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7 - The Power of Love The Divine Love Singers, led by Rev. Tim Foley, provided uplifting music during our Retreat and Conference in Chevy Chase, Maryland, located a few miles from Washington, DC.
The singers are our friends, and volunteered to bring us music and songs. As the singers offered their songs, our hearts and souls were stirred to give our love and praise to our Heavenly Father, the Great Gift of the Divine Love. - Joseph 5 - Because of happiness
4 - Because of faith The faith I am highlighting today is not a person’s name, it is the ‘energy’ within individuals focused on God’s gift of His Soul-love – the Divine Love. In fact, the faith I am referring to is the direct effect of the inflowing of the Divine Love.
Because of faith present within us we were able to respond to the invitation to travel to Washington, DC and attend a gathering at the 4H Conference Center located 12 miles from the Reagan International Airport. A few people drove vehicles; one took the train, but most came by airplane. One came from as far away as Australia; one came from Ireland, and another came from Namibia (Africa) via England. Several (around 10) traveled from Western Canada, and all the others from different parts of the USA (including three from Hawaii). Faith resides in us as the result of receiving some measure of the Divine Love. Quite a few individuals in our gathering have been experiencing the Divine Love for over 40 years; some 30 years, and others different number of years. Individual ages ranged from the early 80s to the early 40s. Sadly, there were no younger people in attendance. This will change soon. Though we gathered to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the awareness of the existence of the Divine Love, we are a rather new to the human scene. Consider this, it required a Centennial Anniversary to bring us together. Never before has there been such a large gathering. As far as we know, the Canadians that came are the only ones that gather regularly to experience the Divine Love in a group setting. But faith drew a larger group together in September of 2014, and I am confident it will become a regular experience, and that the numbers will grow. Faith drew us together. And because each person who attended this gathering experienced some new measure of the Divine Love, the reality of faith grew in each one of us. Elizabeth, the leader of the organization (FCNB) that hosted this event, said this when she returned home: “I have come home changed. I come home more sure about the presence of our Father’s Love with me, and with each of you. And I come home more deeply sure of the availability of our Father’s Love for me, whenever I’ve lost sight of It. That makes me know that it’s also available to everyone around me, when we reach out for it. This comes from my direct experience and not simply from remembered words. Now – more than ever – I can be here, in my home, with my daughters, in the midst of the daily moments in our lives, with this great knowing, stronger than it was last Wednesday.” To be continued … – Joseph 3 - Because of FCNB The event where 48 individuals gathered to remember, to celebrate and experience the reality of the presence of the Divine Love, happened because the FCNB (Foundation Church of the New Birth) sent out a call through an invitation to come to Washington, DC in early September of 2014:
We are delighted to formally announce the upcoming 100th Anniversary Divine Love Retreat. We invite you to join us at our 100th Anniversary Retreat in celebrating the beautiful messages that came through James Padgett a century ago—messages from Jesus and Celestials that told us again and again: God’s Divine Love is freely available to each of us for the asking. For those familiar with the Padgett messages, there is something in these messages that has truly touched them; something that has actually changed their lives. And for those among us who have not yet read the Padgett messages—but who do know about the possibility of praying for Divine Love—they, too, are moved and affected in ways hard to describe. Now that we each know about this, we—each in our own individual lives—are yearning to feel the immediacy of Divine Love—during our private prayers, in our relationships, and in the ordinary moments of our lives. We want to feel it here, now, loud-and-clear. We want to feel its immediacy. Again and again, we find ourselves distracted by stress or conflict—for moments, hours, even for long stretches. Then we turn back to prayer, and seek that immediate, newly-fresh sense of the Love, here, with us. And, with our Father’s ever-present Love for us, we somehow find our way back to the Love. And we find—over and over—that life’s daily challenges give us many opportunities to recommit and to find a deeper and deeper connection to Divine Love. Coming to pray together and to listen in a heartfelt way to other seekers of Divine Love is one way we seek to strengthen our commitment, and to feel a greater immediacy of that Love. I welcome you to join us for this precious time together, supporting one another as we turn more fervently to our Father, as we create a safe and sacred space in which we can seek an ever greater opening of our souls and an ever greater abundance of His great Love into our souls. This is also a wonderful opportunity to renew old friendships and make new ones. And so the invitation was sent out. Hundreds responded but many could not come. But 48 individuals did make the trip to Washington, DC, to Chevy Chase in Maryland, 12 miles from the Reagan International Airport. Because of FCNB – the Foundation Church of the New Birth. To be continued … – Joseph 2 - Because of Leslie James Padgett was the writer or scribe who recorded the communications from spirits in the world beyond the veil.
Leslie – Dr. Leslie R. Stone – was the custodian and first publisher of the writings that we today refer to as the Padgett Messages. Because of Leslie we have the original handwritten papers that James used to record the messages. James received communications from spirits by the means of automatic writing. If Leslie did not do the work of preserving and publishing James' work, would I even be writing this today? What exactly did Leslie do? The writings of James have no punctuations – no commas, periods, sentence structure, paragraphs, etc. All this was done through transliteration, started to an extent by James himself, and later completed by Leslie. Compilation into published books for public distribution was started some 20 years after the death of James, and not completed until 1971, after the death of Leslie Stone. The original compiled books of Leslie Stone, four volumes titled “True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus,” are unchanged and will not be modified or updated in any manner. These original four volumes are part of the ongoing work of an organization called the Foundation Church of the New Birth. It was this organization that sponsored the 100th Anniversary and Divine Love Retreat held recently in Washington, DC, where all this began in 1914. Because of Leslie – the work that he did to preserve and publish the writings of James Padgett, we who are living today and have knowledge of the existence of the Padgett Messages, and have experienced the Divine Love spoken about by spirits through the Padgett Messages, came from different parts of the world to celebrate and honor both men, James and Leslie. And more than this, we came together to experience anew the wonderful gift and experience of the Divine Love To be continued … – Joseph 1 - Because of James Because of James, 48 people began to arrive in Washington, DC, on September 8th, 2014, to honor and celebrate a choice that James made one-hundred years ago. James Padgett made a choice, a choice that would eventually impact thousands of people. When he made this choice he was a lawyer and 62 years of age. What he did would change his life – forever. It was not as a lawyer that is of importance in this story of James; it is the story of a man with a heart and feelings for a dead person. This is what James chose to do: He went to the home of a psychic in order to attend a séance. We did not travel to Washington, DC, the second week in September, 2014, only to remember James’ choice to visit a séance; it is what he did later, after his visit to a psychic in the spring of 1914. When James attended the séance with Mrs. Maltby leading it, he not only received a message from his wife, Helen, who had died in February of 1914, but, surprisingly, he also received information that he, James Padgett, had psychic talents. Encouraged with this information, he worked hard to develop his abilities to receive communications from his wife and other so-called ‘dead people’. After this experience, James did not quit his profession as a lawyer and become a well-known medium. He did, however, become an extremely prolific writer of messages from the spirit world; by one recent count, he received over 5,000 communications during the course of the next 8 or so years of his life. Yet, it is not this information that drew people from all over the world to Washington, DC, in September of 2014. What was it? Why did we come together? What drew us together is the astounding fact that James became a ‘scribe’ for Jesus and the messages about God’s Love, the Divine Love. We came to Washington to tell our stories and how we have been changed because of James, and the messages of Divine Love that he received from Jesus and other Celestial spirits. Because of James we came together to celebrate experiences of God’s wonderful love – the Divine Love. The knowledge of the existence of the Divine Love was given to James Padgett, and not only the knowledge and awareness, but also information of what this Divine Love is, what it will do, and the way to receive this love. This information is plainly shared in the messages received by James from Jesus and others. The story of James is a love story. It is first the story of his love for his wife, Helen, and Helen’s love for James. But it is also the story of love that reaches to the highest heaven, including the story of the love that God has for all mankind. To be continued … – Joseph |
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