As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Here am I in a Spiritual growth like everyone else here, prodigy or retard. I share when the Holy Ghost has me notice things I have not before. In the Gospels, I have read John through several times, but Mark and Luke are something I have not dealt with as Matthew is the big boy of the Gospels.
There is something though in Luke which the Holy Ghost brought to my attention and it is in the quote below. It is the ask, seek and knock, series after Christ teaches us to pray in form in the Lord’s Prayer. It is about persistence in asking. Jesus uses the same parable in the woman going to the Judge for Justice and the Judge finally gives it to get rid of the woman. I had always based this in physical needs, but in the closing part of this Jesus moves to the Father being asked for the Holy Ghost, and when we who are evil give our children good things, the Father will readily give His Spirit to His children.
This is territory where I do not want it black or white in entire religions founded on this, as there must be balance. Jesus is talking about all things from physical to Spiritual in his ask, seek and knock. He though is focused on what matters in the Spiritual which is where we are growing and that is only by the Holy Ghost.
Man does not live by bread alone but by every Word from God. There are two horizons here, we live in earth, but prepare to Live in Heaven.
With God in Goodness there is not either or, neither nor, it is both as He is God in understanding all of our needs.
Meet you on the other side as I desire to move this further.
Luke 11
Ask, Seek, Knock
(Matthew 7:7–12)
5Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 6because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’
7And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’
8I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
9So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
11What father among you, if his son asks for a fish,d will give him a snake instead? 12Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
The Holy Ghost is Wonderful. He Comforts, bestows Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding and Gifts as Healing which Paul notes. This is the part I desire for you to gain the entire scope of this as here am I learning too. What I’m stating is not that you make the Holy Ghost for sale, but that the Gifts of the Holy Ghost can indeed bring us a living, money, and things given to us, as offerings from people who appreciate the work of God through us.
Again, this is not Simon the sorcerer trying to buy the laying on of the hands which is satan and evil for power in this world. This is a person know knows how to play and organ and being paid to play at funerals or weddings.
Meet you on the other side and I will explain more on this working.
Romans 12
6We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith; 7if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; 8if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
We are always told these phrases like “God helps those who help themselves”, and you tell that to someone depressed, poor to desperation and without an answer and it makes them feel like garbage. As you read in Paul’s Inspired Words by the Holy Ghost, that Knowledge is a Gift from God. That is God helping someone by giving them the answer for a solution. Yes I’m still looking for my chest of money thrown out, but the Holy Ghost in my struggle which I hate, has given me the answers for me to work to solve a problem. When the terrorists at Google shut down the original platform, the Holy Ghost provided the Direction and Solved things. It was not easy. I sat for days trying to find solutions and I was upset, depressed and frustrated, but it did work out.
This is what I’m trying to explain in, most of us can not afford things. The answer might be for the Holy Ghost to provide Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, and even Healing or other Gifts of Grace which we could be paid for. Religious people just focus on the 7 Gifts, but there is not any of us, who do not have Gifts from the Holy Ghost which are not from His Knowledge and Understanding. It is how we do the jobs we do, we are disciplined in how to do them and we work and we are paid, some by paycheck and some by donations, although the cheerful giver like an extinct species in the herd of humanity.
So I will be clear in this, you can not go to God and intend to get the Gift of Healing or Prophecy to make a name for yourself or to make a pile of cash. You can not sell the Gifts of God. You can though ask, seek and knock and PERSIST to gain abilities, answers or talents which will Glorify God and as an addition, gain offerings to help provide for your needs. Remember Paul worked in the stink job as a tanner and he still had the Gift of Healing and Teaching in feast and famine. You just can not rely on the human animal to be giving you the money you work for in God as God does not force people to be good or cheerful givers, that is that the line up before Christ appears with in people letting others to rot as they sit on their stocks, gold and money.
I sincerely pray that God blesses each of you to ponder the above in asking God for Good things, that the abilities to do things you would enjoy are part of this Holy Ghost Gift. You can bring Glory to God and receive benefits from those Gifts. It is an understanding that we live in a physical world but will Live in a Spiritual Realm.
God bless you richly.
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