Father Divine

International Peace Mission Movement

The significance of the body of God being with you

PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will, a Good Appetite; Good Manners, Good Behavior, All Success and All Prosperity; All Wisdom, All Knowledge and All Understanding around and among those who are around the Body of GOD!

At this particular instance I have arisen to say, when we sing these or those compositions as advanced convictions of millions, it is uplifting. It takes you out of that state of consciousness where you live in doubts and fears and are conscious of the absence of GOD; but it helps you to believe and to know definitely you are in the Presence of GOD. But when you sing those songs that are not advancing and are not uplifting, when you sing those songs that are not convincing to yourself and to others of GOD’S Actual Presence, naturally, you do not feel as you do when you sing melodies of Thanksgiving and praises that are declarations of GOD’S Actual Presence.

It is a different world in which we live, to those who are living in that consciousness, yea, in that state of consciousness where they must go somewhere; where they observe GOD far beyond the blue ether, which is to say, far beyond the sky, far beyond the sun, the moon and all of the stars. When they think GOD is up there, they are serving GOD suppositionally and superstitiously and they are not serving GOD in the Conscious Conviction and Realization of GOD’S Actual Presence as you are, in the Presence of the Body of GOD! You are conscious of GOD’S Presence and the Consciousness of GOD’S Presence, it is the Solver of every problem and the Adjuster of all matters and will adjust matters satisfactorily for all humanity eventually! [Read more…]

I have proved that it is more blessed to give than to receive

PEACE, EVERYONE!

At this instance I would like to say, as usual, we have visiting friends. We wish to extend to our visiting friends the privilege to speak if you desire to; speak or sing or pray or whatsoever you are led to do. We endorse the Freedom of Speech as a real democracy, but on the other hand do not feel as though you must necessarily speak because you are here with us; you are not obligated to do so. You are free and welcome to be here so long as it is agreeable, but you are not required by obligation to do so just because you are here. As I have often said–I would like to make this statement here for the benefit of MY friends–I have often said, I do not expect any special consideration because of what I may cause you to benefit or profit by MY Presence. I AM not seeking remuneration for that which I may benefit you.

As I have often said, when one can save whatsoever they can save on getting a hair trim–where you can get a hair trim for ten cents wheresoever they make a charge for the service– whatsoever you save on that barber work you have done, it is MY SPIRIT gave it to you, whatsoever it may be. And if you get a shave for five cents, and if you have to pay any more than five cents elsewhere, whatsoever you have saved on that shave, it is through MY SPIRIT. By the Presence of GOD, HE is giving it to you!

That is MY Work and Mission and that is MY Business, which I AM doing. I AM not working for compensation for MY Service to the children of men; I AM a Free gift to the world, gratis to mankind!

Before MY Followers purchased and owned and operated properties and business places, whatsoever I did for the people was absolutely gratis. And then they said. ‘Where does HE get so much money from?’ You have been taught from your early existence,

It is more blessed to give than to receive;

but the people do not believe it.

I have proven it! Any time you can give something for nothing, it is more a blessing than what the compensation would be, if you were receiving compensation for it. I recall telling several ministers, about twenty-two or three years ago, when I composed a song and I was offered fifty thousand dollars for the composition, and some, a good many of the ministers said,

YOU are foolish not to take it up!

I said CHRIST said,

No man has forsaken all of these things lest he gain an hundredfold more in this present time!

I will gain an HUNDRED DOLLARS for EVERY DOLLAR for RIGHTEOUSNESS’ SAKE I sacrifice! I will gain a dollar, if after the manner of men I speak on terms of dollars and cents; I will gain the VALUE of a DOLLAR for every penny sacrificed for Righteousness’ sake, or denied for Righteousness’ sake, and ‘OF HIS Kingdom and of HIS Peace and of HIS Increase, there shall be no end!” I gain an hundred times as much as I could receive seeking compensation for whatsoever I give!

“It is more blessed to give than to receive!’ ‘Give to the world the BEST you have and the BEST will come back to you!”

Now I will make an amendment to that little statement:

“Give to the world all you have and all will come back to you!”

I thank you!

Father Divine

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When you vividly visualize God by realizing God you tend to produce and materialize God in your life even as you observe him in himself

Our Father’s Message given whilst at the Holy Communion Table, Circle Mission Church, 764-772 Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA., Friday Afternoon, March 5th, 1943 A.D.F.D., Time- 5:25 P.M.


(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER Speaks as follows:)

Peace, Everyone!

A Sample and an Example has been demonstrated of the future America; in other words, the future religious world consisting of all religions, where the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose shall have been recognized and instituted in government, in business, in profession, in labor and in trade and in every activity, where all will stand as one man at Jerusalem; if we speak after the manner of our present democracy from a constitutional, yea, from a documental point of view, we can say, stand as E Pluribus Unum.

This is it of which I have depicted something that is bringing an abolition to slum conditions in your respective communities, bringing an abolition to vice and crime, sin and debauchery of every kind and bringing an abolition to depression, limitation, adverse and undesirable conditions from every angle of expression. The great crusade of Salvation is going on (Aren’t you glad!) renovating and rejuvenating the hearts and lives of the children of men and transforming them by the renewing of their minds! Aren’t you glad!

‘If you continue in My Words you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free; and he that the Son sets free is free indeed!’

Free from every angle expressible a real Universal Emancipation. Aren’t you glad ! And Abraham Lincoln caught the glimpse of the mystery as a national political official, speaking executively:

‘….;That this whole nation under GOD might have a New Birth of Freedom.’ [Read more…]

I have come to produce and reproduce and materialize in you the spirit of honesty, competence and truth

Given at the Divine Riviera Hotel, Clinton and High Streets, Newark, NJ, May 13, 1950, 4:00 p.m.

God is greater than his creation

Father Divine


Father Divine’s lecture given at Hope Farm on Friday, June 3, 1938 at 3:15 a.m.

“How Can Men Succeed When They Continually Create Destruction by Destroying Things For the Sustenance of the Body and the Redemption of Mankind?”

By being the Best and producing the Best from every angle expressible, FATHER DIVINE cannot help but draw the desirable, and that which is the Best expression from all fields of life and on all planes, to HIM! One of the beautiful examples of this, is the beautiful Hope Farm Extension, located in West Saugerties, Ulster County, which is only a part of the property that has been taken over and is owned and operated by the followers of FATHER DIVINE.

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