FATHER DIVINE'S Residence,
Madison Ave., N.Y.C.
The Keynote to every accomplishment in Sincerity, and therefore in striving for soul salvation a sincere and contrite heart is the great essential.
The thought of sincerity and conscientiousness dominating a beautiful song that had been sung by the assembly, expressing the yearning of the composer for a clean and pure heart like the CHRIST, led to the sweet little Message from our LORD assuring us that what our hearts sincerely desire, by trusting HIM and believing, we will speedily attain.
Blessed Redeemer, we thank THEE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER'S Message follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Some time ago, at least a little way back, since we have been in the dining room, just about the time we started the service, someone sang a song about "a heart like Yours." Even though quite a number of songs have come forth and have been sung, yet that thought continues to rest on My Mind. The singer may sing it again; it is well worth considering and worth a comment.
(In compliance with our LORD'S Request the song was resumed, the words of which are as follows:)
SONG
'Oh, for a heart that thinketh no evil, a heart that is kind and true
Oh, for a heart that thinketh no evil, a heart that is just like YOU!
'I heard the Voice of FATHER say, 'Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down thy head upon My Breast!'
'I came to FATHER as I was; weary and worn and sad --
I found in HIM a resting place and HE has made me glad.
'Return, O Holy Dove, return, Sweet Messenger of rest!
I hate that sin that made me mourn, and drove Thee from my breast.
'Oh, for a heart that thinketh no evil, a heart that is kind and true
Oh, for a heart that thinketh no evil, a heart that is just like YOU!"
(As the strains of the song faded out, FATHER rose to deliver His beautiful Message,
which follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite, with Good Manners, Good Behavior, all Success and all Prosperity; Life, Liberty and the reality of Happiness; all Wisdom, all Knowledge and all Understanding! These and all other Blessings I have called into consideration and I have brought them into expression to and for as many as will receive them.
That little composition as a melody and yet as a prayer in disguise, is the way you all should pray -- in disguise. Close the door of the world's understanding to what you are doing, what you are requesting and what you are seeking, and pray with the spirit of sincerity. Your prayers are heard and answered openly. Aren't you glad?
It is a common phrase quite often used in the world of religious phraseology:
'Prayer is the heart's sincere desire, unuttered and unexpressed.'
You cannot express the reality of a prayer, but you can express some thoughts
pertaining to the Sincerity and the Sincereness of your heart. Hence, when you
think sincerely in a Positive direction and make your request through supplication
and thanksgiving, especially through a composition in the act of singing, you
have tapped the Source of the supply and your prayers will be heard and answered;
for
'Prayer is the heart's sincere desire . . .'
For this cause I say, "Do not say it unless you mean it!" If you say
it in the melody and sing it with sincerity, you will create within yourself
the sincereness, the conscientiousness and the realness of what you are stressing.
You will bring it forth into expression through the spirit of conscientiousness
or sincerity. Your prayers will be heard and answered speedily because you have
spoken with the spirit of sincerity. Aren't you glad?
For this cause, when you hear ME use this phrase, "Don't say it unless you mean it!" I AM stressing the significance of what will be and what you will produce -- the sincereness of the sincere, the conscientiousness of the conscientious, the faithfulness of the faithful. If you will only say what you mean and mean it sincerely, it will produce and develop and bring to fruition the spirit of sincerity within you. Aren't you glad?
For this cause we stand, reproducing, increasing and multiplying the spirit of sincerity, conscientiousness, and also bringing to fruition the desirableness of the desirable; because the spirit of sincerity will produce the spirit of desirableness because you are what you claim to be, if you are sincere and conscientious and mean what you say.
For this cause I say, "Don't say it unless you mean it!" But if you say it with the spirit of sincerity, such a sincere request in supplication, with thanksgiving and with giving praise to your LORD and your Savior, your prayers will be heard and answered speedily and you need not look for another.
The average person prays and continues to reiterate the selfsame prayer as an abstract expression of his conscientious conviction of GOD not hearing him; of GOD not answering his prayer when he first prays. Well, it is a true saying, in a way of speaking, because it takes a little while at times to get to the depths of your soul and speak it with the spirit of sincerity. To be conscientious it takes a little while at times, by reiteration and continuing to repeat the selfsame request over and over again until you can get sincere; but if you could but produce the spirit of sincerity and speak from the depths of your soul, whensoever you pray in a song such as that, your prayers would be heard and answered immediately and you would not have an occasion to fret nor worry. Aren't you glad?
For this cause we are rejoicing because I create in the hearts and lives of the masses the spirit of sincerity and conscientiousness. By so doing, why, whatsoever they say, they do not express in actions nor in deeds with guile or deceit. Can you not see the mystery? For John in his Revelation, speaking of this mystery of which we are now experiencing, "saw an hundred and forty and four thousand having their FATHER'S name written in their foreheads" -- uppermostly in consciousness, if you please -- and as the name of GOD was uppermostly in consciousness, "in their mouths was found no guile." They did not express deceit in the actuated words of expression, neither did they express deceit in words such as I AM now speaking. Can you not see the mystery?
Therefore, "in their mouths was found no guile." Aren't you glad? "For they were without fault before the Throne of GOD." But the beguilation of Eve, the deceit of Eve and Adam, handed down through the ages from the beginning of the creation, that same beguilation has beguiled millions, and all creation, for
'In Adam all die, but in Jesus Christ all shall be made alive.'
Hence, the beguilation of Eve and the beguilation of the serpent sent down traditionally,
will no longer have access within you! You will not express deceitfully in actions
nor in deeds; for actions speak louder than words, if you please; but the average
person will speak beguiling words of action as expressions of deception.
Then I say, it is a privilege to live in this recognition where the spirit of beguilation has been dispelled from your mentality and from your system. Your actions and your deeds will no longer express guile or deceit, for you will express sincerity and conscientiousness. In all you say and in all you do, you will not try to be a deceiver. Can you not see the mystery?
But mortality in the mortal version, according to the deception handed down from Eve and Adam, they have ever tried to hide something. They have tried to deceive and they have deceived the nation, but by this great Renovation of the spiritual understanding of the children of men, they are born out of the adamic state of consciousness into the CHRIST Consciousness! They walk no longer in Adam but in CHRIST; for
'In Adam all die," I say, "but in Jesus Christ all are made alive"
even until today! Aren't you glad?
There were two great distinct expressions, the adamic state of consciousness and also the CHRIST Consciousness. One expresses mortality and the other is the expression of Immortality; you put off the old man with all of his deeds, and put on the New Man in Whom you should live! You are made New Creatures automatically for you have taken on the CHRIST Characteristics. Aren't you glad? Not only the CHRIST Characteristics but the CHRIST Nature and the CHRIST Disposition; and when this is done effectively, this Mind that was in CHRIST JESUS will be within you and it will give you Victory over that adamic -- in other words, the Adamic -- state of consciousness. Aren't you glad?
For this cause we rejoice and we are exceedingly glad to present to the world the BEST that we have, that the BEST in turn might continue to come; for
'Of His Kingdom and of His Peace and of His Increase there shall be no end.'
Mortality need not think that there is any end to the unfoldment of the blessings
such as we are now enjoying; for it has been predicted, and those of us who are
living in this dispensation and living according to His Teaching, we are in the
fulfilling of such a prediction; hence, we are enjoying the Increase and the
Peace of the Kingdom, and you can declare even in the words that are uttered
openly, PEACE, the sound of PEACE on Earth and Good Will towards Men, the echo
of such a salutation and such an expression of its unfoldment, and of its increase
there is no end; for the Mouth of GOD has declared it!
I need not say more -- I believe I have said enough to stir up your pure minds, but I thought to drop a thought for your consideration that that thought might rest with you and stress you in your memory, to cause you to consider the significance of singing your prayer, your desire and saying it with the spirit of sincerity -- yet others who do not know the mystery will not know you are praying sincerely. I thank you.
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