tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22704303.post465516615519994135..comments2024-03-26T05:47:00.389-07:00Comments on The Catholic Monitor: Does Pope Francis's Relativism lead to Sex Abuse?Fred Martinezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938859619399753890noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22704303.post-24741412641312164812009-11-20T09:37:24.820-08:002009-11-20T09:37:24.820-08:00The way I live is by trying to staying in God'...The way I live is by trying to staying in God's presence. Please read how Leanne Payne explain it.<br /><br />Fred<br /><br />DAVID: What is it to practice the presence of God? What is that? How do you do that?<br /><br />LEANNE: Well, you know if we've been regenerated, born again, He lives within us, but as twentieth century persons, we don't believe in what we can't see. We don't believe in God in many ways. We will give lip service to it but we don't believe in the soul either. We can't see it. But this is just to call to mind always . . . . begin to practice the presence of God . . . . in other words discipline yourself to call to mind that there is another who loves me. There is another who walks along side of me. There is a sovereign, and you learn how to pray to God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In The Healing Presence, I try to make very strong points here in the teaching, that you don't lose any one of the three dimensions of the Godhead.<br /><br />DAVID: So, is this something you do all 18 waking hours, once an hour, weekly?<br /><br />LEANNE: You know, when you first start, in many ways you can almost make a game of it - a wonderful game. I remember just determining to do that. When I'd be driving, I would just say, "Thank you Lord for driving with me today." You've probably done things like this. But as often as you can think of it . . . . you know when our minds are working, we are so preoccupied, it doesn't mean that we think about it every moment, but it means that we call to mind as often as we can this truth until it's just . . . . now it's really first nature. You know, I never forget it. I may be praying in the Spirit under my breath. It just comes so naturally.<br /><br />DAVID: How does practicing the presence of God benefit someone's healing?<br /><br />LEANNE: It's absolutely key. You know, Saint Paul did it. He said, "Fix your mind on God, fix your mind on Christ." So, even he had to discipline himself to do that. But it's much much more of a discipline for us today. The benefits are incredible. The people who are healed of their serious neuroses in our ministry - it's absolutely key. Oh, we've seen so many incredible healings . . . . I mean, just miracles . . . . we see them all the time. We almost take them for granted now. But they have to learn to practice the presence of God.<br /><br />DAVID: What's the dynamic? Whereas before I would pray for healing or for deliverance from something and I'd never see victory. Now that I'm practicing the presence of God, what is the dynamic that makes it work?<br /><br />LEANNE: Well, you're living from the center. You're not walking along side yourself. You soon recognize when you're living out of the Lord's health. You're living out of a sense of inferiority and that's your center - the angry child or the complaining child. You're really living from the center, and any of us can begin to do that. It makes all of the difference in the world. I tell you, the ones who are trained in this ministry and who were healed in that way, they stress it! Sometimes I think they stress it even more than I do because it means so much to them. Mario says he would have lost his mind completely. I don't know where in the world Clay would have been. Clay'd be dead or he would have killed somebody. And John Fawcett, with his brilliant mind that could never be slowed down - oh, it's wonderful to hear them teach on practicing the presence.Fred Martinezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11938859619399753890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22704303.post-78855835841362845412009-11-16T20:53:10.348-08:002009-11-16T20:53:10.348-08:00I was reading "post modern approaches" i...I was reading "post modern approaches" in my psyc textbook just as I came across your blog post - how ironic. <br /><br />Your argument is very well presented-I clearly understand what you're saying - but this is hardly news- I see from your bio you clearly live the life you believe in... but what would be of more use is a post describing how you are "making it" in this strange new world where there seems to be no such thing as an "objective truth" - how do you cope? What do you do to keep your values intact when reality itself is shifting beneath your feet as you walk?Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058802123594404055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22704303.post-46506894143227803072009-11-02T21:28:42.359-08:002009-11-02T21:28:42.359-08:00Yes, this is a very good analysis. Excellent. I...Yes, this is a very good analysis. Excellent. I have real doubts though, that Nietzsche, were he here now, would be on the side of the politically correct, the promoters of gay marriage, etc. No, he would consider these the "Last Men' who say, "Formerly all the world was mad!" and looks around and blinks his eyes.SM Kovalinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12137642942538595560noreply@blogger.com