Super-seeding Faith or Otherwise? (Poem)

Peter gave us good insights on how we should be thinking,

About how, with test and trails of this life, we will be syncing. 

He linked them to the Praise, Glory, Honor and Joy in Christ! 

Imagine that! Is that how You regard trials in your life?? ¹

 

I’m guessing, on his insights, most of us might not be feeding.

Rather, much worldly advice, many of us might be heeding.

Were you ever taught, have you ever learned how to distinguish,

Trials and tests of faith, from temptations,

both of which cause anguish??

 

In haughty ignorance, I learned to rebuke and bind,

Any and everything that disturbed my peace of mind! 

As an adult, from hard lessons, I learned ‘…otherwise’,

To perceive how, long-term benefits, to optimize.

 

We all know trials and temptations catch us unaware.

They’re unique events that knock us on our derriere! 

Who among us takes the time to ponder, and try to unpack,

Whether they’re trails of faith, or enchanting, devilish attacks?!

 

Add to this mix, The Lord’s chastisements,

For sins for which we did not repent,

And we’re thrown off balance, spiritually,

While dealing with the impacts, physically!

Whew!!!

 

If your conscience is pricked by such an event,

And you know for some sin, you need to repent,

Then, to God’s Throne, hasten without delay!!!

Then assess the event in coming days.

 

If repentance was sincere, and there’s no change, 

Then from your strong faith, do not become estranged!

Know that life’s events spring from spiritual seeds,

Sown by The Lord, or devils who plant seeds of weeds. ²

 

Trials and temptations may be ‘opposite sides of one event’.

Thus, it should be easy to assess from whom, each side was sent. 

Devils seek to corrupt what they perceive The Lord is planting.

The Lord extends Grace to negate what devils are …enchanting.

 

Moreover, here’s something we may not be taught to perceive.

As we keep it in mind during trials, GREAT JOY  it’ll conceive!

So please take time to inculcate this into what you believe:

In this life, faith, enhanced by tough trials, will this life supersede!!!

Read that again, …and again.

 

Trials and tests of faith are like fertilizers, malodorous.

They produce --fragrant flowers that, to The Lord, are Glorious,

--Then ‘super-sized harvests’ for faithful seed-faith cultivators. ³

Against such, temptations are mere devilish countermeasures! 

 

Harvests The Lord seeks to produce in abundance,

Aim to bless Him, us and people we influence.

Moreover, their successive seed generations,

Ensure Glorious, future remunerations! 

 

Stop! Think of your Millennial Reign roles and assignments.

With these in mind, The Lord prepares trials in accordance. 

So don’t just ‘rebuke and bind’ things that disturb your peace.

Stop! Muse and meditate how they might mold your ‘Master’s piece’. ⁴

 

In light of these insights, we have a choice to make,

From which The Lord will derive GREAT JOY, or heartbreak:

Check if your faith is super-seeding or otherwise. ⁵

 Without testing trials, it will never …be optimized!

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¹ Please take some quality time to read, then meditate on 1 Peter 1:3-7. Read it in several easy-to-understand versions of The Bible, on Biblegateway.com. Also see: Tests, Trials and Temptations (Poem).

² See: Deed Seeds (Poem), and also The Weed and Sequoia Seed (Poem). Search this blog for ‘seeds’ for many more pivotal insights on this key topic.

³ See: Fruit from Beauty (Poem) and We ‘n Trees.

⁴ Your hierarchical role and assignments during the 'close-at-hand' Millennial Reign age. See: The Master’s Piece (Poem).

⁵ Super-seeding -- being productively sown/planted, with abundant harvests;

  Super-ceding -- yielding, giving-in, close to giving-up and ‘throwing in the towel’;

  Super-ceasing -- stopped, totally inoperative, ‘dead in the water’.

My ChatGPT Offer

Hello,

 

FYI, I have been enjoying a number of really insightful exchanges with ChatGPT AI on a wide range of Biblical topics and complex, strategic issues. They are not in a format that can be conveniently shared in my typical poetry and prose blog posts. Nevertheless, I believe some might be of keen interest to you who are not satisfied with ‘traditional surface reading and thinking’ about challenging Bible concepts, especially its few yet-fulfilled prophecies. 

 

ChatGPT has persistently commented on the unique perspectives of questions I pose, and especially their strategic inferences for traditionally-held notions. This signals the extent to which it has been primarily trained on traditional theological thought! I have long-perceived our traditional thoughts and understandings on many Bible topics, have yet to realize the world is very likely navigating the closing years of this current, 3^rd age of history. If/as such, we, The Lord’s faithful (not fake, Christianesque) believers, are, or should be exemplifying the promised blessings in Joel 2:28-29, which Paul reiterated in Acts 2:17-18. These passages essentially promise to…

…‘blow the lid’ off of' traditional theological thought!!!!!!!

Are you ready for and expecting that?? That's akin to how insights the latter Old Testament prophets received, compared to insights received by the much earlier prophets! It also mirrors how insights Jesus and later John shared, put the Pharisees and Sadducees ...to shame! 

So here’s my offer.

 

Drop me an email and I will send you one of my exchanges with ChatGPT. I will only share more if you signal a such a desire, or if you might have a unique topic you wish to explore in a non-public, confidential manner. If the latter, I will carefully shape the topic from a uniquely strategic angle, and then share both my and ChatGPT's perspectives on the matter.

 

FYI, a few readers have sent 35 general questions that I have addressed in Bible Q&A (Series), for the benefit of other readers.

 

Continued blessings to all~

J!

KeyofJLife@gmail.com

Prophecies Prove It's Me! (Poem)

Across The Bible, prophecies are strewn.

In every book, that’s what I clearly see.

Believed by a few, but by most, impugned. 

The Lord points: Prophecies will …prove it’s Me!

 

By prophecies, I issue clear commands,

For angels to shape futures that will be.

In My time and way, folks will understand,

My prophecies are ‘crops’ …I alone seed!

 

By prophecies, I give invitations,

In all ages of human history,

For all folks to form imaginations,

Then wait for them to become …proofs of Me!

 

In hearts of My faithful, FAITH will arise. 

In all others, devils sow seeds of weeds!

On them, ‘doubt fertilizer’ is applied. 

Both groups will see FRUITS from …My planted seeds!

 

By that, the wise will perceive, and will learn,

To reshape their lives with expectancy. 

By that, no fool will believe, but will spurn,

The point that, …from Me, prophecies proceed!

 

Peering into the future, folks envision unfolding plots. 

With eyes that can only ‘see’ poorly.

Reviewing history, they don’t perceive or connect the dots.

They should, but don’t see …it’s ‘My-story’! ¹

 

But there’s a completely different perspective,

When, into the future, My faithful and wise take a peek. 

They can envision this ‘prophetic prospective’:

My yet-fulfilled prophecies are …the promises I’ll KEEP!

 

When folks like J! testify of Me, dutifully,

Though what they share about Me is not written, Scripturally,

They are My contemporary prophets, spiritually!

Here’s how:

Their testimony of Me is …The Spirit of Prophecy! ²

 

Since to read, and then try to understand My ancient texts,

There’s little interest in the closing days of ‘age #3’, ³

Why not listen to what My Spirit, through them, will reflect?

Ponder their points, then, for what I’ll do, just …wait and you will see!

 

Whether you are alive or dead when I will ‘do it’,

I’ll make sure you’ll know what they said was of, and from Me.

You see, as The Lord, there’s no limit to My Spirit.

In My time and way, you will know. That’s My guarantee! ⁴

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¹ Human history is really … ‘His-story’. (Get it?)

² Strategically ponder Joel 2:28-29, Acts 2:17-18, and Revelation 19:10. 

³ See: Human History Ages (Series).

⁴ Jesus strategically uses prophecies of events in the near and distant futures, to prove He is The Lord God Almighty, Who is fully capable to do what no other being can ever do – i.e., perfectly predict prospective proceedings. In fact, He has regularly challenged all other so-called gods in contests to see what they can predict in advance, and then later, make their predictions become factual events. No so-called gods ever accepted His awesome challenge, as they are not gods at all, so He says. thus proving He ALONE is The Lord God Almighty, Creator and Sustainer of all things that exist. See: Isaiah 41:21-24, 44:6-8, and 46:9-10.

Prophetic Tunnel Vision (Poem)

Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish,

and all their young lions will say to you,

‘Have you gathered your army to take booty,

to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock

 and goods, to take great plunder?’ ” ’

(Ezekiel 38:13)

 

Hey, how do you respond when The Lord drops a question,

In your spirit, on which you had made a presumption?

That’s when I block out time, determined to turn inwardly,

To learn what He wants me to perceive, strategically.

 

I have long presumed Ezekiel 38:13,

Meant Israel’s allies, concerned about her, then serene,

Would only note their sympathy about the  invasion,

But wouldn’t be capable to respond on this occasion! ¹

 

I knew the context is during the apocalypse,

When all nations will be in The Lord’s tight judgment grip,

After an anti-Christ treaty that will end in betrayal.

I thought, ‘Nations might be desperate for food on their tables!’ ²

 

Apparently, by global plagues, Israel won’t be wrecked,

And might be sheltered by what I call ‘the Goshen effect’.

If that’s the case, why will only a few nations invade,

Or, unlike today, her allies will not come to her aid?? ³

 

Into my spirit, The Lord dropped this perplexing question:

‘If they’ll be desperate then, what about Armageddon?!’ 

Oops! That was a hint to get out of tunnel vision,

And to broaden my narrow, contextual version!

 

In Armageddon, the final blow of the apocalypse,

Nations will have enough resources, their armies to equip,

Against The Lord and His saints, all GLOWING like krazy!

Yet the above verse predicts a response that’s …puny!!! ⁴

 

At a time when Israel won’t have a military,

Why do you think her allies won’t respond aggressively?

Send meyour thoughts on this question.

Later, I might share my notions.

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¹ That is, respond as they do in our day. See: Revelation – Future Attacks in Israel and also Missed Insights in Ezekiel (Series).

² See: Revelation (Series of Series), which includes a summary of the predicted apocalypse that Jesus called ‘great tribulation’.

³ If my presumption was correct, I should have asked why wouldn’t more than just 5 nations invade Israel, not just the few described in Ezekiel 38, or capable allies come to her aid in a time of need? Admittedly, on this point, I had tunnel vision.

⁴ This point could possibly be a strategic hint that other nations may well have other reasons for not joining in the invasion, and/or for not intervening with direct and indirect support to Israel in her time of dire need.