daily word - projecting shadows?

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You are familiar with the process of projection which has been around since the first movies. Images can be projected over a distance to appear larger on a surface, typically a screen. This requires a powerful lamp. Can shadows be projected? This doesn’t work in the world of optics, but people have been doing it for a long time. Have you seen people ‘project’ their unresolved issues onto the world around them? In this way problems that are not dealt with are passed along to others and kept alive.

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Healing Emotional Trauma Is Foundational to Restoring Health

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For many years I have known that emotional trauma is often the trigger for physical pain and illness. I have worked with two specific individuals who were both able to clearly trace the onset of cancer to unresolved emotional trauma in their lives. Traumas can leave us emotionally shattered, which turns off our immune system, which in turn allows disease and infirmity to take hold and flourish. Therefore it is crucial that we hear from God to heal all emotional upset, for emotions buried alive never die.

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daily word - politics?

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Do you regard politics by human reasoning alone? Most people do this, even believers who should know better. Have you observed that those who do this become argumentative, fearful, and agitated? But I have come to give you peace, even in this. Do you recall that I lived in an occupied country? Some of my own followers were zealots. Yet when did I ever advocate the overthrow of the Romans? You are fortunate if you live in a self-governing country.

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daily word - personal?

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You know I came in the flesh and walked this earth as a man. Yet you also see me as transcendent. Is your view of me dominated by the former or the latter? Many believers refer to me as a personal savior. Do you understand that this requires some explanation? For every other application of this word refers to things that are exclusively your own property. Yet your salvation is about you becoming mine rather than me becoming yours. Can you extend this concept beyond my life here in time and space and make it universal?

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daily word - stupid

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What is the worst insult that you have given or received? Isn’t it to say that someone is stupid? You live in a rational age where cognitive ability is highly revered, so to suggest that someone is deficient in this is to challenge the very basis of their humanity. But is this the way the world really works? Do you see people being held back from leading full lives because they aren’t smart enough, or because they are too fearful, biased, prejudiced, insecure, or blind in the sense that they are unaware of the reality around them?

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Prophetic Word to the Church Through Nate Johnson

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Note from Mark Virkler - I have pulled the summary statements concerning this prophetic word out of the message below and added them as an introduction - The main takeaway is that God is right now preparing us to take down every giant in our path in the days to come. There has been a lie that has been damaging – that darkness is incontestable - but we are called to be the light! Church, you are anointed and appointed to take down the giants of this hour! The full prophecy is available here

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daily word - prayer and incantation

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Do you know the difference between a prayer and an incantation? Prayer is a part of your faith practice and incantation is not, although unbelievers do not draw any distinction between them. Prayer is a request made to me and an acknowledgment of my power. An incantation is an expression of “magical words” based on the belief that the power resides in the words. Your faith is relational and always a recognition of a power beyond yourself that you do not control. Yet I regard the prayers of my people and take seriously petitions offered in faith and humble gratitude.

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daily word - stories

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Do you like stories? Everyone does. I spoke to the people in parables and they listened gladly. Do you listen to stories for entertainment value or do you listen for deep spiritual value? Multitudes heard my stories but my disciples were frustrated with them and kept asking me to declare the parables to them. What fraction of those who heard my stories do you think comprehended their full message? What about today? Don’t you continue to find new layers of meaning in familiar passages? If all you ask of a story is entertainment that is available.

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daily word - same rules?

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Which principle do you think is more important: the same rules for everyone, or each man can only serve one master and will answer to him alone? Could both of these be true? The economy of grace is not like one run by a uniform code of civil and criminal justice. Doesn’t that sound like the law and don’t you claim that you live under grace rather than under the law? These are different concepts and it will be helpful for you to realize that every person is in a different place in their journey of grace.

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New Book - Motivation to Move by Karen Sue Smith

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Motivation to Move by Karen Sue Smith encourages the reader to engage in bodily movements as they meditate on Bible stories. The principle is that the more of our beings are involved in the learning process, the deeper it is. That is why biblical meditation beats western study. The definition of the words for meditation in the Hebrew and Greek include murmuring, speaking, imagining, mourning, roaring, and studying. God commands writing out of Scripture (Deut. 17:18), and prophetic actions are also recommended in the Bible (2 Kgs. 13:14-19).

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