March 9, 2023
How Prayer Improves Quality of Thinking
Excited to talk about the power of prayer and how it can improve our thinking and our quality of life overall. The way we pray has evolved over thousands of years, so this is not just about prayer, but how we should pray and commune with God and what that really means.
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So this time up on the ranch
Radio podcast, we're going to
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delve into prayer and what it
does to improve the quality of
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mind and how prayer could solve
a lot of our Earthly problems
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right now.
And I think that's an important
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topic.
So let's discuss it on the ranch
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radio inside the Revelation
podcast.
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Welcome to the Rancher Radio
podcast and inside the
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Revelation.
My name is Jim Watkins.
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It's a pleasure to be here.
I appreciate you so much.
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The web.
Cite your answer, radio dotnet
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continues to grow and the
listenership to these podcasts
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continues to grow.
I get wonderful emails from
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people all over the country
about things that we talk about
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here on the Rancher Radio
podcast and one caught my eye
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that I want to share a little
bit of it with you.
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You know, we do spend a little
bit of time talking about the
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state of the world, right?
And is Yeah, a lot of people are
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nervous.
There's no question.
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That things are not normal but
you know, we are an experimental
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planet and while it is, you
know, we're talking about the
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end of the world.
And I brought up the story of
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the Three monks.
The first monk said that when
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Jesus comes, I want him to see
me praying the other monk said,
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you know, when Jesus shows up, I
want him to see me worshipping
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and then the third monk said,
when Jesus shows up, I'm going
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to do what I was put here to do
which is to clean the latrine.
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And the other two monks were,
are you crazy?
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And he said, look, you know,
whether he comes here or we go
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there, we have a job to do.
And our lives are a testament to
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that job.
And if we do our daily Duty,
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what is the quote?
The ACT is ours.
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The consequences God.
And I thought it was a very good
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perspective that sometimes we
can get caught up in this whole
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end times thing.
But I got a great letter from
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someone that I'll share this
with you.
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It says, the topic of end times
prophecy is a broad one.
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That seems to be prevalent with
modern Christians everywhere.
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You look, there are so-called
end times prophecies that
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although differing widely in
detail tend to have the same.
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Deleterious effects on the
unfortunate folks who get caught
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up in them.
Many seem to live in fear of the
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Apocalypse, apocalyptic
scenarios and divine
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chastisements.
And by the way, I raised my
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hand, I'm guilty of that.
And she writes and consequently
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focus on doing whatever they can
to save themselves from looming.
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Doom for a lot of people, it can
quickly turn into an obsession
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that Hamptons and even halt
spiritual growth.
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At least that's what's what
happened to me some years ago
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when I became steeped in it and
eventually realized what a
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negative impact it was having on
my life.
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In X Obsession can result in a
kind of victim mentality, in
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which people give up, trying to
improve the world around them.
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And instead, focus on only the
chaos happening in the world
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guilty while in patiently,
praying for Jesus to return and
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instantly transforming
everything as true Faith Sons
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and Daughters.
We are anything, but powerless
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victims.
We all have full access to Jesus
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Spirit of Truth, to teach and
guide us.
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And how to positively, Form
ourselves and our world one day
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at a time, and in the unique way
that God has in mind, for each
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of us.
If we abrogate, our
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responsibility to cooperate with
the Holy Spirit toward our own
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spiritual growth in favor of
submissively, waiting for God's
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judgement to come crashing down
on those we may judge as evil
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and or likewise focus.
Our lives solely on waiting for
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Jesus to return and in one
instant change the World and
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heaven.
We only contribute to the total
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load of the world's spiritual
darkness and unwittingly work
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against God's plan for healing
our world.
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It's truly that only God God's
Grace has the power to transform
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hearts and thus transformed the
world, but he is Patiently
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Waiting For Humanity's consent
to this transformation.
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Starting with each one of us who
actively chooses his love and
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then spreads it to others.
Now, they go on and it's such a,
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I'm going to post this on your
answer, radio dotnet.
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So you can read the full
article.
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It's just a wonderful essay. and
I'll tell you, it changed my
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mind about a lot of perspectives
because, you know, how can you
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not How could you not be
bothered by the tension of
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everyday life?
We see it all around us, you
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know, we see the war in Ukraine,
we see more old immorality
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emerging and I won't even go
into some of the things that I
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read about, but it's just, it's,
again, you can get drawn into
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the darkness and that's what I
think ends up happening.
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When you start taking in too
much of what's happening.
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Because thank, you know, because
of Ecology we all see more than
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we ever saw before and many of
these things may have been
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happening, but we just didn't
see it.
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We didn't know about it back
before telephones and TV and
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video and YouTube, you know, we
didn't we didn't see somebody
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get pushed in front of a bus.
We didn't see a high school
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student, physically assault a
teacher, we didn't see those
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things so they didn't bother us.
But now, when we Those things we
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think, oh my God, this is going
on everywhere, but that's not
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what's going on everywhere.
What's going on everywhere
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mostly is that people are trying
to live their lives.
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With the hand that they are
dealt people who live in Africa
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that are discovering the ranch a
book are just the same as the
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people in America, discovering
the are Rancho book, they're
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looking for meaning in their
life and they'll take whatever
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God will give them.
And that's what's going on
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mostly is that people want to
have a good life and to this end
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I've said and I've written
articles about it about the
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quality of thinking.
The next stage in human
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existence has to be focused and
emphasized on the quality of
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thinking.
And the Rancho book has brought
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me to the following concept that
quality of thinking is best
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attained through prayer, and
meditation and worship.
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Quality of thinking needs to be
improved if our world is to
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withstand the current Schism
that results in the ideological
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struggle between that which is
divine and that which is wholly,
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human and debased. and it is not
until our quality of thinking
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improves that life can improve
in more than just superficial
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ways of loving From paper 5
Section 3 worship is for its own
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sake, prayer and bodies a cell
for creature interest element.
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That is the great difference
between worship and prayer.
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From paper 5, also from
paragraph, 4 section or
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paragraph 5 section.
For these different concepts of
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the purpose of religion,
determine the individuals,
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attitude in various life
situations, and foreshadows the
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depth of worship, and the nature
of his personal habits of
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prayer.
So, There it says, prayer is
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directly linked to our quality
of life.
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From paper 89, we learned that
early prayer was hardly worship.
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It was really just bargaining
with God, for health, wealth,
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and life.
We would pray for good things to
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happen to us.
From paper. 89 it also tells us
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primitive forms of prayer were
nothing more.
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Nor less than bargaining with
the spirits and argument with
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the gods.
The prayer of of a just man was
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actually held in high esteem.
The driving power of even the
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most material aspects of a
cultural civilization is
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resident in the least material
of society's achievements and
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intelligence May control the
mechanism of civilization wisdom
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May directed.
But spiritual idealism, is the
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energy, which really uplifts and
advances human culture from one
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level of attainment to another
spiritual idealism.
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For paper. 81 at first life was
a struggle for existence.
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Now for a standard of living
next, it will be for the quality
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of thinking the coming Earthly
goal of human existence.
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And that's why I assert we have
to improve our quality of
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thinking now a lot of this can
come through education, proper
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education, properly taught
education, not the education
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that we see this occurring in
our higher and secondary levels
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of Education, where we're being
taught to I believe in certain
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things that may or not be
necessarily be true, but they
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have everything to do with the
Earth and nothing to do with the
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spiritual ideals spiritual
idealism.
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In fact, spiritual idea.
It idealism is dead in our
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teaching institutions.
And as simple as it sounds, if
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we pray all of us living does
improve because thinking
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decision-making improves.
It moves us Inward and upward.
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Sadly, I am willing to wager.
Most people do not know how to
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pray.
They feel uncomfortable, praying
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other or they pray a certain
way.
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A formal address may be taught
to us.
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A lot of us just recite the
Lord's Prayer.
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Which is a look.
It's a humble beginning.
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Even Jesus, when he was hard
pressed, formulated a prayer
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which Millions recite every
night when they go to bed.
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But the master also told us that
prayer is communion with God.
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It is the only method whereby we
have access to Divinity, through
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the act of prayer, the willful
act of prayer which I believe
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achieves, partial contact with
the actual Living spirit that
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could possibly reside in a very
small pineal. and inside of our
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brain, mass Or with the Rancho
book refers to as the Citadel of
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the Mind.
Think about it.
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It's like a Bluth to chip
hardwired into us by our maker,
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but built-in baked in in the
original design.
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Isn't that something special?
And we also recall that it was
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the act of prayer that elevated
andon and fonta to human status
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Freewill status.
In fact, the act of prayer, the
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first prayer was a woman Fanta.
She prayed And then, and on
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prayed, it was heralded by the
most highs with such great
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regard and importance.
They sent a message.
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And let me read a little bit
about that message from the
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ranch of book from paper 62.
This is from the life carrier,
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who was there that day, when the
message came from the most highs
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heralding and celebrating, the
fact that the first two true
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Advanced humans Had been born
through the act of prayer.
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Imagine our joy one day.
When the Twins were about 10
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years old when the spirit of
worship made its first contact
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with the mind of the female twin
and shortly thereafter with the
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mail.
We knew that something closely
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akin to human mind was
approaching culmination.
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And when about a year later,
they finally resolved, as a
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result of meditative thought and
purposeful decision to flee from
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home and journey North, then did
the spirit of wisdom, begin to
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function on our world.
And in these two now, recognized
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human Minds, it was an eventful
day on your Rancho when our
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small group gathered about the
planetary Pole, A space
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communication and receive the
first message from salvington.
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That's the home Sphere for
Michael Christ.
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Michael.
Jesus salvington.
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And the message came papers 62
to the life carriers on Urantia.
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Greetings, we transmit Assurance
of great pleasure on salvington
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edentia and Jerusalem in honor
of the registration of the
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headquarters of nebadon with
these existence of Urantia of
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Mind of will dignity.
So for the first time, the life
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carriers are getting the message
because of andon and fonta
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because of worship because of
prayer, meditative thought and
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action.
We Registered as a planet of
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will dignity.
That's pretty significant it.
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It actually illustrates greatly
the significance of man making
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contact with his spirit and we
can do this willfully every
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single day of Our Lives, we can
wake up in the morning and pray
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we can stop what we're doing in
the middle of the afternoon and
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meditate clear our minds a
little bit and then in the
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evening, enjoy communion and
worship.
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If you did that for a week, what
would change in your life?
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What would change in the world
if everyone did that, they
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weren't told a specific prayer
and and I believe there is a
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have to go digging for it.
But there's a statement that
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says that every human being with
a thought adjuster has the
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innate ability to know how to
pray.
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It doesn't matter, your
education level, it doesn't
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matter.
Your economic level, it doesn't
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matter your race.
It doesn't matter your DNA, if
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you have a thought.
Adjuster, if you have this,
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Spirit in your mind, which we
do, which we are bestowed with,
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then we have the ability to
pray.
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The purposeful decision of the
twins to flee, northward and
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segregate their offspring from
the inferior ancestors.
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Had been noted.
This is the first decision of
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mind.
The human type of mind.
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And that was why they got the
message.
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The decision of andon and fonta
to flee from the primates tribes
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implies.
A quality of Mind far above the
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base her intelligence, which
characterized so many of their
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later descendants who stooped to
mate with their retarded cousins
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of the Simian tribes.
But they're vague feeling of
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being something, more than mere
animals, was due to the
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possession of personality and
was augmented by the indwelling
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presence of God's spirit, what
they call the thought.
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Adjuster, Again, the spirit can
be touched through prayer.
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It is a real thing and such
recognition if better understood
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by people would lead people to
heighten quality of thinking and
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that would result in better
decision-making and who knows
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happier and healthier people.
And so I'll close with this.
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The simple prayer of faith
evidence is a mighty evolution
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in Human Experience.
Whereby the ancient
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conversations with the
fictitious symbol.
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Of the alter ego of primitive
Legion primitive religion.
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Have become exalted to the level
of communion with the spirit of
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the infinite.
And to that of a Bonafide
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consciousness of the reality of
the Eternal God and Paradise,
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father of all, intelligent
creation.
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Prayer ever has been and ever
will be a two-fold human
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experience.
A psychological procedure enter
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associated with a spiritual
technique and these two
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functions of prayer can never be
fully separated from paper, 91
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enlightened prayer must
recognize not only an external
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and personal God but also an
internal and impersonal
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Divinity.
The indwelling spirit.
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It is altogether fitting that
man when he prays should strive
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to grasp, the concept of the
universal father on Paradise,
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but the more effective technique
for most practical purposes will
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be to revert to the concept of a
nearby alter-ego just as
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primitive.
Men was want to do and then to
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recognize that the idea of this
Alter Ego has evolved from a
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mere fiction to the truth of
God's indwelling mortal man in
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the factual presence of the
spirit.
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So that man can talk
face-to-face as it were with a
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real and genuine and divine
Alter Ego that indwells him and
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is the very presence and the
essence of the Living.
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God, the universal father.
I felt it important.
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It had been in my mind,
particularly in the last few
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months, about the importance of
prayer today in the world,
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because it has occurred to me.
And I'm sure it's occurred to
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you that in the in that Arena,
it seems that Modern Man
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experiences quite a deficit of
his understanding of prayer.
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So hopefully if you're a
drive-by to this and you're
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hearing this podcast for the
first time, this helps you
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understand better.
Why the Urantia book is such a
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marvelous Really Revelation
until next time.
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Thanks for stopping by.
To everything.
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So this time up on the ranch
Radio podcast, we're going to
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delve into prayer and what it
does to improve the quality of
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mind and how prayer could solve
a lot of our Earthly problems
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right now.
And I think that's an important
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topic.
So let's discuss it on the ranch
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radio inside the Revelation
podcast.
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Welcome to the Rancher Radio
podcast and inside the
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Revelation.
My name is Jim Watkins.
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It's a pleasure to be here.
I appreciate you so much.
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The web.
Cite your answer, radio dotnet
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continues to grow and the
listenership to these podcasts
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continues to grow.
I get wonderful emails from
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people all over the country
about things that we talk about
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here on the Rancher Radio
podcast and one caught my eye
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that I want to share a little
bit of it with you.
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You know, we do spend a little
bit of time talking about the
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state of the world, right?
And is Yeah, a lot of people are
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nervous.
There's no question.
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That things are not normal but
you know, we are an experimental
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planet and while it is, you
know, we're talking about the
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end of the world.
And I brought up the story of
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the Three monks.
The first monk said that when
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Jesus comes, I want him to see
me praying the other monk said,
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you know, when Jesus shows up, I
want him to see me worshipping
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and then the third monk said,
when Jesus shows up, I'm going
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to do what I was put here to do
which is to clean the latrine.
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And the other two monks were,
are you crazy?
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And he said, look, you know,
whether he comes here or we go
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there, we have a job to do.
And our lives are a testament to
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that job.
And if we do our daily Duty,
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what is the quote?
The ACT is ours.
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The consequences God.
And I thought it was a very good
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perspective that sometimes we
can get caught up in this whole
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end times thing.
But I got a great letter from
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someone that I'll share this
with you.
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It says, the topic of end times
prophecy is a broad one.
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That seems to be prevalent with
modern Christians everywhere.
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You look, there are so-called
end times prophecies that
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although differing widely in
detail tend to have the same.
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Deleterious effects on the
unfortunate folks who get caught
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up in them.
Many seem to live in fear of the
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Apocalypse, apocalyptic
scenarios and divine
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chastisements.
And by the way, I raised my
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hand, I'm guilty of that.
And she writes and consequently
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focus on doing whatever they can
to save themselves from looming.
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Doom for a lot of people, it can
quickly turn into an obsession
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that Hamptons and even halt
spiritual growth.
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At least that's what's what
happened to me some years ago
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when I became steeped in it and
eventually realized what a
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negative impact it was having on
my life.
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In X Obsession can result in a
kind of victim mentality, in
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which people give up, trying to
improve the world around them.
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And instead, focus on only the
chaos happening in the world
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guilty while in patiently,
praying for Jesus to return and
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instantly transforming
everything as true Faith Sons
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and Daughters.
We are anything, but powerless
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victims.
We all have full access to Jesus
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Spirit of Truth, to teach and
guide us.
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And how to positively, Form
ourselves and our world one day
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at a time, and in the unique way
that God has in mind, for each
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of us.
If we abrogate, our
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responsibility to cooperate with
the Holy Spirit toward our own
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spiritual growth in favor of
submissively, waiting for God's
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judgement to come crashing down
on those we may judge as evil
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and or likewise focus.
Our lives solely on waiting for
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Jesus to return and in one
instant change the World and
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heaven.
We only contribute to the total
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load of the world's spiritual
darkness and unwittingly work
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against God's plan for healing
our world.
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It's truly that only God God's
Grace has the power to transform
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hearts and thus transformed the
world, but he is Patiently
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Waiting For Humanity's consent
to this transformation.
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Starting with each one of us who
actively chooses his love and
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then spreads it to others.
Now, they go on and it's such a,
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I'm going to post this on your
answer, radio dotnet.
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So you can read the full
article.
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It's just a wonderful essay. and
I'll tell you, it changed my
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mind about a lot of perspectives
because, you know, how can you
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not How could you not be
bothered by the tension of
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everyday life?
We see it all around us, you
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know, we see the war in Ukraine,
we see more old immorality
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emerging and I won't even go
into some of the things that I
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read about, but it's just, it's,
again, you can get drawn into
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the darkness and that's what I
think ends up happening.
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When you start taking in too
much of what's happening.
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Because thank, you know, because
of Ecology we all see more than
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we ever saw before and many of
these things may have been
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happening, but we just didn't
see it.
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We didn't know about it back
before telephones and TV and
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video and YouTube, you know, we
didn't we didn't see somebody
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get pushed in front of a bus.
We didn't see a high school
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student, physically assault a
teacher, we didn't see those
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things so they didn't bother us.
But now, when we Those things we
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think, oh my God, this is going
on everywhere, but that's not
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what's going on everywhere.
What's going on everywhere
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mostly is that people are trying
to live their lives.
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With the hand that they are
dealt people who live in Africa
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that are discovering the ranch a
book are just the same as the
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people in America, discovering
the are Rancho book, they're
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looking for meaning in their
life and they'll take whatever
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God will give them.
And that's what's going on
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mostly is that people want to
have a good life and to this end
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I've said and I've written
articles about it about the
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quality of thinking.
The next stage in human
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existence has to be focused and
emphasized on the quality of
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thinking.
And the Rancho book has brought
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me to the following concept that
quality of thinking is best
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attained through prayer, and
meditation and worship.
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Quality of thinking needs to be
improved if our world is to
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withstand the current Schism
that results in the ideological
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struggle between that which is
divine and that which is wholly,
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human and debased. and it is not
until our quality of thinking
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improves that life can improve
in more than just superficial
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ways of loving From paper 5
Section 3 worship is for its own
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sake, prayer and bodies a cell
for creature interest element.
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That is the great difference
between worship and prayer.
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From paper 5, also from
paragraph, 4 section or
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paragraph 5 section.
For these different concepts of
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the purpose of religion,
determine the individuals,
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attitude in various life
situations, and foreshadows the
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depth of worship, and the nature
of his personal habits of
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prayer.
So, There it says, prayer is
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directly linked to our quality
of life.
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From paper 89, we learned that
early prayer was hardly worship.
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It was really just bargaining
with God, for health, wealth,
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and life.
We would pray for good things to
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happen to us.
From paper. 89 it also tells us
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primitive forms of prayer were
nothing more.
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Nor less than bargaining with
the spirits and argument with
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the gods.
The prayer of of a just man was
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actually held in high esteem.
The driving power of even the
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most material aspects of a
cultural civilization is
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resident in the least material
of society's achievements and
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intelligence May control the
mechanism of civilization wisdom
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May directed.
But spiritual idealism, is the
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energy, which really uplifts and
advances human culture from one
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level of attainment to another
spiritual idealism.
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For paper. 81 at first life was
a struggle for existence.
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Now for a standard of living
next, it will be for the quality
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of thinking the coming Earthly
goal of human existence.
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And that's why I assert we have
to improve our quality of
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thinking now a lot of this can
come through education, proper
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education, properly taught
education, not the education
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that we see this occurring in
our higher and secondary levels
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of Education, where we're being
taught to I believe in certain
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things that may or not be
necessarily be true, but they
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have everything to do with the
Earth and nothing to do with the
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spiritual ideals spiritual
idealism.
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In fact, spiritual idea.
It idealism is dead in our
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teaching institutions.
And as simple as it sounds, if
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we pray all of us living does
improve because thinking
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decision-making improves.
It moves us Inward and upward.
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Sadly, I am willing to wager.
Most people do not know how to
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pray.
They feel uncomfortable, praying
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other or they pray a certain
way.
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A formal address may be taught
to us.
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A lot of us just recite the
Lord's Prayer.
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Which is a look.
It's a humble beginning.
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Even Jesus, when he was hard
pressed, formulated a prayer
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which Millions recite every
night when they go to bed.
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But the master also told us that
prayer is communion with God.
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It is the only method whereby we
have access to Divinity, through
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the act of prayer, the willful
act of prayer which I believe
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achieves, partial contact with
the actual Living spirit that
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could possibly reside in a very
small pineal. and inside of our
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brain, mass Or with the Rancho
book refers to as the Citadel of
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the Mind.
Think about it.
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It's like a Bluth to chip
hardwired into us by our maker,
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but built-in baked in in the
original design.
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Isn't that something special?
And we also recall that it was
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the act of prayer that elevated
andon and fonta to human status
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Freewill status.
In fact, the act of prayer, the
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first prayer was a woman Fanta.
She prayed And then, and on
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prayed, it was heralded by the
most highs with such great
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regard and importance.
They sent a message.
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And let me read a little bit
about that message from the
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ranch of book from paper 62.
This is from the life carrier,
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who was there that day, when the
message came from the most highs
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heralding and celebrating, the
fact that the first two true
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Advanced humans Had been born
through the act of prayer.
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Imagine our joy one day.
When the Twins were about 10
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years old when the spirit of
worship made its first contact
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with the mind of the female twin
and shortly thereafter with the
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mail.
We knew that something closely
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akin to human mind was
approaching culmination.
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And when about a year later,
they finally resolved, as a
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result of meditative thought and
purposeful decision to flee from
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home and journey North, then did
the spirit of wisdom, begin to
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function on our world.
And in these two now, recognized
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human Minds, it was an eventful
day on your Rancho when our
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small group gathered about the
planetary Pole, A space
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communication and receive the
first message from salvington.
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That's the home Sphere for
Michael Christ.
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Michael.
Jesus salvington.
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And the message came papers 62
to the life carriers on Urantia.
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Greetings, we transmit Assurance
of great pleasure on salvington
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edentia and Jerusalem in honor
of the registration of the
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headquarters of nebadon with
these existence of Urantia of
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Mind of will dignity.
So for the first time, the life
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carriers are getting the message
because of andon and fonta
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because of worship because of
prayer, meditative thought and
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action.
We Registered as a planet of
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will dignity.
That's pretty significant it.
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It actually illustrates greatly
the significance of man making
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contact with his spirit and we
can do this willfully every
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single day of Our Lives, we can
wake up in the morning and pray
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we can stop what we're doing in
the middle of the afternoon and
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meditate clear our minds a
little bit and then in the
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evening, enjoy communion and
worship.
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If you did that for a week, what
would change in your life?
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What would change in the world
if everyone did that, they
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weren't told a specific prayer
and and I believe there is a
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have to go digging for it.
But there's a statement that
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says that every human being with
a thought adjuster has the
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innate ability to know how to
pray.
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It doesn't matter, your
education level, it doesn't
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matter.
Your economic level, it doesn't
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matter your race.
It doesn't matter your DNA, if
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you have a thought.
Adjuster, if you have this,
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Spirit in your mind, which we
do, which we are bestowed with,
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then we have the ability to
pray.
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The purposeful decision of the
twins to flee, northward and
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segregate their offspring from
the inferior ancestors.
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Had been noted.
This is the first decision of
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mind.
The human type of mind.
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And that was why they got the
message.
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The decision of andon and fonta
to flee from the primates tribes
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implies.
A quality of Mind far above the
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base her intelligence, which
characterized so many of their
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later descendants who stooped to
mate with their retarded cousins
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of the Simian tribes.
But they're vague feeling of
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being something, more than mere
animals, was due to the
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possession of personality and
was augmented by the indwelling
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presence of God's spirit, what
they call the thought.
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Adjuster, Again, the spirit can
be touched through prayer.
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It is a real thing and such
recognition if better understood
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by people would lead people to
heighten quality of thinking and
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that would result in better
decision-making and who knows
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happier and healthier people.
And so I'll close with this.
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The simple prayer of faith
evidence is a mighty evolution
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in Human Experience.
Whereby the ancient
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conversations with the
fictitious symbol.
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Of the alter ego of primitive
Legion primitive religion.
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Have become exalted to the level
of communion with the spirit of
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the infinite.
And to that of a Bonafide
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consciousness of the reality of
the Eternal God and Paradise,
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father of all, intelligent
creation.
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Prayer ever has been and ever
will be a two-fold human
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experience.
A psychological procedure enter
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associated with a spiritual
technique and these two
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functions of prayer can never be
fully separated from paper, 91
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enlightened prayer must
recognize not only an external
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and personal God but also an
internal and impersonal
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Divinity.
The indwelling spirit.
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It is altogether fitting that
man when he prays should strive
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to grasp, the concept of the
universal father on Paradise,
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but the more effective technique
for most practical purposes will
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be to revert to the concept of a
nearby alter-ego just as
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primitive.
Men was want to do and then to
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recognize that the idea of this
Alter Ego has evolved from a
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mere fiction to the truth of
God's indwelling mortal man in
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the factual presence of the
spirit.
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So that man can talk
face-to-face as it were with a
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real and genuine and divine
Alter Ego that indwells him and
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is the very presence and the
essence of the Living.
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God, the universal father.
I felt it important.
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It had been in my mind,
particularly in the last few
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months, about the importance of
prayer today in the world,
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because it has occurred to me.
And I'm sure it's occurred to
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you that in the in that Arena,
it seems that Modern Man
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experiences quite a deficit of
his understanding of prayer.
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So hopefully if you're a
drive-by to this and you're
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hearing this podcast for the
first time, this helps you
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understand better.
Why the Urantia book is such a
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marvelous Really Revelation
until next time.
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Thanks for stopping by.
To everything.
