If I look at the creation itself, many times it will be the deciding factor.

If you can find it in the Bible, the Holy Spirit speaks to you, and then there's an instance

in creation that you can point to and say here's

what God created and that will almost always relate back to a biblical story that will speak to it

when we're raised in religion or the religious spirit it's really opposed to the spirit of Yaw

the set of part spirit it wants everything extremely rigid and in the box,

which really doesn't give you any room for growing in your faith. You're really not being put to

the test. Everything is defined, and it's kind of almost like this genie in the bottle God,

where, you know, God's a genie in the bottle, and we put him on the shelf, and when we want him,

we get him down, but the rest of the time he has to stay up there. Because we've already

determined and defined what he can and can't do. Once we throw off the shackles of man-made

religion and lies about the nature and importance of Yah's word, we've become set free through

keeping the loving instructions of life. And I would start to make a connection at some point, realizing that when I would have

these back flare-ups or when it was getting really bad, that I started seeing a connection

to my porn use that I had struggled with. With my back, what I realized, the symbolism that I started seeing

is that when my back is hurting,

I can't stand upright.

If I was using porn,

I can't stand upright with God.

My righteousness is not where it should be.

So I can't stand upright.

I can't look God in the eye.

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