How Do You Know?

Howdoulike my shorthand titling for this piece? Understandably interpreted: "how do you like" my seemingly-weird acronym displayed out of necessity?

If you were constricted to convey a phrase of wording, using only eight alpha-numeric characters recognizable by English-speaking persons by the limitations [or, more charitably: the parameters] of your word-processing computer software, how would you put it?

Good thing that Microsoft did not restrict us to only seven or fewer alphanumeric characters. Perhaps nine or ten would have been better. But maybe not:

Matthew 6:7 And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

...concordant with:

Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon Earth; therefore let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream comes with a lot of baggage, and a fool's voice with many words.

The truncative-dilemma comparison of Microsoft creator Bill Gates with the Almighty asssuredly leaves much to be desired, and the comparative allusion is only for illustrative purposes. We love you, Bill, but only so much.

At least you are not a pathetically-deceased rebel like Steve Jobs, non-compliant against The worldwide Microsoft Standard, the had-to-be-different concocter of alternative [or was it deviant?] non-integrated-with/non-compatible-to-Windows operating systems - even complied with by sympathetic-to-homos-staffed only-one-way-in/no-way-back g-mail and Facebook.

Oh well, from despisers against Microsoft's-multiple-licenture requirements, substitutionary and sleekly-styled Mac and Apple have come up with the intriguing and now-Windows-conformant infamous and selfishly-termed iPod and iPhone "android" whatevers plus paper-thin iPads with the pretty graphics for impatient non-geek dumbos childishly capable of perceiving and utilizing mere non-technical simplistic icon pics.

But, let's cut right to the chase.

You've probably been occasionally or even frequently besieged with agnostic types who have burdened you with the comment: "How do you know?"

Well, "how" do they know, whatever -- pertaining to practically anything one can think of and make at least quasi-dogmatic statement of assurance about.

"How do you know that that thing will work if you plug it in?" "How do you know that that will work if you try to start it?" "How do you know what will happen if you do that?"

The fearful apprehensions of the faithless.

Let's do some more:

"How do you know that gravity will continue to work and pull things down?" "How do you know that the Sun is not going to explode within the next 20 seconds?" "How do you know that a faster-than-NASA's-detection rogue planet or big asteroid won't suddenly come speeding out of black space into Earth and crash down on your head within the next half-hour?"

Acts of God, as if He would actually do some of such. How about acts of man?

"How do you know that some sniper is not going to topple you with a headshot within the next five minutes?" "How do you know that that car coming at you as you travel this two-lane road is not going to suddenly veer off in front of you and smash your vehicle into a flaming pile of auto junk?" "How do you know that the cooks in this restaurant have not dropped your food on the dirty floor in the kitchen, or accidentally diced your food with an imperceptible amount of rat-poison powder?" "How do you know that some nutjob has not hidden a quarter-sized geiger-counter-calibrated checksource disk of powerful-gamma-radiation-emitting Cesium-137 under your chair, eventually causing you lower-unit cancer of whatever types?"

And we, of course, now proceed to religious or theological queries:

"How do you know that there was a God, what His gender is if so, if He yet exists, being that I cannot see Him and His male penis instead of female vagina, nor hear Him make any sounds, whether intelligible or not?".

Somewhat of a fair question, some answers to which are Biblically evident:

Matthew 2:2 "Where is He [not: "she"] who has been born King [not: "queen"] of the Jews? For we have seen His [not: "her"] star in the East, and have come to worship Him [masculine, not feminine pronoun, in the Greek Text]."

Luke 5:26 And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying: "We have seen strange things today."

John 3:11 Truthfully, I say to you, we [plural!] speak of what we [plural!] know, and bear witness to what we [plural!] have seen; but you do not receive our [plural!] testimony.
John 20:25 So the other disciples told him: "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them: "Unless I see [visual sighting optical proof] in His hands the print of the nails, and [with tactile gratification proof ] place my finger in the mark of the nails, and [with more tactile gratification proof] place my hand in His side, I will not believe."

Acts 4:20 "...for we cannot but speak of what we have (1) seen [using human eyes] and (2) heard [using human ears]."

First John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard [with the ears], which we have seen with our eyes [visual sighting optical proof], which we have looked upon [visual sighting optical proof repeated] and touched with our [tactile-sensory] hands, regarding [not "concerning"] The Word of Life --
1:2 The Life was made manifest, and we saw it [visual sighting optical proof], and testify to it, and proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was made manifest to us --
1:3 that which we have seen [visual sighting optical proof] and heard [audible proof using ears] we proclaim also to you, so that you may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

First John 4:14 And we have seen [visual sighting optical proof] and testify [eyewitness news report] that the Father has sent His Son [not: "Her Daughter"] as the Savior of the world.

The "we" mentioned above is crucial for believability.

Many persons have claimed that they saw UFOs (i.e. unidentified flying objects) exhibiting strange optically-visible maneuvers. Some of such "objects" quite likely have simply been non-solid displays of mere visible-electromagnetic-radiation light or lights from whatever source producing such or emanating from. Noticeably absent are actual physical objects present in the aftermath of such claimed sightings which have roosted and remain at definite geographical locations which then can be closely photographed and scientifically examined.

Guess that the tiny or somewhat-larger fairy-tale-myth never-never-land wannabe aliens are too shy, scared, or righteous to pollute themselves personally associating and conversing at conference tables or whatever with sinful humankind craving their companionship.

Whatever the case, the universal recognition of honest eyewitnesses and ear-witnesses giving reasonably-credible news reports relating to past history not simply of pictorially-verifiable Reagan, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, the real Martin Luther, Bach, Mozart, and a huge host of non-photographed others back into antiquity such as Paul and Peter and John, Jesus, the major Old-Testament prophets, David, Moses, Abraham, Noah, Adam....is satisfactory for reasonable belief without them currently being around to see and hear visibly and audibly.

Where and when have the TV-network news cameras plainly and clearly broadcast to a gasping nationwide audience extraterrestrials not the wonderworks of Hollywood's Lucasfilm light-and-magic special-effects wizardry?

As in a courtroom scene involving a murder conviction:

Deuteronomy 17:6 On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses he who [not "that"] is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.
Deuteronomy 19:15 A single witness shall not prevail against a man [or woman] for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he/she has committed; only on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, shall a charge be sustained.
Matthew 18:16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses [or only two witnesses with cellphone-camera pix or vids].
Second Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. Any charge must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses [and non-photoshopped surveillance-camera movies].
First Timothy 5:19 Never admit any charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses [and satellite imagery from orbiting high-resolution NSA cameras].
Hebrews 10:28 A man who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy at the testimony of two or three witnesses [and a couple of clandestine Soviet double-agent spies].

Why would a [dishonest and/or apostate] person not admit the existence of what he or she has seen or heard? For what purpose would they lie and not disclose the truth, or presume without a shadow of a doubt that they have been lied to or placed under a subliminal illusion? Why would they question the veracity of something that every sensible person around them courageously and honestly admits to?

God sometimes won't take No! for an answer, and does not want any refractive backtalk about it:

Deuteronomy 3:26 But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not respond to me; and the LORD said to me: "Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter."

Should we trust everyone who claims to be a reliable eyewitness? "How" can we be sure?

Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren: him you shall pay attention to
18:16 just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said: "Let me not [audibly] hear again the voice of the LORD my God [once was quite enough!], or see this great fire any more [enough is enough!], lest I die."
18:17 And the LORD said to me: "They have rightly said all that they have spoken. [One time only was enough!]
18:18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
18:19 And whoever will not mind my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
18:20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die."
18:21 And if you say in your heart: 'How may we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'
18:22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him.

God Himself can choose to selectively and temporarily become deaf:

Job 35:13 Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

Ditto with His servants, the saints [quietly and politely fleeing away from the noise of boom-boom-bass rap-crap noise or peacefully-but-quickly exiting the harassment of irritatingly-tyrannous noxiously-cutesy feminist-sexist background-bellering pop-slop cooing]:

Psalm 38:13 But I am like a deaf man, I do not hear, like a dumb man who does not open his mouth.
Psalm 38:14 Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

Psalm 58:3 The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies [as soon as they can whine and blatter from silly baby-babble to rebellious blasphemy, and never change that hostile-against-God's-authority attitude].
Psalm 58:4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
Psalm 58:5 so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
Psalm 94:9 He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see?
Psalm 115:6 They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell.

Isaiah 28:7 These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink [or narcotics drugs]; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink [whiskey or beer]; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
28:8 For all tables are full of vomit, no place is without filthiness.
28:9 Whom will He teach knowledge, and to whom will He explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
28:10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. [Lots of legalistic statutes plus nitpicky rules and regulations to control the wicked who will not control themselves]
28:11 No, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue the LORD will speak to this people,
28:12 to whom He has said:, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear [wax in their ears, feminist-noise-jamming loud-rock headphones or earbuds, or wet cotton?].
28:13 Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Isaiah 30:8 And now, go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a [Sacred-66-books-Holy-Bible] book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
30:9 For they are a rebellious people, lying sons [and daughters], sons/daughters who will not hear the instruction of the LORD;
30:10 who say to the TV-evangelist seers: "See not"; and to the Sunday-morning-and-radio-preacher prophets: "Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,
30:11 leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel."
30:12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them;
30:13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, the crash of which comes suddenly, in an instant;
30:14 and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
30:15 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." And you would not,
30:16 but you said: 'No! We will speed upon horses [or vehicular horsepower],' therefore you shall speed away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds," therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
30:17 A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill."
30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall [optically] see your Teacher.
30:21 And your ears shall [audibly] hear a word behind you, saying: "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left [as balanced right-wingers and left-wingers instead of chasing your tails].
30:22 Then you will defile your [diversified-portfolio] silver-covered graven images and your [invested in] gold-plated molten images. You will scatter them as unclean things; you will say to them: "Begone!"

Isaiah 42:20 He [optically] sees many things, but does not observe them; His [audibly-sensitive] ears are open, but He [not "she"] does not hear [pitch, timbre, or volume].
Isaiah 59:2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hid His [note the male gender!] face from you so that He does not [audibly] hear.

Jeremiah 7:16 "As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I do not [audibly] hear you.
14:12 Though they fast, I will not [audibly] hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering [sleep in Sunday mornings with Saturday-night fornicated hangovers but then self-righteously do pre-noon bicycling, jogging, or golf presumably-compensatory brownie-points attempt, or go to church to hear femmies and homos blabbering from the pulpits], I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."
17:23 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not [audibly] hear and receive instruction.
36:31 And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity; I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men/women of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they would not [audibly] hear."

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore I will deal in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not [audibly] hear them."

Amos 7:16 "Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. You say: 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
Micah 2:6 "Do not preach" -- thus they [hypocritically] preach --"one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."

Zechariah 1:4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed: "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not [audibly] hear or heed me," says the LORD.
7:11 But they refused to positively respond, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their [tone-deaf] ears that they might not hear.
7:13 "As I called, and they would not [audibly] hear, so they called, and I would not hear [tit for tat]," says the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 13:13 "This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
13:15 For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.
13:17 Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. [...as many post-Christ's-ascension Middle-Age, Renaissance, and modern-day guys and gals now have to rely on possible, logical, sensible-but-sometimes-unusual, second-hand info not directly uttered from the proverbial Horse's Mouth, with all due respect to the proverbial "horse"]
27:13 Then Pilate said to Him: "Do you not [audibly] hear how many things they [fraudulently purport] against you?"

Mark 8:18 Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember? [Going senile or Altzy on me?]

Luke 10:24 "For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not [visually and optically] see it, and to [audibly] hear what you hear, and did not hear it."
Luke 16:31 He said to him: "If they do not [audibly] hear [by phonograph recording, cassette tape, CD, or digital .mp3 file] Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one rises from the dead."

John 8:47 He/She who is of God [audibly] hears the words of God; the cause [not "reason"] why you do not hear them is that you are not of God." [forget the earwax excuse, and don't text whenever you drive]

Acts 4:17 "But so that it may spread no further among the people, let us [including the ACLU, FFRF, secular humanists, and atheistic communists] warn them to speak no more to any one in this name."
Acts 7:57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears [with hands, probably, and not wet cotton] and rushed together upon him.
Acts 22:9 Now those who were with me saw the light [so proverbially "saw the light" and "saw the handwriting on the wall"] but did not [audibly] hear The Voice of the One who was speaking to me.

Acts 28:27 For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.

Romans 11:8 ...as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that will not see and ears that will not hear, down to this very day." [and that is not God's fault!]

Galatians 4:21 Tell me, you who desire to be under law, do you not [audibly] hear the Law?

Second Timothy 4:3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings,
4:4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into [revisionist-pseudo-"documentary"/pseudo-"historical"/Harry-Potter/Star-Wars/Star-Trek/sci-fi] myths.
4:5 As for you, always be steady, endure suffering [which will be massive from ACLU/PAW/AUSCS/SPLC/FFRF/homo-activist and apostate-religious-heretic types], do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

"How do you know?"

To the naysayers: "How do you know what you claim? And "why" do you behaviorally actually act upon such claim? Let's not be conversely hypocritical about this, OK?"

Such "How do you know?" question bespeaks not of a desire to be informed, but rather a judgmental remark avoiding personal acceptance of what is obviously inferred as no-proof-against-it reality which truth should be accepted as fact and verbatim, instead of tossed out with diversionary interrogative in the form of a non-solicited virtual accusation.

In one sense, it does not matter "how" one knows anything [even though it has already been rightfully established that sensory perception is obviously, logically, and realistically means of proof by utilizing the five human senses even for phenomena of invisibility such as radioactive emissions, oxygen, gravity, and God and His totally-respected and cherished non-invisible/non-UFO-hallucination History Book, the Bible, penned by His Spirit-inspired human authors and accurately and precisely preserved by His fearless, fervently-devout, and impeccably-studious saints throughout the decades, centuries, and millennia].

An intricate and lengthy two-or-three-hour exhaustive scientific dissertation pertaining to the myriad intricate and interdependent microbiological and genetic paraphernalia, processes, and astronomically-numerous-and-complex DNA mechanisms of human perception and cognizance relating to an despicably-escapist demand and retort of "how" is both superfluous and irrelevant.

What is important and vital is to accept and not reject what simply should be taken at face value without demonically-baseless suspicion of malicious fraud, deceitful misrepresentation, or dishonestly-tricky illusion.

If one does not....in so-called "blind" or at least non-acknowledged (and many times, non-admitted) "faith," assume [not "presume"] that sundry environmental entities from an up-to-now-perfectly-benevolent-and-consistent Creator not only exist but will (neither intermittently nor capriciously) continue to exist as they have always (neither intermittently nor capriciously) existed (at least up to now, with absolutely no reasonable basis for suspecting change or alteration)....one will inevitably become catatonically paralyzed with insane fear, become a useless detriment against society in general, and will both understandably and accordingly be disposed of, sooner or later.

God's set-in-stone inanimate objects are not going to superstitiously move by themselves, grow legs by themselves, and transport themselves with a presumed mind of their own.

Trust God to have things stay where they are, as they are [unless acted upon by some obvious-enough force He foretells you about or you yourself or whoever/whatever imposes], and His more-precise-than-Accutron handiwork is not an actually-non-existing capriciously-mischievous illusion:

Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the Earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

It's not: "Where did it go?" -- but instead: "Where did you misplace it, without thinking?"

The blame is on you [or me], and not God.

The Creator is not absent-minded -- but you are [and I am]!

Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is God!), who formed the Earth [no other planet in the Universe exactly and precisely like it!] and made it (He, not the inferior gender, established it; He, not the inferior gender, did not create it a chaos, He, not the inferior gender, formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other."

Women are not and never "equal" to men in a non-qualified sense; the word "equal" is a fighting word which implies inferiority-complex-based, non-accommodating, competitive combat and non-cooperative adversarial hostility. Instead, women are similar to men, and should be simply compatible with men.

Such confidence in the trustworthiness of the Creator is not to be misconsidered insane gullibility of a religious type.

What is absurd, in contrast, is the clearly-crazy-and-foolish presumption (not "assumption") that the homosexuality of homogay pseudo-"christians" can peacefully coexist with forgiving-grace-plus-sexual-morality-perfection admonitions of Scripture, and [as Jesus.org points out) that the anti-young-Earth-creationist mythology of anti-Genesis-record theistic evolutionists (brainwashed by the non-scientific and anti-scientific propaganda of PBS, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, NOVA, BioLogos and similar cesspools of anti-young-Earth-creationist apostate heresy) can similarly and seamlessly coexist in complete piss-with-pop/poop-with-pudding compatibility in spite of, and in direct contradiction against, numerous Biblical-Greek-Text-preserved New-Testament referrals back to what, of necessity, can only be reasonably considered an uncompromising belief of Jesus Himself plus His New-Testament-books authors, of a literal six-day Creation Week described in the Old Testament, along with specific reference by the aforementioned to the singular primal married-couple individuals Adam and Eve - almost all of whose offspring were literally drowned in a literal global flood during the literal lifetime of literal zookeeper Noah having literally survived in his literal lifeboat ark as Earth's literal mighty strata and fossilizing lifeforms were literally undergoing literal worldwide upheaval.

The phenomenally-informative Biblical record of such colossal humankind-survival historical events is thankfully anything but fabricated fairy-tale myth or legend.

Is there any other proof we have or reason to believe whatever has been written within what we, in thoughtful and comparative discretion, deem the best of the English translations of The Holy Bible relating to universally-acknowledged reality of whatever exists within our immediate and global environmental surroundings....besides our own optical eyewitness observation, evaluation, and declaration of and regarding admittedly-logical and sensible [though sometimes extraordinary] allegorical and symbolical poetry plus non-poetic historical news-report-similar prose of Holy Writ?

...along with our investigative analysis of the extensive audio testimonies of a vast company of mutually-agreeing, honorable, honest, fearlessly-fraud-exposing, impeccably-guileless Christian testators in and of myriad Christian churches, organizations, and groups conveying their sincere beliefs locally, nationally, and globally through mass media and in person?

Any other proofs or reasons to believe in addition to our own sovereign logical deductive reasoning that the almost-incredibly-imaginative, truly-awesome ["awesome" lamentably has become a much-cheapened word for mere commonalities mouthed by the flippantly mindless] and magnificent, intricate assortment of interdependent or inter-related entities [many of which and not who obviously not having a sentient mind or will of their own] around us, clearly intelligently-designed [but only to the intelligent]...had [of necessity] to have been created by a phenomenally-wise, gracious, benevolent, omnipotent and omniscient Higher Being logically superior to us humans and everything else in existence?

Yes. We who believe and have both mentally and verbally took the assumptive (not presumptive] "leap of faith" to actually talk [upwards] to that Scripturally-described "God" [the Creator] have mysteriously but factually been given His Spirit as The Divine Convincer and Persuader of the reality of His ownership of us His human creatures, His ownership of His planet He has caused us to reside upon, and therefore our automatic obligation to obediently accommodate to His Operating Instructions for Survival [contained within that Holy Bible of which He inspired human authorship] comprised of His moral laws and His redemptive gospel provided for our occasional non-compliance and misuse of God-given free will:

Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Mark 12:36 David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, declared: "The Lord said to my Lord: 'Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.'"
Mark 13:11 And when they bring you to trial and deliver you up, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say; but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
Luke 10:21 In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said: "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and Earth, that you have hidden these things from the "wise and understanding" and revealed them to [humbly-open-to-reason] "babes;" yes, Father, for such was your gracious will."

John 7:39 Now this He said about the Spirit, who [not "which"] those who believed in Him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
14:17 ...even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because they neither see Him nor know Him; you know him, because He resides with you, and will be in you.
14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you [better than a no-bad-sectors flashdrive or CD].
15:26 But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness to me
16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth, because He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come.

Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to "the end" of the [360-degree spherical or eventually incinerated] Earth."
2:38 And Peter said to them: "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
4:31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.
5:32 "And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him."
9:31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit they were multiplied.
10:38 ...how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; "how" [or that] He went about doing good and healing all who [not "that"] were oppressed by The Devil, for God was with Him.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the [sinful-disobedience-craving] flesh, you are in the [perfectly-obey-Law] Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God resides within you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.
8:11 If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through His Spirit who resides in you.
8:13 for if you live according to the [sinful-disobedience-craving] flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the [wickedly-erring] body you will live.
8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
8:27 And He who searches the hearts of men [and women] knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

First Corinthians 2:10 God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
2:11 For what person knows a human's thoughts except the spirit of the human which is in him/her? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
2:12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [not "which"] is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
2:13 And we impart this in words not taught by human "wisdom" [limited "knowledge"] but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.
2:14 The non-spiritual [not "un"-spiritual] man [or woman] does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him/her, and he/she is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Ephesians 6:17 And take the [euphemistic, or real?] "helmet of salvation," and "the sword of the Spirit," which is The Word of God [singular word and/or conglomerate Text of all Old-and-New-Testament Scripture].
Ephesians 6:18 Pray at all times [except when sleeping, and do not finger-text while driving; use speakerphone option on the cellphone and not stuck up to your then-non-irradiated ear with your hand on the steering wheel and your eyes toward the road and not phone] in the Spirit, with all prayer and petitioning [or "supplication" - if you prefer archaic terminology]. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making requests [or "supplication" - for the sake of stuck-in-a-rut antiquity] for all the saints

Philippians 1:19 Yes, and I shall rejoice. For I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance [jail-breaker?]

First Thessalonians 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit

Second Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

Hebrews 2:4 ...while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His own will [not out of the self-appointed blue].

First Peter 1:11 ...they inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory.

Second Peter 1:21 ...no prophecy ever came by the impulse of humans, but men [notice the gender] moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

First John 4:6 We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us [who have the Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus], and he/she who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
First John 5:7 For there are three who bear witness in Heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. [Try to find that verse -- missing in the RSV, NASV, NIV, ESV, NLT, NEV...except in the KJV, Douay, and JB2000]

You like God's order and orderliness?

Thinking about moving to a different apartment or house?

Have your new place ready to transport your stuff into before removing your stuff out of your old place...unless you relish having it heaved into nowhere but on the sidewalk or street. Temporary storage facilities should only temporarily be used in temporary transition.

Honest, non-greedy-for-money, and savvy moving and realty advisers are needed:

Proverbs 11:14 Where there is no guidance, a people falls; but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 15:22 Without counsel plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 21:31 The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.
Proverbs 24:6 ...for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Second Corinthians 9:3 But I am sending the brethren so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be...
Second Corinthians 9:5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren to go on to you before me, and arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so that it may be ready not as an exaction but as a willing gift.

Get things together into labeled boxes systematically stacked in order for efficient and timely transport.

We all would be surprised at how few things we actually use every day, and how many things we seldom or [worse yet] never use.

Here are a few verses which, I am [sarcastically] sure, all commercial advertisers love:

Matthew 6:32 For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father [not "mother"] knows that you need them all.
Matthew 6:33 But seek first His [not "her"] kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.

Luke 3:14 Soldiers also asked him [not "her"]: "And we, what shall we do?" And he [not "she"] said to them: "Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages."
Luke 12:15 And He said to them, "Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's/woman's life does not consist in the abundance of his [or her] possessions."

Philippians 4:11 Not that I complain of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content.

First Timothy 6:8 ...but if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content.

Hebrews 13:5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for He [not "she"] has said: "I will never fail you nor forsake [or reject] you."

Second Peter 3:11 Being that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness?

Got lots of stuff? The more, the bigger the utility building to store it all in - if possible by inexpensive lakeshore or seaside. Don't forget that you'll need a bathroom with shower, toilet, and sink with hot-and-cold running water, plus a kitchen with sink and hot-and-cold running water, a refrigerator, microwave oven, and toaster. Get all flooring carpeted, rather than slip on throw rugs or trudge on cold hardwood floors, unless you wear socks and/or shoes indoors instead of going barefooted.

Always be prepared to run away; nothing is ever completely secure:

Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
Matthew 24:43 But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.
Matthew 24:44 Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Mark 13:15 ...let him/her who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything away...[Do not turn nor look back and thus become a pillar of salt]

Matthew 24:20 Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a sabbath.
Mark 13:18 Pray that it may not happen in winter.

One of the reasons why people like to drive together on highways in close proximity is not only comradery along with a satisfaction to see everyone else obediently plus rather adequately and consistently obeying traffic laws under the watchful eyes of referee-like squad-car police off to the sidelines, but relaxing with the orderliness of all those complying in unity of purpose to protocol mandates.

How would you like to enter a clothing or grocery store and [visually] observe everything thrown into a big pile in the middle of the floor, instead of nicely and neatly sorted and hung or stacked on rows of racks or shelving?

Move on, little doeggies. It should spur us on.