HOW to KNOW if YOU are BELIEVING a LIE

😖“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?Jeremiah 17:9

So many competing voices! Which voices to pay attention and which to tune out?🎎🃏🎶🎙️📢💱🔬

What makes it less complicated is to realize that there are really only TWO voices among the frey. The TRUTH and the LIE. 🎭

(If you ask me where I was yesterday morning I could make up twenty stories 🤥or tell the TRUTH😇.)

Now it is much simpler. Ask “How do I discern TRUTH?”🙌🏻

This becomes even easier if you can answer affirmatively, “I 💖TRUTH. I am seeking TRUTH.”👂

It helps to realize you have a champion in your corner, Holy Spirit!👆 He is God’s agent to reveal TRUTH to the heart and mind of the SEEKER. 👀

Invite God’s Holy Spirit 🌬️ to reveal TRUTH. Let Him choose which voices you should listen to. He will not brainwash you, He will (re-) EDUCATE you properly.🦉

You don't need me or anyone else to tell you what to think. If you 💖 and seek TRUTH, the voice of TRUTH will resound amidst the other voices and anchor your heart even when chaos or confusion SEEMS to be reigning.

Note: Renewing your mind will happen more quickly and efficiently if you position yourself in front of an open Bible. 📕

✴️You will soon be free🤸🎉🤸from the influence of legalistic (religious and political) “educated”  institutional experts🃏, bought-off slanted news sources🗞️, and friends who surround themselves with pedigreed elitist opinionated know-nothings!🗿🗿🗿🗿wms

🤔Then you will know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH will set you free.’ John 8:32

⚖️For we cannot do anything against the TRUTH, but only for the TRUTH. 2 Corinthians 13:8

🙄Buy the TRUTH and do not sell it – wisdom, instruction and insight as well. Prov. 23:23

✡️... who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the TRUTH. 1 Tim. 2:4

😥They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 2 Timothy 4:4

MY DEATH and RESURRECTION

On January 24th, 1984, I was involved in a bazaar accident, thrown out of a car, across three lanes of traffic, and came to lay in a field. When I regained consciousness resting on my back, looking up at a chilled gray afternoon sky, circled by grown-up brush, a gentle rain was washing my bloody face. I couldn't remember anything that had happened. I had no pain, only uncanny peace. I knew I was dying. I said outloud, "Jesus I'm coming home."

Within minutes, Holy Spirit enlisted a number of prayer warriors on my behalf. My pastor and mentor was "co-incidentally" driving by the scene. Police were directing traffic and he caught a glimpse of my body by the road and immediate was captured in a deep prayer for the unknown victim. Weeping and groaning, he interceded for me until the burden lifted, an half hour before the hospital called my wife. As the news spread, people began asking other people to pray, and those people called other people who didn't even know me.

In and out of consciousness, laying on my back on a table in the emergency room at Haverford Hospital, I was being undressed. Nurses were cutting off my wet clothes. The down jacket was spewing feathers in the air! I had lost one contact lens so the whole scene seemed especially surreal. Nurses were actually laughing, and I thought it was kind of funny myself. (I earned the nickname "Feather Man." For days they were finding feathers in the hallways.)

Now Terry, my wife, was at my side holding my hand. She had been told it was not likely that I would survive, but surgery was necessary to stop a massive internal hemorrhage. 

Just before I was taken to the operating room, FAITH came to me. The kind of faith mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:9.

I squeezed Terry's hand. "I'm going to be okay," I said.

A double portion of Holy Spirit came on Terry. Her normally quiet and shy nature was displaced, and she turned into an evangelist, preaching to anyone in the hospital, and comforting her comforters!

I did make it through those tense hours of surgery, obviously, and there were other hurdles to overcome. Later that evening when the friends and family who had been attending my wife in the surgery waiting room finally departed, my body began violently shaking in bed. I remember emotionlessly watching my body convulsing from somewhere near the ceiling as my soul was departing. Terry panicked and called our pastor who recruited prayer warriors again.

Days later, when I began to regain consciousness and a spotted memory of what had happened that day, people remarked, "God must still have some important work for you to do." While I agree, I also know the devil tried to kill me, and would have succeeded had it not been for faithful pastors, family, and co-members of the church who stood faithfully beside my wife and I in prayer, refusing to let me pass prematurely out of this world.

HEAVEN AND HELL COME TOGETHER

There is just enough Heaven on the Earth to offset the Hell any of us may be going through.

In the next age, Heaven and Hell will be completely sorted out. Christ will soon return to the Earth and purge every remnant of wickedness from this planet. He will once again instruct us concerning Heaven's protocol. Those who follow Him will set up a perfect Government and will make Earth fit for Heaven once again.

God's original design was for the Man to reign on the Earth with His Blessing, as His representative. God designed a section of the Earth to look like Heaven. He gave the Man a command to be fruitful and multiply and propagate a Garden Paradise to the four corners. But the Earth was thrown into turmoil because of man's poor choices. Heaven, of necessity, had to step back for a season, and Hell has taken the opportunity to gorge itself.

Those of us who are seeking Good can find still find Good. There are opportunities every day in your little corner of the Earth to open the door and invite the kingdom of Heaven back in.

The Earth is, for the unredeemed, the closest they will ever come to Heaven. Likewise, the Earth is, for the Redeemed, the closest they will ever come to Hell.