conscience

16/12/07 CONSCIENCE

Conscience is the science of moral development. Conscience grows as knowledge grows. Your conscience is the result of years of grooming in the Word and life experience. Life experience without knowledge leads to a warped conscience. Children learn through experience and later their knowledge informs their experience. This is why the Word says that you need to be transformed by the renewing of your thinking. Your thinking changes as you read and meditate on His Word. Experiences in the world will give rise to certain ways of thinking and doing. The Word then washes your mind and renews your thinking which then results in new behaviour. Ultimately what you read and see determines your thinking. This age is bombarded with images and sounds that influence their thinking and so their conscience. Visual imagery gives a person a virtual sense of life. It deprives him of reality because he lives in a virtually bombarded world. People who live and move with people know what reality is. Fantasy is encouraged through virtual reality. The TV has robbed many of a real sense of reality and therefore their consciences are seared by the virtual reality displayed on the screens. This age has lost its touch with reality and therefore they don’t know what is real and what is an illusion of the real. Their consciences are seared and they live as if their lives are a motion picture and they are the actors. What a travesty this is to live one’s life in this way and at the end realise that it was all in vain. This is the reason for the increasing alienation of society from the heart of community. When one disconnects from community then life becomes a lonely journey on planet earth. The return to community living is the only way to stop this slippery path to alienation. The increasing breakdown in relationships is one indicator of this alienation. Multiple partners are just play things for play boys and girls. Life is a merry go round and there is no meaning or purpose. This will result in increasing suicide and destruction. Wars will increase as war is a sign of alienation. Wars bring people together for a common purpose. Internal wars erupt into external wars and peace is beyond your reach. Disillusion and despair will result in annihilation of the human race.i

CONFRONT THE ISSUE AND PUT OUT THE FIRE

25/10/07 CONFRONT THE ISSUE AND PUT OUT THE FIRE.

The truth sometimes hurts. However it is important to be aware of the need to support people who fear the truth. Jesus never condemned anyone even though he spoke the truth. The Pharisees hated him for this. You can never control the reactions of another. They react in response to their own guilt. Instead of taking responsibility for their guilt they will direct their reaction to another and blame the other. In this process they damage not only themselves but others. Sin will always cause you to blame others then take responsibility for it. This is why wars are fought because mankind is controlled by sin. One action leads to a reaction and before you know it, the initial action is covered by multiple reactions. The issues concerned are covered up by the reactions and lost in the process. Feelings control further actions and defences are up and cloud the issue. The issue is survival at any cost rather then looking at confronting the sin that caused the reaction. War is inevitable for blame and counter blame has clouded the issue. Always confront the issue and responsibility for it and defuse the situation. Reactions never get you anywhere. It just confuses everyone as you get lost in the cloud of fire and smoke. You are fighting the fire rather then solving the issue. Confront the issue and put out the fire.

LOOK FOR GOD IN OTHERS

20/10/07 LOOK FOR GOD IN OTHERS

Precious is the Lord and His faithfulness and goodness is above measure. He is the crowning glory of my life and in Him I am satisfied. I am His and He is mine and in Him is everlasting joy. I love the Lord and He is the source of all my being and love and life. Without Him I am nothing. In Him I am. I am a person and in Him I feel complete. Therefore as I carry the light of life in me, I am the light of life. This is a most glorious and amazing statement. Jesus said these words and He and I are one just as the Father and Jesus are one. The Holy Spirit now makes this a now experience. This follows that I have the capacity to be like God because God is in me. Yet I know I am human and prone to sin. The sin consciousness will enable me to be more God conscious. When sin tries to control me I have an escape through the Holy Spirit to overcome in the Spirit. Hallelujah what a salvation. So now nothing is impossible for me because God lives in me. God’s address is me as God resides in me. So when I see this then I walk in awe and look for God in others. For every kind of sinful behaviour I will look for the opposite good in the other. A lying tongue hides truthfulness. A jealous heart hides love. I will look for the opposite good in the bad rather then look for the bad in the good. This is a change in perception for I will look for the positives then the negatives. The world will focus on the negatives. Once the negatives are peeled off then the positive will emerge. When you see God in others then you will stop looking for the negative. i

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REDEMPTION

1/10/07 REDEMPTION

The Lord is good and His faithfulness is for ever. He is abundant love and His ways are higher then our ways. He is above all things and in Him all your desires will be met. He is the Alpha and Omega and in Him all things have their being. His righteousness will keep you in His ways. He is a God of justice and might. His might will overthrow the rebellion of the wicked and His house will be sanctified. God is moving in these days to claim His people from the ways of this world. God is preparing a bride for the return of His Son, Jesus. All who wait for Him will be satisfied. This waiting is a test of patience for it requires trust and diligence. Only those who are prepared to wait will know the experience of the joy of waiting. Time is not a factor in God’s agenda for He is eternal. You too need to think and move like God to know His mind and purpose. His purpose is to redeem all mankind and not just a few. The time has come for His minions to invade planet earth and redeem all who call on Him. He has made us in His image and our hearts will only be satisfied in Him. i

HABITS

3/9/07 HABITS

Habits are like patterns that follow a set trail and is automatic. Behaviours are also habitual. These habitual behaviours then become part of one’s normal routine operation. This then becomes a normal neural pattern in the brain. The brain executes this pattern and this becomes a part of your character. This then dictates how you lead your life. Such patterns can be changed as new patterns are executed. Like routines can be changed so also patterns. Change is difficult but once the pattern is set it becomes easy. All of life is to do with how we behave. We can be friendly or difficult. Both are patterns, one based on love and the other on fear. By faith the fear based behaviours can be changed to love based behaviours. A change of heart will result in new behaviours being established. Therefore much of what you see as behaviours are just a exhibition of fear based or love based patterns. Medication is not the answer to this. Habits can only be changed through a change of heart. Behaviours can be controlled but real change comes through a heart change. Jesus came to give us a new heart and then put His Spirit in it to enable us to live a new life based on love. His love changes us and we become new creatures. However we trust our old familiar patterns and resist the change into the new. Change is threatening as it moves away from deep held beliefs that have been ingrained in us through generations. Departing from this familial pattern is like betrayal of the family. True conversion is like that. It is following a new pattern. The old is gone and the new has come. This takes time but God is able. Therefore trust Him to help you change as you allow Him to change you by the renewal of your mind.im Him

THOUGHTS

5/8/07 THOUGHTS

Thoughts are the source of your abundance or poverty. The thoughts you entertain will determine the outcome of your day. Jesus always thought what His Father thought and therefore His life was filled with the Word of God. The Word of God then became flesh so that we could then have the life of the Son of God. This is what Jesus has done through His death and resurrection. His life becomes your life in the flesh. Now you have the Word of Life within you and His life in you will create and not destroy. This is what the world needs. His Word, not just in print but in life. His thoughts then begin to do the life giving work of restoring your life as He designed it for. Your destiny is now in Him. His thoughts become your thoughts. All you now need to do now is to reject the thoughts that are sent to oppress you. This is the battle that goes on in your soul. Now you know how to fight this battle by calling on the Lord. This what Jesus did when He was attacked. He went to the Father to seek His face and returned to minister empowered with His thoughts. This is what finally determines the outcome of your life, your thoughts. Come now and be refreshed with His thoughts today