The Barn, The Mount of the House of the Lord
The beautiful composition FATHER refers to in this message,
'Praise GOD from Whom all blessings flow,
Praise HIM all creatures here below,
Praise HIM above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost'
Truly, it should be on the lips of every creature who breathes the breath of
life, and especially every American citizen who is blessed to be living in the
land of the Free", should above all other nations, praise GOD for all of
HIS limitless blessings. When we think of war-torn Europe and the millions and
millions of people starving for the lack of essential food and other necessities
for comfort and convenience, we, the American people, who are protected and sheltered
under the shadow of HIS wings, should let our every breath be a prayer of praise
and thanksgiving for HIS mercy to us which endureth forever; therefore, we indeed
have much to be thankful for.
And in turn to show our appreciation to YOU, Precious Savior, help us to "love ye one another" even as YOU have loved us.
Lover of our souls, we truly thank THEE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and the following is FATHER'S beautiful message.)
Peace Everyone! At this instance I have arisen to say, we have visiting friends as usual. If any of our visiting friends care to speak, both those of you who are as our immediate guests, or guests at the table and others in the audience, all are welcome to speak by moving volitionally even as we do, if you care to.
There are so many blessings as in evidence, we cannot count them, therefore, it will give us pleasure to praise GOD for the blessings and from Whom they flow so freely. It is a privilege to realize, from your infancy you have been taught to praise GOD from whom all blessings flow, although if you do not know, when you hear ME as though I AM giving praise for the material blessings you have been taught to praise GOD for, the blessings from your infancy, I AM merely fulfilling that request of your mother's prayer,
'Praise GOD from whom all blessings flow! Praise him, all creatures here below!'
Then I say, it is a privilege to live in the recognition of GOD'S Actual presence
where you can give GOD all praise and thanksgiving. As you heard a speaker say
tonight, "You know not how" or "did not know how, to give thanks," It
is written,
'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of GOD in CHRIST JESUS concerning you'
You cannot give thanks in everything and for everything until the spirit of thanksgiving
and praise has been awakened within, and when the spirit of thanks and praise
has been awakened within, you will automatically, un thoughtfully and unconsciously
at times say, "I thank YOU, FATHER!"
I have caused you to be that for which you prayed, sitting at your mother's table in your infancy,
'Lord make us truly thankful for the blessings we are about to receive!'
I have made millions thankful automatically, un thoughtfully and unconsciously.
They say, "I thank YOU, FATHER." That is why I speak so much, of our
citizenry coming into expression through the awakened spirit of Americanism and
not merely through the documents as dratted and as printed hanging on your wall.
The documents of our great government, they are very explicit to be read and beautiful to be considered as a document of a Government, but just to read them is just like reading the Ten Commandments. Unless you imbibe the Spirit and the Meaning of both it and them, even your sincere and devout reading of them will not cause you to be an American citizen and it will not cause you to be a Christian merely by reading the New and the Old Testament; but when you imbibe the Spirit and the Meaning of both it and them and have the Spirit of the two great religious documents awakened within, there and then you have expressed a citizenry of Christianity, for the Spirit of Christ within has been awakened and you can say then,
'I know He has risen, for He has risen in my soul.'
For this cause I say, I awaken all of the beautiful attributes and characteristics
of Christianity within you. I called for them from your early existence and even
from infancy of Christianity, when Christianity was rocked in the cradle of the
manger. From then until now, I AM calling for the Spirit and the characteristics
and the attributes and nature of True Christianity. I AM causing others to imbibe
the Spirit and the Meaning of both it and them and bring it to fruition within,
that you, as children of God in particular, might be the personification of true
Christianity awakened within you, and that. is the Mystery of what I AM trying
to tell you.
These great documents of Government profit you little or nothing unless you can imbibe the Spirit of them. When you imbibe the Spirit and the Meaning of our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution and its Amendments and bring both it and them to fruition within, you are real American citizens for you are expressing your citizenry characteristically and spiritually, for you have the nature and the characteristics and the attributes of the documents of our democracy.
Hence, it is a privilege! And when I say "Praise GOD from whom all blessings flow," and many of your childhood prayers, I came to fulfil them in answer to your request an in answer to your mother's prayer.
I heard you say in infancy,
'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.'
I came to keep your soul!
'And if I should die before I awake'
-You know what it says! Your prayer has been heard and it is answered today,
for I have taken you and brought you this way
You sat around your breakfast table as you sit around this Holy Communion Table tonight. A good many times your mother would tell you to pray,
Lord, make us truly thankful.'
You could not be made truly thankful saving by the Spirit of thanks being awakened
within, for you must be born again! That is why MY followers consciously and
unconsciously say, "I thank YOU, FATHER!" for I have awakened the Spirit
of thanksgiving and Praise within, therefore, the are now as I said a little
while ago, the living Epistles of God seen and read by men. But, "I thank
YOU, FATHER!" why is it stressed in the Name of the FATHER? John declared
he saw as though it was a Lamb that stood on the Mount Zion and with Him was
an hundred and forty-four thousand having their Father's Name written in their
foreheads. The FATHER'S Name being written in your consciousness, is upper mostly
in consciousness and. you consciously and unconsciously say, "I thank YOU,
FATHER!" Because your FATHER'S Name is written there so vividly and so profoundly,
you cannot get away from it the fulfillment of the Scripture! Aren't you glad!
Jesus said,
'I will take it no more with you until I take it anew with you in My Father's Kingdom.'
This is it and you can see it! Aren't you glad! This is New! I AM taking it with
you! Jesus said,
'My Father and I will come and make Our abode with you.'
Isn't HE abiding with you? And if you speak it and think it, even orally as spoken,
GOD is boarding with you!
Not only abiding with you and making His abode with you, GOD is boarding with you! Take these thoughts to consideration. and live in this recognition; there will be so many blessings continually, you cannot count them!
God declared to Abraham,
'As far out in the land as you can see, shall be for your inheritance.'
As far out in the mathematical field of blessings by enumeration as you can enumerate,
they are for MY blessings if you can accept of them. >
You heard that little enumeration composition enumerating the Blessings up into the decillions of decillions of blessings. All the way from millions to decillions of decillions of blessings and on to sept-decillions and sept-decillions of blessings beyond the comprehension of the mathematicians, and yet, I AM declaring these are the blessings that are in storehouse for the children because they cannot be mathematically discerned, nor enumerated because God is Infinite and His blessings the same; therefore, your human mind cannot mathematically enumerate the infinite blessings God has in storehouse for His children.
Now look out on the field and as far out in the mathematical field as you can see, can be for your inheritance, and as you give God thanks continually, and Praises for the Blessings, they, are increased and multiplied.
When Jesus had the two small fishes and barley loaves, He looked up He lifted His Mind up and looked mentally and spiritually from the material concept of the things, from the earth plane to the heavenly realm mentally and spiritually, and gave thanks. The blessings were multiplied so bountifully and so abundantly until there were enough to feed all of those that were there and so much more left out of two small fishes and five barley loaves.
When we sit at this table and as we sit here now and give thanks for the Blessings and give thanks continually for everything according to the Gospel of the Apostle of Jesus, you find the blessings are flowing so free, you cannot count them. Then you should give thanks and give praise when you think about thousands and millions are starving and you are living in splendor with a-full and a-plenty and to spare, while millions are starving out there.
Then I say,
'Praise GOD from whom all blessings flow!
Praise GOD, all creatures here below,
Praise HIM above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost!'
I cannot talk about the blessings too much, but I will express them more explicitly
in demonstrating the blessings I AM freely giving, and by so doing through thanksgiving
and praises continually, they will continue to flow infinitely and it is a matter
of impossibility to count them. You Cannot Count Your Blessings
A good many of you realize the composition, a song that was given by the spirit and handed down through Christendom; "Count your blessings and name them one by one, Count your many blessings; see what GOD has done!"
But I say (FATHER sings softly and sweetly): "You can't count the blessings and name them one by one, You can't count the blessings and see what GOD has done. You can't count all the blessings and name them one by one, You can't count the blessings and see what GOD has done!"
(FATHER again speaks as follows:)
I have been trying to enumerate for your sake and for the sake of others up into the decillions of decillions of blessings and then up to sept-decillions, something you never heard of, of sept-decillions of sept-decillions of blessings, therefore, I have declared you cannot count them. I thank you.
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