Consciousness of My Presence imparts permanence and strength to all you do.
My Spirit, permeating every part of your being, drives out all the selfish irritability, while fortifying all the weak parts and attuning your being to Heaven’s Music.
To think of Heaven as a place where you sing praises to Me is right, but the singing is with your whole being, as My pulsing Joy flows through it.
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. James 4:8
This is a law in the Spiritual Life. You must turn to Me before you are conscious of My nearness. It is that turning to Me you must cultivate in every circumstance. A glad turning of thankfulness, or a turning of weak appeal.
It is so wonderful that naught is needed but that mute appeal. You have no need to voice your longing. No need to plead, no need to bring gifts. How wonderful to feel you can so simply claim help, and so promptly, so lovingly, it is there.
Not only Help but the comfort and joy of Divine Nearness and Companionship. A nearness that brings sweetness into life, and confidence, and peace.
Never fear, never lose heart. Draw nigh to Me, and in that nearness is all you need. My Presence alone can transform conditions and lives – bring Harmony and Beauty , Peace and Love.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom
is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
James 1:7
My Lord, forgive me I pray.
Could I withhold forgiveness? I, who live ever to plead for My children, who told them that always when they pray they must forgive in their hearts?
I am God but I became man.
Perfect God and perfect man.
So human and yet so Divine.
Because I am Eternal — that I must ever be.
So see in Me all I enjoined My followers they must ever be and do. Could I withhold forgiveness?
by Derek Prince
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Jesus, Our Lord, we Thee adore.
Sing unto Me from a glad heart. Sing and praise My Holy Name. Praise is man’s joy-tribute to Me, and as you praise, thrills of joy surge through your being, and you learn something of the joy of the Heavenly Host.
Sing unto him a new song, play skillfully with a loud noise.
For the word of the Lord is right; and all his
works are done in truth. Psalm 33:3-4
My Light shall shine upon you. It shall illumine and cheer your way.
But it shall also penetrate the dark and secret places of your hearts revealing perhaps some unrecognized sin, fault, or failing.
Desire its radiance not only for its comfort and guidance, but also for its revelation of all within you that is not wholly Mine.
I am the Sun of Righteousness. Rest in My Presence, not clamoring, not supplicating, but resting until the impurities of your being are burnt out, the dross of your character refined away, and you can go on strengthened and purified to do My work.
Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. – John 14:8
My children, have I been so long time with you, coming to you, speaking to you and yet have you not known the Father.
Your Father is the God and Controller of a mighty Universe. But He is as I am. All the Love and the Strength and Beauty you have seen in Me are in My Father.
If you see that, and know Him and Me as we really are, then that sufficeth you – is really sufficient for you – completes your life – satisfies you – is all you need.
See the Father, see Me, and it sufficeth you. This is Love in abundance. Joy in abundance. All you need.
Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me,
Phillip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. – John 14:9
O taste and see that the Lord is good. Psalm 34:8
He is good. Trust in Him. Know that all is well. Say “God is good. God is good.” Just leave in His Hands the present and the future, knowing only that He is good. He can bring order out of chaos, good out of evil, peace out of turmoil. God is good.
I and My Father are one. One in desire to do good. For God to do good to His children is for Him to share His goodness with them. God is good, anxious to share His goodness, and good things, with you and He will do this.
Trust and be not afraid.
For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and
his truth endureth to all generations. Psalm 100:5
Help Me to save your fellow-man as dear to Me as you are.
Do you not care that he should pass Me by? Do you not care that he should pass Me by?
Do you not care that he is lonely, hungry, desperate, and far from the fold?
These things have I spoken unto you… that your joy might be full. – John 15:11
Remember that the Truths I teach you have all been given to you too (as to My disciples of old) with the idea of giving you that overflowing Joy …
Search for the Joy in life. Hunt for it as for hidden treasure. Love and Laugh. Delight yourselves in the Lord.
Joy in Me. Full Joy it was I wished My disciples to have. I intended them to have it. Had they lived My Teachings out in their daily lives they would have had Fullness of Joy.
Thou will shew me the path of life, in thy presence is fullness of joy,
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11
