It is our responsibility
to persuade our individual hearts in what we decide to be good for us:.Daniel
10:12,13 "Then said he unto me, fear not, Daniel, for from the first
day that thou did set thine heart to understand.(to
understand what? to understand the spirit by understanding the connection
to it through his soul).and
to chasten.(humble
so as to correct the self).yourself
before thy God, your words were heard, and I am come for your words.(words
are thoughts; thoughts about spirituality with the intention of reaching
the Infinite One through one's soul, are called prayer)."
Psalms
78:8 "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn.(refusing
to do what one knows is in his or another's
best interest).and
rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright.(on
setting
your heart), and whose spirit was
not stedfast with God.(as
some
angels were)."
1Samuel
15:23 "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft
and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.".Stubbornness
prevents
inspiration as it stifles
the soul.
Every time you acknowledge
to yourself that you are holy, righteous
and perfect and have all the promises that are
in Him (because you are
in Him and He in you), you persuade your heart
by the dominant direction of your mind.
The word
of God is only profitable for him who believes:.Hebrews
4:2. Decide to believe it! To believe it, one has to accept it. To
accept it, you must be sure it is true!
To be sure it is true, one must be sure whose
mind it came from! To be sure it came from God's mind, you must be
sure He indeed exists, and believe what
He has recorded to help you.
The
reticular
formation allows traumatic
and positive emotional impressions to be made upon the emotions. Emotions
are the impetus
for our actions, whether we accept or avoid things – including people of
various types. Some may have scared us with snakes, spiders or mice when
we were a kid. Now, an adult, we still may be terrified of an encounter
with them. When growing up,
we may have been forcefully told that we are worthless, no good and stupid
– "you can't do anything right"! You know the story.
Because of these concepts
impressed upon us, we now may feel worthless and deserving of nothing but
heartache, thus attaching ourselves to others who will fulfill our negative
subconscious desires and coming ever closer to the point of hopelessness
where we feel we don't even deserve to be here, feeling we have no right
to exist. Jabez was like this and found
a way out.
These feelings can be unwanted
maybe, but established idols.nevertheless
in the heart that need removing in order to be free.
Established idols come from
selfishness, and selfishness leads to disappointments. Disappointments
lead to thinking like "what's wrong with me". And that Is
deadly
to you!
We may think that we know
what we are like, but really, if we keep attracting the same type of negative
persons & situations into our lives (never getting what we want), we
need to understand that this is because we have not accepted our dark side,
don't understand ourselves (our ego),
and instead have been submerging negatives we refuse to acknowledge. The
dark things of character need to be acknowledged:.2Corinthians
13:5.
We express outwardly what we haven't yet dealt
with internally:.2Corinthians
10:4,5. Simply by giving attention to it, just looking at it, the light
of the soul shines on it and
dissipates
it, like the sun clears the clouds. You don't have to try to root it out.
That's done automatically:.Ephesians
2:10.
How? The more we try to
hide from the present.(shoving
thoughts away that we should be dealing with:.John
3:21; if not, the trials of living
continue:.1Corinthians
3:13), the more power our
dark sides have over our lives.
Disarm the dark side by relating
to it in a different way. Ask yourself in your quiet time why are you hiding
it? Ask yourself why you have chosen to live with evil? Why have you chosen
to live with guilt and resentment and anger, when you could just as easily
have chosen not to. Your soul
will provide the answer to a change of direction. You can't abolish the
shadow anymore than you can fight the night darkness, or the darkness in
a deep cave. You can't resist the darkness in a cave, and you can't resist
the darkness of the ego. It is just there. You instead, expose it to the
light and it dissipates.."Soul
darkness is a wound inflicted in separation and healed in
unity."....Deepak
Chopra
Unity with what? Becoming
one with universal intelligence. How?
Good and evil are different
sides of the same coin. It depends on which your attention is on. In God's
realm,
God's 'house', are many levels
of consciousness.
The sword
of the spirit will help you dissipate
your dark side. To do this bring
it into the light. Confess it. Look at it. Agree that you are like this.
Why? Because when your
attention is on it, this dissipates it as the light dissipates the
darkness.
It's all a matter of attention.
Your attention is you being the observer of your own thoughts, which are
the thoughts at the moment you are looking at them.
Self denial is denying
those things in us we don't want to really look at. We may not want to
remember all the negatives that have contributed to the making of our
souls. But, it's in the memory and affects our lives nonetheless.
Evidence of this is seen
by what is in one's life. Look at your life. It has the clues to
what you really are like. Just by looking at your dark side you
dissipate
it. Look at it when you are in the dark and quiet. Face all the stuff,
admit it and let it go. Don't try to get into it and fix it. Just feel
the emotions. Have your attention on it for a moment.
People hold fast to concepts
embedded.in
teen years and before that may be negative, thus
alienating them from good. They often have grown up in an environment that
made them this way. They may not know any other way to the depth necessary
to alter their lives for good.
And even after learning of
other ways that promise better things, they may not trust enough to attach
themselves to what could help them, their
soul, choosing instead to remain attached to what they have
been
all their life. It's easier to remain in the rut than to have to climb
out of it:.John
12:35 "...he that walks in darkness knows not where he's going." Attachments
to negative things are idols replacing the attention your soul needs, and
they
entrench negativity all the more.
Being in a negative
syndrome
involves desiring things that we think are 'somehow' good for us, but in
reality may be slowly destroying us, which is what we may be aligned with
if we feel that we are worthless.
Asking God to bless such
a person, is asking God to bring more of these negative things into their
lives, as these people often believe that this is what they need – like
the woman who marries the same type of abusive personality again and again,
and again. In your quiet time focus on the person's soul. Just by the fact
attention is on the soul of that person, they will begin the pathway to
enlightenment. A year or two from now watch how they have become much happier.
Better to ask God to do what
He knows is best for them, than simply to ask God to 'bless them', because
to them, a 'blessing' is more of the same experiences that they have somehow
convinced themselves that they need.
Jesus promises
to
cleanse us of all negative things, but we must know what it is we need
to be cleansed of; for how can we know what Christ may have removed if
we didn't even know it's there. So we have life and its many circumstances
which reveal ourselves to ourselves, sometimes in hideous
detail. Thus the need to prayerfully (talk to God about what you are studying).study
the Bible.
Take
time to sit or lie in the dark and quiet.
And pray!
And think!
And listen and see
what
wells up in your mind! God is no different for others than He is for
you.
Know what past experiences
(Psalms 139:23,24) have made
you feel as you now do, and know that all these have been bought by Jesus.
He paid for them. They are no longer yours. You can not hold on to them
anymore:.Colossians
3:3 "For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God." 1Corinthians
6:20 "For you are bought
with a price. Therefore glorify God
in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.".Christ
is in the present. If your living in the past, how can you be in the present
with Him? He bought your past. It is no longer yours. You can no longer
have what you no longer own.2Peter
2:1 "...the Lord that bought them...";
1Corinthians
7:23.
I have seen it played out
in peoples' lives. They live what they think. And some have yet to move
on from "I was right back then and I got hurt". So they keep this 'righteousness'
close to them well into the future. It's a part of them and we all want
to keep ourselves together, or to put it another way, we want to keep all
we have or think is ours. Our lives can become overly selfishly important
to us if we let our thoughts about ourselves run wild.
Now you can give up your
old ways of death.Hebrews
10:19,20 "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated
for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh." Philippians
3:13,14 "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended;
but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark
for the prize of the high calling of God in
Christ Jesus."
Now you can develop a passion,
as
Paul did, to help keep you
from evil that hurts you, as it did Paul:.Romans
7th chapter; Psalms 34:14.
And instead, at least aiming in the proper direction as best you can:.1Peter
3:11.
Galatians
4:8,9 "Howbeit
then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature
are no gods. But now, after that you have known God, or
rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly
elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?"....continues
