Tag: Mind

MThe mind is a fascinating and complex entity that governs our thoughts, emotions, and perceptions. It serves as the control center for our actions, allowing us to process information, make decisions, and navigate our experiences. The interplay between our conscious and subconscious thoughts shapes our reality and influences how we interact with the world around us. Engaging with the mind can lead to greater self-awareness, creativity, and emotional intelligence, empowering us to grow and adapt. Understanding the nuances of our mental processes can unlock potential we never knew we had and enhance our overall well-being. Whether through mindfulness practices, creative expression, or intellectual pursuits, nurturing the mind is essential for personal development and fulfillment.

  • Bondage Of The Will

    Bondage Of The Will

    There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

    The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

    What the Law could not do, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh & an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do NOT walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    Those who walk according to the flesh put their minds on the things of the flesh,
    but those who walk according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

    The mind set on the flesh is death

    But the mind set on the Spirit is life & peace, 
    The mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, it is not even able to do so,(man in & of himself is wicked & deprived) & those who are in the flesh cannot please God (no matter how hard they try). .

    The good news is you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God really dwells in you. But if ANYONE  does not have the Spirit of Christ, that person does not belong to Christ.

    If Christ is in you, though your body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit is alive because of His righteousness.

    If you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if you are living by the Spirit you are laying to death the actions of the body, & you will live.

    All who are being directed by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

    You have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

    The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, & if we are children, we are heirs also, heirs of God & fellow heirs with Christ,
    If  we suffer with Him we may also be glorified with Him.

    The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

    The anxious longing of His entire creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.

    For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

    For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

    And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

    For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?

    But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

    Romans 8:1‭-‬25 Directly quoted.
  • Isolation Into To My Heart

    Isolation Into To My Heart

    Do you Know Isolation, have you truly been embraced? 

    If so… you know the depth of darkness that the human shadow is hiding within when isolation becomes a companion, reaching the depths of your soul the things that can not be uttered.

    When I say you KNOW the shadow’s depths of darkness, I do not mean you know purely intellectually. You Know, as in, you Perceive it directly, experience its cause & effect inwardly, you recognized it as knowledge.

    “God develops our character in community and tests it in isolation.”

    Bill Thrall

    When you are able to discern darkness by simply Seeing into the darkness you know you have become the Light of God.

    The familiarity we can develop with darkness reveals an outline of the “shadow” that hides within,7 we recognize we are the shadow, we are that darkness.

    Darkness reveals to us the outline of the shadow.

    What does that even mean?


    In the literal, material:

    The Absence of light (or illumination ) makes Known to us the description or plan giving us the essential features (the nuance) of an object cast on a surface this shadow is cast by another body or object, intercepting the darkness, emphasizing and contrasting the presence of Light.


    The shadow arises from our subconscious.

    The Subconscious is not wholly conscious, meaning it’s not aware of and responding to our surroundings. It is the part of the mind below the level of conscious perception. It is the part of us who acts without our awareness.

    Our shadow harbors the Truth of who we are, beneath it’s mask: the human ego. Since we fell in Adam, we feel the compulsion to protect ourselves from the Truth of who we are, fearing ego injury above all else.

    Many of us who seclude ourselves were raised to maintain an inflated idea of our own importance, obsessed with our self image, else there would be psychological damage


    But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

    2 Cor. 12:9-10

    SHADOW DEFINITIONS

    • n. A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
    • v. To block light or radio transmission.
    • (espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
    • adj. Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were.

    When you lived an extended span in isolation there develops long-term effects, good & bad, depending on your perception, this impacts your mind exponentially. If you are resilient and intuitive, isolation executes the mission of transitioning consciousness from flesh to Spirit.

    That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

    John 3:6

    When you learn to separate and store memories as a way to protect yourself, those memories can become fragmented thoughts.

    If you care about yourself, you will strive to find a way to reconnect them, just like solving a puzzle.

    However, a puzzle cannot put itself together using just one piece from its memory.

    So we repress, some at will, calling upon fragments of recall, realizing we don’t remember most of our own life.

    If we don’t learn to integrate at will, the fragmented personas become too loud to ignore and we have no more choice, we can’t ignore it.

    That’s when insanity comes. Insanity doesn’t knock, it busts down your door. In that moment procrastination is no longer an option.

    When isolation is met with the force of this level of  insanity there are ONLY 2 routes:

    1. Go Insane into neverending neurosis.

    2. Integrate Self with the memories of repressed Pain.

    … consciously expanding your ability to open all the wounds, even those you forgot existed.
    … integrating your childhood self into who you are now because your inner child IS STILL YOU!

    Isolation, whether forced by outside influences or forced by inward forces, gives a breadth of wisdom that can ONLY be attained through isolation, it works by exposing to your conscious, your unconscious.

    There are many of us, but not many talk about it because you will be slandered and abused.

    Toxic, hard hearted people love to squash any vulnerability you expose to them.

    If they have to look in the mirror, some will automatically feel the need to destroy you, then deny it, devalue you and slander.

    BE CAREFUL!

    People avoid this self-realization by being
    BUSYBODY 
    A meddling person; one who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others
    GOSSIP: GOS'SIP, noun. One who runs from house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
    Mere tattle; idle talk.
    GOS'SIP, verb intransitive To prate; to chat; to talk much.
    1. To be a pot-companion.
    2. To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
    SLANDERER
    noun. A defamer; SLA'NDER, noun
    1. A false tale or report maliciously uttered. and tending to injure the reputation of another by lessening him in the esteem of his fellow citizens, by exposing him to impeachment and punishment, or by impairing his means of living; defamation. slander that worst of poisons, ever finds an easy entrance to ignoble minds.
    2 Disgrace; reproach; disreputation; ill name.
    SLA'NDER, verb transitive To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report respecting one; to tarnish or impair the reputation of one by false tales, maliciously told or propagated.
    SANCTIMONIOUS
    Having the appearance of sanctity; as a sanctimonious pretense.
    MARTYR
    One who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.
    These are the most dangerous because they pretend to understand but it's all a show so people will worship them.

    But… Those who face their shadow will see Truth in the most Authentic form that is visible to the human mind.

    There are no excuses at that point because you don’t run to other people for validation or distraction.

    When you have no one to vomit all your complaints onto at every emotional juncture, you learn to actually feel and know your own thoughts and beliefs.

    You have no choice but to make sense of it because no one is going to psychologically lessen the burden for you.

    And in that, God reveals Himself, literally.

    This is exactly what Scripture Speaks of if you LISTEN with Ears that Hear.

    The Word Holy within the context of when He says “Be Holy as I am Holy” is; WHOLE, COMPLETE, UNFRAGMENTED.

    What are we to integrate? Our sin (which lies definitely within our shadow).

    Only when we ADMIT, meaning we OWN & stop rejecting our sins (by His HOLY Spirit) can we become whole (Holy). This is repentance.

    God says where there is Light, darkness is distinguished.

    If we keep our sins by rejecting their existence, locking then in the shadows, how will God take them?

    God is the Light.

    When we integrate, what we hate within, God brings Light into it, God takes all that darkness, therefore integrating us in order to burn off the chaff.

    Suffering and Pain are of the flesh.

    Just as the flesh’s end is death, so is suffering and pain; therefore whatever suffering we face we know it’s end is death.

    God tells us to meet Him in His secret place, the Secret Place is a place of isolation when perceived from human eyes. But in isolation is where you find there is no such thing.

    All of God’s greatest works of prophetic writings have come from vessels (men) who were in isolation of some sort.

    All of God’s elect were those who were ignored, despised, and made to feel worthless by their peers, but God calls the broken and fragmented into Wholeness and Completeness in Him.

    People will mock you when you come into His transformation & claim it’s because they care, when they can only see through their own experience, thinking the limits of their opinions is the limit of the other.

    People will also degrade you & claim it’s because you’re worth more than what their eyes see, but they are unable to see with the Eyes that are from Heaven I’m always remember when Paul said:

    The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

    1 Corinthians 2:15‭-‬16

    People will find you a burden when they see your suffering, especially supposed Christians, they don’t want to see your pain because it causes them to glimpse into their own & that is what humanity avoids, as their ego overruns their perception.

    Or they may ignore you and talk about you behind your back out of false kindness because they find power in using you as their scapegoat, all too common.

    People will Gaslight, Accuse, Deflect, Reject, & Twist every word, using any tactic to cause your mind to shift down into their realm: the realm of shallowness, land of false light, where we don’t speak of pain, a place where rosy sunglasses are always worn when looking in a mirror.

    If you give in to the pressure, you won’t be isolated, you will appear outwardly as the rest but your shadow will grow bigger and bigger, your sins will hide deeper and deeper.

    Know that the seed of eternal death lives in the Shadows, lives in the sins, lives in those places that seem foolish to your friends and family but live just as deeply within them as they do you, the only difference is the LIGHT.

    Don’t listen to anyone who goes against what God says. There are many false prophets. Trust God in YOU.

    Be WHOLE for God is WHOLE.

  • A Person Only Knows The Thoughts Within Himself

    A person can only KNOW God by the Spirit of God,  we CAN’T know or understand God apart from the Spirit of God…

    It is impossible to Know thoughts that are inside of another because to know something is to have a personal connection to it.

    Paul informs us in 1 Corinthians 2:11‭-‬16

    Who knows a person’s thoughts except for the spirit of that person, which is in him?

    Also, no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

    We have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might comprehend the things freely given to us by God.

    We impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

    The natural (fleshly, carnal) person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are stupid to him & HE’S NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED.

    The spiritual person judges all things but himself to be judged by no one.

    Judge: (Greek) Anakrinó: to observe, examine, investigate, explore, analyze

    “For who has understood the mind, psyche, &thoughts of the Lord so as to educate Him?”

    Instruct: (Greek) Sumbibazó: to join together, assemble, teach, equip for consolidation

    We possess the mind of Christ.

    Mind: (Greek) nous: mentality, understanding, reason)

  • Faith is From God

    The faith we have doesn’t belong to us & we we do not gain grace through Faith by our own free will.  

    Jesus is the Founder and Perfector of our Faith, He’s not just the Perfector but THE *FOUNDER)…

    What does that mean?

    *FOUNDER Biblically Defined is as follows:
    n. One that FOUNDS ESTABLISHES and erects…
    n. One who BEGINS; an author; one from whom anything originates.

    Therefore, Jesus founds, establishes, builds, initiates, and originates our Faith. (He has complete control of our level of Faith)

    This Truth of His sovereignty is evident; we don’t establish ourselves, we can’t establish ourselves, AND we are unworthy of establishing ourselves. We don’t manage the Faith we have in the Truth of God, He does.

    Jesus alone by the Will of The Father Wills our Faith, He decides who will be established in Him, according to His preordained Books.

    Hebrews 12:2
    “…. Looking to Jesus, THE FOUNDER AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

    The following verse also clearly asserts that God PREPARED US BEFOREHAND TO HAVE FAITH, and HE WILLED US to be HIS WORKMANSHIP. (Not free will)

    Eph.2:8-10
    “For by Grace, you have been saved through FAITH. And this is NOT YOUR OWN DOING; IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD, NOT A RESULT OF WORKS, so that no one may boast. For WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which GOD PREPARED BEFOREHAND, that we should walk in them.”

    *What is the Biblical definition of WORKMANSHIP?

    n. Manufacture; meticulously design, is created with thought & skill, particularly by manual labor.
    n. That which is EFFECTED (The power to produce an outcome, full forced execution; operativeness), made or produced

    We are His Workmanship; he executes, operates, designs, and produces His people’s Faith by the Power of His Grace.
    We don’t execute, produce, etc. our own Faith.

    The Grace we receive ISN’T because of anything we do (no matter how great), say (no matter how righteous), or think.
    We receive His Grace through His Sovereign Faith (not our free will faith); We can only be saved by the perfect Faith of Jesus Christ that can only save us by His Grace.

    We have righteousness through Faith.

    Whose Faith?

    Jesus’ Faith.

    ALL have sinned and fall short, but we are justified by Faith through HIS GRACE AS A GIFT… FREE GIFT.
    Faith isn’t our own doing; I can’t have more faith by the power of belief, mind, or intention; it is a GIFT, and I can’t do it.

    What is a GIFT?

    A present; anything given, the property (which is faith) VOLUNTARILY TRANSFERRED by one person (Jesus Christ) to another (you and i) WITHOUT COMPENSATION; A DONATION.

    FAITH IS A GIFT.

    Therefore, we don’t work for it or work at it; there’s only ONE, Christ Jesus, and He alone chooses who receives Faith, He alone Saves, He alone follows the Will of His Father.

    No human can manipulate, control, command, demand, or alter what has been established before the earth’s foundation. No human can interfere with the Book of Life; only God can change The Book of Remberence.

    … the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are JUSTIFIED BY HIS GRACE AS A GIFT, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
    Romans 3:22‭-‬24

    If the slain Lamb (Jesus Christ) is the only one worthy to open the Scrolls in the last days, How can a person think that a human can determine their fate through free will?

    If you believe or have been taught that you’ve earned Grace through works, sewing a seed to a Church of Wolves, or that Grace is received through your ACTS OF GOOD DEEDS, and your Faith is contingent on your works. Whatever your works may be they are FUTILE in and of themselves (whether expecting an increase after paying tithes, or believing that the desires of your heart will always be granted by God), if you believe God needs you to help Him attain His Will, If you blame believers lack of faith on their physical health decline, if you judge appearances, but condone slander and gossip, if you believe attending Church is enough to go to heaven, if you trust your pastor to interpret the Bible for you, if you hate admitting to your sin nature because you believe God doesn’t need repentance. If you lie to people, yet at the same time demand others are honest with you.

    Or to say your Faith is futile and is without Grace, according to the scriptures.

    Written by Camille Russo

  • Treasure in Heaven

    “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also…


    “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
    “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
    Matthew 6:19‭-‬24

    To understand we must read the texts proceeding and following the central passage being investigated.

    We lay our treasures success, & glory in Heaven with Heavenly, imperishable things, where our treasures are invincible indestructible, & imperishable.

    Jesus says His words are Spiritual, we don’t see merely physical existence, we realize & act as if the biological, physical & material are nothing more than a shadow illustrating the Truth and Reality of the Spiritual & Eternal infinite…

    The Spiritual Heavenly realm is where we abide in Spirit continually, awaiting our flesh to eventually succumb to nature, freeing us from it’s sinful members & elements.

    What we treasure; hold dear, protect & feel sentimental towards is where our heart is.

    Our Heart is revealed by our desires & our passions.

    ✝Matthew 6:19
    “….Do not lay up for yourselves treasures (grk: Thēsaurós; Treasured thoughts in mind or heart) on earth, where moth and rust destroy (symbolizing the decay of the temporal physical realm) & where thieves don’t break in and steal (symbolizing the fallen nature, fallibility and sin of man’s heart) …”

    “…but lay up for yourselves TREASURES (grk: Thésauros: precious thoughts in mind & heart) in HEAVEN (eternity, Gods realm; parallel dimension outside of the physical laws of time, space, dimension…, unseen with the physical eye, nor understood with the human mind, because the physical is merely a shadow or form of the Spiritual Substance), where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal (Heaven is perfect, whole, complete & incorruptible…. “

    So…..

    -“The eye (grk; optanomai: vision, sight/ minds eye) is the LAMP (grk; illuminator) of the BODY (grk: ‘soma’; physical or mystical body, flesh or Body of Christ.)”-

    Our Eye is a lamp that illuminates the body.

    Our physical body is declared a temple of the Holy Spirit & we are the seperated members of the Spiritual body/ Bride of Christ.

    With Eyes that see we illuminate the unadulterated Truth of our Spiritual bodies; through the physical .

    Light doesn’t sugarcoat shit.

    A lamp’s purpose is to give light in the darkness, our eye is meant to SEE through the Dark; lamps are useless in the LIGHT.

    So our EYE gives Light (illumination) through the darkness, our Eye illuminates all it looks at, or through.

    A lamp is only needed where there is darkness, a lamp is worthless in the Light.

    “…if your Eye is HEALTHY (grk: ‘haplous’; simple, sound, perfect, whole) your whole (entire) body will be FULL OF LIGHT (grk; phóteinos: bright; describing revelation/revealing Nature of light), …”

    Jesus said those with EYES can SEE,
    What kind of EYES?
    Spiritual Eyes… Holy Eyes, singular Eyes…

    (Jesus tells us that His Words are Spirit & the flesh is of no profit at all),
    Spiritual EYES shine light (revealing Truth& illuminating the secret places that are hidden) in the darkness, revealing the Absolute Truth.

    These EYES SEE what the blind cannot because the blind cannot even see that they are in the darkness, and their eye is unhealthy (incomplete, perplexed, plural), they are not Lamps, therefore they can’t SEE, they only assume, it’s all they can do.

    “….but if your eye is bad (grk; ponéros: evil or grievous; diseased: neglectful/abandoned, careless), your whole body (entire being/ Mystical Body, Body of Christ) will be full of darkness (grk: skoteinos; dark: moral, intellectual darkness, unenlightened, ignorant) ….”

    If our Eye (Vision, Minds Eye) is Evil and careless our mystical body and part in the Body of Christ will be intellectually and morally blacked out, blinded.

    “….If then the light (grk:phós; source of light, radiance) in you is darkness (grk: skotos; the power of darkness- Soul loses all perceptive power), how great is the darkness (Obscurity: becoming unknown, forgotten, drown out by the density of darkness; insignificant & eternally lost in the Sightless plight”

    Those with EYES can SEE because the EYES that Jesus speaks of are Spiritual eyes, the physical cannot comprehend this.  The EYE provides LIGHT for the body (the whole mystical body, wisdom, Truth)… Who is the Light? None other than Jesus Christ is the Light. Jesus alone gives us sight, He alone opens the eyes of the blind.

    Then directly after this passage, Jesus says:

    “…. No one can serve two masters (grk: kurios; owner: a person of Authority in which the servant follows & serves the Masters interest- consciously or subconsciously we ALL follow one of 2 masters (God YHWH OR Satan, temporary god of the earth), for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

    To follow Christ we MUST die to ourselves, crucify the desires of the flesh with Him, take up our Cross and follow Him, if we follow the desires of the flesh, seek after the interests of our own pleasure and feel no war between the Sin nature and the Spirit warring in our members (our bodies) then we are not God’s. God chastises those who He loves, if we aren’t chastised by God we aren’t children of God.

    “…..You cannot serve God (grk: theos: Creator) and money (grk: mamónas: riches, possessions, property)….”

    The love of riches, possession and physical Property is the Root, Source and Core of ALL evil.

    The Eye is Spiritual, we have the Holy Spirit, and we are His Temple to dwell in, He gives us not only Grace, Faith, Salvation, Hope, and Joy BUT He gives us Light, Vision, Truth, & many Fruits; He also gives us the conviction to keep the temple tidy for Him.

    Jesus is The Way, Truth & Life.
    Jesus is also the Light of The World, He died to set us free from the reward of the flesh, in so doing He showed us that the physical realm is nothing more than a metaphor or shadow outlining the True Spiritual Reality. The veil was torn.

    And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

    John 3:19‭-‬21
    The Light lives in us whom God chooses to put His Light in & Vision is directly from God.