As a little child,we asked a lot of questions to our parents.Why does it rain? What is a rainbow?Are the clouds made of cotton candy?When am I going to grow up? The curious of the small child sometimes drives the parents out of their minds.Children are told many things that they have to do like pick up their toys or go to sleep.The process of parenting and child is well known by many even if we don't have our own children.God is a parent also and the Bible calls HimFather of all creations. When a small human child goes to Sunday school they hear mostly about the life of Jesus and the things He did.The training is taught to be followed and repetition of verses in the Bible are given to be memorized. This is the way the world teaches in most schools to children.No questioning just believe in what is told to you and conform to the truths that the school or the churches have agreed upon. Of course,the young child believed its parents about the rain or the clouds and never asked why unless were very intuitive and knew the parents were incorrect in their answers to them.Or should I say, "real thinkers" with a consciousness awareness of the unseen?Sometimes learning is the remembering of who you were before in a previous life incarnation.Some parents and teacher and church leaders need to update their teaching practices to give some thought to the thinking part of the brain or the spiritual consciousness awareness that many children came into this world with already How does the church teach?Mostly they do everything for the congregation they read the Bible for them and the answer the questions for them and they even pray for them.What is wrong with this picture? Did you every ask a preacher or teacher after a sermon or class why they said what they said?They would probably tell you to go home and read it for yourself and let the Holy spirit tell you what it means.And remember in school when you raised your hand too much to answer a question you were told that your answer was interesting but not in the books.How can we ask God when we can ask our leaders.We have been rejected by people with the questions so many times we have stopped asking people and now we suppose to bother God. Well, logical this does make sense to many people.
I spend my Sunday's listening to preachers and watching then on live in live services.The church in the western world is very far behind in talking or teaching spirituality.There are few that have broken away from their denominations and this has caused a breakdown in unity.Some denominations are in trouble with federal tax money and have fears of losing control over their congregations. Spirituality is a strange word to hear coming from some of the mainline denominations.They were talking more about the Holy Spirit this morning when I tune it.The preacher said,"What we all need to do is ask for the Holy Spirit to pour our His gifts on you."it sounded like something he had never said before in his life.Teaching is so different when you teach like Jesus taught isn't it?Jesus would ask the person who he was going to teach a lesson to just to see how or why they were asking the questions and make them think. I have used this technique many times because it gives the persons asking the questions the honor and respect of begin a "thinker" and a real teacher,preacher or leader needs to give the same respect tho their listeners.
Do we have a relationship with Jesus?Can we have a relationship with God the father?Can we ask the Father for everything?How do we allow the Holy Spirit to pour out His gifts on us?All of the questions can be answered by everyone reading this paper.We don't know because we don't ask!We don't have what we want because we don't ask ourselves.We need to open up the awareness within and start asking God or the Holy Spirit to give us the answers we already have buried deep in our hearts.In the story of THE WIZZARD OF OZ the WIZZARD SAID,"you already have courage,a brain and a heart and home is in your heart."
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