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Today I will feel the power of God. Step 40 - (MP3)
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| Today I will feel the power of God. Step 40 |
GOD’S
POWER IS SO COMPLETE AND SO INCLUSIVE that it infuses everything. Only those
minds that are separated and lost in valuing their own thoughts can possibly be
separated from the great benevolence of God. Those who have responded to God
become God’s Messengers in time so that they may bestow the gifts of Grace upon
those who remain behind in confusion. All the seeming powers of your world—the
forces of nature, the inevitability of your death, the ever present threat of
illness, loss and destruction and all appearances of conflict—are all temporary
movements in the great stillness of God. It is this great stillness that calls
you to return to the peace and full enjoyment of God, but you must prepare.
TODAY
YOU PREPARE IN YOUR TWO 30-MINUTE PRACTICE PERIODS. In silent meditation,
attempt to feel the power of God. You do not need to conjure up magical images,
for this power is something that you can feel, for it is everywhere. No matter
what your circumstances or condition, whether favorable for your development or
not, today you can feel the power of God.
PRACTICE
40: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Picture: Blue
storm clouds, Frederick County, Virginia. This color is as it was recorded by
the camera; not modified in any way after the fact.
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link to
the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge - Working file
If this is your first time seeing one of the “Steps to Knowledge”,
then welcome. There are 365 Steps, daily spiritual practices if one seeks to
complete them in a year, but that is not necessary. They can be used by people
of any religious tradition or no religious tradition. They will help one to
become mindful in the world.
The Step today is from the book: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing. The practices were
brought to the world through Marshall Vian Summers, The Messenger for The New
Message From God. Important background for the Steps is in: “Greater Community Spirituality” and the “Wisdom Books - I and II”.
Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store. The
Society for the New Message from God also has a Free Book Project. If you need
the books now, PDF files can be found here: http://goo.gl/RJuuGP
Keeping a journal is recommended. If you have a Steps book,
write your reactions and comments, highlight or underline points that strike
you, and date the note. In this way, your Steps book can be a partial journal.
Using the PDF, you can print out pages as you need them, or use
the software to maintain a digital copy where you can enter notes and highlight
text that stands out.
Other modern methods of keeping a journal include having a
document on your PC or phone to keep notes. You could send yourself an email or
use the voice recorder function. It is important to capture insights and
reactions because it is by this means that you can understand change. Sometimes
it may just be a word or short phrase, an image or a scene.
To end this post I again offer the blessing: "May the presence
of the Teachers be with you." In the invocative language of Knowledge this
blessing is: "Nasi Novare Coram" (pronounced NAH-see no-VAHR-ay
co-RAHM)
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
NNC
P.S. Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps once. For
this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference how fast
you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts linked below provide
a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One
may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps
students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as
a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys.
Doing Steps with only the texts, messages and your life
experience, including what you may have studied and practiced is your journey.
I’m showing Step comments after the Step, so as not to influence anyone in
advance. It is a wilderness trek to be left to your own wits, but then you can also
listen more closely for guides, angels and teachers, always first saying: “I
surround and protect myself with the Love and the Grace of God.” Thankfully, I
was taught this practice in 1989.
