As I reflect on so many things daily, one came up through me early this morning with great force: The life you live is the life you give. How can I explain what this means as it is coming through me now during this epoch (love this French word) of my life. Hmmm. Lets pick on a word many down through the years have loved to hate because it has been soooo misunderstood: Repentance. If you would look it up in a dictionary as well as in the Greek, you will find that this word in its simplest form means to change. You change your thoughts so you can change your beliefs so you can change your words so you can change your choices so you can change your decisions so you can change your habits so you can change your life. Period. Repentance begins on the inside with your thoughts and your will once you have received revelation that you need to change something you are doing (or are NOT doing) in order to achieve or receive what youre not achieving and receiving. One of my testimonies about repentance is learning that I had to stop eating popcorn, because it is pure sugar. Just because you put salt on it does not make it any less than sugar, and even you cant agree with me does not change the fact that the body treats it like sugar as it is being digested. :-) Months ago on the spring side of summer, as I traveled on the trams, RERs, metros, and buses there were Indiens and Sri Lankans at every stop selling fresh popcorn, and lo and behold it would always be at my lunch time or dinner time. Hmmm, and since its a lite food I thought I could walk it off and contribute to their cause at the same time, and take my mind off the time I had to spend waiting. The problem was I would buy one bag for everyday of the week at 1 euro per bag. (Thats 2 dollars in the states. Like paying for popcorn at a baseball game.) Well I could not understand why my weight was going up instead of down because I was not eating cakes, cookies, pies or candy bars. When I finally got good and tired of it and very concerned I went into prayer and waited to know where I was missing it. I heard the Spirit of the Lord say popcorn. Ugh!!! I remembered reading the book Eat Right For Your Blood Type several years ago in the states and I learned that my blood type is supposed to eat more proteins and less sugars. But I . . . So I immediately apologized to myself, my body, and the Lord for this sin (another misunderstood word - has nothing to do with being a BAD person, but everything to do with missing the mark for your life. What is sin for me may not be sin for you, so dont get all bent out of shape and offended please.) and I stopped cold turkey and Ive not looked back. ANd guess what? Ive only run into those popcorn people a few times since then, which is so funny. They were everywhere on the other side of my repentance: b.r. :-) So now, the life I live - of repentance - is the life I give. As I work with people doing what I do, I notice that many people are changing quickly and right NOW once they receive life-giving and life-changing revelations. THis is fruit, and it is encouraging to behold. But it comes because Im sowing the seeds of changing NOW in my own life first, not because Im beating them over the head with my beliefs and doctrines. The life YOU live is the LIFE you GIVE. Live what you want to give. If those gun-toting, etc. folks in warring countries did this they would stop killing people, because how can you live murder and kidnapping when youre dead? :-) Peace.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 23:10:12 +0000
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