(10/24/2019) Where Is Your Faith?

Today, reply is on the correctness of offering prayer and worship to the Father as companions with Jesus Christ as well as to the Son, who is our Redeemer and Savior. Prayer is put forth through operations of the indwelling Spirit. Being joined to GOD and being in ongoing relationship with divine fullness requires believers to contain imparted spirit substance from the makeup of GOD whereby divinity is made present at all times. Mankind acknowledging and showing reverence to Christ does not introduce conflict, confusion and dispute within the divine fullness (we also say, divinity; the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit); neither can GOD be influenced and manipulated to express competition, condemnation, denial, envy, or rejection. Going further, mankind’s companionship with Christ does not debase, defame, or diminish the Lord’s exalted and eternal name as the Lamb of GOD, the Son of the Highest, and the Word. Believers are to apprehend that inseparable aspects of divinity include faith, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without sameness, personhood, priesthood, wisdom, and wrath against sin. It is written: John 10: 27-30, King James Version (KJV): 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and my Father are one. The fighter in “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality using the ID “anony” (Level 2 with 262 points, a member since December 20, 2015) posted the following:

Christians: If supposedly Jesus was to visit you today and you see him pray to God, would you then pray WITH him or pray TO him?

THE GOLDEN ARROW: Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (John 20: 29, KJV)

THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Understanding Oneness Without Sameness (08/27/2019); On Seeing The Father (12/04/2018); GOD Has Come Down (10/09/2018); When Speaking Of Christlikeness (06/25/2018); Seeing Jesus While Alive? (02/05/2016); Miracles and Visitations? (03/03/2014); All Lying Forbidden? (03/04/2014)

“anony”, whether and how one might pray rather than worship will depend on an answer to “Where is your faith?” Here are some points to consider:

1. Many Christian believers understand prayer as a practice for communicating with divinity where the separation from divine fullness by the conditions of mortality, the flesh, and the frameworks of time and space are transcended through ones own endowment of spirit substance imparted from the makeup of GOD.
2. Where active presence and divine fullness are embodied and Incarnate (we say, appearing; manifest using flesh and blood), communication, exchange, and interaction may proceed as accord, acknowledgment of each others personhood, dialog, and listening.
3. Shared prayer is to express agreement, commitment, confession, contrition, offering/sacrifice (the calves of our lips), petition, eternal purpose, surrender, and understanding.
4. Shared worship is to express awe, faith, gratitude, humility, love, oneness without sameness, praise, respect, and reverence.

There is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, a selection from the music ministry of John Michael Talbot 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAy08-WkeqU.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.

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THE BLACK PHOENIX

Washington, DC

(01/01/2015) A New Year’s Message, 2015: Great Expectations?

    As we enter into the New Year, 2015, many of us are concerned for our immediate future as Christian believers.  Having a mix of desires, disappointments, dreams, and expectations, believers too are asking:  What will happen for me, now?  Will things get better, or stay pretty much the same?  Will I finally fall in love, or meet someone to be my life companion?  Will I finally have the miracle I’ve been praying for; or will I experience the coming of Jesus, and the end of the world as we now know it?  Will I see in my lifetime the harvest, the Rapture, and other sacred events proclaimed, promised and prophesied in the Bible?  Will I finally give up, and stop trying to hold on to things we know are impossible?

    Because we are in a divinely ordered and structured process of growth and transformation, and believers are the focus of multiple sacred operations carried out by the Holy Spirit that are intended to establish permanent changes, everyone will continue to experience a broad range of the positive and negative feelings that anchor us in our humanity.  There will be enduring the unexpected, and facing the unknown.  There will be fear and uncertainty; anger and frustration.  There will be defiance and resistance.  There will be contentment, joy, and satisfaction.  In the midst of many storms, there will be peace.  In short there will be challenge after challenge with unfulfilled hope until the day of Christ’s appearing.

    On the one hand, the life of a Christian is the same rollercoaster of experience that all upon the earth must endure.  On the other hand, believers are marching to Zion supplied from the onset with guidance and instruction from Jesus, fellowship with other believers, a fresh endowment of sacred content from the makeup of divinity (e.g., faith, holiness, love), sacred knowledge through study of the holy writings, and new insights that emerge over time as they continue to pursue their journey. 

    For believers, diverse questions and thoughts are not so much a result of the changing times as the outcome of shifts in focus where believers lose sight of the eternal goals of divinity that have been revealed through Jesus Christ.  What we are commanded to expect and be ready for (we say, our hope) is unchanging.  My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.  At the Advent, the Second Coming of Jesus, mankind is to become immortal and incorruptible, to live upon the earth made new, and serve as an eternal companion to Deity.  For now, Creation continues, and GOD is completing numberless sacred operations to fulfill the spirit potential of man to be more than a mere animal or carnal being.  Thus, there are such features revealed as atonement, correction, forbearance, forgiveness, longsuffering, perfection, redemption, salvation, and sanctification.

As we begin the New Year, 2015, think it not strange that there will be affliction, hardship, or fiery trials.  Let us continue our deliberate choice to experience salvation through Jesus Christ in spite of all opposition that arises by disease, covetousness, envy, ignorance, poverty, pride, selfishness, sin, temptation, or tribulation.  Let us resolve again to hear our Sovereign say, Well done thou good, and faithful servant.  Where you have done it for the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.


THE GOLDEN ARROW:  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,  Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?  Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.  (2nd Peter 3:  8-14, KJV)


THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC

(07/21/2014) Why Were We Sent Here?

Companionship with divinity, and the purposes of GOD for the  existence of mankind are topics today.  No BATTLE AXE appears.  A “Yahoo! Answers” fighter using the ID “Gabrielle” (Level 1 with 9 points, a member since January 06, 2014) posted the following:


What are your opinions about this? please do not be rude it is necessary? 

We were sent here to be saved To enjoy ourselves right?

The moral of the story is we werent brought here to destroy ourselves
 
Why get mad when the truth is revealed? Parents arent just Parents You know Where do you think being taught good and whats bad come from? The moral of the story is Truth is God therefore God is good and God is love but I do know He sure isnt bad

What goes around goes around goes around Comes all the way back around Aye! #JT The world calls is "Karma" but God said its reaping what you sow


THE GOLDEN ARROW:  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence:  shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?  For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:  nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.  (Hebrews 12:  6-11, KJV)


THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  Not A Matter Of Opinion? (04/24/2014); What Faith Makes Possible (04/25/2014); To See With New Eyes (11/06/2012); A Life Companion? (11/07/2012); On Asking Why (11/08/2012); Unto Caesar...? (11/09/2012)


“Gabrielle”, here are some points to consider that are in agreement with Bible teachings and Christian belief:

(1.)  GOD is a being made up entirely of spirit substance such as faith, forbearance, forgiveness, holiness, joy, love, wisdom, and wrath against sin.  All the created beings and living creatures that exist were put forth for Almighty GOD to enjoy himself as their Creator and Maker.

(2.)  In the plan of GOD, the living are to enjoy themselves by operating in harmony with divinity.  All are provided with sacred knowledge and awareness of the active presence of GOD through revelation that includes divine law, sacred events (we say, miracles), the continuing ministry of Jesus Christ as Risen Lord, and the imparted Spirit of GOD (we say, the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Prophecy, the Spirit of Truth).

(3.)  Our experience as companions to GOD has been skewered and twisted by the appearance of sin among the living.  Sin is not created by angels, by mankind, or by GOD; yet, sin may dominate awareness and self-will in the living.  Sin opposes the continued existence of divine law, of all sacred operations (e.g., judgment, rebirth, repentance, resurrection), of GOD as the Law Giver, and of all Creation that responds to law for divine order and eternal purpose.

There is far more to be said, correctly understood, and spiritually apprehended.  (For example, (4.)  The living are to be in an uninterrupted relationship with the Almighty Father that is characterized by divine love.  Thus, death becomes merely sleep.  The finite social processes among mankind can be understood as put into place as a bridge whereby humanity is allowed to “cross the gap” in reaching GOD.  Human  beings are born into families, must rely upon and trust others for instruction, nourishment and protection, and must achieve balance, consistency and stability (we say, maturity, perfection) through such challenging conditions as disagreement, ignorance, inappropriate expectations, inequality, and GOD keeping a necessary distance to complete sacred works and maintain authority along with separation and silence.)  Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful.  Be it unto you according to your faith.


THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC

(02/09/2014) The Male, the Female, and GOD

Marriage for Adam and Eve, and sexual sin are topics, today.  Also, there is more on immortality.  The “Yahoo! Answers” writer using the ID “Dorian Black” (Level 2 with 499 points, a member since June 17, 2011) posted the following:


Were Adam and Eve even married?
 
The bible says sex outside of marriage is a sin.


THE BATTLE AXE:  Immortality (02/08/2014)—Since the beginning, the excellence of humanity was to be its intimate relationship with GOD, not its longevity.  Knowledge, life, eternal purpose, and truth are not to be destroyed because of sin; however, they are all being changed and transformed through operations of GOD in Christ.  Through law, intimacy is achieved as obedience where one puts aside their own will to affirm and carry out the will of another.  Intimacy as the sharing of what is otherwise hidden or secret is accomplished as communion, prayer and revelation.  Intimacy is achieved as love when one adds value, and unselfishly provides benefit to another.  Through Jesus Christ, intimacy is achieved as union where there is agreement, mutual consent, oneness, and sameness of spirit content.


THE GOLDEN ARROW:  Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?  Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.  The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.  And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.  Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously:  yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.  And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.  For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away:  for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts:  therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.  Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?  (Malachi 2:  10-17, KJV)


THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  Traditional Marriage? (12/18/2013); GOD Enjoys Judgment? (12/19/2013); About Sabbath (10/16/2013); We Shall Behold Him (10/17/2013); Desire for Love? (07/05/2013); The Church as a Bride? (05/15/2013); How Do I Repent? (05/16/2013); A Second Adam? (03/25/2013); GOD Hiding in Plain Sight (03/26/2013); A Life Companion? (11/07/2012); On Asking Why (11/08/2012)


“Dorian Black”, here are some points Christian believers have been privileged to receive by operation of the imparted, indwelling Spirit:

(1.)  Initially, the being that was formed and breathed into by GOD was intended to be a companion to the Creator, and therefore was not regarded as “alone”.  The man was placed within a living sphere (the earth), and would be a caretaker of all it would contain.  With formation of the woman, the male and female were a single “person” before GOD; and so they shared a single name, Adam.  All other life forms had been paired, and were essential to one another for reproduction.  Similarly, Adam and Eve were to be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

(2.)  Divine law existed in the place of celestial presence (we say, heaven) as the expressed will of GOD (we say, the Word) before the creation of Adam.  Sin first began to operate among the holy angels as hidden opposition to the continued existence of divine law, later, became defiance, and further on, was recognized as open rebellion.  The spirit union of the pair proceeded from GOD, and in social terms theirs was an “arranged marriage.”  Their sexual joining was not an act of disobedience (some say, original sin), or transgression of the law; and was consistent with the divine design.

There is far more to be said, properly shared, and spiritually understood.  (For example, (3.)  Adam and Eve did not have to meet the same challenges as couples today where marriage also pertains to birth rights, proper passage through growth and developmental stages, inheritance, rites of passage, social customs, and cultural traditions.  Increasingly now, only holy matrimony establishes the original covenant relationship between GOD and mankind—where the male and female become one flesh, and GOD is the other.)  Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful.  Be it unto you according to your faith.


Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.  (1st Peter 3:  7, KJV)


THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC

(11/08/2012) On Asking Why

      Divine purpose, incarnation, and the operation of GOD through Creation and flesh come into view. Also, there is more on marriage and spiritual companionship. A “Yahoo! Answers” writer using the ID “Andy” (Level 1 with 41 points, a member since November 2, 2012) posted the following:



Why did jesus have to be born?

Why did Jesus have to be born through Mary instead of just been putting on earth as a grown man. I dont see why God could not have done this as he is capable of anything. He did make trees, rivers, oceans etc appear



THE BATTLE AXE: A Life Companion? (11/07/2012)—The spiritual function of a wife includes roles as healer, mediator, and priestess of her home where she offers her own verbal and silent prayers, and encourages the prayers of her mate. As her husband’s confidant and companion in sacred study, the wife is a “first-responder” and “sounding board” for his comments, questions, and understandings. She shares with him her own heartfelt beliefs, convictions, and experience through the operation of GOD, thereby serving as an immediately available human source of divine spirit content. While gender, sexual intimacy and reproduction were not experienced among those in heaven, and was given by GOD as a necessary process for created beings and living creatures in the earth, family is the creation of mankind in the earth (we say “the world”), and centers in human social interaction and exchange. The angels know emotions and feelings, however they are not organized as families; and their service and worship goes forward through united hierarchies, orders and ranks. By marriage and family, now accounted as human instruments for survival in various material conditions, mankind also amplifies and discharges sacred covenant, spiritual growth, praise, thanksgiving and worship.



THE GOLDEN ARROW: But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 5: 15-21, King James Version)



THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Love in Christ (10/23/2012); Jesus, King of Earth? (10/07/2012); How Was GOD Known Before Jesus? (10/06/2012); Blessings, Curses and Woes (10/03/2012); Divine Self-Sacrifice? (09/30/2012); Justice Comes by Love (10/01/2012); A Man in Heaven? (09/23/2012); Aliens? (09/24/2012)



      In general, it is a mistake to object to things being as they are by asking “why are they so”; or to refuse to accept and acknowledge that things from GOD are as we have them in order to accomplish divine purpose. There are no simple answers when asking about divine intent and sacred purpose. Included are creation, judgment, redemption, repentance, salvation, sanctification, and eternal life. Divine processes must come into view that include death, incarnation, perfection, re-birth, resurrection, revelation, and unification.

      Human awareness and the capacity to be in relationship with the Creator was transformed when Adam’s will was influenced to deny the will of GOD, that is, the law spoken by GOD. More than simply a change in consciousness occurred. Self-will in Adam (both the male and female) was changed; their endowment of divine spirit content was altered; and their nature was shifted from being in line with those who dwell in heaven to be more in line with that of animals and creatures of the earth. The relationship founded in acceptance, respect and trust was shifted to a platform of apprehension, false knowledge, fear and human error.

      The finite, living instruments of angels, men and other created beings are not adequate as independent expressions of eternal will who can accomplish all the many tasks involved in the now necessary transformation of heaven and earth through judgment and salvation. So to speak, where GOD wants the work done, and done correctly, GOD must do it himself. GOD must directly operate and participate in showing divinity to created beings and living creatures in ways that respond to their many limitations. The divine word spoken as proclamation, promise, and prophecy must be performed. Divine intent must be openly displayed; and sacred law must be continually affirmed and endorsed.

      There is far more to be said, correctly applied, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, as carnal beings that operate within the frameworks of time and space, humans are independently unable to formulate and permanently maintain the same ideas and concepts that appear in divine law. Such elements as curiosity, fantasy, fear, forgetting, and imagination twist and warp otherwise sacred truths and godly wisdom.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.


THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC