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Have you heard of the period of history known as the Enlightenment? This period is incorrectly named, for enlightenment is another Biblical term for revelation, and this was a time in which revelation was rejected in favor of human reasoning. What consequences of this change do you still see in effect today? Do you encounter believers who will only accept things they can figure out from their own study of the Bible? I have much to show you from the Bible, but I want you to be aware that it is I who am showing it to you. What does a man have that he did not receive from heaven? Come to me and let me enlighten you. 

Do you tend to judge people by the behavior of their children? Do you assume that the influence of a parent is so strong that there is a direct cause and effect relationship between the conduct of the children and the quality of the parenting? Yet have you not known devout and diligent parents who nonetheless had children who went astray? Consider my own story of the prodigal son. Was there anything wrong with the love of the father? Yet the younger son still departed and disgraced the family. You are not called to judge others. How much less based on the conduct of someone else? 

Are you aware that you live in a fallen world? You see suffering and sin and death and decay. Does it fill your heart with sorrow when you see this evidence? Yet I do not want you to be discouraged. I declared the world to be good before it became a fallen world and it is still my creation. If you look you will see the evidence for this too, in a world that sustains life and growth. Look and see the beauty in this world that is a reflection of my beauty, and see my presence everywhere, intervening in my creation to continually sustain it with favor and blessing. He who has eyes to see, let him see. 

Chiropractic care is not just for pain in your back or neck. Regular chiropractic treatment ensures that any minor misalignments in one's vertebrae are quickly corrected so that the nerves which pass through them to various organs do not have any pressure on them. Pressure on a nerve curtails the signals being transmitted from the brain to that organ, and that in turn causes the organ to degenerate.

You understand my commandments to avoid idolatry, and that idols can be things other than graven images. You need something to acknowledge as being of supreme importance, and I alone am capable of filling this role. If you don’t choose me you will choose something inferior. Have you noticed that unbelievers find something on which they place undue influence? Lacking a sense of the transcendent they find something close at hand to serve as an anchor. I want you to have a higher viewpoint from which you have a true perspective. Only in me do you have an eternal and infinite horizon and he who is spiritual judges all things. 

I stood in the auditorium worshiping God among others gathered for that same purpose.  We were visiting a church and the time of worship was anointed.  It was as if we were no longer in a building but gathered around the throne in heaven throwing our praise like flower petals onto the greatest lover we could ever encounter.

Do you know that my Spirit indwells you? For I have declared that your body is my temple. This should not make you arrogant, but you should view it as a tremendous responsibility. All your thoughts and actions should be considered in the light of the fact that you are my dwelling place. Yet I do not want you to think of this as a burden, but rather as an opportunity. I said that you are the light of the world. Conduct yourself with a conscious awareness that I am in you and respond accordingly in every situation. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and hear your good words and glorify me. 

Question: Can you please explain to me why Dr. Mercola's website discourages eating grains when the Bible has Scriptures directing us to eat grains? 

I eat the Ezekiel Bread and other organic bread. Jesus multiplied bread and fish to feed the hungry thousands who were following him. In fact, Jesus himself ate bread. Can you then make sense as to why people are telling us not to eat grains? Barbara Jean

Do you know anyone whose education makes them arrogant and mean? My word warns that knowledge puffs up. Do you know anyone whose faith has the same effect on them? You should find this to be even more disturbing, and my word warns of those because of whom the way of truth is evil spoken of. The first principle of a physician is to do no harm. Follow this same advice in the practice of your faith. I declared woe unto the world because of offenses, but some offenses are inevitable. Some will find it offensive if you are faithful to me. This is acceptable to me, but don’t give them occasion to be offended because your conduct sets a bad example.

C.S. Lewis said that to love at all is to be vulnerable.  It’s a powerful statement.  The choice to love is inherently risky.  It’s risky because in order to love we have to extend ourselves in some way.  In order to love we must give something up…we must become vulnerable.