

### Relationship with God:

### Faith

### By

### Jesus (AJ Miller)

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### This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered on 23rd May 2010 in Buderim, Australia, by Jesus (also known as AJ Miller) as part of the Relationship with God series, on the subject of Faith. It describes how to establish faith in God that is not blind but is based on real evidence.

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Table of Contents

### Faith: Part 1

1. Introduction

1.1. We are often confronted by statements of Truth

1.1.1. God is an entity

1.1.2. We are each one half of a soul, with two bodies

1.1.3. The soul can connect directly to God and receive Divine Love

1.1.4. Morality refers to emotions as well as actions

1.1.5. We must focus on our emotions

1.1.6. For us to connect to God, our desires and beliefs must come into harmony with God

1.1.7. We are subject to spirit influence

1.1.8. For us to connect to God, God's Truth must enter our soul

1.1.9. AJ claims to be Jesus

1.1.10. Our soul condition determines our happiness at all times

1.2. We are often resistant to truth

2. Faith

2.1. Faith in God will allow us to determine truth

2.2. Faith is the assured expectation of the things hoped for

2.3. Faith is based on the evident demonstration of realities, though unseen

2.3.1. Wind

2.3.2. Atomic structure

2.4. Faith always has proof

3. Evidence for God

3.1. The natural world provides evidence for God

3.1.1. The gift of trees

3.1.2. The gift of insects

3.1.3. The abundance of nature

3.1.4. The complexity of nature

3.1.5. The unseen connections between mother and child or owner and dog

3.1.6. The Law of Gravity

4. Faith in God

4.1. Faith in God is logical

4.2. Emotional reasons for denying God

4.3. How to discover God and Truth

4.4. False beliefs about God

4.5. God's creation vs. man's creation

4.6. Building our faith in God

4.7. Evidence that we can have a relationship with God

4.8. Experimenting with God

5. The importance of truth

5.1. Experimenting with truth

5.2. How faith leads to action

6. Faith and soul condition

6.1. Faith can temporarily improve the soul's condition

6.2. James Padgett did emotional work

6.3. A temporary increase in faith can raise our soul condition temporarily

6.4. Using logic to learn Truth at church

6.5. Faith can help us learn Truth through logic

6.6. The kind of faith we must aim for is soul-based and strong

### Faith: Part 2

7. Receiving Divine Love

7.1. We can receive Divine Love without knowing this is happening

7.2. Divine Love enters us to the point of our resistance

7.3. We receive Divine Love because of our desire for it, not our beliefs

7.4. Phenomena at Pentecostal meetings come from spirit influence, not God's Spirit

8. Communicating with God

8.1. God often communicates to us through spirits

8.2. Connecting with God is more important than connecting with spirits

8.3. The feeling of receiving Divine Truth

9. Growing towards at-onement with God

9.1. A person who is at-one with God is her own true self

9.2. A person who is at-one with God is inspired by God

9.3. A person who is at-one with God can serve as a messenger

9.4. A person who is at-one with God senses others' feelings but is not affected by them

9.5. A person who is at-one with God feels Divine Love in every moment

9.6. A person who is at-one with God has no fear

9.7. A person who is at-one with God is in the world but not of the world

10. Developing a passion for God

10.1. With evidence and imagination we can grow our faith

10.2. Only a passion for God will assure continued growth on the Divine Love Path

10.3. A passion for God brings humility

10.4. Without a passion for God, we will lack enough motivation to keep growing

10.5. With a passion for God, we love God's Law of Attraction

10.6. We each must nurture our own passion for God

10.7. Avoiding emotions and truth is avoiding connection with God

10.8. No one else can give us a passion for God

11. Building faith

11.1. We must not wait for others to achieve at-onement

11.2. To build faith, we must trust and experiment with the process

11.3. The Law of Attraction provides evidence for our faith

11.4. Passion for God is an emotion that ebbs and flows as it grows

11.5. We must understand truth emotionally, not intellectually

11.6. Your relationship with God must be your most precious possession

11.7. Feeling what God has done for us increases our faith

11.8. Willingness to learn from others can assist our progress

12. Living in truth

12.1. Being in harmony with truth brings us in harmony with all of God's Laws

12.2. The apostles' receipt of Divine Love at Pentecost

12.3. Those who embrace Truth will become the teachers of it

13. The power of faith

13.1. Those who exercise faith with little evidence will benefit most

13.2. Those who have strong faith will progress quickly and become teachers

13.3. There is no such thing as a dead faith

13.4. A question about fear of group movement

14. Embracing the Divine Love Path

14.1. Faith and passion for God are essential to the Divine Love Path

14.2. Faith is developed through choosing to see the evidence and through prayer

14.3. With passion for God, your progress will be rapid

14.4. We must stop experimenting through others

14.5. Faith will carry us through the most difficult times

15. Closing Words

Faith: Part 1

1. Introduction

I want to focus today on the subject of faith. It's a very, very important subject to focus on, not only for ourselves who have already maybe heard a little bit about the Divine Love Path, but also in terms of your discussions with other people and helping them to see where you are coming from. So we'll get started on that subject, shall we?

1.1. We are often confronted by statements of Truth

1.1.1. God is an entity

So you've had this fellow come along into your life, through your Law of Attraction, who says he's Jesus and says a lot of things that nobody has really said before, about the soul and other things. Now, some of the things, of course, you've heard before, and they have been present on the earth for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. And then there are other things that are quite different, that you've not heard before.

And so you're listening to this material, and part of this material that gets presented to you is that God is an entity. Many of us previously had probably been thinking that God was some kind of energy field or energy force, or that just the whole Universal Love is God. And so the concept that God is an entity is, then, in the end, quite mind blowing if you think about it, because how can an entity have created everything that we see on this planet, everything we see in the universe, and everything that we see in the spiritual universes, all of the dimensional existences? And there are currently twenty-two or so of them. How can we even conceive that there's a person who has actually put all that in place? That's a pretty big ask for many of us to even conceive, so that we prefer to believe that it is just an energy or some kind of thing without personality.

But no, this guy has come along who is saying that he's Jesus and saying that God actually has personality, that God is an entity that has attributes and characteristics; and that in itself is a bit of a stretch. Some of us come from a religious background like the Christian religious background, so we have always perhaps thought that God is an entity, but sometimes we have thought that God was three entities in one. So even that is confronting, to see God as one single entity and that the three so-called entities - Jesus the second part of the Godhead, if you like, and the Holy Spirit the third part of the Godhead - aren't really a part of the Godhead at all. So that's quite confronting for us to face up to.

1.1.2. We are each one half of a soul, with two bodies

Anyway, on top of that, this person that you've met says that you are a half of a soul (AJ draws on the whiteboard), and I'm purposely drawing them larger than God at this point because we've got to get some perspective. And God, for many of us, is a long way away, so, therefore, quite small. Isn't that the case? And we feel our life is very centric around ourselves. We are very self-reliant. We are very connected with ourselves.

And he's talked about how we've got this spirit body, which most of us at some point felt probably that we have, although many don't. We also have a material body, obviously. So we have all of these concepts.

1.1.3. The soul can connect directly to God and receive Divine Love

And then we start talking about concepts like how the soul unifies and all those kinds of concepts, which are all quite triggering. And then we start looking at the Laws of God. We start looking at the Law of Attraction as it really is, and that's pretty different to The Secret and what all those kind of people say it is. And then we look at the Laws of Desire and Longing and how they affect everything.

We start analysing all these things and we start seeing, in fact, that this soul has the ability to connect to God through a connection. So we start learning about that connection of longing for God's Love, and we have started to grasp that we can actually long for God's Love and have God's Love enter us, and that actually transforms the soul into a new creature.

We connect to God through our soul, not our spirit body or physical body.

And then we start realising that actually it's not quite as simple as what we read in the Padgett messages, in the sense that you just long for it and the Love enters you and that's it. It's not quite as simple as that. The reason why it's not quite that simple is that there's been people doing that for forty years, and they're still not at-one with God. And yet, in the first century I became at-one with God by the time I was thirty, so, obviously, if people have been doing it for forty years, they've got to be doing something wrong.

1.1.4. Morality refers to emotions as well as actions

So we start learning about all of those things, but still there's something going on for us a lot of the time. We're still in this intellectual zone of: It's all very interesting, I can feel some truths in it all, but then I get confronted with some pretty harsh things that AJ says sometimes.

One thing he says is that there's a whole group of things that we've got to work on called morals, and we've got to work on this group of morals, down to the point where we can't even look at a woman without committing adultery with her. Like that's the opposite of what everyone else thinks: you can look as much as you like and you haven't done anything. And then you've got this guy saying the way God deals with morals, the way the Truth is about morals, is that actually, even if you look at something or have a feeling for something that's out of harmony with love, then instantly you have a penalty on your soul. Now that's pretty confronting and hard to believe. I don't feel necessarily the penalty on my soul; it feels quite good when I walk along the street and I look at all the women up and down; I feel quite happy with that, or when I get out my porn magazine or whatever else.

When it comes to taxation we get triggered a bit, don't we? We put in that, but we didn't spend that, but we're allowed to get five hundred dollars back from that one, so we can put that one down as well, and before you know it you've got a lot of lies happening. And he's even saying to you that even the desire to lie is actually an immoral thing, from God's perspective. This is pretty hard, now, isn't it? But then the funny thing is that it still feels like it resonates with me somehow, somewhere. So okay, I'll go along to another session.

1.1.5. We must focus on our emotions

And you go along to another session and lo and behold, he starts talking about these things called emotions. And it's just like I've been in my head all my life, and it's been fine up until now. And he's saying that I've got to connect with my emotions, that I've got to start actually allowing my true emotional state, and in fact, he's saying many times that what I think I'm feeling, I'm not even actually feeling, and I'm feeling something totally different. And I put up my hand and ask a question, and instead of answering my damn question, he actually focuses on the emotional reason why I am asking the question. That's pretty confronting, too.

So he's talking about all these emotions, and I go away and gel over that a bit, feel about that a bit, and I still feel attracted to this. It still feels truthful to me. But I'm not really certain about putting it all into practice yet or whatever. It just feels right. There's something right about this, so I go along to another session.

1.1.6. For us to connect to God, our desires and beliefs must come into harmony with God

You go along to another session, and he starts talking about these things called desires. He says that you have really a couple of different types of desires. Addictive desires, which we discussed yesterday. And if I look at my whole life, most of my life is addictions! Far out! You mean I've got to give up all of them? That doesn't even feel fair. You mean that when somebody is angry with me, and I get upset about it, that I'm out of harmony? How does that work? So we have a lot of these kinds of feelings about that coming up. But there's still a resonant thing going on inside of my soul. It still feels true for some reason, but I don't really understand it. Yet it still feels true.

So then he starts talking about beliefs. That they all have to come into harmony with God. Like, I've got hundreds of them that I was brought up with, and some of them are deeply cherished beliefs. Like, I believe totally that my mum loved me. That's a belief. And he's basically challenging even that—that my mum didn't even know how to love me, so how could she love me? He's challenging even that. Sure, sometimes there was a pure love coming from her, but sometimes it was neediness and control, and all these other things coming. And then, on top of that, we've got all these religious beliefs. Like, I am really attached to the idea of reincarnation. I really like it. And he's telling me it's not how everybody's saying it is, that there is reincarnation, but it's not how everybody is saying.

1.1.7. We are subject to spirit influence

Then he starts talking about these things called spirits. Sure, I know I have a spirit body and everything, but, you know, out of sight, out of mind. If you can't see them, then they can't be influencing you. That's what we think a lot of the time, don't we? And he's now saying that this is all in the mix, as well.

1.1.8. For us to connect to God, God's Truth must enter our soul

Then he starts talking about all the errors that are in us. And on top of that, after dealing with all of that, he also wants me to change some things called truths that are inside of me. They've got to enter me as well—God's Truths, I mean, not our own. And all of these things are a part of this desire, or affect the desire to connect to God. And all of these affect my relationship with God.

By now I'm going, what started out as a simple three things, which were: have a longing for God's Love, have a longing for God's Truth, and feel all of my emotions in humility—which all sounds pretty easy to do really, it seems pretty simple to me—all of a sudden there are all of these aspects of it so that, those three things, they feel almost impossible now, particularly the third one, the one about being humble and feeling everything. That feels really difficult.

1.1.9. AJ claims to be Jesus

To top it off, this person is saying he's Jesus! I mean, how unbelievable is that? That's pretty unbelievable, too. So on top of that, you've got this unbelievable person saying all these unbelievable things that are resonating with my soul. So am I crazy or what?! That's what it feels like a lot of the time inside of ourselves.

1.1.10. Our soul condition determines our happiness at all times

All of these things are getting presented as truths, and obviously there are a lot more truths than this. And he's also talking about this thing being my soul, and my soul is not my spirit body, it's not my material body, it's not something that I can actually see. But I can feel it all the time, and I can live in it, and it's actually my soul condition that determines my level of happiness, not only on the planet here on earth, but also when we arrive in the spirit world and thereafter. And we can change our soul condition. Well, that's good news. But, gee, it's pretty hard already.

1.2. We are often resistant to truth

So there I am sitting with all this information. I've been listening now for, let's say, a year. It's appealed to my soul that entire time. I've been listening to it for a year or maybe even two years, or sometimes it's been three years or so, and sure, AJ seems like a nice enough fellow, but, gee whiz, you get onto the Internet, and there's a lot of people pretty angry with him. They're all bringing up all these past things. Who knows whether they are true or not? AJ has his version. They have their version. Who knows what really did happen, right?

So here I am. There's a lot of this stuff going on inside of me, and I'm still in my mind, really, in a lot of ways, trying to work through it all, trying to determine what's true, what isn't true. Do I practice this? Do I not practice it? I feel drawn to it, and I've been longing for truth all of my life, and I feel drawn to it. But there also feels like a lot of problems with it to me, as well. There's a lot of things that AJ says that I prefer to go straight through, straight through to the other end, because at the end of the day, if I let it settle with me, there's heaps of emotions.

For example, what about when AJ talks about abortion being a murder? That's pretty confronting. That means that sometimes half the women in the audience are murderesses. And half the men with them, who force them or coerce them into doing the abortion, are, too. Gee, that's pretty confronting. But AJ doesn't seem to have any judgement about it. That seems to be a fairly good thing. But he is stating these things as truths. And I don't know whether they're God's Truths or not, do I? AJ seems to think he knows, but I don't know whether they're God's Truths or not when I'm listening to it all. So how am I going to sort all this stuff out? How am I going to come to some kind of internal resolution of all of these things that I'm learning and continuing to learn?

2. Faith

2.1. Faith in God will allow us to determine truth

The answer is by faith. And I'm not talking about faith in what I'm saying to you. I'm not even talking about faith in anyone else on this planet. I'm talking about faith in respect to one particular being, and that is God.

So the question we want to ask next is, what is faith in God? And how can faith in God help me sort out all of this stuff that I get bombarded with, not just from AJ when I come along to a seminar, but also from the whole world around me? AJ says one thing on the weekend; I go around saying, "Hey, I heard an interesting thing on the weekend. AJ said..." "Oh, AJ's an idiot. It's actually the opposite of what he's saying." Okay, how do I work out what's right? How do I work out which version is the truth? I don't know. I don't know what's the truth at this point, do I? And I'm at least open enough to try to discover it, but, gee, it just all seems too confusing.

And it's this quality of faith that is going to sort all of that out for you. That's why the quality of faith is such an important quality inside of yourself to develop. So what we want to do is identify what faith is and how it actually enables us to determine truth. And not only determine truth, because determining the truth is perhaps one of the least most important things in this process. The most important thing is that we act upon the truth.

You can intellectually determine truth: "Yes, that sounds like truth to me." And you can even be very certain. You can say, "No, I am certain that is the truth." But that is a far cry from actually acting upon it and living it in your life. You think about speaking the truth, for example. We often hear about speaking the truth. How many of us get upset when we are lied to? The majority of us get upset when we are lied to. And yet we lie to others quite constantly and think it's okay. Can you see there is some kind of thing called hypocrisy there? I am perfectly happy with me lying to you. That's fine. But if you lie to me, you're in trouble.

And so we start seeing, well, actually, inside of myself I love hearing the truth from another person, but I hate having to tell it. What's going to cause me to love hearing it and love telling it? And, by the way, when I say I love hearing it: as long as the truth is external to me. "Yeah, Joe Blow, he had an affair with someone else and he left his wife...." That bit of gossip felt good to hear. Truthful gossip, lovely! But when they're talking about my life and discussing my life in the same way, even if it is true, I'm not that happy about it.

So here I am in this place where I am expected to live in the truth one hundred percent of the time if I want to connect to God. That's what AJ's telling me. AJ doesn't expect me to, but AJ's telling me if I want to connect to God one hundred percent of the time, I've got to be one hundred percent of the time in truth, and that's what he's telling me that God demands of me. If you can think of it not as God's demand, but that God set up this universe so that's the only possible way to connect to God.

In a way it feels like a demand to me, but, actually, now that I think about it, it feels like God's not that trustworthy. God's pretty demanding, tries to make it pretty difficult to connect to God. So there are all these feelings and emotions that start coming up, and how do I work my way through those? Well, AJ says you've got to feel every emotion and work your way through. AJ says, AJ says, AJ says... you know, AJ this, AJ that. And at the end of the day, what do we feel? We start getting to a stage when we are still in our intellect. We're still not really deciding to do what is suggested to us, to connect to God.

So how do I determine whether any of this is true and whether I should govern my life around it? And then on top of that, I look in the audience and there are some people who seem to be doing it. They're changing quite rapidly; I notice that there are some people that, before, they were as obnoxious as hell when I met them first, but now they're pretty easy to get along with in comparison. Before, they were always demanding all the time, and now they're quiet and mild and meek. There are certainly changes that people are making, but who knows why they're making the changes. There are lots of reasons why a person can make changes. And then on top of that, some of the others in the group—we start having a spirit session, and before you know it they're flopping around on the ground. What's going on there? That's pretty strange. So that feels a bit unsettling inside of myself, and I don't know again.

So inside of myself I've got all these things, which we call the positive list, all these different things that are quite positive about what we're hearing. And then there's the negative list. There are all of these things that we feel are quite negative. But we're fascinated. We're still drawn to the whole thing, but not yet able to get out of the doubt place enough to act.

It's only faith that will get you out of that place enough to act. Remember, I said it's not faith in what I'm saying to you, it's faith in God. That's why we want to specifically focus on the aspect of faith.

So what is faith? Well, that question was asked of me quite frequently in the first century. I talked quite frequently about faith. None of the discussions that I had personally about faith are actually recorded in the Bible. But through my connection that I had with the apostle Paul while he was on earth, I managed to get a few definitions through him about faith, and he wrote them down, and they are still recorded in the Bible, these definitions of faith. There are two aspects of faith in particular that I'd like to mention to you.

2.2. Faith is the assured expectation of the things hoped for

The first one is that faith is the assured expectation of the things you hope for. A couple like the Wright brothers, for example, who designed the first flying aircraft that was powered, as far as we are aware—they obviously had an assured expectation of their hope. Their hope was that with some kind of power and some kind of aerodynamic design that they came up with, that you would actually get a heavy object off the ground, and it would fly. That was what they hoped for. But they had some assurances that this was possible. Otherwise, they wouldn't have even begun.

They could see that there were some gliders that people had made before them, and although they were not powered, they seemed to fly for short periods of time. They found that you could build a model, like a model glider, and you could throw it, and it would fly. And sometimes it would pick up a thermal and actually go up. And then other times, of course, that might not happen. Then they also watched things like birds and the way the birds had a curved structure of their wing, where, for some reason, the top half was curved compared to the bottom, and there's something in that. So they had some assurances. And they found that when the air flowed over, the air decreased its density as it flew over the top, and underneath it compressed in density, which created lift.

Air decreases in density over the top of a wing compared to the bottom of the wing, creating lift.

So they worked out all of those things. And they designed their machine around the assurances that they had gotten from all of these different avenues—from creation, as well as from previous people before them. But they still didn't know they could make something, from an external perspective. Nobody said it was possible, but they believed it was possible. They hoped for it. But they also had some assurances that it was possible, based upon what they had already observed. Can you see that?

Can you see that faith isn't blind? It's based on previous truths that you've established. So that's the first part of faith, and we'll talk more about that in relationship to God in a minute.

2.3. Faith is based on the evident demonstration of realities, though unseen

2.3.1. Wind

The second part of faith is the evident demonstration of realities, though unseen. What does that mean? It sounds like a bit of mumbo jumbo there. Let's think about the wind for a moment.

The wind is not something you can actually see, but there is evident demonstration to you that it exists. You can't actually see it with your eyes, but there are plenty of other evidences that it exists. There is the evidence of the feeling sensation on your body and in your hair. You get out in the wind, and all of a sudden your hair is being blown back, and you can feel the compression of the wind on your face. All of that stuff is telling me that there's wind coming at me, though I can't see it. Sometimes the wind gets even bigger than that, stronger than that, and all of a sudden it picks things up, and those things come towards me. Initially it might be a piece of paper. And all of a sudden, I see the piece of paper swirling around exactly as the wind is flowing, then bang, it comes towards me.

I can feel all that wind has power, but I still can't see it. And, in fact, right now, you cannot see wind. Now, you can even design some devices that are able to see wind, because they look at things through compression of the earth's atmosphere and so forth, and they can actually start measuring the fact that there is wind there. But you still can't see it. There is plenty of demonstration of evidence that wind is a reality, but you still can't see it. To know that there are these realities, we have to use senses other than the sense of sight. The sense of sight in a lot of ways is not very powerful in our determination of truth.

2.3.2. Atomic structure

To give you another scientific example of that, many of us on the planet believe that there is such a thing called the atomic structure of things. If you can zoom down into things, we go down, down, down. We start exposing it; we start expanding it. Down, down into things; we start seeing things at the molecular level. Then we go deeper, deeper, and deeper, and all of a sudden we come up with things at the atomic level. And they've now started to discover, using different instruments, still which you can't see from the human eye, the subatomic particles, which are particles below that level.

Now, I can't see anything at the molecular level, except when there are billions of them. I can see my body. And I know it's a molecular structure of some kind, or a biodynamic structure of some kind. I can see it, and I can touch it and feel it, but only because there are a billion cells that all merge into a function and form that I can actually physically touch and physically see. But if you get rid of all that, you can actually get down to the fact that you can put a thing under a microscope slide that you can't actually see with the human eye, and yet it's still there. So it's unseen. There's all of this stuff that's unseen. There are literally billions of things, even on this planet, that are unseen. Yet I still believe they're there, because I see the reality demonstrated by the evidence. That's what I see.

2.4. Faith always has proof

Now, what I'm describing is faith. That's faith. You have proof. Faith always has proof associated with it, always. If we start talking about our relationship with God, there is no such thing as blind faith. Whenever you hear the term faith, and you straight away think that means there's no evidence, then you are way out of line, because it's totally the opposite to that. The faith is there because of the evidence. It's the other way around to what most people think. They think you have faith, and then something happens. No, there's evidence, and that creates your faith that something must be there.

3. Evidence for God

Now, let's look at that towards God. Instead of focussing this towards the physical world that we see, let's start focussing towards God. What is the evidence, the evident demonstration of the reality? Let's look at the world. People say, "AJ, let's look at the world, and that's proof that God doesn't exist." And I'm going, "What? Let's separate the world that man has created from the world God created, for a moment." I can see for certain that many people would feel that in the world man has created, certainly there's not much evidence that God exists. Of course, that is actually true, because for most men and women on the planet, there is no evidence of God, and, therefore, the world they create is not going to have much evidence of God in it, either.

But let's look at this other world, the world that existed that we can suppose from all of the history and the archaeological records and everything else, the world that existed before man came along. Let's look at that world. There's remnants of it still around us, are there not? That's how we still live, because there are trees that are still breathing that give us some air, so obviously there are remnants of that world that God created. Now, let's look at that world, the world that God created, and let's just see whether there's any evidence that God exists, shall we? Not only evidence that God exists, but evidence that God is good! Let's have a look at some of those things.

3.1. The natural world provides evidence for God

3.1.1. The gift of trees

Trees are amazing things, are they not? If you look at the functions of trees, what functions can you just think of off the top of your head that a tree has? Let's look at the average tree. Most trees have fruit of some kind, so they have some kind of food for animals, birds, or human life. Is that not the case? Most trees have fruit. Now, what else do they have? They produce oxygen, and then they live off carbon dioxide in the night. Then, during the day, through this process of photosynthesis, they create oxygen, which, by the way, every single person and every single living thing on the planet needs to live on. So they produce oxygen, as well.

So now we've got two functions. It provides food and oxygen. What other functions? It provides a home for most animals, birds, and, even, if we allow, ourselves when it's raining. What do we finish up doing, generally, when there's no other protection around? We go and run under a tree. So it produces shelter for lots of different animals, birds, creatures, and also for us humans. If we cut it down, it produces fuel that we can use to heat anything we want, so it has that function, too. It has high insulation qualities, so we can use it to touch things that are hot without ourselves getting burned. You can use it to build with when it's dead, and when it's alive for shade. It keeps all the soil in place, so it manages erosion. Can you see now we are starting to get up to ten just off the top of our heads? But there are literally hundreds of roles that a single tree has in your life.

Now, you think about that, and you go, "Wow, how did that all come about? What does that tell me about God?" Well, firstly, I don't know what it tells you, but it tells me that God is good, that God is abundant, and that God has all of these different incredible designs. And there's not a single human yet that has replicated a tree and actually designed one from scratch and had it come alive. There will be in the future, but at the moment there hasn't been a single human yet on this planet that has done that, aside from planting a seed, of course.

But isn't a seed just an amazing thing? We get the fruit from the tree, and in that little, tiny centre—sometimes it's so small you can barely even pick it up with your own fingers. In the first century, I used to refer to the mustard seed, which grows into quite a large tree, and yet it's a very little, tiny round seed. And you can plant it in the ground, and that little seed has a genetic code in it. Not only does this little seed have a genetic code in it, but for some reason, as well, it has life in it. Now we've actually got some seeds from two or three thousand years ago, twenty-five hundred to three thousand years ago, as far as they know from carbon dating, sitting in the pyramids, and they've got that version of corn out, one seed, and planted it in the ground, and it grows into corn. That life and that genetic code were locked in that seed now for three thousand years.

We are only talking about one thing God created here. We haven't even started on the human body, but let's not get started there, or we'd be going in a year's time still describing that, and even then we know that no one on earth has ever come to understand the human body yet. We're even trying to replace its parts, and we still don't understand how that works. And so we have a lot of struggle understanding a lot of things.

But, in all of that, there's a lot of evidence demonstrated that there is a loving force behind all of those things. A force that's interested in synthesis, a force that's interested in cooperation between all sorts of things and all sorts of species, plants, birds, animals, insects, right down.

3.1.2. The gift of insects

So let's look at the humble fly for a moment. Its eye is such an intricate thing, is it not? It can see almost everywhere around itself. It's got eyes in the back of its head, literally. You go up behind the fly and you try to touch the fly softly, you get up so close, and off it goes. And you think, what a pest, so we get out the Mortein and spray it out. For those overseas, Mortein is an insecticide. You spray it out, and it dies. But we don't understand what we are killing, really, because without this fly we would be waist deep in waste. And everything would stink to high heaven without it, this beautiful garbage warrior that looks after all of that for us. God has created all these beautiful things that clean up the planet. And there's us, the human, perhaps the most polluting being on the planet. We are the most polluting being on the planet, are we not? And we've got all these things cleaning up after us automatically, so that we don't have to do it.

Then we go into the insect world, and a lot of the insects seem to be pointless, but without the insects, none of us would be alive right now, because there would be no food. Because food happens through pollination, and pollination happens through insects. I don't see any of you going out to the garden—although some of you do, I notice, with the bigger trees, but with the vegetables and fruit it's very rare that you pick a little bit of pollen off one and put it on another. That all happens for you. When have you made something that all happens for somebody else; everything happens, and they don't have to do a thing? God does that for us. He not only does it, but He does it in abundance.

3.1.3. The abundance of nature

You plant one fruit tree, most of the time you get five hundred to a thousand pieces of fruit off it, so much that you're there stewing it at night and then the next night because you can't eat it all, or it drops on the ground and you think, "Oh, that's a waste." It's not a waste, because all these insects and all the birds love that, but we think it's a waste. "Anything that's not going inside of me is a waste."

So we have this feeling inside of us that it's all happening, but we don't even think about it. We don't even ponder about it most of the time, do we? Unfortunately, what man has created actually removes us from it, because where do you get your fruit from again? Oh yeah, that's right, down the shop. Where do you get your milk from? Oh, down the shop in a container. Everything is removed from its point of origin. So much so that it helps us forget where it came from.

But all of these things are a demonstration of the reality that someone cares for you, every single moment. Not only that someone cares for you, but that someone is abundantly caring for you. You don't have to plant five hundred trees to get five hundred pieces of fruit. You only have to plant one tree to get five hundred pieces of fruit. Not only that; you get so much fruit, it's too much for you, too much for your neighbour, too much for your friends, and you let some of it drop on the ground, and the insects and the animals eat that. And not only that; after that, there are still some seeds left over that you can plant another tree and have another tree grow that has five hundred pieces of fruit. That's how much abundance God's given to me. There's evident demonstration of the abundance of whoever created all of this.

And then people are saying to me, "But, AJ, you keep saying 'creator'; there's no such thing as a creator. It's just evolution. It all just came about."

3.1.4. The complexity of nature

Wow, that's a really illogical premise, I feel. Once myself and Mary were sitting outside looking at our car, the newly purchased car we got a year or two ago. We were just sitting outside, and we were talking about God, and I said, "Babe, look at that car. It's pretty ugly in the end. It's functional; it works. It's got how many parts?" Does anybody know how many parts are in the average car? I think there's about thirty thousand or fifty thousand, something like that, the average car, if you count all the nuts and bolts and all of the washers and everything else. Anyway, it's got fifty thousand parts, and yet, if I told you that that car arrived on my driveway just out of thin air, all of you would laugh at me. I doubt there's anybody that would say, "AJ, yeah, I believe you." And yet I can sit and watch the tree next to the car, which has thousands and thousands of things going on within it, and it's alive—on top of that, it actually lives. It produces all of these symbiotic things that I need, as well, and I can say, "Yeah, now, that tree came around by itself." Where does the evidence point me?

Well, the evidence points me to the fact that, if my car had a designer, then that tree, which is infinitely more complex than the car, and on top of that it's alive—it thinks for itself and does the job for itself without anybody doing it for it, whereas in the car I've got to drive the thing. It can't think for itself. It can't go along the road.... Can you imagine it driving along the road? In the future we may have a car that does that, but I don't know, I don't think so. I think the complexity of it is too great. When you think about how many thoughts pass through your mind at any given time, and how many physiological functions are being controlled by your body at any point in time, and you are going along in the car and you say, "I feel like going left now," and the car goes left. Well, that's quite simple. I feel like going right, and the car goes right. But I want to tailgate this person ten metres behind; well, that's quite manageable nowadays with some sensory equipment. We can add that to the car. And what happens, all of a sudden, if somebody makes the decision four cars ahead? Well, that's a bit harder, isn't it? I can see with this eye, this beautiful thing this body is created with, I can see way, way into the distance, particularly if I have glasses on—because mine are obviously affected by something emotionally—and I can see way in the distance. I can see that car's got its brake lights on. Something up there is happening, and I'll slow down now. I can make a decision now. I can pre-empt things.

3.1.5. The unseen connections between mother and child or owner and dog

Let's go even further than that. Do you know they've done tests where they have separated a baby from its mother who is still breast feeding the child, and when the child cries for a feed—only for a feed and for no other reason—the mother's breasts start lactating? Now that's something going on, isn't it? That's an evident demonstration of a reality that I can't see. We've got proof that it's happening, but we don't know how it happens. It could be anything that happens between them, but something's going on.

And then they've done other tests between a dog and their owner. The dog runs to the door when the owner, five kilometres away, decides he's going to come home from work. Then the owner comes home at a different time, and the dog goes to the door at the same time as the owner is coming home from work. It's not like it's a learned response. There's something between the dog and the owner going on. Who knows what that is? But there is evident demonstration of reality, though we can't see it.

So, can you see, in the end, the majority of things that happen in our day-to-day life are actually based on faith? Almost everything that happens in your life today, you believe it is going to continue to happen. You believe the sun's going to continue to come up and go down. And we say, "Ah, that's because of a law."

3.1.6. The Law of Gravity

But you can't see that law in operation, can you? Can you see gravity? We can only see the evident demonstration of gravity, because when I pick up something and I put it over a gap and I let go of it, it always goes down. That's the evident demonstration of the reality that there must be a force there, pulling it down. And if that's the case and I can't see it, why am I addicted to everything that I can see?

So whoever says to you that they only believe what they can see, is one of the most stupid idiots on the planet, really, because it's not true, for a start. They are lying to themselves. They do not even believe that themselves. Actually, they are telling you the condition of their emotional state, rather than the real condition of their own life in reality. Because in their own life, in reality, they trust the things they can't see every single day. You can imagine going out to the car, starting up the car, putting it into gear, driving up the hill, and you get to the top of the hill, and all of a sudden it just keeps going. "Ah, I forgot to turn on the gravity today." They trust that the hill goes up, and that they're going to go over the end, too. That's what they trust, do they not? And they trust that with their whole life. I know it sounds strange, but it's true: they trust that with their entire life, betting their entire life on something they cannot see, every single day of their life.

What about with an aeroplane? Now they are trusting two things they can't see at the same time, gravity and aerodynamics. And a lot of times we trust ten or fifteen or even twenty things we can't see at the same time, and yet we are going along saying, "Oh, I only trust everything that I can see." How logical is that? It's not true. It's just totally false. We are always trusting lots of things we cannot see at any one point in time.

So let's get back to the definition. In the case of all of these evidences on the planet, we can see that there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes, and we have assured expectations all the time in our life. You have the assured expectation you are not going to fly off this planet. That is an assured expectation you have at every single moment. It's so sure for you that you don't even contemplate or think about it the majority of the time. That's how sure it is. You don't even consider it, because it's so sure. And we have the evidence demonstrated that although we can't see a lot of the things, we are, in fact, at every single moment of our life, trusting a whole gamut of things that we can't see. That's what we are assured of.

4. Faith in God

So let's apply this avenue. This is what faith is. Let's apply this faith now to our relationship with God.

There is plenty of evidence on this planet, right in front of you, in your own body, every single moment of every single day, that God exists, and not only that God exists, but also that God is good. And not only that God is good, but that God desires to care for you. We can see evidence of this all around us. And this is the basis of your faith. This conforms the basis of your faith. If you allow yourself to contemplate about it, you can see all of these things happening around you. We have some faith, actually, that there is a good God that exists who has personality. I can see personality in the creation, can I not?

You just watch a rainbow lorikeet that comes and sits outside on your ledge in the evening before it goes to roost, and you can see some personality there in one of God's creations. Not only that, when they fly together, you notice—not so much the rainbow lorikeets but other birds that are flocking birds—how one of them changes, but they all seem to change at the same time. It's like they are connected by some kind of invisible force that just causes them to change all at the same time. And yet, when we look at our physiological response between the mind and the brain and us reacting, it usually takes us about a third to one sixth of a second to respond. Now, if that was the case, you'd have one bird responding and a third of a second later, another bird responding. By the time the millionth bird at the end got to respond, we are talking about twenty-five days later, the last bird turns. That's what would be happening if it was all due to some physical thing. So there's another explanation.

4.1. Faith in God is logical

So here I am thinking about all those things. What I now need to do is go into myself a little, and allow myself to ponder about God and how I can see God in all these things. Not only the fact that God exists, but about God's nature. Allow myself to feel about God's nature.

I'll give a talk later about God's nature and attributes, demonstrating to you, through creation, what are some of God's nature and attributes. So I don't want to spend a lot of time on it today. What I want to spend time on today is focussing on this quality of faith with you. And how we can read this nature and attributes, and finish up with something we can determine our relationship with God to be.

So let's look at this quality of faith in regards to the nature of God. I can see from the universe around me, from my body, from trees, animals, birds, insects, all living creatures, and a lot of the non-living things around me—I can see the nature and personality that there is a God that exists and a God who cares for me. And all I need to do is have some logic about it. That's all I need to do.

So I have this logical feeling that God exists. And it's logic because it's based on the premise of evidence. It's not something that there is no evidence for. This is why people who are world renowned in history, who are scientists—many of them believe in God. Nowadays a lot of people feel that that's not true. But the truth is that if you talked to someone like Einstein, for example, in the spirit world—which many of you have the opportunity of doing if you wish to—you would find that when he was on earth, he believed in God. Not God as a loving being with energy, but God as an entity with energy and with power. And he's always felt that God was a God of love. He's one of your Celestial brothers. And there are many people who have passed into the spirit world, who learned soon after passing, for the first time, that actually there was so much evidence on the planet that God exists, and that they just ignored it all because of an emotional reason.

4.2. Emotional reasons for denying God

What are the emotional reasons? Well, what we do, and this is a big trait of the human family, is that instead of separating what God has created from what mankind has created, and then judging God by what God has created, what we do is we put it all together and judge God by what man has created. There's a lot of flawed reasoning in that. If you listen to almost any argument of any person who presents the argument of atheism, you'll find that they eventually, at some point, get back to religion. Really, their emotional issue is not with God, but with religion, in most cases.

This is the case also with many scientists. If you start discussing the aspect of God with many scientists, in the end, many times it does get back to, again, the discussion about religion and the concepts of religion on the planet. The concepts of religion, as we have discussed in the past, are very flawed and have no logic in them. And, by the way, have no faith in them, either, because, remember, faith is the evident demonstration of reality though we can't see it, and faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for. Religions don't have that. They are trying to assure you about things that don't even exist. So there is no faith in them. Real faith comes from evidence backed by proof.

4.3. How to discover God and Truth

So, here I have my heavenly parent, God (AJ draws on the whiteboard). And I am desiring to understand whether all these things AJ is saying about this God are true. So how do I go about actually finding out whether they are true? Now, here is me (AJ draws on the whiteboard). From a logical perspective, it would make most sense to connect with the person who has created something to find out the truth of it, wouldn't it?

Connecting to God through a soul connection is the fastest way to discover truth.

Outside, I have my Commodore wagon that I drive. Now, if I wanted to fix that Commodore wagon, it would be better if I went and got the manual that was made by the Holden people with a description of every part and all those things in it. I have the ability, if I learn all about the parts, to fix that wagon, do I not? Can you imagine trying to do it by trial and error, without any knowledge whatsoever? Imagine for a moment, you are driving along in the car, and all of a sudden it stops, and you have no idea about how a car operates whatsoever.

Now, many of us are in that boat, are we not? What do we do? We sit up and ring the RAA or RACQ, and they come and do their thing. But for the majority of us, we don't understand how the engine operates. Some of you do understand how it operates and are totally capable of fixing that engine, but imagine trying to do that without knowing. It would be pretty difficult, wouldn't it? What would you have to do? What you would have to do is make one minute change, test that, make another minute change, test that, make another minute change, test that. And in a car there are literally millions of things you can change, just minutely, so there are millions of times you can change something. So that's 999,654 times that I've tested that, and that still didn't work. Then test that, test that, test that. You can see this process is going to take quite some time, can you not?

And this is what we finish up doing with God. We say, right, I'm going to throw out the manuals - and there is one "manual" that God can give to all of you, and we'll talk about that - but we throw out the manuals, and what we do instead is we try to discover everything through what we call the scientific method. It's the least possible scientific method you can ever come up with, trust me. Why is it the least possible scientific method? Because the most scientific method, if you can think of it from a logical perspective, is to actually connect to the person who created the thing that you are trying to affect, and then get a download of what they think about it. That is the most rapid and most logical and scientific thing you could do.

Now, let's look at the least scientific thing you can do. The least scientific thing you can do, which is now described as the scientific method on the planet, is you set up an experiment to test a certain thing. You test a certain thing, and, "Oh, it didn't work," so you then make some assumptions, and then you make another experiment. Of course, you need huge amounts of money to do this, because nobody wants to do this for free, of course. Why would you want to do it for free? It could take you sixty years to do something like this. In fact, in the spirit world, right as we speak, there are scientists who don't believe in God who are still experimenting with creation in order to discover how it all works. And they have spent hundreds and hundreds of years with millions of experiments, with quite a few hundred thousand trying to discover certain truths, when the most logical thing to do is to talk to the person who made it. But you see, what we do is go down the track of saying it's not possible to talk to the person who made it.

That's what we think, right? And because it's not possible, we now have to discover it, we have to experiment with it. But experimentation is the most long-winded way to discover any truth, isn't it? Why would you want to do that? Surely we want the fast track way to truth, instead of this constantly drawn-out experimentation process.

So what we have historically on the planet are these things called religions. And these things called religions have made what they feel are the many experiments and come up with what they believe is the definition of God.

4.4. False beliefs about God

Let's look at some of the experiments. One of the experiments that they did years ago, and I'm talking about three and a bit thousand years ago, was: they'd have a child, and because it was the first of their children, and because they believed that God was a God who would punish them, they burnt their child alive in a sacrifice. And they found that whenever they did that, the next crop that they had was better. Yeah, that's what they found. Many of them did quite a few experiments with that and found that that was the case, that their life went better if they did that. How does that work? And who would even conceive of that experiment? Of course, there are literally hundreds of possible answers as to why that occurred, the most logical one being that there was probably some kind of person who passed before them who was angry and who needed appeasement, and whenever you appeased him, he gave you a reward. And whenever you didn't appease him, he took something away from you. And that could be your own dad who was like that when he was on earth before he passed. Now, that's quite logical. But no, we don't go down that track; what we say is that God is like that. We say that God does this reward and punishment system.

And literally there are six billion spirits at least, right at this moment, who do these reward and punishment systems with you right now. That's how they work. They are in the hells of the spirit world. Reward/punishment, reward/punishment: Whenever they get their addiction met, there's a reward. Whenever they don't get their addiction met, there's a punishment. And they are working with you right now with that. So it makes sense, of course, that many years ago, they did the same thing. But instead what do we do, we judge it all and say, "No, no, that's God."

Can you see what we do with God? We basically say that God is a human. Not only just a human: we basically get the worst of the humans that we ourselves, right at this day, put in jail for doing what they do, and we say that God is the worst of the worst one of those. Because if we actually believe that God is a punishing God, then that means that every single person who dies on the planet got punished by God. Now, God is a pretty big murderer if that's the case. How many people die every day? I think it's quite a few million who die every day. He's a murderer of the largest possible scale, if that's the truth.

But what we do is we make all of these assumptions, and then we go down the track of judging God. But there's plenty of evidence that God is not like that, because if you take away man's creation and put it to the side for a moment, and you just focus on God's creation itself only, then you can see all the evidence of beauty and symbiosis in that.

4.5. God's creation vs. man's creation

But the problem is, too, that man is so involved in God's creation now that we are also affecting God's creation, and that, of course, makes logical sense. Scientists have recently found out that whenever you observe something, even, you change it. That's one of the laws revolving around this aspect of physics. They say that if you actually observe it, you can change something just by the observation of it. As soon as you observe it, things change, and that's the trouble with what we do here on the planet. What we do on the planet is we say, "Yeah, you know, when AJ talks about eating meat," for example, and then we look at the animals and say, "Well, they eat meat, so AJ's wrong about that. God has created us to eat meat."

Well, that's a far stretch, going from "animals eat meat" to "God created us to eat meat." And what did He create them to eat? Did He create them to eat live meat or dead meat? There's a big difference between those two things, too, isn't there? One of them I've got to slit the throat of, the other one has just died naturally. There's a very big difference between those two conditions. So I'm there judging it, saying, "No, animals, they kill food; they eat the meat, so that is justification for me to be like the animal."

The average kangaroo in Australia has quite a number of women, doesn't he? There's one male, usually, and then there are five or six females hanging about him, and he impregnates all of them. So that's a great excuse for a human male on the planet to have five or six women at the same time, isn't it? Can you see what we do? We actually think that the animals are like they are, and we can copy them; the reality is the animals are like they are because they are copying us, and there's logic in that, isn't there? But nobody ever considers that logic. They all think the opposite is the most logical thing - that the animals do what they do, and we can copy the animals, because we are allowed to.

But the real logic might be completely the opposite, and that might be that the animals are doing what they are doing because the humans do it. That could also be true, couldn't it? We're doing what they're doing because we've chosen to. Couldn't it be opposite to that? Of course it could. But none of us want to consider that, because that would be too confronting. That would be too confronting, and it would mean that we would have to change to become more pure and loving, and oftentimes we don't want to do that. So what we do instead is we justify our behaviour through what is our understanding, but actually what we see is a direct reflection of our behaviour.

4.6. Building our faith in God

And so in this relationship with God, I am starting to see that what God creates is completely trustworthy, is able to be trusted. We can have faith in everything that God has created. We can even have faith in God's nature: that God is beautiful, kind, loving, and just, because we can see all of these things happening in nature when it's taken out of the influence of mankind. And so we start looking at God from a different perspective. We start seeing that we actually can have faith that God is good.

And do you know what is the biggest impediment to your own progression right now? It's that your faith that God is good is not strong enough. In the first century I said, if you have faith the size of a mustard grain, you will move mountains. And I meant that literally as well as figuratively. So often what happens is that our faith in God is very minute, and part of what we need to grow and pray about is growing our faith. One of the ways we can grow our faith is by looking at all the things that God has done for us, to us, and to the world, and also all the laws and all the principles, and look at all those beautiful things God has done, and start attributing it to God's personality and nature, instead of assuming that God somehow has changed with His interaction with me. God doesn't change in His interaction with you. All we are doing is we are looking at things through our different coloured glasses instead.

God is there waiting for us to have a relationship with Her, and we need to start developing faith that this relationship is possible. We have evidence that it is possible, even, but of course we also do what we often do with all of the other evidences - we discount it. We easily dismiss it. Now, what evidence do we have? Well, there's a lot.

4.7. Evidence that we can have a relationship with God

How much channelling has been done now in front of you? Well, there's a person talking to somebody in the spirit world, and they've got a different personality, different attributes, different qualities; and some of them are connected to God, and they seem to be quite happy, and other ones are disconnected from God, and they seem quite sad and depressed and down and alone. Then, when you take those ones who are depressed and down and alone and sad, and you start talking to them about connecting to God and longing for love, they actually describe to you how there's this thing entering them that brightens them up, and they actually describe it to you at the time. But, of course, for me to ignore all of that, I have to say, "No, that medium is a nutcase and they are just going by their belief system."

Monica and I did a channelling this morning with a group of army commanders from the first century who were in the hells. We were doing it privately. There was no one else there, and it is recorded, and we will put it on the Internet at a later time. But anybody listening to that could just automatically assume that firstly, AJ's a nutcase to think he's talking to somebody when he's not, Monica is a nutcase for thinking she's actually hearing somebody that she's not, and that makes two of us being nutcases. Then on top of all of that, all those people who see spirits and describe them to you, they are all crazy, too. Can you see what we do? Can you see why there is schizophrenia? What we do now is we label the disease and we give it a name, schizophrenia. "People who see spirits and hear voices - they are crazy," we say.

But there's plenty of evidence that they're not crazy. You start talking to them, and they will even tell you the place and time of somebody's death that they're talking to. Today it was the name of the person and who he was and where he existed and when, which could easily be traced. And with mediums there's literally thousands and thousands of examples available to any person who is willing to see, that there are actually people who will give you the date and the time of their death. In the Padgett Messages, you can actually read the date, the time of the person's death, and where they came from and everything, and if you investigate, you'll find that these are real people who have died, talking to somebody on earth. And there's plenty of evidence, but a lot of people just don't want to believe it. They'd rather say, oh, this person is crazy, that person is crazy, but the evidence is hitting them in the face. There are actual people who lived who are talking to you, and where are they talking to you from? They describe how it feels to have Divine Love entering them.

So what does that tell you? There's all this evidence that God exists, God is good, and that God wants a personal connection with you.

4.8. Experimenting with God

So this avenue of faith means that I can then start, myself, to change. I want to talk about how this faith in God Herself can actually affect your life and cause you to take action, because for many of us still, we are not taking the action we could take if we really had faith - that we would take, if we really had faith. You see, if you really had faith... and this is the greatest incredible Being of the universe who created you... and you really had faith that She existed, and you really had faith that She was good, would you not want to connect with Her? And would you not want to connect with Her as your highest priority in your life, rather than something you do on a Sunday? Oh yeah, six days of the week, what I'm going to do is use the scientific method, and then the seventh day of the week I think I'll connect with God today and see what I get. Wouldn't it be better to do it the other way around: six and half days a week, use the God method, and on the Sunday have a rest and do it the other way around and see what happens?

It would make more sense, because at the end of the day this Being chooses to connect with you. She is your mum and He is your father and wants to connect with you. If you really had faith about that - and there is plenty of evidence this Being exists, by the way. There's plenty of evidence this Being is good, and there's plenty of evidence that this Being loves you, and there's plenty of evidence that you can even discover for yourself just by acting upon the evidence.

You don't even have to believe anything AJ says to you, actually. What you can do is, you can experiment with it for a year. Isn't it worth a year of your life to experiment with? For example, you're totally willing to experiment with a year on a relationship, and then find a year later that she or he was the wrong one for you. Yet, you're not totally willing to experiment for a year of your life with your relationship with the Being in the universe who can tell you why your relationship went wrong. Does that make much sense? It doesn't, does it, when you think about it logically?

What I do is affected by my faith, and that will cause me to act. Because the truth is that if there is no action, then there is no faith. In the Bible, my brother James from earth in the first century made this statement: "Faith without works is dead." So you can come along here day after day, week after week, month after month, and listen to all this stuff; none of it is going to benefit you until you have the faith that you can experiment with it for a period of time and see whether it works. Anybody can do that; a child can do it. So anybody else can do it. We can experiment with it and see whether it works. But the problem is, you know what we want here in our minds most of the time? What we want to do instead of that is have someone in front of us do it, and then we'll say, "Oh, now there's evidence, so I can do it."

Well, you know what happened in the first century to me? I was that person in front of them doing it, and still nobody wanted to do it. So it's got nothing to do with somebody being in front of you doing it, it's got everything to do with whether you want a relationship with God or not. That's what it's got everything to do with. How much do you want it? Do you want to spend the rest of your life experimenting using the scientific method of trial and error all the way through your life, or would you like to do it a lot easier than that, and start looking at the truths that have been presented? But now putting them into action personally, applying them personally, having a desire to put these things into action in a way that causes change in your life instantly. And that's the thing we need to decide.

5. The importance of truth

Let me look at the avenue of truth for a moment. I have presented to you over and over again how important truth is to your relationship with God, your relationship with yourself, and your relationship with others. I have said to you that without truth, without being completely open and honest and truthful with every single person in your surroundings, you are not going to ever get to be connected with God completely. Yet how many of us still avoid saying the truth, even of what we feel, to another person - even to the person who's closest to us, our partner?

So we walk along the street, we've checked out that woman there, and our partner is right next to us. You don't turn to your partner right at that moment and say, "I just checked out another woman." Or I'm a woman in a relationship walking along the road right next to my man, and I'm watching the bottom of the man right in front of me, and I don't say, with my arm around him, "Oh, I'm just watching his bottom." That's the level of truth.

5.1. Experimenting with truth

Now, how do I know that that level of truth is required to be connected with God? By experiment! You try connecting to God for a month without telling the truth to anyone. You try making even a few lies to someone over the month and just see how that goes with you and your connection with God. You try that. And the next month, what you do for the whole month, you tell everyone the truth and see what happens. You experiment with it, right? That's what you do. And experiment with longing for God's Love as you're doing it. So you still long for God's Love in the month when you're lying to everybody or not telling the truth or withholding the truth. For a month you withhold all the truth from everybody, you don't tell them a single thing. At the end of the month, by the way, you're going to feel quite bad inside of yourself, but that's fine; it's an experiment, you're allowed to feel bad inside of yourself to work out the truth.

So experiment with it. How do you feel inside of yourself after the month of not telling the truth? How do you feel inside yourself after the month of telling the truth? How do you feel inside yourself with your connection with God when you are not telling the truth? And how do you feel in your connection with God when you are telling the truth? How do you feel people respond to you when you're not telling the truth? How do you feel people respond to you when you are telling the truth? You can measure every one of those things. You just have one month on and one month off of truth. Give it a go, right? Or you can just trust that telling the truth is the way to go, because it feels right inside of yourself anyway, and just do it from now on one hundred percent of the time. In other words, act upon your faith. You can do that, too. But either way, you can build your faith just by experimentation as well, and it makes logical sense to do it that way.

The reason why there are just as many men coming along generally - in this audience there's probably more women than men, but not by much - the reason why there are just as many men as women generally who are attracted to the Divine Truth, compared to other things, is that the Divine Truth makes a lot of logical sense. And the reason why there's many women attracted to it is because Divine Truth also makes a lot of emotional sense. Does it not?

So the beauty of it is that we can experiment with all of these different truths, and we can find out whether they're true or not. But you're not going to find out they're true by just thinking about them. Just thinking about them proves nothing. You become a philosophiser; that's all you do. But there are universities full of philosophisers who don't know any truth. There are, aren't there? They'll philosophise about this, philosophise about that, all these different ideas, and in the end, you ask them what they personally believe, and they will say to you in the majority of cases, "I've got no idea." Because, actually, philosophising doesn't help you determine truth.

These are all truths that can easily be proven, and all we need to do is start allowing ourselves to feel our way through the process and act upon what we've learnt.

5.2. How faith leads to action

So what we'll do after the break, we'll focus on this aspect of faith and how it can drive us into action, rather than us sitting on our backsides listening to everything but having nothing that we act upon. We can't expect to determine the truth by sitting down and hearing it only. I also said in the first century that if you feel you can do that, you are just deceiving yourself with false reasoning. Because what are we doing? We are waiting, waiting, waiting, for more truth, more truth; we are waiting, waiting, waiting. We're thinking that we can actually think ourselves into a state.

You're not going to be able to think yourself into at-onement with God. You're going to have to act at some point and make changes in your life at some point and feel emotions at some point if you want to be at-one with God. You can't think yourself into it, and if you think you can, you're just deceiving yourself with false reasoning.

When have you ever been able to think yourself into something, when you think about it? So you sit down on your couch at night. "Tomorrow I think I'll buy a house" - you know. So you go to sleep and imagine yourself buying a house, and you set up your desire to buy a house and everything. The next day you haven't done anything. "Yep, today I should have bought a house, but I don't know what happened, it just didn't seem to come to me for some reason."

So you do the same thing. You know, you can do the same thing for a hundred years, and you're still not going to buy a house. Because under this current situation, you've actually got to sign a piece of paper when you buy a house. You've even got to do that; you've got to have some action. You've got to take some action. And you see, we are so used to taking action in our day-to-day lives about things that are really of little matter to us, but we are so used to avoiding the biggest possible area of our life, which is our connection with God and our connection with ourselves. We are so used to avoiding that with no action whatsoever. We don't want to take action on that whatsoever.

Can you see that faith is going to be required, where I'm going to need to have faith that if I take action, then I may get the result that I am actually looking for? But one of the biggest injuries we have on this planet, unfortunately, is that the majority of us have been hurt so much from taking action that ended up nowhere. We have so much grief about that, where we tried our hardest in relationships, for example, and it failed. Or we tried our hardest to have a child and we never had one, or we tried our hardest to get a good job and we are only in this cleaning job, which we feel is pretty pointless. Or we tried our hardest to get an education, but there were all sorts of things that affected that, or we tried our hardest to actually enjoy our life, but at the end of it we felt quite dissatisfied. We try all the time on all these different areas, and so we get dissatisfied, and then we think that God must be the same. And all we're doing, again, is judging God by the creations in this world that we are in. That's all we're doing.

6. Faith and soul condition

Participant: I've been reading the Padgett Messages for about a year, and I've noticed over and over again that Padgett was told that he was in this amazing receptive state at certain times, and therefore he could connect and all this Truth came through. There was never much mention about expectations, never any mention about addictions. There was never any mention much about emotions or anything, and yet the impression I got from reading the messages was that he seemed to be able to receive all this amazing Divine Love, and he was making this tremendous progress, and even after he passed he sent messages through saying that he was in this wonderful place. What quality of faith did he have that allowed him to do that?

Well, firstly, there are some things that we don't realise yet, that I haven't discussed with you yet, about faith and what faith does. If you can think, you remember the spirit world is like spheres or dimensional existences, right? And, by the way, Padgett passed into the second sphere when he passed, so there is this misconception that he passed at-one with God or close to, but, in reality, he passed into the second sphere and was shortly thereafter in the third after he passed, but he had quite a lot to deal with. He was still smoking, even, when he was on earth. He had quite a lot of self-love issues to deal with, as well. There are misconceptions about Padgett's condition. Just because you're channelling a high-level spirit, it doesn't mean that you yourself are in a good condition. It just means that in that particular moment you can be in a good condition.

Participant: So was it his quality of faith at that time? Or was it the amount of prayer that he had been engaged in?

6.1. Faith can temporarily improve the soul's condition

Yes, both. He had a very, very strong faith. So strong that, actually, we brought to him, once a week, a group of spirits in the first sphere, and those spirits in the first sphere would be convinced by his faith to actually start connecting to Celestial spirits to get help, because of Padgett's faith. So Padgett's faith was very, very strong. It came from his background a lot; he had a background of Christianity, so he had a lot of faith in God: that God existed and that God was good. These were two very strong personality feelings that he had within himself.

And while he wasn't very focused on dealing with a lot of his own emotions, we did speak with him on lots of occasions about emotions, that he never recorded, about his own condition. If you look at the Padgett messages and reread them, you will see all the way through it this thing about desire, longing, intentions, and aspirations, which are all emotions, are they not? And almost every message that you read has something to say about those particular aspects of your emotional state.

On top of that, whenever you have faith in God, your condition temporarily rises for the period that you have exercised that faith. We actually described that to him in the messages themselves. There are some messages that you may recall in the Padgett messages that describe this temporary raise of condition. He once asked me how faith healing occurs, and I gave him some answers in the messages themselves, and one of the answers I gave is that if you long for God's Love, and you have faith that it is going to occur, this raises your condition enough that the actual event can occur. It's not a permanent condition, because a permanent condition only results by releasing the underlying causal emotions that prevent your faith.

This is why many of you have had instances where you've raised your faith and you've had moments of clarity. Many of you can remember this, right? Where you have these moments of clarity - everything is just like pristine and clear and just very firm in your feelings. You know it's true in this moment of clarity. But why does that moment of clarity disappear? Well, it only disappears because it's not a permanent condition yet. It's only going to become a permanent condition when the emotional error that prevents that clarity from existing permanently is removed from your soul.

But the beauty of faith is that it raises your condition temporarily, which enables you - if you think about it, a person in the third sphere or even in the second sphere sitting here on earth is able to stream more information into them in a raised condition than they are in their lower condition.

Faith can temporarily raise our soul condition to a higher sphere, enabling us to receive more truth.

Participant: And what about Divine Love?

And of course, that also applies to Divine Love; you are able to receive more Divine Love in that condition.

Participant: So my understanding was that your soul is a mixture of errors and truth, and that assuming that nothing has changed and there is still the amount of error that there was five minutes or one hour or one day earlier, then until you remove some of the error, there's no space for the love to flow in.

No, but faith creates a temporary condition for new truth to enter you.

Participant: Is it like a balloon expanded a little bit then going back to its original shape?

Yeah, basically! It's a quality that is unique from the soul's perspective. Faith is the quality that makes you open to God. It also is the quality that makes you open to each other, when you think about it. If you have faith in another person, you are very open to them in helping you and in getting assistance from them. If you don't have faith in them, and you feel critical of them or judgemental of them, then you don't listen to them with an open heart, do you? So when you have this quality of faith, it raises your condition temporarily, enough for you to actually receive more.

6.2. James Padgett did emotional work

Participant: Is that how he was able to continually receive Divine Love without actually working on his emotions at all?

Well, it's not true to say he didn't work on his emotions, Peter. The truth is that it's just not recorded in the messages, but there are indications of it in the messages. If you look at the messages surrounding his daughter's death, for example. When his daughter died, his faith was at the lowest, so he had no faith at all. And when he had no faith at all, not even his own soul mate could speak with him. For a period of two weeks, she couldn't even speak with him. He refused to even speak with anyone, with any of the spirits, but he even refused to speak to his own soul mate. So when you go through a dark emotion, that is the result. And you need to go through the dark emotion.

During those two weeks, he went through lots of dark emotions, lots of dark emotions about doubts about us as his spirit friends, lots of dark emotions about the soul mate relationship, lots of dark emotions about whether he was told truth or not all the way up to before then. And he cried a lot, because he was so emotional about his daughter dying. Now, in the process of doing that, he released a lot of emotion, causal emotion, and in the process of releasing the causal emotion, what happened was his soul mate could reconnect with him again two weeks later and tell him.... Actually, she had a lot of difficulty connecting with him up until then because of his emotional condition.

Participant: And then his daughter connected.

Then his daughter connected, and that increased his faith again. Now, can you see it went in cycles for him? So he went into the darkness of the emotion, then he came out of the darkness of the emotion into some light again. And remember, all the way through the messages, we're saying to him, you are not in the space yet where we can give you this message, you are not in the space where we can give you this message. Why? Because he had yet to deal with a group of emotions or a group of doubts that he had, and his only way of doing that is to have more faith, ask God for more of God's Love, and, naturally, emotions get dealt with in that process.

How many of you have experienced already where you've just had a longing for God's Love and you've really felt this longing, and all of a sudden you feel God's Love entering you, and all of a sudden you just burst out crying because it's entering you and it just feels so emotional? You're releasing a causal emotion then. God's Love is already triggering something inside of you. And that's what's happening.

This was a natural process, that Padgett didn't understand what was happening and couldn't describe it, but it was happening to him all the time. So he would receive a bit more Love, a bit more Love, but in the darkest times, when his daughter passed, he had no faith. He had lots of dark doubts, dark emotions, and it took him weeks to get out of that state. He also had times - if you have a look at the Padgett messages again in its whole entirety, instead of message by message, you will see that there were cycles when he spent time with certain people, and the spirits told him, look, you need to stop spending time with those people. Why did the spirits say that to him? Because when he spent time with those people, his faith went down.

Participant: And even certain books.

Yes. Then when he started reading books, one of the books was by one of the founders of the Jehovah's Witness faith that we told him, don't read that anymore. And the reason why was that it was affecting his faith. It was affecting his belief systems, and because of that, it caused a lack of connection.

So the connection with the spirit world would ebb and flow based upon what we're dealing with emotionally. However, when we make a permanent shift inside of our soul on an issue, from that moment on, whatever that shift had caused in terms of damage in our life, that damage can no longer be caused anymore. So after Padgett, for example, made the shifts that he made when Nita, his daughter, passed - and, by the way, for those of you who don't know, his eighteen-year-old daughter passed unexpectedly in a little operation. They expected her to live and she died. And his own wife had told him beforehand that she would live, so that added to his doubt, and so he went into this very, very dark place and dealt with lots of emotions.

This is a very similar state to people who were associated with me in my life in the first century - what they went through when I died. So up until the time I died, very few people were even connected enough to God to receive any Divine Love. Even the people who followed me for many, many years. But when I died, they were so grief stricken about my death, that it triggered lots and lots of causal emotions in them. For nearly six weeks the majority of them spent crying, which caused all of this stuff to come out of them, all of this grief, all of these other emotions coming out of them, and it raised their condition permanently.

But the beauty of faith is that it can raise your soul condition temporarily.

Participant: So the extension of faith is how he was able to connect?

Yes, and obviously you can have lots of faith, but also you can have lots of emotional injuries at the same time. This is also the beauty of faith: you don't have to be perfect to have faith.

6.3. A temporary increase in faith can raise our soul condition temporarily

Participant: So is this what happens in the Christian churches where you go along to one of these Pentecostal meetings and they are all praying for Jesus and they're all singing and talking in tongues and whatever, and somehow they seem to get somewhere, even though they are not addressing any emotions or working on addictions? They're not working on any expectations or any of that stuff, or they don't know that half the things they believe are back to front and upside down, but they still seem to be getting somewhere.

That's right. And the reason why is that they are receiving Divine Love in that moment. We can try an experiment of this if you wish. We could choose a song that affects most of you emotionally here and get you all to sing it while we are here, and I can guarantee, in that particular moment, if that song is about God, and you knew the words and everything and you connected with your emotions, that the energy in this entire place would rise temporarily to an entirely different condition. Now, the only problem with that is it's temporary. So what happens after you've finished singing and you've cried a bit and whatever else? Some of you might have dealt with some causal emotion, but some others maybe not. And what happens? We go back down to our normal state.

Participant: Is this why happy pills are so popular?

That's exactly right, and it's also why churches are so popular on Sunday, for exactly the same reason: because many people go to church to get that kick, if you like, that emotional kick that raises their condition. They feel a sense of inner peace which is about Divine Love flowing into them, but the rest of the time they avoid why they are not connected permanently. And what I am trying to teach you is how to connect permanently, not temporarily by addictions.

Participant: At those times in the church, though, they've had this extension of faith happening to them like Padgett had happening to him?

Yes, exactly the same; exactly the same process and exactly the same effect, and any single person on the planet can do it. You can do it. You can have a time of temporary faith, where your faith increases, and you can heal somebody even. In that temporary state, you can. But you'll finish up going back down to your real state, until you deal with the underlying emotional condition, the underlying soul condition, which is not just emotions, remember: it's emotions, desires, passions, morals, and all those other aspects of it which we often ignore. It's the total condition of the soul that determines where you are most of the time. But it's faith that raises you from that condition to a new location temporarily. And the thing about faith is that it makes you feel so good that you can actually start getting addicted to just trying to get the faith, rather than actually dealing with the reason why you are not in a state of permanent faith.

Participant: Is that like spiritual alcoholism?

It is, yes. It is exactly that. We are high on the spirit, man. And there are literally thousands and thousands of Pentecostal churches that live off that, that temporary creation of that temporary state. And there's no harm in it, except the harm of when they get back down to the normal state. Are they learning how to face their life in a permanent way that can raise their state permanently to that condition? And the answer there is, most of the time, no.

6.4. Using logic to learn Truth at church

Participant: But isn't that because they don't actually understand how to do that?

No, it's not. It's not just because they don't understand how to do it, it's because a lot of the time they don't want to, because what am I addicted to most of the time on the planet? I am addicted to feeling good, and anytime I feel bad, what do I do with my emotions? I distract myself from them and get out of them, do I not? Most people in Christian religions do exactly this. So, in other words, they go along to church and have a lovely singing session, the download of Divine Love is happening, you've got all these Celestial spirits around them, all this is actually happening. It's wonderful. You go along to one, you'll feel it, and it's wonderful in that moment.

You sit down to listen to the preacher talk his talk, you sit down and you're listening to the preacher, and he starts talking about the wrath of God. What's just happened? What's just happened is that, all of a sudden, we've gone from this beautiful place of truth and love and a download of Divine Love into the soul; now my soul is getting crushed by a teaching that is false, and my soul even knows it. Right at the moment my soul feels its own self being shrunk by what's being stated to it.

So you get this fire and brimstone preacher and he's hammering out how bad you are. "You sinners, you've got to do repentance." And off he goes, and you are just shrinking inside of your soul. Then all of a sudden he gets off, and you clap because he's got off now, which is half the reason why you clap when I get off! And then we start to sing again, and all of a sudden you get that same download, that same feeling, that same passion is there in my personal relationship with God, and unfortunately they can feel it but they don't then translate it into their logic. So they can feel, right, there was this high part, then when I sang the song, and when I was praying I was on a high and feeling really good, and then the preacher talked and I felt really low, and when he talked about hell fire, I went down here, and then when it got to the end and he said let's sing some songs, and there were some really nice songs about God's Love, and I was up here. And I don't go back over it going, high, low, high, low. When was I high? I was in that condition.

We don't use any logic, you see, do we? Most of the time, we don't use any logic at all. What we do is we look at the whole thing and say it was an okay experience and there were moments when I felt fantastic, instead of saying, let's look at the moment when I felt fantastic, what do I learn from that? And let's look at the moment when I felt terrible, what's God telling me there? God's telling me huge things there in that process.

So they're getting told every single Sunday they go to church what's really the truth, what part is connecting them to God and what part isn't, and yet ignoring that. And they're ignoring that because, if I leave this religion my friends might not love me anymore. I'm ignoring it for all sorts of emotional reasons inside of myself. And that's why they ignore it.

6.5. Faith can help us learn Truth through logic

Participant: So is faith happening on all different levels, then? I mean, you're saying if there's no action then there's no faith, so it must be happening on a physical level, and it must be happening at a mental level, because there's a desire there or a decision, and it must be happening at a soul level as well.

Well, in the end, everything comes from the soul, but there are emotions that influence what we do with that information coming from the soul, that are also coming from the soul. So I can, at the same time, be longing for God's Love to enter me and singing at the top of my voice, because I just love the feeling of that, and be receiving Divine Love, and then a moment later, just one moment later, I can be in a total different condition because of an emotion of approval with the minister. A moment later, instead of saying, "Minister, minister, can I just say something? You know how you talk about God being a God of punishment? Well, that doesn't sit with me." And what would he say? He would go off about the Bible, and there would be lots of criticism about that because of your statement.

But, you see, I am now emotionally hooked into it. I love the high, but I'm also emotionally hooked into the fact that I want his approval, so that's my low. My low is because of my own emotion. Actually, what happened throughout the entire service tells me exactly, inside of myself, exactly what the truth is, but, unfortunately, I don't want to acknowledge that, because acknowledging that might mean that I may have to leave the highs, because this thing doesn't feel good all of the time, or my whole family may be in it and there might be such a thing called excommunication in this church. Whenever you say God's not a punishing God or some other such thing, like Jesus isn't God, Holy Spirit isn't God, and all of these other things that you want to say that you don't feel inside of yourself, you feel quite differently about, everyone will attack you and may even excommunicate you.

So what's driving you to not do that and live in truth there? Your own emotions. That's the low. The high is your faith in God, your love for God, your desire for God, the feeling for God, you're singing about God, and then as soon as the minister starts talking about all these untruths, then you go into your lows. Your lows are, "Why am I addicted to this minister? What's going on inside of me there? Why can't I speak the truth? I don't feel what he's saying to me; I feel the opposite of that. Why can't I speak up?" There's my low. There's my stuff that I'm not dealing with, and that's inhibiting my relationship with God.

So, yes, the truth is that the majority of people who are in Pentecostal or Christian religious faiths, who enter this place of deep desire for God, are receiving Divine Love at that moment. And at that moment, while they are singing and dancing and feeling those feelings, there are often literally thousands of Celestial spirits with them, helping them, praying for them to receive more Love, and it's a beautiful thing. But unfortunately what we finish up doing is, we don't look at the entire thing of when we were high, when we were low, when we were high, when we were low, and look at the lows and see the emotional addiction that we have there and release it. We don't do that. What we do is we ignore all of that, because we don't have any faith that we can actually be closer to God than we currently are. In the end, that's why we ignore it.

You see, if I had some faith that I could have a permanent relationship of bliss with God, and not just a temporary Sunday-based one, which goes in cycles all the way through the sermon, and I actually believe that there was a reason why this relationship with God was cycling like this, and I actually started focusing on looking at when I'm on a high and looking at when I'm low and examining the emotional reasons within myself, which I, by the way, feel most of the time - if I looked at all of that, I'd be able to create a permanent space where I am high on God's Love. And even higher again if I release even more, and even higher again if I release even more, because it makes sense that if God is infinite, then love is infinite, and so forth. So the problem that most people on the planet face is that we tend to blind ourselves to the truth that is being presented to us every single moment.

The truth that is being presented to us every single moment is that we have times of high and times of low, times of high and times of low. In the times of low there is an emotional cause. If we release that emotional cause, that particular low doesn't need to happen anymore. Then we could have every single Pentecostal church in the country and on the planet in a space, the entire sermon in a space, where they are hearing truth a hundred percent of the time.

So you've seen a calibration. I think John and Joy have calibrated a lot of these talks, like fourteen or fifteen hundred or whatever on the Hawkins scale of calibration of truth. You imagine that every single Pentecostal church that you ever could go to had a permanent calibration at that level, and, on top of that, everyone singing and dancing. How would you come away feeling then? That's what's possible.

6.6. The kind of faith we must aim for is soul-based and strong

Participant: The thing that seems to be stopping it is that belief that the Bible is the word of God and that's set in concrete.

Well, remember how I started this discussion? I said our beliefs have to be confronted. Our morals have to be confronted. And the things that are stopping us are morals, beliefs, all of these falsehoods that interfere. So the truth is that Padgett had some of those going on, too, all the way through, and it's evident all the way through the Padgett messages. It's evident that he had periods where his faith was high and periods where his faith was low. Obviously, when his faith was low, he had to deal with emotions before his faith could get up again. That's not quite as obvious when you read the messages, but when we talk about the feelings associated, you can see, all the way through the messages, it's all about feelings, aspirations, inspiration, desire, passion, longing; those words are used all the time. I think the word passion is used about a hundred times.

Participant: And so all those mix together to make up like a cocktail, which is called faith.

Exactly, and faith being the assured expectation that if we stay in this place where we trust God all the time; and we trust that we can become at-one with God at any moment, any one of us could become at-one with God; and that we know that we are on the path to do that just because we can feel our connection with God growing - then, of course, we are in a state where faith raises us to this level where we are willing to act, and we are willing to do things harmonious with truth and love automatically.

How much faith does it require, do you think, to be able to stand in an arena with ten thousand people looking at you and a lion coming towards you to eat you, and yet you can be there completely calm? Well, many of your Christian brothers and sisters, from the first and the second centuries of our period of time, had that experience. Many of them were burnt alive. Can you imagine hanging on a stick with a fire underneath you ready to be lit, and thousands of people watching you burn and cheering, and yet you are still peaceful about that? That's faith. And you've got to have some pretty sure things going on inside of yourself, don't you, to have that faith. And that's the kind of faith that we want.

We're going to have a break or I'll keep talking, and we'll talk more about the personal effects of faith on our lives.

Faith: Part 2

Both of those songs we just played are from the movie The Fighting Temptations. It's about a church group in southern USA that enters a song competition. It's quite an amusing movie, not deeply emotional, but it has some very good songs in it about God and connecting with God's Love and so forth. The second one you heard is called "Rain Down," and it's about God's Love raining down on you based on your desire. The beauty of songs and music and dance and all of those things is that they connect you a lot to God if you allow it to. And that's why, before the break, remember you asked, Peter, about the emotions that occur in a Pentecostal church, for example? And you can see what it does, it buoys you up. And if you have joy and if you really have a longing for God in that process, then God's Love of course can flow into you in that process, and you feel quite strong.

7. Receiving Divine Love

Participant: That was leading on to my question. My observation, when I was reading the Padgett messages, was that Padgett had a background that was fairly intellectual, and I didn't get the impression he was deeply emotional all the time, but I just wondered - and it seemed obvious that he did receive a lot of Divine Love, because he kept getting filled up with it over and over again. The question is: does Divine Love always feel approximately the same when someone receives it, or can it come in different forms, and can you actually receive it without even realising it?

7.1. We can receive Divine Love without knowing this is happening

Well, let's answer the last question first. Yes, you can receive it without realising it, but most of the time it's a very emotional process that you are just unaware of. So you are unaware of why you are crying and you are sobbing, and you can't really understand inside of yourself why intellectually, but once you start realising what it's about in a conscious manner, then you can obviously replicate that process.

7.2. Divine Love enters us to the point of our resistance

The issue that most Pentecostal movements have is that they have trouble replicating the process beyond a certain point. As you have longings for God's Love to enter you, obviously God's Love enters you, but eventually Love enters you to a point where you are pretty much full of the Love itself. There's only times of faith that you raise above that condition for a little bit more to enter you, but for the rest of the time you are trying to suppress your emotions, trying to suppress your false beliefs and false desires and all of these other things that affect you spiritually, and, as a result of that, you are often in a state where you are no longer receiving Divine Love.

So what a lot of people experience on the Divine Love Path is that they come against the Padgett messages or they come against the Divine Truth; they feel this passionate longing for God open up in them, because they have this desire for truth in them; they open that up, they receive Divine Love over a period of days, up until the point when they're topped up as much as they can be without releasing some emotional beliefs or some belief systems, emotions, or desires that are disharmonious with love - and so it hits the wall of our personal will, our resistance. So what happens is we receive the Love, receive the Love, and then it hits the wall of our resistance, and once it hits the wall of our resistance, it's very difficult after that point to receive more.

7.3. We receive Divine Love because of our desire for it, not our beliefs

So most people - even in the Pentecostal movements, for example - most people receive the Love, and then they think they received the Love because of their beliefs. They actually didn't receive the Love because of their beliefs; they received Love in spite of their beliefs, and because of their passionate desire for it in that moment. And because they don't understand that, they receive the Love to a certain point, then they call themselves - you hear the term often - they call themselves "saved" or "born again." And what they do is they equate the process of receiving Divine Love to the point where they're topped up as being born again, so they feel they've gone through this process of being born again. The reality is, with the majority of them, they've only had one topping of Divine Love until they've hit resistance, and then, because they are unwilling then, they don't know how to release their resistance to the rest of the Love flowing. They're not yet born again, they've just received some Divine Love, but they sort of remember it as an experience. They remember it as a complete sort of experience that they always refer back to, and many times it keeps them bound to the religion that they experience that experience in.

7.4. Phenomena at Pentecostal meetings come from spirit influence, not God's Spirit

Participant: What happens when they walk out the front and the preacher goes up and says, "By the love of God," or whatever - I've forgotten the words - and he bangs you on the head and you just go down like a ton of bricks?

Well, that is a not-so-pleasant thing going on, and that's to do with spirit possession. The problem with many Pentecostal movements is that basically you are opening up yourself to what they would term "the spirit." Now, what they don't understand, and what is sort of misquoted in the Bible, is that many of these so-called spiritual gifts are not so much gifts, but rather they are spirits connecting with you in times of heightened emotions within yourself and heightened spiritual reflection inside of yourself. And many people in that state are highly mediumistic, so you have a spirit in that state take you over. I've been along to some of these places where you can actually see the spirit interfering with them. Sometimes the spirit's making them flop around on the floor, even.

Participant: Is that what speaking in tongues is?

Often, or almost all, speaking in tongues is actually about an over cloaking of a spirit starting to babble in a different language, and, unfortunately, many times, it's actually a spirit in quite poor condition.

Participant: What's the motivation of the spirit to want to do that?

Well, the motivation of the spirit is to get some connection to the earth and have power over people. The motivation of the person is to get the approval of their audience and feel like they're full of the spirit, when in reality they are full of a spirit, but it's just not the spirit they were hoping it is. So they're actually not full of the Holy Spirit or God's Spirit. There's also a misconception of God's Spirit itself. They view God's Spirit as an entity or a thing that possesses them, when in reality God's Spirit is the conduit by which the Divine Love can enter you and possess you.

So the reality is a lot of these false beliefs then manipulate what happens in the service, and, as a result of that, many people misconceive what's going on, and they allow things that are actually sometimes quite damaging to their own soul and to themselves. And it's all due to the false belief system that man has created, that we can't sort out the difference between what was happening in a pure way and what was happening in an impure way.

And many times, if you started babbling in a different language, for example, and then could translate that language on top of that, now a lot of people might go to you to do that, but can you see how your own addictions to power or glory or all these other kind of things can hook into that? And before you know it, you have an audience listening to you. Imagine if the congregation who knew you quite well - they'd always be looking at you to have this emanation of "the spirit" coming out of you, and all of a sudden you change and become a different person, say all these words, and someone goes, "Wow isn't she amazing, she must be really connected to the spirit."

And in reality, all that is happening is she is a medium who happens to be in that moment connecting to spirits of various conditions. And this is the damaging thing about a lot of what goes on: because no one understands the full truth of what's going on in the service itself, there is a lot of acceptance of what's going on without actually looking at what's behind it. When you can see the spirits who are present, then you can see, actually, there are bright spirits present many times, but there are also quite dark spirits many times present as well. And it just depends on the person's individual soul condition as to which one of those spirits connects to them individually, and also what that spirit then does while they take possession of the person. And in reality, what a lot of these religions condemn, spirit possession, which they condemn quite strongly, they are actually demonstrating in their own services.

So that's the sad part of it, but there are also a lot of positive parts of it. Obviously, one of them is that songs like that, that we've just been listening to, particularly the second song, which, basically all the way through has no untruth in it, and talks about God's Love raining down on you - songs like that have also been created by that movement, which is fantastic, because that is a very powerful way to connect to God's Love.

8. Communicating with God

Participant: When I was speaking to one of my friends who's been in it for like thirty years, he kept saying to me, oh, God talks to me and God told me this and God told me that. If God's a soul, he doesn't have a voice, so does God talk to you? And if he does, how does he do it? Only through feelings?

8.1. God often communicates to us through spirits

You are correct in your assumption that God is a soul. We are, in our pristine state, a soul. Any words we are hearing are coming from another source other than God. Now, it doesn't mean that the ultimate source somewhere back in the chain wasn't God, do you understand? You see, sometimes what happens is that God, through this communication of the soul that occurs through the connection we have with His Love, communicates to the soul of a Celestial spirit, the Celestial spirit then turns those things into words and communicates with a sixth-sphere spirit, and the sixth-sphere spirit then usually adds a bit of its own embellishment into that and communicates to maybe a third-sphere spirit, and the third-sphere spirit adds a bit of their own embellishment into that, depending of course which path they are on, the natural love path or the Divine Love path, and then he talks into our ear. And we think that it's the voice of God, when in reality it's the voice of a spirit with some modifications that may not be coming from God, depending on what the message is, unfortunately. But for many of us, we believe it's God, because there's been many motivations in our life to listen to them, and we followed those motivations and found that what they were saying was true, and so we then think it was God. But it can easily just be a spirit of its own right raising some issues with you and telling you what to do.

8.2. Connecting with God is more important than connecting with spirits

This is where your feelings are very important in your connection with God, because it's actually the soul-to-soul connection we are talking about with God, that is built by faith but also by the longing for love, that we want to grow, not so much the connection with spirits. When I say "not so much," obviously all of us would like to be connected, yes? Like you want to be connected with everyone with love, wouldn't you? That's a strong desire within us, and there's no harm with that desire, but obviously while we are all in different conditions - and this applies even after we have released all of our errors, we are still all in different conditions. Some of us might be in the eighth sphere, some of us in the tenth, some of us in the third, all in different conditions and states of love and different states of understanding, and we can all connect on the basis and through this unifying factor of God's Love. But at the end of the day, if our focus is connecting with spirits rather than connecting with God, then we are basically losing what can be the biggest source of all Truth to us. At the end of the day, many of us prefer to connect to spirits rather than God, firstly, because we hear the voice talking to us in return.

Participant: I've never heard it.

But you actually do have many spirits communicating with you quite often and frequently, Peter, and they're pushing you along through your emotions as well, some of them in a damaging way and some of them in a very positive way. This is why sometimes you make damaging choices and sometimes you make positive ones; it just depends on what emotions are there. But you've learnt to trust your own emotions, and they know they can influence your emotions in a certain way, and so they do, some of them positively and some of them negatively. And that's the way most of us get communicated with. But others, who are a bit more mediumistic and don't have the blockages towards seeing or hearing spirits, actually hear the words in their spiritual ears, if you like; they hear the words entering them, they know that it's somebody outside of themselves, or they have somebody take over their hand writing or whatever else. But just because the person claims to be God, it doesn't mean that they are.

8.3. The feeling of receiving Divine Truth

Participant: If we can connect to God and receive the Divine Truth, does it come through as a knowing or a feeling or an inspiration or awareness? How does it show up for you?

You've seen me when I'm communicating with you. It's like a packet of information comes to me and I just say it all out, like there's no thought in the process. It's just packets of information and it's like a flow, a constant flow. Now, as you connect to God more and more and more, that flow will increase in its intensity until you become at-one with God, and from that moment on, you still have all of your own creations, but anytime you remain in inspiration and start talking about God's Truth, all of a sudden you can actually feel the flow of God's Love flowing through you and then out, and a lot of times you are not even really conscious. You know what you are saying, but it's very rapid. And it's very hard in fact for me at times to slow myself down enough for you to grasp what I'm trying to say, because there's just so much information coming. And when you get at-one with God, it's like whole packets of information come to you, and then it's a matter of you spending - like, a whole packet can come to you in a second or so, and you might spend an hour speaking that packet to a group of people on earth. It happens in a second, in an instant, coming to you, but there's so much involved with it that it just flows out of you and out of you until you are done.

9. Growing towards at-onement with God

Participant: Can you ask God to help you with your sense of humour?

Quite often I've thought I've lost my sense of humour, but that's because of the emotions that are present. A lot of times our sense of humour is based around our emotional injuries and what we want other people to perceive, and so we just need to allow ourselves, like all of these things, to work through our desires and emotions that we have that are blocking us up, and everything will then flow freely.

9.1. A person who is at-one with God is her own true self

You will not be your true self until you are at-one with God. And even then you won't be your true, true self in terms of an amalgamated soul until you are at-one with your soul mate and at-one with God. And so, because of that, there is a lot of progression to make, but once you hit the state of at-onement with God, from then on, all the pain you experience in the process of growth no longer exists. So after that point - it's a very joyous point, obviously - and that's where most people struggle. Most of us begin in the hells in this life, because of the damage that's been done by our parents and our environment to us. We begin in the hells, and we slowly progress, progress, and progress as we release emotions, ask for Divine Love, our soul expands and so forth, and we progress, until we make that transition into at-onement with God.

9.2. A person who is at-one with God is inspired by God

Now, when you make that transition, that's the time when you become the inspired one, in a sense. At the moment, many times people on earth are being inspired by spirits who are in a higher state than themselves, but when you become at-one with God, you have this direct connection with God through inspiration, which means that you can transmit packets of information to large numbers of people through the same methods that God transmits to you. You can also do things that you couldn't do before, and that's the only way that I began healing in the first century.

9.3. A person who is at-one with God can serve as a messenger

So people say, ah, but you were a healer then! Or, you did this then! You did that then! No, everything that I did then was dependent upon this connection with God. So it was really God choosing to do it through me, because I had longed for God to get myself into a condition where God could do that through me.

And in The Life Elysian, there is a portion that quite affects me, because it actually describes the exact process I went through in the first century, and that is, I was reading from the Book of Isaiah, and in the Book of Isaiah in the Bible, there's a section that talks about becoming willing to have God send you to others, like being willing to be a messenger, and there's a portion that goes, "God was asking the world, who is there ready that I can send?"

And when I felt about that, I wanted it to be me. And you'll at some point have that same feeling.

Participant: I feel that sometimes. I just don't feel I'm ready.

And then as that feeling enters you, that pulls your soul towards God, and as it pulls your soul towards God, and God's Love enters you more, you get to the condition where God can send you and for there not to be any damage through your message that you are teaching. Unfortunately, on the earth today, many people are thinking that they are connecting with God, but they are actually connecting to a spirit who is not anywhere near even the condition of connecting to God. As a result of that, a lot of the untruth that is coming through them just continues to damage the world and create more mud on the world, more murkiness here, rather than actually freeing up the truth.

My suggestion to you is to just develop this really passionate, strong longing inside of your soul to have God connect with you and be in this place with God that you can choose to be. God wants this connection with all of you, not just with one person. So let yourself connect with God in this manner, and all of you will then become God's messengers in all different ways as a result of that connection.

9.4. A person who is at-one with God senses others' feelings but is not affected by them

Participant: When you are in that place, what does it feel like?

Well, all I can describe, at the moment, are my memories of that place, because I'm not yet back into that condition. So my memories of that place are often full of grief for me, because what I'm processing through at the moment is all the grief about the loss of that place. So my memories of that place are, if you can imagine that no matter what anyone else around you is doing, thinking, or saying, you know everything they are doing, thinking, and saying and every emotional reason why they are doing it in any interaction, but you don't feel any damage from it. So in an audience like this, when you are at-one with God, if you were standing up in front of an audience like yourselves, at-one with God, you can feel every single feeling or thought that every member of the audience has about you. So while you're talking in front of the audience, you're actually processing all of this information. All this information is coming at you.

Participant: I've noticed that you can do that already to quite a big extent.

Yes, but it's still not in the sense where it doesn't affect me. So when any or some of you in the audience project condescension at me, I feel that, and I have to allow that emotion to pass through me, and it has an emotional response in me of grief. Sometimes I've got to go away and process that. And when anyone feels towards me... There are lots of different emotions I feel from any one audience.

Participant: Do you feel our love when we send it to you?

Sure I do, of course. But just bear in mind, with love, that when your soul is full of grief about things, it's very, very hard for you to feel love. What happens is, it's like love is the water off a duck's back, and all of the other emotions are the ones that hit you and hurt. But as you get closer and closer to at-onement with God, the love is the emotion that you absorb, and the other emotions are the ones that are automatically the water off a duck's back. So, in other words, you don't absorb them anymore, they pass through you. Still, it's not like you are rejecting them, they pass through you, you still don't have judgement about them or anything like that, but the love-based emotions remain with you.

9.5. A person who is at-one with God feels Divine Love in every moment

If you can imagine that state all the time, so it's 24/7 in that state, then that's partly what it's like to be at-one with God. Then, even more importantly than that, just imagine yourself being in this state where you know you are permanently connected to God. Every single moment that you're awake and asleep, you can feel God's Love flowing through you. Can you imagine what that's like? You know you're loved at every single moment no matter what is happening around you. It doesn't matter what is happening around you, you're loved every single moment. Not that you imagine you are loved, you actually feel that love passing through you from God, every single moment. So you can walk around without any fear at all. Remember when we had the fear processing talk and I said, can you try to imagine what your life is like without fear? Just think that one aspect of being at-one with God - it's just an amazing thing to think about, to have your life without any fear at all.

9.6. A person who is at-one with God has no fear

That means no fear of saying exactly what you know to be true, because you know, firstly, that everything you say is going to be loving. Secondly, you have no fear of any single person, under any circumstance, in any situation. They can be yelling at you, screaming at you, holding a knife at your throat, putting a gun at your head, and you still have no fear. If you can imagine being in that place, not because you've intellectually manufactured it, but because you feel it all the time.

9.7. A person who is at-one with God is in the world but not of the world

So these are all parts of being at-one with God. God doesn't feel fear. God constantly has this love flowing. You are in a constant state of bliss, no matter what occurs. You feel the barrage of emotions coming from the world, but you are not in the world, and that's why I said the words in the first century that a lot of people have misused, "You're in the world but not of the world." You've got this barrage of emotions coming at you from the world that normally would affect you immensely, that you'd either be trying to avoid, trying to run away with, or going for, depending on whether your addictions are in play or whatever - but none of those things are in play, you are not of the world, in the sense that none of these things actually impact on your life ever, no matter what happens.

When you're walking around in that space, every single person around you feels that and knows that from you. Some get angry because of it, others are sad because of it, others are happy because of it, but they all know. And every spirit you meet is either jealous of you or happy for you. Jealous in a sense that they are not in the same place, or happy for you because they are in the same place and can feel that.

10. Developing a passion for God

10.1. With evidence and imagination we can grow our faith

So this is a part of growing your faith. A part of growing your faith is doing exactly what every single person in history who has ever extended their life or extended humanity in some way, had to do. And what they had to do at some point is imagine. Just imagine whatever it is. They had to imagine what a plane looked like. They had to imagine what landing on the moon might be like. Nobody had ever done that before, so they had to imagine it. They had to imagine it, and they used their imagination to grow their faith. Remember, faith is based on truth and actual events, actual evidence, so they got all this actual evidence, they grasped all that, but in the end they had to put it all together and imagine what that must be like. And in a way that's what we need to do.

10.2. Only a passion for God will assure continued growth on the Divine Love Path

If you're going to continue on the Divine Love Path, there'll be so much obstacle at some point in your life, so many problems, so many issues with it, that in the end it's going to be just your passion for God that gets you through it all, just your passion for God, that's all.

Nothing else is going to get you through it all. You can have a love of a partner, but what if that partner hates your guts part the way through this process? That's not going to get you through dealing with your stuff, is it? And what if you've got all these friends, but what if all these friends desert you through the process? Then where are you going to be, if you don't actually have this passion for God?

In the end, the only thing that is going to get you through this process is your passion for God. Now, your passion for truth is a part of that, it's a part of your passion for God, but it's not going to get you through the process. Many of us have had a passion for truth in our lives, but has it actually changed our lives? A lot of the times we don't even know what's true and what's not true within ourselves, because of our emotional state. So even the passion for truth isn't always going to get us there. But our passion for God, our desire for God in the end is going to lead us home.

And in the first century, I just learned to have the passion for God, and that passion in this century has been with me all my life. It's an intrinsic part of me.

10.3. A passion for God brings humility

Participant: So is a passion for God and faith different, or are they connected?

Certainly, well, they are connected, because faith gives you evidence that God is a certain type of person. When I say "person," I use that term loosely, but that God is a certain type of being, that God is a loving God, that God is a caring God, and all those things. Faith is what keeps you with that in mind. If I'm not connecting to God - I keep reminding myself the same thing over and over again, all the way through my own progression - if I'm not at-one with God right now, it's because I have an emotional injury of some kind inside of me that prevents my condition of at-onement with God. I need to be humble enough to see that. I need to desire even to see that; no one else has to show me that.

If I desire it inside of myself, if I long for knowing what's going on inside of me that's preventing my relationship with God, because I passionately desire God in my heart, then I am going to be drawn into humility automatically. I am not going to be arrogant and shut it all down; I'm not going to say to people all the time, "Oh, you don't know what you're talking about." I'm going to listen to everything and let myself feel everything, and I'm going to work my way with everything, work everything through inside of myself to lead me to God, if I have a passion for God.

10.4. Without a passion for God, we will lack enough motivation to keep growing

If I don't have a passion for God, then I'm not going to do that. At some point in my life, I am going to stop progressing, because at some point in your life, an emotion is going to come up that interferes with why you had your passion, other than this passion for God. For example, if I've got a passion \- and you hear this a lot: "I want to be free of my emotional injuries," people say to me. And I say, "Well, that's lovely that you want to be free of your emotional injuries, but in the end, if you don't have a passion for God, you're never going to get there, because how are you going to deal with your emotional injuries when some of them are so terrible that you're going to feel like stopping? What's the other motivator? What's going to motivate you when the emotional injury feels like you want to stop? What's going to motivate you then?" Well, most people at that point who have a passion to do it only because of how it changes themselves, they stop because there's nothing else motivating them.

You know, some people say they have a passion to do it for their children. Well, that's a great thing, to do something for somebody else, but at the end of day, sooner or later, this motivation you have for your child is going to be challenged in some way, and before you know it, you'll have an emotion that you don't want to deal with, for your child or anyone else. And what's going to get you through that? It's only going to be a passion for God.

And what happens when you say, "Oh, I'm doing it for my relationship"? Well, what happens if the relationship breaks? Who are you going to do it for then? Can you see that under all these different circumstances, if you're doing it for the wrong reasons, it's soon going to be exposed?

10.5. With a passion for God, we love God's Law of Attraction

But if you're doing it because you have a passion for God, now, you're going to keep doing it, and keep doing it, and keep doing it, and you're going to be humble, and you're going to let yourself see things, and when people tell you things, you're not going to go, "Oh, no, no, I don't agree with that, I don't agree with that" or "That's just your opinion." You won't do any of those kinds of things. What you'll do is you'll let everything settle inside of you emotionally, and you'll allow yourself to feel everything, not for them, and not to be agreeable or anything else, but because you have a passion for God, and you see every situation as your Law of Attraction. You see every single thing coming up as, "Wow, this is an opportunity for me to learn how to get closer to God."

And you look at every one of God's Laws. The Law of Attraction, for example - and instead of hating it, like many of you still do, you love it, because it's your way to God. So everything that's attracted to you, you don't blame it on the past life or this or that or some kind of emotional problem in the other person who's yelling and screaming at you at the time, you'll look at your own emotional addiction, and you'll look at that sincerely, because you have a passion for God. If you don't have a passion for God, you'll want to tell the other person off, and you'll want to criticise them, and you'll want to put them down and all of those kinds of things. But when you have a passion for God, you don't desire to do those things. You'll want to focus on truth, what's right, and your passion for God.

10.6. We each must nurture our own passion for God

Participant: Have you always had that passion? Because I'd like to grow my passion more, but I'm not sure exactly what to do to grow it.

Your passion for God, Peter, is something you have to grow. Every single person, including myself, has had to grow. In the first century I can remember the passion beginning, in the sense that when I started picking up little beetles when I was little, I could start feeling everything about it and start connecting to the creation. You see, what I have been doing today with you is trying to help you connect to "God is good," for example.

So I had to work my way through this emotionally two thousand years ago, whether God is good or not. The world around me was saying God isn't, the world around me was saying that God is a punishing God, that you have to sacrifice your animals to appease a wrathful God, and this is the world I grew up in, that I lived in at the time. It was like the religious leaders oppressing the people; they were taking all the money off the people. You had all the Romans taking all the taxes and the religious leaders taking their own tax off the people, and before you know it everyone is upset and angry with God.

10.7. Avoiding emotions and truth is avoiding connection with God

And that's the environment I grew up in, everyone angry with God, and I had to somehow work my way through that to the point where I said to myself that I want to know this real God, not this God that everyone thinks is God, but the real God. And the issue you face personally is that you are still yet to fully realise that passion. You can see that inside of yourself at times, where you're willing to avoid your emotions, or you are willing to avoid the truth with yourself or others, but all you're doing in the end is avoiding your connection with God. And what we need to come to terms with is we're only hurting ourselves firstly whenever we do that.

So it might feel good to be able to say, "Oh, no, no, that's her problem and not mine." That feels good, but what is going to feel better is you at-one with God. So which good do you want? Do you want to feel good temporarily in a situation where you've had a bit of a barney with someone or a fight with someone or a bit of one-upmanship with somebody or something like that, or do you want to feel good permanently? Not because you don't need to do that anymore, but because you are at-one with God.

10.8. No one else can give us a passion for God

And at the end it's only this passion for God that you do need to grow yourself. No one else is responsible for it, no one else can do it for you, no one else can even make you do it, no one else can even encourage you to do it. You look at how much encouragement some of us get to do it, and yet we still resist, so it has to come from within ourselves. That's the desire that we need to grow inside of ourselves.

Do I want to know my Mother? Do I want to know my Father? I mean my real one, not the one here on earth who's my brother or sister, I mean my real Mother and Father - do I want to know them so well that I live with them constantly? Do I want to feel this state that God is in? God can share all of Her Love with me to such a point that I can become not only at-one with God, but also at-one with my soul. My own soul is then going to become unified: myself and Mary, at-one, and we walk around in this place in two bodies being one person connected to God. Is that what I want? How much do I want it?

Am I willing to forsake all of my earthly possessions for it? Am I willing to forsake all my comfort for it? Am I willing to forsake all my family, if they make that happen, for it? In other words, if my family browbeat me and say, "You stupid idiot, trying to do this connection with God thing," and I say, "No, no, no, sorry, I'm doing it, because this is what I want." And what about your friends? And what about your work? And what about all these things?

The irony is, if you're willing to forsake all those things for it, what you get in return is hundreds of times more beneficial than any of those things you could ever imagine. And no one on the earth, aside from myself in the first century, no one yet on the earth has ever experienced at-onement with God.

11. Building faith

Participant: Do you think we're going to get there?

Of course! I didn't return for no purpose. Of course. That's my desire, to help everyone, including myself, to get there, yes.

11.1. We must not wait for others to achieve at-onement

And some are getting closer and closer, obviously, and soon, as these different emotions get sorted out and these different things happen, you'll see the shifts into at-onement that different people will make, and when the first one does it, it's going to make it a lot easier for you to do it then, isn't it?

But don't hang back waiting to deal with your emotions until then, because then you'll be three years behind the eight-ball of what you could have attained three years earlier. Why be without God's Love for another three years? Why would I choose to do that? I can only choose to do that because I don't love myself very much, really, isn't it? So don't wait for AJ to become at-one with God. Why wait for that? You have enough evidence inside of yourself, enough external evidence to know that God is good, that She loves you and cares about you individually. Many of you don't feel it, I understand that, but there's enough evidence there that it's true.

11.2. To build faith, we must trust and experiment with the process

So start the process, start trusting the process, and experiment even with the process. Stop trying to criticise the process all the time, intellectually trying to work out whether there's any justification to it. The truth is we're not at-one with God yet, so how do we know whether the process is wrong? We don't. We need at least to try the process before we know. And you can criticise intellectually all you like, but at the end of the day, until you try the process, you will never know whether it works or not. And the beauty of the way God works is, you try something, something works, something changes, and you say, ah, okay, another realisation. Now, not only do I have a realisation that has occurred inside of myself, but now I also have something that's quite significant, and that is I have a foundation for further truth and further faith.

11.3. The Law of Attraction provides evidence for our faith

You see, every single time you deal with something, one of these things that I've written about - morals, desires, emotions, and all of those different things - every time you deal with one of those things that are out of harmony with love and you release it from yourself, you will notice a Law of Attraction change in your life. When you notice that the Law of Attraction changes in your life, that becomes proof that the process works.

Now, it might have only happened once, so there's not a huge amount of proof at this point, but what you do is you remember it. You remember what you did, and then you go and do it a second time and a third time, and after a while you're doing it so rapidly that you are even doing it one or two or three times a day. And every single time, there's a Law of Attraction change, and you start noticing the Law of Attraction change, and you can compare it today with one month ago and say, "Wow, in the last month I have just grown immensely, and my Law of Attraction has demonstrated to me the truth of that condition, that I have grown."

So I allow myself to feel that, and then I use that as my basis for further faith. So when I get to a really, really hard emotion that feels really terrible and I want to run away from it, and I feel really bad about it, and all I want to do is sit in the corner and scream and yell and crack a tantrum rather than deal with the emotion, I remind myself, "Hang on a sec. I've been here before, and I've always gotten through it, and I've always gotten out the other end, and at the other end was always closer to God, closer to myself, closer to my soul mate, and closer to my family," and so forth. And so when I say closer to my family, obviously what I mean is, I feel closer to them; it doesn't mean they feel closer to me. I feel closer to them, I feel like I love them.

And this is the beauty of you focussing on the process. So you don't even have to trust the process to actually try it out; all you need to do is sincerely do it for a period of time and use that as a test to see whether it works or not. Then talk with other people who are here who have done the same thing, and see whether it's worked for them. Notice the people who are changing and go and speak with them. What happened? What changes? Get them to remind you of a few things. Let yourself build on the truth you already know.

11.4. Passion for God is an emotion that ebbs and flows as it grows

Participant: AJ, do you have that passion all of the time during the day, or does it bubble up when you are in prayer or when you take yourself away and be quiet, or is it there all of the time?

Passion is like every other emotion in that it ebbs and it flows, obviously. So when you get to a state when you are at-one with God, you still have passion, but there are still many things that you still haven't learnt about, and you need to have a passion to learn about them before you will actually learn about them. So passion is something that is going to ebb and flow for the rest of your existence, but what will remain is your constantly growing love entering you from God, and the constantly growing love that you can then reflect to the world around you. And that will grow and grow and grow and grow in size and in its maturity and in the way it's demonstrated. As that grows, obviously, you do become more passionate, and the cycles of passion go up like a line, like this. So you might start here, and you're not very passionate, and there's your passion ebbing and flowing, but then as you progress in love, it's going up like this. And it can grow infinitely, just like every other emotion inside of you.

Participant: So is this over a period of hours or days, or weeks, or months, or...?

Our passion for God grows in a fluctuating manner as we progress.

11.5. We must understand truth emotionally, not intellectually

Peter, stop! You're not feeling any answer I give you.

Participant: No, I was just trying to understand whether you have that passion there all of the time.

No, what you are trying to do is here again (AJ points to his head), you're trying to understand here, and it's question after question. But with the questions you ask, you are not feeling the answer, so you're prompted to the next question without feeling the answer from the previous one. Already I've said ten things to you, ten questions that you have asked, ten things; can you remember my answers to any of them?

Participant: I'm going to go and write down as much as....

I know you had to write down some, and you can listen to the recording, but at the moment you can't even remember the answers that I gave to any of those questions that you've asked. And that would demonstrate to you that it never hit your soul.

Participant: I think I can remember some.

You have a think about it. So what I'm saying to you is, let yourself settle with these questions. These questions are coming from a heart that's still feeling like, "I'm not there, I'm not there." Okay, admit you're not there. Admit that to yourself rather than trying to get away from that. Admit that to yourself and start praying to God about that emotion that's present. You are wanting to know intellectual thing after intellectual thing after intellectual thing, but avoiding the emotion that is present that drives every one of those questions.

Participant: Thank you, AJ.

11.6. Your relationship with God must be your most precious possession

I just want to emphasise to everyone that your relationship with God on this path will need to be your most precious possession. In the first century, I said it needs to be a higher value than anything you can own. I called it the pearl of high value that you've got hidden in your field, and who of you, if you had a ten million dollar pearl hidden, who of you wouldn't want to find the place where it's hidden and dig it up? So wouldn't you spend as much of your time as you possibly could spending it on that relationship?

So you don't need to trust me, you don't need to believe me, even, but if you want to be close to God, you do need to believe God at some point, and you do need to connect to God. So just experiment with what I'm saying and see whether it does not enhance your relationship with God or not. Stop holding on to false beliefs or beliefs that you have that keep you locked up into the same place that you've always been, just because of pride or arrogance or just because it's comfortable or just because it's easy, or just because of any other reason. Focus on your relationship with God and say, "All right, I'm going to place this relationship first, and whatever it takes from me I am going to give it, to develop it myself." And have that passion inside of yourself to do that.

11.7. Feeling what God has done for us increases our faith

Participant: I just want to share something. You know earlier in the talk I was too nervous to say it then. Wow, it starts to feeling crazy as soon as I put my hand up. I want to share something that I feel. You're talking a lot about how God caters abundantly for our needs, and I feel that God cares so abundantly for our desires as well. There are mountains, there are lakes, and there are beautiful animals, and we can crush up rocks and paint with the colours and create something gorgeous, and I want to share that.

And that's part of what develops our faith: understanding everything that God has done for us and feeling it inside of our hearts. And that becomes the motivation to connect to the Creator of these things. Most of us are addicted to connecting with the creation; but the Creator, we sort of feel that She is so far away that we can't connect to Her. And it's totally the opposite: the Creator is standing right next to you, really. There is all this Love ready to enter you, and we dismiss that in lieu of the creation. So let yourself through the creation connect to the Creator. Let yourself feel the wondrous things that God has done, and feel the power of that motivating you to be closer to this person. And allow yourself to see that you are a work in progress getting closer and closer to God, and allow yourself to be a work in progress. So stop trying to be rigid and saying to yourself, "No, no, I want my way to be the right way."

11.8. Willingness to learn from others can assist our progress

Many of you have said to me, "I can't agree with you on this issue. I can't agree with you on that issue." Just stop for a moment. I understand you can't agree with me on lots of issues, but just stop for a moment and consider: are you at-one with God yet? No. Well, if that's the case, then is it possible that the reason why you are not agreeing is that there is an error? Is that possible? Are you progressing as much as you observe myself progressing? Because if you're not, if you're stagnant whilst somebody else is progressing, there may be some things that that other person knows that you don't know. So notice the people in the room that are processing and progressing, and talk to them: So what have you had to do here, and what have you had to do there? Ask them questions as to what they have had to do, and then make a sincere effort inside of yourself to do the same thing and just not talk about it, but to actually do it.

12. Living in truth

12.1. Being in harmony with truth brings us in harmony with all of God's Laws

Participant: AJ, I'm relatively new to this path. I've only been on it for six months, but I can definitely say that this is the only path - and I've been on lots of different paths - this is the only path that I've noticed real change within myself. And it's just been incredible. I'm at a point now where I don't really care about anything else other than my relationship with God and my relationship with my soul mate. My parents are really angry with me. They are very angry with you. I don't care if I lose everything, I don't care if I live on a beach in just my underwear for the rest of my life. I don't care. This is the only thing that is always driving me, and I notice a change within myself all of the time, and I have so much faith, and I'm receiving so much Love, and I just, well, a couple of weeks ago, had the desire to say to a lot of new people in the audience here and just to say, stick it out and just really listen to him and experiment and try, because you'll never look back. Seriously!

Myself and Mary often comment... We were driving back from our trip away, and Mary was sitting in the car next to me and says, "This truth thing is just amazing, isn't it?" And the reason why we had that conversation was because she had some major realisations, that many of you are yet to have, about truth and how important it is. And she went through this experience of realising, actually, that when you remain in truth one hundred percent of the time, your life actually gets easier, not harder, and it's only your resistance to the truth and your fears about the truth that cause any truth-based interactions to be difficult. When you get into the state where you're no longer afraid of the truth, and you are no longer afraid of remaining in it, you actually invoke all of God's Laws into harmony with your path. All of God's Celestial spirits are now agreeing with you, because you are in this state of truth.

When I say "this state of truth," it doesn't mean that everything that comes out of your mouth is truthful. What it means is that you are in this state of loving the truth and being addicted, if you like, to the truth. Wanting the truth in your life day by day. And this passionate desire you have to stay in that state, what it actually does is it brings all of God's Laws into harmony with you, because all of God's Laws are based around - every one of them has truth associated with them. And as all of God's Laws come into harmony with you, it means that every single thing that you do becomes easier, not harder.

So if you're experiencing it harder, it means that there are some laws yet that you are still actually working against. And all I do is say, "This feels hard, something is wrong here, something is wrong here inside of me."

12.2. The apostles' receipt of Divine Love at Pentecost

Participant: AJ, can you explain.... Mary has a reference to the Love that the apostles received at Pentecost. Can you explain what that is actually about?

Well, it's very similar to what I described with Peter when he asked his questions earlier. What happened for a period of time after my death was that most of the so-called disciples and apostles - I don't think of them as that, and neither does Mary, we just think of them as our friends and our acquaintances - most of them were in a state of deep grief about my passing. For many reasons, not just because they felt a love for me or anything like that, but because they felt that a lot of the things that I had taught them were actually false, because I died and they didn't expect me to die. And so they went through huge amounts of grief, and they processed huge emotions with God and huge emotions about trusting myself and huge emotions about the truth that I taught, and as they went through all this grief, their condition lightened, and as their condition lightened, they got closer and closer and into a place of stronger faith.

And because they got into a space of stronger faith, now what could happen is the Celestial spirits by this stage, who were now at-one with God, too, because there were many, could now influence those people in a much more positive way, and God's Love could flow into them directly. And as a result of that, many of the Celestial spirits could actually speak through them to the rest of the people there in the language of the people that were listening.

So there was a time when Peter got up in front of three thousand Greeks, and Peter couldn't even speak it at the time, he learnt to speak it over a time, but in that moment he couldn't speak that language, and yet he spoke the language exactly that they needed to hear about the Divine Truth. He spoke in tongues, but it was in the tongue of the people who were the audience who needed to hear the truth. And that was just a demonstration that they had received enough Love for these major changes to take place.

Now, already for many of you, changes are taking place: some of you who have never had a gift of mediumship now have one; some of you who have never felt a power of healing, except through others, now can start feeling a connection with God through healing. Some of you are already starting to experience that. Many of you don't talk about it yet, but you are already starting to experience it, and as it grows, and when you get into this condition eventually of at-onement, you'll be able to do these things all of the time.

So what happened in the first century was, yes, there was this heavy spirit influence after my passing, of Divine Love spirits on the Divine Love Path in the Celestial realms, who entered the Celestial realms in the three years of my ministry, and they actually, including myself, projected all of these feelings and all of this truth to the group of people who were in the upper room at Pentecost. And because of their desire for God and their longing for God, and the fact they had just had fifty days of crying their eyes out, they could connect with that and actually experience Divine Love flowing into them, for many of them for the first time, and that had a fantastic effect on everyone around them.

12.3. Those who embrace Truth will become the teachers of it

You see, what many of us don't realise is, the only way that this truth will grow on this planet is for each of us to embrace it. That's the only way it grows, because when we make the soul changes inside of ourselves, now the other persons who are ready to listen to truth but need somebody to teach them, have a teacher. You see, all we need to do is get the teachers ready. The world is full of people desiring truth, many more than what is here in this audience, and when the teachers are ready, more people can come. That's exactly what happened in the first century, and they had spent three and a half years with me, listening.

Some of you have now spent three years listening, have you not? Who has had three years or so? So there are a few in the audience who've had three years listening. So they knew me for the same amount of time you've known me, and they had that amount of time listening, and then, because of my death, felt all these different emotions and then felt the truth of it, and then as the Divine Love came and entered them, now they were in a state where they were ready to be given these gifts from the Celestial spirits to help the momentum. And God has historically given different gifts to the planet based on the momentum. Remember I said, and you may have heard this quote: "If I can't speak, the stones will speak out."

So, in the end, God has a plan to have the Divine Truth come to this planet, and that plan began many, many years before I arrived in the first century, and you and I are a part of this plan. But we have to embrace it; God doesn't cause you to be a part of the plan without your will being involved. Your will must be involved. So when you exercise your will to avoid your emotions and avoid changing the belief systems that you have and avoid changing your acceptance of truth, and all of those things, you are exercising your will, and all it's doing is actually keeping you away from being a part of this greater plan that God has.

When you turn that around, and when you say, "What I'm going to do instead of that is, I'm going to connect to God, connect to Her in truth, I'm going to work through my emotions, work through my beliefs, work through my morals, and do all of these things, not for anyone else, not for AJ or the world or anybody else" - you do it because of you having a desire for love, and primarily your desire and passion for God inside of you - and when you do that, and actually do it rather than just talk about it, what happens is that everyone around you will feel it. Some will be angry, some will be upset, some will be happy, but everyone will feel it, and as they feel it, the people who want truth in their lives will be attracted to it.

13. The power of faith

13.1. Those who exercise faith with little evidence will benefit most

And that's the beauty of you exercising faith now, because the people who exercise faith on the flimsiest of excuses are the ones who have the longest-term benefit. If you watched me in the first century - and one day you'll be able to see pictures of all of your lives and my own and all of it, and so you'll be able to see what happened in the first century - if you watched a picture of me looking at a little bug on my hand and connecting that to God, that was pretty much the flimsiest of excuses for me to connect to God, if you think about it, in terms of the judgement of everyone around me. But my desire and passion started growing from those moments, just like yours can.

13.2. Those who have strong faith will progress quickly and become teachers

And in the end, we get to the stage when we are in this state where we have so much faith, and our faith is supported by the evidence, supported by the proof. And when we are in this state of having so much faith, we can from that moment on progress so rapidly and help so many other people progress as well, just by exercising that faith. And we don't even need to be at-one with God yet to prove the existence of God's Love, to prove that God actually exists, to prove the truth. We don't even need that yet, because we are in this state where we are feeling it inside of ourselves as a truth, and we are acting upon it without fear.

And that's the beauty of faith; that's what faith does to you. Faith changes you so much and forces you into action. And that's why the words that are written in the Bible are so important to remember, that faith without works is dead.

13.3. There is no such thing as a dead faith

In my opinion there's really no such thing as a dead faith. If faith is dead, then there wasn't faith there in the first place. The truth is that faith will always motivate you to action, so if there is not any action going on in your life at the moment, or you're feeling that everything is quite stagnant, look at your faith. Look at how much you believe God is there waiting for you. Look at how much you believe God is this loving, perfect person who wishes to give you Her love, and look at why you're rejecting it. Just allow yourself to conceive why that's going on, and understand that when we don't act, what we are doing is proving to ourselves that our faith isn't there. That's all we're doing in the end.

13.4. A question about fear of group movement

Participant: Before, when everyone was dancing, I had the desire to do it, but I couldn't get myself up to do it, and I felt like running away really bad and I did. I left and I got really angry and I didn't want to come back and I was like, "What? Me not dancing is going to stop me from coming back again? What?" And I just want help, please, why?

Rather than me tell you why, again look at the emotions. Remember what I said yesterday that every time I'm angry I'm just telling myself about an addiction that I have. So other people were dancing, and I got angry; so that means that I've got some kind of expectation within me, some kind of addiction within me that's getting challenged. What did you want us to do?

Participant: Not dance.

Why?

Participant: Because I wanted to feel safe.

So when people are dancing you don't feel safe?

Participant: I don't feel safe... when....

If you're saying that you want us to stop dancing so you could feel safe, then that means that if people are dancing - you don't feel safe if people are moving their bodies about.

So obviously there is something in your past about people moving their bodies about and dancing and you being terrified because of something else going on, a potential of violence perhaps, or something like that that you feel. So allow yourself to feel it. Your anger is just telling you that there's a fear, and your anger is the control part of that. It doesn't even matter if it makes sense; you're feeling the emotion anyway, and what the emotion is, is that you are terrified of people's movement in a group.

By the way, many people are terrified of group movement. The reason why is that group movement is often motivated by a lot of spirit influence, as well, where people become embroiled in a situation where it's seemingly beyond their control. For instance, you go along to a soccer stadium where there's violence, and you can see the group mentality grows and grows and grows, until everyone feels much the same, because they are all connecting via the same emotions, and that affects everyone.

14. Embracing the Divine Love Path

14.1. Faith and passion for God are essential to the Divine Love Path

Can you see how important faith is to your progression? And can you see how important even focussing, firstly, on God Herself, is to your progression? Can you see that if you don't have a desire to connect to God, that will be exposed very, very rapidly in this progression towards God? You will find it exposed. And remember this, every time: that God wants a relationship with me, but for me to stop blocking this relationship I have to be open, receiving, and I need to have a longing. And so, in the end it does get back to the three things: to long for Love, to long for truth, and to have humility. In the end, one of the biggest parts of the faith that you will need to develop is to believe that those three things are necessary for you to be at-one with God, for you to actually be in this relationship with God.

The three essentials for our soul-based relationship with God

So, in the end, you'll get told a lot of things, and I have told you a lot of things now over two or three years. There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours of talking, where I talk myself silly with lots and lots of principles about Divine Love and Divine Truth. The key thing comes down to, how much do you want a relationship with God? Are you willing to experiment with what I have told you, or are you still going to sit on the fence and wait until the first person does it, and then do it yourself?

14.2. Faith is developed through choosing to see the evidence and through prayer

Well, you are able to do any of those things if you wish, but my suggestion to you is just start the process now. Start the process now and have faith that all of these things that you've been taught, and all the things we've said in the Padgett messages to James Padgett, all can come true for you. And don't have blind faith, don't have it because you dreamt it out of thin air, but have it because there is so much evidence that God loves you and that God cares for you and God wants this relationship with you. And let yourself experience this by being totally open to anything that is going to happen on that path towards God.

So what I would like to encourage you to do is pray a lot about having that kind of a faith. The kind of faith that moves mountains. And sometimes the biggest mountain is our own butt, isn't it, that we've got to get up and actually move? What we need to do is have enough faith that it picks us up out of our lethargy and moves us forward constantly, and we are not inhibited by this person saying this thing, and that person saying that thing, and this person having that doubt, and that person having that anger, and this person having this rage, and that person feeling violent towards us. We are not stopped by anything. Not because AJ says we shouldn't be stopped by anything, but because you have a passionate desire to connect to God, no matter what.

14.3. With passion for God, your progress will be rapid

And once you get into that place, you will find that your progress will be rapid. It's only when you get out of that place that your progress slows down and even stagnates and sometimes even goes backwards here on earth. The truth is, here on earth, you can go backwards, because you can choose to remain in rage, or remain in resentment, or remain in shame, or remain in self-punishment, or remain in punishment of others. And you can choose to do that for a long period of time and degrade your own condition that you've already tried to grow. And you can choose to do that, too; that's the beauty of this. We can choose to do anything we wish. But in the end, isn't the best choice just to connect directly with God?

14.4. We must stop experimenting through others

And we need to stop the experimentation through others. Do you know what I mean by that? Monica can talk to spirits, so what we do is we run to Monica and experiment everything through Monica. Why do that? Monica has got her own emotional problems and issues, hasn't she? That she'll freely admit. So why do that? Now, Monica may wish to give her gift to you at some point, and that's fine, but why do that? Now others, like Alex, he's got the same kind of gift, and he's feeling the motivation to heal people. So now I'd be tempted to run off to Alex to get a healing. Why? Because I'm still trying to run away from the fact, really, that at the end of the day, I can do what they are doing, and if I connect with God, I will have the same kind of gifts, and I'll recognise the passions inside of me, whatever they're for. And my faith is what's going to get me there.

14.5. Faith will carry us through the most difficult times

It's a beautiful thing, faith. When I think about my own life, it's the faith that's got me through most things, just the faith that God is good, and the faith that God wants a relationship with me. And it's that faith that keeps me going when I'm at my worst. And when I'm at my worst, there's hundreds of things happening, thousands of things sometimes happening. Where I'm getting thousands of spirits nasty, thousands of people nasty, where I get people close to me who I love dearly upset and angry with me. And it's just my faith that everything's going to come out in the end, because it did in the past for me. But even in the past, I still had the same kind of faith. I had to develop that kind of faith. And that's the kind of faith that kind of keeps you going. When you stay like that and connect with God like that, with that kind of faith, what you are really demonstrating is that you're coming to know God, that you are getting to know Her characteristics, Her attributes, and Her qualities.

15. Closing Words

And so what I'm going to do over the coming months is, I want to start speaking with you more directly about God's attributes and qualities, so that you can begin to get to know better the person you are desiring Love from. And as you do that, and as you recognise a lot of those qualities and attributes, and you can experiment even with them, you'll start recognising this beautiful being that's unimaginable that you can connect to and experience - personally experience, not hear about from somebody else, but personally connect with an experience.

And when you get to that point when you are personally experiencing it, from that moment on, you won't even need to come to another session like this, because you're going to be out teaching sessions like this. Why wouldn't you? If you're personally experiencing God's Love and you can feel it's real and you know how to do it, isn't that the time then for you to show others? And what I would like to see, and one of my desires is, that the two hundred or so people that are here are two hundred or so teachers, and I don't see any of you again. And instead I come along and sit up the back in one of your talks, and sit back and feel all that love coming from you, and feel all that connection with God coming from you, and feel that relationship you have that you're willing to share with others.

And what the world needs... (AJ sings) "What the world needs now is love, sweet love. Not only just for one, but for everyone." But what the world also needs is teachers. You know, it needs people who have learnt enough about love that they can show others how to love; that's what it means. And we can argue and fight about the semantics. We can argue and fight about, you know, whether what I'm saying here is true, and what I'm saying there is true, but in the end, it's the love that's going to demonstrate the truth to everyone around us.

And you can see people seeing you change. Some of them don't like it, and some of them do, but that's the effect of truth, too. Truth is like this two-edged sword that cuts between everything. It divides things up. The reason why it divides things up is because it separates the falsehood from the real. And the world needs this. You know, we've lived too long with untruth, haven't we? That's why you're sitting in an audience like this, isn't it? Because you have been seeking truth all your life! That's why we're here.

So allow the world to come to know this truth that you know. Allow yourself to act upon it. Allow yourself to feel it, and then, as that grows in you, the motivation grows in you, what will happen is, you'll feel such a strong desire to teach others. And you won't want to be sitting in an audience anymore, not because you want popularity or glory or any of those other things, but because you want more truth to get out there, and you know that you are a part of it. You know that you have some that you can share to others, and you're not afraid to do that. And it's faith that brings you all these things.

So I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to talk about the subject of faith with you today. And what we'll do in the coming few months, as I've said, I'd like to talk more with you about some of God's qualities so that we can feel a bit more rapport with God, a bit more of a longing for God, and to understand God's nature. Then, as we do that, we can continue to grow and change, and you'll find that everything that you have been told.... How many of you in the past have been told by mediums that this is the time of change in the world, and you're going to be personally involved in this time of change in the world? And you go, "I don't know how that's going to happen."

Well, now you know how it's going to happen: you're going to be a teacher of truth to the world, not because you're out there talking like I am, but because firstly you're living it, and secondly then you teach it, because you live it. The more people we have living it and the more people we have teaching it.... There are literally hundreds of locations around the earth crying out for people to visit them. They need the teacher. They need the person who knows about love, and that's what we can do. We can be a part of the people who know about love. We can learn about it ourselves, actually feel about it inside of ourselves, change the feelings inside of ourselves to the point where we know it for certain, and then we're ready to teach it to others. It's just going to be beautiful, I think.

Thank you.

