How few wait on Me.
Many pray to Me.
They come into My Presence feverish with wants and distress, but few wait there for that calm and strength that contact with Me would give.
Look unto Me and be ye saved. But the look was not meant to be a hurried glance. It was to be the look into My face of the lover beholding the Beloved.
Wait before Me with a song of praise in your hearts. Sing unto Me a new song. There will always be something in each day for which to thank Me.
Acknowledge every little happening as a revelation of My Love and thought for you. Praise has the power to wash away the bitterness of life. Be glad in the Lord.
Rejoice evermore. Great is the heart’s “Thank You.” As you learn to thank Me more and more you will more and more see Me in the little happenings, and increasingly see much about which to rejoice. Praise and thanksgiving are the preservers of youth.
Wait before Me, in humble, silent anticipation. Wait in entire and childlike obedience. Wait as a servant anticipating his master’s orders and wants.
Wait as a lover eager to note the first suggestions of a need, and to hasten to supply it. Wait for My orders and commands. Wait for My Guidance, My Supply.
Well indeed in such a life may you be of good cheer. Can a life be dull and dreary when always there is that watchful expectancy, always that anticipation of glad surprise, always wonder of fulfillment, Joy of supply?
Turn out all of your self that would rebel against My sway. Know no other rule.
Check your actions and motives habitually. Those that are actuated by self-esteem or self-pity — condemn.
Discipline yourself ruthlessly rather than let self gain any ascendancy. Your aim is to oust it, and to serve and follow Me only.
Trust in Me. Do more than trust. Joy in Me. If you really trust, you cannot fail to Joy. The wonder of My Care, Protection, and Provision is so transcendently beautiful, as your trust reveals it to you, that your whole heart must sing with the Joy of it.
It is that Joy that will, and does, renew your youth. That source of your Joy and Courage.
Truly did I not know what I was enjoining when I said, “Love and Laugh.” But — your attitude must be right, not only with Me, but with those around you.
True religion is that which binds the soul to God, and supplicatory prayer binds the soul less than any other form of approach.
It is necessary, how necessary, but how often it can fail to bind truly. Meditation and Communion are of infinitely more value.
Meditation is man’s line thrown out. It links the soul to God. Communion is God’s line thrown out. It draws and unites the soul to Him.
Treat all as those about whom I care.
You would visit the poor, the sick or those in prison, knowing full well I would see it as done unto Me.
I want you now to go still further along the way of my Kingdom. You contact many who are not poor, not sick, not in prison.
They may be opposed to you. They may disregard much that you consider of value, they may not seem to need your help. Can you treat these, too, as you would wish to treat Me? They may be in need greater than the others you long to aid.
To you their aims may seem unworthy, their self-seeking may antagonize you. When I said, “Judge not,” was I not including them too?
Can you limit My words to suit your own inclinations?
This is not an easy task I set you, but your way is the Way of Obedience. I did not suggest to My followers one they could take or not as they willed. My “Judge not” was imperative, and a new commandment I gave unto them that they should love.
For those who do not yet name Me Lord, Love is the only magnet that will draw them to Me.
Be true, be strong, be loving.
Not by life’s difficulties and trials are you trained and taught as much as by the times of withdrawal to be alone with Me.
Difficulties and trials alone are not remedial, are not of spiritual value.
That value is only gained by contact with Me. Joy shared with Me, or sorrow and difficulty shared with Me, both can prove of great spiritual value, but that is gained by the sharing with Me. Share all with Me.
Remember in true friendship sharing is mutual, so as you share with Me, do I in ever-increasing measure share with you — My Love, My Grace, My Joy, My Secrets, My Power. My Manifold Blessings.
The Sunlight on the Hills of God lures men to seek His Mountain Heights.
Get away from valley prejudices and fears on to the sunlit slopes with Me. Gently at first I will lead, so gently; then as you gain strength we will leave, together, the grassy slopes for the rugged Mountain Heights, where fresh visions are spread out before you, and where I can teach you My Secrets of those Heights.
Life holds in store more wonderful possibilities than you can sense as yet, and ever, more and more, as you go on, will further possibilities reveal themselves.
The stored wealth of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
The giving out of that Spirit-wealth.
The supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
This, My Spirit, must be absorbed, not in a moment of emergency, but in the quiet alone-times, so that from this store all help and strength can be supplied.
The mistakes My followers often make is that they rely upon this supply being ready for them to claim from Me at need, when the claim should have been made before, and My Spirit in all its fullness have already become a part of them.
My Spirit is not a Spirit of Rescue alone. It is both Builder and Strength, making of My followers that strong soldier ready for the emergency or strong to avoid it, as the need of My Kingdom may demand.
