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Love Letters Left Behind

2/2/2014

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“Connecting to the Divine within, instead of praying to God without.” This idea, I recently read, was attributed to the Upanishads. Yes! This is exactly what I do. This is my truth expressed. But who or what are the Upanishads, they who so say? And so another search begins.

The Upanishads are love letters left behind so others as they come can find their way inside to the Divine. Attributed to the Indian mind, they were written by many hands spread far and wide. But the Truth contained within each is the same, for all Truth is One, though called by many names.

This is what you are doing now, you and the many others. You are doing the same. You have called My name. You have answered My call. And you have found Me, realized Me within, within yourself, within all. Thus you write what you know and your life as well shows.

Truth can not be kept down. Forever Truth lives. As you read these long ago writings you will see plainly the same Truth spoken again and again. Come home unto your heart. Come within.
Some attribute this wisdom to oral tradition but Truth such as this is only known spiritually. Words do not serve the heart. Words are only a place to start.


 quotes below from: http://hinduism.about.com/od/scripturesepics/a/upanishads.htm
The authors of the Upanishads were many, but they were not solely from the priestly caste. They were poets prone to flashes of spiritual wisdom, and their aim was to guide a few chosen pupils to the point of liberation, which they themselves had attained.
The term 'Upanishad' literally means, "sitting down near" or "sitting close to", and implies listening closely to the mystic doctrines of a guru or a spiritual teacher, who has cognized the fundamental truths of the universe.
In the Upanishads we get a glimpse into the workings of the minds of the great Indian thinkers who were unhampered by the tyranny of religious dogma, political authority, pressure of public opinion, seeking truth with single-minded devotion, rare in the history of thought.
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Spiritual Rest

1/8/2014

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This I write:
What if you were happy, what if you felt peace no matter what the world said, no matter if anyone believed as you believe?

You would have achieved Kingdom Consciousness. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto thee. 

The question remains for many, how do I get there? How do I arrive? How can I become so aware?

You have to let go of what you know, of what you have figured out, of what you have decided. You have to let go of it all, for every bit of it is what keeps you small. In no way can you define with your words or with your mind this which I am, which you are. It is not about following a list. There is no list which I insist you must obey. Instead I tell you to be still, be silent. Do not move. For it is in this way, this way of inactivity you shall find Me. You will see Me within you, as you. Silently, I await your stillness to know your wholeness, our unity.

And then this I read:
Says the Lord God, the Holy One:
‘In returning to your spiritual rest
shall you be saved;
in quietness and confidence
shall be your strength.’


 
The Urantia Book (1444.6) 131:2.6 w

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Very Real and Very Near

1/2/2014

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What follows was written by Con Solopotias, a new friend, God just brought to me. He tells me that was inspired to write this  at  3:00 A.M. this very morning. Sometimes, I've found, that is the only time God can find a clear way in.

When we are honest and really want to search with an open ear and eye, then we will see that, that which we thing is impenetrable or inscrutable can become very real and very near.

The Creator has hidden all the Christ being which is the Spirit and as each human comes to experience that Christ being then that person destroys the meaning of impenetrable and inscrutable . Why? Because the same Christ that it was with the man Jesus, and many others in the past, is the same that can and comes to any one that is thirsty for that Christ.

Today humanity is almost at the end of its rebellion to that Christ which is the Creator, and as that Christ is awaking our rebellious heart. We are on a place by the UNION of that Christ to have the heavenly MARRIAGE and then we know the Christ as He /She know us. Humanity has a relationship experience with Christ because we can't even lift one finger, without Christ, but humanity doesn’t even know that. When we experience the UNION or MARRIAGE with Christ then, we are as He is, we are the Christ and no more question, no more. Why this or that, for Christ is The LORD, therefore that Lord is all humanity when it is awake and not in denial or rebellious.

What an amazing love and nature that Christ has, if we can believe it, the Glory of that LORD will cover all the earth of our human understanding, all wars will stop, all hunger will not be any more, all hate blown, heaven on earth.

Wow, wow ,wow someone will say can that be true? Yes,yes,yes! Let's start thinking about and it shall be, be, be…It's the plan of the Creator but we must draw it by our choices.

It is written: the son of man Is Lord, The Lord is risen indeed, one Lord one faith, The Lord He/she is God, God is love, I am love , you are love, we all are love. Let's not believe the religious and political doctrines, they have taken humanity in a sick way the wrong direction, it's time to come back home within the Christ, the real You to come out. The Divine is calling: come out of confusion my people, and believe on Me, that I am in you.

- Follow the spiritual writings of
Con Solopotias at this link.

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The Voice of Love never hurts with Its words.

1/2/2014

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My own experience has shown that whenever it is the Voice of God that I hear the message is pure and the meaning is clear. I began to fully understand this in my own mind as when I would ask about anyone or anything, the answers that came to me were always short and sweet. No ego play involved at all. Any selfish dreams the small me might have had to get "the dish or dirt" on another never appeared. ~ Deb



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


So what is the basis of truth, the truth kernel, in tales of witches, those who were said to not be mortal and could instantly manifest themselves at whim anywhere as anything?

This is to do with manifestations of those who possess a higher consciousness and the unknowing mind of material man takes it for evil. As it is a demonstration of power he knows not and fears, he thus calls it evil. Man has lived so small for so many years and has done a fine job of dousing out the fire, putting out the light, of those whose light they did not understand, thus feared. Crucifixion became their answer. Fear has ruled man’s day and night.

There is another group among us living sequestered from our American mainstream society, the Amish and Dunkard’s come to mind. They shun the life and supposed ease of life Americans are so proud of.

Yes, these groups are founded on the principle of simplicity. This is their rule, just as much as the Love of God is.




God Through Colleen Etana with The Holy Spirit:

If you hear a message from one who says they are with Me, and that message speaks or makes you feel separate from the one who is speaking and does not make you feel everyone is included in that message, as it must pertain to everyone as well, I would be highly suspect of both the message and the messenger.
Are they defensive, overbearing and snotty when you question them? Are they reacting rather than patiently and temperately responding?


Also if the message does not magnify, illuminate, or point the way to Me, but seeks to glorify the messenger, know that this is not a Holy Messenger though it may 'sound like a holy message' and do not believe it!
They deceive themselves and seek to take you along with them.

They speak without true knowledge. For they seek to gain followers for themselves rather than disciples for God.

They may speak about Oneness and Love, which may tickle your ears, but you can tell by the way they live their lives continually, not by what they are preaching, no matter what religion they say they are of or seem to practice on the outside.

Learn to read between the lines of the hogwash they're trying to sell you. Unfortunately they are deceived themselves.

And the Truth will come out in the wash eventually along with their true colors, for give them enough rope and they will hang themselves by their own egos.

Speaking not gently, consistently or accurately, they will trip themselves up for all to see.

Are they preaching hell fire and brimstone? Condemnation?

Preaching about how they are bringing My Judgment and Wrath upon the earth?

Be not taken down with them and jump ship quickly for your own sake!

Remember what has been said about lying down with dogs?

I say you will pick up fleas and ticks that bite, molest you and are hard to get rid of, possibly even mange which is even more difficult to cure if at all depending on the type.

And so it is.

AMEN"

disciple (dɪˈsaɪp ə l)
— n
1. a follower of the doctrines of a teacher or a school of thought
2. one of the personal followers of Christ (including his 12 apostles) during his earthly life

[Old English discipul, from Latin discipulus pupil, from discere to learn]

Read more: http://www.godslivingbible.proboards.com/thread/2049/lesson-on-discernment#ixzz2pIgO8E70
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Worth Repeating

12/3/2013

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The following are excerpts from the recently published EVANGELII GAUDIUM an APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS that I believe are worth repeating.
 
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"Worth Repeating" 48" x 36" oil painting by Debra Clemente
The joy of The gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept this offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.
I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them; I ask all of you to do this unfailingly each day. No one should think that this invitation is not meant for him or her, since “no one is excluded from the joy brought by the Lord”. The Lord does not disappoint those who take this risk; whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms. Now is the time to say to Jesus: “Lord, I have let myself be deceived; in a thousand ways I have shunned your love, yet here I am once more, to renew my covenant with you. I need you. Save me once again, Lord, take me once more into your redeeming embrace”. How good it feels to come back to him whenever we are lost! Let me say this once more: God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.
Jesus himself “rejoiced in the Holy Spirit” (Lk 10:21). His message brings us joy: “I have said these things to you, so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete” (Jn 15:11). Our Christian joy drinks of the wellspring of his brimming heart. He promises his disciples: “You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy” (Jn 16:20). He then goes on to say: “But I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you” (Jn 16:22).
I never tire of repeating those words of Benedict XVI which take us to the very heart of the Gospel: “Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction”.
Thanks solely to this encounter – or renewed encounter – with God’s love, which blossoms into an enriching friendship, we are liberated from our narrowness and self-absorption. We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves in order to attain the fullest truth of our being. Here we find the source and inspiration of all our efforts at evangelization. For if we have received the love which restores meaning to our lives, how can we fail to share that love with others?
A renewal of preaching can offer believers, as well as the lukewarm and the non-practicing, new joy in the faith and fruitfulness in the work of evangelization. The heart of its message will always be the same: the God who revealed his immense love in the crucified and risen Christ. God constantly renews his faithful ones, whatever their age: “They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not be faint” (Is 40:31). Christ is the “eternal Gospel” (Rev 14:6); he “is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Heb 13:8), yet his riches and beauty are inexhaustible. He is for ever young and a constant source of newness. The Church never fails to be amazed at “the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God” (Rom 11:33). Saint John of the Cross says that “the thicket of God’s wisdom and knowledge is so deep and so broad that the soul, however much it has come to know of it, can always penetrate deeper within it”. Or as Saint Irenaeus writes: “By his coming, Christ brought with him all newness”. With this newness he is always able to renew our lives and our communities,and even if the Christian message has known periods of darkness and ecclesial weakness, it will never grow old. Jesus can also break through the dull categories with which we would enclose him and he constantly amazes us by his divine creativity. Whenever we make the effort to return to the source and to recover the original freshness of the Gospel, new avenues arise, new paths of creativity open up, with different forms of expression, more eloquent signs and words with new meaning for today’s world. Every form of authentic evangelization is always “new”.
All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.
Moreover, pastors and the lay faithful who accompany their brothers and sisters in faith or on a journey of openness to God must always remember what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches quite clearly: “Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors”. Consequently, without detracting from the evangelical ideal, they need to accompany with mercy and patience the eventual stages of personal growth as these progressively occur.  I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.
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The Pope Understands Me, Thank God

9/20/2013

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Those who have opened their hearts to God’s love, heard his voice and received his light, cannot keep this gift to themselves.  ~ Pope Francis
Amen! Amen! Amen! What a joy, what a gift my heart has received from reading this message of God's Eternal Love delivered by the Pope Francis, the Holy Father of the Catholic Church. He speaks my language, the language of my heart. I have not heard this Truth, which I know so intimately, proclaimed by the Voice of the Catholic Church so blatantly. This is the Truth that we have failed to see. This is the Light we have failed to seek. But, alas It remains to be found by the ardent seeker. Yes, God's Love is True, just like I have been telling you for I can not remain silent. God's Love within me begs me to speak.

The following are excerpts from the encyclical letter Lumen Fidei of the Supreme Pontiff Francis which particularly speak to me and my own experience finding and following the Divine Light of God through Christ's Love most Divine. The complete Lumen Fidei discourse is available at this link.

- Debra Clemente, author of LISTEN HEAR, A Divine Love Story


A light this powerful cannot come from ourselves but from a more primordial source: in a word, it must come from God. Faith is born of an encounter with the living God who calls us and reveals his love, a love which precedes us and upon which we can lean for security and for building our lives. Transformed by this love, we gain fresh vision, new eyes to see; we realize that it contains a great promise of fulfillment, and that a vision of the future opens up before us. Faith, received from God as a supernatural gift, becomes a light for our way, guiding our journey through time.   4. Lumen Fidei
The word which God speaks to us in Jesus is not simply one word among many, but his eternal Word (cf. Heb 1:1-2). God can give no greater guarantee of his love, as Saint Paul reminds us (cf. Rom 8:31-39). Christian faith is thus faith in a perfect love, in its decisive power, in its ability to transform the world and to unfold its history. "We know and believe the love that God has for us" (1 Jn 4:16). In the love of God revealed in Jesus, faith perceives the foundation on which all reality and its final destiny rest.  15. Lumen Fidei
Our culture has lost its sense of God’s tangible presence and activity in our world. We think that God is to be found in the beyond, on another level of reality, far removed from our everyday relationships. But if this were the case, if God could not act in the world, his love would not be truly powerful, truly real, and thus not even true, a love capable of delivering the bliss that it promises. It would make no difference at all whether we believed in him or not. Christians, on the contrary, profess their faith in God’s tangible and powerful love which really does act in history and determines its final destiny: a love that can be encountered, a love fully revealed in Christ’s passion, death and resurrection. 17. Lumen Fidei
In faith, Christ is not simply the one in whom we believe, the supreme manifestation of God’s love; he is also the one with whom we are united precisely in order to believe. Faith does not merely gaze at Jesus, but sees things as Jesus himself sees them, with his own eyes: it is a participation in his way of seeing. In many areas in our lives we trust others who know more than we do. We trust the architect who builds our home, the pharmacist who gives us medicine for healing, the lawyer who defends us in court. We also need someone trustworthy and knowledgeable where God is concerned. Jesus, the Son of God, is the one who makes God known to us (cf. Jn 1:18). Christ’s life, his way of knowing the Father and living in complete and constant relationship with him, opens up new and inviting vistas for human experience.  18. Lumen Fidei
The beginning of salvation is openness to something prior to ourselves, to a primordial gift that affirms life and sustains it in being. Only by being open to and acknowledging this gift can we be transformed, experience salvation and bear good fruit. Salvation by faith means recognizing the primacy of God’s gift. As Saint Paul puts it: "By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God" (Eph 2:8). 19. Lumen Fidei
Faith’s new way of seeing things is centered on Christ. Faith in Christ brings salvation because in him our lives become radically open to a love that precedes us, a love that transforms us from within, acting in us and through us... Christ came down to earth and rose from the dead; by his incarnation and resurrection, the Son of God embraced the whole of human life and history, and now dwells in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Faith knows that God has drawn close to us, that Christ has been given to us as a great gift which inwardly transforms us, dwells within us and thus bestows on us the light that illumines the origin and the end of life.  20. Lumen Fidei
We come to see the difference, then, which faith makes for us. Those who believe are transformed by the love to which they have opened their hearts in faith. By their openness to this offer of primordial love, their lives are enlarged and expanded. "It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" (Gal 2:20). "May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith" (Eph 3:17). The self-awareness of the believer now expands because of the presence of another; it now lives in this other and thus, in love, life takes on a whole new breadth. Here we see the Holy Spirit at work. The Christian can see with the eyes of Jesus and share in his mind, his filial disposition, because he or she shares in his love, which is the Spirit. In the love of Jesus, we receive in a certain way his vision. Without being conformed to him in love, without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to confess him as Lord (cf. 1 Cor 12:3). 21. Lumen Fidei

Faith becomes operative in the Christian on the basis of the gift received, the love which attracts our hearts to Christ (cf. Gal 5:6), and enables us to become part of the Church’s great pilgrimage through history until the end of the world. For those who have been transformed in this way, a new way of seeing opens up, faith becomes light for their eyes.  22. Lumen Fidei
The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path. 25. Lumen Fidei
This being the case, can Christian faith provide a service to the common good with regard to the right way of understanding truth? To answer this question, we need to reflect on the kind of knowledge involved in faith. Here a saying of Saint Paul can help us: "One believes with the heart" (Rom 10:10). In the Bible, the heart is the core of the human person, where all his or her different dimensions intersect: body and spirit, interiority and openness to the world and to others, intellect, will and affectivity. If the heart is capable of holding all these dimensions together, it is because it is where we become open to truth and love, where we let them touch us and deeply transform us. Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love. Through this blending of faith and love we come to see the kind of knowledge which faith entails, its power to convince and its ability to illumine our steps. Faith knows because it is tied to love, because love itself brings enlightenment. Faith’s understanding is born when we receive the immense love of God which transforms us inwardly and enables us to see reality with new eyes. 26. Lumen Fidei
The bond between seeing and hearing in faith-knowledge is most clearly evident in John’s Gospel. For the Fourth Gospel, to believe is both to hear and to see. Faith’s hearing emerges as a form of knowing proper to love: it is a personal hearing, one which recognizes the voice of the Good Shepherd (cf. Jn 10:3-5) 30. Lumen Fidei
 As a truth of love, it is not one that can be imposed by force; it is not a truth that stifles the individual. Since it is born of love, it can penetrate to the heart, to the personal core of each man and woman. Clearly, then, faith is not intransigent, but grows in respectful coexistence with others. One who believes may not be presumptuous; on the contrary, truth leads to humility, since believers know that, rather than ourselves possessing truth, it is truth which embraces and possesses us. Far from making us inflexible, the security of faith sets us on a journey; it enables witness and dialogue with all. 34. Lumen Fidei
Of Enoch "it was attested that he had pleased God" (Heb 11:5), something impossible apart from faith, for "whoever would approach God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him" (Heb 11:6). We can see from this that the path of religious man passes through the acknowledgment of a God who cares for us and is not impossible to find. What other reward can God give to those who seek him, if not to let himself be found? Even earlier, we encounter Abel, whose faith was praised and whose gifts, his offering of the firstlings of his flock (cf. Heb 11:4), were therefore pleasing to God. Religious man strives to see signs of God in the daily experiences of life, in the cycle of the seasons, in the fruitfulness of the earth and in the movement of the cosmos. God is light and he can be found also by those who seek him with a sincere heart. 35. Lumen Fidei
An image of this seeking can be seen in the Magi, who were led to Bethlehem by the star (cf. Mt 2:1-12). For them God’s light appeared as a journey to be undertaken, a star which led them on a path of discovery. The star is a sign of God’s patience with our eyes which need to grow accustomed to his brightness. Religious man is a wayfarer; he must be ready to let himself be led, to come out of himself and to find the God of perpetual surprises. This respect on God’s part for our human eyes shows us that when we draw near to God, our human lights are not dissolved in the immensity of his light, as a star is engulfed by the dawn, but shine all the more brightly the closer they approach the primordial fire, like a mirror which reflects light. Christian faith in Jesus, the one Saviour of the world, proclaims that all God’s light is concentrated in him, in his "luminous life" which discloses the origin and the end of history.[31] There is no human experience, no journey of man to God, which cannot be taken up, illumined and purified by this light. The more Christians immerse themselves in the circle of Christ’s light, the more capable they become of understanding and accompanying the path of every man and woman towards God.

Because faith is a way, it also has to do with the lives of those men and women who, though not believers, nonetheless desire to believe and continue to seek. To the extent that they are sincerely open to love and set out with whatever light they can find, they are already, even without knowing it, on the path leading to faith. They strive to act as if God existed, at times because they realize how important he is for finding a sure compass for our life in common or because they experience a desire for light amid darkness, but also because in perceiving life’s grandeur and beauty they intuit that the presence of God would make it all the more beautiful. Saint Irenaeus of Lyons tells how Abraham, before hearing God’s voice, had already sought him "in the ardent desire of his heart" and "went throughout the whole world, asking himself where God was to be found", until "God had pity on him who, all alone, had sought him in silence". [32] Any-one who sets off on the path of doing good to others is already drawing near to God, is already sustained by his help, for it is characteristic of the divine light to brighten our eyes whenever we walk towards the fullness of love. 35. Lumen Fidei
Right faith orients reason to open itself to the light which comes from God, so that reason, guided by love of the truth, can come to a deeper knowledge of God. The great medieval theologians and teachers rightly held that theology, as a science of faith, is a participation in God’s own knowledge of himself. It is not just our discourse about God, but first and foremost the acceptance and the pursuit of a deeper understanding of the word which God speaks to us, the word which God speaks about himself, for he is an eternal dialogue of communion, and he allows us to enter into this dialogue.[33] 36. Lumen Fidei
Those who have opened their hearts to God’s love, heard his voice and received his light, cannot keep this gift to themselves. 37. Lumen Fidei
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Deepening into Truth

7/27/2013

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I have been through an amazing process of deepening into Truth and integrating the power and presence of God within me. 
Words from Silence: An Invitation to Spiritual Awakening by Leonard Jacobson


This is what I am as well doing presently, "Deepening into Truth." I am learning from these Words, this Wisdom that come to me. I feel I am to do more with all that I am being given, given so continually and in time I will. For God's Will be done through me as I surrender my own will so completely. ~ Deb

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When Realization Awakens

7/23/2013

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Tears of JOY and THANKSGIVING come over me as I began to read. "Did I write this?" I wonder, for the WORDS and MESSAGE are the same as I continually receive. From One AUTHOR, ONE SOURCE OF ALL this WISDOM comes. Oh, what a JOY IT IS, THIS TRUTH TO LIVE AND KNOW. ~ Deb

"In the Silence of my soul, I listened to the Lord"

The Divine Word by Brother Mandus
(1907 - 1988) Founder of the World Healing Crusade


"I AM your Heavenly Father, and I come to you now as the living Presence
within your own being. There comes a time in the life of all My Children when
realization awakens. There comes a time when those who have already
experienced My Love are ready to be lifted into an even higher state of
consciousness. Because I am your Father I am forever creating ways for you
to expand your consciousness in harmony with My Own Perfection.

Turn away from the World for awhile and listen to Me! Forget yourself and
realize that I am God, the Christ Spirit within you now. You and I are one. We
never can be separated because you are of My Own Being. My Life is your
life. My Mind is your mind. My Love is your love. You are exactly as I am in
miniature, with the same eternal life and an infinite potential for increasingly
wonderful expression. You are because I am.

I have been with you from the beginning and I never cease to bathe you in My
Love. I lead you, protect and cherish you as My Own. In all My Realms of
material Worlds and spiritual heavens I have only one you. I created you that
you may grow in love, wisdom, knowledge and joy. I see for you adventures
beyond your greatest dreams. I long for you to take all the gifts which I have
prepared for you. As quickly as you learn to know Me you will realise that I
can only give you everything you desire. All I have, all I am, is your own for
you to accept.

I AM the Perfect Life within you. I am health and happiness, peace and
prosperity, love and laughter, wisdom and all knowledge. I am the abundant
life. All these things you already possess in My Spirit. My Universe has been
evolved through My Own Being. I hold it poised in My Mind. I live in the midst
of it. I am the Life that springs forth in trees and flowers and in every growing
plant and fruit. I am the Life and Beauty of the World and of Man.

Wherever your vision rests, there am I. You cannot mistake My Presence, for
I reveal Myself in countless ways. So many of My Children have become blind
to the Reality, to the evidence of My Presence. They accept themselves, and
all your wonderful World, without thought and deny My Almighty Love and
Intelligence which makes it all possible. They neither believe the evidence of
their own senses, nor the truth so obvious in their own beings.

But you I lift into My Consciousness now. I redeem you from blindness and
give you clear vision. I call you out of the World into your Kingdom within
where I can commune with you, and give you guidance, wisdom,
understanding and truth. I expand your soul in My Love and send you forth to
cultivate a greater love, a greater power, and to create with Me a more
wonderful way than you have ever known.

Every day you have your problems. But when you know I am with you there is
nothing to fear. If you will continue to be poised in My Spirit, I am
instantaneous Perfection in the midst of all seeming chaos, illness or
tribulation. You will overcome the World in My Strength.

You can live but one moment at a time. This moment is the only one that is of
any consequence to you. Therefore I charge you to fill it with simple trust in
Me, and with perfect love. That is the answer to every subsequent moment as
it dawns.

There is no difficulty, no illness, no seeming tragedy that is too great for My
Love to overcome. But when you insist on turning away from Me to dwell in
fear or worry on the difficulty, I must stand aside until you come back to Me. I
can only manifest My Perfection in you when you allow Me to do so. That is
your right of choice, the perfect freedom I give to you to think and live as you
wish.

My Law is Perfect. I know you will eventually live in complete harmony with
Me and thus enter perfect happiness and achievement. You are, as yet, but
learning how to live as a free being. The time has come when you shall really
begin to claim your spiritual freedom through a clearer, simpler understanding
of My Presence.

I want you to know that My Great Law is Love. It is the Great Law because I
am Love, and all things that are perfectly created are done through the Power
of thought expressed in Love.

Therefore to the extent you live in love, forgetting and sacrificing self in
service, you become one with Me. It is fundamental to your health and
happiness that you shall Love with all your heart and mind. You shall love
your family, friends and neighbours. More important you shall love those who
hurt you, your so-called enemies, be they individuals or nations. I love all, for I
am all.

When you are in the throes of conflict and your mind turns to anger,
resentment and bitterness, remember that you are hating Me. The bitterness
of your distorted thoughts, often translated into harmful physical action, not
only destroys the well-being of others, but produces spiritual, mental and
physical illness in you. I never will illness upon My Children.

You shall learn to love all, and through your understanding, to forgive all.
When you become aware of evil coming to you, the only answer is to see Me,
the Perfect Christ within the other. That is the Man you shall love. Then you
can forgive the outer man, and be compassionate, for if he despitefully uses
you, he does so out of ignorance of My Law. Love him, pray for him, forgive
him, then you lift him up to Me and I lift you up also.

From this moment let love be your constant companion, then I shall be with
you, too. Love your people, love your work. Do all things as a loving service
for Me. Every moment will then be filled with joy, and power and success, for I
shall sustain you in everything you do.

The other Law you need to know is the Law of Mind which insists, necessarily
that an experience can only become real to you when you recognise it. What
ever you accept in consciousness becomes real. You exercise your faith
every time you do this. You have faith in the ground you walk upon, faith in
the life within you, faith in the Sun and the rain, faith in the chairs and bed you
use, faith in your ability to come here or go there. All such experiences you
daily accept as Reality and thus they become concrete experience.

It is this Law which naturally must operate when you think of Me. I too can
only become a Reality when you consciously accept Me as Real. When you
know I am the Almighty Love, Wisdom, intelligence and all good within you,
you are free forever.

From this moment I charge YOU to fill your life with love and to trust Me in all
things. Ask and I am instantly the Perfect Answer. Give me your burdens, and
I will disperse them. Forget the ills you hold so closely by remembering Me.
Forgive yourself in loving Me, and serving all. I am your Lord, and when you
keep your mind filled with the knowledge that health, joy, Prosperity and
everything that is Perfect are now pouring into your life they become your
own."

GOD BLESS YOU!

http://brothermandus.wwwhubs.com/mandus3.htm
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As Per Emerson's Suggestion

7/23/2013

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“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Delight! Enjoy! God is not a thing. God is an attitude – an attitude of
celebration and festivity. Drop all sadness. God is so close – dance!
Drop long faces… It is sacrilege as He is so close by. Forget your
childish miseries and worries; He is so close by. Don’t go on brooding
about immaterial things; He is so close by. Allow Him to hold your
hand. He has been waiting for you for long.” ~Osho
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
― E.E. Cummings
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott
One should never apologize for living in truth. For a meaningful life is lived in truth. ~ Nelline Naidoo
“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.” ― Brian L. Weiss
“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”
― Rob Bell
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