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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">ABRAHAM –
DESIRES<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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Year="2003"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">APRIL 28, 2003</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
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GROUP<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I am ABRAHAM. Sorry for the
delay. My heart is full to see you each here this evening. While it is somewhat
difficult to minister to each of you with these lessons, it is a wonderful
feeling of gratitude--that task is not up to me but to our Father. I do however
enjoy gathering with you as a group and building our lesson
together.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Michael had offered us
baptism with Spirit. Over our short period apart I do indeed hope you had felt
His presence, and allowed Him to create in you a new creature. As new creatures
our vessels are emptied and we are yet ready to receive the new. I realize the
mortal life is a struggle between the animal and the divine. Mortals are by
nature somewhat prone to their weaknesses. The Master does understand our
weaknesses and our desires to rise above them.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">When we remember the story
of the wedding at </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Cana</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">,
we remember how the Master had allowed His mortal desire to override the divine
plan by feeling great compassion toward His mother’s desires. Each mortal has
heartfelt desires they would give anything to fulfill. Many times this is quite
costly. Some desires can cause one to forsake the divine inner knowing in favor
of personal fulfillment.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Are our desires our
weaknesses? They do not have to be. When we ponder the definition of desire we
must go within and find the origin of our true yearning. Many sojourning in the
flesh have no idea of what their true desires are. They go from task to task,
person to person, year after year searching for that one desire that will bring
them the fulfillment they have so longed for. What is it you really are needing
and wanting? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A man who was so focused on attaining
money that he went about any method to get it. Many of his methods were illegal
and without integrity. This indeed put the laws of the universe into full
affect. He sowed seeds of negativity and he reaped the harvest therefrom. All
the while he never did receive what he truly desired. His focus on money was
simply the surface of what he believed would get him what he really
wanted.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Growing up poverty
stricken, this man believed that wealth would buy him the love and affection he
had never received as a child. He believed his poverty had made others to look
down upon him, to withhold friendship and affection. The man’s focus on money
was not his true desire—love was. He spent a lifetime spinning his wheels, so to
speak, never really understanding what this emptiness was within
him.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Master that day at the
wedding was with light heartedness and joy at merely existing upon the Father’s
world with His fellows. He was not wont for anything. He did take great joy in
seeing the joy upon His fellow’s faces. He was somewhat bothered by those
individuals who were with anticipation at any forthcoming miracles, but overall
the Master was simply enjoying the day. He did so love His friends and family,
and always was their joy His joy.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Master was not weak in
any way, no. He was however compassionate and had desire to see His mother happy
and carefree. While He was indeed the Creator Son of our universe, He was also
most definitely mortal. While His divine self could see with expanded vision at
Father’s overall plan, His mortal self seen with the eyes of the heart, His
compassion, His emotion. What the son desires and the Father wills—is. Certainly
on this day was His desire fulfilled, of course to His dismay. Even in this did
our Master learn something new, something to be aware of. His concern at all
times was indeed the Father’s will.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Our Father knows your most
heartfelt desires. He knows what you need and want. He does coordinate the
universe to acknowledge each child’s fondest hopes. He does see how many of His
children go to great lengths to find that fulfillment. He understands that the
animal side does have weakness. He does have mercy and compassion. He does want
all of His children to also have that for one another. Father does want us to
have patience with our weaknesses and go within them to have understanding, to
understand what it is you really want and how to achieve your goals with
integrity.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">As we look at Urantian
society of today it is ridden with seeming weaknesses, temptations to
self-indulge, to hurt another for personal gain, to chase erroneous ideas to
find that long sought after fulfillment. What is the universal plan for living
the mortal life? What did you expect? Is this reality? Are you living to desire
or are you finding everlasting satisfaction.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">This week go within to
understand your levels of fulfillment. Are you well balanced in pursuing your
desires? What is it you truly need and want? What activities would you do that
may create negativity to supposedly bring you closer to fulfillment? Think about
your weaknesses and dissect them, live them, journal about them. Are they
controlling you or are you controlling them?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">No questions this evening.
Know that I am with great affection for you each and I am with joyous
fulfillment each time we meet. Until next time,
shalom.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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