In the oxford dictionary and in the study of the creation of the oxford dictionary it is known that the word Hell is a Germanic word which was introduced into the English language well after the biblical stories and religious fictional works of Christ were created. The concept of Hell does not Pass the smell test and therefore anyone who does evil cannot go there because it does not exist; it is simply a scare tactic which uses fear to control people and it makes sense that the use of fear would be used in a religious context to manipulate the feelings and control religious followers.
So who thought of the word Hell? Hell, I don’t know? And no one living really knows, but we do know it came from a Germanic word and it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ or our heavenly Father or any of this other garbage purported by Past Period, Present Period or Future Period religions.
Consider if you will the idea of Hell and the implications. You would need to create such a place and keep it heated, which would cost a lot of energy and anyone who was evil certainly would not want to pay the bill.
So it makes sense that Hell would be cold not hot if there was a Hell in the first place. The concept of Hell does not Pass the smell test and whoever thought of it, obviously was not very intelligent to consider it all through. Think on this in 2006.
Bad credit can be damaging to your financial position, in that it gives you a negative reputation; it can also, at times, be an obstruction for you if you purchase on credit or get a loan. A low credit rating also results in a high fee being charged, thus extending the overall debt.
In such cases, people mostly resort to credit repair services, and usually end up paying high charges to settle bad credit. There are other ways to fix bad credit; and they happen to be easy as well as free.
To start with, determine the exact cause of your bad credit. It is not possible to repair bad credit until you’re fully aware of the reason you got into it. A few likely causes for this problem could be a deferred payment of a loan; maybe some unforeseen events such as medical bills, job difficulties, etc.
Once you’ve determined the core cause to your problem, work your way towards the centre and focus on a fix that’s practical and effective. Get an idea of your present-day financial status by examining your recent credit reports. Make sure you’re keeping track of existing credits and financial dealings. Use the latest statements from your creditors or yearly credit reports to appraise your financial position.
To actually fix your bad credit and get your financial position back in a good standing, you need to start regulating your expenses and workout your lifestyle. Don’t delay paying your bills. If you can, pay them as soon as they arrive. This will avoid held up payment charges, if in case an unexpected problem comes up and hinders you from paying your bills on time. Level down your credit card expenses as much as you can. To some, this might feel laughable, but if you look back, you’ll understand that the ancient people lived a better life than we do today, and they did not utilize credit cards. Uniformity in bill payments is the vital point here. Slowly pay up all your credit bills and you’ll finally repair your financial status.
People often propose that you discuss with your creditors. If you pull the right strings and bargain wisely, you could end up with discounts, instead of surcharges. Be positive and precautious. While talking to your creditors is not a surefire way of improving bad credit, it surely can be effective.
Prevention is the best method. Instead of having to face bad credit, why not hold it off in the first place? Pay your bills on time, do not put off credit payments, and cut down on your credit card usage. However, if you do fall into a bad credit situation, then abide by the tips above. Bad credit can at times hurt your social profile and hinder access to loans on favorable terms, mortgages, etc.
Most people wear an outer mask of who they want others to think they are. One thing is for certain, however, and that is God truly knows who you are regardless of who you say you are or who you try to make others think you are. And….you even deceive yourself into believing who you are.
This is my first Article of Ministry. I was inspired to begin this Ministry two nights ago as I took my daily, soulful walk. During these walks I have the most comforting conversations with Jesus, who relays all our conversations to his Father and my Father in Heaven, who is “God,” the “Almightiest God.” I say: The Almightiest God, because there are many other Gods in our land besides the one true living God who is the Father of Jesus Christ. Only one spirit of God, but many other spirits among us. So that wherever God’s spirit is, evil is always present.
Tonight came the first topic to speak about. The bible scriptures that rambled through my head goes something like this: “all the ways of man are right in his own eyes.”
Now how many people fits this description is the question that comes to my mind as well. And….does God, the Father, want us to continue with this act and masking of a persona or would he like for us to just come clean and admit who we really are, so we can repent and turn from the ways we deny we are, but God Almighty knows we are, and those ways are what keeps so many people from actually walking along side or a bit behind Jesus Christ.
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Most “christian” people I have met since being a borned again christian continually try to walk and do walk ahead of Jesus and the Holy Ghost. They wear an outer costume (which I call a uniform of chrisitianity) and mask to all the world around them and many of these people on the outside look very “clean,” but the Holy Ghost reveals to me, the majority of the mask and uniform wearers are as “ravening wolves” on the inside - full of spots and blemishes, full of sin, full of hate, full of envy, full of strife, full of pride and so on and on with unrighteousness until they are continually choked and do choke up the “real words” of purity from God.
This topic is going to require more than one article, The Lord Just revealed to me, and I must close right here as the spirit bids me, and so will I do. I am a prisoner of Christ. I go and come at his lead. Separate from above: Would you like to know what being a prisoner of Christ is truly like? If you have ears to hear, then open them up and listen, God will speak to you about his truths and about his ways. But if you desire to continue to wear the mask and try and portray to all others the person you want to be and the person you really are is actually known by God (who knows all things), who knows you are not what you portray yourself to be……then you will never, never find the true pathway that leads to spritual bliss and ultimately eternal life. Subject closed. No more to be said.
If, however, you are willing to come forth and admit you are not who the mask and uniform on the outside of you says you are……you are on your way to repentence and the most joyous and blissful journey toward eternal life you cannot even imagine at this point in time.
And Jesus says: “whomsoever will come forth with a truly honest heart before me and this world is welcome to begin the journey toward my Kingdom.” Anyone trying to get to eternal life any other way is the same as a thief and a robber.
One of the most useful concepts to grow spiritually and becoming happier is the method of acceptance or surrender.
I have personally found this method to be perhaps the most workable and useful in retaining my poise and staying happier as I go through life. Partly because of my upbringing no doubt, I have had a life-long habit of being very self critical and judgmental. I have the habit of criticizing and feeling bad about myself for every little thing that happened to me - internally or externally. I tried to reason my way out of this habit but it did not work - the habit is still with me. I also feel guilty many times during the day when I am caught up with my memories of times when I behaved badly.
For anybody in this situation, or anybody who feel negatively about himself or the situation in which he finds himself the proper attitude is that of acceptance and surrender. Surrender to the thoughts and feelings which arise in you. If you are feeling bad about yourself, or your relationships, or your work or anything about your life-situation welcome and accept that feeling. Surrender to it, perhaps it was what was meant to happen at this time. Watch the feeling with as much detachment as you can. It will pass as it must; all things in this world are impermanent.
In the classic spiritual bestseller - The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle advises us to treat whatever negative feeling that arises in your mind as a message saying, “Attention - Here and Now. Wake up - Get out of your mind - be present”.
Surrender does not mean resignation to your life situation. If you are stuck in the mud you don’t say “I resign myself to being stuck in the mud” and do nothing about it. If you have lost your job, if you find yourself trapped in a bad relationship or in any situation that you find intolerable then obviously you must do something about it. We all need to plan and work to change certain aspects of our lives. I am not telling you to blame your fate or destiny for everything that happens and do nothing about it.
What I am asking you to do is to surrender to everything, which is happening to you - internally and externally at this instant in your life. If you are trapped in the morning rush during your daily long commute to work, then accept whatever is happening - inside and outside - at that instant. Surrender to your feelings of freedom, irritation and frustration. Don’t repress those feelings - accept them, surrender to them.
Surrender to the long life of cars or the crowd in the bus or local train. Accept your present situation - at that instant - fully and without reservation. This should not prevent you from changing what can and needs to be changed. Perhaps you can get another job, or shift to another branch of your company closer to your home. Perhaps you can take the bus to your office instead of driving yourself. You can make use or your daily commute by reading a newspaper or a book or doing some work. Change what can be changed, surrender to what is happening at this instant - the one thing that you cannot change.
For a more detailed discussion on the concept of acceptance and surrender please refer the classic bestseller. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, available at Amazon. Here is the link to the site:- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1577314808/ref=nosim/easte rnphilos-20
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What is going on? Why is the world in such absolute turmoil? The weather is behaving in mad and unpredictable fashion causing untold damage in places that have never experienced such destruction before. Perplexing and virulent diseases, are killing entire populations. Despite desperate peace efforts words like Armageddon and The End of the World keep appearing in our headlines. And although marvelous technical advances continue to amaze and astonish mankind, humanity seems to be bent on a course of moral and social self-destruction. And many are expressing a vague unease that some world-changing, cataclysmic event is on the verge of occurring; that the order of things as we have known it, is about to change in a drastic and radical fashion. Is there an answer? Can anyone know with certainty what the future holds? We believe that there IS a key to not only knowing what the future holds but preparing for it as well. We believe that this key is the Bible! Our conviction is based not on mere opinion or sentiment, but on the fact that the Bible makes claims that no other book dares to make and the life-changing way it has affected innumerable individuals. Also, the Bible is a book of prophecy, which is easily demonstrable, unlike ANY other so-called holy book or writings. The Bible is a book that opens the future up to us. It warns us that a change is coming that will challenge every human being alive; that we are facing the WORLD’S LAST CHANCE! Readers will be shocked to know that the Bible, through prophetic signs and symbols, predicts and identifies two great super powers–one political, one religious–that will jointly bring about a NEW ORDER of things, an end to society as we now know it, in a most dramatic and unexpected way. Many are aware that there are sinister forces at work behind the scenes to effect these great changes. But only the Bible clearly exposes these forces and provides a way out. Only the Bible offers the WORLD’S LAST CHANCE! We are presenting a document that will enable you to see for yourself how the Bible, step by step, point by point, singles out these two world powers from their very beginning and how the plans and decisions they are making, at this very moment, will soon affect every individual on the face of the earth. You will see how the Bible CLEARLY shows that the USA will join hands with the papacy to restrict our once dearly held rights and nullify our God-given freedom of conscience. To most, this may seem totally outrageous and absurd, but the Bible says “Prove all things.” and this we fully intend to do, because this is the WORLD’S LAST CHANCE! It cannot be denied that our freedoms are being subtly, inexorably chipped away under one pretext or another. Freedoms once taken for granted can now make one criminally liable. No longer does one have the freedom to express a moral perspective without risking being accused of committing a hate crime. A small child is disciplined for innocently expressing religious beliefs at school; increasingly restrictive laws continue to confront one on every side, and this will finally culminate in the ultimate loss of freedom to worship as one chooses–at the cost of life itself! All this is clearly confirmed and verified in the document we have prepared based on the shocking but irrefutable prophecies of the Bible that clearly show that the WORLD’S LAST CHANCE is fast approaching. Our challenging document explores such crucial questions as: What is the purpose of the Biblical prophecies? What is an example of a fulfilled prophecy in the Bible? What is the most solemn prophetic warning yet to be fulfilled? How do we unlock the mysterious symbols to understand prophecy? It clearly explains what the Mark, Number, and Name of the Beast are; their relationship to the USA, and how these forces are NOW conspiring to bring about the crisis that will bring all the world to its knees–and answers many other questions which will reveal to you why we are convinced that the WORLD’S LAST CHANCE will soon be here.
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As you will see I the Scripture verse I will give you in this
article - there is one very special incredible verse that will
tell you that God the Father wants to transmit 9 specific fruits
of the Holy Spirit up into our personalities.
The first three articles that we have listed in our
sanctification section all set the stage as to what God is
looking to do with each one of us. God wants all of us to enter
into a sanctification process with Him so that He can begin the
process of molding, shaping and transforming us into the image
of His Son Jesus Christ. He wants to make us more holy like He
and Jesus are. He wants to transform us by the renewing of our
minds. He wants to put right thinking into our thought process.
In the first article we have listed under this section titled
“Sanctification,” I gave you the specific verses from Scripture
that showed you that it is by the power of the Holy Spirit that
this sanctification process is done with you in this life.
However, you will not be a passive robot in all of this. You
have to be willing to work in cooperation with the Holy Spirit
once He begins to start this process within you.
Your job is to get into the Word to find out exactly what it is
God is going to want to change about you. You will need to find
out what qualities God will want you to try and “put on” into
your personality and what qualities He will want you to try and
“put away.”
This article will be the first of a series of articles giving
you all of the appropriate Scripture verses showing you exactly
which qualities and attributes God wants to get worked into your
personality and which qualities that He will want to pull out of
you.
And there is no better place to start this series of articles
than with the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. If you want to start
off by keying on some of the more positive qualities that God
would really like to get worked into your personality - really
study and meditate on these specific 9 qualities.
When God the Father purposely isolates and spells out 9 specific
qualities that will be coming directly from His Holy Spirit - He
is really letting you know the extreme importance of these
specific 9 fruits. These 9 fruits are major fruits and qualities
that are coming directly from God Himself, and every Christian
should do the best they can to work with the Holy Spirit in
getting all 9 of these fruits worked into his or her personality.
I’ll first start off by showing each of these 9 specific fruits
so that you can have all 9 of them isolated at the top of this
article. I will then give you the Scripture verse that these 9
fruits are coming from. I will then do a brief commentary on
each one of these fruits so you can fully understand what each
one of these fruits are and how they can dramatically change the
quality of your life and your state of being if you are willing
to allow the Holy Spirit to start to work all 9 of these fruits
into your mind, soul and personality.
Here are the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit
- Love
- Joy
- Peace
- Longsuffering
- Kindness
- Goodness
- Faithfulness
- Gentleness
- Self-control
Now here is the specific verse from Scripture where these 9
fruits are coming from:
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”
(Galatians 5:22)
Before I get into the appropriate commentary on what each of
these fruits are all about, note the following:
1. The word “Spirit” is with a capital “S” - which means that
these 9 fruits are coming directly from the Holy Spirit - not
from us.
2. What this means is that God’s love, God’s peace, God’s joy
and God’s goodness can be started to be transmitted up into your
personality. These are His attributes and His personality
qualities that will start to flow and mesh into the core of your
personality. Think about the ramifications of this - that God
the Father Himself is allowing us to share in a part of His
divine nature by allowing His Holy Spirit to transmit and impart
these nine qualities right up into our soul and personality!
That is why God the Father is specifically telling us in this
verse that these 9 fruits are coming directly from the Holy
Spirit - so that we can fully appreciate the magnitude of such
an experience.
Jesus has already told us that He is the vine and that we are
the branches. The branches draw their life from the vine - not
vice versa. Just as the branch draws its life from the vine - so
we too draw our life directly from Jesus. Jesus will release His
life to us through the Holy Spirit in exactly same way that the
vine will release the life of the tree into the branches.
In one short, but incredible powerful Scripture verse, God the
Father is giving all of us an incredible revelation on what can
go on behind the scenes in the spiritual realm for those that
are willing to work with Him in this sanctification process.
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Trial bikes are a little more robust from your standard mountain bike and they are intended for use by more technical mountain bike riders. Trial bikes typically move a little more and you can expect the movement of the suspension to be between 4 and 7 inches. This will mean that you get a lot smoother ride but it is more difficult to pedal uphill. A decision will need to be made as to which way you want to go, a smoother ride with an uphill struggle or not. There is loads of information, news and resources to be found online at Trek Track Bikes.
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