Excellent Commentary on the Gospel of St. John

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I want to commend to all serious students a new volume in the "Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture" series:

Francis Martin & William M. Wright IV, The Gospel of John, Baker Academic, 2015.

It has quickly become the go-to commentary on that Gospel in my library.
 

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Fulfill your Life’s Goals through Spiritual Will
By Manycoloured Manley Nowaseb
These are extracts of the upcoming book of:
Evangelist Manycoloured Manley Nowaseb – See the World through the Spirit



Last time I have posted the topic 'The Foundation of Spirituality and Spiritual Living,' and I promised I will post 'Fulfill your Life’s Goals through Spiritual Will' and the 12 Steps to Grow in Spirituality, which is coming up this Thursday, 11 January 2016.

The writings on the subject are extracts from my book “See the World through the Spirit” which will be published next month by the Wisdom Words Publishing Group.


Background on Topic

The reason why I have settled to write on spirituality and spiritual living is because I have learned that many believers are still short on understanding the discipline of spirituality, while others needs to enlarge their space through constant learning and by making acquaintances with the matter.

You may ask: How do I say many believers are still short on understanding? I will use you for the experiment to see if I am close;


How often do you come across someone, a Christian for that matter that says, they are going through a mess, or facing a hard time, but are so glad they are, because they see a setup from this situation, for they have faith in God. I am sure your answer is that few do.

You see, if you look at the lives of many believers, they forever have a battle they are facing, they go weak in it, rarely speak courageously, have poor faith in God and would often show how they are mourning in their dilemma.

Understanding spirituality and spiritual living are disciplines that must be practices daily, meaning if you are new to the subject you must of course meditate on it daily like a baby starting to learn the environment around them.
It’s like a new entry attorney that must constantly learn during practice before they can make a reputation in the legal sector.

All I am saying is living in spirituality and understanding spirituality is mastered over time, given the amount of time you actually take to study and apply it to your life. Hence, Christians must take time to understand spirituality because it is the foundation of the entire gospel of Christ.



Fulfilling Life’s Goals through Spiritual Living;

Everybody has a goal in life, which they want to achieved, for that reason we establishing objectives, and short goals, which are based on our ultimate life’s goal.

We set this goals to become better people in life and we motivate ourselves in propelling to achieve with plans we have, like; buying a house or getting a bigger one; studying for a career or grow in entrepreneurship; living a healthy life etc… if we see this achievements fruitful, we regard ourselves as favored by God and prosperous.

However, if we see this prosperity lacking in our life’s, or see that it is challenged, if we see hardships arising, we often ask the tough questions and base our view of God as not providing, absent, punishing and as rejecting us.

Resentment based on none achievement and struggle is the door for Satan, as he waits for our weakness to take charge of us mind. Therefore Paul preaches of perseverance in faith.

You see, evil cannot tolerate a healthy mind, controlled in spirituality and which serves in the will of God. That is why Satan had to make an application to God to test the faith of Job, because it was not his place to tempt anyone who is upright. (Light and darkness cannot go together)

Remember when Satan tested the faith of Job, he was still allowed in heavenly meetings or the congress of God with his angels.

It is the same for us today, that the more we are upright in the Spirit of God and feed our minds by healthy living, daily connecting with God through prayer asking “lead us not into temptation, and deliver us from the evil one” we will keep on living a fruitful life. If you read on, you will see how Satan approach us in our time.

We must understand that in our time Satan has been cast out of heavens and is already in the world. Satan is in a state where he is given temporally rule or you can say the final rule of this present world and its kingdoms, for after this kingdoms ends, there comes a new heaven and earth, without a see, on which the New Jerusalem the great city of God decent, and the Kingdom of God will exist forever.


Therefore as I have written in one of my writings “Why the Book of Revelations is not preached by most Preachers”, I have kind of give clarity that Satan has dominion and control over governments and their systems and hence the systems are slowly imposing sanctions on spiritual directness.


The current time still gives leverage to preach heavenly spirituality in public domain and there is still chance to be a critic against the system as I just have, therefore find this resourceful for there comes times when the word of God will not be found and people will go hungry to want to hear it (Amos), even the preachers will be afraid to preach the true gospel and even people will gather them the preachers that will preach only what their hearts desire to hear (Timothy).



Let me come closer to the subject of Goals and Spiritual Living from what I illustrated above;


It is based on spiritual discouragement that hardship come. getting land; buying a house; getting a loan; the attitude of your boos, these are often controlled by wickedness to discourage our healthy spirit, sometimes even our own children and spouses are victims to the tread of Satan to discourage us.

So taking it from above, Satan does not come to God to get approval as before, but he uses people around us, the systems of administration etc… to upset our healthy mindset and bring delusion to our spiritual life in-order to hurtle us to fall and once we fall he takes charge of our mind to lead us astray.

Spiritual readiness is important to understand spiritual cruelty.

You see the result of the above title and my book overall, is on viewing the world as a winner and not to be defeated by meanness of the darkness which we often face from even the closest people to us. It is our place to understand that it is written our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against the dark forces of Satan.

You must understand how to resolve the anger of your spouse, kids, boss, friends, the loan consultant, the lady at the counter, the taxi driver etc… For instance that if you and your spouse have a disagreement, to let yourselves see and understand what that means spiritually and that you have an obligation as spouses to stand together and resist the plan of Satan.



Personal Story:

One night I got up from a bad dream about my wife standing by as I was being assault by people. Because the dream was so saddening I sit outside at the porch for a while praying for us and my entire family.
You see I know my calling and I understand the kind of hardship I will often endure.

That specific night before we slept I remember my laptop kind of went off on me, while I was working and it didn’t want to switch on anymore. I had a post due for the next morning to be published and instead of being worried I said it will switch on in the morning and I will be able to finish on time. I knew why the battle was on so I motioned myself in spirit to not let the situation overturn my environment and emotions.

I remember I even said to myself; “It’s all under control, this is my break to fast a little from working and read the bible, on the contrary I read the bible every day because it’s my resources book, but by the spirit of God I just wanted to motivate myself with those words.

I believe with words like that we often build a bridge for ourselves where we didn’t even know how we would get through the situation and God makes provision because where He sees the will and the faith we have in Him, He does for us, what He did for Abraham through faith.

So my wife got out of bed and joint me outside and I just motivated her to be awake in the spirit and that I will never let her alone and that I will always be by her side no matter what.

You see instead of making it sound like I distrust her about my dream or to show that I fear the effects of my dream, if I would have said; Please don’t let me alone or let me down – I rather decided to reverse my view of the situation and based it in her favour to win over Satan from whatever plan he had installed.

We went in, it was about 2:30am and I switched on the laptop and it worked as brand new.
Our marriage is prospering and growing better and I got peace immediately after I spoke to my wife that morning and that’s just a simple example of how you overcome little things daily, to grow you trust in God, that if big situations come, you may speak your way through them.


Spirituality is based on our precise attitude in approach any given situation, it is our focus on God, our faith in the unseen victory and the correct words we use to say to things that are not as though they are.

We achieve solution in our will and we have confidence that we have defeated the devil no matter how many times he plans to strike us. That kind of concentration fulfills our goals of life, with little effort.

Be careful that even the little troubles we face, does not cause us to fall – because the ground of falling is the strength of our opponent.

In fighting, for instance in boxing, you see that once the one opponent punch down the other, the opponent automatically feels victory and strength over the other and weakness overwhelm the other unless they are strong spiritually (mentally).

Instead you must learn that the moment you know that you are strong in the spirit; higher your guard by acting vulnerable and by keep praying to God to protect you (for by great power comes great responsibility) – yet when you feel you are weak in the spirit; higher you guard by speaking in strength and confront your enemy with powerful words.

No one, including Satan knows what we think, but our spirit of how we confront them is going to show or determine if they will either keep the attack on or withdraw the battle.

You know how a bully is in school? As long as they are feeling feared they enjoy intimidation, yet if they is confronted, often by being told of their weakness, they gives up, so tell your situation to go and tell Satan that he is a looser, on a death row to burn in hell.

What do I say here? It’s our own way of thinking; come across a situation you think fear and the situation got the upper hand, but think that you have victory and have overcome and God will progress you to victory. The will of win or lose is fostered by us through our spirituality.

Only the person that understands and is strong in spiritual sense is likely to go through something bad and will make the best out of it.

Therefore, whatever you got through, whatever you face, be bold, fearless, confident and especially in the mist of hardships not only when things go well, but especially when you feel it’s so hard that you feel you want to give up – tell “give up” that you got hope, faith and love and God is love, the greatest of them all.



God Bless! Much Love!


Manycoloured Manley Nowaseb
Author: To Rise To Fall To Rise Again!
Evangelist for the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Wisdom of God Church Online

These are extracts of the upcoming book of:
Evangelist Manycoloured Manley Nowaseb – See the World through the Spirit
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