It's very simple. Religion is about your own, individual, one on one relationship with Jesus Christ. It's easy to look at grandiose church settings and feel you must be in that setting or you are missing out. You miss out without having that one on one, personal relationship with Jesus Christ, no matter what setting you find yourself in.
It's simple; do you think in your mind, thoughts, not only to yourself, but TO Jesus? Start thinking of your mind as having two listeners and knowing your voice is the one who knows a lot less. Ask inwardly. Receive answers outwardly as well as inwardly.
You miss out when you haven't talked to Jesus lately. Regardless of where you have gone, if you stop frequently talking to Jesus you will know because you will feel alone.
And if you don't talk to Jesus then now you know the reason why you feel so all alone all the time.
There was a man that showed up one sermon at a church dressed in old tattered clothes. After the sermon the pastor told the man he needed to ask Jesus what to wear instead and to return the next Sunday. When he showed up the following Sunday wearing the same outfit he told the pastor "I asked Jesus what to wear at your church but he said he didn't know because he's never been here."
So you have in you what you need, regardless of how you dress, how you present yourself has a whole lot less to do with your perception of yourself and a whole lot more to do with Jesus' perception of you; what you have in your heart and mind and soul. Jesus knows your heart. Talk to Jesus. He will answer you in ways you can't imagine but you will know when it happens.
THE HEAVEN REALTOR
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Verbal Etiquette - My Vows - A List For All - Open Letter
"Verbal Etiquette "
Only change and understanding
the depth of how you hurt someone and acknowledging the depth you understand
the hurt will potentially start the road to happy resolution and healing. You can't change what you said. Sometimes the only person who gets the
healing is the one who did the damage, when the one who was damaged won’t allow
the healing to be as a mutual, dual synergistic healing. Only change from being a culprit to considerate will resolve your mistakes enough to provide self respect.
Saying words you don’t mean just because
- it’s what you think and impulsively say
- it feels like a short term defensive reply that won’t have long term lasting effects
is a humongous mistake.
How can you make up for something you said that hurt someone and you did
not even mean it and knew as much the moment you said it?
I vow to not say anything to any person who I care about
that I don’t mean to say. What happens
to make a person come to this resolution may involve not only long term lasting
effects but the effect could be life long and permanent. Words are like tooth paste. Once they are said you can’t put them back just
as once the tube of tooth paste is squeezed you can’t put back the tooth paste
that you pushed out the opening.
I am guilty of hurting people with my words. I am a culprit. I was not considerate when it counted. I will be now from this point forth. However I am guilty of saying things that I may never be forgiven for. Don’t make the
same mistake. I think the easiest lesson
learned is one learned by using both ears and hearing someone else’s story,
someone else’s mistake and knowing that they regret it and the greatest regret is something you can do nothing about. Avoid the damage. Be the changed, not the culprit.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Why Am I Here? Discover Here Why You Are Here
If you
could take all parts of a car and throw them together in a room, would you ever
see a whole car come together on its own? If you could shake them up,
somehow, all parts of a car in a room or a box, you would never see all parts
make the whole. Ever. Your common sense tells you this.
To question if there would be a creator of Earth
and of You and of Me does not appear rational. All parts of a whole never
come together on their own.
Scientists explain away God, so
they think, with this flimsy argument you have always heard called evolution.
There's just one problem. Consider the nature of evolution. Evolution means
TAKING AWAY parts of the whole that are already there; NOT adding to them!
Even scientists, real scientists, admit, openly, that evolution as it has been
proposed is simply not possible. People didn't come forth from ELIMINATING
parts of apes. It would involve ADDING ADDITIONAL parts to the whole.
Remember, again, as you will have engrained in you before you end this reading;
all parts of a whole never come together on their own.
To question if there is a creator,
who is a creator in charge of everything makes no sense. Science does not
disprove the existence of a creator; science IS the FINGER PRINT of GOD himself.
Science proves his existence. He must exist because all parts of a whole
never come together on their own. Someone influenced "things."
People all wonder, “Why am I here in this place,
in this time, in this life? Why? Who am I? What am I supposed
to do? What is the reason for
my existence?” I know one reason each person is here on Earth. It is to reach
Heaven.
A second reason is to reach out to others about reaching Heaven. There is something Mark
Cahill, author, has said that is so true which all believers should keep in
mind; once we die we can no longer affect lives on Earth. His site can be
found here:
http://markcahill.org/home/
Every soul that can be steered toward Heaven is another
Jewel on Jesus’ crown. It is a victory for God. The Lord God has said that He
will return when the number of His brethren is complete. This means there is a
number of souls God is striving toward bringing to Him in Heaven. At that time,
and no time before, will He return to Earth and ALL His plans will be clear to
ALL.
People believe in the devil and
wonder about God and Heaven? Even the devil knows God is real and Heaven
is real. There is no reason to wonder.
Believers need to talk to
non-believers about if they know where they will go once this life ends.
Believers
need to talk to fellow believers about THEMSELVES, INDIVIDUALLY, talking to non-believers.
Every person you can talk with about God, it is a great idea.
I think if you want to do more with your life in the next
30 days than all the rest of your life combined, before, here is how: talk to
one person a day about God, and the afterlife. Talk both to non-believers
about how they can assure themselves eternal life after death, as well as to
believers about spreading the word.
People notice when you speak about
God, and bless them. Bless someone who doesn’t expect it and notice the
fact that it is NOTICED!! Being the example is something people notice
too! Try this. The next time someone asks you for money, offer to buy
them a meal instead. If you buy someone a meal that everyone knows is
homeless and you sit down and eat and talk about God PEOPLE NOTICE.
People wonder about religion, the existence of God? They
ask you about it? Here is a great argument, following this paragraph, toward
establishing: there is a creator, He is God, He is REAL, and He cares about you,
otherwise He wouldn’t have CREATED you.
All parts of a whole never come together on their
own.
People remember the old saying, “I must
be important because God doesn’t make junk.” That is true! The
following is largely re-used from my "Every Creation Had A Creator" article
however I expound upon it as well.
Every Creation Had A Creator!! There is a very simple, yet
all-encompassing truth affecting all mankind; every creation had a creator.
This applies to every thing, no matter what your place in this world or where
you sit or stand. As you look around you, right now, everything you see has
been created by a creator.
All parts of a whole never come together on their
own.
Think in the simplest of terms. A sand castle, formed by a child,
stands temporarily, because of the actions of its creator. It would require a
great variety of events to simultaneously occur, as independent actions, for the
same, simple sand castle to evolve all on its own by sheer coincidence. The act
of the youngster creating a sand castle requires a host of calculation and
action. The planning and implementation of these simplistic actions are the
catalyst of the creation. Those catalysts of creation never have and never will
simultaneously occur on any beach, at any time, where a creator is not present,
manipulating the events. The creator is the quintessential element necessary;
without the factor of a creator then the creation does not exist. The creation
does not just happen on its own.
All parts of a whole never come together on their
own.
The complexity of the
Earth, where it sits in relation to the sun is perfect. If it were too
close we would burn up like ants under sunlight from a microscope. If it
were too far from the sun we would freeze to death. This involved
planning. The complexity of the Earth, its seasons, ecosystems, all
beg for the search for the creator.
All parts of a whole never come together on their
own.
Try to make a living
worm out of nothing. Try to make a living, ANYTHING, out of thin air.
Not cloning. Not genetic manipulation of what exists. Make something
that lives. You can't. Nobody can. God can. God did.
All parts of a whole never come together on their
own.
The Earth has an
atmosphere to support life. Without it we would not have air.
Without trees we would not have air. Without bees our ecosystem
would collapse. We would all die. Tell me it's all accidental.
Tell me gases formed all this, perfection in its purest form. If you tell
me you buy that I will sell you the moon.
All parts of a whole never come together on their
own.
Compare the simplicity of something built from sand to the actual
creation of the complex, vastly complex ecosystem, impossible for man to
reproduce. Earth itself, the existence of Earth itself, begs the question "if
every creation had a creator, who created the Earth?"
All parts of a whole never come together on their
own.
Who created us? Could it be reasonable to assume there were no creator
of all creation, all things, the Earth, us? Every thing that has been or will
be created has a creator; every thing.
All parts of a whole never come together on their
own.
When you look at the order of creation and creations of life Science is
not a way to disprove God; it is the FINGER PRINT OF GOD!! Big Bang doesn’t
mean there was no God. Was there a starting point? Yes. Who made it happen?
God! We already know order never comes out of nothing.
Use your logic; ORDER NEVER COMES OUT OF NOTHING!
I Almost Died And Was Saved
In 2007 I underwent the start of the transformation of my
soul to one that thinks of others more than ever. I went on my annual trek to
Mexico with my wife Jodi and we had the experience of a lifetime. I will
share what I wrote right after the heat of the moment. I will first tell
you what happened in my own words today because I have been altered more by
these events since that writing. While I would love to say that the
experience changed me overnight truthfully I took years to complete just the
START of the transformation that would take place as a result.
My wife Jodi
was swimming in the water off the public beach in Cancun. I had just come
out onto shore and looked over and immediately saw she was struggling. I
realized she was in a rip tide. I told her to swim to the side and she
said she could not. She was stuck. We were fairly isolated in
that stretch of beach because the closest hotels were a couple hundred yards in
each direction. No help existed other than your own gumption.
I knew this wouldn't be enough. I immediately started inwardly praying for
help as I ran to the edge of the sand under the water before the shelf just
dropped off, straight down. I could feel I was at the edge as I reached
out and pulled her with all my strength, past me, and into safety. The
sand under me crumbled away and I felt myself just taken, pulled out by the
strongest, most eerie force. Respect nature. I do.
First, God helped me save my wife. I know this. I was not
able to pull her out of those waves. HE did.
Then when I
was in the rip tides myself I was fighting and fighting to swim out to the side
and it wasn't even carrying me out to make it less strong of a current so I
could swim out to the side. It was like a whirlpool. This was like a
whirlwind under water, of epic proportions. I was feeling like I was not
only unable to swim out, I was struggling to just stay up. Water went
above my jaw and nose a couple times and I wasn't touching bottom like you would
think from that distance from shore I was. I was above a bowl and in a
whirlpool with no way out.
A stranger
walked up and I thought he was a life guard because he had a life saver on a
rope. He pointed out to the side and said "swim out to the side" and I was
trying. I couldn't. He kept pointing and never threw me what I
thought was going to be thrown to me! I was really losing strength fast
and was suddenly aware how really good swimmers, even, can succumb to these
kinds of waves.
I just said
"help" out loud and it wasn't to either people on shore. It was to my Lord
and Saviour, Jesus Christ, God, The Father and Son, The CREATOR of Heaven and
Earth, and the Holy Spirit on Earth today. I was answered immediately.
THAT'S THE POWER OF PRAYER!
No longer was
the water around my jaw or nose line. It was below my thighs, by my knees.
I was LIFTED out of the water. I was RAISED UP! I started rushing
toward shore! I could see the water rushing past my legs. I
literally had time to look left and look right and look left again, watching the
white, bubbling RUSH! of water that I was cutting through! I defied
physics. I wasn't hit by a good wave. I was LIFTED UP and I was
THROWN ONTO SHORE. You know how Olympic long jumpers go 20 to 25 feet and
land with both feet at once? I got to feel what that feels like! I
got to feel what it feels like to be LIFTED UP and I got to feel what it feels
like to defy gravity and physics and be THROWN SO FAR!
My wife says
that from her perspective in one instant I was out there, struggling and the
next instant I was walking up toward her in water around my ankles. I
remember landing and turning to my wife and just holding on to her and crying
out of thankfulness to be alive and praising the Lord right then and
there.
We hugged for
a minute but when we broke our embrace and looked for the life guard he was
GONE!!! In hundreds of yards, every direction, was nothing but white, sand
beach. Even behind us was a huge stretch of sand, before this shore line,
on this massive public beach. He could not have SPRINTED and gotten out of
our view. He was GONE. Nobody was near us, still, just as nobody was
near us before this.
She had been
screaming her head off and only the one person appeared. Now I wasn't
looking down the beach for help up and down the shore line but strangely it did
seem like the universe really shrunk at that moment and almost like nobody was
around. It literally seemed like, as I look back, like we were in our own
universe. Crazy as that seems, it was what some would have called the
Twilight Zone.
I lived it
though. It was real. I know there is a God. I know there is no
mistaking how I got out of there. Luck had nothing to do with it.
What wave raises you up and keeps you out of the water while you fly to shore?
No wave did that! I would never believe that for an instant, and will
never question for one instant my rest of my life, how that happened. I
know. THAT'S THE POWER OF PRAYER!
It basically
took years for me to realize that our purpose on this Earth is to find our way
to Heaven and help others find their way to Heaven. My father went to
Heaven in the summer of 2013 and I think this moment really changed me. I
was always a nice guy, always looking out for others. My Dad though, had
told me how, just the past few days before he left us, how he had been thinking
of what happened to me in Mexico. I'm not one to make something like this
up and he knew me well and understood that. There were two of us who
experienced it. He knew it happened.
He had
received comfort from my experience in days before his passing and a he had a
back surgery just days before he left. When he woke from the surgery he said he had
just had a tremendous
experience. He was in a place where everything was gold; gold floor,
gold pillars, gold altars, gold fires by a couple altars at opposite ends of the
room, and even the mist of moisture in
the air was a gold mist. Everything was gold and peaceful and he heard
voices but couldn't make out the contents of what they said. He touched a
piece of Heaven, and with that knowledge and the assurance he took by my experience he was ready to go
be with the Lord when he left. I take some pride in knowing he took to
heart what God gave me to experience. I take pride knowing it provided him
peace and comfort. THAT'S THE POWER OF PRAYER!
Mark Cahill is
a new and up and coming Evangelist who I have met and spoken with several times.
This only started after my Dad left, so it's still pretty recent past in which I
can say I made a more complete alteration of myself and I think trasformed
closer to who I am supposed to become. He inspired me to take that
walk in life, talking to others about Heaven. There is no more important
thing you can do for a person than to talk with them about getting to Heaven, and
about them speaking to others about Heaven and how to get there. Once we
are gone from this place we can no longer directly tell people what we can
during our lives. So it stands to reason that talking about God and Heaven
is the most important thing you can do. You can help others learn what
they need to know to get to Heaven. You can inspire someone else who
is a Christian but not already talking, and you can inspire them to start talking
to others about how to get to Heaven. I want to stop everyone who doesn't
know about the train coming at them. I want to avert loss of souls to the
enemy.
What I learned
in that moment I am going to tell you about is GOD IS REAL. THERE IS A
GOD. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A GOD WHO LOVES US, WHILE WANTING US TO BE
HAPPY. THE POWER OF PRAYER IS UNSURPASSED!
If you're not a believer
re-read that capitalized part.
Now read it
once more. You got more from it each time you re-read it. He wants
us to be happy. He loves us. He will always be there, loving us.
The power of prayer is the ultimate power a human being touches in
life.
You see how
these events have comforted me into believing there is a God. You see how
these events comforted my Dad in his final days. You see how that loss
motivated me toward meeting Mark Cahill and learning my new purpose. Now I
want to share with you what I said then, back then when this was new.
I do say some good things but I do not say some things I feel today are more
important to note than anything I said then. Unedited, this is word for word what I said in 2007 in a
letter to everyone I wanted to tell about it:
….Since the rocks were bad at both our hotels
beaches, we
consequently went to public beaches where they have been affected by the
Hurricane also but they have gotten rid of most of the rocks. One thing I
didn’t realize was how the sea has tunneled out some deep areas in front of
little walls that form an alcove. Rip currents run through them. One day Jodi
and I were at the beach and she got caught in one. I swam over and got her out
right away. Then it took me. I got her shoved onto the beach and out of the
water and it just took me back really quick. I knew to swim to the side to get
out of it. I went the wrong way – into one of those deep alcoves! There were
nothing but rip current after rip current stirring in this bowl shape beneath
the water, basically. I fought it a long time. Jodi was screaming. We were
looking in each other’s eyes and she could detect the fear in mine. It probably
wasn’t as long as it seemed but just when I felt so weak and couldn’t touch the
bottom anywhere and really thought I could drown I said “help”. Jodi didn’t
hear me say it. I knew she couldn’t get out there and help me. I couldn’t stop
taking in water through the waves and I thought I was going to die right there.
I said it to God. I didn’t yell it because I couldn’t yell. Wouldn’t you know
it? Like a huge hand under me the biggest wave I’ve ever seen hit me and threw
me on the shore. It did for me what I needed at that moment. The emotion of
that moment when I thought I was done for I thought of all of you. I love you
all very much. I can’t even express what I felt talking to you, Dad,
yesterday. I was back in that moment for an instant when we talked yesterday
and I thought of your fight with cancer and it is really hard to even believe
you had this to today and I thought “I love you so much Dad!” I thought that
about every single one of you. I thought of James and Jodi and I knew some how,
some way I was going to get out of this. I just kept fighting it but I knew I
wasn’t going to be able to do it alone. A life guard had walked up just before
I got out and I don’t know what he was thinking but he did point to swim to the
left to get out of it. I was trying. God got me out of it.
The power of prayer is the ultimate power a human being touches in life.
That's what I
said back then. I didn't give credence to the fact that the "Life Guard"
was there and vanished. I didn't take that as the sign that it was.
That was the soul, spirit, guide or being, who helped. I know it because I
also didn't mention that the following day we saw a white dove who sat on the
beach staring at me for about thirty minutes who flew off and went under a boat
dock and disappeared. He never flew out from under that dock. I had
never taken my eyes off the place he went to. I walked over and he wasn't
there, just like the "Life Guard" who vanished!
Now as I look back at this experience I had more to say
about it. Initial impressions are lasting but there were so many impressions to
take in during this slow motion experience that I took a little time to gather
all my thoughts. It took years of reflection. First I didn't want to
say anything people would think was crazy. Today I say call it what you
want. I know what it is. I am not afraid to say "God Bless You" to
anyone. The cashier told me the other day while many said "Happy
Valentine's Day" that I was the first to say "God Bless You." I just
replied, "well I like to be original." I am always ready to talk to anyone
about God. I put him in my business signature. If someone has a
problem with it, I want to know. They are my next project! At first
when I started saying "God Bless You" I would say it as I walked away. Now
I say it to their face as I look them in the eye. People appreciate that.
I think that alone inspires others to say it the same way. Cool!
I think life
is a great chance to spread the word of God and to tell people "you need to
understand who the creator is, that he loves you, and here is how you get to
Heaven." There is no way but through Jesus and God. You must
acknowledge this. If you saw someone about to get hit by a car wouldn't
you do something to stop it? You see people around you who don't know
there was a creator.
Every creation had a creator. You see people
around you who don't know God in the least. You see those who do.
Many of those who do will not talk to those who don't for whatever reason.
Maybe the same reason I didn't want perceived as nutty. Call me a Pay Day
bar if you like. I'm not in the same opinion of caring that I used to be.
I care about more important things now.
The power of prayer
is the ultimate power a human being touches in life.
I hope my
experience is helpful to someone else. God bless all who have read a part
or all of this.
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