X Final Thoughts: Business & Other Belief Systems

Now we need to get on with the Final Touches. Hang on as this may get Hairy.

Let me preface this again that there are always “Exceptions To The Rules”, Nevertheless, lets take these next … Items at face value only. Mary Matalin & James Carville, which I brought up last time, is a perfect example. Group 1, will hold to ‘Not Being Un-Equally Yoked’ to hold true in Business as well, as the main Item of Marriage. Group 2 more than likely will not want to be tied up either in Business or Marriage with those of Group 1, for no other reason than the possible fanaticism of Group 1. (Though Group 2 can & will be adamant in their positions, too!)

How far does either group cross over the line would be 3 or 4 Tomes of itself. Therefore, I will just head off into the conclusion for this thought with this:

All! i.e. of all groups need to understand what they believe and also to know that should you cross over that line, (Whatever It May Be.) you will be compromised in your endeavors. The negative influence &/or force, will under most normal circumstances defeat the fruition of any direction, based on nothing other than Scriptural Teachings, that co-inside with what the Sages of the other understandings have been saying for centuries.

The resulting consequences and/or circumstances were lessons to be learned and the choice remains with the decision maker, and to how each situation will either bless with an opportunity that has been revealed, or the curse that was more than likely thought of to begin with. Job said, “What I feared has come upon me!” And hand in hand, “Happy is he that condemns not what he does!”

Now it is your turn! Call me on any of the premises that I have laid out and we will go to the Scripture and Sages to confirm what I have laid out.

Have a blessed Day! 1 aka, DP

Thoughts: Business & Other Belief Systems

As you can see, I have ‘kind of’ let this lay for a while. I have had to look at the ministry that I have been called to and had to make more room for those who believe they have it all dialed in. i.e. Not just their Relationship with The LORD, yet including everyone else’s too. I have a lot to say about this, yet I will only touch on it now.

I have a brother, my Mother’s third child, (There are six of us, in case it matters.) [whew! How much is enough? I am the oldest.] who has just had over half of his tongue removed, because of a malignant growth. Cells in his tonsils and lips that will be treated with radiation. He made The Lord Savior years ago, yet soon after, pursued his own direction. He has a pacemaker and has had so many things happen to him that he should have been dead years ago. e.g. Billiard Balls bounce off his head, etc. In other words, he has not made HIM LORD of his life.

Saturday he told me that because of his heavy drinking and smoking, he was a whole lot more susceptible to it! Sunday when I questioned him on what he thought about all the (Really Miraculous.) chances he has had, he again informed me that if he woke up with a shovel full of dirt in his face that he would be with The LORD! I was not asking him about that, yet he let me know emphatically that that was already established and poured in concrete.

My Aunt, who is 89 and been praying for all of her brother’s off spring since we were born … WOW and I was going to make this quick! My Aunt inferred that in spite of all her prayers, that he was not saved, when questioning her how she knew, her reference was to all the sin of drinking and smoking. (Please Note that this is more involved and I am doing my best to ‘Cut To The Chase’.)

I have a spiritual son, (One of Many.) who has left wife and family to move in with another woman. (I had got wind of it several months ago and it broke my heart. I have been ministering to him for close to 30 years.) He told me that he (and this other she) has been in church seeking God’s Face more in the last three months than he and the first, she had, in two decades. By The Way, he is not the first one who has done this. (Some might [like to] say, ‘Like Father, Like Son’! ‘Pretty close’, yet I took a step of Faith, that has brought in Fruition for over thirty years.)

When explaining this to my aunt, as another reference to where my brother was, above, she implied that he was not saved, because of this horrendous sin. Well anyway, he called me this morning and assured me one thing he knew for sure, was that God loved him without reservation. When it boiled down to the nitty gritty his sin is being a double minded man, unstable in all his ways. Everything else is only circumstances and ramifications of that root, ‘Lack Of Faith’.

In other words, even tho she knew it, it was hard to convey to her that there was no difference in those horrendous sins above and her breaking a fingernail and saying, ‘Turkey Lips’ knowing that she was cursing when she said it!

Well my brother is now reflecting on whether it is important for him to hear in that day of reckoning, ‘Well Done, MY Good and Faithful Servant’ or not.

My protégée has today a foundation of Knowing that God loves him without reservation and is now in the process to establish his next step on building on that foundation.

Now! That I have that established, I will continue next time with “Thoughts! “Other Belief Systems For Business” By The Way, for you who are wondering about my

Thoughts, I do know the Scriptures to confirm my position. Mt. 7:7;

Be Blessed, 1 aka DP ‘I Shall Return!’

‘Consistency’ in Awareness!

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Loved of The LORD, to continue in this direction of conscious awareness, I was pleasantly surprised that writing enhanced and strengthened it. Let me explain.

I have this ‘little thing’ that bugs me. My neighbor has gofers and does not consistently eradicate them. The neighborhood is inundated with them, so it is an ongoing challenge. When one invades my premises, as soon as I am ‘aware’ I proceed to drown them out and/or gas bomb them. That way they do not get to establish their tunnel systems.

BTW! I have cursed them in JESUS’ Name and my neighbor 2 doors north has told me not to curse them in his direction! He has wound up with some in his yard, every time I have done it, whether it was the same one(s) or not.

Well, back to the chase! After writing ‘The Awareness’ I was heading out for another skirmish and I was making it a ‘Joint Venture’ and we, (HIM and I) were agreed how we were going to approach the endeavor. It was a GREAT two hours as we destroyed the tunnels back into the neighbor’s yard. We finished off the task with a gas bomb in the other yard.

Soon after, I found myself in the car on the way to the gym and very ‘aware’ that I was not alone. I found myself driving like it was my first time, so ‘aware’ of every thought and action, while on our way. During these times we were relating to how instrumental that writing ‘The Awareness’ was like a catalyst for this ongoing conversation.

Funny (Not Ha Ha) that I started yesterday morning out with Watching a video that our friend down under sent a link to us ... Louie Giglio . On GODTube.. ... YET not half way thru it and Conference Calls (for Business) started … and I went full bore from then on, except for another 2 hour "Gofer Battle" Break!

Later that day, as I replied to an e-mail with the 'When God Paints' link, I then went back and watched Louie all over again from the beginning! Good Stuff! Just what I needed to go along with 'The Awareness'!

I do have to admit that those last 3 hours were a solo run. I have been trying since last Sunday to figure out AdSense and get it on the rest of my Blogs and had a ‘near miss’ awareness. My 'Near Miss' was I finally got it on dpg.com and back up into Awareness and that was where I watched ‘When God Paints' etc.

This might or might not seem like a bunch of babble to you, yet I am excited about ‘How Good my GOD Is’ in answering my need. Should this speak to you, I would appreciate your comments below.

Until next time, Be Blessed, 1 aka DP is my name and ‘Writing is my game’!

‘The Awareness’

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Loved of The LORD, continuing on from a previous post where I wrote, “yet exercises, as writing this Post helps me along the way” and immediately after finishing it , I found myself very aware of “Being In HIS Presence”! With other things still on my plate, the phone rings and I am having a mentoring conversation, and wisdom flowing as if it was coming through another vessel.

Soon after hanging up, and as I was reflecting in amazement on that call, the phone rings again and it is a long time friend, who sounds frustrated, and wants to go to breakfast in the next week on his day off. While on the phone setting up the appointment, still aware of “Being In HIS Presence” I was also aware that it was going to be an interesting breakfast. It turned out to be a stretching (and growing) time for him personally and even in the relationship, I have with him.

This morning after seeing that I have not posted for a while and reflecting on how fast moving and complicated things have been, I needed to stop Everything and write myself back into HIS Presence again. Funny how these things happen!

Now what is so significant about this? It was not the need ‘Of Being In His Presence’, because in retrospect, I am always in His Presence, (You and I have known this, almost from the beginning.) it was and is The continual “Awareness” of being there! Now I know I said that, yet this is where I will hone in on that being the status quo.

Just as driving a car after a time, goes from being the priority of every thought and action to being a second nature, as multitasking enters the scene. e.g. Wow, I am smoothly going down this street, I will slowly and carefully reach over and turn on the radio; Soon turns into driving while reading the newspaper or putting on makeup. (I will skip over talking on a cell phone!)

Now this goes on till we see or get into a wreak, or even a ‘Near Miss’ where we start paying attention again to what is going on. … … … For a spell.

This is “How Good My GOD Is”! When the multitasking gets to be the priority of our Mundane and Spiritual thoughts and actions, I become … … … ‘sloppy’ in my practicing ‘The Awareness’, just like driving the car, I cause something to happen that gets me straighten out.

Whether this means anything to anyone, but me, I still want to write it (here) because it is working! ‘The Happening’ this time was ‘The Near Miss’ of posting this Blog regularly. AND, as always HE is meeting my need, i.e. Right this moment I am so ‘Aware’ of Being In HIS Presence! And it is sweet!

Be Blessed, 1 aka DP ©2008

“My Need To Be In HIS Presence More Of The Time!”

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Loved of the LORD, I have been giving thought to what are some of the more Important things that should be evident on my plate. Not just to have something to write here in this Blog, yet for my attention on a regular basis.

As believers we all want to sanctify the Lord God in our hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks us a reason for the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear; ( 1 Peter 3:15) As well as, to Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. (2 Tim. 4:2) every chance we get.

Nevertheless, while I am all involved with what is going on in front of me, especially to go through a door when it opens, regardless of being spiritual or mundane, I want to be ‘aware’ of being in HIS Presence.

Allow me to address the mundane from my perspective, having no doubt others will differ. Call me an opportunist you may, yet I have not received a morsel of nourishment from a raven, while in my need. (1 Kings 17:6;) Not that I have any doubt, that that may still be the case. So I believe I still need to be scratching while I am able, (Matthew 6:26;) unless directed otherwise.

As far as the spiritual aspects, most of you have a good understanding of those kinds of things, though if you do not; leave a comment below desiring to know the same.

I am not able to think of anything that may be on one’s plate that is not either Spiritual or Mundane, so allow me to move on. Nevertheless, feel free to jump in with comments at any time. Contributions are really appreciated!

SO! Back to the plate and taking care of those thing! Unless you are a hermit, we are always with people somewhere around us. How many times have you been right in the middle of something and you are presented with someone with a need? Several examples come to mind.

So many times, I am busy, as I am right now and my wife or another member of the family wants me to do something or give them something. How about the panhandler on the off ramp of the freeway with that proverbial sign, ‘Will Work For Food’? What about on the job?

I do not know about you, yet I seem to respond (or at times, not respond,) with past experiences and (What I think,) what other people would think that I should do and apply what will take care of the situation at hand. Getting on with dealing with the plate in front of me is primarily the cause my action (Or lack of action), hardly ever seeking what God would prefer me to do in each situation.

Now not that I have attained, (Philip. 3:12;) yet I have tasted the blessing of being aware of being in HIS Presence and doing what ‘I Know’ HE is preferring, regardless of what anyone else would think that "I Should Do” and letting the chips fall were they may.

Now, cutting to the chase; my need is, “To Be There More Of The Time”, hoping for the completion that I will have at HIS coming. I am gaining though it is not as fast as I would like it to be, yet exercises, as writing this Post helps me along the way.

My prayer is that this has been a help to others … … … and to afford others the opportunity to suggest how I may excel even more, by commenting below!

Be Blessed my brethren! I shall return, DP aka 1