Feb 5
Source and Spirituality
In one of my first blogs on Spirituality I wrote about connection to the Pure, True, Spirit - God. Today I want to talk about “Source” or the need to appropriate our source of Spirituality to our daily lives. You see one cannot be truely spiritual without utilizing the True, Pure Source of all of creation. You are only as spiritual as the source you plug into or better put plugs into or indwells you. Simply put, wrong source - wrong perception and eventually wrong direction.
Source is different than Connection. Connection comes as we commit to who God is and what He has done. Source is where one realizes where all power comes from and in that realization, there is an internal understanding that you now have access to something that you did not have access to before. Without the True, Pure, Spirit as the source there can be no lasting success. Any success outside of this immediately begins to deteriorate and therefore is temporal and mortal. That type of success is based on human abilities and is from the wrong Tree. But, the success that comes from the Source, or One, True, Spirit - God is everlasting. This source has the power to create all that exists and not only impacts you but all you touch and come near. It never weakens and is just as powerful ten years from now as it is today, and even in the era to come.
When we realize we can receive anything we need from the One, True, Source - God and that what we receive will never lose the benefit it originally gave us (in fact it grows), we can walk with greater confidence and faith into any meeting or encounter and not worry. Why? the will of God - our source - will be done in us as it is in Heaven.
You see, True Spirituality not only recognizes a spiritual presence, it also receives all things needed (wisdom, knowledge, understanding, communion) from that Spiritual Presence for a great and full life. That is the core desire of Source, that you might fulfill your destiny or purpose. One might say - weak source produces a weak life. But in the Source there is fullness of Life - it is there but if we do not utilize or make use of it in our lives it will merely remain spiritual decoration that we talk about to impress our friends.
It might be time for some of you to change your Kingdom Spiritual perspective and seek the source of all good things.
Blessings,
John Paul
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Amen!
This is one topic that i have heard you touch on before, and its one of thorough importance in anything. What is the original source? Today I was reminded how vastly important this is. I had a run in with a professor who insisted I join a fraternity even after I had told her I was not interested and did not beleive in private clubs or secret societies. She insisted it was imperative for me to join if I wanted to get a good job. I told her I wasn’t worried about it. She said it was crucial for a resume’ and I said ” I am not worried about my resume.” Her subtle and somewhat demanding attempt to control and manipulate me to satisfy the lusts of her flesh-mind did not strike me, and eventually I just had to ignore her bantor. But in that moment, It was clear once again, that my trust was in the Lord. If God couldnt’ find me the right job without compromising my standards of truth, than I didn’t want that job to begin with.
It reminds me often of How many beleivers lose their trust in God and falter to secondary and elemental spirits who stroke their egos and massage their lusts, so that many will receive what they want and ’success’ but its like you said, that success is only temporal and not lasting.
The lasting success of knowing that I am my fathers is more important to me than all the gems in the world, and I would rather be secure in him than secure in material goods.
I think it also ties in nicely to what your video tv message on ‘the law of observation’
If we place our trust, faith, observation, and adoration on God, then of course, we allow him to act on our behalf. Earlier last year I sat in a meeting where the soul of the leader was tring to find something wrong with me or some major sin struggle so they could condemn me and cut me from fellowship. I sensed the desire of their heart and stated in the meeting “I DO have this one struggle i would like to talk about” Knowing that was what they were looking for, they suddenly gained back their interest in my conversation with them, and their soul was being stirred with the demons thinking ‘ohh he is gonna tell me what i need to know” and then I dropped it on him. ” I struggle with seeing what a persons destiny is, and not seeing them walk it out, sometimes watching them go the other direction, and its frustrating so i don’t always know what to do. So I prayed about it and the Lord told me that I should look at them as though they have already acheived what He has shown me, that way My faith atmosphere stirs them in the ways of heaven, and not in my personal disappointments at their ‘lack’ of attainment. God told me after all, thats how he sees me.” The man in the meeting just starred wide eyed at me, slouched in his chair with a “oh…’ “…thats probably a good thing to do” and the whole meeting that was planned against me, flipped towards the LORD JESUS.
its amazing how when God is source, all things TRULY work together for good. I thank you for really releasing righteous and powerful words in these days. Thank God for people like you.
To receive all things needed…What a battle that can be at times. Kingdom perspective, how important that is…So many times I think “God is with me, but will He come through?”, and so many times He answers that question through His intervention and provision and all doubt crawls away in defeat. (Sounds simple but when the battle is raging, it’s not always that simple)
In times of harvest, confidence inevitably strengthens, but then the next battle comes along and the question pops up again…
This weekend I learned to counter that, from a dear pastor who said “The only doubting that you should doubt, is doubting your doubts” in other words, in stead of asking “will God come through for me?” one should ask “why shouldn’t God come through for me?”. That would only happen if I didn’t alow Him to do so…if I turned to another source…
Afterall, He is the only true Source!(John 1:1-5) In the end, the Source is the only thing left standing, along with that which it upholds…
I’m open to new Kingdom perspectives…
God Bless!
I totally agree with what you are saying about being plugged into the Source but where does the Body fit in? Maybe I don’t understand how it all works but aren’t we supposed to have an “INTERdependance” on each other also?
Source vs. Connection, I like the way you put that.
We can connect our houses to the electrical grid via a ‘connection’ without knowing where the source of the power is coming from.
In Him we live, and move, and have (we are) our being.
God bless
David
John Paul wrote:
You see, True Spirituality not only recognizes a spiritual presence, it also receives all things needed (wisdom, knowledge, understanding, communion) from that Spiritual Presence for a great and full life. That is the core desire of Source, that you might fulfill your destiny or purpose. One might say - weak source produces a weak life. But in the Source there is fullness of Life - it is there but if we do not utilize or make use of it in our lives it will merely remain spiritual decoration that we talk about to impress our friends.
It might be time for some of you to change your Kingdom Spiritual perspective and seek the source of all good things.
My Response( Shirley C:
When we ask Jesus to be Lord and Savior of our life and receive the Holy Spirit, we will become authentic in our humanity because we become recreated into the very image of God that we have been destined to become. In this beginning process of transformation the old wine skin of our former corrupt humanity has passed away and the new wine skin has been put on by the Holy Spirit that takes up His residence in us. I believe this is what the Apostle Paul was talking about when he said, I once knew a man in Christ 14 years ago…(2Corinthians 12:2)…referring to his former self that had died once he accepted Jesus into his heart and put on the new man nature.
Thank-you for blogging. It inspires me to write more on these things.
In our busy schedule both my husband and myself were able to view your teaching from the Clan Gathering on God TV.
I was glad to find out that some of the things you spoke about was a carry over from the blog. Great technique! Thanks for being real an authentic spirit filled human being! Thankyou for all your prayers.
Blessings Always!
Shirley C.
you have explained so much on the true source…I see now many people I love, particularly my grown sons..struggle with who they follow. All four of my sons have made decisions for Christ…they made the connection…but the younger of the two haven’t grown to understand the power of the source…who is all power..all the power to overcome alcohol, drugs,fornication…soulish,fleshly desires. Following thus and being drawn to even a darker place, guilt,failure,consequences and dispair.The Law of Observation also helps my faith appropriate what is God’s will…..as we decare what is truth..expect what is God’s truth, rely on his power..we can commune spirit to the one true Spirit, God..and move and live and have our being..fellowship with the Father, in Spirit and Truth…casting all our care on Him.Free from forcing friut, in our religious, I have to do something to manipulate others into the kingdom..attitude.! Trusting in this source, experiencing this One true Spirit of God…His will, will be done on earth as it is in heaven.. leaving me free to be on the path of my destiny in Him.Thank you John Paul for your insights on the One true Source.
David, thanks for clarifying the connection. Wasn’t sure that I got it before. I can’t even believe how much one day of Source seeking has made a difference in me. PRAISE GOD FOR HIS BIGNESS!!!
Am I missing the “how?” I keep seeing the “who” and “what” but is there a “how?” How do you connect with God spiritually?
Nina, you’re welcome, but I don’t know if I even “get” it. That was just something that came to me while I was reading the blog.
Hello and I want to Boldly back-up the “how” from: one of those. For over 8 years now I have obeyed scripture and sought wise counsel for how to prune or cut down this Big Tree here. Blind eyes lead the young into deeper blindness and they know they are christian. I have much more grey hair than I think I should and still no one gives a “How” to all their knowledge!!! This is a major key to unity and that is not white-washed compromise. They shared all they had and no one had lack…not just bread and fish; everything. Enjoy my excitement please, I had a bleeding problem for over 3 years and I had a hard time with Christians being ashamed of where the problem was….”HEY”!!!
John Paul, you don’t own any of this and niether do I
but (back to your start here) I’ll come take out your trash if you get real with “How”. Souls are falling like dominos here, right into hell and the few churches which claim to have life seem to keep it amongst the few on the front rows, “The Spiritual”. This is a big tree and this little man never sought this, God came down to me in the depths of suicidal alcoholism…with a whisper!!! He still whispers and may “this” whisper to the Temple within each of you….When Jesus says “away from me for I never knew you” he is speaking to those who expect to go with Him. Yes, Be Blessed to be a Blessing, Robert
One of those, You are already connected to the Source if you are in Christ. You are a new creation the old is gone the new has come. We are always trying to figure out what we need to do….He is longing to tell us who He has created us to be and that we are already well pleasing in His sight. Just let Him love on you. If you need a how….1) Ask Him to do it. 2) Wait.
one more thing… a wise person once told me that “there is a reason we are called human beings and not human doings”. Profound…don’t ya think?
Hi Robert
I don’t understand how one can obey scripture for 8 years and still not understand “How”…Jesus said that after He has gone He will ask the Father to send a Helper, and that Helper is the Holy Spirit – the Spirit of truth, counsel, wisdom, knowledge and understanding…He will guide you in all truth…If you here His whisper, that is a good start…I’ve found that prayer in the Spirit (praying in tongues) and reading the word and hearing the word preached, and being still to hear His voice, “amplifies” the voice of the Spirit in me. Obeying His word and that inner voice, does too. I’ve found that the more we hear and obey, the more He talks…until I obey what He says, He will just keep saying the same thing until I obey and eventually if we keep on not obeying, He eventually keeps quiet…
How do we obtain knowledge and understanding from God? Through revelation. As you spend time prayerfully studying the word and hearing the word, the Spirit will speak wisdom knowledge and understanding to your spirit…and that will be revelation to you…it’s all through revelation, as the Spirit of truth reveals!
What I’ve also experienced, is that as we are filled with the Spirit, through communion with Him, as we live our daily lives, He will speak to our Spirit, and give us revealed information about the situation that you are living or have just lived and that will become revealed understanding…He will link it with His word and His word will come alive to you…because you are living the situation and know what it is about…
The only way, is to seek God in prayer, developing your relationship with Him (Father to son, Teacher to pupil, Master to disciple, Creator to creation, etc…) through prayerful study of the word…being sensitive to what He says to you through His logos word and rhema word (look it up and see what that means)…and obey what He says for you to do…
This may sound hard to do at first, but with time it becomes easier – it becomes a piece of cake – like a walk in the park with our Father! (Eden relived)
I hope this helped – please correct where necessary, I’m still learning too - God Bless!
Our communion with God = synergy where light flows from Source to and through channel(us)…
That just came to me…
Contradicting my own advice about being vs. doing, I have another how. John Paul has a declarative prayer on the right side of the streams homepage. I printed it and have been reading it aloud as it comes to my remembrance. I am not “religious” about it, but it has helped me tremendously. I am definitely becoming more aware of the light in me. PROPS TO THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (MINE TOO)!!!
Dear Robert, I just wanted to share briefly to encourage you in the ‘how’ steps of this walk in God.
The truth is you could study and read the word of God for longer than 8 years and never walk in the how. The devil knows the book inside and out and even quoted it to Jesus but yet he is not connected to the life flow of the source of God. Much of the church world (christian-culture) is not of God. THey are from satan, it is a form of godliness that denies the power there of. When I say that, I am not just talking the power to heal, deliver, set free etc, I am talking about the power of the holy spirit to teach you, the power of God to save you, the power for total transformation through God away from darkest places.
How many times have we heard ‘repentance’ messages preached to the church? Most churches have what I call a ’sin consciousness’ where they focus so much on sin, they live and talk about all that is sinful and wrong, and therefore they ‘eat their words’ and live and dine at the tables of iniquities. This happens because they are giving themselves a healthy diet of what is ‘wrong’ by talking and focusing on it. In the same token, other churches cross the pendulum and swing into total ‘good’ and always talk about good things, this also is not God, and is merely the opposite side of the tree of hte knowledge of Good and Evil.
One person is looking at one side of the tree, another person the other side. WHy is this important in the how? Because if you are focused on the ‘how’ to do something and ‘how to hear God’ and “How to heal people’ and ‘how to be a christian’ then you miss the whole purposes of the TREE OF LIFE.
I am not bashing you, in fact, I hope that brings some clarity.
Is it wrong for a person to drink alcohol? What about a person painting a nude body? are these things sin? are they good? are they evil? when all these ethics questions come to mind, my response is “WHO CARES!!!”
We were created to live and enjoy life. I am not talking about lawlessness but rather, spending time talking to God and listening to God. Each person has a different relationship with God, and so he speaks in different ways. I have some artist friends that I talk differently to when I am around them then say my sport oriented friends. We all have different languages.
The purpose is not to find a way to go about the ‘how’ as much as it is to find your love life with God growing in your own language.
Our culture is also based still much on logic, reason, rational thinking. ALl of these a ways of perception, but when we ONLY think in these terms we limit the possible spirit flow that happens in our life. Spirit is not always rational. For example, if someone was very ill, would the rational thing to do be tell them to wash themselves several times in a sewage infested water hole? or how about shoving mud in a blind persons eye? is that ‘methodology’ rational behavior? no it is not, and yet, it is the rational behavoir of spirit. Spirit does things that are beyond the common tolerance range many times.
One time God told me to take a bucket and write on it “holy spirit soul cleanser” and take feather dusters and write ‘healing’ and ‘grace’ on them etc. I was to take them into church and start dusting people off and dumping the bucket over their head. The spirit showed me people in advance, and I went to them one by one. The fruit of that was that a woman who came into the church off the street began to be awestruck. As she was I said :”You need another dunking of grace, more grace, and I began to feather dust off her hands” She began to have tears well up in her eyes, and she said she had just ‘walked off the street’ and had done cocaine or some sort of drug for three days and when I feather dusted her hand she actually heard God speak to her and he said “i am dusting all the powders and drugs away, I love you, you are mine”
and that was a salvation like experience. But that was not rational behavouir and the heat was on. Many people thought I had moved out in the flesh, they didn’t hear the testimonies because it did not fit their comfort zone. Later God was laughing, and i heard angels laughing, and i heard one angel say ” I love how Jesus gives him things to do that other people would never even think of doing… but he is willing enough to do them”
So in your journey of the ‘how’ I encourage you to be less analytical and more childlike. Let God speak to you through strange ways. Maybe you are just striving anad trying too hard? Maybe you should just throw all your theology out and start over? i don’t personally know you, so i can’t say what is really the situation…
but what I can tell you is that there is the religion of christianity and then there is the followers of Jesus. if we do not love our brothers, the light of God is not in us, therefore, if a person is more hung up over what part of your body is bleeding than they are over the love and concern for your healing, than I can rest assured that they probably are religious and don’t know the God I know because those who are born of the spirit have the love of heaven in them, sure from time ot time they miss the mark.. but they have a love that is not from this world.
So as to how you can get the ‘how” first things first I would tell you to stop your ‘circle of wise counsel’ i know this sounds anti biblical but let me explain. I think you need to first get into a ‘cave’ and go before the Lord in prayer and just quiet times with him. Not anyone else but you. Then as you talk to God and listen to God and have a relationship with him, you will begin to open up to new revelations of who he is. this is the beiginning of ‘how’
The reason you need to step away from the ‘christians’ and people around you is because most of them are logical based, even in ’spirit filled’ and ‘charismatic’ churches, few people trully know the deep parts of God, and if you want to know the deep parts of God, you are going to have to cut off what some might call ‘the friends of job’
eventually with a refreshing new outlook on your spiritual life you can reconnect with those people and the subtle religious demonic controls that keep a person from living the God hearing life will not be dictating over you. As for the churches that seem to have life but its in teh front row, that is untrue and false. If the live is in the front row, there is no life at all. Any church that I have ever gone to the most vivid and strong beleivers were the secret unknown ones, they weren’t the shouting evangelists or the prophets, they were the strange hidden ones that nobody wanted to talk to.
Either way, whether you receive something from what I am saying or not, I pray that god takes you close to his heart,because there is nothing that can keep you from his love.
the truth is there isn’t a how, its a letting go of everything you ‘know’. It seems that in ‘obeying scripture’ you are missing the purpose of Jesus. You could not obey scripture and make HUGE mistakes like David did in the Bible, but if your heart is after God and you love God, God will overlook them with grace. You see, ‘all things are permissible, not all things are beneficial’ and that is a major key in the new born life. You could do anything you wanted in your relationship with God, you could do all the drugs, alcohl, sex, gambling, etc etc that you wanted… HOWEVER, with your relationship with God, you don’t do those things because the more you ‘behold the king in your heart” the more those things which are merely forms of poverty, the more those things will just fall away.
You see, absolute abundance and provision is in heaven, when we look away from God, is when we fall into all kinds of ‘panic’ and ‘poverty’ driven actions, trying to fill something in our life we feel is full of void instead of realizing that in Christ we have all things. Christ is all in all, and religion and doing and obeying the bible without relationship will never get you anywhere but psiritually bankrupt. As john paul talks about source.. I would highly recommend that your source change from reading the bible and following the letter of the law, to the source of the holy spirit enlightening your heart soul mind and spirit to what the laws and word of God really mean.
blessings to you.. i hope this helps and has answers..
As for the ‘how’ discussion…
You have to take into account that John Paul Jackson’s web site will naturally attract people who have an affinity for experiencing ’spiritual’ experiences. You probably won’t have the cessationists or dispensationists coming here for answers. If they come they are probably looking for fuel for their apologetic fire.
That being said, for most who are blogging here, connecting with God is something basic and ‘normal.’ But for so many out there it is a mystery. There are a million and one formulas on ‘how.’ I want to hear the ‘how’ from John Paul Jackson because I believe he is one who truly can connect with God spiritually.
PS Mother Teresa was a major ’spiritual’ figure of our recent times. However, she felt like she could not ‘connect’ with God for about the last 50 years of her life!! It is not so easy for everyone to figure out even when they seek with all their might (she evidently did).
Thanks: But let me clear up a little, I know I hear from God and I know he revealed much to me in the past eight years. Actually I love how He has confirmed things a short while later through people such as John Paul. I love what God has done for and through JP or I would not be in here drinking coffee with you all. My “How” was how do you share with others when they don’t want any “spiritual stuff”. I actually have wanted to leave my own family and go to people who “believe”…the Holy Spirit will not allow that (of course) and I am always “in the know” that this is a major battle and that I must wait longer!!! I have found a peace since being in this coffee shop about my children and what God “ONLY” can do. I know I have made major mistakes but I know God wants me to continue this stand, I also know demons cover the land as the dust,
Really mean well here and I do learn and honor others, John Paul touched me mightily. Hey, I still want to know if you did the dance at the end of Shatter, God tv faded away too close to the end????
please smile, I know there are more angels!!! There must be a way to break through and I truly beleive that God was serious about many people I was led to ask for help. When I slipped after 15 months of an easy laying down of alcohol and smoking, I saw demons flying and laughing around my bed “We got you back now”. I never drank nor drugged again, and even though I repented I was unable to lay down my pipe for 5 years. This is warfare and I know God knew I would fear not, but man have I gotten my back-side kicked many a time. God did miracles for me from an unknown illness, but not complete. He never restored my memory as of yet so I cannot memorize scripture properly, but I fight with “The Word”. OK, I was a bit offended but I think you misunderstood my need, My time alone is awesome…I love them all…but I miss my family more when they are home….and the community….HELP please and pray as I pray Heaven for you. If I have offended, forgive and let me know; They shared everything
Thanks for caring Antonio,
Robert
A thought and picture of a baby in the womb flashed through my mind while reading the post. Then I thought it’s sort of like pregnancy in reverse. Holy Spirit is in us and from within us supplies the nourishment, wisdom, revelation, and guidance we need to mature and to reach our destiny and purpose in the “One True Source”.
Blessings,
Kim
“it is there but if we do not utilize or make use of it in our lives it will merely remain spiritual decoration that we talk about to impress our friends.”
Ouch!
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that dull ache I’m feeling in the center of my chest is conviction.
Z
Thanks Will: I am one of those strange hidden ones. My mistakes were not as you percieved, but with trying to get others (whom I love to the max) out of the religious mode you say I am under. I know the cave and I love it, but I cannot escape the fact that God did not pluck me out and Bless me for me alone. So many love their gift and lay aside the Giver and those whom he gifted us to bless. I just never got good at blessing them, yet!
Thanks
I know I might not be saying anything new here but follow me for just a moment.One of the most prevalent problems affecting the faith of Christians in modern times is sin consciousness. We as believers are created to be God conscious. When we were first saved and born again, the reason we cried out for a Savior was because we saw our sinful state, and the effects that state had in separating us from intimacy with God the Father. He who is infinitely Holy and Pure, dwelling in unapproachable light, 1st Timothy 6:16. It was impossible for us, as men and women, who dwelled in darkness, to even comprehend with our minds what pure unapproachable light was, never mind fellowship with Him in pure Love. Some of us it takes years and years to come to this conclusion even as believers, because we only intellectually agreed with this assesment.
We obviously needed a new nature, because ours was not fitted or equipped for such an encounter. A provision was therefore necessary from God to not only forgive us of our sin (singular, or sin nature) but also our sins (plural) and it’s effects resulting from our sin nature. So a shedding of blood was necessary, not only for the forgiveness of sin but a cleansing of all consciousness of sin and it’s effects on the worshiper. Wow, now that’s not only a miracle, it’s Good News. Paul tells in Galatians 3:21 (Amplified Bible) Is the Law then contrary and opposed to the promises of God? Of course not! For if a Law had been given which could confer [spiritual] life, then righteousness and right standing with God would certainly have come by Law.
Hebrews 10:1-4 (Amplified Bible) FOR SINCE the Law has merely a crude outline (foreshadowing) of the good things to come–instead of fully expressing those things–it can never by offering the same sacrifices continually year after year make perfect those who approach [its altars]. 2) For if it were otherwise, would [these sacrifices] not have stopped being offered? Since the worshipers had once for all been cleansed, they would no longer have any guilt or consciousness of sin. 3) But [as it is] these sacrifices annually bring a fresh remembrance of sins [to be atoned for], 4) Because the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take sins away.
So we see sin consciousness plays of pivotal and foundational role in our approach to the Father as worshipers and as Priests in terms of receiving from Him for others.
So the Death and Blood of Christ was a provision by God the Father to put away sin and its effects and power as well as all sin consciousness. This operation is accomplished by Faith in the provision and promise of God for more then just mere intellectual, positional, substitutional application or apprehension, but a real Living Faith that has a manifest substance in the worshipper that demonstrates true Liberty and Freedom from sin and is demonstrated by a deep and abiding Love affair with Jesus and the Father through the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Promise Himself. 2 Corinthians 3:17 (Amplified Bible) Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom).
Is therefore, sin consciousness, in actuality, eating, perceiving and judging from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, rather than by the Tree of Life? Since the Lord said in Genesis 2:17 (King James Version) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Because Adam & Eve determined that they wanted to perceive Good and Evil which at that time they did not posses, they ate the fruit of a tree that was forbidden by God. Though It did not immediately kill them physically, it did open thier eyes to perceive their sinful rebellion. They saw their state as a form of nakedness, which was in reality, a condition of heart that they presumed could be rectified by concealing themselves externally. A false covering was the result. Therefore God Himself had to clothe them with animal skins which required a shedding of blood to cover.
If so than we can conclude that as born again believers, if we are not exercising faith in the shed Blood of Jesus to walk with a pure heart, or clean conscious, then our perception of sin, God, Life, Truth, Love and all things spiritual, will cause us to see all things as either good or evil rather than Life or Death. This perception has profound ramifications. It will cause us to constantly perceive ourselves and others with a filter of sin consciousness, which in turn will force us to remedy things we perceive as evil with our own strength from a desperately wicked religious heart. Other ramifications are withdrawal from Intimacy with God due to constant guilt and exposure of trying to walk in the Light of God. That exposure will also cause us to hide from him, and construct our own fig leaf type covering (other than the blood of Jesus). Theologies and teachings that trick us into believing something positional that in the reality of daily living has no substance. This condition will cause us to conjure up, like a Pharisee or Sadducee, a perception that if by my good religious deeds, we made is wicked in it’s self sufficient approach to God. Our religious approach will also cause us to the outside of the cup look clean, no one will ever really know that the inside of my sin conscious heart intellectually,
(with our natural and carnal mind), begin to turn the truth of God into a lie. Romans 1:25 (Amplified Bible) Because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever! Amen (so be it). How can someone exchange truth if they didn’t already have it? Another good question.
Having a pure heart and clear or clean conscious calls us to come boldly to the throne of Grace, simply because our faith in the Blood of Jesus has real substance, and causes us to approach the throne of Grace to a God who dwells in unapproachable light with boldness and confidence. The sacrifice of Jesus was complete, lacking in nothing, and was 100% effective in dealing with sin in all it’s manifestations and effects on the heart, mind, conscious, memories (He will remember our sins no more), emotions, motives.
A quote I will borrow from Pastor Marc Brisboise is “Sin is a condition much like a Disease. Through Adam and Eve we have all inherited this deadly disease from which there is no escape. Without exception each and every offspring contracts this disease. The only difference from one person to the other is the ability to hide the disease. The sum total of human righteousness is concealment, which is no righteousness at all. For while some are able to conceal the symptoms of the disease, no one is less infected than any other. This is the current condition of the world we live in”.
Please forgive me for so much writing but I think this is very important, not for the purpose of being right but maybe thorough.
Forgive me, the end of the 7th paragraph and begining of the 8th. when I wrote it in word and transfered it to this posting some words were left behind. sorry again.
This condition will cause us to conjure up, like a Pharisee or Sadducee, a perception that I can keep the law by external application in my own strength. They were deceived in believing that by making the outside of the cup look clean, that the inside would automatically be clean. So their wicked heart was theologically concealed, by thinking their external application was acceptable to God. A Cain offering if you will.
This approach blinded them to see the need to experience true cleansing in practical living of a life of obedience bu faith. They never came to know, that the inside of their sin conscious heart, was wicked in its self-sufficient approach to God. Our religious approach will also cause us to intellectually, (with our natural and carnal mind), to offer God sacrifices of the works of our hands, from our own strength.
When the realization sets in that it is unacceptable, we will either repent or we will then begin to turn the truth of God into a lie. Romans 1:25 (Amplified Bible) because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever! Amen (so be it). How can someone exchange truth if they didn’t already have it? Another good question.
“You see one cannot be truely spiritual without utilizing the True, Pure Source of all of creation. You are only as spiritual as the source you plug into or better put plugs into or indwells you. Simply put, wrong source - wrong perception and eventually wrong direction.”
Since there is truly only one reality, Love, anything entrusted to be something beyond Love places faith in nothing at all. I guess, herein would lie a place (primarily fantasy) where our perceptions of life go…as we say…wrong.
Why not simply pay more attention to Love? Well, eventually we ARE bringing our awareness around to where Love simply becomes our focus. Each successive generation utilizes spiritually rich innovations upon the last generation’s inspiration to maximize our willingness to accept how it is we ARE one with The One (God) and The One is one with us. We wrestle with such a reality constantly in our willingness to dialogue how it is we feel about our personal relationship, friendship, and/or spiritually intimate link with TheOneNU and I.
These blog exchanges, I sense, are quite amazing. Can you imagine how Bhudda would have felt having had a chance to connect with this young 30 year old Jew name Jesus who spent a few moments the other day in a chat with a Pythegorian philosopher?
We are all very interested in The Source of our happiness. And, that source rests in the very heart of our being intimately linked to The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit of their expressing us as Love.
In the meantime, what we will we will do to discover a deeper sense of God within. And, what we wish to reach for will not be attempted until we will ourselves to feel comfortable enough to experience it.
AngllHugnU2
Author of IM with God
I am reading what you are saying abou the one true source…. I thought there was only one in the first place but from your writing it seems you are inferring there are two. Is that right?