MOTHER DIVINE at the Divine Fairmont Hotel.
Peace FATHER Dear! Peace everyone!
FATHER Dear, I truly thank YOU for the privilege of being here. I thank YOU for the consciousness of Your Presence here with us now; within us and about us! In our hearts and in our minds! I thank YOU for the Virtue that YOU have brought us, FATHER Dear. I thank YOU for the sacrifice that YOU have made for us. I thank YOU for the health that YOU have brought to us. I thank YOU for the joy, I thank YOU for the Peace, I thank YOU for the pleasure, I thank YOU for the success and prosperity. I thank YOU for the abundance of the fullness of all good things that we are daily and momently conscious because of Your Presence with us! I thank YOU for good manners and I thank YOU for good behavior; and I thank YOU for this high standard that YOU have lifted, this Mount of the House of the LORD that YOU have lifted up and all nations are flowing unto it!
FATHER, I thank YOU for Your Presence here on earth! I thank YOU for Your Bodily Presence here, there and everywhere. I thank YOU FATHER, to know that YOU are GOD. I thank YOU to know it from My heart! I thank YOU FATHER Dear! I thought so stressfully, FATHER, of how YOU said years ago that YOU put on Your Body to make men conscious of the Presence of GOD. When I first understood that, I thought it was so beautiful and so condescending. GOD is the same today, yesterday and forever! HE is eternally the same, the same as when HE moved out upon the face of the deep and said,
'Let there be light and there was light!'
It was that consciousness of the Presence of GOD that created the earth and all
there is visible. And since man strayed from the consciousness of His Presence,
everybody knows why we were turned out of the Garden of Eden!
It was because we tried to hide from GOD, because we were full of deception that we have had to pay this terrible penalty for these many years. But we thank YOU FATHER, that we are returning to that state of consciousness and have repented for our wrong doings and YOU are blessing us.
But I though of how we have known that GOD was everywhere, but we put HIM away in some heaven far beyond the stars and down through Christendom and Judaism the people have prayed to GOD and have been sincere, but they prayed amiss. Even if they thought FATHER was everywhere, there was some mortal version in there, conscious or unconscious, that put HIM away and didn't make HIM close, closer than breathing and nearer than hands and feet! And that is why our prayers weren't answered. That is why we walked in our own mortal, carnal way and did not present our bodies as living sacrifices unto GOD. That is why.
But I don't care where you were or where you are, when you got the revelation in your heart and in your mind that FATHER DIVINE is GOD in a Body, you no longer could walk in the same way as you walked before. That is why FATHER says, 'It is nothing I do as a person.' It is His Spirit that healed you whether you were in California, whether you were in Africa, whether you were in Asia, whether you were in Australia! HE didn't have to come personally to you and lay hands on you and heal you. HE didn't have to personally operate on you as a physician does, using his personal body to administer unto you. No. But His Spirit, His great holy Spirit that knows no limitations, no barriers! That is what healed you! That is what blessed you! That is what freed you ! That is what FATHER means when HE says, 'It is not anything I do as a Person!' Isn't that beautiful? I thank YOU FATHER Dear, for that revelation!
And I thank YOU FATHER Dear, that when YOU say, 'Transcend MY Personality', we must not forget that FATHER says, we must transcend all other personalities first! And then when you have done that, you may transcend His Personality, and then as HE says, it will be a perfect transcension; but until then, it is My firm conviction that we must not ignore the Body of GOD, or you may find your body being ignored! It is wonderful.
There is always difference of opinion, different beliefs about being around FATHER'S Body and running after FATHER'S Body, and some say they can be the same when they are not around FATHER'S Body. I don't dispute the fact it can be done, but can you do it? One of the Rosebuds spoke about the atmosphere that is created around the personal Body of GOD, and I thought when she said that, well, what is that atmosphere? That atmosphere is the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD! GOD is all that is good! HE is Virtue! HE is Truth! HE is Honesty! HE is Peace and HE is Abundance! And when you come into this atmosphere where you are conscious that FATHER Personally is Present, the atmosphere is so electrified, so glorified that the spotlight is turned on your dirty, filthy sins, and the little no-harm things that you didn't even know that was there, or were conscious of that was there, and that is why, when you are around FATHER'S Personal Body and in these audiences over which HE personally has jurisdiction, you don't do the things that you would do otherwise. Now if you were all honest with yourself, you would all know that. You would admit it.
It is such a privilege to be tutored and taught by GOD HIMSELF, because FATHER said,
'My ways are not your ways, neither are My thoughts your thoughts; but as high as the heaven is from the earth, so high are My thoughts above your thoughts, or My ways above your ways!'
But you know in this day, FATHER has come to make HIMSELF One with us and to
make us One with HIM! HE has lowered His Chariot that we might get on board.
HE has come in a Body, acting and talking like a human being, doing the things
that we would do, coming right down on our plane that HE might lift us. That
is the significance of observing the Body of GOD!
Now FATHER hasn't Personally told ME this, and neither has anybody else, but when FATHER says, 'Transcend My Personality', that is My conviction that all of our thoughts, all of our ideas, all of our pleasures, all of our hopes, all of our ambitions, everything must be centered on the Body of GOD the Perfect Personality!
I don't know if you all can see here, but these decorations, how each single streamer is converging into a central point. Now that is what WE must do! That is why FATHER says,
'Be conscious of My Presence!'
Let each thought, everything be centered on HIM and then when that is done, you
can X-rayly behold HIM! You can see through His Body into the infiniteness of
GOD. FATHER doesn't want you to have the version or idea that HE is just confined
to His Personal Bodily Form, because GOD is too infinite! GOD is too vast to
just confine HIM to that. That is why we have to, as I see it, go through His
Body into the infiniteness, but it does not mean that you should ignore the Body
of GOD. It is a great mystery. I AM not asking anyone to have the same version
that I do, but that is how I see it.
I AM so thankful to FATHER for the blessing of sitting at His Holy Feet and daily learning of His Ways. It is a privilege, and volumes it would take to write the things that I have learned these years that I have personally been around His Body things that I never would have learned before. I appreciate it, FATHER Dear. I thank YOU for it and I want to show My appreciation by letting all those beautiful things live in ME and express through ME that others might also partake of this glorious heritage that belongs to the children of GOD.
Oh, FATHER Dear, I could praise YOU and thank YOU no end for Your Love and Compassion. Truly, we love YOU, FATHER Dear, and we surrender our all to YOU all on the sacrifice, Dear, for coming and bringing us back to YOU! We truly appreciate it, FATHER Dear, and we thank YOU more than we can ever tell! Our praises seem so feeble, so nothing, but I thank YOU, FATHER, through our concentrated and consecrated effort, that YOU will allow us to give back to YOU more than what YOU have already given to us. I thank YOU, FATHER.
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