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		<title>The Power of Meditation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPIRITUAL meditation is the pathway of the soul to mature towards the full stature of the Master Pattern. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Every saint has climbed it; every weary pilgrim that turns his back upon self and the world, and ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/prayer31x1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-710" style="margin: 10px; border: 2px solid black;" title="prayer31x1" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/prayer31x1.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="279" /></a>SPIRITUAL meditation is the pathway of the soul to mature towards the full stature of the Master Pattern. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Every saint has climbed it; every weary pilgrim that turns his back upon self and the world, and sets his face resolutely towards the Father&#8217;s Home, must plant his feet upon its golden rounds.</p>
<p>Without its aid you cannot grow into the divine state, the divine likeness, the divine peace, and the fadeless glories and unpolluting joys of Truth will remain hidden from you. Meditation is the intense dwelling, in thought, upon an idea or theme, with the object of thoroughly comprehending it, and whatsoever you constantly meditate upon you will not only come to understand, but will grow more and more into its likeness, for it will become incorporated into your very being, will become, in fact, your very self. If, therefore, you constantly dwell upon that which is selfish and debasing, you will ultimately become selfish and debased ; if you ceaselessly think upon that which is pure and unselfish you will surely become pure and unselfish.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ephesians 3:19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! (Amplified Bible)</p></blockquote>
<p>Tell me what that is upon which you most frequently and intensely think, that to which, in your silent hours, your soul most naturally turns, and I will tell you to what place of pain or peace you are travelling, and whether you are growing into the likeness of the divine or the bestial.</p>
<p>There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks. Let, therefore, the object of your meditation be above and not below, so that every time you revert to it in thought you will be lifted up; let it be pure and unmixed with any selfish element; so shall your heart become purified and drawn nearer to Truth, and not defiled and dragged more hopelessly into error.</p>
<p>Meditation, in the spiritual sense in which I am now using it, is the secret of all growth in spiritual life and knowledge. Every prophet, even the Saviour became such by the power of meditation. Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, &#8220;I and my Father are One.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meditation centred upon divine realities is the very essence and soul of prayer. It is the silent reaching of the soul toward the Eternal. Mere petitioning prayer without meditation is a body without a soul, and is powerless to lift the mind and heart above sin and affliction. If you are daily praying for wisdom, for peace, for loftier purity and a fuller realization of Truth, and that for which you pray is still far from you, it means that you are praying for one thing whilst living out in thought and act another. If you will cease from such waywardness taking your mind off those things the selfish clinging to which debars you from the possession of the stainless realities for which you pray; if you will no longer ask God to grant you that which you do not deserve, or to bestow upon you that love and compassion which you refuse to bestow upon others, but will commence to think and act in the spirit of Truth, you will day by day be growing into those realities, so that ultimately you will become one with them.</p>
<p>He who would secure any worldly advantage must be willing to work vigorously for it, and he would be foolish indeed who, waiting with folded hands, expected it to come to him for the mere asking. Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort. Only when you commence to work earnestly in the kingdom of Truth will you be allowed to partake of the Bread of Life, and when you have, by patient and uncomplaining effort, earned the spiritual wages for which you ask, they will not be withheld from you.</p>
<p>If you really seek Truth, and not merely your own gratification; if you love it above all worldly pleasures and gains; more, even than happiness itself, you will be willing to make the effort necessary for its achievement.</p>
<p>If you would be freed from sin and sorrow; if you would taste of that spotless purity for which you sigh and pray ; if you would realize wisdom and knowledge, and would enter into the possession of profound and abiding peace, come now and enter the path of meditation, and let the supreme object of your meditation be Truth.</p>
<p>At the outset, meditation must be distinguished from idle reverie. There is nothing dreamy and unpractical about it. It is a process of searching and uncompromising thought which allows nothing to remain but the simple and naked truth. Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will re- member only that you are seeking the Truth. And so you will remove, one by one, the errors which you have built around yourself in the past, and will patiently wait for the revelation of Truth which will come when your errors have been sufficiently removed. In the silent humility of your heart you will realize that</p>
<blockquote><p>There is an inmost centre in us all<br />
Where Truth abides in fullness</p></blockquote>
<p>Select some portion of the day in which to meditate, and keep that period sacred to your purpose. The best time is the very early morning when the spirit of repose is upon everything. All natural conditions will then be in your favour; the passions, after the long bodily fast of the night, will be subdued, the excitements and worries of the previous day will have died away, and the mind, strong and yet restful, will be receptive to spiritual instruction. Indeed, one of the first efforts you will be called upon to make will be to shake off lethargy and indulgence, and if you refuse you will be unable to advance, for the demands of the spirit are imperative.</p>
<p>To be spiritually awakened is also to be mentally and physically awakened. The sluggard and the self-indulgent can have no knowledge of Truth. He who, possessed of health and strength, tastes the calm, precious hours of the silent morning in drowsy indulgence is totally unfit to climb the heavenly heights.</p>
<p>He whose awakening consciousness has become alive to its lofty possibilities, who is beginning to shake off the darkness of ignorance in which the world is enveloped, rises before the stars have ceased their vigil, and, grappling with the darkness within his soul, strives, by holy inspiration, to perceive the light of Truth while the unawakened world dreams on.</p>
<blockquote><p>The heights by great men reached and kept,<br />
Were not attained by sudden flight,<br />
But they, while their companions slept.<br />
Were toiling upward in the night.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/prayer21x1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-709 alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="prayer21x1" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/prayer21x1.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="225" /></a>No saint, no holy man, no teacher of Truth ever lived who did not rise early in the morning. Jesus habitually rose early, and climbed the solitary mountains to engage in holy communion.</p>
<p>If you have to commence your daily duties at a very early hour, and are thus debarred from giving the early morning to systematic meditation, try to give an hour at night, and should this, by the length and laboriousness of your daily task be denied you, you need not despair, for you may turn your thoughts upward in holy meditation in the intervals of your work, or in those few idle minutes which you now waste in aimlessness ; and should your work be of that kind which becomes by practice automatic, you may meditate while engaged upon it. That eminent Christian saint and philosopher, Jacob Boehme, realized his vast knowledge of divine things whilst working long hours as a shoemaker. In every life there is time to think, and the busiest, the most aborious is not shut out from aspiration and meditation.</p>
<p>Spiritual meditation and self-discipline are inseparable; you will therefore,commence to meditate upon your Pattern, the Master, Jesus, your elder Brother and Firstfruits. Who first went to the Father, who opened the way to the Father through His broken body. Yes, when the veil was sheared, and His body slumped on the cross, the way into the Holy of Holies was opened to us all. For only by looking at the cross, and beyond, in meditation, will you be able to understand how unworthy, carnal flesh can become as white as snow and perfect in the sight of your heavenly Father.  Only then will you understand the price that was paid for you.</p>
<p>You will begin to question your motives, thoughts, and acts, comparing them with your Ideal, the perfect Pattern, and endeavouring to look upon them with a calm and impartial eye. In this manner you will be continually gaining more of that mental and spiritual equilibrium without which men are but helpless straws upon the ocean of life. If you are given to hatred or anger you will meditate upon gentleness and forgiveness, so as to become actually alive to a sense of your harsh and foolish conduct.</p>
<p>You will then begin to dwell in thoughts of love, of gentleness, of abounding forgiveness; and as you overcome the lower by the higher, there will gradually, silently steal into your heart a knowledge of the Divine Law of Love with an understanding of its bearing upon all the intricacies of life and conduct. And in applying this knowledge to your every thought, word, and act, you will grow more and more gentle, more and more loving, more and more divine. And thus with every error, every selfish desire, every human weakness; by the power of meditation is it overcome, and as each sin, each error is thrust out, a fuller and clearer measure of the Light of Truth illumines the pilgrim soul.</p>
<p>Thus meditating, you will be ceaselessly fortifying yourself against your only real enemy, your selfish, perishable self, and will be establishing yourself more and more firmly in the divine and imperishable self that is inseparable from the Spirit of Truth. The direct outcome of your meditations will be a calm, spiritual strength which will be your stay and resting-place in the struggle of life. Great is the overcoming, power of holy thought, and the strength and knowledge gained in the hour of silent meditation will enrich the soul with saving remembrance in the hour of strife, of sorrow, or of temptation.</p>
<p>As, by the power of meditation, you grow in wisdom, you will relinquish, more and more, your selfish desires which are fickle, impermanent, and productive of sorrow and pain; and will take your stand, with increasing steadfastness and trust, upon unchangeable principles, and will realize heavenly rest.</p>
<p>The use of meditation is the acquirement of a knowledge of eternal principles, and the power which results from meditation is the ability to rest upon and trust those principles, and so become one with the Eternal God. The end of meditation is, therefore, direct knowledge of Truth, God, and the realization of divine and profound peace.</p>
<p>Let your meditations take their rise from the ethical ground which you now occupy. Remember that you are to grow into <em>His image</em> by steady perseverance. If you are a Christian, meditate ceaselessly upon the spotless purity and divine excellence of the character of Jesus, and apply his every precept to your inner life and outward conduct, so as to approximate more and more toward his perfection. Do not be as those religious ones, who, refusing to meditate upon the</p>
<p>Law of Truth, and to put into practice the precepts given to them by their Master, are content to formally worship, to cling to their particular creeds, and to continue in the ceaseless round of sin and suffering. Strive to rise, by the power of meditation, above all selfish clinging to partial gods or party creeds; above dead formalities and lifeless ignorance. Thus walking the highway of wisdom, with mind fixed upon the spotless Truth, you shall know no halting place short of the realization of Truth. He who earnestly meditates first perceives a truth, as it were, afar off, and then realizes it by daily practice. It is only the doer of the Word of Truth that can know of the doctrine of Truth, for though by pure thought the Truth is perceived, it is only actualized by practice.</p>
<p>After preparing your heart by following the sample of the Lord’s prayer, elaborating on it regarding your own life, the first meditation is the meditation of meeting with your Master and Friend in a place of love and peace.  Spent time there to look into the loving face of your Redeemer, Jesus, and embrace Him while He waits for you with open arms.</p>
<p><a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Meditation1x1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-708" style="margin: 10px;" title="Meditation1x1" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/meditation1x1.jpg" alt="" width="236" height="199" /></a>Enjoy in silence if you like, His presence while walking the beaches and the pathways of a heavenly garden. So adjust your heart that you long for the weal and welfare of all beings, including the happiness of your enemies, as He once did on earth, forgiving those that unjustly crucified Him.</p>
<p>Now, also think of all beings in distress, vividly representing in your imagination their sorrows and anxieties so as to arouse a deep compassion for them in your soul. Even those near to you will feel the healing presence of the Healer in their lives as you channel the power of His love towards them.</p>
<p>Meditate on the joy of answered prayers, in which you think of the prosperity, blessings and peace and healing of others, and rejoice with their rejoicings.  Give you gratitude for these to God, for His alone are the glory and the power.</p>
<p>Then there is the meditation of impurity, in which you consider the evil consequences of corruption, the effects of sin and diseases. How trivial often the pleasure of the moment, and how fatal its consequences. Talk to Him and desire the empowerment to bring a change in your world, to be a being of light, to become like Him, to offer yourself with unselfish desire and without vanity to be an object of His glory to the world.</p>
<p>Meditate on serenity, in which you rise above hate, tyranny and oppression, wealth and want, and regard your own fate with impartial calmness and perfect tranquillity.</p>
<p>But whether you engage in these particular meditations or not matters little so long as your object is Truth, so long as you hunger and thirst for that righteousness which is a holy heart and a blameless life. In your meditations, therefore, let your heart grow and expand with ever-broadening love, until, free from all hatred, and passion, and condemnation, it embraces the whole universe with thoughtful tenderness.</p>
<p>As the flower opens its petals to receive the morning light, so open your soul more and more to the glorious light of Truth. Soar upward upon the wings of aspiration; be fearless, and believe in</p>
<p>the loftiest possibilities. Believe that a life of absolute meekness is possible; believe that a life of stainless purity is possible; believe that a life of perfect holiness is possible; believe that the realization of the highest truth is possible. He who so believes, climbs rapidly the heavenly hills, whilst the unbelievers continue to grope darkly and painfully in the fog-bound valleys.</p>
<p>So believing, so aspiring, so meditating, divinely sweet and beautiful will be your spiritual experiences, and glorious the revelations that will enrapture your inward vision. As you realize the divine Love, the divine Justice, the divine Purity, the Perfect Law of Good, or God, great will be your bliss and deep your peace. Old things will pass away, and all things will become new.</p>
<p>The veil of the material universe, so dense and impenetrable to the eye of error, so thin and gauzy to the eye of Truth, will be lifted and the spiritual universe will be revealed. Time will cease, and you will live only in Eternity. Change and mortality will no more cause you anxiety and sorrow, for you will become established in the unchangeable, and will dwell in the very heart of immortality.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God; and he was not, for God took him [home with Him].</em></p></blockquote>
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<p>(Revised article extract from the book &#8220;From Poverty to Power&#8221; &#8211; author unkown)</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During 2009, a family member ended up in the ICU of a hospital, his body ridden with cancer of the lymph nodes. By mid December 2009, the medical staff at the hospital didn’t expect him to survive the night. I received a desperate call from his son on his way to hospital to see his ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/sun_bird1x1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-695" style="margin: 10px;" title="sun_bird1x1" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sun_bird1x1.jpg" alt="" /></a>During 2009, a family member ended up in the ICU of a hospital, his body ridden with cancer of the lymph nodes.  By mid December 2009, the medical staff at the hospital didn’t expect him to survive the night.  I received a desperate call from his son on his way to hospital to see his dad, probably for the last time.  I could hear the desperation in his voice.  He told me that they had a cell group meeting of believers that gathered the previous evening to pray for his dad.  He said that during this gathering some members of the group remarked what they felt in their spirit that God was saying,  ”<em>It is in God&#8217;s hands now</em>”.</p>
<p>On my way to hospital to meet with him and offer my support, I wondered what the words “<em>It is in God’s hands</em>”, really mean for people in a time of calamity?  The answer flashed into my mind like lightning: “<em><strong>YOU</strong> are <strong>My hands</strong>, my feet and my mouth on earth!</em>”  Of course, the Bible states that we are the body of Christ!  I knew then that this man’s life is going to depend on our words, faith and acts. I thought: <em>If I would ever end up in a devastating situation where I am too weak to fight my own battle, I would want the people around me to take up their spiritual authority and help me fight</em>.</p>
<p>I arrived at the hospital. While we washed our hands, putting on the sterilized aprons and gloves to enter the ICU, I told my friend what God was speaking into my spirit. If God says we are <em>His hands</em>, well then the outcome is in <em>our hands</em>, and we must decide what to believe, accept and do with this delegated authority.</p>
<p>Many times we as believers like to ask God do something miraculous  for us, and then we wait for God&#8230;</p>
<p>I thank God that by His grace and love, He do answer and do wonderful things for us sometimes when we ask, but this time God was waiting for us to take up <em>our</em> responsibility.  We agreed there and then that his dad is going to live!  I told him: “<em>From this very moment, you must change your speech and your attitude, by willpower. Do not agree with anything that anyone might say to the contrary, not even the doctors. Your dad is going to live! Don’t blame anyone if they do not believe in the same way, the revelation was given to you and they might not understand.  Remember, sometimes we have to take the chance and walk on water against all odds, then we are moving in the dimension of manifesting a miracle</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>When I entered the ICU, his dad was weak, but fully awake and conscious. I conversed in a few words with him about our faith and the fact that if we believe and agree on the same outcome, we can manifest a miracle.  He agreed and thankfully accepted our prayers and faith-talk.  I laid my hands on him and anointed him on the forehead with oil according to James 5:14, declaring out loud that he will live and not die!  Then this man, although weak and tired, did something that astonished me; he asked me if I would do something special for him.  At that moment I realized that he understood the power of faith-meditation.</p>
<p>My wife and I were about to spend a week in the mountains on a game reserve.  We travel to this tranquil hideaway for a few days every three months.  Her uncle (the sick man) also knew the place from a previous visit with us.  While he weakly held my hand, he asked me to go to a specific spot in this nature reserve, to a specific mountain stream where there are many beautiful, smooth-shaped rocks.  He asked me to select a rock about as big as the palm of his hand and to bring it to him when we return from our short holiday. He didn’t need to tell me why, I knew, during those lonely hours of the night and when he is alone in his hospital bed, he is walking in the fields and spending time in the mountains far away, or maybe he sits next to a mountain stream, looking at God’s beautiful creation.</p>
<p>During our stay at the game reserve, we received the message that he was dying, his health and strength just took a turn for the worst and he was in a coma.  I could hear my wife talking to family members on her cell phone, and from the conversation I could gather that they have given up hope. Everyone expected the worse at any moment.  When she told me what they have said, I stubbornly remarked: <strong><em>He will live and not die! </em></strong> My wife knew me by now, she has witnessed and heard me talking like this before: &#8220;<em>If Lazarus was raised by Jesus after four days in the grave, and someone is still breathing, I will never accept and talk what appears to be natural fact</em>&#8220;. <strong><em><br />
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<p>My wife and I went to the mountain stream and we selected a smooth, oval rock from small river bed.  I then thanked God, that as surely as I was holding that rock in my hand, that it will be a token of God’s healing power at work in the body of this sick man.</p>
<p>It was two weeks later when we had a chance to visit him in hospital again.  He somehow managed to survive, against all odds. His weakened body was suffering from many infections. For short periods of time he would come out of the coma.  He was conscious when we visited him. I put the rock into his hand, tears flooded his eyes and he held it to his chest.  When the nurse wanted to put the rock aside, he told her that he want to keep it against his body, at all times!   Was there healing power in the rock? No, the power to heal his body was in his mind and in his spirit. The rock was the material symbol and representation of his image of meditation that he held alive in his mind.  He was in the mountains, far away.  Now, he could feel nature in his hand and on his body, and it reminded him constantly to go and &#8220;<em>visit the mountains</em>&#8220;.  I encourage him to meet me there,<em> &#8220;in nature&#8221;</em>, once every day.  I told him: &#8220;<em>Someone else would be there also to meet with us, and we will have a good time together</em>&#8220;.  He knew I was talking about Jesus.</p>
<p>The next day, we heard that the infection in his body was under control and his strength was returning to his body, he was growing stronger by the hour.  He left the hospital a few weeks later and went home where his wife is taking care of him.  Yes, six months later, his battle against cancer is still not completely won, but he is alive and filled with hope.  Strength is returning to his body&#8230;</p>
<p>If you would like to learn more about spiritual power to heal the sick and change other circumstances from the 4th dimension, visit my website <a href="http://www.ezfaith.com" target="_blank"><strong>Entrance to Power</strong></a>.</p>
<p>God bless!</p>
<p>Philip</p>
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		<title>Who Am I?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who am I?  This question, for most people, is the most difficult one to answer.  If I would ask you to write down and describe who you are, what the purpose is of your life, and why you are here, how easy will it be for you to write a sentence, a paragraph or a ...]]></description>
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<p>Who am I?  This question, for most people, is the most difficult one to answer.  If I would ask you to write down and describe who you are, what the purpose is of your life, and why you are here, how easy will it be for you to write a sentence, a paragraph or a full page on the subject?</p>
<p>Your ability to answer these questions will be an indicator to yourself regarding your spiritual intelligence.  It is also an indication of how in touch you are with reality, yourself and your soul development.</p>
<p>The knowledge regarding life&#8217;s purpose, your destiny and existence is very important, because spiritual growth will be very difficult to achieve without this knowledge.</p>
<p>In Psalm 8 we read this incredible statement:</p>
<p>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Psalm 8:4-6  What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him?  (5)  Yet You have made him but a little lower than God [or heavenly beings], and You have crowned him with glory and honor.  (6)  You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:…</p></blockquote>
<p>We are appointed by God; the original text says “a little lower than Elohim (God)”.  This means that we are actually more privileged than the angels in that we have been given the chance to visit earth as free agents.  We have been given the highest authority and freedom in the universe under God. We have been equipped with a special ability called, <strong><em>free will</em></strong>.</p>
<p>We do not always exercise or experience a higher level of spiritual authority and power available to us. This is probably due to our pre-conditioned understanding of the human experience.</p>
<p>Cultivated in our minds from birth, is the consciousness that we are physical human beings,  we have been taught how to interpret, manipulate and apply the physical laws and human intellect to survive and be “successful” within a three dimensional environment.  Of course this is necessary, but our failure to balance this education and knowledge with spiritual knowledge and spiritual consciousness has downgraded our purpose for living to a mere quest for fame, status and financial success, none of which contribute to anything of everlasting significance.</p>
<p>We have been taught so well! Every challenge in life is first to be evaluated by means of human reasoning, trying to resolve every challenge by means of intellect, rational deduction, relying solely on technology or science. We have become so very rational, and when all these efforts and physical capabilities may have failed us, many will then turn to God, their spiritual Source, and ask for His supernatural help and interference in apparently hopeless situations. So many are left disappointed and devastated when their God didn’t do whatever was requested of Him.</p>
<p>We are spiritual beings, each with a soul (a unique individuality, identity, mind and character).  What we should have learnt from a young age, is how to tap into the vast and powerful spiritual dimension.  After all, the spiritual dimension is the very source of life and the physical realm.  The three-dimensional Universe was created from this dimension by the Creative Spirit of God.</p>
<p>But should God answer and perform miracles every time we turn to Him after trying everything else? Will we discover who we really are?  Will we grow up spiritually and become the soul companions and co-creators with God that we are destined to be?  Or is it perhaps time that we should discover our spiritual inheritance in Christ?  When will we start to exercise this authority in every circumstance, as He did?</p>
<blockquote><p>Romans 8:29  For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. (NIV)</p></blockquote>
<p>Allow me to challenge your way of thinking by making the following statement:</p>
<hr />
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>We are not humans trying to be spiritual,<br />
we are spirits going through a human experience for a little while.</strong></p>
<hr />To understand this requires a renewal of the mind.  We need to “flick the switch” on a soul level.</p>
<p>As a temple of God’s life-giving Spirit, we are mainly everlasting spirits, spiritual replicas of God, who is also Spirit.  It is the life-giving Spirit of God in every living cell that gives it the quality of life.  But you have also been created as a living soul, a being that God has intended to be an extension of Himself, equipped with a special body for a while to manifest God’s kingdom and bring order in this physical realm.  Created in His image, He has given us the highest authority in all of His creation to rule and reign on earth, utilizing our spiritual authority and combining this with our physical abilities and intellect to accomplish this assignment.</p>
<p>Creation, coming into order is dependent on our ability to accomplish this God-given task.  Is it any wonder that nature seems to be in turmoil and we are in danger of destroying our very own life support on earth?</p>
<blockquote><p>Romans 8:19-23  The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.  (20)  For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope  (21)  that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.  (22)  We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.  (23)  Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. (NIV)</p></blockquote>
<p>Every challenge we face on earth can be overcome by the authority and power God has  intended for us.  This power lies in the knowledge and realization that our thoughts determine our behaviour and spirituality.  Developing our way of thinking and developing on a soul level is within each one’s own capability of <em>FREE WILL. </em>What you do with free will, is your free choice, it determines the outcomes and challenges that will manifest in your life.  Your future  is partly a result of your own doing, maybe more so than we might think!  We read these words in the Bible:</p>
<blockquote><p>Proverbs 18:21  Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. (Amplified Bible)</p></blockquote>
<p>Being constantly exposed to an ever-demanding world requires discipline to invest in a sound mind.</p>
<ul>
<li>What we observe and think will be be portrayed in our words and deeds.</li>
<li>What we sow by means of words and deeds, is what we will reap.<em> </em></li>
</ul>
<p>We have been created as living souls even before the creation of the physical universe.</p>
<p>Why have God created you and me?</p>
<p>The reason the Creator created us, was for us to become His perfect companions.  God wants companions.  Entering into companionship also means becoming co-creators with God and sharing in his kingdom.  It also means we have to learn how to be in harmonious unity with God, our fellow man sharing earth with us and the rest of God’s creation that He has entrusted into our care and supervision.</p>
<p>So much did He value us, that He decided He don’t want companions without the power of free choice. We can decide to seek His friendship, His presence, His interference in our daily lives, or decide to do things our own way, and He is waiting with longing and open arms, with all acceptance and unconditional love, more than you can absorb or comprehend to enter into His presence. He created us with the ability to develop and grow as souls.  He is patiently waiting for us to discover ourselves.  He provided us with a training camp – earth. We can visit earth with all its challenges, so that we can learn within a free-choice environment how to communicate with other souls, even difficult ones, helping each other to grow spiritually in unity, power and love.  We are on a soul journey to discover who we really are.  This is our temporary visit to boot camp.  When we make the wrong decision outside the universal law of love, we will meet ourselves again in similar situations again in future.</p>
<p>Many people think that the problems and opposition they constantly face are due to other&#8217;s doing unto them, but it is really us meeting ourselves in the circumstances we have created in the past, and failed to learn from.</p>
<p>Our task on earth?  – To manifest heaven on earth.</p>
<p>As an individual you can enter into this relationship as a co-creator in your own life. You can experience heaven on earth in the midst of calamity and the many challenges presented during this journey.  In fact, once you realize that each decision of free will determines the outcomes and challenges you will meet in your own future, whether it is increase or just another challenge presented to us by which we have to learn how to overcome. How do we overcome these challenges? By cultivating the fruit of the Spirit and love in our dealings with others.  The experiences and outcomes of our own decisions, deeds and creativity may be positive or negative, but each experience and point of decision is an opportunity for soul-growth and creating our own future, it is never intended to be a condemnation, never!</p>
<p>Many people are faced with many challenges on earth.  Some experience more difficult situations than others.  Each one of us has decided together with God, the angels and our companion souls we now share this life with, what it is that we would have liked to achieve during our soul journey on earth.  What is needed for our soul development?  Remember, your spirit, once revived and enlightened by the rebirth experience into the Christ nature, is already perfect, your soul development is just not yet completed.  It will become completed by the experiences of our lives, the lessons we learn in this dimension and in those to follow during our soul journeys.</p>
<p>My simple answer to anyone seeking for the entrance to a higher level of living, fulfilling your purpose and destiny, would be to enter into God’s presence as much as possible.  Only in the “Secret place of the Most High” can you expect to experience the supernatural life, the help of angels, supernatural protection, abundant provision and increase on a higher level of the human experience (Psalm 91).  Depending on your state of mind and spiritual understanding, this will make sense to you now, or it might mean nothing to you personally.</p>
<p>Jesus said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mathew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your [most] private room, and, closing the door, pray to your Father, Who is in secret; and your Father, Who sees in secret, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">will reward you in the open</span>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Do you see the where God will be changing the hearts of other people and circumstances?  In the “Secret Place” (See psalm 91).</p>
<p>The secret place is inside you, in your soul, mind and spirit, where Jeus said the kingdom of God is, the house where God abides. (John 14:23)</p>
<p>Instead of trying to change others, struggling for acceptance by others, or trying to convince them of your viewpoint at all cost, or defending yourself to the extremes when you are wrongly indicated, there is a better way:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mathew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.</p></blockquote>
<p>The entrance to God’s kingdom (where God abides and rules as a King) is within your heart (soul and spirit).  To find God’s kingdom power working in your life, go seek inside (through prayer and meditation).  An example of an easy and practical meditation exercise is given below. Spent time in His presence (using your God-given ability to create with your mind – yes, God gave you an imagination, a powerful tool to create with), this is the starting point; it will become real and very soon you will experience the results on the outside.</p>
<p>I challenge you to try this (you can create your own environment and adapt your experience as you see fit, this is only an example):</p>
<p>When you are alone, play music softly in the background, slow and inspiring praise and worship music.  Relax and close your eyes.  Imagine breathing God&#8217;s light and healing power into every part of your body, and exhaling all negative influences and imperfections out gain.  Start with your feet, inhale God&#8217;s pure white light into your feet, exhale all imperfections and darkness out.  Then your legs, your upper legs, each part of your body and all your main organs, your face, your brain etc. When you feel pure and relaxed proceed to the next phase of the exercise.</p>
<p>Now, imagine you are entering into God&#8217;s kingdom (the doorway is inside yourself, in your spirit, the Holy of Holies).  You are entering into a big, dark auditorium with an illuminated floor in the middle of this large theatre.   The auditorium is mostly dark and empty, except for a bright, white light focussed in the middle on the oval stage, down below.  There are only two persons in the auditorium, you and Someone else.  Imagine Jesus in white clothes, golden waist band, blue lace etc, standing in the middle of the floor.  See Him looking at you with an expectant smile, waiting only for you, by appointment. He is stretching out his hand to you, smiling at you.  Now go to Him, you are also clothed in spectacular, perfect white dress, spotless through the cleansing and purifying work of the Christ.  You are perfect in His sight.</p>
<p>Meet with Him in the middle of the floor.  Listen to the music and at the right moment, flow into a dance with Him. Experience His presence, love and acceptance. Experience and “see” the movements you make together, perfectly executed all over the floor, you are flowing with Him, even spinning around, He will be there to catch you every time.  Now something amazing happens, He trusts in you to catch Him as well – and you do, because He has made you perfect. You are in perfect unison. In His presence you excel and are in perfect harmony and connected in spirit and in soul.  You are in total unity with Jesus on a soul level!  He appreciates you, He sees you perfect, because He has paid the price so that you can enter into God’s presence, blameless and without guilt or condemnation.</p>
<p>This is soul dimension, there is no distinction between man or woman, it is pure companionship and unity on a soul level. If this is not for you, then go meet and walk with Him on the beach, or in the garden of your heart. You can create your garden with your mind, every time you visit, and He will meet you there.</p>
<p>Just make sure you go there often, through relaxed but prayerful and purposeful meditation.  This is where God longs to meet with you, no matter what your flaws, faults and sins are, He has dealt with that two thousand years ago, and never thinks of it again. (Hebrew 10:17). He has created you as a companion, a co-creator, and He knows you are on a journey to perfection, a little lower than Elohim (God Himself).  Yes, He is guiding you and watching with expectant interest how you learn, even by making mistakes.</p>
<p>If you have tried this meditation exercise, let me know what you have experienced.  If you would like to ask questions or comment on this article, you are welcome to comment below; even a word or two to say you were here would suffice.</p>
<p>God bless!</p>
<p>Philip</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Christian-religious folks are unnecessarily kept in powerless bondage by church doctrine that still teaches and confess the Law of Moses as the ultimate and highest way of holiness and proliferate this to be the life that is ultimately leading to, or are pleasing to God.  This is a power-robber! I have dedicated a whole ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/nailed-to-the-cross.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-559" style="margin: 10px;" title="nailed-to-the-cross&quot;" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/nailed-to-the-cross.jpg" alt="" width="290" height="380" /></a>Many Christian-religious folks are unnecessarily kept in powerless bondage by church doctrine that still teaches and confess the Law of Moses as the ultimate and highest way of holiness and proliferate this to be the life that is ultimately leading to, or are pleasing to God.  This is a power-robber!</p>
<p>I have dedicated a whole chapter on the topic of “The Righteousness of God” in my book <em><strong><a href="http://www.ezfaith.com" target="_blank">Entrance to Power</a></strong></em>, because this is one of the greatest obstacles preventing Christian believers from performing the same miracles that Jesus did and living supernatural lives.  The reason they don’t understand what the righteousness of God really means, is because Christian religion is in many instances still trying to integrate the confession of the Law of Moses into New Testament Christian teaching and everyday living.</p>
<p>The confusion creeps in when believers cannot clearly differentiate between two clear-cut dispensations and two very different set of laws in the Bible.  Almost every Christian will confess they know that the Old Testament and the New Testament are two different dispensations, but what robs them of their spiritual power to see the new dispensation power released into their lives, is their stubborn clinging to the Old Testament, Law of Moses that were meant for the Jews of the Old Testament.  As the circumcision is not meant for New Testament believers, so believers have no part in the Old Testament law of Moses.  I realize this might offend some religious-minded folks, but bear with me as I will show clearly from Bible scripture, that this type of life is an offence to God, who has abolished the law-life and replaced it with something much better and more powerful!</p>
<p>The Old Testament law is part of the history that we should know about to really comprehend our privilege to live by faith, and to receive the blessings through grace as Christians.  We should realize that we have no part anymore in the Old Testament Laws and we, by grace, are forever redeemed from the curse of the Old Testament Law.</p>
<blockquote><p>Galatians 3:13 Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified);</p></blockquote>
<p>Unfortunately some misguided Christian teachers are writing books and are teaching on television, still trying to marry New Testament Christian believes with traditional Judaism.  This is spreading confusion everywhere and many churches are even buying into this mistaken belief.  This is a devastating mistake that is still keeping a majority of Christians from experiencing the supernatural life as demonstrated by Jesus Christ.  Not even the Jews of today are supposed to live under this dispensational laws anymore&#8230;</p>
<p>This also happened in days of the apostle Paul when he rebuked the  believers with these powerful words, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>Galatians 3:1-10</p>
<p>O YOU poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians! Who has fascinated or bewitched or cast a spell over you, unto whom&#8211;right before your very eyes&#8211;Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was openly and graphically set forth and portrayed as crucified?</p>
<p>Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the [Holy] Spirit as the result of obeying the Law and doing its works, or was it by hearing [the message of the Gospel] and believing [it]? [Was it from observing a law of rituals or from a message of faith?]</p>
<p>Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun [your new life spiritually] with the [Holy] Spirit, are you now reaching perfection [by dependence] on the flesh?</p>
<p>Know and understand that it is [really] the people [who live] by faith who are [the true] sons of Abraham.</p>
<p>So then, those who are people of faith are blessed and made happy and favored by God [as partners in fellowship] with the believing and trusting Abraham.</p>
<p>And all who depend on the Law [who are seeking to be justified by obedience to the Law of rituals] are under a curse and doomed to disappointment and destruction, for it is written in the Scriptures, Cursed (accursed, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment) be everyone who does not continue to abide (live and remain) by all the precepts and commands written in the Book of the Law and to practice them.</p></blockquote>
<p>Unfortunately, it seems that more than two thousand years since Jesus’ incarnation on earth, we are still in bondage by the same misguided believes!  Why this confusion?  Many churches declare as their doctrine and belief, the New Testament principle of redemption by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, who came to set us free from the life of sin and death, (and the law).  But then, Sunday after Sunday, the congregation is led into the confession of sins and the law of Moses (the 10 commandments).  What confusion in the minds of believers, trying to live in Christ’s redemption from the law, and at the same time confessing their transgression against the Old Testament law of Moses!  It’s like trying to ride two horses going astray and are combating against each other, it can never lead to success.</p>
<p>The dispensation of the Old Testament came to an end, so did the dispensation of the old Jewish law.  The old law was replace by a “new law”, a “new law”  at work during a new dispensation – the law of the Spirit, the law of Love.  The law of Love is not a  simplified summary of the Old Testament law as many may believe, it has replaced it all together.  The sooner Christians believe this, the sooner they will enter into spiritual freedom and power:</p>
<blockquote><p>Galatians 5:14 For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.</p></blockquote>
<p>Believers in Christ were never meant to be guided or ruled by the Jewish laws of the Old Testament.</p>
<blockquote><p>Galatians 3:13 Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified);</p></blockquote>
<p>Not clear enough?  Here is another scripture:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Galatians 5:18</strong> But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, <strong>you are not subject to the Law. </strong>(Amplified Bible)</p>
<p><strong>Galatians 5:18</strong> But if ye be led of the Spirit, <strong>ye are not under the law</strong>. (KJV)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>YOU ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW!</p>
<p>YOU ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW!</p>
<p>YOU ARE UNDER THE LEADING OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THE SPIRIT OF LOVE!</p>
<p>What then was the purpose of the Old Testament law?</p>
<p>According to Galatians 3:19-26, the purpose of the Law of Moses was:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the absence of the indwelling and teaching of the Holy Spirit during those times, to make men aware of his transgressions and guilt. (Galatians 3:19)</li>
<li>To make men conscious of their sinfulness (Galatians 3:19)</li>
<li>Was to be in effect until Christ would come to redeem us from the law (Galatians 3:19, 24)</li>
<li>Until faith in Jesus Christ could come, the law was to act as a trainer or guardian to lead us up until the time that Christ would be revealed (Galatians 3:23-24)</li>
<li>But now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the trainer or guardian (The law) (Galatians 5:25).</li>
</ol>
<p>Can you see the problem?  Being law conscious means you are sin-conscious all the time, thinking about sin.</p>
<ul>
<li>What you think is what you eventually will do (breaking the law)</li>
<li>Breaking the law means you will feel condemned</li>
<li>Feeling condemned robs you from your boldness and faith</li>
<li>No faith means no receiving.  This means no spiritual power.</li>
</ul>
<p>Jesus, and Paul preached a new kind of “law” that is more all-inclusive, a higher kind of law, the law of love.</p>
<p>Jesus said:</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>John 14:12-15</strong></p>
<p>I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father.</p>
<p>And I will do [I Myself will grant] whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><sup>(1)</sup></span></p>
<p>[Yes] I will grant [I Myself will do for you] whatever you shall ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].</p>
<p>If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands.</p></blockquote>
<p>What was Jesus’s commands (law)?</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>John 15:12</strong> This is My commandment: that you love one another [just] as I have loved you.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong>Galatians 5:13-16</strong> For you, brethren, were [indeed] called to freedom; only [do not let your] freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse [for selfishness], but through love you should serve one another.</p>
<p>For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.</p>
<p>But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).</p></blockquote>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Many believers on hearing this are concerned that the teaching of grace in this way will lead people to believe they can now sin and do anything they like.  This is because they do not realize they are under a new law &#8211; the law of love.  The law of love as imprinted by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit on the believer’s heart will always guide and show the believer the right way.  The way of love will not do unkind things to another human being, not even in secret.</p>
<p>So what is the price we pay for purposefully ignoring the inner leading of the Holy Spirit?</p>
<p>Again, I have dedicated a whole chapter in my book to the meaning of the phrase “The Kingdom of God”.  This is a kingdom on earth marked by miracles, signs and wonders as Jesus has demonstrated so powerfully.  Sinning by purpose prevents us from entering into this kingdom of power and we are robbing ourselves from this powerful way of life.  This is because our conscience is such a powerful force and our own minds and sin consciousness then battle against our faith and prevents us from receiving and entering in God’s presence by faith.  It is not God preventing us, we condemn ourselves.  Our own minds are in turmoil and doubt.  Jesus clearly said</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Mark 11:23</strong> Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea<span style="text-decoration: underline;">! and does not doubt at all in his heart</span> but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.</p></blockquote>
<p>But even then, after we have sinned, even if we condemn ourselves, the grace through Jesus Christ who has opened the way for us to enter into God’s righteousness according to 2Corinthians 5:17-21, calls on us to come in faith that we are forgiven the moment we confess Jesus, and we are sinless before the Father.</p>
<p>Go in and live the kingdom life of power and victory doing the works of Christ. Leave the life of up-and-downs and enter into the Secret Place of the Most High (Psalm 91:1) with a free conscience through faith in Jesus as the mediator.  Then you can ask in unwavering faith and receive <strong>whatsoever you desire.</strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>1John 3:20-24</strong></p>
<p>Whenever our hearts in [tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For we are in God's hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him].</p>
<p>And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us [if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us], we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God,</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">And we receive from Him whatever we ask</span></strong>, because we [watchfully] obey His orders [observe His suggestions and injunctions, follow His plan for us] and [habitually] practice what is pleasing to Him.</p>
<p>And this is His order (His command, His injunction): that we should believe in (put our faith and trust in and adhere to and rely on) the name of His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and that we should love one another, just as He has commanded us.</p>
<p>All who keep His commandments [who obey His orders and follow His plan, live and continue to live, to stay and] abide in Him, and He in them. [They let Christ be a home to them and they are the home of Christ.] And by this we know and understand and have the proof that He [really] lives and makes His home in us: by the [Holy] Spirit Whom He has given us.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>In summary:</strong></p>
<p>Trying to please God by keeping the law given to Moses is living by the dictates of carnal flesh. The Apostle Paul refers to these believers in principle as “silly, bewitched, thoughtless, unreflecting and senseless”! (Gal 3:1-3)</p>
<li><strong>Living by the letter of the law = flesh.  This means:</strong></li>
<ol>
<li>It is a life unpleasing to God (Gal 5:4),</li>
<li>A life fallen from grace (Gal 5:4),</li>
<li>Severed and separated from Christ  (Gal 5:4).</li>
<li>A life of religious rituals (Gal 3:10)</li>
<li>Living according to the dictates of the flesh (Gal 3:3)</li>
<li>The law reminds us of sin all the time and we become sin-conscious and not Christ conscious (Gal 3:12)</li>
<li>Leads to death (Rom 8:5)</li>
<li>Is hostile towards God (Rom 8:7)</li>
</ol>
<li><strong>Everyone depending on the law is cursed!</strong></li>
<ol>
<li>Trying to be justified by the law means to be under a curse (Gal 3:10)</li>
<li>Doomed to disappointment and destruction (Gal 3:10)</li>
<li>Because anyone who misses to live by the exact and complete letter of the law, is condemned by the law to suffer eternal punishment Gal 3:10, 11)</li>
</ol>
<li><strong>JESUS came to redeem and set us free from the law:</strong></li>
<ol>
<li>Jesus was crucified to fulfil the curse of the law and to bear the condemnation of the law on our behalf.  He became cursed. He bought our freedom from the law. (Gal 3:1, 13, 24)</li>
<li>Those who believe and live by this faith in Christ, are no longer under the law, but are justified by their faith (Gal 3:24, 25, 26, Gal 5:18, Rom 8:1, 2)</li>
<li>Christ has done away with the law (Rom 8:2, 3, 4 )</li>
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<li><strong>The true sons of Abraham, receivers of the inheritance and the blessings</strong></li>
<ol>
<li>Those who live by this faith, believing they have been redeemed by Christ from the law, live spiritual lives and are called the true sons of Abraham (Gal 3:7)</li>
<li>They receive and enjoy the full blessings of the promises God made to Abraham and his spiritual descendants &#8211; believers. They are favoured by God.  (Gal 3:9, 29)</li>
</ol>
<li><strong>Living by faith = Spirit life</strong></li>
<p>A person living by faith, not the law, lives a life:</p>
<ol>
<li>That is spiritually empowered to do the powerful and miraculous works of the Spirit (Gal 3:5)</li>
<li>Who can expect to be healed by the same spirit that was in Jesus Christ and has raised Him from death (Rom 8:11)</li>
<li>Can potentially enter in immortality (life without seeing death, can we believe this yet?) (Romans 8:11, 2Timothy 1:10, John 3:15)</li>
<li>Will receive from God whatever we ask (like Jesus?) (1 John 3:22,  John 14:12, 13)</li>
<li>Will become God’s home or dwelling place, will become one with God by His indwelling (John 14:23)</li>
<li>Will abide in God’s dwelling place, or secret place, and will live a supernatural life of provision, protection and peace (Psalm 91)</li>
<li>Will see Jesus (John 14:24)</li>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you know if something you want or desire is in God’s will for your life? let’s say you trust God for something specific in your life and you know that it is something good and positive and in accordance to the Bible. For example: You might trust God for financial provision, a good ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you know if something you want or desire is in God’s will for your life?</p>
<p>let’s say you trust God for something specific in your life and you know that it is something good and positive and in accordance to the Bible.</p>
<p>For example:  You might trust God for financial provision, a good job or independence, and it doesn’t happen. The question then comes to you “Is it God’s will for my life?”</p>
<p>Someone recently asked me this question: “I know that God wants to bless us all the time, in our finances, in our health and in everything we do. But the problem is that very often people talk about God’s will and how a lot of people in the bible were poor and suffering and they were people that loved God, for example Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31. Was it God&#8217;s plan for Lazarus to be poor and sick?”</p>
<p>First let me say that we are encouraged to pray and believe for anything, whether it is something we want or need:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mark 11:23-24<br />
Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.  For this reason I am telling you, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">whatever you ask</span></strong> for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">you will [get it]</span></strong>.</p>
<p>Philippians 4:6<br />
Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> every circumstance and in everything</span></strong>, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">wants</span></strong> known to God.</p>
<p>Mathew 6:8<br />
&#8230; for your Father knows what you <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">need</span></strong> before you ask Him.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/prayer2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-546" title="whatever-you-ask" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/prayer2.jpg" alt="whatever-you-ask" /></a>We have been created by God as co-creators on earth.  This means that we will have the natural desire to always seek increase in our lives.  One of the most common causes for depression is the fact that people have lost their vision for the future.  They have accepted as fact in their minds the idea that their future holds no increase or change of circumstances for them.  They have lost hope and feel stuck in what see and experience around them.</p>
<p>Sometimes, we might not receive what we ask for immediately.  The reason is that we are on earth for the purpose of learning, growing and maturing our soul lives. We need to work on our motives and soul growth first to qualify and be ready for some of the things we ask for, but eventually, we will receive what we have asked for if we keep on believing and working in the natural to develop the opportunities presented to us from a higher Influence in order to make it happen.  Many believe they can ask for anything and God will just supply it while they are sitting back and passively watching the horizon for the thing to appear from nowhere out of heaven, and if it doesn’t happen, they will say &#8220;It was not God’s will that I should not receive it&#8221; or &#8220;God said &#8216;No&#8217;&#8221;.</p>
<p>As we grow in soul maturity, spirit knowledge, and faith, we will find that our needs and wants become Kingdom directed.  In other words, our motives, ideals and what we desire or have obtained by materialistic means, become subservient to our higher calling as co-creative souls with the creative Spirit of God.  As we get attuned to God and come in line with God’s will, we then start to see provision, healing and blessings flow into your life as we adhere to one principle that is the most important pivotal spiritual key to a life of increase and success.</p>
<p>Everything you do in life, your work, your riches, independence, all should be directed to bring you into the right circumstances so that you can best utilize your God-given talents and abilities to expand and co-create with the Spirit of God with the purpose to expand the Kingdom of God on earth.  The kingdom of God is first established and increased in your own life, your family and then in the lives of others that come in contact with you.<br />
This is the ultimate key to success and increase, and specifically on a materialistic level if you objectively read this scripture within context:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mathew 6:33 But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness His way of doing and being right), and then <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">all these things taken together</span></strong> will be given you besides.</p></blockquote>
<p>These are incredible powerful verses we find in the Bible, and if it doesn’t work in your life, the fault is not with God or His promises, it is to be found within your own mind, your attitudes, your believes, your words and your actions. For any miracle or supernatural interference to manifest in the physical, our thoughts, words and actions must be in agreement.  This is how faith for the supernatural is released to produce miracles.</p>
<p>The presence of God in you will increase in your life in all aspects and you become a co-creator with God, empowered to ultimately manifest His kingdom in this three-dimensional realm by means of the spiritual gifts resulting in miracles, signs and wonders as Jesus has demonstrated so wonderfully.</p>
<p>Meditate for a moment on these verses in the Bible:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mathew 18:19  Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">whatever [anything and everything] they may ask</span></strong>, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father in heaven.</p>
<p>Mark 11:24  For this reason I am telling you, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">whatever you ask</span></strong> for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].</p>
<p>John 14:12-14  I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">even greater things than these</span></strong>, because I go to the Father</p>
<p>And I will do [I Myself will grant] <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">whatever you ask</span></strong> in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son.</p>
<p>[Yes] I will grant [I Myself will do for you] <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">whatever you shall ask</span></strong> in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].</p>
<p>John 15:7  If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ask whatever you will</span></strong>, and it shall be done for you.</p>
<p>John 16:23  &#8230; I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that My Father will grant you <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">whatever you ask</span></strong> in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].</p>
<p>1John 3:22  And we receive from Him <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">whatever we ask</span></strong>, because we [watchfully] obey His orders [observe His suggestions and injunctions, follow His plan for us] and [habitually] practice what is pleasing to Him.</p>
<p>1John 5:15  And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">whatever we ask</span></strong>, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.</p></blockquote>
<p>This spiritual power will not be released into your life before your soul (conscious mind) has not adapted and accepted as the highest law, the principles of the law of the Spirit (the highest law of the Spirit of God is love).  Spiritual “head knowledge” or even knowing and practicing religious doctrine, is powerless if spiritual revelation is not meditated upon (Psalm 1) until it is the ruling and controlling knowledge in our higher, spiritual mind (the subconscious) and you are constantly progressing into greater harmony and “in tune” with God’s “mind and thoughts” (God’s will).  Meditation and prayer brings us into oneness with the Father Spirit.</p>
<p>People who claim that it is God’s will for some to be rich and others not, or some to be healed and others not, should then explain if all these Bible passages are lies.  If God lies, then He is not divine and He cannot be trusted at all.</p>
<blockquote><p>Jesus said: “ I only do the will of my Father” &#8211;  John 5:30</p>
<p>Did Jesus heal all the sick that came to him in faith – YES</p>
<p>Jesus said: “I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” John 10:10</p></blockquote>
<p>Do you believe it for all aspects of your life, spirit, soul and body?<br />
You can take the following scripture to your heart for provision in spirit, soul and body:</p>
<blockquote><p>2Corinthians  8:9<br />
For you are becoming progressively acquainted with and recognizing more strongly and clearly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (His kindness, His gracious generosity, His undeserved favor and spiritual blessing), [in] that though He was [so very] rich, yet for your sakes He became [so very] poor, in order that by His poverty you might become enriched (abundantly supplied).</p></blockquote>
<p>Let us look at the case of Lazarus, the poor beggar, lying at the entrance of a rich man’s house in Luke 16:19-31</p>
<p>In this passage the story is told to contrast between the rich and healthy man, and the poor, sick Lazarus.  Now what is the actual message of this passage of scripture?</p>
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<li>To tell us that all rich men go to hell and all poor fellows go to heaven? No, Jesus is teaching the people that the condition of the heart, your spirit, and soul determines where you will end up. This is in contrast with what many on earth might view as success.  Jesus is using this contrast between the false security in earthly riches and the meek and humble true nature of a man’s heart to bring the message over.  The message is not against riches, but the fallen state of a man’s heart in contrast with his seemingly successful earthly life.</li>
<li>To tell us that it is God’s will for some to be rich and others to be poor and sick?<br />
This is even more ridiculous as nothing is mentioned in this passage that Jesus might have walked passed this sick man who was asking for healing, and then Jesus would have said: “No, it’s not the Father’s will for you to be healed, stay sick so that God can use your story to show that people who are sick and poor should be contempt with their situation&#8221;</li>
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<p>So why was Lazarus sick and poor all his life?  The Bible doesn’t say because Jesus told this story to emphasize the fact that we are saved, not by earthly status and splendour, but by the ways of our hearts, by faith and living for His kingdom by demonstrating God’s love towards others.  What I do know is that there are other scriptures that directly address the issues of healing and abundant living. We don’t have to refer to a scriptural piece that in essence has nothing to do with the concept of poverty, riches or health, to try and prove something that contradicts the rest of scripture.</p>
<p>There are numerous other Bible scriptures that clearly and directly spells out God’s will for us to be healed and to increase in abundance, in fact, Jesus clearly states that this is the reason He came to earth; to show us the way into victory and abundant living by God’s grace while on earth.  Grace is what we can obtain by faith. Math 6:33, John 10:10, Isa: 61:1, Luke 4:18, 1 Peter 2:24</p>
<p>If you have ever wondered what God’s will is, look at what Jesus did and taught. He demonstrated the perfect will of the Father. He healed all the sick and never lacked to pay for anything. He even increased food and withdraw money from the mouth of a fish when the money bag was not at hand. He also walked on water, calmed the storm and made wine from water and performed many other supernatural miracles.</p>
<p>Why are some good folks sick and/or poor in this life?  Well, one passage states the following: So that God’s glory and love can be demonstrated through the miracles of healing and/or blessings. One example is the story of a man born blind, the disciples suggested all sorts of reasons for the man’s blindness, but Jesus said something very important:</p>
<blockquote><p>John 9:3-4<br />
Jesus answered, It was not that this man or his parents sinned, but he was born blind in order that the workings of God should be manifested (displayed and illustrated) in him.<br />
We must work the works of Him Who sent Me and be busy with His business while it is daylight; night is coming on, when no man can work.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is a clear example that it is God’s will to demonstrate His love through healing miracles.  Shouldn’t we also demonstrate the same deeds of love and power in the lives of those in need?</p>
<blockquote><p>John 15:16  You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, to do that we also need to get ourselves healed and blessed in the process, don’t we?</p>
<p>So why are not all our prayers answered to heal the sick or receive what we want?</p>
<p>The answer is a simple one in my opinion:<br />
Because we don’t walk on water yet like Jesus.</p>
<p>Why don’t we walk on water yet?<br />
Because of our lack faith as Jesus has so many times pointed out to His disciples.</p>
<p>Why are we lacking in faith?</p>
<p>Because we don’t spent the time Jesus has spent in the presence of His Father every day and from youth to meditate and learn about the things of the Spirit (See also Psalm 1).  We don’t enter into the “Secret Place of the Most High” (Psalm 91) where we can receive this faith, provision, blessings and protection and live a supernatural life as promised in this most powerful Psalm describing the supernatural life.  On a soul level, we are not fully developed yet, we are trying to accomplish things in our own power and by our earthly intellect instead of believing we can walk on water, heal the sick, calm the storm, increase food, change water into wine etc. etc.</p>
<p>Our spirits can be perfectly saved through spiritual re-birth and becomes perfect and one with God’s Spirit.  Our souls are saved through the process of the washing by the Word of God that we obtain be reading and meditating God&#8217;s Word.   Only then can we start to apply these principles in our daily lives.  We should buy out time in God’s presence to receive revelation and spiritual impartation.</p>
<p>To hide our own lack of spiritual power and shortcomings on a soul level, many would say that it is God’s will for this person not to be healed, or its God’s will that I am poor, or it is God’s will that this calamity has killed so many people.</p>
<p>Whenever I pray for someone and that person is not healed, I look into my own soul, and I can clearly see many reasons why I have failed&#8230; for if everyone was instantly healed, I would probably stop learning and developing on a soul level, I might even become boastful and my own ego might be become too big for me and others to handle.  But thank God for the miracles I do experience so many times!</p>
<p>Every time I fail on a spiritual level, I go back to God, dissatisfied with myself and my lack of spiritual development, and then I try again, I seek for more revelation, I learn&#8230; and I grow in spiritual power.</p>
<blockquote><p>Jesus said: I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father. (John 14:12)</p></blockquote>
<p>This is God’s will, for you and I; to grow in spiritual power and to live the same powerful life that Jesus was able to live on earth!</p>
<p>Ask, seek and knock to enter into God’s presence!</p>
<p>To help you in your soul journey to grow in God’s power, I have written this very comprehensive study based on the revelations and practical examples whereby I have tested and proved for myself, each and every principle over the span of more than twenty years.  This is a book about miracles, signs and wonders and how to make them happen – <a title="Whatever you ask ... you will receive" href="http://www.ezfaith.com" target="_blank">Entrance to Power</a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since the day I have published the testimony of <a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/testimonies/" target="_blank">Andries Hills&#8217; remarkable healing miracle</a> as an example of how the methods (or spiritual principles) I talk about in my eBook &#8211; Entrance to Power could enable each and everyone of us to live in and experience the supernatural every day, many have asked how should we pray to receive such a miracle.   The fact is, every spoken word of faith should be founded on the powerful spiritual truths that we have meditated upon and have come to accept as absolute truth.  If your prayer or words of power are not empowered by faith from your heart, you will not see a miracle.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-386" style="margin: 10px;" title="Breakthrough" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Breakthrough1.jpg" alt="Breakthrough" width="275" height="170" />When I receive these requests, I realize that if there is one thing we all need, it is a miracle every now and then.  The good news is that God is absolutely in the business of doing miracles and I have seen and experienced His miraculous interference in earthly matters on a daily basis.  That is why He is called God, because He is supernatural in abilities. If you are not experiencing the supernatural interference of God in your life, it might be because you have never discovered the spiritual pathway to God&#8217;s supernatural realm.</p>
<p>The God I believe in has proved Himself to be a Supernatural Spiritual Creator who loves doing good things for His children.<span id="more-373"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/cover.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-498" style="margin: 15px;" title="Entrance to Power eBook" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/cover.jpg" alt="Discover the keys to Spiritual Power" width="200" height="300" /></a>I will share with you the straight forward basic principles that has manifested many supernatural miracles in my life as I have shared with you on this web site and in my book &#8211; <a href="http://ezfaith.com/" target="_blank"><em><strong>Entrance to Power</strong></em></a>.  Of course, this article is just an overwiew that touches on one practical aspect of spirituality.  If you believe differently, but you are not seeing any supernatural manifestations, maybe you are on the wrong track and your religious ideas, your efforts to make the Law of Attraction or &#8220;The Secret&#8221; work for you isn&#8217;t working, because many of these theories, however nobly intended, does not recognise the higher laws of the Spirit.</p>
<p>In short, this is how I have been able to manifest supernatural miracles in my life and circumstances on a regular basis, but again, these practical points are based on years of meditation, prayer, seeking and testing spiritual revelations that have become spiritual knowledge, fact and faith in my life.</p>
<p>Once we have established in our minds that God is God, and He has inspired the Bible, then everything we read in the Bible must of course be true for us, because God is not a man that He should lie.  This is the first two requirements if you would like to experience miracles. But there are more requirements, I will list the basic steps below as a starting point, and they are not difficult to implement at all.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>First requirement</strong>: Decide for yourself that God is God, and therefore supernatural in abilities. He has also created us so He can love us and do good things for us to lead us closer into relationship with Him. God wants us to discover Him through faith and to follow and love Him by our own free will.</li>
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<ul>
<li> <strong>Second requirement</strong>:  God inspired people to write a Book, wherein He explains and inspires us to believe in Him.  Now settle it once and for all in your mind that the Bible is complete in truth, just accept it in faith if you would like to see real true supernatural miracles and interference in your earthly matters.</li>
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<ul>
<li> <strong>Third requirement</strong>:  If the Bible is true, then we must follow God&#8217;s given path to His provision.  This path has been opened for us by God, manifesting Himself in human form on earth to demonstrate this type of faith and supernatural abilities. It is His will that we should all be able to operate in this kind of creative faith. Jesus said:</li>
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<blockquote><p>John 14:12 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father.</p></blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Fourth requirement</strong>: You must know how to pray.  To pray for a miracle means that you must know who you are in God&#8217;s kingdom.  Many believers do not see miracles because they haven&#8217;t been taught that they have the God-given right to command and rule over sickness, financial lack and negative circumstances.  Many believers don&#8217;t realize that God is waiting for them to discover who they are in this universe.  We are supposed to be   God&#8217;s kings and rulers on earth and our life&#8217;s should be marked by miracles, signs and wonders. (Revelation 5:10, Luke 10:17-19, Mark 16:17-20 etc)</li>
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<h2>The Two Types of Prayer</h2>
<p>In the Bible we read that there are two types of prayer; The seeking type of prayer and the prayer of faith.</p>
<p>Jesus taught His disciples how to seek the Father&#8217;s presence in secret and how to pray for His provision in their lives.  We read about this framework of prayer in Mathew 6.  Let me highlight an important point here in relation to the subject of this article:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Mat 6:10 &#8211; Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.</p>
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<p>From this scripture, we can clearly see what is God&#8217;s will for us.  God&#8217;s will for us on earth is nothing less than how things are in heaven.  We can ask ourselves:  Is their sickness in heaven? Is there any lack or poverty in heaven?  If not, then we can logically deduct that sickness and poverty is not God&#8217;s will for us on earth.  Jesus instructed His disciples to pray that heaven be manifested on earth.  Not only was this His isntruction how we should pray according to God&#8217;s will, but He always demonstrated His Father&#8217;s will by performing miracles signs and wonders, thereby manifesting heaven on earth wherever He went.</p>
<p>We also read in James 5:14 about the &#8220;prayer of faith&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">James 5:15 And the prayer [that is] of faith will save him who is sick, and the Lord will restore him; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.</p>
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<p>This type of prayer is not the same prayer that we pray in secret when we seek God&#8217;s presence on a personal level.  This is the type of prayer that Jesus always prayed when He was manifesting miracles.  In fact, there is no asking in this type of prayer.  This is the prayer that can &#8220;move mountains&#8221;.</p>
<p>This is an example of how we should practice faith to manifest a miracle:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mathew 8:8-10 The centurion replied, &#8220;Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just <strong>say the word</strong>, and my servant will be healed.</p>
<p>For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. <strong>I tell this one, &#8216;Go,&#8217; and he goes; and that one, &#8216;Come,&#8217; and he comes</strong>. I say to my servant, &#8216;<strong>Do this,&#8217; and he does it</strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those following him, &#8220;I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.</p></blockquote>
<p>The prayer that will move mountains are founded on a personal relationship with God.  It follows the prayers you have prayed in God&#8217;s presence in the &#8220;secret place&#8221;, where only you and God are present.  The prayer of faith are the words that you speak in the face of calamity, sickness and disaster. According the Word of God, this is the kind of faith that will draw God&#8217;s attention!  No wonder that Hebrews 11:6 states &#8220;Without faith, it is impossible to please God.&#8221;</p>
<p>This means that this kind of faith is pleasing to God, and we can demonstrate this kind of faith, not by speaking to God about our problems, but standing next to God in heavenly authority and speaking words of faith into the negative circumstance on earth.</p>
<p>The prayer of faith doesn&#8217;t petition or ask God to do something for us all the time.  I have tried this for many years without seeing one miracle.  The prayer of faith is our responsibility and spiritual effort of faith to change things from a spiritual realm of authority.</p>
<p>Many who have read my book and this blog, have asked me to send them an example of the prayer of faith. I have decided to write a prayer of faith here that you can adapt for your circumstances, personlize and pray to change your circumstances.  We can pray the same prayer for sickness, situations and financial problems.</p>
<p>You are welcome to print this prayer, adapt it in any way to make it personal and  to add specific details to it.</p>
<p>Pray this prayer with conviction of heart and faith in every word:</p>
<blockquote><p>Our Father in heaven (place of authority, provision and abundance),</p>
<p>I come to you in faith, spirit and truth in the name of Your dear Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.</p>
<p>I confess that I am Your Child and that I have been redeemed by the complete work of Jesus Christ. I declare that I accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour.</p>
<p>I thank you Father, that Your will is for me to have life, and have it more abundantly, as it is written in John 10:10</p>
<p>According to Your promise Father, I now call a good job and financial outcome into reality in my life. I COMMAND debt and financial lack to leave my life right now in Jesus name!</p>
<p>Poverty, I COMMAND you to go!  Debt, I COMMAND you to go!</p>
<p>I thank you Father that I can leave my finances in Your hands, while I will do what your Word requires of me according to Mathew 6:33.</p>
<p>I will proclaim your kingdom, and I thank You that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. (2Corinthians 5:21)</p>
<p>I praise You, because by the stripes of Jesus, I were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)</p>
<p>I now take authority as a believer and child of God, over all sickness and calamity.</p>
<p>By the authority you gave me as a child of God, I bind Satan and his works, knowing that he is not allowed to do me any harm. (Luke 10:19)</p>
<p>Therefore, I COMMAND sickness, pain and suffering to go!<br />
I COMMAND all harmful viruses in my body to DIE in Jesus name!</p>
<p>I speak death into all forms of sickness present in my body. I now speak life, and life abundantly into my body.</p>
<p>I thank you Father that you have healed me now. I can see myself normal and full of life again, doing the things I have always done.</p>
<p>In Jesus name,</p>
<p>amen.</p></blockquote>
<p>With this prayer, always visualize yourself healed and full of life, take<br />
time to meditate on God&#8217;s Word and your healing,  use your creative ability<br />
to imagine yourself healed and prosperous every day for 30 minutes.  Enter<br />
into God&#8217;s kingdom inside of your spirit, spend time with Jesus and the<br />
Father, and thank God for your miracle.</p>
<p>When you pray this prayer for healing and/or provision, be aggressive towards the sickness and financial<br />
lack. You are appointed on earth to rule as a king of a King, use that authority to destroy the works of the enemy.</p>
<p>For more information on spiritual power, visit my web site <a href="http://ezfaith.com/">www.ezfaith.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Grace &amp; Karma</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently received this Powerpoint slide presentation and it struck a nerve somewhere due to the society we found ourselves in, so here are my further comments after watching this presentation: Eastern religion refers to a certain universal cosmic law as “Karma”. According to this universal law, we can choose within each situation (negative or ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently received this <a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/two_choices.pps">Powerpoint slide presentation</a> and it struck a nerve somewhere due to the society we found ourselves in, so here are my further comments after watching this presentation:</p>
<p><a href="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/justice.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-445 alignright" style="margin: 15px;" title="justice" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/justice.jpg" alt="The scale of life" width="300" height="249" /></a>Eastern religion refers to a certain universal cosmic law as “Karma”. According to this universal law, we can choose within each situation (negative or positive) to build up good karma or bad karma for ourselves. Whatever we choose, it will come back to us in a form of rewards or blessings, or as lessons, sometimes painful, but detrimental to our spiritual growth.  In other words; many of the good things and bad things we experience in life, comes to us by our own doing and choices we’ve made in the past (and not always from the devil, although we all like to put the blame on someone else sometimes).</p>
<p>Our thoughts, words and deeds (all choices), determine to a certain extend our destiny in life and our future experiences. So, for lack of another word, I will also refer to this principle by this word &#8211; &#8220;karma&#8221;, it is after all only a word defined by people to refer to a principle we can all relate to, even from Bible scripture as I will indicate below.</p>
<p>As you will see in the slide presentation, bad things can happen to good people. Why? Is it due to &#8220;bad karma&#8221; they have created in their lives in the past? It is possible, but of course, we can never apply this law by judging others, we can never condemn another under the law. (Matthew 7:1). This would be sowing &#8220;bad karma&#8221; for ourselves again. Rather extend love and compassion to those in desperate situations (creating positive karma). Sometimes, bad people just do bad things to good people unfairly, but even then, it can have very positive consequences for us by the way we respond to the situation, and we can be stacking up &#8220;good karma&#8221; and blessings for our future in this way.</p>
<p>This means that we will be reducing potential situations where we might experience bad karma and increase the good things happening to us. It explains why the same bad things always seem to be happening to the same people all the time, while others just seems to be blessed. We have a role to play in our destiny and future, nothing happens by accident, chance or due to uncontrollable fate according to this principle. I like this principle as it really underlines our reponsibility to take charge of our own lives and it also gives us the opportunities to create a better future for ouselves through spiritual growth and understanding, this is the very purpose of our lives on earth.</p>
<blockquote><p>We are spiritual beings, temporary facing the challenges in this earthly environmentand in physical bodies, in order to develop our souls to a higher level.</p></blockquote>
<p>Influencing our own destiny and even influencing future events to a certain extend, is something I have experienced in my own life, you can read my testimony in my book <a href="http://www.ezfaith.com" target="_blank">&#8220;Entrance to Power</a>&#8220;. We have the creative power from a spiritual dimension to take control over negative circumstances, and even change our destiny and future for the better. We can prevent many of the potential calamities we are originally &#8220;destined&#8221; to face. By building up &#8220;positive karma&#8221; and developing our spiritual intuition (God speaking to us through His Spirit), we can be forwarned of approaching, life-threatening dangers and situations, and we can change it! We should learn how to do this!</p>
<p>The principle of Karma is comparable to a bank account in heaven, we can save up riches there, and we can withdraw good things from the account later when needed. But there is also interest to be paid if we go into a negative balance, and we will pay off the debt until every penny is fully paid! That is of course if we exclude the principle of grace.</p>
<p>Sometimes, I believe that God may allow certain negative things for us to go through, and it is normally due to our doing in our past, not learning, not having mercy on someone else for instance. It can also be for the sake of others to learn through our temporary suffering, either way, if you pass the test you will be rewared hundredfold says the Bible. We can read about Jesus teaching this very principle in Mathew 6:15. If we do not forgive others, Jesus said, our Father will not forgive us and we actually cancel out the benefits of mercy and grace in our lives. Then, we will have to learn the spiritual lesson by experience, which in the long run is also for our own good.</p>
<p>Negative situations are excellent opportunities for us to stack up riches in a spiritual realm (Heaven) for ourselves to be drawn upon later. As an example, if someone else is constantly giving you a hard time, start acting in the opposite way, investigate yourself and learn from it, if unfairly accused or treated, do not react in negative defence and backbiting criticism, or this cycle will surely repeat itself in your life. Therefore, the Bible instructs us to bless those that are against use or have wronged us.</p>
<p>Yes, negative karma works both ways, to the one who initiates and exercises it, and the one who is the subject, this principle will draw to them both the lessons that they WILL have to face in future, or the potential blessings it WILL release. It is called the path of spiritual growth.</p>
<p>The fact is, if you cycle through the same negative situations in your life, time after time, again and again, it is because you are not passing the tests. It means that you have not yet learned how to overcome&#8221;bad karma&#8221;with&#8221;positive karma&#8221;. So, there you sow&#8221;negative karma&#8221; again that will come back to you somewhere in the future! Michael Pitts refers to this&#8221;seeing of the bigger picture&#8221; as &#8220;connecting the dots&#8221;. We must learn to connect the dots, recognize the cycle and learn how to break the cycle with positive karma. Learn how to connect with other people in a positive way, even if they are responding negatively to you.</p>
<p>It is for your own good to forgive and forget, the rewards are out of this world and your enemies actually becomes a blessing in disguise when you pass the test!</p>
<p>Are you tired of the old job that is frustrating you to your core? One way to make sure you will always have a job (or a boss) like that, no matter where you go, is to keep on murmuring and spreading bad karma everywhere. Excel, break the cycle, once you have passed the test, there is no need for that lesson anymore and your circumstances will change for the better!</p>
<p>The Bible refers to this universal law as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].</p>
<p>Mat 7:12 So then, whatever you desire that others would do to and for you, even so do also to and for them, …</p>
<p>Mat 6:14 For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your<br />
heavenly Father will also forgive you.</p>
<p>1Pe 4:8 Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others].</p></blockquote>
<p>But is there a way to break out of the&#8221;bad karma&#8221; we might have created for ourselves in ignorance during our past history? Of course, Christian believers know the Gift of Grace (which is a gift from God, obtained by faith in Jesus Christ, who came to fulfil the law in our stead, taking the punishment on our behalf).</p>
<p>When grace is released through faith into our lives, it breaks the cycle of the execution of the law (or the result of &#8220;negative Karma&#8221; that must be balanced), you become a new creation (2Cor5:17). And when we also practise this kind of love towards others, it cancels out the sins (or&#8221;bad Karma&#8221;) of others. But remember that after the cancellation of the &#8220;bad karma&#8221;, you are free, but to stay free requires a change of mind and attitude, some measure of continuous spiritual growth will be expected from you. Those who don&#8217;t grow up, might start to see the same law starting to work all over again in their lives. Once you have found the way of grace, grace is the stronger force, always available when called upon, but get out of the cycle!</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t this principle exactly what Jesus taught when one of His disciples has cut off the ear of one of those that came to arrest Jesus? Jesus immediately healed the servant&#8217;s ear, and by doing so, prevented his disciple from dying by the sword himself later (balancing his negative karma by a good dead). Jesus then said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Put your sword back into its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword (Mat 26:52)</p></blockquote>
<p>Do you see the principle of karma, even in the Bible?</p>
<p>Thank God for the Gift of Grace!</p>
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<p>God bless!</p>
<p>Philip</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Ye Are Gods&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next to the fact that Genesis 1:26 declares that God created man in His image and likeness, these words from John10:34 in the Bible rank amongst the most startling statements on record in all of scripture. What makes it even more startling is the audience Jesus addresses: The religious leaders of His day are so ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Next to the fact that Genesis 1:26 declares that God created man in His image and likeness, these words from John10:34 in the Bible rank amongst the most startling statements on record in all of scripture.</p>
<p>What makes it even more startling is the audience Jesus addresses: The religious leaders of His day are so offended by Him that they are about to stone Him for blasphemy. How dare He, a mere son of man make Himself equal to God? Statements such as &#8216;I and the Father are one&#8217; just did not go down well with the Pharisees! John 10:30-39. They would rather have Him classified mad and demon possessed, or better still, destroy and silence Him for ever. To these unenlightened religious fanatics Jesus quotes the prophet Asaph&#8217;s words: &#8216;I say you are gods; you are all sons of the Most High, but you know nothing and understand nothing, therefore you will die like mere men.&#8217; (Psalm 82:5-7).</p>
<p>In spite of man&#8217;s darkened understanding, there must be something inherent in man that makes man the God-kind. Man is not a separate creation detached from God; he is the very image bearer of God, equal in likeness and spirit capacity. He is in fact a part of God Himself.</p>
<p>The scripture in Hebrews 2:6-12 is equally dynamic in content. Here even the translators of the text seem to be reluctant to identify man with God, they feel more comfortable with the word &#8216;angels.&#8217;</p>
<p>The eighth Psalm of David is quoted: &#8216;what is man, that You are mindful of him? What would attract You to the son of man that You would visit him? You made him a little lower than God&#8217; says the original text, &#8216;Elohim&#8217;, (the translators prefer, &#8216;a little less than angels.&#8217;) &#8216;You crowned him with glory and honour. All things are placed under his control.&#8217;</p>
<p>We share in the substance and being of God; we are only limited in our understanding and perception. Yet the fall into sin plunged humanity into a place where instead of man ruling over the animal world, the animal nature rules in man.</p>
<p>Only when redemption-realities dawn in our understanding, the dominance of the inferior nature is broken.</p>
<p>In his Book, THE GOD-MEN, Dr John G Lake writes the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>We have our physical body with its five sensory organs, and through these we are brought into contact with a certain range of activity that is purely physical. But that is not all there is to man. God desires an awakening of our understanding to realise that the man within is the real man. The spirit-man is the eternal undying man. It is the man whom God Himself cannot destroy, because God cannot destroy Himself. Man is of the very substance of God.</p>
<p>When man subjects that great God-man of the heart to the degradations of the desires of the outer fleshly man, how that inner man must groan. God never intended that the outer man of the flesh should be the governor of the great man of the spirit. Just as the outer man receives by impression, through contact, the things that occur about him, and as these are recorded in the soul, so the greater range of action of the spirit, through the spiritual senses, permits man to touch God Himself. He is able to touch the best things in the universe and bring them back in consciousness to the soul. The spirit man has a larger range of action than the physical man. Both the physical and the spiritual man record their facts in the soul consciousness.</p>
<p>The development of the inner man into the likeness and stature of Christ is the greatest element and purpose that can occupy our lives. The new force that takes hold of our heart is the consciousness that God has an eternal purpose in our life. A divine mission and purpose that will continue to unfold even beyond our life in the flesh.</p>
<p>I am a believer in the partnership of man and God. There is a fusing, a symphonising of God and man; the two become one. Not a saved man and a glorious God. But man fused into God and God fused into man, one divine creation. When Moses stood at the Red Sea, it was not Moses and God; it was just God. We say: &#8216;Lord make me a channel&#8217; leaving ourselves separated from God in our thought and expecting God to pour His spiritual power and blessing through us. That is not the highest thing. There is a greater experience than that in God&#8217;s word: It is where you and God are one. Your whole body, your whole soul, your whole mind, your whole heart, your whole spirit begins to move in the rhythm and fusion and symphony of the eternal God; one in heart, one in mind, you and God as one. Moses tried to back out of this relationship. God told him to shut up and stop praying and to get on with the job! &#8216;&#8230;You stretch out your hand over the sea and you divide it!&#8217;</p>
<p>God is not merely looking for a place of residence; he is looking for a right of action in the body and spirit of man. God expects that same love union that is brought to pass between your soul and His own to be extended so that you embrace in that union every other soul around you. In your home, in your office, wherever you are, you leave the impress of your thoughts there. Wherever you are you manifest His sweetness and evidence His power.</p>
<p>The ultimate note of the gospel of Jesus Christ is to reproduce and make every man, bound by sin and held by sensuousness and enslaved by the flesh, like Himself in deed and in truth, sons of God. Not sons of God in a lower order, but sons of God as Jesus was. The human being is the most marvellous and wonderful instrument in all of creation in its capacity to reveal God.</p>
<p>People have so been in the habit of putting Jesus in a class by Himself that they have failed to recognise that He has made provision for the same living Spirit of God that dwelt in His own life, and of which He Himself was a living manifestation, to inhabit your being and mind. You are just as necessary to God in His plan for the salvation of mankind as God is necessary to you. Without man God would have no medium through which He could express Himself to the world.</p>
<p>We have treated the precious Spirit of God as though He is a method of providing a means of spiritual entertainment. God&#8217;s purpose is far mightier than that. When Jesus was about to depart, He said, &#8216;the glory that the Father gave me I give unto you. The works that I have done, you will do also and greater works.&#8217; Unless Jesus was the possessor of a divine secret, a secret that others did not understand, such words as these would be words of madness. But because Jesus understood the secret of the Father&#8217;s promise and purpose, He was able to make these marvellous statements.</p></blockquote>
<p>John G. Lake was an American preacher, greatly used of God in South Africa and also in the United States in the early 1900&#8242;s.</p>
<p>What men of his generation had to say about John Graham Lake:<br />
&#8216;Dr Lake&#8217;s teaching will eventually be accepted by the entire world.&#8217;<br />
Mahatma Ghandi, Hindu Nationalist leader.</p>
<p>&#8216;His message has swept Africa. He has done more toward South Africa&#8217;s future peace than any man.&#8217;  Cecil John Rhodes the Empire Builder.</p>
<p>&#8216;Dr John Lake&#8217;s healing ministry is one of the most remarkable the world has ever seen.&#8217;  Dr William T Gentry, author of Materia Medica, a work of 27 volumes found in almost every medical library.</p>
<p>&#8216;The man reveals more of God than any other man in Africa&#8217;<br />
Rev. Andrew Murray.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>This article is an extract from the book, God Believes in You, by Francois du Toit.</p>
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		<title>Facing Crisis With Confidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faith confidence draws on a resource of strength and resolve bigger than the challenge. It is a powerful release of inner energy that flows from a mind addicted to positive Life. A mind that is exercised in the process of thought patterns consistent with the blueprint of our design as mirrored in the face of ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Faith confidence draws on a resource of strength and resolve bigger than the challenge. It is a powerful release of inner energy that flows from a mind addicted to positive Life. A mind that is exercised in the process of thought patterns consistent with the blueprint of our design as mirrored in the face of mans true origin.</p>
<p>We are fashioned in the same mould, the expression of the same thought.  Our Author’s signature and invisible image is nowhere better preserved or displayed than in our inner consciousness. Our origin traces the very imagination of God. Every invention begins with an original thought; I am His original thought.</p>
<p>This state of mind liberates one to act and respond in total contrast to crisis: Joy takes charge. The most sober calculation one can make is a conclusion that always results in joy.</p>
<p>In every time- and space- related experience there exists a reality of greater significance. A significance at hand, within the grasp of the individual. A reality that, once realised, can convert any negative energy into a force of light that dispels darkness effortlessly.</p>
<p>No experience, circumstance or person has what it takes to disqualify, humiliate, offend, or even upset you, without your permission.</p>
<p>Confidence equips you with an attitude that will attract solutions that will astound you!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">***</p>
<p>From the book: &#8220;<a href="http://www.mirrorreflection.net/teachings_and_books.html" target="_blank">God Believes in You</a>&#8221; by Francois du Toit</p>
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		<title>Scientific Proof &#8211; Words and Thoughts Changes DNA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words, frequencies and thoughts according to Russian DNA Discoveries. I was quite excited when I obtained an article that highlights certain scientific facts, proving that words and thought influences the behaviour of our DNA and explains the immediate availability of knowledge by means of intuition and revelation through ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words, frequencies and thoughts according to Russian DNA Discoveries.</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-360 alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="mind-power" src="http://ezfaith.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mind-power.jpg" alt="mind-power" width="243" height="243" />I was quite excited when I obtained an article that highlights certain scientific facts, proving that words and thought influences the behaviour of our DNA and explains the immediate availability of knowledge by means of intuition and revelation through the sub-conscious.</p>
<p>In my book Entrance to Power, I wrote about the water crystals phenomenon, a scientifically proven discovery that our thoughts and words influence the appearance and formation of water crystals. We consist of 73% water and our world consists of 80% water.</p>
<p>Many miracles are manifested by words of prophecy and I refer to many testimonies on how faith can heal the sick. DNA can be changed instantly by the prayer of faith. I have also related to several experiences I had during which occasions, I believe I was able to control and prevent threatening hailstorms. How? By speaking to them!</p>
<p>Many times, I have been forewarned of danger and was able to prevent calamity by influencing the future by means of spiritual interference in negative circumstances.</p>
<p>Is there any scientific proof that such miracles are possible?</p>
<p>Lately, it seems that more and more scientific discoveries support these manifestations.</p>
<p>One of my sincere beliefs is that once humanity has discovered and developed its ability on a spiritual level, we should be able through group consciousness to control production growth, weather patterns and prevent disastrous natural calamities on a very large scale.</p>
<p>I also belief that humanity will eventually reach a level of spiritual maturity and authority whereby we will have the ability through group consciousness and faith to heal all forms of sickness, raise the dead and enter into immortality. This may sound ridiculous to those who have not yet read my book wherein I relate all these statements to scriptural Biblical support.  I also refer to many personal experiences I have experienced, proving for myself that it is possible. Unfortunately, it is up to everyone to discover these truths for themselves.  In this realm of supernatural spiritual creativity, this is how things work; first believe, then see!</p>
<p>The following text was adapted from a very interesting article, (scriptural reference added). See originators references listed at the bottom.</p>
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<p>The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self-healing, affirmation techniques, faith healing, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritually enlightened people), the minds influence on weather patterns and much more.</p>
<p>In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing tissue. Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered &#8220;junk DNA.</p>
<p>The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and geneticists in a venture to explore those 90% of &#8220;junk DNA&#8221;. Their results, findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary! According to them, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our bodies but also serves as data storage and communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless 90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages.</p>
<p>So human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA. The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of the DNA. [For the sake of brevity I will give only a summary here. For further exploration please refer to the appendix at the end of this article.]</p>
<p>The bottom line was: &#8220;Living chromosomes function just like solitonic/holographic computers using the endogenous DNA laser radiation.&#8221; This means that they managed, for example, to modulate certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA characteristics and thus the genetic information itself.</p>
<p>Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) are of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven! Living DNA substance (in living tissue) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies are being used.</p>
<p>This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, words of faith and prophecy, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language!</p>
<p>While western researchers cut single genes from the DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects. Garjajev’s research group succeeded in proving that with this method chromosomes damaged by x-rays for example can be repaired. They even captured information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another, thus reprogramming cells to another genome. So they successfully transformed, for example, frog embryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA information patterns! This way the entire information was transmitted without any of the side effects or disharmonies encountered when cutting out and re-introducing single genes from the DNA.</p>
<p>This represents an unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation! All this by simply applying vibration and language instead of the archaic cutting-out procedures! This experiment points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greater influence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of alkaline sequences. Spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. In the Bible we found these words:</p>
<p>Proverbs 18:20-21<br />
A man&#8217;s [moral] self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; and with the consequence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil]. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].</p>
<p>This has now been scientifically proven and explained.</p>
<p>Of course, the frequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and maturity in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA.</p>
<p>The Russian researchers work on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency.</p>
<p>But the higher developed an individual’s consciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device! One can achieve these results by oneself, and science will finally stop laughing at such ideas and will confirm and explain the results.</p>
<p>And it doesn’t end there. The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in the vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars). These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness.</p>
<p>This process of hypercommunication is most effective in a state of relaxation. Stress, worries or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hypercommunication or the information will be totally distorted and useless. In nature, hypercommunication has been successfully applied for millions of years. The organized flow of life in insect states proves this dramatically. Modern man knows it only on a much more subtle level as &#8220;intuition&#8221;. But we, too, can regain full use of it.</p>
<p>An example from Nature: When a queen ant is spatially separated from her colony, building still continues fervently and according to plan. If the queen is killed, however, all work in the colony stops. No ant knows what to do. Apparently the queen sends the &#8220;building plans&#8221; also from far away via the group consciousness of her subjects. She can be as far away as she wants, as long as she is alive. In man hypercommunication is most often encountered when one suddenly gains access to information that is outside one’s knowledge base. Such hypercommunication is then experienced as inspiration, revelation or intuition.</p>
<p>For years, a 42-year old male nurse dreamt of a situation in which he was hooked up to a kind of knowledge CD-ROM. Verifiable knowledge from all imaginable fields was then transmitted to him that he was able to recall in the morning. There was such a flood of information that it seemed a whole encyclopedia was transmitted at night. The majority of facts were outside his personal knowledge base and reached technical details about which he knew absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>When hypercommunication occurs, one can observe in the DNA as well as in the human being special phenomena. The Russian scientists irradiated DNA samples with laser light. On screen a typical wave pattern was formed. When they removed the DNA sample, the wave pattern did not disappear, it remained. Many control experiments showed that the pattern still came from the removed sample, whose energy field apparently remained by itself. This effect is now called phantom DNA effect. It is surmised that energy from outside of space and time still flows through the activated wormholes after the DNA was removed.</p>
<p>The side effect encountered most often in hypercommunication also in human beings are inexplicable electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the persons concerned. Electronic devices like CD players and the like can be irritated and cease to function for hours. When the electromagnetic field slowly dissipates, the devices function normally again. Many healers and psychics know this effect from their work. The better the atmosphere and the energy, the more frustrating it is that the recording device stops functioning and recording exactly at that moment. And repeated switching on and off after the session does not restore function yet, but next morning all is back to normal. Perhaps this is reassuring to read for many, as it has nothing to do with them being technically inept; it just means they are good at hypercommunication.</p>
<p>In their book &#8220;Vernetzte Intelligenz&#8221; (Networked Intelligence), Grazyna Gosar and Franz Bludorf explain these connections precisely and clearly. The authors also quote sources presuming that in earlier times humanity had been, just like the animals, very strongly connected to the group consciousness and acted as a group. To develop and experience individuality we humans however had to forget hypercommunication almost completely.</p>
<p>Researchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND humanity is collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind.</p>
<p>As a rule weather, for example, is rather difficult to influence by a single individual. But it may be influenced by a group consciousness. Weather is strongly influenced by Earth resonance frequencies, the so-called Schumann frequencies. But those same frequencies are also produced in our brains, and when many people synchronize their thinking or individuals (spiritual masters, for instance) focus their thoughts in a laser-like fashion, then it is scientifically speaking not at all surprising if they can thus influence weather.</p>
<p>Researchers in group consciousness have formulated the theory of Type I civilizations. A humanity that developed a group consciousness of the new kind would have neither environmental problems nor scarcity of energy. For if it were to use its mental power as a unified civilization, it would have control of the energies of its home planet as a natural consequence. And that includes all natural catastrophes!!! A theoretical Type II civilization would even be able to control all energies of their home galaxy.</p>
<p>Whenever a great many people focus their attention or consciousness on something similar like Christmas time, football world championship or the funeral of Lady Diana in England then certain random number generators in computers started to deliver ordered numbers instead of the random ones. An ordered group consciousness creates order in its whole surroundings!!!</p>
<p>When a great number of people get together very closely, potentials of violence also dissolve. It looks as if here, too, a kind of humanitarian consciousness of all humanity is created. At the love Parade, for example, where every year about one million of young people congregate, there has never been any brutal riots as they occur for instance at sports events. The name of the event alone is not seen as the cause here. The result of an analysis indicated rather that the number of people was TOO GREAT to allow a tipping over to violence.</p>
<p>All information are from the book &#8220;Vernetzte Intelligenz&#8221; von Grazyna Fosar und Franz Bludorf, ISBN 3930243237, summarized and commented by Baerbel. The book is unfortunately only available in German so far.</p>
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