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The Prayer For Divine Love
Our Father, who art in Heaven, we recognize that Thou art all Holy and loving and merciful, and that we are Thy children, and not the subservient, sinful and depraved creatures that our false teachers would have us believe.
That we are the greatest of Thy creations and the most wonderful of all Thy handiworks, and the objects of Thy Great Soul’s Love and tenderest care.
That Thy will is that we become at-one with Thee and partake of Thy Great Love, which Thou hast bestowed upon us through Thy mercy and desire that we become, in truth, Thy children, through love; and not through the sacrifice and death of any one of Thy creatures.
We pray that Thou will open up our souls to the inflowing of Thy Love, and that then may come Thy Holy Spirit to bring into our soul this, Thy Love in great abundance until our souls shall be transformed into the very essence of Thyself; and that there may come to us faith, such faith as will cause us to realize that we are truly Thy children and one with Thee in very substance and not in image only.
Let us have such faith as will cause us to know that Thou art our Father, and the Bestower of every good and perfect gift, and that only we, ourselves, can prevent Thy Love changing us from the mortal to the immortal.
Let us never cease to realize that Thy Love is waiting for each and all of us, and that when we come to Thee in faith and earnest aspirations, Thy Love will never be withholden from us.
Keep us in the shadow of Thy Love every hour and moment of our lives, and help us to overcome all temptations of the flesh and the influence of the powers of the evil ones, who so constantly surround us and endeavor to turn our thoughts away from Thee to the pleasures and allurements of this world.
We thank Thee for Thy Love and the privilege of receiving it, and we believe that Thou art our Father the loving Father who smiles upon us in our weakness and is always ready to help us and take us to Thy arms of Love.
We pray, thus, with all the earnestness and longings of our souls and, trusting in Thy Love, give Thee all the glory and honor and love that our finite souls can give.
Amen
Our Father, who art in Heaven, we recognize that Thou art all Holy and loving and merciful, and that we are Thy children, and not the subservient, sinful and depraved creatures that our false teachers would have us believe.
That we are the greatest of Thy creations and the most wonderful of all Thy handiworks, and the objects of Thy Great Soul’s Love and tenderest care.
That Thy will is that we become at-one with Thee and partake of Thy Great Love, which Thou hast bestowed upon us through Thy mercy and desire that we become, in truth, Thy children, through love; and not through the sacrifice and death of any one of Thy creatures.
We pray that Thou will open up our souls to the inflowing of Thy Love, and that then may come Thy Holy Spirit to bring into our soul this, Thy Love in great abundance until our souls shall be transformed into the very essence of Thyself; and that there may come to us faith, such faith as will cause us to realize that we are truly Thy children and one with Thee in very substance and not in image only.
Let us have such faith as will cause us to know that Thou art our Father, and the Bestower of every good and perfect gift, and that only we, ourselves, can prevent Thy Love changing us from the mortal to the immortal.
Let us never cease to realize that Thy Love is waiting for each and all of us, and that when we come to Thee in faith and earnest aspirations, Thy Love will never be withholden from us.
Keep us in the shadow of Thy Love every hour and moment of our lives, and help us to overcome all temptations of the flesh and the influence of the powers of the evil ones, who so constantly surround us and endeavor to turn our thoughts away from Thee to the pleasures and allurements of this world.
We thank Thee for Thy Love and the privilege of receiving it, and we believe that Thou art our Father the loving Father who smiles upon us in our weakness and is always ready to help us and take us to Thy arms of Love.
We pray, thus, with all the earnestness and longings of our souls and, trusting in Thy Love, give Thee all the glory and honor and love that our finite souls can give.
Amen
I am here, Jesus:
I wish to comment on The Prayer given to Mr. Padgett many years ago. The only one necessary to obtain the Father's Love; and the Doctor is very much to be commended for his perspicacity in perceiving all the implications of the Prayer.
It should be also understood that when I wrote, "through the death and sacrifice of any one of Thy creatures," I was referring to the Hebrew custom of pardon through the sacrifice of lambs and bullocks, which were considered to take away sin.
I did not at that time refer to myself as being one considered the equal of the godhead, for this prayer was originally given before any idea had entered the mind of man that I could be such a being; and it was not taught by me but simply inserted when given to Mr. Padgett in my capacity as the risen Christ, and in order to point out a false interpretation developed over the years.
I merely mention this in order to explain any queries that might arise as to how such a thought, which is nowhere found in my teachings in the Gospels, is to be found in a prayer supposed to contain my original language, at least in substance.
I know you have been studying the Gospel of John because it is the one that deals most with my relationship to the Father, and wherein is contained that material which when interpreted correctly reveals the Divine Love to be the Substance which made me Messiah and which enabled me to assume that position, even as a mortal, which exalted me in the eyes of those who understood my teachings and recognized the special relationship I had with the Father. And it was this Divine Love which permeated and filled my soul at the time of my appearance to undertake my public ministry.
At the same time, as you already know, many of the statements contained in John's Gospel were never written by John but by successors who revised and rewrote the Gospel in accordance with their own lesser understanding of the spiritual truths and in the light of the transformed doctrines that gradually replaced the truths, in order to meet the conditions imposed by the diminished comprehension of those truths.
So, I will thank you for allowing me to write tonight and I will close, saying I am your friend and elder brother,
Jesus of the Bible
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens
I wish to comment on The Prayer given to Mr. Padgett many years ago. The only one necessary to obtain the Father's Love; and the Doctor is very much to be commended for his perspicacity in perceiving all the implications of the Prayer.
It should be also understood that when I wrote, "through the death and sacrifice of any one of Thy creatures," I was referring to the Hebrew custom of pardon through the sacrifice of lambs and bullocks, which were considered to take away sin.
I did not at that time refer to myself as being one considered the equal of the godhead, for this prayer was originally given before any idea had entered the mind of man that I could be such a being; and it was not taught by me but simply inserted when given to Mr. Padgett in my capacity as the risen Christ, and in order to point out a false interpretation developed over the years.
I merely mention this in order to explain any queries that might arise as to how such a thought, which is nowhere found in my teachings in the Gospels, is to be found in a prayer supposed to contain my original language, at least in substance.
I know you have been studying the Gospel of John because it is the one that deals most with my relationship to the Father, and wherein is contained that material which when interpreted correctly reveals the Divine Love to be the Substance which made me Messiah and which enabled me to assume that position, even as a mortal, which exalted me in the eyes of those who understood my teachings and recognized the special relationship I had with the Father. And it was this Divine Love which permeated and filled my soul at the time of my appearance to undertake my public ministry.
At the same time, as you already know, many of the statements contained in John's Gospel were never written by John but by successors who revised and rewrote the Gospel in accordance with their own lesser understanding of the spiritual truths and in the light of the transformed doctrines that gradually replaced the truths, in order to meet the conditions imposed by the diminished comprehension of those truths.
So, I will thank you for allowing me to write tonight and I will close, saying I am your friend and elder brother,
Jesus of the Bible
and
Master of the Celestial Heavens