A Prayer for Spiritual Courage That Overcomes
An Om Amra, Pische, kit Ó et om Komörtashirn ür Körtesmatum en bretner gebna Uta fienden, en Kayrgma á Regita.
O my GOD of truth and love (Amra is shorthand for this title of God), Jesus Christ (Pische is shorthand for His Name), give me and my comrades (Komörta), who are like kin (Shirn), your "spiritual courage that overcomes" (Körtesmatum) against our enemies along this path of courageous honor and nobility of character (Regita).
Onsta Abegyal á eta Upos Skreel á Regita
First Prayer of the Upadarian Scroll of Regita (courage, honor, and nobility of character)
[From the fictional future history, a found ancient scroll]
The idea of this prayer is to seek God for a courageous, honorable, nobility of character which lies behind and unleashes spiritual courage that overcomes. The battle is within, the enemies and troubles are without, the physical results are in God's hand but the responsibility to pursue these things lies in our hands, albeit empowered by God's truth and love which we pursue with passion and even discipline.
Whether you use the fictional language from the story, which you would if you were engaging in an immersive learning experience based on the fictional future history, the idea is to pray for what we pursue, which is to be transformed and because of this to be able to walk in the integrity of our faith and our convictions wisely in the sight of God but wholly empowered by the Holy Spirit within us and deep ongoing study of God's Word.
To be in the Word and the Spirit, especially in the company of other Christians wherever we find them, not just from our church or family group, is the central theme to walking along a path of courageous honor and nobility of character (Regita). We are not a church, Upadaria is a Civilizational Paradigm you UTILIZE not a doctrine you are made to obey: this call to be engaged with all fellow Christians is not a call to recruit people, it is a call to unity within the Body of Christ.
This isn't a prayer for outward success or physical triumph, although these things can and do often accompany it. It is a prayer for inner victory, to remain a follower of Jesus Christ in an honorable manner, by the power of the Word and the Spirit, without fail regardless of what we may endure, suffer, or even lose our lives to.
Those who prayed this prayer in the fictional story, both the ancients (fictional) and those alive now who have discovered the Scrolls, which are not sacred or holy in and of themselves but simply historical records of a people who sought to follow God, were seeking to become as much in the true moral/ethical "image" of God as possible through inner transfiguration.
While the journey is aided by your Peers, and recognized by them through "ranks of the nobility of merit" so that nobility and royalty are seen as something attainable by all and inherited by none, and the path is guaranteed to all regardless of anything but their desire and their dedication to Pische (Jesus Christ), the journey unlocks YOUR scroll of destiny and purpose (called your "wyrd") which only you and your God can define.
Pische is in the ancient (fictional) history the word for a Savior who is God, because they existed as many as 30,000 years ago, or, before the flood. Again, this is just fictional, it is meant to create an imaginary "mythos" not connected to any people's history. Thus it has no baggage nor provenance with any ethnogroup or ethnicity alive today. In modern times, but also fictional future history written in 2147 AD, it is used as a code because Christians forced underground needed a way to talk in code that the persecuting authoritaries could not easily decipher just by listening in.
Pictured: Bill at Masada, 2017
The otherfication of human beings is something I refuse to engage in. For example, I know many Yoruba hate the Igbo, a people who are dear to my heart, but despite this, I have engaged yoruba who are not haters, and who are good people.
I had lunch with a Yoruba man from the southwest, in my hometown in Harrisburg PA (he was visiting family). When he said he was Yoruba and I told him my heart was for the Igbo, I was worried he would start some rant. He didn't.
He gets along with Igbo people.
He told me about a woman who runs a Nigerian grocery store in my hometown, which I will visit in future when I am back there, who hated Igbo people. She wouldn't even do business with them. She was a proud and bigoted Yoruba woman.
Then she discovered something.
She was Igbo. She had been adopted into a Yoruba family and did not know she was adopted. But her own family, who are Yoruba and who do NOT hate the Igbo, finally gave her the proof.
I will be curious if she is willing to talk to me, I think I'll just visit, buy some stuff, and start to make a connection, but I really want to hear this whole story.
I don't hate anyone or any group. I am for the Igbo, I am not against any other tribe, and have friends from many different tribes, especially people from Jos, which I hope I get to visit one day.
But I will always stand up for what I love, and I have always, since meeting an Igbo man who had fled after the war, loved the Igbo people and I am not afraid to tell that to anyone. But I am not against anyone. Stay off the Igbo people and we will have peace, attack them and we are at war.
@Jailbird_Jenny@trumplicans2024 And if I never see one again, I will be thankful. They could be the bane of your existence, especially if you were busy.
@alec76069@trumplicans2024 I hated when someone came up with a credit card. It also slowed down transactions, and if you were busy people would just glower at you, and the card user, to hurry up. But you couldn't screw it up or the cost was yours. Sucked.
You out the slip of paper and their card, slide it, and it imprints the impression, then they used the slip to send it to the credit card company for payment, treated it like a check. You'd have cash and all these slips at the end of the day. People didn't use credit cards near as much as they do now, so you mostly had to deal wity cash and checks and the occasional credit card, which slowed down the process. I dreaded dealing with this thing. Nicked my knuckles a few times.
@trumplicans2024 Nicked my knuckles on these things, what a pain! Also, you could not know if the card had enough balance on it, creating a theft scenario in some instances because people would know their card was over its limit and still use it.
I dream of being able to drive a keke, even for a few miles, in Jos. They mostly have the yellow and green ones, which I think look the best anyways. For some reason the keke intrigues me. I'd like to have one for going around my small town. This particular one really LIKES her! Hahahah!
@Somtolism7 Noted. Definitely going to make provision for that when, God willing, I visit Nigeria and Anambra state is definitely on my list, to see the ancient origin site of the Igbo and the Nri palace.