January - God Calling.
Between the Years. - January 1
Our Lord and our God. We joy in Thee. Without Thy Help we could not face unafraid the year before us.
I stand between the years. The Light of My Presence is flung across the year to come - the radiance of The Sun of Righteousness. Backward, over the past year, is My Shadow thrown, hiding trouble and sorrow and disappointment.
Dwell not on the past - only on the present. Only use the past as the trees use My Sunlight to absorb it, to make from it in after days the warming fire-rays. So store only the blessings from Me, The Light of the World. Encourage yourselves by the thought of these.
Bury every fear of the future, of poverty for those dear to you, of suffering, of loss. Bury all thought of unkindness and bitterness, all your dislikes, your resentments, your sense of failure, your disappointment in others and in yourselves, your gloom, your despondency, and let us leave them all, buried, and go forward to a new and risen life.
Remember that you must not see as the world sees. I hold the year in My Hands - in trust for you. But I shall guide you one day at a time.
Leave the rest with Me. You must not anticipate the gift by fears or thoughts of the days ahead.
And for each day I shall supply the Wisdom and the Strength.
Arm of Love. - January 2
You are to help to save others. Never let one day pass when you have not reached out an arm of Love to someone outside your home - a note, a letter, a visit, help in some way.
Be full of Joy. Joy saves. Joy cures. Joy in Me. In every ray of sunlight, every smile, every act of kindness, or love, every trifling service - joy.
Each day do something to lift another soul out of the sea of sin, or disease or doubt into which man has fallen. I still walk to-day by the lakeside and call My disciples to follow Me and to become fishers of men.
The helping hand is needed that raises the helpless to courage, to struggle, to faith, to health. Love and laugh. Love and laughter are the beckoners to faith and courage and success. Trust on, love on, joy on.
Refuse to be downcast. Refuse to be checked in your upward climb. Love and laugh, I am with you. I bear your burdens. Cast thy burden upon Me and I will sustain thee. And then in very lightheartedness you turn and help another with the burden that is pressing too heavily upon him or her.
How many burdens can you lighten this year? How many hearts can you cheer? How many souls can you help?
And in giving you gain: "Good measure, pressed down and running over." I your Lord have said it.
The Way Will Open. - January 3
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength - Isa. 40:31
You must be renewed, remade. Christ, Christ, Christ. Everything must rest on Me. Force is born of rest. Only Love is a conquering force. Be not afraid, I will help you.
Be channels, both of you. My Spirit shall flow through and My Spirit shall, in flowing through, sweep away all the bitter past.
Take heart, God loves, God helps, God fights, God wins. You shall see. You shall know. The way will open. All My Love has ever planned, all My Love has ever thought, you shall see each day unfold. Only be taught. Just be a child. A child never questions plans. It accepts gladly.
Do Not Plan. - January 4
Shew us Thy Way, O Lord, and let us walk in Thy Paths. Lead us in Thy Truth and teach us.
All is well. Wonderful things are happening. Do not limit God at all. He cares and provides.
Uproot 'Self' - the channel-blocker. Do not plan ahead, the way will unfold step by step. Leave to-morrow's burden. Christ is The Great Burden bearer. You cannot bear His load, and He only expects you to carry a little day-share.
Hoard Nothing. - January 5
Love Me and do My will. No evil shall befall you. Take no thought for to-morrow. Rest in My Presence brings Peace. God will help you. Desire brings fulfillment. Peace like a quiet flowing river cleanses, sweeps all irritants away.
You shall be taught, continue these prayer-times, even if they seem fruitless. The devil will try by any means to stop them. Heed him not. He will say evil spirits may enter in. Heed him not.
Rest your nerves. Tired nerves are a reflection on, not of, God's Power. Hope all the time.
Do not be afraid of poverty. Let money flow freely. I will let it flow in but you must let it flow out. I never send money to stagnate - only to those who pass it on. Keep nothing for yourself. Hoard nothing. Only have what you need and use. This is My Law of Discipleship.
Sharp and Ready. - January 6
Guide me, O Thou Great "I AM",
Pilgrim through this foreign land.
I am weak but Thou art mighty,
Guide me with Thy powerful Hand.You must pray. The way will open. God cares and His plans unfold. Just love and wait.
Love is the Key. No door is too difficult for it to open.
What cause have you to fear? Has He not cared for and protected you? Hope on. Hope gladly. Hope with certainty. Be calm, calm in My Power.
Never neglect these times, pray and read your Bible and train and discipline yourself. That is your work - Mine to use you. But My instruments must be sharp and ready. Then I use them.
Discipline and perfect yourselves at all costs. Do this, for soon every fleeting thought will be answered, every wish gratified, every deed used. It is a fearful Power, a mighty Power (Force). Oh! be careful that you ask nothing amiss - nothing that is not according to My Spirit.
All thoughts harmful must be turned out. Miracle working power can become witchery in the wrong hands. See how necessary I have made the purity and goodness of your own lives to you. That is why. Soon, very soon, you shall ask, and at once it will come. Welcome the training. Without it I dare not give you this Power (Force). It would do harm.
Do not worry about others' lives. That will all come right. You must perfect yourselves first in My Strength.
The Secret Pearl. - January 7
Look upon us with Thy favour, O Lord, while we behold "the land that is very far off" and yet so near to the seeing eye and the listening ear.
Wait. Wonders are unfolding. Tremble with awe. No man can stand upon the threshold of Eternity unshaken. I give unto you Eternal Life. A free gift, a wonderful gift - the Life of the Ages.
Silently comes the Kingdom. No man can judge when It enters the heart of man, only in results. Listen quietly. Sometimes you may get no message. Meet thus all the same. You will absorb an atmosphere.
Cultivate silence. "God speaks in silences." A silence, a soft wind. Each can be a message to convey My meaning to the heart, though by no voice or even word.
Each word or thought of yours can be like a pearl that you drop into the secret place of another heart, and in some hour of need, lo! the recipient finds the treasure and realizes for the first time its value.
Do not be too ready to do, just be. I said, "Be ye therefore perfect," not "do" perfect things. Strive to grasp this. Individual efforts avail nothing. It is only the work of the Universal Spirit - My Spirit, that counts.
Dwell in thought on this, more and more, saints have taken a life-time to grasp it.
Love Bangs the Door. - January 8
Life with Me is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. My guidance is often by shut doors. Love bangs as well as opens.
Joy is the result of faithful trusting acceptance of My Will, when It seems not joyous.
Paul, my servant, learnt this lesson of the banged doors when he said, "our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Expect rebuffs until this is learned - it is the only way.
Joy is the daughter of calm.
No Strain. - January 9
Be calm, no matter what may befall you. Rest in Me. Be patient, and let patience have her perfect work. Never think things overwhelming. How can you be overwhelmed when I am with you?
Do not feel the strain of life. There is no strain for My children. Do you not see I am a Master Instrument-maker? Have I not fashioned each part? Do I not know just what it can bear without a strain? Would I, the maker of so delicate an instrument, ask of it anything that could destroy or strain?
No! The strain is only when you are serving another master, the world, fame, the good opinion of men - or carrying two days' burden on the one day.
Remember that it must not be.
Influence. - January 10
When you come to Me, and I give you that Eternal Life I give to all who believe Me, it alters your whole existence, the words you speak, the influences you have.
These are all eternal. They must be. They spring from the Life within you, My Life, Eternal Life, so that they too live for ever. Now you see how vast, how stupendous, is the work of any soul that has Eternal Life. The words, the influence, go on down the ages for ever.
You must ponder on these truths I give you. They are hidden pearls of rare price.
Meditate upon them. Work at them in your minds and hearts.
The Ache of Love. - January 11
Cry unto Me, and I will hear you and bless you. Use My unlimited stores for your needs and those of others. Seek My wonderful Truths and you shall find.
There may come times when you sit in silence, when it seems as if you were left alone. Then I command - command - you to remember I have spoken to you, as I spoke at Emmaus.
But there was the time in the Upper Room, after My Ascension, when My disciples had to comfort themselves by saying, "Did He not speak to us by the way?"
You will have the consciousness of My Presence when you hear no voice. Abide in that Presence. "I am The Light of the world," but sometimes in tender pity, I withhold too glaring a light, lest, in its dazzling brightness, you should miss your daily path and work.
Not until Heaven is reached, do souls sit and drink in the ecstasy of God's revelation to His Own. At the moment you are pilgrims and need only your daily marching orders, and strength and guidance for the day.
Oh! Listen to My Voice, eagerly, joyfully. Never crowd it out. I have no rival claimants, and if men seek the babble of the world, then I withdraw.
Life has hurt you. Only scarred lives can really save.
You cannot escape the discipline. It is the hallmark of discipleship. My children, trust Me always. Never rebel.
The trust given to Me to-day, takes away the ache of rejection of My Love, that I suffered on Earth, and have suffered through the ages. "I died for you, My children, and could ye treat Me so?"
Thanks for Trials. - January 12
You must say "Thank You" for everything, even seeming trials and worries.
Joy is the whole Being's attitude of "Thank You" to Me. Be glad. Rejoice. A father loves to see his children happy.
I am revealing so much to you. Pass it on. Each Truth is a jewel. Some poor spirit-impoverished friend will be glad of it. Drop one here and there.
Seek to find a heart-home for each Truth I have imparted to you. More Truths will flow in. Use all I give you. Help others. I ache to find a way into each life and heart, for all to cry expectantly, "Even so, come Lord Jesus."
Friends Unseen. - January 13
Never despair, never despond. Be just a channel of helpfulness for others.
Have more sympathy. Feel more tenderness towards others. Your lives shall not be all care. Gold does not stay in the crucible - only until it is refined. Already I hear the music and the marching of the unseen host, rejoicing at your victory.
No follower of Mine would ever err or fall, if once the veil were withdrawn which prevents him seeing how these slips delight the evil spirits, and the pain and disappointment of those who long for him to conquer in My Strength and Name, and the ecstasy of rejoicing when victory is won.
My Strength is the same as that in which I conquered Satan in the Wilderness - depression and sorrow in the Garden, and even Death on Calvary.
Think of that.
Mighty and Marvellous. - January 14
Glad indeed are the souls with whom I walk. Walking with Me is security. The coming of My Spirit into a life, and Its working are imperceptible, but the result is mighty.
Learn of Me. Kill the 'Self'. Every blow to 'Self' is used to shape the real, eternal, imperishable you.
Be very candid and rigorous with your 'Selves'. "Did 'Self' prompt that?" and if it did, oust it at all costs.
When I died on the Cross, I died embodying all the human 'Self'. Once that was crucified, I could conquer even death.
When I bore your sins in My own body on the Tree I bore the 'Self'-human nature of the world. As you too kill 'Self' you gain the overwhelming power (the Force) I released for a weary world, and you too will be victorious.
It is not life and its difficulties you have to conquer, only the 'Self' in you. As I said to My disciples, "I have many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now." You could not understand them. But as you go on obeying Me and walking with Me, and listening to Me, you will, and then you will see how glorious, how marvellous My revelations are, and My teachings.
Relax. - January 15
Relax, do not get tense, have no fear. All is for the best. How can you fear change when your life is hid with Me in God, Who changeth not - and I am the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.
You must learn poise, soul-balance and poise, in a vacillating, changing world.
Claim My power. The same power (Force) with which I cast out devils is yours to-day. Use it. If not, I withdraw it. Use it ceaselessly.
You cannot ask too much. Never think you are too busy. As long as you get back to Me and replenish after each task no work can be too much. My Joy I give you. Live in it. Bathe your Spirit in it. Reflect it.
Friend in Drudgery. - January 16
It is the daily strivings that count, not the momentary heights. The obeying of My Will day in, day out, in the wilderness plains rather than the occasional Mount of Transfiguration.
Perseverance is nowhere needed so much as in the religious life. The drudgery of the Kingdom it is that secures My intimate Friendship. I am the Lord of little things, the Divine Control of little happenings.
Nothing in the day is too small to be a part of My scheme. The little stones in a mosaic play a big part.
Joy in Me. Joy is the God-given cement that secures the harmony and beauty of My mosaic.
God's Rush to Give. - January 17
Silence. Be silent before Me. Seek to know and then do My Will in all things.
Abide in My Love. An atmosphere of loving understanding to all men. This is your part to carry out, and then I surround you with a protective screen that keeps all evil from you. It is fashioned by your own attitude of mind, words, and deeds, towards others.
I want to give you all things, good measure, pressed down and running over. Be quick to learn. You know little yet of the Divine Impatience which longs to rush to give. Does one worrying thought enter your mind, one impatient thought? Fight it at once.
Love and Trust are the solvents for the worry and cares and frets of a life. Apply them at once. You are channels (for The Force), and though the channel may not be altogether blocked, fret and impatience and worry corrode, and in time would become beyond your help.
Persevere, oh! persevere. Never lose heart. All is well.
Faith-Works. - January 18
Pray daily for Faith. It is My Gift.
It is your only requisite for the accomplishment of mighty deeds. Certainly you have to work, you have to pray, but upon Faith alone depends the answer to your prayers - your works.
I give it you in response to your prayer, because it is the necessary weapon for you to possess for the dispersion of evil - the overcoming of all adverse conditions, and the accomplishment of all good in your lives, and then you having Faith, give it back to Me. It is the envelope in which every request to Me should be placed.
And yet, "Faith without works is dead." So you need works, too, to feed your Faith in Me. As you seek to do, you feel your helplessness. You then turn to Me. In knowing Me, your faith grows - and that faith is all you need for My Power (Force) to work.
Love Anticipates. - January 19
Lord, I will seek Thee.
None ever sought Me in vain. I wait, wait with a hungry longing to be called upon; and I, who have already seen your hearts' needs before you cried unto Me, before perhaps, you were conscious of those needs yourself, I am already preparing the answer.
It is like a mother, who is setting aside suitable gifts for her daughter's wedding, before Love even has come into the daughter's life.
The Anticipatory Love of God is a thing mortals seldom realize. Dwell on this thought. Dismiss from your minds the thought of a grudging God, who had to be petitioned with sighs and tears and much speaking before reluctantly He loosed the desired treasures. Man's thoughts of Me need revolutionizing.
Think about a mother preparing birthday or Christmas delights for her child - the while her mother-heart sings: "Will she not love that? How she will love this!", and anticipates the rapture of her child, her own heart full of the tenderest joy. Where did the mother learn all this preparation-joy? From Me - a faint echo this of My Preparation-Joy.
Think about this as plans unfold of My preparing. It means much to Me to be understood, and the understanding of Me will bring great Joy to you.
At One With God. - January 20
One with Me. I and My Father are as one. One with The Lord of the whole Universe!
Could human aspiration reach higher? Could man's demands transcend this? One with Me.
If you realize your high privilege, you have only to think and immediately the object of your thought is called into being. Indeed, well may I have said, "Set your affections on things above, not on the things of the Earth."
To dwell in thought on the material, when once you live in Me - is to call it into being. So you must be careful only to think of and desire that which will help, not hinder, your spiritual growth. The same law operates too on the Spiritual Plane.
Think Love, and Love surrounds you, and all about whom you think. Think thoughts of ill-will, and ill surrounds you, and those about whom you think. Think health - health comes. The physical reflects the mental and spiritual.
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" - evil be to him who thinks it.
A Crowded Day. - January 21
Believe that I am with you, and controlling all. When My Word has gone forth, all are powerless against it.
Be calm. Never fear. You have much to learn. Go on until you can take the most crowded day with a song. "Sing unto The Lord." The finest accompaniment to a Song of Praise to Me is a very crowded day. Let Love be the motif running through all.
Be glad all the time. Rejoice exceedingly. Joy in Me. Rest in Me. Never be afraid. Pray more. Do not get worried. I am thy Helper. "Underneath are the Everlasting Arms." You cannot get below that. Rest in them, as a tired child rests.
Grey Days. - January 22
BE not afraid. I am your God, your Deliverer. From all evil, I will deliver you. Trust Me. Fear not.
Never forget your "Thank You." Do you not see it is a lesson? You must say "Thank You" on the greyest days. You must do it. All cannot be light unless you do. There is grey-day practice. It is absolutely necessary.
My death upon the Cross was not only necessary to save a world, it was necessary, if only to train My disciples. It was all a part of their training: My entering Jerusalem in triumph; My washing the disciples' feet; My sorrow-time in Gethsemane; My being despised, judged, crucified, buried. Every step was necessary to their development - and so with you.
If a grey day is not one of thankfulness, the lesson has to be repeated until it is. Not to everyone is it so. But only to those who ask to serve Me well and to do much for Me. A great work requires a great and careful training.
How Power Comes. - January 23
Lord, Thou are our Refuge. Our God, in Thee do we trust. O Master, come and talk with us.
ALL power is given unto Me. It is Mine to give, Mine to withhold, but even I have to acknowledge that I cannot withhold it from the soul that dwells near Me, because it is then not a gift, but passes insensibly from Me to My disciples.
It is breathed in by the soul who lives in My Presence.
Learn to shut yourself away in My Presence - and then, without speaking, you have those things you desire of Me, Strength - Power - Joy - Riches.
Your Great Reward. - January 24
You pray for Faith, and you are told to do so. But I make provision in the House of My Abiding for those who turn towards Me, and yet have weak knees and hearts that faint. Be not afraid. I am your God. Your Great Reward. Yours to look up and say, "All is well."
I am your Guide. Do not want to see the road ahead. Go just one step at a time. I very rarely grant the long vista to My disciples, especially in personal affairs, for one step at a time is the best way to cultivate Faith.
You are in uncharted waters. But The Lord of all Seas is with you, the Controller of all Storms is with you. Sing with joy. You follow The Lord of Limitations, as well as The God in whose service is perfect freedom.
He, The God of the Universe, confined Himself within the narrow limits of a baby-form and, in growing boyhood, and young manhood, submitted to your human-limitations, and you have to learn that your vision and power, boundless as far as spiritual things are concerned, must in temporal affairs submit to limitations too.
But I am with you. It was when the disciples gave up effort after a night of fruitless fishing, that I came, and the nets brake with the over-abundance of supply.
Way of Happiness. - January 25
Complete surrender of every moment to God is the foundation of happiness, the superstructure is the joy of being in union with Him. And that is, for each, the place, the mansion, I went to prepare for you.
My followers have misunderstood that, and looked too often upon that promise as referring only to an After-Life, and too often - far too often - upon this life as a something to be struggled through, in order to get the reward and the joy of the next.
Seek to carry out all I say, and such understanding, insight, vision and joy will be yours as shall pass indeed all understanding. The plans of God are very wonderful - beyond your highest hopes.
Cling to thoughts of protection, safety, guidance.
Keep Calm. - January 26
Keep your Spirit-Life calm and unruffled. Nothing else matters. Leave all to Me. This is your great task, to get calm in My Presence, not to let one ruffled feeling stay for one moment. Years of blessing may be checked in one moment by that.
No matter who frets you or what, yours is the task to stop all else until absolute calm comes. Any block means My Power (Force) diverted into other channels.
Pour forth - pour forth - pour forth - I cannot bless a life that does not act as a channel. My Spirit brooks no stagnation, not even rest. Its Power must flow on. Pass on everything, every blessing. Abide in Me.
See how many you can bless each day. Dwell much in My Presence.
Height of the Storm. - January 27
Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of Eternal Life. - John 6:68.
I am with you both. Go forward unafraid. Health and Strength, Peace and Happiness and Joy - they are all My Gifts. Yours for the asking.
In the spiritual (as in the material) world there is no empty space, and as 'Self', and fears and worries depart out of your lives, it follows that the things of the Spirit, that you crave so, rush in to take their places. All things are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's. What a wonderful cycle, because ye are God's.
Be not afraid. Fear not. It is to the drowning man the Rescuer comes. To the brave swimmer who can fare well alone He comes not. And no rush of Joy can be like that of a man towards his Rescuer.
It is a part of My Method to wait till the storm is at its full violence. So did I with My disciples on the Lake. I could have bidden the first angry wave to be calm, the first gust of wind be still, but what a lesson unlearned? What a sense of tender nearness of refuge and safety would have been lost.
Remember this - My disciples thought that in sleep I had forgotten them. Remember how mistaken they were. Gain strength and confidence and joyful dependence and anticipation from that.
Never fear. Joy is yours, and the radiant joy of the rescued shall be yours.
Low Ambitions. - January 28
Fear not. Do not fear to be busy. You are the servant of all. "He that would be the greatest among you, let him be the servant of all."
Service is the word of My disciples. I served indeed the humblest, the lowliest. I was at their command. My highest Powers were at their service.
Be used. Be used by all, by the lowest, the smallest. How best can you serve? Let that be your daily seeking, not how best can you be served.
Truly man's thoughts are not God's Thoughts, nor man's ways, God's Ways. When you seek to follow Me in all, it frequently means a complete reversion of the way of the world you have hitherto followed. But it is a reversion that leads to boundless happiness and peace.
Look around you, read what is being written. What do you find? Do the aims and ambitions that man strives for bring peace, or the world's awards bring heart-rest and happiness? No! indeed, man is at war with man. Those whom the world has most rewarded, with name, fame, honour, wealth, are weary and disappointed.
And yet, to the listening ear, above the jangle of the world's discordant cries, there echoes down the 1900 years My Message, "Come unto Me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you Rest."
And the weary and disappointed who listen and turn to Me find indeed that Rest. Joy of the Weary I am, Music to the Heart I am, Health to the Sick, Wealth to the Poor, Food to the Hungry, Home to the Wanderer, Rapture to the Jaded, Love to the Lonely.
There is not one want of the soul, that I do not supply for the asking, and to you too, I long to be all.
I Clear The Path. - January 29
Wait on The Lord - Psalm 27:14.
I am thy Shield. Have no fear. You must know that "All is well." I will never let anyone do to you both, other than My Will for you.
I can see the future. I can read men's hearts. I know better than you what you need. Trust Me absolutely. You are not at the mercy of Fate, or buffeted about by others. You are being led in a very definite way, and others, who do not serve your purpose, are being moved out of your Path by Me.
Never fear, whatever may happen. You are both being led. Do not try to plan. I have planned. You are the builder, not the Architect.
Go very quietly, very gently. All is for the very best for you.
Trust Me for all. Your very extremity will ensure My activity for you. And having your foundation on The Rock - Christ, Faith in Him, and "being rooted and grounded in Him," and having belief in My Divinity as your Corner Stone, it is yours to build, knowing all is well.
Literally, you have to depend on Me for everything - everything. It was out of the depths that David cried unto Me, and I heard his voice. All is well.
The Soul at War. - January 30
No evil can befall you, if I am with you. "Ill that He blesses is our good." Every time of being laid aside is a time of retreat into the Quiet Place with Me. Never fear but in that place you shall find restoration and power and joy and healing.
Plan both of you retreat days now and then - days when you live apart with Me, and arise rested and refreshed - physically, mentally, and spiritually, to carry on the work I have given to you. I will never give you a load greater than you can bear.
Love, Joy, Peace, welcome these. Let no personal feelings, no thoughts of 'Self' banish these. Singly, they are miracle-producing in a life, but together, they can command all that is needed on the physical, mental and spiritual planes.
It is in these wonder-realm attributes all success lies. You have to see your inner lives are all they should be, and then the work is accomplished. Not in rushing and striving on the material plane, but on the battlefield of the Soul are these things won.
Suffering Redeems. - January 31
All sacrifice and all suffering is redemptive: to teach the individual or to be used to raise and help others.
Nothing is by chance (or luck).
Divine Mind and its wonder-working, is beyond your finite mind to understand.
No detail is forgotten in My Plans, already perfect.
January - God at Eventide.
All is Ready. - January 1
Write for all things are now ready.
The world is waiting for My Message of Love, and Hope and Cheer. The very unrest of spirit is a sign. The turning from the husk of organised religion is a sign.
Man is no longer lulled by empty phrases and promises of a better life hereafter. He must know Me before he would wish to spend Eternity with Me. He must know Me here in the storm where he needs strength and rest.
He has been sleeping; now he has been shocked awake. Now he must find Me or fling defiance at Me or school himself into a denial, or indifference.
Reason and argument avail little. Only by the lives of My followers can man be helped; only by seeing Mine unmoved, at peace, joyful, in a world of sorrow, disillusionment and mistrust.
Your denial to-day will not be, "I know not the man." The world is indifferent as to whether you profess Me or not. No, it will be your failure to present Me in your life as I am - vital, sustaining, spirit-renewing, your All.
Your Resolutions. - January 2
It is in union with Me that you receive strength to carry out your good resolutions.
Contact with Me brings power for the work I wish you to do, that work for which I know you to be most suited and which you only can do, and do so well.
It is in contact with Me that you are endued with the Grace that I alone can give, enabling you to minister acceptably to those to whom I send you, and those whom I bring to you.
Even among the distractions and manifold interests of the world - live in My Presence, yet daily withdraw yourself to be alone with Me.
Mutual Need. - January 3
Abide in Me and I in you.
This year dwell much upon this stupendous Truth. You need to abide in Me this year to share in the Spirit-Life of the Universe, in its creative power and energy. Thus you are a part in God's whole.
But I must abide in you, for only so can I express My Love and Power and Truth through you interpreting them in deed, and look, and word.
In these words of Mine you have My two-fold nature.
The Strong Protector! so Strong to shield; and offering you, My guest, all provision you need.
And then you have Me in My Humility, one with you, your close Companion, dwelling in you, and dependent on you. Think on these things.
Your Mandate. - January 4
Here in this evening hour I draw near to you - and listen. Tell Me of the Peace you know in Me; of the tender confidence in Me that has brought Peace and Safety into your life.
To-morrow you will go back into the world with My message of Eternal Life. Truths that you are only just beginning fully to grasp, that are bringing you Vision and Joy, you will pass to others, that they may be saved the wasted years that lie behind you. Turn to them as you would to one following you along a dangerous road and warn them against the pitfalls in their way.
Point out to them the beauties of The Way, the sunlit hills ahead, the sunset glories, the streams and flowers of My peaceful glades.
Direct their attention from earth's allures or mirages to Me, your Companion of The Way. Tell them of your Joy in Me. That is your mandate from High Heaven.
The Healing Hour. - January 5
As yet you can only dimly see what this evening-time will mean for you.
For a while you shed earth's cares and frets, and know the uplift of soul that comes through planned Communion with Me.
You are renewed, and that renewing is your safeguard from mental and spiritual disintegration.
In this brief time you taste, in contact with Me, something of My Resurrection Life. It is the glorified Christ you know and to know Him is to partake too of His Risen Life.
Thus health, physical, mental and spiritual, comes to you and flows through and from you.
Land of Promise. - January 6
Imagine the Hope of My Heart that day on the mountain-side when I told My followers that to no throne of earth I led them; old forms and negations that had meant so much in the past were to be swept away; motives and impulses were to be all-important.
By the thoughts of his heart was a man to be judged. Prayer was like a son appealing to a father. Love was to be the foundation, the Golden Rule. Tribal, even racial, distinctions were to be ignored and claims of the whole great family of God were to be met.
To such heights as they had never before scaled I led them, up to Peak-truths they had thought unscalable.
What hopes I had of them as their wonder turned to Vision and they responded to My Message.
What hopes I have to-day of each of you My Followers as you catch sight of your Land of Promise ahead.
Cleansing Light. - January 7
I am the True Light that cometh into the world, and men love darkness rather than Light, because their deeds are evil.
Truly not all men desire My Light. Not all men would welcome its clear shining.
Many shrink from its revelation, preferring the darkness that would hide their deeds, rather than the remorseless Light that would show the evil of which they are ashamed.
Pray for Light, rejoice to have it, welcome its revelation, and so, when in your lives it has done its searching, cleansing work, then bear it yourselves gladly, triumphantly, out into a world that needs so sorely the Light of the World.
Ways of Witness. - January 8
I call upon you to make Me known -
By your unfailing trust in Me.
By your joy, unrepressed by the difficulties of the way.
By your tender concern for the weak and the wandering.
By your acceptance of My Gift of Eternal Life.
By your growth in Spiritual development, proof of that Inner life, which alone can engender it.
Make Me known, more and more, by your serenity, by unflinching adherence to Truth.
Make Me known by My Spirit within and round you, your conduct and speech ever bearing witness to the Power and the Wonder of My Presence.
So shall all men know that you are My disciple, and that your claim is never for the recognition of the 'Self' - but for Me, the Christ-in-you.
A Love-Home. - January 9
Hush earth's desires that you miss not My Footfall.
It brings the strength of a warrior, and the eagerness of a Lover.
Let your heart thrill with the glad, "He comes." Forsake all thought but the thought of Me as I enter. Soul-rest and heart-comfort I bring. Forget all else.
Let Me lift the burden from your shoulders, My burden, borne for you. Here in quiet, we will rest, while you are reinvigorated.
Poor dwelling, you feel, for the King of kings. Yet I see your Home of Love as Love has made it. I come from locked doors, where youth is trying to live without Me; where old age, ever refusing to answer My pleading and knocking, now hears Me no more, and sits silent and alone.
Comfort Me, My children. Make of your hearts a Love-Home for the Man of Sorrows, still so often despised and rejected of men. Yet I would turn their sorrow into joy.
How Self Dies. - January 10
Hush your spirit still more in My Presence. Self dies, not by human combat, not necessarily by supplicatory prayer, but by the consciousness of My Presence, and of My Spirit-values. Thus 'Self' shrivels into lifelessness, into nothingness.
It is so necessary to dwell with Me, to draw so close to Me, to draw so close to Me in an understanding as complete as it is possible for man to realize.
Do you not see now the need for the training and discipline I have enjoined on you? They are vital in that they attune your Being to the consciousness of My Mind and Purpose. When this Mind is in you that is in Me you are able to penetrate the outer courts of the Temple, and in the very Holy of Holies to grasp the meaning that lay behind all I said and did and was.
Sacrifice all for this. Your work has to be inspired. Where can you find inspiration but in My Presence?
YOUR Good News. - January 11
"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who bring glad tidings . . . that publish Peace." When you are weary think that yours are the feet of those who bring glad tidings.
This will rob your steps of weariness, will give a Joy and a spring to your walk.
"Bringeth glad tidings. Publisheth Peace." What a joyful mission. One of gladness and Peace. Never forget this, and the Joy of your message and mission will radiate from you gladdening and transforming.
Bright Shadows. - January 12
He descended into Hell . . . He ascended into Heaven.
It is good for man to know his Lord is ever with him through every danger, every change, every seeming chance. It is good to walk the dark waters with Me.
I did not make the darkness. It was no artist-design to create a Darkness which should make My Light seem the greater radiance. What is Light without Darkness you may ask? Light of course. The Light has no need of Darkness. It is to conquer Darkness that you need the Light.
Willfulness and sin have caused earth's shadows, but I am there to walk the dark places with you. So that even the darkest place may be illumined by the Light of the Sun of Righteousness.
Fight Evil Forces. - January 13
You are going to be a mighty force against evil because you will be ever-increasingly the agent of Divine Power. Think, when this is so, how could you for one moment imagine that evil could leave you alone? It is to the advantage of evil to thwart you.
Think how those who care for you in the Unseen watch to see you use the Light to conquer in My strength for My Glory.
The great battles of your world are fought in the Unseen. Fight there your battles and win. More than conquerors through Him Who loves you. Fight with the Whole Armour of God, ready prepared for you.
Victors through Me. Press on. Victory is in sight.
How Joy Comes. - January 14
The Joy that follows awareness of Guidance has ever been the upholding Joy of My followers.
It is the result of desiring My Will only, in every detail, and then the realization of the wonderful way I can act for you when you leave the planning to Me.
Truly all things, every detail in each day, do work together for good to those who love Me. My miracle-working power can become operative when there is no "kicking against the pricks," no thwarting of My Will.
Whether you walk here on earth, or are free from earth's limitations in My Heaven, it is Heaven to walk with Me. Man has sought to describe Heaven in terms of music and song. That is but his endeavour to express the ecstasy he knows on earth in Communion with Me, and to anticipate its magnified intensity in Heaven.
Where Danger Lies. - January 15
I am beside you - the eager Listener, so ready to hear your plea, so ready to say all that your heart needs.
Live more with Me apart, and so there will come an ever-increasing helpfulness to others.
Heart-poise, mental balance, spiritual strength, will be yours in ever more abundant measure. Never feel that you can help others unaided by Me, for therein lies danger.
Your 'Self'-importance is destructive of helpfulness, devitalising because your strength has such limitations. Mine is limitless.
Grow more dependent upon Me, yet more assured that you can do all things through Me.
The Foe Within. - January 16
Never lose heart. Kill the proud 'Self' as you go on, for on that dead 'Self' you rise.
On ever with Me. Do not let earth's frets disturb you. Since you cannot follow Me and indulge 'Self', at all costs turn 'Self' out directly its claims disturb; so only can you keep spiritual calm.
Not your circumstances but your 'Self' is the enemy. A man's foes are those of his own household.
Do others blame you falsely? I was reviled but I reviled not again.
Great Souls. - January 17
I am here. Realize My Presence. My love surrounds you; be filled with My Joy.
You are being truly guided though not until you are content to be led as little children do you really live fully in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Life with Me is of child-like simplicity. Simple souls are the great souls, for in simplicity there is majesty.
Joy of Meeting. - January 18
So many think of prayer as petition only. It IS petition. "In everything by prayer and supplication let your requests be made known unto Me."
But prayer is also a glad turning to meet Me for the joy of the meeting, for the rapture of My Presence.
Prayer, too, is preparation for to-morrow's return to those who need you, those to whom My love goes out from you.
Comfort and Joy. - January 19
I am with you. I will help you. Through suffering to health, through sorrow to joy, through pain to ease, through night to day - you shall be led and comforted.
Without previous experience of dawn and day none could dream that the glorious dawn and fullness of day could follow the blackest night.
Regard this experience not as darkness but as dawn. The first faint glimmers of light are following the black night through which you have passed. The full day is not yet. But hail the DAWN with Me.
Now is the Victory. - January 20
I am with you. I am delivering you. But look for deliverance not from circumstances alone, but deliverance from the 'Self'-ties that bind you to earth, and that hinder your entrance into that kingdom of service in which there is perfect freedom. All is well.
You shall rise to newness of Life. You cannot fail to rise as you free yourself from the toils and sins and failures that bind you to earth.
No past sins can enchain you. You look to Me and are saved. They are all forgiven. Conquer your faults with My Strength now, and nothing can prevent you from rising, nothing that is past.
Exceeding Great Reward. - January 21
I am thy shield and thine exceeding great reward.
Shield from the storm of life. Shield from even the consequences of your own faults and failings. Shield from your weakness. Shield from worry. Shield from fear and sorrow. Shield from the world with its allure and temptations. It is your faith in Me that makes Me your shield. If you lose or have a hole in that faith, so is it also correspondingly with your shield. . Not only your shield, but your exceeding great reward
Not the reward of perfection in your life, for that you could not win here. Not the reward of what you do, or of any merit in yourself. Only the result, or reward of your questing. The satisfaction of your hunger to find Me. Exceeding great reward.
Your reward is the same as that of the greatest Jedi who has ever lived. Given not as trophy of victory, not as a recognition of virtue, but given because you are the Seeker, and I, your Lord, am the Sought.
I Know All. - January 22
I am the sharer of the secrets of your life. How rich in blessing each experience may be if shared with Me alone.
How often, by much speaking and 'Self'-indulgent sharing with others, a jewel of rare beauty may be robbed of its priceless worth to your soul. A bud of Joy and sweet perfume too rashly forced to premature bloom will lose its purity and fragrance.
Even the sharing of past sins and failures may mean 'Self' for the time in the foreground, or vitality, so needed for the present, lost. Dwell in the Secret Place of The Most High.
Fear No Evil. - January 23
I am the Lord of your life, Guardian of your inmost being, the Christ of God. Sheltered in My Hidden Place no harm can befall you. Pray to know this.
Let this Truth become a part of your very consciousness, that where I am no evil can be, and that therefore when you abide in Me and I in you no evil can touch you.
Spiritual Truths take sometimes many years to learn, sometimes they come 'Out of the Blue' in a flash of sudden revelation.
Have You? - January 24
I am teaching you, but not always Spiritual Truths that gladden you.
Often, too often, there has to be the word of reproof as I tell you of commands of Mine not obeyed, of resolutions made when in contact with Me that you have failed to keep, of work done for Me in no spirit of Love and Joy, of failure to obtain supply because your attitude (often not your heart) questioned My unlimited supply.
I teach no easy lesson.
I choose no flower-bordered path in which to walk with you, but take heart in that I do walk with you as with Peter of old even when he had denied Me.
He had seen his sin. He went out and wept bitterly.
My Compensations. - January 25
I am listening. Picture Me, your Lord. Not as one deaf to your entreaties, but rather as One straining with an intensity of Love to catch the first faint cry from one of His children.
Even in the case of those who love Me, how often do I listen in vain for the spontaneous words of Love?
Do not cry to Me only when cares press and you are weary. Speak to Me often. Share with Me all the little happenings, all the frets, all the little glad things.
These not only draw us more closely to each other, but they are to Me compensations for the neglect I suffer from My world.
The Healing Life. - January 26
I am your Lord, trust Me in all. Never doubt My keeping Power. Behold Me, the Lord of your life. Gain strength from Me.
Remember that Healing, Divine Healing, is not so much a question of praying on your part, and of granting on Mine, as of living with Me, thinking of Me, sharing My Life. That contact makes you whole. Go forward gladly, go forward unafraid.
Help for All. - January 27
I have not promised My Help to the virtuous only. To the sinner who turns to Me, to the Jedi who lives with Me, to both alike My miracle-working Power is manifested.
Help, temporal as well as spiritual, truly I bestow, not as a reward of goodness but as a fulfillment of My pledge made to all who believe Me.
But when one turns to Me I at once plan the rescue craved. If that one hearing My plan, learning of My Purpose, should fail to do his appointed task in that plan, how can My healing of physical, spiritual or temporal disharmony be manifested?
Your Defender. - January 28
I am the Gift of God to man. Only so was it possible for man to know God the Father. Only so was it possible for man to know that he had ever an Advocate with God - The Sinless Christ.
There is always One Who understands your case, Whose appeal cannot fail to be heard. He has the right of Sonship. He has a right to plead for you.
If He can plead for offending man, undertaking full responsibility for him, what better Advocate could you have? He knows. He has seen the tears of sorrow, the heartache and temptation. He can plead as none other.
His own temptation was so real that, conqueror as He was, He can yet feel the tenderest pity for the vanquished. He knows how seeming fair evil can appear, and He can estimate the added burden of tainted blood, inherited weakness and sin.
He gave His only Begotten Son. This GREAT GIFT AM I, your Friend, your Companion. Leave all to Me, your Advocate, trained during My years on earth to plead, never for Myself, but for every one who rests his cause in My Hands.
Overcomers. - January 29
Study the "Overcomeths" in the Revelation to My servant John, and you will see the tender intimacy with Me promised as a result of overcoming. To believe is not enough. To believe Me does truly involve the possession of Eternal Life, but that is a trust to use as truly as the talent of My story.
It is not only a something to be enjoyed.
Eternal life is a refreshing; reforming; enriching; uprooting; ennobling Power to be employed to the full by those to whom I entrust it.
In this My servants so often fail, and so miss the wonder of Communion with Me. Guard this Truth.
More Love. - January 30
I come, a truly willing guest. Love always draws. Remember that. Love is the magnetic Power of the Universe. God is LOVE, the Power that draws all men by various ways unto Himself.
Remember that your Love too, being of God, has the same magnetic Power. Love, and you will draw to you those whom you desire to help.
When you fail to do so, search your life. Love is deficient. More love is necessary.
The Evening Call. - January 31
Softly at even, comes the footfall of your Master, My day has been long and weary. Hearts that I have yearned over and longed for still withstand Me.
I see the aged, desolate without Me. I see the disappointment of men and women, who in Me would find heart-satisfaction which others cannot give them. I see youth crowding Me out of its work-filled, pleasure-filled days. And yet I wait. I knock; I plead; I call, unheard; unheeded; unwanted.
As I was the link between the Father and man, so now must My followers be the links between man and Me.
Human Love, material aid, human understanding and friendship must bind those for whom I yearn.
Channels through which My help can flow to man truly you must be, but also the means through which man finds his groping way to Me.
February - God Calling.
Another Start. - February 1
Take courage. Do not fear. Start a new life tomorrow. Put the old mistakes away, and start anew. I give you a fresh start. Be not burdened. Be not anxious. If My forgiveness were for the righteous only, and those who had not sinned, where would be its need?
Remember as I said to Mary of old, "To whom much is forgiven, the same loveth much."
Why do you fret and worry so? I wait to give you all that is lovely, but your lives are soiled with worry and fret. You would crush My treasures. I can only bless glad, thankful hearts.
You must be glad and joyful.
Practise Love. - February 2
Watch over and protect us.
Want of Love will block the way. You must love all. Those that fret you and those who do not.
Practise Love. It is a great lesson, and you have a Great Teacher. You must love, how otherwise can you dwell in Me, where nothing unloving can come? Practise this and I will bless you exceedingly, above all you can not only ask, but imagine.
No limit to My Power (Force). Do all you can and leave to Me the rest. Peace will come and Trust. Fear not, I am your Advocate, your Mediator.
If Men Oppose. - February 3
Only believe. The Walls of Jericho fell down. Was it axes or human implements that brought them down? Rather the Songs of Praise of the people and My Thought carried out in action.
All walls shall fall before you, too. There is no Earth-power. It falls like a house of paper, at My Miracle-Working Touch. Your faith and My Power (Force) - the only two essentials. Nothing else is needed.
So, if man's petty opposition still holds good it is only because I choose to let it stand between you and what would be a mistake for you. If not - a word - a thought - from Me, and it is gone. The hearts of kings are in My rule and governance. All men can be moved at My wish.
Rest in this certainty. Rely on Me.
Drop Your Crutch. - February 4
Just go step by step. My will shall be revealed as you go. You will never cease to be thankful for this time when you felt at peace and trustful, and yet had no human security. That is the time of the True learning of trust in Me. "When thy father and mother forsake thee, then The Lord will take thee up." This is a literal dependence on Me.
When human support or material help of any kind is removed, then My Power (Force) can become operative. I cannot teach a man to walk who is trusting to a crutch. Away with your crutch, and My Power (Force) shall so invigorate you that you shall indeed walk on to victory. Never limit My Power. It is limitless.
You Shall Know. - February 5
Walk with Me. I will teach you. Listen to Me and I will speak. Continue to meet Me, in spite of all opposition and every obstacle, in spite of days when you may hear no voice, and there may come no intimate heart-to-heart telling.
As you persist in this and make a life-habit of it, in many marvellous ways I will reveal My Will to you. You shall have more sure knowing of both the present and the future. But that will be only the reward of the regular coming to meet Me.
Life is a school. There are many teachers. Not to everyone do I come personally. Believe literally that the problems and difficulties of your lives can be explained by Me more clearly and effectually than by any other.
God's Longing. - February 6
To the listening ear I speak, to the waiting heart I come. Sometimes, I may not speak. I may ask you merely to wait in My Presence, to know that I am with you.
Think of the multitudes, who thronged Me, when I was on Earth, all eager for something. Eager to be healed, or taught, or fed.
Think, as I supplied their many wants, and granted their manifold requests, what it meant to Me, to find amid the crowd, some one or two, who followed Me just to be near Me, just to dwell in My Presence. How some longing of The Eternal Heart was satisfied thereby.
Comfort Me, awhile, by letting Me know that you would seek Me just to dwell in My Presence, to be near Me, not even for teaching, not for material gain, not even for a message - but for Me. The longing of the human heart to be loved for itself is a something caught from the Great Divine Heart.
I bless you. Bow your heads.
Light Ahead. - February 7
TRUST and be not afraid. Life is full of wonder. Open child-trusting eyes to all I am doing for you. Fear not.
Only a few steps more and then My Power (Force) shall be seen and known. You are, yourselves, now walking in the tunnel-darkness. Soon, you yourselves shall be lights to guide feet that are afraid.
The cries of your sufferings have pierced even to the ears of God Himself - My Father in Heaven, your Father in Heaven. To hear, with God is to answer. For only a cry from the heart, a cry to Divine Power to help human weakness, a trusting cry, always reaches The Ear Divine.
Remember, trembling heart, that with God, to hear is to answer. Your prayers, and they have been many, are answered.
On Me Alone. - February 8
I am your Lord, your Supply. You must rely on Me. Trust to the last uttermost limit. Trust and be not afraid. You must depend on Divine Power (the Force) only. I have not forgotten you. Your help is coming. You shall know and realize My Power.
Endurance is faith tried almost to breaking point. You must wait, and trust, and hope, and joy in Me. You must not depend on man but on Me, on Me, your Strength, your Help, your Supply.
This is the great test. Am I your supply or not? Every great work for Me has had to have this great test-time.
Possess your souls in patience and rejoice. You must wait until I show The Way. Heaven itself cannot contain more joy than that soul knows, when, after the waiting-test, I crown it victor, but no disciple of Mine can be victor, who does not wait until I give the order to start. You cannot be anxious if you know that I am your supply.
The Voice Divine. - February 9
The Divine Voice is not always expressed in words. It is made known as a heart-consciousness.
The Life Line. - February 10
I am your Saviour, your Saviour from sins' thralls, your Saviour from all the cares and troubles of life, your Saviour from disease.
I speak in all to you both. Look to Me for salvation. Trust in Me for help. Did not My servant of old say, "All Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me?" But not all the waters of affliction could drown him. For of him was it true, "He came from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters."
The Life-Line, the Line of Rescue, is the line from the soul to God, faith and Power. It is a strong line, and no soul can be overwhelmed who is linked to Me by it. Trust, trust, trust. Never be afraid.
Think of My trees - stripped of their beauty, pruned, cut, disfigured, bare, but through the dark seemingly dead branches, flows silently, secretly, the Spirit-Life sap, till, lo! with the sun of Spring comes new life, leaves, bud, blossom, fruit, but oh! fruit a thousand times better for the pruning.
Remember that you are in the hands of a Master-Gardener. He makes no mistakes about His pruning. Rejoice. Joy is the Spirit's reaching out to say its thanks to Me. It is the new life-sap of the tree, reaching out to Me to find such beautiful expression later. So never cease to joy. Rejoice.
The Difficult Path. - February 11
Your path is difficult, difficult for you both. There is no work in life so hard as waiting, and yet I say wait. Wait until I show you My Will. Proof it is of My Love and of My certainty of your true discipleship, that I give you both hard tasks.
Again, I say wait. All motion is more easy than calm waiting. So many of My followers have marred their work and hindered the progress of My Kingdom by activity.
Wait. I will not over-try your spiritual strength. You are both like two persons, helpless on a raft in mid-ocean. But, lo! there cometh towards you One walking on the waters, like unto The Son of Man. When He comes and you receive Him, it will be with you, as it was with My Disciples, when I was on Earth, that straightway you will be at the place where you would be.
All your toil in rowing and all your activity could not have accomplished the journey so soon. Oh, wait and trust. Wait, and be not afraid.
Meet Me Everywhere. - February 12
Life is really consciousness of Me.
Have no fear. A very beautiful future lies before you. Let it be a new life, a new existence, in which in every single happening, event, plan, you are conscious of Me.
"And this is Life Eternal, that they may know Thee, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent."
Get this ever-consciousness and you have Eternal Life - The Life of The Ages. Be in all things led by The Spirit of God and trust Me in all. And the consciousness of Me must bring Joy. Give Me not only trust but gladness.
Near The Goal. - February 13
In a race it is not the start that hurts, not the even pace of the long stretch. It is when the goal is in sight that heart and nerves and courage and muscles are strained almost beyond human endurance, almost to breaking point.
So with you now the goal is in sight, you need your final cry to Me. Can you not see by the nerve and heart rack of the past few days that your race is nearly run? Courage, courage. Heed My Voice of encouragement. Remember that I am by your side, spurring you on to victory.
In the annals of Heaven, the saddest records are those that tell of the many who ran well, with brave stout hearts, until in sight of the goal, of victory, and then their courage failed. The whole host of heaven longed to cry out how near the end was, to implore the last spurt, but they fell out, never to know until the Last Day of Revealing, how near they were to victory.
Would that they had listened to Me in the silence as you two meet with Me. They would have known. There must be the listening ear, as well as the Still Small Voice.
In My Presence. - February 14
You do not realize that you would have broken down under the weight of your cares but for the renewing-time with Me. It is not what I say; it is I, Myself. It is not the hearing Me so much as the being in My Presence. The strengthening and curative powers of this you cannot know. Such knowledge is beyond your human reckoning.
This would cure the poor sick world, if every day, each soul, or group of souls, waited before Me. Remember, that you must never fail to keep this time apart with Me. Gradually you will be transformed, physically, mentally, spiritually, into My likeness. All who see you, or contact with you will be, by this intercourse with you, brought near to Me, and gradually the influence will spread.
You are making one spot of Earth a Holy Place, and though you must work and spend yourself ceaselessly, because that is for the present your appointed task, yet the greatest work either of you can do, and are doing, is done in this time apart with Me. Are you understanding that?
Do you know that every thought, every activity, every prayer, every longing of the day is gathered up and offered to Me, now. Oh! Joy that I am with you. For this I came to Earth, to lead man back to Spirit-Converse with his God.
Inspiration - Not Aspiration. - February 15
You shall be used. The Divine Force is never less. It is sufficient for all the work in the world. I only need the instruments for Me to use. To know that would remake the world.
The world does not need super-men, but super-natural men. Men who will persistently turn the 'Self' out of their lives and let Divine Power (the Force) work through them. England could be saved tomorrow if only her politicians just let Me use them.
Let inspiration take the place of aspiration. All unemployment would cease. I have always plenty of work to be done and always pay My work-people well as you will see, as more and more you get the right attitude of thought about the work being Mine only.
Never Ruffled. - February 16
Even were I never to speak to you, you would be well rewarded for setting apart this time, if you only sat still and longed for Me, if you just drew hungering breaths for Me, as you do for the fresh pure air of the open.
Be still, be calm. Wait before Me. Learn of Me, patience, humility, peace. When will you be absolutely unruffled, whatever happens? You are slow to learn your lesson. In the rush and work and worry, the very seeking a silence must help.
In bustle so little is accomplished. You must learn to take the calm with you in the most hurried days.
Psychic Powers. - February 17
Psychic powers are not necessarily Spiritual Powers. Do not seek the spiritual through material means. Could you but see, it is weighing beautiful Spirit-Wings down with Earth's mud.
Seek this time as a time of communion with Me - not as a time to ask questions, and have them answered. And meet Me in communion. It is Soul Food that I have provided.
Do not expect a perfect community, but find in a community, the means of coming very near to Me. That alone matters, then the much, that is husk, falls away. Hold it of no account. Grasp The Truth and find Me - The True Bread of Life. The lesson of the grain is the lesson of My community and Me. The Real Life is all that matters, the outward community is the husk; but the husk was necessary to present the Life-Grain to man.
Let Me Do It. - February 18
Never miss these times. It is not what I reveal to you so much as the linking-up of your frail natures with the limitless Divine Powers. Already, Forces are set in motion. Only My Will is coming to pass. And now God is blessing you very richly.
You think that there is much to do in a crisis like this. There is only one thing to do. Link your lives on to the Divine Force, and then, it is as much My work to see those lives and their affairs run in an orderly right manner as to see that tomorrow's sun rises.
It is not passionate appeal that gains the Divine Ear so much as the quiet placing of the difficulty and worry in the Divine Hands. So trust and be no more afraid than a child would be, who places its tangled skein of wool in the hands of a loving mother, and runs out to play, pleasing the mother more by its unquestioning confidence than if it went down on its knees and implored her help, which would pain her the rather, as it would imply she was not eager to help when help was needed.
Endure. - February 19
Do not forget to meet all your difficulties with love and laughter. Be assured that I am with you. Remember, remember it is the last few yards that tell. Do not fail Me. I cannot fail you. Rest in My Love.
How many of the world's prayers have gone unanswered because My children who prayed did not endure to the end. They thought it was too late, and that they must act for themselves, that I was not going to act for them. Remember My Words: "He that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved."
Can you endure to the end? If so, you shall be saved. But endure with courage, with love and laughter. Oh! My children, is My training too hard?
For you, My children, I will unlock the secret treasures hidden from so many. Not one of your cries is unheard. I am with you indeed to aid you. Go through all I have said to you, and live in every detail as I have enjoined you. As you follow implicitly all I say, success - spiritual, mental and physical - shall be yours. Wait in silence awhile, conscious of My Presence, in which you must live to have rest unto your souls, and Power (the Force) and Joy and Peace.
Claim Your Rights. - February 20
"In everything by prayer and supplication let your requests be made known unto God."
But do not beg. Rather come just as a business manager bringing to the owner the needs, cheques to be signed, etc., and knowing that to lay the matter before him means immediate supply.
I long to supply, but the asking - or the faith-assurance from you, is necessary, because to you that contact with Me is vital.
Nothing Can Hurt. - February 21
The Way is plain.
You do not need to see far ahead. Just one step at a time with Me. The same Light to guide you as The Hosts of Heaven know - The Sun of Righteousness Himself.
Only 'Self' can cast a shadow on The Way. Be more afraid of spirit-unrest, of soul-disturbance, of any ruffling of the spirit, than of earthquake or fire or any outside forces.
When you feel the absolute calm has been broken - away alone with Me until your heart sings, and all is strong and calm.
These are the only times when evil can find an entrance. The forces of evil surround the city of man-soul, and are keenly alert for one such unguarded spot, through which a fiery dart can pierce and do havoc.
Remember all that you have to do is to keep calm and happy. God does the rest. No evil (Dark) force can hinder My Power (Force) - only you yourself have power to do that. Think when all God's Mighty Forces are arrayed to aid you - and your poor, puny 'Self' impedes their onward march.
You Must Trust. - February 22
You must trust Me wholly. This lesson has to be learnt. You shall be helped, you shall be led, guided, continually. The children of Israel would long before have entered the Promised Land - only their doubts and fears continually drove them back into the wilderness. Remember always, doubts delay. Are you trusting all to Me or not?
I have told you how to live and you must do it. My children, I love you. Trust My Tender Love. It will never fail you, but you must learn not to fail it.
Oh! could you see, you would understand. You have much to learn in turning out fear and being at peace. All your doubts arrest My work. You must not doubt. I died to save you from sin and doubt and worry. You must believe Me absolutely.
Secret of Healing. - February 23
Love the busy life. It is a joy-filled life. I love you both and bid you be of good cheer. Take your fill of joy in the Spring.
Live outside whenever possible. Sun and air are My Great Healing Forces, and that inward Joy that changes poisoned blood, to a pure healthy life-giving flow.
Never forget that real healing of body, mind and spirit comes from within, from the close loving contact of your spirit with My Spirit.
Share Everything. - February 24
Silently the work of the Spirit is done.
Already Love is drawing others to you. Take all who come as sent by Me, and give them a royal welcome. It will surprise you, all that I have planned for you.
Welcome all who come with the love of both your hearts. You may not see the work. Today they may not need you. Tomorrow they may need you. I may send you strange visitors. Make each desire to return. Nobody must come and feel unwanted.
Share your love, your joy, your happiness, your time, your food, gladly with all. Such wonders will unfold. You see it all but in bud now - the glory of the open flower is beyond all your telling. Love, Joy, Peace, in richest abundance - only believe. Give out Love and all you can with a glad free heart and hand. Use all you can for others, and back will come such countless stores and blessings.
How to Conquer. - February 25
Joy is the sovereign balm for all the ills of the world, the Spirit-Cure for every ailment. There is nothing that Joy and Love cannot do.
Set your standard very high. Aim at conquering a world, the world all around you. Just say, "Jesus conquers" - "Jesus saves" - in the face of every doubt - every sin - every evil - every fear.
No evil can stand against that, for there is "none other Name under Heaven given among men, whereby men can be saved." To every thought of want or lack, "Jesus saves from poverty," to every fear, "Jesus saves from fear."
Do this to every ill and it will vanish, as night when sun rises.
Swift Help. - February 26
There is nothing lacking in your lives because really all is yours, only you lack the faith to know it. You are like a King's daughters who sit in rags, and yet around them are stores of all they could desire.
Pray for more faith, as a thirsty man in a desert prays for rain, for water. Swift comes My Help, swift and strong. Do you know what it is to feel sure that I can never fail you? As sure as you are that you still breathe? How poor is man's faith! So poor. Do you trust Me as much as you would a friend if that friend came and said he would send you help? Pray daily and most diligently that your faith may increase.
Spirit Sounds. - February 27
Take time for prayer. Take more time to be alone with Me. So only will you prosper.
Realize that the hearing of Spirit Sounds is more than the hearing of all Earth's noises. I am with you. Let that content you, nay, more, let that fill you with rapture.
Seek sometimes not even to hear Me. Seek a silence of spirit-understanding with Me. Be not afraid. All is well. Dwell much on what I did, as well as what I said.
Remember, I touched "her hand and the fever left her." Not many words, just a moment's contact, and all fever left her. She was well, whole, calm, able to arise and "minister unto them."
My touch is still a potent healer. Just feel that touch. Sense My Presence, and the fever of work and care and fear - just melts into nothingness and health, joy, peace, take its place.
Perfect Work. - February 28
Spend more time alone with Me.
A Strength and a Joy come from such times that will add much to your friendship, and much to your work.
Times of prayer are times of growth. Cut those times short and many well-filled hours of work may be profitless. Heaven's values are so different from the values of Earth.
Remember that from the point of view of The Great Worker, one poor tool, working all the time, but doing bad work, is of small value compared with the sharp, keen, perfect instrument, used only a short time but which turns out perfect work.
Draw Near. - February 29
How little man knows and senses My need! My need of Love and companionship.
I came "to draw men unto Me," and sweet it is to feel hearts drawing near in Love, not for help, as much as for tender comradeship.
Many know the need of man; few know the need of Christ.
February - God at Eventide.
All Loves Excelling. - February 1
Softly I approach. Gently My Spirit speaks to your heart.
The mystery of man's communion with Me lies in the beauty and wonder of its aloneness. For the moment the world seems not to exist. Its noise and traffic seem hushed.
There is indeed wonder in that stillness. A faint glimpse is seen in the sudden realization of Love between two human+Beings. Surprise and wonder . . . the world is for them alone . . . no claim other than their love.
What wonder in the heart of man when he realizes the beauty, tenderness and closeness of communion with Me!
My Wages. - February 2
If the world understands you, then you are speaking its language, actuated by its motives, living its life according to its standards. Will you have this?
Remember I said very clearly, "Ye can not serve God and mammon." If you serve God, then, for your work, you should surely look to God for reward.
So many of My servants serve Me, and yet expect to receive the gratitude and praise, or at least the acknowledgment of the world. Why? You are not doing the work of the world. Why expect its pay?
Ambassadors All - February 3
If you love Me, and long to serve others by showing them what I am like, you will assuredly do so.
Because 'Self' will disappear, be cast out.
When 'Self' has gone then those who see you will not see the 'Self' in you; only the ambassador of your King.
You have here in this seemingly narrow life of yours countless opportunities of overcoming 'Self'. Let this be your great task.
Wise Rest. - February 4
Rest should play a large part in the lives of My followers, for tiredness and physical strain can cause man to lose his consciousness of My presence.
Then the Light that banishes evil seems to be withdrawn - never by deliberate act of Mine, but as the result of man's attitude towards Me. Ponder on this.
The Aching Spirit. - February 5
Just as I said that those who hungered and thirsted after righteousness would be filled, so I say to you - none ever longed to know Me better and remained unsatisfied. Even with your imperfect knowledge, you are daily realizing how true this is.
Man dwells so much on material things that he fails to grasp the Spiritual Laws that never fail.
For all spirit-longing there is fulfillment. I soothe the aching spirit.
You think I answer your prayer. Yes, but the answer was there, awaiting the prayer.
You will see these simple Truths more and more as you live with Me; truths hidden from the wise but revealed to the little ones of the Kingdom.
True Humility. - February 6
If I, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you ought also to wash one another's feet.
How My followers have misunderstood this. They interpret the required attitude to be one of service. In service there can be condescension, there can be a total lack of humility.
I sought to teach a lesson to those who would approach Me to partake of that wonderful Union with Me, vouchsafed to those who worthily eat of My Flesh and drink of My Blood.
I desired to teach them that they must come to Me in the Spirit of humility towards others. No sense of superiority, especially Spiritual superiority. True humility. Learn this lesson in daily Companionship with Me. "For I am meek and lowly in heart."
The Way of Progress. - February 7
Impress upon all that growth is one of the Laws of My Kingdom.
However long your span of life on earth, it can never be too long for growth and progress.
Be ever seeking My Will for you. Not a new religion, nor the right religion, but - My Will. Then all will be well and growth will follow.
Future All Unknown. - February 8
Probe not into the future. Prophecies are not for you. Be a humble follower in the crowd. Live with Me. Ponder My Words, My Teaching, My Actions.
Soon you will find that more and more opportunities of speaking of Me will present themselves. Do not make them. They will proceed from the pressure of inward growth, and not from outward stress.
All Will Be Well. - February 9
In humble anticipation - wait.
Wait as a servant anticipating orders. Wait as a lover eager to note a need, and to supply it.
Wait for My commands; wait for My Guidance; wait for My supply. All will come.
In such a life you may well be of good cheer. Can a life be dull when always there is that watchful expectancy, anticipation of glad surprise, that wonder of fulfillment, that Joy of full supply?
Your Power. - February 10
In your hands I have placed a wonderful force against evil. You cannot realize as yet the mighty weapon you wield.
Make known the Power of Prayer. A force so wonderful, so miracle-working, that when it is united with a will that seeks only My Will and with a Friendship with Me that calms, ennobles and enriches, then nothing can withstand its Power.
No Remorse. - February 11
I seek to save you not only from falling into sin, but from the overwhelming remorse that follows the realization of sin.
I know that for frail man this is too great a burden. So when you let it overwhelm you, you nullify My saving Power.
I seek to save you from oppression and depression too. I bid you leave all to follow Me. That is, leave the sins and the failures of the past.
Out of the shadow into the sunlight of My Love and Salvation you must go.
See Me Everywhere Still. - February 12
See Me in all your daily life.
See Me in the little happenings. Recognize me as the source of every act of kindness and Love.
Feel My Power with you when you face any task or danger. Know My consoling tenderness in every sorrow and disappointment.
I, the Master-Painter, can work into the picture colours of beauty, until you see the befitting background for the joy and ecstasy of the radiance I give.
Ever Secure. - February 13
Abide secure in My Friendship.
A Friend who knows you through and through; knows all your pitiful attempts at living for Me, your many and tragic failures, your childish misunderstanding of Me and what I would do for you.
Your desire to serve Me, your clinging to Me in the dark hours of helplessness; your stumbling confidence in your efforts to walk alone - I know all.
I have seen your persistent blindness to My guidance; I have seen how you obstruct the answers to your own prayers; I have noted your easy acquiescence to those forces that oppose My loving purposes.
I know all this, and yet I say again: Abide with Me secure in My friendship.
Thanks for All. - February 14
Thank Me for all the withholding as well as for the giving. Thank Me for sunshine and rain, for drought and springs of water, for sleep and wakefulness, for gain and loss. Thank Me for all.
Know beyond all doubt, all fear, that all is well. Cling to Me in moments of weakness. Cling still in moments of strength, imploring that you may never feel 'Self'-sufficient.
No evil shall befall you, rest in this knowledge.
Green Pastures. - February 15
After each salutary experience of life, each blow it may deal you, separate yourself from the world for a time. Walk in My Green Pastures, and wander with Me beside the Waters of Comfort, until your soul is restored.
This is necessary so that you may readjust yourself to life. For you are a new Being; you have had a new experience. Learn a new lesson. Your Union with Me will be the closer for your experience.
This is the time when My Love can whisper new meanings to you, can make the Friendship between us a closer, more holy Union.
Come with your Lover into the stillness of My Green Pastures, and walk with Me beside hushed waters.
He Changeth Not. - February 16
Mark My Changelessness.
If I am truly the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever, then I am no God of moods as so often man portrays Me. Can you worship a God swayed this way and that at man's demand?
Dwell upon the thought of My Changelessness until you grasp the Truth that only as man changes and comes within the influence of My unchanging Law of Love can he realize and experience the Power and Love I have unchangingly for all mankind.
Practise Peace. - February 17
Peace must fill your hearts and lives, and then you will find that ills and difficulties and sorrows and changes leave you unmoved. Practise that steadfast immobility, no matter what may threaten.
This spirit of calm trust is the shield that turns aside the fiery-darts and stings of adversity. Practise it.
Then you must seek to abide at the heart of the Universe with Me, at the centre with Me. There alone is changlessness and calm, WITH ME.
The Perfect Pattern. - February 18
See that thou make all things according to the pattern that was shown thee on the Mount.
Otherwise it would have been better not to have gone up the Mount at all? Take this lesson to heart. In your daily valley-life you must live out what you learn in the alone-time on heights with Me.
The Spirit-pattern is so glorious because it is made to fit your life, specially planned for you.
Obeying the command made Moses the good leader he became. This is the time, then, humbly to see your weakness, to adjust your life to the work of My Kingdom, to prepare to live in all things according to the pattern that was shown you on the Mount.
Youth Renewed. - February 19
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
To discover the Pearl of Great Price is to renew your youth.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a kingdom of perennial youth.
The Secret of Joy. - February 20
Such rapture is yours. Count it all Joy to know Me, and to delight in Me. The secret of Joy is the longing to have My Will, and gratification of that longing.
There is nothing in Heaven that transcends the Joy, the ecstasy, of loving and doing My Will. To a soul who realizes this wonder, Heaven is already attained, as far as mortal here can attain it. My Will for you is My joyous arranging for you.
The frustration of the Divine Plan is man's tragedy.
Wise as Serpents. - February 21
Each servant of Mine should regard himself as an outpost for My Truths, where he must be prepared to receive My Messages, and to signal them on. This is work of great importance in My Kingdom.
Wherever you go make Me known. That was My Risen injunction, My Commission. Wherever you go establish outposts of My Empire, make contacts for Me. Make Me known to men - sometimes by speech, sometimes in silence.
Wonder-Work. - February 22
All work with Me is wonder-work. God working in and through man. This should be the normal work of every Christian's day. For this I came to earth, to show man this could be.
For this I left the earth, so that this should be. Can life offer anything more for you than that you fulfil in yourselves My expectations for My disciples?
Satan frustrates My plan by whispering to My followers a mock humility, in which they trace not his evil hand - "They are too weak, too small, too unimportant to do much . . ."
Away with false humility, which limits not you but Me. Mine is the Power.
Conquering and to Conquer. - February 23
Always seek some conquest, for spiritual growth requires it. In the natural world you see how necessary this striving is, and in the mental and spiritual worlds there must be struggle too.
So, as you go forward in your spiritual life, you will see always a fresh conquest demanding your effort.
Shun stagnation. Never be discouraged if always you see some fault requiring to be overcome, some obstacle to be surmounted.
Thus you go forth with Me conquering and to conquer.
Always Antagonism. - February 24
And He passing through the midst of them.
Face evil undaunted, and it will fall back, and let you pass on and do your work for Me.
The maddened crowd had sought to cast Me headlong, but they made way for Me, and through their midst I passed unhindered.
Do not be surprised to find antagonism where you meet evil, because you are a home of My Spirit, and it is My Spirit that arouses the antagonism. Go on your way so, quietly, and trust in Me.
In My Strength My follower need not flinch, but, boldly facing evil, will overcome evil with good.
You follow the dauntless Christ
The War Within. - February 25
And he was dumb, because he believed not.
There is physical correspondence to faith and to doubt.
Especially is this so among those who would serve Me. For unlike others, they are not so controlled by the law of physical success or failure, but are under the direct control of the Laws of My Kingdom.
So, in many cases, you may note good health in one ignorant of Me, and ill-health in one of My followers, until he has learned the full control of the physical by the Spiritual. In his case the warring of physical and Spiritual may cause physical ill-health, or unrest.
So do not fret about the physical side, aim increasingly at control by My Spirit.
As from Me. - February 26
Take every little kindness, every faithful service, every evidence of thought and of Love - as from Me.
As you, and those who live with and for Me, show loving-kindness to others, because you are actuated by My Spirit, so you draw contacts into the circle of My ever-widening Spirit influence.
This is unfailingly so. It is a spiritual Law. Though no word of Me may be spoken, yet in this way souls are attracted until at length they find Me, the centre and inspiration of all.
Well did I urge My Followers to become fishers of men. No great oratory or personality is needed for this soul-rescue work. Just follow Me as little children.
My Tireless Search. - February 27
Share with Me the tireless search for the lost, the ache of disappointment, the sublime courage, the tenderness of complete forgiveness. Share the Joys; the sorrows; the Love; the scorn.
I walk the lakeside still, and pause, as, to one and another, I utter the same call I uttered in Galilee, "Come and I will make you fishers of men."
The Simple Life. - February 28
The Gift of Eternal Life is a most precious one.
Each one who receives it must demonstrate by Joy and Trust and radiancy of Spirit, expressed in being and in bearing, the quality of the Life he possesses.
The other life is existence - just not death.
Power and Joy must radiate from you. These are the expressions of Eternal Life. Life Eternal is to know the Father and Me, His Son, Whom He sent.
Simple and Direct. - February 29
"God so Loved the world that He gave His only Incarnated Son that whosoever believeth Him should not perish but have everlasting (i.e., Eternal) Life."
Directly that Life is possessed by a man, all that is not simple, child-like, has to go.
Not by complicated devices is My work accomplished.
My followers must be simple and direct, "Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay," I said.
Simplicity is forceful. Simplicity is great. It is a conquering Power.
March - God Calling.
Shower Love. - March 1
I always hear your cry. No sound escapes Me.
Many, many in the world cry to Me, but oh! how few wait to hear Me speak to them; and yet to the soul, My Speaking to it matters so much.
My Words are Life. Think then, to hear Me speak is to find Life, and Healing and Strength. Trust Me in all things. Love showered on all brings truly a quick return.
Just carry out My wishes and leave Me to carry out yours. Treat Me as Saviour and King, but also with the tender intimacy of One much beloved.
Keep to the rules I have laid down for you, persistently; perseveringly; lovingly; patiently; hopefully; and in faith, and every mountain of difficulty shall be laid low, the rough places of poverty shall be made smooth, and all who know you shall know that I, your Lord, am The Lord.
Shower love.
Spirit Words. - March 2
"The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are Life."
Just as were the words I spoke to My disciples of old. This is your reward for not seeking spirit-communication through a medium. Those who do it, can never know the ecstasy, the wonder, of spirit-communication as you know it.
Life, joy, peace and healing are yours in very full measure. You will see this as you go on. At first, you can hardly credit the Powers I am bestowing on you.
I sent My disciples out two by two, and gave them Power over unclean spirits, and to heal all manner of diseases.
Wonderful indeed must it have been to Peter to feel suddenly that his Lord's Power (the Force) was his.
Grow Like Me. - March 3
Think of Me. Look at Me often, and unconsciously you will grow like Me.
You may never see it. The nearer you get to Me, the more will you see your unlikeness to Me. So be comforted My children.
Your very deep sense of failure is a sure sign that you are growing nearer to Me. And if you desire to help others to Me, then that prayer-desire is answered.
Remember too, it is only struggle that hurts. In sloth, spiritual, or mental, or physical, there is no sense of failure or discomfort, but with action, with effort, you are conscious not of strength but of weakness - at least, at first.
That again is a sign of Life, of spiritual growth.
And remember, My Strength is made perfect in weakness.
Key to Holiness. - March 4
Draw near to Me, My children. Contact with Me is the panacea for all ills.
Remember that Truth is many-sided. Have much tender love and patience for all who do not see as you do.
The elimination of 'Self' is the key to holiness and happiness, and can only be accomplished with My Help. Study My Life more. Live in My Presence. Worship My Father.
I said in Gethsemane, "If it be possible let this cup (the Grail) pass." I did not say that there was no cup of sorrow to drink. I was scourged and spat upon and nailed to the cross, and I said, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do (they are insane)."
I did not say that they did not do it. When My disciple, Peter, urged Me to escape the cross, I said, "Get thee behind Me, Satan."
When My disciples failed to help the epileptic boy, I said, "This kind cometh not out but by prayer and fasting." I did not say "You imagined that he was ill. Nothing is wrong."
When The Bible says "God has purer eyes than to behold evil," it means to impute evil to His people. He always sees the good in people, but remember that I "beheld The City and wept over it."
Fear is Evil. - March 5
Have no fear. Fear is evil and "perfect Love casts out fear." There is no room for fear in the heart in which I dwell. Fear destroys hope. It cannot exist where Love is, or where Faith is.
Fear is the curse of the world. Man is afraid - afraid of poverty, afraid of loneliness, afraid of unemployment, afraid of sickness.
Many, many are man's fears. Nation is afraid of nation. Fear, fear, fear, everywhere. Fight fear as you would a plague. Turn it out of your lives and home. Fight it singly. Fight it together. Never inspire fear. It is an evil ally. Fear of punishment, fear of blame.
No work that employs this enemy of Mine is work for Me. Banish it. There must be another and better way.
Ask Me, and I will show it you.
Love and Laugh. - March 6
Work for Me, with Me, through Me. All work to last must be done in My Spirit. How silently My Spirit works. How gently and gradually souls are led into My Kingdom.
Love and Laughter form the plough that prepares the ground for the seed. Remember this. If the ground is hard, seed will not grow there.
Prepare the ground, prepare it as I say.
Surprises. - March 7
Many there are who think that I test and train and bend to My Will. I, who bade the disciples take up the cross, I loved to prepare a feast for them by the lakeside - a little glad surprise, not a necessity, as the feeding of the multitude may have seemed. I loved to give the wine-gift at the marriage feast.
As you love to plan surprises for those who understand, and joy in them, so with Me. I love to plan them for those who see My Love and tender Joy in them.
Dear to the heart of My Father are those who see not only My tears, the tears of a Saviour, but the smile, the Joy-Smile of a friend.
Heaven-Life. - March 8
The Joy of the Spring shall be yours in full measure. Revel in the Earth's joy. Do not you think that Nature is weary, too, of her long months of travail? There will come back a wonderful joy, if you share in her joy now.
Nature is the embodied Spirit of My Thoughts of beauty for this world. Treat her as such - as truly My servant and messenger, as any Jedi who has ever lived. To realize this will bring to you both new Life-Joy. Share her joys and travails, and great blessings will be yours.
This is all-important, because it is not only believing certain things about Me that helps and heals, but knowing Me, sensing My Presence in a flower, My Message in its beauty and perfume.
You can truly live a life not of Earth - a Heaven-Life here and now. Joy - Joy - Joy.
Nothing is Small. - March 9
Nothing is small to God. In His sight a sparrow is of greater value than a palace, one kindly word of more importance than a statesman's speech.
It is the Life in all that has value, and the quality of the life that determines the value. I came to give Eternal Life.
Fruit of Joy. - March 10
You have to hush the heart and bid all your senses be still before you can be attuned to receive Heaven's Music.
Your five senses are your means of communication with the material world, the links between your real Spirit-Life and the material manifestations around you, but you must sever all connection with them, when you wish to hold spirit-communication. They will hinder, not help.
See the good in everybody. Love the good in them. See your unworthiness compared with their worth. Love, laugh, make the world, your little world, joyful.
As the ripples caused by a flung stone stir the surface of a whole pond, so your joy-making shall spread in ever-widening circles, beyond all knowledge, all anticipation. Joy in Me. Such Joy is eternal.
Centuries after, it is still bearing Joy's precious fruit.
Seek Beauty. - March 11
Draw beauty from every flower and Joy from the song of the birds, and the colour of the flowers.
Drink in the beauty of air and colour. I am with you. When I wanted to express a beautiful thought, I made a lovely flower. I have told you. Reflect.
When I want to express to men what I am - what My Father is - I strive to make a very beautiful character.
Think of yourselves as My expression of attributes, as a lovely flower is My expression of thought, and you will strive in all, in spiritual beauty, in thought-power, in health, in clothing, to be as fit an expression for Me as you can.
Absorb beauty. As soon as the beauty of a flower or a tree is impressed upon your soul it leaves an image there which reflects through your actions. Remember that no thought of sin and suffering, of the approaching scorn and Crucifixion, ever prevented My seeing the beauty of the flowers.
Look for beauty and joy in the world around. Look at a flower until its beauty becomes part of your very soul. It will be given back to the world again by you in the form of a smile or a loving word or a kind thought or a prayer.
Listen to a bird. Take the song as a Message from My Father. Let it sink into your soul. That, too will be given back to the world in ways I have said. Laugh more, laugh often. Love more. I am with you. I am your Lord.
Simplicity. - March 12
Simplicity is the keynote of My Kingdom.
Choose simple things always.
Love and reverence the humble and the simple.
Have only simple things here. Your standard must never be the world's standard.
Spiritualism. - March 13
Wait before Me, gently breathing in My Spirit.
That Spirit which, if given a free entrance, and not barred out by 'Self', will enable you to do the same works as I did, which being interpreted is, will enable Me to do the same works, and even greater than I did when on earth - through you.
Spiritualism is wrong. No man should ever be a medium for any spirit, other than Mine.
All you should know, all it is well for you to know of My Spirit-Kingdom, I will tell you when and how I see best. The limit is set by your own spiritual development. Follow My injunctions in all things.
Peace - Peace - Peace.
God's Touch. - March 14
Near, all broodingly-near, as some tender mother-bird anxious over its young, I am here. I am your Lord, Life of your body and mind and soul - Renewer of your youth.
You do not know all that this time of converse with Me will mean to you. Did not My servant Isaiah say, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint."
Persevere in all I tell you to do. The persistent carrying out of My Commands, My desires, will unfailingly bring you, as far as spiritual, mental and temporal things are concerned, to that place where you would be.
If you look back over My Words to you, you will see that My leading has been very gradual, and that only as you have carried out My wishes, have I been able to give you more clear and definite Teaching and Guidance.
Man's ecstasy is God's touch on quickened, responsive spirit-nerves. Joy - Joy - Joy.
Your Cross Is You. - March 15
Remember, you are only an instrument. Not yours to decide how or when or where you act. I plan all that. Make yourself very fit (spiritually) to do My Work. All that hinders your activity must be cured.
Mine is the Cross on which the burdens of the world are laid. How foolish is any one of My disciples who seeks to bear his own burdens, when there is only one place for them - My Cross.
It is like a weary man on a hot and dusty road, bearing a heavy load, when all plans have been made for its carriage. The road, the scenery, flowers, beauty around - all are lost.
But, My children, you may think I did say, "Take up your cross daily and follow Me."
Yes, but the cross given to each one of you is only a cross provided on which you can crucify the 'Self' of yours that hinders progress and Joy, and prevents the flow through your being of My invigorating Life and Spirit.
Listen to Me, love Me, joy in Me. Rejoice.
Reflect Me. - March 16
My children, I am here beside you. Draw near in spirit to Me. Shut out the distractions of the world. I am your Life, the very breath of your soul. Learn what it is to shut yourself in the secret place of your Being, which is My secret place too.
True it is, I wait in many a heart, but so few retire into that inner place of the Being to commune with Me. Wherever the soul is, I am. Man has rarely understood this. I am actually at the centre of every man's Being, but, distracted with the things of the sense-life, he finds Me not.
Do you realize that I am telling you Truths, revealing them, not repeating oft-told facts. Meditate on all I say. Ponder it. Not to draw your own conclusions, but to absorb Mine.
All down the ages, men have been too eager to say what they thought about My Truth, and so doing, they have grievously erred. Hear Me. Talk to Me. Reflect Me. Do not say what you think about Me. My Words need none of man's explanation. I can explain to each heart.
Make Me real, and leave Me to do My own Work. To lead a soul to Me is one thing, to seek to stay with it to interpret, mars the first great act. So would it be with human intercourse. How much more then, when it is a question of the soul, and Me, its Maker, and only real Spirit that understands it.
No Greater Joy. - March 17
Withdraw into the calm of communion with Me. Rest - rest, rest in that calm and Peace. Life knows no greater joy than you will find in converse and companionship with Me.
You are Mine. When the soul finds its home of rest in Me, then it is that its real Life begins. As it takes its first step into a larger world. Not in years, as man counts it, do we measure in My Kingdom.
We count only from his second birth, that new birth of which I spoke to Nicodemus when I said, "Ye must be born again." We know no life but Eternal Life and when a man enters into that, then he Lives.
And this is Life Eternal, to know God, My Father and Me, the Son sent by Him. So immature, so childish, so empty is all so-called living before that. I shower Love on you. Pass Love on.
Do not fear. To fear is as foolish as if a small child with a small coin, but a rich father, fretted about how rent and rates should be paid, and what he or she would do about it. Is this work Mine or not? You need to trust Me for everything.
Claim Big Things. - March 18
Listen, listen, I am your Lord. Before Me there is none other. Just trust Me in everything. Help is here all the time.
The difficult way is nearly over, but you have learnt in it lessons you could learn in no other way. "The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and it is the violent who take it by force." Wrest from Me, by firm and simple trust and persistent prayer, the treasures of My Kingdom.
Such wonderful things are coming to you, joy - peace - assurance - security - health - happiness - laughter.
Claim big, really big things now. Remember nothing is too big. Satisfy the longing of My Heart to give. Blessing, abundant blessing, on you both now and always. Peace.
Courage. - March 19
I am here. Fear not. Can you really trust Me? I am a God of Power, as well as a Man of Love, so human, yet so Divine.
Just trust. I cannot, and I will not fail you. All is well. Courage.
Many are praying for you both.
Help From Everywhere. - March 20
Your foolish little activities are valueless in themselves. Seemingly trivial or of seemingly great moment, all deeds are alike if directed by Me. Just cease to function except through Me.
I am your Lord, just obey Me as you would expect a faithful willing secretary to carry out your directions. Just have no choice but Mine, no will but Mine.
I am dependent on no one agency when I am your supply. Through many channels My help and material flow can come.
All is Well. - March 21
Remember My Words to My disciples, "This kind cometh not out but by prayer and fasting." Can you tread the way I trod? Can you drink of My cup? "All is well." Say always, "All is well."
Long though The Way may seem, there is not one inch too much. I, your Lord, am not only with you on the journey - I planned, and am planning, the journey.
There are Joys unspeakable in The Way you go. Courage - courage - courage.
A Bud Opened. - March 22
To Me, your intimate Friend, all Power is given. It is given Me of My Father, and have not My intimate friends a right to ask it?
You cannot have a need I cannot supply. A flower or one thousand pounds - one is no more difficult than the other.
Your need is a spiritual need to carry on My work. All spiritual supply is fashioned from Love. The flower and the thousand pounds - both fashioned from Love to those who need it. Do you not see this?
I thought of you, a bud opened, you converted that into a cheer for one you love or a smile. That cheer meant increased health. Increased health means work for Me, and that means souls for Me.
And so it goes on, a constant supply, but only if the need is a spiritual one.
Until Your Heart Sings. - March 23
I am beside you to bless and help you. Waver not in your prayers. They shall be heard. All power is Mine. Say that to yourself often and steadily.
Say it until your heart sings with the Joy of the safety and power it means to you.
Say it until the very force of the utterance drives back, and puts to nought, all the evils against you.
Use it as a battle cry - "All power is given unto my Lord," "All power is given unto my Friend," "All power is given unto my Saviour," and then you pass on to victory.
Know Me. - March 24
I am here. Seek not to know the future. Mercifully I veil it from you.
Faith is too priceless a possession to be sacrificed in order to purchase knowledge. But faith itself is based on a knowledge of Me.
So remember that this evening time is not to learn the future, not to receive revelation of the unseen, but to gain an intimate knowledge of Me, which will teach you all things and be the very foundation of your faith.
Wonders Will Unfold. - March 25
I am with you. Do not fear. Never doubt My Love and Power. Your heights of success will be won by the daily persistent doing of what I have said.
Daily, steady persistence. Like the wearing away of a stone by steady drops of water, so will your daily persistence wear away all the difficulties and gain success for you, and secure your help for others.
Never falter, go forward so boldly, so unafraid. I am beside you to help and strengthen you.
Wonders have unfolded. More still will unfold, beyond your dreams, beyond your hopes.
Say "All is well" to everything. All is well.
Follow Your Guide. - March 26
I am with you to guide you and help you. Unseen forces are controlling your destiny. Your petty fears are groundless.
What of a man walking through a glorious glade who fretted because ahead there lay a river and he might not be able to cross it, when all the time, that river was spanned by a bridge? And what if that man had a friend who knew the way - had planned it - and assured him that at no part of the journey would any unforeseen contingency arise, and that all was well?
So leave your foolish fears, and follow Me, your Guide, and determinedly refuse to consider the problems of tomorrow. My Message to you is, trust and wait.
Go Forward. - March 27
Rest in Me, quiet in My Love, strong in My Power (the Force). Think what it is to possess a Power (Force) greater than any Earthly force. A sway greater, and more far-reaching, than that of any Earthly king.
No invention, no electricity, no magnetism, no gold, could achieve one millionth part of all that you can achieve by the Power of My Spirit. Just think for one moment all that means.
Go forward. You are only beginning the New Life together. Joy, joy, joy.
Evil Mountains. - March 28
Faith and obedience will remove mountains, mountains of evil, mountains of difficulty.
But they must go hand in hand.
A Life Apart. - March 29
I reward your seeking with My Presence. Rejoice and be glad. I am your God. Courage and joy will conquer all troubles. First things first.
Seek Me, love Me, joy in Me. I am your Guide. No perils can affright you, no discipline exhaust you. Persevere. Can you hold on in My Strength? I love you more than you love Me. Struggle through this time for My sake. Initiation precedes all real work and success for Me.
Are you ready to live a life apart? Apart with Me? In the world and yet apart with Me? Going forth from your secret times of communion to rescue and save?
Deliverance. - March 30
Be calm, be true, be quiet. I watch over you. Rest in My Love. Joy in the very Beauty of Holiness. You are Mine. Deliverance is here for you, but thankfulness and Joy open the gates.
Be in all things very glad, very joyful, very thankful. It is not to quiet resignation I give My blessings, but to joyful acceptance and anticipation.
Laughter is the outward expression of joy. That is why I urge upon you love and laughter.
Love's Offering. - March 31
I am your Lord, Gracious and Loving. Rest in My Love, walk in My Ways. Each week is a week of progress, steady progress upward. You may not see it, but I do.
I judge not by outward appearances, I judge the heart, and I see in both your hearts one single desire, to do My Will. The simplest offering by a child brought or done with the one desire to please you, or to show you love, is it not more loved by you than the offerings of those who love you not?
So, though you may feel that your work has been spoiled and tarnished, I see it only as love's offering. Courage, My children.
When climbing a steep hill, a man is often more conscious of the weakness of his stumbling feet than of the view, the grandeur, or even of his upward progress.
Persevere, persevere. Love and laugh. Rejoice.
March - God at Eventide.
Arise from Defeat. - March 1
It is not upon one battle alone that all depends, or there would be no hope for My failures.
You enter upon a long campaign when you enter My army. Is the battle lost? Acquaint yourself with the cause, discover your weakness, and with dauntless faith, go forth resolved this time to conquer.
No man can conquer who has not learned his weakness, not made ready for the next conflict, and who does not know and claim and trust My strength, always available when summoned, as you have already proved.
Complete in Me. - March 2
A ROCK of Defence. A Joy to the saddened. A Rest to the weary. Calm to the ruffled.
A Companion of the sunlit glades. A Guide through the deserts of life. An Interpreter of experience. A Friend. A Saviour.
All these and many more would I be to you. Never a heart's need that I could not soothe and satisfy.
Search the ages. Many men have been many things to other hearts, but never one man to all men, never one man all to one man. This only the Maker of hearts could be.
Not only so, but in Me the soul finds its completion.
Shining Through. - March 3
As you grow like Me so My Love must reflect more and more through you Divinity and Majesty.
Sublime thought, yes, but you doubt if this can be. But God is Love, so God is Majesty. Thus gradually into the lives of those who follow Me there comes My Dignity and Majesty.
Have you not traced it in My closest friends?
To the Water's Edge. - March 4
As God was in the days of Moses, so is He to-day. Responsive to the prayer of faith. Still ready and willing to make a path through the Red Sea.
Have the faith of Moses, who never faltered in his trust, even with the sea before, the advancing host behind, and no visible way of escape. To the very edge of the waters he led his People.
His task was done, It was for God, his God, in Whom he trusted, to act now. Moses waited for, and expected, that act**. But to the edge he had to go**.
How often man draws back, halts at the thought of the troubled sea ahead. To go further is useless, he says, and gives up.
Or he goes within sight of the sea, and pauses. He must go on, always as far as he can; he must do all his share. On - to the Edge of the Sea.
Learn from this a mighty lesson. Do all your work, and leave your salvation to God. To say it will be no good is not to go to the edge, and that is to miss the saving Power of God.
The waters shall be divided, and you shall walk through the midst of the sea on dry land. I have said it. I, the Lord. Have I not done this for so many in your own day? For you? Think on these things.
"Share, Share." - March 5
I AM your Lord. Obey Me in all. You are being surely led into prosperity and true peace.
Let many share in your every gain. There must be no hoarding in the Christ-life. Not what you can gain, but what you can give. Keep your eyes fixed on Me. Seek to know My Will. Share. Share.
I am a Risen Lord. You cannot live with Me without partaking of My Risen Life. My Kingdom is sharing.
I must share all I have with My followers. So you, too, must share all that I give you - material and Spiritual Blessings - with others.
Your Circle Widens. - March 6
As the circle of your life widens you will feel ever more and more the need of Me. The need indeed to draw from My unfailing resources to gain the help and Wisdom required to deal with these new contacts.
Do not refuse them, only let nothing idle or of little worth engross your attention.
As your circle is enlarged, your means to deal with it adequately must grow too.
This is My desire. Ever walk with Me. Learn of Me. Witness for Me, Glorify Me.
How Firm Your Foundation. - March 7
As one in a storm needs to dwell in quiet thought upon the firmness of the foundation of his home, so you need in dangers and difficulties of whatever kind to withdraw, and in quiet assurance dwell upon that foundation upon which the house of your life and character is built.
Rest your thoughts on this, on Me. Do not dwell on the channels through which My Help may be directed to you. To do so is indeed to feel at the mercy of wind and weather. You can draw no strength from such.
No, a sense of security can only come from relying on Me, the All-powerful, the Unchanging.
Security engenders Strength, then Peace, then Joy.
"Other foundations can no man lay."
New Life. - March 8
Eternal Life gives a youthful resiliency.
Think of My parable of the wine-skins. Those who merely worship Me as a creed (belief) are like unto old wine-skins.
They cannot accept new truth, new life. It would destroy, not increase their faith.
Those who have My Gift of Eternal, youth-giving Life have the ever-expanding, revitalising, joy-quality of that Life.
The new wine poured so freely into new bottles. That bracing wine sustains the many who receive it.
Bear One Another's Burdens. - March 9
Do not judge of another's capacity by your own. If the burden another bears presses too heavily, what matter that you could bear that load lightly?
You must learn of Me to judge of the sorrow or strain of another, not with a feeling of superiority, but with one of humble thankfulness.
Would not your burdens have seemed light to Me? But in so far as they pressed heavily upon you so did I judge of them.
That which tore your heart may seem light to another.
Truly I said - Judge not. Only to God can the heart of man be made plain.
Seek My Presence, not only that you may understand Me, but that you may gain the insight to understand more clearly My other children.
Turn it to Good. - March 10
Never flinch. My standard-bearers must you ever be. Bear your standard high.
Life has its dangers and difficulties, but real as these seem, the moment you see in them a power of evil that will in response to your faith be forced to work in some way for your good, in that moment of recognition evil and danger cease to have any power over you.
This is a wonderful truth. Believe it. Rejoice in it.
Accept Your Task. - March 11
Take life as a task; each step of it to be practised until it can be done perfectly, that is, with patience, with soul harmony, and rest.
Remember the Christ of the humble ways is with you. His "Well done, good and faithful servant," is spoken, not to the great of earth but to the humble bearer of pain and annoyance, to the patient worker in life's ways of service.
So even on the quietest day, and in the lowliest way, mighty opportunities are given you of serving the King of kings. See that you welcome, and do not resent, these opportunities.
The Springs of Love. - March 12
Be gentle to all.
Drink of the Living water, deep draughts from the inexhaustible wells, into which the very springs of Eternal Life flow from the Hills of God.
Think thoughts of Love and Beauty. Know no limit to all you can possess and be and do. Live in My Love; surrounded by It, blessed by It, shedding It bountifully on all about you, ever conscious of It being present with you.
You are here to reflect It.
Seek to see the good in all you meet - and in those of whom you hear.
You are Complete. - March 13
Be happy in Me. Feel that your life is complete in Me. Know the Joy of a friendship in which those who love Me share.
Know a glad contentment in the security of your protected and guided life. Value the Power that Union with Me gives you.
The greatest power that money, fame or position of the world can give, still leaves the possessor but as a child beating helpless hands against an impregnable fortress, as compared with the Power of My Spirit, which can render a follower of Mine himself an invincible, an all-conquering force.
Your Weak Point. - March 14
"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."
The instruments in your hand for good are invincible against evil, did you but use them.
Every evil you face boldly, in My Spirit, flees at once, ashamed. No evil can look good in the face. Teach to all - that good is stronger than evil. You must answer the challenge of evil.
This Spiritual warfare must be ceaselessly waged by My followers. Remember it is not where you are strongest that evil will attack you, but at your weak points. Hence the need to overcome. Be ready to see a weakness in yourself, and attack that until you are victor.
Guidance IS Guidance. - March 15
Be still before Me. How often in a crisis man rushes hither and thither. Rush is a sign of weakness. Quiet abiding is a sign of strength.
A few quiet actions, as you are led to do them, and all is accomplished wisely and rightly, more quickly and more effectually than could be done by those who rush and act feverishly.
Guidance IS Guidance, the being led, the being shown The Way. Believe this.
Softly, across life's tumult, comes the gentle Voice, "Peace be still." The waves of difficulty will hear. They will fall back. There will be a great calm.
And then the Still Small Voice of Guidance.
Perfect Everything. - March 16
Be ye perfect, even as your Father in Heaven.
That was the aim I set before My disciples when I spoke to them on the Mount.
That is the aim I set before you and every follower of Mine to-day.
To achieve this you would be as God.
To aim at less would mean an unworthy standard.
To keep your gaze on this as your standard means that your eyes are fixed on the Heights of God, always directed above the difficulties and the lower aims and desires and standards of others round you.
The Real World. - March 17
Blessed are they that hear My Voice.
Deaf to My Voice man can so often be. Live, My children, more in the Unseen World. There, in the contemplation of Me, your whole nature becomes sensitive to My faintest whisper.
I have told you, I tell you again, the Unseen World is the real world. Realize more and more as you go through this earth-life that this is only a material-plane parenthesis. The real paragraph, chapter, Book of Life is the Spirit-Life.
This point of view will alter your idea of suffering, failure, and the work of life here. It will give you a new view of death. Birth begins the parenthesis, death closes it. Then back to real Life-History. Absorb this.
When you have done so, you will get that same idea about the various periods of your earth-life. Times of struggle; defeat; joy; failure; work; rest; success - Treat them all as parts of a parenthesis in the one Eternal Life of spiritual progress .
Joy from Sorrow. - March 18
I bind up the broken hearts with the cords wherewith men scourged Me in the Judgment Hall; with the whips of scorn wherewith Men have mocked My Love and Divinity down the ages.
Symbol, this, of the way in which, out of seeming obstacles, stepping-stones can be fashioned, and, out of trials undreamt-of, blessings can be wrought.
Share My Life with its longings and tears, with its Joys unspeakable and its heartaches beyond human description.
Share My Joy .
Through the Archway. - March 19
By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Obedience is the keystone of your arch of worship. On it depend your Love and Power.
Through that archway shall many pass into My Holy Place. Once therein their questing souls will pass into My Holy of Holies. Is it too much to ask of you: obedience that this may be accomplished?
Do not fret that your life is lived in lowly places. It is not to be lived to impress this earth-plane, but to be so faithful and obedient that those for whom you desire much, shall have THAT much impressed upon them on the spirit-plane.
That much, and more, than you can desire for them.
First Place. - March 20
I do not promise My followers the world's ease and pleasures. I promise those Joys that the world can neither give nor take away.
I promise that heart-rest found with Me alone.
It does not mean that all the beauties and pleasures of the world must be renounced, but that they must be enjoyed only after the treasures and Joys of My Kingdom have been learned, appreciated and given first place.
Simplicity. - March 21
Be content to do the simple things.
Never think that if you have not the cleverness of the world I cannot use your services.
Pure sparkling wine may be in a silver goblet or in a simple glass, but, to the one who receives, it is the wine that matters, not the vessel, provided that be pure and clean.
It is My Truth that matters, not the person that utters it, provided the desire is there to deliver My Message for ME.
True simplicity is found only as you live in Me and act in my Strength; for only in our close companionship can real value be achieved.
Never accept the values of earth. Be content with simplicity.
Love's Overflow. - March 22
I desire the love of man's heart in abundant measure.
Not because God would be adored for Himself and for His Own gratification, but because I know that only as the love of man flows out to Me does man attain to his purest and best.
That rush of love, which follows the understanding and realization of My Love for man, sweetens and purifies his whole being.
"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." The Love you give to your neighbour is the overflow of your love to Me.
No Personalities. - March 23
Deal with each difficulty as you must.
Then live above it. Say, "In Him I Conquered."
The fight is ever between you and evil, never between you and another. Never make it a personal matter.
If you are fighting with the weapons of the world (Satan's) - envy, resentment, anger - you cannot use those of My Kingdom - Prayer, Love, Peace - which would give you a God-given conquering strength.
It is the endeavour to call both God and mammon to your aid that makes for lack of success. The world looks on in scornful pity, and My followers themselves doubt and wonder.
So often they do not see their own error, but attribute to suffering for My Sake that which may not be according to My Will.
If it Offends - - March 24
Question yourself as to your weakness. What caused your failure? To continue to bemoan your folly is in itself a weakness. My followers must be strong, not in themselves, but in Me.
The look at 'Self', however penitent, cannot give strength.
Look unto Me, and, whatever the seeming sacrifice, be ruthless with what hindered or caused you to fall.
Sift Your Motives. - March 25
Walk in My Ways. Follow the path I have bidden you tread.
Humble yourselves before Me, and keep My Laws, so shall you have perfect peace.
I am with you to give you the needed strength. Go forward unafraid. Grow in Grace, and in the knowledge of Me, your Master and your Friend. Count all the learning of earth's wisest as nothing, compared with the Wisdom that I, your Lord, would show you.
Love and learn. You have much, very much to do for My Kingdom. So seek to become perfect. Sift your motives. All that is unworthy cast aside, uproot its inner growth.
You are freely forgiven. Forgive freely, largely, wonderfully.
Keep Step. - March 26
Go forward, glad indeed.
Walk with Me until your faltering, flagging footsteps learn to keep in step with Me, and gain a firmness and a confidence unknown before.
Walk with Me until a gladsome rhythm reveals the conquest-spirit that you draw from Me, and your whole being thrills with the joy of being, doing and even suffering, with Me.
Thus, in loving Communion with Me, you learn to know My needs and My wishes for others.
"Here am I, Lord, send me" shows very surely a child-like eagerness, the eagerness of love, even the eagerness for adventure for My cause.
For in My Secret Service there is surely the thrill of spiritual adventure that far outweighs anything the world has to offer*.*
Spirit in Training. - March 27
Go on along the highway of the Kingdom until all that comes, that touches your outward lives and circumstances, has no power to ruffle your spirit-calm. Make it a delight so to train yourselves.
Why does man rebel at aught that should teach him poise of spirit, whilst in the physical world he welcomes severe exercise that would increase his physical-powers?
The children of this world are surely wiser in their generation than the children of light. If My Children of Light gave to their spirit and character-training all the care that the children of this world give to the body - its feeding, its clothing, its wellbeing - how rapid would their spiritual progress be!
Yet how little does the body matter compared with the growth of the Spirit. "Fear not them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul."
In Eternity Now. - March 28
Heirs of God. Joint heirs with Me of Eternal Life, if so be that you suffer with Me, that we may also be glorified together.
Glory denotes perfection of character. This can only be learned as you allow discipline to play its part in your life, and also as you entrust your sinful past to Me.
Perfect through suffering. You cannot escape discipline, and be truly My disciple.
If you think that life is too short for all you have to do and to conquer, then remember that you have already entered upon ETERNITY.
The True Sign. - March 29
How many believed on My Name after seeing the signs which I did?
Not for the signs, not for the water made wine, not for My miracles, will My true follower believe Me.
No, for something deeper, seen only with the eyes of faith, realized only by a heart of love responding to My Heart of Love. Not of these must it be said, "I do not trust Myself unto them," as I said of those who saw My signs.
I must trust Myself and My Cause to My followers who see Me with eyes of faith. How else can I be loved and known?
They will meet Me, the outcast Saviour, when I am performing no mighty deeds, wandering unheeded and unacclaimed through dark and lonely ways, and they will pause, all other pursuit forgotten, and will yet turn and follow Me.
Follow because of some chord in them responsive to the yearning of My Heart for Man, who has shut Me out. Follow, too, because of that in Me which is responsive to the cry of man's hungering soul.
The Love of Your Life. - March 30
I am beside you. I am with you in all that you do. I control your thoughts, inspire your impulses, guide your footsteps, if you are truly Mine.
I strengthen you, body, mind and spirit.
I am the link between you and those who are in the Unseen.
I am the Love of your lives.
Controller of your destinies.
Guardian, advocate, provider, Friend.
Yes, love Me more and more. So will you not only enjoy to the full the treasures and joys of My Kingdom, but increasingly those of Nature, My gift to My world.
The Wrong Voice. - March 31
I am the Great Teacher, so ready to explain the simplest lesson to the most ignorant.
It is not for you to seek everywhere explanations of Me and My Kingdom, its Laws and its purposes.
Learn of Me. How often would I have spoken to some heart, but the voice of one too eager with explanations about Me crowded Me out.
When Andrew brought Simon to Me, he was silent to let his brother learn of Me.
The reason for this crowding out of My Voice by My disciples is their unwillingness to believe that I do speak to-day. So, thinking they worship a silent Christ, they seek to make amends by their much speaking.
April - God Calling.
Shut Out From God. - April 1
Do you not see, My children, that you have not yet learned all? Soon, very soon, you will have mastered your lesson, and then you will truly be able to do all things through Me and My Strength.
Did you not see it with My Disciples? Timid, faithless followers, and then, so soon, themselves leaders, healers, conquerors, through Me.
All Knowledge was Mine, given Me by My Father, and Mine in manhood's years on Earth. You understand this, My children, I know you do.
Thousands of My servants have gone to their betrayal and death, and others, who knew Me not, with no agony before it.
Had I not been Son of God, bearing man's weight of sin, voluntarily bearing it until of My own free will - for that moment's horror, I was shut out from His sight with man, the sinner, for one short space - had I not been God, had not this been My suffering - then I was but a craven mortal.
The Priceless Blessing. - April 2
I am here. Here as truly as I was with My Disciples of old. Here to help and bless you. Here to company with you. Do you know, even yet, My children, that this is the priceless blessing of your lives? I forgive you, as you have prayed Me to, for all neglects of My Commands, but start anew from today.
Study My Words and carry them out unflinchingly, unflinchingly. As you do this, you will find that you are miracle-workers, workers together with Me - for Me. Remember this, not what you do, but what you are - that is the miracle-working power.
Changed by My Spirit, shedding one garment of Spirit for a better. In time throwing that aside for a yet finer one, and so on from character to character, gradually transformed into My likeness.
Joy, joy, joy.
Greatness is Service. - April 3
My children, I am here, your waiting Lord, ready at your call. I am among you as one that serveth, meek and lowly, ready to be used and commanded. Remember that is the finest quality of greatness - service. I, who could command a universe - I await the commands of My children. Bring Me into everything.
You will find such Joy as the time goes on in speaking to each other of Me, and together climbing higher. Always humble, meek and lowly in heart.
Learn this - no position - just a servant.
Divine Efficiency. - April 4
I am all-powerful and all-knowing and I have all your affairs in My Hands. Divine Efficiency as well as Divine Power is being brought to bear on them. All miracle-work is not the work of a moment as so often men imagine.
My servant Simon Peter was not changed in a flash from a simple fisherman to a great leader and teacher, but through the very time of faithlessness - through the very time of denial, I was yet making him all that he should be. Impetuous spokesman as he always was, ready to lead (rather than to serve) the other disciples (as he should have done), Peter could never have been the after power he was, had he not learned his weakness. No man can save, unless he understands the sinner.
The Simon who was a mighty force for Me afterwards, who, more than all others, founded My community, was not even first the Simon who said, "Thou art The Christ, The Son of The Living God," but the Peter (Cephas) who denied Me. He who had tested My forgiveness in his moment of abject remorse, he could best speak of Me as The Saviour.
The Kingdom of Heaven can only be preached by those who have learned to prize the authority of its Kingdom. A many-sided training My apostles need. Oh! joy. Oh, rejoice. I Love you. Not one test too much will I lay on you.
Heart's Interpreter. - April 5
Rest in Me. Seek this evening time just to be with Me. Do not feel you have failed if sometimes I ask you only to rest together in My Presence.
I am with you, much with you both, not only at these times, at all times. Feel conscious of My Presence. Earth hath no greater joy than that.
I am the heart's great Interpreter. Even souls who are the nearest together have much in their natures that remains a sealed book to each other, and only as I enter and control their lives, do I reveal to each the mysteries of the other.
Each soul is so different - I alone understand perfectly the language of each, and can interpret between the two.
Passover Joy. - April 6
I lay My Loving Hands on you in blessing. Wait in Love and longing to feel their tender pressure and, as you wait, courage and hope will flow into your Being, irradiating all your lives with the warm sun of My Presence.
Let all go this Passover. Loosen your hold on Earth, its care, its worries, even its joys. Unclasp your hands, relax, and then the tide of Passover Joy will come. Put aside all thought of the future, of the past. Relinquish all to get the Passover Sacrament of Spiritual Life.
So often man, crying out for some blessing, has yet such tight hold on some earth-treasure that he has no hand to receive Mine, as I hold it out in Love. Passover is the wonder-time of all the year. A blessing is yours to take. Sacrifice all to that.
Calvary. - April 7
From the death of My body on the cross, as from the shedding of husks in seed-life, springs that New Life which is My Gift to every man who will accept it.
Die with Me to 'Self' - to the human life, and then you will know the rapturous joy of Passover Resurrection.
A Risen Life so glad and free can be yours.
Mary left home and kindred, friends, all, that Passover morning in her search for Me, and not until the "Mary" had been followed by the glad triumphant rapture of her "Rabboni" was her search over.
So with each of you. Man speaks to you too of a buried Christ. Search until you meet Me face to face, and My tender uttering of your name awakes your glad "Rabboni."
Marks of The Kingdom. - April 8
Our Saviour, we greet Thee. Thy Love and Sacrifice we would return in our poor faulty measure by love and sacrifice.
No gift is poor if it expresses the true love of the giver. So to Me your heart's gifts are rich and precious. Rejoice in My glad acceptance as you bring your Passover offerings.
My children must make a stand. "Come ye out from among them and be ye separate" was the Command. Today in life and work, in love and service, My children must be out-standing. I called a peculiar people to make known My Name. My servant Paul said that My followers must be willing to be deemed "fools" for My Sake.
Be ready to stand aside and let the fashions and customs of the world go by, when My Glory and My Kingdom are thereby served. Be known by the Marks that distinguish those of My Kingdom. Be ready to confess Me before men. To count all things as loss so that you may gain Me in your lives.
Risen Life. - April 9
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of The Lord is risen upon thee. - Isaiah 60:1.
The call comes on this My day for all who love Me, to arise from Earth-bands, from sin, and sloth and depression, distrust, fear, all that hinders the Risen Life. To arise to beauty, to holiness, to joy, to peace, to work inspired by Love and Joy, to rise from death to Life.
Remember that death was the last enemy I destroyed. So with death My Victory was complete. You have nothing then to fear. Sin, too, is conquered and forgiven, as you live and move and work with Me. All that depressed you, all that you fear are powerless to harm you. They are but phantoms. The real forces I conquered in the wilderness, the Garden of Gethsemane, on the Cross, in the Tomb.
Let nothing hinder your Risen Life. "Risen with Christ," said My servant Paul. Seek to know more and more of that Risen Life. That is the Life of Conquest. Of that Risen Life was it truly said: "I live, yet not I, but Christ Liveth in me." Fear and despair and tears come as you stand by the empty Tomb. "They have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid Him."
Rise from your fears and go out into the sunlight to meet Me, your Risen Lord. Each day will have much in it that you will meet either in the spirit of the Tomb, or in the spirit of Resurrection. Deliberately choose the one and reject the other.
Pride Bars The Way. - April 10
Obedience is one of the keys unlocking the door into My Kingdom, so love and obey. No man can obey Me implicitly without in time realizing My Love, in his turn responding by love to that Love, and then experiencing the joy of the beloved, and the lover.
The rough stone steps of obedience lead up to the Mosaic of Joy and Love that floor My Heaven. As one on Earth who loves another says, "Where you are is home," so it is in relation with Me. Where I am is My Home - is Heaven.
Heaven may be in a sordid slum or a palace, and I can make My Home in the humblest heart. I can only dwell with the humble. Pride stands sentinel at the door of the heart to shut out the lowly, humble Christ.
Hold Your Fort. - April 11
Remember that My followers are to be a peculiar people, separated from among others. Different ways, a different standard of living, different customs, actuated by different motives. Pray for Love.
Pray for My Spirit of Love to be showered on all you meet. Deal with yourself severely. Learn to love discipline.
Never yield one point that you have already won. Discipline, discipline. Love it and rejoice - rejoice. Mountains can be removed by thought - by desire.
Golden Opportunity. - April 12
I am your Guide. Strength and help will come to you; just trust Me wholly.
Fear not. I am ever more ready to hear than you to ask. Walk in My Ways, and know that help will come.
Man's need is God's chance to help. I love to help and save. Man's need is God's golden opportunity for Him of letting his faith find expression. That expression of faith is all that God needs to manifest His Power (Force). Faith is the Key that unlocks the Store-House of God's Resources.
My faithful servants, you long for perfection and see your bitter failures. I see faithfulness, and as a mother takes the soiled, imperfect work of her child and invests it with perfection because of the sweet love, so I take your poor faithfulness and crown it with perfection.
Gentle With All. - April 13
Love and laugh. Make your world the happier for your being in it. Love and rejoice on the grey days.
There are wilderness days for My disciples as well as mountains of transfiguration, but on both it is duty, persistently, faithfully done, that tells.
Be gentle with all. Strive to see the heart I see, to know the pain and difficulty of the other life, that I know. Strive, before you interview anyone, or speak to anyone, to ask Me to act as interpreter between you two.
Just live in the spirit of prayer. In speaking to Me, you find soul-rest. Simple tasks, faithfully done and persisted in, bring their own reward, and are mosaics being laid in the pavement of success.
Welcome all who come here. I Love you.
Equally Yoked. - April 14
My children, I guide you always. The walking in The Way may not be always carried out, but the Guiding is always so sure. God is using you both in marvellous ways. Go on gladly. You will see.
To be a perfect gymnast you must learn balance. It is Balance and Poise, perfect Balance and Poise, I am teaching you now. This will give you power (the Force) in dealing with the lives of others, and that power (Force) is already being marvellously manifested.
Dwell with Me as the centre of your lives. Fix your whole Being (both of you) with Me as its centre. That gives you the true balance as is the case with some delicate instrument.
The vision you both have is the means of clearing the obstacles away. When My disciple sees My Purpose ahead, that very sight is the power that clears away every obstacle along that range of vision. You will both have mighty power to do this. Spiritual Light is in itself a miracle-worker.
People waste so much time in seeking to work out what they see. I declare to you that in the seeing My Purpose all is done. Truly I said to My Disciples, "I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." But to you, and the two's who gather to hear Me as you do, I can declare those things now, that then I left unsaid.
Is not the message of My servant Paul now plain: "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers," because My Guidance is intensified immeasurably in power, when the two are one in desire to be with Me - but so few have understood.
Never Feel Inadequate. - April 15
Obey My Commands. They are steps in the ladder that leads to success. Above all, keep calm, unmoved.
Go back into the silence to recover this calm when it is lost even for one moment. You accomplish more by this than by all the activities of a long day. At all cost keep calm, you can help nobody when you are agitated. I, your Lord, see not as man sees.
Never feel inadequate for any task. All work here is accomplished by My Spirit, and that can flow only through the most humble and lowly. It simply needs an unblocked channel. Rid yourself of 'Self' and all is well.
Pray about all, but concentrate on a few things until those are accomplished. I am watching over you. Strength (the Force) for your daily, hourly task is provided. Yours is the fault, the sin, if it is unclaimed, and you fail for lack of it.
Love Your Servants. - April 16
Love, love, love. Tender love is the secret. Love those you are training, love those who work with you, love those who serve you.
Dwell on that thought - God is Love. Link it up with My "I and The Father are as One." Dwell on My actions on Earth. See in them Love in operation.
If it was God Who so acted, then it was Love, Perfect Love, performed those actions, those wonders. Then you, too, must put Love (God) into action in your lives. Perfect Love means perfect forgiveness. Lo, My children, you see that where God is there can be no lack of forgiveness, for that is really lack of love.
God is Love . . . . . . . . . no judging
God is Love . . . . . . . . . no resentment
God is Love . . . . . . . . . all patience
God is Love . . . . . . . . . all power
God is Love . . . . . . . . . all supplyAll you need to have is love to God and man. Love to God ensures obedience to every wish, every Command. Love is the fulfilling of all Law.
Pray much for love.
The Two Joys. - April 17
My children, I come. Hearts eager to do My Will send out a call that ever I find irresistible. I know no barrier then.
Resignation to My Will keeps Me barred-out from more hearts than does unbelief. Can anything be such a crime against Love as being resigned? My Will should be welcomed with a glad wonder, if I am to do My Work in the heart and life.
The only resignation that could possibly be acceptable to Me is when 'Self', ousted by My Claims, accepts the inevitable and resigns the throne for Me, leaving My disciple free to carry-out My Will, to welcome My Will gladly, rapturously.
In all true discipleship, and in the true spiritual development of each disciple, there is first the wonder and the joy of first acquaintance, then comes the long plain stretch of lesson-learning and discipline, when joy seems so much a thing of the past as never to be recaptured again.
But the constant experience of Me, the constant persistent recognition of My Work in daily happenings - the ever accumulating weight of evidence in support of My Guidance - the numberless instances in which seeming chance of wonderful coincidence can be, must be, traced back to My Loving forethought - all these gradually engender a feeling of wonder, certainty, gratitude, followed in time by Joy.
Joy is of two kinds. The Joy born of Love and wonder, and the Joy born of Love and Knowledge, and between the experience of the two Joys lie discipline, disappointment, almost disillusion.
But combat these in My Strength, or rather cling blindly, helplessly to Me and let Me combat them, persevere in obeying My Will, accept My discipline, and the second Joy will follow.
And of this second Joy it was that I said, "Your Joy no man taketh from you."
Do not regret the first, the second is the greater gift.
No Dark Days. - April 18
Such Light, such Joy flows out from this house. It affects all who come here.
Do not feel that you have to strive to help them. Just love them, welcome them, shower little courtesies and love-signs on them, and they must be helped.
Love is God. Give them Love, and you give them God. Then leave Him to do His Work. Love all - even the beggars. Send no-one away without a word of cheer, a feeling that you care. I may have put the impulse to come here into some despairing one's heart. Think if you failed Me!
Besides, you have no choice. You told Me it was My Home. I shall use it. Remember this. There would be no dark winter days were Love in the hearts of all My children.
Oh! My children, can you not feel the joy of knowing, loving and companying with Me?
Life is a Love-Story. - April 19
You need Me. I need you.
My broken world needs you. Many a weary, troubled heart needs you. Many a troubled heart will be gladdened by you, drawn nearer to Me by you both.
Health - peace - joy - patience - endurance, they all come from contact with Me.
Oh! it is a glorious Way, the upward Way, the wonderful discoveries, the tender intimacies, the amazing, almost incomprehensible, understanding. Truly the Christian life - Life with Me - is a Love-story. Leave all to Me.
All you have missed you will find in Me, the soul's Lover, the soul's Friend, Father - Mother - Comrade - Brother. Test Me.
You cannot make too many demands upon Me - nor put too great a strain upon My Love and forbearance.
Claim - claim - claim - Healing - Power - Joy - Supply - what you will.
Heart's Agony. - April 20
There is a Calvary-cross on which one hangs alone, untended by even the nearest and dearest.
But beside that cross, there stands another, and to My dear ones I say little, I hang there afresh beside each one through the hours of the heart's agony.
Have you ever thought of the Joy that the patient, gentle, loving obedience of My disciples brings to My Heart? I know no Joy such as (equal to) the Joy I feel at the loving trust of a dear one.
The wounds in the hands and feet hurt little compared with the wounds in the Heart, that are the wounds, not of My enemies, but of My friends.
Little doubts, little fears, little misunderstandings. It is the tender trifles of a day that gladden My Heart. I that speak unto you, am He - your Master.
You Will Conquer. - April 21
I am with you. My Presence is a sign of My forgiveness. I uphold you.
You will conquer. Do not fear changes. You can never fear changes when I, your Lord, change not. Christ Jesus, the same yesterday, today and for ever. I am beside you. Steadfastness, unchangingness, come to you, too, as you dwell with Me. Rest in Me.
As breathing rightly, from being a matter of careful practice, becomes a habit, unconsciously, yet rightly performed, so if you regularly practise this getting back into My Presence, when the slightest feeling of unrest disturbs your perfect calm and harmony, so this, too, will become a habit, and you will grow to live in that perfect consciousness of My Presence, and perfect calm and harmony will be yours.
Life is a training school. Remember, only the pupil giving great promise of future good work would be so singled out by The Master for strenuous and unwearied discipline, teaching and training.
You are asking both of you to be not as hundreds of My followers, nay as many, many thousands, but to be even as those who reflect Me in all they say and do and are. So, my dear children, take this training, not as harsh, but as the tender loving answer to your petition.
Life can never be the same again for either of you. Once you have drunk of the wine of My Giving, The Life Eternal - all Earth's attempts to quench your thirst will fail.
Complain Not - Laugh. - April 22
Trust in Me. Do as I say each moment and all indeed shall be well. Follow out My Commands: Divine control, unquestioning obedience - these are the only conditions of supply being ample for your own needs and those of others.
The tasks I set you may have seemingly no connection with supply. The Commands are Mine and the Supply is Mine and I make My Own Conditions, differing in each case - but in the case of each disciple, adapted to the individual need.
Have no fear, go forward. Joy - radiant joy must be yours. Change all disappointment, even if only momentary, into joy. Change each complaint into laughter.
Rest - love - joy - peace - work, and the most powerful of these are Love and Joy.
Too Much Talk. - April 23
Guidance you are bound to have as you live more and more with Me. It follows without doubt.
But these times are not times when you ask to be shown and led, they are times of feeling and realizing My Presence. Does the branch continually ask the Vine to supply it with sap, to show it in what direction to grow? No, that comes naturally from the very union with the Vine, and I said, "I am the true Vine and you are the branches."
From the branches hang the choice grapes, giving joy and nourishment to all, but no branch could think that the fruit, the grapes, were of its shaping and making.
No! the grapes are the fruit of the Vine, the Parent-Plant. The work of the branch is to provide a channel for the life-flow (the Force).
So My children, union with Me is the one great overwhelming necessity. All else follows so naturally, and union with Me may be the result of just consciousness of My Presence. Be not too ready to speak to others. Never make yourselves do this.
Pray always that the need may be apparent, if you are to do this, and the guidance very plain. My Spirit has been driven-out by the words of men. Words, words, words. Many have called Me Lord, Lord, who have not done the things that I said.
Discourage too much talk. Deeds live, and re-echo down the ages - words perish. As Paul:
Though I speak with the tongues of Men and of Angels, and have
not compassion, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, . . . . and have not
compassion, I am nothing . . . .Remember that rarely to the human heart do I speak in words. Man will see Me in My Works done through you, meet Me in the atmosphere of love and 'Self'-effacement. Do not feel that you have to speak.
When man ceased to commune with his God simply and naturally, he took refuge in words - words. Babel resulted. Then God wanted to do away with man from the Earth. Rely less on words. Always remember that speech is of the senses. So make it your servant, never your master.
I Go Before. - April 24
You can never perish, My children, because within you is the Life of Life. The Life that down the ages has kept My servants, in peril, in adversity, in sorrow.
Once you are born of The Spirit, that is your Life's breath. You must never doubt, never worry, but step by step, The Way to Freedom must be trodden. See that you walk it with Me.
This means no worry, no anxiety, but it does not mean no effort. When My Disciples told Me that they had toiled all night and taken nothing, I did not fill the boat with fishes without effort on their part. No! My Command stood. "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught."
Their lives were endangered, the ship nearly sank, the help of their fellows had to be summoned, and there were broken nets to mend. Any one of these troubles might have made them feel My help was not for them. And yet as they sat on the shore and mended those nets, they would see My Love and Care.
Man rises by effort.
The man who reaches the mountain height by the help of train or car has learned no climber's lesson. But remember this does not mean no Guide - this does not mean that My Spirit is not supplying Wisdom and Strength. How often, when sometimes you little know it, do I go before you to prepare The Way, to soften a heart here, to over-rule there.
Bless Your Enemies. - April 25
Say often, "God bless . . . ," of any whom you find in disharmony with you, or whom you desire to help. Say it, willing that showers of blessings and joy and success may fall upon them.
Leave to Me the necessary correcting or training; you must only desire joy and blessing for them. At present your prayers are that they should be taught and corrected.
Oh! if My children would leave My Work to Me and occupy themselves with the task I give them. Love, love, love. Love will break down all your difficulties. Love will build up all your successes.
God the destroyer of evil, God the Creator of Good - is Love. To love one another is to use God in your life. To use God in your life is to bring into manifestation all harmony, beauty, joy and happiness.
I Make The Opportunities. - April 26
Never doubt. Have no fear. Watch the faintest tremor of fear, and stop all work, everything, and rest before Me until you are joyful and strong again.
Deal in the same way with all tired feelings. I was weary too, when on Earth, and I separated Myself from My Disciples, and sat and rested on the well. Rested - and then it was that the Samaritan woman was helped.
Times of withdrawal for rest always precede fresh miracle-working. Learn of Me. To accept the limitations of human flesh is to be subject, except as far as sin is concerned, to the same conditions as man.
I had to teach renewal of Spirit-Force, rest of body, to My Disciples. Then, as your Example, I lay with My head on a pillow, asleep in the boat. It was not, as they thought, indifference. They cried, "Master, carest Thou not that we perish?" and I had to teach them that ceaseless activity was no part of My Father's Plan.
When Paul said, " I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me," he did not mean that he was to do all things and then rely on Me to find strength. He meant that for all I told him to do he could rely on My supplying the strength (the Force).
My Work in the world has been hindered by work, work, work. Many a tireless, nervous body has driven a spirit. The spirit should be the master always, and just simply and naturally use the body as need should arise. Rest in Me.
Do not seek to work for Me. Never make opportunities. Live with Me and for Me. I do the work and I make the opportunities.
Seeing Christ. - April 27
I am beside you. Can you not feel My Presence? Contact with Me is not gained by the senses. Spirit-consciousness replaces sight.
When man sees Me with his human sight it does not mean of necessity that his spiritual perception is greater. Nay, rather that for that soul I have to span the physical and the spiritual with a spiritual vision clear to human eyes.
Remember this to cheer My disciples who have never seen Me, and yet have had a clear spiritual consciousness of Me.
The Roundabout Way. - April 28
Through briars, through waste places, through glades, up mountain heights, down into valleys, I lead. But ever with the Leadership goes the Helping Hand.
Glorious to follow where your Master goes. But remember that the varied path does not always mean that you need the varied training.
We are seeking lost sheep - we are bringing The Kingdom into places where it has not been known before. So realize that you are joining Me on My quest - My undying quest, tracking down souls.
I am not choosing ways that will fret and tire - just to fret and tire; we are out to save. You may not always see the soul we seek. I know.
Disharmony. - April 29
Seek and ye shall find. Shall find that inner knowledge that makes the problems of life plain.
The difficulties of life are caused by disharmony in the individual. There is no discord in My Kingdom, only a something unconquered in My disciples. The rule of My Kingdom is perfect order, perfect harmony, perfect supply, perfect love, perfect honesty, perfect obedience - all power, all conquest, all success.
But so often My servants lack power, conquest, success, supply, harmony, and think I fail in My promises because these are not manifested in their lives.
These are but the outward manifestations that result from the obedience, honesty, order, love - and they come, not in answer to urgent prayer, but naturally as light results from a lighted candle.
Spring-Time. - April 30
Rejoice in the Spring-time of the year. Let there be Spring-time in your hearts. The full time of fruit is not yet but there is the promise of the blossom.
Know surely that your lives too are full of glad promise. Such blessings are to be yours. Such joys, such wonders.
All is indeed well. Live in My sunshine and My Love.
April - God at Eventide.
The Time of Resurrection. - April 1
Spring brings its message of Hope.
Not only does it proclaim the Truth that Nature arises from her time of decay and darkness to a new life. But, My children, it surely speaks to the individual, to nations, to My world, that the time of decay and darkness for them too can pass, and that, from conflict and storm, disaster and sin, they can spring to a new and gladdening Resurrection-Life.
But Nature obeys My Laws. It is by her obedience that the quickening of new life is succeeded by the beauty of Risen Power.
So, only as man obeys My Will, and works according to My Divine Plan for him, can harmony follow chaos, peace follow war, and a reign of Love succeed one of conflict and carnage.
Resurrection Preparation. - April 2
I am the Master of the Universe. Accept My ordered Word. When you do this in joyful sincerity, you link yourself with all the creative forces of the Universe.
My Spirit can then be operative, first in you and then through you.
My followers forget that the scourging at the pillar, the Divine control ("He answered never a word"), and the Cross, man-rejected, man-forsaken, all these preceded the Resurrection.
Without these there could have been no Resurrection. These steps in Spirit-conquest had to be, before My all-powerful, Divine Spirit could be released to be for ever available for those who would hear My Call, and would will to walk, not just talk, in My Way.
See them Free. - April 3
If I bore the sins of all in My agonised Heart in the Garden of Gethsemane and on Calvary, then, when you seek to punish others whom you despise, you punish and despise Me.
My throwing aside the grave-clothes, and My stepping out into that sunlit Garden on Resurrection Day were symbolic of the freedom I had bought for My children, and which they would know in Me.
Are you seeking to bind the grave-clothes round Me? When you recognize a man's sins you must go further always and see him as free, the grave-clothes of sin and limitation cast aside; the stone, that shut out his Vision of Love and God, rolled away; he, a risen man, walking in My Strength, and conquering in My Power.
Sharing My Burden. - April 4
Remember the Truth that you are learning, even now, though dimly.
In Eternal Life there are no time-limits. So My sacrifice was for you to-day, this hour, as truly as ever it was for those who watched Me on Calvary.
I am the changeless One. The same yesterday and for ever. Sacrificing Myself to-day, rising to-day. You then, once you embrace Eternal Life, enter into My Suffering, and help to carry My Cross, as truly to-day as if you had walked beside Me to Calvary.
Redeemed. - April 5
Agony and heartache, pain and loneliness, such as no human+being has ever known, were the price of your redemption.
Truly you are not your own.
You are bought with a price. You belong to Me.
You are Mine to use, Mine to love, Mine to provide for.
Man does not understand the infinite Love of the Divine. Man teaches that as I bought him, so he has to serve, obey and live for Me.
He fails to understand that because he is Mine, bought by Me, it is My responsibility to supply his every need. His part is to realize My ownership, and to claim My Love and Power.
The Veil has Gone. - April 6
And the veil of the Temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom.
The veil, that had hidden God from the knowledge and sight of man, was at last removed.
I, God and man, had torn away 'The Veil' separating God the Father, and man, My brother. I came to reveal the Father to man, and I live, ever live, to make intercession to the Father for man. I am the Great Mediator between God and man, the Man, Christ JESUS.
Bear Reproach Gladly. - April 7
Rest unto your souls is found at My Feet. The place of rest is the place of humility.
When you rejoice to serve humbly, when you are content for men to think ill of you, when you can bear reproach and scorn gladly, then what can disturb the gladness of your soul, its rest?
No unrest can assail and hurt the soul that has not its spring in 'Self'. That 'Self' must be nailed to My Cross, that 'Self' must die before you can truly say - "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me."
Stones Rolled Away. - April 8
And they saw that the stone was rolled away.
How needless their questioning among themselves had been:-
"Who shall roll us away the stone?"
Wherever My followers go full of desire to do Me loving service, they shall find the stones of difficulty, of obstruction, rolled away.
They came, these faithful women, to the sepulchre, with the spices and ointments they had prepared.
Come, too, with your spices of Love to do Me service, and you shall find you have been anticipated. I am ever eager in Love to do you service.
The Life Glorious. - April 9
If by the Spirit you mortify the flesh, you shall live.
This is a further progress-step in My Kingdom. The flesh must hold no pleasure for you that is not held in leash, always under subjection to the Spirit.
It was the utter subjection of the flesh that was manifested in My Silence at the pillar, and in the face of the jibes and insults and blows. It was this complete subjection which meant a Risen Body.
Resurrection-faith is not a matter of belief in Me, and in My Power working a miracle, it is a faith in Me and My Power leading to entire subjection of the body.
The body completely under control of the Spirit is a Risen Body. See now the importance of 'Self'-discipline.
Break Free. - April 10
I sent no disciple to carry My Healing Power to the Syrophoenician woman's sick daughter, the centurion's servant, or to the ruler's son. My Word was all-sufficient.
All that I needed was the faith of the petitioner. Can you not realize that?
Learn to understand and to ask more of Me. If you do not, then others' bonds are your responsibility.
Loose your own body from all bonds. Remember the beam and the mote.
As the fault (the beam) is removed from your own eye, giving you the power to remove the mote from your brother's eye, so if you bring your body into subjection, discipline it wholly, you will be enabled to free your brother from bonds that bind him to ill-health.
Resurrection Gladness. - April 11
Love and Laugh. To the world, sad faces and depressed spirits speak of a buried Christ. If you want to convince men that I am Risen, you must go through life with Resurrection gladness. You must prove by your lives that you are Risen with Me.
Men will not learn of My conquest over death by the arguments of theologians, but by the lives of My followers, My Risen followers. If you are still wearing the grave-clothes of gloom and depression, of fear and poverty, men will think of us as tomb-bound still.
No, live in the Spirit of the Garden on that Resurrection Day. For you, too, I will roll away the stone from the door of the sepulchre. Walk unbound in the Garden with Me, in the Garden of Love, Joy, child-like, boundless Faith - the Garden of Delights.
Fair Delights. - April 12
It is my Pleasure that you wait before Me.
Companionship with Me, with its soul-rest, is all too often sacrificed for petition.
Be content awhile to be silent in My Presence. Draw-in that Spiritual Power which will strengthen you to conquer the weaknesses you so deplore.
Life in Me is one of radiance.
Eternal Life is Life refreshed by Living Waters.
There is no stagnation in My Kingdom, in that place prepared for hearts that love Me.
It is a place of Fair Delights.
Claim what you will. It is yours.
Heaven's Almoner. - April 13
It may not be your need I am seeking to supply at a particular moment, but that of another through you.
Remember what I have told you before: it is empty vessels I fill, into open hands that I place My supply.
Too often My followers are so busy clutching their foolish possessions that they have no hands to receive the larger blessings, the needed gifts, I am waiting to pass to them, and through them, to others.
Help all to see the wonderful life that could open out before them. To be Heaven's almoner is the work to which I call each follower of Mine.
You Can Do This. - April 14
I will give you rest.
My Gift truly, but the result of your trust.
Train yourself to trust so completely that no tremor even of doubt or fear can enter in.
No fear of the future, no cloud over the present, no shadow of the past.
When the absence of fear is the result of strength for The Way gained by contact with Me, and of complete reliance upon My Tenderness and My Power, then you have My Gift of Rest .
The Sunlit Way. - April 15
Know that your Source of joy is something changeless. The hopes of the world are but in material things and when these pass or change their joy fades, hope dies, only dark night remains.
Speak comfort to such. Tell of My Love surrounding you, that My protecting Power is yours. That I can never fail one who trusts in Me. That you can breathe in courage from My Presence as you breathe in air.
Tell the world - that for one who walks a cheerless road with Me, the bare hedge doth blossom as the rose, and life is bathed in sunlit joy.
Regain Dominion. - April 16
Let them have dominion.
Man has lost this dominion because he failed to be guided by My Spirit. He was never meant to function alone. Body, mind and spirit, he was created by My Father.
The senses were given him to link him to earth, and to create and maintain contact with the world around; but the spirit was definitely his link for guidance and instruction from the world of My Kingdom.
He is a lost soul until he links up in this way, just as a man blind, deaf and dumb would be in a world of sense. This was man's fall. He had this power and lost it.
New Beauties. - April 17
Life has so many lessons to teach you. You may not be able to travel through your material world. But for your spirit there are vast and beautiful realms in which you can be ever travelling and exploring; and, with ever-increasing capacity for enjoyment, discovering new beauties of Spiritual Truth.
God's Mosaic. - April 18
Life is a journey. The choice as to who shall be your conductor is your own. Once that choice is made, and you feel you have placed yourself in wise Hands, do not spoil your journey by frustrating the plans made for your comfort and happiness.
Rest content with the plans I have made for you. No detail has been too small for My loving consideration. Know that your lives are being truly God-conducted, and so will bring you the greatest happiness and success.
The greater the trust you repose in Me, the wider will be My scope for the plans I have made for you.
Life is a mosaic planned by God. Each God-directed thought, impulse, and action of yours is necessary to the carrying out of the perfect design.
That design is of exquisite workmanship.
Love-Controlled. - April 19
Live in My Love.
Return to Me ever for refilling, that your soul may breathe in, and breathe out, Love, as your lungs breathe in and breathe out, air.
There is nothing in you that creates Love, so how can you give it out unless you are receiving it?
All service, to be truly effective and of permanent value, must be wrought in Love. Where Love is, 'Self' cannot hold sway, and 'Self' nullifies the good in service.
See Me and My thought for you in all your daily life; so, conscious of My Love, you will absorb that Love, until it permeates your whole being, and inspires and illumines all you do and say.
The Joyous War. - April 20
Live much a life apart with Me. In the world but not of it. You can do this even in a crowd, provided 'Self' does not intrude.
It is a sign of progress that you cannot be indulging thoughts of 'Self' and then turn to Me in complete 'Self'-forgetfulness.
Your life must be one of intense service and consecration. Your fight is not so much an active one in the world, as one of active warfare on the unseen plane. A war truly against principalities and powers. Nevertheless a joyous war.
"How Oft in the Conflict. - April 21
Lord, bid me come to Thee upon the waters.
"Come."
All that I did when on earth I do to-day in the Spirit-realm.
My servant Paul realized this Truth when he spoke of Me as the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.
When the faintest fear of all that lies before you disturbs you, when you are conscious of the loss of Spirit-buoyancy, then you are looking at the waves and feeling the wind is contrary.
Then you cry, "Lord, save me, I perish."
And My Hand will be outstretched to save you, as it saved My fearful, doubting Peter.
LIGHT COMES. - 1948 - April 22
"Lord, show me Thyself" is a cry that never goes unanswered.
Not to physical vision comes the awareness, but to spiritual insight, as more and more you realize My Love, My Power and the manifold wonders of My character.
Its Humility; its Majesty; its Tenderness; its Sternness; its Justice; its Mercy; its Healing of sore wounds, and its consuming Fire.
Man turns to books, he studies theology, he seeks from other men the answer to life's riddles, but he does not come to Me.
Is there a problem?
Do not worry over its solution.
Seek Me. Live with Me. Talk to Me. Company with Me, daily, hourly. Lo, suddenly you see.
Words of Life. - April 23
Lord Thy Word abideth and our footsteps guideth.
Treasure My Words in your heart. They will meet your need to-day as surely as they met the needs of those to whom I spoke them when I was on earth for they were not spoken in time but in Eternity.
If My gift to man is Eternal Life, then the words inspired by that Life are eternal, appropriate to your needs to-day as they were then.
But the words and the guidance are not for all. They are for those who ACCEPT MY great gift of Eternal Life.
"And this is Life Eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Christ Jesus, whom Thou has sent."
"Lord Use Me, I Beseech Thee." - April 24
I will use you as you eliminate 'Self' and offer Me a consecrated personality, made in My Image.
There can be no limit to My power to use one such. Nothing is impossible to Me. My Love is limitless, My Tenderness is limitless, My Understanding is limitless.
Every attribute of the Godhead is complete, inexhaustible, in a way you can only dimly see.
Your Limitations. - April 25
The words I give you mark steps in Spiritual Progress.
There can be no limit to the Spirit Power you may possess as 'Self' is turned out and My Will welcomed.
But to those who yield themselves wholly to Me there are limitations as far as the material is concerned, as only what will assist Spiritual growth or manifestation is for these. Yet all your needs will be supplied.
Vain Toil. - April 26
Master we have toiled all night and have taken nothing.
There will be nights of wearied anguish, when you toil and catch nothing.
There will be mornings of rapture when the result of your prayers and longings will be so great as to bring you to your knees with a humility born of a wonder of fulfillment - "the nets brake."
Share the loneliness with Me - the weariness, the dreariness, all with Me, as I share all with you.
Welcome Them. - April 27
More and more I shall send into your life those whom you shall help. Have no fear. Do not doubt your wisdom to deal with them. It is My Wisdom that will help them, not any wisdom of yours.
Shower Love on all. Nothing will be too much that you can do for others. Delight in My Word, in My Love.
As you grow more conscious of that Love you will feel more and more the responsibility laid upon you to make that Great Love of My aching Heart known to those for whom I died, and for whom I ever live to make intercession.
Overshadowing Wings. - April 28
My child you are tired with the burden and heat of the day.
Stay awhile and know that I abide with you, and know that I speak Peace unto your soul.
Dread nothing, fear nothing. Know that all is well. The day is far spent. The toil has been long, but evening rest with Me is sweet.
The gathering gloom of night will be to your heart but the overshadowing wings of the Eternal God.
Deep in your heart you feel the striving of wonderful Truths. Faint sense of the Glory to be revealed.
No Message, But - - April 29
My child, wait before Me.
You may receive no message, but in this waiting time, even if you are not conscious of being taught, you are being changed.
The eye of your soul will be focused upon Me and the insight gained will be calming, remedial, strengthening.
My First Missionary. - April 30
My denunciations were for the self-satisfied.
For the sinner, who felt his failure and weakness, I had the tenderest pity. "Go, and sin no more," was My Word to the woman taken in adultery.
But what a Word of hope that was, revealing as it did the assurance that I trusted her not to fall into sin again. That I deemed her capable of a new life.
The Samaritan woman at Sychar's well I trusted with a secret that even My disciples had not shared fully with Me. She was one of My first missionaries.
I recognized the wealth of love in the offering of the woman who was a sinner. There was no public denunciation of her sin, no repulse of her love.
May - God Calling.
Delay is Not Denial. - May 1
Read the lessons of Divine Control in Nature's laws.
Nature is but the expression of Eternal Thought in Time. Study the outward form - grasp the Eternal Thought, and if you can read the thoughts of the Father, then indeed you know Him.
Leave Me out of nothing. Love all My Ways with you. Know indeed that "All is well." Delay is but the wonderful and all-loving restraint of your Father - not reluctance, not desire to deny - but the Divine Control of a Father who can scarcely brook the delay.
Delay has to be - sometimes. Your lives are so linked up with those of others, so bound by circumstances, that to let your desire have instant fulfillment might in many cases cause another's, as earnest prayer as yours is, to go unanswered.
But think for a moment of the Love and thoughtful care that seeks to harmonize and reconcile all your desires and longings and prayers.
Delay is not denial - not even withholding. It is the opportunity for God to work out your problems and accomplish your desires in the most wonderful way possible for you.
Oh! children, trust Me. Remember that your Maker is also your Servant, quick to fulfill, quick to achieve, faithful in accomplishment. Yes. All is well.
Souls That Smile. - May 2
To conquer adverse circumstances, first conquer yourselves. The answer to the desire of My Disciples to follow Me was "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father Who is in Heaven is perfect."
To accomplish much, be much. In all cases the doing, to be well-doing, must be the mere unconscious expression of the being.
Fear not, fear not, all is well. Let the day be full of little prayers to Me, little turnings towards Me. The smiles of the soul at one it loves.
Men call the Father the First Cause. Yes! See Him as the First Cause of every warm ray, every colour in the sunset, every gleam on the water, every beautiful flower, every planned enjoyment.
Kill Self Now. - May 3
'Self' dethroned - that is the lesson, but in its place put Love for Me, knowledge of Me.
'Self', not only dethroned, but dead. A dead 'Self' is not an imprisoned 'Self'. An imprisoned 'Self' is more potent to harm. In all training - (in Mine of you, and in yours of others) - let 'Self' die.
But for each blow to the life of 'Self' you must at the same time embrace and hold fast the New Life, Life with Me.
It is not a dead 'Self' that men have to fear, but a thwarted, captive, imprisoned 'Self'. That 'Self' is infinitely more 'Self'-centered than the 'Self' allowed full play. But to you My children, I teach a higher science-Law than even freedom of the 'Self'. I teach death to the 'Self'. No repressions, just death. Petty 'Self'-life exchanged for Divine Life.
And now I can make more clear to you what I would say about forgiveness of injuries. It is one of My Commands that as you seek My forgiveness, so you must forgive.
But what you do not see is that you, the 'Self' in you, can never forgive injuries. The very thought of them means 'Self' in the foreground, then the injury, instead of appearing less, appears greater.
No, My children, as all true Love is of God, and is God, so all true forgiveness is of God and is God. The 'Self' cannot forgive. Kill 'Self'.
Cease trying to forgive those who fretted or wronged you. It is a mistake to think about it. Aim at killing the 'Self' now - in your daily life, and then, and not until then, will you find there is nothing that even remembers injury, because the only one injured, the "Self", is dead.
As long as it recurs to your mind you deceive yourself if you think it forgiven. Forgiving injuries can be one way of feeding a 'Self'-life.
Many deceive themselves in this.
Share With Me. - May 4
Delight in My Love. Live in the rapture of The Kingdom.
Claim big things. Claim great things. Claim Joy and Peace and freedom from care. Joy in Me.
I am your Lord, your Creator. Remember, too, that I am the same yesterday, today and for ever. Your Creator, when My thought about the world called it into being - your Creator as much, too, today, when I can, by loving thought for you, call into being all you need on the material plane.
Joy in Me, trust in Me, share all life with Me, see Me in everything, rejoice in Me. Share all with Me as a child shares its pains and cuts and griefs and new-found treasures and joys and little work with its mother.
And give Me the Joy of sharing all with you.
Let Me Choose. - May 5
My loved ones. Yes, with the heart, not the head, men should think of Me, and then worship would be instinctive.
Breathe-in My very Spirit in pure air and fervent desire.
Keep the eye of your spirit ever upon Me, the window of your soul open towards Me. You have ever to know that all things are yours - that what is lovely I delight to give you.
Empty your mind of all that limits. Whatever is beautiful you can have. Leave more and more the choice to Me. You will have no regrets.
Sublime Audacity. - May 6
The way is long and weary. It is a weary world. So many today are weary. "Come unto Me and I will give you rest."
My children, who range yourselves under My flag, you must see that on it are inscribed those words, "The Son of Man."
Whatever the world is feeling, I must feel, I - The Son of Man. You are My followers - so the weariness of man today must be shared by you - the weary and heavy-laden must come to you, and find that rest that you found in Me.
My children, My followers must be prepared not to sit on My right hand and on My left, but to drink of the cup (of sorrow) that I drink of.
Poor world - teach it that there is only one cure for all its ills - Union with Me. Dare to suffer, dare to conquer, be filled with My sublime audacity. Remember that. Claim the unclaimable.
Just what the world would think impossible can always be yours. Remember, My children, sublime audacity.
Against The Tide. - May 7
The oarsman, trusting in Me, does not lean on his oars and drift with the tide, trusting to the current.
Nay, more often - once I have shown The Way - it is against the tide you must direct all your effort. And even when difficulties come, it is by your effort that they will be surmounted. But always strength (the Force) and the Joy in the doing you can have through Me.
My fisherman-disciples did not find the fishes ready on the shore in their nets. I take man's effort and bless that. I require man's effort - he needs My blessing. This partnership it is that means success.
The Rest of God. - May 8
I lead you. The way is clear. Go forward unafraid. I am beside you. Listen, listen, listen to My Voice. My Hand is controlling all.
Remember that I can work through you better when you are at rest. Go very slowly, very quietly from one duty to the next - taking time to rest and pray between.
Do not be too busy. Take all in order (of priority) as I say. The Rest of God is in a realm beyond all man's activities. Venture there often, and you will indeed find Peace and Joy.
All work that results from resting with God is miracle-work. Claim the power (the Force) to work miracles, both of you.
Know that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Nay, more, know that you can do all things through Christ who rests you.
Harmony Within. - May 9
Follow My Guidance. Be afraid to venture on your own as a child fears to leave its mother's side. Doubt of your own wisdom, and reliance on Mine will teach you humility.
Humility is not the belittling of the 'Self'. It is forgetting the 'Self'. Nay, more, forgetting the 'Self', because you are remembering Me.
You must not expect to live in a world where all is harmony. You must not expect to live where others are in unbroken accord with you. It is your task to maintain your own heart peace in adverse circumstances. Harmony is always yours when you strain your ear to catch Heaven's Music.
Doubt always your power or wisdom to put things right, ask Me to right all as you leave it to Me and go on your way loving and laughing. I am Wisdom. Only My Wisdom can rightly decide anything - settle any problem. So rely on Me. All is well.
Calm - Not Speed. - May 10
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. - Isa. 30:15.
All agitation is destructive of good. All calm is constructive of good, and at the same time destructive of evil.
When man wants evil destroyed so often he rushes to action. It is wrong. First be still and know that I am God. Then act only as I tell you. Always calm with God. Calm is trust in action. Only trust, perfect trust can keep one calm.
Never be afraid of any circumstances or difficulties that help you to cultivate this calm. As the world, to attain, has to learn speed, you, to attain, have to learn calm. All great work for Me is done first in the individual soul of the worker.
The Divine Third. - May 11
When I have led you through these storms there will be other words for you, other messages - other guidance.
So deep is your friendship and so great your desire to love and follow and serve Me, that soon, when this time of difficulty is over, to be alone together will always mean to be shut in with Me.
There are few friendships in the world like that and yet I taught, when on earth, as I have taught you both, the power of the two together.
And now tonight I have more to say to you. I say that the time is coming, is even now here, when those who visit you two together, will know that I am the Divine Third in your friendship.
Thrill of Protection. - May 12
Turn out all thoughts of doubt and of trouble. Never tolerate them even for one second. Bar the windows and doors of your souls against them as you would bar your home against a thief who would steal in to take your treasures.
What greater treasures can you have than Peace and Rest and Joy? And these are all stolen from you by doubt and fear and despair.
Face each day with Love and Laughter. Face the storm.
Joy, Peace, Love, My great gifts. Follow Me to find all three. I want you to feel the thrill of protection and safety, now. Any soul can feel this in a harbour, but real joy and victory come only to those alone who sense these when they ride a storm.
Say "All is well." Say it not as a vain repetition. Use it as you use a healing balm for cut or wound, until the poison is drawn out; then, until the sore is healed; then until the thrill of fresh Life floods your Being.
All is well.
Never Judge. - May 13
What Joy follows 'Self'-conquest! You cannot conquer and control others, either of you, until you have completely conquered your 'Self'. He who conquers his 'Self' is far greater than he who defeats a thousand armies.
Can you see yourselves absolutely unmoved? Think of Me before the mocking soldiers, being struck, spat upon, and answering never a word - never a word. Try to see that as Divine Power. Remember by that Power of perfect silence, perfect self-control, you can alone prove your right to govern.
Never judge. The heart of man is so delicate, so complex, only its Maker can know it. Each heart is so different, actuated by different motives, controlled by different circumstances, influenced by different sufferings.
How can one judge of another? Leave to Me the unraveling of the puzzles of life. Leave to Me the teaching of Understanding. Bring each heart to Me, its Maker, and leave it with Me. Secure in the certainty that all that is wrong I can set right.
The Love of a Lover. - May 14
Remember that a loving Master delights in the intimacy of demands made, as much as He desires His followers and friends to delight in the tender intimacy of His demands.
The wonder of family life is expressed in the freedom with which a child politely makes demands and claims, quite as much as in the loving demands the parent makes upon all the Love and Joy of the children. Only as the result of frequent converse with Me, of much prayer to Me, of listening to and obedience to My behests comes that intimacy that makes My followers dare to approach Me as friend to friend.
Yield in all things to My tender insistence but remember I yield, too, to yours. Ask not only the big things I have told you, but ask the little tender signs of Love. Remember that I came as the world's Great Lover. Never think of My love as only a tender compassion and forgiveness. It is that, but it is also the Love of a Lover, who shows His Love by countless words and actions and by tender thought.
In each of you too, remember there is God. That God I reverence and submit to, though I and My Father are as one. So as man grows more and more like My Father in Heaven I bring to our friendship a reverent, tender Love. I see as no man can see the God in you.
It is always given to man to see in his fellow man those aspirations and qualities he himself possesses. So only I, being really God, can recognize the God in man. Remember this, too, in your relation to others.
Your motives and aspirations can only be understood by those who have attained the same spiritual level. So do not vainly, foolishly, expect understanding from others. Do not misjudge them for not giving it. Yours is a foreign language to them.
First The Spiritual. - May 15
What can I say to you? Your heart is torn. Then remember "He bindeth up the broken hearts." Just feel the tenderness of My hands as I bind up your wounds.
You are very privileged, both of you. I share My plans and secrets with you and make known to you My Purposes, while so many have to grope on.
Strive to rest on these words, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you." Then strive not for them but, untiringly, for the things of My Kingdom.
It is so strange to you mortals, you would think the material things first and then grow into the knowledge of Spiritual things. Not so in My Kingdom. It is Spiritual things first and then material. So to attain the material redouble your efforts to acquire the Spiritual.
Prayer and Praise. - May 16
I will be much entreated because I know that only in that earnest supplication, and the calm trust that results, does man learn strength and gain peace. Therefore I have laid that incessant, persistent pleading as a duty upon My disciples.
Never weary in prayer. When one day man sees how marvellously his prayer has been answered, then he will deeply, so deeply, regret that he prayed so little.
Prayer changes all. Prayer re-creates. Prayer is irresistible. So pray, literally, without ceasing.
Pray until you almost cease to pray, because trust has become so rock-like, and then pray on because it has become so much a habit that you cannot resist it.
And always pray until Prayer merges into Praise. That is the only note on which true prayer should end. It is the Love and Laughter of your attitude towards man, interpreted in the Pray and Praise of your attitude towards God.
Sorrow to Joy. - May 17
"Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
My bravest are those who can anticipate the morning and feel in the night of sorrow that underlying Joy that tells of confident expectation of the morning.
New and Vital Power. - May 18
"Look unto Me and be ye saved all the ends of the Earth." Not for merit was salvation, the promise was to all who looked.
To look is surely within the power of everyone. One look suffices. Salvation follows.
Look, and you are saved from despair. Look, and you are saved from care. Look, and you are saved from worry. Look, and into you there flows a peace beyond all understanding - a Power (Force) new and vital, a Joy wonderful indeed.
Look, and keep looking. Doubt flees, Joy reigns and Hope conquers.
Life, Eternal Life, is yours - revitalizing, renewing. But beware that you never look back, after having put your hand to the plough.
Rescued and Guided. - May 19
Rest knowing all is so safe in My Hands. Rest is Trust. Ceaseless activity is distrust. Without the knowledge that I am working for you, you do not rest. Inaction then would be the outcome of despair.
"My Hand is not shortened that it cannot save." Know that, repeat it, rely on it, welcome the knowledge, delight in it. Such a Truth is as a rope flung to a drowning man. Every repetition of it is one pull nearer shore and safety.
Let that illustration teach you a great truth. Lay hold of the truth, pray it, affirm it, hold on to the rope. How foolish are your attempts to save yourself, one hand on the rope, and one making efforts to swim ashore! You may relinquish your hold of the rope and hinder the rescuer - who has to act with the greater caution lest he lose you.
The storms and tempests are not all of life. The Psalmist who said, "All Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me," wrote also, "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings."
Meditate upon that wonder-truth, the three steps - safety, security, guidance. (1) "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit" - Safety. (2) "He set my feet upon a rock" - Security. (3) "He established my goings" - Guidance. No. 3 is the final stage when the saved soul trusts Me so entirely it seeks no more its own way but leaves all future plans to Me, its Rescuer.
Win Me - Win All. - May 20
You will conquer. The conquering spirit is never crushed. Keep a brave and trusting heart. Face all your difficulties in the spirit of Conquest.
Rise to greater heights than you have known before. Remember where I am is Victory. Forces of evil, within and without you, flee at My Presence.
Win Me and all is won. All.
Fling it at My Feet. - May 21
To see Me you must bring Me your cares and show Me your heart of Trust. Then, as you leave your cares, you become conscious of My Presence.
This consciousness persisted-in brings its rewards of Me. Through a mist of care no man may see My Face. Only when the burden is flung at My Feet do you pass on to consciousness and spiritual sight.
Remember obedience, obedience, obedience - The Straight and Narrow Way into the Kingdom. Not of you must it be said, even in lovingly tender reproach - "Why call ye Me 'Lord, Lord' and do not the things that I say."
Character is chiselled into Beauty by the daily discipline and daily duties done. For, in many ways, My disciples must work out their own salvation, though this is not possible without My Strength and Help, and without converse with Me.
Even for the Spiritual Life the training is different for different spirits. The man who would fain live a life of prayer and meditation is thrust into the busy ways of life, and the busy man is bidden to rest and wait patiently for Me. O joy, O rest, and in the busy ways be ever at peace.
Command Your Lord. - May 22
Lord, I claim Thy Help.
Yes! claim, be constantly claiming. There is a trust that waits long, and a trust that brooks no delay - that once convinced of the right of a course, once sure of God's Guidance, says with all the persistence of a child, "Now." "Make no long tarrying, oh, my God."
You are no longer servants but friends. A friend can command his friend - can know that all the friend, the true friend, has is his by right. That does not mean an idle living at the expense of a friend, but the claiming the friend's means: name, time, all that he has, when your supply is exhausted.
Friendship - true friendship, implies the right to appropriate. And in God's service is perfect freedom. Heirs of God - you are joint heirs with Me in the inheritance. We share The Father's property. You have the same right to use and claim as I have. Use your right. A beggar supplicates. A son, a daughter, appropriates.
Small wonder when I see My children sitting before My House supplicating and waiting - that I leave them there until they realize how foolish such action, when they have only to walk into their Home and take.
This cannot be the attitude of all. There must be first a definite realization of sonship.
Little Frets. - May 23
Your lack of control is not due to the big burdens, but to your permitting the little frets and cares and burdens to accumulate.
If anything vex you, deal with that and get that righted with Me before you allow yourself to speak to, or meet anybody, or to undertake any new duty.
Look upon yourself more as performing My errands, and coming back quickly to Me to tell Me that message is delivered, that task done.
Then, with no feeling of responsibility as to result (your only responsibility was to see the duty done), go out again, rejoicing at still more to do for My Sake.
Abundance. - May 24
How unseeing the world goes on! How unknowing of your heartaches and troubles; your battles won; your conquests; your difficulties.
But be thankful, both of you, that there is One Who knows, One Who marks every crisis; every effort; every heartache.
For you both, who are not idle hearers, you must know that every troubled soul I tell you of, is one for you to help. You must help all you can. You do not help enough. As you help, help will flow back and your circle of helpfulness will widen more and more, ever more and more.
Just feel that you are two of My disciples, present at the feeding of the five thousand, and that to you I hand out the food, and you pass it on, and ever more and more. You can always say with so few loaves and fishes, "We have only enough for our own needs." It was not only My blessing, but the Passing-on of the disciples that worked the miracle.
Get a feeling of bounteous giving into your Beings. They were "all filled." There was a supply over.
I give with a large Hand and Heart. Note the draught of fishes. The net brake, the boat began to sink with the lavishness of My Gift. Lose sight of all limitations.
Abundance is God's Supply. Turn out all limited thoughts. Receive showers and in your turn - shower.
Accomplish Anything. - May 25
There will be no limit to what you can accomplish. Realize that. Never relinquish any task or give up the thought of any task because it seems beyond your power, only if you see it is not My Will for you. This I command you.
Think of the tiny snowdrop-shoot in the hard ground. No certainty even that when it has forced its weary way up, sunlight and warmth will greet it.
What a task beyond its power that must seem. But the inner urge of Life within the seed compelling it, it carries out that task. The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto this.
Claim More. - May 26
You are doing your claiming as I have said, and soon you will see the result. You cannot do this long without it being seen in the material. It is an undying Law.
You are at present children practising a new lesson. Practise - practise - soon you will be able to do it so readily.
You see others manifesting so easily, so readily demonstrating My Power. But you have not seen the discipline that went before. Discipline absolutely necessary before this Power is given to My disciples. It is a further initiation.
You are feeling you have learnt so much that life cannot be a failure. That is right, but others have to wait to see the outward manifestation in your lives before they realize this Spiritual Truth.
Roots and Fruits. - May 27
Remember the lesson of the seed, too, in its sending a shoot down so that it may be rooted and grounded, while at the same time it sends a shoot up to be the plant and flower that shall gladden the world.
The two growths are necessary. Without the strong root it would soon wither, as much activity fails for lack of growth in Me. The higher the growth up, the deeper must be the enrooting.
Many forget this, and thus their work ceases to be permanent for Me. Beware of the leaves and flowers without the strong root.
Test Your Love. - May 28
A great love knows that in every difficulty, every trial, every failure, the presence of the loved one suffices. Test your love for Me by this.
Just to be with Me, just to know I am beside you - does that bring you Joy and Peace? If not, then your love for Me, and your realization of My Love, are at fault.
Then, if this be so, pray for more Love.
Forget. - May 29
Regret nothing. Not even the sins and failures. When a man views Earth's wonders from some mountain height he does not spend his time in dwelling on the stones and stumbles, the faints and failures, that marked his upward path.
So with you. Breathe-in the rich blessings of each new day - forget all that lies behind you.
Man is so made that he can carry the weight of twenty-four hours - no more. Directly he weighs down with the years behind, and the days ahead, his back breaks. I have promised to help you with the burden of today only, the past I have taken from you, and if you, foolish hearts, choose to gather again the burden and bear it, then, indeed, you mock Me to expect Me to share it.
For weal or woe each day is ended. What remains to be lived, the coming twenty-four hours, you must face as you awake.
A man on a march on earth carries only what he needs for that march. Would you pity him if you saw him bearing too the overwhelming weight of the worn-out shoes and uniforms of past marches and years? And yet, in the mental and spiritual life, man does these things. Small wonder My poor world is heartsick and weary.
Not so must you act.
The Devil's Death Knell. - May 30
Our Lord, we praise Thee.
Praise is the devil's death knell. Resignation, acceptance of My Will, obedience to it, have not the power to vanquish evil that praise has.
The joyful heart is My best weapon against all evil. Oh! Pray and praise.
You are learning your lesson. You are being led out into a large place. Go with songs of rejoicing. Rejoice evermore. Happy indeed if each day has its thrill of Joy.
Talk to Me during the day. Look up into My Face - a look of Love, a feeling of security, a thrill of Joy at the sense of the nearness of My Presence - these are your best prayers.
Let these smooth the day's work, then fear will vanish, and fear is the grim figure that turns aside success.
Pray Without Words. - May 31
Lord, hear us, we pray.
Listen and I answer. Spend much time in prayer. Prayer is of many kinds, but of whatever kind, prayer is the linking up of the soul and mind and heart to God.
So that if it is only a glance of faith, a look or word of Love, or confidence, and no supplication is expressed, it yet follows that supply and all necessary are secured.
Because the soul, being linked to God, united to Him, receives in and through Him all things. And the soul, when in human form, needs too the things belonging to its habitation.
May - God at Eventide.
Bounteous Giving. - May 1
Not what you can gain in any situation, but what you can give must be your question. You follow Me, of Whom it was said, "Even Christ pleased not Himself." So love, so help, so serve.
Seek the weak and wandering. Care for all.
Realize My overflowing and overwhelming Bounty. The stores of the Lord are inexhaustible. But to test and prove My generosity fully you must be generous.
My lovers give with no niggard hands. A heart overflowing with gratitude for what it has received expands joyous gratitude in giving.
Peace Unto Your Souls. - May 2
Peace I leave with you, My Peace give I unto you.
I knew that only in Peace could My work be done. Only in Peace could My followers help souls to Me. At all costs keep that Peace. If your heart-peace is unruffled, then every thought is a mighty force for ME. Then every act is one of power.
Rely on My leading. Nothing is impossible to Me.
Unlimited expectancy yours. Unlimited power Mine.
Useless Activity. - May 3
Preparation-time is so neglected by My followers. Consequently there is lack of power in work for Me.
To alter the laws of a country is no real remedy for ill. Men's hearts must be altered by contact with Me.
Remember the lessons I have taught you about useless activity. When most work cries out to be done, then it is truly the time - not to rush, but to Commune with Me and My Father.
Never feel strong in yourself. Know that only in My Strength can you accomplish all. No mountain of difficulty can then be insurmountable or immovable.
The Acceptable Gift. - May 4
Rest in My Love. Abide in Me.
Leave all to follow Me - your pride; your self-sufficiency; your fears of what others may think - All.
Have no fear. Go forth into the unknown with Me, fearful of nothing with so sure a convoy.
Just as a flower, given as an offering to a loved one so is your tribute of love to Me.
As Mary gave her Love-offering, spikenard very precious, so give to Me your love and understanding.
Dangerous Channels. - May 5
"Saviour, let me be a channel for Thy Mighty Power."
First you must be kept by that Mighty Power.
For it must be a consecrated life to be so used.
My Power passing through wrong channels would work harm. It could not be.
The alloy of the channel would poison the Spirit-flood.
The Fertile Glade. - May 6
Seek and you shall find.
As a mother hiding from her child puts herself in the way of being found, so with Me. So the finding of Me and of the treasures of My Kingdom may not always depend upon ardent intent securing attainment, but upon the mere setting out on the quest.
Is this a comfort to you?
When you set out upon a time of seeking I place Myself in your way, and the sometime arid path of prayer becomes a fertile glade in which you are surprised to find your search so soon over. Thus mutual Joy.
Clouds and Rain. - May 7
See My goodness in the clouds and rain, as well as in the sunshine of life. Both express so wonderfully the goodness and love of your Lord.
Just as the shady glade, the cool riverside, the mountain-top, the blazing highway, all meet the varying needs of man.
The Dross and the Gold. - May 8
Share your Joy with Me.
Tell Me of all that gladdens you throughout your day. I am near to hear. Feel that I alone share to the full your heart-thrills, because with Me no success of yours engenders regret nor is tinged with envy.
Is it not My Joy, My success, accomplished only in and through Me?
Share all with Me. The disappointment, not only in others but all too poignantly in yourself. Share your backward step as well as the one of progress.
Bring all to Me, and together, in tender Love, we can sift the dross from the gold.
Come back to Me, ever sure of a welcome, ever glad to feel My Presence in and round you.
Call Me Often. - May 9
Speak My Name often during the day. It has the power to banish evil, and to summon Good.
JESUS.
In Me dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead, so that when you call Me you call to your aid all there is of Good to need.
Talk to Me. - May 10
Talk to Me about the world's misunderstanding of Me. Tell Me that your Love will seek to comfort Me for that. Tell Me your life shall be devoted to bringing about an understanding between Me and those you meet who love Me not.
As one who knows a prisoner has been wrongly convicted devotes a life-time to the vindication of that loved one's name, and counts all the trials and troubles, misunderstanding and hardships encountered in so doing, as nothing, so that his object is accomplished - let it be thus with you, longing to make Me known.
Bigger Demands. - May 11
As your faith in Me grows and your sphere of influence extends, your claims will be the greater. Yet no real need of yours shall go unsatisfied.
You will make bigger demands, and ever more and more you will be trusting Me to supply the little wants. This trust will come as you realize My power more and more, and feel My Love, and know its tender watchfulness in every detail of your daily life.
"Rejoice, again I say, Rejoice."
With a loved human friend a big gift may be prized as proof of a big love, but great devotion is displayed even more in the anticipation of the little wants, in the solicitude shown in little ways.
Delight in My Love, so shown.
Lord of Joy. - May 12
THE UNSPEAKABLE JOY offered Himself for joyful recognition.
This is a further stage of development.
You enter upon it when you realize that I was the expression in time of the Joy of all Eternity. That joy I offered to all who would see in My Way the path of Joy, and who would hail Me, not only as the Man of Sorrows but as the Lord of Joy.
This truth becomes known to those only who give joyful recognition to this all-amazing, all-sustaining, all-revealing JOY.
Highways and Byways. - May 13
The Way of Holiness differs for each of My followers as the character of each differs. My command for you is not necessarily My command for another.
My followers often forget this. Because I may have told them to take a certain road they are sure that you should be walking in the same way.
Heed them not. Remember, too, that a way of discipline for you may not be My will for another.
You Have Been Warned. - May 14
Fasting is the starving-out of 'Self'. It may not always be by food-abstinence. But it is an absolute essential for progress in the Life with Me.
There is no standing still in the Jedi life. If there is not progress there is retrogression.
I redeemed you. Bought you back from slavery to sin, of whatever kind.
So, when weakness overcomes you, and you yield to temptation, you make of My Redemption a mockery.
Grasp This Truth. - May 15
Too many hinder their work for Me by seeking to justify themselves. You are fighting for Christ the King, not for your-'Self'. The explaining or justifying must be for Me.
In any difficulty with another put yourself in his place and pray that his difficulty may be solved for him.
This will bring about a solution of yours, and help you to see better that for which you should pray. Putting yourself in his place will help to remove the Beam from your eye and thereby enable you to see clearly the Mote in his eye, so you can remove it.
The power to realize the needs of those you contact can only be acquired by absorbing sympathy and understanding from My Life. So, time for knowing Me must be increasingly dear and necessary to you.
Your task is to show the Power of My Spirit working through a life of yielded will, and the Joy that transforms the life when this is so.
Hungry Hearts. - May 16
We would see Jesus.
This is still the cry of a hungry; dissatisfied; seeking world.
I look to My followers to satisfy that cry.
Reflect Me, that the Seekers may see Me in you, and then go on to company with Me.
Rejoice at this as John rejoiced when he could point his disciples to Me with the brave and humble words, "He must increase, but I must decrease."
Go on in Faith and Joy and Love.
My Messenger Goes Before. - May 17
When you think of Me as your Rescuer, remember it is not only from sin, depression or despair.
It is from the difficulties of life also and from perplexity as to your path. I solve your problems. I provide the channel through which help will come.
I send My messenger to prepare your way before you. I train you so that you may be fitted for your next task, so that you may be worthy of My promised blessing. That Blessing which I long to shower on you.
The Healing Light. - May 18
Wherever My followers go, there should be My Light surrounding them. The Light of the Sun of Righteousness.
Evil cannot live in that Light.
Man is only just learning that Light banishes disease.
Every follower of Mine who is in close personal touch with Me is surrounded by this Light. Light Eternal. Light reflected by a consciousness of My Presence.
So whether he speak or not he must be the means of diffusing My Light wherever he goes.
The Ordered Life. - May 19
You cannot be doing My work well and wielding a worthy influence unless all your life is ordered.
Let that be your aim and your achievement.
Secure this order and you will be able to do so much more in My service, and, without haste or unrest, reflect more the order and beauty of My Kingdom.
You need this discipline in your life.
Peace is the result of an ordered life lived with Me.
Prepare yourself for each task, for each occasion. Pray for those you will contact; your time with them.
This will save discord, and will enable the work and planning, in which you co-operate with them, to be fruitful for good.
Spirit Waves. - May 20
You have been told to end all prayer upon a note of praise.
That note of praise is not only faith rising up through difficulties to greet Me. It is even more. It is the Soul's recognition that My Help is already on the way.
It is the echo in your heart of the sound borne on Spirit Waves.
It is given to those who love and trust Me to sense this approach.
So rejoice and be glad, for truly your redemption draweth nigh.
Soften the Soil. - May 21
In My story of the Sower the hearts that lost the blessing, that held no good result, lost it because My servants had failed to prepare the ground.
They had failed to guard those they sought to influence, against the power of evil, and hardness of heart. They had failed to brace them to bear trouble and difficulty. They had failed to warn them against becoming too engrossed with having and getting.
The ground of the Sower had not been prepared. Much prayer must precede seed-sowing if the labour is not to be in vain.
So seek to prepare My way before Me. Then I, the Great Sower, will come. Harvest will indeed be great.
Christianity Has Not Failed. - May 22
Men are trying to live the Christian life in the Light and Teaching of My seven years' Mission alone. That was never My Purpose.
I came to reveal My Father, to show the God-Spirit working in man. I taught, not that man was only to attempt to copy the JESUS the Nazarite, but that man was also to be so possessed by My Spirit, the Spirit actuating all I did, that he would be inspired as I was.
Seek to follow Me by the Power of the In-dwelling Spirit which I bequeathed to you. This Spirit WILL guide you into all Truth.
I told My disciples that I could not tell them all but the Spirit would guide them. That is where My followers fail Me. Dwell more and more upon this Spirit-Guidance, promised to all, and so little claimed.
Getting and Giving. - May 23
Come, My children, come and gladly claim. Come and take from Me. Come with outstretched hands to receive.
And keep nothing. Eagerly pass on My gifts so that I may again bless your emptiness and refill your vessels.
You begin to understand this Law of Supply.
Man does not realize that for the children of the Kingdom the Law is not that which rules outside.
My followers must be channels through which My gifts can pass to others. You cannot obtain My supply and follow the way of the world.
No Separation. - May 24
Come to Me.
At first with reluctant footsteps, then, as our Friendship grows, ever more and more eagerly, until the magic of My Presence not only calls but holds you, and reluctantly you turn to earth's ways and duties again.
But, as time passes, even that reluctance passes too, as you know there is no separation, not even a temporary one, in such Companionship; because I go with you and My Words you carry ever in your heart.
New Temptations. - May 25
You will find that as you grow in Grace, evil forces are more ready to hinder your work and influence.
Walk warily, watchfully.
Always see that there is a new discipline to become a part of your armour, for as you progress new temptations will present themselves.
In rarified air there are subtle dangers unknown in the valley or on the lower sides of the mountain. Many a disciple fails because he is not aware of the mountain dangers.
A Day at a Time. - May 26
The problems of tomorrow cannot be solved without the experience of today.
There is a plan for your lives dependent upon the faithful work of each day. You frustrate that plan if you leave today's task incomplete, while you bestir and fret yourself over tomorrow's happenings.
You will never learn the Law of Supply if you do this, and the learning of that law is the lesson for now.
Home of Content. - May 27
Can you not trust My supply?
All is yours. Could I plan your journey, your way of life, your work and not count the cost?
Can you not trust Me even as you would trust an earthly friend? Live in My Kingdom and then the supply of the Kingdom is yours.
I wish you to learn the Glory of a God-protected life.
No idle, fruitless rushing hither and thither.
Storms may rage, difficulties press hard, but you will know no harm . . . safe, protected and guided.
Love knows no fear.
Care for All. - May 28
Realize My overflowing and overwhelming Bounty. The stores of the Lord are inexhaustible, but to test My generosity to the full you must be generous.
My lovers give with no niggard hands.
Cares Cared For. - May 29
Casting all your care upon Him, for He hath care of you.
How precious these words. Care, attention, and the Love which prompts them, are all indicated here, as also the most tender provision.
You are not told to put your worries away merely so that you may forget about them, but to cast them upon God. That is different: they will be dealt with.
Difficulties will be cleared away, mistakes rectified, weaknesses remedied, disease healed, problems solved.
See Clear. - May 30
Your power to help your brother does not depend upon him: it is in your own hands. It is conditional upon your casting out the beam out of your own eye.
Attack not your brother's faults but your own. As you eradicate those you discover where your brother needs help, and you acquire the power to give him that help to conquer and to eradicate his faults.
Into My Likeness. - May 31
"Changed . . .from Glory to Glory." Changed from one character to another. Each change marking as it were a milestone on the Spiritual Highway.
The Beauty of the view you see in the distance is the realization of My character, My Glory, towards which with varying pace you are hourly progressing.
The way to secure better progress is to keep your gaze on your goal. Not on the road you traverse, assuredly not on the way by which you have come. Your goal is that Glory or Character that you see more and more clearly in Me, your Lord and Master.
"It doth not yet appear what you shall be, but know that when I shall appear (that is to you, to your sight, when you see Me), you shall be like Me, for you shall see Me as I am."
June - God Calling.
Companionship. - June 1
The way of the soul's transformation is The Way of Divine Companionship.
Not so much the asking Me to make you this or that but the living with Me, thinking of Me, talking to Me - thus you grow like Me.
Love Me. Rest in Me.
Joy in Me.
My Image. - June 2
My Lord and my God, we praise Thee, we bless Thee, we worship Thee. Make us like Thee.
You are willing to drink of the cup that I drink of - the wine of sorrow and disappointment.
You are Mine and will grow both of you more and more like Me, your Master.
True it is today as it was in the days of Moses that no man can see My Face and live.
The 'Self', the original man, shrivels up and dies, and upon the soul (Being) becomes stamped My Image.
Eject Sin With Love. - June 3
Our Lord, we love and praise Thee. Thou art our Joy and our exceeding great reward.
Remember that Love is the power which transforms the world. Love not only of Me, Love not only of the few dear to you, but Love of all - of the publicans - the sinners - the harlots - Love, not emotion.
It is the only weapon with which sin can be driven out. Drive sin out with Love.
Drive fear and depression and despair and a sense of failure out with Praise.
Praise is the acknowledgment of that which I have sent you. Few men would send a further gift of payment until they had received the acknowledgment of the previous one. So praise, acknowledging, as it does, My gift and blessing, that leaves the way open for Me to shower yet more on the thankful heart.
Learn, as a child learns, to say "Thank you" as a courtesy, with perhaps no real sense of gratitude at all. Do this until at last a thrill of joy, of thankful awe, will accompany the spoken word.
Do not expect for yourselves feelings that you know others have or have had. Just go on along the arid way of obedience, and persistence will be rewarded as you come to the Spring, the glad Spring of Water.
Oh, joy in Me, and, as far as in you lies, shed Joy on all around.
Divine Patience. - June 4
Lord, make us like Thee. Mould us into Thy likeness.
Moulding, My children, means cutting and chiselling. It means sacrifice of the personal to conform to type. It is not only My work but yours.
The swift recognition of the selfish in your desires and motives, actions, words and thoughts, and the instant appeal to Me for help to eradicate that.
It is a work that requires co-operation - Mine and yours. It is a work that brings much sense of failure and discouragement too, at times, because, as the work proceeds, you see more and more clearly all that yet remains to be done.
Shortcomings you had hardly recognized or at least for which you had had no sense of sorrow, now cause you trouble and dismay.
Courage! That is in itself a sign of progress.
Patience, not only with others, but, each of you, with yourself.
As you see the slow progress upward made by you, in spite of your longing and struggle, you will gain a divine patience with others whose imperfections trouble you.
So on and up. Forward. Patience - Perseverance - Struggle. Remember that I am beside you, your Captain and your Helper. So tender, so patient, so strong.
Yes, we co-operate, and as I share your troubles, failures, difficulties, heartaches, so, as My friends, you share My patience, and My strength - beloved.
That Tender Voice. - June 5
Very quietly I speak. Listen to My Voice. Never heed the voices of the world - only the tender Divine Voice.
Listen and you will never be disappointed. Listen, and anxious thoughts and tired nerves will become rested. The Voice Divine - not so much in strength as in tenderness. Not so much in power as in restfulness.
But the tenderness and the restfulness will heal your scars and make you strong, and then it must be your task to let all your power be My Power (The Force). Man's little power is as clay beside the granite rock of My Power.
You are My great care. Never feel at the mercy of the world. My angels guard you day and night and nothing can harm you. You would indeed thank Me if you knew the fiery darts of fret and evil they turn from you.
Thank Me indeed for dangers unknown - unseen - but averted.
How Men See Me. - June 6
I came to help a world. And according to the varying needs of each so does each man see Me.
It is not necessary that you see Me as others see Me - the world, even the community, My disciples, My followers, but it is necessary that you see Me, each of you, as supplying all that you personally need.
The weak need My Strength. The strong need My Tenderness. The tempted and fallen need My Salvation. The righteous need My Pity for sinners. The lonely need a Friend. The fighters need a Leader.
No man could be all these to men - only a God could be. In each of these relations of Mine to men you must see the God. The God-Friend, the God-Leader, the God-Saviour.
True Beauty. - June 7
Incline your ear, and come unto Me: hear and your soul shall live. - Isa. 55:3
Not only live but grow in grace and power and beauty - the true Beauty, the Beauty of Holiness.
Reach ever forward after the things of My Kingdom.
In the animal world the very form of an animal alters to enable it to reach that upon which it delights to feed.
So, reaching after the treasures of My Kingdom, your whole nature becomes changed, so that you can best enjoy and receive the wonders of that Kingdom.
Dwell on these truths.
The Only Way. - June 8
Down through the ages My Power alone has kept millions of souls brave and true and strong who otherwise would have fallen by the way.
The Faith has been kept alive and handed down, not by the dwellers in ease, but by those who struggled and suffered and died for Me.
This life is not for the body, it is for the soul (Being), and man too often chooses the way of life that best suits the body. Not the way that best suits the soul. And I permit only what best suits the soul.
Accept this and a wonderful moulding is the result. Reject it and My Purpose is frustrated, your best prayer unanswered, progress (Spiritual progress) delayed, trouble and grief stored up.
Try, each of you, to picture your soul as a third, being trained by us - by you and Me - and then you will share, and rejoice in sharing, in the discipline and training.
Stand apart from your soul with Me and welcome training - rejoice at progress.
An Obstacle Race. - June 9
Rise above your fears and fancies into My Joy. It will suffice to heal all your sores and wounds. Forget all sense of failure and shortcomings, all the painful jolts and jars, and trust Me, love Me, call upon Me.
Your discipleship is an obstacle race. "So run that ye may obtain." Obtain not only your hearts' desires, but obtain Me - your souls' Joy and Haven.
What would you think of the runner who threw himself on the ground in despondency at his first hurdle?
Over, and on and up. I am your Leader and your goal.
The Day of Trouble. - June 10
Offer unto Me the sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to The Most High, and then call upon Me in the day of trouble and I will deliver you.
To praise and thank and steadily fulfill your promises (vows) to Me are then, as it were, the placing of coin in My Bank, upon which, in your time of need, you can draw with confidence and certainty. Remember that.
The world wonders when it sees the man who can so unexpectedly draw large and unsuspected sums from his bank for his own need, that of a friend, or for some charity.
But what the world has not seen are the countless small sums paid into that bank, earned by faithful work in many ways.
And so in My Kingdom. The world sees the man of faith make a sudden demand upon Me, upon My stores, and lo! that demand is met.
The world thinks the man has magic power - No! the world does not see that the man has been paying in, in thanks and praise, promises fulfilled - faithfully, steadily.
So with you, My children. "Offer to God the sacrifice of Thanksgiving and pay your vows to The Most High and call upon Me in the day of trouble and I will deliver you."
This is a promise for the seemingly dull days of little happenings, and a cheer for you, My children. When you seem not able to do big things you can be storing your little acts and words of faithfulness in My Great Storehouse, ready for the day of your big demand.
My Mark! - June 11
O Lord, we thank Thee for Thy great gift of Peace.
That is the Peace that only I can give in the midst of a restless world and surrounded by trouble and difficulty. To know that Peace is to have received the stamp of the Kingdom - the mark of the Lord Christ Jesus. My Mark.
When you have learned that Peace you are fit to judge of true values, the values of the Kingdom, and the values of all the world has to offer.
That Peace is loving faith and rest.
House on a Rock. - June 12
Be watchful to hear My Voice and instantly to obey. Obedience is your great sign of faith. "Why call ye Me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not the things that I say" was My word when on Earth to the many who followed and heard, but did not do.
I likened the man who heard and did not do to the man who built his house on the sand. In times of storm and trouble he is overthrown, his house falls.
I likened the man who obeyed Me implicitly to the man who built his house upon a rock. In times of storm he is steadfast, immovable.
Do not feel that by this I mean only the keeping of My Commandments, even the living My Sermon on the Mount. I mean more than that to those who know Me intimately. I mean the following, in all, the Inner Guiding that I give, the little injunctions I speak to each individual soul, the wish I express - and desire to have carried out.
The secure, steadfast, immovable life of My disciples, the Rock-Home, is not built at a wish, in a moment, but is laid, stone by stone, foundations, walls, roof, by the acts of obedience, the daily following out of My wishes, the loving doing of My Will.
"He that heareth these sayings of Mine and doeth them is like unto a man who built his house upon a rock, and the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell not, for it was founded upon a Rock."
And it is in that Rock-Home, man-made but divinely inspired - the House of Obedience - the truest expression of a disciple's adoration and worship - it is there I come to dwell with My loved one.
Am I not giving you work, hope? Work for the grey days? Just little plain bricks of duties done and My Wishes carried out. All strengthening you and making of your character that steadfast, immovable Christian Character of which My servant Paul spoke and which he urged his followers to have.
God-Inspired. - June 13
You have entered now upon a mountain climb. Steep steps lead upward, but your power to help others will be truly marvellous.
Not alone will you arise. All towards whom you now send loving, pitying thoughts will be helped upward by you.
Looking to Me all your thoughts are God-inspired. Act on them and you will be led on. They are not your own impulses but the movement of My Spirit and, obeyed, will bring the answer to your prayers.
Love and Trust. Let no unkind thoughts of any dwell in your hearts, then I can act with all My Spirit-Power, with nothing to hinder.
Face Today With Me. - June 14
Our Lord and our God. Make us all Thou wouldst have us.
It is not circumstances that need altering first, but yourselves, and then the conditions will naturally alter. Spare no effort to become all I would have you. Follow every leading. I am your only Guide.
Endeavour to put from you every thought of trouble. Take each day, and with no backward look, face the day's problem with Me, and seek My Help and guidance as to what you can do.
Never look back and never leave until the morrow that on which you can get My Guidance for today.
"Glory, Glory Dawneth." - June 15
I am planning for you. Wonderful are My Ways beyond your knowledge.
Oh! realize My Bounty and My Goodness more and more. The wonder of being led by Me! The beauty of a guided life!
These will enter your consciousness more and more and bring you ever more and more Joy.
You are very, very near at the point when you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you.
You have entered upon a wonderful era - your lives are planned and blessed by Me as never before.
You are overcoming. You are counting all things but loss if you can win Me. And the promises to him that overcometh are truly wonderful, and will always be fulfilled.
Seek Me Early. - June 16
Walk in My Way and trust Me. No evil can touch you. I am yours as truly as you are Mine. Rest in that truth.
Rest, that is, cease all struggle. Gain a calm, strong confidence in that certainty. Do not only rest in Me when the world's struggles prove too much and too many for you to bear or face alone. Rest in Me when you need perfect understanding, when you need the consciousness of tender, loving friendship and intercourse.
The world, My poor world, flies to Me when its difficulties are too great to be surmounted in any other way, forgetting, or never realizing, that if, with the same eagerness, those hearts sought Me merely for companionship and loving intercourse, many of the difficulties would not arise.
The circumstances, the life, the character would be so altered - so purified, that those same difficulties would not exist.
Seek Me early, that is the way to find Me. Early, before I get crowded out by life's troubles, and difficulties and pleasures.
Dear Name. - June 17
"Jesus." Say My Name often. It was in My Name Peter bade the lame man walk. "In the Name of Christ Jesus the Nazarite arise and walk."
"Jesus." The very sounding of My Name, in Love and tenderness, drives away all evil. It is the word before which all the hosts of evil flee.
"Jesus." My Name is the call for a life-line to rescue you from temptation.
"Jesus." The Name banishes loneliness - dispels gloom.
"Jesus." Summons help to conquer your faults.
I will set you on high because you have known My Name.
Yes! My Name - "Jesus." Use it more. Use it tenderly. Use it prayerfully. Use it powerfully. Never take it in vain.
Wait. - June 18
The world has always seen service for Me to be activity. Only those near to Me have seen that a life apart, of prayer, may, and does so often, accomplish more than all the service man can offer Me.
If man lived apart with Me and only went out to serve at My direct command My Spirit could operate more and accomplish truly mighty things.
The Success You Covet. - June 19
Follow the path of obedience. It leads to the Throne of God. Your treasure, be it success necessary on the material plane, which will further the work of My Kingdom, or the hidden spiritual wonders revealed by Me only to those who diligently seek, this treasure lies at the end of the track.
From one point (a Promise of Mine or a Command) to the next, you have to follow, till finally you reach the success you covet.
All your work for the moment is in the material plane and the spiritual is only to help the material. When your material goal is reached then the material will serve only to attain the spiritual.
Miracles Again. - June 20
Wait to hear My Will and then obey. At all costs obey.
Do not fear. I am a wall of protection around you.
See this. To see this with the eyes of faith is to cause it to manifest in the material.
Remember I long to work miracles, as when on earth I wrought them, but the same condition holds good. I cannot do many mighty works because of unbelief.
So only in response to your belief can I do miracle-works now.
See As I See. - June 21
O Lord, we praise Thee. Bless us, we beseech Thee.
I Bless you. I promise you release. Joy in Me. You shall be shielded from the storm.
Wonders have unfolded. Just to come before Me and stay for a while in My Presence - this must strengthen and help you.
Learn of Me. The only way for so many in My poor world to keep calm, sane, is to have the mind which is in Christ Jesus. The mind which is in Me.
That mind you can never obtain by reasoning, or by reading, but only by living with Me and sharing My Life.
Think much of Me. Speak much of Me. See others as I see them. Let nothing less satisfy you.
Your Red Sea. - June 22
Go forward fearlessly.
Do not think about the Red Sea that lies ahead.
Be very sure that when you come to it the waters will part and you will pass over to your promised land of freedom.
Cling To Me. - June 23
Cling to Me until the Life from Me - the Divine Life, by that very contact, flows into your Being and revives your fainting spirit.
Become recharged. When weary, do as I did on Earth - Sit by the well. Rest.
Rest and gain power and strength and the work too will come to you as it came to Me.
Rest till every care-thought has gone, and then let the Tide of Love and Joy flow in.
When Guidance Tarries. - June 24
As I prompt you - act. When you have no clear guidance, then go forward quietly along the path of duty I have set before you.
No fear, no panic, quietly doing your daily duty.
This attitude of faith will receive its rewards, as surely as the acting upon My direct Guidance.
Rejoice in the sense of security that is yours.
God's Friendship. - June 25
I am your Friend. The Companion of the dreary ways of life.
I rob those ways of their greyness and horror. I transform them. Even in earthly friendships the common way, the weary way, the steep way, may seem a way to Heaven if the presence of some loved human friend transforms them.
Let the Sabbath calm enwrap your minds and hearts. Let it be at rest from the worry and fret of life, a halt by the busy highway when you seek some rest and shade.
Have you ever realized the wonder of the friendship you can have with Me? Have you ever thought what it means to be able to summon at will the God of the World?
Even with a privileged visitor to an earthly king there is the palace ante-chamber, and the time must be at the pleasure of the king.
But to My subjects I have given the right to enter My Presence when they will, nay more they can summon Me to bedside, to workshop - and I am there.
Could Divine Love do more? Your nearest earthly friend cannot be with you on the instant. Your Lord, your Master, your Divine Friend - Yes.
When men seek to worship Me they think of the worlds I rule over, of creation, of mighty law and order - and then they feel the awe that precedes worship.
To you I say feel awe, feel the desire to worship Me in wondering amazement. But think too of the mighty, tender, humble condescension of My Friendship. Think of Me in the little things of everyday life.
Do Not Rush. - June 26
Learn in the little daily things of life to delay action until you get My Guidance . . .
So many lives lack poise. For in the momentous decisions and the big things of life, they ask My help but into the small things they rush alone.
By what you do in the small things those around you are most often antagonized or attracted.
No Self-Reproach. - June 27
The Eternal Arms shelter you. "Underneath are the Everlasting Arms." This promise is to those who rise above the Earth-life and seek to soar higher, to the Kingdom of Heaven.
You must not feel the burden of your failure. Go on in faith, the clouds will clear, and the way will lighten - the path becomes less stony with every step you take. So run that you may obtain. A rigid doing of the simple duties, and success will crown your efforts.
I had no words of reproach for any I healed. The man was whole and free who had wrecked his physical being by sin - whose palsy I healed.
The woman at the well was not overwhelmed by My, "Thou hast five husbands, he whom thou hast is not thy husband."
The woman taken in adultery was told, "Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more." She was not told to bear the burden of the consciousness of her sin . . .
Remember now abideth these three, Faith, Hope and Charity. Faith is your attitude towards Me. Charity/compassion your attitude towards your fellow man but, as necessary, is Hope, which is confidence in yourself to succeed.
Table of Delights. - June 28
It has not been in vain this training and teaching time. The time of suppression, repression, depression is changed now into a time of glorious expression.
Life is flooded through and through with Joy and Gladness. Indeed I have prepared a table of delights, a feast of all good things for you.
Indeed your cup runneth over and you can feel from the very depth of your heart: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever."
My Will - Your Joy. - June 29
Our Lord and our God. Lead us, we beseech Thee. Lead us and keep us.
You can never go beyond My Love and Care.
Remember that. No evil can befall you. Circumstances I bless and use must be the right ones for you.
But I know always that the first step is to lay your will before Me as an offering, ready that I shall do what is best, sure that, if you trust Me, what I do for you will be best.
Your second step is to be sure, and to tell Me so, that I am Powerful enough to do everything ("The hearts of kings are in My rule and governance"), that no miracle is impossible with Me ("With God all things are possible" and I and My Father are as One).
Then leave all with Me. Glad to leave all your affairs in a Master Hand. Sure of safety and protection. Remember you cannot see the future. I can.
You could not bear it. So only little by little can I reveal it to you. Accept My Will and it will bring you Joy.
Understand Them. - June 30
Take Joy wherever you go. You have been much blessed. You are being much blessed.
Such stores of blessing are awaiting you in the months and years that lie ahead. Pass every blessing on.
Love can and does go round the world, passed on the God-Currents from one to the other.
Shed a little sunshine in the heart of one, that one is cheered to pass it on, and so My vitalizing Joy-giving message goes.
Be transmitters these days. Love and Laugh. Cheer all. Love all.
Always seek to understand others and you cannot fail to love them.
See Me in the dull, the uninteresting, the sinful, the critical, the miserable.
See Me in the laughter of children and the sweetness of old age, in the courage of youth and the patience of man and womanhood.
June - God at Eventide.
Confidence. - June 1
Character-change comes by doing My Will in days when you see no Vision and hear no Voice.
Never leave the path of strict observance of all you were told to do when you saw Me and spoke to Me on the Mount. If you do you walk into serious danger.
These dull days are your practice days. Difficulties appear, failure seems inevitable. But all is necessary, so that you may learn to adapt your life to the teaching I have given; you may realize your own weakness; develop obedience and perseverance, without waiting for further instruction and inspiration.
Persevere with patience. I guide you still, for I am with you when you do not realize My Presence.
More faith will come through the confidence arising from experience.
Shake Free. - June 2
Come unto Me . . . and I will give you rest.
Rest in the midst of work. Heart-rest in the knowledge of My keeping Power.
Feel that rest stealing into your Being. Incline your ear and come unto Me, hear and your soul (Being) shall live. Grow in strength, not overgrown by cares.
Let not the difficulties of life, like weeds, choke the rest of your soul, choke and tether the soaring freedom of your spirit.
Rise above these earth-bonds into newness of life, abundant and victorious. Rise.
Praise For Everything. - June 3
Confidence must be the finishing chord of every contact between you and Me. Joyful confidence. You must end upon the Joy-note.
The union between a soul and Me is attained in its beauty and complete satisfaction only when, in every incident, that soul achieves praise.
Love and laugh and thank Me all the time.
Delve. - June 4
Consider the Truths of My Kingdom as well worth all search, all sacrifice. Dig down into the soil. Dig when it means toil, fatigue.
Above and below the ever-present material you must look for My Hidden Treasure. It is not what you say, but what you perceive, that will influence other lives.
My Spirit will communicate this to you and also to those round you. So for their sakes delve.
Delve Further. - June 5
Examine yourself. Ask Me and I will show you what you are doing wrong - if only you will listen humbly and be unreservedly determined to do My Will.
True Joys. - June 6
Continue ye in My Love. Seek nothing for yourself, only what you can use for Me. Rely on Me for all. Be meek, not only towards Me but towards others. Love to serve. Have no fear. Seek to be true in all. Be full of Joy.
The world wants to see Joy, not in the thrills of worldly pleasures and dissipations, but in the beauty of Holiness. In the ecstasy of peaceful safety with Me. In that thrill of spiritual adventure My true followers know, in the satisfaction that 'Self'-conquest gives.
Let your world see that you are steadfast, immovable.
Lose Life's Sting. - June 7
Submit yourself entirely to My Control, My Kingship; then the sting is taken out of life's rebuffs.
Welcome each contact as of My planning. Be ready to widen your circle of influence at My wish. Do not let age or other limitations daunt you.
Trust Me. Can I not judge your fitness for the task I give you? Have not I a Love for your acquaintances as well as for you?
Do not question My decisions. All is planned in Love for all My children. Only 'Self'-will can hinder the carrying out of the Divinely-conceived plan.
Work gladly, knowing all needed wisdom shall be provided, also all needed material to do My Work.
Perennial Youth. - June 8
Count all well lost, all other work well foregone, to rest apart with Me.
From these times you go out strengthened, glad, full of Life-giving Joy - My Joy that you can never find anywhere else but with Me, the Joy-giving Christ.
Let others sense this Joy. More than any words this will show them the priceless gain of life with Me.
You shall truly find that there is no age in My Kingdom, in My Companionship.
Set Apart. - June 9
Count not these days as lost.
You have, even in this seemingly narrow life, countless opportunities for 'Self'-conquest. There is no greater task than that.
I set apart those who greatly desire to reflect Me, because there is danger that in the crowded ways, and among others, 'Self' will gain the ascendancy.
For a time, until 'Self' is recognized and conquered, you too must withdraw into the wilderness.
You are learning much, and I am your Teacher.
Come with Me into a desert place and rest awhile.
Do You Remember? - June 10
Cultivate the habit of thinking about Me. God is everywhere. My Presence is always with you, but recollection brings consciousness of that Presence and closer friendship.
Deliberately recall some event in My life, some teaching of Mine, some act of love. So will you impress Me upon your character and life.
Your learning and accomplishments are valueless without My Grace, which is sufficient for you. Leave planning to Me. Leave Me to open or close the way.
Prepare yourself for all I am preparing for you.
Simple Obedience. - June 11
Dear Lord, teach me to obey Thee in all things.
You are Mine, pledged to serve Me.
Every want of yours has been anticipated. Look back and see how each failure has been due to your not having obeyed implicitly the instructions I gave you in preparation for that task or trial.
Listening to My Voice implies obedience. I am a tender Lord of Love, but I am a Captain with whose words there must be no trifling.
You are a volunteer, no conscript, but if you expect the privileges of My Service you must render Me the obedience of that service.
The Way of obedience may seem hard and dreary, but the security of My ordered life the untrained soul can never know. March in step with your Captain.
Spiritual Renewal. - June 12
Deep life-giving draughts of My Spirit are yours.
Think of the aridness, the thirst, that is unquenched till the whole unsatisfied Being is age-worn.
Can you help man in any better way than by proving to him that the cleansing waters of My Spirit have power to wash away all that hinders growth, and to satisfy to the full every thirst of your nature?
Conquest of Fear. - June 13
It is not thinking about Me, but dwelling with Me that brings perfect fearlessness.
There can be no fear where I am. Fear was conquered when I conquered all Satanic power. If all My followers knew this, and affirmed it with absolute conviction, there would be no need of armed forces to combat evil.
The Soul Restored. - June 14
Do not sorrow if, after time with Me, you cannot repeat to yourself all the lessons you have learned. Enough that you have been with Me.
Do you need to know the history of plant or tree to enjoy the countryside? You have inhaled pure air and been refreshed with the beauty of the landscape. Enough for the day. So, too, you have been in My Presence and found rest unto your souls.
Down in the Valley. - June 15
Do not let doubt or fear assail or depress you because of this time of anguish and failure-sense through which you have passed. No, this had to be.
Useful work lies ahead of you. Before the onset of so great a task My servant has usually to walk through the Valley of Humiliation, or in the wilderness.
If I, your Lord, before I began My Mission, had to have My forty days of temptation, how could you expect to go all unprepared to your great task?
You must taste anew the shame of unworthiness, of failure and of nothingness before you go forth with Me conquering and to conquer.
Down into Egypt. - June 16
Down into Egypt, back into Galilee. These journeys were gladly undertaken. They meant no family upheaval, for was not the desire of that Family but to fulfill Divine Intent?
Upheavals come only when man is set on some particular way of life, and is called to forgo that.
When the fixed desire is to do the Father's Will, then there is no real change. The leaving of home, town, country is but as the putting off of a garment that has served its useful purpose.
Change is only Spiritual progress when the life is lived with Me, the Changeless One.
Bind Their Wounds. - June 17
Draw from Me not only the Strength you need for yourself, but all you need for the wounded ones to whom I shall lead you. Remember no man liveth to himself. You must have Strength for others.
They will come to you in ever-increasing numbers. Will you send them empty away? Draw from Me and you will not fail them.
Nearer to Thee. - June 18
"Lord, show me Thyself," is a cry that never goes unanswered.
Not often to physical vision comes the awareness but to spiritual insight, as more and more you realize My Love, My Power, and the manifold wonders of My character - its humility; its Majesty; its tenderness; its sternness; justice; mercy; healing and consuming fire.
Draw nigh to Me, and I will draw nigh to you.
My Healing Power. - June 19
When life is difficult then relax completely; sleep or rest in conscious reliance on My Healing Power.
Endeavour that others may never see you anything but rested, strong, happy, joyful.
Before you meet seek renewal in My Secret Place.
Your tears and cares must be shared with Me alone.
My blessing be upon you.
Living Waters. - June 20
Drink of the water that I shall give you, and you shall never thirst.
I will lead you beside the waters of comfort.
I will give unto you Living Water.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so longeth my soul after Thee, O God.
This is the thirst that can never go unsatisfied.
Yours. - June 21
Appeal to Me often. Do not implore so much as claim My Help as your right.
It is yours in Friendship's name. Claim it with a mighty, impelling insistence. It is yours.
Not so much Mine to give you, as yours; but yours because it is included in the Great Gift of Myself that I gave you.
An All-embracing Gift, a Wonder Gift. Claim, accept, use it. All is well.
Right of Entry. - June 22
Dwell with Me, and in doing so you admit those you love to the right of entry.
If their thoughts follow you as human friend and helper, they are drawn in thought, and later in love and longing, to Me with Whom you live.
Each Need Supplied. - June 23
Instead of urging man to accept Me as this or that, first discover the need, and then represent Me as the supply.
A man may not feel his need of a Saviour. He wants a Friend. Reveal Me as the Great Friend. Another may not need guidance, only to be understood. Represent Me as the Understanding Christ.
Leave Me to satisfy each and every need as I do yours.
Zest in Service. - June 24
Your will, your desire, must be to do My Will, wanting It, loving It, as a child hugging some treasure to its heart. So treasure My Will.
Find your delight in It. "Lord, what would'st Thou have me to do?" is no question of a sullen servant. It is the eager appeal of a friend, who views all life as a glorious adventure, with the enthusiasm of a youth permitted to share an explorer's quest.
Bring the unquenchable Zest into all you do.
Ladder of Joy. - June 25
You see in your lives cause for praise or prayer. You praise or pray. Your heart is lifted thereby into the Eternal, into My very Presence.
Thereafter the drudgery or commonplace or dreary waiting ceases to be the colourless something to be endured. It is the ladder, whereby you rise to Me.
You can then smile at it, welcome it. It is friend, not foe. So with everything in life. Its value for you must depend on whether it leads you nearer to Me.
So poverty or plenty, sickness or health, friendship or loneliness, sunshine or gloom, each may add to the Joy and Beauty of your lives.
Life's Furnace. - June 26
Life has its furnace for My children, into which they are plunged for the moulding.
At their request I watch and watch until I can see them reflect My Glory. Then comes the further shaping into My Likeness. But the metal from which that Likeness is fashioned must be indeed pure.
So often My children are impatient for the moulding, never thinking that the refining must come first.
To do My work there must be much refining.
Eternal Life. - June 27
Eternal Life is a matter of VISION.
Spiritual Vision is the result of knowledge which engenders further knowledge.
"And this is Life Eternal . . . to know Thee the only True God and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent."
Eternal Life.
Eternal in so far as the quality, the character of the Life is concerned. Being of God it implies immortality.
It is My Gift of the Life that is Mine. Therefore it must be Power-Life. This is your Life, to absorb, to live in and through.
"He that believeth (by-liveth) - hath Eternal Life."
The Life Divine. - June 28
As you recognize My dealings with you, Eternal Life flows through your Being in all Its sanctifying, invigorating and remedial force.
Eternal Life is awareness of the things of Eternity. Awareness of My Father and awareness of Me. Not merely a knowledge of Our existence, even of our God-head, but an awareness of Us in all.
As you become aware of Me, all for whom you care are linked to Me, too. Yielding Me your service, you draw, by the magnetic power of Love, all your dear ones within the Divine-Life radius.
All One. - June 29
Every man is your brother, every woman your sister, every child your child. You are to know no difference of race, colour or creed. One is your Father, and all ye are brethren.
This is the Unity I came to teach - Man united with God and His great family. Not man alone, seeking a oneness with God alone. See God the Father with His great world family, and, as you seek union with Him, it must mean for you attachment to His family, His other children.
He acknowledges all as His children, not all acknowledge Him as their Father.
Ponder this.
Immune From Evil. - June 30
Evil was conquered by Me, and to all who rely on Me there is immunity from it.
Turn evil aside with the darts I provide.
Rejoicing in tribulation is one dart.
Practising My Presence is another.
Self-emptying is another.
Claiming My Power over temptation is another.
You will find many of these darts as you tread My Way, and you will learn to use them adroitly, swiftly. Each is adapted to the need of the moment.
July - God Calling.
Attack Fear. - July 1
Learn daily the sublime lesson of trust and calm in the midst of storm. Whatever of sorrow or difficulty the day may bring, My tender command to you is still the same - Love and Laugh.
Love and Laughter, not a sorrowful resignation, mark real acceptances of My Will. Leave every soul the braver and happier for having met you. For children or youth, middle or old age, for sorrow, for sin, for all you may encounter in others, this should be your attitude. Love and Laugh.
Do not fear. Remember how I faced the devil in the wilderness, and how I conquered with "The Sword of The Spirit which is the word of God." You too have your quick answer for every fear that evil may present - an answer of faith and confidence in Me. Where possible say it aloud.
The spoken word has power. Look on every fear, not as a weakness on your part due to illness or worry, but as a very real temptation to be attacked and over-thrown.
The Child Spirit. - July 2
Does The Way seem a stony one? Not one stone can impede your progress. Courage. Face the future, but face it only with a brave and happy heart. Do not seek to see it. You are robbing Faith of her sublime sweetness if you do this.
Just know that all is well and that Faith, not seeing, but believing, is the barque that will bear you to safety, over the stormy waters. "According to your faith (trust) be it unto you," was My injunction to those who sought healing of Me.
If for wonder-working, if for healing, if for salvation, faith was so necessary then the reason is clear why I urged that all who sought entrance to My Kingdom must become as little children. Faith is the child-attitude.
Seek in every way to become child-like. Seek, seek, seek until you find, until the years have added to your nature that of the trusting child. Not only for its simple trust must you copy the child-spirit, but for its joy in life, its ready laughter, its lack of criticism, its desire to share all with all men. Ask much that you may become as little children, friendly and loving towards all - not critical, not fearful.
"Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
Spiritual Fullness. - July 3
Our Lord, we love Thee and desire to live for Thee in all things.
My children, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." That is satisfaction.
Only in that fullness of spiritual things can the heartsick and faint and weary be satisfied, healed and rested. "Lord," we cry, "to whom shall we go but to Thee." "Thou preparest a table before us." Bread of Life, Food from Heaven.
How few realize that the feeding of the four thousand and the five thousand was in each case but an illustration of The Way in which I should one day be the Food of My people.
Think of the wonder of revelation still to be seen by those who live with Me. All these hundreds of years, and much of what I said and did is still mystery, much of My Life on earth is still spiritually unexplored country. Only to the simple and the loving heart that walks with Me can these things be revealed. I have carefully hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
Do not weigh your spirits down with the sins and sorrows of the world. Only a Christ can do that and live. Look for the loving, the true, the kindly, the brave in the many all around you.
Friend of Mine. - July 4
What man calls conversion is often only the discovery of the Great Friend. What man calls religion is the knowledge of the Great Friend. What man calls holiness is the imitation of the Great Friend.
Perfection, that perfection I enjoined on all, the being perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect, is the being like the Great Friend and in turn becoming to others a Great Friend too.
I am your Friend. Think again of all that means - Friend and Saviour. A friend is ready to help, anticipating every want, hand outstretched to help and encourage, or to ward-off danger, voice of tenderness to soothe tired nerves and speak peace to restlessness and fear.
Think of what, to you, your friend is and then from that, try to see a little of what the Perfect Friend, the tireless, selfless, all-conquering, all miracle-working Friend would be. That Friend, and more even than your heart can imagine, that Friend am I.
Were I to read in My Kingdom - My Kingdom of the Child Hearts - the doctrines of your churches, so often there would be no response. But the simple rules I gave My true followers are known, loved and lived by them all.
In all things seek simplicity.
You Are Invincible. - July 5
I am with you all the time controlling, blessing and helping you. No man or woman can stand against My Will for you. A whole world of men and women cannot do this - if you trust Me and place your affairs in My Hands.
To the passenger it may seem as if each wave would overwhelm the ship, or turn it aside from its course. The captain knows by experience, that, in spite of wind and wave, he steers a straight course to the haven where he would be.
So trust Me, the Captain of your salvation.
Riches. - July 6
Never let yourselves think "we cannot afford this," or "shall never be able to do that." Say "The supply for it is not here yet, but it will come if we should have it. It will surely come."
Persevere in saying that and gradually a feeling of being plentifully supplied and of being surrounded by riches will possess you. That feeling is your faith claiming My Supply, and according to your faith it shall be unto you.
But it is not the faith expressed in moments of prayer and exaltation I look for but the faith that lays immediately to rest the doubts of the day as they arise, that attacks and conquers the sense of limitation.
"Ask and ye shall receive."
Painful Preparation. - July 7
Help and peace and joy are here. Your courage will be rewarded.
Painful as this time is you will both one day see the reason of it, and see too that it was not cruel testing, but tender preparation for the wonderful life-work you are both to do.
Try to realize that your own prayers are being most wonderfully answered. Answered in a way that seems painful to you, but that just now is the only way.
Success in the temporal world would not satisfy you.
Great success, in both temporal and spiritual worlds, awaits you.
I know you will see this had to be.
My Secret. - July 8
You are being guided but remember that I said "I will guide thee with Mine Eye."
And My Eye is My set purpose - My Will.
To guide with My Will is to bring all your desires into oneness with My Will, My desires (Islam in Arabic).
To make My Will your only will. Then My Will guides you.
Why Doubt? - July 9
Joy in Me. Joy is infectious. Trust and pray. It is not sin for one who knows Me only as God, as Creator, to doubt Me, to question My Love and purposes.
But for one who knows Me as you do, as Friend and Saviour, and who knows the world's God as Father - for that one to doubt My Purpose and saving Power and tender Love is wrong indeed.
Expect Many Miracles. - July 10
My guardianship is so wonderful.
Expect not one miracle but many.
Each day's happenings, if of My working, and under My control, are miracle-works.
Guardian Angels. - July 11
You are Mine. Once I have set on you My stamp and seal of ownership all My Hosts throng to serve and protect you.
Remember that you are daughters of a King.
Try to picture a bodyguard of My servitors in the Unseen waiting, longing, efficient, to do all that is necessary for your well-being.
Feel this as you go through the day. Feel this and all is well.
Saviour and Saviour. - July 12
If you believe it is My Hand that has saved you, then you must believe that I am meaning to save you yet more, and to keep you in The Way that you should go.
Even a human rescuer does not save a man from drowning only to place him in other deep and dangerous waters. But rather to place him on dry land - and more - there to restore him to animation and health, and to see him to his home.
From this parable learn what I your Rescuer would do, and even more. Is the Lord's Hand shortened that it cannot perform and cannot save?
My cry on the cross of "It is finished" is My Cry of Salvation for a whole world.
I complete every task committed to Me. So trust and be not afraid.
Expect The Good. - July 13
Can you get the expectant attitude of faith?
Not waiting for the next evil to befall you but awaiting with a child's joyful trust the next good in store?
True Success. - July 14
Our Lord, we thank Thee that Thou hast kept us.
Rejoice indeed that you see My Hand in all the happenings and the keepings of the day. Protected, the Israelites crossed the Red Sea; so are you protected in all things.
Rely on this and go forward. You have now entered upon the stage of success. You must not doubt this. You must see this. Beyond all doubt you must know it. It is true. It is sure.
There is no age in Eternal Life. Have no pity for your 'Self', nothing but joy and gratitude.
These last few weeks have been the submerging before the consciousness of rescue. Go forward now and conquer. Go forward unafraid.
Songs on The Way. - July 15
Many of My disciples have had to stay on in the dark, alone and friendless.
They struggled on, singing as they went.
For you, too, there must be songs on The Way.
Should I plant your feet on an insecure ladder?
Its supports may be out of your sight, hidden in the secret Place of The Most High, but if I have asked you to step on and up firmly - then surely have I secured your ladder.
Refuge. - July 16
Know My Divine Power. Trust in Me. Dwell in My Love. Laugh and trust. Laughter is a child's faith in God and good.
Seek safety in My Secret Place.
You cannot be touched or harmed there. That is sure.
Really feel as if you were in a strong Tower, strongly guarded, and against which nothing can prevail.
Peace. Be Still. - July 17
Rejoice, rejoice. I have much to teach you both. Think not that I withhold My Presence when I do not reveal more of My Truth to you.
You are passing through a storm. Enough that I am with you to say "Peace, be still," to quiet both winds and waves.
It was on the quiet mountain slopes that I taught My disciples the Truths of My Kingdom, not during the storm.
So with you, the time of the mountain slopes will come, and you shall rest with Me and learn.
Walk Humbly. - July 18
Fear of what others will say is want of Trust in Me. This must not be. Convert all these difficulties into the purification of your characters.
See yourselves as those around you see you, not as you wish to be, and walk very humbly with your God.
I will set you on high because you have known My Name, but it must be a purified you to be so exalted.
Marvellous Happenings. - July 19
Our Lord, with hearts full of joy we thank Thee for Thy marvellous blessings showered on us today and every day.
I am beside you. Follow in all things My Guiding. Marvels beyond all your imaginings are unfolding. I am your Guide. Joy in that thought. Your Guide and your Friend. Remember that to Me a miracle is only a natural happening. To My disciples, to My chosen, a miracle is only a natural happening. But it is a natural happening operative through spiritual forces, and therefore the man who works and understands through the senses only, regards it as something contrary to Nature.
Remember too that the natural man is at enmity with God. Realize fully, and pray to realize more and more fully, that there is no wonder too marvellous to be with you an everyday happening, if you are guided and strengthened by Me.
My children, the children of My Kingdom are a peculiar people; set apart, different hopes, and aspirations, and motives and sense of reward.
You see a marvellous happening (as that today), happening so easily, so simply, so free from all other agency, and you wonder.
My children, listen, this has not happened easily and simply. It has been achieved by hours; days; months of weariness and heartache battled against and overcome, by a steadfast, unflinching desire to conquer 'Self', and to do My Will and live My Teachings.
The frets and the worries and the scorn patiently borne mean spiritual Power acquired, operating marvellously.
My Standard. - July 20
Carry out My Commands and leave the result to Me. Do this as obediently and faithfully as you would expect a child to follow out a given rule in the working of a sum, with no question but that, if the working-out is done according to command, the result will be right.
Remember that the commands I have given you have been already worked out by Me in the Spirit World to produce in your case, and in your circumstances, the required result. So follow My rules faithfully.
Realize that herein lies the perfection of Divine Guidance. To follow a rule, laid down, even by Earth's wisest, might lead to disaster.
The knowledge of your individual life and character, capability, circumstances and temptations must be, to some extent, lacking, but to follow My direct Guidance means to carry-out instructions given with a full knowledge of you and the required result.
Each individual was meant to walk with Me in this way, to act under Divine Control, strengthened by the "Force" of Divine Power.
Have I not taught you to love simplicity? No matter what the world may think, Earth's aims and intrigues are not for you. Oh! My children, learn of Me. Simplicity brings rest. True rest and Power.
To the world, foolishness, maybe, but to Me a foretaste of Divinity. Never be led by the world's standard. My Standard only is for you.
The Way of Praise. - July 21
I am teaching you both My Way of removing mountains. The way to remove mountains is The Way of Praise. When a trouble comes, think of all you have to be thankful for. Praise, praise, praise.
Say "Thank you" all the time. This is the remover of mountains - your thankful hearts of praise.
Miracle of The Ages. - July 22
Abide in Me. "The works that I do shall ye do also and greater works than these shall ye do because I go to My Father."
"Greater Works!" The blind received their sight, the lame walked, the lepers were cleansed, the poor had the Gospel preached to them. "And greater works than these shall ye do because I go unto My Father."
Wonder of the World! Miracle of the Ages! God's Power manifest in believing-man. God's Power going out to bless, through the agency of the man actuated by the Holy Spirit. Arise from the grave of sickness, poverty, doubt, despondency, limitation. "Arise, shine for the Light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee."
A wonderful future is before you both. A future of unlimited power to bless others. Just be channels. Be used. Ask. Ask. "Ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you," and unto those for whom you pray.
Stop All Work Until - - July 23
Our Lord, grant us that wonderful inward Peace.
My children that Peace does truly pass all understanding. That peace no man taketh from you. No man has the power to disturb that Peace, but you yourselves can let the world and its worries and distractions in.
You can give the entrance to fears and despondency. You can open the door to the robber who breaks in upon, and destroys, your peace.
Set yourselves this task to allow nothing to disturb your peace, your heart calm, with Me. Stop all work, stop all intercourse with others - until this is restored. Do not let those about you spoil your peace of heart and mind. Do not let any one without; any trouble; any irritation; any adversity, disturb it even for one moment. Control! Control! You must learn control.
Look on each difficulty as training to enable you to acquire this peace. Every work, every interruption - set yourself to see that none of it touches the harmony of the real you, that is hid with Me in the Secret Place of The Father.
Keep Close. - July 24
Our Lord, guide us. Show us Thy Will and Way in everything.
Keep close to Me and you shall know The Way because, as I said to My disciples, I am The Way. That is the solution to all Earth's problems.
Keep close, very close to Me. Think, act and live in My Presence.
How dare any foe touch you, protected by Me! That is the secret of all Power; all Peace; all Purity; all influence, the keeping very near to Me.
Abide in Me. Live in My Presence. Rejoice in My Love. Thank and Praise all the time. Wonders are unfolding.
Wonderful Life. - July 25
I am your Lord. Lord of your lives, Controller of your days, your present and your future. Leave all plans to Me. Only do as I bid you.
You have entered now, both of you, upon the God-Guided life. Think what that means. God-taught, God-Guided.
Is anything too wonderful for such a life? Do you begin to see how wonderful life with Me can be?
Do you see that no evil can befall you?
Forget - Forgive. - July 26
Our Lord, we thank Thee for so much. We bless Thee and praise Thy Glorious Name.
Fill your world with Love and laughter. Never mind what anguish lies behind you.
Forget, forgive, love and laugh.
Treat all as you would treat Me, with Love and consideration.
Let nothing that others do to you alter your treatment of them.
My Consolation. - July 27
O Jesus, come and walk with us and let us feel Thy very nearness.
I walk with you. Oh! think, My children, not only to guide and comfort you and strengthen and uphold, but for solace and comfort for Myself.
When a loving child is by you, is the nearness only that you may provide protection and help for that little one?
Rather, too, that in that little child you may find joy and cheer and comfort in its simplicity, its love, its trust.
So, too, is it in your power to comfort and bring joy to My Heart.
Mistakes. - July 28
I am your Shield. No buffets of the world can harm you. Feel that between you and all scorn and indignity is a strong shield (The Force). Practise feeling this until nothing has the power to spoil the inward peace. Then indeed a marvellous victory shall be won.
You wonder sometimes why you are permitted to make mistakes in your choice when you sought so truly to do My Will in the matter.
To that I say it was no mistake . . . All your lessons cannot be learned without difficulty, and this was needed to teach you a lesson. Not to him who walks on, with no obstacles in his way, but to him that overcometh is the promise given.
So to attain peace quickly in your surroundings, as well as in your hearts, learn your lesson quickly. And the overcoming is never the overcoming of the one who troubled you, but the overcoming of the weaknesses and wrong in your own nature, aroused by such a one.
No lower standard than My Standard shall be yours. "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect."
Sunlit Glades. - July 29
Lord, bless us in this evening hour, and in Thy Mercy heal us all.
Do not think that suffering is the only path into My Kingdom. There are sunlit glades, and ways amid the liveliest flowers, along which the steps and hearts of men are drawn to Me. There are birds and laughter and butterflies, and warm, life-giving summer air, and with these as tender companions and friends, the Joy-Way into The Kingdom can be taken.
Bleak, cold and desolate, briar-beset and stony, are not all the ways. Leave all to Me. The choice of ways, the guidance in The Way. But when the sunlight calls accept it gladly.
Even in the Spirit-World appreciation results from contrary experience. Can the fireside of home be more dear than to the traveller who has forced his way over bleak moor and through blinding storm? Take to your hearts this word of cheer. "He will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will, with the temptation, also find a way of escape that ye may be able to bear it."
The World is not The Kingdom. In the world ye shall have tribulation but "be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." Live with Me, the Conquering Christ, and the Joy and Peace of conquest shall be yours too.
Faith Rewarded. - July 30
Think much of My servants of old. How Abraham believed the promise (when as yet he had no child) that in his seed all the nations of the Earth should be blessed.
How Moses led the Children of Israel through the desert, sure that, at last, they would gain the Promised Land.
Down through the ages there have always been those who obeyed (Obedient ones - O.B.1), not seeing but believing, and their faith was rewarded. So shall it be even with you.
Gratitude. - July 31
Give Me the gift of a brave and thankful heart. Man proves his greatness by his power to see causes for thankfulness in his life.
When life seems hard, and troubles crowd, then very definitely look for causes for thankfulness.
The sacrifice, the offering of thanksgiving, is indeed a sweet incense going up to Me through the busy day.
Seek diligently for the something to be glad and thankful about in every happening, and soon no search will be needed.
The causes for joy and gratitude will spring to greet your loving hearts.
July - God at Eventide.
Out of the Unseen. - July 1
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
You do not yet see, nor will you see fully while you are on this earth, how faith, co-operating with Spiritual Power, actually calls into being that for which you hope.
Men speak of dreams come true. But know them as answered prayers; manifestations of Spirit Force in the Unseen. So trust boundlessly.
Dangerous Power. - July 2
Do you not see how necessary is your learning the method of Spirit-attack. There must be a certain root-faith in Me, or you could not trust yourself to perfect surrender to Me. But there must come to those who walk all The Way with Me, a yielding of their wills and lives wholly to Me, or the greater faith that results would be a source of danger. It would drag you back to the material plane, instead of to Spiritual Heights.
For unless your will is wholly Mine, you will rely on this new God-given Power, and call into being that which is not for the furtherance of My Kingdom.
Hiding in Thee. - July 3
Follow Me, and whether it be in the storm, or along the dusty highroad, or over the places of stones, or in the cool glade or the meadow, or by the waters of comfort, then, with Me, in each experience there will be a place of refuge.
At times you seem to follow afar off. Then weary with the burden and The Way, you stretch out a hand to touch the hem of My Garment.
Suddenly there is no dust, no weariness. You have found Me. My child, even if it seems unprofitable continue, your drudgery, whether it be of spiritual, mental or physical effort. Truly it serves its turn if it but leads you to seek help from Me.
Break Free. - July 4
For by whom a man is overcome . . . he is the slave.
I cut the bonds of sin which bound you to evil. With loving Hands I replaced each with my cords of Love, which bound you to Me, your Lord.
The power of evil is subtle. A cut cord, a snapped cord, would awaken your slumbering conscience, but strand by strand, so carefully, with gentleness cunningly acquired, evil works until a cord is free. Even then the work is slow, but oh, so sure, until presently the old bond I severed is binding you to evil, strand by strand.
Snap off these returning fetters. Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat**. He works with an efficiency My servants would do well to copy**. He has marked you as one who will increasingly bring souls to Me.
My Family Circle. - July 5
For whosoever shall do the Will of My Father, he is My brother and sister and mother.
You see how everything depends on the necessity of doing the Will of My Father.
Here is the intimacy of a new relationship. The only condition of this is the doing of My Father's Will. Then at once, into the inner Family Circle there is admission.
The plain way of discipline is the way of knowing My Will. That is the first requisite to the doing of it.
My Will for each day can only be revealed as each day comes, and until one revelation has been lived out, how can you expect to be made aware of the next?
Awareness of My Will is only achieved by obedience to that Will as it is made clear, and when THAT Will has been obeyed the veil, hiding My next desire, is lifted.
Listen Carefully. - July 6
My poor deaf world. What it misses in loving Words and Whispers.
I want to share so much with it. It will not listen.
"Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not. Hearken diligently unto Me and eat that which is good and let your Soul delight itself . . ."
"He that willeth to do My Will - shall know."
Whose Voice would you hear? So many voices are about you that you may miss the Still Small Voice.
"This is My Beloved Son - Hear Him."
Love's Growth. - July 7
Learn from Nature the profusion of her gifts.
As you daily realize more and more the generosity of the Divine Giver, learn increasingly to give.
Love grows by giving.
You cannot give bountifully without being filled with a sense of giving yourself with the gift, and you cannot so give without Love passing from you to the one who receives.
You are conscious, not of yourself as generous, but of the Divine Giver as bounteous beyond all human words to express.
So Love flows into you, with an intensity that is both humbling and exalting, as Love flows from you with your gift.
Remember Me. - July 8
Give me a constant remembrance of Thee.
Ask what you will and it shall be done unto you. But only if the heart desires what the lips express. "The Lord looketh on the heart."
You will grow into the true attitude of remembrance of Me as you learn more and more to attribute all your blessings, all your guidance, to My increasing care: to the mind of your Master behind all, inspiring all, controlling all, the source of all your good.
Upheld. - July 9
Go forward unafraid.
Face each difficulty, however great and seemingly unconquerable, as you go forward towards it.
The strength you will require from Me for that adventure into danger, as it may seem to you, will fortify you for its overcoming.
"Fear thou not, for I am with thee,
"Be not afraid, for I am thy God.
"I will strengthen thee, I will help thee,
"Yea, I will uphold thee with the right arm of My Righteousness."
Your Heart is Fixed. - July 10
Still go forward unafraid. The way will open as you go.
It is fear that blocks My Way for you. Have no fear. Know that all is well.
No circumstances, no outward changes, can harm you in any way. Each should prove a step of progress, as long as your hearts are fixed, "trusting in the Lord."
I know no change.
More Doors will Open. - July 11
Go on in faith and trust. The Way opens as you go.
In the Jedi Life doors swing open as you come to them, if so be that you have advanced to them along the straight path of obedience.
As you started your journey, what would it have profited had you worried about the closed door ahead?
In the Spirit-Life miracle-working Power operates through natural human channels. As you have seen.
So this is the continuing lesson: Go steadily forward in firm trust along the path of quiet obedience.
That is your work. Mine to cause the doors to swing open, as you come to them, not before.
How often have I opened those doors for you in the past? More will open. So trust, so hope, so love.
Your Order of Merit. - July 12
Grace is the distinctive mark I set upon My friends. It is no order of merit. It is the result of living with Me. It is even unobserved by those on whom I bestow it, but to those they meet who have eyes to see, it is apparent just as during My time on earth it was said, "They took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus."
It may be the sign of My sustaining Power within a life. It may be the quiet strength of poise, the mark of self-conquest, some faint reflection of My character, or a mystic scent of the soul unfolding to My Love.
Harmonize. - July 13
Grow daily, ever more and more, into My likeness. Do My Will as revealed to you, and leave the result to Me. If you are but My representative, then why concern yourself as to whether the action I have arranged for you is wise or not?
If your control of mind and body is not as progressive as that of your spirit, it is a hindrance. See to this. The three must work in unison; otherwise disharmony.
Beautiful though one instrument may be in an orchestra, with a beauty beyond that of any other, yet should it play its part ahead of those others, disharmony results; and so with you a sense of frustration and failure follows disharmony within.
Home of Creation. - July 14
Have no fear. Wonders are unfolding ever more and more. You will be guided in all as you dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High.
Remember in that Secret Place was thought out all the wonders of the Universe. There all your wonder plans will be evolved. It is the home of Creation, and there you, too, share in Creative Power.
Home of Joy. - July 15
Heart speaks to heart as you wait before Me. Love enkindles Love.
The air you breathe is Divine, Life-giving, invigorating.
The place in which you rest is My Secret Place.
You do not come to ask Me of doctrine.
That is, as it were, the foundation of your Spiritual being; necessary, but once secure, you seek to fashion, with Me, its beautiful superstructure - the home of Peace and Joy where I come and commune with you.
Confidences. - July 16
Help is always yours.
It comes so swiftly when you realize that you are insufficient to supply your need. But it comes the more potently as you grow to see that for each need the supply was already provided.
My followers so often act as if My supply came into being only through prayer for help.
Would any man in authority act thus in his business?
Learn of Me. I will teach you lovingly, patiently. My lessons are not of the schoolroom; they are fireside confidences.
Foretaste of Heaven. - July 17
I thank Thee, Lord, for the Joy Thou givest me and for Thy tender care of me.
Grow ever more and more conscious of this. Look upon all as under My Influence, and life will become increasingly full of Joy. This Joy no man taketh from you.
This is the foretaste of Heaven that will make your passing seem no death, and will mean that your spirit will be no stranger in the home of spirits but will be breathing an atmosphere familiar and dear.
Meek and Lowly. - July 18
As the world's great Teacher I taught not so much by word as by the Living Word.
"Learn of Me" I said, adding that men should see in Me meekness . . . and lowliness.
So that My disciples should take Me as their great example, I epitomised My attitude towards My Father in Heaven and towards His other Children as "Meek and lowly."
Towards God the Father the meekness of a yielded will; towards His other children lowliness, devoid of the pride that sunders men, and prevents their humble approach to God.
"Learn of Me - I am meek and lowly in heart." So do you find rest unto your souls.
Wayside Meetings. - July 19
I use such simple things and casual moments to reveal Myself to man. He can meet Me in the common ways of life - if he has but eyes to see and ears to hear.
No great sign, nothing spectacular. In the seemingly incidental along the road of life I meet with him and reveal My Will, My Purpose, My Guidance.
No miles to walk, no long journey to travel, no strange language to learn, no state of ecstasy to be experienced first. Think on these things. Recall our many meetings by the wayside.
I Will Heal You. - July 20
Do not recognize your illness. Each time you speak of it to others you stabilize it.
Ignore it as much as you can. Think more of Me, the Great Healer. Dwelling with Me you become whole.
Even My most faithful followers often err in not claiming of Me healing and perfection for every part of their Being.
But to claim physical healing alone is a sign of living too much on the physical plane, and My Healing is of the Spirit.
Claim healing of spirit, mind and body. Then shall you, regardless of age, know wholeness.
Unconquerable. - July 21
I will help you to conquer in the hour of temptation or difficulty. Cling to Me. Rest in My Love. Know that all is well.
Trials press, temptations assail, but remember, you can be more than conquerors through Me. Lord of all, I am. Controller of all. Keeper, Lover, Guide, Friend.
Remember that when once your hearts have said with Peter, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God," then, upon that sure foundation (Rock) of belief, I raise My House, My Holy of Holies.
The gates of hell, the adverse deeds and thoughts and criticisms of the world, cannot prevail against it. More than conquerors. Conquer in the little things. Conquer in My Strength and Power.
Lend a Hand. - July 22
Not once only in your lives, when I called you out to follow Me, but constantly -
Jesus calls.
In the busy day, in the crowded way, listen to the voice of your Lord and Lover calling. A call to stop and rest with Me awhile. A call to restrain your impatience, a reminder that in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. A call to pause, to speak a word to one in trouble.
Perhaps to lend a hand.
Dear Name. - July 23
The murmuring of My Name in tender Love brings the unseen into the foreground of reality. It is like breathing on some surface, which brings into relief a lovely figure.
It is the Name before which evil shrinks away, shamed, powerless, defeated. Breathe it often. Not always in appeal. Sometimes in tender confidence, sometimes in Love's consciousness. Sometimes in triumphant ecstasy.
Christ's Co-operators. - July 24
I have always work to be done. So fit yourself for it by prayer, by contact with Me, by discipline.
Nothing is small in My sight. A simple task fittingly done may be the necessary unit in building a mighty edifice.
The bee knows nothing of its agency when fertilizing flowers for fruit-bearing.
Do not expect to see results.
The work may pass into other hands before any achievement is apparent. Enough that you are a worker with others and Me in My Vineyard.
Joy in Me. - July 25
Joy teaches. Joy cleans the smeared glass of your consciousness, and you see clearly.
You see Me clearly, and see more clearly the needs of those round you.
Perfect Yourself. - July 26
Perfect as My Father in Heaven is perfect.
That means a life-struggle, an unending growth. Always as you progress, a greater perception of My Father. More struggle and growth. Above all a growing need of Me and My sustaining help.
I came to found a Kingdom of Progressive growth. Alas, how many of My followers think that all they have to do is to accept Me as Saviour. That is a first step only.
Heaven itself is no place of stagnation. It is indeed a place of progress. You will need Eternity to understand Eternal Mind.
Judge Not. - July 27
Human nature is so complex. You can hardly, even in your most enlightened moments, tell what motive prompted this or that action of your own.
How, then, can you judge of another, of whose nature you have so little understanding? And to misjudge of what in another may have been prompted by the Spirit of God, is to misjudge God's Spirit.
Can any sin be greater than that? False judgment sent Me to the Cross!
Stupendous Truth. - July 28
The world can be overcome only by believing Me, and in the knowledge that I am the Son of God. This is a stupendous Truth.
Use that as your lever for removing every mountain of difficulty and evil. Be cautious in all things and await My Guidance. Commune much with Me.
The truth of My God-head, of My All-Power, creative, redemptive, erosive of evil, must permeate your whole consciousness, and affect your attitude in every situation, towards every problem.
See the Lovable. - July 29
Do not try to force yourself to love others. Come to Me. Learn to love Me more and more, to know Me more, and little by little you will see your fellow-man as I see him. Then you, too, will love him.
Not only with the Love of Me, which makes you desire to serve him, but you will see the lovable in him, and love that.
Real Influence. - July 30
Do not let one single link of influence go.
Cords of true love and interest must never be broken. They must always be used for ME. Pray for those to whom you are bound by particular ties, then you will be ready, should I desire your special help for them.
You must stand as a sinner with a sinner before you can save him. Even I had to hang between two thieves to save My world.
All in Order. - July 31
He ordered my goings.
Guidance first, but more than that, Divine order in your life, your home, all your affairs.
Order in all. Attain spiritual order first. The perfect calm which can be realized only by a soul that abides in My Secret Place.
Then the mental order of a mind which is stayed on Me, and has the sanity and poise of a mind so stayed.
Then truly must order manifest itself in your surroundings.
Each task will be entered upon with prayer, as a Divine Commission, and carried through without haste, in utter contentment.
August - God Calling.
Blessed Bond. - August 1
Jesus, let Thy Beautiful Presence be always with us.
"I will never leave you nor forsake you."
There is no bond of union on Earth to compare with the union between a soul that loves Me - and Me.
Priceless beyond all Earth's imaginings is that Friendship.
In the merging of heart and mind and will, a oneness results, that only those who experience it, can even dimly realize.
Harvest. - August 2
My Lord, we seek Thy Blessing.
I love to pour My blessings down in rich, in choicest measure. But like the seed-sowing - the ground must be prepared before the seed is dropped in.
Yours to prepare the soil - Mine to drop the seed-blessing into the prepared soil.
Together we share in, and joy in, the harvest.
Spend more time in soil-preparing. Prayer fertilizes soil. There is much to do in preparation.
Give Every Moment. - August 3
My children, how dear to My Heart is the cry of Love that asks for all of Me, that wishes every action, thought, word and moment to be Mine.
How poor the understanding of the one who thinks that money to be used in this good work or that, is the great gift to offer. Above all I desire Love, true, warm, childlike Love, the trusting understanding Love, and then the gift I prize next is the gift of the moments, of all the moments.
I think even when Love's impetuous longing to serve Me has offered Me all Life, every day, every hour, I think even then, it is a long, and not an easy lesson, to learn, what it means to give Me the moments.
The little things you planned to do, given up gladly at My suggestion, the little services joyfully rendered. See Me in all and then it will be an easy task.
This is a priceless time of initiation, but remember that the path of initiation is not for all; but only for those who have felt the sorrow-cry of the world that needs a Saviour and the tender plea of a Saviour Who requires followers through whom He can accomplish His great work of Salvation, joyfully.
Eternal Life. - August 4
O Jesus, we love Thee so and long to serve Thee.
My children, you are both to do mighty things for Me. Glories and wonders unfold. Life is one glorious whole.
Draw into your beings more and more this wonderful Eternal Life. It is the flow of the (Water of) Life Eternal through spirit, mind and body, that cleanses, heals, restores, renews youth, and passes on from you to others, with the same miracle-working power.
"And this is Life Eternal that they may know Thee . . . and Christ Jesus, whom Thou has sent." So seek by constant contact to know Me more and more.
Make Me the one abiding Presence of your day of which you are conscious all the time. Seek to do less and to accomplish more, to achieve more. Doing is action. Achievement is successful action.
Remember that Eternal Life is the only lasting life, so that all that is done without being done in the Power of My Spirit, My Life, is short-lived. All done in that Spirit-Life is undying.
"I will give unto them Eternal Life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My Hands." So Eternal Life means security too, safety. Dwell increasingly in the consciousness of that security, that safety.
Hour of Need. - August 5
Lord, come to us and heal us.
I am your Healer, your Joy, your Lord. You bid Me, your Lord, come. Did you not know that I am here? With noiseless footfall I draw near to you.
Your hour of need is the moment of My Coming.
Could you know My Love, could you measure My Longing to help, you would know that I need no agonized pleading.
Your need is My Call.
Dwell Apart. - August 6
Rest more with Me. If I, the Son of God, needed those times of quiet communion with My Father, away, alone from noise, from activity - then surely you need them too.
Refilling with the Spirit is a need. That dwelling apart, that shutting yourself away in the very secret place of your Being - away alone with Me.
From these times you come forth in Power to bless and heal.
All is Well. - August 7
Our Lord, bless us and keep us, we beseech Thee.
My Keeping Power is never at fault, but only your realization of it. Not whether I can provide a shelter from the storm, but your failure to be sure of the security of that shelter.
Every fear, every doubt, is a crime against My Love.
Oh! children, trust. Practise daily, many times a day, saying "All is well."
Say it until you believe it, know it.
Empty Yourself. - August 8
Rely on Me alone. Ask no other help. Pay all out in the Spirit of trust that more will come to meet your supply.
Empty your vessels quickly to ensure a Divine Supply.
So much retained by you, so much the less will be gained from Me. It is a Law of Divine Supply.
To hold back, to retain, implies a fear of the future, a lack of trust in Me.
When you ask Me to save you from the sea of poverty and difficulty you must trust wholly to Me. If you do not, and your prayer and faith are genuine, then I must first answer your prayer for help as a rescuer does that of a drowning man who is struggling to save himself.
He renders him still more helpless and powerless until he is wholly at the will and mercy of the rescuer.
So understand My leading. Trust wholly. Trust completely.
Empty your vessel. I will fill it. You ask both of you to understand Divine Supply. It is a most difficult lesson for My children to learn. So dependent have they become on material supply they fail to understand. You must live as I tell you.
Depend on Me.
Effort and Rest. - August 9
Come to Me, talk to Me, dwell with Me and then you will know My Way is a sure way, My Paths are safe paths.
Come very near to Me.
Dig deep down into the soil of The Kingdom. Effort and rest - a union of the two.
Stray Sheep. - August 10
O Jesus, guide our footsteps lest we stray.
For straying, My children, there is no cure except to keep so close to Me that nothing; no interest; no temptation; no other - can come between us.
Sure of that, you can but stay at My Side, knowing that, as I am the very Way itself, nothing can prevent your being in The Way, nothing can cause you to stray.
I have promised Peace but not leisure, heart-rest and comfort, but not pleasure. I have said "In the world ye shall have tribulation"; so do not feel, when adverse things happen, that you have failed or are not being guided, but I have said, "In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
So learn of Me the overcoming Power of one who, though spat upon; scourged; misunderstood; forsaken; crucified; could yet see His Work had not been affected by these things, and cry triumphantly from His Cross, "It is finished."
Not the pain; the mocking; the agony; but His Task.
Let this thought comfort you. Amid failure; discord; arrogance; suffering, even now may friends and angels be prepared to sound the chorus, "It is finished."
You are Mine. - August 11
Jesus, Thou art watching over us to bless and care for us.
Yes! remember that always - that out of darkness I am leading you to Light. Out of unrest to rest, out of disorder to order. Out of faults and failure to perfection.
So trust Me wholly. Fear nothing. Hope ever. Look ever up to Me and I will be your sure aid.
I and My Father are one. So He who made the ordered, beautiful world out of chaos, and set the stars in their courses, and made each plant to know its season, can He not bring, out of your little chaos, peace and order?
And He and I are as One, and you are Mine. Your affairs are Mine. It is My Divine Task to order My affairs - therefore yours will be ordered by Me.
Rule the World. - August 12
Remember no prayer goes unanswered. Remember that the moment a thing seems wrong to you, or a person's actions to be not what you think they should be, at that moment begins your obligation and responsibility to pray for those wrongs to be righted, or that person to be different.
Face your responsibilities. What is wrong in your country, its statesmen, its laws, its people? Think out quietly, and make these matters your prayer matters. You will see lives you never touch altered, laws made at your request, evils banished.
Yes! live in a large sense. Live to serve and to save. You may never go beyond one room, and yet you may become one of the most powerful forces for good in your country, in the world.
You may never see the mighty work you do, but I see it, evil sees it. Oh! it is a glorious life, the life of one who saves. Fellow-workers together with me. See this more and more.
Live with Me, sharers of My life.
Perfection. - August 13
O Jesus, help us, we beseech Thee.
Ever your Helper through dark to Light, through weakness to Power, through sin to Salvation, through danger to Security, through poverty to Plenty, through indifference to Love, through resentment to Perfect Forgiveness.
Never be satisfied with comparison with those around you. Ever let My words ring out. "Be ye perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." Stop short at nothing less.
Make it your practice, each of you, to review your character - take it in relation to life, to your dear ones, your household, friends, acquaintances, your country, your work.
See where I, in the same relation or circumstances or situation, should act differently. Plan how best such and such a fault can be eradicated, or such and such sin, mistake or omission, be avoided.
A weekly review at least you must have.
My Richest Gift. - August 14
Jesus, Thou didst come that we might have life, and have it more abundantly.
Life, spiritual, mental, physical, abundant Life - Joyous Life, Powerful Life. Yes! these I came to give you.
Think you not My Heart was sad that so few would accept that gracious gift!
Think! Earth's richest, choicest gift held out - free to all, and no man to care to stretch out a hand to take it.
Is that possible? My Gift, the richest Heaven has to offer, that precious Gift of Life, abundant Life - Man turns away from - rejects - will have none of.
Let it not be true of you. Hasten to take - to use.
Not Punishment. - August 15
I will guide your efforts. You are not being punished for past sins. Take My Words, revealed to you each day from the beginning, and do in all things as I say. I have been showing you The Way. You have not obeyed Me in this.
I have a plan that can only in this way be revealed. So rarely do I find two souls in union who want only My Will, and only to serve Me. The union is miracle-working.
I have told you that I am longing to use you. Long ago My world would have been brought to Me, had I been served by many such two souls.
It was always "two and two".
No Tired Work. - August 16
Rest. It is wrong to force work. Rest until Life, Eternal Life, flowing through you; your veins and hearts and minds, bids you bestir yourselves, and work, glad work, will follow.
Tired work never tells.
Rest. Remember I am your Physician, Healer of mind and body.
Look to Me for cure, for rest, for Peace.
Nature Laughs. - August 17
I come, I come. You need Me. Live much out here. My sunshine, My glorious air, My Presence, My teaching.
Would they not make holiday anywhere for you. Sunshine helps to make glad the heart of man. It is the laughter of Nature.
Live much outside. My medicines are sun and air, trust and faith. Trust is the spirit sun, your being enwrapped by the Divine Spirit.
Faith is the soul's breathing in of the Divine Spirit. Mind, soul and body need helping. Welcome My treatment for you both. Draw near to Me.
Nature is often My nurse for tired souls and weary bodies. Let her have her way with you both.
Stones of The Way. - August 18
I am here. No distance separates Me. In the Spirit-Kingdom we measure not by Earth's miles. A false word, a fear-inspired failure - a harsh criticism, these are the distances between a soul and Me. Your training must be severe that your work for Me be unhindered.
You seek My Presence and they who seek shall find. It is not a question of human searching, so much as human consciousness, unconditional surrender to My Will in the small, as in the big things of life. This it is that makes My Guidance possible.
You know the difference between taking a glad, loving, joy-springing child with you along a way, when the child anticipates each direction, accepts naturally each decision as to each turning - and the child who resists, and, rebellious, has to be forced, even though in its quieter moments it may say, "Yes. I do want to go with you. I cannot be left alone, but I hate this way."
It is not the way, but the loving rejoicing in The Way and guidance, that matters with My disciples. You are ready for the guidance but you do not rejoice as you should, both of you, in the little daily stones of the way.
A Human Temple. - August 19
Lord, we love Thee, we worship Thee.
Bow low before Me. Worship is not supplication, though both express man's varying needs of Me. Bow low in adoration, conscious not only of My humanity but of My Divine Majesty.
As you kneel in humble adoration, I will tell you, that when I took upon Me your humanity, it was with the desire of raising that humanity, to My Divinity.
Earth gave Me her best - a human temple to enclose My Divinity, and I brought to her the possession of Divine Power, Divine Love, Divine Strength, to be for ever expressed in those of her children who accepted Me, opened their hearts to Me, and sought to live My Life.
So, kneeling in a spirit of humility, turn your eyes Heavenward and realize the majesty, the Power, the Beauty that may be yours. Remember there are no limits to My giving - there may be to your accepting.
Oh! rejoice at the wonders to which you are called and, seeing them in prayer, rise in My Strength, filled with the longing to attain them.
Shame and Remorse. - August 20
My children! Yes! "Shield from the scorn and cover from the chiding." Often I have to shield My disciples from their own scorn and chiding.
My poor Simon could never have done My work, never have had the courage to live on, or the daring to live for Me, but for the tender love with which I enwrapped him. Not from the anger of My Father, Who is all Love, did I need to protect him - not from the scorn of My enemies, nor from the resentment of My friends. No! but from the hatred of Peter himself.
And so to My followers to-day, as then, there come the shame and remorse and contempt of themselves, of the weak selves. They meant to be so strong and brave for Me. And then I have to protect them with a shield of Love, or never could they have the courage to fight and conquer. But this facing of the real self has to be - shame and remorse must come.
That is a stage in development, but only a stage. What use the glad wings of a butterfly if it remained earthbound, weighed down with the thought of its contemptible past? And so now to-day I say to you both, that you are not to dwell for one moment on your sins, and mistakes, and faults, and bad habits of the past.
You must be as one who runs a race, stumbles and falls, rises and presses on to the goal. What avails it if he stays to examine the spot where he fell, to weep over the delay, over the shortsightedness that prevented his anticipating and avoiding the obstacles?
So with you, and I lay it on you as a command - no looking back. Give yourself, and all you have ever met a fresh start from to-day. Remember no more their sins and failures, or your own. The remembrance is a current of disappointment that hinders the swimmer.
When I sent My Disciples out, two by two; no scrip; no coats; no money; it was an injunction to be carried out literally, but figuratively too. On Life's journey throw away all that is not important. Cast aside all hindrances, the past imperfections of others - the failure-sense.
Travel unladen, with a light heart, and a light heart means a weight of influence.
My children, I love you.
Broken Voices. - August 21
Behold, I make all things new. It is only the earth-bound spirit that cannot soar. Every blessing I send you, every joy, every freedom achieved from poverty and worry will loosen a strand that ties you to Earth.
It is only those strands that bind you. Therefore your freedom will mean your rising into the realm of Joy and Appreciation.
Clipped wings can grow again. Broken voices regain a strength and beauty unknown before. Your power to help other lives will soon bring its delights, even when, at first, the help to yourselves may seem too late to bring you Joy.
Worn-out and tired as you may seem, and pain-weary, I say unto you "Behold, I make all things new." That promise shall be fulfilled. Tenderly across the years, yet tenderly close and near to your tired noise-weary ears, I speak to you, My loved ones, to-day.
"Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest."
Gleams of Sunlight. - August 22
Because you have both longed to save My World I let you have that training that shall equip you to save.
Take your pains and sufferings, difficulties and hardships - each day, both of you, and offer them up for one troubled soul, or for some prayer specially needed to be answered.
So the beauty of each day will live on after the trouble and distress, difficulty and pain of the day have passed.
Learn from My Life of the suffering that saves others. So, you will sing in your pain. Across the greyest days there are the gleams of Sunlight.
The Summit. - August 23
See not the small trials and vexations of each hour of the day. See the one purpose and plan to which all are leading. If in climbing a mountain you keep your eyes on each stony or difficult place, as you ascend, seeing only that; how weary and profitless your climb!
But if you think of each step as leading to the summit of achievement, from which glories and beauties will open out before you, then your climb will be so different.
Sublime Heights. - August 24
Our Lord, we know that Thou art great and able to deliver us.
I am your deliverer. Trust in Me absolutely. Know that I will do the very best for you. Be ready and willing for My will to be done.
Know that with Me all things are possible. Cling joyfully to that truth.
Say many times "All things are possible with My Master, My Lord, My Friend."
This truth accepted and firmly believed in, is the ladder up which a soul can climb from the lowest of pits to the sublimest of heights.
Exhaustion. - August 25
We seek Thee as Thou hast told us.
And seeking you shall find. None ever sought My Presence in vain. None ever sought My Help in vain.
A breath of desire and My Spirit is there - to replenish and renew. Sometimes weariness and exhaustion are not signs of lack of spirit but the guiding of the Spirit.
Many wonderful things would not have happened but for the physical weariness, the mind-weariness of My servants, which made the resting apart, the giving up of work, a necessity. . . .
Though My Way may seem a narrow way it yet leads to Life, abundant Life. Follow it. It is not so narrow but that I cannot tread it beside you.
Never, too lonely with such companionship. A comrade infinitely tender, infinitely strong, will tread The Way with you.
Accept Trials. - August 26
Trials and troubles may seem to overwhelm you. They cannot do more than work My Will, and that Will you have said is your Will.
Do you not see that you cannot be destroyed? From now a new Life is opening out before you. Yours to enter into the Kingdom I have prepared for you.
The sunlight of My Presence is on your paths. Trust and go forward unafraid. My Grace is sufficient for all your needs.
Tangled Skeins. - August 27
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. - Isa. 30:15.
Feel that . . . trust Me. Am I not leading you safely, faithfully? Will you believe Me, your Master, that all this is really to bring the answer to your prayers?
Remember that I am the Supreme Being who knows all and can control all.
Directly you put your affairs, their confusion, their difficulties, into My Hands I began to effect a cure of all the disharmony and disorder.
You must know that I shall cause you no more pain in the doing of it than a physician, who plans and knows he can effect a cure, would cause his patient. I will do all as tenderly as possible.
Show Me that you trust Me in this.
Continuous Service. - August 28
Service is the Law of Heaven. My angels do always obey. "They serve Him continually," can be said of all who love Me.
With Love there is continuous service in every action, and also even in rest.
Take this not as the end, but as the beginning of a New Life, consecrated to My Service.
A Life of Power and Joy.
Breathe My Name. - August 29
Just breathe My Name.
It is like the pressure of a child's hand that calls forth an answering pressure, strengthens the child's confidence and banishes fear.
Give, Give, Give. - August 30
Give abundantly. Feel that you are rich.
Have no mean thought in your heart.
Of Love, of thought, of all you have, give, give, give.
You are followers of the World's Greatest Giver. Give of time, of personal ease and comfort, of rest, of fame, of healing, of power, of sympathy, of all these and many more.
Learn this lesson, and you will become a great power to help others and to do mighty things.
Pray and Deny. - August 31
This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. - Matt. 17:21.
You must live a life of communion and prayer if you are to save others.
Take My words as a command to you. "By prayer and fasting."
Pray and deny your 'Self', and you will be used marvellously to save and help others.
August - God at Eventide.
Joy of Harvest. - August 1
He that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting, that both he that reapeth and he that soweth may rejoice together.
Do you not see that if you are careless about the reaping you have prevented the harvest-joy of the sower?
If by your life and character you do not reap to the full that which they have sown, you are robbing them of the well-earned fruit of their labours.
Further learn this lesson. There are many of My workers and servants in different spheres of activity to whom you owe the seed of word or example or loving help that has influenced you.
It is a sacred trust. Use it fully. Pass-on what you have learned.
Still Love and Laugh. - August 2
This has ever been My command to you. Love and Laugh. There is a quality about true Love to which laughter is attune.
The Love that does not pulse with joy (of which laughter is the outward sign) is but solicitude. The Joy of Heaven is consciousness of God's Love.
It was that Love that brought Me to your world.
Consciousness of that Love called forth your joy. Study My Words in the Upper Room - "Loved of My Father"; "I will love him"; "That your Joy might be full."
Love Lightens the Load. - August 3
In due season you shall reap if you faint not.
The Way may seem long and dreary.
Sometimes My Heart of Love aches that I have to ask you to tread so long and so weary a way. Yet to each of My followers the road chosen is surely the one best suited to his feet.
But feet grow weary. Have you let Love smooth the toilsome way? We walk together.
Vision of Love. - August 4
Love is the flower.
Love is the seed from which that flower germinates.
Love is the soil in which it is nourished and grows.
Love is the sun that draws it to fulfillment.
Love is the fragrance that flower gives out.
Love is the vision that sees its beauty, and
God is Love, all-knowing, all-understanding, from whom all Good proceeds.
Love in the Unlovely. - August 5
Love to all must mark all you do if you own Me Lord, and if you would be a true follower of Me.
"His banner over me was Love." Those words express not only the loving Protection round you, but the banner under which you march as soldiers of Me, your Captain.
It serves to remind you of that for which you stand before the world. It is in Love's Name you march. In Love's Name you conquer. It is Love you are to take into the unlovely places of the world. It is the only equipment you need.
Deaf Ears. - August 6
Man cries for help. Man feels his need of Me. All unmindful that countless times I draw near unheard, pass on unnoticed, speak to deaf ears, touch brows fretted and wrinkled by earth's cares.
"The Christ is dead," man says.
Alive and longing, full of a living tenderness I passed his way to-day. He heeded not.
Man hears the storms, the wind, the earthquake, and his ears, still pulsing with the echoes, he hears no Still Small Voice. Oh, do not miss Me, My children.
Balm for All Ills. - August 7
Love and care and pray. Never feel helpless to aid those you love. I am their help. As you obey Me and follow My teaching in your daily life, you will bring that help into operation.
So, if you desire to be used to save another, turn to your own life. As far as you can, make it all that it should be.
Let your influence for Me extend ever further and further. Let Love be your balm for all ills. The Power in which you will break down all barriers.
It stands, too, for the Name of the God you love and serve. So, with His banner floating o'er you, go on in glad confidence to victory. Your task to help, to strengthen, raise, heal. Only as you love will you do this.
No Hurt. - August 8
He that overcometh shall not be hurt by the second death.
The first death is the death to 'Self', the result of overcoming, of 'Self'-conquest. This is gradual death.
When it is complete, the second death shall cause no hurt. For it is only the conquering Spirit sloughing away its human habitation for a better Life.
The courage My Martyrs showed was not only fearlessness engendered in time of persecution through faith in Me, and in My power to support and sustain. It was consequent on the overcoming of 'Self' already achieved. 'Self', having truly died, this second death had no hurt for them.
Theirs was then the Risen Life with Me.
Undivided. - August 9
Live in My Peace.
There must be no divided life in this.
Peace in your heart. That heart-rest that comes from constant communion with Me, and from an undisturbed trust in Me.
Then Peace round you, where others are conscious of Me, and of that Peace as My Gift, and of the rest and strength and charm into which they are drawn.
Glad Surprise. - August 10
Live so near to Me that you may never miss the opportunity of being used by Me. It is the prepared instrument, lying nearest to the Master Craftsman's Hand, that is seized to do the work.
So be very near Me, and you cannot fail to be much used. Remember that Love is the Great Interpreter, so that those who love you and are near to you are the ones you can help the most.
Do not pass them by for others, though your influence and helpfulness will gradually spread, in an ever widening circle. You will live in a spirit of glad surprise.
Absolute Honesty. - August 11
Learn to act slowly with sanctified caution.
Precipitancy has no part in My Kingdom.
Be more deliberate in everything, with the deliberation that should characterize every soul, for it is one of the credentials of that Kingdom.
Lack of poise and dignity means lack of Spiritual Power, and this it must be your aim to possess.
Be truthful in all things, honest with an honesty that can be challenged by the world, and by the standards of My Kingdom, too.
Holy Revelry. - August 12
Live with Me. Work with Me. Ever delight to do My Holy Will. Let this be the satisfaction of your lives. Revel in it.
Let the wonder of My care for you be so comforting that you may see no dullness in drudgery, in delay . . .
The Glory of My leading (the wonder of its intimacy) reveals such tender knowledge of you, past and future.
Let this reveal Me to you, and so daily increase your knowledge of Me.
The Road You Took. - August 13
Look back at The Way I have led you.
Say to yourself, "Is not my Lord as strong to-day as in the days that lie behind me? Did He not save me when human aid was powerless? Did He not keep His Promise, and protect and care for me? Can I, remembering that, doubt His Power now?"
So you will gain confidence and a firmer trust. As your faith is thus strengthened, My Power can operate more freely and fully on your behalf.
You are only beginning to realize My Wonders. You will see them unfold more and more as you go on. Bring Me into all you do, into every plan, every action.
Riches of His Grace. - August 14
It is for My followers to make My Word, the very Word of God, attractive.
My Word has to dwell in you richly. There must be no stinting, no poverty, but an abundance of rich supply.
Note the dwell. Nothing fitful, as I have told you. Make its home there. Fittingly belong there. No question of meagre or exhausted supply.
The Word of God grows in meaning, in intensity, for you, as you bring it into operation.
Remember, too, the Word of God is that Word made flesh, Who dwells with you, your Lord Christ (the Anointed) Jesus (Saviour).
My Image Restored. - August 15
Look unto Me until your gaze becomes so intense that you absorb the Beauty of Holiness.
Then truly is the petty, unworthy 'Self' ousted from your nature. Look to Me. Speak to Me. Think of Me.
So you become transformed by the renewing of your mind. Other thoughts, other desires, other ways follow, for you become transformed into My Likeness.
Thus you vindicate The Ways of God with man - man made in His Image, that Image marred, but I still had trust in man; trust that man, seeing the God-Image in Me, the man Christ Jesus, would aspire to be remade and rise again - into My Likeness.
Expectancy. - August 16
In all your work, your meetings with others, have ever the consciousness of My brooding Love surrounding you. Continue ye in My Love.
Meet Me at eventide with loving expectancy.
Premature Blessing. - August 17
Give me strength to wait Thy time, accept Thy discipline.
Only your failure to do this can delay the answers to your many prayers.
The blessing you crave needs a trained, disciplined life, or it would work your ruin and bring upon you a world's criticism that could but harm the very cause, My Cause, which you so ardently seek to serve.
Broken Bonds. - August 18
Loose the fetters that bind me to earth and material things.
They shall be loosed. Even now your prayer is being answered. But you can only be completely released as you live with Me more and more.
Thought-freedom from 'Self'-claims comes by a process of substitution. For every claim of 'Self', substitute My claim. For every thought of fear or resentment substitute a thought of security in Me and of Joy in My Service. For every thought of limitation, of helplessness, substitute one of the Power of a Spirit-aided life.
Do this persistently. At first with deliberate effort, until it becomes an almost unconscious habit. The fetters will snap and gradually you will realize the wonder of your freedom.
Bounteous Giving. - August 19
Lord I ask for Thine unlimited supply.
I give with no niggard hand. See the Beauty in Nature, the profusion, the generosity. When I give you a work to do, a need of another's to meet, My supply knows no bounds.
You, too, must learn this Divine generosity, not only towards the lonely, the needy, whom you contact, but towards Me, your Lord.
Measure the wealth of Mary's gift by the offerings given to Me nowadays by those who profess their Love for Me. Ungenerous giving dwarfs the soul.
Glorious Opportunity. - August 20
Man's life is no tragedy or comedy staged by a God of Whims.
It is man's glorious opportunity of regaining what humanity lost - assisted by the One Who found the path-direct, and Who is ready at every point, and all along The Way to supply man with the Life Eternal.
That Life Eternal which alone enables him to breathe, even here and now, the very air of Heaven, and to be inspired with the Spirit-Life in which I lived on earth; God made man.
Where to Find Me - Always. - August 21
Man so often seeks, and marvels that he does not find. Why? Because only along the path of simple obedience am I to be found.
I said, "I came not to do Mine own Will but the Will of Him that sent Me." I tread, as I always trod, the path of simple obedience. Along it shall I be found.
Man must be simply obedient to My Commands before his feet can come My way. Then, seeking, he truly finds Me. I said you must become as little children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
True Power. - August 22
Many are speaking ABOUT Me, and they marvel that their words have no Force. They are not My Words, they are words about Me. Oh, how different.
The world is surfeited with words about Me.
The world needs to see Me, not to hear of My Power, but to see it in action. Not to hear of My Peace, but to see that it keeps My followers calm, unruffled and untroubled, no matter what the outward circumstances.
Not to hear of My Joy, but to see it, as from hidden depths of security, where true Power and Peace abide, it ripples to the surface of the life, and is revealed to those around.
Hunger for Righteousness. - August 23
Many are wondering why their desire for righteousness is not satisfied according to My Promise. But that Promise was on condition that there should be hunger and thirst. If the Truths I have given have not been absorbed, there can be no real hunger for more.
So, when you miss the Joy-Light on your path, when the vision seems lost, and the Voice silent, then ask yourself, have you failed to live out the lessons that you were taught?
Live out My teaching in your lives, and then, hungry for more, come to me, Bread of Life, Food of your souls.
Might and Majesty. - August 24
You see Me sometimes as the Man of Sorrows. Behold Me, too, in the Majesty of My God-head.
Not always can man disregard My Wishes and break My Commands.
I view the desecration of My Image, I see the ruin of the kingdom of earth which was to have been the Kingdom of the Lord. I see passions let loose and innocence spoiled, and man clamouring for the mastery.
Then the Man of Sorrows walks a King with flashing eyes, as He sees the down-trodden, the oppressed, the persecuted and the persecutor, the tyrant and the weak.
How long shall I have the patience? HOW LONG?
House of the Spirit. - August 25
"Lest perhaps you should let them slip" - "Hold fast that thou hast." Each Truth learned has to be cemented to your Being by obedience.
Your soul-character is like a building. It IS a building (the Temple) in which the God-Spirit can make a Home.
Bricks lying on the ground separate are useless; placed together, united, they form a building. So obedience is the mortar by which Truths are retained and become a part of the Being. Truths which would otherwise be lost.
So every Truth I give you must be lived out.
"I Die Daily." - August 26
I enjoined that if any man would follow Me (and I am The Way - the only way - home) he should deny himself and take up his cross.
The denial thus impressed upon My disciples as necessary was not a mere matter of discipline, of giving up, of going without.
It was a total repudiation of any claim the 'Self' might make, ignoring it, refusing to acknowledge it.
Not once was this to be done, but daily; there was to be a daily recrucifixion of any part of the 'Self'-life not already completely dead.
One Spirit-led Family. - August 27
Have no fear. Wonders unfold.
In this Life or in the Larger Life, the lesson is the same - the absorption of My Spirit - living, thinking and acting in My Spirit, until others are forced to see and recognize its Power and claims.
Does this mean loneliness for My Follower? Nay, rather, though you, the human-'Self'-you, has no recognition, the real you, transformed by My Spirit, shares in all that fullness of operation and resultant Joy.
You are no isolated Being but one of a mighty Spirit-led family, partaker of all the family's well-being, co-operative in every act of each member, sharer of the blessing of each.
A foretaste this of Heaven's oneness and fulfillment.
Thread of Gold. - August 28
Let my Spirit of Calm enter your Being, and direct you, filling you with Peace and Power. Find in each day that thread of gold that runs through all, and that links up all the simple tasks and words and interests and feelings into one whole.
Consciously hand the day back to Me at its close, leaving with Me all that is incomplete. It is Heaven's work to complete man's imperfect or unfinished task, when it has been of Heaven's ordering.
See the Joy of Life, and you, by that very act, increase it. Joy grows by man's consciousness of Joy.
Divine Extravagance. - August 29
Let Christ be in you in all wealth of Wisdom.
It is the niggard attitude of My followers that casts a slur upon My religion.
Dwell upon the Divine extravagance of terms used by those who knew something of the wonder of my Kingdom - "The riches," "The wealth," "The fullness." There is no stint with God.
The only limit is set by the inability of My followers to take. Wealth of Wisdom and unlimited Power to help others may be yours.
Stand Invincible. - August 30
Life, earth-life, is a battle. A battle in which man will always be the loser unless he summons Eternal Life-Forces to his aid. Do this, and all that has the power to thwart you slinks back defeated.
Say, in the little as well as in the big things of life, "Nothing can harm, nothing can make me afraid. In Him I conquer." Stand invincible, face to the foes of life.
Heaven's Music. - August 31
Lift up your heart.
Lift it up - its love and its longings, leaving fears and faults behind.
Let your heart draw its strength and vitalising Joy and Confidence from Me, your Lord.
Let no vibration stir your Being, that is not in harmony with the Eternal Music of My Kingdom.