The Driving Force!

Recent past days I was thinking? why we need an external force (Church –Pastor) to practice god and walk his ways. Why can’t we practice ourselves? And found some answers that I believe are the reasons for why we need a driving force?

Very simple example, most of us even being an athlete in our teen age need a personal trainer to keep us fit even though we already know what to do to keep us fit!

It’s the simple physiology the trainer pushes us beyond our comfort zone and can get us to do much more than we thought was possible. 

Discomfort gives comfort!

Don’t stay on the comfort zone too long, if you are a go getter!

When you are challenged, You can! 

Accept positive drive, some times it may drive you crazy but still its good for you.

Unless you decide, you cannot be driven. 

Why do people need someone to motivate them? 

It’s your subconscious mind! It was trained for so many years to keep you in the comfort zone always, hence it will not allow you to perform more when you can, It will not allow you to run the extra winning mile when you can, here is where we need a good trustable driving force to push our limits to increase our boundaries. It’s applicable for either spiritual or Material life.

  While it’s the same body doing the same exercises but someone is putting them in a different mindset to push its limits to go for the extra mile!

When the external force tells us we can do it. We believe it and that belief allows us to achieve much more. But first, we need to believe the external source hence make sure you depend on a trustable source who could drive you and push you on the right direction, be aware and conscious always to make sure if you are heading on the right direction if not it will be an grave.

 This is also effective at work. We can meet tighter deadlines. We can add more features. We can build a better customer experience. We just don’t believe we can do it because it would require us to be uncomfortable.

Get yourself comfortable being uncomfortable with EVERYTHING you are doing.

How do you do this?

We understand our specific role and our particular set of skills. Ask yourself: what else can we do that is a step beyond. Then choose a trustable source that can push you positively or put yourself in a situation where you are driven (sometimes whipped to do things). If you think you are pushed on the right track just go ahead as much as you can with the encouraging guidance of the external force. If the external force tells you that you can do it! Believe 100 % you can and go for it you will earn the fruit in the shortest duration of the time rather than if you have tried on your own.

Because time is our life, every second counts.

Push and push hard. Most people don’t want to stretch beyond their skill set if it involves risking their existing position. Encourage them to “lean in” to the opportunity and discover what else they can do beyond the status quo.

Push your friends, Push your Spouse, Push your Kids, Push your colleague, Push your employee, Push your employer, Push your internal desire, Push your achievements towards eternity and Push everyone, but make sure you can be with their side to encourage them through their journey to stretch your helping hand to lift them up when required, if you think you cannot be along their side you do not have any authority in pushing them even if you are their parents. Here starts the brutality!

Don’t push them too much to a limit they break apart. But keep pushing.

Teach them in a practical way “Staying too much in the comfort zone will make you uncomfortable for your life time”; teach them till they understand what you mean. Help them set their goals higher and push them to meet it.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. – Michelangelo

Most of us, when left to our own devices, will choose to stay inside our comfort zone. However, there is nothing motivating about someone doing the same thing they’ve done before, and long term they will be unhappy. So, do them a favor, do yourself a favor, and push them where they are entirely uncomfortable, if you believe they will find their way. Sometimes unless you push (you or they) cannot believe they can.

Now we will come to our spiritual driving force, why do we need an external driving force rather than we can practice ourselves?, it’s again the same answers we have discussed above.

Our sub-conscious mind is trained to keep us in the most comfortable zone some time that may include living with SIN (Hatred, Jealous, Lust, Greed, Drugs, Un-trustiness, etc…) which we may feel happy about un-consciously, Our sub-conscious mind will not point us that we are living with these sin’s that may put us in a corrective path rather it will try to compromise our ethical conscious questions with their excuses for being so.

There are exceptional persons who can walk the right way without an external driving force which can guide them to walk in the right path consciously.

Hence it is required for a constant external driving force to help us keep on track. 

Here is where we have to take the right decision to choose the right powerful external force. 

As influential the force is as good it will keep you on track.

 Forces with less influence will be influenced by your subconscious mind, as it’s also a constant influential force over you.

If you want to stay on track with your spiritual living, choose a strong driving force and believe they will help and guide you stay on track (don’t care if they don’t stay on their track, most of the Olympic gold medal winners were coached by just a national or state player’s) it’s very, very, very important in your life, because if you lose your inner sprit you will lose “Happiness-Joy” as a human which will result with negative results surrounding you.

When you are driven and ahead of your near and dear ones act as a driving force for them, push them and guide them to achieve better goals than they thought they can.

Now I know the true meaning of some of the below verses from the bible and the reason behind it. 

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26

“It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed” Deuteronomy 31:8 

“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

“So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?” Hebrews 13:6 

“Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you” 1 Chronicles 28:20

Thanks & Regards,

S.Grace Paul Regan

Lack of Concentration and Focus-I

It was quite a tiresome week and failed to practice my 10 Minutes of meditation daily, but found some simple key factors that disrupt my concentration unknowingly but willingly, the main things were

1.      Television (Remedy: I have asked the cable TV guy to disconnect the connection from this month

2.      Face Book (Remedy: Took a resolution not to open the Face Book except when I would be in rest room)  

3.      Lying Down Simply (Remedy: Try to schedule your day by having some new tasks to be done daily whenever I get time to lie down - Like reading self-improvement books, working and trying to improve on my preferred interest’s like photography, creativity on simple things, etc...)

I think all the above three points are the major (Time & Concentration) looters in the whole 24hrs I have in a day. It may differ in others life but will resemble something closely to the above three which is looting your (Time & Concentration).

Valuation of time really matters when it comes to “Concentration & Focus” Why?

Here is what I found!

When we start utilizing our time for aspects that doesn’t benefit us on our growth progress (unless you consciously realize what you are doing is useless), we train our “Brain-Sub-Conscious” to be idle on something which keeps us away from the reality.

What is the reality you are in?

1.      Have to complete my home work

2.      Have to complete my Practical Record work

3.      Have to complete revising the  portions before my exams

4.      Have to learn new functionalities or modules which will help me in this new project

5.      Have to Read documentations related to my job which will help me decide things better

6.      Have to reduce my body weight

7.      Have to learn new concepts

The above are some of the examples of things which are in the reality, what requires our attention and time.

Then why do we deviate or get distracted from all these and do things which is no way near in helping to complete any of my reality task and we do what we like to do!

 

Just watching Television, Just Lying on the bed, Just Playing Video Games for hours to gather,

 just chatting with friends about useless subjects this is how your sub-conscious mind consoles

 your conscious mind using the word “JUST” and it knows very well to advocate your conscious

 mind and you have started to train your sub-conscious mind even before you were born.

Ok now let’s concentrate on “Was Sub-Conscious mind pre-programmed with what it likes and what it dis-likes”

To an extent YES!

There are some likes which are pre-programmed within your sub-conscious mind which has travelled through your Gene, but none of those can influence over your conscious mind. No one knows the extent or depth of the pre-programming that is imprinted with every individual’s sub-conscious mind.

But most of the Pre-Programming that comes with your Sub-Conscious can be over-ruled by your conscious mind through practice which will re-write the Gene that will be transferred to your offspring, if this was not a fact still we would have been “Animals” in nature.

Now we will concentrate only on the other factor(rather than Pre-Programming) that influences our Sub-Conscious mind with the Likes and Dis-Like those are related to our productiveness.

Some of the other factors are (Surroundings, Parents, Relations, Friends, Teacher, School, College, Company you work with, the girl you loved the most, etc…)

Your mind will be Calm, Quiet, Peaceful, Happy and Enlighten when you are in solitude. (It’s a Proven Fact)

Why So?

It’s the nature of the human mind to stay happy when it’s left to do what it wants to

When you are not in solitude, it means by some way your thought are influenced and cannot be free as it was when you were in solitude and starts to behave restricted, because you cannot be who you are? In presence of another human and you will have to behave with social responsibility all of a sudden. This social responsibility was not crafted for you which may suit your thoughts and behavior, an simple thing “If shouting loudly to the sky makes you feel happy and relieved” you cannot do that as you wish when you are at social places.

So what happens here? Your Society puts an indirect pressure in you sub-conscious mid or in-direct image in your sub-conscious mind stating that you are free & happy only when you are alone with no human nearby.                

Now think the way around!

If the nature of the human mind will be happy, only when it has got a company of another human.

When you are in solitude you cannot feel the happiness, as when you were with company. Your sub-conscious mind will behave restricted and abnormal because you cannot be who you are? As your mind seeks company to be complete and will be happy only in the presence of another human.

This is a very basic behavior of your sub-conscious mind. Your Sub-Conscious mind gives you the happy feeling when you do things in the way it likes it!

So here comes the fact!

To stay happy! do whatever your sub-conscious mind loves or train your sub-conscious mind to love whatever you do!

Here is where we have failed for so many years until now!

From the child hood until now, no one is bothered to understand what you love! You are fed with things what others love Or They think it’s the best for you and they did not teach you, how to? Love the subjects you were thought about.

Most of them did not know how to present a concept in the way our sub-conscious mind would have loved to understand it.

That’s the reason some kids are bright in some subject, it’s not that they are weak in other subjects it’s because their sub-conscious mind was not interested with other subjects.

So what does the sub-conscious mind do when it’s not interested in a concept? It just distracts our mind with the thoughts and information that we are interested with, this is called as the “Lack of Concentration”. This is what that makes you think about rain forest when you are in middle of a Math class.

This is what is happening to me right now!

As I don’t do much of the things my Sub-Conscious mind loves, it brings in the next least favorite unproductive things like watching TV, Browsing on the Internet and Lying down simply - even though my sub-conscious mind do not love to do all these things but it finds these least possible things to keep me engaged and make me feel better than to get engaged in any of the  “Productive” activity which my Sub-Conscious mind does not like for so many accumulated reasons that its has learnt so far.

Hence I will have to find a way to teach my Subconscious mind to love the things that I will have to do, in order to be productive. Unless I find a positive way to train my sub-conscious mind to love the things what I have to do, all my efforts to rectify would go in vain.

Why is this?

As always we have a habit of associating productive work with our job or Reading any kind of books with studying,  knowingly or unknowingly!, here is where a complex illusion is created in our sub-conscious mind which depicts that whenever you do something productive even though it is not related to your Job or you read any self-improvement book even though its nothing related to any of your degree programs, your sub-conscious keeps on putting a pressure in your mind which gives a tiresome feeling and pushes you to exit what you are doing with the “comfort zone activity”.   This later on pushes us to be in the comfort zone most of the time even though you are at work!

I have decided to abandon the above said three habits and will be testifying myself to see if these changes would really matter on my (Lack Of Concentration & Focus).

Will keep this blog posted.

Thanks & Regards,

S.Grace Paul Regan

Lack of Concentration and Focus

In the resent past days, I am struggling much due to lack of concentration and focus on the tasks I need to concentrate, restless ness, arrogance, anger and pointing attitude.

I know I need to concentrate --> (whenever I hit my consciousness), but still my conscious advisory thought stays for just minutes or some time an hour barely.

I don’t know what the problem with me is, and then I decided to work on this issue. I wanted to identify the potential reasons that block my concentration.

I know it’s my sub-conscious mind that drags me across its wandering thoughts, and then I started to research this issue where I came across many reasoning given by different people across the globe. It’s not me alone who struggles with this concentration issue its 99 out of 100 have the same issue but the magnitude differs.

But yet I cannot go compromising myself that it’s not a problem to worry, Still I need what I wanted !, I shouldn’t give up, if so I did then; I will have to stay with this problem for ever which will become a threat for my future carrier growth. So I decided to work this out by myself, I believe on having some reasonable understanding over sub-conscious mind and conscious mind.

So let me start to work on my sub-conscious mind starting from Today (20-November-2012), I have started to research on this issue, I don’t know how soon I can overcome this issue by myself but for sure I know, I will! And can! On the progress I will keep this blog posted with the methods that I will follow to overcome this issue in practical.

To start with I have decided to meditate at least for 10 Minutes a day without fail for a week then will increase the time, I will focus on biblical teachings one verse a day as a point out of me to focus while I mediate.
 
Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Failure Is Never Final

"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. - "2 Corinthians 12:9


In December 1—or any other day of the year—may have been the day you lost your job, or the day youfailed a major final exam; but remember, as difficult as it was, December 2 was the first day of the rest of your life. It was a day of newbeginnings. So, if you have suffered a major loss or setback, and haven't done your grieving, be sure to do it now. It may not be easy, and it willtake time, but it is tremendously important that you face, accept, and resolve your pain; learn to get up even if you have to drag yourself up, and goon. The following suggestions will help you to do this effectively:
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Develop the right attitude. Attitude is what makes thedifference between a painful experience becoming a failure or a success. You can let the loss leave you timid and afraid to step out again for fear of beinghurt, or you can determine that your failure will be your teacher. As William James said, "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."

Use your failures/losses to enrich your life. True, we all need mountain top experiences from time to time to encourage us, but we don't grow through these.  It is in the valley of disappointment and through ourfailures/losses that we are given the opportunity to take stock of our life and move toward a new dimension of life, and toward a greater level of growth and maturity.
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Know what your purpose in life is. The more clearly defined that your life purpose is—and the more deeply it is embedded in your unconscious mind—the less likely it will be that disappointments and failures will set you back.

A spacecraft en route to the moon is off course 90 percent of the time. It is constantly pulled back by the earth's gravity, and is continually drawn to one side or the other by other forces. But it has a built-in computer that has a singleness of purpose that homes in on the moon. The computer is making continual corrections to keep the spacecraft on target with its purpose and goal.
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Life's like that. If your eye is on your goal, if you have a singleness of purpose, nothing will stop you getting to where you plan and choose to go.
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Remember that failure or disappointment is an event,not a person. Because you may have failed in your marriage or job, in another relationship, or other situation, doesn't mean that you are a failure as a person. Not at all. Realize that the only real failure is not to try, or not to keep on trying, or not to get up one more time than you fall or get knocked down. The important thing is to learn from your past, invest it as an opportunity to grow, and to move ahead.

Give God a chance. If you feel as if you have failed or believe you've done wrong, ask God to forgive you—and be sure to forgive yourself. Then turn your failure into a stepping-stone toward a better you.

Where a bone is broken and heals, it becomes the strongest part of the bone. The same is true of your broken places—where you have been hurt, have fallen and failed, or are afraid. When you bring these to God for his healing, his strength is made perfect through your weakness.
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Prayer: "Our Loving heavenly Father, no matter what setback happens to me, whether it is my fault or that of another, please help me not to become bitter but better by using it as an opportunity to help me to grow and become the person you envision for me to be. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer.  Gratefully, In Jesus Loving Name I Pray, Amen."

May God Bless you all.

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

The Problem Is “Never" the Problem !

"A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful. But if he confesses and forsakes them, hegets another chance." - Proverbs 28:13.

In teaching classes and counseling hurting people I often remind them that the problem is never the problem and the pain we feel is not the pain that is.
This usually takes a while to sink in.

In most difficulties and conflicts what we see is the presenting problem which, more often than not, is the symptom of a deeper problem or "the fruit of a deeper root."

As someone else said, "When we have unresolved problems/issues, God is merciful in that he gives us symptoms." Relational conflicts, anxiety, insomnia, depression, addictions, spiritual dryness, physical ills, and any of a score of other symptoms can be caused or greatly aggravated by unresolved guilt over past unconfessed sins, a deeply buried resentment and a failure to forgive someone from a past hurt, unresolved grief from the loss of a love, or rebelling against the will of God, etc., etc. The roots of some of these issues can go all the way back to early childhood. All need to be confronted and resolved if we are to fully live and fully love, and maintain sound physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual well-being.

Furthermore, many of our physical symptoms can be symbolic. Some ulcers, for example, are not caused so much by what we eat but by what is eating us. Tension headaches can be from jamming up anger in our head.
Aching shoulders may be caused by feeling under a heavy load and so on. And if I have a pain in the neck … I may be one, or have someone or some situation in my life that I feel is a pain in the neck!

Tracing symptoms to their causes and resolving these opens the door for healing and recovery. If we don't connect to and resolve the original pain that is the root cause of our symptoms, we will suffer the ongoing pain of the symptoms. This is what I mean by saying, "The pain we feel is not the pain that is."


After David confessed his sin, he said, "What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven! What relief for those who have confessed their sins and God has cleared their record. There was a time when I wouldn't admit what a sinner I was. But my dishonesty made me miserable and filled my days with frustration. All day and all night your hand was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water on a sunny day until I finally admitted all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. I said to myself, 'I will confess them to the Lord.' And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone." - Psalm 32:1-5

David gives us an excellent example to follow.

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Is it possible? Living without sin!

Is it hard for us to believe that Jesus in His humanity could maintain an absolutely pure, sinless mind during His 33 1/2 years in this world? Is it possible for anyone in human flesh, even under the power of God, to reach such a point of victory over sin?

The Bible answer is clear: "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God) … Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:3–5).

This promise is made concerning sinners in the flesh who turn to the delivering power of the gospel. How much more would our blessed Lord, with no acquired propensities for sin, be able to claim His Father's enabling strength to keep from sinning! The Word of God assures us that we may partake of the divine nature of Jesus and have the "mind of Christ."

His sinless experience in the flesh is a guarantee that any of us may have the same victory if we will depend upon the Father as He did through the habitual registry that we create in our sub-conscious mind.


This means that in overcoming sin He had no advantage over us. He fought the enemy in the same nature and by the same spiritual weapons that are available to us. If He had any advantage over other men it was simply that his inherent human nature was never further debilitated by personal indulgence in sin.

Can we equal the perfect pattern of Jesus' sinless life?

No. All of us have degraded human nature further by giving way to the flesh. Not only have we brought the curse of death upon ourselves by breaking God's law, but we have also made ourselves more vulnerable to Satan by cooperating with him.

Jesus never responded to a single sinful stimulus, and Satan could find nothing in Him. He lived all His life with the surrendered mind and will of the fully sanctified. He committed no sins to be atoned for.

But even though we cannot equal the pattern, we should seek earnestly to reflect that holy life of Jesus as fully as possible. By the grace of God, we may put away every known sin and be perfect in our sphere with no consciousness of cherished wrongdoing by simply training our sub-conscious mind to do so (which is not simple).

Does that mean we will be boasting about living without sin? On the contrary, the closer we come to Christ, the more we will sense our unworthiness. Those who attain the standard of Christ will be the last ever to recognize it, much less boast of it.

How could the devil be proven wrong?

God had to provide a demonstration that would forever silence the adversary. It was a long, painful demonstration that led the mighty Creator God to step down into a human body of fallen man and, within the limits of that nature, to overcome everything Satan could hurl against Him.

Had He utilized any divine power to overcome sin that was not available to others in the flesh, Satan would have used it to bolster his claims that no one could keep God's law.

At the cross, Jesus demonstrated to the entire universe that Satan was wrong. He had proven that it was possible, in the flesh, to be obedient through dependence on the Father.

In summary,

we can see how the ancient error of Adam's imputed guilt has led to a chain of related deceptions. The most significant truths of salvation have been cleverly counterfeited. The humanity of Jesus has been denied, the imparted righteousness of Christ has been challenged, and the possibility of victory over sin has been ridiculed. It is only as we recognize the basic falsehood that we can avoid the perversions that follow. May God give us the wisdom to stand firmly upon the word alone and to reject every doctrine that is not rooted in Him.


"Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen" (Revelation 7:12).


Train your mind not to sin!

Is it possible! Do baby sin? “No” then who taught them to do so when they grow?

Is sin pre-programmed in to human brains? If “No” then how did we get in doing sin!

Who thought us consuming Alcohol or Smoking tobacco or stimulant drugs are good for our health and will help us live longer ever healthier and happier?

There are still many questions that will make you think little deeper.
The answer starts and ends with our sub-conscious mind.

Sub-conscious mind is the supreme power in our body that controls all our senses. It can switch on or off senses when required in the way it’s programmed by us (Knowingly or Unknowingly)

We have programmed our mind (e.g: going to office on time is a must where as going to churches on times depends upon your body condition, traffic, weather and lot more)

Hence EOD it’s you who program yourself to commit sin or stay away from it.

When you can train your sub-conscious mind to commit sin, why cant you train your sub-conscious mind Not to sin.

You can do that by simple exercise that you may need to repeat until your sub-conscious mind is trained and keep up the exercise that suits you the most depending upon the atmosphere you are living in.

There are simple innovative and creative ways that you can train your Sub-Conscious mind not to sin, you can create your own exercise with the help of Holy Spirit, He will help you construct a best exercise against different kind of sins that you think you are in you may fear you may get in to it.

When you opt to train your sub-conscious mind not to sin, consciously pray to almighty to help you construct a best exercise plan for your sub-conscious mind. For sure he will do it more willingly for you than ever before because he knows you are trying to hit the right spot where there is a great need of heavenly guidance and will power to proceed with confidence.

Once you have trained your sub-conscious mind to overcome and shatter various sin’s that you thought lethal, now you are on the track of Auto-Piloting your spiritual life.

When your spiritual life is auto-piloted for sure you will reach your destination effortlessly but still auto-pilot needs manual conscious constant supervision in case of unexpected turbulences that you may encounter for which the sub-conscious mind is not trained. Hence manual effort to keep you on track is required but the efforts will be very less.

Purity of a human lies in his thought!

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Jesus as Human !

Incidentally, these inspired words ("Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same" (Hebrews 2:14)) definitely tell us that Christ took part of the same nature as the children who "are partakers of flesh and blood." Doesn't this tell us without question the kind of nature Christ possessed?

Did Adam have any children born before he sinned? Not a one! The fact is that all the children who have ever been born in the world have inherited the same fallen nature of Adam, because they were all born after Adam sinned. The book of Hebrews declares that Jesus "himself likewise took part of the same." The same what? The same flesh and blood as children inherit from their parents. What kind of flesh do children inherit from their parents? Only sinful flesh. Has any other kind of flesh except sinful flesh ever been known among the descendants of Adam? None whatsoever. If Jesus partook of the same flesh and blood as the children, it had to be sinful flesh and blood. There is no other conclusion to be drawn. Yet, He Himself was sinless!

One writer, recognizing this clear Bible position, described it very succinctly in these words:

"It would have been an almost infinite humiliation for the Son of God to take man's nature, even when Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But Jesus accepted humanity when the race had been weakened by four thousand years of sin. Like every child of Adam He accepted the results of the working of the great law of heredity. What these results were is shown in the history of His earthly ancestors. He came with such a heredity to share our sorrows and temptations, and to give us the example of a sinless life." (The Desire of Ages, page 48).


This statement described the working of hereditary laws and is in perfect support of Paul's declaration that Jesus partook of the same flesh and blood as children receive from their parents.

That is referring to heredity also. If Christ had been born with Adam's unfallen nature, the very suggestion of hereditary influence would be ridiculous in the extreme. There could be no place for any kind of inherited tendencies in a holy Adamic nature that had never known either birth or ancestry. If he had no inherited weaknesses, why would the writer of Hebrews say that "He partook of the same flesh and blood that children receive from parents?" Certain it is that the Creator did not incorporate any inherent weaknesses into the original creation. Adam had no battles to fight against hereditary tendencies. He had the power in himself to choose always not to sin.

Did Jesus as a man claim to have that kind of power? No. He said, "I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things" (John 8:28). Repeatedly, Christ spoke of being dependent on his Father for what He said and what he did.

Does this mean that He possessed no deity and omnipotence as the Son of God? On the contrary, He was truly and wholly divine, just as He was truly and wholly man. But those two natures apparently were not amalgamated into some hybrid personality that stood apart from either God or man.

He was fully God and He was fully man. He could draw upon either of these distinct natures while living here in the flesh. But the really important thing for us to remember is that He did not exercise His divine power to save Himself from the weaknesses and temptations inherited from His human ancestry. He chose to live His life here as a man in the same way we have to live it. To save Himself from sin and the perils of the flesh, He depended constantly and solely upon the power of His Father. It was in this way that He overcame the devil, closed every avenue of temptation, and lived a life of perfect obedience. By never yielding to the inherent appeal of the flesh, He set an example of the kind of victory that may come to every child of Adam through dependence on the Father.

Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness to use His divine power to satisfy His agonizing hunger. Satan knew that Jesus had the power of deity to work that miracle. His hope was that he could provoke Christ to draw upon His divinity for relief. Why would that have been such a triumph for Satan? He could have used that to sustain his charges that God required an obedience that no man in the flesh could produce. If Jesus had failed to overcome the tempter in the same nature we have, and by the same means available to us, the devil would have proven that obedience is indeed an impossible requirement. Satan understood very well that Jesus could not use His divine power to save Himself and to save man at the same time. This is what made the test such a severe and agonizing experience for Christ.

If Jesus actually inherited the compromised nature of Adam, then why didn't He sin like the rest of Adam's descendants? Because He was filled with the Holy Spirit from the womb and possessed a fully surrendered will and sanctified human nature. May we partake of that same power to keep us from sinning? Yes. Jesus, in living His life of victory over sin, did not utilize His divinity but confined Himself to the same power available to us through conversion and sanctification.

If you want to follow Christianity, Just follow the footsteps of Jesus as said in the bible (not on your own presumptions). That’s Christianity!
If someone says that I am not Jesus to forgive! Tell him that Jesus was no one special when he was here on the earth as Jesus; he was a simple human being. He never did something that you and I cannot do in this world as a human.

If Jesus has done something then why we can’t, just follow him and we will!

If we see ourselves not on the footsteps of Jesus then kindly do not tell anyone or make a declaration anywhere that you are a Christian, if you wish you can tell that you are trying to be a Christian and not a Christian.

Be cheerful no matter what !

1 Thessalonians 5:16-26

16 Be cheerful no matter what;

17 pray all the time;

18 thank God no matter what happen, This is the way God wants you who
belong to Christ Jesus to live.

19 Don't suppress the Spirit,

20 and don't stifle those who have a word from the Master.

21 On the other hand, don't be gullible. Check out everything, and keep
only what's good.

22 Throw out anything tainted with evil.

23 May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you
holy and whole, put you together - spirit, soul, and body - and keep you
fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ.

24 The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he'll do
it!
25 Friends, keep up your prayers for us.

26 Greet all the Christians there
with a holy embrace.

All these verse will keep you on track as always.

Enjoy being cheerful and be happy always let the hope, joy, trust, happiness, strong will, goodies, peace, love, blessings, righteousness radiate from you where ever you go and whatever you do !

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Being Alone (The Depth Of True Happiness)

For some, this is the most frightening idea: being alone forever. It doesn’t need to be.

Most of our choices lead to a “good” or “bad” stimulus or feeling. True happiness is the gem because happiness is the self-generated endless source of wonderful, pure, amazing “good” stimulus or feeling. True happiness is the realization that nothing outside of yourself can bring you down or bring you up.

If You have mastered forgiveness, temperance, humility, and all of the virtues then you have mastered understanding yourself. Since this is something difficult to attain, most of us can at least catch a glimpse of true happiness now and then. I propose that a short-cut to this is learning to be happy in solitude "Being Alone"
Having a close touch with the spiritual teaching which describes how a good human to be characterized that principles he/she has to follow religiously be the spiritual human.

There exists a notion: we need others to be happy

This is not true. Other people are yet another source of something outside of ourselves to use as a crutch for the immediate “good” feeling.

"True happiness is the in-depth sensible feeling that, even if we strip
away everything in our world (Money, Wealth, Job .. every single thing
you thing you own), Still having an endless source of “good” feeling,
will, and love inside ourselves".

Once our society reaches this spiritual level, we will become much more productive. So much of our time is spent
on the notion: “we need others to be happy.”

So should we all isolate ourselves? No. If we could all have this epiphany at some point in our life, this would be most ideal. Allow me to create this world:

When You reach this in-depth feeling: I do not need anybody else;
I have found true happiness.

You may choose to be alone the rest of your life feeling that you may achieve greater things this way. You may choose to live amongst a group of friends whom you admire and trust. You feel they will help you achieve great things. You may also choose one other mate, who possesses characteristics and qualities you admire. You choose to fully give your inner source of true happiness, motivation, and love to this one other person in the form of “devotion”. You choose to procreate with this person not only because of all the aforementioned, but because you believe that your children will be able to achieve greatness, as well. It is important to only give “devotion” to one other person. Naturally, by choosing more than one person, you will inevitably cause somebody to suffer. This is why it is important to have the in-depth sensible feeling, so that you do not rely on another person for any “good” stimulus, because ultimately that person will fail in giving it to you. Only you have this endless source of true happiness for yourself. You may not ever be “devoted” to one other person, as you do not feel that anybody meets your specific threshold that you have set for such a person. If you had the in-depth sensible feeling of true happiness, this would not bother you.

Depending on who you meet in your life, you may have the luxury of many high quality trustworthy friends, and even find a person to “devote” yourself to. This is all a matter of circumstance. You may not meet anybody of quality or integrity. Yet, either way, you still have unlimited happiness inside yourself. If you do not meet anybody, this is obviously more challenging. However, this is most certainly a challenge that you can overcome.

Hence being alone and still feeling as the happiest person in this world without any of your loved processions is what the real transformation that has come upon you and that is the depth of true happiness.
My dear friends do not feel bad for being alone; it’s really a precious time any human can get these days. If you are fortunate enough to get such time to be alone take the advantage of transforming yourself to get the eternal happiness.

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Live your life ! True interpretations on the extract of bible!

Anger is a condition in which - The tongue works faster than the mind .

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present By worrying over the future!

Life is a sucession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Love...and you shall be loved

All people smile in the same language

If you dont like something change it, if you cant change it change the way you think about it.

Everyone needs to be loved... especially when they do not deserve it.

The real measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity.

To Plant a garden is to believe in tommorow.

Laughter is God's sunshine.

Everyone has beauty but not everyone sees it.

It's important for parents to live the same things they teach.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

Thank God for what you have, TRUST GOD for what you need.

If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow,you have no today to be thankful for.

Man looks at outward appearance but the Lord looks within.

Sometimes littlest things in your life can make your whole world change.

The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow.

Take time to laugh, for it is the music of the soul.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor (Pressing on the clutch) when you feel like stripping your gears.

Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.

The most beautiful things in the world must be seen from the heart.

Harsh words break no bones but they do break hearts. To get out of a difficulty,
one usually must go through it.

We take for granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.

Believe in god, love, life and yourself.

Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.

Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.

For every minute you are angry with someone,you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.

Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are.

May you hear god's voice in your heart, know his touch in your life and feel his love each day....

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Building for Eternity !

"Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men."
- Colossians 3:23 (NASB).

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife, enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.

The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter.

"This is your house," he said, "my gift to you."

What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.

So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized it, we would have done it differently.

Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely. It's the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project."

Who could say it more clearly? Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today.

Edited and Posted from Daily Dose Devotionals

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

TRUE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT

When you say Christ is with me, we begin to bear the fruit of the holy Spirit as a result of his presence in us.

This fruit is the nature or character of Jesus Christ reproduced in us, and love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance, faith--the character traits of Christ begins to find expression through our lives.

The fruit of the Holy Spirit in us should be the evidence of the new birth.

The fruit of the Holy Spirit will arise from the unconscious part of us. We do not put them on. They are produced by the Holy Spirit. They rise up from within, seeking expression through us to the world. Joy bubbles up. Love is shed abroad in our hearts. Peace flows like a river. These are the fruit of the Spirit, expressions of the personality or the character of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The new Christians overflows with the fruit of the Spirit; then, the church starts informing him that he cannot love everyone, he cannot have joy, he cannot have peace. He cannot express the wonders of the Lord except in a certain way.

That is what happened to me, and, ever since my conversion, I have been trying to "get my head on straight" so I could love all of God's children. I still struggle to get my thoughts straight, allowing the love of God to flow through my life. Thus, the fruit of the Spirit will be expressed to the world through us unless somebody has given us wrong teaching.

What we have to do “Truly empty our cup “our mind” not even with single drop of ours” ask Jesus to fill the cup till it over flows, ask Jesus from the heart so pure of it, for sure he will fill you with the Holy Spirit who will give you all you need and guide you in the godly way “ for only those who live the Christ life” . But again if you start to fill your cup “your mind” with your own thoughts you will feel you are losing the energy which was given by god and you will get disturbed by people around you. Never try to fill your cup by yourself. Always keep your cup filled by the purest form of energy from true Holy Spirit, for sure people around you will feel the True Christian Spirit within you.

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Baptizing with Holy Spirit !

In the new birth, as we repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, Christ
is formed in us. On real baptism Holy Spirit should imparts the life of Christ to us. So the first thing that happens in our Christian experience is that Christ is formed in us.
Jesus Christ becomes incarnate within us. The Holy Spirit superimposes the nature of Jesus Christ, the divine nature, upon our nature, the human nature, and now our
Desires, our wishes, our instincts begin to be "Christ-ionized," because they are no
Longer only the expression of the nature of man, but they are permeated by the
nature of God and begin to find expression through the personality, the person, of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is why we sometimes see cataclysmic conversions. Sinners living completely apart from God receive the Lord Jesus Christ, and their lives are completely transformed. They may have been alcoholics or drug addicts. They may have been bound by all manner of sin; however, when they receive the Lord Jesus Christ (Holy Spirit), when Christ comes in, every desire, every impulse seemingly is Sanctified and their lives are completely transformed.
The desires that previously dominated their lives no longer have influence or control over them.
On the other hand, there are those who are converted but seem to have more of a struggle to overcome certain desires or certain temptations. However, the important thing is that Jesus Christ is imparted to us by the Holy Spirit. This is the mystery of the Gospel. The Apostle Paul said that this mystery was hidden from the foundation of the world until God revealed it unto him: Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gen-tiles; which is Christ in You, the hope of glory (Col. 1:26-27).
The mystery of the Gospel is Christ in you, the hope of glory. This was the mystery. This was the revelation that God gave to the Apostle: the transforming power of Christian experience is derived from the impartation of Jesus Christ to the believer. The nature of Jesus Christ, even Christ Himself, is in us.
Jesus prayed to the Father for Him to effect this experience: That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: ...that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one (John 17:21-23).

And again, Jesus promised that when He sent them another comforter, they would know that He was abiding in them: At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and
ye in me, and I in you (John 14:20).
Probably the most powerful statement in the scriptures concerning this impartation of Christ is that of Paul himself, when he relates his experience in
Christ to the Galatians: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not
I, but Christ lived in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave himself for me (Gal. 2:20).

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Train your brain !

Your mind(So called brain) is a direct link to your subconscious mind, if your mind is focused on your goals and is trained to achieve those goals then your subconscious mind will also be focused on these goals and will attract the situations and opportunities for you to achieve the success you want.


Think of it this way, you're riding in a car driven by your personal driver and everytime your driver asks you where you want to go you simply say: "I don't know. Wherever you want to go is fine with me." Then when your driver takes you to the place of his choice you complain and say: "I don't want to be here, take me somewhere else." And again you say you don't know where you want to go.



How You Can Train Your Mind

Meditation is one of the best ways to relax and calm your mind while training it to focus better. When you meditate you actually start to clear the clutter that dominates your mind. Another step that can follow is to train the mind by working with other techniques that get you focused on your goals. You can work with affirmations, visualization, get the mind to see possibilities instead of limitations, energize your mind and body by brining in the feeling of accomplishing your goals.



How to start with meditation ?

A simple exercise. Take a red rose smell the rose fell the pleasant refreshing fragrance , Just start to concentrate over the swirl of the rose , how each and every single petal is formed, feel its gentleness and the mood it creates. Only concentrate on the rose, at first it will be very difficult not even for 10 minutes you can control your brain wandering around bringing in different thoughts, never give up! just concentrate on the rose, and do it daily until you can concentrate up to an hour at least.
When you can say you can concentrate more than a hour on a particular object here you are! You have started to control your sub-conscious mind through your brain.
From now whatever you want in life just concentrate and focus on that desire and goal, you can achieve with your subconscious mind.

If you strongly believe in god the Holy Spirit, I would rather say, holy spirit who is within your sub-conscious mind can now be your driver. A driver who can take you to any place’s in this universe irrespective of boundaries and distance. Your wish will be his command, only when you can tell him where you would like to go in this universe.

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Extract from Science of Getting Rich !

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.

A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

A person can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless
substance can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.In order to do this, a person must pass from the competitive to the creative mind. Otherwise he cannot be in harmony with formless intelligence, which is always creative and never competitive
in spirit.

A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him. Gratitude unifies the minds of individualswith the intelligence of substance, so that a person's thoughts are received by the formless.

A person can remain upon the creative plane only by uniting himself with the formless intelligence through a deep and continuous feeling of gratitude.

A person must form a clear and definite mental image of the things he wishes to have, to do, or to become, and he must hold this mental image in his thoughts, while being deeply grateful to the supreme that all his desires are granted to him. The person who wishes to get rich must spend his leisure hours in contemplating his vision, and in earnest thanksgiving that the reality is being given to him.

Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of frequent contemplation of the mental image, coupled with unwavering faith and devout gratitude.

This is the process by which the impression is given to the formless and the creative forces set in motion.

The creative energy works through the established channels of natural growth, and of the industrial and social order. All that is included in his mental image will surely be brought to the person who follows the instructions given above, and whose faith does not waver. What he wants will come to him through the ways of established trade and commerce.

In order to receive his own when it is ready to come to him, a person must be in action in a way that causes him to more than fill his present place. He must keep in mind the purpose to get rich through realization of his mental image. And he must do, every day, all that can be done that day, taking care to do each act in a successful manner. He must give to every person a use value in excess of the cash
value he receives, so that each transaction makes for more life, and he must hold the advancingthought so that the impression of increase will be communicated to all with whom he comes into contact.The men and women who practice the foregoing instructions will certainly get rich, and the riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose,
the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

The above post was shared with me - by my loving visionary brother Mr.Andrews!

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan

Holy Sprit over the formless matter of the physical world !

When we look around us, it is very easy to take for granted a created and material universe. Anybody who contemplates the existence of God, even the atheists, must ask himself or herself,

where did the material universe come from ?

Is there a answer from Metaphysics, Quantum Physics or from any scientific discovery? - NO - and why ?

The material world is temporary and physical, while the spiritual world is eternal and invisible to the material.

In the beginning, when God created the universe, the Spirit of God was present, over the formless matter of the physical world (Genesis 1:2).

The physical world, according to scripture, derives its being from the invisible spiritual realms of God presence (Hebrews 11:3)

For those focused on a physical and material world, the concept of spiritual world is alien.

However, even the visual and physical world, which we comprehend, is only partially visible, limited by the capacity our senses, our eyes, only see a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. For example, we cannot see ultraviolet light, infrared light or even radio waves, yet they all exist in the physical world. Though we can detect them through equipment, our physical senses design does not comprehend them.



In the same way, we cannot comprehend aspects of the physical world; we are not able to comprehend the spiritual world.

The spiritual realms are alien to the physical and carnal (Hosea 9:7).


But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. I Corinthians 2:14

Thanks & Regards,
S.Grace Paul Regan