Holidays 2014

Happy Holidays to you. I especially wish all who read my blog a very happy and prosperous new year. May 2015 bring peace, love and understanding between all people here on planet earth.

Happy Holiday to one and all.

Rev. Ronald L. Koch

The Patient, the Healer and God

Healing comes to the sick in many ways. Some are healed through faith, some through the act of prayer, which is faith in action. Some are healed because the body has activated its own internal healing power. Can advanced cancers or other debilitating diseases be healed? Just what does it take for healing to take place?

In the healing classes of a certified healer, men and women are taught that the individual who is acting as the healer is just a channel between God and the patient. Is this all there is to healing, to have a person act as a channel for healing? No! The patient is just as much a part of the healing process as God and the healer (channel). It is a threesome that works together to effectively produce the needed healing.

And yet, Few people today believe that God heals as he did in the days of Jesus. They are all wrong. God still heals as He did then. One must remember the words of Jesus when He said, “The things I do you can do and greater things than these you can do.” So what does it take for healing to take place today? It requires that the person acting as the healer truly understands that they’re the channel for God’s healing energy. If the healer doesn’t believe that healing can take place through him, the healing energy is stopped from its flow. God can do little for the recipient when the healer himself doesn’t believe that he is the healing channel.

Remember that it takes so little faith- confidence – the amount of faith represented by a mustard seed – so little, and yet so much. It is not the person acting as the healer that heals; it is God the source of all healing who does the healing. The channel MUST be open to the flow of God’s healing energy. The patient MUST know that they WILL receive the healing they desire, and be ready to accept it without question. This is a real problem for far too many of us - accepting without question. We are born skeptics, we question everything.

I hear about so many people today who are afflicted with cancer, and other diseases that lead to death of the physical body – diseases that can be stopped in their tracts. If only the patient understood that God wants them to be strong and healthy. “But, you say,” this one little word (but) can make the difference between healing and the downward spiral to physical death.

The question is – Do you have faith ( confidence), the knowing that healing takes place even today as it did two thousand years ago?

At a church in Redding California, the pastor was faced with the question “Does God heal today as He did when Jesus was alive?” He studied his Bible and came to the conclusion that God did. So he started to tentatively do healings during services at his church. To his amazement, people started to be healed. He talks about people who could not walk, but were healed by faith and started walking.

People with cancers were healed and people with “withered limbs” had their limbs start to grow to a normal size and shape as the healer prayed over them. Can you believe what it must have been like to see such a miracle taking place before your own eyes? The minister goes on in his book to talk about other healings that took place and are continuing to take place at his church.

Healing takes place today as it did in the time of Jesus. There is absolutely no reason for you or me to believe that it doesn’t happen. It only takes a few seconds for healing to take place, and only a second of faith.

You may not believe that it can happen for you, but it can. You must be ready to let go of your skepticism completely. Believe in miracles, and accept the healing.

I know how our minds work. It is because, we as adults are so used to being skeptical about everything that happens in our life that we find it almost impossible to believe that we or a loved one can be healed.

I don’t know what it will take for you to put that “mustard seed” of faith into effect in your life so that you can be healed I just hope and pray that you will find it within yourself to have it. God is the source of all healing; the healer is the channel for the healing energy, and the recipient as the receiver are all working together as one to bring about a complete healing. 

Do you know how Jesus healed people?

"Your sins, sickness, or discord are no more a part of God, or your true self, than fungi are a part of the plants to which they attach themselves. They are the false growths which have gathered upon your bodies as the result of wrong thinking. The thought of the disease and the disease are merely the cause and the effect. Erase, forgive the cause and the effect disappears. Erase the false belief and sickness vanishes".

"This was the only method of cure that Jesus ever resorted to. He erased the false image in the consciousness of the one to whom he ministered. He first raised the vibrations of his body by connecting his own thoughts with those of Divine Mind and holding his own thoughts steadfastly in accord with those of the perfection of the Divine Mind for man. Then the vibrations of his body became equal to the vibrations in Divine Mind. Having thus raised the vibrations of his own body by his steadfast thought of the Divine Perfection, he was able to raise the vibrations of the body of the applicant with the withered arm to the point where he could erase the image of the withered arm from his own consciousness. Then Jesus could say to the applicant `Stretch forth your hand.' The person in faith stretched it forth and it became whole. Thus Jesus raised the vibrations of his own body by seeing the Divine Perfection for all and this enabled him to raise the vibrations of the one he healed until the image of imperfection was entirely erased; then perfection was instantaneous and the forgiveness and healing was complete".

"God works through all to carry out His perfect plan and the perfect, loving thoughts continually going forth from the hearts of all are God's own message to His children. It is these thoughts that keep the vibrations of our bodies in direct touch with the divine and perfect vibrations; and this seed is the Word of God that finds lodgment in every receptive heart, whether man be consciously aware of his divine nature or not. We are approaching more fully to our divine inheritance when we can keep our thoughts so fully upon our divine perfection and the divine perfection of all, as held in the Mind of God, that the vibrations of our body are in direct harmonious accord and one with the divine vibrations sent out from the Mind of God. But, in order to bring forth the abundant harvest of spiritual understanding, our thoughts must continuously vibrate with, and lay hold of, the perfect harmonious thoughts from Divine Mind, or Mind of God, to man, His beloved son. We soon find we have the power to enslave or to free ourselves, as well as to forgive every sin of the whole human family through our attitude of thought, word, or deed and, through the vibrations thus released, to the whole world. Once having chosen to shape our thoughts along definite lines, we soon find that we are sustained by Omnipotence itself and find, as we go through the discipline necessary to assure ourselves of mastery, that it is a glorious privilege—this power which we have to free ourselves and our fellow men from bondage through the process of divine thinking". We are healed.

* Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East  Vol. 2 Pg. 37

Winter Delights

The white snow fell covering the ground
It covered the dark earth and hid the decay of fallen leaves.
Snow, so beautiful yet so cool

It covers the ground so we can play
Sliding here and there with laughter and mirth
Making snow men and women just for the fun of it

Riding our sleighs, some pulled by a horse to the delight of lovers
Hidden beneath blankets of many colors
Singing Christmas carols and wanting the night to last forever

To dream of Christmas trees all covered with colored light and tinsel
Streams of garlands round about
And hanging in splendor colored balls of glass
Topped with a star shining so bright

Falling snow and a tree of great beautify that reminds us that there is more to life than our daily problems. We look forward to the first snow and then can't wait for spring to take it all away. Why? Each season last for its required length of time only to be replaced with something new. A newness that challenges us to be the best we can be at everything we do.

The Christmas tree reminds us to think of others and do something special that will bring a smile on a person's face for a time. The giving of gifts so special and means so much to be given and received.

New Year's Eve reminds us that another year has passed and we can look forward to new challenges and the joy of helping others. Our life should be filled with happiness and the joy of being part of life. Life is not for us to dive into the darkness of despair, depression and wrong thinking. But, to uplift others that will in turn uplift us and make us a better person.

We have so much to give, so much to celebrate, so much to receive from others with open hearts and minds. Today was made just for you, me and no one can make it otherwise.

Yes, the snow falls each winter whether in the northern latitudes or in the minds of those in hot year round climates. Snow can cover so much and when it goes, it leaves hope for new growth and beauty that only this great earth can provide.

We need to understand that we are just a small part of a greater whole that requires are contribution that is so needed whether for ourselves or others. When we think of others we are think with the mind of God not with the mind of men. Giving to others from our hearts not our heads. Yes, you are needed. You are a great part of all their is. Making our mark and knowing that even the falling snow cannot cover us for more than a season only to dissipate over time putting all that's past behind us.

Falling Leaves

Falling leaves of many colors
Reds, yellows, orange and rust
Their green is gone, but not forever.

The dark tree's bark
The grays of night
The whites of life all within the bark.

Who will contemplate the tree?
It's beauty and its darkness supreme?

Where has the reds, the yellows, oranges and rust gone?
To bed for another day only to awaken to a new life
Full of life and internal beauty awaiting a fall night
Changing from green to color waiting the fall day light.

Above

High above the white washed sand stands a lonely person.

Could that person be you?

No, it's an illusion of the most wonderful type 

This is no place for the lonely 

A world filled with light.

Lite drives out the negative and and washes away the loneliness.

To conquers all in its bid for the person of its charge.

Let the light shine where it will, for it brings love to the heart of the lonely one.

Prophets and Seer

A prophet and seer is a person with a special gift that he/she uses to provide advice, inspiration, encouragement, and an over all sense of well being to the person inquiring of Him/her.  

A prophet is normally born with his/her gift and it developed over the years. However, the gift can be developed with the right training. In ancient Israel and Judea there were schools run by the Temple priest to train prophets that continued up to the destruction of the temple in 70 C.E..

Certain prophets in the Old Testament of the Bible were connected to the Kings court in order to give advice to the king from God in his daily administrations of his kingdom.

In the New Testament of the Bible, the meaning of the word prophet has two meanings. The first is likened to the prophets of the Old Testament and the second is as described in 1 Corinthians 14:3 "But everyone who prophesies speaks to men for their strengthening, encouragement and comfort". Is this not what a Spiritualist medium does?

As a medium, it is always my intention to give messages from spirit (God) and/or from deceased family member or friends of the living, that are up lifting and provide information to strengthening, encourage, comfort and that will help the recipient to make better decisions.

The Spiritualist medium is forbidden to make medical diagnosis, or give a person information concerning the time and place of there death, if the medium is given that kind of information from spirit. The medium can only give advice, in a round about way, that may prevent the death. For example, an automobile accident. The medium can only tell the recipient to be extra alert on such and such a date while driving his/her car, but give no specifics. As long as the medium is working to help people, they are performing their job correctly. One only needs to watch the television programs "The Long Island Medium" or "Angeles Among Us" to know how mediums in general work.

How any priest or "Christian" minister can say that Spiritualist mediumship is of the devil I don't know. Even though those ministers are always quoting the command of God, through the prophet Samuel, to King Saul not to go to a person with a familiar spirit. Saul did it anyhow and he paid with his life. Not because he went to a seer, but because he, Saul, didn't trust God to protect his kingdom.

In the New Testament, a woman went to a temple priest who was a prophet/ seer for advice. If hundreds of years after Saul's death, men and women were prophesying and giving people strengthening, encouragement and comfort through there prophesying, why not today?

As a person trains to become a medium in a Spiritualist church today, they spend months to years studying and working with certified mediums as a trainee before they receive any kind of certificate that says that they have proven themselves as a medium and are allowed to work in that capacity in a Spiritualist church or as a professional medium.

Are there fraudulent mediums today? Yes. Men and women who give what is referred to as "cold readings". They are people who know how to interview and listen to the inquirer before they even attempt to give a reading. One must be alert to this kind of person and not take another persons praise of that kind of so called medium. A person must look into the back ground of the medium and be extremely skeptical of what the medium tells them. That includes all mediums not just the cold reader.

A true Spiritualist medium normally works within a church and is associated with it when working as a professional medium.

What about Tarot card readers and normal card readers? Well, those people who do that kind of reading can be highly intuitive and give truly excellent readings. However, one must again, way the information carefully and then decide on its worth. The same goes for astrologers.

One must understand that the word prophet in the original Greek means "medium". A prophet of the Bible stood between God and man and that a medium is a person who stands between the world of spirit and humanity. God is a spirit. Jesus said so in John 4:24 of the Bible New Testament. 

We could argue for hours and thousands of pages of print and not settle the argument as to whether a prophet and Spiritualist medium are the same. You must decide for your self.

Fall

Summer has passed with its usual warmth of sun, rain and freshness. A time of new growth and all the activities that only summer can provide. The kids went summing with their friends and folks and we all laughed and had a great time.

Now fall has arrived and the trees are turning from summer green in to an explosion of color, red, yellow, orange and gold with numerous colors in between. Only fall can produce such splendor and the reaping of summer harvest.

Where has summer gone so fast? It seems like it was only yesterday that we were looking forward to its warmth? Gone to rest for a time only to reappear in all its splendor just a few months from now. Have we forgotten winter with its own special gifts to us? No, not at all, but we're not there yet.

Fall is that time of year when witches and goblins prance around just to be laughed at and have fun pretending we are one, if only for a day. Like summer, fall only last for a little while, yet we look forward to the challenges of going back to work, school and new beginnings, whatever they may be.
Have some fun this fall and I'll see you in the spring.