Hey everyone, I want this forum post to be about tips for earning for heaven. If you have any tips on storing up treasures for heaven, please share. I want this place to be a place where we help each other earn for heaven. Remember, God is infinite and we are one body. If I have more, you'll have more. Let me begin with a transcript of a video I made on YouTube to share some tips about earning for heaven. I would post the video, but you can't promote YouTube channels on here. Maybe the mods will let me do this. Just leave a profile message or direct message me if you want the original YouTube video. Here is the transcript:
So, the first thing to know is how to earn for heaven. How do you earn for heaven? What do you have to do? From reading what the saints have written, from listening to near death experience testimonies on YouTube and from my own personal experience, I can say for sure that love is how you earn for heaven. By the measure of your love is the measure of your reward.
So then, what is love? I would say love is an effort, a push and a concept. Whenever you wash the dishes even when you don't want to, that's love. When you give a juicy hamburger that you really want to eat to someone who needs it, that's love. When you rejoice that you've been given another day even though all you want to do is die, that's love.
The next thing you do is God's will. Think about it. God knows what's best, he knows how to show the most love, he knows what's needed right now. Also, this is how important it is to do God's will. In the book of Matthew, it's written: Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. So you won't get into heaven unless you do God's will. Now, I know in the book of Romans and other places of the Bible it's stated that if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, you will be saved. But, we can't disregard what the apostle Matthew said. So the best thing to do is both. Not only do God's will, but confess that Jesus is Lord. Be like the wise virgins that brought extra oil with their lamps. Also, if you want the verse and chapter of the quotes I'm saying, just do a Google search of not everyone who says Lord, Lord Bible, and it should come up. You can do that with any Bible verse.
So, the next thing that needs to be addressed is how to discern God's will. Well, I have two methods that have sort of worked for me but one worked for me in the past: the first one is to spend time with God and the other is called Blind man's vision. Blind man vision is the one that worked in the past. I'll get into the first method first. Think about it. If you spend time with someone, you get to know them and if you get to know them, you know what they want you to do. I've been doing this for about two months and I think God just wants me to spend time with him though I'm not 100 percent sure, but even if you don't discern God's will with this method I highly recommend it as your deeds will be multiplied, or in other words the reward for doing a good deed will be multiplied. Like say you shared some food with the poor. If you did that without a relationship with God, you might get only one gold coin, but if you did that as a son of God, you may receive 50 gold coins. Some of you may just be a servant of God, a friend of God, a mercenary, but by starting a relationship with God I believe you will multiply your reward by a lot. Your deeds will be more valuable in God's eyes. You will be more valuable in God's eyes.
Now here are some tips for spending time with God. You can ask yourself this question: if God was my friend, how would I spend time with him? Or, you can do double. If God was my friend and savior, how would I spend time with him? Or if you're not there yet and are just a servant of God, you can ask if God was my master, how would I spend time with him? Like for me, the first month and a half I was just playing video games because I discerned if God was my friend I would do something enjoyable with him because isn't that what friends do? Also, you should know that God is one with us. We are the temples of the Holy Spirit. So, he's right there inside of us. Also, a really good way to draw close to God is to put on praise and worship music or Christian music. I know two YouTube channels that are really good. If you want them just leave a profile message or direct message me if you can as I can't share them on this post. It's not allowed.
Now I want to get into what blind man vision is. Basically, it comes from the Bible verse: for judgement I came that the blind may see and those who see shall be blind. So, basically, you want to blind yourself. Now, you're not going to tear your eyes out. What you do is close your eyes and tap your fingers. You can tap on the ground or tap on yourself. By closing your eyes, your blinding yourself and by tapping, no knowledge is going through your head because its distracted by the tapping. You close your eyes and tap then take a break then tap. Close your eyes while taking a break as well. I recommend doing this in 30min intervals 4-5 times a day. If you can't, that's fine. With this method I was able to discern God's will in the past though now it's not as effective. Maybe it will be different for you.
Also, with spending time with God, say you did a few good deeds before having a relationship with God and down the road maybe 5 years later you started establishing a relationship with God. Those few good deeds will still be considered as if you did them after establishing a relationship with God. So even if you did the deeds first and then relationship, the deeds will still be multiplied as if you did them while having a relationship with God. This is my belief. I could be wrong but I have a firm feeling that this is true. In God's generosity and benevolence I believe he would do that, but I would still recommend starting a relationship with God before doing good deeds or God's will. That way if you die nothing will be wasted and who knows? There may be a chance that God doesn't reward you for the deeds done before a relationship.
Now, I want to share a secret. I figured this out after showing a lot of love to God. Whenever you show love, it's the effort, the push, the feeling that's there is what makes it valuable. Let's say God's will was for you to cut off your finger. Well, you obviously don't want to do it. It's going to hurt, there's tension and maybe there's fear that you will be sent to a mental institution. You do it anyway, but the knife was dull and it just nicked your finger. You still showed the love, the effort the push. It's the same as if you really cut off your finger. Let me give you another example: let's say God's will was for you to cut off your finger, but you wanted to do it, it was pleasurable, there was no tension or fear that you would be sent to a mental institution. The feeling was that you wanted to do it and you did it. Not much love was shown here. It's the feeling. That's what makes it valuable. So you can sometimes get away with doing something but not truly doing it but showing the love or effort and it will be the same as if you really did it.
So, the first thing to know is how to earn for heaven. How do you earn for heaven? What do you have to do? From reading what the saints have written, from listening to near death experience testimonies on YouTube and from my own personal experience, I can say for sure that love is how you earn for heaven. By the measure of your love is the measure of your reward.
So then, what is love? I would say love is an effort, a push and a concept. Whenever you wash the dishes even when you don't want to, that's love. When you give a juicy hamburger that you really want to eat to someone who needs it, that's love. When you rejoice that you've been given another day even though all you want to do is die, that's love.
The next thing you do is God's will. Think about it. God knows what's best, he knows how to show the most love, he knows what's needed right now. Also, this is how important it is to do God's will. In the book of Matthew, it's written: Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. So you won't get into heaven unless you do God's will. Now, I know in the book of Romans and other places of the Bible it's stated that if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, you will be saved. But, we can't disregard what the apostle Matthew said. So the best thing to do is both. Not only do God's will, but confess that Jesus is Lord. Be like the wise virgins that brought extra oil with their lamps. Also, if you want the verse and chapter of the quotes I'm saying, just do a Google search of not everyone who says Lord, Lord Bible, and it should come up. You can do that with any Bible verse.
So, the next thing that needs to be addressed is how to discern God's will. Well, I have two methods that have sort of worked for me but one worked for me in the past: the first one is to spend time with God and the other is called Blind man's vision. Blind man vision is the one that worked in the past. I'll get into the first method first. Think about it. If you spend time with someone, you get to know them and if you get to know them, you know what they want you to do. I've been doing this for about two months and I think God just wants me to spend time with him though I'm not 100 percent sure, but even if you don't discern God's will with this method I highly recommend it as your deeds will be multiplied, or in other words the reward for doing a good deed will be multiplied. Like say you shared some food with the poor. If you did that without a relationship with God, you might get only one gold coin, but if you did that as a son of God, you may receive 50 gold coins. Some of you may just be a servant of God, a friend of God, a mercenary, but by starting a relationship with God I believe you will multiply your reward by a lot. Your deeds will be more valuable in God's eyes. You will be more valuable in God's eyes.
Now here are some tips for spending time with God. You can ask yourself this question: if God was my friend, how would I spend time with him? Or, you can do double. If God was my friend and savior, how would I spend time with him? Or if you're not there yet and are just a servant of God, you can ask if God was my master, how would I spend time with him? Like for me, the first month and a half I was just playing video games because I discerned if God was my friend I would do something enjoyable with him because isn't that what friends do? Also, you should know that God is one with us. We are the temples of the Holy Spirit. So, he's right there inside of us. Also, a really good way to draw close to God is to put on praise and worship music or Christian music. I know two YouTube channels that are really good. If you want them just leave a profile message or direct message me if you can as I can't share them on this post. It's not allowed.
Now I want to get into what blind man vision is. Basically, it comes from the Bible verse: for judgement I came that the blind may see and those who see shall be blind. So, basically, you want to blind yourself. Now, you're not going to tear your eyes out. What you do is close your eyes and tap your fingers. You can tap on the ground or tap on yourself. By closing your eyes, your blinding yourself and by tapping, no knowledge is going through your head because its distracted by the tapping. You close your eyes and tap then take a break then tap. Close your eyes while taking a break as well. I recommend doing this in 30min intervals 4-5 times a day. If you can't, that's fine. With this method I was able to discern God's will in the past though now it's not as effective. Maybe it will be different for you.
Also, with spending time with God, say you did a few good deeds before having a relationship with God and down the road maybe 5 years later you started establishing a relationship with God. Those few good deeds will still be considered as if you did them after establishing a relationship with God. So even if you did the deeds first and then relationship, the deeds will still be multiplied as if you did them while having a relationship with God. This is my belief. I could be wrong but I have a firm feeling that this is true. In God's generosity and benevolence I believe he would do that, but I would still recommend starting a relationship with God before doing good deeds or God's will. That way if you die nothing will be wasted and who knows? There may be a chance that God doesn't reward you for the deeds done before a relationship.
Now, I want to share a secret. I figured this out after showing a lot of love to God. Whenever you show love, it's the effort, the push, the feeling that's there is what makes it valuable. Let's say God's will was for you to cut off your finger. Well, you obviously don't want to do it. It's going to hurt, there's tension and maybe there's fear that you will be sent to a mental institution. You do it anyway, but the knife was dull and it just nicked your finger. You still showed the love, the effort the push. It's the same as if you really cut off your finger. Let me give you another example: let's say God's will was for you to cut off your finger, but you wanted to do it, it was pleasurable, there was no tension or fear that you would be sent to a mental institution. The feeling was that you wanted to do it and you did it. Not much love was shown here. It's the feeling. That's what makes it valuable. So you can sometimes get away with doing something but not truly doing it but showing the love or effort and it will be the same as if you really did it.
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I'm not trying to b cute I promise ! Please forgive me if I came across as a smart a-s- , that was not my intention , I thought u were asking a genuine question and wanted an honest answer 
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