Understanding God's Personality

By REV J. C. WASHINGTON

The purpose of this book, Gods Personality, is that we all want to know what personality of God that is not like our personality. Our personality changes like the weather, but Gods personality does not; his personality is everlasting. With us, we have two kinds of personality. There are the loved kind and the unloved kind. In this book, I am going to talk about both sides. A mans personality versus Gods personality. Many of us ask the question, Why are so many things happening today, like murder, shooting, terrorist attacks, robbery, and things like kidnapping, and God is not doing anything about them?

I will talk about that as I go through this book. There are many things as humans that we need to know about God and his ways. As we go through chapter to chapter, detailing the study of the fruit of the Spirit, I will awaken your thought and understanding. You need to see and know him as he is. He is not like us. He gives us a chance to be like him, but we have to work at it, by being the people that he created us to be. This too, I will be explaining in this book. If you know how to act toward others and the way you treat them and the way you carry yourself in everyday life, God has given you some talents to work with.

This book Understanding Gods Personality will answer many questions that one may ask concerning the fallen state of man. If we had the personality of God, many of us would not fall along the way, not knowing which way is right. Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the light. I would like to see everyone go in the right way, that straight and narrow pathway to heaven, and rejoice with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, with the angel singing the highest praise to the Lamb of God.

In Isaiah 38:1920 (KJV), Hezekiah said, The Living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

This to let them know that God can do the same for them.

To love Godyou need much to serve him!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: May 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466914483

REV J. C. WASHINGTON

I am a native of South Carolina and was born in Charleston. I served two terms in the military. I received an honorable discharge and returned home to finish my education. After graduating from Laing High School class of ’60, I went to Boston, Massachusetts, attended Fisher Junior College, earning an associate degree in business. I went on to Boston State earning a BS in elementary education. I also attended ETS, Episcopal Theology Seminary, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And I went on to Deliverance Revival Bible Institute, earning a ThD degree. In earlier years, I worked as youth director, teacher, lay reader for the Reformed Episcopal Church, clerk of session in the Presbyterian Church, and then pastor for twenty-one years. In other areas, I worked as a realtor and a businessman. Prior to going to Boston, I attended weekend classes at Cumming Memorial Seminary; for church school studies, in Sumter, South Carolina and received a certificate. In Boston, I took night classes at Lee Institute of Real Estate, Newton, Massachusetts; Stenotype Institute for court reporting, Boston, Massachusetts. And in New York Institute of Photography, I had a home course and received a certificate. I have received lots of awards, also including a letter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives, for working with the youth. I attended workshops and seminars with a Bible scholar from a different country. I now work on the ministerial staff at Olive Branch AME Church Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. I am also the author of the book The Power of Prayer.

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UNDERSTANDING

GOD’S

PERSONALITY

REV J. C. WASHINGTON

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Contents

Chapter One

God’s Personality

The Opportunities

The Origins

Chapter Two

The Pictures Of Personality

Chapter Three

Vision Of Judas Iscariot

Chapter Four

The Picture Of Jesus

Chapter Five

Vision Of Peter

Chapter Six

Vision Of God Personality

The Person

The Purpose Of God Personality

The Proofs

Chapter Seven

The Love Of God’s Personality

Picture Of Love

The Conversion

Personalily Of Regeneration

The Gospel Of John 3: 4-8 (Kjv.)

God’s Personality Of Saved, Being Saved, And Salva Tion

Visualize The Wrong Picture

Self-Righteousness

What About Church Membership

What About Baptism

The Lord Supper

Prayer

Good Deeds

The Right Picture

Chapter Eight

Understanding God’s Personality Of The Gift

Chapter Nine

Jesus Give The Water Of Life

The Way Of Sin

Now Work Of Grace

Chapter Ten

The Bread Of Life

Jesus Will Provided

The Powerful Messiah

Chapter Eleven

Our Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd And The Sheepfold

Salvation

Safety

Sustenance

Chapter Twelve

Good Shepherd And The Sheep

The Purchase

The Protection

The Program

DETAIL STUDY OF

THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

The purpose of this book, God’s Personality we all want to know, what personality of God that is not like our personality. Our personality change like the weather, but God’s Personality does not, His Personality everlasting. With us we have two kinds of personality. There are the loved kind, and the unloved kind. In this book I am going to talk about both sides. A man personality vs. God’s Personality, many of us ask the question. Why are so many things happening today, like murder, shooting, terrorist attacks, robbery, and things like kidnapping, and God is not doing anything about them?

I will talk about that as I go through this book. There are many things as a humans we need to know about God and His ways. As we go through chapter to chapter, and detailing the study of the Fruit of the Spirit. I will awaken your thought and understanding, you need to see and know Him as He is. He is not like us. He gives us a chance to be like Him, but we have to work at it, by being the people that He created us to be. This too, I will be explaining in this book. If you know how to act toward others, and the way you treat them, and the way you carry yourself in everyday life, God has given you some talents to work with.

This book Understanding God’s Personality will answer many questions that one may ask concerning the fallen state of man. If we had the personality of God, many of us would not be fallen by the way, not knowing which way is right. Jesus say I am the way the truth and the light. I would like to see, everyone go in the right way, that straight and narrow pathway to Heaven, and rejoice with The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, with the Angel singing the Highest Praise to the Lamb of God.

In Isaiah 38: 19-20. (JKV.) Hezekiah said The Living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

This to let them know, God can do the same for them.

To love God—You much serve Him!

DEDICATION

To my wife Mamie R. Washington for her ; patient and help: To all our Daughters: and Sons-In-Law s grandchildren and also my sisters. To Ms. Vashonda Peterson and Leondra Stoney for their kindness and help, to my friends and prayer partners, Vera Horry, Gloria Sistrunk. Ebenezer Mount Zion church Family.

CHAPTER ONE

GOD’S PERSONALITY

Sometime we wonder about our Heavenly Father personality, and what it is like. Let’s look at it this way. The question to you is. Have you ever admired a beautiful rose ? The beauty and fragrant of a rose is something which can never be pictured or adequately described. A fragrant rose is like a fragrant soul. I want you to close your eyes as I speak to you and paint in your mind, about the most beautiful rose you ever known. After you have painted this picture in your mind about this beautiful rose, then imagine it without any fragrant. You can’t do that, can you? No, because a beautiful rose cannot be beautiful without its fragrance. It is a beautiful personality of the Living God. It is a beautiful personality radiates gladness, joy, warmth, loveliness, and all those characteristics which might be called the aroma of a beautiful life.

There are these little deodorize things that you can plug in the wall electrical plug or place on the desk, etc., that bear a mysterious substance we call fragrance, which sent that sweet aroma to every part of the room, until the room is full of that sweet aroma of roses.

What aroma is to a rose, just like aura is to personality: aura is the atmosphere of personality, and as there are invisible currents of fragrance, sweeping out from a rose, our Heavenly Father send out invisible currents of personality which radiate the aura of human lives.

The aura of personality is either positive or negative. When a person has the positive aura there is something that lifts, sweetens, gladdens, comforts, cheers and inspires. People with the positive aura have elements out of which leadership is made. They have qualities for rich friendships. Other people love to be near them, to shake their hands, to look into their faces.

They are value to an organization; they have the wealth of compelling love. They have a precious soul—sense of values, to help solve problems and offer opportunities to people they meet. They have that intellectual, spiritual, sympathetic understanding of human life.

Now the people who have the negative are depress, repel, discourage, upset; there is a selfish nervousness, a cold repellent, unsympathetic attitude; you are nothing to me, Spirit. There entire attitude toward good and great movements is that of indifferent. They are selfish, fault-finders, gossipers, knockers, always looking on the dark side, we do not like to meet these kind of people on the street. Those people find no comfort in their homes, but feel as though they had been stung in a bee nest. These people don’t like to deposit money in banks, trade in department stores or be waiting on by salesperson. Students avoid their classes; they are dead to the rapture and despair.

The success or failure of life depends upon the quality and depth of the aura. People are loved or shunned, trusted or feared, followed or abandoned, happy or miserable, cheerful or gloomy, just in proportion as they have negative or positive aura. It is very important that we discuss the opportunities to develop such personalities, the origin of these personality factors, and the ultimate results of a positive personality. Now let me discuss the opportunities, the Origins, and Out come

THE OPPORTUNITIES

Why be lonely? There are certain opportunities for the development of the positive aura. To the people who has the positive aura of personality, there are seven fields of opportunity.

The first opportunity we all have is that of developing ourselves. You are your worst enemy, you have to live with yourself. If you has the positive aura, then you is an inspiration to yourself; you are so fine, so true, so noble and has an inner paradise of an unending interest. The hours he spends with himself are traveling into the paradise of the inner empire of the soul. People is a joy and a comfort to themselves if they has the positive aura.

If anyone has the negative aura, they would tries to get away from themselves. When they sits down with themselves, they sits down with something that is nearly nothing that it isn’t interesting, they are restless. They wants to go for a ride in the country, or go to a movie, or hang on the street corner, out of all this. This where meaningless, lounging, gossipers are made. Restlessness is the evidence of emptiness. Contentment is the evidence of fullness and joyful personality.

The second opportunity that we have is that which involves our relationship with our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, and our Love ones. Children are a joy or a sorrow to their parents, brother and sister, just in proportion as they have the Positive aura or negative aura. If they have the positive aura, parents feel all their sacrifice and training are worth the time spent. Their children are very appreciative, to have such a wonderful spirit of cooperation that they make the home atmosphere happy.

Children who have the negative aura, put thorns in their mother’s mind, an ache in her soul, a lump in their father’s heart instead of joy. Some of our parents today do not take time out, to hug their children and tell them, I love you, those three words mean a whole lot to them, they need some good guiding lesson each day. Some parent are so busy with themselves, and the world around them, they for got that they have these beautiful that God give them to rise, and bring good disciple to them at home, where the foundation begin. Don’t you know children with a negative aura are a problem and confuse. Mother are draw to tears, wondering where her children are late at night. Many of our children are hurts or kill doing the late night hours. Believe me, one of the finest opportunities of a lifetime for successful training in loving kindness, is children who are given love, and good teaching during their formative year, and their last years at home before being sent off to college, have positive personality. No matter how young or old a person may be, he has the opportunity of bringing joy to others in their life.

The third opportunity comes after marriage, when a home is started. The making of a happy home, depend upon the caring and loving surrounding that home from the very start of house keeping, before you started a family of your own: If you are entering into a sacred relationships, and you both has the positive aura, or personality, a clean life, a wealth of personality, stores of knowledge, rich experiences and a soul of sympathetic tenderness, you will brings a great contribution to the home. But you must remember that Jesus Christ is the Head of that home, He has the Highest, sweetening, gladdening power. If you both has that wealth of personality: then you knows the wealth of moral splendor and spiritual grandeur; if you has the radiance of tender sympathy and heart understanding: then you both bring s your contribution to the marriage altar, and your home becomes a happy place.

Now let talk about the success or failure of a home is determined not by the material wealth or appearances but by the aura or surrounded of the contracting personalities. If the young bridegroom of the home has a positive aura and the young bride has a negative aura, it will be an unhappy home.

Now if both bride and groom have the negative aura there will be fighting, name calling, accusation, jealously, end up in divorce. There is no more vital place for positive aura than in the starting of a home.

The fourth opportunity that we have, is relates to our community that we live in. If you have a positive surrounded, around you, your life will inspire a good personality to others, every organization or group of people will approached you or ask you to join them. The community or church will be glad that you have move there: the club, school will feel the wealth of your contribution. For instant the business in which you are engaged, will feel the full power of your personality.

Look at the opportunity in your life, when you are trying to work out the talent that God has given to you in your lives time. There are, your business success or failure, your social success or failure, your spiritual success or failure, your friendship success or failure, depend upon your aura, and the surrounding of your personality.

The fifth opportunity, we have to make a contribution to our great nation. We have American laws engraved on a plate and hung on the wall in our home and office, and then we casually look at these Laws. It is quite another thing to cherish these laws in our personality. The real place for American, is transfused into our life. To know American Laws is one thing; to live and throb them out to the world is another. The person with a positive aura takes pride in living the American Laws of virtue, industry, sincerity, worship, loving kindness, cooperation and sympathetic tenderness. To be a real American is to live the American Laws everyday.

So! What about God’s Laws? We must live God’s Laws, to reach high in the Kingdom of Heaven not only every day, but every second, minute, and every hour. God Laws is more greater and wonderful, so with our positive aura and personality, what they say, the sky is the limited, and beyond.

The sixth opportunity we have to make a contribution to the world. How do we do that? Well we want to keep in mind. Our Lord and Savoir Jesus Christ give His life for the sin of the whole world, and riser again, that we may have eternal life. The sad thing about many of us we have never made any contribution to the world. Some have lived and died and the world is not better, we look around the world and it is worst off than the beginning. American was an isolated nation, some hundreds of years ago. Hiding between two Mighty Oceans. In later years it has been broken down, and taken from the Native American, and America’s influence is now felt in every part of the world. Because of rapid transit and speedy transmission of thought, the world has shrunk and shrunk until today we are all closely related.

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