“Do we ignore positive and negative poles?” A legitimate and good question. My response is “In electronics there are no such things as positive and negative; it is positive and less positive, which is a difference in potential. The so-called ‘opposite’ poles are in fact just a range of potential that is required to cause an ‘attraction’ or ‘repulsion’. When like charged particles in close proximity are supported in the skeletal network of dark matter (the attractive force), they clump together because dark matter’s gravitational force brings them together.
When ‘opposite’ or significantly different charged particles are in close proximity they are supported in the less dense skeletal network of dark energy (the repulsive force), they repel each other. The omniverse is composed of 72”% dark energy, 23% dark matter and only 5% of energy and matter. Matter is a more dense form of energy as Einstein demonstrated (E=mc2 where Energy is equal to the mass of an object accelerated to the speed of light squared. Dark energy and dark matter are unobservable to our senses; hence the descriptive term ‘dark’. In reality, a difference in ‘potential’ is all there is; things are either ‘positive’ or ‘less positive’ based on their charges and not truly ‘positive’ and ‘negative’.
Never ignore the difference in potential because it is the opposing force that drives the omniverse in its delicate balance between gravitational attraction and cosmological expansion that eventually ends in entropy or ‘heat death’. We are in a closed system where attraction and repulsion exist as a matter of course. The same applies to our thoughts and feelings, which are energy. They are not strong amounts of energy but their consistent application of concentrated energy trips the omniversal relay which DOES control significant energies.
What Star Wars called the ‘Force’ is, in actuality, the opposing forces of dark matter and dark energy; each carrying a potential of ‘likeness’ or ‘difference’. Think and feel the energies of positivity, co –creation and dynamism to ‘re-create’ the existing energies available to manifest your dreams. The Divine desires in your heart are there for a reason. Manifest them by seeing the end result in your consciousness and feeling the joy of accomplishing them. This is how Divine order moves natural order to fulfill your desires. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
In a recent post on receiving Divine blessing by expecting it to come a friend stated, “Does that mean there's no such thing as a surprise?” My response was, “The surprise is in how it manifests. Expect the joy of being surprised!” Remember, expecting Divine blessings is the beginning of allowing them to flow through our beings. When we trust and love the Divine for creating us as co-creators we are initiating an understanding of the blessings of Divine love!
It is in our egos’ attempts of controlling, dominating and manipulating ‘how’ it believes things should unfold that separates us from this guiding ‘flow’ of Divine love. It is in balancing the ego’s ‘presumed’ control of our beings that we understand this: Allowing the manifestations we seek to be free of ‘how’ we ‘believe’ they should come is total freedom. It is existing in our ‘beings’ without the effects of the comforting ‘baggage’ of living by erroneous ‘beliefs’.
It is the freedom of knowing that you are being loved by the Divine and trusting that the Divine will manifest your needs, wants, desires AND expectations when it is appropriate in Divine order. Releasing the ‘how’ of manifestation IS truly trusting in the Divine. It is accepting and allowing a greater understanding of the movements of Divine order affecting natural order that the ego can never completely understand; and THAT’s what unnerves it! Hence, know it is coming and be SURPRISED in HOW it happens! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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SERVICE IN PRAYER
Elizabeth and I would like to invite you all to our site ‘Service In Prayer’. For many months we have been led to offer a way for our online friends to have a forum to share our prayer needs with each other.
The purpose of this website is to connect with one another and share our needs for healing in whatever areas we feel we need. Please visit the website or go to the Facebook forum to post any public prayers on the Wall or PM us for private prayers.
We will pray for you or help you to find Prayer Partners to assist you in healing and realization of your Divine purpose and the unfolding of it in Divine order.
Thank you all for your support, kindness and for blessing us with your ongoing friendship. Peace and blessings to all of you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
OUR PAST ISSUES
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Helping others is not something that requires drawing attention to yourself. Every moment we share a part of ourselves from our hearts the only attention that is necessary is from the one that is receiving the help. It is not an attention of recognition or duty; it is one of love.
Every time I share with another I can remember clearly that I am a channel of Divine love because I AM Divine love. I express myself every day by writing what I have been given. I seek not the attention and marvel at it.
The attention and accolades are not my driving force; the tireless creative effort to help is. It is my way of sharing Divine love with all and I am thankful for it. Peace to all of you and may you find and practice what drives your expression of Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SPIRITUALITY GUIDANCE
What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE OLD WEST
Ah, the Old West. America seems to have a romantic involvement with the open range, thousands of cattle grazing on government lands and the opportunity for sheer profit. That’s what the cattle barons did in the 1800’s. As America expanded into the new earthly frontier certain individuals modeled their behaviors after the Manor Lords of Britain. Anyone who was a threat to their ‘opportunities’ to make money off of the beef market was hoodwinked or ‘saddled’ into selling out their stakes. Those who wouldn’t, like Cattle Kate were hung by the neck on trumped up charges of cattle thievery. It was a time where the ego and the sidearm of the opportunist was the only law and it decided what was said in the newspapers as well. Arguments and disputes were settled in gun battles more than a court room. It was the age of ‘Cowboy Diplomacy’ as Star Trek’s Spock once said.
Decisions being made by the fastest guns; it didn’t matter what the truth was because it was the ego of the one aiming the gun that had the power over life and death. Flash forward to today and we see the same type of ignorance and ‘Cowboy Diplomacy’ witnessed in the middle class consciousness. The middle class, born out of the yeoman class in Britain, were self-sufficient and lived ‘free’ from the tyranny of the ‘Lords’ or ‘Barons’; i.e., until they started making a good profit and became targeted for extermination. Nowadays, the Barons are on Wall Street. No longer aiming guns and killing those who stand up to them, they still wield their ‘financial’ pistols at the rest of us in hopes of squeezing out more dollars each and every year from our sweated labors.
They sit on high and play chess with our futures while we fight among ourselves over second amendment rights, gay marriage and the onslaught of religions, banks and corporations padding the wallets of ‘OUR’ representatives. They keep trying to distract us from focusing on the fact that they are ripping us off at every turn. They don’t have to kill us any longer, just keep us distracted and occupied enough while they pay for laws that our representatives ‘sneak’ in with earmarks. It is a shell game of the highest order; while we are concerned about our families, jobs and lifestyles, they are influencing more and more of how much they rape our finances with the ultimate goal of bleeding us dry.
The bankers, corporate heads and ‘investors’ in opportunities don’t care about you or your family’ needs, wants, desires and expectations; they only care about themselves and theirs. You are just a way for them to make a profit. Only when the hearts of humankind focus on mutual respect and sharing Divine love will we, as a collection of divine souls, be able to live in peace, understanding and harmony. A society where it is alright to make a ‘fair’ profit off of products and services but NOT alright to employ greed or avarice in taking advantage of others.
Living in the Kingdom of God starts in our hearts and spreads into our world. It is up to us to be steadfast and demand the regulations, checks and balances to keep greed in check. It is NOT alright for us to be threatened with their ‘financial weapons of mass destruction’ anymore. It is up to us to STOP them where they stand and make them accountable for their aberrant behavior against us all. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
NEVER DISAPPOINTED
When we accept the manifestations that the Divine provides for us in our lives we are NEVER disappointed.
Disappointment comes from the ego NOT getting its way because it hasn't seen the greater picture and believes it knows what's best for us and NOT the Divine. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE SPARK OF
CREATIVITY
Expectation is the spark of creativity! Potential to unfold your Divine purpose in Divine order is ever present.
It has been said by some to expect nothing but be prepared for anything. However, it is better to expect everything and be prepared for the unfolding of your Divine purpose Divine order!
Prime the pump with the expectation of living in Divine love now and evermore! You WON’T be disappointed. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DIARY OF AN OLD MAN
“Alas, what I could have become if I trusted instead of believed; if I lived in faith instead of fear; if I shared the divine essence of me instead of thinking just for myself. What a blessed life I would have led.
Now, as I sit on my rocking chair staring out into the world I see children playing, adults hurriedly drive by in their cars and jets leaving trails in the sky. I wonder how it took so long for me to realize this.
Why could I not see through my own veil of selfishness? No one visits me anymore. No one. I merely exist because I draw my next breath. As my body withers I feel sad within that I didn’t do what I had to in order to be the best I could have been. I am reaping what I have sown.
I will be remembered for what I had not done more than what I wanted to do. It all boils down to my choices. When I needed to say yes I said no and when I needed to say no I said yes. I know now that I will soon return from whence I came.
I had the opportunity to share and I chose to be selfish. I wasted the gift I was given yet I know somehow, I am forgiven. If I ever come ‘round this way again I will choose to be whom and what I was created to be; love everlasting.” ~Diary of an Old Man
DID YOU MISS THE MEMO?
Where were you when the Divine sent you Divine love to share with everyone? Did you miss the memo? Or were you too busy striving, struggling and maneuvering to ‘make’ something happen that you ‘thought’ you needed to do in order to feel complete?
Nothing…nothing, is more important than sharing Divine love with all.
When we all learn this maxim we will finally be able to live completely in Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BE PRECISE
If you care enough to help others then be precise in how you do it.
Neglecting or overlooking what is correct reveals laziness, selfishness and uncaring.
If one truly cares, they will strive to be precise! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
STINKIN' THINKIN'
When you look to what is so obvious and try to lessen its intended impact because it conflicts with your erroneous beliefs, you are a victim to your own stinkin’ thinkin’ and literally need a radiator flush of those beliefs that don’t edify or serve us as a whole.
Be responsible and learn how to differentiate between what experience teaches us and what accepted beliefs blind us to in order to fulfill our mutual unfolding of peace, understanding, joy and Divine love.
Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
FINDING PEACE
You will only find peace when you stop resisting what denies peace and start allowing what sustains it.
The same applies to understanding, joy and love. Embrace what you know brings you peace, understanding, joy and love by allowing the essence of the Divine to live through you by sharing Divine love with all.
Fulfillment of your Divine purpose is your destiny when you stop fighting what you perceive is holding you back and start allowing what you know you need to do. Be ye therefore perfect. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
UNIQUE TALENTS
Each and every one of you has a unique talent that this world needs. That is why you are here; to express that talent. Are you? Or are you listening to and believing what others are telling you that you should do? Why are you listening to them? Do they truly know you? Do they walk in your shoes every day?
Express the talents, skills and abilities that the Divine has blessed you with in order to contribute to this world. Don’t allow ANYONE to distract you from expressing your Divine purpose in Divine order.
We need you to be you in this world and you need to allow you to be YOU! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
LISTEN WITHIN
When you have the awareness to listen within with your inner ears that only hear silence, you will come to know what ripples, eddys and currents of the Divine soup are coming and you’ll be able to anticipate and execute what moves you need to make in Divine order.
God cannot be heard within in chaos! God can be heard in the stillness and silence deep within your being. Go to where you can hear the voice of silence and take the guidance that is always being imparted to your spirit.
It is where you can grow and expand into whom and what you were created to be; now, and evermore! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Currently Bobby Hinkle, Elizabeth
May Sutor and Dean A. Banks, D.D. have uploaded podcasts. Robert Yarbrough will be added soon. Just click on the podcasters placards below and click on the Podcast title. Currently there are five podcasts on Bobby Hinkle's page, one on Elizabeth Sutor's page and nine on Dean A. Banks, D.D.'s page. Stay tuned for more! Thank you for choosing us!
What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:
http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Welcome to our new Sunday Morning Service by Dr. Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Every week Dr. Dean will be engaging subjects that are pertinent to your growth and expansion into recognition of; respect to; and communication with your inner spirit.
Please feel free to comment or suggest topics for review. May the Divine always bless you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
If you want total freedom, then free yourself of the limiting beliefs that keep you in your personal prison. In this personal prison you feel so comfortable with your untested and erroneous beliefs that the only thing lacking is the complete fulfillment of your Divine purpose in Divine order. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
You are so loved that if you ever truly knew it you would not be following what you believe and you would be living what you know! Be that which you already are; Divine love!!! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
If your ‘right’ to life is more important to you than someone else’s ‘right’ to their life, then your ‘right’ has nothing to do with the love of God! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
How can an immoral thief who violated the trust of his constituency be the lesser of two evils? Oh, yeah, it can in Republogic, which is a way of thinking that is totally controlled by the individual's lust for power and egotistical satisfaction. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
What you see in others is NOT what exists in you; it is what you DON'T want to exist in you and that's why you recognize it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
The true mission of any teacher is molding souls for greatness! Becoming greater than you are is growing and expanding into a truer understanding of your own divinity. Thank all who teach for they are giving of that spirit to better the condition of all! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Being non-judgmental creates an atmosphere of allowing the judgments of judgmental people to reign free unchecked by the just 'judgments' of those who discern truth, freedom and Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Trying is lying...to yourself and others. Doing is moving...for the betterment of all! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHO IS WATCHING?
Think about this for a moment: Before ‘life’ came about, who observed the growth, expansion and of the formation of the omniverse as we know it today? Without life, the omniverse could not look back at itself and sense exactly what it is. Energy expanded and cooled and congealed into matter along the scaffolding of dark matter and expanded from the repulsive force of dark energy. Inherent in the structure of all that exists is the formula for life.
Life grew out of the raw materials of creation because its archetype was ever-present, even though it was not yet realized. Much like the presence of an oak tree is ‘hidden’ within the acorn. We exist in a ‘Goldilocks’ zone in our galaxy and solar system that optimized the omniversal ‘pieces’ of the puzzle to allow life to unfold. If we were any closer to the center of our galaxy, we would be subject to more radiation and gravity than would allow life to unfold. If we were any further out from the center of the galaxy, our Sun might not have ever ignited. If we were any closer to our Sun, we would burn up or any further we would freeze to death.
Amid all of these valid variables, life, as was referred to by Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park said, "No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way." Life comes from the outpouring of Divine love and it is immutable and unstoppable. The omniverse contains the necessary elements of Divine desire to recreate what has already been created into the energy of consciousness that ‘looks back at itself’ in wonderment of the creation. We are the by-product of what the omniverse does; grow life out of itself. We have the ability to recognize this and take an ‘omniversal’ viewpoint instead of a selfish one.
We are not the be all and end all of existence. Thinking and feeling that we are is the epitome of arrogance. We are, however, the channel through which the Divine expresses Divine love and it is our duty to accept that and be that. Without the expression of Divine love we would NOT be here at all. We are not just a thought in the mind of God, but the eyes, ears, arms and legs that co-create reality through our individual awareness. We are the children of the Most High who should live in ongoing gratitude and thankfulness for the gifts of the spirit that we have freely received through Divine grace.
We are all in this soup of energy, matter, dark matter and dark energy and as a result we are all connected and inextricably tied to one another. We are one with our omniversal environment and with the Spirit of God within. The only thing that separates us is our awareness of that fact; it is our opinions of life that are promulgated by our beliefs and therein lays the secret to unfolding our Divine purposes in Divine order.
In essence, every day we need to ‘get out of our own way’ by minimizing the yearnings of our egos to control, dominate and manipulate life and accentuate the Divine desires within to live in health, wealth, prosperity and abundance. The omniverse projects these qualities and its longevity has proven its worth. Reflect what is ‘in the soup’ by understanding and projecting Divine love into the omniverse. It IS our collective mission in life and will result in peace, understanding, joy and love forever more. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SPIRITUALITY GUIDANCE
What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
EBOOKS
HELPING OTHERS
Helping others is not something that requires drawing attention to yourself. Every moment we share a part of ourselves from our hearts the only attention that is necessary is from the one that is receiving the help.
It is not an attention of recognition or duty; it is one of love. Every time I share with another I can remember clearly that I am a channel of Divine love because I AM Divine love. I express myself every day by writing what I have been given.
I seek not the attention and marvel at it. The attention and accolades are not my driving force; the tireless creative effort to help is. It is my way of sharing Divine love with all and I am thankful for it.
Peace to all of you and may you find and practice what drives your expression of Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHAT YOU SEE
IN OTHERS
What you see in others could have existed in you at one time or the observation of it could be so repulsive to you that you recognize it for what it is.
It doesn't mean that if you recognize a murderer for what they are that you are a murderer as well.
On the surface the statement seems fairly innocuous, but when taken to an extreme some might misinterpret what it means.
Yes, there ARE circumstances that follow “What you see in others exists in you”, but it isn't all inclusive. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BELIEF SYTEMS
Interpretation of anything is based on the dedication to one's internalized belief system, which is derived from one's experience in observing the world through the possibility of manifesting one's own agenda from ‘their’ perception of the truth.
If you read or hear something that has the possibility of negating your beliefs and subsequent agenda manifestation, you will naturally 'read things into' what you are perceiving because it threatens your accepted beliefs of how the world operates.
You can only truly understand what is meant by removing the filters of your belief system and seeing things as they are and not colored by what you believe.
True understanding comes from a clear and accurate ‘perception’ of the facts and knowing how to differentiate between the facts and the ego’s drive for agenda manifestation. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
YOU ARE FORGIVEN
To all of those who have listened and believed the lies, B.S. and rhetoric of those manifesting their controlling, dominating and manipulative agendas you must know one thing; the Divine has already forgiven you for your foolishness. Why would the Divine do this? Because you are a child of the Most High and you were created to experience the joys and sorrows of life and feel your purpose in it.
We are all immersed in this soup of creation and without making mistakes we would never learn how to feel our way through it. It isn’t about punishment for sins; it is about learning to be whom and what you were created to be. It is about being the Divine in action and forgiving ourselves for our trespasses as we forgive those who have trespassed against us. Sin is a religious construct invented by those who wanted to be the middlepersons between God and man. The fact of the matter is that we don’t need any middlepersons at all!
We were born with our inner well-being which bathes us with Divine love each and every moment of our lives. It is we who either don’t believe it, or dismiss it as something we are not worthy of because we have been taught the false concept of sin. God has given us everything we need to be whom and what the Divine has created us to be. We are the ones who possess the free will to either listen to the guidance of the Divine in fulfilling our desires or following the selfish yearnings of our egos.
It is our choices from moment to moment that determine how much we become fulfilled with Divine love. We are not led into temptation, we recognize it for what it is and we either choose to align with it or choose to remove ourselves from it. We have all been ‘fooled’ by the apparent ‘voice of reason’ of our egos which, when looked at under the microscope of discernment, reveals complete and utter agenda manifestation.
Our egos will do whatever they believe they must do to ensure our own survival at all costs; even at the expense of others. Trust in what the Divine reveals to you in deep meditation and not what humankind says is the truth and always remember that you are forgiven; and because you are, you must forgive others as well. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
AN OPEN BOOK
When your life is an open book it reveals that you have the maturity to understand that where you are now is the result of what you have been through and that you have come to the realization that living in the truth breeds love and NOT fear.
Don’t be afraid of how others feel about you because it is NOT what you are. Be concerned with listening to the guidance of the Divine and NEVER fear what others say about you or your past. You are NOT that person anymore. You are who you are right now.
Progress begins when you forgive yourself for your mistakes in the past and you don’t allow the egos of others to diminish your light. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CHARACTER AND CONVICTION
Strength of character and conviction comes from the inner validation of spirit. Doing what is just and right in the face of prevarication comes from your inner spirit sharing the truth of Divine love. No spin of the facts, lies or deceptions will be victorious when you live by the truth, for the truth and in the truth. Be comforted in that and trust in the Divine for guidance. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE COOKIE JAR
Anytime someone gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar their first excuse is to blame someone else. Distraction from the truth and subsequent prevarication about the motives are nothing but a spin of the facts. If the hand is in the jar, the truth is obvious! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
READING THE TRUTH
When you live in the truth, for the truth and by the truth, you will experience the joy of sharing the truth. Thank you all for reading the truth. Now, let's take some action and stop the professional prevaricators from warping, spinning and polluting the truth! Stand up for the truth by living from and sharing always the truth of Divine love in creating peace, understanding and joy! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Please tell me something: What don’t you understand when Christ said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Does it mean that you tell others that they aren’t perfect divine beings? Does it mean that you keep saying it’s alright NOT to be perfect? Do you tell yourself that you didn’t succeed because you aren’t perfect?
Well, I have news for you. The more you keep saying that you aren’t perfect the more the omniverse will respond with evidence to prove you right! The Divine at the center of your being IS perfect. You can channel that perfection in everything that you do when you stop ‘believing’ that you aren’t perfect; just as you are! God did not make a mistake when you were created. God was on point and so should you be! Stop thinking, saying and doing things that support ANY beliefs that you are not a child of the Most High God created in divine perfection just as you are!
When you continually declare your imperfection you are aligning yourself more with your ego than with the Infinite Spirit within you. Every day declare your perfection as a creation of Divine love and you will be aligning yourself with Divine order. It is in this alignment that you can effectively express your Divine purpose. Don’t listen to those who try to convince you that you are a sinner and fall short of the glory of God. That is pure and utter hogwash generated by the Catholic and Protestant Churches to control, dominate and manipulate you. Christ is the one who said that we should be perfect even as our Father is perfect. Do you listen to him or do you listen to those who are in your pocket?
You are perfect just as you are. God does NOT make mistakes and He didn’t when He created you! God is perfect and so is his Creation. If you believe anything other than that you are ‘believing’ what some person said and NOT God! Accept your inner divinity and let it shine forth in manifesting your Divine purpose in Divine order. Anything else is you believing in imperfection and the reflection of that will be your experience in your life. Start projecting the perfection of Divine love and experience the reflections of health, wealth, prosperity and abundance. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
What do you do when you are down and out and it seems that the finances you need have dried up? Do you throw your hands up in the air and give up or do you hunker down and focus on moving ahead for the ‘apparent’ long haul?
Take your unique talents, skills and abilities to focus on what you need to do and to not 'overcome' what has happened; but to allow it to be just what it was and move on. Overcoming implies a fight or struggle and it is time for you to stop both.
You have the intelligence and spirit and have been blessed by the Divine with love. Trust the Divine to guide you to ways to support yourself and expect unforeseen opportunities to become apparent. Broaden your scope and stop putting conditions on what you receive and how you will receive it. It is not that abundance isn’t available to you; it is that somehow you are blocking it from coming through you!
I know someone who is a self-made man who wakes up everyday believing he is broke. Why? Because it gets him out of bed and by the end of the day he has made thousands. He puts some away, spends some on his family and supports his business. He is generous with his income and the Divine blesses him every day with more and more income. This man goes through money faster than it comes in yet he is ALWAYS ahead of the game. He is a money channel and he has plenty because he gives it away all the time.
When you doubt, worry and fear what ‘might’ happen instead of trusting in God and focusing on what ‘will’ happen, you are co-creating lack, limitation and uncertainty. Why not pivot to co-creating more than what you need and feeling worthy to receive it? Stop participating in your own self-undoing and allow that which is abundant and life-giving to supply ALL of your needs!
You have nothing to prove to yourself or anyone. Be who you are; a child of the Most High! You have something to share with all of us. Think it, say it and DO it every day. The money will follow when you follow the lead of your heart. Trust that you will be led in the proper direction to fulfill your destiny. Trust in the Divine and you will experience the desires of your heart! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE TRUTH OF
ALL EXISTENCE
Beyond our concepts, constructs and accepted beliefs lays the truth of all existence in the stillness and silence of Divine love. Always there; waiting for us to let go of our perceived control of the omniverse and completely trusting in the unfolding of our Divine purposes in Divine order. Trying leads to dying within while allowing leads to living within.
Faith in that which you cannot perceive is the gateway to living in Divine trust while willing your ego to reign supreme separates you from the omniversal reality. Live each and every day in the truth of all existence by being thankful to the Divine, forgiving to others, apologetic for your aberrant behaviors and loving to all whom you encounter.
It is from this process that true alignment with your Divine purpose occurs in Divine order. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
APPLES AND ORANGES
Have you ever noticed that those who speak the loudest in defending their aberrances and proclivities toward justifying the possession of weapons that participate in human violence often argue with ‘apples’ and ‘oranges’? They continually make the argument that the possession of a ‘kitchen’ or ‘lawn’ accessory constitutes the ability to injure and harm another individual. When was the last time you saw or heard of someone armed with lawn shears committing mass murder? If you dig deeper you can see ‘who’ is the real culprit at play in the use of this form of ‘horse’ logic; it is the ego. The ego will do ANYTHING to justify its own existence and protect itself from harm with what it ‘perceives’ as a threat to its self-survival. The operative motivator behind this exposition of using ‘apples’ and ‘oranges’ to inflict a shell game on the rest of us is the use of fear.
Fear operates on ‘what could happen’ and not on what ‘might’ happen. It jumps to the feelings of experiencing the worst by employing the reverie of negative outcomes and the lack of perceived comfort. It subsequently generates beliefs that get stored in the subconscious mind as reactive emotions. This dance and play of emotions blinds a person to the fact that weapons of any kind ‘can’ kill another; however, the use of weapons that ‘instantly’ kill many NEED to be severely regulated to prevent mass death at the hands of unstable, psychotic or criminal individuals. Their egos are so ‘fearful’ of any one of these people attacking them or their families that they justify owning and possessing weapons to ‘fight back’. This urge to ‘fight’ creates resistance and the very thing that they fear the most comes upon them.
Why? “What your resist, persists.” (Carl Gustav Jung). Conversely, what you allow is in the now! If you allow fear to take hold you have lost your own personal battle in your mind and you have created the very thing that you have feared. You have made it real by choosing to fear instead of having faith in the Divine to guide you, protect you and nurture you with Divine love. You can claim to be spiritual all you want but when you resort to harboring weapons that can stop another from the right to living their own life it reveals that you are not spiritual at all. You are ‘claiming’ to be and not living in the blessings of spirituality.
The blessings of spirituality are the knowing and practicing of Divine love! It is not allowing the ego to reign free but allowing the Divine to do so! The ego always employs ‘horse’ logic in its discourse to defend its ‘right’ over the life and death of another in a quest to protect itself, its family or its property. It truly ‘Edges God Out’ and takes over the mind, the heart and the body to carry out its will and ensure its self-survival at all costs!
When the ego argues ‘apples’ and ‘oranges’ know that it’s a shell game to distract your attention from what is truly going on; the generation of fear and separation in order to justify its being in command and being able to make decisions over the life and death of another. It is the ego playing God and NOT allowing God to guide you, protect you and ensure your safety.
Argue against this point all you want, but the more you argue, the more you reveal that your ego is in command and NOT the Spirit of God! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CAPITALISM REIGNS?
Have you ever learned how the greed, avarice and selfishness of the 'producers' of our society reign free from the deregulation frenzy in the '80s? Repeatedly, those who 'have' aren't satisfied with what they have; they aren't satisfied until they have what 'you' have. It is not just about the acquisition of massive amounts of money; it is about the wielding of the power associated with possessing massive amounts of money.
People who thrive off of the loss of others are not your friends; they are not to be looked up to; they are to be stopped from removing the stringent regulations on the corporate 'producers' that thrive off the hard working backs of the middle class. I don't care HOW you try to spin unregulated capitalism it is what has caused the major economic problems in the USA.
Our mix of 70% capitalism and 30% socialism has always worked until the greedy started writing useless paper. It was their way of taking over from those who lost everything by paying pennies on the dollar and reselling it at a profit. We have been lied to, controlled, dominated and manipulated by big business for too long. Stand up to them by NOT buying their products and services. Hit them where it hurts and bring them to their knees.
From the lies of the government to the lies of the major corporations, we have been sold out to the highest bidder. We are worth more than that! Our blood, sweat and tears are what has built this country and afforded them their profit. And what do they do? They ship our jobs to China because it costs less to produce the same products we purchase and they can program them with planned obsolescence formulas that shorten their life spans.
Stop allowing them the screw us. Vote for the person and NOT the party in order to attain forward progress. When you go to the polls in 2016 remember how your mother stretched a dollar, fed you every day and made sure you got to and from school. Honor her by honoring all of us that work for an honest living and don’t swoop in like vultures when someone falls.
Remember how your father went to work every day to support his family. Look and see how both mothers and fathers HAVE to work and raise families nowadays. Doesn’t that tell you that something is wrong with this picture? Open your eyes to what is really going on and stop listening to those who are just using you to fill their coffers. Learn the truth and live by it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SELF-SERVING AGENDAS
The only thing worse than a conservative with a self-serving agenda is a liberal with no incentive to stand up and stop them! Being liberal is an honor and it is not fighting back, but staying the course of truth and justice for ALL. It is being understanding of the other person and making their dreams just as important as yours. It is living with respect for others and not using them as pawns in a self-serving game of acquisition and leverage that ultimately hurts others.
Did Jesus heal the sick or did he walk away because someone had a pre-existing condition? Did he reject those who were lost or did he shine like a light on a hill and guide them to understanding? Christ mingled with those who were considered ‘undesirables’ because he knew that’s where he was needed the most. He knew that they were where truth resided and not with the conservative establishment that was based on financial power and intimidation.
Don’t believe the conservative agenda that claims prosperity! It’s a shell game based on them winning the pot and NOT you! While you are supporting their lies they are stealing your home, assets and lifestyle. Vote them out and get real people in Congress that aren’t bought by corporations and banks to implement their clandestine agendas.
Some say that we will NEVER change the system as it is right now. They claim that those who live by greed will always lead and that those who care for the welfare of others will always follow. Not so! The majority of the people in the USA are decent, kind and loving people who believe in extending a helping hand to those in need. The problem that exists is in the differences of the ‘beliefs’ of those who craft our laws. A great deal of lawmakers have had things handed to them and claim that they did it all on their own. Hogwash!
We have all needed a helping hand at different times in our lives. We drive on public roads; we cross public bridges; we gather in public buildings; we participate in our government by voting. It is when we ignore the blessings that we have that we begin to deny our effect on the system.
Look where these representatives go when their terms are over; either to lobbying firms or private sector corporations that use their knowledge to beat the system and have an unfair advantage over the rest of us. Get rid of any and all representative regardless of their party affiliation that are bought and paid for by corporate dollars. Send them a pink slip in 2016 and let’s get down to rebuilding the infrastructure of this country and provide the jobs that will grow and expand our economy into the Kingdom of God here on earth! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
ZERO TOLERANCE
I have zero tolerance for moronic posturing based on conservative and capitalistic 'values' that ultimately hurt others; especially those individuals that overtly debilitate our mutual growth and expansion for their own self-serving greed.
Our time has come and their ways have hurt too many for us to allow them to continue hurting us anymore.
We can stop them together not just by belief, but by knowledge, understanding and wisdom! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SIMPLY KNOWING
The difference between belief and trust is the difference of being convinced or simply knowing. The ego uses beliefs to navigate through world safely and ensure your protection from harm. The Spirit of God imparts a knowing that goes beyond beliefs. It is the Divine’s way of telling you that you might not understand where you are going from its guidance but that you will better off than where you are right now.
Never second guess what the Divine has imparted through your inner spirit. It is what is real and it is what you need to follow to move into expressing your Divine purpose in Divine order perfectly. Believe what you choose, but know where you are going by trusting in the Divine to guide you to the best possible place for you to be to become completely fulfilled. It is your perceived journey and it is your life.
Don’t allow the erroneous beliefs of others that you have accepted as true to hinder you from expressing the divinity that you are. Walk boldly, confidently and completely unfettered by ANY belief by living in the knowing of God. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Our Daily Reading for June 22nd -
"Pick A Card "We've All Got Options!"
by Angels Whisper
God loves you. Period. End of discussion. If you don’t know that then get rid of whatever beliefs are blocking that realization.
Until you know this completely in your heart you will not fulfill the seeds of desire that are planted there.
The only thing that germinates those seeds is the realization that God loves you. Allow those seeds to grow; nurture them, caress them and live them.
They are God’s gift to you and manifesting them are your gifts to God. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
YOU ARE THE DIVINE IN ACTION!
You are the Divine in action.
Be the Divine in every action you take and watch the omniverse bless you with health, wealth, prosperity and abundance.
It is all there for you to utilize in sharing Divine love with all! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
YOU vs. you
When you live from ‘you’, the smaller self, you deal every day with the perception of ‘imperfections’ and falling short of fulfilling your desires. In the separation of the perceived dualistic reality you experience division, extremes and varying degrees in between.
When you live from ‘YOU’, the higher self, you go beyond perception and dwell in the ‘perfection’ of the Spirit of God. In the culmination of your awareness into your inner spirit you experience Oneness and unity with the Spirit of God.
In balancing your awareness of the perfection of spirit with the perceived imperfections of your perceptive reality, you essentially operate in the perceived imperfection ‘from’ the perfection within.
This, in essence, brings the divine perfection into your world every day. Can you imagine what kind of world we would live in if everyone did this?
Help others to understand that what appears outside is a reflection of what is held inside and you will be bringing that perfection into your world. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves” (Carl Gustav Jung). This doesn't mean that we have those qualities within us; it means that we are led to understanding either what disturbs us about others' aberrant behaviors and the fact that we have either transcended those behaviors or that we don't like the fact that they hurt other people.
Too many ‘spiritually thinking’ people follow the ACIM take on this that we have those qualities within us and our recognition of them in others is allowing us to understand that we those qualities within us. Folder garb! We can recognize a thief, a murderer or a liar without necessarily being one.
Recognition of aberrance is NOT being aberrant. What is total B.S. is the supposition that in our recognition of aberrance that in fact we are being aberrant. NOT true! We can understand ourselves by proacting on the things that irritate us and not reacting to them.
Reaction brings similar behaviors while proactions bring life building behaviors. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BY PRODUCTS OF WHO YOU ARE
Where you are, where you come from and where you are headed are by-products of who you are. Who you are is a by-product of the choices you have made in the self-realization of your talents, skills and abilities you have received as blessings to know what you are here to do.
What you are here to do is a by-product of the directions in which you have traveled that leads to understanding why you are here. Why you are here is to unfold your Divine purpose in Divine order.
When you do unfold your Divine purpose in Divine order is a by-product of letting go of ‘how’ it will happen and completely trusting in the Divine to allow it to happen. The road less traveled is the road to self-awareness.
It is in the realization of your inner divinity that you allow Divine guidance to steer your course to manifest your Divine destiny. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
A PRAYER FOR TRUTH SEEKERS
Divine Infinite Spirit, please allow me to experience the inner peace, understanding, joy and love in the face of pure unadulterated ego agenda manifestation by those who seek and follow self-aggrandizement and greed as their God.
Allow me to continue to call out their blatant lies, reveal their agendas hidden under the rocks of their deceptions and to separate their behaviors from who in essence they truly are. Please allow me to let their aberrances flow through me without affecting my relationship with you.
Allow me to experience your Divine guidance now and evermore. Thank you for creating me and blessing me with the gifts of your Spirit.
Allow me to fulfill my Divine purpose in Divine order and become exactly whom and what you created me to be. I love you with all of my heart! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
MORE SAYINGS
It is because the Divine is silent is the reason why I embrace the stillness of inner peace and feel Divine love in my heart. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Without uncertainty, why would we get out of bed? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
My Higher Power IS the Divine within and what I have you have; the ability to share Divine love with all. Live within it wisely. The only thing that trumps knowledge is wisdom. Knowledge comes from assimilation and wisdom comes from letting go. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Acceptance is the first step to allowance which is letting go of the ego's perceived control and allowing the Divine within to guide you. It is NOT running away. Running comes from the ego and its acceptance of fear as a component of self-survival. Allowing is accepting and following Divine guidance! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Only too much ego feels it knows it all and if it is too frustrated it excels in a vain attempt at demonstrating superiority over others; truth comes from the Spirit of God within and not the limited field of view of the ego. Chew on that one awhile. Peace. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to expect your Divine desires than to listen to the ego lying to you by making you feel disappointed in being the best you can be. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
The gestalt in house cleaning reveals solutions to that which perplex the mind. Cleaning has way of clearing out the mind and expressing the pent up emotions that block the release of understanding. Also, the results are so fulfilling! Now, get to it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
If cleanliness is next to Godliness then it’s time for your ego to take a bath! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Respect should be given to those who earn it, not to those who demand it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Women are more beautiful from the inside out than from the outside in! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
The true joy of life is in the smile of a child. It is the love of the Divine personified, amplified and justified. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then why is it that we cannot see it in ourselves sometimes? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
To all of you whose Mothers have left this world please remember this: She is always alive in the memories of your heart. Treasure her there as she treasured you here and you will be living all that she taught you. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
When rationality is convoluted by conservative agenda manifestation it is not irrational to evaluate that selfishness and distraction are the motivations and the exercising of control, domination and manipulation are the tools of achieving the desired result of masking their obvious greed. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Sometimes making a fashion statement reveals just how stupid one is! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
PERFECTION PERSONIFIED
What does it mean to be perfect? Is it the same meaning in the biblical sense? Or is it a condition of ‘becoming’ perfect?
Stewart Eden, a Christian writer, describes it as follows: “Webster’s dictionary defines “perfect” in many different ways. As an adjective, it is defined as: a) being entirely without fault, b) accurate, c) expert, proficient, d) pure, total, and e) mature. As a verb the definition is: “to bring to final form.” The definitions of the Hebrew and Greek translations of “perfect” are very similar. In the New Testament, the Greek word predominantly used meant “complete” or “mature.” In the Old Testament the Hebrew word, ‘tam’, was frequently used. Its definition is unique and means “morally pious.” Another frequently used Hebrew word “shalen” meant, “without defect or blemish.”
Based on these definitions we can read and understand the literal truths of the Scriptures. God does not require perfection to enter the kingdom of heaven, but rather “His love will perfect or convert our soul as we live out His law in our hearts, minds and actions ~The Fellowship.”
In the spiritual sense, perfect means to be ‘complete’, mature in the understanding of spirit and aligning with your inner spirit to live from your true ‘form’. How many times have you heard people saying “I’m not perfect” and being proud of it! If you truly seek perfection than STOP saying that you are NOT perfect. What you resist persists! Get it?
Proclaim your divine perfection and bring it into the world each and every day! All of us make mistakes and that is NOT what we should be focusing on; we should be focusing on our divine perfection and NOT our trivial faults! It is all in moving from what you believe about yourself into what you KNOW about yourself!!!
In the old Aramaic being perfect was being morally pious; this doesn’t mean that you put others down but that you accept and live ‘in’ the gifts of the spirit. Those gifts are peace, understanding, joy and Divine love. It is what is freely given to us through Divine grace. Yet many NEVER proclaim those gifts because they look down on themselves because they ‘believe’ that is how they should be humble.
What a crock? Being humble means understanding your place in regard the places of others, showing mutual respect and sharing Divine love. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
STANDING YOUR GROUND
When others attack you and question your veracity, stand firm on your knowledge of the truth. No matter who says what about you stand your ground. The truth is what others fear and that’s why they attack you or your character. They can spin the facts any which way that they can but the truth is still the truth. It is unchangeable no matter what they say to change it.
Trust in the Divine to unfold the truth in Divine order while you stand your ground. How do I know this? I have told the truth in trying to help a loved one and I have been attacked from all angles and have been accused of being a liar. I discovered the truth and went to the authorities and they did nothing. I did what any decent citizen would do and for two years I was attacked.
The con-artist and his attorney took me to court and won the case. They lied and omitted the truth while the courts and the authorities took their side. Instead of folding, I have stood my ground on the truth. I have exposed the con-artist and his crooked attorney for the liars that they are. I will continue to expose both of them as much as I can.
Even though I lost the case and they tried to take my home from me, a person who knew the truth came forward and settled with the attorney for their claims. God provided because I stood on the truth. They will be exposed for what they have done because the truth must be said when con-artists take advantage of others; including their unscrupulous attorneys. They might not have been caught now for their blatant theft, but I know that the Divine will allow them to undo themselves in Divine order.
I will not fold; I will not give up; I will stand my ground. Why? Because if I stand for the truth nothing can ever hurt me! Nothing! I completely trust in the Divine and I know those who are guilty of lying and covering up the truth will eventually be exposed in God’s good time.
It is my job to remain calm, be patient and trust in God. Those who, lie, cheat, steal and take advantage of others might be successful at it for a season, but they will come into their undoing when the Divine deems it to be. I just have to stand my ground, trust and be patient. I am. Peace. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DIMINISHING YOUR AWARENESS
When you truly love the Divine within you there is something that you never do; allow anyone or anything to diminish your awareness of your connection to your inner spirit. You KNOW what is real and live from it. You share Divine love with all and you expect the perfection of your Divine desires to be manifested.
Why? Because God put them there for a reason; for you to be YOU! You have the free will choice to deny your Divine purpose and if you do you will keep running into it over and over again until you relent.
God’s wisdom is irrefutable. One of the reasons you are here is to learn that fact. Buck it if you want, but you will learn that the Divine perspective is greater than your ego’s.
Divine order is perfect timing and if you want to be at the right place, at the right time and with the right people to be fulfilled you will simply let go and allow the Divine to guide you.
Struggling to get ahead with your ego in command is a fool’s journey. Choose Divine wisdom and live from the Divine heart; always! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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