Today's Thought Gem—September

61 posts · 1 participants · started Sep 1, 2014, 12:42 AM

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   VernParticipant
   Sep 11, 2015, 6:32 AM

   Vern wrote:  Today, 11 September is “Worship is the act of a part identifying itself with the whole the finite with the infinite the son with the Father” a suggested match would be:

   Worship is the technique

   of looking to the One

   for the inspiration

   of service to the many
   

    

   ^{[Paper 143:7.6, page 1616:8]}

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   VernParticipant
   Sep 12, 2015, 4:23 AM

   Vern wrote:  Today, 12 September is “Do you not realize that the hope of a better world is bound up in the progress and enlightenment of the individual?” a suggested match would be:

   ‘A new heart also

   will I give you,

   and a new spirit will

   I put within you’
   

    

   ^{[Paper 145:2.7, page 1630:3]}

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   VernParticipant
   Sep 13, 2015, 4:07 AM

   Vern wrote:  Today, 13 September is “The Father in heaven has forgiven you even before you have thought to ask him” a suggested match would be:

   …but such forgiveness is not available

   in your personal religious experience

   until such a time as you

   forgive your fellow men
   

   ^{[Paper 146:2.4, page 1638:4]}

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   VernParticipant
   Sep 13, 2015, 2:43 PM

   Vern wrote:  Today, 14 September is “The sincerity of any prayer is the assurance of its being heard” a suggested match would be:

   …spiritual wisdom and universe consistency

   of any petition is the determiner

   of the time, manner, and

   degree of the answer
   

    

   ^{[Paper 146:2.6, page 1639:1]}

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   VernParticipant
   Sep 15, 2015, 10:46 AM

   Vern wrote:  Today, 15 September is “When you have become wholly dedicated to the doing of the will of the Father in heaven, the answer to all your petitions will be forthcoming…” a suggested match would be:

   What the

   true son desires

   and the

   infinite Father

   wills IS
   

    

   ^{[Paper 146:2.7, page 1639:2]}

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   VernParticipant
   Sep 16, 2015, 3:37 AM

   Vern wrote:  Today, 16 September is “Prayer does not change the divine attitude towards man but it does change man’s attitude towards the changeless Father” a suggested match would be:

   The motive of the prayer

   gives it right of way to the divine ear,

   not the social, economic, or outward

   religious status of the one who prays
   

    

   ^{[Paper 146:2.8, page 1639:3]}

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   VernParticipant
   Sep 18, 2015, 8:05 AM

   Vern wrote:  Today, 17 September is “Prayer is not designed as a technique for aggrandizing self or for gaining unfair advantage over one’s fellows” a suggested match would be:

    A thoroughly selfish soul

   cannot pray in the

   true sense of the word
   

    

   ^{[Paper 146:2.9, page 1639:4]}

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   VernParticipant
   Sep 18, 2015, 8:16 AM

   Vern wrote:  Today, 18 September is “When you pray for the sick and afflicted do not expect that your petitions will take the place of loving and intelligent ministry to the necessities of these afflicted ones” a suggested match would be:

   Pray for the welfare of your

   families, friends, and fellows,

   but especially pray for

   those who curse you,

   and make loving petitions

   for those who persecute you
   

    

   ^{[Paper 146:2.11, page 1639:6]}

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   VernParticipant
   Sep 20, 2015, 12:20 PM

   Vern wrote:  Today, 19 September is “Prayers of thanksgiving are appropriate for groups of worshippers but the prayer of the soul is a personal matter” a suggested match would be:

   There is but one form of prayer

   which is appropriate for

   all God’s children,

   and that is: “Nevertheless,

   your will be done”
   

    

   ^{[Paper 146:2.12, page 1640:1]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 20, 2015, 12:28 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 20 September is “You should never forget that intolerance is the mask covering up the entertainment of secret doubts as to the trueness of one’s belief” a suggested match would be:

    True and genuine inward certainty

    does not in the least fear outward analysis,

    nor does truth resent honest criticism
    

     

    ^{[Paper 146:3.2, page 1641:4]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 20, 2015, 12:42 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 21 September is “No man is at any time disturbed by his neighbour’s attitude when he has perfect confidence in the truth of that which he wholeheartedly believes” a suggested match would be:

    …there is a practical method

    of discovering the degree

    to which you have yielded the control of

    your soul powers to the teaching and guidance

    of this indwelling spirit

    of the heavenly Father, and that is

    the degree of your love for your fellow men
    

     

    ^{[Paper 146:3.6, page 1642:2]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 22, 2015, 8:51 AM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 22 September is “Courage is the confidence of thoroughgoing honesty about those things which one professes to believe” a suggested match would be:

    Let your supreme delight be

    in the character of God,

    and he shall surely give you

    the sincere desires of your heart
    

     

    ^{[Paper 146:2.9, page 1639:4]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 24, 2015, 4:02 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 23 September is “Sincere men are unafraid of the critical examination of their true convictions and noble ideals” a suggested match would be:

    Intellectual strivings

    may reveal the facts of life,

    but the gospel of the kingdom

    unfolds the truths of being
    

     

    ^{[Paper 146:3.1, page 1641:3]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 24, 2015, 4:13 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 24 September is “Man should not blame God for those afflictions which are the natural result of the life which he chooses to live” a suggested match would be:

    The Father does not send affliction

    as an arbitrary punishment for wrongdoing.

    The imperfections and handicaps

    of evil are inherent; the penalties of sin are inevitable;

    the destroying consequences of iniquity are inexorable
    

     

    ^{[Paper 148:5.3, page 1661:5]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 24, 2015, 4:23 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 25 September is “It is the Father’s will that mortal man work persistently and consistently toward the betterment of his estate on earth” a suggested match would be:

    The Father is not personally responsible

    for all you may fail to comprehend.

    Do not doubt the love of the Father

    just because some just and wise law

    of his ordaining chances to afflict you

    because you have innocently or

    deliberately transgressed such a divine ordinance
    

     

    ^{[Paper 148:5.5, page 1662:1]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 24, 2015, 4:33 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 26 September is “The animal nature and the lower forms of will creatures do not progress favourably in environmental ease” a suggested match would be:

    Problematic situations, coupled with

    exertion stimuli, conspire to produce

    those activities of mind, soul, and spirit

    which contribute mightily to

    the achievement of worthy goals

    of mortal progression and

    to the attainment of higher levels of spirit destiny
    

     

    ^{[Paper 154:2.5, page 1719:1]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 24, 2015, 4:39 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 27 September is “The religion of the spirit requires only uniformity of insight, not uniformity of viewpoint or outlook” a suggested match would be:

    The religion of the spirit

    does not demand uniformity

    of intellectual views,

    only unity of spirit feeling
    

     

    ^{[Paper 155:6.9, page 1732:2]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 24, 2015, 4:47 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 28 September is “Never forget there is one adventure which is more satisfying and thrilling than the attempt to discover the will of the living God, and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do that divine will” a suggested match would be:

    Some callings are not holy

    and others secular. All things are sacred

    in the lives of those who are spirit led;

    that is, subordinated to truth,

    ennobled by love, dominated by mercy,

    and restrained by fairness — justice
    

     

    ^{[Paper 155:6.11, page 1732:4]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 29, 2015, 6:36 AM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 29 September is “When you once begin to find God in your soul, presently you will begin to discover him in other men’s souls and eventually in all the creatures and creations of a mighty universe” a suggested match would be:

    But what chance does

    the Father have to appear as a God

    of supreme loyalties and divine ideals

    in the souls of men who

    give little or no time to

    the thoughtful contemplation

    of such eternal realities?
    

     

    ^{[Paper 155:6.13, page 1733:1]}

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 30, 2015, 5:32 AM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 30 September is “While the mind is not the seat of the spiritual nature, it is indeed the gateway thereto” a suggested match would be:

    But do not make the mistake of

    trying to prove to other men

    that you have found God;

    you cannot consciously produce

    such valid proof, albeit there are

    two positive and powerful demonstrations

    of the fact that you are God-knowing, and they are:

    1.

    The fruits of the spirit of God

    showing forth in your daily routine life.

    2.

    The fact that your entire life plan furnishes

    positive proof that you have unreservedly

    risked everything you are and have on

    the adventure of survival after death in the pursuit

    of the hope of finding the God of eternity,

    whose presence you have foretasted in time

    
    

     

    ^{[Paper 155:6.14–16, page 1733:2–4]}

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