Testimony Of Prophet Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj – How My Spiritual Eyes Opened

 
Years ago before I started walking in the realm of the spirit and before my spiritual eyes were opened greatly desired to have my spiritual eyes opened. I got born again from being a Hindu in a meeting that was organized by a denomination that doesn’t believe in the baptism of the holy spirit. They don’t believe in all that. However, they are very good at proclaiming the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Being a Hindu I received this flyer in my letterbox announcing about a thirty-day crusade. I just felt compelled to go. Being a Hindu we do not know anything about all the Fighting’s that go on in a church. Whether my denomination is right or your denomination right. We don’t know anything. We only know one thing. There is a God called Jesus Christ and the Christians go to a church. That’s all we know being an outsider.

I went to this meeting. It was in an auditorium like this. I was sitting right up on the balcony getting the message and when the preacher an American man gave an altar call deep down in my spirit I heard a voice. This is the true God go and follow him. A real voice, real audible voice coming from deep inside me. This is the true God go and follow him. I thought in my mind what about all the gods that we have been worshipping all this while. The Hindus worship 330 million gods. Don’t ask me how they counted. Some of them got it all figured. Every Hindu, a good pious Hindu will worship at least a dozen gods in their houses. We have a small altar in our house and we keep pictures of some of the popular gods. There’ll be one patron god. He’s like the guardian of the family. Then with all the other gods. We worship a dozen gods and here I’m in this meeting. I’m hearing this voice this is the true God go and follow him so there was a battle inside of me.

 
What about all the other gods? What about them? But the voice kept on speaking each time I stopped it. The only thing was it was getting louder and louder. This is the true God go and follow him. I didn’t know what to do, what to makeover. Do you know so I just set on the seat and after a while, I felt that the chair on which I was sitting began to shake. It shook. Literally shaking. Keep on speaking this is the true God and the impression is coming into my mind get up and go. Guess what I did, I just held onto the handle. I wouldn’t go see I didn’t know what to make out of it. Why is this voice telling me this is a true God. I didn’t know but I was just very stubborn so I saw a lot of people getting up from the chairs and going to the front.

 
Then suddenly a third thing happened. I felt a hand below my back it gently lifted me up on my feet. Now I was up at the balcony so I thought in my heart. First, it was a voice, second came the shaking, then came the hand then lifted me up. If I were to resist any longer this hand is going to take me up and throw me down. I thought let me just submit myself to it. I felt his hand just clutching me no and it gently let me down three flights of steps. I came and I stood on the left part where the preacher was standing.

 
I clearly remember this whole thing as if it happened yesterday. As soon as I came it seemed that the preacher was waiting for me all the while. I don’t think he noticed me. A Nice white man. I don’t think he noticed me because there were about fifty other people. I was standing in one corner not surrounded by anybody. So as soon as I came he said let us pray so he started leading the people in the sinner’s prayer. I didn’t understand anything. I was just a Hindu sixteen years old. So standing there whether to repeat the sinner’s prayer or not, I don’t Know. To repeat the sinner’s prayer I did not know anything. I stood there I said okay I’ve come this far. Let me go one step further I looked up. Jesus if you are the true God please set me free from this cycle of rebirth.

 
Hindus believe in the cycle of rebirth. I said Lord if you are the true God please set me free from the cycle of rebirth. As soon as I said that I felt a pot of oil being poured on my head. I literally felt it. I turn around to see if anybody was standing beside me. There was no one within a 3-foot radius. No one. But I felt a part of my head. It cools down my head and it was oozing down. I felt a cleansing taking place inside my heart. He flowed down my hands, flowed down my body all over my face and he reached my legs and when he washed the toes and then he left. I felt all my sins forgiven me and a great peace that I cannot explain came and filled my heart.

 
At that moment I knew this Jesus Christ is the true Living God. It was a forced supernatural encounter. I came to the Lord so after I got saved this church that held the meeting gave me some pamphlets and some books as a follow-up to read. So I came back home I kept my faith hidden. My father was a priest so he doesn’t want me to go and tell him I just became a Christian. So I kept it hidden as long as I could until I was caught red-handed with the Bible and then all hell broke loose.

 
So he severely reprimanded me from reading the Bible or anything to do with Christians. So I obeyed him. I forgot everything about the meeting the church everything. But I was back to my normal life as a Hindu then came our annual school vacation. So during the vacation, I had nothing else to do. I had no friends my father never allowed us to mix with any friends. Very strict man. Home school home that’s all. No playtime. So sitting at home one month of vacation not knowing what to do. I was sitting all alone in my bedroom and I thought okay let me read the book that they gave me at the meeting six months ago. It’s called steps to Christ.

I didn’t know what that church was. I didn’t know what denomination it was. All I knew was I got saved. It didn’t matter to me which Church they were. As I was reading the book the same voice that spoke to me this is the true God once again it spoke. It said you made a mistake go back to the church and get baptized. Very distinct, very clear just like how I heard six months ago. So I remembered all those events. I immediately went to the church. Good thing they had services on a Saturday. So I could lie to my parents that I have extra classes in school. I would put my school uniform on and go to school. I would be the only person in that Church that came with the school uniform. I’d met the pastor and I said I want to get baptized.

 
To make a long story short after he said you know first you need to learn about the Bible then only we can baptize you. I asked him how long will they take. Three months. I said all right so every Sunday afternoon during that period when my father sleeps that was the time I’ll sneak out of the house go to the church and have my Bible study and run back quickly home before he gets up. All during the three months of Bible study, I did not learn anything about the Bible except the teachings of the church denomination. It didn’t matter to me. My one goal was to get baptized, It didn’t matter to me what they thought about sabbath-keeping? What they thought about not eating clean food unclean food. It didn’t matter to me.

 
My goal was to go through all the studies so that I can be ready to get the price in the water because that’s what the Lord told me you know go and get baptized. So I got baptized on the 3rd of March 1979. After that, I was now in high school. One day I was walking down the road to school when I felt something come from heaven and drop into my spirit. When he dropped in the voice spoke God is calling you to the ministry. This was how I was led step by step so eventually, I became a member of the Church. That church doesn’t believe in the Holy Spirit experience. By the way, it’s called the Seventh-Day Adventist Church which I’m sure you have guessed by now.

 
I was so naive so like a baby Christian who knows nothing about church denominations. Whether it’s a Methodist Church or an Anglican Church of the Episcopal a Presbyterian Church or United Methodist or Divided. I’m sorry they are all divided anyway. They all disunited anyway.

 
Whatever it is my one goal was I was led by the spirit. After I got my call, to make a long story short, after a year and a half I came out of the church. Realizing that all the wrong teachings are the wrong teaching. When I came out of the church I was introduced to the Pentecostal church. I didn’t like them much. So much of shouting. Look this is what happens in 1979. In their 70s they all straitjacket Christians. They only sing hymns, no clapping of hands no moving of your body, nothing straightjacket Christians.

 
Then here I came into a Pentecostal church just jumping up and down they’re clapping their hands I felt like a fish out of water. I didn’t like to go to the Pentecostal church. All this hooliganism. Then I came to know about the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit but I had so much of the Seventh Day teaching inside my mind. That I could not accept what these Pentecostals are telling me about. Speaking in tongues in the Holy Spirit. I told the Lord, Lord I don’t want to listen to this guy or that guy I want you to teach me, Lord. I took the Bible and I read the Gospels over and over again until I was convinced of the truth that this baptism of the Holy Spirit is real.

 
So once I knew it was real I began to pray honestly from the middle of 1980 up to September 1981. I prayed honestly. Lord fill me with the Holy Spirit. Lord filled me with the Holy Spirit. Then in 1981 September a mighty man of God came to our town and he conducted a crusade and in the crusade, I was gloriously filled with the Holy Spirit for three days in a row. I felt like a hundred and ten thousand watt electricity would flow through my whole body for 15 whole minutes. I will feel it flowing and flowing and flowing mightily three days in a row every day. I was so happy now I’ve got baptized in the Holy Spirit after that I began to earnestly desire the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Because I saw that in that preacher's life how all the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit manifested in his life. How he used to call our people’s names and tell them their problems.

 
I said Lord I want this. I earnestly prayed for the gifts of the Holy Spirit. After I started exercising the gifts of the Holy Spirit in my life I was not satisfied with that. There must be something more then I came to know about another man of God by the way both these men of God have all gone to be with the Lord. But his other men of God had a deep intimate walk with God in the heavenly realms. He used to be caught up into the heavens. He used to see angels. He was translated and he has this communion of saints in the glory that began to captivate me. I said I need that. That is the next step. To pray earnestly, Lord I want to walk with you like that man of God. I want the same anointing Lord open my spiritual eyes.

 
In this pursuit, during this period of time, I do not know how I got this book but a book called the Believers Authority written by the late Kenneth Hagin book into my hand. I read through the book. When I read through the book I came to the part where he one day was dissatisfied with his own spiritual life and he wanted something deeper. Have you read the book? He locked himself in his church and he told his wife I’m going to pray and seek the Lord. Don’t wait for me to come for dinner I’m not going to come out until I have an encounter with God. He opened his Bible to Ephesians chapter 1 verses 17 to 21 in chapter 3 verses 17 to 22 where the Apostle Paul prays a prayer for the efficiency of believers. He prayed the prayer. These prayers are spirit filled prayers and they are not only meant for the efficient believers they also meant for me.

 
So I claimed those prayers. He prayed and he prayed and he prayed until the Lord told him from this day onwards the spiritual eyes are opened. So when I read that something stirred inside me. So I thought if it can work for a white man it can certainly work for an Indian because our God is not colorblind. He’s not colorblind so I wrote down that prayer and I personalized that prayer. Lord fill me with the spirit of wisdom and revelation that the eyes of my understanding would be enlightened that I may know what is the hope of my calling and what the riches of the glory of my inheritance in the Saints and what is the exceeding greatness of your mighty power that worketh in me.

 
I wrote it down on a piece of paper and I prayed and I prayed and I prayed every waking moment. Every little moment of time that I get I will kneel down in one corner and pray earnestly this prayer. One day as I was praying I saw like a flash of light it says after hundred and eighty days you will get this gift. I don’t know why there are a hundred and eighty days. But I made note of it in my diary. But I still kept on praying every day I prayed that prayer. When I’m traveling in the bus I pray. When I’m walking, when I working, I pray every little moment I can. Go to one small corner kneel down and pray this prayer. In the third week of September 1983, I think you see that the 23rd or the 24th I was in a spiritual meeting and when the prayer was going on suddenly my spiritual eyes were opened.

 
I saw the Lord Jesus Christ hanging on a cross for 20 minutes. I saw that vision from all different angles you know from the right side from the left side from the front from the back from the top from all corners and tears flowed from my eyes like rivers. I wept and I wept. I do not know why I was weeping and I could not control the tears it just flowed like rivers that night.

 
When I went back to my room I was recording this incident in my diary. I have a habit of writing down all visions that I see whatever the Lord speaks to me in my diary. When I wrote that incident in my diary I thought let me see what day is the day. When I counted back it was exactly the hundred and eightieth day that was the exact 180th day. My spiritual eyes were opened from that day onwards. Every time I’m praying I’ll see a vision. A spiritual vision and I was not satisfied with that. No this is not enough I must go to the next step what is the next step. Seeing the Lord Jesus Christ that is my next step.

 
I began to pray earnestly Lord I want to see you. I mean I heard what that man of God talked about. When he shares all his wonderful experiences, how he was caught up to the third heaven, how the Lord Jesus Christ would come into his prayer study, or when he is reading the Bible how the Lord Jesus walked into his bedroom and said do you understand what you’re reading. It was so nice to hear all that. But I did not stop there I said no I need that Lord. I need that. If you can do that for him you can do it for anybody because you love everybody. So I prayed honestly. I prayed honestly.

 
One day after about two months I decided to spend a whole day in prayer. This man of God receives, I served in his ministry for about two and a half months, so he received hundreds of letters every day people writing to him for prayer so it was my duty when he goes out of town to pray for all those requests on his behalf and then to reply send replies to all the people.

 
On one that one particular day in November 1983 I decided to spend a whole day in prayer from 10:00 in the morning up to 5:00 in the evening. So I told my associate look I’m going to pray today please don’t disturb me. You take care of my part of the work. Tomorrow I’ll make up for you. So here it’s a very nice young guy. So from 10 a.m. I went into the prayer room then knelt I began to worship the Lord and began to meditate the word and just wait on God and when the evening came about.

 
I said alright let me now pray for all these letters. So I knelt on besides my bed and just as I was about to say Lord Spirit of God I’m going to pray for all these letters. Help me to pray. Yes, I was about to say that sentence I heard the sound that somebody was turning the doorknob. I wondered when I told that no one should disturb me how come somebody’s coming. So the door opened and just as I was about to say who goes there the Lord Jesus Christ entered in as real as you see me standing before you.

 
I saw him standing there wearing a beautiful blue robe a blue robe. He stood there and he closed the door behind him and he walked so gently so gloriously. No one can imitate how the Lord walks there’s such a gentleman style of walking. He walked, he came straight to me. So this is an experience of a lifetime. You are hitting the jackpot now. Previously I thought to myself if I ever see the Lord these are all the questions I’m going to ask him. Have you ever thought like that but the moment I saw the Lord the mind goes blank. The mind goes blank and it’s just hard all at the beauty of the Lord Jesus. The beauty, extreme beauty you know.

 
When Solomon wrote he is fairer than ten thousand I think that’s not correct you know it’s more than ten thousand so glorious he came and stood beside me and what he said next shocked me.

 
He said I have come to pray with you. What do you mean Lord I’ve never heard anything like this before and then what he did next shocked me further. He kneeled down. This is getting worse, in bed I didn’t know how to react. Here first I was shocked by his beauty second I was shocked by the statement that he made third I was shocked by his action of kneeling beside the dust. King David rightfully said, Who am I but a worm but a dog. Who am I for the King of glory to come and kneel down beside me? I couldn’t digest all this you know then he said put your hand on those letters and let us pray. I told the Lord.

 

 
I somehow plucked some courage. Lord, I do not know what all these people have written. Shall I read them one by one to you so that we can then pray? See how naive and stupid we are. He already knows what’s in the letter but he said. My naivety and my innocence now it’s a lot. I don’t know he just smiled at me now. One beautiful smile. He said just lay your hands. We will pray. So I let my hands and the lord laid his hands on my hands and he said let us now pray and he lifted his face. Of course, I didn’t pray. I didn’t want to miss this opportunity so I opened my eyes I looked at him. We were this close and I looked at him he lifted his face and he began to groan and groan and tears float like rivers.

 

 
I saw Romans 8:26 personified before my eyes. The Holy Spirit groaning in prayer. I saw the Lord his spirit his inside and he just groans. His whole chest and his whole body were moving and groaning and tears flowed down his eyes and when he was finished. He told me now this is how you shall reply to them and we went through all the 300 letters one by one. Not a collective prayer like how we popularly do today. That day I learned every person meant to the Lord. Every request meant to the Lord. It’s not a collective prayer. Lord, we pray for all these letters. Lord answer them every single letter. Every single tear meant to the Lord. When we would through with all those letters then he looked at me. He stood up. He laid his hands on my head and he blessed me. From that day onwards every time, I close my eyes to pray I see the Lord Jesus Christ standing by my right side so I was very happy but I said Lord this is not enough.

 

 
There’s something more. What’s more now? I want to see your glory, Lord. I want to see the heaven that’s what I started praying next. Honestly prayed Lord I want to see your glory I prayed earnestly.

 
Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews chapter 12 that in the last days the communion of the Saints will be restored with the judge. Are you familiar with that? You have this man of God used to share wonderful experiences of how he had this communion of saints. You’re not talking with big people. You’re not dead. Because the Bible says the Lord Jesus Christ Himself said. God is not the god of the dead. He’s the god of the living. He’s the God of Abraham, God of Isaac God of Jacob.

 
He’s the god of the living. If they are living then we are not practicing necromancy. It’s not that. Come and see they are living Saints in glory and we have a proof in the scriptures in Matthew chapter 17 where Elijah and Moses came and talked with the Lord Jesus,

 

 
The scriptures are there. Isn’t it? And also in Matthew 27 verses 51 and 52, you read it that after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ the graves opened, and the Saints rose and they appeared unto the people in Jerusalem. They appeared. Appeared and spoke with the people so we have scriptures for all that. So before I prayed to see the glory of heaven, before that I prayed Lord now I would like, I didn’t pray to see all these saints. I didn’t pray. I just decided to walk with God. The Lord gave me a commandment. He said to do this commandment. Spend this number of hours each day in prayer. I’m not going to say how many. Because that is specific only for me. It will not apply to everybody. I learned that does not apply to everybody because when I shared this with a few other people when they did that, that same number of hours nothing worked. So then I realized it was not for those. That was tailor-made for me.

 
The principle is waiting on God. That’s the principle walking with God. Fellowshipping with God pursuing honestly. This is what you must now learn. Pursue earnestly and sharing all this with you not to brag about my spirituality now but to provoke you unto jealousy. That’s what I’m doing. This is not what I prepared to share with you tonight. I’m just provoking you. I say all this with great humility. I’m just provoking, My one intention is to provoke you into holy jealousy so that when you leave this place and when you go home you will kneel and you will pray Lord if you can do that to that Indian you can do it for me. That’s my desire. You will do that. If God can do that to an Indian he can certainly do it to you because God is not colorblind.

 
So I began to spend this number of hours every day in prayer after seven days one day I was just waiting on God meditating the word certainly I felt someone just entered into my room. I turn around and I saw a very aged looking Saint full of glory with long white beard long white hair standing in my room and he walked towards me and he asked me what are you reading?

 
I said sir you know in India we are taught to address elders as the father. You call them fathers. I said father this is what I’m reading. So I then looked at him. Sir, who are you? He said I am the one who wrote the book of Revelation. I did not say the word John you know and he sat beside me. He said turn your Bible to the book of Revelation let’s go to chapter 1.

 
You know how I wrote that. He explained to me how he wrote that. For a long time, I had a question in my heart. I said Sir you were on the island of Patmos how did you write those seven messages and got it delivered to the seven churches all over Asia Minor. He said when God gave me that revelation the angels of those cities, they all came and stood before me. I wrote on the scrolls and I will give it to them and they took it to the various Churches to the Angel of the church. In obedience they took it. This was how he explained to me. After that brief visit of about half an hour, he left. From that day onwards every other day, he would enter into my room when I’m waiting on the Lord. Either to pray together or to explain to me some scriptures. Some things that I don’t understand about the Bible they say do you know what it means? I’m reading the book of Isaiah the prophet Isaiah comes. He said let me explain to you what this means. Every day this went on.

 
I was very elated. But I was not satisfied. Now there must be something more. What’s next? See the glories of heaven. That became my next goal. So I began to pray earnestly Lord I want to see your glory. Lord, I want to see your glory every day I earnestly passionately prayed. Lord, I want to see your glory. On my birthday a saint visited me in the night when I was praying. Today is your birthday I have come to bless you. Very soon that which you have been praying for it will be granted to you. As soon as he said that I knew this was the one. I said thanked the saint and he left. I kept on praying earnestly Lord now you have given me a sure promise. It’s no more just by faith now I have a sure promise.

 
I honestly began to pray continually. Lord, I need this Lord I need that. One day on March the 24th 1984 at two o’clock in the morning as I was waiting on God suddenly I saw myself in a strange place. I opened my eyes I looked around so beautiful Park. Beautiful park. I was in my room in India. it’s a small room six by six and it’s all. Cemented ground how come? This is a park beautiful park. I’ve never seen such greenery anywhere else in the world. Just as I was wondering where I was two angels about eight feet tall came and stood beside me and said welcome. I ask them where’s this place? This is paradise and they took me around. To a place where children are. Little children three years old five years old. Saw them staying in that part of paradise. That was another great way that was opened likewise. Till today I don’t want to stop hungry or desiring. It is not good to just here. But preachers like me come and tell you. Oh, I’ve had this experience or have at this walk. This is possible. That is possible. Don’t stop there. It is your father’s desire that you press on. It is your father’s desire I say this with all-knowingness and surety.

 
It is not your father’s desire. He would not have shown me that yesterday. He would not have shown me. It is your father’s desire. A Syrophoenician woman came to the Lord Jesus Christ for her daughter. Her daughter was demon-possessed and she asked a lot to heal her. The Lord just couldn’t. Careless about her. First, the disciples ignored her. Then it was the Lord Jesus Christ who ignored her. He said you are a Syrophoenician your time has not come. I am sent to the house of the Jews. It’s not good to cast the children’s bread to the dogs. In the Eastern culture to call someone, a dog is a very very high insult and the Syrophoenician woman. Even today in Eastern culture you don’t call a person a dog.

 
That is the meanest and the most insult that you can give to a person. But look at this woman. Even though the Lord Jesus Christ insulted her and call her dog instead of feeling offended and just walk away saying you called me a dog. Instead of reacting like that she humbled herself, she says yes Lord I am a dog. Lord but I’m not going to give up. She remembered to know what dogs do. Dogs keep on going around the Masters's feet. Don’t they? You try to shoo away your dog. It keeps on coming back right. It keeps on coming back again and again and again. That’s what dogs do. They don’t give up. That’s what that lady that woman did.

 
She did not give up say yes Lord even the Dogs will come and sit at the Master's feet and hope for the crumbs to fall down. Now when she pursued the Lord. Then that moved the heart of the Lord Jesus and he said according to your faith let it be done. How faith moves beyond time technically the Lord cannot bless her because he’s under the Old Covenant. So how did he heal her then? Have faith. Faith has no time. It exists in all time because she moved in that faith dimension. It transcends. Time to the cross. When the blood felt it. Made the way open for the gospel to go to the Gentiles in that time dimension. The Lord turn around and spoke to her according to your faith let it be healed and she was healed. Pursuing after the object of your passion. This is what God expects you to have now.

 
By the end of this conference, you’re going to have a breakthrough and I’m sure you desire that. Don’t you? You have not just come here for head knowledge. Have you? If you are here for that purpose I have bad news for you. You have wasted your time. You have wasted your time. At the end of this conference on Saturday, you must have a powerful encounter with God. Even before that and the only qualification is for you to earnestly contend for your destiny. Earnestly contend.

 
This is my destiny, Lord. I want that. Pray earnestly pursue. If you do that the coat that rested upon Joseph. The coat of many colors it’s not just many colors you know it’s many promises. The Sevenfold Spirit of the Lord that rested on the coat will also come upon you.

 

 

Truth Will Set You Free Part 1

 

The Truth Will Set You Free - Part 2

 

How Do You Know and Walk in the Full Calling on Your Life?

How Should We Teach Our Children About Their Calling?

 

What Are the Tools of a History Maker?

 

 

Mindset of a History Maker - Part 2

How Do You Pull the Dreams and Prophecies You Have Into This Realm?

 

 

What Are the Habits of a History Maker?

JIM ROHN on Time Management.

JIM ROHN on Time Management.

Here’s the key on this. Don’t major in minor things if you take up major time to do minor things. I’m telling you you’ll be behind the curve constantly. Here’s what we learned in sales training. What’s major time and what’s minor time. Here’s minor time thinking about prospects here’s minor time making list of prospects. Here’s minor time keeping books on prospects. Here’s minor time going to see the prospect. Here’s minor time evaluating the prospect after you’ve been there that’s all minor time.

Here’s major time in the presence of the prospect that’s mine that’s major time and if you took a look if you’re in sales and you took a look at a week you’d say my gosh I’m spending 90% of my time on the minor stuff and so little time on the major stuff. In the presence of how many hours in the presence of in my day how many hours in the presence of during my sales week because the time that really counts is in the presence of majors and minors.

Here’s another key time management essential. Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. That comes home at night all exhausted falls in the chair and says oh I’ve been going going going. Here’s the big question. doing what it’s not the goal and go and going. Some people are going going going and they’re doing figure out. Their progress is small so don’t mistake movement for achievement.

Here’s another one in sales we learned. Don’t mistake courtesy for consent if somebody’s Pleasant and they nod you say oh they’re gonna buy. No they’re courteous you can’t mistake courtesy for consent.

Now here’s the big one concentration I had to learn this all those years ago. I’m in the shower trying to compose a letter found it turns out to be a strange letter. So here’s what I learned to do. Save them work. Did you get to the office save the work. Did you get to the work don’t try to get to the office on the way to work. On the way to work enjoy the way and the shower enjoy the shower then go to work when you get to work. I found this to be helpful concentration.

Here’s another big one learn to say no. I’m telling you in such a social society we have now it’s so easy to try to be a nice person. Saying yes yes yes to everything. Find yourself overloaded. Now you’ve got to call make that well. You know all the time it takes to back out of something that you should said yes to too quickly. Here’s what might be better. I don’t think so but if that changes I’ll call you little things. You can use no to commit over commit yourself.

My friend Ron Reynolds says don’t let your mouth overload your back. It’s a good now.

Here’s the big one on time management. When you work work when you play play don’t mix the two. Don’t work at play. I used to take my family to the beach and I would bring my briefcase. I learned not to do that or at the beach I’m saying I should be at the office. I should be at the office now. My family’s upset because I’m at the beach and I’m thinking office office office. Now when I’m at the office I’m thinking what I kind of get my family to the beach the beach the beach so things are not going too well at the office cuz I’m thinking Beach and things are not going too well at the beach cuz I’m thinkin office.

Here’s what I learned to do at the beach be at the beach at the office be at the office when you work work when you play play don’t mix the two don’t work at play now.

Here’s one of the most important ones don’t play at work. Work is too serious you don’t want the reputation of being the office joker. It’s not a good, yes, there’s time for some pleasant stories. Yes, there’s time for a little humor yes. Bbest if it’s a happy office of course but I’m telling you got to be serious about work cuz you’re parting with a piece of your life for the work. You do your work costs you a piece of your life.

Here’s what it’s called serious business. Not grim not unhappy but serious don’t play. It works the only person I don’t think we use anymore horse around at the office play around play jokes play tricks no place not at the workplace. At the beach yes at the bar yes somewhere else. Not work you got to treat work with all due conservative passion because it’s leading you to your future.

Here’s another key phrase all work is good you may not like your job but if it’s the stepping stones to get you to where you want to to go you’ve got to appreciate your job. You don’t have to have a passion for your job.

Here’s the ultimate passion a passion for incredible success in every department of my life that’s the passion but don’t look down. Down on some menial job you have to do to finally get you to where you want to go. No job is menial. No job is not. Every job is noble training life for pay, making the contribution to society.

Next analyze how you are and if you have some weaknesses if you can’t doesn’t seem like you can change here’s the key. Get it covered I used to keep promisingmyself. I’d keep the books keep the books. Finally I gave that up and back then it only took me an extra 50 60 bucks a month for some accountant to keep the books. As a no I’m gonna save the 50 bucks you can’t believe what I started losing in productivities because I tried to save the 50 bucks. So the key is a lot of times you can stay like you are but just make sure you get it covered.

Next beware of the telephone and all other systems of communication especially the telephone at home and systems of communication at home and here’s one of the best lines I’ve got for you for the weekend. Let all communication systems serve you but don’t let them intrude when it comes time to have dinner with your family. You shut off all systems unless the ones that can take messages silently. Don’t let the phone ring. Don’t let anybody intrude, come through the front door or the back door nor through the telephone or any other device so you can’t reach John and his family when he’s having dinner.

The President of the United States couldn’t get through if you develop that kind of a reputation. Father, Mother when we have dinner when we’re visiting and have this time with our family nothing intrudes. So don’t let these clever little devices keep intruding. You’ve got to have a place that sink or sank. It’s valuable you don’t let anything in for that period of time okay. Isn’t it good advice. Excellent advice.

Here’s the next one read all the books. You know I’ve only got a few notes here on time management but if you’ve got some particular challenges you run a big organization a big corporation you’ve got some challenges. There’s plenty of books now here’s what’s next just be more alert to the things that might be stealing your time.

Here’s why? Time is like capital you can’t let someone steal your seedcorn you can’t let someone steal your capital and you can’t let someone steal your time you must designate your time and some of the time that you designate. You must not let anyone steal casual time. You might let someone intrude and steal a little bit and take a little bit but not serious time.

Next one of the great time management savers is to learn to ask questions upfront. Sometimes you talk to somebody for an hour and then you ask questions and find out if you would have asked those questions up front you could have saved yourself an hour. Asking questions up front helps you to get to the problem now but if you just launch into some discourse you might waste 30 minutes or waste an hour. When here’s what you should have been talking about after you’ve finished an hour you say John what’s really the problem. He said well it’s something personal see that’s what you should have been talking about this whole hour.

Next learn to think on paper and we’re gonna take a break some ways to think on paper. One we’ve covered one solving problems take it out of your head and put it on paper.

Another one is setting goals making these lists we’ve already started here’s another good way to think on paper it’s a projects book. Each person you’re working with and each project you’re working on get a loose-leaf binder and a tab and some pieces of paper behind the tab and do a little continual summary of how it’s going between you and that person and between you and that project.

I call it a projects book it is so useful to me but what’s going on between you and this person when you last got together what did you talk about and you got a few notes there here’s what we talked about the last time we got together now when you get together again you can review that so you’ll know better what to talk about when the president gets ready to travel and he’s gonna meet some important people. Guess what they bringing all these briefing books. All right the last time you were with Khrushchev Kennedy is informed.

Here’s what he said here’s what you said Kennedy said no that’s valuable. I need to remember that if a person is important it’s worth a little running account. You might even have a project book for your children here’s what’s happening between me and my child. We’ve talked about this and we’ve talked about this. Talk about this next add a timer keeping track of all of your appointments. You know mine is all filled with. You know when to catch an airplane and when to do a seminar when to sit down and have a conference all the rest.

Next is a game plan you know if you’ve got a house and the insurance is gonna come due and some other things are gonna come. Do you just put it on a spreadsheet and make sure it’s taken care of Key phrase take things out of your head and put them on paper and the key is to just experiment with different ways that helps you to do that.

Now here’s the last one thinking on paper and that’s to keep a journal. One of the things I’m known for around the world have been now for 39 - 40 years is keeping a journal.  Now my journal is not a you know it’s not necessarily a diary it might be part diary I’m flying over Ireland and write down a few little things that impressed me today. 

 

I met this person what an extraordinary event today the scent I conducted this seminar in Rome thousand people stood that was saying for me I’ve got a little bit of a diary in there but here’s what primarily your general is for collecting good ideas a journalist to collect good ideas on your health and good ideas for your business and good ideas for your future good ideas for time management cuz I used to take notes on pieces of paper and torn off corners and backs of old envelopes and restaurant placemats and I threw all this stuff in a drawer it did not serve me well.

I finally learn to get a bound copy right and just keep a journal write five was here I had my journal I’d be taking notes right these two days in my journal now if you’re caught without your journal you just take the notes when you get back home you’ve put those notes in your journal throw the paper away because we don’t usually go through paper to review but see my journals now make up and part of my own library my journals all reserved privately for my children and my grandchildren can you imagine what I’ve collected over the years it’s unbelievable.

There are three treasures to leave behind I think you’ve already got those notes. Here they are number one. Your pictures don’t leave the event unrecorded. It takes only a fraction of a cent of a second to say.

Here’s who I was with when I travel the world right we take all these pictures and here’s one of the gifts people send me the pictures they took of me and them it’s part of the treasures I have on the farm incredible a picture’s worth a thousand words to describe the scene the emotion what happened say wow this was an extraordinary day for me when I met these people here’s what they told me happened to them when they went to my seminar 10 years ago Wow the drama comes back if you’ve taken the pictures it’s one of the treasures to leave behind when you go remember the old photographs that we have now.

You know 100 years ago 70-80 years ago just a few photographs what would it be like if you had thousands of photographs of the past of your history your mother your father my grandparents so change all of that now for your children. Leave all your photographs as a record here’s what’s next to leave behind and that’s your library the books that changed your life. 

 

The books that change your health the books that rescued you from oblivion the books that you passed on to other people they were so exciting for you the books that made you financially independent the books that developed your leadership books that gave you wisdom to ponder when things were tough the books that got you through the winter the books that helped you to plant in the spring and the harvest in the fall what a treasure to leave behind. If you do that here’s what’s for sure your books will be more valuable than your furniture

How to become a better preacher - Practice

 

How to become a better preacher - Practice

My preaching career started when our local pastor given me 10 minutes to preach/share my faith before his preaching. He wanted to encourage youngsters and train them. Many a time I turned down the opportunity of speaking in the church. My Pastor persuaded me many times and told me the importance of sharing my faith with others. He told me even if it is for a 5 minutes, you should say something with confidence. That was my training period.

I really thank him and many other local church pastors who spared some minutes for encourage and train the youngsters. In the beginning I saw my friends who ventured out to share their faith. Some of them were very eloquent, but few of them did not have words and run out of gas within a few minutes.

When I first agreed to share my faith to my pastor a week ahead of the event, I decided I wanted to preach at least 10 minutes. So during the week I prepared a short message with many points. When I was invited for the first time, I stand there and was frightened. My voice was cracking. Everyone can easily understand that I was nervous. Scared voice, trembling feet and fear. That was I at my first preaching experience. Even after a weeks preparation and gathering courage to stand up and preach, I could not continue after 5 minutes. So I closed the message immediately. When I returned to my seat, I realized that I forgot to many points which I gathered during the week.

After the service my pastor encouraged me by saying that "you have done a great job". and said that you were nervous and told me that by practice only you can overcome this nervousness and fear. Then when I reached home I asked my mom about my preaching. My mother also encouraged me for standing in the midst of people. I noticed one thing which she told me about my message. She said you had valid points in your sermon but it was missing the connection. The Connection with people who listen the message. The lasting impression of the message. She mentioned some of the preachers who used to make lasting impression on the lives of people. Their messages lasts for a long time in the hearts of their listeners. They are connecting preachers. They connect with the hearts of their listeners. They and their messages are remembered for a long time.

I got the point.

My first and subsequent preaching ventures draw my attention to many important aspects of preaching.

• Having deep knowledge about the word of God.
• Good Introduction
• Clear Structure
• Accurate Exegesis.
• Personal Application
• Connecting with people.
• Voice variation
• Body language
• Presentation of the message.
• Appropriate Illustration
• Lasting impression on listeners.
• Purpose of the message.
• Moreover the importance of trusting and relaying God for using me for his work of changing lives.

Preaching will not come in a day or two. It will take many attempts to fine-tune your preaching ability. If you desire quick improvement, you have to practice it on a daily basis. Either you can practice your preaching in a solitary place or you can practice while talking to your friends or family members at home. In one-to-one conversations, you may try consciously varying your voice up and down so that it could become natural. You may try different volumes while speaking to your family. If you tend to talk too fast practice slowing down and pausing in your daily life. If you tend to give same weight to every word, while talking to your friends, give weights to important words. Don't literally preach to your friends and colleagues in normal conversations. That would become too much to bear. In short improve your speaking in every day speaking.

By practicing when you are not preaching, over time, the changes in your voice and action become natural and they become part of normal you.

Practice preaching in a solitary place may offend some of you. They say, "you are not acting in the pulpit". That is true. If your conscious say so, don't do it. If you don't find any wrong in practice preaching, in front of a mirror or in a solitary place, it can improve your preaching a lot. By doing that, you can correct many mis-behaviors yourself. (but many think it's an unholy practice your preaching) Obviously, trusting only on your "wisdom of words" is a sin. You are not pretending to be someone else while you practice a sports. You are training your mind and body to achieve skills. So think of practicing speaking skills as practicing a sport. You are building your memory. You are building your eloquence by practice.

Artists and athletes exercise their skills on a daily basis. And the mastery appears effortlessly to them. Preachers are communicators. Your communication skill must come effortlessly. Practice, practice, practice. That is the only way to achieve mastery in preaching.

I want money Power

 What do you want in life?

I want money!  99 % of people would say that.  Because, money can buy a lot of thing. Money can buy good food.  Money can by good cloths.  Money can buy good vehicles.  Money can buy many things which the world can offer.  Money is everything.   And money become the God of every one on this earth.  Money can attract relations. Now a days love is depend on your net worth.

Are we lost our vision and mission of life?  What is it that you really want in your life? 

We all are born in this world to live.  Live a happy life.  Life without fear.  What is our fear?

Fear of lack of food, clothing and shelter.  The basic necessity of a man is his food shelter and clothing.  That is what he want to live with. 

If all the workforce do the things which would create that three things, food, shelter and clothing, we would have enough of everything.

Fear of human being will go away.  And we will be living in a wonderful world where there is no fear. 

If there is plenty of food, shelter and clothing available to everyone in this planet, who will fight.  Who will get depressed. Who will steal.  There won't be any trouble in this planet.  Treat every one equally and share the food we have.

Open your eyes and look at the world.  Many people are doing many things which are of no use.  For example, every country has a vast amount of army, navy and air force.  If there is no conflicts between nations, these people can work in the field of agriculture and produce food for every one.  Why we should build riffles and missiles. 

I hope people in the ancient times are not busy as people today.  They spend their day in the field and take rest in the evening.  How beautiful it was to have a peace of mind. Good food and love.  We are busy from the dawn till the night.  No time to enjoy life.  Making money, Making money every time.

Today we are busy.  Doing different things throughout the day.  Still we are not happy.  We fear many things.  That fear make us do many more things in the limited time of a day.  Many things we do in anticipation of a better tomorrow.  Sometimes we won't be there to live that better tomorrow. Hope in a better tomorrow make us do more and live our daily life.

What is success.

We speak about success in life. What is success.

Different people have different opinion about success. We follow the opinion of people about success.

But what is your opinion about success? Is amassing a lot of money is the success? Is it building a big house is success? Or is it buying an expensive vehicle? Or is it traveling around the world is success? Is it having more electronics gadgets like cell phone, laptop, iPad, etc.? Is it wearing branded clothes and designer watches?

To me success is having good food and living a happy life. Having a good relation between people around us. Love the nature. I love to spend time sitting beside the flowing river and praise God for the wonderful life and things given in my life. It is normal and we can achieve it easily.

But what I am doing is opposite of what I wish to do.

Get up at around 6:00 am. Get ready for office. Have quick breakfast. Drop kids at the school en-route to my office. Work till 7:00 pm. Reach home at 8:00 pm or 8:30 (That is up to traffic) Eat dinner. Then sleep. The cycle continues every day except Sunday. On Sunday spend time at the Church from 8.30 am to 12.30 pm. Then come home and have lunch. Sleep till 4.00 pm. Then go out with kids in the park and play. From last year we are getting off on every second Saturday. From this month onwards, we will be getting two Saturday offs. First and third Saturday. Hope I could spend more time with my family. That is life. Life in a city. Occasionally go for a shopping in the market is the luxury.

How to get out of this rat race. Go to new places and see how people live their life. New places are very interesting. Watching animal and plant life is rejuvenating. Very few are privileged to have a free life. I envy.

To some life is blogging. Now people making a life out of blogging. For some, life is writing novels. For some, life is reading many novels. People spend more time in reading newspaper and books.

Writing become our life. We do many thing for a living. So life is the most important thing in this world.

God siaid: Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

But remember. Life is more important than any other thing. Life is important than money. Life is important than position and possession.

Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?

But now food is more important than life. Cloth is more important than body. We abuse our body by wearing cloths which are not able to cover our whole body. We abuse our life with wrong food choice.

Money is not the goal of our life. Money will come and go. But what is stable? Our life is stable. Even after death our life continues. Some goes to hell and others goes to heaven. What you chose. This is the time to choose life or death. There is only one way to God or salvation. That is Jesus Christ.

Make sure you go to heaven. Also make sure that your loved ones also be with you in heaven. Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow

Village Life and City Life

Villages are beautiful. Life in villages is serene and peaceful. Though the facilities in villages may be lesser than that in the cities however most of the people living there are far more content and happy.

Village life is a life that is full of fun and activities. Our village is a baby village. From the morning till the evening we all are working in one way or the other. As soon as we get up, we used to have a family prayer. This prayer is mostly initiated by Mom or Dad. Everyone will come for the prayer when they hear the first song sung by Mom. The time of the prayer is 5.30 am. Without any fail, it happens every morning. Then we go to our respective rooms for our study. After the studies, the next thing is to brush the teeth. While doing the brushing, we roam around the surroundings. Then we get ready for the morning tea. Two of us (we are three brothers) have to go for milking the goat. Sometimes mom and dad will do that job. We use goat milk in our home. Then we go to the river for taking bath. While taking bath, we enjoy swimming.

Walking toward the river and swimming also involve physical activity. Then we go to our school. We used to walk to our school. It would take around 35 to 45 minutes. Imagine walking 45 minutes. After school, we walk back home. Then play for around one hour. Then again sometimes we have to help mom in grinding rice and pulses for breakfast. We had a stone manual grinder in our house. Then we would take bath and study or doing our homework till the dinner. Those were the typical activities of a day in our village. In the daytime, we have to do physical work like chopping the wood, bringing water, getting food and drinks for our goats, and other things. Sometimes we go to the river for fishing. Sometimes we have to bring grass for goats from the field.

Indian village life is very exciting and enjoyable, that is why most of the retirement home builders are focusing on villages or semi-urban locations for their projects.

When I started to live in a city after my studies there were many changes happened in my daily life. I got a job in an office. All the physical activities come to cease. Living in a flat or apartment compels me to roam around in two rooms till I get out for my office. Then after reaching office sitting on a chair in front of the desktop, I do office work till evening. Then I return to my apartment and prepare some food and sleep. There is very limited physical activity in city life. For transport, we depend on motor vehicles.

Now physical activities are available only when I visit my village. Nowadays villages also motorized. Mixers and grinders have taken over the traditional stone grinders. Houses are connected with piped water supply. No need to go to the river for taking bath as bathrooms are built inside the house as bath attached bedrooms and connected with pipelines. Just turning the knob is all that you need to do for taking bath. Life becomes mechanical and easy now.

In villages, life is peaceful as there is no noise pollution. Calm and cool atmosphere. Air pollution is also very little. Go to the post office or bank would be the work of a few hours in a village. But in a city, you can do many things in a short time. Traffic is minimum in villages. Accidents are very rare. In the city, you will find many accidents in a day. There are many things to write about village life. Life in a village is more comfortable and relaxed than the city life.

Another important factor is that people maintain a bonding relationship in a village whereas there is no relationship with the person next door in a city.

The bad news is that city life is creeping into the villages slowly. TV, and mobile communication and better transport facilities are making a village like a city. Nowadays people in the villages are occupied with TV and the Internet and have no time to spend with their neighbor. Now people know each other with their user Id or email ID and facebook photos. I fear that the village life becomes an old story for our future generations as most of the facilities of a city are available in villages now.

The time is running fast and technology reached its highest position. We do not know what will happen in the coming 10 years. We cannot predict the future. Technology can lead us to a different position in the coming years.

Crime and theft and immoral life are exceedingly higher now than ten years back. Pollution is high. Relations are broken. Parents do not have control over their children. Many of the children are living with a single parent. There is no place for family life in society. Live as they wish is the custom now.

Life has no meaning or purpose. Mechanical life. Lack of faith in God is growing. What is the reason for these changes? How can we live a purposeful life? How can we find the meaning of our life? Those are the questions remains unanswered.

I am afraid that the village life would become a fantasy story for the next generation as our villages are turned into cities now. What is that which is available in a city is not in a village?

Every facility in a city is available in a village now. Every moment villages are changing. I am feeling sorry for the next generation as they won't be able to see or understand what is a village looks like. Even if they find a village, that would be a much-developed village. They won't find much love and affection in that village. I am sorry for the next generation.

 

 

My conversation with Jesus - Sermon Transcription

 

Some of the things that you don’t know can hurt you right and I was told by my dad that asking questions won’t cost you something but if you don’t it might. It’s very expensive when you find yourself isolated and you need help. It becomes very very expensive and but if you have people around you that can help you and if you ask for help you know you can actually avoid a lot of things like I i have situations that I’ve been told you know you’re not going to work today, you’re not going this way, you’re not going to do this, you’re not going to do that and it sounds like you know the lord’s being bossy but he’s being a loving father and he’s protected me so many times so many times.

I’ve had my flight crew call me in the hospital in the hospital because another plane hit them was they were taxiing out to take off. They were getting de-iced and another airline hit and knocked a tail off and my crew that I was supposed to be with them the lord told me you’re not going into work today they wanted to know how did you know not to come to work the pilot the captain called me how did you know and so this this way of life it works and the spirit school is so that you can do this and you can walk like this.

This isn’t for just people to go to heaven this is for you. There’s two subjects I’ll start with the one and if I can find my notes here just go ahead and soak in that glory man oh man hallelujah

Well I think I’ve memorized the whole thing so I don’t even worry about it I can’t find it right now okay what it is when I first got saved and I went to bible college in 1981 I got saved in 1980-81 went to school my first year I had to make “a-b” average or I was I lost my scholarship so I had to study all the time because I wasn’t that good and it was quite a load so I studied a lot but I was given this music it was a christian band but it was different it was celtic and they had on the back of the album they had I think it was 75 different instruments that used it most of them don’t even they’re not even common instruments from the celtic type of culture all these little flutes and all kinds of crazy looking stuff.

But I remember just being handed that and I thought well you know that’s not you know that wasn’t what I was introduced to when I got saved into the you know because we sang hymns in the presbyterian church but they didn’t believe in the born-again experience but I liked the hymns but then I was introduced to more modern type of music and you know it was all those maranatha albums or whatever. They Maranatha was it that 100 there was 130 of them I think albums that were made and I really liked all that music so I got used to that after a year and then it’s really really weird how religious spirit sets in when you’re trying not to be religious and now you think well that’s of God and then you know the hymns aren’t and they of course they are but when you’re a young guy a guy you know you just form your own opinions then when I heard this celtic music it was different and then I thought well that’s not a God because it’s not like maranatha you know or whatever you know and it’s really weird how we do that and then you know we have Hillsong.

We think that’s never going to end but then bethel comes and then then you know there’s something else coming next and I want to be part of that but here’s the thing I listened to that album and there was such a presence and these guys look crazy you know these band members but I there was something to it I cannot find that album I couldn’t afford the album when I was in college I couldn’t afford anything I had to believe for my next meal I had no support from anybody even my parents they couldn’t even afford to send me to college

So I had to go my own here’s my point though when I listened to that music it it opened up another world to me there was such an anointing on these instruments and I remember there was one point in the album where this guy mentioned some things as he was speaking at the beginning of a song he was just kind of narrating and he was reading hebrew text but he mentioned the word that is really not in the text but it’s implied and see there’s in the text in genesis it says that God created the heavens and the earth and in Hebrew there’s a couple words that are used there and one of them can be translated as the idea that there was existing matter and it was formed from the existing matter however there is another word ex nihilo which is something out of nothing and that’s the last I heard of that word but recently the lord brought it up to me again and I started doing this study and the reason I’m telling you this is because essentially the other realm is the real realm you know that right it’s more real than this realm so when I was out of my body like if I would pass away here you would come up and run up here and try to give me cpr and I’ll be yelling no don’t and I’d be beside you saying hey I’m right here that’s what happened you don’t feel any pain or anything you just you.

It takes you a minute to figure out what happened because you don’t discern that you’re dead because you never die you just go to the next realm and then you realize that your body was just like a suit it’s just a cheap costume that you can buy at big lots for five bucks it’s really just for here.

You’ll need it here but you don’t need it for the rest of your life, you have a robe of righteousness on and then you’ll be given back at the resurrection your glorified body which is in the image of God it’s actually you’ll look like adam and eve again which is really cool but it’s in a glorified state so it’s even better so I saw all this I was taken and saw everything.

It would take all night just to explain all that but you don’t have to worry if you’re cremated or if you’re a statue somewhere it doesn’t matter if you went to a taxidermist it wouldn’t matter in a twinkling of an eye everything comes back together God doesn’t need your help it’s an amazing process so we all get our body back but it’s glorified and until that time if you pass away then you have a spiritual body your spirit is a real you and so you’re clothed in light but it’s you have a robe

It’s really cool and I felt no different than I did here except for a lot of the things that was not really me stayed here and I was realized that I was returning to my father where I started and this might be too freaky for a lot of people but I was part of God from the beginning

I was part of him I came from him but see I got to be careful but since I’m not in church they can’t kick me out because we rented this place you know so but I saw that I had a father in heaven that I came from and that this world has fallen so in the flesh I experienced a fallen man but when I got born again I realized that this body is what’s limiting me and my organic brain is only taking data and processing it and whatever data you give it that’s what you get out but there is a sole part of you that that goes with you that’s redeemed so whatever you’ve done to redeem your soul your mind will and emotions which is kind of like a spiritual part of you but it’s a different type it’s where the the demonic actually operates in the soul realm

But I can’t get into that because that just causes more confusion but there’s different dimensions in different realms and so a demon doesn’t have to take you and throw you down and spin your head around to be possessed a demon it’s about proximity it’s about how much of your domain you’ve given him okay so God determines the boundaries beforehand so this world has fallen so it’s hard to understand what God originally did and unless you are in Christ and you have the spirit of God to show you through the word of God how things really are if not you’re going to be puzzled all the time about what’s going on so you have to have well-defined understanding about spiritual things in order to operate down here because it’s going to be very confusing because Satan and his demons they take advantage of the fact that you can’t see everything in the spirit that’s going on.

But you can, you have been given the ability to do it but you have to develop it and that’s why it was satan doesn’t want man to live very long because the longer you live down here the chance of you finding God and walking with him become greater and as you grow in God if you walk with God 300 years you’re just going to disappear be raptured you know you’re going to grow and be a giant in this in the faith.

Can you imagine somebody living that long walking with God that many years I mean you would just be able to go to a country and just take it over for God and I mean that so satan doesn’t want Christians to live very long but if he can get into a person that’s in the senate or something you know and get them you know to stay in there for 47 years well then he can start to shift the direction you get it and then you’re like you don’t know when to jump out of the pot.

It’s 110 degrees and it’s 170 not boiling yet when do I jump out well you you know 220 is coming but we just sit there and wait well maybe it’ll turn around because we’re optimists we’re may be it’ll turn around you know maybe it won’t may be you need to step in or step out okay so there’s defined boundaries in the spirit but there’s not in this flesh okay so God took something that was so the word bara I’m discovering now there are two words that that can be used and one’s assa and one’s bhara and one has to dowith something out of nothing which is ex nihilo in in latin okay.

But there’s another one where you take existing matter and you can form it and make something so you can go and make a cake a cake doesn’t just come out of the bowl you have to make it but you put all the ingredients in so a cake doesn’t just appear it’s something you make.

A blanket you know a quilt something that you sew or or knit you create it but it’s out of existing matter okay so God did both he takes things from the other realm yanks him into this realm and then he taught us how to do it so there’s two types of creation there’s taking something from the other realm that already exists and you bring it in and then it’s evident in the flesh or you take existing ingredients and God causes you to create and you can create a sculpture out of a block of rock or you can take a bunch of material and make a quilt or you can knit all these different colors of yarn together which are all separate but when you’re done you’ve got thisy beautiful knitted blanket or whatever you’re gonna make so they’re both creation but one is out of existing material in this realm one is from something out of nothing.

So God calls the things that are not in this realm as though they were because they are so he created the heavens and earth but then he formed man he created him out of the earth that was already in existence okay so here’s where we don’t understand this realm and I just feel like tonight it’s time to release this you see you have to understand these two things in order to understand your life.

There are things that are just going to pop into this realm because you will not let go until God does it okay but then there are other things where he tells you here’s what you do you take this and you create it you make it you form a business you form a church you assemble it you create it we have that ability to take what we sawin the spirit and draw it we can recreate it on film we can do all these different things there’s people that can do things they can replicate anything they can take and see it and do it there’s people that I meet I want to make a 5 000 of them because they’re rare people they actually do what you say and they do more than you ask and they show up for work early you can trust them you don’t have to worry about them

And then there’s people that are in the senate you just want one of them to where you have to have an attorney general that has to stop it see that’s what happened at babel because fallen man was very powerful still and if they agreed on anything there’s nothing they wouldn’t be able to do even what they imagined the word imagination is used there by God he said everything they imagine they’re going to be able to do if we don’t stop them so he had to come down and stop them.

So the way he stopped them was separate them so they couldn’t communicate together then in the days of plague that the continent’s actually separated so like in the united states I’ve done some studies I’ve found places where there’s burial mounds from indians that have hebrew artifacts and and 17-foot giants bones but don’t tell the smithsonian because they’ll come and they’ll just disappear but this has already happened.

So you have hebrew artifacts in burial mounds with people that are twice as tall as you are but when the government comes in they go nothing here just keep walking right okay so what happened it was the days of plague that’s why you have this commonality with different temples pagan temples and different things you see on the earth and how they all line up and things like that there’s a lot of mysteries on the earth but that’s because of this these things we’re dealing with that we can’t see however if you learn how to develop your personality to understand these two things that there are some things you gotta yank into this realm and it’s ex nihilo in other words it’s something out of nothing it’s a total miracle it is just as valid as you taking the ingredients and God saying create this and then you get a patent on it.

It’s something that existed on the other side on the books of heaven but God designated the patent number for you to invent and he tells you to take the ingredients and design it and don’t talk about it until you get the patent number and then it’s yours and God will tell you what need is coming up like I mentioned this morning and then you take from your existing ingredients that you have around you and you make this so that it will meet a need.

It’s just like the guy and I’ve told you this before it’s like the guy you know you open the bag of chips but no you can’t eat the whole bag I mean the three pounder but you try so the guy was just like these things are going to get stale so he just took his wife’s hair clip and he clippedp it shut and bingo now he got the chip clip that’s where he got it.

Did you know that well he ain’t working no more right why because he met a need but it was really his wife so I hope he have to with her since it was her chip her hair clip you know what I’m talking about the banana clips and stuff okay.

So this is what God will do for you he you just meet the need of something you see around you like right now with the trouble I’ve had with a air conditioning people I’m asking people I’ll send you to school I just need a good air conditioner person I’ll send you to school you would be busy the rest of your life you would have to say no you’d have to stand in the mirror and practice saying no I can’t do that because you’d have so much work there’s certain things there’s such a demand right now for electricians and plumbing and especially ac guys and girls so you anticipate the need and and God will do that for you however you have to understand that in these two realms there are two things that you do.

You pray and you call those things that are not as though they were because the substance of your faith is you have it you have the substance of your faith.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for so you literally have it okay so God brings into this realm something from nothing but it’s really there it’s just not here and it appears to be supernatural but to God this is normal but then he also created us from the existing soil the dust of the earth he formed us and made us so then when we die our body returns back to that because it was made from that and that part of us came from the earth but our spirit goes right to God so there’s two types of creation that God used right now I’ve never heard this talk before but it’s evident right in the in scripture okay.

So that is why we have a creative side of us there’s a part of us that wants to yank those things that are not seen into this realm because we have it because we know it’s there that God can do anything but it is violent it is a violent force that we have to drive we have to get real deep within our spirit and we have to say I am not going to be denied and you have to just bite down on it like a bulldog and you got to yank it into this room and I’ve done that for years I had to get a loan all the time because I would be forceful I would not let go and I told jesus I said jesus I said you can I’m going to wrap my arms around your legs you can drag me around heaven but I am not letting go until you bless me because I need help and I did this all the time.

I do this all the time I did this before I came out here I wrapped my arms around his ankles like this and I say you know what you can drag me around heaven you can tell everybody what’s with him oh he’s not going to let go until I give it to him he’s like well give it to him you know it’s dragging me around heaven you know but I’m not going to let go you know I’m putting him in a place where you’ve got to bless me now what it is this wrestling with it’s like wrestling with the angel.

I’m not letting go until you bless me in other words I don’t have anything on my list that I’m asking for when I do that I want him and this is what I told him I said lord all these ministers they want all these different people’s mantles you know like as I was growing up in christianity it’s like well what mammal do you have I go what I’m a christian he goes well you know I have the Elijah mantle and you know I have this you know I’m like william brannon and all these people I’m like okay.

So when I met jesus I told him I wanted his mantle and he just smiled he goes he was just so touched that I would say that I go I said why would I want any other mantle and I can have the head of the universe amen now let’s not be little because you know there are ministry gifts that are you know I understand all that and you know the whole story of Elijah and Elisha but let’s get real jesus wasn’t a part of that scenario back then in the old testament he came even though he’s pre-existent he showed up every now and then but in the new testament we have him so jesus should be allowed to borrow your body and do his ministry through you.

I want the mantle of jesus and he just smiled he was so touched that I would say that and then I realized that if I have him I have everything because he’s with me so I get around people like that have that type of mentality that they’re after jesus and then they get everything okay so remember that when you pray you’re yanking those things that are not but you’re calling them that they call them that they’re acting like they are.

It’s your substance it’s the title deed of what you have you might not have the house but if you get the title deed you do have the house and he will hand you the title before you get the house so it’s yours but you haven’t touched it yet but you have touched it because it’s a document this is how God works if you change your personality in the way you think like God he’s a covenant God if you start thinking like he does it won’t be long before things start appearing they start popping in because you’re not relying on your own ability here okay.

But once you do that in prayer and things start popping through and you start seeing people getting healed and delivered okay then also let him talk to you about creating things from existing matter creating whatever it is that God wants you to create to meet a need israel is doing it every day they take a couple liters of water and put it into a car and drive off because they can separate the hydrogen from the oxygen and becomes clean energy but see don’t tell the oil companies that because you can get it out of your sink and don’t talk about buying something on amazon they’ll do the same thing as pharmaca because all you do is click and it’s at your door in two days with no paperwork no doctor I mean isn’t there healing in the leaves of the tree of life okay.

What else is there that we don’t know about I’m just I’m just showing you something there are things around you that you can take and God made us creative beings we can create life you’re not afraid of that are you no you create life you created somebody in your image you have a child that sounds like that sounds like God to me that God gave you the ability to create life in your image and they grow up and it’s like oh my God they look just like you right after it’s kind they reproduce they multiply but see there’s seed but if you don’t plant that seed you would never know the harvest that you would have so if you want a field you have to plant the seed that you want and then it comes up but you don’t eat it all you take it and you keep replanting it but see that’s your part but see you’re creating but God created the seed but it doesn’t end up being a field unless you plant it right okay.

Do you understand what I’m trying to say here so there’s two types there’s two types of creation so there’s two ways that you do things on this earth you yank things from the other realm but then you also are instructed as part of the solution to take what’s around you and create something out of something that’s in existence already the in other words you take the ingredients and you make something do you understand yourself a little better now that you need both of these things in your life everybody needs to have a creative side of them but see people think that we can’t do both people think that they’re either right-handed or left-handed but Jesus clearly told me that we were made to use all of our brain and even our feet and our toes and our both hands we’re supposed to be operating on both sides of our brain and using both of our hands.

I saw that we had fallen and that we just accepted it but what about the resurrection power that paul talked about that’s going to quicken your mortal body and give life to you what about illumination into real truth where possibly you have more abilities than you think you have your iq is not locked in when I went to college I was 106. when I came back from heaven I was 159.

What happened I started using all more my brain so you can’t just accept your limitations as being the end of it there’s more to it than that okay so is that clear okay.