If you haven't read any of the life and works of John G. Lake, listen to this audio and be blessed and inspired.
. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glmSMXr1mTI
. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glmSMXr1mTI
Monday, September 02, 2013
Thursday, August 01, 2013
The Auctioneer
On the auction block into slavery we all were sold.
Having no hope and in our earth darkness we did grope.
Bound fast in chains of sin, seemingly with no one our freedom to win.
Nothing to look forward to, our life, indeed, looked grim.
Standing stripped and naked for all eyes to see.
No judge or jury and without a plea.
Having no advocate, a lawyer, you see,
To stand up in court for you and me.
"What am I bid?" shouted the auctioneer so bold
Hoping for all these poor slaves to be sold.
Nary a voice did answer his bid
For the price was too high from where he commenced his word jig.
But out of the crowd one man appeared and shouted to the auctioneer
"I'll bid, I'll bid, I'll take them all."
"But, queried the auctioneer
With what price, what price do you bid?"
"My life, my life, I'll give for all"
Shouted the stranger so tall.
"But, asked the auctioneer
"What is your worth more than these all?"
Not knowing that the stranger who stood before him was his own Lord and King.
Nor, being aware of the great ransom he could bring.
He asked again, "Show me your worth, or please take a seat
I have this auction I must complete."
When suddenly the scales fell from his eyes
And there stood his King the Only-All-Wise.
"Sold", to the man in the blood stained coat,
The one called faithful and true
His eyes blaze with fire, this King of Kings
From whose mouth goes a sharp sword, too.
The seller of men fell to his knees
Saying, "I've done wickedly, won't you forgive me Sir, please?"
"Stand to your feet, said this King, " I forgive you one and all
And loose the tight bands from these slaves chain and ball."
They have been mine before time began
Before they were enslaved, I their freedom did plan."
Some shouted with glee, others just wept upon being freed
But all of them fell prostrate before this God-Man
So happy to be once again free men.
With Love,
Karen
written 1997
On the auction block into slavery we all were sold.
Having no hope and in our earth darkness we did grope.
Bound fast in chains of sin, seemingly with no one our freedom to win.
Nothing to look forward to, our life, indeed, looked grim.
Standing stripped and naked for all eyes to see.
No judge or jury and without a plea.
Having no advocate, a lawyer, you see,
To stand up in court for you and me.
"What am I bid?" shouted the auctioneer so bold
Hoping for all these poor slaves to be sold.
Nary a voice did answer his bid
For the price was too high from where he commenced his word jig.
But out of the crowd one man appeared and shouted to the auctioneer
"I'll bid, I'll bid, I'll take them all."
"But, queried the auctioneer
With what price, what price do you bid?"
"My life, my life, I'll give for all"
Shouted the stranger so tall.
"But, asked the auctioneer
"What is your worth more than these all?"
Not knowing that the stranger who stood before him was his own Lord and King.
Nor, being aware of the great ransom he could bring.
He asked again, "Show me your worth, or please take a seat
I have this auction I must complete."
When suddenly the scales fell from his eyes
And there stood his King the Only-All-Wise.
"Sold", to the man in the blood stained coat,
The one called faithful and true
His eyes blaze with fire, this King of Kings
From whose mouth goes a sharp sword, too.
The seller of men fell to his knees
Saying, "I've done wickedly, won't you forgive me Sir, please?"
"Stand to your feet, said this King, " I forgive you one and all
And loose the tight bands from these slaves chain and ball."
They have been mine before time began
Before they were enslaved, I their freedom did plan."
Some shouted with glee, others just wept upon being freed
But all of them fell prostrate before this God-Man
So happy to be once again free men.
With Love,
Karen
written 1997
Saturday, June 22, 2013
From The Candlestick To The Throne - J. Preston Eby - part 138
Excerpt from the writings of J. Preston Eby: From The Candlestick To the Throne
http://sigler.org/files/Part138.pdf
Furthermore, Christ is now seated on the right hand of God — He is seated there on that
right hand right there where you are, yea, even in the deepest depth of your being, so that the
throne of God is nearer to you than the air that you breathe! Christ is seated at the right hand of
power, that is, in the position where God acts, does, works, and creates, so that all God does He
does in and by and through the Son of God. And He does it right there where you are! Can we not
see by this how simple yet profound is the knowledge that we have been raised up and made to sit
in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus! The spiritual dimension of God’s abilities in Christ are
being awakened and quickened within us, our Spirit joined to His Spirit, so that we sit in that
spiritual dimension by spiritual consciousness, and we haven’t moved one inch to get
there! Somehow I understand that today and it makes the reality clear to my own dull human way
of thinking.
There is no need to go anywhere physically to relate to God’s throne. The journey is a
spiritual one! The throne is all around you, within you, and present equally everywhere within the
realm of Spirit in which God exists and dwells. You can either experience or ascend that throne
within yourself through union with Christ and the release of His power. “All authority in heaven
and in earth is given unto me,” Jesus said. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme event of world
history. He ascended not to a place, but disappeared into the spirit realm that is all about us and
was caught up into an office in and by the Spirit. He departed from the arena of humiliation and
limitation to enter into His glory. He, in one instant, vaulted from the status of despised Galilean
teacher to the cosmic King of the universe, rising over the heads of Pilate, Herod, and Caesar
http://sigler.org/files/Part138.pdf
Furthermore, Christ is now seated on the right hand of God — He is seated there on that
right hand right there where you are, yea, even in the deepest depth of your being, so that the
throne of God is nearer to you than the air that you breathe! Christ is seated at the right hand of
power, that is, in the position where God acts, does, works, and creates, so that all God does He
does in and by and through the Son of God. And He does it right there where you are! Can we not
see by this how simple yet profound is the knowledge that we have been raised up and made to sit
in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus! The spiritual dimension of God’s abilities in Christ are
being awakened and quickened within us, our Spirit joined to His Spirit, so that we sit in that
spiritual dimension by spiritual consciousness, and we haven’t moved one inch to get
there! Somehow I understand that today and it makes the reality clear to my own dull human way
of thinking.
There is no need to go anywhere physically to relate to God’s throne. The journey is a
spiritual one! The throne is all around you, within you, and present equally everywhere within the
realm of Spirit in which God exists and dwells. You can either experience or ascend that throne
within yourself through union with Christ and the release of His power. “All authority in heaven
and in earth is given unto me,” Jesus said. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme event of world
history. He ascended not to a place, but disappeared into the spirit realm that is all about us and
was caught up into an office in and by the Spirit. He departed from the arena of humiliation and
limitation to enter into His glory. He, in one instant, vaulted from the status of despised Galilean
teacher to the cosmic King of the universe, rising over the heads of Pilate, Herod, and Caesar
Thursday, February 14, 2013
My Valentine
Our Angel, our True Self or our Higher Spirit Self - The New Creation Man.
"Angels are informational beings, condensations of consciousness in a sea of universal Being - temporal embodiments whose location creates space and whose movements create time." Ken Carey
Happy Valentine's Day to all our readers!!!
My Valentine
Sweet angel, spirit of mine,
Sent from God as MY VALENTINE.
My special treasure held in my heart
Sent here as God's timely love dart.
Your quiver was full of arrows so swift,
And none of them did ever the mark miss
For you promised as your word's sent we would not return void,
But would accomplish all, bringing you full reward.
Don't think for a moment that our Love won't last
For it was the Spirit that sealed us and bound our hearts fast.
He wooed us and won us with Love's gentle touch,
And showed us by dying just how much.
Pieces of His heart every man is
And until my heart and their heart together do come,
His heart forever shall torn apart be
Until the sum of all hearts realize their Self in Me.
"Be mine", is His valentine message extended to all,
And it, too, has become my heart's mandate and call.
To gather the 'pieces' that none be lost
For the price for this union has been at great cost.
These words come as cupid's arrow
Sent straight into your heart
Laden with Love and the Markman's great art.
Now can't you see this Sweet Angel of mine
Why I can't help but call Him
MY VALENTINE!
"Angels are informational beings, condensations of consciousness in a sea of universal Being - temporal embodiments whose location creates space and whose movements create time." Ken Carey
Happy Valentine's Day to all our readers!!!
My Valentine
Sweet angel, spirit of mine,
Sent from God as MY VALENTINE.
My special treasure held in my heart
Sent here as God's timely love dart.
Your quiver was full of arrows so swift,
And none of them did ever the mark miss
For you promised as your word's sent we would not return void,
But would accomplish all, bringing you full reward.
Don't think for a moment that our Love won't last
For it was the Spirit that sealed us and bound our hearts fast.
He wooed us and won us with Love's gentle touch,
And showed us by dying just how much.
Pieces of His heart every man is
And until my heart and their heart together do come,
His heart forever shall torn apart be
Until the sum of all hearts realize their Self in Me.
"Be mine", is His valentine message extended to all,
And it, too, has become my heart's mandate and call.
To gather the 'pieces' that none be lost
For the price for this union has been at great cost.
These words come as cupid's arrow
Sent straight into your heart
Laden with Love and the Markman's great art.
Now can't you see this Sweet Angel of mine
Why I can't help but call Him
MY VALENTINE!
Friday, February 08, 2013
2 To the Power of 10
Last year I was reading through this book about breaking free from limiting beliefs and in it was a chapter on relationships. It was speaking of a union
between two earthly partners, but I heard some truth in it that applies to spiritual relationships I think.
It was written in the context of partners coming together for a divine union, a parternership of harmony not just for them selves but two people who have
processed all their soul issues and can now concentrate on being together for the greater good.
This article was stating that if even 12% of the individuals on this planet were coupled in harmonious love relationships, it would generate enough power to
heal the entire planet. The love frequency creates exponential growth by increasing the positive energy field of the couple by a 'factor of ten'. Two to the power of ten.
This exponential factor continues to increase the more that you unite in harmony and upliftment with another. This energy has the power to transmute all energythat is the opposite of love.
So where two people come together...."where two or three are gathered in my name or nature"...not just natural lovers, but spiritual lovers, there is
an exponential component to the the power they generate. Their energy fields are generating an excessive amount of inward and outward flowing energy. They are
simultaneously healing themselves and healing the planet because love means you are opened up as opposed to being closed down. It creates the
"all-things-are-possible" quotient. This is where birth or creativity happens.
It is in the highest good of ourself and the Earth to manifest spiritual unions that will produce this glory-filled child called Life.
We should know that if this is our desire, there must be others too who hold this same desire and together we can grow and expand our hearts until all is
encompassed in His Love or until all see themselves in their brother and re-member who they are.
Friends and Lovers for L-I-F-E!!
Karen
between two earthly partners, but I heard some truth in it that applies to spiritual relationships I think.
It was written in the context of partners coming together for a divine union, a parternership of harmony not just for them selves but two people who have
processed all their soul issues and can now concentrate on being together for the greater good.
This article was stating that if even 12% of the individuals on this planet were coupled in harmonious love relationships, it would generate enough power to
heal the entire planet. The love frequency creates exponential growth by increasing the positive energy field of the couple by a 'factor of ten'. Two to the power of ten.
This exponential factor continues to increase the more that you unite in harmony and upliftment with another. This energy has the power to transmute all energythat is the opposite of love.
So where two people come together...."where two or three are gathered in my name or nature"...not just natural lovers, but spiritual lovers, there is
an exponential component to the the power they generate. Their energy fields are generating an excessive amount of inward and outward flowing energy. They are
simultaneously healing themselves and healing the planet because love means you are opened up as opposed to being closed down. It creates the
"all-things-are-possible" quotient. This is where birth or creativity happens.
It is in the highest good of ourself and the Earth to manifest spiritual unions that will produce this glory-filled child called Life.
We should know that if this is our desire, there must be others too who hold this same desire and together we can grow and expand our hearts until all is
encompassed in His Love or until all see themselves in their brother and re-member who they are.
Friends and Lovers for L-I-F-E!!
Karen
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
A Dixie Cup of God
By Jim Palmer
(Even though publishers get upset when I post large excerpts from one of my books... well... I do it anyway. You know what they say, "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.")
"But, then I came across one particular verse from the Book of Hebrews which ended up starting a domino effect that dismantled my notion of Sky-God, and ultimately led to the discovery that Jesus and I shared the same essential nature. In the first chapter of Hebrews, a description of Jesus reads, “He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature” (Hebrews 1:3 ESV).
Yes, it sounded quite poetic, but what exactly did this mean? In what specific way was Jesus “the radiance of the glory of God,” or the “exact imprint of his nature”?
God is “spirit,” not human. This means that God has no gender, ethnicity, race, vocation, socio-economic class, political party, religion, culture, or family heritage. Since this is so, there must be some other part of Jesus—other than his human characteristics—that made him “an exact representation” of God’s being. How was Jesus the man an exact representation of God the spirit? I know what it is to be a man (I think), but I’m not clear on what it means to be a spirit.
“Spirit” is one of those words that Christians freely toss about, although its meaning is not very well defined. Defining “spirit” is like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. First, I tried to define it for myself by using other words. I checked the thesaurus, which supplied me with synonyms such as “life force,” “essence,” and “energy.” But, the further I dug, the more abstract “spirit” became—which might explain why I had never explored it thoroughly. Concrete: Good; Abstract: Bad. This time, however, I made myself keep going.
The description of God as spirit seemed to depict God as a spirit being. In other words, God was analogous to energy; a formless life force that filled the entire universe. God wasn’t a Jupiter or a Zeus up in the sky; God was more like the particles of energy that underlie everything.
Wow! This was starting to sound like a Star Trek episode! “God, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Palmer. His one-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new realities, to boldly go where no sane man has gone before…” What was next, a Borg invasion?
And yet, it was all starting to line up. In Psalm 139:7, David asks, “Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?” (Psalm 139:7). The point being—nowhere! There is nothing that exists outside God. And if there is nothing that has an independent existence apart from the energy that is God—the essence of everything—if you remove the God-part of anyone or anything, it would cease to exist. As I saw it, there were only two options—Option One: God, Option Two: Nothing!
Continuing to research the theory of God as energy, one specific line of a Wikipedia article jumped out at me: “Any form of energy can be transformed into another form, but the total energy always remains the same.” Hmm. This got me thinking about God and creation. I had always thought that God created everything out of nothing. It might seem that way, but this is only because we can’t see the something from which everything was made. We can’t see God, spirit, or energy. So, it would probably be more accurate to say that God took of his energy and formed it into a variety of different things. Every blade of grass, every raindrop, every animal, every human being, every biological microorganism, every molecule of wood that forms the chair I am sitting on right now—at its essence—is God!
Following the white rabbit, I came upon a principle of quantum physics that supplied a helpful analogy. Quantum physics asserts that the whole is present in every part. And furthermore, that every individual part is a genuine expression of the whole, and yet, no one individual part is the totality of the whole in itself. I thought about how the ocean illustrates this truth. I can go to the beach and scoop up ocean water in a Dixie cup. The water in the cup contains the same properties as the entire ocean, and yet obviously, that cup of water is not the entire ocean. In the same way, as spirit or energy, the whole of God is present in every part.
Which means that, in essence, everything is a Dixie cup of God.
Uh-oh. I recalled a professor from back in my seminary days warning us against the idea that everything was God. But, it made complete sense to me. How could anything exist outside God, if God is the energy that gives all things life and existence? With this being true, I could see how every single thing in existence would be sacred because it was made from the energy that is God. For me, this took away the dividing line between secular and sacred. If everything was a unique expression of the energy of God, then no one and no thing could truly be separated from God—for how can God be separated from himself? Again, the Wikipedia entry came to mind: “Any form of energy can be transformed into another form, but the total energy always remains the same.” Whether the energy that is God is organized into the form of a blade of grass or a human being, it is still the same energy—it’s still God!"
- Jim Palmer, Being Jesus in Nashville: Finding the Courage to Live Your Life (whoever and wherever you are)
(Even though publishers get upset when I post large excerpts from one of my books... well... I do it anyway. You know what they say, "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.")
"But, then I came across one particular verse from the Book of Hebrews which ended up starting a domino effect that dismantled my notion of Sky-God, and ultimately led to the discovery that Jesus and I shared the same essential nature. In the first chapter of Hebrews, a description of Jesus reads, “He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature” (Hebrews 1:3 ESV).
Yes, it sounded quite poetic, but what exactly did this mean? In what specific way was Jesus “the radiance of the glory of God,” or the “exact imprint of his nature”?
God is “spirit,” not human. This means that God has no gender, ethnicity, race, vocation, socio-economic class, political party, religion, culture, or family heritage. Since this is so, there must be some other part of Jesus—other than his human characteristics—that made him “an exact representation” of God’s being. How was Jesus the man an exact representation of God the spirit? I know what it is to be a man (I think), but I’m not clear on what it means to be a spirit.
“Spirit” is one of those words that Christians freely toss about, although its meaning is not very well defined. Defining “spirit” is like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. First, I tried to define it for myself by using other words. I checked the thesaurus, which supplied me with synonyms such as “life force,” “essence,” and “energy.” But, the further I dug, the more abstract “spirit” became—which might explain why I had never explored it thoroughly. Concrete: Good; Abstract: Bad. This time, however, I made myself keep going.
The description of God as spirit seemed to depict God as a spirit being. In other words, God was analogous to energy; a formless life force that filled the entire universe. God wasn’t a Jupiter or a Zeus up in the sky; God was more like the particles of energy that underlie everything.
Wow! This was starting to sound like a Star Trek episode! “God, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Palmer. His one-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new realities, to boldly go where no sane man has gone before…” What was next, a Borg invasion?
And yet, it was all starting to line up. In Psalm 139:7, David asks, “Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?” (Psalm 139:7). The point being—nowhere! There is nothing that exists outside God. And if there is nothing that has an independent existence apart from the energy that is God—the essence of everything—if you remove the God-part of anyone or anything, it would cease to exist. As I saw it, there were only two options—Option One: God, Option Two: Nothing!
Continuing to research the theory of God as energy, one specific line of a Wikipedia article jumped out at me: “Any form of energy can be transformed into another form, but the total energy always remains the same.” Hmm. This got me thinking about God and creation. I had always thought that God created everything out of nothing. It might seem that way, but this is only because we can’t see the something from which everything was made. We can’t see God, spirit, or energy. So, it would probably be more accurate to say that God took of his energy and formed it into a variety of different things. Every blade of grass, every raindrop, every animal, every human being, every biological microorganism, every molecule of wood that forms the chair I am sitting on right now—at its essence—is God!
Following the white rabbit, I came upon a principle of quantum physics that supplied a helpful analogy. Quantum physics asserts that the whole is present in every part. And furthermore, that every individual part is a genuine expression of the whole, and yet, no one individual part is the totality of the whole in itself. I thought about how the ocean illustrates this truth. I can go to the beach and scoop up ocean water in a Dixie cup. The water in the cup contains the same properties as the entire ocean, and yet obviously, that cup of water is not the entire ocean. In the same way, as spirit or energy, the whole of God is present in every part.
Which means that, in essence, everything is a Dixie cup of God.
Uh-oh. I recalled a professor from back in my seminary days warning us against the idea that everything was God. But, it made complete sense to me. How could anything exist outside God, if God is the energy that gives all things life and existence? With this being true, I could see how every single thing in existence would be sacred because it was made from the energy that is God. For me, this took away the dividing line between secular and sacred. If everything was a unique expression of the energy of God, then no one and no thing could truly be separated from God—for how can God be separated from himself? Again, the Wikipedia entry came to mind: “Any form of energy can be transformed into another form, but the total energy always remains the same.” Whether the energy that is God is organized into the form of a blade of grass or a human being, it is still the same energy—it’s still God!"
- Jim Palmer, Being Jesus in Nashville: Finding the Courage to Live Your Life (whoever and wherever you are)
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