Consider This
Post date: Aug 22, 2012 8:48:21 PM
Points JESUS CHRIST spoke of; for us to meditate and consider!
· Prayer
The sincerity of any prayer is the assurance of its being heard...
What the true son desires and the infinite Father wills IS. Such a prayer cannot remain unanswered, and no other sort of petition can possibly be fully answered.
The motive of the prayer gives it right of way to the divine ear, not the social, economic, or outward religious status of the one who prays.
Pray for the welfare of your families, friends, and fellows, but especially pray for those who curse you, and make loving petitions for those who persecute you.
There is but one form of prayer which is appropriate for all God's children, and that is: "Nevertheless, your will be done."
Prayer is a part of the divine plan for making over that which is into that which ought to be.
· Think About This...
"Let experience teach you the value of meditation and the power of intelligent reflection."
"The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner
"Verily, verily, I say to you, he who rules his own self is greater than he who captures a city" Your Sonship is grounded in faith, and you are to remain unmoved by fear."
Said Jesus: "My disciples must not only cease to do evil but learn to do well; you must not only be cleansed from all conscious sin, but you must refuse to harbour even the feelings of guilt. If you confess your sins, they are forgiven; therefore must you maintain a conscience void of offence."
"As I have revealed the Father, so shall you reveal the divine love, not merely with words, but in your daily living." "The teacher of truth attracts only those who hunger for the truth and who thirst for righteousness." "Remember, as you go forth proclaiming peace on earth and good will among men, you must contend with bitter and self-deceived enemies; therefore be as wise as serpents while you are also as harmless as doves."
The God-conscious mortal is certain of salvation; he is unafraid of life; he is honest and consistent. Every day a true believer lives, he finds it easier to do the right thing. "When you are in this way tempted, I admonish you that, while you recognize temptation honestly and sincerely for just what it is, you intelligently redirect the energies of spirit, mind, and body, which are seeking expression, into higher channels and toward more idealistic goals." "The religion of the spirit leaves you forever free to follow the truth wherever the leading of the spirit may take you." Do not make the mistake of fighting evil with its own weapons.
"That which is old and also true must abide. Likewise, that which is new but false must be rejected. But that which is new and also true, have the faith and courage to accept."
"Commit not the folly of calling that divine which is wholly human, and fail not to discern the words of truth which come not through the traditional oracles of supposed inspiration."
Effective Ministry
"It is a marvellous and transforming experience to become the living channel of spiritual light to the mortal who sits in spiritual darkness."
"Give the milk of truth to those who are babes in spiritual perception. In your living and loving ministry serve spiritual food in attractive form and suited to the capacity of receptivity of each of your inquirers.
"Go seek for the sinners; find the downhearted and comfort the anxious."
"The Father rather desires that you draw out your heart to the hungry and that you minister to the afflicted souls; then shall your light shine in obscurity, and even your darkness shall be as the noonday."
As the days pass, every true believer becomes more skilful in alluring his fellows into the love of eternal truth. Are you more resourceful in revealing goodness to humanity today than you were yesterday?
"And when the feelings of service for your fellow men arise within your soul, do not stifle them; when the emotions of love for your neighbour well up within your heart, give expression to such urges of affection in intelligent ministry to the real needs of your fellows."
In bringing men into the kingdom, do not lessen or destroy their self-respect.
"Let me emphatically state this eternal truth: If you, by truth co-ordination, learn to exemplify in your lives this beautiful wholeness of righteousness, your fellow men will then seek after you that they may gain what you have so acquired. The measure wherewith truth seekers are drawn to you represents the measure of your truth endowment, your righteousness. The extent to which you have to go with your message to the people is, in a way, the measure of your failure to live the whole or righteous life, the truth-co-ordinated life."
"And everywhere you go, preach, saying, `The kingdom of heaven is at hand,' and minister to all who may be sick in either mind or body. Freely you have received of the good things of the kingdom; freely give."
"And remember that, inasmuch as you minister to one of the least of my brethren, you have done this service to me."
Let all mankind benefit from the overflow of your loving spiritual ministry, enlightening intellectual communion, and uplifting social service; but none of these humanitarian labours nor all of them, should be permitted to take the place of proclaiming the gospel.
· Can't We All Just Get Along?
"To become acquainted with one's brothers and sisters, to know their problems and to learn to love them, is the supreme experience of living."
"You are commissioned to save men, not to judge them."
Take care that you do not wound the self-respect of timid and fearful souls. Do not indulge in sarcasm...
As you grow older in years and more experienced in the affairs of the kingdom, are you becoming more tactful in dealing with troublesome mortals and more tolerant in living with stubborn associates? Tact is the fulcrum of social leverage, and tolerance is the earmark of a great soul. If you possess these rare and charming gifts, as the days pass you will become more alert and expert in your worthy efforts to avoid all unnecessary social misunderstandings.
"Make not the mistake of trying to pluck a speck out of your brother's eye when there is a beam in your own eye. Having first cast the beam out of your own eye, you can the better see to cast the mote out of your brother's eye."
"Become interested in your fellows; learn how to love them and watch for the opportunity to do something for them which you are sure they want done,"
"...show forth love, compassion, and sympathy."
Throughout the vicissitudes of life, remember always to love one another. Do not strive with men, even with unbelievers. Show mercy even to those who despitefully abuse you.
"Love men with the love wherewith I have loved you and serve your fellow mortals even as I have served you. By the spirit fruits of your lives impel souls to believe the truth that man is a son of God, and that all men are brethren."
"By... drawing close to your fellow men in understanding sympathy and with unselfish devotion, you will lead them into a saving knowledge of the Father's love."
· Forgive and Forget
God's forgiveness in fact is not conditioned upon your forgiving your fellows, but in experience it is exactly so conditioned.
"Your inability or unwillingness to forgive your fellows is the measure of your immaturity, your failure to attain adult sympathy, understanding, and love. You hold grudges and nurse vengefulness in direct proportion to your ignorance of the inner nature and true longings of your children and your fellow beings. Love is the outworking of the divine and inner urge of life. It is founded on understanding, nurtured by unselfish service, and perfected in wisdom."
And when he said, "Resist not evil," he later explained that he did not mean to condone sin or to counsel fraternity with iniquity. He intended the more to teach forgiveness, to "resist not evil treatment of one's personality, evil injury to one's feelings of personal dignity."
"How can you come to God asking consideration for your shortcomings when you are wont to chastise your brethren for being guilty of these same human frailties?"
"When a wise man understands the inner impulses of his fellows, he will love them. And when you love your brother, you have already forgiven him. If you are wise parents, this is the way you will love and understand your children, even forgive them when transient misunderstanding has apparently separated you."
· When you’re Discouraged...
Do not become discouraged by the discovery that you are human. Human nature may tend toward evil, but it is not inherently sinful. Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity. Lighten your burdens of soul by speedily acquiring a long-distance view of your destiny, a universe expansion of your career.
"...everything must await the coming of its time."
" You must realize that the best method of solving some entangled problems is to forsake them for a time."
"You may be surrounded with small enemies and be delayed by many obstacles, but the big things and the real things of this world and the universe are on your side."
"Set your mind at work to solve its problems; teach your intellect to work for you; refuse longer to be dominated by fear ..."
The measure of your human strength of character is your ability to resist the holding of grudges and your capacity to withstand brooding in the face of deep sorrow. Defeat is the true mirror in which you may honestly view your real self.
"What you are becoming day by day is of infinitely more importance than what you are today."
Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity.
“Forget not that I will stop at nothing to restore self-respect to those who have lost it, and who really desire to regain it.”
"I have come into the world to put love in the place of fear, joy in the place of sorrow, confidence in the place of dread, loving service and appreciative worship in the place of slavish bondage and meaningless ceremonies."
Your spiritual destiny is conditioned only by your spiritual longings and purposes.
"... why should you live in fear of the many trifles which come up in your daily lives? I say to you: Fear not; you are of much more value than many sparrows."
"Kingdom builders, the accredited citizens of the heavenly worlds, are not to be disturbed by temporal upheavals or perturbed by terrestrial cataclysms. What does it matter to you who believe this gospel of the kingdom if nations overturn, the age ends, or all things visible crash, since you know that your life is the gift of the Son, and that it is eternally secure in the Father?"
"In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have triumphed in the world and shown you the way to eternal joy and everlasting service."
"In the time of testing, a man's soul is revealed; trial discloses what really is in the heart."
"Even now you should begin to find deliverance from the bondage of fear and doubt as you enter upon the living of the new life of faith and hope."
· Flex Your Faith Muscles
"It is your faith that saves your souls. Salvation is the gift of God to all who believe they are his sons."
"When, by living faith, you become divinely God-conscious, you are then born of the spirit as children of light and life, even the eternal life wherewith you shall ascend the universe of universes and attain the experience of finding God the Father on Paradise."
"That which the world needs most to know is: Men are the sons of God, and through faith they can actually realize, and daily experience, this ennobling truth."
"Peace be upon you. You all know that we have one Father in heaven, and that there is but one gospel of the kingdom—the good news of the gift of eternal life which men receive by faith."
When my children once become self-conscious of the assurance of the divine presence, such a faith will expand the mind, ennoble the soul, reinforce the personality, augment the happiness, deepen the spirit perception, and enhance the power to love and be loved.
"... you who have been called out of darkness into the light are expected to believe with a whole heart; your faith shall dominate the combined attitudes of body, mind, and spirit.
The believer has only one battle, and that is against doubt—unbelief.
"Genuine faith will remove mountains of material difficulty which may chance to lie in the path of soul expansion and spiritual progress."
"Question not my Father's power of love, only the sincerity and reach of your faith. All things are possible to him who really believes."
"Fear not; only believe."
" Better by far to have a small but living and growing faith than to be possessed of a great intellect with its dead stores of worldly wisdom and spiritual unbelief."
"Grow in grace by means of that living faith which grasps the fact that you are the sons of God while at the same time it recognizes every man as a brother."
· Be a Server of All
"I lived my life in the flesh to show how you can, through loving service, become God-revealing to your fellow men even as, by loving you and serving you, I have become God-revealing to you."
"You have seen the way of service in my life among you, and blessed are you who will have the gracious courage so to serve."
"When you give a banquet, sometimes bid the poor, the maimed, and the blind. In this way you shall be blessed in your heart, for you well know that the lame and the halt cannot repay you for your loving ministry."
"I tell you that, even when a cup of cold water is given to a thirsty soul, the Father's messengers shall ever make record of such a service of love."
· Are You Born Of The Spirit?
"Salvation is the free gift of God, but those who are born of the spirit will immediately begin to show forth the fruits of the spirit in loving service to their fellow creatures. And the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace."
"In order to yield the fruits of the spirit, you must be born of the spirit. You must be taught by the spirit and be led by the spirit if you would live the spirit-filled life among your fellows."
"Those who are born of the spirit of God shall henceforth discern the word of God regardless of whence it appears to take origin. Divine truth must not be discounted because the channel of its bestowal is apparently human."
"I have called upon you to be born again, to be born of the spirit."
· Live Forever
"You rejoice to know that I am the resurrection and the life, but this will avail you nothing unless you are first born of the eternal spirit, thereby coming to possess, by faith, the gift of eternal life. If you are the faith sons of my Father, you shall never die; you shall not perish."
"When you have by faith once established yourself as a son of God, nothing else matters as regards the surety of survival."
"I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live. In truth, whosoever lives and believes in me shall never really die."
"Verily, verily, I say to you who believe the gospel that, if a man will keep this word of truth alive in his heart, he shall never taste death.
· Living As If You Are In The Kingdom
"You are in this world, but your lives are not to be world-like."
"... my disciples shall enter the kingdom of heaven by their moral decisions and by their spirit victories; and when they once enter therein, they shall find joy, righteousness, and eternal life."
"If you would but believe that my Father loves you with an infinite love, then you are in the kingdom of God."
"The door of the kingdom is wide open for all who desire to know the truth and to find God."
"Take lessons from those who make friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness, and likewise so conduct your lives that you make eternal friendship with the forces of righteousness in order that, when all things earthly fail, you shall be joyfully received into the eternal habitations."
"In gaining an entrance into the kingdom of heaven, it is the motive that counts. My Father looks into the hearts of men and judges by their inner longings and their sincere intentions."
"The kingdom of heaven consists in these three essentials: first, recognition of the fact of the sovereignty of God; second, belief in the truth of Sonship with God; and third, faith in the effectiveness of the supreme human desire to do the will of God—to be like God. And this is the good news of the gospel: that by faith every mortal may have all these essentials of salvation."
"But when the Father's will becomes truly your will, then are you in very truth in the kingdom because the kingdom has thereby become an established experience in you."
· Love Is The Most Important Thing
"Devote your life to proving that love is the greatest thing in the world. It is the love of God that impels men to seek salvation. Love is the ancestor of all spiritual goodness, the essence of the true and the beautiful."
"I give you this new commandment: That you love one another even as I have loved you. And by this will all men know that you are my disciples if you thus love one another."
"I would cause the walls of prejudice, self-righteousness, and hate to crumble before this preaching of the Father's love for all men."
"Let your hearts be so dominated by love that your spirit guide will have little trouble in delivering you from the tendency to give vent to those outbursts of animal anger which are inconsistent with the status of divine Sonship."
" ... love God supremely and your neighbour as yourself. And it is this supreme law of love for God and for man that I also declare to you as constituting the whole duty of man."
"You will learn to love your brethren more when you first learn to love their Father in heaven more, and after you have become truly more interested in their welfare in time and in eternity." ~
· Take The High Road
"You are all the children of light; therefore stumble not into the misunderstanding entanglements of mortal suspicion and human intolerance. If you are ennobled, by the grace of faith, to love unbelievers, should you not also equally love those who are your fellow believers in the far- spreading household of faith? Remember, as you love one another, all men will know that you are my disciples." ~
"Revere goodness and exalt truth. Choose the beautiful in place of the ugly. Love your fellows and reach out for God with a whole heart, for God is your Father in heaven."
"When an enemy smites you on one cheek, do not stand there dumb and passive but in positive attitude turn the other; that is, do the best thing possible actively to lead your brother in error away from the evil paths into the better ways of righteous living."
"And again I say to you, be not overcome by evil but rather overcome evil with good."
"Do not allow yourselves to become blinded by prejudice and paralysed by fear."
"It is not that which enters into the mouth that spiritually defiles the man, but rather that which proceeds out of the mouth and from the heart."
"Do your good deeds in secret; when you give alms, let not the left hand know what the right hand does."
· I Promise You...
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I make these gifts not as the world gives, by measure; I give each of you all you will receive. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. I have overcome the world, and in me you shall all triumph through faith."
"In the Father's kingdom you are to become new creatures; old things are to pass away; behold I show you how all things are to become new."
"He who comes to me shall not hunger, while he who believes me shall never thirst."
Believing the gospel will not prevent getting into trouble, but it will insure that you shall be unafraid when trouble does overtake you. I do not promise to deliver you from the waters of adversity, but I do promise to go with you through all of them.
"If you will maintain this living spiritual connection with me, you will bear abundant fruit. If you abide in me and my words live in you, you will be able to commune freely with me, and then can my living spirit so infuse you that you may ask whatsoever my spirit wills and do all this with the assurance that the Father will grant us our petition."
"If you will only love one another as I am loving you, you shall be my friends, and I will ever speak to you of that which the Father reveals to me."
"This new teacher [the Spirit of Truth]... will live with each one of you, in your hearts, and so will all the children of light be made one and be drawn toward one another."
"The Father and I will both work with you, and you shall experience the divine fullness of joy if you will only obey my command to love one another, even as I have loved you."
"He who believes this gospel, believes not merely in me but in Him who sent me. I am the light of the world, and whosoever will believe my teaching shall no longer abide in darkness."
"And now I declare to you that I, if I be lifted up on earth and in your lives, will draw all men to myself and into the fellowship of my Father. He who walks in the darkness knows not where he goes; but if you will choose to walk in the light, you shall all indeed become liberated sons of God."
"...be of good courage, for I will sometime return. In the meantime, my Spirit of the Truth of a universe shall comfort and guide you."
"Let me assure you, once and for all, that, if you dedicate your lives to the work of the kingdom, all your real needs shall be supplied."
"I declare that salvation is first a matter of your personal choosing. Even if the door to the way of life is narrow, it is wide enough to admit all who sincerely seek to enter, for I am that door. And the Son will never refuse entrance to any child of the universe who, by faith, seeks to find the Father through the Son."
"But fear not; every one who sincerely desires to find eternal life by entrance into the kingdom of God shall certainly find such everlasting salvation."
"Behold, I stand at the doors of men's hearts and knock, and if any man will open to me, I will come in and sup with him and will feed him with the bread of life."
"I always stand near, and my invitation-call is, and ever shall be, Come to me all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am true and loyal, and you shall find spiritual rest for your souls."
"...all who truly seek to find me shall sometime attain the life that leads to my Father's presence."
"I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life."
“...where two or three believers are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them."
"Come, therefore, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and you shall find rest for your souls. Take upon you the divine yoke, and you will experience the peace of God, which passes all understanding."
"Again I say to you: Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For every one who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door of salvation will be opened."
· The Presence Of God
"It matters little what idea of the Father you may entertain as long as you are spiritually acquainted with the ideal of his infinite and eternal nature."
"It is not so important that you should know about the fact of God as that you should increasingly grow in the ability to feel the presence of God."
"The goodness of God leads to repentance; the beneficence of God leads to service; the mercy of God leads to salvation; while the love of God leads to intelligent and free-hearted worship."
"I would teach you to 'love God and learn to do his will, for that is the highest privilege of the liberated sons of God.'"
"... he speaks within the human heart as a still, small voice, saying, `This is the way; walk therein.' Do you not comprehend that God dwells within you, that he has become what you are that he may make you what he is!"
"The bonds of time may seem to afflict you, but the God of eternity loves you."
· The Business Of Living
"You are not to be saved because you live a righteous life; rather is it that you live a righteous life because you have already been saved, have recognized Sonship as the gift of God and service in the kingdom as the supreme delight of life on earth."
"Life in the Father's eternal creation is not an endless rest of idleness and selfish ease but rather a ceaseless progression in grace, truth, and glory. Each of the many, many stations in my Father's house is a stopping place, a life designed to prepare you for the next one ahead. And so will the children of light go on from glory to glory until they attain the divine estate wherein they are spiritually perfected even as the Father is perfect in all things."
The religion of the spirit means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress
Show yourselves to be loyal citizens, upright artisans, praiseworthy neighbours, devoted kinsmen, understanding parents, and sincere believers in the brotherhood of the Father's kingdom.
You are not to be passive mystics or colourless ascetics; you should not become dreamers and drifters, supinely trusting in a fictitious Providence to provide even the necessities of life.
"Whosoever wishes to be my disciple, let him disregard himself and take up the full measure of his responsibilities daily to follow me."
"If any man would come after me, let him disregard himself, take up his responsibilities daily, and follow me. For whosoever would save his life selfishly, shall lose it, but whosoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's, shall save it. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? What would a man give in exchange for eternal life? Be not ashamed of me and my words in this sinful and hypocritical generation, even as I will not be ashamed to acknowledge you when in glory I appear before my Father in the presence of all the celestial hosts."
Difficulty sharpens the ardour of the truth lover, while obstacles only challenge the exertions of the undaunted kingdom builder.
"You are to let your light shine but do so with wisdom and discretion. No man, when he lights a lamp, covers it up with a vessel or puts it under the bed; he puts his lamp on a stand where all can behold the light."
· Tough Love
"I assert that no man can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to one while he despises the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon."
"Humility before God is altogether appropriate in the depths of your hearts; meekness before men is commendable; but the hypocrisy of self- conscious and attention-craving humility is childish and unworthy of the enlightened sons of the kingdom."
"You are hardly worthy of the kingdom when your service consists so largely in an attitude of regretting the past, whining over the present, and vainly hoping for the future. Cease your useless yearning and go forth bravely doing that which concerns the establishment of the kingdom."
"Whatever thing or person comes between you and the love of the truths of the Kingdom must be surrendered."
"True and genuine inward certainty does not in the least fear outward analysis, nor does truth resent honest criticism. You should never forget that intolerance is the mask covering up the entertainment of secret doubts as to the trueness of one's belief."
Offer not consolation to those who lie down before their troubles without a struggle. Sympathize not with your fellows merely that they may sympathize with you in return. You are destined to live a narrow and mean life if you learn to love only those who love you.
"I say to you: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. And whatsoever you believe that I would do to men, do you also to them."
· Finally...
"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid."
"...I have not come to call the would-be righteous but sinners and all who hunger and thirst for the righteousness of divine perfection." The real universe is friendly to every child of the eternal God
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husband-man. I am the vine, and you are the branches."
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