When you are on the road to success, it is easy to lack care for the needs of others. You can tell yourself that one day you will come back and help them. Few really do come back, because quietly and insidiously one’s attitude changes. Worldly desires begin to creep into your heart and dictate another direction. Before you know it, you have learned to follow dollar signs over God’s leading.
Sessions in Pain pg. 39
Beloved, the rules and ways of Babylon are lies. Money and power does not satisfy the true needs and longings of the human heart. You can choose to spend you life serving money or you can choose to spend your life serving God. One is temporal and One is eternal. One will end with your life on Earth and One will carry you in Love throughout eternity.
Choose wisely
LEAVING BABYLON, PG. 84:
Mankind’s fighting of the “light” goes beyond any reason or common sense. We fight 
simply because it is in our nature to do so. Truth and common sense dictate that we live better, feel better, and accomplish more when we love one another and work together. But the ways of Babylon keeps us at each other’s throats. We fight over nationality, skin color, money, status, power, governments, and even God. Babylon seeks to keep us in strife, for she knows that if we ever chose to live as the children of God, she would be defeated in the light of God’s love—the love that covers a multitude of sins and rejoices with those who rejoice, the love that builds instead of tears down, the love that encourages instead of crushes. Babylon seeks to destroy all of human society, and it is our choice to allow her to do so or to wake up and defend our brothers and sisters with the power of our God within His Holy Spirit.
Babylon has taught us not to care for each other. Cain asked God the compelling question that continues to ring throughout human history, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Of course, we know the answer to this question is a resounding yes! God 
designed us to “keep” each other. When God saw that Adam was alone, He created a helper for him, and He commented that “It is not good for man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18). Till this day, that rings true; we are better together. We are better when we love, care…
and keep each other.
We must take action daily to make the things we are exposed to line up with the will and ways of God. This action often involves visual stimuli, such as pictures, books, movies, or vocal and musical sounds. Videos and music, in particular, can have a powerful effect on your thought life.
Sessions in Pain, pg. 63
The Scriptures teach us that is it our job to take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ (See 2 Cor. 10:5). The battle for your mind is every raging. In this day when there is so many choices to feed our thought life…
dine wisely.
Leaving Babylon, pg. 80-81:
Our inheritance as the children of Babylon was manifested in the lives of the first brothers of humanity, Cain and Abel. We see one who was seeking to do what was right and what was required of him, and the other who was lazy and who sought to deceive God. From the beginning of our fall, we see the ways of Babylon displayed in our interactions with God and with each other. She teaches us to cheat to get ahead, and in doing this, she keeps us lazy, small, and undeveloped. We move along, but we do not do what is required for us to grow and mature. We have become very proficient in the methods of deception to “get ahead,” and we have even learned to take pride in this. Sometimes we call this being business savvy. We revel in how well we have cheated our brothers and sisters. Babylon’s greed uses us to rape humanity of its resources, and we are proud of it as we teach our methods to the next generation.
God would have honored Cain’s gift if he had brought his best as Abel did. Babylon teaches us that it is all right to take shortcuts and cheat instead of doing all that is required of us or what we are capable of with our gifts and talents. God places great gifts in each of us, gifts that make us unique blessings to the world. However, under Babylon’s tutelage, we learn to forsake our gifts and pursue the cunning paths of cheating, deception, and even murder to succeed in life. Our murdering of each other is not always in the form of taking our brother’s physical life. Sometimes we murder the dreams and self-esteem of others with our tongues. Out of a spirit of jealousy, we will berate the good work of our brothers and sisters, murdering their hope. In the spirit of Babylon, we seek to destroy whatever we cannot possess. Babylon’s scheme is to convince you that you have no gifts, and for some reason, God has not given you what you need to succeed in life. This is a lie. Both Cain and Abel were gifted and talented, but one chose the way of Babylon. Cain gave God less than what God knew he could do. When God challenged him on this point, he responded with murder. How will you respond?
Sometimes we are waiting because we are missing the lessons all around us. Whether it is because of busyness, personal struggles or self pity, we are missing our lessons. I have been so guilty of this—so busy doing that I missed loving.
Sessions in Pain pg. 185
As I have work with my son with autism and other children I have noticed how sometimes the schools must move them on to the next grade or even graduation because they are aging out and they have no room for them to stay – they cannot wait for them to learn. In contrast, our Lord waits patiently for us to achieve to the next level in Him. He does not move us into places where we will fail because we are unprepared. He loves us enough to take the time and wait for the work to be accomplished…
in us
Many of us are raised to embrace pain as our only means of obtaining love. Often in our society the only way we can experience kindness and compassion from other human beings is when we are suffering; otherwise, we are ignored. We do this often with our children. Only when they are sick do we give them special attention or when they’re in trouble do we show concern. For some children, negative attention is better than no attention at all.
Sessions in Pain pg. 178.
The human heart is a complicated thing. This attention from pain can reinforce the seeking for pain and even the pretense or exaggeration of pain. We reject joy and happiness in our lives to receive the attention and pity from others. We choose to remain weak and dependent to experience caring from our friends and family. Beloved, God desires for your days to be strong and joyful. He will care for your heart like none other. His joy transcends circumstances. Choose Joy! “Casting all your care upon Him…”
“for He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7
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Leaving Babylon, Pg. 71 
We must strip off the old things; our old attitudes and responses are no longer a part of who we are. Each situation of our lives must be approached and responded to differently. The River will take us on a path we have not known before. It will take faith to remain in the flow. We will experience the crashing of its powerful waves as the River clashes with our old ways of doing things, but we must let the clear, pure water of the Holy Spirit have its way in renewing our mind.
Letting Go to God
Sessions in Pain pg. 169:
Finally, during on-going pain, remember that vengeance belongs to God. God promises to avenge us, therefore by faith you must let things go. This is very hard to do, initially, but as you develop trust in God, you will be amazed at how He enables you to forgive, to the place that you no longer desire vengeance.
Let go, beloved. Let God keep score.
When you are on the road to success, it is easy to lack care for the needs of others. You can tell yourself that one day you will come back and help them. Few really do come back, because quietly and insidiously one’s attitude changes. Worldly desires begin to creep into your heart and dictate another direction. Before you know it, you have learned to follow dollar signs over God’s leading. 
