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Year="2004"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black">NOVEMBER 8,
2004</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
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GROUP<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I am ABRAHAM.
Greetings, I appreciate all your sentiments. I admire your willingness to be
honest with one another, as well as yourselves. Every day you each wear many
hats. It is difficult to display a positive countenance when life seems
negative. It is difficult to interact with individuals who expect you to be
upbeat when you are not.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">My friends, I
say again it is perfectly acceptable to be human. You will display emotions. You
will have concerns. Your mind many times will be preoccupied. This is not
putting you in a deeper human hole, no. These experiences are equations to be
studied and solved. Again, your perception of life’s circumstances is
everything. The mortal goal is to have self-mastery, to be self-governing, to
know God and be like Him. The smaller we are the bigger He is, which brings us
advancement.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Perhaps a few
years back you had a vision of where you should be at this point in time. You
had expectations. We all have expectations. Being committed to the Correcting
Time can surely scramble your expectations. As a Kingdom believer you are
presented certain circumstances, certain challenges by the unseen helpers. Each
experience is a hurdle that advances you to the next level. You cannot advance
through false pretense. You cannot advance by sheer will. You can however fool
the mind and heart into the belief that you have made the effort and earned
advancement. In time though you will grow weary and realize the growth is not
rested on a stable foundation.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Mortals are
impatient. I know this firsthand. To backtrack is frustrating, for you feel as
if you have traveled that road and have that experience under your belt. If you
find yourself experiencing some lesson over and over again, then indeed you need
to stop and really be observant, really take in the experience as your own, own
it, feel it, draw from it what your mind can comprehend. You see the hard truths
and that can bring pain. To escape the pain is to have forgone the lesson. This
is not sinful, no; it is simply the mortal way.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Look at the
apostles; they were first filled with the excitement of a new and better way,
they could actually taste the glory of the coming kingdom and how many times
were their hopes dashed? How many times did they receive rebuke from their
Master? Would they spend all of eternity in a tortuous existence? No. Experience
was had, wisdom was gained. Jesus and Father fully understood the shortcomings
of the mortal mind.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I am reminded
of the story where the apostles had attempted to take on the Masters power by
driving an evil spirit from the soul of a child. While the Master was away a
parent had sought His assistance to free their child from a mischievous entity.
In the apostles mind they sought greatness. They hoped for the outcome of the
glory of having freed this child from an evil
presence.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Had they had
compassion for the child, the parent, had they sought the Father’s will? To
their dismay this was a failure. Said Jesus to His apostles, “had you real and
abiding faith, surely you could have driven the spirit from the child.” Their
intentions were skewed. The story has a happy ending with the child being set
free and the parent quite relieved. Said Jesus, “these things and more can you
do when your intentions are Godly and without seeking
self-glory.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">This world
can be so harshly judgmental that it would drive one to become someone they feel
is acceptable. The budding soul of God is set at the back of the mind and the
false persona has come to the front. As the Kingdom believer grows, falsehood
becomes quite distasteful, actually unbearable and unacceptable. This is good.
This is growth. Have not worry. This life is a long labor, but it certainly
meets with a wonderful outcome of awareness and
wisdom.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">This week
continue on with studying perception and how to change emotions that run
rampant, compared with calm decisions that are spirit driven. Have not worry.
Ponder that person, that is you, who meets with society every day. Is personal
falsehood an aspect of your personality or does it weigh heavy on your spirit
conscience? Also this week think about your top three priorities in life and
those things you must do to see them through. That is all. Know that all is as
it should be. Have a spirit filled week. My love goes with you. Until next time,
shalom.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>