Category: Religious Messages

“True servants need to be gentle and humble. Jesus entered the Upper Room to find it full of proud hearts and dirty feet. Not one of the disciples was willing to volunteer for the lowest task of washing dirty feet. Instead, they all argued over who was the greatest among them. Jesus quietly demonstrated to them His gentleness and humility by washing their feet.

All believers are called to walk humbly in the Spirit of God. ‘But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.’ (Gal. 5:16) ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things, there is no law.’ (Gal. 5:22-23)

Being humble is not a sign of weakness: Jesus illustrates by example how an obedient servant walks in the Spirit of our Father. (Selflessness) Serving others is not an easy task. We should realize that we are

humans, filled with weakness, but we must not lock ourselves in a bubble so we will be perfectly safe.

We need to know how to trust in God, how to obey Him, and how to use a proper perspective that will guard us against stumbling. ‘Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the Light of this world.’ [Jesus] (John 11:9).”

TrailNotes, gracefellowship01@gmail.com, “What does God require of you?” Jerry Mathias.

(The Christian life is a journey. TrailNotes speaks to forward movement, paying attention to the “landscape” we are passing through in this trail-laced wooded hillside and valley, not to mention the world beyond. TrailNotes is an unfolding, ongoing journal of the people who share the trail with us and the things we’re learning and doing.)

 

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:  1 – 13

“Breathe in My breath, infill your whole being with it until you become pure Light. Do it consciously.

Feel Me in every breath you breathe. Raise your whole being to Me, emptied of self and let Me infill you with My Light, My Love, My Life.

Let those words which you have heard many times become a part of you; absorb them into your whole being until they vibrate in you and you know the true meaning of them because they live and move and have their being deep within you.  Everything starts from within; realize this.

Never be affected or influenced by any outer conditions or situations.

Seek the peace and stillness of that secret place of the Most High and live from that center, not just part of the time, but all the time.”

Findhorn.org, Findhorn Foundation, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, IV36 3TZ, United Kingdom

Raise your thinking; see the light shining before you and keep your eyes fixed on the light. All around you, there may be darkness, but that does not matter as long as you keep your eye on the light and follow that straight and narrow path, neither looking to the right nor to the left.

Keep on ever onward, knowing that no matter what happens you will reach the goal.

The way may be very rough at times but be not daunted, be strong and of good courage. You each have a contribution to make toward the whole situation.

Thoughts start from individuals and grow and spread.

When your thoughts are of victory and you refuse to allow one thought of defeat into your consciousness, you are doing your part to help lift the whole world situation.

Findhorn.org, Findhorn Foundation, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, IV36 3TZ, United Kingdom