FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE
taking a walk in Sayville, L.I., N.Y.
This glorious Lecture given by the Blesser of all Creation delves deep into the mystery of how giving thanks and giving praises unto the LORD will increase and multiply the innumerable Blessings of both the material and spiritual worlds of expression.
How glorious it is to realize that our Savior is here on earth in Bodily Form, teaching us not only through and by the Words out of His Holy Mouth, but through and by daily Sample and Example and by the portrayal of the exact Life and Teachings of CHRIST!
Oh, if only the whole world would take cognizance of even, say, this one Message alone; the universe would be transformed in the twinkling of an eye! There would be no more lacks, wants and limitations, poverty, sickness and disease, but the LORD would reign from shore to shore and from land to land, and His Blessings would bountifully be supplied to one and all. Then the song which was sung just before FATHER arose to speak would be a living reality universally.
'So many blessings, you can't count them all,
So many blessings, you can't count them all,
So many blessings, you can't count them all,
You cannot count them all!'
For Thy Infinite and Limitless Blessings, Dear Savior, we truly thank THEE! >
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition as originally sung is well worth considering for everyone and truly there are so many blessings you cannot count them all. The human intellect is inadequate to fathom out mathematically the infinite blessings of the LORD, but from an abstract expression as a sketch and a reflection of the blessings on the material plane such as you can see, there are so many you could not have imagined such blessings before you saw them.
Oh, how glorious it is to realize, your prayers are heard and answered in reality. LORD, make us truly thankful for the blessings we are about to receive; no longer merely to use the words of the prayer as a ritual or as a matter of course, but to put that little prayer forth into expression according to your individual religious conviction -- "LORD, make us truly thankful." Since you have become to be the personification of Thanksgiving, automatically you say unthoughtfully, "I thank YOU, FATHER!"
We do not go through the custom of praying and asking blessings according to the mortal version, but if one desires to do it, it is OK; but it is such a blessing to realize you have the blessings and the actuated words of Thanksgiving have been made a living reality, for they are made real, tangible and practical and you are the personification of Thanksgiving and praises.
"LORD, make us truly thankful for the blessings we are about to receive for the nourishment of our bodies and the benefit of our souls." This is not a supposition. You can see it is real. Someone has been made thankful in reality in the fulfillment of the Gospel Epistle of the Apostle, demanding and requesting:
'In everything give thanks, for this is the Will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.'
I have made you thankful and if you walk along the street or the highway or any
place, unconsciously, if you stump your foot, you will say, "I thank YOU,
FATHER!"
You have been made thankful, as GOD is uppermostly in consciousness and established in your conscious mentality. Through your subconsciousness you will speak. GOD will cause you to say, "I thank YOU, FATHER!" unthoughtfully.
John spoke of the one hundred and forty-four thousand he saw and he looked and lo! a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion and with Him were one hundred and forty-four thousand having their FATHER'S Name written in their foreheads. Aren't you glad! When you get your FATHER'S Name uppermostly in consciousness by interpretation of that particular revelation, quotation and prediction -- you have it written in your forehead, uppermostly in consciousness, you say thoughtfully and unthoughtfully, "I thank YOU, FATHER!" and that is why the blessings are limitless and infinite. For truly did I say by composition:
'For your asking, GOD will give,'
and if you affirm you have the blessings; even though you are not conscious of
it, GOD will confirm your fondest affirmation you are daily making, your most
desirable and pleasing affirmation you are daily making.
GOD is the Confirmor of your affirmation and the Confirmor of all affirmations. Of all the affirmations you make, GOD is the great Confirmor and will confirm, in other words, verify that which you have affirmed and declared. Hence, for your affirmation, GOD will carry it through the process of confirmation, in other words, through the confirming process and confirm your fondest and most desirable affirmation you are daily making and when it is confirmed it is no longer a supposition, but GOD has endorsed it. It is real and true, though it was merely an affirmation to you; but when GOD says it is true, it is true. For your giving thanks what you have and have affirmed you have, GOD confirmed it and made you know you did have it. For your giving thanks for those blessings, GOD will truly increase them, and for your giving praise for them, GOD will multiply them. Then, I say ask, affirm, give thanks and give praise and your prayers will be heard and answered and the blessings will be increased and multiplied continually so long as you give praise and give thanks forever.
These blessings are unlimited. Truly might have David declared in his Psalmic prediction as a demand he was making upon the people:
'Praise God, enter His Gates with praise and in His Presence with Thanksgiving.'
This is the mystery of the Spirit and the Keynote to Salvation to get your blessings
increased and multiplied continually: "I thank YOU, FATHER!" I mean
your using those words and then giving praise for the blessings you have received
and the blessings you are about to receive and the blessings you hope to receive,
you should give as much thanks for them as if you saw them and knew you had them,
though you may not know you have them. But by Faith you have them.
Give thanks and give praise and GOD will increase whatsoever you have and will multiply. That is the mystery! By giving thanks and giving praise, it is according to the Gospel and even according to the Scripture. What did Jesus do when He had two small fishes and five barley loaves? He gave thanks and praise for the blessings He did have and they were increased by a thousand times more. Oh, how glorious it is to observe the mystery, how giving thanks and giving praise will increase and multiply your blessings! We have no room to receive all the blessings!
As I said many years ago when I composed that song about
'There are millions, there are millions, there are millions of blessings, every day they are multiplied by as many more, etc.,'
until it went up into the decillions of decillions times decillions of blessings.
Every day, they are multiplied by as many more. It did not seem as though it
could be true, but because I said it inspirationally and intuitively, I declared
it was true.
Then I said when I was living in Sayville and went out -- left and went down South on a trip; I believe it was around 1923, the fall of 1923, early winter and returned in 1924, I left the home open, the doors open and everything just as we have the table set every day, just like it is set in here. Wheresoever My Spirit has free access, the table is always set, and I mean we left the home and did not leave anyone in the home and of course, when we returned in the spring of 1924, everything was just as we left it there then, and we did not lock the doors. We did not latch the windows down.
'If the Lord keep not the house, the watch is in vain.'
I drove Myself in Person, at that time. I did not carry a spare along when I
was driving in Person. I did not carry a spare, especially at that time, and
we did have at one time about eleven suitcases on one side of the car, on the
outside of the running board and had the whole outside closed and all of the
dress suitcases tied on with a cotton clothes line. I stopped right here in this
city on My return -- Philadelphia and other cities -- and stayed all night and
left the car in the street with all of those things on the outside of the car
and the suitcases were not locked, but when we returned the next morning everything
was safe and sound, for GOD will take care of His Own. Aren't you glad!
When we returned to Sayville in the spring, everything was safe and sound and several came with us and many more began coming out there immediately and one thought -- someone said, "How will YOU accommodate all of these people and how will YOU feed them all?" There is where I composed that Song, "There are so many blessings you cannot count them all!" Unlimited blessings, infinite blessings, but the first version of it I brought forth into expression was (FATHER singing:)
'There is aplenty, aplenty, afull and aplenty, aplenty, aplenty for all.
Of food and of raiments, of houses and shelter, there is aplenty, aplenty for all.
'There are millions of blessings, of Joy, Peace and Happiness, There is aplenty, aplenty for all.
Of food and of raiments, of houses and shelter, I have afull and aplenty for all.'
That was the first version of it and the revised version came in the melody that
I sang a little while ago and then to the one that I sang lastly, saying:
'There are millions, there are millions, there are millions of blessings,
Every day, they are multiplied by as many more.'
Give thanks and give praise continually. As a sample and as an example, I increased the blessings bountifully and of the increase and of the Peace and of the Kingdom it did not seem to end. Over and above oppositions, over and above criticism, over and above accusation, GOD'S Love shines and flows more and more in the actuated words of expression in giving out, increasing and multiplying the limitless blessings for the comfort and the conveniences of all of the people.
Oh, how glorious it is to live in this recognition! Give thanks for the blessings you are daily receiving and increase your thanks continually. You may not see the blessings immediately increased and multiplied, but they will be increased and multiplied. Praise GOD! The Spirit brought that little composition out which says:
'Count your blessings, name them one by one;
Count your many blessings, see what God has done.'
But I desire to let you see and know you cannot count them. So that composition,
I transposed it to fit the purpose according to My conviction. You cannot count
the blessings. You cannot name them all one by one. You cannot count all of the
many blessings and see what GOD has done, for it is true, you cannot.
There are blessings you do not know of, even here and now. There are blessings that are invisible, blessings that are intangible, blessings that are natural and supernatural; blessings, so many blessings, you cannot count them, for some of them you do not know anything about. Can you not see the mystery?
Truly might have the Apostle declared:
'Now unto Him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think.'
So, the blessings are more than you can ask or think of. Therefore, give thanks
and since your hearts have been actually tuned to sing GOD'S praise --
'Of His Kingdom, of His Peace and of His Increase, there is no end,'
as far as you, My faithful believers and friends are concerned.
I AM not merely speaking of the material blessings and yet I AM not speaking of the Spiritual blessings alone. Both the material and spiritual blessings, they are innumerable. You cannot count them. Then I say, give praise and give thanks for the blessings you have and have received and will receive and your blessings will be increased and multiplied so, you will not have room to receive all of your blessings.
What a privilege to live in this life and in this recognition! You heard someone testify today of seeking through the avenues of life and seeking through the different fields -- Spiritual study -- trying to find some place of a Spiritual rest where she could be contented; where she could be contented and satisfied, but she did not find it though she went through the different versions and religions, by the different teachers and leaders of holiness and other sectarian churches, but she was not contented and had not found a resting place mentally and Spiritually until she met ME personally.
But this is a place where you are as Philip said he would be and they who were with him. Truly might have Philip said:
'Show us the Father and it sufficeth us.'
Until you meet, or see the Truth concerning the mystery and observe the FATHERSHIP
Degree of expression, you will not be satisfied, but when it is fulfilled according
to the request of Philip he made to Jesus:
'Show us the Father and it sufficeth us,'
you will find you will be satisfied when you see ME as I AM or as they say I
AM. When you see ME to be as millions say I AM, doubts and fears will be dispelled
once and forever and GOD Himself to you will be Living Reality; will be your
refuge, your strength and your protection, and the Name of GOD will be your Strong
Tower. Run into this Name and you can hide until the storm of life is overblown.
Oh, how glorious it is to live in this recognition, to be filled with such supernatural enthusiasm, of Joy and Happiness unspeakable! The Holy Ghost that fills you and thrills you from the crown of your head to the sole of your feet! So glad! That is what I AM talking about! And if you will allow ME to, I will keep you magnetically charged with the infinite Spirit of My Love, for I electrify the audiences wherein I stand, and even the mortal mind declares I do. They know I electrify the audiences where I AM.
This mighty Holy Love and infinite Spirit is magnetic in Itself and it is transmittable and when one speaks and thinks harmoniously, it is transmitted from one to the other. It actually moves you volitionally and you cannot help it. The radio broadcasting system is speaking in that invention in a parable concerning the mystery of how the Spirit is transmitted from one to the other and you feel the effect of it if you are in tune and in harmony. Can you not see the mystery?
It causes you to feel sweet, does it not? And as I said, I delight in coming in contact with those who have been awakened into the Spiritual Resurrection of life, for truly did the Apostle say:
'They that are in the flesh cannot please God."
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit.
'If so be that the Spirit of GOD dwells in you,'
if the Spirit of CHRIST dwells in you,
'the Spirit of HIM Who raised up Jesus from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you.'
Well, some may ask you, how do I do it? Just the same as the sister asked. I
do it by the Spirit that dwells in you in the fulfillment of the Gospel Epistle
where it said:
'If so be that the Spirit of Jesus dwells in you, the Spirit of Him that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your bodies His Spirit that dwells in you.'
I quicken it by the Spirit that dwells in you. That is the reason I like to talk
with someone who has the Spirit in them. It is Wonderful!
Truly might have Jesus said:
'No man cometh to the FATHER but by Me.'
And CHRIST in the Name of Jesus put forth into expression an illustration in
a parable concerning the mystery of His Spirit, the Holy Ghost, for He said:
'Whom the FATHER will send in My Name,'
on one occasion --
'will send you the Holy Ghost in My Name,'
and
'When He the Spirit of Truth has come HE shall teach you all things and guide you into all Truth, whatsoever I have said to you.'
So the Spirit in the Name of Jesus, will lead you to the FATHER directly, and
if you get in the Spirit, I know the Spirit will tell you. I do not want you
anyway unless you come through by the way of the Spirit. It is wonderful.
'No man cometh to the FATHER,'
said He,
'but by Me";
and if you try to come up some other way, why, I want you to go back and come
by Him. This is not a supposition. It is real, and it is so profound now, the
most severe critic cannot criticize it, for it is analyzable. You may diagnose
it from every angle expressible. Let the scientist and the psychologist, and
let them all from far and near, even the geologists, if they wish to, try to
diagnose the mystery of the Spirit in the body and they will see, if they are
qualified to observe it, that it is just what it has been declared to be. It
cannot be refuted and it cannot be disputed, for GOD'S Word is Truth!
Oh, how glorious it is to live in this recognition! For as it is here under this Personal Jurisdiction where I AM Personally standing and Spiritually presiding, so shall it be from shore to shore and from land to land. I know you all would rather have a government, a national government like this Jurisdiction has, than to have one like Hitler's or one that is influenced by the Spirit of Hitlerism. I need not say more, for where the Spirit of GOD is, there is liberty and daily I will exhibit it and cause you to see more distinctly, as the Spirit reveals it, GOD is no longer something merely imaginary for each and all of you.
Jesus said to one:
'Handle Me and feel Me and see that a Spirit hath not flesh and bones.'
Handle ME and feel ME and see. They have tried to handle ME politically, they
have tried to handle ME legally, they have tried to handle ME religiously, they
have tried to handle ME scientifically, they have tried to handle ME psychologically,
they have tried to handle ME mentally and Spiritually and even tried to handle
ME intellectually and socially, but with all of their trying, they can say definitely,
I AM not to be criticized.
If anything, they will merely find that they cannot confine or limit ME, for it is true. So it is a privilege. But Jesus did tell the doubter to "handle Me and feel Me and see that a Spirit has not flesh and bones." The tangibilization of things I bring forth into expression in abundance, to let all mortality and humanity see and know definitely, GOD is a GOD of all creation and the GOD of every nation; GOD and Creator of the visible as well as the invisible and can and will and HE actually does bring the visible into subjection and cause the visibility of things to serve HIM. HE even caused the "other fellow" to serve HIM!
What said the Scripture, yea, the Gospel concerning the mystery, when the tempter came to Him lastly? Jesus said it is written that:
'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God but Him only shalt thou serve.'
I will make the "other fellow" serve ME! For this cause, GOD raised
up Pharaoh and hardened Pharaoh's heart to spread His Name throughout the whole
earth and the oppositions and so-called trials and tribulations, they are for
the purpose of doing the same, as history repeats itself. I AM the reiterator
and the repeater of the Scripture and the prediction. I thank you.
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