From the
Teachings Of
Spirit John
Rev.
Stephen Fulton, Trance Medium
"New
Year Message: 2006"
Sunday Morning, January 22, 2006
(A long and expectant
period of silence)
Silence can be quite disturbing. But silence as we have spoken of so
very many times is filled with love, is filled with kindness, is
filled with all of the things we need to touch as Spirit, both at
home, with the Kingdoms of Spirit and on Earth in the Kingdoms of
Spirit where we come to see that we exist between the two.
It is John.
It’s important for us to understand and begin in this new year a
review so to speak of several years past to bring them together. And
to point out what they have meant and how they may in fact help us
as we pursue not just the gifts of the Spirit, but the Spirit of the
Spirit, coming together, the joy. The coming together, the trying to
understand what we are doing as Spirit and is our Spirit matching up
with what we think we are doing in our lives upon the Earth. It’s
simple but yet to see it simply is extremely complicated.
So we begin to continue where Syrsha has been speaking and we are
attempting to be more specific, more direct. Because it seems that
is the best way to go about it in these times. And then, when we
come together, we come together to find all the aspects of
ourselves, not just the ones we think we need, but also the ones we
desperately need.
And I chose this morning’s Scripture that was read. It’s a
Scripture about love. It’s a Scripture about the fact that love is
firm and solid. It’s a Scripture that says to us that love has a
power, that love has a being, that when it touches any of us or
dwells within us, our lives can be transformed. Then, before I was
able to love and to perceive what it meant to me and those around me
I saw dimly. I didn’t pay attention to a lot of things. I didn’t
really think that my actions could create any problem, I only
thought they could create good.
Love. Thinking about what we’re doing. Love. Again, the power is
so strong that it binds the heavens and the earth together. It’s
not an unconditional love—unconditional loves has too many
conditions placed upon them—the major of which is not to ever have
to say, “I’m sorry”. Love, says the opposite. We must always
be aware when we need to be sorry, that we need to come together,
when we need to be sensitive to one another whether we know the
person or not. Love then, is a tremendous power and I want you to
think about that in this new year. To think about it in terms in
your own personal life and what you can do and build within your
life and in how you respond to others and how we all can respect
others. And understanding that love is not just a word, not just a
nice thing to say, but love is a law, love is a principle, love is
healing.
The Scripture tells us Jesus Christ tells us, God tells us, to Moses
and the Prophets of old. We can know as much about a subject as
anyone on the face of the Earth could ever know. We could have a
knowledge which allows us to bring all manner of things together and
to present the aspects of many things both spiritual and otherwise,
to bring a joy in the fact that we can understand how many things
come together. And in our knowledge we acquire more and more. And
knowledge is a good thing. But knowledge will pass away. It will be
gone at some point along the way. How many people have held the
greatest amounts and worked with the greatest degrees of knowledge
and of teaching throughout the course of time whose brilliance was
beyond imagination. The moment they decided and came to the
realization that time was come to step into the Kingdom of God
without the physical body, that knowledge now ceased. Did it cease
in Spirit? Not really. But knowledge can just simply be done away
with through all manner of situations that be faced upon the Earth.
Knowledge gives us hope and direction. Knowledge allows us to
determine what is factual and not. That knowledge helps us to
discover the importance of faith which is the bridge between two
mountains that help us find balance. Knowledge helps us to become
when in the world, better people. Knowledge should help us to be
aware of what we can do around and with other people. Knowledge
then, compared to love will pass away from the earth and even at
times, from the Spirit. Love will be the chest which keeps the
treasure of treasures which lives within us which is within all of
us that will keep it solid. We can have all the gifts of the Spirit,
we can be strong mediums, we can be strong healers, we can prophesy,
we can speak in tongues, but those will pass away and their need
will pass away. But love will remain. Love will stand strong above
it all. The Word of God is Love. The Word of God is Spirit. The Word
of God is how you come into being; how we all come into being.
Love isn’t puffed up; Love does not go and dress itself to look
kindly, to look pleasant, then, turn around and destroy itself. Love
isn’t arrogant, love isn’t rude. And this can mean to a very
large degree that becomes a problem with us all at times and for
some, a serious problem. We can present the face of love, “I
care”, “I believe”, “I know”, where we can present
statements of support and caring towards others where we can let
others know that we will always be there, our standard and our
principle is strong, we will always be there. And then,
we can turn around with any person, any Spirit, and begin to
complain about them to others. To begin to determine that what we
want is not what that person is doing. And while I’m showing love,
I’m trying to kill you at the same time with words, with
knowledge.
We have all come to the point in life over the course of time and in
the present time to know those people which take freely of the love
and the caring and the kindness of others and then when they turn
around they become ruthless in their tongue. It’s stinging like
the fires of Hades. We can all come to the mind to realize that when
we complain about others to others and we become severely judgmental
of everything around us but never honestly presenting it, then we as
Spirit can honestly say and come to know, we do not have love. Not
to the degree to which I would pray that it would help me mold my
life, help me mold my principles and my characters, and help me join
together with others rather than to give the appearance of joining
and of love, but doing the opposite.
This is important to understand because if we can understand the
things we are actually doing we can begin to bring enormous change
into our lives. Our own personal lives will become more empowered,
more complete.
When we come to understand what we are actually doing rather than
what we are saying, then we find the strength to climb mountains. We
find the strength to get through times and periods of grief. WE find
the strength to walk up to someone we don’t know and be honored to
see them and where we can walk up to those we do know and say we
care about and then turn around and pursue our own agenda for which
they do not belong. It gives us the ability, this love, this caring
to feel ourselves. To begin to sense who we are. To begin to hear
the birds sing more beautifully and louder than we ever noticed. To
where we can hear the cricket performing its time of witness in
evening, talking to the moon and to the stars and to the trees and
to all who will listen. We can come to be more profoundly involved
in our lives. Not just in our selves, but in our lives. Because what
we have within us, everyone around us, needs. As long as we begin to
build the connection which allows that caring and that love to
exist, to come about.
Again, that brings us to the point of understanding what it is we
believe. Do we believe a thing or do we simply talk about it? When
hard times come, and our beliefs become challenged does the love we
have for God and for those around us give us the strength to move
through a war, a famine, a flood? Does it give us the strength to be
a light in the darkness? And when we are reaching in the darkness
and cannot seem to touch anyone, our love, our caring, our reason of
Spirit, come together and we know and we can deeply feel and we can
be deeply touched just as we can deeply touch.
The whole message is really very simple: believe in love. When you
believe, stand upon what you believe. Give it strength and build
with it. When you believe, be willing to put yourself into what you
believe. And this does not mean stand on your beliefs at all cost
because then we are in danger of becoming foolish. And so we must
begin to move and to evolve as we learn, as we come to experience
the Spirit that we are, the Spirit of those around us. God wants us
to be alive. God wants us to be filled with joy; God wants us to
have faith; God wants us to know that together we can move through
all things. Together we can move through all things if we believe.
If we believe.
Can someone believe who says, “I believe” who does things to let
people come to the conclusion that they believe but then turn around
without knowing it, without realizing what they might be doing, to
speak words and to do things to undermine those very people that we
love. Can we feel whole, or do we know something was missing? And
that’s where understanding love comes into this picture. And
understanding it may simply be feeling it, caring. We cannot be
all-knowing with respect to love, but we can certainly be recipients
of it and we can certainly share it. And we do it by stumbling, but
we can always pick ourselves up and God will always bless us, not
for the many times we have stumbled but for the many times we have
gotten up, brushed ourselves off, and moved forward. Now sometimes
when we fall we get back up, we might be a little dizzy or
disoriented and start trying to figure out just where “forward”
is. Then we need to be still in our lives; we need to be quiet. We
need to feel the Spirit within as God touches us and very quickly we
will find that direction.
Love is healing. Feeling is healing. Believing is healing. We have
never advocated in any way, nor did Mr. Ayer, that people believe
blindly. Use your head and use your heart. But they have to be kept
balanced because there are points in which the head will overcome
the heart, where knowledge and technique and some cases what we
should do to obtain better karma or to get into heaven. We need not
worry but we do need to know that we have to be involved. We have to
commit to things. A commitment to God is a promise that we will try
to keep in all ways that we can. A commitment to our neighbors is a
promise that we will be there in all ways that we can. A promise to
our loved ones is that we will be firm in what we believe, we will
be firm in what we do together and be firm to stand with each other
no matter what may happen. Commitment: a scary word but a very
simple process, a very simple bridge that moves us to love and to
hope and to faith. It moves us into being able to recall and
discover the process of healing within ourselves every second of
every day.
I should not fear when I look into the mirror and I see dimly my
reflection. But I do need to have that faith and believe that there
have been times and there will be times when I can look into that
mirror and then see face to face all that I am. What happens to us
when we reach a point where we cannot turn our backs, where we
cannot say words that will please, where we cannot hide in our
closets because we will see ourselves face to face. Will we say,
“hello”? Will we scream? Will a smile come upon your face and
say, “it’s all true.”
When we come and we see ourselves face-to-face it’s an amazing
conversation. We want to remind you of the fact that you are real.
That love is what you are made of; that Spirit is who you truly are
and that your meaning and purpose in life is to discover the reality
of these things, to understand how they work within you and how you
can use them within your hopes and faith toward others. Never try to
determine how someone else can use them. And when you come before
the tent the God, to feel, to find healing, to find love, there are
so many people in the physical world who so need to find love, who
so need to have someone, anyone, show care to them, as if they meant
something in the world or in Spirit. There are so many people who
are lonely. So lonely it reaches a point of being extraordinarily
painful. There’s so many people who are hungry, thirsty, in pain;
so many people who are holding loved ones who are dying in their
arms and no one can do anything about it. That’s when we hear the
call from God and God says, “Who can I send? Who will show care?
Who will show love?” You can’t do everything for everyone in the
world but you can start with a single step one that steps outside of
ourselves into a world we can begin to see. The world is filled with
unpleasant things. The world is filled with sadness and with horror.
But the world is filled also with joy and with love and has the
capacity for every soul that reaches out, every person who reaches
out to have someone reach back to them. That’s the condition of
love. Whether you can go to them or you become aware of them by
finding out what people suffer. And think and feel. And light a
candle when you pray and don’t just pray because I don’t know
what else to do. Pray because you want to send your heart and your
spirit to those in need. And when you see people around you in your
daily lives; when you see people in your family, when you see people
as neighbors who need someone to reach out and to touch them, to
reach out to touch them in soul, in heart, to show that they care,
that someone cares. Don’t pass that person by because there are
people starving overseas. Pray for both, reach for both. To
eliminate one is to eliminate ourselves from seeing, and then we see
dimly. But we want to see clearly and face-to-face.
Love is about who we are. The world today in societies is straying
greatly from that path. The world is becoming more and more and more
about “me”. Forgetting who we are, forgetting we are Spirit,
forgetting that God reaches to us. Let us remember: if we remember
any words out of what was mentioned this morning, that will help you
find a path which you hope to seek, for which you seek, then
meditate about it, think about it. Ask God to help you, ask Spirit
to touch you and you too, can tend the fires of God’s love and
healing for those to see who travel from the distance in the
darkness to know whether you can save a person or whether you
believe it’s possible. It is hope. Amongst all of these let us
care and love for one another.
A good example of love is the day today in which we are celebrating
Florence Berlin’s involvement with the First Spiritual Temple.
Involvement with life, someone from the past who lives in the
present and who will very much be touched in the moment of the now
as she and we move into the future.
May God touch you deeply, may you feel God’s presence. May you
know that your life radiates life, love, and Spirit. The program you
create in that broadcast is what you want the world to know. May God
be with you.
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