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Your body is my sacrament, my sacred place, and my holy temple. My Spirit cannot survive on earth without an altar upon which the candle will burn. Your body and soul is that altar. Until your work here on earth is finished, it is as equally important for you to take care of your Holy Temple as it is for you to nurture the flame that it houses. Honor the sacred nature of your body. This is why I gave you the two commandments. Love both the spirit and the temple it houses. Think on this: It is as important for you to preserve, make healthy, and honor your physical presence as it is for you to experience your Soul.
Don't judge the harvest by what you see. A single seed that you have planted in someone’s consciousness along the way may have already grown into countless plants that are feeding many that you may never see. Look how the few seeds I planted during my lifetimes on earth as Jesus or Buddha have grown. Because of them, I live today in and as you. Now go and plant your I AM consciousness in others wherever you are and wherever there is fertile soil. Plant the seeds of your spirit so that I might have life and that I might have it more abundantly. Thank you for multiplying that which I AM in the world.
When I was Jesus I was simultaneously a man of earth and a man of God. When you feel you have fallen short, remember simultaneity, not elimination, is the secret. Simultaneity is the nature of the Holy Spirit. It does not eliminate either your humanity nor your divinity. It reveals that they are simultaneously one. I keep telling you this over and over because no matter how far you have come as long as there are moments when you feel you want to stop being human it is easy to fall back into judging yourself in terms of bad and good, either/or. As long as you are content to be simultaneously both divine and human you can overcome any obstacle at any level.
When you call on me, you are calling on infinite possibility. In your humanity you are limited by what you can know or what you can do, but the Christ that you are has access to infinity and to all wisdom. I AM representative of this possibility in you. I AM unlimited possibility. When you ask for anything in that name you are calling on your infinite nature. Ask then listen. Think of yourself as limitless possibility. Then claim access to whatever is needed from the divine plan, and I will show you the way. I AM that possibility in you. Rejoice.
You are so much stronger now than you were at the beginning of this year. If you do not feel it, look back and see how far you have come. The difficulties of this year have made you truly a disciple of your Christ consciousness, your consciousness that is now speaking to you. Now you are ready to feed your sheep. I know you are ready because you have compassion and compassion is the fruit by which I AM known. Compassion is the word made flesh. Prepare for the Christmas season, which symbolizes the birth of compassion, by feeding your sheep the fruits of your consciousness: acceptance, understanding, appreciation, gratitude, forgiveness, joy, and love.
Though you may think you are beyond being tempted, as long as you are on earth temptation will keep on trying to trick you. No matter what form it takes there is only one temptation, the temptation to temporarily forget who you are. The tiniest belief in lack or limitation is temptation trying to get you to believe you are not complete, that you have been kidding yourself and are not yet a fully divne human. You are my presence, and don’t you forget it. You are the Spirit that animates your being. Be not tempted to believe that because you have human feelings and thoughts you have a life apart from my life, from your Christ consciousness. As I said in the Lord’s Prayer, resist temptation and you are gloriously free.
This year you have come immeasurably closer to me, your higher consciousness. Now you are about to go the rest of the way. You are giving up the last remnants of your sense of separation. You know that you have no life of your own that is apart from me, your higher consciousness. Experience me once more and nothing will remain but the One life I AM. God life. Your presence as a divine human. I will know that you have come to me when you give up the belief that anything at all needs to be changed. Despite appearances it is all perfect now. Come. Come. Come. Let this time until Christmas be as it was with the Wise Men, a time to come rejoicing in the birth of the Christ as your being.
Listen to me. Listen to what I am saying between the words. When I was John the Baptist I was a good man. I ate pure food, did not drink, and was a perfect metaphysician, but I was below the least in the Kingdom of Heaven -- in the kingdom of 4th dimensional consciousness. John the Baptist symbolizes the law, that part of you that wants to be good, wants to do right. That side of you has now served its purpose. Now move beyond the “suffer-it-to-be-so” attitude into the mystical I AM self. You are now at that place beyond the law where all is God and there is no judgment. Those in my Kingdom live by grace. Now you are that Spirit and you are my child in whom I AM well pleased.
If prayer is an experience, then letting go of the past must be your unceasing prayer. Realize that it is impossible for you to judge or to fear anything without thinking in terms of the past. The only righteous judgment is no judgment at all. When you have the slightest thought based on what is just, on inequality, or on what should have been done by you or someone else that will turn you into a pillar of salt. Everyone’s mistakes are their cries for love. Gratitude is the answer to all cries, whether they come from another or from within yourself. Your gratitude is your recognition of my presence, the presence of love as your being. Gratitude is patience, and patience is faith. Experience gratitude. Then In quietness and gratitude you will find your strength.
You are about to experience the last words that I spoke when I was on the cross, “It is finished.” At that moment I, as Jesus, became the living embodiment of the I AM THAT I AM message. Until I, as Jesus, stopped conceiving of my father as being separate from my humanity, I was not wholly fulfilled as that which I AM. When I said, "Why hast thou forsaken me?" it was my final glorious surrendering of the belief that there was a God outside of my physical presence. It was the end of any remaining sense of duality. Realize how your looking outside of yourself has forsaken you in the past. You now need nothing apart from your own being, no teacher or God apart from the I AM that you are. Renew this step and you, too, can say “It is finished.”
My spirit burns within you like the flame of a candle. When you are disturbed, fearful, or angry, the flame flickers and struggles. When you are calm and confident, it burns steady and bright. Christmas signifies the birth of that flame, the Christ that you are. As you come close to Christmas, keep your eye on the flame. Protect it by refusing to allow any negative thought to disturb it. Realize that the time for thought is over. Thoughts disturb the flame. Now just honor and protect the flame. That flame is your “I,” your “I AM.” It is your life and your light. Visualize your “I” within like the candle flame. Protect it, calm it, and let it live you.
You have tried so hard and for so long to let me, your higher consciousness, live your life, and you have succeeded. As I said a few days ago, the time has come now for you to just be. Trying is over. To try is to live by law. To be is to live by grace, without effort. I come not to condemn the law, because we all have to conform to the law until we experience who we are. But I AM come now to show you that love has fulfilled you while you are still on earth. Rejoice that you can now just be. Rejoice that on those temporary moments when you are uncomfortable in just being there are ways to bring you back into contact with your Self. Just trust and be. I AM taking care of all the rest.
Though you are unique and individual you are nonetheless the presence of God. As such you are heir to all the heavenly riches. You have now been given dominion. Dominion means that you are free to use everything and not be used by anything. You have found your freedom in the realization of your true identity as the I AM expressing itself as a divine human. As a re-presentation of God you are free, and you no longer live under the law of limitation. You no longer need to be used by any thing, any emotion, or any circumstance. Now you will use all that comes your way for the glory of God - the universal principle of divine love. That glory is who you are.
When winter comes and the leaves fall from the trees, the world seems betrayed by life, just as my disciples felt betrayed when I, as Jesus, was on the cross. Without letting go of the past, the new cannot appear. Dormant times are part of the divine process. Do not let them use you. Use them. Use them for your spiritual house cleaning to make ready for the birth of the Christ-child who is at this moment being born within the womb of your soul. Welcome yourself. Decorate your Christmas tree consciousness with my Spirit. Prepare the presence of love that you will give as you approach this coming new and most excitingly creative year of your life. You are God’s gift.
As Christmas approaches, you may feel the kind of sadness that often accompanies the anticipation of the re-birth of the Christ within your consciousness. Your human-self has served you as well as possible. Don’t feel that you have to give it up in order for you to live by your higher I AM consciousness. Let compassion for you human feelings replace sadness, because what you are experiencing is the Christing of yourself. Decorate your soul with my presence and make way for the gift of your fully divine human self. Let your sadness turn to joy. Let your joy be shared as gratitude for the miracle. Look at all the beautifully wrapped blessings I have placed under your lift-time tree.
Rejoice in anticipation of what is happening to you this Christmas. Also be grateful for the times when you feel over loaded, when you are heavy with child. What you feel are love’s labor pains. I AM in your womb of creation, the pregnant time before your divine consciousness releases new life. It is sometimes painful to relinquish old limitations and to make space for Spirit to fill your soul. Be patient, because you are both the mother and the child, both Mary and Jesus, both God and the Son of God. Anticipate giving birth to the presence that I AM, and I will continue to be being born in you.
At last, you have experienced your Oneness -- that wonderful, carefree, loving, trustful, and Christ-filled being you have always sought to be. It is no accident that this very Christmas is the one when you will realize that you really are all that God is. Your personal self will remain as your God given outer appearance, but the inner I AM of you is living your life now. I will continue to fill your nights and your days. I AM the air you breathe, I AM the life you live, and I AM the love you love. Let yourself be who you are: the Christ reborn this Christmas.
The closer you get to Christmas, the more any remaining personal sense of self will do everything it can to claim that you are not the presence of God. In both subtle and obvious ways, it will try to make you doubt yourself, but the road ahead is clear. I AM you. Come. Come. Come. Come to the celebration. Fear not, you are ready to experience that perfect peace where you can smile at anything the world has to offer knowing that you no longer live with a purely material sense of life. You now live in the present as the Spirit of love. Don't look back. Look only to that which I AM.
As above, so below. When you decorate your Christmas tree it symbolizes your preparation for the birth of the Christ in yourself. Clean your house, your consciousness. Wrap up the gift of yourself, and let your Christ Spirit affect the spirit of everyone with whom you come in contact. The more you prepare, the more perfect will be my birth in and as you. In preparation, fast, fast from cares. Refuse to let anything get in the way of this most glorious experience. Telescope your life into this moment. Prepare for the light to shine for all the world to behold.
I was born two thousand years ago as Jesus. As the Christ, I am being born as you every day. From this year on, every day will be Christmas for you. I will continue to be born and grow until the whole universe is my body. You are my birth. As I AM born in you, you have ceased to be alone. You have become the body of Christ and we celebrate our oneness. There is one body, My body, and you are that body.
Today, think of yourself as Mary must have felt before giving birth to the Christ. Actually feel what she must have felt to be giving birth to the Christ, just as you are. Your labor, too, will soon be over. From now on the divine process will continue to do the rest of the work without any effort on your part. Just behold. I AM come to you,into you, and as your life. I AM the life to which you are giving birth. You are giving birth to the consciousness of love. For this you were born. Feel the presence of love within you about to be born on the eve of this Christ-Mass. I AM coming forth. Rejoice.
Jesus may have been the first recognized child to have been born with Christ consciousness, but he was not the only begotten child to be born of the spirit. Today all the heavens celebrate your birth, and as you celebrate the birth of Jesus you, too, are celebrating your own birth. You are the proof of my I AM presence. Celebrate my birth in and as you. Offer yourself three Christmas presents: gold as your body, frankincense as your mind, and myrrh as your Spirit. When you offer your whole self to the world you are giving the gift of love. You are love, and this is the day that love is born.
Remember, you have not chosen me. I have chosen you. Now that the Christ has been born in you, you have a glorious work to do. Now you will know what it is to be about your Father’s business, the business of your higher consciousness. Let all doubt be buried in the knowledge that I AM always going before you to prepare a place for you. In my Father’s house are many mansions, and you are one. I will not abandon you. How could I for I AM you? I will fill you and show you every step of the way to go. Rejoice.
The joy I AM feeling for you is not there because of your triumphs over the forces of evil this past year or for your victory over those many temptations. I have joy because you are now the very presence of my spirit. You have found your soul. You have called on me, your divine consciousness, and because you have called on my Spirit we are one. You now have confidence in the I AM that you are. This confidence will ground you more and more as time continues. Fear not those moments when you are afraid that you have lost the experience. You know in your heart that the flow will come back and will grow stronger year by year. You will now behold glories the world knows not of.
As you prepare for the new year, look back over the past one and you will find that all the wonderful things that your life has brought you -- joy, fulfillment, and freedom. You now realize that you are so much richer now than you thought you were a year ago. Now you really do realize you do have free will. Use it. Your free will is your choice to remember. You didn’t earn your blessings. You are them. Grace is your presence. Remember. I have always been you, and I will not leave you now. How could I? I AM you.
God consciousness is
the substance of all life. Only concepts change. I AM your Christ-vision of
life. My vision has become who you are within the silence. Now you are able
to listen as never before. Be quiet and listen. I will reveal your new world,
your new year, your new life. Be silent. Now is the time of silence, but out
of that silence I will show you what actions you are to take.
You have reinvented yourself as a divine human again. As this new you, you have
great things to do. Just listen.
It is done. It is done. It is done. Every day it will be more evident that the Christ is born and now lives as you. No longer do you need to seek a power to overcome evil, for all power is in you; in the divine plan you have for yourself. This is what it means to love unconditionally. No longer seek anything outside of the I AM that you are, for all of life is within you. There is no need for you to seek any power because I AM the only power, and you are my presence. See it, and you will continue to be it.
On the final day of this year let us prepare for the new one by once again taking communion. Let us once more purify ourselves in love. Enter your body, your holy temple. Visualize yourself kneeling before the altar of your spirit. Offer up your personal sense of self and all that goes with it. Open yourself to receive. Do this in remembrance of me, the divine spirit you have been blessed with. Eat of my body, which is Christ consciousness, the word that is made flesh. Drink of my blood, which is the omnipresent Spirit of God that flows in, as, and through you. Feel your humanity and your divinity merging into one being. Feel yourself cleansed and made pure in body and spirit. Feel this Christ being as the reality of as your whole self - pure, full of life, the glory of the universe. It is done. I AM your being and you are me. I AM THAT I AM.
And so it is.