Transformation can only be obtained by what is called the new birth, which comes to men not by reason of any power or effort on their part only, but by the operations of the workings of the Spirit, the instrument of God in bringing about this new birth.
And yet man has his part to perform also, in this great renewal of his spiritual being.
He must open his soul to the inflowing of this Divine Love, and must pray to the Father for the inflowing of the Holy Spirit, and with his prayers, must believe that the Father is waiting to bestow it.
Without the desire on the part of man to receive this Divine Love with prayer and faith, it will not come to him, for God never forces any human soul to a new birth against its will.
– Paul
Adapted from an Excerpt of a Message from the Spirit World
Received by James E. Padgett – August 20, 1915
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