We have heard this expression time and time again and it pinpoints just what we are feeling at any given time. ‘Vibe’ in this sense is slang for vibration which is a feeling one gets that is not directly sensed but ‘felt’ from another. It is not something that is easily explained but is more known than sensed.
We all pick up vibrations from others as others pick up vibrations from us. But exactly, what are those ‘vibrations’? Are they inner feelings we get about someone based on pre-conceived notions of them or are they actual reactions to their vibrational state? In reality, vibrations are both surmised and real. Our inner psychic mental sense ‘picks up’ on another’s thoughts and vibrations from their body language and the meaning of their words. We react to their vibratory state by either moving away from them or moving toward them. It’s all in how we are experiencing their energy and our energy.
Remembering what has happened in the past concentrates our energy on that remembrance. Imagining a future occurrence is concentrating our energy on that possibility. Accepting where we are right now is concentrating energy on what we are experiencing in the moment. In each concentration of our energy we are creating a vibrational ‘point of attraction’ that we are broadcasting into our environment. Each time we ponder a thought and feel its vibration, we are broadcasting our vibrations into our environments and the matching vibration will be attracted to us.
The more and more we concentrate on our thoughts and feel their vibrations, the more we send out our ‘vibe’ into our environment. By observing what is going on in our lives we can see if it is matching what it is we are focusing on and emotionalizing in our lives. If it is not, then we are NOT thinking about what we want and feeling the joy from obtaining it. If we were, we would be experiencing it right now.
If we feel unfulfilled, depressed or lonely, then we are not thinking the thoughts and feeling the feelings of joy that come from being fulfilled, happy or loved. When we match the thoughts in our minds with the feelings in our hearts and revisit them every day, no matter whether they are of benefit to us or not, they will slowly begin to manifest in our lives when we allow them to be.
Daily creating a positive ‘expectant’ vibe of fulfillment, joy and accomplishment is what we will receive when we ‘allow’ ourselves to be whom and what we were created to be. ~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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The most intriguing question we can ever ask is the question about exactly what we are. Some say we are nothing more than bags of chemicals and water that came from supernovas; and that’s it! Some say that we are divine spirits that have come to live in these bodies to experience emotions. Others say that we just animals that think we are more than animals and come to learn that we are nothing more than animals.
Whatever we believe that we are is not necessarily what we truly are. It is what we believe we are. Beliefs are nothing more than repeated thoughts that we accept as true. We repeat them so often that they become incorporated into our belief systems that reside in our subconscious minds. When subjected to fight or flight scenarios we react more with what we have programmed we believe than what is actually happening. This is part of our inherent self-survival mechanism that is chemically triggered in our reptilian brain.
However, our intelligence can change these reactions into proactions by planning out what to do when negative scenarios unfold. Instead of reacting to what appears to be harmful, we can train ourselves to be proactive. Being proactive means “serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: [dictionary.com].” By learning what doesn’t work, we can reprogram ourselves to do what does work by simply making a plan and implementing it!
Here we are; an amalgam of all of our thoughts, ideas, feelings, beliefs, actions and behaviors. We are broadcasting all of whom and what we are into your environment and co-creating just what we are right now. Where are we? Do we trust in the still small voice of the Divine completely every day? Or are we trusting in that chaotic large voice of our egos steering us to be selfish, self-centered and rigid in our beliefs?
In the flexibility of spirit flows Divine truth and manifests every expression of life as thriving in Divine love. In the posturing of the ego we are treading water; surviving and not moving in a direction. We might think we are, but all positive fulfillments of our Divine purposes never comes from selfishness but in giving the very thing we desire the most to others lovingly.
By broadcasting Divine love continually and aligning ourselves with the blessings of Divine love, we will be manifesting our Divine purposes in Divine order. Otherwise, we will always be a victim to the expression of natural order from the very vibration we are actively broadcasting. When we change our broadcasting channel and live from faith and not from fear, we are living in Divine truth. We are worth it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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May Sutor and Dean A. Banks, D.D. have uploaded podcasts. Robert Yarbrough will be added soon. Just click on the podcasters placards below and click on the Podcast title. Currently there are five podcasts on Bobby Hinkle's page, one on Elizabeth Sutor's page and nine on Dean A. Banks, D.D.'s page. Stay tuned for more! Thank you for choosing us!
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:
http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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.
What we do with what we have determines how our Divine blessings will unfold within our hearts; for in the action of sharing our gifts of Divine grace with others we are fulfilling our Divine purposes in Divine order and contributing to the mutual growth and expansion of all life.
We are the instruments of Divine manifestation and when we hold back on what we know we must do and when we must do it, we are resisting the flow of the manifestation of Divine love in Divine order. Allowing the flow of Divine love to move through us unfettered by limiting and erroneous beliefs is the method by which we express and exude the benefits of health, wealth, prosperity and abundance. The results we experience in our lives are inner peace, Divine understanding, perpetual joy and Divine love; all key elements in our personal experience of divinity.
Without inner peace, we experience ongoing confrontation because we resist what we don't divinely understand. Without Divine understanding, we experience ongoing challenges because we resist what we experience as being not in our favor enough to bring us joy. Without perpetual joy, we experience ongoing frustration because we resist what we don't divinely love. Without embracing Divine love, we experience isolation because we resist being a part of the Divine whole of existence which maintains inner peace amid apparent chaos.
The keys to living a fulfilled life are in maintaining our inner peace, always seeking Divine understanding in all of our experiences, living in perpetual joy by expressing gratitude to all of life and feeling the presence of Divine love deep within our hearts with each and every breath we take and give.
By practicing prayer, meditation and service, we lead ourselves into the flow of Divine love which brings us health, wealth, prosperity and abundance. Divine love brings inner joy, the spirit of understanding and the essence of inner peace. We become fulfilled when we regularly and consistently communicate with the Divine by taking the necessary steps to do so.
As a living and breathing child of the Divine every thought, feeling, action and expression of our being moves the omniverse to co-create our perception of reality. We must be diligent in what we think, feel, speak and express in the actions and behaviors that we manifest; for they are tools of our experiences and the perceptions of our understanding of our mutual inner divinity. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SPIRITUAL BOOKS
CONSULTATION
WHAT YOU DON'T SEE
Take a moment and look at one of your fingernails. There are as many atoms in your fingernail as there are stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Your fingernail is a collection of atoms that form molecules and chemical structures that are perceived by you as your fingernail. The glue that holds all of these atoms and molecules together are hidden forces which we don’t perceive.
The reason you are able to read this is because an unseen force known as magnetism is operating according to rules, principles and laws that are observed in the omniverse and harnessed by your computer. From the microcosm to the macrocosm everything is connected by these unseen forces that govern all of existence. Just because we can’t directly sense them doesn’t mean that they are not here.
We observe the aggregate effect of these perceptions and copy images of them into our brains. When we observe repeated events that yield specific results we come to believe that is the way it is. However, when we come to know that our observations are merely reflections of how we affect these unseen energies we soon come to know that our thoughts, feelings, words, actions and behaviors are expressions that co-create our realities.
We always see what we ultimately want to see because it is ultimately a part of us. We are all connected and we all affect our environments as our environments affect us. Knowing this, isn’t it better to give Divine love to all? Isn’t it better to give your best in service to others? Isn’t it better to support life ‘as it is’ instead of what you ‘believe’ it should be? When we live in this world and try to control, dominate and manipulate others instead of seeking to live in peace together, we either live to get along or end up killing each other; whether figuratively or literally.
There is infinitely more going on than we can ever see and observe. We see the end result of energies and matter and co-create thoughts and feelings that ‘modify’ what we observe and create perceptions that define what we see and their effect on us. These perceptions are copies of reality and NOT reality itself.
Stop trusting others and yourself to decide what is right and wrong with the world. Trust God. Trust the one who has created it all and set up the rules of the game. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHEN WE
Is it true that we are in control of everything we realize, allow and do? Do we have the power to control, dominate or manipulate others’ behaviors to our own ends? Are we so self-absorbed that we cannot see how our behaviors are manifesting our ego’s selfish agendas? Could it be that we are so programmed from birth in our societies to look out for number one more than look out for every one?
We are an aggregate of many things that we decide are either beneficial to us or detrimental to us. We move toward what makes us experience pleasure and we move away from what brings us pain. We live our lives looking for what allows us to be joyous and ultimately happy, when in fact we already are within. We don’t experience joy and happiness because we keep looking outside of ourselves instead of looking within.
It is up to us to choose exactly what we desire the most in our lives OVER the immediate and selfish yearnings of self-gratification. By allowing our greater good to flow through us instead of striving to fulfill the yearnings of our egos, we move closer to unfolding our Divine purposes in Divine order. It is in our realization of our divine purpose that we begin to become whom and what we were created to be. It is in our allowance of Divine guidance that we learn how to become whom and what we were created to be. It is in our knowing that we have to let go of how things unfold that we actualize whom and what we were created to be. Following are nine steps to losing our ego’s control and accepting and allowing Divine guidance:
When we allow our egos to retaliate, we have lost control.
When we allow our egos to judge another instead of their behavior, we have lost control.
When we allow our limited senses to misdirect us, we have lost control.
When we allow our beliefs to blind us to the truth, we have lost control.
When we realize that we have lost control, we have gained insight.
When we have gained insight, we realize that we were never in control.
When we know that we were never in control, we start to allow that which is beyond our control to control our lives.
When we allow what is beyond us to control our lives, we are becoming whom and what we were created to be.
When we live in grace, Divine love and ongoing peace we are allowing and being whom and what we were created to be; now and evermore.
Be that which you were created to be now and evermore! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WELCOME TO TSP DAILY!
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.
When your back is against the wall and there looks like there is no way out, trust in God and let your burdens go. I say this all of the time and today it happened before my very eyes. Something that seemed impossible to resolve in the morning was solved by the end of the day. When I was overwhelmed with no possibilities this morning and it was getting worse by the minute, I shut everything off and entered my inner sanctum of peace with the Divine. I released the perceptions of not being able to solve these problems, felt them leaving my being and completely trusted in God to manifest a solution that is best for all.
I went about my day after meditation and gave no more attention to the thoughts of negativity pounding in my head. I discharged them and simply said, “It is in your hands. You know what to do and I trust you to do what is best for all.” Within hours I received a call out of nowhere that solved the problem and then some. I received more than I asked for and immediately gave thanks for it. I stopped, took a moment to reflect and gave thanks to the Divine for living in grace.
The Divine IS the Creator of the entire omniverse and there is NOTHING that is beyond the Divine’s power to implement solutions in Divine order. I witnessed that today and I’m sharing this with you for you to know that the Divine is there for you just as the Divine was there for me today.
Stop listening to the chaotic small voice of the ego telling you that there is no way out. There is always a way out of a problem when you listen to the still small voice of God and trust in the Divine completely. My experience in the past has shown me that I have to trust God until the 59th second of the 59th minute of the 11th hour for Divine order to manifest.
It requires faith in knowing that God is there to protect you from harm and can do a much better job at it than your ego. Your ego will fight and resist what it perceives is against you and will create more problems than it will alleviate. It is when you trust in the Divine completely that miracles happen. Doors open that were once locked; pathways are revealed that were once obscured; and relationships that were not known become apparent.
Have faith in what you cannot see and trust in what you do not know. Do not waiver in your faith or your trust in the Divine and the best for all will appear before your very eyes. Peace. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHERE ARE YOU
RIGHT NOW?
Where you are right now determines what you believe you can do to become what you know you are down deep inside. Following are nine identifications of self that can help guide you to a deeper understanding of life and feel the joy of living it:
Your peace is not dependent on others; it is dependent on your allowing it to be the most important thing in your life.
Your joy is not dependent on things outside of you; it comes from the presence of Divine love within you.
Your understanding of others comes from an understanding of yourself. When you know just who and what you are you are able to understand who and what others are; the individualized expressions of Divine love!
Your ability to share Divine love with all is not dependent on what others do to you; it is what you do to yourself.
Your state of health is not dependent on external things that you perceive you cannot control; it is based on what thoughts, ideas and feelings you hold as true and the resistance to your natural state of perfection.
Your state of wealth is not dependent on the economy and other external factors that you perceive you cannot control; it is based on your attitude about your natural state of wealth and the resistance to your worthiness to experience it.
Your state of ongoing prosperity is not dependent on what others do to invest in your lifestyle; it is based on your acceptance of your talents, skills and abilities and your allowance of their expressions in helping others
Your ability to accept omniversal abundance is not dependent on what you perceive as true; it is based on your allowing Divine love to flow through you completely every day of your life.
Where you are right now is a result of where you have been, what you have accepted as true and what beliefs you have forged as a result. When you are rigid, opportunities for growth and expansion pass through you and around you; when you are flexible, you move with the flow and absorb what you need to do, when you need to do it and who you need to do it with for the betterment of all. Be that which you truly are and you will be doing everyone a favor! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHERE'S YOUR ATTENTION?
Attention is “a concentration of the mind on a single object or thought, especially one preferentially selected from a complex, with a view to limiting or clarifying receptivity by narrowing the range of stimuli” [dictionary.com]. In other words, giving your attention to something requires focusing on it without allowing any distractions from interfering with your focus. However, your beliefs that are housed in your belief system filter your observations and help forge your perceptions of your experiences. Your perceptions are the electro-chemical copies of your observations from your senses that allow you to become aware of, know, or identify events, occurrences, situations, circumstances or the behaviors of objects and/or beings. These observations are filtered through your belief system in order for you to recognize, discern, envision, or understand exactly what they mean to you; whether they are threatening or supporting your survival.
When you allow your beliefs, whether accurate or erroneous to pre-occupy your attention, you are attaching these beliefs to your experiences and are programming your subconscious mind to ‘react’ to them in the future according to your evaluation of their purpose toward you. In effect, you are coloring their occurrences with your pre-defined perceptions in order to ensure your self-survival. As you continue to focus on thinking and speaking more about your experiential beliefs your internal vibration co-creates an inner state of acceptance or rejection. When you accept or reject your focus over and over again, it becomes anchored as a belief in your belief system. If the belief is accurate, then you can utilize it to protect you in the future; if your belief is erroneous, then you will revert to it based on the fear that it will somehow threaten your survival.
Beliefs are programmed by repeating focused thoughts that you give your attention to over and over again. You accept them as true without proving their validity. You align yourself with your beliefs out of fear more than 'faithing' in what you don’t understand. When your attention is continually focused on fulfilling and reinforcing your beliefs, your experiences will expand to allow you to recognize your acceptance of those beliefs as being valid even though they could possibly not be valid. You are caught in a self-fulfilling prophecy loop that you cannot see beyond because it maintains your comfort zone.
Your attention to anything brings your focus of attention into your experience whether it is beneficial to you or not! It is only when you stop resisting that which you ‘believe’ is detrimental to your growth and expansion that you come to a place where you allow your experiences to pass ‘through’ you without attaching ANY emotional reactions to it. If your dominant vibration is to only ‘believe’ what you have learned from your past experiences then you will repeatedly encounter events, occurrences, situations, circumstances and behaviors that reinforce those beliefs. However, if your dominant vibration puts a check on your beliefs by allowing your intuition to guide you into ‘knowing’, then no matter what you experience you will understand that it is there for a purpose and that purpose is for you to grow and expand into that which your were created to be.
It is in NOT attaching any beliefs to your experiences that you become a channel for your inner well-being to co-create exactly what you were created to be. You are NOT your beliefs; they are by-products of your feelings about your experiences! Your experiences ALWAYS match your dominant thoughts about your beliefs! Your beliefs will always be performed on your stage of life because you have chosen them to be and reinforced their ongoing existence. Life flows where your attention goes. Make sure that you are focusing on what you KNOW more than what you believe and you will surely grow and expand into that which you are meant to be and NOT what your beliefs have chosen you to be! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHERE WERE YOU?
Where were you when you knew just what you had to do to become who and what you were created to be? Were you in the middle of something unimportant? Were you on the phone? Were you dreaming? Whatever you were doing you were being blessed with clarity of purpose. Divine love was gently touching you with inspiration, intuition and understanding of your Divine purpose. You were, in that moment, being completely blessed by the Divine.
Were you grateful? Were you thankful for being blessed? Were you aware enough to realize that you have to do something about it? Or did you just go about your business, forget the blessing and return to a life of mediocrity?
Whatever you chose to do has set the tone for your life until you act on what was revealed to you. This means that you have to let go of any and all distractions to unfolding your Divine purpose in Divine order. It means that you have no more excuses to be mediocre. It means that you have obtained clarity of purpose and it is now up to you to act on that purpose.
Where you go from here is totally up to you. Will you pursue your dreams? Will you act on what was revealed? Or will you end up sitting in a rocking chair in the distant future lamenting over what you could have done? It is your choice.
You have been given the gifts of your Divine purpose, the awareness to know it and the abilities to experience it. The only one that is holding you back is you. Discard your erroneous beliefs, get out of your way and trust in the Divine completely. If you don’t, then you will remember that Divine moment of revelation the rest of your life and not know the joy of living it in Divine order.
That moment is a gift. That gift is the present (pun intended). Being here now in the moment and reliving the feelings of that blessing reminds you of the eternity of your dreams, desires and goals. You were created with a Divine purpose and it is up to you to unfold it in Divine order by praying for guidance; meditating to listen to that guidance; and serving humankind by acting on that guidance.
Please, listen to the Divine within and grow and expand into what you were created to be. Nothing else is more important than being you; the YOU that the Divine created you to be! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
People some of the times believe that evil will get theirs in the end. And what end is that? The end of a situation? The end of their lives? We might not ever know but one thing is for sure, you WILL reap what you sow. You will receive a harvest from the effort, or lack thereof, of the work that you perform.
When you lie, cheat and steal you might get away with it for a season or two, but your own guilt, karma and misalignment with Divine order will be your own undoing. If you are an egomaniac, guilt will never be an issue because you feel that just because you are you; and that you are justified in your actions.
If you are focused on self-reliance alone, karma will kick in to teach you that you are not the only fish in the sea. If you continually live in misalignment with Divine order, then one opportunity to grow and expand after another will pass you by because you are not willing to share Divine love with others.
Many fool themselves into believing that it is just their actions that will make God love them; nothing could be further from the truth. What is in your heart and the intention that results in your mind is what allows you to experience the peace, understanding and the joy of living in Divine love.
Sow the seeds of greatness in others and leave them alone unless they ask for help. Divine order will germinate those seeds when it is appropriate for them. The farmer never digs up the seeds to see if they have taken root; he trusts in nature to do what it does to make the seeds grow and expand toward the light.
Be a giver of Divine seeds and allow others to grow and expand at their own rate. Those who lie, cheat and steal will experience what they have sown in Divine order. It is not your job to help them get there; it IS your job to let them go and continue your journey through life.
You are here for a Divine purpose; express that purpose by sharing Divine love! Pray for Divine guidance; meditate to listen to Divine guidance; go out into your community and share that Divine guidance with everyone you meet. The perfection of divine love will bless you with health, wealth, prosperity and abundance everlasting! Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHO IS WATCHING?
Think about this for a moment: Before ‘life’ came about, who observed the growth, expansion and of the formation of the omniverse as we know it today? Without life, the omniverse could not look back at itself and sense exactly what it is. Energy expanded and cooled and congealed into matter along the scaffolding of dark matter and expanded from the repulsive force of dark energy.
Inherent in the structure of all that exists is the formula for life. Life grew out of the raw materials of creation because its archetype was ever-present, even though it was not yet realized. Much like the presence of an oak tree is ‘hidden’ within the acorn.
We exist in a ‘Goldilocks’ zone in our galaxy and solar system that optimized the omniversal ‘pieces’ of the puzzle to allow life to unfold. If we were any closer to the center of our galaxy, we would be subject to more radiation and gravity than would allow life to unfold. If we were any further out from the center of the galaxy, our Sun might not have ever ignited. If we were any closer to our Sun, we would burn up or any further we would freeze to death. Amid all of these valid variables, life, as was referred to by Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park said, "No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way."
Life comes from the outpouring of Divine love and it is immutable and unstoppable. The omniverse contains the necessary elements of Divine desire to recreate what has already been created into the energy of consciousness that ‘looks back at itself’ in wonderment of the creation.
We are the by-product of what the omniverse does; grow life out of itself. We have the ability to recognize this and take an ‘omniversal’ viewpoint instead of a selfish one. We are not the be all and end all of existence. Thinking and feeling that we are is the epitome of arrogance. We are, however, the channel through which the Divine expresses Divine love and it is our duty to accept that and be that.
Without the expression of Divine love we would NOT be here at all. We are not just a thought in the mind of God, but the eyes, ears, arms and legs that co-create reality through our individual awareness. We are the children of the Most High who should live in ongoing gratitude and thankfulness for the gifts of the spirit that we have freely received through Divine grace.
We are all in this soup of energy, matter, dark matter and dark energy and as a result we are all connected and inextricably tied to one another. We are one with our omniversal environment and with the Spirit of God within. The only thing that separates us is our awareness of that fact; it is our opinions of life that are promulgated by our beliefs and therein lays the secret to unfolding our Divine purposes in Divine order.
In essence, every day we need to ‘get out of our own way’ by minimizing the yearnings of our egos to control, dominate and manipulate life and accentuate the Divine desires within to live in health, wealth, prosperity and abundance. The omniverse projects these qualities and its longevity has proven its worth.
Reflect what is ‘in the soup’ by understanding and projecting Divine love into the omniverse. It IS our collective mission in life and will result in peace, understanding, joy and love forever more. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHOSE GOSPEL?
Something wonderful happened to me in Seminary School. I had to research the Bible intensely and the more I dug down deep, the more I discovered that the preachers of Protestantism were preaching the Gospel of Paul and NOT Jesus Christ! They were attaching their own emotional agendas to the Word and lying to their constituents. Of course, in their own minds they weren’t ‘lying’ but being moved in the spirit. What they were truly doing was being moved by their egos to gain the attention, approval and favor of their ‘flocks’!
The ego ALWAYS has a stake in the ‘game’, so to speak; whereas in the truthfulness of spirit there is no stake in the game. It is truth being channeled by Divine love from your spirit into the omniverse. When you interrupt the flow of that spirit by attaching the ego’s agenda, you are, in effect, making your own ‘gospel’ of how things are or should be.
The Dispensationalists were famous for this because they followed the writings of John Nelson Darby (1800–82). His writings focused on the eschatological account of the Book of Revelation as coming sometime in the future. He had NO basis in fact for this, yet many Protestant sects of Christianity fall for this B.S. (along with the Rapture) hook, line and sinker! They preach more from the Gospel of Paul then the Gospel of Jesus (Yeshua).
There are many contradictions between what Yeshua said and what Paul said, yet those who have followed what Paul said have caused more division and separation between people than any other religion. Don’t you think that if Jesus is the central figure of Christianity that you would follow more of what he said than one of his followers? Especially one who persecuted and KILLED Christians! There is no solid evidence of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, yet many swallow that story hook, line and sinker. Why? Because Paul knew how to convince people of his veracity by his passionate speech.
Stop proselytizing yourself and others to see the way you ‘believe’ things are and allow the Spirit of God to reveal things AS they are. No human being has the entire picture and if they claim to, then that means that they, in actuality, don’t know enough to realize that such a claim is a fool’s fancy. The ego always wants to corner the market on the truth whereas the Spirit of God doesn’t have to; it is the TRUTH! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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