AR 376
. . . it is common in all Divine worship,
that a person should first will, desire, and pray,
and the Lord then answer, inform, and do;
otherwise a person does not receive anything Divine.
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Quotes from the Lord's Three Fold Word are offered for quiet reflection.
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AR 376 (the end)
But yet the Lord gives them to ask, and what to ask; therefore the Lord knows it beforehand; but still the Lord wills that a person should ask first, to the end that he may do it as from himself, and thus that it should be appropriated to him; otherwise, if the petition itself were not from the Lord, it would not be said in those places, that "they should receive whatsoever they asked."
I see the 'if-then' chronology here as consonant with [A], validated by [B], and underpinning the more worldly [C].
[A] "Something further is to be said about those who await influx. They receive none, except for a few who desire it with the whole heart." DP 321.3 (Wunsch)
[B] I [ES] replied, "I will give you the summaries of order..." And I said, "(1) God is order itself. (2) He created man from order, in order, and into order... (6) It is a law of order that man by his own exertion and power should purify himself from sins, and not stand still, believing in his own impotency, and expecting God to wash his sins away in a moment. (7) It is also a law of order that man should love God with his whole soul and with his whole heart, and his neighbor as himself, and should not wait and expect that God will in an instant put these loves into his mind and heart[.]" TCR 71.2
[C] Until One is Committed, by William H. Murray (from his The Scottish Himalayan Expedition):
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
"Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
Glenn
Highly inspirational comments with practical uses as the base.
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