By Rev. Pat

We generally speak of wanting to be with people of like mind, but it is not just like mind that we want, but like mind that is of a higher consciousness than our own. What Real Good and Truth can people who allow us to continue on the same level of thought do for us?

Then again, we generally migrate toward those who will let us have our way, the one that agrees with everything that we say and dislike the person who will say that our thinking needs changing.

This is what was so great about the Prophet Daniel and the three young men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego. Their thought and love for God was so great that they were willing to die in a fiery furnace and Daniel to go to the Lion's Den.  God exalted them for their faith to Truth and their dedication.

The understanding here is that we want to be with people who are loving, kind, generous and are devoted to their faith of Truth, but have a higher consciousness than ourselves, for we want to grow mentally, spiritually and emotionally.  Daniel had that higher consciousness than his three friends.  He was given insight into the future and a position of power in Babylonia.

In this position of power he never forgot who his God was!  He prayed to Him three times a day, was always honest in his duties and kept his records in integrity. 

All of life is about relationships. We have relationships with boys, girls, men, women, moms and dads and with the One who lies deep within known as Our Father. If we cannot bring something to these relationships, we become stagnant. In marriage, each is to bring something of value to the other-something that will cause the other to grow.  

Strength and courage are two great qualities that one can bring to another and to assist the other to grow.  If given in joy, peace and honor these qualities will surely cause God to protect and honor those individuals.

Sometimes our friends ask us to forsake our love for God by desiring that we revere them and allow them to lead us. This is a diet that will lead to destruction, for to surrender our leadership to man is in conflict to our Creator.   

Our life is ordained by God, therefore the diet is: Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. Jesus said it is the first and great commandment and the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22, 37, 38)

May Our Heavenly Father guide and direct you every moment of your life and may you adhere to His guidance, for that guidance will surely bless you and cause you to succeed.

Worship Our Father in the Beauty of Holiness

Part III

Tension Relaxes in Truth and in Beauty

What is tension: Tension means: worry, nervousness, anxiety, stress, strain pressure, apprehension and the Antonym is relief.  It also means: rigidity, tightness, tautness, stiffness and the antonym is: relaxation

On the other hand, this probably is the definition that affects us the most as tension also means: conflict, ill feeling, friction, hostility, opposition, strain, stress, dread and the answer would be to us the Antonym, which  is ease.

Part III 

This brings us to the part in this series of Lessons which can be considered as one of the most difficult of Articles.  In much of our living, it appears that tension has always been deeply rooted in prejudice, dishonesty, jealousy and ill feeling. In worshipping Our Father, He did not create a "race" or a "color" of people. He created what He calls His children.

As humans we have identified, categorized and described The Father's children as the French Race, the German Race, the English Race, the African Race, the Black Race, the Caucasian Race, the Irish Race, the Italian Race and it goes on and on and on.

If in our hearts, we could place the Spirit of Our Father at its center and live through His Spirit, we would realize just how much love, Divine Love He has for ALL of us. Then, our thoughts would turn to calmness and the relaxation we would experience would then ease the pain of tension and a whole new World would be realized.

God is our friend. He is not an enemy. He loves us so much that He has made sure (He provided) with care and sent an individual Holy Angel to watch over each one of us.  That is Divine Love at its fullest! 

However, if we are busy dividing His children one against the other, then His Angel must stand aside. The Angel has to wait until we recognize the God who created us. They cannot interfere with what we want.  Thus, the Angel Our Father sends will be unable to take care of us to keep us from stumbling or falling, because we fail to be one with Creator and accept His Divine Gifts.

You see He makes it easy for us, but it is as if we prefer to live hard, cold and tense lives.

If in the time of dis-ease our first attention is on something other than Our Father such as: How much money?  What to eat? Will this food harm me?  Where are the seeds in the melon?  Will Congress be kind?  Or many other questions and never give recognition to Our Father, tension is aroused and relaxation flees.

"The One God"

 He was new at this game of living and began to hear the voice of the Angel of Darkness and that is what we do today.  We forget who we really are.  Thus, all these crazy names we have given ourselves and the mistaken ideas and things we worship, never for beauty, but for anything that we give greater attention to other than Our Father, we come to worship.

Abram became unsettled in mind and body and could see nothing in worshipping idols.  He began to seek That Something that was greater than himself.  All those around him, his father, friends and his family members all worshpped idols, but for him, he felt there was Something more.

Then he heard the voice call him by name, Abram, Abram!  "The Holy One, blessed be He" of whom Abram did not know by this name.  Yet, that voice did not say, "Hey, you Israelite, you Jew" or any other [national] name.  He said, "Abram!"

So who started this mess of disassociating [denying the connection with people from "The Holy One, blessed be He"?  Well, we know that a lot began with the building of the Tower of Bable.  Man forgot that it is not what is on the ouside of him that matters, but from what comes from within!  Seek that which is within. 

Do you know who you are?  Are you ready to worship The Father, " The Holy One, blessed be He" in beauty and Holiness?  If you are:

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Feel, Know and Experience the Melody, Rhythm and Beauty of Our Father

What Do You Do When You Want to Know Something?

You ask questions?

God, Our Heavenly Father is our Heavenly Friend. If you want to know something, you ask Him. Just because He knows everything, is Omniscient, has been every where and is everywhere present, Omnipresent, has all the power and is all powerful, Omnipotent and is your friend, it still means if you want to know something, you ASK THE HEAVENLY FATHER QUESTIONS, YOU LISTEN FOR HIM TO GIVE YOU HIS ANSWER.

This may be the one reason that so many are angry with God, because He does give you information and answers to when you ask, but the answers may not be what you expected or wanted.

However, we as humans get angry with our earthly friends also when we want to know something, but fail to ask because the earthly one who may have the answer fails to freely give information.

My question is: Did you ask? Our Father is waiting for the same thing to happen with Him and His child. Question Him and it would be wise when questioning Him to also ask that the answer comes in a manner that you can understand it. You ask that it comes to you easily, gently, lovingly, peacefully, joyfully and in a way you can understand what He says. That is simply saying to The Father that if he uses words that are only in the dictionary and you lack using those words, then you may miss what He is saying to you.

Example: Father, what blocks my understanding on this subject?

Answer from The Father: My beloved child you are eloquent in speech, but you feel because you did not matriculate to Yale or any other college, you have diminutive knowledge. There may be many who understand the meaning, but there will be someone who does not and that someone may be the person who really wants their desire answered.

It has been said that pride goes before a fall. Are you too proud to ask Our Father for what you want to experience in life?

Marriage is a very important institution as it is the means of a continuation of the human race as engineered by Our Father, God of Heaven and Earth.

The one thing that we are to understand is that the man, which represents the conscious mind to be a controller of the woman, which represents the subconscious mind in the Scriptures.

Man or male is the director and the woman or female is the nourisher--one who nourishes. Man is created to control himself.  

He is to fulfill the duty of directing his thoughts in making sure that all things are taken care of and are secure. The woman is never to be considered as a "thing" to control.

Let us look sensibly at the word control and what it means. Control means to manage, to organize, be in charge of, run, have power over, be in command of and most importantly to direct.

However, it is never meant for the male to take control over the woman. It is over HIMSELF! He must have self-control over himself, just as woman must have self-control over herself.  

Still, she has another mission, which we will speak of later. I know this is unlike what some mothers teach their sons or the reason why the sons think they are here.

Let us look at it from Our Father's Belief System. He says that He has given every individual authority over their life. He never said, "I give you authority over the woman, the one I created to be with you." He never said that. Please understand it from Our Father's eyes.

He created woman to be with man, because He said it was not good for him to be alone. Every animal upon the Earth had a mate, one of his kind and man, whose name was Adam at the time had no one to be with him. Thus, Our Father, God created woman.

There is another word that is a synonym of direct and that is "hegemony". It contains a word that can be used negatively and that word is manipulate. What happens in the mind of man is a form of self preservation-that is, he desires to make sure someone cares for him, because to direct and control are different.

Jesus said it this way, "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matthew 26:41 Jesus was speaking to Peter at the time as he had asked Peter, James and John to watch while he prayed, but he depended upon Peter to do as he asked, for he knew Peter loved him dearly.

However, Peter went to sleep as James and John had done. We must make sure we are never tempted by the flesh. If we know the Precepts given to us by Our Father we will be under the

In much of the Old Testament we are told to know the Precepts of God. Perhaps, this is something that each of us are to ask Our Father to help us understand what they are and to show us how to keep them. Search the Bible yourselves or ask a Minister to assist you.

I would suggest that you read it in the Rainbow Study Bible, Living Bible Edition. I cannot use any of their verses here, because it says "All rights reserved" and it does not give me the privilege of using up to 1000 words.   

However, you can go to the Library and hopefully they will have this Bible there. You will find what is good to know in the New Testament in Romans Chapter 1 verses 26 to 32 - Verses 26 -27 are color-coded yellow and is for the family, genealogies and marriage. Verses 28-32 are color-coded black and is considered sinful, evil; judgment of the ungodly.

Thus, the statement by the three young men is false. The Scriptures do show that marriage -- man to man is ungodly, sinful, evil and God judges.