Matt 5:13

13-”You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

Jesus said that we are to be salt to the earth, he said that if the salt has no flavor it’s useless and is to be thrown out and stomped on. Does being thrown out and stomped on sound like you are going to inherit salvation? Being thrown out and stomped on sounds more like your not bearing fruit and that your going to be cut off from the vine, it also sounds like that you haven’t invested your talents, and that you’re an unprofitable servant who will be cast into outer darkness.

Eating fruit from a branch of the tree or tasting salt always leaves a particular taste in your mouth; it has an effect on the environment within your mouth as the flavor is absorbed by your tongue. When you place a bit of salt in your mouth, it changes the mood and feelings of your tongue and mouth, and it also has an overall effect on the environment around your tongue and mouth.

When we are in Christ we should have an effect on the environment and world around us, if we are not having an overall effect on the environment around us and changing the mood and feelings of society, then we are useless for nothing and are to be thrown away and stomped on. As salt of the earth we should deliver a sour and angry flavor to those who want to wage war and kill innocent people, we should be a sweet and compassionate flavor to those who are suffering, we should be the flavor of justice to those who are being oppressed, and we should be the flavor of rage to those politicians and leaders who plot against the innocent and hatch wickedness.

Amos 5:21, 23-24

21-”I hate, I despise your feast days, and I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
23-Take away from Me the noise of your songs, for I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
24-But let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

God is sick and tired of these Sunday morning Christians who go to church on Sunday morning to praise God and sing, but become idle and dead during the week. As soon as they walk out of the church doors they lose their flavor, and some never even have any flavor when they’re at church. Flavor is a passion to see justice done and make a difference to the world you live in. Having flavor is rejecting the unprofitable pointless conversation that so many people engage in, forsaking all these materialistic pursuits the world says will make you happy, and risking your reputation and comfortable life by attacking the money changers, corrupt politicians, criminal elements and passionately driving them from your community. Being salt to the world means sabotaging the corrupt political infrastructure and corporate bodies who oppress the people, by whipping them with the sword of your tongue, rebuking them with fire and zeal and overturning their money tables.

The earth is apart of God’s house, because it says the earth is our Lord’s footstool. The Zeal for our Fathers house should eat us up; just as the Zeal of Jesus ate him up so much that he violently drove the money changers from the temple. We should be so full of zeal that the pressure of the zeal within us squeezes out salt from us wherever our feet trample, we should leave a flavor of: passion, justice, love and the truth wherever we go. If we do not have not have the flavor of the fruit of the spirit within us we are useless for nothing, God desires us not to lack flavor, as he wants us to change things wherever we go. Sometimes a meal you eat can be dry and flavorless, but if you put a large amount of salt on that meal it changes the flavor of the whole meal completely. If we are following God and abiding in the presence of Jesus Christ, then wherever we go we should be changing things completely as we become salt to the earth.

James preaches on various occasions at churches and other events, he has also had many religious and spiritual articles published in various publications. James was saved by the grace of God from a life of: drugs, crime and occultism. James believes his greatest testimony is that he was brought into God’s Kingdom and his life was saved through the grace of Jesus Christ. You can contact James by emailing him at: James_m183@hotmail.com

The responsibility for the disintegration of unity in the Body of God lies with all God’s followers, and all religious leaders must vigorously engage in a joint spirited effort to rectify this separation.

Objective discernment is needed to uncover ways to mend this rift, for as long as it exists the force of God’s power in the world lies dormant; it can be likened to a sleeping giant.

Rectification necessitates investigation into the history of the Church, that the causes which are succeeding in keeping God’s Power chained may be uncovered. Undoubtedly, they have precipitated division. If perhaps the implementation of laws other than those of God is responsible for the separation, a study needs be conducted so that the reason behind that specific legalization may be bared.
For example: Did the law benefit God’s People or was it rooted in humanness so as to inflate the pride of a leader? Was the law instituted to fulfill a desire for power or was it to satisfy self in response to a personal devotion? Subsequent action to reexamine and either nullify or retain the law needs to be taken. When leaders honestly respond to the task of discernment it is necessary they keep ever before them the Lord’s desire for the unification of His Family. Our God ceaselessly calls for unification, that His power be released to benefit the whole of His creation.

To avoid entanglement in the possibility of disguise, as had been presented to me in March, it is necessary that we worship only our one true God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is necessary that we too strive to retain our spiritual virginity. Metaphorically speaking, we are never to engage in idolatry, that is, to take part in worship of anyone or anything other than God. We are never to allow a lie to pass our lips, that is, metaphorically speaking, we are never to call upon or make petition to false gods, in this particular instance, the beast. After all, only the Lord knows what disguise he will take.

It is obvious that grave, immeasurable importance can be seen in the worship of the One True God. And, if faithfully adhered to, focused, undisputed, single-minded worship of God will eliminate any risk of being drawn into idolatry by way of subtle trickery.

We are as well to heed the words recorded in Wisdom 14:10-12:

Work and workman will alike be punished. Hence judgment will fall on the idols themselves of the heathen, since, although part of God’s creation, they have become an abomination, snares for the souls of men, a pitfall for the feet of the reckless (the unwary).

Yes, God’s People, His Church, could very subtly be led into worship, obedience and service to one other than God. In possible response to the directive of an apparition, misguided into believing it is a holy person, their unwariness and apparent innocence could even convince them that they are justified in their action. The conviction may become even stronger when it appears as though the organization of the Church approves the particular adoration and devotion.

Intense scrutiny and discernment are required in such areas, as hasty approval or apathetic silence could lead to misplaced worship and misdirected, lost souls.

I hesitate to focus on that trauma I experienced in March, yet once again I am met with scriptural passages which confirm its foretelling of the dangers of disguise. Revelations 13:13-15 states:

And it worked great miracles, even to calling down fire from heaven on to the earth while people watched. Through the miracles which it was allowed to do on behalf of the first beast, it was able to win over the people of the world and persuade them to put up a statue in honor of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and still lived. It was allowed to breathe life into this statue so that the statue of the beast was able to speak and to have anyone who refused to worship the statue of the beast put to death

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10,
But when the rebel comes, Satan will set to work: There will be all kinds of miracles and a deceptive show of signs and portents, everything evil that can deceive those who are bound for destruction as they would not grasp the love of the truth which could have saved them.

In reading these passages it becomes obvious that what I saw as a possibility is, in fact, a confirmed probability. Another entity has become empowered to assume disguises for the purpose of drawing adoration to himself. In so doing, he is instrumental not only in drawing worship, obedience and honor away from the Lord Our God, but he is creating division among our people.

The studies of scripture scholars reveal and confirm the subtle trickery of Satan in the assumption of disguise. The confirming footnote to Rev. 13:15 states that, ‘The second beast mimics the Spirit who works miracles in the church to encourage faith in Christ.

What subtle trickery! What an affront! Is that deception occurring today by way of apparitions? Church officials, the Vatican hierarchy, are laden with the responsibility to discern these false guises and subsequently teach God’s People to employ that same discernment.

Worship of anyone other than God, wherever it exists, needs to be abolished. It defies common sense to think it is not instrumental in removing focus from God’s vision for mankind. What our Lord is calling for and awaiting is the transformation of our being, that ultimately we will become like Him, in Whose image and likeness we are created. This metamorphosis will occur through the process of loving, not venerating, externals or others.

Why, I have wondered over and over again, has all of this become known to me? In the beginning I wanted only a closer relationship with God; I did not want any part of prophecy. And yet I also knew it was only through God’s grace that I had been given these gifts. I should not be afraid; He will surely protect me!

Through the power of His Holy Spirit, I have become attuned to His Reality; I have the sense of never being alone. In that security I am experiencing the fulfillment of the promise made by Jesus in that Scripture passage I read earlier today:

Jesus said, “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you for ever, that Spirit of Truth whom the world can never receive since it neither sees nor knows Him; but you know Him because He is with you, He is in You.” (John 14:15-20).

Until we recognize the longing we have come to sense within us as being rooted in a desire for God, we will never be at rest. We might be surrounded by a world filled with people and things and yet we will be lonely and discontented. Why? I believe God our Father planned it that way. He created a void within us, one which can be filled only with Himself. When we finally recognize that desire and enter into a personal relationship with Him, we experience attunement, and our souls will be at rest and the void filled.

It will be so even in the midst of the problems which we as human beings will always have. For in Him, being secure in the knowledge that we are never alone, we will have the strength we need to persevere in any and all situations.

Christian Brotherhood becomes evident in relationship with Jesus Christ and one another. In becoming personally aware of the love God has for us, we develop a sense of bravery and pride. We are strengthened and take delight in proclaiming, “We are followers of Jesus Christ.”

Fear of death is abated; death becomes seen not as an end but as a beginning. Its nebulous, sometimes fear-filled inevitability becomes overshadowed by the knowledge that, through that passage, we will be reunited with our Creator.

For we Catholics, the sacrifice of the mass becomes especially meaningful. We come to know that in receiving the Holy Eucharist, the Body and Blood of Jesus, we are made pleasing to Yahweh, God Our Creator. And, like Jesus, we sacrifice and consecrate our lives to Him. The fruit and purpose of our life becomes known to us. Intuitively we see this as our return to God, and know that our souls and our glorified bodies will be reunited with Him.

We also know that Our Lord desires we become a community. We are to help others embrace those truths which have freed us. In times of distress we are to assist one another; we are to pick each other up, help dust away whatever burden had dragged our fellow down, and wipe away each others’ tears, so that we can trudge on and engage in the challenge of life, for our human condition will ever subject us to on-going temptation, pain and burden.

And, praise God, we do experience joys; their presence is undeniable. We learn that they become manifest by and through the power of the Holy Spirit and work toward the elimination of evil in our lives. A desire surfaces within us to attack and destroy any form of evil, so that humanity can be rid of the destruction it leaves in its path.

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For fourteen years on and off, I have thought I was one of the world’s last two prophets that are going to come to earth and judge the world before Jesus Christ returns to earth to rule it. In the past month Jesus has told me I am not one of the two witnesses but I will know them. Whether people believe Jesus Christ is going to come from heaven and appear as a man on earth with a superior army then the US Government or not is besides the point. The book of Revelation says clearly what is going to happen in the future and the armies of the world are going to be fought and annihilated by God’s only begotten Son and by force he is going to take earth in a bloody battle and then in time shortly after peace is going to come to earth and the people on earth are going to stop crying themselves to sleep.

The two prophets however who are going to be on earth before this happens are going to be granted the power to call down plagues, sicknesses and all sorts of calamity with the authority of God simply by speaking them into being. They are going to judge the world and kill more then a billion people and the governments of the world The mighty US government that rules the world with the strongest army and the strongest dollar at the moment are going to have their very best hired assassins after these two men for three and a half years.

My life up to this point has taught me to be a gentle person and fashioned me with a lot of pain to become a patient and persistent individual. I have spent 14 years talking to God and discussing the role of these two prophets and with the knowledge I have gleaned I know that these two guys are going to be exactly what the world needs.

In one day the brutal bully United States and the Western dummy governments that support this cruel non Christian dictator of terror are going to be faced with two men that have great zeal for the God of Moses, and whose faces are set like flint against the wicked rulers of this planet and all of the people in the world with hearts that are full of wickedness. With carefully designed plagues they are going to announce plagues through their mouths and up to one third of the world’s inhabitants will die as a result.

One of the plagues the two witnesses will first launch is a flue pandemic which has already been prophesied through a message that the great arch angel Gabriel has already given me and I have released on www.ezinearticles.com That’s right, an angel appeared to me and told me to warn the world of this coming flue in the future and his message in the announcement/prophecy was that man was to fear God again and get their act together and that a flue pandemic has been decided by God as an instrument of judgment and is going to kill on the low side 600 million people and on the high side a billion people.

Just like an advanced army commander in chief, Jesus Christ is well acquainted with modern warfare and knows all about pre emptive strikes and knows about clever weapons that surgically remove people with precision and do not harm people standing beside them who are innocents. So as this plague sweeps the world, the pandemic that will enter every country as the planes of the world take sick people to and thro, certain men and women will die and each of those people already have an invisible red dot on their forehead similar to a laser light from an assassins rifle. Oh yes I am just a simple man and I have not the resources of the world media yet, but let me tell you the two types of people that are going to die from this targeted surgical strike by the God of this world.

Every single child molester that is living on the face of the world who has not apologized and made restitution to his victims will when they catch this flue will breathe his last breath shortly after. And added to that every single violent man and women on the face of the world that God with his knowledge will never submit to counseling and training to stop being a violent person. These are people that go to pubs and drink and come home and beat up their wives and children, these are men that you can’t look at twice before they want a fight. These are the American fighters in the drug infested parts of the country; these are the powerful men who rule companies that do violence to the people of the world.

As the pandemic sweeps the world, the world will be cleansed of child abusers and violent people once and for all and this number is way up past 600 million people.. Some of you people think these are the writings of a madman and this seems like fiction, yet some who are in touch with the Holy Spirit, or who have a good heart inside will see that this is a genius stroke by God and a very effective way of judging the evil people in the world.

In God’s mercy, the two prophets will warn the violent people of the world that they need to seek professional help and cease right now from being violent or else they will shortly die, and they will also tell the child sex offenders and rapists of the world that they have to confess their crimes and make restitution to their victims before the pandemic sweeps the world or they too will die in the judgment.

One thing I know of bullies and violent men is that they love being like they are and few of them will seek help, and one thing I know about the government leaders and judges and high profile sex offenders in the world, is that they are so weak in character that they simply will not have the courage to go public with their crimes to save their own life. And so even though this article is a warning to the world perhaps some ten years in advance of this pandemic, even those that read it and who are destined to die will not repent of their sins and turn from their wickedness.

Many tears will be cried as at least 10% of the world dies of this first published plague from the two witnesses, yet the victim’s of violence ,of rape and of child sexual abuse will be kind of crying with happiness that the God of heaven and earth, the Jewish God of the Books of Moses has finally heard their prayers and done something about the injustice that was in their life.

God is well aware of these sick child molesters and the powerful positions they hold in the world and when the world has been told and warned that ONLY people with these crimes will die from the flue their will be a massive massacre happen throughout the world by a loving God of justice, the greatest judge and the good hearted people of the world will want to give this God of the two witnesses some praise and thanks.

This aforementioned flue pandemic is one of four plagues that I already have knowledge of. Each plague will kill people, but with precision will kill only the guilty people who will stubbornly not change or make restitution. The US government had surgical strikes with their precision guided bombs in Iraq and over 50,000 innocent civilians died from those bombs as they went off target.

The American, so called Christian nation action of war in terror has cost 700,000 lives in Iraq on the low side. With about 3000 people or so dying in the twin towers and 700,000 innocent civilians as a direct result of the American led coalition invasion and attack on Iraq, the mighty God of heaven is mighty furious and has his hand raised in fury and has justice on his mind. With simply one gunman he has struck fear into every person in the world, yet in the future people are going to be sick with a kind of morning sickness kind of illness as God reigns down his terror from earth and kills billions of people.

The President of the United States has so much innocent blood on his hands with the occupation of Iraq and the insatiable oil companies greediness who he works for, that the God of heaven simply will have no mercy for that man at his death and on judgment day, no matter what he says he is as a self confessed born again Christian.

Folks, I have met God, on two occasions, once in heaven and once when he came to earth to visit a friend of mine like unto a new Moses, and this big ball of light that looks like a sun, is not a happy camper.

The Christian churches knowledge of the lasts days on earth is the most pitiful I know of and I have not heard or read one thing that any Christian has said about the book of Revelation that rings true with me. They are blind guides and in even publishing books and delivering sermons that attempt to explain that complex mystery in the book of Revelation they show their stupidity as in the last chapter of the book there is a clear warning that taking away from the book of Revelation is going to result in them being sent to hell. Most every writer I have ever read on that book, writing has taken away from the potency of that prophecy and they already have had their name blotted out of the book of Revelation.

The modern church and most especially the prosperity teaching Pentecostal church
is what God refers to as the great whore in the book of Revelation. The great whore, like the American right wing fundamentalist Christian church, is going to be the organization that gives the Beast, Antichrist or the world’s last day’s evil dictator his power and this leader will use the great whore for a season and then when he has all the power he wants he will turn on her and attack her.

The churches in the world are so blind to the truth that they teach that they will not even be on earth to see this Beast, but without knowing that all churches make up the Harlot in some degree, this simply is not so.

The last two prophets will be hated by the modern church. They will set about educating common mankind the errors in the church doctrines and teachings and usher in a new church with the help of 144,000 zealous people in leadership. The two prophets will be powerful and be able to kill with the plagues, but also have a supernatural power to heal and to teach the truth of the Bible in a way that modern man has never seen. The good hearted people of the world from every faith, country and even those without faith will warm to their message and there will be a great pouring into their new movement from every sector of the world.

The established church will lose so many members so fast they will use the media and the governments of the world to scream that this new movement by the 144,000 people and the two prophets is a dangerous cult that should be avoided and this abuse and false name calling will only serve to advertise the movement and bring more innocent good hearted people for a look.

Every sermon the two prophets speak will be to a camera, everywhere they go and all the people they meet will be recorded on camera and the world will be given all of this footage through TV stations and live streaming on one of the worlds most popular websites in the world at the time.

As the Beast rises to power first as a good guy like George W Bush seems to think he is and then as a bad guy who turns to be a ruthless dictator, the Two witnesses will not only have no fear of him, but taunt him and go to war with his might and power with surgical strikes in the form of plagues aforementioned..

The new movement headed up by the two witnesses will be the opposite of every church structure today, similar to many cults in a way, and yet very similar to the first churches started by the Apostles of Jesus Christ.

Jesus said to his disciples that went onto to become the apostles and the leaders of the early church one day, “Freely you have received, freely give.”

This is a profound statement and yet one the most popular Christian teachers in the world simply have no concept of.

Jesus says that a real affective teacher should be giving his information away free. This can be done on the web really easy like this simple article, and it can be done if the people of the movement use their own personal cash to produce the books and DVD’s and information and give it out.

This is what will happen. The people that visit the new churches will never be asked for money, they will simply be taught, healed and encouraged to come back with their friends next time. Yet the next time could be as early as a few hours later as these churches will be open 24/7 and will always have services being run.

The new breed of Christian will be a zealous man and woman that will quite happily sell their expensive houses and expensive cars, and start to pay rent continue to work to fund the church and live simply sharing money with the church and with people in need. The cash that will pour into this new movement will be unprecedented as the zealous believers will know without a shadow of a doubt that God will provide for them and the two witnesses really are the last two prophets so there is little time left for earth and money anyway.

The two witnesses will be very popular in the world before they have the power to strike the earth with plagues and the 144,000 people will be on earth already doing good things for God before the world knows who they are, but when they are known as the two prophets and they have the full power the rush of money to these prophets and this movement will start to wobble the very foundations of free enterprise.

In fact, the new movement will have workers leaving the workforce in droves simply to work and further the movement full time and no more will a man have to do four years study in a college to become a preacher, he will be given a church to run simply as he quits his job.

The whole movement will have this massive website where everything the 144,000 people are preaching, every one of the movements humble preachers are preaching and all the songs being recorded by the movements musicians will be available to be heard and the sermons printed off if they like from their computer. The web site will have massive chat rooms where people from all over the world can chat and though Internet phones they can speak cheaply person to person.

The website will also be open to everyone in the world, allowing you to be part of the movement but never identified as one. And everything on that site will be free to download.

The movement will start businesses, with brands that are superior to the world’s brands and where they will be cheaper as the movement will simply be using the new brands to outfit themselves and to sell to the world something superior for less.

No more will the poor people of the world make clothing cheap, they will be given twice the wages for their work and more, and they will all be happily making products for the movement so their work will be a joy. The poor preachers of the world will be flown to the West and they will teach the Western people how God is more important then money and the Western people in the movement will be blown away by the faith and the power to heal that these poor preachers have.

The movement will have their own recording studios, movie studios, book publishers, radio stations, TV stations, in fact not only will they have all the world has, but it will be superior to the world’s.

The movement will have some of the finest musicians in the world, some of the best actors, directors, producers and technology. The CD’s will be cheaper to buy, and the music for free to download form the website, and all the movies produced will be free to watch through the Internet.

Money will not be important to the movement, only serving God will be.

Jesus said, you cannot serve two masters. He said you will love one and despise the other. Then he said you cannot serve God and Mammon (money)

The modern Christian church does try and serve both God and Money in the West and that is the reason the Western churches are dead and lack the power to do miracles that the East see every day.

Every single actor that wants to act for the movement will get the opportunity to act on stage and on film. They will be taught and given roles to suit them. The movement will produce blockbusters that the world will see, yet their actors would have done their acting for free, they simply will live and act and count that as their service to God and a better world.

The focus will be off making money and becoming wealthy from a great gift, the focus will be on making the world a better place from that gift.

The movement as they gain momentum will be a force to be reckoned with and eventually the church, the media and certain governments will be threatened by it. Some whole countries will embrace the movement and they will invite others in the movement to live in their counties and when you consider that one third of the world’s population will be killed in the plagues and judgments there will be a lot of room in some Western countries.

The movement will simply by choice move to live together year after year and the world will start to show pockets where the movement live and the places where the rest of the people who worship money live.

These safe havens are what Revelation chapter 12 refers to as the wilderness, and the movement I have been talking about is what the same chapter calls the woman.

With free labor and all the cash being earned on the free world by the movements superior quality products, plus all the cash that was earned from selling all their houses and stocks and shares the movement will be seriously cashed up, but as they don’t have any love for money, they will be spending it just as fast to improve the movements impact on society.

The world will see this happiness and joy and the success of the movement and they will either join or become so jealous that they will hate the movement. And just when the time is right the Beast; the Antichrist will go to war with the movement. He might also ban cash and bring in the new monetary cashless society to completely destroy that movements ability to make money from the rest of the world that like to horde it and worship it.

By that time every person with a good heart will had seen such a show of wonderful faith by the movement and would have seen such mighty miracles take place that they would have happily converted to the movements way of life. People from every faith will come happily and leave their old faith behind.

When the Woman of Revelation chapter 12 is safe, in her protected place in the wilderness in that chapter, the mark of the Beast will be introduced to the world, and poor Christians that didn’t think they were even going to be on earth to face the Beast will be faced with trying to live in a world without money. They will be easy to spot, homeless and cold, begging for food from a world that has sold itself to money.

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All too often it seems that people go to God in order to get what He can provide for them rather than simply having a loving relationship. But this is not new as we can see in the Gospel of John.

John 6:24-27: When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Christ knew that they were not there to learn more about God; they just wanted more miracles. They were not seeking him with their heart; they just wanted to be fed. In light of this there is a very interesting verse recorded earlier in the Gospel of John.

John 4:23: But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

Very few were seeking God, but He was seeking those who would want to worship Him. It seems that people want God’s peace, the blessings of health, prosperity and protection. But all too often they look to get these things of God and forget about God Himself. He is more than willing to give us all that we need if we simply come to Him.

Matthew 6:31-33: Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

God says to seek Him and all that He has is ours. The Gentiles had to worry about food, clothing and shelter because they did not have a heavenly Father that would take care of them; but for us, there are no worries when we have a heavenly Father Who cares.

Why look for just the “things of God” when you can have God Himself? Those who only wanted part of God were warned.

Jeremiah 2:13: For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Why settle for just a cistern of water (a vessel to put water in and walk away) when you can live at the fountain of living waters? He has already told us that He seeks those who will worship Him. The word “seek” means to strive to find, to ask after, to inquire and it shows intensity and effort. We should be as eager to seek Him as He is to seek us.

Even when the Children of Israel turned away, God was willing to take them back if they would just reach out and seek Him. How could anyone not want to seek such a loving God?

There is a wonderful record in the Gospel of Luke that once again describes the depth of seeking that we should have.

Luke 2:43-49: And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business? If you were a parent, would you be seeking your lost child with your whole heart? This is the same word “seek” that refers to us seeking God and God seeking those to worship Him. As truly wonderful as our God is, we should seek Him daily with all our hearts so that we can know Him, love Him and worship Him.

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Duke Clarke is a teacher/minister/writer/coach/father/husband with a passionate zest for life. For the past 30+ years Duke has helped others grow and expand their lives. His articles and websites are designed to get you to think and discover life. Check out his information at

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When I watched the DVD of the bestselling book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, I had to smile. Not because I thought the principles taught were funny, but because I had known about them for years. Not only that, they come right out of the Jewish mystical tradition called Kabbalah - although people rarely talk about this fact. The people featured on the The Secret discuss how to manifest what we want and how to create what we desire, by combining thought and feeling. They don’t talk too much about the need for action as well, but it is somewhat implied. This technology for conscious manifestation can be found clearly Jewish mystical teachings.

First, the Kabbalistic creation story involves God manifesting the world with a series of 10 utterances. In other words, God spoke the world into existence. What precedes words? Thoughts. What precedes thoughts? Letters. The Kabbalists believed that the foundation of the world consists of the Aleph Bet, or Hebrew alphabet. Why? Because letters create thoughts that are expressed in words, and when words are spoken (ie. God said, “Let there be light, and there was light.”) they have an effect. In other words (excuse the pun), letters have a creative energy, and when combined into words , those words create worlds.

Second, if you look just beyond this creation story, you will find the Kabbalistic description of the Four Worlds of Creation. The Four Worlds, simply translated as Being, Thinking, Feeling, and Doing, provide a pathway for manifestation in the physical plane. We begin with the world of connection with Divine energy from which the will to create something - inspiration - comes. Moving that energy into thoughts of what we want, we then take that thought into a feeling place - we experience what it would be like to have what we want. Finally, in the fourth world we take action towards what we want. It’s also possible to use the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, with its 10 sefirot, or emanations, and follow a similar path to conscious creation.

And then, if you want the physical manifestations of your desires to seem really magical, try using an incantation when you visualize or speak what you want into existence. The Aramaic word “abracadabra” literally means “He has created as he has spoken” - manifestation according to the power of words. Abracadabra comes from the verb “daber,” which refers to organizing “speech.” Our speech orders things - as in creating order out of chaos - into being. In biblical Hebrew the expression would be “abrakaamra,” which comes from the verb “omer” and refers to the creative “word” itself. So, our words have a creative ability. Thus, the secret is revealed: Our thoughts and our words are creative. Any Kabbalist could have told you that.

Nina Amir, an acclaimed journalist, motivational speaker and Kabbalistic conscious creation coach, currently is writing Setting a Place for God, A Woman’s Guide to Creating Sacred Space and Inviting the Divine to Dwell Within It. She also is the author of a booklet, called Abracadabra: The Kabbalah of Conscious Creation. For information on Amir’s books, teleseminars and classes, visit http://www.purespiritcreations.com or call 408-353-1943.

The public are very fickle. One moment a famous celebrity is riding high, next minute, the celebrity has fallen out of favour. Nowhere is this more heartbreaking and unfair, than in the story of Jesus Christ. The greatest celebrity of his day.

But, just as happens with modern day celebrities, people misunderstood Jesus’s motives. They thought he had come to get rid of the Romans! We can understand how they could think that, because it was the one thing they wanted. Anyone who is living through, or has lived through, an occupation, will know how the Jews felt at the time. If Jesus had been around in the 1940s, they would have hoped, and no one could blame them for hoping, that Jesus would get rid of Hitler and the German Army!

But Jesus’s answer would have been the same in the 1940s. He wanted us to love our enemies (Luke 6:28) and forgive them! So, as far as the Jews were concerned, he had let them down, and the people who had cheered him on Palm Sunday, were crying out for his crucifixion by the time Friday came (Luke 23: 18-21)

What they could not know, was that, in the end, Jesus DID defeat the Romans. Rome is now the Christian capital of the world. It is where the Pope lives and every Easter people flock to Rome to hear the Pope’s message. So God always sorts things out, but he does it in his own time, not ours. That is what we have to remember, whenever we are disappointed by events in our lives that we want God to change. He, who did not spare his own son, is not going to give us special treatment, but he is aware of our problems and will solve them his own way. One thing we know is, whatever God does, is for our own good.

God does not create problems for us. Often, we make problems for ourselves, or problems occur because other humans interfere because we all have free will and sometimes make wrong decisions. Therefore, it is no use blaming The Son Of God for what happens to us. We need, instead, to praise him for giving his life, so that in the end, we will be able to go home.

This life is only temporary. We have a much longer life in front of us, in heaven. Thanks be to God!

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The terms “life experiences,” “choice,” “karma,” “and unconditional love” are all part of the same whole. I will explain them individually, in the way that I received them in my own teachings; however, they must be understood holistically. One without the other can bring confusion. Together, these terms explain the wonder of life.

Life Experience

Life is physical. We are born into a physical body, and we live in a physical world. We interpret our experiences physically. This physicality allows us to “feel,” which the spirits have explained to me is the major component of the earth experience. The earth experience is one of emotion, where the soul acquires a physical understanding of emotion. For example, it is one thing to conceptualize anger and another thing to experience anger and to feel it throughout the body. The same holds true for love. It is significantly different to think about being in love and about the concept of love than it is to “feel” love and the emotions and physical sensations of love. When one thinks of the vast array of human emotions, one realizes how many lifetimes must be lived in order to “know” life.

It is the spirits’ message that we live many lifetimes and experience many life forms and situations along our path to understanding. With each incarnation, your spirit selects the physical realities you will experience in that lifetime. You, embodied in your spirit, choose the circumstances you will be born into: the life conditions, the geographic location, the economic status, the handicaps, and the body type. You actually choose all of the fixed factors that will constitute a major portion of your life experience. You also choose your variable life conditions-those conditions that can change through growth and development as you progress through life. These choices constitute the conditions under which you live each lifetime. What you have chosen to experience is designed for a particular unfolding of your soul. The choices are made at a spiritual level-a soulful, subconscious level-before you incarnate into this particular body. The unfortunate thing about being human is that you do not get to remember, consciously, the spiritual choices that you made before your incarnation. This lack of remembering, however, allows you to experience each life fully and completely in its current physical reality.

Choice

Choice, or free will, refers to how you choose to relate to your life’s conditions. You can always choose your reaction to any given circumstance, which means that variables can change instantaneously with each choice. Your choices have direct impact on both your physical life and on the growth of your soul. Each lifetime will grant you a different perspective and facilitate new awareness. Each will provide physical experience for the soul. You may spend several lifetimes experiencing the hardships of life without any inclination to seek God or enlightenment; however, there will come a time when the soul asks you to wake up, to pay attention, and to look at the big picture of life. Questions like, “What is the purpose of life?” “Who am I?” and “What is God?” will arise in you. You will begin to search for answers. This may take many lifetimes and numerous answers, each with a variation of experience and exposure. In the end, every soul will reach enlightenment because every soul is a reflection of God.

You may wonder why anybody would choose negative life experiences like sexual molestation, alcoholism, or being born into warring or starving countries; however, each life has a divine plan with necessary experiences for the soul. All life experience adds to personal growth. No life is a waste; there are no mistakes. No lifetime is judged to be better than another because each is a chosen experience toward enlightenment.

A soul might choose to experience prejudice. You may have chosen to be a slave during the 1700’s in the United States as one dimension of the experience of prejudice. Since the soul is seeking to know all dimensions, you may then have chosen a lifetime as a slave owner, and then as a Ku Klux Klan member, then a parent who lost a child to the Klan, then a person of interracial marriage, and then a parent of someone who chose to marry interracially. Every conceivable perspective of prejudice could be experienced. The lessons in each of these lifetimes become a part of the unfolding process of the soul. You may currently be experiencing a lifetime with alcoholism-as the parent of an alcoholic, or the child, or the spouse, or the counselor, or as the alcoholic who dies from liver failure, or the alcoholic who survives and becomes reformed. Whatever perspective you are living is part of the divine plan for you to experience and learn from.

Nothing is experienced singly; everything is interwoven with others who constitute your lifetime experience. Once you, as a soul, make the choice to experience a particular concept, other souls help you play out these experiences. They are often referred to as your “spirit family.” We tend to experience life on earth with a particular group of souls, changing parts, or scripts, with each lifetime. You will find numerous links and interconnections with your family or circle of friends when you start to explore other lifetimes. It can be fun and healing. Behaviors, attitudes, and trauma can be understood more completely from the deeper historical perspective. Here is an example:

I was told a great true story the other day about a woman who was researching her genealogy. She traced her family line back to the era of the Civil War when her family served as slaves. She reached an impasse in her project, and was directed to a genealogy specialist. She and the specialist became great friends as they explored different aspects of her family’s history. They developed a special bond and were both glad their lives had come together. As their investigation continued, they discovered that they shared a common history. The genealogist’s ancestral family members were plantation owners during the Civil War, and, in fact, were the plantation owners where this woman’s ancestral family served as slaves!

Coincidence you say? Hardly.

Many times, in the process of a soul retrieval, I will journey to a client’s past life experience. A healing can be done in this past life reality that will actually affect my client’s current life-a phenomenon that underscores that time is relative. The spirits have repeatedly told me that time is not linear but holographic, meaning that all things happen at the same moment but in different realities. This makes shamanic journeying for soul retrievals, or visiting different lifetimes, possible. The person doing the journey travels into that particular time dimension. The ability to cross into other dimensions means we can relive or view a past event and find healing in what we thought no longer existed. We can remember a future before it is present.

Jan promotes self-healing, empowerment, better communities, a healthier world- conducts workshops for shamanism and journeying. Her book, Becoming Yourself is at http://www.janengelssmith.com . Jan is a Licensed Counselor and shamanic practitioner.
She has done over two thousand soul retrievals. She is the founder of LightSong School of Shamanic Studies, a Chemical Dependency Specialist, and Marriage and Family Therapist. She is a water pourer for sweat lodge, a minister, and a Reiki Master.

And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. (1 Corinthians 15:14)

Take the Resurrection out of Christianity and you have not Christianity ! Resurrection is the essence of Christian faith.

The apostle Paul is talking in 1 Corinthians 15 about the importance of Resurrection and about the major aspects of the Christian faith that are affected by Jesus’ Resurrection.

The first aspect of the Resurrection is the historical aspect. Resurrection is not a fairy tale, but a historical reality! This aspect was proved by Jesus’ friends and was proved by Jesus’ enemies. Starting more than 2000 years ago people are still believing and are ready to die to prove this truth.

In spite of the fact that there are many enemies that are trying to deny and to bring doubt about this reality, Resurrection of Christ is a proved historical fact and His church is the best prove of this.

The second aspect of Jesus’ Resurrection is the soteriological aspect. Soteriology is the doctrine of Salvation.

Paul is stating very clear, without Jesus’ Resurrection there is not salvation, we are lost and our sins are still pressing over us. Without Jesus’ Resurrection there is not righteousness (Romans 4:25). Without Jesus’ Resurrection there is not a Good News, there is not a Gospel of forgiveness.

His Resurrection was prophesized by the prophets of the Old Testament and by Jesus Himself. Jesus’ Resurrection is the Father’s approval for His ministry, suffering and death. Without Resurrection, Jesus’ suffering for us would have been in vain.

The third aspect of Jesus’ Resurrection is the empirical aspect. When I’m saying empirical I mean touchable or practical aspect.

This aspect is answering to the today’s practical question: “How Jesus’ Resurrection is affecting me now in April 2007?”

The apostle Paul is talking about the fact that all the people who don’t know Jesus as Lord and Savior are dead in their iniquities and sins. When we come from darkness to the light we are RESURRECTED or we experience METANOIA the changing, the renewing of our mind (Romans ch. 6, Romans 12:1).

In other words we are experiencing the Resurrection here and now, we become a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). We are not perfect, but we are a new person.

The apostle Paul is talking about experiencing the power of Jesus’ Resurrection and this is what we receive when we believe and when we live as a true witness of the Resurrection.

The fourth aspect of Jesus’ Resurrection is the eschatological aspect. Eschatology is the doctrine about the end times.

Jesus’ Resurrection is pointing to the time when our physical body we’ll be resurrected and transformed too. Actually, this is one of the most comforting thoughts that we have when we are facing death, this is our hope: THE RESURRECTION.

The apostle Paul is talking here about another future aspect that will involve Resurrection, and this is JUDGMENT. He says that all people will be resurrected, but some to receive their reward and some to receive their punishment.

These are only few major aspects of Jesus’ Resurrection, and this should be enough to make us understand how important is this for us and for our eternal destiny.

We still have the time to change our life and to expect Resurrection with hope and to enjoy our eternity with our Lord. If you’re reading this and you don’t believe in Jesus’ Resurrection you have to know that you’re lost and hopeless, but still you have the great chance to experience God’s love NOW.

Because of the strong commercial aspect of our society, the Easter became like a second hand holiday, with rabbits and eggs. I hope that this words we’ll help us understand how important is this event for our faith, for our lives and for our eternal destiny.

John Urs-http://www.saltlightmin.com

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The United States Constitution declares that all men (referring to men and women) are created equal and that they are entitled to such rights as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s a wonderful concept and we have seen those who have benefited tremendously in their pursuit of happiness and we have seen those who, with little or no pursuit, have not benefited.

Somewhere along the line, we natural-born American citizens have adopted the idea that our constitution puts a demand on life that says life must be fair to us.

This thinking says that since I am born equal to everyone else, I should have what everyone else has as well. There are two problems with this-first they have overlooked the word “pursuit” and secondly, life is not and never will be “fair”.

For those that look to God for the matters of life, this is a good thing. While we do believe that life comes from God Who created all things, life is still not fair. Life may present an equal opportunity to all, but there is still “pursuit” involved and even with this pursuit, the results of those opportunities may be unequal. Let me explain.

Matthew 13:3: And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

Now just looking at this verse we have to consider something. When someone sows seed do they receive back just what they’ve sown? That would be called “fair”-sow one and get one back. But when a farmer sows seed, he always receives back much more, way out of proportion to what he has sown. Now let’s look at the whole parable.

Matthew 13:1-9: The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

All seed was the same and had equal opportunity, but not all had the same results, depending on its situation. Even the seed that landed on good ground all had the same opportunity but they produced at different levels. The seed planted did not yield seed for seed but some thirty, some sixty and some hundredfold.

In this parable, Christ tells us that the seed is the Word of God and I John tells us that the Word of God is life.

Life in its basic state has two major components-first that life itself is to be lived and enjoyed then secondly, life has the ability to reproduce itself. Some Christians would say that our main purpose is to give this gift of life away to others meaning to witness to other about life after death.

I believe that the church epistles contain much more about living this life we have now than only being here to evangelize others. The wonderful side benefit of living this life to the full is when we do it, we attract others who want what we have so we can then give it away.

Let’s look at another example.

I Peter 1:23: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

The physical seed is called “corruptible” not because it is bad, but because it doesn’t last forever. But that one seed and one egg unite and multiply many times over, producing more seeds or eggs-once again showing that life produces more than just itself.

Is it “fair” or “equitable” that all we had to do was confess Jesus as lord and believe that God raised him from the dead and we received salvation and everything that comes with it?

God did not design life to be fair or equitable-that would mean equal return for equal effort. Thank God He created it with far greater capacity than that. God designed life to return bountiful, limitless portions to all who pursue it. We desperately need to understand this truth, so we can live our lives to the fullest and enjoy God’s blessings are without limit.

Duke Clarke is a writer/teacher/coach to help individuals reach their full potential in life. Go to http://www.TheThinkingChristianInstitute.com or http://www.DukeClarke.com for more information.

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“Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put the full armor of God so that you can take a your stand against the devil’s scheme…”(Ephesians 6:12)

“The kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into the pails. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.”(Mt.13, 47-49)

There are people who have sought to charismatics to ask assistance from God in very painful situations. The greatest numbers are those who suffer from enfant terrible evil curses.
The sufferings to which they are exposed are various and terrible: anguish, very grave psychical plague, paralysis, inability of being autonomous, incapacity of work, accidents and chains of misfortunes, a variety of illness and loss of interior bliss.

Never as today, have people had recourse to the demon, the enemy of Jesus Christ, to achieve their diabolical plots. These are often very ambitious people who want to make it at any cost the goals they have prefixed, ready to do anything to stop rivals and enemies. Others try to take vengence. Others are impelled by envy. Usually they are people who have lost any trust in Jesus Christ in the trials of life, who do not oppose resistance to the temptations of the enemy, craving for earthly goods, for human glory and for money. Then overwhelmed by passion, they decide to turn to the ones who oaths power, immense favors in the world, supplication in return for total dependence on the devil and surrender of the immortal soul. This takes place by means of black magic, through which that man is no longer under his own control and no longer has God as his Most Holy Father, but the Beast becomes his or her god. This man or woman resolves his or her problems by having recourse to evil magicians, witches, and wizards. This is the first step, then, little by little Satan and his evil spirits enter into the life of the person. He enters and reachs for these unfortunate people what they be eager, eliminating their hated rivals, torturing them in many ways; the followers of Satan naturally lose the peace of their souls. They only have grudges and spite in their hearts and they rejoice in seeing others suffer. Foolish and blind people, they forget that, after death, the one whom they have given themselves will take them where “there is wailing and gnashing of teeth, “eternally tortured by who is absolute evil.

Those people, perverted by the great error, should turn to the Divine Mercy of Jesus Christ. Guilty person who love greatness know that you will lose the greatness of sons of God; you who wish that man or that woman at any cost, know that you will never have the joy of true love, but a dark passion: you who are so much in love with wealth, know that you will lose the treasures of Heaven and eternal graces which is yours as sons of God.

Those who receive these evil curses pray to be set free from them, but this is not enough because the infernal powers who torture souls, oppress the human powers and cause a sense of profound bitterness and loneliness, which only the strongest spirits can resist.

One should help them as much as possible and in a stable and constructive way. The infested person is like a house infested by terrible enemies. How, then can we expel them?
The first thing is to show, with words and deeds that we do not adhere to them, not even in the smallest things, ideas, behaviors. In short, one must have an irreproachable which never surrenders to flattery, fears and impositions. And the most important part is done.

The physical aspect is also to be considered because these possessions involve the body which suffers under infernal action. Uneasiness and indispositions can be kept away by fervent prayer, by receiving the Holy Sacraments and by the use of all, I repeat, all those spiritual signs which are sacramentals: the sign of the cross, holy water, holy oil,holy salt, the sound of the bells, the reading of the Gospel and others. Also he who fears any evil spirits, should pray Psalm 144 in connection with Psalm 145 with reverence for praying these Psalms will drive away all evil spirits and phantoms instantly.

The first thing however is to empty the soul of sin and to resolve not to fall back into daily faults.

Those who pray for people who are infested by diabolical curses are praiseworthy, but beware, these persons should be pure, worthy and deserving the presence of God and they should generously detach themselves from every attachment of sin, before pronouncing any liberating prayer.

“I put on God’s armor to resist the devil’s tactics. I stand my ground with truth buckled around my waist and integrity for a breastplate. I carry the shield of faith to put out the burning arrows of the evil one. I accept salvation from God to be my helmet and receive the word of God from the Spirit to use as a sword…”(Ephesians 6:10,11,14,16,17)

Luis Gregory is doing Apostolic work with the Life in the Spirit Ministry. Spreading the Bible online is a calling. Send free Bible verses to love ones and Bible study groups. http://www.SuperBibleMail.com