Misappropriating Love

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From The Heart, Love, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind

Most of us know that love and sex are worlds apart.  Nevertheless, nearly every outspoken morally minded person has had to endure the absurd justifications for errant and immoral sexual conduct BY those caught in our spheres of influence.

Consider:

How often have you encountered a guilty abuser justifying their aberrant sexual relationship using this phrase, “But we love each other”?

Objectively consider this fact… we DO NOT have sex with 98% of the people we truly love AND YET, somehow, we are able to continue loving those individuals!  Go figure?

We all recognize that love is neither a requisite nor obligate for sex.

We also know that sex does not mean love.

In fact, if you had sex with that other 98% of those you love and don’t have sex with… you’d destroy your relationship with those individuals, probably forever.

Sweeter are the Moments

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Here’s another one of my Prayers I stumbled across and thought you might enjoy.

Here’s to hoping Jesus enjoyed them each and every one!

Sweeter the Moments

Oh Lord, my God, sweeter are the moments I spend with You;

A February Prayer: This Side of the Whirlwind

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A February Prayer

Hey Whirlwind Fans, this is simply a prayer I offered on February 26^th 2019 because I was feeling moved by the Holy Spirit as a sense of His love flowed through my spirit.

How much more blessed can a people be than to actually feel the loving presence of their God!

So here’s the prayer:

Stars fill the heavens and streak across the night’s sky.

Brilliant and glorious light bathes our world every day in life warming beauty.

Then there’s that first cry of a newborn child

The first tears from a beloved

Laughter at a distance – listening to such delight in those we love.

This Side of the Whirlwind: Come to the Garden

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Garden of My Soul

Are you called to feed His sheep?

If your answer is yes, then from where do you get your resources?

If you have not been fed by the Word of God or walked with the Lord in prayer thisday from where do you bring that genuine food of the Lord?

We are neither the source nor the well-spring of the Spirit; rather, we are merely the conduit of His wisdom, mercy, grace, power and forgiveness.

This Side of the Whirlwind’s: “Meaning of Life Series 1-6”

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This Side of the Whirlwind’s

The Meaning of Life Series

What is the meaning of life?

Why do people struggle with this question as if it were so complicated?

Why do some believe the meaning of life is personalized when it cannot be?

AND… Why can the “Meaning of Life” NOT BE personalized?

It really is not that difficult of a question to answer concretely is you know the answer, right?

In this one series, “The Meaning of Life Series” we will look at the one and only real answer to that eternal question… What is the true meaning of life for humanity?

Don’t you want to know?

Self — Reflection: This Side of the Whirlwind

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Self-Reflection — Say What!

Can you see yourself?

Self-Reflection… too often we see the failings of others without seeing the same failings within our own lives.

Too often we say things, do things or act in haste or with selfish motivations and then blame others for the outcomes resulting from those things we’ve said, done or acted upon.

What is the mechanism within us that deflects our own personal responsibility for our own choices; things we’ve said, deeds we’ve done or actions we’ve rendered?

Are you talking to me?

 

Why do we find it so hard to admit when we have done evil, selfish or willful acts?

Is it cowardice – in this instance – the lack of ability or courage to see one’s self honestly?

Why must we blame others for when we have voiced hateful remarks? “Oh, they made me say it!”  Own up!  You said it from your own heart and as we know, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.  That means you said it because your heart agreed with it.

 

Real Love: This Side of the Whirlwind

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Real Love IS

Love is real and patient and kind.

When loving we do not envy the object of our love neither do we boast in the love we’ve rendered.

In love we are not arrogant or rude for this diminishes those whom we love.

Still Listening: True-Life 35

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Still Listening

Here we are again with another installment from the series, “Is Anybody Listening” written by me, Steven R. Harrel, covering a True-Life event which spanned many months in my little life.  If you’ve never encountered a Word of Knowledge from God or a divine vision then this must all seem wild and far-fetched. However, there are those who know exactly what I’ve experienced hearing the voice of God and having encountered similar manifestations of God’s hand as He interacts with them, His Children, in HIS beautiful world. 

Truly listening when God speaks is much more difficult than most might think…

The Dream: This Side of the Whirlwind

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The Dream

A Beggar; a Priest; an Imam; a rich man and a Politician all arrive at the Pearly Gates at nearly the same time.

As a group Saint Peter asks them the following question, “What have you each done to warrant entrance into the Kingdom of God?”

Grateful Recap: True Life 8: Dead in Thirty Minutes!

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Dead in Thirty Minutes

I am ever grateful for the Lord’s intervention at this time in our lives.  If God had not intervened my wife would be dead and my son Aaron would not have been born.

Thank you Lord for mighty presence and mercy in my life: Steven R. Harrel, child of the Living God and Brother to Jesus of Nazareth. Come Lord Jesus come!

Oh yeah, sweet relaxation. The wicker Papasan couch was just getting comfortable when I heard “His” voice.  The Lord said, “Call your mother and father in-law and tell them you need them to come over right away and watch Crystal (our two year old daughter). “As soon as they arrive,” the Lord said, “take Pam to the TMC emergency room (Tucson Medical Center). No matter what she (Pam) says, she must go right away.” I felt an urgency in His voice and message.

What I didn’t know is Pam would be dead in the next thirty minutes!