The Painful World

Did you know that there is a simple, two-step process by which you can know God's will for your life?

Think about it! According to Ephesians 2:10, the God who created you has prepared good works for you to accomplish:

Ephesians 2:10 NASB

(10) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Now, here's the key to a fulfilled life:

• Find those good works that God has prepared for you, and do them!

Jesus said that the thing that nourished Him was to do the will of the Father who sent Him (John 4:34), how much more is this true of us?

I honestly believe that we are born with an innate sense of purpose. I believe God puts into the heart of every person the knowledge that He exists and intends to have a relationship with that individual. It's up to us to seek Him out.

So how do we go about discerning God's will for our lives? Look at Romans 12:2:

Romans 12:2 NASB

(2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Notice the two-fold method for proving God's will:

• Do not be conformed to this world

1 John 2:16 NASB

(16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Paul admonishes us to not allow ourselves to get caught up in this worldly mindset. It's difficult to keep one's mind and attitude right when we are bombarded every day by sinful appeals to the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life. It permeates nearly every song we listen to and every television show we watch.

So how does one keep his or her self from being conformed to the world?

• Be transformed by the renewing of your mind

And so, in fulfillment of the promise in this verse:

• as you grow in your relationship with God . . .
• . . . and your mind is renewed . . .
• . . . and you resist the corrupting nature of the world . . .
• . . . you will have a greater understanding of His will for your life!

What a gift it is, and how appreciated the speaker or writer who can communicate spiritual things and remain very human. People are hungry for encouragement and spiritual wisdom. They just don't want to be preached to. Can you blame them?

I remember one particular speaker who I happened to know had a very shallow personal life in which he often tried to make himself look good at the expense of denying others the credit for their good work. I was in a worship service in which I had to listen to him preach about being self-less. I was in agony.

How much more effective he would have been if he would have shared his ongoing struggle with needing for others to see him as successful. He would have had my complete attention. I would have been able to empathize with his truthful self-revelation by relating to my own needs for recognition and we together would have had a moment of personal growth.
If you would like for people to really be tuned into your spiritual insights be real. Take a risk. Reveal struggles you have faced and share how God is blessing you. Don't try to be the hero of every story; instead reveal by your example how others don't have to be afraid of their weaknesses and failures.

Here is an example from a book I recently wrote: A Down to Earth God: devotionals for the nature lover.

The Three Goats from Hell

My dream of owning land has finally come true. Sure, it's along a busy highway, under the approach to the runway of the Fortuna airport, next to the railroad tracks, and on the side of a steep hill but it's still land—God's, the bank's, and mine. I sometimes walk over to the little orchard planted too close to the overshadowing redwoods and sugar pines and pick a diminutive apple or pear and eat it with the relish that only landowners know. Munching between the holes and bites already made by other critters, I smile deep inside, acknowledging that God and I made that pear grow. Isn't it good?

But with this expansive, Lord-of-the-domain feeling also comes the awareness of having to care for the place. Oh, I wish I had cut those huge, thistly-looking purple flowers before they exploded into the seedy beginnings of next year's weeds. And what about keeping the grass and brush down? Horses have no income-producing value but would be so much fun. Cows would work very well with the sketchy fencing I have but eating them wouldn't be very good for my cholesterol. Goats would eat the brush, poison oak, and grass just fine but my fencing isn't adequate. Oh, what to do, what to do. I really don't have much time to spend on this, with pastoring a new church and so many people to visit.

So you can see why I would be delighted to look out one morning to see three little white goats munching contentedly on my thistles and weeds down in my lower field. I later went down to visit them and we negotiated a fifteen-foot relationship consisting of my talking soothing nonsense and their staring at me blankly and chewing. It was so country! I immediately began praising God for taking care of even this smallest of needs.

The next day the furry threesome felt more comfortable and ventured even closer. After a couple of days I looked out my bedroom window and the three cute goats were kneeling in the shade of the nearby maple tree looking as comfortable as could be. What have I done to be so loved by God and so blessed without even asking?

The next day I noted with satisfaction that the goats came even closer. They were eating the patch of weeds watered by the leech lines in front of my house, where the rains will eventually reveal a lawn. The goats looked extremely well fed. I walked gently around them toward my tiny orchard to grab a pear for Suzanne and an apple for myself. The solitary red delicious apple I had been leaving to grow a little bigger near the top of an otherwise bare dwarf tree was missing! It screamed of violence like a bank vault door hanging crookedly off its hinges. My apple was missing!

And my pears—the whole tree full—were all gone, except for a few half-eaten ones! The upper branches were broken and hanging down at sickly angles. And those blasted goats, looking bloated, smiled nearby and practically belched with satisfaction. Later that evening my neighbor stopped by and said the highway patrol had found those same three goats stopping traffic on Highway 36 after having almost caused who-knows-how-many accidents.

Why do we interpret anything that appears to be positive as a blessing from God when the same blessing may soon turn out to be a curse? It occurs to me that instead of relying on the better hope the scriptures promise, we let our spirituality hang in the balance of day-to-day events. If this or that happens in my favor God is blessing me. It suddenly seems more mature to keep in mind …for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust (Matthew 5:45).

God promises that all things work toward our good, if we love Him. We need not ride the crest of positive events as if they are evidence of God's love in our lives any more than we should allow the negative events, the death and disease which surround us, to become indicators of God's disfavor. Let the goats in our life be neither the goats from God nor the goats from hell. Let them simply be goats, and let God be God, yearning to lead us home, and able to use ANY circumstances in our life to our long-term advantage. Isn't that the real miracle?

Did you notice how the author carefully avoided making himself look better than anyone? His realization that people attribute motives to God based on their own fears and desires, thinking God is cursing or blessing them, that are not necessarily from God at all, is easy to accept. The author wasn't afraid to reveal his own foolish assumptions and shared what he had learned with the reader as an equal. We all are, after all, equal in the eyes of God, all children learning from our mistakes, and, if not preached to, learning from the mistakes of others.

For us, humans there is no such thing as unforgivable. Although in the New Testament Jesus has mentioned one thing for which God never forgives: if anyone makes fun of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. But we are not God... We should forgive everything. Even up to seventy times seven for the very same thing.

If somebody says: it is an unpardonable thing, do not be enticed by it. In most cases the person who says so thinks subconsciously himself higher than God or let's put it this way: he is ruled by a rebellious spirit. There is no such thing as unforgivable. We are obliged to pardon to each other no matter what he or she did to us. It is one of the most important spiritual law ever.

If you are perpetually resentful, this state of mind sooner or later undermines your health in a direct or indirect way and keeps you and your offenders in bondages. Besides you poison the people's life around you causing them tremendous sufferings. God intends to avoid all of these.

Think about it this way. Unforgiveness is like an invisible causative agent which would literally blasts your immune system and you become unprotected from many diseases. We can not underestimate the harmful effects of unforgiveness to our health. It is like AIDS, the plague. It alarms your inner body, organism, hormone system and keeps the level of stress hormones permanently high which effects your immune system unfavourably.

There is no proven direct connection between certain disease and unforgiveness but if we indulge resentment we could open the door even to a terminal illness.

So how someone could forgive a seemingly unforgivable offense? The first and arduous step is to become determined to do so. You should deliberately want to forgive. It is the key step toward forgiveness. Sometimes you nurse for months, even years that intent until it ripens. But do not give up even when you get totally weary to do so. Say loudly again and again: I want to forgive him or her no matter what. And you get closer to the awesome moment when you sense that wish springs up from the bottom of your heart and it is not just a verbal practice anymore. The hard part is over. You have tuned your mind to forgiveness, and this new setting will tune your whole attitude toward the unconditional forgiveness. Now you can relax, it works just like that. Let your renewed spirit conquer your emotions and manifest itself in a new attitude.

After that do whatever is necessary to get your freedom back. So many great books are available, read and apply the truth. In some cases we might need councelling, don't be embarassed to share your battle, do whatever is needed. But be aware success without God is impossible. He is the One, who plants the desire in your heart to forgive, which sometimes is unquenchable. This planted seed in you then works well but calls for an established and close relationship with the Lord. Without Him you are not able to forgive completely, with Him you can not stay in the trap of unforgiveness.

The roots of unforgiveness sometimes are so deep it manifests in anger and hatred even you do not know the reason of them. Yes, some kind of weltschmertz. It is an evil feeling toward almost everything and everybody. Get rid of it! Surrender your life to the Lord and get on the journey which will take you to the complete healing.

Finally here is a practical advice.

How can one tell: I made the first step, I am ready to forgive surely. Isn't just a feeling without determination?

Picture your offender or the situation for a moment, then remember the picture flashed into your mind.

Is this person impressed on you even a bit? A smile on his face or a kind look? Was he or she in dark, or a little beam scanned the head or the body? Did you feel any joy or peace seeing the picture? If you answered yes to any of these questions above, you are on the way to forgiveness. You complied with the first and hardest task of the mightiest spiritual process induced by God between humans.

Dear Loved Ones,

Great day to you all as the wisdom within you reveals itself moment by moment.

I love you. I love you. I love you.

Please take a moment to Pray for and Bless the planet earth into Unity and Oneness and
whatever else your heart's desire is expressing itself to you, Right Now. Thank you.

Tools For life.To Be Energized Within
To be Energized within is to be attuned to oneself.

How many times have you heard these words but in a different context? Once, twice, multiple times or perhaps this is the first time. Does it really matter, how many times? The importance is that we practice what we know.

We know that we have taken many classes and studied many modalities and have had
many teachers along our path and yet perhaps we may be lost in the storm of confusion.

Now, to be energized within is the fastest and least expensive way to have Fun and Relax.

How's that you may ask?

Actually to energize within by your own will and God/Life given energy is Freeeeeeeeee. Yes, Freeeeeeeeee. I knew this would get your attention. Are you liking it? No charge to you or anyone else. Yes. I am selling your own Life Force to you absolutely Freeeeeeeee.

Today is your day and today you get to experience your own energy for Freeeeeeeee. But here is another great deal. Not only today but every moment you choose to, you can energize yourself for Freeeeeeeee.

Here we go.

To gain Clarity within is to be energized.


To pay attention to your Emotions is to be energized.


To Forgive yourself and others is to be energized.


To be Present with whatever is going on in your life is to be energized.


To listen to your Desires and to be Authentic is to be energized.


To run your Life energy with the Sun's energy is to be energized.


To Love truly from a place of Surrender and Freedom is to be energized.


To accept God's Grace, Goodness and Blessings is to be energized.


To give from your Heart is to be energized.


To drink Water from the earth is to be energized.


To breathe in the breath of Life is to be energized.


To move your Body, to stretch and to be Flexible in life is to be energized.


And all this plus more is freeeeeeee.

You are so Wonderful. Do you know this? I know it.

You are Wonderful for you are part of this Wonderful Universe. So Delightful. I know we have forgotten this truth. How about letting go of what we have forgotten and starting Right Now choose to remember. Remember that with our will and desire to create we can in fact energize ourselves every moment that we choose to. I know sometimes it may hard, for our ego, our false self gets in the way testing us. We may also look at this as strengthening us, providing an opportunity to Grow and Flourish.

I am 100% in favor of you. I know your Strength and I know of your Inner Power. This is why I choose a life of complete perfect health and vitality for you for we are all one. I will not let my own desire do this for you. I will let you use your own Inner Will and Power to create the perfect life for you.

I simply want to say that I have perfect Faith in you, Right Now. Bless You.

Take a deep cleansing breath and go forth with the everlasting energy within you and give yourself the gift of Love and Freedom. For you surely are worthy and deserving of this truth.

And so it is.

I love you. I love you. I love you.

Please feel free to share these Insights with your friends, family, associates and enemies to Energize the whole planet into Oneness.

May the love, light and blessings of God and the whole Universe surround, protect and heal you, your loved ones and the planet earth.

With Love, Gratitude and Respect,


Michelle Morovaty


Truly, With God All Things Are Possible

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