REFLECTIONS BEGINNING AT 58 MINUTES INTO THE THIRTEENTH TIME WE HAVE COME BACK TO SEPTEMBER 11Th.
I've been missing you, Beloved. Have spent the past few days bouncing back and forth between Symantec Norton Antivirus techs and VAIO techs. Had malware on my laptop hard drive that I apparently acquired about a month ago.
Looks like now I will have to reformat the drive and put the VAIO system and everything else back on the hard drive. Bought the E series VAIO in December of 2012. Have had to start from scratch over eight times and there have been two sessions with hardware and memory replacement when the laptop had to go back to Texas to the Sony repair facility.
Over all, I think it has been a case of the technology being too far ahead of whatever else was out there . . . compounded with many problems between the VAIO and way Windows 8 and 8.1 operating systems work on it.
Life in cyberspace can sometimes add to the difficulties of life on Earth . . . :-(
Very sad case in point that in two minutes it will be 1 am on September 11, 2014.
Has it really been thirteen years?
May the Lord continue to bless, protect, guard, guide, heal and comfort you on this day of sad memories and all the 13 years of compounding sadness and evil since and continuing on and on in a way that seems to have no end.
Nevertheless we are promised that there WILL be an end to evil and strife, sadness and horrors. We can trust in the Lord that He is more powerful than anything that can come against us when we know we are loved by Him, trust Him and live in His Love and Grace.
Really.
Truly.
Keep remembering whatever is happening or has happened or will happen that if love, grace, mercy, kindness, joy and peace have not become triumphant yet, it is not the end.
The more we trust the Fullness of Love, Light, Life and Truth -- God in Christ by the power of His Holy Spirit -- the more we are able to endure, survive, conquer our fears and serve the Lord.
We do this by acting out God's love, compassion, faithfulness, grace, mercy, joy and loving kindness with the Lord's help.
We do this by sharing all that we have, beginning with prayers, joy and peace with everyone who is in or who comes into our lives.
And two important universal principles set out by the Creator:
1. You cannot out-give the Lord. True love in action has no ulterior motive of gain, but when we reflect the love we have been given, the Fullness of Love that IS pours blessings down on us with the same measure we have used, but multiplied. (See Luke 6:38.)
2. Not only does God forgive us, that forgiveness is available all the time to everyone because of the life, suffering, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ Jesus. Sadly, some people refuse to believe the forgiveness and mercy that is already theirs. We must try harder to help them know they are loved by actively loving them, not with words, but by sharing.
More than that, say you have tripped into temptation or deliberately hurt someone, or done anything else that separates you from Love and Peace. You feel miserable and the Holy Spirit helps you to be able to ask forgiveness of the Lord. That forgiveness is already yours, just waiting for you to open the spiritual channel from Heaven into your heart to be able to receive mercy, grace, peace, love, forgiveness and righteousness.
Our Father in Heaven, our Abba/Daddy who we are able to know and love, continually and always answers His one and only begotten Son's plea that was made while He hung on the Cross. Jesus asked His Father in Heaven to forgive those who tortured and executed Him because "they know not what they do," by wiping out the transgressions and completely forgetting them.
So the punishment of all past present and future sins are removed as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:2) and forever forgotten (Hebrews 8:12).
Therefore when you go to the Lord to ask forgiveness the second time for doing again what has already been forgiven (or the third, fourth, fifth . . . seven hundreth and seventy seventh time), and you say, "Abba, please forgive me in Jesus Name, I did it again."
Because He has forgotten it completely by forgiving you the first time, the Lord will answer you, "Forgive what again?"
Really.
Truly.
Absolutely.
Believe it or not.
BUT ACTUALLY, WITH MY WHOLE HEART, I WANT YOU TO BELIEVE IT.
If you need help believing, just ask the Lord. He will help you come to know and believe in exactly the way you need to know.
Really
Truly.
Absolutely.
I'm praying you will open the door of your heart even ever so slightly. Love will then come in and fill you in just the right way in just the right timing for you personally.
The step from the spiritual darkness and deep fearful scarcity into glorious Light and Lively Abundance is symbolized by the image of being in a sealed cave facing the blocked entrance. Nothing even seems to exist. Then all of a sudden you may watch the stone being rolled away so that the sunlight streams in changing terror in the unseen emptiness into overflowing joy.
May the Lord continue to bless and keep you in ways you are not even aware so that you may one moment be changed from one who doubts to one who believes.
And if you already have come to believe in the Good News of God's love in Christ Jesus, may you be drawn ever deeper into the Heart of the Fullness of Love while you continue to grow into the person you were created to be.
In Jesus' Name I pray. Alleluia! Amen.
P.S. A dear friend who is a wonderful evangelist says that for someone not raised to know the Lord, he or she needs about 900 loving invitations to come to believe. I've lost count, but I'm working toward that for you, Beloved, praying all the way.
P.P.S. Of course it doesn't have to be 900 times by the same person. This is for those who are trusting the Lord that their loved ones and everyone they know will come to believe. Don't give up even if you do not see the fruit of your efforts. What counts is not that you keep talking, but that you keep loving.
I've been missing you, Beloved. Have spent the past few days bouncing back and forth between Symantec Norton Antivirus techs and VAIO techs. Had malware on my laptop hard drive that I apparently acquired about a month ago.
Looks like now I will have to reformat the drive and put the VAIO system and everything else back on the hard drive. Bought the E series VAIO in December of 2012. Have had to start from scratch over eight times and there have been two sessions with hardware and memory replacement when the laptop had to go back to Texas to the Sony repair facility.
Over all, I think it has been a case of the technology being too far ahead of whatever else was out there . . . compounded with many problems between the VAIO and way Windows 8 and 8.1 operating systems work on it.
Life in cyberspace can sometimes add to the difficulties of life on Earth . . . :-(
Very sad case in point that in two minutes it will be 1 am on September 11, 2014.
Has it really been thirteen years?
May the Lord continue to bless, protect, guard, guide, heal and comfort you on this day of sad memories and all the 13 years of compounding sadness and evil since and continuing on and on in a way that seems to have no end.
Nevertheless we are promised that there WILL be an end to evil and strife, sadness and horrors. We can trust in the Lord that He is more powerful than anything that can come against us when we know we are loved by Him, trust Him and live in His Love and Grace.
Really.
Truly.
Keep remembering whatever is happening or has happened or will happen that if love, grace, mercy, kindness, joy and peace have not become triumphant yet, it is not the end.
The more we trust the Fullness of Love, Light, Life and Truth -- God in Christ by the power of His Holy Spirit -- the more we are able to endure, survive, conquer our fears and serve the Lord.
We do this by acting out God's love, compassion, faithfulness, grace, mercy, joy and loving kindness with the Lord's help.
We do this by sharing all that we have, beginning with prayers, joy and peace with everyone who is in or who comes into our lives.
And two important universal principles set out by the Creator:
1. You cannot out-give the Lord. True love in action has no ulterior motive of gain, but when we reflect the love we have been given, the Fullness of Love that IS pours blessings down on us with the same measure we have used, but multiplied. (See Luke 6:38.)
2. Not only does God forgive us, that forgiveness is available all the time to everyone because of the life, suffering, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ Jesus. Sadly, some people refuse to believe the forgiveness and mercy that is already theirs. We must try harder to help them know they are loved by actively loving them, not with words, but by sharing.
More than that, say you have tripped into temptation or deliberately hurt someone, or done anything else that separates you from Love and Peace. You feel miserable and the Holy Spirit helps you to be able to ask forgiveness of the Lord. That forgiveness is already yours, just waiting for you to open the spiritual channel from Heaven into your heart to be able to receive mercy, grace, peace, love, forgiveness and righteousness.
Our Father in Heaven, our Abba/Daddy who we are able to know and love, continually and always answers His one and only begotten Son's plea that was made while He hung on the Cross. Jesus asked His Father in Heaven to forgive those who tortured and executed Him because "they know not what they do," by wiping out the transgressions and completely forgetting them.
So the punishment of all past present and future sins are removed as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:2) and forever forgotten (Hebrews 8:12).
Therefore when you go to the Lord to ask forgiveness the second time for doing again what has already been forgiven (or the third, fourth, fifth . . . seven hundreth and seventy seventh time), and you say, "Abba, please forgive me in Jesus Name, I did it again."
Because He has forgotten it completely by forgiving you the first time, the Lord will answer you, "Forgive what again?"
Really.
Truly.
Absolutely.
Believe it or not.
BUT ACTUALLY, WITH MY WHOLE HEART, I WANT YOU TO BELIEVE IT.
If you need help believing, just ask the Lord. He will help you come to know and believe in exactly the way you need to know.
Really
Truly.
Absolutely.
I'm praying you will open the door of your heart even ever so slightly. Love will then come in and fill you in just the right way in just the right timing for you personally.
The step from the spiritual darkness and deep fearful scarcity into glorious Light and Lively Abundance is symbolized by the image of being in a sealed cave facing the blocked entrance. Nothing even seems to exist. Then all of a sudden you may watch the stone being rolled away so that the sunlight streams in changing terror in the unseen emptiness into overflowing joy.
May the Lord continue to bless and keep you in ways you are not even aware so that you may one moment be changed from one who doubts to one who believes.
And if you already have come to believe in the Good News of God's love in Christ Jesus, may you be drawn ever deeper into the Heart of the Fullness of Love while you continue to grow into the person you were created to be.
In Jesus' Name I pray. Alleluia! Amen.
P.S. A dear friend who is a wonderful evangelist says that for someone not raised to know the Lord, he or she needs about 900 loving invitations to come to believe. I've lost count, but I'm working toward that for you, Beloved, praying all the way.
P.P.S. Of course it doesn't have to be 900 times by the same person. This is for those who are trusting the Lord that their loved ones and everyone they know will come to believe. Don't give up even if you do not see the fruit of your efforts. What counts is not that you keep talking, but that you keep loving.
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