Dedicating the Stone Marker at The Home of the Soul
This beautiful and very significant Sermon was given by FATHER directly after the singing of the inspirational composition which is herein recorded.
How marvelous it is to realize the Actual Presence of GOD as is explained here in this wonderful Sermon! If one can but grasp this profound, yet explicit illustration of GOD'S Presence, they can see how His Glorious Work and Mission is accomplished Universally and how none need lack in GOD'S Abundance when they are conscious of His Actual Presence with them, for there is a-full and a-plenty for one and all, as has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt!
Almighty GOD, we truly thank THEE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which are firstly recorded the words of the inspirational composition sung just before FATHER arose to speak.)
'Wherever YOU go YOU are a Blessing to the people;
Wherever YOU go YOU are a Blessing to all.
Just giving and giving, Blessings and Blessings;
For YOUR Goodness to all YOU are worthy to be praised!
YOU'VE taken us out of limitations, lacks and wants;
YOU made us Happy, Prosperous and Free!
Wherever YOU go YOU are a Blessing to the people;
YOU are a Blessing, praise YOUR Holy Name!'
(FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition, although an inspiration and the conviction of millions being sung over and over again -- to us it is a Living Reality, for I have taken you out of lacks and wants and limitations. I have established your going in the Land of the Living and have mastered the economic situation, not only in the time and at the time of abundance but in and at the time of the extreme emergencies! Aren't you glad! ("Yes, so glad, LORD!" declared the happy Congregation.) Coming through each of the most recent World Wars, and at the time of the extreme emergency, coming through panics, famines, depressions, lacks and wants and limitations, adverse and undesirable conditions, My little Motto for your consideration and the consideration of all of the people, I AM actually fulfilling verbatim! Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" came the immediate response.)
'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is the Source of all Supply and it will satisfy every Good Desire!'
I have made you conscious of GOD'S Presence not just metaphysically but conscientiously and sincerely, and I have brought you into the Abundant Life! Because of GOD'S Presence being upper mostly in your consciousness according to your conscientious religious conviction, you find the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof!
Therefore, by composition as an inspiration and yet a declaration, I heard you say that everywhere I go I AM a Blessing to the people! ("So true, GOD Almighty!" verified the happy Assembly.) I have taken you out of lacks, wants and limitations; I have taken you out of disappointment and failure; I have taken you out of misery; I have taken you out of all adverse and undesirable conditions and I have established your going in the Land of the Living! ("So true, LORD!" again came the volitional verification.)
Why go around in lacks and wants and limitations when the very Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is the Source of all Supply and It can and It will, as It does -- It shall always do so -- It shall satisfy every Good Desire!
For this cause we do rejoice and we are happy to say, this is a Practical Course in Psychology, if you please! The thing you vividly visualize you tend to materialize, reproduce and personify -- for truly, GOD is as much Present NOW, as HE was in Spirit and Spirit alone, without Flesh, Body, Blood and Bones, when HE moved out upon the face of the waters, as it has been declared by the historians, and said, "Let there be light and there was light." MY Body and your bodies shall not prevent ME! MY Body shall not hinder ME! I shall prove to the world conclusively that GOD is Operative and Expressive and the Same yesterday, forever, and shall throughout all eternity be the SAME, as much in the Presence of His Body as in the Absence of It! Aren't you glad! ("So glad, FATHER Dear!" came the reply.)
GOD said as Spirit and Spirit alone: "Let dry land appear!" I AM speaking historically and according to the historians now! When GOD said, "Let dry land appear," according to the historians and the record we have concerning the mystery, dry land came out of the hiding place of His secrecy into visibility, and was no longer void and without form! Aren't you glad! ("So glad, GOD Almighty!" declared the Congregation.)
This is not a supposition! I AM bringing you all away from that field of imagination into the Recognition and the Realization of that which you once merely imagined. You can enjoy the Actual Presence of GOD, and this is done with or without MY Personal Bodily Form! MY Bodily Form shall not prohibit ME! MY Bodily Form nor your bodily form cannot prevent ME! Since GOD is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, GOD is just as Operative and just as Expressive without One!
Then I say,
'The Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof!'
We see no barriers or limitations; we see no obstruction or adverse or undesirable
conditions, for GOD is the Master of Omnipotency and the Controller of your Destiny!
That is why we have the Abundance both Materially, Mentally and Spiritually,
(aren't you glad!) Morally and Intellectually and from Every Other Angle Expressible!
-- because GOD is Rich and All you need, and will your every hunger Feed! ( "So
true, LORD!" verified the Assembly happily.)
Then I say, everywhere I go -- I verify what you have said -- I AM a Blessing to the people! ("Yes, so true, LORD!" sanctioned the Congregation.)
These Mottoes are not merely coincident or just merely a supposition expressed by a superstition, but they came forth by the conscientious conviction of True Believers! -- and I declared Myself,
'The Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof!'
Be conscious of it and vision the Abundance and the Abundant Life from every
angle expressible! You will no longer be in lacks, wants and limitations; you
will no longer be in adverse and undesirable conditions. Aren't you glad! ( "Oh,
yes, so glad, GOD Almighty!" declared the joyous Congregation.)
I did not arise to say so much, but that little composition, as in the experience of many others, stirs ME! It stirs ME because truly I AM a Blessing to and for the People! ("So true, LORD!" agreed the Assembly enthusiastically .)
Live in this Recognition, and if you can and will but be conscious of My Presence, that Consciousness will solve your every problem and will adjust all matters satisfactorily for you. It will do it Automatically, without your effort and without any mortal or human method, and without any human remedy! -- and when you contact ME Spiritually and Mentally, I AM Real! Real! REAL! I thank you!
(After the thunderous ovation had somewhat subsided, FATHER, still standing, continued speaking as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! I do not with to bore with MY Words. We have others here as visitors and strangers, as speakers and as teachers, and we desire to give them a chance for expression as well as I Myself have a chance Personally. For this cause I refrain from speaking and try to control Myself orderly by stilling Myself and giving others a chance for expression.
I would like to further say, we are not only stressing the Presence of GOD suppositionally or superstitiously and metaphysically, but we are stressing the Presence of GOD as a Living Reality, a Living Presence, NOT a SUPPOSITION. I make your Supposition your REALIZATION! I bring your supposition and even your affirmation through the process of MATERIALIZATION! I think I had better stop! ("No, Dear LORD, please talk on!" pleaded the adoring Congregation.) But after carrying it through the process of Materialization I carry it into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of GOD -- into the Outward Expression of the Personification of PERFECTION! I thank you.
Now I would like to say, we are going to hear from Australia; far-away Australia! -- some place where I have not gone with My Feet! And yet I AM THERE and just as Operative and just as Expressive. My Adherents LOVE ME THERE as MUCH as THESE do HERE who have seen ME for years DAILY! Those there, the majority of them, or practically every one of them in the far countries, have not seen ME Personally! -- have NEVER seen ME Personally! But I AM proving the Omnipresence of GOD and the Operativeness and the Expressiveness of GOD Universally! I thank you.
(Thunderous applause resounds from visitors and Followers alike -- then FATHER says:)
We shall hear from Australia, and we have plenty of connections or recordings from Australia, from New Zealand, from Switzerland, from Germany and from Panama Canal and from all parts of the world. We bear witness of them and they bear witness of us! I thank you.
Accordingly, one of the recent recordings received from Australia was played, which includes not only many testimonies of praise and marvelous healing, and songs of Thanksgiving from the vast number of Followers gathered at that Meeting, but it also includes the song of the famous lyre bird, and his inimitable imitations of other birds. You also can hear the stomping of its famous dance it is noted for. This recording, however, being somewhat lengthy, it did not seem there would be enough time to hear it all, although the many visiting friends present thoroughly enjoyed as much of it as was played. The time for this Banquet having been quite well expired, our Beloved LORD and Savior arose once more to say:
PEACE EVERYONE! I do not believe we have time to hear the whole recording, aside from many others that are quite interesting. As there are many here who have not dined at this particular time, those of us who have dined will arise, take the back seats and back stand or pass out and pass on and allow others to come and do even as we have done. I thank you!
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