Moving On

A dream is your creative outlook for your life in the future. You must break out of your current personal realm of security and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Spiritual outlook for the future is a movement and not being stagnant.
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your relaxing sphere, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
We tend to be held back from our goals by the simplicity of our own dwelling sectors of life...but just how comfortable are we? Wouldn't we be more content living in our dreams?
My experience is that you cannot have everything you want but you can achieve anything you really want, you just need to decide what it is and then plan your exit from the comfort vicinity.
If you do not step out of your comfort area and face your fears, the number of situations that make you uncomfortable will keep growing.
If you're in a pleasurable place, afraid to venture out, remember that all winners were at one time filled with doubt.
Christ coming down from Heaven was a venture.
Christ could have stayed with His Father in that heavenly abode, but in obedience to His Father, and His heart for mankind he left that Spiritual satisfying domain.
What really did Christ think?
The point is to stop letting fear make your decisions, and start making them yourself. It will take some time to get used to this new way of thinking, but before long you'll automatically begin questioning your fear and stop letting it control you. Once that happens, there is no telling the levels of success and happiness you can reach!
Another reason is that people are not ready for change in their lives. They would prefer to stay where they are in life and just hope that something grand comes their way in the very near future. If that sounds like you then you are in for a unknown wait. Life does not wait for anyone, but spiritually you need to increase and grow and move on.

Being successful in life will require you to make some adjustments, permanent changes, and having the ability to remain steadfast and persistent while stepping out of your comfort zone or the box. Once you have achieved all of those key areas in your life while on your journey of success.
Children of Israel desired to go back to captivity than using faith and desiring God’s will.
Again, the way to shift through a fear is to feel the fear and take action anyway. To expand past the comfort state, one is to come to a place of acceptance that the anxiety is just a natural stage kind of a oh this is here and it is ok and then shift through it by taking action in faith and love even if the fear and anxiety are there. For fear and anxiety are illusions of ego consciousness. Fear is free from ever being where love is present. Meditation, being centered within in continued faith will ease this anxiety to eventually you will see there was nothing to fear. We create conflict when we are scared to grow and change.
Why are minds scared to change? Because we often feel that we are unable to be strong enough to cope with greater responsibility of which we really are that is love. We believe in illusions such as that we are low in self-esteem and self-love and therefore punish our souls because we feel we are unworthy. The universal truth is that we are scared to change because we believe we are unworthy of Love. We think, "Who am I to be more spiritual?"
Nehemiah’s story, which is recorded for us in the Old Testament, is one of the great epochs of Christian history. Not only is Nehemiah’s story a manual on leadership, organization, and how to accomplish goals, it shows us what God can do through a man whose heart is totally and completely His.
Yet one fateful day, some Jewish friends of Nehemiah returned from a jaunt to Jerusalem. And he asked them a question that ended up changing his life: “How is it with the people of Jerusalem?” And they said, “Nehemiah, it is not good. The walls are down, the gates are burned with fire, and the people are living in shame and disgrace.”


When Nehemiah heard this, it was like a shot to the solar plexus. It buckled him. It swept him off his feet and onto his knees! And he began to cry out to God… but not for just a moment. For four months he prayed until God showed him what to do!
Nehemiah refused to ignore what God was doing in his heart…which was to go back to Jerusalem to rebuild the wall. He could have continued to live in luxury in Persia, but Nehemiah’s heart was a thousand miles away…in Jerusalem. His heart was the heart of God.
Nehemiah by going back had to decide to change his way and rebuild what was never finished, by the original ways it was never completed.
Living now and moving forward.
A spiritual growth depends on moving and growing farther than you were before.
You can never increase or continue on, if you stay where you always have been.
Letting go does not mean giving up or losing your way... it means “moving on”. It is one of the hardest things a person can do. Starting at birth, we grasp on to anything we can get our hands on, and hold on as if we will cease to exist when we let go. We feel that letting go is giving up, quitting, and that as we all know is cowardly. But as we grow older we are forced to change our way of thinking. We are forced to realize that letting go means accepting things that cannot be. It means maturing and moving on, no matter how hard you have to fight yourself to do so."
"Luke 2:52" - Even Jesus increased in wisdom and knowledge, by increasing means going farther than you were before.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting go of resentment, indignation, or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference, or mistake. It can also mean ceasing to demand punishment or restitution for transgressions, real or imagined. Although forgiveness may be granted without any expectation of compensation, and without any response on the part of the offender, it is sometimes necessary for the offender to offer some form of acknowledgment, apology, or restitution; this can often open the way for the person who perceives to be wronged to feel empowered to forgive.

Proving one wrong

Proving one wrong is that the way to be right?
Demand will get you nowhere.
Forcing love is not true love.
The best defense of the scriptures is letting the truth run its course to be the offense.
Truth will never need to be defended, just enlightened.
Being willing and open, is the first step to peace.
Christ did not teach criticism, He assisted and guided.
God will set in order for all judgments to be under His decision and final word.
Christ did not come to judge, he came to guide and to be a negotiator.

Freedom Poem

It is great to have the freedom of love, releasing and reaching like wings of a dove. Damming up the expressions deep within, is like a pure running river you never take in. The enjoyment of life we long to abide, like the feelings we have deep inside. By pressing through life as busy it may, with you by my side I get through each day. No one can fill that place with you I will abide; I can’t hide the feelings deep down inside. I hope to be with you each and every day, it brings peace to my soul and it always will stay. My goal is not to bother or push one around, my heart is just pumping can you hear the sound. So these words I have written to you I hope you believe, with my love flowing through my desire is for you to receive.

The Chains from Habits.

The chains from habits are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Inside door locks will protect from the outside, outside locks can be picked or broken.

Hearts and minds can be locked up, or chained down

Chains are for support and for security; if chains are not put on gently items can be scratched and damaged. Some damaged items can be repaired and buffed out, but other damages can be permanent.

In most minds when ones think of chains, they think of being tied or held down without freedom to move.
But chains can be thought of something that can hold ones together for help and safety for protection and strength.

God created a place of security that He could help protect His creations.
God used His Spirit to link or hold together His bond with His creation of Mankind.
By linking Heaven with all His creations, God goal was to have a peaceful dwelling place with man to enjoy all the wonderful beauty of life.
This was the foundation of the life of God.

When God created Adam and Eve, He gave them the ability to enjoy Paradise, and liberty to move around in the Garden as they pleased.
God did not create man to be shackled down but have a free will of choice.

A chain that has a link that might be weak while tension is upon it, before it would completely break you would add an extra piece to strengthen before it would break apart.
By increasing or adding links does not mean the old chain was not developed right. It was added to become stronger.

A habit can be another form of a chain. The chains of a habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Keeping chains on after forgiveness or been forgiven, sometimes creates a mental bondage without the ability to live in peace.

Putting chains and locks on you or on others and to let go is sometimes harder than being released or delivered.
Finding the keys to unlock knowing what keys to use is another process.

There are different locks that are used by ones. There is a lock that locks from inside and one that is a double sided key lock. There are slide locks and chain locks that are used.
A combination lock does not have need of a key, but it is necessary to cipher the right figure for it to open.

When it comes to your heart what kind of lock is attached to your heart.
It does take the right key or combination to let ones into your heart.
Does your heart only have an inside slide lock, due to being overprotected or paranoid?
What is really tough, is trying to open a lock from within after losing the key on purpose.
Doors that have double sided locks can be the best to use, so you can unlock to get out or ones you have given the ability to open the door when you need help they would be able to assist you in time of need.
God has the only master key and He went into the world to open up doors for ones to come and serve him.

From the tabernacle in the wilderness unto the church’s the apostles built, majority were structures that had no doors, and the ones that did have doors probably did not have locks to secure from entering or leaving.

God’s idea of a connection with Man to be by his side in peace, but do to the disobedience of the direct commandment Adam was given, the complete link to Heaven Adam has was broke.

Man will sometimes bring forth a yoke and servitude upon ones, but by Christ coming he gave man an option to be free to serve Him without being held back from the past.


Christ did not tell the Gentiles come unto me or else,
He said some unto me, meaning my arms are open to help lead you to my Father.
Christ did not demand love!
He gave the option unto each individual for their decisions to be made.

In Haggai He is referring to step back and study the perspective or viewpoint of the church and people, and where they are spiritually.
Hag. 1:5 think of the way you are going and where you are at?
By bringing in little you are not getting ahead, “consider you ways”

The lack of success, go and reach out to help construct this building.
By ones responding to perform this task, God will bless the effort.

The glory of His house will be magnified through the brightness of Christ’s spirit within us, through love and charity in our lives.
Concern for others and not in attitude of selfishness, is displaying God’s spirit in our lives.
Chains are sometimes upon us due to an emotion of fear, guilt, and displeasure of our own mind set.
An act of guilt or anger can bring upon a feeling of pressure or mental stress, and discomfort.

Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting go of resentment, indignation, or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference, or mistake. It can also mean ceasing to demand punishment or restitution for transgressions, real or imagined. Although forgiveness may be granted without any expectation of compensation, and without any response on the part of the offender, it is sometimes necessary for the offender to offer some form of acknowledgment, apology, or restitution; this can often open the way for the person who perceives to be wronged to feel empowered to forgive.

Opening your heart is like opening a lock, one type of key is the only way for it to work.
A combination lock can only be opened by the one with the original code.
If the figures or original key form due not correspond match up precisely it will not open.

Feelings of the heart and mind are expressed through actions.
By giving or holding back is how are feelings are understood or brought forth.

God created feelings of expression, but originally He showed feeling of love and concern for mankind.
How many times did God express forgiveness upon Israel and has expressed upon my life?
The act of forgiveness can only be brought forth through love and charity, and compassion towards others.

Different Perspectives

There have been famous artists through the years and some of the paintings they have displayed all have come through a picture in the mind of every artist.
Rembrandt and Picasso both could be looking at an object and both of them may see something different than the other. The object never changed but the perspective they expressed to let others see from different viewpoints. They would use the same brushes, canvas and paint but each one would come out a little different.
Over all their came goal was to paint the same object. Even with exactly the same items the outcome would still be a little different. A view would be the difference. That would not mean either one is better than the other, but their goals were the same.
Each artists skills have their own insight of pictures in their minds, their own projection how objects look unto them. Opinions of each artist can bring forth a deeper insight to be able to express the true beauty of an object or picture scene.
In music the famous musical artist’s skills and abilities are different. In the case of Mozart and Bach had their own insight on how an orchestra should sound. While each had their own way of hearing and seeking and using their abilities, they were all still referred to as great musicians. With the same sheet music, the musical numbers may not sound alike from each orchestra; each one was still precise and unique.
In sports each team has their own manager or coach to help guide them to become a complete ball player. Every coach has their own duty or job to bring to light how everyone can play there position correctly. The manager has his duty to see if all operations are being overseen or performed properly. Commonly each owner will be the one to take disciplinary actions if a manager if there has not operated his tasks properly, the owner will always have the final conclusion. Players on their own free will still have to respond to the guidance they have been shown.
What is the same for all teams is follow the rules of the game. Even though managers do not write the rules, each one has to follow the precepts written from the same original book.
After searching God’s word, you can see the writers had a common goal, and that was to spread God’s word to the best as possibly can and with the gift God has blest them with.
Different dispensations searched God’s word using the language of their own time.
The bible has been written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and in the most recent time in English. Each translation was understood in each dispensation of language of time. Even if everyone is not able to read only one translation, what is common among each of these writings is the conclusion of the book is the same.

Giving and Sharing

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."

Give- Pay, contribute, donate, produce, yield, bestow,
Each action is desired and most accepted.
The return of positive expressions is very well desired.
The respect of feelings is shown through verbal gratitude,
is a great way to show a heart of love and attention.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

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.

Does God really give us the answer, or does he enlighten our eyes or and quicken our minds and hearts to help us choose to make the right decision. That would still be called our choice.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save.
Before you blame, research. Before you speak, listen. Before you die, give. Before you answer, study. Before you judge, check yourself.”

Do not be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
God’s greatest gift was shown through the gift of His Son, and through His Spirit.

All God desires in return is our lives through love and submission.
We make a living from what we receive; we make a life by what we give.

“Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”