FATHER DIVINE in the office at
The Circle Mission Church, Philadelphia
In these Gems of Wisdom, Father gives to humanity the Key to every barred and shut door. Every desirable blessing can be yours for the asking by scientifically using this Key, which is prayer, or praises, whichever, and faith unlocks the door.
In this marvelous Message, you will find the solution to your every problem, and you need not longer be in lacks, wants and limitations, for this Key is the Mystery of supply, but you must have faith, for faith without works is dead! Thus, feast on these Words of Spirit and Life, and enjoy the abundance of the fullness of all good things, for it is written,
'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the Mouth of God.'
WE THANK THEE, OUR GRACIOUS REDEEMER!
The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and the following is the sweet little composition sung by Father, followed by His Words of Spirit and Life.
'How beautiful to dwell together in unity,
Dwelling in One, dwelling in One.
How beautiful to dwell together in unity,
Dwelling in the Oneness of God!
PEACE, EVERYONE!
Good health, good will and a good appetite! Good manners, good behavior, all success and all prosperity, life, liberty and the reality of happiness and all other blessings necessary for the sustenance of your bodies, your spirit and your soul, we have them!
At this particular instance, I have arisen to say, it is good to be here. I often think of what it was said concerning Jesus of nineteen hundred years ago. It is written:
'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'
I live on the Words that I have spoken out of the mouth of Spirit regardless
of through whom or what person I may speak them. If they are
Spirit and they
are Life spoken into expression coming from the heart of the conscientious and
sincere, it goes to the hearts and the minds of the children of men and awakens
them. It awakened those in days of old, when and wheresoever the Truth was told,
for truly did one declare,
'The Truth is the Light!'
And one recorded in reference to the Truth,
'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.'
You can plainly see these desirable expressions of God put forth into expression;
they lead you step by step from imperfection and destruction to perfection, where
you gain victory over every undesirable condition as depicted in those Messages,
the Sermons just proofread. It is written:
'In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men . . . that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.'
All men have this Light, or this Life whichever, if they will submit themselves
to the fundamentals of it as put forth into expression and be susceptive to the
Spirit of the leading of the Light and the information the Life in itself giveth.
At times it moves intuitively. It quickens and awakens in the hearts and lives of the children of men, new thoughts of beauty by inspiration to lead them and to guide them and protect them. It lights up the dark path of misunderstanding to show you the way to go where you may be led accurately and directly in the path that will give you the victory over every undesirable condition and lead you into green pastures.
It actually leads you in the way where your soul is restored. It actually gives you victory over doubts and fears. Truly did David declare in his prediction,
'Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life . . .!'
Why? Because he was inspired with the Spirit of God's Presence so effectively
until he could declare as though it was God walking with him through the valley
and the shadow of death. He said,
'I fear no evil, for Thou art with me.'
If you would but have faith, and implicit substantiated faith and unshaken confidence
in the Infinite, whatsoever you may pray for, as I said to one of the interviewers,
your prayers will be heard and answered speedily. You could relax your conscious
mentality and still yourself and when you have once sincerely prayed, God has
already heard.
Why go back over and over again repeating your prayers as though you are trying to tell God something He has not heard? For this cause your prayers are not heard and answered apparently. You do not have faith and confidence that is substantiated and unshaken; therefore, you repeat your selfsame prayer over and over again. You recall one of the interviews I gave one of the interviewers. I said, 'If you prayed last night for your husband for his emancipation from drink and from that habitual tendency to drink, since he is not here and you have not seen him, what would you pray again for? You would not pray again today, not for the same thing, if you have faith or had faith when you were praying.'
But people go through the performance of prayer and beseeches with groveling attitude towards God. They make it a habit and they become to be an habitual doubter as the husband was an habitual drunkard, They learn to be more doubtful than a sinner, for they have prayed the prayer over and over again and have accustomed themselves to praying to be heard and seen by men, but they do not have faith; therefore, they become to be habitual doubters instead of habitual believers.
When you pray, relax your conscious mentality after you have prayed, and still your egotistic, doubting Thomas within, and realize your prayer has been heard and answered; for that for which you have first prayed, you need not pray again. That is what I AM talking about! This reminds Me of what I have often said, 'I do not believe in doing anything for a form and a fashion! I do not believe in doing anything unnecessarily.'
Lots of people take physical exercises, strenuous physical exercises, for the purpose of making themselves physically fit and physically active, but why not use your physical exercises in a constructive way and make that a practice of using your energy, your mentality and your ambition in physical, or mental, or spiritual exercises in a constructive, profitable and practical way whereby you will not be a waster--you will not be a destroyer of energy? You will not be a destroyer of your mentality, but you will use it constructively and will use it with all diligence to cause your every emotion and expression to serve the purpose for which it is made. Can you not see the mystery!
So when you pray, do not be as the hypocrites or as the Pharisees. Do not make a performance of prayer to be heard and seen by men, but when you pray, or if you have prayed, relax your conscious mentality, for I came to let you know I heard it! It is written:
'Before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear!'
God has actually heard you even before you called! Aren't you glad! Your prayer
has been answered, as he said, 'before you call,' according to the Gospel Scripture
of the declaration there,
'Before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, 1 will hear!'
But the average person is so insincere in expression. His expressions are so insincere and the average person is so insincere; he does not usually get sincere until he has prayed over and over again, and at times has come through suffering, misery and agony before it reaches the sincerity or sincereness of his heart. Can you not see the mystery! And that is why they pray to God so often and so long over and over again with vain repetition of words, trying to reach the Throne of Grace. But I came to answer your prayer and to let you know your prayers have already been answered.
Then I say, relax your conscious mentality and still yourselves wholeheartedly and then give thanks for the blessings you have received even if you do not see them. What said the Mystery concerning what I AM telling you?
'Ask, and it shall be given; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened.'
Then why doubt, unless you are doubting God? Whom have you to doubt, and
who are you to doubt God and disbelieve what God has already said? Can you not
see the mystery! So I say, relax your conscious mentality and still yourselves,
especially that egotistic, doubting and unbelieving self that will prompt you
to continue to use the same words by repetition, especially when you are praying
and asking blessings, for God has heard you before you call; in other words,
before you called, God answered and while you were yet speaking, God heard.
That is the reason you can plainly see the outward expression of the infinite and limitless blessings in evidence wheresoever I AM wholeheartedly represented. Wheresoever you adhere to My Teaching and abide in My Spirit in all sincerity wholeheartedly and unreservedly, prayers are heard and answered, for prayers are mere desires of the hearts of the children of men in all sincerity. God hears and answers them speedily.
Some do not wish to find it so easy, it seems, and apparently they desire to go through a struggle to have something to do. Instead of going through a mental and spiritual struggle of beseechings with groveling attitude towards God, go through the spiritual and mental uplift of thanksgiving and praises for the blessings you have been seeking, for if you do not see them, you have them. That is the mystery!
Then you can use your energy, your mentality, your ambition and all you have in a different direction instead of seeking something selfishly and continuing to seek something selfishly; but change your gears of thinking and direct your thoughts in a different direction in the way of affirming, giving thanks and giving praise, and for your affirmation, God will confirm. God will confirm just what you have affirmed! You should affirm you have the blessings on the authority of the Word of God. Can you not see the mystery of it!
When you affirm, you have the blessing you have prayed for, since He has declared,
'Before you call, I will answer!'
When you call, you should affirm you have the blessing on the authority of the
Word of God, and there and then, relax your conscious mentality as far as that
blessing you are seeking, is concerned, but affirm it in all sincerity and conscientiousness
on the authority of the Word, that before you did call, God answered, and while
you were yet speaking, God heard. And when this is done, you can give thanks
for the blessings you have received, though you may not see them, and for your
giving thanks, God will increase them.
Then begin giving praise with all sincerity and conscientiousness over and over again; giving praise as an expression of thanksgiving can be reiterated, but not your prayers. Reiterate praise! Repeat them over and over again by saying, I thank You, Father! I thank You, Father! I thank You, Father!
By repetition of thanksgiving, why, God will increase them, and by a constant repetition of giving praise continually, God will multiply your blessings until you will not have room to receive them. For your asking, God has given, and for your affirmation, God has confirmed! Anything you can affirm, God can confirm, and for your giving thanks, God can increase the blessings for which you are thanking. Aren't you glad! And if you give praise, God can multiply them as fast as you can reiterate your praise and your thanksgiving until you will not have room to receive them, for this is the Mystery of the Kingdom. I thank you.
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