“There is no death. Only a change of worlds."
Chief Seattle
Matthew 5:7
“Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.”
Spiritual Gifts and the New Testament
In Echo Bodine’s book “The Gift, Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities”, the psychic medium and hands on healer writes about how some of her students are worried about the gifts given to them and how it may interfere with their religious beliefs. Echo researched the bible and found many verses relating to the God given gift of psychic abilities and healing. The best verses relating to these gifts are found in Paul’s letters to the Corinthians describing the gifts of the spirit that God has given to all of us.
1 Corinthians 12, New Living Translation Bible
1 And now, dear brothers and sisters, I will write about the special abilities the Holy Spirit gives to each of us, for I must correct your misunderstandings about them. 4 Now there are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but it is the same Holy Spirit who is the source of them all. 5 There are different kinds of service in the church, but it is the same Lord we are serving. 6 There are different ways God works in our lives, but it is the same God who does the work through all of us. 7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us as a means of helping the entire church. 8 To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another he gives the gift of special knowledge. 9 The Spirit gives special faith to another, and to someone else he gives the power to heal the sick. 10 He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and to another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to know whether it is really the Spirit of God or another spirit that is speaking. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, and another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. 11 It is the one and only Holy Spirit who distributes these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have. 27 Now all of you together are Christ's body, and each one of you is a separate and necessary part of it. 28 Here is a list of some of the members that God has placed in the body of Christ: first are apostles, second are prophets, third are teachers, then those who do miracles, those who have the gift of healing, those who can help others, those who can get others to work together, those who speak in unknown languages.
1 Corinthians 14
1. Let love be your highest goal, but also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives, especially the gift of prophecy.3 But one who prophesies is helping others grow in the Lord, encouraging and comforting them.5 I wish you all had the gift of speaking in tongues, but even more I wish you were all able to prophesy. For prophecy is a greater and more useful gift than speaking in tongues, unless someone interprets what you are saying so that the whole church can get some good out of it.22 So you see that speaking in tongues is a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is for the benefit of believers, not unbelievers.
John 14: 10–14, New International Version
10 "Don't you believe that I am in the Father? Don't you believe that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. The Father lives in me. He is the One who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say I am in the Father. Also believe that the Father is in me. Or at least believe what the miracles show about me. 12 "What I'm about to tell you is true. Anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. In fact, he will do even greater things. That is because I am going to the Father. 13 "And I will do anything you ask in my name. Then the Son will bring glory to the Father. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name. I will do it.
A Prophet is despised
Mark 6: 1-6
“1 And going out from there, he went into his own county; and his disciples followed him. 2 And when the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue; and many hearing him were in admiration at his doctrine saying: How came this man by all these things? And what wisdom is this that is given to him, and such mighty works as are wrought by his hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joseph, and Jude, and Simon? Are not also his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in regard of him. 4 And Jesus said to them: A prophet is despised in his own country, and in his own house, and among his own kindred. 5 And he could not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few that were sick, laying his hands upon them. 6 And he wondered because of their unbelief, and he went through the villages round about teaching.
Gospel of Thomas 31
(31) Jesus said, "No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals those who know him."
Quotes…
“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”
Robert Schuller
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, your right.”
Henry Ford
“You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.”
Leo Durocher, Baseball Manager
“When the one great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.”
Grantland Rice
“Never pray for victory. Pray for the will of God.”
Vince Lombardi
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
Buddha
“Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.” Chief Seattle
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
Nicholas Murray Butler
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
“I have learned this at least by my experiments: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau
“Life ain’t holdin’ a good hand, but in playin’ a poor one well.”
Cowboy Proverb
“I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell, you see I have
friends in both places.”
Mark Twain
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea faring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you reach your destiny.”
Carl Schurz
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
Will Rogers
"Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life."
Wovoka, Paiute Medicine Man
“When the last red man has become a myth among the white men, when your children’s children think them selves alone in the field, upon the highway or in the silence paths of the woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities are silent, and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land.”
Chief Seattle
“I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.”
Mark Twain
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Goethe
“To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.”
A.P. Gouthey
“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” Christopher Morley
“The four virtues expected of a Sioux; Bravery, Fortitude,
Generosity, Wisdom.”
Sitting Bull
“There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert
itself into power.”
Emerson
“I’d rather be lucky than good.”
Lefty Gomez, Baseball Pitcher
Brian Piccolo on the possibility that he might be too slow
and short to play pro football.
“I thought all you had to be was good enough”
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.”
Ayn Rand
“Perfect masters seldom teach.”
John Painter
“Lord grant me the serenity to except the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
St. Francis of Asissi
“Shallow rivers and shallow minds freeze first.”
Cowboy Proverb
“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”
Standing Bear
Shelby Metcalf (Texas A&M Coach)
to a player who received four F’s and a D:
“Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject.”
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” John Wooden, Basketball Coach
“Shorty never learned to spell ‘cause the teacher kept changin’ the words.” Cowboy Proverb
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness puts
genius, power and magic in it.”
Goethe
“All things appear but we cannot see the gate from which they came. All men value the knowledge of what they know, but really do not know. Only those who fall back upon what knowledge cannot know, really know.”
Lao Tse
“When you’re a professional, you come back no matter what
happened the day before.”
Billy Martin, Baseball Manager
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared – That is something.”
Anonymous Bullfighter
“You are out of the game if you have no more problems to solve in life.”
Al Newharth
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
Horace Mann
“If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.”
P.T. Barnum
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being
frustrated by short-range failures”
Charles C. Noble
