Melchizedeck? 

We don't know for sure yet what is coming and we do not know what went before. What to do with these speculations? What does Melchizedeck mean for me?

Neglecting the Power

 Stifling the Spirit

When I was racking up perfect attendance pins in Sunday School I did not believe anything Jesus said about if someone asks me for my shirt to give him my coat also. 

Neither did I give any truth to the story the Rabbi's sternly told Jesus He should not heal on Sunday.

I dismissed it altogether, never thought a thing about it until I discovered much, too much, later that that Jesus' commandment was telling me the flesh could not help me. It was the spirit that was my vital road to eternity. 

Even during the rallies of Billy Graham, never a mention about being born again in any churches I heard about made any a stir. Probably because it was never taught in the seminaries.

Maybe some educate themselves out of faith and into fellowship dinners?

2nd Cor 16-18

Daily Renewing My Inner Man

I, as Paul said it best, pray any affliction I experience now is producing for me an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison to my decaying flesh. This is my hope.

Quoteblokes Doubling Up

It Was a Cold and Dreary Night

If success is getting what you want. Then happiness is wanting what you get. If I ask someone a question and they cannot explain it in twenty-five words or less I figure they do not know a thing about it. 

Reading the tea leaves

If they are still talking after fifty words I reason they know quite bit about it but cannot make head nor tail of any of it. If they in the process have learned how to teach, they likely spent their time learning to teach and forgotten how to learn.

If anyone is educated then they know the Gospels do not agree with each other, and so they have proof it is all due to collusion?   

Power praying

He is not here

Some, hopefully many, are emotionally charged reading the Bible, thanking and praising God. I focus on Jesus, and continually thank the Holy Father. Earlier, sometime ago it was, I received answers from the Holy Spirit often.

Not always but No emotion equals no power is my sense of it. Praying seemed then primarily leaning toward matter of fact. I would have to say aggressively so but with very dramatic consequences for me personally. 

I concentrate solely on faith now with a strong increasing edge on my no matter what attitude. There is a greater sense of emergency in the air that only increasing age brings into the mix.   

Morning on my mind

My Devotional Readding Now

When God impresses me most

I do not stop in my morning devotional, I read until I am satisfied. I, who bought and received devotionals all my life, but never read them, stopped reading in November last night.

Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. Psalm 73:23-24

I often stop when I read a verse too good not to dwell on it further at the time.. I sometimes wonder if I have picked up my cross yet, I have put it back down so many times. I want to be in glory but the body says not right now. However I am further on than before, On the go again....

When my flesh gives up the spirit

Not Easy Shaking Loose the Flesh

If I did not believe after my body gives up the spirit that things will continue to exist, then I am afraid I might not exist, but continue to know it. Not existing is a state of the spirit which once existing knows itself. 

Otherwise to my mind a person never could exist which cannot be true. I believe, as I find many do, that everyone existing exists forever similar to Eternalism. I would know internally that I no longer exist eternally forever. To avoid this problem it seems to me at this point is that the single most primary force I need is not reasonings, but faith.

Seen & Unseen difference

Being  Cautious of Change

All things that are seen are subject to change and are temporal like the flesh. All things unseen are where the temporal are conceived, in a state where there is no change and so is eternal. This is where the transcendent spiritual resides in an unchanging present tense state. 

Individuals are all first born in the flesh tabla rosa and must be born (again) in the spirit to continue into the hope of eternity of what they believed. 

Time appears to be stopped

If they are not, and this is what I personally believe, is that if they are not, then they will get whatever it was that they did believe to unexpected consequences. Unexpected perhaps because of continuing effects of unpredictable unchanges.  Since I do not know all the questions involved, nor even if I did, do not know all the answers, this effort is  continually updated.....  

Jesus said

Everyone is either drawn by God  or not. I was drawn and accepted Him because all His  commandments benefit me. 

Chapter and Verse?

Peek into Manna (click here or in Manna in left column) I would like to find time for my favorite verses again. Thinking of typing select ones in a list to get them together, maybe even memorizing a few just to have a toe in the water in the chapter and verse league.  

Why?

Transcending the Transcendent 

Why do I believe in God? I believe because I enjoy it and I am engulfed in it. I am not encamped round about with doubts or anything else that includes the flesh, nor any kind of information nor knowledge, true or not true, nor anything valuable one of a kind whatsoever.

Even the overly educated stand with empty pockets in the final tally up. Too much knowledge promotes time consuming doubts. Also even valuable objects, simple as they are, are not owned. They are only momentarily controlled. 

Soon, as time continues to fool us all, life will be over getting better and right in the middle of it all, it is time to wear out and break down on an inevitable glide path into incinerated powder. All because the seen is temporal and the unseen is eternal? This is where power is seen because I believe for my part everything seen came out of the unseen.

Anything eternal is eternal for a reason.  

Why Things Circular are Orbital

Every Good Thing Comes Down

From the Father of Lights

 When I arrived in Greenland the sun no longer went up and down, but around and around. Are all things circular orbital in the foundation of things? Why would that be?

No Matter What

I strongly suspect there is a reason but I do not know it. And so what if I don't? It may matter but it doesn't for me. I believe what I believe and I do not know how and I do not know very deeply why. 

I do not care if it is true even. The truth may exceed anything that appears to be so, or not so. Magic now, facts later.

Why I believe updated

Proof Requires "Little Belief"

Everyone decides what proof is to them and whether or not it is satisfying to them. Just like all astral objects they all have different orbits and different views of everything, even if only slight differences.

Thereafter they are then attracted to other objects, like people are attracted each differently, to each other according to their different charisma mass.

So my conclusion is that we all have our own satisfaction conclusion proving everything. We are all like a famous sportsman who could be right, while appearing to be wrong depending on various perspectives. 

Charisma

So I believe all things can be proved or disproved according to each our own satisfactions. However, if anyone requires proof regarding their knowledge of God then they do not solely believe, which is the requirement of God. Belief is silent in the face of proof, is my personal conclusion.

The same stands for logic, or the views of others, which as child among adults influenced me for instance. On the side little belief is a close shadow to a wavering lack of belief. Next: I will describe what convinces me regarding every thought I understand about God.

God not merely scientifically based

Our Rules 

for God to Meet?

There probably are quite a few people who require facts, proof, scientific explanations, logic for the existence of God so that they can believe.

There are quite a few impressive people engaged in that effort and I wish them well.

It is an established agreed upon conclusion that God is not impressed with any of those expectations. Only one fact, faith, pleases the Holy Father. If I have scientific facts to convince me to believe then there is absolutely no need for faith. And only faith pleases Him. 

Jesus also is reported in the Bible to explain that if one wants to believe in God then God first will draw that person to Him, first.

Lastly, I believe we can only prove the existence of God each to our own satisfactions as I worked out logically in previous posts. Scratch that logically business, in case I am too close to being caught in my own figuratively tiny tangle. Still, I am going to believe no matter what. Next: Drawn to God?

How to pick a God

If I have decided not to be my own God because of my limited time on the scene and I realized I do not even know the questions, let alone the answers I am facing what would I want for my God? 

First of all I would find comfort if He was like me and had prior knowledge to benefit me and placed them in my heart so I could recognize them instantly by default. He would promise me this because He cannot lie and I would have to trust Him on it. 

He would promise me every good thing, especially love, so He could create all good things including hope for more than I can ever anticipate. I have found it helps to be somewhat more stupid rather than too smart.

We get what we got

No Matter What

If God does not draw someone to Him then that person is a non believer. If I understood Jesus correctly God is in charge. Jesus lost many followers after this remark. I do not have to understand it. 

God spoke everything into existence and it was so. What He said is on display and there it is. It is all in what anyone wants to believe and they will live with it forever.  

Alongside: the Quoteblokers

Fruits of the Spirit Last Forever

At an older time when I was younger I had a yen for excitement and a sense of danger around every little corner. As I got older this got older as well and it was not only a growing wearisome event unfolding one after the other but it was out and out calling for one last screaming  kick out overdose event. 

But it never will come to my satisfaction I am extremely afraid, but even knowing I am not existing must be terrible beyond my comprehension. 

Eternity carries no time except the present and that setting I believe I will need peace, praise, and fruits of the spirit found in Galatians 5:22

Quoteblokes

 If anyone does not believe in God, then they will just have to be their own God.

God Saves Me from Judging Revenge

Only God Knows Just Judgement

Revenge belongs to the Lord but I never exactly realized why until I understood Jesus was in the mix all the way, more deeply than I ever anticipated. 

I am disconnected because God is the only judge, not me because I cannot judge lest I am judged myself. In the first instant because the only judge is the Lord Himself or second, His only begotten Son to whom He also gave that power to as His Son.

I am not only not the judge but I cannot bring judgement even to the extent of revenge. That is unless I want to follow Satan into being equal with God. This leaves me clear of experiencing judgement myself while God, as the Holy Spirit knows the heart in every matter does.

Therefore I am absolved of all temptations of Satan to experience the great continuing joys of the believer. This is the way I see it. I cannot assume the privileges of God since I am not God.

Next: God Protects Me Against Revenge

Not All Repetition May 

Stand Up Against Eternity 

I have said before and it seems appropriate here for me to say it again that I believe that I believe I will get what I believe when I am finally shed of all this seen world and pass into the unseen spirit world where all the greater power propels and holds the seen world together.

I would not be surprised if everyone does not get what they believe as well. But the question is more important than the answer. How long will we all be content within which we find ourselves? 

If God is existence and I do not believe that, then how will I find existing to be while at the same time knowing that I do not exist is in any way tolerable?

If I've plead ignorance, or that I never thought about it much, how long can I tolerate that? Repetition may become the brutal reward of, like a prison, solitary repetition.

Jesus was incarnated, that is once, but to be even reincarnated over and over, how can I be content with myself alone becoming a mind numbing repetition?

Some things may stand up very well however, that is to my mind, love, forgiveness and gratitude and other fruit of the spirit. 

This is my witness

God Sent Jesus

Believers are All One in the Spirit

At the core of my prayer effort, which is essentially becoming more familiar talking to and with, in the name of Jesus, to God, are my favorite meaningful and personally moving Bible verses. So I am back to the Bible in a way, but even so, God is not a Book, so the Book is not God.

Whatever is dominant in my attention is my God. Whatever comes first in my attention is my God. Everything Jesus has learned from God Jesus has made known for me, for my benefit, my safety and my well being.   John Chapter 17, the High Priestly Prayer

there is a better way

I Believe Prayer is the Best Way

The only way to gain or build greater faith, indicated in the Bible, is to read and keep reading on it. Today of course, we have electric printing and there are many of good books on the subject of prayer. 

My reason prayer is better however, is because it is not only simple but emotionally enjoyable. 

Sometimes I even shout! I am so thankful and overflowing with gratitude. This is only me returning Jesus' love and forgiveness. 

When I was initially coming out of the blue funk of being my own god, I prayed sometimes very often all night to the Holy Spirit. Now it is always to Jesus with attendant thankfulness to the Holy Father.

I suppose this is because Jesus was incarnated and God is a Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Father no one has ever seen. But He is like us, a Person and He has given His only Son Jesus the power to do whatever Jesus sees the Father do. 

Faith as a child
the best of all

They are One Spirit, both in each other. And so are we because God gave Jesus power to do for all those who believe on Him.

Right now I am myself overflowing with gratitude and I am making progress with forgiveness and intimacy with Jesus.

Visionettes

Why I Loved Prison Films

When I hit bottom I found that was a good time to bounce back up. In every case, it seemed as though when I gave up in one incident and accepted I was going to drown, that I was saved by an audible voice inside my head telling me, to try one more time.

Later I my parents entertained a subdued couple on the brink of middle age who had lost their only similarly aged son to drowning. Only now as I write this do I realize the irony of it. Eventually I asked God several times why I was allowed to be made aware of similar events.

These similar incidents occurred, first in dreams when I was around five and later in epiphanies I did not understand the meanings of until years later.

When I found out that God forgave David for his sins because David was honest with God, I experienced relief that maybe God forgave me when I chewed Him out for hanging around the adult elders and church pastor who told me the stories in the Bible were not true.  Only the meanings were true, which answered my question at the time about Santa Claus. 

In my lifetime I believe computers have made us smarter, but in a perfectly artificially selectric way. 

For the good of the children

When God was one step 

Ahead of Santa

When Jesus said that only those who were drawn by the Father could be His followers Jesus lost a large number of them outright away. Jesus had no recorded enlightening comment acknowledging the incident either. 

This suggested to many that the idea that everyone is inclusive, not just those who were attracted by the Holy Father. I sort of falls l.into the same category when I wondered if one had to be intellectually able, to qualify as followers instead of everyone qualifying.

Suggests also that God could be judged by those attending church weekly. This is the hypocrite label. If hypocrites go to church then not only is everyone else one, but God Himself as well. 

I also thought the adults were in with God so I was judged God by the actions of the elders and minister which was the logical fallacy of misplaced authority. 

As a child I figured that the adults stuck together. This is a weak excuse but still an excuse just the same and I even scolded God over it. But I carried it into adulthood still and all. I had been also a college atheist and somewhat pompous at it too. 

But when my favorite professor said if one is educated then they do not believe in God, I felt a tinge of doubt sneaking into picture. The little theologian was waking up.

Faith and Foregiveness

Right away this is a tough one

Loving the unlovable and forgiving them to boot is  not easy, I can contest for that. To this day I haven't gotten totally into it either. But I can report a certain meager success.

The wrath of God is incredible to behold. But as a pinned prefect Sunday School participant I held God accountable for telling us not to kill anyone in the commandments and then wiping out a entire populace for His side of the story.

Oh I knew about divine right ok enough, but I had a long time to learn about why it was  it ok to wipe out an entire populace for mere stupidity. 

Another  thing was not healing anybody on Sunday for the super excuse we were not allowed to work on Sunday. Play is clear sailing but work on Sunday was heaven outbound. 

What a load God had to answer to me for!

Without Hope There is No Beginning

Without Hope One is Hopeless

If anyone has a clear hope from and to any positive destination it seems self evident that any success would likely stand in that direction self dependent on the force of ones faith. Now we are in no matter what country. 

Feelings Without Substance

If ones hope is physical then whatever it is, is short term with a changing consumptive future that could turn against one eventually. To be sure of my hope I have to not only know the beginning but the ending success also. 

Next: Faith & Forgiveness

Refuse to Take Offense

To take any offense witnesses one is by the fact itself an offensive person, weakened and wounded along with it. Whatever I do I am a witness with evidence.

The Paraclete alongside

I thank Jesus a lot in my prayers, but this morning I suddenly thanked the Holy Father for Jesus, after all He was the one who sent Him and gave Him up for us so our sins could be forgotten and therefore we could appear before Him alongside our other Helper.