" Fast from Jealousy! Fast from Prejudice! Fast from Doubts! Fast from Fears!"

"Go in Opposition to Your Sense of Feeling and Tendencies And You Will Feel the Actual Presence of GOD."--- FATHER DIVINE

Our FATHER'S Message at the Banquet Table, 1887-1889 Madison Avenue, New York City,
Thursday Afternoon, July 27, 1939, A.D.F.D., Time -- 2:30 P.M.



FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE

FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE, Divine Lodge, Samsonville, N. Y.

 

The arrival of a busload of pilgrim travelers from the West coast was an occasion of joy as they were greeted with the love and hospitality always extended by and to the children of GOD. During the afternoon banquet in the beautiful Madison Avenue residence, many testimonies were given by the visiting angels, telling the many wonderful things that FATHER had done for them in the way of healing and making it possible for them to journey across the continent to see His Holy Body. The driver of the bus told, among other things, of having distributed about ten thousand copies of FATHER'S Messages throughout the country, and even in the most unbelievable places they had heard of our Savior and His Mighty Works; also that while they even crossed the Canadian border twice, not once were they stopped or molested on their trip.

Another speaker asked FATHER to bless her to a healing, stating that she did not know why she had not received it but she knew the fault was with her. To bring her into the light of His great Omnilucent Spirit and for the benefit of all others who, like her, seek deliverance, FATHER delivered this beautiful Message on the losing of one's identity to be truly emancipated.

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER'S Message follows:)

PEACE EVERYONE! Here I AM again, and there I sit and stand. In the Unity of Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose to you I come, yea, even as I came. For this purpose and for this cause I stand. Through the condescension of the Infinite Spirit and Mind, I have Unified Myself with the children of men that they might be One with ME and be as I AM.

Now, it appears as if though it is something to be considered of many of the believers having not received all of the desirable blessings they have sought. What is the cause for such? For what cause is it that you are not completely healed of all of your ills? I have shown you conclusively the cause for such. If you are yourself, naturally your infirmities belong to you and you belong to your infirmities; but if you will lose your identity and be lost in the Infinite and take on the CHRIST Characteristics and be a new creature, your infirmities and iniquities cannot identify you. They cannot claim you because you are not that old person to whom those iniquities, sins and afflictions belong. Can you not see the mystery? But if you live in the consciousness of yourself as a person, even though you may live Evangelically according to your version, your old infirmities and iniquities, sickness and diseases and the transgressions and iniquities of your ancestors can find you and they will be able to identify you as the heirs of such characteristics and as the heirs of such infirmities, and such afflictions.

Now, take these thoughts to consideration and jot them down in your memory once and forever, and realize you must shed off the old for the new -- that is what a snake will do. I have told you to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. Be calm as a lamb and bold as a lion. It is a privilege to do so, but you must be radical enough to believe unbelievable sayings and unbelievable things.

'GOD is your FATHER and you never had another.'


You came forth from the Royal Family, if you think you need another adoption. You are from the Royal Family from the beginning, therefore that cursed lineage with which you have been connected has imposed its infirmities, iniquities and transgressions upon you. So long as you are yourself from any angle expressible, you can expect to feel the infirmities of your ancestors. You can expect to feel the iniquities and transgressions of your prehistoric life in connection with your lineage with which you are represented; for you are the heirs and joint heirs to whatsoever your fathers and mothers left for you.

Some of them left all sorts of characteristics and dispositions. If you are the heirs and joint heirs with some other person, you have a right to the heirship of that respective lineage with which you are connected. CHRIST said:

'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven.'


It is essential for you to be born out of that Adamic state of consciousness, born out of that cursed lineage with which you have been connected, and be not only adopted but be born into the Royal Family and convince yourself foolishly that you are a Child of GOD and you are not by any means connected with your former ancestors as you have allegedly been.

I thought I would tell you and all others who may come after you, why a good many of you are afflicted, why a good many of you cannot get your complete healing physically, mentally and spiritually. It is because you still hold on to that old cursed lineage with which you have been connected; for GOD did curse the earth for Adam's sake, and I have declared through the mouth of the Apostle:

'As in Adam all die, so shall in Jesus Christ all be made alive.'


"Vice-versalate" your version. Change your ideas and opinions. Get a revised version of all creation, of all of the history of the human race. Get a revised version of it, I say, and be a new creature; for I came not to merely give you the King James version of the Scripture nor the history, but I came to give you the Divine Version of all of GOD'S Creation, that you might be new creatures by having everything transformed in your own consideration according to the Divine Version. >

King James' version was good to lead you up and to wake you up. It has awakened many; those who were sincere and lived according to the King James version of the Scripture. But I came to revise the King James version of the Scripture and to revise even the King James version of the history, and revise the whole creation according to the former versions by which you have been going.

We shall have a Divine Version of all of GOD'S Creation. Why go by a mortal version when their versions have a destination even as they had a destination and have come to their extremity and GOD was obliged to be represented? Since GOD has come into consideration, it is essential for GOD to give you His Own Version concerning His great Creation. I think I had better stop. I will touch those things some future day.

A good many have said I came fifty years ahead of time. I will speak of them some day if it is fifty years from now. If I do not speak of the Divine Version of the whole Creation in Person, I will speak of it impersonally and others will hear it and get the Message concerning the mystery.

The versions, ideas and opinions of men, you should know they must come to an end, for have you not said by inspiration, as others have said, "GOD alone shall reign"? If the versions of men stand good in your consideration, GOD has not been enthroned on the throne of your mind to have all dominion yet. You will have to get to that place in consciousness, everyone of you -- whatsoever the versions of men say, their ideas and opinions, if you are called in question you will say, "I have to find out", if you do not know; for you will be obliged to get the real version of the Truth.

The Law of the Spirit of Life that was in CHRIST JESUS must be in you, and when this is established in you, you will have the Divine Version -- no longer going by the King James version nor the versions of the history-makers of today, but you will be in that number who will repeat history and revise history and all of the creation and cause all creation hereafter to have a Divine Version of GOD'S Creation.

But it is a privilege to merely believe and put off the old man with all of his deeds and put on the New Man, CHRIST JESUS, in Whom you should live. Even if you do not see ME as I AM, believe with the spirit of sincerity and be new creatures characteristically and dispositionally by falling in line. You may not be transformed immediately by the renewing of your mind, but you can be reformed in a great measure until the transformation shall have taken place within you. You are reformed by being reformed theoretically and changing your disposition, your ideas and your opinions externally. Even though you may not be changed completely internally, fast those oppositions out of you by refusing to indulge in them or compromise with them when they are in opposition to the Divine Version concerning the Scripture.

I know you may not and you do not feel within at times, as though things should be according to My Version, but by knowing definitely it is a version that can save you, it is a version that can lift you, you should go in opposition to your own sense of feeling and to your own fancies, pleasures and to your own tendencies. You go in opposition to them and you feel the Actual Presence of GOD leading you and guiding you.

You may not feel like being and going in this way in the beginning. Your sense of human tendencies and feeling may not desire you to go this way, but by fasting from your human tendencies, from your human pleasures and refusing to indulge in self and selfishness, you will find you will take on new characteristics and will eventually become to be new creatures. For what said I concerning this mystery?

'If ye live after the flesh ye shall die, but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.'


Then I say,

'Such kind cometh out with fasting and with prayer.'


The thing that is not according to My Plan and Purpose, fast that tendency out of you. You may be anxious and you may have a greedy appetite for such as may be in violation to the Fundamental, according to My Teaching, but regardless to how your appetite, your taste and your fancies or your pleasures may be, refuse to indulge in them; for Jesus the CHRIST did say:

'Such kind cometh out (only) with fasting and with prayer.'


You fast from those tendencies that are in you and fast continually until you gain victory, for they will come out if they cannot have place nor space within for expression. They will come out for the lack of expression! They can only live when they have access and have a chance for expression. They only live on expression and in the act of having a place and a space within for expression. Can you not see the mystery?

The "other fellow" cannot live in you any more than a fish can live out of water, if you do not give him anything to do. He has to do something. Can you not see the mystery? He is always busy! What said he concerning Job when the Sons of GOD were gathered together?

'I am going to and fro in the earth, up and down in it, seeking whom I can devour.'


That spirit will have to do something or else he will leave you. Can you not see the mystery? Then, refuse to indulge in him and refuse to tolerate his expression. Refuse to allow him to have space or place within for expression. He will come out by prayer and by fasting. Can you not see the mystery?

Then, refuse to indulge in him and refuse to tolerate his expression. Refuse to allow him to have space or place within for expression. He will come out by prayer and by fasting. Can you not see the mystery?

FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE, Divine Lodge, Samsonville, N. Y.

You fast from those tendencies! You fast from the indulgence of his presence within you. Fast from those things that he might tempt you with. Refuse to indulge in them, regardless the situation, regardless to your sense of feeling, regardless to your ideas or your opinions, regardless to how the conditions or circumstances may be. When you refuse to indulge in him and refuse to give him space or place within for expression, he will be obliged to come out for you will be fasting him and you will fast him out completely. That is the mystery of fasting.

I do not tell you to fast from the food that is good for the sustenance of your bodies. But fast from every detestable and antagonistic characteristic. Fast from every mortal tendency, fancy or pleasure! Fast from all self-indulgence and allow GOD to speak within you by fasting the "other fellow" out completely. starve him out and if you do not give him anything to eat in the actuated words of expression, he will be starved out by fasting and he will no longer have an existence within you. That is the mystery.

FAST! FAST from envy! FAST from malice! FAST from strife! FAST from jealousy! FAST from prejudice! FAST from doubts! Fast from fears! Fast from lacks, wants and fast from cares! How do you fast from those things? By refusing to tolerate or indulge in what they may suggest.

Whensoever you have a suggestion from the fear realm, go to the extreme reverse to that which fear suggests and you will overcome fear as far as that is concerned. If you are jealous, whatsoever jealousy would suggest and its nature is to do, go to the extreme reverse to that which jealousy would have you do. Can you not see the mystery? By going to the extreme reverse to jealousy and refusing to encourage it or indulge in it, it will no longer have an existence for it cannot live saving by activity. It can only live by some actual duty and by being put on active duty to do something. When it has no longer anything to do within, it will come out of you, for it cannot stand idle. That is the mystery.

Fear is another great expression that you should fast from and fast out of your mentality and out of your system. By refusing to indulge in the suggestions of fear, fear will be obliged to leave you. That is the mystery. It will come out because it cannot exist where there is no place nor space for expression. It has to express itself in one way or the other.

Close up all the avenues and all the ways of expression for fear, for jealousy and for prejudice and for all of those detestable characteristics, and they all will leave you for the lack of expression, for they are starving when they cannot express according to their nature. They will be obliged to go where they can have room and chance for expression.

This is not a supposition. This is something that has been experienced personally. If there happens to be an expression of fear or anything that comes into consideration with ME, I go to the extreme reverse to that which fear would suggest -- go to the extreme reverse to its suggestions, and that reversal of such a suggestion made by fear will be a suggestion in the actuated words of expression and it will bring an abolition to such suggestions and even the existence of the suggester. That is the mystery.

Take these thoughts to consideration and use this method against all of your oppositions, all of your mental and spiritual characteristics that are antagonistic, and you will overcome each and all of them and cast them out by fasting them out, and they will no longer have an existence, for they cannot exist without a way of expression and without a way to operate or express in some way whatever.

Now, you can see the outward expression of the Unity of Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose. You can see, the space and place where there would have been prejudice, doubts and fears and envy, malice and strife and other detestable tendencies, they have no longer an existence; but to the extreme reverse of such characteristics you can see those things are expressed in these audiences -- the extreme reverse of those characteristics -- for they have been fasted out of the mentality and out of the existence of this people. They have no longer an existence because of the disrecognition of their actual worthiness and of their presence. Therefore we fast them out by refusing to give them a chance for expression. I thank you.



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