I am so inspired by the many FB posts about goal-setting for the 2010. It made me think of how, back in the day, me and my then boyfriend (husband now) used to sit down and map out our goals for the new incoming year. Life has taken many twists and turns, since those days, and we seem to have gotten away from that "family tradition".
My husband mentioned he wanted to get back to our goal-setting sessions. So we have our date to do so before the New Year sets in. As I sit down to think about what things I will pray in the new year, I wanted to point out two insights from the Word of God.
The first: The Lord Gives Promotion, not man. Psalm 75:6-7; Prov 29:26 No matter what anyone tells you, please understand that spiritual laws are always at work, whether you are aware of them or not. Rest assured that it is the Lord that decides who is lifted up and who's taken down. When Jesus says yes, NO ONE can say no. Make sure that you complete your work with excellence and as an offering to God, not man! If you never say a word about your work, trust that your work will not go unnoticed by God! Keep chugging! (I'm ministering to myself)...
The second: Do not get distracted by what you see in the natural. II Timothy 2:3-5 If God is the head of your life, rest assured that what He has for you is for you. I had a prophetic dream prior to taking a new job. In the dream, God was trying to show me something very important written on a rainbow. Whatever it was, I knew in the dream that it was VERY important. He began leading me to the rainbow so I could see what was written on it. Along the path, there were several people that didn't make any sense to me. They were standing by the side watching me very hard. I was with three other people that I knew very well. I remember telling the three people that those staring could not harm us as long as we stayed focused and kept moving. I just knew in the dream that we couldn't stop moving. I told those with me to be sure not to get angered by the people constantly staring or that would allow them to come and arrest us. Well, one person got fed up with the staring and lashed out. Out of nowhere, soldiers rushed in and seized her. I remember as she was quickly being carried away whispering long to her "pray!". The remaining 3 of us continued to move towards the rainbow. As we moved closer, someone attempted to distract my husband with the most trivial of accusations. I was still moving and then noticed that my hubby was no longer with my sister and I. I turned around and immediately became frustrated at the fact that they were distracting my husband with foolishness. As soon as I did that, my sister yelled to me to keep moving. I ignored her and continued to move my frustration to anger in an attempt to defend my husband. As I continued doing what I wanted to do (confront these accusations), the rainbow began to disappear and I began to wake up. As I felt myself waking up, I kept pushing to go back to sleep. I heard the Holy Spirit say plainly "you cannot ignore an appointed time. You must focus on the goal and keep distractions at bay. DO NOT GET DISTRACTED". There are many lessons in this dream, but I wanted to point out the biggest lesson which was to stay focused. Surely enough, I understood after taking the job exactly what that dream meant. Distractions will come when you are about your Father's business, but do not lose focus of the goal. If you have your marching orders, march! ;-) God will see you through! No matter what it looks like in the natural, just know the devil specializes in screensavers. He wants things to look a certain way, it is only when you "move your computer mouse" with consistent prayer that evidence of the real screen appears.
You can do it! Pray fervently the 2011 year!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
It's Up To You...
So, here we are...I was watching a trailer for a movie titled "besouro" which means beetle. I noticed that the American version of the trailer did not paint the same picture as the one done in Brazil. So, that, of course sparked another homework session for me. I noticed that they painted the "religion" mysticism in the American trailer as a religion of Africa. Sounds pretty positive right? I mean, we are the only ones with the melting pot, right? I had been exposed to mysticism during another homework session, so I knew that it was of the occult, particularly voodou practices. I think the movie trailer does a great job at showing you what I just said is true. However, if I were in search of my roots, I might get online and research mysticism to see how I can get connected to it, since it is from the motherland. This may sound over the top, but I see it everyday.
I see that since our ancestors were uprooted, from their native land and placed in captivity (slavery) we are forever on that quest to be reconnected to our culture. The truth is, we don't really know what that culture is for sure. The African countries, except for Ethiopia have all been colonized by the French or British...So surely, you must know that the culture changed. So, in my mind, we are in search of something that cannot be found in its original form. There are so many that have visited Africa and become initiated into the "traditionalist" culture (thinking that this represents Africa). This is not true. (I am being vague a bit because I don't want you to take my word for it, I want you to look it up)...There are lots of Christians in Africa (yay!). There are other religions there as well. However, we come back to the states and want to display "deep" knowledge by sharing these pagan rituals with others because that's how they do it in Africa. Not true.
Which brings me back to the states...so many times we become affiliated with stuff and in such a trusting way. It is as if because a great number of people have done it, there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with it. It baffles me, how even I never asked ANY questions, even when things stuck out (as someone who was previously affiliated with a BGLO). And its something about that word initiated...well, I'll digress and save it for another post. I am thankful to God that I was given the opportunity to be educated and delivered. I will speak about this experience in another blog as well...
Back to my topic -- so here is what I found. I know it's wikipedia, but this is just the last site I viewed. I chose to post wikis version because it had it laid out in a nice chart. Any other site you go to will give you bits and pieces of each affiliate. See anything surprising on the list? I'll let you decide what you think. If you do decide to research it, just know that this link was a wiki on mysticism.
Examples of major traditions and philosophies with strong elements of mysticism are:
I see that since our ancestors were uprooted, from their native land and placed in captivity (slavery) we are forever on that quest to be reconnected to our culture. The truth is, we don't really know what that culture is for sure. The African countries, except for Ethiopia have all been colonized by the French or British...So surely, you must know that the culture changed. So, in my mind, we are in search of something that cannot be found in its original form. There are so many that have visited Africa and become initiated into the "traditionalist" culture (thinking that this represents Africa). This is not true. (I am being vague a bit because I don't want you to take my word for it, I want you to look it up)...There are lots of Christians in Africa (yay!). There are other religions there as well. However, we come back to the states and want to display "deep" knowledge by sharing these pagan rituals with others because that's how they do it in Africa. Not true.
Which brings me back to the states...so many times we become affiliated with stuff and in such a trusting way. It is as if because a great number of people have done it, there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with it. It baffles me, how even I never asked ANY questions, even when things stuck out (as someone who was previously affiliated with a BGLO). And its something about that word initiated...well, I'll digress and save it for another post. I am thankful to God that I was given the opportunity to be educated and delivered. I will speak about this experience in another blog as well...
Back to my topic -- so here is what I found. I know it's wikipedia, but this is just the last site I viewed. I chose to post wikis version because it had it laid out in a nice chart. Any other site you go to will give you bits and pieces of each affiliate. See anything surprising on the list? I'll let you decide what you think. If you do decide to research it, just know that this link was a wiki on mysticism.
Mystical traditions
- Ascetism
- Bahá'í Faith
- Christian mysticism
- Evangelical Mysticism
- Daoism
- Divine Science
- Faith healing
- Freemasonry
- Ghost Dance (Nineteenth century Native American)
- Gnosticism (Pagan)
- Greek mythology
- Hesychasm (Eastern Orthodox)
- Kabbalah (Judaism)
- Christian Kabbalah (Christian)
- Mystery religions
- Esoteric Christianity
- Theurgy
- National mysticism
- Near-death experience
- New Thought
- Occult
- Psychedelic experience
- Lexigrams
- Religious Science
- Religious Society of Friends
- Sant Mat
- Sufism (Islam)
- Taoism
- The Fourth Way
- The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (Rosicrucian)
- Theistic Satanism
- Thelemic mysticism (Thelema)
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Transcendentalism (Unitarianism)
- Unity
- Vedanta (Hinduism)
- Wicca
- Yoga (Hinduism)
- Zen (Buddhism)
First things first...
Welcome to my blog! I was inspired to start this blog because I realized that there is so much out there turning us away from Christ. While some things are less obvious, there are some that are blatantly not of God. This site will be full of different things that I find from time to time. It will also display any revelations that I receive that must be shared. Let me first confess that I am a Christian. By this, I mean I believe in the Holy Trinity, therefore I serve the God of Abraham. I have come to realize that in this day, you have to be specific because God has come to be defined as whoever you are serving including satan! With that said, I am ready to write my "first" post!
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