Here I will be searching for the connection between God and humans and what it all means. If you are of any Faith you will be more than likely insulted by what I place on these pages unless you are open-minded and are willing to learn and grow.
These pages are for Investigation, for learning, growing in faith, and understanding that there is much more to our lives than what we have been exposed to by the Established Religions of the World.
So, please, be curious, and instead of immediately discounting something learn about it, and see if any of what is written or claimed has any truth in it for you, Your walk is between only-you and God, so take God along on your journey of learning and possibly change.
I will post curiosities, thoughts to consider, questions to ask ourselves or to ask the religious leaders of who we know, hopefully the thoughts posted here will give you food for thought, something to chew over and consider, and whether you agree or disagree you are at least considering various questions, thoughts, and ideas.
I will post articles and video’s of which I personally don’t agree with, but do feel that they would be interesting historically or to be understood as to why other people believe in these religious views and beliefs.
There are many faiths, all claiming to know God and be the way to God and heaven, and so on.
These pages are on the search for God in our lives, to know mow about God, to understand pure Love, to be as best as we can be as people changed by our finding of God of who society took us froem, and our desires to find our way back to God in out lives.
Abstinence
I have met some religious people who work in a church and cannot understand why God does not reward them as they feel that God should reward them, They preach, lead Bible studies, they teach they organize, they work hard for the church.
Every man of God in the real sense such as Prophets and the like refrained from what makes the people worldly and weak in mental and bodily strength. Sure the body and the mind can be weak, and therefore they realized the damage to their cause helping people doing God’s work would only be weakened by their taking part in what makes the general pubic weak.
In Materialistic times when the masses are indulging in whatever is before them feasting on what makes them weak the people in mass cannot see the damage that they do to themselves mentally, physically and spiritually – they instead claim that you are a fool not to indulge and that you are not having fun unless you partake in what the rest of the world is doing.
Maturity has been scorned on for some decades now. The strong stable in control decent father/man who refused to take part in the weaknesses of society is now seen as a boring no-fun person of no value to the masses of people partaking in gluttony and such.
In order for the people claiming to be God’s people and for the public to be strong, capable, and in control of themselves need to be mature and refuse to take part in what makes humans mentally, bodily and spiritually weak.
In refusing we are not missing out, we are in fact showing that we are in control of our own mind, body, soul and are strong in spiritual matters.
In a world where foolishness is honored, being the opposite, strong capable and mature will bring rewards that complete one’s life and more healthy destiny.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
The Logic Behind Repentance.
People complain about the world, they complain about other people, they complain that everyone is weak, doesn’t own up, is cruel to them, did not apologize (the list is huge), and yet, they do little to actually fix their own self, and their own life up, or apologize, repent, turn over a new leaf, and especially they don’t fix up the wrongs that they have done to others.
Another major issue is people seeing or knowing of crime and doing nothing about it, and what that does is allows evil to continue to exist and thrive.
To have a better world we need to be mature, and we also need to earn it. Think of Sodom, did those people deserve a wholesome respected life, or did they deserve to be wiped out because they were going to infest the rest of the world with their filthy lives. One man walked through Pompeii years after it has been forgotten and he saw the porn of all the people’s doings and he said that he told no-one of Pompeii because he felt that the place needed to be forgotten, he was so shocked and disgusted by what he saw. If Pompeii had thrived they would have infected their filth on the rest of the world, but instead they were wiped out with all their people.
Repentance is owning up to our sinful immoral, evil and bad behavior, and also cowardliness, and changing our own lives while also fixing up what we have done.
Now, just imagine, this world and its sinful immoral ways, so proud to be woke, immoral, indecent, dishonest and bad, there is no human way of changing the world all at once from this unfruitful mess we humans have caused ourselves, the suffering that all living creatures feel due to the foolish immature human race in its current state.
Repentance is the way to change everything. Each person desires to change from who he or she currently is, to become a good moral decent honest person, apologizes for past wrongs, fixes the wrongs that he or she did to others as best as they can, and lo and behold the world changes.
The problem that stops this is pride. People fear people judging them or being ashamed for their pasts. But as the Bible says, “All people have sinned.” thus all people have done wrong to others, and if they make things right they are removing evil from their lives and inviting God back in to their lives.
Remember the sin-cloud is a wall between you and God. Fix up the sins of your past and you remove that sin cloud and thus you are closer to your Maker, more Blessed, and I promise you, life will change for the better.
If people repent with maturity, and accept apologies with maturity and understanding (knowing that we are just as guilty as them in other ways and probably with other people), we will all benefit from this showing of love, compassion, forgiveness and care, wiping the slate clean of past wrongs and new relationships will be born from us all. Humble, caring, honest relationships, and people will once again marry for life, being mature enough to get through anything that comes their way together.
Part of the problem of hate, revengeful thoughts, anger and bitterness is that people have done us wrong (we have done others wrong but pride refuses to let us admit it) and these dark feelings and thoughts fester within us causing misery which we project on to others, especially our own family members, and we make others suffer, and this of course just makes the darkness grow.
This can only be stopped by people repenting, apologizing, and doing what is needed to prove that we really apologize (not just a few tears, saying sorry and probably doing it again sometime in the future). If we fix up what we have done wrong then we are showing God, ourselves and the person/people who we have wronged that we really regret what we did, and we are genuinely sorry, sorry enough to admit even to other people or publicly what we did wrong and our regrets and desires to set things right.
Life gets better for us all when we become better people.
What we allow to continue will continue – we need to break the cycle of foolishness and evil in our lives and society, we need to be responsible, we need to do what needs to be done.
Just want to mention something that I did at around 2006-2008, was that prayed to God and asked God to help me get right with those who I had wrong or to those who I hated, disliked and had issues with.
And then, for about 2-3 years I constantly came across people who disliked me, or I disliked them, or I had done something wrong to them and forgot about it (conveniently), or they had done something wrong to me.
The people who had wronged me I kept seeing and they were constantly coming in to my life. My take on that is that God wanted me to allow them to come to me and apologize, and it took a while, because I had to get over the hurt that these people had caused me to allow them to help me, and I did, and they did apologize, many in tears. It was truly amazing.
They would at first be very annoyed running in to me around town all the time, because they were being reminded all the time of what they did to me, and they didn’t like that. But there is always relief after we apologize and get right with people, and new friendships or we just never see them again.
At first this was a surprise. I don’t know what i was expecting but out of the blue all sorts of people I knew 20 years earlier or at school etc came back in to my life, and a few I really had trouble being nice to or wanting to get right with them. It was hard sometimes.
It took time, courage, practice, effort, and patience, but I found out that when I did what was required (apologizing, being kind and nice, setting things right and so forth) these people then vanished from my life forever.
It was an experience I didn’t like most of the time but needed doing. Many times after dealing with each person I felt better inside and all the dark and angry feelings disappeared.
In fact, in one case a person who I had done wrong as a teenager (it was foolish but accidental) only recently (decades later), after years of my trying to approach him and he would walk away, he finally was very nice to me in a supermarket and at first I didn’t recognize him as he had aged, but when I realized who he was I was relieved that finally somehow he had forgiven me, and I have not seen him since, so I can assume that it is over.
And then, all of a sudden, I stopped seeing people from the past. It stopped happening, probably around 2008, and it was over. What I take from this is that I had got right with those people who I needed to get right with, and God was happy that I had removed that past darkness from my heart. All that bitterness, anger, hate and darkness removed.
Getting right with people is hard and humbling experience, but there is probably nothing more worthy in our lives than this that we must do.
Sometimes we are not aware that people are approaching us to apologize or set things right and we can avoid them. But for all of us, God will work it out for the best, we just need to keep at it as I was with the man who avoided me until finally it all turned out right.
The point, is that you and I cannot expect a better life if we don’t do what is right or what is needed to make our lives better, and after our past lives of materialism we need to make things better, and then for all the people who we hurt light shines in their lives, and they can let go of the hate and bitterness, fear and angers, and become better people and live better lives now that we have responsibility taken the dark from their heart and filled them with compassion and love.
When people “find God” or find that God exists, they seem to somehow assume that they deserve complete forgiveness for the past and assume that God will now Bless and give them miracles.
The past Slate of Wrongdoings is not wiped out the day that you found God, it is only wiped out when you get right with the person/people who you have done wrong to and made things right.
Everyone demands that God is fair, that God give them what they deserve, but since they were selfish materialistic sinners before they found God and did many people wrong, and even while they walk with God many are like this, if God gave them what they deserved they would be very miserable indeed.
Your slate of evil doings is not wiped out when you find God, nor when you go to church, or when you go to Sunday School, or services, the past can only be wiped by you, and that is justfully how it should be. Its all about owning up, removing the plank in your eye, seeing yourself for who you have really been and your worth is based on your past, the choices you made, your worth has nothing to do with how others see you – your worth is based on who you are and have been, and what you will become according to what you did, and so on.
Why are there so many miserable atheists and religious people? Because they did wrong and live a fantasy that its all forgiven or not needed for them to own up or right the things that they did wrong.
The churches don’t teach this, because if you became this courageous then you would only need a relationship with God and not need the church.
God will not help you “feather your own nest”.
If you truly want God’s love, blessings and miracles and a true relationship with God, you need to do what is required by God to deserve what you expect and want from God.
Bad Company
‘Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men'” (Pro_4:13).
Bad Company
Have you ever heard anyone say, “Birds of a feather flock together”? Have you ever stopped and really asked yourself what it means? Let me tell you a story which will help you to understand.
One spring a great many crows began to pull up a farmer’s young corn. The farmer loaded his shotgun and went out to frighten them away. Bang! The farmer fired at the crows, and hurried out into the field to see how many he had hit. To his surprise he found that, besides killing three crows, he had wounded Polly, his pet parrot!
You can imagine how excited his children were when he came home with Polly in his hands.
“O Daddy,” they cried, “who was so cruel as to hurt poor Polly! Where was she?”
Before the farmer could explain, Polly began to say, “Bad Company! Bad Company!”
“That is certainly the truth, Polly!” laughed the man. Then he explained to his children that Polly had evidently seen the crows in the field and had left the house (she was allowed out of her cage a great deal of the time) and had gone to join the other birds. She had been among the crows when the farmer fired on them. “You see, Polly was keeping bad company, children,” the man said. “And bad company is always dangerous. In the Bible we read, ‘Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men'” (Pro_4:13).
“We all think of the scene in The Ten Commandments movie with Charlton Heston, where Moses lifted up his rod, and the waters rolled back. But this midrash says that’s not how it happened. Moses lifted up his rod, and the sea did not part. The Egyptians were closing in, and the sea wasn’t moving. So a Hebrew named Nachshon just walked into the water. He waded up to his ankles, then his knees, then his waist, then his shoulders. And right when water was about to get up to his nostrils, the sea parted. The point is, sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.”
– A. J. Jacobs.
An Established Religious Teaching is that the Spiritual Powers given to the people who followed God was only given to the Jews. Some preach this.
But the thought to consider is, that we are constantly warned against being materialistic, and the Spiritual Powers of the Bible or other Religious Thought are not Materialistic, thus it would at least seem that all people can access these Spiritual Abilities by simply being a good decent person who follows God to the fullest.
People, in this age, are genuinely “lost”, mentally lost.
In truth they are intelligent, or at least they are capable of being intelligent. Due to a world turning from its own Spiritual Self and turning from God, it only focuses on what it teaches its young, creating generations of Materialists who hunger to satisfy Self and the Physical Body and are incapable (by thought not reality) of not comprehending their Spiritual Abilities, or God, or that anything Spiritual exists or an Afterlife.
People today, don’t know God, because they don’t know how to think of God, nor do they comprehend the subject matter of any Spiritual Thoughts. This is why it is so hard to teach people of God, and anything other than Materialism, Self-Satisfaction, and Money.
Did you know that God has already released good things into your future?
His favour covers your lifetime!
When God laid out the plan for your life, He lined up the right people, the right circumstances, and the right breaks. In your future, He’s already released favour, supernatural opportunities, and divine connections.
The good breaks you need have already been preordained to come across your path If you will stay in faith and go out each day and be a person of excellence, you’ll have times where it’s as if you just stumbled into God’s blessings. You’ll look back and think,
“How did I get to where I am?I’m not the most qualified, but I got the promotion. I didn’t deserve that break, but someone went out of their way to help me.”
What happened?
You walked into that favour that was already poured out on your path.
Today, no matter what you may be facing, focus on moving forward. He has already ordered your steps and arranged good things for you.
Keep praying, keep believing, and keep smiling because there is favour in store for your future!
– Frank Opoku.
God’s Science is Not Materialistic Science.
God does not think as we think. God does not do as we do.
God is Spirit and Love, thus God see’s and Knows a Spiritual Science we do not know.
When God Promises your Safety He see’s how you will be safe and secure when you don’t. Your Vision is materialistic and based on your life fears put in your Soul by Life as a Human in a Materialistically thinking world.
You are asked by God to Trust God because God has already worked out your Survival, your Safety, and your Freedom, and when we truly Trust God we Know Fully that the way ahead is clear because God tells us that it is.
The Material Thinking Person does not understand the Universe, God, Heaven, Earth, all Life as it really is, and this is the reason why God says to trust Him and that everything will be all right for you.
If you do evil don’t expect God’s protection – but if you are doing Good, then expect God’s help, love, and protection.
True Science
Science in its complete Form is the study of the Materialistic and Spiritual.
To deny either one is to deny reality, and then to teach half-truths and theories based on only part of the actual evidence that is available to the scientist.
In this state of mind the half-truth scientist is mentally blind and teaching the rest of the world who will listen to be mentally blind as he or she is.
If the Scientist is Materialistically-Minded then he or she will be teaching that material things exist but that God and all our Spiritual Abilities, Senses and Knowledge should be ignored as people are taught that they do not exist.
Matthew Chapter 18, verse 3:
Then he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven.
There are many translations of this verse, but the general point is the same in all of them.
Seems self-explanatory, yet so very few religious people adhere to it or live it.
So the interest of the church is to gather people to the church, get them to give regular money to the church (Tithe/Offerings), get them to Bible Study, sermons, become regular congregations, while in the church bicker, admit being sinners, get them Soul Winning and so forth, while actually many don’t live as innocent as children.
Jesus was telling them as a Command, that to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they must change their character (Be Born Again) be as innocent as a mature child, thus not be materialistic, selfish, narcissistic, not watch porn and so forth.
Jesus would not have said it unless Jesus meant it.
Is this also a warning as to why the established religions of today cannot save the world, because they are reading such verses as this, but not being them, they are not living the narrow path, the true standards that Jesus asked them to live.
1 Timothy Chapter 1, verse 4: Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith.
Does this verse suggest to you that we should not believe in what cannot be proved and what causes endless arguments, such as what are cl;early fables but people claim are truths, and that God’s people do not come from endless linage, but instead are people chosen for the job at the time and were “nobodies”?
Have only faith in God?
A book, even the Holy Books, are not God. A book can be used to implant fioolish beliefs and doctrines in people’s minds. Is God wanting us to have faith in Him before we have faith in anything else, and in the end, “only have faith in God” above all other influences.
If the churches/religions goal is to get ‘converts’ in to the church
‘to become paying members of the church’…
…then the goal is not to become ‘converts to God’, but to become converts to the church/religion.
To become converted to God one must become Born Again not in prayer, words, or claims, but in the cleansing of one’s Soul to renew that Soul with God’s Love, Empathy, and Love for all living creatures, and the planet, for the greater good of all.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Matthew Chapter 22, verse 1-14:
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, tell them which are bidden, behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: and the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
The Church and Fellowship can be a great Blessing to the lost and needy seeking God and a new life.
But the Church (Human) Doctrines and congregations Fellowship (People’s Opinions) can also be the very thing that distances you from God and from knowing God.
The Woman Of The Holy Spirit.
Genesis Chapter 1, verses 26-27:
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
The message is about the woman who follows God with commitment and wants to be a blessing to her family and knows that the only way that she can do this is by following God’s teachings. The same for the male who must treat his wife with utmost respect and gentle love. I believe in this with all my heart and soul.
The rough and bad life and modern opinions tend to scare people from being submissive to God. Or that being a humble person is alright for “that guy” but not me, or that meek people are wimps. But the reality I found is that being a quiet meek-hearted person (the opposite to how I was brought up) makes us stronger because we deeply have to lean on God in faith instead of ourself. God fixes everything. God makes everything right when people have made them wrong. God does protect us totally. If our faith is strong enough and we follow God as He asks us to be committed to Him then you will see that God will protect you against the world.
A male and female with the Holy Spirit are a type of the Holy Spirit. Meaning they are like the Holy Spirit in their ways. We are spirit, body and soul. The good example of God is the person who follows God because they know that this is the best way to live. God is glorified by the godly woman because of how she acts, brings up her children and is a wonderful loving example of how a woman should be. She is a fine example that her children will follow because children pick up habits of their mothers who is normally their first teacher. If she is a badly-behaved woman then she is a bad teacher for her poor children and they will pick up those bad habits. So you can see that a godly woman is someone God is greatly pleased with and her life will show God’s blessings.
John Chapter 14, verse 16:
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Just like the Holy Spirit who is a great Comforter a godly woman/wife/mother is a great comfort to her husband and children. She brings peace and harmony to the home. Her will is strong, and her ways are fair, kind and generous. She is a great comforter and families need that very much.
Romans Chapter 14, verse 17: For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
We see here ‘and joy in the Holy Ghost’ and the woman (or man) is a joy to her family. The woman who follows the Holy Spirit like her husband who does the same and like her husband they are both a joy to their family. And a joy to one another. This is God’s way.
The godly woman calms the atmosphere.
She is a teacher of right and how to avoid wrong.
A comforter to injured family members.
She soothes sad hearts, broken emotions, and calms the storms of unhappy family members with her gentle loving ways.
She soothes hurt bodies too and she is looked upon gratefully as a comforter to injuries.
She is a fine example of the Holy Spirit.
John Chapter 14, verse 26: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
As we see in the above verse the mother and wife like the Holy Ghost will teach all things of God and of life, love and laughter. She teaches like the Holy Ghost does because she cares, she genuinely cares. She knows sacrifice like her husband. She knows the example Jesus gave of sacrifice and she is strong and willing to do her best for her family as is her own husband for her and their children.
She guides the home. Is often organizes the home budget and keeps the money in order. A home without a father is unbalanced. A home without the mother is unbalanced and struggles. An ungodly home struggles.
A man is greatly encouraged by support from his wife. I can tell you this personally that this form of encouragement means a lot to a man. He needs to have someone to hold in the trying times and she needs to be gentle and understanding. The godly male and godly female were made for one another.
Once I was talking to a Pastors wife and she wanted to know how she could help her husband in hard times and I said that she should be a kind of spring-board that he could ask questions to or listen to his sermons and encourage him in his work, she could then reply with comments, suggestions and love. If he had something to say but no one to listen to him then he feels trapped and alone and I said to her that she is to be his helper, his listener.
And he should also be her comforter, helper, and listening ear when she needed it.
Wrapped in each others arms with God’s protection from above they are a godly family following God’s ways.
The godly woman is humble, good, wise and a protector of her young and a teacher of decency and courage. She leads her children to understand God’s role in their lives and to walk in His ways.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
April 14, 2013 at 3:20 PM.
Have the Firm Faith of the Vegan in your desire to be strong willed and want the best for your future!
The thought of sin came up in my mind tonight. Sin is a name for all the immoral, indecent and bad things in our life that can harm our Mind, Body and Soul.
And if we compare your journey for a better life and to discard the old life of sin, we can consider someone offering a Vegan a piece of beef, of which the Vegan will obviously and very quickly say a strong undeniable, “No! Thank you!!!” and completely refuse any meat offerings.
It is a pity that many of the Religious are not the same, because many people who call themselves followers of God happily indulge in sins and do not have that very strong faith in themselves and their beliefs that the Vegan has.
If you think that you are a follower in God and you still partake in sinful activities and not react as the Vegan acts when offered meat, you are still a Babe in Christ and need to get back to the basics, learn about the damage of sin in your life, repent and have the faith of the Vegan and when sin is around you or offered to you say an undeniable strong firm, “No!”
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