[tmtranscripts] N. Idhao Team 12/28/03

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Walking toward God, Walking with God
Teachers: Elyon

December 28, 2003

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings to you, this is Elyon.
	One time upon your world Michael of Supreme status concluded 
such an attainment by living in human form in the personality of 
Jesus.  Fulfilling the requirements of sovereignty attainment he 
now stands forever as a signpost, to all who rise within the 
Supreme towards God, as one attained, forever proving that each 
one of you is just as capable of integrating yourself fully and 
consciously into the trend of the universe: Supreme growth, 
spiritual expansion beyond self into functioning as a family of 
personalities and intelligence forever aware of the divine 
Parent, of the infinite Upholder.  This single life of Jesus 
demonstrated two key elements of any spiritual pilgrimage.  
These two elements are evident in your own lives and may be 
utilized as tools to aid you in developing a deeper spiritual 
affinity, a connection with God.  The first element may be said 
as “your walk toward God”.  The second element is “your walk 
with God”.
	In the life of Christ it is clear the demarcation between 
these two states.  The event of his life which signaled the 
change was his riverside baptism followed by his retreat into 
the hills for communion and meditation.  Subsequent to this 
event Jesus walked forever with God.  Having fulfilled his 
requirements for growth as a Creator Son, no longer was Jesus 
walking toward the Father.
	Each one of you undertakes this same progressive unfoldment.  
However, being of human origin unlike the Creator Son whose 
origin is in the divine, you will oscillate daily, even hourly, 
between these two modes.
	Each time you are walking toward God you are developing 
faith and hope.  You are encouraging curiosity; you are allowing 
yourself to hunger and to seek.  These and many factors 
contribute to your growth, contribute to your entering into the 
presence of God.
	When you walk with God you have the opportunity to 
strengthen trust, to demonstrate to yourself confidence in the 
divine overcare.  You discover patience and tolerance toward all 
others.  You recognize these two modes of behavior, the reach 
toward God and the residing with God.
	When you encounter conflict, when you struggle with a 
situation or with a personal characteristic or quality that you 
wish to correct or one which you wish to strengthen, your 
success will be hastened by the understanding that you will go 
through both approaches.  You will first reach toward God and, 
having touched His presence, you will proceed with God.  The 
event of the baptism of Jesus and his subsequent retreat may be 
employed at any one of your difficult circumstances to cause the 
turn to create the change from one mode to the next.  In the 
ceremony of John the Baptist Jesus demonstrated a relinquishment 
of self, an acknowledgment of divine power and presence, the 
emptying of one’s own power and the welcoming of divine power.  
It also, while giving up of self and acknowledging the Creator, 
honestly recognized true personal attainment.
	You cannot walk with God without self respect, without 
accepting the fact of God’s love, of your immense value to the 
divine Personality in this universe.  The symbol of the 
descending dove is the recognition of your worthiness to receive 
that purity, that light, that divinity.  Therefore, exercise 
such relinquishment and acceptance.
	But this turning point in Michael’s life did not conclude 
with this event.  It was followed by his retreat and the 
subsequent reflections upon the meaning and purpose of his 
remaining years on Earth.  You likewise are encouraged to make 
this retreat, to spend your time in stillness to reflect upon 
your meaning and purpose.  I have spoken of this sequence of 
events as a functional exercise for overcoming difficulties, for 
developing stronger character traits.  In a small hourly or 
daily manner you may repeat this pattern that Jesus underwent as 
a life changing event, a single event of a lifetime that 
determined all other activities.  When the sequence of events in 
your life tends to toss you about that you feel as if you are 
running to catch up, that you are like the ball player running 
down the field not with ball in hand but scrambling to get a 
hold of it and having it ever slip away, that is the time to 
stop, to relinquish yourself into the hands of God, to retreat 
into stillness, to convert from walking toward to walking with.  
If you apply this method to a specific problem, or toward a 
specific goal, you develop a habit pattern which will apply to 
other similar situations.  This is a continual conversion, a 
repeated rebirth that you will experience at every step in new 
growth.
	I place no greater or lesser value upon either mode. I 
emphasize only that you learn to recognize when you are reaching 
out toward God and when you are going forward with God, and when 
in any event in your life one or the other mode is functioning, 
and that you have control through surrender and stillness to 
change from approach to attainment.
	You are coming upon a mark in time where you signal 
completion of your planet’s orbit around your sun, a new year.  
You have traditions which encourage and inspire a change of 
approach to your life.  I offer this as a method to be used to 
develop yourself in character, in virtue, and in stature.
	In the experience of the feeling of distance from God 
worship becomes the bridge, the binding link.  In the experience 
of fellowship with God worship is the outburst of appreciation, 
the exhilaration of the acknowledgment of togetherness, of no 
separation.  Likewise does wisdom function, for as you approach 
God you develop insights and understanding, even intuition, for 
you must exercise these three functions in order to comprehend, 
in order to experience, the Father.  In the experience of divine 
embrace, wisdom functions as a ministry of outreach; it is 
expressed as seasoned experience, as one who knows.  Beforehand 
wisdom was the keen discernment of need and the process to 
attain.  Subsequently wisdom is the expression, the right way, 
the sharing of method.  No method is as convincing to a seeker 
than one shared by one who has attained, for it is demonstrated 
provingly in that very attainment.
	I will conclude with one more comment that likewise service 
functions in both modes.  As you seek the Father you have 
discovered that in serving Him, in doing His will, you draw ever 
closer in personality association.  As you experience the 
infusion of spirit, the identification with spirit, service 
follows, not as service for God but as service toward others, 
for the experience of this communion is an experience every 
child of God wishes all other human beings to experience.  Know 
when and leverage your powers when you are in need of 
attainment.  Function in that mode; do not deny it falsely 
assuming you have when you don’t.  Work towards possession.  
Likewise recognize when you are fully seated in the lap of God, 
fully embraced in His arms.  Do not deny it.  Accept it.  You 
are worthy in His eyes.  You can call yourself son or daughter 
of God.  Standing with that confidence will alter your view of 
your ability to be of worth to your fellows.
	Thank you for receiving my dissertation.  If you are 
inclined, I will receive your questions, your comments.

	Kirk:  Thank you.  The lesson has been given to us over and 
over in many different tones.  That was beautiful and a great 
reminder that that is the importance of life: stillness, making 
contact with the Father; worship,  thanking the Father; and 
service to our brothers and sisters.  Beautifully put, thank 
you.

*	Elyon:  You are welcome and I thank you for your compliment 
and for your feedback.

	Evelyn:  I read last night the first in a series of lessons 
on finding your divine purpose.  It was couched in so much 
Christian terminology I wasn’t really warming up to it, but I 
think you are hitting on the same topic.  The first assignment 
was to find ways to remind yourself that that is what you are 
trying to do, find God’s purpose for you.  Your lesson ties in 
well with that, in terminology I find easier to grapple with; I 
don’t need to be quoted Bible verses.

*	Elyon:  Yes, indeed, many souls have discovered this pattern 
of truth and have woven within that framework the terminology 
and viewpoint that each is inclined to possess.  You are 
insightful in recognizing the essence, that truth pattern, in 
spite of presentation, be it mine or be it the other source that 
you have perused.  Greater understanding between one’s fellows 
is attained by recognizing the two modes I have spoken of and 
when another is in one or the other, for it brings allowance and 
tolerance and acceptance, even while one’s own self may be in 
the other mode.
	You speak of divine purpose, and it is a subject I could 
lecture upon at great length.  My comment today briefly is that 
often the human being will seek divine purpose mistakenly 
looking for one descriptive title for oneself.  In reality the 
divine purpose of all human beings is to learn to keep the 
spiritual pendulum swinging, to keep movement in your life at a 
soul level, to work with your doubt and your faith, with your 
fear and your hopes; to work with your sense of separateness 
from God and your sense of infusion and oneness with God.  These 
polarities create the possibilities for growth,  and that is the 
underlying divine purpose for everyone.  You may choose your 
career; you may choose your lifestyle; you may choose your 
ministry opportunities.  These purposes are fine, but they are 
fragile until one understands the underlying purpose that I have 
spoken of.
	Peace be with you, my friends.  I will return.  Farewell.