God saw u getting tired and a cure was not to be. So he put his arms around you and
whispered come with me.
With tearful eyes, we watched and saw you pass away.
Although we love u dearly, we could not make you stay. A golden heart stopped beating, hard working hands at rest.. God broke our hearts to prove to us, he, only takes the best.
I saw this on Facebook this morning. I miss my friends...
Love and light on this Christmas Season and may God's blessings be upon you and your families during the upcoming hardships.
Gerald
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Protection/Space Clearing
Heart Of The Dove...a pathway home
Protection/Space Clearing
Marty Turner/Gerald Martin
What is the importance of protection?
As we all know there are many different forms of energy within our consciousness and some attract good and positive energy and then there is the negative and dark energy. We have strong abilities that we are not always aware of. One of such ability is being “telepathic”. We have this ability to read energy, feel energy, and often times we are completely unaware of and we find the “light”, “love”, “positive” energy we require when we are “low”, “hurt, “sick”, “angry”, “frustrated”, “lost” and seek out to find what we need or what to feel better. When we do this we may very well tap into someone else's field of energy “use” their energy.
When this is done with intention and not agreed upon by both parties involve, we in the field call this “psychic vampire” energy. When this happens without being aware, we become exhausted and sick. We have the tools and the knowledge to protect ourselves by paying attention to details and using the tools we have been given.
What are some of the tools we recommend.
1. Prayer is always first....
2. Sacred mantra and/or mundra’s
3. Sacred White Sage
4. Essential Oils
and much much more
Building your own personal toolbox....
What is space clearing?
We would never think of leaving our floors or furnishing unclean for years and years, yet that is what happens energetically when an environment is not periodically space cleaned. On an energy level you are living with the energy of everyone who has ever occupied your home. Emotions, particularly angry or negative feelings, are powerful energies that embed themselves in the walls, floors and furnishing of a home.
If the previous family was unhappy or experienced financial distress, then that energy will still be lingering in your home affecting your family’s health and well-being. (1)
Every home has what is known in Feng Shui as predecessor energy. This is the residual energy left in your home by everyone who has ever stayed there for any period of time.
Space clearing your home is one of the easiest and most beneficial Feng Shui that can be done for your home.
Space Clearing is done with an intention:
Set the intention before you begin and follow through.
In order for the space clearing to be complete there must be closure
Intention for “new”, “beginning” and “completion”.
Next workshop will be on December 5th @ 1 pm …..El Paso, Texas
This is a hands on workshop providing you with materials and instruction to read houses, release of entities and how to open yourself to assist in releasing the entities and anything that needs to go into the “Light”. We will have time for questions and answers as well. This is a very intensive hands on workshop when you leave this workshop you will have the tools and confidence to clear, cleanse and release entities through your own inner light and wisdom.
Registration is required and directions given at that time.
(1) Paragraph written by Alexandra Brighten, Black Hat Feng Shui Practitioner and
Instructor
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Kindness of a Stranger That Still Resonates
This is a story that I read in the NY Times this morning. I felt it worth passing on, as this is the direction that this country is headed now.
Gerald...
_____________________________________________________-
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
Published: November 7, 2010
CANTON, Ohio — The event was a reunion for people who were never supposed to meet, commemorating an act of charity that succeeded because it happened in secret.
Helen Palm sat in her wheelchair on the stage of the Palace Theater and read her plea for help, the one she wrote in the depths of the Great Depression to an anonymous stranger who called himself B. Virdot.
“I am writing this because I need clothing,” Ms. Palm, 90, read aloud on Friday evening. “And sometimes we run out of food.”
Ms. Palm was one of hundreds who responded to an advertisement that appeared Dec. 17, 1933, in The Canton Repository newspaper. A donor using the pseudonym B. Virdot offered modest cash gifts to families in need. His only request: Letters from the struggling people describing their financial troubles and how they hoped to spend the money. The donor promised to keep letter writers’ identities secret “until the very end.”
That end came last week at the city’s famed 84-year-old Palace Theater, at a reunion for families of B. Virdot’s recipients. About 400 people attended. For the older people, it was a chance to remember the hard times. For relatives of the letter writers, it was a time to hear how the small gifts, in the bleakest winter of the Depression, meant more than money. They buoyed the spirits of an entire city that was beginning to lose hope.
Of the 150 people in Canton who received checks, most for as little as $5, from B. Virdot, Ms. Palm is the only one still alive, and the only one to learn the anonymous donor’s true identity. “I thought about B. Virdot a lot” in the years after 1933, Ms. Palm said. “I was really surprised when I learned his real name.”
His secret lasted 75 years. Then, in 2008, a Canton native named Ted Gup received a suitcase stuffed with his late grandfather’s papers, including letters addressed to one B. Virdot.
Mr. Gup, an investigative journalist formerly with The Washington Post, discovered that B. Virdot was his grandfather, Samuel J. Stone, who escaped poverty and persecution as a Jew in Romania to build a successful chain of clothing stores in the United States. He created the name B. Virdot by combining the names of his daughters, Barbara, Dorothy and Mr. Gup’s mother, Virginia.
Mr. Gup used the letters as the basis for a book, “A Secret Gift,” just published by Penguin Press. Relying on newspaper archives and government documents over the last two years, he found and interviewed more than 500 descendants of the letter writers.
Taken together, the letters from families struggling through the Great Depression create a larger story of a city and a nation struggling to accept a new notion: that without help they might not survive, no matter how hard they worked.
“In many cases these were individuals with their backs against the wall, watching their children go hungry every night,” Mr. Gup said in a phone interview last week.
At a time when accepting charity was seen as a moral failure, Mr. Stone’s promise of anonymity shielded the letter writers from shame. An unemployed woman caring for her sick daughter and disabled sister wrote to Mr. Stone, “If I thought this would be printed in the papers I would rather die of hunger first.”
Kenneth Richards was dumbfounded when Mr. Gup tracked him down to his home outside Canton and told him that his mother, Mattie Richards, had received a check from B. Virdot.
“I really didn’t believe him because my mother just wouldn’t ever ask anybody for help,” Mr. Richards, 72, said. “Here was a woman I never knew.”
The stigma against handouts continues in Canton, once a thriving manufacturing city that spent the last three decades watching factories close. James Macey lost his job as a waiter last month when the restaurant he was working at, Cheeseburger in Paradise, closed. He applied for more than 15 jobs before requesting unemployment assistance on Friday.
“I waited two weeks because I didn’t want to apply for unemployment,” Mr. Macey, 25, said. “It’s embarrassing.”
Canton’s tradition of charity continues, too. Mr. Macey’s pastor at Cathedral of Life Church offered him $250 to scrub the church’s floors. Insisting that was too much money for four hours of work, Mr. Macey requested $100. The pastor, M. Dana Gammill, asked him to accept $150.
Many people need such help in Canton. More than half the city’s children live below the federal poverty line, according to the Census Bureau, up from 38 percent in 2008. More than 3,000 people called the United Way for help in October, a 33 percent increase over last year, the agency said.
Frustration over 10.4 percent unemployment in surrounding Stark County has caused more political instability than Canton has known in generations. John Boccieri, a conservative Democrat, won the seat in Congress from the local district in 2008, only to lose to Jim Renacci, a Republican, last week. “People are scared,” said David B. Cohen, a political scientist at the University of Akron. “When the economy is bad, the party in power gets punished.”
In 1933, the fear was visceral. J. L. White, father of seven children, wrote in his thank-you note to B. Virdot that he was considering suicide just before he received the gift.
For other families, Mr. Stone’s gift provided the only holiday cheer that bleak winter. Olive Hillman used the $5 check to buy her 8-year-old daughter a doll with a porcelain face and leather arms.
“I was thrilled to get it,” said the daughter, Geraldine Hillman Fry, now 85. “It really was the only doll that I ever had in my life, so it meant a lot to me.”
At Friday’s reunion, people talked about how Mr. Stone’s example of generosity resonates today.
“I think there’s a message here that people in Canton know how to get through the hard times by pulling together,” Mr. Gup said.
Days before Christmas 1933, with Mr. Stone’s gift in hand, Edith May took her 4-year-old daughter Felice to a five-and-dime store and bought her a wooden horse.
Seventy-seven years later, Felice May Dunn owns two farms and 17 Welsh ponies.
“In my life it made a big difference,” Ms. Dunn, 80, recalled. “It was my favorite toy.”
_____________________________________________
In times of trouble, turn not away a stranger, as they may be an angel in disguise.
Love and Light to you...:
Gerald...
_____________________________________________________-
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
Published: November 7, 2010
CANTON, Ohio — The event was a reunion for people who were never supposed to meet, commemorating an act of charity that succeeded because it happened in secret.
Helen Palm sat in her wheelchair on the stage of the Palace Theater and read her plea for help, the one she wrote in the depths of the Great Depression to an anonymous stranger who called himself B. Virdot.
“I am writing this because I need clothing,” Ms. Palm, 90, read aloud on Friday evening. “And sometimes we run out of food.”
Ms. Palm was one of hundreds who responded to an advertisement that appeared Dec. 17, 1933, in The Canton Repository newspaper. A donor using the pseudonym B. Virdot offered modest cash gifts to families in need. His only request: Letters from the struggling people describing their financial troubles and how they hoped to spend the money. The donor promised to keep letter writers’ identities secret “until the very end.”
That end came last week at the city’s famed 84-year-old Palace Theater, at a reunion for families of B. Virdot’s recipients. About 400 people attended. For the older people, it was a chance to remember the hard times. For relatives of the letter writers, it was a time to hear how the small gifts, in the bleakest winter of the Depression, meant more than money. They buoyed the spirits of an entire city that was beginning to lose hope.
Of the 150 people in Canton who received checks, most for as little as $5, from B. Virdot, Ms. Palm is the only one still alive, and the only one to learn the anonymous donor’s true identity. “I thought about B. Virdot a lot” in the years after 1933, Ms. Palm said. “I was really surprised when I learned his real name.”
His secret lasted 75 years. Then, in 2008, a Canton native named Ted Gup received a suitcase stuffed with his late grandfather’s papers, including letters addressed to one B. Virdot.
Mr. Gup, an investigative journalist formerly with The Washington Post, discovered that B. Virdot was his grandfather, Samuel J. Stone, who escaped poverty and persecution as a Jew in Romania to build a successful chain of clothing stores in the United States. He created the name B. Virdot by combining the names of his daughters, Barbara, Dorothy and Mr. Gup’s mother, Virginia.
Mr. Gup used the letters as the basis for a book, “A Secret Gift,” just published by Penguin Press. Relying on newspaper archives and government documents over the last two years, he found and interviewed more than 500 descendants of the letter writers.
Taken together, the letters from families struggling through the Great Depression create a larger story of a city and a nation struggling to accept a new notion: that without help they might not survive, no matter how hard they worked.
“In many cases these were individuals with their backs against the wall, watching their children go hungry every night,” Mr. Gup said in a phone interview last week.
At a time when accepting charity was seen as a moral failure, Mr. Stone’s promise of anonymity shielded the letter writers from shame. An unemployed woman caring for her sick daughter and disabled sister wrote to Mr. Stone, “If I thought this would be printed in the papers I would rather die of hunger first.”
Kenneth Richards was dumbfounded when Mr. Gup tracked him down to his home outside Canton and told him that his mother, Mattie Richards, had received a check from B. Virdot.
“I really didn’t believe him because my mother just wouldn’t ever ask anybody for help,” Mr. Richards, 72, said. “Here was a woman I never knew.”
The stigma against handouts continues in Canton, once a thriving manufacturing city that spent the last three decades watching factories close. James Macey lost his job as a waiter last month when the restaurant he was working at, Cheeseburger in Paradise, closed. He applied for more than 15 jobs before requesting unemployment assistance on Friday.
“I waited two weeks because I didn’t want to apply for unemployment,” Mr. Macey, 25, said. “It’s embarrassing.”
Canton’s tradition of charity continues, too. Mr. Macey’s pastor at Cathedral of Life Church offered him $250 to scrub the church’s floors. Insisting that was too much money for four hours of work, Mr. Macey requested $100. The pastor, M. Dana Gammill, asked him to accept $150.
Many people need such help in Canton. More than half the city’s children live below the federal poverty line, according to the Census Bureau, up from 38 percent in 2008. More than 3,000 people called the United Way for help in October, a 33 percent increase over last year, the agency said.
Frustration over 10.4 percent unemployment in surrounding Stark County has caused more political instability than Canton has known in generations. John Boccieri, a conservative Democrat, won the seat in Congress from the local district in 2008, only to lose to Jim Renacci, a Republican, last week. “People are scared,” said David B. Cohen, a political scientist at the University of Akron. “When the economy is bad, the party in power gets punished.”
In 1933, the fear was visceral. J. L. White, father of seven children, wrote in his thank-you note to B. Virdot that he was considering suicide just before he received the gift.
For other families, Mr. Stone’s gift provided the only holiday cheer that bleak winter. Olive Hillman used the $5 check to buy her 8-year-old daughter a doll with a porcelain face and leather arms.
“I was thrilled to get it,” said the daughter, Geraldine Hillman Fry, now 85. “It really was the only doll that I ever had in my life, so it meant a lot to me.”
At Friday’s reunion, people talked about how Mr. Stone’s example of generosity resonates today.
“I think there’s a message here that people in Canton know how to get through the hard times by pulling together,” Mr. Gup said.
Days before Christmas 1933, with Mr. Stone’s gift in hand, Edith May took her 4-year-old daughter Felice to a five-and-dime store and bought her a wooden horse.
Seventy-seven years later, Felice May Dunn owns two farms and 17 Welsh ponies.
“In my life it made a big difference,” Ms. Dunn, 80, recalled. “It was my favorite toy.”
_____________________________________________
In times of trouble, turn not away a stranger, as they may be an angel in disguise.
Love and Light to you...:
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Astonishing Facts
By Michae Snyder
- BLN Contributing Writer
If our Founding Fathers were alive today, what would they think of America?
Surely they would be very proud that the United States stretches from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and has built some of the most amazing cities that the
world has ever seen. They would probably be surprised that the country
they founded went on to become the greatest economic machine in the history of
the world, and they would be absolutely astounded by things like our interstate
highway system and the Internet. However, there are quite a number of
things that they would be horrified about as well. The fact that over 40
million Americans are dependent on the federal government for their daily food
would be deeply disturbing to our founders. Also, the fact that the U.S.
government has accumulated the greatest mountain of debt in human history would
be incredibly distressing to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the rest of
the founders. But perhaps most of all, our founders would be absolutely
disgusted that the land where Americans could once be free to pursue life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness has become so tightly regulated and
controlled that Americans dare not even squeak without the permission of the
federal government.
Needless to say, our founders would certainly not understand many of our
institutions or many of the advanced technologies that we have today. But
without a doubt they would be able to grasp how far we have fallen as a nation
and how far we have strayed from the fundamental principles that they enshrined
in our founding documents. The United States is a much different place
today than it was in 1776, and unfortunately many of the changes have been for
the worse.
The following are 50 mind blowing facts about modern America that our
Founding Fathers never would have believed….
#1 In 2010, not only does the United States have a central bank, but it also
runs our economy and issues all of our currency.
The Federal Reserve has devalued the U.S. dollar by over 95 percent since
1913 and it has been used to create the biggest mountain of government debt in
the history of the world.
#2 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
has ruled that U.S. government agents can legally sneak onto your property
in the middle of the night, place a secret GPS device on the bottom of your car
and keep track of you everywhere that you go.
#3 The 50 wealthiest members of Congress saw their collective fortunes
increase by 85.1 million dollars to
$1.4 billion in 2009.
#4 The U.S. government has accumulated a
national debt that is rapidly approaching the 14 trillion dollar mark.
#5 All over the United States, asphalt roads are being ground up and are
being replaced with gravel
because it is cheaper to maintain. The state of South Dakota has
transformed over 100 miles of asphalt road into gravel over the past year, and
38 out of the 83 counties in the state of Michigan have now turned some of their
asphalt roads into gravel roads.
#6 Americans now owe more than $849 billion on
student loans, which is more than the total amount that Americans owe on
their credit cards.
#7 In 2010, Americans waste an astounding amount of food.
According to a study by the California Integrated Waste Management board, 63
percent of the average supermarket’s waste stream is food. When you break that
down, it means that each supermarket wastes approximately 3,000 pounds of food
each year.
#8 The city of Cleveland plans
to sort through curbside trash to ensure that people are actually recycling
properly. If it is discovered that some citizens are not recycling they
will be hit with very large fines.
#9 Once upon a time, U.S. industry was the envy of the world. But since
1979, manufacturing employment in the United States has
fallen by 40 percent.
#10 Even though the U.S. population has exploded in size, the number of
Americans with manufacturing jobs today is smaller than
the number of Americans who were employed in manufacturing in 1950.
#11 Having one out of every eight Americans enrolled in the food stamp
program is now considered “the
new normal” and Americans continue to drop into poverty in astounding
numbers.
#12
One out of every six Americans is now being served by at least one
government anti-poverty program.
#13
A family of four actually has difficulty surviving on an income of $50,000 a
year in America in 2010.
#14 Barack Obama is backing a proposal to create a national database that
will store the DNA of all individuals who have been arrested, even if they
end up not being convicted of a crime.
#15 In 2010, it takes the average unemployed American worker over
8 months to find a job.
#16 The U.S. government has made some parts of Arizona off limits to U.S.
citizens because of the threat of violence from Mexican drug smugglers.
The federal government
has actually posted signs more than 100 miles north of the Mexican border
warning travelers that certain areas are unsafe because of drug and alien
smugglers.
#17 One recent survey of last year’s college graduates discovered
that 80 percent moved right back home with their parents after graduation.
#18 In one of the very first military commissions held under the Obama
administration, a U.S. military judge ruled that confessions obtained by
threatening the subject with rape
are admissible in court.
#19 The average American worker now pays literally
dozens of different kinds of taxes each year.
#20 In recent years the U.S. government has spent $2.6 million tax dollars
to study the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes
and $400,000 tax dollars to pay researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos
Aires, Argentina to
find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior when drunk.
#21 Christians are being arrested and thrown in jail in some areas of the
United States
for quietly passing out Christian literature on public sidewalks. And yet
Muslims run wild with no interference.
#22 The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it
will begin using cutting edge analysis software
to predict crime by young delinquents and will place “potential
offenders” in prevention and education programs.
#23 Organic milk is now considered such a national crisis that the FDA has
been
conducting military style raids on Amish farmers in the state
of Pennsylvania.
#24 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that they are
considering a crackdown
on farm dust.
#25 According to a new CDC report,
nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis.
#26 Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts says that due to severe
budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department
will simply not be able to respond to any longer. The crimes that the
Oakland police will no longer be responding to include grand theft, burglary,
car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism.
#27 Today, Americans are losing their homes in staggering numbers.
One out of every seven mortgages was delinquent or in foreclosure during the
first quarter of 2010.
#28 Many of our leading scientists are now calling themselves “transhumanists”
and are openly proclaiming that a
future where men have fully merged with machines is inevitable.
#29 Americans
who spend large amounts of cash are viewed as “potential criminals” by the
U.S. government in 2010.
#30 New full body security scanners going into airports all across the United
States
can actually see through our clothing and produce very clear and very detailed
images of our exposed bodies as we walk through them.
#31 The U.S. financial system has become a massive gambling parlor in
2010. As a result, a horrific derivatives
bubble
has developed that threatens to destroy our entire economy at any moment.
Nobody knows exactly how big the derivatives bubble is, but low estimates place
it at around 600 trillion dollars and high estimates put it at around 1.5
quadrillion dollars. Once that bubble pops there simply will not be enough
money in the entire world to fix it.
#32 The U.S. government is spending an amount of money equivalent to
approximately 25.4 percent of GDP t this year.
#33 Today, 10,000 people
make 30% of the total income in the United States.
#34 A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation discovered
that 250 employees of the Defense Department used credit cards or PayPal to
purchase images of children in sexual situations. However, the
investigation also found that the Pentagon investigated
only a handful of those cases.
#35 According to a recent poll of Americans between the ages of 44 and 75,
61% said that running out money
was their biggest fear. The remaining 39% thought death was scarier.
#36
Approximately 57 percent of Barack Obama’s 3.8 trillion dollar budget for
2011 consists of direct payments to individual Americans or is money that is
spent on their behalf.
#37 A recent Department of Justice guide for investigators of criminal and
extremist groups
lists “constitutionalists” and “survivalists” alongside organizations like
Al-Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood.
#38 The U.S.
trade deficit has exploded to nightmarish proportions over the past two
decades. Every single month tens of billions more dollars goes out of the
United States than comes into it. Essentially, the United States is
becoming far poorer as a nation each and every month.
#39
Factories are closing in droves across the United States because the
American people would rather buy things made in China.
#40 Millions upon millions of good paying middle class jobs are being shipped
off to China and
they are never coming back. Meanwhile, U.S. politicians stand by idly
and do nothing.
#41 Some analysts now believe that China could become the largest economy in
the world
by the year 2020.
#42 If the U.S. government was forced to use GAAP accounting principles (like
all publicly-traded corporations must), the annual U.S. government budget
deficit would be somewhere in the neighborhood of four
to five trillion dollars.
#43 According to one recent survey,
28% of all U.S. households have at least one person that is currently
searching for a full-time job.
#44 The U.S. dollar continues to rapidly decline in value. An item that
cost $20.00 in 1970 will cost you
$112.35 today. An item that cost $20.00 in 1913 will cost you
$440.33 today.
#45 Major international organizations are actually proposing that the United
States start considering the adoption of a truly global
currency.
#46 Students at a high school in Missouri have built a car that they claim
can get up to
450 miles per gallon
. On another note, some of the top energy experts in the world believe
that thorium could solve
our energy problems and supply very cheap energy for society for hundreds of
thousands of years. But in today’s world technologies such as these are
endlessly suppressed by the rich and powerful.
#47 One Colorado high school student is seeking an explanation from officials
at his school after he was ordered by security guards
to remove American flags from his truck because they might make other
students at the high school ”uncomfortable”.
#48 Three California high school students were
recently forced to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
#49 Memorial crosses erected along Utah public roads to honor fallen state
troopers
have been found unconstitutional by a federal appeals court and now must be
removed permanently.
#50 One group of high school students made national headlines recently when
they revealed that a security guard ordered them to
stop singing the national anthema during during a visit to the Lincoln Memorial .
Friday, October 22, 2010
What Will You Do When the Collapse of the U.S. Dollar Wipes Out Half of Your Wealth?
I got this email today. Thought I would pass it along. In retrospect, seems things are happening along the way it was told to me. Go figure..
Love and Light..
Gerald..
I came across some shocking information recently that has little to do with health -- but I think everyone should know this before it's too late to do anything about it.
Last month, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) issued an announcement saying ... the recession is over.
In fact, the NBER stated: "The recession ended in June 2009, making it the longest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s."
But is the recession really over?
Not by a long shot.
Unemployment remains at a painfully high 9.6% ... people still struggle to pay their bills from day to day ... and according to a CNN report on September 16, the nation's poverty rate jumped to 14.3% last year, and that means 1 out of 7 Americans (almost 44 million) are living in poverty.
And ... the value of currency continues to plummet! What does this mean to you?
Let me explain this as clearly as I can by giving you an example:
Suppose you have $2,000 in the bank on Friday afternoon. When the bank opens on Monday, you still have the same $2,000 in your bank account, but because the value of the U.S. dollar has collapsed, you now have 50% less buying power. So if you wanted to buy something that would've cost you $500 on Friday, it will now cost you $1,000. You've literally wiped out one half of your buying power -- and consequently wiped out half of your wealth!
And that's not all. What if you had a retirement account or money market holdings? Half of your funds would vanish into thin air when the coming currency devaluation happens.
And happen, it will. The writing is on the wall. The trillion-dollar deficit has caused the government to keep printing money without the backing of precious metals -- and that practically guarantees that the U.S. dollar will be devalued to the point of collapse.
That's a scary thought, isn't it? That's what I thought, too.
Love and Light..
Gerald..
I came across some shocking information recently that has little to do with health -- but I think everyone should know this before it's too late to do anything about it.
Last month, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) issued an announcement saying ... the recession is over.
In fact, the NBER stated: "The recession ended in June 2009, making it the longest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s."
But is the recession really over?
Not by a long shot.
Unemployment remains at a painfully high 9.6% ... people still struggle to pay their bills from day to day ... and according to a CNN report on September 16, the nation's poverty rate jumped to 14.3% last year, and that means 1 out of 7 Americans (almost 44 million) are living in poverty.
And ... the value of currency continues to plummet! What does this mean to you?
Let me explain this as clearly as I can by giving you an example:
Suppose you have $2,000 in the bank on Friday afternoon. When the bank opens on Monday, you still have the same $2,000 in your bank account, but because the value of the U.S. dollar has collapsed, you now have 50% less buying power. So if you wanted to buy something that would've cost you $500 on Friday, it will now cost you $1,000. You've literally wiped out one half of your buying power -- and consequently wiped out half of your wealth!
And that's not all. What if you had a retirement account or money market holdings? Half of your funds would vanish into thin air when the coming currency devaluation happens.
And happen, it will. The writing is on the wall. The trillion-dollar deficit has caused the government to keep printing money without the backing of precious metals -- and that practically guarantees that the U.S. dollar will be devalued to the point of collapse.
That's a scary thought, isn't it? That's what I thought, too.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Set Me Free-Casting Crowns
Thinking of How things are to people. Those that are lost, and forgotten. Life moves on, and know that you have a value to your life. It is not always known, but it makes a difference to someone.
Life has its ups and downs, but we do endure. Many look to move on to the "Next" dimension, but all I know is here and now. Live, Love, Laugh, and take it all as a day at a time. Know that all are but a mere reflection of what you truly are. A glass seen only through dimly.
"Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might"
Gerald
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Jon Stewart Interviews Jesus About Ground Zero Mosque
I woke up last night to the sound of laughing and realized I'd fallen asleep
with the TV on. It was 3 AM and I knew it was Jon Stewart but I had to fumble
around for my glasses to see who his guest was. Unbelievable! It was Jesus, in
his robe and all. His nose was bigger than I thought, his skin a lot darker, but
his eyes were more piercing than I'd ever imagined. It was like light came out
instead of going into them.
John was making some joke about both of them being Jews and Jesus, after
laughing harder than I thought he would, said quite seriously to Jon, "Yeah,
that's one of the weirdest things, isn't it? How could they forget that?"
Jon was all over him with questions from the daily news. What was his take on
the whole Mosque/Ground Zero fiasco? Jesus said he'd seen some newscasts on the
story and couldn't believe the drama and fear it was bringing up. "They want to
build a public building for prayer, education and community gathering. That's a
good thing. A better thing perhaps, would be the construction of an interfaith
building, There's room for everyone, and it's these distinctions between
religions that's causing all the problems in the first place."
Jon looked incredulous. "An interfaith building??"
"Yes, a multi-tasking mosque, with a synagogue, chapel and meditation hall in
it. A building where people of different faiths come together to make a better
world together. That's the point of religion right? It's not about doctrine.
It's a plan for action, an opportunity to be a communal force for good. Religion
is just the map. Faith is the real adventure."
"I don't know...." said Stewart, making one of those funny mouth movements he
does after hearing a strange idea.
Jesus pipes in, "What could be better in that spot than a building that
represents, by its very structure, a coming together, a new vision that goes
beyond religious borders? It's like taking a good idea and making it great. The
real prophets of the day know this. Where are their voices? Why aren't you
interviewing them?"
"Hmm, I thought I was," says Stewart, tapping his pencil on the desk.
"You know why you have border issues here? Because you believe the borders are
real, like they MEAN something. Muslin against Christian, Mexican against
American, Republican against Democrat-all those borders are made up. You put up
walls to defend your ideas-and not even your OWN, but ideas passed down to you
from someone else-and then you make other people look like demons. It's no
wonder this country is in a state of collapse. You don't even get it how
connected you are. You're like five fingers on a hand who think they're separate
and make up reasons why not to get along."
Jon sat there with his mouth open.
"You're like children playing war games. You spend all your time, all your
energy attacking the "other side" instead of realizing you need to bridge the
two sides in order to get across to a higher level of thinking. Even news shows
are at war. Look at how you make fun of FOX. What light does that add to the
world? All the time you could be giving to real visionaries, all the ways you
could be role-modeling good behavior, showing the audience how it really WORKS
to bring great and opposing minds together, and you sit there poking fun at
another station. That's really enlightened, isn't it?"
This was the first time I'd ever seen Jon Stewart speechless. He looked like an
embarrassed 6th grader. No pencil tapping now. More like a puppy with his tail
between his legs.
"What in the world are you people doing? The ones who call themselves
"religious" are often the most immature, the most judgmental and intolerant.
What is THAT about? That's exactly the opposite of what every religion teaches.
And I mean EVERY religion," Jesus said, as he looked away from Stewart and spoke
right to the camera.
"All the religions say two basic things," he said, holding up his fingers in a
peace sign. "First, there is no distance between you and this one you call God.
God is the creative force behind all things. It's invisible, but you are the
manifestation of it. I'm telling you, the Sistine Chapel should have been a
mirror."
The audience laughs, but Stewart stares into those deep eyes of the Nazarene.
He goes on, " You are the eyes, the hands, the feet of that creative force. That
energy is in you. It's called your breath." He holds up his index finger and
taps on it a few times. "That's the first thing. Don't think there's some man
out there pulling strings. Grow up. This civilization-if you can call it that-is
YOUR creation. This earth, it is not a bunch of resources to be exploited. It is
not to be owned. It is your mother, the womb that you sprang from. You are its
consciousness, its neural cells. The whole earth is the organism that you belong
to. You did not come down to earth, you came up from earth, as I did. Its
well-being is in your hands. Can you be proud of what you're doing? Are you
going to be the ones who kill it off, after all that talk about pro-life?"
Jesus was getting a little worked up, like that day he stormed through the
temple turning over the merchants' tables. Jon cut to a commercial, "And we'll
be right back to hear the 2nd basic thing from our guest tonight, ladies and
gentlemen, the Jewish prophet Jesus of Nazareth. Stay tuned..."
They were laughing about something when they returned from the commercial, Jesus
stretched out in his chair with his long lanky legs covered by his tunic, his
sandaled feet hidden under the desk.
"OK," Jon says, "You were saying there were two things. Let me see if I got this
right. There's no bearded guy up there on a cloud. That God we talk about and
fight over is the creative force inside us and around us? It's invisible and
we're like....(a long pause) its shadow?"
"Not exactly," says Jesus. We're like the physical form of the same energy. The
ice cube version of water or steam. Same elements, different form. The sea and
the iceberg. You're all icebergs in the Sea of God," he said, half-laughing at
his own quaint metaphor. "But the problem is you don't realize that underneath
it all, you're all connected. There's just one big iceberg with a lot of tips.
The truth is, you're Creation continuing the co-creation of Itself."
"Oh my," says Stewart. "Let's leave that discussion to Bill Moyers, What about
number two? What's the number two thing we're supposed to know?"
Jesus holds up his two fingers again, tapping the tip of his middle finger. The
camera zoomed in so closely on him I could see a scar on his forehead. "It's not
so much what you need to know-that's part of the problem, all these peoples'
belief systems. That's what gets you in trouble. No one has to believe in me to
get to heaven. A...there is no heaven to get to and B, it's not what you believe
but how you act that matters. If anyone learned anything from reading that Bible
they should have picked up that one. There's 3000 references to helping the poor
in there. But let me get back..."
"Yes," says Stewart. "The second thing.."
"The second thing is this: forget everything you ever learned in any holy book
and just treat everyone like a brother and a sister. I mean that literally. If
it were your brother coming across the border...your sister with cancer and no
health care....your child unable to get an education....your mother with no food
in her house. And even further, your brother who was gay or hated gays, your
sister who was a corrupt politician, your brother who bombed an abortion clinic,
your sister who got an abortion. What does it look like to love unconditionally?
To bridge differences, to come together over what we can agree on? Can you get
through one day without thinking you're better or less than another? That's the
thing to strive for. That is living faithfully."
"But...but..." says Stewart. "What about the Tea Partyers, the terrorists, what
about Fox News and hate crimes?"
"If you think they are so different from you, be the opposite of what you think
they are and enact that powerfully in the world. Don't focus on who's wrong.
Just be a greater force for good."
"Not focus on who's wrong? How could I do my show?"
"Exactly. Remember what Gandhi said? Be the change you want to see in the
world?"
"Sure. I have that quotation on my refrigerator."
"Well, it's time to take it further. You're evolving as a people. You've come
through the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the wrongly named
Period of Enlightenment. You're now in the Information Age. You are growing your
consciousness. In the physical world, you have Olympic marathon trainers who run
10 miles or more a day. They spend every waking hour in training, eating the
right foods, researching the right clothing and equipment, working out,
following a discipline. And in the metaphysical world, the spiritual world, you
have people doing the same-they are your mystics and prophets-engaging in
spiritual practice, accelerating their wisdom, expanding their consciousness,
transcending judgment and radiating love into the world. You might be in that
category.,."
Stewart does one of his choking, ahem things, putting his hand over his mouth.
"Out of the question," he says frankly. "I thrive on judgment."
"Good to know yourself. You're all evolving at different rates. In the fall,
when you look at a maple tree, you see leaves that are green, yellow, orange and
red. They don't all change at the same time. And that's what makes life
exciting. You all know different things. That's why you need each other. Like
that guy Ken Wilbur said, "You're all right, only partly so."
Stewart nods his head in agreement, tapping his pencil on the table again.
"But back to Gandhi. I agree with what he said, but I'll say it a different way,
just to shake things up a bit, which I love to do. By the way, it'd make a great
bumper sticker: Be the God you want to see in the world."
"Oh-oh, sounds blasphemous to me," says Stewart.
"You know as well as I do, every good idea starts out as a blasphemy."
"OK, great, we're out of time," says Stewart, as the camera swings over for a
shot of the audience. They're all standing, some crying and laughing at the same
time, the most incredible look of collective awe I've ever seen. And Jesus walks
over like Jay Leno and starts shaking hands with them. What a night!
The End
Jan Phillips, author/speaker - The Art of Original Thinking-The |
Friday, October 15, 2010
How to Hold A Government & (the world) Hostage
Amazing developments today. I usually only write about spiritual items here. But, I am not on that line today. Remember that in this physical world we are pushed, pulled, and manipulated daily. Which in turn relates and effects our spiritual wellbeing.
I read an article about the "FED" "Federal Reserve Bank" which really isn't a bank at all, but a private corporation, which is in the business of making money. And I mean, really making money. They print money, or should I say, they really don't print money. They make an order for money to be printed, which as I understand is supposed to be controlled by our congress, and then "Loan" the money to our government, which is paid for by "OUR" Treasury. They loan us our own money. Humm, something just seems out of place with that one.
They are basically printing money that doesn't exist, then we pay for it with "Real" money, which is gold or whatever form they do it with, then we pay interest on something that doesn't exist either, with "Real" money.
I remember the "Stimulus" that was printed and dumped on our markets, to "Stimulate" our economy. What happens when you have more of something, and nothing to actually back it up with? It is called devaluation. Basically what that means, the more you have of something the less it is worth. The less it is worth, it takes more of to buy stuff?
I remember a few years ago, when they were talking about the inflation rate. How it was rising which they said was good for the economy. I am truly not sure how this works, cause from my standpoint, when inflation goes up, the money is worth less, which makes prices go up, which you have to work harder to make enough to buy stuff. Which means you buy less with what you get. How, as I ask, is that a good thing?
We become the sheeple this way, cause you are burned out, so you have a foggy head all the time, so when they come to get you, cause you owe for all that "Stuff", and you cant pay for it anymore. How is this good?
You must remember, when you have a centralized bank, the banks and industry control the government and country. At this point, I know who is in control. The BANKS, and bankers. They truly control the world at this point. As long as we allow it. J.F.K. knew this, and that is why he wrote and executive order that disbanded the Federal Reserve. It is still on the books, not modified or deleted. As is! No President or standing government has done anything to enact this LAW! It was a Lawful order passed, and not rec-ended.
I pray daily that our government will get it together, but as I say, they are bought and paid for, and I cant afford them anymore. Everyone talks change, but as soon as they get in office, they become just like the last one that was in office. Bought and paid for.
That's enough for now. Thanks for listening. Hope it isn't too late, but something inside of me says other wise.
May God be with you daily as you walk in the world of the wondering shadows.
Gerald...
I read an article about the "FED" "Federal Reserve Bank" which really isn't a bank at all, but a private corporation, which is in the business of making money. And I mean, really making money. They print money, or should I say, they really don't print money. They make an order for money to be printed, which as I understand is supposed to be controlled by our congress, and then "Loan" the money to our government, which is paid for by "OUR" Treasury. They loan us our own money. Humm, something just seems out of place with that one.
They are basically printing money that doesn't exist, then we pay for it with "Real" money, which is gold or whatever form they do it with, then we pay interest on something that doesn't exist either, with "Real" money.
I remember the "Stimulus" that was printed and dumped on our markets, to "Stimulate" our economy. What happens when you have more of something, and nothing to actually back it up with? It is called devaluation. Basically what that means, the more you have of something the less it is worth. The less it is worth, it takes more of to buy stuff?
I remember a few years ago, when they were talking about the inflation rate. How it was rising which they said was good for the economy. I am truly not sure how this works, cause from my standpoint, when inflation goes up, the money is worth less, which makes prices go up, which you have to work harder to make enough to buy stuff. Which means you buy less with what you get. How, as I ask, is that a good thing?
We become the sheeple this way, cause you are burned out, so you have a foggy head all the time, so when they come to get you, cause you owe for all that "Stuff", and you cant pay for it anymore. How is this good?
You must remember, when you have a centralized bank, the banks and industry control the government and country. At this point, I know who is in control. The BANKS, and bankers. They truly control the world at this point. As long as we allow it. J.F.K. knew this, and that is why he wrote and executive order that disbanded the Federal Reserve. It is still on the books, not modified or deleted. As is! No President or standing government has done anything to enact this LAW! It was a Lawful order passed, and not rec-ended.
I pray daily that our government will get it together, but as I say, they are bought and paid for, and I cant afford them anymore. Everyone talks change, but as soon as they get in office, they become just like the last one that was in office. Bought and paid for.
That's enough for now. Thanks for listening. Hope it isn't too late, but something inside of me says other wise.
May God be with you daily as you walk in the world of the wondering shadows.
Gerald...
Thursday, October 14, 2010
This is the first lesson ye should learn
This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development.
Edgar Cayce Reading 3063-1
Edgar Cayce Reading 3063-1
Friday, October 1, 2010
The Mercy Seat of God
Many scholars have observed that almost all expressions employed in describing the significance of the tabernacle are also used in reference to heaven. That is because the earthly tabernacle was patterned after the one in heaven (Exodus 25:9, 40; 26:30; 27:8; Numbers 8:4; Acts 7:44; Hebrews 8:1-5; 9:11-12).
How is it possible for a thrice holy God to dwell in the midst of a sinful people? God's arrangement in both the Old and New Testaments is by means of the blood of the sin-offering sprinkled on the Mercy Seat--God's throne of mercy.
The throne of God is a blood sprinkled throne. There is no other approach to a holy God.
Nothing was left to chance in something as serious as a holy and righteous God meeting with sinful man. This was serious business. The Tabernacle symbolized the only way in which a guilty sinner could approach God.
God revealed the way of approach for man in the books of Exodus and Leviticus. Man can come to God only through the shedding of blood. We have observed incipient teaching on this subject in Genesis 3:21; 4:4; 8:20-21; 15:12ff; 22:8ff, and Exodus 12:13, 23.
The clear teaching in the Tabernacle symbolism is the atonement for the guilty sinner on the Mercy Seat. God declared His holiness and revealed the purpose of redemption. He declared how He could be a just God and at the same time justify the guilty sinner (Romans 3:26-30).
The Tabernacle vividly pictured the place of sacrifice in the flowing and sprinkling of the blood and the coming of the perfect Lamb of God that would take away the sin of the world. Inwardly it symbolized the place where God met with sinful man on the Mercy Seat.
The Tabernacle was composed of two rooms separated by a thick veil or woven curtain. The first room was entered from the outside and was called the Holy Place. The second room was entered through the Holy Place and was called the Most Holy Place or Holy of Holies. There was only one piece of furniture in the Holy of Holies and it was the Ark of the Covenant with the Mercy Seat on top of it.
The Ark contained the testimony of God to Israel. The Ark of the Covenant was "covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant" (Hebrews 9:4, NASB 1995). The service of the Tabernacle was meaningless and valueless without the Ark of the Covenant. It symbolized the place where God upon His throne met with His people.
Jewish scholars have often noted the Ark was a symbol that God was present among His people and that His covenant blessing was resting upon them. The whole sanctuary was built for no other purpose, but to be as it were a house, a habitation for the Ark (cf. Ex. 26:33).
The Ark contained the tables of the covenant or Ten Commandments that expressed the obligations of the chosen people of God. Christ is the only person who has ever lived up to demands of the law.
The Ark also contained a pot of manna as a testimony of God's provision for His people during their forty year journey before they entered into the promised land. It foreshadowed Christ as the Bread of Life. The daily provision of manna was God's grace meeting the need of His people in the wilderness.
The third item was Aaron's budded rod that reminded the people of the revolt against the leadership of Moses and Aaron (Num. 17). Aaron's rod had brought forth buds, and blossomed, and yielded almonds. It was a testimony against the rebels. The dead rod of almond wood came to life and bore fruit, just as God's chosen Messiah came to life after His crucifixion and bears fruit even today.
The Ark is known by various names in the Old Testament. It is "the ark of the testimony" (Ex. 25:22), "ark of the covenant" (Num. 10:33), "ark of the covenant of the LORD" (Josh. 3:17), "the Ark of God" (1 Sam. 3:3), "the Ark of the LORD God" (Yahweh) (1 Kin. 2:26). It is "the holy ark" in 2 Chronicles 35:3, and "the ark of Thy strength" (Ps. 132:8).
It was carried about in the wilderness from one camping place to another with two golden covered poles born on the shoulders of the Levites (Ex. 25:12-15; cf. 2 Sam. 6:2-11).
How is it possible for a thrice holy God to dwell in the midst of a sinful people? God's arrangement in both the Old and New Testaments is by means of the blood of the sin-offering sprinkled on the Mercy Seat--God's throne of mercy.
The throne of God is a blood sprinkled throne. There is no other approach to a holy God.
Nothing was left to chance in something as serious as a holy and righteous God meeting with sinful man. This was serious business. The Tabernacle symbolized the only way in which a guilty sinner could approach God.
God revealed the way of approach for man in the books of Exodus and Leviticus. Man can come to God only through the shedding of blood. We have observed incipient teaching on this subject in Genesis 3:21; 4:4; 8:20-21; 15:12ff; 22:8ff, and Exodus 12:13, 23.
The clear teaching in the Tabernacle symbolism is the atonement for the guilty sinner on the Mercy Seat. God declared His holiness and revealed the purpose of redemption. He declared how He could be a just God and at the same time justify the guilty sinner (Romans 3:26-30).
The Tabernacle vividly pictured the place of sacrifice in the flowing and sprinkling of the blood and the coming of the perfect Lamb of God that would take away the sin of the world. Inwardly it symbolized the place where God met with sinful man on the Mercy Seat.
The Tabernacle was composed of two rooms separated by a thick veil or woven curtain. The first room was entered from the outside and was called the Holy Place. The second room was entered through the Holy Place and was called the Most Holy Place or Holy of Holies. There was only one piece of furniture in the Holy of Holies and it was the Ark of the Covenant with the Mercy Seat on top of it.
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
The Ark of the Covenant was a chest about 23 inches wide, 39 inches long, and 23 inches high, made of wood and covered inside and out on all sides with gold. Inside this chest was a golden jar containing manna, the two tablets of the Law and Aaron's budded rod. The chest was mounted on four legs and had four rings for two gold-covered poles by which the ark was carried. King David called the Ark "the footstool of our God" (1 Chronicles 28:2).
The Ark contained the testimony of God to Israel. The Ark of the Covenant was "covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant" (Hebrews 9:4, NASB 1995). The service of the Tabernacle was meaningless and valueless without the Ark of the Covenant. It symbolized the place where God upon His throne met with His people.
Jewish scholars have often noted the Ark was a symbol that God was present among His people and that His covenant blessing was resting upon them. The whole sanctuary was built for no other purpose, but to be as it were a house, a habitation for the Ark (cf. Ex. 26:33).
The Ark contained the tables of the covenant or Ten Commandments that expressed the obligations of the chosen people of God. Christ is the only person who has ever lived up to demands of the law.
The Ark also contained a pot of manna as a testimony of God's provision for His people during their forty year journey before they entered into the promised land. It foreshadowed Christ as the Bread of Life. The daily provision of manna was God's grace meeting the need of His people in the wilderness.
The third item was Aaron's budded rod that reminded the people of the revolt against the leadership of Moses and Aaron (Num. 17). Aaron's rod had brought forth buds, and blossomed, and yielded almonds. It was a testimony against the rebels. The dead rod of almond wood came to life and bore fruit, just as God's chosen Messiah came to life after His crucifixion and bears fruit even today.
The Ark is known by various names in the Old Testament. It is "the ark of the testimony" (Ex. 25:22), "ark of the covenant" (Num. 10:33), "ark of the covenant of the LORD" (Josh. 3:17), "the Ark of God" (1 Sam. 3:3), "the Ark of the LORD God" (Yahweh) (1 Kin. 2:26). It is "the holy ark" in 2 Chronicles 35:3, and "the ark of Thy strength" (Ps. 132:8).
It was carried about in the wilderness from one camping place to another with two golden covered poles born on the shoulders of the Levites (Ex. 25:12-15; cf. 2 Sam. 6:2-11).
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Hope you read this far:
Wow, that's a lot of information. What does it all mean. That is explanation of the Mercy Seat of God. It is a place before God, where we take all our troubles, all our issues, and lay them at His feet. Between us and God, is that place, the Mercy seat. Think on it. Through everything that we go through, we have a chance to be with God, and in that the blood offering has been made.
More simple than most would ever believe. Through the blood offering that was made for us, we have a chance to be more than we are. It is through the offering of God the Father, of His only Son, that we have this chance. In faith, we have that momentary and brief chance to be with Him forever.
In my soul, I know that God gave us that chance. The ultimate sacrifice for us, in His Love and grace. No more, no less. I tell you where I stand. You can choose for yourself as what you have in your faith and belief.
For God so love the world, that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
That is truly amazing!
Amen
Your choice.
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Love and life to you,
Gerald..
Faith and Discernment
Upperself, Innerself, outside self... What?
When learning about discernment, what is it that you are looking at? Where do you get your information from?
When your a kid, as all children do, you receive your primary information from your parents. You see them as your example. You live to their standards, and live by learning from their example. Then you start seeing other examples. Your grandparents, your other family members, and other close associations within the family circle. What you learn from these sources are what you will carry for the rest of your life. Look at your family, and their examples, as this is what you will pass on to others, and if you have children, you will pass these values on to them.
And then the big explosion occurs, you begin your education. What happens when you first encounter something that doesn’t fit within you bounds of understanding of how things should be? Do you just let it go? Do you encounter, and cause conflict because it is not supposed to be that way? Do you follow along blindly as many do or do you make a stand and be solid on your belief?
That is the crux point in your existence. That is the turning point in your life. You start to see the world in another fashion. You see what is really outside of your box. Either you adsorb it, as you feel it is a justified point in reality, or you reject it, and learn from the experience. You know that in all things there is a truth, either spoken or unspoken.
When you are exposed to outside influences, you learn to “discern” what is a truth to you. You learn from experiences, school, church, and many sources of information. You adapt according to what is inside of you. What has been ingrained in your soul.
You hear that many are on a path. What path is that? Your soul path, your life path, and spiritual walk, etc, etc, and etc...
What are you doing? You study, listen, hear many opinions, but is that your truth. How do you suffer out what is yours, and is not yours?
Only you can tell that for yourself. Within it is known, that we all are born into a world of corrupt opinionated personages. Many who are willing to push belief systems onto us. Where do you become you? Do you just make a difference in what you believe? Stand fast on what you believe.
Discerning of spirits is the supernatural ability given by the Holy Spirit to perceive the source of a spiritual manifestation and determine whether it is of God (Acts 10:30-35), of the devil (Acts 16:16-18), of man (Acts 8:18-23), or of the world. It is not mind reading, psychic phenomena, or the ability to criticize and find fault.
Discerning of spirits must be done by the power of the Holy Spirit; He bears witness with our spirit when something is or is not of God. The gift of discerning of spirits is the supernatural power to detect the realm of the spirits and their activities. It implies the power of spiritual insight - the supernatural revelation of plans and purposes of the enemy and his forces. It is a gift which protects and guards your Christian life.
How to Test a Spirit
You can discern or test whether or not a spirit is of God by the following three ways:
When learning about discernment, what is it that you are looking at? Where do you get your information from?
When your a kid, as all children do, you receive your primary information from your parents. You see them as your example. You live to their standards, and live by learning from their example. Then you start seeing other examples. Your grandparents, your other family members, and other close associations within the family circle. What you learn from these sources are what you will carry for the rest of your life. Look at your family, and their examples, as this is what you will pass on to others, and if you have children, you will pass these values on to them.
And then the big explosion occurs, you begin your education. What happens when you first encounter something that doesn’t fit within you bounds of understanding of how things should be? Do you just let it go? Do you encounter, and cause conflict because it is not supposed to be that way? Do you follow along blindly as many do or do you make a stand and be solid on your belief?
That is the crux point in your existence. That is the turning point in your life. You start to see the world in another fashion. You see what is really outside of your box. Either you adsorb it, as you feel it is a justified point in reality, or you reject it, and learn from the experience. You know that in all things there is a truth, either spoken or unspoken.
When you are exposed to outside influences, you learn to “discern” what is a truth to you. You learn from experiences, school, church, and many sources of information. You adapt according to what is inside of you. What has been ingrained in your soul.
You hear that many are on a path. What path is that? Your soul path, your life path, and spiritual walk, etc, etc, and etc...
What are you doing? You study, listen, hear many opinions, but is that your truth. How do you suffer out what is yours, and is not yours?
Only you can tell that for yourself. Within it is known, that we all are born into a world of corrupt opinionated personages. Many who are willing to push belief systems onto us. Where do you become you? Do you just make a difference in what you believe? Stand fast on what you believe.
Discerning of spirits is the supernatural ability given by the Holy Spirit to perceive the source of a spiritual manifestation and determine whether it is of God (Acts 10:30-35), of the devil (Acts 16:16-18), of man (Acts 8:18-23), or of the world. It is not mind reading, psychic phenomena, or the ability to criticize and find fault.
Discerning of spirits must be done by the power of the Holy Spirit; He bears witness with our spirit when something is or is not of God. The gift of discerning of spirits is the supernatural power to detect the realm of the spirits and their activities. It implies the power of spiritual insight - the supernatural revelation of plans and purposes of the enemy and his forces. It is a gift which protects and guards your Christian life.
How to Test a Spirit
You can discern or test whether or not a spirit is of God by the following three ways:
| 1 | Observing what a person does. In Matthew 7:15-20, Jesus explains that false prophets are known by their fruit - by their conduct and actions. |
| 2 | Observing whether or not a person exalts Jesus Christ as the Son of God and as Lord and Saviour (I Corinthians 12:3). |
| 3 | By listening to what a person says (I John 4:1-3). Does their confession line up with the truth of God's Word? |
With Love and understanding,
Gerald...
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