David and Abigail

David and Abigail
Now there was a man in ... Carmel, [who] was very rich. He
had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he was
shearing his sheep.... The name of the man was Nabal {lit:
"a fool"}, and the name of his wife Abigail {lit: "source
of joy"} ... a woman of good understanding and beautiful
appearance; but the man was harsh and evil in his doings...

When David heard ... that Nabal was shearing his sheep,
David sent ten young men ... "... go to Nabal, and ... say
to him ... 'Please give whatever comes to your hand to ...
your son David.'"

Then Nabal ... said, "Who is David, ... Shall I then take
my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my
shearers, and give it to men when I do not know where they
are from?"

Then David said to his men, "Every man gird on his sword."
... about four hundred men went with David, ...

Then Abigail ... took two hundred loaves of bread, two
skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs {a
little more than a bushel, or about 10 gallons} of roasted
grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred
cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

Now when Abigail saw David, she ... fell on her face before
David, and bowed down to the ground.

Then David said to Abigail: "Blessed is the LORD God of
Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! And ... kept me
this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself
with my own hand.

... after about ten days, that the LORD struck Nabal, and
he died.

So when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed
be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from
the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil! For
the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own
head."

And David sent and proposed to Abigail, to take her as his
wife. So Abigail ... became his wife. (1 Samuel
25:2-9,10,12,13,18,23,32,33,38,39,42, NKJV)

Nabal was a very rich man. At this time, wealth was
measured more in livestock, than in gold or silver. David
and his six hundred men had been living nearby in the
wilderness of Paran for a period of many months, all the
time raiding enemy communities for food and goods, as they
hid from King Saul and his troops.

Shearing time had come, which was a time of great
celebration in the ancient world. Nabal had over three
thousand sheep to shear and, of course, some of these were
killed to feed the shearers. Even though David and his men
had been nearby for many months, they had refused to take
anything from Nabal, and even protected his property during
that time. Since such obvious generosity required a reward,
David sent some men to Nabal to request some provisions as
payment for their time.

Nabal was a miserly and arrogant man, who considered his
own wealth above the needs of others. So he refused to
share his provisions with David, and slandered his
integrity. He even refused to listen to his own servants
who had advised him to be generous to David and his men. In
terror, Nabal's servants quickly ran to Abigail, Nabal's
wife, a beautiful and intelligent woman, for help.

Abigail quickly assembled a generous offering for David and
his men, mounted her mule, and hurried to meet David and
his four hundred armed men (two hundred were left to guard
their supplies). When David and Abigail met, David quickly
acquiesced to Abigail's plea for mercy, accepted her
generous offering, and returned to his own camp. Since
David had refused to vindicate himself but instead trusted
in the Lord, Nabal died a mere ten days later, and David
took Abigail to be one of his own wives.

So what can we learn from David and Abigail? First, the
Lord expects us to reward the generosity extended to us by
others, even at great personal cost. Second, true faith
runs towards the battle, not away from it. Third, true
faith, refuses to vindicate one's own self, but rather
trusts the Lord to balance the scales in His own time.
Fourth, true faith is always generous, neither stingy nor
miserly.

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Jon V Straumfjord III is the author of numerous articles
about the Seven Spirits of God and the God of the Bible. He
is also the creator of the website http://www.7-spirits.com
, and is the author of the book "The Seven Spirits of God."

The Law as "As Above - So Below" & How It Manifests In Our Lives!

The Law as "As Above - So Below" & How It Manifests In Our Lives!
To fully understand the Law of As Above So Below, we need
to develop a deeper and more complete understanding of who
we are. And to know fully who we are, we need to understand
what is happening around us, as well as our environment and
the world around us. By having a thorough understanding of
these areas in our lives we can begin to analyse and more
precisely define the areas that need correcting.

The understanding of our own personal needs and inner
desires will allow us to wipe out turmoil in our life and
therefore we can truly experience harmony and peace with
ourselves, our spirit (God) and all life.

You can liken the law of as above so below to the number 8,
which is a key number for us to learn about this particular
universal law. If you turn the number eight on it's side
you'll notice that it represents the sign of infinity... No
beginning and no end, which is equal to eternity, spirit,
or even the God force that is in everything.

So as we stand the infinity sign (eight on it's side) back
on it's end so that it represents the number eight as we
know it, you could liken the top circle to that of God, the
universe or all that is. And the bottom circle would
represent all the living entities of the physical plane and
all that is living within it, either here on earth of other
parts of the universe.

The law of as above so below in its simplest explanation
could really be defined as what is in spirit is also in
form, what is internal is also external. Hence the term
within every problem we face, within us lays it's solution,
no matter how big the problem might be.

Invisible form, or that of the spirit or God is existent in
all things, it's an unconditional love and energy, which
manifests itself in the limited power of living beings,
both human and animal forms of conscious thoughts, we as
humans control the energy of the source that created us,
which is one and the same and that represents itself in
this law of as above so below.

Usually our limited thoughts are what holds us back in our
human (manifested) form, but we must remember that we
created ourselves, we chose the body we live in and were
born into for this human experience on the earth plane.

Once we realize that we were formed in absolute perfection,
which is in the image of the source energy (God), and there
is only one God, one spirit and this spirit interweaves
itself within all of us as unconditional love. This force
is willing to help us help ourselves and guide ourselves to
our highest good, all we need to do is connect with this
source, but unfortunately, most humans have forgotten their
real, authentic selves.

How do we connect with our purest "God" form?

Through meditation and quietness we connect with our
source, which is God. It is through this age old practice
that we go directly to our God force, which is all wisdom,
knowledge, love and truth and bypasses directly past that
of the outside world (or what we'd refer to as, "As Below")
and connect to the all-seeing, all-powerful, God force (or
what we'd refer to as, "As Above"). In essence, meditation
is a time when our earth form experiences our spirit form,
or God our source.

Please don't get meditation confused with prayer or
religion, this is completely different. In meditation we
experience and connect back to our source and allow our God
force to speak to us in the form of feelings, thoughts, and
states of mind. And when we pray we actually speak to God,
so these two practices are the reverse of each other. In
prayer we ask of God and put our thought in the form of
"intent" out there to our source energy, and in meditation
we receive the answers to our prayers.

So if we're open to channelling this quietude through our
thoughts and entire being, even during the day when we're
fully active, we'll be channelling Gods energy through us
all day and be receptive to it. Ultimately we'll become one
with the law of as above so below.

In summing up on the law of as above so below, if you can
go through this little daily exercise of consciousness,
you'll begin to notice many "co-incidences" appearing in
your life as you become more aware.

Imagine if you will a light expanding from your naval area
on your stomach, and from there this light connects with
the heavens (God) of pure thought that you are connected,
and hence created yourself from. Then expand this thought
even further so that not only does this bright cord of
light connect to the heavens, but to that of every other
living being on earth (including animals and other humans).

If we were to look at this in a diagram, we'd realize that
we are all connected to the one source and are indeed the
one source. Our bodily forms are the only thing that
separates us from each other and God, and you'll notice
that the more separate we insist on being from ourselves,
each other and God is where the source of all conflicts
come from for us and others.

The lesson here is this, become more aware of our
connection to each other and our source energy and work at
being at one with that energy, in the form of pure
unconditional love and from there by being the love and
peace we want to create, we'll indeed live the law of as
above so below.

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Adam Price is a successful holistic life coach and author
around the laws of the universe. Learn how tap into the
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