This morning, during my spiritual exercises, I entered the heavens even deeper.

One thing that I knew contributed to this, was yesterday's fasting, coupled with spiritual exercises.

Fasting is an exercise I started first on health ground. As my thread on Health Without Drugs...(Health session) reveals.

There is tremendous power (mental and spiritual, even physical) that comes with a light body. It's no wonder some in silicon valley engage in it regularly.

I posit that the ultimate benefit of combining fasting with spiritual exercises doesn't come during the process. It comes after.

During today's session of praises, after yesterday's fast and prayers, ah! The bliss is unspeakable.

#Experiencing God.

With Love.

During my spiritual wanderings, at a point I delved into Psychology and Philosophy. Finally, I settled for: Existential Psychology and Stoic Philosophy.

It was exciting and intellectually stimulating being absorbed in that world.

After the initial euphoria, it didn't deeply satisfy. I was back, on the look out for that spiritual wand.

Getting tired of theology in it's many facets. The arguments, debates, opinions, doctrines, creeds, etc. I decided to focus on things all Christians agreeis good - Virtues.

I still enjoy books on psychology and philosophy. I believe the first is even essential to one's walk with God.

Some believers have suffered mental health issues, because they were not balanced. Engaging in fervent long spiritual exercises, without due consideration on their mental capacity.

If you are going deep into spiritual exercises, look for a good resource to understand the mind. The mind shouldn't carry more than it can handle at a time. If it does repeatedly, it will eventually bust.

How do you know when the leakages commence: First you will find it increasingly difficult to function in other area of life.

In that case, slow down take a break. The spirit also needs your mind. Don't destroy it.

#Experiencing God.

With Love.

Templee333:
God is all knowing but unknowable. That's the ultimate explanation of God that I can give. Another way round is that God is everywhere and in everything. That being said, HE is the ultimate source of everything that exist.

You just said that God cannot be known......then how do you know that he is everywhere and in everything?

‭‭Jonah‬ ‭4:11‬
And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

I should view people who make a practice of vice, same way God views them in this verse. I shouldn't write them off. I am not the Judge.

‭‭John‬ ‭3:5‭-‬6‬
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

To understand spiritual things, beyond the letters I must be born of the water and spirit. Moreso, the Master - Jesus - says it is a criteria to enter the kingdom of God.


Experiencing God.


With Love

It was a conference of a Pentecostal church. A guest speaker spoke for fifteen minutes, just by connecting verses from the bible. He only had to add connections such as: and, or etc

Wow! I found it amazing, how one person can have so much mastery of biblical verses.

As at then, I have covered the bible twelve times Gen. to Rev.

Yet, for the life of me, I could not come up with that amount of uplifting bible verses off hand. Though, I had enough for an argument/debate on biblical subjects.

So, I went to work. In addition to reading the bible, I also decided to meditate on uplifting bible verses.

I grouped these verses under three categories (may share that later). Spooled out about twenty verses under each header.

Allocated a portion of my time for spiritual exercises to meditating on these verses.

The impact has been great.

First I have been able to commit to memory some of these verses.

Secondly, I have been able to use them in channeling a temptation upwards, during meditation, and in advicing/encouraging others.

Third one of these categories have manifested year in and year out.

I have also improved tremendously in the second category.

The third, is my focus for now. It will also manifest, as I keep on sounding God's word on thus subject deeply into my spirit and mind and practically doing all I ought to.

#Experiencing God.

With Love.

Michael547:

You just said that God cannot be known......then how do you know that he is everywhere and in everything?

i'm not for argument, you are free to explain your God anyhow you know.

Templee333:
i'm not for argument, you are free to explain your God anyhow you know.

Oh ok....now I get....God is anything we can imagine. You should have made it clear that you were just imagining.

LordReed:


Well if you can achieve this without a god how are you able to tell the difference?

Man by default loves life (is good) but has capacity to play out the converse of good. We have it in us.

How the above means is in the case where a kid cries for the Christmas chicken when it's being slaughtered. Even some adults cannot use the knife to take the chickens life.

Is that really so that man is good (and bad) by default? :

Yes.

Why "yes"?

Well, we look into the big laboratory of facts and life around us:

Sweden is noted to be one of the most atheist countries, such countries happen to be the most peaceful and compliant with the '10 commandments'.

Lesson: Love is actually the main business, not religion or believe in any deity. We have it by default.

This is actually the "God" you've been hearing of in the practical and real sense. Religions merely had it mixed up and replaced with ETs.

chieveboy:


Man by default loves life (is good) but has capacity to play out the converse of good. We have it in us.

How the above means is in the case where a kid cries for the Christmas chicken when it's being slaughtered. Even some adults cannot use the knife to take the chickens life.

Is that really so that man is good (and bad) by default? :

Yes.

Why "yes"?

Well, we look into the big laboratory of facts and life around us:

Sweden is noted to be one of the most atheist countries, such countries happen to be the most peaceful and compliant with the '10 commandments'.

Lesson: Love is actually the main business, not religion or believe in any deity. We have it by default.

This is actually the "God" you've been hearing of in the practical and real sense. Religions merely had it mixed up and replaced with ETs.

Ok so it's basically dressing what is very much human capacity in religious garb.

LordReed:


Ok so it's basically dressing what is very much human capacity in religious garb.

Exactly.

This is bad and good at the same time, I mean the dressing...

chieveboy:


Exactly.

This is bad and good at the same time, I mean the dressing...

How good is the dressing if at minimum it obscures the truth? Talk less of when it's used to hoodwink people.

LordReed:


How good is the dressing if at minimum it obscures the truth? Talk less of when it's used to hoodwink people.

This is owing to human nature and anything material. If it is not constantly renewed, supervised, monitored and all, it gets old (corrupt).

Also, some cannot accept or access truth until presented by an authority, figure or institution. Truth in itself requires not all of that.

It's a problem of the material universe.

chieveboy:


This is owing to human nature and anything material. If it is not constantly renewed, supervised, monitored and all, it gets old (corrupt).

Also, some cannot accept or access truth until presented by an authority, figure or institution. Truth in itself requires not all of that.

It's a problem of the material universe.

I don't think giving agency to what is essentially a lie is a problem of the material universe. Sounds more like a problem people invented to shortchange themselves.

LordReed:


I don't think giving agency to what is essentially a lie is a problem of the material universe. Sounds more like a problem people invented to shortchange themselves.

Interestingly, without a lie, there can't be truth. This is the fundamental nature of the material world I was talking about.

If that be so, a lie is essentially truth since it is infinitely linked. Same with darkness, it is infinitely linked to light.

chieveboy:


Interestingly, without a lie, there can't be truth. This is the fundamental nature of the material world I was talking about.

If that be so, a lie is essentially truth since it is infinitely linked. Same with darkness, it is infinitely linked to light.

You have that backwards, it is because of truth that lies exist. And lies are not essentially truth, that is an equivocation fallacy. Light being linked with darkness doesn't make darkness light.

LordReed:


You have that backwards, it is because of truth that lies exist. And lies are not essentially truth, that is an equivocation fallacy. Light being linked with darkness doesn't make darkness light.

It doesn't matter which is placed before which, the road leads back to Rome by the end of the day.

Whether you say it is dark because there is no light or that there is light because darkness exists doesn't matter so long as neither can exist without the other.

Both the head and tail of a coin are actually chilling together as a coin.

This is what the easterners mean by the below image

chieveboy:


It doesn't matter which is placed before which, the road leads back to Rome by the end of the day.

Whether you say it is dark because there is no light or that there is light because darkness exists doesn't matter so long as neither can exist without the other.

Both the head and tail of a coin are actually chilling together as a coin.

This is what the easterners mean by the below image

Huh? Truth can exist without lies so it doesn't follow at all.

LordReed:


Huh? Truth can exist without lies so it doesn't follow at all.

It's like a law, the moment you make one, you create a crime or criminal offense in the sense. If the law doesn't exists, then it can't be broken.

The moment a truth exists, then a lie can be made of that truth.

chieveboy:


It's like a law, the moment you make one, you create a crime or criminal offense in the sense. If the law doesn't exists, then it can't be broken.

The moment a truth exists, then a lie can be made of that truth.

It doesn't mean a lie instantly forms when a truth begins. You are trying too hard make it fit.

LordReed:


It doesn't mean a lie instantly forms when a truth begins. You are trying too hard make it fit.

Lol, if the truth doesn't exist, you can't pervade it to make a lie. Moreover a lie is created the instant a truth is formed.

For every cause, there must be an EQUAL and opposite reaction. Cause and effects are infinitely linked and co-sustaining.

chieveboy:


Lol, if the truth doesn't exist, you can't pervade it to make a lie. Moreover a lie is created the instant a truth is formed.

For every cause, there must be an EQUAL and opposite reaction. Cause and effects are infinitely linked and co-sustaining.

Now you really are trying way too hard.

LordReed:


Now you really are trying way too hard.

Sounds like someone had seen the light...

chieveboy:


Sounds like someone had seen the light...

Seeing the light that you are a tryhard, of course! LoLz.

chieveboy:


For every cause, there must be an EQUAL and opposite reaction. Cause and effects are infinitely linked and co-sustaining.

Cause and Effect are the same thing intimately, One Event, they go together like the head and tail of a Cat.
It's only the ignorant observer that thinks they are separate event.

chieveboy:


This is what the easterners mean by the below image

This is just the preamble of what the Easterners mean, heard of Wuji follow by Taiji, those are the real deal.
Ying and Yang is just a product of the mind.

I did fairly well on a spiritual exercise that will regularly enable me experience God at least on a hourly level.

From when I woke up in-between (12:30am) to engage in an exercise I call Gratitude Affirmation Prayers (GAP)...I prayed. Then of course it is a prayer...so I was in union with God, during one hour of that exercise.

When I woke to start my day by 5am...spent an hour in meditation. Another hour in praises and Bible reading. So I was still Experiencing God.

Then what I have been trying to lay my hands on...praying before a task, thanking God after the task. repeat for the next etc...

Today I did it, broke my tasks hourly. And frankly, I was more productive than I would normally be.

The joy for me is this...at least hourly for about eight hours from 8pm, I touched base.

Ah! So sweet.

Though I have a higher aim...


#Experiencing God

With Love.

Alone and not lonely is something I am good at.

Wifey will often tell others, "He can be alone for any period, in as much as he has his books."

Of late, books don't have the appeal they once had. Infact now, I read systematically. Spend more time on books I have read, and treasure. It seems I now spend more time writing than reading new books.

Yes, I can still be alone and not lonely, but the object of my company isn't books. It is God.

When I started this, Wifey noticed the switch also...she will come into my bedroom, and I will either be praying silently in tongues or and meditating.

When you make an honest attempt to spend quality, exclusive time with God, soon it becomes a session you longingly look forward to.

Today, how have you Experienced God

#Experiencing God.


With Love.

Start your day with this beautiful praise session


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pECc0w9MNqo

I spoke to a good friend today, who also doubles as a business partner in a venture. He told me about his rising B.P.

Hmmm...bills need to be paid, it's understandable. I listened, for with that he can unburden himself.

After that, I told him to go through Philippians 4: 6,7.

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Then I told him a tactic I regularly employ. I paraphrase the verse into a sentence or a few words. Then repeat that sentence to myself.

I told him my paraphrase for Phi. 4: 6,7: Relax. Pray. Peace.

Continually I repeat these words to myself. I use this method, when I am not praying exclusively. Like when I am busy with home chores or taking a walk, or amongst people. This makes it easy to focus, even amidst other activities.

The essence like I told him are: It has a calming effect on one's nerves. Colours the mind with such beautiful words. And sinks into one's spirit/subconscious mind

He was grateful for the tip

Today, how did you Experience God?

#Experiencing God.

With Love.

Yesterday, it seems there was a setback in a project I was aiming for. I noticed subtle signs of worry.

I knew I had choices, either allow it, resist it, or channel it upwards.

The first will lead me down to hell, the last up to heaven. I want to be led up to heaven and I used a word from a poem I wrote some time ago.

The innocent, angelic face of a new born baby inspired me to write the poem. The poem has about 12 pair of words that are opposites.

Example: Joy - Sadness. Faith - Worry. Some positive opposites are fruits of the holy spirit (Gal. 5:22,23)

Though I wrote it for the baby, I found out it could also serve as an antidote for an adult.

As I noticed worry creeping in, after that seeming setback. After a brief prayer, I filled my thoughts with the word Faith. In less than 2 minutes, as I was on my way home, the effect was powerful.

So powerful that the smile on my face was like that of someone who received the best news of his life.

How have you Experienced God?

#Experiencing God.

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I call this spiritual exercise: Silence.

The art of asking God a question, then remain still, and listen for answers.

He always replies. I always perceive it when I am not distracted by the noise of my mind.

Asked three questions yesterday afternoon. Two I received answers. The third I was busy arguing with the answer, and we decided to give it more time, as the decision is still like three weeks away.

I'm trying to regularly include this habit before starting my day. I call it marching orders.

Two days this week, that I went against those marching orders, some preventable losses happened. I was at a place at the wrong time. A place I won't have been, if I had followed the marching orders.

Yesterday's marching order didn't make sense initially based on my personal calculations. Alas, when evening came it was the best decision.

It's tricky at first, and still atimes, because I may confuse the noises of the mind with the voice of God.

Yet, that's where consistent practice comes.

I pray that soon I will be in that state, where practically I listen and discern the voice of God, before any thing that will take a considerable amount of my time, energy, and money.

Silence is a practice popularized to me by the pentecostals. Yet I remember attending a large gathering of my previous religious group, and one woman during an interview, says she used a method like this to make decisions when she lost her husband.

She will put a chair before her, and imagine God was sitting there. She will now ask questions about her business, child rearing, etc...wait and listen. And before leaving that scene she is certain of what to do.

With this method she was able to singlehandedly train her kids. And raised responsible children. That are now grown adults.

It was at odd with the established norms of the religious group. At least I haven't read such a method from any of their materials.

Yet that interview proved something: There are seekers everywhere. People are after solutions, that don't contradict what they know from their sacred text. It doesn't matter if such methods are popularized by the group or not.

How have you Experienced God?

#Experiencing God.

With Love

John 6:12. ‭Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

Like my master Jesus, wastages should be avoided. Even in abundance, resources should be utilized.

Hab. 3:17-18‭‭. Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.

No matter what or what isn't, in as much as there is breathe in me, I will always rejoice in God.



Recently, how have you Experienced God

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With Love