@adam writes Hi Rehan! Don't know if you still remember what we talk about on Sunday, but now I continue that. You asked about why Jesus taught Israel with parables. Well, there is a statement in Matthew 13: 34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. 35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”[c] That was foretold in Psalm 78:2. But if you remember, you asked why Jesus spoke in riddles (not always), wouldn't be better if He just teach everything clearly? And well, I tried to explain that. In the Gospel of John chapter 12 it is said: 37 Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”[h] 39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere: 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”[i] 41 Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him. 42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved human praise more than praise from God. 44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. 47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. 49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. John was written about Isaiah 6: 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” 9 He said, “Go and tell this people: “‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ 10 Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes.[a] Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” 11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged, 12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken. 13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.” So as I tried to explain you that, Jesus revealed the truth, but in parables, because God tested the free will and faith of His people first (and they failed in the past so many times, that God took away from them the chance to repent, because if some one sins so many times and repent from it over and over again, at some point they loose their sense of sin on that matter...so next time when they commit that sin again, as their defense against that sin broke, they will no more see it as a sin, and so they became dull and blind to the truth, and behind this spiritual law, as for all spiritual and natural laws, is God), and then and from then on to this day the free will and faith of every other nation. Notice that Isaiah supposedly spoke about God the Father, yet the Apostle John, the beloved disciple explained by the Holy Spirit, that Isaiah actually saw Jesus, God the Son. Because Jesus is the image of the Holy Father (Colossians 1:15), and no man can see God and survive. Only if he saw just His Image. You see, Jesus said this: Luke 8 9 His disciples asked him what this parable meant. 10 He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, “‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’[a] 11 “This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. And this in Matthew 13: 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.” 10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” 11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. 15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’[a] 16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it. 18 “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: "Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them." This means, that whoever has faith in Christ, will be given everlasting life (and will understand by the Holy Spirit), and whoever does not have faith in Jesus, even what life they have will be taken from them. Thats damnation.

I was listening since yesterday the book Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis and amazingly today Mr Abundance Organyruh added me on facebook from Nigeria today :)

A great book for people who think the wall is falling apart http://www.rehanu.com/abundance/

Someone asked me yesterday, so what is your opinion about the #ParisAttack ? Are we preparing for the 3rd world war ? When is it starting ? My answer was, the war will start when we are prepared to have it, If we even imagine that it is a SANE thing to do, we may as well be killed, as in this day and age of awareness where we have so much to learn, if we can only have 10 more years of peace , the world will enter into a whole new dimension of abundance in qty that we have never seen before. WE MUST NOT LET any such crazy thing called the 3rd world war happen. And what I meant by it will start when we are ready is, that there are always 2 people who are needed to have a fight, if one person backs out, the other CAN NOT have WAR ! I am Muslim, I Refuse to fight, even if someone is ready to kill me, I will NOT defend my self, It does not mean I am a coward or have no dignity, all it means is that I WILL NOT let ANYONE have the pleasure of hurting the people who are behind me be killed, because I was ready to fight them, as when I will try to fight them, they will fight back, and if the person who is trying to fight is not given anyone to fight, they can kill a few hundred but then their anger will stop and they will be at peace and their ego will allow them to settle down and look at things logically. I am a Human, and I Refuse to fight ! - And I plea to you the same for the sake of other Human beings in the world ! Rehan Allahwala

"I believe in the power of transformative technologies such as Wireless, Satellites, Internet and Digital Currencies. These technologies combined hold the KEYS to a new age of abundance and peace on the planet EARTH. It is my mission in life to achieve these dreams and assemble the people and technologies that make these ideas and realities possible" Byron Young

A good life is defined by search of meaning and abundance of challenges. - Mihal Csikszentmihalyi

People are not selfish, but self protective, as they come from a mindset of non-abundance ! Rehan Allahwala

The scarest resourse on the planet is the abundance mindset. Naveen Jain

Portugal 🇵🇹 VISA process Obtaining residency in a foreign country can be one of the most important benefits of buying real estate abroad. I write frequently about obtaining residency through property purchase, and the examples of good programs are almost always in Latin America. Now it's Europe's turn... specifically, Portugal, which is offering a Golden Visa program targeting the foreign investor and property buyer. For the average buyer with no family connections in Europe, it's the best European residency program that I know of right now. Here's why the Portuguese Golden Visa program is so valuable today: First and foremost, Portugal is a great place to live, so the chance to obtain residency in the country is naturally attractive. The Portuguese claim to have the best beaches in Europe. The country also offers moderate weather year-round and an abundance of sunshine. To top it off, the U.S. dollar continues relatively strong against the euro, making the idea of buying property here even more interesting to the U.S. dollar-holder. Finally, when you become a resident of Portugal you have access to all 26 European countries in the Schengen area. Signed in 1985, the Schengen Agreement predated the European Union and created a "borderless" zone to allow visa-free travel among the signatory countries. When you obtain a visa under Portugal's Golden Visa program, you become eligible for permanent residency after five years and for Portuguese citizenship after six. As an additional benefit, the Golden Visa program allows you to include family members. When I started researching this essay, I found plenty of misinformation online. The majority of the blog posts out there were mostly right at one time, but few of them were updated to reflect all subsequent changes to Portugal's immigration law since the Golden Visa program was introduced in 2007. You have about 10 options for obtaining an investor's visa in Portugal under the Golden Visa program. These vary from million-euro bank transfers or the creation of 10 jobs to investing in artistic or cultural activities or a new business. My beat is real estate, so I'd like to focus on ways you can obtain residency in Portugal by buying property in the country. Let's walk through each alternative… 1: Transfer a million euros to Portugal This is not a property purchase, per se. The reason I mention this option is that the million-euro transfer is unrestricted, with no caveats on how you spend it. This option could be good for someone who wants to buy one or more properties, perhaps make some other kind of investment, and maybe save some of the transferred funds for future living expenses. 2: Spend 500,000 euros on any property You can buy a property of any type anywhere in the country costing 500,000 euros (right now, that's about US$575,000) or more. 3: Spend 400,000 euros on any property in a low-density or depressed area If you buy in a low-density population area (i.e., in the countryside) or an economically depressed area, then the minimum unrestricted investment above is 20% less, or 400,000 euros (about US$460,000). 4: Spend 350,000 euros on an older property or in a "rehabilitation" zone This threshold applies in two cases: Properties over 30 years old or... Properties in areas that the government has targeted for rehabilitation or gentrification. More on this later... 5: Spend 280,000 euros on an older property or in a "rehabilitation" zone that's in a low-density or depressed area This 350k-euro threshold above is lower if you buy in a low-density population area or an economically depressed area. In these cases the minimum is 20% less, or 280,000 euros (US$320,000). Rehabilitation costs are included towards your minimum with this visa option. So your 350k euros (or 280k euros) can be the sum of the purchase price and the cost of fixing up the property. The qualifying property can be jointly owned provided the applicant contributed the minimum investment. Also, the property can be owned by a one-person structure, such as an LLC. Following are the general requirements when applying for any type of residency visa in Portugal. In addition to your passport and a visa application, you must do the following: Prove that you've made your chosen investment Be in Portugal legally Show that you are covered by health insurance Provide an affidavit saying that you promise to comply with the ongoing terms of the visa. These include a requirement to: Keep the investment five years Stay in Portugal 7 days for the first year, and 14 days for each subsequent 2-year period Prove that you have a clean criminal record in Portugal and your country of origin Obtain certification from the Portuguese tax authority and social security system that you don't owe them any money Before applying for a visa, you must create an online account and pre-register so that you can submit the remaining documents online. If you're managing the process yourself, register here... if you're using a lawyer or personal representative, have them register here. When you're ready you can download the visa application here. The visa that really holds my interest is the 350k-/280k-euro minimum investment, because there's opportunity there. To qualify, you can buy a property that's more than 30 years old, or you can buy in a designated urban rehabilitation area (called an área de reabilitação urbana, or ARU). Either way, you're probably adding value to a place that needs some work. (At least that's the idea... not every 30-year-old home will need work.) And if you're adding value through restoration, you stand to make a nice gain. But in a rehabilitation area (ARU) you'll do even better, because not only are you adding value to your property, but the government is also incentivizing your neighborhood's rehabilitation. This multiplies the power of your visa investment. What surprised me is that even the popular Algarve coast has designated ARUs, including in places like Faro's historic district. Follow this link to have a look at Portugal's ARUs. If you want to open the door to Europe, this is a great opportunity. Granted, the investment threshold in Europe is a lot higher than you can get away with in Latin America. An investment of 280k euros is still a lot of money. But if you're bound for Europe—and you want a chance to profit while obtaining residency—then the Golden Visa program may be just right for you. Shared as Received

I open myself to the River of Abundance that lies within my heart. Let abundance flow endlessly