"In the beginning they were all of One Language and of One Speech. As it was in the beginning,
so shall it be in this dispensation when all shall have recognized GOD'S Actual Presence"

"The Scripture Is Authentic-- Not Merely A Fairy Tale"
-- FATHER DIVINE ."

Our FATHER'S Message given at the Banquet Table 1887-1889 Madison Avenue, New York City,
Monday, June 9th, 1941 A.D.F.D. Time -- 6:38 P.M.



FATHER DIVINE

SONG

'So glad your home is right over here, so glad your home is right over here,
so glad your home is right over here; aren't you all mighty glad?
"I have brought you all together right over here, etc.,C I have brought you all together right over here; aren't you all mighty glad?
"You all must love one another right over here, etc.,
You all must love one another right over here; aren't you all mighty glad?
"I Unite you all together right over here, etc.,
I Unite you all together right over here; aren't you all mighty glad?
"One nation, one language, one people right over here, etc.,
Now, aren't you all mighty glad?"


(FATHER speaks as follows:)

 

PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition is not a mere supposition, it is the conscious recognition and the realization of millions since you are now the fulfillers. I have brought you all together right over here in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose where I AM dissolving every sense of an expression of a reflection of division among us, and UNIFYING Spirit, Body and Mind in the individual, causing you to know and see definitely your spirit, your soul and your body should be United together; to let you know, as I have often said, I AM doing everything I can -- I have heard you say it in and at the time of depression -- to keep soul and body together. I have heard you say, "I have been doing and I am doing all I can to keep soul and body together." But in this very last dispensation in which we are now living, the very Spirit and the Work of the Peace Mission, with the Spirit of MY Actual Presence, came to keep your souls and your bodies together.

As with your souls and your bodies, so with your friends and your neighbors and each and every other individual. I came to Unify the people effectively and bring an end to all division among them; to let them see and know definitely the Scripture is authentic and is not merely a fairy tale!

 

Re-creation and Re-adjustment

In the beginning they were all of One Language and of One Speech. As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in this dispensation when all shall have recognized GOD'S Actual Presence; for GOD'S Actual Presence will make a re-adjustment. Aren't you glad? A re-adjustment of affairs and the re-creation will be a re-adjustment of all of GOD'S creation, to re-adjust matters satisfactorily as they were in the beginning of the creation, to replace things in this advanced spiritual civilization in the places they were placed, as in the beginning, that they might be under the jurisdiction of HIM Who liveth forever and forever!

By this we have a Righteous Government. We do not have to get it, but we have it; for the Kingdom has truly come and the Will is now being done as it was in the beginning of the creation. GOD created the heaven and the earth and all things that are in them and all things were good and very good when they were first created by HIM. Things got out of adjustment. It was essential for things of the creation to be re-adjusted to meet the present and even the past issues, so that GOD might be re-considered and re-established in the consciousness of humanity; for as man went away from GOD, even so they got out of the consciousness of GOD'S Presence; they thought they had hidden from HIM! But when the call was made,

'Where art thou?'


it was but bespeaking the mystery of this dispensation when HE would call man back into the sight and into the Presence of GOD as you are. Aren't you glad?

 

As GOD Called Adam HE Now Calls Humanity

When I called Adam in the creation or shortly thereafter, when he had hidden some place from GOD'S Presence, it was but bespeaking this present dispensation when HE would call humanity back into the recognition and into the realization of being in GOD'S Presence. Aren't you glad? This is the fulfillment of the prediction-ated call of GOD to man:

'Where art thou?'


Aren't you glad? Now we are re-fulfilling that prediction as an actuated word of an expression as a request for Adam to tell HIM where he was. Aren't you glad? But I AM re-adjusting matters satisfactorily, for I AM bringing you back into the Consciousness of GOD'S Presence from whence you had been driven. Aren't you glad?

You thought within yourself, as Adam, from GOD you had been hidden. But oh, how glorious it is to realize, wheresoever you may think you can hide, you can be found. I call man and all things from all the hiding places of them; I call them into consideration to recognize GOD'S Actual Presence and realize they are not hidden from ME! Aren't you glad?

Then I say, it is a privilege to realize GOD'S Presence is as was with Adam before he thought he had hidden himself from GOD'S Presence. GOD is present everywhere! GOD was right there where Adam was, but he was not conscious of GOD'S Presence, therefore, he could not enjoy the blessings for the lack of the Consciousness of GOD'S Presence.

 

Taste and See that the LORD Is Good

But when you are Conscious of GOD'S Presence, you can enjoy the blessings, you can enjoy GOD'S creation; and you find all of GOD'S creation, for you was created as it was good and very good. But absent from GOD'S Presence things are not very enjoyable, are they? The lack of the tastiness of the goodness of GOD, you cannot taste and see the LORD is good when you are absent from His Presence in consciousness. But when you are in His Presence in consciousness and in consideration and in harmony, when you harmonize with HIM you can taste and see the LORD is Good and Good indeed!

Live in this recognition, build upon this foundation, if you please, for I AM Joy, I AM Happiness, I AM Peace throughout all eternity! But you must be Conscious of this Presence and bring your bodies into subjection and live in harmony with such a state of consciousness, and allow it to function and have dominion over you. When and wheresoever a king reigns, there is where his kingdom is. If it happens to be GOD ruling and reigning over you, there and then His Kingdom will be in you and yours with which you have to do. But if it happens to be the "other fellow", his kingdom will be in you and yours with which you have to do; the "other fellow's" kingdom would be in evidence in you and in yours with which you have to do, if the "other fellow" reigns and rules over you. That is the mystery.

It is just the work of the Spirit, of the good or the evil. It is the work of the recognition of the Presence of GOD or the "other fellow". Either one, you will produce the results of their presence and express their dominion by such a recognition.

 

Choose Whom You Will Serve

When you recognize GOD'S Presence, His Dominion is established and His Dominion has truly come by such a recognition; and when you recognize the "other fellow's" presence, the "other fellow's" dominion has come and you are brought into subjection to him and under his jurisdiction. There and then his dominion has access and his dominion reigns over you and over all things that concern you. Either one of them -- it does not make very much difference as far as the expression is concerned. You can bring yourself into subjection to the Positive or the negative, and produce the results such as either will bring, by bringing yourself into subjection to either of them. Aren't you glad?

Then I say, it is a privilege to be brought into subjection as persons to that which produces and brings the desirable results (Aren't you glad?); that which will produce and manifest in your experience such as you desire to reflect, such as you desire to have free access. If you desire afflictions, disappointment, failure and undesirable conditions to have free access and all dominion, you can give them access for expression and they will have dominion. But if you give over to the Positive, the Truth concerning the Perfect One, GOD in all of His Majesty will have tender Compassion and Mercy and will have Dominion if you give it to HIM. Things will work systematically and harmoniously, and GOD Himself automatically will adjust matters satisfactorily for you by allowing HIM to do it. Aren't you glad? And you and all will eventually see and know that which was once a supposition is no longer a supposition, for GOD has made it Real, Tangible and Practical, hence, it has become to be a Living Reality!

 

Increase the Blessings by Rejoicing in the LORD

Rejoice in the LORD and be glad! These are the Words of GOD. Increase and multiply what you have by rejoicing in the LORD and by being glad! Live in GOD'S Presence by being Conscious of it, and causing yourself to be non-conscious or unconscious of anything else's presence that is not according to GOD'S Presence; and those things that are not according will become to be null and void in action and in expression because you have become to be unconscious of them.

By being conscious of GOD'S Presence, GOD'S Presence is made a Reality. By your Consciousness of His Majesty, of His Love and of His Mercy and of His Presence, things work automatically immediately and things are adjusted satisfactorily for you. You produce whatsoever you desire -- it is up to you! You are the MASTER of your own destiny, so to speak, and the Controller of your own fate, if I speak after the manner of men from that angle of expression. If you hold in consciousness the negative and stress it in consideration by giving the negative access for expression, and especially giving it dominion, things will work according to that. But on the other hand, if you reverse your gears of thinking, to the extreme reverse of such expression, you will find things will change immediately because of the reversal of your gears of thinking.

This is scientific; this is true! You can take your car -- if you desire to reverse your gears and put your gears in reverse, in the reverse gear, it will go backwards, will it not? But if you reverse them in first or second, they will go a different direction. But each of these gears are good in their respective places, but you use one for the reversal. By the reversing of your gears you go in one direction and reverse them again and you go in another; just to the extreme reverse to that of the first one. Can you not see the mystery?

 

Your Thoughts Can Work Constructively For You

So, your reversal of the gears of thinking will direct you in a different direction from the way you have been directed, and carry you safely, especially if you go in accord with the plan and the purpose for which your gears were created. Aren't you glad? And your thoughts and your mind and all of your ideas and opinions can work constructively for you. They can work as constructively as gasoline can in running your automobile, but you cannot run it unless you have other necessities. Without the necessary other equipment it will not run effectively. Can you not see the mystery?

That little song that was sung a little while ago, I thought of it -- how you may think at times, because you have GOD Himself within, which is true, yet by composition I declared through one:

'His bosom is the Pillow of my soul.'


You do not find sweet Peace and sweet Rest when you are resting somewhere else, but when you are resting on that of which has been declared to be the Pillow of your soul, the Gospel-prediction of Jesus is fulfilled where He said:

'Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light, and thou shalt find rest for thy soul.'


This is not a supposition. Someone is actually fulfilling the Gospel-prediction of Jesus! Someone is actually enjoying that rest of which Jesus was speaking:

'. . . and learn of Me, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light, and thou shalt find rest for thy soul.'

 

Rest in GOD Comes from Surrender

Then the apostle spoke of a rest as though it was another rest that did remain to and for the people of GOD. You will find that rest, sweet Peace and Rest, in GOD, when you shall have surrendered your all and all; for as you trust in GOD whole-heartedly and make a complete surrender, you have a right by sacrifice to come into possession of an inheritance of unlimited and infinite resources.

For this you can rejoice, you can be exceedingly glad and be filled with Joy unspeakable for the blessings you actually have when this is fulfilled! His Bosom is the Pillow of your soul! If you live in mortal consciousness; if you live in self and self-indulgence, it is a matter of impossibility for you to enjoy the sweetness and the joy of His Holiness. But, LET GO and LET GOD! GOD will let and help you to enjoy all and all HE has in storehouse for you! Aren't you glad?

This JOY is UNSPEAKABLE, the JOY and BLESSINGS are LIMITLESS, for,

'Of His Kingdom and Peace and of His Increase there shall be no end.'


You can see, as long as you have seen and heard of ME Personally, the blessings of PEACE and of the INCREASE and of the KINGDOM, you can see it is INFINITE -- it has not ended! I thank you.

 

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