My Talk With God - Part II

Aquila · #1 02-05-2015, 12:58 PM

Okay, so, it happened again. Only this time I felt like I wasn’t truly getting my prayers beyond the ceiling. As I prayed, I felt the Holy Spirit come over me and I began to feel God speak to me again. It was profound to me. So, I got up and went to the computer to type the conversation out as it was taking place. And as with the first talk with God, I’m struggling to find the proper words for the impressions I received in the Spirit. Therefore, please have mercy upon me if my words don't do justice to the message.

So, ... I’ll share what I received.

Me: God, why do I feel like my prayers aren’t getting past the ceiling? Why do I feel like you’re a million miles away? The gifts were flowing in my life, and suddenly, I feel as though they ceased to flow.

GOD: Your prayers do not need to rise beyond the ceiling. I AM here. And I AM always with you. I have never left you, nor can I ever leave you. Where do you think I AM?

Me: I pictured you in Heaven, looking down upon us all and I was praying that you would come down and visit with me again.

GOD: Come “down” and “visit” with you? (loving laughter) I do not come “down” to “visit” with anyone.

Me: But you have come here. If you don’t come down from Heaven, where do you come from?

GOD: I AM transcendent of both time and space. All temporal reality is indeed before ME at once. I Am not only everywhere, but I Am also every-when. However, I am not remote from my creation, peering into it as one might peer into a fishbowl. I fill all things, from the smallest subatomic particle to the vast expanse of the universe itself… I AM. I do not fill all things quantitatively, because there is no end to my being, I am without measure. However, I fill all things with the very presence of my being. I AM… in the rocks, in the oceans, in the trees, in the breeze, in the mountains, in the sunrise, in the moonlight, in the ant, in the beasts of the field, and in the birds of the air. I AM. I do not come down to visit you, or anyone else. I AM in them and they in me… always. For I cannot cease to be what I AM: the ALL in ALL. In me you live, and move, and have your being. All things were made by me and for me, and yet, it is I who permeates creation’s entirety and I alone hold it together. You are struggling with an illusion, a myth, a falsehood. This misunderstanding is common. You assume that you are separate from me and I from you. The only way we can be “separated” is if you lose our fellowship and your perception of me. And so, even when to you I appear distant… I AM not. I AM very near to you; more near to you… than your own breath. It isn’t I who must come “down” to “visit”… it is you who must elevate your thinking and open the eyes of your spirit to see my pervading presence.

Me: What do you mean by “elevate my thinking and open the eyes of my spirit”?

GOD: There are several issues you must address with regards to elevating your thinking. Since ancient times, mankind has thought that they have to do specific things to gain my presence and my love. In your fallen world one has to “do” or “perform” to gain reward or payment. You do not truly realize what it means to understand that I AM love. Love is the very essence of my nature. I cannot but love you. I created you that I might show my love toward you and to simply be loved in return. But you have conditioned yourself to believe that you must “perform” to earn my love. And so the understanding of my grace and mercy becomes terribly flawed. My grace and my mercy aren’t predicated upon your love for me… but rather, it is predicated upon my love for you. Your performance oriented thinking leads you to believe that you must “do” innumerable things to earn my love, as though I AM a man like you. You believe that you must dress a certain way, perform certain rituals, offer certain sacrifices, and act like someone you truly aren’t… or I will cease to love you. I love you because of who I am. I love you for who you are. I don’t love you based on what you can do for me. Think about it. What can you do for me? What do I lack? I framed the universe; I spoke, “Let there be light!”, and it exploded into existence from nothing. I flung galaxies from my fingertips and filled them with innumerable worlds… and you think I’m impressed by anything you can do for me or give me? Consider this. When you say that you desire to give me something, you’re implying that all things are not already mine. Am I GOD to you or not? All that you have, even your very being, belongs to me. You can’t give me anything… all things are mine. The very logic of the carnal mind seems exalted… but it only exalts you… not me. This is idolatry. While it is performed as worship offered to me… it is only worship offered to you. You think you can impress me... this is only possible if you think that you’re my equal, or worse… superior to me. You think that you can “give” me something… because you assume that what you have to give is yours and yours alone. It’s self-worship. Ah, never saw legalism as “self-worship”? That is what it is. And in your efforts to impress me, give me what is already mine as though I need your charity, you draft lists of things you must do to… save yourself. Does this imply that what I did for you isn’t enough? That you must add to it to perfect it? This kind of thinking is an abomination to me. If you want to impress me, do that which is against your carnal and selfish nature, love. Love me… and then love others as yourself. In this you fulfill all of the Scripture. You feel like I am far from you and like I am not able to hear your prayers because, according to your little list, you’re unworthy. My precious child, no one is “worthy”. However, those who have turned to me are “made worthy” by divine fiat. I have declared it so. Why? Because of the blood. The blood of my Son, the man Jesus Christ, my disdain for your sin and wrath towards you were satisfied. Jesus died in your place, and you still struggle with accepting this. Because of what I did in Him, we can freely be joined in Spirit and have unhindered communion. Because of what I did in Christ Jesus, you can freely partake in the divine nature. Sin’s power is in the self-condemnation it brings. Having partaken in the divine nature, sin is against the new nature of your inner man. As a result, you feel guilt, shame, and condemnation. You are acting against your true nature! In sinning, you are being someone you are not. It is this guilt, shame, and condemnation that begins to separate you from me. I am not leaving you. You cease to pray for fear of my retribution. You begin to judge yourself as unworthy to be used by me or have relationship with me. And if you continue in sin a choice is ultimately laid out before you. Repent, or separate yourself from me so that you might continue in your sin. Do not be deceived by sin. The sin issue has been settled. The guilt and shame from your sin can fool you into believing that I have abandoned you, and therewith, convince you to cut yourself off from me. Remember, Satan is a liar. And sin deceives. I have loved you with an everlasting love. Nothing can separate you from me and my love… but you. So, bring your guilt, shame, and condemnation to me. Cast these cares upon me, because I love you. And I will lift you up above your trials and temptations in due time. Don’t focus on the sins of others to take your focus off of your own guilt. Love. Love unconditionally. Don’t judge another merely because they sin differently than you. You do not know what has happened to them, what their relationship is like with me, nor what I intend to do in them in my own timing. If you and others would grasp the fullness of what I’m telling you, there would be no spiritual abuse. Love would fill your fellowships. And the power of sin would be neutralized as your inner nature changes day by day, you being conformed into my image and likeness.

Seeing with the eyes of your spirit means to perceive me and the reality around you spiritually, to see through the power of my Holy Spirit residing in you. When you seek to find me with the eyes of your spirit you will discover that I AM… in every blade of grace, in every grain of sand, in every flake of new fallen snow, every drop of rain, every gentle breeze, the laughter of children, and every song of the birds of the air. I AM. I AM the all in all. You cannot be separated from me, or run from me, nor hide from me. And then, the greatest revelation of all will begin to dawn upon you. The realization that I AM in you and you are in me. The realization that we too are one. Your separation from all that is, including me, is merely an illusion born from a self-centered consciousness.

Allow me to repeat myself. Seeing with the eyes of your spirit means to perceive me and the reality around you spiritually, to see through the power of my Holy Spirit residing in you. Being born again of the Spirit, you live, or have been made alive, in my Spirit. To be holy you must walk in my Spirit. This means to allow my Spirit to lead and guide you in all things. It doesn’t mean that you are to live according to a religious list of do’s and don’ts. To walk in the Spirit is to find my will for you as it relates to your life and the lives of those around you. Plucking a dozen verses from the Scriptures, codifying them, and then living by them, isn’t walking in the Spirit. It’s designing your own religion. Again, this is idolatry. It’s also spiritually lazy. Most have realized that it is always easier to resort to a default list of anything. Fulfill the obligations on the list and you know your good, right? That’s your thinking process. And it’s gravely mistaken. Seek to experience and realize your union of spirit with me. Realize (make real to yourself) that I am truly living in you, residing in your spiritual being; that you are a living extension of me. We are one spirit. And then allow me to guide you in all things. Yes, many will criticize you as I lead you in directions that are contrary to many of their little lists of do’s and don’ts. But I will lead you into my will for you and your life. You have to choose. Please me, or please people. You cannot always do both. Resolve yourself to doing what I lead and guide you to do… regardless of what others might think. Those who truly love you will love you always. Those who only love you for what you can do for them and how you can boost their egos through your obedience to their carnal and legalistic dictates are the only ones who will cease caring for you. I assure you, these are the only ones holding you back from experiencing the deeper spiritual realities I desire to show you.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Aquila · #2 02-05-2015, 12:59 PM

CONTINUED...

Me: All of this sounds so strange. If you are truly in all things, then what is “idolatry”? For example, Christmas trees were once worshipped by pagan peoples. This is why many believers choose not to have Christmas trees in their homes. If you are in all things, would you not be in pagan idols also?

GOD: My child, first I want to say that I have no preference either way regarding your choice of seasonal décor as it might relate to your human cultures. Second, that which you have not considered or heard before will always sound “strange” at first. As it might relate to pagan idols, I AM in all things, and I AM the all in all. Idolatry is essentially a failure to realize this. While it is true that I AM in the tree and that the tree is in me… I AM not the tree. I AM in the tree and I also transcend the tree. Idolatry serves the tree and not the Creator that fills all things. Idolatry separates the tree from all creation assuming that it is more sacred than other creations. It also separates the tree from me, and assumes an inherent divinity apart from me. Again, idolatry embraces the illusion of separation. Do you not realize that this is why paganism, by nature, produces many “gods”? It is a fragmented and shattered view of my divine reality. Paganism also assumes that these divine realities are like mankind. Their gods are easily angered, vengeful, selfish, ignorant, lacking, filled with agendas, and are embroiled with scandal after scandal. Their “priests” invented these gods to instill fear, superstition, and blind obedience. They would demand vast sacrifices of wealth and even first born children. Give the proper sacrifice and blessing will come to the harvest. If the harvest is lacking, their followers must have failed to give the proper sacrifice or worse yet… sinned against the gods. This is all rooted in the carnal nature of man’s assumption that he is somehow inherently divine. This logic would demand that if man is inherently divine, then the gods must be like man. Most recoil at the notion today. However, the pagans aren’t the only ones who do this. Do not legalists follow the same logic? Legalists depict me as being separate from the creation, up in Heaven, looking down in displeasure and ready to obliterate my creation. Thus, they embrace the illusion of separation. Legalists believe that man must perform and impress me with their sacred acts of behavioral perfection to gain my love, blessing, and affection. They more often depict me as easily angered, vengeful, selfish, lacking, consumed by their earthly organizational agendas, and so on and so forth. If the blessings aren’t flowing… someone is holding out on me with regards to time or money, or worse yet… they have sinned against me. Notice, the legalist shepherds almost never question their own motives, failures, or inabilities. They never question their own behaviors or actions. It is always the fault of the flock. Give more, do more, dress more, obey more. It is the same error. Both pagans and legalists are following after the carnal nature of man. Don’t believe me? Survey the religions of mankind. Do they not all have stringent ascetic practices? Do they not all have dress codes? Do they not all have dietary codes? Do they not all have designated holy days? Do they not all elevate a statue or a text to a place of idolatrous reverence? It is all a product of man’s carnal nature. Many seeking to deify himself and be his own savior. Those who diligently seek me and find me will discover that I am loving, compassionate, forgiving, and full of grace. I delight in forgiving and using the unworthy. The legalist fails to understand this and as a result, they often miss the initial movement of my Spirit. This is why they appear to be constantly stuck in the past. It saddens me to watch my children live their lives fixated on the past… and as a result they fail to see the blessed possibilities and realities I wish to open up to them in both their present and their future. So, overcome by refusing to buy into the error of separation.

Me: Lord, you had said, “Love me… and then love others as yourself. In this you fulfill all of the Scripture.” I understand the concept, but how does loving others, even the most vile and sinful of mankind, equal to demonstrating our love for you?

GOD: First, all men are my beloved children. I have created them all. I AM the Father of all creation. All souls are mine. My love and grace has gone forth through my Spirit and has spoken to the “inner man”, or “spirit”, residing in every human soul. When their “inner man” rejects my grace in favor of their sinful desires and learned religious ways, I give them over to their heart’s desires. I will not coerce them. However, when a man’s spirit responds to my Spirit’s call, I open the doors for them to hear the Gospel. Upon hearing the Gospel they have a conscious choice to make. They can surrender to the revealed need of the “inner man” and embrace the Gospel… or they can consciously resist or reject it. While I will not coerce them, I know what is in the minds and hearts of men. Some truly want to surrender in the deepest recesses of their being, but they consciously refuse for fear of loss. I will send trials and uncomfortable circumstances their way. In this, I bring their conscious mind into alignment with their inner man’s desire to surrender by revealing the fullness of their need through desperation. I do not like disciplining my children to get them to surrender to me. However, I will. Why? It is because; I love them with an everlasting love. The light and temporary trials of my power will one day be forgotten as they enter into the eternal joys of my presence.

So, the point of this, my child, is that you have not met a person who has not been approached by my grace. Nor have you ever met a person who I didn’t love as my very own. Nor have you ever met a person who wasn’t made in my image. Nor have you ever met a person who wasn’t living, moving, and having their being in me. Neither have you ever met a person whom the blood of Christ wasn’t shed for. When you love another, you show your love for me in that you show love towards one to whom I have shown grace, bestowed my love, is made in my image, subsists in my being, and who I shed my blood for. This isn’t about you and what you think about them. You often fall off track when you begin judging another merely because they sin differently than you do. You are to love them as yourself, because they are truly no different than you. Remember, separation is an illusion, an error. You’re all sinners. You all have an opportunity to be saved. You’re all hopelessly lost without my love and grace. There truly is no definite separation between you. Yes, there is distinction, but not separation. You are… a people. The human race. Sons and daughters of Adam. When you fail to love someone, you are denying that I have shown them grace, denying that I love them as my own, denying that they are entitled to love and respect as a being made in my image, denying that they subsist in me, and denying the power of the blood that was shed for them. To fail to love others… is to establish an outright rejection of who and what I AM in relation to all of mankind. In loving them, you infinitely elevate your thinking and being higher than the law ever could elevate you. You fulfill the very spirit and intention of the entire Law.

Me: But many have said over and over again that this is too easy. Pleasing you can’t simply be a matter of loving you and loving others.

GOD: Whoever would argue that loving others is “too easy” doesn’t know what love is. Is loving others truly that simple? Loving others isn’t mere sentimentality. It is serving them and caring for them. When was the last time you fed the hungry, clothed the naked, assisted the poor, the orphan, and the widow? I’d much rather you be adorned with these things than your regulated church attire. Servicing and the giving of one’s very self to heal the physical, emotional, and economic hurts and wounds of another isn’t “easy”. It demands that which is more precious to you than all your material wealth. It demands… your time. When you give 4 hours on a weekend to assist a local soup kitchen in a homeless shelter, you spent 240 minutes that you’ll never see again. You cannot buy them back, replace them, or redeem them later. Therefore, even giving financially isn’t as great a sacrifice as service. When I walked among you in the flesh, I came to serve, not to be served, did I not? I sent you out to do the same - to DEMONSTRATE my love and spread my message of grace through the cross by not only your words… but also your good deeds. These are the “good works” that you are called to do. Yet again, you have embraced the siren song of the legalists and religionists. They have convinced you that your obligations is to their earthly organizational empires and that you fulfill your call by merely “preaching at” the lost. You truly “preach to” the lost when your hands and your words speak my message of love, grace, and compassion together. Visiting the orphan and the widow in their affliction, this is “true religion”. This reveals the truth you hold in your heart more than any religious performance you might fulfill out of your own self-centered will. Remember, separation is an illusion. When you have fed the hungry, clothed the naked, cared for the poor, visited the orphans and the widows… you’ve done this unto… ME. And when you have neglected or failed to do these things… you have neglected ME. If living a life of truly loving others is so “easy”… why is it that the vast majority of you have yet to serve in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, clothing closets, halfway houses, and other charities? You’re all dressed up… with no idea as to where to go or what to do! You keep having service after service - song, offerings, sermon, songs, altar-call. Song, offering, sermon, song altar-call. Song, offering, sermon, song altar-call. Song, offering, sermon, song altar-call. Song, offering, sermon, song altar-call. Over and over and over. And you profess that you don’t have a liturgy full of vain repetition! It’s vain because the sermons don’t empower and release you to serve your dying society! You weep and mourn over the condition of your country, yet you are doing NOTHING but going through the repeated motions of church service after church service after church service. Your churches launch building programs and raise billions ever year as you strive to be “mega churches” to entrap more and more souls into our vain repetitions. What if the next time you saw a mega-church you saw what I see… brick and mortar that could have been used to house the homeless, orphans, or the mentally ill? What if you saw funds that could have been used to establish food pantries and soup kitchens? Shelters for battered women. Community youth centers. Hospitals and clinics. Some mega-churches have established these kinds of services… but more have not. For most, it is a peripheral issue. Loving the lost is peripheral? Whatsoever you have done unto the least of these, you have done unto me. Am I peripheral? Truth be told… yes I am. I am peripheral to your organizational agendas and quest for empire. How do I know? Because of the way you neglect the least of these.

Loving others isn’t mere sentimentality. Truly loving others will bring a life of loving service. Now, wouldn’t you agree that dress codes and your various legalisms are far more “easy” than what love requires of you???

Aquila · #3 02-05-2015, 01:00 PM

Me: This message isn’t going to be popular.

GOD: I never called a man to be popular.

Me: What if others read this and think that I’ve lost my mind?

GOD: I would that every man lost his mind and put on the mind of Christ.

Me: No, seriously, I mean what if they don’t believe this talk we’re having is real?

GOD: My child, what others think is of no consequence when we have communion. What if you neglect to share our conversation and discover that I have truly spoken to you? Would you risk looking like a fool to please me? Or am I embarrassing to you? What I have told you is eternal and cannot be refuted with all the different combinations of their various legalisms and carnal notions. And my child, I assure you, there are fewer critics than you imagine. Most will affirm that they too have felt me impress upon them the very same understandings. I simply want them to read in plain language something that confirms what they already know to be true. To conform that which I have already spoken to them.

Me: What if some people ask about these talks being on the same level as Scripture? It is certainly an important issue, are we not adding to Scripture in our discussions?

GOD: My beloved, you have yet to fully grasp that I spoke through men of God as the Spirit moved upon them. And I AM the one who chose the cannon of Scripture that you have today. When I spoke to them, I removed all filters. And that which they wrote was therefore in inerrant. However, when I speak to a man today, I do not remove the filters as I did when breathing the Scriptures to them. As my impressions fall upon your spirit, you are limited as to your vocabulary, your ability to communicate these concepts. Therefore, our discussion isn’t “inerrant”.

Me: So, I might have misunderstood you?

GOD: No man can perfectly understand all that I have to reveal. Remember, you are interpreting…not recording.

Me: Why me?

GOD: Why not you? I’ve spoken to every soul who will read these words. You’re separating again. Realize, you are one with your readers. I have spoken to every soul. Many have been afraid to openly present what I have had to say for fear of rejection or being mocked. What if my purpose is to give them the courage to actually speak the words that I have given them? So go now and share what I have said to you. Do so without fear or shame. Those who love you will love you, though they think you’ve lost your mind. Those who deny you their love and reject you never truly loved you and only wanted a reason to reject you.

Me: Okay, I’ll share this. I do have one more question. You’ve not quoted Scripture in all of this. Many will say that it isn’t “biblical”. What would you say to this?

GOD: I have said many things that can indeed be found in the Scripture. You might wish to study and search out that which I have said here. Some of what I have said are implications that can indeed be drawn from the Scripture. And there are some things that are spiritually discerned. Remember, your relationship is with me… not a book. The book points to me. If you memorize every word in the Scriptures, yet you fail to develop a personal relationship with me, you never discovered the Scriptures full intention. Go now, and share what I have spoken unto you.

Evang.Benincasa · #4 02-05-2015, 01:30 PM

Sure that wasn't the voice of the Mahdi?

Evang.Benincasa · #5 02-05-2015, 01:35 PM

Aquila are you related to Helen Schucman?

Evang.Benincasa · #6 02-05-2015, 01:43 PM

Quote:

I AM not the tree. I AM in the tree and I also transcend the tree. Idolatry serves the tree and not the Creator that fills all things. Idolatry separates the tree from all creation assuming that it is more sacred than other creations.

Did this voice ask you if you have ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?