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Do not be too ready to do, just be. I said, "Be ye therefore perfect" not "do" perfect things. Try and grasp this. Individual efforts avail nothing. It is only the work of the Universal Spirit -- My Spirit, that counts. Dwell in thought on this, more and more, saints have taken a life-time to grasp it. (God Calling)

Silence. Be silent before Me. Seek to know, and then to do My will in all things. Abide in My Love. An atmosphere of loving understanding to all men. This is your part to carry out, and then I surround you with a protective screen that keeps all evil from you. It is fashioned by your own attitude of mind, words, and deeds, towards others. (God Calling)

My children, I am here beside you. Draw near in spirit to Me. Shut out the distractions of the world. I am your Life, the very breath of your soul. Learn what it is to shut yourself in the secret place of your being, which is My secret place too. True it is, I wait in many a heart, but so few retire into that inner place of the being to commune with Me. Wherever the soul is, I am. Man has rarely understood this. I am actually at the centre of every man's being, but, distracted with the things of the sense-life, he finds Me not. (God Calling)

Withdraw into the calm of communion with Me. Rest -- rest, rest in that calm and Peace. Life knows no greater joy than you will find in converse and companionship with Me. (God Calling)

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee, -- Isa. lx. 1.

... Dwell with Me as the centre of your lives. Fix your whole being with Me as its centre. That gives you the true balance as is the case with some delicate instrument. The vision you have is the means of clearing the obstacles away. When My disciple sees My purpose ahead, that very sight is the power that clears away every obstacle along that range of vision. You will have mighty power to do this. Spiritual Light is in itself a miracle-worker. People waste so much time in seeking to work out what they see. I declare to you that in the seeing My purpose all is done.

Obey My commands. They are steps in the ladder that leads to success. Above all, keep calm, unmoved. Go back into the silence to recover this calm when it is lost even for one moment. You accomplish more by this than by all the activities of a long day. (God Calling)

I lead you. The way is clear. Go forward unafraid. I am beside you. Listen, listen, listen to My Voice. My Hand is controlling all. Remember that I can work through you better when you are at rest. Go very slowly, very quietly from one duty to the next -- taking time to rest and pray between. Do not be too busy. Take all in order as I say. The Rest of God is in a realm beyond all man's activities. Venture there often, and you will indeed find Peace and Joy.

All work that results from resting with God is miracle-work. Claim the power to work miracles, both of you. Know that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Nay, more, know that you can do all things through Christ who rests you. (God Calling)

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. Isa. xxx. 15. All agitation is destructive of good. All calm is constructive of good, and at the same time destructive of evil. When man wants evil destroyed so often he rushes to action. It is wrong. First be still and know that I am God. Then act only as I tell you. Always calm with God. Calm is trust in action. Only trust, perfect trust can keep one calm. Never be afraid of any circumstances or difficulties that help you to cultivate this calm. As the world, to attain, has to learn speed, you, to attain, have to learn calm. All great work for Me is done first in the individual soul of the worker. (God Calling)

Try to rest on these words, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you." Then strive not for them but, untiringly, for the things of My Kingdom. It is so strange to you mortals, you would think the material things first and then grow into the knowledge of Spiritual things. Not so in My Kingdom. It is Spiritual things first and then material. So to attain the material redouble your efforts to acquire the Spiritual. (God Calling)

The way of the soul's transformation is the Way of Divine Companionship. Not so much the asking Me to make you this or that but the living with Me, thinking of Me, talking to Me -- thus you grow like Me. Love Me. Rest in Me. Joy in Me. (God Calling)

The world, my poor world, flies to Me when its difficulties are too great to be surmounted any other way, forgetting or never realizing, that if, with the same eagerness, those hearts sought Me merely for companionship and loving intercourse, many of the difficulties would not arise. The circumstances, the life, the character would be so altered -- so purified, that those same difficulties would not exist. Seek me early that is the way to find Me. Early, before I get crowded out by life's troubles, and difficulties and pleasures. (God Calling)

The world has always seen service for Me to be activity. Only those near to Me have seen that a life apart, of prayer, may, and does so often, accomplish more than all the service man can offer Me. If man lived apart with Me and only went out to serve at My direct command My Spirit could operate more and accomplish truly mighty things. (God Calling)

Our Lord, grant us that wonderful inward Peace. My children that Peace does truly pass all understanding. That peace no man taketh from you. No man has the power to disturb that Peace, but you yourselves can let the world and its worries and distractions in. You can give the entrance to fears and despondency. You can open the door to the robber who breaks in upon, and destroys, your peace. Set yourselves this task to allow nothing to disturb your peace, your heart calm, with Me. Stop all work, stop all intercourse with others -- until this is restored. Do not let those about you spoil your peace of heart and mind. Do not let any one without, any trouble, any irritation, any adversity, disturb it for one moment. Look on each difficulty as training to enable you to acquire this peace. Every work, every interruption -- set yourself to see that none of it touches the harmony of the real you, that is hid with Me in the Secret Place of the Father. (God Calling)

... Make Me the one abiding Presence of your day of which you are conscious all the time. Seek to do less and to accomplish more, to achieve more. Doing is action. Achievement is successful action. (God Calling)

Rest more with Me. If I, the Son of God, needed those times of quiet communion with My Father, away, alone, from noise, from activity -- then surely you need them too. Refilling with the Spirit is a need. That dwelling apart, that shutting yourself away in the very secret place of your being -- away alone with Me. From these times you come forth in Power to bless and heal. (God Calling)

... Ever let my words ring out. "Be ye perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." Stop short at nothing less. Make it your practice, each of you, to review your character -- take it in relation to life, to your dear ones, your household, friends, acquaintances, your country, your work. See where I, in the same relation or circumstances or situation, should act differently. Plan how best such and such a fault can be eradicated, or such and such sin, mistake or omission, be avoided. A weekly review at least you must have. (God Calling)

... Be still and know that I am God. Only when the soul attains this calm can there be true work done, and mind and soul and body be strong to conquer and to bear. The Peace is the work of righteousness -- living the right life, living with Me. Quietness and assurance follow. Assurance is the calm born of a deep certainty in Me, in My Promise, in My Power to save and keep. Gain this calm, and at all costs keep this calm. Rest in Me. Live in Me. Calm, quiet, assured -- at Peace. (God Calling)

Take each day's happenings as work you can do for Me. In that Spirit a blessing will attend all you do. Offering your day's service thus to Me, you are sharing in My Life-work, and therefore helping Me to save My world. You may not see it, but the power of vicarious sacrifice is redemptive beyond man's power of understanding here on earth. (God Calling)

Remember, I came to found a Kingdom -- the Kingdom. Those who lived in the Kingdom were to do the work -- greater works than I was able to do. Not a greater Power shown, not a greater Life lived, but, as men recognized My Godhead, opportunities for works in My Name would increase. My work on earth was to gather around Me the nucleus of My Kingdom, and to teach the Truths of My Kingdom to them. In those Truths they were to live and work. (God Calling)

Think your thought-way into the very heart of My Kingdom. See there the abundance of delights in my storehouse, and lay eager hands on them. See wonders, ask wonders, bear wonders away with you. Remember this beautiful earth on which you are was once only a thought of Divine Mind. Think how from your thought one corner of it could grow and become a Garden of the Lord, a Bethany-Home for your Master, a place to which I have a right to bring My friends, My needy ones, for talk and rest with Me. God Calling)

If Two Agree

If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in Heaven.

For where two or three are gathered, together in my name there am I in the midst of them.(gc, p. 9)

(God's Rush to Give -- Jan. 17)

(Reflect Me -- March 16)

My children, I am here beside you. Draw near in spirit to Me. Shut out the distractions of the world. I am your Life, the very breath of your soul. Learn what it is to shut yourself in the secret place of your being, which is My secret place too. True it is, I wait in many a heart, but so few retire into that inner place of the being to commune with Me. Wherever the soul is, I am.Man has rarely understood this. I am actually at the centre of every man's being, but, distracted with the things of the sense-life,he finds Me not.gc,p.55)

(No Greater Joy -- March 17)

Withdraw into the calm of communion with Me. Rest -- rest, rest in that calm and Peace. Life knows no greater joy than you will find in converse and companionship with Me. (gc, p. 56)

(Risen Life -- April 9)

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee, -- Isa. lx. 1.

The Call comes on this My Day for all who love Me, to arise from earth-bands, from sin, and sloth and depression, distrust, fear, all that hinders the Risen Life. To arise to Beauty, to Holiness, to Joy, to Peace to work inspired by Love and Joy, to rise from death to Life. (gc, p. 66)

(Equally Yoked -- April 14)

... Dwell with Me as the centre of your lives. Fix your whole being (both of you) with Me as its centre. That gives you the true balance as is the case with some delicate instrument. The vision you both have is the means of clearing the obstacles away. When My disciple sees My purpose ahead, that very sight is the power that clears away every obstacle along that range of vision. You will both have mighty power to do this. Spiritual Light is in itself a miracle-worker. People waste so much time in seeking to work out what they see. I declare to you that in the seeing My purpose all is done.

..."Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers," because My Guidance is intensified immeasurably in power, when the two are one in desire to be with Me -- but so few have understood. (gc, p. 69)

(Never Feel Inadequate -- April 15)

(Love Your Servants -- April 16)

Love, love, love. Tender Love is the secret. Love those you are training, love those who work with you, love those who serve you.

Dwell on that thought -- God is Love. Link it up with My "I and the Father are one." Dwell on My actions on earth. See in them Love in operation. If it was God who so acted, then it was Love, Perfect Love, performed those actions, those wonders. They you, too, must put Love (God) into action in your lives. Perfect Love means perfect forgiveness. Lo, My children, you see that where God is there can be no lack of forgiveness, for that is really lack of Love.

God is Love ... no judging. God is Love ... no resentment.

God is Love ... all patience. God is Love ... all power.

God is Love ... all supply.

All you need to have is love to God and man. Love to God ensures obedience to every wish, every command. Love is the fulfilling of all law. Pray much for love. (gc, p. 70)

(Bless Your Enemies -- April 25)

Say often, "God bless ....," of any whom you find in disharmony with you, or whom you desire to help. Say it, willing that showers of blessings and joy and success may fall upon them. Leave to Me the necessary correcting or training; you must only desire joy and blessing for them. At present your prayers are that they should be taught and corrected. Oh! if My children would leave My work to Me and occupy themselves with the task I give them. Love, love, love. Love will break down all your difficulties. Love will build up all your successes. God the destroyer of evil, God the creator of good -- is Love. To Love one another is to use God in your life. To use God in your life is to bring into manifestation all harmony, beauty, joy and happiness. (gc, p. 77)

(The Rest of God -- May 8)

I lead you. The way is clear. Go forward unafraid. I am beside you. Listen, listen, listen to My Voice. My Hand is controlling all.

Remember that I can work through you better when you are at rest. Go very slowly, very quietly from one duty to the next -- taking time to rest and pray between. Do not be too busy. Take all in order as I say.

The Rest of God is in a realm beyond all man's activities. Venture there often, and you will indeed find Peace and Joy.

(Calm -- Not Speed -- May 10)

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. Isa. xxx. 15.

All agitation is destructive of good. All calm is constructive of good, and at the same time destructive of evil. When man wants evil destroyed so often he rushes to action. It is wrong. First be still and know that I am God. Then act only as I tell you. Always calm with God. Calm is trust in action. Only trust, perfect trust can keep one calm. Never be afraid of any circumstances or difficulties that help you to cultivate this calm. As the world, to attain, has to learn speed, you, to attain, have to learn calm. All great work for Me is done first in the individual soul of the worker. (gc, p. 85)

(First the Spiritual -- May 15)

It is so strange to you mortals, you would think the material things first and then grow into the knowledge of Spiritual things. Not so in My Kingdom. It is Spiritual things first and then material. So to attain the material redouble your efforts to acquire the Spiritual. (gc, p. 88)

(Companionship -- June 1)

(Seek Me Early -- June 16)

Walk in My Way and trust Me. No evil can touch you. I am yours as truly as you are Mine. Rest in that truth. Rest, that is, cease all struggle. Gain a calm, strong confidence in that certainty. Do not only rest in Me when the world's struggles prove too much and too many for you to bear or face alone. Rest in Me when you need perfect understanding, when you need the consciousness of tender loving friendship and intercourse. The world, my poor world, flies to Me when its difficulties are too great to be surmounted any other way, forgetting or never realizing, that if, with the same eagerness, those hearts sought Me merely for companionship and loving intercourse, many of the difficulties would not arise. The circumstances, the life, the character would be so altered -- so purified, that those same difficulties would not exist. Seek me early that is the way to find Me. Early, before I get crowded out by life's troubles, and difficulties and pleasures. (gc, p. 105-106)

(Wait -- June 18)

(Stop All Work Until-- -- July 23)

Our Lord, grant us that wonderful inward Peace.

My children that Peace does truly pass all understanding. That peace no man taketh from you. No man has the power to disturb that Peace, but you yourselves can let the world and its worries and distractions in. You can give the entrance to fears and despondency. You can open the door to the robber who breaks in upon, and destroys, your peace. Set yourselves this task to allow nothing to disturb your peace, your heart calm, with Me. Stop all work, stop all intercourse with others -- until this is restored. Do not let those about you spoil your peace of heart and mind. Do not let any one without, any trouble, any irritation, any adversity, disturb it for one moment. Look on each difficulty as training to enable you to acquire this peace. Every work, every interruption -- set yourself to see that none of it touches the harmony of the real you, that is hid with Me in the Secret Place of the Father. (gc, p. 123)

(Eternal Life -- August 4)

(Dwell Apart -- Aug. 6)

(Perfection -- Aug. 13)

... Ever let my words ring out. "Be ye perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." Stop short at nothing less. Make it your practice, each of you, to review your character -- take it in relation to life, to your dear ones, your household, friends, acquaintances, your country, your work. See where I, in the same relation or circumstances or situation, should act differently. Plan how best such and such a fault can be eradicated, or such and such sin, mistake or omission, be avoided.A weekly review at least you must have. (gc, p. 134)

(Give, Give, Give -- Aug. 30)

Give abundantly. Feel that you are rich. Have no mean thought in your heart. Of Love, of thought, of all you have, give, give, give. Give of time, of personal ease and comfort, of rest, of fame, of healing, of power, of sympathy, of all these and many more. Learn this lesson, and you will become a great power to help others and to do mighty things. (gc, p. 142)

(Cultivate -- Yourself -- Sept. 9)

In Thy Strength we conquer.

Yes! Your conquering Power you gain from Me. There can be no failure with me. The secret of success then is Life with Me. Do you want to make the best of life? Then live very near to Me, the Master and Giver of all Life. Your reward will be sure. It will be perfect success, but My success. But My success. The world may deem you failures. The world judges not as I judge. Bend your knees in wonder before My revelation. The joy of seeing Spiritual Truths is a great Joy. When the Heavens are opened and the Voice speaks, not to all hearts, but to the faithful loving hearts. Remember your great field of labour is yourself. That is your first task, the weeding, the planting, digging, pruning, bearing fruit. When that is done I lead you out into other fields.(gc,p.147)

(Money Values -- Sept. 12)

Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. -- Matt. vi, 33. If thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light. -- Matt. vi, 22.

The eye of the soul is the will. If your one desire is My Kingdom, to find that Kingdom, to serve that Kingdom, then truly shall your whole body be full of light. When you are told to seek first the Kingdom of God, the first step is to secure that your will is for that Kingdom. A single eye to God's glory. Desiring nothing less than that His Kingdom come. Seeking in all things the advance of His Kingdom. Know no values but Spiritual values. No profit but that of Spiritual gain. Seek in all things His Kingdom first. Only seek material gain when that gain will mean a gain for My Kingdom. Get away from money values altogether. Walk with me. Learn of Me. Talk to Me. Here lies your true happiness. (gc, p. 148-49)

(Blessed Assurance -- Oct. 3)

(Suffer to Save -- Nov. 24)

Take each day's happenings as work you can do for Me. In that Spirit a blessing will attend all you do. Offering your day's service thus to Me, you are sharing in My Life-work, and therefore helping Me to save My world. You may not see it, but the power of vicarious sacri-fice is redemptive beyond man's power of understanding here on earth.

(My Kingdom -- Dec. 8)

(See Wonders -- Dec. 18)