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Because I'm not sure about the time if it was before midnight or not....
but on this this night 3rd December 2021 I went up upstairs like any other night, to sleep, but like no other night, I died

Since then I've not been baffled as to HOW I'm still alive....
" their mysterious ways and all that"
but since then I've been really baffled and confused as to WHY
which I don't mean in a gratifying way rather than it being more like I fit more for purpose/reason being alive to someone/something, than dead.. but what or whom, two years later I'm still waiting for that reason.

Maybe I shouldn't be in a rush to find out because once I've achieved it, that will be the end of me again... but this time for good deep down I think I know what I've been given this borrowed time for and for now all I'll say, that's a wager I've got going just between me & God..

For a change, may the best man loose

Anyways, if you are someone like me feeling either lucky, blessed or feel like a pawn even...
how's thing been with or for you since your escape from death???

In the meanwhile happy 2nd anniversary to me
" hope I've just not gone and jinked myself with that line"

It is important to remember that when the 'lesser gods' first arrived on Earth long, long ago the light personal force fields they wore as body armor when interacting with our long ago ancestors only had to be capable of repelling an assault by stick, spear, rock, club and much later arrows and swords.
The myths and folklore of Man's civilizations do not record any evidence of technological advancements occurring inside the communities of the lesser gods. Most cultural myths have the lesser gods vanishing from Man's sight shortly after the invention of the bow or at least the Long bow. Numerous myths of different cultures imply all of the lesser gods did not flee or leave the planer, but instead adopted a much lower profile and are rarely if ever seen.
This may be simple self preservation on their part. Although they are somewhat impervious to hand held objects such as a stone or an ax, there do not exist many account of lesser gods, devils or angels walking up the stream of fire from a Maxim gun, or even an older Gatling gun. Their protective devices fall way short of Diana's bracelets or even Captain America's shield.
This is because of design limitations in their protective force field devices. Whether we speak of the Gods of Olympus or demons from Hell their protective armor seems to be based on converting kinetic impact energy into heat dispensed by a radiator worn on the individual godling's back or the horns of their helmet.
this worked well when the threat was Ooog throwing a big rock or Alley Oop's wife stabbing with a dagger.
Impact energy is convertible into wattage at a conversion rate of 1 foot pound is equal to 1..36 Watts of energy. It can be presumed that there is a wire mesh somewhere in a vest that conducts the captured energy to the previously mentioned radiator. How much energy can those wires conduct before melting?
I suspect this is why as the Long bow and the crossbow began to emerge you didn't see much of the demon/angel folk anymore. Simply put the energy dumped on target by those weapons is much greater than the wire mesh of their body armor or force fields can conduct or absorb.
Consider a modern .50 Browning Machine Gun bullet on average generates about 4,500 foot pounds of muzzle energy. That is 6,120 Watts of power per bullet. This against a force field designed thousands of years ago (with no signs of every being upgraded) to resist maybe 200 foot pounds of energy from a stone hurled from Alley Oop's sling.

Remember if it is not Human, then it is not a crime to vanquish it. :)

Joseph Smith was killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, US on 27th June 1844, while awaiting trial.
He was mayor of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, and had ordered the destruction of a printing works which had criticised him for polygamy and calling himself the theocratic king. Public outrage of this revelation resulted in the death of himself and his brother.
Apparently, according to Smith, God had made a commandment to have multiple wives. He always stated that he only had one wife, but reports are that he had 40.
Over 16 million Mormons exist worldwide.
You may wonder why.

On Earth As It Is In Heaven


Allow me to make one quick point before we move on. As we pray we must be ever mindful that the phrase "in heaven" is inextricably woven together with each of the first three petitions of the prayer of Jesus. We begin by praying that the name of our Father in heaven be hallowed. We continue by praying, "Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven." And we conclude with the words "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

This is of course, is not by accident. Rather it is a daily reminder that we are to live with heaven in mind. As we launch into the last three petitions of the prayer of Jesus, in which the Master teaches us how to bring our requests to God, we should never lose sight of our priorities. R.C. Sproul, in his inimitable style, makes the point, "We do not come rushing into God's presence arrogantly, assaulting Him with our petty requests, forgetting whom we are addressing. We are to make certain that we have properly exalted the God of creation. Only after God has been rightly honored, adored, and exalted, do the subsequent petitions of God's people assume their proper place

The prayer of Jesus is divided into essentially two parts. The first is focused on God's glory. Thus, we pray, "hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done." The second is focused on our needs. From this point on we will pray for ourselves-our provisions, our pardon, and our protection. It is the third petition that brings the Lord's Prayer down to earth, making the transition from our Father up in heaven to His children down on earth." In the words of the great church father Tertullian:

How gracefully has the Divine Wisdom arranged the order of the prayer; so that after things heavenly- that is, after the "Name" of God, the "Will" of God, and the "Kingdom" of God- it should give earthly necessities also room for a petition!




Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread



Remember the scene from Luke 11 that was described in chapter one? Jesus has just returned from one of His private prayer sessions, His face awash with the glory of His Father's presence. The disciples immediately encircle Him. One of them, perhaps Peter, verbalizes the words, but they were all thinking the same thing. "Lord, he says in a voice mixed with urgency and anticipation, "whatever it is you experience when you disappear for those long stretches and pray, we really want to know about it."


Jesus smiles. The time has come for Him to unveil the principles of prayer to His disciples. As usual, He begins with a story (see. Lk. 11:5-11). Pointing to Peter, He says, "imagine going to your neighbor's house at midnight and asking him if you can borrow three loaves of bread." A smile breaks out on Thomas's face. He can't help but chuckle at the irony of the Bread of Life telling a story about borrowing bread. "Your neighbor is fast asleep," Jesus continues, "so you pound on the door frantically and shout, 'Wake up! I need your help! A friend of mine just shown up on my doorstep, and my cupboard is bare!"


Jesus cups His hands around His mouth for effect. "Don't bother me!' the neighbor yells back. I've locked up the house and my kids are in bed. I just can't help you tonight.''' Peter wasn't very good at keeping a poker face. His thoughts might has well have been three-inch neon letters flashing across his forehead. "Yeah, right," Peter murmurs to himself, "this guy can't help? Or won't!" James and John locked eyes knowingly. If Peter knocked on my door in the middle of the night, they each were thinking, I wouldn't get up either!


"I tell you the truth," Jesus explains, "Peter had just kept banging on the door, his neighbor would have given him bread. Not so much because he was a good neighbor, but because of Peter's persistence."






Continue....

Good EASTER MORN to ALL ...here in Midwest of USA... all the grass is freshest green,daffodils are dotting the yards, some fruit trees are blooming in white and palest pink, the birds are greeting the new day with their songs ..all nature is awake with life! Wishing you a day of blessings and peace, wherever you are and whatever you do....Avias

This blog was written by a CS member. It is posted on her behalf.

I had a good friend who was a Tarot card reader. She was famous.
Never asking for money but people would buy her things, buy her lunch, dinner.
I loved her reading my cards I found it fascinating.
I wanted to know about a certain man. Yes he will be yours for sure.
I used a Ouija board I became so good at it I could do it alone.
II f I did it with a friend she would accuse me that I moved the pointer.
I did not even touch the pointer but hovered above it.

One day I had the idea to ask God to talk to me through the Ouija board. I didn’t know that what I was doing was really praying. Strangely it now did not work at all. What I now saw was only mumbo jumbo.The letters did not make a sentence.
So I said; “Oh you don’t want to answer and help me God, Okay!”
Later I learned that my praying had cancelled out Satan's power.

A friend asked me to go with him to see my friend the Tarot card reader.
Fortune tellers are fond of telling you how some things they said came to pass.
When I pointed out to my friend when she had been wrong, she did not like to hear it.
For some reason I did not like to go anymore, also because she had confided in me that this man’s wife was going to die in a car accident.

I let my friend talk me into going but when I saw my friend the reader and remembering what she had told me about his wife, I quietly asked her not to tell this man anything bad.
She became irritated and told us that whatever she would see In the cards, she would tell.
In panic I silently talked to God and asked that my friend would not tell him about his wife.

Never will I forget what happened next; It was mesmerizing to hear her say; ahum, ahum, ahum over and over again. Finally she looked up and told my friend; “You must be very confused today as I can not read the cards”
For the first time a little light went off in my head, what is this about praying that makes the Ouija board stop working and the Tarot cards not being able to be read?
It was the start of my asking questions and after a long time had to conclude that their was a God and that prayer worked.

The biggest question I was left with was; What did Jesus have to do with it all?
Want to read the rest of my stories, just asked me and I will send them to you...
Stay away from things like the Ouija board it is not an innocent game.

I want to tell you, never fool around with the Ouija board it is not a game. It is very demonic.
A little minister's boy saw kids at school on the playground with the Ouija board.
When he told the kids that it was wrong what they were doing, they laughed at him.
The boy then told them okay, ask the Ouija where it gets its power. The boys did and the Ouija answered; “Hitler.”
The boy knew that this was a lie, so he commanded it to tell the truth, this time the answer was; “Satan.”
A family would every night after supper, take out the Ouija board and play the game.
They had noticed that the cat liked it also, for as soon as they started to play, it would come out too watch.

One day a Christian happened to stop by at the time they were playing.
She was shocked when she saw what they were doing, and told them so.

They too, did not want to believe her, so she said to ask the Ouija what it wanted from them.
When they asked this, the answer came; “Your soul.”
They were so upset that they threw the board in the fireplace where they all saw the face of a woman appear.
The Christian said; "You must do this burning in the name of Jesus." The next day the cat was found dead.

Stay away from the Ouija it is not a game! It can bring you in spiritual darkness for years to come.
I sure wished that I had never heard about this diabolical, so-called “Game” It is dangerous, very dangerous.

Strangely it was because of these experiences that I now needed to find out who was Jesus?
What and who was behind answering prayer?

"As a man thinketh...so, he is.......

This is an excerpt from a book I was reading. I just edited it a bit so that I won't attack any religion and added few of my own thoughts.

A local journalist asked me “What would you do, if someone took one of your Holy Books and flushed it down the toilet?”

Without hesitation I answered “Sir, if someone took a Holy Book and flushed it down the toilet, the first thing I would do is call a plumber!”


Then went further to explain that someone may blow up many statues, burn down temples, churches and mosques or kill believers or non believers, they may destroy all of this but I will never allow them to destroy my faith, my belief and who I am as a person.

You may flush a Holy Book down a toilet, but you will never flush forgiveness, peace love and compassion down a toilet.

The book is not the religion, nor the statue, the building or the priest. These are only “containers.”

What does the book teach us? What does the statue represent? What qualities are the priests supposed to embody? This is the “content”.

When we recognize the difference between the container and the contents, then we will preserve the contents even when the container is being destroyed.

We can print more books, build more temples and statues and even train more religious figures, but when we lose our love and respect for others and ourselves and replace it with violence, hatred, and intolerance then the whole religion has gone down the toilet.


Religion is what we make what it is. So let's not try to make our religion what is flushed down in a toilet.

Be the content. !!!!


Wishing everyone a peaceful week ahead!!!!

My wish is PEACE in whole world on this Christmas & may god bless all.