Category: 1 John

Translation

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Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
“Mist Communication is Missed Communication from Miscommunication by Mr. & Mrs. Communication, which occurs when you believe and think one thing, but do or say something else out of character.” ~ Jon Barnes

Blur

One letter can change the meaning of a word. The wrong word can destroy the message. Living your self-inflicted painful lifestyle of lies and deceit can place you in the holding cell for hell. When will you grow tired of being sick, since you do not take good care of yourself and others?  Pay attention to each letter in your words and work to maximize the strength in each meaning to your message, before you send it.

Focus

You get lost in the mirror when your face doesn’t look like you. Why paint or makeover beauty that already exists, wasting money, time, energy, and focus? You are loved for who you are and not what you look like. I think people miscommunicate marketing information with reality, just like a misspelled word. However, it is your choice to see yourself as you are, which reflects your character or vanity.

Spell

Ask God to spellcheck your words, work, motives, and actions before moving forward with plans, goals, and dreams. The spell button feature on your spiritual e-mail to God does you no good if you do not use it. Push the button each day so that your translation of your message does not end up in a hot mess. Pray that God removes this spell of blindness from your eyes and actions.  Don’t hide the truth by partially telling the whole story, to display the opposite of God’s intentions, which is witchcraft.
Today’s Question
Since God’s spellcheck is the best reality check, don’t take my word for it, did you check with God yourself?
Enjoy Today’s Readings.

1 John 4

On Denying the Incarnation

4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

God’s Love and Ours

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
Love,
Jonathan

Attention

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Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
“We attract who we are and repel what we are not, which is who you are, what you love, and why it has your attention with attraction.” ~ Jon Barnes

Ask yourself

Why am I attracted to poop?  Smell yourself from the soul and you’ll understand why people lie to themselves every day. You cannot change anything that you cannot smell. You can smell yourself, but you don’t want to. This is why God does the work for you so you can detect and correct your heart, thinking, and actions. The people around you will smell you coming before you get asked the question: “Do I stink?” God Smells us all the time!

Attention

Place your attention on each little small step of faith and stop calling people names, writing them off as trash, and playing God. Love people as yourself by holding them to high standards with examples of God’s character in your life.  You will bring people up because they will admire your beautiful look of love-works. Otherwise, your path will smell like the poop you step in each day, and even though you will believe your actions smell like roses.  Wake up, clean up and pay attention to the smell and see your direction blossom with love works.

Love Works

Love Works is a concept that takes care of personal responsibilities that are naturally overlooked, neglected, and understated. We idolize trash, lust, money, fame, and the likes. Avoid idling by cleaning your body, home, room, car, workspace, and maintain good relationships. Clean up and show signs of your true character.  Otherwise, you are a pig. Clean living attracts clean people wanting to do their best for God. Your stinky mess is not clean living with your sorry excuses. Be honest and consistent. Ask God to execute these excuses from your life. Balance your love works to reflect God’s lifestyle of simplicity, cleanliness, focus, patience, faithfulness, and the natural beauty that comes from committed love works. Then relax in your love works with God and your family. Be kind.
Today’s Question
Are you attracting Love Workers based on your Love Actions and Attention to simple nurturing details of life with God’s commandments or do you idolize mess?
Enjoy Today’s Reading.

1 John 5

Faith in the Incarnate Son of God

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the[a] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9 We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Concluding Affirmations

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
16 If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. 19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
Love,
Jonathan

Advocate

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Hi Peeps,

Today’s Quote

“Stop evil people, scoffers, and hypocrites from polluting our society by living an honest lifestyle of truth, quality, and focused love that ripples and roars like waves in the ocean.”  ~ Jon Barnes

Isolation

You cannot love people in isolation, instead, fellowship and live by faith in your loving work ethic and honest profession. Practicing positive points of God’s commandments and precepts with the precision place the precious added value of labor and love to your motives, movements, and mindset. Development, experience, and progress occur in the face of committed communication, with consistent life-like constant action to maintain attraction and accumulated access to God.

Haters

Fools are not ashamed by the rhetoric, lies, inflated egos, latest trends, and worldly hip statements of the day, that mean nothing to the Kingdom of God.  They deny the existence of God by taking God’s job and pretending to enslave God, people, and the world with the lust of power, greed, technology, and deceit. Forgetting that God Owns Everything, evil looks acts, and sounds like a famous fool of fluff, blowing in the wind. Fools hate Good Knowledge and God’s lifestyle of wisdom and love.

Liar Liar

A Professional Fool will memorize and recite Scripture, but live a completely opposite lifestyle from the truth of God! They will use parts of scriptures to invent new stories and lies. Definitions of words become exchanged, confused, and blurred so that good communication is interrupted, cut off, deleted, and replaced.  Bad becomes Good and Good becomes evil.  Liar liar, devil, not so, says the Lord! Truth begets truth and advocates honesty and integrity with every spoken word and work.  God will judge and advocate for Himself. Liars are already exposed as hypocrites and scoffers working undercover for the devil. God Knows!
Today’s Question
Are you a secret agent advocating for your own beliefs along with satan?
Enjoy Today’s Reading.

1 John 3

3 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

More on Love and Hatred

11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters,[b] if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Love,
Jonathan

Real Talk

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Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
“If you don’t love yourself, all of your senses will be exposed to the toxic pictures, fumes, sounds, elements, air, water, foods, ideas, and ideologies that reject the truth of God and His natural cycle of creation, reaping, and sowing.  Evil suggests that you sow all your life and reap nothing in return.” ~  Jon Barnes

Opposite

We say one thing but most of us do the opposite of the truth.  Our intentions start out okay, but the reality of life must line up with God’s Real Talk.  I will make mistakes and I’m learning to quickly fix them and share my solutions with action, not just empty words.  Real talk is real action with the real truth, with is the opposite of greed, lust, pride, envy, and evil.

Great Joy

The feeling of Great Joy comes in the morning when your good work has reached one person to help along the way and avoid pitfalls from the devil.  I enjoy giving black eyes to the evil one who takes advantage of the innocent, the poor, and the honest people in the world.  Great Joy comes from giving, living, learning, growing, and sharing God’s love, which touches all Good People from God all of the time. Tap into your Great Joy from God.

Live Love

Live out the truth in your life as if God is chilling with you on your porch on a cool day, drinking some lemonade. Spend some of that time with your family and friends as well, so that they can see God hanging out on your porch with you.  In the morning on a sunny day, your porch should not look like clouds of a thunderstorm brewing up golf-sized hail onto your property.  Live to give good gifts from God and you will never hunger or thirst.
Today’s Question
Is your porch light on 24/7, lighting up the world with God’s Love, Mercy, and Grace?
Enjoy Today’s Reading

1 John 2

2 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

Love and Hatred for Fellow Believers

3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. 5 But if anyone obeys his word, love for God[a] is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.8 Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister[b] is still in the darkness. 10 Anyone who loves their brother and sister[c] lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. 11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

Reasons for Writing

12 I am writing to you, dear children,
    because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
13 I am writing to you, fathers,
    because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
    because you have overcome the evil one.
14 I write to you, dear children,
    because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
    because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
    because you are strong,
    and the word of God lives in you,
    and you have overcome the evil one.

On Not Loving the World

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[d] is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

Warnings Against Denying the Son

18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.[e] 21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is what he promised us—eternal life.
26 I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.27 As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.

God’s Children and Sin

28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.
Love,
Jonathan

Corruption

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Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
“An evil mind is at the root of a corrupt heart, which beats like a poisonous spray of chemical pesticides in the body, into the air, onto farmlands, into the oceans, from your mouth, into your job, business, corporations, governments, schools, churches, and the likes, throughout the world.” ~ Jon Barnes

The Mist

As a partner with evil, greed seems unstoppable in the face of unnecessarily increased pricing for basic goods and services.  Resources are withheld from the working population to become independently responsible, accountable, and rewarded for honest work.  Fake words, fine print, and fabricated stories lure people into the waters of entrapment, full of hungry crocodiles ready to feed. Misinformation is sprayed into the public to market the mist of profit inflation, poverty, unfair housing cost, ridiculous rental rates, slave labor,  and incarceration of Good Ideas. Resist the midst of evil and practice fair ethics in the Midst of God.

The Myth

Pills, drugs, enhanced food ingredients, chemicals, products, and other unnatural things are blended with everyday household goods.  We are told the side effects are harmless or call your physician if your heart stops beating; they may bring you back to life. Natural medicine is almost considered poisonous in the minds of many, now that the pharmaceuticals hooked us all with quick fixes, flash flood promises. We have stopped thinking for ourselves and now allow the computers to count, manage, account, and babysit us. The Myth has become reality. Machine poisoning? Balance the mass mayhem and limit your intake and exposure.

The Myrrh

God gives us all enough land, water, resources, and intelligence to build homes for everyone, feed all people, provide jobs and education, and manage our health, wealth, and good efforts. Greed has enslaved us.  If we Love God and love each other, we will build bridges for all people to travel the road to success, optimize and maintain the infrastructure with honest repairs and workmanship. End the slavery. Education, solutions, and inventions will not be shelved or hidden from public knowledge to monopolize global systems if we are honest. The use of Myrrh, Frankincense, and other natural ingredients from God’s green earth will help cleanse minds, emotions, and physical contaminants, as we pray for guidance.
Today’s Question
Is your family corrupt from your personal practices of white lies and shortcuts, omitting God’s commandments from your home, business, and church lifestyle?
Enjoy Today’s Reading

1 John 1

The Incarnation of the Word of Life

1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We write this to make our[a] joy complete.

Light and Darkness, Sin and Forgiveness

5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all[b] sin.
8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.
Love,
Jonathan