FATHER DIVINE and MOTHER DIVINE
Our Savior gave forth abundantly of HIS Words of Divine Wisdom and Salvation whilst in the City of Brotherly Love — and this glorious Message herein transcribed serves an an electric shock to the minds of the children of men, to awaken them from the sleep of the old religious dogmas and traditional customs into the light of of Spiritual truth and religious practicality. However, just before the Lord arose to speak, a beautiful song to which FATHER refer to in the Message was sung, after which the Holy Spirit moved volitionally in an individual to praise FATHER'S Majesty.
(Shortly after the testimony, our beloved Savior arose to bless humanity with HIS Wonderful Words of Spirit and Life, speaking as follows:)
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! These and all other blessings, we have them, and this is not a supposition but the conscious recognition and realization of millions. For this cause you can say."I am so glad!"
Just before the last speaker arose to speak, and I repeat, the last speaker did arise, I arose before I arose to speak, I repeat, I reiterate, I stress, but more direct, the point, of which I wish to convey.
The composition,the last number just sung is not merely a composition for music but it has been established in the minds of millions:
"My Yolk is easy and MY Burden is light!"
Just what it said there, if you will but just harmonize and then unify with the Fundamentals for which we stand, all of these blessings will be at your disposal and at your service and at the service of all mankind.
Whilst listening to the song and repeating it in Person I thought to say how marvelous it would be to every living creature in lacks, wants or limitations, sick or afflicted, having any sort of an adverse or undesirable condition, if such a person would come to ME mentally and spiritually. It is not necessary to contact ME Personally especially, as GOD is Omni Present, and more explicit and more essentially considered for you, GOD is Ever Present, wheresoever you may go or wheresoever you may be, GOD is Ever Present.
The key to the mystery of the Scripture I put forth into expression as heard in most of your churches,
"Prayer is the Key of Heaven"
but the average person does not really know what it means. The average person thinks it means praying or moaning in agony, and grieving and crying; even though the Word has been handed by Christendom:
"Prayer is the Key of Heaven but faith unlocks the door",
it is more explicit and more to be considered than that of which you call prayer and prayer alone. The mystery of prayer is praise. The one to whom it was revealed and handed down through that one to others:
"Prayer is the Key of Heaven",
(by interpretation)
"Praise is the Key of Heaven!"
Praise will unlock every barred and shut door; it will emancipate you from every undesirable condition; it will give you your real emancipation. Matters not what the consequences and the conditions may be, Praise will unlock the door. (Prayer is that special illustration by the Spirit of GOD) and GOD is HIS own Interpreter; I AM here to tell you the Word there — Prayer — means Praise. Praise is the Key of Heaven and Faith unlocks the door.
Praise will unlock every barred and shut door, I say. If you retrace your thoughts back to Paul and Silas, when they were in jail they sang and they prayed, it was said; but they sang and they gave praise, for the blessing GOD had given them and the blessings they had already received!
Praise will unlock any barred and shut door! As I have often said,
"Ask, Affirm, Give Thanks and give Praise; GOD will Give, Confirm, Increase and Multiply!"
That is the mystery of supply! With the right concept and the recognition of GOS'S Actual Presence, when you give all Praises with all sincerity, diligently, and shall have asked for what you will — then Affirm and Give Thanks and Give Praise — your prayers are heard and answered speedily, even before you utter the words!
"You know not how to pray as you ought, the spirit itself maketh intercession in groanings which cannot be uttered"
Hence, when you get to that place in consciousness when you cannot utter the word — when you get down deep in sincerity and are actually serious about what you are saying — when you begin giving praise and giving thanks for everything — there and then the Door flies wide open as it did for Paul and Silas when they were in prison, and as it did or Peter and many others; praise unlocked their barred and shut door and set the prisoners free!
If you ask, I ay, GOD will give — and for your Affirming that you have it , GOD will confirm! All of your affirmations are confirmed by the great Confirmer, and all of your thanks will increase and multiply that which GOD has confirmed that you have; and as you give praise continually you multiply the blessings by as many more continually as long as you praise GOD sincerely
This is not a supposition. When Jesus only had the two small fishes and the five barley loaves — as a sample and as an example for you Jesus looked up from the material side of life — looked up from materialism, from mortality, from the earth bound thoughts of men, and lifted HIS Eyes above them — His mental eye above them — and gave thanks for the blessings HE had received — and it was increased there and then; and as they began to give praise for the blessings that had come, the blessings were multiplied as by a million times over and over again, until they had a-full and a-plenty for everyone.
I have a-full and a-plenty for every living creature — not only those who are called MY followers. GOD is Universal in Activity and Infinite by Nature, therefore you cannot confine HIM neither can you bind HIM.
GOD so loved the world HE gave His Son. GOD is givin
"Now unto Him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think",
you cannot think enough for GOD to do yet! You cannot think enough for GOD to do! GOD will do for you more than you can think and if you "Try ME" said He "see if I will not open you the windows of Heaven and pour you out such a Blessing
there will not be room to receive it!"
This is not a supposition, it is the recognition and realization of millions who have tried ME with the spirit of sincerity. Aren't you glad! Of houses, and lands, of yachts and of airplanes and everything you need, GOD is pleased to supply them if you will wholeheartedly trust Him. GOD is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you an ask or think, and this is not a supposition. I stress this is not a supposition because the materialists say we are superstitious as religious believers and we merely imagine things, we do not see or have them. But I AM willing to measure arms with any and all of the materialist and prove to the world conclusively GOD is greater and better and bigger than all of the materialists! Aren't you glad! GOD is the real science of Life and not something merely imaginary.
Imaginations will not do, for the materialists will call for something that is a fact — something that is material, something that is real. Hence you must transcend the borders of materialism and the mortal version of mortal's imagination and bring into your recognition and realization your fondest imagination, and cause your imagination to be made Real, Tangible and Practical and no longer merely imaginary.
This beautiful home and thousands and thousands of others the universe over are not merely imaginary ideas. The fondest imagination of the True and Faithful is made Real, Tangible and Practical by the Practicality of the Teaching of CHRIST to a dying nation; dying and starving for Salvation; staving for comfort and convenience, starving for life, health and liberty; starving for understanding; starving for information, better known in our present day as education; starving for all of these things!
Then I have said by composition according to the Gospel:
"Come unto Me and I will give you rest! MY Yoke is easy and MY Burden is light and thou shalt find rest for they soul!"
I need not say more; I arose first to convey the thought concerning that number, the song lastly sung so vividly:
"Come unto Me and I will give you rest" — give you rest from your mental and spiritual struggle, from all your trials, your tribulations and your worries; I will give you rest from such conditions if you will but harmonize with Me scientifically and accurately and connect with Me sufficiently to give GOD Praises whole-heartedly; and by the praise you give, your blessings will be multiplied, and you will not have room to receive the blessings that are so freely given!
This is not a supposition, I said, and I will prove it to you in deeds and actions by outward demonstration in and on the material plane, and show to the world conclusively, as I have been, GOD is a living reality; GOD makes things Real, Tangible and Practical and adjusts maters satisfactorily! Aren't you glad! GOD gives you plenty of nice homes. If you will allow Me to I will lift you up where you have been cast down! If you will allow Me to I will take every one of you out of the slums and give you nice, comfortable and beautiful homes! That is what I AM talking about!
"Hear the Blessed Savior,
Calling the oppressed,
Come, all ye heavy laden
And I will give you rest"
Peace Center,
FATHER DIVINE's Headquarters in New York City.
As you heard the last speaker say, in New York City and wheresoever I AM, especially where I AM known, you do not find standing room. If I was to return tonight to MY regular Banquet Hall in New York City and get there about three 0'clock you would hardly find standing room; a Banquet Hall about the size as this room, with a balcony all around. Just think of it!
Jesus said, and I repeat the same,
"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto Me!"
Aren't you glad! CHRIST has been lifted up, — now imbibe the Spirit of CHRIST and live the Life of CHRIST and men will be attracted to you in business, profession, labor and trade, because CHRIST will draw then to you!
In business places that are run and owned and operated by followers of Mine who live exactly according to MY Teaching and abide in MY Spirit at all times, you can hardly find standing room in the grocery stores, in the dress shops, in the barber shops and in any and all of the places, because they are so freely giving even as they receive, and they are holding ME uppermostly in consciousness, if you please, and I AM drawing the masses wheresoever they are, even as where I AM!
Capital and labor have united and I have brought business and trade together. I have caused hem to be mentally and spiritually married to each other! As far as we are concerned, Capital and Labor are One! As far as we are concerned, Business and Trade are One! Aren't you glad! As far as we are concerned, Politics and Religion are One! As far as we are concerned, your American Citizenry and your Evangelical living are united together; you cannot get one without getting the other! That is what I AM talking about!
By this we shall have a Righteous Government, and all of the True and Faithful of MY Followers and Believers and Friends are imbibing the Law of the Spirit of Life that was in CHRIST Jesus to enact this Law in government and cause it to be legitimate! I thank you! I thank you! I thank you!
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