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Thought....The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.
Eckart Tolle...from Stillness Speaks..

We read the news headlines in our daily newspapers, we watch news coverage on television, on the internet, and listen to radio. There's local and international terrorism, mass shootings and killings in the workplace, churches, schools, malls, streets, hospitals, and in many homes. There're all kinds of problems with our medical healthcare, issues and problems in the White House, in our local, state, and federal governments; many job layoffs, people losing their homes, and government shutdowns.

Our worry list is looooong! We're worried about one thing or another, society in general is worried. People worry about bills getting paid each month, or if they will have a job to even pay the bills. Many worry about what to eat, what not to eat, too many calories, not enough calories; being over weight, under weight. We worry about our children, including the grown and gone from home children who can't seem to stay gone from home long enough for you to enjoy being home alone. We worry about the weather, our enemies, worry about at what moment will they feel "froggy" to jump and attack us; we worry about what to do to them if they should feel "froggy" enough to jump and attack us; we worry about what to do about this or that, on and on. We're worry warts, not having enough to worry about. Yes, we say, we have faith but when we worry it proves that we lack faith. And nothing ever comes to pass as we have envisioned.

BUT DID YOU NOT KNOW? HAVE YOU NOT HEARD? THAT WORRYING IS A SIN? How is worrying a sin? worrying breaks the commands of Jesus. It destroys our faith and hope, our relationships with others, and our spiritual relationship with God. God promised to provide our daily bread therefore, when we worry, we are telling God we don't trust Him, and we can do a better job ourselves. We take over and worry about how we can fix our problems without Him.

Take heed to what Jesus teaches in His sermon on The Mount of Olive. John 14:1 & Matthew 6:25-33:

Verse 25: "LET NOT YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED, YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME... and take no thought for your life, about what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, not even for your body, what you shall wear, is not the life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Verse 26…. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... LOOK at the fowls of the air, for they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. yet your heavenly Father feeds them, Are you not much better than they?

Verse 27. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... Which one of you by worrying can add one cubit unto his statue?

Verse 28. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin.

Verse 29. And again I say to you, LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed in fine clothing like one lilie or flower of the fields.

Verse 30. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... Therefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, that today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you? ... O you of little faith?.

Verse 31. Therefore, LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... do not worry saying, what shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or what shall we wear?

Verse 32. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.

Verse 33. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... But you seek first the kingdom of God. And God's righteousness; And all these things shall be added unto you: AGAIN, AND AGAIN, I SAY TO ALL OF YOU, LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... And do not worry about tomorrow, for the tomorrow shall worry about its own things, for each day will have its own troubles."

Yes, tomorrow has its own troubles and problems, and its not promised to us. Tomorrow may never come for some of us plus, tomorrow may be too late. Why not stop worrying today?

Are two types of energy in the world: the positive and the negative, male and female, yin and yang. Zen people use the negative energy; they use the passive path. Sufis use the positive energy; they use the active path. They are very vibrant people.

Their meditation is not of passivity; their meditation is that of ecstasy.

Both are ways you can reach to the same goal, because the goal is exactly in the middle. The positive is one extreme, the negative the other extreme. Between the positive and the negative there is a middle point, exactly in the middle, from where transformation happens - one transcends the world and everything - from where one enters into God and becomes God.

If you feel that you are on the negative pole already, a passive type, then follow Zen and start moving deeply in your passivity, and one day you will reach the middle. Or if you feel that you are an active person, full of energy, youth, positivity, that sitting silently is very difficult, unnecessarily a torture, then dance, follow the Sufis' way.

And I go on speaking on Zen and Sufism again and again so that all kinds of people are helped here. You have to choose. You have to watch yourself, your energy, and then you choose. Both are valid ways, both lead to the same goal.

Rumi says, "Hey I Drink this fine fiery wine, these needles of fire, and fall so drunk that you will not wake on the Day of Resurrection."

The way of the Sufi is the way of the drunkard, the dancer, who becomes almost intoxicated in his dancing, who is transported through his dance. He is inebriated; his dance is psychedelic.

It is said that Mohammed once said to Ali, "You are of me, and I am of you. " When he heard this, Ali became ecstatic and involuntarily started dancing. What else can you do, when a man like Mohammed says to you, "You are of me, and I am of you"? How to receive this? Ali did well.

And remember, it is not anything that he did. It was involuntary. He started dancing; out of ecstasy the dance started flowing.

Another time, Mohammed said to Jafar, "You are like me in both looks and character. " Here again, in wajd, Jafar started dancing. What else to do? When Mohammed must have looked into the eyes of Jafar, wajd, samadhi, was created, the transfer beyond the scriptures happened. How to receive this? How not to dance? It would have been impossible not to dance. Jafar danced.

It is said, "The enrapturing of the Sufi by God, or rather the 'pull' of God, keeps the Sufi continually in spiritual, inner dance and movement...." It is not that the Sufi dances - God keeps dancing in him.

What can he do?

".... Whenever a wave of such divine rapture strikes the heart of the Sufi, it creates great waves in the lake of his inner being...." He is just a receptacle. To say that the Sufi is dancing is not right. The Sufi is being danced. He cannot help it, he is helpless. Something is pouring into him and it is too much; it starts overflowing in his dancing and singing.

"This, in turn, causes his body to move. Upon seeing such movement non-Sufis have often supposed that the Sufi is dancing. In reality, however, it is the waves of the ocean of God that are tossing and turning the anchorless vessel that is the heart of the Sufi."

On the surface, from the outside, the Sufi seems to be dancing. But he is not dancing, because there is no dancer. It is pure dance. God has taken possession of him. The Sufi is drunk, intoxicated. His state is that of non-being. He is anchorless. The waves of the ocean toss and turn. First his inner being is stirred, great joy arises there; and then it starts spreading towards his body.

That's what you are doing with Aneeta; that's what is happening to Aneeta. You are participating in something immensely beautiful in Sufi dancing. Remember it: forget the dancer and be the dance. The way of the Sufi is the way of dance, song, celebration

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Psalms 4:3-4 KJV

(Continue - "QUOTES ON THE SUBJECT OF HEAVEN" - the following by David Berg)

"Only you and I who love Jesus and have Him now before this life's death will be able to be among the special super-citizens of the Heavenly City, a special super-class of people!
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"The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour!
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"The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow!
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"Those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Saviour and our Lover and our King already have the Garden of Eden and Paradise restored in our hearts!
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"When you get to Heaven you won't need faith because you'll be able to see it and know it all then. You won't need hope because it's already arrived, but there'll still be love because "the greatest of these is love!" (1Cor.13.)
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"In Heaven there is no need for sex because there is no need for a shadow or illustration--just a need to enjoy it!
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"God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City! --David Berg
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"Even Heaven would be Hell to some people because they'd be too close to God!
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"The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there!
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"The New Heaven and New Earth are like a double Millennium, Millennium for ever!--Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your Heaven that's never done!
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"Have your name put in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven so you'll be sure you've got your reservation confirmed for one of those mansions in God's golden Space City!
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"The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!--His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!
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"What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World!
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"You'll never get tired of seeing all of God's exhibits in His great Fairground of the Heavenly City on Earth where you can really learn the facts and the truth about everything the way it really was. How's that for a great Heavenly Fair in Heaven so fair?
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"We will be able to travel back and forward in time and see what has been and what's going to be, as well as experience the glorious wonderful present!
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"People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground!
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"There will be no transportation problems in Heaven--you can either glide along, float along or fly!
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"There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!
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"It looks like half the enjoyment is just having Heaven in our hearts and Heaven in our Homes, feeling Heaven in our bodies in the thrilling love and love-making that we have here and now on Earth in those ecstatic o*gasm of the Spirit and the flesh, but also looking forward to Heaven to come!
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"Heaven is here to stay and sex is here to stay! We'll be able to enjoy many of these so-called fleshly pleasures on the other side, like Jesus did!
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"What are you going to be like in the Hereafter?--You're going to be like Jesus!
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"All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!




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And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7 KJV

A compilation June 21, 2016

Life is not fair. Job understood this when he said, “Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.”1 In a country that is as rich as ours, millions of people go to bed hungry every night. That is, if they are lucky enough to have a bed or a home, for that matter. The amazing thing is, many people blame God for the misfortunes of humanity.

On a very cold, winter’s day, a young girl stood on a busy street corner begging for food, money, or whatever she could get. She stood there cold and shivering as vicious winds penetrated her thin, tattered clothes. Hundreds of people walked past her but only a few dared to look in her direction. A well-dressed, prosperous looking gentleman looked at the young girl and shook his head before getting into his expensive automobile. When he arrived at his huge, warm, luxurious home, he sat down at the dinner table with his family and began to feast on a meal that was fit for a king.

After eating his dessert, his mind went back to the hungry little girl that he had seen earlier. As he thought about her thin, dirty, shivering body, he started questioning God for allowing such conditions to exist. He said, “God, how can you let this happen? Why don’t you do something to help that little girl?” He heard God responding to his question with the words, “I did. I created you.”

God blesses us so that we can bless others. But instead, too many people have subscribed to the philosophy, “I got mine. You get yours.” They don’t care if you have enough food as long as their refrigerator is full. They don’t care if gangs terrorize your neighborhood as long as their community is safe. They don’t care if you have health care as long as their family is insured. There are a lot of problems in this world. But God has already done what He needs to do to solve them. He created you.—Burton Barr Jr.

Who is my neighbor?

“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” Jesus said. “Who is my neighbor?” they asked Him. And with the story of the good Samaritan, He tried to show them that it is anyone who needs our help, regardless of their race, creed, color, nationality, or condition.2

The good Samaritan is a wonderful story about the poor guy that got beat up along the road by thieves, and the good Samaritan picked him up and took him to the inn and told the innkeeper, “Whatever you spend, I will repay you.” Who was the good Samaritan like? The Good Samaritan was like the Lord, and the innkeeper is his steward, like you or me. And whatever we spend to rescue people and save souls, He will more than repay!

“Whatever thou spendest,” He says, “I will repay.” No matter how much we sacrifice, I will say with the great pioneer missionary, dear Dr. David Livingstone, that “you cannot outgive God.” He said, “I never made a sacrifice! No matter how much I gave, God always gave me back more.”

So I think you’re going to find out you haven’t really sacrificed at all in giving to others. You’ve invested, and the returns are going to be far beyond anything you have invested. The greatest investment we have to make, of course, is ourselves, our lives and our time for others.

I believe God is going to bless every sacrifice we make, not only eternally with the souls of those we lead to Him, but He’s also going to bless us every other way in the bargain. We may temporarily look like we’re losing something or sacrificing a little, but look at later!

So we never lose by giving; we only benefit. “He that withholdeth, it tendeth to poverty, but he that scattereth abroad, it increaseth.”3

1 Job 14:1.
2 Luke 10:29–37.
3 Proverbs 11:24.








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(4) Jesus did not know how to do the financial economy.
Jesus came to proclaim the Kingdom of God near humans, near their lives. Yet when Jesus introduced the Kingdom of God to His disciples and those who listen to Him, He took parables about the Kingdom of God like the owner of the vineyard do to their workers hired in one day (cf. Mt 20,1-16).
From daybreak the employer hired workers. Then to the 3rd hour, then to the 6th hour, then to the 11th hour; each time He went to hire more workers (the 11th hour in the parlance of the Jews that time, it's the time that near the evening)

That evening, the landowner, the image of Jesus, told the manager to call the workers and pay for each one the same amount. Those who did work many hours in the day showed their upset because they see the boss did not know anything about economics, finance even, but in addition, the boss no matter how well to calculate and righteousness in common.

And then Jesus said,
"Behold you, I am not cheating you. You did not agree with me that a denarius? ... Or because I am generous, you stab of jealousy? What is the last will be first, and the first will be last? ..." (Mt. 20, 13-16).

---> Did Jesus not know how to make the financial economy really?

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Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Matthew 24:35 KJV

A compilation Jul 09, 2015

What does an omnipotent God mean to us? “Omnipotent” is defined as being all-powerful, having great and limitless power or infinite power. We will agree that God is all-powerful. He merely spoke the universe into existence and all life within it. But what effect does God’s omnipotence have individually upon us?

When we talk about the omnipotence of God, we are tempted to think it is an undisciplined attribute, which is to say everything that happens is the will of God. God can do anything He wants, and our praying is usually an appeal to His omnipotence. Will He get us out of a hardship we are facing? Will He heal a loved one? Will He intervene in all the war, suffering, and loss taking place in our world?

There is a well-known argument that God cannot be all-powerful and at the same time, all-loving. If He is all-powerful, then the very existence of suffering and devastation indicates that He cannot be all-loving. And if God is all-loving and desires the best for us, then He cannot be all-powerful, because He seems unable to resist the pain and turmoil taking place in our lives and in the world. This raises the question: What is God doing?

Galatians 3:22 says, “The Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin.” On three occasions, Jesus spoke of Satan as being the prince of this world, and 1 John 5:19 says, “We know that we are children of God and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.” These are verses we cannot sweep under the carpet, yet many of us feel justified in accusing God of inaction. But God does not simply look around the world, click His fingers and zap things into place. Though He is totally capable of intervening this way, He does not for the reason that His purpose for every one of us is that we come to know Him. And this is an absolute disciplined attribute of God. …

But where there is prayer, where there is faith and love for God through Jesus Christ, His intervention is assured.

We are never closer to God than in our suffering and hardships. As we come to live in dependence upon Him, He places His agenda in our hearts and fills us with His peace. He may or may not heal our loved one or zap our hardships away, but we rest in the fact that we have an all-powerful God who works to the good in every situation.—Charles Price

Omnipotent grace

God’s power is infinite, meaning that it is without any limits, immeasurable. As such, He not only has the power to do those things He has done, but also the power to do things He could do but hasn’t done. Some examples of such things mentioned in the Bible are raising up children of Abraham from stones, or sending legions of angels to deliver Jesus. While He has unlimited power and thus the ability to do these things, He didn’t do them.

While Scripture affirms that God can do all things, it also states there are some things God cannot do. He can’t deny Himself by going against His nature and character.1 He can’t lie.2 He can’t be tempted with evil, or tempt others with evil.3 He can’t do wickedly or pervert justice. He won’t violate His righteousness.

When the Bible says God is Almighty and can do anything, it should be understood that God can do anything which is consistent with His nature and character.—Peter Amsterdam

1 2 Timothy 2:13.
2 Titus 1:2.
3 James 1:13.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live... Ezekiel 37:5 KJV




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Enough

Seventh heaven pls

When people communicate with other sometimes confusion may occur. When people communicate with the existence confusion may occur.

This confusion has two effects on one mind. When confusion is there, in one mind an alarm is triggered. Something is wrong. So the mind starts to explore and research the reality to find out the truth. This is good. Is an adapting mechanism.

But there is a secondary effect too. During the adapting process the mind tries to attach the first possible explanation to get out of the state of confusion as soon as possible. Specialists noticed that confused humans are more open to suggestions. Any kind. They tend to accept the first suggestion they get. So be careful what decisions you take in the confusing moments of your life.

When you break up you are confused. When you suffer you are confused. There are many moments in life when people may be confused. Getting out from a relation and jumping immediately in another may continuing your confusing moments.

Many people choose their partner by divine signs (coincidences or other sings in which people think to recognize the solution). They considered being saved from past problems and confusion.

Are they? Or just fall in the trap of self-suggestion?

"That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine."

Paul Watzlawick