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One Love
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| Posted 6/9/2007 9:43 AM (GMT -6) |   | A thought.
Ok. I just had a thought.
With my mental capabilities (God-given), my penchant for violent emotions and activity, my incessant need for belonging, and my undercover megalomania (my counseling wife confirmed to me that I had episodes of this)...
can you imagine what I would have done to people if I had gotten into crime?
Or organized crime?
Yeah.
Can you imagine what I would have been, even just in the corporate world?? I would have been sooooo shady. (God took me away from a very lucrative future in the business world to go into ministry. I see why.)
God just showed me all that today.
Corruptio Optima Pessima.
I remember back in high school that I had a teacher in 9th grade who was very nice to me. But at the same time, she seemed to be wary too. I remember one day she told me this...
"Dwayne, you are so smart that it scares me."
I've never forgotten those words.
I asked why. And she basically said that with my intelligence, capacity for speaking and other things...I could be another MLK Jr...or another Jim Jones.
I was like...uhhhh, ok.
But it's right now.
RIGHT NOW.
That I fully understand what she was saying.
Bless God for his grace...all the way down.
I went from  to  in my spirit.
But hey God does that.
Paul went from being Pharisee of the Pharisees, killing up everything...to being the Chief Apostle to the Gentiles, loving up everything.
Paul's capacity for violent hatred...was his SAME capacity for violent love.
Same for all of us.
Praise the Holy Name of the Lord Jesus Christ
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
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Similitude
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selah
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| Posted 6/10/2007 2:06 PM (GMT -6) | |  >>>>
Amen, D.
luv ya!
T
"When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love." ~ Soren Kierkegaard | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 6/10/2007 8:09 PM (GMT -6) | | Brother Lawrence rocks. Hard.
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 6/10/2007 10:15 PM (GMT -6) | | "It is not necessary for being with GOD to be always at church; we may make an oratory of our heart, wherein to retire from time to time, to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with GOD, some more, some less: He knows what we can do. Let us begin then; perhaps He expects but one generous resolution on our part. Have courage. We have but little time to live; you are near sixty-four, and I am almost eighty. Let us live and die with GOD: sufferings will be sweet and pleasant to us, while we are with Him: and the greatest pleasures will be, without Him, a cruel punishment to us. May He be blessed for all. Amen."
--Brother Lawrence, Practice of the Presence of God, 7th Letter
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
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