The Inner Life

YES, beloved, I Am with you always, even if you do not know it. From earliest childhood I have guided and inspired you and caused you to do all things that you did.

Every day of your life I have shown you many things that you accepted and profited by—without your knowing it; and everyday I showed you many other things that in a way you accepted but did not heed or follow.

From the inharmony, difficulties, trouble and unhappiness that ensued, your mind is gradually being brought to that state where it is learning to heed and understand what I am showing it; that it is the way that I, your true self within, desire it to go or to do. And in time it will even be able to turn within and commune with Me, to ask Me questions and to be taught by Me whatever it seeks to know—when it learns to know My voice and to listen for it, as it speaks from out your heart.

After awhile, with practice, when needing to know anything, you will cause it to turn within to Me and say, “Father, explain this to me.” And then I will impress you to say to your mind, “Be still, and know that because I Am, your all-knowing self, caused you to seek this knowledge, I Am ready to give it to you.” And then continue speaking, taking no thought of what you shall say, just voicing the words that press forth for utterance and which I will put into your mind to say. Your mind will often be both amazed and pleased at the truth it thus learns.

The only difficulty will be to get your mind to believe that it is I, your own soul, the real self of you, that speaks, and that it is not mere imagination. But when something within impresses you with the truth of what I thus speak, know that if you will accept My words with childlike faith and trust and will do the things that I say are needed to be done, you will find that My words will always come true.

This means, however, a perfect faith and trust in Me when I thus speak—without the slightest doubt, question or wavering—just knowing that if you do your part, I will do Mine, and bring it to pass. For such is always My Purpose—in thus getting your attention and then promising you what you need to have or know first to test your faith, and then to prove to you My desire to give you every good thing you need.

When you have thus learned to turn to Me and to receive from Me, more and more I can get you to wait upon Me throughout the day, even as you are told on the back cover page of this Magazine.

In those words are hidden the power to gain all that your heart is yearning to attain; for when you have trained yourself to keep mind and heart fixed on Me, then I become first in your thoughts, and where your thoughts are centered there your consciousness is open to receive what awaits, and when the channel is thus open it is easy to inspire and show you all things you need to know.

Did not our Lord Christ say, “If ye abide in Me and let My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you?” That is because, when your consciousness is thus open to Me, it gradually becomes one with My consciousness—the consciousness of your Soul, Who I Am.

The Lord Christ speaks for every Soul to every human expression in these immortal words of Truth. They are His and My promise to you, beloved, and Our promise is always fulfilled, when you do your part.