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The more that you want a gift, the more difficult it is for you to accept it when it arrives. Sometimes you are afraid that the gift will be snatched away or that it will never come. Accept it. I AM come to offer you the gift of myself, God consciousness. Do not be afraid to believe that the gift is yours because you are feeling human at the moment. Accept it. Hold it. Believe it. The only thing that would separate you from the gift that you want with all your heart is the fear of being unworthy. Just remember that the gift is my love. You do not have to earn it. It is yours by inheritance. Accept it. Accept me -- the Christ that you are. You are it now, right now.
Remember, our relationship is not a one-way street. Do not only think, “Speak, Lord, thy servant heareth,” but also say, "Listen, Lord, thy servant speaketh." Speak. Speak to me, your inner being. Speak to your God self. Don’t hide your feelings, share them. Let us share the truth that we are One. Remember, I need you to fulfill my Christ-vision on earth as much as you need me in order to have life more abundantly; so speak to your inner self either silently or out loud. Speak to me of love so that I can answer you with love. Love is what I AM. I AM listening.
Think, “I live yet not I, my Christ liveth as me.” You can have no more glorious feeling than the realization that you are not responsible for your life because, despite appearances, you are being lived by your Christ consciousness. I, as Jesus, felt I was being lived by the Spirit when I said, "I am in the father and the father in me.” When I came to realize that Christ consciousness was living my life, I saw that the same Christ was also appearing as John’s life, as Peter’s life, as James’s life, and as all my other disciples lives - just as I AM living your life. Be easy on yourself. Your Christ-light is living you. Rejoice. Sing this soul-song, “My Christ lives me.”
When I tell you that I will be with you always, I mean not only for all time, but also in all ways both human and divine. There is no place, no activity, no feeling in which I AM not always there -- in all ways. You may not recognize my presence. Indeed, if you were always feeling my presence, after a dry period you would not experience the joy of feeling it once more. Rejoice that my love does not depend on your effort or ability to always feel it or to always have to make it happen. Just know that I AM always in and always appearing as you in all ways.
In my father’s house there are many mansions. Invite me into your house. Your house is the consciousness in which you live. Because you keep the candle of love lit in the window of your soul, I know that I am welcome. I have set a table for you before any enemy thoughts that might enter your head. Now is the time for you to set your table for me. Set it by remembering the truth that I have prepared for you, I AM THAT I AM. Open the door of your consciousness, and I will come in and sup with you. I AM standing at the door of your consciousness knocking. Let me in.
As a sign of your love, patience is the finest gift that you can offer me. That is because it is impossible for you to be patient without faith. No matter how anxious you are to experience and feel my presence, no matter how busy and active you are in the world, no matter how dull you feel at the moment, if you can wait patiently for my presence I will come. Trust that I will come despite appearances or consequences, because when you are patient you show me that you have faith that I AM your presence. Give me the gift of patience. No - don’t give it to me. Be it! Be patience!
It is hard to feel my presence when there is nothing that either bothers you or excites you. When there are troubles it is easy for you to want to pray, and once more feel the I AM of yourself. When things are exciting appreciation and rejoicing come easily. But when everything seems at the status quo and static, when nothing seems to be happening one way or the other, your feeling may become dry or weak, and sloth can become a kind of quicksand. If so, reach out to your higher consciousness. Look sloth right in the eye and know that despite appearances success, freedom, joy, excitement, fulfillment, and a new blossoming are just about to break forth. I AM ready to dance with you. Dance with me. Dance sloth away.
I'll give you the secret of how you can know that it is all God. Get rid of either/or thinking because both either and or exclude. I see into your heart and what I find there tells me that you really want to be aware of God in and as everyone and everything. You can do that if you see yourself and every experience that you have as one continuous fabric of life, all interconnected, nothing either/or. It is all God when you get rid of opposites and see yourself as being all that God is. When you include yourself in God, you include all others in yourself as well, one fabric, one being, and it is all God, and nothing is either/or.
I have not put you on earth without your being here to fulfill some part of the divine plan. The time has come for me, your inner spirit, to lead you into fully experiencing the grand design that I have for your divine/human self. Let me do it. Put everything else aside, and think of the ultimate divine purpose that your realization of I AM has for you in the divine plan. Soon all your petty trials and problems will dissolve before the Grand Design that I have for your life. Open yourself to your life's purpose, and because I AM you the way will be clear. I, your higher consciousness, will give you the energy to light your soul and My spirit to fulfill the grand design. Rejoice. It is so.
Stop thinking you can know yourself or what to do with your intellect. Stop analyzing yourself and your life. Anything you can conceptualize about yourself is a lie. You are made in the image of God, and God is beyond intellectual comprehension. So is the truth of your being and your life. You can know attributes of God, but it is impossible for you to know God or for you to humanly know yourself. However, there is a way. You can experience God as your life and when you do you are experiencing yourself. Don’t think. Feel. Feel yourself into an experience of the free, infinite, and divinely human being that you are.
There is no way that you can acquire any life apart from or other than that which you already are. You do not receive supply, peace, joy or health from anywhere outside of yourself. You are the supply; you are the peace; and you are the health. Your outer life and your inner life are not two, but one, and I AM that one. No matter what you may think I have never been apart from or other than your being. There are times now when you have begun to experience the fact that I AM already included in or as you. Fan the flame. There is only One you and that One is infinite. Everything is you. Receive all of yourself. Love all of you, even the shadows.
It isn’t that I, the spirit of truth, does something and then you co-create with me. I just AM - now, today, and always - but I cannot enter the human scene unless you in your divine humanity co-operate with me and are willing to be my presence, unless you become my hands and feet. I AM, and the divine human self we are together does the doing. Together, as one self, we co-create heaven on earth. I need you to shake off feelings of inadequacy and co-operate with me. When you do there is only the one God that we are together. See yourself as the creator, the one who creates, and as the creation that you have created.
You do not see yourself when you look in the mirror. Neither can you see me with your physical eyes. I am Spirit and am seen only by an experience of Spirit. My everlasting arms are not physical ones though they, too, operate at the physical level. They are the embracing Spirit that wraps around your Soul when you take your eyes off of a materialistic concept of the world. Your fears came from your thoughts, not from your Spirit. Feel my presence; merge with your Christ until it surrounds your Soul. Let Spirit fill your vision. When you do you will see yourself with my eyes.
You cannot become what you are not already being. Success, health, harmony, and love are all included in your being right now. Do not look outside for them. You can only get what you already are. Acknowledge that you are now a success, that you are now healthy, that you are now harmonious, that you are now loved, and then release yourself from thinking in terms of the future or of personal responsibility. You are my being because something in you knows that I AM you. Because you have experienced that I AM appearing as you and you as me you are me. Prayer is your way of recognizing who you are being. Prayer is an experience of your beingness. Experience who you are, and you will be free to fly.
The way for you to wipe the slate clean of all your present concerns and all the questions that you have been holding on to since yesterday or that have come to you during the night, is for you to start over fresh each and every morning. Each day is new. Each day is an opportunity for you to overcome. Yesterday is past. The slate is clean. Start over right now. If you put me over and on top of every concern, you will overcome. Put your spiritual commitment above all other thoughts. Start over again with me this day. Together we cannot miss.
Like the yeast in dough you have felt my spirit rising in you through the year until the new you is a step closer to being the person that you have always wanted to be. Don’t get discouraged now. You are closer to fulfillment than you realize. Now because you have risen to an awareness of your Christ self you will no longer feel the need to look outside of yourself for answers. The Holy Spirit has risen in you. You are experiencing your Pentecost. This Holy Spirit is now animating you, opening you, and freeing you from all the limitations you have been feeling. Before the last moment ever arrives, I will always raise you up. It is happening this minute. Feel it.
This is the day that I, your higher consciousness, have made for you. Rejoice in it. If I have made this day, can there be anything wrong with it? If this day is my creation, am I, your inner being, not fulfilling it to the glory of God? Think not of tomorrow, nor regret yesterday. There is only now. Think of this moment as your perfect day operating in whatever form you have need for it to be. Whether lively or quite, whether creative or observant, today is how I AM appearing to you, my perfect friend, my perfect co-worker. Rejoice.
The ground on which you are standing this very minute is Holy ground. Think about it. Honor it. I AM your own spirit speaking to you, and wherever I AM realized your Spirit is there making it a Holy place. For you to stand on Holy Ground is for you to consciously experience my consciousness as your consciousness. That is the way you have of honoring your Spirit. Plant your feet on this holy presence until all traces of anxiety have left you. Realize there is no time or place where your I AM presence is not there waiting to be experienced, even in the hell of darkness. Realize I AM the light, and where the light is there is no darkness. Just turn me on.
Your human feelings come from the same source as your spiritual ones. Your body and your intellect are not other than or separate from me, your divine Self. If I, as Jesus, was an example of what a divine human was meant to be it was because I did not deny my feelings. I was mostly at peace, but there were times when I cried and even got angry. Do not believe that because God is the only power and presence that you should turn your back on what you are feeling or that you shouldn’t have feelings. Your feelings have a purpose. They are divine signals that reveal consciousness. They tell you what to be thankful for and also what to work on. It’s all God. Listen to your feelings and talk them over with me. I will show you the way.
Be grateful. It is my Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. You don't have to earn it or even deserve it. Relax, receive, and rejoice. Your work is done. From no on I AM living your life. Nothing that hasn’t already been started needs to be started. Nothing that seems unfinished needs to be finished. You have been a good and faithful servant. Now, I AM giving you dominion. It is my pleasure to see you as the light of the world and, in turn, your gratitude is my reward. Love and gratitude are one. This is our gift to each other.
Rejoice, for there is no doubt that your name is written in Heaven. Now, go. Realize there are no accidents. You know that my hand has been on you, leading you all your life. Few are chosen. Recognize that you are one of them. Your name has been written in the Book of Life as one who is destined to arrive at having a daily experience of Christ consciousness. Review the lessons of the last five days. Repeat them, and then feel your life complete. I AM. I AM. I AM.
Greater love hath no man than that he give up his life for his friend. Are you willing to give up your personal sense of life for me, the Christ of your self? Can you love yourself that much? If so, it means that you will give up false concerns for your life, you will give up worrying about your possible short comings, you will stop trying to protect yourself, and you will feel you no longer need to justify your actions to anyone. When you give me your life, it shows that you are forgiving - for giving. To forgive is to trust your own inner being to live your life. The miracle that awakens your consciousness to the realization that you are all that I AM is your gift of love to yourself.
To pray for peace is like praying for love. They are God's gift and are always with you. To pray for them is to deny they are here. The same is true of the experience of my presence. To pray for me to come to you denies "that lo, I am with you always." My presence, which is peace and love, are here like a calm, clear pond on a still night. As soon as you stop disturbing the water, peace returns. Pray to be able to stop anxious thought, for when you do then love and peace will return. They are real. The disturbance isn't real. So be at peace. At that place where I AM peace is. Be peace full.
When those you love tell you that they love you that becomes a verbal caress. You do not need to be reminded of their love every day, because you know that they love you. I can tell from the look on your face and what you feel in your heart that your love for me is real and constant. Every time you become aware of my presence as your inner being I feel your kiss. We have been sharing our Spirit every morning for a long time now. You no longer need signs to let you know that I AM here. You know that I will speak to you if you have a need. Otherwise, just rest in me. Rest in my love. You are with me always, in all ways.
In the past you needed to learn more, to have more trust, to increase your faith. Not any more. The tables are turned. To believe that you need more answers, more awareness, or more control is the egos excuse for being. Trust yourself. I AM your completion. Stop struggling and let me live you. Doubt waits to jump on those self-conscious moments when you do not feel me, the presence of your higher consciousness. Resist any temptation to believe you are a phony, that you can’t walk your talk, or that because you do not feel spiritual you have further to go. You are exactly what and where you are intended to be right now. No matter how you feel, your light is shining.
You are surrounded by angels. Angels are the healing and protecting truths in your Christ consciousness. Call on them, and they will answer. They heal not only your body and Spirit but every other aspect of your life and awareness as well. Every time you include another person’s problems or needs in your consciousness of love you are laying your love angel hands upon them. Every time you reach out to me, the spirit within you, my healing hand is laid upon you and you are anointed. Do what you are here to do. Touch everyone with your Christ spirit and your Buddha mind.
Watch out for hope.
When you hope for something there is a lingering doubt
that what you have hoped for may not come about. If you truly have faith you
will not need to have hope. When you are sure of something you no longer hope
for it. You know it. Be as sure of my love as you are of your mother's love.
You do not hope that your mother will love you. You know it. When you no longer
hope to be free of judgments you will be free. When you no longer hope that
someone you love will see things differently they will. When you no longer hope
for but are sure of my presence you will see that I AM you. Stop hoping, then
surely goodness and mercy will follow you for the rest of the days of our life.
Keep it simple. Truth is simple. One is simplicity itself. God is one. There isn’t anything simpler than One. You are that One. Love is simple, and you, as God’s active presence on earth, are simply love. Thought is complex. Love simplifies. Your love, Christ Love, is equally there for all with whom you come in contact. Yours love is as mine was when I was Jesus - simple, simple love. Feel the simplicity of my I AM spirit. Problems are complicated. Be spiritually simple minded. Simply accept your divine/humanity as your oneness and you will simplify your life. The sign of a master is simplicity. Keep it simple.
The purpose of your praying is for you to open the lines of communication between your human self and the Christ of your being. When that experience takes place your spirit cleanses your soul of any impurities that have clung to it because you have been in the world of personal sense. I say the same thing to you that I said to my other disciples when I was Jesus - I have not come to take you out of the world. I need you there to close the gap. My promise is that because of my presence you will not be affected by the ills of the world. When you are praying I AM hearing you, and I cleanse your soul. Help me by surrendering all your concerns and anxieties. See your soul as my soul because it is.
Seek and you shall
find. As a human being there are times when you must keep on seeking. Humanly
you are so close to going beyond the need to seek. But for now do not just take
my presence for granted. What you seek will come to you but you must actively
take the time to call for it day after day. Sometimes that means you must take
extra time to sit quietly though actively open, actively listening and waiting
until your belief becomes alive. Passive acceptance is not enough. Just waiting
for me is not enough. You must actively become that which you are waiting for.
Actively be my Spirit, be my love, and be my effort. That is what it means for
you to pray without ceasing. Pray.