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JONAH’S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE.
Study (2-1) Then Jonah prayed.—This introduction, to what is in reality a psalm of thanksgiving, has its parallel in Hannah’s song (1Samuel 2:1-10), which is introduced in the same way. Comp. also the Note appended by the psalm collector at the end of Psalms 72, “The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.”
This is exactly how you read the Bible of life into life. Then the bible and your life’s actions replicates into your mind as Manna. And the Manna of Light shines out into the world feeding the children in understanding the light.
And if you respond in guilt by self punishment and that feeds its self. This is called festering guilt that poisons your relationships to your experiences. And your experience is often with others and your guilt can trigger an emotion that will cloud your judgment taking away the Manna. The King of All Thieves. That disrupts the cup from over filling with the rich nectar of the God through Jesus Christ. The gifts presented in the Wedding Dance of our children, world and creation.
It does that if you do not listen. And love does the opposites of the ones that do not reward. Like hate. Hate is a war with no winners. The one you hate often doesn’t ever know
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you hate them and while at the same time your failure to listen has festered into your experiences.
It is a war of the worlds. And wars have no winners in death.
Forgive and do the opposites of harm no matter what you hear inside or out that defeats forgiving.
Remember forgiving sets you free from the demons you festered. They have no power if you do the opposites of harm. And eventually your tune will teach you how to listen and prevent harm to yourself or others.
This is called Self Love it is exactly what emotions do. So listen if it is toxic don’t eat it and eat the experience in truth and in the life of giving unconditional love.
Every experience is food to the mind, the body and the spirit.
Yes I know. What about the food fight? The poison being thrown at you? Listen and ask if you are reinforcing the harm or is it life giving.
Does it ring the dinner bell of good in the reward center in your brain?
Then don’t eat it if it doesn’t and remember the food they
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throw they have to eat it to.
Self punishment is such a crazy thing if your ignorant. It always hurts the perpetrator and it hurts you even more to give it power to fester until you forgive.
Turn the cheek. So when you find yourself in a war equipped with emotions don’t let them run wild. Recognize there is a great lesson to be learned that can make you strong and understanding enough to penetrate any environment you managed to break through.
You now posses the power to change the experience in your life and you can relate to others with the god bump of knowledge and understanding. The common thread of life you both share. You now posses the power to help another because you can relate. Relate. There is your hint. Again if it ls painful it starves and if it rings true it feeds the reward center of your mind and rings the dinner bell that it is good to eat. Life is really hard for most. It is very dirty. You clean your home or it gets dirty right?. Same thing.
So love yourself enough to listen to yourself properly and it will not posses the power to harm the world of understanding in confusion in any of your relationships to you or others.
And in time regardless of the relationships that failed
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