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If ye love me, keep my commandments.

11/19/2013

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John 14:12-17 King James Version (KJV)

12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Jesus said: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” I know what this means. Now, I hear it clear. What God is saying through Jesus, the man, the Christ.

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Love Me first. Love Me with all of your being. Love Me with all of your heart and mind and then thus my commandments will be kept by you. For this Love I am shall fill you and give you the power, the sight, to do my will freely.

I did not mean that one is to fulfill My commandments by his own power and thus as he does he shows his love to Me. That was the story of old. But this story Jesus tell is new, it is the Good News. And the Good News is if you love me completely, I will fill you with my Love completely. I will give you My power, the power of my Holy Spirit to do as me easily.

Do not wait until you are perfect to come to Me. For I say again, none can be perfect except as they live through Me. This has been and continues to be the confusion of the masses. My Love is above all written law, for My Love is My Law which I offer unto each heart as the transforming agent. When you call upon the power of My Love you are not alone for all the power and grace of Heaven moves through you, as you fluidly, naturally. For I am your God and Live in the Heart wishing so to express the power of My great Love through thee.

Express your love. Express your loyalty to Me and you shall know this Love I am, this Love Divine living as you, through you. Thus you shall keep all of My commandments for Love is the Law of all. I am God. I am Love. I am this Love for you to be. I am this Love for all to see.

Limit yourself not. It is not God that forgot. You My children have forgotten Me. You call you not My name in love. You seek not the Presence of Me within thee. I call your name continually. Speak to Me. Ask to know the Love I am intimately.


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The “Spirit of Obedience” is not something we do of our own will. The “Spirit of Obedience” is that “Grace” God gives us to do His will naturally. It is a gift of, a sign of, the New Birth within. Again, we can not do the will of God on our own. The Spirit of God, the Spirit of Love must so fill us and thus shall “will” us to do and God wishes us to do. I have felt this. I do feel this. I do know this, which is the difference, the difference the indwelling of God’s Spirit of Love makes within one’s human heart. I have know this and shown this all before I have found and understood biblical reference to it. I know the difference for I lived fifty years the other way, trying to be good, trying to do God’s will, trying to be perfect, to be in my own eyes worthy of God’s Love.

But one day I changed. I changed the way I prayed. I began to pray a new way. I asked for God’s Love to fill me and flow through me. I asked God’s Love to be me. He answered my prayer and continues to do as I continually ask Him to fill me with His Divine Love. No where else could such a great treasure I find than this Love I have found that within me dwells.

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Love Me in the spirit of obedience, in the spirit of truth, with the wholeness of your heart to know the wholeness of My Love. My Holiness as you expressing, naturally, fluidly, abundantly without your mind action, without thought. Call upon the Spirit of Truth to lead you in all your thought and action.

Let My will be known unto your heart and mind. Through this Love Divine I offer you each, I come to teach, not to preach. I come to show, so each will know My way as their own. Know Me intimately. Know Me immediately. Know me presently, for I am with the continually. The Spirit of Truth will come, leading you in all right ways.


August 29, 2013  ~  Debra Clemente



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The Ordinary Operations of the Holy Spirit

11/13/2013

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In the power of the Holy Ghost resteth an ability to know God, and to please him. It is he, that purifieth the mind by his secret working. He enlighteneth the heart to conceive,worthy thoughts of Almighty God."  ~George Stanley Faber
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PRACTICAL TREATISE

THE ORDINARY OPERATIONS
OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT


By the Reverend George Stanley Faber (1773-1854)
Published in London, England 1814

Description: A thoughtfully-distilled but unforgiving assertion of the valuelessness of superficial religiousness. George Faber (1773-1854) was educated at Oxford, where he was made a fellow of University College in 1793. He resigned his fellowship a decade later in order to marry, and took up a series of livings (including Long Newton, to which he is identified as being rector in this edition) before becoming prebendary of Salisbury in 1830. Faber was an evangelical (but not a dissenter) who stressed the importance of faith as faith's own justification, and the absolute authority of the scriptures. Faber completed his treatise on the Holy Spirit in 1800, but was by his own definition 'in no hurry' to publish, preferring instead to reflect on and digest what he had written. The work finally appeared c1813-14. Within, he asserts that people are 'no better than heathens' if their Christianity is outward only. Instead, he advocates a 'radical change of heart' accompanied by a concerted change in 'outward manners.


A PRACTICAL TREATISE
THE ORDINARY OPERATIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT


PREFACE


Every person, who is in the least degree acquainted with the corruption of the human heart, will readily acknowledge, that his own unassisted abilities are totally unequal to the task of faithfully serving God. Repeated violations of the most solemn resolutions of amendment have shown him his weakness ; and his numerous lapses have wofully convinced him, that he stands in need of some divine conductor to lead him in safety through the perilous journey of life. Such a guide is promised in Scripture to every sincere Christian.

 We are not to suppose, that the ordinary operations of the Holy Spirit were confined to the apostolic age. Human nature is much alike, at all periods, and in all countries. Though Christianity is now established, and though miraculous interference is no longer necessary to the well-being of the Church ; yet the present race of men will never be essentially better than their heathen predecessors, so long as they rest satisfied with having only outwardly embraced the religion of the Messiah. A mere hypocritical and external profession of faith cannot be pleasing to that God, who regards motives no less than actions. A radical change must take place in the heart, as well as an outward reformation in the manners; and this change can only be effected by the agency of some superior power. The heart is as much averse now to the genuine practice of piety, as it was in the days of the Apostles; and, though we have no longer to combat the horrors of persecution, we have still to struggle with the unwillingness and corruption of the soul. If the whole of religion consisted in the bare belief of certain tenets and in the due observance of certain ceremonies, we should find very little difficulty in becoming thoroughly religious characters. But,

when we are called upon to begin the work of self- reformation: when we are required to love God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength ; when we are enjoined to prefer, upon all occasions, his will to our own, and to sacrifice our bosom sins, our darling vices, upon the altar of Christianity; then commences the struggle: the inbred venom of our nature immediately shows itself; our very spirit rises both against the law and the lawgiver; and we discover the utter impossibility of working any change in our affections merely by our own efforts. No human arguments can persuade a man to love what he hates, and to delight in what he detests. Submission they may perhaps teach him; but it will be the sullen submission of a slave, not the cheerful acquiescence of a son. To produce this change is the peculiar office of the Holy Spirit; and, since none but he can produce it, his ordinary influence is absolutely and universally necessary at present, and will be equally so even to the very end of the world.

In the following pages, I have endeavored to state what appears to me the plain doctrine of Scripture and the Church of England. Though we are repeatedly assured by the word of God, that of ourselves we can do no good thing; yet we. are never represented as mere machines, subjected to an overwhelming and irresistible influence. The aid of the Holy Spirit is freely offered unto all; nor does that blessed Person

cease to strive even with the most profligate, till they have obstinately rejected the counsel of God against themselves. The still small voice of conscience, which is in effect the voice of God, long continues to admonish them: and the extreme difficulty, which they find in silencing it, sufficiently shows how unwilling the Almighty is that any should perish. All that will, may be saved; for our Lord hath expressly declared, that, whosoever cometh unto him, he will in no wise cast him out. Let none therefore despair on the ground of their being rejected by a tremendous and irreversible decree of exclusion: for surely, if such a decree existed, God's repeated expostulations with sinners for slighting his gracious offers, when at the same time they lay under a fatal necessity of slighting them, would be a solemn mockery, unworthy of a being of infinite mercy and holiness.

In fact, the general experience of mankind perfectly agrees with scripture. There never yet was a good man who did not find that he both required and received divine assistance to enable him to overcome his corruptions; and there never yet was a bad man, who did not perceive somewhat within him forcibly restraining him from the commission of sin, and warmly urging him to the practice of holiness. Half of the follies and vanities of the world are mere contrivances to silence this troublesome monitor. Men love darkness rather than lights simply because their deeds are evil.

Reverend George Stanley Faber
May 31, 1800

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Help where you can.

11/10/2013

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There is a need
See to it
Get it done
Help Me out
You have arms and legs

Feel your way to Me.
Help where you can.
You are My arms,
My hands, My feet.
Through you,
My love is complete.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente

Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, Yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours. – St. Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)
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No fear in Love

11/9/2013

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Whomever’s life is directed by fear and worry does not know the fullness of My Love.
Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente
These words, given to me, have stayed with me. Again and again they replay within the recesses of my mind and heart . And now, just a few minutes ago, I heard them again, words saying the same thing but alas in a different way. Not something new, but new to me, new to my understanding. Now, I hear. I hear this Truth spoken so very clear.

Can you hear it to? Do these words as well touch the Truth point within you?

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
  • 1 John 4:18 (NIV)
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Out of the box

11/4/2013

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I can love you. I can love with you. I can love God with you. I can celebrate God’s Love with you. But I will not stand with you in your box and proclaim that only those within that box know the way, the way to God, the way to God realization, the way to Christ Consciousness, the way of Divine Love.

For this Love I know is far too big for any box. And as this Love fills me, I have outgrown any boxes that may have at one time contained all that I believed as true. I live outside the box, where there is room for everyone, both me and you.

Debra Clemente

Continuing with the theme...

I came upon this lovely story that I feel is a very worthy share.

Woe and His Box

A parable from Kryon via Lee Carrol

Listen to now or download MP3

http://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/2013%20downloads/download_billings_13.html

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Child of Light

11/3/2013

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If anyone becomes a 'son of the bride chamber' he will receive the Light. If anyone does not receive it while he is in these places, he cannot receive it in the other place.[10] He who receives any Light will not be seen, nor can he be held fast. No one will be able to trouble him in this way, whether he lives in the world or leaves the world. He has already received the Truth in images, and the World has become the Aeon. For the Aeon already exists for him as Pleroma, and he exists in this way. It is revealed to him alone, since it is not hidden in darkness and night but is hidden in a perfect Day and a holy Night.[11]


If someone experiences Trust and Consciousness in the heart of the embrace,
they become a child of light.
If Someone does not receive these,
it is because they remain attached to what they know;
when they cease to be attached, they will be able to receive them.
Whoever receives this light in nakedness will no longer be recognizable;
none will be able to grasp them, none will be able to make them sad or miserable,
whether they are in this world, or have left it.
They already know the truth in images.
For them, this world has become another world,
and this Temple space [Aeon] is fullness [pleroma],
They are who they are. They are one.
Neither shadow nor night can hide them.

~The Gospel of Philip
Just today, I became acquainted with the Gospel of Philip which I quoted in my blog post. The writing is speaking very clearly and directly to the experience of my own knowing and yet in a way I have heard none other say. 

Many believe these writings to have once been revered as sacred scripture which was not chosen to be part of the "official biblical records" by men whom did not feel the message contained within suited their means, or their own desires of what mankind should know or believe. What was not sanctified by the self chosen men was ordered to be destroyed. But by the mercy if God these sacred words were preserved and hidden away awaiting a time when mankind would have the desire of consciousness to receive the Truth within. 



Debra Clemente


http://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Gospel-of-Philip.pdf



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