By being able to forgive and letting go of the event we leave a dark part of our lives behind us and feel the freedom. We learn from the experience and we move on to explore other things in life. We have learned what happens when we get into a situation with that person. We now know what can go wrong, so we learn how to avoid it or handle it better the next time.
When we don't forgive we hold on to the resentment. It's like stoking a little fire within ourselves.

Each time we recall of the injury it burns us a little. The heat of the hate bakes our heart hard to those involved. The smoke of this fire blurs our vision and darkens our world. By holding on to the memory of the event we harden and darken our own lives.

May we find freedom in forgiving and love in our lives.

Amen.
Abegunde Julius Taiwo.

Not only do we receive a supernatural power for witnessing when we are filled with the Spirit, but our personality also begins to change. As we continue to walk in the control and power of the Holy Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit becomes increasingly obvious in our life.

In Galatians 5:22, 23, Paul explains, "When the Holy Spirit controls our lives He will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control...".

The presence of the Holy Spirit of the Universe Daughter of the Infinite Spirit, of the Spirit of Truth of the Universe Son of the Eternal Son, and of the Adjuster-spirit of the Paradise Father in or with an evolutionary mortal, denotes symmetry of spiritual endowment and ministry and qualifies such a mortal consciously to realize the faith-fact of sonship with God.

~ The Urantia Book, (34:5.4) .

May we become progressive, in that, as one walks consistently in the power and control of the Holy Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit will be produced in our life. Amen. Abegunde Julius Taiwo.

UNDERSTANDING FREEDOM AND FREEWILL

In our dim and distant path, we, the human race, may chosen the apparent delights of freewill and the right to act and be exactly as we wish. However, the goal, the Holy Grail of all thinking people is not freewill - but freedom. Freewill allows us to indulge our fleeting passions; freedom leads us on the higher path to unlock life's mystic secrets. Freedom from war, pain, limitation and fear is our birthright. Freedom to unlock the divine secrets of our higher nature, and to soar through the skies of our own becoming.

The spirit world is governed on the principle of respecting your freewill choice provided the course you may choose is not detrimental to you or injurious to your fellows. ~ The Urantia Book, (48:6.6).

This freedom can be achieved through aligning our freewill - our right to choose - with the great Laws of God. The Divine Laws that teach us that the way to break through the endless, limiting cycles is to realize Oneness. It is then and only then that we will act with our God-nature and so rise above the apparently inevitable cycles we have - through past lives - created.

Man does not have unfettered free will; there are limits to his range of choice, but within the radius of this choice his will is relatively sovereign. ~ The Urantia Book, (118:9.2).

At the moment, Peace is on everyone's mind because there is continual talk of its opposite - war. If we change the way we perceive life - as a spiritual journey in which we unfold our Divine potential, not as a battle for survival, then peace must eventually dawn. First it must dawn in the hearts and minds of each of us, and then it must, by the Divine Law of Action and Reaction - Karma - exist upon our Earth.

John 8:36 - If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

We can then prove forever that war does not have to follow peace, as night follows day. Instead, conflict can be turned to spiritual action and peace, inward reflection. Both of these opposites will then meet in the fires of that great mystic force - LOVE.

Galatians 5:1 - Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

May He give unto us the spirit of wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of Him.

Amen.
Abegunde Julius Taiwo.

Whenever we muster courage to leave behind and forget unpleasant situation tormenting our day and sink into presence, emptiness and oneness from within,you holds a space, a container that amplifies the transformative power of Spirit/Divine in ways that words can't possibly describe.

May we continually be one in spirit and in truth  in our personal soul path journey, witnessing, supporting and serving one another as well as are an integrated part of  the collective being of the universe!

Amen.
Abegunde Julius Taiwo.

Almighty I am Is Worthy Of Our Praise For His Inestimable Glory.

“Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” (Ephesians 1:5-6).

Predestination is evidently impossible for finite humans to comprehend its full meaning. But we don’t have to understand it before we can rejoice in its truth. The Scriptures (especially Ephesians 1:5-6 ) teaches that the purpose of God’s predestinating work is that we might glorify Him and His amazing grace! .

(34.4) 2:1.5 No thing is new to God, and no cosmic event ever comes as a surprise; he inhabits the circle of eternity. He is without beginning or end of days. To God there is no past, present, or future; all time is present at any given moment. He is the great and only I AM.

May we ever remains faithful as  been predestinated “to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Romans 8:29)—predestinated unto eternal holiness, sonship, heirship, and Christ likeness! .

Amen.
Abegunde Julius Taiwo.