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- The Phytocosm-Fighting Fruitlessness In The Garden Of God - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2008 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal God plants a little garden in you. The phytocosm is the garden of your heart but it does not always bear fruit. But there is a way to start bearing fruit. You do not chop down the fruitless fig tree in the garden of your heart. You do not take that whole tree away. ...
Views: 806 - God Is Love - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockA good friend of mine, a Methodist, asked his minister if people who didn't believe in Jesus were destined for hell. The minister thought for a moment, and then said, "God is love." This reply is a sign of the shifting landscape of spirituality. The original tenets of religion, that God, or ...
Views: 725 - The Quest Of The Quisition-Getting God Into Your Life - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2008 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you begin to seek God every day. This seeking is your quisition. You want to know what God's Plan is for your life. And when you know His Plan and do it God will prosper you too. When you are sealed you always seek Heaven first. Your needs in this world are not as ...
Views: 744 - Why We War Over Religion - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockWe go to war to defend our religion. It has happened throughout history and is happening now. Once we label ourselves as a Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Jew, we feel that this label must be defended. This is a separation, where those who don't believe as we believe become the enemy, and ...
Views: 696 - Sophergy Sown And Righteousness Reaped In The Garden Of God - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will have the wisdom of the earth and earthly passions. Then by the sophergy you will receive the Wisdom of God and know His Passions as well as your own. When you are sealed you will know the Truth of God. You may have empathy with the doubts of other people ...
Views: 706 - Giving Is At The Heart Of The Christian Faith, And To The Life We Really Want - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2007 from Dr. Steve McSwain,Stephen B. McSwain has written a thoughtful book in The Giving Myths: Giving Then Getting the Life You’re Always Wanted (Smyth & Helwys Publishing, 2007) that comes out of his personal interests and professional work as a vice president of Cargill Associates Inc., a philanthropy and fundraising ...
Views: 1138 - The Sign Of The Signative-How You Can Know God Now - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will also experience the signative sealing. The signative is when God grants you faith in Him. You need this--without His help you could not receive His Testimony. But with His help you receive it and share it with others. The signative sealing was first taught ...
Views: 889 - The Protoic Part-Having The Heavenly Leadership - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you are sealed you have a chance to become the protoic first. You may become the protoic first in Heaven. You may even become the first on earth, but the protoic first place in Heaven is much better. “Amen, I say to you,” Jesus said, “that you who follow me, in the ...
Views: 804 - Be Watching And Wary For The Invitary-God Will Call You Home - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will hear the invitary calling. The invitary is where God calls you home to Heaven. When He calls and you are sealed, you are ready to go join Him for eternity. “A certain man,” said Jesus, “made a huge supper, and invited many. And he sent his ...
Views: 719 - Stem Cells Seal The Deal In 2007 - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will begin to understand the value of human life since you will have new Life. When you understand the value of life you will see just how precious the new stem cell discoveries are. The year 2007 was a remarkable year for science since it was the year ordinary ...
Views: 610 - What Are Some Key Similarities Between Christianity And Islam? (Updated) - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2007 from Craig LockCategory (key words): religion, faith, beliefs, peace, spiritual, spiritual unity Web sites: http://www.craiglockbooks.com and http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/craig_lock.html Other articles by Craig are available at: http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles.html Publishing Guidelines: All my ...
Views: 3318 - Your Futural Fate--Friendship With Jesus - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will live out the futural prophecy. The futural prophecy foretells the joining together of the two friends--Jesus and the sealed person. “The hour has come,” Jesus said, “of the glorification of the Son of man.” When Jesus spoke of the ...
Views: 817 - Sharing Some Information On Major Religions of the World: The Jews And Judaism (Part One - Updated) - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2007 from Craig LockCategory (key words): religion, religions, Judaism, Jews, religious tolerance, faith, beliefs, spirituality, Web sites: http://www.craiglockbooks.com http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/craig_lock.html Articles by Craig Lock are available at: http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles.html Publishing ...
Views: 688 - What You Don’t Want To Know About God! - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2007 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockFrom the Bible, we learn all kinds of things about God. What we don’t know about God, however, are things like; what does He do on Sunday afternoons? Since we are created in His likeness, He must like the same things we do. Doesn’t that make sense? So, He must like football games! Go Packers! ...
Views: 628 - The Promise Of The Primitial First-Fruits - by Submitted on Dec 22, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will experience death but your soul will live. You will live just like Jesus, the primitial first-fruits, rose from the dead after He was killed. You will live even after you have died because your soul has not died. If God kills a soul, that soul is sent to ...
Views: 768 - Practical Spirituality—Finding A New Source Of Power - by Submitted on Dec 22, 2007 from John GilmoreToday there is a powerful spirituality movement. When I say spirituality I am not speaking of religion; I am speaking of something different--a connection with the Divine. This connection is what many mystics call “union with God.” Sometimes this happens through a religious path, but not ...
Views: 1026 - Sown In The Synetic Seeing - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will eventually begin to have synetic perception. Synetic perception is seeing the Word of God and His Messages as they truly are, and understanding them with all comprehension. When you are sealed you will be blessed with understanding the parables of Jesus. ...
Views: 698 - The Geotype From The Form Of The Earth - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal it will be a geotype--in the shape of the earth ready to grow the seed. It is a geotype because it is like the earth ready to nourish the seed until it grows up and bears fruit. “This is the kingdom of God,” Jesus said, “as if a person should throw ...
Views: 636 - End This Year On A High! - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2007 from Arvind DevaliaAre you looking forward to the New Year or are you bogged down with unfinished tasks from this year? No matter what sort of year you have had, you still have the opportunity to end this year on a high, and start the New Year on a positive note. You will have had a number of successes in the ...
Views: 785 - Hope & The Gnostic Gospels - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2007 from FSB AuthorsOf late I’ve turned to The Gospel of Thomas. It’s taken the privileged top position on my night-stand, on which rests a mini-library of spiritual books ranging from A Course in Miracles to Ram Dass’ wonderful Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita. I read these texts exhaustively because I’m on ...
Views: 950 - Vote For Vitation--Live By Believing - by Submitted on Dec 19, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you have two messages you follow--the Message of Jesus and the message of the sealed person sent to you. When you follow these two messages, you have vitation, which is your new Life. Death reigns over you in this time on earth. When you are sealed you die at the ...
Views: 825 - Looking At The Lectual Law Of Life - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you are no longer under the Law of Moses but under grace. But you are under a Law. You are under the lectual Law, the Law of the Spirit of Life. When you are sealed you are not in danger anymore of being condemned for not following everything commanded you in the ...
Views: 727 - Just Like Fire Shut Up In My Bones - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Lorene HallAUTHOR: JEREMIAH Jeremiah was called by GOD to be a Prophet to Judah(the Southern Kingdom). He faithfully confronted the leaders and the people with their sin, prophesied both their 70 year captivity in Babylon and their eventual return from exile. ...
Views: 12472 - Feeling The Philous Love - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal your love becomes the greatest of all loves known to people--the philous love. And that is when you become the friend of God and eventually His Bride too. When you are sealed you will love God and love other people with the greatest of loves, the philous love. The ...
Views: 836 - Blessed Is He Who Comes In The Curionym - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal God will write His Name in your forehead. You will bear the Curionym, or Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in your forehead when you are sealed. Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord. When God writes His Name in your forehead you come in the Name of the Lord. ...
Views: 656 - Saved by Servancy -- Having The Faith Of The Father - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you follow the Law of Faith in servancy. There are 3 Commandments you need to follow: Believing the message of the Seal, spreading the message, and dying daily so the God can give you Life. In the early days of the forefathers of your faith, the Law of Moses was ...
Views: 685 - The Anastasis Answer To Days Of Death - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will experience death by baptism. You will be baptized by the Holy Spirit too, so you will be resurrected from that death by anastasis. John the Baptist immersed people in water, and those who were immersed repented of their sins. John ushered in the era of ...
Views: 647 - The Filiant Father And His Chosen Children - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you become a child of God the Father. God is filiant, gathering His children to Him, even raising children of Abraham out of the stones of the field. You may have been hard-hearted once. When you are sealed your heart will soften. Even if you were once so ...
Views: 1073 - The Exultary Excitement And Revealing Your Feeling - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal God will lift up your thoughts and feelings with an exultary uplifting. And you will show this inner uplifting on the outside too--you will wear it like clothing. Your heart and your flesh of your old person will no longer dictate how you think and feel. Now you ...
Views: 740 - Know The Syndoxy Soon After Suffering - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will suffer some persecution and opposition, especially when you take the message of the Seal to the world. But we who are sealed and suffer together will be glorified together in syndoxy. Your natural self is the "flesh." And your flesh wants to take over. In ...
Views: 705 - Negative Aspects Of Religion - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2007 from Karl EricsonThe following page shows negative aspects of different religions. I have dedicated another site to their positive aspects, http://www.mypracticalphilosophy.com/shelp/pos.htm. I do not wish to imply that all believers in these religions are bad or that they should be punished. There are good ...
Views: 10082 - The Introcelestial Entrance Into Eternity - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will gain introcelestial entrance into Heaven. And you need it. Believing in Jesus and confessing Him are not enough to get you into Heaven. Not everyone who says to Jesus, "Lord, Lord," will enter into Heaven. That is what Jesus Himself said. Then who will ...
Views: 622 - Sharing Some Information On Major Religions Of the World: The Jews And Judaism - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2007 from Craig LockArticle Title: Sharing Some Information on Major Religions of the World: The Jews and Judaism (Part One) Submitter: Craig Lock Line Space: 65 characters Category (key words): religion, religions, Judaism, Jews, religious tolerance, faith, beliefs, spirituality, Other articles are available ...
Views: 816 - The Pseudoprophetic Pretenders--People Teachings - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you start to guard yourself against false prophets, some of whom are masquerading as Christian leaders. These are the pseudoprophetic teachers, who you will learn to avoid You trust the message of the Seal. That is how you become sealed. When you trust the message ...
Views: 767 - Novitation--Complete RenewalOof Your Heart - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will experience the novitation, which is your renewal. God will renew your thoughts and your feelings, and your heart will completely change. Then your actions will change too. You receive the Seal upon your forehead. Your head is sealed. And your head is ...
Views: 988 - Rediscovering the Proverb 31 Woman - Clothed in Strength and Dignity - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2007 from Ameerah LewisI can still remember the moment when I came face-to-face with a real Proverb 31 woman for the first time. I was a struggling baby Christian, trying to figure out how I, a recovering daughter of the women’s movement, was ever going to learn to be quiet and subservient. After all, that is ...
Views: 4251 - The Troubled Little Geese Of Christmas - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2007 from Arthur LevinePlease feel free to use this article as long as credit is given to my resource box. © Copyright 2007 Arthur Levine Words: 564 Keywords: Christmas, God, Least of Us, Kindness, Mercy One little Goose turned to another as they sat near the edge of a golf course that was covered in a half an ...
Views: 735 - The Holosis--How You Become One With God - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you no longer swear that things will happen. Instead you include the Plans of God Himself with your own plans and integrate them in the process of holosis. When you receive the Seal you begin to take up your cross and follow Jesus. You do it every day. You may ...
Views: 1002 - The Projectory Process--Healing Your Heart - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal the way you think and feel changes. But God does not do all the work. You have to work to change your heart in a process known as the projectory process. You may think that what you think and feel is supposed to come from your heart. But that is not ideal. What ...
Views: 673 - The Responsible Christian - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2007 from Donald YatesChristians share a position of responsibility in their own development and in the stewardship of earthly things. The differential between stewardship and ownership has caused the Christian to question his own, God granted position. No man may own any of God’s creation. Man only has the ...
Views: 3106 - The Psychous Drive To Survive - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal God will give you psychous Life. But you need to give up your life in this world in order to find your psychous Life--the Life of your soul. When you are sealed you put Jesus first. Usually you will want to, since He is the One who has blessed you so much. And when ...
Views: 848 - Your Operary Service--A Work Of Faith - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2007 from Jason WittWhat is your operary service? When you are Christian, truly serving God is trusting the message of the sealed person. And when you trust that message you too receive the Seal. First you trust, and then you are trusted by others. A multitude of people followed Jesus, watching His healings ...
Views: 683 - Stenopyles--The Way Leading To Life - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will want to go to Heaven to be with your God, which will be much better than this life upon earth. And you will have the key to unlock Stenopyles, the door to Heaven. Religious leaders have misled you. Yes, Christian leaders have misled you. They have told ...
Views: 592 - The Magic Pill That Can Save Your Life - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2007 from Arthur LevinePlease feel free to use this article as long as credit is given to the resource box. © Copyright Arthur Levine 2007 Words: 513 Keywords: Faith-based, Magic Pill, God, Imagination, Believe My hands were shaking as I opened what I perceived to be was a tiny vial of little translucent ...
Views: 2094 - Messiah--Which Leader Do You Follow? - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2007 from Jason WittMessiah is the Name for Jesus Christ the Savior of mankind. But Messiah did not always refer just to Him and His coming. And even today there are plenty of lesser "messiahs" who appear as leaders, some evil and some good. The sealed person is a good leader. You may not consider the sealed ...
Views: 620 - Righteous Anger Brings Powerful Results - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2007 from Ann StewartConsider the picture of Jesus cleaning out the temple. He did it twice; Once at the very beginning of his ministry (John 2: 15-17) and again at the end. (Mark 11: 15-17) Both times he showed anger, spoke with authority, and single-handedly drove out everyone who used the house of God for ...
Views: 962 - The Anamesic Middle Between The Bright Side And The Dark Side - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you will be called to become anamesic--to stand in the gap between good and evil, light and darkness. You will gladly stand for the benefit of those in darkness, with your inner light shining. When God created the world He first created light. Darkness it seems ...
Views: 658 - The Seal - The Acquisite Possession Of The Sealed - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2007 from Jason WittWhen you receive the Seal you become acquisite. This is when God procures you for Himself as His Possession. And the kingdom of Heaven is acquisite when you procure it for yourself as your own inheritance. This is a mutually beneficial exchange. In economics there is an idea that with trade ...
Views: 726 - The Archia Of The Sealed People - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2007 from Jason WittAn archia is a family of things that are chief and first. You can belong to the most important of all archias--the group of sealed people. When you become sealed you become a member of that archia. Jesus promised that if you leave your family for His sake that you will receive a much larger ...
Views: 831 - The Seal--The Templescent Becoming Of The Sealed Person - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2007 from Jason WittThe Seal marks your body as a holy house. When you are sealed your body becomes a temple of the Holy Spirit in a templescent becoming. You become one with God instead of one with anyone else. Jesus was condemned to death and died on the cross. He rose from the dead on the third day after ...
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