View allAll Photos Tagged GodIsLOVE
Big Sur, California. Canon EOS300. Our summer 2014 trip to the US, covering California, Nevada and Arizona - ISO200 35mm Film
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/chinese-choir-episode-17/
The Chinese Choir Episode 17 of the Church of Almighty God starts in a quiet and solemn atmosphere. A sonorous and powerful hymn, The Symbol of God’s Disposition, extols God’s righteous and holy disposition and His just, good and beautiful substance, singing out the reverence and admiration of God’s chosen people for the Creator. Following that, God’s chosen people sing loudly All Will Be Accomplished by God’s Words, in praise of God’s victory over Satan and the accomplishment of His six-thousand-year management plan!
1. The Symbol of God’s Disposition
God’s disposition encompasses His love for mankind (His love for mankind),
comforting of mankind, hatred of mankind,
and even more so, a thorough understanding of mankind.
The disposition of God is one that belongs to the Ruler of the living beings among all things,
to the Lord of all creation.
God’s disposition represents honor, power, nobility,
represents greatness, and supremacy (supremacy).
God’s disposition is the symbol of authority and all that is righteous,
the symbol of all that is beautiful and good.
Moreover, it is a symbol of how God cannot be suppressed or attacked by the darkness and any enemy force,
as well as a symbol of how He cannot be and indeed is not allowed to be offended by any created being.
God’s disposition is the symbol of the highest power.
No person or persons
may or can disturb His work or His disposition.
God is forever supreme and ever honorable,
while man is forever low and ever worthless.
This is because God is forever making sacrifices and devoting Himself to mankind;
man, however, forever takes and labors only for himself.
God is forever laboring for the existence of mankind,
laboring for the existence of mankind,
yet man never contributes anything to the light or righteousness.
Even if man labors for a time, it is weak and cannot withstand the slightest blow,
for the labor of man is always for himself and not for others.
Man is always selfish,
while God is forever selfless.
God is the source of all that is just, good, and beautiful,
while man is the successor and expresser of all ugliness and evil.
God will never alter His substance of righteousness and beauty,
yet man can, at any time, betray righteousness and stray far from God.
God will never alter His substance of righteousness and beauty.
God will never alter His substance of righteousness and beauty,
His substance of righteousness and beauty.
from “It Is Very Important to Understand God’s Disposition” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
2. All Will Be Accomplished by God’s Words
All Will Be Accomplished by God’s Words
All will be accomplished by God’s words.
All will be accomplished by God’s words.
All will be accomplished by God’s words; no man may partake,
and no man can do the work that God will carry out.
God will wipe clean the air of all lands
and eradicate all trace of the demons on earth.
God has already begun, and He will commence the first step of His work of chastisement in the dwelling place of the great red dragon.
Thus it can be seen that God’s chastisement has befallen the entire universe,
and that the great red dragon and all kinds of unclean spirits will be powerless to escape God’s chastisement,
for God surveys all lands, for God surveys all lands.
When God’s work on earth is completed, that is, when the era of judgment comes to an end,
God will formally chastise the great red dragon.
God’s people will see His righteous chastisement of the great red dragon,
they will pour forth their praise because of God’s righteousness,
and will forever extol His holy name because of His righteousness.
Hence you will formally perform your duty, and will formally praise God throughout the lands,
forever and ever! Forever and ever!
Forever and ever! Forever and ever!
Forever and ever!
from “The Twenty-eighth Utterance” of God’s Utterances to the Entire Universe in The Word Appears in the Flesh
The Hymn of God's Word "God’s Realness and Loveliness"
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/hymn-gods-realness-and-lo...
lyrics：
“For Adam and Eve, the Lord God made coats of skins, and clothed them.”
What we can see from this image is that God appears in the role
of the parent of Adam and Eve.
Ah … ah … ah … ah …
I
God made Adam and Eve, taking them as His companions.
As their only family, He looked after their life,
as well as took care of all, all their basic necessities.
God appears in the role of the parent, the parent of Adam and Eve.
God made Adam and Eve, taking them as His companions.
As their only family, He looked after their life,
as well as took care of all, all their basic necessities.
God appears in the role of the parent, the parent of Adam and Eve,
as the parent of Adam and Eve.
In this work God does, in this work God does,
man is unable to see how lofty God is, or His paramount supremacy.
Nor can they see Him shrouded in mystery, or His wrath and majesty.
Everything they can see is the love of God and His humility.
And they see His concern for man as well as His duty and care toward man.
II
The way that God thought about and treated Adam and Eve,
is just like how human parents care for children of their own,
just like how human parents look after, care for, and love
their own sons and daughters—real and true,
can be seen, can be touched.
The way that God thought about and treated Adam and Eve,
is just like how human parents care for children of their own,
just like how human parents look after, care for, and love
their own sons and daughters—real and true,
can be seen, can be touched, can be seen, can be touched.
God didn’t put Himself in a mighty and high position,
but with His own hands, He made clothing for man to wear.
Even though this is something simple, something too simple to be mentioned,
this makes all who follow God,
who were filled with vague ideas, see who He truly is,
He is genuine, and He is lovely too;
see that He is humble and faithful, He’s humble and faithful.
He is genuine, and He is lovely too;
see that He is humble and faithful, He’s humble and faithful.
“For Adam and Eve, the Lord God made coats of skins, and clothed them.”
What we can see from this image is that God appears in the role of
the parent of Adam and Eve,
the role of the parent of Adam and Eve, parent of Adam and Eve.
from “God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself I” in Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/thesecondcomingofjesus.html
Website: www.holyspiritspeaks.org/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/godfootstepsen
Facebook: www.facebook.com/godfootstepsen
Twitter: twitter.com/churchAlmighty
Blog: en.blog.hidden-advent.org/
Instagram: instagram.com/thechurchofalmi...
Email: info@almightygod.church
Leonard built Salvation Mountain to convey his message of "God is Love." He 's been working on the mountain for over 30 years. He lives on site, in a painted truck without electricity and running water. He's always at the mountain and will give you a guided tour when you visit.
Leonard was recently featured in Sean Penn's film Into the Wild.
Dutton.
The Hundred of Dutton was declared in 1858 because of its proximity to Truro. It stands just to the west of Mt Rufus, the highest mountain in these parts. Mt Rufus is 547 metres high or 1,796 feet, is just 180 metres (589 feet) less than the height of Mt Lofty. The township of Dutton is on the cusp of the rain shadow of the eastern part of the Mt Lofty Ranges. It still has sufficient rainfall for reliable cropping. It was settled as a German farming area with people moving here from the Barossa Valley especially Lights Pass. A small creek flowing down from Mt Rufus provided water for the town in the early years. Dutton was named after Francis Stacker Dutton of Anlaby who was briefly Premier of South Australia in 1863. The town was surveyed in 1866 and settled after that. Before the town was surveyed Lutheran services were held in the barn of J Habel from 1863 until a basic little church was built outside the town at Pine Hut in 1866. St John’s Lutheran church was built in Dutton in 1871 and also used as a school until the Lutheran School was built in 1876. The quaint bell tower was added in 1891 with bells from Germany. Across the road the Lutherans built a manse for their pastor in 1892 which is heritage listed. Following a church disagreement the new Holy Cross Lutheran Church was built in 1900. It closed in 1972. Unlike most towns in this area it also had a Congregational Church from 1879 until it closed in 1958. The land was donated by a local JP Mr Scott and before the opening of the Congregational Church the English residents of Dutton held their own Congregational services in St John’s Lutheran Church. The timber framed Dutton state school opened in 1880 in a different site and closed in 1903. It had 26 pupils in 1880 and Miss Schumann was in charge. The Lutheran school was closed by act of parliament in 1917 and became a state school rented from the Lutheran Church. Dutton state School finally closed in 1955. Dutton has an old heritage listed blacksmith’s shop and residence (1875), an old general store built in 1869 with a parapet along the roof line and an old Post Office (1873). Dutton is one of the few settlements east of the ranges that still manages to survive without public facilities because it is close to Truro.
"Feel 'GOD' in every 'gentle touch'. See 'GOD' in every 'happy face'. Hear 'GOD' in every 'caring word'. Receive GOD's Blessings every day of your life, Allow God's Word to 'push; you Beyond 'YOU'. He was the 'One' who made a 'Way' and opened the 'Door'...We can 'express' our 'Gratitude' by doing His Work... If 'GOD' is All You Need, You Have All 'YOU' Need..." #GODisLove #WeHaveABigGOD #GODSLoveNeverFails
We happened upon an event called the God is Love festival at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Memorial Day in May 2010. Part of the gathering involved Angel Wings. In one of the booths was an incredibly lovely woman named Nikki Nez - she asked if I would take her photo (she really had to twist my arm). We did some shooting - not bad considering it was a crowded area. I chatted with Nikki for a bit and deduced that she was an incredible woman, a real free spirit, drop dead gorgeous, highly photogenic, and an all around sweetheart - God was definitely smiling on me this day to give me a chance to shoot with Nikki - what a blast that was!
Full 'God Is Love' Bible Passages
1 John 4:8 - But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:16 - We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:8
I've been thinking a lot about love lately and where there is love there is God.
There is no love without God.
I've been trying to figure out things and I'm praying for help and praying i do the right thing.
I love God and God loves me.
I re-uploaded this with the crop suggestion, so i lost my comments on it.
Comment it again please.
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life. Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love. Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. Love rules without rules, the love we give away is the only love we keep.
image, saying and poetry by me.
I Have Seen Your Pain:
You whisper,
"no one sees my pain."
You trudge through
another day.
Others look upon
your silent reserve,
curious of what
is hidden in the
unspoken word.
You build up walls,
and hide behind your fears,
you long to be held,
but you don't let
people near.
I know,
for at times even in
silence I hear.
*Someone has seen your pain.
you're not alone*
Rebecca
Copyright © Rebecca
Shadowed Existence:
Screaming out, wanting to be heard,
Standing tall but falling down.
Crying on in darkness,
wanting to be loved.
Living in the shadows,
Denied so much so long.
Lean on God,
He'll make you strong.
I see you,
Living in the shadows,
Hiding in the past,
Afraid to face today,
After so many yesterdays,
I may not have the words,
I may not heal the hurt,
But I'm here. I've seen. I've heard.
Rebecca
Copyright © Rebecca
The dance we dance:
It's an elaborate dance we dance,
with our feet tied behind our backs,
And our eyes made blind.
We laugh to fill the silence,
while the tears fall behind our eyes.
It's a competition we'll never win.
All our hard work--
All the planning of our lives,
And then we find ourselves falling,
with no one there to heal our pains.
For no one really knows the wounds we've suffered,
They too have been covered by laughter.
Lips curled up in a smile of joy,
while silently we realize we'll never be who we were before,
Choking on the tears we've never cried,
Feeling guilty for all we were to be, but never became,
For the promises made, and unspoken lies.
We dance a dance that cannot be danced alone,
and laugh a laugh that doesn't exist.
For truly all is still, dark, and silent
behind this heavy mask.
Being human is no easy task.
For it is an elaborate dance we dance,
with our feet tied behind our back,
and our eyes made blind.
I reach out my hand to you, my fellow dancer,
for I too know, the steps that cannot be stepped,
The dreams we dream to fill the emptiness but cannot be embraced.
We run to nowhere, never winning a race. Why we compete, I'll never know.
For here we are dancing a dance that can never be danced alone...
by Rebecca Turk
We happened upon an event called the God is Love festival at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Memorial Day in May 2010. Part of the gathering involved Angel Wings. In one of the booths was an incredibly lovely woman named Nikki Nez - she asked if I would take her photo (she really had to twist my arm). We did some shooting - not bad considering it was a crowded area. I chatted with Nikki for a bit and deduced that she was an incredible woman, a real free spirit, drop dead gorgeous, highly photogenic, and an all around sweetheart - God was definitely smiling on me this day to give me a chance to shoot with Nikki - what a blast that was!
Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/one-who-holds-sovereignty...
Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical
documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
Terms of Use en.godfootsteps.org/disclaimer.html
Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/one-who-holds-sovereignty...
Praise and Worship Music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries! （ Watch Gospel Video Now）
Terms of Use en.godfootsteps.org/disclaimer.html
One look at the dorm windows & it's obvious - the center of gravity of intellectual life is not found here. At least not back in 1990.
Salvation Mountain is a literal man-made mountain 28 years in the making, covered in half a million gallons of latex paint. What started as a small monument made of dirt and painted cement became, over time, a sprawling adobe and hay-bale mountain complex, with peripheral structures made of telephone poles, tires, and car windows, as well as art cars and sculptures, all painted in a patchwork of stripes and color blocks of whatever paint was donated that week.” It is in a remote area near the Salton Sea in the California desert. The artist Leanord Knight use what ever donated materials he was given to make this vision happen over 3 decades.
The answer from God’s word:
“The work of managing mankind is divided into three stages; that is, the work of saving mankind is divided into three stages. These three stages of works do not include the work of creating the world, but are the work of the Age of the Law, the work of the Age of the Grace, and the work of the Age of the Kingdom. The work of creating the world is only a work of producing all mankind, not a work of saving mankind, and it has nothing to do with the work of saving mankind. Because at the creation of the world mankind was not corrupted by satan, there was no need to do the work of saving mankind. The work of saving mankind began only after mankind was corrupted, so the work of managing mankind also began only after mankind was corrupted.”
from “Knowing the Three Stages of Works Is the Way to Know God”
in The Word Appears in the Flesh
How do God’s three stages of works deepen stage by stage and cause man to be saved?“The significance, purpose, and step of Jehovah’s work in Israel at that time were to carry out his work on the whole earth, spreading it to the Gentile nations with Israel as the center. This is the principle by which he works in the entire universe—starting his work in one place and then spreading it so that the entire universe can receive his gospel. The early Israelites were the descendants of Noah. They only had Jehovah’s breath and knew how to eat, dress, reside, and travel, but they did not know what kind of God Jehovah was, nor did they know his will for man, much less know how man should fear the Creator. Whether there were regulations or decrees for them and whether there were works created beings should do for the Creator, the descendants of Adam did not know these. They only knew that husbands should labor and sweat to support their families and wives should submit to their husbands and bear children to carry on the mankind created by Jehovah. In other words, such men, who only had Jehovah’s breath and his life, did not know how to follow God’s laws and how to satisfy the Creator. They understood too little. So, although in their hearts they had no crookedness and craftiness and seldom had jealousy and strife, they did not know or understand Jehovah—the Creator. Such ancestors of man only knew to eat and enjoy things from Jehovah but did not know to fear Jehovah or know that Jehovah was the One they should bow down to. So how could they be called created beings? Then wouldn’t the words ‘Jehovah is the Creator’ and ‘He created mankind to manifest him, glorify him, and represent him’ fail? How could men who had no fear of Jehovah become a testimony of Jehovah’s glory? How could they become a manifestation of Jehovah’s glory? Then wouldn’t Jehovah’s word ‘I created mankind in my image’ become a handle got by satan—the evil one? Wouldn’t that word become a sign of shame to Jehovah’s creating mankind? In order to accomplish that stage of work, Jehovah, after creating mankind, did not instruct or lead them from Adam to Noah, but after destroying the world by the flood, he formally led the Israelites—the descendants of Noah, also the descendants of Adam. He worked and spoke in Israel, leading all the people of Israel to live in the whole land of Israel. Thus, men saw that Jehovah could not only breathe his breath into men to let them have his life and be enlivened from the dust and become created mankind, but he could also burn mankind and curse mankind, govern mankind with his rod, and lead men to live on earth and speak and work among them according to the day or night time. The works he did were only for all created beings to know that man came from the dust Jehovah picked up from the ground and was created by Jehovah. Not only so, but he first worked in Israel even more for the purpose that every nation and race outside Israel (actually they were not outside Israel but were the Gentile nations and races who were separated from the Israelites and whose ancestors were also Adam and Eve) could receive Jehovah’s gospel from Israel, so that all created beings in the entire universe would fear Jehovah and magnify Jehovah. If in the beginning Jehovah had not worked in Israel but only let mankind live in a carefree way on earth after creating them, then by the nature of man’s flesh (nature means that man never knows the things he cannot see, that is, man does not know that it was Jehovah who created mankind, much less know why Jehovah created mankind), they would have never known that Jehovah created mankind or that Jehovah was the Lord of all things. If after Jehovah created mankind and placed them on earth as his enjoyment, he had left them instead of leading them among them for some time, then the whole mankind would have become nothing, and even the heavens and the earth and all things and the whole mankind he created would have become nothing and become a place trampled by satan. In that case, Jehovah’s wish that ‘on earth, that is, among the things he created, he could have his footing, his holy place’ would have failed. So, after he created mankind, he led them to live and spoke to them among them all for the purpose of fulfilling his wish and accomplishing his plan. He worked in Israel only for the accomplishment of the plan he made before creating all things. Therefore, his working first among the people of Israel did not contradict his creating all things; they were both for the sake of his management, his work, and his glory, and for the purpose that his creating mankind could have a deeper meaning. After Noah, he led the mankind on earth to live for two thousand years, so that all men understood how they should fear Jehovah, the Lord of all things, understood how they should lead their life and how they should live, and even more understood how they should testify for Jehovah, obey him, and fear him, and thus they made music to praise Jehovah as David and his priests did.
Before Jehovah did the two thousand years of work, men knew nothing and almost all of them fell away. Consequently, before the world was destroyed by the flood, they were licentious and corrupt, and in their hearts they did not at all have Jehovah, much less have Jehovah’s ways. They never knew what work Jehovah wanted to do. They did not have sense, much less insight, but were merely like a breathing machine, knowing nothing about man, God, all things, life, and so on. On earth, they did many works of the viper’s temptation and said many words of offending Jehovah, but because of their ignorance, Jehovah did not chastise them or discipline them. After the world was destroyed by the flood, that is, after Noah was six hundred and one years old, he formally appeared to Noah and led him and his family, that is, led the animals and birds and Noah and his descendants that were left after the flood, until the Age of the Law ended, altogether for two thousand and five hundred years. He worked, that is, formally worked, in Israel for two thousand years and worked simultaneously in and outside Israel for five hundred years, altogether for two thousand and five hundred years.”
from “The Work in the Age of the Law” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“In the Age of the Grace, men had been corrupted by satan. To do the work of redeeming all mankind, there had to be rich grace and infinite forbearance and patience and even more a sin offering that was adequate to forgive men’s sins, so that the work result could be achieved. What men in the Age of the Grace saw was only the sin offering by which I forgave man’s sins, that is, Jesus; they only knew that God could have mercy on man and forbear with man, and they only saw Jesus’ mercy and lovingkindness. All this was because they lived in the Age of the Grace. So before they were redeemed, they had to enjoy a lot of grace Jesus bestowed to them, which was beneficial to them, so that they could be forgiven of their sins because of enjoying grace and could have the opportunity to be redeemed from their sins because of enjoying the forbearance and patience Jesus bestowed to them. Because of Jesus’ forbearance and patience, men were qualified to be forgiven of their sins and enjoy the rich grace Jesus bestowed to them. Just as Jesus said, ‘I have not come to redeem the righteous, but to redeem sinners so that their sins could be forgiven.’ If the disposition Jesus was incarnated with had been judgment and curse and it had never tolerated man’s offense, men would never have the opportunity to be redeemed, and then they would forever belong to sin. In that case, the six-thousand-year management plan would just stop at the Age of the Law, with the result that the Age of the Law would last six thousand years and man’s sins would become more and more and graver and graver. The whole significance of creating mankind would be lost, and men could only serve Jehovah under the law, but their sins would be more than those of the first created men. The more Jesus loved mankind, forgave their sins, and brought them sufficient mercy and lovingkindness, the more they were qualified to be saved by Jesus, and they were called the lost lambs bought by Jesus at a high price. Satan could not interfere in this work, because Jesus treated his followers as a loving mother treats her baby in her bosom. He did not get angry with them or loathe them, but was full of consolation to them. He never raged among them, but forbore with their sins and never looked at their foolishness and ignorance. And he even said ‘forgive others seventy times seven.’ So, others’ hearts were moved by his heart. In this way, men were forgiven of their sins because of his forbearance.”
from “The Inside Truth of the Work in the Age of the Redemption”
in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“This stage is to reveal the unrighteous things within people through chastisement and judgment and through the smiting, disciplining, and exposing of the word, so that they can be saved. This is a work deeper than redemption. The grace in the Age of the Grace has been sufficient for people to enjoy, and they have experienced it. They will be given no more to enjoy. That work has become outdated and will no longer be done. Today it is to save people through the judgment of the word. Isn’t it because of these words I speak that people are judged, chastised, and refined and thus transformed in their disposition? What is done in each stage of work is done according to the development of the whole mankind and according to the age. And all the work done is significant and is for the sake of ultimate salvation, for the purpose that mankind can have a pleasant destination in the future, and for the purpose that people will be divided into their kinds in the end.
The final work is to speak words. Just through the words, people can attain a great transformation. The transformation these people have gained now after receiving these words is much greater than the transformation people gained after receiving the signs and wonders in the Age of the Grace. This is because although in the Age of the Grace demons were driven out of people through the laying on of hands and praying, their inner corrupt dispositions still remained. People were healed of their sicknesses and forgiven of their sins, but the work concerning how they could be rid of their corrupt satanic dispositions within was not done on them. People were only saved by faith and forgiven of their sins by faith, but their sinful nature was not removed and still remained within them. People are forgiven of their sins through God’s incarnation; it is not that they have no sins within. People, after sinning, can be forgiven through the sin offering, but they have no way to solve the problem of how to be free from sinning, to completely cast off their sinful nature, and to be transformed in their sinful nature. People are forgiven of their sins because of God’s work of crucifixion, but they are still living in their old corrupt satanic disposition. Thus, God has to save people completely from their corrupt satanic disposition, so that their sinful nature will be completely cast off and no longer develop and their disposition can be transformed. For this, God has to let people understand the way to grow in life, the way of life, and the pathway to be transformed in their disposition, and have them practice according to this way, so that they can be transformed in their disposition gradually and live under the shining of the light, and that everything they do can be after God’s heart, and they can cast off their corrupt satanic disposition, break away from satan’s influence of darkness, and come out of sins completely. Only then will they have received a full salvation. When Jesus did his work, people’s knowledge of him was still vague and obscure, and they always believed that he was the Son of David and said that he was a great prophet and he was the merciful Lord who atoned for man’s sins. Some were healed of their sicknesses by touching the edge of his garment by faith, the blind could receive sight, and the dead could be raised. But people could not discover the deep-rooted corrupt satanic disposition within them and did not know how to cast it off. People received a lot of grace, such as, fleshly peace and joy, the whole household being blessed through one member believing in the Lord, the healing of sicknesses, and so on. Besides that, they had good deeds and godly appearance. Those who could live by these would be qualified believers. Only such believers could go to heaven after their death, that is, be saved. But when these people were alive, they did not understand the way of life at all but just kept committing sins and confessing them, and they did not have the way to be transformed in their disposition. In the Age of the Grace people were just in such a situation. Have they been saved completely? No! So, after that stage of work has been accomplished, there is still a stage of work of judgment and chastisement. In this stage, it is to purify people through the word so that they can have ways to go on. If God still drove out demons in this stage, it would produce no results and would be meaningless, because people’s sinful nature could not be cast off and they could only remain at the basis of being forgiven of their sins. People have been forgiven of their sins through the sin offering, because the work of the cross has ended and God has triumphed over satan. But people’s corrupt disposition still remains within them and they still can commit sins and resist God, and God has not gained mankind. So in this stage, God discloses people’s corrupt disposition by his word and lets them practice according to proper ways. The work done in this stage is more significant and produces greater results than the work done in the former stage, because now the word directly supplies people’s life so that their disposition can be thoroughly renewed, and it is a more thorough work. So, the final incarnation has completed the significance of God’s incarnation and has completely accomplished God’s management plan of saving man.”
from “The Mystery of Incarnation (4)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“God does the work of saving man by three stages; that is, he thoroughly defeats satan by warring against it by three stages. But the inside truth of all the work of warring against satan is that God achieves the results through these several works of bestowing grace to man, being man’s sin offering, forgiving man’s sins, conquering man, and perfecting man. To put it plainly, to war against satan is not to fight against satan, but to defeat satan by saving man, working man’s life, and transforming man’s disposition so that man can testify for God. He defeats satan by transforming man’s corrupt disposition. After satan has been defeated, that is, after man has been thoroughly saved, satan which has been put to shame will be thoroughly bound. Then man will have been thoroughly saved. So, saving man in substance is warring against satan, and warring against satan is mainly manifested as saving man. Conquering man in the final stage is the last stage of work in warring against satan, a work of thoroughly saving man from satan’s domain. The inner meaning of conquering man is to conquer satan’s embodiments that have been corrupted by satan and then make them return to the Creator, so that they will forsake satan and completely return to God. Then man will have been thoroughly saved. So, the conquering work is the concluding work of warring against satan and the last stage of management in defeating satan. Without this stage of work, even in the end man could not be completely saved and thus satan could not be thoroughly defeated, and mankind could never enter into the pleasant destination and could never break free from satan’s influence. So, if the war against satan does not end, the work of saving man will not end, because the kernel of the management work is to save all mankind. The mankind in the beginning was in God’s hand, but because of satan’s temptation and corruption, all men have been bound by satan and fallen into the hand of the evil one. So, satan becomes the object to be defeated in the management work. Because it occupies man and man is the capital for the entire management, in order to save man, God has to regain man from satan’s hand, that is, to regain man who has been taken captive by satan. Thus, he defeats satan by transforming man’s old disposition and causing man to be restored to his original sense. In this way, he can regain the captured man from satan’s hand. If man has broken away from satan’s influence and bondage, satan will be put to shame. In the end, man will be regained, and satan will be defeated. Because man has broken away from satan’s influence of darkness, man will become the spoil of the entire war, while satan will become the object to be punished after the war ends. Then the entire work of saving mankind will end.”
from “Recover Man’s Normal Life and Bring Man into the Pleasant Destination” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
Let the light escape from this hole inside my soul
When I start to break then grace begins to flow
Let the light escape from this lonely place inside my soul
Honestly
~HONESTLY, Vota
---
I still haven't got a camera but i'm having the time of my life with Him. His timing is so right and there's nothing else i can think of doing but to embrace it with all of my heart while I wait on things i least expect, more than i could ever think or dream of. He is too unpredictable and I love how surprised i get every single day. He is more than amazing. <3
old stock.
“We can learn from nature
the art of praising God
without words…
Go outside…
Stand beside something that is already praising God.
Let the sacredness of that prayer seep into your being.
All that is drawn to God is drawing you with it.”
©Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr
Abide, Keeping Vigil with the Word of God, Liturgical Press
“Prayer is in all things, in all gestures. Prayer, to be fruitful, must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God. See how Jesus taught His disciples to pray. I believe each time we say “Our Father,” God looks at His hands, where He has carved us. (“I have carved you on the palm of my hand.” See Isaiah 49:16) He looks at His hands, and He sees us there. How wonderful the tenderness and love of God!”—Mother Teresa
"Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the Ocean of God's Beauty: If you can plunge to the uttermost depths, there you can find the gem of Love."—Sri Ramakrishna
“Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it, and whispers, "Grow, grow."”- The Talmud
“Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.”©Eckhart Tolle
"We can touch the Kingdom of God in everyday life. There is no need to travel a great distance to touch the Kingdom of God, because it is not located in space or time. The Kingdom of God is in your heart. It is in every cell of your physical body...All you have to do is open your eyes, and the paradise of forms and colors is available to you..."©Thich Nhat Hanh, You are Here