HOT & COLD. Leo July 2021

New Year may be passed but there is still to make a resolution and be resolved to keep whatever that resolution might be, and this one is vital and crucial. Each year preparations are made governments and organisations and families to say farewell and goodbye to the old and hello and welcome to the new. My challenge is simply this. How can we make a spiritual difference this year? We have opportunities and challenges and it is certainly not too late to think and consider and even re-think what your goals and priorities will be over the next twelve months. Where the western and secular world can be obsessed by material and financial and physical well being, John took time to deal with the spiritual aspect of life and he made a superb job of it. How will you fare spiritually speaking this coming year?

JUSTICE is the great clarifier. It works on the law of reciprocity a great amount of the time, even though, we who are saved, have not received God’s justice: we escaped it!

HUMILITY is a much vaunted quality in the realm of those who think spiritually. But what is it? Otherwise known as meekness, humility is that quality of gentleness for the sake of love. It is not being a pushover.

RIGHTEOUSNESS is not a very popular concept. It has overtones of self-righteousness about it. It has, therefore, in recent times, had a bad rap. It’s a word that represents God’s truth; it is something accurate and right on the mark.

An open heaven is the answer to all human needs. Whatever you need: wealth, power, good health, success, fulfillment or all round blessings, the Lord in heaven can supply them to you. However, the question is, “how do you get the heavens to open and pour out these supplies to you?” This article is aimed at answering this question and more.

One of the most precious gifts you could ever give or receive is Unconditional Love. There are many mis-conceptions about Unconditional Love and what it means or what it is. For a long time I didn’t fully understand what it is, how to give and receive such a life-altering, elusive gift.

This article is about honoring where you are on your spiritual path and tips on how to remain consistent. This article is for the newcomers to the spiritual journey and offers suggestions and the motivation to keep going.

During my near-death experience (NDE), it felt as if I were connected to the entire universe and everything contained within it; and it seemed that the cosmos was alive, dynamic, and conscious. I found that every thought, emotion, or action I made while expressing through the physical body had an effect on the Whole. In fact, in that realm of Oneness, it felt as though the whole universe were an extension of me. This realization has, of course, dramatically changed the way I view things. We’re all co-creating this world and our lives within it through our emotions, thoughts, and actions.

GRIEF really is where life starts. At the end is the start, not the other way around.

SITTING DOWN, reclining, being with Jesus; imagine it. Close your eyes and imagine it. Imagine with your senses what it might be like seeing, hearing, and being taught by Jesus himself.

THE BEATITUDES (Matthew 5:3-12) are Jesus’ high-impact proverbs that get his Sermon rolling at full speed right from the start. How the original hearers must have been both encouraged and confused at the same time! Much as we might be.

We need to come to a point where every time we preach the word of God, whether for 5 minutes or 5 hours, we will not finish talking until we have brought men to the point of Calvary. If we give faulty gospel to men, we will raise faulty combats. And because they are faulty foundation, 20 years in church will not make them any different. Intellectualism only obscures the cross to the detriment of the hearers. The preaching of the cross is the point at which authentic power is released in to the life of people; whereas, the devil tries to paint the cross as if it is a problem. Like if someone has a difficult marriage, he wants to settle with his wife and it is proving unsolvable; when we want to counsel the person sometimes we say “that is the cross you have to carry or your wife is your cross”. That is a wrong impression of the cross. The cross is not a problematic marriage. The cross, even though there was a lot of suffering with Jesus, it is not the suffering that is the essence of the cross.