Category: Eventide

November 20 – Watchful Expectancy

Wait before Me, in humble, silent anticipation.  Wait in entire and childlike obedience.  Wait as a servant anticipating his master’s orders and wants.

Wait as a lover eager to note the first suggestions of a need, and to hasten to supply it.  Wait for My orders and commands.  Wait for My Guidance, My Supply.

Well indeed in such a life may you be of good cheer.  Can a life be dull and dreary when always there is that watchful expectancy, always that anticipation of glad surprise, always wonder of fulfillment, Joy of supply?

November 19 – Check Up

Turn out all of your self that would rebel against My sway.  Know no other rule.

Check your actions and motives habitually.  Those that are actuated by self-esteem or self-pity — condemn.

Discipline yourself ruthlessly rather than let self gain any ascendancy.  Your aim is to oust it, and to serve and follow Me only.

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November 18 – Joy And Courage

Trust in Me.  Do more than trust.  Joy in Me.  If you really trust, you cannot fail to Joy.  The wonder of My Care, Protection, and Provision is so transcendently beautiful, as your trust reveals it to you, that your whole heart must sing with the Joy of it.

It is that Joy that will, and does, renew your youth.  That source of your Joy and Courage.

Truly did I not know what I was enjoining when I said, “Love and Laugh.”  But — your attitude must be right, not only with Me, but with those around you.

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November 14 – Joy Is Yours

The future is not your concern, that is Mine.  The past you have handed back to Me, and you have no right to dwell on that.

Only the present is My gift to you, and of that only each day as it comes.  But, if unto that day you crowd past sorrows and resentments and failures, as well as the possible anxieties of the years that may be left to you here — what brain and spirit could bear that strain.

For this I never promised My Spirit and Comfort and Help.

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November 13 – A Lonely Road

To Me each one of My children is an individual with varying characteristics and varying needs.  To one and all the way to the highest must be a lonely road, as far as human help and understanding are concerned.

None other can feel the same needs and desires, or explain the inner self in the same way.  That is why man needs Divine Companionship.  The Companionship that alone can understand each heart and need.

November 12 – Heaven’s Music

To glorify Me is to reflect, in praise, My character in your lives.  To mount up with wings as eagles, higher and higher, to soar ever nearer to Me.

To praise Me is to sing, to let your hearts thrill.  To glorify Me is to express exactly the same, but through the medium of your whole beings, your whole lives.  When I say, “Rejoice, rejoice,” I am training you to express this in your whole natures.

That is the Music of Heaven, the glorifying Me through sanctified lives and devoted hearts of Love.

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November 11 – A Noble House

Though I was a Son yet learnt I obedience.

This was to teach My followers that allegiance to Me meant no immunity from discipline.

The house of your spirit is fashioned brick by brick — Love, Obedience, Truth.  There is a plan, and each action of yours is a brick in its building.

Think.  A misguided act, a neglected duty, or a failure to carry out My wishes would mean not only a missing brick but a faulty edifice.

How many an otherwise noble character is spoilt thus.  Build now for eternity.

November 10 – Rest For The Weary

This weariness must compel you to sink back, a tired child, to rest in My Love.  There remain, until that Love so permeates your being that you are supported by it, and, so strengthened, arise.

Until you feel that this is so, remain inactive, conscious of My Presence.  Yours is a big work, and you must refresh yourself and only approach it again after periods of repose.

The activity on the Spirit-plane is so great, so wonderful, that but for the times of enforced rest and prayer, you would be stirred to an emotional activity on the physical plane that defeats My ends.

November 9 – The Glowing Heart

Think of the walk to Emmaus, think of the feast of Revelation that followed, of the understanding Friendship that was the result.  How much I, their Lord, their Risen Lord, had explained to My two disciples during that walk.  So much that was mystery to them became clear as we went along the way.

Yet not as their Master did I become known, until in the Breaking of Bread I revealed Myself.  In speaking of Me afterwards they said, “Did not our hearts burn within us when He talked with us by the way?”

So do not fret if all that I can be to you is not yet revealed.  Walk with Me, talk with Me, invite Me to be your guest, and leave to Me My moment of self-Revelation.  I want each day to be a walk with Me.

Do you not feel, even now, your hearts burn within you, as if with the glow of anticipation?

November 8 – Your Life-Line

Think of the strong life-line of Faith and Power.  This I have told you is your line of rescue.

It means constant communication between us.

You pray for Faith.  I give you Faith.  This enables you to test the Power I give, as your Faith goes back to me in ever-increasing strength.  My Power and your Faith ever interchanging.  The one calling forth the other, each dependent upon the other, until My Faith in you is justified indeed by the Power you exercise.