Prayer Talk

I enjoy God. But, if I am intense I always find myself wrestling with the Holy Spirit. If I am thankful, I talk to Jesus. If I want healing, I talk to the Father. I always try to accept healing and include Jesus in my acceptance, gratitude, and belief. I always speak to the Father under instruction and permission of Jesus. I wonder sometimes if I am more comfortable with God as Santa. I'd rather think of it as exercising my faith.  from Manna

Some Smart

Smart is as Smart Does

Whenever I hear someone tell anybody that, that Spence, he is some smart, I cannot help it, I instinctively sense they must be stupid. If I am told directly, I always agree however. You are right! I tell them, in point of fact, I outsmarted myself every single day this week alone.

I love it. I mean, what do they suppose I am so smart in? Generally speaking, I am so smart...  in everything? Well,  privately speaking, I am more stupid in the smart things than I am smart in the stupid things.

I can say without fear of correction that I will never have enough information to decide, on intellect alone, whether there is a God or not, not at all touching on how smart He is.

Existene

Why do living entities want to continue living? 

Everyone wants to exist, even those who ultimately commit suicide. I contend that even those who elect to end their lives amid matters of honor, focus on living under certain conditions rooted in a concept of living forever memorially the way they want to be seen permanently.

Since God is Existence and is the source of all existing, one has to ask why anyone would have no hope beyond the body. The mind directs the body on a short leash, and it can be caught up in the short term demands of the body's comfort & entertainment.

So God is concerned with good and with eternal life, which was why He spoke us into existence. God cannot negate Himself, therefore only those who choose to be like Him, seek continued existence. Existence is good, but those not all those, who are spoken into existence may choose to be so directed. 

For them it would be rule or ruin. Everything God suggests is for our benefit to continue existing in the long run.

Definition of art

Jesus is the Way

I am not a chapter and verse character in some weird spelling bee. Words are more important than numbers, altho the opposite may seem to be the case.. But numbers are helpful if I want to recall something. For that purpose I carry at hand a voice recorder to jog my memory up a pace. Speak about this now because while I was reading abruptly ran across an wonderful sentence that struck me in the heart. But I lost the notation. 

Very rarely will I find a single sentence among so many others that carry with it such drama as that one sentence did. Only it strikes me that I am in this drawn to the drama, rather than to the wisdom. Is it art that carries the message if it is to be remembered?

Art, if one cares to spearhead the definition of art, is not what we do, it is the way that we do it. So from that I gather the art of it all is where the power of the passion comes. 

It is definitely not, as one otherwise well-spoken person claimed, anything to do with recreating reality. If reality is real then it cannot be recreated nor resurrected. But art, as a action verb, is the spirit in the, way that we do it, not an inert subject. Anyway, that is the way I slice my bread. 

Faith in Greatest Danger

Easier to lose one's faith

In the Church Than Anywhere Else

Where would the devil be the first to go if he wanted to do harm to the church and to Christians? If you've read the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, you know the answer to that question. And, as it is written, he would blame Christians for what he had done.

God Critics

and Church Reviewers

Those who do not believe in God often focus on the long-term history of churches. The history of the primitive Christian churches is not generally entirely attractive. This history exists however, alongside those who gave their lives willingly in order to gain a greater glory. This has been maintained from opposite quarters, one favorable and the other not.

Churches today, from my many experiences, are doing more to undercut the individual attraction to worship together than to strengthen and experience a greater articulate faith, 

I've discussed the error of Christians who think they will go to heaven based on their good works. They were solidly entrenched is this view. How basic can it get?

I've even met pastors who believe God changes His mind, essentially believing God fails to heal, one rather than another, for a greater good of some sort. Others carry sin around like a badge of humility, and so it goes. 

No wonder so many churches send their Sunday School Scholars defenselessly entering college as victims, sacrificial lambs to strange spirits. I was one of them. 

Seeing what is seen

Only If One Believes

I suspect all of us will get whatever we believe. There may be many who will ultimately hope this is not true. This is because there are probably quite a few who do not believe there is anything or anybody to believe in.  That is, except maybe themselves. Who else is there? 

I myself could not really believe in myself doing duty as God since much of everything was already here when I arrived in the first place. So if one does not believe in God what does one do then?

Although God will not influence anyone's decision, he will however, already know what that decision will be already. This is what I believe. Anyone who does not agree with me on this, will have to believe what they have worked out themselves. They should not look to me or anyone else, only in particular to themselves.

No one created anything whatever, God did not create anything because this can only be understood within the concept of time.. Rather\, God, just as it says in the ancient writings, spoke everything into existence because He is Existence Himself. We see at work around us the ideas of God. The ideas of God, not those who were tempted by knowledge they did not completely understand and so reaped whirlwinds of their own making.

Creation as a word suggests a concept rooted in time. There is no beginning nor end to existence since God is not in time, He is eternal without time, beginnings or endings. This is hard to experience since we are subjected to time in the seen world. Time really fools us all.

We know God is a Spirit who, unseen, is called the Holy Spirit. I believe Moses' report, who told Moses who He was and what He wanted to be called throughout all generations. I think this is true because it is the only answer. God is known for His answer.

The law came through Moses but grace and love came through Jesus, who told us only those could come to God who were drawn to Him by God Himself. If anyone believes in God, God will talk to them and they will hear His voice and follow Him. The tree will be known by its' fruit, just as the sheep by the Shepherd.. 

Only those who will do this, will believe in Him and will hear His voice. Everything surrounds faith. Everything circles around belief, like lighter orbiting heavenly bodies will orbiting around a bodies with a greater mass. Unedited Time Out! Coming: Blaming God, the great critics and their great fallacies.

from the Quoteblokes

If anyone takes an offense, they are automatically an offensive person by reason of having taken it. 

Even if one is annoyed, it is a sign of weakness. Pleasantness belongs to the strong. 

The virtual believer

Justified by Faith

It does not matter what is true in the larger context.  There is not enough proof to verify truth by itself, only if it satisfies the believer. It is only in the individual is there found any place where the truth can possibly purely exist. That is because the truth exists only in what one believes.

We have to actually believe it. Jesus said if one had enough belief then they could move a mountain into the sea. Many, what I would call solid Bible believing Christians, believe Jesus was speaking metaphorically. In other words, symbolically speaking the truth. 

This might be called virtual truth. It is like virtual money they speak of in the markets today. 

It represents money, but not real money, rather 

almost like real money. So it is, when a Bible story is hard to believe then it is either unbelievable or only true as the meaning of truth. Sort of like virtual money, is it not?

Anything hard to believe requires very great belief. Many Christians believe whatever is easy to believe. Some believe anything they can prove is true, the easy to believe truth.

Everything seen came from the unseen. 

1 John 3:1-2

Children of God: Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.…

We, being the children of God, are sons and daughters of God. (Favorite verses, in Manna)

God is Existence

God is the Spiritual Personification of Existence.