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from Jesus:
If you look at my healing
miracles as they are described in the scriptures, you will see that
I healed people from many different backgrounds and from many different
belief systems. You will also see that the main ingredient in the healings
I performed was the faith of the people who were healed. You will see
instances in which I could not heal anyone or in which only a few people
were healed. The reason being that the people I faced did not have enough
faith to bring about their healing.
This brings about the understanding that the essential ingredient in
seeing the result of a prayer is your personal faith in God or in another
spiritual being. Faith is an inner condition; it is a quality of the
heart. Faith does not necessarily have anything to do with membership
of an outer organization or adherence to outer beliefs that are often
held primarily in the mind. Certainly, there are many people who belong
to Christian sects or to non-Christian religions that promote incomplete,
incorrect or even directly false doctrines. Yet if these people have
the inner quality of faith, the childlike faith that I said was the
key to entering the kingdom of Heaven, then their prayers can be answered
and can truly bring about miraculous results.
You might recall the statement that faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen [Hebrews 11:1]. The reality
behind that statement is that a miraculous result is always present
as a spiritual potential. However, in order to become a manifest reality,
the spiritual potential must be brought from the spiritual realm into
the material universe. To become manifest in this universe, a particular
result must go through a doorway between the spiritual and the material
world. That doorway is ultimately the Christ consciousness, but if a
person has not yet achieved Christhood, the healing can come through
the Christhood of myself, Mother Mary or a saint to whom the person
is praying. Yet for the result to be manifest, the person must serve
as an anchor in the material universe, and that can happen through the
heart of a person who has an innocent, childlike faith.
There are people from every walk of life who have a strong connection
to their Christ selves. You will find them in many non-Christian religions,
and you will even find them among atheists or agnostics. As I explain
throughout this website, Christ consciousness is not the mechanical
result of belonging to a particular church or believing in particular
outer doctrines. It is an inner quality, the quality of the heart.
You ask whether you should confront people with the teachings I give
on this website. That is a question for which there is no general answer.
It depends entirely on the state of consciousness of an individual person.
Some people have an innocent, childlike faith which makes it less important
that they believe in a few incorrect doctrines. Yet for many other people
it would be highly beneficial if they were enlightened and received
a deeper understanding of the spiritual side of life.
In
dealing with other people, I recommend that you make an effort to tune
in to your Christ self. What I am saying here is that you should never
decide with your outer mind that you need to convert anyone to a particular
set of beliefs. Instead, center in your heart, and if you get an inner
prompting to tell people about a certain idea, then by all means do
so, but do so with love.
If you are interested in helping spread the word, I highly recommend
that you study the book The Secret
Coming of Christ. The book gives a very detailed explanation
of the difference between a fear-based and a love-based approach to
religion. You will see many missionaries, including many Christian missionaries,
whose entire approach to preaching the gospel springs from fear. They
are seeking to convert people by playing on their fears of going to
hell or not being saved. I did not take this approach; I took a love-based
approach. When you take such an approach, you are not motivated by fear,
and therefore you are not deciding with your outer mind what other people
should or should not believe.
You are not seeking to convince another person that you are right. Instead,
you are tuning in to your Christ self, and your goal is to help that
person reach the next step on the person’s spiritual path, whatever
that step might be. You are simply trying to help the person attain
a higher understanding without having any outer, intellectual, fear-based
opinion about what that understanding should be.
In the end having an inner, love-based faith in God is far more important
than having an outer, fear-based adherence to certain ideas, no matter
how true the ideas may be. Obviously, having both faith and correct
understanding is the optimum for a spiritual seeker.
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