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Tom
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Corey
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| Posted 1/23/2007 12:16 PM (GMT -6) | | | Wow. Tears from watching that.
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Found her website:
http://www.artakiane.com/
Apparently her work is on permanent display at a museum outside of Omaha. Maybe I'll take my girls on a weekend trip to show this to them.
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2004/004/7.24.html
It all began to happen when she started to share her dreams and visions. "Prior to that time, Forelli had been raised as an unbeliever, in an atheistic family from Lithuania. "And my husband was a former Catholic and did not share in the family beliefs. We didn't pray together, there was no discussion about God, and we didn't go to church. Then all of a sudden, Akiane was starting to talk about God."
Forelli's young daughter was homeschooled, she had no babysitters, and the family watched no television."We were with the kids all the time, and so these words from Akiane about God didn't come from the outside—we knew that. But there suddenly were intense conversations about God's love, His place [in our lives], and she would describe everything in detail."
And her family is Lithuanian!! Oh cool!! (I lived there and it holds my heart in such a way I can't describe!)
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When asked how she knows that it's God who is speaking to her, she replies, "Because I can hear His voice. His voice is quiet and beautiful."
PROPERLY BASIC BELIEF!
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Akiane also has another dream that she believes God has given her—only this one is one that she dreams during her waking hours."I really want to help needy people in Africa and other places," she says. "Especially the Lithuanian people—the 'garbage children' is what they are called. They live in the garbage, and 2- and 3-year-olds are being killed for the first place in the food line," she says. "Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world. They need help with food and medicine, and a free hospital. I really want to build a free hospital for them."
Now I'm just sobbing here at work... I gotta go. Post Edited (Corey) : 1/23/2007 11:58:34 AM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 1/23/2007 1:04 PM (GMT -6) | | Would you believe that the LOVING INTIMACY of relationship that this young woman has with God is EXACTLY what God wants with everyone?
God is real.
God wants to be KNOWN.
God wants to be HEARD.
And God will speak to those who listen.
God bless the Child, Akiane.
Yeah...
"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Therefore (YOU) go and introduce all peoples into the Way, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and intstructing them in following everything I have commanded you. (Great Commandments!)
And surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age."
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One Love
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| Posted 1/25/2007 9:24 PM (GMT -6) | | Wanna see UNBELIEVABLE?
www.artakiane.com/paintings/age_10/age10_06.htm
This is called "The Connection"
Now read her words...
…In one of my visions the word connection was flashing in the colors and details of one allegory that I was immediately able to transform onto the canvas.
The communion, the attention and the action formed the connection between three birds.
One of the birds was calling and communing,
the second one was focusing and giving all her attention,
and the third was acting and flying to help.
The planets in the sky were also forming a ripple effect of the same Connection. Without the communion, the attention and the action we cannot have a true Connection…
Now let's break this down.
We are talking about "The Connection."
A RELATIONAL term.
Which she considers in terms of COMMUNICATION.
And she noted THREE things here...
Communion: The one who ORIGINATES the communication.
Attention: The one who ATTENDS to the communication.
Action: The one who ACTS and HELPS the communication.
And without the Communion, the Attention, and the Action...there cannot be a true "Connection"
Does this sound familiar to ANYONE??
All this...with no friggin theology classes.
10 year old girl.
God speaks...to those who will listen.
"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Therefore (YOU) go and introduce all peoples into the Way, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and intstructing them in following everything I have commanded you. (Great Commandments!)
And surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age."
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Starkman
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| Posted 1/26/2007 7:57 AM (GMT -6) | |
TGB said...I wanna go to her house, introduce myself and ask her to place her hand on my head while I knee down and have her pray for me. I'll say, "Just pray whatEVER God puts into your heart siste. Just pray." Tom
How desperately we all need to experience that; a prophet or prophetess, so young and uninfluenced, whom God, by the laying on of hands and by the spoken words, imparts blessing.
In these days, we so desperately need that.
Starkman
My teacher used to say that whenever he read Scripture, he would always ask the question, "What does this have to say about the character of God?" Working off his thinking, as I read Scripture, I have come to ask, "What does this have to say about the heart and passion of God's desire for relationship with us? | | Back to Top | | |
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Tom
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| Posted 1/26/2007 9:10 AM (GMT -6) | | Consider this too, most of her poems just drop into her head completed. She doesn't 'work' on them, make corrections, subsstitute words, etc. They just come to her--finished.
Mozart used to get his music that way. He said it was all done in his head. So his FIRST drafts were FINAL drafts--all the melodies, all the parts, all the instruments, all of it--done. He just wrote it down.
I don't even know what to say. We are soooo f**ed up we think SHE'S the abnormal one, the exceptional one. But I think it's just God's way of saying to us, "This is where you're ALL headed, what you ALL will be like. See what humanity can be, can do?"
Tom
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One Love
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| Posted 1/26/2007 9:50 AM (GMT -6) | | Tom:
I don't even know what to say. We are soooo f**ed up we think SHE'S the abnormal one, the exceptional one. But I think it's just God's way of saying to us, "This is where you're ALL headed, what you ALL will be like. See what humanity can be, can do?"
ABSOLUTELY, TOM!
We are ALL meant to connect with God in a seamless way.
ALL OF US.
Satan just keeps us from believing that.
Just like the Matrix kept it's inhabitants LOCKED in patterns of oppression by LIES.
"That's impossible." "I could never hear God like that." "Wow, they're really blessed...and I suck."
We've got to come OUT.
God WILL reward those who diligently seek Him.
God WILL. Not "might" WILL!
I'm a living WITNESS...as are others!
We can ALL make a commitment RIGHT NOW to seek God more intensely than we ever have before.
We can ALL make a choice...no matter how small...in the direction of believing that we CAN live like Akiane...who is living like JESUS!
To lay aside EVERY WEIGHT and choose to focus ABSOLUTELY on God and His Right-relatedness.
RIGHT NOW, we can make that choice.
Not later.
RIGHT NOW.
The POSSIBILITY is right in front of us.
TODAY is the day of salvation. NOW is the time.
God is RIGHT HERE listening.
Talk to him.
Listen to him.
If you are willing to go through the PAIN of learning the truth...he will tell it to you.
And you WILL grow.
And you WILL hear the Shepherd's voice.
And it WILL come to be the most beautiful communication you ever WANT to experience.
The MANIFESTATION of the Sons and Daughters of God goes on...
God bless the Child...
"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Therefore (YOU) go and introduce all peoples into the Way, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and intstructing them in following everything I have commanded you. (Great Commandments!)
And surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age."
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One Love
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| Posted 1/26/2007 10:04 AM (GMT -6) | | The Word of the Lord...
"Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice." Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
Therefore Jesus said again, "Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they might have life, and have it to the full.
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— JUST AS the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father."
The Jews who heard these words were again divided. Many of them said, "He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?"
But others said, "These are not the sayings of someone possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Therefore (YOU) go and introduce all peoples into the Way, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and intstructing them in following everything I have commanded you. (Great Commandments!)
And surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age."
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