There are no words that describe the love that I have for people, good people, generous people, people who will go beyond to help you out in many ways, where you do not even see that they are helping you. It reminds me of a scene from Miracles Happen, where the gentleman at the desk tells the father and girls that all his cards are declined, but then decides to help him without anybody noticing. Even in the same movie, a friend of the family with a little one in their hands, hidden in the car, helps out without the family noticing. I, myself, know for sure that there are heavenly angels that come down and earthly angels, whereas God touches their hearts, and these little wonders happen.
I have been quiet, as I started reading a book and highlighting a powerful word. The Word “MOVEMENT”. Some parts are nice, and some others well… left me thinking. I thought in the first part of the book The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Yet, there was a brief pause, and I was asked to return to The Pursuit of God. A part where A.W. Tozer says, “God is a Person, and in the depths of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires, and suffers as any other person may. In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemer man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion. This intercourse between God and the soul is known to us in conscious personal awareness. It is personal: that is, it does not come through the body of believers, as such, but is known to the individual, and to the body through the individuals that compose it. And it is conscious: that is, it does not stay below the threshold of consciousness and work there unknown to the soul (as, for instance, infant baptism is though by some to do), but comes within the field of awareness where the man can “know” it as he knows any other fact of experience.
As I continued reading, I came upon something that truly touched my heart, and it was remarkably accurate. In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell mentioned in chapter one about a woman chased by an assailant and attacked three times on the street for over half an hour, as 38 neighbors witnessed and none of them called the police. Malcolm continues his writing, mentioning“The case provoked rounds of self-recrimination. It became a symbol of the cold and dehumanizing effects of urban life.” Even a New York Times editor wrote in a book about the case, “Nobody can say why the thirty-eight did not lift the phone while the woman was being attacked. It can be assumed, however, that their apathy was indeed one of the big city variety… The New York Times writer at the end says…Indifference to one ‘s neighbors and his troubles is a conditioned reflex in life in New York as it is in other big cities.”
“The anonymity and alienation of the big-city life makes people hard and unfeeling. In other words the “bystander problem”.-“When people are in a group, in other words, responsibility for acting is diffused. They assume someone else will make the call, or they assume that because no one else is acting, the apparent problem-the seizure-like sounds from the other room, the smoke from the door-is not a problem. In the book, he mentions that in studies done by Latane and Darley, the lesson is not that no one called because thirty-eight people heard her scream, it’s that no one called because thirty-eight people heard her scream.” Excerpt from The Tipping Point: “The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation, against a bully, or during an assault or other crime. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is for any one of them to provide help to a person in distress.” Excerpt from psychologytoday.com
This little excerpt called my attention: “ The key to getting people to change their behavior, in other words, to care about their behavior, in other words, to care about a neighbor in distress, sometimes lies with the smallest detail of the immediate situation. The power of context suggests that Human beings are much more sensitive to their environment than they may seem. Hold your thoughts for a bit…loved this part as well part of the introduction.
There was a part of New York City and some of its neighborhoods, such as Brownsville and East New York, where streets would turn into ghost towns at dusk, and ordinary working people would not walk on the sidewalks and children wouldn’t ride bicycles on the streets, nor folks sit on benches” Police officers who served in Brownsville in the 1980’s and 1990’s say that, in those years their radios would explode with chatter between beaten officers and their dispatchers over every conceivable kind of violent and dangerous crime…2154 murders in New York and 626,182 serious crimes with the weight falling hardest in places like Brownsville and East New York” Here is what I love about the book and relate to which movement, contagious and epidemics. But, Something strange happened as said in the book, a mysterious and critical point” everything started to drop, there was a movement, a change in every individual, “folks and children reappeared on the stoops, there was a revival. The changes in trades, population, and economy are all trends happening across the country; conditions gradually improved, and crime decreased to two-thirds of its previous level in five years. Waves or, for the matter, the transformation,” The phenomenon of word of mouth or any number of the mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products, messages, behavior spread just like viruses do.” Amazing as “ the new social forces had some impact on starting to behave very differently, and that behavior somehow spread to other would-be criminals in similar situations. Somehow, a large number of people in New York got “infected” with anti-crimevirus in a short time.” The words I love from this book, “little changes had big effects.”
An excerpt from APA Dictionary of Psychology: The threshold of consciousness: the minimum above which stimuli enter awareness, characterized in terms of stimulus intensity, duration, and relevance. An excerpt from Wisdom Library Organization states “In Christianity, the Threshold of consciousness signifies the boundary separating conscious awareness from subconscious processes. This concept plays a crucial role in understanding the psychological roots of dreams, highlighting how subconscious elements can influence thoughts and experiences. “When by faith we come across the threshold into the kingdom of God we recognize and identify it and God’s mercy becomes as sweet and blessed as though it were all brand new.” A.WTozer
An excerpt from Collins Dictionary, provides the beautiful definition of “Social intercourse is communication between people as they spend time together. [old-fashioned] There was social intercourse between the old and the young. Contact, relationships, communication, association. A. W. Tozer states “All social intercourse between human beings is a response of personality to personality, grading upward from the most casual brush between man and man to the fullest, most intimate communion of which the human soul is capable. Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God. “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. God is a Person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may. In making Himself known to us, He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions.”
The Words of Today are defined in Merriam-Webster and Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
No Limits.- without being controlled or stopped : without being limited
Movement.- “It is the active advance of the living Word multiplying across a region, people group or relational network to bring life and transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
Doors: Exploring biblical references, doors are often regarded as spiritual symbols that represent opportunities, transitions, or boundaries between different spiritual states. Door as a Symbol of Opportunity.
Open: In the Old Testament represents chiefly pathach, but also other words, as galah, “to uncover”; of the opening of the eyes in vision, etc. (thus Balaam, Numbers 22:31; 24:4; compare Job 33:16; 36:10; Psalms 119:18; Jeremiah 32:11,14).
Bringing Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. t.) To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch. To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to. To convey; to move; to carry or conduct. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
To produce in exchange.
People: “people of the land.” This may mean simply “inhabitants,” as Ezekiel 12:19; 33:2; 39:13; but in 2 Kings 11:14.
Uniting the words: “When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; when you run, you will not stumble.” It is the active advance of the living Word multiplying across a region, people group or relational network to bring life and transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit. Exploring biblical references, doors are often regarded as spiritual symbols that represent opportunities, transitions, or boundaries between different spiritual states. The Door as a Symbol of Opportunity. To uncover”; of the opening of the eyes in vision, to convey, to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place. To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to. To convey; to move; to carry or conduct. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide the “people of the land.” This may mean simply “inhabitants.”.
The beauty of reading books, that gasping moment that leaves you in suspense,thoughts are gathered and minds wonder when one has gone or been through a situtaion like that, it can lead you just for a moment to say oh my I am a sinner as well. How many times has this happened before. But here is the thing, as I continued reading, I came upon a part that said “ By simply writing a word, I can plant a seed in a heart, however, the book says “ I can plant a feeling in your mind in a contagious, unexpected” unexpected changes can happen. The Tipping Point says “The point of all this is to answer two simple questions that lie at the heart of what e would all like to accomplish as an educator, as a Parent, marketers, business people, policy makers, why is it that some ideas, or behaviors, products start epidimics and others don’t? What can we do to deliberately start a positive epidemic on our own”
Here is the beauty of falling Hard After God as A.W. Tozer states .-Following Hard After God.-“The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the out working of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand: “Thy right hand upholdeth me.” He has me, He had and always will, no matter if I am still, whether I walk or run, or wherever I go. I loved so far of this book, it is how we can start an “epidemic” but not of sickness, just infect each other with a moment of joy and what does it take, a smile, a word, moment, mmmm so the epidemic started and it is contagious, yes, yes laughter is contagious, a smile bring out another smile, kindness brings gentleness and love in others. It is an irrisistible moment in this place we call home. A movement, a moment may start with one or a group of people, and that enthusiasm is a love epidemic that develops into a movement, characterized by such creativity, a boom, and the ignition of love. I feel so enthusiastic when people gather together, especially in schools, universities and groups, doors are open. The most important thing is that all these words can be transformed into positive words, creating a movement with them and letting the small things make a difference and bring people together.
“God is a Person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may. In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemer man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion”
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.”
“The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration, our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart’s happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead. That is where we begin, I say, but where we stop no one has yet discovered, for there is in the awful and mysterious depths of the Triune God neither limit nor end.”
“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.” A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
There is such image clarity; it changes our perspective on how we see things. “The Bible is often described as a mirror because it reveals both our true selves and the true nature of God, prompting us to reflect on our actions and make necessary changes.” God’s love is unconditional and it is extended to all creation, seek me and you will find.
Please, do not shoot the messenger. It is just the message, I did not write before but I had song played the whole month most of the times. She made it clear and has been allowed by Father Almighty to say what she wants to say to you. This month of May she has been visiting you and will stay to the end of this month, bringing joy and love. A very persistent soul, actually three of them. She is the battler of the three and never gave up, a sweet, wise lady sort of curly hair, beautiful but tough and funny “showing courage or determination.” If you’re huffy or thin-skinned but one very persistent person, you’re so loved in the Kingdom of Heaven, and She wants you to know that everything is seen. Divine tokens are being sent down to you, and She loves your contagiousness. Please do go back to that place, where there was a bench and something of wood, it seems like a church or old style church or something like that, the one she loved, the reflections of you in all three of them in Heaven.
“Aren’t you somethin’ to admire?
‘Cause your shine is somethin’ like a mirror
“And I can’t help but notice
You reflect in this heart of mine
If you ever feel alone and
The glare makes me hard to find
Just know that I’m always
Parallel on the other side”
Song from the lyrics Mirrors Justin Timberlake
Oh my the light and beauty above, they are all good and together, love never dies. She references the highway sorry the interstate and the youngest has inherited her traits , character, be coherent in the movement as she was. But She really wants you to visit, all of you that place. A very special lady, who brought joy and love, funny and persistent. This message is the lyric for you, yes you the one of the funny sweater in the picture that you do not like, the one she loved, the one of the song. In Jesus name amen
From the +Bible:BibleGateway
Revelation 15:4 NIV
4
Who will not fear you, Lord,
and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”[a]
Isaiah 30:23 NIV
23 He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.
Ezekiel 47:9 NIV
9 Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.
John 5:24-25 NIV
24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. 25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
References
1.Gladwell M. The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Must Read Summaries; 2012. Accessed May 17, 2025.
2.Tozer AW. God’s Pursuit of Man : Tozer’s Profound Prequel to the Pursuit of God. Moody Publishers; 2015. Accessed May 17, 2025.
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