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Who Will You be, Nothing Or God's Somebody?

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 Whenever the Apostle Paul wrote to a church or to one of the ministries such as Timothy or Titus or Philemon, he reviewed certain thing in his mind as well as in the mind of the reader of his epistle.

Secondly, he reviewed what the Lord was to him and to those to whom he was writing.

That was as important for them as it is for you; for what you are is relative to what God is to you.

Thirdly, whenever Paul wrote to a church or to an individual, he reminded them of what they were. That too was important, for no deep underlying problem is as deadly as the unbelief a person has in his heart concerning himself.

You may not realize who you are, even when it is prophesied that you are called to be an apostle, or a prophet, or a pastor, or an elder, etc.

A number of doubts may say it is not so, or at best you accept that someday it might be so.

You will not believe God's word over you until you have that same image of your self that God has of you.

For example, from the moment a man marries, he is the spiritual head of his bride. Regardless of whether or not he takes that headship, God says he is the spiritual head.

If he has that image of himself in his mind, he will be that spiritual head. If he does not have that image, he will not.

When you have a correct image of yourself ( and of the Lord's relationship to you and of the ministries who surround you ), your faith becomes strong.

It will not be washed away by negative responses which challenge God's word concerning who you are and what you are to do.

Many young people still think of themselves in the light of what their parents have told them: "Get out of my house! You are no good! You will always be a failure!"

Parents often beat into a child what later becomes his subconscious conviction that he is no good. At any moment the will to fail may arise because he is convinced that he s a failure.

He may blank out during a school examination, even though he knows the material perfectly, because he has an inner compulsion to fail.

Let the Lord deal with the deep conditioned responses in your heart. When God gives you a word, meditate on it until the inner image you have of yourself is compatible with what He said.

Most of the motivations of your actions are based upon your imagination. You can have an image of a certain vocation, and you will fulfill it.

But if you have been given words about becoming a certain kind of servant of God, meditate upon them.

Never forget those words, for if you think upon them, you will find yourself more and more faithful and given to that image.

It is easier to respond to what you believe. Be a remembrancer of one another's ministry, so that the image is clear, not in your mind but, more important, in other person's thinking.

He must have that image, too. This is an essential part of faith.

Unbelief in Christians denies what God says about them. They would not think of opposing certain points of doctrine by calling them lies.

Yet many who have had deep dealings of the Lord which confirmed their places and callings are still overcome occasionally with deep self-condemnation, self-rejection, and withdrawal.

That happens when their secret image of themselves is tarnished. They must be rid of that and think of themselves as sons of God coming forth.

In Paul's epistle to the Roman believers, he told them who he was.

Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures... Romans 1:1-2.

Paul was saying, in effect, "First of all, I am a bond-servant . I must do what God tells me to do, for I am His slave.

I am called to be an apostle, and I can be an apostle if I am His bond-slave. I am set apart for the gospel of God.

As His slave, my life is not my own. I am set apart to speak His word and to be His apostle. That is who I am."

Who are you?

Write yourself a letter in the same manner as Paul:
"I am a true believer, called to be a bond-servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, serving the Lord in the end time, set apart as a part of the remnant..."

When you finish the introduction, you will have stated your acceptance of what God says you are and what, by His grace, He makes you.

Next Paul said who the Lord is:
...concerning His Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, who was declared with power to be the Son of God by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord, through Whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles, for His name's sake... Romans 1:3-5.

In other words, Paul was saying, "This is who I am, because this is what God is."

He pointed out God's grace. When you see it that way, it works. You see who you are as a result of what God is to you.

Paul continued,
...among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ; to all who are beloved of god in Rome, called

as saints: Grace to you and peace from God or Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 1:6-7.

That is a beautiful introduction, according to the pattern Paul followed in his epistles. He said what he was, what the Lord was, and what the church was.

I Corinthians 1:1 begins in this manner:
Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God...

Paul did not worry about the divisions in the Corinthian Church or wonder whether or not the people would accept the Word.

Some of the people were claiming to be of Peter, some of Apollos, but he did not worry whether they would listen to him or not.

He simply saw himself as what he was, and then he had no point to prove.

A man has a big point to prove when he is uncertain of himself; then he goes out of his way to establish his identity or to vindicate himself.

God's end-time disciples do not have any point to prove in their walk with God. They are not on the defensive, despite accusations about their ways of worshiping and walking.

They have the answers because they know who they are.

Many denominational churches in this hour are falling apart because they have no answers.

The people of God in this hour do not make any pretense or build themselves up as being super-religious.

They are not trying to be superior by using discipline or self improvement tactics.

All they are, by the grace of God, is God's end time remnant. His holy army.

They do not have to be anything but His mouthpiece to speak His word, and things will happen.

They can speak as Paul spoke:
Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus , saints by calling, with all who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I Corinthians 1:1-3

Paul identified his relationship to the Lord and the relationship of the Corinthians to the Lord as well. When such a bond is established, everything else works.

Do you know who God is?
 Do you know and have you accepted who you are?

At times you may wake up in the morning feeling like nothing and thinking, " 'Nothing' is just crawling out of bed. Now 'nothing' is putting on his clothes.

Now 'nothing' is combing his hair. Here goes 'Nothing!' "

It might be an hour before you finally convince yourself that the Lord is with you and that it is going to be a good day.

From a human viewpoint, it is true that you are nothing. However you must view yourself from God's viewpoint.

He looks at you according to what He is doing and what He is producing in you. Everything changes according to the way God is relating to you.

Notice Paul's introduction in his epistle to Titus:

Paul, a bond-servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, in the hope of eternal life, which God, Who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior...
Titus 1:1-3

Paul was saying that God cannot lie and that He called him and promised him salvation, long ages ago. God entrusted it to Paul and made him a trustee of the wealth in the knowledge of god's program.

What is a trustee?

Suppose one of your ancestors set aside a large inheritance which was to be administered through a trustee. This might involve money or property which would be administered through a trustee.

This might involve money or property which would be administered for your benefit.

The trustee would have a tremendous responsibility, because he might not own much personally, yet he might control and have access to large sums of money.

Think of yourself as Paul did. Consider yourself a bond-servant of the Lord and a trustee. God's provision is all in your hands if you think of it that way.

But you will feel poor if you think about what you are personally. Instead, think of what God has commissioned you to be and to do, and suddenly you become a trustee of God's estate and you cease to be poor.

Do not think of yourself as you are after the flesh ( Philippians 3:3 ) ; yet in everything we are enriched by Christ ( I Corinthians 1:5 ).

Paul told how he was entrusted with the proclamation of God's word. Paul called Titus his true child in a common faith, referring to his relationship with God ( Titus 1:4 ).

Paul knew what he was in relationship to God, and he knew what God was in relationship to Titus.

Because of that he knew the relationship he had with Titus, and therefore he said, "Titus, my true son."

God's true believers in this end time are a family because of their relationship to God and to one another.

They are a family of spiritual fathers and true children who sacrifice and glorify God because they do not relate to one another on a human basis, but only as they relate to the Lord.

They have an image of one another as the Body of Christ and as the army of the Lord because they are beginning to believe what god says about them.

Think how God can move through a people who believe completely, accepting all that He has spoken over them and trusting Him with all their hearts.

Do not belittle yourself.

Ask the Lord to help you to be a believer, deep within, and to have the image that He has of you.

He can erase past experiences that still haunt you and give you a bad image of yourself.

Do not let them plague your mind, constantly creating a false image.

Let the Holy Spirit show you what it means to be one of the sons of God, called to walk in this strategic age as instruments in the hand of the Almighty, called to be saints, called to be a mighty warring priesthood that shall bring down Babylon as they shall prophesy.

They shall not glory in human strength, but they shall glorify God for what He has made them to be in His presence.

Wednesday wakerife writative

Seagate announced today that it has begun shipping the world's first 8 Terabyte hard drive. 

The 8TB hard drive comes only five months after Western Digital released the first ever 6TB HDD. 

Up until then, Seagate's high capacity HDDs had been shipping only to select enterprise clients.

 The 8TB HDD comes in the 3.5-inch form factor and, according to the manufacturer, features a SATA 6Gbps interface and multi-drive RV tolerance which makes it suitable for data centers. 

It's unclear what technology the drive is based on, or if PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) or low-resistance helium technology was employed.

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Inside the Tohono O’odham Native American Nation in southern Arizona, Border Patrol agents wield deadly force on unarmed Americans with near-impunity.

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Google today released a 64-bit stable version of its Chrome browser for Windows systems. The 64-bit support has been in testing since June, and as of Chrome version 37 it has made it to the mainstream version.

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iPhone rumor season is just days away from becoming iPhone reality season, and a new leak from a usually reliable source appears to confirm some basic details.

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Israel's Iron Dome defense system is well known across the world. This video is proof of its reputation.

In this essay I will try to provide a few tools to make sense of the news from Israel. I acquired these tools as an insider: Between 2006 and the end of 2011 I was a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press, one of the world’s two biggest news providers. I have lived in Israel since 1995 and have been reporting on it since 1997.

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Rich People Are Trucking Their Own Water Into Drought-Ridden California

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 Elephant finds a giant elastic ribbon, has the most fun ever

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 how to NOT do the ice bucket challenge

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 The Pyramids are bigger than you think
Look how far down the roadway is...

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Places of interest to stay away from

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Two quakes of the same magnitude, one in China and one in California. CA sustained way less damage because of building codes and China lots of damage because of little or no codes.

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Electric vehicles are on the rise and will soon disrupt the energy cartels

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I usually get up at 4 AM to do this blog. Today my internet was out and I was fortunate to get it back after a few frustrating minutes. So as a result here you have it.

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Oh ya...Burning Man is up and running after the rare rains they finally got in.
http://www.burningman.com/news/

Today

"Nobody seems to know for sure whether 'Threshold' and 'Windows 9' will be one and the same or separate operating systems, reports Woody Leonhard in his roundup of insights on Microsoft's forthcoming OS plans, expected September 30.

 'Many people think the terms are synonymous, but longtime Chinese leaker Faikee continues to maintain that they are two separate products, possibly headed in different directions.

 Neowin Senior Editor and Columnist Brad Sams appears to have access to the most recent test builds, possibly on a daily basis. 

He doesn't talk about details, but the items he's let drop on the Neowin forum leave an interesting trail of crumbs.' 

 Either way, the next iteration of Windows will have a lot to say about the kind of Microsoft to expect.

 The future emerging for Microsoft under Nadella is a mixed bag of hope and turmoil, writes Woody Leonhard in his review of Nadella's first fix months at the helm of Microsoft.

 "When Nadella took over, Microsoft was mired in the aftermath of a lengthy and ultimately unpopular reign by longtime CEO — and Microsoft majority shareholder — Steve Ballmer.

 Given the constraint of that checkered past, some might argue that Nadella hasn't had enough time to make his imprint on every aspect of Microsoft. 

Yet there have been many changes already under Nadella's watch, and patterns are certainly emerging as to the kind of company Microsoft will be in the years ahead."

 Leadership, product lines, financials — Nadella's scorecard shows strong strategic leadership, particularly around the cloud, but Windows and devices are murky at best.

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"Smartphones sold in California will soon be required to have a kill switch that lets users remotely lock them and wipe them of data in the event they are lost or stolen.

 The demand is the result of a new law, http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/... into effect on Monday, that applies to phones manufactured after July 1, 2015, and sold in the state.

 While its legal reach does not extend beyond the state's borders, the inefficiency of producing phones solely for California means the kill switch is expected to be adopted by phone makers on handsets sold across the U.S. and around the world."

Now one can look at this from another perspective. Any oppressive government could theoretically shut off the protesting people's ability to communicate at the flick of a switch now.

Kill switch opponents cite a variety of concerns, including the fear that hackers could also take advantage of the capability.

“Although well-intentioned … [the California bill] is not only unnecessary, but will have negative consequences to consumer security and public safety,” the CTIA, a wireless industry trade group, has said in a letter co-signed by interest groups and more than half a dozen tech giants including Microsoft, Motorola, Google and the four national wireless carriers, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile.

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American Commitment, a conservative group with strong ties to the Koch brothers has been bombarding inboxes with emails filled with disinformation and fearmongering in an attempt to start a "grassroots" campaign to kill net neutrality — at one point suggesting that "Marxists" think that preserving net neutrality is a good idea.

 American Commitment president Phil Kerpen suggests that reclassifying the internet as a public utility is the "first step in the fight to destroy American capitalism altogether" and says that the FCC is plotting a "federal Internet takeover," a move that "sounds more like a story coming out of China or Russia."

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Recently a Bitcoin user reports being interviewed over their past use of a now defuct exchange service by agents from the FBI and Treasury Department. 

This encounter raises concerns that earlier Bitcoin users who entered the space inocuously and without ties to Dark Markets or The Silk Road might need to prepare for Law Enforcement questioning about their early Bitcoin related activities.

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So exactly how and why is your cell phone a personal tracking device that you voluntarily keep with you at all times?  

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Monday Wrapup

Burning man was geoengineered from todays start date.

Very interesting that there was an earth quake coinciding with the "rare" rain event.

Now, there is a gentleman named Richard C. Hoagland who knows something more about all of this. Hoagland is a scientific researcher with some clout.

He was technical science adviser to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, worked with Carl Sagan developing the message discs placed aboard Pioneer spacecraft and has had a close working relationship with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for many years.

 Hoagland’s own independent research group is called The Enterprise Mission.

Hoagland claims, among other things, that after scouring hundreds of hours of satellite radar images from a variety of sources, he has documented a phenomenon which he believes is evidence that someone or something is affecting the path and intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.

 As sci-fi as that sounds, the evidence is quite compelling. – via Glenn Kreisberg athttp://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/KreisbergG2.php

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Humans are late bloomers when compared with other primates — they spend almost twice as long in childhood and adolescence as chimps, gibbons, or macaques do.

 But why? 

One widely accepted but hard-to-test theory is that children's brains consume so much energy that they divert glucose from the rest of the body, slowing growth.

 Now, a clever study of glucose uptake and body growth in children confirms this 'expensive tissue' hypothesis.

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The Intercept reported today on classified documents revealing that the NSA has built its own "Google-like" search engine to provide over 850 billion collected records directly to law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the DEA. 

Reporter Ryan Gallagher explains, "The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies." 

The search engine, called ICREACH, allows analysts to search an array of databases, some of which contain metadata collected on innocent American citizens, for the purposes of "foreign intelligence." 

However, questions have been raised over its potential for abuse in what is known as "parallel construction," a process in which agencies use surveillance resources in domestic investigations, and then later cover it up by creating a different evidence trail to use in court.

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 Michael Peck, who for five years was Diablo Canyon's lead on-site inspector, says in a 42-page, confidential report that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is not applying the safety rules it set out for the plant's operation.

 The document, which was obtained and verified by The Associated Press, does not say the plant itself is unsafe.

 Instead, according to Peck's analysis, no one knows whether the facility's key equipment can withstand strong shaking from those faults — the potential for which was realized decades after the facility was built.

 Continuing to run the reactors, Peck writes, "challenges the presumption of nuclear safety."

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 British scientists have produced the first working organ grown from scratch in a living animal. 

 Reprogrammed cells created in a lab were used in a mouse to produce a thymus.

 The organ was created using connective tissue cells from a mouse embryo and were converted into a different cell strain by changing a genetic switch in their DNA.

 The resulting cells grew into the whole organ after being injected.

 It has only been tested on mice so far, but researchers at Edinburgh University say that within a decade the procedure could be effective and safe enough for humans.

 The findings were published in Nature Cell Biology.

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The Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress (CSPC) launched a project to bring together representatives from the Executive Branch, Congress, and the private sector to discuss how to better secure the U.S. electric grid from the threats of cyberattack, physical attack, electromagnetic pulse, and inclement weather.

 In this interview with Help Net Security, Dan Mahaffee, the Director of Policy at CSPC, discusses critical security challenges.

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 These people are nuts! They get Tasered for this "art" video...