Humble Compassion

There is compassion that feeds ego and there is compassion that humbles it. The compassion that feeds the ego is a sense of pity for those who stand beneath you. The compassion that humbles is born of a deeper understanding of the order of things. When you understand that the other guy is lacking so that you may be privileged to help him – then you are truly humbled.

Change Your Future To Rewrite Your Past

People think that only the future can be changed, but in fact, the future is continually changing the past. The past does not change. It’s exquisitely sensitive and delicately balanced.

When we think about time, we tend to divide it into three dimensions: pasta present, and future. We also tend to accept certain beliefs about dimensions without must questioning.

The present is here and now. It’s was currently happening. The future, alternatively is what will happen. It is what will come to be.

In both these dimensions, there are many possibilities. We could do all sorts of things right now, and we can make all kinds of choices in the future.

Unlike the present and the future, the past is locked in. Short of inventing the elusive time machine. There’s not much we can do change the past. We simply have to accept it and move forward. Or do we?

Here’s A Concept

The way we experience the future affects our recording of the past. In some cases we can actually change the past.

Past lives are memories, and these memories are far more reliable. We are the unreliable narrator of our own story. We might exaggerate our successes or magnify our failures out of proportion. These tendencies are not mutually exclusive, we might do both at the same time.

Listed Below Are A Few Ways The Future Can Change The Past.

1. The Effect On New Experience.

Think back on a time in which you really wanted something and didn’t get it. You wanted to gain the acceptance or approval of someone. You wanted to be offered a job or admission to an elite program. Whatever it is, you wanted it desperately and you didn’t get it.

When you fail to achieve your goal, you experience feelings of despair . For a long time afterwards, it hurt to think about it. You wondered if you should have tried harder or done something differently ( we’ve all been there).

As painful as it was, however, you eventually reached a turning point. Something else came a,one that wouldn’t have been possible in the alternative universe you so desired – clearly, this new thing turned out to be much better.

Looking back later, you see your original situation in a whole new light. Now you understand that instead of that situation served as a low point in your life, something you always wish had turned out differently, it’s taken on another role entirely. The time you didn’t get what you wanted thank God.

Just think about that. The thing you most wanted was the very thing you didn’t need.

This isn’t simply a matter of interpretation. In these situations the past is literally different because of something that took place – in the future.

2. The Effect On New Information

Now imagine that your family decides to take a DNA test, and you discover that your dad is not your biological Father. This actually happens to families sometimes. Would if you find out when your 30 years old was like a bad soup opera, except it’s happening in your own front room.

This new information could change your past, whether you think it should or not. would it create turmoil in your life I’m sure it would. I would change the whole dynamics of your past.

You could argue that this new information shouldn’t have so much power over you. Maybe your life was happy and stable before learning that the secret should have been held for 30 years. Why shouldn’t everyone just accept that “something is different, but most things are still the same?”

Whether or not you think you should or shouldn’t is irrelevant. The status quo would be an impossible outcome. You would never be able to see the past the same way again. The fact is any substantial new information changes the past.

3. The Weight Of Major Events

Finally, imagine that a major event takes place in your life. Wheat he positive of negative, let’s go with positive: you win the lottery. It’s a bunch of money, one of those that makes headlines and provides you with a dizzying amount.

The week before you won the lottery, you missed a credit card payment. The missed payment has been lingering in the back of your mind, making you feel anxious whenever it surfaces.

Now, as a $100 million lottery winner, what do you think about that missed payment? Chances are, you don’t think much about it at all!

Whatever guilt you had over it would be eliminated as you cheerfully went ti pay off the entire balance. Your internal narrative would shift.

Before: This credit card bill is really bothering me, I feel embarrassed and ashamed.

After: Remember that time I missed a payment right before I won the lottery? What a difference a day makes!

The past can altogether be erased while lots of other things about your life change as well, and credit card bills would no longer be on your mind.

When a major event occurs, the shift in the past can be sudden and a total transformation. Situations in your past that bothered you before can seem much farther off in the distance.

The Parable Of The Bad Fish

The Parable The net is a seventh parable in Matthew 13. It paints a picture of a Dragnet that catches all kinds of fish. The net is in and loaded on the shore and the fish are sorted. The good are stored in vessels while the bad are thrown away.

Fishing in Bible times – as today – could be done in different ways. When Jesus instructed Peter to catch your fish and look at it now for a coin, he referred to the kind of fishing that would we be done with a line and a hook (Matthew 17:27). A 2nd way use a casting net – As you’re filling it with a cord that will close the opening and trap the fish. This was the method Peter and Andrew were using when Jesus called them to follow Him (Matthew 4:18). Dragnet referred to in our text is known today as a travel net. And Jesus’s time, please long and wide net could reach out to a half a mile wide. They would be attached behind one or more boats. The top of the net would have floats attached to it, while the bottom would have weights. Has the boats moved through the water the dragnet would catch everything in its way. Silently,almost imperceptibly, the net passes through the water, and gathers fish. Most of the time these nets are there one moment and gone the next. They move at the determination of the vessels captain. The net travels first through one part of the sea, then through another. It may be here today and somewhere else tomorrow. Such a net could bring in any size or kind of fish, unclean or clean, living or dead.

Next, Jesus pictures the net coming to shore and the fishermen sorting the good fish into containers while the bad fish are discarded. This scene would have been very familiar because I was listening to these parables. Even children regularly watched fisherman sit down next to the couch sorting out the fish.

The Substance

What is the main message Jesus wants to teach at five just parable? opening next clear that Jesus is giving us a picture of one subject of the Kingdom of Heaven. We could be Define His kingdom as a realm where He gathers people in order to rule them graciously by His Word and Spirit. However this realm contains a mixture of those who profess to belong the kingdom but in their hearts do not truly belong there. Just as the first parable in this chapter shows that only one of the four soils produce a good fruit, so this parable shows that there are “good fish” and “bad fish” in how the Kingdom of Heaven appears.

As the Lord’s commands, the Kingdom of Heaven moves rather interceptibly through the world. It gathers within it not on,y true subjects of the kingdom but also many others like Judas, Ananias, and Sapphira, Demas, and many others who were indeed in the kingdom but the kingdom not in them. There are essentially two separations in this Parable: the first is by the net and the second is on the shore.

Jesus explicitly explains what the separation on the shore refers to in Matthew 13:49

So shall it be in the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.

Matthew 13:49

Notice that He unpacks the difference between the good fish and the bad fish as between “the wicked” and “the just.” This is not simply a division between the good and the bad, for then there would be only one good – Jesus Christ – and everyone else would be cast away. On the basis of the rest of Scripture we can say that the just are those who have been justified by a true and living faith (Romans 5:9). These just were just as wicked as the rest of nature, however, they have been acquitted before the court of God on the basis of Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross, offered on their behalf. After all the Parable is ultimately focused on the judgement.

The Lord is speaking abuse separation that will take place at the end of the world. At the final judgement, it will clearly appear who Jesus has redeemed from the curse of the law.

Jesus specifically mentions angels. Among the various tasks that angels have been given there is that of dividing between believers and unbelievers at the judgement (Matthew 13:41), (Matthew 25:31-32). As faithful, holy, and spiritual beings, they will discharge their duty swiftly and exactly. They will separate according to God’s standard. What a perfect separation that will be. Not one wicked person will make it into heaven; not one of God’s people will accidentally be lost in hell. No person will plead his own cause. All that Matt is what orders the Lord will be given to the angels, and Jesus is revealing that to us here.

Breaking The Barrier Of Limitations

Man’s destiny is progressive. However, certain forces arise to hinder the flow of progress in life. One of these forces is the Spirit of limitation. To be limited is to be restricted, resisted and restrained.

The Spirit of limitation delay’s destinies from getting to their ordained abs expected places. The Spirit of limitation is a force that must be broken, if you are to fulfill your destiny in a grand style. The Spirit of limitation makes life to perform below capacity and frustrates people from being all they can be.

Limitation has the power to destroy destiny, to steal joy, as well as render glorious life useless. If you don’t break the yoke of limitation, you can never get to where God has destined for you, thereby not enjoying all that has been prepared for you.

Causes Of Limitation

  • Sin: There is nothing that limits or reduces man to earth as sin. Sin has been the major obstacle in the history of mankind. It has reduced the supernatural man to an ordinary man. Sin has killed much future potential. No one lives in sin and enjoy the benefit of dominion.
  • Ignorance: This is a lack of knowledge, a state of total darkness. No man will be justified for being ignorant, for ignorance is not an excuse.
  • Curses: A curse is an evil statement said or invoked upon someone as a result of sin or evil act that is being carried out.
  • No Purpose And Misplaced Priority: There is no person in this world that does not have a purpose, but not everyone cares to discover the purpose of his/her existence. You cannot advance when you are not at a place of your assignment.
  • Evil Covenant: Evil covenants pronounce limitation on destinies. Entering into covenants consciously or unconsciously causes limitations.

Overcoming the forces of limitation does not depend on God alone. The responsibilities are laid on you and me. Man that was born of woman in full of trouble, but he that was born of God overcomes the world. Symbol of limitation in Dreams include Water, Mountain m Sexual intercourse in the dream, eating in the dream, cobwebs and many more.

The Way Out

  • Have a consistent relationship with God.
  • Define your purpose of existence and discover your place in destiny.
  • Give yourself to prayer and fasting.
  • Living a holy life, avoid sin by all means.
  • Give yourself in hard work and commitment.
  • Place your hope in Jesus and Domitian trust your own abilities.

I pray that the Almighty God will break every barrier of limitations in our lives. In Jesus Name – Amen.

The Cure For A Heavy Heart

Did you know that Jesus has given us the perfect prayer to pray each day to help us get ahead of any offenses that may be coming our way?

In Matthew 6, we read about Jesus teaching the disciples how to pray, more commonly known as “The Lord’s Prayer. There is so much He could teach us to include in our daily prayers. If we were tasked with a job of teaching others how to pray, we may have included all the wrong things and left our some really important things. And the part we may have been tempted to minimize is the very thing Jesus seems to emphasize the most in Matthew 6:14-15 about confession and forgiveness.

The Importance of giving and receiving forgiveness makes up almost half the words in these verses. This should provoke us to want to lean in a little more to what Jesus asks us to pray about everyday, besides just requesting help and provision from God.

The Lord’s Prayer reminds us what the human heart needs every day – we need God, we need to be forgiven and we need to forgive. Which means forgiveness is supposed to be as much a part of our daily lives as eating and sleeping.

We live in a day and time when being offended almost seems to go hand I hand with being alive. Almost everyone is epically offended by something. Almost everyone has relationship troubles. And I would guess almost none of us are truly praying daily with confession and forgiveness like Jesus taught us.

Confession breaks the cycle of chaos inside of us. Forgiveness breaks the cycle between us and others. The Lord’s Prayer prepares our hearts, purifies our hearts, and protects our hearts from feeling heavy and holding ourselves hostage to bitterness, resentment, and un-forgiveness .

The best time to forgive is before we are ever offended. The next best time to forgive is right now. So, take some time today to speak blessing over the people with who you’ve had difficulty.

Remember, there is power in your words as well as power in you’re prayers.

Why You’re Manifesting The Opposite Of What You Want

For the last few weeks I’ve had a been manifesting the opposite of what I want. So I did what I usually do, I found why. I know I can’t be the only one this happens to.

Why am I manifesting in reverse?

In other words, the opposite of what we want is manifesting is showing up within our reality. It can be very frustrating.

When we really want that promotion but you end of losing your job instead. Or when you are save money and as soon as you think you can get ahead an unexpected bill comes up and leaves you completely broke.

So Why Does This Happen?

And what can we do to get yours manifestations moving in the right direction?

If you believe you will receive right?

Let’s look at the 6 main reasons why we might be manifesting in reverse.

1. Time Desperation.

Rome wasn’t build in a day.

If you have manifested the opposite of what you want, it may be that we have now allowed enough time for your desire to manifest. All to often we get stressed out about time. But we shouldn’t. The truth is that whenever we focus on time, we actually attract more time.

This means that we will wait even longer time. This means that we have to even wait longer for our desires to manifest. When we have to wait on time causes stress and frustration and we will manifest even more of those feelings.

When we put our complete faith in God, there is no need to worry about how long it takes. When we trust that God wills is for good, and not for evil. And He’s always right on time. We need to be happy and just trust what’s to come.

2. Manifesting From A Place Of Need.

Neediness is a form of lack. And when you feel something is lacking, we attract more lack within our reality…

Most of us don’t even discover the Law Of Attraction until there’s something that we really really want.

It’s hard not to feel at least a little desperate when it comes to our deepest desires – but again, this goes back to the faith factor. If we truly have faith that our desires are on their way, we will feel nothing but joy and excitement.

There is no need to feel needy or desperate because our desires have already been lined up for us. All we need to do is believe and enjoy your life in the meantime.

3. Not Dealing With Subconscious Patterns.

From childhood onward, we are all conditioned to have certain beliefs. Unfortunately, some of them can do lasting damage.

Things like…

“Good Things Only Come To The very wealthy people…”

Or

“I am just like my parents and will live the same kind of life…”

It’s these kinds of beliefs that can lead to reverse manifestation. And the worst part is that sometimes we don’t even realize just how much our limiting beliefs are affecting us,

Here is an example of “reverse manifestation” resulting from limiting beliefs.

Technically there is no reverse manifestation but we may interpret it as such especially if we are unaware of just how much we’re limiting beliefs are affecting us.

Say you have been consciously manifesting money… When we practice our affirmations and visualizations. When we have literally doing all the right things.

But for some reason, we keep getting the opposite.

Instead of abundance, we seem to be receiving more bills, more debt and more stress.

Sure we may be manifesting on a conscious level, but what about our subconscious thoughts and feeling?

Limiting beliefs are deep-seated and will not be changed by mere conscious thought.

So how do we rewrite the subconscious with more positive programming?

Through Repetition.

It’s like learning to drive. When we are learning, every action must be conscious. We consciously pay attention to thing like changing gears and checking mirrors, but over time, these actions happen on auto-pilot.

We no longer have to consciously remember what actions to take because we know them all by heart.

4. Feeling Bad About Our Life.

You can imagine the future all you like but if you hate your life, you are most likely going to manifest the opposite of what you really want.

The ultimate path to alignment is to visualize your goals and then feel good. So, we need to go about our daily lives taking steps toward our desires and enjoy the process.

We didn’t come into physical existence to manifest all of our desires instantaneously.

If we wanted that, we would have remained in a non-physical reality… a dream state.

But No!

We came to savior the sweetness of creation and therefore experience appreciation more intensely that we ever have before.

So if we’re manifesting a better life because we can’t stand the one we are right now, we may have missed a step.

Don’t Underestimate The Importance Of Gratitude.

Find time each and everyday to be thankful for our blessings. Appreciate the little things. The sunshine, your warm bed, food on your table.

Remember, when you feel gratitude, the Law of Attraction keeps you showered with blessings in order to attract even more gratitude.

Is Your Life Producing Eternal Fruit

Are you making an impact in your life that you had hoped?

I SometimesWonder if I had traded an impact for comfort. I live in the best little rule town for a comfort to you should be the norm. But I often wonder if I am making an impact the Lord would expect from me?

Do you ever feel that way? Is your life producing the fruit you think you should produce?

A major theme can be traced throughout scripture is that questions were expected, even commanded, to produce spiritual fruit Jesus said.

You didn’t choose me I chose you. I anointed you to go and produce lasting fruit.

John15:16

But I think there are at least three questions we need to answer before we can understand what this means.

What does it mean to produce fruit?

Of course our immediate answer is that producing fruit means seeing people come to faith in Jesus Christ as a result of our personal witness or ministry…and this definitely can be spiritual fruit.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he who wins souls is wise.

Proverbs 11:30

But as we search the Scriptures, we see so much more. Maybe the greatest commandment and the new commandment are clues or producing fruit.

The Greatest Commandment:

When asked what is the greatest commandment Jesus answered,

You must love the Lord your God with all your heart all your soul and all your mind.

Matthew 22:37

The New Commandment:

As Jesus prepared His disciples for His imminent death He taught them,

So now I am giving you a new commandment: Just as I have a love you should love each other.

John 13:34

I would suggest a spiritual fruit means that you are generally growing in your love of the Lord and growing in your unconditional love for others….Photos inside and outside the body of Christ. (For more specifics on spiritual fruit in Scripture see Micah 6:8; Deuteronomy 10:12; Malachi 2:15; Psalm 15:1-5; Isaiah 58:6-7).

How Do We Produce Fruit?

Here’s the good news: When I don’t have to actually produced with route through our extraordinary personal efforts. If we yield ourselves in His indwelling power, He will produce an abundant crop of spiritual fruit through us.

Yes, I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. Four apart from me you have nothing.

John 15:5

But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Galatians 5:22-23

What Happens If We Don’t Produce Fruit?

Dead Branches Will Be Cut Off:

Jesus says that a fruitless branch is cut off from the vine. Branches that are dead or removed. Fruit is evidence of a spiritual life. their branches that pretend to be connected to the vine, but have never receive eternal life… Eternal life produces eternal fruit.

I am the true grapevine, and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, He prunes branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.

John 15:1-2

Unfruitful Christians Can Be Taken Prematurely: Christians who remain unfruitful over a period of time may be taken (through their death) ti be with the Lord “early.”

If you see a fellow believer sinning in the way that does not lead to death, you should pray, and God will give that person life. But there is a sin that leads to death, and I’m not saying you should pray for those who commit it.

1 John 5:16

Unfruitful Christians Can Miss Out On Their Rewards: One day we will give an account on our lives before the Lord. Our fruit is genuine (that is produced from a godly motive) We will be rewarded. If our fruit is “Unrewardable” ( because it was produced through ungodly motives) We will be saved, but just barely. In other words, we will miss out on the rewards in heaven.

For no One can lay any foundation other than the one we already have – Jesus Christ. Anyone who build on that foundation may use a variety of materials – Gold, silver, Jules, Wood, hay, or straw. But on judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person work has any value.If the work survives, the builder will receive a reward. But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffered great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through the walls of flames.

1 Corinthians 3:11-15

So What?

Are you focused on or even interested in producing spiritual fruit? Here are a few questions that may help you to assess how you’re doing and producing spiritual fruit:

Check all you can but honestly answer.

  • Can you give specific ways you love the Lord more than a year ago?
  • Are you relationally committed she those in your church family?
  • Are your children walking with the Lord?
  • You those close to you see marks of increasing spiritual maturity in your life?
  • Has anyone become a follower of Jesus through your witness?
  • Have you heard your faith with someone recently?
  • How do you shown kindness to someone who is an outsider?
  • Have you taught the Bible to someone lately?
  • Have you made a sacrificial financial gift out of your heart lately?
  • Have you been patient when you were frustrated recently?
  • Have you given control for the Holy Spirit when you are angry?
  • How do you refuse to compromise your morals at work or in your life situation?