God did it all for us...

If you go to the doctor and it is all about him, Run! If you go to God and it is all about him, Run! That god is not the John 3:16 God. That is the church god which is all about the church, the people in the church, and their social entertainments.

all God's laws are for our own benefit

All God's primary concerns are about us individually alone. Jesus asked what credit can you receive if you love those easy to love? Credit comes from loving the least easy to love. Why should we love those hardest to love? It is, what seems to be the purpose of all God's commandments, for our own benefit. We are not doing anyone else any great favor are we? After all we are not God.

we all speak about Jesus everytime

However we speak of and whoever we speak about, if we speak about the least attractive and most annoying person we ever met who deserves undying rejection because they are bad for our church, we speak about Jesus. When was that? Extensive verses, one is. Whatever you do to the least you do onto me. . . see Matt 25.

keeping my hedge strong

We view the spirit with spiritual eyes and see the works with our physical in time corruptible, even deceivingly unreliable eyes. Christians who know they cannot get into heaven by their own works, by their actions emphasize their works more than their beliefs just by spending more time talking about them. Their hearts are where their treasure is and their treasure and their time is spent in works, where there is much opportunity for socializing. If a disagreement or a misunderstanding arises while socializing they will forget the spirit of the affair and translate that spirit into works, too often walking out of the church. Everyone in a church should have the permission, the mandate, the desire of the Holy Spirit for being there. It would seem therefore, walking out of a church without the permission of the Holy Spirit for me would be a great mistake. I would be concerned the strength in the hedge around me would be gone.

Jesus demonstrates healing prayer

When we pray publicly it may be good to tell God what He already knows, but it can be only for our sake since He knows what He is before we started praying. We remind ourselves. Public prayers have a problem with self consciousness. What you say to God when others are listening in and what you say alone is an entirely different matter. Corporate prayer is not personal prayer. But when you are praying for healing publicly there is little difference. Jesus told us how to pray for healing. You have to have a "specific" desire. You have to "say", to speak, to the matter. You have to "believe" that His power can heal you. How do we know this? We watch Jesus heal someone. He asked what they wanted Him to do. He already knew that, anyone could see that, so why ask? He wanted an answer. A spoken answer. Answered prayer often seems to involve speaking. Speak to the mountain. Then He said, He pronounced it done, according to our "belief". Not His belief, ours. We have to do something in order to receive.

knowing yourself is a challenge

The most important thing we can do, must do, in life is to know what we believe and have faith in before we carry over into the future beyond the failure of these cocoons, we call our bodies, as they complete their course and pass away. Suspected reason is we become what we believe, really believe in trust in and rely on, deep down inside the secret places of our spirit. I believe that will be what I feed my spirit, even as I fed my body.

lip service and spiritual service

Some people place Jesus above church in their speech and place the church above Jesus in their actions. Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these you do to me. And He said to love one another. Further He  asked, what credit do we expect loving our friends, even the devil does that. Yet christians in churches are so often ready to shun and make uncomfortable those they feel are not good for the church.

nothing right found in anything wrong

Once one works to become an expert on what is wrong, they will find it does not have any future of any interest to the good. It is very interesting to that which is wrong, interesting to examine what is wrong, why it is wrong, and all that, but it is not interesting to what is right and good. It should be avoided, one would think, by definition. The wrong does not incease the good, it increases itself. Rather than avoiding the attempt of anything wrong, it can let a curiosity slip in for it that leads to destruction. You need to know what is right and everything about what is right and which leads to harmony with Existence. It is dangerous to flirt with negative spirits in any matter.

we forgive for our own benefit not for another's

Jesus wants us to forgive others. Is this for their benefit or is it for ours? We forgive others for our own benefit and mind our own business as to whether it does anything whatever for another. It is what is in our own eye that we are to be concerned with, not anyone with else. That is their jurisdiction and the business of the Holy Spirit, not ours. This is what Jesus told Peter in regard to the longevity of John.