"I can do all things through CHRIST that dwells within me.

"Make One Step to Me, I Will Make Two to You!" --- FATHER DIVINE

Life, Liberty and the Reality of Happiness

FATHER DIVINE'S Message Given at the Unity Mission Church 907 N. 41 Street, Philadelphia. PA,
December 3-4, 1946 A.D.F.D., Time: 1:00 P.M.



Unity Mission Church Auditorium

Unity Mission Church Auditorium

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, for these and all other Attributes and Blessings you sought even through the political world! It was Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness you sought diligently, but you did not find it; but I have called these Blessings into expression and into materialization so that you might enjoy them.

Just a moment ago I retraced MY thoughts back to what I have heard men say in the world of superstition and of that world of voodooism.. I have heard some say that if you sell yourself to the 'other fellow', better known by the religions, the 'D', but not DIVINE, you would be able to do anything you want to do. Aren't you glad! Now if you can do all of those things and it is nothing to marvel at by belonging to the 'other fellow', how much more should it be if you have sold yourself to ALMIGHTY GOD?

If the 'other fellow' can help you do everything, anything and everything that you want to do that is wicked, criminal and of vice and crime and you can get by at it, how much more should you realize, that if you give yourself to GOD for good, you can do all things with HIM who strengtheneth thee! I heard one writer say:

'I can do all things through CHRIST that dwells within me.'


But the average religious person does not believe it and therefore, they cannot do the things they would like to do because they limit themselves by their mortal concept of themselves as persons, not realizing GOD is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent!

But realize, if the 'other fellow' is mighty and he can do many things through you wickedly and through vice and crime, how much more can GOD do through you in Righteousness? I Have lowered MY chariot: now get on board! If you realize GOD can do all things and you are with HIM and are doing the things for HIM, why then, you can do whatsoever is necessary to do that is good! Therefore, do not think MY work and MY mission and MY existence will diminish, neither decease! I haven't done anything yet to what I will do; for just as it is right here, so shall it be some day, all over this wide-extended plane, and none shall lack in GOD'S Abundance, for those who are worthy shall live, obey and enjoy the good of life

What a privilege! As I said years back, in the time of the war, some people thought Hitler was the 'other fellow' personified. I heard someone say some preacher called ME the 'other fellow' personified, but you all know I AM GOD personified! God is good, therefore, good is personified, materialized and shall be universalized!

Now vision it vividly and you too will materialize it, for you are the temples of the living GOD! GOD had said:

'I will walk in them and dwell in them.'


The little leaven shall leaven the whole lump, and Righteousness shall cover this earth! Aren't you glad! Wickedness has had its sway long enough! Now Righteousness is going to have something! Wickedness had a-plenty of everything, but now GOD is going to have a-plenty of everything! Aren't you glad! <> Upon this Foundation if you will stand, lo, I will be with you from shore to shore and from land to land and none will lack in GOD'S Abundance, for the earth is truly the LORD'S and the fullness thereof! I have heard preachers say that GOD said:

'The earth is the LORD'S and the fullness thereof, and they that dwell therein.'
I heard them say:
'The cattle on a thousand hills are MINE.'


and

'If I was an hungered, I would not tell you, I would slay and eat.'


Now put two and two together!

A writer declared on another occasion:

'I once was young, but now I am old, yet have I not seen the Righteous forsaken, either his seed begging bread.'


I could not even believe that I would be actually a real servant of GOD if I was obliged to go around soliciting, begging and stealing! If I would go around in lacks, wants and limitations! I would not believe I would be a real servant of GOD! What said the writer on another occasion?

'The LORD is my SHEPHERD and I shall not want!'


If I would be going around in lacks, wants and limitations, why then, I would not be considering GOD is my SHEPHERD, even as a laity MY true followers do not have to go around in lacks, wants and limitations! If they are true followers of MINE, they do not and they will not! They will have a-full and a-plenty and to spare, of food and of raiments to wear!

But I thought so vividly on that little often rehearsed statement among the superstitious, those who believe in voodooism or whatsoever you call it; they say, 'If you sell yourself to the `other fellow', he will help you to do anything that is bad you want to do!' Well, now, give yourself to Righteousness and GOD will help you do anything that is good you want to do!

And you know it is really needful that we should have a-plenty to eat in a land of plenty! Why go around in lacks, wants and limitations in a land of plenty? If the LORD is your shepherd, you shall not want and He will restore your soul!

Then I say, 'Rejoice in the LORD always, and again I say, REJOICE! Let your moderation be made known to all men. The LORD is at hand!' And by such a conviction and such a recognition, why, the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD truly is the Source of all Supply; not only mentally and spiritually, but economically, materially and physically; but mentally and spiritually as well as physically and materially!

Then I say, live in this recognition and if GOD is with you in consciousness, you will not lack and you will not want and you will not falter and you will not fear! This is just a little 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 AM actually doing Universally, and even what I AM doing universally; it shall be increased and multiplied by a million times more! I thank you! I thank you! I thank you!

New Day: December 7, 1946 A.D.F.D. Pg 13

 

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