High Priestlly Prayer

John 17 is all about the Trinity. Over and over it is explaining the Trinity. We are one in one and believing that Jesus was sent. This is how the Trinity is spelled out. Everything is worded a certain way for a purpose, that those who are hearing do not. It is spiritual ears not physical ears.

No longer under the law

Melchizedek 

Before Salem was Jerusalem After

The law was given by Moses but Jesus gave us the Spirit and Truth. History mentions God but not much of anything about the Spirit before Jesus. 

God spoke to His prophets by placing ideas in their hearts, epiphany-like. They believed these sudden revelations so strongly and they spoke with such authority that I recall reading that Jesus said their fathers killed the prophets and later their sons revered them. I do not have the chapter and verse on it right now, still I recall it right well. 

But I also recall the ancient writers saying that God looked down and saw that man could achieve anything he set his mind to. This was in connection with the building  of the tower of Babel, which only slowed them down until man walked on the moon. 

I think to myself, how did they know they would eventually walk on the moon, even saying that God looked down? 

Now of course we know there is no actual thinking of down or up since all the reflecting lights in the sky are hung, incredibly, in empty space. That is, if we can believe it. 😉

It is easy to focus on this world rather than the next.

 New King James Version

Stepping Out in Belief

All Things Seen came from the Unseen

"While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Transcending Forces

I like verses that ease me into focusing on the transcending spiritual world rather than the over riding decaying physical world. In this setting Paul contrasts the temporal and the eternal, in 2nd Corinthians 4:18

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God is Existence. Exodus 3:14 

"I am that I am."

This is the name God told Moses He wants to be known by this name forever "into all generations."

Speaking alongside

God Provides for Me 

Another Helper

My Paraclete will stand beside me and vouch for  me so that I can appear before God. This is because God will tolerate no unbelief or hostile views. No, not even to appear before Him. God does not permit evil, we do. Jesus' commandments do not permit evil.

If anyone prays to be healed and they are not, I would not blame this on God. I would blame it on myself. I did not have enough faith perhaps. 

When the disciples questioned Jesus over why could they could not heal a young boy, and why Jesus did heal him, Jesus said: this kind does not go out except by much prayer and fasting. 

A Testimony of God

This means to me that there is such a concept as little faith and great faith, weak and strong. It also reminds me that evil spirits take over individuals completely and speak for them. 

Healing means the evil spirit has to be driven out, freeing the person with the consumed spirit. That way the person taken over is now himself free. We should not hate him, we hate rather the evil spirit living in him speaking and acting for him. Jesus' all consuming love can free anyone consumed by strange spirits. 

This is why I do not meddle with strange spirits but only trust Jesus. I could call this my safe side. 

Not all are sheep of Jesus' pasture

Facing Fear in the Foxhole

I lean toward the idea we will very likely get in the afterlife what we believe in this the embryonic life if they are not born again. If one believes in nothing they will get nothing but they will know at the same time they got nothing which is unbearable they could well find. But then, who knows aforehand?

To not exist and to know it at the same time is I think about as unbearable as it gets. Any definition of hell would in my view would involve the element of repetition. Repetition can fade eventually, if not quickly. 

Since there is no concept of time in the eternal, forever will be an exceptionally concept to believe I would think. One cannot tread too softly in the unknown.

If there is no hope then the future, particularly space time, is full of troublesome complications competing for zero gains. It is enticing as any devilish drug before it turns against the enticed. Faith extended intensely enough may well create one's future according to their little faith or great faith. 

Gratitude: A celebration of Love

There may be more power in faith than anyone suspects. I believe0 there would be no present unless someone knew it. Hello to original sin. So if one had enough faith, like a god, they could predict the future with certainty.

One thing I do know with certainty. The more words that pile up is a strong indication of the less I know. The more I learn the more I learn there is more I do not know than I ever thought. As I've said, if anyone does not believe in a God, that is by definition a benevolent creating God, then they have no choice, they will just have to be their own God. 

Definition of forever

Not Right Now?

I look upon this life in which I was conceived without any future knowledge as embryonic in that it would be my  opportunity to be born... again. 

But I had things perfect in the womb. Why would I want to leave a literal garden of  Eden? What would I think of being told I was going to be kicked out without any say in the matter, and  that I would be unceremoniously hung upside down by my heels in front of everybody publicly stark and spanked, told I was going to be cold, hungry and have to pay taxes?

I would have to be an idiot to take any stock in that scenario. But here I am in space time growing 

Above the daisies.

changing and decaying with time flitting away and no future facing me within the flesh. Soon there will be no time before I will have had to be born again if I had not been already. Time has been fooling me, where did it go? I, like everyone, knew all along I would die someday, but not right now!

God Speaks to us in epiphanies

 Origin of the word epiphany comes to us in the supernaturally spirit state. My understanding is it originated from the incarnation of Jesus. 

Jesus Emanuel, God with us. 

My view is that incarnations can be true while reincarnations turn to hellish in my presumptive definition if only the present tense is the eternal. 

The Flesh Will Not Help Us

 The Flesh Cannot Help Us

The Christian story is not merely unique, it is the most successful in history. So far! Present trends, if maintained, indicate another religion will soon overtake it.

A poll, taken many years ago now. revealed that

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50% of selected seminary professors did not believe in God openly. The other half said they did, but one wonders in that atmosphere how deeply they meant alongside the wide spread views of many in colleges.

I was surprised and disheartened to realize how many books expressed the erroneous idea that the existence of God could be proved. 

God requires faith while proof eliminates the need for faith. The devil is smacking his lips on that one. No one has anywhere near enough information that proves that God exists or does not. My college era atheism was founded on a logical fallacy. 

My favorite subject, logic, I worked out, with great effort, only proved everything was based on my own singular explanation, along with everyone else, theirs.

 

 

We live our lives as a mist....

Time Enough to be Born Again

 After my wife passed I was told later that same year, by a different doctor, that I was going to die as well. Reason I mention this is not that I did not die, but rather that I've neglected Manna and the rest of the entire blog network I'd  built up ever since.

When I joined the Air Force I thought four years was next to forever. Time fools us and soon we will wonder where it all went. I found I don't own anything whatever. I only coentrol it briefly, very briefly. 

Not everything is visible.

I was born tabla rosa like everyone, into a space time existence. I can barely imagine existence without time. Space also makes fools of us all. We only know how big anything is, according to our awareness of it. 

It could be as large as a  barrel far as I am aware. Space and time are constantly building me up from birth to around fifty years in this embryonic life and then I decline and will literally rot away until I forget time all together. And all that time I am changing in appearance while thinking I am going to appear the same for a long long time. Jesus warns us the flesh will not help us.

I will be like a dead man out of mind. A mist in the wind. And as the terra firma planet turns? Even "terra firma" is hanging on what, nothing?