Strong Belief Rules the Mountains

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. The strength of the substance reveals actual evidence of the unseen, according to one's belief.

Faith is how and where the future comes from....

Spirit Not Under the Law

Doctrine Law vs the Spiritual 

My new devotional is entitled Jesus Calling, not God Calling. I bought it because of the title as I am very easily focused on Jesus even tho I have yet to buy a Red-Letter Bible, with only the words of Jesus quoted in it.

Since Jesus is quoted in the full Bible mentioning Jonah for example, this gives greater authority to that prophet, one might think. This could give some stumbling blocks. Those concentrating heavily on doctrine are often found less attentive by the spirit than the physical in my view.

Nevertheless, since Jesus agrees with the Bible He is quoted in the devotional as author of it. For those troubled by this difficulty, I can only suggest giving more emphasis to John 17. The spiritual is highlighted there. 

Manna Has Awakened

 

Preaching Jesus for everyone who receives

Jesus is Christ in Us

The Hope of Glory

Spoken and preached by Paul through the Spirit of Christ, is a mystery incarnated for us by Jesus from the will of God. What God places in our hearts is the perfection of Jesus that we might gain the richness of that glory. 

Definition of faith

I Will Get What I Believe

Jesus is quoted as saying I will reap what I sow. This is why I think I will get what I believe. If I did not believe in God, then I would have to be my own god. Rather I think it more likely that God created, but some turned things to trash, then blamed it on God. I don't have every answer which is why I need faith, Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. At least not seen so far at this point. 

Watering down belief

 When faith is substance....

then I will trust substance which is more real to me than any personally drummed up conviction of faith. (see Manna.)

Trending....

Only Enough Proof Exists

to reach one's own personal satisfaction.  

The reason for this is because the observable world is changing and there are so many different viewpoints. Every star seen in the sky that blinks is another sun. If it does not blink, then it is reflecting light. (Is that correct? (I may be at the coming stage of transposing, which all we all have to look forward to in these short lived bodies.)

Odds are small on 100% proof.

Trending...danger

Believing Predictions of Dread

Leads to More Faith in Fear

We only believe in what we believe if it happens that way, one way or another eventually, when enough faith and correspondent belief is believed strongly enough.

There are different grades of belief, as Jesus put it, oh ye of little belief and that of greater belief. If we had enough, we could move mountains. And there could come a day when we could do even greater things that Jeus Himself.

Doomsday dialogue

Fear is the Strategy of Defeat 

If enough losers believe in dooms day I suppose it could actually happen that way. But first comes the widespread crowd belief in doom sucking one in. First is the heralding unseen of the doomers and gloomers. We finally get our projections as they become our desires one way or another. Stronger leads to the stronger. 

Everything Jesus tells us to do is designed to help us. We are to forgive so we ourselves do not become involved in unforgiveness. So, I do not take an offense (if I can possibly avoid it) because if I take an offense then I will by possession of it become offensive myself.

Welcome to defeat.

Trending...

Recently previous entries are introducing a reaction to the first devotional to catch my eye. 

Working on the view words are revealing a technically oriented shift long evident in language. This shift demands an awareness of faith in the unseen influencing of changing forces in the seen.

Red Letter Bible

Being Like Jesus

My faith has to run ahead of my proof. That is what makes it my faith. Once anything is proved, if it could ever be proved at all, there would be no need for faith that could influence the future. 

All things seen came from the unseen.

Did the Red Sea really part so the Israelites could escape the Egyptians? Unbelievable event? Not particularly, not if at one time the Red Sea was not only a tidal river from the south but also another fast-shifting tidal river from the north, from to the Mediterranean. Weather experts have suggested this event.

The map of the earth is always changing. We can see that ourselves, just as even today the US map if the coasts are shifting. The west slowly toward the Pacific and the east away from the Atlantic. 

 In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus correctly predicted the world would run out of food. That is, he was correct judging the food production of his day. Today living physical scientists are predicting we will run out of food 27 years from now.

The accuracy is amusing...

All predictions are treated similarly by the future today even as Malthus' prediction was. True from all the facts of today but not from the future. They do not have all the facts that make an accurate prediction. So, how can one predict the existence of God from an incomplete knowledge of all the unproveable facts in the future? 

Definition of a Devotional

Jesus Calling by Sarah Young 

Enjoying peace in His presence...

Since Bibles have been published nothing in my framework has surpassed the 1700s King James Bible, especially the New Kin g James Version with all the thee's and thou's tucked away in memory.

What does it say in the old unwatered King James? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen? That is not the same translator talk that followed the NKV, revealing an unaccomplished spiritual belief than that followed.

I've never been drawn to devotionals until now, encountering Young's Jesus Calling. First of all, since the King James was published, language has changed significantly, turning toward a more exact scientifically laden communication. 

So Indeed! How Can One Be Born Twice?

Jesus wrote one word, and it was in the sand unreported Everything He said was new, as He introduced the spirit to the seen world. One can easily see afterward that Jesus was speaking in the spirit while his hearers were listening in the flesh. It is hard to think outside the boxes from which we appear. 

People get attached to the semantics they were born from and into.  Many often fail to grasp the powerful meanings that are subsequently lost to them. I see indications, since my science fiction days, that the physical sciences are changing as significant members are gaining respect for the limitations of the known vs the unknown.

The original King James reader, it clearly seems to me, accepted their belief as already happening. This is the big jump faith demands. Everything seen originally comes from the unseen first. The physical sciences ask for proof before it even exists, for them. This will fade further into the background as we all gain greater awareness of the vastness of the unknown.

As for as Sarah Young is concerned, her translation is the best yet in my view, despite doctrinaire reservations. (Second edit)

Something that comes out of nothing

Believing in Nothing is Something

Even nothing is something, the second it is defined. Anything once existing cannot change but will always exist, in that case, as nothing and know it. To know one believes in nothing, they know they are nothing. To know one does not exist and to know it sounds like being wedged inside unspeakable hell well outside the bell of time.