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Everything requires readiness and preparation.

Before “Lord, hear our prayer,” we prepare our mind, heart, and soul and connect with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ✝️🙏.

Before every meal, we are ready, we connect, we ask the Lord to bless us, and we give thanks to the Lord for the gifts of our meal and the blessings.

Before every request and ask, we humbly connect with the Holy Spirit to ask the Lord for our needs, such as giving us strength and courage, and the calmness of mind and wisdom to overcome each trial and tribulation.

Before we sleep, we prepare ourselves to receive the Holy Spirit, give ourselves to the Lord to keep, and through our dreams, we seek and subconsciously solve or resolve problems of the day and face the unknown. And if we die before we wake, we surrender our souls to the Lord to take.

If we do not prepare the way for the Lord’s will and instructions, and the lights of healing, creativity, and innovation, then the path toward prosperity, peace, and salvation will not be easily received and acted upon.

Are you ready and prepared to receive the blessings and instructions of the Lord?

And pave the way to nurture the fruit of the Spirit in yourself, your children, and humanity?

Are you ready and prepared for the lights of salvation, prosperity,  and peace?

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Do you not have someone you want to protect?

A daughter, a son, or a loved one?

Protecting oneself from harm includes spiritual and moral purity of heart, not just physical well-being.

Desecrating the temple of the Holy Spirit causes more harm, not only to the victim.

Finally, protecting yourself from harm also involves guarding against harmful spiritual influences, such as sin, and anything that could lead to damnation or prevent salvation.

 

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Whether young or old, thin or fat, pretty or ugly, rich or poor, everyone must pass their tests of character with the Holy Spirit for entry into heaven (James 1:2-4, Matthew 25:1-13).

Failure to pass tests of character—especially those of faithfulness, goodness, and purity of heart—is a corruption of spirit and will prevent entry into heaven.

Because entry into heaven is based on faith, grace, and purity of heart, passing tests of character (fruit of the Spirit) is essential and necessary for receiving salvation and the crown of life (Psalm 24:3-4, James 1:12).

Therefore, when choosing friends and life partners, seek those with good character, because it's easier to stay on the spiritual path with helpers along the way.  

And instead of judging others, focus on how the Lord will view your deeds, character, behaviors, and actions.  

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Take all your fears, anxieties, feelings of insecurity, the 'not good enough,' and if you have any, the grandiose cover-ups of imaginary greatness in hate, and wrap them up tightly with strings of hope to box them up to send to the Lord.

Now, whether you believe in the Lord or not, focus on your fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness to the Lord, or higher-deeper goodness, gentleness, and self-control). These qualities are contained within every individual at birth.

For we are all children of God, our Lord. Our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit; therefore, within us is the fruit of the Spirit. No one is born without this fruit.

If we practice ruthlessness, we proceed to destroy the fruit of the Spirit and our humanity, to the point where, over time, we become extremely poor in spirit or dead in spirit.

Is there wisdom in aggression? No. Negative feelings of ruthlessness and hate are not signs of intelligence. Will destroying our fruit of the Spirit, our humanity, eliminate all weaknesses? Or address the true weaknesses of ignorance, fear, and insecurities?

No. On the contrary, destroying the fruit of the Spirit will create insatiable desires, leading to grandiose delusions of power and sin.

Only someone who feels inferior would abuse others to try to feel superior. If there is genuine self-confidence, there would be no need or desire to feel superior.

And if we pursue perfection, we place ourselves in a box of idealized delusion and facade, never changing, nurturing, or growing in the fruit of the Spirit, which transcends and reaches towards infinite excellence.

Because nothing is perfect, you will develop within yourself a sense of never being good enough. Is there perfection in love? No. Love is an emotion, not a confined intellectual construct.

Any reality or delusion not leading to heaven and salvation is nonsense, untrue, and most likely unholy.

Now, check the box of packaged fears, anxieties, feelings of insecurity, the 'not good enough,' and grandiose cover-ups of imaginary greatness in hate.

See if all the roots of brokenness are included in these packages. Lift the box to the Lord, and sincerely, humbly, and gratefully ask for help with spiritual healing and the restoration of the fruit of the Spirit.  

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There is the here and now and the yet to be, and the after at the close, beyond, in the ethereal eternity.  

Conquest made in the material world through sinful acts leads to damnation at the close of life for all of eternity.

If short-sighted, especially when imprisoned by sins, ruled by power trips, then love is lost and the soul is the cost.