Relationship with God: Faith & Prayer Session 1

By Jesus (AJ Miller) and Mary Magdalene (Mary Luck)

Jesus describes the qualities and attributes of faith; that faith is based upon facts, faith is based upon past experiences, how to develop faith through experimentation, and the most important areas in which to gain faith.
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This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered by Jesus (AJ Miller) on 11th May 2013 in Murgon, Queensland, Australia, as part of the Relationship with God series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Divine Truth Pty Ltd
• Release date: Jun 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310789809

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Relationship With God:

Faith & Prayer

By

Jesus (AJ Miller)

Session 1

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This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered by Jesus (also known as AJ Miller) on 11th May 2013 in Murgon, Queensland, Australia, as part of the Relationship with God series. In this seminar Jesus describes the qualities and attributes of faith; that faith is based upon facts, faith is based upon past experiences, how to develop faith through experimentation, and the most important areas in which to gain faith.

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Table of Contents

Faith & Prayer: Session 1 Part 1

1. Faith is based on past experiences, God’s Laws and facts

1.1. An example of the Law of Gravity and the Law of Aerodynamics

1.2. The direct relationship between faith, law and facts

1.3. An example of the Law of Gravity and the Law of Aerodynamics (continued)

1.3.1. Discovering the laws underlying controlled flight

1.3.2. Discovering principles of the Law of Gravity

1.4. Characteristics of faith

2. Discovering facts without prior assumptions

2.1. Knowing laws as certainty

2.2. Having inspiration to discover laws

2.3. Both science and faith are based on facts

2.4. The importance of continuing to seek facts

2.4.1. An example of treating physical sickness

2.5. AJ’s experience with discovering facts about God’s Laws

2.6. Discovering the laws underlying controlled flight (continued)

2.7. AJ’s experience with discovering facts about God

2.8. Focusing on God rather than God’s Laws

3. Faith is based upon facts (continued)

3.1. Discovering facts is a process that involves making mistakes

3.2. Faith is not based upon opinions

3.3. Discovering facts is a joyful process

3.4. Discovering facts involves personal experience

3.4.1. An example of listening to Divine Truth

3.5. God is constantly presenting us with facts

4. Our actions are driven by a belief that they will be of personal benefit

4.1. Rebelling against God’s Laws

4.1.1. An example of being angry with the Law of Attraction

5. Experimenting to gain faith

5.1. Finding incentive to experiment with spiritual and soul-based laws

5.1.1. Determining how long we spend discovering new laws

6. Solomon’s Padgett message regarding Divine Love, faith and prayer

6.1. Focusing on faith and prayer

7. The experience of love

8. Faith and prayer lead to love

8.1. The benefits of focusing on discovering the laws of Divine Love

8.2. Gaining faith by experimenting with the laws of Divine Love

Faith & Prayer: Session 1 Part 2

9. Faith is based on past experience, God’s Laws and facts (continued)

9.1. Readily accepting physical laws that are obvious

9.2. Difficulty in accepting undiscovered laws such as interstellar transportation

10. Gaining faith by experimenting with the laws of Divine Love (continued)

10.1. An example of a participant who is disappointed with her previous experiments

10.2. Faith is not innate within our souls and needs to be developed

10.3. Desiring God to take our pain away blocks a connection with God

11. Necessary areas in which to develop faith for a relationship with God

11.1. God exists

11.2. God loves

11.3. God’s Laws are loving

11.3.1. God loves me

11.4. God’s Attributes and Qualities

11.5. Jesus is trustworthy

11.6. Desire, longing and prayer would be natural if we had faith in God

11.7. The truth about the human soul

11.8. Jesus is trustworthy (continued)

11.9. The truth about the human soul (continued)

12. An exercise to examine and build faith

12.1. Faith carries us over false beliefs about love

13. Closing words

Faith & Prayer: Session 1 Part 1

Welcome today. The plans are that we talk to you about Faith today and tomorrow we'll be talking about the subject of Prayer. So they are the two topics we'd like to discuss with you today and tomorrow.

1. Faith is based on past experiences, God’s Laws and facts

What do you feel faith is? Have you given it much thought? The way I see faith is probably different to the way most people see, faith. I see faith in every single aspect of our day-to-day life. Most of us have learned faith by the time we are three years of age, in fact. Not just faith in God, but we have faith in many other things.

For example, most of us, by the time of three years of age have some faith that somebody is going to feed us when we are hungry. Why do we have that faith? Usually it is because of the past experience that we have been fed every time that we were hungry. And so after a while we get to the point where we realise that we don't need to worry about hunger so much, particularly in the Western world.

Now of course there are people in other countries who do not have that faith, and the reason why they do not have that faith is because they have not had the experience of being fed every time they were hungry. And because of that they don't necessarily have a faith that they are going to be fed whenever they are hungry. Can you see straight away from that little illustration that faith is based upon what has happened to us previously, to a degree? [00:06:27.07]

1.1. An example of the Law of Gravity and the Law of Aerodynamics

Let’s say you're three or four years of age, and you decide to jump up into the air. Now all of you have a faith that you're going to come down again. You don't know the Law of Gravity, in the sense of understanding it technically and scientifically, but you do know it from a personal experience. You know what the Law of Gravity is going to do because by that age you have become so used to the fact that every time you jump you're going to go down rather than up into space.

Now imagine a life where you were worried about jumping for a moment. I can't jump today! I can't jump today! I might fly out into the universe if I jump today! Can you see that faith is based upon some kind of law as well? So in the case of the Law of Gravity, what happens is that we have faith that whenever we jump we will return to Earth, and we know it as a certainty. And the reason why we know it as a certainty is because it is one of God's Laws. One of the laws of the universe is the Law of Gravity, and so the Law of Gravity will determine what happens when we jump.

We come to trust these laws, these physical laws in particular, every single moment of our lives, without any thought whatsoever. They become a part of our very existence in fact. Every one of them requires our faith to a degree but because we now know it as a certainty, we don't consider it to be faith.

Now if you look at what has happened historically with regard to the Law Of Aerodynamics; how many of you decided when you were children that you wanted to flirt with the Law of Aerodynamics, and you strapped a pack to your back, or something like that, or tried to jump off a building with something above you that would hopefully flare out and catch you by the time you hit the ground? How many of you have tried that? And how many