April 14, 2012
Height of the Storm
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 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.
Posted by Lisa Rice.
April 14, 2012
Keep CalmKeep your spirit life calm and unruffled. Nothing else matters. Leave it all to Me. This is your great task, to get calm in My presence, not to let one ruffled feeling stay for a 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 diverted into other channels.
Pour forth, pour forth, pour forth, I can not bless a life that does not act as a channel. My Spi... Continue reading...
Posted by Lisa Rice.
April 14, 2012
Way of HappinessComplete surrender of every moment to God is the foundation of happiness, the superstructure is the joy of communion 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 s... Continue reading...
Posted by Lisa Rice.
April 14, 2012
Your Great RewardYou 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 fai... Continue reading...
Posted by Lisa Rice.
April 14, 2012
How Power ComesAll 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 and riches. Continue reading...
Posted by Lisa Rice.
April 14, 2012
Grey DaysBe 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 grayest 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... Continue reading...
Posted by Lisa Rice.
April 14, 2012
A Crowded Day 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. "Un... Continue reading...
Posted by Lisa Rice.
April 14, 2012
At One With God
One with Me. I and My Father are 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 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 mu... Continue reading...
Posted by Lisa Rice.
April 14, 2012
Love AnticipatesNone ever sought Me in vain. I wait, wait with a hungry longing to be called upon; and I, who have already seen your heart's needs before you cried upon 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... Continue reading...
Posted by Lisa Rice.
April 14, 2012
Faith-WorksPray 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.I give it to 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 envelo... Continue reading...
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