God and our Code of Conduct and Ethics Part 2

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In my last blog article I mentioned that I would let my blog readers try to draw their own interpretation of the Bible verses I offered. So, today I will continue from where I left off. Before I explain what the Bible verses mean for us, I would like to say that when God or Jesus said something in the Bible it was said in “Parables.”

According to Wikipedia, The word "parable" comes from the Greek word παραβολή (parabolē), meaning "comparison, illustration, analogy". It was the name given by Greek rhetoricians to any fictive illustration in the form of a brief narrative. Later it came to mean a fictitious narrative, generally referring to something that might naturally occur, by which spiritual and moral matters might be conveyed. A parable is a short tale that illustrates universal truth, one of the simplest of narratives. It sketches a setting, describes an action, and shows the results.

Reading the Bible

Okay, I know some of my blog readers will ask how do I know how to interpret Bible verses, “do I read the bible or study the Bible all the time?” The answer is—No. I live my life in a normal way. By that I mean, I don’t walk around with the Bible all day, neither do I read or study the Bible everyday, I watch television like most people, I read magazines and other books. I am a mom so I am always busy looking after my kids, I have a home-based business that was keeping me busy but now that I am in the process of moving the business is now in “sleep mode.” So, no I don’t read the Bible everyday, if I read the bible once a month that’s rare. Ever since God appeared to me when I was a small child, I have had this ability to interpret the bible, I can’t really explain it, it is just something I do naturally.

Anyway, lets start with the first one.

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgement as the noonday.
(Psalm 37:6)

What does this means? Well, where is the sun at during noonday? Isn’t the sun at it’s highest peak in the sky? If you answer yes, then you are right. It is the hottest and brightest at noonday. It shines ever so brightly and it makes everyone feels happy when the Sun is out—right? So, what God is saying to us, is that if we do all the right things in life, if we become righteous people then he will bring our Judgement as noonday. Who sits at the highest peak in the sky? God himself is at the highest point. So, he is saying to us, you can sit with me, you can come with me and be with me and your light shall shine ever so brightly due to your righteousness. You can be at the highest point with him if only you live “Righteously.” If you don’t live your life righteously then you will be at the lowest point where just like darkness comes at night the moon will be where your place will be if you don’t do the right things, or you do the unethical things in life.

Psalm 106:3
“Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.”

This says, exactly what it means. Blessed are they who maintain justice all the time. If you live your life in the way God expects you to, and no we are not talking about wearing halos over our heads, and becoming holier than thou. What God means is, if we come to trust him, and accept that he is the Alpha and the Omega that he is the true creator of us humans and believe in his “Spiritual Laws,” which entails, Justice, Peace, Love and Mercy and we accept his laws and practice his laws then we will be blessed. There is nothing more simple than that. 

Deuteronomy 16:20
“Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you.”

What is God is offering us? In this Bible verse God is offering us two things,“The kingdom of Heaven as well as, Eternal Life—because he said, so that you can live.” How do we get into Heaven? We don’t get into heaven because of all the worldly things we possess. Example, through the fame, wealth or any material things you may possess. No. We get our ticket to heaven if we “Follow justice and justice alone.” If you do things that are unethical all the time then God will not reward you by allowing you into heaven. So, he’s saying live your life in the right way and Heaven will be your reward.

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Proof of God

How many people reading this blog right now would believe me If I say that God appeared to me when I was a child? See, some people would give me the benefit of the doubt and others, would say, “I don’t believe her, why didn’t God appear to me? If he did what did he say to her?” Some people would think I am lying and that I am just making up stories. Why? For one thing I have no proof. Yes, I do wish I could bring my Grandmother back to life, I miss her so much everyday, because she never, ever doubted me, she was the only one in my life that would trust me and believe that what I say is true. Do you know what I find sad about society in general? People always want proof that God truly exist, but they never ask for proof that “Lucifer” exist. How sad is that? Due to this fact, ever since I was a small child I have had to endure “Spiritual Suffering.” Which is how God reaches out to us though for us to hear his “Spiritual calling and to follow him.”

In the bible God meant what he said when he said, “suffer little children to come unto me for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 5:3  “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.”

What does this bible verse mean? God is talking here again about “Spiritual suffering and loneliness.” The minute we decide to follow God’s path look for people to reject us, just like Jesus was rejected thousand of years ago and eventually crucified. Look for people to call us crazy or weird and mock us or insult us just because we talk about the goodness of God. Look for people who were once our friends and close companions now turn against us and talk behind our backs and make us feel like we are not intelligent people just because we talk about God. We will feel lonely and will seek the shelters of our own church and in some cases they will turn their backs on us if we question certain things, or try to seek answers to things that perplex us. Some people will go as far as call us “Insane,” just because we talk about God. Isn’t that crazy? If we follow “Lucifer’s path and do all the bad things no one will call us crazy because we now quote and quote “fit into their world of sin.”

The minute someone of faith starts to talk about God we are marginalized by people in society. People call us crazy, weird they talk behind our backs or they completely reject us off their “Best Friend list.” We don’t get called on, if your friends are having a great party on the weekend they may not invite you because you are not quote an quote “cool anymore.” Then you realized you are in a separate place of your own, your journey towards God is now filled with “Spiritual Loneliness and suffering.”

 Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who have been persecuted in their hearts: they are the ones who have truly come to know the Father.” (The Gospel of Saint Thomas)

Often times you will get comments like these if you talk about God “Your crazy or people look at you as if your weird, or they will ask, “are you okay, maybe your a little stressed” Oh, that one is good—or my favourite one is “Do you think your God?” My reply to them is, “No I am not God but I work for him I am one of his “Social Workers, I work in the department of Love, Peace and Justice.” Which department would you like?” If you need help with anger management and bad manners I can’t help you. Oh, my, gosh!” Too funny, oh, please. Listen, if you don’t have a sense of humour in life people will drive you crazy. You just have to take it like a grain of salt and just don’t worry about it, like water on a ducks back, just let their rude comments slide off.

People become hypocrites just because we embrace God they think we are weird. What about people who become prostitutes, people who work in the pornography industry, people who put garbage on television for us to watch everyday etc, etc, society embrace people like these everyday. Isn’t that sad that people do this?” God stands for Love, Peace, Justice, and happiness—and this makes us weird or crazy because we love God and Jesus and choose to follow that path? I don’t get it.

So, God is saying “Poor in Spirit,” to refer to us been “Severely Poor spiritually because people who have no faith and trust in the word of God will turn their backs on you and this will cause you, “spiritual suffering and loneliness.”

Personally, I have since I was a little girl endured “Spiritual Suffering and Loneliness,” all throughout my childhood and even into adulthood.” Ever since God appeared to me when I was 9 yrs. old, I have made many attempts to many people over the years to convince them that God really does truly exist even if you can’t see him he is there. Some people will accept that what I say is truthful and others will reject anything associated with the word God. I have chosen of my own “Free Will” and full accord to follow the path of God and Jesus because I understand full well that there is a God and that hell does exist and that I do not under any circumstances want to go to hell. If you are someone who have endured alot of pain and suffering in your life, well add 10,000 times that or more to your pain and that is what hell is like. Hell is not a pretty place people. I would rather endure:

“Spiritual suffering, loneliness, rejection and insults from people without faith in God knowing full well that at the end of the day, my reward will be with God in heaven.” Yep, and no money in the world will ever be able to buy you that ticket you have to work for it.

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What does God means when it comes to Spiritual Laws.

Let me ask my blog readers these important questions:

1. What if you had a daughter and she met a man who happens to be wealthy but you know from newspaper articles that he’s not a very faithful man. He’s had numerous affairs and scandal travels him wherever he goes. However, he’s wealthy and you are poor. You are at the brink of destruction so to speak and if your daughter were to marry him your life of poverty would disappear. What would you do? Would you let your daughter marry this man hoping that your daughter might be the lucky one and that he won’t commit infidelity with her?” Would you let your daughter marry this man knowing that you are just one step shy of living on the street? What would you do? This situation your in now requires you to make a “Moral Decision as well as a “Ethical Decision.”

Personally, I have a daughter and I would under no circumstances allow her to marry such a man. I don’t care how poor I am whether I am living in a “Shoebox or on the street” a term my Grandmother would use. I would clean houses, and find whatever job I can, I would do what ever it takes to get my life together but I would not use my daughter whom I love with all my heart and soul as a means of personal gain. It would be unethical for me as a mother to do that. Yes. It is true there are people out there that would do that, but not everyone would stoop so low.

2. What if you were in a situation where your Son or Daughter were about to get married but the person that they were to get married to does not love them and doesn’t want to be with them, and doesn’t even want to entertain the thoughts of getting married to your son or daughter. This person might have expressed this to you directly or indirectly through a source or third party. Would you let your son or daughter go ahead with the marriage knowing full well that in the end it would only cause both people including your son or daughter nothing but unhappiness, pain, suffering, emotional distress as well as, shame not only to them but to you as a parent . What would you do? Would you make the assumption that they will grow to love each other? Which I believe is one of the worst thing a parent could assume—There is no such thing as “growing to love a person after you commit to them in marriage, it’s either you loved them at the beginning at the get go, at the initial stage—or, you don’t.” It is just common sense and fair logic. Would you ignore the warning signs that the person that they want to get married to doesn’t love them? Would you ignore the fact that at some point in time these people who get married would be at each others throat everyday because they can’t stand each other? What would you do? This too now becomes a “Moral Decision as well as a “Ethical Decision.”

These two very important questions are all apart of the “Spiritual Laws of God.” This is what God meant when he spoke about “Righteousness and Justice.” What is the Moral thing to do, what is the Ethical thing to do? In our daily lives, we will have to make decisions based on “Right Judgement and Moral Reasoning.” God is saying to us that if we want to enter the “Kingdom of Heaven.” Then we need to act “Ethically and Morally.” We must do what is “Right, Just, Fair and Ethical in the eyes of God.” God is always watching us to see how we behave, he is offering us such a simple plan. Almost like when we buy “Life Insurance for ourselves or our family.” God is offering us is His Life Insurance plan free of charge. He is saying all you have to do to get your ticket to heaven and sit with him, and get “Eternal life, all you have to do is just do what is Morally correct and Ethical.” That is what he means when he says,

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgement as the noonday.
(Psalm 37:6)

This is exactly what he meant. No hidden agendas. Just straight and true to his word. Do this and your on your way to “Heavens Gate—your on your way to entering the Kingdom of Heaven.” Do the opposite of what he asks us to do and we will be headed over to “Lucifer’s side a place you don’t want to go people.”

God and Betrayal

If you feel you must betray someone because you feel angry about something or hurt over situation, let me tell you right now, that if you have to betray someone to get what you want, at whatever cost. This is a “Huge Red Flag.”  A big warning sign, a sounding alarm that whatever you are trying to get or achieve will definately end in failure for you. I guarantee it. It will only result in unhappiness, pain, suffering, embarrassment not only for yourself but for everyone involved. So, don’t attempt to do this. It is wrong and it is unethical to betray anyone especially people of your own family or a partner in a relationship.

“Betrayal doesn’t have any value to it. It is worth zero, nothing. So, think about the price you will have to pay in the end for betraying anyone. The price you pay though would be very high.”

No matter how angry or hurt you are about a person or situation in your life, don’t betray anyone. The price you pay will be way too high and it is not worth it for you to do that. If you have a chance in your life today to “Redeem yourself,” before committing this ungodly act, then I would suggest you take the opportunity. Start living your life today in the right way, the way God wants’ you to live. If you refuse to follow God’s way then you are saying you have no respect for God, yourself or his “Spiritual Laws,” in that case then you are what God call a “Lawless Man or Person who have become an Apostate—meaning you have chosen to abandon your faith, respect, trust and conviction in God.”

When someone abandon their faith and conviction in God and become an Apostate, don’t let them fool you where they later then say, “I now love God and will follow his path.” Based on my experience if they didn’t love and respect God before and they then turn around and say, “well I love God now, most times it is fake—they are been fake.” They just say it because it’s a means to an end. Meaning they are saying they are into God because they are trying to please someone or impress someone for any kind of reason. No one can’t fool me when it comes to been faithful to God. I know what to look for in people and you can’t “Fake your Love of God with me.” Nope. I would say I have a great ability to spot people who pretend to love God. Most times they can’t keep up the “Charade too long.” You can only pretend for so long in life when it comes to your love for God and Jesus and then the real truth comes out in the end. If anyone around you abandon their faith and trust in God and Jesus then let me tell you that they have a long, long way to go when it comes to many things in their lives. Relationship is huge one. If you are planning on going into a relationship with someone who doesn’t have any trust or faith in God and Jesus then that marriage will have a “Short Shelf life.”

“You cannot build a strong relationship or marriage with anyone without the foundation of Trust and Faith in God and Jesus.”

When I say, I am all about doing what is “Right, Ethical, Just and Fair in the eyes of God,” I don’t say it because I am looking for friends or I am trying to impress anyone. I say it, because I mean what I say. This is how God would want me to live my life. People can mock me, alienate me, and say whatever they want about me. With all due respect, at the end of the day, God will reward me and I would have moved one step closer to God, one step closer to the kingdom of heaven. Yep, and no amount of money or fame in the world can buy you that ticket you have to work for it, by following God’s path and his “Spiritual Laws.”

If you are living your life and you don’t know “Right from Wrong,” or the difference between been “Ethical or Unethical,” Moral Reasoning and Right Judgement then you are someone who have lost all your “Value Systems and you need a serious wake-up call.” If people don’t do what is “Right in the Eyes of God when it comes to the right decisions in life the Ethical decisions in life it means you are on your way to losing your soul.” At that stage no one including God can’t help you, because you have chosen to follow the opposite path to him.

 

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Stormie Omartion Prayer of the Day
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When You Need Deliverance and Restoration

Thank You, Lord, that wherever I am locked up in my life, You have the keys to set me free. Whenever I am oppressed, You will bring justice. And whenever I have need, You will supply it. Without You, I am a prisoner of my needs and the consequences of my sin. I pray that You will deliver me from whatever keeps me from becoming all You made me to be.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth…who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners.

Psalm 146:5-7

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God and our Code of Conduct and Ethics

 

 

Booster Shots For Living

There are seven (7) gifts of the Holy Spirit here are the remaining  (4) worth learning and remembering (see the other 3 in my august 20th blog post):

 

Fear of the Lord (Wonder and Awe): With the gift of fear of the Lord we are aware of the glory and majesty of God. A person with wonder and awe knows that God is the perfection of all we desire: perfect knowledge, perfect goodness, perfect power, and perfect love. This gift is described by Aquinas as a fear of separating oneself from God. He describes the gift as a "filial fear," like a child’s fear of offending his father, rather than a "servile fear," that is, a fear of punishment. Also known as knowing God is all powerful. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 1:7) because it puts our mindset in its correct location with respect to God: we are the finite, dependent creatures, and He is the infinite, all-powerful Creator.

 

Wisdom: Also, the gift of wisdom, we see God at work in our lives and in the world. For the wise person, the wonders of nature, historical events and other things that concerns the supreme order and the ups and downs of our lives take on deeper meaning. The matters of judgment about the truth, and being able to see the whole image of God. We see God as our Father and other people with dignity. Lastly, being able to see God in everyone and everything everywhere.

Knowledge: With the gift of knowledge, we understand the meaning of God. The gift of knowledge is more than an accumulation of facts.

Understanding: In understanding, we comprehend how we need to live as a follower of Christ. A person with understanding is not confused by all the conflicting messages in our culture about the right way to live. The gift of understanding perfects a person’s speculative reason in the apprehension of truth. It is the gift whereby self-evident principles are known, Aquinas writes.

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Law: Earthly Law and the Spiritual Law of God

In human justice, there is a model that is basically the same through all societies. Firstly, there is a recognised code of conduct. The specific form of this code will vary from culture to culture. Typically it will involve a set of rules that have the basic support of the people concerned, or their rulers. In the case of a government, this will take the form of a formal law or constitution.

Since the 15th century, Lady Justice has often been depicted wearing a blindfold. The blindfold represents objectivity, in that justice is or should be meted out objectively, without fear or favor, regardless of identity, money, power, or weakness; blind justice and impartiality.

Impartiality is a principle of justice holding that decisions should be based on objective criteria, rather than on the basis of bias, prejudice, or preferring the benefit to one person over another for improper reasons. Moral objectivism, as is often used is the view that a single set of principles determines the permissibility of any action, and the correctness of any judgment regarding an action’s permissibility.

 

Let’s take a baby or child into consideration when it comes to making “Right Judgments.” If a child or children were living with it’s natural birth parents but the child or children were not been cared for properly and were been mistreated, “should that child or children remain with their parents given too that the parents could show that they provide the proper care and nourishment for the child?” Most people without thinking would say—Yes. They would say, if the parents are providing a home, food, clothing and necessary things needed to keep the child safe and happy then the child should remain with the parents, right? Wrong. Not because someone gave birth to a child or children that doesn’t mean that they are capable of been a good parent.

A person who is a parent who is trying to prove to the courts that they are financially capable of providing for that child or children would use that means to “justify their mistreatment of the child or children as a means of misdirection.” In other words, they try to create a “Smoke Screen” by saying look, “I provide a home, I am a hard worker, I purchase groceries every week, I make sure they are well fed and are well dressed everyday. The Judge or Family Lawyer would then ask, “When was the last time you gave your child a birthday gift?” When was the last time you gave your child a hug or a kiss and tell them how much you loved them?”

Do you now see the contrast between a parent saying, well I provide all the things in the world for the child but the courts point of interest is, “Where is the love for this child?” Yes, you provide for the child or children in question but, “where is the love?”

At the end of the day the “Right Judgment” for the child or children involved comes down to just one factor. “Love.” The question the court would entertain is, “are these parents capable of truly loving their child based on their—ACTIONS. Yes, not on material values but on the parents actions.

This “Right of Judgment or Moral Reasoning” goes across the board with everything in our lives. Whether we are dealing with a child custody case, a criminal act, stealing, a relationship problem or marital issues. At the end of the day the deciding factor in most court cases comes down to the—ACTIONS OF A PERSON.

According to Law Professor Michael Sandel of Harvard University, “The moral thing to do the right thing to do depends on the consequences that will result from your actions.” So here are some questions to ask yourself:

1. “Is your decision going to improve the quality of life for someone or several people or will it result in unhappiness, pain and suffering as well as, regrets that the person or persons will have to live with for the rest of their lives?”

2. Is your decision one that God would uphold or one that God would favour?”

3. “Is your decision a “Ethical decision” based on the facts?”

4. “Is your decision based on Long-term happiness for those involved or Short-term gain for someone else?

Just like I mentioned above based on my experience our Moral Reasoning, comes down to “the consequences of our actions or the actions of those of another person that is reflected on us directly or indirectly.”

If a persons actions shows just cause based on the fact that they mistreated someone, misrepresented themselves for whatever reason, betrayed someone, abandoned their children,verbally abuse someone, physically harm them, or cause emotional distress, unhappiness, pain and suffering and so on, then it shows without doubt that a person guilty of these behaviours are indeed incapable of truly loving anyone based on their actions. Yes, to many people reading this it seems a bit harsh that a Court of Justice would based most of their decisions to create a Verdict in favour of a victim in these circumstances.

Well, this very same thing happened to me. My case as a small child was finally decided on based on “Love.” That verdict saved my life. Everyone can show proof of many things but at the end of the day all the material things in the world cannot surpass,
“True Authentic Love.” As well, “Everything comes down to a persons actions. If someone is causing you or others around you more pain, unhappiness, strife, stress, anxiety and suffering than you can ever imagine, then your decision based on your circumstances should at the end of the day come down to one thing and that is “Love.” If the person or persons around you is creating unhappiness in your life then you know for sure they are not ready for two things:

1. They are not ready to give love of themselves they need to work on themselves first before they are capable of giving love to anyone. Remember this: “In order to give real love to anyone—You must first learn to love and respect yourself first.”

2. They are incapable of receiving love. When you give out more pain and unhappiness to others it creates a wall in your life, especially when it comes to love. In order for anyone like this to receive love they must first—Stop giving out pain and unhappiness to others as well, they must learn to forgive. Only then will they be able to receive love.

In conclusion, God is ever present in our lives whether we would like to believe that he exists or not. Many people would say, “Well if God was real why didn’t he appear to me?” My answer to that is God will reveal himself to everyone when the right time comes, only he knows the hour and time that this will happen. Just like it’s easy for us to believe in the bad things in life, it should be just as easy for us to believe that God truly exist.

Unfortunately, millions of people around the world have no faith in God. They do all the bad things Lucifer wants them to do, but ask them to trust in God and they have no faith. Does this make me sad? Yes, because I know God truly exist and he wants us to have faith in him and to trust that he’s there and he can hear us. I don’t need to prove to anyone that God truly does exists. I know that he does exist and that:

“Love is at the very root and foundation of God principles for our lives—True authentic love.”

So, God and Justice and been objective goes hand in hand together in our lives. Making decisions that are considered the “Right Code of Ethics by God,” as well as, doing what is, “Right, Just and Fair in the Eyes of God,” is what God expects us to do. So, at the end of the day:

“A person’s actions when it comes to “Right Judgment and Moral Reasoning does indeed say alot about them and who they really are inside.”

Matthew 23:23
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.”

Let me explain what this bible verse is saying. What the verse is saying to us is that. Many people whether they practice law, or they don’t practice law often times they set themselves up in a “false way” by teaching and talking about God. To everyone they appear to be following God’s rules but it is fake. Why? You can talk all you want about God but do you practice what God preaches? Do you get what the verse is saying now? If we don’t practice what we preach or what God preaches then we are hypocrites. Like I mentioned before on my blog, many times people who act “Unethical,unjust and have no respect for traditional values or God,” always want others to do the “Right thing, the ethical thing, the just thing, the moral thing always for them and in their favour” However, ask them to return the favour or do the “Right thing or the Ethical thing and they become your worst enemy by ignoring the right thing that God wants us to live by.” In essence, they become like what God says, “Hypocrites of his Laws, they become a Lawless man or person, who lacks mercy and faithfulness to God.”

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
(Psalm 18:20)

Here is another bible verse that says clearly how God wants us to behave and what he expects from us. “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands.” What does that mean? Well, what God is saying is that if we live our lives in the right way, the ethical way then he will reward us not only in real life but when we pass on to the other side we will be judged based on how clean we lead our lives. Most importantly what we should all note is that if you have “Unclean hands, then it means you are acting Unethically and God does not like this.” For example, if you don’t steal, don’t kill others, don’t commit infidelity, we don’t hurt or abuse others emotionally or physically, we don’t betray members of our own family or our partners in a relationship, mistreat our own children, become either a male or female prostitute, commit numerous crimes or do all the bad things that God does not stand for etc, etc, then God will reward us based on how we live our lives in an “Ethical Way on earth.” How do we do this? We do this because we know “Right from Wrong.”

I will leave the last 3 verses for my blog readers to interpret on your own. It’s not hard to do, think about the verse for awhile then interpret it. (In my next blog article, I will then give my interpretation of what that means).

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
(Psalm 37:6)

Psalm 106:3
“Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.”

Deuteronomy 16:20
“Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you.”

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Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
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When You Need to Be Free of Guilt and Condemnation

Lord, even though I try to do the right thing, I sometimes fail to do so. Help me to overcome my sinful nature by the power of Your Spirit and the truth of Your Word. Help me to not wallow in self-pity, mourning my own failures and inadequacy. Help me to not say or do something that is totally selfish because I want to satisfy my own desires. Help me to have a clean conscience toward You and others at all times.

This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.

Acts 24:16

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Featured Musician of the Week: “Sade”

Helen Folasade Adu is 52 yrs.old better known as Sade), is a British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Her middle name, Folasade, means honor confers your crown. Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse. In 1989, she married Spanish film director Carlos Pliego. Their marriage ended in 1995. She gave birth to a daughter, Ila Adu, in 1996 after a relationship with a Jamaican musician.

Adu currently resides in Stroud, United Kingdom, with her partner Ian, his son Jack and her daughter Ila. She keeps her personal life private.http://www.sade.com/ca/home/

 

Postcard of Love and Light: “Bright Eyes”

 

 

All these beautiful songs goes out to “Bright Eyes” where ever you are these beautiful love songs are for you,
Love always

 

 

 

If you don’t know who Sade is visit her website (see link above) and listen to her music and I know you will fall in love with her other songs. I love her music a whole lot, I grew up listening to her actually. I discovered her music when I was a teenager living in Jamaica. One of my favourite songs from her list is one of her older songs see below. Doesn’t she look gorgeous at 52 yrs.old? Yeah, age is just a number… Enjoy.

Loving this new song from Sade can’t stop playing it, great song and video hope you like it as much as I do….Enjoy.

Newly released July 7, 2011
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This song by Sade was released in 1992. Yep! it was released 19 yrs. ago and still it’s such a great song, it’s timeless because Sade has such a beautiful voice. You might have heard this one on the radio. 

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Okay, so I could listen to Sade all day. This song was released in 1988. Wow! Still it is current and a great song to listen to—this is one of my all time favourites from her album…Enjoy.

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Released August 16, 2011

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Accepting God Into our Lives Daily

 
Picture Courtesy of “Coastal Living Mag” A bright blue-and-white striped rug brings a burst of color to this otherwise simple porch.

Booster Shots For Living

 

Okay, my kids just went off to bed, because I was watching “George of the Jungle” movie with them. The things parents have to do. I have no life–Oh, my, gosh! The weather is hot and humid but it feels nice anyway especially in the afternoons. I Love the summer weather though. My home is listed and is on the market so far the response as been good except the size is an issue for some buyers, but I know the home is not for everyone. Preferable for a small family or empty nester.

Anyway, I have had so much opposition, setback and delays to me moving on with my new life it’s just unreal! The only good news out of that is with a “Resounding Yes!” I am on the right path and I am doing the right thing with moving on with my new life. I can’t see what’s happening around me but I kind of get the feeling that something else is happening around me that I cannot see or something else is trying to prevent me from moving on with this new chapter of my life.

It’s hard to explain, you can’t define it, it’s just a feeling, you know. All I can say is, I will go on with my life, my home is listed and eventually it will get sold and God will see me through, it’s not easy but I would rather live on my own with my two kids than stay in a home where my marriage has come to an end. God has been helping me to overcome so much opposition to me moving forward, I can’t begin to tell you the amount of opposition that I have been getting in the past year. It’s just mind boggling. I can’t recall having this much opposition in the past before. When things like this happen, I pay attention and recall when my Grandmother tried to help me to live a better life, and that was the only time I can recall having that much opposition. So, moving forward is a good thing, a good thing no doubt about it.

However, my circumstances are different now, I am leaving a bad marriage behind so that might be part of the reason for all the opposition. Has well, whenever you find you are going to have a better more fulfilling life this is what usually happens, and the only way I handle it is to pray. There is not enough room on my blog to write about all the opposition I have been getting in the past year.  It’s frustrating and sometimes exhausting but when you know you are doing what is right then I use that to motivate me. “Doing what is right is my Mantra in life.” When things get difficult in my life right now all I think about in no particular order is, God, my faith and spirituality, my children’s safety, my mom who is living far away and someone whom I love dearly—called “Bright Eyes.” I hold on to the love I have for them and my strong faith in God that’s it.

Whenever I find I have a situation or problem I can’t handle myself I usually turn to the one person I have known since I was a young girl and it’s God. I turn to him and ask him to help me to overcome my obstacles and to help see me through the difficult times.  In my last blog article, I spoke about how God appeared to me when I was just 9 years old, and I never forgot about his appearance to me. It was a very powerful experience so much so that spirituality and faith have been the cornerstone of my life since then.

Whenever things get difficult in my life I go back to that moment and I remind myself that God does indeed have something special and important planned for me and that I need to keep him close at hand in my life always. So, today I have offered “Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus” prayer for you to say daily, especially since I am Catholic. If your a person of faith like me and do believe that God really does exist and yes, he does, then you will enjoy what is featured on my blog today.

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How do you know when people around you are not interested in God or Faith? They will pretend to listen to the word of God and they will pretend they are following the words of God. However, you will find that when you ask them to do what is “Right, Just and Fair” in the eyes of God and the law, look to see the person oppose you and will put up a great fight when they need to do the right thing. Then you will see the “Hypocrisy” in them. They will put up strong opposition the minute you tell them to do the right thing. “Isn’t this the reason why the Justice System was established in the first place?” Isn’t this why we have the Court System? Can you imagine a world without Judges, Lawyers and Jurors? People would get away with many things.

Doing what is “Right, Just and Fair” is what the legal systems in this world is made up of. Without that foundation for upholding what is right, our society would collapse, it would fail. Society would crumble and fall apart. In society today many people hire Lawyers to represent them in court and we the people as well as the Court System expects these Lawyers to do what is “Right, Just and Fair in the eyes of God and the Law.”

I know a little about the Justice System because at 10 years old. My Grandmother helped me out of a bad life situation, she literally saved my life.  I remember going to court and standing in front of the Judge and a couple Lawyers and presenting my case without any family members with me. Why? The court did not want any family members to influence me when I was ready to tell my story. I told the truth. I remember my Grandmother telling me not be afraid or nervous and to just tell the truth. She believed in the Court System, she believed in the Lawyers that were there to help her case that they would act in ways that were “Ethical, Just, Fair and that they would do the right thing by making the right decision for me based on my truth.”  They did make the right decision and that is why I am here today.

My Grandmother faced major opposition to trying to get me to live a good life, because she was doing the “Right Thing.” It took her over (1 year+) to get me to be with her but she never gave up on me, she never grew wary, she never regretted her decision to help me neither. Most importantly, she never made me feel like she was doing me a favour. Gosh, I am crying as I write this because she saved my life, “How can you thank someone enough for that?” I love her so much and I miss her everyday. I know now that God placed her in my life because he knew that there would come a time in my life where I would need to be saved and she was there for me. That is another thing I would like to tell my blog readers and that is, many times God place the right people in our lives just so they can save us from danger or help us to lead better lives. Yes, It’s okay to call them “Earth Angels” because that is who they are. They don’t know that is who they are but if you find yourself wanting to save someone from danger or wanting to do what is right, then you can consider yourself an “Earth Angel.”

Part of me been here today was based on one persons decision to do what was “Right in the eyes of God and Law.” Not the other way around. A decision that would not only save my life but a decision where I would live  a happier more fulfilling life. So, I urge my blog readers today as part of your mission in life to make decisions based on what is “Right, Just and Fair in the Eyes of God.” Don’t let Lucifer cause you to make a wrong decision based on something that is Unorthodox, wrong, unconventional or does not fit in with your Traditional Family Values. Only Lucifer would want people to lead unhappy lives and be in relationships with people that they don’t love or who causes them major unhappiness.

Lucifer will never want anyone to make decisions on what they know is right he will always want people to do, “What is wrong.”
Trust me when I say:

“God is watching you to see how you live your lives and he
watches us everyday to see whether or not we do what is
Right, Just, Ethical and Fair. Don’t fool yourselves into believing that God is not going to make us accountable for doing what is wrong. He will question us, on the other side and he will want to know why you made a wrong decision when you could have done what was right.”

In many ways, I akin the Legal System with God’s Standards for us in society. Why? If we did not have a Legal System to keep the world in some semblance of order we would live in a very unhealthy world, so many things would go awry, violence and lawlessness would take over the world. So, part of being a good Lawyer or Judge is about upholding the values of the Justice System. It’s about the Lawyer and the Judge making peoples lives better, it’s about them doing what is “Right, Just and Fair” for the people they represent in court everyday.

If you “Tear down the structures of the value systems of society as Lawyers or Judges then you need to either find a different career or reprioritize your value systems.” We ultimately rely on Lawyers and Judges in society to keep our society safe and in check. If a Lawyer was representing someone in court and they failed to provide a critical piece of information the question posed is, “would that Lawyer now get rid of the client they represent because they made a “Crucial Mistake” in not providing all the details of the case? No. The Lawyer would by law and because of “Codes of Ethics” continue to provide Legal Services for their client or clients. They wouldn’t dismiss their client because they withhold information or they made a mistake. The Lawyer would continue to provide Legal Services because they are under contract by law and because they have “Professional Code of Ethics” to follow and because of course they need to get paid for their representation of their client.

1. Don’t practice  law if you have no intention of doing what is “Right, Just and Fair and Ethical in the eyes of God.”

2. Don’t practice law if you don’t intend on making peoples lives better or happy. Only those who do the right thing can truly say they are practicing their profession in an “Ethical Manner.”

So, part of accepting God in our lives daily is built on the “Premise the Foundation” of doing what we know is, “Right, Ethical, Fair and Just in Society.” If you are a practicing Lawyer or Judge and you do not care about doing what is, “Right, Just, Ethical, and Fair in Society,” then you need to change career and find another Job because you are not fit to be in the Legal Profession. Think about it. “Why would your parents send you to Law School then if your purpose was not meant to make other peoples lives better, to be honest, to be fair, to uphold the values and ethics of society?” Especially when it comes to making decisions that was “Right in the eyes of God, society, and the Legal Justice System?”

People talk about the “Ethical Treatment of Animals” and they will protest if they feel that humans are not treating animals fairly in society. Yet, when it comes to important decisions in our lives and when it comes to doing the “Right thing, the Ethical thing, the Loving thing, the Caring thing, the Just thing, the Fair thing and what we know would be right in the eyes of God, we don’t uphold the same values.” Many people today will fight against and put up strong opposition to doing what is “Right, Just, Fair and Ethical,” because they have “Shattered their Value System.”

Their sense of what is ethical and right gets lost it becomes tainted. Who would be at the root cause of our failing value system in society? Lucifer. Only Lucifer doesn’t care about values and doing what is right, he likes disorder and chaos. He doesn’t like to uphold “Traditional Family Values.” If he can destroy the way society lives today and create a different world than what God would want for all of us, then that makes him happy. Lucifer uses people in society and manipulate many people into believing that what God originally wanted for us is not what is good for us. He is good for us—but not God.

Don’t be fooled by this. In my last blog post see article below, I discussed in length about how Lucifer works in our lives, how he uses the people who are closest to us to destroy our lives. Don’t allow him to manipulate you, don’t allow him use other people to mess up your life, don’t allow him to let you loose great relationships, don’t allow him to put roadblocks in your life. Like I mentioned before in my last article, if you are a person of faith then you need to pray and pray like you mean it and invite God to come into your life and help the person who is causing problems in your life. 

“Everytime we don’t do what is “Right, Just or Fair” we end up changing the natural order of life in the worse way.”

If my Grandmother had done what was wrong and choose to leave me in a bad life situation I would not be here today writing this blog post. “Do you get what I am saying?” If Judas Iscariot did not betray Jesus our world would have been different right now. We would all be living peaceful lives on earth. Today, we would be living without pain or suffering and life for us would be endless and filled with Peace and Joy. So yes, without any doubt or reservations doing what is “Right” is the only, the only way to go.

 

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Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
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When I Need Hope and Joy in My Heart

Lord, help me to remember all You have done for me. You have been there to help me when I needed You most. Help me to not doubt that You will continue to be there for me in the future. I draw close to You and hide myself in the shadow of Your wings, which will always be a place of refuge for me. I rejoice and give praise and thanks to You that I have this eternal place of safety in You.

Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.

Psalm 63:7

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“Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Prayer and Intention.” You can follow along daily and say this prayer and ask for your intention…Amen

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My 6 yr.old son likes the song included in the prayer and
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Learning to Forgive is one of the first steps to leading and
having a happy life. Forgiving someone allows you to free your path to a more fulfilling and promising future. Clearing your path to enjoy loving again if you have been hurt by a partner in the past, forgiving them frees your path to been loved again by a new person.

If you can’t or won’t forgive you become
imprisoned by your own lack of compassion and this deteriorates your Soul and your Spirit.

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Postcard with Love and Light “Bright Eyes”

 

As long as you love me, I will stay by your side
I’ll be your companion your friend and your guide
As long as you love me, As long as you care I’ll do anything for you I’ll go anywhere

I’ll bring you the Sunshine, I’ll comfort your fears, I’ll gather up rainbows to chase all your tears

As long as forever, My love will be true, For as long as you love me, I’ll only love you

Love Always

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This song I dedicate to you my love-“Bright Eyes” and hope that where ever you are, you are safe and well, I love and miss you dearly….….Enjoy the song.

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