February 2017 – Past the Surface

Multitasking

Multitasking is being responsible of having several things going at once. Multitasking is something that has increased over the past several years. Technology has forced people into multitasking. Vehicles gave us a steering wheel for our hands, foot pedals for our feet, mirrors for our eyes, and a radio for our ears. We have new generations that do not have a memory of driving a car with only having a radio to listen to and managing the operation of the vehicle. Multitasking as an example is driving a vehicle today with the steering wheel, foot pedals, mirrors, radio, cell phones, GPS systems, various computer alerts, cameras, voice texting, and the list goes on. We are looking at the road, our surroundings, various screens of information (GPS, cell phones, speedometer,…). Our hands and feet are pressing, turning, and maneuvering in safe directions. Our ears are listening to the radio, voice chats, and sounds around our vehicle. Our eyes, ears, mind, and body is engaged in multitasking. We are progressively adding multitasking to our every part of our everyday life. Doing several things at once is multitasking.

We are our Father’s children and multitasking is our likeness to Him. Our level of doing several things at once maintaining a mindfulness of clear control is multitasking, which is a level far below our Father’s level just as the earth is below the heavens (Is. 55:9). We can see our multitasking, but the cool thing is to start looking into God’s multitasking, which I believe it should be called, Omni-tasking. If He is one big God and nothing is outside of Him (omnipresent) and no other god beside Him (Is. 44:6). He would be above multitasking and into the Omni-tasking level. How far are you willing to look and see God’s Omni-tasking? How far are you willing to believe in His Omni-tasking?

In the book of Hebrews 4:13 reads “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” God sees all creatures and all things (thoughts, intentions of the heart Heb. 4:12) are visible to Him. OK, let us slow down and take a look at all the creatures (animals, male/female, angels…) our minds can think of… Now, all the creatures you just thought of try to imagine all of their thoughts and intentions flowing all at once into your mind from where ever they located. This is a process far above our level of multitasking. I have started several projects at once before and found myself overwhelmed and losing track of the different projects completeness. For instance a person can start a load of clothes in the washer, start the oven cooking, listening/watching a show or news via TV/Radio/cell phone/iPod/iPad/tablets, start the dishwasher, start the microwave, de-frosting frozen food in the sink, and folding clothes from the previous load of clothes. All of this multitasking could get a person into forgetting what is next in line for your attention adding phone calls, text messages, emails, family, roommates interrupting you with questions and more tasks needed to be done. Your quality of taking care of things properly and promptly drops because you are fallible and human. You can easily replace what I said above with the things you get started and going at the same time.

Wow, all of that thinking about the multitasking at work and when you are home makes my head spin. Here is the cool part when you start focusing on God’s Omni-tasking. He being an everywhere (omnipresent) at once at the same time God; powering all things (omnipotent) in the earth, on the earth, in the sky, in space (visible), and in the third heaven (invisible); and knowing all things (omniscient) from everything at once with no struggle of managing all the information is absolutely why He is called God.

We can see God multitasking around us if we will look for Him. If we look outside of our immediate surroundings we could see God doing the Omni-tasking. For instance, as you are reading this He is multitasking with me sharing what He has done, is doing, and going to do while you are receiving the multitasking He has done for you, and is doing for you, and possible you see what He is going to do for you. He has you here reading this and He has me here typing it. He puts things in our lives everyday to show us something we have not seen before. He has things said to us from sources we never considered taking it into heart and processing it. We think a level of 360 degrees around us and He sees all things.

God in His Omni-tasking has messages for all of us to find. We have to slow down, wait, and listen to His guiding understanding words to touch our thoughts. When things are happening around you whether good or bad try to see the ripple effect (dropping a rock into a perfectly calm pond and the ripples expand from the point of impact on the water towards others) God is doing on you and those around you. He is doing much more beyond what we see. You and I are multitasking even beyond ourselves when you begin to look at the influence our demeanor. We are not only multitasking with physical objects, but also invisible objects, the minds and hearts of others in view of us. For none of us lives to himself and no one dies to himself (Romans 14:7). We are affecting others while being affected invisibly within.

Have you had one of those moments that you did not understand why it was happening to you and sometime later something happened that if you had still be involved you would have been included in that worse situation? You came away thinking man if I was there I would have gone down with them. God is busy after all us to change, to see, to understand, to evolve, come out of our pig pens, and to come out of darkness into light, whether it is something of our mind, our heart, and our soul He is working on us. He is wanting to be a part of your life.

I worked in a cutting department in a factory and a new hire came into our department. The part of country I worked in called him a “River Rat” relating to him being a person who worked on barges up and down rivers delivering different kinds of loads. Of course, I never called him that. We all knew each other because it was a small department cutting foam for chairs. We all introduced ourselves. I noticed from the beginning he had a disdained look when he met me. I blew it off in mind thinking nothing of it. From the first day the disdained look turned into a despising look, into hateful words towards me, and into could not stand anything about me. It puzzled me because I could not think of anything I had done or said that would have offended him. I got along with everyone, except for him. I decided to ignore his hatred and start praying for him may be there was something there in his life that I reminded him and could not see myself. Things did not change, in fact, it became the opposite. All this time I was hanging onto God knows what He is doing – Multi(Omni)tasking. God was working on my attitude towards hateful people, which in times past I would return the hatred. I can’t say what all God was working on the other person with and with the people in the department that saw the everyday the facial, body and spoken language of hatred he showed towards me. God’s Multi(Omni)tasking was giving me a chance to mature above someone else’s hatred. Instead of returning hate for hate proving only we both are capable of the level of hate to have one or both rise above hate to a wise state of perception, understanding, and making things right. I saw inside myself I had graduated to a more wiser state than what I did in my past. The other fellow continued more and more with the hatred. I thought it was coming down to a physical fight any day.

This was the first time I conscientiously began to see God Multi(Omni)tasking. On one particular day our department did so well meeting the quota we got off at lunch that day. I went about my business and the other fellow who hated me for no reason went about his business. The next day he did not show up for work. Our supervisor informed us. He was not coming back to work due to trying to speed away from the law, once pulled over, started fighting the law, broke his parole probation, a car full of alcohol beverages open, and having an illegal weapon being a felon. My eyes dropped open wide realizing the hand of God fell upon that man in one afternoon. God’s Multi (Omni) tasking for my life and his life has consequences because God is going to reach us and do what He can to wake us up. Hearing all of this sent chills down my spine and a frozen awe in my thoughts. God is working on you with all kinds of Multi (Omni) tasking around you whether it is at home, at work, at the gym, and everywhere else.

The Bible is full of people God was Multi (Omni) tasking with to get them to realize things within themselves. How important are you? God’s Omni-tasking is working all around you, coming after you using different means, and to help you see within yourself empowering you with light instead of leaving you alone in darkness. The Bible is full of stories how He has tried to reach us. You need to start looking at your life, your surroundings, and the events happening to you. There are invisible things in them He wants you to see – see past the surface of this life. He has spiritual treasures just for you.

A father had two sons. One son demanded his half of the estate. His father gave him his share of the estate and his brother his share of estate. The son that demanded his share left to another, not another town, city, or state, but to another country. He lived in this other country spending all his share of the estate on all his desires. He was living as wild as his mind, heart, and soul imagined. God did not interfere with this son’s free will choice, but was busy about His multi (Omni) tasking in the background waiting. The son spent everything he had and was completely broke with no money at all in a far away country. It was not a town over, a city away, or a joined state to his home, but it was far away in another country with only himself among complete strangers. His solution was to find a job. He was hired to feed pigs. Having no money to buy food he had to work on an empty stomach until he got paid, which was so far off into the future the pig’s slop began to look good to him. He would stare at the pigs slop longing to grab it from them and stuff his stomach full of their food. No one in that country would help him at all. The signs are all around him. He took his blessed inheritance and gave it away to the world with nothing left to support him. He was starving so bad just to live that even in the streets there was no one to show him mercy or a second chance. Inheritance is gone and he can’t even have the pig’s food of that country. Have you ever been in a place where you had no money, you knew no one to turn to, and you thought you burned your bridge to the only people who loved you? This son began to think about home. He could be at least a hired servant for they eat well and it is better than starving to death. God was working on the son. He could have been killed for his money, in prison from the locals for the wild parties or gambling. The father back home had no idea if his son was alive or dead only that he was gone like unto death. The realization came alive in the son’s mind. This is what God wants for us everyday – to see and hear clearly. The son goes home just to be a hired servant at least, but he was met with a father who hugged him, kissing him on his neck, and thankful he was alive (Lu. 15:11-17). The son had changed and had a right mind now within him.

God is busy working in the background to get us all to wake up to truth in our lives and to come home to Him where we belong safe in His arms with a loving kiss upon our neck of rejoicing we are alive to Him forever. Changed on the inside makes things right.

Jesus on the cross with a crown of thorns pushed down on his head, both feet with a huge nail driven through them, and a huge nail driven through both hands, a body riddle with 40 stripes of lacerations with one criminal on his left and another criminal on his right. God was multi (Omni) tasking in a way at this moment that should bring a tear to everyone who sees this picture of true love. If you were to place yourself some where in this scene watching could you see God’s multi (Omni) tasking of love in action to all those presently there and to all of us in the future reading of this moment? Jesus said, “Father, forgive them they know not what they do.” (Lu. 23:34). The mercy of God was high above their thoughts of murder and intentions of death. As God showed me to be above the hate that was being shown to me and to be saved from hatred. He was showing all in His multi (Omni) tasking love above our ignorance. As you and I are standing in the crowd there are people beside us looking up at Jesus shouting, you saved others why don’t you save yourself if you are God’s Messiah, the Chosen One (:35). As we are watching the soldiers approach Jesus mocking him saying, if you are the king of the Jews, save yourself (:37,36). Can you see any multi (Omni) tasking going on? We hear another voice saying, Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us! and it is one of the criminals beside Jesus.

Do you see the realization in their minds? God is still wanting them to see. What do you see? Has any of them awaken to the pig pen they are spiritually living inside their bodies? Does any of them see the way home to the Father? On that cross Jesus is providing the way, the truth, and the life to the Father, which is by him (Jn. 14:6).

As the last words leaving the criminal’s mouth “…save us!” and before Jesus could answer the other criminal on the other side of Jesus speaks up and says, Don’t you fear God? You are under the same sentence of death. You and I are punished justly because we are getting what our actions deserve, but this man has done nothing wrong. The thief then looks at Jesus saying, Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom. What just happened inside that criminal’s heart? Remember Jesus many of times read the minds of those around him answering them before they could speak. Wow, on this one hill what the multi (Omni) tasking God is doing is mesmerizing to try to capture in the mind and heart not only for those people there, but us here reading about it. Is anything starting to born into your thoughts from His Spirit right now? The one thief didn’t care what Jesus was, he just wanted Jesus to save him to live in this world a little longer. The other thief, like the son in the pig pen, came to himself realizing the crimes he had done, repenting of them inside his mind and heart with only the desire of Jesus to think of him when he goes to his kingdom. Right now, which man are you beside Jesus on this crossroad of life? Every person in this crowd that you and I are standing beside have been faced with both sides of life. Some are hard-hearted and unrepentant of their pig pen ways and there are those who repent and want to be welcomed home to their true Father. In this past atmosphere and in your present environment, and future atmosphere God is multi (Omni) tasking to get all to wake up to the true reality of ourselves, others, and His love. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is looking at you and me right now.

Jesus had not said anything since those around us in the crowd shouted at him, the soldiers walked up mocking him, the criminal thief demanding to be selfishly be saved, and the other thief being repentant wanting only to be remembered. As Jesus begins to speak, I am already frozen, watching, and listening intently for what words Jesus will speak. Jesus does not go back to the crowds statements, the soldier’s statements, or the “save me” thief’s statement. Jesus looks straight at the one who has woken to himself, in his pig pen of life, and says to him “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” (:43). You and I are standing there in the crowd with people frozen like statues, soldier’s not moving like wax figures, and a thief as still as death while Jesus and the repented thief look like they have a beam of sunlight shinning directly upon them with vibrant colors of life. When you see the multi (Omni) tasking God is doing it takes away all the gray and dark clouds replacing it with the engulfing ray of loves light.

God is not through multi (Omni) tasking, He never is, on this day. As we look up and down at our shadows on the ground we realize it is the highest part of the day at noon with darkness starting to cover the sky as far as our eyes can see. It is almost like the middle of the night and the sun has stop shinning or back in creation when there was only darkness upon the earth. Everyone around us are not saying a thing with looming darkness around us. We have been sitting here on this hill for three hours in darkness and suddenly we hear from Jesus cry out, My God, My God why have you forsaken me. (Mtt. 27:45). What is happening before us is God reconciling us to Himself through the man Jesus (the Lamb God will provide Himself in our place, Gen. 22:8). Jesus the man is absorbing all the sins of the world into his fleshly body. God is making him who had no sin before our eyes to be sin for us that in him we might become clean and right before God (2 Cor. 5:18-21), being accepted home by a Father’s hug, a Father’s kiss, and Father’s rejoicing his children are alive once more.

We are all standing there with the crowd, the soldiers, and the thieves when Jesus says, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. (Lu. 23:46) The spirit side of Jesus is free and the man side of Jesus dies the physical death in our place taking all sins with him covering them completely with his blood. Are you still in the crowd hearing these words after three hours of darkness? Do you feel the earth quaking beneath your feet? Do hear something so loud it sounds like a wall being ripped? When Jesus the man died the temple’s curtain four times taller than a man, as thick as your hand spread wide open, that blocks all from seeing into the holiest of holy chamber, God starts ripping it from the top to the bottom. Now, all people can have access to God through Jesus and no more tall, thick curtain to separate us from Him. After all this the people beside you and me start beating their chests in repentance and even the Centurion over the soldiers said, “Surely this was a righteous man.” (:47,48)

Three men each on a cross sentenced to death with one in the middle with a gruesome sight of blood from head to toe. God was busy multi (Omni) tasking for all things to be fulfilled in all people of the earth and for all people of the future. How many do you think walked away with the same unchanged attitude that shouted at Jesus and how many do you think walked away changed forever? Are you going to walk away the same? Do you see a spiritual or physical pig pen you are in and God is reaching for you? Do you remain seeing only with your physical eyes or has your spiritual eyes awoken to new lighted path of life? Do you want to start right now the search for truth in God for yourself?

God is multi (Omni) tasking for you to be born again. God’s word is forever working in the heavens and the earth. All He is waiting for is your free will choice to give him a chance to hug you, kiss you on the neck, and welcome you home to the fellowship of His spirit and truth. You are never alone. He is and always will be reaching out to you, multi (Omni) tasking to save anyone who willingly choose.

Having More Than You Know

All babies born into this world do not understand the surroundings in which they have been placed. The older ones look into their faces of purity seeing the complete emptiness of any corruption of this world in them. We tickle them to hear their free unrestricted laughter. We expose them to things to make their face light up with free joy. As the baby grows maintaining of innocence and the understanding is preserved pure. The toddler does not know the financial status of being poor, middle or rich class. They just continue their laughter, crying, and desire of attention. They don’t know boundaries to the color of their skin. They see other children and they innocently want to play.

Babies and little children don’t seem to have much to offer. They cannot add financial support daily to the family. They cannot do chores until they get older and stronger. They are completed reliant upon the older ones around them to take care of them. Image a baby or a small child you may know. When you look at them there is not much physically they can offer. They have given more to you than you know. It is not a gift you can physically touch. It is their innocent laughter you behold that sends healing inside you to your spirit. You find yourself smiling and laughing with them while it is working like a medicine (Prov. 17:22) on a tired and worn out soul. When the baby or toddler wraps its little arms around you squeezing the purity of their love. It is sending into your spirit freedom of pure love that the tainted world will never give. Babies and toddlers they give not in the physical, but in the spiritual. They do not know what they are giving you with complete understanding. They just know they want to do it. They give the same no matter the class of their home. If the house is poor, middle, or rich class the baby gives the same.

The toddler or a little child does not realize their clothes and shoes are a sign to others they are poor, middle, or rich class. They may not even realize if a neighborhood kid says, “hey, that was my shirt” that it was given to them as a pass-me-down shirt. Toddlers or a little child will not know if they ask for the last piece of meat at supper time that it was the last piece of meat in the house. Their having no knowledge of the ways of the world give more to the older ones than most would realize. The older ones see that they cannot go back and so they live a few moments in spirit with the baby, toddler, or little child. The child gives them a few moments of escape from the hardness of the adult world.

As the child grows older the discovery of differences come to light inside their innocent minds transforming slowly over to the older ones world. Their little minds are storing things with understandings pushing them forward into the reality of this world. They begin slowly leaving the innocence and start approaching the age of accountability. Their experiences and discoveries still have that unseen impact on those around them that knows them and loves them. The invisible giving of laughter, sadness, love, hate, giving, selfishness, … still seeps into the spirit of others around them.

They discover other kids who are faster/slower than them, stronger/weaker than them, nicer/meaner than them, poorer/richer than them, handsome/prettier than them, shorter/taller than them. Questions flood their minds about others, themselves, their family, the importance of life, what are they suppose to be, what good are they, and on the continue. Their mind, heart, and soul become a storage unit of love, hate, joy, sadness, peace, war, kindness, anger, goodness, evil, faithful, undependable, gentleness, roughness, self-control, out of control, sharing, selfishness, purity, impurity, clean thoughts, dirty thoughts, healthiness, drugs, players, instigators… The weight of the world rides upon the older you get like a packed mule you see in a western movie.

“Having More Than You Know” makes a person think about “Having…” as in possessing. What is it you possess? What do you have? Depending on the aged person you ask this question you will get a variety of answers. A little child may answer with “I have mommy and daddy and a brother, sister, aunt,uncle, grandma…” An older child may answer, “I have a bike, Xbox/Play Station, doll house, a dog/cat, turtle/fish, dirt bike…“. A young adult may answer, “car/truck, motorcycle, Apple/Android phone, guitar/piano, TV…“. An adult may answer with “house, boat, cabin, land, power tools, business,…“.

Adulthood is the level where people are categorized by their class of poor, middle or rich. The abilities to give are weighed by most according the class level, the resources, or who you know. People pass judgment based on the material things of this world. The importance is highly placed upon what a person accumulates to themselves.

“Having More Than You Know” is not about the clothes, shoes, bikes, guns, cars, boats, houses, land, businesses, and other physical things you can name. Your value is not based on physical possessions. You have things like a baby that is not based or valued on poor, middle, or rich class you are placed in by this world. You have heard someone say after a car accident that the vehicle can be replaced, you cannot be replaced? What makes you special in “Having More Than You Know” comes from what you were born possessing like a unique personality, way of thinking, and methods of actions.

There is no baby born into this world that God does not know about or He would not be God. No child is born into a situation God is not aware of or He would not be God. Everyone is born with a purpose or a plan.

I know you are heading down that road of thinking about bad situations of why God would allow a baby to born into that horrible atmosphere. This summons up the bad, evil, horrible, ugliness of this world. God gave us total control over all the earth – responsibility on us. We gave control over to a fallen angel giving him the power over the earth. He became mankind’s master and the earth was his to do what he wanted. The fallen angel brought death, hell, the grave, disease, evil, horrible, and ugliness upon all the earth including us – not God. Now, you’re thinking “why did God allow it?” The number one thing with God has always been the freedom of choice. He will not override freedom of choice. Every baby born into this world God has a plan for that child, but freedom of choice inside that child is up to them no matter the atmosphere they are born into even if it is at the level they have no control over their physical body. They do have control over their spirit inside their body. God said do not be afraid of those who kill the body because after that there is nothing else they can do – this is as far as they can go, but fear him who after the body has been killed has the authority to throw you into hell (Lu. 12:4, 5), which is known as the second death of eternity. It is worse upon people who harm children in God’s eyes (Mtt. 18:6, 10, 14). He can punish in a way no one else can.

Now, back to there is no baby born into this world that God does not know about or He would not be God. No child is born into a situation God is not aware of or He would not be God. Everyone is born with a purpose or a plan. Everyone has “.More Than You Know” to give than most people would realize. God told Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jer. 1:5). Predestination is what most people start thinking when they read this that we are all born predestinated to be evil or good and nothing can change it. This takes us back to the number one things with God is “freedom of choice”. He knew Jeremiah before he was born into this world and the expectations He had of him, but after being born into this world Jeremiah still had the choice of saying no to God. A person making the freedom of choice of saying, no to God’s purpose and plan will not stop the plan of God from going forward. Your decision decides where you will spend eternity after you die in your body of this world. Good people or bad people can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth (2 Cor. 13:8). The bad will be converted into help fulfill and the good will continue to flow with fulfilling God’s plan.

This opens more understanding to “Having More Than You Know” inside of you than you realize and others. You will help contribute to God’s plan whether you want to or not. Your choice does not affect His overall plan only you individually. This is why Solomon said in Eccl. 9:11 that the race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Remember from a baby to adulthood we store in our unit all these things of the swift, strong, wise, brilliant, and favored of the different classes of poor, middle, and rich in this world. It comes down not to your class, but using what you have inside you at the right time and with the right opportunity.

“Having More Than You Know” is all about what is inside for you to released to the world. Jeremiah had something inside given to him to release to the world if he wanted that choice. Pharaoh was born with a purpose. God knew Pharaoh’s thoughts and the intents of his heart. God knew no matter what signs, wonders, and opportunities He would show Pharaoh that Pharaoh’s choice would be against God. God took Pharaoh’s hardness and showed the world you can nothing against the truth, but for the truth. Pharaoh made the choice that God is not who He says He is and wanted to prove it, but the end result was seeing the power and mercy of God at work. The disciples were in jail for preaching Jesus is the Messiah, water baptism in Jesus name and the in-filling of the Holy Ghost. A man stood in the middle of their discussion on what to do with the disciples. The man said some time ago a person claimed to be somebody, raised up 400 hundred followers, was killed, and his followers dispersed coming to nothing. Another man after him rose up, led a band of people to revolt, was killed, and all the followers scattered. I advise to leave these men alone for if their purpose is of human origin, it will fail, but if it is from God you will not be able to stop these men. You will only find yourselves fighting against God (Acts 5:34-38). The words of this man came from inside of himself out to the ears of those who wanted death for the disciples. He “Having More Than You Know” inside his mind, heart, and soul came out to bless more people than inside that room and outside. It is not only the physical possessions you have that defines what you can give, but also what you have inside that knows no limit in God.

The older you get the more you realize the material things of this world cannot help the ones you love, and the innocents you see in the news. All the money and powers of the world cannot stop death, all diseases, and suffering. I want to call on the “Having More Than You Know” to step into the battle because you can do nothing against Him, but for Him.

A man was born lame and had to be carried everywhere. To help with the financial needs he was carried to the gate of the church. He was there everyday begging from those walking into the church. He saw Peter and John getting ready to into the church and the lame asked them for money. Peter and John stopped and faced him. The lame man must have been looking quickly at others passing for Peter and John said to him “look at us”. The lame man stopped scanning for others and looked at them expecting to get what he had always got from others going into the church. While he was locked onto their faces Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk”. You may not be rich in this world and feel helpless, but there is something you can have in your life to call upon in times of need and something will happen for the truth no matter what is against the truth. Peter taking the man by the hand helped him up and he was healed instantly (Acts 3:2-8). If you don’t have God in your life it is easy to receive Him because He wants to be in your life more than you realize.

Not everything in this life will go the way you want it to go because there is a bigger plan in place than yours, but getting inside the flow of the plan of God assures “Having More Than You Know” working inside of you irregardless of how the world judges you.

A Better Way

Gifted people see things from a different angle than most people. They become frustrated when they try to help and no one will listen. I imagine our history of inventors were thought to be crazy, yet we have electricity powering our homes, our work places, our cars, our hospitals, our schools, and almost anything else you can think of. In the present day there are all kinds of things being invented and added to the usage of society. “A Better Way” is not always received. The resistance to trying something different and new is still rejected on all levels. Improving and going higher than you have before would it not take testing “A Better Way“? Jesus was looked upon by many people as trying to change their Bible of the Old Testament and presenting his own personal “A Better Way“, but it was the opposite he was making the Old Testament whole and complete.

What stops us and prevents us from being better and not settling for less in life? Why are there some limits on things that are good? Most children are told they can be anything they want to be. As we become older and lived a little while a different reality hits us in the face resisting our dreams. We get up daily to things visible and seemingly invisible resisting the desire of testing “A Better Way“.

A new way of doing something is contrary to what most have developed as a traditional way of doing things. These types of traditions carries with them the “my way or the highway” attitude. There are two kinds of traditions that one is visible and the other is invisible. Tradition is defined as customs or beliefs passed on from generation to generation. I know you have immediately thought of the customs or beliefs you have run into or may have run into you. Does passing on something make it 100% true? There are some people who are so closed-minded that air cannot get in like the walking dead and on the other side some people are so open-minded their brains are falling out. A good balance of the two is a worthy goal. Having the ability to be strong-minded on guaranteed things and open-minded to things that could improve is a rare thing in today’s society. Even the guaranteed should have no fear of being faced with questions.

The quickest way to uncover or reveal the invisible traditions in people is simply found out by questions. Traditional ways can be inward on an individual or can be imposed outward on others. Over the years you have put your faith into something and found out later it was not what you thought it was. Questions will expose what is hidden underneath most things. If something is truly sound and appears to be traditional then questions will not harm it because it is sound through and through. If someone presents something that they claim is “A Better Way” there should be no fear of looking into it. If fear and doubt pops up inside of you because of questions then it is a signal to you to re-examine what you are counting as a sound traditional way of doing things. It will only make you better and set you on a path of “A Better Way“.

My life is full of memories from childhood to adulthood of asking questions and seeing the same facial reaction over and over. The face of shock “I don’t know” the answer, but I will proceed forward with an answer that will attempt to keep me with the appearance of “I do know“. The face of anger “that’s the way it has always been” and “the way it will always be“. The face of honesty “I don’t know” and the body language of “I’m not going to find out because I am going to go on with life doing things the same old way that I have always done“. The face of authority “it is this way because I said so” with the body language of “I don’t care to even attempt to find out or change“. Are you satisfied with these answers or do you want to keep pressing and find “A Better Way“?

I have seen people falling into the same old traps and pot holes in their road of life whether it is drugs, alcohol, religions, and relationships. Outwardly we may be stuck with some of this world’s physical traditions in place, but we are not imprisoned with our inward spiritual places. In the younger years all people go through that “I know everything” and “you can’t tell me anything I don’t already know“. A person who is growing past the loops or circles of traps, pot holes, and mistakes is a person who is finding “A Better Way” to face their next day. The older a person gets the deeper the levels they can reach by listening to the possible “A Better Way” of doing things or thinking about things. Are you tired of going round and round with some things in your life? Have you reached out to there has to be “A Better Way“? Do you want truth?

There was a small town with only a few people in it. They lived their lives daily doing as any other small town would do to live and survive. The small town was a special place. A powerful King took a look at this small town with the desire of taking it by force. The powerful king brought in his armies surrounding the small town. The powerful king built huge walls of fortifications against the small town. I can see from within this town in every direction on the outside of town these walls of protection for the soldiers and no way of escape. The picture of doom looms in their mind. A powerful rich king with all the resources a small town could not compete with and a bad ending in sight. The mystery to the story is a poor man in the small town stepped forth with “A Better Way” for the town to survive. The mystery is this poor man’s idea full of wisdom protecting the women, children and the entire small town saved them all from the powerful king with all his armies, walls of fortifications is not revealed. His idea of saving the small town is unknown, yet the people of that town owe him their lives and their families lives. His words saved them. The sad part of the story is the poor man whose idea of “A Better Way” saved them was forgotten and even despised. His words were no longer heard after saving the town (Ecc. 9:14-16). “A Better Way” suggested to any of us would be wise on our part to look into it with an open mind and a serious conclusion. We may find ourselves inside a loop or circle ever-growing, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth as was predicted in these last days (2 Tim 3:7). I find myself wanting to hear completely the surface of the words and past the surface of the words. I want to see the surface of things and past the surface of things. Would you like to be whole?

We encounter people every day that we pass judgment upon or at least categorize them inside our minds. Smart, average, and simple are just a few kind words used to categorize people. I know we all have heard different terms identifying people’s intelligence. No matter what category you may fit in true intelligence comes from not repeating the same mistake over and over like the loop or circle mentioned earlier, but learning “A Better Way“. God in the beginning showed Adam and Eve “A Better Way” to live their lives avoiding death, hell, and the grave, but they listened to the devil of his version of a “A Better Way“, which brought death, hell, and the grave into power over all the earth. They chose to listen to a creation over the Creator. I wonder what would have happened if Eve and Adam had waited until their next visit with God and asked Him a question that might of unraveled the devil’s lie? Could they have asked the devil more questions for solid proof of his statements? Did it work for him going against God? Questions asked of God come back solid and sound. Questions asked of a double minded person comes back unstable and holes of doubt. Have you ever got that feeling when someone got through speaking that easiness of their words were part truth and part pacifying fill-ins?

There was a man who was very intelligent. He caught onto things fast. He had a thorough education of knowledge of the scriptures of the Bible. He was a man who encounter the teachings of John the Baptist “A Better Way” of understanding the scriptures of the coming Savior of our sins and water baptism in repentance. He taught where ever he went with great enthusiasm and great accuracy of Jesus being the Messiah just like John the Baptist. This man must have taken John the Baptist words and compared them to the Bible and found what he was saying to be true. He went to churches in that day and spoke boldly the teachings of John the Baptist for the coming Messiah Jesus. One day a crowd had gathered as usual to listen to this man present “A Better Way” (a fulfilling way) of the scriptures and a husband and wife were in the crowd that heard him speaking. The husband and wife made their living at making tents. They were not know for their learning and knowledge of the scriptures, but as tent-makers.

The husband and wife invited the well-educated man to their home. They presented “A Better Way” of the scriptures to him. This educated man’s knowledge of the scriptures was not wasted for the connection scripturally was more fulfilled to what John the Baptist was preaching, which caused him to start preaching Jesus name water baptism for the removal of sins. I see a man who took what the husband and wife had to say and searched the scriptures for proof before accepting this “A Better Way“. He must have found what they had said was solid and sound (Acts 19). What they had told him was so solid and sound that when he taught now in the churches he was able to refute anyone in public proving that Jesus was the Messiah. I see a man now with a solidness about him inside and out, balanced with “A Better Way“, the truth, and a new life glowing in completeness.

What would happen if he had treated the husband and wife, the tent makers, like the poor man of wisdom was treated after saving the small town? If he had treated their words like the poor man forgetting them, despising them, and no longer listening to them he may have forfeited the saving of his soul. Jesus said about people when it comes to hearing some of us are like the wayside of a road that whatever is said is taken away, some of us are like the stony area where we get happy over the spoken words, but never let them get deep down inside of us and it is lost with just a little heated trouble, some of us are so worldly-minded that the words spoken are received, but our love of the world rises up and chokes out the words in our life, and some of us are open enough to search, prove, and conclude the spoken words allowing them to go deep into our lives with the outward fruits (Mtt. 13) like this educated man listening to the tent makers. He had no fear of statements or questions put to the scriptures because his faith was solid and sound in the word of God. Wow, to be solid inside and out is a beautiful sight to see.

Apostle Paul traveling found some disciples. He asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?” “John’s baptism,” they replied. Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus (Not in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but in Jesus name). When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied (Acts 19). These disciples (just like other religions) heard Paul’s questioning words setting into motion inside themselves a study of those words getting them approved by God’s word maintaining themselves in an unashamed status correctly handling the word of truth (2 Tim. 2:15). This questioning by Apostle Paul of what may have come across as “A Better Way“, a more perfect way, or a more accurate way did not mean all that they presently had been a total waste of time or loss. All that they did possess has been added in total completeness in the Lord Jesus Christ. Their faith was not replaced or destroyed, but fulfilled in totality. Their perception and understanding saw the absolute truth with total acceptance and obedience. They had been baptized before with a water baptism of repentance under John the Baptist teachings because it too was right in the word of God. Now, the completeness of water baptism was finalized in Jesus name applying the blood of forgiveness along with their repentance. Isn’t this beautiful? These people were not afraid of questions and what the conclusion of truth may reveal. After their water baptism in Jesus name Paul walks over to them, places his hand upon them, prays for them, and they received the Holy Spirit of God the same way the 11 apostles and other disciples of Jesus did in Acts 2 a long time ago. How do we know it was like them back then? “Is this not only for the apostles“, you may ask? It is clear this is a continuing thing that can occur even today because this is all a promise of God to happen to us our children and their children – all generations to come (Acts 2:39). This is part of completeness of being born again of water and of spirit (Jn 3:5). How do we know it is the same as the apostles? As Paul had his hand upon them praying they began to speak in another language that they had not been trained in the flesh to speak the praises of God and prophetic words. They totally surrendered to God and allowed Him to burst forth like rivers of living water (Jn. 7:38). Now, the fellowship begins in spirit and in truth with the power of God visiting you anytime and anywhere.

If Apostle Paul were to ask you these questions how would you answer him? Would his questions be allowed in your home, church, society? Would you let him place his hand upon you, pray for you, and be willing to open up to the in-filling of God’s Spirit with the sign to you and anyone around that bursting forth of rivers of living water speaking in a language God gives you? Did you know you can you have this happen to you right now? God is not restricted to church places only or He would not be an everywhere God. He will come to you right now in your home, in your car,… All I did was started praying to God, speaking my heart surrendering all of myself to Him in worship, praise, and the desire to be filled with His Spirit patiently waiting as they did back then and not giving up. Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” He doesn’t change nor does His way for us to be born again change. Are you saved like these disciples Apostle Paul asked these questions? I am born again exactly as the those disciples Apostle Paul asked those questions. If Apostle Paul were to speak with me he would find out I have been baptized in Jesus name and filled with the Holy Spirit. Then I would expect him to teach, encourage, and admonish me for doing more work everyday for the Lord for the day and the hour is short.

Apostle Paul/God’s Word is asking you, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” Your answer:

Apostle Paul/God’s Word is asking you, “Then what baptism did you receive?” Your answer:

Are you going to be baptized in water in Jesus name and pray to receive the Holy Spirit Your decision:

If you have no one to baptize you in water you can take yourself to a place where you can go under water completely, look towards heaven, and say, Lord I repent and baptize myself in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of my sins and I know I will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit because it is a promise from You who changes not (Acts 2:38,39). Start praying and worshiping expecting to receive His Holy Spirit. Later, if you find someone who lines themselves up with the apostles Acts 2:38 there is nothing wrong letting them baptize you in Jesus name. It will not take away what you have done.

May your spirit get a hold of God’s Spirit and fly free in fellowship every day. As these bodies grow old our spirit within can be renewed day by day (2 Cor. 4:16) never growing old, but maturing into eternal life with God our Father.

Bridges

A bridge is a structure carrying a road, path, railroad, or canal across a river, ravine, railroad and other structures. A bridge connects one side to another. I can easily remember the different kinds of bridges I passed over by different types of vehicles, bikes, motorbikes, by foot and on. They were from a simple one creek bank to another, one side of the river to the other, and from island to another. The bridge allowed me to go from one place to another that would normally have been more difficult or impossible. These are bridges we see everyday in some form or another, but I want to talk about invisible bridges to our physical eyes. Let us walk together with the eyes of perception and ears of understanding across the unseen bridges we unknowingly cross over.

Have you ever asked yourself “what am I?“, “what am I meant to be?“, “what good am I?“, or “what am I suppose to do“? You have tried all kinds of different things with this quest and searches unknown to others. If you have lived long enough you have struggled yourself or encountered people with sexual problems either of mind, body or both. You may have seen those who are impure in their language and their thinking. You have probably met those who go over board with different kinds of self sensual pleasures using whoever they want to get their needs met. You have seen or met people who worship famous people, movies, or powers of the earth (crystals, witchcraft, new age…). I have met those who just love to hate on others, sow discord/problems, eaten up with jealousy, throw fits of rage by themselves or objects. I know you have seen and even been touched with the selfishness this life. You have seen and possibly been a victim by clicks, groups, factions, and members only. I know I have left out some others like envious people, alcoholic people, and drugs. I will leave the rest of the list up to you.

You may be asking yourself “what does this have to do with bridges?” Bridges connect from one side to another. They allow passage from one place to another. They join things that were once not connected. What does sexual immorality, impurity and sensual pleasure; idol worship and witchcraft; hatred; discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy, drunkenness, and other things of the like (Gal. 5:19-21) have to do with bridges?

You and I are bridges. People around us are bridges that are unseen by the physical eyes. We were born into this world automatically being connected to the people around us. As a child family, friends, neighbors, strangers, and classmates were bridges connecting themselves to us whether we welcome them or not. People every day connect their bridges to you with the attempt to pass from their life island to yours the things they are focused on. The words they speak if it is garbage, negative, positive, or treasure it is attempting to pass from them to you through your ears whether you accept or not. The words have been sent across the bridge to you irregardless. People attempt to pass their stuff from themselves to you using different methods whether you are conscientious of it or not. If you are like me you have already thought of some people attempting to push their stuff over on you, good or bad.

“What am I?“, you ask. You are a bridge. I am a bridge. You are reading this as it comes across my bridge to your eyes and ears. Your mind is sorting out these words. You are judging these words to be good, bad, helpful, hurtful, crazy, or makes sense. You also are giving to your family things of yourself knowingly or unknowingly. I had a friend whose dad verbally abused and physically abused his mother with an explosive type anger in front of him and behind closed doors. Before I knew this about “The Bridge” I told him his anger could be like his dads if he was not careful. I called it a seed back then, but today I see a bridge from his dad joining his son, crossing over into his son heart, and planting that seed in his son’s impressionable young mind and returning back over the bridge continuing the bad example. What comes out of your mouth? What kind of facial expressions do you give to people? What actions do you take with personal intentions in mind? What kind things said to you cross over from others to you? What kind of body language do you see people sending your way? What do people around you do with their personal intentions in mind towards you? Wow, we are all bridges passing over all kinds of things daily to people, animals, technology devices. Yes, social websites are tools we use to bridge ourselves to others and the masses.

“What am I?“, “what am I meant to be?“, “what good am I?“, or “what am I suppose to do“? I got tired of the things people sent my way. I got sick at what I saw in my life that I was giving to others. Betrayal crossed over the bridge and stabbed me in the back. Revenge and hatred crossed back over my bridge to others. Experimentation crossed over from other people’s bridges to my island body. Things started passing from my bridge to others who were innocent. Pretending to love you and using you came across the bridges into my life. On my island walls started going up. Hatred start festering with evil intentions. Deception of pretending to be best of friends crossed over the bridge even after letting the walls down for a little bit. The love for animals was more than the love for people inside my island. I closed off to people all the while they were still trying to bridge their stuff to me. I hated people s stuff coming across their bridges to me and I was sick of myself for the things I sent across my bridge to innocent people I could never take back or erase. This is where “The Bridge” of ALL bridges sent over to me “You have tried everything else – try me“. I said to myself and to “The Bridge”, alright I will.

I was sick of evil and being evil, receiving evil and sending evil across the bridges to and from others. Are you tired of people pushing their ideas over their bridge to you? Do you think there is more to this life than what you see everyday? Do you want to change what you receive from others across the bridge and what you send out over yours? This is how I got the answers to “What am I?“, “what am I meant to be?“, “what good am I?“, or “what am I suppose to do“?

The Bible was now allowed to cross over my bridge to talk to my mind, heart, and soul on a trial basis. People were still people attempting to bridge their stuff from themselves to me, but I wanted nothing to do with man’s thinking. I wanted God and His Bible to cross over my bridge into my understanding and perception. People that go to church does not mean they are perfect inside and send only good stuff across their bridges. Whatever religious people sent across their bridge to mine about God I had already decided it had to line up completely with God and His Bible crossing His Bridge or it would not be allowed inside my island.

An example, I had someone tell me that no one in the entire Bible was baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. I allowed that to cross over the bridge and I was nice in return over my bridge. I went home to be alone with my friend, the Bible and God to let Him cross over His bridge to me and show me His truth. I searched, studied, and prayed. In the end I found my best and most trusted friend, the Bible/God, that no one was baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, but the only accounts of water baptism was in the name of Jesus Christ. I then allowed and opened my heart (walls came down) to this as truth that crossed over the bridge to me, but I still did not allow that person full access across the bridge to me. I encourage you there is nothing wrong with guarding your bridge to your heart, mind, and soul. Make sure what people send across their bridge lines up with the Bible completely. I was re-baptized in the name of Jesus Christ because I read in the Bible, my best and trusted friend, that in Jesus name my sins were washed away. What a great feeling and peace of mind.

Now, what I want to cross over my bridge to others is as much pure truth from God and less of myself in it as possible. My whole desire is to help people. I have chosen the number one desire to have God cross over my bridge and touch others with His changing second chance love that no man can offer or match. It does not always happen that way because I am human and I fail, which I try to make my failures less and less in the hopes one day I may reach that beautiful place called heaven free from failure. My prayer is that when people see me that they see Him, hear me – hear Him, and touch me – feel Him. I am still tired of evil and I want nothing but good to cross my bridge to others.

Allow the wisdom from above to cross over the bridge filling you with its purity, peace, gentleness, easy to be applied, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality (favoritism), and without hypocrisy (falseness) James 3:17 in your life. I hope when people look across their bridge to you they see the Spirit of love, joy, peace, tolerance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, which against such things there is no law (Gal. 5:22, 23). May God be allowed to cross your bridge bless you and change you.

“The Spirit, The Word, and The Name”

“The Spirit, The Word, and The Name” have a oneness that is really awesome to see. This is one of those that you cannot see with your physical eyes, but with seeing the sight through the perception and understanding breathed upon you. The physical eyes can see, but the eyes of the mind can be closed just like when we sleep. When the eyes of our mind are open with understanding and perception of our spirit is seeing that which is invisible to physical eyes. Our physical eyes need the help of our brains to interpret what it is physically seeing. This is why this topic “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name” have a oneness that once seen by your spirit it will cause a euphoric rise in your heart because you will be connecting with aspects of God most people miss.

I am so glad that after I tried so many things of this world that I listened to that soft, quiet, powerful, and loving voice of God saying “try me“. I fell in love directly with the Bible. I could ask the Bible anything without being looked down upon for my questions. The Bible was and is my true friend for it will tell me the truth no matter how much it may hurt or if it is against mankind’s traditions because it is out of purity, peace, gentleness, love, consideration, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere (Ja. 3:17). The Bible is physically seen and read by many people, but there is a side to the Bible that in order to connect to it one must reach out and feel after the Spirit of the Bible in order to get the true perception and understanding. The fleshly brain will cast it out, half way believe it, let the world choke it out, or it will sink deeply into our spirit rooting itself with health soil in which to grow. This is what the eyes and ears of my spirit found in “The Spirit, The Name, and The Word” – a life changing experience.

THE SPIRIT

Now, let us enter into the world of “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name”. After Jesus died, was buried, and resurrected from the dead he appeared to those who had followed him. When he appeared to them they thought they were seeing a spirit of him because he had died a few days ago in front of them. Jesus opened his mouth and with the sound of his voice he said look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. Their physical eyes could see him, but their understanding and perception were struggling to grasp the truth and reality. Jesus showed them his hands and feet where there were scares left from the nails driven through them on the cross from the death he died a few days ago, but now he is alive (Lu. 24:39).

Jesus has revealed to them and to us the first part of “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name”, that a spirit does not have flesh and bones with a solid form that can be handled with a physical touch. The Spirit is like the wind that blows that you can hear the sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going (Jn 3:8). I can imagine standing among the beautiful trees with the wind starting to blow through them for my eyes see the branches moving before me as it approaches me, and my ears can hear the brushing of the branches, and then my skin can feel the wind blowing over them as the wind passes by leaving behind the effects. The wind can be heard, felt passing over the skin, and only seen by the after effects like the tree branches swaying as it passed through them. The Spirit that is unseen by the physical eyes can be heard, felt, and observed by the after effects just like the wind.

Jesus went onto shows us that not only is the Spirit without flesh, bones, can only be heard, felt, and seen by after effects, but that God is Spirit (Jn. 4:24). This is where we have to hold on and remember that Jesus knows these things because God “The Spirit…” was/is inside of him (Jn. 1:1,2, 10:30; Col. 2:9; Heb. 2:14). God is the unlimited Spirit, beyond time/space, without boundaries, unseen, yet in all the air, water, land, and beyond. God is “The Spirit…” constantly moving all around with us barely seeing His after effects, barely hearing His voice whispering to us like the wind, and barely feeling Him trying to save, fellowship and love us.

THE WORD

Going back to the beginning of creation “The Spirit…“, the unseen God spoke unseen words and those words took physical form as He spoke them. Those unseen words became the lights in the heavens, separated water into two parts (liquid and air), separated water from the land, plants came up from the land, living creatures from the water, living creatures from the land, and mankind from the land creating an eternal soul inside of man by His Spirit. “…The Word…” spoken by the “The Spirit…” has no hands that reached out like we would and form things like He did the sun and moon in space. “…The Word…” spoken by the “The Spirit…” had no feet that walked on the land creating the plants and trees. “…The Word…” spoken by the “The Spirit…” had no physical flesh or bones like we do in the beginning of creation. “…The Word…” spoken by the “The Spirit…” was just like “The Spirit…” you could hear it as creation sprang forth cracking and popping, feel the rumbling of new life happening all around you, and only see it by the effects of creation coming forth just like the wind in the trees. We see with sight of our understanding and perception “…The Word…” is the action of “The Spirit…”. “The Spirit, The Word…” are both invisible without solid substance, but made visible to us by all the creations we encounter. The “The Spirit…” and the “..The Word…” are one of the same. They are not divided into two separate parts. God “The Spirit…” wanted to create more and He chose this new creation by His Spirit “…The Word…” to form this new creation. We are about to see “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name” have that oneness that is really awesome to see with our spirit just like Jesus told Peter, “Blessed are you, … for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.” (Mtt. 16:17). His eyes inside his spirit accepted the insight to Jesus with faith allowing the perception and understanding to flow freely. Once you have felt this freedom it becomes joy unspeakable and you feel full of God’s light of glory glowing within you. You can seek the Lord with gladness to feel after Him, and find Him, though you will realize He is not far from every one of us (Acts 17:27).

THE NAME – “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name“

Our first reaction to seeing or hearing a name we immediately think of our own name, a name we like, or a person’s name that we know. This is “…The Name” that is like “The Spirit, The Word…” being invisible to the eyes, no hands, no feet, and no flesh and bone. “…The Name” is attached to something for identification, yet invisible within its own self, but attached to something everyone can talk about. My name is attached to me, but not visibly on me and this is the same for all, except if they have it tattooed on them. “…The Name” of God is something mankind has been starving to know to have an answer that this is God. The Old Testament has several names generalizing characteristics of God, but His complete name. “…The Name” of God had to possess inside of it the fullness of His Spirit and His Word (Col. 2:9). “…The Name” could not be God’s name without God being fully in it. For “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name” was placed inside a virgin woman’s womb forming itself a vessel creating a new Adam made after “The Spirit, The Word…“. This vessel had the fullness, a centralized, focused presence of God Himself inside it. This baby was born without sin. This baby, child, then a man was a vessel housing God inside. God being God the whole time while patiently waiting on the child to grow. This baby was given a name not from man, but from God. A name that is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow in heaven and in earth, confessing in every tongue acknowledging that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God (Phil. 2:9-11). All of this makes sense when you think about it being God’s name.

The revelation of “…The Name” is what is inside it and backing it up. God “The Spirit, The Word…” and now “…The Name“. The name of God (Jesus) has His Spirit in it, the Word in it, and the physical body of Jesus is the temple housing all in one. Now, we have “The Spirit…” that spoke “…The Word…” creating all things inside a human vessel with “…The Name” of God for the purpose of our way of salvation, a second chance. “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name” are not restricted to hands, feet, flesh and bone. They are everywhere at once, knowing all things at once, and having the power at once because they are God Himself. Jesus the man is the physical vessel creating the door, the way, the truth, and the life in which mankind can enter through with redemption applied cleansing us for a second chance into the presence of Almighty God once again (Jn. 14:6). I can feel that powerful presence of the fighting Father of heaven for His children here on earth. There is nothing that can stand against God’s name.

There are two main sides, a dual nature, to “…The Name” of Jesus has the Omnipresent (every at once at the same time), omniscient (all-knowing), and the Omnipotent (all-powerful) God Father of all things. The other part of “…The Name” of Jesus carries the answer and payment to “…The Word…” law of death. When mankind broke the law of God it invoked the death penalty as the payment, no jail time, only death. God put inside mankind a way to answer the death penalty paid in full for us, His children. The answer was God creating His own lamb of sacrifice in our place. God created Himself a body in which all necessary ingredients to pay the price for us. This body had the power and presence of “The Spirit, The Word…” and now the “…The Name” to save us. One part of “…The Name” is God the Father Spirit Himself and the other part is pure sin free blood of the lamb of God. God’s name can carry you like a boat over the flooded waters to safety.

People asked Peter, after Jesus had died, was buried three days, rose from the grave and ascended into heaven, what must they do to be saved (Acts 2:37)? “Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

This is where “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name” becomes one with us. We repent of our sins having nothing do with our sinful past. We get full submerged, whole body, in water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission/forgiveness of our sins. Ours sins are completely washed away. We receive the gift of the Holy Spirit just like Peter and the disciples did in the scriptures above because it is a promise to them and all generations to come in the future. A promise from “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name” just as solid as the promise as a lamb of God to take away the sins of the world (Jn 1:29, 36). The name of Jesus has the power of “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name” of God (Spirit side), blood of the Lamb of God washing away our sins, death payment with Life eternal in return (Water side). You must be born again of the water and the spirit or you cannot enter/see kingdom of God, Jesus said in Jn. 3:3,5. There is no other name you can salvation in under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

God loves you very, very much. We can call upon Jesus any time any where because “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name” have no limits. When you do call upon Jesus expect to feel the wind of the Spirit come upon you, feel the Word changing you, and the Name forgiving you just because you freely choose the path of the way, the truth, and the life. Pray, just straight out talking to Him, and feel after Him and find Him right there with you always and forever if you like. You can join God in oneness of spirit through “The Spirit, The Word, and The Name“.