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Rhys 🕊:
I listened to this audio recently and I can’t get this 2nd  passage out of my mind. Please read:

http://bible-truths.com/audio/9-2-06MobileConf.5.mp3

There’s nothing that says He can’t build a kingdom and make it bigger and bigger. But it does say that He is perfect, and He doesn’t change. That is the most solid and stable thing we could hang our hopes and dreams on. Our God will never change and that He is already perfect, wow!

And later on:

Now we are going to be part of a kingdom, where there is going to be nothing but prosperity; friendly, health, safety, happiness, welfare, rest, peace, ect., with no end. Pleasures at His right hand and growth into the circle. The reason we’re not more excited about this, is for one thing, we don’t think about these things. Because they’re not real to you, it’s sometimes you come to listen to me say and then you go home and just forget about it. You don’t believe it is real, something that is just so many years down the pike, that‘s how close it is.
Like Paul said, “Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed." (Rom. 13:11)

I’ve been trying to figure out why this has been eating away at me and maybe it’s because I just don’t think enough about these things. It’s like I understand about the kingdom but I just don’t think about it all the time. I feel it is real to me but ask myself – yes but how real is it to you. Maybe I am one like Ray says you listen to it then you go home and forget about it.

I feel that there is so many other things that go on in this life that take our time and concerns and of course the problems that constantly come up and issues we need to deal with. I’m sure I could go on.

To be honest it makes me a bit teary eyed this passage. I wish I could be more focused on these things of the kingdom, just not know about it but be excited about it everyday. It seems something that is far off but it isn’t.

I wonder if I’m alone on this one. I don’t spend my day focused on this. I focus on work and everything else and helping others or encouraging others like I hope I do on the forum.

I think I need to be a lot more excited about this and then I guess I would become a better person. I need to do more what this verse says:


Php 4:8  Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

I just wonder how you get to this place. I think it would wash away so many other concerns of this life. Thing is I want to be there yesterday yet I find myself confused at the moment. I’m sure God is doing a work in me or I wouldn’t be thinking it about it as much as I am.

Seems a struggle for me to be really excited. Is it a struggle for others?

I hope I kinda make sense, just trying to process my thoughts.

Rhys

Gina:
It makes total sense.  Thanks for the great reminder.  I haven't read that in a long, long time. 

Everyone's at different places in their walk with the Lord.  We're not even walking yet, apparently because as we've been told by Ray, we're not even born yet.  We've only been begotten.  Can a fetus really know and understand all that awaits them when they exit the womb?  No, but they can sort of kinda see light coming through the mothers belly -- when it's able to get through, that is.  (For now, we see as through a glass darkly.)  We probably don't think of these things like this because they truly aren't a reality at the present time.

But we can imagine based on what little we do know.

Rhys 🕊:
Thanks for that Shorty. I guess it would be great to think more like this. I mean about the things of the kingdom. It might help a lot in getting through this life. Sure is going to be awesome when we are there.  ;)

Gina:
Indeed.  Man, I think to myself, No more sorrow?  No more tears?  Well just what are the implications of that? 

Have you ever just had your mind blown thinking about it on those rare occasions when God gives you the power to push everything else out that's vying for that prime piece of real estate in our mental condominiums?   I bet you know what I'm talking about.

One thing's for sure, there's absolutely no harm in "thinking on these things."  None at all.  And it feels so good.

Rhys 🕊:
I think it's quite hard to figure it out in our minds at this time. Mind you even now I'm getting more excited about it. It's like it's good to talk about these things and is something we should do more of because we feel encouraged in our spirit like lifted up and it's just a great feeling to have and to be able to encourage each other with these things.

I get the condominiums bit. I have a $10 million dollar one. Ha ha God's gotta bit work to do in me.

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