(Q) Are we as individuals submitting the type of material
which will be the most helpful for those studying the
lessons? Please tell us how we can improve our work on these
lessons in any way.
(A) As given respecting the manner in which each individual
presents that received through its periods of meditation, and
the experiences that have been applied in its own experience;
not as theory, not as feeling or understanding only, but as
the experience of the body itself as related to that obtained
through the meditation on the lessons in the various periods.
THIS should be presented, and - as we have given - each has
been called to present that of self for the enabling of
others to find, in their study, meditation and experience,
that which will be helpful to those seeking. This is the
manner in which the lessons should be prepared.
The responses that have come regarding the experiences of
others, in their study of that presented, should make for
evidence that that being presented IS worthwhile in the
experience of those to whom the lessons may be presented
as a line - or an outline - for thought and study.
Let each, then, keep first and foremost its application to
the various experiences; for presenting that obtained is not
presenting self, but rather that self is made a channel
through which there may be received that which will be
helpful to those that seek through these channels for a
better understanding.
In this manner, in this way, will there ever be presented
that which WILL be helpful, so long as each individual
presents that it has received of those experiences through
the meditation on that presented.
If self is presented, this becomes weakening; but rather -
as given - make self a channel. How? As ye would be a
channel, as there is the willingness and the desire to be
used by those forces or influences sought, there will be
given that which will be of aid to others. For, has it not
been given, "Ye that would speak in my name take no thought
of what ye shall say, for in the selfsame hour it will be
given thee"? This is often referred to in regard to those
periods when the disciples were to speak or defend themselves
before those in authority. WHO is in authority in the earth
as related to self? There is the continual war between
"There is set before thee good and evil." That whom ye serve
is the master, according to thine OWN activity. Then, speak
and act in HIS name; He that is the Savior in the earth.
(Q) Please give a message of help to [
462].
(A) In those periods when there are the doubts and the fears
that arise, these are as the testing times in each soul's
experience. He that endureth, he that looketh to the
promises - and believes and acts in that manner, to him it
is counted as righteousness.
Then, KNOW in whom, in what, thou hast believed - and keep
the faith.
(Q) Please give a message of help to [
404].
(A) Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in
Him in whom thou claimest to be in accord with that He would
have thee do. Know that His ways are not past finding out.
Be not in the shadow of doubt or fear, but keep the heart
singing; knowing that in His own good time and way He will
bring the desires of thine heart to pass - that are in accord
with His will - in thine experience.
(Q) [
993]: Please explain my recent experiences of waking
and being conscious of praying that "God have mercy on us
all."
(A) As the consciousness of the position of the world and
those about the body is made more and more in accord with
His will, the experiences even as He had - as He wept over
Jerusalem - become the experiences of His children. Read
there, then, that which caused this feeling of the Master to
give forth those expressions even as He did in the presence
of His disciples. And there will come to self, through this
meditation, through this concentrating in self, and
consecration of self to His service, that understanding.
Then, to all, we would give this:
Consecrate yourselves, your bodies, your minds, your
abilities in EVERY direction, to the opportunities to be
of service to those ye meet and contact day by day.
For, as well as in meditating and prayer, make - through
the promises that self may make in consecration of self -
that position in the attunement of self that thy promises
and His promises may be one; and fulfill all thou dost
promise.
Know that He will keep those that keep His ways, and - "Seek
and ye shall find".
For, those periods for the studies of that presented in Day
and Night draw near!
We are through for the present.
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