FATHER DIVINE
On the Eve of this One Eternal Day, when the outside world was celebrating the coming of a New Calendar Year, to the hosts of children gathered in festive array around the Holy Banquet Table of the LORD, it was the birth of a new light and love, and a new freedom for all mankind, and they were rejoicing with exceeding joy, for their very hearts and minds were witness of that glorious prophecy that reads:
'Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon His shoulder, and HE shall be called Immanuel, being interpreted, GOD is with us.'
The radiation of the Holy Spirit rose higher and higher as the followers gazed
with adoring eyes upon the "Beloved" of all creation, and as the Light
of His immaculate Presence burst upon the awakening children the entire angelic
host joined in the singing of that beautiful inspiration, "Behold the Lamb",
until it seemed that the very Heaven and the earth were ringing with praises
for their King.
FATHER added to the joy of the hour by delivering a priceless Message on the infinite value of concentrating on the Lamb-likeness of GOD, and thus finding rest in His meek and lowly Heart!
Our Heavenly FATHER, we humbly thank YOU for the most precious gift of all Thyself!
(The above comment comes from the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health! Good Will! A Good Appetite! Good Manners! Good Behavior! All Success and all Prosperity! Merry Christmas! And One Eternal Happy New Year wheresoever I AM!
I thought just then, as I have often thought concerning that song: "Behold the Lamb!" The Spirit intuitively and inspirationally has been stressing that thought vividly for many years a request for you and all others to behold the Lamb of GOD . . . behold the meekness of the Spirit of mercy . . . the Lamb-likeness of GOD'S Majesty! That is the great significance and the great essential for you to behold the Lamb of GOD!
As I have mentioned from time to time, it is not necessarily to be considered as beholding the Omnipotence of GOD, but behold the meekness of GOD, the lowliness of the Heart of GOD. The Love of GOD and the compassion of GOD and His mercy and Truth endureth from generation to generation.
I thought how marvelous it is to realize what it really means to behold the Lamb what it really means to gain victory over self! If you can conquer yourself, and bring yourself into subjection to Righteousness, Justice and Truth in opposition to your sense of feeling, you are about a great work. For,
'He who conquers his own will is greater than he that taketh a city.'
Then I say, it is a privilege to realize you can behold the Lamb! You can dial
in on the spirit of meekness the way to get the victory over every trial and
tribulation, for low is the way, and I AM meek and lowly in Heart! When you recognize
the meekness and the lowliness of the heart of GOD, you will find rest for your
soul by finding the way of the Heart and to the Heart of GOD!
If you would stop as a people, yea, as the human race universally, and consider the great significance of conquering your own antagonistic and perplexible, conflicting and undesirable will; how you can conquer your will by realizing GOD within is the Conqueror and can and actually will in your name, for you, cause your will to be conquered completely, and will give you the victory over every difficulty.
When you shall have conquered your will, you have conquered all others on the earth plane; for, as one is conquered, all others in and on that same category, they are all conquered together by the conquering of one in that state of consciousness!
'For in Adam all die, so shall in Jesus Christ all be made alive.'
Then I say, it is a privilege to live in such a recognition and to be filled
with such enthusiasm as you are filled with by the recognition and the realization
of GOD'S actual Presence. Doubts and fears, adverse and undesirable conditions,
by such are all dispelled from your consideration.
How glorious it is to realize, when this is accomplished in you individually, it represents others severally and collectively! It represents all others with whom you are connected, and those with whom you may in the future be connected. That is the mystery!
Then I say, it is a privilege to live in such a recognition, conquering and to conquer continually your own will by beholding the Lamb of GOD! Do not think one time that this merely means you should look to behold something physical like a lamb of the animal species, of the cattle kind, but Behold the Lamb of GOD! Do not think one time that when you can behold such meekness and consider it, the meekness that has won the victory over trials and tribulations and the Love of GOD transcending your fondest imagination, have conquered death and all oppositions that have ever arisen, for love is stronger than death!
Then the meeker you are, and the more obedient you are, the more lowly in heart you are, the greater you are in the sight of the Almighty GOD!
What a privilege to realize each and every child of GOD can overcome all oppositions, trials and tribulations by the way of meekness and obedience! For you do not conquer by rising in resentment, anger and prejudice, but you conquer by stooping in meekness, in love and mercy and obedience!
Conquering your own will, I say, is the great essential! When you shall have conquered your own will individually, you will have victory once and forever, and naught will be able to rise against you that you will not be able to overcome, or that Spirit, whichever, will not be able to overcome all such difficulties.
Then I say, live in this recognition if you will, and you will see, as you conquer your own will you are bringing the opposite forces into subjection you are causing every antagonistic and undesirable condition resulting in your experience to be brought into subjection, to become to be your servants, even as Jesus said to the "other fellow":
'It is written that thou shalt not tempt the Lord your GOD, but Him only shalt thou serve.'
This is brought out in the Psalmic prediction of David concerning ME, when he
declared,
'The wrath of man shall praise Thee.'
He was speaking concerning the mystery of what would be in this dispensation,
the same as it was in that one. The wrath of man has praised ME! When oppositions
had arisen from time to time, the Spirit of the Almighty overcame those conditions
because of His Omnipotence within HIMSELF . . . although through Meekness and
Obedience HE overcame them!
'He that overcometh will I grant to sit with ME in My Throne, even as I have overcome,'
said the Spirit,
'and sit with My FATHER on His Throne.'
Overcoming all self and selfishness overcoming resentment and anger overcoming
jealousy and prejudice overcoming every adverse and undesirable tendency within
you, you have conquered your worst enemy.
For what said I concerning the mystery through the prediction of this of which I AM now speaking in the prophecy:
'Your worst enemy is that of your own household.'
The worst enemy you ever had is that one within which rises resentfully and persistently
in opposition to something; it causes you to be egotistic, yea, causes you to
be resentful, causes you to be persistent in your ambition egotistically, maliciously
and antagonistically and conflictingly, which causes your mind to be perturbed
and disturbed, and even causes you to lose control of yourself. Such a mind and
such a spirit, they are the worst enemies of all creation as far as you are concerned.
Behold the Lamb of GOD! This is the beginning of what the people call a New Year. With us, those of us who know the Truth, we live without the beginning of days and without the end of life, but, humanly speaking, speaking according to the versions of men, this is termed the beginning of a new year. If each and everyone would begin now to conquer his or her own will, and bring them into subjection to the CHRIST Consciousness, and recognize the Presence of the Almighty GOD at all times, you would overcome every trial and every tribulation, for GOD is victoriously a Conqueror over all of them.
Then I say, as said the servant of GOD, "Speak Lord, for Thy servant heareth!" It has long since been declared, and I re-declare the same,
'Before they call, I will answer and while they are yet speaking, I will hear!'
Now, if you can make up your mind to even so much as make the call, before you
make the call, just by making up your mind with the spirit of sincerity and a
contrite heart, your prayers are heard and answered before you make the "Call".
There are few who receive the answer before they make the call, but the Promise of GOD cannot fail all of My Words, they shall prevail! Against each and every opposition that may arise to prohibit them, My Spirit and My Mind will go forth conquering and to conquer, overcoming those tendencies and ideas and opinions that rise in opposition. They try to prohibit the Promise of GOD from coming forth into expression, but if you come up to the requirements, your prayers will be heard and answered, and GOD will fill all of His Promises according to His Plan and Purpose.
I need not say more at this particular instance! I have said enough to stir up your mind concerning Beholding the Lamb of GOD! For when you look diligently into the direction I have directed you, and have attracted your attention, you will find that My Spirit will lead you continually on to victory, and to victory over every opposition that may rise against you.
When you start out looking from a scientific, spiritual point of view, that which has been spoken in the Gospel, yea, even that which was spoken in the law and in the prophecy, you will see and know definitely, those things are fulfilled already. They can be fulfilled by you even as they have been fulfilled by others. Thus, when you overcome self in one instance, you can in another, for it is not you as a person, who overcometh, it is My Spirit, it is My Mind, it is My Life within that overcometh all things.
Taking things from a spiritual point of view and realizing those things spiritually discerned are applicable to you, you can apply them to your own lives, to your own business, to your own activities, and you will see they work accurately and perfectly for you, for GOD is His Own Interpreter . . . GOD is His Own Fulfiller, and GOD is His Own Re-Creator and Repetition-er, in other words, Reiterator, One Who can and will reiterate in actions and in deeds as well as in speaking a word. You overcome self by taking a stand in opposition to your sense of feeling, for your mortal sense of feeling, at times it is antagonistic. By being a mortal mind, and observing things from a personal point of view, you are quite sensitive at times, and the reaction of your selfish, sensitive thoughts will cause you to act upon the impulse of the moment before you think, yea, before you speak.
Hence, at times you may act hastily, and find yourselves bringing condemnation upon yourself, misery, disappointment and failure, and everything else that is undesirable, for the spirit of that which rises with an undesirable tendency or sense of feeling, that sense of feeling expresses that which is according to the nature of itself in expression, for it is telling you there and then, what you are creating by the sense of feeling, that sense of self or sensitiveness is actually bringing. That is the mystery!
Now, when you feel happy, when you feel joyful, when you feel peaceful, when you feel loving, the actuated words of your expression are actually creating desirable conditions, and desirable conditions will result from the harmonious and desirable feeling you are expressing in actions and in deeds. That is the mystery! Then the reverse is equally true. Can you not see the mystery? If you know the desirable is a reality by your past experience, the undesirable is equivalently the same, by creating in your mentality and in your system undesirable conditions by antagonism, by resentment and by anger and acting at that time of such a temperature of your mind, you create such conditions as the temperature of your spirit is you create such conditions as the very sensitiveness of your sense of feeling; hence, you bring it into outer expression by deeds and by actions.
The desirable has been a reality in your past experience with ME. When you think harmoniously, when you are feeling happy, when you feel pleasant, the inspirations you are getting from the invisible Presence of My Spirit will bring you wisdom, knowledge and understanding, and will cause harmony to result where there was chaos. Can you not see the mystery?
You know in your past experience you have felt happy and pleasant at times. When you are filled with enthusiasm, with love and kindness and happiness, when you are keyed to the highest pitch spiritually and mentally and in a harmonious attitude or harmonious sense of feeling, then you begin to do something; everything works harmoniously for you; even the surrounding conditions, if you are doing business or working at your trade, whatsoever you may be doing, the Spirit of My Presence without as well as within will cause things to work harmoniously for you.
But an inharmonious attitude and mind, filled with negation why, disappointment and failure will necessarily result. That is the mystery! Get filled with antagonism and things will work antagonistically for you; you will even mash your hand or finger at times if you are driving a nail, because of an antagonistic feeling within, that conflicting spirit within which is destructive . . . as you would do to others, it will do it to you within you.
Then I say, Behold the Lamb! I AM trying to depict, for your sake, the mystery and the significance of observing the Lamb-likeness of the Spirit, in meekness and obedience, of love and of kindness that will give you the victory over all undesirable conditions without as well as within.
The Lamb-likeness of the Spirit of GOD will bring about such results as the Lamb has already brought!
There are many things I could say, but I believe I have said enough to cause you to look in the way your Redeemer has gone! I heard one say by composition,
'Show me the way my Redeemer has gone
He is the Lily of the Valley,
He is the Bright and the Morning Star
Show me the way my Redeemer has gone!'
You can see I have gone in the way of wisdom, in the way of knowledge and in
the way of understanding. It has brought success and prosperity, the way I have
been directing others. It has brought Peace; it has brought pleasure, and it
has led them on to victory when they follow as I direct them.
Behold the Lamb of GOD! This thought is well considering. It transcends your fondest imagination when you can and do behold the Lamb-likeness of the Infinite ONE, for it can be reproduced and brought to fruition by reincarnation within, and such by concentration will cause you to become to be the personification of that of which you are beholding. That on which you are concentrating will be your portion when you shall have concentrated vividly in the positive direction continually.
Once again I say, here you all are and there I AM. By harmonization and by unification; by unifying yourselves together in the unity of Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose you can be one in reality with the One on Whom you are relying upon.
When I say, here you all are and there I AM, think, consider and realize, if you are not with ME and one with ME in all things there is something representing you as a person, each of you of which I AM stressing as being I of Whom you are, and you of whom I AM! By so observing the mystery, that little I, the impersonality of you, that which is actually GOD, by harmonizing and unifying together for one common purpose, you will be one as far as some one of these expressions is concerned.
You hear ME say at times . . . in the unity of Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose. If you are only one with ME for the purpose or for the aim, you are in unity with ME as far as that is concerned. Therefore, you are one in the unity of the Spirit, or unity of aim, the unity of purpose, the unity of mind or the unity of someone of these desirable unified expressions. Therefore, you are one with ME when I tell you, you are one in reality.
All living creatures, they seek happiness, they seek life. If only seeking life, you would be one as far as that is concerned . . . the aim for life and happiness, the aim for Peace and pleasure. Therefore, in the unity of that aim and purpose, as far as those things are concerned, you are one with your MAKER to that degree of expression.
Build upon this Foundation! If you will stand and allow My Spirit to lead you and guide you from one degree of Grace to another you will gain victory over all trials and over all tribulations, and will find Peace on earth eternally here in Heaven. I thank you.
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