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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A life that is purpose driven
- I started reading the book "The Purpose Driven Life" about 45 days ago. This book is written by Rick Warren. It is one of the best books I have ever read and It has changed my life. It is a really good book and I am out there trying to get people to read it and acknowledge the difference it makes in your life. I had been waiting to read it since it first came out but I kept putting it off. It took...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you facing some challenges?
- Are you facing some challenges in your life right now? If so, rejoice! "Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." (James 1:2-4)We all know that athletes need endurance training for physical stamina and mental toughness. Whe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to hear from god
- We want to hear from God so that we may be led to pursue the right things. Unfortunately, there are always three voices in every ones head at any given time; God's voice, the devil's voice, and the voice of our own flesh. So, how are we to be sure to hear from God with all the noise going on?It really is very simple. If we want to hear from God, we need to shut up the other two. So, how do ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your attitude determines your future
- Do you realize you are creating your future by the very attitude you posses?Take a look at Proverbs 15:15. The Amplified Bible says it this way, "All the days of the desponding afflicted are made evil (by anxious thoughts and foreboding), but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast (regardless of circumstances)."We have an "either - or" situation here. Have ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - People may let you down
- Is your hope in God? Or, is it in people?I will tell you this, people will let you down. Only God is infallible.So many people put so much faith in another human being by putting them up on a pedestal, and it is very sad. All they are doing is setting themselves up for disappointment.We serve a great God who loves us dearly and wants to take care of us. He wants us to put our ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Enlightenment, moving to a new level of awareness
- (Channelled)Roy, what a marvellous job you are doing on your web. You have opened the doors for many and have given opportunity for awareness and growth to all those that are truly seeking true enlightenment.I wanted to touch bases with you on a couple of things today. Please be aware that you are entering a new level of consciousness and that you will be exploring some concepts that...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stress & spirituality, part 1
- Stress & Spirituality ? How Spirituality Affects Stress LevelsTake a moment to close your eyes and think about what a 'spiritual' person looks like. Whether you see them as sitting lotus-style in saffron robes or speaking emphatically from a pulpit, I'd bet one thing you won't see them as is 'stressed'. Relaxed? serene? beatific. These are all adjectives we associate with the super-spiritua...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The lord is my shepherd
- An acrostic prayer poem.The Lord loves me and is gracious unto me. He lifts my spirit day and night and will not forsake me. Even when I foolishly part company with Him, He patiently waits for me to return home.Lord, You are everything to me. Out of the depths of my being I exalt and praise Your holy name. Remembering all the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Christian religious addiction in hawaii?
- Surveys show that religion and spirituality play a central role in the lives of most of the population in human experience. Gallup (1989) found that 53% of the U.S. population considers religion to be very important in their life, and another 31% considered it fairly important (p. 176). The religious and spiritual dimensions of culture were found to be among the most important factors that structu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Payday someday
- Let us face reality squarely in the face by acknowledging the tragic fact that it does not matter how "good" you may be, folks can always concoct a way to destroy you. If people want to tear down your good name, they will find a way to somehow achieve it. If jealous, envious, greedy individuals want something you have, they will do anything and use any willing body to get you out of the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dark cages
- Acknowledgement of our need of God and reliance upon Him will not always rid us of life's pressures, will not always remove from us the difficult situations, the dark cage within which we sometimes find ourselves trapped. We shall not always escape the pressures of life and the dark situations which they bring. But we can, with God, withstand them and find resources for enduring them even when the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Show of hands
- The human body is surely a miracle of God's creation. Each member has its unique function with none quite as active as the hands. Everything man has ever made or ever will make is made by hands.The human hand is a miracle which we completely take for granted. The work of our hands, in their eloquence, silence, restlessness, creativity, and violence, has made human history and continues to s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The good, the bad, and the ugly
- That we must live with imperfections is a fact of life that cannot be denied. We must come to terms with the silent and perennial truth that the field of human life will always consist of the good, the bad and the ugly coexisting together.There is no perfect place, person, or thing. We know this do we not? I have visited many beautiful places in my life and discovered, sometimes to my own a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do not believe in god
- God poetry is one of my favorite genres, although I have to confess to being an atheist. Why does an atheist write about God? Because the idea of God is an important one. And the experience of "God" can be life changing - more so than mere belief. That is the point of this first poem.Do Not Believe In GodDo not believe in god Do not have faithSEE GOD in stars an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - True justice and freedom
- The world's idea of justice and freedom fall short of their purpose. Prison bars keep the guilty from repeating their crime while behind them. They cannot change the person. Freedom comes with a price. We have to take responsibility for our actions. We are never free from the tensions of living on the earth. We must pay the price of making a living and existing among people of different temperamen...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The divine self
- Many look outside of themselves for an experience of the Divine. Many turn to religions. Others invoke "inner guides" or a "higher self". I would like to propose that the Divine is not only inside you, it is You!Now I know that some may squirm at this idea. Others will be skeptical. Others still will outright reject it. I only ask, if you have the courage and the desire to have a true exper...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of love
- "There must be a higher love/Without it life is wasted time." Those are the opening words to one of my favorite Steve Winwood songs. What could a higher love mean in your life ? in the life of your clients?Often, during a speaking engagement, I include a potent and important word that has people flinch - "Love." They try to manage their flinching by adjusting their seats...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of myth to transform your life
- Irish myth has the power to transform your life into a real life of creativity and love. There are many powerful symbols that you might embrace in order to create a real sense of belonging in the world. Let me share some of these symbols that can assist in your truly connecting to the homeplace of the heart.1. You are one of the 'beautiful people'Beyond all your defensiveness and unc...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Celtic mythology: 7 ways to a wonderful life
- In Corrogue, Celtic mythology helps me live a wonderful life.As a storyteller, writer and Anam Cara (soul friend) I am blessed with the gift of taking the road less travelled. My companions on this road are people of magic and miracle. They are 'the beautiful people.' In Ireland we call them the Tuatha de Danaan. They teach many ways to live a wonderful life.Let me count the ways. Th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - When bad things happen to good people
- Why do bad things happen to good people? Surely this is a question all of us ask from time to time. Some of Jesus' listeners asked Him the same question. (Luke 13: 1-9). They brought up the recent news about some Galileans who had been cruelly offered as human sacrifices by Pilate; and about the tower that had fallen in one of the cities in which 18 innocent bystanders had been killed; and they wa...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The great battleground
- Being a Christian does not exempt us from having to fight daily with the problem of sin in our lives. We know that being saved does not mean we are perfect. We know that we all have personal deficits that we must persistently work toward controlling; temper, impatience, unkind thoughts, self centeredness, and a host of other possibilities. We know that we all have some skeletons and they do not al...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Christian love
- Actually, loving does not take any great effort on our part because it is not something we must put forth great effort to achieve. When God enters our heart, soul, and mind, love is spontaneously produced because He is love. It is a spiritual attainment. It is the result of a cause and the cause is this: God loved us first (1 John 4:19).This love is not produced by us. No one can love God u...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Searchable by jesus
- Some people go to physics and spiritual readers for advice for one thing or another. Who can search all things and give us the truth. Lets see what the Bible say about things that are searchable. First look in the book of 1Chronicles 28:9 it says And you my son Solomon, acknowledge the hearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Authentic prayers
- Do you go to God seeking His will for your life or do you simply want something from Him? This is a critical question because your prayers to God are not for changing Him or to beg Him to do what you want Him to do. Rather, it is to be changed by God and to be empowered to do His divine will. Man is transformed in prayer, not God. You cannot exploit God, but you can submit yourself to Him and let ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is the secret of life?
- The question isn't, "Is there life after death."Rather, the question is: "Are you alive before death."Some folks say that Jesus is the secret of life, others say that Buddha is, others say that Mohammed is. For just about every religious sect, they have as the basis of their religion a central figure which they claim is the secret of life.And, as a side note, if these religion...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why would you want to be enlightened?
- Yesterday, a marketing guru asked me a question that left me speechless.I had retained Bob to review the copy on my Mystic Warrior website from a sales perspective. He asked about reader reactions. As we talked, I told him how some readers felt compelled, while in the midst of my book, to put it down and meditate. In several cases, they described tingling sensations on the crown of their he...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The traitor within
- Life is like an obstacle course in which we run like an Olympian athlete and at times getting nowhere. We exert a lot of energy trying to avoid life's ditches, jump over the potholes, leap across stumbling blocks, miss the dangers, and somehow sidestep the troubles. Of course, we could significantly improve our quality of life if we took the time to seriously think through our responses to situati...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Grace - the divine influence of god
- The greatest frustration in a Christian's life is not being able to get what they believe to work in their lives.You've got people who have studied and believed that it's God's will to heal them. They know from scripture that Jesus bore our sicknesses and carried their pains and by His stripes they're healed, but they just can't get it to work.They know they ought to be changing, to ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Remote viewing and the body-mind connection
- One of the biggest myths to evolve in the growing annals of new age lore is that psychic ability is the sole province of the mind. Our language reflects it in terms like "mental telepathy" and "mind reading". When we think of ESP (extra sensory perception), we generally think "beyond the senses". But what usually passes for extraordinary mental ability to see distant ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Developing your intuition: conscious construction using cosmic 2 x 4?s
- What's a cosmic 2 x 4 you ask? It's actually a phrase that's been used in the 'new age/ metaphysical' world for the past 15 years or more. It refers to the lessons we learned the hard way when we didn't listen to our intuition.In the process of our spiritual growth and intuitive development, we learn to listen more deeply and follow the guidance that comes from within. Because conscious awa...