Hi, I'm trying to protect my mind this year lol so I figured that the RT thread would be the best place for my questions.
I got it from this church's facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Miracle-Ministries-International/560307497357617
This is his website:
http://www.miracleministries.org/index.htm
He is a Caribbean pastor.
eta: I've heard a couple of his sermons and he has never been into Numerology or anything of the sort so this side of him is new to me.
Okay... I'll take some time to read where he's coming from.
I can say this about the number system that was in your original post upwards.
We don't need numbers for God to bless us. We don't need a system or a method.
We don't need the dark practices of LOA (Laws of attraction); we don't need the Universe to release what God has in store for us.
All we need is God. Jesus made it soooooooooooooooooo very easy for all of us.
"If you ask anything in my Name, I will give it to you"
That's all! Really that's all. God even answers our thoughts. He says in His Word:
"Before you even ask, I will answer you"
Jesus even said to guard our hearts and minds simply by talking to God our Father. Jesus gave us the 'Holy Spirit' who is our Comforter and the One ... the True One who leads and guides us into ALL Truth.
What more do we need? Truly what more? When we are in a relationship with the Lord, He is indeed listening and answering our prayers.
We do not need to create vision boards, or repetitive affirmations for God to bless us. These are acts of 'Doubt, Fear and Unbelief', that God is real all by Himself. And we surely do not need to be and actually we have absolutely no business whatsoever joining in with the unbelievers to practice what they practice.... without God for God is not with them.
God says in Psalm 1:
Blessed is the man (woman) who sits not in the counsel of the 'ungodly' nor stands in the way (the actions) of sinners.
The way of sinners is separation from God... out of 'fellowship and relationship with Him who loves and adores us so very much that He will withhold no good thing from us. No good thing. How dare we seek another outside of Him who loves us so.
I've been here in this forum for a long, long time. Too long to be honest. Yet I have a mission, an assignment.
I watched when that LOA thread first began back in October 2006. In the beginning, it 'appeared' okay and as if it were a good thing. But then God opened my eyes, quick, fast and in a hurry to see that it was not of Him and how He was being used and excluded. God does not work in witchcraft.
Not one objective / goal of those in LOA seek a close or closer relationship with God. It's all about self-gain. And at anytime scriptures were used, it was exactly that, the Bible was being 'used' as a pawn, a doorrmat, not in any form of love for God or reverence of His glory. Folks were seeking the 'universe' as their god, instead.
Those in LOA who say that they have scriptures posted on their vision boards.... Really?
Who are they fooling? God says, that His Word is to be in our hearts...
"Thy Word have I hidden in my heart so that I will not sin against thee"
When God's Word lives in our hearts, we are able to recall and pull it up at any given time.
We do not need a vision board to bring us closer to God.
No good thing .... why would any Christian seek the LOA when God, Himself has made it plain to each of us, that there is no good thing that He will withhold from us.... No good thing.
If you notice, the LOA threads are not as 'active' (as blown up) as they used to be.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm :scratchch: That's because of prayer. The effectual, fervent prayers of the saints who honor God and cherish the presence of God here on this Forum that the spirits of darkness will never own nor rule.
I've witnessed bizarre occurrences with two former members of this forum. The one who started the LOA here and the one who started the vision board thread. Things that should not have happened yet it did, because they were caught up in darkness. The devil is no one's friend; he will cut and stab you in the back no matter how much glory one may give him.
The point of all of this is simple:
God is our All in All and nothing and no one can give us what He has promised.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen and Amen