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Prayer, Worship and Ancient Aliens · Urantia Radio

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Well, it's time for another edition of the Urantia Radio
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Podcast. And I'm so glad that you're with
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me. And I do want to apologize.
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I, I try to crank out at least one or two segments a week.
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But frankly, it's been crazy and there's been all kinds of
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activity with other things. And we've been traveling quite a
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bit at the Watkins household trying to take care of some
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affairs. But I hope to be back on track.
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And don't, don't worry, along the way there were all kinds of
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things that that we were talking about.
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And then I especially wanted to get to and I wrote furious notes
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and I'm back and I want to talk about prayer and worship for a
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few reasons. Namely, the first is because I
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believe that this is the time where prayers are really needed
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on a, on a perhaps a planetary level.
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And I want to get to a little bit about that and what the
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Urantia Book has to say about prayer and worship.
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I also believe that there is a deficit of people, perhaps even
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generational people that have not been raised in church or
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don't have a sort of a Christian rooted philosophy or theology
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that that don't know what prayer and worship really are.
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And maybe just maybe they haven't been properly introduced
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to these two components that allow us to be at our spiritual
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best. So we'll get to that.
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I also want to spend a little bit of time talking about the
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effects of the Cal Caligasa 100. I've given a lot of thought to
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this, and I went so far even as to write what I think might be a
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good idea for a book or a movie, and it's centered around ban,
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ban and of course, Amazon and what they had to endure.
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So I might spend a little bit of time on that.
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And then of course, our main focus is on prayer and worship.
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reassurance. But this podcast will always be
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here for you. And we explore the 5th epical
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revelation right here. And that's pretty momentous.
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We're talking about something on the level of epical.
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It is an epical revelation because we're introduced to
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knowledge that mankind has been searching for for millennia.
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And we'll talk about a lot of things this time.
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Take a quick timeout for sponsors and we'll be right
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back. You're listening to the Urantia
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Radio podcast. For those who don't know, the
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story of of Van and the 100 talking a lot about the ancient
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aliens, actually, who were the ancient aliens?
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I want to spend a moment on that because the Urantia book says a
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lot about these ancient aliens and who they were, and it
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answers a lot of questions that people in the ufology community
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are looking for. Was there a one time alien race
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that came from somewhere else? Well, yeah, actually if you read
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about it in the Urantia book, about the time that the colored
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races appeared, the Sanguk race, about the time it was coinciding
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with the appearance of Calagasia, who was a planetary
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Prince. And he serves at the pleasure of
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Michael of Nebadon. He's a Landon and ex son and his
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superior Lucifer, who was the system sovereign at about the
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same time. And then the brief story is that
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there was there was a war in heaven as depicted in the Bible
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and elsewhere. And what we had was self
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assertion, the liberty doctrine. Lucifer had declared that God
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was dead, and that it was nothing more than a way for
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Michael and the other High Administrators of the universe
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to assert their own authority. And at that time, Caligastia,
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who was here serving as planetary prints along with his
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material staff 100 had declared his loyalty to Lucifer, and this
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set into motion a complete destruction of the plan of
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mortal ascendancy for us. And at that time there were not
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that many colored races, though there were a few here and there.
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And they were certainly superior to their Denisovan brothers, and
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certainly they were more superior than the
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Neanderthalers, who had pretty much dominance over much of the
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earth at that time. And so it was time for Savage
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Man to get instruction. And this was the beginnings of
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the 100. And their rule was in that area
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known as the Persian Gulf, what they called Dalamatia.
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And you can read all about it in the Urantia book.
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It certainly is one of the more odd sections of the book in Part
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3, but it's, according to the Urantra revelators, based in
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fact. And it's interesting because
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Van, one of the heroes who decided to keep his allegiance
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towards Christ, Michael, along with his human counterpart
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Amidon. And think about this for a
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moment. Here are these 100 ascenders
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that had lived material lives of their own on their own worlds.
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In fact, the Urantia revelators tell us none of the 100 lived on
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the same planet of their mortal experience.
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And so they volunteer for this service.
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They come to Urantia, our world and their and their goal is to
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civilize savage man, to prepare him for that one day in the
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future when a material son and daughter would arrive, which
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would be Adam and Eve. And the whole plan was disrupted
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by this rebellion, and to this day, it has not been fully
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adjudicated. Many Urantia book readers
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speculate that the ancients of days have or are about to make
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their final ruling. But that could be decades,
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thousands of years of. And I've heard, I've heard
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people tell me that they believe that the reason that there's so
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much evil in the world today is because Caligastia, who is still
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here and who has not been taken and is not in the Father's world
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in detention, as is Lucifer and, and Satan, his assistant.
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And so he's still able to roam free.
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And when you look at some of the evil going on in the world
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today, it's easy to believe that perhaps Calagastia is asserting
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his influence and to those who really want to side with him.
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And that also is explained in the Urantia book The Downfall of
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Calagastia. Should read it.
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We haven't done so in a long time.
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But the Oriental revelator say that man is also perfectly
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capable of being evil in his own right.
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And it usually happens when they separate themselves from God or
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they fall into the false belief that there is no God, which is a
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very prevalent belief in today's world, unfortunately.
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So the story goes that Van and Abadon stayed loyal.
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They continue to try to set up these areas of early
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civilization. And interestingly, Lake Van
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still bears his name. Lake Van in eastern Turkey,
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which was where he went after the fall of Dalamatia, and then
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also other tribal areas along the Caspian Sea in the region,
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the Dopec Gog Dog region, I think it's called.
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And these were early. If you go back in time and look
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at some of the archaeological digs, it turns out to be very
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true that in Mesopotamia there are fragments of early
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civilization. And the Urantia book tells us
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who these early civilizers were and they were the remnants, the
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40 or so that remain loyal to the plan of teaching human
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beings basic concepts like agriculture, home life, hygiene,
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plumbing, animal husbandry, using animals as label as
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machines really. And they were able to inculcate
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some of the of the different colored races with some of
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these, the Blue Man, the red man did receive a, a faint help from
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the 100 or what was remaining of the 100.
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So we have that story. And I and I, I was focusing on
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it for a long time because I thought to myself, you know,
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what about if I go through the ascension process or you and we
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go through the mansion worlds and we're on Jerusalem for a
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period of time, taking in our instruction, learning the
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different languages, the language of Nebadon, learning
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about the Father, correcting the mistakes, our intellectual and
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personality natures, removing the, the vestiges of the flesh.
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And then we, we one day get asked if we want to volunteer
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for service on some other world that might be going through that
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period of early civilization. And, and then you conceive of
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the time frame of Nod and Van and Hap and all these others,
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hundreds of thousands of years they stayed and they labored.
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And then finally, when the material sun came, Adam and Eve,
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they departed, they went back on their way and continued their
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ascendant journey. I just I, I find the whole story
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fascinating. And it's it's really just a
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brief narrative in the Urantia book.
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But man, it's just it, it actually provokes more questions
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than an answers, but it definitely gives us a touchstone
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on where all these so-called ancient aliens came from.
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They came from Jerusalem. Now, many of my ufology friends
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would probably disagree with me, but you know, the bigger story
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here is not so much that who they were, but what they were
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trying to do. And they were the first
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revelation given to our our planet.
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And it came at a time when mortals could just barely
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understand. And they adopted some of the
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practices and then they went out and they founded their own
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pockets of civilization. And all of it is narrated in the
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Urantia book right there for people to see.
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So it's an interesting story and one of many.
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And it it reassures my faith that in time, all things unfold.
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We have no idea the conception of reality based on an eternal
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conception, the fact that we won't die after we've survived
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the mortal ascension. Unless of course, we later
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choose that not to accept the divine plan, which is always a
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possibility and must forever remain so.
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Because that is the nature of free will, isn't it?
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God gave us free will to choose good.
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And Speaking of God, I, I had AI help me assemble a list of some
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of my favorite quotes. And I want to do some quotes and
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I want to spend a little bit of time on prayer and worship.
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And I picked some of the big ones.
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And I want to focus on prayer because what is prayer but
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connecting to the spiritual source?
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And I want to read some of these great quotes.
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Maybe they'll help you. Maybe they'll give you a sense
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of hope in a world that right now is being ravaged by a lot of
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different negative forces. So there's good out there and
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there's a lot of good happening if you look for it, but there's
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also a lot of danger out there. So now would be a good time to
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tap into that spiritual resource that's available to you through
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the central of your mind where rests the the Spirit of the
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Father. So here's one the value of
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prayer. Prayer is designated to make man
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less thinking but more realizing.
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It is not designed to increase knowledge, but rather to expand
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insight. That comes from paper 91, prayer
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as a spiritual exercise. Prayer is the breath of the soul
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and should lead to personal cooperation with the Divine
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plan. From Paper 144, Prayer and
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personal growth. The act of prayer restores one's
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spiritual perspective even in the face of great personal
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tribulation. Also from Paper 91 Jesus on the
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power of sincere prayer. Sincere prayers of the soul are
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always answered. Sometimes the answer is greatly
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delayed while the spirit world devises a better answer to meet
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the real need. Prayer in the will of God from
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paper 91. Also, prayer does not change the
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divine attitude, but often it effectually alters man's
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attitude towards life. Prayer is a technique of
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detachment from daily routine, of retreat, from the monotonous
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grind of material existence. Your Father knows what you need
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before you ask him, said Jesus. But this form of communication
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with the divine will ever enlarge your capacity to
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receive. It comes from the life and
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teachings of Jesus, from Paper 91.
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The highest prayer is intelligent communion with the
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personal and spiritual realities of the universe.
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Prayer, even as a purely human practice, represents the most
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effective method of making contact with the spirit
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realities and personal influences of the spiritual
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world. Prayer and spiritual discipline.
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Genuine prayer adds to spiritual growth, modifies attitudes, and
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yields that satisfaction which comes from communion with
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Divinity. Again, from paper 91.
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It sounds to me like paper 91. That might be worth revisiting.
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So let's now focus on worship, because worship and prayer are
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two distinct differences. So how are they different?
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Well, let's examine it from paper 27.
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Worship is the act of a part identifying itself with the
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whole, the finite with the infinite, the Son with the
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Father, time with eternity. Worship is the highest privilege
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and the first duty of all created intelligences.
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True worship is the sincere pursuit of divine values and the
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wholehearted recognition of divine realities.
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That was from paper 143, Probably the words of Jesus from
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paper 5. Prayer is a function of
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religion, but worship is an experience of the spiritual
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nature. Jesus said the time has come
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when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and
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in truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him.
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Worship is the technique of looking to the One for the
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inspiration to serve the many. Worship is the highest joy of
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time, a foretaste of the pleasures of eternity.
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Worship is the act of a personal being yielding spiritual loyalty
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to a spirit being who is the source of such personality.
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Worship is intended to anticipate the better realities
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of eternal progression, to foreshadow the eternal
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adventure. And finally, this worship is the
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act of recognizing and communing with the whole, the finite
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attempt to communicate with the infinite, the time space
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creature in communion with the timeless Creator.
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So those are 10 quotes on worship, 10 quotes on prayer.
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For me personally, I find the best time to pray or to worship
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is as the sun is setting or the sun is rising.
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I don't know. For some reason, I I don't
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worship the son and I would never community confuse myself
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with the son separate from the the spirit of the father, but to
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me only because because all sons, All Stars to me represent
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that aspect of physical power of paradise in paradise, of course,
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reflects the attitude and the will of the Father.
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So it's easy for me to connect and it's such an inspiring
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thing. And I just feel like there's all
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this spiritual energy coming in from the light and the heat and
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it helps me settle my mind. And indeed, prayer.
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Prayer is talking to God, worship is thanking him.
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And I think that's where we'll leave it this time on a brief,
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yet I hope important segment of the Urantia book.
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I just if you have an opportunity this week, read the
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100 and try to imagine what it had been like way back then,
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when human beings were nothing more than really savage animals.
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Barely. And if you want to know what we
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have looked like if we had not received any, any of the gifts
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that we received over the millennia from our unseen
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friends, look no further than some of these tribes that still
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exist in places like Indonesia. You'll get a real wake up call
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to what humanity might look like today without the gifts of the
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father and his sons. So we'll catch up again real
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soon. I'll have another great update
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for you. We're going to have a great
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interview with Halbert Katzen. He wrote a terrific article
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about the Urantia movement and he promised that he and I would
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get together. And we haven't gotten together
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in a while. So we hope to have that up
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within the next couple of weeks. Of course, this is resurrection
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season. I hope that you had time to
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reflect on the resurrection and the Spirit of truth and
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Pentecost and all those wonderful things.
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Until next time, thanks again and don't forget the website
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yourrancherradio.org. God bless and and be of good
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cheer.