TOP SECRET: Motivation Isn't Enough

A man once wrote and said, "Whatsoever you can conceive you can achieve." Another man said, "A man who is positive, optimistic and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetizes his condition, he draws to himself the creative powers of the universe." You have probably heard that before. It is called motivational speaking. Motivation isn't enough. Those aren't lies, but they aren't the complete truth either. Your motivation is not enough for success. It is an ingredient for success, but it is not all that matters. There is something known as the GOD FACTOR. That is the key to success.

There is an ability called "dunamis". You probably have heard about it before. It means power. But it is not ordinary power. It is a special kind of power that works like a dynamo. Notice I didn't say it works like a dynamite. A dynamite blows things up. But a dynamite is a kind of dynamo power. Dynamo is a self-sustaining regenerative power. In science, a dynamo was a source for electrical current, and you know in this 21st century that electricity is everything. We can also call electricity power. So power is also everything. Electric power is required to run everyday life. Shut it down and we may end up in something terrible to describe.

QUICK TIP: How To Kill Yourself

Several years ago I made a startling discovery. Ever since then, I became at peace with the idea and concept of dying. Death is not a loss. We misunderstood it from beginning. Death is actually a victory. When you die you actually gain. It is easier for people to transition from no job to a mouth-watering job. That is a death of the joblessness to job-fullness. It is easier for people to transition from being broke to being wealthy. That is the death of the broke-ness to wealth-ness. What actually scares people is the separation of relationships.

God's plan for his children is to get familiar with death. I am not going to quote the favorite 1 Corinthians 15:55 "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" because till this very moment we still don't understand it.

Jesus was the first person to demonstrate this truth. The apostles during the tribulations also demonstrated this. However, our generation and few past are yet to understand it.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that YE PRESENT your bodies a LIVING SACRIFICE... - Romans 12:1 (KJV)
...sacrifices are supposed to be dead...
...this typifies a Christian... the quickest way is to die now, right now while you are still alive, is to present your body as a living sacrifice, a living dead, a zombie for righteousness.
The Father of all spirits can ask you to do things your fleshly mind will want to oppose...

...don't creep out!... do it. This is how you die to self. This is the acclaimed and rare brokenness we talk so much about.
If your denial of certain pleasures can promote God's kingdom...
...you are better off...but He won't force you to...
...it is your choice to PRESENT it, OFFER it...
...stop that cigarette, stop that drink...
...stop that relationship, stop that vacation...
...stop that sleep, stop that filthy lucre...
Let your life count for the Message of the Kingdom

QUICK TIP: How To Avoid Sinning Often

What is sin? Primarily, sin is getting on God's wrong side. Doing something that offends God or the Godhead. There are many things that can offend the Godhead. Quite a lot. In fact, some of the things that offend the Godhead range from sins directly offending them stipulated in the Bible to things that are just morally wrong even to fellow human beings (not all though). And as well as sins that you do to yourself that can have long lasting wrong effects on you.

Sin is either physically noticeable or totally invisible such that nobody even knows it has happened. It can even be so bad to the extent that you the sinner do not even know that you have sinned. Sin is really a sublime thing. The sin I am most concerned about is not the sublime version, I am talking about the very easily noticeable type such as found in the 10 commandments, because these are what most people are familiar with, and strangely enough they form the basis for morality, and even stranger, God has written it into every man's heart...hahahaha...so, that technically makes all men without excuse. Many people find themselves flaunting these laws so badly.

IS IT WRONG TO FLY IN MY DREAMS?

Dreams. Powerful experience. You are entering the mysterious and fascinating world of dreams, where the rules of reality do not apply. First of all, it's just a dream, so how could it be right or wrong. What is the world turning into?! You bring morality into dreams too? Jeez, totally absurd. Soon enough people would start judging you for having premarital sex in your dream and tell you how sinful you are. That is totally sick. Nonetheless, I know a few people are out there whose logical receptors do malfunction at certain topics such as this one, so this post is for them, and for you who are curious enough to have found yourself here to read. I realize that dreams are unique; no other individual can have your personal background, your emotions, or your experiences.  Thus, your own dreams can only be connected to your own "reality". With this in mind, it is important to draw from your personal life and experiences when interpreting a dream. You will gain a better understanding and discovery of your true self. This can be both a good thing and a bad thing. I am not going to delve into any particular specific, as I am not going to give an anatomy of dreams. There is no such thing as an anatomy of dreams, it is too subjective to be turned into a science. It is more of a psychology and spirituality.

ADAM WAS NOT THE FIRST MAN...SERIOUSLY?

In my residence today, I decided to play a little prank on the fair beautiful maidens at the restaurant. I was talking about something I really do not remember right now, but it was along religious lines. So, I said, "Girls, I will make 2 statements that you will think is false from the scriptures. In fact I will make three. No, I think I should say four. I will say four statements that are true but that you don't know are true, and you will almost hate me." And they were quite excited, and gave me a go ahead.


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WARNING:
There are issues of scripture that DO NOT have direct correlation on your salvation. I mean your ignorance of it does not make you any less saved. Your knowledge of it does not make you any more holier. You do not need to know the Bible A-Z to be saved, all you need is John 3:16, finito. Everything else is juggling of spiritual muscles and Biblical show-off, like I am about to do. Gerrit? Cool.
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So, I said to the young pretty maidens:

A FEW THOUGHTS ON MARRIAGE AND WEALTHY PREACHERS

This world is deranged, crazy and insane all at once. I blame the educational system of many countries. I blame the poverty, unemployment and corruption of many governments. And most of all, I blame the half-baked churches and their half-baked gospels. Let me give you this breakdown, and I pray to God you follow, in case you are dumb-dumber enough to not comprehend. Okay, maybe that was a little too expensive, I mean, who uses swear words in a blog? Nobody does that. Sometimes I really don't give a crap if this blog is supposed to be religious and morally upright. You wrong brother! I am gonna just paint it as it is, if that is what it will take to get the message across.

Several problems need to be addressed in this blog. The problem of failed marriages, the problem of bias towards preachers who are wealthy, the problem of educated spiritual illiteracy, and I am going to stop right there.

First is the problem of failed and failing marriages.

THE CREATION OF MAN | LIVING SOUL

When God first created man He formed him of dust from the ground, and then breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. As soon as the breath of life, which became man's spirit, came into contact with man's body, the soul was produced. Hence the soul is the combination of man's body and spirit.

And Jehovah God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Gen. 2.7 ASV).

The Scriptures therefore call man a living soul. The breath of life became man's spirit; that is, the principle of life within him. The Lord Jesus tells us it is the spirit that gives life (John 6.63). This breath of life comes from the Lord of Creation. However, we must not confuse man's spirit with God's Holy Spirit. The latter differs from our human spirit. Romans 8.16 demonstrates their difference by declaring that it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God. The original of the word life in breath of life is chay and is in the plural. This may refer to the fact that the in-breathing of God produced a twofold life, soulical and spiritual. When the in-breathing of God entered man's body it became the spirit of man; but when the spirit reacted with the body the soul was produced. This explains the source of our spiritual and soulical lives. We must recognize, though, that this spirit is not God's Own life, for the breath of the Almighty gives me life (Job 33.4). It is not the entrance of the uncreated life of God into man, neither is it that life of God, which we receive at regeneration. What we receive at new birth is God's Own life as typified by the tree of life. But our human spirit, though permanently existing, is void of eternal life.

GENERAL REVELATION AND SPECIAL REVELATION | GNOSIS AND EPIGNOSIS

In the past couple of days I have been in discussion with a few friends over a very common disputed subject. It was more of an argument rather than a discussion I must admit. One thing was constant, none of my co-arguers could establish a proper scriptural quote without quoting wrong and out of context, and yet vehemently insisted they were right. Every item I put up in defence were direct quote of scriptures. We therefore argued, and I was clearly wasting my own time. But I kept at it because the online community is a repository and archive of valuable information for future generations, this was my motivation for the continued argument on my part because I was thinking of the future breeds who will need the information. If you are interested on reading that story, click HERE.

One thing was very clear though, it was the contention between gnosis and epignosis.
GNOSIS means knowledge of spiritual matters; mystical knowledge.
EPIGNOSIS means precise and correct knowledge.

Apparently, my contenders possessed general revelation and knowledge. This is called gnosis. And by the way, gnosis is a Greek word. We find it in the Bible. General revelation is the knowledge of God, as well as the knowledge of right and wrong, that can be obtained through nature.  This general revelation of God’s existence and basic morality is known by everyone.  First of all, the apostle Paul tells us that the people can obtain knowledge of God in creation.

Spirit | Soul | Body = YOU

The ordinary concept of the constitution of human beings is dualistic-soul and body. According to this concept soul is the invisible inner spiritual part, while body is the visible outer corporal part. Though there is some truth to this, it is nevertheless inaccurate. Such an opinion comes from fallen man, not from God; apart from God's revelation, no concept is dependable. That the body is man's outward sheath is undoubtedly correct, but the Bible never confuses spirit and soul as though they are the same. Not only are they different in terms; their very natures differ from each other. The Word of God does not divide man into the two parts of soul and body. It treats man, rather, as tripartite-spirit, soul and body. I Thessalonians 5.23 reads: "May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." This verse precisely shows that the whole man is divided into three parts. The Apostle Paul refers here to the complete sanctification of believers, "sanctify you wholly. "According to the Apostle, how is a person wholly sanctified? By his spirit and soul and body being kept. From this we can easily understand that the whole person comprises these three parts. This verse also makes a distinction between spirit and soul; otherwise, Paul would have said simply "your soul." Since God has distinguished the human spirit from the human soul, we conclude that man is composed of not two, but three, parts; spirit, soul and body.

Is it a matter of any consequence to divide spirit and soul? It is an issue of supreme importance for it affects tremendously the spiritual life of a believer. How can a believer understand spiritual life if he does not know what is the extent of the realm of the spirit? Without such understanding how can he grow spiritually? To fail to distinguish between spirit and soul is fatal to spiritual maturity. Christians often account what is soulical. as spiritual, and thus they remain in a soulish state and seek not what is really spiritual. How can we escape loss if we confuse what God has divided?

AGE OLD CONTROVERSY || MASTURBATION IS NOT A SIN

Growing up I was opportune to hear a lot trash, a lot of beliefs and mediocrity. I do remember that I believed them, but for education I would have been a thoughtless spineless dude. Growing up and having my formative experiences were quite confusing, I encountered a lot of disappointment in people's characters, people I looked up to. But I also vividly remember not judging them for it. Whatever the reason, I found myself not doing that, I just observed.

Weaved into our faith system is a gross mis-education, from money to sex. These two have been core of controversy, and I wonder why. Is it because we want them so bad and they form the underpinning of our humanity? Whatever it, I share this truth today, and I stand by it vehemently after thorough studies in the holy scriptures, references, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the message of grace and faith, the concept of sin and the nature of divinity, that MASTURBATION IS NOT A SIN.

The Master Strategist

Christianity is  beautiful thing. It is a life that we didn't plan for. Someone did. Just like we did not plan to live with the people we call family today. It was the accident of birth. Now I cannot tell precisely if it was a real accident, where accident is something we didn't plan for but happened. Or if someone actually planned that you should be in that family you belong to today. Even more than that is the country and continent that we belong to. But someone did know. He is God. He is the master strategist. He has your life's blueprint. Where  you were supposed to be born, to whom, how you were supposed to grow up, and perhaps die as a little kid (now am uncertain about that, and I cannot speak authoritatively on that subject) but I do know that all things play into a big plan shaping either our lives or the lives of others, forming ideas and principles for living in some of us, and even for others creating the fabric for their life's future empathy and the results that will follow. Nothing on earth is an accident.

PRAYER THAT WORKS

The fellowship of prayer is an awesome experience for those who have trained themselves to plunge into it hungrily. For others it is a very harrowing and dry experience, and yet much is expected, and many have a wiki-load of unanswered prayers. But they never stop praying. They still hope that God will somehow still answer. A sort of gamble. But prayer is not supposed to be like that. Prayer is not a gamble. Prayer is definite. Prayer is specific. Prayers are intended to be answered. Prayer is like a light switch. You press it, you should get results. Every time Jesus prayed he got results. He prayed the right way. His prayer works. If our prayers don't work, then it's possible that we are doing it all wrong.

What do we need to do to get answered prayers. The answers are quite simple. The answer is given to us by God himself, the very person who answers prayers. According to him, our prayers must:

1. Be according to his will. Remember that famous scripture in 1 John 5:14? If we pray according to his will thingy. It's true. Pray out of his will and you are on your own. Relax, it is not an authoritarian will, and he is not some evil maniacal white haired autocrat as you imagined. Whatever it is you are praying for just go through the Bible and see if there is any provision in there for you to have it, 99% of the time it is always there, so you are in luck.

2. Our prayer must be heartfelt. This means that you gotta totally be desirous of what you are praying about to have it. Remember another famous scripture James 5:16? The effecetive fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. The amplified translation puts it as The effective fervent heartfelt continued prayer of a righteous man availeth much, tremendous in its working. 

I feel like I am quoting this improperly. Compare my re-quote with the actual stuff which says The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].

I literally cannot finish explaining that. If you read it well and paint the picture correctly, your prayer that is heartfelt and continued, meaning you don't give up on your request, it says it works like an Ahmadinejad (Iranian president who wants to kill the rest of us Christians) nuclear bomb. Do you know what a dynamo is? It is energy that continues to reproduce itself and is self-sustaining. That is what your prayer does. Tell me why you won't get an answer. You will!

NOT PAYING YOUR TITHE IS NOT A SIN

Heresy! Heresy!! Calm down. It is not an heresy. An heresy is not something you disagree with. You don't label something you disagree with as an heresy. You just have a differing opinion. Heresy by definition depends on what field of truths you are coming from. There are issues deemed heresy in Christianity and in Islam, amongst others, to name just those two. By definition heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs. I have no such intentions to question the meaning of established beliefs, or customs because that in itself is a long topic.

What I concern myself with is the idea that not paying ones tithe is a sin. No, it is not. It never has been. And it is not an heresy either. The list of heresies in Christendom are adoptionism, Apollinarism, Arianism, Docetism, Luciferianism, Macedonians or Pneumatomachians, Melchisedechians, Monarchianism, Monophysitism or Eutychianism, Monothelitism, Nestorianism, Patripassianism, Psilanthropism; Sabellianism, etc. There is quite a long list of them. If you are curious you can read them here. I have listed these items, it does not mean I listed them because I disagree with them or that I agree with them. The reason for all the confusion today is because some folks just won't go read the holy writ for themselves. They lazily prefer to listen to someone who has read it. I must tell you, listening to someone isn't just enough. You need to be able to listen and search your own thoughts. You need to be able to test, taste and see the truth for yourself. truth is like a great light. Well, I think that last construction is even wrong and misleading. Truth is a light. That is an equally misleading last statement as well. I totally need to say this rightly. TRUTH IS LIGHT.

And before I shed more light on why not paying your tithe is not going to take you to hell, and why it is not a sin, let me shed some lights on what light is. And by the way, don't get me wrong, I pay my tithe, okay? I do. I pay my tithe. I do it because I am convinced it is right to do so. I do it because it has great benefits. Benefits I have experienced firsthand. I fail a few times in payment, but I don't kill myself about it. I still pay the next one. I don't make any attempt to strangulate myself or allow the devil use it to strangulate me if I do not pay. What most practicing believers in Christ have done is to make a religion out of it and stab themselves with many unnecessary wounds when they fail. So, back to light.