Just a Thought

 I am only thinking out loud, maybe I shouldn't even publish this, maybe I should, but it is just a thought that is all it is. I have been listening to a few messages and I have had a thought bouncing around in my head for quite sometime now. It is about the Holy Spirit and the Church of today. For example the church I attend does not believe in the filling of the Holy Spirit, not like how the Charismatic movement does, it seems that movement is growing more and more quiet. They believe the Holy Spirit is about not the same things as I was raise believing (like a somewhat wimpy version of the Holy Spirit and I mean no disrespect to the Holy Spirit at all, just that is how they portray Him to be). My Holy Spirit is awe inspiring flame of God. Look at Him in the Bible flame filled the room, coming from Heaven and quenched the people. 

We are an empty vessel, we are directed to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Now on salvation we get a taste, but we are not fully filled, I truly believe it is only a taste. What if we only have a taste and we need to be filled with the rest of the Spirit just like the in the days of Old, the spirit will come in like a flood. Giving power to us like we have no idea and no one of today has observed. What I am suggesting is the people of the new churches are weak and it is only because of the leadership is teaching them that the Holy Spirit is received upon salvation and that is it. I have to ask, what if they are wrong? We could have warriors, I believe we are going into a battle and if what I hear is a fraction of the truth, we here in the USA are going to be tested. 

What I have heard said, is people that claim to be Christians, out of the number of them that claim it, there is an actual number that truly follow God and it is only a staggering number of 6 to 10%. That is low and heartbreaking. I didn't make that number up, you can do the research, I can give you the links and the people that have done the research to find those numbers, that when called upon will not stand up for Jesus Christ. 

Maybe all I am saying about the Holy Spirit will make no difference in the end, but I want to be one that speaks the truth or at least writes the truth. I pray that just as it was in the old, that the scales will fall from the eyes of those who believe so that they may see the truth, before it is too late. 

I believe that there is so much writing in the Bible that people are missing, that people are formulating there own beliefs because they think that God is a God of love only, but I believe in Heaven and Hell and I believe that there is an end and a beginning and we are nearing the end. 

We Are What We Think

 I have stated this before, but I am going to write it again, because I have seen it play out so many times and the more I see it, the more I want to capture it on paper. I want to put it to words. 

The saying holds true, we are what we eat. What we put into our bodies, is what comes out of our bodies. Why can't it be true for the words that we speak in the same essence of nature. If we speak negatively about ourselves, the same things holds true, we are what we say we are. The more we speak negatively about ourselves, the more we believe the words we speak, the more we believe it the more they become true to us. The more they become true, the more we believe it and the role becomes the words we speak become the reality we live. 

If I constantly berate myself, I will become that ugly person from the inside out, it is sad to say, but it is like my body eats away at itself, because of the negativity that lives with inside of me. It blackens my heart, it causes my heart to harden against any form of encouragement from the outside, it then blackens my soul. The more it affect the inside of who I am, the more it starts to affect the outside of myself, it is like the plague of negativity and it is affecting people today more then ever before. You can see it in the faces, you can see the hate and anger, the rage coming from the soul of people, because it is coming from within. 

I believe hearts are hardening to the truth of who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for us. I believe that we are in a place where we have never been before a place where the truth will become wrong and the right will be wiped away. What we see as right will be mocked. I believe that anger will rein and be ok to encouraged, I believe that what we see happening is only a glimpse of what the future holds, because there are a few people out there that still know right from wrong, but it is growing fewer and fewer. 

We are being brainwashed, scrubbed and cleansed. They are getting into our brains, they are causing us to stop thinking for ourselves. I am seeing it more and more, they have infuriated our minds, they have figured out doorways into our brains in advertising to hide messages that we don't see, but our brains do. We should be afraid, but we are busy about our lives, consumed with everything that is going on, we are lost in the word of so much information, that we have lost what is important.

Time to get back to basics.

What is the most important things? What should be number 1 in your life? What is number 2 and so on? Is it important to be sucked into the news? It is important to be sucked into what ever and lost in the world of media? I am speaking to myself too on this, what is important?