on something: <And the earth was without form, and void>  Wow, that is deep.  Is scripture meaning to tell us that the world was created, yet had not come into tangible existence yet?  Let’s look at the earthly definitions of formless and then of void.  Formless: without a clear or definite shape or structure (adj).  According to that definition it seems so.  An idea is formless, right?  Unwritten and written rules and laws are formless, yet they govern everything we do.  Lastly, There are a lot of things in the world of spirituality that are formless.

Now lets look at Void: A completely empty space (adj).  The earth, on the first day, was without a clear or definite shape or structure and was completely empty space.  We can then conclude that the earth existed before it existed.  Much like a bench that a carpenter makes exists, in his mind, before it exists.  Not really like that, it was more like it had existence yet was not . . . how do we say, matter.  That’s all, it wasn’t quite matter yet.  It was well on it’s way to becoming matter.

In studying these first few words of the Bible lets think that God is inviting us to understand the reality that we easily exist within, full of form and very tangible, is patterned after something that may not be quite like that.

Acts 17: 6

< And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;>

The way that things ordinarily function tend to change when disciples are around.  The people in control don’t care much for that.  hehe.  Now we are slightly straying from the point so let us get back on target.

Let us look at numbers.  The book itself probably attests for this idea in a great many ways however, we are going to look at a different numbers.  Spiritual things are not matter, but they have representations of themselves all around us.   We cannot buy 4 (the number).  We cannot hold 12.  We are not capable of creating 7.  We can though, hold 3 apples and the number three does a real fine job at pinning down the idea that is 3.  The closest we can get to holding 5 would be to make something into the shape of a 5 and then hold it.  In that case we are holding the representation of five.  Another way to hold the representation of five would be to hold 5 things.

If it were cameras some one might say “what’s with the cameras?” missing the whole five thing completely.  If you were holding something that were in the shape of a five someone might say “whats with the five?”  This idea of it being a representation is close to the point.

As we go further into the first few verses of scripture we learn that {darkness was upon the face of the deep.}  This was before there was any form yet.  There was yet to be an amount of matter to settle into a something to create a tangible deep.  So what can we take from this?  Lets take the representation of what deep is.  When we have a heady experience in conversation or God places something intense like an epiphany into a believer’s mind a man may think or say “man, that was deep” .  Darkness was on the face of that; and on the face of a group of liquids that have settled together into a something that holds enough of it for God to consider it deep.  Now we know that probably everything known to man is simply a representation of something spiritual.

Water is definitely a representation of something very powerful: it has polarity, is life sustaining, cleansing, dense, viscous, see through, dependable, and tangibly carries waves.  It says that The Spirit of God moved on the face of that.  What does it mean by “the face”?  I can bet that it means something close to “what the surface of something shows, or what can be gathered at first glance.”  <And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.>  Beyond that we read that there was light and a separation of it being good from the darkness.  The first day.

What we know light to be is photons that come in packets.  So aside from those little photon packets in the first day God didn’t create anything our human bodies would be able to exist in.  It is quite possible that those photons weren’t yet poking into the reality that had not yet been stretched out yet.  Who knows?  All we know is that it is some really cool stuff to think about.

We are so incredibly privileged to live in a world where we can come into direct relationship with Yeshua, Our God, who pokes through into our world presently in the form of acts of Fatherly advice and rearing, kindness, oppression and opportunity, Love and the need to change.  God we love You and thank You for Your patience with us as we try and make changes that are suitable to You.  Sanctify us for Your work.  You are everything, we lift up Your name and ask You to make it our will to properly sing Your praises.  JOY!

Tidbits From The Book of Samuel

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   When Jesus was put before Pontius Pilot, he recognized His authority on earth. Pilot was innervate at the crowd’s decision to release Barabbas.  In Jesus’ most excruciating hour, Pilot wanted to ensure the onlookers knew that they were killing a man with great power, so he wrote and posted this man is: King of the Jews above his cross.  Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey.

In 1 Samuel we learn about Saul being anointed king. This happened to him while he and his father’s servant were looking for his dad’s donkeys. He was not physically on these donkeys. None-the-less Saul was brought to Samuel by way of donkeys.

 

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We learn that it is only The Lord who has and divvies out courage. In 1 Samuel 14 we find Jonathan and his armor bearer sneaking away from the ranks of Israel, down the valley, and to the other mountain top where a bevy of Philistines were at their garrison. Young Jonathan and his armor bearer commence to whoop some royal booty as they slaughter 20 or more Philistines in a half acre. As a young man vs. many well-armed Philistines, courage must have been what drove the boys to this slaughter.

Goliath came against the “ranks of Israel”. Jonathan was in those ranks, yet he lacked the courage and confidence to go up against the Philistine, when he was bubbling over with it against a bunch of those Philistines just before. Everyone in Israel lacked courage until young David showed up, ready to fight Israel’s battle. He did and won, taking him one step closer to God’s true purpose for His life: from valiant shepherd to valiant king.

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Just like there is a parallel in the way Jesus was accepted as king on earth by Pilot and Saul was made king by Samuel, there are many more parallels. Another way these two men’s lives are filial to one another is this: Jesus is our righteous covering, a sacrifice that allows us to work outside of the scope of sin and within the scope of glory and holiness.

When Samuel needed to work against king Saul’s wishes and with the wishes of The Holy God Jesus Samuel needed a cover up story. In 1 Samuel 16 God had Samuel covered:

“And Samuel said “how can I go? If Saul hears It, he will kill me.”

But The Lord said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, “I have come to sacrifice to The Lord. Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; You shall anoint for Me the one I name you.”

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First sign to Saul that David was king:

Goliath called to the armies of Israel to form a battle in 1 Samuel 17. The Philistine army wanted to make Israel their slaves. Without a king it is easier to control a people. Goliath was not calling on just any man. He chose his words carefully. He wanted to fight Saul. He called the man out by name recognizing him as king. He did not say bring to me your king, however that was his strategy.

“Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.”

   David had already been anointed as king by God through Samuel. Goliath got exactly the true king of Israel in deeds, words, and action. It was God, through David that fought Goliath that day.

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There are two truths that Christians argue with each other over in regards to good works.

• The truth that works and faith are two parts in the same body.
• The truth that we cannot work our own way to salvation (in other words good works won’t save you).

Blessed be God, even The Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble with the comfort therewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

We are comforters and the comforted.  The enemy is skilled at using this sort of thing to create a faction in God’s people.  The average Christian will lief jump into an argument defending what God has brought to remembrance even though what they are arguing against is actually a brick with common mortar in the same building of faith that they are standing on.  It’s the defining of terms (and man’s natural tendency towards discussion lol) that gets in the way of this particular truth: “good” or good.  Same word, two different meanings.

Jesus is using a carnal world to explain to us spiritual things. It is the precision of spiritual matters that can cause the carnal mind to see contradiction rather than life and peace in The Word.

 

The “Dynamai” (or work) that James is referencing in James 2 is the work from God that we will need under our belt in order to stand before Him shameless.  Much like a young man standing in front of a Father.  If the father tells him to clean his room and the young one doesn’t, that is bad.  If the young one does as his father asked him then when Dad finally gets home, it is all joy and celebration.  The whole family gets to have movie night in the clean room. Good fellowship. Just like all other spiritual things in scripture it also makes sense in real life too.   If the young one mowed the yard instead of cleaning the room, that messes with the plan that the young one’s father had.  In order to have movie night, the room must be clean.  Since the lawn was mowed, what are we going to do now?  I am not a dad yet so I have ideas only for this but no applicable knowledge.  Good fellowship is still necessary is what I would say.  Let me explain using the scripture God used when teaching me.

The definition of good works carnally is as far as the east is from the west in comparison to “good” works spiritually. When Jesus was called “good” teacher in Mark 10: 18 He replied “Why do you call me good? Only One is “good” and that is The Father.” When The Father pricks a person’s heart to do His work that idea is “good”. When a person does manifest that idea, to God it is “good”. When a person continually does “good” works in God’s sight that person is a “good” servant.  How do we know what thoughts come from God?  Jesus calls us friends because he shares his plans with us.

In James 2 it says {“What “good” is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?”}  It is no good is the answer.

 

Have you ever asked yourself why it doesn’t say “good works” there? It only says works (whether in English, Greek or Hebrew).

 

Greek Rabbit Trail Commencing:

 

“Me Dynamai” (may doo-na-my) is the Greek for “not have works”.  God encouraged the writer to write “me” instead of “ov”.  This is because “me” is just a negatory, or even just the implication of a negation.  “ov” is an absolute denial.  Then we have the word Dynamai.

 

“Dynamai” is defined as

 

• Being capable
• Possessing ability or strength
• Having the ability do something because of one’s own strength, lawful permission, favorable circumstances, or a state of mind.

 

It might have been better translated does not have ability; However, I think God did a perfect job at the translation of His Word with the where, how many, and how the publishing’s are circulated.  He did it in such a way that still gives people after His heart joyful and fulfilling things to do.

 

Greek Rabbit Trail End.

 

 

It does not say “good works” in James (here: {“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?”})  because we are looking at the world from the future with Jesus, post destruction of all evil and there we are looking into the past. The past being the days of B.C and A.D after the fall in Genesis.  From the future’s reference point a person who never acted on God’s will literally has no works. We have learned that all things that are not of God are completely destroyed in the fire leaving us with only works that have come from Yaweh.  This “Me Dynamai” (the person possesses no works) instead of “Ov Dynamai” (the person and their works never existed at all. Ever)

 

The Word tells us that he who knows Jesus’ commands and keeps them, the same it is that loves Him.  In being obedient to the commands that come from a relationship with Him and the commands that we find in The Bible we find out Who Christ is.  This leads right to the heart of where I am not seeing how it is false that God is capable of having an extraordinarily complicated plan for each of us individually, that is well-thought out because of the sinful habits and dis-obedience we each are prone to lean into.  The goal of the plan is the exact same for each of us: Making us a sanctuary that houses His son.  A sanctuary that is capable of expressing genuine love to the world.  As an added bonus when we do a work it also fits into the puzzle that is Heaven and The New Jerusalem.  Getting us to sanctuary status takes a lot of energy, love, sacrifice and work on His part, I must suppose, because each of us are born with different characteristics and on top of that each of our circumstances are different.  Further, Satan is constantly giving us desires that de-rail the work The Father has set for us loved ones.  Satan does this for hateful people easily.  But for those who are truly sacrificing and giving it their all to help others and love God satan has to call in special forces; Alas, Yod Heh Vav Heh or Heh Vav Heh Yod and His grace wins.  I guess I have no business doing anything but thinking that name.

Christians: let scripture triumph over experience.  Paul tells us that the law guided us until Jesus entered. Once Jesus is in, our works are justified: {So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came in order that we might be justified by faith.}  The law is our guide until Christ steps in.  Once Christ steps in we do His works.  His works go against the works of the world we live in making loving Jesus difficult and honorable.  This causes us to be able to stand in front of God.  If when Christ commands us to do something and we fail to be obedient it causes shame.  Much like a young person who didn’t do what Dad said to do.  Now if they did do what Dad said to do, when Dad finally comes home there is no shame and only joyful fellowship and celebration.

When The Father commands a loved one, it is part of a plan that will cause that person to be a perfect vessel in that exact circumstance, to hold Jesus and destroy the world.  At the same time this contingent work will prepare a population that is ready to live a new way that is universally pure truth.  Satan will “me” longer exist once the world is destroyed.  Jesus’ work causes that person to be filial to Christ, and Satan does not want that either.  God is a part of the high council of a christian’s life advisors as the Highest Trusted Advisor or close to it.  You have put off the former way of life, the one corrupted by deceitful desires.  You are being renewed in the spirit of your minds; You have put on the new self, the one created according to the likeness of God in all righteousness and purity of the truth.

 

Here is another scenario: maybe He has everything set up in such a way that the goal is much like Dad saying keep the house clean.  He then leaves all the steps in between to us, however he is happy to step in and micromanage if necessary.  Further He knows how to do each and every thing to keep the house clean perfectly and He is always sitting back waiting for us to say “Hey Dad, how can I do this better?”

 

Jesus is pleased that you are more like Him.  He made us and knows each of us intimately.  Is He precisely adjusting our hearts and minds every step of the way and conquering even in the face of our own disobedience and errors?  That is what I have learned.

 

You are a better person than me in many, many ways.

Blessings and the highest of favor.

 

 

 

Cups

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Ahoy, Maytees and shiver mee timbers on this fine May day.  Please pray for me to plug back into my communities’ bible studies, prayer groups, and God loving people’s daily schedules.  Please pray for my friend’s knees and ankles and May God bless you richly for having Him on the forefront of your mind.

Spiritual life is like being in a large room filled with pillars that are holding glasses.  some glasses are filled with water and others are not.  You go to one and drink from it with the others who are drinking from that glass and you are filled.  Now able to relate with the others who are drinking from that glass you have a social connection and you stick around for a few months or a few years.  Eventually the glass stops filling you.

A little scared and a little excited about a new experience you change your group, your social structure, and drift to another pillar holding another glass.  after many decades you have tried most all of the glasses.

Some podiums you have avoided because the people around those podiums obviously are not happy.  You remember being filled at other podiums, and knowing you will not be filled properly you go anyway because it is all you know.  There is one podium that is said to bring a life full of love and joy and peace.  Unfortunately the people who drink from that cup have heavy burdens to bear.  You start to think about maybe jumping into that group as you have tried everything else.  In studying those who have drank from that cup you notice that although their burdens are great they seem content and balanced.  How can this be?

Although they are living within the burden the cup’s life is living within them.  It created them, all the other cups, and the burdens for each of the people carrying those burdens.  The life in the cup has prepared the drinker to handle those burdens.  The burdens will completely crush them if they stray from that cup.  All of the people who drink from the cup of life struggle to not return to the other cups in the room which is why the cup of life has designed the burdens they begin bearing to be heavy enough to crush them if they stray to another cup.

You decide it is time to try that cup.  You learn that you must give everything to this cup and with some resistance and doubt you give it a try.  You feel contentment, peace, an overwhelming wave of self awareness shows you who you really were and who you can be.  You feel filthy, ashamed, exposed, but somehow you are being loved capriciously and abundantly for it.  Over time the spiritual being that is in the cup weaves itself into you and you begin to see the other podiums for what they really are and you slowly become an unwelcome guest to each of them for any extended period of time.  All you want is for the people who are attending the other podiums to have the fullness of life that you are experiencing.  The cup of life you are drinking from changes your thought patterns and you become truly content (having God’s peace) in any situation and under any circumstance.  You are happy knowing that you have eternal life and a place in forever to pass into when you shed your flesh to free your spirit to Jesus Christ.

The Power of The Tongue and it’s Affect On The World

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Know that I am seeking to do Jesus’ will so most of this should be from Him and is learned through praying and setting my mind on scripture and the lessons we can learn from Him.

Proverbs 18:21 – Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Proverbs 15:1 – A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

James 3:6 – And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

Proverbs 25:15 – By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

Proverbs 12:18 – There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.

James 3:8 – But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

We can’t tame our tongues, However if we are in a state of believing, Jesus has our tongues.  There are about a few hundred verses where God tells us how powerful words are: !

Many times when we are chit chatting in a large group we tend to tell stories.  Sometimes elaborate and completely false. other times there are bits and pieces of truth to them.  It is interesting, though, when a person is able to speak in such a way that his/her words will weave into what is occurring in life.  This can be attributed to the mysterious structure of the world around us and the experienced power that the tongue may sometimes have over that structure.  God made us with a tongue that does have the power to affect the physical and spiritual world.

The process I am about to share is quite simple, and when applied to life will make it more meaningful in whatever way God created you to feel meaning;  This being either through adventure, meeting people, mission working, raising children, etc.  The power of the tongue can be made more powerful (I presume this.  It might not be in scripture, however is learned through experience) if the reverberations it is sending into the world come from a river of consciousness that is speaking truly.  It can be used powerfully both to curse and to bless those here on earth with you.

If this process were a math equation it would look like this:

words that are lies = some power

words that are truth = more power

words that are truth + that truth being rooted in action from God = awesome grace

Read on and it may make more sense.  This occurrence is one of those things we sometimes notice but are never really sure if others are aware it’s going on or even that they are doing it.  This is because it is one of those unspoken things that happens here on earth.  If you are just now starting to notice this or have never noticed this occurrence let this be a warning.  Watching this power take hold around you is scary and the more you notice it the scarier it gets.  It will make you draw nearer to God though and His grace will flood the path you are on that He is creating for you.

Anyone can receive a blessing.  Take comfort in knowing that no one who does not deserve a curse can receive one.  That is scripture. ( Proverbs 26:2 open up your Bible and check it out)   So if you are in the midst of seeing this power take hold in your life and you are running around trying to defend yourself from the evil about you by bending your actions and words to defeat evil; know that the best defense is to do everything in your power to love Our Father In Heaven.  This key in life lays foundation for everything.

Everyone struggles with their faith (see post on faith).  However, the more time you spend believing, the more righteousness you receive.  The more righteousness you accept into your life by allowing yourself to be softened in order to be molded into a new person the more powerful God’s grace is within you. (that is my personal experience)

Important note:  God is powerful, we are weak and filthy.  If we allow God to receive the glory of our actions by humbling ourselves when He acts through us the more tightly and fully intertwined He is in a life.  That is a key in building blocks of faith.  Humbling oneself when you have every opportunity to take credit and pride brings you closer to Jesus.

Back to the power of the tongue and living in such a way as to store up articles in your “file cabinet of truth”.  Check this out:  If you believe in Jesus Christ, repent of your sins, and put a serious effort towards believing in Him (putting forth the effort will slowly take hold in your life once you believe in Him.  The believing in Him will also give you a desire to repent.  You know this already, I am sure because you are reading this.  Praise God!) then He will be with you more often than not.

So this is where things get really supernatural.  If you go out today and live in prayer, with Jesus on the mind and Love from Him in your heart, than your actions will be backed up by the power of the Creator!  Now if something happens that is really worth talking about remember that experience.  If this is your first experience where your intention was to do God’s work by believing and acting on what that belief tells you then you have added your first article to God’s “file cabinet of truth” (you have to say that with a loud low echoing voice, haha) inside of you.  The cabinet tends to grow and grow and grow.  Then, one day, you’re in a situation where you can pull from “God’s file cabinet of truth” and weave an article into a conversation among friends. ( yes, God’s cabinet.  Yes, that does mean that God and you share something because it is your “file cabinet of truth”. righteous, right?  oh yeahhhh )

Hopefully it will be used as a tool to build a brother or sister up, or maybe to help a hateful person to feel love. Not in a “look at me show you how you love somebody” kind of way, but in a way where you are just trying to love them.  Genuinely from inside of you trying to show them love and favor, without thinking about changing who they are.  Hateful people have trouble accepting genuine love.  They deserve love and it is a challenge to stay loving and balance being still loving and stern in a relationship with a person filled with hate.  If you are a hateful person, you may want to consider putting a few months aside to forgive people (yes, it takes a few months of unfolding the facets of forgiveness to start a truly healing process for some of us) who are close or were close to you.  Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting it to hurt the person you are grudging against.

So on the day that you are throwing this article of truth on the table in front of friends you have Jesus on the forefront of your mind.  On the day that God and you created that article together you had Jesus there with you helping to guide your actions and words;  It all comes together in a symphony of power worthy, maybe of the intercession of angels; because you are allowing God to work through the power of the tongue that He created and gave you.  Something miraculous may occur, something really subtle may occur, nothing may occur right then and there but it will affect you or someone somewhere the way that God intends for them to be affected.  It is key to not accept the favor only in the name of Christ and ensure that others understand it is God working.  It is key for you also to understand that you are powerless without Him.

Love fills the room, people aren’t feeling rebuked, maybe something mysterious is even happening.  As time slips on people who have ears to hear and eyes to see will most definitely take note of how powerfully God used you to affect the world around you.  Bringing you and others further into the fold of God’s Love.  People may even think its too coincidental, considering factors like the unlikelihood of  the article and the way it is tying into life, for it to be truthful;  However, it doesn’t matter, all that matters is that you’re a worker for the Lord and are leading a life filled with meaning and meaningful experiences that is pleasing to The Lord.

A bull shot story that is being told by someone just to help keep life from being mundane holds the power of an firecracker.  A truthful story holds more power than that.  An article, though, an article has angels.  Powerful spiritual beings who work for the creator of the universe backing it up.  It will surely leak into the future as God sees fit.  Furthermore, the bull shot story is lying and a lie may be a seed or a branch to a tree being grown that will bear evil fruit.  When you are living for God, your active believing is helping grow trees in you that bear fruit that is pleasing to The One Who Created The Universe.

Motives

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Let us clear our minds for a moment.  Now that our minds are clear let us imagine a point.  This point or dot is a representation of an action.   From this point  we can draw, lets say, 5 lines radiating all different directions.  These lines are representations of the roots or branches that support and create the fruit, the point.  One of those lines represent righteousness, the others represent paths that are not leading to life.

In other words, the point represents the tangible outcome of our motives, thoughts, feelings.  The fruit of these things is visible to the world around us and we are about to learn why we are in no position to judge another’s action.  Surprising as it is, especially the good actions.  It is because many different motives and goals may share the same outcome.

It says in Genesis that the human heart is evil.  That being known understand that we can only do good when Christ acts through us.  Funny story:  After this being revealed to me I began fully trying to channel Christ Jesus into my life by doing exactly what the Bible says to do: believe on Jesus Christ.  His Crucifixion is the key for me.  I could be wrong, but knowing that He takes away my sin helps me to not be held captive by sin’s guilt and shame.  It no longer directs my conversations, actions, relationships.  My life.  It is His life and I am a vessel, experiencing the outcomes of His direction.

Driving down a rail yard I noticed some graffiti.  It was so beautiful.  It said I love virgins.  I couldn’t help but laugh.  I have been taking pictures of rail yard graffiti for quite some time now as I plan on making a picture book of it, connecting all the pictures in such a way that is glorifying to Elohim.

I love virgins, in writing, is an outward expression of whats going on inside.

Its a point.

there are two lines leading to this point.

One line is righteous.   Why?  because God loves virgins too!

That’s why I laughed.  I looked, took a picture, and reflected on how funny it was that the horny graffiti artist, driven most likely by lust, wrote something that could easily have shown up in scripture.  God’s motivations would be, well, somewhat different.  God’s motivation would be driven by His want to show us how important purity is:  Blessed are the unwed virgins, to whom I love, for they shall inherit cunning conversation.  It would read something like that (that is not found in any Bible)

If you are looking to spread the gospel you may find yourself walking an old lady across the street.  If you are trying to impress a hot woman, you, serving lust, may find yourself walking an old lady across the street.  If your trying to show the community you are of a good upbringing so that you can get an investor for a business you may find yourself walking an old lady across the street.  Each of those scenarios has the same outward expression.  Each of them could be you working for the evil one.  Sounds wrong, but lets hear this idea out.  The only way that it could be you working for the kingdom of heaven is if your motivation is a fruit of believing on Christ: Yeshua Ha-Mashiach.

I want to build a Christian surf hostel in each of the four corners of the world.  One day while showering I was sitting in cross legged position and imagining the building, complete with a church and me there.  I imagined a girl from my high school ,who lived in Costa at the time, showing up and saying ” wow this is amazing, look at all that you have built.”  I answered with exactly what I know to be the Christ like thing to say at that moment.  This is the tower of the story.  This is where God showed me a fault in me that could only be corrected through believing.  Let all those with ears to hear listen and know this.  I said “It was Christ who built all of this through me.”  those words were an outward expression of what?  Of me trying to glorify me.  I knew it would find her ears well.  My goal was to get her to respect me.  My goal is supposed to be to get her to see the glory and marvel at Yeshua.  This realization changed my life.

It also scared me and has pushed me away from other believers because I now know that no matter how well somebody can say they are believing in Christ I can’t know if they are truly saved yet.  I guess I must trust in God, know that all people are my brothers and sisters and God will guide my fellowship truly.

Who Was the Protector in The Fire?

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Daniel Ch. 3 Excerpt

Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?”

They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.”

He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!”

So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.

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Gleanings:

In some versions it says .   My question is was it an angel, [(good or bad) let’s remember God created Satan and is in control of His angel Satan] or was it Jesus?  If it was Jesus than where else in scripture does Jesus reveal His image to our ancestors before His birth?

Don’t think it is impossible for Satan to protect God’s people from fire.  He protects satanic tribes from fire all the time when they are performing rituals like walking across hot coals.  If those people are not worshiping Jesus they are in the devil’s stronghold.

The devil has many faces and he has tricked people into worshiping something other than God in many ways (they didnt get tricked becasue they were stupid, they got tricked because the devil is powerful and can show it).  Remember that Moses performed four miracles that the magicians of Egypt copy-catted.  Any pagan god gets it’s power from Satan whether it be Baal, Allah, or any other god or thing that is put above Yahweh, Yeshua, or the Holy Spirit.

The names of God that I can remember: Ya, Yaweh, El, Elohim, Jehova- Gira (God who provides), Jehova-Nissi (The Lord my Banner) and the rest will be posted in another post.

So did God send an angel?  Jesus? did He use Satan?  What was the fourth image of man in the fire?  This could be answered through prayer, it is something to meditate on.

Have a great evening God’s children, we are incredibly blessed to be loved by a God who has done so much for us.  He took on the sins of the world so that we could be free!  He set us on His right hand while he suffers through the worst torments of earth followed by spending 3 days in the fires of Satan’s domain.  He preached the gospel in hell… wow!  Our God is amazing.  We will take rest in Him and wait for our brothers and sisters so that we may enter heaven together!  Praises to you Jesus Christ!

Faith

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Faith is many things and I will be adding to this category as I learn what it is.

First off lets see what The Bible has to say about faith.  Many verses are written about it and when put into context and studied with a believing heart will shape you into a person you will love more and is more suitable to be in the presence of God.

Hebrews 11:1-

In my recent faith I have found that it is much easier to be in a relationship with somebody I can believe is real.  How don you feel about this?

In John Ch. 1 John writes that the Word is God.  We won’t ever be able to prove God wrong.  A way that my faith has increased so much further than I would have thought possible is through reading Scripture with a mind that knows it all is the truth.  Understanding this is the starting point because you can change the way you think about the world around you and how to react to it based on bending your brain to support the idea that things in the Bible support each other.  It tells us that

.  So, when your carnal mind is telling you that scriptures are being contradictory it is time to snuggle up with Our Father so that we may be in which is .  Those scriptures are in Romans chapter 8.

Trying to prove scripture wrong is an act supported by evil.  It sounds innocent enough; However, with God being the Word if you successfully prove Him wrong than you would in human terms build yourself to His status or greater than His status or whatever.  Proving the scriptures wrong is an act that comes from a prideful place.  God wants us to be humble in everything that we do: healing, learning, filling others with grace, and helping one another to sharpen our faith.  If we cast a mountain into the sea with faith we must be humble about it.

(If you do successfully convince yourself and others that you have proven a scripture to be wrong or contradictory you may appear to be right in the reality supported by the structure of language.  In the structure of the physical and the spiritual reality you’re very sick and need to ask God for forgiveness.  Then you need to  ask God to help you to believe in His Son Jesus. Then as an act of humbling yourself to Him go get baptized. Baptized again if you haven’t yet had a baptism in which you followed the actions leading to a baptism that the scriptures encourage.  It shows Jesus your personally making a decision to put Him in control of you)

Reading something in The Bible, with a heart of pride, that sounds like it is contradicting itself such as Revelation Ch. 22 verses 10 and 18 and 19 we immediately jump to the conclusion that The Bible is defunct.  If It is defunct there might not be Jesus.  That would put us in a position where we are greater than all of existence on Earth and need not humble ourselves.  When our minds see a contradiction in the Bible, know that it is an opportunity for you to communicate with Your Creator.  The goal is to find out how it is not contradictory through reading and studying the scriptures.  Keep Jesus and those scriptures on the forefront of your mind, all day, until God answers.

The question How is a very powerful tool in strengthening ones Faith and we are about to learn why.  The Bible is not a fairy tale and no part of it is to be overlooked.  It is easy for us to overlook certain parts of the Bible that seem fantastical.  That is a tool the enemy uses in order to keep us from Jesus.  The enemy knows that worldwide the Bible is regarded as truth.  This creates a psychological conundrum that applies to life in modern day society.  The conundrum is that we don’t believe that fantastical things can happen in reality because we don’t experience them.  We know the Bible is true and powerful and when we read something in it that seems unlikely we just kind of jump over it without fighting against it or accepting it.  Its like our minds put a blank spot there where we don’t pay it any mind.   So when we read about Jesus walking around performing miracles such as not eating or drinking for forty days we believe it.  When we read about Jonah in the belly of the whale we are like really?  that’s not possible.  Throwing that sheet over our minds where we don’t really believe in a particular part of the Bible without really noticing it is the enemy using the power of the Bible to his advantage.

This Bible, especially the new testament, is all about how Jesus handles situations.  The wisdom he holds.  The friends He has and the council He keeps.  You can read Jesus like book.  because He is a Book.  the things He did and wants the world to know about are in a Book for the world to study.  study so that you can know who He is.

Sit down for 20 minutes and say a prayer that is appropriate to your true relationship with Jesus.  The one that no one knows about ( MAYBE NOT EVEN YOU) no matter how deep into a relationship you may seem to be by the words you say to other believers;  but the relationship that your mind wont let your heart see.  There is no shame in saying you’re in a deeper relationship than you really are ( well kinda, but its a defense mechanism or a tool pride is using to put you in control using the name of Jesus so you wont have your christian friends preaching at you).  People like to convict and devour one another through making them feel small.  A great way to combat that is to make yourself holier than them.  This is also a great way for Satan’s armies to keep you away from the truth.  It makes you believe in a relationship that is not there yet.  Keeping you from God is Satan’s job and it pertains to all alive.  In christian circles everyone agrees that we believe in our savior Jesus Christ and the power of the cross.  The truth is that Satan is using the words in our mouths to trick our minds and hearts into thinking that we really do believe.  If you say you don’t believe than you can imagine christians looking at you like your the spawn of a demon.  Saying you don’t believe is actually the beginning of creating a true relationship.  admit to yourself you say you believe but you don’t always believe.  Then start trying to believe.  (This sounds terrible, but read the entry on the first sign or miracle in the book of John and it will help.)

We are all in this battle together and the believing rapist, the believing murderer and the believing adulterer are all equal to one another.  Some of us who can humble ourselves in the works Jesus performs through us may have more grace, but we are still equal to the 15 year old cashier at wal-mart and to David Jeremiah (an amazing preacher).

Sit down for 20 minutes and ask Jesus to show you what it means.  What all this relationship with Jesus jibber-jabber that Jesus freaks are always talking about is.  Or if you already have a relationship with Him ( I mean really have a base in scripture that has allowed you to fumble yourself to Him) than ask your friend Jesus to soften your mind and heart to ready yourself to carry the yoke of some of his wisdom that will better bring you into the fold of Jesus’ Love.  The spiritual yoke Jesus has for us is different for each of us and should be worn with contentment like a general wears his pins given to Him by his country.  Same thing, minus the pride.  Be content in the sea of humble.  Be comfortable feeling small.  Praise Jesus when you are being convicted, it tells you you are getting another chance to give your sin to Jesus on the cross and change who you are to spend more time believing in Him.  Unless you truly believe in the cross you cant truly send your sin to it.

Now that you have said a prayer whether it took 30 seconds or 30 minutes.  open up the gospel (or any book) and study the whole darn thing.  Or at least one chapter.  try to get through the whole darn thing in a few weeks or whatever fits your schedule and the length of the Book.  I started in Ruth.  because it is short.

Studying scripture is not for the matter of regurgitating words to fellow believers in order to prove you or your friends are right.  That spirit of contention is evil.  People with misguided thoughts in the Bible will become better guided through prayer and scripture reading and being around people they trust and would be less apt to argue with.  Have faith God will work with a person you know wont accept truth that contradicts what they are saying and concentrate on the truth they are saying.  Pray for them and do what God tells you to do, not what you tell you to do.

Studying scripture is so that you can place yourself into the story and imagine the social network of that story.  The implications of the words and actions of the people in the story, and how in the heck that story made it into Sacred Scripture when there are billions of all the stories in history.  Ask yourself, why is that story there, what is Jesus trying to do in my life right now through this story; and how is this going to change who I am to make me a more suitable bride for Christ Jesus.  Be a little selfish, those lessons are for you, not your neighbor.  Your relationship with Jesus is like intimacy with your spouse.  It is ok to boast about it.  Telling others how to “do it”, not so ok.  unsolicited advice is annoying.

In closing Faith can be built in your life by spending time with Jesus a few times a month alone.  pray to Him.  open the book knowing that it is true.  God helping you to understand how it is true is part of deepening your faith.  Don’t just study it, try to get a deep and full understanding of it.  ask questions and endure.  This will help you in your personal walk with Jesus.  He is trying to change you.  Leave changing your friends and the people you care about to Him.  His job is to be there when they come to Him to be changed.  He cant be there as much if your trying to change someone else.  He is trying to change you.  its ok to be scared because when you act differently than normal people react in ways you aren’t ready for and that is uncomfortable and can be scary.  God loves you and wants you to be more like Him.  Try to change and base those changes on the belief that you have earned through time spent in prayer and reading about who He is in the Bible.

Note:  I support evangelizing.  People need to hear the gospel and traveling with the goal of sharing the gospel is noble if you are doing it for Jesus.  not for you or your family or to bring any human pride.  to bring glory to Jesus is the way any evangelizing can be from a righteous heart and fully pleasing to Jesus.