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9-23-18 METRON – CHOOSE LIFE!: Creating a Better Reality by Taking Full Ownership of Your Current One, Part III

Today’s Notes:
I – “And calling is Yahweh Elohim to the human, and He is saying to him, ‘Adam! Where are you?’ And saying is he to Him, ‘The sound of You walking hear I in the garden, and fearful am I, for naked am I, and I am hiding’. And saying is He to him, ‘Did anyone tell you that you are naked? From the tree of which alone I instruct you to avoid eating, from it did you eat?'”
(Genesis 3:9-11 – CLV)

II – “But the time is coming—it has, in fact, come—when what you’re called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter. It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship.
(John 4:21-14 – The Message)

III – “Your self-talk is the channel of behavior change”
― Gino Norris

IV – “Turn down the volume of your negative inner voice and create a nurturing inner voice to take it’s place. When you make a mistake, forgive yourself, learn from it, and move on instead of obsessing about it. Equally important, don’t allow anyone else to dwell on your mistakes or shortcomings or to expect perfection from you.” ― Beverly Engel

V – “The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they are compelled to inhale the poison of their own breath, in infinite repetition.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne

VI – “I am often amused and sometimes amazed by the free-reign constructs of my mind. That is why I converse regularly with myself – I am one of my better friends…” ― Gavin Mills

VII – “Via self-talk we give our mind instructions on what we expect of ourselves and so behave accordingly. Change the instructions and we change the outcomes.” — Sam Owen

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METRON 9-16-18 – Live Recording ‘IN THE NOW with Jim Swilley’ and Guest Zach Keough – HEALING AND RESTORATION FROM WITHIN, parts I-III

Today’s Notes:

1John 1:1 That primordial phenomenon, which we perceived and realized with our faculties – the enigma that we now profess to understand derives from an intangible source, a frequency used to create a nurturing, life-giving, and harmonious environment.

1John1:2 This frequency brings about awareness; we perceive its life-altering abilities and now we attempt to disclose the logistics of these energetic signatures through mindfulness, which resides in a nonlocal resource, yet it remains immediately available to us.

1John1:3 We share with you our personal, firsthand experience based on acoustic and visual evidence, hoping that our experience piques your interest enough to engage in further dialogue and inquiry into this phenomenon. The fellowship between us is divinely inspiring and evokes a spirit reminiscent of Jesus the Christ.

1John1:4 We compose this small piece of literature, not in prose form, but so that it appeals to your intellect, inspires, and forms an energetic template with the intent to produce healing and restoration from within.

1John1:5 This is the message we received, and now relay to you, when we elevated our consciousness: goodness is ubiquitous; every thought is exposed as an illusion connected with the past and future, derailing our ability to attain a coherent mind and body.

1John1:6 Should we profess to engaging regularly a mindfulness approach to life yet permit these damning illusions of our past and future to dictate our thinking patterns, we deceive ourselves and are unable to experience an altruistic approach to life.

1John1:7 But, should we continue our pursuit in attaining a coherent mind and body, a consistent form of enlightenment, we engage delightfully and gleefully in each other’s conversation about our experiences in oneness. In this manner, Jesus’s courageous act is not in vain, because His words resonate with us even unto this day, dispelling any and all misperceptions we conceived of ourselves and of others.

Translation by Zach Keough

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METRON 9-9-18: CHOOSE LIFE!: Creating a Better Reality by Taking Full Ownership of Your Current One – Part II

Today’s Notes:

I – “Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, “Do you want to get well?” The sick man said, “Sir, when the water is stirred, I don’t have anybody to put me in the pool. By the time I get there, somebody else is already in. Jesus said, “Get up, take your bedroll, start walking.” The man was healed on the spot. He picked up his bedroll and walked off.”
(John 5:1-9 – The Message)

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II – “You will never be who you want to be, until you are happy with who you are.”
― Thomas F. Shubnell

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III – “There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
― J.K. Rowling

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IV – “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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V – “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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VI – “The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.”
― Steve Maraboli

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VII – “Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It’s never too late! I know I’ve felt like the victim in various situations in my life, but, it’s never too late for me to realize that it’s my responsibility to stand on victorious ground and know that whatever it is I’m experiencing or going through, those are just the clouds rolling by while I stand here on the top of this mountain! This mountain called Victory! The clouds will come and the clouds will go, but the truth is that I’m high up here on this mountaintop that reaches into the sky! I am a victor. I didn’t climb up the mountain, I was born on top of it!”
― C. JoyBell C.

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METRON 9-2-18 –CHOOSE LIFE!: Creating a Better Reality by Taking Full Ownership of Your Current One, Part I

Today’s Notes:

I – “I call heaven and earth to testify against you today! I’ve set life and death before you today: both blessings and curses. Choose life, that it may be well with you—you and your children.”
(Deuteronomy 30:19 – ISV)

II – “Today I call the heavens and the earth to testify against you: Life and death I have put before you, the blessing and the malediction*. Now choose life that you may live, you and your seed…”
(Deuteronomy 30:19 – CLV

*mal·e·dic·tion : a magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil or destruction; a curse

III – “Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude* God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.”
(Galatians 6:7 – AMPC)

*de·lude: impose a misleading belief upon (someone); deceive; fool

IV – “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.” ― Stephen R. Covey

V – “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” ― Roy T. Bennett

VI – “But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak. For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced.”
(Matthew 12:36-37 – AMPC)

VII – “We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre