Category: Hidden in Plain Sight

Everyone is Born with God’s Plan

You have been given a life here on earth with a plan from God that is specifically and designed with a good purpose if you should so choose it. We all have a choice of God’s plan or follow this world’s plan. God’s plan is based on His desire that none should perish, but to turn back to Him. 2 Peter 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.” Your soul has a choice of God’s Spirit or the things of this world, which is temporary and never completely satisfying. Let’s look into God’s plan, His ideas, and His thoughts for your life. First, let us take a look at what God is and the reason behind His plans.

WHAT IS GOD

God is the All Present Spirit and as example think of Him like the air around us. We know air is there, but we cannot see a physical form of air. The All Present Spirit of God cannot be seen in only one place. If air could form a single location for us to see it then we could go to that place to interact with even though it is still everywhere. This is what the All Present everywhere Spirit of God did. He centralized a form within Himself for all of creation to come visit and fellowship with Him. He called this place His Word. This is where we see the design God chose if He were to be of a solid form. This centralized place called His Word was were His thoughts, plans, and ideas created and generated all physical existence.

The All Present Spirit said, “…Let us make man…“. The “us” He is referring to is simply Him counseling with Himself. Eph. 1:11 “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” This is where the beauty of God’s plan for us begins to unfold. He has a predestinated plan that He hopes we will choose that guarantees us a place with Him forever. Don’t forget the scripture telling us He does not want anyone to perish. The elements of the “…Let us…” are components of Spirit and of the Word. Going back to the air example how could we find God in the air of this world if He did not have an air form in a centralized location? It is the same with His All Present Spirit. He let His Word be the centralized location of His Godhead for all of creation to come and fellowship with Him.

If you and I were made of air only how would we find each other? We would need a body that houses our thoughts, plans, and ideas. God’s All Present Spirit needed a body if He were of solid form, which is what He formed us base on His image and likeness. God made us of His Spirit and of His Word from the dust of the earth. The making of you and I inside our mother’s womb came with God’s plan like a Father hoping His child will choose one day. No one is predestinated to go to hell. God gave us absolute power in the freedom of choice.

The “…Let us…” was the All Present Spirit speaking to His Spirit image and likeness if he were to be of a solid form. We know this image and likeness as the “Word“. The All Present Spirit made of Himself a spirit form and likeness if He were to be of a solid form as a central location for all creations to have a place to visit Him. It would be like the air creating a visible image and likeness in a certain location in the air of the earth for us to visit. This was God’s plan for all creation to know where to go to fellowship with Him.

God could not make man as a spirit everywhere because He alone One True All Present Spirit. This explains how He is the One True God because there are no numbers outside of Him and not enough numbers inside of Him to begin counting. God made man according to His image and likeness for a centralized location of fellowship. This is where the scripture explains Jn. 1:2 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The “Word” is translated as the embodying (to give a body to a spirit) an idea, expressing and speaking the thoughts of God. God, the Father of Creation and the All Present Spirit gave Himself a centralized spiritual body as a centralized location for all creation to come and fellowship with Him. God could not stop being from everywhere.

The body God had in His Spirit, the Word, was the place He acted through with His ideas and expressing them in creating a place He called heaven along with the individual and diverse angels. This Spirit body He focused through had all His plans and ideas for all creations to come into physical existence. This reveals His embodied Word He said, Jn. 1:3 “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” The “Word” is the embodiment of the All Present God, Father of Creation, expressing His thoughts, plans, and ideas. Without His Spirit body we could never find a centralized location to stand before Him just like the example of air on the earth where would we go?

YOU AND ALL OF MANKIND

God through His given Spirit body that contained His thought out plans for physical creations wanted children like unto His Word because they could not be children unto His All Present Spirit said, “…Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” God took and created a dust image of Himself, not the All Present part, but of the Word part, from the earth. Just like His Word we all came with a plan. Gen. 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground…” This body of a man lying there made in an physical earth image and after His Word likeness had no life in it. There was a body, but no living plan inside it.

The body of man, God’s children in His image and likeness was only one tiny part of God’s Word. The body needed life and a plan. God doesn’t do anything that does not have a plan to it or function. His All Present Spirit had a plan for His embodied Word Spirit. Simply, a centralized location for all creations to come and fellowship with Him. How do you find the location of an All Present Spirit? You do not. The image and likeness lying there on the ground needed life and a plan to start a centralized location as one of God’s children. God walks in His Word and mankind will walk in his body. The earthly body houses the soul of mankind and the Word houses the All Present God’s thoughts, plans, and ideas.

Gen. 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” God’s breath breathed into that body of man came with life and a plan because that is what God is – a plan and life. After the breath of life entered the man and touched the body a living soul was born between the two. The first natural man created in the image and likeness of God came with an Adam plan God hoped he would freely choose. Adam woke up with God’s embodied breath/spirit of life, a good plan inside him, and a body to interact with all of creation just like the All Present Spirit of God wanted for Himself.

God wanted a centralized body to interact with all of creation and Adam was created to have a centralized body to interact with all of creation. This explains why God said, Gen. 1:26 “…and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” because He wanted Adam to be like Him not just in image, likeness, and form, but also in dominion. You could almost see God saying to Adam, I want you to be like Me interacting with this world like I interact with the spirit world, my son.

The breath of life came with a plan and idea God had for Adam to follow if he so chooses. Adam could choose from his soul to follow this spirit of life God gave him or he could follow the fleshly body. We all are born with the breath of life from God that comes with a specific plan and idea God has for us. We are born into sin, but we have a spirit of life with God’s plan that our soul can choose to follow one day or continue a fleshly path in this body of sin and corruption.

This explains the scriptures in Jer. 1:4 “Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,” v5 “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” God sent life into Jeremiah’s mother’s womb with a Jeremiah plan. A predestinated hope you choose plan from God not overriding the absolute power of choice for Jeremiah. Predestination is only set in the choice we make. It is the end result of that choice that is predestinated.

God said, “…I knew thee…” “before I formed thee in the belly…and before thou cames forth our of the wormb…” God’s spirit of life is the plan or idea God had for Jeremiah before his soul was born. The joining of the fleshly body and the breath of life inside his mother’s womb birthed the living soul called Jeremiah. This sounds like predestination, but only for the good. God’s plans and ideas for us are for us to choose to follow His spirit of life back to Him through Jesus Christ returning to the full fellowship once again He so desired, but we can still refuse God. God was and is 2 Peter 3:9 “…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” We are all like Jeremiah born with a purpose from God to our good if can deny following our sinful flesh. God will never deny us the free will choice of our soul. You can win against sin and return to the original plan God has for you through the power of Jesus Christ.

The key focus is that God sends us His spirit of life into the conception birthing an eternal individual soul between His spirit of life and the earthly body. Our soul has the free will choice in choosing between His spirit of life and the fleshly body. When the first two children of God, Adam and Eve, were created and did not listen to God’s warning about the tree of the knowledge of evil and followed their fleshly bodies caused evil sin to enter into them separating them from God created a passage of sin to all generations born unto them into this world. God did not stop sending His plans with your name on it in the hopes you would choose and not perish.

We know in Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;“, but if you will notice throughout the Bible God did not take away the knowledge of good after they accepted the corrupting knowledge of evil, nor did God take away His spirit of life from Adam and Eve. They did not die on the spot with God removing his plans from them. God added His own Word plan as a seed of promised victory for another chance. All of mankind chooses by his own free will between God’s spirit of life and the flesh. The spirit of life has the good and specific plans God has for everyone of us and the flesh has the plans of selfish earthly lusts for us, but we need His redeeming power to return with strength to fulfill that plan through Jesus Christ.

This explains the scripture: Gal. 5:17 “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” This is a battle we live with every day before and after receiving the salvation of the Lord through Jesus Christ. This daily battle offsets us from doing the good things we would like to do. The flesh is the voice telling people they don’t need to be saved or do it some other time and the breath of life plan birthed at conception with out little body is hungry to fulfill the calling God planned for us in the beginning.

This battle distracts us from God’s good plans for us. We are all born with a plan inside the spirit of life just like Jeremiah customized to our God given abilities. We are stuck with the choice daily between the two. Rom. 8:5 “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.” God allowed His spirit of life and the knowledge of good to remain in us against the flesh and the knowledge of evil until the day He could give us power to overcome sin through Jesus Christ. This connects us to Phil. 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

Apostle Paul clearly points out the struggle we all face who want to do good. Rom. 7:18 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.” v23 “But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.” God has a good plan of life for you and the flesh has a bad plan for you on this earth sending your spiritual soul to a devil’s punishment that was never meant for you. You have the power of choice to follow the plan that will save or condemn your soul.

Apostle Paul helping us to see this battle clears up what we must do. Rom. 7:25 “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” v22 “For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:” Once we are born again of the water and of the Spirit we can have the power of Jesus Christ to win this battle daily by prayer and supplication. We can get back on track for the original good plan of God sent us in His spirit of life. How do we get back on track and reconnect to the plan God has for us? Let us look at the plan God inserted Himself in physical form to save us.

THE MAN – JESUS CHRIST

Everyone of us are sent the spirit of life at conception and in that spirit of life is God’s plan and idea of how He hopes we choose to be. Jeremiah chose that plan and God revealed to him he was on the right track because he chose the plan God had for him before he was physically conceived in his mother’s belly (Jer. 1:4, 5). Do you realize God has a good plan for you sitting inside your body right now? God, also, had a plan for Himself as a physical man in place for the sole purpose to save us and that none should perish after sin entered into mankind – His children. How important is God’s plans?

The All Present God is an All Knowing plan with the All Power to sustain it. God’s power is in the sun with the plans of light for all to see and feel. There is nothing in existence that does not have His Spirit, Knowledge, and Power sustaining it. This is no difference when it came to His Word form coming in the flesh of Jesus Christ. Col. 1:16 “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:” v17 “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

Everywhere God is there is His plan. The Plan of Himself to have children made in His image and likeness brought forth the image of mankind to reflect His Spirit form. Nothing was created without the “him” form of Himself in mind if He were to be of a solid form. God could speak of “him” as though He was already Jesus Christ in fleshly form.

The All Present everywhere Spirit of God focused all physical and spiritual things through His Word. These scriptures are pointing out how powerful His Word that is inside the fleshly man called Jesus Christ. The Almighty God put the fulness of His plan inside the man Jesus Christ to set us completely free returning the status of being truly His children once again. God’s plans are in you and everything around us.

When God talks about the birth of the man Jesus He says, Jn. 1:1“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” v2 “The same was in the beginning with God.” The Word is God and God is the Word. The Word is God’s thoughts, plans, and ideas. v14 “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” The Word and God are the same with them being interchangeable retaining the same being. Why is this so important? It is the unstoppable plan of redemption God was going to accomplish for you and me personally.

Jesus the man was just like Jeremiah having a choice to follow the divine plan God had for them or follow the world. How do we know Jesus the man had a choice? I am glad you asked. Jesus the man said to God before he was arrested with chains, to be beaten, smacked, mocked, spit upon, tearing out his beard out, whipped with 40 stripes upon his back, a crown of thorns, and nailed to a cross by each hand and feet, Luke 22:42 “..if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” Jesus the man had thoughts and feelings of another direction, but surrendered his all trusting fully as he had always done to “…not my will, but thine be done“.

Jesus the man wanted to be one with God’s plan. This understanding connects to Jn. 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” The “…only true God…” is the All Present Spirit focused in the centralized “Word” form placed inside the man “Jesus Christ, whom…” God has sent with the plan to redeem mankind among many other revelations connecting us to life eternal. Seeing and perceiving the only true God and Jesus Christ the man brings life eternal. God sent Himself with His own plan inside Jesus the man for all of us to see, feel, and partake of so that none would perish.

Jn. 1:3 “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” v4 “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” The Word is “him” and God is “him“. God is an everywhere Spirit, but also He has a place within Himself that He would call a Godhead for our understanding. This would be based upon if He were to be of a solid form filled with His thoughts, plans, ideas, and patterns for physical creations.

Notice, He said, “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” in verse 4. Another translation says, “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” The life and light that came on inside Adam was from the source of God’s thoughts, plans, and ideas He had for Adam. From God’s Word breathing into the body with the dust of the ground birthed from between them a living soul. God’s breath of life had Adam’s name on it in hopes like a father would want a son to choose, but Adam chose the earthly flesh sinning against God.

This is why the man Adam and the man Jesus Christ are different in birth. The body of Jesus inside the virgin Mary’s womb was birthed not by the breath/spirit of life like Adam. 1 Cor. 15:45 “…The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” Quickening means to make alive. When the Word was made flesh it was God Himself making alive all those who choose His words of life and of Spirit. The centralized Godhead of His thoughts, plans, and ideas were made alive in the man Jesus with God as the quickening Spirit. Jn. 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.“

Jesus the man said, Jn. 10:30 “I and my Father are one.” You cannot separate and divide Jesus the man and the Father. God’s plan to bond with Jesus was the fulfilling goal of God to save mankind. Col. 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” v9 “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” The life inside of Jesus the man was not just the breath of life, but it was God, His Word, and His quickening Spirit. God was applying His plan of salvation personally to all of us through Jesus Christ the man. The man Jesus was one with God’s plan and God’s plan was one inside of Jesus the man. The man Jesus was one with God’s Word and the Word was one with Jesus the man fulfilling God will provide Himself a sacrifice for mankind.

We needed Jesus the man to be God in the flesh to save us eternally. Only God could save us from an eternal death with the devil and his demons. Our living eternal souls will leave these bodies of flesh and live eternally in one or another place. There is no choice because God designed heaven, earth, and hell for the devils, which ended up being a place for us because mankind sinned against God just like the fallen angels. None of the evil sides were God’s choice for us or the angels. They were out there for all to freely choose. Now, we need God to save us and open up another choice.

Salvation is simple, yet mankind has changed and clouded what God’s word was never meant to be changed. If you want to truly reconnect to the original plan God sent you with your name on it like Jeremiah. Then you must be born again of the water and of the Spirit just like Jesus said in the Gospel John chapter three. God gave those steps to the Apostle Peter to preach to mankind and it never changed, only mankind developed traditions in his own opinions against what God gave to the Apostle Peter.

God did not change the warning to eating the tree of the knowledge of evil bringing forth sin and death. It was the devil that changed and twisted God’s word. Do you think the devil has changed his tactics today? He is still promoting just believe and you won’t die. He is playing on false good intentions. You will be okay with God if you do this and that all the while skipping over the one and true scripture of salvation. He has convinced mankind some of the books of the Bible are just dead history books. Look over and look over there for salvation.

God has a specific and Bible given plan of salvation and all other plans fall under the umbrella of warning by the Apostle Paul when he said in Gal. 1:8 “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” The “…which we have preached…” is speaking of the days in the book of Acts when they preached God’s plan of salvation and “…let him be accursed” is a very scary thing for those rejecting to speak about God’s plan of salvation.

Do you see? It has been, still is today, and in the future all have to do with the “Plan“, the “Word“, and the “ideas” of God set into motion. Everything has a plan from God and a purpose to fulfill. 2 Cor. 13:8 “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” On our part the original plan God has for us is based upon, if we choose to do so. For us to reconnect to that personal plan God has for us it starts with being born again the Bible way – God’s way, God’s plan.

Jesus fulfilled that plan by dying on the cross paying our debt owed, shedding his innocent blood for the washing away of our sins, being buried in a tomb burying our old man of sin, and coming back to life on the third day reconnecting our spirit to the original plan God had for us. 2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise…; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.“

Here is what God gave to the Apostle Peter in telling us how to be born again applying God’s plan of salvation. Acts 2:38 “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” Again, this is where mankind changed it preaching other gospels outside of God’s original plan. This one scripture completely fulfills what Jesus said about being born again of the water and of the Spirit.

The three simple steps to be saved by God’s plan is to first “repent“. A determination not live the life of sin from your past to the present moment, and desiring to be free from the torment of sin. Basically, I don’t want to live this way anymore. Lord, set me free.

The second is being baptized “…in the name of Jesus Christ” submerged under water into the likeness of Jesus death and burial. The blood of forgiveness is inside the name of Jesus applying the power to wash away all your sins. Nothing can wash away our sins, nothing but the blood of Jesus. Nothing can make us whole again, nothing but the blood of Jesus.

The last step is to “…receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” This is where you must stop and think about God Himself sending the power of His Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ to you. His plan is to gift you with His Holy Spirit making you a temple for His Holy Spirit to dwell until He brings you home to heaven. Your temple has been washed in the blood of the Lamb. God’s Spirit has always made it a known and unforgettable fact throughout the Bible when He comes down to powerfully dwell somewhere before all the people, but He is still showing powerfully Himself to this day when people receive His Holy Spirit inside of them.

As one example: 2 Chron. 5:14 “So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.” The priests were standing on the outside. Can you imagine the glory of the Lord coming down and filling you on the inside? Would you be able to stand and act normal under the power of this God’s glory pouring deep inside your soul? It would be like Jesus told the woman at the well: Jn. 4:14 “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” God comes down inside you and the praise will come forth from you that can only be identified as the power of God Himself speaking. The powerful gift of the Holy Ghost will cause you to never thirst for anything else the devil or this world may offer you.

The born again with the gift of the Holy Ghost is God coming down renewing your spirit, making you His personal temple of fellowship and coming back out of you with your voice like a “…a well of water springing up into everlasting life” as a sign to those outside of you and to your own hearing that you have, without a doubt, born again of God’s Spirit. Acts 2:4 “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Same as the priests saw of old on a non-living building that could not react like a living building such as you and I – “…as the Spirit gave them utterance“. It is more than goose bumps on your arms and uncontrollable weaping. It is the power of God coming up out through your voice yielding your faith for God to proclaim Himself inside of you as a new creature in Christ. Acts 1:8 “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you…“

Now, you are completely born again and baptized into the body of Christ with no parts missing. 1 Cor. 12:13 “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” God’s plan was for all of salvation to be in the body of Jesus the man. This is why Jesus said, Jn. 14:6 “…no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” We need to be completely inside the body of Jesus Christ as the ark of safety against the end times and death.

Everything is in the body of the man Jesus Christ and the application is all applied through the name of Jesus Christ. The blood, the death, the burial, and the resurrection are all in the name of Jesus. This is the plan of God and explains why Jesus said, Mtt. 28:18 “…All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” He said, “…unto me…” identifying all of salvation is him. The next scripture after this one explains the plan God had from the beginning into the present and onward into the our future this day.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth – the Father of Creation in Spirit form Gen. 1:1; Jn. 1:1,2. God came to the earth in a fleshly body of Jesus Christ – the Son of redemption Col. 2:9; Jn. 1:14. God can now come through Jesus Christ giving us His gift of Himself as His personal temple – the Holy Ghost of regeneration Acts 1:8; 1 Cor. 3:16; 2 Cor. 6:16; Titus 3:5,6. Jesus and God are one.

Mankind has created another path of salvation that is not the salvation plan God wanted. The traditions of man use Mtt. 28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” as a separate gospel and a separate plan of salvation. The Father of Creation came inside the body of Jesus as the fulness of His Godhead creating a fleshly mediator between us and His Spirit allowing a pathway for God to funnel through Jesus Christ His Holy Spirit directly into our bodies creating a temple of redemption and regeneration. As all the plan of salvation is in the body of Jesus Christ so is all the plan of salvation inside the name of Jesus.

God planned everything around a seed promised to Adam, Eve, and all of mankind thereafter to destroy the lifelong bondage to sin and death. Heb. 2:14 “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;” This was all God’s plan from the beginning. He is the All Spirit in creation. He is the All Spirit inside Jesus Christ. He is the All Spirit through Jesus Christ the man in us as the Holy Ghost. We are sifted and cleaned through the body and the name of Jesus Christ. Acts 4:12 “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.“

Everything has a plan, purpose, and function from God. You and I are like Jeremiah with a plan from God with our name on it. God sent the breath of life into your mother’s womb with your name on it. Jesus Christ the man was sent the Plan of God Himself to save our souls from a devil’s hell and rejoin us to God’s direct fellowship.

Read this and put your name in the blank, “…I knew thee…” _________ “before I formed thee in the belly…and before thou camest forth our of the wormb…“. “…I sanctified thee…” ___________ “and I ordained thee a…” __________ “…unto the nations.” The last blank is if you know what you are good at doing that God planned to use as a witness to all the world.

After repenting, being baptized in Jesus name for the remission of sins, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost we have become the representatives like Jesus to all the world. As Jesus let Pilate know the plan of God was for him to become king. You are alive in this world inheriting God’s plan once you get back on track of your original design from God. You will be able to say, you are a witness and Jn. 18:37 “…To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.” Oneness with God was the plan from the very beginning and Jesus Christ the man is the rejoining of that plan if you should so choose.

God’s plan is inside you. Let Jesus Christ reconnect you to that plan God wanted you to have since birth. 2 Peter 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.” Pray with a repenting heart, find a way to be water baptized in Jesus name applying the blood of forgiveness washing away all your sins, and open up your spirit in a receptive way for God to fill you with His powerful Holy Ghost. You will never be the same in the glory of God.

If In This Life

1 Cor. 15:19 “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.“

What is in this life that is miserable? In this life our eyes see, our ears hear, our hands touch, our tongue tastes, and our nose smells all kinds of different things. We are born busy interacting with this life. The spectrum of emotions hits us in waves of highs, mediums, and lows. Our brain is busy with processing all the sights, sounds, feelings, tastes, and aromas. In this life that is our fleshly body reacting to the physical interactions. This is the life we know within ourselves.

What is in this life outside of ourselves? When we look out through our eyes that are recording the people, places, and things, we come to know the conclusion that things are not permanent. A tree in the neighborhood that once stood strong is now gone because of a strong wind, or cut down for a house to be built there. We see our grandparents, parents, aunts, and uncles growing older and slower. Our same age cousins, friends, and class mates change along with us. Everything is fading away with time.

We have a grandparent that passes away, seeing the funeral, and the burial service. We see them no more. The other grandparent passes away. Mom and Dad are starting to look like our grandparents. We get married, have children, who were us when we were small, and we become our parents, the aunts, the uncles, and then grandparents. A coming and going in this life.

In this life our loved ones do not stay with us permanently. In this life the truth is no matter how good things are they change and pass away with time. Having hope in this life only has a dead end street of misery with us saying goodbye to the things we love. Hope is this life only?

1 Cor. 15:19 “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” This Bible scripture even implies placing all our hope as a follower of Jesus Christ in this world only and stopping here is still a miserable ending. There is something beyond this world to place our total hope on that is the opposite of misery. What is beyond this life? Do we know? Do we see it? Are we looking for this hope to encourage us? A born again Christian cannot stop their hope in this life only to be happy.

The word miserable implies gloom, sad, pathetic, tragic, etc. The opposite of miserable implies cheerful, happy, and joyful. While we may experience moments of cheerfulness, happiness, and joyfulness in this life we know it is only a passing memory. Everything in this life is temporary, including people. You pull up memory that you cherish with great fondness, but they are no longer here physically and sadness sets in.

The two things God pointed out to me in this scripture was 1 Cor. 15:19 “If in this life only we have hope… we are of all men most miserable.” If in this life only we have hope we are all of mankind most miserable. In “this life only we have hope“? While we are in this life should we be looking somewhere else for life? What is outside this life? Is there something past this life? Placing our hope in this life will bring misery?

I have thanked God for so many things in this life. Take a pause and what is the first thing that pops in your mind as a happy or joyful thing you have encounter in your past that brought a smile to your face and a laughter from deep within you. You and I have memories of people, places, and things that have brought joy and thankfulness to have them in our lives. The older we become the more we love and cherish those things in this life thanking God for allowing them to cross our paths.

Have you ever just stopped and thank God for the beautiful sunrise, the blue sky, the fall colored leaves, and many other natural things? I have thanked God when a project goes well. I have thanked God to be able to see, walk, and talk considering my fellow mankind bound by wheel chairs, bedridden, and using seeing eye dogs. I have gone through the category of memories of my relatives and families being grateful to God they were in my life and still grateful.

We are all extremely attached to the people, places, and things in this life. I never considered thanking God for the spiritual life. God gave Adam and Eve this whole world to enjoy, but He gave them something else. God gave mankind a spiritual life. I thank God I have and you have a spiritual life that will not pass away. We have a side to us that no other recorded creation in all creations in beginning received from God such as you and I have.

There is hope we are not stuck with misery, gloom, sad, pathetic, and tragedy in this life only. In this life we have moments of joy and happiness, but it is also filled with different levels of afflictions. The aging process starts taking away how healthy you feel, adding back pains, muscles pains, slow recoveries, and many other issues you cannot stop the body from evolving into. You may not have that now, but you can see it in others around you and don’t be naïve your body is heading in their direction.

There is hope we are not stuck saying a permanent goodbye to our loved ones. In this life it is permanent we will not see them living before as they did in this world, but because of having a spiritual side we can look forward to seeing them again. When they die hope is taken away from us, but hope is restored in the spiritual life to come.

I thank God for giving us our spiritual side so we can go beyond this life to once again see our loved ones, to see the skies of heaven, and the eternal dwelling places. There will be no more misery, gloom, sadness, pathetic things, and tragedies in the spiritual realm God has created for us. He gave us a spiritual side to live forever and not to be depressed in placing our hope in this world and this life only.

The hope is there inside you. No matter your age and battle you are facing. You have to fight the depressing thoughts of your situation trying to take you over, not feeling needed anymore, and/or feeling useless. You have an eternal spirit looking out through your eyes right now reading these words and the ability to look out through the sky to an endless hope of joy in the life with God who loves you. You have an inward spiritual person who can be renewed everyday in the fellowship with God. The end of this world is not your ending.

1 Cor. 4:16 “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” You who are reading this may not be of an old age, but the truth remains the same no matter the age. You are growing older in this life and your fleshly body will perish, die, and pass away. You are becoming your parents, your aunts, uncles, and possibly one day your grandparents. God gave you your inward man that is not going to die. We all will and do face different forms of afflictions. There is no escape of what happens in this life. It rains on the just people and the unjust people.

Your hope in this life will faint and fade away as many as before you, but the real inward spiritual you will live beyond your flesh. The true strength of your hope is in your spiritual connection with God past all the things in this life. The hope that faints and fades away not is in the Spirit.

I have found in this life a spiritual part of me that can and will live beyond the troubles of this world by a gift God gave us. 1 Cor. 4:17 “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;” In this life the afflictions, troubles, and issues drives us to resolve, adapt, and the reason of what has come upon us. Perspective and understanding keeps things in their rightful place.

We have a spiritual side God gave us that can reach outward beyond this life to receive the wisdom that is from above that James 3:17 “…is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.” Isn’t that awesome to have that possible eternal resource being renewed day by day if we want it? Our spirit can connect with that pure wholesome wisdom strengthening our life in a way this world never could.

I am thankful everyday for things in this life, but I also have to thank God for giving us a spiritual life that will not pass away. We are in a sense saying, goodbye to each other everyday because we do not know the day or the hour our fleshly body will fails us. In this life the life of the flesh will fail us, but inside the life of this flesh is an eternal spiritual life God made permanent, “…though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day“. God wanted Adam and Eve to live with Him for all eternity as any truly loving father would.

The inward person inside of us being renewed day by day is determined by the focus of our mind, heart, and soul on the choices we make daily. God encourages us to point our hope in the direction of His Spirit and Word because the things in this life are temporary appeasements. 18  “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

I never thought to thank God for giving us our spiritual side. We live so much on a day to day basis dealing with things in this world. It makes it easy to see only this life forgetting a freedom we have in our spiritual life. We have more than our fleshly bodies to live with in this life.

There is a joy that is hard to put into words when you ask, seek, and knock on God’s door. God will give our spirit words of perception and understanding beyond living by the bread of this world alone. God will help our spirit to find what it is looking for even though we expected something different. It is a promise by God that if we knock on His door it shall be opened. Mtt. 7:7  “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:” 8  “For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” Are those not the most beautiful spiritual words you can read?

Those of you who are faithful in reading the things God shares with me know that I cannot close out without sharing a Biblical truth that this world does not want you to have. I was almost one of those who missed out on this spiritual truth, but God had mercy on me and sent someone to challenge my truth vowed relationship with God. I put all my hope and trust in God’s word and not mans.

And here it is: Acts 2:38  “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.“

The majority of Christian doctrines/teachings avoid, overlook, or try to explain away this scripture. My asking, seeking, and knocking to God for the pure truth lead me to see, know, and understand this is God’s plan of salvation and everything else outside this is the traditions of mankind.

To activate completely your spiritual side with God is getting your spirit on the inside of the body of Jesus Christ and God’s Spirit getting on the inside of your body with your spirit. This is why Jesus said, Jn. 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.“

Salvation is simple, yet extremely deep in understanding. You completely repent turning away from your sins and the sins of world that God rejected. You go down under water in baptism saying, “…in the name of Jesus Christ…” for the purpose and reason of applying the blood of Jesus Christ with the power to wash away your sins before God. The final part is receiving the gift with the power of the Holy Spirit of God inside of you that has never changed from what happen to those when it started.

Adam in the beginning was breathed upon by God giving him spiritual life and Adam spoke. We are breathed upon by God once again, a born again of the Spirit birth, making us alive once again by speaking words His Holy Spirit gives us to speak, which will not be in our fleshly natural words, but another language proving as a sign His Spirit has moved inside our bodies with His Spirit.

If God wants you to have this experience would you not want it if He is willing to give it? Look to your spiritual side with God because outside of that all things are temporary. If you put your hope in this life only you will be find the ending most miserable, but your hope in the spiritual walk and talk with God completely satisfying.

May God richly bless you in His fellowship and Word.

With Him

We all want someone to love us for ourselves accepting and believing in us. Living this life we have many people outside our bodies that have no clue what is going on inside our minds and behind our eyes. Our face may show one thing, but our spirit is completely different. No human living human being can be inside with our spirit seeing us as we truly are.

No matter how much our body feels companionship our spirit has no one inside with it when we are born into this world. Our thoughts are alone. Our feelings are somewhat comprehended, completely misunderstood or made fun of like they mean nothing. Unfortunately, as we grow up there are things that try to partnership with our spirit using our bodies for it’s selfish purpose, but never truly satisfying the lonely hole we feel in our spirit.

We are born as babies with a hungry body and a hungry spirit. The deception is when our body is somewhat satisfied the hunger of our spirit either falls asleep content with the body’s satisfaction, becomes forgotten or overlooked. Food, drink, and pleasures override and mask our lonely spirit. No matter how much of the physical things of this world we partake in our spirit is still lonely. Our spirit is continually a spectator on this one sided ride.

It makes perfect sense for the things of this world satisfying the hunger of our body made of this world. The hunger of the body is earth feeding earth, but our spirit is eternal and it needs eternal feeding eternal. As I said earlier there are things in the eternal realm that tries to partnership with our spirit on eternal lies that do not completely satisfy our spirit, but a false sense of hope through the body and the things of this world. Eternal evil feeds a never ending hunger for more eternal evil through our temporary body, whereas eternal good fulfills and satisfies the hunger of our spirit prepares us to leave this temporary body.

This is where “With Him” comes into play. Before Him, I could not get enough of the things of this world to make my spirit happy. My body was happy most of the time, but something was still missing. The alcohol could not reach it. The cigarettes could not reach it. The other misbehaviors could not reach it. Emptiness was still there and growing to a point of madness of “how do I get satisfied“. It became a driving thirst from the beginning never forgetting that first.

Growing up, I was made to go to church and my body was there doing its time, but my spirit was elsewhere. I am thankful now my body was there and my spirit heard there was a God, but I was still under the deception of feeding my body was feeding my spirit. You can try to make your body as happy as possible, but that happiness does not have the eternal substance to feed or satisfy your spirit. Your body sitting in church while your spirit is elsewhere will not feed your spirit completely.

One morning my body was sitting in church and my spirit was so burned out on trying to satisfy my life a still small voice whispered in my mind “you have tried everything else why not try Me?” My spirit starting thinking and I had to agree. I have tried so many other things that I believed we good things, but left me wanting more in a bad way. I replied back, “okay, I will give you a try.“

I went down to the front to the altar and the pastor knelt down with me having his arm over my shoulder and he started praying. He stops praying, looks at me, and said, “Did you pray this prayer with me?” I looked at him and said, “I did” and I lied right there in the altar because I did not know I was suppose to repeat what he said to receive salvation from God. This was the best thing could ever have happened to me.

As the pastor started speaking to the congregation about this lost soul coming forth to be saved I stayed knelt down at the altar and poured the rawness of my heart out to God asking Him to help me with the hunger of my spirit. They were my raw words of repentance without any pretty sentence structure or form. My spirit to His Spirit unrehearsed or planned out.

Why I said, “This was the best thing could ever have happened to me” was because many churches today have put together a man made structured sentence that the body can repeat someone else’s words while our spirit just listens to the body’s vocal chords repeating said words, which our spirit could be disconnected and letting the body go through the motions. When I out of desperation poured my heart out to God because of my sinful condition and I lied in the altar my spirit was totally involved bypassing the body reaching out for the eternal to help my eternal.

My relationship “With Him” started out from my raw spirit directly speaking to His pure Holy Spirit. Having the body to repeat words of salvation has no more power than the body drinking water when you are thirsty because you have only reached the level of satisfaction for the body and not the spirit. Your spirit just listened to the body speaking just like it would watch as the body was drinking. I hope you are seeing the separate dual nature within yourself – body and spirit.

My personal raw relationship “With Him” was a blunt, up-front asking and receiving from His Bible and Spirit. When I learned I was not doing something in His Bible He liked I asked why, he explained, and I started practicing it. “With Him” became a life of wisdom and good understandings that I did not gain from trying to feed my spirit through the actions of my body. The lessons through the body experimenting can be some very hard lessons affecting yourself and others for life.

I was now on a path of feeding my body the things it needed from earth to earth and feeding my spirit from eternal to eternal “With Him“. He said, he would lead me and guide into all truth (Jn 16:13) and it was truth that made my spirit complete. I was drinking and eating the things the body needed while I had learned what food and drink my spirit needed. No longer was my spirit watching the body get its happiness, but now my spirit was finding its eternal happiness daily “With Him“.

Actually, things have reversed. The body wants to party with different things, but the wisdom of the spirit sees the temporary fix will not match the eternal fix. The body hates the spirit because it will not allow it to dominate with selfish going nowhere pleasures that do not benefit the place of eternity the spirit will go one day. Another words the body hates that the spirit has become smarter and wiser to it’s ways.

I had lived somewhat a hard life of lying people and now I have clung to His Bible and His Spirit as the only one I would trust completely. It is funny walking “With Him” He told me that I had to learn to love people again and I did slowly. As time passed I would meet people would challenge me with questions about God and His Bible of which I became a student of the Bible and God as my teacher believing only Him when He connected to all scriptures satisfying it was not twisted or taken out of context by man, which happens a lot and it all started with the devil in the beginning of time.

“With Him” as my personal best friend, teacher, and the go-to for eternal food for my spirit life was now full of satisfaction. No longer did the body dominate or deceive my spirit into thinking it was taking care of all my needs. I was having fun spending time “With Him” finding out what He hates, what He loves, and how He thought about things just like you would spend time with person in your body. As I discovered things about Him He started showing me things I did not see about myself, which was awesome if you want to improve yourself in a balance of life way.

One day a person at work asked me, did I know that no one was ever baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost? (Mtt. 28:19) I told him I had not heard that and he proceeded to say there is no record in the Bible using Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in water baptism. Well, the church that I had lied at the altar, repenting, and praying a raw prayer to God was where I was baptized in water with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost being pronounced over me as I went under water for the purpose of a public confession of Christ.

You know what I did after hearing this? I went home and the next few days of researching “With Him“, talking to Him, and desiring to walk in complete truth “With Him“. I found more scriptures of Jesus name baptism and none for Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I used every tool of researching the Bible. Walking “With Him” was my everything in feeding His eternal with my eternal. I accepted to be rebaptized in Jesus name based completely (key word) on the scriptures and God. Not throwing off on the man that told me, but just like at the altar I wanted it to be personal and directly between God and me. You always want your foundation to be between you and God because all of us are prone to fall short and possibly fail.

I will skip forward a little bit to later on when God explained more deeply about water baptism in Jesus name. This is why “With Him” life is so complete and beautiful. He told me the power of the blood was in the name of Jesus. The blood is not in Father or Holy Ghost and “…a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have“, Jesus said (Luke 24:39). Jesus had the body and the blood to save us from our sins through the shedding of blood and going through the process of death in his body. Isn’t that a cool understanding? In the name of Jesus comes all things to forgive, save, redeem, and sweet fellowship.

Obeying water baptism in Jesus name, having that name pronounced over me as I went under the water, I cannot explain the freedom and cleanliness I spiritually felt. It was like chains and bondage fell off of me. This made walking “With Him” even stronger in my spirit to be fed only scriptural truth. When I was baptized in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost for the reason of a public confession my spirit was just watching my body go through the motion and get wet. When I was baptized in Jesus name my body got wet, but my spirit felt a power of forgiveness that I cannot put into words glorious enough to explain it for the Bible purpose of washing away my sins.

This same person asked me about receiving the Holy Ghost like the apostles did in Acts chapter two. I told him I was not worthy enough like the apostles and I thought it was for them only. He told me it was a promise to all of us today to receive like they did. Of course, you know I listened to his words, but I went home for the next several days researching “With Him“, talking to Him, and desiring to walk in complete truth “With Him” and not the words of man. You may not know, but the apostles received the Holy Ghost and as a prophecy God given sign to themselves that they had received the Holy Ghost they spoke in a language/tongue they had not learned in the body praising and glorifying God. People of other nations heard them speaking praises of God in their homeland language/tongue.

Looking backwards at the time when I was in the altar praying the raw prayer while the pastor was telling the people how I was saved and had received automatically the Holy Spirit. I have to admit one hundred percent honestly, I did not have any change in my spirit other than the nervousness in my body standing before a church crowd of people. At that time my spirit poured words out of my body’s mouth of repentance, but feeling nothing in my spirit other than a feeling relief, but this was the start of my journey with walking “With Him“.

Back to what the man had said about the gift of the Holy Ghost. I searched the Bible from beginning to end “With Him” and found no where God stopped pouring out His Spirit in the way He did upon the apostles. I actually found it was a promise to all generations and an earnest inheritance from God to whomsoever wanted this experience. “With Him” I was always open to whatever He wanted in my life. My prayers changed towards God saying, “if You want me to have it then I want it“. The real truth is God wanted me to have His Spirit inside with my spirit more than I wanted it. He is the best roommate a body could ever have dwelling inside this temporary apartment of flesh.

Many months had passed and then one night I was praying in the altar at a church that believed in Jesus name baptism and the infilling of the power of the Holy Ghost. I was telling God the same thing “if You want me to have it then I want it“. I absolutely refused man to be a part of my walk “With Him“. If I was going to receive the power of the Holy Ghost is not going to be by a man made cheer leading and pumped up pep talk. This was a personal prayer between me and God only and if He wanted it then I wanted it.

As I was praying my spirit started feeling another powerful and Holy Spirit presence. I knew it was not the devil or an evil spirit because I was talking to Jesus that causes devils to flee. My spirit felt engulfed with this Holy presence. A powerful flowing feeling was inside my spirit and I could tell it was not anything my body could create or mimic. It was not earthly to earthly body feeling, but an eternal flowing Spirit to my spirit like substance giving drink to my eternal spirit inside.

By this time my body was physically feeling the power of this Holy Spirit on the outside flowing upward on the inside through my spirit reaching my vocal cords as an anointing language came out right when I was saying in English “I love you, Jesus” and it turned into a language my body’s ears had never heard before while my spirit knew without question it was praising and glorifying God. There was absolutely no presence of any evil anywhere near me or even in me. It was just like the apostles and the people in the Bible. Simply, a glory from eternal to eternal born again of the Spirit experience. I was more “With Him” in a oneness way that no other religion teaches.

Wow, the “With Him” took on a whole new level of fellowship. Baptized in His name and filled with His Holy Spirit turned on the Spirit to spirit feeding of my soul with complete satisfaction. Understandings were leaping out at me from His word when I read it, listen to it, or He simply drops a thought into my mind that takes me on a path of wisdom I would not normally have had through the body. Baptized into Jesus body and receiving his Spirit is a true oneness of salvation God intended.

Everything looks different now. I am seeing slowly as I can wrap my spirit around it how “With Him” being everywhere at once, having all knowledge, and all power sustains everything and without Him nothing would stand. “With Him” I watch and listen to His birds sing. “With Him” my eyes behold the beauty of the earth He gave us. “With Him” the breathe my body breathes is His grace and mercy. “With Him” swimming in water is the substance He gave us to enjoy and live by.

I see you as His daughter or as His son He wanted to be here hoping you would find Him and walk “With Him“. Hoping you would be like me and many others discovering that no matter what you feed the body it will never feed your spirit. Earth cannot feed spirit and spirit cannot feed earth. You and I are His children and He loves us more than we fathom.

Now, I hunger more than ever before to see Him and walk “With Him“. We are living in a time when people seem to be always learning, but never able to come to the truth sitting right in front of them. These people are sneaking their ideas into your body corrupting your spirit’s understanding and leading you away with lies, sins, and lusts that only feed the body and not your spirit. People are pretending to be good, righteous, and an outward appearance of godliness claiming to be of power, but plainly denying the real power and that is God. Man’s flesh is on a rampage to destroy true spiritual wisdom.

They love their own body pleasures more than the hunger of their spirit for God. They look down on us thinking themselves to better when it is a lie of the body. They are doing whatever it takes to feed their bodies to the point betraying others, despising anyone who is good, violent for any other opinions, out of control, lying accusations, going back on promises, cold heartedness, nothing is sacred, ungrateful, rising against parents, revilers of truth, prideful, arrogant, wanting other people’s things, and narcissists loving only themselves of which the Bible warns us of these things coming in the last days (2 Tim. 3:1-7). They are here right now pushing you as hard as they can from seeing you can only feed eternal with eternal.

A walk “With Him” is crucial right now. You body will lie to the spirit of your mind with earthly things that will not save you when you face the death of your temporary body. Eat, drink, and fight all you want in the body, but earth will never satisfy eternal. Your eternal spirit can only be satisfied with the goodness of the eternal things of God. Go “With Him“, Jesus, into the day by day feeding of your soul with eternal to eternal while you have breathe in your body. The day your body and spirit separate by a fleshly death going into the eternal existence will be a judgment of what you did in words and deeds here on earth. One is a pathway of truth “With Him” and the other is a pathway you can read about in Second Timothy chapter three starting at verse one through seven taking you to an eternal place of torment meant for the devil and his angels, but not you.

WITH HIM

Acts 2:38 “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.“

39 “For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.“

WITHOUT HIM

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

2 “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankfu, unholy,“

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

4 “Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;“

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

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

7 “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.“

The Car IS Replaceable

Vehicles and other modes of transportation we use on a daily basis are man-made and invented to make things more efficient. The majority of the transportation we use to travel is something we generally step inside and ride until reaching our destination. There are some transportation we ride on top of (bikes, boats…etc) to our destination. We walk inside, step inside, or sit inside the vehicle that is going to carry us to our desired destination.

“The Car IS Replaceable” comes from a statement my dad said to me after being in a car accident. At the time I thought it was a cool, comforting, and a relief of stress statement. I did not think past the surface of that statement at that moment. I did not hear the strong love inside those words spoken from a man who never said, “I love you”, but we knew we were loved.

I got my driver’s license so I could step inside a vehicle and go where ever I wanted to go.  It was an old car and not very attractive to look upon. I did not care because the freedom that car brought to me. In the summer the only air conditioning the car had was rolling down two windows and driving fast for a breeze to cool you off. In the winter the car always had a cold breeze coming in from somewhere down at your feet. The radio had push-in buttons and a dial to twist for searching for radio stations that would turn into static once out of range of the radio tower. I did not care because my hunger to explore was fulfilled in the ability of the freedom to travel.

The car accident I was in broke my heart though what some would call it a piece of junk was my friend that could take me places. This car accident is the time and place the Lord took my memory and my spirit to focus on. The Lord pointed out the words, “The Car IS Replaceable“. He wanted to show me something absolutely wonderful.

A little side step: I did not know what it was like to have a friend like God. All I knew was darkness, hate, betrayal, revenge, and many more evil things before giving Him a chance of friendship with me. Now, when my thoughts are guided by Him I love to follow through the thickness because in the end I found myself standing with trees around me at the cliff’s edge beholding a beautiful sun filled valley covered with truth of myself and of the world around me.

Back on track: The Lord pointed out the words, “The Car IS Replaceable“. The Lord revealed my dad was saying what was more important to him was the driver inside the vehicle. The car is something we can go down to the local shops to have it repaired and restored. It is not the outside he was most concerned with, but the inside driver was the most important. If the inside driver is alright the outside can be taken care of later. It is the driver inside that is most important.

The Lord said, “Come with Me“. He took me back to the beginning of creation and time. He pointed out when Eve and Adam broke the one law with the penalty of death passed onto their body from the dust of the earth and their eternal soul from God. God like any real dad wants to save His children. Death, disease, tragedy, pain, suffering was now passed onto all of mankind (Ge. 3). Death had to come because God’s word must be fulfilled or He would not be God.

God instantly put into motion a remedy and redemption from death for His children (us). God showed me just like your dad said, “The Car IS Replaceable” He was looking at our eternal soul inside that fleshly vehicle, our body. He was looking at the driver inside the body. The body can be replaced because it is made of the earth, but the spirit driver cannot be replaced because it is made of eternal substance from God.

A little side step: God put a promise of a fleshly vehicle in the birthing channels of mankind’s future with His Spirit on the inside to go through the steps of mankind, facing death, paying the debt of death in our place, and providing a path of redemption to eternal life – Jesus Christ (Jn. 1:1-3,14).

Back on track: God showed me He was more interested in saving the spirit driver inside the body vehicle because the body is no problem with Him in fixing or replacing. Once the Lord showed me He was more interested in the spirit driver inside our bodies it opened the whole Bible and the whole world around me.

From this moment forward everything God did was to reach the soul inside the bodies of man. The awakening of man’s spirit to the seeing and hearing the truth directly from God was His total goal. It is the driver inside that is most important.

Now, when you read the Bible you should see the events happening to individuals for the sole purpose to their spirit awakening from the sleep of death of their flesh to the light of truth God wanted them to see. What will blow your mind even more is that God will be working on one individual to see and be multitasking on others around that one person for them to see. He is always multitasking because He is God.

Eve and Adam I cannot afford to lose your soul to death and hell. I will put into motion a dept payment of forgiveness you will have to freely receive, but for now you will have to live a life of hardship because you made the free will choice to follow the evil and evil is our master.

If you look at all the events that happened to Moses you can see it was all for the benefit of his eternal spirit inside his fleshly vehicle to learn, to grow, and to mature for the saving of his soul along with those around him. Pharaoh was given ten plagues dealing with his spirit on the inside to believe in God, but his free will choice was to reject and defy God.  It is the driver inside that is most important.

You can pick anyone or even your favorite person in the Bible and you will see how God was constantly dealing with the driver inside their bodies to be saved. It is all about the driver on the inside getting healed first and the saving will naturally take care of the outward vehicle of flesh revealing the change.

Things that come your way could be like Pharaoh with God trying to get you to see something inside your spirit that needs to be fixed far above the need of your body being fixed. He can fix anything in this world, but the one area He restricts Himself from, which is the most important to Him is the area of our eternal spirit. Our free will of choosing to believe is totally in our spirit to see and perceive Him to hear and understand Him. He did not many miracles because of their lack of faith (Mtt. 13:58 ). Faith is a free will choice He restricts Himself for us to decide on our own.

“The Car IS Replaceable” is what God is saying about your fleshly body. Your body is just carrying the real treasure to God inside. People judge you by your appearance before giving your spirit on the inside a chance. God allows things and does all things for the sake of your spirit (2 Cor. 4:15) to receive His life and life more abundantly. The Bible is like those words my dad spoke to me “The Car IS Replaceable” without deeply considering them. I missed out on the greatest understanding that was past the surface of those words.

Wow, I see the people in the Bible God was totally after their spirit driver to understand and believe from within their fleshly vehicles. The world around us today is being used to reach our spiritual man inside our aging fleshly bodies, which are just temporary vehicles of this world.

The Lord said I am like your dad that “The Car IS Replaceable“, but the driver on the inside is irreplaceable. Your body only conveys what your spirit wants to be seen.

The importance of the real you on the inside of your body is everywhere in the Bible, but I copied a section of the Bible from 2 Corinthians 4:4-18 that is point-blank about the real you on the inside. It is from the New International Version for anyone who may struggle with the King James Version. Please read it and see yourself in those words past the surface of your flesh.

4) The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (5) For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. (6) For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. (7) But we have this treasure in jars of clay ‘(referring to our bodies)’ to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. (8) We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; (9) persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. (10) We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. (11) For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. (12) So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. (13) It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, (14) because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. (15) All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. (16) Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. (17) For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. (18) So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Eve and Adam, Moses, Pharaoh, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ruth, Samson, Elijah, David I want you to see. Even when God came to the earth inside the flesh of Jesus He was wanting every person to see the truth in them and what was inside of Jesus. “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (Jn. 17:3).

SAVING THE DRIVER – ACTS 2:38

PART 1:     Jesus paid the debt of death for mankind with his own born vehicle fleshly blood. For us to be accepted and to receive this payment is to repent and be baptized in water in Jesus name applying that blood of forgiveness over our fleshly bodies purifying the washing away of all sins. I don’t know about you, but to have ALL my sins washed away by the name of Jesus blows my mind with a freedom I cannot describe.

PART 2:     Jesus resurrected from the dead with a new-born again heavenly body housing his Spirit. For us to be accepted and to receive this down payment of our inheritance from God (2 Cor. 1:22, 5:5; Eph. 1:13, 14), which is His Spirit moving in with our spirit, is to pray for the in filling of His Spirit with a sign to us of speaking another language as He gives us the words that we have not learned, praising Him as they did in Acts 2.

Acts chapter two is where the inward driver of every body and soul is born again saved from the death crash all of mankind will face because Jesus has provided a new vehicle and a new spirit to help us reach our home in heaven. God does not want us to wreck in this life without our new vehicle and new spirit.

“The Car IS Replaceable“, but your spirit is not. He multitasking every moment to reach what is most precious to Him and that is your spirit. There is a time of death waiting for all of us and all He wants to do is to save the spirit driver before that time comes unexpectedly.

Thank you for subscribing and my prayers are that you have such a fellowship with Him that the word ‘happiness’ falls short of describing your relationship. Have a great day in-spite of what comes your way.

Complete Partner

Every person that looks at a drinking glass with water inside it will see it with their own perception and understanding. One may see the glass of water as being half full and another would see it as half empty. Our spirits inside our bodies are like that glass of water. Our spirit is being filled everyday with something. The focus today is on ‘how much does your partner complete you?‘

The drinking glass is filled by another outside source. The water placed inside it can come from different sources such as a water pitcher, a fountain, or a sink. Our partner in life is that outside source that pours into our spirit’s glass a level of themselves. After they are poured into us those seconds leave the present and become a memory of the past. The question is does that level from them complete you or does it leave you half full or half empty?

Sharing this life with another person as your partner may or may not complete you in filling your spirit’s glass of water. They may leave you half full or half empty depending on your perception and understanding. Why it is dependent upon your perception and understanding is because you may be seeing only a part of the picture and not the whole.

Relationships can be together based on a partial desire or want. Some pursue after a partner on the reason of their physical appearance, a helper of reaching their career goal, or their financial status. These are not a completion of filling your spirit’s glass full inside of you. They are half reasons of having a partner in this life in a relationship. This is something you find out later after you have captured the want or desire you saw in them. They are exactly or not exactly what you thought you really wanted.

When you first saw the person you wanted to make your partner. Can you remember what was the first thoughts and beating of your heart when you saw them? Was it because they had a beautiful face and body? Was it because they look like someone who could understand and help your future career desires? Was it because they look like they could give you a life and style of security you wanted to live?

Happiness and unhappiness is sometimes lost to us in our understanding and perception. We ask ourselves, ‘Why am I not happy?‘ I got the person I saw and wanted, ‘Why do I feel lacking?‘, ‘Why do I feel empty?‘, ‘How can I feel alone?‘ when I have someone beside me as a partner.

If you are feeling any of these questions it may be your spirit’s glass within you that you are drinking from with the desire of feeling complete is being filled only half full or half empty. Your believing of a “Complete Partner” has left your spirit short of being completely full and satisfied inside. If you have none of these feelings and you feel completely full because of your partner that is wonderful, but does your partner feel the same as you?

You can be completely satisfied and feeling full in your spirit and be missing the insight to how your partner feels about you. “Complete Partner” is two people that have become one completely fulfilling one another to the top of their spirit’s drinking glass inside of them. You may have heard the phrase “It is your world and I live in it“. This statement is a way of hinting to whom you are speaking that they think the world should be as they see it and do as they believe things should be done. They are seeing only from their way and not placing themselves in other people’s situations to see from their perspective.

Dating someone is the crucial key to seeing past the want and the desires inside of you. This is where the “Love is blind” comes from. You are only seeing the part you want from the person you are courting and not the other half. If you truly want to have a full glass of completeness and satisfaction in your spirit’s glass from a partner all the days you live on this earth then you have to step back and see the total package, inside and out.

In time you will find if you get a partner based on the fantasy of having great sex with them or the children that will be produced. You will find out after time the sex is only a part (half full/half empty) of the relationship. You will have to deal with a personality, mannerism, and goals the other person may have in mind. You could be trapped in a relationship that your spirit’s glass within you will always be half full/ half empty.

In time you will find if you get a partner based on their good looks of what people would call, “eye candy” you may find their outward good looks is the opposite of their inside looks filled with bitterness, selfishness, and the world should bow at their feet attitude. You could end up being a caretaker in the relationship just to stay with them the rest of your life leaving your spirit’s glass within you always half full/half empty.

In time you will find if you get a partner based on the belief they can help further the career you are dreaming about that they have possibly the opposite goal in life even though they seem to have the qualities to boost your dream. You may find yourself comprising to their needs while your dream never comes to reality leaving your spirit’s glass half full/half empty.

Those who have found the “Complete Partner” from both sides of the relationship without any self deceit or self denial cannot understand the struggles of the majority of marriages and partnerships today. Their spirit glasses within are always full from each other to drink beautiful memories they give each other every day. Their perfect world of relationship that is the minority of this world has no clue of the loneliness, emptiness, and sufferings the rest of the majority others face.

Secretly married couples and partnerships have a partner that lives with a half full/half empty glass inside their spirit. They are playing the role of a “Complete Partner” through hidden tolerance, deep patience, understanding kindness, swallowed pride, honoring the other, giving up dreams, slow to anger, and allowing the other partner to continue to believe in their world while their glass in their spirit remains half full/half empty.

On the surface to the outside the home people see a marriage or partnership as two full glasses while hidden below the surfaces could be one full glass and the other half full/half empty in their spirits.

It is extremely crucial before you enter into a marriage or partnership that you see past your desires searching and examining your own motives to why you want to become one with the other person, while at the same time watching and listening to their desires in life.

Afterwards you may find out to do the right thing is to live with the knowledge your spirit’s glass will never be full from your partner to drink the good memories a “Complete Partner” would give you. There are no good answers for those in a half full/half empty relationship. Death is not a good answer. Divorce is not a good answer unless the relationship is violent, abusive, or harmful in any other way.

You can be two good people in a marriage or relationship and still be giving a half full/half empty to one another’s spiritual drinking glass in their soul. You can be devout church attending people and still be giving a half full/half empty to one another’s spiritual drinking glass in their soul. You can be upstanding citizens of your community and still be giving a half full/half empty to one another’s spiritual drinking glass in their soul.

You may have heard the statement “alone in a crowd“. This can be seen as a person who is physically not alone standing in a physical crowd of other people. So, physically “alone in a crowd” would not be true, but if you look at the inside of a person to their heart, mind, and soul than it can be true “alone in a crowd“. This statement is referring to being physically present with other people, but the people around you can be far away from perceiving and understanding the needs of your spirit. Just because a person chit chats or a general conversation does not mean it is filling the spiritual drinking glass inside the other person.

The co-workers you work with on a daily basis can be totally oblivious to how half full/half empty you feel every day. The perception and understanding of things is a discernment lost to the majority of mankind. People, marriages, and partners have eyes that can physically see, but are blind to perceiving the truth in others. People , marriages and partners have ears that can physically listen, but are deaf to understanding the real truth in others. A hard thing to live with on an half full/half empty glass in your spirit.

A LITTLE SIDE PATH:

If you have a true best friend that sees and hears you more than all others you had better fight to keep them and do what you need to do to protect the relationship because they are the support to your drinking glass inside your spirit to keep going when your live-in partner of marriage or relationship don’t understand you leaving you feeling half full/half empty.

BACK ON TRACK:

“Abiding Time” is another a half full/half empty glass in their spirit a person faces on a daily basis. When you are not with the “Complete Partner” you find yourself “Abiding Time” physically going through the motions of working and providing as is expected of you while your spirit is standing in this world with all kinds of things you would like to go and do slipping away as the clock of life ticks by.

There are two deaths we all will face. One will be the day when our physical bodies die returning to the dust of the earth. The other will be the day when our spirit faces the path to eternal death or the path to eternal life based on what our spirit contains within it from all the different things we took in from our life time on earth.

THE ANSWER:

If you are being the martyr sacrificing yourself as a caretaker of your marriage or partner to keep things with the appearance of a Complete Partnership the answer is to get the one who is greater inside you than the ones in the world (1 Jn. 4:4) To keep your sanity and your glass full with overflowing life is to allow God to move inside with your spirit.

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8). You can have a “Complete Partner” relationship with Him as they did in the past and possibly greater depending on how much you give yourself to the relationship because there will be no misunderstanding you or not perceiving you. This spirit relationship with God is a promise of forgiveness and His power (Acts 2:38, 39) to live this life with more abundance (Jn. 10:10) than any other.

The only thing that will satisfy the thirst (Jn. 4:14) of your spirit living in a half full/half empty life is getting into a personal relationship with God. Don’t trust your spirit’s drinking glass totally on this world and the people in it because you will find more with the half full/half along with yourself. God longs for us to seek Him, reach out to Him, feel after Him and find Him, though He is not far from any one of us (Acts 17:27).

If you are blessed with a “Complete Partner” who understands you, gets you, and they can give you a wholeness feeling. Their love maybe enough to face death(s) in this world, but it will not enough to face the second death your spirit will face after this world. The majority of people don’t have the “Complete Partner” to help fill their spiritual glass full in this life. They are facing this life and the next life like a person “alone in a crowd” “abiding time” wondering how are they going to make it.

I am here to tell you, God CAN and WILL be your “Complete Partner“. You can be in that crowd, in a relationship, at work with co-workers who don’t understand while God is on the inside with Him accepting you and fulfilling you with His love that goes beyond all understanding.

He is still the same yesterday, today, and forever filling people with His Spirit into our little body containers overflowing with His joy unspeakable and full of glory (1 Pe. 1:8) that He has to speak for us (Acts 2:4) in that moment as a sign (Acts 2:11) to us and anyone around us He has joined as one with our spirit; and to finish this oneness with God all He asks us to do is to be baptized in Jesus name applying His sacrificial blood for us washing away all our sins (Acts 2:38) making us completely clean and a second chance on life.

Now, we have inside of us someone who can fill our spirit glass with overflowing love, truth (Jn 16:13), kindness, honor, protection, trust, hope, never failing (1 Cor. 13:4-8) us in filling our spirit’s glass with His life.

Start your new relationship with the real “Complete Partner” in this life and life to come. He takes away the “alone in a crowd” and makes the “abiding time” feel successful, and supports you when dealing with those who thinks “It is their world and you live in it“.