WE WILL NOT HAVE THIS MAN RULE OVER US

As great as this guy is, and as true as the dangers are lurking around Jesuits, I'm sorry, I don't actually believe this guy would have got on well with St John. So today, having done the Jesuits last week, let's blast this side of the church. Evangelicals will patronisingly allow musicians and artists to function among them because it makes them feel like they are giving everybody a chance. There is a slight problem though. No , let's call it a major problem, a crack right through the Body of Christ. It works like this. The tribe of Judah, for that is what musicians/prophets /creatives are in themselves are the weakest most useless bunch on the planet. They won't mend your car for you. They are peculiarly prone to living in another world, and when you ask them a simple question, they reply with about 6 tangential statements instead of a yes no answer. In short, for all practical purposes ...useless. And worst still, like Judah himself, they seem peculiarly prone to the worst possible scandalous activities. So why not exterminate them all? Because God has chosen this tribe...this useless bunch of nothings..to errrr....ummmm...how can I not shock you with this...TO LEAD.

But it is not ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP . It is "spiritual seeing" leadership. And since the Kingdom is all about "seeing what's next on the materialisation agenda"...all the other tribes have to lump it. God's Calling is without repentance. So Evangelicals patronisingly trying to investigate Spirit things on Youtubes, when they themselves wouldn't know a vision from a trance if it was on the BBC News at 6 o clock. They are NOT baptised in the Spirit. They absolutely have rebelled against God's word in Proverbs 3...because when God says to not rely on your own insight, well, they are too religious to do a V sign to God, or to use the fourletter word beginning with F and finishing with off....but this is what these rebellious evangelicalse do all the days of their life. They SIMPLY WILL NOT HAVE THIS MAN TO RULE OVER THEM....namely their minds...so for the rest of their days on earth they remain toddlers in the Spirit as in 1 John 2. THE PROBLEM ISN'T CONTEMPLATION. THE PROBLEM ISN'T MEDITATING. In that sense God is allowing Catholics and a whole host of New Agers to try all these things out. The problem is Genesis 3 separation and both charismatics and evangelicals are steeped in it. Apart from when they worship, for all practical terms of the rest of their lives, they could be atheists. Yes they can recite the Bible backwards....but if any of their brethren said to any of them as Jesus brothers did in John 7..."Are you going up to Keswick this year?" or whatever evangelicals do nowadays...probably see John Piper or something....they would reply "ofcourse". The mechanics of what Jesus was doing in John 7 are just not going to happen to an evangelical even if the moon turned to cheese. They deny artists/prophets the right to lead...actually, mostly once they are out of patronising mode, they actually deny their brethren's right to exist. They are far too indecent for evangelicals! St John's writings would have been declared New Age by this guy.

Attacked By Evil, Healed By God - Beverly Donofrio

Beverly Donofrio

Author, 'Astonished: A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace, and Solace'

Posted: 03/18/2013 9:23 am

Six years ago, my faith was still fairly new to me, so when my heart flat-lined to zero, my days felt like a slog through mud, and God faded like fabric in the sun, I'd no idea that I might be enduring what St. John of the Cross called a Dark Night of the Soul. When an opportunity arose to visit a monastery for a few days, it felt like the hand of God; nuns observing ancient practices in a speeding world lit a fire in me to join them. I could turn every chore, thought, encounter into a sacred act, sing praises to God with my sisters, lift up the spirit, give my life purpose and meaning. Back home I searched the Internet for Benedictine and Carmelite communities like they were ships in the distance and I was on a life raft. This is precisely when, in the middle of the night, in the middle of middle age, I awoke to a rapist in my bed, "Don't scream. I have a knife," he said.
"Now, God?" I screamed inside. "Now, when I've decided to spend my life being close to you?" More than rape, I feared I'd never forgive God because of it.

The intruder was our town's serial rapist, who'd attacked four women before me. I knew that if I didn't fight he would not beat me, and that post rape he'd want to chat to kill time before another round. So after the attack, I prayed Hail Marys to drown him out, while interiorly I prayed for him and then for me. He commanded me to stop, but I refused, and soon he backed out of bed, patted me on the shoulder, said, "It's OK," and left.
For a day or two after the rape, I was in shock and weirdly almost joyous. Prayer had chased the rapist out and my faith had flown back in on eagle's wings. But more importantly, in the midst of the terror, in the void of his howling absence, in my absolute lack of control, God had been hotly present.
Shaken out of myself by the visitation of horror, the world slowed enough for me to really look at it. Life burst into vibrant color, which did not fade when the adrenaline-induced euphoria did and I raged at God, cried every day, was too afraid to fall asleep, and called a priest, weeping, "Why would God do this to me?"
"God didn't do it," he said. "God doesn't cause evil, ever. But God will use it."
He'd reminded me of what I already knew from experience: pain is a place of breakthrough, and so I set about discerning how God might be using it to help me grow.
I was in no condition to commit to a religious community nor was I a fit candidate for a novitiate. But I did visit for six months five monasteries and houses of prayer. And when that time was done, I arranged to rent my house, and from the proceeds, I paid each month to stay at Nada, a Carmelite Hermitage and Retreat Center in Colorado, where I prayed and worked with the community and lived in a tiny hermitage, overlooking the oceanic prairie in one direction and our own big-shouldered Mount Carmel in the other. After a year, I took vows as a lay member.
I followed a rule of life: I mediated and prayed the daily office; I practiced yoga and hiked through high-desert wilderness. I studied Scripture, read theologians and came to consider the Desert Fathers and Mothers, saints and mystics my friends and teachers -- most notably, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, Brother Lawrence, Julian of Norwich and Thomas Merton. I tried to do as Evelyn Underhill instructed in "Practical Mysticism": to look with the eyes of love, slow down enough to experience awe, to see that the pebble under my shoe, every person and cell, every bit of the universe is in union, and all are in union with the One.
I contemplated the evil that had visited me, the fear that still woke me in the night and Christ on the cross. I imagined myself with Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, his fear as he sweated drops like blood, his love for us, his resolve. Then one day I felt a presence, as if sitting in a dark room, you sense someone standing a foot away. Palpable, although ephemeral, as heartening as your best friend and neighbor watching your back. And I began to feel loved. Much later, a hummingbird mistook me for a flower, a hawk lifted a bunny into the air by its shoulders, fallen trees began to crumble, and I came to know body and soul that nothing is irredeemable, or bad. Joy as daily bread is imperative. I began to forgive the rapist -- and to forgive life for being life. Then four years after I'd retreated to monasteries, I left them and re-entered the world.
Leon Bly, the French Catholic novelist, wrote, "In his heart man has places which do not exist and into them enters suffering in order to bring them to life."
Pain had opened a wound through which light came streaming in, filling me with wonder and the most valuable knowing: The best we can do is simply to let God love us -- and healing, growth, new life will grace us like desert rain.
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The blog editor does not endorse the Catholic practice of praying to Mary.
While being the human vessel chosen to birth Jesus, she totally represents each of us chosen to bring forth Jesus in our own personhood. The terms "mother of God" and her supposed "immaculate conception" are not supported anywhere in the Bible, and are false doctrines. We are bold to enter the throne of God direct through the work of Jesus on the Cross. There simply is not an intermediary in the form of Mary or any saint.