I am sitting in the waiting room of the doctor’s office waiting to get a physical. Soon they will call my name, walk me to the exam room and start their battery of tests poking and prodding me, checking my fluids and raising my level of physical discomfort all in the hopes of ascertaining my current physical state.
Let’s see, temperature is 97.7, BP is 120 over 70 and heart rate is 60. Strip down to the drawers and put on a synthetic gown with a plastic stretch waste band and sit patiently until the doctor arrives. Rubber hammer, reflexes good; then talk about the lower back and hip pain. The drawer opens and here comes the latex gloves. I know what’s coming next and I begin to feel very uncomfortable.
Well, it was over before I knew it. I probably need another radiator flush and to drop a few more pounds. This experience beckons me to address a question. Why don’t we humans get spirituals? A fact check about our relationship with God?
Our temperature is like our attitude toward Divine guidance, our blood pressure is like our belief systems accepting or rejecting erroneous beliefs and our heart rate is like our meditation practice to release the stresses of life.
A ‘spiritual’ would be like a ‘physical’ because we would ‘strip down’ to our core values and take a good look at who we truly are. By asking good questions about our value we would determine how good our emotional reflexes are. We could then identify areas of pain and discomfort.
Now comes the rubber glove moment. The moment of truth where we disinfect our minds and check to see if our subconscious is discharging the waste, dross and sediment of ‘stinkin’ thinkin’. Just like the ‘physical’, the ‘spiritual’ is over before you know it.
We must remember to flush out negative thinking and erroneous beliefs, dropping the perceived weight of guilt and shame. If we all gave ourselves a ‘spiritual’ as often, or more often than a ‘physical’, we would come to find that the physical would out better each time. The mind affects the body just as the body affects the mind. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Elizabeth and I would like to invite you all to our site ‘Service In Prayer’. For many months we have been led to offer a way for our online friends to have a forum to share our prayer needs with each other.
The purpose of this website is to connect with one another and share our needs for healing in whatever areas we feel we need. Please visit the website or go to the Facebook forum to post any public prayers on the Wall or PM us for private prayers.
We will pray for you or help you to find Prayer Partners to assist you in healing and realization of your Divine purpose and the unfolding of it in Divine order.
Thank you all for your support, kindness and for blessing us with your ongoing friendship. Peace and blessings to all of you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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We are so pleased with the success of The Spirituality Post Weekly Online Magazine, The Spirituality Post Daily and The Spirituality Guidance Sunday Morning Service that we have now combined them into a daily online magazine for those involved in Spirituality. Every weekday and weekend we will be featuring the writings and sayings of Dr. Dean A. Banks, D.D. Please come and visit us every day to receive inspiration, guidance and opinion on spiritual and political matters. We would like to thank you all for your support and dedication to the writings and sayings that we feature. May God bless all of you and your families now and evermore! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Our bodies are a complex network of physio-chemical interactions that trigger emotional states and vice versa. When a person feels victorious testosterone is generated and boosts the body with feelings of euphoria and confidence. It comes from the hormones under the classification of androgens. When a person feels depressed and uncomfortable estrone has been generated. It comes from the class of hormones known as estrogens.
Both men and women have androgens and estrogens in their systems; however, men usually have more androgens and women have more estrogens; however, this can change under consistent feelings of being stressed. When a person feels like they are losing or have lost something valuable to them the hormone cortisol is produced in the adrenal glands.
It is considered a catabolic hormone that breaks down tissue regeneration, modulates the immune response, raises glucose levels and stores fat in the body. It is often referred to as the ‘stress’ hormone that kicks in when we are under tremendous or sudden stress. Some studies have shown that it creates estrogen dominance. At the DNA level, it suppresses testosterone production and can create feelings of depression and anxiety.
Our bodies are psycho-physical units where thoughts and emotions affect our health, our feelings of wealth, prosperity and the recognition of abundance. Our emotional moods can dominate and paint an unrealistic view of reality, regardless of what our thoughts reveal.
When we listen to our bodies in deep meditation we slow down our systems enough for our internal chemistry to seek a balance much like water seeks its own level when agitation stops. The deeper we go, the more we align our bodies with the eddys and currents of Divine order. At our center is the Creator of the omniverse exuding Divine love if we would but make the time each and every day to experience that bliss. Nothing is more important in our lives than spending time with the Divine deep in meditation.
How can anyone hear the silent whispers of the Divine when they are immersed in the constant and incessant chaos of the external world of the perceived dualistic reality? Eliminate the noise and listen for the still small voice of the Divine guiding and directing you to peace, understanding, joy and the expression of Divine love. Balance out your bodily chemistry and come out from under the veil of being subject to your emotional responses and chemical states.
The Divine is in command but you must drink from the well to experience the beauty. Make the time for your Divine relationship and the healing of your body. When the spirit is accessed, the body is healed and the mind is free to explore more horizons. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:
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Welcome to our new Sunday Morning Service by Dr. Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Every week Dr. Dean will be engaging subjects that are pertinent to your growth and expansion into recognition of; respect to; and communication with your inner spirit.
Please feel free to comment or suggest topics for review. May the Divine always bless you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Authority. We hear this term many times, but what does it actually mean? Authority is the power to determine a course of action through a shared perceived sense of proper judgment. Observers accept authority figures as a reliable source of information, advice and guidance to determine their own course of action. Anything on a screen, whether a computer or television is an electronic representation of authority. When our intellectual guard is down and our emotional reaction is up figures that appear on the ‘screen’ have a subconscious perception of being those with ‘authority’.
During college I decided to take a class in Symbolic Logic. The professor told our class that we would be using a part of our brain that we had never used before; and that it would hurt. He was right. He stated that most people don’t think; they emotionally react. Again, he was correct. Over the course of the class I struggled with critical thinking until I embraced it completely. I desired to be an accurate observer and not be emotionally swayed by those with ‘charisma’. It wasn’t easy deprogramming myself from the accepted wisdom of my family. After all, when I was 18 I voted for Nixon. Big mistake.
Later, I went to seminary school to learn more about my beliefs and the beliefs of others. Being fascinated with Deductive Logic, I decided to investigate Inductive Logic. The professor who taught this class was a Ph.D. whose knowledge was incredible. Our final assignment for the class was to view the pep rally at the college football stadium where President Reagan was giving a campaign speech. The professor obtained an advanced copy of the speech and we were to break down the language by the principles of Inductive Logic and compare ‘how’ the speech was delivered at the pep rally to determine exactly what President Reagan said.
Statements from him like, “What a great land, this country of ours!” drew massive cheers and arm jabbing. However, to my surprise, my analysis revealed he had said NOTHING! He was emotionally riling up people to ‘react’ to what he was saying instead of challenging what he was saying, He was a master communicator and knew which buttons to push on the average ‘reactive’ person. Another lady and myself were the only ones in the class to get A’s on this assignment. When I turned in the assignment I wasn’t sure that my analysis was accurate but soon learned that it was.
Years later, I watched a TV program with Rush Limbaugh and saw the same style of rhetoric against Bill Clinton. I tuned in every night and had a good laugh because he was actually FUNNY. After his TV show died a miserable death, he ventured back off again into radio. As the years went by he became more and more abrasive. He had mastered his baritone voice, the cadence of his word delivery and the descriptive terms that were just slightly above the understanding of his audience. Most magazines and successful talk show hosts target their words and speech to a 7th grade reading level because that’s where the average mass audiences’ level of comprehension exists.
Rush is a master at appealing to a non-discerning audience who don’t, and won’t, investigate what he says. He is an authority figure because his voice is heard in mechanic shops, offices and homes every day. He is hammered into your head as the ‘voice of reason’ when in fact he is the ‘voice of repetition’. He AND his advertisers know this and use it to sell products and services. If you advertise with Rush, advertisers know there will be millions listening. They know that while he lulls you into a state of acceptance because of his image of authority they can plant an association of the usefulness of their product or service deep in your subconscious. When you go to the store or shop on the Internet you are automatically drawn to that product or service and you don’t even know why.
Rush has been consistent over the years and advertisers loved him. Every day he brought attention to their products and services with sensationalism and authority until he went over the line. He insulted a woman who WASN’T a public figure. Not only has he opened himself up for a slander and defamation of character lawsuit, he has now drawn attention to the fact of his own MAJOR character defects. His ‘brand’ is now tainted and the backlash is enormous. He has attacked a single college woman who has a right to a private life, even though she testified before Congress about her personal situation. He called her a ‘slut’ because of what he ‘thought’ was her lifestyle. He placed himself as her judge, jury and executioner. He revealed his flaws and condescension because he allowed his anger to control his delivery. Just like Pat Robertson, the older he gets, the more he lets things ‘slip’ without thinking them through. Rush gave a half-hearted apology that the woman didn’t accept because she knew it wasn’t sincere. She used her discerning mind to pinpoint the maneuver he was trying to pull.
Why do you think Rick Santorum made the comment about people attending college? Is it because he doesn’t want them to have a discerning mind by learning critical thinking? His comment was aimed at a non-educated base to move them emotionally. Rick Santorum has a B.A., M.B.A. and a J.D. He went to school for many years and learned how to manipulate people by what he says and HOW he says it. He is another master communicator of partial facts designed to motivate people on an emotional level. In all fairness, so is Obama. He knows how to motivate people as well. The difference is that he spent years educating himself and helping his community realize the goals they sought.
In order to develop a discerning mind we need to learn how NOT to emotionally react to what people say. We need to analyze what they say based on the merits and not the technicalities. Don’t be swayed by those who are in positions of authority. They don’t live your life or walk your path. Use your mind to sift through the facts and allow your heart to feel whether or not they are telling the truth. Talk to others and understand their feelings but always come to your own conclusions based on the facts and NOT someone else’s opinion. Your survival and ability to thrive will depend on it. Not only yours, but every else’s as well. Choose wisely and make the guidance of the Spirit of God your true authority! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
A VAST CHAOTIC WASTELAND
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” ~Genesis 1:2. The words form and void are from the Aramaic ‘tohu’ and ‘bohu’ which means a vast chaotic wasteland.
How can the earth be a wasteland unless there was peace and value there to begin with? The earth was ‘recreated’ by God into what we know now over 6000 years ago NOT originally created 6000 years ago. The earth has been here over 4.54 billion years! It was recreated over 6000 years ago after the peace and prosperity of the earth was converted into a ‘vast chaotic wasteland’.
How did this happen? Some say it was after the battle between Lucifer and God’s angels that left the earth in poor condition. Others say that it was from a catastrophic event such as a meteor, small asteroid or small comet hitting the earth. Whatever it may be the interpretation of what was said in the King James Bible when compared to the original Aramaic words and their meanings it totally WRONG!
Always go back to the source of the word before you engage your belief system and send it into overdrive. Know what you are saying and believing before you represent to others what you ‘believe’ is the truth. Go within and KNOW the truth instead of believing what some preacher interprets as the truth. Peace. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CONSULTATION
VAKMITE
VAKMITE is the coordination of all of these methods into one unified focus of desire. It’s practice brings your world into fulfillment!
VAKMITE is the coordination of all of these methods into one unified focus of desire. It brings your world into fulfillment!
Nothing, in essence, is inanimate. Everything vibrates at some level and broadcasts its essence into the omniverse. The omniverse moves with complexity beyond our comprehension and under simple and stringent laws.
If you choose to live in fear, then what you fear most will come upon you to justify your choices in living in fear. If you choose to live in faith of the Spirit of God to align you with Divine order and be safe and protected, your experience will reflect that choice.
I have lived this all of my life and I am still here as a voice in the wilderness. Some hear that voice and others dispute it because their fear is so personal to them that they cannot live without it.
Whatever you hold onto and identify with keeps you in a self-imposed state of mediocrity and comfort management or can free you from fear and distrust. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D
BE A LIGHT UNTO THIS WORLD
Don’t be distracted by the rhetoric of the politicians. When the financial puppet masters of industry and banking are pulling their strings, what else do you expect them to say? A good slave honors their master and supports their positions. They have sold their souls to the beast to maintain their power, net worth and perceived status. They are liars and seek out more liars to support their weak positions. They skew the facts and make their opinions appear as facts.
Jesus said, “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them (Matthew 7:20 - King James Version). If they bear fruits of gain for themselves while others wallow in lack and limitation, the master they worship is obvious. It is NOT Jesus. It is the almighty dollar.
What kind of fruit does John Boehner bear? He sports a well-honed orange tan and plays golf in California on weekends while some of his constituents in his district are losing their homes and living on the brink of starvation because they can’t find work.
What kind of fruit does Glenn Beck bear? He foments insidious reaction in his base by skewing the facts to meet his twisted agenda. Does he care that one of his listeners showed up with weapons at a supposed FEMA camp ready for battle?
What kind of fruit does Rush Limbaugh bear? He opposes everything our President does because he is an obvious racist; words that came from his own mouth.
Yet people vote for or defend these people. They are blinded by the light they shine that fools them into thinking what they say is true and right without having to back it up with facts. Look at their fruits. Are they spreading love, kindness and peace to their fellow humankind? Or are they spreading lies, hate and division. It is obvious. If you can’t see this, then I suggest some serious self-introspection.
Jesus cursed the fig tree that brought forth no fruit. He left it to live on the side of the road for all to see its deception. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, “Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever.” And presently the fig tree withered away (Matthew 21:19 - King James Version).
Be a light unto this world and reveal to everyone all those who lie, hate and create separation from the Oneness of God. It is our duty to God, others and ourselves to be a light unto this world. Peace and blessings to us all! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BE AN UNDERCOMER
I have read many posts and spiritual teachings about ‘overcoming’. By its definition, the word overcoming implies a struggle. It means to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy; to prevail over something; to overpower or overwhelm in body or mind (dictionary.com).
Overcoming is a result of resisting and fighting something until it succumbs to a superior force of will. It is the ego exercising its willpower in a quest to win out over some apparent obstacle. Overcoming evil, bad habits and nasty attitudes are activities of the ego and are short lived.
Something somewhere and sometime will trigger a self survival response from the ego that can undo all one’s ‘overcoming’. This is why some addictive personalities relapse into the security of comfortable behavior. The ego becomes satisfied when it perceives it has won out over some obstacle. This satisfaction can lead to complacency and lead to inappropriate action or simple inaction.
How about ‘undercoming’? Undercoming is an action where you simply let go of a perceived problem by turning it over to God. Isn’t it better to allow the Spirit of God to guide you into a state of the acceptance of Divine order? Isn’t trusting in God better than trusting in your ego?
Stop fighting, resisting and overcoming obstacles in life and simply allow the Spirit of God to bless you with peace, understanding and joy; a state where no apparent obstacle has any perceived power over you and you are free to be the expression of God’s love.
Choose to ‘undercome’ instead of overcome and remove fighting and resisting from your life. You will have less stress, better relationships and a more peaceful existence. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BE BOLD AND EXPECTANT
Be bold in declaring whom and what you were created to be. Why? Because what you have expected to happen has ALWAYS happened! Your accepted beliefs have forged your outlook on your world and your expressions of those beliefs in your behaviors have created the life you are living now.
Do you understand this? Even if some of your beliefs are erroneous you are living the results of those beliefs! Now is the time to discharge those erroneous beliefs and live from the truth in your heart. Co-create the reality you know you should be living in by expecting the BEST to happen for you AND for all whom you are interacting with in your life.
Be bold and declare the Avalanche of Appreciation from the Divine to elevate your Divine desires into your reality. When you move toward and become whom and what you were created to be Divine grace wells up in your life to bathe you with the passion of manifesting your innermost desires! Be bold and NOT timid.
Be bold and expectant of the bounty of God’s grace. Why? Because you ARE a child of the Most High and you were created to experience health, wealth, prosperity and abundance. You were created to live in peace, understanding, joy and Divine love. Be bold and expect those blessings to abound each and every day of your life; now and evermore! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” ~Quotation often attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe but in fact was written by William Hutchinson Murray (1913-1996), from his 1951 book entitled The Scottish Himalayan Expedition.
BEND OVER, WE'LL DRIVE
Corporations are NOT people but they are comprised OF people. Corporations are regulated to prevent the people who decide their policies from committing acts that undermine other PEOPLE and other CORPORATIONS! Greed and avarice originate in people as well as enlightenment; which is never confined to religion or churches. Religions and churches are like corporate structures and need to be regulated as well.
If religions and churches are more politically active in their community outreach then they should NOT have a non-profit tax structure. The reason for the non-profit status is for religions and churches to reach out and participate in their respective communities to help feed and clothe those of us who are socially challenged; whether due to lack of work, lack of proper training or familial issues that stifle being able to work full time.
When religions and churches participate in the political process they are extending their reach into areas that are beyond their ‘normal’ charge. However, when the political arena is ‘causing’ problems for their constituents by shipping jobs overseas, not raising wages to meet cost of living increases and allowing the corporate banks to charge excessive ‘fees’ to the people whose money they are using to make a huge profit, then their charge to help their constituents is now increased.
The balance of religious and corporate power is all at the behest of the banking industry and how they interact with business and people. There are so many elements at play that it would take weeks in the library for anyone to be able to fully comprehend the greed and avarice of the leaders in the banking industry. Do you know that banks make ‘day loans’ to each other with your money and make MILLIONS in ONE day and NEVER give you a piece of the action? They are unscrupulous and don’t give a damn about you or your family.
Move your monies to Federal Credit Unions and Factoring Companies that actually pay you for using your monies. Be focused on what religions, churches, banks and corporate leaders are doing in society. If you don’t, you will soon find that your savings and investments are being used to make more money for ‘them’ than they are in making more money for you. Be aware! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
I am in a contrary mood this morning. I have been suffering from a nasty toothache in my lower right jaw that feels like a stiletto twisting and turning in my gum. Yes, it’s made me ornery, but I have to express what I am feeling. Now, I know I’m going to piss some people off in this piece; so be it.
I have spent many years of my life as a musician, composer, engineer and producer. I got into music because I LOVED music and it flowed through me like water through a tap. It was the core of my life and I knew it. I also knew that music could be lucrative as a feast, or suffering in a famine. During the course of my career in music I lived through feast and famine. I did not choose a career in music because there was money in it. Not like .50 Cent (Fitty Cent?).
I just watched an interview with this former drug dealer turned ‘musician’ and the reason he got into music was because there was money in it. Now, with a fortune amassed over $60 million dollars from sales in ‘music’, clothing and VitaMin Water, he has supported world hunger organizations in Africa to help feed thousands. God bless him for extending himself into helping his ‘global’ community, however, what are his true motives? Is it ego or is it the Spirit of God? Listen to his ‘lyrics’ and discover who he really is!
During the course of my audio engineering career I have worked on over 100 Rap and Hip-Hop albums. I just don’t get it. Maybe I’m just an old white guy with an ear for melody and a feeling for syncopated rhythms, but I cannot understand or identify with either form as being ‘music’. They incorporate music into an urban poetic expression, but to call .50 Cent a musician is sacrilege. He is an opportunist, NOT a musician. I have had the privilege and honor of engineering in a recording studio with Marvin Gaye, Rick James and many Motown greats. Now THAT is music and they are musicians! R&B, Rock, Funk and Soul are true expressions from the heart that juxtapose lyrics with MUSIC; not repetitive ‘sounds’ that appear as music.
This entire generation has been exposed to ‘copying’ instead of ‘creating’. If you can copy what someone else does and make it your own, then you are talented. True; you ARE talented as a COPIER but NOT as a creator. Creators take the ‘raw’ materials of what has already been created and rearrange them into a NEW form of expression. They don’t take NEW forms of expression and COPY them adding new twists to their expressions.
Now, how hard was it for .50 Cent to ‘make it’? Right after his segment another guy who rented a kitchen from 3 AM to 6 AM every morning in New York City to jar his new pickle creations spent three hard years invested his time in ‘creating’ his own brand. He now has over a million dollars in sales and has his own kitchen. To me, this guy is more of a creator, hard worker and go-getter than .50 Cent will EVER be. And please, don’t tell me that I’m ‘prejudiced’. I have lived my whole life without being so. In fact, my mentor in the music business was Antonio Newton of Motown. He taught me more than any other musician about the soul of music AND about my own soul. Now he is a TRUE musician, composer, engineer, producer and Renaissance Man.
Stop glorifying those who copy what others do and put their own ‘twist’ on it. Start recognizing what true MUSIC is and not some distilled art form that utilizes elements of music and claims to be music. Look at things how they are and NOT what others tell you they are. Be original and NOT a copy of an original. That is why you are here! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT
When we relay an accurate account or story of what we have observed about an event, situation, circumstance, occurrence or a person’s behavior we must strive to be truthful in exactly what happened without embellishing what we have experienced. Every aspect that we experience from our account of what has happened must contain verifiable events that have occurred in order to maintain a state of consistent truth.
Individually perceived truth is suspect because it can be tainted by ego’s agenda in bending and twisting the truth to maintain its agenda of self survival. Physically perceived ‘truth’ is our perception of events by our senses as they occurred in that moment that we observed them. Emotional perceptions of the truth are reactions to those events that cause us to enter an immediate state of ‘fight or flight; we either run away from them or move toward them.
Mentally perceived truth allows us to logically analyze those events in order proact an outcome that is beneficial for ourselves and /or others. Spiritually perceived truth aligns itself with the collective manifestation of health, wealth, prosperity and abundance for all instead of the selfish manifestations of the ego.
The problem is that what occurred at the time of the event you have experienced no longer exists and if there is no method available that has recorded or ‘frozen time’ to verify what has occurred it is then subject to your ‘perceptions’ and hasn’t a ‘non-biased’ observer to verify your perceptions.
We all have skewed observed facts to meet what we ‘believe’ is the truth and any one that tried to convince you otherwise is a LIAR and is out to manifest a personal and selfish agenda! That’s why eyewitness testimony is the most unreliable evidence used to accurately verify events that have been experienced.
How do we then truly know what has happened? We sink down deep from the clouds of obscurity each and every day to remove our spirits from the external noise and chaos by making the time to meditate in communion with the Divine. Letting go of our external perceptions, emotional reactions and mental thoughts in silence and stillness affords us the peace of the inner spiritual realm. It is here where we experience clarity and focus, an inner perception of complete understanding and states of joy and agape. It is a daily welcome respite from the events and agendas of the chaotic external world. It is here where we can commune with the Creator of all perceived existence and know the truth that is beyond ALL observation.
When we receive inner Divine corroboration it too must meet the test of validity in order to be trusted. How do we know it is the truth? If it contributes to the growth and expansion of all and is not limited by any self-survival aspect of the truth it is from the Divine. Trusting in the Divine initiates the spiritual response of a complete understanding of the truth in what you have observed. We should trust our inner perception and not worry about what we emotionally feel ‘might’ happen.
In reference to reacting to what happens as a result of your perceptions and ‘worrying’ about what they mean, Jesus had something to say in regards to this in the Sermon on the Mount. He said, "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? "So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? "Therefore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?' or "What shall we drink?' or "What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 25-34).
Be honest in what you observe and do not worry about whether or not how it will affect yourself and others. It is what it is and trust enough in the Divine to see it through to its natural end in Divine order. Jesus told us what to do when he said, “Be ye therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48).
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