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FATHER DIVINE:
I heard a speaker say today that we should know the Truth and not see anyone being persecuted, for there is no persecution or prosecution in the Great Universal Cosmic Mind, for GOD is Love and GOD is manifested, and GOD'S Love is ALL POWER and His Love towards those of mankind that will seek and serve HIM -- you might know that His Love will reach the condition of all men and hover and protect them according to their Faith, and therefore there is no persecution.
'In Perfect Peace I'll keep thee whose mind is stayed on ME!'
I do, indeed, feel very sympathetic, at times, for those who think they are persecuting
ME. I rejoice to know that they are My friends, but I feel, if I could, in a
way of speaking, sorry for those who think they are My enemies, for I know that
what we sow we must reap, and if you sow envy, strife, or any of those negative
expressions of life, you will tend to reap that and you will reap a good crop.
It is wonderful!
As I so often say, thoughts of blessings and cursings are as chickens; they come home to roost, if they are ever leave home; but so often they never leave home because they like to hang around home! So, never curse, but always bless, if you desire to be blessed! Bless, and curse not. Allow your very body -- temple -- not to be a body of cursings and depravity, but allow your very body to be a Temple of GOD, wherein dwelleth righteousness, with love and tender compassion and mercy and hospitality; for that which we sow we must also reap!
So I feel very sympathetic and, in a way, sorrowful for those of the public that think they are persecutors, for I know that is sure to come back to them. It is not to say maybe, but it will certainly come back. What we sow we must also reap! That is why I desire to see prosperity, I desire to see happiness expressed. I don't desire to see any be a failure or unfortunate, for everyone that is successful in life, it alleviates so much depression and lack and want, and therefore, it helps to make the earth a fit place to live, wherein peace and joy and health and happiness will manifestedly exist and the Kingdom of GOD will be made Universal!
We know that the Kingdom has come and that the Will is now being done in this Omnipresent Life in which we all live, but in mortal consciousness they are not conscious of it and they see states of lack and want and all kinds of disastrous conditions. They establish them in their consciousness and it tends to produce them in their world; but in our world we find Peace and Joy and Happiness, and as I always say in correspondence, it always leaves ME Well, Healthy, Lively, Loving, Successful, Happy and Prosperous in every organ, muscle, sinew, vein and bone and in every atom, fibre and cell of My Bodily Form.
And you are the same, if you only know it. All you need do is to claim it, affirm it and live it, and GOD will confirm it, increase it and multiply it. If you go out on any battlefield and think you are licked, you are licked.
Faith is the Victory! That is a word that cannot be refuted. It is the victory in any battle. Why did Jack Dempsey always win? Because he believed that he would win. He had the victory in his own mind! Carry with you the victory in your own breast and the conviction within yourself that you are on the victorious side!
Now, I did not say, "If you have the faith you will get the victory." It said, "Faith is the Victory!" It IS the Victory in any battle! It is wonderful! Now that is a simple word, and you have read over it hundreds of times, but you have never got the significance of it as you have it now. FAITH IS THE VICTORY! You don't have to do a thing -- just have faith. Faith is the Victory! That is GOD'S Word and GOD'S Word cannot fail!
Firm as a rock these words shall stand, whilst rolling ages shall cease to move. Faith IS the Victory, therefore, we know that we have the Victory!
Truly might the apostle have said on one occasion:
'There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit, for the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death!'
Then I said,
'Blessed be the LORD and GOD the FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, for HE has given us the Victory!'
Truly might the composer have said,
'Firm as a rock this Church shall stand!'
For CHRIST said to Peter,
'Upon this rock, (upon this Faith) shall I build My Church, and the gates of h--l shall not prevail against it!'
It cannot fail; it is a matter of impossibility! Nothing can prosper against
this Truth, for this Truth is stronger than death; it is the UNADULTERATED LOVE
of GOD!
So we can rejoice because we do not think we have the victory, we know we have the victory. It is Wonderful! If you have the faith you can move mountains. If you have faith you can move all undesirable conditions and the desirable condition will be established in its stead. If you have faith you can establish the Kingdom of GOD manifestedly in your world and nought can prohibit it. Therefore, you need not falter nor fear, for you are One with your Creator, for GOD, your Creator, is your FATHER! It is Wonderful!
That reminds ME of the common phrase I have heard in a story, but there is logic in it: A little child once said he knew who Santa Claus was and he said he knew who the d-v-l was, and he said: "I know who he is because I know who Santa Claus is!" He was asked, "Who is Santa Claus?" and he said, "Oh, he is nobody but your daddy!" So, just to the reverse, I know who GOD is. GOD has always been your FATHER; you never had another! GOD is the FATHER of your physical body! GOD is the FATHER of your joints, your sinews, your muscles and your bones! GOD is the FATHER of every nerve in your bodily form! GOD is the FATHER of your physical structure. GOD is your FATHER and you never had another!
So I can say, I know who GOD is -- HE is nobody but your FATHER! HE has been with you all the time, but I came to bring you to that conscious realization that by your realizing this you can visualize it until you realize GOD in your consciousness, yea, even in your bodily form! -- for through visualization and concentration and through relaxation and consecration and sacrifice you will bring into realization the ALLNESS of GOD that you have so long sought!
You will never be satisfied and never can be until you shall have come to the FATHERHOOD of GOD! Until you come to the FATHERHOOD of GOD there is no peaceful and quiet resting place or place of satisfaction; you will never be satisfied; for it is understood that Philip spoke for all mankind -- only when you shall be in that state of consciousness! All of the Disciples that had been with the CHRIST and had the witness that some of them did, who had seen the Transfiguration, yet they were not satisfied; and Philip said,
'Show us the Father and it sufficeth us!'
And that was a request for the whole of humanity! You have never seen a satisfied
person that has not seen the FATHER. But when you will find one that has come
to the FATHERHOOD of GOD and gained absolutely the FATHERHOOD of GOD, you will
find one getting to that place of contentment and being satisfied!
'Show us the FATHER and it s sufficeth us!'
Also Jesus said:
'Have I been so long with you and yet have you not known Me, Philip? He that hath seen Me hath seen the FATHER!
Why? Because they were still calling for something and they were not satisfied,
born in the Sonship Degree of expression; but
Show us the FATHER and it sufficeth us!'
And then Jesus went on to say,
'In that day ye shall ask Me nothing, but whatsoever you shall ask the FATHER in My Name, HE will do it!'
That is, you will be the Son and in His Name ask the FATHER for whatsoever you
desire, and that is what HE will do!
Now that is why you all are so happy, because there is the FATHERSHIP Degree of expression being unfolded, and when you realize it, it brings great consolation and satisfaction to the soul. It is Wonderful!
So I can again say that you are being convinced now, that GOD is your physical FATHER, and always has been your physical FATHER. GOD put on a Body to appease the mortal state of the human mind that was functioning in bodies, until that mind should have been brought out and see and realize that GOD is your FATHER and you never had another. Jesus, the great Love Master, strove to get men to realize that when He said,
'Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have hovered you as a hen hovers her brood, etc.'
He desired to birth them out or hatch them out, so to speak, into the Sonship
Degree as He was! He was manifestedly the Son of GOD and He desired them to realize
that they were Sons of GOD -- not Sons of GOD but the Son of GOD individually
expressed or manifested, to appease the concept of the human mind. But we realize
that as they would not allow Him to birth them out into this understanding, to
know that they are the Sons of GOD, He said they would not. As John records it:
'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with GOD, and the Word was GOD, and the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His Glory, as the Glory of the only Begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and Truth; and as many as received HIM, to them gave HE Power to become the Sons of GOD.'
So you see it is wonderful to see your calling and to make your calling and election
sure; being elected as one of the elect of the Most High; being sure that you
are elected and that you elect CHRIST for your King -- KING of Kings and LORD
of Lords, over your affairs, whatsoever they may be; for wheresoever a king reigns,
there is his kingdom!
Now allow the CHRIST to reign in you and over your affairs and that is where His Kingdom will be. Make your calling and election sure, that you will be sure to be called in the CHRIST Consciousness; yea, being the CHRIST that was in the Body called Jesus as your King of kings and Lord of lords; and you will find that He will be reigning KING over you and your affairs!
Do you not see the great significance of it? President Wilson was in Europe during the War, but that did not say that he was a President over there; he was President only of the United States -- the Country that had elected him king.
And so it is with every one of us that will elect the CHRIST KING of Kings and LORD of Lords over your affairs. Then and there will the KINGDOM of CHRIST be, and there is no other king. But as long as you allow mortality to reign in you and over your affairs, you cannot bring the kingdom of GOD to materialization in your affairs! The seed idea may be there, just as in the egg that has not been incubated or set. It has the qualities of the full-grown chick but it must be incubated or set to take form and to be useful and brought into fruition and be manifest to the world as a live chick!
The CHRIST in ME and the CHRIST in you is just the same as that seed idea of the chicken of the mother bird and the father bird! Every egg has the seed idea of the mother bird and the father bird in itself. It has all of their qualities, but it must take form. Before taking form it must be developed and hatched out, and then developed and brought to fruition in the outer life before it can be manifestedly the identical sample and example, or the identical image of his breed!
So the CHRIST is in you, waiting to be brought into fruition, dear ones, but you can only bring Him into fruition as you put off mortality! You will be transformed by the renewing of your mind, and you will bring forth the PERFECT IMAGE of CHRIST to the world. Then and there, the KING of Kings shall have come on earth in your affairs as He is here!
Every person has the same right; it is not another. The Great Universal Cosmic Mind, as being the CHRIST Consciousness over all, is trying to hover you and all of the inhabitants of America as did the CHRIST over and upon the idea conceived by Mary, to bring forth the CHRIST to fruition and manifest Him to the world, and there will be no other.
Therefore, FAITH is the VICTORY, as I said, and I have it! I have the Victory over every adverse condition, over every adverse wind, and over every undesirable condition, for Faith is the Victory that overcomes, even your Faith! I thank you.
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