[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho Teacher Group 04/08/01

[Rick P. Giles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Praise, Worship, Faith and Healing
Teachers: Elyon

April 8, 2001

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings to you.  This is Elyon, your friend and
companion in this mission of Michael.  I have elected to speak with you about
praise and worship, hopefully with some application that will bring a different
approach from the commonly perceived viewpoint of these two words, this same
activity.
	Praise, worship, do acknowledge a sovereignty.  They are conduits for the
expression of adoration by a being who realizes that the one praised or
worshipped has qualities above and beyond those possessed by the worshipper. 
These qualities are adorable because they are desirable.  The worshipper, in the
long run, hopes to attain these same attributes even while knowing that there is
a difference between Creator and creature.  This praise acknowledges attainment
hopes of the individual and permanency of such qualities in the Creator.
	Michael one time taught that he was the water of life, he was the bread of
life.  These two material objects are forms of nourishment and sustenance to a
physically housed creature.  In his day and in the location where he lived these
were very important elements.  They indicate, in his use of them, spiritual
sustenance, the quenching of spiritual thirst, and the providing of food for
spiritual hunger.  This is an intake perspective.  He also, however, expressed
that you are to let your light so shine, to not hide the luminosity of your soul
and the spiritual presence of the Father and His good spirit.  This is
expressive.  Light is the energy burst that comes from proper nourishment,
receiving the water and the bread.
	Worship becomes, if I may use my own metaphor, your carburetor wherein you
mix your fuel; in reality two fuels, air and gasoline; to create combustion to
make power to express.  The outcome of worship is the motivation of the devotee
to uphold truths realized, to demonstrate goodnesses discovered.  These
expressions are the combustive result of the proper adjustment of the air-fuel
ratio of the worship experience.  This becomes service.
	I have stated in lessons past that service has many forms of expression. 
Even when there is no other individual in your vicinity to whom you may be of
service, you can be of service to the Indwelling Spirit; you can even be of
service to your own well-being, a form of soul service rather than egotistical
aggrandizement.  This air-fuel ratio comes about through two forms of intake. 
Simply put, there is the intellectual base of knowledge and information;
there is
the feeling base of motivation and desire.  The two combined brings the energy
needed and required to propel the individual into service activity.
	Worship is not only the acknowledgment of a greater personality with higher
powers; it is also the realization of the incoming grace of this same Creator
personality into your own being for spiritual combustion, though worship may
rightly position the self in relation to Creator, acknowledging the reality that
each one of us is simply a creature, that for all our accomplishments we have
frailties and imperfections.  It also ought to encourage the receptive infusion
of divinity to bolster the impulse of expressing spiritual reality, no matter
what level of universe attainment you currently function upon.
	While Michael was here on earth fulfilling the requirements of sovereignty
attainment he also chose to promote the awareness of the Father on earth to
leave
with the human race a simpler though uplifted view of God, personalized,
dynamic,
as a relationship rather than a standard of greatness only.  And he used for his
staff people of his day of ordinary circumstances and training.  He demonstrated
with his corps of evangels that the divine and proper air-fuel ratio, through
training and motivation, can combust and illuminate the world and let the
spiritual light shine and energize the souls of those around them.
	While the Planetary Prince establishes his headquarters with an expert
staff, he too acquires and enlists the human personalities on his planet for the
upliftment of the others around them.
	We are in a day and age of spiritual ministry where there is no established
and functioning headquarters, and you do not have the physical presence of a
celestial being or even a Creator personality as Michael in physical form to
assist, not only assist but to guide.  Today we address you, in a sense, from
afar, or perhaps I should say, based on your five senses, from afar.  This
missionary effort relies predominately on your reactions and your expressions to
our input, to our motivations as we express them through our lessons.  When an
episode of revelation occurs upon a world of great significance, as ones that
have been expressed to you as epochal revelations, guidance and assistance are
both offered, the guidance of celestial wisdom and the assistance of human
effort.  A small fraction of my engagement with you is guidance, and it comes in
the form through which we are engaged today.  I attempt to seed your minds with
thoughts that may inspire, that may enlighten.  But the greater work of myself
and my associates is assistance.  Once you have mixed inspiration and
enlightenment you are primed to burst forward and to express.  Here is where we
teachers become excited, for this is the true outreach of the mission, human
beings uplifting one another through sincere expression of the discovery of
truth, beauty, and goodness for one another to be benefited therefrom.
	Take in the bread, take in the water, be nourished, but no nourishment is
worthwhile without activity to burn that nourishment.  Worship is always coupled
with service, for the two are really on a continuum, a spectrum, that are no
more
divorced from one another than is red light from blue light.
	In final comment I would encourage you that, if your carburetor is dirty,
there is a great carburetor cleaner that resides within you who can do the
adjustments that can peak your performance, and to seek that assistance when you
feel the need.
	I would be happy to hear from you at this time.

	Evelyn:  The apostles tried to heal and were not successful.  When Jesus
came back down the mountain and found them trying to lay on hands, he chastised
them in his way.  How different is that from all of us who want to do what
we can
to heal, to be channels to make that possible?  Is that a misguided effort?
*	Elyon:  What Michael discerned when he rejoined his company of apostles was
the motivation.  Yes, each had faith in the ability of God to work healing upon
another individual by way of ministry.  They witnessed it as it occurred in
Jesus
and through Jesus.  That faith was the same faith that you each aspire to use to
be of healing assistance to your ailing fellows.  However, this faith was
not the
prime motivation.  It was clouded by the desire of a few of the apostles to be
the one who healed.  It is on record the almost competitive interchange between
them as to who could or could not heal.  There is where the faith faltered.
	It is a lesson for all that, when one offers oneself in faith as a conduit
for healing, your prime motivation is to allow the Father to work His will as He
so chooses.  The act is yours and the consequences God's.  Have no concern for
the outcome.  The only concern is that you are willing and available.  Never
offer healing as a manner for proving a point.  This is largely what the
apostles
sought, to prove to each other they were capable, to prove to others they
had the
power.  This clouded their vision, disrupted their motivation.  This is what
Michael sought to dispel from them.
	Does this illuminate?
	Evelyn:  Yes.  Thank you.
	What about the idea of reaching both ways?  In that instance the people who
came to be healed were reaching out, so that wasn't lacking.  In the mass
healing
hundreds were healed, but they were the ones crawling toward Jesus, not the ones
who stayed home or didn't know what was happening.  I assume the reaching back
and forth would be a necessary ingredient as well as the selfless focus.
*	Elyon:  Yes and, although I am in no position to weigh the motivation of
those who sought the healing so many centuries past, I can imagine, however, the
faltering of faith to arrive in the company of the master and his apostles
and to
only find the opening act, the apostles, to provide any ministry when the
headliner himself was away.  This is when any one of us must realize that who we
approach for healing is God.
	All healers are no more than nurses' aids, secondary and complementary. 
Perhaps, as the apostles lost their clear vision, even those who sought the
healing were clouded by method; who was to heal, who was capable of healing,
rather than holding firm to their faith in the divine power of the Creator.
	Evelyn:  Having faith in your doctor wouldn't be the key; it would be
having faith in God.  I'm sure people have improved because of faith in their
doctors or whoever they were turning to.  Maybe they have faith in God and don't
realize it?
*	Elyon:  Let us, in a sense, split hairs for a moment.  Faith promotes
action.  Faith in God's ability to heal promotes the action to approach a
doctor. 
Faith is in God alone, and, on the hairsplitting note, it is better to perceive
what is "faith in a doctor" as trust or confidence in their ability to be the
tool, to be the method, for the healing sought.  This is not to discount the
importance of one's trust or confidence in serving individuals such as a
doctor. 
One's faith in the Father brings forward the action to approach one who is in a
position, whether through acquired skill or through serendipitous circumstance,
to provide the remedy.

	In our upcoming meeting we will all celebrate that milestone in Nebadon
history wherein the master, as he was called on earth, became a universe master,
one we call sovereign.  It is a time for celebration, a time for praise, and a
time to realize that you are infused with the spirit of this sovereign
upheld and
nourished.  I look forward to our celebration.  The many associates who attend
each week will be in attendance then.  I look forward, and we all do, for the
willingness of you as a group to receive our input.  We always benefit from your
interchange and dialogue.
	Often are we prepared to address you, but, upon witnessing your communal
climate, we do abandon our preparations that we may address you relevantly.  It
is not our intention to convert you into one like us but rather our hope to meld
with your aspirations and conflicts that our assistance be relevant.  Never be
concerned ever that your activities in any way disrupt our plans.
Everything you
do in reality provides information we need to even begin to formulate a plan.
	I will now take my leave.  Cherish the presence of the Father and our great
son Michael.  Rest in the peace and the love they provide.  Farewell.