Mar 13
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What Jesus Is Teaching me Today; …Right NOW (29)
LESSON TWENTY-NINE: “What About The Future?”
Don't speak until you hear from the Source directly.
So much of what people say is “God’s will” is something “just around the corner,” that is, it already exists, but is not yet “known” …when I went to Jerusalem to raise Lazarus from the dead, I knew he had already died and had had already been laid in a tomb. This contains the secret which was revealed to you years ago; and the reason you tell people you don’t pray for anyone’s healing. Before you do anything you ask “what now?” The answer you get from I AM is, as often as not, to not do or not speak anything, because of what already exists, is this not so? I suppose, had I thought about it, Jesus’ words here would have been a rather obvious conclusion to have drawn from my own limited experiences. Looking back I haven’t tried to be mysterious or pose as a mystic …I have shared for many years that I never “pray” for anything until I know it is within “God’s will,” but once I do know that it is God’s will and that there is no conflict in a person’s consciousness (“sub” or otherwise), I know that what I declare will come into being on the physical plane. This can be confusing to some people because, as just one example, I will emphatically state that I believe it is always God’s will for a person to be healed. That position can be rather abstruse for some because I never pray for somebody to be healed; I generally ask, (silently) some form of “What now?” That silent request often brings the consciousness to me that the individual doesn’t want to be healed because of a very conscious conflict that being healed will bring about an unwanted result.
Ouch, it even looks painful.
Just one example, near Hilo, Hawaii a very earnest couple who had just witnessed a healing asked me to accompany them to go see a friend who was also a co-worker at a company for which she was the bookkeeper and he was a supervisor on the plant floor. The man they wanted me to see was in intense pain due to a back injury and would, they insisted, be open to our visit. They made the call and we drove to the man’s home. When we arrived he was sitting by the swimming pool in his back yard. He stood, with obvious physical discomfort, to shake my hand, and after an enthusiastic introduction about what the couple had witnessed over the previous two days …a woman, with whom the man was also acquainted, being healed of “terminal” cancer and an elderly man who had been stone deaf for over twenty years, shouting “I can hear, I can hear” and their excited recounting of other “miracles” – the man came quickly to the point of agreeing with them that he wanted to get over the pain and believed it was possible. I immediately knew that he was resisting the idea of being healed and the reason for his resistance: He was on disability leave from work and if he was healed it would mean the cessation of his disability income, which equaled his salary and he would have to return to a job he hated. I confronted him with this and he admitted it. I remember the words tumbling out of my mouth to the effect that he believed he could be healed and even wanted to get beyond the pain he was experiencing, but didn’t believe that he could be given a job that he enjoyed. He was in a profession and at a pay scale that the only possibility he could see to equal would necessitate a move back to Honolulu on the island of Oahu …something he admitted he didn’t want to do. Conflict spelled with a capital “C.”
Sometimes perceptions have this effect.
Driving away from his home the couple, Fred and Anna, openly marveling about the situation …I said something to them that startled them, but to which they both admitted was the truth. Their faith did not extend to the possibility he could find work on that island either. I don’t know if the man was ever restored, but I certainly know the obstacle(s) to anything happening that particular day. A predetermined outcome because of a limited belief, not because it was or wasn’t “God’s will.” I often get a sense of a conflict or an obstacle and I’m given a question to ask the person and their answer rather quickly reveals the nature and the depth of the conflict. Consider that someone who has a deep belief that God has put a disease on them as a means for her or him to enter into the “sufferings of Christ” …he or she really has no desire to be healed anyway. They may say that they do, but they don’t.
You choose to know good and evil, I AM will honor that.
Does this mean it isn’t God’s will for them to be restored to perfect health? In the foregoing example, if that person’s belief system also includes some vague thought that we are created with a will of our own and God honors our choices …he or she has a conflict that impedes any thought of healing, wouldn’t you agree? It’s a belief system with which I refuse to meddle. I’m not about to argue about somebody else’s theology, it isn’t a matter of right or wrong, it is a matter that either by revelation or choice they have made a determination that they are not supposed to be healed (period). If they are to receive healing – some changes in their thinking must take place – what, of course, is fun is when that change in belief takes place immediately AFTER they have been healed. Jesus’ words at the opening have provided clarity for me – a clarity that I needed and it helps put so many things into perspective. Planning or praying for a future that is opposite of that which has already been predetermined by events that cannot be avoided, is not merely speaking “idly” (the point of the preceding LESSON), but to speak utter foolishness. Praying fervently, “in the name of Jesus Christ, amen” is often a mockery to the truth of the possibility of a different outcome. I already knew that a group of Christian businesspeople, just as another example, getting together to agree and declare a certain objective be accomplished on the basis of a very poor English translation of Jesus’ words rendered as: “If any two of you shall agree upon anything in my name it will come to pass” …without first ascertaining whether it was, “God’s will,” was like driving an overweight truck onto thin ice that covered a deep pond, but Jesus’ words today, again, have provided clarity. Speaking the like, “in the name of Jesus Christ,” is another example of speaking “idly” and/or could it not also be referred to as “taking the Lord’s name in vain” (?)
Can you predict with 100% accuracy the future of this truck.
I know that nothing is impossible in the realm of overcoming limitations; and in these “latter day” LESSONS, that fact is being made clearer than ever to me, but to add the dimension that a predetermined outcome, especially if brought on by a limiting belief system, does not necessarily equate to “God’s will” has opened my eyes to even more exciting possibilities related to our ability to be the “overcomers” that Jesus has said we are destined to be …and that IS the perfect will of our SPIRIT-PARENT, whether you choose to refer to such as “the Father” or by any other title or name. I hope LESSON TWENTY-NINE has been a meaningful excursion for you as well. I’m supposed to sign off here, with a “be ready for an AMAZING INSIGHT” …because I AM is going to open our eyes to a much expanded view of the universe that will give us all a sense of new expectations, that’s what is in store for us in LESSON THIRTY.
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