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December 31, 2025 and God is still on the throne. My time with God is so important. I have learned to lean on God for a great many things. God's presence is in everything and can be seen everywhere. So can the world's presence be seen everywhere. 

What mankind has done with what God created is quite disturbing. It seems, as a people, we tend to destroy everything, kind of like how rust destroys steel. I am part of it. I too lay waste to many of God's great perfections. I flounder when I should be excelling. I waste time, even though I know it is precious. I exploit our natural resources and assist in polluting our environment. I contribute to the overall declining condition of our earth, our social environment and our spiritual lack.

Even while doing all this, I recognize God's presence and Sovereignty. I pray and discuss topics of importance with God. I reveal myself as God uncovers me and reveals more. I ask while God gives more and more, but I only hear a little bit of what God is saying to me. I find my mind wandering and aloof as God speaks to me. My spirit is willing but my flesh is weak. I do not make excuses to God for my behavior. I tell God what I am thinking and God tells me how to think better. 

At the end of each day I bring to the LORD my burdens, cares, indiscretions and fears and lay them at His feet. I ask forgiveness for my sins and ask that God will revitalize my cells and rejuvenate my health. I ask for things that I want. I have brief discussions about how I might utilize additional resources. I am also honest and tell God that maybe I would not be as good of a steward of these additional resources as I think I might be in my mind, before I receive them. I seldom make promises to God anymore. 

I look to understand how God is operating in this generation, the times we are in, in our government and in the social scene. I freely discuss with others, things I sense about their lives, or things I think might benefit them. I speak for God, and do not hide from allowing God to user me in this way. People need to be encouraged, and I encourage them. I need to be encouraged and God is always present. God evaluates me, through me, and I fall short. At the same time I stand tall in knowing that I do not have to present myself in any perfected condition. God has made a provision for me to stand before Him not concerned that my contribution to the will of God may not be noticeable. The Holy Spirit in me, presents me as though I were perfected, not recognizing my shortcomings, frailties, sins and indiscretions. God accepts the offering of my self to Him, because of His own work in me. Maybe someday my work will be measured and my offerings acknowledged, but for now, God is doing any work that has efficacy. 

That's right, going into 2026 I am wanting to do even less and let God do more, see less and just believe that more is getting done, work less and just be me. Maybe someday my work will be measured and my offerings acknowledged, but for now, God is doing any work that has efficacy.  God doesn't need me to interfere or intervene on His behalf. God needs me to just be me. 

God needs you to just be you.

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We have seen too much violence lately. Even though the Bible clearly tells us that it will be this way, it is hard to grapple with the level of intensity and the uncommon activities of those perpetuating violent crimes. 

I think we have all come to understand that God does allow bad things to happen to good people. That's right, despite our prayers and supplications, our interventions and participation in God's plan, God allows bad things to happen to good people. 

Since this is true, rather than questioning the wisdom of God, which is unsearchable, I have found the answer lies in this question: What are you going to do with what God allowed to happen?

Trying to figure out God beyond the self-disclosure that God gave us through Christ, the writings of the Bible and the indwelling Holy Spirit is futile. God already revealed Himself through Christ and the ongoing indwelling of the Holy Spirit inside our heart/mind/spirit/soul. We do not need more disclosure to have full assurance and understanding of God's Sovereignty, Omnipotence and Holiness. God gave us, without solicitation, the innate ability to access activate and operate in cooperation and coordination with His perfect will. He then empowered us through faith in Christ to enable direct contact with God, through Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. 

What are you going to do with what God allowed to happen? Answering the many questions about life, and the ongoing struggle of finding our way in a world filled with ungodly activities, can only be found in participating in the plan of God with the understanding we currently have, in the place we currently are, under the conditions we are currently in. Seeking out unanswerable answers from God has no efficacy. Learn to respond to events, all events, even tragic events, by projecting what your next action will be, based on what you already know. 

God has not hidden something from you, that if you ask ten thousand times, God will finally reveal to you because of your importunity. You have your answer, What are you going to do with what God allowed to happen? 

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 Wow! what a last few years of chaos. I am back online and praying that God will bless me with words of encouragement to share with you. Getting To Know God Better 49 coming soon.

Thanks for your patience

I sure would like to hear some comments in the near future

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 I'm feeling a certain draft/suction on my soul caused by the "Group."

There are so many people today that are driven or lead by trend setters and mind suckers, those willing to spew out all kinds of unverified din, those with no compunction for right or wrong, only promoting their cause. These people (the Group) stand in the way of those innocent and easily assuaged travelers on the path of life to steer them off the path into dark, dank, dangerous, disgusting and treacherous places. Young and beautiful people are being hustled like cattle into troughs of lies, deceit, false beliefs and trickery to indoctrinate the unexpected into the meme of wariness. 

This Group of life sucking, devouring and destroying people are a malignant virus of sorts attaching itself to everything and everyone possible in hopes of thwarting any and all efforts for anyone to have and pursue a beautiful and enlightened life/lifestyle. This Group wants everyone that is not part of the group to suffer loss, feel despaired, to not hold true to your roots, to feel disgraced and unwanted. They mock the ancient ways. They mock good and sensible, tried and true, respected and sound principles and beliefs. They mock Christians and Jews, and other believers of other faiths, any and all that deny the sovereignty of the group. They are irreligious, full of pride, haughty and scheming, mean spirited and dangerous.

This Group uses science books written by fiction authors to build a new strain of beings, subject only to the policy of the writers. They are re-writing history and creating a fantasy about who we were, who we are and who we will be. This Group allows no personal thought unless approved by its members. This Group denies God any place other than non-existent, to be spoken of only as an archaic myth. 

They blame everyone except themselves for our condition as a people.

If you are wondering if this sounds like strong language and a strong objection to the Group, read this: 

 2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 

2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 

2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 

2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 

2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 

2Ti 3:7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

This is not a treatise on "the last days" and in no way am I suggesting that there is any cause and effect derived from this scripture reference, but it is a clear indicator that even two thousand years ago there were those people with insight into the depravity of this Group.

What makes the outcome of the behavior of this Group so insidious is that what they purport, they disguise under banners, such as; racism, non-inclusivity, social justice, reparations, and sensitivity training. All the while they are practicing racism, non-inclusivity, anti-social justice, taking from others for gain for themselves and intolerant sensitivities to anyone outside the Group.    

This is a Group of fools.

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." PSA  14:1

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You might be thinking: God is having to work extra hard to keep a foothold in the US.

That is what the godless population wants you to think, but there is no truth in it. God has foreseen every event and condition of all peoples for all times. God is not moved by the so-called progress of the godless against the Spirit of God. The godless have gained nothing, only losses have gone their way. The godless can make headway with the godless, but not with the godly. 

OK, you're wondering, then why is it that so many young people are turning away for Christianity? Who would you blame? Let's face it, the Christian community is very diverse and quite often confused about its identity; fighting over the littlest things, making fun of the differences between them, having to be right all the time at the expense of truth, foolishly chasing the charlatan and pettifogger, indoctrinating their parishioners in lieu of leading them. The list goes on. Young people would be flocking to Jesus if Jesus was being represented by loving, caring, followers of Christ instead of followers of tradition or dogma or church polity or nationalized religion. Don't get me wrong their are genuine believers in all denominations, but if you are trying to lead people to a religion, Jesus is still taking a backseat.

Don't be worried about the conditions of the times. God is full aware of the condition of mankind. He has made provisions for times such as these: 2Pe_3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

The conditions of our times cannot be accurately represented by the ungodly, secular humanist, agnostic, atheist or any man-made religious philosophy. The conditions of the times can be accurately represented by God Himself: 2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 

2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 

2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 

2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 

2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 

2Ti 3:6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 

2Ti 3:7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

Like I said, don't be worried. 

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Getting to know God better requires simple faith. I say simple faith, because simple faith is not incumbered by a multitude of religious polity or Church dogma, or any other complicated relationship, like having to be of a certain rank in your religious system or possessing a certain title. 

Simple faith trusts what God says about Himself. Simple faith doesn't have to be politically correct or gender driven, doesn't have to be practiced a certain way or always saying the right thing. Simple faith relies on God.

Does simple faith mean that you can't grow in faith or expand your spiritual horizons?

Does it mean you can't have or earn a title or a position in the Church?

Does it mean you can't be intellectually stimulated with all levels of higher learning?

No, but as a person grows in faith, the importance of the personal relationship and understanding of God, through Christ, via the Holy Spirit becomes more important and the relationship to titles or positions, organization rules, regulations, polity or dogma take a back seat. 

It's not that these things don't have importance or that you should ignore the ideals associated with membership title, or position, it's just that as the depth of your personal relationship with God grows, you begin to integrate more of God's pure economy into your everyday living. 

As you get closer to God, God becomes the focal point.

How to find God
How to get to God
How to please God

How to please God's people

    All become of less significance. 

I've known people trying to find God over and over again for twenty, thirty or forty years.

Ever seeking, never finding.

I've know people who have found God and they are so disappointed that they decide to move on through life without God's oversight.

I've known people who try so hard to get in God's good graces that they ruin their relationship with their loved ones and others around them. Trying to please God using manmade methods is wholly fruitless.

I've known people who lose all interest in their loved ones and friends to serve religion, religious ferver/fever.

Getting to know God better enhances your relationship with people.

Getting to know God better enlightens your mind to be able to serve God and love mankind at the same time.

Getting to know God better expands your horizons, bringing to bear all possibilities in life, not suppressing the spiritual component, but integrating the spiritual with the carnal to become whole.

    That's right. Those who do not house the Holy Spirit are not whole and cannot be.

    You can be fully human and fully carnal, but not whole.

    Without the Spirit of God, there are so many limitations.

I know that there are many people that believe that they are just as good and just as honest and just as honorable, having not received the Spirit of God. They are correct. The Spirit of God does not purify your behavior, it just saves you from the eternal consequences of that behavior. 

Yes there are many wonderful, honest, grateful, people that have not received the Spirit of God. 

But those people have a limited experience here on earth, because they do not have within them the indwelling Holy Spirit. They do not have the internal steering mechanism that runs on Spirit power. Even though their thoughts can reach high and develop new creations, their ability is limited. Not everything is measured by prowess or intellectual property or invention. There is also understanding and wisdom that reach beyond mental acumen and touch the world with spiritually empowered events or actions. Spiritually endowed actions bring to pass God ordained events.

OK, your not buying it. The world around you is pointing to the so-called fact that secular society can get along just fine without the aid of the supernatural intervention. Really. That's the thing, those who do not have the Spirit of God are trying to teach those who have the Spirit of God, that having the Spirit of God is of no advantage, personally or globally. It's like someone who has never seen an eagle try to explain an eagle to someone who has raised or studied eagles for a lifetime. 

Moral of the story.

Don't let the uninitiated teach you how to be initiated.  

 

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 I want to speak to those people whose god is science.

You really think you are onto something when a TV personality comes out with some new science fact. A doctor or scientist says something and you drool like a wolf looking at a fresh rabbit. Because it is preached under the guise of science you take it in like a home cooked meal. I say preached because that is what it is. We as a people need to be more careful.

Of course there is good science and the scientist as a community are valid and useful. Once so-called scientific fact has been vetted and goes through the process of vetting by multiple professionals, the general public and the scientific community as a whole, that science is produced in an understandable format and distributed to the non-scientific community and we assimilate the information into our daily lives and expect the results to be measurable and useful in our everyday experience. 

That's not what's happening today 2020. Scientific are joining with political parties to advance certain causes that will best serve the party and steer economic decisions. Two items in point:

1.    Global warming - All of a sudden after so-called millions/billions of years the earth is now warming at such a rapid rate that if we don't do something like (spend money, build a political platform that benefits one party, plant the deliberate seed of deception in the minds of jejune journalists) then the earth will fail to provide is protection and sustenance that it has provided for (God knows how long). 

If you are on of those who believe the global warming chicane, so be it, but don't try to convince any intuitive or spiritually minded person that your acceptance of this hoax equals some kind of scientific proof. Blindly accepting this kind of deception without carefully scrutinizing the claims personally and through the non-political scientific community gives way for one of the biggest scams of all times. Huge corporations rake in trillions from unaware citizens through corrupt government exploitation. The average citizen bears the expense in higher taxes and subsidy programs that will drain their savings and ruin any chance for financial freedom. No good can come of this kind of trickery.  God thinking is about using sound judgement when making up our mind about this or that. Passing on false information to others under the pretense that you have been proved the validity of Global warming is in itself a kind of deceit. It make sense to pause before coming to a conclusion about such an alarming and significant threat.   

2. Racism is a pandemic - This is all over the news. If you believe that racism is a pandemic, you live in a very narrow, politically driven sphere. Are there racists out there? Absolutely. Is racism a pandemic? No. But if you are like many other politically motivated, socialist or communist, fear mongering, anti-American activist, then, if you try real hard, for an extended period of time, and support and motivate enough hate groups, you might be able to cause a racism pandemic. But there is not one going on now. This new movement to make America racist again is another blip in history where someone wants to take something from someone else that they do not even know to give it to themselves.  They are bent on tearing down and taking from others to build themselves up. They do this in the hopes of; 

• Changing history
• Denying those who have gone before them their own personal story
  
• Judging the dignity of someone living in a different time with different standards, laws, morays by the standards, laws and moray's of today's free American.
• Removing statues and other reminders of who we once were as a nation. These reminders offend them as if they had any idea of what those people went through in their time to reach whatever station in life they obtained. 

It is disgraceful to perpetuate such ignorance. 

What does God have to say about it?

2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 
2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 
2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti_3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 
Jud 1:12  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 
Jud 1:13  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. 
Jud 1:16  These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. 

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"Keep your eyes on the prize."

You know this has been one of the main mantras of the Christian community for Millennia. I'm thinking we can do better for ourselves and service to God. Keeping your eye on the prize does work well as a self-serving preservation of sorts to strive toward the end goal of being with the LORD. But there is so much more that can be accomplished, not only toward the end goal, but along the way.

I am practicing "Keeping my eyes on the day, along the way." I'm saying that the daily toil of finding your way through the mire of a depreciating society" is the prize. That's right. Today, the modern Christian that "keeps their eyes on the prize" sees the prize as a distant thing and that along the way, the daily routine, commitments, responsibilities are more of a bane than something worth overcoming. I see everyday Christians involved in all kinds of daily behavior that is in no way indicative of a love for the ways of Christ nor do these poor behaviors benefit the community.

I'll give you an example. There are those who call themselves Christians that are protesting, rioting, causing havoc, violating laws, bringing their message of hate to those who do not ask for it, abusing others in the name of a cause for this or that. They have their eyes on the prize, but give no place to the day to day events that reveal that the nature of God, through Christ, has invaded them. In their minds "Today" is not part of the end goal. It is sort of in-between times that are not to be considered or measured in the race to the "prize."

Many Christians today are not mindful of the things of God, but proclaim the "prize." I've said it before and it is worth mentioning again, "if you don't like the way God operates here on earth, you are not going to like the way God operates in heaven.."

You are responsible for you. Make up your mind about what you believe and how to live out your life with faith and understanding. Quit studying the same material year after year expecting different results. Ask God for Light. Approach God in your humanity, revealing all and let God fill you with Himself. Not so you can enter into heaven, but for each day to pass where you have lived with excellence and honesty and love, kindness and generosity, forgiveness and empathy.

Don't be fooled by the humanist plea to "follow the scientist." Have you noticed that nowadays science follows trends and political ideals, not the other way around? Keep your eye on today's prize and master the day with excellence. Over time the day's prize will become just as important as the end prize.

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Strong opinions is not good science.

I hear many people spouting off their strong opinions about this or that and many say they are basing their opinion on scientific fact, but I have discovered that most of that steamy and sometimes nocuous din is no more than a lemming-like adherence to someones else's non-scientific fact.

What's more, most non-believers (at least those with no spiritual proclivities), when making up their mind about something, do not consider any spiritual or theological input. They are working in a godless vacuum where they worship so-called fact makers, and the highest ranking being scientist.

I'm not saying that any scientist adhere to this tommyrot. Those who blatantly disregard the personal experience of others, (especially those who have faith in God), give their (those who have faith) opinions no value; they are not following science, they are following supposition, because they will not consider all the facts before making a conclusion, only their facts; only the narrow strand of facts presented by the scientific community, or many times hearsay from someone or some political group.

All of us have opinions and beliefs, but the wise among us are careful not to disregard the full spectrum of available information before making permanent memes. You don't have to be a believer to have your facts straight. Many times those who rest on their religious affiliation don't have their facts straight either. But all of us were endowed with certain internal guidelines for achieving wisdom and how to ingest information and formulate opinions and beliefs without falling prey to ignorance, (by rejecting valuable information provided by those not in their circle), and indifference, (by not giving heed to adverse or differing information sources).

The bottom line; most differences today are politically based, not scientifically based and that is not good science.

So what does this have to do with knowing God better. God is infinite and unchangeable and God has set forth parameters for all of us to work in so that we can have reliable science. Made up scientific facts to sturdy up one's beliefs is not scientific, nor is it godly or even sensible. Being wrong about something is not heresy, but passing on bad information under the auspices of scientific fact is definitely wrong in every way. Only truth will prevail in the end.

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I know that many people want to go from  the start line to the finish line without running the race. In other words {just tell me what I need to know so I can jump to the end}. That is not the God way and I am glad of it. In-between the start line and the finish line is where we get to know God and come to terms with the vast difference between God and man and understand the economy of God so that we can incorporate it into our daily lives so we can finish the race with understanding and dignity.

Today is one of those in-between times. I'm not at the starting line and I have not finished the race. My inner man is seeking some gem of truth that will activate my inspiration modules. In a way I want to be further along in the race and yet in an another way I really don't want to be further along. As with all knowledge comes responsibility and with responsibility comes accountability and accountability seems to reveal a little more of ourselves to others than we might be comfortable with.

I do want a gem of of truth, but I'm not sure if I want it in an instant delivery form or slow release. I've learned enough about God to understand that no matter what others know about God or about me, I know about God and about me. I have learned to monitor my progress with God so that I don't know so much that I am responsible to others to provide what I know with the accountability factor, because then what I know can be measured by what I practice. Ouch. Am I known by what I know or what I practice? What if what I know is not in alignment with what I practice? I think I have built a system to manage God so that even when I don't practice what I know, only God knows and therefore I can blame God for my current condition of being out of sync with what I know and what I practice.

Of course every person is a God manager in their own way. That contributes to all the confusion about God. Let's face it God has not confused anyone. We, you and me are the confusers. We are the God managers. We manage God by allowing only a portion of the flow of God, the Light of God to flow through us. We don't mind too much if the Light shines on us, but we have a harder time with the Light flowing through us. The thing to know concerning this is that the way God created the universe to operate, only that which goes through us has any efficacy, is counted, is our portion of faith. God things are not stagnant. God things are only fluid. 

To wrap this up; only the knowledge that goes through you to others is what you know, not what you think you know or what you think you have learned. If it has not passed through you and only stopped at you then you have not received it yet, if it is from God. It is kind of like saying that knowledge is like a shadow and the shadow touches you before the object making the shadow touches you and the shadow is not the object.

What you know is not what makes you know God better, only what you share.

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All peoples pursue something that deals with the spiritual element of their composition. There really are four major categories that most people fit into:

1. Atheist, those who do not recognize God as having existence.
2. Agnostic, those who give place to the possibility, but nothing has assuaged them to recognize the existence of God as of yet.
3. Believer in a god, those who have followed their ancestral or religious/political philosophy of the region, believing in and possibly acknowledging allegiance to a god, higher power, or gods in general, but no difinitive understanding of God in the person of Jesus the Christ. This includes all religious groups and or philosophies that have acknowledged the existence of a spiritual component without understanding the creator of that power or having authority to wield that power in the name of the creator of that power. In other words, they believe in a deity, but do not have first hand experience or communication with that deity. All of their experience is handed down from one generation to another without any of the generations having ever met their god.
4. Those who believe in God through the saving grace of Jesus the Christ.

You can have sympathy for group 1, 2 and 3, but in no way should there be any acceptance of or agreement to the belief system, other than to acknowledge that the person does believe it. There is also no need to bash or create the feeling that the person is inferior to you in any way due to the fact that they believe in a different religious philosophy than you. Nor is there any need to defend your position by answering ridiculous questions posed by those who have a great need to compel their will on you.

Why do I bring this up? Because every person I write to in this blog is from one of these categories and their is no way that each group interprets the information in the same way.

God has declared the heavens and earth, the stars and all that is as physical proof of His pre-existence and Sovereignty.
God has declared the written Word as physical proof of His omniscience and Scientific proof by recording the events of ancient history with perfect accuracy and declaration and creating unswerving rules of scientific, measurable and obtainable formulas.
God has declared the spoken Word to all who have listened as proof of His undeniable continuing interfacing and interaction with all of humanity.

God is in charge of dealing with group 1, 2 and 3, not you.

You are responsible only to continue in the faith that brought you to Jesus and follow God's teaching with understanding to the best of your ability, nothing else. Yes, you can be proactive and minister to others and/or provide truth about your personal experience through personal testimony, shared ideals with others and missionary exploits, but none of those within themselves has anything to do with why you were chosen to become a child of God.

You will not know a great many things on this side of heaven. God has chosen to shroud many truths in mysteries and unknowable events, and that to your benefit. God has provided the perfect blend of knowable events and discoveries with unknowable events and actions to give us all we need to live a full and satisfied life. God's intervention in the events of life is the only reason that time is still moving forward with opportunity for every person to come to a knowledge of Jesus the Christ as Savior/God.

This spiritual blessing is provided by the alive and real-time existence of the Holy Spirit within your soul. The Holy Spirit guides you into enlightenment, protects you from your self/ego, and makes known all knowledge necessary to live a full and complete God-ordained life. Being a Christian does not provide you with unnatural or magical powers, nor does being a Christian protect you from the free-will of man or from the natural events that befall everyone. Being a Christian protects you from the fatal flaw of not recognizing God and the permanent solution of that flaw which is separation from God for all eternity.

You will live for all eternity. Quit worrying about what others think or how unfair God is. You should be very thankful that God is not fair. It is in God's unfairness that you have any chance at all.

Note: For those who think, "what about the Muslims, what about the Buddhist and the Shintoist?"  What about the Muslims, Buddhist and Shitoist? Are you thinking that God is predjudiced and un-god-like, that he has turned His back on an entire society of people?  It amazes me what kind of teaching are we receiving today where entire groups of Christians have no understanding of God's economy? 

They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. Isa. 44:18

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.  Mat. 13:13
Mat. 13:14  And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 

Joh. 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 
Joh_12:40  He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. 
Act_28:26  Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 

Rom_15:21  But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand. 

God is in charge. I believe that most people don't like the way God does things and that is the primary contributing factor to the apathy and lack of knowledge of the Church. Truly most people find their pastor's way more tolerable and understandable. The watered-down Word of God, spoken form the pulpit, is the elixir of the modern Church. God wants His people to "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Mat. 11:28, but priests and pastors say "only after you do this and give that are you to follow Christ." 

Priests and pastors, get out of the way. Don't stop teaching and preaching and giving of yourself for the kingdom.  Don't stop providing great services and programs that bring people together and advance the quality of life for those in your ministry. Don't stop administering the sacraments. But quit trying to mediate for Jesus. Jesus needs you to step aside as the authority of the Church and allow the Holy Spirit to communicate with God's parishioners. 

Priests and pastors: You are hired servants, act like it.

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Where would you say you are on the path to understanding your place in God's economy?

You are right where you put yourself. That's right. Whether you like where you are or feel like someone else put you where you are, or don't like where you are at all; you are where you are because of the simple fact that you were created in a world where free-will is the active modus operandi.

Whether you feel like you got a great deal or a raw deal, you are where you should be today. I know it is a difficult concept that you feel like you should be somewhere/someone else, but the fact remains you are you where you are now.

There is much confusion among believers concerning why things are the way they are and what to do about it. Like most conundrums, it will take some serious focus time to get the answers you need. Mostly though, there is one thread running through the entire concept of understanding God's economy and that is faithfulness. I know what your thinking, you have faith and that is the answer. Of course you are mostly right, however there is a difference between faith and faithfulness.

Most of us have some degree of faith that we rely on that connects us to God through Jesus Christ and it is this faith that brings about salvation and sanctification, the forgiveness of sins and adoption into the kingdom of God. All of that is good for us and works all the time. Faithfulness is a little different, in that faith can be applied from a static position, but faithfulness requires forward and constant movement. You can have faith that either grows or wanes or changes based on the circumstances, but faithfulness isn't measured by the same standards as faith. Faithfulness requires fluid action, listening to and reacting to and responding to the voice of God, not relying on yesterdays knowledge but open to today's events/direction/gifting/understanding.

Faith, even as small as a mustard seed can move mountains, but faithfulness cannot be measured by results. Faithfulness is operating on the assumption that when you step forward God will put a step for you to stand on again and again to move forward. Faithfulness does not measure the results, but simply responds to the direction. It is not necessary that the faithful be reminded of how much they have done or how much they have given or what great deeds they have accomplished. Faithfulness is operating with eyes wide open but only to see forward, not having the ability to look back to measure the results. The faithful need not know the day to day results of their labor. Satisfaction comes from responding, not in reaping or accumulating. 

Understanding God's economy is relative to operating in faith. The more faith you apply to any given situation, the more understanding you retrieve. Static faith; in other words, relying on the same level of faith you had ten or twenty years ago will bring you the same results as ten or twenty years ago. Each day the bar is re-set to 0 and in order to grow in faith, you must find new or re-evaluate old information concerning the economy of God. The finding is easy, since God leaves a trail as wide as the universe and as long as time. With your spiritual eyes open to the Word of God and the things of God, you can reach out/down and pick up an unlimited supply of the information you need to operate in the will of God in your life.

There is no hidden agenda or some erroneous expectation that God has concerning you that is hidden or that is not obtainable. There are no missing ingredients. There is no lack of vital information to process. The entire accumulation of the things/knowledge of God is in the operation of your free will. If you freely seek the things of God, you will receive in equal proportion to your faith. The secret to this knowledge is to understand that the bar is set to 0 every day and you can only move forward by re-vitalizing your existing relationship with God or gathering new information that enlightens you to pursue and obtain the newness of your relationship with God.

A static relationship with God, where you rest on your past experience only, for valuing your relationship with God, compared to a revitalized daily relationship, is like being a statue of yourself in a museum compared to being a patron, walking through and seeing all the beauty and magnificence and being inspired to do some great thing.

Many Christians today are like a statue in a museum.

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By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life. 

Pro. 22:4

I'm just wondering, are you one of those people who think that those who are rich or have more than they need should have it taken away? There are many today on the left that are bent on redistributing wealth and forcing people to do things with their money that they do not want to do and who think awful thoughts toward people who have substance. There are many that harass those who have an abundance all the while acting like they care for the poor and just want equality. They are not to be trusted.

If you read the scriptures you will find more references than you can read in a week concerning riches and the responsibilities that go along with possessing more than necessary. But the mandate is internal and up to each individual what to do about the dilemma of having too much. Of course good advise is to share it, but God has much more interest in how one accumulated their wealth and the hold it has on them than how much wealth they have. It is the love and self-aggrandizement and poor choices that people make that interest God, but God speaks clearly that having wealth or accumulating wealth through a right means is a good thing and to be practiced.

I don't like people who try to take things away from other people. It is a kind of thievery. Wanting what someone else has is a loathsome occupation. And trying to enact laws that take wealth from one person and give it to another is not a godly thing. You can fault the rich if you like, but what I have found in my study/journey is that most wealthy people are far more generous than the non-wealthy, and I don't mean in dollars, I mean is how much of what they have that they give to others in need freely, without being coerced, without being heckled or forced by some law.

It never was man's/woman's responsibility to rob from the rich and give to the poor. That is God's territory. Those who abuse God's territory and try to be a god among themselves have very little insight into the heart of God. But they do it because of peer pressure and to make people think more highly of them than they should. After all it doesn't take much class to take something away from someone else and give it to another someone else at no expense to yourself. I know I don't want that kind of person governing my country.

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The Battle of words has become the new mantra for the irreligious, non-religious, non-spiritual individual.

Those, like myself, that have a strong foundation of learned and experienced Christian principles have developed a set of morays conducive to the basic foundational beliefs of Christian life, faith and behavior. These beliefs have become internalized and have become part of our wholeness, our self. Our way of life fits inside of broad, but balanced parameters that have been built faith upon faith, lesson by lesson, action upon action and we know what we believe and we can explain why.

This doesn't set well with the worldly, because having a lack of any absolutes at all, is the new mantra for the naysaying, church bashings, not God-fearing individual. Here is the new mantra that they live by:

• If you don't believe that men should have sex together or women with women then you are a homophobe. 
• If you don't believe that illegal aliens, that cross into our country illegally have the same rights as American citizens then you are a racists.    
• If you don't agree with Global warming then you are ignorant and should have your right to vote taken away from you.
• If you don't believe that the earth is millions or billions of years old then you are ignorant and don't trust science. 
• If you don't agree that abortion is a woman's right to choose then you hate women and want them to die on the operating table.
• If you don't believe all the lies we make up about people then you are ignorant and your name and address should be published so that more people like us can come and threaten you and say terrible things about you.
• If you  don't blame guns and try to make the case that it is warped minds that use guns to commit crimes then you are responsible for all the crimes yourself.

It goes on and on with those bent on forcing their way on to others; they use false word attacks, make things up, lie, foment others to cause havoc and unrest, create false documents, hide valuable and pertinent information that might help someone, steal identities, thwart or oppose Christians, at any cost and all the time.

I'm sure you've noticed that this group wholeheartedly supports all other religious philosophies with open arms and instant approval. The bottom line is that they oppose Christian belief and will say, do, make up, create, falsify, cheat, steal, crush, terrorize and attempt to destroy those individuals who have aligned themselves with The Judao/Christian belief. There mantra is "Everything and everyone is approved, except Christians. 

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Are you a dabbler? Do you dabble with God?

I have found (through life experience and investigation) that not many people have any real interest in getting to know God better than they already do. We can thank the Church for that. The formula for organized Church to stay in 'business' quite often does not include igniting the fire of inner-man desire to seek and find more and more about God.

I would say that the modern Church teaches the same thing over and over again expecting different results. There is a sort of domination over the parishioners  from the pastorate/priesthood/rabbinical priesthood. Servant leaders are hard to find, but they are the truly loyal and under their teaching/guidance you will learn new things and find new ways to learn new things.

It is not difficult to ascertain the degree of token understanding that the modern person has concerning Christ when you look at what means most to organized Churches go through to sustain themselves. I know you don't want to hear it, neither do I, but today, men, women and children are mostly just barely trying to hang on to some tenuous belief system by a tattered tether. Week after week they go through motions of religiosity without the inner-man driving them. They have become wanderers inside the Church, not even looking for answers anymore, satisfied to be told that they are doing the right thing; hanging on by a thread to a concept of God and not God Himself.

There is no satisfaction under this premise, no forward movement, no advancing the Kingdom of God, no progress, no unction, and little light, if any being shown. The will to stand up and be recognized as a person who loves God and a person who is willing to go as directed has been replaced by organized programs designed to keep everyone in  a straight line. It doesn't matter if the real work doesn't get done as long as everyone involved feels good about it and they keep in a straight line. Because of leadership impotency it is easier to neuter the flock than to feed them.

If that is your current experience, get out or get in and change it. You are a child of God and have within you all that is necessary to complete the tasks that you can clearly see are being overlooked or ignored altogether. Drive yourself deeper into the Word of God and quit riding in the backseat. If you don't believe you have it in you or that you just aren't competent enough to do this or that it is not because God didn't give you the necessary tools, it is that you have decided not to use those tools.

Yes we are part of the Church, but first you are a child of God designed as an individual with a direct line to God through the inner man. Man/Woman up.

Joh_16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 

Eph_3:16  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 

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Why would you want to know God better?

• Isn't it true that the closer you get to God the more God expects from you?
• Isn't it true that the as you become more spiritual in your life you have less worldly options?
• Isn't it true that the more Bible you know the more guilty you feel about being imperfect and sometimes disobedient?
• Isn't it true that if you go to Church many people puts on airs and most people are superficial, and you feel uncomfortable acting like something you are not?
• Isn't it true that the pressure put on you to do your duty and tithe and teach and do mission work and to be a part of this program and that program feels cumbersome?
• Isn't it true that if you acknowledge that you are a Christian you are demeaned and sometimes left out because many people today look down on Christians as being lemmings, ignorant, not too smart, etc?
• Isn't it true that Christianity is one of the lesser religions today and to really be with it, you need to dabble or try other religious philosophies, systems? 

First of all, Getting To Know God Better is not about religion. It is about personal spiritual relationship with the creator. Christianity, as in, Christ centered beliefs, is the impetus to getting to know God better because Christ/Jesus is the Son of God and very God. But if you are thinking that you have to be a Baptist to know God you are mistaken. Sometimes a person comes to a real awareness of the presence of God prior to coming to a religious relationship with God through an organized Church.  The inner man desire is so strong that a person might reach out to a Church to find out more or to find fellowship among like minded individuals, but they found God through the leading of the Holy Spirit/Inspiration.

Don't think for a minute that God, the Holy Spirit is not reaching out to every human, born and unborn. Don't think that God isn't as concerned as you about the salvation of souls. Also don't get the idea that without our help, God can't get the job done. Mission work and spreading the gospel is a voluntary effort on part of those who have found a love for Jesus. It was never a mandatory, duty bound, punish you if you don't act right or say the right things, kind of works. Telling others is a faith work, brought on by an inner unction to share with others what you have found out for yourself.

Structured Christian Churches are all a good thing, but not to be confused with the necessity of personal relationship with Jesus. I can tell you from much experience that many people know their pastor and friends much better than they know Jesus. It's not because God has not made a concerted effort to be a part of their life. It is that people have made a concerted effort to keep God out of part of their life. I call it selective spiritual experience; select the parts that you really like and deny the parts that don't meet your personal bents/whims/indiscretions.

Isn't it true that you have chosen to keep a distance from yourself and God? 

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Are you having difficulty talking with someone of another political bent? Hey, I thought politics was off limits for pastors? Really?

I want to talk about this a little because this issue greatly affects our effectiveness as Christians in a non-Christian society. I say Non-Christian and with regret. I don't mind so much if someone spouts off about their grossly irresponsible political position if they truly believe in what they are saying. But have you noticed that on the left, politicians and their lemmings are spouting off about issues that they have little or no understanding of and taking sides with those who believe in opposition to basic Christian principles.

Here's where I hear the yelling, "my political views have nothing to do with my religious affiliation."  Wow, you have a deep belief in God through Christ and your political ambitions/bents/beliefs/positions have nothing to do with your faith. What kind of faith is that? It certainly is not Christianity. Of course your personal faith is integrated into your political beliefs. Of course your decision are made from the internal leadings of the Holy Spirit in your life and may or may not be contrary to your political parties stand on certain issues.

Christians are saved from the necessity to follow after pitiful, unreliable, unsubstantiated and outright ridiculous Societal notions. Christians are empowered to stand firm in their core beliefs and defend them with integrity and understanding. Christians are empowered, not emaculated, able to discern the false from the truth with knowledge and understanding, separating fake science gimmicks from real scientific fact. Christians can overcome the ignorance of their political party. They can bring to the table sound doctrine, sound advise, sensible actions and make hard and reasonable decisions.

To the group of humanist, atheist, agnostics:

• You do not have the upper hand. You just say you do. 
• You do not possess superior scientific understanding. You just say you do. 
• You do not have a better handle on the needs for the masses. You just say you do. 
• You do not handle racial differences better than others. You just say you do.
• You do not have the best interest of all Americans at heart. You just say you do.
• You do not know more than everyone else. You just say you do. 
• You do not strive to empower everyone equally. Oh that's right you don't even want to do that, you are more than satisfied with exploiting ethnic diversity and racial tensions. Even more so you purposely encourage separitism while waving the flag of equality.
• You blame the sons for the father's sins. Oh that's right, there is no sin, so why do you want the sons paying for the father's insensitivities/ignorance.  Two faced at best.
• You think you are better than Christians because you don't fall prey to the ridiculous notion of God having something to do with our lives. But you are not better or smarter or more informed. You just think you are.

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Politics and personal faith. I hear it all the time that you shouldn't let your political bent be influenced by your personal faith or religious affiliation. Really? Only someone that does not have any personal faith could even entertain this kind of thinking. Of course your personal faith does and will have an impact on your political view/bent/decisions.

The socialists and the humanists, the agnostics and the faction-oriented religious sects make strong statements about how religion and politics should be kept separate, although in their case it doesn't have to be that way. What they mean is, if you believe in Jesus as Lord and Saviour, you shouldn't let that affect the way you do things or the decisions you make, but if you believe anything else it is OK to let it affect your decisions and influence the way you think.

The anti Christ movement is not subtle anymore. They now have cable, entire journalistic circles, networks and even nationalized platforms to spew their slow-working poison; 'to keep people with faith from having any say or influence on the political system.'

What is so ironic about this whole thing, at least in our country, is that Christians have been open to people of any faith being part of our political system. We have opened our mind and hearts to people of all faiths, even agnostics and atheists. Every person despite their religious proclivity has the right to vote and hold office. We trust that every individual understands the importance of civil law and that every person seeking office is desiring to seek public office to better their community and mankind as a whole. So you've got to wonder, why the battle against Christians having the same rights as non-Christians when it comes to politics.

If you are thinking that Christians have the same right to speak their mind as non-Christians you are mistaken. The stage has been set to trap all Christian minded political minds to agree to leave their religious beliefs at the door, when entering in the political arena. Of course we can rebel and do and say what we want anyway, but don't expect a fair assessment from the press. Immediately we are branded as; homophobic, racists, intolerant, deplorable, all with a smile and all under the guise as just reporting the news.

No, Christians have to either hide the fact concerning their faith or be ostracized as 'out of the mainstream,'  or bend and yield to the demands of the politically correct. Politically correct is the new mantra for the anti-religious, socialist.       

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"Psa_40:5  Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered." 

Are you of the persuasion that God thinks thoughts of you and toward you? 

What a time we live in. God is not much on peoples mind. Don't mis-read what I am saying. There are plenty of people going to Church, plenty of religious ceremonies, plenty of programs for all kinds of things. There is even some spiritual talk among believers and unbelievers. Unbelievers act like they know as much as believers. So the unbelieving world not only co-mingles with the believing world, but they are bent on teaching the believing world how to believe correctly. 

All the religious dribble that I have heard doesn't add up to hardly a moment with God. There is all kinds of religious talk that leads to more religious talk, but the end result is more talk. A spiritually watered down society of misfits we are. Any time someone really hits on something truly amazing concerning God and man, they are kind of considered a little goofy. The unbelieving and the poorly trained Christian judging the man or woman of God with something to say. That's where we are right now. 

There is nothing wrong with being holy, living holy and operating under the direct leadership of the Holy Spirit as lead by the inner man. Mention holy living today and even the pastors cringe, because worldly living has become acceptable in the inner circles of organized religion. In order to keep the coffers filled many pastors will say anything, whether lead by the Spirit of God or not. I'm not calling out for new leaders. I am calling out for individuals that are willing to take God seriously and find the gems of truth under the rocks of mystery: Individuals that aren't satisfied with a mediator between them and God; someone that demands of themself to be honest with God and go to God to partake of God and offer themself to God without conditions. 


The bottom line: Stop looking for someone to follow that knows God better than you. You be the one. Get to know God better yourself.

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You may have thought, "if God is sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, why is it that so many people have a different understanding of how God operates among mankind or even who God is?" 

There is only one answer, free will.  You might not like it but God created us to have the power to reject or ignore God. You have been designed to co-create with God, communicate with God, hear from God and interact with God in the every processes of life. You choose. You can initiate interaction with God and you can deny God access to your inner man, that part of you that corresponds with God.

It is not complicated, nor is it cumbersome and it is immediately available. Here's the part that many people don't like. The creator designed you to operate in full self-power mode without access to or integration with or communication with God.  In every way you can be free from any influence of God. That's the idea behind free will. Free from or free to engage with. You choose.

Now you might be thinking that if left to our own devices we would all choose not to communicate with God, because if God does not initiate the conversation, communication, connection then it must not be very important. You are absolutely right. The problem with that theory is that God implanted in every human His image. This image is always there whether you initiate any desire to meet, see, understand or communicate with God. This image is in the inner man.

Your inner man was made in the image and likeness of God. . The mind will grow old and become dim, the body grows old and comes to an end, the soul continues on forever and the spirit continues on forever, but the spirit is activated, made alive by accepting the gift of God and that is done through the inner man. There is no spiritual connection to God without being activated by the inner man.  There is body, mind, soul and spirit. The inner man is the mind of the spirit and soul. Everything spiritual is initiated via the inner man. If you are a woman, the inner woman.

Eph 3:8  Unto me, (Paul the Apostle) who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 
Eph 3:9  And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 
Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 
Eph 3:11  According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 
Eph 3:12  In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. 
Eph 3:13  Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. 
Eph 3:14  For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
Eph 3:15  Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 
Eph 3:16  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 

You have within you the power to co-create with God or to deny God. That's a lot of power. If you choose to co-create with God there is only one way; Talk to God from your inner man/woman. Transcend your own understanding and dig real deep inside yourself and talk to God. Tell God about your dilemma and listen carefully as God will speak to you with a still, small voice.

1Ki 19:11  And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: 

1Ki 19:12  And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 

It is the way it is. So many people leave so much on the table when it comes to God because they don't like the way God does things. Most rebellion to God's ways come from those who haven't even considered God's ways. But don't think that it will be because you didn't know how. It was embedded in your inner man, before you were born. Jer_1:5  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;