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February 13 – Near The Goal
In a race it is not the start that hurts, not even the pace of the long stretch. It is when the goal is in sight that heart and nerves and courage and muscles are strained almost beyond human endurance, almost to the breaking point.
So with you now the goal is in sight, you need your final cry to Me. Can you not see by the nerve and heart rack of the past few days that your race is nearly run? Courage, courage. Heed My voice of encouragement. Remember that I am by your side, spurring you on to victory.
In the annals of heaven, the saddest records are those that tell of the many who ran well, with brave stout hearts, until in sight of the goal, of victory, and then their courage failed. The whole host of heaven longed to cry out how near the end was, to implore the last spurt, but they fell out, never to know until the last day of revealing, how near they were to victory.
Would that they had listened to Me in the silence as you two meet with Me. They would have known. There must be the listening ear, as well as the still small voice.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9
In a race it is not the start that hurts, not even the pace of the long stretch. It is when the goal is in sight that heart and nerves and courage and muscles are strained almost beyond human endurance, almost to the breaking point.
So with you now the goal is in sight, you need your final cry to Me. Can you not see by the nerve and heart rack of the past few days that your race is nearly run? Courage, courage. Heed My voice of encouragement. Remember that I am by your side, spurring you on to victory.
In the annals of heaven, the saddest records are those that tell of the many who ran well, with brave stout hearts, until in sight of the goal, of victory, and then their courage failed. The whole host of heaven longed to cry out how near the end was, to implore the last spurt, but they fell out, never to know until the last day of revealing, how near they were to victory.
Would that they had listened to Me in the silence as you two meet with Me. They would have known. There must be the listening ear, as well as the still small voice.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9
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February 14 – In My Presence
You do not realize that you would have broken down under the weight of your cares but for the renewing time with Me. It is not what I say; it is I, Myself. It is not the hearing Me so much as the being in My Presence. The strengthening and curative powers of this you cannot know. Such knowledge is beyond your human reckoning.
This would cure the poor sick world, if every day, each soul, or group of souls, waited before Me. Remember, that you must never fail to keep this time apart with Me. Gradually you will be transformed, physically, mentally, spiritually, into My likeness. All who see you, or contact with you will be, by this intercourse with you, brought near to Me, and gradually the influence will spread.
You are making one spot of earth a Holy Place, and though you must work and spend yourself ceaselessly because that is for the present your appointed task, yet the greatest work either of you can do, and are doing, is done in this time apart with Me. Are you understanding that?
Do you know that every thought, every activity, every prayer, every longing of the day is gathered up and offered to Me, now? Oh! Joy that I am with you. For this I came to earth, to lead man back to spirit-converse with his God.
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily
at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Proverbs 8:34
You do not realize that you would have broken down under the weight of your cares but for the renewing time with Me. It is not what I say; it is I, Myself. It is not the hearing Me so much as the being in My Presence. The strengthening and curative powers of this you cannot know. Such knowledge is beyond your human reckoning.
This would cure the poor sick world, if every day, each soul, or group of souls, waited before Me. Remember, that you must never fail to keep this time apart with Me. Gradually you will be transformed, physically, mentally, spiritually, into My likeness. All who see you, or contact with you will be, by this intercourse with you, brought near to Me, and gradually the influence will spread.
You are making one spot of earth a Holy Place, and though you must work and spend yourself ceaselessly because that is for the present your appointed task, yet the greatest work either of you can do, and are doing, is done in this time apart with Me. Are you understanding that?
Do you know that every thought, every activity, every prayer, every longing of the day is gathered up and offered to Me, now? Oh! Joy that I am with you. For this I came to earth, to lead man back to spirit-converse with his God.
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily
at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Proverbs 8:34
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February 15 – Inspiration — Not Aspiration
You shall be used. The Divine Force is never less. It is sufficient for all the work in the world. I only need the instruments for Me to use. To know that would remake the world.
The world does not need supermen, but supernatural men. Men who will persistently turn the self out of their lives and let Divine Power work through them. England could be saved tomorrow if only her politicians just let Me use them.
Let inspiration take the place of aspiration. All unemployment would cease. I have always plenty of work to be done and always pay My people well as you will see, as more and more you get the right attitude of thought about the work being Mine only.
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration
of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Job 32:8
You shall be used. The Divine Force is never less. It is sufficient for all the work in the world. I only need the instruments for Me to use. To know that would remake the world.
The world does not need supermen, but supernatural men. Men who will persistently turn the self out of their lives and let Divine Power work through them. England could be saved tomorrow if only her politicians just let Me use them.
Let inspiration take the place of aspiration. All unemployment would cease. I have always plenty of work to be done and always pay My people well as you will see, as more and more you get the right attitude of thought about the work being Mine only.
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration
of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Job 32:8
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God does not speak to us when we are speaking. He isn't rude. He waits for us to listen.
How can we expect a perfect Church? It is comprised of imperfect men and women.
Christ died so that we need not rationalize our sins.
February 16 – Never Ruffled
Even were I never to speak to you, you would be well rewarded for the setting apart this time, if you only sat still and longed for Me, if you just drew hungering breaths for Me, as you do for the fresh pure air of the open.
Be still, be calm. Wait before Me. Learn of Me, patience, humility, peace. When will you be absolutely unruffled whatever happens? You are slow to learn your lesson. In the rush and work and worry, the very seeking a silence must help.
In bustle so little is accomplished. You must learn to take the calm with you in the most hurried days.
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is
stayed on thee: because he trusts in thee.” Isaiah 26:3
February 17 – Psychic Powers
Psychic powers are not necessarily Spiritual Powers. Do not seek the spiritual through material means. Could you but see, it is weighing beautiful spirit-wings down with earth’s mud.
Seek this time as a time of communion with Me — not as a time to ask questions and have them answered. And meet Me in Communion. It is soul-food that I have provided.
Do not expect a perfect Church, but find in a church the means of coming very near to Me. That alone matters, then the much, that is husk, falls away. Hold it of no account. Grasp the truth and find Me — the true Bread of Life. The lesson of the grain is the lesson of My Church and Me. The real life is all that matters, the outward Church is the husk; but the husk was necessary to present a life-grain to men.
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20
February 18 – Let Me Do It
Never miss these times. It is not what I reveal to you so much as the linking up of your frail natures with the limitless Divine Powers. Already, forces are set in motion. Only My Will is coming to pass. And now God is blessing you very richly.
You think that there is much to do in a crisis like this. There is only one thing to do. Link your lives onto the Divine Forces, and then, it is as much My work to see those lives and their affairs run in an orderly right manner as to see that tomorrow’s Sun rises.
It is not passionate appeal that gains the Divine Ear so much as the quiet placing of the difficulty and worry in the Divine Hands. So trust and be no more afraid than a child would be, who places its tangled skein of wool in the hands of a loving mother, and runs out to play, pleasing the mother more by its unquestioning confidence than if it went down on its knees and implored her help, which would pain her the rather, as it would imply she was not eager to help when help was needed.
“Mary…sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word…Mary hath
too chosen that good part, which shall not be taken
away from her.” Luke 10:39, 42
February 19 – Endure
Do not forget to meet all your difficulties with love and laughter. Be assured that I am with you. Remember, remember it is the last few yards that tell. Do not fail Me. I cannot fail you. Rest in My love.
How many of the world’s prayers have gone unanswered because My children who prayed did not endure to the end. They thought it was too late, and that they must act for themselves, that I was not going to act for them. Remember My words: “He that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.”
Can you endure to the end? If so, you shall be saved. But endure with courage, with Love and laughter. Oh! My children, is My training too hard?
For you, My children, I will unlock the secret treasures hidden from so many. Not one of your cries is unheard. I am with you indeed to aid you. Go through all I have said to you, and live in every detail as I have enjoined you. As you follow implicitly all I say, success — spiritual, mental, and physical — shall be yours. Wait in silence awhile, conscious of My presence, in which you must live to have rest unto your souls, and Power and Joy and Peace.
“And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and
hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I,
the Lord, which call thee by thy name, and the God of Israel.” Isaiah 45:3
How can we expect a perfect Church? It is comprised of imperfect men and women.
Christ died so that we need not rationalize our sins.
February 16 – Never Ruffled
Even were I never to speak to you, you would be well rewarded for the setting apart this time, if you only sat still and longed for Me, if you just drew hungering breaths for Me, as you do for the fresh pure air of the open.
Be still, be calm. Wait before Me. Learn of Me, patience, humility, peace. When will you be absolutely unruffled whatever happens? You are slow to learn your lesson. In the rush and work and worry, the very seeking a silence must help.
In bustle so little is accomplished. You must learn to take the calm with you in the most hurried days.
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is
stayed on thee: because he trusts in thee.” Isaiah 26:3
February 17 – Psychic Powers
Psychic powers are not necessarily Spiritual Powers. Do not seek the spiritual through material means. Could you but see, it is weighing beautiful spirit-wings down with earth’s mud.
Seek this time as a time of communion with Me — not as a time to ask questions and have them answered. And meet Me in Communion. It is soul-food that I have provided.
Do not expect a perfect Church, but find in a church the means of coming very near to Me. That alone matters, then the much, that is husk, falls away. Hold it of no account. Grasp the truth and find Me — the true Bread of Life. The lesson of the grain is the lesson of My Church and Me. The real life is all that matters, the outward Church is the husk; but the husk was necessary to present a life-grain to men.
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20
February 18 – Let Me Do It
Never miss these times. It is not what I reveal to you so much as the linking up of your frail natures with the limitless Divine Powers. Already, forces are set in motion. Only My Will is coming to pass. And now God is blessing you very richly.
You think that there is much to do in a crisis like this. There is only one thing to do. Link your lives onto the Divine Forces, and then, it is as much My work to see those lives and their affairs run in an orderly right manner as to see that tomorrow’s Sun rises.
It is not passionate appeal that gains the Divine Ear so much as the quiet placing of the difficulty and worry in the Divine Hands. So trust and be no more afraid than a child would be, who places its tangled skein of wool in the hands of a loving mother, and runs out to play, pleasing the mother more by its unquestioning confidence than if it went down on its knees and implored her help, which would pain her the rather, as it would imply she was not eager to help when help was needed.
“Mary…sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word…Mary hath
too chosen that good part, which shall not be taken
away from her.” Luke 10:39, 42
February 19 – Endure
Do not forget to meet all your difficulties with love and laughter. Be assured that I am with you. Remember, remember it is the last few yards that tell. Do not fail Me. I cannot fail you. Rest in My love.
How many of the world’s prayers have gone unanswered because My children who prayed did not endure to the end. They thought it was too late, and that they must act for themselves, that I was not going to act for them. Remember My words: “He that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.”
Can you endure to the end? If so, you shall be saved. But endure with courage, with Love and laughter. Oh! My children, is My training too hard?
For you, My children, I will unlock the secret treasures hidden from so many. Not one of your cries is unheard. I am with you indeed to aid you. Go through all I have said to you, and live in every detail as I have enjoined you. As you follow implicitly all I say, success — spiritual, mental, and physical — shall be yours. Wait in silence awhile, conscious of My presence, in which you must live to have rest unto your souls, and Power and Joy and Peace.
“And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and
hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I,
the Lord, which call thee by thy name, and the God of Israel.” Isaiah 45:3
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February 20 – Claim Your Rights
“In everything by prayer and supplication let your requests be made known unto God.”
But do not beg. Rather come just as a business manager bringing to the owner the needs, checks to be signed, etc., and knowing that to lay the matter before him means immediate supply.
I long to supply, but the asking — or the faith-assurance from you, is necessary, because to you that contact with Me is vital.
“If we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know
that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” 1 John 5:14, 15
“In everything by prayer and supplication let your requests be made known unto God.”
But do not beg. Rather come just as a business manager bringing to the owner the needs, checks to be signed, etc., and knowing that to lay the matter before him means immediate supply.
I long to supply, but the asking — or the faith-assurance from you, is necessary, because to you that contact with Me is vital.
“If we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know
that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” 1 John 5:14, 15
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Hey look! It's Ancient Lion's twin, dingbat! bringing us more copy&paste drivel. So you've given up trying to convince anyone of your nonsense? Good for you. And we've reduced you to copy&paste, which is so lame , that's it's not even allowed here, lol.
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I used to think it was sort of silly and self absorbed to run through your list of needs with God. He knows what we need. Now I look at it differently. Asking Him for the things we need reminds us that we are reliant on Him to care for us.
I always thought it was foolish for people to ask God to do things for them even though they never do what God has asked of them..
They even pray begging for mercy and forgiveness as they are flipping him off and kneeling before a block of wood.
Seem a little risky......
I heard that God could get a little testy with hypocrites.
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Not everybody who prays is a hypocrite. And there are some hypocrites who learn their error and repent. That pleases God.
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Yes, and if done properly it changes our attitudes for the better such that we are encouraged to alter our own reality. The crazy thing is that the answers to our prayers were waiting in time for us to catch up to them.
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Then don't do it. Again I will tell you... you don't have beliefs, you have arguments against others having beliefs.
Of course you are right.
I remember thinking as a child that if God is everywhere and can hear peoples prayers he was either extremely rude for never answering or he wasn't there at all.
either that or he wanted me to use my own head to work things out.
Without any response that couldn't be chalked off as an overactive imagination, I took his deafening silence as a rebuke. I never doubted his existence.
I decided that I wouldn't pray at all to any unresponsive entity, ever. I don't get involved with other people who are unresponsive. Might as well be asking for help or advice or seeking love from a brick wall.
Many years later which was many years ago he came to me in dreams and visions when I didn't believe in any religion, I wasn't even looking, and was busy enjoying and doing everything in life but praying to God.....
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You are mistaken.
You profess belief without any understanding, without ever having sought verifiable proof of the truth that you profess to believe.
I believe in what I know, in what I have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears, in what I have perceived and understand in my own mind.
I am not arguing against others having belief I am showing where wrong and right and judgment lie so that others may have an opportunity to vindicate their belief and experience the fulfillment of their own hopes and dreams while they are still alive, to be worthy of eternal life and to stand in the presence of God.
You claim to believe in God, why would you object to being shown the errors that have built an impenetrable barrier between you and your God?
I know that you have never heard a single word from the living God in your entire life no matter how much you have been blubbering.
Has it never dawned on you that there is something within your adopted beliefs and in your chosen practices that might be amiss...something that you are saying or doing, or failing to say and do, that is offensive to God and has caused Him to hide his face from you?
Is that too hard for a believer to believe?
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You do not know anything about my journey or how I came to my beliefs. I can see how God has worked in my life despite your beliefs about me. There is only one God. It does not matter what we call Him as long as we make the effort to know Him. He will find us. How we come to Him is of little importance.
You absolutely are arguing against me having my beliefs. You claimed my beliefs are without understanding. You claimed I have never heard a single word from God. You claimed I blubber. You claimed there is something wrong with my beliefs. You claimed I am offensive to God. These are not the words of a man who accepts the beliefs of another. These are the words of a man trying to get someone to reject his beliefs. So please don't pretend you are not here to argue against my beliefs. Because you are literally trying to force me to conform to your beliefs.
Do you think you speak for God when you tell me that He hides his face from me? What is wrong with you? Who does that? I'll tell you who does that... militant atheists who attack a rival religion, that's who. I have had several conversations with people of other faiths where we respected each other's beliefs, even though our beliefs were different. They don't behave like you do. We have very pleasant conversations where we both honor God. Growth filled communities should explore all sides of an issue to arrive at objective truth. Honest men can have honest differences of opinion without having to act like jerks or be attacked for expressing their beliefs.
I too believe in what I know, in what I have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears, in what I have perceived and understand in my own mind. Almost everything we know we accept on the authority of others. Anyone who rejected knowledge on the authority of others would have to go around knowing next to nothing his whole life.
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February 21 – Nothing Can Hurt
The way is plain.
You do not need to see far ahead. Just one step at a time with Me. The same light to guide you as the Hosts of Heaven know — the Son of Righteousness Himself.
Only self can cast a shadow on the way. Be more afraid of Spirit-unrest, of soul-disturbance, of any ruffling of the Spirit, than of earthquake or fire or any outside forces.
When you feel the absolute calm has been broken — away alone with Me until your heart sings, and all is strong and calm.
These are the only times when evil can find an entrance. The forces of the evil surround the city of man-soul, and are keenly alert for one such unguarded spot, through which an arrow can pierce and do havoc.
Remember all that you have to do is to keep calm and happy. God does the rest. No evil force can hinder My Power — only you yourself have power to do that. Think when all God’s mighty forces are arrayed to aid you — and your poor, puny self impedes their onward march.
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow…Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof.” Matthew 6:34
February 22 – You Must Trust
You must trust Me wholly. This lesson has to be learnt. You shall be helped, you shall be led, guided, continually. The children of Israel would long before have entered the Promised Land — only their doubts and fears continually drove them back into the wilderness. Remember always, doubts delay. Are you trusting all to Me or not?
I have told you how to live and you must do it. My children, I love you. Trust My tender Love. It will never fail you, but you must learn not to fail it.
Oh! could you see, you would understand. You have much to learn in turning out fear and being at peace. All your doubts arrest My work. You must not doubt. I died to save you from sin and doubt and worry. You must believe in Me absolutely.
“He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under
his wings shalt thou trust.” Psalm 91:4
The way is plain.
You do not need to see far ahead. Just one step at a time with Me. The same light to guide you as the Hosts of Heaven know — the Son of Righteousness Himself.
Only self can cast a shadow on the way. Be more afraid of Spirit-unrest, of soul-disturbance, of any ruffling of the Spirit, than of earthquake or fire or any outside forces.
When you feel the absolute calm has been broken — away alone with Me until your heart sings, and all is strong and calm.
These are the only times when evil can find an entrance. The forces of the evil surround the city of man-soul, and are keenly alert for one such unguarded spot, through which an arrow can pierce and do havoc.
Remember all that you have to do is to keep calm and happy. God does the rest. No evil force can hinder My Power — only you yourself have power to do that. Think when all God’s mighty forces are arrayed to aid you — and your poor, puny self impedes their onward march.
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow…Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof.” Matthew 6:34
February 22 – You Must Trust
You must trust Me wholly. This lesson has to be learnt. You shall be helped, you shall be led, guided, continually. The children of Israel would long before have entered the Promised Land — only their doubts and fears continually drove them back into the wilderness. Remember always, doubts delay. Are you trusting all to Me or not?
I have told you how to live and you must do it. My children, I love you. Trust My tender Love. It will never fail you, but you must learn not to fail it.
Oh! could you see, you would understand. You have much to learn in turning out fear and being at peace. All your doubts arrest My work. You must not doubt. I died to save you from sin and doubt and worry. You must believe in Me absolutely.
“He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under
his wings shalt thou trust.” Psalm 91:4
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