Category: Religious Messages

In God We Trust

“Consider this: There exists upon your planet a mighty nation, a people calling itself the United States.

The founding fathers of this union proclaimed that basic to the premise of the charter upon which their country would be built would be the theme, “In God We Trust.”

Ideally perfect.

However, to trust in God is to equally trust in the laws that govern Creation.

Trust, used as a baseline expression for one’s life, is so powerful a tool that those who support trust as the decision-making criterion are unwavering in their belief that they are indeed cared for and tended by the merciful and loving God.

They know that no thing need be feared.

Such a being is an utterly free being, one who naturally exudes the warmth of inner peace.  Like a healing rain, the love these individuals radiate falls all around them, caressing the parched hearts of the spiritually forlorn.

The full force of trust, as it becomes automatically fixed in the workings of your mind and your body, contains so great a power that it enables you to build within yourself a natural immunity to the disease of despair.

Finely honed, trust is like an exquisitely crafted tool.  To use it wisely is to redesign your life, to create the necessary skills to carry out the dynamics of your life’s highest purpose, of that which whispers through your heart.”

Songs Of The Arcturians, Patricia Pereira, p. 72-73.

The Voice Of The Holy Spirit

“The Voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. It does not demand, because It does not seek control.

It does not overcome, because It does not attack.  It merely reminds. It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of.  It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make.

The Voice for God is always quiet because It speaks of peace.  Peace is stronger than war because it heals.

The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing.  He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice because He speaks for God.  He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy.

The Holy Spirit is the way in which God’s Will is done on earth as it is in Heaven. Both Heaven and earth are in you because the call of both is in your mind.”

A Course In Miracles, (ACIM, T-5.II.8:1-5), (ACIM, T-5.II.7:1-8)

Let Go With Ease

“In Richard Bach’s book, Illusions, he tells a story about a group of creatures who spend their lives clinging to the bottom of a river, resisting the current. One creature finally declares, ‘I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will.’

I may find myself resisting circumstances in my life, clinging to my perceived safety nets out of fear of the unknown. When I let go and let God, I accept what appears in my life and allow the flow of Spirit to carry me. I trust that God will take me where I need to go.

I release any need to control life’s conditions. I let go with ease and let divine order design my life.”

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.—Proverbs 3:5-6

dailyword.com

Biblical Ideas On Humility

“With the same intensity that God, in the Bible, hates arrogance, God loves humility.  Could that be the reason that He offers so many tips on cultivating it?  ‘May I, ahem, humbly articulate a few?’ asks Max Lucado in his book, Traveling Light.

  1.  Assess yourself honestly.  Humility isn’t the same as low self-esteem. ‘Don’t cherish exaggerated ideas of yourself or your importance, but try to have a sane estimate of your capabilities by the light of the faith that God has given to you.’ (Rom. 12:3 PHILLIPS)
  2.  Don’t take success too seriously.  Scripture gives this warning: ‘When your… silver and gold increase, … your heart will become proud.’ (Deut. 8:13-14). Counteract this pride with reminders of the brevity of life and the frailty of wealth.
  3.  Celebrate the significance of others. ‘In humility consider others better than yourselves.’ (Phil. 2:3 NIV).  Columnist Rick Reilly gave this advice to rookie pro athletes: ‘Stop thumping your chest. The line blocked, the quarterback threw you a perfect spiral while getting his head knocked off, and the good receiver blew the double coverage.  Get over yourself.’  Every touchdown is a team effort.
  4.  Don’t demand your own parking place. This was the instruction of Jesus to his followers: ‘Go sit in a seat that is not important. When the host comes to you, he may say, ‘Friend, move up here to a more important place.’ Then all the other guests will respect you.’  (Luke 14:10).  Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly.  Chase it, and you’ll never catch it.  Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder. The French philosopher Blaise Pascal asked, ‘Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.’ Maybe that’s why the Bible says, ‘Don’t praise yourself.  Let someone else do it.’ (Prov. 27:2).
  5. Never announce your success before it occurs.  Or as one of the kings of Israel said, ‘One who puts on his armor should not boast like one who takes it off.’ (1 Kings 20:11 NIV).  If humility precedes an event, then confidence may follow.
  6.  Speak humbly.  ‘Let no arrogance come from your mouth.’ (1 Sam. 2:3 NKJV). Don’t be cocky.  People aren’t impressed with your opinions. Take a tip from Benjamin Franklin.  ‘(I developed) the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest (shy) diffidence, never using when I advance anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion, but rather I say, I conceive or I apprehend a thing to be so or so… This habit I believe has been a great advantage to me.’ 
  7. Live at the foot of the cross.  Paul said, ‘The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is my only reason for bragging.’  (Gal. 6:1-4).  Do you feel a need for affirmation? Does your self-esteem need attention?  You don’t need to drop names or show off.  You need only pause at the base of the cross and be reminded of this: The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact.  So if you need to brag, brag about that.”

Traveling Light, Max Lucado, p. 74-77.

The Voices Within You

“That is why you must choose to hear one of two voices within you.

One you made yourself, and that one is not of God.

But the other is given to you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it.

The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other.”

A Course In Miracles, (ACIM, T-5.II.3:4-9)

We Humans Have A Divine Heritage

“Jesus was accused of blasphemy for saying, ‘I and my Father are one,’ but when He replied by quoting Psalm 82, ‘Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?’ He made it clear that He was not making special claims about Himself but rather was quoting from a highly revered Old Testament source, reminding us of our own divinity.  The passage says, ‘Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.’

This principle, that we are gods, is one of the most important ways of stating the gospel, and it is good news indeed.  Yet it is not simply news for the intellect — it is for the heart as well.  The Word is not lived in the words of our mouths but through the loving spirit of our hearts and the selfless actions of our lives.  Thus, this gospel is good news for all people and not the exclusive property of any one hemisphere, civilization, culture, or religious organization simply because certain words are used.

The good news is not only that the Word was with God and the Word was God and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (that is, the Infinite into the finite) but also that He said ‘I call you not servants but friends.’ (John 15:15)

His claim to divinity, a block upon which we seem to enjoy stumbling, was in truth His claim for the divine origin and sonship of all people.  Though He said, ‘If you have seen me you have seen the Father,’ He also said, ‘I in the Father and the Father in me and I in you and you in me’ — Oneness.  The question of the divinity of Jesus is answered by the realization that there is only One and that One is God.”

Venture Inward, Herbert Puryear, PhD., A.R.E., p. 23.

Pray Often For The Deceased

“Pray often for those who have passed on.  This is part of your consciousness.  It is well.  For God is God of the living.  Those who have passed through God’s other door are oft listening, listening for the voice of those they have loved in the earth.  The nearest and dearest thing they have been conscious of in earthly consciousness.

And the prayers of others that are still in the earth may ascend to the throne of God, and the angel of each who has passed … stands before the throne to make intercession.  Not as a physical throne, no; but that consciousness in which we may be so attuned that we become one with the whole in lending power and strength to those for whom we pray.

For where two or three are gathered together in His name, He is in the midst of them… Then your prayers direct such a one closer to that throne of love and mercy, that pool of light, that river of God.” (ECRL 3954-1)

EdgarCayce.org

God Does Not Take Sides

“You cannot find someone, even if they deserve it, as your enemy and stay Connected with who you are at the same time, because your Source will not take sides like that.

No one can stay connected to Source Energy, and push hard against someone else.

There are these battles that are fought in the name of ‘God’, and all of these prayers that say, ‘God is on our side,’ and we say, God is not on your side, nor is God on the side of those who fight against you.

God does not take those sides.”

Abraham Hicks, 12/15/01