Who Are You in Your Essence? | Eckhart Tolle

This may seem like a huge and intimidating title – which it probably is! There are as many different answers as the people you may be asking or the books you may be reading. People are wondering, “Why Am I Here?”

Those spiritual voices heard in stereo can be actively deceiving. Discerning the right channel from the wrong one can be arduous. So, what are some indicators we’re hearing from God and not the enemy?

According to Jurgen Moltmann, anyway. And I must admit, I concur. Those four words do a lot to explain who God is, and who he is not.

For those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, they can know and rest in the fact that regardless of what happened in the past, or what the current circumstances are, our future is secure as we forget the past and as we focus on the Lord who is in control of everything. As what our pastor shared in Isaiah 43: 19, “See, I am doing a new thing! Do you not perceive it?”

The start of a new year is a time of reflection and motivation. We reflect on the triumphs and challenges of the prior year, and we determine what we want to improve upon in the coming year. And this leads many of us to set New Year’s resolutions, promises to ourselves of what we want to accomplish or do better than we did last year.

Some spiritual teachers say that opening the heart chakra is a requirement for “graduating” from this realm. Opening the heart chakra seems to be the theme as well as the catalyst for the transformation happening within humanity associated with the 2012 milestone. This article discusses what is needed to open one’s heart chakra.

As you have received the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, (Eph. 6: 17) you are equipped to declare with your mouth victory in your life over your circumstances. “The Word is nigh thee; even in thy mouth.”

No cliche, just a fact… this Creator of the universe has not just plans for our lives, but a dream; one with a cosmic twist. It can only be realised for individuals, by the individual in focus. This is great news, however. You are the one who, with God’s help, defines that dream; you, and only you.

The Laws of Spiritual Quantum Physics tell us that all in energy. We are energy beings who live, move and have our being within another infinite unit of energy called God.

It’s pretty easy to forget how things start. We see the end of a race, and not the months and years of work that went into it. We admire the finished painting while drafts and sketches litter the floor of an artist’s studio. Our children are shadowed by phrases like “where have all the years gone?” Maybe it’s time for us to remember the journey.

Many of us have developed at least one way of acting that can hurt ourselves, annoy others or damage relationships. Something is out of control. Yet we weren’t born with these actions and what is learned can be unlearned. Gaining better control over our behaviour can be done but requires a conscious effort and persistence. There is an important distinction between on the one hand the notion of resisting bad impulses by our own efforts alone and on the other hand resisting them in God’s strength ‘as of ourselves’.

At the center of the Entered Apprentice degree is the obligation rite that the initiate performs. The Entered Apprentice Obligation rite binds the Mason to the Brotherhood and his duties to the craft. Here are ten things about this Obligation rite that you may not have known.