COMPENSATORY CONTROL. Virgo August 2021

You may be wondering what will be really happening at the moment of your enlightenment. As enlightenment is to notice the truths in your daily life, moments of enlightenment will come frequently and quietly in your normal life. So-called “A-ha moments” will be the closest expression of the moment.

REFLECTING on a conversation with one I consider the epitome of men, I felt hurried in my responses to his questions as to “how things are.” As a result I offered a mishmash of answers, part truths, due to good intent, were the best of it. Some questions – particularly the answers of which may most betray our truth, and hence our cause, because they are not thought over – require more deliberate consideration.

Is there something or some dream that you want to achieve in this world? Have you ever been so sure of your dream but everyone around you laughs and think that what you are trying to achieve is almost impossible? Well if this is you, this article will help you learn how to overcome other people’s criticism and still go after your God given destiny.

Life in God (and even without our recognition of God’s provision) is the endowment of every good thing. We are given the capacity of survival, of work to care for our families, of ingenuity to creatively solve our problems, and of the very wherewithal to live long – though some lives are inherently shorter than others.

APPEARANCE is a god of our own making; a symbol of our predilection for approval. We wish to create an impression, and we are not happiest unless we can warp that impression to the best of our favour. We do so in the most unconscious seconds of our lives. And we do so because we are so callously unaware of our lack of completeness. Genuinely, it is only Christ – in the fullness of his perfect glory – who can make us complete, by the grace of the Father who gave him, and by the Presence of the Holy Spirit who indwells us. Yes, God in us!

Lots of people are labeling themselves as ‘more spiritual than religious’ these days, causing us to question what this really means. There really is a soul-deepening difference between spiritual and religious — a difference I have terms spiritual emergence versus religious emergency. This article explains the differences, and the impact they have on church cultures today.

WHAT are the common sources for worship – other than God – in our contemporary culture? Try these: sport, savings, and sex.

JESUS has been building to this very point right through the chapter. Does it not seem odd to you that Jesus now speaks of the underlying preponderance hiding beneath the want for recognition and the coveting of all sorts of worldly pleasures? The subject of our clamouring after everything not of God is anxiousness.

The birds have not a fleeting worry, unless that is a predator lurks nearby. If we are anxious we know why now. If we wish to be less anxious, we know just what we need to do: surrender our coveting grip on the things of this world.

We just celebrated Chinese New Year here in Asia, which gave me the idea of games using chopsticks. Chopsticks always come in pairs and work together to pick up items. It reminds me of the Helper, the Holy spirit, who always works along side us to accomplish God’s purpose in our lives and the world.

The virtue of humility is among most commonly taught requirements of the spiritual life. Jesus teaches about this important virtue a lot. But humility isn’t what most people think it is. Since it’s so important to our prayer life, we really should understand what Jesus means when He talks about the virtue of humility!

ENEMIES are foes because they work strategically and tactically and operationally – at all levels of threat engagement – to bring a land, a people, a kingdom, an entity, even a person, to their knees. It can seem there are enemies littered through life, but truly most of the time the litany of threats perceived are not from a physical entity, but from a spiritual nemesis.