Hope Farm, The Promised Land N.Y.
(FATHER speaks as follows:)
A good assembly, good health and a good appetite, with all of the Spirit of Merriness -- the same today as at night. I can hear the praises ringing all over the world, and everything else that is not according to this great emotion of praises, will be swallowed up into its nothingness, for the Spirit of Praises, with the Spirit of Merriness, is overcoming everything else. I can hear the Spirit of Praises all over the world. The Spirit of Praises is actually put into operation through your emotions, by your sincere devotion. It is really germinating the very atmosphere with the Spirit of the Consciousness of GOD'S Presence, and such a conviction is so contagious, the people universally are getting it. It is Wonderful!
I can hear the sounds of Praises all over the world -- and none can hinder ME. If there comes one in your midst with sorrow or condemnation reflected in their testimonies or experiences, still I can hear the sounds of Praises. It is Wonderful! Praises shall overwhelm everything else. Praises will unlock the door! Praise is the key to Heaven. It reveals the Mysteries hidden from the ages, and brings out from the hidden treasures of GOD'S Understanding, Wisdom. Peace, Poise and Happiness transcending all human imagination, for it causes your hearts to be tuned with Praises and your ears to be filled with the sounds thereof.
Then I say, I can hear the sounds of Praise all over the world -- Praises that transcend every human imagination and illuminate you with the Spirit Merriness, and catch you up in the rhythm of songs and the melodies that are coming forth from the Spirit of GOD'S Presence by your conscious recognition. Songs of Praises are most essential to stay in the Spirit of Praises, or some expression that will keep you away from accusation, from condemnation and away from the gloom and fears and worries. To praise GOD aright, it causes the Spirit and Characteristics of GOD to be reacted in you. The eradication of your sorrows will take place in the expression of Praises. It will give you a heart of merriness, and will heal you of all your worries and undesirable conditions, and it will establish you in the land of the living as expressers of the Victorious Conquering KING. Aren't you glad!
While listening to the different testimonies, that little thought came forth for consideration and I put it forth in a composition that it might remain with you, "I can hear the sounds of Praises all over the world." Praise GOD for every seeming opposition; Praise GOD for every seeming conflict. Praise GOD for each and all expressions, whether they are harmonious or inharmonious. Praise is the Victory when it is put forth into expression, through the Spirit of meekness. Aren't you glad!
These are some thoughts I wish to drop for consideration. When you find opposition and time for worry, humanly speaking, that is the time for Praises and Thanksgiving. According to the mortal version of the human mind it has been said, "He was a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief," but I transpose that version, and I bring to you the conscious recognition and the realization of the glorification of HIM that Liveth Forever. In that sorrowing state of expression, which was a state of expression according to the mortal version of men, not discerning the things that Jesus said and did, not knowing that these things were being done behind the "vale of tears", the veil of materialism -- and they sorrowed because they knew Him not. But what did Jesus say to the two men as He talked with them by the way? "Should ye not rejoice?" or words to that effect -- to let them see and know, it was not the time to be sorrowful. By going through what He was going through, He would soon enter into His Glory. Therefore, you should rejoice and be exceedingly glad, "for great is the reward in Heaven"; not only through prosecutions, but through persecutions, through every adverse condition that may arise in it and them. You should be exceedingly glad and rejoice more than you can tell it.
Therefore, I AM emphasizing, advocating and demonstrating, producing and bringing into outer expression, the Spirit of Merriness for all the people. Leave your sorrows, worries and troubles behind you, and forget about those things that are not desirable. "Put off the old man and all of his deeds"-- live in this recognition of Praises, henceforth, now and forever, and you will be living Eternally in the Kingdom of Heaven. Wheresoever you are, if you are filled with Songs and Praises, you will create such an atmosphere, there will be your Heaven.
Paul and Silas, when they were in prison, they did not cease singing and Praising GOD, the great Creator, and the Kingdom of Heaven did not fail to appear to them, and they were free, as if though they had not been bound. "Stone walls and iron prison bars cannot hold ME, for I AM Spirit, yet Spirit materialized." As a Sample and as an Example I came, that you might be partakers of the same, of whom you say I AM. This is accomplished by Praises and Thanksgiving, by the relaxation of your conscious mentality, ceasing to fret and worry, ceasing to see things according to the mortal version, and ceasing to judge with the judgment of the mortal mind, but judging with a Righteous Judgment.
Put off the mortal ideas and opinions of men concerning yourself and things that concern you and them. Live in the consciousness of the Victory over all flesh. This Jesus the great Love Master did, as a sample and as an Example. "I have power over all flesh", said He. I thank THEE that THOU hast given Me Power over all flesh." The Spirit has been resurrected and you are the reincarnators of that identical Spirit of expression. Produce it and bring it to fruition in your experiences, and you will have the victory. Be the very reincarnators of the identical expression of Jesus; and not only the expressions, but His identical Characteristics, His Nature, His Mind and His Spirit.
When this shall have been accomplished in you, you can relax completely, and let go whole-heartedly. If you let go and let GOD, GOD will let you, wheresoever you are and whatsoever you do. There is not a power in the universe that can stand against the CHRIST Consciousness. It is Wonderful! "Greater is HE that is within you, than all they that can be against you." Therefore, I say, "Stand in the liberty wherewith Christ has set you free, and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage." This emancipation is not limited according to the mortal version; It transcends every human imagination. Far beyond all mortal versions, it goes into infinitude, the end is invisible.
Take these thoughts to consideration, and live in this recognition. Stand in the Liberty wherewith this Principle has set you free. Give GOD Praises and Thanks at all times, and you will tune your hearts with the Spirit of GOD'S Merriness, and this Merriness will heal any complaint, or any ailment. Just think of the millions and millions of individuals that are now living in ME, and I in them; and this came about, through by the oppositions of men. They have established ME. It is Wonderful! This was done as a Sample and as an Example of what can and will be done for you, as you live in this recognition, for this Truth will set you free, even as I AM the Freer and Emancipator.
Now you feel much better when you are Praising GOD, don't you? So long as you are living in the Spirit of Praises and Thanksgiving, and turning all of your thoughts and energies and devotion into the positive direction in the way of giving GOD Thanks and Praises, you are dialing in on the Fundamental, and it is causing you to be absolutely independent. It lifts you above every human imagination, causes you to lose thought of worry and dreariness; fills you with the Spirit of Merriness and causes you to express enthusiasm in every emotion, and GOD'S Spirit is manifested, and nothing else can be reflected, as long as you live in it.
Truly might have S-t-n said to GOD, in reference to Job, "You have a hedge around him." So long as you are surrounded with the Spirit of Praises and Thanksgiving continually, adverse conditions cannot reach you. The enemy would desire to have you find a place for condemnation. In the place of accusation and condemnation there is weakness, but in the places of Praises and Thanksgiving, unifying yourselves with the Great Universal Mind Substance, relaxing your conscious mentality and giving yourselves to GOD whole-heartedly, there is Power. See the mystery?
If you could and would stay in the Actual Spirit of Praises continually, adverse conditions could not come near you. That is why everything is dissolved into its nothingness if it is in opposition to the Fundamental, when it comes near this Spirit of Praises, for it disappears as the Light is turned on. As darkness disappears, even so the adverse conditions disappear into their nothingness. The material expression as we are manifesting it, is but the outward expression of Spiritual things. Food, comfort and convenience, raiment and every other desirable blessing for the sustenance of the body is the outward expression of a sketch and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the mystery of GOD'S Presence within. All mankind can see it, wheresoever I AM. It is an open expression to convince the most skeptical mortal-minded man, that he might observe it from the material side, where he could not from the Spiritual side, unless he is Spiritually inclined.
It has long since been said, "To him that is natural, all things are natural, and to him that is spiritual, all things are Spiritual." Therefore, we must meet all men on the different planes of life according to their understanding, and meet them to fit every emergency and to answer every problem. Therefore, we are actually manifesting the Omnipotence and the Omniscience of GOD wheresoever we are; not only on the natural side, but on the Spiritual, mental and every other expression, by your conscious recognition of the Allness of GOD and the nothingness of matter.
Just think of it! When oppositions arise opposing ME on every side, then and there I express more of My Majesty, more success and prosperity, in the face of oppositions. You can plainly see it. I AM glad I appeared unto some as though the least among men, that I might express the Omnipotence of GOD among them; that they might see not man, but that they might see HIM that liveth forever and forever, and not have an occasion to doubt His Message.
I can hear the sound of Praises all over the world and if you will tune in on it, you will hear it. In reality your ears will be closed to the sounds of confusion, to the sounds of fretting and worrying; your ears will be closed to such negative expressions, with the sound of Praises and Thanksgiving, and you will not have space for adverse conditions, neither adverse or undesirable sounds to enter your hearing. I thank you! I thank you! I thank you!
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