The Pool, The Mount of the House of the Lord
Truly does a most recent inspirational composition sung so vividly, declare,
'Praise HIM, all ye nations!
Praise HIM, all ye people!
For HE is worthy to be praised!'
Yes, FATHER DIVINE, GOD ALMIGHTY, is indeed worthy to be praised! Not only for
HIS marvelous Words of Spirit and Life that HE gives so freely to ungrateful
mankind, but for the abundant material and spiritual blessings HE showers daily
upon all who will but open their hearts to receive them! Yes, they are given
to all who will but learn the mystery of giving Praise and thanksgiving to their
Maker and Creator and praise HIM morning, noon and night; for HIS Name is worthy
to be praised!
In this dynamic Message, FATHER not only reveals the mystery of the significance of Praise and Thanksgiving, but touches upon a point so vital to the welfare and victory of the Allied Nations that all of the heads of these nations, and especially America, should take immediate cognizance of these Words and unite consolidatedly here in this Western Hemisphere, even as FATHER has for years repeatedly told them to do!
Not only so, but as HE foresaw this terrible disaster of warfare and bloodshed, our LORD had given to the head of this government another plan for consolidating this hemisphere, which at the time of its proposal was scorned by many, who thought it foolish and impossible. Now, however, as the Dean of the Universe proves in this Message, HIS plan is not only possible but vitally essential to and for the safety of the Allies as a whole!
Therefore, read and take cognizance of this Message, O ye unbelievers and foolish men; and accept of GOD'S divine guidance before it is too late!
FATHER speaks as follows:
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! These and all other blessings, I AM not just stressing them but I AM putting them forth into expression. I AM speaking with them in deeds and actions. I AM causing the reality of these attributes, characteristics and blessings of life to the children of men to be made real to them!
At this particular instance I thought to say, it is good to be here in the unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose, where you can praise GOD in unison for the blessings HE has bestowed upon you! In thinking along that line, I thought of what I have often said, from the Word,
'Prayer is the key' in other words, from that phrase quite often used in the world of religious phraseology, '
Prayer is the Key of Heaven but Faith unlocks the door!'
Praise and Thanksgiving will solve your problem now, henceforth and forever more!
Prayer in its right term means Praise and Thanksgiving; therefore, Praise as
Prayer and Thanksgiving, showing your appreciation, will solve the problem and
will increase your Blessings and multiply them!
While the brother was testifying a little while ago, and just before that time, I thought, you can praise yourself out of misery into thanksgiving and supplication. You can praise yourself out of disappointments, accidents and failure! I do not mean you should praise yourself, but praise yourself out of those conditions that are existing, where there are no praises and thanksgiving. Aren't you glad? ('So glad!' came the reply.)
I was thinking of how some can praise GOD and fill and thrill the physical body with enthusiasm, with joy and happiness and vibrational expressions of Thanksgiving, of songs and dance. Aren't you glad? ('So glad!' replied the audience.) And the very Spirit of MY Presence giveth energy through thanksgiving and praises to HIM Who liveth forever! It energizes you! It invigorates you! It inspires you! It quickens those dormant cells lying dormant within your physical body! It throws off the poisonous condition of the physical system! It purges the body from all sorts of contagion! It purges and purifies the mind as a stream!
Though it may be filthy water in the beginning, it cleanses itself, and so will the Spirit of GOD'S Praises in you, continually flowing, cleanse you from all corruption mentally and spiritually and purge you from the corruption of your physical system the germs of contagious diseases! Aren't you glad? ('Truly glad LORD,' answered the audience enthusiastically.) That is what PRAISE will do for you.
Although you may feel physically well and happy, but get out of MY praises and continue to drift into accusation and condemnation, and eventually your physical body will be filled with pains and aches, misery, and you will have disappointment yea disappointments, and will be a failure!
Oh, how glorious it is to realize what praise and thanks will do for the universe! Can you not see the mystery? It may sound as an expression of fanaticism at times, but if you stop and consider what praises are doing for you, by continuing to let the praises roll, you find misery, disappointment and failure will go! It causes the aches and pains in your body to leave, for
'A merry heart doeth good,'
one said,
'like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones!'
We are privileged to say, not only as a medicine but
'A merry heart doeth good, for it is the only Real and only True Medicine for a broken spirit will dry the bones!'
You find people dwindling away; you find them drying up; you find them shriveling up. A tree that is cut down from the roots of the tree, though it may be near the stump from whence it has grown, you will find the leaves of that tree shriveling up drying up and dying because it has been cut off from the offspring of life of that tree! If not for others it is for it that tree! It is the life spring. It is where and from whence came Life and energy for that tree! Can you not see the mystery? Though the stump may seem insignificant, but it was it through which the Life Stream flowed to the branches as well as the trunk of the tree to the foliage and all of its flowers! Those things were supplied bountifully and abundantly by the Life Stream flowing through the stump into the trunk, and through the trunk into the branches, and through the branches into the foliage of the tree and into the blossoms and the blooms you all admire!
When you stay attached, not only to make a contact, but when you stay attached and will not be cut off, but in Thanksgiving and Praise continually, in perfect peace, I will keep you if your mind is stayed on ME! These thoughts are well worth considering.
Perfect Peace and Perfect Harmony, Unity and Tranquility, Success and Prosperity will follow the wake of Unity and Tranquility and Thanksgiving with Praises! I have long since declared,
'For your asking GOD will give!'
not necessarily through a multitude of words, but as I have long since declared,
'Prayer is the hearts sincere desire, unuttered and unexpressed!'
A conscientious, sincere desire in asking, in all simplicity, conscientiously and sincerely that prayer if it is essential for you to have it is heard and answered! Hence, for your asking, GOD will give, and for your giving thanks, GOD will increase that which HE has given, and increase it over and over again as you give thanks to HIM!
Then when you give thanks so vividly, you will be filled with praises! Can you not see the mystery? And when you get in the illumination of thanksgiving and praises and loose yourself of worry and weariness and accusation, but to the extreme reverse, give Thanks and Praises continually instead of trying to condemn HIM, you find GOD will multiply your blessings for your praises you are giving, as well as HE will increase them for the thanks you have given!
Then I say, it is a privilege to observe the mystery and live in the recognition of GOD'S actual presence and take cognizance of the message as I convey it and copy after the fashion. I have shown you the way to victory! that fashion that likeness that expression and the sample and the example as exemplified for you!
Oh, how glorious it is to live in GOD'S Presence, where there are always thanksgiving and praises to your SAVIOR! Can you not see the mystery? Praising GOD creates an atmosphere of harmony, unity and tranquility! Praising GOD fills the atmosphere with Love and Harmony! Can you not see the mystery? Praising GOD brings forth the Royal Diadem and causes the angels invisibly to sing!
Then I say, praise GOD continually and do not forget that it is not for ME; it is for you! 'Praise GOD from whom all blessings flow' is for your salvation wheresoever you are and wheresoever you go! That is what I am talking about! So these thoughts are well worth considering.
Some look upon the thought and upon ME as though you think praising ME is helping ME. You are helping yourself and others in the midst of whom you praise GOD, for it creates an atmosphere of harmony, unity and tranquility, and there is where love so freely flows! Aren't you glad? ('So glad, LORD!' replied the adoring throng.)
Where there is Love there is no lack whatsoever. Love as GOD and GOD as Love, automatically will attract the abundance of the necessities of life and bring them forth into expression by the Creative Forces of Nature. Aren't you glad? ('So glad!' again came the reply from the audience.)
Then I say, praise GOD for the blessings you have, and praise GOD for the blessings you do not have, and praise GOD for the blessings all others have. You will not have grounds neither space nor place for accusation, neither for a slight reflection of criticism especially of that of the works of your LORD and your SAVIOR, and of HIS majesty!
I happened to take up The Congressional Record just a moment ago and glance at something that would retrace your thoughts, and call your attention to MY Message I gave several years ago as an appeal to this nation and the Western Hemisphere to unite; and if they did not and would not unite, I said, why not propose the purchase of the Western Hemisphere? One commentator said, 'Where will we get the money to purchase the Western Hemisphere?' Where did we get the money to purchase Alaska? It came from some place!
But now the question was asked in Congress, according to the record here given, one Representative said, (FATHER reads from The Congressional Record) 'I hold in my hand the statement of the United States Treasury dated January the first, nineteen forty-five. It shows that today we are in debt two hundred and thirty-two billion, one hundred and sixty-three million, nine hundred and ninety-six thousand, six hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents!' (FATHER lays down The Congressional Record and says:) 'Where are we going to get the money?' he says! Now they are asking where are we going to get the money to pay this debt off!
In the investment of this war and bloodshed and the sacrifice of innocent lives it has cost already many, many, many times more than what the Western Hemisphere would cost if it was bought! Where are we going to get that two hundred and thirty-two billion, one hundred and sixty-three million, nine hundred and ninety-six thousand, six hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents? which means, according to the Record here . . . (FATHER again quotes from The Congressional Record as follows:)
'This nation of ours being in debt to that amount, that means over seven billion dollars monthly will have to be paid!'
or words to that effect. So it goes to show you if the forecast for you is true,
the forecast, as I forecasted it, is true for the universe at large! It is true
and it is the best for you and for all living creatures to take cognizance of
MY Message and live according to same!
Unification on the home front means victory abroad! If the western hemisphere with all of its countries and governments, or in other words, all of its republics, would have united together according to MY plan and purpose, if they could have and would have done according to same, no other nation or nations would have dared rise in opposition to a great international country as the Western Hemisphere, with all of its resources, its manpower, and its natural resources otherwise, as well as its national resources! By such a recognition and by such a unification, according to MY proposition, we would have had victory over the enemy before he started and he would have known it, according to MY most recent Peace Stamp:
'When the enemy is coming up against you with ten thousand and he can see you have twenty thousand,
according to JESUS, the great and only true and real, undaunted Prophet in creation,
he (the enemy) will send an ambassage, desiring conditions of peace!'
He would have long since sent an ambassage in other words, an ambassador desiring
conditions of peace, had we, the American people and the American peoples of
the Western Hemisphere united consolidatedly, and had been one democracy, yea
one republic! The enemies of our nation could have seen and would have seen it
would have been futile for him and for them to rise against such a power as this;
for in it GOD would have been seen as in your midst; and wheresoever I AM and
go and have access for expression, praise and thanksgiving will solve your problems
and will adjust matters satisfactorily for you if you live according to MY Teaching
and bring your bodies into subjection by unifying, or uniting and unifying! Unifying!
Oh, it is wonderful!
Dark clouds of doubts and fears will be dispelled when you shall have filled and thrilled your mentality, your energy and your physical system with Thanksgiving and Praise continually. You will have the victory over every difficulty, and trials and tribulations will have no access for such will not affect you!
This is the great Vaccination of which the physical M. D.'s vaccination is but a shadow and a type as a symbol of a prediction of the mystery in the parable-ated words of expression. But the reality is what you are experiencing getting this real Vaccination and this real Injection with supernatural anti-toxin that will ward off every contagious germ disease and bid your happy moments roll on!
Then I say, thanksgiving and praise will solve your problems and will adjust matters satisfactorily for you; for it will float you out in the Ocean of Love Divine! out where the full tides flow! where sorrow and misery cannot come nor go! where GOD is there, yea, here forever more!
What a Privilege to give thanks and give praise! And to you who are praise less this morning, I appeal! And if you will give thanks and give praise, praise HIM in the morning, noonday and the night! Let the earth and heavens ring and praise MY Holy Name! I thank you!
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