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the spiritual and the physical. We all are at various levels morning after a long night of
Meaning that a person is both of our spiritual journey, but death (sleep).
a spirit and a body but with personally, I would rather be
the soul or the mind as the walking in the forest having And by the way, it’s not my
bridge between both. Your five conversations with the Father job or duty to prove to anyone
physical senses are the channel of Spirits about anything in that God or the Divine exists.
through which data is absorbed my mind or His mind than That you spend all your time
into your mind and channeled sitting in a church listening arguing that He does not
into your spirit. But there is also to someone talking about the exist simply shows you have
the reality of the “five spiritual letters that Apostle Paul shared something within you telling
senses” which are mostly dulled about two thousand years ago. you otherwise. It’s like
due to disuse. It is a deeper It doesn’t make any sense. Paul saying Kenya doesn’t exist
way to relate with the spiritual understood his own spirituality anywhere on the globe but
realm, for the spirit must by the and he lived it out until the day you have high blood pressure
spiritual senses relate with other of his death. So why should I each time the name Kenya
spirits and the Father of Spirits. leave my own spirituality and is mentioned and you won’t
walk with divinity and study stop searching online for the
It is by your spirituality or Paul’s spirituality and walk current price for a ticket to
your identity in the spirit that with God? I can study Paul’s Kenya. If God doesn’t exist
you relate and communicate life to gain knowledge of according to you, then it does
with Divinity, relate and patterns of the spiritual walk not make sense that you are
communicate with nature, relate or study the patterns of some fighting and bullying anyone
and communicate with people, African spirituality to have who says otherwise.
and vice versa. But what we more understanding, but that
mostly have now are people cannot be my ultimate goal. My I am not interested in any
trying to put everyone else in ultimate goal is to rise into the religious jargon someone
the box of their own thinking maturity of both my spirit, soul, calls spirituality. If your
and assumptions. You meet and body, in conformity with spirituality does not have a
someone today and the next the Father of all Spirits, God, or positive effect on the state of
minute you think you know whatever else you want to call your heart, the shape of the
them and then want to define Him. words coming out of your
them by your lack of knowledge mouth, and the actions you
or faulty assumptions. You even There are those like Mansa who display on the outside, then
throw trick questions at them so say there is no God and that you are lying to yourself and
they trip on words and by that, they are gods in themselves. I your so-called spirituality is
you fill your cup of egotism and agree that they are gods, even another cloak of deception.
false knowledge about them. the Bible says the same, but I
That’s foolishness, to say the wonder why they cannot make
least. themselves wake up in the
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