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How many problems can I create for those humans today?

Are my problems either caused or allowed by God, or am I just having problems – or am I, somehow, responsible for all the problems and pain in my life?

The foregoing question is funneled into four apparent possible answers:

1. Everything is caused by God, or:

2. Everything is allowed by God, or:

3. Each of my challenges is just “one of those things,” or:

4. I, somehow, bring all the crap in my life onto myself.

Are any of the above correct? One reason it could be important to know is that if you are beginning to have a desire to overcome whatever challenges you are having in your life, knowing the cause may open the door to the cure.

Just one more victim of God?

Just looking at our problems from the vantage point of possible causes can often provide cures. If you believe that God either caused or allowed your specific problem, that is, numbers one or two, above, you will tend to believe that it’s up to God to fix it.Well, if God caused or allowed it for some undetermined (to you) purpose, then how on earth can you fix it or get it fixed anyway?

If the foregoing paragraph is true, are you not:

1) A victim of God’s deliberate action against you or:

2) Indirectly a victim due to the fact that He didn’t protect you from it?

………. I get blown away by people who tell me that some disease or another in their lives is “God’s will.” Then they go on to tell me that their doctor said such and such related to it. Of course, the glaring question,

The BIG QUESTION is: If it is “God’s will,” why on earth go to a doctor to get whatever fixed? If you are willing to just consider the possibility that number four on the referenced list is true, that is, you somehow brought about the challenge all by your lonesome; you may begin to see the way out or around it.

Is this the real cause of all your problems?

What if it is some unknown enemy? Wouldn’t it make sense to find out who or what it is? If you take anything out of the Bible to mean something, what about one writer’s insistence that what we “struggle” with or, as another translation has it, “We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but principalities of darkness” – of course, some put an “evil” connotation on the word darkness – in the original language it is simply saying that we are in the “dark” meaning that we cannot see these “principalities” meaning “rulers” over certain arenas in this 3rd dimension we call the physical plane.

Here is where, if we let it, the Bible, in the original language, can really teach us something.  I insert “original language” simply because of all the claptrap religious teachers put on the various English words that don’t let us see what the intended meaning is/was in the first place. Then we further obfuscate the truth with a bunch of silly arguments over whether the Bible contains truth or myths, half-truths or stuff better left in the past to whom it was written in the first place – or that we need a metaphysical dictionary to interpret these odd English words – my apologies to anyone who insists upon this latter – in many cases,

Charles Fillmore’s Metaphysical Bible Dictionary is a spot-on equivalent to the literal meaning of the original text. Therefore, at least in my view, it is a long stride better as an indicator of what a particular word meant in the original language than some crazy interpretation one or another religious writer or teacher may put on some English word that doesn’t mean what that word meant when it was translated in the first place.

To all the above there is a marvelous answer …get our head out of our asses (…oops I apologize) books, no matter how “Holy” and listen to what the “SPIRIT of Truth,” the “Word of God” is saying today!

Do whatever it takes to allow yourself to hear...today.

* *PLEASE NOTE: The following is going to be offensive to two major groups of people, the first group are those who tend to “tune out” whenever I mention the Bible …the second group are those who insist that the Bible is “God’s Word.” To the former: I say, wait a minute; you might be missing something. What I am about to quote will verify much of your NEGATIVE FEELINGS ABOUT THE BIBLE – which, if you will think about it for a moment aren’t precipitated by the Bible, but by those who seem to want to hit you over the head with it. To the latter: I say that you may have ALREADY missed something and it is straight out of the Bible related to the term “Word of God.” “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice; Do not harden your hearts as it was in the rebellion.’”

The foregoing words were repeated three times over two chapters! The writer is NOT saying “Today, if you will read the Bible” …rather, “IF YOU WILL HEAR HIS (forget gender here, because, and the only reason I am placing emphasis on “His” …this is about a person NOT a book) VOICE”

One of these is obviously meant for cutting, one for reading.

Leading up to these words: “For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and He is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.’” A book, folks, no matter how unique – and unfortunately that word “holy” has come down to us from a word in the original language which means nothing more than that “unique,” that is, the one and only of its kind, discerns nothing – a written treatise may bring about all kinds of discernment or deep spiritual understanding to us about ourselves, situations, events and others, but “the one to whom we must give account– is NOT a book.

The account we must give is not sometime after these body-bags are no longer of use to us, the account that we must give is the reason we are not listening NOW, in this moment, so that we can live in the presence and the power of I AM this very moment NOW …WHICH IS THE END OF ALL JUDGMENT TO THOSE WHO LIVE AND OPERATE IN THE PURE LOVE AND POWER OF THE “WORD OF GOD” LIVING IN AND THROUGH US TO DO HER/HIS/ITS PERFECT PLEASURE.

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Meanwhile, referencing the Bible, again (please get out your favorite version), please go, right now, to Hebrews 13:8 …universally all translators agree that the reference, in the original language, is being made to Jesus as the fulfillment or “coming” of the long awaited promise of “The Messiah” in Jewish lore. It just came to me to say that Christianity is nothing more than one of the many modern forms of Judaism. Ooh, that’ll raise some hackles. My retort is, so what? Nothing ties Christianity to Judaism as much as this single key issue of whether Jesus is the “Messiah.”

Meet Jesus, a Jewish man.

Now hear this: I AM NEITHER CHRISTIAN NOR JEW; nor Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim or an adherent to any other religion (period)! If you are a Jew and refuse Jesus as “your” Messiah, welcome aboard! If you are a Muslim or Hindu and, as many of those who belong to one of the many sects of Islam or Hinduism, who think of Jesus as a great Prophet, welcome aboard! If you are partial to one of the many religious groups which think of Jesus as an “Ascended Master” …welcome aboard! If you are of one of those whose beliefs make it necessary for you to refer to Jesus as Y’shua, then welcome aboard.

Purely for the fun of it, I lifted this old, old quote off the Jews for Jesus website: “Most portrayers of the life of Jesus neglect to point out that Jesus is in every characteristic a genuinely Jewish character, that a man like him could have grown only in the soil of Judaism, only there and nowhere else. Jesus is a genuine Jewish personality, all his struggles and works, his bearing and feeling, his speech and silence, bear the stamp of a Jewish style, the mark of Jewish idealism, of the best that was and is in Judaism, but which then existed only in Judaism. He was a Jew among Jews; from no other people could a man like him have come forth, and in no other people could a man like him work; in no other people could he have found the apostles who believed in him” . . . To which I say: Yada, yada, yada, etc. Who cares!??!

This is not the Jesus to which I am referring. The Jesus I’m referring to is the one who is the “same yesterday today and forever” – if you need to add “The Christ” either as a title, which it is literally, or make it part of his name, that is, “Jesus Christ,” welcome aboard. If you are of any label which you feel is “dumped on” by the rest of society, welcome aboard.

It's not a label, it's a costume.

I, Brad Cullen, being in and of the Jesus I am writing about, exclude no one. If, for you to be comfortable, Jesus has to be referred to as a prophet …go ahead and add that, Jesus, The Prophet, because he is that to me as well. If you have to add “Ascended Master” every time you see the name Jesus – he is all that and more to me.

If you think of him as some poor Mexican kid whose parents put the label, “Jesus,” on him – you know, they pronounce it “hay-soose” …he’s that too! Read the reference again, aloud, so that you hear it! Again, he is “THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER” …and what you believe about him isn’t going to change that. Jesus is all things to me – an “Ascended Master” who lives in me and speaks to me in the same presence and power of our (your and my) SPIRIT-PARENT Who is willing to speak to and through anyone.He is our (your and my) elder brother, the “First Born among many” brothers and sisters of which I AM one.

From the same Bible, which you have to admit created all this unnecessary confusion in the first place (that’ll tick off a few of my brothers and sisters), but if you’ll get your heads out of your butts and the “Book” and realize that it is the Book in which one of Jesus’ disciples, John, purportedly wrote this – and this is accurately translated from the original language: “In the beginning, the complete expression (sorry folks, “Word” is poppycock; you simply cannot take the English “the word” which was translated from a term in the original language which means the complete, creative, outward expression “of God” and, AGAIN, attempt to make the English word, “Word,” convey anything like what is meant.

For now, we shall just leave it that this creative SPIRIT part of the “Godhead” which created the universe (and Brad Cullen sez, STILL IS) became that Jewish guy we know as Jesus. In that very same chapter that our dear friend Johnny wrote, says quite clearly (again, sorry, but it has to be said), “in the original language,” that as many as receive this truth, again, that the SPIRIT which created everything became a man, we too have the power and authority to also claim to be joint heirs with Jesus. Get it? I sure hope so …it has taken a lot of hard work to get this far.

b

True from one perspective, one in a hundred.

I’ve just been instructed to confess something and I’m all excited about it! What I’m supposed to tell you is that what I’m about to say isn’t true …from one perspective, but if you take a few steps backwards and look at it from a different angle it is not merely true, but EXPLOSIVELY true! In other words it is the kind of truth that can blast someone into the next universe …the one you can’t see with your physical eyes, yet is proven to exist …in fact you can prove it to yourself – but only if you want to.

My name is Brad Cullen and I am going on eighty-five. Both are untrue – again, from one perspective. From that one perspective I am neither Brad Cullen nor am I anywhere near eighty-five. Which perspective do you choose?

From one perspective, lies are always lies, no matter what perspective you look from.

I tell a true story about how my thirtieth birthday was devastating to me. From the picture I’d had in my mind as to what constituted “success,” for me, when I was a teen-ager, I had actually surpassed that picture. I was successful in my avocation as a club musician …nightly playing sax and clarinet in one of the top nightclubs in San Francisco, at the time, with one of the top pianists and one of the top drummers – I was also top regional sales manager for a company that had operations all around the world …and I was depressed!

As a musician I was mediocre and I knew it …I no more “deserved” to be playing with two of the top jazz musicians in the area than the man in the moon. The only reason I had the top producing region in the world was due to a fluke. I had been fortunate enough to hire a guy who was much older than I and very successful as a sales manager.

You can't see the truth...don't look, I'm afraid of it.

He’d answered an ad I had run in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Examiner and he found what the company offered was very attractive. He had challenged me with the truth that I was threatened by him …an understatement – he scared the daylights out of me – there was no question about it, he should have my job!

His wife had recently died from complications after surgery and he wanted to get out of management so that he would have more time with his children. He had said two things to me that had convinced me to hire him. One, he’d be my top producer and, two, he would show me some tricks to hiring and managing successful salespeople that would make me the top Regional Sales Manager in the World.

Once a crowd pleaser, always a crowd pleaser.

The “only reason,” therefore, that I was at the top, was due to Walt’s mentoring. The “only reason” I was playing with the best in the music business was that I knew how to “blend” and play to the taste of the audience …I was, in my own words AND IN TRUTH, a “crowd-pleaser.”

So what? I would say today …but that’s now not then. I was depressed because I could no longer say that I was “only in my twenties.” Just as I had been saying I was “only” in my teens when I was playing in nightclubs illegally – starting at the ripe old age of 13!

I was thirty and too old to be making excuses for being mediocre – it was a fact and I was stuck with it, because I had no intention of doing anything that might tend to improve my performance in either field.

A bigger lie than this, was never told.

I did intend, however, to never again have a birthday “sneak up” on me. From that day forward I began saying I was “going on thirty-five,” until my thirty-fourth birthday when technically I began my thirty-fifth year – and thus could be saying, truthfully (from one perspective) that I was going on forty. I’ve been doing that every five years ever since. When (the good Lord willing and the creek doesn’t get any higher), I reach my eighty-fourth birthday, I will begin saying that I am “going on ninety” – you get the idea. Birthdays don’t depress me any longer I manage my emotions with this bit of perspective innovation.

From one perspective you have to agree that is absolutely the truth, correct? From another perspective it is not only false, it is patently silly. That “fact” hasn’t stopped me from doing any number of other silly things – and “silly” is just one point of view – so let’s move on.

My publisher and webmaster Ryan Bruce sent me two e-mails yesterday and called me on the phone to criticize the article I had uploaded to him – “I DARE YOU!”

Is truth an unchanging law or based on what direction you look from?

He was (or feigned being) upset for having promised to tell in the article the difference between “God-faith” and “EXTREME faith” – he apparently (which I avoided telling him) had failed to read the last two paragraphs – wherein I repeated the challenge, again, “I DARE YOU” and provided the reason I didn’t follow through on the promise. What now?

What now, is that it is time to explain the difference …and to say that what may be far more important for some of you is something that can instantly change your life …if that is what you want, is it?

Not only will it make for a powerful and instant change, but it will also enable you to escape thinking ruts and put certain things on “auto-pilot.” This isn’t some discipline or onerous exercise that must be practiced every day –we’re not talking “self improvement.” We’ll lay this secret out just a bit later or perhaps (pay attention, Ryan) it will be for another time.

“God-faith” is an accurate translation from the original language – and which has been MIS-translated as “have faith IN God” what Jesus actually and LITERALLY said to anyone who will “hear” it – is to have the “faith OF God” or, again, “God-faith.”

Some people use God Faith to die.

Since we have been trained to believe that “faith” is an “action” word – we have a tendency to miss the point. TAKE TWO STEPS BACK and look at it from a different angle …a NEW perspective.

“You” cannot exercise “God-faith” – it is automatic, because it isn’t “your faith” …it is the “FAITH OF GOD” operating through you …in the very same way that it operated through Jesus. If you insist on going through any exercise of any kind so that you can build “your faith” you are wasting your time because whatever you produce will NOT be “God-faith.” Now, I basically said all this in the previous “I DARE YOU” article …and that isn’t what Ryan was challenging me over …he was upbraiding me (or doing I good job of feigning it to the point I believed that was what he was doing) for not explaining the difference between “God-faith” and EXTREME-faith.

It is God-faith that heals …it is God-faith that produces miracles …it is God-faith that produces the supernatural – that is, that which cannot be explained.

What I call EXTREME-faith is the faith exhibited by one man and is “extreme” because almost nobody believes that what it produces is even possible. I not only believe that it is possible, but, to me, one of the most mind-boggling statements in the entire Bible surrounds the exposure of EXTREME-faith.

Tell these students their belief in the books they read, has no value.

Let’s go to the statement first; I can almost guarantee you won’t believe it at first, but it is right there in black and white …if you don’t believe that the Bible has anything to teach you, you will continue not to believe it. Here is something that can help you IF YOU WILL LET IT AND STOP TRYING TO ARGUE WITH SOMETHING I AM NOT SAYING, anyway:

First let’s back up again to God-faith: Raising the dead, changing water into wine; making the blind see and the deaf hear “supernaturally” are products, one and all, of God-faith… this again, that I am talking about is EXTREME-faith.

What I am saying about the Bible is that you don’t have to believe that every word is literally true and whether I believe that it is literally true is immaterial and irrelevant, but what IS relevant is that, if you will open your mind, you can receive truth, THE TRUTH, from what I am saying here and from the Bible regardless of what you believe about the Bible, in fact, what you or I believe about the Bible doesn’t change it one iota – any more than what you believe or say about who/what Jesus is or was doesn’t change him either.

God is just through this door, can you access God?

The very same writer of the book in the Bible who said that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever is the one who also said the following about EXTREME-faith:

“Without this kind of faith it is impossible to please God.” A man who was reputed to be a Bible scholar and an expert linguist insisted to me that what this word “please” means in the original language is “access.” Let’s put it into a sentence: “WITHOUT THIS KIND OF FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ACCESS GOD.”

So then, just what is EXTREME Faith? Answer: EXTREME FAITH IS THE KIND OF FAITH YOU HAVE INSTEAD OF INSTEAD OF EXPERIENCING PHYSICAL DEATH …EVER!

If you have a hard time believing that, join the crowd of unbelievers, but I have an antidote and it has helped many people to cross the line from unbelief to believing what Jesus said …that is, “Nothing is impossible to any individual who believes enough.” I was just now directed to go to our website www.spiritualhealingsource.com (in case you are reading this on some other site) …go to the top menu bar and click on the tab “Brad On” and scroll down to “Extreme Faith” and click on it – it is just a brief article at the bottom of which are links to two podcasts – about which I had forgotten. Ryan and I are discussing this exact topic. Listen with an open heart and an open mind and you will receive EXTREME-faith – today, NOW!

That’s it for now,

b

Go Ahead, I dare you....

You are up to the challenge if you will take it and not resist and I can promise that if you take the challenge it will improve your life as nothing has before.

Bear this in mind, the promise of infinitely improving your life was first given by another man and I am only repeating it.

I am also taking full responsibility for the promise as if it originated with me; and I can do this because I took the challenge and the promise has been proven to be totally and unequivocally true. WARNING: To refuse the promise is to deny it and vice versa.

The results will be immediate if you act immediately and the good news is that the price for it has already been paid. So far, these words have flown through my fingers without thought …I asked, “What now” and was given the title above: “I DARE YOU” …I wrote that title, then asked, again, “What now?” The words began to flow and here we are …together, at the very same place, NOW.

Yes, I'm talking to YOU!

YOU, yes YOU, one of those who are anticipating reading something that is going to make a significant difference in your lives NOW, and I’m being instructed to ignore everyone but YOU, just the “one,” whoever YOU are.

If you’ve visited this website before, you know that I’m in my eighties …and the point of saying that right now is that this is the first day of the rest of eternity… I AM – this moment, NOW, it is the first moment of this crazy world of Brad Cullen, a man of EXTREME faith.

Neither the faith nor the lack of faith and both of which existed yesterday and even five minutes ago no longer exist – “EXTREME faith” exists only in the present. Tomorrow and yesterday don’t exist. Almost every morning I awaken to a total LACK of any kind of “faith” …let alone, EXTREME faith. The first step to acquiring EXTREME faith is the same step I am taking this very moment which has already passed. What this means is that my “advanced age” –the foregoing reference to being in my eighties–has no relevance to having “EXTREME faith.”

EXTREME Faith.

I just now, this moment received it, again – the only difference is that I have been receiving it moment by moment for many years …so I have a lot of practice taking that “first” step which is the only step necessary.

I have, just as so many others, made a mistake that kept me from experiencing EXTREME faith for a long time (I’ll explain my definition of the term, “EXTREME faith” just a bit further along) …that mistake was attempting to believe in it before acquiring it. I had taken some words that had come through the mouth of Jesus and, unfortunately, I allowed the English interpretation of those words to to take root in me. These words, again in English, were to the effect that “nothing will be impossible for any individual who believes enough.”

Those words are true! I just had the sequence backwards. Intellectual belief in or intellectual belief about anything is NOT EXTREME faith. Since “EXTREME faith” is my term I get to say what it means and what it doesn’t mean …NO ARGUMENT ALLOWED! Not only is intellectual belief “in” or “about anything NOT what I mean by EXTREME faith it doesn’t precede EXTREME faith either.

I dare you to listen, until you hear.

If you’ve ever heard the term “faith comes by hearing the Word of God” you are about to see something that will be an open door getting EXTREME faith and getting it NOW, because you’ll see what was really intended by the foregoing quote, and how the MIS-interpreted meaning has trapped many of us into believing that which has kept us away from EXTREME faith.

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Just as two of my favorite writers, Wayne Dyer and Scott Peck have had to recant their previous works which they both later realized, even though helpful to a degree, were also misleading and thus, based on their newly acquired perspectives, were a “mistake.”

I must do likewise. I have been responsible for many folks making the same mistake that I made: I have reiterated the English version of the words which came through the mouth of Jesus (he, don’t forget, said that they weren’t his words, but were the words of our, that is, –his, yours and my– SPIRIT-PARENT and the reason that I insist upon saying “came through the mouth of”) those words were, “any individual who believes enough” …I then often added: “enough being the operative word.”

It starts with You. Believe Enough!

Okay, the point here is that believing enough to do the very same things Jesus did, didn’t happen for me until after I received my first dose of EXTREME faith …and I have to confess that I have done many things that have proven to be quite stupid, by acting out of my intellectual “believing enough” rather than via EXTREME faith.

A little digression is due here: Jesus introduced the term accurately translated into English as “God-faith” or “the faith-of-God” and which actually means the presence and power of our SPIRIT-PARENT operating through us. In other words it isn’t “our” faith. If we miss the significance of this we’ll dance around talking about the exceptional proclivities of people who demonstrate certain things we express as “gifts” or “talents” and label them as “gifts of the Holy Spirit.”

I am not taking issue with the term, “gifts of the Holy Spirit,” per se’ …I am, however, emphasizing that I’m saying something quite differently. I’m talking about something SUPERNATURAL because it is the presence and power of our SPIRIT-PARENT in operation through Jesus, through me and through others (as Jesus clearly stated the phenomenon was not limited to him, in fact, he became quite impatient with those who failed to understand or acquire the same ability to let this “faith” flow through them).

What we don't understand or sense...supernatural.

One example of his impatience was when he actually told his own hand-picked twelve that they were a “bunch of faithless perverts” (yes, that’s an accurate translation from the original language; this “God-faith” is not a talent or gift no matter how exceptional …even though the talent or gift while, perhaps exceptional, is nevertheless a human attribute.

Being in “that place” where our SPIRIT-PARENT is free to operate through us is not “special” or “unique” to me …ANY INDIVIDUAL can be “there” …and this is an important distinction so that we don’t get into talking about the “ministry” or “gift of faith” of some individual or another.

Many people don’t “get it” when I say that it “wasn’t I who healed them” or as with this article, “I am not writing it” …I am in a zone where I can say “I AM” because “I” am not saying it, but rather our (again, your and my) SPIRIT-PARENT is saying it. This is neither “false humility” nor is it “pride,” rather it is “God-faith” in action …which seems to be EXTREME faith to some (and to be fair, since so few human beings operate in it, it is more than a little bit extreme) …nonetheless EXTREME faith, again, as I am using the term, is something much different than “God-faith” or, if you prefer, “the faith-of-God.”

Exercising God Faith?

Jesus introduced the latter term right after he killed a fig tree, no less, and was explaining to the twelve guys with him that they didn’t have to be amazed, because they could do it too, if they would acquire this same “God-faith.”

What is this “God-faith” again? It is the presence and power of our (your, my and Jesus’) SPIRIT-PARENT doing HER/HIS/ITS “works” through us …and when it happens, you’ll know that you DARE NOT take credit for it, because that bit of ego-nonsense turns the switch to OFF!

By the way, if you are resisting my use of HER/HIS/ITS (in alphabetical order) in conjugation with “SPIRIT-PARENT,” you are resisting and, therefore, missing an extremely important bit of information that beats the dickens out of a silly religious tradition.

Jesus said that “God,” By Whatever Other Term Or Name and which equals the acronym BWOTON, “is not male or female, but a SPIRIT to be worshiped in spirit and in truth.”

Therefore, attributing gender …whether “HE” or “SHE” to “BWOTON” by insisting upon a male or female “Him” or “Her” to that essence which some refer to as “God” and which term I try to avoid as much as possible since it is a human contrivance or “invention” anyway …again, attributing gender is missing, entirely, some other words that came THROUGH the mouth of Jesus.

Speaking the word “Father,” in reverent terms, is a perfect example of attributing gender.

What is it to be "I AM"?

Another argument which emanates from a silly religious tradition has to do with the “proper” name of “God.” Those who claim that using the “proper name of God” is important and who insist that their favorite pick comes out of the Bible, I DARE THEM to read what the “voice” in the burning bush said to Moses which started all the fuss which is still going on today in that relatively small area surrounding Egypt. That voice said, “From this day forward you will refer to me as ‘I AM.’”

Now, before we get all hung up on that particular English translation it is important to note that different scholars about the Hebrew language insist upon different English interpretations. “The IS” happens to be one of those; “I Will Be What I Will Be” is another – both of those have fascinating implications – now then, for those who insist on getting this straight from the Bible …I DARE YOU to go to www.biblegateway.com and type in Exodus 3:14 and “feast” (sheesh) upon the 42 translations …you can get them in either English or Spanish and see for yourself what the “Bible says.” For those of you who would prefer getting it straight from the “VOICE” of your SPIRIT-PARENT TODAY rather than filtered through the arguments of men about something written some 3,500 to 5,000 years ago take the challenge!

TAKE THE FIRST STEP to EXTREME faith!

All the foregoing is the backdrop for the challenge …which is to TAKE THE FIRST STEP to EXTREME faith!

A question I am asked more often than any other: “How will I know whether it is my mind or our SPIRIT-PARENT?” My answer to that will seem silly at first, but it is how “faith” begins and from which small droplet of “holy water” will burst into a huge fountain flowing through YOU.

Now, my way is not the only way and I’m not suggesting that it is. If, however, you have been brought to this article and are impressed by its directness you may want to consider how I “arrived at this place:”

I practically shouted the words, “if you are real, take over my life, I need help.” I didn’t “believe” I couldn’t believe, because my head was filled with the nonsense of my own arguments against religious tradition of any kind. That true story is in the forthcoming book “Whatever It Takes.”

That was “my” beginning towards all kinds of exciting things. I certainly hope you don’t go through all the crap that I went through – and at the wise old age of being in my eighties, I can tell you I could have avoided a lot of the unpleasantness and failures I have experienced had I learned what I learned fairly late in life …and that was the “pattern interrupt” two words, “what now.”

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Stop now...before someone gets hurt.

I wanted to keep my earlier promise of explaining the difference between “EXTREME faith” and “God-faith” …but I just asked “what now” and “got” that it is time to quit for now …and to issue the challenge again: I DARE YOU!!! Begin asking “what now,” NOW, and quit worrying about where the voice comes from – you’ll soon KNOW and you will soon be believing enough to do the very same things Jesus did AND said that any individual could do also. You gotta start somewhere, “my” way is to ask “what now” and look for the answer that is just right for me. I’m suggesting that if it’s right for YOU, DO IT!

If “my” way isn’t for you …that’s perfect, because then you won’t be satisfied with anything less than what is already waiting for YOU – go get it …and if you feel so inclined send Ryan and I a note about the way that is “YOUR” way so we can be grateful that you found what is “right for you” and share it with others.

Until next time,

b