My true followers do not have the slightest thought to take, what they are going to eat, one meal for the next! I am helping you to do what Jesus said. Some thought it could not be done, but I have proven it to the letter scientifically and accurately and I daily demonstrate it for you – “Take no thoughts for yourself, what you shall eat or drink, one day for the next.”

Now by the masses and thousands and thousands here that are sitting and standing by, especially those of you my immediate followers and those who have committed all things unto my keeping, who are consecrated to my service wholeheartedly and under my personal jurisdiction – you do not have to take any thought what you are going to eat, one day for the next, neither what you are going to drink, in that you can fulfill that part of the Scripture accurately – in that you can live Evangelically!

Jesus Did Not Take Much Thought About Eating

But you could not, if you have to be taking thoughts and worrying about what you are going to eat, one day for the next. Even that point is not living Evangelically. To live Evangelical, it means to live exactly according to the Life and the Teaching of Jesus, and Jesus did not take very much thought apparently, for He went out and there was a crowd out there who wanted to eat and at the time the food was necessary, it came forth into expression!

God provides where there is not anything and makes something out of nothing! Can you not see the Mystery? But as I afore said, “I am living an Evangelical life,” you hear some say. If you live Evangelically, you live exactly according to the Life and Teaching of Christ – the Teaching of Christ, as well as the Life of Christ, and He said:

“Take no thoughts for yourself, what you shall eat or drink, one day for the next.”

Now, in that particular instance as Mother Divine said many, many years ago, in crowds that part was fulfilled in her experience since she has been in me. Can you not see the mystery? If I could help you to fulfill the Scripture, to keep that Commandment which is so essential, you can plainly see it is good for all humanity if it is good for an individual. If it has been demonstrated in and among these and thousands of others under my personal jurisdiction who have reckoned my presence and trust me wholeheartedly – you can see definitely and you can see by their experience, it is better to trust in God than to trust in yourself and in others! Can you not see the mystery?

Father Divine

Excerpt from Father Divine’s message given in 1887-1889 Madison Ave., New York, NY on Friday, July 19th, 1940 at 3:54 p.m.

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Our private Banquet Tables are the places – in other words, our Private Banquet Table is the place where we take our daily Communion. That is our system of our religious ritual. This is God’s Holy Communion Table.

In your churches the ministers and the representatives give the Communion to the immediate members (can you not see the mystery?) – to those who are partakers of the selfsame faith and profession, or those who wish to partake of the Communion, according to the religious conviction of the respective creed or denomination represented.

Communion for Body and Soul

But here we have our Communion as a daily repast, as a Work and as a Mission, sacredly established as something for the sustenance of our bodies and for the benefit of our souls; to keep our bodies and souls together accurately that we might live personally religiously and be true and faithful to our religious conviction personally.

I am not talking about something Supernatural, but the natural religious conviction has been made real, tangible and practical; and My system of serving communion is to feed the hungry when they are hungry; but at our Private Banquet Table especially, we are administering the Lord’s Supper at all of these Tables.

For this cause you see the sign as it hangs across the divers dining rooms where I preside – “God’s Holy Communion Table.” Can you not see the mystery? This is My religious conviction and the way I understand to serve the Communion. I do not understand the way others serve because that is not My calling.

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Christianity teaches that God so loved the world, He gave His Son. It is a Love that was predestined to be reproduced and brought to fruition in the hearts and lives of the children of men. For this cause, Jesus taught you to pray to “Let thy kingdom come and thy will be done.”

Unless that Love is impregnated in the hearts and lives of the people, they cannot reproduce the Nature and the Characteristics and the Disposition of your Savior. They cannot bring down and put into expression His Dominion, therefore without this Love there would be no Kingdom. Can you not see the Mystery!

But God taught you through Jesus Christ, His Son, as it may be termed, to pray, “Let thy kingdom come and let thy will be done.”

Hence, He taught you to love one another. And teaching you to love one another, He taught you to do what I have told you to do definitely.

Retrace your thoughts back to when He spoke to Saint Peter when He found out as – as though He found out, I may say, that Peter loved Him, He said, “Feed my lambs; feed my sheep,” but He did not tell him to feed them until he said he loved Him. Can you not see the mystery! But when he said he loved Him, why, then He said, “Feed them!”

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Oh, how glorious it is to have something to lead you, something to guide you, something to direct you mentally and spiritually with the spirit of Love and humane tendencies for the benefit of all humanity and for the Love of the Almighty!

But as I say, this Love, when it all shall have been established, in any person and brought to fruition, takes on more of a humane or humanitarian tendency and more love for humanity generally than what they could dare accumulate by themselves individually with all of their selfish prejudices! It is a matter of impossibility to produce it, unless you get it from the Infinite, and when the Love of God is developed in you – then you have it from the Infinite, for it is God’s Love that so loved the world so that He gave His only Begotten Son so that the world might be saved through Him!

Can you not see the Mystery? When this is established effectively, the Son of God is within you as the Redeemer and the Savior of others, consciously or unconsciously to you. He is there as a Savior for humanity! Can you not see the mystery? It may be unconscious to you and He may be lying dormant apparently, but when this recognition shall have been actually established you will have an ambition to try to unite others together with you, to give them a chance to enjoy what you are enjoying!

You have a desire that they may enjoy what you are enjoying and come into possession of their rightful inheritance, for you, as heirs and joint heirs together with the Christ, will visualize the Perfect Picture so vividly until you yourselves will materialize it and by nature in consciousness you will eventually produce it and present it to others in the act of bringing about the Universal Brother!

A Sketch of What Will Be Universally

I need not say more! I believe I have said enough to stir up your pure minds, but I will speak in deeds and in actions more effectively than what I can Personally tell you, for this dining room and other dining rooms according to My own design, I put forth into expression as a slight sketch and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain of a percent of a fraction of a grain of what I will do for all mankind!

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As I said of a very recent date, even when you serve in the Banquet Hall that has been set apart for those who are consecrated, self-denied and living a pure and wholesome life, I have said, help yourselves – help yourself – and if you do not get as much as you want or can eat at the first service of the first courses going around the first time, if there is something else you desire, ask for it and it will be passed the second time.

I know this is something like presenting a Body, but I did say, “Present your bodies as living sacrifices, wholly, which is your reasonable service.”

Therefore, present your all and all on the sacrifice of God and be not conformed to this world but trust God for the whole thing.

Therefore, when anything is passed around and if it is not enough apparently – if you abide by the rule you will not take more than you can eat and you will not leave anything on your plate, and you will not take anything away – and you will not take a whole lot of different pieces at once when it goes around. You will serve decently and in order, and unselfishly, and if you do not have enough you will ask for more and it will be passed around to you.

“He that puts his trust in Me shall never be confounded.”

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