Oprah’s Christianity Is The Truth - They Are Biblical Principles
Monday, March 31st, 2008By Darren Meade Beloved - For some months now we’ve been hearing about The Secret. I’ve written to tell you that this wonderful DVD which Oprah brought to world wide view is one of the greatest acts of Love by anyone I’ve seen.Oprah spoke and said how she moved away from such topics because of the anger and misconstrued intentions given by many of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Yet, she brought this opportunity to us all to work with our Father in the field. How many broken hearts and lost souls do you imagine currently are leaving the church each day? When you read in the paper about the little boys and girl who have been raped by the clergy; or those people from 9-11 who lost their loved ones, do you not know that they wander off from The Father’s house into a far away land? In my own life, I had just attended a wonderful youth camp called Young Life. Unbeknownst to me, this was a Christian camp, and I accepted my beloved Brother Christ Jesus and God. When I returned home, within weeks, I was abandoned by my Mother and left homeless.3 years later, I found my biological father and reunited with him. At that time I returned to church. Only a few months later, I was diving in mid-air to knock a pistol out of my fathers hand, of which I was to late and he died. Anger became my best friend, rage filled my heart and I left my Fathers house and wandered. Many of you know of someone or have a more tragic story than my own. Beloved - may I share with you the Bible passage’s known as The Blessing and then I ask you to simply compare them to The Secret on your own. Then I believe you will see what a wonderful gift Oprah has bestowed because we can lovingly bring so many back home. The Bible is the history of The Blessing and its effect on the race of man from the Garden of Eden, when it was the very first words a man ever heard, until Jesus went to the cross so that The Blessing could come on the Gentiles and we might walk in its power today. The intended purpose of The Blessing was to expand the Garden of Eden until it encompassed the entire earth and filled it with the glory of heave and all its goodness. God the Father has never changed. Neither has His purpose and plan changed. Man changed - The Blessing didn’t. It never will. God spoke it forever (Genesis 1:28): 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. If you have seen The Secret - They talk of Laws that exist and a Genie. Remember though what if your son or daughter had been raped at your local church, or after giving your life to Christ, that you lost everything and everyone? If you’ve been raped or lost everything and have found success from The Secret, do you ever consider who created these Laws? How can they work? I’m here to tell you…God! Genesis 1:28 was God’s perfect plan for all men for all time. Jesus was and is The Blessing in action. He was and is the perfect will of God for all men for all time.Is The Blessing (The Secret) alive in the earth today? Yes. For whom? All men? Absolutely yes.Did The Blessing come on Jesus just so He could live in a Garden of Eden? After all, He was the Son of heaven. No. He ministered The Blessing to remove the effects of the curse. He was blessed in order to be a blessing. (Note: We are to judge according to fruits of labors, how many wonderful blessing has Oprah bestowed financially to others. Plus she has given a new set of languaging to engage back our lost and wandering brothers and sisters in a far-away land) Let’s look into that phrase a little deeper. It sounds good but what does it mean? The Blessing was God’s plan for all men, but all men are not blessed. Is it His will to bless them? Yes. Then why doesn’t He do it? He has. {Similar theme to The Secret} Then why are they not walking in it? They are not connected to Him, or they are connected to Him through Jesus and don’t know who they are or what belongs to them. That’s the reason Jesus came - to reconnect man to God. It’s His will to bless the righteous and unrighteous, the just and unjust. Jesus said in Luke 6:35: 35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest; for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil. Now…Let’s look at Luke 6:27-34: 27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. 29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take they coat. 30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away they good ask them not again. 31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. 32 For if ye love then which love you, what thank have ye? For sinners also love those that love them. 33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thanks have ye? For sinners also do even the same. 34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. In verses 32, 33 and 34 we see the phrase, “what thank have ye/” That is not just a figure of speech meaning you have no reward. It means just what it says, Thanks from whom? Now that’s a key issue to this whole chapter.Jesus started this lesson on The Blessing in verse 20: 20 And he lifter up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed by ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. The poor are not blessed because they are poor! No! Jesus came to preach the gospel to the poor to remove poverty (Luke 4:18). Once The Blessing is released by faith and the kingdom of God is activated in one’s life, poverty and lack are removed. Why?Look again at verse 33 again - to do good. To whom? To those unthankful and evil ones whom Jesus was speaking. He wants to do good to them. Our Father longs to help them in any way He can, but He has no way to get them unless you and I bless them. That when our Father says thank you.Oh my! Think about that. Almighty God himself saying. “Thank you for being My connection to that person. I want to ‘bless’ them and be kind and merciful to them, but I have no except through you. Thank you for showing them My love.”Beloved - Don’t be deceived into writing angry filled letters or trying to condemn Oprah because she’s using some psychological terms and languaging different from what you’re use too. What if you were born in extreme poverty and unable to read? Perhaps a Genie and others terms from The Secret would be easier to grasp. Thin of all those hurt by the church, they might prefer to hear and read something else than what caused that pain. However - What a Blessing we will be when we can slowly show our Brother and Sisters that what they now believe is all found in that Bible. Thanks be to God for Oprah as she’s opened this door. Beloved write and encourage her, tell her as a Christian you love her and hope that she continues to share The Secret with others.Now look at verse 38, and the whole chapter comes together: 38 Give, and it shall be giving unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.Oveflow! Now two things are very clear. 1. The Blessing is the perfect will of God for your life. 2. The Blessing has a mission to abundantly reveal the goodness and loving-kindness of our heavenly Father. Oh, how He has been misrepresented in the light of all this. John 3:16 takes on a whole new perspective - for God, who is Love, so loved the world: 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.Now let review Luke 6:27-31: 27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you. 28 Bless them that curse you and pray for them which despitefully use you. 29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take they coat also. 30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. 31 And as ye would that man should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.All of those “blessings” in Luke 6 such as in verses 27-31, are seeds that come from a way of living. Jesus was describing the way we should think - all the time. That’s just the way He is, and that’s the way we must become. We must never ever see these verses as the open door to disaster and injury. Nothing could be further from the truth. Living in The Blessing is dwelling in the secret place of the Most High. Protections is a part of The Blessing’s power. That living by faith (note: as also shown in The Secret). We all have the power to bless - to release The Blessing that is on you and in you - reach out in its power to bring Gods love into the lives of millions of people, just as Oprah has done.The Secret is The Blessing using different words and symbols. My personal opinion is that we need to reach out to others in a loving way, and gently let people know why The Blessing is superior to The Secret. There’s a few lessons which the Bible clearly explains which are missing from The Secret. If you truly are a Christian, let’s send Oprah some love and kindness. She is our sister in Christ whose giving us this wonderful gift to have God thank us personally.Love and Gratitude, Darren Meade http://darrenmeade.zaadz.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Darren_Meade http://EzineArticles.com/?Oprahs-Christianity-Is-The-Truth—They-Are-Biblical-Principles&id=514204 suicide ambien overdose memory loss ambien ambien prescriptions ambien women insomnia