Spiritual Realm of Faith in Christianity

As said before in my Believing is Seeing NOT Seeing is Believing post... believing is seeing. At what point do people start calling you "Jesus Freak, Holy Roller, or Christian Loser?" When I was younger and began to get closer to God these names came up. I was offended by them and almost wanted to stray away from faith because of it. The funny thing about it is that is exactly where I am now trying to go. Of course I am not trying my hardest for people to call me these name (laughs). One thing I am trying to do is get closer to God.

See the closer I get to God the more God starts showing me the things I need in life. He starts showing and telling me where it is to go. The crazy thing about all of this, is that God only gives you what he knows you can handle. I have seen things that most people would be terrified to see, I have heard things and felt evil that I would never wish anyone to feel. With all the bad there is good as well, and God has showed up in my life much more times.

But the thing about it all, is that once you begin living and seeing the Spiritual Realm... People begin to worry about you. They think that you are a freak and dont actually understand it all. I have learned in religion to judge myself before I begin to judge others. And ten times out of ten I will find something wrong with myself and need to keep my mouth shut =) . Its truly sad though if you look around at the majority of churches and none of them are doing signs and miracles by God. Why is it that growing up I have never ever ever seen one person healed in church? It says in the bible not to pray for the sick but to go out and HEAL the sick.

Is that even actually possible? I mean can someone actually cure another person of deadly cancer, or a broken bone, or a "psychological dissorder"? Can someone actually do that? OF COURSE THEY CAN if they are led by God. See I wish someone would have told me this when I was a kid. I wish that someone would have told me that I was going to see prophecies and be able to change lives. These are all things that I wish. I look back on my life and realize that God was telling me and showing me all of this stuff all along. I just wasnt listening to what he had to say. I was too focused on society and all the things that you are "supposed to do."

One thing is for certain though if you want to live an easy lifestyle and have everything handed to you Christianity isnt the way to go. Living a life strictly for God takes a warrior, a strong hearted individual. To stand up and say I stand with God and I know that you are wrong about me being a "Freak" because God tells me how awesome I am everyday! On the other hand if you want to live the happiest most purposeful life you could ever live then try giving it up to God.

God opens doors to a whole new Spiritual Realm. Its a whole new world of excitement and amazement where you can never be bored, lonely, depressed, or down. Financial freedom ha ha ha beyond financial freedom. Beyond anything you could ever imagine! Speaking of financial freedom and money I would like to say something on that topic. See whenever I had a big idea to make money or some business I was going to start someone in my family always had a smart remark like: "HA if you figure out how to become rich let me know, or that wont ever work you dont see me filthy rich and I would have been willing to do something like that". Well now I truly have the answer to that question. If you want to own something worth more than all the money in the world, something that is worth everything I have and could ever have. Then go out and buy a bible and read it.

A bible you can understand, comprehend, and use in your everyday life is worth EVERYTHING! It teaches you the principals to living a happy life and finding things you would have never ever seen. It is also the means to getting in touch with God the creator of ALL. Any questions you have can be answered all in this one book. See the thing about this book too is that it has everything from a supernatural lifestyle, to the end of the world, to how you should treat your neighbor.

All of this about spiritual realm, and supernatural lifestyle has really caught my attention. See where I lost my societal life and picked up this new one was in TACF or Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship. At that church was an all weekend event that my close friends and I all attended. I highly suggest going to something similar or to another event TACF is holding. If you cant make it to something like that then I suggest going to like a Family of Christ, or Bethel Church. Something along the lines of tons of people speaking to God from there hearts.

Well anyway I want to hear your feedback on this topic so let me know. What do you think about living a Supernatural Lifestyle? Do you live one? Have you seen God work through anyone to heal someone?

New Start

What makes us achieve pure happiness? What is it that drives us to wake up every single day? If you could wake up happy everyday would you? These and many other questions I have been asking myself for many years. What I think it all boils down to is, that we must find something that balances the bad or frustrating things in our lives with something positive. One of the greatest things someone can have in life is a PURPOSE!

Most people feel that what they are doing isn't important or doesn't contribute to the bigger picture when in actuality everyone is making a huge impact on the world daily. No matter what you do or who you are. You could be a construction worker, banker, consultant, chef, waitress, entrepreneur, or even a stay at home mom. See people criticize christians for being missionaries, or pastors. The thing is they are warriors for God. They are risking there lives to help save others. They are going out of the way just to help a few individuals.

The sad thing about missionaries is that they don't all have the funding to radically change and impact whether kids in other countries get to eat or not. See it is a proven fact that if everyone in america that went to church gave ONLY ten percent of what they earn, then it would amount to over one billion dollars. Having MORE than enough to feed every starving kid, cure every disease, or shelter the homeless. Let me ask you something... what is wrong with that picture?

Is it our right to ridicule and criticize families that are risking all that they have to make a difference when we ourselves aren't even doing are part? The way I see it is God allows you to have the money, and materialistic objects you have. Nothing you own is yours at all. If you weren't brought into this world then you wouldn't own anything. So how hard is it to only give ten percent of your income to a better cause?

What I was getting at with all of this is happiness isn't achieved through finances. If you want something you have to give something. Giving a small amount to God every Sunday you go to church will reward you tenfold as far as money goes. I have seen this and done this first hand. Another object that was hard for me to overcome was being satisfied with what I have. See as humans we are always wanting more. If we have mansions and ferrari's we still want more. For instance look at Bill Gates. He was going to buy Hawaii. Now what exactly would you need an intire state for? Now obviously you can't buy a state. I am not knocking Bill Gates at all, he is a very generous man and gives a lot of money to organizations and helps millions of individuals.

What does buy happiness is faith. Faith in your loved ones, faith in your career, faith in college, faith in whatever you do. Faith is merely having confidence that everything will work out for you no matter what you do and as long as you try to be happy. If you can find something you love to do and can do it for the rest of your life... I suggest you work real hard to try and make that your career.

The last thing is to start over. If it is hard for you to move on or you aren't always happy then start over. It is really hard to get anywhere in life without God. You may feel the need to talk to someone about it or you may just want to continue on trying it your way. Just remember that when things don't work out God is always going to be around for you.

My life has started over and everyday I am content. I finally found what it is I need in life, and what I need to do to contribute and give back. I will be attending the Ministry program at Bethel Church in Redding California. It is quite a bit of money but God has told me he will provide. If any of you would like to help me fund this I would greatly appreciate it and have placed a donation button in the top right corner of my blog. I truly would appreciate all your help. The individuals that do choose to donate I would appreciate it if you would email me at joshua.vanhouten@gmail.com as I have a gift for all of you.

Thank you all and God Bless!