Higher Level Believing Skills......does not mean:

Higher level believing skills as a phrase came to me recently as listening by the Spirit.

It does NOT mean getting better at fooling yourself about stuff, but getting better at seeing.

Seeing is imagining.  Not your fantasies, rather your best desires.  The beneficial ones for all.

Then, interacting with YAH - the mighty One - to see them actually happen.  So they DO.

This could be considered a counter-concept to mere "thinking", all by yourself-elf.

Relationship is key and Y'shua is key to relationship with YAH, His Baba.

The key to receiving the thing.  We're ALMOST THERE....!!!

I just LOVE my spiritual Baba SO MUCH!

Are We the Highest? Really? Who Is?

Sad if a person thinks that we humans in this dimension are the highest form of intelligence on the planet.  Then all that really counted ultimately would be Who's Who.  And presto - we have this culture of the celebrity.  Everything's a competition.  Plus, we can only "fix" ourselves. 

But how do we even know we need fixing?  What perception causes us to perceive that anything is amiss?  Wanting to stop pain?  What is the source of compassion for others' pain?

Sure these questions are always around in some intellectual forum.  Can you discover answers really in that way?  In seeking elsewhere a person may discover greater darkness.

Scary if that overtakes a person and the one avenue of light becomes unthinkable, even shut off.  Sigh.  If we make up our own Higher Being, is it really higher?  How do we imagine that?  I don't mean aliens, but there are some "higher" beings that are not good, pretenders, even.

Anyway, the culture is crazy.  It's all about US.  In a crowd but lonely for understanding.  For acceptance, without having to keep up with all this popularity and the latest crap.  Sigh again, and UGH.  Father!  We need more grace than I can possibly imagine.  Visit US again!  BIG-TIME!  (And I don't mean the Pope - sorry).

Using Free Will to Invest in Relationship

The more we use our free will to choose Him - our creator - the more deep pleasure we can experience in the interaction.  He gives His word, and it does happen accordingly.
Furthermore it's not primarily thinking that leads a person to this place but an instinct.  Thinking may lead you to a conclusion, but only experiencing can lead you to actual Truth.

So this is not a Science fiction show wherein a force takes over your will and mind and then you are "one" with it.  That is violation - loss of control.  But this oneness I mean, is what we are created FOR, this relationship of Trust and surrender that leaves you with even more free will - paradoxically.  Reinvest in this interior exchange and you have an eternity of His presence in which is extreme joy and love.  By choice.  You become more who you really are.

Come on, believers in Y'shua!  Transcend the crap and focus on Father.  It's hard - I know, believe me - extremely hard at times, circumstantially; but what else is for such high eternal value?  Plus phenomenal supernatural enjoyment here and now.  This is what "all this" is for.

Is Hair Intrinsically Good or...?

I think I am having a questionable hair day.  Is hair intrinsically GOOD, so then it's so abnormal to have a BAD HAIR DAY?  Today my hair is extremely non-committal.  

You don't hear about someone having a GOOD HAIR DAY.  So are we starting from that premise?  My hair is intrinsically strong-willed.   It is straight and fine so it really refuses to give me any love.  Unless I LIKE it flat.  Like - zero body and thin.  A thinner BODY, fine.

But for hair - no thanks.  But people with thick hair seem to want it straighter and flatter.  Maybe what's intrinsically BAD is that we develop unrealistic ideas of "Good".  Style-wise.

I like the Good Lion's hair.  It is soft but thick.  It doesn't have to be messed with to fix it up.  I think it changes color with His mood - Golden to white.  To what-have-you.  As for me, am I gray or silver?  (Bad lion shaggy, sparse, never mind).  The Good Lion IS intrinsically Good.  

Mind and Heart - together but...

With the human mind, we believe.  With the human heart, we receive.  Both are necessary to discovery.  A child can do this.  They are trusting, and believe you.  They then experience the realities presented.  Simple.  Words convert to deep wells.

I was just with my lively 3 year old granddaughter, painting together.  My mind is now JELLY but my heart is JOYFUL.  Which part do you think I enjoy most?  It's Valentines's Day.

Almost...at one point, I drew a heart and she filled it in --eradicating it in the process!  Heart stuff is ALWAYS MESSY!   But more fun!!

When Y'shua - Jesus - rejoiced greatly it was because Father has hidden the best things - of the heart - from the self-made wise, and revealed them to the very young.  Yay, YaHWeH!

What Multiplies for Us

Psalmist King David often poured out his heart to YAH.   Yahweh.  The Psalms finish with "HalleluJAH!"  in the end.  Psalm 150.  David often refocused on HIS comforting attributes.

He voices his complaint, yet then repeats the truths of the goodness of his Shepherd.  Sometimes he begins with those because he's overflowing with joy and security.  Or just needs to remind himself.

When one prays with anxiety and stays there - anxiety multiplies.  One is left with little help.

When you feast on faith - feeding yourself on His goodness - faith multiplies, with goodness.

This is why "He prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies." Ps 23:5.  So we can fill our "bellies" with warm, nourishing goods of our Shepherd, displacing acid stomach.