Our Divine Faculty of Strength

Location: Loins of the Back
Color: Orange Yellow
Chord: D#, G, A# (Strength, Power, Faith)
Compliment: Imagination
Disciple: Andrew
Month:  March
 

1. Strength has Energy and Intelligence.
    
2. Strength has four spiritual aspects: patience, tolerance, steadfastness, and balance. 
    
3. Strength is derived from balance between your thinking and feeling. 
    
4. There are two uses of Strength: spiritual and physical.
    

One of the greatest misconceptions about strength is that it is associated with physical exertion, force or pressure.  Reacting to a situation by these means is not a sign of Divine Strength.  Divine Strength is stillness.  You find your strength in the stillness and the silence of your being.  This is also how you find your confidence and security: by being still.

 

One of the most wonderful ways that Strength manifest itself in your consciousness is in the form of patience. It is calm, uncomplaining endurance.

 

It is persistent courage.  When you need to be courageous in any situation, all you need to do is to become still. Still yourself toward Strength, and a quiet courage comes forth through your consciousness as patience.

 

Another wonderful way in which Strength manifest itself through your consciousness is in the form of tolerance. Tolerance is your ability to be fair to those with whom you do not agree. It is your ability to allow deviation from conformity, keeping you open and flexible. If you meet someone who is incompatible with your beliefs, you may draw upon Strength and have it manifest in your consciousness as tolerance. This frees both of you from struggling with your differences. It allows you calmness and serenity while acknowledging your individuality.

 

Steadfastness is the third way in which you benefit from Strength by placing God at the head of your life.  It is your ability to stay fixed in a direction and unwavering. It keeps you firm in purpose.  It is your ability to be firmly established in Faith rather than indecisive.  Divine Strength sees that your choices result in upward movements rather than in random up and down experiences.  Depression and discouragement are overcome by drawing upon Strength as the energy of God.

 

Balance is the fourth result of Divine Strength.  It is mental stability in the face of variants.  It allows you the ability to right yourself when outer pressures are exerted upon you.  You do this by drawing upon Strength, recognizing it as the true source of power.  Balance leads us to a very important area in regards to consciousness development.

 

You have a thinking nature and a feeling nature.  Your greatest key to Divine Strength is through finding the balance between the two.  In Bible symbolism, masculine energy represents your thinking nature and feminine energy represents your feeling nature.  God is both male and female, or thinking and feeling.  In their most highly developed state they are recognized as Divine Wisdom and Divine Love. 

Everything that is recorded and accepted by your consciousness is filtered and interpreted by both your thinking and feeling natures.  Facts and events have their impact on you according to what you think and feel about them. The ideal is when you use Wisdom and Love in dealing with outer conditions and people.  If negative thinking predominates your mind, you will find yourself spiritually depleted and struggling against a sense of weakness. You will lack patience, tolerance steadfastness, and balance.  It is important to regularly still yourself toward Divine Strength through meditation so you can experience your oneness with God and the natural patience, tolerance, steadfastness, and balance that it brings.