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~ The Trust & Belief of the Blind. ~

When my Dad had a stroke over 30 years ago, it effected his left side. He was paralysed in his arm and leg, and he lost the vision on the left side. He gained slight movement in his arm and was able to walk small amounts for a while, but his vision never recovered.

He can't See anything out of the left side of both eyes, which means when he looks at things such as a book, he only Sees the words on the right side of the page. Even though he's been like that for over 30 years, I often forget that he can't See properly because he just 'Gets On with Life'.

A few years after his stroke, my Mum discovered an Organisation for Blind & Visually Impaired people and they both started to go every week. 

The Organisation ran many different Activities aimed at Helping Blind & Visually Impaired people to Gain Confidence, Build their Self Respect, and to simply Enjoy themselves doing Fun Activities.
They did a Big variety of Activities such as Cookery classes, Woodwork, Pottery, Crafts, Painting etc, as well as many Outdoor Activities.

After a while they needed more Volunteers, so my Wife (who was then my Girlfriend) and I became Volunteers, and later we became Tutors as well.

We saw Many 'Truly Inspiring' things.
There was people who were Totally Blind doing things like Rock Climbing, Abseiling, Water-skiing, Sailing and Canoeing, as well as things like Pancake Making, including Tossing the pancakes without dropping them (which is Very Talented when they couldn't See). 

We did some training which involved us wearing Blindfolds and being led around the building up and down stairs etc, and doing simply tasks. 
We Learned that when you can't See, you Really do need to put a Huge amount of your 'Trust & Belief' in the person who is Guiding you.

My Wife and I were Volunteers & Tutors for many years, and we saw the peoples Confidence Grow, and they Achieved Many Amazing things.

My Dad would often say that he was doing things that he had never done before he had the stroke, and probably never would have done if he hadn't have gone to the Blind Organisation.

Many of the people had Physical Disabilities and Mental Health issues as well as being Blind & Visually Impaired, but they were All Blessed with 'Doing' & 'Achieving' Many Truly Amazing & Wonderful things.

How did they do it ?

Two reasons:
~ There was Volunteers & Staff 'With Them' who they could 'Trust & Believe'.
~ The Blind people 'Trusted & Believed' the Volunteers and Staff.

If you were to go Rock Climbing and you couldn't See, then you would need someone who you could 'Trust & Believe' to Guide you where to put your hands & feet so that you 'Don't Fall'. 
If you were Sailing and you couldn't See, then you would need to 'Trust & Believe' the person Leading you so that you 'Don't Crash & Sink'. 
And if you were Making Pancakes and couldn't See, then you would need to have Complete 'Trust & Belief' in the person 'Watching Over' you to prevent you from getting burnt by the flames.

When my Wife & I were Volunteers & Tutors at the Blind Organisation, we along with the rest of the Volunteers and Staff were: 
~'The Eyes for those who could Not See'.
We were 'Their Guides', we 'Lead' them, and 'Protected' them. 
We were Always 'Watching Over' them to keep them Safe. 
And we Encouraged & Supported them so that they could Enjoy themselves, and turn their 'Disabilities' into Amazing 'Abilities'.

There was a Wonderful young man called Peter Barns. He was Blind from birth and the 'So Called' doctors said that he would Never be able to Do Anything, and he should stay at home. Even his 'So Called' parents told him he couldn't Do Anything and they gave him No Encouragement.

When he first went to the Blind Organisation, he was Very Timid and quite Scared. He had No Confidence and seemed Very Unhappy.

But we saw a Wonderful Transformation as he Grew into a Confident, Fun Loving and Happy person.

He did Many of the Activities including Rock Climbing.
The Rock Climbing was at a disused quarry. The car park was at the Top of the Rock-face and the way to get to the bottom was down a steep dirt path that had lose stones and rocks along the way.

The Volunteers needed to Guide the Blind people down the path to be able to start the Rock Climbing. I was asked to Guide Peter Barns down the path.
The path had a drop on one side that was about 100 ft down, and there was No hand rail. I knew if he slipped then he would go straight over the edge.
So I took my 'Responsibilities Very Seriously'. 
I watched 'Every Step' he took. I checked the path to make sure there was nothing for him to trip over. And I had my Arm as a Guide & Support so he knew I was there 'With Him' Every Step of the Way.

Peter along with the other people who could Not See, where all Safely lead down the path.
They put their 'Trust & Belief' in their Guides, and we 'Didn't Let Them Down'. 

If those Blind people were able to put their 'Trust & Belief' in 'Ordinary People' like us, who they could Not 'See',  then 'You' can 'Certainly' put Your 
'Trust & Belief' in Jesus Christ, the Wonderful & Powerful Son of God. 

'He will Never Let You Down'.

If Peter and the other Blind people had Not put their 'Trust & Belief' in their Guides, they would have 'Missed Out' on Many Wonderful Experiences & Activities, and their Confidence & Self Respect would Never have Grown.

There are Many people Today who are 'Missing Out' on True Joy, Happiness, New Adventures & Wonderful Experiences, just because they won't put their 'Trust & Belief' in Jesus, simply because they can't 'See Him'. 

I've been on an Amazing 'Journey with Jesus' for over 20 years, and He has 'Never Let Me Down'. 
I've Never 'Seen' Jesus, but I know He's 'With Me Always'. 

When You Properly make a Commitment to Jesus, You can be Certain that He Will 'Watch Over Your Life' Every Step of Your 'Journey With Him'. 

~ He will Not let You Fall.
~ He is Your Loving Guide through Life.
~ His Strong Arm is Always there to 'Support' You.
~ He will 'Lead You' in stormy waters to 'Safe Sailing', and Never let You Sink.
~ When You're Climbing the Rocky Mountain of Life and You can't 'See'              which Way to Go, Jesus will be the 'Solid Rock' for You to 'Hold On To'.
~ Jesus is Fully Aware of the Flames of the 'evil one' that can easily burn You,       so He 'Watches Over' You, always Ready to Prevent You from being burnt.
~ And at the same time, giving You the Freedom to Enjoy Your Life.

Jesus will 'Encourage You' and Build Up Your 'Self Respect', 
because to Jesus 'You Are Somebody Very Special'.

So even though You can't 'See' Jesus,
when You put Your Complete 'Trust & Belief' in Him,
'Jesus will Be Your Eyes'
so that You can 'See Clearly' in Your Journey of Life.

You Don't Need to See to Believe,
But when You Believe, You Will See. 

~ The Greatest Victory of Your Life . ~

There are many forms of Victories.
There are Victories in Sport such as Winning a Race or a Championship.
There's Victories in Business such as Creating a product that is Very Helpful.
There's the Victory of Achieving a Dream.
There are Personal Victories such as Overcoming a bad habit or addiction.
An there are many more forms of Victories.

These are all great Victories, but they're Not the Greatest.

In recent years I've Believed that The Greatest Victory of Anybodies Life is to 'Lead Another Person To Jesus Christ, to Save Their Soul'.

This is Definitely a Very Important Victory for Anyone to Achieve, and I Encourage Everyone to Give it a Try.

But God has recently Revealed to me that there's an even Greater Victory than that.

The Loving Lord God Revealed to me that :

'The Greatest Victory of  Your Life' is :

'To Be The Person Who God Created You To Be'. 

There is No Greater Victory than that.

The reason Why this is The Greatest Victory of All , is because the devils 'Main Goal' is to Prevent people from Being Who God Created Them to Be. 

If the devil can Stop You from Being Your Natural Self, then he can Stop You from Achieving the Purpose that God Created You for.

The more people the devil can Stop Being their 'True Self', the more people will 'Not' be Fulfilling 'Their Part' in God's Wonderful MasterPlan.

The Only way the devil can Achieve his evil scheme against God's Plan is through 'Lies'. 

The devil knows he's got 'No' actual 'Power' over God, or over God's people.

The Only weapon he can use is Lies.

The Bible makes it Clear that the devil is the 'Father of Lies' (John 8:44). 
The devil has created Many forms of Lies such as - Trickery, Deception, Manipulation, Dishonesty, Partial Truth, and many other ways that most people don't even realise are Lies.

The devil is Obviously Not going to make it Clear to You that You're being 'Tricked' by Lies to 'Prevent' You form 'Being The Person Who God Created You To Be'. 

He's going to do it in ways that he hopes You won't realise.

When the devil 'Tricked' Eve into 'Disobeying' God in the Garden of Eden, he Obviously Didn't tell her that he was 'Tricking' her so that she'd 'Disobey' God.

He did it in a 'Cunning & Crafty' way. 
He 'Tricked' Eve into 'Questioning' whether what God said was the 'Truth'.

There's a Big difference between 'Asking' God a question to give you better understanding, compared to 'Questioning' what God says.

The Truth is, there's No reason to 'Question' God, because “It's Impossible for God to Lie” (Hebrews 6:18). Therefore whatever God Says is 'Truth'. 

The devil is the 'Father of Lies', but God is the 'Father of Truth'. 

So whatever God Says 'To You' or whatever God Reveals to You about 'Who You Are', then You can be Certain that it's the 'Whole Truth'. 

Knowing that and Believing that is Very Important to 'Achieving' The Greatest Victory of Your Life.

The devil has got Billions of  'People' all around the world who he has Already 'Tricked' into 'Disobeying God' and Following the devil instead.

The devil uses those 'People' to 'Trick, Manipulate & Deceive' other People so that they won't 'Live Their Life' as the 'Person Who God Created Them To Be'.
And therefore Not Fulfilling 'Their Part' in God's MasterPlan.

The problem with this is that the devil 'Disguises' himself so that You don't know 'Who' is Tricking You. That's why so may people 'Fall for it'. 

The devil has now had Thousands of Years to Fine Tune his Deception in such a way that Most people 'Believe' that the devils way is Normal, without even realising it.

Peoples Lives are being Ruined because they're trying to Be someone who God 'DID NOT' Create them to Be.

This is happening in Many different ways including Physically, Mentally, Emotionally and Spiritually.

The devil has now got an Easy Way to Spread his Lies through things like social media, internet, TV programs, films, music, and worst of all Person to Person.

People are being 'Tricked' by the very people who they Should be able to Trust.

The devil will use 'Anybody' to 'Trick' You, including 'So Called' Family & Friends'. I wrote 'So Called' because no 'True' Family or Friend would ever 'Teach, Trick or Threaten' You to Be someone who 'They' want You to Be, instead of Being the Person who God Created You to Be. 

That might sound harsh, but there are people all around the world who are being 'Tricked & Manipulated' by their own 'So Called' Family & Friends, as well as by the other evil and wicked people in the world.

But God wants to put an 'End' to it.

God's Creations are Very 'Valuable' to Him, and that includes YOU.

God wants You to 'Experience' The Greatest Victory of Your Life, by 'Defeating' the devils 'Lies & Trickery'. 

The way You do that is by 'Being The Person Who God Created You To Be.

Many people say they 'Know' who they're Supposed to Be, but they don't actually Be that Person. There's a Big difference between 'Knowing' and 'Being'. 

Victory Only comes through 'Being The Person Who God Created You to Be. 

So how do You 'Achieve' The Greatest Victory.

There's Only 'One Way' ~ Faith & Belief in Your Creator.

The reason why so many people are Not Being who God Created them to Be, is because they 'Believe' Other People about 'Who They're Supposed To Be'. 

The devil can then 'Trick' them into 'Not' Being their 'True Self'. 

So the 'Only' Way to know for Certain who You're Supposed to Be, is by 
'Only' Believing Your Creator. 
Only means Only. It doesn't mean 'Partly' Believing God 
and 'Partly' Believing People. That's what causes 'Confusion'. 

The Word of God says in (John 5:4-5) that :
“Every Child of God Defeats this evil world, and we 
Achieve this Victory through our Faith. 
And who can Win this battle against the world ? 
Only those who Believe that Jesus is the Son of God”

When You 'Believe' God & Jesus,
You 'Achieve' Victory.

Enjoy the Freedom of Living Your Life as 
'The Person Who God Created You To Be'. 
That Truly is 'The Greatest Victory of Your Life'.

~ When You Look Wholeheartedly ~ You Find. ~

The word 'Wholeheartedly' means:

'In a way that is Completely, Enthusiastic, Sincere and without Any Doubt.'

So when You Look for something 'Wholeheartedly', it means You're Looking for it 'Enthusiastically, Sincerely, Completely, and You have No Doubts about it'. 

An example of this would be if you lost something that's Very Important to you, then You would Look for it 'Wholeheartedly' until you 'Find It'.
You wouldn't 'Give Up' just because you couldn't 'Find It' at first, you would 'keep Looking'. 

~   ~   ~ 

My Wife & I have travelled around the Beautiful Highlands of Scotland many times over the past 15 years or so.

My Wife Really Enjoys seeing the Wildlife such as Deers, Squirrels, Pine Martins etc.
She has an Amazing ability to spot Deers from miles away. Many times she will say to me, "There's some Deers over there”, and when I look across, they will be Tiny Little dots in the distance, yet she spotted them.
She even noticed two Deers at the Top of a Big Mountain when we were stood at the Bottom of it. They looked like rocks at first, but when we zoomed in with the camcorder it was a female Deer with her Baby.

My Wife also Enjoys 'Finding' rare Plants & Flowers in the Wild as we walk around the Countryside. She will notice Tiny Little Flowers in the grass, sometimes only a couple of inches tall.

At first I used to think 'How can she see a Deer that miles away, and Tiny Flowers in the grass that most people just walk passed'.
It's Not because she's got great eyesight, because she admits she's not.

The Reason she can 'Find' them is because she 'Wholeheartedly' Looks for them. It's something that's Important to her, so she Looks for them 'Enthusiastically, Completely, Sincerely and without Any Doubt'.

I found it Very Inspiring, and when I started to Look 'Wholeheartedly' at Nature, I realised that I could 'Find' and 'Experience' things that I had not noticed before. I now Really Enjoy seeing many Beautiful things in Nature, simply because I Look 'Wholeheartedly'. 

My Wife & I have been Blessed with Many Wonderful Experiences in Nature that we never would have Experienced if we hadn't been Looking for it  'Wholeheartedly'. 

It's Not something that we feel takes a lot of Effort, it just comes Naturally because we're 'Tuned In' to  God's Natural Creations in Nature.

~  ~  ~

The Bible says in (Jeremiah 29:13) that the Lord says :

“When you Look for Me Wholeheartedly, you Will Find Me”.

Some translations say “When you Search for Me” or “When you Seek Me”.
And some say “With All your Heart”. 

So the Lord Himself is saying to 'You' :

“When You Look, Seek, Search for Me ~ You Will Find Me”. 

“And the 'Way' to Look for Me is Wholeheartedly”. 

Then You will Enjoy Many Wonderful Experiences with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

I've heard many people say things like: 
“I wish I could have an Experience with the Lord”
or
“Other people have got amazing stories about the Lord, but I've not”. 

If You feel that You haven't Enjoyed a Wonderful Experience with the Lord, maybe it's because You're not Looking for Him 'Wholeheartedly'.

Or maybe You're Looking 'Wholeheartedly', but at the Wrong things, 'worldly things'. 

Or it might be that You've been 'Taught' or 'Heard' Wrong things about How to Experience the Lord. Maybe You've been told it has to be Very Strict, or that you need to follow a set of Rules & Regulations.

'That's NOT True'.

When Jesus was Physically on earth and He spoke to people in person, He Simply said:

“Stop doing the Wrong things, and Follow Me”. 

There was 'NO' list of Rules & Regulations to follow. 

All Jesus asked people to do was:

“Love the Lord with All Your Heart, and Love Each Other”.

The people who Did that Enjoyed Many Wonderful Experiences With Jesus.

But the wicked people who 'Refused' to Stop their Wrong ways of Living, and the people who Narrow Mindedly followed Strict Rules & Regulations based on Traditions and Wrong Religious Teachings (which were 'Made Up' by People and Did Not come from God), didn't get to Enjoy even One Wonderful Experience with Jesus, even though He was 'With Them' in Person.

They 'Missed Out' on what is Truly Important because they Focused on the Wrong things.

~ They Focused on 'the world', instead of 'The Way'. 
~ They Focused on Themselves, instead of their Creator.
~ They Focused on False Teachings, instead of the Teacher of the Truth.

Unfortunately these things are Still going on Today, and they're getting worse.

~ It's Time To Stop ~

  The Truth is : 

The Lord Doesn't ask for much, just 'Your Sincere Heart'. 

It's Not worth 'Missing Out' on what is Truly Important,
because of 'Other Peoples' Wrong Ways'.
and 'Wrong Teachings'.

'YOUR LIFE' is More Valuable than that.

When 'You' Look for the Lord 'Wholeheartedly'
'You' Will Find Him.  

And He has Many, Many, Many
 Wonderful 'Experiences' Planned & Waiting
 For 'YOU' to Enjoy 'With The Lord'.