GOD IS THE FUEL OF MY LIFE
GOD IS THE FUEL OF MY LIFE
By Chris Briscoe
Christianity is the most practical of all religions because its believers do not just believe in the words of a ‘old, holy book’ reputedly written by its God, but actually can experience his power in their lives, the power of his love which promises to give them an indescribable peace whenever they are faced with what seems like a hopeless situation.If you have studied the claims of Christianity you will find out that God’s plan or blueprint for your life is the greatest experience and transformation of our lives, from weakness to strength, from hopelessness to the greatest hope and comfort, peace and joy. God sent his Son who had everything and he became ‘the fall guy’ on the cross, and received in his body all the punishment and guilt for everything, even he took into his physical body on the cross all sicknesses and pain, and he who had everything as God’s son became so destitute he called himself, 'a worm’, so that we can become like him who had everything but became nothing so that we could have his everything. He who was the Supreme Prince of Heaven became nothing for us, so that we could receive everything he has in heaven, and much, much more.
But to receive all these priceless riches of Christ's inheritance we must acknowledge that before the cross we are all sinners - weak and destitute in need of his saving love, who need to experience thed greatest healing and peace in our hearts; he promises to exchange all our negatives and pain and years of regret with his most amazing healing and peace. We need to place all these sins at the cross and believe he took them in his body and neutralised them. This begins with us opening our heart to God so that he can sendwe his wonderful presence of his Holy Spirit. When we begin to open our hearts, even with an atomic particle of opening and trusting his promises and the theory of Christianity, God will always respond to our sincere faith and prayer and send us the power of his love into our heart and experience his healing and peace in our emotions so that we feel and experience the greatest truth that he loves us so much with an unlimitedly and incredible love, that he loves us so much, he wants to give us everything in Jesus Christ except turning us into demi-gods or God, himself, for that would be too dangerous.(the. journey of the man with the cross before him and then the amazing transformation he experienced with the cross behind him.
For in Christianity God promises us not a religion but a real relationship with God built on simple trust who will adopt us as his own special child with all the benefits of a Firstborn son bestowed on us. And further, he promises to give us a real and tangible peace and comfort in our lives so that we feel in our most deepest emotions the greatest strength and peace that he abides with us and has our best interests at heart, as his most loved sons and daughters.who has intimately promised to be with each of us individually and intimately. Jesus promises his disciples, including us with these words, “in this life you will have trouble but rejoice for I have overcome this world and greater is he in you then he who is in the world Which means that every moment of our day God is waiting and willing to hear our deepest prayer, our deepest hurt, and to want to be involved in the smallest details of our lives, and to fill us with the greatest hope, peace and comfort so that he becomes the greatest source of hope and joy for our lives.
For when we believe in God’s love for us he promises He doesn't just give us words on a book, but promises to fill our hearts with the greatest love which alone has the power to reach our deepest hurts and pain.
When we believe in God, we receive the greatest assurance and confirmation that God is our Father in heaven who wants to help us with all our deepest needs and wants, as well as our deepest hurts and pain.and he does that practically by sending his real and tangible love into our hearts and minds by his Holy Spirit, so that we feel something powerful but strange fill us and give us the deepest peace and healing we have ever experienced.
He gives us the greatest peace and hope and promises to send a very real and tangible comfort which comforts us in a very real and tangible way. That’s the reason I say Christianity is the greatest and most practical religion because the God we follow isn’t just words in a book but power for our weakest and most hopeless situation.
But to experience all this wonderful adventure of believing we first need to come to the greatest equalizer between God and man which is the cross, and place down at the cross all our preconceptions, our thinking, our notions of who God is, including who we think God should be; we need to lay at the cross our past and present disappointments, our hurts, our pride, our selfish thinking, even our atheist tendencies and even the worldly thinking which we have followed which says there is no God, and we need to open up our hearts to the possibility that there may be a God who is going to do amazing things in your life, when you test what the power of his love can do in your life, and how much he is going to upgrade your life no end - so much so that one day, you will one day look back and say the minute you decided to follow him, you never regret your decision but it turned out to be the best decision of your life when you realized this Christianity transformed your life into the greatest adventure you never bought possible.
So you need to lay all those negatives at the cross and give God a chance to work and when he sees your faith and trust of him, he will send this Holy Spirit into your heart and heal you and give you the greatest peace in your life, but first you need to offload all those negatives of your life and lay them at the cross, and exchange them for his love and peace. And then you will feel so clean when the Holy Spirit comes into your heart and cleans it and he begins to renovate it so that you are adopted as his Firstborn, and you begin to feel you are the most favoured son. Snd this love God has for you us the most practical so that when you tell at your most weakest and vulnerable, he sends his love, he sends his very own Holy Spirit to make you feel brand-new, holy, clean and Greek strengthen Ed so that you become an Overcomers, just as John the Apostle wrote, I have overcome though the blood of the kamb and the word of my testimony, just as Isaiah says, by his wounds we are healed David wrote, I am not a man but a worm. It means when you face difficult situations God promises to help you, if only you will give him a chance and trust him, do that even though you don’t immediately delivered, he gives you the most wonderful peace which calms all your fears and distress and makes you feel that God is ‘on your case’ and dealing with all your problems.
But how do I practically upload all the negatives of my life?
How to upload the burdens and worries of your life, for the cross is the best rubbish dump, the literal and most practical dumping ground of all the worries and dross of your life, where, once you give him your burdens, you will feel so free and light after many years of being twisted in your stomach with worry, you will feel a new man or woman, because you will realize that you don’t need to face this life, and the worries and giants of your life alone, but with God you can overcome everything!
And you will find and experience that you now have the greatest Advocate and Helper, and he will send his Holy Spirit power to you, just as he has promised; Jesus promised to give you Another Helper and Advocate(where's the Scripture) to be with you, forever, and that’s why those disciples were so overjoyed and empowered when they received the Spirit of God on the day of Pentecost.If we look at those eleven or more ken who were unschooled in the world's education, and were mostly a bunch of fishermen, when they received the Holy Spirit in their hearts and lives on the day of Pentecost they were transformed into men who were able to bring real hope and power to the hopeless, and to be facilitators of the greatest hope and comfort known to man, which is the comfort that God will give to you today through his Holy Spirit.So after receiving the Holy Spirit.
And you will find and experience that you now have the greatest Advocate and Helper, and he will send his Holy Spirit power to you, just as he has promised; Jesus promised to give you Another Helper and Advocate(where's the Scripture) to be with you, forever, and that’s why those disciples were so overjoyed and empowered when they received the Spirit of God on the day of Pentecost.If we look at those eleven or more ken who were unschooled in the world's education, and were mostly a bunch of fishermen, when they received the Holy Spirit in their hearts and lives on the day of Pentecost they were transformed into men who were able to bring real hope and power to the hopeless, and to be facilitators of the greatest hope and comfort known to man, which is the comfort that God will give to you today through his Holy Spirit.So after receiving the Holy Spirit.
It means as God’s children, we be helped when we feel we are at our weakest. Another of Christ’s disciples, Paul, suffered a physical problem which was most likely his eyes. The Bible records or he records that three times he asked the Lord to take it from on him but each time God Denis him immediate relief, but promises him that his strength is made perfect in weakness and as a consequence Paul was able to learn a powerful lesson that when we experience pain and suffering, even though we hate those, God always has a purpose in them for God uses them as a means to draw us closer to him. Paul later wrote in Romans 8:28-30, “For we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.”
So whenever we are faced with difficult situations, we have a very real and tangible power to hold onto, as the greatest anchor of our lives, and we have the most loving Father who doesn't just live in heaven remotely but lives in our heart and lives (if we have have invited him into our hearts and lives) and is ready to pour down the great power of the greatest love and give us the most peaceful feeling that his love will never fail us or leave us, but will make us overcomers. All we need to do is pray to him and ask him to direct us by his love. It means whenever we face problems of all those new, we ask him to help us. For example, if one of your character let’s ask you, “Please can you buy this electronic kickboard, do you say, “We have no money, sorry!” instead of reacting like non-christians do.like this, react the way Christ Jesus reacted, pray to God like this,
I'd you are my heavenly Father who confirmed your love for me every moment by sending me your unlimited comfort and love in my heart and emotions so that I am filled with an incredible peace every moments so that I don’t need to worry anymore but trust that you will give me ally needs when I place my small hands in your warm and huge hands. That if you want my son to have this gift, you want this project I be an exercise of trust in you, so that means I don’t have to say such statements as I have no money, I can’t Sonshine, but instead thank you Father in heaven and in my heart you give me hope and you direct me into the great peace love and comfort and you will and have promised to supply all my needs, so we I trust in you please send me the resources to buy this kickboard, but in your wisdom if you want to.pour down or give us something better, then we are ready to receive that. We choose not to demand or fret but to just do what your word cammandsvus, in Philippians, 6:4, Do not worry about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with Thanksgiving present your request a to God, andvrec I've instar the peace of God which calms your every fear and tear, Amen.
Surely, isn't that a better response?
So after receiving the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, Peter was able to preach to the Jews, "Repent, and be baptised everyone of you into the name of Jesus, and your sins will be wiped out and you will receive times of refreshing from the Lord.
Every one needs times of refreshing from the Lord.
For some, the Bible is archaic, for others, the Bible is difficult to grasp in meaning for it teaches many things which remain a mystery. Of course, I would expect the Bible to be mysterious for the man who has not received the Spirit of God.For the Bible says that the man without the Spirit cannot discern God. Listen to this: “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to hm, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14)
It probably is mysterious, or the Bible will remain mysterious, especially for the Atheists because the Bible tells us that the only way you can understand spiritual matters is if you first receive the Spirit of God, for the Words and spiritual teaching of the Bible can only be received by the man or woman who has the Spirit of God, for they are spiritually discerned;in other words, the truth in the Bible can only be understood by the one who has the Spirit of God; it means if you are an unbeliever and you say you don’t want to believe because the Bible is too difficult to understand, then you will never understand the Bible, with that attitude.
Let me give you an illustration:
If we lived in a world where we did have from time to time, visitations from aliens, then how can we understand them unless we are acquainted with their language.In the same way, how can we understand God’s language unless we are acquainted with his Spirit; for the Bible tells us that it is only the Spirit within a man and the Holy Spirit within us that knows the thoughts of man and God.In the Bible book of Romans it says in the eighth Chapter, in twenty-seven verse “And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.”
Also, elsewhere the Bible says, “The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” (1 Corinthians
It’s like expecting us to understand the language of an alien without having learned its language.
So, first we need to ask God to deposit his sweet Spirit into our spirit so that our eyes can be opened. Until then we remain spiritually blind. And if you find you don’t have faith to ask then just ask him for the gift of faith, which are among the many gifts he gives us to help us believe and help us in the many struggles we face in life - the many gifts of his grace. Then pray like this,
“God, if you really exist and you have all power to do anything in this universe, then show me who you are and send me some of your power so that my life will be changed for the good. if you exist then open up my blind eyes and spirit to your love so that I would receive a miracle and you would send me your power and your Spirit, and I would feel your power and your love in my heart, and be changed.”
The fact is God did send his Son in the likeness of man so that we could become the likeness of God, not in some contrived way but in a real practical way because when we invite him into our emotions and life, he actually comes and exists in the deepest part or the driving force of or lives, called the Spirit, which some people called the heart.
That’s why Jesus said,when talking about the so called born again experience, “Unless a man is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” A man must be born of water and the spirot. The truth is that everyone born nto this world is born with a dead spirit which needs o come alive, that part of us which communicates with God, which like a faulty receiver on a satellite dish, it needs to be returned, or rather our Manufacturer needs to pay us a visit and repair our faulty equipment and breathe into that dead spirit and bring it to life, and when God comes into our spirit and revives or dead spirit by breathing his Spirit, something profound and deep and healthy occurs, something miraculous happens in the deepest part of our soul - we become a spiritual being, and we become who we were destined to be - for God made us first and foremost, not a physical being but a spiritual being - as C.S.Lewis said:
“You don’t have a soul, but you are a soul.”
If we don’t receive the truth of this, then we can so easily be deceived thinking that we are mere physical beings, and that all our history is just originating from one tiny cell - and we short-changed into thinking that our existence is only mere nature - and that we are deceived into thinking that we owe our existence to mere accidental forces of Co-incidence and mere cause and effect rather than the original causer of all things, -the God- incidence, who we can call, the Big Cause or Causer. For scientists tell us and have found that this universe did indeed begin with a big bang as coined by, so which suggests there must be a cause or ordinator that caused that big bang.
But isn’t it a far more promising destiny that our existence was originated from the greatest mind in the universe?!- so great, that Mind stands outside this universe and indeed had the greatest idea and the crown of his creation to abide in his universe - which is you.
Just as God challenges us in the Bible, Psalm 36, test me, or taste and see that the Lord is good, then in time you will receive the most warmest and peaceful feeling when God's Spirit visits your deepest emotions and fills you with an incredible peace and healing, and begins to drive out all your years of heaped up stress and pain, and from then you will begin to feel a changed, upgraded and renewed person, like a dried up flower received streams of water to refresh your soul (Join these words with the file about how everyone has become dry or everyone becomes dry from the stresses and strains of life and needs refreshing.
We need to remember that God loves you so much he even wants to help you with your faith, in the Bible there was such a man who met Jesus, and ask that God heal his daughter, Jairus’s daughter and asked Jesus, all he did was proclaim, I believe, “Help my unbelief!” or prayed, please helpy faith faith.We need to remember that God can give us the gift(called grace) of faith and deposit enough faith. Even if you struggle and think you don’t have enough faith, just pray the following prayer,
“I believe, please help my faith!” , then God will do the rest. If we do our best, God will do the rest, and make up for what is lacking, all it takes is just an atomic particle of faith to move the mountains of problem from our life;whether or not we think don’t have enough faith, God will supply what is lacking for he is a God who loves us souch, he has promised to supply all of our needs, including our spiritual needs, all of our lack, materially, spiritually, emotionally, whatever those needs are.
Whatever we envision or imagine we are lacking in our quest to find God - the good news is God is big enough to make up for what is lacking on our part. The good news is God truly loves you enough to send you huge great dollops of the power of his grace and healing so that you will experience what is called a spiritual awakening, whereby the eyes of your Spirit will be opened and you will begin to realize who God is, and who you are in relation to him, you will begin to realize that there is a God, and why you were made and placed on this earth, and what your purpose on this earth is.
Do you know that God loves you more than you can comprehend enough to want to be the most important ingredient of your life? And God loves you so much he wants to help you. God loves to so much he wants to help you with every aspect of your life.and whatever you are struggling with, he wants to help you and give you immense peace, when you go through pain and suffering and are full of worry, he wants to fill you with his peace, do that you can feel the greatest peace and love and relief that he loves you and has taken all your burdens. The important point when you come to the cross and unburden yourself, or lift those heavy burdens into the shoulders of Jesus.
As the Bible says in Philippians 4:6 is that you receive his peace, even though you do not feel that he will bring immediate deliverance, he fills you with enough faith, when you release those worries to him.
See, if I wanted to find out who you were, if I was to somehow extract one of your DNA’s double strands and unravel those two strands and read your 3 billion codes which your body needs to build your physical body, that single strand or those two strands would only tell me only so much, it would tell me what chemicals your cell needs to build you, and how to mix those chemicals for making the colour of your eye-brows, etc, and would tell me how many times I have to fold a certain material that makes your hair, but it wouldn’t tell me about what kind of character, or temperament you have, and who you are in your deepest part of you, your character - I can only find that out by reading your spirit which God Has endowed everyone with; that part of you, who is the real you - of who you are, deep down, with all your secret aspirations and dreams, and your desires.
The Bible says that God is the fashioner of all of man’s spirits.
Maybe just as the science world were able to teach itself to read the three billion codes which make up the RNA DNA template, one day they will find a way to read people’s spirits; and in that case, wouldn't such a device be helpful. It would certainly save a lot of time and energy, and even paperwork. For we wouldn’t have to be mutually subjected to rigorous job interviews and screenings, because once a company who once conducted numerous interviews with perspectives interviewees, if they could read everyone’s spirits with a spirit-scanner rather than a DNA- scanner, then they could instantly build a really useful profile of the person, remotely, without calling the person in. (I could use this for an idea of a story) such a device would be highly sought-after. Especially when nowadays, after the wisdom of hindsight and trial and error have done their job, companies and personnel departments are realizing that academic qualifications are not as important as character and personality strengths; for you can be the most brainy person in your company, but what good are you if you don’t care a “hoot’ about your fellows, and to refuse to lift a finger in kindness to your fellow worker or employer.
So after receiving the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, Peter was able to preach to the Jews, "Repent, and be baptised everyone of you into the name of Jesus, and your sins will be wiped out and you will receive times of refreshing from the Lord.
Every one needs times of refreshing from the Lord.
For some, the Bible is archaic, for others, the Bible is difficult to grasp in meaning for it teaches many things which remain a mystery. Of course, I would expect the Bible to be mysterious for the man who has not received the Spirit of God.For the Bible says that the man without the Spirit cannot discern God. Listen to this: “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to hm, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14)
It probably is mysterious, or the Bible will remain mysterious, especially for the Atheists because the Bible tells us that the only way you can understand spiritual matters is if you first receive the Spirit of God, for the Words and spiritual teaching of the Bible can only be received by the man or woman who has the Spirit of God, for they are spiritually discerned;in other words, the truth in the Bible can only be understood by the one who has the Spirit of God; it means if you are an unbeliever and you say you don’t want to believe because the Bible is too difficult to understand, then you will never understand the Bible, with that attitude.
Let me give you an illustration:
If we lived in a world where we did have from time to time, visitations from aliens, then how can we understand them unless we are acquainted with their language.In the same way, how can we understand God’s language unless we are acquainted with his Spirit; for the Bible tells us that it is only the Spirit within a man and the Holy Spirit within us that knows the thoughts of man and God.In the Bible book of Romans it says in the eighth Chapter, in twenty-seven verse “And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.”
Also, elsewhere the Bible says, “The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” (1 Corinthians
It’s like expecting us to understand the language of an alien without having learned its language.
So, first we need to ask God to deposit his sweet Spirit into our spirit so that our eyes can be opened. Until then we remain spiritually blind. And if you find you don’t have faith to ask then just ask him for the gift of faith, which are among the many gifts he gives us to help us believe and help us in the many struggles we face in life - the many gifts of his grace. Then pray like this,
“God, if you really exist and you have all power to do anything in this universe, then show me who you are and send me some of your power so that my life will be changed for the good. if you exist then open up my blind eyes and spirit to your love so that I would receive a miracle and you would send me your power and your Spirit, and I would feel your power and your love in my heart, and be changed.”
The fact is God did send his Son in the likeness of man so that we could become the likeness of God, not in some contrived way but in a real practical way because when we invite him into our emotions and life, he actually comes and exists in the deepest part or the driving force of or lives, called the Spirit, which some people called the heart.
That’s why Jesus said,when talking about the so called born again experience, “Unless a man is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” A man must be born of water and the spirot. The truth is that everyone born nto this world is born with a dead spirit which needs o come alive, that part of us which communicates with God, which like a faulty receiver on a satellite dish, it needs to be returned, or rather our Manufacturer needs to pay us a visit and repair our faulty equipment and breathe into that dead spirit and bring it to life, and when God comes into our spirit and revives or dead spirit by breathing his Spirit, something profound and deep and healthy occurs, something miraculous happens in the deepest part of our soul - we become a spiritual being, and we become who we were destined to be - for God made us first and foremost, not a physical being but a spiritual being - as C.S.Lewis said:
“You don’t have a soul, but you are a soul.”
If we don’t receive the truth of this, then we can so easily be deceived thinking that we are mere physical beings, and that all our history is just originating from one tiny cell - and we short-changed into thinking that our existence is only mere nature - and that we are deceived into thinking that we owe our existence to mere accidental forces of Co-incidence and mere cause and effect rather than the original causer of all things, -the God- incidence, who we can call, the Big Cause or Causer. For scientists tell us and have found that this universe did indeed begin with a big bang as coined by, so which suggests there must be a cause or ordinator that caused that big bang.
But isn’t it a far more promising destiny that our existence was originated from the greatest mind in the universe?!- so great, that Mind stands outside this universe and indeed had the greatest idea and the crown of his creation to abide in his universe - which is you.
Just as God challenges us in the Bible, Psalm 36, test me, or taste and see that the Lord is good, then in time you will receive the most warmest and peaceful feeling when God's Spirit visits your deepest emotions and fills you with an incredible peace and healing, and begins to drive out all your years of heaped up stress and pain, and from then you will begin to feel a changed, upgraded and renewed person, like a dried up flower received streams of water to refresh your soul (Join these words with the file about how everyone has become dry or everyone becomes dry from the stresses and strains of life and needs refreshing.
We need to remember that God loves you so much he even wants to help you with your faith, in the Bible there was such a man who met Jesus, and ask that God heal his daughter, Jairus’s daughter and asked Jesus, all he did was proclaim, I believe, “Help my unbelief!” or prayed, please helpy faith faith.We need to remember that God can give us the gift(called grace) of faith and deposit enough faith. Even if you struggle and think you don’t have enough faith, just pray the following prayer,
“I believe, please help my faith!” , then God will do the rest. If we do our best, God will do the rest, and make up for what is lacking, all it takes is just an atomic particle of faith to move the mountains of problem from our life;whether or not we think don’t have enough faith, God will supply what is lacking for he is a God who loves us souch, he has promised to supply all of our needs, including our spiritual needs, all of our lack, materially, spiritually, emotionally, whatever those needs are.
Whatever we envision or imagine we are lacking in our quest to find God - the good news is God is big enough to make up for what is lacking on our part. The good news is God truly loves you enough to send you huge great dollops of the power of his grace and healing so that you will experience what is called a spiritual awakening, whereby the eyes of your Spirit will be opened and you will begin to realize who God is, and who you are in relation to him, you will begin to realize that there is a God, and why you were made and placed on this earth, and what your purpose on this earth is.
Do you know that God loves you more than you can comprehend enough to want to be the most important ingredient of your life? And God loves you so much he wants to help you. God loves to so much he wants to help you with every aspect of your life.and whatever you are struggling with, he wants to help you and give you immense peace, when you go through pain and suffering and are full of worry, he wants to fill you with his peace, do that you can feel the greatest peace and love and relief that he loves you and has taken all your burdens. The important point when you come to the cross and unburden yourself, or lift those heavy burdens into the shoulders of Jesus.
As the Bible says in Philippians 4:6 is that you receive his peace, even though you do not feel that he will bring immediate deliverance, he fills you with enough faith, when you release those worries to him.
See, if I wanted to find out who you were, if I was to somehow extract one of your DNA’s double strands and unravel those two strands and read your 3 billion codes which your body needs to build your physical body, that single strand or those two strands would only tell me only so much, it would tell me what chemicals your cell needs to build you, and how to mix those chemicals for making the colour of your eye-brows, etc, and would tell me how many times I have to fold a certain material that makes your hair, but it wouldn’t tell me about what kind of character, or temperament you have, and who you are in your deepest part of you, your character - I can only find that out by reading your spirit which God Has endowed everyone with; that part of you, who is the real you - of who you are, deep down, with all your secret aspirations and dreams, and your desires.
The Bible says that God is the fashioner of all of man’s spirits.
Maybe just as the science world were able to teach itself to read the three billion codes which make up the RNA DNA template, one day they will find a way to read people’s spirits; and in that case, wouldn't such a device be helpful. It would certainly save a lot of time and energy, and even paperwork. For we wouldn’t have to be mutually subjected to rigorous job interviews and screenings, because once a company who once conducted numerous interviews with perspectives interviewees, if they could read everyone’s spirits with a spirit-scanner rather than a DNA- scanner, then they could instantly build a really useful profile of the person, remotely, without calling the person in. (I could use this for an idea of a story) such a device would be highly sought-after. Especially when nowadays, after the wisdom of hindsight and trial and error have done their job, companies and personnel departments are realizing that academic qualifications are not as important as character and personality strengths; for you can be the most brainy person in your company, but what good are you if you don’t care a “hoot’ about your fellows, and to refuse to lift a finger in kindness to your fellow worker or employer.
How to upload the burdens and worries of your life, for the cross is the best rubbish dump, the literal and most practical dumping ground of all the worries and dross of your life, where, once you give him your burdens, you will feel so free and light after many years of being twisted in your stomach with worry, you will feel a new man or woman, because you will realize that you don’t need to face this life, and the worries and giants of your life alone, but with God you can overcome everything!
And you will find and experience that you now have the greatest Advocate and Helper, and he will send his Holy Spirit power to you, just as he has promised; Jesus promised to give you Another Helper and Advocate(where's the Scripture) to be with you, forever, and that’s why those disciples were so overjoyed and empowered when they received the Spirit of God on the day of Pentecost.
So after receiving the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, Peter was able to preach to the Jews, "Repent, and be baptised everyone of you into the name of Jesus, and your sins will be wiped out,vand you will receive times of reshresing from the Lord.
Every one needs times of refreshing from the Lord.
For some, the Bible is archaic, for others, the Bible is difficult to grasp in meaning for it teaches many things which remain a mystery. Of course, I would expect the Bible to be mysterious for the man who has not received the Spirit of God.For the Bible says that the man without the Spirit cannot discern God. Listen to this: “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to hm, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14)
It probably is mysterious, or the Bible will remain mysterious, especially for the Atheists because the Bible tells us that the only way you can understand spiritual matters is if you first receive the Spirit of God, for the Words and spiritual teaching of the Bible can only be received by the man or woman who has the Spirit of God, for they are spiritually discerned;in other words, the truth in the Bible can only be understood by the one who has the Spirit of God; it means if you are an unbeliever and you say you don’t want to believe because the Bible is too difficult to understand, then you will never understand the Bible, with that attitude.
Let me give you an illustration:
If we lived in a world where we did have from time to time, visitations from aliens, then how can we understand them unless we are acquainted with their language.In the same way, how can we understand God’s language unless we are acquainted with his Spirit; for the Bible tells us that it is only the Spirit within a man and the Holy Spirit within us that knows the thoughts of man and God.In the Bible book of Romans it says in the eighth Chapter, in twenty-seven verse “And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.”
Also, elsewhere the Bible says, “The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” (1 Corinthians
It’s like expecting us to understand the language of an alien without having learned its language.
So, first we need to ask God to deposit his sweet Spirit into our spirit so that our eyes can be opened. Until then we remain spiritually blind. And if you find you don’t have faith to ask then just ask him for the gift of faith, which are among the many gifts he gives us to help us believe and help us in the many struggles we face in life - the many gifts of his grace. Then pray like this,
“God, if you really exist and you have all power to do anything in this universe, then show me who you are and send me some of your power so that my life will be changed for the good. if you exist then open up my blind eyes and spirit to your love so that I would receive a miracle and you would send me your power and your Spirit, and I would feel your power and your love in my heart, and be changed.”
The fact is God did send his Son in the likeness of man so that we could become the likeness of God, not in some contrived way but in a real practical way because when we invite him into our emotions and life, he actually comes and exists in the deepest part or the driving force of or lives, called the Spirit, which some people called the heart.
That’s why Jesus said,when talking about the so called born again experience, “Unless a man is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” A man must be born of water and the spirot. The truth is that everyone born nto this world is born with a dead spirit which needs o come alive, that part of us which communicates with God, which like a faulty receiver on a satellite dish, it needs to be returned, or rather our Manufacturer needs to pay us a visit and repair our faulty equipment and breathe into that dead spirit and bring it to life, and when God comes into our spirit and revives or dead spirit by breathing his Spirit, something profound and deep and healthy occurs, something miraculous happens in the deepest part of our soul - we become a spiritual being, and we become who we were destined to be - for God made us first and foremost, not a physical being but a spiritual being - as C.S.Lewis said:
“You don’t have a soul, but you are a soul.”
If we don’t receive the truth of this, then we can so easily be deceived thinking that we are mere physical beings, and that all our history is just originating from one tiny cell - and we short-changed into thinking that our existence is only mere nature - and that we are deceived into thinking that we owe our existence to mere accidental forces of Co-incidence and mere cause and effect rather than the original causer of all things, -the God- incidence, who we can call, the Big Cause or Causer. For scientists tell us and have found that this universe did indeed begin with a big bang as coined by, so which suggests there must be a cause or ordinator that caused that big bang.
That’s why Jesus said,when talking about the so called born again experience, “Unless a man is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” A man must be born of water and the spirot. The truth is that everyone born nto this world is born with a dead spirit which needs o come alive, that part of us which communicates with God, which like a faulty receiver on a satellite dish, it needs to be returned, or rather our Manufacturer needs to pay us a visit and repair our faulty equipment and breathe into that dead spirit and bring it to life, and when God comes into our spirit and revives or dead spirit by breathing his Spirit, something profound and deep and healthy occurs, something miraculous happens in the deepest part of our soul - we become a spiritual being, and we become who we were destined to be - for God made us first and foremost, not a physical being but a spiritual being - as C.S.Lewis said:
“You don’t have a soul, but you are a soul.”
If we don’t receive the truth of this, then we can so easily be deceived thinking that we are mere physical beings, and that all our history is just originating from one tiny cell - and we short-changed into thinking that our existence is only mere nature - and that we are deceived into thinking that we owe our existence to mere accidental forces of Co-incidence and mere cause and effect rather than the original causer of all things, -the God- incidence, who we can call, the Big Cause or Causer. For scientists tell us and have found that this universe did indeed begin with a big bang as coined by, so which suggests there must be a cause or ordinator that caused that big bang.
But isn’t it a far more promising destiny that our existence was originated from the greatest mind in the universe?!- so great, that Mind stands outside this universe and indeed had the greatest idea and the crown of his creation to abide in his universe - which is you.
Just as God challenges us in the Bible, Psalm 36, test me, or taste and see that the Lord is good, then in time you will receive the most warmest and peaceful feeling when God's Spirit visits your deepest emotions and fills you with an incredible peace and healing, and begins to drive out all your years of heaped up stress and pain, and from then you will begin to feel a changed, upgraded and renewed person, like a dried up flower received streams of water to refresh your soul (Join these words with the file about how everyone has become dry or everyone becomes dry from the stresses and strains of life and needs refreshing.
We need to remember that God loves you so much he even wants to help you with your faith, in the Bible there was such a man who met Jesus, and ask that God heal his daughter, Jairus’s daughter and asked Jesus, all he did was proclaim, I believe, “Help my unbelief!” or prayed, please helpy faith faith.We need to remember that God can give us the gift(called grace) of faith and deposit enough faith. Even if you struggle and think you don’t have enough faith, just pray the following prayer,
“I believe, please help my faith!” , then God will do the rest. If we do our best, God will do the rest, and make up for what is lacking, all it takes is just an atomic particle of faith to move the mountains of problem from our life;whether or not we think don’t have enough faith, God will supply what is lacking for he is a God who loves us souch, he has promised to supply all of our needs, including our spiritual needs, all of our lack, materially, spiritually, emotionally, whatever those needs are.
Whatever we envision or imagine we are lacking in our quest to find God - the good news is God is big enough to make up for what is lacking on our part. The good news is God truly loves you enough to send you huge great dollops of the power of his grace and healing so that you will experience what is called a spiritual awakening, whereby the eyes of your Spirit will be opened and you will begin to realize who God is, and who you are in relation to him, you will begin to realize that there is a God, and why you were made and placed on this earth, and what your purpose on this earth is.
Whatever we envision or imagine we are lacking in our quest to find God - the good news is God is big enough to make up for what is lacking on our part. The good news is God truly loves you enough to send you huge great dollops of the power of his grace and healing so that you will experience what is called a spiritual awakening, whereby the eyes of your Spirit will be opened and you will begin to realize who God is, and who you are in relation to him, you will begin to realize that there is a God, and why you were made and placed on this earth, and what your purpose on this earth is.
Do you know that God loves you more than you can comprehend enough to want to be the most important ingredient of your life? And God loves you so much he wants to help you. God loves to so much he wants to help you with every aspect of your life.and whatever you are struggling with, he wants to help you and give you immense peace, when you go through pain and suffering and are full of worry, he wants to fill you with his peace, do that you can feel the greatest peace and love and relief that he loves you and has taken all your burdens. The important point when you come to the cross and unburden yourself, or lift those heavy burdens into the shoulders of Jesus.
As the Bible says in Philippians 4:6 is that you receive his peace, even though you do not feel that he will bring immediate deliverance, he fills you with enough faith, when you release those worries to him.
As the Bible says in Philippians 4:6 is that you receive his peace, even though you do not feel that he will bring immediate deliverance, he fills you with enough faith, when you release those worries to him.
See, if I wanted to find out who you were, if I was to somehow extract one of your DNA’s double strands and unravel those two strands and read your 3 billion codes which your body needs to build your physical body, that single strand or those two strands would only tell me only so much, it would tell me what chemicals your cell needs to build you, and how to mix those chemicals for making the colour of your eye-brows, etc, and would tell me how many times I have to fold a certain material that makes your hair, but it wouldn’t tell me about what kind of character, or temperament you have, and who you are in your deepest part of you, your character - I can only find that out by reading your spirit which God Has endowed everyone with; that part of you, who is the real you - of who you are, deep down, with all your secret aspirations and dreams, and your desires.
The Bible says that God is the fashioner of all of man’s spirits.
The Bible says that God is the fashioner of all of man’s spirits.
Maybe just as the science world were able to teach itself to read the three billion codes which make up the RNA DNA template, one day they will find a way to read people’s spirits; and in that case, wouldn't such a device be helpful. It would certainly save a lot of time and energy, and even paperwork. For we wouldn’t have to be mutually subjected to rigorous job interviews and screenings, because once a company who once conducted numerous interviews with perspectives interviewees, if they could read everyone’s spirits with a spirit-scanner rather than a DNA- scanner, then they could instantly build a really useful profile of the person, remotely, without calling the person in. (I could use this for an idea of a story) such a device would be highly sought-after. Especially when nowadays, after the wisdom of hindsight and trial and error have done their job, companies and personnel departments are realizing that academic qualifications are not as important as character and personality strengths; for you can be the most brainy person in your company, but what good are you if you don’t care a “hoot’ about your fellows, and to refuse to lift a finger in kindness to your fellow worker or employer.
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