To God be The glory, Amen

When you see a man selling handkerchiefs and still sweating profusely in traffic (on the streets in Nigeria,) it tells you that possession is not the same as ownership! Your life belongs to God, He created you for a reason! Have you discovered it, attained it? Do you practice it? NO! There is NONE perfect but God!!!

No matter what belief system, religion, practice. We realize that it ALL comes from ONE point. How we choose to honor The Point, The Center and Origin of our existence, so be it, there is a central awesomeness to ALL life. It is fine if people disbelieve. Soon enough they will realize, may be too late. We at this point have a decision, some might have a reason. But, to remain safe, it is better to lay your bets on the best side in the greatest debate of life!

So often, we discuss Satan. What made him? Obviously, not much thinking is done. Our greatest challenge was created by The SAME Origin as us. Here I shy away from deity and such words. We were created or to be simple born. Each with their strengths and weaknesses. What makes you unique? You are YOU! NOBODY else can claim that! Chech this out: twins have unique properties, they even disagree. Chech this put further- Siamese twins are the same way. Yes! They share a body, but wi th the difference in brains, Spirits, they are as individual in terms of reasoning as two separate individuals!
We currently have a say because we are given a choice. Staying areligious we had the choice to choose and our portion of His-story was forever changed, as far as life is concerned we might temporarily have it, but we do not own it. To be less vague, we were made in His image, from many ‘Read’ volumes, are there sexes in Heaven? Yes based on personalities, you are you- Ageless! So, be careful what you do with your time before the claims who/what He created and asks you what you did with His creation. Makes you think! What have you/do you/are you moved to do?

THE LAST WISHES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT…..
On his death bed, Alexander summoned his army generals and told them his three ultimate wishes:

1. The best doctors should carry his coffin …

2. The wealth he has accumulated (money, gold, precious stones) should be scattered along the procession to the cemetery …

3. His hands should be let loose, so they hang outside the coffin for all to see !!

One of his generals who was surprised by these unusual requests asked Alexander to explain.
Here is what Alexander the Great had to say:

1. “I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that in the face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal ..”

2. “I want the road to be covered with my treasure so that everybody sees that material wealth acquired on earth, will stay on earth..”

3. I want my hands to swing in the wind, so that people understand that we come to this world empty handed and we leave this world empty handed after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is : TIME.

We do not take to our grave any material wealth. TIME is our most precious treasure because it is LIMITED. We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time.

When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back . Our time is our life!

The best present that you can give to your family is your time and to God is your life..

May God grant YOU plenty of TIME, and as you focus on Him, be blessed with His creation.

When you see a man selling handkerchiefs and still sweating profusely in traffic (on the streets in Nigeria,) it tells you that possession is not the same as ownership! Your life belongs to God, He created you for a reason! Have you discovered it, attained it? Do you practice it? NO! There is NONE perfect but God!!!

No matter what belief system, religion, practice. We realize that it ALL comes from ONE point. How we choose to honor The Point, The Center and Origin of our existence, so be it, there is a central awesomeness to ALL life. It is fine if people disbelieve. Soon enough they will realize, may be too late. We at this point have a decision, some might have a reason. But, to remain safe, it is better to lay your bets on the best side in the greatest debate of life!

So often, we discuss Satan. What made him? Obviously, not much thinking is done. Our greatest challenge was created by The SAME Origin as us. Here I shy away from deity and such words. We were created or to be simple born. Each with their strengths and weaknesses. What makes you unique? You are YOU! NOBODY else can claim that! Chech this out: twins have unique properties, they even disagree. Chech this put further- Siamese twins are the same way. Yes! They share a body, but wi th the difference in brains, Spirits, they are as individual in terms of reasoning as two separate individuals!
We currently have a say because we are given a choice. Staying areligious we had the choice to choose and our portion of His-story was forever changed, as far as life is concerned we might temporarily have it, but we do not own it. To be less vague, we were made in His image, from many ‘Read’ volumes, are there sexes in Heaven? Yes based on personalities, you are you- Ageless! So, be careful what you do with your time before the claims who/what He created and asks you what you did with His creation. Makes you think! What have you/do you/are you moved to do?

THE LAST WISHES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT…..
On his death bed, Alexander summoned his army generals and told them his three ultimate wishes:

1. The best doctors should carry his coffin …

2. The wealth he has accumulated (money, gold, precious stones) should be scattered along the procession to the cemetery …

3. His hands should be let loose, so they hang outside the coffin for all to see !!

One of his generals who was surprised by these unusual requests asked Alexander to explain.
Here is what Alexander the Great had to say:

1. “I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that in the face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal ..”

2. “I want the road to be covered with my treasure so that everybody sees that material wealth acquired on earth, will stay on earth..”

3. I want my hands to swing in the wind, so that people understand that we come to this world empty handed and we leave this world empty handed after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is : TIME.

We do not take to our grave any material wealth. TIME is our most precious treasure because it is LIMITED. We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time.

When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back . Our time is our life!

The best present that you can give to your family is your time and to God is your life..

May God grant YOU plenty of TIME, and as you focus on Him, be blessed with His creation.

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But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in Heaven will forgive your sins, too.”
Mark 11:25
Do we recite and remember The LORD’s Prayer? “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” A solid reminder of how important it is to let go. Yes! There at times is so much we deal with, but think of the words of “Our Father.” Not just a simple prayer. Jesus taught that when and how we pray should be…

Let us take the time to review The LORD’s prayer:
But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too.”
Mark 11:25
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DBKaUf7QiU5Y&ved=0ahUKEwikrbK_nd_ZAhVEpFkKHfWyCysQt9IBCHAwDw&usg=AOvVaw3VdHYW08nnH9cVUooQe-2a

The Lord’s Prayer (also called the Our Father or Pater Noster, among other names) is a venerated Christian prayer that, according to the New Testament, Jesus taught as the way to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded: the long form in the Gospel of Matthew in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, and the short form in the Gospel of Luke when “one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.'”
The first three of the seven petitions in Matthew address God; the other four are related to human needs and concerns. The Matthew account alone includes the “Your will be done” and the “Rescue us from the evil one” (or “Deliver us from evil”) petitions. Both original Greek texts contain the adjective epiousios, which does not appear in any other classical or Koine Greek literature; while controversial, “daily” has been the most common English-language translation of this word. Some Christians, particularly Protestants, conclude the prayer with a doxology, a later addendum appearing in some manuscripts of Matthew.
Matthew 6:9-13 (NRSV) Luke 11:2-4 (NRSV)
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.
Do we know how to pray? We have been taught. The baseline exists. Do we know how to speak to/with God? This is important! Jesus was asked “How do we pray?” He in His sermon to many on the mount stated the example.

So, each time we pray, there are points we are to touch on:
http://pastoravis.blogspot.com/2012/07/prayer-points-to-build-your-faith.html?m=1

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-turning-point-in-prayer-701529

“In that day you will say: ‘Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted’” – (Isaiah 12:4)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/praying-in-the-powerful-name-of-jesus.html%3famp=1

There at times is question on “How to pray.” Yes! We have touched on it. Do you pray? How?
To stay extremely focused, we were taught how to pray daily. We have glossed over The Word and it has been pointed out:
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
We can say so much, we have a Father. What He has led people to teach is how and when to pray. For many a father or daddy is a best friend, a guide, an example (in some cases of what to surely do, in others- What not to do.) We are guided in a way by our parents here.
It was pointed out that we have a Father in Heaven. I avoid using the term “Daddy”, Yes! When our relationship with our Creator becomes so that we are an extension of Him, we can call Him as led. To many we say “Our Father.” This is correct. Our maker, our Creator, in Whose image we are created.

We have shared that we are permanent once created, where will you be after your brief stay on Earth? We were all created for a reason. What is that reason? In Christ, we find so many examples.
God, can be in three forms (essentially, He can be in ANY form he wishes.)
We read of Jacob who was renamed Israel, he wrestled a figure all night. Just who was this figure? Amazingly, when dawn came and he was still without being defeated Jacob was renamed Isreal, the source of the first nation of God. One key point is that after wrestling all night. The figure he wrestled simply touch his hip and he was staff bound for the rest of his days. Could this have been done at the beginning of the “fight”? I will let you mull that over. Yet the figure wrestled through the night.

Even if this was just an angel, they have supernatural powers. In trying to summarize, I was a bit set aside by what I read in an attempt to share. Angels were created outside the bounds of time. We as believers each have an angel assigned to us.
Spiritual Angels
• Cosmic Awareness.
• Empathy.
• Energy Manipulation. Absorption. Barriers. Blasts. Constructs.
• Enhanced Condition or Supernatural Condition.
• Invulnerability.
• Malleable Anatomy/Shapeshifting.
• Spirit Physiology. Flight. Illusion Manipulation. Intangibility. Possession. Telekinesis. Teleportation
Again, we can go into discussion at a later point, but being that we are here to share on the way to pray. We will do just that, pray reflecting on what we have been taught. As we focus more on why we are here, we develop an even deeper, more rotund relationship with our Father in Heaven.

God filled and blessed day to you! May we keep our focus on our Creator.
Amazingly, The Isrealites saw SO much, Joseph was sold into slavery- Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, he rose to become vizier, the second most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh, where his presence and office caused Israel to leave Canaan and settle in Egypt.
From The stepping away from God, God planned and Moses was born. Do we see how time is essence is not what God sees? In Heaven ‘time’ does not exist, experiences do. When the Universe was created, all was centered around the Sun. So many things can be shared on this.
1. God created the Sun and planets. A precise orbit? Time and ‘Space’ have no relation to creation. If God created the Sun, how BRIGHT is He? If Moses were to see His face, he would be no more. Moses who walked, talked and fellowshipped with God only saw Him from the rear.

2. Life/existence/Creation is His story. God’s story of existence. Before the Universe was created, what is not seen existed. What is seen can be ‘timed’ to Millions of years. When did dinosaurs walk the Earth. We have estimated time from the bones we have found. Again, Man was the final creation before God ‘rested’. Amazingly, there is no day and or night outside of this world. This life is circled around Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Years, Decades, Centuries. Outside of Earth, these are different. What is a ‘day’ on Mars? Not 24 hours!

3. Even traveling between stellar objects takes ‘time.’ If you truly think of it, ‘experience’ is what it calls for. ‘Time’ taken to reach a point in no way matters, it truly is the experience in getting there. Yes, we have read of the tree of life.
In the Book of Genesis, the tree of life is first described in chapter 2, verse 9 as being planted with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Hebrew: עֵץ הַדַּעַת‬) “in the midst of the Garden of Eden” by God. In Genesis 3:24 cherubim guard the way to the tree of life at the east end of the Garden.
ask whether we will eat food in heaven because eating is not only necessary to stay alive, but it is also so very enjoyable! Because eating is enjoyable, many people conclude that what is enjoyable on earth (sex, family relationships, etc.) will naturally be present in heaven. Although the Bible does not give us a detailed answer to the question of eating food in heaven, a few observations from the Scriptures are in order.

It is interesting to note that when the Lord Jesus celebrated the Passover with His disciples shortly before His crucifixion, He referred to eating and drinking in the kingdom. “Assuredly, I say to you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the Kingdom of God’” (Mark 14:25). The earthly millennial kingdom is certainly in view here, and in that kingdom all who are His followers will have already received their resurrection bodies. It would appear from this statement that we, in our glorified bodies, will eat and drink in the millennial kingdom. But what about the heavenly kingdom?

When John the Apostle was given a vision of the New Jerusalem, he was shown “a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse…” (Revelation 22:1-3). The text does not say whether we will actually eat the fruit of the tree of life, but that is certainly possible.

If we will be eating in heaven, we don’t know for sure what the heavenly menu may contain, although it has been suggested that perhaps our diet will be like that of Adam and Eve in paradise before the fall. “And God said, ‘See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food’” (Genesis 1:29).

In the end, we don’t really know if, or what, we will eat in heaven. Believers only “know in part” (1 Corinthians 13:9). The joys of being forever with our Savior who is the Bread of Life are beyond our limited abilities to comprehend, for “it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure” (1 John 3:2-3).

We can further catch glimpses at this actuality is reading The Word.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.crosswalk.com/faith/bible-study/what-is-the-tree-of-life.html%3famp=1

4. If life is centered around God; think of it! We WOULD NOT be except we were created (In His image!) Yes, God created all before He created Man. In the His-story of creation, Man came at the tail end. Yes, on the seventh day (In the seventh “period,” God rested. We are in that period) Creation occurred bit by bit, Man was last, we have understood “days of the ‘week'” as Sunday-Saturday. Did these days exist in earlier time’s? What was Adams Monday? His Saturday? Time existed here on Earth as dictated by where the Sun, the center of The Universe is.
Amazingly, no two planets have ever collided, they are on a path determined by The Creator. A day is NOT 24 hours on the moon. On Jupiter or Mars. We were created to experience a ‘day’ being 24 hours long.
Think further, due to their position on Earth
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.[1] It is also referred to as temporal frequency, which emphasizes the contrast to spatial frequency and angular frequency. The period is the duration of time of one cycle in a repeating event, so the period is the reciprocal of the frequency.[2] For example, if a newborn baby’s heart beats at a frequency of 120 times a minute, its period—the time interval between beats—is half a second (that is, 60 seconds divided by 120 beats). Frequency is an important parameter used in science and engineering to specify the rate of oscillatory and vibratory phenomena, such as mechanical vibrations, audio signals (sound), radio waves, and light.

https://www.quora.com/Ethnic-and-Cultural-Differences-How-did-the-concept-of-7-day-week-originate-and-spread-across-the-world

But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in Heaven will forgive your sins, too.”
Mark 11:25
Do we recite and remember The LORD’s Prayer? “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” A solid reminder of how important it is to let go. Yes! There at times is so much we deal with, but think of the words of “Our Father.” Not just a simple prayer. Jesus taught that when and how we pray should be…

Let us take the time to review The LORD’s prayer:
But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too.”
Mark 11:25
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DBKaUf7QiU5Y&ved=0ahUKEwikrbK_nd_ZAhVEpFkKHfWyCysQt9IBCHAwDw&usg=AOvVaw3VdHYW08nnH9cVUooQe-2a

The Lord’s Prayer (also called the Our Father or Pater Noster, among other names) is a venerated Christian prayer that, according to the New Testament, Jesus taught as the way to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded: the long form in the Gospel of Matthew in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, and the short form in the Gospel of Luke when “one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.'”
The first three of the seven petitions in Matthew address God; the other four are related to human needs and concerns. The Matthew account alone includes the “Your will be done” and the “Rescue us from the evil one” (or “Deliver us from evil”) petitions. Both original Greek texts contain the adjective epiousios, which does not appear in any other classical or Koine Greek literature; while controversial, “daily” has been the most common English-language translation of this word. Some Christians, particularly Protestants, conclude the prayer with a doxology, a later addendum appearing in some manuscripts of Matthew.
Matthew 6:9-13 (NRSV) Luke 11:2-4 (NRSV)
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.
Do we know how to pray? We have been taught. The baseline exists. Do we know how to speak to/with God? This is important! Jesus was asked “How do we pray?” He in His sermon to many on the mount stated the example.

So, each time we pray, there are points we are to touch on:
http://pastoravis.blogspot.com/2012/07/prayer-points-to-build-your-faith.html?m=1

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-turning-point-in-prayer-701529

“In that day you will say: ‘Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted’” – (Isaiah 12:4)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/praying-in-the-powerful-name-of-jesus.html%3famp=1

There at times is question on “How to pray.” Yes! We have touched on it. Do you pray? How?
To stay extremely focused, we were taught how to pray daily. We have glossed over The Word and it has been pointed out:
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
We can say so much, we have a Father. What He has led people to teach is how and when to pray. For many a father or daddy is a best friend, a guide, an example (in some cases of what to surely do, in others- What not to do.) We are guided in a way by our parents here.
It was pointed out that we have a Father in Heaven. I avoid using the term “Daddy”, Yes! When our relationship with our Creator becomes so that we are an extension of Him, we can call Him as led. To many we say “Our Father.” This is correct. Our maker, our Creator, in Whose image we are created.

We have shared that we are permanent once created, where will you be after your brief stay on Earth? We were all created for a reason. What is that reason? In Christ, we find so many examples.
God, can be in three forms (essentially, He can be in ANY form he wishes.)
We read of Jacob who was renamed Israel, he wrestled a figure all night. Just who was this figure? Amazingly, when dawn came and he was still without being defeated Jacob was renamed Isreal, the source of the first nation of God. One key point is that after wrestling all night. The figure he wrestled simply touch his hip and he was staff bound for the rest of his days. Could this have been done at the beginning of the “fight”? I will let you mull that over. Yet the figure wrestled through the night.

Even if this was just an angel, they have supernatural powers. In trying to summarize, I was a bit set aside by what I read in an attempt to share. Angels were created outside the bounds of time. We as believers each have an angel assigned to us.
Spiritual Angels
• Cosmic Awareness.
• Empathy.
• Energy Manipulation. Absorption. Barriers. Blasts. Constructs.
• Enhanced Condition or Supernatural Condition.
• Invulnerability.
• Malleable Anatomy/Shapeshifting.
• Spirit Physiology. Flight. Illusion Manipulation. Intangibility. Possession. Telekinesis. Teleportation
Again, we can go into discussion at a later point, but being that we are here to share on the way to pray. We will do just that, pray reflecting on what we have been taught. As we focus more on why we are here, we develop an even deeper, more rotund relationship with our Father in Heaven.

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