People Are A-holes: Love Them Anyway

  I'm going to let you in on the secret of humanity.  People are a-holes.  They always have been and they always will be.  They might be nice to you now, while you act, look and think like them.  As soon as you figure out who you really are, or decide to believe something against the mainstream, they turn into a-holes!  Now, this is something I learned long ago.  Don't invest in pleasing people by agreeing with and being like them.  It's a crap investment.  People will always crucify you for not being a clone like them.  Invest in God!  He's faithful and true!  Now, as a-holish as people are I don't wish for them to end up in the fiery pits of Hell.  I know I know... you don't believe in Hell now, but you will.  As much as I'd love to be able to say I told you so, I'd rather it happened after you took my advice and didn't end up there.  At that point we can be friends because you will have realized how serious this life thing really is.  It's not what you make of it.  It's not meant to live up.  You do only live once but that's a terrible motto to live by (not to mention cliche beyond words).  Christians who don't believe in Hell..wtf?  That makes no sense.  That's like vegetarians who eat meat.  You're brain might believe the label but your blood will know!  On that note... 

Controversial Me: Yogic Deception

I've always been a person with an outsiders perspective.  I never planned it.  It always just happened that way.  If the masses thought one way I thought the opposite way.  It's almost instinctive.  I've always lived on the fringe like that.  When my friends were talking about going to college I was talking about attaining enlightenment through yoga and joining an ashram (I was searching for truth in all the wrong places, but this all makes sense as things are being revealed now).  When my friends were having babies, I was talking about global warming and saving the planet.  When my friends were talking about making vaccines mandatory, I was protesting vaccinations.  A timing thing?  I don't know.  It's like I've lived a thousand lives in one and I'm always a decade ahead of current thinking.  I'm not speaking from my ego here like I'm some kind of advanced being.  I feel that information is being downloaded into my consciousness ahead of time.  I'm putting the pieces together very quickly as God is revealing it.  Friends and people know that I was very into the whole Yoga thing.  I hate sounding like a tacky Christian here, but I DO NOT practice yoga anymore.  I feel very strongly about it, and of course now yoga is SO mainstream that everyone does it and ridicules my restrictive mindset.  Isn't that the way of my life?  It's really pretty amusing.  Or is it?  It's actually pretty heavy as I'm really getting into it.  Reality is sobering and so complex.  God has given me many opportunities to practice standing alone on my beliefs.  He has given me much discipline and practice in non attachment to approval, to people, and other things I have loved.  I am very serious about waving the white flag of yogic surrender as a way to point out my lack of involvement in hopes that it will provoke interest as to why.  Yes, I know why people do it (I practiced for over a decade).  I also know that people will fall for anything if it's popular and accepted by the mainstream.  People turn to yoga for a variety of reasons.  Some for the promises of weight loss, some out of pressure from friends, others to perfect the poses and showcase their flexibility, and others to connect to themselves, quiet the mind and relax.  I get it!  Been there.  If we could leave the philosophy, words, chanting and bowing behind ENTIRELY there wouldn't be a problem!  But anyone will find that is only possible if doing poses alone in your own living room or maybe a gym setting where the focus is entirely physical.  This video is a talk by an expert ex yogi who actually grew up in India and truly knows the philosophy and roots of yoga as well as the heart of Christianity.  I encourage yoga friends to watch it with an open mind.  Afterall, isn't that what yoga is all about?   

 I know this pisses a lot of people off and everyone hates me right now and thinks I'm pointing fingers and everything else under the sun.  Get a grip people!  Things will start to make sense as we move foreward.  The human mind is fragile.  I'm aware of that. I'm not trying to offend anyone.  There's a lot more to the story and yoga is just a part of it, albeit a large one.  I'm simply (if ever it was possible) trying to convey a message that will help us all with the present and coming deceptions that are about to take place and are currently taking place right behind our hypnotized eyes on the Earth, so buckle in.  It's going to be a long strange trip...

  In the old testament God states again and again and again and again and again how much he hates idolatry.  He hates when his people take on the idoltrous customs of pagans, to the point of destroying them.  It is repeated over and over and over and over and over again until it is literally beaten into your head!  Do not worship idols.  Do not worship other gods.  Do not do the things the world does because it does not come from me.  Who is Baal? Who is Ballam?  These are satanic gods that were worshipped by pagans.  Who are we bowing down to and opening ourselves up to in yoga?  The philosophy of Hindu gods? Pagan gods? It's more than just philosophy and there's a bigger reason to why God said what he said and did what he did, but we'll get into that later.  This is like the sweet introductory version of what we're going to be delving into.  I know most people don't think they're worshipping anything when they submit to yoga and I am attempting to give you some eye salve so you can SEE.  More to come on that as well.  Watch:

http://youtu.be/8_yfxZmRokg

Ps. Stretching is very good for the body and there are verifiable physical benefits of doing such.  Keep stretching!  

Intelligence or God: He Is Coming

 Boy, I'm just relentless lately aren't I?  I'm so extreme, crazy even!  I don't expect that people will easily accept this message as people have been denying it for centuries.  I am fully aware of the ways of nay sayers and their tactics of swaying crowds.  Remember, I am not the one condemning you.  We condemn ourselves.  Do you really believe that only stupid people fall for the God thing?  Naive people fall for evil schemes.  I should know!  I've fallen for many.  I'm currently reflecting on that in depth.  All doubt comes down to a lack of understanding.  We don't know what we don't know until we know it.  The most unintelligent believer is better off than the most  intelligent non believer.  Intelligence is not what we think it is.   

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will reject." 

  1 Corinthians 1:19

He is referring to worldly wisdom and intelligence- the most notorious agents if deceipt. 

Tuning Fork

  At my house you can see the sky and clouds very clearly out my bedroom window.  I live in a multi-level house and on the top floor it feels like I could touch the sky, looking out. The day I posted Spiritual Success:Heaven or Hell,  I looked out and saw the image of a wildcat in the clouds. It was so real seeming.  I looked again and the image turned into what looked like an ox or bull head.  A moment later it shifted into an eagle.  The eagle then became a large face.  One face became two then three.  It looked as though heavenly beings were looking down from the clouds with the face of love and compassion.  I felt like this was God's sign to me that yes, this was the kind of urgency with which I should be concerned (as though I were an instrument being tuned), not the happy, heart warming lighthearted posts which often suggest God but don't demand him.  My posts always reflect where I'm at and I attempt to deliver it in the most digestible format possible.  I know it's a hard message to swallow and even I am surprized everyday at what God is revealing.  

 Those who already know God- let's have a willing spirit that is open to the correction of God.  Let's not be attached to any worldly thing so much that we can't let it go if need be.  Even if it's our favorite________.  Let's remember Abrahams willingness to sacrifice his only son Isaac if it was God's will.  Luckily it wasn't (whew!).  

 

Got To Serve Somebody

  Mary K. Baxter's book Divine Revelations of Hell is to our modern world what Bob Dylans Gotta Serve Somebody https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gotta-serve-somebody/id181457864?i=181457865 was to rock and roll in 1979.  Whaaat?  Christianity was cool enough for Bob Dylan?  It certainly was, and he caught a lot of criticism and praise for it.  I admire Bob for his outspokenness about things that really mattered in a time when it was so cool to escape reality rather than face it.  Bob Dylan didn't take crap from anyone and was a source of higher inspiration for many lost seekers.  This post isn't about Bob Dylan though... it's about truth.  It's about higher understanding.  It's about waking up to the fact that God is a reality that we either tune into or tune out of.  I am speaking to everyone here: Christian Right, Christian Left, non Christians, atheists, agnostics (the proof of the pudding is in the eating).  Politics don't define God so let's ditch the labels and get to the point.  

 Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.  For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.

 Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.

   Jude 1:3-5

  There is a misconception, a misuse and an abuse about the free will God gave to man.  This misconception blazes through Christian and non Christian circles, confusing many.  I know people that like to throw it around liberally that God gave man free will to do with what he likes, and this tends to insinuate that continued  sin is justified because we are forgiven and now Jesus isn't looking at our sins.  As though Poof!  It disappeared, even though it's still happening.  It's bizaar to say the least.  I love you all, so my attempt here is not to judge or criticize but to bring light to the matter.  To lift you higher in your awareness to do with what you will.  It's between you and God.  I don't think myself better than anyone and I'm certainly not trying to win "salvation points" (haha to the person who thinks that;-).  I genuinly hope you can recognize the truth I'm trying to get through.

Jesus turned to me and said, "This woman had sinful affairs with many men, and she caused many homes to be broken apart.  Yet through all this, I loved her still.  I came to her not in condemnation but with salvation.  I sent many of My servants to her that she might repent of her evil ways, but she would not.  When she was a young woman, I called her, but she continued to do evil.  She did many wrongs, yet I would have forgiven her if she had come to Me.  Satan entered into her, and she grew bitter and would not forgive others. She went to church just to get men.  She found them and seduced them.  If she had only come to Me, her sins would all have been washed away by My blood.  Part of her wanted to serve Me, but you cannot serve God and satan at the same time.  Every person must make a choice as to whom they will serve."

"My child," He said, "God, our Father, gave each one of us a will so that we could choose whether we would serve Him or satan.  You see, God did not make Hell for His people.  satan deceives many into following him, but Hell was made for satan and his angels.  It is not My desire, nor that of My Father, that anyone should perish." Tears of compassion ran down Jesus' cheeks.

 These are excerpts from the book Divine Revelations of Hell.  Jesus makes it very clear that there is no middle ground.  You don't even have the choice of not serving anybody.   It's up or down, black and white like I've been talking about in previous posts.  The only neutral (gray) state any of us will ever know is this moment right now.  This flash that is our human existence.  Time is of the essence, and the majority are not headed to a happy place.  I am thankful for Mary K. Baxter's willingness to do this extraordinary thing, and write these experiences for our benefit.  This book is not scary in the keep you up at night and give you nightmares sense, but it's scary in that it WILL make you think!  Please read it.  It's such an easy read you could read it in an evening.  Do it for you <3

http://www.divinerevelations.info/mary_k_baxter_a_divine_revelation_of_hell.htm

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.  All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.  But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.  

Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.  No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 

1 John 3:1-9

God is For Real

A few days after my lighthearted post the Truth About Buddha, I was strongly led to some eye opening realizations.  This video popped up on my youtube feed in which this Buddhist monk dies, goes to hell and sees Buddha there burning in the lake of fire.

http://youtu.be/ivG8ejbG0GE

Then this talk:

http://youtu.be/lzt9n13AfHs

It's as though God was saying you're on the right track but there's SO much more to the story.  I've always wanted to believe that Buddha was innocent in his search for truth.  I've always had an affinity for Eastern thought and considered the conscientious, ethical and non violent lifestyle of so many people who practice Eastern traditions to be worth something of value.  I've wondered (as many before me) what DOES God do about good people who don't accept Christ?  And what about everyone who lived and died before Christ?  These things still aren't entirely clear, but if Buddha is in fact in hell, we have some major clues.  I am learning everyday that God is more serious, more black and white than I'd ever imagined.  Just when I think "oh, God's probably cool with this or that" he shows me otherwise.  Here in the West we've been conditioned by our Godless society.  I look at my facebook feed and I'm just blown away that there can be so many serious and terrible things happening in the world and people are still living in their superficial bubbles thinking all is well and right with the world.  Unwilling to consider God.  Not wanting to consider God.  Completely ignoring God.  Sometimes I wonder if there's any hope for mankind.  People just want to fight, argue and rebel against everything.  If I say yes, you say NO!  Like clockwork.  I want to give up, say it's a lost cause, and in this moment I feel how God must feel.  Yet he continues on... and on. 

Question Everything

  This has been a VERY long week that pretty much lasted from last weekend to today.  It was just life things that needed to be taken care of and family obligations.  Normal stuff you know?  But I feel so disconnected from the reality of God.  I attribute this to the fact that we don't live in a society that revolves around God, so when we're in the world we get sort of sucked into this vortex of worldly reality, which lessens the strength of our awareness of God's reality.  The only remedy I've found for this is pulling the plug from the world, disconnecting whenever possible.  Even just small increments helps tremendously, like after work.  Or two days on the weekend of time devoted to studying God.  I've been really focusing on this idea of God verses the world lately.  The division becomes more and more apparent, and I see how and where I've bought into worldly ideologies and belief systems and how I've been decieved myself. People tend to think of Christians as being close minded or prudish, and in an attempt to prove them wrong or just fit in we tend to make incremental sacrifices to our faith.  Well, I'm sure God won't mind if I practice yoga, or go out drinking with my secular friends or wear this revealing outfit.  I've really been inquiring about these things.  I've practiced yoga since I was 17.  Everytime I would hear a Christian question yoga I would judge them like, seriously?  What's wrong with yoga?  I didn't know God's way of thinking.  I didn't know how against idolatry he is.  And most importantly, I didn't understand what idolatry was.  It has been brought to my attention that idolatry is not only anything we put our faith in more than God, but anything we THINK about more than God.  Anything we spend our time doing or thinking about more than God.  Think about it.  What do you devote a typical day to?  If you had a pie chart of where you invested your energy what would it look like in a day, a week or a year?  If you got sick what would be your first thought?  Dr. or God?  When something bad happens do you get pissed off or do you think "what is God saying here?  What is he doing in my life"?  

Is Society A Lost Cause?

    

Dreams: Elohim, Michella Gogh, Herzog

Sometimes my dreams leave me with little more than a word.  My first word dream was Elohim- a word for God often used in the Hebrew Bible.  I assume this is just an affirmation of God's roots with the Jewish people.  An important piece of the grand puzzle!

Michella Gogh- Michella is a name with French and Hebrew origins.  It means "one who is like God".  Gogh- I'm not sure what this means but somewhere along the way I read it could be a word for horse.  We all know that Jesus rides a white horse, in particular when he comes for his people.

Herzog-  I assume this is referring to the Isreali elections coming up.  Isaac Herzog is all about signing the two state "peace" treaty which I think is a very bad idea.  Personally I think Netanyahu has done a great job of avoiding that but I'm certainly no expert on world politics!  I assume this dream is just potentially saying this is what might happen or is going to happen, and it's significant.  

Last night I had a dream one of my clients told me that the state of Texas was under water.  I exclaimed, "it's here"!     I felt the tide was coming in.  Suddenly water appeared and it felt like I was on the beach and the water was inching forward.  I had a tube raft and so did my mom and sister.  My husband appeared like he was ready to go with us but he didn't have a raft!  He has been sufficiently warned;-)

http://youtu.be/DBSj1MKwx6A

All this talk about mystical white horses made me think of the movie A Winter's Tale.  It's a great movie if you haven't seen it.  It's just a movie but it really is attempting to illustrate the dark and light forces at work.  

Do we REALLY love God?

I ask this question sincerely.  There are many among us, I find, and I'm just making observations not pointing fingers, that like the idea of God but don't really know what he's about.   God is infinite, loving and merciful but he's SO much more than that.  I am of the strong conviction that if we haven't either had direct conversational contact with God or read the Bible in it's entirety we don't really know God at all.  I don't care how many church services you've attended.  God does't count how many times you've been to church, he counts how earnest our desire to know the real him.  God desires our interest.  He honors our effort.  If you are of this world and have worldy belief systems you might never read this:

 You adulturous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred towards God?  Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.

  James 4:4

  

  How many people do we know who claim Christ, yet act exactly like the world?  Dress like the world, look like the world, have the same ideologies, same jobs, do the same things for fun, sin the same way behind closed curtains, educate the same way, eat the same way, drink the same way, same motivations, same celebrations... see what I'm saying here? Same everything.  God said love your neighbor, but don't be like them!  Remember this, God has a law.  The punishment for breaking the law has changed (for authentic seekers who repent) but the law remains the law. Some might argue "but Jesus hung out with drunks and prostitutes".  Here's the thing, Jesus was about to get tortured in the most inhumane way possible, then descend into the pits of hell to loose the chains of the imprisoned.  He wasn't hanging out in bars and chit chatting with prostitutes. He was there to turn hard core sinners away from their sins.  The problem with people today is they don't believe in sins anymore.  Everything is permissable and good (through worldly eyes)).  I am NOT saying that we need to hold others accountable for their sins (people have been doing that in the name of religion for centuries, and distorting the image of Christianity in the process), but we need to be aware of and hold OURSELVES accountable.  We need to become aware of the ways that WE are like the world and in being like the world, sin.  We need to ask is that right by God's standards?  The ONLY way to know that is to read his word for ourselves.  Nobody else can answer that for us.  

  A couple of years ago I joined a facebook group called  The Christian Left.  Things about the Christian Right were a major hurdle to my stepping out in faith.  I needed something I could relate to as a more liberal minded person.  The Christian Left seemed like the perfect cushion to ease my transition.  People who felt like me about--- and ---.   Well here I am two or three years later realizing the Christian Left is just as crazy as the Right.  Have ANY of them actually read the Bible?!?  The Left spends all of their energy hating on the Right and defending ALL the the sins of the world, making Jesus out to be some sin loving, anything goes liberal.   Are they insane?  The Right are haters in their own right, nationalist war mongers who would like to have gays and migrants exterminated from the  face of the planet.  They proudly eat at Slaughterhouse-fi-let and wear guns and the national anthem in their underwear;-)  I am in awe at all of these people who CLAIM Christ!  God says, you will NOT mock me.  He means what he says.  I cannot express that loudly enough.  God doesn't change for us.  We change for God.  And we change, and change and continue to change until we are molded into an image that is actually Christ-like.  Are you Christ-like now?  No, you are changing, but only if you are reading and asking to be changed.  A submissive spirit is essential.  The "world" hates that idea. 

  Faith is the belief in God.  Pride is the belief in self.

 Judging by worldly people that I know, the spirit of pride and arrogance that defines them, Jesus would easily be crucified again if he were here in the flesh today.  That is how far from the truth we are as a society.  The question remains... do we really love God?  Or do we even know him?   I was just reading this post (from the Christian Left) about how the Christian Right demonized Katy Perry's performance at the superbowl.  The auther says "Whatever Jesus didn’t like about the heart and fire and passion behind your performance at half-time, I don’t like that Jesus*."  Wow!  Let me first clarify that I did not watch the superbowl, nor do I listen to, buy into or support pop music culture, especially when the "artist's" lyrics are superficial worldly jargon and their performances are little less than a strip tease.  I think it's erroneous the way girls dress and act these days like common *bleeps*.  How often does God refer to his own people as whores and adulturers?  I can't even imagine where these girls register on God's scale of moral!?!  In the Bible wearing braids was considered risqué!  Again, God doesn't change, we try to change God to suite our times.  That is not wise.  The fact that the Christian Right was outraged was probably legitimate but really, they should have been in church observing the Sabbath...

   I could go on, but I think you get my point.  The world will go on like it always does (blind, ignorant and lost).  Let's not be like that!  In order to study under God we need to turn away from the world.  Change where our focus goes.  Stop accepting all of the worldly invites that serve as distractors of our time.  When we obsess about worldly  things we are brought into that battle, we worship the world drama.  I am as guilty as anyone when it comes to battle, but it doesn't make it right.  God has reminded me more than once that he doesn't need a defense attorney.  And I'm like, but?!???!!!?...  He want's us to LOVE each other, as unbearably difficult as that may be sometimes.  Love not war, love not war.  Swallow your defense, but never surrender who you are.  And if God gives you a message, speak it.

  Peace