Workable Truth’s

A compilation inspired by Dr. Wayne Gwilliam who suggested the value of “Workable Truth”. Truths that aligns with the reality of our being within the creation. Truth that you can act, work with and rely on. I have been collecting them since 1999.

Please add your contributions to this pool of shared knowledge as a comment!

They are revealed and transcribed in various ways by many others, yours are welcome! Since “Nothing befalls us that is not common to man”. Non of us is particularly special albeit we are each unique creations. These are common workable truths. Pastor Art Cena suggested it was time to write some of these down for posterity, I guess I’m obviously getting old.

I would preference this collection with the wise words of one of my most beloved teachers. Art Katz (1929-2007)

Paul Volk co-authored with Art a profound and compelling work “The Spirit of Truth”. It has been foundational to my true life. In it Mr. Volk suggests:

“Men seek truths, God seeks to make men true. The difference is vast and the men produced by each pursuit vastly different. “

I suggest as Yeshua did. “Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you”.( Math. 6:33). It is God who is working on our character through the circumstances of our life. He is not so concerned with our comfort as we. It is our growth in truth and grace that most concerns our Creator.

I’ll start with the effective gauges for a human life, to help you fly level, straight and true. These took my previous 24 years to collect and refine. Each came through a troubling season. They require a little comment to help you calibrate them for your own travels on your road of life.

Your Attitude will determine your Altitude. Just like the attitude inductor on a plane measures the relative angles from the horizontal- If your loosing altitude for whatever reason, with a positive attitude you can pull out and back up or land your plane. When fuel or weather conditions allow you can take off again. With a negative attitude you might crash the plane and barring a miracle never get of the ground again.
Gratitude provides Latitude. If you are grateful for the circumstances of your flight, weather conditions, or terrain you can more effectively navigate about them. If a new unfamiliar mountain looms before you and you get fearful, judgmental, proud or overly confident rather than curious, careful and grateful for this new opportunity to learn you might miss the only way through, over, or around . When we are not grateful for the opportunities no mater how mysterious to learn they become more dangerous.
Generosity provides Velocity. The spiritual realms we actually live in unlike the natural realms we temporarily exist in run differently. The prophet Isiah wrote in the Holy Scriptures of Israel, Thus speaking for our Creator, the author of being itself…“My way’s are not your way’s, as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my way’s higher than your way’s.” Our creator suggests you will get more by giving-then taking. That generosity will fill your tank faster than spending, making or taking from others. Generosity actually allows you to see the path before you as it actually is, not as you think it to be.

Following are my personal collection of proverbs to be added as I have time, discover or recollect them. Please provide your own workable truths; those, created, confirmed or discovered along your path in the comment window below this post.

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The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of this present world system are simultaneous co-existing but mutually exclusive.

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God is sovereignly orchestrating the seemingly random events of our lives.

Nothing befalls us (comes into our lives) that is not common to man. We all suffer likewise...(A derivation of 1 Corinthians 10:13)

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You only get the trouble you need. (Bernice Hass)

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None of us have it all together but together we have all we need. (Rev. Eric Hoeffer)

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We walk out in space and time what God has already accomplished for us at the foundations of the world.

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It is a blessing from Yahh to see your work is good. It is a glory to Him to see that it is true.

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Our adversary and his minions are nothing more than God’s sheep dogs (see Job 1:8). They have no more power or authority to harm or effect ourselves than serve the purposes of God in the development of our character or his training in righteousness.

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We each have complete liberty of choice the mystery of an inspired or “Spirit Filled” life is in our choices of timing. How we time things we do (not to mention why we do them) reveals whom we serve. Dr. Wayne Gwilliam has said. “A miracle is a natural or supernatural act with precise timing, such that God gets the glory. If we time our actions by the spirit, if they are inspired by Him we are participating in his great plan for the restoration of all things.

Scripture tells us “God delights to give us the desires of our hearts”. I interpret that to mean He both places desires in our hearts and then purposefully walks us into them.

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We where created to live an interdependent life flowing sensitively within the world of our creator/God. Independence makes one the center of a very little universe of ones own creation and a god unto oneself.

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In this walk into true life we come to know ourselves only as we come to know our creator. Knowing Him (as Art Katz puts it) “As He is not as we think Him to be”. We must accept we ourselves are not as we think, but as we behave; often we are actually as others perceive us. Dr. Wayne Gwilliam suggested “men judge themselves by their intentions and others by their actions”. I define integrity now as the alignment of intention and action. Facing the cognitive disconnects where they occur, searching out the missed motivations or miss-aligned actions can be painful . Peace can only to be found at the cross and with the pure judgment of Christ. Shaul/Paul explains it as this mystery:

“But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself. For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord”. 1 Corinthians 4:3-5

We are as we do. We are also found in why we do…I find in Christ alone we live and move and have our best and truest being. Outside of Him, is only death- the life only of our beast; not our true life!

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The following from John-Coyote and can be found with his other beautiful and deep works of words here.

Listen, think, speak…

Grandfather told me often. Take two to fight and take one not to fight. If the aggressor had no-one to fight. Maybe we can learn peace.

Grandma told me often. Honey and sugar, gentle voices lead to calm and happiness. Anger and loud voices lead to regret and disappointment.

I told the young man. Pretty face don’t mean pretty heart. Seek someone who is wonderful and kind in heart and soul. Who, you can love forever.

My grandfather told me. Never tell a lie. One lie can expand to a running river of more lies, till one day. You won’t know the truth from a lie.

My grandfather told me often. If a man’s words are worthless. He cannot be trusted. Your words are your backbone and all you got. A man’s words should be his legacy of a worthwhile life. Every promise made should be accomplished and a kind and wise man. Will have hopeful heart and he will be remembered.

Coyote

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