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Edna Miriam Lister When you can ask the question, you are in sight of the answer. To receive an answer to a question, your mind must be as still as water on a still night. Therefore, the first very great necessity for expression is to learn never to ask why. If you still ask why, you lack acceptance. Lack of acceptance is the whole difficulty. It does not matter whether you still talk about demonstrating instead of "letting" a miracle appear, or whether you have illumination from the Source under prayer. The rest of the time you only think you are praying, or you are just thinking about praying. You are thinking about ascending, thinking about getting ready to accept. A state of grace is acceptance of Truth. When you have extended your consciousness high enough, you do receive the answer. You can’t bring truth through the Veils of Maya unless you have balanced yourself at the heart center. Three sentences will take you to the Source. No matter where you stand, no matter what kind of day it is, you can stand for three seconds and say: "This is good. Let there be Light. I am loves you." If you declare anything good, God will work it together for good. "All things work together for good to those that love God," yet He can’t work it together for good if you declare it is evil. If you love God enough, love Principle enough, are dedicated enough, you have only one answer: "This is good." You never need to say, "I don’t know what to do." That’s the greatest lie you use to kid yourself. Just say, "This is good," and wait upon the Lord."Let there be Light" is saying "Let God be here as Light." Remember the as. Light contains absolutely everything we need for creation. A Creator standing as the servant of all the Power before an Altar merely speaks the word to release Light to do the perfect work. Light needs and tolerates no interference. Light is sufficient to do the whole job. The Law to apply where we need Light is always to prepare the way of the Lord by declaring the object of your prayer "good" and "very good." Then use proper phrases to express the need, such as, "Let there be Light," or, "Let Thy Light go forth," or, "Oh, God, according to Thy loving kindness." Ask for greater clarity in proper prayer. "I am loves you" is knowing how to seek the Kingdom of Heaven first so that all things are added to your life. "I am" is the expression of the Oversoul. Oversoul is the healer, for it is already absolute perfection. Your mind is at least twofold, conscious mind, which does most of the important thinking, and subconscious mind, which we’ve filled with the negatives of previous lives. Yet, superconscious mind is an extension of the Oversoul and forever remains in contact with all Power and Light. You are supposed to be conscious of this. This is the Kingdom of Heaven. You are in the Kingdom of Heaven right now, you just lose awareness of it. "I am the in Kingdom of Heaven" is a simple, magical statement. Just saying the words makes you fully aware that you are in the Kingdom of Heaven now! You don’t need great rituals, just become the Kingdom of Heaven here and now. "I am loves you right now, where you are," is a perfect cure for enemies. A miracle is an acceleration of natural law. "In the beginning was the Word" and that Word is Light, the One Substance of God. We can do only two things to Universal Substance, raise or lower its rate of vibration under the primary Laws of Expansion and Contraction. If we lower the rate of vibration too much, we have crystallization or paralysis. We can raise cells crystallized in vibration only under dedication to Love and the cohesive Power from above. Earth can produce nothing that will not yield where love is Love and not just "thinking about it." When a situation doesn’t yield, we have a poverty of Love. We are impoverished of Love before poverty empties our pocketbook or steals our health. Paul Tillich said, "You cannot understand a miracle from a horizontal position. When man’s greatest need to receive reaches up and meets God’s greatest need to give, the result is a miracle." Life itself is God’s desire to give, to express, is why we are here. When all on the outside has failed, ascend high enough to reach that Power that gives the miracle. We could say that all prayer reaches up. What is healing? An expanded vibration of Substance. What is illness or financial trouble? A low vibration of condensed Substance. Healing happens under a high vibration of expanded Substance. The only way is to ascend to where God is and to love God enough, which raises the vibration of Substance. When we love God enough, God is the miracle. A miracle is the manifestation of perfection. When we love God enough, that Power, that Glory, that Light enters as a miracle: God expressing as complete perfection. This is the most beautiful gift, and anyone can give it. Each must be adequate to holding the foot of ground he occupies. Each can be equal and adequate in that one spot. There are no problems in the world, just inadequate people fumbling around. It is a matter of choice. Stand and say, "I do choose God. I want this healing. I know that I do. This is good. I am loves you. I am loving. I am a miracle of life." When you love God enough to become one with Him, then you have a healing, a miracle in the twinkling of an eye. When you comprehend everything that you think you know about Law, you will be there. It is a matter of stepping just a notch higher. I wish the words could be put upon my lips, once and for all, to wipe away the barriers. Most people just think they are praying. Their prayers just simmer. Ascend to where the greatness of God possesses you. It is so simple and so easy when you stop fussing and asking why. Your love goes forth as a flash of Light, a bomb of Light, to produce the miracle. Yet you must look up in consciousness to where God is and give up idle words. That means watching every word that leaves your lips. Everything God has created, He can recreate. What has been done, can be done and is being done. God never puts a block before anyone, but you create a barrier with every idle word. When man’s prayer is fervent enough to reach the Source, it calls forth a bomb of Light equal to the need. Every need you voice in prayer is a sight draft on the Power, a note you must pay when it is presented. Picture Daniel in the lion’s den. Daniel was talking to God with no other consciousness in his heart or mind. The Light was great enough to scare the lions because Daniel wasn’t lion-conscious when he prayed. Your prayer must ascend above earth and your need to God, the Source. Think of God, not your need. When your thought of God is so great that you know nothing is impossible, you have reached fervency. God causes your fervency. Picture God as your All. If you think of need or "picture" need, you adulterate your prayer. When the fervency of your love of God reaches the Source, you have Daniel’s results. The key is overcoming the gravity of need, to pull away from the need, which is triumphing over gravity. Those who do not overcome earth gravity are "skull bumpers" or "ceiling bumpers" in prayer. When your sight draft touches the Substance of Faith in prayer, it forms a mold that fills with God as Substance. When prayer reaches the Source in fervency, then it is the lighter for an explosion. Prayer is the builder of molds, the carrier of your faith. The minute God’s Power enters, He has answered your prayer with a bomb of Light. Light contains all the ingredients to start healing action in physical cells or in your affairs. Your need creates a path for Light, Power and Substance to fill the mold and become visible as you ascend in joy to the Source. Healing will be absent in any spot still lacking God’s full life. A miracle is a natural law accelerated to fill any void instantly with the Faith of God. You set aside time and space to have a miracle. You can reach the timeless, spaceless Source only in complete fervency as the Faith of God. A miracle accelerates a process into a completed act, which is the difference between speed and delay. A process includes thoughts that distract you and keep you inside your skull. Don’t make a production of entering the Golden Silence. Move up! Love God enough. Act from above! The act of a miracle is to say, "Father, possess me. Here I am. I love you with all my heart, mind and soul," and ascend to the Source. All your life you’ve used words to enter the Golden Silence. Heaven has records of all your all your lengthy prayers, the "vain repetitions" that you must listen to in the Hall of Records. By helping others, you can release enough love to erase those records. You don’t need a lengthy process of words to get to God, just go in love and kneel at His feet. Praise God in all you do on three levels at once, subsoul, egoic soul and Oversoul. Go about your business and tell God you are always looking and listening for the next miracle. It becomes a delicious delight to give God a problem and watch for the way He is going to solve it. When you love God enough, you become enthralled with life, but you cannot have idle words. What are you going to do? Whom are you going to serve? God or self? When you ask for a miracle, you pray and thank the Father for its fulfilment in His way. Some miracles are speedy, and some are slow, according to the fervency of your asking. A process will result in a miracle, but it is a low, slow vibration. Action is a high, fast vibration that sets aside time and space. How do you set aside time and space? Say, "This is wonderful," and know that it is God bestowing His touch of perfection. God will show you what He can do when you ask with all your love. How great is your ALL? All Light, all Love, all Faith, all Glory? How much of yourself is in that all? If you have doubt or fear, you are missing part of that all. God needs your greatness. Your imagination must be vivid, flaming, one that never gives in to the outer appearance. Ignore the lowered vibration. Say, "I vow to ignore the truth of appearance and to accept, surrender and declare the truth of reality." The greatness of the Law, the Power is unlimited. How great is your place? Make it greater by loving God. Say, "My sense of greatness makes the expression of Law through me great." Right now this world is ascending. Someday the world will be one great fellowship of brotherhood. You can suffer your way to it, or you can travel in joy. The rate of vibration of the prayer, low or high, determines the time elapsed between prayer and the explosion of Light for a miracle. The fervency of prayer determines how fast Power and Light acts. A slow miracle is a process. A slow miracle for the body on earth means your fervency hasn’t reached the point of an explosion. The healing action in a physical body is the same, whether under a slow process or a speedy miracle. The outer physical sheath is composed of cells, the desire body of molecules, the mental body of atoms. The highest vehicle is the fire body, composed of electrons. All detriments of the subconscious mind manifest within the desire body. All Power and your gains manifest within the mental body. When the explosion comes, it releases enough Power to inflate the mental body atoms and desire body molecules. Most people have to see to believe. A million small prayers to the Father are a million tiny sight drafts. Power finally fills the fire body and may linger there. When it finally seeps through into the mental body, you feel a little better. When Power touches the desire body, you become inspired to add fervency to your prayers. A miracle is instantaneous, the opposite of a process. The Substance of Faith is the lifespark. The finest grade of Substance as lifesparks does the healing. All physical healing depends on the inflation of the mental body atoms through praise and the three higher breaths. [We inhale seven grades of Substance in one deep physical breath. The three highest grades are the breaths of the Creator.] To step out in absolute Faith is an act of daring. Presume that a miracle is on its way. Presumption is to dare to act on Faith in Vision. The Oxford English Dictionary says that a miracle is a "remarkable specimen of impudence." A miracle is an act of daring, to believe to see, acting on the pure Faith of God. God will not be mocked, but He loves it when you dare. Leave fear behind and dare to be impudent enough for a miracle. The greatest gift we can bring to God’s Altars is Faith. We achieve such Faith only through prayers of devotion. A prayer of devotion is the essence of two things, surrender and forgiveness. We cannot pray to the Source without surrendering and forgiving, and their depth depends on our fervency. Surrender is a preparation for prayer. We become selfless through surrender to become a servant of all Power. Give Love for every debt you’ve charged to others. Forgiveness means to give up resentment. Forgiveness of others is the opening quality of our prayer. The quality of prayer depends upon forgetting our enemies. When we think of our enemies, it is a process. When we think of negative things to pour love upon, we are under process. "Why has this happened to me?" is the ogre with a club ready to wreck your dreams. What is "little me" going to do about it? Don’t ask why. Just get busy and clean up the mess! How stupid it is to let others’ actions provoke us to idle words. Silence under blame relates to this. We did not do the act, but if we attracted blame, we created its inner form through idle words. To surrender, to give love for, to forget, precipitates the explosion of Light! We need four stages of forgiveness for a miracle. First, you must forgive yourself, getting rid of self-blame. "Father, I know not what I do but don’t tell me." This is the "I’ll try" stage. "Let me hide a little longer. No, I won’t ask for help. I must work this out alone." Here you may dream of descending a long stairway over an abyss. You cannot forgive another until you first forgive yourself. Second, you forgive others because you think you should. "Father, I’ll forgive him but he’d better not do it again." Prayers are warmer here because they introduce the need to forgive. You begin to give love for whatever comes, and resentment is coming to the surface to be skimmed off. You are warming to the point of surrender. Third, you forgive others because you know you must. "Father, forgive them for they know not what they are doing to me" (or another). Prayer is gaining in fervor here. Sometimes you must call upon help or you retrogress. The quality of the composite group prayer vibration helps you ascend. Finally, you reach the full surrender and quality of being forgiveness. "Father, forgive me, lest I cause my brother to stumble." Here you are becoming forgiveness. You are giving Love for everything. You know, and Faith possesses you for full surrender to be possessed by God’s Power. Forgiveness is a series of small acts. Finally we reach Job’s level when he said, "Though You slay me, I will still declare Your glory." We ascend from self to humility and meekness of spirit that anchors us to Heaven. We become a citadel of strength on earth, a sleeping giant who can burst into life. We may not make demands while we wait through our "six days of creation." We have no room for self-gratification or self-satisfaction. Decree in Faith that you are ready to be promoted. "I am ready for a new position. I am ready for a miracle." The first step is entering the greatness of God’s Power and acceptance to become its transformer. Then think, picture and let. What we can dream of doing for ourselves is part of "all these things shall be added to you." Ask once, then think and imagine. Praise God, and thank Him that He is filling your mold. Faith is our only conducting rod to the Source for prayer, and our fervor determines the height our prayer will reach. The stronger our faith, the longer our conducting rod. The higher our prayers reach, the greater the bomb of Light released, the speedier the results, the more wonderful the miracle. Anything is possible to the Lord. Choose well. Be generous with God and He will be generous with you. Plan greatly. Think magnificently of God’s bounty, of His desire for your happiness, your perfection. Think of His wealth of ability to do. Nothing is impossible to God. Believe! Act as if you already have your desire. Cultivate the habit of acting as if you are already what you desire to be and already have what you need, which is the full secret of a miracle. "I am now accepting my great service. I am now accepting my great position. I am now accepting my full responsibility. I am become a good shepherd. Thank You, Father, You always say yes!" Any miracle, speedy or slow, is the result of much previous "thinking about" and "planning for." Every thought, every picture-image, every desire, surely builds toward your outer visible miracle. Allow Universal Mind to flow through you freely. Let Christed consciousness possess you. Then and only then can Power step in fully to quicken and vitalize. You soon feel it in every cell of the body, and in all your affairs. The only tools you use, the only tools you shall ever have or require, are your consuming flame of desire, vivid imagination, and divinely bestowed faculty of thinking. God never rebukes, reprimands or chastens the Elect. God just gives us opportunities to offer our most precious gifts of self. He gives us the opportunity of learning courtly expressions and attitudes from Heavenly Sources. Thank God that He has made the price great so that people cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven for nothing. "Beloved, now are you the Sons and Daughters of God and it does not yet appear what you shall be." God deserves the best! |
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