Brad Cullen

Making the Choice …to be “called” or “chosen”

One problem that comes as a result of the primary message I’ve been given is that it often gets taken (by me as well as others) as a challenge to perform …to do something not currently being done. The solution to that problem is not to do something per se’. What it takes to solve the problem is to change orientation; and I confess that I tend to have the same problem.

This morning I awakened feeling quite unsettled …except for one thing, I was quite settled and definite as to the fact that I had a need for a huge infusion of SPIRIT. My tendency is not to ask Dad, why I feel like I need more of His presence, but to ask what I should be doing to overcome my feeling of total inadequacy, so that I can write something in His healing presence and power rather than from a point of intellectual belief or body of human knowledge. The more I “knocked,” this morning, the more I heard the word “why?”

I finally “got it” …Dad was getting me to ask myself why I wanted more of His presence so He could give me His usual gentle correction. My motive for wanting to sense His presence was, as I just admitted, I want to write a powerful piece this morning.

Here’s the point and I am totally filled with Dad’s presence and power to make it effectively …if you are ready to receive it, it will be a transcending (going beyond) message for YOU.

Dad just showed me why my writing gets through to people who are ready to hear what He has given me. They want to transcend (get beyond) where they are. The trap so many of us fall into is what I am confessing to you …I want my performance to be more powerful.

I Want More Faith!

The reason I felt so unsettled was I was focused on the wrong thing. In this realm of faith, which I have been chosen* to urge others to enter, you can’t use faith; you must be transformed into faith. SPIRIT must be expressing faith through us. Faith is not something we possess, faith is SPIRIT at work. Is this getting to you?

It is the point, the only point …and I have a difficult time keeping focused on it, because we have been conditioned to be performance oriented. In the world’s system there is no doubt that we are measured by our performance, or our perceived ability to perform by our resume’ of experience or our educational degrees.

* “Many are called, but few are chosen.” I asked, “What is the difference between being ‘one of the called’ and ‘one of the chosen?’ …the answer from SPIRIT was:

“I choose those who want to be chosen.”

“Being” is an abstraction; I am more than a little smug, even arrogant at times because I do understand where I need to go in order to write and operate in the presence and power of SPIRIT. How on earth can I be arrogant or smug which is an indication of the presence of pure ego, which is a huge obstacle to being connected with SPIRIT.

It is why I wake up so often in the morning with nothing, no faith or confidence about anything. I go stumbling around with guilt (and deservedly so) and in confusion because I wake up with the feeling that “I” need to do something, when the fact is that in the spiritual realm there is only one SOURCE for work of faith and that SOURCE is SPIRIT!

What we need, in order to do the works of SPIRIT is to become aware of SPIRIT living in us because our SPIRIT-PARENT in us does the work. The essence of “being” Jesus and “doing” the work of Jesus is being in unity with SPIRIT, at one with our perfect SPIRIT-PARENT, which I refer to as Dad or sometimes Mommy/Daddy; another subject for another time.

Is Spirit In You?

Okay, I’m writing in absolute power to you right now, if you want to be one of the chosen, make the choice that SPIRIT lives in you, beginning right now. It is the will of our perfect SPIRIT-PARENT to take over our lives completely and it is pure joy! That’s the point, but you gotta want it bad enough to choose it. Performance is all relative to that one simple thing. You gotta want it, badly enough to go to our SPIRIT-PARENT and, in child-like insistence, say (before you even feel like it) I want to be one of the chosen, I want you living in fullness in me, right now. For me? I have to choose it every moment or I am easily side-tracked. That’s it, the point (finally).

Frankly I start off just about every day side-tracked. I’ve been given a path to get back on track …a path I have to choose and take beginning whenever I become aware that I am not aware that SPIRIT is in me. If you want my path, write me. The better solution, however, is to go to SPIRIT directly for YOUR own path… please share it with me when you get it. Thanks …we are one.

In Freedom,

Brad

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