JUST CONNECT: MAKE IT LAST
by
Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (July 26, 2016)
“Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness [3:11, KJV]...But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. [3:21, KJV]...He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true [3:33, KJV] (St. John 3: 9-36, KJV [Of regeneration and faith]).
Greetings In The Holy Name of Jesus,
My sisters and brothers, grimaced and true to the Word of God the powerful renditions of Praise the Lord everybody, came to my heart and mind, relentlessly calling my attention to the will of God. I sang out loud, Praise the Lord everybody, Say: Praise the Lord. Let the promise of God save you, Say: Thank you, Jesus. Let the prevailing spirit of Christ Jesus comfort you, Say: Honor thou Holy Ghost. Let the God that saves you place the spirit of forgiveness in your heart, Say: Honor thy mother and father. Let Jesus save you, Say: Love thy neighbor. Let the will of God prevail in your life, Say: Thy will be done. Let the will of God rejoice in your heart, Say: Thy will be done. Let the Savior walk with you throughout your life's journey, Say: In The Name Of Jesus. This song of praises to God, chants of redemption, my salvation song praiseworthy to honor the will of God sustained me, you see, as I worked, in the field under the tyranny of the blazing sun much in need of water and rest but I did not weaken under the stress and strain, amazingly, I grew stronger in song and I sang and my strength showed itself---revealed itself to me that I could just connect with God make it last. This faith of mine called in question on so many days, nights, mornings, noon days and right now not in the blink of my eye did I decide for I decided a long time ago to walk with God but right now I decided not to utter another thought contrary to that decision---not to rethink or distance myself from my conviction to follow Christ Jesus as a bride with her husband---as the church with their savior. For I knew my love was true and I could not I would not let anything separate me from my first love---my love of God, my love of Jesus, my love of the spirit of God that dwells in me.
Most importantly, in a world of technology I think how much God outpaced the people of the earth in communication, in the spirit with the immediate receipt of His messages and the messages of the world popping up in your mind's eyes at a speed that boggles the mind----telepathic might be the only clue to look into God's power---how He communicates with us through visions, dreams, His voice and His messengers that just connect make it last in your heart and mind so that you cannot deny and all doubts placed aside face you with the wondrous working power of God. Today, in the flesh I think I need Skype---the camera that shows my body to the monitor of the computer or to the screen of the telephone so that anyone I am connected with might speak---talk to me, see me and know that I am here---there within reach to communicate. Somehow, I want the programs/nowadays called apps [applications] Skype and Facetime to provide a video transcript---primary subtitles and secondary subtitles or captions of the recorded communication between myself and all those who I saw on video who spoke to me/talked to me, even more the auditory Whats App that only provides auditory communication----I need my communication for future reference for my memory of all things does not fail me as much as I might not use my mental faculties to the best of my abilities under stress and strain in the flesh for my spirit does not stress and strain; it is my flesh which is weak---so, in the flesh I think it is good to retrieve lost thoughts of video and auditory communication available to me desired by me for future reflection so that my flesh when recall failed which understandably might be fragile at the moment I need it will sustain me. Not only that, I want the recorded text the transcript of our time together to automatically to be sent out via email and text to myself and all those who spoke/talked to 2
me for it is not possible for me at this time in my spiritual growth to remain in spirit at all times while I communicate. Is that too much to ask of modern technology, so I could by catalog organize my thoughts with others in my own system of files---for reflection on words and meanings? With that said, this closeness of just connect make it last is by no means the closeness that I experience with God but it is a need---the law of Jesus to love my neighbor and the effort of that, so that I might draw closer to Jesus, my Lord and Savior---the God that saved me so that my Father in heaven might see my love in my heart and know my love in my mind, is truth.
Oh! If only I could always be I am in the perfection of God able to receive communication in God's telepathic---spiritual way and retrieve that same communication, at will, then truly my least would be greatness. I know my gap---the journey I run, my least to greatness is nothing but a matter of belief, knowing that the spiritual God that lives within me is not limited to technology---communication of man but is able to access all communication of the past---that I might see in the past through my mind's eye, apply all communication to the present and bring forth all communication of my future to bear the truth of the course that I run---my journey, where I am, in truth, of my salvation plan, of my redemption story, for I do not want to go around in circles committing the same sins in a different way with a different person in a different place expecting God to honor my growth when I rejected growth rather preferred to take one step forward and two steps back and run around in circles instead of running my course before me believing---just connecting making it last reaching for the perfection of God's will and purpose in my life. I know that my long story is every man's short story for there is nothing new under the sun. However blatantly captured in my own rapture I look to you Christ Jesus, I look to my God in heaven---my Holy Father who sits on high to see me through the weakness of my flesh to just connect make it last, for life everlasting---a promise that I hold in my heart knowing I must in the strength of Jesus make it to relying on my faith to sustain me in the darkest day, the darkest hour, forever delivering me back to the marvelous light of God for I am and will always be---in the faith, in the righteousness of Jesus to everlasting life. More importantly, the readiness of the spirit when a child of God is able to use the mind's eye, see visions dream dreams walk and act in the spirit, speak through the spirit to the flesh to move mountains that stand in our way to do the business of God, speak different languages, understand the matters of the heart of man understand the mind---the capability to be one with Christ Jesus, in righteousness in spirit, is undoubtedly the awakening the rebirth of being born again.
I testify to you by telling you of the scribe who Jesus said was not far from the kingdom of God. You see the scribe closed his gap, for Jesus heard him speak and knew he had run his course from least to greatness, for He was not far, so let us hear the gospel reading of St. Mark 12:28-34 (KJV):
:”And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning
together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him,
Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The
first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is `
one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this
is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment
greater than these. And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou
hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding,
and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his
neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and
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sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said
unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after
that durst ask him any question.”
I testify to you of the wars and rumors of wars that Jesus spoke to, the manifestation of such as revealed the last few months and a year, for there was a man who killed many in Orlando, FL, USA because he was in an identity crises, for there was a man who killed many in Dallas, Texas, USA because he defended the rights of a black man to freely live entitled to the rights and privileges of citizenship in a free world of prosperity and wealth---abundant living and those watching ask themselves why did the men who killed become murderers of their own neighbors, for there was a man who killed many in Germany because he was depressed? Was it copy cat murders like San Bernadino, California, USA when the Muslim man killed his co-workers at a training workshop---out of dislike and jealousy of job opportunities within the scope of the job description---competition at the workplace between the workforce? To ponder thoughts of why does not lessen the passion that goes into getting caught up in the emotional overflow of human response to human failings as we interact with one another judging one another decidedly fixated on carrying out the death sentence upon others' sins forfeiting our own sins---giving ourselves grace but not letting our Christian neighbors benefit from grace---making ourselves better than our neighbors for our sins need no retribution not even redemption we just are and our connection does not need judgment but we feel obligated to carry out death sentences upon our neighbors for we must do that simply because we can not cope or have the skill---the wherewithal to work through our emotions to make it back to sanity when we cross the line and lose our sound mind, how can we make it back from insanity to sanity?
In closing, Nicodemus, unsure of his quickening out of sin [for sin---the law was made manifest, for sin---grace was laid upon the law to save man bearing the blood of Jesus---our redemption, so sinful man might enter into the promise of everlasting life once man entered into the promise known as Christ Jesus was born again into our living sacrifice given to us from our living God, for God gave his son, for he loved the world], asked Jesus, How could a man be born when he is old? (St. John 3:3-8, KJV [ Of regeneration and faith]):
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God...”
May God be with you. In the Spirit of Christ Jesus, Follow me. Amen.
