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heaven is here and God is here, because God and his spiritual agents act here and are constantly available here.
“The eyes of the Lord run back and forth across the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him” (2 Chron. 1:9).
“The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the Lord i...
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wipe the memory of them off the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all ...
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These and many other statements from God’s chosen people make clear their understanding ...
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Of course, incarnation in the person of Jesus is the most complete case of “God with us,” or “Immanuel.”
(1 John 1:1).
In Acts 11:5–9, within a span of five verses, exactly the same phrase, tou ouranou, is translated in three different ways by the New American Standard Version, and by most others. It is translated “the sky” in verse 5. “the air” in verse 6, and “heaven” in verse 9.
Sundar Singh,
The Gospel of Sadhu Sundhar Singb
multitudes.
In Search of Guidance (Willard);
the most important things in our human lives are nearly always things that are invisible.
People who cannot believe without seeing are desperately limited in all their relationships.
Matthew,
utilizes the phrase the kingdom of the heavens to describe God’s rule, or “kingdom.” It captures that rich heritage of the Jewish experience of the nearness of God that is so largely lost to the contemporary mind.
a primary revelation of the na...
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kingdom of the heavens occurs thirty-two times in Matthew’s Gospel and never again in the New Testament.
kingdom of God occurs only five times in that Gospel but is the usual term used in the remainder of the New Testament. What is the significance of this variation in terminology?
The spirit and the space most familiar to each one of us are contained in our own personality. The necessary path of understanding lies in reflecting on our own makeup.
I can make myself present to others.
Totality and Infinity
Those who have attained considerable spiritual stature are frequently noted for their “childlikeness.” What this really means is that they do not use their face and body to hide their spiritual reality. In their body they are genuinely present to those around them. That is a great spiritual attainment or gift.
“enlightened by the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor. 4:6).
Love always wants to be known. Thus he seeks for those who could safely and rightly worship him.
God wants to be present to our minds with all the force of objects given clearly to ordinary perception.
Julian of ...
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Showings
it is God’s will that we believe that we see him continually, though it seems to us that the sight be only partial; and through this belief he makes us always to gain more grace, for God wishes to be seen, and he wishes to be sought, and
he wishes to be expected, and he wishes to be trusted.
seeing is all the more difficult in spiritual things, where the objects, unlike bacteria or cells, must be willing to be seen.
Persons rarely become present where they are not heartily wanted.
We prefer to be wanted, warmly wanted, before we reveal our souls—or even come to a party. The ability to see and the practice of seeing God and God’s world comes through a proc...
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The heavens progressively open to us as our character and understanding are increasingly attuned to the realities of God’s rule from the heavens.
Sometimes important things can be presented in literature or art that cannot be effectively conveyed in any other way.
it is in persons, or “selves”
and their experiences of feeling, thought, and will—that we primarily come to know precisely what the spiritual is.
“Spiritual” is not just something we ought to be. It is something we ...
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regardless of how we may think or feel about it. It is our nat...
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Spirit is a form of energy, for it does work, and whatever does work has power.
persons think, and their thoughts pick out or select specific objects past, present, or future. This is the activity of mind.
It is the cognitive aspect of the spiritual being a person is. No physical thing has it.
persons will be favorably disposed toward some things of which they think and set against others (this is f...
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That makes us capable of choosing and acting with reference to th...
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In biblical language the will is usually referred to as “heart.”
it
organizes all the dimensions of personal reality to form a life or a person. The will, or heart, is the...
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the center point of the spiritual in humans as well as in God is self-determination, also cal...
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William James
Principles of Psychology
Exod. 3:14.
“I am that I am”—a Being that exists totally from its own resources.
The Father has life “in himself,” we are later told by Jesus, and has given the same kind of ...
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grace, through confidence in Jesus, permits our kingdom to grow into a union with the kingdom of God.
The heart, or will, simply is spirit in human beings.
