Eta | The Need To Know

Another day, another latte. More web searches turning interesting tid bits of seemingly useless data. It's a distraction, but she's no closer to the answer. Eta stares into the crowds below as they meander through the mall.



The man in black is back again. He passes the lockers, again. Every day, like clock work, except that he strikes at a different time each day, there seems to be no pattern, or ryhme to his showing up. It's given her something to expect each day. How is leaving?



The thought struck her so quickly it was as though it was not her thought. To her knowledge of the floor plans she hacked her way into for this mall, there was no exit down that hallway. It led to lockers, and two bathrooms with no windows or doors. And yet... everyday, he came. She assumed it was a he, you never know these days, but the build was mandly, nice even... no, Eta doesn't have those thoughts. Shut them out. Shut them down. Focus on the tasks at hand.



Different times of day. He (or she... but probably a he) comes at different times each day. He passess the locker in her vision, and he never comes out. She's here until close, and he never comes out. Where is he going? He can't be spending the whole day in the bathroom, can he? But how does he leave without her seeing? She glances away periodically, if for no other reason than boredom, and not to look too conspicious. But could he be leaving while she's not looking each time? Two weeks she's been watching him, and he's been showing up and... not leaving?



She's had enough! She's following him this time. She packs her laptop and bag, she meanders quickly enough to get there, but slowly enough to look nonchalant. She cannot be seen as following him. It was dangerous of course. She didn't know who he was, or why she was following him, but she wanted answers. CIA, Mosad, MI6, KGB, PRC... Hard to say. It's unlikely that he's affiliated with Falcons Nest (FC). She was one of a very few FC's in the world, and she was decomissioned. Suddenly the thought that he was watching her, and not the other way around struck her cold. What if he wants her to follow him back her, out of public line of site, so he can take her out in the hallways or rest room? It's what she'd have done. She stopped, in the middle of the court yard, staring down the long hallway toward the rest rooms. She wouldn't fall for that.



Or, she was just bein paranoid, as her training had taught her to be, and this was just some skater kid or local mall rat who just happened to disapear down a long hallway, everyday, and never come out... curiosity told her to go in, paranoia told her to stay out. So she found a bench seat within few of the locker and hallway, but sat as though she wasn't watching, and opened her laptop. She'd angled the mirror inside her glassess toward the hallway and locker. She'd sit... and watch.

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Eta | The Need To Know

Another day, another latte. More web searches turning interesting tid bits of seemingly useless data. It's a distraction, but she's no closer to the answer. Eta stares into the crowds below as they meander through the mall.

The man in black is back again. He passes the lockers, again. Every day, like clock work, except that he strikes at a different time each day, there seems to be no pattern, or ryhme to his showing up. It's given her something to expect each day. How is leaving?

The thought struck her so quickly it was as though it was not her thought. To her knowledge of the floor plans she hacked her way into for this mall, there was no exit down that hallway. It led to lockers, and two bathrooms with no windows or doors. And yet... everyday, he came. She assumed it was a he, you never know these days, but the build was mandly, nice even... no, Eta doesn't have those thoughts. Shut them out. Shut them down. Focus on the tasks at hand.

Different times of day. He (or she... but probably a he) comes at different times each day. He passess the locker in her vision, and he never comes out. She's here until close, and he never comes out. Where is he going? He can't be spending the whole day in the bathroom, can he? But how does he leave without her seeing? She glances away periodically, if for no other reason than boredom, and not to look too conspicious. But could he be leaving while she's not looking each time? Two weeks she's been watching him, and he's been showing up and... not leaving?

She's had enough! She's following him this time. She packs her laptop and bag, she meanders quickly enough to get there, but slowly enough to look nonchalant. She cannot be seen as following him. It was dangerous of course. She didn't know who he was, or why she was following him, but she wanted answers. CIA, Mosad, MI6, KGB, PRC... Hard to say. It's unlikely that he's affiliated with Falcons Nest (FC). She was one of a very few FC's in the world, and she was decomissioned. Suddenly the thought that he was watching her, and not the other way around struck her cold. What if he wants her to follow him back her, out of public line of site, so he can take her out in the hallways or rest room? It's what she'd have done. She stopped, in the middle of the court yard, staring down the long hallway toward the rest rooms. She wouldn't fall for that.

Or, she was just bein paranoid, as her training had taught her to be, and this was just some skater kid or local mall rat who just happened to disapear down a long hallway, everyday, and never come out... curiosity told her to go in, paranoia told her to stay out. So she found a bench seat within few of the locker and hallway, but sat as though she wasn't watching, and opened her laptop. She'd angled the mirror inside her glassess toward the hallway and locker. She'd sit... and watch.

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Eta | That parade was the bomb!

She's standing in mid air, 100 feet or more above the crowds. She can see a line of people in costume's dancing down the street, with large deorated vehicles in between groups. There are crowds on both of the street bundled in heavy clothing to ward against the cold air and a light dusting of snow from earlier today. She doesn't feel the chill, she's a spectator, not a participant. Eta stands, stationary, just watching the spectacal.



Suddenly, her vision is blocked by something brown and right up in her face, she takes a few steps back and she's confronted with a large brown baloon. A few more steps back and it's as large as a house, full of hot air. As it passes she can take in a full view. It's a... turkey? Yes, it's a turkey the size of a house, full of hot air, floating  high above the crowds, and just below and even with her.



She can see Santa on his sligh toward the end of the event... She knows this somehow. It's familiar, something her parents were involved in before she shut out them, their memories, and society in general. What's it called? There's a tradition for this? Santa is and his float are just below her now. She see's the clock on the building, it's 1:17 pm...



Flash. Her chest is compressed, she can't breath. The buildings around her crumble. She is thrown back 1,000's of feet. She she takes the next breath she see's the cloud, just like on the movies, and old WWII videos. A mushroom cloud. The buildings are evaporating in every direction. The inhabitants won't even know what hit them until it's far, far too late. It's moving with great speed for miles, buildings evaporate before the wave in every direction.





Devestation...



As she sucks in a deep breath the world around her evaporates and turns black, then white, then the world she was in a few moments ago comes back into view. People bustling about the metroplex. Food Court vendors handing out samples. Shes' back in the chair, with her laptop, and latte'.



It's getting worse... these visions... she needs answers...

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Eta | That parade was the bomb!

She's standing in mid air, 100 feet or more above the crowds. She can see a line of people in costume's dancing down the street, with large deorated vehicles in between groups. There are crowds on both of the street bundled in heavy clothing to ward against the cold air and a light dusting of snow from earlier today. She doesn't feel the chill, she's a spectator, not a participant. Eta stands, stationary, just watching the spectacal.

Suddenly, her vision is blocked by something brown and right up in her face, she takes a few steps back and she's confronted with a large brown baloon. A few more steps back and it's as large as a house, full of hot air. As it passes she can take in a full view. It's a... turkey? Yes, it's a turkey the size of a house, full of hot air, floating  high above the crowds, and just below and even with her.

She can see Santa on his sligh toward the end of the event... She knows this somehow. It's familiar, something her parents were involved in before she shut out them, their memories, and society in general. What's it called? There's a tradition for this? Santa is and his float are just below her now. She see's the clock on the building, it's 1:17 pm...

Flash. Her chest is compressed, she can't breath. The buildings around her crumble. She is thrown back 1,000's of feet. She she takes the next breath she see's the cloud, just like on the movies, and old WWII videos. A mushroom cloud. The buildings are evaporating in every direction. The inhabitants won't even know what hit them until it's far, far too late. It's moving with great speed for miles, buildings evaporate before the wave in every direction.


Devestation...

As she sucks in a deep breath the world around her evaporates and turns black, then white, then the world she was in a few moments ago comes back into view. People bustling about the metroplex. Food Court vendors handing out samples. Shes' back in the chair, with her laptop, and latte'.

It's getting worse... these visions... she needs answers...

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Eta | Train Station/Airport/Mall??? Locker Man

The Denver CO airport was bustling with humanity, roaming about like so many ants building a colony without knowing why. Eta sat in at the table just outside the cafe', overlooking the railing down to the first floor, in perfect view of the lockers. She couldn't get the latest vision out of her head.

Denver Airport (Wiki)

* She's sitting in this exact spot, and a stranger in black jeans and a black Carhart jacket with a grey beany steps up to a locker, when he turns around a bright light flashes behind him and shields his face.



She doesn't know who he is, or why she's here. But if he has any clues for, why she's having these strange visions, and why they are actually coming to pass, then she'll wait. She's been here all day, every day with her laptop surfing the WiFi... waiting. She's had no new visions in the past two weeks, so here she sits, waiting. Day 17...



She bounces from site to site, Google providing no solid answers, she attempting now to use the other search engines, hoping for different results. She's hit up Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo... she's moved on to deep web searches. Checking out the Library of Congress, Natinoal Security Archive, VirtualLibrary, Infomine... grasping for answers. She's found a few articles about paranormal studies and research. Could she be pyschic? There were articles about people coming back from war with strange mental reactions, and being misdiagnosed with PTSD. Paranormal research was hard to wade through, for every non-biased scientific evaluation, she found 100's of cooks and quacks that ranged from 900# television psychics to religious television evangelists and prophets. All wanted to provide your answers, for the low low cost of... or a love gift of...



Eta was on her fourth cup of Venti Soy Chair Tea Latte for the day when she saw him. Out of the corner of her eye, there was a man with dark blue jeans, nearly black. A black jacket with a Carhart label on the shoulder, and a grey beany... he was headed in the direction of the lockers, she tried not to look casual, in case he turned this direction. If Special Forces training had taught her anything it was how to observe without being seen by the observed. He was headed straight for the locker... and then passed it, and headed out of sight. She wouldn't have the time to get down there and follow, and the vision was about this locker, so she decided against her inner desire to pursue and kept up with her searches. If that was the guy, he'd be back. If it wasn't, she'd miss the real person she was here to see.





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Eta | Train Station/Airport/Mall??? Locker Man

The Denver CO airport was bustling with humanity, roaming about like so many ants building a colony without knowing why. Eta sat in at the table just outside the cafe', overlooking the railing down to the first floor, in perfect view of the lockers. She couldn't get the latest vision out of her head.

Denver Airport (Wiki)

* She's sitting in this exact spot, and a stranger in black jeans and a black Carhart jacket with a grey beany steps up to a locker, when he turns around a bright light flashes behind him and shields his face.

She doesn't know who he is, or why she's here. But if he has any clues for, why she's having these strange visions, and why they are actually coming to pass, then she'll wait. She's been here all day, every day with her laptop surfing the WiFi... waiting. She's had no new visions in the past two weeks, so here she sits, waiting. Day 17...

She bounces from site to site, Google providing no solid answers, she attempting now to use the other search engines, hoping for different results. She's hit up Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo... she's moved on to deep web searches. Checking out the Library of Congress, Natinoal Security Archive, VirtualLibrary, Infomine... grasping for answers. She's found a few articles about paranormal studies and research. Could she be pyschic? There were articles about people coming back from war with strange mental reactions, and being misdiagnosed with PTSD. Paranormal research was hard to wade through, for every non-biased scientific evaluation, she found 100's of cooks and quacks that ranged from 900# television psychics to religious television evangelists and prophets. All wanted to provide your answers, for the low low cost of... or a love gift of...

Eta was on her fourth cup of Venti Soy Chair Tea Latte for the day when she saw him. Out of the corner of her eye, there was a man with dark blue jeans, nearly black. A black jacket with a Carhart label on the shoulder, and a grey beany... he was headed in the direction of the lockers, she tried not to look casual, in case he turned this direction. If Special Forces training had taught her anything it was how to observe without being seen by the observed. He was headed straight for the locker... and then passed it, and headed out of sight. She wouldn't have the time to get down there and follow, and the vision was about this locker, so she decided against her inner desire to pursue and kept up with her searches. If that was the guy, he'd be back. If it wasn't, she'd miss the real person she was here to see.


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Darrell Wolfe

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Bomb Vision | Eta

City street. cars driving by. People walking along, minding their own business, most looking down at their smart phones as if they were walking by GPS. Now there's people running, the streets of roped off, and they are wearing a variety of joggins suits, they have numbers on their backs. It's a marathon. She knows this place, but she's never been here. Boston, MA. A flash of light. Glass splattered. the percussion hits her chest and it's over...



Her friend Janice is still chatering away about the latest episode of Blacklist. She must not have been staring blankly for long, because her friend didn't notice at all. These waking dreams are getting more and more vivid. More details. It's strange how eerie they are. Suddenly, she notices everyone in the bar looking to the T.V. Stunned silence. Another terrorist attack. This time a bomb went off at the Boston Marathon... wait, did they say Boston? A sick feeling comes over her... is that even possible?



Her friend notices that she's gone pale, she asks the bartender for water. They start to fan her. Eta folds her head into her hands and starts to cry, for the first time in 20 years, she is crying uncontrollably, and she's not entirely sure why... and she loves it... and she hates it... and she let's it wash over her.





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Bomb Vision | Eta

City street. cars driving by. People walking along, minding their own business, most looking down at their smart phones as if they were walking by GPS. Now there's people running, the streets of roped off, and they are wearing a variety of joggins suits, they have numbers on their backs. It's a marathon. She knows this place, but she's never been here. Boston, MA. A flash of light. Glass splattered. the percussion hits her chest and it's over...

Her friend Janice is still chatering away about the latest episode of Blacklist. She must not have been staring blankly for long, because her friend didn't notice at all. These waking dreams are getting more and more vivid. More details. It's strange how eerie they are. Suddenly, she notices everyone in the bar looking to the T.V. Stunned silence. Another terrorist attack. This time a bomb went off at the Boston Marathon... wait, did they say Boston? A sick feeling comes over her... is that even possible?

Her friend notices that she's gone pale, she asks the bartender for water. They start to fan her. Eta folds her head into her hands and starts to cry, for the first time in 20 years, she is crying uncontrollably, and she's not entirely sure why... and she loves it... and she hates it... and she let's it wash over her.


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Unplanned Event Leads to Mindset Change: Seed Lifestyle

Attribution: JD Hancock  - Lonely Traveler

An Unplanned Passenger

When I passed the car, and then a block down the freeway I see a man in a grey suit pants and brown suit jacket with a brief case walking on the freeway. I heard inside of me, “pick him up”. I obeyed immediately. I moved stuff aside and opened my door and leaned out and motioned my thumb to him “international hitch hiking symbol”.

Picked up Achoo (name changed for privacy) on the side of the road. He’s from NJ, and he just moved to Texas. He stated that his gas ran out, he thinks, and that was his car I had just passed. He was afraid to attempt to hold out his thumb to hitch hike because he wasn’t sure if it was illegal to do so in Texas. 

He’s working for a tech company nearby, and he's working lots of OT because he’s running low on money. That’s why he’s out of gas. He’s running late to work, and my picking him up is really helping him get there faster, maybe an hour or more faster than walking. He’s very grateful, it was cold out there (30-40*F) and his jacket is light.

I asked if he had people at work that could help him back to deal with the car after work. He said he did. That part would be covered.  I drove him to work nearby and only ended up at work just a few moments later than I would have been. 

I felt/heard God say “Thank you, he’s one of mine”. 

I said “You’re welcome”. I felt bad that I didn’t just get gas for his car. 

God said “I have people for that. You are one cog in that wheel. You did good son.”  God went on to say “If you keep opening your heart to me, and spending time practicing to hear my voice, and open your heart to worship, you’ll notice more and more of these unique moments in life. It’s important to know about Favor, believe in Favor, be ready and willing to declare Favor over your life. BUT… Favor is not a magic spell. It’s not something you can declare every morning, without being in relationship with Me, and expect it to work the Favor Magic in your life. Favor is a byproduct of relationship with me. If you are deepening your relationship with me, Favor will come. Listen to Me. Hear Me. Obey what you hear. Favor is just as likely to use you to bless someone as it is to use someone to bless you.”

Inside of me I saw/heard an inner me jump up and down and say “Whooooo Hoooo!”

A little oil goes a long way!

So... this helped me shift my mindset a bit. Unintentionally, I fell into a rut of thinking that said I won't be able to really make a difference in people's lives until I reach higher levels of prosperity... so I've focused on what I could do to live out my calling and get prosperous. I mean... it's hard to make a difference when you are struggling to pay the house note, right?

Well, the fact is that this is a noble aspiration, and a complete LIE! You have to sow seed before you get fruit. When you don't have much, you still do the same thing you do when you do have much. You seek God as your source, and you keep your heart and mind open to be used by God at a moments notice. You keep your attitude humble and open, and be aware of your surroundings.

If you are a widow with one son, in a three year drought, and you only have a little oil and flour... then a man comes along and asks you to bake a cake for him... you can decide to help the guy, and risk giving from what little you have, or keep what little you have for yourself. In God's economy the first option produces results, if it's Spirit Led.

So, this week I sowed some oil, (which was turned into refined gasoline which I used to take a man to work, just a little out of my way)...

I'm not concerned with my "reward" or "return on investment". I'm going to believe that God has my back, and there will be something coming. But I'm going to keep my focus on what I can do next. It was exciting. I'm ready for the next opportunity to do something for someone... what opportunity will be next?

Keep your eyes and ears open this week for opportunities to get our of your shell and help someone God brings across your path.

In other words... will I #BeStillBeLed?

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What do you think... when has God used YOU to help someone?

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Amazing Power | Every Knee Shall Bow

Every Knee Means Every Knee

"9Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2:9-11 

Everyone... every last person who has ever, or will ever, live is going to bow their knee to Jesus.

What an amazing opportunity to do it now.

No-one could do it before He came. They could only bow to the shadow of the truth, the promise of a child of Eve who was to come. There was a hint of him here or there. He came as a whisper to one, then another... But the masses did not understand him, and when He came in fire and smoke, the masses feared in retreat...

Less people bowed to him in the years He walked earth than shortly after. This is because he came as a man, and He didn't live up to their expectations. Only immediately after his resurrection, after Pentecost, could the Holy Spirit do the work of opening the eyes of people.  And more people came to Him in those first years after Pentecost than all who did during his earthly lifetime.

Today He is not yet returned, so we still have the choice to bow the knee to Him, before it's mandatory. The hell bound will bow, but there will be no pleasure in it.

Today, for the few short years we have left until His return, we have an opportunity to bow the knee... to serve Him with our will.

He is worthy...


In other words... will I #BeStillBeLed?


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Life in the Kingdom | A study from Gateway Church - Freedom Ministries - My Notes

Life in the Kingdom (#5)

A study from Gateway Church - Freedom Ministries - My Notes

Introduction:

It's easier to accomplish a task, when you have the right tool. Easy is not a mater of laziness and not working hard, it's a matter of having the right tools for the right job. It's easier to change a tire, when you have the right size lug wrench. It's an easier work flow when you have the right tools. The Kingdom of God lifestyle is easier when you know and understand the tools that allow you to live this life.

If we can understand what is "my part" and what is "God's part" in this Kingdom of God, we will be more effective.

One of the problems in the modern American Church is that we are operating on a belief system, based on a world view, that many of us don't have. The prevailing World View in Modern America is "Materialistic and Intellectual". This does not mean that we are rich and smart. It means that we base our understanding of reality based on the natural world (science) and intellectual reasoning (mind).

The Kingdom of God is based on a worldview that is the integration of Spiritual and Natural. Ex; a bush that is on fire, but it's not burning. It is seeing the spiritual realm and the natural realm integrate seamlessly so that you cannot speak about one without also referencing the other.

Four main content areas to discuss our part and God's part:

1. Lordship

2. Transformation

3. Authority

4. Spiritual Warfare

 

God's ways are higher than ours.

Issiah 55:9
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

This does not mean that he is geographically higher. It means that he has a way of seeing, thinking, and perceiving, that are qualitatively greater than ours. He can see an issue from all angles, and all perspectives at once without getting confused. God's view vs ours is akin to the difference between 1st grade math and Quantum Physics.

Translated into the Kingdom of God.

Colossians 1:13 ASV

American Standard Version

...who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

Translation from English to Spanish is not exact. There are cultural differences which make the translation more than just picking out the words that match up, but truly communicating the idea or concept. Words are concept containers. 

In English I might say: "Hello... and what is your name?"

Transliteration is taking the exact words and moving them into the same words in the other language. The transliteration of this phrase into Spanish is: "Hola... y que es tu' nombre'?" The problem is... that's not how Spanish speakers ask this question. In Spanish, the question would be: "Como te' llama?" Which transliterates to English as "How are you called?" You see, you need to translate, not just transliterate.

Why is this important. Well, in the Kingdom of God there are concepts that are foreign to natural earthly people. If we have been translated (not just moved) into this new Kingdom, we need to understand the qualitatively different aspects of how that Kingdom functions.

2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

We need to understand the way this new Kingdom, this new culture, this new reality, operates.We've been given more than we know. Just because you have a remote control, doesn't mean you know how to turn on the TV. Likewise, just because you have the tools of the Kingdom of God doesn't mean you know how to access the Kingdom of God, you must begin to learn how to use them. When you find that you've been given all things for life and Godliness, don't think "this is it?", think "there is more to this than I know".

1. Lordship

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God does all the hard stuff. We respond. Let us separate the mind, will, and emotions. Your WILL is the mechanism for decision. Your Will is not your decision, it's the mechanism for making decisions.

There is your WILL. Then there is your Will about... different things. We have a will about marriage, sex, money, work, food, the car we drive... Are you WILLING to give God your WILL... ALL of it?

If I'm driving my car, and I pick up Jesus in the passenger seat, and I'm trying to obey his instructions... I'm still using my will to drive the car.

I'm I pull over, get in the back seat, and let Jesus drive... then I've surrendered my Will.

Many Christians think we ought to use our Will to choose good stuff and avoid bad stuff. Underneath that assumption is the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. I must know bad from good and choose good. That is the wrong source, wrong tree. Many Christians think that the knowledge of bad is bad, and good is good. However, all knowledge is the wrong source.

The only proper use of the human will is submission. Lest you think that submission is equal to slavery...

What electronic device is enslaved by being plugged into electricity? None. Electricity is empowering it. However, there is no power without it. We must submit to LIFE, not to knowledge. Surrendering WILL to the Lordship of Jesus is empowering.

The choice is between God's power (hearing and responding/revelation) and my power (knowledge).

Choosing His voice will always result in you having a better result. It's not a matter of Good and Bad, it's a matter of "What is my power source?"

2. Transformation

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What is our part? Romans 12, we must understand the change that we are engaging in. The change we are after is not about good vs evil; but rather, about Life vs Knowledge. Life (Hearing and Responding to God's Voice) vs Knowledge (my ability to do good/bad | my strength). My change will not be a matter of my trying harder and doing better. My change will come from a shift in how I think, how I see, and what my source for how I think, act, and feel.

When Jesus said told the parable of the workers he picked up throughout the day, and each got a days wage no matter how long he worked... many of us feel that it's unfair for the last one to get the same wage as the first. But in the Kingdom of God there is only one wage... Himself. He cannot give you less of Himself than someone else.

You may not know how to access, utilize, the remote control... that doesn't reduce the power and ability of that remote, it only reduces how much you benefit from it.

Then starts a dilema. As you are trying to learn this new thing He gave you called "LIFE" you start to ask: "Is that God's voice or my flesh?" As we grow in that and learn to discern what is Him, more and more of the Spirit of God takes control, and less of the flesh.

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You could spend a lifetime of trying harder to do good, and this transformation process never occurs because you are exercising the very thing that needs to die. Your Will. God is not after obedience... He's after surrender. Surrender to the ability to hear His voice and respond. He's ok with you making mistakes, as long as you continue to train to Hear and Respond. Much training requires failure. This is where Grace and Mercy play out in our lives. God's not after you getting it right, He's after you learning how to walk.

If your infant starts to walk for the first time and falls... do you yell at the child and demand more? No, you celebrate the smallest of victories. That is how God does with you. He's not interested in your doing what you know better, but hearing and responding better.

He knows full well you will get it wrong, and it's His Grace that allows you to try again.

In auto pilot, a plane has been given a set of parameters/guidance. The plan hits one side and get's sent the other way, and it's off course more than it's on, bouncing between the guide lines. Likewise, we are going along our course, and God interrupts us and says "Hey... that way" and we correct course.

There is a tendency to believe that I am born, one day I encounter Jesus and get saved... then I spend my life in an upward battle for progress doing better, flat, worse, better, etc... until once day I die. Then at death this body will not hold me back anymore and I'll be totally free to grow with no restrictions. This forces us to settle for this idea that "This is what I got for now... but some day in the sweet by and by..."

Behind that belief is the underlying premise that my death can do more for me than the death of Jesus.

Jesus gave you more power, authority and transformation than you know. It was Jesus death that set you free not yours. It's just a matter now of tapping into Him. Jesus didn't die to set us free from bad behavior. Jesus died because we were disconnected from the source of Life, and he came to reconnect us to Life again.


Regarding the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit isn't some mysterious mist that comes, and goes, and leaves, and arrives... it is the omnipresent God himself. Jesus is leaving for a good long while and He says to them: "Wait here awhile".

So often we try to run off and do something for God. But here is a great lesson... wait for Him who is to come and empower you.

One man once said: "most denominations are torches of once great revivals". God moves, men add their knowledge of good and kill the move, God moves on to a new move, and there is a name and building left behind.

Men try to get people filled with the Holy Spirit by copying what they see in Acts. So we have churches that are filled with people who have "it". They have the label, the t-shirt, etc... but how often do they have it because they preformed some acts people taught them, not because they received the Holy Spirit himself?

It would be better to receive the Holy Spirit and have an experience with God, and not know what to label it, than to have the t-shirt and labels but not the actual experience.

So often you hear people say that "tongues" is the single evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I would say that I've probably seen people speak in tongues without much of the Holy Spirit's aide. Because ALL the gifts of Holy Spirit (as outlined in 1 Corinthians 12) are just labels for things that happen when He shows up. Any person could be operating in any of the gifts at any time. God works all of them in all people (1 Cor 12:6), not some of them in some, but all in all. So let's not put God in a box and say that the only way to tell if someone got baptized in the Holy Spirit is if they speak in tongues right away. Likewise, let's not run to the other ditch and say that you may get one gift and not another. He works all in all. You can't get a part of Him, you get all of Him.



Gifts of the Spirit


Now the paradox of this chapter is he goes from saying that He works All in All, to saying that he works one in one, and one in another. That's true in light of the context. During a service, or gathering, He doesn't do the same thing in all people all at once... that's chaos. He works one here, and one there. But as you go through life, and Holy Spirit shows up, He'll operate in you as He sees fit, and as you allow Him.  All in All.

The expression of the Holy Spirit is up to Holy Spirit, not our knowledge of good. Lest you think that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a one time event, the same people who were filled and empowered in Acts 2, were filled and empowered again in Acts 4:8 and Acts 4:31. Read Ephesians 5:18, which says we are to be-being filled with the Holy Spirit. It's a continual process, not a one time event. There is a first time, but it must continue on and on. If you were filled in 1978 but haven't been since, you missed it.

Wait here... and when he comes, you'll receive power... This is not a topic to be studied so much as; rather, it is one to be engaged and embraced.

Waiting is key... waiting expectantly. Don't rush in to impress God with your knowledge of what this should look like... just wait for Him to do what He does, and only He does. The Holy Spirit gives gifts and fruit. Neither of these may become immediately evident in the moment. But every one of the gifts and fruit should increase in you as the days go by. All of them, not just one over another. The Holy Spirit is about bringing life back to His people, not regulations back to our performance.

God brings the power, we do the waiting expectantly.

3. Authority

 

Power is the ability to accomplish something. Authority is delegated power.

If a car is coming, a police man has no power to stop the car, but does have authority. If a car is coming a 2,000 lbs block of cement has the power to stop the car. Tickets, courts, and the power of governance has the power to discipline the driver. That power dissuades him from disobeying the one with authority. If needed, the authorized one can begin to bring the power to bear (blockades, other units, and tack strips).

My power comes from God, not from my knowledge of good. So I wait to hear. If I don't hear anything, I can simply activate the authority I know I have.

What would happen if the police officer did nothing regarding a speeder. The speeder would not be stopped. Authority must be exercised. I must be under authority to use authority. My disobedience to authority will decrease my ability to walk in authority. Just as a police officer disconnected from the power behind him (on suspension) cannot walk in the same authority, so I must be connected to authority to use it.

My debit card is a representation of my name. If you take my card and use it (without my permission) you have used my name in vain. If you take it with my permission, you can use it (my name) properly.

Exercising authority in Jesus name, that he has not authorized you to use, it using his name in vain.

It's not about a magic phrase... "in Jesus name"... it's about knowing who you are in Him, connecting to that reality, and then waiting to hear what he would say and say that... That is authority.

You have authority over your life, and the spiritual realm. You do not have authority over people. You cannot pray for someone to get saved. You can pray that the spirit of deception is broken, and the veil is lifted, and they would see clearly the choice that they make. 

 4. Spiritual Warfare

The central issue of spiritual warfare is not about what is in front of us (circumstance), but the voices that speak to us about what is in front of us. The flat tire is not spiritual warfare, the spirit talking to you about that situation is spiritual warfare.

In your darkest moment of your life... the enemy is there to talk to you about that event and inform you about how you should view that event and what perspective to see it with. The best way to deal with dark moments is get right up into God's lap and let Him talk to you and inform you about that event.

Spiritual forces are empowered by human agreement. Your situation or circumstance will be affected and empowered by whichever kingdom you agree with the most at that moment.

The Enemy is trying to inform you about what you see...

God is saying: "I know what you see... ask me what I see..."

Israel is in the wilderness hemmed in by mountains and the sea. The enemy is coming from the open end.

Who is under attack? In the natural we might say Israel. God's perspective would say Egypt is under attack. Eventually, it is Israel who is free and Egypt is dead. Perspective is key. Prayer is where that perspective comes from.

If a tough moment comes and we listen to the enemy, the enemy has power in that moment. If in that moment we listen to God, we can gain His perspective and win. It's not a rational war, it's a spiritual war. Forgiveness overpowers hate. Giving makes rich. Serving makes leaders. Goodness wins over evil.

The power of God in you doesn't always change the circumstance, but it does change the power of that circumstance to dictate truth to you.

2 Cor 10
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

1. Arguments/Speculations: 

Thought processes that are rational in nature and based on evidence. Knowledge based on evidence. The Enemy wants to use evidence he creates in order to get you to speculate (theorize) and therefore to dictate truth to you.


2. Lofty things raised again the knowledge of God:

Satan can't just not win again God, he cannot even fight God! Satan stirs of Egypt (I'm going to win), and God says "Whatever..." and then He wins.

Spiritual Warfare is the only war you win by surrender. When you write the rules, all things turn out for good. Everything the enemy does, works to God's plan. Satan pulls out death and sin again Jesus, and the result is that those are defeated. Satan cannot even fight God. Anytime he is allowed to operate, it serves God's purpose.

When we feel we are loosing, we are winning more than we realize. We just haven't waited and seen the deliverance of the Lord.

The enemy will attack us with thoughts and ideas contrary to God's. His power lies in our agreement with His thoughts, ideas, and concepts.

The power over the ideas (defining of terms), is the greatest power on earth. He who defines the terms wins the verbal war.

Will you use the enemy dictionary, or God's?


In other words... will will you #BeStillBeLed?


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**Special Announcement** | Change Coming | Frequency And More... Inconsistency here I come!

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Change Coming

There is a change coming to the frequency of my posts, but also the content and quality.

I don't know what this means yes, or looks like yet. So here are my thoughts... raw and semi-unfiltered.

I've grown tired or writing one post a week that is all nice and formula driven. I could not care much less about Google traffic or the business of blogging. If no-one ever reads this blog... I want to keep writing it for myself. Express my ideas as they come... than after a period of time those ideas will fertilize and grow into something new.

No more posts that all look alike.

No more pretty packages, or attempts at them.

I am inspired to write more like Seth Godin... big today, small tomorrow, what comes as it comes. I think that's one of the reason I like reading Seth, he's an ideas guy.

Ideas and Concepts

I recently Discovered, that one of my core themes is that I am an Ideas and Concepts person. I'm not always the one who will execute those ideas and concepts, I need to partner with that person. My wife is a Developer (concerned with what is, and the potential one has - real and present), I'm an Ideation person (concerned with what could be - theoretical and abstract).

I want to ask questions that I don't have the answer to yet, just to get the question out there and let it percolate. I am a fellow traveler, seeking answers myself, not a sage with all the answers. I'm willing to learn from you? I'd love to ask some questions and have YOU tell me some things that help us together find the answers.

The world of questions and ideas and concepts and abstracts is the world I thrive in. It's why I'm bother by most schools now. They are teaching kids answers to tests, instead of teaching them how to think and explore ideas. I'd like to see more philosophy in schools were the teacher NEVER gives the answer, not even by the end of class, but only teaches the kids how to explore the questions and ask more questions.

My posts grew boring to me, because I think, unintentionally, I was trying to be the sage instead of the traveler.

Expect the Unexpected

My new goal: Inconsistency!

Really?!

Yes!

If I am growing, learning, pushing the boundaries of thought, life, mind, and spirit... It will by nature require inconsistency.

What do I mean?

If I think the same way a year from now, that I do today... I have failed. I stopped pushing the mental, spiritual, and emotional limits of my mind and spirit. I MUST grow, and to grow I MUST change. I must be allowed to post something today, and then two weeks from now post something that contradicts that first post.

This contradiction may come from me learning more about that topic, growing in maturity, or simply disagreeing with my earlier self.

I want to post my thoughts as they come, not after proper filtering. I want to be free to post once this week, and 6 times the next week. Raw. Unfiltered. Inconsistent. As It Comes...

If THAT is not the journey you signed up for... I understand, please remove yourself from the mailing list, or take me off of your RSS feed. If, however, that sounds like fun... welcome to the journey.

What are some of the life questions YOU would like to explore? Comment on this post to tell us?

Inconsistency: Here I come...

In other words... will I #BeStillBeLed?


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Amazing Grace | Amazing Husband | Church Notes 11/08/14

Pastor Robert Morris Gateway Church 11/08/14

Gateway Church | Southlake Texas | Saturday 11/08/14

• Series: Amazing Grace

• Message: Amazing Husband

These are my notes from service this weekend. They will not be a point by point synopsis; rather, they will be the things that stuck out to me, as they occurred to me, in no particular order.

Notes:

Law gives strength to sin. When we focus on the rules and do's and don'ts, we actually give power to the force of sin and temptation. Grace shows us that Jesus died for sin... all sin. All the sin I every have done, am doing, will do, is paid for in the blood of Jesus. He is not judging me based on my sin. He is seeking a relationship. He is showing me that I can come to him as I am, without trying to change. That doesn't just apply to the sinner getting saved, that applies to the religious Christian, who's been serving God for decades, and "trying so hard" to be a good Christian. There is no point at which my actions or behaviors or habits, or sins are within my ability to change. I can and must take certain actions toward change, but the action I take to change is not to alter my behavior, it is to surrender that behavior to God. I come to Him, and ask Him to do in me, what I cannot do for myself. The first three steps, of the famous 12 step program "AA" are based on this key of Grace:

1. We admitted we were powerless over "xxxx(fill in the sin)"—and that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 
1. (The blood of Jesus)
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 
1. (I will understand God better today than I did 10 years ago, and better tomorrow than today. It's merely important that I start, not that I start perfectly or with perfect knowledge.)

1 Corinthians 15 Message Version

But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I'll probably never fully understand. We're not all going to die— but we are all going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes—it's over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we'll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen: everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal. Then the saying will come true: Death swallowed by triumphant Life! Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who's afraid of you now? It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three—sin, guilt, death—are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!

As love grows cold more law is necessary, grace has more power to govern than law. Where grace is absent, tolerance and anti discrimination laws increase. As we are motivated by love, we automatically seek to do right by others. As more people reject God and Jesus (Love Himself) they are rejecting love and replacing it with tolerance. Tolerance is the evil twisted version of Love without God. Tolerance is by nature, intolerant of anything and everything. There are laws popping up all over the land that are actually hindering people's free speech and ability to discuss ideas openly and honestly, all in the name of tolerance. That is what happens when a society abandons Love Himself... they become law conscious.

1 Corinthians 15:56 NET Version

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Law is your old spouse. Try serving your new spouse by serving your old spouse. Doesn't work. Your wife would not be happy if you spent all your time trying to make you old wife happy. Stop trying to serve law, rules, do's, don'ts, etc. Instead, surrender to Love and Grace. 

Galatians 3:1 Message Version

You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a hex on you? Have you taken leave of your senses? Something crazy has happened, for it's obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. His sacrifice on the cross was certainly set before you clearly enough.

 

 Thinking of right and wrong is law, life is relationship. If I said to my wife: "Honey, I will never cheat on you, even though I really want to, because the law says not to..." would that bring comfort to her? NO! You'd be divorced soon after, probably. But if you said: "Honey, I will never cheat on you, because I love you, and I'm committed to loving you through thick and thin no matter what." That is a better response. It is one born out of Love, not Law.

Galatians 3:5-6 Message Version

Answer this question: Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does he do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust him to do them in you? Don't these things happen among you just as they happened with Abraham? He believed God, and that act of belief was turned into a life that was right with God.

Depending on my own ability is what Law is all about. Whereas, LOVE is about surrendering to Him. The more surrendered I am to him, the more I will be like Him. And my behaviors will change to be like him, without my effort. 

Galatians 3: 2-4 Message Version

Let me put this question to you: How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off to please God? Or was it by responding to God's Message to you? Are you going to continue this craziness? For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it? Did you go through this whole painful learning process for nothing? It is not yet a total loss, but it certainly will be if you keep this up!

How do we receive?

Galatians 3:2 ESV Version

Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?

Knowledge vs Life | Law vs Grace

Romans 7:6 ESV Version

But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

Married to Law or Grace, choose one it cannot be both.

Romans 7:4 ESV Version
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

The key to living successfully in the Kingdom of God: #BeStillBeLed?


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Elections 2014 | My Appeal to Politicians Everywhere | **Special Edition Post**

I voted  by Tony Alter

 

Vote - it doesn't matter if we agree, but don't complain if you don't like what is happening and you did not vote. Tony Alter

 2014 Mid Term Elections

By all projections, the GOP (republicans) will have picked up seats in both the House and Senate races. It’s possible that when it’s all done, they will control both houses. I wish I could say I was glad. Quite often, when we take control we bicker and fight and get nothing done. We spend more time blaming and finger pointing than actually providing meaningful solutions. I wish there was a party that was neither republican or democrat that I could vote for. I’m nearly done with both of them. Then, after two years of getting nothing done, and providing no real solutions (even though we have them), America tries the democrats again, because at least they speak with one voice and have a plan (even though it's the plan that will lead to more destruction). Republicans are their own worst enemy.

 

Appeal One: PLEASE don't screw this up!

You see, there’s two problems.

1. I don’t trust MOST republicans, or nearly any democrats for that matter. Democrats, in general, are notoriously for things I can’t stand by, and continuously push a socialist state, increasing the power and role of government. The old time republicans (Rhinos as they are called) are for big government too, just in different ways. Very few have the small government mindset we need to get this country on track again.

 

2. Meanwhile, the new republicans, (Tea Partiers) are too busy barking at the wrong trees, and fighting battles that they were never going to win, to seize this opportunity to lead the country.

 

Leadership Bypassing Washington

My hope, is that a select few will lead through the people. Go out and start conversations on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus hangouts. Gather intel and ideas and crowd source solutions. Hold press conferences outlining the most recent plans to move the country forward. If you can’t have productive conversations with your fellow leaders, have those conversations with America, and let America put that pressure on their individual leadership to follow suit.

 

Appeal Two: Market Your Solutions To The People 

Let’s STOP talking about what the other person or party did (is doing) wrong, and let’s start talking real plans for real change, growth, and healing for this nation. Show me the leader who will spend more time pointing to the future, and not the past or present, and I will show you my vote for 2016 (as long as that leader is conservative). Stop blaming, start solving. Don’t tell me what they did wrong, show me what we can do? I’d love to see a campaign built 100% on the solution, and 0% on pointing fingers.

One thing you learn in a call center is to address the human need, but bring the call “back to business”. It’s called the Human/Business model for call flow. In Good to Great Jim Collins discussed the Stockdale Paradox, where you must face the facts with both BRUTAL honesty and UNWAIVERING hope. So let’s address the ugliness of human need in this country. The picture is bad, and it’s getting worse and not better. Despite attempts by the media to mask it, we are headed for several cliffs and will absolutely face another big recession sooner than later. This country is not on the road to recovery, it’s on the road to more misery. The choices we’ve made are not sustainable. However, there IS hope. There is a bright future, if we will lay aside our ideologies (on both sides) and work toward a reasonable solution.

Darkness has no choice, in the face of light, but to flee. Let’s bring the light. Let’s stop fearing religion and use it. Let’s let charities and churches do what government never should have been doing. Let’s privatize things the government has no business doing. Let’s start partnerships with Government/Business/Non-Profit’s together to make things work. In the same way that private business moved farther in one year into space technology, than 30 years of government run NASA, so too, charities do a better job of caring for the poor, and other non-governments do better at lots of other things.

At the same time, governments do better at building and running roads, and utilizes than business do. Would you want to drive a Toll Road everywhere you went? Don’t think so! And yet, even here, in Texas, competition with electric companies keeps costs down considerably. Free Markets, with proper restraints to protect people, are the solution to the future. Not more government.

Let’s make a decision that we will NEVER AGAIN bail out a company with public money, no matter how big they are. Let’s let the market correct itself and stop interfering in it with government easing. Let’s open the pipeline and get jobs flowing again, and move America off of eastern oil forever, but at the same time, provide meaningful  incentives for real profitable businesses to reduce oil dependency. Let’s clean out and close down agencies that the government isn’t doing well with. Let’s put the same restrictions on them that any business would have to face. Run in the black, or get cut down or off. Let’s make a decision that this country will not borrow more money, ever again.

Let’s start talking about the problems facing this country (without assigning blame to parties or peoples), let’s discuss the ideas and concepts (not the parties or peoples), let’s discuss the problems as they are, in all their ugliness. Then let’s ALSO discuss some ideas to solve them. These are not going to be simple discussions, but trust the American people to have that conversation, and crowd source solutions.

Show me that leader, show me a person who is conservative with real ideas, who’s not afraid to be wrong, admit it, and change… show me honesty, integrity, and someone who can talk without reading a queue card. I’ll vote for him or her.

Darrell

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Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us | Talk Video | TED.com

Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how
sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a
shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.

http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_the_4_ways_sound_affects_us?language=en

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How Sound Affects Your Brain

Instead, you can use a concept called "brainwave entrainment" to get the same effect.

Brainwave entrainment is any method that causes your brainwave frequencies to fall into step with a specific frequency. It's based on the concept that the human brain has a tendency to change its dominant EEG frequency towards the frequency of a dominant external stimulus (such as music, or sound).

The type of sound frequencies that are typically used in brainwave entrainment are called "binaural" beats. The way that these work is that two tones close in frequency generate a beat frequency at the difference of the frequencies.

I know this sounds complicated, but it's pretty simple to understand when you think about it. For example, a 495 Hz audio tone and 505 Hz audio tone (whether overlaid in music or in a sound frequency) will produce a 10 Hz beat, roughly in the middle of the alpha brain wave range, like this:

http://www.bengreenfieldfitness.com/2012/05/how-you-can-use-sound-and-music-to-change-your-brain-waves-with-laser-accuracy-and-achieve-huge-focus-and-performance-gains/

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