Tag: spiritual formation

What Does God Want From you?

What Does God Want From you?

Asking yourself this question, you’ve come up with answers that originate from religion or that are religious in nature. Things come to mind like, God wants you to go to church, to pray more, or to forgive and forget and be nice to those people that are cruel, hateful, and intolerable. You have been told that what God wants is for you to live the life of a good Christian. To be a woman or man of God. To read the Bible and model your life after it. To be more like Jesus, or King David, Elijah, Moses, etc. I believe what your religion is telling you God wants from you is incorrect.

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Daily Affirmation for Fearlessness / Confidence / Power: Claim Your Greatness

Daily Affirmation for Fearlessness / Confidence / Power: Claim Your Greatness

Us this affirmation daily to enter into your day with intention. Speak words of power over yourself and into universe to open yourself up for powerful experiences that lead to you being your best possible self.

Discover God, Self and Enlightenment Outside Religion

Discover God, Self and Enlightenment Outside Religion

Discover the divine outside the church and within self. Khaaliq Thomas guides you on a journey of spiritual exploration, personal empowerment, and finding God in the beauty of daily life.

Platos Allegory of the Cave and Discovering Your Truth

Platos Allegory of the Cave and Discovering Your Truth

We tend to understand truth as a constant, unchanging, unbreakable guide we must adhere to but what if that is wrong. What if truth has free forming characteristics? Can we accept truth as more than the forms on the wall society gives us? Do you have enough courage to climb out of your cave into the mysterious realms of discovery and enlightenment?

Guided Meditative Affirmation: Transform the Way You See Yourself

Guided Meditative Affirmation: Transform the Way You See Yourself

We produce the personal worlds we live in according to our beliefs and perceptions. It is true that in order to change what we see we must change the way we think. But the way we think is directly connected to how we see ourselves, the power we believe in have. Therefore changing the way we think of ourselves give the ability to change the way we think resulting in a transformation in what we see in out personal world. Use this affirmation to develop a deeper sense of awareness of the powerful being you are and what you are capable of.

Understanding Yourself To Be The Way, The Truth, and The Life

Understanding Yourself To Be The Way, The Truth, and The Life

Jesus is not the only way to God and religion is not the only language, method, and passage to connect to the ultimate power that governs all life. You as an individualized aspect of the Absolute have the ability to connect to the Absolute. Consciously connecting to God doesn’t demand accepting a savior it requires you to be aware of the power to save yourself.

Losing Religion in Order to Discover God, Yourself, and Enlightenment

Losing Religion in Order to Discover God, Yourself, and Enlightenment

We look at religion as a source of informing throughout the lifespan of the believer. Religion is a device that assigns identity to both God and humanity according to its own criteria but is religion a reliable source?

The Limitations of Salvation

The Limitations of Salvation

Is one salvation experience enough? If salvation is a solution to the human problem reconnecting us to our spiritual identity there seems to be a need for additional liberations from future problems awaiting us as we experience life as spiritual beings throughout eternity. If we as spiritual beings retain the freedom to decide, interpret knowledge, and understand experiences we will always be subject to misinterpretation, therefore needing direction, guidance, counsel, and liberation.

The Impossible Task of Satisfying God

The Impossible Task of Satisfying God

Does performing good deeds result in the satisfaction of God and subsequent good blessings and a higher quality of life? If this is accepted as true it creates serious problems for both God and mankind.

30. Why I Am No Longer A Christian

30. Why I Am No Longer A Christian

Exploring the vastness of God and the diverse ways in which different religions worship, relate to and understand God and spiritual phenomenon, I was no longer willing nor able to call myself a Christian. This episode is my story on the questions that peeked my curiosity and ultimately caused me to leave Christianity.

27 Are We Made In The Image Of God?

27 Are We Made In The Image Of God?

Why do we believe we are made in the image of God? What does it actually mean physically and spiritually to be made in the image of God? Since God has infinite power, unlimited attributes, and is unable to be fully conceived, is it even possible for there to be a physical likeness of what is beyond all understanding?

22 Finding God Outside of Religion

22 Finding God Outside of Religion

Who is God outside of what religion has informed us? Can we receive Gods Word, guidance, and revelation outside of scripture? Can the ideas, and concepts of God be understood without religious language and iconography?