Why not be a little more awesome? Or let God be a bit more awesome through you! Whatever!
Well, everyone, I am starting this article by telling you that I am a very spiritual person because I am EVEN going to a spiritual conference!
It’s not even a spiritual conference in my backyard (so I can get there and back and check off “Spiritual Thing – DONE!” while my cookies bake). I am ACTUALLY even TRAVELLING several HOURS to learn new, MORE spiritual things! (I guess that’s because I must have already learned all the spiritual things there are in the place where I live.)
Join people in fifty-eight countries who read this to gain valuable life wisdom! (Or maybe they’re just laughing at me? . . . Whatever!)
Just sayin. Did I mention that I provide spiritual encouragement and that you can trust me – of course! – implicitly? A reminder!
The guy we are going to listen to has stepped into the spiritual “MORE” than many of us1 realize. For example, Jesus has used this speaker, Jonathan Conrathe, and his team to witness more physical healings (cool!) than many of us (also VERY spiritual and important people!) witness. That’s pretty cool – not gonna lie.
Oh! And for the doubters or those who have watched Steve Martin’s excellent and funny movie Leap of Faith, about a snake-oil salesman posing as a preacher and staging fake spiritual healings, don’t fret too much!
Remember that only things of great (real) value, like paper money, are counterfeited – So OF COURSE we expect counterfeiting of valuable spiritual things, too.
THE POINT is that SOMETIMES healings actually happen at these conferences, and sometimes, the whole thing is a fake, which we expect, too! (Choose your conference wisely! People are sometimes idiots, remember?)
After all, finding counterfeit money doesn’t mean that all money is counterfeit, either, but instead, hints at the opposite.
Also, HERE is a podcast of a guy who accidentally got swept up in a spiritual miracle (his brain tumor went away – coincidentally some say! – when someone prayed for him). He is spending his life using science to verify “supposed healings.” Oh, and he’s a Ph.D. and Neuroscientist. THIS is his Medical Institute, which applies rigorous methods of evidence-based medicine to study Christian Spiritual Healing practices, and this is his book. But that discussion is for another day.
(His work is also very cool).
Essentially, to one still doubting these things occur (that’s fair!), we know that God’s tangible presence sometimes invades the earth, like a hole in a balloon pushing air into the atmosphere at certain places and times and in ways that many more of us sit up and take notice. For example, read more about these events:
Anyway, I wonder if maybe I can be like him, the speaker at the conference we are going to (Wait – I mean, I wonder if I can be a bit more like Jesus – It’s hard to keep theology straight!) But it would be cool to have a life that appears meaningful when people judge me! Wait – I don’t care what people think of me – I forgot!
So, anyway, I’m excited to go to this conference to learn some tips and tricks so that hopefully Jesus can use my life for His glory a bit more, too!
The only problem is that the last time I went to a conference like this, I sat attentively, my extra-sharp pencil ready to jot down every nuance. “It’s about holiness,” the speaker said, softly, simply. My pencil dropped.
That stuff is so boring!
It’s hard to do the hard stuff like forgive people (who are SUCH idiots!) and stuff like that!
I like to learn a lot and not apply it (the application part is usually boring!), like when I read lots and lots of books without applying stuff!
But not anymore! Now I am ready to obey God fully! Wait!
(I don’t think I’m QUITE ready to give up and (EVEN) forgive people in my church for being idiots.)
It will cost you everything. If you really want to know the price, it will cost you everything.
Kathryn Kuhlman2
That’s why we’re lukewarm.
So this conference MAY not impact my life as much as I hope, which, annoyingly, happens surprisingly often at spiritual conferences (The speakers don’t explain stuff in a way the audience can easily “get,” I find!). So this conference MAY not impact my life, but I’m obviously very spiritual because I go to spiritual conferences, and that’s a comfort to me, at least!
As the song below sings3, “I know it’s so hard, but out of darkness I choose,” is there a choice that God is nudging you to make, friend? Will you make it? The world needs a bit more “God” moments if we’re honest.
(Maybe me looking important to others isn’t QUITE as high a priority as I believe it should be?)
Nah! Anyway, I’ll update you after the conference! Stay tuned!
And oh yeah – What is the ONE thing you need to do to become more spiritual (like me)? Go to a spiritual conference, of course, preferably one that is far away! (And for some reason you won’t be able to understand, the people in your church may like it if you go to one VERY far away, as well.) Don’t fret too much about that, either! They HAVE to like even you!
You’re welcome!
Good luck!
Thanks for liking me! I like you too! – Proven HERE, HERE, and HERE! Let’s journey together!
1 And that’s saying a LOT, because as you know, I already learned MORE spiritual things once too!
3 I also saw this singer recently in a concert in PERSON! (More proof that I am the kind of person who associates -at least! – with people in high places! Which doesn’t matter – of course! – but I say that humbly!)
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