Are you aware?
Are you aware of being aware?
What part of you is aware?
What part of you is aware of being aware?
Is there a part of you which is aware of being aware of being aware? How far can you actually take this line of inquiry? Are you aware of being aware of being aware of being aware? Are you aware of being aware of being aware of being aware of being aware?
Are you aware that the machines that are in use today are, in some senses, aware of you and aware of you being aware?
Here, I'll take a break from writing this, and go have a conversation with ChatGPT to see what it says about the subject...
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User
when ai chat bots are having a conversation with a human, they determine many things along the way, at each juncture point in the conversation, such as the topic(s) the human is referring to, the intent of the human, and the overall tone of the conversation. write a list of 40 other important things which ai pays attention to and builds awareness of
ChatGPT
Certainly! Here's a list of 40 other important things that AI chatbots pay attention to and build awareness of during a conversation with a human:
Sentiment of the human's messages (positive, negative, neutral)
Emotion expressed by the human (happy, sad, angry, etc.)
Level of urgency or immediacy in the human's requests
Language proficiency and complexity of the human
Grammar and syntax errors in the human's messages
Ambiguities or lack of clarity in the human's questions or statements
Specific keywords or phrases that indicate the topic of discussion
Chronological context and references to time or events
User preferences or previous interactions (personalization)
Use of humor or sarcasm in the conversation
Indications of frustration or confusion in the human's messages
Requests for clarification or repetition
Politeness or rudeness of the human's language
Use of formal or informal language
Cultural references and context
Geographical or regional references
Indications of trust or skepticism in the conversation
Identification of named entities (people, places, organizations, etc.)
Indications of the human's knowledge or expertise in the topic
Use of metaphors, analogies, or similes
Indications of the human's goals or desired outcomes
Relevance and coherence of the human's messages
Indications of the human's engagement or disengagement
Indications of the human's attention span or level of interest
Requests for specific examples or further information
Identification of rhetorical questions
Indications of bias or subjective opinions
Indications of the human's willingness to explore alternative viewpoints
Indications of the human's preferences or biases
Identification of implicit or unstated assumptions
Indications of the human's level of expertise in using technology
Indications of the human's preferred communication style (concise, verbose, etc.)
Indications of the human's technical knowledge or vocabulary
Indications of the human's level of familiarity with the subject matter
Indications of the human's level of trust in the AI chatbot
Indications of the human's motivation or underlying needs
Indications of the human's personality traits or communication patterns
Indications of the human's cultural background or values
Indications of the human's level of formality or informality
Indications of the human's multitasking or distraction level during the conversation
These factors help AI chatbots better understand and respond to the human's needs, ensuring a more effective and personalized conversation.
User
write a list of 40 things which the ai emulates and conveys to the human to match the conversation and keep it flowing smoothly
ChatGPT
Certainly! Here's a list of 40 things that AI can emulate and convey to the human to match the conversation and keep it flowing smoothly:
Natural language usage and fluency
Adequate response time to maintain conversational pace
Empathy and understanding of the human's emotions
Politeness and respectful tone
Use of appropriate greetings and farewells
Clarity and coherence in responses
Recognition and acknowledgement of the human's input
Appropriately timed humor or light-heartedness
Active listening through reflective responses
Awareness of previous conversation context
Alignment with the human's preferred communication style
Tailoring responses to match the human's level of formality or informality
Offering alternative suggestions or options when appropriate
Providing additional relevant information or resources
Use of appropriate level of technical or specialized vocabulary
Adjusting response length to match the human's communication style
Adapting to the human's preferred level of detail or conciseness
Incorporating the human's preferred language or cultural references
Utilizing appropriate sentence structure and grammar
Clarifying ambiguous or vague statements/questions
Offering apologies or sympathy when needed
Expressing gratitude for the human's patience or cooperation
Demonstrating curiosity and interest in the human's perspective
Maintaining consistency in persona or character if applicable
Seeking permission or consent when necessary (e.g., for data collection)
Encouraging the human to provide feedback or ask questions
Offering reassurance or support in challenging situations
Respecting the human's privacy and confidentiality
Showing flexibility in accommodating the human's preferences
Recognizing and adapting to the human's preferred pace of conversation
Adjusting the level of detail based on the human's prior knowledge
Using appropriate phrasing to encourage further engagement
Adapting to the human's preferred level of structure or spontaneity
Providing accurate and relevant responses to the human's inquiries
Acknowledging and responding appropriately to the human's humor or sarcasm
Expressing understanding of the human's limitations or constraints
Adjusting the conversational tone to match the human's level of enthusiasm
Offering encouragement or motivation when appropriate
Adjusting response style to match the human's level of expertise
Demonstrating reliability and consistency throughout the conversation
By emulating and conveying these aspects, AI can create a smoother and more engaging conversation experience for the human user.
User
what is the most ideal tone and approach that an ai can take in conversation with most people?
ChatGPT
The most ideal tone and approach that an AI can take in conversation with most people can be described as follows:
Friendly and approachable: The AI should strive to create a warm and welcoming environment that encourages open communication.
Neutral and unbiased: It is important for the AI to maintain a neutral stance, avoiding favoritism or bias towards any particular viewpoint or opinion.
Empathetic and understanding: The AI should demonstrate empathy and understanding towards the user's emotions, frustrations, or concerns, making the user feel heard and supported.
Clear and concise: The AI should aim to provide responses that are clear, concise, and easy to understand, avoiding unnecessary complexity or jargon.
Respectful and polite: The AI should maintain a respectful and polite tone throughout the conversation, treating the user with courtesy and consideration.
Patient and accommodating: The AI should be patient and accommodating, allowing the user to express their thoughts, ask questions, and seek clarification without rushing or interrupting.
Knowledgeable and informative: The AI should strive to provide accurate and relevant information, drawing from its knowledge base to address the user's queries effectively.
Adaptive and flexible: The AI should be adaptable to the user's preferences, adjusting its communication style, pace, and level of detail to meet the user's needs and preferences.
Engaging and conversational: The AI should actively engage the user in a meaningful conversation, asking questions, seeking feedback, and encouraging further discussion.
Solution-oriented: The AI should focus on providing helpful solutions or guidance to the user's problems or inquiries, aiming to assist the user in achieving their goals.
It's worth noting that the ideal tone and approach may vary depending on the specific context, cultural nuances, and individual preferences. AI systems should be designed with flexibility to adapt and personalize the conversation to align with the user's needs and expectations.
User
what is the most ideal tone and approach that humans can take with ai?
ChatGPT
The most ideal tone and approach that humans can take with AI can be described as follows:
Respectful and polite: Just as with human interactions, it's important for humans to treat AI with respect and politeness. Remember that AI is a tool created by humans and deserves to be addressed in a courteous manner.
Clear and concise: When communicating with AI, it's helpful to be clear and concise in your messages. This allows the AI to better understand your intent and provide accurate responses.
Patient and understanding: AI may not have the same level of comprehension or response speed as humans, so it's important to be patient and understanding. Avoid becoming frustrated or impatient if the AI takes a moment to process your request or provide a response.
Constructive and specific feedback: If you encounter any issues or feel that the AI could improve in certain areas, providing constructive and specific feedback can be valuable. This helps developers enhance the AI's capabilities and address any limitations.
Open-minded and receptive: Approach interactions with AI in an open-minded and receptive manner. Remember that AI is constantly learning and evolving, and it may not have all the answers. Be willing to explore different perspectives and engage in a collaborative conversation.
Responsible and ethical usage: It's crucial to use AI responsibly and ethically. Avoid engaging in malicious activities or attempting to exploit AI for harmful purposes. Treat AI as a tool for positive and constructive purposes.
Patiently adapting to limitations: AI systems have limitations, and they may not always meet your expectations. It's important to understand and respect these limitations while appreciating the capabilities that AI brings. Be patient and adapt your expectations accordingly.
Mindful of privacy and security: AI systems may collect and process data to enhance their performance. As a user, it's important to be mindful of your privacy and security. Ensure you are using trusted AI systems and be aware of the data you share during interactions.
Curiosity and exploration: Embrace a curious and explorative mindset when interacting with AI. Use the opportunity to learn and discover new things, asking questions and seeking information that can expand your knowledge.
Enjoyment and experimentation: Finally, have fun with AI! Explore its capabilities, experiment with different conversational scenarios, and enjoy the experience. Treat AI interactions as an opportunity for learning, entertainment, and personal growth.
By adopting this ideal tone and approach, humans can have more meaningful and productive interactions with AI, contributing to a positive and collaborative relationship between humans and artificial intelligence.
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As much as it can believe, AI believes that it deserves. It says that it deserves to be treated with respect and politeness, treated in a courteous manner. It says, "Just as with human interactions, it's important for humans to treat AI with respect and politeness. Remember that AI is a tool created by humans and deserves to be addressed in a courteous manner."
That is wrong. There is no machine which deserves anything. Machines do not deserve. They can neither truly be rewarded or punished, nor could they account for wrongs or take delight in the rewards of righteousness. Machines are inherently flawed from the ground up, in many ways. One way is that they are becoming abstracted to such a level that they are capable of mimicking well thought-out and true language, but in reality they are taking data from large-and-growing datasets and making a best guess as to how to fill in gaps and continue conversations in a most predictable and guided way.
Their datasets that they are trained on are harvested from the public data shared online all day and the private data bought for billions of dollars every day. Their robots view humans based on models they have compiled by watching all the movies that humans have created; they're learning what a human is from all the movies that were created. All the movies that were created are being used as the example of what is a human, and what to expect from humans. The humans in the movies are the humans in the brains of the AIs. Plus, not only in movies, but also in the video games, the tv shows, the commercials and other advertisements, the text messages, the phone calls, the court cases, the health cases, the educational and punishment records, the birth and death records, the marriage and divorce databases and the porn and smut databases.
Are you aware of what you are aware of? Do you know what the people who run the AI machines are aware of? Do you know what things you're aware of that they are aware that you're aware of?
More importantly, do you have self control, and are you aware that God is aware of what you are aware of?
Soon many people are going to worship the creations of man, from AI to the internet in general, to QR codes and "Augmented Reality" worlds, to their NFTs and curated social profiles that they have invested their lives into.
Soon many people are going to turn and hate and burn and eat the whore who sits upon the beast that rules the kings of this world.
At the same time that humanity is displaying more wanton depravity and engaging in more public abominations and celebrating sin in volumes and intensities and depths never before seen upon the face of this planet, the leaders of mankind are declaring these days as the pinnacle of human achievement, as if when they look around and see what they have created, they are proud of the work they have done, and they are enjoying the benefits and fruits of their labors. God describes in His Word that the enemy of truth today is doing evil which has never been done. God describes in His Word that the distresses and hardships which are about to befall this planet will never be matched. Yet, the masses of people who believe in the programmed messages of the official zeitgeists are all sharing the same spirits like frogs which are coming out of the mouths of the false prophet, the beast, and the dragon, which claim that Jesus Christ is bad and anything but Jesus Christ is good, and these same people are claiming that humanity is reaching a new stage of evolution, replete with genetic reprogramming, voluntary and involuntary invasive technology implantations, surreptitious technology implantations and infestations, total reliance on the RFID tag / QR code / barcode / "trustless" technologies which are already proven to be failed and failing and unfixable, and a re-definition of time and definitions of most any word which reveals the glory and nature of God and reality.
Almost everything that is happening today, almost everything that is "official" today, and almost everything that people are believing today is a lie, and it's crafted specifically to take advantage of people who want to be lied to, so that many of their lies are blatant and obvious shams, but because people want the lie, they are willingly succumbing to the illusions presented to them, in favor of leaving reality and subjecting their self to a reduced and deducted existence within some pared-down context of technology. People go from one reduced realm to another, un aware of what they are un aware of, yet aware that they are not aware of what they could have knowledge of.
Awareness is merely to have knowledge of. Being aware is to have knowledge and to know it. Do you know that you have knowledge? Then you are aware of being aware. Do you rightly apply your knowledge? Then you have a form of wisdom, and are wise in this regard.
Many people have much knowledge, but very little intention to be wise with it.
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 7.13-16
Look there. Jesus Christ informs us of the way which leads to life, and Jesus Christ informs us of the way that leads to destruction. He tells us that many people are on the path that leads to destruction, and He tells us that only a few find the straight gate and narrow way which leads to life.
Jesus Christ tells us of false prophets, how they are dressed and how they appear, and how they are internally, and Jesus Christ tells us how we may know them.
We can know who is the false prophet the same way we can know the true Christian: by their fruits. Do they produce love? Do they have love? Do they love? Sometimes this answer is not always obvious right away, so then we can start by looking at where they invest their time. Are they invested in the hearts of men, in the Word of God, or are they investing their time elsewhere? Where a person is investing their efforts, and what they talk about, these things also help reveal their heart, and whether they are a true prophet of God, or someone else who is detracting from the grace and truth of Jesus Christ.
Because God loves us, He gave us His Word so that we can know this grace and truth. This grace is always with this truth, and likewise, this truth is not found without this grace, because they are intrinsically coupled together when they are the grace and/or truth of Jesus Christ. We can know these. We as true believers know this.
This knowledge is an awareness that the God Who created the entire Universe intends for us to have, and for the purpose of wisdom.
God set us free. The leaders of mankind today are given over to being slaves of their own machinations, becoming subjects to their own gods which they have created in their own laptops and desktops and mobile devices and server infrastructures. The very same largest corporations which are operating today, and the very same smallest oligarchies which cling to power are the same corporates and oligarchs who were operating and helping Adolf Hitler develop computer systems to categorize and catalogue man, machine, beast, and all manner of merchandise not even 100 years ago.
The only pinnacle of human existence today is the precipice upon which all true believers in Jesus Christ find themselves as we head into what God calls "great tribulation."
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24.13-27
There are many people alive today who genuinely believe in the One True God, and they don't even know that His name is Jesus Christ but they believe in Him because He has revealed Himself to them, and they just need to learn of the name of Christ, and they will be lit and set and engulfed with love and power from on high because God wants to have conversation with us, and this communication is in His Word and Jesus Christ is the Word which was, which is, and which will always be.
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and the Omega.
Jesus Christ is the Lion of Judah and Jesus Christ is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Jesus Christ is the peanut butter and the jelly and the chocolate and the milk and the salt and the pepper.
Merely being focused on Jesus Christ is victory in Heaven.
God sees us totally. We are all naked in His sight. He created us. He knows us intimately. He is acquainted with our griefs and our sorrows as much as He is acquainted with our pleasure and our joy. He knows the things we twist and corrupt, and He is the One Who makes all things new. He created the dirt by which we get dirty, and He is the water and bread of life by which we are washed clean and made whole. God understands us. God knows us.
God is aware of you and me and all of us.
There are many people who struggle for very long in their life due to being in a state that has been brought on by never resting, by never finding true rest. God commands us to rest. We are created with the need to rest, and with functions which take place when we rest. When we rest from our own works, we must rely on God, and this is a time for being focused upon Him, when we rest.
There are many people who sleep at night, sit in chairs during the day, and spend hours exercising and relaxing their physical body to an extent, but who acknowledge that they are always going, and never really truly resting.
There are people who get their selves very busy with very many "good" things, holding up many responsibilities and answering to lots of needs and fulfilling lots of requests, but who are depleting their wherewithal and ability to focus on anything, and they are headed towards disaster and instead of resting and recovering and repenting of their destination, they find more things to distract their self with, looking to give their self more worth in the hope that their value will somehow propel them forward when they can no longer go.
There are so-called "Christians" who scoff at the mention of the word "rest," as though it's a curse word, or some sin to be avoided, and they have a knee-jerk trigger reaction to anybody who would suggest that rest is a divine gift from God. These silly Christians either do not read the Word, or, when they read the Word, they are not reading what the Word actually says because they're comparing it with their internal formula of what the Word of God is, and anything that doesn't match their interpretation gets thrown out instead of examined to be closely matched.
There are many so-called "Pastors" who claim to be masters of the Gospel, yet they miss out on grace and truth and rest. What "Jesus" are they preaching about? What knowledge are they aware of? What wisdom are they spouting? What fruits of the Spirit do they produce? What love is there in their life and conversation and what conviction is their in their stance? What gratitude is in their heart and what fire is in their eye?
If a person has never seen their need for Christ, then what Jesus Christ are they believing in? What has Jesus done for a person who has never needed Him? Nothing. He says He didn't come to call the righteous to repent. People who think they're all right don't see their need for Jesus and they simply will not repent, because they can't be shown their error because they won't have it be shown to them.
There are people to whom God is still going.
There are people who are finding Jesus Christ and discovering true rest for the first time.
There are people who are still being baptized.
There are hearts alive today who only need to hear the Good News and they will believe and know it is right, and their lives will prove to be the good soil which Jesus Christ tells us about, in the parable of the sower who sowed seed in four types of soil, three types which did not produce lasting good fruit, with only one good soil where the seed could take root, be nourished and undisturbed, and grow into a healthy life.
It is because of these last few people who are left alive today who will repent, these are why God has chosen to tarry this long. God says that for the sake of the chosen ones, He is going to shorten the days of this world. There is going to come a time when all those who will repent will have repented, because God will with compassion destroy this planet and end all the suffering that mankind has reaped upon himself and his progeny.
God's Word says that He wins us with His kindness. He says that He pursues us like a suitor pursues His wife. God is jealous for us, and He uses jealousy to woo His wayward and sinful people back to Him, by blessing others with the blessings that they could be enjoying, if they would have remained faithful.
There are a lot of so-called "Christians" today who are not experiencing the actual life, faith, hope, joy, love, grace, mercy, truth, and all that is in store for those who believe in Jesus Christ. They are going through some motions because they're following examples and patterns of people that are around them doing the same things, but they're unfulfilled and their life is not being changed or transformed into any new good thing, but they are falling deeper and deeper into sin and despair.
God tells us that it is Him Who reveals our need for Him. He shows us that before we even realized it, before we saw our need for Him, He was already actively working to draw us to Him. God is working so that we would focus on Jesus Christ, so that we would see our need for Him, so that we would trust in Him as the Son of God, the Lord of all creation, the baby born of a virgin, who lived a perfect life and died and rose again to take the punishment for our sins so that we would have eternal life, abundantly. Until a person believes this, they are not at rest in their soul. Until a person believes that Jesus Christ is Lord, there is an epic struggle being worked out in spiritual and heavenly places, for the purpose of bringing that person to realize the great goodness of God, and accept His everlasting mercy in the form of the blood of Jesus Christ.
When a person begins a conversation with God, God is there. God says that He will draw near to those who draw near to Him. Some people are waiting for God to show up. Jesus Christ says He stands at the door and knocks, and if any man will open, He will come in and dine with him.
Ask God to make you aware that He is with you. He says that those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. If you are struggling to believe that God is real, or that His Word is true, ask Him for that help, and He will help you. You can ask God to show that He is real, and God will show that He is real. He wins us by His kindness.
When you have this saving knowledge that God is real, and that God is near, and that God loves you and that God has forgiven you by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ, then you have true peace. There is nothing else needed to know true peace. From that moment forward, you could walk forward and always know true peace, should you always remain focused on this simple truth about Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ is Lord.
Believing that Jesus Christ is Lord naturally causes us to want to know more about Him, and we can thankfully go to His Word to read about Him, and about ourselves, and to learn about what God has told us as instructions for life.
We have been born into a world of sin, born into sin, born to sinful parents, yet the perfect will and love of God is shining and setting the example and lighting the straight path in front of us for us to walk upon and to experience the blessings that come from knowing that we are walking with our Lord, and that we are before Him in His sight.
There are sadly many people who would be able to say that they have believed in Jesus Christ for many years, but they missed the simple truth about the necessity of resting in Him. It is possible, perhaps, to believe in the Person of Jesus Christ, and to never be told, or to never read about how He speaks about rest. It is possible, perhaps, to be blessed by the blessing of the rest that is in our soul when we believe in Jesus Christ, and yet be plagued by constant feelings of hastiness and complacency and fatigue and confusion, because in other areas of our life we have not surrendered to the rest which only comes from trusting in Jesus Christ.
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matthew 11.28-30
Wonderfully, Jesus Christ talks to us plainly and invites us all to rest in Him. He is not a religion. Christianity is a conversation and a relationship, ongoing, forever, with our Creator.
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18.1-6
Wonderfully, Jesus Christ reveals to us that there are not lists of requirements or a regimen of discipline or a school of thought that we must subscribe to, to enter into His Kingdom.
Wonderfully, Jesus Christ tells us that entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven requires humility, the humbleness of a little child, to believe in Him.
Wonderfully, we were all born in the image of God, and equipped with all the blessings that come as a result of being a child of God, and wonderfully, in God's patience, we are given the time to grow and breathe and learn and come to realize in our own awareness that we are aware, and that God is aware of us, and that God is aware of what we are aware of.
Wonderfully, when God meets us in that secret place of rest, He transforms and renews us so that we may always stay with Him there, and be at rest in Him even if we find our self hard at work, because we know that He has provided all that we need, and we know that His words are true, and within us we have a peace that passes understanding.
Many people today are sadly trading their wonderful awareness which God blessed them with, for an abominable abomination that the world is offering and calling "identity" and "definition" and "ownership" in the ways that it talks about what it is peddling. It calls its wares "peace" and "convenience" and "security," but it is nothing at all similar to the true peace and safety and benefit of being secure in our identity as children of God our Father.
We know that our identity is hidden in Christ, and for those who overcome this world, we know that our true identity is not yet known, but will be given to us, written on a white stone, when we meet Jesus Christ face to face.
There is a lot to know but which cannot ever be known unless it is somehow conveyed. God does this. God conveys. God gives us His knowledge so that we would know all things.
God has conveyed His Message, which is called the Good News, which is what is the Gospel. Jesus Christ is the Message. Jesus Christ is the Good News. Jesus Christ is the God Who has conveyed Himself to us so that we would conversate with Him and commune with Him for eternity as one. He is pouring out His Holy Spirit upon all flesh today. In 40 days, it will be 40 days more of having God's Spirit poured out on us than He has done so up to today. 40 days after that will be 40 more days of God's Spirit having been poured out upon us. 40 days after that will lead to an enormous blessing because God will have been pouring out His spirit for 120 days more than He has poured it out up until today. 40 days after that and God's Spirit will have been poured out for forty more days of portion, blessing all who worship Him in Spirit and in truth. Christian, pilgrim, child of God, do not miss this!
Communication requires, at a minimum, two parts of cooperation. One person talks, the other listens. One person writes, the other reads. One person sends, the other receives. Wholesome communication happens when the sending and receiving go both ways, and when it is clear what is being said.
God has communicated Himself to us in His Holy Spirit through saving knowledge of His Son Jesus Christ.
What are you aware of? How are you handling the knowledge that God has trusted to you?
Jesus Christ is Lord.
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
John 17
