WHO SHOULD WE PRAY TO?

 In some countries people pray to their ancestors. In other countries, including ours, people pray to the saints. Do these spirits hear our prayers? Do they have the ability to answer them? Do we even know where these spirits are? Are they in the upper realms of heaven or in the lower ones? Might they be on the same realm as we are but in spirit form? Did God endow them with the power to answer prayers?

Just because someone leaves the material world does not mean that they have progressed to the level of heaven where God resides. Also, just because the pope has decided that someone who has left this earth deserves to be made a saint does not make it so. No one really knows who has reached heaven and who has not, and even if they knew, who has given them the power to make these decisions? Also, which realm must you occupy to be named a saint and what does it mean to be a saint? Only God knows what is in each person’s heart and God does not confer sainthood on some spirits and not on others or on anyone for that matter. Sainthood is a category invented by man. To God we are all equal.

You might say, well, we really don’t expect these spirits to answer our prayers; we are only asking them to intercede for us. So why bother going through all these channels to have our prayers answered? Why not go directly to God with our prayers if that is whom we expect an answer from?

When we were children and wanted something from our mother or father, was it necessary to always ask through a sister, a brother, a cousin, or a friend? No, we directed our requests directly to our parents, so why can we not ask God who is our Father in heaven to answer our prayers? Is there anyone more powerful or more capable than God? Doesn’t it seem like an insult to God to go around Him to have

WHO IS CHRIST?

 Christ is the first born Son of God and is the only spirit who came into existence directly from God. So, Christ is the spirit who most resembles God. He is the highest and most perfect creation of God. We speak of the seven sons of God; there are six other sons of God but these six sons owe their creation to Christ and we are all descendants of these six sons.

Not only did God confer creative power upon Christ, but He also made Him ruler over all creation, both spiritual and material. With this much power and perfection, it is no wonder that many believe that Christ is God Himself, but it is not so. Also the many that believe that Christ was only a prophet are also very deluded.

The second Son of God is Lucifer who came into existence through Christ. Lucifer rebelled and fell from heaven and took one third of heaven with him. Then God allowed Christ to create the material world as a training school to help all fallen spirits to return to Him. Christ materialized Adam and from him we have all received our material bodies. When our learning is complete we will be allowed to again live in the heavenly spheres as a spirit as we once were. So just as our material body comes from Adam so our celestial body come from Christ, but our spirit is a spark from God Himself. Christ is the one who leads the procession of spirits returning to God.

COMMUNION

    The first ceremony of Communion was at the Last Supper. Jesus took bread and broke it and gave it to his twelve apostles. He also drank from a cup of wine and passed it around to the twelve. He asked his apostles to do this regularly and to remember Him each time they did this. He wanted the apostles to form a bond among them and to include Him in this ceremony.

The churches of today still imitate this ceremony with the idea that it is only done to remember Jesus but usually forgetting the reason they are sharing it among the whole congregation. Even with the ceremony of communion there is still much strife among the church members.

As Jesus broke the bread and shared the wine he said, “This is my body and this is my blood”. He did not change the bread and wine at that moment into his flesh and blood; it was only an analogy. Not everything in the bible is to be taken literally, otherwise we are to believe that He is the tree and we are the branches or that He is the shepherd and we are sheep. Had he actually turned the wine into his blood and the bread into his flesh, he certainly would not have partaken, as they all would have behaved as cannibals.

The church that believes that their priest can bless and pray over the bread and wine and thereby turn it into the flesh and blood of Christ are taking great liberty with the meaning of the communion. Who gave them the power to do this? Do they expect that becoming a priest gives them magical powers? Did Jesus tell the apostles to perform this magic trick also or did He only tell them to gather and share the bread and wine as brothers and to remember him by this gesture?

WHO SHOULD WE WORSHIP?

    There is only one who is worthy to be worshipped and that is God Himself Who is our Father in Heaven, Who always was and always will be, Who created everyone and everything. Neither anyone nor anything can ever become God’s equal. The creation can never be equal to the Creator.

Christ is the highest creation of God’s, yet even He is not worthy to be worshipped, although he certainly deserves to be given honor, love, respect and gratitude for all that He has done for us including giving up his life.

All the angels, no matter what Heavenly level they hail from, do not deserve to be worshipped. They are also creations of God even though they deserve our thanks for all the assistance they provide us.

All humans who walk the earth do not deserve to be worshipped, no matter how rich or intelligent they may be, and no matter their standing in our communities; but they deserve our respect as our brothers and sisters.

All animal, plant life etc. on this earth do not deserve to be worshipped; they are also part of the creation that are working to elevate themselves to the human level but they deserve our care and protection.

No man-made object deserves to be worshipped as they are not even imbued with life but have only been made to satisfy man’s ego and to make life on this realm tolerable.

No spirits from the lower realms deserve to be worshipped for they are only interested in our spiritual destruction and we would be unwise to sink to their level.

  FREEDOM

  Freedom is not our right but a gift from God Himself. All of us are allowed all the freedom we wish to experience in our life. We can choose good things for ourselves or we can choose to destroy ourselves, it is all up to us.

We live on this planet with other mortals who also have been given freedom by God, so why do we not feel free? It is because we give up our freedom in exchange for other things that we value more. Many of us sacrifice our freedom in order to acquire security or safety. Our fears provide us with the reason to sacrifice our freedom.

Not only are we satisfied to give up our freedom for security, but also we are not happy unless we force everyone else around us to do the same.

The freedom that God has given us is individual freedom. It is not license to control another’s life and thereby limit that person’s freedom. It is only freedom to do what we wish with our own life. Our desires to control others and reduce their freedom are such a compelling desire that little by little whole countries have lost their freedom.

If we have become slaves to others, it is by our own choice. True, as individuals, we do not have the power to change the world and return everyone’s freedom to them but if each of us refrains from controlling other people’s freedom perhaps we can hold on to more of it. Fear is Lucifer’s tool that makes us give up our freedom. True freedom would be freedom from him and from his realm.