2 COMPARATIVE dreams

 

Proverbs 27:23

King James Version

23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, 

and look well to thy herds.

Strangest things I dreamt this morning.

Thanks to the HOLY SPIRIT Who saw fit to wake me up a second time this morning, with two dreams yet!

That I'd wake up fresh, and record it for this post.

FIRST, a dream about feeding the family.

Mom, sister, nephew, and niece were there.

So were other people I don't remember, maybe a guest, or two.

The desire being to feed all of them.

I had bought food earlier, but didn't realize we needed more.

So I assigned tech-savvy niece to order online from her app.

She wasn't able to, for some reason.

Next, I assigned nephew to do so.

Neither could he.

They both had some excuse.

What to do?

I better go out and search for more food myself.

Turned out there were lots of festivals and feasts everywhere.

Restaurants/bars were packed.

I was thinking of getting a large pizza.

So I headed for this place and ordered one.

They looked at me strangely.

They could not fulfill my order.

I had gone to a place called "Peach Pie".

And wanted to order a pizza "pie".

My mistake.

SECOND dream showed me wanting to point out a few things to some community members.

I was looking for a place to write, a blackboard or something.

There was none to be found.

So I took out some tiny posters from the wall, and found some white chalk, and started writing on the blank wall.

I went to the first "issue" right away, which I had written on some light green, tiny towel.

Like why be paid 194.75 pesos each, when it could be rounded off to 195?

Or if they wanted, why not 200 flat?

Easier to give/count for everyone.

The women liked the 200.

Then a bunch of college colleagues came by holding gifts of 5-peso-coins, which was laid in various stacks, on some surface.

(The number "5" stands for "GRACE OR GOD's GOODNESS".)

I was pleased; we can add that to the community fund!

I was also going to assign each, who brought, to do the "counting".

Then a white-haired woman said something to me:

"I told you, you're a leader!"

That merely got me writing more stuff on the makeshift blackboard.

What I found from these two comparative dreams is this:

It was easier organizing a community meeting,

and getting things done,

than buying food for the family.

I was getting helped by community members.

In the dream, the family didn't participate as much.

Was it because work I did for the community was like "food for the soul"?

And that feeding an uninterested family was merely "food for the body"?

Seems to be.

This exercise is merely an example of what it means to work for the HOLY SPIRIT.

And to listen to His prompts.

He gives you ideas.

He inspires creativity.

He makes everything fun.

He puts sense into seemingly ordinary things.

All because GOD made me born again six years ago in 2019.

And have since been instructed by SPIRIT what to think, say, write, and do.

Even my dreams are His.

He taught me to follow the LORD JESUS' ways.

JESUS is the pattern for PEACE, PURITY, and PERFECTION.

You have no idea what fun is, unless you're guided by SPIRIT each moment.

You will often break into a smile, or laughter.

With secrets known only to both of you.

And mind you, His prompts are astounding, and super workable.

Because He uses what He gave you, right from the start.

He merely taps what He already created you for.

Go find out what that is for you.

I've found mine.

Lastly, here are some relevant, and instructive, verses SPIRIT gave me, pertaining to the two dreams.

These are excellent verses for community causes, too:

Psalm 37:23

King James Version

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: 

and he delighteth in his way.

Habakkuk 2:2

King James Version

2 And the Lord answered me, and said, 

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, 

that he may run that readeth it.

Luke 14:28-30

King James Version

28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, 

sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, 

whether he have sufficient to finish it?

29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, 

and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Acts 20:28-29

King James Version

28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock,

 over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, 

to feed the church of God, 

which he hath purchased with his own blood.

29 For I know this, 

that after my departing shall grievous wolves 

enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Interestingly, the number "2" kept showing up this morning:

-- SPIRIT woke me up TWICE.

-- He gave me TWO dreams.

-- Sometime along the way, I noticed the time, 2:22 a.m.

So I searched Ed F. Vallowe's "Keys to Scripture Numerics".

The number "2" stood for "UNION, DIVISION, WITNESSING":

"TWO came to stand for strengthening, for confirmation, 

for redoubled courage and energy."

"Always this number TWO meant augmented strength, 

redoubled energy, confirmed power."

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TEST of leadership

 Lamentations 3:40

King James Version

40 Let us search and try our ways, 

and turn again to the Lord.

No wonder GOD wanted me to keep writing about Trump.

Which I did yesterday.

The 10-day-old leadership of president Trump was to be tested.

As well as the five-day-old leadership of Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary.

Not to mention the day-old leadership of Sean Duffy, the new transportation secretary.

A commercial plane and military helicopter collided yesterday.

The airliner carried 64 on board; the chopper, three.

At least 28 bodies were recovered.

Many believe no one could have survived the impact and explosion in mid-air.

Neither the freezing, choppy waters of the Potomac.

CBN News reports the water temperature was at least 35 degrees F.

35 °F is equal to 1.67 °C

-- Inch Calculator

We commiserate with the families of all who may have lost their lives.

It's especially poignant, considering their plane was already preparing to land.

Something that happened a month ago, with the south Korean incident.

Should people be afraid to fly now?

No -- our lives are in GOD's hand alone.

Job 12:9-10

King James Version

9 Who knoweth not in all these 

that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?

10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, 

and the breath of all mankind.

A true tragedy in the early throes of the renewed Trump administration.

Reminding me of a tragedy that faced my own Philippine president, Benigno Aquino III, after he just sat in office on 30 June 2010.

Barely two months in office, he, too, got a "baptism of fire".

A disgruntled police officer took 25 hostages in a bus, 20 of whom were tourists.

"The Philippine and Hong Kong governments conducted separate investigations into the incident. Both inquiries concluded that the Philippine officials' poor handling of the situation caused the eight hostages' deaths."

-- Wikipedia

The first thing that came to mind?

President Aquino was being tested for his "leadership".

Now, it's happening with president Trump, and his two newly-confirmed cabinet members.

I mean, what are the chances that he, and his two men (relevant to the incident), would be tested so early on?

In any major leadership, crucial "tests" are given.

Somehow, I know how Trump would handle it.

With heart, firmness, and common sense.

Strangely, the American Airline incident directly involved the  Federal Aviation Administration, too.

Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, just mentioned the FAA in her FIRST press briefing two days ago.

That was her opening at the briefing, talking about the "drones" over New Jersey, silencing all qualms, and conspiracy theories.

As if by GOD's design, we also just mentioned the FAA in our article yesterday.

This will test Leavitt's leadership, too, for she will be busy addressing questions from hereon.

Even as the president already did today.

All these, I was made to "witness".

THANKS to the HOLY SPIRIT.

Who keeps leading me, inspiring me, and teaching me.

I really must keep writing about Trump.

It's the assignment GOD had given me.

Is GOD keeping us all "sharp"?

That, I am wont to believe.

Now, Hegseth, and Duffy's, will look into their departments.

Yesterday, president Trump blamed air traffic control.

Today, the DEI issue came up.

Expect Trump to be rid of that, completely.

Trump said he made reforms after Obama's presidency.

But Biden reformed his reforms.

And now, Trump reformed it again three days ago,

Knowing the president, he will make sure an incident such as this never happens again.

GOD-willing, it won't.

The air space in D.C. is very busy.

Trump, in his usual common sense, questioned why the plane, and helicopter, were on the same level, and direction.

Arthur Rosenberg, an aviation attorney and former pilot, felt the same way, too.

As the president gave his initial statement last night, I thought to myself he won't let this pass, without an uproar.

He cannot bear lives lost, because of ineptness.

After all, who could be the busiest "flier" than Trump?

He has his own TRUMP plane.

Now, he's got back his Air Force One presidential plane.

Not to mention his Marine One helicopter.

Of course, I expected his critics to forget that.

They sure did, as they "attacked" him at the presscon.

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CHASTENING of California

 Proverbs 16:18

King James Version

18 Pride goeth before destruction, 

and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Was California proud?

Had her officials been belligerent?

Had they failed their people?

Have they owned up to their mistakes?

Was she under "judgment"?

Were the fires man-made?

And GOD-allowed?

Of course, only GOD knows.

Apart from whoever "planned" or "started" the fire.

If it was man-made, at all.

Or part of a "greater" picture we know nothing about.

But we do know what the Bible says about "chastening".

We feel California is being "chastened".

All that pride, and wokefulness, won't do.

All her love for things of the world, won't do.

Hollywood's love for sin, won't do.

GOD loves California.

Despite her many errors.

He wants her SAVED -- through JESUS.

The very JESUS she mocks, and sets aside.

Otherwise, He wouldn't have "chastened" her.

He wants her eyes "opened".

Would she open it, this time?

Would she turn to GOD, this time?

Would she finally lose that self-absorption?

Would her officials abandon their left, and woke, ideology?

Would she become born again, so SPIRIT would lead her, instead of "self"?

Would she repent of her sins?

As I ponder over California's raging fires, and failed leadership, SPIRIT led me to some very telling verses.

Know more what "chastening" means:

Hebrews 12:5

King James Version

5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation 

which speaketh unto you as unto children, 

My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, 

nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Hebrews 12:6

King James Version

6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, 

and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Hebrews 12:7

King James Version

7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; 

for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Hebrews 12:8

King James Version

8 But if ye be without chastisement, 

whereof all are partakers, 

then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Hebrews 12:9

King James Version

9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh 

which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: 

shall we not much rather be in subjection 

unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Hebrews 12:10

King James Version

10 For they verily for a few days 

chastened us after their own pleasure; 

but he for our profit, 

that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Hebrews 12:11

King James Version

11 Now no chastening for the present 

seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: 

nevertheless afterward it yieldeth 

the peaceable fruit of righteousness 

unto them which are exercised thereby.

Hebrews 12:12-13

King James Version

12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, 

and the feeble knees;

13 And make straight paths for your feet, 

lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; 

but let it rather be healed.

Hebrews 12:14

King James Version

14 Follow peace with all men, 

and holiness, without which 

no man shall see the Lord:

Hebrews 12:15

King James Version

15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; 

lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, 

and thereby many be defiled;

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JUST wondering

 Ephesians 6:10-12

King James Version

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, 

and in the power of his might.

11 Put on the whole armour of God, 

that ye may be able to stand 

against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 

but against principalities, against powers, 

against the rulers of the darkness of this world, 

against spiritual wickedness in high places.

I'm not into conspiracy theories.

I merely connect the dots, through the HOLY SPIRIT's prompt.

More often than not, as I write an article, other articles are spawned.

I merely follow SPIRIT's lead.

Such as when we ended yesterday's article with:

"America is on the road to recovery with the Trump team.

Nation-wise, militarily, economically, and spiritually.

CHRIST's enemy knows that.

Precisely why he placed obstacles before them.

And that's for another post."

-- "AMERICA's re-elected HOUSE speaker"

This article you're reading now is that "post".

The trigger actually came right at the start of the Mike Johnson video, when he prayed for the victims at Louisiana.

Wherein a military guy plowed through Bourbon Street.

Killing 15, and injuring dozens of people.

RIGHT at that moment, I began to wonder if it was connected to a recent cybertruck explosion:

Are these "coincidences"?

FIRST, the car-ramming in Louisiana, which happened to be Speaker Johnson's home state. It happened just days before he was to be voted in Congress.

SECOND, the blowing up of the Tesla cybertruck, in front of the Trump hotel. Tesla's Elon Musk, and president-elect Trump, are pretty close. Trump's inauguration draws close.

THIRD, both perpetrators are military men; both American citizens. What pushed them over the edge?

FOURTH, both came from Fort Bragg.

FIFTH, both didn't mind perishing (the first perished through police gunfire; the second was self-inflicted).

SIXTH, both seemed to have marriage problems.

Are these two random events, or are these connected?

Were they meant to warn the TRUMP team?

Is there a larger picture here?

What made these men "fall off"?

We are not into conjecture either.

We wait for the investigator's findings.

We shall know more as the days evolve.

We add videos below as they show up each day.

But we do know this -- Satan continues to menace.

Either to cause panic, fear, confusion, deception, hatred, anger, death, and destruction.

Those are his "fingerprints".

BEWARE his ways, and intentions:

1 Peter 5:8-9 

King James Version

8 Be sober, be vigilant; 

because your adversary the devil, 

as a roaring lion, walketh about, 

seeking whom he may devour:

9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, 

knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished 

in your brethren that are in the world.

And to the public, know this:

Only through JESUS 

can we be safe, and saved.

The LORD assures believers:

Matthew 10:28

King James Version

28 And fear not them which kill the body, 

but are not able to kill the soul: 

but rather fear him which is able to destroy 

both soul and body in hell.

Luke 21:18

King James Version

18 But there shall not 

an hair of your head perish.

Revelation 1:18

King James Version

18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; 

and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; 

and have the keys of hell and of death.

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Strength of KENYA

Proverbs 3:1-4

King James Version

3 My son, forget not my law; 

but let thine heart keep my commandments:

2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, 

shall they add to thee.

3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: 

bind them about thy neck; 

write them upon the table of thine heart:

4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding 

in the sight of God and man.

We've looked into America recently.

But now that her elections are over, she's going to be just fine.

GOD put president-elect Trump to look after her, and Israel.

Now, the HOLY SPIRIT turned my attention to Africa.

Seems, it's the third "assignment" He gave me.

We've already studied America, and Israel.

Now, it's Africa's turn.

There's one, particular nation He led me to:

KENYA

Kenya is an amazing country.

She may be of lower middle-income status, but she's got guts!

She can go against international pressure, even "bullying".

She is not afraid of "giants".

We know of two clear instances.

FIRST instance:

Today, we learned her High Court "suspends immunity" on the Gates Foundation.

Her people question why the foundation should have "immunity", which is normally reserved for those with diplomatic status.

She questions, what is the foundation "hiding"?

Well, we did write on 7 October 2022:

"Many years ago, I wanted to join an essay contest.

It was being sponsored by a well-known foundation.

Reviewing the guidelines, I was alerted to something.

Which soured the idea for me.

The foundation was promoting vaccines in Africa.

To my mind, that felt incongruous to the plight of Africa.

Didn't the people needed food, clean water, homes?

Wasn't there famine everywhere?

Why was the foundation promoting vaccines?

The nagging thought was set aside for a time.

Until GOD made me born again in September 2019."

-- "Why vaccines and not FOOD?"

We also learned that very same foundation has been buying large tracts of land in America, as well as promoting modern farming methods in Kenya.

She is really attractive to these globalists for this reason -- among many:

"Agriculture is the largest sector; tea and coffee are traditional cash crops, while fresh flowers are a fast-growing export."

-- Wikipedia

SECOND instance:

On 9 October 2022, we wrote that William Ruto, Kenya's president, subtly put an international reporter in her place, because she kept badgering him about LGBTQ.

This is what president Ruto told her:

"As it is now, we are grappling with five million young people who don't have jobs, four million people who are hungry, and that is my concern. That is the forecast of the people of Kenya at the moment."

   -- Source: Woke CNN Reporter HUMILIATED By Kenyan President Over LGBT Rights

One would think the female reporter would have known this:

Homosexual acts are illegal in Kenya and typically punishable by up to 14 years in prison.[154] According to a 2020 survey by the Pew Research Center, 83% of Kenyans believe that homosexuality should not be accepted by society.[155] While addressing a joint press conference together with President Barack Obama* in 2015, President Kenyatta declined to assure Kenya's commitment to gay rights, saying that "the issue of gay rights is really a non-issue... But there are some things that we must admit we don't share. Our culture, our societies don't accept."

-- Wikipedia

*Obama's father is Kenyan; his mother, American.

America must really stop trying to convert others to their gender and woke issues.

Well, Kamala lost, and that's that.

Trump will make sure America acts right again.

Other things going for Kenya?

A lot:

"Most Kenyans are Christian (85.5%), with 53.9% Protestant and 20.6% Roman Catholic."

"Kenya has by far the highest number of Quakers of any country in the world, with around 146,300.[220] The only Jewish synagogue in the country is in Nairobi."

-- Wikipedia

Thank GOD, Kenya worships JESUS.

Now you see why Satan wants to corrupt her.

SPIRIT also made us see areas for potential problems.

But that will have to be for another post.

She is also attractive to globalists because of her "youth":

According to the 2019 Population and Census results, 75 percent of the 47.6 million population is under the age of 35, making Kenya a country of the youth.

-- Wikipedia

Despite her lower middle-income status, Kenya is no pushover.

She may not be a perfect nation, as no human nation is.

But she's got GOD in her national anthem:

Anthem: "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"

(English: "O God of All Creation")

We shall pray for Kenya, that she continues on her GODLY path.

And become free of corruption, oppression, and manipulation.

May her people live peacefully, freely, and prosperously!

Numbers 6:24-26

King James Version

24 The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

25 The Lord make his face shine upon thee, 

and be gracious unto thee:

26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, 

and give thee peace.

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BEYOND peripheral VISION

1 Samuel 3:1

King James Version

3 And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. 

And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; 

there was no open vision.

Once a reader of new age material, I prided myself in having "peripheral" vision.

It's "seeing" from "outside the corner of one's eyes".

I thought that was the right way to "see".

Of course, new age makes you think you're more than you really are.

Well, soon as GOD made me born again in 2019, I began to see differently.

Starting with losing all sense of "self".

My vision truly expanded.

I began to see beyond the peripheral.

I began to see , and become aware of "others".

Their plight, their needs, my sins against them.

When you really start "seeing", the latter is the most painful of all.

But it's something you have to go through.

That's what automatically happens when GOD makes you born again.

FIRST, you receive a "humbling".

SECOND, the "forgiveness"

THIRD, the "anointing".

You begin to finally "see", as GOD wants you to see.

Your vision is not clouded anymore.

You begin to understand, and grasp things, through Scripture.

The WORD of GOD becomes your ONE, TRUE GUIDE.

You begin to appreciate everything GOD gave you.

You begin to acknowledge all your sins.

You realize self is not as important as new age says it should be.

I never thought I was the center of the universe.

I always thought the sun was.

Even that was corrected.

Only GOD is the center of the UNIVERSE.

Concern goes beyond self.

You begin to truly care about others.

Love becomes "unconditional".

Because JESUS taught us that.

That's what it means to go BEYOND peripheral vision.

Now, you have SPIRIT and SPIRITUAL vision.

You are now being taught by the HOLY SPIRIT.

He teaches you about GOD, self, and others.

He teaches you about GOD's commands.

He teaches you about JESUS.

He tells you of past, present, and future.

He answers all the questions you have.

As born again, you see who you really are.

You see others for who they really are.

You see the world for what it really is.

You see GOD for Who He Is.

You see JESUS for Who He Is.

You see SPIRIT for Who He Is.

You see Scripture for what it is.

Nothing is withheld from you anymore.

As born again, you see beyond the norm, the usual, the programmed.

It's like, all of a sudden, you don't need to "wear" glasses anymore.

Now, you see through the LENS of the HOLY SPIRIT.

Your "vision" has become perfect!

Or, at least, being perfected.

Now, nothing is being hidden from you.

Scripture tells us all we need to know.

That's why I marvel, and write like crazy.

We have created 110 blogs, as of this writing.

Those blogs explore, and expand, on our Bible discoveries.

As my vision expanded. so did my understanding of GOD's laws.

Now, you don't need to see through "philosophy".

Or what man thinks you "should" focus on.

Now, all you care about is that SPIRIT makes you "see".

You don't need intellect, as much as you need a childlike heart.

As a teen, I came across this quote from "The Little Prince":

"It is only in the heart that one can see rightly, 

what is essential is invisible to the eye".

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Today, I reflect upon it.

And discover HALF of it is right.

It is not "in the heart" that makes us see rightly.

It is only "through SPIRIT" that one can see "rightly".

1 Corinthians 2:10

King James Version

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: 

for the Spirit searcheth all things, 

yea, the deep things of God.

And yes, Exupery was HALF right, too.

"What is essential is invisible to the eye".

John 4:24

King James Version

24 God is a Spirit: 

and they that worship him 

must worship him in spirit and in truth.

JESUS said these of the HOLY SPIRIT:

John 3:8

King James Version

8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, 

and thou hearest the sound thereof, 

but canst not tell whence it cometh, 

and whither it goeth: 

so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

John 14:17

King James Version

17 Even the Spirit of truth; 

whom the world cannot receive, 

because it seeth him not, 

neither knoweth him: 

but ye know him; 

for he dwelleth with you, 

and shall be in you.

Apostle Paul speaks of the "unseen":

2 Corinthians 4:18

King James Version

18 While we look not at the things which are seen, 

but at the things which are not seen: 

for the things which are seen are temporal; 

but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Pray to be born again.

You have no idea what you're missing out on.

I champion the cause of being BORN AGAIN.

Not in the way many elite, or prosperity churches have abused it.

But in the way that JESUS defined it.

John 3:3-7

King James Version

3 Jesus answered and said unto him, 

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 

Except a man be born again, 

he cannot see the kingdom of God.

4 Nicodemus saith unto him, 

How can a man be born when he is old? 

can he enter the second time 

into his mother's womb, and be born?

5 Jesus answered, 

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 

Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, 

he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; 

and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, 

Ye must be born again.

Only through GOD's LOVE, and GRACE, do I have clear vision.

Otherwise, I couldn't write as I do.

Much less understand Scripture, as I have.

I'm done with peripheral vision.

It is limited.

GOD isn't.

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