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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.